Savage's huge following on twitter got him a speedy response by AT&T."
I'm sure the response would have been just as fast if he wasn't famous and wasn't using Twitter. These large companies have professional Human Resource departments to make sure that the customer service experience is good.
Nope. Trolling here again. Sad. I'll settle a few things for the audience before I move on.
You are stating the obvious.
Yep, it had to be stated, since you were apparently overlooking it.
No I wasn't.
Oh, and btw, Ritalin and amphetamines are both schedule II drugs.
Your dishonesty astounds me. Ritalin was only classified as a schedule II drug in the 1970s do to the think-of-the-children congressional pressure. (Ref. http://www.sntp.net/ritalin/time_bomb.htm)
Saying that two substances that are chemically somewhat similar but have different mechanisms of action are "chemically almost identical" is pushing it a little. Is nicotine also "chemically almost identical" to amphetamines? It also increases the amount of dopamine in the brain.
You are pushing the bullshit factor too much here. Let's face it, you were lying by stating that Ritalin and amphetamine are completely different. I was thinking maybe you were just being ignorant, but you seem to be more interested in "testing" me out.
At any rate, you are a Troll (and letting everybody know this) and I'm not going to waste any more of my time with you.
We are talking porn here. Children can't give consent to that.
Children cannot consent to religious indoctrination either and yet they are often forced to take part. Religion is much more dangerous than pornography (not dangerous at all), sex (not more dangerous than riding a bicycle), and nudity (not dangerous at all if you wear sun screen out doors). Religion however, has a direct impact on the mind. Nothing is done to protect children from Religion, which indicates to me that people who are interested in putting people in jail for the sake of the children are not really interested in protecting children at all but in advocating their own perverted lifestyles and belief systems and in punishing those who disagree. Sort of like what the Muslim fundamentalists do in Iran.
I bet you most people who want to put this person in jail haven't even seen the relevant pictures. It's very suspicious to me that the police never want to show the public the "pornography" that they prosecute. Just like the religious people who want to kill Salman Rushdie have never read the Satanic Verses. The day that we start cracking down on Religion and religious people is the day when they can throw the first stone.
I sit there and I just can't concentrate... Have any other Slashdotters run into this and if so how did you get out of it?
Ritalin is the cure. Tell your doctor you can't concentrate and he'll give you a prescription. Amphetamines are a tightly controlled substance now so the pharmaceutical companies developed Ritalin to get around the prohibitions. Don't worry Ritalin is almost chemically identical to amphetamine, so you are getting the same type of brain boost that the historically recreational drug achieves.
A man was charged with "aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor" even though - no minors were sexually exploited - no minors were aggravated - there was no sex portrayed in the pictures - one of the girls whose face is in a picture is not even a child - the person did not even know these girls and had no contact with them - And, "... Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said Wednesday." And for some bizarre reason a person who is involved with "missing and exploited children" feels the need to comment about this matter, as if what he has to say is even relevant to the case.
The real stinger is in this comment:
"We see it all the time," Allen said. "It makes it harder for law enforcement. It makes it tougher for prosecutors."
, from the same fanatic of the NCMEC mentioned above. It's obvious that he just wants to see innocent people put in jail. No Logic, no Rationale; just mindless and hateful punishment. He is an obvious advocate for the penal colonies operated in the US. It's sick.
Who decides what games even get looked at for classification? What if they just haven't gotten to the game you want yet?
According to the article, somebody from the public needs to make a complaint;
Senator Conroy's spokesman said the filter would cover "computer games such as web-based flash games and downloadable games, if a complaint is received and the content is determined by ACMA to be Refused Classification".
I'm sure there will be special interest groups of many varieties saving the children from various categories of filth and immorality. The Internet will be a much more polished facade of reality than it is now.
If the government and its citizens are too cheap to pay to keep their own highway clean, then you should expect to get whatever happens to come along as charity. Beggars can't be choosers. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
...but pornography doesn't make a culture intelligent or better than another culture...
Perhaps I should elaborate. When I said pornography is a signpost of "Civilization", I meant that if you can't find any, then chances are you are living in a repressive regime, culture, etc. because it will abound where there are not laws to suppress it. Yes porn doesn't necessarily enlighten the intellect, but it will be easily available where it is not actively suppressed. And so too, I am relating the fact that societies that tend to suppress pornography also tend to be more authoritarian in other respects as well. Saudi Arabia for example, is a very repressive place to live exclusive of pornography regulations.
Both oversimplified points of view are the result of popularized culture.
Lumping my observation (as oversimplified) in the same realm as Chinese and Islamic Fundamentalist censorship is a definite slight. "Popularized" (Western) "culture", as far as I know, is just as bizarrely averse to pornography, and even plain-vanilla nudity (which often gets fallaciously labeled as "pornography"). Even putting an (anatomically) correct nude statue in a park will likely get its extremities dismembered in many Western countries. I assure you their is nothing "popular" about pornography not being neurotic; the people who watch it the most are the ones who preach against it the hardest. It's bizarre.
The day that government's and people in general get over their neurotic reactions to pornography is the day when you will see Authoritarianism die and Civilization flourish. Pornography, like it or lump it, is a signpost of Civilization and Freedom.
Why would you even download this? Their web page and blog looks like it was created from an SEO program for selling viagra.
And I noticed all of the 5-star reviews I've read are all in broken English. All of the 1-Star negative reviews are in perfect English. It's only a correlation, but it (the positive reviews) is an indicator of spam.
I am not defending SoThink in any way and hope that FlashGot takes action but instead of opting to sue SoThink, I hope he first tries to force them to open up their own tool under the GPL...
I don't think the SoThink people are interested in being civil as you imply:
Someone previously mentioned the fact that this add-on sends you to a third party site IN CHINA to download the videos. Well, shortly after installing this add-on I was surfing the net, chose a site and was "hijacked" to an IP in CHINA. Imagine that! Not a good sign if they have included a nice trojan horse for you to have sitting on your computer with this add-on. Be Careful!
"Note to self, don't apply in Bozeman for a city job," one person wrote.
which is scary, because everyone knows that there will likely be at least one candidate who decides to apply for a job with the public service, which means the public service is going to get the cream of the intellectually dull and the morally bankrupt. They claim (as many other employers do) that it is important to hire based on a person's moral character. If these managers were not liars and hypocrites then they would insist that people prove that they are marijuana users and affirmed atheists before hiring. They would also confirm that these people are anti-war, anti-torture and against other right-wing neo-conservative ideals. If you are going to hire based on moral character, then you should make sure that the correct moral characters be hired.
Maybe if you posted with your name and address and some way of validating who you are instead of Trolling with an AC moniker then people will take you more seriously.
It's completely unenforceable. People can just claim they have no Slashdot account (for example) and therefore not have to give their passwords away. Why anybody would be stupid enough to randomly give every potential employer their passwords is beyond reason. I could understand setting up temporary proxy accounts that would be used to, for example, say good things about the company in anticipation of a job interview.
The people who thought up this scheme are obviously stupid. How do people get into Management?
... citing a worldwide backlash... ceased the practice of requesting that candidates selected for positions under a provisional job offer to provide their usernames or passwords for candidates' internet sites
The common sense question would be why hasn't the city Manager and his accomplices been fired without severance because of this severe incompetence and lack of judgment. Reacting to a reaction is the worse kind of Management. These people should show some Leadership and resign from their positions without asking for severance pay or Letters of Reference.
When someone is working for me, I hate it when they act pleasant, or try to do their jobs better. Bunch of political ass-kissers. I prefer the 'cool' guys who are quiet except when they are complaining about the impossibility of doing their job. Those guys really keep it real.
I completely agree (even though you do sound like an asshole and a Troll). It is the quiet ones who work the hardest, and it is generally the people who are visibly dissatisfied with their work (environment) who are the most efficient and productive. I was very disappointed when the GGP got modded up so high. I personally would have down-modded the post and up-modded the AC post (observing the negative aspects of ass-kissing) as being Insightful. Unfortunately there are too many (the vast majority of) bad and incompetent Managers out there who promote based on socialization skills like gossip and ass-kissing rather than good work. I certainly hope you are not a Manager.
I'm having a hard time understanding how someone with a CS or Software Engineering degree could end up in your position though. (Maybe I'm ignorant...)
I will give you the answer; the companies that hire BSc graduates in "IT" tend to be call centers and help desk type companies. In the 1990s you could go straight out of college and land an 80K per year job. These days you are lucky to land a help desk job. Of course the more successful people will have embellished their experiences on their resumes and with their references. The smart people often end up programming in their parents basement.
When I made reference to the "Protestant Work Ethic" I was referring to a mindset, and not necessarily a historical phenomena. Perhaps I should have elaborated on that fact or changed the wording completely.
Mathematics is not about getting the answer, it is about understanding the answer.
How one defines Mathematics is irrelevant. Auto mechanics is not about fixing cars, it is about understanding how to fix cars (I'll be explicit here; this is sarcasm).
However, judging by my classmates in middle school, high school, and college, I doubt that the majority will do this.
Undoubtedly the human brain has a vast capacity for mediocrity, this is something that cannot be changed by denying people tools of the trade.
More likely, it will just become a new way for students to cheat on their homework and force their professors to give easier curves on tests
This is an unfortunate attitude and an unfortunate endeavor to frame the argument with regards to trust values in education rather than pedagogical values in education. People who play in to these arguments are merely enabling the simple teach-to-the-test fanatics.
It is not wrong for people to cheat in school. It should not be discouraged. There is no reason why there should be so much time and energy wasted with enforcing cheating policies. I could give reasons for my statements, but you (and most people) would likely just think defensively of your own traditions and world-views and dismiss my arguments before even trying to understand them. Since you are interested in understanding (in terms of Mathematics at least) then I will tell you that the best way to learn why cheating is not a bad thing (in school) is to think about it yourself and discover the reasons on your own. A good pedagogical method is to think of the pros and cons of cheating (from the students perspective, the teachers perspective, etc) and then drill your brain for thoughtful arguments against your initial arguments. Look for fallacies and inconsistencies in your logic. Cheating, if anything, should be encouraged in school. It will make people wiser and more productive.
Since you're the second person to reply on this specific subject I will add that I was being sarcastic when I made that statement. I was hoping I wouldn't have to be explicit here.
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Savage's huge following on twitter got him a speedy response by AT&T."
I'm sure the response would have been just as fast if he wasn't famous and wasn't using Twitter. These large companies have professional Human Resource departments to make sure that the customer service experience is good.
That would mean you're female?
Nope. Trolling here again. Sad. I'll settle a few things for the audience before I move on.
No I wasn't.
Oh, and btw, Ritalin and amphetamines are both schedule II drugs.
Your dishonesty astounds me. Ritalin was only classified as a schedule II drug in the 1970s do to the think-of-the-children congressional pressure. (Ref. http://www.sntp.net/ritalin/time_bomb.htm)
Saying that two substances that are chemically somewhat similar but have different mechanisms of action are "chemically almost identical" is pushing it a little. Is nicotine also "chemically almost identical" to amphetamines? It also increases the amount of dopamine in the brain.
You are pushing the bullshit factor too much here. Let's face it, you were lying by stating that Ritalin and amphetamine are completely different. I was thinking maybe you were just being ignorant, but you seem to be more interested in "testing" me out.
At any rate, you are a Troll (and letting everybody know this) and I'm not going to waste any more of my time with you.
Dude
I'm not a "dude".
Back then, most substances were less controlled than they are today.
You are stating the obvious.
However, it's effects on the brain are completely unlike amphetamine (it blocks dopamine reuptake, while amphetamines stimulate dopamine release).
Actually, they both increase the amount of dopamine in the brain. Saying they are "completely unlike" each other is spurious at best.
We are talking porn here. Children can't give consent to that.
Children cannot consent to religious indoctrination either and yet they are often forced to take part. Religion is much more dangerous than pornography (not dangerous at all), sex (not more dangerous than riding a bicycle), and nudity (not dangerous at all if you wear sun screen out doors). Religion however, has a direct impact on the mind. Nothing is done to protect children from Religion, which indicates to me that people who are interested in putting people in jail for the sake of the children are not really interested in protecting children at all but in advocating their own perverted lifestyles and belief systems and in punishing those who disagree. Sort of like what the Muslim fundamentalists do in Iran.
I bet you most people who want to put this person in jail haven't even seen the relevant pictures. It's very suspicious to me that the police never want to show the public the "pornography" that they prosecute. Just like the religious people who want to kill Salman Rushdie have never read the Satanic Verses. The day that we start cracking down on Religion and religious people is the day when they can throw the first stone.
I sit there and I just can't concentrate... Have any other Slashdotters run into this and if so how did you get out of it?
Ritalin is the cure. Tell your doctor you can't concentrate and he'll give you a prescription. Amphetamines are a tightly controlled substance now so the pharmaceutical companies developed Ritalin to get around the prohibitions. Don't worry Ritalin is almost chemically identical to amphetamine, so you are getting the same type of brain boost that the historically recreational drug achieves.
A man was charged with "aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor" even though
- no minors were sexually exploited
- no minors were aggravated
- there was no sex portrayed in the pictures
- one of the girls whose face is in a picture is not even a child
- the person did not even know these girls and had no contact with them
- And, "... Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said Wednesday." And for some bizarre reason a person who is involved with "missing and exploited children" feels the need to comment about this matter, as if what he has to say is even relevant to the case.
The real stinger is in this comment:
"We see it all the time," Allen said. "It makes it harder for law enforcement. It makes it tougher for prosecutors."
, from the same fanatic of the NCMEC mentioned above. It's obvious that he just wants to see innocent people put in jail. No Logic, no Rationale; just mindless and hateful punishment. He is an obvious advocate for the penal colonies operated in the US. It's sick.
Nope. The Australians are afraid of breasts (Ref: Conservatives MPs... want topless... bathing banned on NSW beaches). The world is has gone mad.
Who decides what games even get looked at for classification? What if they just haven't gotten to the game you want yet?
According to the article, somebody from the public needs to make a complaint;
Senator Conroy's spokesman said the filter would cover "computer games such as web-based flash games and downloadable games, if a complaint is received and the content is determined by ACMA to be Refused Classification".
I'm sure there will be special interest groups of many varieties saving the children from various categories of filth and immorality. The Internet will be a much more polished facade of reality than it is now.
If the government and its citizens are too cheap to pay to keep their own highway clean, then you should expect to get whatever happens to come along as charity. Beggars can't be choosers. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
...but pornography doesn't make a culture intelligent or better than another culture...
Perhaps I should elaborate. When I said pornography is a signpost of "Civilization", I meant that if you can't find any, then chances are you are living in a repressive regime, culture, etc. because it will abound where there are not laws to suppress it. Yes porn doesn't necessarily enlighten the intellect, but it will be easily available where it is not actively suppressed. And so too, I am relating the fact that societies that tend to suppress pornography also tend to be more authoritarian in other respects as well. Saudi Arabia for example, is a very repressive place to live exclusive of pornography regulations.
Both oversimplified points of view are the result of popularized culture.
Lumping my observation (as oversimplified) in the same realm as Chinese and Islamic Fundamentalist censorship is a definite slight. "Popularized" (Western) "culture", as far as I know, is just as bizarrely averse to pornography, and even plain-vanilla nudity (which often gets fallaciously labeled as "pornography"). Even putting an (anatomically) correct nude statue in a park will likely get its extremities dismembered in many Western countries. I assure you their is nothing "popular" about pornography not being neurotic; the people who watch it the most are the ones who preach against it the hardest. It's bizarre.
The day that government's and people in general get over their neurotic reactions to pornography is the day when you will see Authoritarianism die and Civilization flourish. Pornography, like it or lump it, is a signpost of Civilization and Freedom.
Why would you even download this? Their web page and blog looks like it was created from an SEO program for selling viagra.
And I noticed all of the 5-star reviews I've read are all in broken English. All of the 1-Star negative reviews are in perfect English. It's only a correlation, but it (the positive reviews) is an indicator of spam.
I am not defending SoThink in any way and hope that FlashGot takes action but instead of opting to sue SoThink, I hope he first tries to force them to open up their own tool under the GPL...
I don't think the SoThink people are interested in being civil as you imply:
Someone previously mentioned the fact that this add-on sends you to a third party site IN CHINA to download the videos. Well, shortly after installing this add-on I was surfing the net, chose a site and was "hijacked" to an IP in CHINA. Imagine that! Not a good sign if they have included a nice trojan horse for you to have sitting on your computer with this add-on. Be Careful!
- Ref. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/reviews/display/6541.
Laws are meant to be broken. - Ref some Wall Street lawyer
A reaction taken from the article;
"Note to self, don't apply in Bozeman for a city job," one person wrote.
which is scary, because everyone knows that there will likely be at least one candidate who decides to apply for a job with the public service, which means the public service is going to get the cream of the intellectually dull and the morally bankrupt. They claim (as many other employers do) that it is important to hire based on a person's moral character. If these managers were not liars and hypocrites then they would insist that people prove that they are marijuana users and affirmed atheists before hiring. They would also confirm that these people are anti-war, anti-torture and against other right-wing neo-conservative ideals. If you are going to hire based on moral character, then you should make sure that the correct moral characters be hired.
If you have nothing to hide...
Maybe if you posted with your name and address and some way of validating who you are instead of Trolling with an AC moniker then people will take you more seriously.
Because the FBI has maintained that obtaining a person's passwords without their consent is a crime.
You are using the credibility and authority of the FBI as a case for privacy rights. I suppose they are more credible than the NSA.
It's completely unenforceable. People can just claim they have no Slashdot account (for example) and therefore not have to give their passwords away. Why anybody would be stupid enough to randomly give every potential employer their passwords is beyond reason. I could understand setting up temporary proxy accounts that would be used to, for example, say good things about the company in anticipation of a job interview.
The people who thought up this scheme are obviously stupid. How do people get into Management?
... citing a worldwide backlash... ceased the practice of requesting that candidates selected for positions under a provisional job offer to provide their usernames or passwords for candidates' internet sites
The common sense question would be why hasn't the city Manager and his accomplices been fired without severance because of this severe incompetence and lack of judgment. Reacting to a reaction is the worse kind of Management. These people should show some Leadership and resign from their positions without asking for severance pay or Letters of Reference.
When someone is working for me, I hate it when they act pleasant, or try to do their jobs better. Bunch of political ass-kissers. I prefer the 'cool' guys who are quiet except when they are complaining about the impossibility of doing their job. Those guys really keep it real.
I completely agree (even though you do sound like an asshole and a Troll). It is the quiet ones who work the hardest, and it is generally the people who are visibly dissatisfied with their work (environment) who are the most efficient and productive. I was very disappointed when the GGP got modded up so high. I personally would have down-modded the post and up-modded the AC post (observing the negative aspects of ass-kissing) as being Insightful. Unfortunately there are too many (the vast majority of) bad and incompetent Managers out there who promote based on socialization skills like gossip and ass-kissing rather than good work. I certainly hope you are not a Manager.
I'm having a hard time understanding how someone with a CS or Software Engineering degree could end up in your position though. (Maybe I'm ignorant...)
I will give you the answer; the companies that hire BSc graduates in "IT" tend to be call centers and help desk type companies. In the 1990s you could go straight out of college and land an 80K per year job. These days you are lucky to land a help desk job. Of course the more successful people will have embellished their experiences on their resumes and with their references. The smart people often end up programming in their parents basement.
Next thing you know they'll want to take away my stockpile of assault rifles and hand guns.
When I made reference to the "Protestant Work Ethic" I was referring to a mindset, and not necessarily a historical phenomena. Perhaps I should have elaborated on that fact or changed the wording completely.
Mathematics is not about getting the answer, it is about understanding the answer.
How one defines Mathematics is irrelevant. Auto mechanics is not about fixing cars, it is about understanding how to fix cars (I'll be explicit here; this is sarcasm).
However, judging by my classmates in middle school, high school, and college, I doubt that the majority will do this.
Undoubtedly the human brain has a vast capacity for mediocrity, this is something that cannot be changed by denying people tools of the trade.
More likely, it will just become a new way for students to cheat on their homework and force their professors to give easier curves on tests
This is an unfortunate attitude and an unfortunate endeavor to frame the argument with regards to trust values in education rather than pedagogical values in education. People who play in to these arguments are merely enabling the simple teach-to-the-test fanatics.
It is not wrong for people to cheat in school. It should not be discouraged. There is no reason why there should be so much time and energy wasted with enforcing cheating policies. I could give reasons for my statements, but you (and most people) would likely just think defensively of your own traditions and world-views and dismiss my arguments before even trying to understand them. Since you are interested in understanding (in terms of Mathematics at least) then I will tell you that the best way to learn why cheating is not a bad thing (in school) is to think about it yourself and discover the reasons on your own. A good pedagogical method is to think of the pros and cons of cheating (from the students perspective, the teachers perspective, etc) and then drill your brain for thoughtful arguments against your initial arguments. Look for fallacies and inconsistencies in your logic. Cheating, if anything, should be encouraged in school. It will make people wiser and more productive.
Since you're the second person to reply on this specific subject I will add that I was being sarcastic when I made that statement. I was hoping I wouldn't have to be explicit here.