I've been watching a lot of various movies and TV series recently and every time a character says something pious about "constitutional rights" there is a reply along the lines: this is a matter of national security and you have no rights or you are charged under terrorist laws and you have no rights. No lawyer, no phone call, no keeping the mouth shut, no fair trial,
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FTFY.
As far as I can see, the public should be pretty much educated about that by now.
With bitcoin, the valuable commodity is... finding a greater fool. In other words, bitcoin is entirely bubble.
Was there ever a problem to find a greater fool? AFAIK, there is no shortage in that area.
Who the hell gets high speed Internet for $20/mo?
Me. I pay 15€/month for 100Mbps down 10Mbps up over fiber in east Europe country. Another 6€ for TV and phone delivered on the same connection. The rest of the life here sucks, but that internet connection is great.
I can just imagine a space-age gold rush erupting and the face of the moon forever altered...
Yeah, and suddenly there is a crater everywhere
Novices can for the first time actually do usable filtering without knowing arcane programs and switches. A simple "journalctl -b -p err"
I'm not a novice and the grep switches and regular expressions are ingrained in my brain for years already. Learning another tool to do the same thing is just waste of my time and energy.
P.S. how is "-b -p err" less arcane then grep command line options or
You're being too kind on the Slashdot beta by just calling it "annoying". It's much, much worse than that. It's pure and total shit.
Excuse me, why do you go to that beta.slashdot.org site at all? I saw it once when it was announced and I never went there again. I'm logged in and I don't get the javascript-heavy design either. For me the slashdot looks almost the same as it looked 15 years ago (1, 2. Perhaps with rounded corners on story titles.
But what did she accomplish?
She did something that requires skill, knowledge and she did it for fun and interest. How often do you see that? I don't. If you do, share the story. We are eager to know.
On the other hand I'm meeting developers that are dug in in their niche for last 15 years and have no desire to find out what happened in IT in the meantime. They develop windows only software but would be lost in Windows 8 and have no idea how to filter EventLog where their log messages are. The don't care how C98 differs from C++0x or how they could replace their data structures with STL (and halve the code in the process). They join a team that works o client-server software, but don't bother to learn what TCP handhsake is, what IPv6 is, what latency is, or where the f*cking server is. They grab a library for encryption and don't bother to randomize IV. They develop software that does graphics, but have no idea what OpenGL is or what DirectX can do.
Because they are frozen in time. It was good enough 15 years ago, and so it should be good enough now. They are not interested. They don't follow what's happening in IT. And you know what? It works for them. Because 1) management has no clue and 2) when something bad happens, they have "someone" who solves the issue - someone who spends evenings and weekends learning new stuff.
Money only works up to a (surprisingly low) point.
I'm volunteering to test this theory. Where do I sign up?
Hint: "The Constitution" is not a specific law.
You should then rush to update wikipedia: The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America.
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