As I posted above, only 5950 people voted. For contrast 8363 people voted on the last slashdot poll, so we aren't talking about a whole lot of fans, making it an easy balance to swing either way with relatively small numbers of voters. Meanwhile here's Scalzi telling his fellow travellers how to vote, and more details on the exact votes here.
Meh, digging into the numbers a bit, it seems 5950 people voted. For contrast 8363 people voted on the last slashdot poll, so we aren't talking about a whole lot of fans, making it an easy balance to swing either way with relatively small numbers of voters. There's more detail on the breakdown of the voting here.
From that same article: "Consider: A woman named Adria Richards Twitter-shames two white dudes for cracking off-color jokes at PyCon, a tech developer conference (and then is fired and fields murder threats)." To say that it's a bit slanted is quite the understatement.
Also you should read the comments for a more balanced view.
That's a good point. If there's one thing I take very seriously it's privacy, so I won't be upgrading to windows 10. I'm not paranoid or whatever but I'm really starting to feel very uncomfortable with mass corporate data-harvesting, which becomes mass government data harvesting very easily. I guess I'll have to run programs without an adequate open source alternative such as photoshop in an emulator or something. However in the unlikely event that the EU raps their knuckles I might consider hanging in there a bit longer, purely for the sake of convenience.
kids need to learn computer programming. it's a basic part of the world we live in now
Computers are a basic part of the world we live in, computer programming isn't, in the same way that people need to know how to drive a car but they don't need to know how to engineer one.
all serious countries in the world are ramping up computer science education.
Not really, no.
it's like it's 1800s and people are trying to get more engineering education... but some luddite crackpot assholes are screaming against that trend
People weren't trying to get more engineering education in the 1800s, the upper classes were receiving a classical education and the rest were learning trades, if they were fortunate.
why?
for what retarded agenda is this propaganda drumbeat against CS education on slashdot anyway?
i can't even understand the upside for resisting computer programming and computer science education
computers are evil? we're going to preserve jobs for old fat mediocre programmers by keeping kids dumb? some sort of conspiratard freak out?
is it just "companies are evil, and companies want more CS education, therefore, resist CS education... hurrr durrr"
what is the agenda exactly with this moronic propaganda on slashdot?
and slashdot, can you please just squelch this retarded puerile crap in the future please? it does not serve your audience, your site is being taken over by some wackjob fringe
is it just one useless douchebag troll with enough commitment to flood the submission queue with his mental diarrhea?
Programmers are expensive. They're expensive because programming is difficult and not many people take to it. Therefore the objection most have to corporate entities blatantly and openly trying to influence the national education system to ease the supply side of the equation could well be characterised as "stop wasting our kids time for greedy corporate pigs".
If you read my comment again you'll see the part where I said "there will be a window where plenty of money can be made" without denying the long term effects on the value of platinum.
You're assuming we'll go from the current scarcity to kilotons of the stuff raining from the sky. While it will gradually lose value, there will be a window where plenty of money can be made. And of course with an abundant supply of a substance come new uses and demand.
I give up. Listen if you think we don't have copyrights in Europe you should go edit this page because clearly all of the editors and copyright lawyers and the government copyright departments and all that are delusional.
b) we all get fed up with the principal actors in these terrorist plots, collectively go crusades 2.0 on their backwards asses and forcibly drag their sorry excuse for a culture out of the bronze age.
Eh no, that would be less crusades 2.0 and more scramble for Africa, whose main justification was "forcibly dragging their sorry excuse for a culture out of the stone age".
I live in Europe. Copyright absolutely does exist here, and moral rights don't mean what you seem to think they mean. My original comment "there's actually some debate about whether or not you can transfer copyrights in any Berne-signatory country" was explicitly a reference to licensing copyrights and would also refer to the need for things like creative commons licensing, even in the US.
More information can be found here and note in particular for this case: "German courts also often will imply a contractual transfer of ownership to the employer based upon an employment agreement."
b) we have "moral rights" instead c) "moral rights" can not be "transferred at all"
Moral rights are mostly about the right of the content creators to publicly identify themselves as such, and to maintain the integrity of their work.
Wow, starting with the Berne convention but you never have read it? The Berne convention explicitly states that the "copyright" sticks to the creator unless there is a written contract
(a freak out over crime, which was actually solved by better policing and sentencing)
There;'s a fairly compelling body of evidence indicating that crime rates fell at the same time and in the same places as atmospheric lead pollutants decreased.
There's actually some debate about whether or not you can transfer copyrights in any Berne-signatory country, which is most of them. However since the food was created as part of a work for hire agreement, whoever paid for it should own full copyrights, as in the chef never had copyright in the first place.
For a lot of people monogamy is secure, comfortable, and satisfies their sexual needs
No, it really doesn't. It may provide women with some transitory security as far as child rearing goes but to claim monogamy is the de facto best option is a sorry punchline.
Pretty much. The Verge straight up blames gamergate and the Daily Dot is currently featuring an article about how JK Rowling's upcoming production is just too damn white. This kind of behaviour is typical of the social justice brigade, whenever people start pointing out the many intellectual incoherencies in their hatemongering, they shut the discussion down.
I think our first major offworld outposts should be space stations built out of raw materials extracted from asteroids. We can control the atmosphere, the environment, crucially the gravity, expand that living space forever as the population grows, and the raw materials are in complete abundance. Going to Mars to establish colonies will look nothing like the wild west, and will probably be much more difficult than establishing stations in space.
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As I posted above, only 5950 people voted. For contrast 8363 people voted on the last slashdot poll, so we aren't talking about a whole lot of fans, making it an easy balance to swing either way with relatively small numbers of voters. Meanwhile here's Scalzi telling his fellow travellers how to vote, and more details on the exact votes here.
Meh, digging into the numbers a bit, it seems 5950 people voted. For contrast 8363 people voted on the last slashdot poll, so we aren't talking about a whole lot of fans, making it an easy balance to swing either way with relatively small numbers of voters. There's more detail on the breakdown of the voting here.
You do realise wikipedia has banned feminist editors from articles to with gamergate, right? It can hardly be considered a reliable source when it comes to gender politics either.
Exactly, it's a lengthy rambling screed intended to paint a particualr political picture.
From that same article: "Consider: A woman named Adria Richards Twitter-shames two white dudes for cracking off-color jokes at PyCon, a tech developer conference (and then is fired and fields murder threats)." To say that it's a bit slanted is quite the understatement.
Also you should read the comments for a more balanced view.
That's a good point. If there's one thing I take very seriously it's privacy, so I won't be upgrading to windows 10. I'm not paranoid or whatever but I'm really starting to feel very uncomfortable with mass corporate data-harvesting, which becomes mass government data harvesting very easily. I guess I'll have to run programs without an adequate open source alternative such as photoshop in an emulator or something. However in the unlikely event that the EU raps their knuckles I might consider hanging in there a bit longer, purely for the sake of convenience.
Right, so why aren't we mandating that plumbing be taught in schools?
No, it doesn't. How's that manananggal movie coming along kuya, as we're on the subject of whackjobs?
Your vacuous comment addresses exactly nothing I've said. When you're done frothing at the mouth maybe try reading it again.
kids need to learn computer programming. it's a basic part of the world we live in now
Computers are a basic part of the world we live in, computer programming isn't, in the same way that people need to know how to drive a car but they don't need to know how to engineer one.
all serious countries in the world are ramping up computer science education.
Not really, no.
it's like it's 1800s and people are trying to get more engineering education... but some luddite crackpot assholes are screaming against that trend
People weren't trying to get more engineering education in the 1800s, the upper classes were receiving a classical education and the rest were learning trades, if they were fortunate.
why?
for what retarded agenda is this propaganda drumbeat against CS education on slashdot anyway?
i can't even understand the upside for resisting computer programming and computer science education
computers are evil? we're going to preserve jobs for old fat mediocre programmers by keeping kids dumb? some sort of conspiratard freak out?
is it just "companies are evil, and companies want more CS education, therefore, resist CS education... hurrr durrr"
what is the agenda exactly with this moronic propaganda on slashdot?
and slashdot, can you please just squelch this retarded puerile crap in the future please? it does not serve your audience, your site is being taken over by some wackjob fringe
is it just one useless douchebag troll with enough commitment to flood the submission queue with his mental diarrhea?
Programmers are expensive. They're expensive because programming is difficult and not many people take to it. Therefore the objection most have to corporate entities blatantly and openly trying to influence the national education system to ease the supply side of the equation could well be characterised as "stop wasting our kids time for greedy corporate pigs".
Simples, no?
If you read my comment again you'll see the part where I said "there will be a window where plenty of money can be made" without denying the long term effects on the value of platinum.
You're assuming we'll go from the current scarcity to kilotons of the stuff raining from the sky. While it will gradually lose value, there will be a window where plenty of money can be made. And of course with an abundant supply of a substance come new uses and demand.
I give up. Listen if you think we don't have copyrights in Europe you should go edit this page because clearly all of the editors and copyright lawyers and the government copyright departments and all that are delusional.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
b) we all get fed up with the principal actors in these terrorist plots, collectively go crusades 2.0 on their backwards asses and forcibly drag their sorry excuse for a culture out of the bronze age.
Eh no, that would be less crusades 2.0 and more scramble for Africa, whose main justification was "forcibly dragging their sorry excuse for a culture out of the stone age".
I live in Europe. Copyright absolutely does exist here, and moral rights don't mean what you seem to think they mean. My original comment "there's actually some debate about whether or not you can transfer copyrights in any Berne-signatory country" was explicitly a reference to licensing copyrights and would also refer to the need for things like creative commons licensing, even in the US.
More information can be found here and note in particular for this case: "German courts also often will imply a contractual transfer of ownership to the employer based upon an employment agreement."
a) copyright does not exist in Europe
It most certainly does. Also, what?
b) we have "moral rights" instead
c) "moral rights" can not be "transferred at all"
Moral rights are mostly about the right of the content creators to publicly identify themselves as such, and to maintain the integrity of their work.
Wow, starting with the Berne convention but you never have read it? The Berne convention explicitly states that the "copyright" sticks to the creator unless there is a written contract
...which would be work for hire...
If the 2nd Amendment is a civil right, what purpose do arms serve the citizen?
To overthrow a tyrannical government, should it come to that. As far as I'm aware that's why the amendment was created.
(a freak out over crime, which was actually solved by better policing and sentencing)
There;'s a fairly compelling body of evidence indicating that crime rates fell at the same time and in the same places as atmospheric lead pollutants decreased.
There's nothing about likelihood of use in the US constitution either though.
There's actually some debate about whether or not you can transfer copyrights in any Berne-signatory country, which is most of them. However since the food was created as part of a work for hire agreement, whoever paid for it should own full copyrights, as in the chef never had copyright in the first place.
Does the sight of a woman's nipple fill you with god fearing rage?
For a lot of people monogamy is secure, comfortable, and satisfies their sexual needs
No, it really doesn't. It may provide women with some transitory security as far as child rearing goes but to claim monogamy is the de facto best option is a sorry punchline.
Pretty much. The Verge straight up blames gamergate and the Daily Dot is currently featuring an article about how JK Rowling's upcoming production is just too damn white. This kind of behaviour is typical of the social justice brigade, whenever people start pointing out the many intellectual incoherencies in their hatemongering, they shut the discussion down.
Yeah, it may be a signature the size of a bird but it's a bird moving at a thousand kilometers an hour...
I think our first major offworld outposts should be space stations built out of raw materials extracted from asteroids. We can control the atmosphere, the environment, crucially the gravity, expand that living space forever as the population grows, and the raw materials are in complete abundance. Going to Mars to establish colonies will look nothing like the wild west, and will probably be much more difficult than establishing stations in space.