Sorry about how long its taking to respond, the oldest was having hell getting his online games to connect so guess who has been doing diagnostics at 2AM?
But if its anything like the bus lines here I can see why, frankly I rode it for 3 whole days before I ended up borrowing a work truck from my dad and paying out the ass for the gas rather than ride the damned thing, it was all junkies and bums and stench, oh my. I wouldn't wish having to ride mass transit on my worst enemy it was dingy and a good 25% of the people on it stank, literally reeked like they hadn't bathed in months (which looking at them? They probably hadn't) and the fact that several had such the stench of meth leaking out their pores i was just waiting for them to have a full fledged freak out and try to attack someone right then and there.
So while I didn't mind car pooling or renting a car when I needed to I wouldn't go back to riding the bus for all the tea in China, its just not a good way to get around.
Because for every actual AC comment that is an actual comment you get a dozen "fuck u cocksucking dickbag" kind of bullshit? Again look at spam, sure they may be one or two real emails in that spambox but are you gonna go through every. single. spam. just to find the one or 2 that were mislabeled?
I personally say its just common courtesy to stand behind your words, its not like there isn't already a setting for logging in from a work or public terminal and again it takes like 3 minutes. On any given week I can have as many as 60+ people commenting on something I have said and maybe its me being southern but I was raised to believe if someone legitimately tries to engage in a dialog with you or ask you questions that common courtesy dictates that you respond, I mean I know it makes me a little pissed when I ask for clarification about a post when the person posting it obviously has a legit point to make, its simply unclear, and never get a response but when you throw ACs into the mix? Especially when you talk about things that don't go with the groupthink? For that ONE AC that has a legitimate post you'll find a dozen AC posts to wade through that are just variations on "fuck you nigger faggot cocksucker".
So with UIDs at least I can tell short of someone hijacking that account I'm dealing with the same person and if that person is a troll its easy enough to block them from showing up. To me the final telling example was last year when I gained my very own personal stalker as the ONLY places he would follow me after that first couple of weeks was places that allowed ACs...why? Because he quickly found himself either banhammered by admins or so low of a score myself and everybody else never saw his little insults on sites where he had to register. But sure enough he made it so that I wouldn't even bother looking at AC posts for the longest time because I would see a dozen responses and for every one that was "I think you are wrong and here is why I think that" I had to wade through 11 that were just "die you fat fucker die" stalker bullshit.
But that is why I changed my sig, there are 1 or 2 that actually stand by their AC posts, APK is one, that even though we disagree on many things he stands by what he says and every response I've gotten from him is actually trying to start a dialog about a subject, not merely spewing bullshit. But considering it takes like 3 minutes to whip off an account I really don't think its too much to ask to stand by your words. You are at work? Fine sign your AC posts and log in when you are home so we can all at least see you believe in your words enough to stand by them.
What he is talking about is "WinFS" which was NEVER released and the supposed abilities similar to what I described was only shown in a pre-rendered tech demo in 04.
Considering how MSFT has been known to show off vaporware that they never intend to release when they feel threatened (such as how they kept many businesses off of BeOS and OS/2 by hyping WinNT a decade before it was released with features it didn't actually have) I would say its just another case of MSFT vaporware meant to get the tech sites and geeks to wait for Longhorn (which was never released, Vista was just Server 2K3 with a bunch of half baked tech bolted on while Longhorn was based on XP and was tossed in 05) because they didn't have anything to actually sell.
But imagine how much of a game changer this would be man, imagine being able to type say "give me all pics of my mom where my sister is also there" and have the OS look at the indexes and DB based on relationships and go "Well here is 40 pics of his mom but only 3 have his sister and that is what he wanted" and it hands it up right then and there. Frankly with background indexing speed wouldn't be an issue as it could do it in the background when the PC is twiddling its thumbs from lack of useful work to do and if it embedded the data in the file itself (which is why I said a FS and not a program) then once ANY member of my family had indexed the file when i dropped that file into my PC it would add the metadata to the OS DB and be ready to go.
Not to mention its as much vaporware as the 2002 DNF demo. What he is talking about is the Longhorn tech demo which showed off a metadata based file system called WinFS but we don't know how it actually ran because it was never released. Every. single. thing. we know about how WinFS supposedly "worked" is based on MSFT tech demos which frankly could have been pre-rendered BS for all we know and what they showed off in 2004 as WinFS never ended up in the hands of the public.
But I repeat, the guy or company that comes up with this, whether bolted onto an existing OS like Linux or Windows or built around the tech it honestly won't matter because it would truly be a GAME CHANGER. I mean think about it, imagine something similar to how you can instantly search txt docs only a hell of a lot more advanced and using a combination of facial recognition and pattern matching so that I could just point it at a folder and while I surf it indexes the entire thing, asking when it runs into a file it doesn't have a context for but otherwise filling in ALL the metadata and creating a searchable DB so I could say ask for " me and Ex GF, I'm in a blue shirt" and it could go "Oh there are 3 videos and 2 pictures where he is in a blue shirt but only 1 where his ex GF is also there so it must be this" and handing it up, no muss no fuss.
Lets face it McGrew this is one area where OSes frankly haven't gotten any better in ages, I can have my PC show me say every.AVI file or every song I have by Ozzie but it can't tell me which of my photos have my grandma in them. Considering how much video and picture data the average user ends up with in a year (which I should know as guess who has to try to save all that data when things go wrong, me) most folks end up with videos and pics all over the place with such "helpful" names as 001,002 or 12/11/2012 which really doesn't help us any. With a FS that could actually look at images and videos and build relationships between them based on content? We would be one step closer to the Star Trek computer where we can just ask real world questions and get useful answers. I'd sure as hell buy that in a heartbeat, wouldn't you?
If you are not a troll, why not stand behind your words? I have stood behind my words since I started coming here regularly and frankly if you are just honest, no matter how brutally honest you are? Your karma will be so damned high you won't ever have to worry about groupthink bullshit.
The problem with ACs is there is no way to separate the wheat from the chaff, you can't just go by score anymore thanks to sockpuppets and groupthink burying insightful comments that goes against the grain, but at least with UIDs I can go "Okay we may not agree but its obvious he believes in what he is saying and calling it as he sees it, I'll be a fan" which then means your posts wouldn't just disappear.
As it is now ACs are like dealing with a spam inbox, sure there may be one or two legit emails in there but are you REALLY gonna wade through a billion fake viagra and penis pills just to find them? With a UID its like having you in my address book, I can filter out the spam and keep the actual comments.
And I changed the sig since there are a couple of users that post as AC but sign their posts that I will respond to out of common courtesy, but even those I try to talk into setting up a UID. I mean for fucks sake, it takes 3 damned minutes! It takes longer to set up a fricking gamespy account than it does to register here, don't be lazy.
Ya know, the guy that invents a truly "smart" file system is gonna make Bill Gates look poor. What we need is a file system that can actually "look" at the videos and pics and "learn" enough about each one that if I say typed "Aunt Edna" it would know which videos and photos contain Aunt Edna without having to label thousands of photos, or if I typed in "green dress" as that is all I can remember about a photo I'm looking for it can show me the photos with green dresses in them. Bonus points if you have the info embedded in the file during indexing so that I can drag photos from one family member's PC to another and have all the data.
because at the end of the day the problem with TFA, with our world in general really, is total information overload. We got too much stuff and too little time but we do have these uber powerful multicores so what we need is truly smart indexing. If its not sure have it ask and learn so if I drop a ton of pics and say "These are of my grandfather" it will ask "Well what was his name?" and update and put in the metadata and that is that, no sitting there editing all that data.
Again watch the video, the Sgt York wasn't "bought" either yet the company walked away with several billion in the bank....get it now? they do NOT have to hand in a working product as THEY GET PAID NO MATTER WHAT and in fact like "The Producers" they can often make MORE money on a flop than on a working system!
You see you are thinking its like a business, where somebody offers you a product and you buy...its not the way it works. they get paid HUGE amounts in "R&D" and admin costs even if it never works at all so that 2017 deadline gives 'em 4 years to live off the sweet gov teat while not actually having to show jack shit. So you see it doesn't matter if every scientist out there has said it'll need computers and radar and scanners several orders of magnitude more precise than anything we currently have because no matter if they make paper airplanes or spend the next 4 years sitting on ass they STILL get to hand those padded bills over and get checks cut.
Like I said its a hell of a scam, they just recycled the SDI crap from the 80s with as much chance of making it working and they get years of big fat checks no matter what.
Know what the definition of insanity is? I'm sure you've heard the bit. Look up Sgt York or better yet here is a link thanks to Crosshair84. Why do I bring up the York? Because just like the York it looks good on paper but so far EVERY TEST, and just FYI but every test costs US money, they get paid whether or not this turkey ever does shit which is a nice scam if you can get it, every single test HAS FAILED.
You might as well say we'll be deploying TIE fighters in 2017, you have about as much chance of making it work. we are talking about hitting a tiny object moving thousands of miles an hour with an even tinier object moving thousands of miles an hour. Picture trying to shoot a baseball launched out of a cannon with a single bullet...not gonna happen, never gonna work, they might as well promise energy shields because they are looking at the same odds either way of the damned thing working.
Hell I miss the old guard period. There was Barb the Linux admin, Macthorpe,Eric Raymond and the other old school FOSS guys, hell we even had actual rocket scientists that would be happy to explain string theory and propulsion designs in plain english. Hell even the fucking TROLLS were better, like Twitter and his "6 degrees of M$" where he could take ANY world event and make it about M$ and actually have it make sorta sense, but now?
Now its all high UID fanbois or ACs who think they are insightful for pointing at everyone that isn't puking up the groupthink and going "Its teh shill! Burn teh heretic!" NO more epic talks about the subject, hell no more epic talks about anything, its as bad as fucking politics, its all flag waving and circle jerks.
And I know how hard it is to find a decent site, if I could fucking write HTML I'd probably start my own with some common sense groundrules because either every site is controlled by just one guy, ala Thom at OSNews, or its just regurgitated crap with the same fanboi bullshit. And personally I say FUCK HUMANITY, the net is about niches, right? So why the fuck can't we have our own? let the babies suckle their iPods and piss off, we actual nerds need a place that is OURS, not theirs. Is that really so much to ask for?
To me that is the sad thing, Orwell didn't need "big brother" as all that was needed to get the people to go to 24/7 surveillance is social networking crap like FB. Now you have people tweeting every second of the day what they are doing, taking video and pictures everywhere, hell the only thing that keeps it from being big brother heaven is there is so much info overload the feds would need 30 Blue Gene supercomputers just to process all the info!
To me the only interesting thing to come of this will be to see how the courts react, after all you have cops being more jackbooted than ever and busting people for filming them while you have this explosion of video equipment so it will be interesting to see which will trump in the courts. One thing is for sure the days of authority (or anybody for that matter) being able to pull shit in public without anybody filming is well and truly over, I've seen everything from cops beating the helpless in FLA to tank battles in Libya and the one thing they ALL have in common is dozens of people holding up camera phones to get the shot. In fact I would argue that will probably be the defining image of this decade, the image of dozens of people holding up smartphones recording events.
If by standing up you mean "give the DoD yet another excuse to flush billions down the shitter so their MIC buds can buy some more hookers and blow" you are correct. This "interceptor" is another Sgt York, looks good on paper but doesn't work IRL but hey, as long as the MIC can bleed more billions out of the pentagon its all good, see the F-22 and F-35 for examples.
To me the fucking sad part is our MSM is so damned bought and paid for they are ignoring all the evidence that shows NK is about as big a threat as those WMDs in Iraq. For those that didn't read the report, you know that "sat" that NK put in orbit, which just FYI but uses the SAME ROCKET that they would use to launch a nuke? Yeah we recovered the first and second stage, turns out its just an uprated SCUD. "Well so what?" you ask? Simple the USSR wasn't stupid and they didn't hand out their good shit to third stringers and lets be clear on this The SCUD is NOT a missile in the conventional sense, its rocket artillery. Its not designed to go any real distance but to be used in a artillery barrage similar to "Stalin's Organs" in WWII. Neither its fuel nor its engine is designed to be a SRBM much less an ICBM and is frankly more likely to explode on the pad (as several did in NK before the sat launch) or fall apart in flight. The ONLY ones that have to fear this is SK because any farther than that and this POS is gonna fall out of the sky in pieces. Hell they'd be lucky to even hit the North American continent, much less any city in the USA.
So yet again we get a "threat" that is all bullshit and hype so the DoD and MIC can play Scrooge McDuck and swim in pools of money while the American people get stuck with more garbage. Hell at least with something like SDI (which also didn't work) you were looking at a REAL threat in the USSR, the NK "military" if you can call them that are using 40+ year old ex-Soviet junk that frankly wasn't top line when the Soviets sold it, just as we sold the F-5 to those countries we didn't trust with the good stuff so too did the Soviets keep "export versions" which they actually called "monkey models" to sell to third stringers like NK. At the end of the day NK is a bad joke, the little fatty "dear leader" has nothing more than bodies to throw into any conflict as their tech is so old and shitty, remember how well that worked for the Japanese empire in the Pacific?
This is just more empty threats in the hopes of wrangling more aid but never let it be said the DoD ever missed an opportunity to crap more money away.
Or you can have new owners fuck the whole thing up like/. had. Lets face it, we ALL know the mod system is fucked up, been fucked up for awhile, and it encourages crap like sockpuppets and ACs because it is too damned easy to game the system but its obvious the new owners have no fucks to give so that is that. Hell the new system even ran off the batshit brigade like old Twitter, never thought I'd say it but I actually miss the Twit and his "6 degrees of MSFT". Oh there was an Earthquake? twit could bring MSFT into it in 6 degrees or less.
Now all the old guard is gone, the epic threads a thing of the past, hell we don't even get any penisbird or GNAA posts, its all flag waving fanboys that don't know anything but whatever the groupthink of the day is and its just sad. I think we tech geeks are dying whether Netcraft confirms or not, being replaced by "geeks" that think if they can sideload their Android or jailbreak an iPhone that makes them hot shit. Its a damned shame is what it is, but the world is going game consoles all the way down and there just isn't any room for us old tech nerds anymore.
USENET? Hell Slashdot used to have some truly epic fucking trolls and sadly the guys back then could tell the difference between someone arguing a position and trolling. All the posts worth reading were UID holders , ACs were for Goatse and nigger jokes. Back then a troll was one of the "bastshit brigade" like old Twitter, you took the fact he made a knockoff of your UID as a badge of honor, he had either Hairyfeets or Hairytoes for me, but anybody who had a halfway known UID got the Twitter knockoff, Macthorpe, Crosshair, all got a knockoff.
I'll probably get hate for saying it but fuck it, its the truth, Slashdot has REALLY gone downhill since they sold it. We used to have epic threads about subjects like file systems and dark matter and you would often get experts in the field to debate with. Hell I've have argued about different OS designs with some of the guys that were building the bloody things and even when you got schooled you frankly learned something. Now its all "U no agree with me? U are teh sekret ninja shill!" and fucking ACs, it feels like Digg or Reddit anymore. No wonder more and more of the old guys have walked away, if I find me another site that actually talks geek tech and has a decent community I'll be happy to join them as its just not as good as it was, and that isn't some rose colored glasses, that is just looking at the threads. Now its all fanboi circle jerks whereas before we'd have threads over a 100 posts long arguing about the details.of the topics. Now its all just wank.
Except the Java sandbox has shown itself as trivial as a child's sandbox to get out off, which is why everybody talks about "herpa derp disable browser plug in"...well if security on Java and its sandbox wasn't such shit we wouldn't NEED to disable the fricking plug in, now would we?
The simple fact is its too damned easy to call Java whether you have the plug in or not and its security is so shit that its a major weakness in any desktop. I mean most don't have Adobe Reader plugged into their browser yet hackers still use it right? Its just as trivial to punch holes through security and the fact people are being put at all this risk when 1.- there are plenty of other languages that aren't getting pwned weekly and 2.- They should pretty much all have C++ installed already if they play games which hasn't had anywhere near the risks java has had.
This is why we need a "Common Sense Party" Crosshair, so we could sit down as civilized human beings and fix the damned problems without it becoming a fricking "ballclub issue" which is what the whole left/right bullshit has degraded into. I mean protecting out kids with security? Obama's kids have security why in the fuck does Johnny Average deserve less because he is poor? We put fucking security in our damned malls to protect the stores, our kids deserve less than the cheap junk at the Staples?
And even with us on polar opposites we can both see that common sense states that criminals don't follow gun laws. I mean how many decades has dope been illegal? And yet I can score any drug I want in less than an hour, with a border that leaks like a sieve do they HONESTLY want us to believe the criminals would have more trouble scoring an AK than scoring a bad of weed?
As far as drones...its a HELL of a lot worse than that Crosshair, look up on Wikileaks the shit that was being pulled under the protection of the US gov, including a PMC selling 10 year old boys as rape toys to get better deals on their gun sales. the same PMC sold 11 year old girls in Kosovo and the US gov told the consulate to "hush it up" and pay off the officials both times...WTF? We ARE the bad guys Crosshair, we ARE the thugs spreading death and misery. Look up General Smedley and his retirement speech, waaay back in the 20s he was talking about how he was a "hired thug of the corps" and how the marines were being used to make sure some corp got a better deal and here we are in 2013 and nothing has changed! yes the Islamists are batshit, but how can you hold yourselves up as a better example when you are dropping bombs on rescue workers and covering up child slavers?
The only subject I'd say we disagree on is welfare, personally I think its just a modern version of the "bread and circuses" to keep the peasants from rising up. Look at how when things were this bad in the 30s you had talks of actual government overthrow for a communist or fascist new direction, yet now with the economy a corpse nobody says squat, why? Why do they put up with such crooked leaders? Because their bellies are full and they have dope and porn, that's why. I think that pot will be legal soon NOT because the gov can see that its common sense not to throw your own people in jail for so called "sin" crimes, but because pot makes you passive and mellow. I know that if I was running a dictatorship I'd want pot to be plentiful and cheap,, easy to get away with shit if a large chunk of the populace is fried and watching cartoons.
But the system has become so damned corrupt the POTUS has become a joke, hell I can you name a POTUS of the last 25+ years that you could honestly say "That was the best man for the job" with a straight face? Bill Hicks nailed it 20+ years ago "I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well I think the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there's one guy working both puppets!" I mean why do you think stupid issues like gays in the military or arguing about the border are the ONLY issues we ever get? Because the big corps don't give a rat's ass either way (after all they can just import more H1-Bs so they don't need Paco) so they let the peasants argue over stupid shit while they empty the coffers and quietly ship it overseas. A perfect example, why does it not matter if a D or an R is in the big chair there is ALWAYS a member of Goldman Sachs in the seat at the Fed? Because as Rothschild stated "Give me control of the currency and I care not who runs the country'.
I'll just end with this...anybody who thinks voting will do jack shit is frankly delusional. Even though I'm as anti-libertarian as they come I was disgusted at the "Jon Stewart Ron Paul" video where they showed the SECOND it looked like he might win a couple of places? he became "He who shall NOT be named". It was truly pathetic to watch the MSM tapdance to make sure that the approved shills stayed in the spotlight, in that v
Is anybody coming out with one that don't run on fricking Java? Because for a decade we retailers saw Java disappear until this damned thing came out and WHAM, suddenly we are seeing Java infections again.
Friends don't let friends use Java for consumer software, server and enterprise is a different story, but Java on the desktop? Gets more viruses than a Bangkok whore on coupon day.
Uhhh...you DO know they have a way to have every version of IE without needing multiple installs, yes? Here help thyself but there are a dozen different ways to do so, I simply picked this as it has links to all the IEs. have fun.
And you sir are a self important douchebag, shows we both have issues don't it? Who in the fuck do you think you are, getting to decide what is important and what isn't. The average user from what we are reading here spends 2 hours a day, times half a million users that is a million man hours that is gonna quickly climb a LOT higher because so far every "replacement" named here has been buggy, feature poor, or just plain broken.
And you show exactly why it should NOT be in the hands of self important douchebags, after all according to the left YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM because you won't give up your guns and cower in fear of the criminals. Again look at what they are listing as "important" on that site, its about 3 miles to the left of outright communism. I've seen petitions there calling the securing of our borders "racist", those of us that believe in the second amendment "thugs", even petitions saying Obama should be given a blank check because he's a democrat and is never wrong, right? I mean look at the fucking gun petitions and we are talking about a POTUS whose AG committed CRIMINAL ACTS trying to get guns banned yet we should reward him for pulling a false flag according to those petitions!
So you see what YOU consider important and what the radical left considers important are 2 totally different things and if ONLY "important" petitions were allowed? I have a feeling you and I would never fill out a single one because it would be nothing but ultra left NPR level shit like how they thought the California taxpayer should cut checks to illegals because there wasn't a crop to pick one year...really? We should be paying criminals because the jobs they were doing illegally wasn't there?
And the liberals can waste their fucking mod points but I'm damned sick of it. I'm sick of common sense being a God damned dirty word, I'm sick of our laws and constitution being pissed on, I'm damned sick of "political correctness" and I'm fucking sick of certain classes being "protected" because they aren't YT so they must be right even when they are wrong. Fuck you as YOU ARE THE PROBLEM because its YOU ultra left batshit brigade that has let the ultra right keep control for so long because you are so far away from mainstream you make the right and their corporate asskissing look positively middle of the road by comparison!
I hate to say it as I can't stand the man but Rand Paul was right in that we need a new republican party but we need a new democratic party as well because BOTH sides have gone fucking whack a doodle!
Look at the sales before and AFTER they started being douchebags when it came to DRM, you'll see that they lost a LOT of sales thanks to douchebaggery which is one of the reasons EA is now for sale and shows that voting with your wallet DOES work, its just not magic and takes time.
I have personally refused to buy any games that require me to be online for SP and honestly? I don't miss 'em. There are so many good games out there that don't treat you like shit that you could buy 3 new games a day and never get them all. My only suggestion is to write a nice little letter when you do so explaining WHY you bought the other guy's product, sure they'll probably use PPT math anyway (Our PPT shows X number of people like Y so since we didn't sell X copies of our DRM douchefest it MUST be those evil pirates yargh) but at least you will have made it clear why their product isn't being bought. I gifted my friends and family Torchlight II through Steam when it came out D3 was online always DRM and RMM and even though I was a buyer and fan of D1 and D2 I'd rather have TL2 where I'm treated as a customer than D3 where I'm treated as a walking ATM.
But you just have to realize voting with your wallet takes time and there are certain genres where the fans? Would buy dogshit in a box and not care. Take Madden, I used to work with a guy that had his CC on file with Gamestop so the SECOND a new Madden came out a copy for both his console and his handheld was sent to his house so when he got off work it was waiting. He never looked at a single review, never looked to see if EA was treating him like shit because he really did not care as ALL he wanted was the latest rosters, that's it. The same thing applies to the CoD games where the hardcore MP CoD players don't give a rat's ass WHAT EA does as long as they have the latest maps on release day so they can learn every place to go to bitchslap the noobs.
But thankfully CoD and Madden aren't enough to sustain a lumbering hulk like EA so they really need more buyers and if we refuse to purchase and spread the word we CAN hurt them by voting with our wallets, just don't expect change to happen overnight. By voting with your wallet you can not only refuse to support douchebag behavior but you can boost support to those that treat you well, which frankly is what we should all be doing anyway.
Sorry I heard it at a presentation at a museum, but the way it was explained to us was thus: "Their bodies were like rodeo riders, with lots of upper body strength and a more compact form which would have been better suited to punishment at the cost of speed because the compact legs would have hurt their top end. The bones bears this assumption out as many suffered multiple fractures and breaks over their relatively short lives which shows that they got injured quite often. Since we have found no evidence of them having wars or major conflicts one has to assume the injuries were caused by hunting which the amount of large bones in their caves does seem to bear out their hunting large prey which they would would be well suited for. Also the lack of spears but abundance of hand weapons like clubs and hand axes makes this the more likely scenario".
Now sorry I can't reproduce it word for word, and this was nearly 20 years ago so maybe later evidence has reversed this belief, but the presentation when coupled with the life size models showing a large but squat man did seem to fit together pretty well. Hell what do I know, the reason I remember the damned thing at all was the girl giving the presentation was a classic "cute nerdy girl with glasses" and since I've always liked that stereotype bits of it stuck a hell of a lot more than the later presentation which came from a guy that looked like he could have witnessed them first hand and every time he coughed I waited on him to keel over.
But, and I may be wrong, this is just how someone at a museum of science explained it to me so grain of salt and all that, but the way I was told it wasn't the SIZE that gave them a worse outlook it was the SHAPE in that they had small frontal lobs and really large rear brains which meant they'd have kick ass senses, probably several times better than ours, but their ability to put long term plans into motion would have been hurt by the smaller frontal lobs. The way she put it "We were planners, could think and plan ahead which then helped us with agriculture that made surviving some of the worst winters easier for us than for them".
Again if she got it wrong sorry, I will be the first to admit cute girl in glasses sure as fuck turns off MY frontal lobes when it comes to critical thinking but she did seem to know her stuff for what it was worth.
Oh please! If people use this software and it makes their day a little easier? Then they should damned well be able to organize and tell the company they want it kept. Its a damned shame Steve Ballmer doesn't listen to anything said other than "Just copy Apple" or I'd be coming up with one asking that Win 8 be thrown in the "do over" bin along with Vista and bringing back Win 7 until they could get an OS out the door that wasn't afflicted with an identity disorder.
Besides the thing is already so far left I wouldn't be surprised if many take a look at how leftist the petitions lean and go "fuck this noise" and walk away. Hell what was the FIRST petition it showed me after I signed for Reader? Give Obama, the guy who refused to arrest his AG for what several of the feds CLEARLY SAID was a "false flag op" to take away our second amendment rights after they found the Mexicans were buying USSR and not USA guns, give that clown a MANDATE to pass tougher gun laws? WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE you have the commander in chief CAUGHT RED HANDED pulling a fucking false flag that got Americans MURDERED and you want to give him MORE power? Are you fucking stoned or just retarded? That would be like saying in 86 "Sure George there was no WMDs and all that yellowcake stuff was bullshit, but hey, you wanna take Iran and Syria while you are it that's okay because gosh darn it we LIKE you".
The other that pissed me off was one designed to "tell off" the NRA...for offering the ONLY proposal that would have had a shot of changing the outcome of Sandy Hook...Again is the left stoned or just stupid? "Tougher gun laws" wouldn't have done shit because...now hold onto your seats, I'm gonna hit you with some high concept here....CRIMINALS DON'T OBEY GUN LAWS STUPID which is why we fucking call them criminals in the first place! The Sandy Hook guns were STOLEN from a woman with NO record, so tougher gun laws would have done fucking nothing! Putting an armed guard, which Obama's kids get for free BTW, would have meant the nut would have to get through and kill dead a trained security officer, probably ex-cop, before he could do any attacks. Its common sense folks, if you want to protect something you put a fucking armed guard between the bad guys and the something, yet because Obama...again remember Fast & Furious, doesn't like it, while not getting rid of his own kids guards BTW, we are supposed to be...what MAD at the NRA for posting a common fucking sense answer to a problem that doesn't score political points? WHAT THE FUCK?
Sorry about the rant folks, but as a card carrying socialist seeing the left hijacked by a bunch that makes PETA and their "sea kittens" campaign look sane? Really pisses me off. I'm guessing this is how the fiscal conservatives felt when the neocons ran them out the tent, that the nuthouse had been taken over by the batshit. I mean maybe I'm fucking weird or something but after Nixon I was of the opinion if you caught the POTUS breaking the fucking law you should BUST HIS ASS no matter WHAT party he belonged to, yet the same ones that wanted to impeach Dubya? Not one word about fast and furious, you can hear crickets chirping...that's just FUCKED UP folks, totally fucked up.
See Crosshair's answer and my reply, I would only add that I have NEVER seen an infection come from one of the handful of first party sites that I allow to serve flash content. Hell I even loaded up a sandbox and spent a couple of weeks searching to find a free pornsite (myfreepaysite if you care to know) because I had male customers that kept getting infected searching for free porn but since I found the above site I haven't seen ANY infections from those customers that listened to me and switched.
Now if you want to see WHY I refuse to allow Flash for ads just look at my journal and my description of the "Yahoo porn bug" which used Flash to send spam to a Yahoo users address book. To this day I'll still get one or two spam emails a week from former customers that didn't heed my warning and get hit by the porn bug. The journal has the full description but without Flash, which I still argue is better than HTML V5 in every way? They wouldn't be sending out spam.
But better than does not mean perfect, or even great, I mean if I slap you its better than me shooting you in the crotch but I wouldn't call either something to look forward too, but sadly we simply haven't come up with a tech that can do what Flash does. For videos and games its low resource, low overhead, can run on even 10 year old hardware, what it does it does well but security is NOT one of those things which is why like Crosshair said you have to treat it like fire, good when controlled and a danger when not. Unfortunately the third party ad companies have shown repeatedly they have NO respect for the dangers of flash and will serve just about any flash video as long as the check clears. As long as that is the case i'll continue to block sites that use third party flash for ads (which includes Slashdot) because its just common sense.
This is why I said this "problem" could be solved VERY easily, just build a "people's car/truck" that gets a minimum of 38 MPG for the truck and 45 MPG for the car and make them both diesel as there are several projects on the board to make diesel a renewable resource and if any of those pan out? You'll already have the population ready to go. And this is doable NOW as building a small Ranger sized truck and Focus sized car that runs on diesel and gets good gas mileage is VERY doable,many diesel engines get close to and a few over those figures so its not much of a stretch, and by THEN using subsidies and a "cash for clunkers" program you could do something about the poor folks in used gas hogs which is why the current MPG for this country is a lousy 14 MPG. A people's car/truck program would cut our usage in half by getting rid of all those old gas hogs poor folks drive because that's all they can afford.
But mass transit died in the states FOR A REASON, because our culture simply isn't designed for mass transit. Look at the cultures like Japan where mass transit is wildly successful, you have a society built around conforming and order and obedience to authority, that is the complete opposite of America. Here all it would take is a couple of douchebags to ruin it for everybody which surprise surprise is exactly what happens, and frankly we are just too damned spread out (which I would argue is a GOOD thing, packing Americans in like rats is a recipe for disaster) to make busing and other public transports viable. Would I give up my truck if gas hits $10 a gallon for a bus? Nope, I'll just drive less and borrow my mom's beep beep when I need to go on long trips.
The sad part is sensible ideas like mine will NEVER be implemented because the AGW tent has been taken over by leeches like Al Gore and Goldman Sachs who have set themselves up to make fortunes off gaming the system while making sure they have to bear none of the cost thanks to shell corps. I mean when you have the same clown that wrote the "rules" on credit default swaps, aka worthless pieces of paper, writing the rules for carbon credits? You should know the platform has been hijacked by the scammers. Frankly this is why I support those against AGW, not because I don't think it would be smart to cut down on our usage of fossil fuels, as I honestly think they are more useful for plastics than they are as a long term viable fuel source, its because the ideas that would actually work have been thrown out because the leeches can't make fortunes gaming the system with something like a $20k "people's car" that would make a difference.
Other than playing Frankenstein....why would you want to? This isn't some alien here, its just a failed branch of our own tree, its not like these Neanderthals would be all that different from us which is why cloning them (unlike say dinosaurs) wouldn't be THAT difficult if you sunk enough money into it.
I mean seriously what WAS the Neanderthal? It was a little more compact than us, with a body designed to take more punishment at the cost of speed and agility (some unscrupulous military might find them attractive...if it weren't for the fact that giving troops armor is way cheaper), had a little smaller brain but not by a huge amount, we're not talking Lucy or early Java man here folks, and they had a brow ridge although again not as bad as many of the earlier offshoots.
At the end of the day what you'd probably have was a slightly squatter human that would probably fit into the low average end of the bell curve and honestly probably wouldn't have THAT hard of a time fitting into our modern society once they learned the ways of those around him/her. Hell I've known guys uglier than Neanderthal that had no problem getting GFs so most likely they'd just breed themselves right back out of existence in a few generations if you didn't stick 'em on an island somewhere and make 'em a protected species.
So I honestly don't get what the appeal of bringing one of these back would be for, other than just to say we did it and maybe morbid curiosity? If you were talking Lucy or early Java man or even those little hobbit people? THEN I could see the point, they were so different from us it would be like having an alien species brought to life, but with Neanderthals there is debate even to this day whether they just died out or we fucked them out of existence, so what would be the point of making more? So you could point and go "Ha ha, your brow ridge makes you look funny"? Hell 50k in plastic surgery and they wouldn't look any weirder than some of the guys I've run into over the years.
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Sorry about how long its taking to respond, the oldest was having hell getting his online games to connect so guess who has been doing diagnostics at 2AM?
But if its anything like the bus lines here I can see why, frankly I rode it for 3 whole days before I ended up borrowing a work truck from my dad and paying out the ass for the gas rather than ride the damned thing, it was all junkies and bums and stench, oh my. I wouldn't wish having to ride mass transit on my worst enemy it was dingy and a good 25% of the people on it stank, literally reeked like they hadn't bathed in months (which looking at them? They probably hadn't) and the fact that several had such the stench of meth leaking out their pores i was just waiting for them to have a full fledged freak out and try to attack someone right then and there.
So while I didn't mind car pooling or renting a car when I needed to I wouldn't go back to riding the bus for all the tea in China, its just not a good way to get around.
Because for every actual AC comment that is an actual comment you get a dozen "fuck u cocksucking dickbag" kind of bullshit? Again look at spam, sure they may be one or two real emails in that spambox but are you gonna go through every. single. spam. just to find the one or 2 that were mislabeled?
I personally say its just common courtesy to stand behind your words, its not like there isn't already a setting for logging in from a work or public terminal and again it takes like 3 minutes. On any given week I can have as many as 60+ people commenting on something I have said and maybe its me being southern but I was raised to believe if someone legitimately tries to engage in a dialog with you or ask you questions that common courtesy dictates that you respond, I mean I know it makes me a little pissed when I ask for clarification about a post when the person posting it obviously has a legit point to make, its simply unclear, and never get a response but when you throw ACs into the mix? Especially when you talk about things that don't go with the groupthink? For that ONE AC that has a legitimate post you'll find a dozen AC posts to wade through that are just variations on "fuck you nigger faggot cocksucker".
So with UIDs at least I can tell short of someone hijacking that account I'm dealing with the same person and if that person is a troll its easy enough to block them from showing up. To me the final telling example was last year when I gained my very own personal stalker as the ONLY places he would follow me after that first couple of weeks was places that allowed ACs...why? Because he quickly found himself either banhammered by admins or so low of a score myself and everybody else never saw his little insults on sites where he had to register. But sure enough he made it so that I wouldn't even bother looking at AC posts for the longest time because I would see a dozen responses and for every one that was "I think you are wrong and here is why I think that" I had to wade through 11 that were just "die you fat fucker die" stalker bullshit.
But that is why I changed my sig, there are 1 or 2 that actually stand by their AC posts, APK is one, that even though we disagree on many things he stands by what he says and every response I've gotten from him is actually trying to start a dialog about a subject, not merely spewing bullshit. But considering it takes like 3 minutes to whip off an account I really don't think its too much to ask to stand by your words. You are at work? Fine sign your AC posts and log in when you are home so we can all at least see you believe in your words enough to stand by them.
What he is talking about is "WinFS" which was NEVER released and the supposed abilities similar to what I described was only shown in a pre-rendered tech demo in 04.
Considering how MSFT has been known to show off vaporware that they never intend to release when they feel threatened (such as how they kept many businesses off of BeOS and OS/2 by hyping WinNT a decade before it was released with features it didn't actually have) I would say its just another case of MSFT vaporware meant to get the tech sites and geeks to wait for Longhorn (which was never released, Vista was just Server 2K3 with a bunch of half baked tech bolted on while Longhorn was based on XP and was tossed in 05) because they didn't have anything to actually sell.
But imagine how much of a game changer this would be man, imagine being able to type say "give me all pics of my mom where my sister is also there" and have the OS look at the indexes and DB based on relationships and go "Well here is 40 pics of his mom but only 3 have his sister and that is what he wanted" and it hands it up right then and there. Frankly with background indexing speed wouldn't be an issue as it could do it in the background when the PC is twiddling its thumbs from lack of useful work to do and if it embedded the data in the file itself (which is why I said a FS and not a program) then once ANY member of my family had indexed the file when i dropped that file into my PC it would add the metadata to the OS DB and be ready to go.
Not to mention its as much vaporware as the 2002 DNF demo. What he is talking about is the Longhorn tech demo which showed off a metadata based file system called WinFS but we don't know how it actually ran because it was never released. Every. single. thing. we know about how WinFS supposedly "worked" is based on MSFT tech demos which frankly could have been pre-rendered BS for all we know and what they showed off in 2004 as WinFS never ended up in the hands of the public.
But I repeat, the guy or company that comes up with this, whether bolted onto an existing OS like Linux or Windows or built around the tech it honestly won't matter because it would truly be a GAME CHANGER. I mean think about it, imagine something similar to how you can instantly search txt docs only a hell of a lot more advanced and using a combination of facial recognition and pattern matching so that I could just point it at a folder and while I surf it indexes the entire thing, asking when it runs into a file it doesn't have a context for but otherwise filling in ALL the metadata and creating a searchable DB so I could say ask for " me and Ex GF, I'm in a blue shirt" and it could go "Oh there are 3 videos and 2 pictures where he is in a blue shirt but only 1 where his ex GF is also there so it must be this" and handing it up, no muss no fuss.
Lets face it McGrew this is one area where OSes frankly haven't gotten any better in ages, I can have my PC show me say every .AVI file or every song I have by Ozzie but it can't tell me which of my photos have my grandma in them. Considering how much video and picture data the average user ends up with in a year (which I should know as guess who has to try to save all that data when things go wrong, me) most folks end up with videos and pics all over the place with such "helpful" names as 001,002 or 12/11/2012 which really doesn't help us any. With a FS that could actually look at images and videos and build relationships between them based on content? We would be one step closer to the Star Trek computer where we can just ask real world questions and get useful answers. I'd sure as hell buy that in a heartbeat, wouldn't you?
If you are not a troll, why not stand behind your words? I have stood behind my words since I started coming here regularly and frankly if you are just honest, no matter how brutally honest you are? Your karma will be so damned high you won't ever have to worry about groupthink bullshit.
The problem with ACs is there is no way to separate the wheat from the chaff, you can't just go by score anymore thanks to sockpuppets and groupthink burying insightful comments that goes against the grain, but at least with UIDs I can go "Okay we may not agree but its obvious he believes in what he is saying and calling it as he sees it, I'll be a fan" which then means your posts wouldn't just disappear.
As it is now ACs are like dealing with a spam inbox, sure there may be one or two legit emails in there but are you REALLY gonna wade through a billion fake viagra and penis pills just to find them? With a UID its like having you in my address book, I can filter out the spam and keep the actual comments.
And I changed the sig since there are a couple of users that post as AC but sign their posts that I will respond to out of common courtesy, but even those I try to talk into setting up a UID. I mean for fucks sake, it takes 3 damned minutes! It takes longer to set up a fricking gamespy account than it does to register here, don't be lazy.
Ya know, the guy that invents a truly "smart" file system is gonna make Bill Gates look poor. What we need is a file system that can actually "look" at the videos and pics and "learn" enough about each one that if I say typed "Aunt Edna" it would know which videos and photos contain Aunt Edna without having to label thousands of photos, or if I typed in "green dress" as that is all I can remember about a photo I'm looking for it can show me the photos with green dresses in them. Bonus points if you have the info embedded in the file during indexing so that I can drag photos from one family member's PC to another and have all the data.
because at the end of the day the problem with TFA, with our world in general really, is total information overload. We got too much stuff and too little time but we do have these uber powerful multicores so what we need is truly smart indexing. If its not sure have it ask and learn so if I drop a ton of pics and say "These are of my grandfather" it will ask "Well what was his name?" and update and put in the metadata and that is that, no sitting there editing all that data.
Again watch the video, the Sgt York wasn't "bought" either yet the company walked away with several billion in the bank....get it now? they do NOT have to hand in a working product as THEY GET PAID NO MATTER WHAT and in fact like "The Producers" they can often make MORE money on a flop than on a working system!
You see you are thinking its like a business, where somebody offers you a product and you buy...its not the way it works. they get paid HUGE amounts in "R&D" and admin costs even if it never works at all so that 2017 deadline gives 'em 4 years to live off the sweet gov teat while not actually having to show jack shit. So you see it doesn't matter if every scientist out there has said it'll need computers and radar and scanners several orders of magnitude more precise than anything we currently have because no matter if they make paper airplanes or spend the next 4 years sitting on ass they STILL get to hand those padded bills over and get checks cut.
Like I said its a hell of a scam, they just recycled the SDI crap from the 80s with as much chance of making it working and they get years of big fat checks no matter what.
Know what the definition of insanity is? I'm sure you've heard the bit. Look up Sgt York or better yet here is a link thanks to Crosshair84. Why do I bring up the York? Because just like the York it looks good on paper but so far EVERY TEST, and just FYI but every test costs US money, they get paid whether or not this turkey ever does shit which is a nice scam if you can get it, every single test HAS FAILED.
You might as well say we'll be deploying TIE fighters in 2017, you have about as much chance of making it work. we are talking about hitting a tiny object moving thousands of miles an hour with an even tinier object moving thousands of miles an hour. Picture trying to shoot a baseball launched out of a cannon with a single bullet...not gonna happen, never gonna work, they might as well promise energy shields because they are looking at the same odds either way of the damned thing working.
Hell I miss the old guard period. There was Barb the Linux admin, Macthorpe,Eric Raymond and the other old school FOSS guys, hell we even had actual rocket scientists that would be happy to explain string theory and propulsion designs in plain english. Hell even the fucking TROLLS were better, like Twitter and his "6 degrees of M$" where he could take ANY world event and make it about M$ and actually have it make sorta sense, but now?
Now its all high UID fanbois or ACs who think they are insightful for pointing at everyone that isn't puking up the groupthink and going "Its teh shill! Burn teh heretic!" NO more epic talks about the subject, hell no more epic talks about anything, its as bad as fucking politics, its all flag waving and circle jerks.
And I know how hard it is to find a decent site, if I could fucking write HTML I'd probably start my own with some common sense groundrules because either every site is controlled by just one guy, ala Thom at OSNews, or its just regurgitated crap with the same fanboi bullshit. And personally I say FUCK HUMANITY, the net is about niches, right? So why the fuck can't we have our own? let the babies suckle their iPods and piss off, we actual nerds need a place that is OURS, not theirs. Is that really so much to ask for?
To me that is the sad thing, Orwell didn't need "big brother" as all that was needed to get the people to go to 24/7 surveillance is social networking crap like FB. Now you have people tweeting every second of the day what they are doing, taking video and pictures everywhere, hell the only thing that keeps it from being big brother heaven is there is so much info overload the feds would need 30 Blue Gene supercomputers just to process all the info!
To me the only interesting thing to come of this will be to see how the courts react, after all you have cops being more jackbooted than ever and busting people for filming them while you have this explosion of video equipment so it will be interesting to see which will trump in the courts. One thing is for sure the days of authority (or anybody for that matter) being able to pull shit in public without anybody filming is well and truly over, I've seen everything from cops beating the helpless in FLA to tank battles in Libya and the one thing they ALL have in common is dozens of people holding up camera phones to get the shot. In fact I would argue that will probably be the defining image of this decade, the image of dozens of people holding up smartphones recording events.
If by standing up you mean "give the DoD yet another excuse to flush billions down the shitter so their MIC buds can buy some more hookers and blow" you are correct. This "interceptor" is another Sgt York, looks good on paper but doesn't work IRL but hey, as long as the MIC can bleed more billions out of the pentagon its all good, see the F-22 and F-35 for examples.
To me the fucking sad part is our MSM is so damned bought and paid for they are ignoring all the evidence that shows NK is about as big a threat as those WMDs in Iraq. For those that didn't read the report, you know that "sat" that NK put in orbit, which just FYI but uses the SAME ROCKET that they would use to launch a nuke? Yeah we recovered the first and second stage, turns out its just an uprated SCUD. "Well so what?" you ask? Simple the USSR wasn't stupid and they didn't hand out their good shit to third stringers and lets be clear on this The SCUD is NOT a missile in the conventional sense, its rocket artillery. Its not designed to go any real distance but to be used in a artillery barrage similar to "Stalin's Organs" in WWII. Neither its fuel nor its engine is designed to be a SRBM much less an ICBM and is frankly more likely to explode on the pad (as several did in NK before the sat launch) or fall apart in flight. The ONLY ones that have to fear this is SK because any farther than that and this POS is gonna fall out of the sky in pieces. Hell they'd be lucky to even hit the North American continent, much less any city in the USA.
So yet again we get a "threat" that is all bullshit and hype so the DoD and MIC can play Scrooge McDuck and swim in pools of money while the American people get stuck with more garbage. Hell at least with something like SDI (which also didn't work) you were looking at a REAL threat in the USSR, the NK "military" if you can call them that are using 40+ year old ex-Soviet junk that frankly wasn't top line when the Soviets sold it, just as we sold the F-5 to those countries we didn't trust with the good stuff so too did the Soviets keep "export versions" which they actually called "monkey models" to sell to third stringers like NK. At the end of the day NK is a bad joke, the little fatty "dear leader" has nothing more than bodies to throw into any conflict as their tech is so old and shitty, remember how well that worked for the Japanese empire in the Pacific?
This is just more empty threats in the hopes of wrangling more aid but never let it be said the DoD ever missed an opportunity to crap more money away.
Or you can have new owners fuck the whole thing up like /. had. Lets face it, we ALL know the mod system is fucked up, been fucked up for awhile, and it encourages crap like sockpuppets and ACs because it is too damned easy to game the system but its obvious the new owners have no fucks to give so that is that. Hell the new system even ran off the batshit brigade like old Twitter, never thought I'd say it but I actually miss the Twit and his "6 degrees of MSFT". Oh there was an Earthquake? twit could bring MSFT into it in 6 degrees or less.
Now all the old guard is gone, the epic threads a thing of the past, hell we don't even get any penisbird or GNAA posts, its all flag waving fanboys that don't know anything but whatever the groupthink of the day is and its just sad. I think we tech geeks are dying whether Netcraft confirms or not, being replaced by "geeks" that think if they can sideload their Android or jailbreak an iPhone that makes them hot shit. Its a damned shame is what it is, but the world is going game consoles all the way down and there just isn't any room for us old tech nerds anymore.
USENET? Hell Slashdot used to have some truly epic fucking trolls and sadly the guys back then could tell the difference between someone arguing a position and trolling. All the posts worth reading were UID holders , ACs were for Goatse and nigger jokes. Back then a troll was one of the "bastshit brigade" like old Twitter, you took the fact he made a knockoff of your UID as a badge of honor, he had either Hairyfeets or Hairytoes for me, but anybody who had a halfway known UID got the Twitter knockoff, Macthorpe, Crosshair, all got a knockoff.
I'll probably get hate for saying it but fuck it, its the truth, Slashdot has REALLY gone downhill since they sold it. We used to have epic threads about subjects like file systems and dark matter and you would often get experts in the field to debate with. Hell I've have argued about different OS designs with some of the guys that were building the bloody things and even when you got schooled you frankly learned something. Now its all "U no agree with me? U are teh sekret ninja shill!" and fucking ACs, it feels like Digg or Reddit anymore. No wonder more and more of the old guys have walked away, if I find me another site that actually talks geek tech and has a decent community I'll be happy to join them as its just not as good as it was, and that isn't some rose colored glasses, that is just looking at the threads. Now its all fanboi circle jerks whereas before we'd have threads over a 100 posts long arguing about the details.of the topics. Now its all just wank.
Except the Java sandbox has shown itself as trivial as a child's sandbox to get out off, which is why everybody talks about "herpa derp disable browser plug in"...well if security on Java and its sandbox wasn't such shit we wouldn't NEED to disable the fricking plug in, now would we?
The simple fact is its too damned easy to call Java whether you have the plug in or not and its security is so shit that its a major weakness in any desktop. I mean most don't have Adobe Reader plugged into their browser yet hackers still use it right? Its just as trivial to punch holes through security and the fact people are being put at all this risk when 1.- there are plenty of other languages that aren't getting pwned weekly and 2.- They should pretty much all have C++ installed already if they play games which hasn't had anywhere near the risks java has had.
This is why we need a "Common Sense Party" Crosshair, so we could sit down as civilized human beings and fix the damned problems without it becoming a fricking "ballclub issue" which is what the whole left/right bullshit has degraded into. I mean protecting out kids with security? Obama's kids have security why in the fuck does Johnny Average deserve less because he is poor? We put fucking security in our damned malls to protect the stores, our kids deserve less than the cheap junk at the Staples?
And even with us on polar opposites we can both see that common sense states that criminals don't follow gun laws. I mean how many decades has dope been illegal? And yet I can score any drug I want in less than an hour, with a border that leaks like a sieve do they HONESTLY want us to believe the criminals would have more trouble scoring an AK than scoring a bad of weed?
As far as drones...its a HELL of a lot worse than that Crosshair, look up on Wikileaks the shit that was being pulled under the protection of the US gov, including a PMC selling 10 year old boys as rape toys to get better deals on their gun sales. the same PMC sold 11 year old girls in Kosovo and the US gov told the consulate to "hush it up" and pay off the officials both times...WTF? We ARE the bad guys Crosshair, we ARE the thugs spreading death and misery. Look up General Smedley and his retirement speech, waaay back in the 20s he was talking about how he was a "hired thug of the corps" and how the marines were being used to make sure some corp got a better deal and here we are in 2013 and nothing has changed! yes the Islamists are batshit, but how can you hold yourselves up as a better example when you are dropping bombs on rescue workers and covering up child slavers?
The only subject I'd say we disagree on is welfare, personally I think its just a modern version of the "bread and circuses" to keep the peasants from rising up. Look at how when things were this bad in the 30s you had talks of actual government overthrow for a communist or fascist new direction, yet now with the economy a corpse nobody says squat, why? Why do they put up with such crooked leaders? Because their bellies are full and they have dope and porn, that's why. I think that pot will be legal soon NOT because the gov can see that its common sense not to throw your own people in jail for so called "sin" crimes, but because pot makes you passive and mellow. I know that if I was running a dictatorship I'd want pot to be plentiful and cheap,, easy to get away with shit if a large chunk of the populace is fried and watching cartoons.
But the system has become so damned corrupt the POTUS has become a joke, hell I can you name a POTUS of the last 25+ years that you could honestly say "That was the best man for the job" with a straight face? Bill Hicks nailed it 20+ years ago "I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well I think the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there's one guy working both puppets!" I mean why do you think stupid issues like gays in the military or arguing about the border are the ONLY issues we ever get? Because the big corps don't give a rat's ass either way (after all they can just import more H1-Bs so they don't need Paco) so they let the peasants argue over stupid shit while they empty the coffers and quietly ship it overseas. A perfect example, why does it not matter if a D or an R is in the big chair there is ALWAYS a member of Goldman Sachs in the seat at the Fed? Because as Rothschild stated "Give me control of the currency and I care not who runs the country'.
I'll just end with this...anybody who thinks voting will do jack shit is frankly delusional. Even though I'm as anti-libertarian as they come I was disgusted at the "Jon Stewart Ron Paul" video where they showed the SECOND it looked like he might win a couple of places? he became "He who shall NOT be named". It was truly pathetic to watch the MSM tapdance to make sure that the approved shills stayed in the spotlight, in that v
Is anybody coming out with one that don't run on fricking Java? Because for a decade we retailers saw Java disappear until this damned thing came out and WHAM, suddenly we are seeing Java infections again.
Friends don't let friends use Java for consumer software, server and enterprise is a different story, but Java on the desktop? Gets more viruses than a Bangkok whore on coupon day.
Uhhh...you DO know they have a way to have every version of IE without needing multiple installs, yes? Here help thyself but there are a dozen different ways to do so, I simply picked this as it has links to all the IEs. have fun.
And you sir are a self important douchebag, shows we both have issues don't it? Who in the fuck do you think you are, getting to decide what is important and what isn't. The average user from what we are reading here spends 2 hours a day, times half a million users that is a million man hours that is gonna quickly climb a LOT higher because so far every "replacement" named here has been buggy, feature poor, or just plain broken.
And you show exactly why it should NOT be in the hands of self important douchebags, after all according to the left YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM because you won't give up your guns and cower in fear of the criminals. Again look at what they are listing as "important" on that site, its about 3 miles to the left of outright communism. I've seen petitions there calling the securing of our borders "racist", those of us that believe in the second amendment "thugs", even petitions saying Obama should be given a blank check because he's a democrat and is never wrong, right? I mean look at the fucking gun petitions and we are talking about a POTUS whose AG committed CRIMINAL ACTS trying to get guns banned yet we should reward him for pulling a false flag according to those petitions!
So you see what YOU consider important and what the radical left considers important are 2 totally different things and if ONLY "important" petitions were allowed? I have a feeling you and I would never fill out a single one because it would be nothing but ultra left NPR level shit like how they thought the California taxpayer should cut checks to illegals because there wasn't a crop to pick one year...really? We should be paying criminals because the jobs they were doing illegally wasn't there?
And the liberals can waste their fucking mod points but I'm damned sick of it. I'm sick of common sense being a God damned dirty word, I'm sick of our laws and constitution being pissed on, I'm damned sick of "political correctness" and I'm fucking sick of certain classes being "protected" because they aren't YT so they must be right even when they are wrong. Fuck you as YOU ARE THE PROBLEM because its YOU ultra left batshit brigade that has let the ultra right keep control for so long because you are so far away from mainstream you make the right and their corporate asskissing look positively middle of the road by comparison!
I hate to say it as I can't stand the man but Rand Paul was right in that we need a new republican party but we need a new democratic party as well because BOTH sides have gone fucking whack a doodle!
Look at the sales before and AFTER they started being douchebags when it came to DRM, you'll see that they lost a LOT of sales thanks to douchebaggery which is one of the reasons EA is now for sale and shows that voting with your wallet DOES work, its just not magic and takes time.
I have personally refused to buy any games that require me to be online for SP and honestly? I don't miss 'em. There are so many good games out there that don't treat you like shit that you could buy 3 new games a day and never get them all. My only suggestion is to write a nice little letter when you do so explaining WHY you bought the other guy's product, sure they'll probably use PPT math anyway (Our PPT shows X number of people like Y so since we didn't sell X copies of our DRM douchefest it MUST be those evil pirates yargh) but at least you will have made it clear why their product isn't being bought. I gifted my friends and family Torchlight II through Steam when it came out D3 was online always DRM and RMM and even though I was a buyer and fan of D1 and D2 I'd rather have TL2 where I'm treated as a customer than D3 where I'm treated as a walking ATM.
But you just have to realize voting with your wallet takes time and there are certain genres where the fans? Would buy dogshit in a box and not care. Take Madden, I used to work with a guy that had his CC on file with Gamestop so the SECOND a new Madden came out a copy for both his console and his handheld was sent to his house so when he got off work it was waiting. He never looked at a single review, never looked to see if EA was treating him like shit because he really did not care as ALL he wanted was the latest rosters, that's it. The same thing applies to the CoD games where the hardcore MP CoD players don't give a rat's ass WHAT EA does as long as they have the latest maps on release day so they can learn every place to go to bitchslap the noobs.
But thankfully CoD and Madden aren't enough to sustain a lumbering hulk like EA so they really need more buyers and if we refuse to purchase and spread the word we CAN hurt them by voting with our wallets, just don't expect change to happen overnight. By voting with your wallet you can not only refuse to support douchebag behavior but you can boost support to those that treat you well, which frankly is what we should all be doing anyway.
Sorry I heard it at a presentation at a museum, but the way it was explained to us was thus: "Their bodies were like rodeo riders, with lots of upper body strength and a more compact form which would have been better suited to punishment at the cost of speed because the compact legs would have hurt their top end. The bones bears this assumption out as many suffered multiple fractures and breaks over their relatively short lives which shows that they got injured quite often. Since we have found no evidence of them having wars or major conflicts one has to assume the injuries were caused by hunting which the amount of large bones in their caves does seem to bear out their hunting large prey which they would would be well suited for. Also the lack of spears but abundance of hand weapons like clubs and hand axes makes this the more likely scenario".
Now sorry I can't reproduce it word for word, and this was nearly 20 years ago so maybe later evidence has reversed this belief, but the presentation when coupled with the life size models showing a large but squat man did seem to fit together pretty well. Hell what do I know, the reason I remember the damned thing at all was the girl giving the presentation was a classic "cute nerdy girl with glasses" and since I've always liked that stereotype bits of it stuck a hell of a lot more than the later presentation which came from a guy that looked like he could have witnessed them first hand and every time he coughed I waited on him to keel over.
But, and I may be wrong, this is just how someone at a museum of science explained it to me so grain of salt and all that, but the way I was told it wasn't the SIZE that gave them a worse outlook it was the SHAPE in that they had small frontal lobs and really large rear brains which meant they'd have kick ass senses, probably several times better than ours, but their ability to put long term plans into motion would have been hurt by the smaller frontal lobs. The way she put it "We were planners, could think and plan ahead which then helped us with agriculture that made surviving some of the worst winters easier for us than for them".
Again if she got it wrong sorry, I will be the first to admit cute girl in glasses sure as fuck turns off MY frontal lobes when it comes to critical thinking but she did seem to know her stuff for what it was worth.
Oh please! If people use this software and it makes their day a little easier? Then they should damned well be able to organize and tell the company they want it kept. Its a damned shame Steve Ballmer doesn't listen to anything said other than "Just copy Apple" or I'd be coming up with one asking that Win 8 be thrown in the "do over" bin along with Vista and bringing back Win 7 until they could get an OS out the door that wasn't afflicted with an identity disorder.
Besides the thing is already so far left I wouldn't be surprised if many take a look at how leftist the petitions lean and go "fuck this noise" and walk away. Hell what was the FIRST petition it showed me after I signed for Reader? Give Obama, the guy who refused to arrest his AG for what several of the feds CLEARLY SAID was a "false flag op" to take away our second amendment rights after they found the Mexicans were buying USSR and not USA guns, give that clown a MANDATE to pass tougher gun laws? WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE you have the commander in chief CAUGHT RED HANDED pulling a fucking false flag that got Americans MURDERED and you want to give him MORE power? Are you fucking stoned or just retarded? That would be like saying in 86 "Sure George there was no WMDs and all that yellowcake stuff was bullshit, but hey, you wanna take Iran and Syria while you are it that's okay because gosh darn it we LIKE you".
The other that pissed me off was one designed to "tell off" the NRA...for offering the ONLY proposal that would have had a shot of changing the outcome of Sandy Hook...Again is the left stoned or just stupid? "Tougher gun laws" wouldn't have done shit because...now hold onto your seats, I'm gonna hit you with some high concept here....CRIMINALS DON'T OBEY GUN LAWS STUPID which is why we fucking call them criminals in the first place! The Sandy Hook guns were STOLEN from a woman with NO record, so tougher gun laws would have done fucking nothing! Putting an armed guard, which Obama's kids get for free BTW, would have meant the nut would have to get through and kill dead a trained security officer, probably ex-cop, before he could do any attacks. Its common sense folks, if you want to protect something you put a fucking armed guard between the bad guys and the something, yet because Obama...again remember Fast & Furious, doesn't like it, while not getting rid of his own kids guards BTW, we are supposed to be...what MAD at the NRA for posting a common fucking sense answer to a problem that doesn't score political points? WHAT THE FUCK?
Sorry about the rant folks, but as a card carrying socialist seeing the left hijacked by a bunch that makes PETA and their "sea kittens" campaign look sane? Really pisses me off. I'm guessing this is how the fiscal conservatives felt when the neocons ran them out the tent, that the nuthouse had been taken over by the batshit. I mean maybe I'm fucking weird or something but after Nixon I was of the opinion if you caught the POTUS breaking the fucking law you should BUST HIS ASS no matter WHAT party he belonged to, yet the same ones that wanted to impeach Dubya? Not one word about fast and furious, you can hear crickets chirping...that's just FUCKED UP folks, totally fucked up.
See Crosshair's answer and my reply, I would only add that I have NEVER seen an infection come from one of the handful of first party sites that I allow to serve flash content. Hell I even loaded up a sandbox and spent a couple of weeks searching to find a free pornsite (myfreepaysite if you care to know) because I had male customers that kept getting infected searching for free porn but since I found the above site I haven't seen ANY infections from those customers that listened to me and switched.
Now if you want to see WHY I refuse to allow Flash for ads just look at my journal and my description of the "Yahoo porn bug" which used Flash to send spam to a Yahoo users address book. To this day I'll still get one or two spam emails a week from former customers that didn't heed my warning and get hit by the porn bug. The journal has the full description but without Flash, which I still argue is better than HTML V5 in every way? They wouldn't be sending out spam.
But better than does not mean perfect, or even great, I mean if I slap you its better than me shooting you in the crotch but I wouldn't call either something to look forward too, but sadly we simply haven't come up with a tech that can do what Flash does. For videos and games its low resource, low overhead, can run on even 10 year old hardware, what it does it does well but security is NOT one of those things which is why like Crosshair said you have to treat it like fire, good when controlled and a danger when not. Unfortunately the third party ad companies have shown repeatedly they have NO respect for the dangers of flash and will serve just about any flash video as long as the check clears. As long as that is the case i'll continue to block sites that use third party flash for ads (which includes Slashdot) because its just common sense.
This is why I said this "problem" could be solved VERY easily, just build a "people's car/truck" that gets a minimum of 38 MPG for the truck and 45 MPG for the car and make them both diesel as there are several projects on the board to make diesel a renewable resource and if any of those pan out? You'll already have the population ready to go. And this is doable NOW as building a small Ranger sized truck and Focus sized car that runs on diesel and gets good gas mileage is VERY doable,many diesel engines get close to and a few over those figures so its not much of a stretch, and by THEN using subsidies and a "cash for clunkers" program you could do something about the poor folks in used gas hogs which is why the current MPG for this country is a lousy 14 MPG. A people's car/truck program would cut our usage in half by getting rid of all those old gas hogs poor folks drive because that's all they can afford.
But mass transit died in the states FOR A REASON, because our culture simply isn't designed for mass transit. Look at the cultures like Japan where mass transit is wildly successful, you have a society built around conforming and order and obedience to authority, that is the complete opposite of America. Here all it would take is a couple of douchebags to ruin it for everybody which surprise surprise is exactly what happens, and frankly we are just too damned spread out (which I would argue is a GOOD thing, packing Americans in like rats is a recipe for disaster) to make busing and other public transports viable. Would I give up my truck if gas hits $10 a gallon for a bus? Nope, I'll just drive less and borrow my mom's beep beep when I need to go on long trips.
The sad part is sensible ideas like mine will NEVER be implemented because the AGW tent has been taken over by leeches like Al Gore and Goldman Sachs who have set themselves up to make fortunes off gaming the system while making sure they have to bear none of the cost thanks to shell corps. I mean when you have the same clown that wrote the "rules" on credit default swaps, aka worthless pieces of paper, writing the rules for carbon credits? You should know the platform has been hijacked by the scammers. Frankly this is why I support those against AGW, not because I don't think it would be smart to cut down on our usage of fossil fuels, as I honestly think they are more useful for plastics than they are as a long term viable fuel source, its because the ideas that would actually work have been thrown out because the leeches can't make fortunes gaming the system with something like a $20k "people's car" that would make a difference.
Other than playing Frankenstein....why would you want to? This isn't some alien here, its just a failed branch of our own tree, its not like these Neanderthals would be all that different from us which is why cloning them (unlike say dinosaurs) wouldn't be THAT difficult if you sunk enough money into it.
I mean seriously what WAS the Neanderthal? It was a little more compact than us, with a body designed to take more punishment at the cost of speed and agility (some unscrupulous military might find them attractive...if it weren't for the fact that giving troops armor is way cheaper), had a little smaller brain but not by a huge amount, we're not talking Lucy or early Java man here folks, and they had a brow ridge although again not as bad as many of the earlier offshoots.
At the end of the day what you'd probably have was a slightly squatter human that would probably fit into the low average end of the bell curve and honestly probably wouldn't have THAT hard of a time fitting into our modern society once they learned the ways of those around him/her. Hell I've known guys uglier than Neanderthal that had no problem getting GFs so most likely they'd just breed themselves right back out of existence in a few generations if you didn't stick 'em on an island somewhere and make 'em a protected species.
So I honestly don't get what the appeal of bringing one of these back would be for, other than just to say we did it and maybe morbid curiosity? If you were talking Lucy or early Java man or even those little hobbit people? THEN I could see the point, they were so different from us it would be like having an alien species brought to life, but with Neanderthals there is debate even to this day whether they just died out or we fucked them out of existence, so what would be the point of making more? So you could point and go "Ha ha, your brow ridge makes you look funny"? Hell 50k in plastic surgery and they wouldn't look any weirder than some of the guys I've run into over the years.