Comment Re:Less Geeky, but funny (Score 1) 79
Less geeky, but still geeky:
"We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment!"
- Tom Lehrer, Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Less geeky, but still geeky:
"We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment!"
- Tom Lehrer, Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
... healthcare could be so complicated?
Oh don't get me started on monopolies...!!!
But your second sentence is essentially saying what I'm saying: It's a matter of perspective. For that matter, all of computing is like that, if you think about it: 00001001 is just a bunch of ones and zeros - it's not ASC('A'). Unless it is.
Which pretty much brings me back around to my original point: Isn't a storage device with a processor a computer? Because a processor with storage is....
(Yeah yeah, 01000001. Damn autocorrect....)
Oh don't get me started on monopolies...!!!
But your second sentence is essentially saying what I'm saying: It's a matter of perspective. For that matter, all of computing is like that, if you think about it: 00001001 is just a bunch of ones and zeros - it's not ASC('A'). Unless it is.
Which pretty much brings me back around to my original point: Isn't a storage device with a processor a computer? Because a processor with storage is....
... on storage, doesn't it become... a processor? With storage?
It's a matter of perspective, really.
30 years later (having not yet finished writing the program even once) I'm still considering the question:
In Monopoly, does the player own the properties (i.e. player.properties.list = [propertyA, propertyB,
Who knew computers could be about philosophy so much??
You and the mouse in your pocket should learn about... learning.
...the species so it won't be so incredibly gullible?
(No I'm not new here. Really.)
Maybe homo sapiens can start to re-evolve the skepticism muscle it lost when AOL joined the internet?
"The fact that you can immediately link this to an environmental charity shows that, unlike much of the fossil fuel lobby which works through astroturfing and front organisations, they pass the first test which is a good sign"
What? You can't possibly be that naive. Well actually you can, because you are on Slashdot.
As are you.
Naivete, like birdwatching, goes both ways....
... it's true too (as if we need proof):
I repair computers for a living. Notwithstanding the 80-95% dropoff in work (today's the first day this week with work), 3 of my 4 tickets are to repair laptop cameras. I usually repair a laptop camera maybe once every six months....
This'll last long....
They are a for profit corporation looking after their own image, the image of the CEO and the fortunes of the shareholders. You have to expect that they are going to suppress content on a regular basis, they are not a newspaper, no part of Facebook's business model is about showing articles they don't like.
Facebook profits from advertising, not from impartially printing stories.
Facebook is being confused with a genuine journalistic source!!!!
FTFY.
Those still sticking around, and there will be many, are products of the mass brainwash factory with minds full of bullshit. That's not good.
FTFY.
Larry Wall, who created the Perl programming language, and several coauthors wrote that one of the key virtues of a programmer is "laziness" -- of the variety where your unwillingness to perform rote actions inspires you to do the work to automate them.
You guys both think you're funny, but you're actually highlighting the really horrifying facet of this problem here. You might be able to tell yourselves "It's fine I'll just use GPG too." but for the vast majority of the population and major institutions, security is effectively dead now, and they're trying to alter their business plans to adapt to making money in an environment where the forgone conclusions are that no system is secure-able and the only thing left with any value is your stolen identity.
If they're just doing that now they're at least a decade too late.
Recent investments will yield a slight profit.
