When the ACLU starts defending all the bill of rights including the 2nd amendment then I will donate.
This is a mischaracterization of their position. The ACLU does defend the 2nd amendment. It's just that they have a different interpretation of it than you.
The ACLU doesn't want private ownership of guns.
This isn't true, either. They want protection of American Civil Liberties. Is private ownership a right? They say no, so they don't defend it. However, they don't argue the inverse position. I.e., just because private ownership isn't protected doesn't mean they would fight against it. They don't get into the enforcement of regulations.
You're that guy. The one that makes everybody else miserable. Grow a personality you fucking corp monkey.
Yeah, I'm that guy. I'm that guy that wrote software for Class III medical devices. While I can't say if the Siemens controllers are used in similar types of devices, stupid, fucking morons (apparently like you) make life really fucking difficult for people like me. We did work with German products, by the way, and spent a significant amount of time fixing their shit up. (I'm in the U.S.) While that may just be one sample of a German company (we found no Easter eggs), it's the general principle here I'm griping about.
No, Easter eggs (in software) are not cool. They cause problems in many ways.
Once discovered, they cause embarrassment to the employer.
They're a waste of resources (money) to the employer. The waste includes: time and money to actually implement or at a minimum opportunity cost for not working on real products, money spent removing the eggs, money spent repairing field items or possibly recall.
If discovered, the employee faces potentially significant consequences. Obviously, this is likely termination, but depending on the length of employment and other facts, this could also severely affect future employment opportunities.
This may do irreparable harm to the reputation of the employer. This could be long-lasting, too, as evidenced by your recollection of the Excel egg.
The egg itself may be a source of a security vulnerability.
The egg itself may have bugs and (besides a security vulnerability as mentioned above) cause a crash of the system.
Italian artist Sara Pichelli, who designed Spider-Man's new look, added: 'Maybe sooner or later a black or gay - or both - hero will be considered something absolutely normal.’
How about you make a NEW superhero that is black or gay, or whatever, and for the superheroes that I grew up with just leave them the fuck alone! Where's your goddamn originality? Of course this is a fucking gimmick to make money, you stupid asshole!
Even more if homeowners realize that, with proper landscaping and insulation, it is possible maintain a very comfortable temperature with the windows open and air conditioner off even when it is 90 degrees outside.
Nope, impossible here in Florida. The high temperatures coupled with the high humidity make not running the air conditioner not an option. Anyone who says otherwise is a fucking moron. You can get away with murder here in Central Florida, but not without an air conditioner.
I don't mind allowing the option for anonymity for those who need or want it, but I also want the ability to disable viewing anonymous drivel; which a large percentage of the time (IMO) these are links to goatse and rickrolls. For instance, here on/. I disable viewing posts scored 0 or less and don't even look at AC posts until someone else has gone through the pain to verify that the post isn't crap.
In other words, I fully support others' right to free speech and anonymity, but I even more desire my right to not fucking hear it.
I don't argue that it would be a similar amount, and I wouldn't mind if non-U.S. slashdotters would post a similar comment on stories talking about AT&T. Does BT have a similar presence in the U.S. as AT&T does in the U.K.?
BT = British Telecommunications. But, I had to open up the court order PDF to find this. I'm not sure if you can even find what it means on their website.
I'm not familiar with UK laws, what exactly did their spokesperson do that was illegal. I know "free speech" isn't as much a thing there, but how does saying things on the behalf of a group make you criminal?
From TFA, he was launching "denial-of-service attacks against a number of high profile websites including The Sun, the CIA, SOCA, and the US Senate." TFA also mentions a Computer Misuse Act.
.... China, last I checked, limited the number children parents can have to at least one or two children (twins) and encouraged more women than boys.
....anyone caught with more than two kids will go to jail...
I suggest you start looking things up before commenting. There's indeed a restriction, but (a) it's a fine, not jail time, and (b) as with most Asian countries, the preference is for boys, not girls. The "induce an abortion" comment seems to just be a troll.
Just because he fights for what is right, it doesn't necessarily mean that he wants to put his future at risk.
That's fine and I agree that it wouldn't likely affect the situation (this depends, however, as a lot of people do not respond at all to anonymous messages--even here we call them cowards don't we?). However, my reply was strictly regarding the balls comment. Posting anonymously does not indicate courage. It's still good to make the comment, but that certainly doesn't mean the author has any balls. That said, molnarcs probably intended that to be more attributable to the writing style than to the author.
It's a fucking CUBE, why do you need to specify the size of all the dimensions? One dimension is enough for crying out loud. Do you really think you can have a 3x4x5 cube?!
Well actually, it already happened years ago (thousands, millions?). So soon may already be in the past... depending on where we are at the time....
my monkey brain hurts
Do you not realize that Betelgeuse is only 640 light-years away? I.e., if it went supernova more than 640 years ago, we would know? Monkey brain indeed.
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When the ACLU starts defending all the bill of rights including the 2nd amendment then I will donate.
This is a mischaracterization of their position. The ACLU does defend the 2nd amendment. It's just that they have a different interpretation of it than you.
The ACLU doesn't want private ownership of guns.
This isn't true, either. They want protection of American Civil Liberties. Is private ownership a right? They say no, so they don't defend it. However, they don't argue the inverse position. I.e., just because private ownership isn't protected doesn't mean they would fight against it. They don't get into the enforcement of regulations.
And no, [executing] them won't help, either.
I'm willing to give it a go.
You're that guy. The one that makes everybody else miserable. Grow a personality you fucking corp monkey.
Yeah, I'm that guy. I'm that guy that wrote software for Class III medical devices. While I can't say if the Siemens controllers are used in similar types of devices, stupid, fucking morons (apparently like you) make life really fucking difficult for people like me. We did work with German products, by the way, and spent a significant amount of time fixing their shit up. (I'm in the U.S.) While that may just be one sample of a German company (we found no Easter eggs), it's the general principle here I'm griping about.
This has nothing to do with having a personality.
Easter eggs are cool
No, Easter eggs (in software) are not cool. They cause problems in many ways.
Italian artist Sara Pichelli, who designed Spider-Man's new look, added: 'Maybe sooner or later a black or gay - or both - hero will be considered something absolutely normal.’
How about you make a NEW superhero that is black or gay, or whatever, and for the superheroes that I grew up with just leave them the fuck alone! Where's your goddamn originality? Of course this is a fucking gimmick to make money, you stupid asshole!
Well, we do have our 3 days of winter when the weather drops down into the 50s.
Even more if homeowners realize that, with proper landscaping and insulation, it is possible maintain a very comfortable temperature with the windows open and air conditioner off even when it is 90 degrees outside.
Nope, impossible here in Florida. The high temperatures coupled with the high humidity make not running the air conditioner not an option. Anyone who says otherwise is a fucking moron. You can get away with murder here in Central Florida, but not without an air conditioner.
I don't mind allowing the option for anonymity for those who need or want it, but I also want the ability to disable viewing anonymous drivel; which a large percentage of the time (IMO) these are links to goatse and rickrolls. For instance, here on /. I disable viewing posts scored 0 or less and don't even look at AC posts until someone else has gone through the pain to verify that the post isn't crap.
In other words, I fully support others' right to free speech and anonymity, but I even more desire my right to not fucking hear it.
I don't argue that it would be a similar amount, and I wouldn't mind if non-U.S. slashdotters would post a similar comment on stories talking about AT&T. Does BT have a similar presence in the U.S. as AT&T does in the U.K.?
BT = British Telecommunications. But, I had to open up the court order PDF to find this. I'm not sure if you can even find what it means on their website.
I'm not familiar with UK laws, what exactly did their spokesperson do that was illegal. I know "free speech" isn't as much a thing there, but how does saying things on the behalf of a group make you criminal?
From TFA, he was launching "denial-of-service attacks against a number of high profile websites including The Sun, the CIA, SOCA, and the US Senate." TFA also mentions a Computer Misuse Act.
.... China, last I checked, limited the number children parents can have to at least one or two children (twins) and encouraged more women than boys.
....anyone caught with more than two kids will go to jail ...
I suggest you start looking things up before commenting. There's indeed a restriction, but (a) it's a fine, not jail time, and (b) as with most Asian countries, the preference is for boys, not girls. The "induce an abortion" comment seems to just be a troll.
... but in return did you get a 8 billion tax credit from taxpayers?
This is completely fucking irrelevant and a separate point entirely if you want to say the U.S. tax codes are broken.
If I could see the page, I might comment on it!
It's hard to believe, but how many of you fuckers were even born yet in the early 1980s?!
Doesn't their "three-year roadmap" conflict with the company name?
Agreed. I thought I was reading The Onion.
Nah, they'd never do that.
Just because he fights for what is right, it doesn't necessarily mean that he wants to put his future at risk.
That's fine and I agree that it wouldn't likely affect the situation (this depends, however, as a lot of people do not respond at all to anonymous messages--even here we call them cowards don't we?). However, my reply was strictly regarding the balls comment. Posting anonymously does not indicate courage. It's still good to make the comment, but that certainly doesn't mean the author has any balls. That said, molnarcs probably intended that to be more attributable to the writing style than to the author.
Having balls would mean that he put his name out there. Fighting anonymously is not showing bravery.
It's a fucking CUBE, why do you need to specify the size of all the dimensions? One dimension is enough for crying out loud. Do you really think you can have a 3x4x5 cube?!
Let's add those who use auto-tune to the list of people who get deposited on the bottom of the ocean.
Mod +1 Funny
Indeed, only about 25PB are stored every year from the LHC.
Well actually, it already happened years ago (thousands, millions?). So soon may already be in the past... depending on where we are at the time....
my monkey brain hurts
Do you not realize that Betelgeuse is only 640 light-years away? I.e., if it went supernova more than 640 years ago, we would know? Monkey brain indeed.