Oh, wait, this took place on the Obama adminstration's watch?
Not another one.
Not another not another one.
EVEN WORSE: It all took place on OUR watch. ALL of them. All of US. T / O / B / C / B / etc. Our leaders do represent The People, but exactly which ones are yet to be determined.
The again, remember the president is not omnipowerful, even though everyone would like you to think that way. Congress is the one with the overall power, the president just has some money, some people that work at his pleasure, and overall attention.
You want to make a change? Then change Congress, or at least change who the members talk and listen to. Or even better -- quit making overall laws that affect everyone everywhere, let each state decide for themselves. Maybe they'll be right. Maybe wrong. Maybe they'll be completely STUPID, who knows?
Maybe Idaho like potatos. Maybe Iowa likes corn. Maybe Washington likes apples, or Florida oranges. But let's not pass an overarching law that there's only ONE correct crop. Master country-wide rules (binding laws) need to be far and few between, only handling differences between states, not overriding all of them everywhere to suit a single standard that someone chooses. ("It's good to be King.")
Google *also* has access to all my browsing, as much as I try not to let them,
So Google has your "browsing history", or Google knows when you click on a Google search link or on News.Google.Com?
You do realize that even though Google shows the correct target link in the status bar, it actually front-ends the link to visit themselves before it forwards you to the target? Just because Google knows what you're reading (by a Google reference) doesn't mean they automatically know your entire browser history.
OTOH if you type "facebook com" and click on the suggested link, then they probably DO know you're going to facebook. I think Google sucks in as much as they possibly can, but I don't think they suck in EVERY single thing you do.
Companies could set arbitrary prices on goods, charging whatever they wanted.... Turns out they weren't that great of an idea after all.
Maybe I'm older than I think. Don't y'all remember this phrase? Link "I owe my soul to the company store" at 0:51
Sixteen Tons" is a song... based on life in coal mines
The line, "You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt," came from a letter... Another... from their father, a coal miner, who would say, "I can't afford to die. I owe my soul to the company store."
I'm sure, just like Wal*Mart, they've always got the lowest price.
Link: Regulators forced "Mr. Sam" [Walton] to modify his slogan of "Always the lowest price" to the hedged "Always low prices!"
News Link
A Fields medal belonging to Caucher Birkar went missing just half an hour after he was jointly awarded the prize
The G1 news site said Birkar had left the medal in a briefcase with his cellphone and wallet on top of a table in the pavilion where the event was being held.
The event's security team later found the briefcase under a bench, but the medal was missing.
Rio's O Globo newspaper said the thief had already been identified from security camera footage.
Handwashes based on alcohols such as isopropanol have become commonplace as a method of infection control.
Forget isopropanol, I'm saturating everything to whisky. You bugs can have the outside, I'm going to take care of my insides.
Is anybody surprised? We used it for everything, and now the survivors are coming back with a vengeance. (Actually just coming back immune -- anthropomorphism is for zombies.)
If only we could take the Religious Never-Evolvers and mate them with the Flat-Earthers -- then we could push them all off the edge of the Earth to be closer to God. (Or that giant turtle. Same thing. Hope he's not a snapping turtle.)
Did they get their data back? Seems like it might be a "cheap" lesson to learn about backup/RESTORES and security.
I've heard about some of these guys actually having a chat-room to help victims figure out how pay them in bitcoin and make sure the files are recovered. Nothing like an honest criminal -- OTOH you're more apt to pay them if it's well known you'll actually get your data back. "Thank you for volunteering to be a customer, please come again!"
The FBI doesn't want you to pay them, because you're paying a criminal. I agree, but I can see how people do it and say, "But next time we'll do better!" Link.
despite years of federal subsidies and many state grant programs.
But if you just give us some more money, we'll get Right On That. Oh, did we mention our last contribution to your election campaign?
I was an AT&T customer 2 decades ago. I had ISDN at home (work paid, dial-up was just too slow) and they were rolling out Pronto, their higher-speed system in my area "in 6 months or so." After calling like every 6 months, I gave up after 5 years.
I now (different house) have Comcast Business Internet, 30MBit. It works, no caps, I can call and get an actual tech in 30-60 seconds that can speak bits and DHCP. It's great, but I'm sure I'm paying for it.
Before that I had AT&T DSL at 1.5Mbit with caps. It was funny, they charged me for going over my monthly limit which I did every month -- at a cheaper rate than my normal monthly bill. Instead of being a penalty for me, it was almost a bonus.
We moved to an open-office space a few years ago. I was occasionally going NUTS with all of the background babble. At times I needed to solve a problem but all I could hear is my next door neighbor talking -- I guess NOT trying to listen made it even worse. I purchased noise-canceling headphones and when I just had to concentrate they went on. Nice, icy, cool quiet.
Here is an alternative that would have helped cover it up. Voices not saying anything, but still covering up the actual ones that ARE.
RIP Doug, you were one of the unsung heros of Star Trek. Thanks for your work. (I just wish you hadn't made those Daleks so screechy-annoying.)
'I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of 2 million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.'
Attributed to John Glenn
In this case, you're you own bidder and buyer. And implementer. And user. At least you're really getting into your project.
The end of the Earth. That's fine and all, but it looks the same to me.
OH, LOOK! Slashdot now supports Unicode! It *IS* a new world!
Hint to admins: if you'd just replace left double quotation mark and right (U+201C and U+201D) and then em-dash with their poor ASCII cousins on input, you'd fix like 50% of the gripes. I could live without emotions, I'm not an Ancient Egyptian like some people.
Whether or not He will need clocks in the eternal world to come remains up for debate.
How do you know it's eternal unless you're watching a clock? Maybe it's only a month, and then He'll get tired and want to do something else. (ADD Jesus.)
OTOH, do they have night in Heaven? What if I'm an astronomer and want to see the stars? Oh, right; either I can just zoom over to see them, or I'll have forgotten all about them and be basking in the Glory of the One True Star. So I guess He's like a black hole with all of the other souls spinning and dancing around him.
(Yeah, I'm a non-believer as you can tell. Not trying to have TOO much fun here, believe it or not. I do hope it's real but I don't think so, and I'm betting my ?holy everlasting soul? that it's not. When I die and see God, my first words (if I have time) will be, "Well, shit." OTOH I think that I'll be meeting a different God.)
and the North American piracy ecosystem generates $840 million per year
I thought the MPAA members never showed a profit?
That's what I hear about a lot of movies. (Must be accounting errors -- stupid beancounters, can't even count*.)
GooGEL says: Modern film industry. The worldwide theatrical market had a box office of US$38.6 billion in 2016.
And: Their lack of profitability, in fact, is typical. Over 80% of Hollywood movies fail to turn a profit.... For each new film, a movie "is set up as its own corporation, the entire point of which is to lose money" by paying fees to the studio producing the movie.
While 2Q7: Sony has recorded a full-year net profit of $655M, a 50% fall from the previous year, while its Pictures division posted a loss of $719M year-on-year, driven by box office underperformance.
Maybe this is pointing the way to a new market where they CAN make a profit. Or am I missing the point?
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* link
There once was a business owner who was interviewing people for a division manager position. He decided to select the individual that could answer the question "how much is 2+2?"
The engineer pulled out his slide rule and shuffled it back and forth, and finally announced, "It lies between 3.98 and 4.02".
The mathematician said, "In two hours I can demonstrate it equals 4 with the following short proof."
The physicist declared, "It's in the magnitude of 1x10^1."
The logician paused for a long while and then said, "This problem is solvable."
The social worker said, "I don't know the answer, but I a glad that we discussed this important question.
The attorney stated, "In the case of Svenson vs. the State, 2+2 was declared to be 4."
The trader asked, "Are you buying or selling?"
The accountant looked at the business owner, then got out of his chair, went to see if anyone was listening at the door and pulled the drapes. Then he returned to the business owner, leaned across the desk and said in a low voice, "What would you like it to be?"
would a use case be made for replacing native, tried and true {tools} for Linux with some POS
Oh, did someone mention SystemD?
Mod me down, that's fine; I'm moving to FreeBSD. Hopefully S*D will stay working long enough while I plan and execute the move. Not on BTRFS ("But it works fine for me") volumes, either.
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Oh, wait, this took place on the Obama adminstration's watch?
Not another one.
Not another not another one.
EVEN WORSE: It all took place on OUR watch. ALL of them. All of US. T / O / B / C / B / etc. Our leaders do represent The People, but exactly which ones are yet to be determined.
The again, remember the president is not omnipowerful, even though everyone would like you to think that way. Congress is the one with the overall power, the president just has some money, some people that work at his pleasure, and overall attention.
You want to make a change? Then change Congress, or at least change who the members talk and listen to. Or even better -- quit making overall laws that affect everyone everywhere, let each state decide for themselves. Maybe they'll be right. Maybe wrong. Maybe they'll be completely STUPID, who knows?
Maybe Idaho like potatos. Maybe Iowa likes corn. Maybe Washington likes apples, or Florida oranges. But let's not pass an overarching law that there's only ONE correct crop. Master country-wide rules (binding laws) need to be far and few between, only handling differences between states, not overriding all of them everywhere to suit a single standard that someone chooses. ("It's good to be King.")
Google *also* has access to all my browsing, as much as I try not to let them,
So Google has your "browsing history", or Google knows when you click on a Google search link or on News.Google.Com?
You do realize that even though Google shows the correct target link in the status bar, it actually front-ends the link to visit themselves before it forwards you to the target? Just because Google knows what you're reading (by a Google reference) doesn't mean they automatically know your entire browser history.
OTOH if you type "facebook com" and click on the suggested link, then they probably DO know you're going to facebook. I think Google sucks in as much as they possibly can, but I don't think they suck in EVERY single thing you do.
Companies could set arbitrary prices on goods, charging whatever they wanted. ... Turns out they weren't that great of an idea after all.
Maybe I'm older than I think. Don't y'all remember this phrase? Link "I owe my soul to the company store" at 0:51
... based on life in coal mines
The line, "You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt," came from a letter ... Another ... from their father, a coal miner, who would say, "I can't afford to die. I owe my soul to the company store."
Sixteen Tons" is a song
I'm sure, just like Wal*Mart, they've always got the lowest price.
Link: Regulators forced "Mr. Sam" [Walton] to modify his slogan of "Always the lowest price" to the hedged "Always low prices!"
so there would never be an approval for which paperwork would be necessary.
Remember: this is the government -- logic doesn't apply here.
News Link A Fields medal belonging to Caucher Birkar went missing just half an hour after he was jointly awarded the prize
The G1 news site said Birkar had left the medal in a briefcase with his cellphone and wallet on top of a table in the pavilion where the event was being held. The event's security team later found the briefcase under a bench, but the medal was missing.
Rio's O Globo newspaper said the thief had already been identified from security camera footage.
Handwashes based on alcohols such as isopropanol have become commonplace as a method of infection control.
Forget isopropanol, I'm saturating everything to whisky. You bugs can have the outside, I'm going to take care of my insides.
Is anybody surprised? We used it for everything, and now the survivors are coming back with a vengeance. (Actually just coming back immune -- anthropomorphism is for zombies.)
If only we could take the Religious Never-Evolvers and mate them with the Flat-Earthers -- then we could push them all off the edge of the Earth to be closer to God. (Or that giant turtle. Same thing. Hope he's not a snapping turtle.)
You think you're funny but you're not.
Did they get their data back? Seems like it might be a "cheap" lesson to learn about backup/RESTORES and security.
I've heard about some of these guys actually having a chat-room to help victims figure out how pay them in bitcoin and make sure the files are recovered. Nothing like an honest criminal -- OTOH you're more apt to pay them if it's well known you'll actually get your data back. "Thank you for volunteering to be a customer, please come again!"
The FBI doesn't want you to pay them, because you're paying a criminal. I agree, but I can see how people do it and say, "But next time we'll do better!" Link.
despite years of federal subsidies and many state grant programs.
But if you just give us some more money, we'll get Right On That. Oh, did we mention our last contribution to your election campaign?
I was an AT&T customer 2 decades ago. I had ISDN at home (work paid, dial-up was just too slow) and they were rolling out Pronto, their higher-speed system in my area "in 6 months or so." After calling like every 6 months, I gave up after 5 years.
I now (different house) have Comcast Business Internet, 30MBit. It works, no caps, I can call and get an actual tech in 30-60 seconds that can speak bits and DHCP. It's great, but I'm sure I'm paying for it.
Before that I had AT&T DSL at 1.5Mbit with caps. It was funny, they charged me for going over my monthly limit which I did every month -- at a cheaper rate than my normal monthly bill. Instead of being a penalty for me, it was almost a bonus.
Go visit My Noise website or for Android. There are a lot of OTHER noises there as well.
We moved to an open-office space a few years ago. I was occasionally going NUTS with all of the background babble. At times I needed to solve a problem but all I could hear is my next door neighbor talking -- I guess NOT trying to listen made it even worse. I purchased noise-canceling headphones and when I just had to concentrate they went on. Nice, icy, cool quiet.
Here is an alternative that would have helped cover it up. Voices not saying anything, but still covering up the actual ones that ARE.
RIP Doug, you were one of the unsung heros of Star Trek. Thanks for your work. (I just wish you hadn't made those Daleks so screechy-annoying.)
Nope, call a spade a spade: Chrome Jr.
It would be almost criminally stupid for a government agency tasked with defense to not do the same thing.
Contact (Movie) - S.R. Hadden: First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
UP! UP, it's always supposed to go UP. You told me so when you sold me that crushed snake! I'm going to sue to make it right for me.
... inconceivable!
Pshaw, to think the stock market might actually go down
Can we all pitch in like $5 to pay some flat Earth idiot to go on this thing?
Wouldn't do any good -- the radiation would damage his brain so much that he'd think the Earth was round. Good try, though.
'I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of 2 million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.'
Attributed to John Glenn
In this case, you're you own bidder and buyer. And implementer. And user. At least you're really getting into your project.
How LOW can you GO? -- Darwin
"Why does the Porridge Bird lay his egg in the air?"
He must have migrated Back From The Shadows Again.
The end of the Earth. That's fine and all, but it looks the same to me.
OH, LOOK! Slashdot now supports Unicode! It *IS* a new world!
Hint to admins: if you'd just replace left double quotation mark and right (U+201C and U+201D) and then em-dash with their poor ASCII cousins on input, you'd fix like 50% of the gripes. I could live without emotions, I'm not an Ancient Egyptian like some people.
evidence that in fact what he said didn't happen actually did. This _is_ called a "lie" and some people prefer not to be lied to.
It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
Whether or not He will need clocks in the eternal world to come remains up for debate.
How do you know it's eternal unless you're watching a clock? Maybe it's only a month, and then He'll get tired and want to do something else. (ADD Jesus.)
OTOH, do they have night in Heaven? What if I'm an astronomer and want to see the stars? Oh, right; either I can just zoom over to see them, or I'll have forgotten all about them and be basking in the Glory of the One True Star. So I guess He's like a black hole with all of the other souls spinning and dancing around him.
(Yeah, I'm a non-believer as you can tell. Not trying to have TOO much fun here, believe it or not. I do hope it's real but I don't think so, and I'm betting my ?holy everlasting soul? that it's not. When I die and see God, my first words (if I have time) will be, "Well, shit." OTOH I think that I'll be meeting a different God.)
advocate for reducing overaggressive enforcement, loosening the stranglehold on the public domain, and promote expansion of fair use
That won't work; it'd be going the other way -- the MPAA (and RIAA) is a ratchet racket.
and the North American piracy ecosystem generates $840 million per year
I thought the MPAA members never showed a profit? That's what I hear about a lot of movies. (Must be accounting errors -- stupid beancounters, can't even count*.)
GooGEL says: Modern film industry. The worldwide theatrical market had a box office of US$38.6 billion in 2016.
... For each new film, a movie "is set up as its own corporation, the entire point of which is to lose money" by paying fees to the studio producing the movie.
And: Their lack of profitability, in fact, is typical. Over 80% of Hollywood movies fail to turn a profit.
While 2Q7: Sony has recorded a full-year net profit of $655M, a 50% fall from the previous year, while its Pictures division posted a loss of $719M year-on-year, driven by box office underperformance.
Maybe this is pointing the way to a new market where they CAN make a profit. Or am I missing the point?
-------
* link
There once was a business owner who was interviewing people for a division manager position. He decided to select the individual that could answer the question "how much is 2+2?"
The engineer pulled out his slide rule and shuffled it back and forth, and finally announced, "It lies between 3.98 and 4.02".
The mathematician said, "In two hours I can demonstrate it equals 4 with the following short proof."
The physicist declared, "It's in the magnitude of 1x10^1."
The logician paused for a long while and then said, "This problem is solvable."
The social worker said, "I don't know the answer, but I a glad that we discussed this important question.
The attorney stated, "In the case of Svenson vs. the State, 2+2 was declared to be 4."
The trader asked, "Are you buying or selling?"
The accountant looked at the business owner, then got out of his chair, went to see if anyone was listening at the door and pulled the drapes. Then he returned to the business owner, leaned across the desk and said in a low voice, "What would you like it to be?"
Simply cough up enough money, and in 2 days there it is -- books and shelves and everything!!
(Some sorting and assembly required, building not included.)
Cell Phone Use May Affect Memory Performance In Adolescents, Study Finds
would a use case be made for replacing native, tried and true {tools} for Linux with some POS
Oh, did someone mention SystemD?
Mod me down, that's fine; I'm moving to FreeBSD. Hopefully S*D will stay working long enough while I plan and execute the move. Not on BTRFS ("But it works fine for me") volumes, either.
... but this sounds like something Microsoft would do.
Google: When I left you I but was the learner, now *I* am the master