Let as suppose that for the basic needs ( what we today consider basic needs, not just food, sleep and sex ) you need 10k per year. With your example if you earn 10k a year with 2k tax you are left with 8k and that is less then what you need for your basic needs. With 100k, 20k are tax, 10k basic needs and you still have 70k more then what you need for the basics. 20% for all is not right.
A cargo cult is a religious practice that has appeared in many traditional pre-industrial tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures.
This has nothing to do with cargo cult. They are not stupid, uneducated savages. They are people with vision and
BIG ideas (something what our western culture is lacking in the last couple of decades)
I viewed "social" as just another skill I could pick up and another "technology" that I could learn. Some are better at it naturally, but I think everyone can learn to at least succeed at it.
I agree. Social norms are 100% learned. The main problem for us logical people (or as current social norm call us - "geeks") is that social norms are mostly not logical. This discrepancy between social norms and logic creates denial and "boxing" in childhood and escalates when we are teenagers. After that, we learn to act so that it seams that we are the same like the others.
The problem there, is, if my wife and I don't want to have another child, should we be celibate? We don't want another child, ever. Should we lie next to each other every night for the rest of out lives and never have sex again? Or are we sinning by not pumping out a litter?
I'm not a Catholic, but I think I can see the logic behind being against condoms:
The church is at the first place for marriage and monogamy. If you are your whole life with only one partner, the use of condoms is only for birth control and they are against that.
If you say I will just go and play around, then you definitely must use a condom, but then you are committing adultery and the church is against adultery, not against using condoms.
Citation necessary. Using the armed forces to attack is one thing, having a plain clothes operative sneak explosives onto a plane is a completely different matter altogether.
Desktop PC era will not end until somebody develops reliable user input using voice or brain waves which can replace keyboard and mouse. Until then, you will need you desktop PC to write programs, documents, e-mails... Until then, tablets will be just a toys used for surfing, social networking and reading newspapers (online version).
Yes but first 5 hits in Google search engine for "nss labs ie9" are:
Internet Explorer 9 safest Web browser
Microsoft's IE9 Blocks Almost All Social Malware, Study Finds
NSS Labs: IE9 Blocks Most Malware Compared to Competition...
NSS Labs: IE9 Tops in Browser Security
NSS Labs: IE9 Caught 96% of the Live Threats with SmartScreen URL
So we should use Microsoft search engine?!
Independent of the used search engine, in the first 100 results you will mostly find parrot "news agencies" and "computer expert bloggers" repeating over and over again the same story. Is the Internet noise the evidence confirming the NSS labs report? Or you say: "If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth."
Not one in a hundred wifi routers get updated over their life span because their owners are ignorant about their own security. If your router would have some kind of auto-update (a lot of providers deliver devices with this functionality) then the difference between -stable and -longterm can be significant (of course, if the router manufacturer implements newest security patches in firmware updates)
Because you can't put Caldera or Corel Linux an a system with 16MB NOR and 32MB RAM.
We are talking about openWrt and similar distros.
Chances are that crackers will go first on your router where most users have their DNS/DHCP and termination for all your network devices.
They're doing exactly what MS did with the Chevron team. Hire the talent to keep them from doing things you don't support while making it look like they're going to do something special for the community
You forgot to mention creating a lot of money for the company and a stockpile of new patents.
This is/. Of course nobody will post a solution.
If you don't trust the client a desktop application with hardware dongle and insane obfuscation and encryption wouldn't be enough for you.
If the client invest enough energy all your protection will be for nothing.
Slashdot Mirror
...yes, there may be parts of device drivers that have been illegally reverse engineered...
Even if complete device drivers are stolen and used in Linux, what that has to do with Microsoft?! That would be a problem of device manufacturers.
Wow, AC, you are such a big shot! 2m members and 200m page views! Of course we will respect your opinion!
On the homepage is clearly written: "Drizzle - a database for the cloud"
It's not written "Drizzle - a database for Azure"
Let as suppose that for the basic needs ( what we today consider basic needs, not just food, sleep and sex ) you need 10k per year. With your example if you earn 10k a year with 2k tax you are left with 8k and that is less then what you need for your basic needs. With 100k, 20k are tax, 10k basic needs and you still have 70k more then what you need for the basics. 20% for all is not right.
The next step will be patenting everything in Minecraft by using existing patents and adding "in the Minecraft" at the end.
A cargo cult is a religious practice that has appeared in many traditional pre-industrial tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures.
This has nothing to do with cargo cult. They are not stupid, uneducated savages. They are people with vision and BIG ideas (something what our western culture is lacking in the last couple of decades)
I viewed "social" as just another skill I could pick up and another "technology" that I could learn. Some are better at it naturally, but I think everyone can learn to at least succeed at it.
I agree. Social norms are 100% learned. The main problem for us logical people (or as current social norm call us - "geeks") is that social norms are mostly not logical. This discrepancy between social norms and logic creates denial and "boxing" in childhood and escalates when we are teenagers. After that, we learn to act so that it seams that we are the same like the others.
The problem there, is, if my wife and I don't want to have another child, should we be celibate? We don't want another child, ever. Should we lie next to each other every night for the rest of out lives and never have sex again? Or are we sinning by not pumping out a litter?
In the matter of fact, yes:
http://www.catholic.com/library/Birth_Control.asp
I cannot resist to give a link to a legendary Monty Python classic "The Meaning of Life":
The Protestant View
I'm not a Catholic, but I think I can see the logic behind being against condoms:
The church is at the first place for marriage and monogamy. If you are your whole life with only one partner, the use of condoms is only for birth control and they are against that.
If you say I will just go and play around, then you definitely must use a condom, but then you are committing adultery and the church is against adultery, not against using condoms.
Invasion of Kuwait was a war not terrorism. Also it was about control of the oilfield.
This is also about control of the oilfields.
Citation necessary. Using the armed forces to attack is one thing, having a plain clothes operative sneak explosives onto a plane is a completely different matter altogether.
Why is that different when innocent people die?
Apple is NOT a patent troll.
Oh, please, don't cry! No, darling, Apple is not a patent troll! Bad, bad Splab!!!
Desktop PC era will not end until somebody develops reliable user input using voice or brain waves which can replace keyboard and mouse. Until then, you will need you desktop PC to write programs, documents, e-mails... Until then, tablets will be just a toys used for surfing, social networking and reading newspapers (online version).
Why that depends on which of the library's dimensions you happen to be using... leaving me wondering how long it would take and African Swallow...
Good choice! For European Swallow you would need to know if it's carrying coconut or not.
And why is slashdot giving this self serving BS space on its website?
It would be embarrassing if this story is trumpeted around even on TV and not mentioned on Slashdot.
No money changed hands in the making of this study.
And how do YOU know that?
Yes but first 5 hits in Google search engine for "nss labs ie9" are:
...
Internet Explorer 9 safest Web browser
Microsoft's IE9 Blocks Almost All Social Malware, Study Finds
NSS Labs: IE9 Blocks Most Malware Compared to Competition
NSS Labs: IE9 Tops in Browser Security
NSS Labs: IE9 Caught 96% of the Live Threats with SmartScreen URL
I don't see small print in this headlines.
Their latest product offerings have actually been pretty decent.
Do you think the last shitty Office versions are decent?
So we should use Microsoft search engine?!
Independent of the used search engine, in the first 100 results you will mostly find parrot "news agencies" and "computer expert bloggers" repeating over and over again the same story.
Is the Internet noise the evidence confirming the NSS labs report? Or you say: "If you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth."
Not one in a hundred wifi routers get updated over their life span because their owners are ignorant about their own security. If your router would have some kind of auto-update (a lot of providers deliver devices with this functionality) then the difference between -stable and -longterm can be significant (of course, if the router manufacturer implements newest security patches in firmware updates)
Because you can't put Caldera or Corel Linux an a system with 16MB NOR and 32MB RAM.
We are talking about openWrt and similar distros.
Chances are that crackers will go first on your router where most users have their DNS/DHCP and termination for all your network devices.
The devil isn't running every company.
Every company is there to earn money && money is root of all evil => Devil is running every company
They're doing exactly what MS did with the Chevron team. Hire the talent to keep them from doing things you don't support while making it look like they're going to do something special for the community
You forgot to mention creating a lot of money for the company and a stockpile of new patents.
This is /. Of course nobody will post a solution.
If you don't trust the client a desktop application with hardware dongle and insane obfuscation and encryption wouldn't be enough for you.
If the client invest enough energy all your protection will be for nothing.
His post is purely solution driven. You have a software problem - there is a solution. It has nothing to do with morality.