But the only people who really control discussion these days are the pig-headed dolts who won't give up a lost argument for anything, and the trolls, who aren't there for legitimate argument anyway.
Anything else sane is lost in the noise.
I'm not mourning the loss of comments on a lot of sites. As a matter of fact, to protect my sanity I have been avoiding comments for the most part.
There are precious few places that have a comments section that have a decent moderation system.
>>Hardware from China and software from India. >MBA's from the US >Judges from Italy >Maple Syrup from Canada
CHANTING CHORUS: Oil from Canada! Gold from Mexico! Geese from their neighbor's back yard! Boom, boom! Corn from the Indians! Tobacco from the Indians! Dakota from the Indians! New Jersey from the Indians! New Hampshire from the Indians! New England from the Indians! New Delhi from the Indians!... BABE: Indonesia for the Indonesians! SOUND: Cannon shot. JOE: Yes, and Veteran's Day... DC: But we couldn't do it alone! SOUND: Morse Code sending under. JOE: No! We needed the Hope, the Faith, the Prayers, the Fears... DC: The Sweat, the Pain, the Boils, the Tears! JOE: The Broken Bones! DC: The Broken Homes! JOE: The Total Degradation of... BABE: Who? EDDIE: You! The Little Guy!
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LURLENE: Where are you from? BABE: Nairobi, Ma'm. Isn't everybody?
Someone recently told me that the "capture everything" was done because it's "technically" not a search of everyone's communications on the Internet in human readable form. That is until they use search algorithms to build an "instant dossier" on whoever they don't like from the huge pile of data they've collected.
I'm not a rocket engineer, and I can build a heliostat that tracks the sun with a couple of photodiodes and a long tube with a central divider, but something tells me that a spacecraft that far out might need something more accurate to, you know, not only see the Sun correctly, but actually aim the high-gain antenna at Earth instead of a point halfway between the us and the Moon.
You can have various disconnections and reconnections (Since it's written by someone at MIT, say you're going in to the T @Davis and coming out at Kendall/MIT) and the connection with mosh looks like you never disconnected.
The problem is sharing passwords, not the password method.
I have a registered nick with rizon's nickserv. This means it has a password. It's just there to keep people from stomping on my name, that's it (as it should be in a *chat*) and the password is transmitted in plain text and probably stored that way.
Do I give two shits whether someone sees it or swipes it? No, not particularly, because I don't use the same password anywhere else and all "they" are going to get is my nick. BFD.
One of the big reasons why I don't use Facebook or Google+ (besides lack of time to be on a million social networking sites), is that they require that you use (and reveal to the world) your real name.
My reaction to that is... and always shall be, "proven by what?" Do either of them require a faxed photocopy of a government issued ID? No?
So I ignore it. As you should. As everyone should.
For all anyone knows, I'm an owl on both FB and Google as my real name. My real friends know who I am and that's all that counts.
You have the right to call yourself anything you want in real life as long as you're not trying to defraud anyone. Why should we give up this right online? Because some company thinks it can?
Fuck no.
Stop being a pussy and ignore unenforceable TOS/AUP rules.
>winmodems are especially crap though. Since they offload a lot of the modem's functionality into the driver / OS,
Are you familiar with IBM's MWave card?
It could be a modem or a sound card (and a great floor wax, too!) but not both at the same time. It was based around a dsp chip (when dsp chips were new) and the concept meant that a modem or sound card was merely a program that you loaded into the MWave board. Unlike the Winmodem phenomenon, the card itself had actual (for the time and price, amazing) processing power. It also meant that since the modem was entirely in software, as the ITU approved standards, you could load a new program into the card and instantly have a "new modem" that met the higher speed standard.
And unlike the Winmodem phenomenon, it wasn't dependent on the OS what the card was executing. You just had to blast the bits at the card.
I thought it was pretty cool. I wanted to build a digital oscilloscope around the card.
Unfortunately many PCs were shipped with only one MWave board so you had to choose whether you wanted sound or a modem and reconfigure the card if you wanted to do the other. This angered various consumers that wanted both so lawsuits and a whole lotta derp ensued.
but as Validity CTO Sebastian Taveau points out, that's like saying your ATM PIN doesn't protect you from thieves at the ATM threatening to break your kneecaps with a crowbar if you don't withdraw money and hand it over. "How many people do you see limping away from cashpoints?" he asks.
During the last moments of her life, Amy E. Lord was led on a terrifying journey, from the South Boston street where the 24-year-old was kidnapped to a series of ATMs where she was forced to withdraw money, to Stony Brook Reservation where her brutally stabbed body was discovered by a passing cyclist early Tuesday morning.
>You want a reference? Search for *anything* on GitHub or Sourceforge, and count the number of projects that actually do anything, vs. the incomplete, half-assed garbage.
And I can point at stacks and stacks of crapware out there on Download.com and Tucows.
No, I could say Lotus Notes or any other kind of crapware. Do I have to list all the crapware out there? After I list, will you ask for more? Probably, because you are here to troll.
>your message overall
You keep using arguments that apply to both closed source software and open source software, and then saying it's only open source software that's crap.
"open source that *doesn't* work is statistically more prevalent"
And then you pull stuff like that straight out of your ass with no references.
Slashdot Mirror
It currently costs a minimum of $100/year
Wow, I'm a malicious java programmer and this is really going to stop me!
Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?
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>My apologies
Shit happens.
No biggie.
I take back the "multiple accounts" and "troll" accusation.
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BMO
No, you pointed out that removing a comments section because of abuse is somehow censorship. It's not. Therefore, what you said is a troll.
The fact that you somehow need multiple accounts on here to reply to threads probably also means that you are a troll.
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BMO
But the only people who really control discussion these days are the pig-headed dolts who won't give up a lost argument for anything, and the trolls, who aren't there for legitimate argument anyway.
Anything else sane is lost in the noise.
I'm not mourning the loss of comments on a lot of sites. As a matter of fact, to protect my sanity I have been avoiding comments for the most part.
There are precious few places that have a comments section that have a decent moderation system.
And lastly, your post is content-free BS.
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BMO
>>Hardware from China and software from India.
>MBA's from the US
>Judges from Italy
>Maple Syrup from Canada
CHANTING CHORUS: Oil from Canada! Gold from Mexico! Geese from their neighbor's back yard! Boom, boom! Corn from the Indians! Tobacco from the Indians! Dakota from the Indians! New Jersey from the Indians! New Hampshire from the Indians! New England from the Indians! New Delhi from the Indians! ... ... ... ...
BABE: Indonesia for the Indonesians!
SOUND: Cannon shot.
JOE: Yes, and Veteran's Day
DC: But we couldn't do it alone!
SOUND: Morse Code sending under.
JOE: No! We needed the Hope, the Faith, the Prayers, the Fears
DC: The Sweat, the Pain, the Boils, the Tears!
JOE: The Broken Bones!
DC: The Broken Homes!
JOE: The Total Degradation of
BABE: Who?
EDDIE: You! The Little Guy!
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BMO
LURLENE: Where are you from?
BABE: Nairobi, Ma'm. Isn't everybody?
...is to have a bartender that knows when to shut me off.
That is unless you like to hear me sing (badly) Rolling Stones tunes.
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BMO
I have yet to successfully plug a USB cable in upside-down, no matter how hard I try to force it.
I have yet to successfully plug in a USB cable right-side-up the first time, even though it's supposed to be 50-50.
>Try to plug in
>Nope
>Turn over
>Nope
>Turn over again
>Goes in.
It's the work of Satan, I tells ya.
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Someone recently told me that the "capture everything" was done because it's "technically" not a search of everyone's communications on the Internet in human readable form. That is until they use search algorithms to build an "instant dossier" on whoever they don't like from the huge pile of data they've collected.
That... is plausible. It's probably even correct.
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BMO
I'm not a rocket engineer, and I can build a heliostat that tracks the sun with a couple of photodiodes and a long tube with a central divider, but something tells me that a spacecraft that far out might need something more accurate to, you know, not only see the Sun correctly, but actually aim the high-gain antenna at Earth instead of a point halfway between the us and the Moon.
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BMO
Someone sent me a picture of a "headless kitty in a box" the other day.
I knew instantly it was Maru.
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME!?
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BMO
And when you want a reliable connection?
There is no such thing.
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BMO
what UDP is for?
An example of an application that uses UDP is Mosh
http://mosh.mit.edu/
You can have various disconnections and reconnections (Since it's written by someone at MIT, say you're going in to the T @Davis and coming out at Kendall/MIT) and the connection with mosh looks like you never disconnected.
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BMO
>It's not a BFD until someone uses your nick and probably a good chunk of your chat history
It's IRC
There is no "chat history" except what is kept locally. This is how it should be.
. I've thought about problems like these since about 1994, and given your UID, you too should given some thought to the topic by now
I've thought about it too, and I've come to the conclusion that my nick is disposable.
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It's only a chat.
The problem is sharing passwords, not the password method.
I have a registered nick with rizon's nickserv. This means it has a password. It's just there to keep people from stomping on my name, that's it (as it should be in a *chat*) and the password is transmitted in plain text and probably stored that way.
Do I give two shits whether someone sees it or swipes it? No, not particularly, because I don't use the same password anywhere else and all "they" are going to get is my nick. BFD.
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BMO
Have they fixed the lack of options for decent previews? Selecting a picture or video by a 20px preview just doesn't cut it anymore.
Yes, it's called using KDE.
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BMO
One of the big reasons why I don't use Facebook or Google+ (besides lack of time to be on a million social networking sites), is that they require that you use (and reveal to the world) your real name.
My reaction to that is... and always shall be, "proven by what?" Do either of them require a faxed photocopy of a government issued ID? No?
So I ignore it. As you should. As everyone should.
For all anyone knows, I'm an owl on both FB and Google as my real name. My real friends know who I am and that's all that counts.
You have the right to call yourself anything you want in real life as long as you're not trying to defraud anyone. Why should we give up this right online? Because some company thinks it can?
Fuck no.
Stop being a pussy and ignore unenforceable TOS/AUP rules.
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BMO
This is late but....
>winmodems are especially crap though. Since they offload a lot of the modem's functionality into the driver / OS,
Are you familiar with IBM's MWave card?
It could be a modem or a sound card (and a great floor wax, too!) but not both at the same time. It was based around a dsp chip (when dsp chips were new) and the concept meant that a modem or sound card was merely a program that you loaded into the MWave board. Unlike the Winmodem phenomenon, the card itself had actual (for the time and price, amazing) processing power. It also meant that since the modem was entirely in software, as the ITU approved standards, you could load a new program into the card and instantly have a "new modem" that met the higher speed standard.
And unlike the Winmodem phenomenon, it wasn't dependent on the OS what the card was executing. You just had to blast the bits at the card.
I thought it was pretty cool. I wanted to build a digital oscilloscope around the card.
Unfortunately many PCs were shipped with only one MWave board so you had to choose whether you wanted sound or a modem and reconfigure the card if you wanted to do the other. This angered various consumers that wanted both so lawsuits and a whole lotta derp ensued.
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BMO
World Population > The Infected Population.
The article is calling out a 2% mortality rate for the infected population, not the population of the world.
This is far less than the 3-5 percent mortality of the world population seen during the 1918 pandemic.
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BMO
Hmm, what is Adventure Time?
Google is over there---->
A note, my 5 digit UID here predates Adventure Time.
I actually took my name from Firesign Theatre.
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BMO - Not the Bank of Montreal.
Even simpler. Use the fuel as the stove.
http://thechive.com/2012/01/11/a-finnish-stove-is-all-the-rage-inwell-finland-12-photos/
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BMO
And further down in the article you cited:
Too many.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/07/24/southie/T3pRIehmw8M271WbFDEThI/story.html
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>You want a reference? Search for *anything* on GitHub or Sourceforge, and count the number of projects that actually do anything, vs. the incomplete, half-assed garbage.
And I can point at stacks and stacks of crapware out there on Download.com and Tucows.
You continue to fail to grasp Sturgeon's Law.
Take the beam out of your eye.
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BMO
When I make people such as yourself angry, I smile.
You have no idea how many false assumptions went into your one-sentence reply to me in the previous message.
You are that stupid.
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BMO
Believe it or not, your reply proves you're dumb as a *two* boxes of hammers.
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> Is Windows your only counter-example?
No, I could say Lotus Notes or any other kind of crapware. Do I have to list all the crapware out there? After I list, will you ask for more? Probably, because you are here to troll.
>your message overall
You keep using arguments that apply to both closed source software and open source software, and then saying it's only open source software that's crap.
"open source that *doesn't* work is statistically more prevalent"
And then you pull stuff like that straight out of your ass with no references.
You're a troll.
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BMO