If he wises up between now and tomorrow morning, he'll delay it forever. Red Bull endorsement money and testosterone are sending him the wrong signals.
I would put down $50 that he'll either die or suffer serious and probably permanent injury from this, and I'm $40K in the hole (not from gambling).
No reflection at all about the deep problems that our obsession with inflicting violence on other people has got us into.
If all-holy technology is used to build a bigger, faster something - even if it's a terrifying weapon in the hands of a murderous empire like the US - then slaver over it on Slashdot. Because its about technology, and its about the gunz, and it has to be cool.
"In an age that worships technology, when man is lost among the instruments he has created, the space race erects new pyramids of gadgetry; in an age of materialism, it piles on more investments in things when what is needed is investment in people; in an age of extrovert activism, it lends glory to rocket-powered jumps, when critical self-examination and reflection ought to be stressed; in an age of international conflicts, which approach doomsday dimensions, it provides a new focus for emotional divisions among men, when tasks to be shared and to bind them are needed," Etzioni thundered. "Above all, the space race is used as an escape, by focusing on the moon we delay facing ourselves, as Americans and as citizens of the earth."
Slaps down several core Slashdot editorial and American technocratic ideals all at once, doesn't it? Kudos to/. at least for talking about the Atlantic article, though of course it's presented in the context of how wrong it is, with the contra pov in the second link swooping in with the "real dope". But the key points in the examiner.com article are very poorly argued. That and its tone give the vibe of being written by a conservative think-tank.
Yes, it's just so damned disappointing that the US hasn't been able to perfect yet ANOTHER tool of violence to add to its arsenal; and the military spends relatively little on the technology, as is cited with barely concealed disdain - sadness, almost - for a technology not properly developed.
Stories like this really reveal Slashdot editorial ideology.
I don't care about the tech needs of some rich asshole pimping his yacht. I live in a country (the US) with a 15% official poverty rate, a real poverty rate much higher, and a huge class divide, growing daily with people like this guy.
Indeed. Let's all be concerned about "Marissa" getting along at Yahoo. This affects the citizenry, and especially the tech stakeholder, in a profound way.
And god, I hope they pay this dynamic, photogenic woman well enough. I'm concerned about that!
...how the 1% are shuffled around between corporate CEO positions. A deep, all-embracing shit, accompanied by a look of seriousness. This is important, important news for us.
I'm sick of these stories, proliferating everywhere these days in the tech press and the broader press, that pass off trivial bullshit about businesses' chief greedheads (and in some cases even VPs or directors) as interesting or important information. Larry can't speak and missed an appearance! Sergey was spotted on a yacht in the South Pacific!!! Did Fuckerberg have a pre-nup or not????
Get a fucking life, everyone. The billionaires surely don't give a shit about you getting ill or dying. In fact, they generally do everything they can to make the world's powerless less healthy and wealthy while making themselves more so. What happened during your development, that caused you to be sycophantically attuned to the adventures and travails of the 1%?
On average, men are built better physically for the rough crap. The concern about women in CS is that it's mostly intellectual work done in cozy environments. Women have good brains too, so they should be able to use them in CS as much as men, so why aren't they?
There HAS been a push to get men into nursing, and for all I know into K12 education also. Those are both "nurturing" fields, so there's a cultural bias for women there.
Yes, the country couldn't conceivably have different priorities than what exist. Meaningful space science couldn't be done in any other way than by piggybacking on war. We must always look to the way things have historically been done, when we get too crazy-headed idealistic about imagining alternatives, to bring us back to our senses, and be grateful that they were done in the way they were.
How disgusting it is that science projects have to scrape for money, and when something like Hubble is launched it is heralded as cutting edge technology finally arranged and afforded. But the whole time, the REAL business of the US, military and economic domination of the world, has been sucking up vastly more funds and producing more advanced technology for ITS use.
Remember that the next time you feel inclined to get all rah rah about some NASA project announcement or technology success.
We've already gotten the dog and the gun, so we have those bases covered. What suggestions do you have on setting up home security systems, and what have you done to build one in the past?
Think about it: because of the very unfortunate burglary of your home, you're now recapitulating the sick zeitgeist of the country you happen to live in (which I assume is the US) in your personal lives, on the scale of your home. You've already got a scary dog and a fricking gun ("bases covered" as you put it, as if taking those steps are just natural or common-sense). Now you want to go all NSA with the surveillance. Next it will be personal drones, making sweeps over your property. There are a scary number of slashdotters who get dripping hardons for that already.
You don't have to live armed and high tech paranoid. The solution might be difficult at first, such as living a lifestyle with fewer valuable things, or moving to a safer area or with more neighbor presence, or adjusting work/home to be home more often. Document your belongings more thoroughly to make insurance claims more foolproof. Most people don't *keep* getting broken into, so very much militarization of your life will be unwarranted.
I've been there, I've been broken into, and I know the feeling of vulnerability. It can take a while to get past.
Yet another example of the barely-under-the-surface love of all things military or gun-like which pervades Slashdot editorial thinking. OOOH OOOH, some guy used TECHNOLOGY to AIM A WATER GUN to zap those pesky squirrels on HIS PROPERTY. This gets my editor dick all HARD. GUNNNNZZZZZZ!!!!!! TECHNOLOGY!!!!!
Americans, especially, live in an already blindly hyperviolent society. The world would be better off if Slashdot editors didn't glamorize this crap.
A ScanSnap costs $400, obviously quite an intricate product (iphones are less than this). How much does manufacturing, assembling, shipping, and mining the rare earth metals and other materials needed to create one of these things counteract the environmental and monetary savings of keeping less paper? How many people can even AFFORD a luxury like this?
I think this might be another example of techno-delusional thinking.
There's an ongoing editorial fascination on Slashdot with things military, and one gets the strong sense that these repeated write-ups, this "technical" interest, betrays a lack of perspective on moral and humanitarian considerations. We live in an extremely warlike society that has a lot of technological hubris; maybe it's time to stop focusing on the golly-gee details of bombs' destructive power, for example, and broaden our editorial concerns.
Sorry to respond to the sad human trying to minimize ideas he doesn't like with the tired "troll" epithet, folks.
Yes, let's all whip out our dicks so we can watch things get blowed up real good by the US military. Way to go on another fine story selection, Slashdot editors.
Seriously, the "work for free" advice, again? Hey, it's 2012, humans don't need to eat or provide roofs over their heads anymore, and we all have lots of savings so we can take these strolls through no-pay land!
US and business culture - work work work work work, serfs.
"Offer to maintain there website or write proposals." Way to showcase the writing ability.
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If he wises up between now and tomorrow morning, he'll delay it forever. Red Bull endorsement money and testosterone are sending him the wrong signals.
I would put down $50 that he'll either die or suffer serious and probably permanent injury from this, and I'm $40K in the hole (not from gambling).
Dumb.
No reflection at all about the deep problems that our obsession with inflicting violence on other people has got us into.
If all-holy technology is used to build a bigger, faster something - even if it's a terrifying weapon in the hands of a murderous empire like the US - then slaver over it on Slashdot. Because its about technology, and its about the gunz, and it has to be cool.
From the Atlantic piece:
"In an age that worships technology, when man is lost among the instruments he has created, the space race erects new pyramids of gadgetry; in an age of materialism, it piles on more investments in things when what is needed is investment in people; in an age of extrovert activism, it lends glory to rocket-powered jumps, when critical self-examination and reflection ought to be stressed; in an age of international conflicts, which approach doomsday dimensions, it provides a new focus for emotional divisions among men, when tasks to be shared and to bind them are needed," Etzioni thundered. "Above all, the space race is used as an escape, by focusing on the moon we delay facing ourselves, as Americans and as citizens of the earth."
Slaps down several core Slashdot editorial and American technocratic ideals all at once, doesn't it? Kudos to /. at least for talking about the Atlantic article, though of course it's presented in the context of how wrong it is, with the contra pov in the second link swooping in with the "real dope". But the key points in the examiner.com article are very poorly argued. That and its tone give the vibe of being written by a conservative think-tank.
Yes, it's just so damned disappointing that the US hasn't been able to perfect yet ANOTHER tool of violence to add to its arsenal; and the military spends relatively little on the technology, as is cited with barely concealed disdain - sadness, almost - for a technology not properly developed.
Stories like this really reveal Slashdot editorial ideology.
I don't care about the tech needs of some rich asshole pimping his yacht. I live in a country (the US) with a 15% official poverty rate, a real poverty rate much higher, and a huge class divide, growing daily with people like this guy.
Thanks for the timely story, Slashdot editors.
...they've solved a problem that allows American high-tech trained killers to keep policing the world's skies for the empire.
Much fewer fucking people.
Indeed. Let's all be concerned about "Marissa" getting along at Yahoo. This affects the citizenry, and especially the tech stakeholder, in a profound way.
And god, I hope they pay this dynamic, photogenic woman well enough. I'm concerned about that!
First-name basis with "Marissa", you are?
...how the 1% are shuffled around between corporate CEO positions. A deep, all-embracing shit, accompanied by a look of seriousness. This is important, important news for us.
The record was filled with iconic sights, images, and sounds from earth, and the prevailing message, "we come in peace".
No, I'm afraid we don't.
Well said.
I'm sick of these stories, proliferating everywhere these days in the tech press and the broader press, that pass off trivial bullshit about businesses' chief greedheads (and in some cases even VPs or directors) as interesting or important information. Larry can't speak and missed an appearance! Sergey was spotted on a yacht in the South Pacific!!! Did Fuckerberg have a pre-nup or not????
Get a fucking life, everyone. The billionaires surely don't give a shit about you getting ill or dying. In fact, they generally do everything they can to make the world's powerless less healthy and wealthy while making themselves more so. What happened during your development, that caused you to be sycophantically attuned to the adventures and travails of the 1%?
Ok, earnest answer:
On average, men are built better physically for the rough crap. The concern about women in CS is that it's mostly intellectual work done in cozy environments. Women have good brains too, so they should be able to use them in CS as much as men, so why aren't they?
There HAS been a push to get men into nursing, and for all I know into K12 education also. Those are both "nurturing" fields, so there's a cultural bias for women there.
Yes, the country couldn't conceivably have different priorities than what exist. Meaningful space science couldn't be done in any other way than by piggybacking on war. We must always look to the way things have historically been done, when we get too crazy-headed idealistic about imagining alternatives, to bring us back to our senses, and be grateful that they were done in the way they were.
How disgusting it is that science projects have to scrape for money, and when something like Hubble is launched it is heralded as cutting edge technology finally arranged and afforded. But the whole time, the REAL business of the US, military and economic domination of the world, has been sucking up vastly more funds and producing more advanced technology for ITS use.
Remember that the next time you feel inclined to get all rah rah about some NASA project announcement or technology success.
I hate this fucking country.
That's what this bullshit crowing about the height of a building in NYC amounts to.
We've already gotten the dog and the gun, so we have those bases covered. What suggestions do you have on setting up home security systems, and what have you done to build one in the past?
Think about it: because of the very unfortunate burglary of your home, you're now recapitulating the sick zeitgeist of the country you happen to live in (which I assume is the US) in your personal lives, on the scale of your home. You've already got a scary dog and a fricking gun ("bases covered" as you put it, as if taking those steps are just natural or common-sense). Now you want to go all NSA with the surveillance. Next it will be personal drones, making sweeps over your property. There are a scary number of slashdotters who get dripping hardons for that already.
You don't have to live armed and high tech paranoid. The solution might be difficult at first, such as living a lifestyle with fewer valuable things, or moving to a safer area or with more neighbor presence, or adjusting work/home to be home more often. Document your belongings more thoroughly to make insurance claims more foolproof. Most people don't *keep* getting broken into, so very much militarization of your life will be unwarranted.
I've been there, I've been broken into, and I know the feeling of vulnerability. It can take a while to get past.
Yet another example of the barely-under-the-surface love of all things military or gun-like which pervades Slashdot editorial thinking. OOOH OOOH, some guy used TECHNOLOGY to AIM A WATER GUN to zap those pesky squirrels on HIS PROPERTY. This gets my editor dick all HARD. GUNNNNZZZZZZ!!!!!! TECHNOLOGY!!!!!
Americans, especially, live in an already blindly hyperviolent society. The world would be better off if Slashdot editors didn't glamorize this crap.
A ScanSnap costs $400, obviously quite an intricate product (iphones are less than this). How much does manufacturing, assembling, shipping, and mining the rare earth metals and other materials needed to create one of these things counteract the environmental and monetary savings of keeping less paper? How many people can even AFFORD a luxury like this?
I think this might be another example of techno-delusional thinking.
The "known cheaters"? That's an interesting concept.
There's an ongoing editorial fascination on Slashdot with things military, and one gets the strong sense that these repeated write-ups, this "technical" interest, betrays a lack of perspective on moral and humanitarian considerations. We live in an extremely warlike society that has a lot of technological hubris; maybe it's time to stop focusing on the golly-gee details of bombs' destructive power, for example, and broaden our editorial concerns.
Sorry to respond to the sad human trying to minimize ideas he doesn't like with the tired "troll" epithet, folks.
Yes, let's all whip out our dicks so we can watch things get blowed up real good by the US military. Way to go on another fine story selection, Slashdot editors.
Seriously, the "work for free" advice, again? Hey, it's 2012, humans don't need to eat or provide roofs over their heads anymore, and we all have lots of savings so we can take these strolls through no-pay land!
US and business culture - work work work work work, serfs.
"Offer to maintain there website or write proposals." Way to showcase the writing ability.