So, what keeps the shippers from sticking a huge resistor and a low-current LED into a plastic housing, shoving the battery in (hey look, it's a low-power long-life flashlight!) and using that to ship? You could make them extra-huge to store backup batteries, even.
Why go to the trouble. There's plenty of other shipping companies out there with better reputations and better services. I think if there's any real impact from this change it is that more products will make it to their destinations since they'll be shipped by reputable carriers.
US banned Cat Stevens, so you don't even need to be anti-social to be banned.
He was suspected of having ties to terrorists, this was the right decision. Do you propose that because he's famous they should have ignored this and just rolled the dice?
Umm.. have you been outside in the past few years? Perhaps read news articles that aren't tailored for nerds? Assuming you live in America, you are in a police state.
Smug satisfaction is enormously pleasurable; but there is an open line of argument about the question of the efficacy of economic sanctions, which this story serves as a case of(along with the not-really-news that serious violence usually drives off and/or kills off the local human capital)...
Depending on the local economy, how the local government is funded, how effective or ineffective a set of economic sanctions is, and probably enough other variables that only a hardened social scientist would be comfortable drawing conclusions, there is the potential for sanctions to hurt the local despot's local enemies more than his local allies and critical supply sources. It's also possible that you end up hurting both, or that your sanctions are so porous as to be irrelevant.
I agree, we should drop the sanctions and partake in carpet bombing instead.
Why developers who want to control their cpu keep putting someone else between themselves and their hardware. C/C++ and many other higher level languages are functional and productive in the right hands and don't have these copyright/patent/etc issues that Java/Oracle (insert third party here) have. In other words, you can either control the computer or let them tell you what you can do with your computer. Take your pick.
Java community you perplex me to no end.
Things were damn near utopian with java before oracle bought sun. Java devs don't instantly hate something they've come to be rather fond of instantly when some shitball company buys it? Surprise, surprise..
It might run JavaFX for you but for me it doesn't run a damn thing. Why? Because I can't seem to ORDER one! Well, unless I go over to ebay and pay $200 for one...
PLEASE RAMP UP PRODUCTION, PI TEAM!
I remember when I joined Slashdot 5+ years ago, Kuro5hin being bad was the joke.
Now that Slashdot seems to be becoming the joke, where do we go?
Why can't we have nice things? Why is every community we end up going to get shit all over by the idiots in corporate or wherever and turned into a hellhole? See: Facebook, Slashdot, and hundreds of other websites.
Money, and they see users as a commodity that can be sold for money to advertisers.
And you trust a plane-load of tired, usually dehydrated, and currently alarmed passengers to accurately gauge and honestly report their own body temps? It's a good thing you don't handle events like these for a living.
Just out of curiosity, why do you say airplane passengers are usually dehydrated?
by the time you hit the age of 18 then it is unlikely you will live a long and free life here
Citation, please. Or at least some non-rabid babbling, if you can muster it.
One way to avoid a premature death is to make sure that you don't die of a horrible tropical disease you've picked up from someone spreading it around in an aircraft on their way back from Uganda. But thanks for the really insightful perspective.
This article is really all the citation I need to prove my point.
He's fine now and has been for a while. He got sick because of poor oral hygiene.
That must have been one nasty set of chompers. I've known people who brushed.. maybe monthly, but it was nowhere near enough to actually get them sick.
I actually had an apple rep suggest we install mac mini's as servers in a datacenter to support our apple footprint! Apple is clearly not even remotely interested in corporate users.
The summary is, as usual, misleading. Caitlyn Martin didn't post this in a DistroWatch article, she (and some other posters) mentioned it in the comments section of that website. She also didn't say she was moving the derived distro to a new base, she said she and the rest of the development team would be voting on the issue as to whether to move to a different base.
Honestly, how bad does a person's comprehension skills have to be to submit this kind of summary?
I think it's more likely sensationalism rather than poor comprehension. I don't think there are any "news" sources that don't participate in sensationalism these days. Slashdot has the misfortune of having a reader base that is likely to notice.
Dude, I totally have a set of those walnut creek cd's as well! Hard to believe I used to pay someone for discs back then rather than just downloading and burning like I would today. Oh, how times change.
It's interesting that you mention left wing, because already when you said right wing, I wondered what you meant by it. I'm often fuzzy regarding what should be called one or the other (if the terms are at all relevant outside the French revolution), so I'm collecting samples of how other people use the words. Today, I'm sampling you.:-) What do you have in mind when you call Hitler the movement right wing? (Amusingly, we're talking about the National Socialist German Workers' Party, but what's in a name?) Supporting the crown and the estates? Dismantling the state ("taxation is theft")? Encouraging capitalism? Belief in Christian ideals? Those are traits that I see as characterising the Right in one context or another. (Though I don't see them as particularly representative of the Nazis.)
The short version: Traditionally, the Left includes progressives, social liberals, social democrats, socialists, communists and anarchists. The Right includes conservatives, reactionaries, capitalists, monarchists, nationalists and fascists.
Yeah but this is Apple, and as with everything Apple does it's their innovation and has never been done before. It's also important we all know about it.
In another 2 years I guarantee you Apple will be renowned as the company that invented the workplace caffeteria, it'll have patents on it, and it'll be suing for and extracting royalties out of every other corporation that copies this great innovation of theirs.
I really think this is no big deal. My office has a cafeteria, and the building is "secured". It's been that way since it was built in the 80's. I realize this place will probably have better food and might be down the street but I think it's the same basic concept.
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The real news here is that someone somewhere was apparently shipping products OUT of the united states.
So, what keeps the shippers from sticking a huge resistor and a low-current LED into a plastic housing, shoving the battery in (hey look, it's a low-power long-life flashlight!) and using that to ship? You could make them extra-huge to store backup batteries, even.
Why go to the trouble. There's plenty of other shipping companies out there with better reputations and better services. I think if there's any real impact from this change it is that more products will make it to their destinations since they'll be shipped by reputable carriers.
Seriously, it seems like they are making it as difficult as they possibly can to "do the right thing". What a PITA.
US banned Cat Stevens, so you don't even need to be anti-social to be banned.
He was suspected of having ties to terrorists, this was the right decision. Do you propose that because he's famous they should have ignored this and just rolled the dice?
and seems to think we are in a police state.
Umm.. have you been outside in the past few years? Perhaps read news articles that aren't tailored for nerds? Assuming you live in America, you are in a police state.
Smug satisfaction is enormously pleasurable; but there is an open line of argument about the question of the efficacy of economic sanctions, which this story serves as a case of(along with the not-really-news that serious violence usually drives off and/or kills off the local human capital)... Depending on the local economy, how the local government is funded, how effective or ineffective a set of economic sanctions is, and probably enough other variables that only a hardened social scientist would be comfortable drawing conclusions, there is the potential for sanctions to hurt the local despot's local enemies more than his local allies and critical supply sources. It's also possible that you end up hurting both, or that your sanctions are so porous as to be irrelevant.
I agree, we should drop the sanctions and partake in carpet bombing instead.
I registered with element 14. I didn't realize these guys were actually manufacturing the boards, I thought they were just resellers.
Why developers who want to control their cpu keep putting someone else between themselves and their hardware. C/C++ and many other higher level languages are functional and productive in the right hands and don't have these copyright/patent/etc issues that Java/Oracle (insert third party here) have. In other words, you can either control the computer or let them tell you what you can do with your computer. Take your pick.
Java community you perplex me to no end.
Things were damn near utopian with java before oracle bought sun. Java devs don't instantly hate something they've come to be rather fond of instantly when some shitball company buys it? Surprise, surprise..
It might run JavaFX for you but for me it doesn't run a damn thing. Why? Because I can't seem to ORDER one! Well, unless I go over to ebay and pay $200 for one... PLEASE RAMP UP PRODUCTION, PI TEAM!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmS5GTrb72Y
Does this count as doing evil?
Nah.. after this one must conclude that it would have to actually come to murder for Google to consider something "evil".
I remember when I joined Slashdot 5+ years ago, Kuro5hin being bad was the joke.
Now that Slashdot seems to be becoming the joke, where do we go?
Why can't we have nice things? Why is every community we end up going to get shit all over by the idiots in corporate or wherever and turned into a hellhole? See: Facebook, Slashdot, and hundreds of other websites.
Money, and they see users as a commodity that can be sold for money to advertisers.
Who wrote that headline and how can we make him stop writing new ones.
Call The Telegraph and complain would be my suggestion. Author: Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent
Telegraph General Switchboard +44 20 7931 2000
I'm not really sure.. THEREFORE ALIENS!!!
no no no, it was definitely a 'squatch. lol
And you trust a plane-load of tired, usually dehydrated, and currently alarmed passengers to accurately gauge and honestly report their own body temps? It's a good thing you don't handle events like these for a living.
Just out of curiosity, why do you say airplane passengers are usually dehydrated?
by the time you hit the age of 18 then it is unlikely you will live a long and free life here
Citation, please. Or at least some non-rabid babbling, if you can muster it. One way to avoid a premature death is to make sure that you don't die of a horrible tropical disease you've picked up from someone spreading it around in an aircraft on their way back from Uganda. But thanks for the really insightful perspective.
This article is really all the citation I need to prove my point.
I saw something they called a "squirrel" and it didn't have any tentacles!
FAKE!
Geesh... it's getting bad. Don't say anything to police... don't ask hospital personnel anything
This is America, if you don't know that by the time you hit the age of 18 then it is unlikely you will live a long and free life here.
He's fine now and has been for a while. He got sick because of poor oral hygiene.
That must have been one nasty set of chompers. I've known people who brushed.. maybe monthly, but it was nowhere near enough to actually get them sick.
and where are all of the mac servers?
I actually had an apple rep suggest we install mac mini's as servers in a datacenter to support our apple footprint! Apple is clearly not even remotely interested in corporate users.
The summary is, as usual, misleading. Caitlyn Martin didn't post this in a DistroWatch article, she (and some other posters) mentioned it in the comments section of that website. She also didn't say she was moving the derived distro to a new base, she said she and the rest of the development team would be voting on the issue as to whether to move to a different base.
Honestly, how bad does a person's comprehension skills have to be to submit this kind of summary?
I think it's more likely sensationalism rather than poor comprehension. I don't think there are any "news" sources that don't participate in sensationalism these days. Slashdot has the misfortune of having a reader base that is likely to notice.
Dude, I totally have a set of those walnut creek cd's as well! Hard to believe I used to pay someone for discs back then rather than just downloading and burning like I would today. Oh, how times change.
It's interesting that you mention left wing, because already when you said right wing, I wondered what you meant by it. I'm often fuzzy regarding what should be called one or the other (if the terms are at all relevant outside the French revolution), so I'm collecting samples of how other people use the words. Today, I'm sampling you. :-) What do you have in mind when you call Hitler the movement right wing? (Amusingly, we're talking about the National Socialist German Workers' Party, but what's in a name?) Supporting the crown and the estates? Dismantling the state ("taxation is theft")? Encouraging capitalism? Belief in Christian ideals? Those are traits that I see as characterising the Right in one context or another. (Though I don't see them as particularly representative of the Nazis.)
The cure for ignorance is to read. Here's a place to start... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_politics or go to the library and use a regular encyclopedia.
The short version: Traditionally, the Left includes progressives, social liberals, social democrats, socialists, communists and anarchists. The Right includes conservatives, reactionaries, capitalists, monarchists, nationalists and fascists.
Yeah but this is Apple, and as with everything Apple does it's their innovation and has never been done before. It's also important we all know about it.
In another 2 years I guarantee you Apple will be renowned as the company that invented the workplace caffeteria, it'll have patents on it, and it'll be suing for and extracting royalties out of every other corporation that copies this great innovation of theirs.
Only if the building has rounded corners.
I really think this is no big deal. My office has a cafeteria, and the building is "secured". It's been that way since it was built in the 80's. I realize this place will probably have better food and might be down the street but I think it's the same basic concept.