Comment Re:Why is anyone surprised... (Score 1) 75
Completely agree, the bitcoin miner is just the headline. The rest of it is to scan the contents of the NAS, I wonder which government owns them?
Completely agree, the bitcoin miner is just the headline. The rest of it is to scan the contents of the NAS, I wonder which government owns them?
Never mind what dialogue a clever psychologist has planted in you Pavlovian brain.
So you want to kill people.
I hope your house is the remote one that doesn't get a signal and is the first to lose POTS.
I look forward to your urgent need to call an ambulance and your untimely death.
If you don't need civilization then the rest of us can do without you.
That is what the guy just said - Walmart competes on marketing - meaning that they dont tax everything they sell to spend on harvesting the morons who respond to advertising.
You can bet that the person who wrote this article has made or will make a ton of cash out of this sick idea. Its all over the web.
Secretly people enjoy the idea of torturing people they do not like, so its struck a rich vein. It is the antithesis of civilization and should be resisted.
Looks like the monkey cant quite get down out of the tree and forget its animal nature.
Actually no one gives a monkeys about the planetary science program, its deeply unpopular because it uses genetic medicine and genetically modifies organisms to survive drought and it supports evolution and it ends the war on drugs - it is fundamental Science.
NASA should spend more money on that Russian space station, because we get live moving pictures back which make the news. Air time gets funding.
Actually America is just about done now and the rest of us are just waiting for the Chinese to take over the role of leading the world in real science.
See they have this dictatorship that doesn't need tv ratings to do things.
I despair.
I am very sorry to say that it appears to be because the cold war is over and that the reasons we fought the cold war were being constantly repeated to us to justify the cost - "they don't have free speech, they don't have independent legal systems, they oppress minorities". Apparently now we no longer have that enemy we are fighting for those reasons its OK to openly do all the things that we were supposedly fighting against. Its very sad.
This is what I keep thinking but dont say.
I agree with you that you can do lots of entertaining things on a tablet or phone interface and that is great for domestic consumers. However they are locked out of any expectation of creative use of computing by the interface and applets. Its sad that it took only 20 years for the internet to become no more than a metro app.
I think you will find that they will squash you like a bug if you make a fuss. Is this really something worth fighting for?
In business you often present information on the status of something and then after a dialogue have to decide on actions. Without presentation of data this would not work. Powerpoint is ok as a means of showing data. A blackboard is ok for teaching abstract subjects but probably isnt suitable for subjects that require familiarity with physical objects. Anti Powerpoint crusades are a stupid concept, Powerpoint is fine for many applications.
Your money stinks, most of it is debt and we don't want it.
Half the world hates you with a passion for your criminal lack of morality and arrogance.
Typical for your response to be that you can always pay for the millions of deaths you will cause with a fine.
Your culture is revolting, lets hope the Chinese behave better than you because they are clearly the future.
I dont mind UI refreshes but I think that it will dumb down the discourse if the information density is decreased too much. But we live in an era where most of the audience growth is thought to be on mobile interfaces. The web is changing.
it will certainly destroy the value of their second hand equipment.
All of my home computing is three year old refurbished corporate stuff precisely because it does have decent bug fixing and driver updates. Quite apart from being less than a third of the original sale price to buy.
Lenovo support is still free.
Wonder what is going to be done with all the thousands of tons of useless HP equipment at the end of its three year life? I hear that landfill is pretty much full these days.
It took us a decade to allow Nato to sort the thing out. The Europeans would have done it long before if they didnt have to ask permission from our American paymasters. The only reason
Americans get involved in everything is frankly because they have most of the weapons and soldiers that exist on planet earth. Its surprising that the American tax payer hasn't figured out that the reason they have shit schools and hospitals is because all the tax gets spent on cluster bombs and drones.
And interestingly a random poll of slashdot readers reveals that nearly 25% claim to have access to large telescopes inconvenient to carry or ones with even more light grasp and mass.
So that makes us different to the rest of the population - apart from not having a girlfriend and living in a basement of course....
So Slashdot is actually 'News for Nerds and backyard astronomers' from the sound of it.
Well I think its entirely understandable that the technologically interested have their own tools for accessing space.
I wonder if the same could be said of microscopes, I have one, but its nothing like the array of telescopes that seem to have come to live in the spare room..
Memory fault - where am I?