Tell me again what this has to do with the US specifically? Oh, that's right, NOTHING AT ALL.
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S.
I appreciate that some of you may have legal systems that have not been wholly captured by industry, but that doesn't help us any.
Of course you can. If you hire enough lawyers almost anything is legal. Notice how no one at Sony has gone to jail for hacking thousands of computers with their rootkit. However, if I just hacked one Sony computer, what do you expect would happen?
The US government plainly does not care about the law, or its citizens. All they care about is pleasing powerful corporations and well connected individuals.
You must be unfamiliar with Alex the Grey Parrot. He could combine abstract concepts like "blue" and "truck" to correctly identify a toy he had never seen before as a "blue truck".
The article is about a man going to jail for trolling. If you're arguing in favor of consequences for trolling in an article about a man going to jail for trolling, then it's reasonable to assume you're in favor of the consequences talked about in the article, unless you explicitly say otherwise.
One answer might be to decriminalize the fist to the face in cases of "sore provocation".
You can't think of a better idea than countering words with violence, and you're complaining about the mental age of trolls? That's rich.
take any Wikipedia article, turn off the images in your browser and try to think about the layout in general...a lot of work goes into MediaWiki to make that all happen
OK. I see content in the middle, separated into sections with a larger header. Navigation on the side, top and bottom. Looks a lot like Craigslist actually, except that Craigslist only has navigation on the top and bottom of its listing pages. I wouldn't call either of them ugly actually. What exactly should I have accomplished with this exercise?
Exactly. Powershell is not a replacement for bash, but for perl, python, or whatever other scripting language you like. Bash is a UI with some programming features thrown in to make it more powerful. Powershell is a programming language with some UI features thrown in as an afterthought.
Although I agree with you in principle, I think craigslist could be more aesthetically pleasing without sacrificing simplicity. I find I've gotten used to the ugliness of the site and have just tuned out the bad aspects
Really now, is Craigslist any uglier than, for instance, Slashdot? In what world is plain text ugly? God forbid you people ever read a book.
How does it make any sense for her to be a tank engine? What does the engine of a tank even look like? Now if the parody had involved a locomotive, that would have made sense.
It is sociopathic nonsense to believe that an unmoderated forum deserves in any way the trolling it gets.
What kind of nonsense is it to believe that we should throw people in jail for nothing other than typing? Should we jail every troll? How much are you willing to spend on law enforcement and prison infrastructure?
We can't win the War on Drug Users, which involves physical contraband that cannot be produced, transported, or consumed without leaving physical evidence. What makes you think we can win the war against ephemeral packets of mean spirited data?
The tools you would have to give the government to have even the tiniest effect on trolls would be far more dangerous than just living with the trolls.
Craigslist is extremely special. Very few people do simplicity anymore, and very few people do it right. Craigslist is a great example of what the rest of the web should be.
Is there a limit to how efficient calculation can get? Is there some minimum amount of energy required to do one computation? How do you measure "computations" anway, and what units would you use? Bits? Inverse bits?
I know, I know, transparent government and pure democracy -- but transparent government is not realistic and few really want pure democracy. The result of Wikileaks/Lulzsec/Anonymous is hurting the US, and the FBI, as a US institution, is labeling them as such.
Here you have it folks. The anti-Anonymous crowd is plainly anti-democratic.
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How do they calculate the density of these things? I get that they can detect the mass from the wobble of the star. How do they calculate the volume?
Tell me again what this has to do with the US specifically? Oh, that's right, NOTHING AT ALL.
I appreciate that some of you may have legal systems that have not been wholly captured by industry, but that doesn't help us any.
Of course you can. If you hire enough lawyers almost anything is legal. Notice how no one at Sony has gone to jail for hacking thousands of computers with their rootkit. However, if I just hacked one Sony computer, what do you expect would happen?
The US government plainly does not care about the law, or its citizens. All they care about is pleasing powerful corporations and well connected individuals.
Where are you going to find a good judge?
You must be unfamiliar with Alex the Grey Parrot. He could combine abstract concepts like "blue" and "truck" to correctly identify a toy he had never seen before as a "blue truck".
Microsoft is still as evil as ever. It's just that everyone else has caught up to their level of evil, so it doesn't seem as disproportionate anymore.
That's the most valuable demographic. The dim-witted are easy marks.
So what happens when Ziff Davis pays your favorite website to not just link Ziff's code, but host it themselves?
no overlapping windows? How am I suppose to quickly look at two open applications? or drag and drop items?
This is no problem. Just hit Mod4-space to cycle through tiling layouts until you see one you like.
It's not always the case with tech books. The slender lorises will never be obsolete.
I said nothing about jail.
The article is about a man going to jail for trolling. If you're arguing in favor of consequences for trolling in an article about a man going to jail for trolling, then it's reasonable to assume you're in favor of the consequences talked about in the article, unless you explicitly say otherwise.
One answer might be to decriminalize the fist to the face in cases of "sore provocation".
You can't think of a better idea than countering words with violence, and you're complaining about the mental age of trolls? That's rich.
take any Wikipedia article, turn off the images in your browser and try to think about the layout in general...a lot of work goes into MediaWiki to make that all happen
OK. I see content in the middle, separated into sections with a larger header. Navigation on the side, top and bottom. Looks a lot like Craigslist actually, except that Craigslist only has navigation on the top and bottom of its listing pages. I wouldn't call either of them ugly actually. What exactly should I have accomplished with this exercise?
It's a modern BBC Micro, not C64.
For comparison, English has about 500,000 words.
Exactly. Powershell is not a replacement for bash, but for perl, python, or whatever other scripting language you like. Bash is a UI with some programming features thrown in to make it more powerful. Powershell is a programming language with some UI features thrown in as an afterthought.
Turtle soup.
Although I agree with you in principle, I think craigslist could be more aesthetically pleasing without sacrificing simplicity. I find I've gotten used to the ugliness of the site and have just tuned out the bad aspects
Really now, is Craigslist any uglier than, for instance, Slashdot? In what world is plain text ugly? God forbid you people ever read a book.
Not every site could take it to the extreme that Craiglist does, but every site could be improved by removing a lot of clutter.
How does it make any sense for her to be a tank engine? What does the engine of a tank even look like? Now if the parody had involved a locomotive, that would have made sense.
It is sociopathic nonsense to believe that an unmoderated forum deserves in any way the trolling it gets.
What kind of nonsense is it to believe that we should throw people in jail for nothing other than typing? Should we jail every troll? How much are you willing to spend on law enforcement and prison infrastructure?
We can't win the War on Drug Users, which involves physical contraband that cannot be produced, transported, or consumed without leaving physical evidence. What makes you think we can win the war against ephemeral packets of mean spirited data?
The tools you would have to give the government to have even the tiniest effect on trolls would be far more dangerous than just living with the trolls.
Craigslist is extremely special. Very few people do simplicity anymore, and very few people do it right. Craigslist is a great example of what the rest of the web should be.
It's going to run really, really, really slow on 8 bit computers.
/. ate his "less than" sign. What he means to say is:
Where bash handles opening, reading, and piping the file into STDIN. No need to start another process.
Is there a limit to how efficient calculation can get? Is there some minimum amount of energy required to do one computation? How do you measure "computations" anway, and what units would you use? Bits? Inverse bits?
I know, I know, transparent government and pure democracy -- but transparent government is not realistic and few really want pure democracy. The result of Wikileaks/Lulzsec/Anonymous is hurting the US, and the FBI, as a US institution, is labeling them as such.
Here you have it folks. The anti-Anonymous crowd is plainly anti-democratic.