Andy taught him about gaming by making him play and master all of the old video games and gaming systems in the exact order they were actually released.
So he's forcing his kid to play these games? I wonder if he ever has to tell his son that he has to beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles before he's allowed to do his homework...
They've already got the "block by posting editor" feature. All they have to do is make Bennett an editor.
Of course, I'm sure they realize that everyone will block Bennett, and pageviews are king at Dice.
It took a full-on revolt to get the slashdot staff to condescend to comment about the slashdot Beta. It would presumably take something similar to get them to change how they handle the Bennett stories.
This should be done all the time, like whitehats and pentesters, culling the ranks of bullshit journals.
It is. At this point, I don't even know why "journal publishes nonsense paper" is even a news story any more. It's been happening for close to 20 years now.
It's been a decade since I had any noticeable lag on a website.
Have you really not used the web in the last 10 years, or are you just exaggerating?
Web page sizes and complexity have, if anything, grown faster than available bandwidth. Websites with many embedded flash widgets will bog down even a new-ish system, much less a less-powerful laptop.
The advertisers are getting exactly what they are paying the owners of the sites for: they are getting to serve ads to the users visiting the sites.
If the advertisers think that they're paying to have real people click on their ads -- well, they should learn how the internet works. That's not under the control of the website owners.
The lists are already there -- that's what those "filter subscriptions" you set up when configuring ABP are all about. I don't know whether there are any competing plugins that don't have any direct association with anyone maintaining a list, but even if there aren't it's not exactly rocket science to develop a new one.
He apparently doesn't even meet the requirements for becoming a Slashdot editor. Since the average/. editor is slightly less intelligent than bread mold, that tells you a lot about Bennett. Why would anybody pay attention to him?
Sound like a legitimate argument to me, that needs a serious refutation if you disagree with him.
Title 8 of the US Code is 1000 pages long. We have more than enough laws on the books about immigration.
What he's really saying is that Congress hasn't given him a law that he likes, so he's writing his own. Which even he admits isn't actually within his authority, but he's betting that nobody will be able to stop him.
Still, the complaint is not that he doesn't do anything with the laws that the Congress passes, the complaint is that Congress doesn't pass any laws that address important issues.
There are already plenty of laws addressing immigration that the President has chosen to ignore. Claiming that Congress should be passing more laws on the subject is a little silly -- if the President doesn't like them, what's to stop him from ignoring them too?
If an out-of-control rocket falls on my head, whether it was carrying a little plutonium or a solar panel isn't going to be high on my list of concerns.
Fraud is an intentional tort. If they never intend to give the rebate for all eligible people, then it is fraud if they then do not actually do it (even if you don't complain). If not enough money is allocated up front, and if they run out of money to pay all the eligible rebates they receive, then it seems to me to be fraud (although IANAL)...
Well, the question comes down to what happens if every single person actually does comply with the terms of the rebate and requests it. It seems like either some party (either the company that offered the rebate, or the company that the rebate handling was outsourced to) will be forced to cough up the extra money to cover every rebate, or they will fail to pay out the rebates.
You seem to be assuming that the latter is the guaranteed result, but I don't see that it is. I'm not privy to the details of these contracts, but I would be amazed if they don't, as a general rule, spell out who is responsible for costs that exceed the expected cost of the rebate program.
Outsourcing and incentivizing itself isn't fraudulent (just shady), but the reason that it's often fraudulent is that the allocated pool of money to the external marketing firm is never enough to cover the worst case, so they are effectively going into the promotion with the deliberate intent to defraud customers of the rebate and the original company doesn't indemnify the external company for worst-case shortfall (because they don't trust these shady rebate companies enough to think they won't just claim/pocket the money).
If the people who apply for the rebate get the promised rebate, then how could you possibly claim that anyone is being defrauded?
Because as you say the companies are actively planning to make the advertised price/rebate not possible, or very complicated for the customer to get.
I didn't say that at all. Doing that would be fraud, and should be prosecuted under existing laws. But there are plenty of times when obtaining a rebate is straightforward, and you want to make those illegal as well.
For the customers to compare products, with such complicated pricing schemes is just not feasible; it would take days to evaluate.
Well, I'm assuming people who can look at an advertised price of $X ($Y before rebate) and make a comparison, which is how most rebate offers that I see are advertised. If it takes you days to do that comparison, you probably are not qualified to be handling money at all.
can't just ban the blatant rip-off of rebate promotions?
If the company honors the rebate as promised, and provides the terms of the rebate up front, then it's not a rip-off. If they don't, well, then that's fraud -- there are already laws against it, although I wouldn't mind seeing more enforcement of those laws.
Why should the government prevent competent adults from entering into an agreement that includes a rebate? Sure, the companies are hoping that many will not claim it, but that's the customer's choice.
I don't like the hassle of rebates myself (when I compare prices, I don't take rebates into consideration), but I don't need the government making that decision for me.
These kids aren't cheating, they're doing it the current/modern way.
This is a data structures and algorithms course, not a "find code snippets using google" course. In a work environment, the purpose of writing a program is to solve some problem by any means necessary. In the environment of this course, the purpose is to learn how these things are implemented.
WTF is with those "sponsored links" at the bottom? Apparently even the "disable ads" option doesn't remove them. Oh well, at least I can kill them with adblock.
God forbid any of the African nations affected by this disease cough up any money.
Considering that the cost to the U.S. of this ebola outbreak is going to be in the billions of dollars, it makes a lot of sense to fund research into vaccines to reduce the cost to us later on, regardless of what other countries are doing.
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Andy taught him about gaming by making him play and master all of the old video games and gaming systems in the exact order they were actually released.
So he's forcing his kid to play these games? I wonder if he ever has to tell his son that he has to beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles before he's allowed to do his homework...
They've already got the "block by posting editor" feature. All they have to do is make Bennett an editor.
Of course, I'm sure they realize that everyone will block Bennett, and pageviews are king at Dice.
It took a full-on revolt to get the slashdot staff to condescend to comment about the slashdot Beta. It would presumably take something similar to get them to change how they handle the Bennett stories.
This should be done all the time, like whitehats and pentesters, culling the ranks of bullshit journals.
It is. At this point, I don't even know why "journal publishes nonsense paper" is even a news story any more. It's been happening for close to 20 years now.
It's been a decade since I had any noticeable lag on a website.
Have you really not used the web in the last 10 years, or are you just exaggerating?
Web page sizes and complexity have, if anything, grown faster than available bandwidth. Websites with many embedded flash widgets will bog down even a new-ish system, much less a less-powerful laptop.
The advertisers are getting exactly what they are paying the owners of the sites for: they are getting to serve ads to the users visiting the sites.
If the advertisers think that they're paying to have real people click on their ads -- well, they should learn how the internet works. That's not under the control of the website owners.
My FREE hosts program adds speed, security, reliability & more, doing more, more efficiently vs. addons + fixes DNS' redirect security issues:...
So, this is apparently security software designed by the Time Cube guy? I'm sold.
The lists are already there -- that's what those "filter subscriptions" you set up when configuring ABP are all about. I don't know whether there are any competing plugins that don't have any direct association with anyone maintaining a list, but even if there aren't it's not exactly rocket science to develop a new one.
I hear he's a frequent contributor.
He apparently doesn't even meet the requirements for becoming a Slashdot editor. Since the average /. editor is slightly less intelligent than bread mold, that tells you a lot about Bennett. Why would anybody pay attention to him?
Yeah. I'm totally going to change my career path based on a Dice article. Unless my horoscope tells me otherwise, of course.
In my case, roughly two hours per week, when factoring in purchase price, gas, and maintenance costs. Well worth it.
A 12 minute drive with a BIG price tag attached to it.
Saving 2.5 hours a day (assuming that he was doing this twice a day) would be worth a big price tag to me.
Sound like a legitimate argument to me, that needs a serious refutation if you disagree with him.
Title 8 of the US Code is 1000 pages long. We have more than enough laws on the books about immigration.
What he's really saying is that Congress hasn't given him a law that he likes, so he's writing his own. Which even he admits isn't actually within his authority, but he's betting that nobody will be able to stop him.
Still, the complaint is not that he doesn't do anything with the laws that the Congress passes, the complaint is that Congress doesn't pass any laws that address important issues.
There are already plenty of laws addressing immigration that the President has chosen to ignore. Claiming that Congress should be passing more laws on the subject is a little silly -- if the President doesn't like them, what's to stop him from ignoring them too?
"Race" doesn't exist, btw. You're talking about cultural background & skin color. There is only one human race.
This is an awful long article for something that doesn't exist.
If an out-of-control rocket falls on my head, whether it was carrying a little plutonium or a solar panel isn't going to be high on my list of concerns.
So long as it is effective in keeping the President from escaping, I'm all for it.
Fraud is an intentional tort. If they never intend to give the rebate for all eligible people, then it is fraud if they then do not actually do it (even if you don't complain). If not enough money is allocated up front, and if they run out of money to pay all the eligible rebates they receive, then it seems to me to be fraud (although IANAL)...
Well, the question comes down to what happens if every single person actually does comply with the terms of the rebate and requests it. It seems like either some party (either the company that offered the rebate, or the company that the rebate handling was outsourced to) will be forced to cough up the extra money to cover every rebate, or they will fail to pay out the rebates.
You seem to be assuming that the latter is the guaranteed result, but I don't see that it is. I'm not privy to the details of these contracts, but I would be amazed if they don't, as a general rule, spell out who is responsible for costs that exceed the expected cost of the rebate program.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the portion of the grandparent poster's comment that I was responding to.
Outsourcing and incentivizing itself isn't fraudulent (just shady), but the reason that it's often fraudulent is that the allocated pool of money to the external marketing firm is never enough to cover the worst case, so they are effectively going into the promotion with the deliberate intent to defraud customers of the rebate and the original company doesn't indemnify the external company for worst-case shortfall (because they don't trust these shady rebate companies enough to think they won't just claim/pocket the money).
If the people who apply for the rebate get the promised rebate, then how could you possibly claim that anyone is being defrauded?
Because as you say the companies are actively planning to make the advertised price/rebate not possible, or very complicated for the customer to get.
I didn't say that at all. Doing that would be fraud, and should be prosecuted under existing laws. But there are plenty of times when obtaining a rebate is straightforward, and you want to make those illegal as well.
For the customers to compare products, with such complicated pricing schemes is just not feasible; it would take days to evaluate.
Well, I'm assuming people who can look at an advertised price of $X ($Y before rebate) and make a comparison, which is how most rebate offers that I see are advertised. If it takes you days to do that comparison, you probably are not qualified to be handling money at all.
can't just ban the blatant rip-off of rebate promotions?
If the company honors the rebate as promised, and provides the terms of the rebate up front, then it's not a rip-off. If they don't, well, then that's fraud -- there are already laws against it, although I wouldn't mind seeing more enforcement of those laws.
Why should the government prevent competent adults from entering into an agreement that includes a rebate? Sure, the companies are hoping that many will not claim it, but that's the customer's choice.
I don't like the hassle of rebates myself (when I compare prices, I don't take rebates into consideration), but I don't need the government making that decision for me.
These kids aren't cheating, they're doing it the current/modern way.
This is a data structures and algorithms course, not a "find code snippets using google" course. In a work environment, the purpose of writing a program is to solve some problem by any means necessary. In the environment of this course, the purpose is to learn how these things are implemented.
The cords would just keep getting tangled up. You're much better off getting the DC model with a big battery pack.
WTF is with those "sponsored links" at the bottom? Apparently even the "disable ads" option doesn't remove them. Oh well, at least I can kill them with adblock.
God forbid any of the African nations affected by this disease cough up any money.
Considering that the cost to the U.S. of this ebola outbreak is going to be in the billions of dollars, it makes a lot of sense to fund research into vaccines to reduce the cost to us later on, regardless of what other countries are doing.