Comment Re:stupid fear mongering (Score 1) 494
Ok, I get it. You don't know shit.
Snort. Says someone who doesn't know the meaning of the word "independence". Google it and try again.
Ok, I get it. You don't know shit.
Snort. Says someone who doesn't know the meaning of the word "independence". Google it and try again.
Clearly, space is the answer.
Preferably for people who want to turn America's farmland into some sprawling metropolis...
Vast areas of Earth remain unpopulated. In no particular order:
Uh, no, it's not, actually. In fact, as of the 2010 Census, the Midwestern states had higher combined populations than the Northwestern states.
Belief vs reality.
"Okay"
PC sales crash again.
P.S. 7 is supported until 2020.
Simple, trident missiles guarantee your enemies destruction. What you say? Scotland doesn't have enemies? Take away those missiles and we'll see about that.
The problem is, your enemy sees your Tridents and gets some of their own to ensure their safety, and then we all get to wonder how long till someon sneezes.
People remember Cuban crisis as the closest we ever came to nuclear war, but the fact is, close calls are a common occurrence. Radars malfunction, phone lines go dead, and people push the wrong buttons. Our luck will run out eventually; we either build sufficient international systems that nations can afford to de-escalate their armies to non-nuclear status, or we'll die. And bullshit like yours is advancing the latter option.
The number of people on Earth is likely to reach 11 billion by 2100
Nope; before then we'll have a good solid pandemic, or war, or famine, or hey - maybe all three! That will make a significant dent in the existing population.
At least, one could hope
So it closed last year, but you only just noticed and posted an article? It doesn't seem like it's going to be missed very much, if the corpse can decompose and start to smell before someone sends the police to check on aunt Mozlabs.
True Story...
I wanted to do this when I was about 30... We have a very prestigious college here so I went there, to the physics lab and sat down with a professor.
He said if I came in with strait A's in math... maybe... otherwise it was an unqualified "No"
He went on to say that if I didn't have strait A's in math to go to the local community college and take math courses that were specifically linked to the University. They have classes that do carry credit at the university. If I could get a 4.0+ in advanced math classes they'd let me in. He said if I was older, I'd qualify as a "Returning adult" and would have lower requirements... 3.0+ I think "returning adult" is in the 35+ age range. But you'd have to contact your local college.
Then I asked if I could at least push the button on the accelerator. That also was a "No" but he at least chuckled.
It might be different at your local school. I wouldn't know.
For the feds, you bet your ass they'll cough it up. Just clone the drives, and off they go.
Damn! Even Apple sounds like they're on November's ballot! May as well be, they and Google are damn near a government agency.
There are ways to make a post readable. So what if Slashdot doesn't have unicode, plain old ASCII still works. The machines we work with are still very primitive and fickle. Think of of it as just another Italian car, or British actually, dripping oil all over the place. And please, put at least a minimal effort, and let's not blame the tools we have.
Another CSN song for ya there, JC: If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with...
It wouldn't bother me if this place didn't allow HTML tags either. It serves to keep out the riff-raff. I don't want to make it easier for the damn spammers to attach their crap to everything they post. Alas, that horse is dead, and when Dice sells off to the next butcher, they'll probably get unicode also. The end is near.
Slashdot still carries 15 years of our comments, woe be to them when that disappears.
And we should believe Apple why? Who thinks that if Apple gets a national security letter that they're not going to comply? And what about access to the increasing proportion of data that is stored on Apple's servers instead of the local iPhone? Is Apple going to say no to the NSA/FBI/CIA on that, too?
We've heard these promises before.
"forget answer to security question" --- a security question is usually used in the context of retrieving or resetting a password. If Apple can retrieve the password (from the device, its servers, iTunes, whatever) or can remotely reset the password and somehow make your data available to you, then it isn't secure. Secure would mean that forgetting a password is effectively the same (at least for the next 5 or 10 years) as tossing the storage into a raging furnace.
Taxes fix anything
The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money. -- B. Franklin
