"...try leaving your house some time in the U.S. without your driver's license, car registration, proof of insurance, etc. I'm pretty sure the cops aren't going to accept 'But this is a free country!' in lieu of these if you get stopped at a roadblock."
"Of course he does. And he also knows (as should you) that the users of that 'guaranteed' health care regularly come to the US to get quality work done rather than wait in line for the rationed health care in 'almost every other country.'"
Here's a bet: The proportion of U.S. residents crossing the border into guaranteed-health-care-countries exceeds the proportion of guaranteed-health-care-country citizens crossing into the U.S.
"I think the real security money now is in automated (or proven) software verification and model checking. Private industry is only beginning to understand this, and as a whole, probably will not employ it for some time to come. Why bother testing for security errors when you can prove they don't exist?"
Yeah, we were laughing about this in my college CS classes 20 years ago. So the drunken party's back again, eh?
You know, like about 10 or 15 years ago I saw this TV presentation by a guy who swore up and down that filesystems should store & display documents solely by timestamp order of creation. (Is this the same guy?) "Time instead of space... cyberstream or lifestream... shows information-in-motion, a rushing flow of fresh information...," all that jazz.
I routinely think back on that because it's one of the wrongest, most idiotic epic fails I ever remember seeing. I'm astonished to see it popping back up with a bunch of "web" buzzwords plastered on top.
"Hell, even games are today produced with sluggish frameworks that waste resources left and right, and they tend to be the programs that are most time-critical an "ordinary" user would get to see."
Have to call BS on this. Can you give an example or citation of such a thing?
"I think a better analogy would be to say that today's programmers are more like a Cargo Cult."
Responses to the recent MS-random-browser thread ("the faulty shuffle is close enough", "this guy's being pedantic", "knowing algorithms is a bad use of company time") are pretty good evidence of that.
It's well-known, and also my experience, that administrators don't really care about the quality of the teaching in classrooms. To them it's just a product, and as long as the "sale" is being made, job done. Consider the same dynamics in a helpdesk, phone support situation; what is more profitable?
Consider my sig. First, I had a college teaching job where the union was non-functional and reviews were given by a dean. Result: I had to beg and plead for an assistant dean to come into my room once, ever, for the supposed required review; he stayed for 5 minutes and scribbled something utterly nonsensical about the CS lesson, "Dan's great", that's it. Now, I teach at a school where the union is strongly involved, and every semester I get a rotating series of fellow professors sitting in my classroom for a whole hour, writing a 6-page report, and having a discussion with me about my classroom management, in a very detailed and sometimes picky manner.
American Educator magazine, Fall 2008, had an issue about the effects of teacher governance and peer review. One interesting finding: When the union and teachers are involved in reviews, they are FAR MORE likely to fire teachers than administrators or principals. Teachers care about the profession, and the students, and their reputation; just like doctors or lawyers or engineers. But administrators have other priorities.
Look, in the last two decades there's been a concerted Chicago-school-type program to wrest control away from teachers and corporatize schools, reducing teachers to low-paid, unskilled at-will labor. Full-time teachers have been replaced by part-time contingent faculty to save costs (example: community college instructors in 1997 were 54% tenured full-time, now just 43%). The majority of funding increases go to grow administration jobs, not in-classroom teaching (growing 41% between 1997 and 2007). Source, AFT State of Higher Education Worforce: http://www.aftface.org/storage/face/documents/ameracad_report_97-07for_web.pdf
In a software company, the PHB's tend to want to take decision-making away from the engineers, and the result is an inefficiently run company (but in the short-run, profitable for the bosses). The exact same thing is happening right now with the PHB's of the school system trying to squeeze out teacher peer review and shared governance, for the same reasons, with all available data showing the exact same end-results. The more they squeeze, the more students will slip through their fingers. But like a lot of American social issues, the evidence can't get through the wild-eyed tea-party propaganda.
"Maybe they should use some music whose artists aren't several hundred years dead, then perhaps the artists could have a very interesting discussion as to the use of their music..."
One might ask what the artists would think of this usage?
Fortunately, we have a pretty similar situation with more current music being used a torture device against Guantanamo detainess, and the rock musicians who protested against that usage:
Geez. This is not the first thread with the majority of wasted posts in the "wah wah why won't you tell us why you need this, you're a big dummy plllbbbb" category, but it's getting more and more aggravating over time. Slashdot seems to be slipping into the idiocracy with this stuff.
The guy can't tell you why because he's under NDA. Or his higher-ups gave him unreasonable requirements that he tried and failed to dissuade them from, but he wants to be diplomatic instead of making a public stink over it. (That was my case last time I got this treatment here.)
The fact that the guy's disciplined enough to not respond to the flamebait indicates to me that he probably knows exactly what he's doing.
"As many HR people not look pass the 2 years in jail even if he is not guilty and even then they may not want to pay the health care costs for some like that."
PR like this puts him into a category beyond HR people. Speaking tours are one possibility. If he continues to work in IT, CEOs will be making cold calls to him personally.
"and what are you really doing in the end? preventing some people from becoming addicts, ie, increasing their free will, and your free will: less addicts for you to navigate your life around. there's a cost, either in legions of addicts, or a war on drugs. pick your cost, but there is no such thing as no cost at all, in the real world"
Isn't it amazing how the simple absence of capitals can make a screed like this look like a rambling, incoherent rant from a quasi-religious recovering drug addict type? At least I think that's where the odor's coming from.
"'Three strikes' is allowed in EU countries, but not mandated by the European government itself, and it looks like the new administration wants to keep it that way."
So historically all this means is that the U.S. will go around and thumb-screw the individual countries into doing what we want. We have the technology.
"DMCA takedown provisions don't say take down the entire site."
DMCA provisions do require taking down at least part of the site (the offending material). Apparently you didn't read the notification for Network Solutions to Cryptome, because their policy is indeed to take the option of downing the whole site.
Also, I would like to make you aware that in accordance with the DMCA, upon receipt of a Counter-Notification from you, Network Solutions will disable your site for "not less than 10 days, nor more than 14 business days following receipt of the Counter Notification. During this time, the complaining party must initiate litigation. In the event that Network Solutions does not receive notice of litigation within the allotted time frame, your site will be reactivated.
As I said in my GP post, "a DMCA request in this case triggers a site takedown". I further presume that's a common way for ISPs to accomplish the job, and that MS would be aware of that fact.
"Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, and is essential for commentary, criticism, news reporting, remix, research, teaching and scholarship with video."
I call shenanigans. How did "remix" sneak into the middle of that list? U.S. Copyright Title 17, Section 107:
...the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
"'In this case, we did not ask that this site be taken down, only that Microsoft copyrighted content be removed,' said a Microsoft spokeswoman."
This is total, exquisite bullshit. The fact is, a DMCA request in this case triggers a site takedown if the owner disagrees with taking down the material.
Did MS verbally utter the request, "Will you please take down the site?" No, they didn't.
Did they press a bright green legal button labelled, "Push here to initiate site takedown process"? Yes, they did.
"While you may be right, the end result of all of this is a very large amount of publicity for this site. Call me cynical, but anytime I see some website whining about some supposed injustice done to them, I think 'shameless self promotion.'"
You seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time today, with many many posts, trying to knock this guy down. IMO, the site seems reputable and my sense is that he's probably telling the truth (at the high-end of the bar for most such blogger complaints). To counter that today, Slashdot has rabid-insane conspiracy theories like, "Maybe a friend at Citibank decided to take a dive, sacrifice his job, and give this social site a publicity stunt". That's raving nuts.
As much as I truly hate to say it, the odor here today says, "Homophobia".
Slashdot Mirror
"...try leaving your house some time in the U.S. without your driver's license, car registration, proof of insurance, etc. I'm pretty sure the cops aren't going to accept 'But this is a free country!' in lieu of these if you get stopped at a roadblock."
Car Analogy: Null. I live in New York.
"Of course he does. And he also knows (as should you) that the users of that 'guaranteed' health care regularly come to the US to get quality work done rather than wait in line for the rationed health care in 'almost every other country.'"
In other news today, Sarah Palin admits that she used to have sneak over the border into Canada to use their health care system: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/03/sarah-palin-canadian-health-care.html
Here's a bet: The proportion of U.S. residents crossing the border into guaranteed-health-care-countries exceeds the proportion of guaranteed-health-care-country citizens crossing into the U.S.
"I think the real security money now is in automated (or proven) software verification and model checking. Private industry is only beginning to understand this, and as a whole, probably will not employ it for some time to come. Why bother testing for security errors when you can prove they don't exist?"
Yeah, we were laughing about this in my college CS classes 20 years ago. So the drunken party's back again, eh?
You know, like about 10 or 15 years ago I saw this TV presentation by a guy who swore up and down that filesystems should store & display documents solely by timestamp order of creation. (Is this the same guy?) "Time instead of space... cyberstream or lifestream... shows information-in-motion, a rushing flow of fresh information...," all that jazz.
I routinely think back on that because it's one of the wrongest, most idiotic epic fails I ever remember seeing. I'm astonished to see it popping back up with a bunch of "web" buzzwords plastered on top.
"Hell, even games are today produced with sluggish frameworks that waste resources left and right, and they tend to be the programs that are most time-critical an "ordinary" user would get to see."
Have to call BS on this. Can you give an example or citation of such a thing?
"I think a better analogy would be to say that today's programmers are more like a Cargo Cult."
Responses to the recent MS-random-browser thread ("the faulty shuffle is close enough", "this guy's being pedantic", "knowing algorithms is a bad use of company time") are pretty good evidence of that.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/28/1837223
It's well-known, and also my experience, that administrators don't really care about the quality of the teaching in classrooms. To them it's just a product, and as long as the "sale" is being made, job done. Consider the same dynamics in a helpdesk, phone support situation; what is more profitable?
Consider my sig. First, I had a college teaching job where the union was non-functional and reviews were given by a dean. Result: I had to beg and plead for an assistant dean to come into my room once, ever, for the supposed required review; he stayed for 5 minutes and scribbled something utterly nonsensical about the CS lesson, "Dan's great", that's it. Now, I teach at a school where the union is strongly involved, and every semester I get a rotating series of fellow professors sitting in my classroom for a whole hour, writing a 6-page report, and having a discussion with me about my classroom management, in a very detailed and sometimes picky manner.
American Educator magazine, Fall 2008, had an issue about the effects of teacher governance and peer review. One interesting finding: When the union and teachers are involved in reviews, they are FAR MORE likely to fire teachers than administrators or principals. Teachers care about the profession, and the students, and their reputation; just like doctors or lawyers or engineers. But administrators have other priorities.
Read the article here ("Taking the Lead", p. 37): http://archive.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/fall2008/index.htm
Look, in the last two decades there's been a concerted Chicago-school-type program to wrest control away from teachers and corporatize schools, reducing teachers to low-paid, unskilled at-will labor. Full-time teachers have been replaced by part-time contingent faculty to save costs (example: community college instructors in 1997 were 54% tenured full-time, now just 43%). The majority of funding increases go to grow administration jobs, not in-classroom teaching (growing 41% between 1997 and 2007). Source, AFT State of Higher Education Worforce: http://www.aftface.org/storage/face/documents/ameracad_report_97-07for_web.pdf
In a software company, the PHB's tend to want to take decision-making away from the engineers, and the result is an inefficiently run company (but in the short-run, profitable for the bosses). The exact same thing is happening right now with the PHB's of the school system trying to squeeze out teacher peer review and shared governance, for the same reasons, with all available data showing the exact same end-results. The more they squeeze, the more students will slip through their fingers. But like a lot of American social issues, the evidence can't get through the wild-eyed tea-party propaganda.
"Why would it be a good idea? I thought slashdot was all gung-ho about protecting people's privacy?"
Arguing that corporations are not people since 1886.
Mod me down! (Flamebait/Troll, just like last time.)
"Maybe they should use some music whose artists aren't several hundred years dead, then perhaps the artists could have a very interesting discussion as to the use of their music..."
Case study: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,672177,00.html
One might ask what the artists would think of this usage?
Fortunately, we have a pretty similar situation with more current music being used a torture device against Guantanamo detainess, and the rock musicians who protested against that usage:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,672177,00.html
Geez. This is not the first thread with the majority of wasted posts in the "wah wah why won't you tell us why you need this, you're a big dummy plllbbbb" category, but it's getting more and more aggravating over time. Slashdot seems to be slipping into the idiocracy with this stuff.
The guy can't tell you why because he's under NDA. Or his higher-ups gave him unreasonable requirements that he tried and failed to dissuade them from, but he wants to be diplomatic instead of making a public stink over it. (That was my case last time I got this treatment here.)
The fact that the guy's disciplined enough to not respond to the flamebait indicates to me that he probably knows exactly what he's doing.
"I've always hoped that these sorts of ordinances are made up. Just scary stories you city folk tell us country bumpkins to keep us out."
As someone who also grew up in the country and then moved to New York, I can confirm far worse, that I actually don't have ANY LAWN AT ALL OMG!!
They get to vote on how much the private property fiction applies in their community.
"As many HR people not look pass the 2 years in jail even if he is not guilty and even then they may not want to pay the health care costs for some like that."
PR like this puts him into a category beyond HR people. Speaking tours are one possibility. If he continues to work in IT, CEOs will be making cold calls to him personally.
"Notice that you referred to the space as a 'killer' apartment."
Editors (kdawson) write the headlines, not the submitter. (IME)
"Is it plugged in? yes? LIER!"
LIAR!
"and what are you really doing in the end? preventing some people from becoming addicts, ie, increasing their free will, and your free will: less addicts for you to navigate your life around. there's a cost, either in legions of addicts, or a war on drugs. pick your cost, but there is no such thing as no cost at all, in the real world"
Isn't it amazing how the simple absence of capitals can make a screed like this look like a rambling, incoherent rant from a quasi-religious recovering drug addict type? At least I think that's where the odor's coming from.
"If they chose to drink something that is clearly harmful, why should I give a damn?"
Literally awesome. Nearly 100 years later, and the exact same arguments going 'round.
"'Three strikes' is allowed in EU countries, but not mandated by the European government itself, and it looks like the new administration wants to keep it that way."
So historically all this means is that the U.S. will go around and thumb-screw the individual countries into doing what we want. We have the technology.
"DMCA takedown provisions don't say take down the entire site."
DMCA provisions do require taking down at least part of the site (the offending material). Apparently you didn't read the notification for Network Solutions to Cryptome, because their policy is indeed to take the option of downing the whole site.
Also, I would like to make you aware that in accordance with the DMCA, upon receipt of a Counter-Notification from you, Network Solutions will disable your site for "not less than 10 days, nor more than 14 business days following receipt of the Counter Notification. During this time, the complaining party must initiate litigation. In the event that Network Solutions does not receive notice of litigation within the allotted time frame, your site will be reactivated.
http://cryptome.org/, 2/24/10
As I said in my GP post, "a DMCA request in this case triggers a site takedown". I further presume that's a common way for ISPs to accomplish the job, and that MS would be aware of that fact.
"Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, and is essential for commentary, criticism, news reporting, remix, research, teaching and scholarship with video."
I call shenanigans. How did "remix" sneak into the middle of that list? U.S. Copyright Title 17, Section 107:
...the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
"'In this case, we did not ask that this site be taken down, only that Microsoft copyrighted content be removed,' said a Microsoft spokeswoman."
This is total, exquisite bullshit. The fact is, a DMCA request in this case triggers a site takedown if the owner disagrees with taking down the material.
Did MS verbally utter the request, "Will you please take down the site?" No, they didn't.
Did they press a bright green legal button labelled, "Push here to initiate site takedown process"? Yes, they did.
"While you may be right, the end result of all of this is a very large amount of publicity for this site. Call me cynical, but anytime I see some website whining about some supposed injustice done to them, I think 'shameless self promotion.'"
You seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time today, with many many posts, trying to knock this guy down. IMO, the site seems reputable and my sense is that he's probably telling the truth (at the high-end of the bar for most such blogger complaints). To counter that today, Slashdot has rabid-insane conspiracy theories like, "Maybe a friend at Citibank decided to take a dive, sacrifice his job, and give this social site a publicity stunt". That's raving nuts.
As much as I truly hate to say it, the odor here today says, "Homophobia".
"That's one advantage of paper, stone and parchment - they don't assume a technical infrastructure in order to use them."
Written language is itself a technical infrastructure. Your Mayan ropes are an excellent example of that.