What you mean is that all families should be forced to be atheist, because you're an atheist.
Hm. I am not seeing him say that. He is advocating NOT teaching someone something. Your argument would be true if he were advocating teaching children that there is/are no God/Gods.
It really is amazing how many internet-atheists (not to be confused with the majority of quite reasonable atheists) are exactly as bad in the exact same ways as the religious people they hate so much.
It is really amazing how many internet-religionists (not to be confused with the majority of quite reasonable religionists) are exactly as bad in the exact same ways as the atheist people they hate so much.
For me, the bigger problem is the tracking that goes along with the ads.
For me, the bigger problem is scripting. I do not bother blocking ads. Blocking scripts is a huge deal though. It is scripting that allows all of the shenanigans to occur. As a side effect of blocking scripts, I do not see ads.
I was in charge of testing/verification of full disk crypto when my then-employer (Hydro) mandated it almost 20 years ago
Because 20 years ago, the resources that it took were extreme so an extreme need was required to even consider it. A bit less than a decade ago, the resource usage became light enough to where most anyone could consider it and, not surprisingly, we are seeing it done more often. This is not rocket science... pun only slightly intended.
If it makes you feel any better, many corps and agencies do indeed have full disk encryption already. It takes time for this kind of thing to filter through to everywhere. As you grow older, you will see time differently and begin to understand why some are ready and others are not yet ready. It has been less than a decade that this has even been a realistic goal.
If you want to play the blame game I suggest you start with Team USA.
Yes, always blame the USA. It is impossible to miss a target that big and it just seems so very right. There are no other forces in this world other than America.
What in the hell does per-capita mean in this situation? Is it even sensible? I suspect it is not. How about measuring it against units of productivity?
If a place has an output of 10 gigatons of carbon and has only 500 people in it but is producing stuff for 2 billion people, then shouldn't the measure of pollution be against the 2 billion rather than the 500? (Numbers pulled purely from rectal regions).
Besides that I doubt IE would be dead, I also don't think that's a good thing.
Why is it always that competing products have to be killed? It's not just with browsers, it's with other software and hardware too (think "iPad-killer" kind of stuff).
Well, in this case, it actually would be better if IE died. Microsoft keeps polluting the web standards pool with it.
How many people know that Microsoft just demonstrated real time voice to voice translation using the original speakers own voice and the translated speech is in the correct order for the new language? (that is news for nerds as far as i'm concerned)
I did not know and I will likely never know since you did not provide any links. Did you at least submit an article to Slashdot about it? This sounds pretty damned interesting and I would love to read about it even though I am pretty much a Microsoft hater.
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The thing is though, keyboards and mice are better input devices than touch. Touch is only useful when you have no other way to input, have an enviroment (sic) that is hostile to other input devices, or external input devices are inconvenient, even if it's just a stylus.
I was not going to respond because you can be quite abrasive and turn every discussion into a contest, but I really disagree with your assumption that touch is -always- an inferior input method. I do agree that it is inferior for most things that we do with computers nowadays.
An example of where it is not inferior is when using Google Maps. A mouse with a scroll wheel is pretty close to being as useful but having my fingers moving stuff around is MUCH faster and more accurate... for me.
If Microsoft loses the consumer market, it will lose the corporate market as well. Microsoft owns the corporate desktop market, because users are familiar with it's products.
Your analysis is dead wrong. Microsoft owns the corporate market because programmers write business programs that will run only on Microsoft operating systems. If the applications could easily move, Microsoft would immediately fall. They have earned absolutely zero loyalty.
As you know, we contributed the Linux SCSI target core, including the relevant interfaces, to the Linux kernel. To be clear, we wrote that code entirely ourselves, so we have the right to use it as we please.
Ouch. This will be used as an argument by companies to never contribute to a GPL codebase.
I'm amazed that US customers put up with the restrictions on the phone models they can use, and the inability to get a decent SIM-only contract.
And what exactly would you expect us to do? Stop using telephony services entirely? Monopolies and cartels are neat like that. Our government has failed us utterly in this respect.
That being said, I buy my phones internationally and I pay for the entire cost up front. Regardless, I am still beholden to T-Mobile as the least abusive, but still very abusive carrier, in America. Their fucking 2 year contracts keep extending and there is no way to stop them. I am honestly considering just paying the $800 early termination fee (despite being a customer for 7+ years now) on the 4 lines I have and just going without phone service entirely.
Consumers are getting exactly the level of service they are willing to pay for.
Bullshit. Consumers get whatever is fed to them and that is decided by someone else. Fuck, this might as well be Central Planning from the old communist countries.
WTF makes you think consumers demanded it? Sure, consumers always look for the lowest price but they always look for the lowest price on gas and home mortgages and we can see where that went. Nowhere.
Did airlines lower their prices and see a sudden influx of new customers? Did they raise their prices and see a sudden migration of old customers? Seriously, *I* do not demand that my airline pilot slave for nothing but I see no way of affecting this from my point of view. Stop blaming the customer. It is too easy.
I think it's safe to say that the federal government does things pretty poorly.
I disagree. I think it is safe to say that some people have figured out how to insert themselves in between the government programs and the people. They are like leeches or ticks that have become swollen and bloated, not realizing that they are literally (yes, literally) killing the host with their excesses.
It would also not help. Most mental deficiencies are caused by environmental factors, not heredity. Problems in childbirth and drug (especially alcohol) use are by far the most common causes of mental retardation.
So you will need an IQ over 100 and an income over $100k. Problem solved. No?;)
I don't understand why GPG is not baked into everyone's mail client by now.
Because virtually everyone wants to be able to read everyone else's (why is the apostrophe an error here Mozilla?) email. People love gossip. If the public had its way, you would not even be able to have curtains on your bedroom windows.
Actually, if he did try to hide it from the government, it would have been worse. He had an affair and did not publicize it. If he had tried to hide it, we could not trust him. As it is, I still see him as totally trustworthy... until his wife has her say.
Cheap labor is but one aspect of it. Do you have any idea how much pollution is created in the manufacture of hi-tech parts? IIRC, for chip manufacture, arsenic and cyanide are necessary and a real bitch to dispose of... unless you do not mind poisoning your slaves ^H^H^H^H^H^H erm, citizens.
Don't worry. America is perfecting the solution to that. They/we will all be in prisons by the time it gets that far. Jaywalking will be a felony with a minimum 5 year prison sentence. Enjoy.:)
Any person who buys (or has bought) weed or coke in America could have answered that without even consulting a chart or doing any math. The drug dealers are keeping alive the American dream of the metric system.
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They're never happy as long as anyone else has anything at all.
Bingo! This. In spades. This is the real problem. It is not enough that they have more, it is that YOU must have none. This is the real crime.
What you mean is that all families should be forced to be atheist, because you're an atheist.
Hm. I am not seeing him say that. He is advocating NOT teaching someone something. Your argument would be true if he were advocating teaching children that there is/are no God/Gods.
It really is amazing how many internet-atheists (not to be confused with the majority of quite reasonable atheists) are exactly as bad in the exact same ways as the religious people they hate so much.
It is really amazing how many internet-religionists (not to be confused with the majority of quite reasonable religionists) are exactly as bad in the exact same ways as the atheist people they hate so much.
Blah blah blah etc etc etc
For me, the bigger problem is the tracking that goes along with the ads.
For me, the bigger problem is scripting. I do not bother blocking ads. Blocking scripts is a huge deal though. It is scripting that allows all of the shenanigans to occur. As a side effect of blocking scripts, I do not see ads.
I was in charge of testing/verification of full disk crypto when my then-employer (Hydro) mandated it almost 20 years ago
Because 20 years ago, the resources that it took were extreme so an extreme need was required to even consider it. A bit less than a decade ago, the resource usage became light enough to where most anyone could consider it and, not surprisingly, we are seeing it done more often. This is not rocket science... pun only slightly intended.
If it makes you feel any better, many corps and agencies do indeed have full disk encryption already. It takes time for this kind of thing to filter through to everywhere. As you grow older, you will see time differently and begin to understand why some are ready and others are not yet ready. It has been less than a decade that this has even been a realistic goal.
If you want to play the blame game I suggest you start with Team USA.
Yes, always blame the USA. It is impossible to miss a target that big and it just seems so very right. There are no other forces in this world other than America.
What in the hell does per-capita mean in this situation? Is it even sensible? I suspect it is not. How about measuring it against units of productivity?
If a place has an output of 10 gigatons of carbon and has only 500 people in it but is producing stuff for 2 billion people, then shouldn't the measure of pollution be against the 2 billion rather than the 500? (Numbers pulled purely from rectal regions).
Without something like no-script, a browser is worthless. That means I am stuck with Firefox. :(
Besides that I doubt IE would be dead, I also don't think that's a good thing.
Why is it always that competing products have to be killed? It's not just with browsers, it's with other software and hardware too (think "iPad-killer" kind of stuff).
Well, in this case, it actually would be better if IE died. Microsoft keeps polluting the web standards pool with it.
How many people know that Microsoft just demonstrated real time voice to voice translation using the original speakers own voice and the translated speech is in the correct order for the new language? (that is news for nerds as far as i'm concerned)
I did not know and I will likely never know since you did not provide any links. Did you at least submit an article to Slashdot about it? This sounds pretty damned interesting and I would love to read about it even though I am pretty much a Microsoft hater.
The thing is though, keyboards and mice are better input devices than touch. Touch is only useful when you have no other way to input, have an enviroment (sic) that is hostile to other input devices, or external input devices are inconvenient, even if it's just a stylus.
I was not going to respond because you can be quite abrasive and turn every discussion into a contest, but I really disagree with your assumption that touch is -always- an inferior input method. I do agree that it is inferior for most things that we do with computers nowadays.
An example of where it is not inferior is when using Google Maps. A mouse with a scroll wheel is pretty close to being as useful but having my fingers moving stuff around is MUCH faster and more accurate... for me.
If Microsoft loses the consumer market, it will lose the corporate market as well. Microsoft owns the corporate desktop market, because users are familiar with it's products.
Your analysis is dead wrong. Microsoft owns the corporate market because programmers write business programs that will run only on Microsoft operating systems. If the applications could easily move, Microsoft would immediately fall. They have earned absolutely zero loyalty.
As you know, we contributed the Linux SCSI target core, including the
relevant interfaces, to the Linux kernel. To be clear, we wrote that
code entirely ourselves, so we have the right to use it as we please.
Ouch. This will be used as an argument by companies to never contribute to a GPL codebase.
I'm amazed that US customers put up with the restrictions on the phone models they can use, and the inability to get a decent SIM-only contract.
And what exactly would you expect us to do? Stop using telephony services entirely? Monopolies and cartels are neat like that. Our government has failed us utterly in this respect.
That being said, I buy my phones internationally and I pay for the entire cost up front. Regardless, I am still beholden to T-Mobile as the least abusive, but still very abusive carrier, in America. Their fucking 2 year contracts keep extending and there is no way to stop them. I am honestly considering just paying the $800 early termination fee (despite being a customer for 7+ years now) on the 4 lines I have and just going without phone service entirely.
Consumers are getting exactly the level of service they are willing to pay for.
Bullshit. Consumers get whatever is fed to them and that is decided by someone else. Fuck, this might as well be Central Planning from the old communist countries.
WTF makes you think consumers demanded it? Sure, consumers always look for the lowest price but they always look for the lowest price on gas and home mortgages and we can see where that went. Nowhere.
Did airlines lower their prices and see a sudden influx of new customers? Did they raise their prices and see a sudden migration of old customers? Seriously, *I* do not demand that my airline pilot slave for nothing but I see no way of affecting this from my point of view. Stop blaming the customer. It is too easy.
I think it's safe to say that the federal government does things pretty poorly.
I disagree. I think it is safe to say that some people have figured out how to insert themselves in between the government programs and the people. They are like leeches or ticks that have become swollen and bloated, not realizing that they are literally (yes, literally) killing the host with their excesses.
Frankly I look at the future and i don't know whether to be sad or fucking disgusted...
Why not both? I am.
It would also not help. Most mental deficiencies are caused by environmental factors, not heredity. Problems in childbirth and drug (especially alcohol) use are by far the most common causes of mental retardation.
So you will need an IQ over 100 and an income over $100k. Problem solved. No? ;)
I don't understand why GPG is not baked into everyone's mail client by now.
Because virtually everyone wants to be able to read everyone else's (why is the apostrophe an error here Mozilla?) email. People love gossip. If the public had its way, you would not even be able to have curtains on your bedroom windows.
Actually, if he did try to hide it from the government, it would have been worse. He had an affair and did not publicize it. If he had tried to hide it, we could not trust him. As it is, I still see him as totally trustworthy... until his wife has her say.
Duh. Christmas was more than 6 months ago. Those pictures became Public Domain back in June.
Cheap labor is but one aspect of it. Do you have any idea how much pollution is created in the manufacture of hi-tech parts? IIRC, for chip manufacture, arsenic and cyanide are necessary and a real bitch to dispose of... unless you do not mind poisoning your slaves ^H^H^H^H^H^H erm, citizens.
Don't worry. America is perfecting the solution to that. They/we will all be in prisons by the time it gets that far. Jaywalking will be a felony with a minimum 5 year prison sentence. Enjoy. :)
Any person who buys (or has bought) weed or coke in America could have answered that without even consulting a chart or doing any math. The drug dealers are keeping alive the American dream of the metric system.