I really wish he had said that on Meet The Press or something.
Huffpo, popular as it is with liberals, isn't going to reach the same amount of people as MTP does, which would probably get repeated on the network news and even Fox if only for Fox personalities to get all offended.
>Here's hoping Ron Paul hijacks the candidacy or runs third party and splits the GOP right down the middle
And the GOP will have learned the easy lesson from watching Nader fuck the DNC. All it will take is to find Dr. Paul's price. It's probably not money, but I guarantee that they will definitely wheel and deal to keep him out.
Yes, I am that cynical. Possibly not cynical enough.
Oh, and the good news? Mitt Romney has already stated that he's going to hire all these same psychopaths to advise his administration on foreign policy. He's putting the pro-war band back together, and this time with an extra helping of St John's Revelations, LDS-style.
He's already started it. The entire board of the Foreign Policy Initiative all except for William Kristol himself are part of his foreign policy team.
And the only reason why WK isn't on the team is that it would be too obvious.
There is *nobody* in the Press talking about it. The silence and tacit approval from the Fourth Estate is fucking disgusting.
You know what I see? I see rampant electoral fraud this November geared to get Romney elected and we're all just fucked. The fix is in. The fix was in two years ago. The loony-tunes unelectable candidates were picked by the GOP leadership to ensure that Romney, their patsy, would get the nomination. There is no other logical explanation for the disgusting crew of unlikeable and shit-for-brains candidates like Crazy Bitch, Mr. Hairpiece, Pizza Guy, etc.
Yeah, I know, tighten the tinfoil, bmo, but the more you watch what's going on, the more it seems like tinfoil is required.
I groaned right after I hit submit and saw it mangled. I used to be one of those people that said "if you can't say it in 7 bit ascii, it isn't worth saying at all" but then even I got on the UTF bandwagon last century.
The whole premise of this is the assumption is that everyone is able to see where tech comes from - that people actually know where the tantalum in the capacitors in a cellphone comes from, for instance. That there is any choice to make between ethical and unethical. The thing is, as consumers, we don't know. Parts suppliers are under no obligation to tell their customers, the OEMs, either. There is no mens rea here on the part of the end user.. There is no guilty mind.
The only actual point of this question is to guilt-trip people who have technology and cajole them into a hair-shirt asceticism. As if we all can move out into the country and eschew tech - the tech free farm does not exist, either. This is nonsense.
Your statement assumes the previous AC deserves rational argument in return. The problem is doing so gives too much importance to something that has actual negative intellectual value.
âoeTo argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.â - Thomas Paine
>but I turn on Windows because it looks nice, the drivers (for me) have always just worked.
So you never suffered any device loss going to the new driver model when Microsoft changed it.
Landfills are full of printers, scanners, soundcards, etc, because of it.
>Windows because it looks nice
There are more ways to change the look of a Linux desktop than you can shake a stick at. I can't see how you can justify what you just said with any facts whatsoever.
>I can play games from just about any era of Windows. >However, my play time...
Even small to medium packages tend to pull in everything but the kitchen sink.
Well, if you're going to install something that requires KDE and you don't have KDE installed, be prepared to wind up installing KDE. But then if you are suddenly surprised that you are downloading KDE, it's *your* fault for not looking at the depends in the first place. It's not like this stuff is hidden away.
There *is* a problem with "Recommend" abuse. But then you can just turn off "treat recs as depends" and be done with it.
The system tells you exactly what's going on unless you're using that gawd-awful Ubuntu software center, but then Software Center is a reaction to the windroids that insist they not be told anything about what's going on, because it's "too complicated."
Linux distribution security generally isn't much better than modern Windows.
I dunno about you, but the amount of effort I personally go through keeping a Linux system secure is minuscule compared to having to keep up with Windows security. While this is a sampling of one, I believe my experience is typical.
All I did was to point out that the person's manner in posting will be entirely ineffective and do nothing to help the view they are promoting (and maybe even harm it). I didn't tell them to sit down or shut up or anything of the sort. I didn't pass any judgement on them or their view. Simply pointing out that their time and purpose would be better served if they were to change their tactics.
But what tactics would those be? Being nice? Being nice hasn't been working and people are pissed off. He wasn't out of line. You're "correcting" of him was condescending and belittling. Not literally telling him to "sit down and shut up" but enough so to be taken that way.
Given that, at what point do mods that improve minecraft's program-ability go too far and turn it from a perverse simulation game of enormous popularity into a really dreadful IDE?
When someone abandons cool things like forth and tries to implement Visual Basic.
They just have a list of those who haven't paid the tax and go 'round harrassing people. It's easier and doesn't cost as much as a van full of equipment and high-paid engineers.
1. You don't know how GPS works 2. You don't know how network time is set 3. You don't know how atomic clocks work. 4. You don't know fucking anything about leap seconds and how they're handled by downstream users of GPS clock ticks.
Here we have someone who, without a question, makes a decent buck, yet decides that's still not enough and decides to go rip off a store, repeatedly, because rules don't apply to him.
In this thread, the amount of giving this guy in the article excuses ("oh, he probably doesn't make *that* much," and "kleptomania is a mental disorder" (this isn't kleptomania)) is just odious. If it was someone else (poorer), this wouldn't even be a story and nobody would be making excuses for him. Come on, whiskey tango foxtrot, over?
Class warfare is not some guy pointing out the foibles of our "esteemed" ruling class.
Class warfare is the "ruling class" assholes like this guy in the article desiring to do whatever the fuck he wants to anyone and this is just *one* example of the things he's done. You don't go 'round with a scheme such as this without doing similar things in your life, even if metaphorically. He has clearly thought this scheme through, successfully planned it, and got away with it for quite a while. And you *know* Target is not the only store he's done this to. If you can do it at one place, you can do it elsewhere.
It's obvious this guy is clearly one of the "one percenters" - a thug in a thousand-dollar suit - psychopath or sociopath, depending on which version of the word you want (they are interchangeable, and have been substituted for each other in the DSM over the years). And he is just one of many. The people willing to give these sociopaths excuses are even more numerous, especially people who *aren't* part of the 1%, which I don't understand, honestly. It's like the gazelles cheering on the lions when one of their herd gets eaten. The only difference between him and the Wall-Streeters who have been stealing for the past decade is that he is in the wrong business to steal real amounts of money, like John Corzine and MF Global, for example.
He pre-emptively mentioned that people will tell him to sit down and shut up. Like you. If people like you make people like him sit down and shut up, the rage will simply bottle up and be used... elsewhere. Eventually. And you won't like it.
It honestly feels like I'm in a pub in Paris in the first half of 1789 watching people argue over mouldy bread and bad wine.
For $7000 in Y2K dollars, you can forge documents and a search warrant and walk right in to a datacenter, pretending you're the feds and walk out with the machines themselves. While this is a crime, you are committing a crime in the first place anyway by deciding to go after the data, so I don't see this as a barrier for those who don't give a shit.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh here we go.
"They're both the same, so vote Republican" nonsense.
Even if Obama is a patsy, he's a patsy for a different group of people entirely. He's not a patsy for the PNAC II aka FPI and assorted neocons.
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Excuse me while I think about this. If this actually happens, we will have become communist-era Bulgaria.
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I really wish he had said that on Meet The Press or something.
Huffpo, popular as it is with liberals, isn't going to reach the same amount of people as MTP does, which would probably get repeated on the network news and even Fox if only for Fox personalities to get all offended.
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>Here's hoping Ron Paul hijacks the candidacy or runs third party and splits the GOP right down the middle
And the GOP will have learned the easy lesson from watching Nader fuck the DNC. All it will take is to find Dr. Paul's price. It's probably not money, but I guarantee that they will definitely wheel and deal to keep him out.
Yes, I am that cynical. Possibly not cynical enough.
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Oh, and the good news? Mitt Romney has already stated that he's going to hire all these same psychopaths to advise his administration on foreign policy. He's putting the pro-war band back together, and this time with an extra helping of St John's Revelations, LDS-style.
He's already started it. The entire board of the Foreign Policy Initiative all except for William Kristol himself are part of his foreign policy team.
And the only reason why WK isn't on the team is that it would be too obvious.
There is *nobody* in the Press talking about it. The silence and tacit approval from the Fourth Estate is fucking disgusting.
You know what I see? I see rampant electoral fraud this November geared to get Romney elected and we're all just fucked. The fix is in. The fix was in two years ago. The loony-tunes unelectable candidates were picked by the GOP leadership to ensure that Romney, their patsy, would get the nomination. There is no other logical explanation for the disgusting crew of unlikeable and shit-for-brains candidates like Crazy Bitch, Mr. Hairpiece, Pizza Guy, etc.
Yeah, I know, tighten the tinfoil, bmo, but the more you watch what's going on, the more it seems like tinfoil is required.
And so we head toward Permanent War.
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Oh, I know.
I groaned right after I hit submit and saw it mangled. I used to be one of those people that said "if you can't say it in 7 bit ascii, it isn't worth saying at all" but then even I got on the UTF bandwagon last century.
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The whole premise of this is the assumption is that everyone is able to see where tech comes from - that people actually know where the tantalum in the capacitors in a cellphone comes from, for instance. That there is any choice to make between ethical and unethical. The thing is, as consumers, we don't know. Parts suppliers are under no obligation to tell their customers, the OEMs, either. There is no mens rea here on the part of the end user.. There is no guilty mind.
The only actual point of this question is to guilt-trip people who have technology and cajole them into a hair-shirt asceticism. As if we all can move out into the country and eschew tech - the tech free farm does not exist, either. This is nonsense.
The technology trap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKELMR6wACw
Full program:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSxL8GUn-g&list=PL79184D14F872B80D&feature=plpp
We live in a society that requires technology, as fragile as it is, just to get along every day and going back is not an acceptable alternative.
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Your statement assumes the previous AC deserves rational argument in return. The problem is doing so gives too much importance to something that has actual negative intellectual value.
âoeTo argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.â - Thomas Paine
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>buy a Mac
So fucking buy one already instead of bitching and moaning about how Linux doesn't cater to your every fucking whim.
You are so full of shit. Honestly.
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>1. I'm too lazy to find Linux programs that do what my assorted programs do
How is this Linux's fault?
>2. I play games
Like I said earlier. Every defence of Windows boils down to games. Every time.
And I haven't even brought up Xen with VGA passthrough. Until now.
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>but I turn on Windows because it looks nice, the drivers (for me) have always just worked.
So you never suffered any device loss going to the new driver model when Microsoft changed it.
Landfills are full of printers, scanners, soundcards, etc, because of it.
>Windows because it looks nice
There are more ways to change the look of a Linux desktop than you can shake a stick at. I can't see how you can justify what you just said with any facts whatsoever.
>I can play games from just about any era of Windows.
>However, my play time...
And this is what it always comes down to.
Windows is a game loader.
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Even small to medium packages tend to pull in everything but the kitchen sink.
Well, if you're going to install something that requires KDE and you don't have KDE installed, be prepared to wind up installing KDE. But then if you are suddenly surprised that you are downloading KDE, it's *your* fault for not looking at the depends in the first place. It's not like this stuff is hidden away.
There *is* a problem with "Recommend" abuse. But then you can just turn off "treat recs as depends" and be done with it.
The system tells you exactly what's going on unless you're using that gawd-awful Ubuntu software center, but then Software Center is a reaction to the windroids that insist they not be told anything about what's going on, because it's "too complicated."
Linux distribution security generally isn't much better than modern Windows.
I dunno about you, but the amount of effort I personally go through keeping a Linux system secure is minuscule compared to having to keep up with Windows security. While this is a sampling of one, I believe my experience is typical.
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I'm going to have to agree with you on that. I'm not sure about the scale, but publish-or-perish has led to a lot of junk papers.
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All I did was to point out that the person's manner in posting will be entirely ineffective and do nothing to help the view they are promoting (and maybe even harm it). I didn't tell them to sit down or shut up or anything of the sort. I didn't pass any judgement on them or their view. Simply pointing out that their time and purpose would be better served if they were to change their tactics.
But what tactics would those be? Being nice? Being nice hasn't been working and people are pissed off. He wasn't out of line. You're "correcting" of him was condescending and belittling. Not literally telling him to "sit down and shut up" but enough so to be taken that way.
>my integrity
Oh fuck off.
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Given that, at what point do mods that improve minecraft's program-ability go too far and turn it from a perverse simulation game of enormous popularity into a really dreadful IDE?
When someone abandons cool things like forth and tries to implement Visual Basic.
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There is nothing in the vans.
They just have a list of those who haven't paid the tax and go 'round harrassing people. It's easier and doesn't cost as much as a van full of equipment and high-paid engineers.
Emperor
Clothes
None.
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1. You don't know how GPS works
2. You don't know how network time is set
3. You don't know how atomic clocks work.
4. You don't know fucking anything about leap seconds and how they're handled by downstream users of GPS clock ticks.
Trollpost is troll.
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Yeah, I see that going over well... How does it keep time? Oh GPS. Don't worry, we aren't tracking you. No thanks, I'm going to get a second opinion.
Modded insightful, even.
Protip: GPS receivers do not transmit. Unless you buy one that is attached to, you know, a transmitter like a cellphone.
Crikes.
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why are you posting?
Because he's angry. Justifiably.
Here we have someone who, without a question, makes a decent buck, yet decides that's still not enough and decides to go rip off a store, repeatedly, because rules don't apply to him.
In this thread, the amount of giving this guy in the article excuses ("oh, he probably doesn't make *that* much," and "kleptomania is a mental disorder" (this isn't kleptomania)) is just odious. If it was someone else (poorer), this wouldn't even be a story and nobody would be making excuses for him. Come on, whiskey tango foxtrot, over?
Class warfare is not some guy pointing out the foibles of our "esteemed" ruling class.
Class warfare is the "ruling class" assholes like this guy in the article desiring to do whatever the fuck he wants to anyone and this is just *one* example of the things he's done. You don't go 'round with a scheme such as this without doing similar things in your life, even if metaphorically. He has clearly thought this scheme through, successfully planned it, and got away with it for quite a while. And you *know* Target is not the only store he's done this to. If you can do it at one place, you can do it elsewhere.
It's obvious this guy is clearly one of the "one percenters" - a thug in a thousand-dollar suit - psychopath or sociopath, depending on which version of the word you want (they are interchangeable, and have been substituted for each other in the DSM over the years). And he is just one of many. The people willing to give these sociopaths excuses are even more numerous, especially people who *aren't* part of the 1%, which I don't understand, honestly. It's like the gazelles cheering on the lions when one of their herd gets eaten. The only difference between him and the Wall-Streeters who have been stealing for the past decade is that he is in the wrong business to steal real amounts of money, like John Corzine and MF Global, for example.
He pre-emptively mentioned that people will tell him to sit down and shut up. Like you. If people like you make people like him sit down and shut up, the rage will simply bottle up and be used ... elsewhere. Eventually. And you won't like it.
It honestly feels like I'm in a pub in Paris in the first half of 1789 watching people argue over mouldy bread and bad wine.
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Or if your debug script puts all usernames and passwords in cleartext in world-readable /tmp/ for your paid customers for chat.youporn.com.
For years.
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For $7000 in Y2K dollars, you can forge documents and a search warrant and walk right in to a datacenter, pretending you're the feds and walk out with the machines themselves. While this is a crime, you are committing a crime in the first place anyway by deciding to go after the data, so I don't see this as a barrier for those who don't give a shit.
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Replying to myself so others may read a story I am referring to in case they missed it back in 2004.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3639679.stm
And it still applies today.
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>But encryption can protect sensitive data if security is ever breached.
Encryption only works until you give the key away for a candy bar in a social engineering scheme.
Then all bets are off.
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>but I feel this is also just going to backfire
This is probably why the implementation date is slipping. The ISPs might be waking up to the shitstorm that comes when they roll this out.
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"We don't pay you to think. Get back to work"
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