I've said it before, I'll say it again: this is a children's game. THERE IS NO REASON FOR A CHILDREN'S GAME TO ALLOW ITS PLAYERS TO SPEND $100 ON IN-GAME ITEMS.
Who in God's name is modding all these idiots as "Informative" and "Insightful"?
Do you really want scot4875 on Slashdot to have signoff authority in every game that's developed and marketed on the App Store?
Bozos like this are the reason why ladders are made from 88% wood and 12% warning labels.
Yes, and all of them involve actual harm to innocent people, not loss of small amounts of money by dumbshit parents who can't be bothered to act like parents.
And you can rest assured the hotel's head office noticed your attempt when they reviewed their user-agent statistics. Unless they're idiots, which they aren't, they will have told their IT people to ditch the Flash shit if they don't want their next job assignment to involve wearing a paper hat while 'configuring' a deep-fat fryer.
It's very safe to say that Flash will no longer be required by any major B2C websites within the next 6-12 months. It's dead, Jim, stick a fork in it.
Nope, there are numerous people who have sacrificed their own lives even families just for the cause. Just because many are greedy, it doesn't make everyone to act the same.
Well, sure. One out every hundred of these types of people, we call "heroes." The other 99, we call "psychos."
There could be a sci-fi that killed a character, and then had the come back every freaking week, and if it kept you on the edge of the seat, emotional engaged, then it's good. No matter how many cliches it has.
The man in black fled across the galaxy, and the gunslinger followed...
(With all that investment in Microsoft Research, why does Microsoft copy others, particularly Apple, so much???)
Make no mistake. The primary mission of Microsoft Research is to pull together some of the most talented and respected researchers in the field, supporting them in a comfortable, low-pressure environment in order to keep them from working for anyone else.
What they do at Microsoft is of no real concern, as long as they're not helping the competition.
It's those who work for a goal or purpose and sacrifice their own interests for that goal purpose who keep progress going on.
Perhaps, but when they do so, it's invariably in service to their own families, communities, tribes, or nations. Nobody behaves altrustically on behalf of civilization as a whole... and in the eyes of a collectivist, nationalism is just individualism writ large.
Yeah, how dare we regulate products that use water when 80% of the country is facing a catastrophic water shortage within a couple decades...
Funny, I remember hearing that a couple decades ago. And yet the stuff still keeps falling from the sky.
(Or maybe you meant to say something like, "Because a bunch of dumbasses built golf courses in the desert 2000 miles away, you're not allowed to own a toilet that works.")
Slashdot "libertarians": Small government for me, big government for those I disagree with.
That's rich. A government that is big enough to give companies like Apple all the IP rights they want is big enough to take them away from the rest of us.
As an Apple stockholder, I'd prefer people don't hack their products
OK, I'm with you there 100%. I promise not to sneak into any Apple stores at midnight and 'hack' any of their products.
The thing is, though, once I buy the product, it isn't Apple's anymore, and I can and will do with it as I please.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima only proved that it's most effective to use nukes against a country incapable of responding in kind. The US did use them first, and they won the war, hardly a lesson in restraint.
No, they proved that using nukes would make you the enemy of all humanity even if you "win" the war, and that there's no such thing as an uninvolved party in such a conflict.
This is most likely the reason why there haven't been any further world wars.
Correct, and that law wasn't OK, either. They started with shotguns because after all, who but a bank robber would want to tinker with the barrel of a shotgun? They moved on to mandating shower heads that dribble like they belong in a Flomax commercial, water-saving toilets that have to be flushed twice, and cold medicine that requires a 14-day waiting period.
Now they've made it illegal to take your Playstation apart and tell anyone else what you see inside, but hey, as long as it stops those cheaters and pirates, all's fair in law and love, huh?
In short, GTFO of my country, or at least stop voting, kthxbai.
Yes, old hipsters anywhere, nuclear weapons have most likely saved orders of magnitude more lives than they've ever cost. Choke on that, you anti-nuclear bastards.
True, and as I like to further point out in those sorts of conversations, Hiroshima and Nagasaki unquestionably saved many more lives than even the most hardcore US apologists have argued.
Why? Because those two bombs were about one percent as destructive as the ones that would've eventually been used in Korea, or somewhere else, if we hadn't seen and understood what happened to the cities we bombed in Japan. It's no comfort to the Japanese survivors, but IMHO humanity got off easy with only a couple hundred thousand deaths, compared to what would've happened if we hadn't learned our lesson at the end of WWII.
I don't think setting off a few H-bombs on an uninhabited island 2000 miles from nowhere would've been enough to teach our leaders and citizens that these things are to be used only if someone else uses them first. I think we had to use them on real people to understand that.
Of course, before long everybody who's actually witnessed a nuclear explosion in person will be dead of old age or otherwise out of the picture. People forget, and that's going to be a problem.
So what's your opinion on the topic of the thread, as a soon-to-be-qualified psychologist? Are you able to diagnose various CEOs and corporate founders with clinical sociopathy over the Internet, or are you just muttering under your breath about some guys who did some stuff that you don't personally approve of?
OK, now, that's an interesting point. You're saying that sociopathy is an objective condition that can't be diagnosed by random people on Slashdot?
Then we really are wasting our time in this thread, aren't we? It's as if the whole premise -- the suggestion that Gates and Jobs and other 'captains of industry' are clinically-diagnosable sociopaths with dysfunctional backgrounds or genes -- was just so much verbal diarrhea from the get-go.
So if psychology isn't a science, what basis could any of the generalizations in your post possibly have? Almost every sentence you wrote contains at least one such statement, unbacked by any cited research. Not only that, but you seem to be saying that such research would be unscientific by its nature.
If psychology is a science, then it is entitled to ask and answer questions regarding the interaction of sociopathic personalities with society as a whole. Practitioners can determine whether people like Gates and Jobs meet objective criteria for sociopathy, or whether they're just a couple of guys you don't like very much.
Conversely, if psychology is strictly a domain for amateur pundits, then my opinion is as valid as the goofy Ayn Rand-villain positions put forth by the other posters in this thread, isn't it?
Bullying and walking over people is never an asset in a civilized society
And your degree in behavioral psychology is from the University of ________?
The fact is, progress depends on people who are willing to place their own interests -- or those of their "tribe" -- above those of others. Your statement suggests that you're either 12 years old, or have spent all your life in a Zen monastery.
Yes, and it's true that sociopathy is more prevalent in corporate management than it is in other parts of society.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, for the most part, just a case of different people with different personalities finding roles in society where their traits are assets rather than liabilities. If you could wave a magic wand and remove the influence of so-called "sociopaths" from human history, we'd all find ourselves back in the caves, if not the trees.
Likewise if everyone behaved like a stereotypical CEO, we'd have destroyed ourselves long ago. It takes all kinds.
The border patrol can't come into your house without a warrant just because you're within 100 miles of the Mexican border.
These things happen incrementally, not all at once. Right now, people who have not actually crossed a border are being accosted by Border Patrol agents. Similarly, one US citizen who had already passed the standard inspection at the Mexican border was stopped and searched against his will at a second, ad-hoc checkpoint further inland, apparently without even the slightest pretense of probable cause.
These incidents are happening because people like you aren't watching, or just don't give a shit. If and when it gets to the point where they do come into your house within the 100-mile border zone without a warrant, it will be because they thought they could get away with it because no one lifted a finger to stop them before. That may be OK for you, but please don't project your ignorance of history and indifference to the present on the rest of us.
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No, that would be the "Extortion" button you're asking about.
Who in God's name is modding all these idiots as "Informative" and "Insightful"?
Do you really want scot4875 on Slashdot to have signoff authority in every game that's developed and marketed on the App Store?
Bozos like this are the reason why ladders are made from 88% wood and 12% warning labels.
Yes, and all of them involve actual harm to innocent people, not loss of small amounts of money by dumbshit parents who can't be bothered to act like parents.
But mostly bombs.
I did not book that hotel room.
And you can rest assured the hotel's head office noticed your attempt when they reviewed their user-agent statistics. Unless they're idiots, which they aren't, they will have told their IT people to ditch the Flash shit if they don't want their next job assignment to involve wearing a paper hat while 'configuring' a deep-fat fryer.
It's very safe to say that Flash will no longer be required by any major B2C websites within the next 6-12 months. It's dead, Jim, stick a fork in it.
Nobody ever got a bonus or promotion by attending to nitpicky user-experience details.
No, they just get a market cap worth several DELLs more than MSFT.
Nope, there are numerous people who have sacrificed their own lives even families just for the cause. Just because many are greedy, it doesn't make everyone to act the same.
Well, sure. One out every hundred of these types of people, we call "heroes." The other 99, we call "psychos."
There could be a sci-fi that killed a character, and then had the come back every freaking week, and if it kept you on the edge of the seat, emotional engaged, then it's good. No matter how many cliches it has.
The man in black fled across the galaxy, and the gunslinger followed...
Make no mistake. The primary mission of Microsoft Research is to pull together some of the most talented and respected researchers in the field, supporting them in a comfortable, low-pressure environment in order to keep them from working for anyone else.
What they do at Microsoft is of no real concern, as long as they're not helping the competition.
Actually, the Constitution guarantees both Apple and you certain rights
Pull the other one. It has a bell attached!
It's those who work for a goal or purpose and sacrifice their own interests for that goal purpose who keep progress going on.
Perhaps, but when they do so, it's invariably in service to their own families, communities, tribes, or nations. Nobody behaves altrustically on behalf of civilization as a whole... and in the eyes of a collectivist, nationalism is just individualism writ large.
Yeah, how dare we regulate products that use water when 80% of the country is facing a catastrophic water shortage within a couple decades...
Funny, I remember hearing that a couple decades ago. And yet the stuff still keeps falling from the sky.
(Or maybe you meant to say something like, "Because a bunch of dumbasses built golf courses in the desert 2000 miles away, you're not allowed to own a toilet that works.")
That's rich. A government that is big enough to give companies like Apple all the IP rights they want is big enough to take them away from the rest of us.
OK, I'm with you there 100%. I promise not to sneak into any Apple stores at midnight and 'hack' any of their products.
The thing is, though, once I buy the product, it isn't Apple's anymore, and I can and will do with it as I please.
No, they proved that using nukes would make you the enemy of all humanity even if you "win" the war, and that there's no such thing as an uninvolved party in such a conflict.
This is most likely the reason why there haven't been any further world wars.
Correct, and that law wasn't OK, either. They started with shotguns because after all, who but a bank robber would want to tinker with the barrel of a shotgun? They moved on to mandating shower heads that dribble like they belong in a Flomax commercial, water-saving toilets that have to be flushed twice, and cold medicine that requires a 14-day waiting period.
Now they've made it illegal to take your Playstation apart and tell anyone else what you see inside, but hey, as long as it stops those cheaters and pirates, all's fair in law and love, huh?
In short, GTFO of my country, or at least stop voting, kthxbai.
Yeah. If they win, the government might actually leave you alone.
Or worse, leave your neighbor alone. Can't have that.
True, and as I like to further point out in those sorts of conversations, Hiroshima and Nagasaki unquestionably saved many more lives than even the most hardcore US apologists have argued.
Why? Because those two bombs were about one percent as destructive as the ones that would've eventually been used in Korea, or somewhere else, if we hadn't seen and understood what happened to the cities we bombed in Japan. It's no comfort to the Japanese survivors, but IMHO humanity got off easy with only a couple hundred thousand deaths, compared to what would've happened if we hadn't learned our lesson at the end of WWII.
I don't think setting off a few H-bombs on an uninhabited island 2000 miles from nowhere would've been enough to teach our leaders and citizens that these things are to be used only if someone else uses them first. I think we had to use them on real people to understand that.
Of course, before long everybody who's actually witnessed a nuclear explosion in person will be dead of old age or otherwise out of the picture. People forget, and that's going to be a problem.
So what's your opinion on the topic of the thread, as a soon-to-be-qualified psychologist? Are you able to diagnose various CEOs and corporate founders with clinical sociopathy over the Internet, or are you just muttering under your breath about some guys who did some stuff that you don't personally approve of?
OK, now, that's an interesting point. You're saying that sociopathy is an objective condition that can't be diagnosed by random people on Slashdot?
Then we really are wasting our time in this thread, aren't we? It's as if the whole premise -- the suggestion that Gates and Jobs and other 'captains of industry' are clinically-diagnosable sociopaths with dysfunctional backgrounds or genes -- was just so much verbal diarrhea from the get-go.
Imagine that.
So if psychology isn't a science, what basis could any of the generalizations in your post possibly have? Almost every sentence you wrote contains at least one such statement, unbacked by any cited research. Not only that, but you seem to be saying that such research would be unscientific by its nature.
If psychology is a science, then it is entitled to ask and answer questions regarding the interaction of sociopathic personalities with society as a whole. Practitioners can determine whether people like Gates and Jobs meet objective criteria for sociopathy, or whether they're just a couple of guys you don't like very much.
Conversely, if psychology is strictly a domain for amateur pundits, then my opinion is as valid as the goofy Ayn Rand-villain positions put forth by the other posters in this thread, isn't it?
So what is IBM? Chopped liver?
An odd comment, and one that reinforces the idea that Groklaw was an IBM astroturfing effort (albeit a good and necessary one) from the outset.
And your degree in behavioral psychology is from the University of ________?
The fact is, progress depends on people who are willing to place their own interests -- or those of their "tribe" -- above those of others. Your statement suggests that you're either 12 years old, or have spent all your life in a Zen monastery.
The '60s are still on hold. They want to know if it's OK to start trusting anyone over 30 yet.
Yes, and it's true that sociopathy is more prevalent in corporate management than it is in other parts of society.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, for the most part, just a case of different people with different personalities finding roles in society where their traits are assets rather than liabilities. If you could wave a magic wand and remove the influence of so-called "sociopaths" from human history, we'd all find ourselves back in the caves, if not the trees.
Likewise if everyone behaved like a stereotypical CEO, we'd have destroyed ourselves long ago. It takes all kinds.
These things happen incrementally, not all at once. Right now, people who have not actually crossed a border are being accosted by Border Patrol agents. Similarly, one US citizen who had already passed the standard inspection at the Mexican border was stopped and searched against his will at a second, ad-hoc checkpoint further inland, apparently without even the slightest pretense of probable cause.
These incidents are happening because people like you aren't watching, or just don't give a shit. If and when it gets to the point where they do come into your house within the 100-mile border zone without a warrant, it will be because they thought they could get away with it because no one lifted a finger to stop them before. That may be OK for you, but please don't project your ignorance of history and indifference to the present on the rest of us.