The problem with that suggestion is this: Depending on the company even if you win...you'll lose.
I had a friend that was running a little ISP that was basically railroaded by one of the bigger carriers. It was obviously an antitrust slam dunk, not to mention they had ignored the contracts they had signed as well as making sure nobody else would deal with his little company. So why isn't my friend sitting on a beach enjoying his victory? Because his lawyer said "Oh there isn't a doubt in my mind you'll win, none at all, but it'll cost you a good million and a half and 10 years of your life to get to the end" so needless to say since my friend didn't have a million and a half nor 10 years of his life he wished to through away in court he walked away.
Look at how long it took to finally end the SCO mess, and that case was so damned obvious Ray Charles could have seen that SCO was full of shit. The reason that many settle is that unless you have nothing better to do with years of your life, not to mention great piles of money to piss away, its simply smarter to make it go away.
Think about it, this guy is just a little developer....how many more games is he NOT gonna put out and NOT gonna get the money from, because he's too tied up in court bullshit to be working on games? Now do i think that is right? Fuck no, I think the system stinks. But what the system IS and what it OUGHT to be are sadly two different things and as it is this guy will in all likelihood lose a ton of money he'll never see again even if he wins. Lets face it friend, if they lose they'll just fold and start up a new firm doing the same shit tomorrow while this guy won't see a cent.
Notch is NOT a little developer, Minecraft made a stupid amount of money and he is now hideously rich.
For example say a drug deal was trigger using the 'suspect's identity. The drug deal goes down people are arrested and associates of the people arrested go the suspect house and murder the suspects family. Apparently those people are nothing, simply meh, they deserve to die for being related to a suspect.
Strictly speaking, wouldn't something like this result in criminal negligence charges against the cops that caused this hypothetical situation?
It may be plausible but I think that here in the UK it's still illegal - we can be given 2 years inside for not revealing a password when asked for it by the relevant authority. I can see this system putting some people away for a little while.
Is this legal? I mean here in Denmark we have "The right to remain silent", you should have that in the UK as well.
Can't speak for how it is over in the US (or wherever you're from), but it's not like that here. The Danish FDA has a nasty habit of showing up unannounced and customers here complain like babies if they even come close to suspecting that stuff like that goes on.
That said, the fridge thing can sometimes be right, unfortunately.
there are signs on every McDonald's across europe (no pictures/no dogs/no smoking)
Yes, restaurants usually hate dogs on premises, but even in France, a restaurant can be fined from 150 to 450 Euros for refusing service to a disabled person because of their service dog
Pretty much all over the world guide dogs are exempted from being "dog" so to say. They're allowed on public transport, in public buildings, in restaurants - anywhere regular pet dogs are not allowed.
And besides being very useful for the person they guide, these dogs are also always highly trained so not likely to cause any problems, this in contrast to your regular pet dog...
They are also (at least here in Denmark) required to be clearly marked and documented, here it is usually done by having the dog wear a bright yellow vest with a little pictogram on it an the Danish words for "working dog", and the owner will usually carry around the dog's documents as well. Now there is no law saying that the dogs have to wear that yellow vest or that the owner has to carry around the documents, they just can't be assured the same privileges if they don't.
Medical documentation? For what condition? What is the malady that requires he wear goggles? Something wrong with his eyes? I've been asking this all over the place and nobody can tell me. What is the condition he suffers from that requires a medical appliance to cure?
Sure some kids go for the toy, but the truth is, mcdonald's food is prepared to be very palatable and generically tasty without any strange flavours a simple palate won't recognize.
Translation: Their food is simply flavorless then loaded with sugar to appeal to kids' taste buds. Congratulations on getting your kids hooked on their "flavor".
You mean congratulations on getting his kids hooked on the body's primary source of energy?
You should totally cut out all those carbs, glucose metabolism be damned!
Did you ever stop to think that maybe we humans really like sugar because we kinda can't live without it?
Sure, why not? If it provides your body with the fuel and nutrients it needs to continue, then it's "food". It may not be "good food", but even slop is still food.
Finally, in theory, an industrial process should be able to produce very good food too. In fact, many higher-end restaurants, while not refining it down quite as much as McD's, still do make food preparation as industrialized and mechanical as possible. Recipes call for very specific steps, very specific amounts of ingredients, and very specific cooking times and temperatures to achieve the same result every time. Chefs don't like it when line cooks try to do things their own way; this gets the line cooks screamed at (I've seen it). And restaurant food, even at high-end restaurants, isn't as good as what a talented chef (even amateur) can do at home; restaurants simplify their recipes so they can be produced at higher speeds by underpaid line cooks; customers want consistency and they don't want to wait 2 hours for their food. They would never put on the menu something found in some fancy cookbook, because it's just too complex and would take too long to make.
This really depends on the restaurant. I've worked in quite a few of them, some higher-end than others, and the getting yelled at part is most certainly true, the same mostly goes for recipes and procedures being designed for speed rather than quality.
However, some restaurants specifically market themselves on the complexity of their recipes. Needless to say these types of restaurant tend to be the hideously expensive kind.
I realise that businessmen have had it easy since the '80s, but at least there was the vague principle that people invest their money in return for some proprietary interest in the ongoing concern. Kickstarter appears to be the epitome of fawning obsequience to the owning classes, where people contribute money in return for a single trinket.
This is an experimental device designed by and available to a single MIT researcher. The purported opinion of one medical professional carries little weight - assuming this opinion is even relevant, for it could have simply been "this device may help him see some stuff slightly better". Hell, I have RSI and an assistance monkey would help me carry stuff around, but I don't expect establishments around the world to admit an assistance monkey just because I can afford one.
In particular, the device has the ability to take pictures in a way which may be contrary to French law, something the OP took delight in (accidentally?) admitting on his web page.
What? You could have your own personal monkey butler? And you don't already have one?
Funny then how US nukes somehow aren't able to pass OVER an area. Almost sounds like it's more about occupying foreign territory than attacking it.
Wat?
What I said was that if the US (Or Russia or China or France or the UK) was at war with someone and for whatever reason it was strategically important for them to bring nuclear weapons in to a "nuclear free zone", they would do so in a heartbeat.
The same goes for passing through the sovereign territory of a non-hostile non-allied nation.
I'm reading through this thread, and the standard response made by anyone who disagrees with a post is to either call them a moron, idiot, motherfucker, or to insinuate they are gay.
How about this? If you guys think that a post is inaccurate or simplistic - consider responding and explaining why the post is wrong. If you can't do that, then maybe your level of understanding on this topic is lower than you think it is.
I mean, come on. I realize this is Slashdot, and there are always a few people like that hanging around - but this story seems to be attracting an inordinate number of guys that have nothing to offer but anger and venom.
Dude, is this your first time on the internet?
It's pretty much immutable fact that any argument that does not involve profanity and/or the questioning of the original posters sexuality is not going to be read or replied to.
Welcome to the internet, everyone here are assholes.
I remember a TV show about how the Russians built the Proton rockets. Instead of modeling, testing, checking and being safety conscious, they built the rocket, tested it---and it blew up. So they did it again. And it blew up, again. So they did it again. And again. And again. Until it worked. Net result was a booster more powerful than the Saturn V (AFAIK). Quite a different mode of working.
Along the way they also learned that their observation bunkers were too close to the rocket and not as blast proof as they had hoped. I'm not saying that this is necessarily the best way of working, just that there are other ways to do things if your values are somewhat different.
That said - I think it's an extremely sad reflection on the state of software engineering that we simply accept that "memory corruption bugs in complex pieces of code are inevitable".
I don't get what is so sad about this. It seems to me like people have realized that mistakes can and do happen and the exact nature of a mistake in this sort of context is often unpredictable, so you can either roll out patches after the error has been discovered (and a number of devices have been hacked) or you can build in measures that makes the system fault tolerant.
Of course the ideal situation is one where there are no bugs ever and we can full predict every single interaction between every single line of code and see any emergent bugs way in advance. This, however, is not going to happen, we might as well accept this; this is the same reason why cars have airbags and seat belts, the ideal situation is that no-one ever crashes, but sometimes people crash and when that happens it is much better to have airbags and seat belts than not having them.
There is pretty much no 'mexican' weed along the U.S.pacific coast. All that shit weed gets shipped East.
Sure, just like all European hash is supposedly from India, Nepal, Kashmir or Afghanistan when in reality it's pretty much all Moroccan.
Mexican drug cartels like money, potheads like pot, so if there is money to be made from selling pot (bad pot or not) then you can be sure that there is Mexican weed.
So either you verify your source for me or I stick with my 'it is all Mexican weed"-hypothesis.
If the US (Or any nation of sufficient military strength) was at war and it was strategically important for them to pass through an area (water or otherwise) that belonged to a non-hostile sovereign state, they would go straight through, sovereignty be damned.
If it is all out war diplomacy takes a back seat to strategy.
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I paid good money to have you guys assassinated.
They should have sent these SMS to the MPAA, RIAA crminals as well as the bought out Congress senators.
Hilarity ensues.
Hillarity and terrorism investigations.
People would end up in Guantanomo over this.
The problem with that suggestion is this: Depending on the company even if you win...you'll lose.
I had a friend that was running a little ISP that was basically railroaded by one of the bigger carriers. It was obviously an antitrust slam dunk, not to mention they had ignored the contracts they had signed as well as making sure nobody else would deal with his little company. So why isn't my friend sitting on a beach enjoying his victory? Because his lawyer said "Oh there isn't a doubt in my mind you'll win, none at all, but it'll cost you a good million and a half and 10 years of your life to get to the end" so needless to say since my friend didn't have a million and a half nor 10 years of his life he wished to through away in court he walked away.
Look at how long it took to finally end the SCO mess, and that case was so damned obvious Ray Charles could have seen that SCO was full of shit. The reason that many settle is that unless you have nothing better to do with years of your life, not to mention great piles of money to piss away, its simply smarter to make it go away.
Think about it, this guy is just a little developer....how many more games is he NOT gonna put out and NOT gonna get the money from, because he's too tied up in court bullshit to be working on games? Now do i think that is right? Fuck no, I think the system stinks. But what the system IS and what it OUGHT to be are sadly two different things and as it is this guy will in all likelihood lose a ton of money he'll never see again even if he wins. Lets face it friend, if they lose they'll just fold and start up a new firm doing the same shit tomorrow while this guy won't see a cent.
Notch is NOT a little developer, Minecraft made a stupid amount of money and he is now hideously rich.
For example say a drug deal was trigger using the 'suspect's identity. The drug deal goes down people are arrested and associates of the people arrested go the suspect house and murder the suspects family. Apparently those people are nothing, simply meh, they deserve to die for being related to a suspect.
Strictly speaking, wouldn't something like this result in criminal negligence charges against the cops that caused this hypothetical situation?
It may be plausible but I think that here in the UK it's still illegal - we can be given 2 years inside for not revealing a password when asked for it by the relevant authority. I can see this system putting some people away for a little while.
Is this legal? I mean here in Denmark we have "The right to remain silent", you should have that in the UK as well.
Can't speak for how it is over in the US (or wherever you're from), but it's not like that here. The Danish FDA has a nasty habit of showing up unannounced and customers here complain like babies if they even come close to suspecting that stuff like that goes on.
That said, the fridge thing can sometimes be right, unfortunately.
there are signs on every McDonald's across europe (no pictures/no dogs/no smoking)
Yes, restaurants usually hate dogs on premises, but even in France, a restaurant can be fined from 150 to 450 Euros for refusing service to a disabled person because of their service dog
Pretty much all over the world guide dogs are exempted from being "dog" so to say. They're allowed on public transport, in public buildings, in restaurants - anywhere regular pet dogs are not allowed.
And besides being very useful for the person they guide, these dogs are also always highly trained so not likely to cause any problems, this in contrast to your regular pet dog...
They are also (at least here in Denmark) required to be clearly marked and documented, here it is usually done by having the dog wear a bright yellow vest with a little pictogram on it an the Danish words for "working dog", and the owner will usually carry around the dog's documents as well.
Now there is no law saying that the dogs have to wear that yellow vest or that the owner has to carry around the documents, they just can't be assured the same privileges if they don't.
Medical documentation? For what condition? What is the malady that requires he wear goggles? Something wrong with his eyes? I've been asking this all over the place and nobody can tell me. What is the condition he suffers from that requires a medical appliance to cure?
This, I want to know this too.
ß by ss.
I thought they were gradually phasing out the ß out in favor for ss even in Germany.
I haven't taken German lessons for a long, long time though.
Dude did piss his pants apparently.
http://blog.laptopmag.com/exclusive-cyborg-steve-mann-on-alleged-mcdonalds-assault
Sure some kids go for the toy, but the truth is, mcdonald's food is prepared to be very palatable and generically tasty without any strange flavours a simple palate won't recognize.
Translation: Their food is simply flavorless then loaded with sugar to appeal to kids' taste buds. Congratulations on getting your kids hooked on their "flavor".
You mean congratulations on getting his kids hooked on the body's primary source of energy?
You should totally cut out all those carbs, glucose metabolism be damned!
Did you ever stop to think that maybe we humans really like sugar because we kinda can't live without it?
Perhaps the thing has a button marked 'save picture', that he can press to save pictures that can then be posted on his microblog.
I didn't find anything disgusting on this page. Perhaps you should visit the kitchen of any restaurant some day to see what it's really like...?
Mostly it's hot, noisy and slippery when wet.
It's a lovely place to work.
Yes I work in one.
Sure, why not? If it provides your body with the fuel and nutrients it needs to continue, then it's "food". It may not be "good food", but even slop is still food.
Finally, in theory, an industrial process should be able to produce very good food too. In fact, many higher-end restaurants, while not refining it down quite as much as McD's, still do make food preparation as industrialized and mechanical as possible. Recipes call for very specific steps, very specific amounts of ingredients, and very specific cooking times and temperatures to achieve the same result every time. Chefs don't like it when line cooks try to do things their own way; this gets the line cooks screamed at (I've seen it). And restaurant food, even at high-end restaurants, isn't as good as what a talented chef (even amateur) can do at home; restaurants simplify their recipes so they can be produced at higher speeds by underpaid line cooks; customers want consistency and they don't want to wait 2 hours for their food. They would never put on the menu something found in some fancy cookbook, because it's just too complex and would take too long to make.
This really depends on the restaurant. I've worked in quite a few of them, some higher-end than others, and the getting yelled at part is most certainly true, the same mostly goes for recipes and procedures being designed for speed rather than quality.
However, some restaurants specifically market themselves on the complexity of their recipes. Needless to say these types of restaurant tend to be the hideously expensive kind.
I realise that businessmen have had it easy since the '80s, but at least there was the vague principle that people invest their money in return for some proprietary interest in the ongoing concern. Kickstarter appears to be the epitome of fawning obsequience to the owning classes, where people contribute money in return for a single trinket.
Pretty much, yeah.
This is an experimental device designed by and available to a single MIT researcher. The purported opinion of one medical professional carries little weight - assuming this opinion is even relevant, for it could have simply been "this device may help him see some stuff slightly better". Hell, I have RSI and an assistance monkey would help me carry stuff around, but I don't expect establishments around the world to admit an assistance monkey just because I can afford one.
In particular, the device has the ability to take pictures in a way which may be contrary to French law, something the OP took delight in (accidentally?) admitting on his web page.
What? You could have your own personal monkey butler? And you don't already have one?
The hell is wrong with you?
Funny then how US nukes somehow aren't able to pass OVER an area. Almost sounds like it's more about occupying foreign territory than attacking it.
Wat?
What I said was that if the US (Or Russia or China or France or the UK) was at war with someone and for whatever reason it was strategically important for them to bring nuclear weapons in to a "nuclear free zone", they would do so in a heartbeat.
The same goes for passing through the sovereign territory of a non-hostile non-allied nation.
I'm reading through this thread, and the standard response made by anyone who disagrees with a post is to either call them a moron, idiot, motherfucker, or to insinuate they are gay.
How about this? If you guys think that a post is inaccurate or simplistic - consider responding and explaining why the post is wrong. If you can't do that, then maybe your level of understanding on this topic is lower than you think it is.
I mean, come on. I realize this is Slashdot, and there are always a few people like that hanging around - but this story seems to be attracting an inordinate number of guys that have nothing to offer but anger and venom.
Dude, is this your first time on the internet?
It's pretty much immutable fact that any argument that does not involve profanity and/or the questioning of the original posters sexuality is not going to be read or replied to.
Welcome to the internet, everyone here are assholes.
And not all hardware followed GP's model either.
I remember a TV show about how the Russians built the Proton rockets. Instead of modeling, testing, checking and being safety conscious, they built the rocket, tested it---and it blew up. So they did it again. And it blew up, again. So they did it again. And again. And again. Until it worked. Net result was a booster more powerful than the Saturn V (AFAIK). Quite a different mode of working.
Along the way they also learned that their observation bunkers were too close to the rocket and not as blast proof as they had hoped. I'm not saying that this is necessarily the best way of working, just that there are other ways to do things if your values are somewhat different.
I love the Soviets.
That said - I think it's an extremely sad reflection on the state of software engineering that we simply accept that "memory corruption bugs in complex pieces of code are inevitable".
I don't get what is so sad about this. It seems to me like people have realized that mistakes can and do happen and the exact nature of a mistake in this sort of context is often unpredictable, so you can either roll out patches after the error has been discovered (and a number of devices have been hacked) or you can build in measures that makes the system fault tolerant.
Of course the ideal situation is one where there are no bugs ever and we can full predict every single interaction between every single line of code and see any emergent bugs way in advance. This, however, is not going to happen, we might as well accept this; this is the same reason why cars have airbags and seat belts, the ideal situation is that no-one ever crashes, but sometimes people crash and when that happens it is much better to have airbags and seat belts than not having them.
Actually IIRC CM has support to do something like that. Or it was planning to have that feature, I forget.
Either way, the problem was that messing with permissions like that would break some apps for whatever reason.
There is pretty much no 'mexican' weed along the U.S.pacific coast. All that shit weed gets shipped East.
Sure, just like all European hash is supposedly from India, Nepal, Kashmir or Afghanistan when in reality it's pretty much all Moroccan.
Mexican drug cartels like money, potheads like pot, so if there is money to be made from selling pot (bad pot or not) then you can be sure that there is Mexican weed.
So either you verify your source for me or I stick with my 'it is all Mexican weed"-hypothesis.
Not a lamp. Also not a weapon.
Sheesh, is that why my energy prices have gone up so much over the past few years.
No
Do we really need more weapons?
Yes, but this isn't one.
If the US (Or any nation of sufficient military strength) was at war and it was strategically important for them to pass through an area (water or otherwise) that belonged to a non-hostile sovereign state, they would go straight through, sovereignty be damned.
If it is all out war diplomacy takes a back seat to strategy.
Weed is still an American commodity!
You'd like to BUY USA? Get a locally made bong and locally grown weed.
Mexican, mostly, as I understand it.