This still? When will you insecure nerdy types realize that the Apple-as-fashion-accessory comment says more about you than it does the Apple user?
You miss the point entirely but for the sake of discussion let me add that since Apple has more or less reached market saturation, "Apple users" are not a clearly defined group anymore.
Ohhhwww... So... my grandmother only has to go out to the computer store _again_ to buy an external HD, lookup what a "recovery partition" is and what the procedure is to upload that to the external HD [she would call it the little box I guess]. Then find out which are the "chunks of space that is supposed to be a trial of Office" and how to get rid of this nonsens. Probably that is just as easy as pressing the "big blue E" for internet?
Seriously? Your grandmother is going to buy a Surface Pro? Second, if she does she'll be asking YOU for support (lucky you!). And third, I highly doubt she'll notice or care about the 23GB of storage left. Photos of the grand-kids only takes up so much space and all the electronic board and card games are online now anyway.
All those Matlock episodes in HD that they download from p2p take a lot of place.
Will this be available in all the nice colors like the new iPod Touch? I'd want those 128GB to be pink... but please make sure the earphones are still white so people who see me in the street when I listen to music know that I'm cool.
Sounds like what he got in trouble for was being a responsible developer and informing the university of the flaw. He got praises from the developers and IT people from the company who wrote the software but then the president of the company (not the university) went apeshit and claimed he was hacking them. I suspect the University was unhappy with the company for the problem and the company decided to take it out on the person who embarrassed them.
After he reported the issue, instead of letting the vendor and college deal with the situation he went back and ran a scanner to "see if the problem is fixed". That is the actual issue and that is, indeed, a direct violation of Canadian law. You can check whatever data you receive but scanning someone else's server for a vulnerability without his consent is illegal.
My guess is, the guy was high on the praise he got for his discovery and tried to find more to milk it. Lame.
The access to the API is limited to 3 weeks. This means that what they offer is the privilege of working for $16 per hour as long as you initially provided a good idea for free.
Financially speaking, one is better off working at Mikee Dees for 3 weeks and using the wages to buy lottery tickets (you also get free soft drinks while you work if I'm not mistaken).
What does your gender has to do with this discussion? This is what sexism is all about: feeling that being a man makes someone more suited to have an opinion about anything. And yet y'all bitchin about me saying that men are not attracted to ugly girls... Sad.
And I won't even get into the straight/gay thing that you bring up or the fact that from a thread you can tell if you like or dislike someone (not just their comments). I think you have issues.
Fact is - being "too smart" is a reason some women get rejected
You have no witness, no stats, no documentation to back this. That's not a *fact*, that's an *hypothesis* (and a weak one) with no actual way to be demonstrated since your hypothesis conveniently includes a provision that mentions that men who do reject women because of their brains don't talk about it. Instead of providing supporting information for your point you only rephrase it again and again. Maybe you think that 62,400 repetitions make one truth?
You may dislike my quotes and try to diss them by applying insulting labels to whoever say those things, but it remains that they bear more truth than your wishful thinking. If you think that by getting your panties in a bunch and making a fuss on a Slashdot thread you will change how the world works, you're in for a big disappointment.
Men don't dislike smart women, they dislike naggers and ugly women. It's not sexist, it's the truth, even if you wish that it would be different. Deal with it or go curl up with a Danielle Steele novel, your choice.
And you not only have plenty of close friends with degrees, you also happen to know how much money each one is earning?
I'm not here to defend college degrees, I think they lost their value a long time ago, but I truly dislike when people make stuff up to support their point. It's like those NGO who make up statistics like "1 women in 3 will be raped in her lifetime" (which basically means that there would be on average around 2000 women raped every day in the USA); the cause is noble but going all Michael Moorish does not help.
More PC crap. Men are not intimidated by smart women, they are repulsed by naggers and physically subpar women. The fact that naggers and ugly ducklings can happen to be smart is totally random. It's like being called a racist because you don't want to hire someone who interviews poorly but happens to be black. Lame and easy.
Besides being PC crap, your post is logically flawed. You say that men are intimidated by women but won't talk about it - then how do you know it for a fact? Did you hire a telepath on Craigslist? Please refer to my previous post to read things I've heard or said and things I've never head or said; even if you are too narrow-minded to accept it, those statements are actual facts and not mere wishful thinking. They also are not "sexist crap", which is a label that is not designed to start a discussion but rather end it.
Anyways since that "issue" with men being intimidated by smart women exists only in your mind, that's probably the only place where discussing it is relevant.
I notice that you said "degree-holding friends", not "coworkers". Could it be that you hang out with English lit deadbeats?
Also you are lucky to work in a country where "engineer" is a generic title and does not require formal training and certification. Otherwise you'd have to call yourself a programmer like everyone else (you could throw in "analyst" in the title if it makes you feel better).
List of things I've often heard (or said): -That chick is hot but she is such a nagger, I'd rather jerk off to some asian porn than go out on a date with her -That chick is cool and funny and smart but she got no tits so forget it, except maybe a blowjob once in a while -That chick is cool and funny and smart but I don't like fat chicks so forget it, except maybe a blowjob once in a while when I'm drunk and I'm sure none of my friends will ever know
List of things I've never heard (or said): -That chick is hot but boy is she smart, that scares me and I don't want to date her because of that, my ego is too big
Of course you may be the black swan (or the ugly duckling) but if I had money to put on this, I'd go with probability rather than anonymous, biased anecdote. Just sayin'.
Sarah Palin looks like a dentist's secretary and Michelle Bachmann reminds me of Shannen Doherty's mother in 90210, but overall it's a lot better than Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi. I wonder what would happen if the Democrats had really hot female candidates.
It's like Star Wars (the original movies); Carrie Fisher is okay-ish but I suspect that if they had picked a real knock-out for this role instead of a pouter my Star Wars experience would have been totally different. Natalie Portman did a lot to make the new movies easier to watch, if they had picked Drew Barrymore or Whoopi Goldberg I would have been bothered by Jar Jar Binks a lot more.
Looks matter in show-business, and that includes politics.
If they do, I will quickly look into Windows 8 for deployment at my job.
As it stands now, I wouldnt deploy it because it would cause too many headaches for tech support, teaching people how to use the Operating system.
Users are usually clueless enough, they don't need to be told to "tap here" when they don't have a touch screen. And for those who do have a touch screen, describing the gesture needed to move a tile is gonna be endless fun.
Of course I'm a bankster $hill. It's a well-known fact that Wall Street people have nothing better to do on New Year's Eve than promote on Slashdot the dirty, nasty, disgusting capitalistic agenda that so far has led the modern civilization fairly well.
Could things be better? Sure. Could things be better by listening to stoners who have nothing else to do than go sit in a park and send tweets and instagrams of their little May 68 moment? I don't think so. Anyways whenever someone put a mike under their noses they always start babbling idiotic commie propaganda, it's probably not even possible to clearly establish what they stand for or how it could be enacted.
And if you think that you have it as bad as the French people before the Revolution or as the victims of the holocaust, you are not only a loud mouth and a whiner but also a disrespectful brat. Get lost.
Maybe you missed the previous posts in the thread because you are reading this on a tiny netbook screen, but the discussion was about how tablets + add-on keyboards are the same price as laptops and not a better choice.
It wasn't that they were packing actual P4's with RAMBUS in there**, but that they packed in 2008-9's equivalent to that into the things.
[...]
** good lord - the heat factor alone would've burned the skin right off your lap...
About 10 years ago I had a Compaq Presario laptop that came with a desktop P4 CPU. That thing was getting so hot, I am surprised that it never caused a fire one of the few times I fell asleep and left it running on the bed.
I never knew if Speedfan was right but it showed a temperature of 90 Celsius for the CPU. With the fan spinning loudly all the time. Awesome piece of engineering for which I spent over $3k.
I did not have a good experience with the Aspire One. Felt cheap and battery went dead quickly, plus it came with a watered-down Linux distro and it took a long time to install something else because the hardware is cheap.
For work I just got an Iconia W5. It's a 10-inch table that comes with a keyboard that looks a lot like the Aspire One keyboard. But the tablet has better performance than a netbook. This one comes with Windows 8 which is interesting in tablet mode (graphics are nice and smooth) but becomes weird in non-tablet mode (such as when you have a mouse and yet it says: "touch here to close the window" - I can already feel the pain for helpdesk people all over the world in years to come).
Agreed. I once had a Aspire One and it was not convenient. Now I have a Lenovo X220 (the laptop one, not convertible). It is tiny, very reliable, big workhorse and 14h battery life. Just over a thousand bucks.
However nowadays with ultrabooks it's a no-brainer to get a 12-inch beast instead. For those who don't want a Mac: Asus, Samsung and Toshiba have ultrabooks that are thinner and lighter than a Macbook Air and also offer much more performance for less money. The Zenbook is pretty awesome.
if I have to choose one side, at least I know one thing. The Tea Party guys are, and will always be, wrong.
According to Wikipedia: "Tea Party supporters are mainly white and slightly more likely to be male, married, older than 45, more conservative than the general population, and likely to be more wealthy and have more education."
Somehow this does not jive with the fact that they picked Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann as their leaders. Maybe they just watch them on tv with no sound.
Don't flatter yourself, you "educated" nobody. This was just like a NRA event or a pro-life protest or a Westboro Baptist Church picket line - people who agreed before still agree, people who disagreed before still disagree. No change whatsoever, just noise and waste. This whole thing was people playing revolution without a cause (and without risk).
You got away with being a public nuisance. If that gives you a hard-on, good for you. But you changed nothing except help a bunch of NYPD cops to get a fat overtime bonus for their "repression" (which I prefer to call: enforcing the democratically agreed-upon social order), and that money did not come out of your pockets.
Next time you want to change the world by repeating the same empty propaganda, give everyone a break and just open a fucking blog. Who knows you may get +1s.
PS: How in God's name are all the Fox-News-Hounds & fairly obvious trolls getting 5-point mod's/ratings here while those who point out the facts on the ground are scoring "2, Interesting?"
Since mods are a numbers game, I would say that this may suggest that the 99% figure was a bit overinflated...
So you were there? Please tell, besides annoying working people and costing lots of money in NYPD overtime, what exactly did you achieve with this action?
This was nothing else than a party for stoners, lefties and greeners. Woodstock without music - on somebody else's dime, as usual.
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This. Article is retarded.
I wish there was a way to unclick that link. The content is not only weak, it's downright insulting.
The only time I got more depressed about the internets is when I saw spambots replying to each other in English in the comments section of a French blog:
http://www.michele-delaunay.net/delaunay/bordeaux/fermeture-anticipee-des-epiceries-michele-delaunay-et-matthieu-rouveyre-demandent-au-prefet-revenir-sur-sa-decision
This is scary.
This still? When will you insecure nerdy types realize that the Apple-as-fashion-accessory comment says more about you than it does the Apple user?
You miss the point entirely but for the sake of discussion let me add that since Apple has more or less reached market saturation, "Apple users" are not a clearly defined group anymore.
Ohhhwww... So... my grandmother only has to go out to the computer store _again_ to buy an external HD, lookup what a "recovery partition" is and what the procedure is to upload that to the external HD [she would call it the little box I guess]. Then find out which are the "chunks of space that is supposed to be a trial of Office" and how to get rid of this nonsens. Probably that is just as easy as pressing the "big blue E" for internet?
Seriously? Your grandmother is going to buy a Surface Pro? Second, if she does she'll be asking YOU for support (lucky you!). And third, I highly doubt she'll notice or care about the 23GB of storage left. Photos of the grand-kids only takes up so much space and all the electronic board and card games are online now anyway.
All those Matlock episodes in HD that they download from p2p take a lot of place.
Will this be available in all the nice colors like the new iPod Touch? I'd want those 128GB to be pink... but please make sure the earphones are still white so people who see me in the street when I listen to music know that I'm cool.
Is there an "ls" or "rm" community just out of interest?
There was a "fork" community but they forked so many times that they did not qualify as a community anymore.
Sounds like what he got in trouble for was being a responsible developer and informing the university of the flaw. He got praises from the developers and IT people from the company who wrote the software but then the president of the company (not the university) went apeshit and claimed he was hacking them. I suspect the University was unhappy with the company for the problem and the company decided to take it out on the person who embarrassed them.
After he reported the issue, instead of letting the vendor and college deal with the situation he went back and ran a scanner to "see if the problem is fixed". That is the actual issue and that is, indeed, a direct violation of Canadian law. You can check whatever data you receive but scanning someone else's server for a vulnerability without his consent is illegal.
My guess is, the guy was high on the praise he got for his discovery and tried to find more to milk it. Lame.
From a probability point of view, here is the true value of that thing:
(Total prize: $50,000 + $10,000) / (Number of challengers: 30) = $2,000
The access to the API is limited to 3 weeks. This means that what they offer is the privilege of working for $16 per hour as long as you initially provided a good idea for free.
Financially speaking, one is better off working at Mikee Dees for 3 weeks and using the wages to buy lottery tickets (you also get free soft drinks while you work if I'm not mistaken).
Forget redundancy, just go with "RAIC-0": unleashing the true power of the Cloud by striping providers!
What does your gender has to do with this discussion? This is what sexism is all about: feeling that being a man makes someone more suited to have an opinion about anything. And yet y'all bitchin about me saying that men are not attracted to ugly girls... Sad.
And I won't even get into the straight/gay thing that you bring up or the fact that from a thread you can tell if you like or dislike someone (not just their comments). I think you have issues.
Fact is - being "too smart" is a reason some women get rejected
You have no witness, no stats, no documentation to back this. That's not a *fact*, that's an *hypothesis* (and a weak one) with no actual way to be demonstrated since your hypothesis conveniently includes a provision that mentions that men who do reject women because of their brains don't talk about it. Instead of providing supporting information for your point you only rephrase it again and again. Maybe you think that 62,400 repetitions make one truth?
You may dislike my quotes and try to diss them by applying insulting labels to whoever say those things, but it remains that they bear more truth than your wishful thinking. If you think that by getting your panties in a bunch and making a fuss on a Slashdot thread you will change how the world works, you're in for a big disappointment.
Men don't dislike smart women, they dislike naggers and ugly women. It's not sexist, it's the truth, even if you wish that it would be different. Deal with it or go curl up with a Danielle Steele novel, your choice.
And you not only have plenty of close friends with degrees, you also happen to know how much money each one is earning?
I'm not here to defend college degrees, I think they lost their value a long time ago, but I truly dislike when people make stuff up to support their point. It's like those NGO who make up statistics like "1 women in 3 will be raped in her lifetime" (which basically means that there would be on average around 2000 women raped every day in the USA); the cause is noble but going all Michael Moorish does not help.
More PC crap. Men are not intimidated by smart women, they are repulsed by naggers and physically subpar women. The fact that naggers and ugly ducklings can happen to be smart is totally random. It's like being called a racist because you don't want to hire someone who interviews poorly but happens to be black. Lame and easy.
Besides being PC crap, your post is logically flawed. You say that men are intimidated by women but won't talk about it - then how do you know it for a fact? Did you hire a telepath on Craigslist? Please refer to my previous post to read things I've heard or said and things I've never head or said; even if you are too narrow-minded to accept it, those statements are actual facts and not mere wishful thinking. They also are not "sexist crap", which is a label that is not designed to start a discussion but rather end it.
Anyways since that "issue" with men being intimidated by smart women exists only in your mind, that's probably the only place where discussing it is relevant.
I notice that you said "degree-holding friends", not "coworkers". Could it be that you hang out with English lit deadbeats?
Also you are lucky to work in a country where "engineer" is a generic title and does not require formal training and certification. Otherwise you'd have to call yourself a programmer like everyone else (you could throw in "analyst" in the title if it makes you feel better).
List of things I've often heard (or said):
-That chick is hot but she is such a nagger, I'd rather jerk off to some asian porn than go out on a date with her
-That chick is cool and funny and smart but she got no tits so forget it, except maybe a blowjob once in a while
-That chick is cool and funny and smart but I don't like fat chicks so forget it, except maybe a blowjob once in a while when I'm drunk and I'm sure none of my friends will ever know
List of things I've never heard (or said):
-That chick is hot but boy is she smart, that scares me and I don't want to date her because of that, my ego is too big
Of course you may be the black swan (or the ugly duckling) but if I had money to put on this, I'd go with probability rather than anonymous, biased anecdote. Just sayin'.
Sarah Palin looks like a dentist's secretary and Michelle Bachmann reminds me of Shannen Doherty's mother in 90210, but overall it's a lot better than Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi. I wonder what would happen if the Democrats had really hot female candidates.
It's like Star Wars (the original movies); Carrie Fisher is okay-ish but I suspect that if they had picked a real knock-out for this role instead of a pouter my Star Wars experience would have been totally different. Natalie Portman did a lot to make the new movies easier to watch, if they had picked Drew Barrymore or Whoopi Goldberg I would have been bothered by Jar Jar Binks a lot more.
Looks matter in show-business, and that includes politics.
If they do, I will quickly look into Windows 8 for deployment at my job.
As it stands now, I wouldnt deploy it because it would cause too many headaches for tech support, teaching people how to use the Operating system.
Users are usually clueless enough, they don't need to be told to "tap here" when they don't have a touch screen. And for those who do have a touch screen, describing the gesture needed to move a tile is gonna be endless fun.
Of course I'm a bankster $hill. It's a well-known fact that Wall Street people have nothing better to do on New Year's Eve than promote on Slashdot the dirty, nasty, disgusting capitalistic agenda that so far has led the modern civilization fairly well.
Could things be better? Sure. Could things be better by listening to stoners who have nothing else to do than go sit in a park and send tweets and instagrams of their little May 68 moment? I don't think so. Anyways whenever someone put a mike under their noses they always start babbling idiotic commie propaganda, it's probably not even possible to clearly establish what they stand for or how it could be enacted.
And if you think that you have it as bad as the French people before the Revolution or as the victims of the holocaust, you are not only a loud mouth and a whiner but also a disrespectful brat. Get lost.
Maybe you missed the previous posts in the thread because you are reading this on a tiny netbook screen, but the discussion was about how tablets + add-on keyboards are the same price as laptops and not a better choice.
It wasn't that they were packing actual P4's with RAMBUS in there**, but that they packed in 2008-9's equivalent to that into the things.
[...]
** good lord - the heat factor alone would've burned the skin right off your lap...
About 10 years ago I had a Compaq Presario laptop that came with a desktop P4 CPU. That thing was getting so hot, I am surprised that it never caused a fire one of the few times I fell asleep and left it running on the bed.
I never knew if Speedfan was right but it showed a temperature of 90 Celsius for the CPU. With the fan spinning loudly all the time. Awesome piece of engineering for which I spent over $3k.
I did not have a good experience with the Aspire One. Felt cheap and battery went dead quickly, plus it came with a watered-down Linux distro and it took a long time to install something else because the hardware is cheap.
For work I just got an Iconia W5. It's a 10-inch table that comes with a keyboard that looks a lot like the Aspire One keyboard. But the tablet has better performance than a netbook. This one comes with Windows 8 which is interesting in tablet mode (graphics are nice and smooth) but becomes weird in non-tablet mode (such as when you have a mouse and yet it says: "touch here to close the window" - I can already feel the pain for helpdesk people all over the world in years to come).
Agreed. I once had a Aspire One and it was not convenient. Now I have a Lenovo X220 (the laptop one, not convertible). It is tiny, very reliable, big workhorse and 14h battery life. Just over a thousand bucks.
However nowadays with ultrabooks it's a no-brainer to get a 12-inch beast instead. For those who don't want a Mac: Asus, Samsung and Toshiba have ultrabooks that are thinner and lighter than a Macbook Air and also offer much more performance for less money. The Zenbook is pretty awesome.
if I have to choose one side, at least I know one thing. The Tea Party guys are, and will always be, wrong.
According to Wikipedia: "Tea Party supporters are mainly white and slightly more likely to be male, married, older than 45, more conservative than the general population, and likely to be more wealthy and have more education."
Somehow this does not jive with the fact that they picked Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann as their leaders. Maybe they just watch them on tv with no sound.
Don't flatter yourself, you "educated" nobody. This was just like a NRA event or a pro-life protest or a Westboro Baptist Church picket line - people who agreed before still agree, people who disagreed before still disagree. No change whatsoever, just noise and waste. This whole thing was people playing revolution without a cause (and without risk).
You got away with being a public nuisance. If that gives you a hard-on, good for you. But you changed nothing except help a bunch of NYPD cops to get a fat overtime bonus for their "repression" (which I prefer to call: enforcing the democratically agreed-upon social order), and that money did not come out of your pockets.
Next time you want to change the world by repeating the same empty propaganda, give everyone a break and just open a fucking blog. Who knows you may get +1s.
PS: How in God's name are all the Fox-News-Hounds & fairly obvious trolls getting 5-point mod's/ratings here while those who point out the facts on the ground are scoring "2, Interesting?"
Since mods are a numbers game, I would say that this may suggest that the 99% figure was a bit overinflated...
So you were there? Please tell, besides annoying working people and costing lots of money in NYPD overtime, what exactly did you achieve with this action?
This was nothing else than a party for stoners, lefties and greeners. Woodstock without music - on somebody else's dime, as usual.