Don't forget to ask 'em about privacy, about ubiquity - not all of us live in areas where the maps are accurate - or even remotely accurate. (Remember my story about the bus(es) full of Canadian foliage tourists that show up in my driveway every year?) I modeled traffic for a living - well enough so that my business has long since been sold and I'm happily retired. I'm a driving enthusiast - someone who's taken many, many advanced driving courses and even done things like take special classes, rent exotics, and then spend a week or so doing laps at Nurburgring. Yeah... I'd like to think I've got a qualified opinion.
What's awesome is when they say how many miles the cars have driven without accidents. Sure, how many times have humans intervened and how much of that was on roads that were unfamiliar? How much of that was in less than optimal situations?
However, my big concern is privacy but nobody gets that part. Ah well... It's amusing that they rate you as the one making assumptions about the state of the art. I've followed the state of the art and it'll get there, someday. Yay for having no more autonomy of self and having limits to where you can go as well as being monitored for going there. Enjoy your hike if you want privacy.
I don't mind. I'll be dead and gone before it's ubiquitous or mandated. Even if it gets more expensive to drive, I've got a few bucks. Sorry for the rest of you but I can do no more than what I'm doing. This can not be done, nor will it, without huge privacy concerns. Fuck that. And before someone says that I can't drive without being seen, I'd like to point out that I can go from my home to Canada without even crossing a routed highway. Err... It's not speedy or legal - but I can.
They will say that you paid for the right to watch it - from a very specific location, probably within the borders of the country you reside in. I have not read the terms of service but it's quite possible that they'd be right. If this is a problem for you then you *did* read the terms of service, right?
Real life is not the playground. Just like, "They did it first!" is not really a good excuse. Life is not fair.
I recently came across some NL company that offers hosting. They have 50 GB of free backup but only if you're local, everyone else has to pay. They check your IP address and spit you out to their.eu site when you try to sign up for it. I suppose you might say that's not fair. Odd that you threaten to pirate it? Is it that meaningful?
Hmm... There might be some truth to that - though I've not noticed any bugs with my preferred distro in a while. There was one but it was introduced by VMWare. Then, there are other bugs. I don't notice 'em. I figure a security update means there was a bug. For *just* the stuff direct with the distro, I get about 6 updates a week. Alright, thanks for explaining what you meant. I'm not sure if I'd use 'robust' for that but at least it makes sense now.
Actually, he may be right. I've *personally* purchased bulk hardware from Apple for a local elementary school. I adopted the school when I retired and moved into the area. I refresh fairly often and let them keep the older gear - the MBA was a great hit and was appreciated a bunch. I'll probably be doing the same thing again this summer but I've not had the time to devote to doing so.
The price per unit was very, very low when compared to the full MSRP. I think I signed an agreement that says I can't tell you the figures which is kind of good because I don't remember them. However, suffice to say, the prices were very good. In fact, they were good enough so that I've commented on them multiple times over the years.
I'm not even buying a lot of them. There are only 56 students in the entire school (the number will be increasing a little) and every student gets one, there are some spares, and there are some for staff. Not all students get to take them home with them but, to date, none have ever been rendered irreparable or stolen. I should add that they're not currently using Apple products. They'll probably be getting Apple products next time.
This is why anecdotes are not always as valuable as those who refer to them might believe they are. There are many, many sources for the numbers that show that people buy more stuff on iOS than they do on any of the others. They've been referred to, cited, and even given formal studies. You and your wife would be statistical anomalies. It's okay, I understand. I own, and like, a Windows phone and have all of the applications I can possibly want in the store. I'm pretty sure I can't use my experience to extrapolate what the rest of the world is doing.
Hmm... Okay... Define for me, if you don't mind, "robust." How is OS X more robust than, well... Any OS? 'Cause I'm not seeing that. I'm not seeing how it's more robust than any other modern operating system. I wouldn't say it is better - nor would I say it is worse. I'd say it does some things differently. There is nothing that I've ever found that I can't do on any operating system - where end results are the goal. Some just make it a easier or harder but the end is the same.
Note: I'm not an operating system zealot or anything - I've never met an OS I didn't like. I've met some I didn't prefer and some interfaces I didn't like. I really am curious as to what you mean by robust.
Why would Linus care about user interfaces? And, to the extent that he can, he does - very much - care. You do not break user-space. But, there is no GUI for Linus to care about. He works with the kernel. That's it. That's what he does. He doesn't control the GUI. He's got nothing to do with that. Linux has no anything - it's just a kernel.
That said, you say some funny things. I don't do much (any?) development any more - except for a couple of small personal projects, I do nothing. I use Linux to the exclusion of all else. Yup. I'd surmise that there are usable applications for non-development.
Not that I give a shit what OS you use, just be honest with yourself (and us). I don't tie myself to an OS nor do I try to pretend my choices matter to anyone but myself. My ego is not that frail.
Is that like when your fellow employees say they've been doing lots of work but you never see it? Finally, a month later, they push their code into the trunk and it kills the project?
That there karma is meant for burning. If you don't get to spend it, why earn it?
I guess the real point is, there are lots of threads about subjects I'm not too keen on. I read 'em or I don't. I don't bother to complain about them - others are enjoying them. Which is kind of the point... Why stop people from having fun?
At any rate, it's good that they had one this Friday. Else your next Monday might have been a whole lot different. You'd be out there oppressing, raping, and probably taking candy from babies. You must keep your inner monster in check. The presumption being, of course, that you have an inner monster.
They couldn't not know. Do you have any idea what that did to the sky? There were brilliant Auroras that lasted for ages, a giant friggen fireball visible from thousands of miles away, and then light continuing to spread from there, lighting up areas across the globe but not directly - it made the dark sky light(er).
There was no hiding this one. There were others that were higher and others that were lower. Some could be seen, some not so easily noticed with the tech they had back then. They still had planes with radiation detectors and they all spied on each other worse than they ever do today. This was something like 1962. The whole world knew about it - they announced the scientific discovery at one point. Not long after.
See, I really think that least privilege is a good start. I know that's not the case if the nurse can play minesweeper and visit Facebook. Yeah, they're gonna be pissed. Then, it really has to be functional. It has to be functional all the time - and redundant, perhaps several layers of redundancy. Use that to YOUR advantage. They can't login? They get a dumb device and someone enters the results from charts into the computers later. Sorry, learn to carry your card and remember the password, Doctor. You too, nurse - your job now includes that such is sanitary and a part of his tool set. Make sure it is there - use that to your advantage too. You now have two or three factor identification.
I can go on... The code should be small, light, and dedicated. Features that do not get used don't get turned off, they don't get included. No, that application doesn't need an HTTP server when it can communicate over more authenticated methods. Couple that with the identifications already being given with the device (they're physically there oftentimes) use that as the time to make that a part of security too. Guests want wireless? Sure... Err... That system should, quite literally, not even use any of the same *hardware* that the hospital's stuff runs on.
Need I go on? I will not accept that it can not be done. I know it can be. There's a lot that's on the network and using protocols it doesn't need. There are a whole lot of features that are nice to have but are not needed. There are records that are nice to have immediately available with access from a very disparate group. That can be locked down, it's doable. Credentials have to be shown - make it so. Lock it to hardware, authenticate and whitelist and whitelist only. Allow only certain permissions, use a separate file-system for inbound rights, merge as needed/sanitized/authenticated - allow no write access anywhere from beyond that isolated spot. You can even tie it to remote hardware but that won't add much protection if it's their end that's compromised. It'll look good on a checkbox but I can think of better ways to authenticate that hardware that require multiple forms of authentication and needn't be connected to anything other than their own local system (with similar permissions and network).
There's no reason to even issue IPs outside of a certain sector and then control who hands out those addresses. Go with IPv6. Now you've closed the entry routes from remote, at the least privilege. Stuff from outside the network gets routed to null. Screw it, another country wants to join? You put them at a gateway and they all enter through that. Again, each place using the proper security. It doesn't really matter if they don't, they can't do much to you if you keep your shit locked down and away from them. Don't give remote issues and even use the opportunity to secure the physical realm.
It *is* hard. It does mean that they're not general purpose computers. They're limited devices and they SHOULD be. If they don't need it, they shouldn't have it. It really doesn't matter, too much, what operating system you use - but you're damned well going to want a mixed environment. Not for security, that's fucking stupid. You want a mixed environment because some things are easier to accomplish on varied operating systems. The communications protocols should be standard and simple. It's easier to filter simple and it's more robust. If you can get away with pushing bits out over a friggen' physical port instead of wireless then do it! If it can be written to, at all, then authenticate it. If it can send traffic, then make sure it can only send traffic to where it has to go - and at that end, have nothing else but that.
You've got virtual machines, you've got containers, you've got jails, you've got firejail for Linux, you've got all these tools. I have faith in you. And no, no I won't come work for you. No, not even for that much. I'm retired, I kind of hate computers anyhow. Well, I did for a lot of years. I didn't even own one until I was pretty old by most
It's Friday. It's what we do. I believe your role is to run around and call them idiots. The people you will be calling idiots will be making non-sequitur-based remarks about how all their ills are due to "SJWs." My job is to laugh at you all and throw in snarky comments. Presumably, a few people get drunk and angry and have long pissing matches about entirely off-topic subjects. Then, even drunker moderators come in and mark the place up, awarding points for originality, style, and punctuation.
If you're not going to do your part then the game's just going to go on without you. I believe your side is currently down, 3 to 7.
It's Friday. We gotta have SJW Friday. Hell, we haven't had SJW Friday in ages. It's damned near a tradition.
You don't want to ruin a tradition, do you?
Also, the belief that Slashdot was ever "good" is easily remedied by going back and reading the comments in the old threads. I've done so. I've done so many times. No, Slashdot was *never* good.
I have a lot of friends and spend a bit of time with them in what they self-reference as the "Queer Community."
What's amusing is that the vast, vast majority of them are not actually the whiny, complaining, unhappy folks - specifically about subjects like this. They'd think it was awesome and maybe even dance with 'em too. And they're awesome people.
I hate to say this, it just kind of sounds wrong. I'm not very good at articulating things, so, I'm not sure if this will come out right. Basically, the only vocal, whining, and similar members of the Queer Community are actually those who seem to have picked their sexuality like a fashion accessory. I am sorry that I don't have a better way to express that.
It seems they've influenced a lot of people who seem to feel they need to go to the defense of the Queer Community. If there's one thing I've learned from hanging out with them (for many, many years - like since the early 1970s) is that they don't really need a whole lot of help, protection, or anything like that. They've often taken enough shit so that they're quite good at standing up for themselves when they need to. I'd be pissed if people were standing up for me. That's telling me that I can't stand up for myself, or that they think I'm unable to. Fuck 'em. It's why I'd never take a damned thing from "affirmative action." That's just telling me that I'm unable to do it on my own and that I need help. Yeah, that's a fucking cool message to tell me.
*sighs* I feel a rant coming on and I'm lazy. The neighbor's got good weed and I got some yesterday. I think I just might have a solution. How ironic that their bitching has made me bitchy. Heh... But *my* outrage is just! Yeah, I'm gonna smoke. People suck. I'm glad I'm not a people.
What amuses me is that they're claiming that they're not a prude - and expecting us to believe this. It might be true, they might be mentally ill and not a prude at all. How sick do you have to be to get upset that someone's enjoying themselves, harmlessly, in a manner that doesn't suit your tastes - especially given that there were piles of other amusements.
They're like the fat chick at the dance who sits in the corner and cries because the good-looking people are all having fun dancing. She's usually got a gaggle of friends who try to comfort her and giving her affirmation that the people enjoying themselves are assholes for having fun. I swear to fucking God, it's like the world's decided to stay stuck in Junior High for the past 20 years, Pope. How these people made it to adulthood without being so offended by everything and just stringing up is beyond me.
"Some people were enjoying something I don't like! I'm ANGRY and will find a way to make my outrage known! I am Morality Police Man! Hero to Fat Chicks and Bane of Devilment!"
*sighs* I need to start drinking again. It's been over a few years. It might make me understand people better - or not give a shit. It still makes me disappointed with humanity and society. They've repeated, a few times, that they're not a prude. Methinks he doth protest too much.
I do, however, have a problem with a deliberately sexually charged atmosphere at a corporate event when the corporation's line of business is entirely independent of it.
Then don't go. That simple. Let people have fun without you but don't try to stop their fun. You're not the morality police. You're complaining about an event that hurt nobody. Literally... Not one single person was hurt.
You're manufacturing reasons to be pissy. It probably makes you feel better about yourself. I suspect there are underlying reasons but I'll skip speculating. In short, maybe seek professional help if you feel the need to complain when others are having fun that harms nobody.
They don't have to go get fucked but I'm not sure why they'd feel obligated to not let other people enjoy themselves. I understand that it's sad when someone else is enjoying themselves and you're not but everything in life isn't able to please everything else. I'm not sure why people are so hell bent on preventing other people from enjoying themselves. I'm sure there were plenty of other things to do than look at the ladies. It's not like it was just pretty ladies to the exclusion of all else.
If you don't like it, don't pay attention to it and do something else. But, for fuck's sake, stop trying to stop other people from enjoying themselves. It's literally not hurting anyone. It's okay if someone else is enjoying themselves more than you are. That doesn't need to diminish your enjoyment at all. You don't have to be angry that someone else is having fun. Do you get angry when you're too big to ride on the children's rides at the fair? Do you try to kick the kids off because it's not inclusive enough and you can't enjoy it? 'Cause that's what it sounds like to me.
It's yet another case of manufactured outrage. You don't even have a good reason to be outraged except that other people were enjoying themselves and, instead of paying attention to the things they might have enjoyed instead, they paid attention to the fact that others were enjoying themselves more than they were. It's sad, it really is. People have varied interests, let them enjoy them so long as they're not harming anyone. Nobody, nobody at all, was harmed in this event.
I read the usernames before reading the comments, very frequently, out of habit. It helps me make a mental profile. As you know, I like and respect your views. So, I was already expecting you to comment. This is, after all, bugs. Then I saw there reply. I had my hopes up.
I'm kind of surprised that you didn't go with something akin to, "All bugs are potential security problems." Or, "Code should be bug free." (That would have been funny.) I was then expecting a bunch of links to books on the subject.;-)
Anyhow, further down the thread I left you another reply. That'll get you started on your way to at least isolating stuff - if you want. You can build profiles and aliases. You can do all sorts of things with it. I am not a guru with it yet - and don't even bother with it all the time. I don't find it adding much overhead or anything so it's probably a good idea for me to find a nice easy to way to automate it. But, that's a subject for the other reply.
I was expecting a more verbose and lively response as I'd noticed who started the thread and then seen the reply. I'm also familiar with your varied signatures, comments, and journal posts. I'm familiar with your programming philosophy (or what you've shared of it) and how you feel about bugs and security - as well as your feelings about their production and those who produced them.
I dunno... It's not *that* huge? I've been playing with Dillo lately. I sometimes use eLinks and Lynx. The code base for all of those is not that large. On Windows, I used to sometimes use something called Off-By-One which is kind of neat, actually. I almost licensed the source at one point to build my own browser just for gits and shiggles. It was not all that large and a quick look tells me that it's still not all that large - when built.
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Don't forget to ask 'em about privacy, about ubiquity - not all of us live in areas where the maps are accurate - or even remotely accurate. (Remember my story about the bus(es) full of Canadian foliage tourists that show up in my driveway every year?) I modeled traffic for a living - well enough so that my business has long since been sold and I'm happily retired. I'm a driving enthusiast - someone who's taken many, many advanced driving courses and even done things like take special classes, rent exotics, and then spend a week or so doing laps at Nurburgring. Yeah... I'd like to think I've got a qualified opinion.
What's awesome is when they say how many miles the cars have driven without accidents. Sure, how many times have humans intervened and how much of that was on roads that were unfamiliar? How much of that was in less than optimal situations?
However, my big concern is privacy but nobody gets that part. Ah well... It's amusing that they rate you as the one making assumptions about the state of the art. I've followed the state of the art and it'll get there, someday. Yay for having no more autonomy of self and having limits to where you can go as well as being monitored for going there. Enjoy your hike if you want privacy.
I don't mind. I'll be dead and gone before it's ubiquitous or mandated. Even if it gets more expensive to drive, I've got a few bucks. Sorry for the rest of you but I can do no more than what I'm doing. This can not be done, nor will it, without huge privacy concerns. Fuck that. And before someone says that I can't drive without being seen, I'd like to point out that I can go from my home to Canada without even crossing a routed highway. Err... It's not speedy or legal - but I can.
It's pretty low-cost, on average. Don't forget to mention that!
They will say that you paid for the right to watch it - from a very specific location, probably within the borders of the country you reside in. I have not read the terms of service but it's quite possible that they'd be right. If this is a problem for you then you *did* read the terms of service, right?
> How is that fair?
Real life is not the playground. Just like, "They did it first!" is not really a good excuse. Life is not fair.
I recently came across some NL company that offers hosting. They have 50 GB of free backup but only if you're local, everyone else has to pay. They check your IP address and spit you out to their .eu site when you try to sign up for it. I suppose you might say that's not fair. Odd that you threaten to pirate it? Is it that meaningful?
Hmm... There might be some truth to that - though I've not noticed any bugs with my preferred distro in a while. There was one but it was introduced by VMWare. Then, there are other bugs. I don't notice 'em. I figure a security update means there was a bug. For *just* the stuff direct with the distro, I get about 6 updates a week. Alright, thanks for explaining what you meant. I'm not sure if I'd use 'robust' for that but at least it makes sense now.
Actually, he may be right. I've *personally* purchased bulk hardware from Apple for a local elementary school. I adopted the school when I retired and moved into the area. I refresh fairly often and let them keep the older gear - the MBA was a great hit and was appreciated a bunch. I'll probably be doing the same thing again this summer but I've not had the time to devote to doing so.
The price per unit was very, very low when compared to the full MSRP. I think I signed an agreement that says I can't tell you the figures which is kind of good because I don't remember them. However, suffice to say, the prices were very good. In fact, they were good enough so that I've commented on them multiple times over the years.
I'm not even buying a lot of them. There are only 56 students in the entire school (the number will be increasing a little) and every student gets one, there are some spares, and there are some for staff. Not all students get to take them home with them but, to date, none have ever been rendered irreparable or stolen. I should add that they're not currently using Apple products. They'll probably be getting Apple products next time.
This is why anecdotes are not always as valuable as those who refer to them might believe they are. There are many, many sources for the numbers that show that people buy more stuff on iOS than they do on any of the others. They've been referred to, cited, and even given formal studies. You and your wife would be statistical anomalies. It's okay, I understand. I own, and like, a Windows phone and have all of the applications I can possibly want in the store. I'm pretty sure I can't use my experience to extrapolate what the rest of the world is doing.
Hmm... Okay... Define for me, if you don't mind, "robust." How is OS X more robust than, well... Any OS? 'Cause I'm not seeing that. I'm not seeing how it's more robust than any other modern operating system. I wouldn't say it is better - nor would I say it is worse. I'd say it does some things differently. There is nothing that I've ever found that I can't do on any operating system - where end results are the goal. Some just make it a easier or harder but the end is the same.
Note: I'm not an operating system zealot or anything - I've never met an OS I didn't like. I've met some I didn't prefer and some interfaces I didn't like. I really am curious as to what you mean by robust.
> Pray tell, what needs to real programmers have, that an OSX machine cannot possibly provide?
That really depends on what they're programming or programming for, now doesn't it?
And the goal is to get to Kansas the quickest and most efficient way.
Why would Linus care about user interfaces? And, to the extent that he can, he does - very much - care. You do not break user-space. But, there is no GUI for Linus to care about. He works with the kernel. That's it. That's what he does. He doesn't control the GUI. He's got nothing to do with that. Linux has no anything - it's just a kernel.
That said, you say some funny things. I don't do much (any?) development any more - except for a couple of small personal projects, I do nothing. I use Linux to the exclusion of all else. Yup. I'd surmise that there are usable applications for non-development.
Not that I give a shit what OS you use, just be honest with yourself (and us). I don't tie myself to an OS nor do I try to pretend my choices matter to anyone but myself. My ego is not that frail.
> mad ninja coding skills
Is that like when your fellow employees say they've been doing lots of work but you never see it? Finally, a month later, they push their code into the trunk and it kills the project?
That there karma is meant for burning. If you don't get to spend it, why earn it?
I guess the real point is, there are lots of threads about subjects I'm not too keen on. I read 'em or I don't. I don't bother to complain about them - others are enjoying them. Which is kind of the point... Why stop people from having fun?
At any rate, it's good that they had one this Friday. Else your next Monday might have been a whole lot different. You'd be out there oppressing, raping, and probably taking candy from babies. You must keep your inner monster in check. The presumption being, of course, that you have an inner monster.
They couldn't not know. Do you have any idea what that did to the sky? There were brilliant Auroras that lasted for ages, a giant friggen fireball visible from thousands of miles away, and then light continuing to spread from there, lighting up areas across the globe but not directly - it made the dark sky light(er).
There was no hiding this one. There were others that were higher and others that were lower. Some could be seen, some not so easily noticed with the tech they had back then. They still had planes with radiation detectors and they all spied on each other worse than they ever do today. This was something like 1962. The whole world knew about it - they announced the scientific discovery at one point. Not long after.
See, I really think that least privilege is a good start. I know that's not the case if the nurse can play minesweeper and visit Facebook. Yeah, they're gonna be pissed. Then, it really has to be functional. It has to be functional all the time - and redundant, perhaps several layers of redundancy. Use that to YOUR advantage. They can't login? They get a dumb device and someone enters the results from charts into the computers later. Sorry, learn to carry your card and remember the password, Doctor. You too, nurse - your job now includes that such is sanitary and a part of his tool set. Make sure it is there - use that to your advantage too. You now have two or three factor identification.
I can go on... The code should be small, light, and dedicated. Features that do not get used don't get turned off, they don't get included. No, that application doesn't need an HTTP server when it can communicate over more authenticated methods. Couple that with the identifications already being given with the device (they're physically there oftentimes) use that as the time to make that a part of security too. Guests want wireless? Sure... Err... That system should, quite literally, not even use any of the same *hardware* that the hospital's stuff runs on.
Need I go on? I will not accept that it can not be done. I know it can be. There's a lot that's on the network and using protocols it doesn't need. There are a whole lot of features that are nice to have but are not needed. There are records that are nice to have immediately available with access from a very disparate group. That can be locked down, it's doable. Credentials have to be shown - make it so. Lock it to hardware, authenticate and whitelist and whitelist only. Allow only certain permissions, use a separate file-system for inbound rights, merge as needed/sanitized/authenticated - allow no write access anywhere from beyond that isolated spot. You can even tie it to remote hardware but that won't add much protection if it's their end that's compromised. It'll look good on a checkbox but I can think of better ways to authenticate that hardware that require multiple forms of authentication and needn't be connected to anything other than their own local system (with similar permissions and network).
There's no reason to even issue IPs outside of a certain sector and then control who hands out those addresses. Go with IPv6. Now you've closed the entry routes from remote, at the least privilege. Stuff from outside the network gets routed to null. Screw it, another country wants to join? You put them at a gateway and they all enter through that. Again, each place using the proper security. It doesn't really matter if they don't, they can't do much to you if you keep your shit locked down and away from them. Don't give remote issues and even use the opportunity to secure the physical realm.
It *is* hard. It does mean that they're not general purpose computers. They're limited devices and they SHOULD be. If they don't need it, they shouldn't have it. It really doesn't matter, too much, what operating system you use - but you're damned well going to want a mixed environment. Not for security, that's fucking stupid. You want a mixed environment because some things are easier to accomplish on varied operating systems. The communications protocols should be standard and simple. It's easier to filter simple and it's more robust. If you can get away with pushing bits out over a friggen' physical port instead of wireless then do it! If it can be written to, at all, then authenticate it. If it can send traffic, then make sure it can only send traffic to where it has to go - and at that end, have nothing else but that.
You've got virtual machines, you've got containers, you've got jails, you've got firejail for Linux, you've got all these tools. I have faith in you. And no, no I won't come work for you. No, not even for that much. I'm retired, I kind of hate computers anyhow. Well, I did for a lot of years. I didn't even own one until I was pretty old by most
It's Friday. It's what we do. I believe your role is to run around and call them idiots. The people you will be calling idiots will be making non-sequitur-based remarks about how all their ills are due to "SJWs." My job is to laugh at you all and throw in snarky comments. Presumably, a few people get drunk and angry and have long pissing matches about entirely off-topic subjects. Then, even drunker moderators come in and mark the place up, awarding points for originality, style, and punctuation.
If you're not going to do your part then the game's just going to go on without you. I believe your side is currently down, 3 to 7.
It's Friday. We gotta have SJW Friday. Hell, we haven't had SJW Friday in ages. It's damned near a tradition.
You don't want to ruin a tradition, do you?
Also, the belief that Slashdot was ever "good" is easily remedied by going back and reading the comments in the old threads. I've done so. I've done so many times. No, Slashdot was *never* good.
I have a lot of friends and spend a bit of time with them in what they self-reference as the "Queer Community."
What's amusing is that the vast, vast majority of them are not actually the whiny, complaining, unhappy folks - specifically about subjects like this. They'd think it was awesome and maybe even dance with 'em too. And they're awesome people.
I hate to say this, it just kind of sounds wrong. I'm not very good at articulating things, so, I'm not sure if this will come out right. Basically, the only vocal, whining, and similar members of the Queer Community are actually those who seem to have picked their sexuality like a fashion accessory. I am sorry that I don't have a better way to express that.
It seems they've influenced a lot of people who seem to feel they need to go to the defense of the Queer Community. If there's one thing I've learned from hanging out with them (for many, many years - like since the early 1970s) is that they don't really need a whole lot of help, protection, or anything like that. They've often taken enough shit so that they're quite good at standing up for themselves when they need to. I'd be pissed if people were standing up for me. That's telling me that I can't stand up for myself, or that they think I'm unable to. Fuck 'em. It's why I'd never take a damned thing from "affirmative action." That's just telling me that I'm unable to do it on my own and that I need help. Yeah, that's a fucking cool message to tell me.
*sighs* I feel a rant coming on and I'm lazy. The neighbor's got good weed and I got some yesterday. I think I just might have a solution. How ironic that their bitching has made me bitchy. Heh... But *my* outrage is just! Yeah, I'm gonna smoke. People suck. I'm glad I'm not a people.
What amuses me is that they're claiming that they're not a prude - and expecting us to believe this. It might be true, they might be mentally ill and not a prude at all. How sick do you have to be to get upset that someone's enjoying themselves, harmlessly, in a manner that doesn't suit your tastes - especially given that there were piles of other amusements.
They're like the fat chick at the dance who sits in the corner and cries because the good-looking people are all having fun dancing. She's usually got a gaggle of friends who try to comfort her and giving her affirmation that the people enjoying themselves are assholes for having fun. I swear to fucking God, it's like the world's decided to stay stuck in Junior High for the past 20 years, Pope. How these people made it to adulthood without being so offended by everything and just stringing up is beyond me.
"Some people were enjoying something I don't like! I'm ANGRY and will find a way to make my outrage known! I am Morality Police Man! Hero to Fat Chicks and Bane of Devilment!"
*sighs* I need to start drinking again. It's been over a few years. It might make me understand people better - or not give a shit. It still makes me disappointed with humanity and society. They've repeated, a few times, that they're not a prude. Methinks he doth protest too much.
I do, however, have a problem with a deliberately sexually charged atmosphere at a corporate event when the corporation's line of business is entirely independent of it.
Then don't go. That simple. Let people have fun without you but don't try to stop their fun. You're not the morality police. You're complaining about an event that hurt nobody. Literally... Not one single person was hurt.
You're manufacturing reasons to be pissy. It probably makes you feel better about yourself. I suspect there are underlying reasons but I'll skip speculating. In short, maybe seek professional help if you feel the need to complain when others are having fun that harms nobody.
They don't have to go get fucked but I'm not sure why they'd feel obligated to not let other people enjoy themselves. I understand that it's sad when someone else is enjoying themselves and you're not but everything in life isn't able to please everything else. I'm not sure why people are so hell bent on preventing other people from enjoying themselves. I'm sure there were plenty of other things to do than look at the ladies. It's not like it was just pretty ladies to the exclusion of all else.
If you don't like it, don't pay attention to it and do something else. But, for fuck's sake, stop trying to stop other people from enjoying themselves. It's literally not hurting anyone. It's okay if someone else is enjoying themselves more than you are. That doesn't need to diminish your enjoyment at all. You don't have to be angry that someone else is having fun. Do you get angry when you're too big to ride on the children's rides at the fair? Do you try to kick the kids off because it's not inclusive enough and you can't enjoy it? 'Cause that's what it sounds like to me.
It's yet another case of manufactured outrage. You don't even have a good reason to be outraged except that other people were enjoying themselves and, instead of paying attention to the things they might have enjoyed instead, they paid attention to the fact that others were enjoying themselves more than they were. It's sad, it really is. People have varied interests, let them enjoy them so long as they're not harming anyone. Nobody, nobody at all, was harmed in this event.
I read the usernames before reading the comments, very frequently, out of habit. It helps me make a mental profile. As you know, I like and respect your views. So, I was already expecting you to comment. This is, after all, bugs. Then I saw there reply. I had my hopes up.
I'm kind of surprised that you didn't go with something akin to, "All bugs are potential security problems." Or, "Code should be bug free." (That would have been funny.) I was then expecting a bunch of links to books on the subject. ;-)
Anyhow, further down the thread I left you another reply. That'll get you started on your way to at least isolating stuff - if you want. You can build profiles and aliases. You can do all sorts of things with it. I am not a guru with it yet - and don't even bother with it all the time. I don't find it adding much overhead or anything so it's probably a good idea for me to find a nice easy to way to automate it. But, that's a subject for the other reply.
I've been playing with something called "firejail."
Here's a handy link to check it out a bit:
http://www.linux-magazine.com/...
I was expecting a more verbose and lively response as I'd noticed who started the thread and then seen the reply. I'm also familiar with your varied signatures, comments, and journal posts. I'm familiar with your programming philosophy (or what you've shared of it) and how you feel about bugs and security - as well as your feelings about their production and those who produced them.
I was actually looking forward to a good rant. ;-)
I dunno... It's not *that* huge? I've been playing with Dillo lately. I sometimes use eLinks and Lynx. The code base for all of those is not that large. On Windows, I used to sometimes use something called Off-By-One which is kind of neat, actually. I almost licensed the source at one point to build my own browser just for gits and shiggles. It was not all that large and a quick look tells me that it's still not all that large - when built.