Playing devil's advocate for a moment, the differential bodycount could just mean they're better at the self-defense thing. More convincing figures might be civilian casualties, but the problem is that in a guerrilla war it's hard to know just who is a civilian, even after the fact.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." -- H.L.Mencken
Arguably this could make more sense than the current system; it would all depend on the price. I'd pay $0.01/hr for music playing if it meant no more headaches about getting it, DRM, etc.
At issue is the question of whether a professor at a publicly-funded research university is a public employee or not. If you consider them public employees then of course this is completely reasonable. If not, however, it's a frightening attempt at censorship that calls back the actions of McCarthyites in successfully campaigning for the illegal removal of tenured faculty in their ridiculous witch-hunt. Those of us in academia tend to see research universities as independent entities under contract to the State, but others may view them as extensions of the state itself. The legal truth on this varies from state to state; some are separate entities funded by the state, others do not have this separation.
Of course it's my opinion that email ought not to fall under the scope of these laws, whether or not he's a government official, but it is quite clear legally that it does. So keep a separate personal email account; it's not like they're going after his personal email or anything and he gets to redact communication with students and unpublished research which are the only two important things in your professional [academic] email anyway. Let them fish.
And with as many security vulns. I really hope site sandboxing featuers become easier to use too. Currently I use a separate browser profile for unsavory companies like Facebook but as all these apps bleed together it would be nice to have a clean, easy to use separation feature.
This is insufficient for those of us with a basic knowledge of calculus, linear algebra, diffyq, stats, etc who are trying to learn more advanced math that builds on it.
Destroying the open source community and wanting to hire them because "that's where the developers are" are hardly contradictory. They gotta eat somehow...
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Playing devil's advocate for a moment, the differential bodycount could just mean they're better at the self-defense thing. More convincing figures might be civilian casualties, but the problem is that in a guerrilla war it's hard to know just who is a civilian, even after the fact.
...except for people I disagree with.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
-- H.L.Mencken
You shouldn't say bad things about the Corporation. The Corporation loves you.
And a space unicorn! And free candy!
> Before long, any search for the term will just be a list of politicians
Sounds like the system works:P
Obligatory.
Do you really mean to draw an analogy between access to information and access to a deadly weapon?
For their sake I sincerely hope none of their computers were sold to the Government.
The BSA has successfully used ratio of Windows licenses to computers purchased to obtain warrants.
Arguably this could make more sense than the current system; it would all depend on the price. I'd pay $0.01/hr for music playing if it meant no more headaches about getting it, DRM, etc.
At issue is the question of whether a professor at a publicly-funded research university is a public employee or not. If you consider them public employees then of course this is completely reasonable. If not, however, it's a frightening attempt at censorship that calls back the actions of McCarthyites in successfully campaigning for the illegal removal of tenured faculty in their ridiculous witch-hunt. Those of us in academia tend to see research universities as independent entities under contract to the State, but others may view them as extensions of the state itself. The legal truth on this varies from state to state; some are separate entities funded by the state, others do not have this separation.
Of course it's my opinion that email ought not to fall under the scope of these laws, whether or not he's a government official, but it is quite clear legally that it does. So keep a separate personal email account; it's not like they're going after his personal email or anything and he gets to redact communication with students and unpublished research which are the only two important things in your professional [academic] email anyway. Let them fish.
They used to be called consumers, and citizens before that.
Didn't the Church of Scientology do something like this to the Cult Awareness Network?
at how the more slashdotters hit this the faster the downloads go for everyone, rather than the usual? No??...I may need a life...
...and now our bandwidth too? When will this madness end?
I'm from Tivo. We're suing you for patent infringement.
OP spelled vim/emacs wrong.
And with as many security vulns. I really hope site sandboxing featuers become easier to use too. Currently I use a separate browser profile for unsavory companies like Facebook but as all these apps bleed together it would be nice to have a clean, easy to use separation feature.
This is insufficient for those of us with a basic knowledge of calculus, linear algebra, diffyq, stats, etc who are trying to learn more advanced math that builds on it.
I tried that. It mostly works but a few of my friends then went and installed linux. But then I could fix their computers so it worked out ok.
Smug, ignorant pro-death penalty people should be executed by the state at still greater expense.
Two years ago I was shopping around for a credit card. I don't care who knew; indeed I told my friends soliciting advice. Earn money too? Sure.
Destroying the open source community and wanting to hire them because "that's where the developers are" are hardly contradictory. They gotta eat somehow...
> Sort of like a hit man is just an HR professional specializing in staff reduction services.
I smell a sequel to "Up in the Air"
> The Tolkien estate alleges these buttons do that.
FTFY.