Soon, the only good neighborhood will be the orbiting city. The entire surface of the planet will be one big ghetto.
There are only 2 counties capable of putting someone in orbit, so I assume this city will have vodka and fortune cookies?
I don't see Syria as connected to 9-11, do you?
Whoever said it is?
9-11 was over a decade ago. Get over it.
But how can we assess the probability of a successful attack? Since most companies choose not to disclose breaches, we don't have meaningful statistics to base our estimates on.
Slashdot is about discussing the stories. Most of the discussions and stories carry a bias that most either love or hate. Most are wildly inaccurate... to the point some of them come off like total lies.
Slashdot really isn't a news site. It's not the best place for news from any genre of news. The opinions of those who discuss the news are often narrow minded and wrong.
Welcome to Slashdot.
You're thinking of Fox News
in the 1980s, under R Reagan, the USofA supported one S Hussein in his war against Iraq, and in his use of chemical weapons.
So what the US govt won't do is pretty extreme
fair use would not let you use 50 words from a 50 word book
why bother to file a bug report for software that is still in pre alpha
What is the point ?
To take just one of many, many examples: a straightforward task should be pasting a bitmap into a document program like writer or word
This works in word, altho the large number of poorly documented options makes it difficult for the new user to understand; on the other hand, for almost every MS office question, there are one or two good websites, so 5 minutes on google usually produces an answer.
with writer, this just didn't work
why shoud i bother with a bug report on a program that isn't ready ?
Prevent Any Truly Empowering New Technologies
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'It seems to me that the ability to say "no" to profitable but peripheral business in order to strategically focus the company is a really important management task
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no SH** Bosco; learning to focus on business with higher margin is something you should have engraved on your forehead on like, the first day of work.
Anyway, aside from the fanboys, everytime i try librre/open office, the don't work
I know, ymmv
About two months ago, I downloaded the latest open office clone and tried something real simple: paste a bitmap into a word document
this works sort of ok in MS office; doesn't work at all in OO
The whole thing is idiotic: the money is in corporate; if they want features they will go for MS suite, which OO will never touch; if they want cloud, google
If you want cheap, you can get last years MS suite off of ebay at very low cost
I just don't see why anyone bothers with OO
I think the article gets one important point rather wrong. Those who take risks tend to be those coming out of the most secure backgrounds. This is pretty much the core observation leading to Plato's Republic. If you grow up at risk, you are less likely to chose risk than if you grow up secure. Now, our response to 9-11 might be too large, but it is not owing to being risk adverse. It is more a function of having a privileged and sheltered decider ready to risk a lot, even our civil liberties, to carry out a family vendetta.
Obama has a family vendetta? Which he can solve by bombing Syria and persecuting Snowden?
Bush was bad. Obama is bad.
Only 50%? Jewellery, money and electronics are screened for in the x-rays.
I have have the true ridiculous tale of my father luggage being held for 40 minutes more in Maputos airport just they could cut out the toy compass it had.
On the other hand, once I flew a notebook to HP for Germany for assistance under their warranty period, and did the mistake of leaving there the operating system, fully bootable with automatic login (it was Windows 98 days), fully customised with Office, etc etc, and a RAM expansion fitted in. The notebook was fully and dully registered and insured by HP, never arrived to the destination. Luckily they gave me a new one. However without first calling me a liar about the RAM expansion. Between that, and having to flown it, it was my first and last Compaq/HP notebook.
I also had a mobile taken from me from the x-ray of the hand luggage, under the pretence it got a malfunction and they were "fixing" it (i.e. they saw it in the x-ray, and grabbed it).
I ship electronics all the time in the hold. Most recently took some laptops to India, some hard drives to Kenya, and they all made it fine. If the USA has a bigger problem with corruption than those countries, you've got serious problems, and need to seriously rebuild your country from the ground up.
In all honesty, having crossed the atlantic with BA, AirFrance, KLM and American Airlines, BA is by far the best of those 4, shorty followed by AA.
Air France isn't an airline. It's a part of France in the air, so is hideous.
AA's new 773 I believe is ahead of even BA's 773s, but if you're on an older AA flight there's no comparrison. BA you get a bed, AA you get a seat.
Dozens of schools are shot up wry [every] year in the u.s.
Citation needed; AFAIK, that actually only happens once every decade or so, it's not the norm by any measure.
Wikipedia lists 14 school shootings so far this year.
In the last 12 months, 7 incidents where people died:
September 26, 2012 Stillwater, Oklahoma (suicide)
December 14, 2012 Newtown, Connecticut (major news incident, highest number of deaths since 2007)
January 15, 2013 Hazard, Kentucky (college parking lot)
January 16, 2013 Chicago, Illinois (university parking lot)
January 29, 2013 Midland City, Alabama (ok, a school bus, not a school)
March 18, 2013 Orlando, Florida (university, killer was ready but changed his mind, suicide)
June 7, 2013 Santa Monica, California (college)
Even if you just limit it to "major" events with 5+ homicides
Red Lake massacre, 2005
Amish school shooting, 2006
Virginia Tech massacre, 2007
Northern Illinois University shooting, 2008
Oikos University shooting, 2012
Newtown, 2012
Santa Monica shooting, 2013
7 in the last 8 years.
I think we're pretty much past that joke by now.
This is slashdot. Think again.
In Soviet Slashdot, joke is past you!
...they arrest gay people simply for being gay, and have threatened to arrest gay athletes.
This man fled Russia because of the reaction to his paintings of Putin in lingerie: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/fearing-retribution-artist-behind-putin-lingerie-painting-leaves-russia/279181/
It's easy to take this as an opportunity to denigrate the US. The level of corruption is far worse in Russia and the civil rights protections a fraction of what US citizens enjoy.
If Snowdon has been Russian and escaped with FSB documents, he wouldn't be alive right now. In case nobody noticed, Russia assassinates inconvenient people.
It's just a shame that the U.S. with it's anti-freedom policies is no longer the obvious opposite to the dictatorship. There's enough doubt in the mind of U.S. supporters to subconsciously equate both countries as being against the people, despite the fact Russia is so much worse.
America used to be land of the free, home of the brave. A place to aspire to, a place to look up to.
That all changed because of an old man living in a cave who killed fewer people in September 2001 (3000) than died on america's roads in that same month (3500).
"You know, we've won awards for this crap." -- David Letterman
