There's a word for people who keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome.
Personally, I'm rather tired of seeing this shit on every single story... I don't like beta either, but all this repeated drivel does, which can only be classified as off-topic and essentially spam, is actively degrade what usefulness the website actually has before beta even becomes mandatory.
So shut the fuck up... I'm pretty sure they heard you the first time. If you don't think that they are listening, then repeating yourself isn't going to solve anything, and thinking it will do anything other than annoy people who want to enjoy what's left of slashdot while it lasts, is... well... as I said above, there's a word for that.
Or... you know, you could actually trust the better judgement of people who really don't like the beta format for their own reasons to just stop using slashdot entirely on their own accord, without people like yourself endlessly repeating the same drivel over and over again, and without any need for any formal boycott.
I'm unsure what percentage of cell phone thefts are actually carried out by people who are also willingto actively enage in physically violent crimes, but I can't imagine it being that high.
What about a user-configurable password that isn't reset simply by changing the sim card, and which requires entry into the device to either change or reset to a default state? If a device receives a kill switch and it is not for the code that is currently set for the device it is ignored. A thief wouldn't know what the code for a physical device is, and so would be unable to change it, and thus not able to prevent it from receiving a kill signal the next time the device is connected to a network. This negates resalability, thereby eliminating the incentive to steal the phone in the first place.
The big time thieves already put your cellphone in a Faraday cage when they swipe it.
This can be mitigated by tying the kill request to the physical device, and not just the sim card it contains, and also a special code that can be set by the user of the device, and which will not be reset just by changing the sim card. A person who is legitimately selling their device would either have to explicitly clear that code from the device or reset it to a default state before transferring it, or tell the person they are selling it to what the code is. Changing the code or clearing it would require that the person enter the current code first... if they have forgotten it, then they cannot change it for that device. Ever.
What do you mean by "modern creationism"? The idea of taking the story of Genesis literally true and belief in a world that is only a few thousand years old is not a remotely modern one.
If Ham claims that, then that's a foul... since such a claim being presented as fact presupposes that his view of creation is already true. And even if it were true, it's as irrellevant to the matter at hand as the color of socks he will be wearing at the debate.
The only way that anyone will really prove anything about this to anyone else is if we invent time travel and actually watch it happen ourselves.
The answer to that question, from a creationist statndpoint, is the same reason that God allegedly created the first human beings as fully formed adults. Merely minutes old in actuality, but by all outward appearances fully matured, as if they had really grown up from childhood. To a hypothetical visitor from the future who was accustomed only to what they understood as the normal passage of time, even mere weeks after creation, it would invariably appear that things had existed for much longer than they actually had... but that's only because that's all that person knows, because they weren't actually around at the beginning to see it all unfold... not out of any real sense on God's part to deceive anyone, as it were.
I always found Eclipse to be very fidgety, and I've only ever been able to get one non-java project debugging properly inside of it. Conversely, netbeans... well.. it just works. It has full C++11 support these days, and is, in my opinion, much friendlier to pure java development, using ant as its native build tool.
(My money's on this comment being modded down by eclipse fanboys, ah, but what the hell, I'll post it anyways.)
Even when the state or country has at-will firing, you still have to justify it to other members of the management team.
Only if you don't want either a) morale among the employees to fall so far down that up won't even exist anymore or b) to look like a total douchebag to people who may be a position to make your own life more uncomfortable than it currently is.
If you *are* a douchebag, and you don't have a problem with other people in the company knowing it, and your employees are as interchangeable and replaceable as office pencils, then those two things may not be that big a deal.
Which doesn't dismiss the respondent's point... they care about being fired from such places because they need money to pay rent and buy food or else they wouldn't immediately be going to try and get a job at another such place.
I thought most states had "at will" employment, where an employer could fire an employee for any reason that did not run afoul of human or civil rights, or for no reason at all. Granted, I realize that some employers will have hiring contracts in place that can make it more difficult, or at least considerably more paperwork for the employer to fire anyone they want whenever they want to, but I think those are the exception, and not the rule. That said, I can't see much need for this technology outside of companies that *do* have such employment policies.
I'd dare suggest that the number of accidents that may be prevented by a car's noise compensating for the inattentiveness of an irresponsible driver is negligible.
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There's a word for people who keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome.
Personally, I'm rather tired of seeing this shit on every single story... I don't like beta either, but all this repeated drivel does, which can only be classified as off-topic and essentially spam, is actively degrade what usefulness the website actually has before beta even becomes mandatory.
So shut the fuck up... I'm pretty sure they heard you the first time. If you don't think that they are listening, then repeating yourself isn't going to solve anything, and thinking it will do anything other than annoy people who want to enjoy what's left of slashdot while it lasts, is... well... as I said above, there's a word for that.
But is the US government actually responding to said leaning, or are they currently ignoring it?
Or... you know, you could actually trust the better judgement of people who really don't like the beta format for their own reasons to just stop using slashdot entirely on their own accord, without people like yourself endlessly repeating the same drivel over and over again, and without any need for any formal boycott.
I'm unsure what percentage of cell phone thefts are actually carried out by people who are also willingto actively enage in physically violent crimes, but I can't imagine it being that high.
What about a user-configurable password that isn't reset simply by changing the sim card, and which requires entry into the device to either change or reset to a default state? If a device receives a kill switch and it is not for the code that is currently set for the device it is ignored. A thief wouldn't know what the code for a physical device is, and so would be unable to change it, and thus not able to prevent it from receiving a kill signal the next time the device is connected to a network. This negates resalability, thereby eliminating the incentive to steal the phone in the first place.
This can be mitigated by tying the kill request to the physical device, and not just the sim card it contains, and also a special code that can be set by the user of the device, and which will not be reset just by changing the sim card. A person who is legitimately selling their device would either have to explicitly clear that code from the device or reset it to a default state before transferring it, or tell the person they are selling it to what the code is. Changing the code or clearing it would require that the person enter the current code first... if they have forgotten it, then they cannot change it for that device. Ever.
A boycott is not necessary... if the experience that slashdot presents is unusable, people who are bothered by it won't use it.
Simple.
Some will continue to use slashdot even after beta goes live and becomes the standard slashdot site.
I probably won't be one of them, once it becomes mandatory, unless some rather significant changes are made between now and then.
But that won't be because I'll be doing anything as formal as "boycotting", it will simply be because using slashdot won't be enjoyable anymore.
You are perfectly welcome to threaten the government that you'll leave if they don't change... but it will accomplish about as much.
Neither will complaining about it.
Which come to think of it, is a lot like branches of the government, actually.
What do you mean by "modern creationism"? The idea of taking the story of Genesis literally true and belief in a world that is only a few thousand years old is not a remotely modern one.
If Ham claims that, then that's a foul... since such a claim being presented as fact presupposes that his view of creation is already true. And even if it were true, it's as irrellevant to the matter at hand as the color of socks he will be wearing at the debate.
The only way that anyone will really prove anything about this to anyone else is if we invent time travel and actually watch it happen ourselves.
When was creationism debunked?
I fully agree that this is a pointless debate.
No, actually, he doesn't. That was my point... and why having a public debate on a subject like this is meaningless.
The answer to that question, from a creationist statndpoint, is the same reason that God allegedly created the first human beings as fully formed adults. Merely minutes old in actuality, but by all outward appearances fully matured, as if they had really grown up from childhood. To a hypothetical visitor from the future who was accustomed only to what they understood as the normal passage of time, even mere weeks after creation, it would invariably appear that things had existed for much longer than they actually had... but that's only because that's all that person knows, because they weren't actually around at the beginning to see it all unfold... not out of any real sense on God's part to deceive anyone, as it were.
As if Ham somehow speaks for all the people who might believe in Creationism?
Does anyone know why that's going on?
I have no love for Oracle, but I use netbeans because, as I said... it works. And it works better than anything else I've tried.
I always found Eclipse to be very fidgety, and I've only ever been able to get one non-java project debugging properly inside of it. Conversely, netbeans ... well.. it just works. It has full C++11 support these days, and is, in my opinion, much friendlier to pure java development, using ant as its native build tool.
(My money's on this comment being modded down by eclipse fanboys, ah, but what the hell, I'll post it anyways.)
Only if you don't want either a) morale among the employees to fall so far down that up won't even exist anymore or b) to look like a total douchebag to people who may be a position to make your own life more uncomfortable than it currently is.
If you *are* a douchebag, and you don't have a problem with other people in the company knowing it, and your employees are as interchangeable and replaceable as office pencils, then those two things may not be that big a deal.
Which doesn't dismiss the respondent's point... they care about being fired from such places because they need money to pay rent and buy food or else they wouldn't immediately be going to try and get a job at another such place.
I thought most states had "at will" employment, where an employer could fire an employee for any reason that did not run afoul of human or civil rights, or for no reason at all. Granted, I realize that some employers will have hiring contracts in place that can make it more difficult, or at least considerably more paperwork for the employer to fire anyone they want whenever they want to, but I think those are the exception, and not the rule. That said, I can't see much need for this technology outside of companies that *do* have such employment policies.
Not a crime, but probably an act that would still get you fired if you did it more than once after being told not to.
What does C# have to do with Javascript?
Also, writing strictly imperative code in Javascript is as straightforward as writing it in plain C.
I'd dare suggest that the number of accidents that may be prevented by a car's noise compensating for the inattentiveness of an irresponsible driver is negligible.