And sure as shit, nobody here gets that it's a joke.
Crikes.
When I wrote that, I was going to write "I'm behind 7 Boxxies!" but I figured it was too obscure and everyone was going to have to google the phrase and thus the joke would be ruined.
But no, people like you have to make me/explain/ the joke and kill it myself. You turned me into *that guy,* the guy that explains all the jokes.
Fuck Zuckerberg. Half of the people on my "friends" list use aliases. I use an alias.
And I don't put anything out there that I wouldn't be ashamed of my mom seeing.
Use the technology, but for gawd's sake cover your ass and don't be stupid. If you don't know how to maintain true anonymity (I'm behind 7 proxies!), then just use common sense.
Scene: a bar in Helsinki. Microsoft has flown in from Redmond....
Microsoft: Would you let me stick my operating system in your phone for a billion bucks? Nokia: *sips a glass of wine* Yes... Microsoft: How about two shares of stock? Nokia: What, do you think I'm some kind of whore? Microsoft: We've already established the relationship. We're just negotiating price now.
Because every "click to confirm" dialog contains requests for information tantamount to anally raping my account with no lube and no reach-around.
Maybe, just maybe, if I had more control over the granularity of such requests, I *might* just consider using a Facebook game or something. But the way things are right now, nope, not gonna happen.
And if you're a Facebook app developer that is intent on anally raping Facebook user accounts, die in a fire.
You can change it so you can login as root. It's not a good idea from a security standpoint, but you can. It takes about 5 seconds if you're a slow typist.
Also sudo -i will get you a root shell so you don't have to keep refreshing root privs with a password after they expire.
You can't do that. The EPA will come down on you like a ton of bricks for violating the clean water act. That shit's worse than plutonium dust for toxicity.
There's a difference between "results are not guaranteed" and comparing the what happened in Zimbabwe to what's going on right now in Libya and then saying "be careful what you wish for" as if warning against it.
The only reasons to post something like that are if you support the incumbent government, or you just don't know any better. Because that's the exact argument that Moammar and the house of Al Saud are using against any kind of velvet revolution.
"It'll be chaos!" - scare mongering.
IOW, "we may be the devil, but we're the devil you know, not the one you don't"
Yes, everyone knows that you might not get what you want, but not trying means guaranteeing you won't get what you want.
Remember that Moammar "threw off" tyrrany to declare his own dictatorship.
Also remember that Eastern Europe threw off tyrranies to create actual democracies. Just because a revolution happens doesn't mean that the end result is predictable.
Remember that when you're posting stupid shit on slashdot.
We're full of false equivalence here today, aren't we?
There was no direct threat to Mugabe. There was a mention of an "egypt" happening to Zimbabwe. If you posted the exact same thing on your facebook in the US and just substituted, you'd not raise a single eyebrow.
Free Republic is full of people like this. When is the last time a freeper was arrested for what he said?
Never. Because political speech is the most protected speech in the US.
Posting a valid, direct, threat to assassinate Obama *will* get you arrested, but that's not political speech. That's conspiracy to commit murder.
>comparing high school hijinks to political speech
Unfortunately the South African government, the only local player strong enough to get the job done, is best buddies with Mugabe's government. Part of this is history, and the larger part is that SA is afraid of millions of refugees streaming across the border looking for help.
Kind of like how China's relationship with North Korea.
And forget about getting the US involved. Outside of sanctions there's nothing much that can be done. FFS, we can't even get Gbago out of Ivory Coast by offering him a professorship in the US (true!).
>The problem is all about training people on how to use the new software. Using OO Writer instead of Word for example. Sure, sounds simple, the nerds can probably fgure it out without blinking, but it is all the NON-NERDS who make it a very expensive idea to test.
It's a freakin' word processor. That's all it is. A word processor isn't some esoteric specialized piece of software.
If you can't figure out a random word processor and use it, you should just be given an old Underwood manual typewriter and an OCR document scanner instead (do I hear cheers for this from some people?).
It's not rocket surgery, people. Word is not the be-all/end-all of document creation software. And the people who claim "but Writer doesn't have $ESOTERICFEATURE" don't realize (or deliberately ignore the fact) that 99 percent of people who use word processors use them as glorified typewriters with spell and grammar check and $ESOTERICFEATURE gets used *maybe* once a year, if that. (I asked people at work how often they used pivot tables, and the answer was "twice a year, maybe" and pivot tables was supposed to be/the/ defining feature of Word97)
People today aren't any different from people 25 years ago using DOS based Word Perfect without any GUI whatsoever. We didn't have all this bitching and moaning about training when companies migrated from WP to Word. They just did it. Sure the WP users bitched, but that's because Word is (and shall always be) inferior to WP, but "training" was never an issue.
No, it means that people should stick to trusted software, and sites. You can have a software repository with a ton of third party applications without having a huge corporation behind it.
Debian, for instance.
Google and iPhone stores are only a half step. The ability to have third party repositories should be added.
Slashdot Mirror
And sure as shit, nobody here gets that it's a joke.
Crikes.
When I wrote that, I was going to write "I'm behind 7 Boxxies!" but I figured it was too obscure and everyone was going to have to google the phrase and thus the joke would be ruined.
But no, people like you have to make me /explain/ the joke and kill it myself. You turned me into *that guy,* the guy that explains all the jokes.
Gah.
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For the lazy: http://tinyurl.com/6272za7
Fuck Zuckerberg. Half of the people on my "friends" list use aliases. I use an alias.
And I don't put anything out there that I wouldn't be ashamed of my mom seeing.
Use the technology, but for gawd's sake cover your ass and don't be stupid. If you don't know how to maintain true anonymity (I'm behind 7 proxies!), then just use common sense.
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It's like the old joke...
Scene: a bar in Helsinki. Microsoft has flown in from Redmond....
Microsoft: Would you let me stick my operating system in your phone for a billion bucks?
Nokia: *sips a glass of wine* Yes...
Microsoft: How about two shares of stock?
Nokia: What, do you think I'm some kind of whore?
Microsoft: We've already established the relationship. We're just negotiating price now.
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1 billion dollars US.
No difference, really.
It's still selling out. The scale is just different.
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http://www.amazon.com/FarmVille-Dummies-Angela-Morales/dp/1118016963
That's right, Farmville For Dummies.
You may now cry yourself to sleep.
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I don't use any Facebook apps at all. Ever.
Why?
Because every "click to confirm" dialog contains requests for information tantamount to anally raping my account with no lube and no reach-around.
Maybe, just maybe, if I had more control over the granularity of such requests, I *might* just consider using a Facebook game or something. But the way things are right now, nope, not gonna happen.
And if you're a Facebook app developer that is intent on anally raping Facebook user accounts, die in a fire.
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Protip:
You can change it so you can login as root. It's not a good idea from a security standpoint, but you can. It takes about 5 seconds if you're a slow typist.
Also sudo -i will get you a root shell so you don't have to keep refreshing root privs with a password after they expire.
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I don't know. Why don't you do your own research.
Write a book. Collect money.
The fact is that your continued defending of the Mugabe regime sounds like you're a ZANU-PF goon.
This is the last I will reply to you as a result. Good day, sir.
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The thing is that I heard the "there will be chaos if we don't govern" line on NPR and the BBC this previous morning from the Saudis.
That's why I was struck by your argument.
And speaking of painting with broad brushes as you have just painted me and people who are "cheering" on the Libyan resistance:
Not a rich kid.
Just someone who lived through the cold war and saw Solidarity topple the Polish government.
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>chum
You can't do that. The EPA will come down on you like a ton of bricks for violating the clean water act. That shit's worse than plutonium dust for toxicity.
Besides, a can of corn works better for bait.
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I would rather drink my own piss.
Mod parent down -1 "silly buggers"
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There's a difference between "results are not guaranteed" and comparing the what happened in Zimbabwe to what's going on right now in Libya and then saying "be careful what you wish for" as if warning against it.
The only reasons to post something like that are if you support the incumbent government, or you just don't know any better. Because that's the exact argument that Moammar and the house of Al Saud are using against any kind of velvet revolution.
"It'll be chaos!" - scare mongering.
IOW, "we may be the devil, but we're the devil you know, not the one you don't"
Yes, everyone knows that you might not get what you want, but not trying means guaranteeing you won't get what you want.
So there.
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Remember that Moammar "threw off" tyrrany to declare his own dictatorship.
Also remember that Eastern Europe threw off tyrranies to create actual democracies. Just because a revolution happens doesn't mean that the end result is predictable.
Remember that when you're posting stupid shit on slashdot.
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BMO
We're full of false equivalence here today, aren't we?
There was no direct threat to Mugabe. There was a mention of an "egypt" happening to Zimbabwe. If you posted the exact same thing on your facebook in the US and just substituted, you'd not raise a single eyebrow.
Free Republic is full of people like this. When is the last time a freeper was arrested for what he said?
Never. Because political speech is the most protected speech in the US.
Posting a valid, direct, threat to assassinate Obama *will* get you arrested, but that's not political speech. That's conspiracy to commit murder.
>comparing high school hijinks to political speech
Trollercoaster.jpg.
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What rule of law is there in Zimbabwe?
There hasn't been the rule of law since it was Rhodesia and even then it was pretty piss-poor (Mugabe learned from his masters).
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Unfortunately the South African government, the only local player strong enough to get the job done, is best buddies with Mugabe's government. Part of this is history, and the larger part is that SA is afraid of millions of refugees streaming across the border looking for help.
Kind of like how China's relationship with North Korea.
And forget about getting the US involved. Outside of sanctions there's nothing much that can be done.
FFS, we can't even get Gbago out of Ivory Coast by offering him a professorship in the US (true!).
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So much this.
Mugabe is up to his nostrils in spilled blood over the past 40 years.
Here's to hoping "Egypt" happens there. But I suspect it would be more like Libya.
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Now that W2K is no longer getting security updates, I put it to you that your real problem isn't upgrading ie6.
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I suggest that we all make an honest effort to pack all high frequency traders into a sphere .15mm across.
It would create a sphere of evil so dense that not even light could escape. A singularity of evil.
Then we could launch it into deep space.
Sounds like a plan to me.
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And if anyone pulled that at work, they'd be out the door by Friday.
I've never had a job where management gave in because I'm incompetent in something.
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Well that sucks.
I just looked and realized that Slashdot doesn't support unicode.
It's 2011. Fix this.
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>The problem is all about training people on how to use the new software. Using OO Writer instead of Word for example. Sure, sounds simple, the nerds can probably fgure it out without blinking, but it is all the NON-NERDS who make it a very expensive idea to test.
It's a freakin' word processor. That's all it is. A word processor isn't some esoteric specialized piece of software.
If you can't figure out a random word processor and use it, you should just be given an old Underwood manual typewriter and an OCR document scanner instead (do I hear cheers for this from some people?).
It's not rocket surgery, people. Word is not the be-all/end-all of document creation software. And the people who claim "but Writer doesn't have $ESOTERICFEATURE" don't realize (or deliberately ignore the fact) that 99 percent of people who use word processors use them as glorified typewriters with spell and grammar check and $ESOTERICFEATURE gets used *maybe* once a year, if that. (I asked people at work how often they used pivot tables, and the answer was "twice a year, maybe" and pivot tables was supposed to be /the/ defining feature of Word97)
People today aren't any different from people 25 years ago using DOS based Word Perfect without any GUI whatsoever. We didn't have all this bitching and moaning about training when companies migrated from WP to Word. They just did it. Sure the WP users bitched, but that's because Word is (and shall always be) inferior to WP, but "training" was never an issue.
What a bunch of crybabies the anti-OO people are.
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The Ghost of Tycho Brahe just read this and gave a the finger to the summary, the article, and the people studying this.
"You guys, you just don't know what you're messing with here"
Last words of Tycho Brahe:
"Jeg har brug for at tisse så meget, at mine tænder er flydende!"
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No, it means that people should stick to trusted software, and sites. You can have a software repository with a ton of third party applications without having a huge corporation behind it.
Debian, for instance.
Google and iPhone stores are only a half step. The ability to have third party repositories should be added.
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>director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse
Not to go all ad-hominem, but I'm just supposed to take some political hack's word for it?
Also: 47 people in the study.
not_large_enough_sample_and_no_controls_in_experiment.pdf.jpg.txt.bat
Bad science leads to scare mongering at best.
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