This lowers the threshold. People who don't know how to write the script now can just help themselves.
Haven't you ever noticed that a lot of the malcontents on the Internet are script kiddies? The enabling of script kiddies is one of the worst crimes a tech-adept person can engage in.
At a certain point the government will discover they have a 'compelling interest' to confiscate and retain the entire Facebook database. At that point, we're all fucked.
The problem is that 'A' typically means the poor kid has figured out how to game the system, by doing nothing but whatever obsessive behavior is approved by the school system.
There's no time for learning side-trips and experimenting for the poor kid who's been trained to give that response.
If we hadn't let Fonda come back, she wouldn't have been able to be the heroine in the movie 'The China Syndrome,' which came out right at the same time as the Three Mile Island accident, and served as the propaganda piece to get the US Nuclear Industry crippled for decades. Thousands of tons of greenhouse gas wouldn't have been emitted, etc.
Thank you for your college freshman's analysis of the contribution of the US to the World Economy.
I guess the hundreds of billions of dollars of capital equipment (heavy machinery, manufacturing equipment, instrumentation) that the US exports each year fall in the category of subsidized junk food.
I wish I had source, but a while ago, it was found that people who watch the Daily Show are much more likely to be "well informed" about news and current events.
It isn't a better news show, though. We just established that it's entertainment. The Daily Show is put out as entertainment, just like the Rush Limbaugh Show is put on as entertainment.
I can assure you that nobody reading this thread, or commenting on it, is trying to market a new phone.
Well... there are probably a few trolls who have wandered over from apple.slashdot.org, but they're not paid a commission for their posts on this domain, so they're generally quiet here.
The white ones will turn out to be valuable collectors items. Because the market demand for the product is dying * before the white ones can be brought to market. Look for 'White iPhone 4' to be a rare collectible on eBay in about 10 years.
(*all the true-believers already have theirs. regular folks aren't going to buy a turkey)
Apple's main product is spun hype. Their physical products are just the dongle. So it shouldn't surprise anybody that their spin machine never takes a rest.
I recently happened upon the work of Robert Conquest, an eminent historian of the modern era, who does a good job of presenting an explanation for ideological zealotry.
"What, then, is the mental material into which they insert their ideas, like certain wasps into certain grubs?
Dostoevsky writes of a human type "whom any strong idea strikes all of a sudden and annihilates his will, sometimes forever." The true Idea addict is usually something roughly describable as an 'intellectual.' The British writer A. Alvarez has (and meaning it favorably) defined an intellectual as one who is "excited by ideas." Ideas can indeed be exciting,, but the use of the intellect might be thought to be primarily one of subjecting them to knowledge and judgement- especially on the record of our century.
Intelligence alone is thus far from being a defense against the plague. Students, in particular, have traditionally been a reservoir of infection. The Nazis won the German students before they won the German state, and there are many similar examples. In much the same way, a leading scholar of Russian affairs (Ronald Hingley of Oxford) noted during the Soviet period that basic misapprehensions about it in the West were rare among truly serious scholars, and also among ordinary people, being confined to those of fair intelligence. He commented, "For it is surely true, if not generally recognized, that real prowess in wrong-headedness, as in most other fields of human endeavour, presupposes considerable education, character, sophistication, knowledge, and will to succeed."
The only reason I'm considering upgrading my Atom HTPC (from where I am typing this post) is so that slashdot doesn't freeze my whole browser while loading a story in a tab. Sure, I've fixed it now by setting it to the old no-javascript page, but it's account tied so now it's both crap on my HTPC as well as my laptop.
I can't figure out why I'd want to use the new bloatware Slashdot.
Forgetting the powerful video slot and the even more powerful CPU slot there?
Expandability means that there have to be strong third-party vendors of stuff to plug in those slots. A few midget vendors in a niche market doesn't really count.
I can wire-wrap up a machine here at home with more 'expandability' than an Amiga OR an IBM PC-XT. Doesn't mean I'll ever get around to wire wrapping up the expansion cards for it.
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The custom chips were the undoing of the Amiga.
It just wasn't feasible for the platform to grow incrementally, because it was all custom silicon.
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The Amiga was every bit as expandable as the IBM PC and way more open.
You're kidding, right?
The ASM source listing of the PC Bios is in the technical reference manual. The ASM source listing for the BIOS extension on the Hard Disk controller is in the technical reference manual.
There were no custom chips whatsoever in the IBM-PC.
Meanwhile the Amiga was a big cluster of custom ASIC chips.
Why should city dwellers have to pay more for their mail delivery in order to subsidize the rural dwellers?
As the GP posted:
Also as far as USPS is concerned, a county made up mostly of farms that sees 15 pieces of legitimate mail a month is not worth their time. But when those 15 pieces of legitimate mail are vital to our food supply..
Maybe you can grow enough food for the people living in your highrise apartment building up on the roof. Good luck. Send us a postcard telling us how it went. Ooops...
There's no real reason to improve your skill set in a Union Shop. There's probably a sandbagger with more seniority than you in line before you for a promotion anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Can't you just bypass robots.txt with your ~/.wgetrc file?
I know I have. Put the line:
robots=off
in it.
I also put:
no_parent=on
and
recursive=on
to default to mirroring sites.
This lowers the threshold. People who don't know how to write the script now can just help themselves.
Haven't you ever noticed that a lot of the malcontents on the Internet are script kiddies? The enabling of script kiddies is one of the worst crimes a tech-adept person can engage in.
At a certain point the government will discover they have a 'compelling interest' to confiscate and retain the entire Facebook database. At that point, we're all fucked.
The problem is that 'A' typically means the poor kid has figured out how to game the system, by doing nothing but whatever obsessive behavior is approved by the school system.
There's no time for learning side-trips and experimenting for the poor kid who's been trained to give that response.
If we hadn't let Fonda come back, she wouldn't have been able to be the heroine in the movie 'The China Syndrome,' which came out right at the same time as the Three Mile Island accident, and served as the propaganda piece to get the US Nuclear Industry crippled for decades. Thousands of tons of greenhouse gas wouldn't have been emitted, etc.
But that's just one alternative scenario.
Thank you for your college freshman's analysis of the contribution of the US to the World Economy.
I guess the hundreds of billions of dollars of capital equipment (heavy machinery, manufacturing equipment, instrumentation) that the US exports each year fall in the category of subsidized junk food.
But as soon as that was over, we sort of forgot all about Afghanistan and left them to their own devices.
You're pretty much right. Clinton had other priorities, it seems.
I wish I had source, but a while ago, it was found that people who watch the Daily Show are much more likely to be "well informed" about news and current events.
Probably a survey taken on the Daily Kos.
You're standing in the middle of the choir singing the usual hymns, dude.
Don't be surprised that you can't see any bias in NPR's coverage.
It isn't a better news show, though. We just established that it's entertainment. The Daily Show is put out as entertainment, just like the Rush Limbaugh Show is put on as entertainment.
You pulled a whole lot more out of that sentence than anybody else could have.
I'm just saying.
I can assure you that nobody reading this thread, or commenting on it, is trying to market a new phone.
Well... there are probably a few trolls who have wandered over from apple.slashdot.org, but they're not paid a commission for their posts on this domain, so they're generally quiet here.
The white ones will turn out to be valuable collectors items. Because the market demand for the product is dying * before the white ones can be brought to market. Look for 'White iPhone 4' to be a rare collectible on eBay in about 10 years.
(*all the true-believers already have theirs. regular folks aren't going to buy a turkey)
Apple's main product is spun hype. Their physical products are just the dongle. So it shouldn't surprise anybody that their spin machine never takes a rest.
The most dangerous people in history have proven to be those who have figured out for themselves some 'core underlying cause' for all social ills.
It is always THEY who have it all figured out, and the rest of us who just need to obey.
I recently happened upon the work of Robert Conquest, an eminent historian of the modern era, who does a good job of presenting an explanation for ideological zealotry.
Here are a few paragraphs from his book 'Reflections on a Ravaged Century'
a Swede would reference Workers Morals because of the great influence the workers movement has had the past 100 years.
Sounds like another religion to me.
isms are schisms. All of them.
Programmers weren't writing 'modular re-usable' code that their bosses will be shit canning anyways.
The only reason I'm considering upgrading my Atom HTPC (from where I am typing this post) is so that slashdot doesn't freeze my whole browser while loading a story in a tab. Sure, I've fixed it now by setting it to the old no-javascript page, but it's account tied so now it's both crap on my HTPC as well as my laptop.
I can't figure out why I'd want to use the new bloatware Slashdot.
This is basically a text experience anyway.
Let's spell those Brand Names correctly. Corporate Marketing Executives weep when you don't.
Forgetting the powerful video slot and the even more powerful CPU slot there?
Expandability means that there have to be strong third-party vendors of stuff to plug in those slots. A few midget vendors in a niche market doesn't really count.
I can wire-wrap up a machine here at home with more 'expandability' than an Amiga OR an IBM PC-XT. Doesn't mean I'll ever get around to wire wrapping up the expansion cards for it.
The custom chips were the undoing of the Amiga.
It just wasn't feasible for the platform to grow incrementally, because it was all custom silicon.
The Amiga was every bit as expandable as the IBM PC and way more open.
You're kidding, right?
The ASM source listing of the PC Bios is in the technical reference manual. The ASM source listing for the BIOS extension on the Hard Disk controller is in the technical reference manual.
There were no custom chips whatsoever in the IBM-PC.
Meanwhile the Amiga was a big cluster of custom ASIC chips.
Why should city dwellers have to pay more for their mail delivery in order to subsidize the rural dwellers?
As the GP posted:
Also as far as USPS is concerned, a county made up mostly of farms that sees 15 pieces of legitimate mail a month is not worth their time. But when those 15 pieces of legitimate mail are vital to our food supply..
Maybe you can grow enough food for the people living in your highrise apartment building up on the roof. Good luck. Send us a postcard telling us how it went. Ooops...
set rules of seniority and advancement
Indeed they do.
There's no real reason to improve your skill set in a Union Shop. There's probably a sandbagger with more seniority than you in line before you for a promotion anyway.