I know what streaming is. I guess I didn't make it clear enough; the person that wrote the article doesn't necessarily know what streaming is. When you talk to the average computer-(semi/il)literate person, if they say streaming the best you can be sure of is that they're saying "downloading media".
Yeah, I can't wait to MITM all my neighbors! I'm gonna get my own Citibank commercial!
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What level of understanding are we talking here? I understand how public/private key encryption works well enough to use it securely, and it's not that hard to grasp. I imagine a significant portion of Slashdotters understand it as well. With almost 1,000,000 accounts, if only one in ten of us got it, there's your 100K.
Now if you mean understand as in "could create a secure public key algorithm," then OK, I see your point.
Such a brillant response, especially in light of my response to the other genious tells me that you obviously are a Mesna member. Congratulations!
P.S.
I know you Mesna folks don't have a lot of time on your hands, what with being so smart and important, so I bolded the important parts. Kind of destroys the subtlety, but I know you Mesna folks don't have time for such pedestrian things. What with being so busy being smart and all. Congrats on that 98th percentile thing.
I'm not missing the obvious, it's just a dumb lament. I wish I had wings and could stop time. Man, that'd be cool. It's really too bad I can't fly or stop time. Man. It's not fair.
I do have memories of carefree times, but because I take the responsible route I have those carefree times ahead of me too. This weekend is one of 'em, other than some tendonitis from being a tard and lifting too much I don't have to do any work to do this weekend at all. My house is clean, my bills are paid, and other than the fact that I have to go to work tomorrow life is good and I can enjoy this slack-off guilt-free.
I have experienced exactly what the author is describing, but I'm enough of a grown-up that the pressure of day-to-day life ain't no thang for me, and when it is I accept it. Sure, I have to worry about maybe sending kids to college someday, or supporting my parents in their old age, or myself for that matter, but that's reality. I know a dream for a dream and don't waste time wishing for selfish irresponsibility. I'd say that if that thing resonates strongly with you, don't worry, you're immature enough.
Are you trying to discredit Mesna here? Not that it needs it, but damn, if you're actually an example of the smart women in of Mesna, give me a dumb blonde any day.
I really hope this is humor that I'm just smart enough to see where it's supposed to be funny, but not smart enough to laugh at.
First I'll address the arrogant part. You seem to be saying that I'm wrong for saying that factory work does not carry responsibility. While there may be jobs in a factory that carry responsibility, we all know what I'm talking about. The average assembly line worker can decide to not show up to work any day they want and it doesn't really affect anyone. If they make a mistake and screw up a product, or thousands of them, maybe even hurt people, the only thing that happens is they get fired and have to get another $8 an hour job. That sounds like a pretty low level of responsibility to me.
Second, for the ignorant, no it's not. I've never personally worked in a factory, true, but I've known enough people that have, people who were very successful in their factory jobs, to say that your average factory worker is immature.
If profanity turns you off that strongly, maybe you've got your own issues. The moderation wasn't ironic, you're just unable to deal with strong language. I stand by every curse in my previous post. That chain-letter is bullshit. I think bullshit is a pretty succinct word that puts the general idea in people's head with a minimum of effort. As for the "fuck off", I absolutely stand by that, I'm sick of these people having responsibility, shirking it, and it's left to me to pick up the pieces.
As for anti-moderation, your insightful mod is baffling me. I suppose it's for your assertion that profanity is a sign of anger "issues" but the main point of your post, that I was being immature, is completely unanswered. I fail to see how "no, you're immature" is insightful, and invite you to provide the insight that you've already been modded up for.
You can imitate yourself, too. Both of therse guys have had a couple good ideas, and then built careers out of them. I thought their acts were funny the first time I saw them. Hell, I thought Carlin was funny for years, until I realized it was all the same crap, and most of it was dressed-up fart jokes.
To be fair though, I didn't know the exact definition of "hack", and probably shouldn't have used the word. Luckily, in this case it still fits.
This chain-letter bullshit is all the same. On some ultra-shallow level it seems great, and sentimental, but with 3 seconds of thought and usually two sentences in it becomes obvious what trite crap it is. Whether it's wanting to be 6, or learning everything you need to know from your dog, or whatever other BS that gets mailed around it all sounds like it was written by the same person on a Robotussin binge. Just awful stuff, horribly written and with no intellectual value whatsoever.
On a less general note, if you want to be 6 again, fuck off and go be 6. Work in a factory, it's got about the same level of responsibility. It doesn't sound like somebody whistfully remembering childhood, it sounds like a man-child that doesn't want to contribute to society because it's hard.
Now, before you ask who pissed in my Fruit Loops, nobody did. I have a sense of humor, and am usually a pretty carefree guy. This type of "humor" just manages to push almost every last button I have. The only way it could get worse is if some sadist let George Carlin have a whack at it, with lots of Jeff Foxworthy-worthy lists, some booger-eating references, and "fuck" every 4th word to make it sound adult. When are people going to realize that guy's a hack?
You know how people watch old movies, learn history, carry on traditions, things like that? It's called culture. Now I don't know if you're a professional, or even just a dedicated hobbyist, but if either is true then this is your culture. Knowing who Atanasoff and Barry are, or what ENIAC stands for and what it was used for, or what a Hollerith Card is, or who Charles Babbage and Lady Lovelace (Ada Byron) are and what they did is maybe not a necessity, but I personally don't see how you can take real pride in your craft/trade/science/art if its history is completely meaningless to you.
I was gonna do this as a Halloween costume. I was going to paint my face up all gray/green and rotting, sores and all, wear a white robe, and a crown of thorns, and get a couple broken 4x4s tied to my arms like I broke my way down from the cross... but every time I described it, all I got was this look of horror, even from non-Christians.
Same thing with the Christopher Reeve loose fitting Superman suit and a wheelchair idea. This was before he was dead, of course, I know poor taste when I giggle uncontrollably at it.
Oh, I'm definitely NAL, but anyone that gets legal advice from a Slashdot needs about 100mg of Thorazine every 6 hours.
I'm just sayin' it's not simply illegal to spoof headers. I do it all the time with my friends (From: Your Mom ) and don't want this to become something that brings gasps because of misinterpretation.
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I know what streaming is. I guess I didn't make it clear enough; the person that wrote the article doesn't necessarily know what streaming is. When you talk to the average computer-(semi/il)literate person, if they say streaming the best you can be sure of is that they're saying "downloading media".
*slaps forehead*
Read the last part of my sentence again.
Streaming is a synonym for downloading if it's multimedia and you're tech-challenged.
Yeah, I can't wait to MITM all my neighbors! I'm gonna get my own Citibank commercial!
What level of understanding are we talking here? I understand how public/private key encryption works well enough to use it securely, and it's not that hard to grasp. I imagine a significant portion of Slashdotters understand it as well. With almost 1,000,000 accounts, if only one in ten of us got it, there's your 100K.
Now if you mean understand as in "could create a secure public key algorithm," then OK, I see your point.
You're already frothing about what the government is going to do with a bunch of land you don't have to visit anymore when we have flying cars.
Just so ya know.
Such a brillant response, especially in light of my response to the other genious tells me that you obviously are a Mesna member. Congratulations!
P.S.
I know you Mesna folks don't have a lot of time on your hands, what with being so smart and important, so I bolded the important parts. Kind of destroys the subtlety, but I know you Mesna folks don't have time for such pedestrian things. What with being so busy being smart and all. Congrats on that 98th percentile thing.
You win this thread, probably this whole post, and maybe, just maybe, all of Slashdot.
I'm not missing the obvious, it's just a dumb lament. I wish I had wings and could stop time. Man, that'd be cool. It's really too bad I can't fly or stop time. Man. It's not fair.
I do have memories of carefree times, but because I take the responsible route I have those carefree times ahead of me too. This weekend is one of 'em, other than some tendonitis from being a tard and lifting too much I don't have to do any work to do this weekend at all. My house is clean, my bills are paid, and other than the fact that I have to go to work tomorrow life is good and I can enjoy this slack-off guilt-free.
I have experienced exactly what the author is describing, but I'm enough of a grown-up that the pressure of day-to-day life ain't no thang for me, and when it is I accept it. Sure, I have to worry about maybe sending kids to college someday, or supporting my parents in their old age, or myself for that matter, but that's reality. I know a dream for a dream and don't waste time wishing for selfish irresponsibility. I'd say that if that thing resonates strongly with you, don't worry, you're immature enough.
To answer your question, I'm 27.
It's a form of disrespect.
Are you trying to discredit Mesna here? Not that it needs it, but damn, if you're actually an example of the smart women in of Mesna, give me a dumb blonde any day.
I really hope this is humor that I'm just smart enough to see where it's supposed to be funny, but not smart enough to laugh at.
No kidding man, this guy is a hero.
Fuck you.
Actually, if you read the article you'll see that he's giving that away too, just not yet.
I don't think that means what you think it means.
First I'll address the arrogant part. You seem to be saying that I'm wrong for saying that factory work does not carry responsibility. While there may be jobs in a factory that carry responsibility, we all know what I'm talking about. The average assembly line worker can decide to not show up to work any day they want and it doesn't really affect anyone. If they make a mistake and screw up a product, or thousands of them, maybe even hurt people, the only thing that happens is they get fired and have to get another $8 an hour job. That sounds like a pretty low level of responsibility to me.
Second, for the ignorant, no it's not. I've never personally worked in a factory, true, but I've known enough people that have, people who were very successful in their factory jobs, to say that your average factory worker is immature.
If profanity turns you off that strongly, maybe you've got your own issues. The moderation wasn't ironic, you're just unable to deal with strong language. I stand by every curse in my previous post. That chain-letter is bullshit. I think bullshit is a pretty succinct word that puts the general idea in people's head with a minimum of effort. As for the "fuck off", I absolutely stand by that, I'm sick of these people having responsibility, shirking it, and it's left to me to pick up the pieces.
As for anti-moderation, your insightful mod is baffling me. I suppose it's for your assertion that profanity is a sign of anger "issues" but the main point of your post, that I was being immature, is completely unanswered. I fail to see how "no, you're immature" is insightful, and invite you to provide the insight that you've already been modded up for.
You can imitate yourself, too. Both of therse guys have had a couple good ideas, and then built careers out of them. I thought their acts were funny the first time I saw them. Hell, I thought Carlin was funny for years, until I realized it was all the same crap, and most of it was dressed-up fart jokes.
To be fair though, I didn't know the exact definition of "hack", and probably shouldn't have used the word. Luckily, in this case it still fits.
I just want to say I hate shit like this.
This chain-letter bullshit is all the same. On some ultra-shallow level it seems great, and sentimental, but with 3 seconds of thought and usually two sentences in it becomes obvious what trite crap it is. Whether it's wanting to be 6, or learning everything you need to know from your dog, or whatever other BS that gets mailed around it all sounds like it was written by the same person on a Robotussin binge. Just awful stuff, horribly written and with no intellectual value whatsoever.
On a less general note, if you want to be 6 again, fuck off and go be 6. Work in a factory, it's got about the same level of responsibility. It doesn't sound like somebody whistfully remembering childhood, it sounds like a man-child that doesn't want to contribute to society because it's hard.
Now, before you ask who pissed in my Fruit Loops, nobody did. I have a sense of humor, and am usually a pretty carefree guy. This type of "humor" just manages to push almost every last button I have. The only way it could get worse is if some sadist let George Carlin have a whack at it, with lots of Jeff Foxworthy-worthy lists, some booger-eating references, and "fuck" every 4th word to make it sound adult. When are people going to realize that guy's a hack?
You know how people watch old movies, learn history, carry on traditions, things like that? It's called culture. Now I don't know if you're a professional, or even just a dedicated hobbyist, but if either is true then this is your culture. Knowing who Atanasoff and Barry are, or what ENIAC stands for and what it was used for, or what a Hollerith Card is, or who Charles Babbage and Lady Lovelace (Ada Byron) are and what they did is maybe not a necessity, but I personally don't see how you can take real pride in your craft/trade/science/art if its history is completely meaningless to you.
Oh God that's beautiful. I need to find a wheelchair.
I was gonna do this as a Halloween costume. I was going to paint my face up all gray/green and rotting, sores and all, wear a white robe, and a crown of thorns, and get a couple broken 4x4s tied to my arms like I broke my way down from the cross... but every time I described it, all I got was this look of horror, even from non-Christians.
Same thing with the Christopher Reeve loose fitting Superman suit and a wheelchair idea. This was before he was dead, of course, I know poor taste when I giggle uncontrollably at it.
Trick or treat
Feel my feet
I can't.
*sigh*
No, but I am a liar.
God damn Slashdot eating angle brackets... it was From: Your Mom <yourmom@thebomb.com>
It wasn't funny to begin with, and now it's just annoying, but fuckin' a I'm posting it anyway.
Oh, I'm definitely NAL, but anyone that gets legal advice from a Slashdot needs about 100mg of Thorazine every 6 hours.
I'm just sayin' it's not simply illegal to spoof headers. I do it all the time with my friends (From: Your Mom ) and don't want this to become something that brings gasps because of misinterpretation.