Also, I think blaming Islam as a whole even for the Islamic terrorism is mischaracterizing the problem.
It's not Islam specifically, it's all fundamentalist religion. Crack open your history book and read about the Roman Catholic Church and the Crusades or Hitler (he said very specifically what he believed in Mein Kampf) and what motivated them to do what they did. If you want to get real specific the root of the problem is "tribalism". Throughout history much tribalism has been based on religious beliefs but not all of it.
Sharing your password is against the ToS of every single social media platform out there, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, every forum ever, etc. Share your password to your account when you go to the US and kiss that account goodbye.
Two things:
1) How is an American company going to enforce this against non-US citizens?
2) People do this all the time and Facebook and Twitter are none the wiser. How would you suggest that Facebook and Twitter police this with millions of users?
Your argument is a straw man and theoretical nonsense that doesn't work in practice. Try again.
Has not. Non American citizens are not guaranteed the same rights as American citizens. Always been that way across the world. Take a vacation to North Korea or Iran and see if you get the same rights as in your own country and report back.
You would think we would have learned from this. There were nasty viruses like this in the 90's. But nope. I think it's because no one knows how to program in assembly language anymore. In fact, a lot of young programmers be like "Assembly Language, what's that?" Meanwhile, some black hat that does know is like "Oooh, look at me, I rekt ur firmware bc u forgots to write protect it!"
Cause Nintendo just jumps on/. to listen to whining all day. You figured it out. Congrats.
Incorrect. You assume I care whether Nintendo reads this or not. I don't. I also don't give a shit what you think either. I have as much right to post here as you do. Quit being a thread shitter.
So what happens when you switch jobs? You have your current employer's chip removed and your new employer's chip installed? The firmware gets updated? How exactly does that work? If the firmware can be updated what's to stop a hacker from doing something to a device inside of one's body? Nothing could possibly go wrong. I doubt this idea will ever see the light of day.
I'm sure Nintendo reps scan the internet all day for comments just like yours to motivate them to make you happy.
Excuse me? I thought Nintendo was trying to sell a product to try to compel me and other consumers to spend $300 for a console and then $60 a pop for each game. Did I miss something? It's my choice about what to spend my hard-earned money on. I have no obligation to buy anything and I do in fact vote with my wallet. If you can't grasp the concept then I feel very sorry for you.
I won't buy one of your new consoles until you fix the launch issues. These are design flaws and/or failure rate issues with parts from other distributors. If you want me to buy a Switch, fix it. I can play Breath of the Wild on the WiiU until then. Marketing spin doesn't make products better. k thx bai.
...and in 20 years when management decides to offshore *all* of its tech work to India (due to bloated contracts with said unions, bloated wages, and a systme where the incompetent could never get fired, let alone done so in a timely manner), we can all sit back and say we at least tried, right?
After we get done with building the wall along the Mexican border, we're going to take all the knowledge and expertise we gained from that to create a gigantic dome around the United States to solve this problem.
The workers think they have an opinion that matters.
The current American culture gives absolutely no shits what workers think, only that they show up and do what it says on the tin.
You want to have an opinion? Fight for it. Walk out. Organize. Use the tools that are available to you, not spineless open letters that only provide the status quo with targets to aim at.
And, btw, when you have that opinion, don't give it up. Remind everybody that you fought hard for the right to have a voice, as opposed to workers in the 70s, 80s, and 90s that happily gave up their ability to affect change.
Oh my, how un-American! *snicker* Unions are against your "right to work", don't you remember?;) Don't let the unions take away your right to work! America is a bizarre, twisted land. But American business leaders will tell you that democratic socialist (read: soshulism) countries in Europe that actually encourage both representation for the workers and the business to achieve compromise and balance are the road to fiery perdition even though the data from sources like the OECD paints the opposite picture. The data is a lie!:P
The only reason employees feel compelled to take the wheel is because they realize that their leadership is completely incompetent and delusional. We'd really actually like REAL leaders that actually do their job so we can just do ours but that's apparently like asking for the sun, the moon and the stars anymore.
I think the best part is how there are plenty of articles about burnt out and overworked managers with self help strategies like delegating work. So, let me get this straight, you, the poor woe is me manager, that's sitting in meetings all day playing on your phone is so stressed out that you should get special privileges to delegate any work arbitrarily that you want to and get paid more money? Where's my special privilege? Why can't I delegate that fly-in on fire shit ball task that you want done yesterday? Double standard.
Careful, you don't want to invoke the small number Gods on here. It can get ugly. I know, as I have hidden behind my keyboard and watched as 4 digit and under users have emerged from the depths and cast judgement on us lesser souls.
I think there was a John Lennon song about this:
Imagine there's no best Linux distro
It's not hard to do
No haters or fan bois
And no incessant debates too
Imagine all the people, using *nix in peace, yoo hoo ooh ooh ooh
You may say I'm dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Wat?! India has the top software engineering talent on the planet, everyone knows that! That's why we must keep the H-1B Visa program in place in America because they are so much better than American software engineers. If we don't do that, the tech sector will collapse and bad things will happen! Why are you posting such anti-American false rubbish?
Sincerely,
The US Chamber of Commerce
“[Peter] Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. He thanked him. The man objected indignantly:
“’Up in our country, we are human!’ said the hunter. ‘And since we are human we help each other. We don’t like to hear anyone say thanks for that. What I get today you may get tomorrow. Up here we say that by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs’.
“The last line is something of an anthropological classic, and similar statements about the refusal to calculate credits and debits can be found throughout the anthropological literature on egalitarian hunting societies. Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began ‘comparing power with power, measuring, calculating’ and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt”.
This part is remarkable fascinating. I'll have to read more into this. Thanks for sharing. This seems to be about the value of cultural tradition/identity vs. logical measurement of results. The former seems to view the latter as progressive (evolving towards more results) and as a loss of cultural identity (a bad thing). I've had discussions with more conservative friends about this and I always ask them "Would you prefer spearing fish out of a river in a loincloth as opposed to shopping at the grocery store?" When they think about it this way, the mental contradiction arises and they usually silently realize that they're thinking absolutes on some level.
Old think. Stupid think. Sheep think. The ESTABLISHMENT owns everything. Democrat establishment, Republican establishment, it's all the same fucking thing.
You are so right. I wish I could mod you up more. I explained this to a former boss once using a similar approach: "You can pick any fruit you like from this basket. The basket only contains apples. Choose any fruit you like from it." That's one of the fundamental concepts/tricks in fascism.
This probably raises a question among some of you: "So why even subscribe to POTS in the cellular era?"
I think you hit the nail on the head about the issue but didn't acknowledge it. What happens when there are a decreasing amount of POTS subscribers and an increasing number of cellular subscribers? The total revenue going towards the cost of maintenance of the POTS equipment and the employees starts shrinking. Eventually it gets to a point where there is risk associated with the "subscription fees" not being able to cover the total cost. At that point, there are two choices 1) Admit that your old product is done and retire it or 2) Start charging your shrinking subscriber base more money to be able to cover the costs.
This is very much like the problem with the United States Postal Service. Now that we have e-mail, text messaging and all kinds of other ways to deliver digital content to each other, people don't write as much snail mail. Even legal documentation is sent over email these days. Statements and bills are delivered via email instead of postal mail. You get the picture. As a result, stamp prices increase because less people are using stamps. It seems kind of backwards but the economics make perfect sense.
This is NOT how regulations are supposed to work. Lawsuits are supposed to be the last resort, and the usually come from a government agency which is too overburdened to create lawsuits on a whim.
Well, well. Regulations and rules being used in ways they weren't intended to be used. You might be onto a systemic problem there...
So are they going to consider the Roku and Amazon Fire and similar devices to be "mobile devices"? Because a lot of people use these devices to output via HDMI to their TVs. That doesn't seem right to give these users different content just because they're not using a computer as their primary output device.
If you actually RTFA, you would see the very first thing in the article is a picture of handheld devices. In the article at the very bottom it even says:
“mobile screens are the majority consumption device.”
Slashdot Mirror
Also, I think blaming Islam as a whole even for the Islamic terrorism is mischaracterizing the problem.
It's not Islam specifically, it's all fundamentalist religion. Crack open your history book and read about the Roman Catholic Church and the Crusades or Hitler (he said very specifically what he believed in Mein Kampf) and what motivated them to do what they did. If you want to get real specific the root of the problem is "tribalism". Throughout history much tribalism has been based on religious beliefs but not all of it.
Sharing your password is against the ToS of every single social media platform out there, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, every forum ever, etc. Share your password to your account when you go to the US and kiss that account goodbye.
Two things:
1) How is an American company going to enforce this against non-US citizens?
2) People do this all the time and Facebook and Twitter are none the wiser. How would you suggest that Facebook and Twitter police this with millions of users?
Your argument is a straw man and theoretical nonsense that doesn't work in practice. Try again.
The USA has lost its damn mind.
Has not. Non American citizens are not guaranteed the same rights as American citizens. Always been that way across the world. Take a vacation to North Korea or Iran and see if you get the same rights as in your own country and report back.
And really, no checksum and/or signature? This is an APTs wet dream.
Like leaving your front door unlocked
Oh how we miss you in the UEFI age!
You would think we would have learned from this. There were nasty viruses like this in the 90's. But nope. I think it's because no one knows how to program in assembly language anymore. In fact, a lot of young programmers be like "Assembly Language, what's that?" Meanwhile, some black hat that does know is like "Oooh, look at me, I rekt ur firmware bc u forgots to write protect it!"
Cause Nintendo just jumps on /. to listen to whining all day. You figured it out. Congrats.
Incorrect. You assume I care whether Nintendo reads this or not. I don't. I also don't give a shit what you think either. I have as much right to post here as you do. Quit being a thread shitter.
So what happens when you switch jobs? You have your current employer's chip removed and your new employer's chip installed? The firmware gets updated? How exactly does that work? If the firmware can be updated what's to stop a hacker from doing something to a device inside of one's body? Nothing could possibly go wrong. I doubt this idea will ever see the light of day.
I'm sure Nintendo reps scan the internet all day for comments just like yours to motivate them to make you happy.
Excuse me? I thought Nintendo was trying to sell a product to try to compel me and other consumers to spend $300 for a console and then $60 a pop for each game. Did I miss something? It's my choice about what to spend my hard-earned money on. I have no obligation to buy anything and I do in fact vote with my wallet. If you can't grasp the concept then I feel very sorry for you.
I won't buy one of your new consoles until you fix the launch issues. These are design flaws and/or failure rate issues with parts from other distributors. If you want me to buy a Switch, fix it. I can play Breath of the Wild on the WiiU until then. Marketing spin doesn't make products better. k thx bai.
Can you do this 100% remotely? If so, how?
...and in 20 years when management decides to offshore *all* of its tech work to India (due to bloated contracts with said unions, bloated wages, and a systme where the incompetent could never get fired, let alone done so in a timely manner), we can all sit back and say we at least tried, right?
After we get done with building the wall along the Mexican border, we're going to take all the knowledge and expertise we gained from that to create a gigantic dome around the United States to solve this problem.
The workers think they have an opinion that matters.
The current American culture gives absolutely no shits what workers think, only that they show up and do what it says on the tin.
You want to have an opinion? Fight for it. Walk out. Organize. Use the tools that are available to you, not spineless open letters that only provide the status quo with targets to aim at.
And, btw, when you have that opinion, don't give it up. Remind everybody that you fought hard for the right to have a voice, as opposed to workers in the 70s, 80s, and 90s that happily gave up their ability to affect change.
Oh my, how un-American! *snicker* Unions are against your "right to work", don't you remember? ;) Don't let the unions take away your right to work! America is a bizarre, twisted land. But American business leaders will tell you that democratic socialist (read: soshulism) countries in Europe that actually encourage both representation for the workers and the business to achieve compromise and balance are the road to fiery perdition even though the data from sources like the OECD paints the opposite picture. The data is a lie! :P
The only reason employees feel compelled to take the wheel is because they realize that their leadership is completely incompetent and delusional. We'd really actually like REAL leaders that actually do their job so we can just do ours but that's apparently like asking for the sun, the moon and the stars anymore.
I think the best part is how there are plenty of articles about burnt out and overworked managers with self help strategies like delegating work. So, let me get this straight, you, the poor woe is me manager, that's sitting in meetings all day playing on your phone is so stressed out that you should get special privileges to delegate any work arbitrarily that you want to and get paid more money? Where's my special privilege? Why can't I delegate that fly-in on fire shit ball task that you want done yesterday? Double standard.
Can it make me think I'm drinking beer at work? That would drastically improve my patience with my coworkers.
Careful, you don't want to invoke the small number Gods on here. It can get ugly. I know, as I have hidden behind my keyboard and watched as 4 digit and under users have emerged from the depths and cast judgement on us lesser souls.
I think there was a John Lennon song about this:
Imagine there's no best Linux distro
It's not hard to do
No haters or fan bois
And no incessant debates too
Imagine all the people, using *nix in peace, yoo hoo ooh ooh ooh
You may say I'm dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Wat?! India has the top software engineering talent on the planet, everyone knows that! That's why we must keep the H-1B Visa program in place in America because they are so much better than American software engineers. If we don't do that, the tech sector will collapse and bad things will happen! Why are you posting such anti-American false rubbish? Sincerely, The US Chamber of Commerce
“[Peter] Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. He thanked him. The man objected indignantly: “’Up in our country, we are human!’ said the hunter. ‘And since we are human we help each other. We don’t like to hear anyone say thanks for that. What I get today you may get tomorrow. Up here we say that by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs’. “The last line is something of an anthropological classic, and similar statements about the refusal to calculate credits and debits can be found throughout the anthropological literature on egalitarian hunting societies. Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began ‘comparing power with power, measuring, calculating’ and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt”.
This part is remarkable fascinating. I'll have to read more into this. Thanks for sharing. This seems to be about the value of cultural tradition/identity vs. logical measurement of results. The former seems to view the latter as progressive (evolving towards more results) and as a loss of cultural identity (a bad thing). I've had discussions with more conservative friends about this and I always ask them "Would you prefer spearing fish out of a river in a loincloth as opposed to shopping at the grocery store?" When they think about it this way, the mental contradiction arises and they usually silently realize that they're thinking absolutes on some level.
Old think. Stupid think. Sheep think. The ESTABLISHMENT owns everything. Democrat establishment, Republican establishment, it's all the same fucking thing.
Bingo, Wish I had mod points to give you.
I was more thinking of a meat grinder. Feet first.
Nah that's too humane. Drive them out in the middle of a desert and leave them there.
Since you are so obviously in favour of choice, for your lunch you have the following choices:
1. Shit sandwich 2. Vomit stew 3. Ground glass hash
Enjoy!
You are so right. I wish I could mod you up more. I explained this to a former boss once using a similar approach: "You can pick any fruit you like from this basket. The basket only contains apples. Choose any fruit you like from it." That's one of the fundamental concepts/tricks in fascism.
Fatality
This probably raises a question among some of you: "So why even subscribe to POTS in the cellular era?"
I think you hit the nail on the head about the issue but didn't acknowledge it. What happens when there are a decreasing amount of POTS subscribers and an increasing number of cellular subscribers? The total revenue going towards the cost of maintenance of the POTS equipment and the employees starts shrinking. Eventually it gets to a point where there is risk associated with the "subscription fees" not being able to cover the total cost. At that point, there are two choices 1) Admit that your old product is done and retire it or 2) Start charging your shrinking subscriber base more money to be able to cover the costs.
This is very much like the problem with the United States Postal Service. Now that we have e-mail, text messaging and all kinds of other ways to deliver digital content to each other, people don't write as much snail mail. Even legal documentation is sent over email these days. Statements and bills are delivered via email instead of postal mail. You get the picture. As a result, stamp prices increase because less people are using stamps. It seems kind of backwards but the economics make perfect sense.
Good thing we're cutting funding for the sciences so we can find out what happened.
That, unfortunately, does not have an impact on the prevalence of pseudo-science.
This is NOT how regulations are supposed to work. Lawsuits are supposed to be the last resort, and the usually come from a government agency which is too overburdened to create lawsuits on a whim.
Well, well. Regulations and rules being used in ways they weren't intended to be used. You might be onto a systemic problem there...
Psychological Egoism + Game Theory = ?
Could it be... the root of many evils?
So are they going to consider the Roku and Amazon Fire and similar devices to be "mobile devices"? Because a lot of people use these devices to output via HDMI to their TVs. That doesn't seem right to give these users different content just because they're not using a computer as their primary output device.
If you actually RTFA, you would see the very first thing in the article is a picture of handheld devices. In the article at the very bottom it even says:
“mobile screens are the majority consumption device.”
"mobile screen" != HDMI output