Exactly, that's why I always say if you're going to resign on principle, at least make sure to take out those who remain, otherwise what have you achieved? A few poisoned herrings would have done the trick.
A large number of methane plumes have been discovered bubbling up from the sea floor over the Siberian continental shelf.
In other news, the Russian Navy announced a successful test of a submarine powered by a brand new propulsion system. The exact details are still classified, but sources claim there is a mysterious link between it and a new food and beverage contract awarded by the Navy to Taco Bell
Yes you can, but yes it's more difficult so not as many people do it and those who do will not do it as often. I guess that's the thinking, if you can't stop it altogether, making it even a bit harder is a step in the right direction from their point of view and it does make some sense
If we put control over everything in the hands of the employers, they'd all decide to screw over the employees. You now have to work 200 hours/week for 80% less money -- because we said so.
If that's what you think then you have never put yourself in the employer's shoes. I am an employer with a small business and I know that to get good people and to get them to do a good job I have to treat them well. There is a balance of power between the employers and employees that depends on supply and demand, like anything else in a free market.
In a free society, I should not be forced by law to provide another person with a living, certainly not to any arbitrarily set standard that someone else sets. If the government wants to set the minimum standards then it should do it with taxpayers money so that this burden is spread evenly, instead of placing the burden on one particular group, the business owners/shareholders.
It is GOVERNMENT that is preventing suit for collection of overtime, not the market-place.
I think the uppercase word should be suit, not government. Government is not preventing you from negotiating for overtime pay with your employer. Free market is still operating. What they are preventing is a lawsuits on a premise which is absurd to start with, i.e. that you can get a job with an employer that doesn't pay overtime, work overtime while knowing that you won't get paid for it, then sue the employer. A real libertarian would say if overtime pay is what you're after, a) don't take that job, or b) don't work overtime, of c) if the employer insist you work overtime anyway, find another job
No no, this one must be called MAVAN. MAVEN is a completely different project, albeit with a very similar name and identical goals and budget.
After all, slashdot had an article about MAVEN only couple of days ago: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/16/0123253 I don't think it's possible that they would post another one about the exact same project. That would be a dupe!
A Chinese astronaut is... an astronaut. A Russian astronaut is... an astronaut.
You mean: A Chinese cosmonaut is... a cosmonaut. An American cosmonaut is... a cosmonaut. After all, Russians used the name cosmonaut first, the Americans user astronaut to be different. Cosmonaut makes more sense anyway, at least until we have a manned flight to the stars
Because some of us are actually interested in the rest of the world outside USA. Most of the slashdot stories are USA centric. Just look at the front page, FAA, Sarah Palin, DMCA mentioned casually as if everybody is familiar with them. Every once in a while another country gets mentioned and there is somebody complaining about it
Just google the name of just about any product on late night infomercials + scam. Typically in minutes you can find out how the scam operates. Simple ones seem to be the most common, i.e. give a "free" sample and get their credit card details for a small shipping charge or whatever, and once you have their credit card details you can pretty much go crazy with it. First you hope the don't notice the extra charges, then if they do notice good luck finding a phone number that someone actually answers, finally you can always say they ordered stuff over the phone that they didn't. Works for computer lessons, various "health" products (more embarrassing the problem the better), lessons on getting rich with real estate etc.
Frankly, you do have to be a bit of an idiot not to see the scam from a mile away, but just because you're an idiot doesn't make it ok for those guys to defraud you. Good to see a long prison sentence for one of those jerks, hopefully that friendly bold guy who teaches you "how to run the computer" will be next.
It doesn't say anything about any secrecy either, and they haven't actually built anything yet, except full scale models (whatever that means). I guess the only accurate part of the title is that it's something to do with MIT and batteries.
It is a classic example of a stereotype, and I can't believe that a comment saying that it isn't so is modded as insightful. It is a stereotype that many cybercrimes are committed by Russians and Chinese and kdawkins is obviously affected by it. It is incidental in this case that the stereotype is not even true, as just as much, and probably much more online nastiness is coming from USA.
What if he said "many burglaries are committed by blacks, I bet many are also committed by latinos" while not mentioning those committed by other races. Yes the statement is strictly speaking true, but but it is also a stereotype, and racist too, because of what it leaves out.
The only way he denied them money was if the person paying him would have purchased the game from the copyright holder instead of the pirate. Unlikely.
Or if the copyright holder didn't want these games on the market because they have newer games that they want to sell, which will now not be bought because people are buying these older pirated games instead. Likely.
I don't know why you'd imprison him though. I mean, it's a "white collar" crime and there's no threat posed to society by him simply through physical contact.
There is a threat of him committing the same crime again, isn't there? Not likely to do so while he's in prison. I don't know where this idea comes from that any crime involving physical violence is necessarily worse than any non-violent crime. Perhaps this doesn't apply in this case, but lets say you have a guy who steals $1,000,000 through "white collar" financial crime, compared to a guy who steals $50 by grabbing a purse from a woman, perhaps even punching her in the face in the process. It seems bizarre to me that most people seem to consider the second crime to be worse of the two and would have no problem locking him up, where in the first case they might have second thoughts. It seems to be just a visceral reaction to violence and not a rational evaluation of the actual harm done to the victims or to society.
I'm very unimpressed with the touch panel for typing on the iPhone and iPod touch
Hmm, do you type on one of those regularly?
Yes, the physical typing experience on iPhone is pretty poor, but I find that the auto correction software pretty much makes up for it. I can type just about as fast on iPhone as on another small keyboard with physical buttons, and even though I make horrible typing errors it fixes them on the fly perfectly almost every time. You just have to trust it, just like it says in the video. On the other hand I do sometimes type in another language which is not supported by iphone (Serbian) and the result is a mess. But as long as you are typing regular text (not a lot of names or code or something) in a supported language, the software can go a long way to make use of it on a daily basis fairly bearable. On the other hand, there are considerable advantages in size, weight, flexibility etc in having the keyboard on the screen as needed so perhaps it's worth getting used to it.
I think you might be missing the conspiracy aspect of it. The problem is not their thoughts but the fact that they are conspiring with another person to commit a crime. Similarly, a person A might agree to blow up a building or engage in a drug transaction with a person B when there is no real explosive or drugs involved at all as the person B is actually an undercover cop.
If you are dumb enough to fall for one of the oldest fraud methods in existence, you deserve to lose you money, but not your freedom.
I don't know if it's as clear cut as that. Typically the victims of this scam agree to break the law in some way, in some cases to participate in committing a massive financial fraud. Kind of like those guys who sell crappy speakers dressed up as the expensive ones, and justify the low price by hinting that they are stolen. If the speakers were in fact stolen people would be breaking the law by buying them, so why is it different if they just believe that they are stolen?
No, I don't really think these poor suckers should go to jail, I just don't think it's unbelievable to even suggest that, as the summary says.
Just place machine gun nests at strategic locations and make sure to have plenty of dogs, preferably Rottweilers.
Seriously though, this does this question have anything to do with technology? Do the same things as you do when you throw a regular party, i.e. trust people who come not to steal stuff and to keep track of their own stuff. Or ask couple of friends to keep an eye on things if you are really paranoid
You are right on that particular example, but that's just because there is no danger of California seceding or being annexed by Mexico any time soon. Nobody cares about a few crackpots protesting over a lost cause. But what would happen if there is a massive campaign of protest, civil disobedience and occasional violence by a future Mexican majority say in southern California or Arizona or whatever, supported by a parallel government located in Mexico who claims the territory for itself, and who is covertly supported by other major powers?
There is no comparison between the rights of free speech in USA and China but don't get too confident. The experience so far has been that the more USA feels threatened the tighter restrictions on speech and other rights become. After witnessing the over-reaction (secret military courts, secret indictments, NSA wiretapping of American citizens, the Patriot act etc) over a few deluded terrorists flying a plane into a building, what do you think would happen if there was a real threat to the territory of the USA comparable to the situation in Tibet? I think those hypothetical protesters at Stanford would probably be detained and questioned, just like in China
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Exactly, that's why I always say if you're going to resign on principle, at least make sure to take out those who remain, otherwise what have you achieved? A few poisoned herrings would have done the trick.
A large number of methane plumes have been discovered bubbling up from the sea floor over the Siberian continental shelf.
In other news, the Russian Navy announced a successful test of a submarine powered by a brand new propulsion system. The exact details are still classified, but sources claim there is a mysterious link between it and a new food and beverage contract awarded by the Navy to Taco Bell
All these Mars missions seem like a major waste of resources.
Waste of resources? How else would we know that Martian rocks have cracks in them
Yes you can, but yes it's more difficult so not as many people do it and those who do will not do it as often. I guess that's the thinking, if you can't stop it altogether, making it even a bit harder is a step in the right direction from their point of view and it does make some sense
If we put control over everything in the hands of the employers, they'd all decide to screw over the employees. You now have to work 200 hours/week for 80% less money -- because we said so.
If that's what you think then you have never put yourself in the employer's shoes. I am an employer with a small business and I know that to get good people and to get them to do a good job I have to treat them well. There is a balance of power between the employers and employees that depends on supply and demand, like anything else in a free market.
In a free society, I should not be forced by law to provide another person with a living, certainly not to any arbitrarily set standard that someone else sets. If the government wants to set the minimum standards then it should do it with taxpayers money so that this burden is spread evenly, instead of placing the burden on one particular group, the business owners/shareholders.
It is GOVERNMENT that is preventing suit for collection of overtime, not the market-place.
I think the uppercase word should be suit, not government. Government is not preventing you from negotiating for overtime pay with your employer. Free market is still operating. What they are preventing is a lawsuits on a premise which is absurd to start with, i.e. that you can get a job with an employer that doesn't pay overtime, work overtime while knowing that you won't get paid for it, then sue the employer. A real libertarian would say if overtime pay is what you're after, a) don't take that job, or b) don't work overtime, of c) if the employer insist you work overtime anyway, find another job
No no, this one must be called MAVAN. MAVEN is a completely different project, albeit with a very similar name and identical goals and budget.
After all, slashdot had an article about MAVEN only couple of days ago: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/16/0123253 I don't think it's possible that they would post another one about the exact same project. That would be a dupe!
A Chinese astronaut is... an astronaut. A Russian astronaut is... an astronaut.
You mean: A Chinese cosmonaut is... a cosmonaut. An American cosmonaut is... a cosmonaut. After all, Russians used the name cosmonaut first, the Americans user astronaut to be different. Cosmonaut makes more sense anyway, at least until we have a manned flight to the stars
Citizens Demand To See Secret ACTA Treaty
It wouldn't be secret if you could see it, now would it. Now be patriotic and buy some $16 CDs. Otherwise Bin Laden wins!!!
Because some of us are actually interested in the rest of the world outside USA. Most of the slashdot stories are USA centric. Just look at the front page, FAA, Sarah Palin, DMCA mentioned casually as if everybody is familiar with them. Every once in a while another country gets mentioned and there is somebody complaining about it
Just google the name of just about any product on late night infomercials + scam. Typically in minutes you can find out how the scam operates. Simple ones seem to be the most common, i.e. give a "free" sample and get their credit card details for a small shipping charge or whatever, and once you have their credit card details you can pretty much go crazy with it. First you hope the don't notice the extra charges, then if they do notice good luck finding a phone number that someone actually answers, finally you can always say they ordered stuff over the phone that they didn't. Works for computer lessons, various "health" products (more embarrassing the problem the better), lessons on getting rich with real estate etc.
Frankly, you do have to be a bit of an idiot not to see the scam from a mile away, but just because you're an idiot doesn't make it ok for those guys to defraud you. Good to see a long prison sentence for one of those jerks, hopefully that friendly bold guy who teaches you "how to run the computer" will be next.
Finally a good use for nanotubes: building full scale models of nano batteries!
It doesn't say anything about any secrecy either, and they haven't actually built anything yet, except full scale models (whatever that means). I guess the only accurate part of the title is that it's something to do with MIT and batteries.
I hear your support is terrible though. People practically have to beg on their knees to get their problems solved
It is a classic example of a stereotype, and I can't believe that a comment saying that it isn't so is modded as insightful. It is a stereotype that many cybercrimes are committed by Russians and Chinese and kdawkins is obviously affected by it. It is incidental in this case that the stereotype is not even true, as just as much, and probably much more online nastiness is coming from USA.
What if he said "many burglaries are committed by blacks, I bet many are also committed by latinos" while not mentioning those committed by other races. Yes the statement is strictly speaking true, but but it is also a stereotype, and racist too, because of what it leaves out.
a modification of Space Invaders in which the invaders are slowly demolishing the World Trade Center
I can see why people were upset. That's not how it happened!!! A mod of MS Flight Simulator, now that would be more realistic.
The only way he denied them money was if the person paying him would have purchased the game from the copyright holder instead of the pirate. Unlikely.
Or if the copyright holder didn't want these games on the market because they have newer games that they want to sell, which will now not be bought because people are buying these older pirated games instead. Likely.
The minute you turn piracy into a for-profit operation is when criminal copyright infringement makes sense.
Piracy is always a for-profit operation. It's just that the profit isn't always financial
They are not his to sell any more than the games that other people are interested in selling. There is absolutely no difference between the two.
I don't know why you'd imprison him though. I mean, it's a "white collar" crime and there's no threat posed to society by him simply through physical contact.
There is a threat of him committing the same crime again, isn't there? Not likely to do so while he's in prison. I don't know where this idea comes from that any crime involving physical violence is necessarily worse than any non-violent crime. Perhaps this doesn't apply in this case, but lets say you have a guy who steals $1,000,000 through "white collar" financial crime, compared to a guy who steals $50 by grabbing a purse from a woman, perhaps even punching her in the face in the process. It seems bizarre to me that most people seem to consider the second crime to be worse of the two and would have no problem locking him up, where in the first case they might have second thoughts. It seems to be just a visceral reaction to violence and not a rational evaluation of the actual harm done to the victims or to society.
I'm very unimpressed with the touch panel for typing on the iPhone and iPod touch
Hmm, do you type on one of those regularly?
Yes, the physical typing experience on iPhone is pretty poor, but I find that the auto correction software pretty much makes up for it. I can type just about as fast on iPhone as on another small keyboard with physical buttons, and even though I make horrible typing errors it fixes them on the fly perfectly almost every time. You just have to trust it, just like it says in the video. On the other hand I do sometimes type in another language which is not supported by iphone (Serbian) and the result is a mess. But as long as you are typing regular text (not a lot of names or code or something) in a supported language, the software can go a long way to make use of it on a daily basis fairly bearable. On the other hand, there are considerable advantages in size, weight, flexibility etc in having the keyboard on the screen as needed so perhaps it's worth getting used to it.
I think you might be missing the conspiracy aspect of it. The problem is not their thoughts but the fact that they are conspiring with another person to commit a crime. Similarly, a person A might agree to blow up a building or engage in a drug transaction with a person B when there is no real explosive or drugs involved at all as the person B is actually an undercover cop.
Conspiracy - an agreement between persons to break the law at some time in the future. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)
If you are dumb enough to fall for one of the oldest fraud methods in existence, you deserve to lose you money, but not your freedom.
I don't know if it's as clear cut as that. Typically the victims of this scam agree to break the law in some way, in some cases to participate in committing a massive financial fraud. Kind of like those guys who sell crappy speakers dressed up as the expensive ones, and justify the low price by hinting that they are stolen. If the speakers were in fact stolen people would be breaking the law by buying them, so why is it different if they just believe that they are stolen?
No, I don't really think these poor suckers should go to jail, I just don't think it's unbelievable to even suggest that, as the summary says.
Just place machine gun nests at strategic locations and make sure to have plenty of dogs, preferably Rottweilers.
Seriously though, this does this question have anything to do with technology? Do the same things as you do when you throw a regular party, i.e. trust people who come not to steal stuff and to keep track of their own stuff. Or ask couple of friends to keep an eye on things if you are really paranoid
You are right on that particular example, but that's just because there is no danger of California seceding or being annexed by Mexico any time soon. Nobody cares about a few crackpots protesting over a lost cause. But what would happen if there is a massive campaign of protest, civil disobedience and occasional violence by a future Mexican majority say in southern California or Arizona or whatever, supported by a parallel government located in Mexico who claims the territory for itself, and who is covertly supported by other major powers?
There is no comparison between the rights of free speech in USA and China but don't get too confident. The experience so far has been that the more USA feels threatened the tighter restrictions on speech and other rights become. After witnessing the over-reaction (secret military courts, secret indictments, NSA wiretapping of American citizens, the Patriot act etc) over a few deluded terrorists flying a plane into a building, what do you think would happen if there was a real threat to the territory of the USA comparable to the situation in Tibet? I think those hypothetical protesters at Stanford would probably be detained and questioned, just like in China