maybe you should submit a story then, instead of writing off-topic comments
Until the Slashdot staff grows some balls and allows the story through, writing off-topic posts is the best we'll get.
It took the readers revolting over the Slashdot beta and making the comment sections unusable for the/. editors to descend from on high and even deign to address the complaints. Maybe something similar needs to happen here. Those with mod points (unfortunately I don't now) should at least mod up these posts, which reference a story that the readers here are obviously interested in but which/. finds embarrassing to their parent company.
Well, if we eliminate all the people who just wanted to get high quietly in the privacy of their own home and provided treatment instead of prison time for all the people who are in there as the result of alcohol and drug abuse, we could probably close all but one existing prison.
Even if we just include federal/state prisons, there are about 1,800 existing prisons. Do you seriously think that nonviolent drug use and the results of drug and alchohol abuse account for 99.94% of all of our prisoners?
"Organ[o]" is a Greek word meaning "Instrument" and, in Greek, a "musical organ" can be any "musical instrument"
Which might be relevant if we were speaking Greek rather than English.
More relevant is that "organ" is used to refer to a lot of keyboard instruments that are intended to imitate (to some extent) the sound of a pipe organ. Whether or not this particular instrument falls into that category or not is probably largely a matter of opinion.
First, what's proper restitution for being compelled to post something on a Facebook post? I don't think I'd accept $20K to allow somebody else to put something I disliked on my Facebook account, myself.
A formal apology. If you can show that you suffered any real damages from the false facebook post, including your time or reputation, then you would be entitled to just compensation for those.
Second, the guy had to spend money and time to get the suit going, and had no certainty of getting anything. Offering restitution only (and then only when winning) means that it's most likely the best move to just let the police do whatever to you without recourse.
Your legal costs should of course be included in that restitution.
The legal system should not exist to enrich someone out of proportion to how they were harmed. If people won't pursue justice if they don't have the chance of hitting a big jackpot, then it's probably not very important to them after all.
You've already opened a huge can of worms by giving the money to one undeserving party. Just because there might be problems to resolve with a better system doesn't mean that there's no point in instituting the better system. Say that they get it wrong half the time. That's still better than today, when they get it wrong every single time.
Yes, fraudulent 911 calls are a problem. But I'd rather have 100 of those for each legitimate call from an NSI phone which might save one or more lives.
The attitude that any cost is acceptable for the chance of saving a life is a common problem.
There is a point where the resources devoted to your pet cause A could be more beneficial -- even in terms of saving lives -- if directed elsewhere.
There are instructions at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images. Note that doing so nukes the user data on your tablet, so it's kind of a pain, but it's not difficult if you've got ADB set up on your computer.
I finally downgraded my 2012 Nexus 7 today back to KitKat. It was essentially unusable running Lollipop.
Unless Google can make their new versions perform well on older hardware, of course you're going to have a lot of people on the older OS versions. I'm not going to buy a new phone/tablet every time Google releases an update to their OS.
Your example isn't a good one, because there's no credible reason for anyone to believe that an anonymous Slashdot poster is going to be able to launch an air attack on US military base. A threat by a lone individual to carry out a mass murder, on the other hand, is perfectly believable, because they happen with some frequency.
And making threats is not protected free speech, so it has no implications in that regard. Calling this a "perceived" threat is disingenuous on your part -- it's a real threat, plain and simple, whether or not he intended to act on it.
The article (and Slashdot summary) conveniently ignore that the post is pretty damn obviously referring to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting on 16 Apr 2007. That's about as clear as an anonymous threat gets.
It's the default browser in many Android devices, is that what you're talking about?
If so, then he's wrong; the figures referenced here are for desktop browser usage. There are a separate set of figures for mobile/tablet (Safari at 40%, Chrome at 30%).
Actually, the books they will be providing for the $250 million appear to be largely out of copyright already. So this is even worse than paying the publishers for copyrighted books.
Where are you getting this info? From the articles linked from the summary, it appears that the e-books are being donated by the publishers (not paid for by the government) and I didn't find any information on what books are being provided. But the articles I can find are are woefully lacking in detail.
Ouja was always going to be a niche market appealing to techies and gamers.
Niche market, yes, but it seems like one of Ouya's (the company's) biggest problems was that they thought that they could appeal to "gamers."
If you consider yourself a gamer, then you probably already own one of the big-name consoles. Recent consoles have a fair amount of support for the kind of indie games that Ouya was hoping would form the backbone of their library, and so there's not much of a strong incentive to get an Ouya as well. And it was obvious that the big game studios were never going to develop major games for Ouya, so getting one instead of a normal console wouldn't have been a good choice.
I got one soon after release, and it's great for someone who likes to play the occasional game, but not enough to bother investing hundreds of dollars in a standard console. But anyone who thought that it was going to compete in the same space as the XBox or Playstation was fooling themselves.
The highest level person that explicitly signed off on the strike should be fired. That's not the president--he authorises programs like this with the intention that they're carried out properly.
Presumably every single person involved had the intention that it would be carried out properly.
It has yet to be proven in court so it is "allegedly".
Yes, but you don't have to repeat it five times in a single paragraph. I would think that whoever is in charge of press releases for the DOJ would be at least be competent at writing.
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maybe you should submit a story then, instead of writing off-topic comments
Until the Slashdot staff grows some balls and allows the story through, writing off-topic posts is the best we'll get.
It took the readers revolting over the Slashdot beta and making the comment sections unusable for the /. editors to descend from on high and even deign to address the complaints. Maybe something similar needs to happen here. Those with mod points (unfortunately I don't now) should at least mod up these posts, which reference a story that the readers here are obviously interested in but which /. finds embarrassing to their parent company.
It's really hard and gets rusty in the rain?
Kind of like how every patent is new if you add "WITH A COMPUTER" to it.
Well, if we eliminate all the people who just wanted to get high quietly in the privacy of their own home and provided treatment instead of prison time for all the people who are in there as the result of alcohol and drug abuse, we could probably close all but one existing prison.
Even if we just include federal/state prisons, there are about 1,800 existing prisons. Do you seriously think that nonviolent drug use and the results of drug and alchohol abuse account for 99.94% of all of our prisoners?
"Organ[o]" is a Greek word meaning "Instrument" and, in Greek, a "musical organ" can be any "musical instrument"
Which might be relevant if we were speaking Greek rather than English.
More relevant is that "organ" is used to refer to a lot of keyboard instruments that are intended to imitate (to some extent) the sound of a pipe organ. Whether or not this particular instrument falls into that category or not is probably largely a matter of opinion.
They basically just held up the Senate for 10 hours knowing full well that nothing concrete was being accomplished.
Hey, they stopped the Senate from screwing anything up for 10 hours. That sounds like an accomplishment to me.
We asked 100 people to rate these hacker SBCs, AND YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT! Click "Like" to see more!!!
So it not only transmits URLs, it also annoys the nearby dogs and cats. I'm not seeing a downside here.
So...it's not a networking issue?
That's what makes this networking issue so unique.
Only restitution?
First, what's proper restitution for being compelled to post something on a Facebook post? I don't think I'd accept $20K to allow somebody else to put something I disliked on my Facebook account, myself.
A formal apology. If you can show that you suffered any real damages from the false facebook post, including your time or reputation, then you would be entitled to just compensation for those.
Second, the guy had to spend money and time to get the suit going, and had no certainty of getting anything. Offering restitution only (and then only when winning) means that it's most likely the best move to just let the police do whatever to you without recourse.
Your legal costs should of course be included in that restitution.
The legal system should not exist to enrich someone out of proportion to how they were harmed. If people won't pursue justice if they don't have the chance of hitting a big jackpot, then it's probably not very important to them after all.
Judges, most likely.
You've already opened a huge can of worms by giving the money to one undeserving party. Just because there might be problems to resolve with a better system doesn't mean that there's no point in instituting the better system. Say that they get it wrong half the time. That's still better than today, when they get it wrong every single time.
This is why our system of punitive damages sucks. It encourages people to game the system in hopes of winning the lawsuit lottery.
He should receive restitution for the damages done. Nothing more. A huge payout to punish the guilty party is not justice.
If large punitive damages are warranted, they shouldn't go to the plaintiff.
So the advertisers (or their mouthpieces) are calling the people that would block ads sociopathic? That's rich.
Yes, fraudulent 911 calls are a problem. But I'd rather have 100 of those for each legitimate call from an NSI phone which might save one or more lives.
The attitude that any cost is acceptable for the chance of saving a life is a common problem.
There is a point where the resources devoted to your pet cause A could be more beneficial -- even in terms of saving lives -- if directed elsewhere.
There are instructions at https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images. Note that doing so nukes the user data on your tablet, so it's kind of a pain, but it's not difficult if you've got ADB set up on your computer.
I finally downgraded my 2012 Nexus 7 today back to KitKat. It was essentially unusable running Lollipop.
Unless Google can make their new versions perform well on older hardware, of course you're going to have a lot of people on the older OS versions. I'm not going to buy a new phone/tablet every time Google releases an update to their OS.
Your example isn't a good one, because there's no credible reason for anyone to believe that an anonymous Slashdot poster is going to be able to launch an air attack on US military base. A threat by a lone individual to carry out a mass murder, on the other hand, is perfectly believable, because they happen with some frequency.
And making threats is not protected free speech, so it has no implications in that regard. Calling this a "perceived" threat is disingenuous on your part -- it's a real threat, plain and simple, whether or not he intended to act on it.
The article (and Slashdot summary) conveniently ignore that the post is pretty damn obviously referring to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting on 16 Apr 2007. That's about as clear as an anonymous threat gets.
It's the default browser in many Android devices, is that what you're talking about?
If so, then he's wrong; the figures referenced here are for desktop browser usage. There are a separate set of figures for mobile/tablet (Safari at 40%, Chrome at 30%).
Actually, the books they will be providing for the $250 million appear to be largely out of copyright already. So this is even worse than paying the publishers for copyrighted books.
Where are you getting this info? From the articles linked from the summary, it appears that the e-books are being donated by the publishers (not paid for by the government) and I didn't find any information on what books are being provided. But the articles I can find are are woefully lacking in detail.
Ouja was always going to be a niche market appealing to techies and gamers.
Niche market, yes, but it seems like one of Ouya's (the company's) biggest problems was that they thought that they could appeal to "gamers."
If you consider yourself a gamer, then you probably already own one of the big-name consoles. Recent consoles have a fair amount of support for the kind of indie games that Ouya was hoping would form the backbone of their library, and so there's not much of a strong incentive to get an Ouya as well. And it was obvious that the big game studios were never going to develop major games for Ouya, so getting one instead of a normal console wouldn't have been a good choice.
I got one soon after release, and it's great for someone who likes to play the occasional game, but not enough to bother investing hundreds of dollars in a standard console. But anyone who thought that it was going to compete in the same space as the XBox or Playstation was fooling themselves.
You have no problem with compulsory voting, as long as you're not compelled to actually vote?
A Meter is about a Year.
With this conversion, I conclude that Han made the Kessell run in about 3.7x10^17 years. That doesn't sound too impressive after all.
The highest level person that explicitly signed off on the strike should be fired. That's not the president--he authorises programs like this with the intention that they're carried out properly.
Presumably every single person involved had the intention that it would be carried out properly.
It has yet to be proven in court so it is "allegedly".
Yes, but you don't have to repeat it five times in a single paragraph. I would think that whoever is in charge of press releases for the DOJ would be at least be competent at writing.