"Oldies" are basically "20-30+ years ago," not a specific decade. Very soon the 90s will be considered 'oldies,' unless we get so retro-obsessed that retro runs into the present and we end up running out of past.
It's ironic that a man who works for an organization that uses the same business model: paying protection money so nothing bad happens to himself or his property, just had something bad happen to him for not paying a different organization protection money.
It's a bit disingenuous to call this 'protection money' which implies that if you don't pay McAfee, then McAfee will give you a virus. It's more like hiring a private security guard to patrol a warehouse, even if no one ever tries to break in.
If people were just more careful with their data, and didn't use web browsers or other network software that allowed the execution of arbitrary code
If. But most people are not security experts, and they never will be. They won't know that email from their bank that tells them to log in to check their balance actually came from a phisher in China. They won't know that the cool screensaver a co-worker recommended comes with the RootUZ botnet backdoor. You say they should be more careful, but most people won't be careful enough, and the dangers are real. For those people non-intrusive anti-virus software is a minimum level of security. Not that I would ever recommend McAfee or Norton (gag) though.
Javascript, for example: 90% of the websites out there that use it could be redesigned to work without it
Could be, but haven't. Since they haven't been redesigned to not require Javascript, and surfing around the net without it on is a pain with all the sites that break with it off now... it's not an option for your average user. I wish there was a button on the bar that I could click that would reload the current page and only that with Javascript turned on. There has to be an addon for that.
#7 I think is pretty important, just because it's very important to get people to stop using older, compromised versions of browsers. If a particular web browser has security-breaking bugs that could put the user at risk (and the rest of the Internet, should the user's computer get infected), then the web browser -should- be yelling at the user to upgrade.
Oh, and Mozilla devs: You want to copy something from Chrome? Please copy its speed.
I can replicate the 3D experience easily. I'll get the DVD when it comes out, then just cross my eyes really hard for a full hour before watching. Then too I can watch blurry video (unavoidable with fast motion and 3D at current frame rates) with sore eyes.
+1 for Ruffalo! He was the big surprise of the movie for me. Previous actors in the last decade had played Banner in a "I have to... keep a lid on my emotions. I'll act like I'm... emotionally dead!" Especially in the Ang Lee movie, which I sortof liked...
But your argument is exactly what my comment about Twilight was meant to prove. Most of us, especially on Slashdot, probably consider the Twilight movies to be neither special or unique. It still made a (relative) killing at the box office.
That's because to teenage girls, Twilight is special and unique.
With ticket prices way up (at least from the last time I paid to see a movie in a theater) of course even a bomb is going to have high $ sales.
I'm not so sure about that, John Carter had pretty low sales. Even paired as a double feature with Avengers it's barely eeking out $70m domestic, making it Disney's priciest bomb. They wrote off a $200m loss.
If you want our money, start treating us like equals, and release the damn movies at the same time everywhere.
The problem is that it's far MORE expensive to open super-wide in all territories at once. You have to make and ship far more film prints.
Also, the dirty not-so-secret fact about international movie releases -- the countries that have a higher likelihood that a high-quality pirated version of the film will be made and put on P2P on that country's release day -- those are the countries that get the film later.
We're just talking theatrical releases, not DVD/Blu-Ray/streaming releases.
He knew what would happen, it was culturally inevitable for the people of Afghanistan
Then the blame lies with the people of Afghanistan. Period. The pastor is a total dickweed, but the burning of a Koran could never, ever justify physical violence and looting. A culture that approves of that sort of thing is a truly inferior culture.
But nuclear is scary. I mean, look at Japan, a few dozen miles around Fukishima will be unlivable for a hundred years or more. Same with Chernobyl.
Those two incidents are far worse worse than rising sea levels obliterating small countries, entire US states, and so forth. What the old story? The key to cooking a live frog is to up the heat gradually -- throw it in a pot of hot water, and it jumps out. Ease the heat up gradually and he doesn't move.
We are far more scared of a couple small-scale nuclear disasters than we are large-scale coal-spawned cancers or eventual sea levels rising. Instead we deal with pie-in-the-sky (literally!) solar and wind plans that have no hope to ever generate anything close to the levels of electricity we need.
No. Liberals think that government should take care of the poor. Jesus said his followers should take care of the poor. Liberals don't like it when Churches care for the sick and the hungry. They think that's government's job.
Liberals do not think that taking care of the poor should be "optional," which is what you get with charity. They also would rather money go towards the poor as opposed to many other things the church may put it towards (printing of bibles, missionary work in other countries, etc), and preferably without having to give money to those organizations that may take hard lines against things they like (contraception, gay rights, etc).
I'm more libertarian than liberal, but I know what liberals like.
The cops who didn't throw Zimmerman into a holding cell right away obviously thought that it happened this way, that Zimmerman was protected with that 'Stand your ground' law, that it was self defence.
The correction I would make is that "Stand Your Ground" has no bearing on this case, despite everyone talking about it. When you get jumped and are getting beaten, then shooting your attacker falls under regular self-defense laws, and would apply whether the Stand Your Ground law was in place or not.
There's a reason why police are told to shoot to kill, it's because if your shot doesn't incapacitate (and "shooting in the leg" is pretty damned difficult unless you're shooting point blank range) you are screwed.
I don't particularly feel the need to put my life in much greater risk just to shoot an aggressor in the leg.
When Copernicus showed a much simpler model of planetary motion and later Galileo observed it, they were labeled heretics by the church.
Eh. Copernicus was never officially labeled a heretic, and no fierce opposition arose against his work until decades after his death. Galileo was a different story, but he ran into trouble because he peppered his work on planetary motions with hidden (and not so hidden) insults to the pope, and that was a very dangerous thing to do back then.
No, the high salary is because other executives decide what you make and because they themselves make far more than what they're worth
The high salary is because, despite what geeks love to think, the CEO is an extremely important position, and not many people can actually do it. The lack of talent available means that talent can command high salaries. The big flaw in the system is that the CEOs get paid even if the company perishes in flames. They get paid huge amounts of money just so they'll go quietly when they get fired!
Hell the CEOs that do the best work in the worst circumstances are often the ones making the least amount of money.
They usually make the least salary, not the least money. Steve Jobs, for instance, made a ridiculous amount of money with his $1 / year salary.
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Your histrionics (again) are embarrassingly bad.
"Oldies" are basically "20-30+ years ago," not a specific decade. Very soon the 90s will be considered 'oldies,' unless we get so retro-obsessed that retro runs into the present and we end up running out of past.
It's ironic that a man who works for an organization that uses the same business model: paying protection money so nothing bad happens to himself or his property, just had something bad happen to him for not paying a different organization protection money.
It's a bit disingenuous to call this 'protection money' which implies that if you don't pay McAfee, then McAfee will give you a virus. It's more like hiring a private security guard to patrol a warehouse, even if no one ever tries to break in.
If people were just more careful with their data, and didn't use web browsers or other network software that allowed the execution of arbitrary code
If. But most people are not security experts, and they never will be. They won't know that email from their bank that tells them to log in to check their balance actually came from a phisher in China. They won't know that the cool screensaver a co-worker recommended comes with the RootUZ botnet backdoor. You say they should be more careful, but most people won't be careful enough, and the dangers are real. For those people non-intrusive anti-virus software is a minimum level of security. Not that I would ever recommend McAfee or Norton (gag) though.
Javascript, for example: 90% of the websites out there that use it could be redesigned to work without it
Could be, but haven't. Since they haven't been redesigned to not require Javascript, and surfing around the net without it on is a pain with all the sites that break with it off now... it's not an option for your average user. I wish there was a button on the bar that I could click that would reload the current page and only that with Javascript turned on. There has to be an addon for that.
#7 I think is pretty important, just because it's very important to get people to stop using older, compromised versions of browsers. If a particular web browser has security-breaking bugs that could put the user at risk (and the rest of the Internet, should the user's computer get infected), then the web browser -should- be yelling at the user to upgrade.
Oh, and Mozilla devs: You want to copy something from Chrome? Please copy its speed.
I can replicate the 3D experience easily. I'll get the DVD when it comes out, then just cross my eyes really hard for a full hour before watching. Then too I can watch blurry video (unavoidable with fast motion and 3D at current frame rates) with sore eyes.
+1 for Ruffalo! He was the big surprise of the movie for me.
Previous actors in the last decade had played Banner in a "I have to... keep a lid on my emotions. I'll act like I'm... emotionally dead!" Especially in the Ang Lee movie, which I sortof liked...
But your argument is exactly what my comment about Twilight was meant to prove. Most of us, especially on Slashdot, probably consider the Twilight movies to be neither special or unique. It still made a (relative) killing at the box office.
That's because to teenage girls, Twilight is special and unique.
With ticket prices way up (at least from the last time I paid to see a movie in a theater) of course even a bomb is going to have high $ sales.
I'm not so sure about that, John Carter had pretty low sales. Even paired as a double feature with Avengers it's barely eeking out $70m domestic, making it Disney's priciest bomb. They wrote off a $200m loss.
Clearly what is called for is "Firefly: The Next Generation."
If you want our money, start treating us like equals, and release the damn movies at the same time everywhere.
The problem is that it's far MORE expensive to open super-wide in all territories at once. You have to make and ship far more film prints.
Also, the dirty not-so-secret fact about international movie releases -- the countries that have a higher likelihood that a high-quality pirated version of the film will be made and put on P2P on that country's release day -- those are the countries that get the film later.
We're just talking theatrical releases, not DVD/Blu-Ray/streaming releases.
Are we talking "MST3K pile in with your buds and laugh at it" crappy, or just boring?
The former can provide a better movie-going experience, which may even arguably make it an a better movie.
He knew what would happen, it was culturally inevitable for the people of Afghanistan
Then the blame lies with the people of Afghanistan. Period.
The pastor is a total dickweed, but the burning of a Koran could never, ever justify physical violence and looting. A culture that approves of that sort of thing is a truly inferior culture.
Christ, for example, never waged war or led an army
Many Jewish kings revered in the Old Testament did, however, and the Jesus didn't call them out.
Do Timothy McVeigh or Anders Behring Breivik make Christianity a religion of war?
Timothy McVeigh was not Christian, he explicitly listed himself as agnostic. In prison, he claimed "science is my religion."
But nuclear is scary.
I mean, look at Japan, a few dozen miles around Fukishima will be unlivable for a hundred years or more.
Same with Chernobyl.
Those two incidents are far worse worse than rising sea levels obliterating small countries, entire US states, and so forth.
What the old story? The key to cooking a live frog is to up the heat gradually -- throw it in a pot of hot water, and it jumps out. Ease the heat up gradually and he doesn't move.
We are far more scared of a couple small-scale nuclear disasters than we are large-scale coal-spawned cancers or eventual sea levels rising.
Instead we deal with pie-in-the-sky (literally!) solar and wind plans that have no hope to ever generate anything close to the levels of electricity we need.
No. Liberals think that government should take care of the poor. Jesus said his followers should take care of the poor. Liberals don't like it when Churches care for the sick and the hungry. They think that's government's job.
Liberals do not think that taking care of the poor should be "optional," which is what you get with charity. They also would rather money go towards the poor as opposed to many other things the church may put it towards (printing of bibles, missionary work in other countries, etc), and preferably without having to give money to those organizations that may take hard lines against things they like (contraception, gay rights, etc).
I'm more libertarian than liberal, but I know what liberals like.
The cops who didn't throw Zimmerman into a holding cell right away obviously thought that it happened this way, that Zimmerman was protected with that 'Stand your ground' law, that it was self defence.
The correction I would make is that "Stand Your Ground" has no bearing on this case, despite everyone talking about it. When you get jumped and are getting beaten, then shooting your attacker falls under regular self-defense laws, and would apply whether the Stand Your Ground law was in place or not.
There's a reason why police are told to shoot to kill, it's because if your shot doesn't incapacitate (and "shooting in the leg" is pretty damned difficult unless you're shooting point blank range) you are screwed.
I don't particularly feel the need to put my life in much greater risk just to shoot an aggressor in the leg.
When Copernicus showed a much simpler model of planetary motion and later Galileo observed it, they were labeled heretics by the church.
Eh. Copernicus was never officially labeled a heretic, and no fierce opposition arose against his work until decades after his death. Galileo was a different story, but he ran into trouble because he peppered his work on planetary motions with hidden (and not so hidden) insults to the pope, and that was a very dangerous thing to do back then.
Which is why he'll be fired. Or resign.
IMO, the computer science department is the only one left with consistently 1970s hair.
No, the high salary is because other executives decide what you make and because they themselves make far more than what they're worth
The high salary is because, despite what geeks love to think, the CEO is an extremely important position, and not many people can actually do it. The lack of talent available means that talent can command high salaries. The big flaw in the system is that the CEOs get paid even if the company perishes in flames. They get paid huge amounts of money just so they'll go quietly when they get fired!
Hell the CEOs that do the best work in the worst circumstances are often the ones making the least amount of money.
They usually make the least salary, not the least money. Steve Jobs, for instance, made a ridiculous amount of money with his $1 / year salary.
I'd argue that Apple was in a far far worse position when Jobs returned than HP was during Fiorina's tenure.
HP used to be the innovation company, and what parts of that weren't sold off were simply gutted.
So... if a regular "M.D." in a hospital is revealed to not have a Medicine Degree, but a Biology one, it's OK because he has a degree anyways?
In addition to what everyone else has said, a CS degree is far less important in the computing field than a medical degree would be to a doctor.
A degree is a sign of lack of inititive and a willingness to submit
And a guy who makes that sort of a claim is a retard.
It goes both ways.