We can be meat eaters and still be alarmed about the health and quality of the food supply. Being a vegetarian/vegan has nothing to do with it. There are serious concerns about our grain, vegetable and fruit supplies as well between pesticides, GMOs and processed foods. Quit sticking your nose to the sky and actually look at the whole problem.
In addition, India doesn't have a large military policing the policies of the government and courts. Take away search and social media sites and there'd be a revolt by their own citizens.
The problem with this theory is that organizations that support privacy and corporate vs. consumer balance, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), tend to oppose such tactics and are loathe to use them.
Unfortunately, the only thing likely to get big money out of Washington if forced publicly funded elections with long prison terms for any persons or organizations that try to subvert the process. The big problem is that the people who would have to approve this change are the very same people that benefit from the current system.
That's the point. You point out the absurdity of an institution or action (in this case religion and copyright politics) by taking it to its most absurd extreme. It tends to work in other areas but religion seems immune to being shown its own absurdity. As an odd comparison, it shares that in common with disco (think the Funky Chicken).
ICE has had a HUGE expansion of mission parameters in the last year. What makes this such a problem is that ICE is one of the few government enforcement agencies that has a large legal leeway that usually does not require warrants. This makes sense when they are patrolling the border as things happen really quickly and they have to react accordingly. But, as of earlier this year, their mandate has been vastly expanded to include things such as domain seizures and domestic law enforcement actions. Earlier this year, ICE's range was expanded to 200! miles inside the border and the media was silent. This covers a large portion of the country where a government law enforcement agency can act without a court order and detain you without cause. Now, the US Senate has passed a bill that will let them ship your ass strait to GITMO and leave you there to rot. It hasn't passed the house yet and Obama has issued a veto 'threat' but, don't hold your breath. In California, we had a recent series of of federal raids against medical marijuana growers and sellers that were legal by state standards (they went after the most clearly legal and above board operations first). The federal agency? Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in northern California, against organizations and people that were local and had nothing to do with cross-border drug smuggling verified by law enforcement agencies. They're being used as a back door way of avoiding law enforcement annoyances such as laws, due process, courts and citizen oversight. At this rate, by the time most people realize what is happening, we will be living in a fascist military state where big brother is watching. I guess Hunter Thompson was right:(
Google stated that they intend the two codebases to merge at some point in the future. They wanted to start at the two ends and meet in the middle. So, it's not so much a death as an assimilation.
Although Android is not a true open source project, they normally release the source code with one major exception. A lot of the argument about that was because Google refused to release the 3.x Honeycomb source code. Google themselves said that the reason they never released it was that it was a 'hack' to get Android on tablets and was not up to their quality standards and they didn't want it spread any further than necessary. They promised that they would release 4.0, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, which would meld the phone and tablet code and they have done so, leading to the CyanogenMod 9 release.
One advantage of all of this is that SSD drives will start to look more attractive price wise. To me, this is a good thing as people start purchasing SSDs the price will start coming down as the cost of components get more commoditised. I would not mind seeing spindle hard drives being a relic of the past.
I liked it but, I stopped using it for the same reason everyone else did: It was a wholly closed off system. The only people you could communicate with were ones on the service and why would people check another service when they already check SMS, email, voicemail, Facebook, blogs, etc.
There are members of PETA who work hard to uncover and stop animal abuse such as the undercover steer abuse video. The leaders of PETA, especially their marketing team, are batshit crazy and I've never seen anything to contest that view. As far as responses people give about PETA, few, if any, of them are serious. When people see a statement from someone they view as batshit crazy, they either feel the need to offset the crazy (with their own form of crazy) or just find it fun to mock them. I think most people on/. are in category two. Though, who knows, we could hear a story next month of a/.er found in the middle of a sea of dead kittens and I'll have to eat my words.
It's far more likely that you just have better things to do with your time now. It's ok, you'll be able to read reviews from people who still have nothing better to do with their time (or get paid to do it) to help make that decision.
Like slavery, society is growing less tolerant of the current situation of illegal labor. Though different people have different reasons for it, a large number of people will not tolerate the situation continuing as is. Some people are feeling this desire for change and are looking for other answers and these type of robots might be one of them. Either way, we're in the beginning of a new era where there are far more people to do labor than there is need for labor. Our next great challenge will be how we address all the people who are jobless due to their labor not being needed anymore. Though there is a lot of talk of retraining for higher skilled jobs, it will not be long until robots can replace doctors, engineers, scientists, programmers and other high skilled jobs and not all of the people will be able to make that leap in the first place. Right now, things are not looking so good for us as a society.
You forgot about all of the dlls that they store in %SystemRoot%\System32 or the older systems that hardcode to C:\WINDOWS and C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM. It's not as "easy" as you suggest.
A toaster is a single function device, a computer is not. To compare the two is disingenuous. Each time you add a function, you have to make a choice and the more functions you have, the more choices you have to make. The reason that Photoshop is so damn complicated is that it has thousands of functions that can fluctuate depending on the number of plugins you have. That makes thousands of choices available to the user and that makes it complicated. If you want simpler photo software, you use one with less functions and there are vendors that cater to that market. Now, could the interface be cleaned up and made more intuitive? Probably, but, since there are so many choices, you ask 10 users what would be the most intuitive, you will get 10 different answers that depend on what functions they use and what their personal preferences are. Trying to make software that complicated that all advanced users can live with is a monumental task that I don't envy them for. To also ask them to make the software accessible to casual (better term than idiot for parent posters) users is when you end up with software such as Final Cut Pro X and we know how that turned out.
Sorry to reply to my own post but, I found another page with even more search commands on it. It even includes a command to search for cached pages for those that complained that the feature was missing unless you use the preview option.
With Google, you should be able to eliminate the Facebook posts by adding -facebook to your search query. This is likely what the parent post was referring to as Google allows you to eliminate terms from your search. Here is Google's page on commands to better control your search queries.
The purpose of treaties like this is to bypass such requirements as amending constitutions and getting a democratic majority. This way, a very few individuals of merit (bribed) can create and institute regulations that supersede national constitutions without bothering you or your elected representative with details until the enforcement phase. It also allows elected representatives to claim plausible deniability when the political fallout hits and since you do not know who the original negotiators were, no one is held accountable.
From what I read in another article, they were using portable hard drives to do map updates and download the footage as the systems are not attached to the main network. Now the drives appear to be infected as well as other computers so tracking down all of the sources of the virus and eliminating them requires a lot of sneakernetting.
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We can be meat eaters and still be alarmed about the health and quality of the food supply. Being a vegetarian/vegan has nothing to do with it. There are serious concerns about our grain, vegetable and fruit supplies as well between pesticides, GMOs and processed foods. Quit sticking your nose to the sky and actually look at the whole problem.
In addition, India doesn't have a large military policing the policies of the government and courts. Take away search and social media sites and there'd be a revolt by their own citizens.
The problem with this theory is that organizations that support privacy and corporate vs. consumer balance, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), tend to oppose such tactics and are loathe to use them.
Unfortunately, the only thing likely to get big money out of Washington if forced publicly funded elections with long prison terms for any persons or organizations that try to subvert the process. The big problem is that the people who would have to approve this change are the very same people that benefit from the current system.
That's the point. You point out the absurdity of an institution or action (in this case religion and copyright politics) by taking it to its most absurd extreme. It tends to work in other areas but religion seems immune to being shown its own absurdity. As an odd comparison, it shares that in common with disco (think the Funky Chicken).
I'm not that good of a liar, sorry. :(
I wish I had mod points at the moment...
ICE has had a HUGE expansion of mission parameters in the last year. What makes this such a problem is that ICE is one of the few government enforcement agencies that has a large legal leeway that usually does not require warrants. This makes sense when they are patrolling the border as things happen really quickly and they have to react accordingly. But, as of earlier this year, their mandate has been vastly expanded to include things such as domain seizures and domestic law enforcement actions. Earlier this year, ICE's range was expanded to 200! miles inside the border and the media was silent. This covers a large portion of the country where a government law enforcement agency can act without a court order and detain you without cause. Now, the US Senate has passed a bill that will let them ship your ass strait to GITMO and leave you there to rot. It hasn't passed the house yet and Obama has issued a veto 'threat' but, don't hold your breath. In California, we had a recent series of of federal raids against medical marijuana growers and sellers that were legal by state standards (they went after the most clearly legal and above board operations first). The federal agency? Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in northern California, against organizations and people that were local and had nothing to do with cross-border drug smuggling verified by law enforcement agencies. They're being used as a back door way of avoiding law enforcement annoyances such as laws, due process, courts and citizen oversight. At this rate, by the time most people realize what is happening, we will be living in a fascist military state where big brother is watching. I guess Hunter Thompson was right :(
Google stated that they intend the two codebases to merge at some point in the future. They wanted to start at the two ends and meet in the middle. So, it's not so much a death as an assimilation.
If my 3rd email to a vendor is ignored, I get a different vendor.
Then why don't you program it? It's not something that I want so I have no plans of doing it for you.
Although Android is not a true open source project, they normally release the source code with one major exception. A lot of the argument about that was because Google refused to release the 3.x Honeycomb source code. Google themselves said that the reason they never released it was that it was a 'hack' to get Android on tablets and was not up to their quality standards and they didn't want it spread any further than necessary. They promised that they would release 4.0, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, which would meld the phone and tablet code and they have done so, leading to the CyanogenMod 9 release.
One advantage of all of this is that SSD drives will start to look more attractive price wise. To me, this is a good thing as people start purchasing SSDs the price will start coming down as the cost of components get more commoditised. I would not mind seeing spindle hard drives being a relic of the past.
That's how old I am!
Get off my lawn, you damn kids!
Not on the internet...
I liked it but, I stopped using it for the same reason everyone else did: It was a wholly closed off system. The only people you could communicate with were ones on the service and why would people check another service when they already check SMS, email, voicemail, Facebook, blogs, etc.
There are members of PETA who work hard to uncover and stop animal abuse such as the undercover steer abuse video. The leaders of PETA, especially their marketing team, are batshit crazy and I've never seen anything to contest that view. As far as responses people give about PETA, few, if any, of them are serious. When people see a statement from someone they view as batshit crazy, they either feel the need to offset the crazy (with their own form of crazy) or just find it fun to mock them. I think most people on /. are in category two. Though, who knows, we could hear a story next month of a /.er found in the middle of a sea of dead kittens and I'll have to eat my words.
It's far more likely that you just have better things to do with your time now. It's ok, you'll be able to read reviews from people who still have nothing better to do with their time (or get paid to do it) to help make that decision.
Like slavery, society is growing less tolerant of the current situation of illegal labor. Though different people have different reasons for it, a large number of people will not tolerate the situation continuing as is. Some people are feeling this desire for change and are looking for other answers and these type of robots might be one of them. Either way, we're in the beginning of a new era where there are far more people to do labor than there is need for labor. Our next great challenge will be how we address all the people who are jobless due to their labor not being needed anymore. Though there is a lot of talk of retraining for higher skilled jobs, it will not be long until robots can replace doctors, engineers, scientists, programmers and other high skilled jobs and not all of the people will be able to make that leap in the first place. Right now, things are not looking so good for us as a society.
You forgot about all of the dlls that they store in %SystemRoot%\System32 or the older systems that hardcode to C:\WINDOWS and C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM. It's not as "easy" as you suggest.
A toaster is a single function device, a computer is not. To compare the two is disingenuous. Each time you add a function, you have to make a choice and the more functions you have, the more choices you have to make. The reason that Photoshop is so damn complicated is that it has thousands of functions that can fluctuate depending on the number of plugins you have. That makes thousands of choices available to the user and that makes it complicated. If you want simpler photo software, you use one with less functions and there are vendors that cater to that market. Now, could the interface be cleaned up and made more intuitive? Probably, but, since there are so many choices, you ask 10 users what would be the most intuitive, you will get 10 different answers that depend on what functions they use and what their personal preferences are. Trying to make software that complicated that all advanced users can live with is a monumental task that I don't envy them for. To also ask them to make the software accessible to casual (better term than idiot for parent posters) users is when you end up with software such as Final Cut Pro X and we know how that turned out.
Sorry to reply to my own post but, I found another page with even more search commands on it. It even includes a command to search for cached pages for those that complained that the feature was missing unless you use the preview option.
With Google, you should be able to eliminate the Facebook posts by adding -facebook to your search query. This is likely what the parent post was referring to as Google allows you to eliminate terms from your search. Here is Google's page on commands to better control your search queries.
The purpose of treaties like this is to bypass such requirements as amending constitutions and getting a democratic majority. This way, a very few individuals of merit (bribed) can create and institute regulations that supersede national constitutions without bothering you or your elected representative with details until the enforcement phase. It also allows elected representatives to claim plausible deniability when the political fallout hits and since you do not know who the original negotiators were, no one is held accountable.
Because he was the best man at Bill Gate's wedding and good old Bill still has a sizable stock interest in Microsoft.
Let me put this as simply as possible: Whah!!!
From what I read in another article, they were using portable hard drives to do map updates and download the footage as the systems are not attached to the main network. Now the drives appear to be infected as well as other computers so tracking down all of the sources of the virus and eliminating them requires a lot of sneakernetting.