Who could have possibly seen this coming? I mean the government rampantly abusing powers it took in a time of national tragedy? I for one am totally shocked. Shocked i say.
Nah, they just put that in there so you don't confuse it with the Venusian probes, or the Martian probes. Or the probes from my across the street neighbors - I'm pretty sure there is something off about them.
What the world really needs is secure storage with a self-destruct feature - when they ask you for the password, you give them X, which wipes the drive as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. (Preferably with a "decrypting, please wait" message)
These lists could be a really useful tool for stopping stupid asshats who are planning attacks
The idea of lists like these is not to stop stupid asshats who are planning attacks. They are intended to induce fear in the public. Fear of the government. If people are afraid to publicly protest the stupid shit their government does - well then it is a lot easier for government to get away with whatever they want. Additionally, in order to justify taking away everyone's rights - just about everyone is going to have to be a "terrorist".
Terrorism is violence with the aim of influencing public behavior in such a way as to subvert either the popular will or to force a government to give concessions to the group in question.
By the way - the goal nor the means of terrorism is political in any way. It is a social framework. Even if given all the "political" concessions they want, they aren't going to stop - because ultimately they are generally just taking young men who can't find a job - blaming their failure on a political entity and giving them an ideology (usually religious) to cement them into their particular social group. The social group is going to continue with or without the political aims. Which is why the only real way to defeat terrorism is to make it much more profitable socially as well as financially for these people to join a different social group - preferably one which prefers not to blow people up. Ok,/rant
The Hydrogen infrastructure not only isn't going to happen, it would be a disaster if it did.
How is that? An extensive Hydrogen infrastructure could be fully integrated into the grid - you could just use liquid Hydrogen to cool some superconductors so you end up with a more efficient electrical infrastructure and a handy nationwide method for distributing Hydrogen. Additionally, this has the benefit of allowing for very centralized energy production without it being near large population centers making nuclear a much more palatable option.
its like regular file swapping - but with twice the porn!
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Results 1 - 10 of about 681 for wikipedia. (0.01 seconds). but plagiarism Results 1 - 10 of about 35,400 for bit torrent. (0.01 seconds) and piracy were so much harder back then:
Now: Results 1 - 10 of about 264,000,000 for wikipedia. (0.27 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 67,500,000 for bit torrent. (0.07 seconds)
Also, the Obsessive-Compulsive Party. But frankly they aren't going very far what with their platform of opening every door three times before going though and not shaking hands with anyone or kissing any babies.
To be fair, he did vote against it. Personally I think that's the wrong vote to make since something drastic needs to be done.
This reminds me of a slashdot sig I once saw: The government: Something must be done, this is something, it must be done. I will agree that something needs to be done. I don't think that the deal they had was it though.
Full disclosure: Most of you would probably call me a pinko commie liberal. But here goes: I have to say a big thank you to the house republicans. They did the right thing, which this time was the conservative thing by voting against the stupid bailout. Now the the real issue
System engineers are working to resolve this issue and we appreciate your patience.
So what are they doing to fix this exactly? Hoping everyone looses interest so they don't have to increase their capacity? I dunno if thats gonna work - people seem pretty pissed (I am one of those people by the way).
we might be able to bring back some of Jurassic Park without resorting to cloning.
I for one vote that before we bring anything else back, we must determine if it can be made into a delicious adult beverage. I say if I can't get totally hammered drunk on these creatures (or their waste as in this case), let them stay in the past.
It may seem surprising that it takes any programming at all to implement a salary change in a payroll system, but a commenter on Slashdot said it was at least plausible, and that's good enough for us.
I think this alone should be enough to discredit the author.
Slashdot Mirror
Anecdotal Evidence (my one iMac) indicates that it is awesome by the way.
If this is still a free country I have been ill informed sir.
Who could have possibly seen this coming? I mean the government rampantly abusing powers it took in a time of national tragedy? I for one am totally shocked. Shocked i say.
Nah, they just put that in there so you don't confuse it with the Venusian probes, or the Martian probes. Or the probes from my across the street neighbors - I'm pretty sure there is something off about them.
What the world really needs is secure storage with a self-destruct feature - when they ask you for the password, you give them X, which wipes the drive as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. (Preferably with a "decrypting, please wait" message)
Second.
These lists could be a really useful tool for stopping stupid asshats who are planning attacks
The idea of lists like these is not to stop stupid asshats who are planning attacks. They are intended to induce fear in the public. Fear of the government. If people are afraid to publicly protest the stupid shit their government does - well then it is a lot easier for government to get away with whatever they want.
Additionally, in order to justify taking away everyone's rights - just about everyone is going to have to be a "terrorist".
Terrorism is violence with the aim of influencing public behavior in such a way as to subvert either the popular will or to force a government to give concessions to the group in question.
By the way - the goal nor the means of terrorism is political in any way. It is a social framework. Even if given all the "political" concessions they want, they aren't going to stop - because ultimately they are generally just taking young men who can't find a job - blaming their failure on a political entity and giving them an ideology (usually religious) to cement them into their particular social group. The social group is going to continue with or without the political aims. Which is why the only real way to defeat terrorism is to make it much more profitable socially as well as financially for these people to join a different social group - preferably one which prefers not to blow people up. Ok, /rant
Huggins and Pachter are now applying their methods to voting in elections with more than two candidates.
Elections have more than two candidates?
damn I gotta get out of the US for a while
Pics or it did[n't] happen.
Fixed it for SchrÃdinger.
Pics or it hit my cat.
Fixed that for you.
Hang in there buddy, there's time yet for the end of the world.
That leads me to think that maybe the primary function of government is to pretend to fail.
Why would they need to pretend? They seem to be quite practiced at failing for real to me.
I bet this will not change what they are doing or how they are doing it one bit.
The Hydrogen infrastructure not only isn't going to happen, it would be a disaster if it did.
How is that? An extensive Hydrogen infrastructure could be fully integrated into the grid - you could just use liquid Hydrogen to cool some superconductors so you end up with a more efficient electrical infrastructure and a handy nationwide method for distributing Hydrogen. Additionally, this has the benefit of allowing for very centralized energy production without it being near large population centers making nuclear a much more palatable option.
Unfortunately, we can't rely on end-users to protect themselves.
no we cant. but it isn't our job to protect them. Tiered internet probably wouldn't solve most of these problems anyway.
its like regular file swapping - but with twice the porn!
Results 1 - 10 of about 681 for wikipedia. (0.01 seconds).
but plagiarism
Results 1 - 10 of about 35,400 for bit torrent. (0.01 seconds)
and piracy were so much harder back then:
Now: Results 1 - 10 of about 264,000,000 for wikipedia. (0.27 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 67,500,000 for bit torrent. (0.07 seconds)
Good that apple agreed to share the term: Results 1 - 10 of about 28,600 for iphone. (0.01 seconds)
vocaltec is the number one hit. Wow.
thats not just growth - that is genuine progress.
Also, the Obsessive-Compulsive Party. But frankly they aren't going very far what with their platform of opening every door three times before going though and not shaking hands with anyone or kissing any babies.
To be fair, he did vote against it. Personally I think that's the wrong vote to make since something drastic needs to be done.
This reminds me of a slashdot sig I once saw:
The government: Something must be done, this is something, it must be done.
I will agree that something needs to be done. I don't think that the deal they had was it though.
Ok, but will it be reddit or digg?
ducks...
sorry
GTFO. Canada is that way ------->
Dude, you must be lost - that's the way to Mexico.
I'd actually be surprised even you get the standard form-letter reply if they're so overwhelmed.
I got a standard form-letter reply from my rep, Udall (D- CO). BTW - he voted Nay.
But here goes: I have to say a big thank you to the house republicans. They did the right thing, which this time was the conservative thing by voting against the stupid bailout.
Now the the real issue
System engineers are working to resolve this issue and we appreciate your patience.
So what are they doing to fix this exactly? Hoping everyone looses interest so they don't have to increase their capacity? I dunno if thats gonna work - people seem pretty pissed (I am one of those people by the way).
we might be able to bring back some of Jurassic Park without resorting to cloning.
I for one vote that before we bring anything else back, we must determine if it can be made into a delicious adult beverage. I say if I can't get totally hammered drunk on these creatures (or their waste as in this case), let them stay in the past.
It may seem surprising that it takes any programming at all to implement a salary change in a payroll system, but a commenter on Slashdot said it was at least plausible, and that's good enough for us.
I think this alone should be enough to discredit the author.