Go ahead, have a laugh and be "hip" by taking a jab at the "corrupt" and "vile" American government. Just don't come complaining when you realize that you go other places in the world, even other Europeon countries, and don't enjoy the same freedoms.
You should be modded +5 but most of the/. crowd is still young and idealistic and hasn't seen enough of the world to grasp what you're saying.
I have a bottle of cleaning fluid that that purports to kill 99.something% of bacteria. Does that make me safer? Probably not; instead I'm helping the natural selection process to breed super-bugs that are resistant to antiseptic.
You aren't breeding "super-bugs." Your cleaner uses chemical, not biological, agents to kill the bacteria. Think of it like this. If you spray a crowd of people with machine gun fire you may kill 99.something% of the people. No matter how many times you do this you will never create a race of super-humans who are immune to bullets.
To those who modded parent troll. Fuck you! If you are comfortable with the GP equating the US Gov't with Satan, Fuck you! If Slashdot is anti-American then guess what? Fuck Slashdot!
You're an ass. In case you just fell off the turnip truck yesterday, let me remind you why we have a Department of Homeland Security.
1979 November 4 Iranian radicals seize the US Embassy in Tehran, taking sixty-six American diplomats hostage. The crisis continues until 20 January 1981 when the hostages are released by diplomatic means.
1980 August 13 Air Florida flight from Key West to Miami, United States, hijacked by seven Cubans and flown to Cuba, where they released their hostages and taken into custody. Six further US airliners were hijacked to Cuba over the next month. All the passengers were freed without harm. Three passengers were killed when Cubans hijacked an aircraft in Peru and demanded to be flown to the United States.
1981 August 31 Large bomb explodes in the car park of the USAF base at Ramstein, Germany, injuring twenty people. The Red Army Faction claims responsibility. September 15 Red Army Faction terrorists make unsuccessful rocket attacks on the car of US Army commander in West Germany, General Fred Kroesen. December 4 Three American nuns and one lay missionary were found murdered outside San Salvador, El Salvador. They were believed to have been assassinated by a right-wing death squad.
1983 April 8 A U.S. citizen was seized by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and held for ransom. April 18 Sixty three people, including the CIA's Middle East Director, are killed and 120 injured in a 400 lb. suicide truck bomb attack on the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The driver is killed. Responsibility is claimed by Islamic Jihad. May 25 A U.S. Navy officer is assassinated by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. October 23 Simultaneous suicide truck bombs on American and French compounds in Beirut, Lebanon. A 12,000 lb bomb destroys a US Marine Corps base killing two hundred and forty one Americans; another fifty eight Frenchmen are killed when a 400 lb device destroys one of their bases. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility. November 15 US Naval officer shot by November 17 terrorist group in Athens, Greece, when his car stopped at traffic lights. December 12 US Embassy in Kuwait targeted by Iraqi Shia terrorists who attempted to destroy the building with a truck bomb. The attack was foiled by guards and the device exploded in the Embassy fore-court killing five people. December 17 US Army Brigadier General James Dozier kidnapped from his home in Verona, Italy, by Italian Red Brigades terrorists. He was held for forty five days until Italian special forces rescued him on January 26, 1982.
1984 March 16 CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, William Buckley, was kidnapped by the Iranian backed Islamic Jihad. He was tortured and then executed by his captors. April 12 Eighteen US servicemen killed and eighty three people injured in bomb attack on restaurant near USAF base in Torrejon, Spain. September 20 Suicide bomb attack on US Embassy in East Beirut kills twenty three people and injures twenty one others. The US and British ambassadors were slightly injured in the explosion which was attributed to the Iranian backed Hezbollah group
1985 February 7 Under the orders of narcotrafficker Rafael Cero Quintero, Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and his pilot were kidnapped, tortured, and executed. March 16 US journalist Terry Anderson is kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon, by Iranian backed Islamic radicals. He is released in December 1991. June 9 US academic, Thomas Sutherland, at the American University, Beirut, Lebanon kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and held until November 18, 1991. June 14 A Trans World Airlines flight was hijacked en route to Rome from Athens by two Lebanese Hizballah terrorists and forced to fly to Beirut. The eight crew members and 145 passengers were held for 17 days, during which one American hostage, a U.S. Navy diver, was murdered. After being flown twice to Algiers, the aircraft was retur
Begging your pardon but Microsoft's attitude is just fine. You and others here misunderstand MS's primary role. It it not to advance the state of technology or improve consumer's lives. Those are two potential paths to the goal, which is to optimize the financial return to it's stockholders. On that count they are extremely successfull. If you've been holding MS stock for a number of years you got huge stock price run-ups followed by record setting dividends.
You could probably start with chihuahuas and get back to something pretty wolf like. Different breeds of dog are exactly that, breeds. The DNA is pretty much identical.
What if I think that evolution is a fairy tale? You cannot possibly prove the theory of evolution unless you can take one species into lab and walk out with a totally different one. The "fossil record" is not proof of evolution. It is a bunch of fossils from which some people have posited a fairly absurd theory under which dogs can become cats and ameoba become whales in a ridiculously short number of generations. Evolution is no more "real" than any other creation myth. Evolution's followers however are some of the most extreme religious zealots in the world and are quite willing to force their belief down everyone's throats and to vigorously persecute those who disagree with them.
Right.... Would those of you who modded this insightfull kindly raise your hands.. No wait, never mind, we can pick you out by your black fingernail polish and purple hair.
they're still finding large objects in our own solar system http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/1 4/1836202&tid=160&tid=99 that we didn't know where there. It doesn't seem too likely that ANYTHING in another solar system could be measured with any accuracy. It seems to me that if our science was that precise then large objects would not go undetected fantastically closer to home.
Your missing the point and your hostile attitude belies the fact that you really know GP is correct. Look around. With very rare exceptions CIO's don't come out of IT. No one in upper management comes out of IT. On the other hand if you consider stringing cable and backing up data a career then be happy.
anywhere in the article where it says they used SCRUM or Agile Programming on SQL 2005. It says they are unhappy with the length of their release cycles and are going to try XP as a way of speeding them up.
Mod parent up. You have to have a juvenile mentality to believe that any and every perverse idea should be paraded through the streets and somehow a parent is going to be able to stop it from influencing their children.
The few readers who will actually know what "immanent" means will also know that it was actually supposed to be "imminent", so no harm done. The rest will just see it spelled as usual.
No, the rest will go around thinking imminent and immanent are the same thing and the ignorance of one person will be passed on to others. Words are used to express ideas. When you use words imprecisely then your ideas are expressed imprecisely. I would hope that a group of people who embrace technology and learning would also embrace precise language and take the time to learn it.
Apple have a history (and therefore a lot of expertise) in "doing it all". They design their own hardware, write their own OS (*), develop their own apps, do their own marketing (the 'reality distortion field' effect:-). They do it all, just to make the whole experience as unified and simple for the end-user as possible. They grok synergy.
So the thing that makes MS bad:( is what makes Apple good:) Now I understand. Thank you.
Like all zealots you take a grain of truth and twist it into an extreme and utterly false premise. MS Word sometimes fails to properly display documents that where created with a prior version and that is a problem. MOST of the time for MOST documents the current version opens them and handles them properly. If your experience is different then you are in the minority of MS Office users. This constant, unwavering anti-Microsoft fanaticism of Slashdot is really getting tedious. How can you put that much energy into hating something as mundane as a software company. Seriously, you need to move on. It's gotten to the point where I can only stand to look at this site about twice a month and I can predict what I'll see before I get here. I've started going straight to the sources of the most interesting/. articles (cnet,dvorak,NASA,JPL,CNN, etc). I expect rants to get posted on Slashdot. What I don't understand is why the editors can't provide a better level of moderation so that the MS bashers can have their own forums while leaving a way for the rest of us to filter it out. You could create a moderation category just for MS bashing then the zealots could all set their filters to put the most outrageous rants right at the top of the main page and the rest of the world could just turn it off and read the serious discussions. Bingo, maximum readership, maximum ad revenue.
What would be more interesting would be if someone came up with software that could analyze the waveform of a song and catagorize it in the same way that these musicians are doing. That would remove any individual bias.
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Bill Clinton was president for 8 years during which outsourcing grew every year. It won't make any difference what party is in the Whitehouse.
If time travel will ever be possible then where are the time travelers? Shouldn't they be visiting us or maybe our great-great grandparents?
Because /. is a biased group. In this case it's censoring out other viewpoints on censorship. Ironic.
Go ahead, have a laugh and be "hip" by taking a jab at the "corrupt" and "vile" American government. Just don't come complaining when you realize that you go other places in the world, even other Europeon countries, and don't enjoy the same freedoms.
/. crowd is still young and idealistic and hasn't seen enough of the world to grasp what you're saying.
You should be modded +5 but most of the
Now, you and I know that in this day and age, in a country with a professional military, civil insurrection is largely futile anyway.
Apparently the insurgents in Iraq don't know this.
I have a bottle of cleaning fluid that that purports to kill 99.something% of bacteria. Does that make me safer? Probably not; instead I'm helping the natural selection process to breed super-bugs that are resistant to antiseptic.
You aren't breeding "super-bugs." Your cleaner uses chemical, not biological, agents to kill the bacteria. Think of it like this. If you spray a crowd of people with machine gun fire you may kill 99.something% of the people. No matter how many times you do this you will never create a race of super-humans who are immune to bullets.
To those who modded parent troll. Fuck you! If you are comfortable with the GP equating the US Gov't with Satan, Fuck you! If Slashdot is anti-American then guess what? Fuck Slashdot!
You're an ass. In case you just fell off the turnip truck yesterday, let me remind you why we have a Department of Homeland Security.
1979
November 4
Iranian radicals seize the US Embassy in Tehran, taking sixty-six American diplomats hostage. The crisis continues until 20 January 1981 when the hostages are released by diplomatic means.
1980
August 13
Air Florida flight from Key West to Miami, United States, hijacked by seven Cubans and flown to Cuba, where they released their hostages and taken into custody. Six further US airliners were hijacked to Cuba over the next month. All the passengers were freed without harm. Three passengers were killed when Cubans hijacked an aircraft in Peru and demanded to be flown to the United States.
1981
August 31
Large bomb explodes in the car park of the USAF base at Ramstein, Germany, injuring twenty people. The Red Army Faction claims responsibility.
September 15
Red Army Faction terrorists make unsuccessful rocket attacks on the car of US Army commander in West Germany, General Fred Kroesen.
December 4
Three American nuns and one lay missionary were found murdered outside San Salvador, El Salvador. They were believed to have been assassinated by a right-wing death squad.
1983
April 8
A U.S. citizen was seized by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and held for ransom.
April 18
Sixty three people, including the CIA's Middle East Director, are killed and 120 injured in a 400 lb. suicide truck bomb attack on the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The driver is killed. Responsibility is claimed by Islamic Jihad.
May 25
A U.S. Navy officer is assassinated by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front.
October 23
Simultaneous suicide truck bombs on American and French compounds in Beirut, Lebanon. A 12,000 lb bomb destroys a US Marine Corps base killing two hundred and forty one Americans; another fifty eight Frenchmen are killed when a 400 lb device destroys one of their bases. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility.
November 15
US Naval officer shot by November 17 terrorist group in Athens, Greece, when his car stopped at traffic lights.
December 12
US Embassy in Kuwait targeted by Iraqi Shia terrorists who attempted to destroy the building with a truck bomb. The attack was foiled by guards and the device exploded in the Embassy fore-court killing five people.
December 17
US Army Brigadier General James Dozier kidnapped from his home in Verona, Italy, by Italian Red Brigades terrorists. He was held for forty five days until Italian special forces rescued him on January 26, 1982.
1984
March 16
CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, William Buckley, was kidnapped by the Iranian backed Islamic Jihad. He was tortured and then executed by his captors.
April 12
Eighteen US servicemen killed and eighty three people injured in bomb attack on restaurant near USAF base in Torrejon, Spain.
September 20
Suicide bomb attack on US Embassy in East Beirut kills twenty three people and injures twenty one others. The US and British ambassadors were slightly injured in the explosion which was attributed to the Iranian backed Hezbollah group
1985
February 7
Under the orders of narcotrafficker Rafael Cero Quintero, Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and his pilot were kidnapped, tortured, and executed.
March 16
US journalist Terry Anderson is kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon, by Iranian backed Islamic radicals. He is released in December 1991.
June 9
US academic, Thomas Sutherland, at the American University, Beirut, Lebanon kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and held until November 18, 1991.
June 14
A Trans World Airlines flight was hijacked en route to Rome from Athens by two Lebanese Hizballah terrorists and forced to fly to Beirut. The eight crew members and 145 passengers were held for 17 days, during which one American hostage, a U.S. Navy diver, was murdered. After being flown twice to Algiers, the aircraft was retur
Begging your pardon but Microsoft's attitude is just fine. You and others here misunderstand MS's primary role. It it not to advance the state of technology or improve consumer's lives. Those are two potential paths to the goal, which is to optimize the financial return to it's stockholders. On that count they are extremely successfull. If you've been holding MS stock for a number of years you got huge stock price run-ups followed by record setting dividends.
Exactly. Not a different species
You could probably start with chihuahuas and get back to something pretty wolf like. Different breeds of dog are exactly that, breeds. The DNA is pretty much identical.
What if I think that evolution is a fairy tale? You cannot possibly prove the theory of evolution unless you can take one species into lab and walk out with a totally different one. The "fossil record" is not proof of evolution. It is a bunch of fossils from which some people have posited a fairly absurd theory under which dogs can become cats and ameoba become whales in a ridiculously short number of generations. Evolution is no more "real" than any other creation myth. Evolution's followers however are some of the most extreme religious zealots in the world and are quite willing to force their belief down everyone's throats and to vigorously persecute those who disagree with them.
Monkeyboy .. executed ??
Right.... Would those of you who modded this insightfull kindly raise your hands.. No wait, never mind, we can pick you out by your black fingernail polish and purple hair.
they're still finding large objects in our own solar system http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/1 4/1836202&tid=160&tid=99 that we didn't know where there. It doesn't seem too likely that ANYTHING in another solar system could be measured with any accuracy. It seems to me that if our science was that precise then large objects would not go undetected fantastically closer to home.
We need a new moderation category [naive].
Your missing the point and your hostile attitude belies the fact that you really know GP is correct. Look around. With very rare exceptions CIO's don't come out of IT. No one in upper management comes out of IT. On the other hand if you consider stringing cable and backing up data a career then be happy.
I really don't give a shit.
That's exactly what your sloppy dress tells the world and that's why you wouldn't get hired at many excellent companies.
anywhere in the article where it says they used SCRUM or Agile Programming on SQL 2005. It says they are unhappy with the length of their release cycles and are going to try XP as a way of speeding them up.
Parent is a TROLL
Mod parent up. You have to have a juvenile mentality to believe that any and every perverse idea should be paraded through the streets and somehow a parent is going to be able to stop it from influencing their children.
The few readers who will actually know what "immanent" means will also know that it was actually supposed to be "imminent", so no harm done. The rest will just see it spelled as usual.
No, the rest will go around thinking imminent and immanent are the same thing and the ignorance of one person will be passed on to others. Words are used to express ideas. When you use words imprecisely then your ideas are expressed imprecisely. I would hope that a group of people who embrace technology and learning would also embrace precise language and take the time to learn it.
Apple have a history (and therefore a lot of expertise) in "doing it all". They design their own hardware, write their own OS (*), develop their own apps, do their own marketing (the 'reality distortion field' effect :-). They do it all, just to make the whole experience as unified and simple for the end-user as possible. They grok synergy.
So the thing that makes MS bad:( is what makes Apple good:)
Now I understand. Thank you.
Right! So why are 60-80% of the topics about MS rather than OSS.
Like all zealots you take a grain of truth and twist it into an extreme and utterly false premise. MS Word sometimes fails to properly display documents that where created with a prior version and that is a problem. MOST of the time for MOST documents the current version opens them and handles them properly. If your experience is different then you are in the minority of MS Office users. This constant, unwavering anti-Microsoft fanaticism of Slashdot is really getting tedious. How can you put that much energy into hating something as mundane as a software company. Seriously, you need to move on. It's gotten to the point where I can only stand to look at this site about twice a month and I can predict what I'll see before I get here. I've started going straight to the sources of the most interesting /. articles (cnet,dvorak,NASA,JPL,CNN, etc). I expect rants to get posted on Slashdot. What I don't understand is why the editors can't provide a better level of moderation so that the MS bashers can have their own forums while leaving a way for the rest of us to filter it out. You could create a moderation category just for MS bashing then the zealots could all set their filters to put the most outrageous rants right at the top of the main page and the rest of the world could just turn it off and read the serious discussions. Bingo, maximum readership, maximum ad revenue.
What would be more interesting would be if someone came up with software that could analyze the waveform of a song and catagorize it in the same way that these musicians are doing. That would remove any individual bias.
Great comment. Listen, if you ever read a book that you don't need explained to you, like say "The Three Little Pigs", give us a review of that. Ok?