That you have children that you are raising that you think that the United States of American government is a bad thing, wow.
It was not so long ago that we viewed what we did here as good. I know there were, and continue to be, a lot of problems. But we fix them and move on. What you and those like you espouse is that we can not fix things. That our own government is a problem.
I am sad for you. And also I will oppose you and your ilk, because you are wrong.
I'm a little shocked that there are so many general shrugs in this thread at what she did. Everything between oh well it is Facebook, what do you expect? To that it is FOR THE CHILDREN!
I may have missed something but that was my 1st thought upon opening this thread was what is the legality here? And it took a lot of comments before anything was said to that point. Le sigh.
All the Cxx's out there are looking at the NEXT quarter, calculating their bonuses in their heads, working their stock profile...in short being the sociopaths that we have pushed them to be. The quarter after next? Who cares! That might not even be their problem.
Sure they sit though the meetings where the people who are thinking about beyond this quarter. That person who needs to make sure the business stays alive so they can just continue getting paychecks. And if it is not too much trouble and or in their interest the Cxx's will try to keep it all going.
But those Cxx's that not only are getting huge paydays every quarter above and beyond their nominal salaries are not going to try and use their immense, if we don't pay these guys record amounts of cash they are going to leave us! we would be doooooooomed they are that much smarter than you and me, but they have to worry about keeping some of the money also diverted in to our Gov. Not in the form of taxes. Lol. Just bribe everyone. That takes plenty of their time up as well.
While I've heard that the N900 was indeed a very nice piece of hardware, keep in mind it was just an upgrade of what had already been a line of such devices. My N810 is sitting right next to me and it as well is very much a full on computer in a mobile form factor. I can SSH into it right now, setup a daemon, and have the little guy serving web pages. Of course I don't since that would be silly but the fact that it could be done is what makes that line of devices what they are.
And make no mistake it is not like we have lost the ability to build such devices, rather when Apple changed the game in showing how profitable their walled garden approach would be the market shifted. Given the option between something open and something fully controllable the suits are going to pick the latter every day.
So instead of having Maemo (and or the subsequent versions of something like that) we have a less open Android platform as what remains of that idea.
Now that this thread is pretty much over I just wanted to add for the record a retort to this troll.
It's information you need to lead a normal day to day life.
Seriously? I guess I better tell all my finance, lawyer, and other friends who never even took Calc I, let alone anything beyond like some high school physical science classes, that they are all doing it wrong.
That without college Physics I and II, that without college Chemistry, that without Calc III with Differential Equations that they are failures. That law degree that is sitting there on your wall, throw it away good sir and mam. You need to go back to school to learn more hard science to lean a normal day to day life says the 7 digit UID/. poster! (Can you even count that high? You fitly lib art major. You did not even take college Calc!)
BTW they changed the curriculum at UF idiot. What happened when I was there was only because before PCs had not been around. If you wanted to play with computers before that time you pretty much had to be an EE because of the hardware at the time. But it makes no sense that someone needs and engineering level of background to write a web page.
The CISE department though is where all of those students took their 'computery' classes, most of which overlapped between degrees. Lots of opportunities for inter-college teams and projects, which was great.
And I'm sure the degrees far outside of the CIS department. Why would you not want your computer geeks teaching the basic computer classes to your MBAs (shudder), your Law Department, basically every department outside of Engineering will likely not expect their students to having the same level of basic IT knowledge that and Engineering student might have. And even then there are likely to be exceptions.
Not that I have any new information but after thinking about what was said in TFA it seems like a pure cost cutting move due to budget cuts.
And again for those who missed it, the UF athletic department ADDS to the university's bottom line. They are just now getting to keep a bit more of the money they generate. If we want to have the argument that they should fund more of the university's academics that is fine. But remember, adds.
Speaking as a Gator who went to school back when if you wanted to study computers you had to go into the Engineering School it sounds like they are moving backwards. As in like when I went to UF if you wanted to study CIS you had to take Calc 1-3 (ok...most of us were fine with that), Chem 1-2 (hum...), and Physics 1-2 (gahhh?), along with some other very non-CIS related but much more related Engineering classes. In effect if you wanted to learn to be a programmer, network engineer, or even a web designer you had to have the background of a EE.
It was total overkill and drove a lot of students away from the department. But at the time, late 80's-early 90's, the whole PC thing was still relatively brand new so that a large institution like UF had not adapted its curriculum was no huge shock. Disappointing yes but not all that shocking.
Now TFA is very light on details on how what the new curriculum for students would be. If they are indeed going back to asking CIS students to have EE level requirements. So this might just be a bit of good ol' yellow journalism. But it is indeed worth of some attention such that we can full details on how and why this is happening.
But you have to look at it from the cop's perspective: they don't see a dispute with a good person and a bad person. It's almost invariably two lying assholes, and if one person looks honest, he's probably just a better liar.
The problem is that it is worse than that. A cops motivation is not tied to you being innocent, rather once they make the decision to arrest someone they now have put their career on the line to make sure that person is found GUILTY.
And look, to those good LEOs who actually do care about justice thank you. But again as a rule once a cop decides to arrest to you they are basically on board with the fact that you are GUILTY and their job is not to protect your rights, not to protect you even, it is to make sure that when their yearly review comes around that they had that collar in their jacket.
It is still a pretty big load of crap. I have a Personal BB package on an older voice package. It is $30 extra a month that includes 'unlimited' data/text/SMS. And while I don't use it all a lot I do make use of all of it. I've also used more recent BB's and by in large they are the same type of thing. To my veteran eye the total data use between my older fully a smartphone BB and a newer one can not be all that big a delta; if there is any at all.
And yet Sprint wants me to pay more a month for a newer phone because 'it uses more data'. Bullshit. They just want to jack up the rates across the board and are using an excuse that they don't have to provide any metrics for. Look at the shiney consumer! Lookie! That rate increase? Oh well you want the shiney don't you? Don't you! Goooood boy!
The thing is not only could I fix my fridge if I so desired, I can shop around to see who is going to give me the best price on fixing my fridge. I don't have to only call Maytag and be beholden to whatever they say. I can get Joe's Fix-It shop to do it for me.
And further me or Joe fixing the fridge is not being classified by FUCKING FBI AS A POTENTIAL "SUSPICIOUS" PERSON!
Having a tablet when you are at home or someplace for a while is just like having a larger nice smartphone. They are very similar and that is why Apple did so well as the technology that we have allows for such devices. Not to take anything away from Apple for putting some very good polish on it...along with their walled garden.
Anyway having a tablet when you are at home allows you to leave your cell charging while still having that type of functionality at hand. And there are a pretty wide array of form factors. If even the smallest of the newer ones bother you you can always look for a n810 and know that you are running Linux then too. (It will not be fast thou heh, not at all.)
Keep in mind that those who view tablets as a way of life hate sitting at normal computers. They don't want have to be asked why they can't output more than a soundbites worth of thought at a time. I mean if it is Facebook that only expects a soundbite of information at a time along with Farmville, hey game on!
Ok I went over the top a bit there to make a point but my bigger point is that tablets have a purpose. It's not a grand purpose but they do have one.
This is a tough one and we just had that discussion in another thread about how Plea Bargains are used and their varying degrees of good vs bad. (The later being a huge discussion as well.)
Without knowing the details of how it went down in court, my guess is that he showed little to no remorse of his actions. And that right there is not good. What we try to do with laws sometimes is course correct the overall behavior of our society with them. Some are pretty well agreed upon and we don't have to have this debate: IE rape, murder, torture. (And sadly of course that last one has been thrown back into the mix of 'up for debate' by the powers that be. Those who did it and those in current power that never prosecuted it. They are all guilty imo.)
Back on topic, this case and the laws surrounding it are trying to tell society that it is NOT OK to bully someone for their sexual orientation with the kind of persistence and vehemence that was displayed by Ravi. And that his defense of, "Oh well I did not know it was not ok to bully someone like that," fell flat on its face when exposed for the simple fact that it is just bigotry.
Those of us who do not believe in bigotry are trying to correct that with the help of the Rule of Law because that is one of the tools we as a society use. However bigotry itself is still out there in many forms and people will fight back against moves to correct it.
The fact is that we, speaking to the totality of our race, are awful drivers. I drive a LOT every week and the amount of stuff that I see that could easily have been a major highway pileup is stunning. And it's not limited to even just the smaller vehicles. While the professional 18wheeler drivers tend to be much better at following the rules of the road there are some that just don't care. And when you have that kind of mass involved with anything it gets messy quick.
So over time I have come to view the LEOs stance on traffic cop duty as a necessary evil. They can and do abuse it, racial profiling/non-calabered DUI tools/speed traps just to name a few, but overall driving within the rules does tend to work as far as staying out of johnny law's way.
I understand where you are coming from. And I really try to respect the wishes of those who wish to keep politics out of things.
However I'm going to have to go a little Heinlein here since I think right now our politics are pretty messy and we need even you geeks who would prefer to stay out of this involved.
Please, I don't care where you lean. Just use your critical thinking skills, make a call on what you think about an issue, and vote.
My guess in dealing with people over the years who I've seen that demand outrageous levels of 'respect' (more on that in a moment) is that it has a lot to do with their childhood, some traumatic event, or something that has damaged them psychologically.
Because in reality what they are doing is not at all about respect but about having power over someone. In this example it is the power to deny someone something that matters a fair amount, normally people do not travel with the need for a passport on a whim, just because they can. This inflates their own damaged sense of self worth at the expense of someone else.
What should happen in cases like this is that someone that IS psychologically balanced steps in and removes that person from any sort of real authority. And to the credit of our society that does happen! But we do live in an imperfect world and things like this will continue to happen and we must always seek to self correct. Constant vigilance brothers and sisters!
What a load of crap. Please mod this Intel shill down please.
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As bad as your post paints it I'm afraid the reality is even worse. The reason the DOJ has not come down on Intel is that our government has been fully captured by corporations. Intel pays its 'donations' and tells them what laws to write, what laws to enforce, blah blah blah.
And what we end up with is not only lesser products because there is no real competition in some markets but what you experienced on a personal level. And I'll end it at that because I'm sure/.'s rabid far right wing mod squad is going to blast me down and I don't want them to take your very good post with me.
The beer swilling, football watching masses don't get nuance.
As a member of the beer swilling, football watching masses I take a bit of exception to this. First of all beer is good dammit. I thought that is what we all said years ago when I had to join the special/. groupthink club. Nevermind that I think that anyway.
Second I like football. I played a bit back when I was a kid. But I still like it and actually American football is overall very big here in the us at a number of levels. College ball is attended by...well mostly people who are in or were in college. Yes I will say that being in college does not automatically qualify someone as knowing nuance. But it does raise the chance a pretty fair amount.
Anyway beer is good. Drinking beer while watching football is good. And RMS is actually correct about a lot of things he just is also kinda crazy. This is nothing new too.
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...but a government-run education system.
Right there. Right there.
That you have children that you are raising that you think that the United States of American government is a bad thing, wow.
It was not so long ago that we viewed what we did here as good. I know there were, and continue to be, a lot of problems. But we fix them and move on. What you and those like you espouse is that we can not fix things. That our own government is a problem.
I am sad for you. And also I will oppose you and your ilk, because you are wrong.
I'm a little shocked that there are so many general shrugs in this thread at what she did. Everything between oh well it is Facebook, what do you expect? To that it is FOR THE CHILDREN!
I may have missed something but that was my 1st thought upon opening this thread was what is the legality here? And it took a lot of comments before anything was said to that point. Le sigh.
You are spot on and let me add this:
All the Cxx's out there are looking at the NEXT quarter, calculating their bonuses in their heads, working their stock profile...in short being the sociopaths that we have pushed them to be. The quarter after next? Who cares! That might not even be their problem.
Sure they sit though the meetings where the people who are thinking about beyond this quarter. That person who needs to make sure the business stays alive so they can just continue getting paychecks. And if it is not too much trouble and or in their interest the Cxx's will try to keep it all going.
But those Cxx's that not only are getting huge paydays every quarter above and beyond their nominal salaries are not going to try and use their immense, if we don't pay these guys record amounts of cash they are going to leave us! we would be doooooooomed they are that much smarter than you and me, but they have to worry about keeping some of the money also diverted in to our Gov. Not in the form of taxes. Lol. Just bribe everyone. That takes plenty of their time up as well.
Sound freaking awful? That is because it is.
...use a lot more data...
Web content is not the only form of data. Not by a long shot.
Besides, nobody today (except tinfoil hats) buys gas with anything but a credit/debit card, which certainly isn't anonymous.
Citation please.
Or to put it another way, you are full of shit on that point.
While I've heard that the N900 was indeed a very nice piece of hardware, keep in mind it was just an upgrade of what had already been a line of such devices. My N810 is sitting right next to me and it as well is very much a full on computer in a mobile form factor. I can SSH into it right now, setup a daemon, and have the little guy serving web pages. Of course I don't since that would be silly but the fact that it could be done is what makes that line of devices what they are.
And make no mistake it is not like we have lost the ability to build such devices, rather when Apple changed the game in showing how profitable their walled garden approach would be the market shifted. Given the option between something open and something fully controllable the suits are going to pick the latter every day.
So instead of having Maemo (and or the subsequent versions of something like that) we have a less open Android platform as what remains of that idea.
Now that this thread is pretty much over I just wanted to add for the record a retort to this troll.
It's information you need to lead a normal day to day life.
Seriously? I guess I better tell all my finance, lawyer, and other friends who never even took Calc I, let alone anything beyond like some high school physical science classes, that they are all doing it wrong.
That without college Physics I and II, that without college Chemistry, that without Calc III with Differential Equations that they are failures. That law degree that is sitting there on your wall, throw it away good sir and mam. You need to go back to school to learn more hard science to lean a normal day to day life says the 7 digit UID /. poster! (Can you even count that high? You fitly lib art major. You did not even take college Calc!)
BTW they changed the curriculum at UF idiot. What happened when I was there was only because before PCs had not been around. If you wanted to play with computers before that time you pretty much had to be an EE because of the hardware at the time. But it makes no sense that someone needs and engineering level of background to write a web page.
The CISE department though is where all of those students took their 'computery' classes, most of which overlapped between degrees. Lots of opportunities for inter-college teams and projects, which was great.
And I'm sure the degrees far outside of the CIS department. Why would you not want your computer geeks teaching the basic computer classes to your MBAs (shudder), your Law Department, basically every department outside of Engineering will likely not expect their students to having the same level of basic IT knowledge that and Engineering student might have. And even then there are likely to be exceptions.
Not that I have any new information but after thinking about what was said in TFA it seems like a pure cost cutting move due to budget cuts.
And again for those who missed it, the UF athletic department ADDS to the university's bottom line. They are just now getting to keep a bit more of the money they generate. If we want to have the argument that they should fund more of the university's academics that is fine. But remember, adds.
Speaking as a Gator who went to school back when if you wanted to study computers you had to go into the Engineering School it sounds like they are moving backwards. As in like when I went to UF if you wanted to study CIS you had to take Calc 1-3 (ok...most of us were fine with that), Chem 1-2 (hum...), and Physics 1-2 (gahhh?), along with some other very non-CIS related but much more related Engineering classes. In effect if you wanted to learn to be a programmer, network engineer, or even a web designer you had to have the background of a EE.
It was total overkill and drove a lot of students away from the department. But at the time, late 80's-early 90's, the whole PC thing was still relatively brand new so that a large institution like UF had not adapted its curriculum was no huge shock. Disappointing yes but not all that shocking.
Now TFA is very light on details on how what the new curriculum for students would be. If they are indeed going back to asking CIS students to have EE level requirements. So this might just be a bit of good ol' yellow journalism. But it is indeed worth of some attention such that we can full details on how and why this is happening.
I predict it will happen within the Republican party...
Yeah, good luck with that. The religious right is not about to let to any time soon.
But you have to look at it from the cop's perspective: they don't see a dispute with a good person and a bad person. It's almost invariably two lying assholes, and if one person looks honest, he's probably just a better liar.
The problem is that it is worse than that. A cops motivation is not tied to you being innocent, rather once they make the decision to arrest someone they now have put their career on the line to make sure that person is found GUILTY.
And look, to those good LEOs who actually do care about justice thank you. But again as a rule once a cop decides to arrest to you they are basically on board with the fact that you are GUILTY and their job is not to protect your rights, not to protect you even, it is to make sure that when their yearly review comes around that they had that collar in their jacket.
It is still a pretty big load of crap. I have a Personal BB package on an older voice package. It is $30 extra a month that includes 'unlimited' data/text/SMS. And while I don't use it all a lot I do make use of all of it. I've also used more recent BB's and by in large they are the same type of thing. To my veteran eye the total data use between my older fully a smartphone BB and a newer one can not be all that big a delta; if there is any at all.
And yet Sprint wants me to pay more a month for a newer phone because 'it uses more data'. Bullshit. They just want to jack up the rates across the board and are using an excuse that they don't have to provide any metrics for. Look at the shiney consumer! Lookie! That rate increase? Oh well you want the shiney don't you? Don't you! Goooood boy!
The thing is not only could I fix my fridge if I so desired, I can shop around to see who is going to give me the best price on fixing my fridge. I don't have to only call Maytag and be beholden to whatever they say. I can get Joe's Fix-It shop to do it for me.
And further me or Joe fixing the fridge is not being classified by FUCKING FBI AS A POTENTIAL "SUSPICIOUS" PERSON!
And we are the ones that are insane?
Having a tablet when you are at home or someplace for a while is just like having a larger nice smartphone. They are very similar and that is why Apple did so well as the technology that we have allows for such devices. Not to take anything away from Apple for putting some very good polish on it...along with their walled garden.
Anyway having a tablet when you are at home allows you to leave your cell charging while still having that type of functionality at hand. And there are a pretty wide array of form factors. If even the smallest of the newer ones bother you you can always look for a n810 and know that you are running Linux then too. (It will not be fast thou heh, not at all.)
Keep in mind that those who view tablets as a way of life hate sitting at normal computers. They don't want have to be asked why they can't output more than a soundbites worth of thought at a time. I mean if it is Facebook that only expects a soundbite of information at a time along with Farmville, hey game on!
Ok I went over the top a bit there to make a point but my bigger point is that tablets have a purpose. It's not a grand purpose but they do have one.
This is a tough one and we just had that discussion in another thread about how Plea Bargains are used and their varying degrees of good vs bad. (The later being a huge discussion as well.)
Without knowing the details of how it went down in court, my guess is that he showed little to no remorse of his actions. And that right there is not good. What we try to do with laws sometimes is course correct the overall behavior of our society with them. Some are pretty well agreed upon and we don't have to have this debate: IE rape, murder, torture. (And sadly of course that last one has been thrown back into the mix of 'up for debate' by the powers that be. Those who did it and those in current power that never prosecuted it. They are all guilty imo.)
Back on topic, this case and the laws surrounding it are trying to tell society that it is NOT OK to bully someone for their sexual orientation with the kind of persistence and vehemence that was displayed by Ravi. And that his defense of, "Oh well I did not know it was not ok to bully someone like that," fell flat on its face when exposed for the simple fact that it is just bigotry.
Those of us who do not believe in bigotry are trying to correct that with the help of the Rule of Law because that is one of the tools we as a society use. However bigotry itself is still out there in many forms and people will fight back against moves to correct it.
The fact is that we, speaking to the totality of our race, are awful drivers. I drive a LOT every week and the amount of stuff that I see that could easily have been a major highway pileup is stunning. And it's not limited to even just the smaller vehicles. While the professional 18wheeler drivers tend to be much better at following the rules of the road there are some that just don't care. And when you have that kind of mass involved with anything it gets messy quick.
So over time I have come to view the LEOs stance on traffic cop duty as a necessary evil. They can and do abuse it, racial profiling/non-calabered DUI tools/speed traps just to name a few, but overall driving within the rules does tend to work as far as staying out of johnny law's way.
Remember Jerry, its not a lie...if you believe it.
I understand where you are coming from. And I really try to respect the wishes of those who wish to keep politics out of things.
However I'm going to have to go a little Heinlein here since I think right now our politics are pretty messy and we need even you geeks who would prefer to stay out of this involved.
Please, I don't care where you lean. Just use your critical thinking skills, make a call on what you think about an issue, and vote.
My guess in dealing with people over the years who I've seen that demand outrageous levels of 'respect' (more on that in a moment) is that it has a lot to do with their childhood, some traumatic event, or something that has damaged them psychologically.
Because in reality what they are doing is not at all about respect but about having power over someone. In this example it is the power to deny someone something that matters a fair amount, normally people do not travel with the need for a passport on a whim, just because they can. This inflates their own damaged sense of self worth at the expense of someone else.
What should happen in cases like this is that someone that IS psychologically balanced steps in and removes that person from any sort of real authority. And to the credit of our society that does happen! But we do live in an imperfect world and things like this will continue to happen and we must always seek to self correct. Constant vigilance brothers and sisters!
What a load of crap. Please mod this Intel shill down please.
As bad as your post paints it I'm afraid the reality is even worse. The reason the DOJ has not come down on Intel is that our government has been fully captured by corporations. Intel pays its 'donations' and tells them what laws to write, what laws to enforce, blah blah blah.
And what we end up with is not only lesser products because there is no real competition in some markets but what you experienced on a personal level. And I'll end it at that because I'm sure /.'s rabid far right wing mod squad is going to blast me down and I don't want them to take your very good post with me.
Fear of failure and it is not only for programmers. It is everywhere. It is also why good managers are rare.
A corpse is a corpse but to your family it is much more than that likely.
The beer swilling, football watching masses don't get nuance.
As a member of the beer swilling, football watching masses I take a bit of exception to this. First of all beer is good dammit. I thought that is what we all said years ago when I had to join the special /. groupthink club. Nevermind that I think that anyway.
Second I like football. I played a bit back when I was a kid. But I still like it and actually American football is overall very big here in the us at a number of levels. College ball is attended by...well mostly people who are in or were in college. Yes I will say that being in college does not automatically qualify someone as knowing nuance. But it does raise the chance a pretty fair amount.
Anyway beer is good. Drinking beer while watching football is good. And RMS is actually correct about a lot of things he just is also kinda crazy. This is nothing new too.
I feel much older just because the words 'great movie' and Swordfish were used in the same post.