An initiative for all government computers to be open-sourced. Microsoft says that it thinks the consumers themselves should be deciding these things, not the governments- but the government IS the consumer in this case. So microsoft is saying it doesn't want governments to be deciding for itself?
Nice "Idea" you have there. I hope you wrote it down somewhere in 1802 to beat the everyone else since then who already had that "idea". Some things are too obvious to be called "ideas"- you didnt need to go on for so long, not because what you said was particularly verbose, only because we all knew that already IBM is currently in development of such a collection of devices, I assume Intel is as well.
Oh yeah, I sure am "yelling", moron. Since when does "suck" have absolute and defineable properties associated with it? "Britney Speares sucks because, uh.. she isnt good?" Good for you, by trying to see things which are never there, you have managed to see what isn't in my particular post.
Why the fuck should I spend time making a post that thoroughly works out exactly what causes one show to be entirely worse than some other show before I even have an audience? That would be a waste of time. The post above took five seconds, whereas going into detail would take actual thought (!) and would have been read by no one.
Oh no! I'm cussing! Better GO FUCK YOURSELF. If you don't like "cussing", get off the fucking internet, cockshit.
What makes something "flamebait"? Why, it's a post intended to encourage others to flame. Do you see any flames here? I just see people whining. In fact, if you look for this kind of post all over slashdot, you will see very few flames following them. People who see all caps tend to feel that they can easily prove themselves more intelligent by not typing in all caps, and making certain that their ideas are well thought-out before posting them. So any reasonable person could assuume that I post which seems to go out of its way to be unreasonable, but also goes out of its way to say that it is not trying to encourage flames, is not flamebait.
So does that mean it's "troll"? No. A "Troll" post is intended to ruin the experience of the board, whereas my post is intended to encourage the posting of well-thought-out ideas.
See, I really have no idea why someone would like such a steaming pile of space shit as FireFly- it really is a crappy, horrible show. I could see people who watch Alias or CSI liking it, but isnt slashdot supposed to have a few non-idiots around in its depths?
So did I succeed? No. I attempted to put a disclaimer at the bottom of my post, usually I just state the obvious facts without bothering to back them up ("THE SKY IS FUCKING BLUE, YOU FUCKING MORON, ADMIT IT" "I refuse to admit that unless you are willing to lay out in detail the specific reasons why it is blue"), to me, as I said in my post, these things are obvious, they are facts, and they are so blatant as to never bother connecting with the part of my brain that says "This particular element of this show is worse than this other element of this other show". ie: plenty of people know the sky is blue who haven't bothered to figure out why- they are just capable of seeing what is there.
perhaps my post was "idiotic" or "a pathetic attempt" or maybe just "overrated", but it was not Flamebait, it was not Troll.
Seriously, put something into space and I'll love it. I like anything that I can remotely fit into my mind as being Science Fiction- except firefly. IT SUCKED, AND WAS CANCELED BECAUSE IT SUCKED. STOP SAYING IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN "GIVEN A CHANCE" AND ACCEPT THAT IT SUCKED- BY NO LONGER BEING ON THE AIR, IT MAKES WAY FOR BETTER THINGS. (note that this does not mean that better things have come along to replace it)
HOLY FUCK THAT WAS A SHITTY SHOW.
This is _NOT_ troll, this is _NOT_ flamebait, if you disagree with those facts, TRY POSTING A FUCKING REPLY. The show sucked, okay? Just because a post has the word "suck" in it, doesnt make it a troll or a flame- it is INFORMATIVE or INSIGHTFUL if you absolutely NEED to moderate. Otherwise- FUCKING POST, YOU FUCKWIT
If you can type at a level you are comfortable with, that's all you need. I certainly never learned the "proper" way of typing, and wouldnt describe what I do as "touch typing"- it's more like position typing- I know where my hands are and where the keys are, I don't do this by feel, I do it just by knowing what key I'm currently at. As long as you're not doing "hunt and peck", you're fine. There also happen to be quite a few two-finger typists who are incredibly fast- faster than many "touch typists". Knowing the "proper" way does not help.
With no mention of false-positives, 60% recognition is exceedingly accurate. Nobody's talking about using this technology by itself, but imagine if 60% of criminals who would have otherwise gotten away were able to be aprehended- that is not failure.
this is only, of course, with no mention of false positives.
Use a script to update your rules for you. Let a few hits slide, but then block the individual page when you see too many (the definition of which can vary) direct links to images get through. You wont be blocking everybody "once and for all", and you'll get rid of the people who are pulling shit like using your images as their background image. But don't block empty referers, and don't block pages (be they html, php, directory listings[unless you have some other reason to block directory listings], whatever)
you falsely assume that I think it is a crime, or think that all terrorism is a crime. I don't. I think they're full of shit and that people who claim SPEWS is innocent because they are not physically going out to people's servers and shutting them down are fucking idiots.
But it Is terrorism. They are using fear to push a political agenda, that's terrorism.
Did you know that.. it's illegall to yell "Fire" in a crouded theater?
This is because, even if you dont take direct action, you can be deemed responcible for the actions of those who react to something you say when you knowingly say something intended to provoke them into doing something which causes damage.
This is a basic concept of society. Figure it out.
SPEWS in no way denies that what it is doing is harmful- check their page, they INTEND it to be harmful, they want to scare people into submission. They are Terrorists. The same people hunting Osama Bin Ladin would assure you that he never flew a plane in his life, and certainly was not one of the pilots which crashed into the WTTs. Yet somehow, they can believe him to be responcible. Imagine that!
Open your eyes, take a look around- plenty of people who aren't spammers hate SPEWS, and SPEWS makes it obvious that such is very much their intention. They're attempting to break the internet, and hide behind "It's entirely volentary" when people point out that they're encouraging people to, on an entirely volentary basis, break the internet- by spreading lies and telling people that innocents deserve what they get when they unknowingly exist on a host that somebody may have spammed once. Do you know what this is called in the modern age? Why, that's Terrorism! It's a terrorist organization which is entirely volentary to join, good job!
is SPEWS legal? Yes should SPEWS be legal? Yes is SPEWS full of shit? Yes should SPEWS shut down? Yes Will SPEWS shut down? no.
Step 1) Give me 50K Step 2) I use it to start up some wild scheme Step 3) Profit???
Hey, it's a gamble, but my plan only has THREE steps, and none of them are missing. Don't trust those half-finished 4-step plans, mine's the way to go!
Holy fuck, it's almost as if he did recognize it as sarcasm, and still got the same meaning, you fucking moron.
What you're thinking of wouldnt be sarcasm, it would be sarcasm on top of sarcasm. Sure, he doesnt instantly recognize sarcasm on top of sarcasm, but this could be that he just thought too highly of you at first- When in actuality you seem to be saying (forgive me if I'm wrong) that you're such a fucking idiot you speak in double-sarcasm and then think others are fool for only seeing one.
I tried to explain further, and point out exactly where you went wrong, but I actually can't think of a way to add a double layer of sarcasm and make it readable. It is very likely that you are a fucking idiot and should not attempt to use english anymore- it is too fluid, too changing, the rules arent written down, it's just a matter of you being a fucking idiot.
I looked around, I couldnt find anyone like that. More importantly- Nike, Adidas, and Calvin Klein are especially notorious for branding their logo prominently on everything they make. DeBeers is not. Then look at the correlation between people caring about corprate ethics and caring about finding a shirt that makes look like a complete consumer whore, and you'll be hard-pressed to find this mythical person who cares about blood-diamonds but dresses in Adidas- and it's got nothing to do with corprate ethics. People who [actually] dislike the ethical practices of international companies just tend to dislike getting branded on all sides of their body.
But regaurding the practices of DeBeers, I expect that this proccess needs to be open, and spread out- get a bunch of kids trying this in their garage. Otherwise, there's no way it could survive against the current diamond industry. Publish a HOWTO on the web, I'm sure a few kids will try it out in their garage, that will be enough.
the people who moderated my post [above] obviously didnt actually consider what it said and/or they dont watch those channels. Shows about Hitler, shows about Bridges, they are interesting, you fuckers. They are also in no way related to shows about gay interior decorators. I actually want a Hitler and Bridges channel, you are a fuckhead, and reply to my post instead of moderating it, you fucking idiot.
Discovery, History, TLC, PBS, All the good and interesting programs are either about Engineering, Hitler, or Engineering used to defeat Hitler. So let's just make a "Hitler and Engineering" channel, move all the interesting programs to there, and give the horribly under-represented gay community all the time we've freed up for them.
This is NOT "flamebait", this is NOT "troll". Don't moderate- Reply!
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What kind of horrible world would this be if people were to be held responcible for their own actions?!
An initiative for all government computers to be open-sourced. Microsoft says that it thinks the consumers themselves should be deciding these things, not the governments- but the government IS the consumer in this case. So microsoft is saying it doesn't want governments to be deciding for itself?
Nice "Idea" you have there. I hope you wrote it down somewhere in 1802 to beat the everyone else since then who already had that "idea". Some things are too obvious to be called "ideas"- you didnt need to go on for so long, not because what you said was particularly verbose, only because we all knew that already
IBM is currently in development of such a collection of devices, I assume Intel is as well.
I really can't.
Oh yeah, I sure am "yelling", moron.
Since when does "suck" have absolute and defineable properties associated with it? "Britney Speares sucks because, uh.. she isnt good?"
Good for you, by trying to see things which are never there, you have managed to see what isn't in my particular post.
Why the fuck should I spend time making a post that thoroughly works out exactly what causes one show to be entirely worse than some other show before I even have an audience? That would be a waste of time. The post above took five seconds, whereas going into detail would take actual thought (!) and would have been read by no one.
Oh no! I'm cussing! Better GO FUCK YOURSELF. If you don't like "cussing", get off the fucking internet, cockshit.
What makes something "flamebait"? Why, it's a post intended to encourage others to flame. Do you see any flames here? I just see people whining. In fact, if you look for this kind of post all over slashdot, you will see very few flames following them. People who see all caps tend to feel that they can easily prove themselves more intelligent by not typing in all caps, and making certain that their ideas are well thought-out before posting them. So any reasonable person could assuume that I post which seems to go out of its way to be unreasonable, but also goes out of its way to say that it is not trying to encourage flames, is not flamebait.
So does that mean it's "troll"? No. A "Troll" post is intended to ruin the experience of the board, whereas my post is intended to encourage the posting of well-thought-out ideas.
See, I really have no idea why someone would like such a steaming pile of space shit as FireFly- it really is a crappy, horrible show. I could see people who watch Alias or CSI liking it, but isnt slashdot supposed to have a few non-idiots around in its depths?
So did I succeed? No. I attempted to put a disclaimer at the bottom of my post, usually I just state the obvious facts without bothering to back them up ("THE SKY IS FUCKING BLUE, YOU FUCKING MORON, ADMIT IT" "I refuse to admit that unless you are willing to lay out in detail the specific reasons why it is blue"), to me, as I said in my post, these things are obvious, they are facts, and they are so blatant as to never bother connecting with the part of my brain that says "This particular element of this show is worse than this other element of this other show". ie: plenty of people know the sky is blue who haven't bothered to figure out why- they are just capable of seeing what is there.
perhaps my post was "idiotic" or "a pathetic attempt" or maybe just "overrated", but it was not Flamebait, it was not Troll.
And FireFly is a horrible show.
Seriously, put something into space and I'll love it. I like anything that I can remotely fit into my mind as being Science Fiction- except firefly.
IT SUCKED, AND WAS CANCELED BECAUSE IT SUCKED. STOP SAYING IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN "GIVEN A CHANCE" AND ACCEPT THAT IT SUCKED- BY NO LONGER BEING ON THE AIR, IT MAKES WAY FOR BETTER THINGS. (note that this does not mean that better things have come along to replace it)
HOLY FUCK THAT WAS A SHITTY SHOW.
This is _NOT_ troll, this is _NOT_ flamebait, if you disagree with those facts, TRY POSTING A FUCKING REPLY. The show sucked, okay? Just because a post has the word "suck" in it, doesnt make it a troll or a flame- it is INFORMATIVE or INSIGHTFUL if you absolutely NEED to moderate. Otherwise- FUCKING POST, YOU FUCKWIT
If you can type at a level you are comfortable with, that's all you need. I certainly never learned the "proper" way of typing, and wouldnt describe what I do as "touch typing"- it's more like position typing- I know where my hands are and where the keys are, I don't do this by feel, I do it just by knowing what key I'm currently at.
As long as you're not doing "hunt and peck", you're fine. There also happen to be quite a few two-finger typists who are incredibly fast- faster than many "touch typists". Knowing the "proper" way does not help.
I haven't purchased a CD in years... I thought they were $12.98
With no mention of false-positives, 60% recognition is exceedingly accurate. Nobody's talking about using this technology by itself, but imagine if 60% of criminals who would have otherwise gotten away were able to be aprehended- that is not failure.
this is only, of course, with no mention of false positives.
Use a script to update your rules for you. Let a few hits slide, but then block the individual page when you see too many (the definition of which can vary) direct links to images get through.
You wont be blocking everybody "once and for all", and you'll get rid of the people who are pulling shit like using your images as their background image.
But don't block empty referers, and don't block pages (be they html, php, directory listings[unless you have some other reason to block directory listings], whatever)
How much you want to bet this is someone, not a spammer that got blocked by these blanket lists?
you falsely assume that I think it is a crime, or think that all terrorism is a crime. I don't. I think they're full of shit and that people who claim SPEWS is innocent because they are not physically going out to people's servers and shutting them down are fucking idiots.
But it Is terrorism. They are using fear to push a political agenda, that's terrorism.
Did you know that..
it's illegall to yell "Fire" in a crouded theater?
This is because, even if you dont take direct action, you can be deemed responcible for the actions of those who react to something you say when you knowingly say something intended to provoke them into doing something which causes damage.
This is a basic concept of society. Figure it out.
SPEWS in no way denies that what it is doing is harmful- check their page, they INTEND it to be harmful, they want to scare people into submission. They are Terrorists.
The same people hunting Osama Bin Ladin would assure you that he never flew a plane in his life, and certainly was not one of the pilots which crashed into the WTTs. Yet somehow, they can believe him to be responcible. Imagine that!
That's funny, damnit. Stupid mods. :/
I didnt see this post before, modding this up would be worth more than the rant I posted, sorry
Open your eyes, take a look around- plenty of people who aren't spammers hate SPEWS, and SPEWS makes it obvious that such is very much their intention. They're attempting to break the internet, and hide behind "It's entirely volentary" when people point out that they're encouraging people to, on an entirely volentary basis, break the internet- by spreading lies and telling people that innocents deserve what they get when they unknowingly exist on a host that somebody may have spammed once. Do you know what this is called in the modern age? Why, that's Terrorism! It's a terrorist organization which is entirely volentary to join, good job!
is SPEWS legal? Yes
should SPEWS be legal? Yes
is SPEWS full of shit? Yes
should SPEWS shut down? Yes
Will SPEWS shut down? no.
Have you never heard of XOR? This is what you've just discovered
Your spectrum is unpopular. Good for you. Quite an accomplishment.
Step 1) Give me 50K
Step 2) I use it to start up some wild scheme
Step 3) Profit???
Hey, it's a gamble, but my plan only has THREE steps, and none of them are missing. Don't trust those half-finished 4-step plans, mine's the way to go!
Holy fuck, it's almost as if he did recognize it as sarcasm, and still got the same meaning, you fucking moron.
What you're thinking of wouldnt be sarcasm, it would be sarcasm on top of sarcasm. Sure, he doesnt instantly recognize sarcasm on top of sarcasm, but this could be that he just thought too highly of you at first- When in actuality you seem to be saying (forgive me if I'm wrong) that you're such a fucking idiot you speak in double-sarcasm and then think others are fool for only seeing one.
I tried to explain further, and point out exactly where you went wrong, but I actually can't think of a way to add a double layer of sarcasm and make it readable. It is very likely that you are a fucking idiot and should not attempt to use english anymore- it is too fluid, too changing, the rules arent written down, it's just a matter of you being a fucking idiot.
16x burns in 4 minutes now? When did that start? Have I made some mis-assumption about 32x being faster?
Please re-read my post. I really dont think I implied otherwise.
I looked around, I couldnt find anyone like that. More importantly- Nike, Adidas, and Calvin Klein are especially notorious for branding their logo prominently on everything they make. DeBeers is not. Then look at the correlation between people caring about corprate ethics and caring about finding a shirt that makes look like a complete consumer whore, and you'll be hard-pressed to find this mythical person who cares about blood-diamonds but dresses in Adidas- and it's got nothing to do with corprate ethics. People who [actually] dislike the ethical practices of international companies just tend to dislike getting branded on all sides of their body.
But regaurding the practices of DeBeers, I expect that this proccess needs to be open, and spread out- get a bunch of kids trying this in their garage. Otherwise, there's no way it could survive against the current diamond industry.
Publish a HOWTO on the web, I'm sure a few kids will try it out in their garage, that will be enough.
the people who moderated my post [above] obviously didnt actually consider what it said and/or they dont watch those channels.
Shows about Hitler, shows about Bridges, they are interesting, you fuckers. They are also in no way related to shows about gay interior decorators. I actually want a Hitler and Bridges channel, you are a fuckhead, and reply to my post instead of moderating it, you fucking idiot.
Discovery, History, TLC, PBS, All the good and interesting programs are either about Engineering, Hitler, or Engineering used to defeat Hitler. So let's just make a "Hitler and Engineering" channel, move all the interesting programs to there, and give the horribly under-represented gay community all the time we've freed up for them.
This is NOT "flamebait", this is NOT "troll".
Don't moderate- Reply!
Let me know when that swivelling reclining computer comes in