Isn't Parliament a part of the government? I ask not because I am certain you're wrong but I don't really know what Canada's government is set up like and what they use for references.
Sadly, I should - except I don't have to and it would probably just infuriate me. I'm Canadian by grace of heritage - I'm Micmac, First Nation. I am a US Citizen and I live in the US. I do not vote nor participate in Canadian politics even though I am eligible to do so. At the same time, you'll note that I have never, not one time, bitched about the results from any Canadian election nor do I recall ever complaining about their politics - but I used to drink - a lot, and I go to Canada, a lot - so I might have. I do own some property in Canada, including in Nova Scotia, but I do not feel that gives me a right to impose my will (by vote) to those who would be most impacted by those choices than myself.
Which is good, 'cause I don't know shit about the politics except I do pay attention a wee bit but not enough to qualify as having a valid opinion.
Are you still alive? If so, that kinda disproves your point.
Here, let's test that theory.
Fuck the ruling elite. Specifically, fuck them in the ass with a rusty pitchfork - specifically the psychopathic among them. They are bastards and this TPP is an abomination to liberty. They, and their ilk, can suck my left nut and this sort of maligned treaty makes me want to actively work to thwart this. In fact, I think I'll make an added effort to confound them - I have a few dollars and, if bothered, I can keep this shit in court longer than I've life left to live.
What's a good P2P client that has mostly acceptable (no kiddy/animal porn) content that will enable me to let it run on its own semi-dedicated pipe? I already have a backup connection that does nothing (for the most part) but seed a variety of Linux torrents and has for ages (even before I used Linux exclusively). It's got a lot of headroom so I can stuff a P2P client in there. My ISP is pretty cool and it's DSL so I can use any ISP that wants to service my connection, by law.
It'd be best if it were something where I could throw a few extra network shares up for space and then share stuff I don't have to examine or download personally. Something like distributed chunks of encrypted files would be best - where even if I wanted to examine the drives, I have no way of knowing what's on them unless I actually tried to download the file and it just happened to be something I could notice and trace back to my own activity.
"Why are you still here in Europe?" "Because if we aren't then you bomb yourselves into rubble every couple of generations and then ask us to pay for the cleanup."
That flies about as well as a lead balloon, regardless of its merits.
On a global scale, the middle is really close to the bottom - from your perspective.
To put this into words, you recollect the railing against the 1%? The global 1% is about $32,000 USD/year. Yup... Seeing as you're here on Slashdot, you're almost certainly well within the middle income levels or significantly higher.
What's amusing is all the finger pointing and blaming and partisan gibberish that goes on with it.
That's kind of odd as it's the second to last option, the last being to discard. The terms are reduce, reuse, recycle. There's some merit to that and, as near as I can tell, it applies to code as well as anything.
Yeah but I've seen the Bourne movies and I think we kind of owe it to him. (I've only actually also seen him in The Martian and some movie about a sniper.)
It is unfortunate. They managed to speculate in response to my post but I didn't feel like arguing with them. I've neither time nor inclination to devote to helping them along. I've only so much life left, I'd rather not waste it in efforts of futility. By even their own measure, I'm quite well off. That they don't like how I got here is unfortunate but that I am here - and they are not - is all the more telling. Telling more of them than it is of me.
Also, I liked the encyclopedia, school text books, and (oddly) the yellow pages. We moved a lot when I was growing up and then I did a whole lot of traveling for business. It's still a bit of a habit to read the yellow pages when I travel. I think it stems from my youth? One of my mother's favorite punishments was that I had to read the dictionary - for a while, I had to copy it. The thing is, I didn't really mind it and have a rather large collection of dictionaries to this day.
When I was much older, I let on that I actually enjoyed reading the dictionary but, as it turns out, she knew that already. A means to an end, I suppose. Wow, I was a precocious twat. Ah well.
Hmm... Is it "st" or "th" in this instance? Alas, I am not an English expert or grammarian. In fact, English is not my first language. My first language was gibberish. It has had some marginal improvements.
The converse is that I consistently tested with very high results. Really, I just test well and learning (comprehension, not memory) was rather difficult for the first half of my life.
I modeled traffic and, as such, I worked mostly for municipalities/governments of various sizes including federal and some international work. (Long since sold and retired.) I understand... Just "government" means that I understand that I do not understand, nor do I want to.
That said, anything worth saying is usually too long to fit on a bumper sticker or make a sound-bite for television. (Bite or byte? I have no idea, having seen it both ways and being too lazy to look.) I also hate repeating myself and, this being Slashdot, I'm often inclined to include all the caveats and prevent all the stupid replies from happening by ensuring that they're covered.
The best part is that people see the length of my replies and think I'm smart. At least that's how the moderation often works. Suffice to say, it's not really that smart - it's just complete.
If your buddy has a technical bent, there's a small learning curve, there's something called uMatrix. It's a bit like an old-school software firewall except it's just for the browser and is whitelist based. Yes, yes it is awesome. Once you get up to speed and add your regular sites and configure for least privilege then you're golden and it's trivial to browse the web with reasonable security from browser exploits.
Food prep is not work. Lunch is not work. You can count the commute if you want. Breaks at work count. The average commute is something like 30 minutes, call it an hour to be on the safe side. So, we're at 10:30/day and a week is 7 days. Strange math, indeed. You've got 32 hours on the weekend.
That's not to read that they're not working too long. It's that it's not the majority of their waking time. At least not for the majority of people and they didn't mention an exceptionally long commute or the likes.
It was at MIT so it was fairly expensive which meant I ended up using the GI Bill and going for four years, reenlisting while taking a few satellite courses, and then finishing up with the GI Bill being used again. (The GI Bill is quite different today, much better.) I don't think any of us ended up flipping burgers. I did *not* do individualized testing. I gave no final exam - I did many short quizzes.
There is a link. There is always a link. It has been this way for a year (or so) now. It is the domain name listed right next to the title. You can click on it and see. This is not difficult. In fact, I dare say it's obvious. I know it's been about a year because I've been pointing it out (as have many others) for that long. I'm not really sure you should be commenting about stupidity?
2 and 5 are both only primes once. After that, any number ending in either is no longer a prime. Thus, all prime numbers after that (at least a billion) will not end in either a 2 or a 5. It's a knee slapper.
You are not alone. My first thought was, "Man, the Slashdot reader has gone downhill." My second was, "Oh, we're being baited. Makes sense from a business perspective. I'd be surprised if BIZX wasn't doing so intentionally. They'd almost be silly to not do so. We're pretty gullible and love outrage."
Then I realized that it was probably a little of both and here we are.
At any rate, it makes good business sense to include trivial things like that. It gets people talking. There's almost always something for the anally retentive people to be outraged about in every summary.
Well, that would have saved me some time. I gotta learn to scroll down before responding. Your answer is more complete than mine. I just sent 'em to the terminal and pointed in the right direction. Prime factorization, by its very nature - a solved problem. Although I did just learn something. It turns out there's some sort of limit as to the number's length in what it will factor in the terminal. I did no know that.
Ah, grasshopper... When you understand *why* then you'll start to understand maths. It makes sense that it does so, does it not?
I'm an honest-to-goodness real-life one-of-them-there mathematicians (fully papered and everything) and I'll share the silliest thing that I can think of.
I hated math. No, I hated it. It made no sense - but I was good with rote. Then, a teacher shared something along the lines of this, "You know, if you just square the triangle and divide it in half, it's the same thing."
Now that might seem trivial - and it is... But, prior to that, I'd not been able to conceptualize any math really. Abacus-level math I could do but nothing else, not really. It's something in the way my brain works - or doesn't. Until it "clicks" I'm really only good for regurgitation and not so good at comprehension. It was that one little thing (like a Buzzfeed article) that made me "get it."
It changed my whole life and I've returned to thank that teacher many times. I generally get out to see him a few times a year and he's getting a bit old and crusty now but is still kicking and doing fairly well at it.
WTF? Why, in the name of all that's good, would they...
Oh, I just noticed. You're still new here. *sighs*
Look, nobody reads the article. Nobody is going to read a scientific paper. Well, a few of us might read the article (I'm not admitting to anything) but those of us who do, also know how to find the applicable paper.
If you look at the very top post in the thread, there's someone bitching that there is no link to the article. Yet, the article link is right next to the title - where it has been for almost a year now. (They're sometimes in the summary as well. Not always.) That should tell you, they being a representative of the average one of us, how often we actually even read the article - or even look for the URL.
They're not going to do it. The two other people who read the article know where Arxiv is. The editor would have to, you know, work. Ain't happening. Submit stories with the link included if you're passionate. 'Snot going to change in your lifetime. You're probably the 10,985,729th (see what I did there?) person to suggest that - this month.
A distro's support mailing list recently had a comment about this. It wasn't even trolling, just some new guy.
The response, and only response, that I saw was someone who said, "With today's SSD and hardware being so fast, I don't even need it. It's a useless feature anyway."
Which is emblematic of my largest distaste for the community. It's certainly not something I have against Linux, the kernel, but that is rather atypical for the many communities surrounding it.
I almost responded, "Nope, it works fine for me." (It really does.) But, fortunately, I don't drink any more and I'm generally not an asshole. Well, not always.
I decided that I'd scroll down prior to hitting submit. *sighs*
You might want to look into those free speech zones. They were first used by the Democrats at the DNC in New York in 1988. So, while you still might remember Bush's, you might want to remember where they originated and realize that the Republicans aren't the only ones nor the originators.
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Isn't Parliament a part of the government? I ask not because I am certain you're wrong but I don't really know what Canada's government is set up like and what they use for references.
Sadly, I should - except I don't have to and it would probably just infuriate me. I'm Canadian by grace of heritage - I'm Micmac, First Nation. I am a US Citizen and I live in the US. I do not vote nor participate in Canadian politics even though I am eligible to do so. At the same time, you'll note that I have never, not one time, bitched about the results from any Canadian election nor do I recall ever complaining about their politics - but I used to drink - a lot, and I go to Canada, a lot - so I might have. I do own some property in Canada, including in Nova Scotia, but I do not feel that gives me a right to impose my will (by vote) to those who would be most impacted by those choices than myself.
Which is good, 'cause I don't know shit about the politics except I do pay attention a wee bit but not enough to qualify as having a valid opinion.
Are you still alive? If so, that kinda disproves your point.
Here, let's test that theory.
Fuck the ruling elite. Specifically, fuck them in the ass with a rusty pitchfork - specifically the psychopathic among them. They are bastards and this TPP is an abomination to liberty. They, and their ilk, can suck my left nut and this sort of maligned treaty makes me want to actively work to thwart this. In fact, I think I'll make an added effort to confound them - I have a few dollars and, if bothered, I can keep this shit in court longer than I've life left to live.
What's a good P2P client that has mostly acceptable (no kiddy/animal porn) content that will enable me to let it run on its own semi-dedicated pipe? I already have a backup connection that does nothing (for the most part) but seed a variety of Linux torrents and has for ages (even before I used Linux exclusively). It's got a lot of headroom so I can stuff a P2P client in there. My ISP is pretty cool and it's DSL so I can use any ISP that wants to service my connection, by law.
It'd be best if it were something where I could throw a few extra network shares up for space and then share stuff I don't have to examine or download personally. Something like distributed chunks of encrypted files would be best - where even if I wanted to examine the drives, I have no way of knowing what's on them unless I actually tried to download the file and it just happened to be something I could notice and trace back to my own activity.
That's not the most popular opinion around here.
"Why are you still here in Europe?"
"Because if we aren't then you bomb yourselves into rubble every couple of generations and then ask us to pay for the cleanup."
That flies about as well as a lead balloon, regardless of its merits.
On a global scale, the middle is really close to the bottom - from your perspective.
To put this into words, you recollect the railing against the 1%? The global 1% is about $32,000 USD/year. Yup... Seeing as you're here on Slashdot, you're almost certainly well within the middle income levels or significantly higher.
What's amusing is all the finger pointing and blaming and partisan gibberish that goes on with it.
That's kind of odd as it's the second to last option, the last being to discard. The terms are reduce, reuse, recycle. There's some merit to that and, as near as I can tell, it applies to code as well as anything.
Yeah but I've seen the Bourne movies and I think we kind of owe it to him. (I've only actually also seen him in The Martian and some movie about a sniper.)
It is unfortunate. They managed to speculate in response to my post but I didn't feel like arguing with them. I've neither time nor inclination to devote to helping them along. I've only so much life left, I'd rather not waste it in efforts of futility. By even their own measure, I'm quite well off. That they don't like how I got here is unfortunate but that I am here - and they are not - is all the more telling. Telling more of them than it is of me.
Also, I liked the encyclopedia, school text books, and (oddly) the yellow pages. We moved a lot when I was growing up and then I did a whole lot of traveling for business. It's still a bit of a habit to read the yellow pages when I travel. I think it stems from my youth? One of my mother's favorite punishments was that I had to read the dictionary - for a while, I had to copy it. The thing is, I didn't really mind it and have a rather large collection of dictionaries to this day.
When I was much older, I let on that I actually enjoyed reading the dictionary but, as it turns out, she knew that already. A means to an end, I suppose. Wow, I was a precocious twat. Ah well.
Hmm... Is it "st" or "th" in this instance? Alas, I am not an English expert or grammarian. In fact, English is not my first language. My first language was gibberish. It has had some marginal improvements.
The converse is that I consistently tested with very high results. Really, I just test well and learning (comprehension, not memory) was rather difficult for the first half of my life.
I modeled traffic and, as such, I worked mostly for municipalities/governments of various sizes including federal and some international work. (Long since sold and retired.) I understand... Just "government" means that I understand that I do not understand, nor do I want to.
That said, anything worth saying is usually too long to fit on a bumper sticker or make a sound-bite for television. (Bite or byte? I have no idea, having seen it both ways and being too lazy to look.) I also hate repeating myself and, this being Slashdot, I'm often inclined to include all the caveats and prevent all the stupid replies from happening by ensuring that they're covered.
The best part is that people see the length of my replies and think I'm smart. At least that's how the moderation often works. Suffice to say, it's not really that smart - it's just complete.
If your buddy has a technical bent, there's a small learning curve, there's something called uMatrix. It's a bit like an old-school software firewall except it's just for the browser and is whitelist based. Yes, yes it is awesome. Once you get up to speed and add your regular sites and configure for least privilege then you're golden and it's trivial to browse the web with reasonable security from browser exploits.
Food prep is not work. Lunch is not work. You can count the commute if you want. Breaks at work count. The average commute is something like 30 minutes, call it an hour to be on the safe side. So, we're at 10:30/day and a week is 7 days. Strange math, indeed. You've got 32 hours on the weekend.
That's not to read that they're not working too long. It's that it's not the majority of their waking time. At least not for the majority of people and they didn't mention an exceptionally long commute or the likes.
It was at MIT so it was fairly expensive which meant I ended up using the GI Bill and going for four years, reenlisting while taking a few satellite courses, and then finishing up with the GI Bill being used again. (The GI Bill is quite different today, much better.) I don't think any of us ended up flipping burgers. I did *not* do individualized testing. I gave no final exam - I did many short quizzes.
There is a link. There is always a link. It has been this way for a year (or so) now. It is the domain name listed right next to the title. You can click on it and see. This is not difficult. In fact, I dare say it's obvious. I know it's been about a year because I've been pointing it out (as have many others) for that long. I'm not really sure you should be commenting about stupidity?
Rough morning? They mention Fibonacci in their post. ;-) So yes, yes that is what they're probably thinking of. Gonna be a long Monday.
You are - but it's not hilarious.
2 and 5 are both only primes once. After that, any number ending in either is no longer a prime. Thus, all prime numbers after that (at least a billion) will not end in either a 2 or a 5. It's a knee slapper.
You are not alone. My first thought was, "Man, the Slashdot reader has gone downhill." My second was, "Oh, we're being baited. Makes sense from a business perspective. I'd be surprised if BIZX wasn't doing so intentionally. They'd almost be silly to not do so. We're pretty gullible and love outrage."
Then I realized that it was probably a little of both and here we are.
At any rate, it makes good business sense to include trivial things like that. It gets people talking. There's almost always something for the anally retentive people to be outraged about in every summary.
Well, that would have saved me some time. I gotta learn to scroll down before responding. Your answer is more complete than mine. I just sent 'em to the terminal and pointed in the right direction. Prime factorization, by its very nature - a solved problem. Although I did just learn something. It turns out there's some sort of limit as to the number's length in what it will factor in the terminal. I did no know that.
Not sure if serious...
Open terminal.
Enter: factor 7 && factor 11 && factor 19 && factor 30
Now, note the differences between the first three results and the fourth result.
Ah, grasshopper... When you understand *why* then you'll start to understand maths. It makes sense that it does so, does it not?
I'm an honest-to-goodness real-life one-of-them-there mathematicians (fully papered and everything) and I'll share the silliest thing that I can think of.
I hated math. No, I hated it. It made no sense - but I was good with rote. Then, a teacher shared something along the lines of this, "You know, if you just square the triangle and divide it in half, it's the same thing."
Now that might seem trivial - and it is... But, prior to that, I'd not been able to conceptualize any math really. Abacus-level math I could do but nothing else, not really. It's something in the way my brain works - or doesn't. Until it "clicks" I'm really only good for regurgitation and not so good at comprehension. It was that one little thing (like a Buzzfeed article) that made me "get it."
It changed my whole life and I've returned to thank that teacher many times. I generally get out to see him a few times a year and he's getting a bit old and crusty now but is still kicking and doing fairly well at it.
WTF? Why, in the name of all that's good, would they...
Oh, I just noticed. You're still new here. *sighs*
Look, nobody reads the article. Nobody is going to read a scientific paper. Well, a few of us might read the article (I'm not admitting to anything) but those of us who do, also know how to find the applicable paper.
If you look at the very top post in the thread, there's someone bitching that there is no link to the article. Yet, the article link is right next to the title - where it has been for almost a year now. (They're sometimes in the summary as well. Not always.) That should tell you, they being a representative of the average one of us, how often we actually even read the article - or even look for the URL.
They're not going to do it. The two other people who read the article know where Arxiv is. The editor would have to, you know, work. Ain't happening. Submit stories with the link included if you're passionate. 'Snot going to change in your lifetime. You're probably the 10,985,729th (see what I did there?) person to suggest that - this month.
A distro's support mailing list recently had a comment about this. It wasn't even trolling, just some new guy.
The response, and only response, that I saw was someone who said, "With today's SSD and hardware being so fast, I don't even need it. It's a useless feature anyway."
Which is emblematic of my largest distaste for the community. It's certainly not something I have against Linux, the kernel, but that is rather atypical for the many communities surrounding it.
I almost responded, "Nope, it works fine for me." (It really does.) But, fortunately, I don't drink any more and I'm generally not an asshole. Well, not always.
I decided that I'd scroll down prior to hitting submit. *sighs*
I don't think Lennart's got tits. But, he does have nipples. Lennart's Nubian Third Nipple...
Hmm... Nope, still not funny. Maybe they'll aim higher?
You might want to look into those free speech zones. They were first used by the Democrats at the DNC in New York in 1988. So, while you still might remember Bush's, you might want to remember where they originated and realize that the Republicans aren't the only ones nor the originators.
If nothing else, this is great marketing for them - assuming it turns out to be true. I'll watch and consider changing/adding them.