Our poor protagonist spends a lifetime acquiring wealth and power, finally wedding his beloved, and loses it because he didn't respect it. He then finds a group of new friends and sets out on a journey to find some kind of important thing and, along the way, fights many obstacles in order to protect that thing. Among them is a funny man who goes through comedic development and bumbles along with them, only to finally reveal that he only came with them for some initially misunderstood or accidental reason. The journey takes them to a strange foreign land, where they discover many new things, and they return with these new experiences. One of the newly found best friends dies along the way in a suitably tragic way, but is reborn as a wise and more powerful friend. They all face off against a final monster that tests everything they've experienced along the way. Finally, our protagonist reuintes with his wealh, power, and wife, and promises he will never give her up, will never let her down, and will never run around or desert her. And they all live happily ever after; except for the onces that don't.
All it takes is a quick glance at the URL in question to see that. It's very much a stock ISO of an old Ubuntu release.
Eh... no.
The URL could have been: hxxp://sketchy-torrent-site.tld/wiki/FOIA-Hillary%20Clinton%20Does%20Trump.real-legit.torrent.html and have pointed to a torrent that was really a copy of some Transformers movie or whatever. URLs are only meaningful to humans and can be deceptive or -- pinky to lip -- more than meets the eye.
So, I don't see anything really extra chilling about this. It's not an official mirror that got dinged here, people. Sheeh; OP is dumb and this is not newsworthy.
That's some nice advertising you've got there... It'd be a shame if someone decided to block it...
But seriously, okay... you pay off ABP. A large group of users migrate to another ad-block tool... that tool's creator demands protection money... and so on. That, to me, is why it sounds so scummy -- because ABP can only promise not to block for it's own user-base. It's literally, "hey, give us a cut of your ad-revenue or we'll give a free app to people to prevent you from serving ads."
Does this policy undermine their "acceptable ads" option? i.e. ads are now acceptable if they meet a certain technical criteria or the provider has paid protection money?
No - Linus doesn't say a *person* is an idiot, but that a person's *behavior* in a particular instance or their snippet of *code* is idiotic. There's a world of difference.
In private companies, Linus would come off as a total asshole...
In my comment, I tried to make a joke where I left off some grammar and... well... people did pounce...
It's the same thing in software... people will pounce...
I've always been scared, and I'm at a very senior level now, that if I didn't deliver then my boss would pounce...
And then I learned that my bosses have always been on my side... and that they *need* me to produce good shit... since that realization, I haven't been afraid, and I want n00bs to understand the same thing... if they need coddling, well... sorry, I've forgotten how to do that.
That's why I love programming and computers.. I can't fuck it up in grammar...
It works or it doesn't work... If it's elegant or not... that's where I hope to have criticism... even in basic grammar... you're making my point for me;)
Linux development is done on public mailing lists. Everyone knows this going in. If Linus rants about "your" code in public, he's sending a clear message.
He has passion. Snowflakes don't understand passion.
Why? Because you're a delicate little flower with easily offended sensibilities? I've worked for all types, and with all types. A little bit of "colorful" language doesn't bother me, and in many cases I'd prefer someone who can come to me and say "Hey, you fucked up, this is a pile of shit" than someone who smiles, gives me calm reassurances about my efforts, and then drives a knife into my back. Yes, sometimes he goes a bit over the top. But in many cases, it's more a matter of the receiving party needing to grow a thicker skin.
A-fucking-men.
In my career, my skills in direct proportion to the speed at which I was criticized multiplied by directness and the skill of the other party.
As a lead, I really struggle with the special little snowflakes that need to be told how great of a job they're doing and how much they are appreciated and... makes me want to vomit. I make sure that they either don't last long or learn to break their emotional attachment to "their" code.
I agree strongly with one point in particular: prison is not acceptable for this.
Prison should be: does this person need physical restraint from harming society again? YES/NO.
In this case, forbid him Internet access for 4 years, with 2 years under strict supervision. Fuck. It hurts me just to write that... Ugh...
I am annoyed that he profited from this, so I think the financial punishment should be 2x what he earned (why 2x? because 1x is comensation, 2x is punishment... he deserves to be punished for profiting from other people's work).
But then...
Sorry you godless faggots just want the money. Maybe if you learned what fiat money actually is you will begin to slap yourself every day.
I know, but I use that godless fiat money to buy breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I know I am sinning, but society requires me to.:( So I go out and earn some so I can buy food... otherwise, I starve...
"Hey, there was this really cool movie... so-and-so was in it and the plot was like..."
and:
"Hey, here's a copy of the movie I saw last night. Enjoy."
The first is legal, the second is not. Why? Because society has collectively decided to reward content creators a right to profit from their creations. If they decide to share, it's on their terms, not yours. Freely or otherwise. Don't quote Linux as an example of freedom, because Linux is not free -- it is chained by the GPL.
Is the sentence/fine in this case too much. I'm not sure... the guy profited from his actions -- he was profit motivated. He wasn't doing this as a social justice cause or because he believed in freedom of expression. He made money off other people's work.
That bias shows up in recruiting, with companies drawing from the same top universities, where black and Hispanic graduates are still lagging behind other groups
Well, that really says everything, doesn't it?
A lot of tech companies rely on degrees, and most of them have their favorite universities where candidates generally have the skills and personalities that make an easy fit. Employing alums from the same schools has an instant effect on that "fit" part of the job -- they've all had similar experiences and can relate to each other much more readily. This is not unique to tech, but it could be exacerbated by it.
Once again, it comes back to the pipeline. If you can't get girls, Blacks, Hispanics, and whatever-ics, through the top tier education system, then maybe that's where you need to start. Not with affirmative action, however.
I will never hire someone because they are black, or are female, or whatever. That doesn't make any sense to me. I hire people that I think are capable of doing the job, because with each additional pair of hands on keyboards below me, adds to the overall expectation on me. I want people who are going to help me win, not someone who got the position because society feels sorry for them (and I don't think any genuine person wants society to feel sorry for them).
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Our poor protagonist spends a lifetime acquiring wealth and power, finally wedding his beloved, and loses it because he didn't respect it. He then finds a group of new friends and sets out on a journey to find some kind of important thing and, along the way, fights many obstacles in order to protect that thing. Among them is a funny man who goes through comedic development and bumbles along with them, only to finally reveal that he only came with them for some initially misunderstood or accidental reason. The journey takes them to a strange foreign land, where they discover many new things, and they return with these new experiences. One of the newly found best friends dies along the way in a suitably tragic way, but is reborn as a wise and more powerful friend. They all face off against a final monster that tests everything they've experienced along the way. Finally, our protagonist reuintes with his wealh, power, and wife, and promises he will never give her up, will never let her down, and will never run around or desert her. And they all live happily ever after; except for the onces that don't.
bold.
You're not listening to it right.
All it takes is a quick glance at the URL in question to see that. It's very much a stock ISO of an old Ubuntu release.
Eh... no.
The URL could have been: hxxp://sketchy-torrent-site.tld/wiki/FOIA-Hillary%20Clinton%20Does%20Trump.real-legit.torrent.html and have pointed to a torrent that was really a copy of some Transformers movie or whatever. URLs are only meaningful to humans and can be deceptive or -- pinky to lip -- more than meets the eye.
So, I don't see anything really extra chilling about this. It's not an official mirror that got dinged here, people. Sheeh; OP is dumb and this is not newsworthy.
That's some nice advertising you've got there... It'd be a shame if someone decided to block it...
But seriously, okay... you pay off ABP. A large group of users migrate to another ad-block tool... that tool's creator demands protection money... and so on. That, to me, is why it sounds so scummy -- because ABP can only promise not to block for it's own user-base. It's literally, "hey, give us a cut of your ad-revenue or we'll give a free app to people to prevent you from serving ads."
Does this policy undermine their "acceptable ads" option? i.e. ads are now acceptable if they meet a certain technical criteria or the provider has paid protection money?
Hahaha.
over-reaction. They're giving a migration path that basically lets you run it self-hosted.
No - Linus doesn't say a *person* is an idiot, but that a person's *behavior* in a particular instance or their snippet of *code* is idiotic. There's a world of difference.
YES. THANK YOU.
I think my point is being made for me ;)
You're right;
In private companies, Linus would come off as a total asshole...
In my comment, I tried to make a joke where I left off some grammar and... well... people did pounce...
It's the same thing in software... people will pounce...
I've always been scared, and I'm at a very senior level now, that if I didn't deliver then my boss would pounce...
And then I learned that my bosses have always been on my side... and that they *need* me to produce good shit... since that realization, I haven't been afraid, and I want n00bs to understand the same thing... if they need coddling, well... sorry, I've forgotten how to do that.
That's why I love programming and computers.. I can't fuck it up in grammar...
It works or it doesn't work... If it's elegant or not... that's where I hope to have criticism... even in basic grammar... you're making my point for me ;)
Yep, you are right. I accidentally the word "grows".
I have a phantom word problem where, if I think the word in my head as I write, then as I read it back, the word "appears" there, even when it isn't.
But I'm not ashamed to admit I fucked it up :P
Linux development is done on public mailing lists. Everyone knows this going in. If Linus rants about "your" code in public, he's sending a clear message.
He has passion. Snowflakes don't understand passion.
Why? Because you're a delicate little flower with easily offended sensibilities?
I've worked for all types, and with all types. A little bit of "colorful" language doesn't bother me, and in many cases I'd prefer someone who can come to me and say "Hey, you fucked up, this is a pile of shit" than someone who smiles, gives me calm reassurances about my efforts, and then drives a knife into my back.
Yes, sometimes he goes a bit over the top. But in many cases, it's more a matter of the receiving party needing to grow a thicker skin.
A-fucking-men.
In my career, my skills in direct proportion to the speed at which I was criticized multiplied by directness and the skill of the other party.
As a lead, I really struggle with the special little snowflakes that need to be told how great of a job they're doing and how much they are appreciated and ... makes me want to vomit. I make sure that they either don't last long or learn to break their emotional attachment to "their" code.
I'm saying that streaming services have a disproportionately high amount of low-value content.
And?
What does it justify if they don't provide content you want? Don't pay for it?
Nothing of what you said applies to streaming copies of Mad Max.
Mad Max does not inform anything related to a shared knowledge base to build humanity.
You should teach at a liberal-arts college. Your stupid ideas would fit in well.
If his gains are related to the crime, then stealing a $100,000 car and selling it for $10 is a $10 theft. That's not how it works.
Perfect analogy. Well done, sir.
Yes. Ad revenue is the damage. x2 is the punishment.
But the jail term? for a tort? FSM, that is not right.
Yeah, I agree it's a colloquial term... that has been pervasive for a long time...
but let's not forget that this is a tort, and not a criminal offence...
I stand by copyright, but not the criminal prosecution of such.
Truth.
I agree strongly with one point in particular: prison is not acceptable for this.
Prison should be: does this person need physical restraint from harming society again? YES/NO.
In this case, forbid him Internet access for 4 years, with 2 years under strict supervision. Fuck. It hurts me just to write that... Ugh...
I am annoyed that he profited from this, so I think the financial punishment should be 2x what he earned (why 2x? because 1x is comensation, 2x is punishment... he deserves to be punished for profiting from other people's work).
But then...
Sorry you godless faggots just want the money. Maybe if you learned what fiat money actually is you will begin to slap yourself every day.
I know, but I use that godless fiat money to buy breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I know I am sinning, but society requires me to. :( So I go out and earn some so I can buy food... otherwise, I starve...
Unless you want the shovelware
Who is forcing you to buy stuff? What a childish argument.
"Waaahhhhhhh... I want things I don't like.... wahhhhhh"
Child.
Sharing of information is a natural right.
There is a huge difference between:
"Hey, there was this really cool movie... so-and-so was in it and the plot was like..."
and:
"Hey, here's a copy of the movie I saw last night. Enjoy."
The first is legal, the second is not. Why? Because society has collectively decided to reward content creators a right to profit from their creations. If they decide to share, it's on their terms, not yours. Freely or otherwise. Don't quote Linux as an example of freedom, because Linux is not free -- it is chained by the GPL.
Is the sentence/fine in this case too much. I'm not sure... the guy profited from his actions -- he was profit motivated. He wasn't doing this as a social justice cause or because he believed in freedom of expression. He made money off other people's work.
Yeah. Now you sound like an ass.
> What pray tell is a terminal crop?
Genetic use restriction technology
Good thing I don't understand German, or I might just die laughing.
That bias shows up in recruiting, with companies drawing from the same top universities, where black and Hispanic graduates are still lagging behind other groups
Well, that really says everything, doesn't it?
A lot of tech companies rely on degrees, and most of them have their favorite universities where candidates generally have the skills and personalities that make an easy fit. Employing alums from the same schools has an instant effect on that "fit" part of the job -- they've all had similar experiences and can relate to each other much more readily. This is not unique to tech, but it could be exacerbated by it.
Once again, it comes back to the pipeline. If you can't get girls, Blacks, Hispanics, and whatever-ics, through the top tier education system, then maybe that's where you need to start. Not with affirmative action, however.
I will never hire someone because they are black, or are female, or whatever. That doesn't make any sense to me. I hire people that I think are capable of doing the job, because with each additional pair of hands on keyboards below me, adds to the overall expectation on me. I want people who are going to help me win, not someone who got the position because society feels sorry for them (and I don't think any genuine person wants society to feel sorry for them).
When you can't compete, legislate.
When you can't legislate, riot.
When you can't riot... erm...
Oh well.