It's bad enough that these stupid alerts interrupt even movie channels on cable, and even streamed on-demand programming, now they want to flood my phone with this shit? I want to opt out of these stupid alerts. Do we have the option to opt out and tell AT&T do not send me these superfluous broadcasts?
what about caring about intersex people who were born with ambiguous genitalia and have to deal with this shit as well? Is it okay to be persecuted by tyranny of the majority because we are, as you put it. "a tiny minority" that is even smaller than the TG minority? Is that okay in your opinion?
maybe they've finally learned after all of the rootkit, DRM, copyright violation, and OtherOS scandals, not to mention backlash against them for their trying to foist inferior proprietary memory formats upon everyone.
I like that, because it would be a good means to end pork spending, and to curb the passage of needless and redundant laws. Some people think progress isn't being made if new laws aren't being passed daily. My view is that there are already too many laws on the books; all of us are felons, at least on paper. The amount of laws each and every individual breaks every day is ridiculous, and it's because many laws are drafted to target a certain invidual or group, and then selectively enforced, but at any time if you make an enemy they could selectively enforce them on any one of us.
What would I consider to be an effective Congress? One which puts us back on a wealth-based rather than debt-based currency, one which repeals all but the most essential laws, one which ends the moronic "war on drugs" (I've never so much as tried pot, but the way I see it if you want to fry your brain, be my guest) which is a colossal waste of money, end the vague "war on terror" and the systematic sexual assault on citizens in airports, and enact more common sense laws such as background checks prior to firearms purchases, rather than arbitrarily limiting which guns a citizen may buy, especially since there is no such thing as an "assault rifle".
I mean, how does putting a semi-automatic magazine into a more mundane wood stock and long barrel not an assault rifle, but putting it into a magnesium stock that is stained black and looks kinda cool suddenly an assault weapon? It's the same exact gun either way, with the same capability. One just looks cool and is a little lighter (and better for hunting) than the other. Those laws make NO sense, especially since the secondment amendment says pretty fucking clearly "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"
Now that being said: Breaking confidentiality on top-secret stuff is no laughing matter. It's treason, a capital offense. But that doesn't mean we aren't called to follow the higher law if the top-secret stuff is in itself illegal.
Those who forbid revealing the government acting in an illegal manner are the ones guilty of treason and ought to be executed; NOT Snowden, who was carrying out his duty by informing The People that the Constitution is being systematically raped.
Not just Obama - ALL of both houses of Congress. The entire federal government is rotten to the core. Plenty of senators knew about PRISM and other domsetic spying programs and they did nothing to stop it. In fact they are the ones who had to authorize funding for these programs. When they are ousted from office, revoke all privileges associated with the office, including pensions, health care, security details, aides, security clearance, and whatever fringe benefits they normally enjoy. In fact I would go so far as to recall any salaries they have collected to date because they held office in bad faith.
Kick out ALL incumbents and actually vote in statesmen who recognize that the making of a great leader is one who wants to serve the people; not a person with an entitlement attitude.
No pardon is required. Why? Because any law requiring you to cover up illegal actions are not legal laws. They are unconstitutional, and they are ethically and morally wrong as well. The laws they are warping to "get him" need to be revoked, and the people responsible for both the witch hunt and for the illegal domestic spying need to be tried and executed for treason.
Was public disclosure the right way to go about it, absolutely YES.
I fixed your typo.
I do not think you realize just how serious of a matter this is. This is exactly the sort of thing the US government criticizes other nations for. The People, as in the Citizens of The United States of America should not put up with this. If we take the future of our nation seriously we need to start no confidence recall elections where state constitutions allow it, demand the immediate impeachment and conviction or resignation of Barack Obama, and vote out the rest of the trash where state constitutions do not provide for recall elections.
This is a very serious issue and I for one am grateful that we have brave people like Snowden in the NSA who are unwilling to violate the Constitution and are willing to put their own lives at stake to report it to the people via the most public means possible.
"Any person who has a security clearance knows that he or she has an obligation to protect classified information and abide by the law," the spokesman, Shawn Turner, said.'"
He WAS abiding by the law by exposing illegal activities carried out by the government on an ongoing basis. How is what he did illegal or wrong, by any stretch of the imagination? A law instructing any citizen to not report any illegal activity is itself an illegal law.
FWIW I'm still on Windows 7 on my primary desktops, and Linux. I do have to work with Windows 8 on occasion, and I have to deal with friends whining about it when they buy new computers with it preinstalled.
Why the FUCK are you DUMB enough to make that post, assuming I run Windows 8 on my own PC? I'd sooner run Vista. In fact I still have one PC with Vista on it. Compared to the total clusterfuck Windows 8 is, Vista is damned near flawless.
And yes, I realize 64-bit Pentium 4s exist, but good luck loading a Pentium 4 motherboard with enough RAM for Exchange to be useful (check DDR2 vs. DDR3 RAM prices. I wouldn't spend that kind of money on any Pentium 4)
Windows Server has become so bloated now that it will consume 1.2 to 2 GB just for the OS and basic services, let alone having Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, and SQL Server running. For all that you'll want 8GB for it to be minimally functional, and 12-16GB for it to be useful enough for very small-scale production or for rapid completion of labs for educational purposes.
Have you run recent builds of Windows Server and Exchange? It would be/painfully/ slow on a Pentium 4. First, you NEED to run 64-bit Windows to run exchange (besides Windows Server doesn't even come in a 32-bit flavor since Win2K8 R2). Secondly, it sucks a LOT of RAM. How many Pentiun 4 motherboards can accept 16GB+ RAM, and secondly, where are you going to find reasonably priced RAM? For the price of 16GB of DDR2 RAM, you could easily get 32GB DDR3 RAM, for two systems and have enough left for a halfway decent Ivy Bridge motherboard or a modest SSD.
Slashdot Mirror
Then we would be ostracized and discriminated against that much more.
It's bad enough that these stupid alerts interrupt even movie channels on cable, and even streamed on-demand programming, now they want to flood my phone with this shit? I want to opt out of these stupid alerts. Do we have the option to opt out and tell AT&T do not send me these superfluous broadcasts?
Hi Maya! I didn't know you're on slashdot!
The incidence of intersex conditions is a hell of a lot higher than .0001%.
You forgot genetic mosaicism
XX/XX
XX/XY
XX/XXY
XY/XXY
etc.
what about caring about intersex people who were born with ambiguous genitalia and have to deal with this shit as well? Is it okay to be persecuted by tyranny of the majority because we are, as you put it. "a tiny minority" that is even smaller than the TG minority? Is that okay in your opinion?
First flight?
This will work.
Why? Because the sort of person who would shoot school children or rob a convenience store will of course obey these laws.
The issue is he has obviously read and understands the Constitution, and understands the implication of how our government is fucking us over.
He could buy an old, fully-loaded SGI Onyx or even a Cray and still not match the performance of today's commodity hardware.
Because it's innovative, much like rounded rectangles, and doing $foo on a smartphone.
There is no salvaging Windows 8. Even Classic Shell doesn't fix a lot of Windows 8 problems - it just makes Win8 tolerable for a home user.
I see this more as an opportunity for improvement of heuristic engines in anti-malware programs, and the selling of more security-related licenses.
Or, possibly, big corps finally embracing either Linux or Macs.
maybe they've finally learned after all of the rootkit, DRM, copyright violation, and OtherOS scandals, not to mention backlash against them for their trying to foist inferior proprietary memory formats upon everyone.
I like that, because it would be a good means to end pork spending, and to curb the passage of needless and redundant laws. Some people think progress isn't being made if new laws aren't being passed daily. My view is that there are already too many laws on the books; all of us are felons, at least on paper. The amount of laws each and every individual breaks every day is ridiculous, and it's because many laws are drafted to target a certain invidual or group, and then selectively enforced, but at any time if you make an enemy they could selectively enforce them on any one of us.
What would I consider to be an effective Congress? One which puts us back on a wealth-based rather than debt-based currency, one which repeals all but the most essential laws, one which ends the moronic "war on drugs" (I've never so much as tried pot, but the way I see it if you want to fry your brain, be my guest) which is a colossal waste of money, end the vague "war on terror" and the systematic sexual assault on citizens in airports, and enact more common sense laws such as background checks prior to firearms purchases, rather than arbitrarily limiting which guns a citizen may buy, especially since there is no such thing as an "assault rifle".
I mean, how does putting a semi-automatic magazine into a more mundane wood stock and long barrel not an assault rifle, but putting it into a magnesium stock that is stained black and looks kinda cool suddenly an assault weapon? It's the same exact gun either way, with the same capability. One just looks cool and is a little lighter (and better for hunting) than the other. Those laws make NO sense, especially since the secondment amendment says pretty fucking clearly "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"
Seriously? Did you just come out from a cave?
Those who forbid revealing the government acting in an illegal manner are the ones guilty of treason and ought to be executed; NOT Snowden, who was carrying out his duty by informing The People that the Constitution is being systematically raped.
Not just Obama - ALL of both houses of Congress. The entire federal government is rotten to the core. Plenty of senators knew about PRISM and other domsetic spying programs and they did nothing to stop it. In fact they are the ones who had to authorize funding for these programs. When they are ousted from office, revoke all privileges associated with the office, including pensions, health care, security details, aides, security clearance, and whatever fringe benefits they normally enjoy. In fact I would go so far as to recall any salaries they have collected to date because they held office in bad faith.
Kick out ALL incumbents and actually vote in statesmen who recognize that the making of a great leader is one who wants to serve the people; not a person with an entitlement attitude.
No pardon is required. Why? Because any law requiring you to cover up illegal actions are not legal laws. They are unconstitutional, and they are ethically and morally wrong as well. The laws they are warping to "get him" need to be revoked, and the people responsible for both the witch hunt and for the illegal domestic spying need to be tried and executed for treason.
I fixed your typo.
I do not think you realize just how serious of a matter this is. This is exactly the sort of thing the US government criticizes other nations for. The People, as in the Citizens of The United States of America should not put up with this. If we take the future of our nation seriously we need to start no confidence recall elections where state constitutions allow it, demand the immediate impeachment and conviction or resignation of Barack Obama, and vote out the rest of the trash where state constitutions do not provide for recall elections.
This is a very serious issue and I for one am grateful that we have brave people like Snowden in the NSA who are unwilling to violate the Constitution and are willing to put their own lives at stake to report it to the people via the most public means possible.
Extreme hypocrisy exhibited by:
He WAS abiding by the law by exposing illegal activities carried out by the government on an ongoing basis. How is what he did illegal or wrong, by any stretch of the imagination? A law instructing any citizen to not report any illegal activity is itself an illegal law.
HI I NEW HERE
HOW DO I KILL PPL ON THIS MUD?!!!!!!!!!!!
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling. Aww, c'mon slashdot!
FWIW I'm still on Windows 7 on my primary desktops, and Linux. I do have to work with Windows 8 on occasion, and I have to deal with friends whining about it when they buy new computers with it preinstalled.
Why the FUCK are you DUMB enough to make that post, assuming I run Windows 8 on my own PC? I'd sooner run Vista. In fact I still have one PC with Vista on it. Compared to the total clusterfuck Windows 8 is, Vista is damned near flawless.
And yes, I realize 64-bit Pentium 4s exist, but good luck loading a Pentium 4 motherboard with enough RAM for Exchange to be useful (check DDR2 vs. DDR3 RAM prices. I wouldn't spend that kind of money on any Pentium 4)
Windows Server has become so bloated now that it will consume 1.2 to 2 GB just for the OS and basic services, let alone having Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, and SQL Server running. For all that you'll want 8GB for it to be minimally functional, and 12-16GB for it to be useful enough for very small-scale production or for rapid completion of labs for educational purposes.
Have you run recent builds of Windows Server and Exchange? It would be /painfully/ slow on a Pentium 4. First, you NEED to run 64-bit Windows to run exchange (besides Windows Server doesn't even come in a 32-bit flavor since Win2K8 R2). Secondly, it sucks a LOT of RAM. How many Pentiun 4 motherboards can accept 16GB+ RAM, and secondly, where are you going to find reasonably priced RAM? For the price of 16GB of DDR2 RAM, you could easily get 32GB DDR3 RAM, for two systems and have enough left for a halfway decent Ivy Bridge motherboard or a modest SSD.
. . . along with fusion splicers dropping from thousands to under $200