Comment Re:It's rape Jim, but not as we know it (Score 1) 225
Replying to undo a mod I didn't select... fuck what is it with slashdot these days.
Replying to undo a mod I didn't select... fuck what is it with slashdot these days.
Who still uses tape? Seriously, no data centric company on the planet still uses tape, its easier and cheaper to throw a bunch of large drives and a big fat pipe to offsite storage than deal with a tape robot.
People still using tape are doing so because they haven't moved on and like pain or are just ignorant of the alternatives.
Google, probably the most "data centric" company on earth, that's who!
This is news for nerds, not news for trailer trash that hide in their nuclear bunkers every night because the reds are coming.
After years of reading the comments on this site I'm not so sure that those two groupings are distinct.
built-in three commands machine language (one of which was only ever used by one application ever) to change display resolution mid-monitor
I'm curious... any more detail on this?
Your solution is?
Obviously, let government have less influence on our lives.
Individuals can still redress wrongs perpetrated against them by corporations. Haven't you ever seen the movie about Erin Brockovich?
Obvious troll is obvious
The fad is ending.
Intended as a troll I think... but it's sadly true
A well formed argument that entirely misses the point; OS updates (not just microsoft) are essentially the broken window fallacy writ large.
It's all about sales and marketing types being able to say "oooh look shiny!" whilst fleecing everyone.... good engineering is about form following function not planned obsolescence.
On the shortest day of the year, sunset is just after 4:30 PM here. Sunrise is 7:15. I see maybe 30 minutes of sunlight in a given day during that time of the year. I work in a basement office with no windows.
Just wait! Any day now they're going to remove you from the payroll.
Because it's rightist utopian garbage. There's a lot of that here. Death is a part of life. Ironically, without it, there'd be no 'progress' or evolution, two things the left claims to hold in high esteem.
FTFY.
There are many airports across the U.S. that actually went privatized-- the cities decided they didn't want TSA anymore. SFO, San Francisco, is one example. The government regulates and monitors the private firms at those airports to make sure they're up to federal requirements. I believe private firms do just about everything more cheaply. And I can't imagine they would be any less effective than TSA.
That's fascinating. I'm an aussie who has travelled to the US twice, once to San Jose via LAX, and once direct to SFO.
The difference between them was chalk and cheese... I'd previously put it down to cultural differences between SoCal and the north of the state. But, now that I know that SFO isn't the TSA it makes perfect sense.
Thank you. I sitll intend to participate in the slashcott next week, however. I believe that there is a political element at Dice that would not mind seeing the wretched hive of men's rights activism and anti-feminism that is Slashdot in mothballs.
Godspeed to those who are working on altslashdot.org. I'm afraid that Code.org and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have given orders from On High that the community that questions feminism at Slashdot must be disbanded.
I've encountered sexism many times in my life before. Usually the argument is that because I was assigned the male gender at birth, despite the physical gender of the wetware between my ears, THEREFORE I am sexist. Q. E. D.
I wished many, many times during my male adolescence thatI had been born female instead. None of those wishes came true. However, if any of them had, I suspect that my school's administration would not have attempted to threaten me with FBI incarceration because I wanted to have a computer club nor would they have attempted to paint me as a plagarist because my code was "too good" for somebody of my age back then.
More assigned males are speaking out against this problem. There is nothing you can do, Dice or Code.org. More and more of us are becoming aware that the feminist narrative is wrong-headed.
As much as I wish more cis women would go into programming, I am not their mistress or their Borg queen. I do not control their actions.
There needs to be a different approach.
How about a -1 WTF option?
A big advantage of the "old" technologies is that you can get them running with household items. It's impossible to built an integrated circuit at home, but it's quite feasible to build a steam engine. I learned a lot about technology by servicing my bicycle. I had a very old typewriter which was build on a completely different principle than the usual querty keys, it had a pointer which mechanically connected to a cylinder with the letters and only one key which caused the cylinder to hammer down on the carbon ribbon and the paper. Just to see that there are many different solutions to a given problem greatly increases your understanding of technology. So yes, I think you missed out greatly. All you had was magical black boxes which somehow did what you wanted them to do.
Don't be so sure about that
With that defense, yeah - a total douche. She isn't "defending the future", she's trying to dodge the speeding ticket, with a twist that she was caught what the state of California (IMHO rightly) defines as a monitor. They didn't say it was a "television", and neither does the citation.
Sorry, ma'am, but even if you manage to get the law itself changed, you're still guilty of violating it.
This,
My experience with driving in the US (specifically California) is that if she wasn't doing 80+ in a 65 zone the cops would have picked someone who was, they wouldn't have had to wait long at all. She was caught speeding and is trying to make a spectacle out of it in order to get off.
I see what you did there
Oh, so it's a synonym for "highway." Damn Brits and their other words for common things. I hear "motorway" and thing "road where motored vehicles travel," which would include pretty much everything other than bike paths and trails.
Yeah damn those English people who speak something other than English as it's spoken by those who invented it.
Oh wait! It's called English because the English "invented" it and the ex-colonists decide to fuck with it.
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
Smallpox has been absent since the 70's, and hasn't show up yet... So if the premise is the same with polio, yes we can say that it is extinct... I think.
I think it only exists in one CDC facility and one research / germ warfare facility in siberia, now.
Meh. I'm sure it exists in other places as well. For example, the sequence for smallpox is well-known, so it could be reconstructed by a government even if those samples were destroyed. Furthermore, there's always the random serendipity of as-yet undiscovered samples:
Century-old smallpox scabs in N.M. envelope (found in a library, of all places...)
However, I concur that the disease is extinct in the wild, and, barring malfeasance, there will never be another epidemic of smallpox.
Interesting that the FBI sent the envelope to the CDC via mail... aside from being illegal I would've thought that this would of at least raised a few eye brows at the CDC.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.