Comment Re:Phooey. (Score 1) 187
I hate it when filmmakers are just a little too prophetic.
The purpose of science fiction is not to predict the future, but warn about it.
Comment Re:what a joke (Score 2) 187
Mexico is a failed state well on its way to anarchy. This is a country that can't even keep its police chiefs from getting assassinated by drug cartel thugs, and they think iris scanners are going to make a damned bit of difference? Give me a break.
This comment fully deserves a +5 score, but why is it modded as "Funny"? This is not funny, it's the tragic truth of Mexico's brutal reality.
Comment Re:what a joke (Score 3, Interesting) 187
Much the same may be said of the United States. Out of seven major signs of being a third world country with a first world public image, it is exhibiting seven.
An obligatory link: 10 Signs The U.S. is Becoming a Third World Country
Comment Re:Secure? (Score 1, Insightful) 187
They need an effective police state, and a Pinochet, a Franco, or other ruler who has enough leverage to kill anyone who is a threat to good citizens.
There is a point where the strictly limited and extremely restrained legalistic ways which are practical in stable countries do not work.
War, not law, is then necessary to kill and destroy the enemies of the people. Mexico is a failed state, and the way to put those in order is to give orders, enforce them with force, and ensure the narco-warlords are killed so they cannot operate from prison.
In the US, by comparison, we have trivial crime rates, pampered lives, and are so comfortable we cannot even understand such situations.
I am glad that someone wrote this openly. The only way to fight the most dangerous and unrepentant criminals is to kill them.
However, I fear that some politically correct idiots will mod you down...
Comment Re:Either that (Score 1) 706
I'd rather work with someone who has a Facebook page full of comments, a selection of interests and some drunk pictures than the antisocial guy with no life.
Darn. That's me
Why the sad smiley? Knowing how much humanity sucks, is being "antisocial" really a bad thing?
Comment Re:Either that (Score 1) 706
I'd rather work with someone who has a Facebook page full of comments, a selection of interests and some drunk pictures than the antisocial guy with no life.
I, on the other hand, have learned to trust an "antisocial guy with no life" much more than I trust an insincere, aggressively extroverted asslick with a compulsive need to be "friends" with absolutely everybody.
Comment Re:Foursquare and offers (Score 1, Insightful) 220
The only thing Facebook hasn't tried to buy is 4chan.
Watch, now that I said that... the next hot new product == facebook.com/b/
Acquisition of 4chan could only increase the intellectual value of Failbook.
Comment "Crapping their pants"? (Score 1) 220
Now the question is, who at Four Square turned down the offer, and how badly are they crapping their pants?
Doing PR for Zuckerberg in your spare time, eh CmdrTaco? How utterly pathetic.
Comment Re:Junk newspaper (Score 1) 337
Extremely well written. Thanks for following me up!
Comment Re:Junk newspaper (Score 1) 337
The funny thing about the nickname "Aftonhoran" is that Aftonbladet recognizes its validity. Try surfing to http://www.aftonhoran.se/ and see what happens.
Yeah, I know about the existence of that domain. Now I heard two stories about it, one which claims that it is owned by Aftonbladet itself, and the other which says that it is owned by a detractor who sometimes points it to his blog and sometimes to the original site. Not sure which one is true.
Anyhow, the domains point to different name servers, but then again it doesn't have to prove anything.
Comment Junk newspaper (Score 2, Interesting) 337
Aftonbladet, often nicknamed "Aftonhoran" ("The Evening Whore") is a miserable tabloid of nearly non-existent intellectual value. A typical issue looks more like a prop from the movie "Idiocracy" than a real newspaper from a civilized country.
Even a quick glance at its website clearly reveals its true values (or lack thereof), even to those who aren't native Swedish speakers.
Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe In Plane Crash 512
necro81 writes "The NY Times is reporting that former Senator Ted Stevens was aboard a small plane with eight others that crashed in remote southwest Alaska Monday night. Some news outlets are reporting that he died, along with at least four others. Meanwhile, the North American CEO of aerospace firm EADS and former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe was was also reported in the crash. Rescue crews from the Alaska Air National Guard reached the site about ten hours after the initial crash."
BBC Builds Smartphone Malware For Testing Purposes 60
siliconbits writes "BBC News has shown how straightforward it is to create a malicious application for a smartphone. Over a few weeks, the BBC put together a crude game for a smartphone that also spied on the owner of the handset. The application was built using standard parts from the software toolkits that developers use to create programs for handsets. This makes malicious applications hard to spot, say experts, because useful programs will use the same functions."
Perl 6, Early, With Rakudo Star 220
Perl 6 may have been "finally coming within reach" in 2004, but now it's even closer. Reader rnddim writes "The Perl 6 implementation Rakudo Star has been released today for 'early adopters.' This release of Rakudo is different from the normal monthly compiler releases in that it is bundled with a draft of a Perl 6 book, and several modules. It's not complete, and it's not as fast as it should be, but Rakudo in its current state is proving to be usable and useful. Rakudo Star releases will come monthly or as major features or bugfixes are made. It is available for download at github.com."
Comment Re:Too late (Score 1) 293
Totally doesn't hold up. Back when MySpace was big, I don't think I knew more than 2 or 3 people with MySpace pages. It was pretty much exclusively a teen/college hangout.
These days the only people that I know who do NOT have Facebook pages are people without internet connections at all (lots of my family) and people who are security curmudgeons (like me). Even people who barely get on the internet use Facebook. Lots of people only even have an internet connection so that they CAN use Facebook.
You can barely buy a new mobile phone without a client for that shit pre-installed these days.
