... and our public education system is one of the worst in the world (not news).
Um... definitely not the worst in the world. There are severe problems, such as NOT teaching logic and critical thinking, but it succeeds in many other areas.
Hey! At least we do not let schoolgirls burn to death because they do not have their hijab handy. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I am pretty sure there was one in Pakistan where over a hundred girls died, but I can not find the article right now. Meh. The point is that those religious schools surely are not teaching critical thinking either and have other things that make them worse than American schools.
I never knew about Breitbart news until this election, and after following them for the last 3 months I think they're probably the best example of actual news reporting on the net. The site is right-wing slanted, but the actual reporting appears to be high quality and accurate.
You should avoid the obvious trollery; you almost had me for a second there.
I have seen breitbart news spoken of here at Slashdot numerous times. it has been denigrated as a histrionic right wing site. I have never investigated it... until now.
The parent's characterization appears to be spot on. Granted, I only gave it a cursory overview, so I could be wrong. Perhaps you would care to share why you think he is trolling?
Hopefully with the election of Trump and the destruction of the Republican and Democrat establishments we can relegate neoconservatism to the ash heap of history, along with the worst of leftist identity politics.
Please please please relegate neoconservatism to the ash heap of history. Please.
I looked into their motivations and desires and they think it is their duty to fuck with peoples lives to make the world a better place. Well, fucking with peoples lives is not okay, regardless of the outcome. Leave my life alone. I do not need you to mold my life for me. I would rather be an ignorant backwoods hick on my own instead of whatever else someone else planned for me.
We only have a few years in this reality at most, it is for each individual to find their destiny rather than to have their lives dictated to them. Thanks.
For years up to a week ago: TPP is an abomination love child between Hitler and Satan and needs to die.
Now that Trump doesn't want it: This will ruin the nation and will only benefit China. TPP Must Go Forward!
Eh? The people presenting the views are not Slashdot. I have yet to see anyone on Slashdot say that TPP must go forward. The TPP is indeed pure evil in relation to intellectual property.
That does not mean it can't have good sides too. Regardless of the good parts of it, the bad parts make it untenable overall. What that means is that if China gets to dictate shit now, it is the IP people who have put us in this position by making TPP into poison.
winsxs is literally, Windows Side by Side (WinSxS). It is what gets you out of dll hell... you know, where each program needs its own special version of a particular dll. Those alternate (read not the latest) dlls all reside in winsxs while the most recent dll is out in the native filesystem.
I am not saying this is a good idea or a bad idea, I am merely trying to remove the mystery for you.
As an administrator, I have seen this folder grow beyond 10 gigabytes. As a security guy, all of those ancient dlls laying around can be a problem as occasionally, the security updates forget to update those folders from time to time.
The theory, quantum field theory (QFT), is simple, consistent and universal. It describes everything we can see around us, with the exception of gravity.
Hm. Then perhaps this device is gaining momentum through the manipulation of gravity... if all other possibilities have been ruled out.
Honestly, I think this thing is utterly awesome. In my lifetime, a device has been created that has effects that nobody can explain. That is incredibly fun. Time to throw open the floodgates of thought.
There's nothing that we need all these people for.
Very insightful. Now, to go to the logical conclusion: What happens to things "we" do not need any more? If it is too problematic to discard the thing we do not need any more, then neglect is usually what happens.
It should be exciting to see the petite bourgeois start to feed on themselves when no more resources are allocated to keeping the vast herds of useless humans healthy and alive.
Don't worry, I am sure that some enterprising TV producer will be happy to stage and record some of the tribulations. Remember bumfights.com? A shame that I will likely be dead before it reaches that apex of glowing humanity. *sigh*
Linus Torvalds had wanted to call his invention Freax, a portmanteau of "free", "freak", and "x" (as an allusion to Unix).
...
Ari Lemmke, Torvalds' coworker at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) who was one of the volunteer administrators for the FTP server at the time, did not think that "Freax" was a good name. So, he named the project "Linux" on the server without consulting Torvalds.[12] Later, however, Torvalds consented to "Linux".
Cryogenics is a fantasy, but I'd take the fantasy over reality any day of the week.
I agree. To make it a bit more clear for everyone else -
The choices are:
1) Dead. Period. End of story. 2) Dead. Frozen with almost zero chance of you being revived in the future. Not guaranteed to be end of story.
The choice is clearly easy to make. For someone like me who has lived the majority of their expected life, I would not freeze myself. I love being alive but I realize that at some point it should end so new ideas can enter the arena. For whatever reason, it appears that I can only change so much and the future requires more change than I have in me. Time to die. A shame I never got to watch C beams glitter near the Tannhauser gate. *sigh*
I bet people like Leonardo da Vinci or Plato could easily deal with the change. I bet they would be lost in wonder for many years as they learned all of the new things, but still, being alive is being alive. The trappings change all the time but the main theme is still there.
Sure, there are people who would collapse at the enormity of it all, but any of the real thinkers from the past would do just fine. Hell, they would likely make many new discoveries since they do not have all of the intellectual baggage that the current societies have in place.
Who cares? Being alive is better than being dead. No, that statement is nonsensical as there is nothing in death so it can't be compared to. As much as I have suffered, no matter how much I will suffer, I want to be alive. Worst case scenario I continue exploring the world from my own mind because my body is ineffective or in a prison... but I will continue exploring the world. THAT is life. Not friends, family, etc.
Don't get me wrong, friends, family, and social stuff is very important... but without life, you can not even contemplate those things.
There is no amount of reprocessing that will make nuclear power cost effective. Disagree, name the nuclear power plant that charges its customers for the full cost from cradle to grave: everything from mining & refining, to plant construction & maintenance, to waste disposal/recycling/reuse.
There is no amount of CO2 scrubbing that will make coal power cost effective. Disagree, name the coal power plant that charges its customer for the full cost from cradle to grave: everything from mining & refining, to plant construction & maintenance, to waste disposal/recycling/reuse.
Why do you hold the nuclear industry to a different set of standards than the coal industry? Do you enjoy being one of the chief causes of climate change? Just wow. Are you more afraid of atoms than molecules? I fail to see why you do not see your double standard here.
I dont assume the Verizon reps knew the law, just what they were told by their supervisors, but if I had not taken the initiative on my own I would be paying an extra $60 a year for my ignorance.
Of course they knew, you were not the only one being fleeced. There are still hundreds of thousands of people out there getting charged that fee. I wonder where that 6+ million dollars is going....
I was quoted 120$ for internet, and cable. Then I was billed $145, and every so often they try raising the rate. Its a scam, but there is no cable internet oversight!
My mortgage company does this too. Pay regularly and ontime for a few years and receive and email saying, "call us to find out how we are allocating your money." followed a few days later by, "your mortgage will be late if not paid by the 15th.", all the while I am left going, "WTF? I have paid my mortgage on time and regularly for years. How does this shit happen?"
Ultimately, it is the new business model, fleecing your customers through "administrative fees". It is a shame that companies are allowed to feed on us unethically. Society has devolved into a bunch of thieves fighting amongst themselves to become the wealthiest. Hm. It has always been like that.
Remind me again why we should participate in this?
Emailing a group like that should have been limited to a very small number of people. Everyone else should have got a message that they were not authorized to use that email message.
This is email server admin 101 level knowledge.
Then your user gets frustrated and starts manually adding names to the To: or Cc: and voila, instant meltdown again, just without distro lists.
I have seen To: lines with hundreds, possibly thousands of email addresses in it. You would think there would be some sort of limit on the amount of individual addresses... but meh.
So let me get this straight. If you lived on a street where several of your neighbors were murderers, your solution wouldn't be to try to get them put away, your solution would be to grab an ax and join them in the frenzy?
Too be honest, I'm still pretty hopeful. You never know. Donald Trump wouldn't be the first shallow man who had to grow up and find strength when faced with a daunting situation.
This is why Trump won. Everyone KNOWS what would happen if Hillary were to be elected and it is so terrible that the American voters chose one of the worst possible "unknown quantities" available.
I am just glad it is all over for now. What a mess... it is funny though, Trump offers more hope and change than Obama who was elected on hope and change... which of course did not work out so well.
Trump is not an insider. He may be wealthy, he may be of a certain protected class, but he is not an insider. This is why people would be stupid enough to vote for him: Anything is better than the what we currently have.
They may very well find out after Wednesday that things can indeed get worse and that no, anything is not actually better than what we already have.
Since it is a foregone conclusion that either Hillary or Donald will be president, I think it is safe to say that we are all, inside and outside of America, utterly fucked.
While I don't disagree with all of the bad things that you have to say about Trump, how could you possibly vote for Hillary? lesser of two evils? ROFLMAO.
Hillary represents all that is wrong with America today. Insider privileges, ignoring the rule of law, corruption of the American political system from the top down to the bottom, regulatory capture, backroom deals with supposed enemies, and I could go on and on.
Hillary will NOT take care of the citizens of this country. Her constituents are people with money, regardless of their nationality. If you vote for Hillary, you vote for the continuing tear down of America as a sovereign country.
Does this mean you should vote for Trump? Hell fucking no. Trump will gleefully go along with all of the internal spying, domestic police agency abuse, etc. He may even start world war 3.
Again, this is not a case of voting for the lesser of two evils. They are both greater evils. Vote your conscience. If that means throwing your vote away on a third party or not voting at all, you can at least sleep well knowing that you did not add to the evil by voting for one of the greater evils.
I was alive, awake, and aware when Vince Foster was killed. The newspapers at the time reported that the government had found that Vince Foster had committed suicide by shooting himself 5 times in the top of the head...
I do not believe any articles contain this bit of information anymore. How odd the world is. It is as if history is being constantly rewritten. As if an individual's memory no longer counts.
Of course, search for Neil Bush nowadays and there is almost no information (any more) linking him directly to stealing three trillion dollars from the American Public. Hell, you will be lucky to even find anyone alive anymore who even remembers the whole Savings and Loan thefts... Sadly, only one Arizona governor went to prison over that... and the American taxpayer is still paying off that three trillion dollars.
Good times. Good times indeed. Remind me why I should participate in this society again?
That ain't just for "understanding" that's for exploitation and profit from "personally identifiable" customer data.
This shit is spyware.
I am glad I moved to Linux exclusively once Windows 10 was released and I tried it out. Everyone whines about how their most important software does not run on Linux, how Linux is unusable because you have to debug crap, etc etc.
I think it is time to put a different spin on this: A computer is not worth using if everything you do is monitored, monetized, examined for legality, and stored forever to potentially use against you should you ever become the target of an investigation.
I can hear the objections now, "but but but I HAVE to use a computer."
Well, you can still use a computer without all of that crap; although Redhat and other distributions are starting to distribute crash reporters and such... which is the first step along the path already followed by mainstream software.
You will be completely encased in a cocoon of surveillance from birth until death unless it is fought. It needs to be fought yesterday, it needs to be fought now, and it needs to be fought in the future.
I have reclaimed my freedom from surveillance through my operating system by using Linux. OpenBSD is even better. FreeBSD seems to populated with SJW types so I avoid that like that the plague.
Regardless, Open Source is your only path to freedom when all closed source software starts implementing tracking/telemetry. Use it. use it now. The applications you need will eventually follow; however, it is better to live without a computer than to be tracked constantly. What was that what Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death!"?
Yeah, stop spying on me or I will stop participating. Windows, and now NVidia, are out. Forever. There is no recovery from such a decision. It is a death sentence to NVidia.
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I don't know where you get your Girl Scout cookies at but mine come with real Girl Scouts inside.
... and our public education system is one of the worst in the world (not news).
Um... definitely not the worst in the world. There are severe problems, such as NOT teaching logic and critical thinking, but it succeeds in many other areas.
Hey! At least we do not let schoolgirls burn to death because they do not have their hijab handy. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I am pretty sure there was one in Pakistan where over a hundred girls died, but I can not find the article right now. Meh. The point is that those religious schools surely are not teaching critical thinking either and have other things that make them worse than American schools.
I never knew about Breitbart news until this election, and after following them for the last 3 months I think they're probably the best example of actual news reporting on the net. The site is right-wing slanted, but the actual reporting appears to be high quality and accurate.
You should avoid the obvious trollery; you almost had me for a second there.
I have seen breitbart news spoken of here at Slashdot numerous times. it has been denigrated as a histrionic right wing site. I have never investigated it... until now.
The parent's characterization appears to be spot on. Granted, I only gave it a cursory overview, so I could be wrong. Perhaps you would care to share why you think he is trolling?
Hopefully with the election of Trump and the destruction of the Republican and Democrat establishments we can relegate neoconservatism to the ash heap of history, along with the worst of leftist identity politics.
Please please please relegate neoconservatism to the ash heap of history. Please.
I looked into their motivations and desires and they think it is their duty to fuck with peoples lives to make the world a better place. Well, fucking with peoples lives is not okay, regardless of the outcome. Leave my life alone. I do not need you to mold my life for me. I would rather be an ignorant backwoods hick on my own instead of whatever else someone else planned for me.
We only have a few years in this reality at most, it is for each individual to find their destiny rather than to have their lives dictated to them.
Thanks.
For years up to a week ago: TPP is an abomination love child between Hitler and Satan and needs to die.
Now that Trump doesn't want it: This will ruin the nation and will only benefit China. TPP Must Go Forward!
Eh? The people presenting the views are not Slashdot. I have yet to see anyone on Slashdot say that TPP must go forward. The TPP is indeed pure evil in relation to intellectual property.
That does not mean it can't have good sides too. Regardless of the good parts of it, the bad parts make it untenable overall. What that means is that if China gets to dictate shit now, it is the IP people who have put us in this position by making TPP into poison.
I distinctly remember when he called me in and thanked me. Due to my program, he'd had enough data to improve efficiency 25%!
I glowed.
Now he'd been able to let go 2 out of the 8 drivers they had.
I stood there speechless.
There were real people underneath those numbers.
Thank you for sharing. Your story really hit me, as it did you. I can clearly imagine and understand the hot/cold that you went through with that.
Honestly, I would have hoped that they would/could find another position for those 2 drivers instead of dumping them out on the street. *sigh*
winsxs is literally, Windows Side by Side (WinSxS). It is what gets you out of dll hell... you know, where each program needs its own special version of a particular dll. Those alternate (read not the latest) dlls all reside in winsxs while the most recent dll is out in the native filesystem.
I am not saying this is a good idea or a bad idea, I am merely trying to remove the mystery for you.
As an administrator, I have seen this folder grow beyond 10 gigabytes. As a security guy, all of those ancient dlls laying around can be a problem as occasionally, the security updates forget to update those folders from time to time.
HTH, AFK LOL
The theory, quantum field theory (QFT), is simple, consistent and universal. It describes everything we can see around us, with the exception of gravity.
Hm. Then perhaps this device is gaining momentum through the manipulation of gravity... if all other possibilities have been ruled out.
Honestly, I think this thing is utterly awesome. In my lifetime, a device has been created that has effects that nobody can explain. That is incredibly fun. Time to throw open the floodgates of thought.
I read the linked article to see what you were talking about... I am curious, how did you sum that article up as "excusing pedophilia"?
My summary for that article is: In order to prevent harm to children, pedophilia needs to be addressed correctly.
They do attempt to define "correctly". They advocate that pedophilia is a mental issue and should be addressed BEFORE the pedophile hurts a child.
Not seeing any excusing going on there... but your response garnered a +4 so I am guessing I must not be seeing the article correctly or something.
There's nothing that we need all these people for.
Very insightful. Now, to go to the logical conclusion: What happens to things "we" do not need any more? If it is too problematic to discard the thing we do not need any more, then neglect is usually what happens.
It should be exciting to see the petite bourgeois start to feed on themselves when no more resources are allocated to keeping the vast herds of useless humans healthy and alive.
Don't worry, I am sure that some enterprising TV producer will be happy to stage and record some of the tribulations. Remember bumfights.com? A shame that I will likely be dead before it reaches that apex of glowing humanity. *sigh*
If you mean backronym, then maybe. I read what you said and knew it was wrong immediately but I went ahead and looked it up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The relevant section is this:
Linus Torvalds had wanted to call his invention Freax, a portmanteau of "free", "freak", and "x" (as an allusion to Unix).
...
Ari Lemmke, Torvalds' coworker at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) who was one of the volunteer administrators for the FTP server at the time, did not think that "Freax" was a good name. So, he named the project "Linux" on the server without consulting Torvalds.[12] Later, however, Torvalds consented to "Linux".
Cryogenics is a fantasy, but I'd take the fantasy over reality any day of the week.
I agree. To make it a bit more clear for everyone else -
The choices are:
1) Dead. Period. End of story.
2) Dead. Frozen with almost zero chance of you being revived in the future. Not guaranteed to be end of story.
The choice is clearly easy to make. For someone like me who has lived the majority of their expected life, I would not freeze myself. I love being alive but I realize that at some point it should end so new ideas can enter the arena. For whatever reason, it appears that I can only change so much and the future requires more change than I have in me. Time to die. A shame I never got to watch C beams glitter near the Tannhauser gate. *sigh*
I bet people like Leonardo da Vinci or Plato could easily deal with the change. I bet they would be lost in wonder for many years as they learned all of the new things, but still, being alive is being alive. The trappings change all the time but the main theme is still there.
Sure, there are people who would collapse at the enormity of it all, but any of the real thinkers from the past would do just fine. Hell, they would likely make many new discoveries since they do not have all of the intellectual baggage that the current societies have in place.
Who cares? Being alive is better than being dead. No, that statement is nonsensical as there is nothing in death so it can't be compared to. As much as I have suffered, no matter how much I will suffer, I want to be alive. Worst case scenario I continue exploring the world from my own mind because my body is ineffective or in a prison... but I will continue exploring the world. THAT is life. Not friends, family, etc.
Don't get me wrong, friends, family, and social stuff is very important... but without life, you can not even contemplate those things.
Oh crap. I just spent my last mod point. +5 insightful. Inciteful?
Well said sir.
There is no amount of reprocessing that will make nuclear power cost effective. Disagree, name the nuclear power plant that charges its customers for the full cost from cradle to grave: everything from mining & refining, to plant construction & maintenance, to waste disposal/recycling/reuse.
There is no amount of CO2 scrubbing that will make coal power cost effective. Disagree, name the coal power plant that charges its customer for the full cost from cradle to grave: everything from mining & refining, to plant construction & maintenance, to waste disposal/recycling/reuse.
Why do you hold the nuclear industry to a different set of standards than the coal industry? Do you enjoy being one of the chief causes of climate change? Just wow. Are you more afraid of atoms than molecules? I fail to see why you do not see your double standard here.
I dont assume the Verizon reps knew the law, just what they were told by their supervisors, but if I had not taken the initiative on my own I would be paying an extra $60 a year for my ignorance.
Of course they knew, you were not the only one being fleeced. There are still hundreds of thousands of people out there getting charged that fee. I wonder where that 6+ million dollars is going....
I was quoted 120$ for internet, and cable. Then I was billed $145, and every so often they try raising the rate. Its a scam, but there is no cable internet oversight!
My mortgage company does this too. Pay regularly and ontime for a few years and receive and email saying, "call us to find out how we are allocating your money." followed a few days later by, "your mortgage will be late if not paid by the 15th.", all the while I am left going, "WTF? I have paid my mortgage on time and regularly for years. How does this shit happen?"
Ultimately, it is the new business model, fleecing your customers through "administrative fees". It is a shame that companies are allowed to feed on us unethically. Society has devolved into a bunch of thieves fighting amongst themselves to become the wealthiest. Hm. It has always been like that.
Remind me again why we should participate in this?
Emailing a group like that should have been limited to a very small number of people. Everyone else should have got a message that they were not authorized to use that email message.
This is email server admin 101 level knowledge.
Then your user gets frustrated and starts manually adding names to the To: or Cc: and voila, instant meltdown again, just without distro lists.
I have seen To: lines with hundreds, possibly thousands of email addresses in it. You would think there would be some sort of limit on the amount of individual addresses... but meh.
So let me get this straight. If you lived on a street where several of your neighbors were murderers, your solution wouldn't be to try to get them put away, your solution would be to grab an ax and join them in the frenzy?
You know the old saying, "When in Rome..." ;)
Too be honest, I'm still pretty hopeful. You never know. Donald Trump wouldn't be the first shallow man who had to grow up and find strength when faced with a daunting situation.
This is why Trump won. Everyone KNOWS what would happen if Hillary were to be elected and it is so terrible that the American voters chose one of the worst possible "unknown quantities" available.
I am just glad it is all over for now. What a mess... it is funny though, Trump offers more hope and change than Obama who was elected on hope and change... which of course did not work out so well.
by definition, one of the Elite
Trump is not an insider. He may be wealthy, he may be of a certain protected class, but he is not an insider. This is why people would be stupid enough to vote for him: Anything is better than the what we currently have.
They may very well find out after Wednesday that things can indeed get worse and that no, anything is not actually better than what we already have.
Since it is a foregone conclusion that either Hillary or Donald will be president, I think it is safe to say that we are all, inside and outside of America, utterly fucked.
While I don't disagree with all of the bad things that you have to say about Trump, how could you possibly vote for Hillary? lesser of two evils? ROFLMAO.
Hillary represents all that is wrong with America today. Insider privileges, ignoring the rule of law, corruption of the American political system from the top down to the bottom, regulatory capture, backroom deals with supposed enemies, and I could go on and on.
Hillary will NOT take care of the citizens of this country. Her constituents are people with money, regardless of their nationality. If you vote for Hillary, you vote for the continuing tear down of America as a sovereign country.
Does this mean you should vote for Trump? Hell fucking no. Trump will gleefully go along with all of the internal spying, domestic police agency abuse, etc. He may even start world war 3.
Again, this is not a case of voting for the lesser of two evils. They are both greater evils. Vote your conscience. If that means throwing your vote away on a third party or not voting at all, you can at least sleep well knowing that you did not add to the evil by voting for one of the greater evils.
Re: Vince Foster
I was alive, awake, and aware when Vince Foster was killed. The newspapers at the time reported that the government had found that Vince Foster had committed suicide by shooting himself 5 times in the top of the head...
I do not believe any articles contain this bit of information anymore. How odd the world is. It is as if history is being constantly rewritten. As if an individual's memory no longer counts.
Of course, search for Neil Bush nowadays and there is almost no information (any more) linking him directly to stealing three trillion dollars from the American Public. Hell, you will be lucky to even find anyone alive anymore who even remembers the whole Savings and Loan thefts... Sadly, only one Arizona governor went to prison over that... and the American taxpayer is still paying off that three trillion dollars.
Good times. Good times indeed. Remind me why I should participate in this society again?
That ain't just for "understanding" that's for exploitation and profit from "personally identifiable" customer data.
This shit is spyware.
I am glad I moved to Linux exclusively once Windows 10 was released and I tried it out. Everyone whines about how their most important software does not run on Linux, how Linux is unusable because you have to debug crap, etc etc.
I think it is time to put a different spin on this: A computer is not worth using if everything you do is monitored, monetized, examined for legality, and stored forever to potentially use against you should you ever become the target of an investigation.
I can hear the objections now, "but but but I HAVE to use a computer."
Well, you can still use a computer without all of that crap; although Redhat and other distributions are starting to distribute crash reporters and such... which is the first step along the path already followed by mainstream software.
You will be completely encased in a cocoon of surveillance from birth until death unless it is fought. It needs to be fought yesterday, it needs to be fought now, and it needs to be fought in the future.
I have reclaimed my freedom from surveillance through my operating system by using Linux. OpenBSD is even better. FreeBSD seems to populated with SJW types so I avoid that like that the plague.
Regardless, Open Source is your only path to freedom when all closed source software starts implementing tracking/telemetry. Use it. use it now. The applications you need will eventually follow; however, it is better to live without a computer than to be tracked constantly. What was that what Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death!"?
Yeah, stop spying on me or I will stop participating. Windows, and now NVidia, are out. Forever. There is no recovery from such a decision. It is a death sentence to NVidia.