While this shouldn't be on Slashdot (in this format, AKA personal blog post), Bennett's actions are better than trying to coerce them.
Forbidden as per their terms:
Any threats, attempts at coercion or extortion of United employees, Star Alliance member airline employees, other partner airline employees, or customers
But God wants you to waste resources, create excess pollution, and hire labor to do trivial tasks for you (like pressing buttons), despite the fact that this will clearly bar them from receiving His grace.
Yep, sounds about right for a religion.
/I would think that a reasonable deity would prefer you be more efficient, not less. OTOH, a friend and I often have this discussion, and the conclusion is that very few people are so ultra-orthodox as to practice this sort of behavior.
Wait, when did we (anyone needing to do anything remotely complex) stop using paper and pen (or pencil, or pen tablet; insert preference here)?
I find that even if it's just on a pen tablet, the act of writing/sketching helps me process ideas and complex situations more effectively than mere rumination or typing.
I'm also running Pale Moon x64 (latest version) and it doesn't try to display PDFs. It just offers a download link (as I would hope, because I like to use an external reader).
We want the ability to stay anonymous, however if someone else abuses such rights, we want them to be punished.
Speak for yourself. I just want freedom of speech (for which anonymity is a key protection). When it crosses the line into physical action, then I'll consider the use of force.
This is 2015. We have the Internet. You'd think people would learn to take ACs with a sack of salt.
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naïve, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
There has been some speculation that Wain’s schizophrenia was caused by toxoplasma gondii—a parasite found in cat’s excreta. Whatever began the illness, Wain was incarcerated in various asylums and mental hospitals for years at a time. The changes to his life were reflected in his art. His paintings of cats took on a radiance and vitality never before seen: the fur sharp and colorful, the eyes brilliant, and a wired sense of unease of disaster about to unfold.
But these paintings look normal compared to the psychedelic fractals and spirals that followed. Though these are beautiful images, startling, stunning, shocking—they suggest a mind that has broken reality down to its atomic level.
Though it is believed that Louis Wain’s paintings followed a direct line towards schizophrenia, it is actually not known in which order Wain painted his pictures. Like his finances, Wain’s mental state was erratic throughout his life, which may explain the changes back and forth between cute and cuddly and abstract and psychedelic. No matter, the are beautiful, kaleidoscopic, disturbing and utterly mesmerizing.
I'm fine with cold fjord getting on the front page. I don't agree with him most of the time, but that doesn't have any bearing on the quality of his submission.
I'm willing to accept that layouts change and I'll need to look in a new place--but the new location is actually terrible usability. Here's why:
First, I read the headline. Then, I read the summary. I'm moving down the page, and I'm scrolling the page, too. So, now I'm at the end of the summary, and the headline for any story with a long summary is now out of the window. Now, I need to scroll back up to see how many comments or to click to view those comments. Extra work, even if the summary isn't long.
Fitts' Law applies here. They've made the target smaller in diameter, and placed it further away effectively. That means the difficulty of clicking to view comments is noticeably harder.
Where the fuck did the comments go? It shows me FIVE fucking comments on an article, even if it says it has hundreds. Why the fuck do I need to click Load All Comments to get them to show up? A week ago, they simply loaded the first 150...
Couldn't tell you. I am also not Chinese and do not have a Chinese keyboard layout. (My name is an Old English word, which still exists in modern English, albeit with a slightly different spelling.)
10 minutes later, the VM was infected with a rootkit, proven when I snapshotted the VM, and scanned its disk with an AV utility.
I don't know what websites you browse or how your security is set up, but you are doing something incredibly wrong if you're getting infected 10 minutes in.
My own policy is no box touches a network (beginning with installation) until a firewall is active and all services are locked down/disabled except for absolutely necessary ones. Then, I take a flash drive and drop a copy of a few essentials on to the new box (browser, plugins, firewall/AV for windows boxes). Once the box is locked down, it can go online and finish getting updates. If I were really paranoid, I'd host a local repo.
Viruses? Malware? What are those? I'm forever cleaning off boxen for friends and family, but I never have to clean my own...
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I slept in and missed the launch, but here's a video of the CRS-7 launch and subsequent explosion.
While this shouldn't be on Slashdot (in this format, AKA personal blog post), Bennett's actions are better than trying to coerce them.
Forbidden as per their terms:
Any threats, attempts at coercion or extortion of United employees, Star Alliance member airline employees, other partner airline employees, or customers
But God wants you to waste resources, create excess pollution, and hire labor to do trivial tasks for you (like pressing buttons), despite the fact that this will clearly bar them from receiving His grace.
Yep, sounds about right for a religion.
I thought it was fan usage in closed rooms.
But I'm not Korean. I have no idea what their hangup is.
The perchlorates might be poisonous to Earth life
Poison? Who cares?! It's a source of oxygen! 4 of them, in fact!
what do you do with the body if he did die
Soylent Green. Fertilizer. What else would you have us do with it? Current burial practices in Western society are ridiculous.
Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
-- RAH
Wait, when did we (anyone needing to do anything remotely complex) stop using paper and pen (or pencil, or pen tablet; insert preference here)?
I find that even if it's just on a pen tablet, the act of writing/sketching helps me process ideas and complex situations more effectively than mere rumination or typing.
I'm also running Pale Moon x64 (latest version) and it doesn't try to display PDFs. It just offers a download link (as I would hope, because I like to use an external reader).
That's pretty much how we achieve orbit.
You might need a book to learn Emacs, but you only need a cheatsheet to learn Vim.
/and that's only needed to launch vimtutor
Are we not conversing on the Internet?
The Internet is for porn
Trekkie!
The Internet is for porn
What are you doing?
Why you think the net was born?
Porn, porn, porn!
We want the ability to stay anonymous, however if someone else abuses such rights, we want them to be punished.
Speak for yourself. I just want freedom of speech (for which anonymity is a key protection). When it crosses the line into physical action, then I'll consider the use of force.
This is 2015. We have the Internet. You'd think people would learn to take ACs with a sack of salt.
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naïve, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
-- RAH
I thought Slashdot knew what ad hominem attacks were and how to avoid them by judging content rather than messenger.
I'm fine with submissions from anyone if they're relevant to news for nerds or stuff that matters.
+1, Yakov.
Louis Wain:
There has been some speculation that Wain’s schizophrenia was caused by toxoplasma gondii—a parasite found in cat’s excreta. Whatever began the illness, Wain was incarcerated in various asylums and mental hospitals for years at a time. The changes to his life were reflected in his art. His paintings of cats took on a radiance and vitality never before seen: the fur sharp and colorful, the eyes brilliant, and a wired sense of unease of disaster about to unfold.
But these paintings look normal compared to the psychedelic fractals and spirals that followed. Though these are beautiful images, startling, stunning, shocking—they suggest a mind that has broken reality down to its atomic level.
Though it is believed that Louis Wain’s paintings followed a direct line towards schizophrenia, it is actually not known in which order Wain painted his pictures. Like his finances, Wain’s mental state was erratic throughout his life, which may explain the changes back and forth between cute and cuddly and abstract and psychedelic. No matter, the are beautiful, kaleidoscopic, disturbing and utterly mesmerizing.
I'm fine with cold fjord getting on the front page. I don't agree with him most of the time, but that doesn't have any bearing on the quality of his submission.
I'm willing to accept that layouts change and I'll need to look in a new place--but the new location is actually terrible usability. Here's why:
First, I read the headline. Then, I read the summary. I'm moving down the page, and I'm scrolling the page, too. So, now I'm at the end of the summary, and the headline for any story with a long summary is now out of the window. Now, I need to scroll back up to see how many comments or to click to view those comments. Extra work, even if the summary isn't long.
Fitts' Law applies here. They've made the target smaller in diameter, and placed it further away effectively. That means the difficulty of clicking to view comments is noticeably harder.
Where the fuck did the comments go? It shows me FIVE fucking comments on an article, even if it says it has hundreds. Why the fuck do I need to click Load All Comments to get them to show up? A week ago, they simply loaded the first 150...
Couldn't tell you. I am also not Chinese and do not have a Chinese keyboard layout. (My name is an Old English word, which still exists in modern English, albeit with a slightly different spelling.)
Seriously, when was the last time you were infected by a flash drive? I suppose you pick them up in parking lots and plug them in, do you?
So, pretty much Frogger?
Burning karma here to see if anyone else has the same problem. Mod offtopic if you like.
New posts of mine aren't showing up for about half an hour typically. Do they need to be staff approved now or something?
Second, on several front page stories, I no longer have the option to post. They say, "Nothing to see here. Move along" and "Archived discussion".
I think the new design changes are pretty alright, but those two are breaking changes for me.
10 minutes later, the VM was infected with a rootkit, proven when I snapshotted the VM, and scanned its disk with an AV utility.
I don't know what websites you browse or how your security is set up, but you are doing something incredibly wrong if you're getting infected 10 minutes in.
My own policy is no box touches a network (beginning with installation) until a firewall is active and all services are locked down/disabled except for absolutely necessary ones. Then, I take a flash drive and drop a copy of a few essentials on to the new box (browser, plugins, firewall/AV for windows boxes). Once the box is locked down, it can go online and finish getting updates. If I were really paranoid, I'd host a local repo.
Viruses? Malware? What are those? I'm forever cleaning off boxen for friends and family, but I never have to clean my own...