I am a conscientious observer to this Anonymous/Scientology war, and I know that this was an attack by Ebaumsworld, not an attack by Anonymous. Ebaumsworld loves to do things like this to Anonymous.
No one's mentioned it, but what about these Witness Protection Programs we have? Not just a personal citizen's privacy concern, if they don't edit out at lease those individual's faces they could endanger those people's lives.
We keep going in the wrong direction, we gotta stop letting ourselves get narrowed into a tiny pathway. we had computers that we had to program entirely ourselves, we had to connect the right wires. then we had punchcards - which were just helpful, easier ways to manage the computer than wires. it did add some needless fluff, though. then we got a monitor, keyboard, terminals, these things were excellent, but included a little fluff. but when the GUI came, the most useless of all tools, we had the ability to superfluously move and manipulate data we wouldn't have cared about, data that primarily involves the act of displaying itself.
Visual Basic is a language that got quite big, people learned it, companies depended on it, but it SUCKED. IT SUCKED. IT WAS A TERRIBLE LANGUAGE. VISUAL BASIC WAS A POOR IMPLEMENTATION OF BASIC, WHICH WAS NO GOOD ANYWAY!!! people got stuck into this GUI world, VB world, wasting resources constantly. now, wtf.. web based? now all the noobs, the 12 year old fools who want to be cool and show off, use tables and flash to prove their worth. who cares if it's cross-platform, write a cross-platform OS, or develop cross-platform programs, but the WWW is meant for sharing Text. HyperText Markup Language. Think people, it's not about drawing pictures. it can, i know, but it doesn't matter now and it never has. it wastes cycles, it goes through the internet, through the specific web browsers, through the way the browsers handle the protocols, the GUI format that's handling the browser and the web elements partially, the OS it's running on, the underlying interpreters, it's terribly wasteful... but i know it's inevitable. i just don't like it.
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I am a conscientious observer to this Anonymous/Scientology war, and I know that this was an attack by Ebaumsworld, not an attack by Anonymous. Ebaumsworld loves to do things like this to Anonymous.
No one's mentioned it, but what about these Witness Protection Programs we have? Not just a personal citizen's privacy concern, if they don't edit out at lease those individual's faces they could endanger those people's lives.
We keep going in the wrong direction, we gotta stop letting ourselves get narrowed into a tiny pathway. we had computers that we had to program entirely ourselves, we had to connect the right wires. then we had punchcards - which were just helpful, easier ways to manage the computer than wires. it did add some needless fluff, though. then we got a monitor, keyboard, terminals, these things were excellent, but included a little fluff. but when the GUI came, the most useless of all tools, we had the ability to superfluously move and manipulate data we wouldn't have cared about, data that primarily involves the act of displaying itself. Visual Basic is a language that got quite big, people learned it, companies depended on it, but it SUCKED. IT SUCKED. IT WAS A TERRIBLE LANGUAGE. VISUAL BASIC WAS A POOR IMPLEMENTATION OF BASIC, WHICH WAS NO GOOD ANYWAY!!! people got stuck into this GUI world, VB world, wasting resources constantly. now, wtf.. web based? now all the noobs, the 12 year old fools who want to be cool and show off, use tables and flash to prove their worth. who cares if it's cross-platform, write a cross-platform OS, or develop cross-platform programs, but the WWW is meant for sharing Text. HyperText Markup Language. Think people, it's not about drawing pictures. it can, i know, but it doesn't matter now and it never has. it wastes cycles, it goes through the internet, through the specific web browsers, through the way the browsers handle the protocols, the GUI format that's handling the browser and the web elements partially, the OS it's running on, the underlying interpreters, it's terribly wasteful... but i know it's inevitable. i just don't like it.