came out march 2011, and the one before that in 2010 about the same time give or take a month.
As a slashdotter whos never used a "tablet computer" I sincerely want to ask mac users, why do you keep buying these? if you select the average ipad its six-hundred dollars and has a one-time battery that cannot be replaced (or not that apple is willing to inform on their website.)
you will have sunk by this march about $1800 into an appliance that is guaranteed manufactured-obsolete in one year. You dont do this with cars, televisions, stereos, homes, desktops, laptops, clothes (presumably they last longer than a year) or any other major consumer purchase, so why do it with tablet computers?
the name seems a hypocritical outcry. the ultimate advanced research project in defense is to eliminate the need for war entirely. since its inception darpa has done nothing but develop ever more sophisticated tools to perpetuate wars by different means. we dont want surrogates for our defense, we want them so that during the next incursion into the middle east, we dont have to impose a press blackout on returning c130 transports laden with bodybags.
we still want war, just as europe still wanted war at the turn of the century. we want it in lines, drumming along with fresh pressed suits of armor and a proud puritanical face forward.
and i do hope im not doing any egregious harm to this delightful piece of rightwing fearmongering.
"in North Carolina, all pre-Kindergarten programs are required to evaluate the lunches being provided and determine if they meet USDA nutrition guidelines. If not, they must provide an alternative."
the lunch contained the following:
turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice
apple juice, and potato chips are essentially nutritionally devoid; nothing more than sugar and fat. the banana is an excellent choice, but turkey and cheese on white bread is essentially the minimum effort from this parent.
im not trolling. the problem isnt the inspector, its the government presuming american parents after 40 years of fast food and processed meals from diners and grocery stores still remember how to construct a nutritionally balanced meal that didnt come out of a box, can, or bag. its the audacious assumption that politicians in north carolina who take months of vacation and certainly have time to prepare the aformentioned balanced meal, are identical to your average family working multiple jobs or shifts at a fraction of the wage of a politician.
i dont have a problem combating childhood obesity, but north carolinas proposal essentially forces millions of parents to do something that based upon american obesity statistics, most do not understand how to accomplish.
your friendly political campaigns efforts to use robocalls to discourage minority voters from attending polls, slander their opponents before the the big vote, or piss you off before supper sleep or sex will remain unaffected by this regulation. should you wish to file a complaint please direct messages to the round smelly bin in your home, or in petrol form to the windows of the appropriate politician accordingly.
was GPL as well.
dont forget that Oracle committed that MySQL server will continue to use the dual-licensing strategy long used by MySQL AB with commercial and GPL versions available until at least 2015. if other big players are any indication this is oracles attempt to avoid another apache/java landmine and preserve the trust and respect of developers until such time as the product is sufficiently 'in-housed' to divorce from the community without fear of retalliation. by 2015 the forked code, should there be yet another fork, can probably enjoy a tenth of the performance of oracles version and have to compete with ingrained lock-ins and contract conditions developed by oracle to further ostracize open source competetors.
but im not sure if its really relevant at all. databases like hypercube and couch are really giving oracle a run for their copious amounts of money. by 2015 the "paradigm" may have "shifted" as the PHB says.
the product must be consumed, but never at our expense.
expect the latest generation of slave-labor constructed smart phones to come out next week, and always remember to upgrade every two years regardless of the quality of your service. Finally, as a reminder: Your telephone, its screen size, and proprietary applications define your human worth regardless of your comprehension or our truthfulness in marketing.
thank you for addressing the problem of unlawful criminals snooping on your radio traffic. as a result of your decision to use a widely adopted, commercially available, and readily hackable radio protocol at taxpayer expense ive found the pasadena police radio system to be a terrific folly on friday nights.
Expect that your radios will jam, crash, and be forced to revert to unencrypted mode.
expect to have your radios counted every hour, and a general location of each radio posted to the internet.
expect your radios to be cloned and sold to the highest bidder.
shashdot never reported this; the death toll was hundreds of times larger. slashdot didnt give a shit because it wasnt tech news; i sadly respect that. the next time we decide to herald an article about a recent natural disaster that affects our ability to store pirated music and porn, lets omit the illusion that we pretend to give a shit about human life.
might i suggest instead that we crawl out of our basements, go to the park, read a book, take a bike ride, or go for a walk to calm our nerves over the recent lack of practically free hard disks for sale at the expense of human rights and fair wages and in the support of despotic regimes the likes of which we never learn of in the west. That is, until an 'insert-region-here' spring helps to reinforce capitalist/democratic norms.
the problem with flash security and flash in general is your corporate culture, as is evidenced by consistent prior refusals to patch egregious bugs.
consider HTML5. I personally liken it to a high caliber rifle in the face of your diseased and crippled cash cow.
so long, and please dont hesitate to continue pedaling the rest of your product line straight into the ground and hell beyond with the same toxic mismanagement as flash. We here on the internet will gladly engineer the future at your expense, until your corporate office is nothing more than the 21st century equivalent of bleached bones rotting in the noon-day sun, vultured by contractors and languishing at the precipice of bankruptcy.
that after wikileaks broke the cables, and after america broke SOPA, many european nations are finding they grow weary of the medium rare American shit sandwiches they find on their desks on a near perpetual basis.
theyre also reminded as the french cable suggested so poigniantly that uncomfortable trade retaliation against your decisions as a soverign nation can only take place so long as youve committed yourself to trading with a nation that embraces economic distress as a means of trade.
rich white man dies doing things rich white people enjoy doing, but not things youll ever have time or resources to do in your life.
local slashdotter quoted as saying, "i wonder if the plane was printed on a makerbot?"
nagios detected the 'seized' logo on 307 of my sites, and kicked off the rsync job for 307 new sites. lets hope this doesnt happen again, i only have 14,205 registered domains left from which to sell my yet-to-be-created JIT manufactured merchandise from china.
Also, does anyone know if they still put the holographic sticker on the "authentic" merchandise? Ive got a trading partner from alibaba.com that can crank them out in rolls of 5000, but he needs some notice.
heres hoping the superbowl is a huge success this year! I know the money really helped me last year when i had to pay off my foreclosure. this year my daughter needs braces, and my wifes blood pressure medication isnt covered by costco insurance.
can stop outsourcing jobs to a country it simultaneously funds and villifies.
pick one or the other guys, because inevitably we either need to face up to the fact that if they are the villain then we've tacidly admitted free trade has failed. if theyre the trading partner, we've tadicly admitted we dont seriously care about liberty or freedom.
without data center audits thousands of datacenters across the country would have to forego tiny wooden plaques with things like "SAS70 CERTIFIED!" and "SSAE 16 READY!" and I as a sysadmin would have to stop making the joke, "SAS70? oh thats for when we change the motor oil in the cloud."
30+ years chiseling away at workers rights, outsourcing skilled trade to other countries, and eviscerating education funding
only to reflect upon your work and remark, "gosh, people arent that smart and we dont do much with technology but consume it"
you chose it as a model of hypercapitalism. when we agreed to shuffle the working class, the middle class, into early retirement, fast food dead end jobs, and bankrupted private pensions it was a choice. when we caved the stock market and drained dry the last cent from the 401k of the middle class, we did so knowing it could only make the rich richer, and the poor poorer. as we danced in our lemon socialism and hapilly bailed out the wealthiest conglomerates and banks, we were instructed that the hardship would be socialized and the profit would be privatized. "americans," the ones that do most of the living and working in our society, dont do much because they cant do much; this has been assured by the government of the people, for the people, and it has no right to question its work.
we are reaping the benefit of generations of obscene wealth, fueled by trickle down reagonomics and stoked by politicians who consider market capitalism a golden calf that does no evil. Our society is driven by profit, and so long as the goal is profit, the outcome and returns will be consolidated to a plutocracy that doesnt care if little johnny learns to read or write, so long as he works enough hours at the walmart to consume the products at the walmart.
--
"you have to feel sorry for the police officers who are required to frisk people for guns or knives"
No, i dont. thats their job. I have to feel sorry for an author so desparate to spin the idea of shredding my constitutional freedoms that hes resorting to an
empathetic appeal to "my fellow man."
nothing stops gangs and crime like a job. this perpetual incarceration model where once released a felon is bankrupt, banned from food stamps, and legally unemployable is whats virtually guaranteed america will enjoy some of the highest violent crime rates in the first world. developing the ways and means to catch the bad guy do nothing if you arent willing to address the heart of the matter.
There are those who are homeless in America by choice (live in one of the larger cities in California and you'll know what I mean), many of them prefer the freedom to ru(i)n their own lives for substances or alcohol. I'll give them food, but no money.
There are those who are homeless due to misfortune - lost of job, breadwinner in family, foreclosure of house loan, etc. These people are not at the bottom of the barrel, but without some form of assistance they could be there. There are shelters and federal and state programs to help them - often those still living in their cars are due to some failure to abide rules or restrictions of shelters. Where I work we track about 1,000 of these families. It's not a small issue, but those people, like this student have a good chance of getting back into a place they can call their own when the economy bounces back.
this is actually a perception that is well documented by social scientists. many americans believe the poor and homeless exist because its a conscious choice they made. rags-to-riches and the self-made-man are also common misconceptions perpetuated in american capitalism. the truth of the matter is that without extensive government assistance, most of these individuals will never see a place they can call their own due to numerous social and political issues of inequality they are so divorced from affecting.
it reads at a somewhat academic level, but a good source to understand just we mean when we say "poor people are poor because they want to be" is martin margers text "Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes."
i can possibly rely on my financial institutions to keep me financially safe. i hit wells fargo this morning to change some coins into dollars and the banker at the counter couldnt count them without a plastic dowel to arrange them in. The entire time the banker on the floor lectured me without provocation about the banks many incredible services and why i should become a member right away. neither one thought to send me on my way with coin rolls perhaps.
now i know the banks public hat is quite different than their financial institution hat, but i cant help but conclude that when 'major financial groups share data' its going to be data about me, but its only going to be used to further their interests. come to think of it, when a publication mainly related to wall street prints a diatribe on how wonderfully secure major wallstreet institutions are set to become, one cant help but wonder if its the equivalent of trying to put a fresh coat of paint on an old car.
The easiest way is often the most frustrating. Just comply. Most TSA and Police are just there to enforce rules and regulations established and defined by bureaucrats in the department of homeland security anyhow. Keep your conversation minimal: Hello, yes, no, and thank you will get you through the process quickly and efficiently without many problems because frankly, these people hate doing this as much as you hate submitting to it. just like you, they have no real control over much of the process either. they just dont want to get barked at by the sergeant or liutenant for their shift if they dont do their job.
Do however take precautions such as encrypting your laptop and limiting gadgetry to necessities only. take note of your surroundings, the questions asked, the demeanor and names/ranks of the officers and the state of the station you're in. file FOIA requests to the government to determine who sees this data about you and how they use it; knowledge is power. Write to congress and your local government in protest of your treatment as you live in the United States, not City 17. Feel free to organize protests or drive a petition to get this behavior stopped, as these are your rights as a citizen of this country. Barring all else, discontinue your general participation in what amounts to baseless search and seisure. Move closer to work, take cabs, walk or ride a bicycle.
Slashdot Mirror
came out march 2011, and the one before that in 2010 about the same time give or take a month.
As a slashdotter whos never used a "tablet computer" I sincerely want to ask mac users, why do you keep buying these? if you select the average ipad its
six-hundred dollars and has a one-time battery that cannot be replaced (or not that apple is willing to inform on their website.)
you will have sunk by this march about $1800 into an appliance that is guaranteed manufactured-obsolete in one year.
You dont do this with cars, televisions, stereos, homes, desktops, laptops, clothes (presumably they last longer than a year)
or any other major consumer purchase, so why do it with tablet computers?
the name seems a hypocritical outcry. the ultimate advanced research project in defense is to eliminate the need for war entirely. since its inception darpa has done nothing but develop ever more sophisticated tools to perpetuate wars by different means. we dont want surrogates for our defense, we want them so that during the next incursion into the middle east, we dont have to impose a press blackout on returning c130 transports laden with bodybags.
we still want war, just as europe still wanted war at the turn of the century. we want it in lines, drumming along with fresh pressed suits of armor and a proud puritanical face forward.
im a sysadmin with no social life, so i cant remember the last time i fracked.
although i keep condoms just in the event.
and i do hope im not doing any egregious harm to this delightful piece of rightwing fearmongering.
"in North Carolina, all pre-Kindergarten programs are required to evaluate the lunches being provided and determine if they meet USDA nutrition guidelines. If not, they must provide an alternative."
the lunch contained the following:
turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice
apple juice, and potato chips are essentially nutritionally devoid; nothing more than sugar and fat. the banana is an excellent choice, but turkey and cheese on white bread is essentially the minimum effort from this parent.
im not trolling. the problem isnt the inspector, its the government presuming american parents after 40 years of fast food and processed meals from diners and grocery stores still remember how to construct a nutritionally balanced meal that didnt come out of a box, can, or bag. its the audacious assumption that politicians in north carolina who take months of vacation and certainly have time to prepare the aformentioned balanced meal, are identical to your average family working multiple jobs or shifts at a fraction of the wage of a politician.
i dont have a problem combating childhood obesity, but north carolinas proposal essentially forces millions of parents to do something that based upon american obesity statistics, most do not understand how to accomplish.
your friendly political campaigns efforts to use robocalls to discourage minority voters from attending polls, slander their opponents before the the big vote, or piss you off before supper sleep or sex will remain unaffected by this regulation. should you wish to file a complaint please direct messages to the round smelly bin in your home, or in petrol form to the windows of the appropriate politician accordingly.
regards,
commission of communications.
was GPL as well.
dont forget that Oracle committed that MySQL server will continue to use the dual-licensing strategy long used by MySQL AB with commercial and GPL versions available until at least 2015. if other big players are any indication this is oracles attempt to avoid another apache/java landmine and preserve the trust and respect of developers until such time as the product is sufficiently 'in-housed' to divorce from the community without fear of retalliation. by 2015 the forked code, should there be yet another fork, can probably enjoy a tenth of the performance of oracles version and have to compete with ingrained lock-ins and contract conditions developed by oracle to further ostracize open source competetors.
but im not sure if its really relevant at all. databases like hypercube and couch are really giving oracle a run for their copious amounts of money. by 2015 the "paradigm" may have "shifted" as the PHB says.
the product must be consumed, but never at our expense.
expect the latest generation of slave-labor constructed smart phones to come out next week, and always remember to upgrade every two years regardless of the quality of your service. Finally, as a reminder: Your telephone, its screen size, and proprietary applications define your human worth regardless of your comprehension or our truthfulness in marketing.
thank you for addressing the problem of unlawful criminals snooping on your radio traffic. as a result of your decision to use a widely adopted, commercially available, and readily hackable radio protocol at taxpayer expense ive found the pasadena police radio system to be a terrific folly on friday nights.
Expect that your radios will jam, crash, and be forced to revert to unencrypted mode.
expect to have your radios counted every hour, and a general location of each radio posted to the internet.
expect your radios to be cloned and sold to the highest bidder.
http://www.crypto.com/blog/p25/
regards,
the next nefarious hacker to read this article.
sure, hard drives, its tech news, and its the only thing we seem to worry about. let me contrast the headline with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami
shashdot never reported this; the death toll was hundreds of times larger. slashdot didnt give a shit because it wasnt tech news; i sadly respect that. the next time we decide to herald an article about a recent natural disaster that affects our ability to store pirated music and porn, lets omit the illusion that we pretend to give a shit about human life.
might i suggest instead that we crawl out of our basements, go to the park, read a book, take a bike ride, or go for a walk to calm our nerves over the recent lack of practically free hard disks for sale at the expense of human rights and fair wages and in the support of despotic regimes the likes of which we never learn of in the west. That is, until an 'insert-region-here' spring helps to reinforce capitalist/democratic norms.
the problem with flash security and flash in general is your corporate culture, as is evidenced by consistent prior refusals to patch egregious bugs.
consider HTML5. I personally liken it to a high caliber rifle in the face of your diseased and crippled cash cow.
so long, and please dont hesitate to continue pedaling the rest of your product line straight into the ground and hell beyond with the same toxic mismanagement as flash. We here on the internet will gladly engineer the future at your expense, until your corporate office is nothing more than the 21st century equivalent of bleached bones rotting in the noon-day sun, vultured by contractors and languishing at the precipice of bankruptcy.
but has anyone seen Randall Munroe lately?
that after wikileaks broke the cables, and after america broke SOPA, many european nations are finding they grow weary of the medium rare American shit sandwiches they find on their desks on a near perpetual basis.
theyre also reminded as the french cable suggested so poigniantly that uncomfortable trade retaliation against your decisions as a soverign nation can only take place so long as youve committed yourself to trading with a nation that embraces economic distress as a means of trade.
rich white man dies doing things rich white people enjoy doing, but not things youll ever have time or resources to do in your life.
local slashdotter quoted as saying, "i wonder if the plane was printed on a makerbot?"
but we'll have you in irons the minute you want to read a wikileaks cable.
I m st congr tula e R gers on t eir contin ed dedica ion to excelle t s rvice. I H pe to see mor advance ents in th futur as weR@#%^[NO CARRIER]
nagios detected the 'seized' logo on 307 of my sites, and kicked off the rsync job for 307 new sites. lets hope this doesnt happen again, i only have 14,205 registered domains left from which to sell my yet-to-be-created JIT manufactured merchandise from china.
Also, does anyone know if they still put the holographic sticker on the "authentic" merchandise? Ive got a trading partner from alibaba.com that can crank them out in rolls of 5000, but he needs some notice.
heres hoping the superbowl is a huge success this year! I know the money really helped me last year when i had to pay off my foreclosure. this year my daughter needs braces, and my wifes blood pressure medication isnt covered by costco insurance.
can stop outsourcing jobs to a country it simultaneously funds and villifies.
pick one or the other guys, because inevitably we either need to face up to the fact that if they are the villain then we've tacidly admitted free trade has failed. if theyre the trading partner, we've tadicly admitted we dont seriously care about liberty or freedom.
Sunspot and Plasma cloud. two more things my Oracle contract will surely never support.
without data center audits thousands of datacenters across the country would have to forego tiny wooden plaques with things like "SAS70 CERTIFIED!" and "SSAE 16 READY!"
and I as a sysadmin would have to stop making the joke, "SAS70? oh thats for when we change the motor oil in the cloud."
30+ years chiseling away at workers rights, outsourcing skilled trade to other countries, and eviscerating education funding only to reflect upon your work and remark, "gosh, people arent that smart and we dont do much with technology but consume it"
you chose it as a model of hypercapitalism. when we agreed to shuffle the working class, the middle class, into early retirement, fast food dead end jobs, and bankrupted private pensions it was a choice. when we caved the stock market and drained dry the last cent from the 401k of the middle class, we did so knowing it could only make the rich richer, and the poor poorer. as we danced in our lemon socialism and hapilly bailed out the wealthiest conglomerates and banks, we were instructed that the hardship would be socialized and the profit would be privatized. "americans," the ones that do most of the living and working in our society, dont do much because they cant do much; this has been assured by the government of the people, for the people, and it has no right to question its work.
we are reaping the benefit of generations of obscene wealth, fueled by trickle down reagonomics and stoked by politicians who consider market capitalism a golden calf that does no evil. Our society is driven by profit, and so long as the goal is profit, the outcome and returns will be consolidated to a plutocracy that doesnt care if little johnny learns to read or write, so long as he works enough hours at the walmart to consume the products at the walmart. --
"you have to feel sorry for the police officers who are required to frisk people for guns or knives"
No, i dont. thats their job. I have to feel sorry for an author so desparate to spin the idea of shredding my constitutional freedoms that hes resorting to an empathetic appeal to "my fellow man."
nothing stops gangs and crime like a job. this perpetual incarceration model where once released a felon is bankrupt, banned from food stamps, and legally unemployable is whats virtually guaranteed america will enjoy some of the highest violent crime rates in the first world. developing the ways and means to catch the bad guy do nothing if you arent willing to address the heart of the matter.
There are those who are homeless in America by choice (live in one of the larger cities in California and you'll know what I mean), many of them prefer the freedom to ru(i)n their own lives for substances or alcohol. I'll give them food, but no money.
There are those who are homeless due to misfortune - lost of job, breadwinner in family, foreclosure of house loan, etc. These people are not at the bottom of the barrel, but without some form of assistance they could be there. There are shelters and federal and state programs to help them - often those still living in their cars are due to some failure to abide rules or restrictions of shelters. Where I work we track about 1,000 of these families. It's not a small issue, but those people, like this student have a good chance of getting back into a place they can call their own when the economy bounces back.
this is actually a perception that is well documented by social scientists. many americans believe the poor and homeless exist because its a conscious choice they made. rags-to-riches and the self-made-man are also common misconceptions perpetuated in american capitalism. the truth of the matter is that without extensive government assistance, most of these individuals will never see a place they can call their own due to numerous social and political issues of inequality they are so divorced from affecting.
it reads at a somewhat academic level, but a good source to understand just we mean when we say "poor people are poor because they want to be" is martin margers text "Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes."
i can possibly rely on my financial institutions to keep me financially safe. i hit wells fargo this morning to change some coins into dollars and the banker at the counter couldnt count them without a plastic dowel to arrange them in. The entire time the banker on the floor lectured me without provocation about the banks many incredible services and why i should become a member right away. neither one thought to send me on my way with coin rolls perhaps.
now i know the banks public hat is quite different than their financial institution hat, but i cant help but conclude that when 'major financial groups share data' its going to be data about me, but its only going to be used to further their interests. come to think of it, when a publication mainly related to wall street prints a diatribe on how wonderfully secure major wallstreet institutions are set to become, one cant help but wonder if its the equivalent of trying to put a fresh coat of paint on an old car.
my model M when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
The easiest way is often the most frustrating. Just comply. Most TSA and Police are just there to enforce rules and regulations established and defined by bureaucrats in the department of homeland security anyhow. Keep your conversation minimal: Hello, yes, no, and thank you will get you through the process quickly and efficiently without many problems because frankly, these people hate doing this as much as you hate submitting to it. just like you, they have no real control over much of the process either. they just dont want to get barked at by the sergeant or liutenant for their shift if they dont do their job.
Do however take precautions such as encrypting your laptop and limiting gadgetry to necessities only. take note of your surroundings, the questions asked, the demeanor and names/ranks of the officers and the state of the station you're in. file FOIA requests to the government to determine who sees this data about you and how they use it; knowledge is power. Write to congress and your local government in protest of your treatment as you live in the United States, not City 17. Feel free to organize protests or drive a petition to get this behavior stopped, as these are your rights as a citizen of this country. Barring all else, discontinue your general participation in what amounts to baseless search and seisure. Move closer to work, take cabs, walk or ride a bicycle.