One thing occurs to me: BP can look towards limiting liability and fixing the problem at the same time.
Now, I'm not sure if BP is doing all that it can, but I think often people see a company doing one thing and forget that it could be doing other things in parallel.
The fact that something may not work is not a valid reason not to try. I could understand the objections if the failure would result in catastrophe, but I think the mantra "it can't hurt (much) to try" applies.
Of course, it might wake Cthulhu, in which case: oil is the least of our worries.
The point of the GP is that Britain/Poland/ETC should have declared war on Germany earlier (during the invasion of the sudetenland, for example). Essentially, you're saying Britain should not have preemptively struck Hitler, which (considering hindsight) is asinine.
I'm not sure why Apple apologists think it is the media's responsibility to protect Apple's trade secrets.
It is not reasonable to expect other people to guard your secrets. Don't put them out into the open.
Bringing litigation against Gawker Media for trade secret violations would be an abuse of the legal system and, I think, irresponsible. Apple would essentially be attempting to acquire compensation for misplacing their own device.
Intense state secrecy and lack of transparency is the sole reason the Cold War carried on for as long as it did, resulting in probably the closest the globe has ever come to nuclear holocaust.
Which is to say: go fuck yourself, Pope Benedict XVI.
Even when they could be honest, accurate, and interesting the Slashdot editors simply don't bother. Why?
I think the fault lies with TFA and its liberal usage of the word hacking. To be fair, I don't think it's the Soulskill's responsibility to rewrite the article in a more accurate manner, but a case could be made that such an article should never have been posted in the first place.
DmncAtrny> I will write on a huge cement block "by accepting this brick through your window, you accept it as is and agree to my disclaimer all warranties, express or implied, as well as disclaimers of all liability, direct, indirect, consequential or incidental, that may arrive from the installation of this brick into your window" DmncAtrny> And then hurl it through the window of a Sony officer DmncAtrny> and run like hell
I think you are confused. The locations of violent crime (in this case rape) is simply presented to the public electronically, through Google Maps.
This is just parsing existing data regarding crime to an easier to display form and presenting it to the public. There's nothing wrong with informing the public about crime, where it has occurred, what happened, etc. It is, in fact, a good thing.
Capitalism requires eternal vigilance in order to ensure that one source doesn't become the only source of every product or service.
Laissez-faire capitalism, which I think most would consider "as capitalist as you can get", by it's very definition requires no regulation -- which is what I believe you are advocating when you posit that "Capitalism requires eternal vigilance." So, I think it's certainly fair to say that arbitrarily breaking up companies based on size is anti-capitalist, or at least less capitalist than the alternative.
Furthermore, the only "bad monopoly" is one which raises insurmountable barriers to entry, something which I believe to be impossible without government backing. In fact, natural monopolies are often beneficial to the economy (being able to produce cheaper goods and sell them at competitive prices).
People who associate monopoly with bad really need to be sent back to high school economics. Monopolies are a good thing, provided that the threat of competition exists.
The EFF has a parody video up about this type of thing happening. It seems to have been posted before Youtube started pulling them down, so it's almost prophetic.
No.
A meme is not a fashion or a fad. Fad is the proper term.
The term Internet meme, pronounced meem, is used to describe a concept that spreads quickly via the Internet.[1] The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although this concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.
Have each student compile and install Gentoo -- Desktop Environment, PULSE/ALSA, X, Kernel, everything.
It will prove excruciating for the students, and it's unlikely that any of them will ever have a perfectly functional install -- but, oh, it will be *very amusing* for the rest of us.
The lack of a tabbed interface in OOWord renders it nigh unusable, IMO.
OO needs to stop trying to play catch-up to MS Office and start focusing on meaningful innovation and usability.
Damsel: Help me, please! My husband is having a heart attack! 911: This call cannot be processed until you upgrade your phones firmware. For more information, press 1. To speak with a technician, press 2.
Anyone else find it so funny that a news story about anonymity is suggested to slashdot by anonymous coward?
I think it's the best form of joke... one with an epic amount of unexpected expectedness.
If you think that's funny, just think...
Every Anonymous Coward posting about this article will be an Anonymous Coward posting about an Anonymous Coward's anonymity story. A story by an Anonymous Coward for Anonymous Cowards about Anonymous Cowards. Anonymous anonymous anonymous.
Natural monopolies exist for a reason and there is nothing inherently wrong with a monopoly.
The threat of competition is enough to keep a natural monopoly competitive. If said company becomes too abusive, new businesses will be profitable regardless of entry barriers.
Ethical concerns aside, it would be extremely interesting to see how censorship on this large of a scale is implemented.
I wonder how effective automated modern systems will be at filtering, and how much of the censorship will have to rely on human employees. Total cost? Effectiveness? Cultural implications?
I find Bing horribly annoying simply because I anticipate certain results when I enter a phrase into Google, but Bing returns results that I don't want -- simply because I'm so used to what I would get if I Googled it instead.
I am unable to actually critique Bing as a search engine because I'm constantly thrown off by the search results. I'm not sure if Bing simply has an inferior search algorithm, or if it's simply myself equating different with bad.
Slashdot Mirror
One thing occurs to me: BP can look towards limiting liability and fixing the problem at the same time.
Now, I'm not sure if BP is doing all that it can, but I think often people see a company doing one thing and forget that it could be doing other things in parallel.
The fact that something may not work is not a valid reason not to try. I could understand the objections if the failure would result in catastrophe, but I think the mantra "it can't hurt (much) to try" applies.
Of course, it might wake Cthulhu, in which case: oil is the least of our worries.
The point of the GP is that Britain/Poland/ETC should have declared war on Germany earlier (during the invasion of the sudetenland, for example). Essentially, you're saying Britain should not have preemptively struck Hitler, which (considering hindsight) is asinine.
You can build it from source here. The instructions are pretty straightforward.
I'm not sure why Apple apologists think it is the media's responsibility to protect Apple's trade secrets.
It is not reasonable to expect other people to guard your secrets. Don't put them out into the open.
Bringing litigation against Gawker Media for trade secret violations would be an abuse of the legal system and, I think, irresponsible. Apple would essentially be attempting to acquire compensation for misplacing their own device.
The largest black hole discovered to date (AFAIK) is 18 times larger than the one in TFA.
Source.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/619/
Intense state secrecy and lack of transparency is the sole reason the Cold War carried on for as long as it did, resulting in probably the closest the globe has ever come to nuclear holocaust.
Which is to say: go fuck yourself, Pope Benedict XVI.
Even when they could be honest, accurate, and interesting the Slashdot editors simply don't bother. Why?
I think the fault lies with TFA and its liberal usage of the word hacking. To be fair, I don't think it's the Soulskill's responsibility to rewrite the article in a more accurate manner, but a case could be made that such an article should never have been posted in the first place.
This kind of draconian censorship is unacceptable. Go tell Comedy Central why you'll no longer be watching:
http://www.comedycentral.com/help/questionsCC.jhtml
Oblig bash.org quote:
DmncAtrny> I will write on a huge cement block "by accepting this brick through your window, you accept it as is and agree to my disclaimer all warranties, express or implied, as well as disclaimers of all liability, direct, indirect, consequential or incidental, that may arrive from the installation of this brick into your window"
DmncAtrny> And then hurl it through the window of a Sony officer
DmncAtrny> and run like hell
I think you are confused. The locations of violent crime (in this case rape) is simply presented to the public electronically, through Google Maps. This is just parsing existing data regarding crime to an easier to display form and presenting it to the public. There's nothing wrong with informing the public about crime, where it has occurred, what happened, etc. It is, in fact, a good thing.
Capitalism requires eternal vigilance in order to ensure that one source doesn't become the only source of every product or service.
Laissez-faire capitalism, which I think most would consider "as capitalist as you can get", by it's very definition requires no regulation -- which is what I believe you are advocating when you posit that "Capitalism requires eternal vigilance." So, I think it's certainly fair to say that arbitrarily breaking up companies based on size is anti-capitalist, or at least less capitalist than the alternative.
Furthermore, the only "bad monopoly" is one which raises insurmountable barriers to entry, something which I believe to be impossible without government backing. In fact, natural monopolies are often beneficial to the economy (being able to produce cheaper goods and sell them at competitive prices).
People who associate monopoly with bad really need to be sent back to high school economics. Monopolies are a good thing, provided that the threat of competition exists.
The EFF has a parody video up about this type of thing happening. It seems to have been posted before Youtube started pulling them down, so it's almost prophetic.
The clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzUoWkbNLe8&feature=player_embedded
No. A meme is not a fashion or a fad. Fad is the proper term.
The term Internet meme, pronounced meem, is used to describe a concept that spreads quickly via the Internet.[1] The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although this concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme
Have each student compile and install Gentoo -- Desktop Environment, PULSE/ALSA, X, Kernel, everything. It will prove excruciating for the students, and it's unlikely that any of them will ever have a perfectly functional install -- but, oh, it will be *very amusing* for the rest of us.
The lack of a tabbed interface in OOWord renders it nigh unusable, IMO. OO needs to stop trying to play catch-up to MS Office and start focusing on meaningful innovation and usability.
Damsel: Help me, please! My husband is having a heart attack!
911: This call cannot be processed until you upgrade your phones firmware. For more information, press 1. To speak with a technician, press 2.
It's the difference between all iPhones being locked and some Android phones being locked by Rogers.
Or:
ALL ELEPHANTS ARE NAMED PHIL, ERGO EVERY PHIL IS AN ELEPHANT.
Anyone else find it so funny that a news story about anonymity is suggested to slashdot by anonymous coward?
I think it's the best form of joke... one with an epic amount of unexpected expectedness.
If you think that's funny, just think...
Every Anonymous Coward posting about this article will be an Anonymous Coward posting about an Anonymous Coward's anonymity story. A story by an Anonymous Coward for Anonymous Cowards about Anonymous Cowards. Anonymous anonymous anonymous.
You forgot "get off my lawn!"
Natural monopolies exist for a reason and there is nothing inherently wrong with a monopoly.
The threat of competition is enough to keep a natural monopoly competitive. If said company becomes too abusive, new businesses will be profitable regardless of entry barriers.
"...perhaps at the same time, we can try to remember that Slashdot is an American site, and the plurality of readers are American."
Satisfied?
Ethical concerns aside, it would be extremely interesting to see how censorship on this large of a scale is implemented.
I wonder how effective automated modern systems will be at filtering, and how much of the censorship will have to rely on human employees. Total cost? Effectiveness? Cultural implications?
I find Bing horribly annoying simply because I anticipate certain results when I enter a phrase into Google, but Bing returns results that I don't want -- simply because I'm so used to what I would get if I Googled it instead.
I am unable to actually critique Bing as a search engine because I'm constantly thrown off by the search results. I'm not sure if Bing simply has an inferior search algorithm, or if it's simply myself equating different with bad.