is design a time machine to go back three years and peddle this afterthought to the linux community, just as theyre putting the finishing touches on a workable desktop video driver for AMD cards that supports HDMI.
then nvidia can hop back in and take a trip 5 years back, and fix the problem with faulty chips they just decided to ship and apologize for as an afterthought.
while we're fidgeting with the knobs in our video card tardis of sorts, we can shuffle on back to the point in nvidia history when despite overwhelming support by AMD for 64 bit linux, nvidia decided 32 bit was all they were getting.
where government mandated licenses are routinely applied for, granted, and promptly ignored.
see your local highway at 5:00, or the local megacorp's environmental policy in action.
israel probably did this, and they went to great lengths to make sure it was clandestine. we all know the horrible political repercussions israel would face from america if it were caught doing something as nefarious as killing scientists or hacking into power plants in a foreign nation with the largest minority jewish population in the middle east.
its absolutely imperative that countries like iran be restricted access to develop their own power plants with their own fuel. they may divert their nuclear program for nefarious intent, like breaking away from western plutocratic foreign policy. a nation with more residents than the country of england couldnt possibly need nuclear fuel for medical imaging devices or academic research.
the BOFH at the university of pittsburg shrugged and remarked, "check with that new CS PHD who just had to have his crontab restored on a saturday night. Its been filling up the outbound mail spool all damn day."
duke energy has dropped its plans for a new power plant in Atlanta citing the rotational velocity of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Junior has decreased exponentially as of recent.
40 years stripping funding from public education,
passing asinine laws like "teach the controversy"
raising tuition costs at public universities
outsourcing technical jobs to the phillipines and china
only to hold a "public competition" to see who among those left standing from academia can invent something bold, new, and amazing which will then be targeted for acquisition by one of americas officially approved, sanctioned tech companies (google, apple, microsoft, pick one it doesnt matter) and if there is any resistance to this process, it will be obliterated through patent litigation or lobbied to death until no one has it. At which time megacorp will proclaim a new and bold innovation that sounds strikingly familiar.
america doesnt want innovation because it has the power to displace monopolistic plutocracies. another fact of the matter is that health insurance, dental, vision, 401k, retirement, and all the cool things about being an employee are really fucking expensive. companies would rather not hire 50 people to come up with a new invention, especially during a recession that some of these companies were directly complicit in creating. just take a few grand for your efforts and give us the goods, they say. on the government level its also why DARPA hosts most of these things. Keep working on fun new robots but for god sake dont question the economic or foreign policy that relegated you to joining a damn competition so you can afford dental work.
to address multiple issues, not the least of which is transgression against your freedom. while the arab spring fallout from wikileaks was an excellent goose for american foreign policy, the occupy movement has left a rank taste in the mouths of billionaires and the government has thus far run out of productive things to do with Bradley Manning, nude or clothed.
dont think of it as trampling your rights, think of it as pepperspray-prevention.
rural drivers in the "flyover states" dont want hybrids because they have relatively cheaper gasoline, free parking, emaciated public transit, and limited congestion problems. speaking for california we have plentiful public transit, expensive parking and gas thats brutally pricy as well. combine it with the fact that the average angelino spends 3 days a year stuck in traffic, and you have a tough time selling anything with four wheels, let alone a hybrid.
intelligent enough to txt me at work, if only to say, "your cat has oncemore lost traction on the waxed hallway floor, and smashed head on into the book case as usual with predictably hillarious results."
as the country with the greatest number of nuclear weapons, lead by example and scrap them. Its some much needed dreaming from an American whos lived his entire life never really knowing a time when we have not had a war in some permutation.
United States military protocol, a press conference was announced later on in the day at which an amorphous "surge strategy" was announced and a commitment to peace in the region was renewed. Many analysts in the media blamed weather or mechanical failure, while fox news attributed the terrorist mechanical failure to Obamacare death panels.
In response to media-fueled concerns and United States foreign policy
the country then promptly invaded the neighboring state of North Carolina.
we just call that 'working smarter.'
now make haste and begone ye wicked tax collector, tarry any further and we'll 'right-size' the 'human capital!'
muahahahaha,
Amazon, a beacon of american capitalism
P.S: The Kindle Fire is a 7-inch tablet that links seamlessly with Amazon's impressive collection of
digital music, video, magazine, and book services in one easy-to-use package! Prostrate yourself today!
instead of correlating cancer to things like BPE and other refined petrochemical bioaccumulants as well as using science to determine threatining chemicals in our endless consumer-driven product lines, we're just ignoring these or calling them 'cancer-suspect agents' or redefining the PEL to be met under laughably unrealistic conditions in the real world?
id make a cursory assertion that the lock-step rise in cancer rates is probably related somehow to the twin revolving-doors of the EPA and FDA, through which industry experts and regulators are frankly indistinguishable and utterly useless.
an administration that recognizes waterboarding is not in fact torture or one that secretly admits it is a form of turture.
if in fact waterboarding is not torture, then no espionage has been commited as waterboarding by its definition under the bush administration is a widely accepted enhanced interrogation technique that can be reasonably expected in any interrogation scenario in the world, as outlined by the geneva convention.
if however waterboarding is torture, then we have ourselves a case of espionage in that a secret employment of torture was authorized under the bush administration despite our acceptance of the geneva convention and adherence to a protocol that would in turn ensure our soldiers and foreign citizens will not be subjected to such harsh treatment.
Upgrading Slashdot to modern hardware and new versions of MySQL and Apache
back in my day we didnt need this new fangled DAC Alpha. the VAX is fine, you kids just want to change everything.
Cleaning up the topics pages
just when i was getting used to reading articles exclusively featuring a branded product like plantronics, you're taking it away? how will i know about the latest things telephones can do or what firewall to use?
Improving methods for sharing submissions
I aint got no facebook and I aint about to get one.
Thumbnails for articles with videos
I can read damnit im not illiterate. When i want a video of Bruce Schneier laying a jackboot into some fly-by-night vendor trash ill go to youtube. Unless its more Plantronics advertisements i just cant get enough of them things.
Flag-a-comment abuse reporting
there you go again changing a good thing. back in my day if youre abusing the "welcome our overlords" or "insensitive clod" memes youd earn yourself a shiny new -1. you, insensitive, clods.
Removal of old and unused Slashboxes
good. another new fangled feature what i never did use and didnt never need usin' anyway.
A much overdue overhauling of the FAQ
back in my day you didn't never need a FAQ, unless youre rewriting it for to get the latest version of Slackware runnin to curl out the pages. and it aint doin' me any good anyway I switched back to BSD 5 once i saw what they did to X11.
Fixes to user preferences
never set em, and i aint about to. thats what the crons for.
The launch of the Slashdot Hall of Fame (that little badge icon next to the logo)
if you have to put it in brackets youre either trying to sneak a perl joke in or you did such a piss poor job of defining the damn thing in the first place, you're hoping a little magic from Larry Wall is gonna help. kill the damned fame halls, im a geek. My fame is in a GIT commit.
Fixes to the D2 comment system. Highlights include bug fixes to the comment score slider, a better abbreviated view (if you quote the parent, that's removed so people can see your first sentence instead), and general reliability improvements to the AJAX magic
eeeeh just another damn magical thing i have to strip out of the curl feed.
And many more...
keep the damn changes. I want old slashdot the way i remembered it. Lots of fun tech stuff and science and when i turned the advertisements off they damn well stayed off. Bring back that kid that started the damn thing in the first place. you bastards are pedaling my childhood into the dirt.
nuclear plants, just like any other type of powerplant in the past 50 years requiring a superfund site cleanup at taxpayer expense, arent designed to withstand natural disaster in the pursuit of human health and safety.
the safeguards are in place in order to continue to sustain profits and return dividends well into the inevitable federal investigation and limited financial penalty levied against them. At which time the scientific concept of probability will be regurgitated and mourned about as fervently as a dead cat. It is in this case statistical probability is being used to placate people in much the same way as god is used to placate those into faith over reason.
plantronics actually causes cancer, and that only sex offenders and violent drug addled criminals would ever use it.
plantronics can also be scientifically linked to global warming.
but they shouldnt worry. comments on message boards never get indexed into, say, the reviews of a product as illicited by a google search;)
Yahoo sells off its search engine technology to microsoft to use in Bing, then fires 14% of the company in the pursuit of "pivoting its focus in a new direction."
your entire company was based on searching for shit on the internet; that was your expertise for more than a decade. Sure you have other products like email that are basically indistinguishable from competitors, but you havent hired anyone to replace these workers that would give the public an indication of your intents to focus or pivot on anything but firing more workers and parachuting more execs. at this point the only place left to "pivot" is chapter 11 bankruptcy.
dont exist to inform viewers of current events in a timely and accurate manner as part of their FCC mandate to offer the public a general good. Commercial television networks offer a news program to sell advertising air-time by finding stories and topics that revolve around easily exploitable human emotions. The abuse of context and deliberate indulgence with which networks engage in editorializing a story to the point of satire should be all the proof you need.
This isnt an NBC, CNN, FOX or ABC problem, its a problem with formerly independent news sources suddenly being treated as some sort of cash-cow revenue component of a television stations earnings, instead of a service offered to people without cost, as the FCC license intended.
get the sponsorship out of television news entirely. it should be unbiased objective reporting that sounds like C-SPAN and repeats itself every 30 minutes to an hour and holds itself accountable to some sort of law that requires truthfulness in journalism. The kind of standard that explicitly keeps fox out of canada.
in the laundry list of reasons I as a professionally trained engineer need to emigrate somewhere other than America.
we can have a constitution and a declaration that insist freedom for all and open arms to the tired weary who yearn to exchange nitrogen oxygen mixtures without oppression, sure. but what i find particularly offensive is that the zeal with which we trample over everything we proudly declare to despotic and non-despotic countries alike as "true democracy" in the pursuit of stopping terrorism.
Terrorism, for those unfamiliar with the vernacular as used in the american context, is the act which kills far fewer americans than diabetes and heart attacks "from sea to shining sea" every year. It is the mere utterance from whch blossoms carte-blanc policing not seen since the third reich of everything from trains to busses, your private automobile, and even the god damn Dodgers baseball stadium.
The irony of course, notwithstanding the staggaringly disproportional comparative death rates between disease and 'terror', is that we as a nation have trumpeted things like warrantless detention, search, and seisure as a cause against the american way for so long its become a 4x4 drum beat behind every political speach since taft.
part of me, as an american, yearns for this warrantless detention, that it may serve as a much needed nail in the coffin to which i have laid my patriotism. The other half would rather it not, for fear it would preclude my gainful employment and thus my credit, to which my entire life as an american is inextricably bound.
"Raspberry Pi Foundation previously believed certification will not be necessary" reads the article. everything from electric pencil sharpeners to dishwashers goes through a CE certification so why wouldnt this? its roughly the same as UL in the states, and basically keeps things like toasters and tea kettles from murdering users.
China is a country to which we keep a nuclear deterrence, in the eyes of many members of congress. When they approve a new start treaty or an arms bill, theyre thinking of china when once they thought of russia.
the cautious approach to china, that is accepting its slave labour with one hand and readying yourself for war with the other, is the ultimate hypocrisy of american capitalism. That you can simultaneously consider a country an enemy and a trading partner shows just how far free market economics can go toward making your country utterly contradictory.
have butter or have guns, but for god sake dont turn around and complain about counterfeit parts for the weapons you procure with your trading partner as consideration for their target. Equally, dont complain about the "slave labor" practices and "harsh crackdowns" from the government that basically stocks the shelves of every walmart in the country.
Slashdot Mirror
is design a time machine to go back three years and peddle this afterthought to the linux community, just as theyre putting the finishing touches on a workable desktop video driver for AMD cards that supports HDMI.
then nvidia can hop back in and take a trip 5 years back, and fix the problem with faulty chips they just decided to ship and apologize for as an afterthought.
while we're fidgeting with the knobs in our video card tardis of sorts, we can shuffle on back to the point in nvidia history when despite overwhelming support by AMD for 64 bit linux, nvidia decided 32 bit was all they were getting.
where government mandated licenses are routinely applied for, granted, and promptly ignored.
see your local highway at 5:00, or the local megacorp's environmental policy in action.
israel probably did this, and they went to great lengths to make sure it was clandestine. we all know the horrible political repercussions israel would face from america if it were caught doing something as nefarious as killing scientists or hacking into power plants in a foreign nation with the largest minority jewish population in the middle east.
its absolutely imperative that countries like iran be restricted access to develop their own power plants with their own fuel. they may divert their nuclear program for nefarious intent, like breaking away from western plutocratic foreign policy. a nation with more residents than the country of england couldnt possibly need nuclear fuel for medical imaging devices or academic research.
the BOFH at the university of pittsburg shrugged and remarked, "check with that new CS PHD who just had to have his crontab restored on a saturday night. Its been filling up the outbound mail spool all damn day."
duke energy has dropped its plans for a new power plant in Atlanta citing the rotational velocity of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Junior has decreased exponentially as of recent.
40 years stripping funding from public education,
passing asinine laws like "teach the controversy"
raising tuition costs at public universities
outsourcing technical jobs to the phillipines and china
only to hold a "public competition" to see who among those left standing from academia can invent something bold, new, and amazing which will then be targeted for acquisition by one of americas officially approved, sanctioned tech companies (google, apple, microsoft, pick one it doesnt matter) and if there is any resistance to this process, it will be obliterated through patent litigation or lobbied to death until no one has it. At which time megacorp will proclaim a new and bold innovation that sounds strikingly familiar.
america doesnt want innovation because it has the power to displace monopolistic plutocracies. another fact of the matter is that health insurance, dental, vision, 401k, retirement, and all the cool things about being an employee are really fucking expensive. companies would rather not hire 50 people to come up with a new invention, especially during a recession that some of these companies were directly complicit in creating. just take a few grand for your efforts and give us the goods, they say. on the government level its also why DARPA hosts most of these things. Keep working on fun new robots but for god sake dont question the economic or foreign policy that relegated you to joining a damn competition so you can afford dental work.
to address multiple issues, not the least of which is transgression against your freedom. while the arab spring fallout from wikileaks was an excellent goose for american foreign policy, the occupy movement has left a rank taste in the mouths of billionaires and the government has thus far run out of productive things to do with Bradley Manning, nude or clothed.
dont think of it as trampling your rights, think of it as pepperspray-prevention.
rural drivers in the "flyover states" dont want hybrids because they have relatively cheaper gasoline, free parking, emaciated public transit, and limited congestion problems. speaking for california we have plentiful public transit, expensive parking and gas thats brutally pricy as well. combine it with the fact that the average angelino spends 3 days a year stuck in traffic, and you have a tough time selling anything with four wheels, let alone a hybrid.
intelligent enough to txt me at work, if only to say, "your cat has oncemore lost traction on the waxed hallway floor, and smashed head on into the book case as usual with predictably hillarious results."
as the country with the greatest number of nuclear weapons, lead by example and scrap them. Its some much needed dreaming from an American whos lived his entire life never really knowing a time when we have not had a war in some permutation.
http://xkcd.com/218/
for my childhood, thank you Jack.
United States military protocol, a press conference was announced later on in the day at which an amorphous "surge strategy" was announced and a commitment to peace in the region was renewed. Many analysts in the media blamed weather or mechanical failure, while fox news attributed the terrorist mechanical failure to Obamacare death panels.
In response to media-fueled concerns and United States foreign policy
the country then promptly invaded the neighboring state of North Carolina.
we just call that 'working smarter.'
now make haste and begone ye wicked tax collector, tarry any further and we'll 'right-size' the 'human capital!'
muahahahaha,
Amazon, a beacon of american capitalism
P.S: The Kindle Fire is a 7-inch tablet that links seamlessly with Amazon's impressive collection of
digital music, video, magazine, and book services in one easy-to-use package! Prostrate yourself today!
Your marketing practices appear in line with our own marketing practices; our policies differ very little.
:)
why dont we meet in the middle?
regards, spammers.
P.S. we're can be just as committed to foreign uprisings in the interests of [insert country here] as you are, just let us know
instead of correlating cancer to things like BPE and other refined petrochemical bioaccumulants as well as using science to determine threatining chemicals in our endless consumer-driven product lines, we're just ignoring these or calling them 'cancer-suspect agents' or redefining the PEL to be met under laughably unrealistic conditions in the real world?
id make a cursory assertion that the lock-step rise in cancer rates is probably related somehow to the twin revolving-doors of the EPA and FDA, through which industry experts and regulators are frankly indistinguishable and utterly useless.
an administration that recognizes waterboarding is not in fact torture or one that secretly admits it is a form of turture.
if in fact waterboarding is not torture, then no espionage has been commited as waterboarding by its definition under the bush administration is a widely accepted enhanced interrogation technique that can be reasonably expected in any interrogation scenario in the world, as outlined by the geneva convention.
if however waterboarding is torture, then we have ourselves a case of espionage in that a secret employment of torture was authorized under the bush administration despite our acceptance of the geneva convention and adherence to a protocol that would in turn ensure our soldiers and foreign citizens will not be subjected to such harsh treatment.
Upgrading Slashdot to modern hardware and new versions of MySQL and Apache
back in my day we didnt need this new fangled DAC Alpha. the VAX is fine, you kids just want to change everything.
Cleaning up the topics pages
just when i was getting used to reading articles exclusively featuring a branded product like plantronics, you're taking it away? how will i know about the latest things telephones can do or what firewall to use?
Improving methods for sharing submissions
I aint got no facebook and I aint about to get one.
Thumbnails for articles with videos
I can read damnit im not illiterate. When i want a video of Bruce Schneier laying a jackboot into some fly-by-night vendor trash ill go to youtube. Unless its more Plantronics advertisements i just cant get enough of them things.
Flag-a-comment abuse reporting
there you go again changing a good thing. back in my day if youre abusing the "welcome our overlords" or "insensitive clod" memes youd earn yourself a shiny new -1. you, insensitive, clods.
Removal of old and unused Slashboxes
good. another new fangled feature what i never did use and didnt never need usin' anyway.
A much overdue overhauling of the FAQ
back in my day you didn't never need a FAQ, unless youre rewriting it for to get the latest version of Slackware runnin to curl out the pages. and it aint doin' me any good anyway I switched back to BSD 5 once i saw what they did to X11.
never set em, and i aint about to. thats what the crons for.
The launch of the Slashdot Hall of Fame (that little badge icon next to the logo)
if you have to put it in brackets youre either trying to sneak a perl joke in or you did such a piss poor job of defining the damn thing in the first place, you're hoping a little magic from Larry Wall is gonna help. kill the damned fame halls, im a geek. My fame is in a GIT commit.
Fixes to the D2 comment system. Highlights include bug fixes to the comment score slider, a better abbreviated view (if you quote the parent, that's removed so people can see your first sentence instead), and general reliability improvements to the AJAX magic
eeeeh just another damn magical thing i have to strip out of the curl feed.
And many more...
keep the damn changes. I want old slashdot the way i remembered it. Lots of fun tech stuff and science and when i turned the advertisements off they damn well stayed off. Bring back that kid that started the damn thing in the first place. you bastards are pedaling my childhood into the dirt.
nuclear plants, just like any other type of powerplant in the past 50 years requiring a superfund site cleanup at taxpayer expense, arent designed to withstand natural disaster in the pursuit of human health and safety.
the safeguards are in place in order to continue to sustain profits and return dividends well into the inevitable federal investigation and limited financial penalty levied against them. At which time the scientific concept of probability will be regurgitated and mourned about as fervently as a dead cat. It is in this case statistical probability is being used to placate people in much the same way as god is used to placate those into faith over reason.
plantronics actually causes cancer, and that only sex offenders and violent drug addled criminals would ever use it.
;)
plantronics can also be scientifically linked to global warming.
but they shouldnt worry. comments on message boards never get indexed into, say, the reviews of a product as illicited by a google search
Yahoo sells off its search engine technology to microsoft to use in Bing, then fires 14% of the company in the pursuit of "pivoting its focus in a new direction."
your entire company was based on searching for shit on the internet; that was your expertise for more than a decade. Sure you have other products like email that are basically indistinguishable from competitors, but you havent hired anyone to replace these workers that would give the public an indication of your intents to focus or pivot on anything but firing more workers and parachuting more execs. at this point the only place left to "pivot" is chapter 11 bankruptcy.
dont exist to inform viewers of current events in a timely and accurate manner as part of their FCC mandate to offer the public a general good. Commercial television networks offer a news program to sell advertising air-time by finding stories and topics that revolve around easily exploitable human emotions. The abuse of context and deliberate indulgence with which networks engage in editorializing a story to the point of satire should be all the proof you need.
This isnt an NBC, CNN, FOX or ABC problem, its a problem with formerly independent news sources suddenly being treated as some sort of cash-cow revenue component of a television stations earnings, instead of a service offered to people without cost, as the FCC license intended.
get the sponsorship out of television news entirely. it should be unbiased objective reporting that sounds like C-SPAN and repeats itself every 30 minutes to an hour and holds itself accountable to some sort of law that requires truthfulness in journalism. The kind of standard that explicitly keeps fox out of canada.
in the laundry list of reasons I as a professionally trained engineer need to emigrate somewhere other than America.
we can have a constitution and a declaration that insist freedom for all and open arms to the tired weary who yearn to exchange nitrogen oxygen mixtures without oppression, sure. but what i find particularly offensive is that the zeal with which we trample over everything we proudly declare to despotic and non-despotic countries alike as "true democracy" in the pursuit of stopping terrorism.
Terrorism, for those unfamiliar with the vernacular as used in the american context, is the act which kills far fewer americans than diabetes and heart attacks "from sea to shining sea" every year. It is the mere utterance from whch blossoms carte-blanc policing not seen since the third reich of everything from trains to busses, your private automobile, and even the god damn Dodgers baseball stadium.
The irony of course, notwithstanding the staggaringly disproportional comparative death rates between disease and 'terror', is that we as a nation have trumpeted things like warrantless detention, search, and seisure as a cause against the american way for so long its become a 4x4 drum beat behind every political speach since taft.
part of me, as an american, yearns for this warrantless detention, that it may serve as a much needed nail in the coffin to which i have laid my patriotism. The other half would rather it not, for fear it would preclude my gainful employment and thus my credit, to which my entire life as an american is inextricably bound.
different from scantron, which has been automatically grading student papers for two decades?
"Raspberry Pi Foundation previously believed certification will not be necessary" reads the article. everything from electric pencil sharpeners to dishwashers goes through a CE certification so why wouldnt this? its roughly the same as UL in the states, and basically keeps things like toasters and tea kettles from murdering users.
China is a country to which we keep a nuclear deterrence, in the eyes of many members of congress. When they approve a new start treaty or an arms bill, theyre thinking of china when once they thought of russia.
the cautious approach to china, that is accepting its slave labour with one hand and readying yourself for war with the other, is the ultimate hypocrisy of american capitalism. That you can simultaneously consider a country an enemy and a trading partner shows just how far free market economics can go toward making your country utterly contradictory.
have butter or have guns, but for god sake dont turn around and complain about counterfeit parts for the weapons you procure with your trading partner as consideration for their target. Equally, dont complain about the "slave labor" practices and "harsh crackdowns" from the government that basically stocks the shelves of every walmart in the country.