Cops arrest people for all sorts of boasting on the fBook. Pics of rolling around in a bed with drugs and money, or flashing a stolen gun, or just bragging about the new flatscreen you stole and are willing to sell.
The IRS doing it makes a lot of sense. I wonder if Zuck is worried what this info will do to his stock price.
If Greece had done something like that, maybe they could have kept their government going. It costs money to run a government, whether it is run well or not. It costs a lot more to live someplace without a government.
The GMO pushers fight labeling because they say "folks won't buy GMO products" but that's pure bullshit.
Consumers won't buy GMO products at the same price as non-GMO products. That's all.
Basic Adam Smith economics. Information results in lower prices for the consumer.
Monsanto is fighting against losing profits due to forced lower prices. That's why the fight is so nasty.
You are right--they aren't talking about the real issue.
What China did isn't too different than what some American companies did (I forget exactly who). There was a chat bot that listened to the stuff on the internet and quickly turned into a misogynistic foul-mouthed racist. They shut it down after 24 hours because of course we all know that's not what most Americans are like, and certainly not on chat sites on the internet, and especially not right here on Slashdot.
Same old same old. I remember folks wanting to make DOS prompts prettier and error messages brighter. They quickly ran into the 640K barrier. Bling sells (and costs).
As companies move to the cloud, expect more of the same. Sure, you can have the data but we own the url and the app. Or sure we'll give you the app code but exporting all the data into something convertible to a new cloud dbs provider is going to be expensive.
In other worlds, same old same old. Vendor-lockin isn't a new concept any more than fake news is (National Enquirer)
I wonder about replacing the clause: I promise not to disparage the company as long as the company promises to follow all laws.
Then if they cross that out and don't accept it, can we simply put them out of business? A business is supposed to follow all laws.
Or how about I'll keep the promises as long as I don't personally witness any lawbreaking. If that happens, then I am free from this particular contract. -Force- them to pass that thru the lawyers and see what happens.
I'm an old programmer and I have been trying to pass down my knowledge.
The cloud is a lie, learn to program in Perl instead.
You can do anything in COBOL way faster than you can program in Java.
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None of the younguns pay any attention, therefore, society is going downhill fast.
I don't understand why someone thinks the dialect would be "better" for certain applications. Humans, the basic version of intelligence, invented Mandarin, English, Arapaho, Swahili, Inuit, etc., just to share ideas. Note that if there is an "untranslatable" concept in a specific language (usually proposed as a far eastern one), then that means the only way you could possibly understand it is to be born speaking that language. If you could learn the concept while growing up speaking English, Russian, or Australian, then that means it _is_ translatable.
In other words, the concept of untranslatable means the speaker believes in ultra-conservative tribalism where genetics drives everything. We'd probably be better off learning to translate Facebook gibberish into Spanglish rather than restricting the words to Olde Englyshe style.
Pirated stuff is obviously illegal. If you're in Canada. And a lot of other places.
Wine is illegal in Saudi Arabia (and many other countries).
Free speech is illegal in China, Russia and many other places.
Democracy is illegal in North Korea.
Arizona is absurd. I just read where they are going to plant a zillion trees in order to cool Phoenix down. In different issue of the same magazine, I read about the severe water shortages and high cost of the Central Arizona Project. I thought trees needed water.
Damn. That's why the Republicans passed that law allowing silencers. Because of the listening ears. I knew there had to be a better reason than simply being an NRA recruiting tactic.
The article doesn't actually say chrorpracty doesn't work. What it says is that the very top, most well-known chiropracters, push other sorts of nonsense (alkaline diet, probably crystals).
How about "real" doctors or "real" psychiatrists. The normals ones don't promote crap. But we're not talking about average chriopracters either. How about the doctors that have their own tv show (Phil) or that get on Oprah? Those well-known "real" doctors are always pushing something that's not always actually medical.
We combine waaaay to omuch stuff into categories when discussing intelligence and success.
Take STEM for example. Engineers and mathematicians have two completely different ways of doing stuff, of viewing reality. That's why it's hard to decide which kinds of quirks indicate creativity or intelligence and which indicate "mental illness." (Homosexuality used to be classified as a mental illness so that's probably not a scientific criterion).
Progress is considered a mental illness by true conservatives who don't want technology or society or facts to change, even as they take full advantage of anything new.
In Analog science fiction mag, it is commonly stated that first man to control fire was probably burned at the stake by priests.
If you--the inventor--don't think things are good enough right now, then that's perceived as a slam against the folks ostensibly "in charge."
Parents freak out, not doctors. Get your cause-effect right. Doctors feel an obligation to tell you every possble thing that could go wrong, especially focusing on the worst outcomes. That's enough to freak you out.
And even if there is nothing wrong, they'll show you where your child is on develpmetn charts and all the parents see is where their child is NOT A-plus.
Too short--growth hormones. Too fat, baby exercises. Too thin, dump the exercises. Parents are the problem, not doctors,
Nico Bellic: "How come all the bridges are closed?"
Cousin Roman: "Terrorism."
Security. That's why we can't let you install mods on your very own personal _gaming_ system. It might start world war III or collapse the stock market, WE JUST DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!!! so turn everything off.
Bell labs actually had video phones working in 1963. There were concerns about etiquette, combing your hair before answering the phones, junque like that. It was expensive--you neded a vidphone at both ends--and no one could see if it would ever catch on.
I wrote a cassette tape backup system for pcs a long time ago and was also on the help desk. I was talking to one of the users about something else and they just mentioned that the new backup procedure (which handled multiple kinds of units) was really nice and fast. It finished in less than 2 seconds!?!
If the tape unit was not found at all, not plugged in, then the software failed with a bright Success! message. I did not think to test not plugging in the unit.
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Cops arrest people for all sorts of boasting on the fBook. Pics of rolling around in a bed with drugs and money, or flashing a stolen gun, or just bragging about the new flatscreen you stole and are willing to sell.
The IRS doing it makes a lot of sense. I wonder if Zuck is worried what this info will do to his stock price.
If Greece had done something like that, maybe they could have kept their government going. It costs money to run a government, whether it is run well or not. It costs a lot more to live someplace without a government.
The world's fisheries have _already_ collapsed and we're all just fighting over the dregs now. Read Cod by Kurlansky.
It said 'later on stage', so they might have learned after the fact and decided to fight then.
Of course, it's hard to imagine they would be completely oblivious to what was likely a controversial discussion...
Well, we are talking about SalesFarce.
The GMO pushers fight labeling because they say "folks won't buy GMO products" but that's pure bullshit.
Consumers won't buy GMO products at the same price as non-GMO products. That's all.
Basic Adam Smith economics. Information results in lower prices for the consumer.
Monsanto is fighting against losing profits due to forced lower prices. That's why the fight is so nasty.
You are right--they aren't talking about the real issue.
What China did isn't too different than what some American companies did (I forget exactly who). There was a chat bot that listened to the stuff on the internet and quickly turned into a misogynistic foul-mouthed racist. They shut it down after 24 hours because of course we all know that's not what most Americans are like, and certainly not on chat sites on the internet, and especially not right here on Slashdot.
Same old same old. I remember folks wanting to make DOS prompts prettier and error messages brighter. They quickly ran into the 640K barrier. Bling sells (and costs).
Six figures doesn't sound like much to defend the planet.
I wonder what the aliens would pay.
As companies move to the cloud, expect more of the same. Sure, you can have the data but we own the url and the app. Or sure we'll give you the app code but exporting all the data into something convertible to a new cloud dbs provider is going to be expensive.
In other worlds, same old same old. Vendor-lockin isn't a new concept any more than fake news is (National Enquirer)
I wonder about replacing the clause: I promise not to disparage the company as long as the company promises to follow all laws.
Then if they cross that out and don't accept it, can we simply put them out of business? A business is supposed to follow all laws.
Or how about I'll keep the promises as long as I don't personally witness any lawbreaking. If that happens, then I am free from this particular contract. -Force- them to pass that thru the lawyers and see what happens.
I'm an old programmer and I have been trying to pass down my knowledge.
The cloud is a lie, learn to program in Perl instead.
You can do anything in COBOL way faster than you can program in Java.
1110110010100010010111000100010010010
None of the younguns pay any attention, therefore, society is going downhill fast.
That's not how copyright works. Copyright is not a trademark. They can sue in 50 years and have exactly the same claim as they do today.
Did you read the part about the SDK documentation enabling hackers? That's an important fact.
I don't understand why someone thinks the dialect would be "better" for certain applications. Humans, the basic version of intelligence, invented Mandarin, English, Arapaho, Swahili, Inuit, etc., just to share ideas. Note that if there is an "untranslatable" concept in a specific language (usually proposed as a far eastern one), then that means the only way you could possibly understand it is to be born speaking that language. If you could learn the concept while growing up speaking English, Russian, or Australian, then that means it _is_ translatable.
In other words, the concept of untranslatable means the speaker believes in ultra-conservative tribalism where genetics drives everything. We'd probably be better off learning to translate Facebook gibberish into Spanglish rather than restricting the words to Olde Englyshe style.
Pirated stuff is obviously illegal. If you're in Canada. And a lot of other places.
Wine is illegal in Saudi Arabia (and many other countries).
Free speech is illegal in China, Russia and many other places.
Democracy is illegal in North Korea.
Arizona is absurd. I just read where they are going to plant a zillion trees in order to cool Phoenix down. In different issue of the same magazine, I read about the severe water shortages and high cost of the Central Arizona Project. I thought trees needed water.
Damn. That's why the Republicans passed that law allowing silencers. Because of the listening ears. I knew there had to be a better reason than simply being an NRA recruiting tactic.
The article doesn't actually say chrorpracty doesn't work. What it says is that the very top, most well-known chiropracters, push other sorts of nonsense (alkaline diet, probably crystals).
How about "real" doctors or "real" psychiatrists. The normals ones don't promote crap. But we're not talking about average chriopracters either. How about the doctors that have their own tv show (Phil) or that get on Oprah? Those well-known "real" doctors are always pushing something that's not always actually medical.
Apples and oranges. Cherry-picked examples.
We combine waaaay to omuch stuff into categories when discussing intelligence and success.
Take STEM for example. Engineers and mathematicians have two completely different ways of doing stuff, of viewing reality. That's why it's hard to decide which kinds of quirks indicate creativity or intelligence and which indicate "mental illness." (Homosexuality used to be classified as a mental illness so that's probably not a scientific criterion).
Progress is considered a mental illness by true conservatives who don't want technology or society or facts to change, even as they take full advantage of anything new.
In Analog science fiction mag, it is commonly stated that first man to control fire was probably burned at the stake by priests.
If you--the inventor--don't think things are good enough right now, then that's perceived as a slam against the folks ostensibly "in charge."
Parents freak out, not doctors. Get your cause-effect right. Doctors feel an obligation to tell you every possble thing that could go wrong, especially focusing on the worst outcomes. That's enough to freak you out.
And even if there is nothing wrong, they'll show you where your child is on develpmetn charts and all the parents see is where their child is NOT A-plus.
Too short--growth hormones. Too fat, baby exercises. Too thin, dump the exercises. Parents are the problem, not doctors,
Nico Bellic: "How come all the bridges are closed?"
Cousin Roman: "Terrorism."
Security. That's why we can't let you install mods on your very own personal _gaming_ system. It might start world war III or collapse the stock market, WE JUST DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!!! so turn everything off.
Bell labs actually had video phones working in 1963. There were concerns about etiquette, combing your hair before answering the phones, junque like that. It was expensive--you neded a vidphone at both ends--and no one could see if it would ever catch on.
Now we have skype.
Gmail has automatic spam-blocking built-in. Whoever posted that they don't is probably some fBook flunkie.
I wrote a cassette tape backup system for pcs a long time ago and was also on the help desk. I was talking to one of the users about something else and they just mentioned that the new backup procedure (which handled multiple kinds of units) was really nice and fast. It finished in less than 2 seconds!?!
If the tape unit was not found at all, not plugged in, then the software failed with a bright Success! message. I did not think to test not plugging in the unit.
I'm one of those senior developers. I only delete all the data about once or twice a decade now. Live and learn.