is exactly why i gave up television 10 years ago. Its not designed for entertainment, its designed for marketing.
I can just as easily sit down with a copy dune that i own and read it cover to cover to my hearts content, without anyone interrupting me every five to seven minutes trying to get me to buy a sugary energy drink or cell phone or car.
and unlike E-Readers, revoking a copy of a real book after ive purchased it is much more likely to get your face broken.
from a sociological perspective the ingrained position of the 'inferior black' is quite well established. During african apartheid the white 'ruling class' of afrikaners imparted to their black underclass that it was necessary to have this system, as white superior intellect was all that could govern the savage african nation coherently and properly. To this day apologists still insist the removal of this white ruling class is to blame for much of the problems in african nations
in america blacks were deemed intellectually and cognitively inferior by state sponsored scientific tests as well as independent evaluation; both of which contributed to the pseudo-science of the day. Should there have been any doubt, the Tuskegee airmen were to be the ones to put it to rest...yet even after their exemplary performance at the controls of the sophisticated aircraft of the day, they all still fought the perception of inferiority.
Lewis Latimer invented the carbon lightbulb filament, woods developed a train station communication network, Carver invented four-hundred plant products and never attended a day of college until he was thirty, and Garret Morgan invented the gas mask. all these should put to rest the idea of the intellectually inferior 'black man'
in 1989, emulating the bees' honeycomb construction, the black scientist Emeagwali used 65,000 processors to invent the world's fastest computer.
i find it difficult to believe somehow we've seen a sudden dip in black ingenuity.
to use atomics here, its punishable by planetary annihilation. Besides, theres the spice melange to consider, and so long as the houses remain to gather it in service to CHOAM...
process of science is to enhance the knowledge of all humankind, why bend to the device that seems to refute and diminish the enhancement of mankinds knowledge?
in summation: while sometimes cumbersome to pack, and lacking in search features, the technical and scientific papers and books I employ to do science have never stepped intentionally in my path to prevent me from learning or understanding the knowledge they contain.
until "e-ink" and the 700 page book on my desk are indistinguishable in terms of functionality and accessibility, i say to hell with kindle, nook, and the lot of them.
your safety comes second and the governments ability to detect terrorists comes first, is because the death of US citizens is well known to be uncontroversial and tolerable, even on large scales such as katrina.
What is absolutely intolerable is terrorism, because terrorism undermines the governments control of the populous. its one thing if an earthquake kills three thousand people, but its entirely different when a single terrorist accomplishes it...the terrorist draws unwanted attention to the united states government, its foreign policy, its structure and its members position in the class system.
this is also incidentally why governments are loathe to negotiate with terrorists, regardless of the validity of their positions; a single person or idea should never be allowed to upset the balance of power as it stands.
they have plenty of users. not a day goes by where im not reminded through email about these users...some of whom ive gone so far as to call 'friends' in the past, in something called 'real life,' before their google+ email campaign began.
A security company with 11 products designed to solve your spam problem, has made a picture showing a bombastic and ludicrous increase in spam the likes of which you cannot possibly cope with. This spam targets your genitals using african money laundering transfers to smuggle a dirty bomb into your new nike jordans and boochi bags at 80% discount, and free shipping.
It is imperative you believe this un-renound seldom-published security engineer working for a vague corporation that runs its main website on a dated version of microsoft IIS 6.0 with ASP. this company worked hard to ensure its pretty pictures had maximum market placement, and slashdot is no exception.
to the defense of the target of anonymous...but thats pretty hard to do here...
alot of people say BART was within its rights to shut down cell towers in an attempt to disrupt protests
but those protests are only happening because BARTs own police force has killed someone, and people want to bring attention to the fact that there still seems to be a fair amount of fallout and foul-play related to it...
some people in the thread also say its just a bunch of kids that want to disrupt mass transit and make everyone miserable, but
if the BART system i ride everyday and depend upon to get to and from my mediocre office job has done something so nefarious
its caused people to clog up the transit system, then i should probably pay attention to it and learn more about it. i mean if things get bad
enough and i cant get to the train then i'll VPN in, granted thats a luxury not everyone has... i just cant shake the aching feeling that
if the part of my local government that operates the rail transit system just killed someone then maybe these protests need to happen.
the worst thing i think that can happen is if BART kills someone and we all just go about thinking 'well, thats normal.' maybe it isnt...maybe
the only person to say when the right time for the protesting to end is the public, not the BART administrative authority.
can be approached from a standard of practicality. Those of us who have spent time working in computing and technology will readily concede security as an illusion and that devices can and will always manifest some element of insecurity. The question the author is trying to ask i suspect is 'are manufacturers doing enough to ensure the security of their devices.'
harkening back to the days of manufacturing before the CPSC, Americans basked in the glory of such products as stainless steel lawn darts and carcinogenic drink additives. the common board game 'operation' was unquestionably fed from a 120 volt AC source. In short it took a federal regulatory agency to ensure customers were protected against the ruthless profiteering of conglomerates willing to drive their product, in the case of lawn darts quite literally, into their market without so much as a second thought.
I cant propose a government agency because these days even the most controversial items to be regulated, for example hydraulic fracturing, are met with "cautious optimism" and nothing less. Our relentless pursuit of the golden calf called the free market has made us incapable of asking questions like 'why does my favorite company ship something insecure?' Because there are no penalties on their part for the insecurity of their product, theres no incentive. Because customers are barely capable of understanding the products controls in most cases, let alone the repercussions of misuse, the customer is complacent. And thanks to hardworking patrio-tastic lobbyists and ideological politicians, no regulatory body on the planet can approach the manufacturer with anything less than 'cautious optimism.'
the solution is death. more customers with more insecure products must exist and a tipping point must be reached before a digital CPSC is created to ensure your internet-capable refridgerator cant be hacked to burn down your house, or your pacemaker doesnt allow a malevolent 14 year old to use it as a midi controlled device. You arent a lobbyist, and you hold no corporate or political power beyond "voting" and "buying" dis-respectively.
I cant recall any technology in recent memory that either the DOE or the energy panel in question has refused.
then again when our regulatory agencies are comprised of a majority of industry members, I cant imagine anything short of an energy source powered by third trimester abortions being approached with anything less than cautious optimism.
'1000 soldiers have died delivering gasoline to military operations.'
if you think thats bad, check out the death toll related to soldiers trying to deliver gasoline to the united states. I cant see lasers helping us anytime soon.
massive power afforded to it by desktops across the globe, CERN may finally break-down and ask its wife, who will most certainly know where the higgs boson was the last time she saw it in multidimensional timespace.
very high powered, surprisingly warm to the touch port and unnervingly hot cable respectively powering a printer from a laptop with a curiously malodorous and slightly swollen battery..
Google is a corporation, and as such is obligated by federal law to work in the interests of their shareholders and stakeholders accordingly to increase profit both quarterly and yearly in dividend and share-price form.
as fervently as conservatives may tout the modern corporation as a model for the education system and a beacon of empowerment for minorities, it is not. corporations invest time and energy into consumers, and while often times this may have the ancillary effect of the betterment of all mankind, one need only a cursory evaluation of corporations such as Monsanto, Cargill, BP, and Halliburton to confirm the primary goal of any corporation at any size is revenue.
personally, im sorry you were tricked. Just because the corporation installs an impressive waterfountain, a modernist sculpture, or a google doodle at its office does not imply its dedication is in these things.
the magazine that conveniently forgot about the google chrome book, the asus netbook, and ostensibly the android platform as a whole has now concluded we must put aside our petty and childish preferences toward one piece of flotsam or whatnot in the linux ecosystem and fall lockstep into a uniform and marketable microcosm through which we can finally take "the desktop."
interstingly enough "the desktop" seems to be on slow holiday for apple and microsoft, who see it more profitable to nickle-and-dime the general populous one microtransaction at a time for an amorphous entity thats resultant components are in fact mostly linux anyway.
so id conclude that the 'shut up and pick something already or you lose' assertion is a nice way of saying 'get used to a choiceless slate of poking and prodding your next computer with one or more touches to purchase the next application we tell you you can have, and stop worrying about freedom.'
of course, this could all just be my stallman gland acting up again.
'which necessitates less driving and more walking and biking'....
bad news IBM, 30% of americans are too fat to put on their shoes without breaking a sweat. Unless you plan to radically redesign the bacon-double-cheeseburger in the process i contest that 40% is a rather ambitious goal.
from the perspective of a military strategist the united states department of defence has grown so large and cumbersome it now resembles more corporation than military defense agency.
we have charged it to not only defend america but spread democracy. its been tasked with everything from police force to outer-space exploration and medical research, import/export safety and copyright law. the department of defense that is everything, is nothing. It has been used as a blanket concept to provide funding to projects and services that politicians understand are requisite to the well functioning nation, yet cannot be approached from the perspective of a general government program because we have from the cold-war on demonized communism and socialism to the point that even breathing a whisper of it is treason.
our education system past the age of 18 is a trainwreck without the department of defence. our foreign policy cannot be sustained without it, and our domestic resource allocation is a pipedream unless the department of defence works brutally to ensure a steady supply of cheap oil.
Slashdot Mirror
bars will change the channel and gladly hand over the remote for you to do it, so long as you're a paying customer.
money buys you one more round. if the idiot box plays any role in keeping you sated then its done its job.
pioneered by Mercedes Benz in their most luxurious line of vehicles.
Your average long-haul truck driver is unlikely to see this technology extended to the working class in his lifetime.
is exactly why i gave up television 10 years ago. Its not designed for entertainment, its designed for marketing.
I can just as easily sit down with a copy dune that i own and read it cover to cover to my hearts content, without anyone interrupting me every five to seven minutes trying to get me to buy a sugary energy drink or cell phone or car.
and unlike E-Readers, revoking a copy of a real book after ive purchased it is much more likely to get your face broken.
from a sociological perspective the ingrained position of the 'inferior black' is quite well established. During african apartheid the white 'ruling class' of afrikaners imparted to their black underclass that it was necessary to have this system, as white superior intellect was all that could govern the savage african nation coherently and properly. To this day apologists still insist the removal of this white ruling class is to blame for much of the problems in african nations
in america blacks were deemed intellectually and cognitively inferior by state sponsored scientific tests as well as independent evaluation; both of which contributed to the pseudo-science of the day. Should there have been any doubt, the Tuskegee airmen were to be the ones to put it to rest...yet even after their exemplary performance at the controls of the sophisticated aircraft of the day, they all still fought the perception of inferiority.
Lewis Latimer invented the carbon lightbulb filament, woods developed a train station communication network, Carver invented four-hundred plant products and never attended a day of college until he was thirty, and Garret Morgan invented the gas mask. all these should put to rest the idea of the intellectually inferior 'black man'
in 1989, emulating the bees' honeycomb construction, the black scientist Emeagwali used 65,000 processors to invent the world's fastest computer.
i find it difficult to believe somehow we've seen a sudden dip in black ingenuity.
to use atomics here, its punishable by planetary annihilation. Besides, theres the spice melange to consider, and so long as the houses remain to gather it in service to CHOAM...
what...theres a good parallel here.
process of science is to enhance the knowledge of all humankind, why bend to the device that seems to refute and diminish the enhancement of mankinds knowledge?
in summation: while sometimes cumbersome to pack, and lacking in search features, the technical and scientific papers and books I employ to do science have never stepped intentionally in my path to prevent me from learning or understanding the knowledge they contain.
until "e-ink" and the 700 page book on my desk are indistinguishable in terms of functionality and accessibility, i say to hell with kindle, nook, and the lot of them.
your safety comes second and the governments ability to detect terrorists comes first, is because the death of US citizens is well known to be uncontroversial and tolerable, even on large scales such as katrina.
What is absolutely intolerable is terrorism, because terrorism undermines the governments control of the populous. its one thing if an earthquake kills three thousand people, but its entirely different when a single terrorist accomplishes it...the terrorist draws unwanted attention to the united states government, its foreign policy, its structure and its members position in the class system.
this is also incidentally why governments are loathe to negotiate with terrorists, regardless of the validity of their positions; a single person or idea should never be allowed to upset the balance of power as it stands.
if anyone wanted to spend any time with earthlings at all, well, they would have built an interstellar highway is all i'm sayin'....
replaced the whale that chases me in my nightmares.
he doesnt look anywhere near 200 million years old.
they have plenty of users. not a day goes by where im not reminded through email about these users...some of whom ive gone so far as to call 'friends' in the past, in something called 'real life,' before their google+ email campaign began.
A security company with 11 products designed to solve your spam problem, has made a picture showing a bombastic and ludicrous increase in spam the likes of which you cannot possibly cope with. This spam targets your genitals using african money laundering transfers to smuggle a dirty bomb into your new nike jordans and boochi bags at 80% discount, and free shipping.
It is imperative you believe this un-renound seldom-published security engineer working for a vague corporation that runs its main website on a dated version of microsoft IIS 6.0 with ASP. this company worked hard to ensure its pretty pictures had maximum market placement, and slashdot is no exception.
probably, may have, and no direct source quoted...sounds like someone in the department of defense is trying to justify their budget.
to the defense of the target of anonymous...but thats pretty hard to do here...
alot of people say BART was within its rights to shut down cell towers in an attempt to disrupt protests
but those protests are only happening because BARTs own police force has killed someone, and people want to bring attention to the fact that there still seems to be a fair amount of fallout and foul-play related to it...
some people in the thread also say its just a bunch of kids that want to disrupt mass transit and make everyone miserable, but
if the BART system i ride everyday and depend upon to get to and from my mediocre office job has done something so nefarious
its caused people to clog up the transit system, then i should probably pay attention to it and learn more about it. i mean if things get bad
enough and i cant get to the train then i'll VPN in, granted thats a luxury not everyone has... i just cant shake the aching feeling that
if the part of my local government that operates the rail transit system just killed someone then maybe these protests need to happen.
the worst thing i think that can happen is if BART kills someone and we all just go about thinking 'well, thats normal.' maybe it isnt...maybe
the only person to say when the right time for the protesting to end is the public, not the BART administrative authority.
more protests should be organized to fight this flagrant violation of the first amendment!!!.
I for one think the governme$W$F$ w)(^##$#@+_-=$%^gv
is a shining example of Democracy, a beacon of freedom which every american enjoys. Go USA.
can be approached from a standard of practicality. Those of us who have spent time working in computing and technology will readily concede security as an illusion and that devices can and will always manifest some element of insecurity. The question the author is trying to ask i suspect is 'are manufacturers doing enough to ensure the security of their devices.'
harkening back to the days of manufacturing before the CPSC, Americans basked in the glory of such products as stainless steel lawn darts and carcinogenic drink additives. the common board game 'operation' was unquestionably fed from a 120 volt AC source. In short it took a federal regulatory agency to ensure customers were protected against the ruthless profiteering of conglomerates willing to drive their product, in the case of lawn darts quite literally, into their market without so much as a second thought.
I cant propose a government agency because these days even the most controversial items to be regulated, for example hydraulic fracturing, are met with "cautious optimism" and nothing less. Our relentless pursuit of the golden calf called the free market has made us incapable of asking questions like 'why does my favorite company ship something insecure?' Because there are no penalties on their part for the insecurity of their product, theres no incentive. Because customers are barely capable of understanding the products controls in most cases, let alone the repercussions of misuse, the customer is complacent. And thanks to hardworking patrio-tastic lobbyists and ideological politicians, no regulatory body on the planet can approach the manufacturer with anything less than 'cautious optimism.'
the solution is death. more customers with more insecure products must exist and a tipping point must be reached before a digital CPSC is created to ensure your internet-capable refridgerator cant be hacked to burn down your house, or your pacemaker doesnt allow a malevolent 14 year old to use it as a midi controlled device. You arent a lobbyist, and you hold no corporate or political power beyond "voting" and "buying" dis-respectively.
I cant recall any technology in recent memory that either the DOE or the energy panel in question has refused.
then again when our regulatory agencies are comprised of a majority of industry members,
I cant imagine anything short of an energy source powered by third trimester abortions being approached with anything less than cautious optimism.
'1000 soldiers have died delivering gasoline to military operations.'
if you think thats bad, check out the death toll related to soldiers trying to deliver gasoline to the united states.
I cant see lasers helping us anytime soon.
massive power afforded to it by desktops across the globe, CERN may finally break-down and ask its wife, who will most certainly know where the higgs boson was the last time she saw it in multidimensional timespace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_finance publicly traded corporations, as you are correct, may or may not not be required to distribute dividends.
as a DC court recently ruled, a board of directors may or may not constitute the company.
http://pac.org/node/5122
very high powered, surprisingly warm to the touch port and unnervingly hot cable respectively powering a printer from a laptop with a curiously malodorous and slightly swollen battery..
Google is a corporation, and as such is obligated by federal law to work in the interests of their shareholders and stakeholders accordingly to increase profit both quarterly and yearly in dividend and share-price form.
as fervently as conservatives may tout the modern corporation as a model for the education system and a beacon of empowerment for minorities, it is not. corporations invest time and energy into consumers, and while often times this may have the ancillary effect of the betterment of all mankind, one need only a cursory evaluation of corporations such as Monsanto, Cargill, BP, and Halliburton to confirm the primary goal of any corporation at any size is revenue.
personally, im sorry you were tricked. Just because the corporation installs an impressive waterfountain, a modernist sculpture, or a google doodle at its office does not imply its dedication is in these things.
the magazine that conveniently forgot about the google chrome book, the asus netbook, and ostensibly the android platform as a whole has now concluded we must put aside our petty and childish preferences toward one piece of flotsam or whatnot in the linux ecosystem and fall lockstep into a uniform and marketable microcosm through which we can finally take "the desktop."
interstingly enough "the desktop" seems to be on slow holiday for apple and microsoft, who see it more profitable to nickle-and-dime the general populous one microtransaction at a time for an amorphous entity thats resultant components are in fact mostly linux anyway.
so id conclude that the 'shut up and pick something already or you lose' assertion is a nice way of saying 'get used to a choiceless slate of poking and prodding your next computer with one or more touches to purchase the next application we tell you you can have, and stop worrying about freedom.'
of course, this could all just be my stallman gland acting up again.
'which necessitates less driving and more walking and biking'....
bad news IBM, 30% of americans are too fat to put on their shoes without breaking a sweat. Unless you plan to radically redesign the bacon-double-cheeseburger in the process i contest that 40% is a rather ambitious goal.
from the perspective of a military strategist the united states department of defence has grown so large and cumbersome it now resembles more corporation than military defense agency.
we have charged it to not only defend america but spread democracy. its been tasked with everything from police force to outer-space exploration and medical research, import/export safety and copyright law.
the department of defense that is everything, is nothing. It has been used as a blanket concept to provide funding to projects and services that politicians understand are requisite to the well functioning nation,
yet cannot be approached from the perspective of a general government program because we have from the cold-war on demonized communism and socialism to the point that even breathing a whisper of it is treason.
our education system past the age of 18 is a trainwreck without the department of defence. our foreign policy cannot be sustained without it, and our domestic resource allocation is a pipedream unless the department of defence works brutally to ensure a steady supply of cheap oil.