If there's one thing Nintendo will do, it is run their consoles into the ground. If it weren't for their competitors we would all be playing the NES; I mean, look at the Gameboy, had like a 10 year life.
Somebody told me a few years back that there were more kids in law school than there were practicing lawyers at the time. Somebody's got to guarantee them the ability to buy this year's BMW. When your entire culture is a tossup between flipping burgers and suing somebody, guess which gets priority?
That's exaggeration, the number of lawyers has been steadily increasing, but the increase was never THAT big. The billable hours thing was true for 50 years, but it looks like it's going to permanently change; there are waaay too many lawyers for waaay too few positions. Plenty of people I know from law school are out of work, or in low-paying jobs that they hate.
Depends on the judge, but most aren't especially eager to throw out evidence, and if the wii playing was the only thing wrong with the raid (which might be partially proven by the video tape), I can see a judge reprimanding the officers but allowing the search. Fourth amendment Constitutional law has gotten steadily weaker as the Supreme Court started shifting towards the right.
Precisely. The officers' use of the Wii could technically be considered a seizure, but, IANAL, so can someone who knows a bit more please elaborate? Thanks in advance.
I think it probably could be considered a seizure, but since nothing evidentiary was gained from it I don't think a defense attorney can use it too much. Maybe, if the judge allowed it in, he could use it to sort-of attack the credibility of the officers involved, but that's kind of doubtful. Then again, IAAL, but not a criminal defense one.
On the civil side, there might be a section 1983 civil rights lawsuit there, but there aren't really any damages so I don't think it would go anywhere.
I know the "greens" love to worry about GMOs but what is your particular fear? Are you afraid the proteins or amino acids will make you sick? Left-over anti-pest traces? Or are you falling into the marketing trap of "ooh, scary Frankenfoods!" please be sure to think critically for yourself.
"Thinking critically" meaning assuming that there's no way to inadvertently bioengineer food to cause health problems? And if you think "proteins" can't make you sick, I dare you to go get bitten by a venomous snake and see how you feel. Most of the genetic modifications made to GMOs are perfectly safe, anyway, but only the scientifically illiterate think that there's no chance of any changes ever causing damage.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your post was in response to some slashdot post and not the main article by the way, considering the main article has absolutely nothing to do with the safety of GMOs and everything to do with environmental impact.
At this point, it's still some designers throwing around ideas with some fancy CG mockups.
It's not a intergalactic starship; is there anything in it that you think would be non-trivial to implement if they decided to build it? The hard part in these things, and the thing that will make or break them, is the user interface. That's what they're showing here. The fact that they haven't built a physical protoype yet is not that big a deal.
If I tell everyone that some houses have a big fucking gap where a door should be, am I responsible for not installing one?
Better analogy would be, that if you trespassed into someone's house, then got caught, should you be responsible for the amount they paid to have someone come in and check the place out and make sure you didn't damage anything? And the answer is...well, maybe.
Isn't hiding assets from creditors unlawful? Isn't any "service" designed to assist people in committing unlawful acts also illegal?
There are legal ways to hide some assets from creditors; well not really "hide," but more like put in a form they can't reach. Though that is probably not what this guy was doing.
Geniuses. The complaining that goes on with PCs is that they have problems. Apples have problems too, but they have nice, friendly geniuses at every store. You don't whine about an Apple problem that lasts for six months, you bring it to the store and the genius fixes it for you right there, in the store. Microsoft needs to get support people in the field to do the same thing.
You would think a real genius would have figured out something better to do than work retail...
Yeah, I was really disgusted recently when I saw that working with (good) electricians and plumbers who were younger than me (in their early 30s) and already had two paid houses and worked only 6 months a year while I lived in a crummy rental appt with yeast on the walls and an unstable job in research.
There are tradeoffs to everything. If you look at a lot of the great writers, artists, inventors, etc., the most influential ones often spent most of their lives in various forms of poverty. I did one grad degree, hope to do another, and I have resigned myself to achieving, at the best case scenario, financial stability but no extravagance. But I have a shot, no matter how slim, of achieving something notable.
Or just not give a shit. I'm a good programmer, and I deliver.
99% of programmers think they're good, and that they deliver. What if you're wrong? Might help to market yourself a bit better just in case you're not as good as you think you are.
Now, there are some exceptions, but those are usually contracted (read: hidden disclaimer) around anyway.?
You can't contract around following labor laws, fortunately.
Unless you're in a union job
With some exceptions for governmental and quasi-governmental jobs, the inability to fire union employees at will is a contractual one, which is something you can get without being part of a union. I think the vast majority of slashdotters would be surprised about how common it is for executives to bargain quite thoroughly in their employment contract. Honestly, a tech worker in demand could do the same thing, though they don't usually think of it beyond the basics (salary, for example).
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But, I'm afraid that these "experts" will be handpicked, for one set of characteristics or another.
Hopefully it's for UI design ability.
Wii might be on end of its lifecycle soon
If there's one thing Nintendo will do, it is run their consoles into the ground. If it weren't for their competitors we would all be playing the NES; I mean, look at the Gameboy, had like a 10 year life.
Somebody told me a few years back that there were more kids in law school than there were practicing lawyers at the time. Somebody's got to guarantee them the ability to buy this year's BMW. When your entire culture is a tossup between flipping burgers and suing somebody, guess which gets priority?
That's exaggeration, the number of lawyers has been steadily increasing, but the increase was never THAT big. The billable hours thing was true for 50 years, but it looks like it's going to permanently change; there are waaay too many lawyers for waaay too few positions. Plenty of people I know from law school are out of work, or in low-paying jobs that they hate.
Depends on the judge, but most aren't especially eager to throw out evidence, and if the wii playing was the only thing wrong with the raid (which might be partially proven by the video tape), I can see a judge reprimanding the officers but allowing the search. Fourth amendment Constitutional law has gotten steadily weaker as the Supreme Court started shifting towards the right.
Precisely. The officers' use of the Wii could technically be considered a seizure, but, IANAL, so can someone who knows a bit more please elaborate? Thanks in advance.
I think it probably could be considered a seizure, but since nothing evidentiary was gained from it I don't think a defense attorney can use it too much. Maybe, if the judge allowed it in, he could use it to sort-of attack the credibility of the officers involved, but that's kind of doubtful. Then again, IAAL, but not a criminal defense one.
On the civil side, there might be a section 1983 civil rights lawsuit there, but there aren't really any damages so I don't think it would go anywhere.
The fourth amendment requires otherwise.
Only if the only evidence they got was from the wii, and it was not listed on the search warrant.
Yes, you have....you vile, disease-ridden half-wit.
The whole point of gaining karma is so you can flame people at +1 starting off and "spend" what you've gained.
I know the "greens" love to worry about GMOs but what is your particular fear? Are you afraid the proteins or amino acids will make you sick? Left-over anti-pest traces? Or are you falling into the marketing trap of "ooh, scary Frankenfoods!" please be sure to think critically for yourself.
"Thinking critically" meaning assuming that there's no way to inadvertently bioengineer food to cause health problems? And if you think "proteins" can't make you sick, I dare you to go get bitten by a venomous snake and see how you feel. Most of the genetic modifications made to GMOs are perfectly safe, anyway, but only the scientifically illiterate think that there's no chance of any changes ever causing damage.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your post was in response to some slashdot post and not the main article by the way, considering the main article has absolutely nothing to do with the safety of GMOs and everything to do with environmental impact.
At this point, it's still some designers throwing around ideas with some fancy CG mockups.
It's not a intergalactic starship; is there anything in it that you think would be non-trivial to implement if they decided to build it? The hard part in these things, and the thing that will make or break them, is the user interface. That's what they're showing here. The fact that they haven't built a physical protoype yet is not that big a deal.
I think that is the first time on slashdot I've seen someone refer to "my goats."
If I tell everyone that some houses have a big fucking gap where a door should be, am I responsible for not installing one?
Better analogy would be, that if you trespassed into someone's house, then got caught, should you be responsible for the amount they paid to have someone come in and check the place out and make sure you didn't damage anything? And the answer is...well, maybe.
Isn't hiding assets from creditors unlawful? Isn't any "service" designed to assist people in committing unlawful acts also illegal?
There are legal ways to hide some assets from creditors; well not really "hide," but more like put in a form they can't reach. Though that is probably not what this guy was doing.
If I tell everyone
Wrong analogy; it would be like if you went to each of the houses, looking for aliens.
So I don't see where the idea that the claim the $700,000 is merely to secure previously unsecured systems originates from.
The imagination of slashdotters, who can never escape that techies-vs-the-rest-of-the-world mentality.
Costs incurred while investigating someone breaking into your house.
I'm sure the guy would rather pay the 700k than the amount of money it cost to investigate him.
Geniuses. The complaining that goes on with PCs is that they have problems. Apples have problems too, but they have nice, friendly geniuses at every store. You don't whine about an Apple problem that lasts for six months, you bring it to the store and the genius fixes it for you right there, in the store. Microsoft needs to get support people in the field to do the same thing.
You would think a real genius would have figured out something better to do than work retail...
Often the term bloated is misused meaning the speaker is at a point where he/she personally starts to find a technology confusing to wade through.
Linux today does not boot significantly faster than it did 15 years ago. That's bloat.
Starfleet Academy is just the US Naval Academy, adapted for space.
And a fax machine is nothing but a waffle iron with a phone attached.
Yeah, I was really disgusted recently when I saw that working with (good) electricians and plumbers who were younger than me (in their early 30s) and already had two paid houses and worked only 6 months a year while I lived in a crummy rental appt with yeast on the walls and an unstable job in research.
There are tradeoffs to everything. If you look at a lot of the great writers, artists, inventors, etc., the most influential ones often spent most of their lives in various forms of poverty. I did one grad degree, hope to do another, and I have resigned myself to achieving, at the best case scenario, financial stability but no extravagance. But I have a shot, no matter how slim, of achieving something notable.
Do you have a cite for that?
This is America. Parents no longer have any responsibility.
Really? The laws of every state in the US will disagree with you. In fact, parents have more responsibility legally now than they've ever had.
Or just not give a shit. I'm a good programmer, and I deliver.
99% of programmers think they're good, and that they deliver. What if you're wrong? Might help to market yourself a bit better just in case you're not as good as you think you are.
Now, there are some exceptions, but those are usually contracted (read: hidden disclaimer) around anyway.?
You can't contract around following labor laws, fortunately.
Unless you're in a union job
With some exceptions for governmental and quasi-governmental jobs, the inability to fire union employees at will is a contractual one, which is something you can get without being part of a union. I think the vast majority of slashdotters would be surprised about how common it is for executives to bargain quite thoroughly in their employment contract. Honestly, a tech worker in demand could do the same thing, though they don't usually think of it beyond the basics (salary, for example).
I got laid off in 2002 specifically because I was vocal and did my best to try and make for a better work environment.
Maybe they thought your being vocal was making a worse work environment for everyone else.