A former cowboy became President of the United States. Oh, that was in 1901. And the U.S. overthrew the government of Guatemala to help out a fruit company. Oh, that was in 1954.
...and in 1979: https://xkcd.com/204/
"Would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take OUR MERCATOR PROJECTION!"
Some evils are just more evil than others.
There could be significant issues with biomedical data, too. For example, the policy gives the example of 'next-generation sequence reads' (raw genomic sequence data), but it's hard to make this truly anonymous (as legally and ethically it may have to be). For example, some researchers have identified named individuals from public sequence data with associated metadata: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
Mine (not quite that early) had a bug that gave the wrong colours with our (Hitachi?) TV. According to Sir Clive, this was the fault of the TV manufacturer for 'not following standards'. Expecting Sinclair to test the Spectrum hardware with a range of commonly used televisions before release was, of course, completely out of the question...
I originally had the 16k model, partly funded by the refund from a ZX81 (actually two in succession) that had conveniently died - QC was not Sinclair's strong point. Increasing this to a (massive!) 48k was my first experience of an internal hardware upgrade, with chips bought from some mail order supplier that advertised in the back of Sinclair User. They were buggers to insert (an uncle with electronics experience was enlisted to help force them into place without trashing anything).
The article also doesn't mention the controversy about Elite Systems and their apparent failure to pay the developers they are making money off:
Firefox wil be copying this behaviour within a week. That's why we have SeaMonkey.
A cynic might suggest that the UK Government doesn't care about file formats any more than MS does, and the whole whole "we're seriously considering alternatives" thing is just a ploy to get a better deal on Office...
Sorry, but that's just Double Dutch to me.
If you think this is harmless stupidity, think again. IIRC there is at least one case of an HIV positive mother who refused to test her child. The child later died in an illness with symptoms like those of someone who has AIDS. The mother also died, naturally.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. In South Africa, HIV denialists advised by the Duesberg cult were in charge of public health policy for several years, leading to a tragedy of genocidal proportions:
...but the Canonical shills were trying to push Upstart even though it's a buggy piece of shit that is inferior to systemd in every way.
So wait, you're saying that narrow corporate interests were trying to push their own inferior solution in place of a technically superior system strongly preferred by the userbase? There seems to be something vaguely familiar about this scenario, but I can't quite put my finger on it...
Believe me, there's no confusion about the immensity of the community's contribution to the site.
Join us! Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. And we have cooler spaceships and better dialogue.
The FBI's top 10 malware packages in full:
10. Conficker
9. Zeus
8. Melissa
7. LOVEYOU
6. Ask toolbar
5. Windows 8
4. Stoned
3. Stuxnet
2. Cryptolocker
1. Slashdot Beta
In an earlier Snowden story, it was revealed that:
"British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) reportedly used spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot pages to compromise the computers of network engineers working for global roaming exchange providers based in Europe."
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?...
Is it possible that all of us, right now, are logged into a spoofed page that has replaced the real Slashdot for reasons known only to GCHQ and the NSA? 'Beta' is probably the final stage in whatever sinister plot they have planned for us. Incredible, I know, but is it any less likely than the alternative, that a job search site none of us had ever heard of would buy Geeknet for $20 million, and then proceed to trash its properties by a series of bizarre decisions like setting up SlashBI (beware the tumbleweed!) and inflicting Beta on its loyal readers? Just how far does this conspiracy go?
So -- tell us. Are you this quick witted or did you have to think a moment to come up with this perfect reply.
No, I just chuck this stuff out there without too much thought - much like the Slashdot Beta development process.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
