Well, they need to hire a guy to put the traffic cones out on the information superhighway to reroute all traffic through their drive-through.
Sure, it'll kill business online for every single business out there that benefits even slightly from the Internet (100% of all business worldwide), but you gotta think of that one job. Or you won't get re-elected.
How they're going to get re-elected when all of their supporters find out that they're responsible for ruining all business worldwide? I have no idea.
Democrats - owned by Hollywood/RIAA/MPAA
Republicans - owned by Big Oil/FOX/etc
Independents - get bought out by one or the other as soon as they're elected
Green - owned by smaller but equally extremist radical groups that wouldn't mind passing ridiculous legislation for their own interests
That drunk guy asleep at the park bench - We don't know his name or damn would he get our vote.
OMM isn't a special, unique snowflake. He's an angry white guy raging at everything.
fact is this describes damn near 80% of the "kids" playing videogames today. He's not special, and certainly not a groundbreaking, inspirational hero to the game players of this day and age - he's just a gamer.
Do I have a wikipedia page? no! And I prefer it that way. Let Old Man Murray write his own article about wikipedia bullshit. Hell I imagine he's slapping away at his keyboard already.
Each example you cited is more newsworthy than an article about old man murray. Fuck, if people want to know about old man murray and DON'T go to oldmanmurray.com right off the fuckin bat, there's something WRONG with them.
What was science fiction, is now not just reality, but obsolete.
I mean take a look at Dick Tracy's watch - not even as good as our cellphones. The stuff they did in Star Trek? We don't need a starship to do the same. Look at World of Warcraft. It's not a video game - it's a simulator for how human beings will behave in the future when we have the power to transfer our consciousness into bodies other than our own for entertainment.
Syfy is failing not because of a lack of sci fi material to work with, but because it's no longer more amazing than reality.
I can see this technology doing one thing:
People afraid rightfully so for their anonymity will spend more money on it. Only now, doing so will be one massive black hole of spending.
This just in: people who make knee-jerk reactions out of fear make horrible mistakes.
Everyone, let's take note of that so we don't make that mistake a ridiculous number of times every day for like ten years. Because that would totally suck.
Now, let's all mod me up +1 Funny, for a little while, then really really sad.
You know, it won't be long before the algorithms used for trading become pseudo-genetic, and start to do this kind of stuff themselves.
The trading that goes on is influenced as much by meta-information as it is solid information.
For all we know that could be part of the system by now already.
I wouldn't be surprised - in fact I'd EXPECT that words like "google" "fox" and "recession" are either hard-coded into algorithms or the hardest-hitting highest profile terms used to weigh the value of stocks.
There's no way you can design a secure system. Attacks like this should be considered a constant, and you need to find a smarter way to discourage them.
I say that the best way is to design a system with low-hanging fruit to serve as detection of an attack, which will shut down access to the higher level stuff when it detects intrusion - or far better, replace real information with fake information. Make the attackers think they've succeeded, feed them false positives and misinformation, and then relax knowing your information is secure. In this way you're not so much building a wall that can't be broken down, you're attacking a soft target. No idea how effective it'd be in practice though.
Don't pay any attention to this though, I'm just rambling.
Programmer w/ 2 yrs xp looking for a job. no offers.
In fact, by saying I have 2 yrs experience, apparently I get lumped into a very large group of programmers. I keep getting sent offers for jobs that want someone with at least 7 years experience.
So apparently employers classify potential programmers into:
fresh blood out of college ( less than 2 yrs xp)
worthless trash (2 to 7 years experience)
Gods walking amongst mere mortals (over 7 years experience and guaranteed to be able to do anything you desire)
Never use information as a reference unless it is willing to stand up for what it's said.
Using wikipedia for a reference is bad. Not because it's wrong, but because it can be taken out of context.
For example: Some guy says that a particular programming language is [insert feature here] but he means "when you include these libraries."
Wikipedia editor skims over that and checks the box for that feature in their article comparing languages to each other.
You cite Wikipedia.
You're not wrong, Wikipedia's not wrong, He's not wrong, but your citation is, because you're cutting corners.
Except that APB is a phenomenal game. It was marketed incorrectly. It is a massively multiplayer shooter, but when people hear MMO, they immediately think RPG, grinds, and endgame. APB has no endgame, when you create your character right offr the bat you're given most everything you could want. you can even spend real-world dollars to get something like a high velocity round sniper rifle right off the bat, from another player. the money you spent goes to that player and they can actually sustain their playtime based on that. and since the developer got paid, they're fine with it.
Couple that with literally infinite customization options just counting the ability to create symbols and put them on your clothes as you see fit, along with your car, and what else could you ask for/
Get into a group and the game is fun on the first day you're playing, you don't have to grind for months to get the gear to compete.
And yet it bombed when review after review complained about: horrible one on one balance, lag, cheats, and a lack of stuff to do and repetitive missions.
The 'missions' were only there to get players to go up against each other, they were never intended to be the content.
The real reason it bombed is there was never an advertisement video that described the game properly. If they had said "This is your city, we're not going to tell you how to play, we're letting you decide how to run things." It would have done much better. Because then the reviewers and the players would have realized that the mission system was nothing more than a booster chair or training wheels.
Wow, a 53 million dollar reward for sexual harassment, theft, and other misconduct to horrifying to speak aloud. Friends we are in the wrong goddamn industry.
The idea that it's "your" computer system is dead. Even the largest computer development companies in the world are moving to a cloud. Not because it's for your benefit, but because it gives them ownership of all your property of value.
The number came from word of mouth of someone who worked in the financial aid department of a university, so I suspect it might have been out of those universities that accept federal funding, not just outright all of them.
According to them, there is a desperate need to find as many students as possible to apply for financial aid so that the school gets more money. they literally make more for the school than anyone else, and they say it's that way with every university that accepts financial aid.
I don't really mind if you call bs on it, I doubted it for a long while but watching the financial aid offices in motion it's believable.
*ahem*. Federal funding composes over 90% of the funding for every single university in the nation. What you're proposing would render every school bankrupt as only the children of the obscenely wealthy would be able to afford to pay ten times the tuition they pay now.
That bill grants an organization (RIAA) the power to hold the entire nation hostage by denying the USA its entire supply of future skilled labor. Regardless of whether or not it's "legal", this is an act of military aggression against the USA and everyone involved in the creation of that bill, more specifically the rider attached, is a traitor and must face criminal charges.
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Well, they need to hire a guy to put the traffic cones out on the information superhighway to reroute all traffic through their drive-through.
Sure, it'll kill business online for every single business out there that benefits even slightly from the Internet (100% of all business worldwide), but you gotta think of that one job. Or you won't get re-elected.
How they're going to get re-elected when all of their supporters find out that they're responsible for ruining all business worldwide? I have no idea.
Democrats - owned by Hollywood/RIAA/MPAA
Republicans - owned by Big Oil/FOX/etc
Independents - get bought out by one or the other as soon as they're elected
Green - owned by smaller but equally extremist radical groups that wouldn't mind passing ridiculous legislation for their own interests
That drunk guy asleep at the park bench - We don't know his name or damn would he get our vote.
"...Attorney... sentenced..."
Victory.
OMM isn't a special, unique snowflake. He's an angry white guy raging at everything.
fact is this describes damn near 80% of the "kids" playing videogames today. He's not special, and certainly not a groundbreaking, inspirational hero to the game players of this day and age - he's just a gamer.
Do I have a wikipedia page? no! And I prefer it that way. Let Old Man Murray write his own article about wikipedia bullshit. Hell I imagine he's slapping away at his keyboard already.
Each example you cited is more newsworthy than an article about old man murray. Fuck, if people want to know about old man murray and DON'T go to oldmanmurray.com right off the fuckin bat, there's something WRONG with them.
What was science fiction, is now not just reality, but obsolete.
I mean take a look at Dick Tracy's watch - not even as good as our cellphones. The stuff they did in Star Trek? We don't need a starship to do the same. Look at World of Warcraft. It's not a video game - it's a simulator for how human beings will behave in the future when we have the power to transfer our consciousness into bodies other than our own for entertainment.
Syfy is failing not because of a lack of sci fi material to work with, but because it's no longer more amazing than reality.
Someone should have stood behind him with a sign that said "[Citation Needed]".
Might not even work very well.
I can see this technology doing one thing:
People afraid rightfully so for their anonymity will spend more money on it. Only now, doing so will be one massive black hole of spending.
Having recently seen the anime Baccano!, This statement is much funnier.
However I shouldn't embarass myself by comparing Claire to such horrible people.
(spoilers intentionally averted)
This just in: people who make knee-jerk reactions out of fear make horrible mistakes.
Everyone, let's take note of that so we don't make that mistake a ridiculous number of times every day for like ten years. Because that would totally suck.
Now, let's all mod me up +1 Funny, for a little while, then really really sad.
You know, it won't be long before the algorithms used for trading become pseudo-genetic, and start to do this kind of stuff themselves.
The trading that goes on is influenced as much by meta-information as it is solid information.
For all we know that could be part of the system by now already.
I wouldn't be surprised - in fact I'd EXPECT that words like "google" "fox" and "recession" are either hard-coded into algorithms or the hardest-hitting highest profile terms used to weigh the value of stocks.
There's no way you can design a secure system. Attacks like this should be considered a constant, and you need to find a smarter way to discourage them.
I say that the best way is to design a system with low-hanging fruit to serve as detection of an attack, which will shut down access to the higher level stuff when it detects intrusion - or far better, replace real information with fake information. Make the attackers think they've succeeded, feed them false positives and misinformation, and then relax knowing your information is secure. In this way you're not so much building a wall that can't be broken down, you're attacking a soft target. No idea how effective it'd be in practice though.
Don't pay any attention to this though, I'm just rambling.
Tell that to the other 39,999,999 sperm. LOSERS!
Programmer w/ 2 yrs xp looking for a job. no offers.
In fact, by saying I have 2 yrs experience, apparently I get lumped into a very large group of programmers. I keep getting sent offers for jobs that want someone with at least 7 years experience.
So apparently employers classify potential programmers into:
fresh blood out of college ( less than 2 yrs xp)
worthless trash (2 to 7 years experience)
Gods walking amongst mere mortals (over 7 years experience and guaranteed to be able to do anything you desire)
Never use information as a reference unless it is willing to stand up for what it's said.
Using wikipedia for a reference is bad. Not because it's wrong, but because it can be taken out of context.
For example: Some guy says that a particular programming language is [insert feature here] but he means "when you include these libraries."
Wikipedia editor skims over that and checks the box for that feature in their article comparing languages to each other.
You cite Wikipedia.
You're not wrong, Wikipedia's not wrong, He's not wrong, but your citation is, because you're cutting corners.
Except that APB is a phenomenal game. It was marketed incorrectly. It is a massively multiplayer shooter, but when people hear MMO, they immediately think RPG, grinds, and endgame. APB has no endgame, when you create your character right offr the bat you're given most everything you could want. you can even spend real-world dollars to get something like a high velocity round sniper rifle right off the bat, from another player. the money you spent goes to that player and they can actually sustain their playtime based on that. and since the developer got paid, they're fine with it.
Couple that with literally infinite customization options just counting the ability to create symbols and put them on your clothes as you see fit, along with your car, and what else could you ask for/
Get into a group and the game is fun on the first day you're playing, you don't have to grind for months to get the gear to compete.
And yet it bombed when review after review complained about: horrible one on one balance, lag, cheats, and a lack of stuff to do and repetitive missions.
The 'missions' were only there to get players to go up against each other, they were never intended to be the content.
The real reason it bombed is there was never an advertisement video that described the game properly. If they had said "This is your city, we're not going to tell you how to play, we're letting you decide how to run things." It would have done much better. Because then the reviewers and the players would have realized that the mission system was nothing more than a booster chair or training wheels.
Damn girl, you're gonna be fucking google for a while. Hook up a damn webcam!
Look, this verbificationismness needs to stop. Let people use wordy things the way they want. Be tolerantish.
Wow, a 53 million dollar reward for sexual harassment, theft, and other misconduct to horrifying to speak aloud. Friends we are in the wrong goddamn industry.
The idea that it's "your" computer system is dead. Even the largest computer development companies in the world are moving to a cloud. Not because it's for your benefit, but because it gives them ownership of all your property of value.
Not in MY America.
You eat just ONE bean-shaped planet...
As horrifying as it is now that's just because we know about it. It has gone on far longer and WORSE throughout the entirety of human history.
The number came from word of mouth of someone who worked in the financial aid department of a university, so I suspect it might have been out of those universities that accept federal funding, not just outright all of them.
According to them, there is a desperate need to find as many students as possible to apply for financial aid so that the school gets more money. they literally make more for the school than anyone else, and they say it's that way with every university that accepts financial aid.
I don't really mind if you call bs on it, I doubted it for a long while but watching the financial aid offices in motion it's believable.
bleh, um, I misclicked and posted my reply to the wrong post. Curse my touchscreen phone.
*ahem*. Federal funding composes over 90% of the funding for every single university in the nation. What you're proposing would render every school bankrupt as only the children of the obscenely wealthy would be able to afford to pay ten times the tuition they pay now.
That bill grants an organization (RIAA) the power to hold the entire nation hostage by denying the USA its entire supply of future skilled labor. Regardless of whether or not it's "legal", this is an act of military aggression against the USA and everyone involved in the creation of that bill, more specifically the rider attached, is a traitor and must face criminal charges.