No wipers? This is sure to run afoul of the powerful Brotherhood of Parking Lot Leaflet Stuffers union. BoPLLS will be drafting model legislation to ban its use.
I doubt it, have you ever used that rain-x stuff that makes the water bead on your windshield? When I did, I found the beads of water to be very distracting while driving.
I'm not talking about a potential loss of revenue for MapleStory, I'm talking about the gain in revenue for UMaple
Kind of like the difference between downloading a movie off TPB and selling copies of the movie for a profit
Copyright law is supposed to protect the artist, not stop people from making a profit. The problem is that the people who have the artistic talent are not seeing results for their hard work, not that someone else is making money. You have to remember that the wrongdoing is against the artist. What harm does the money do to the artist, over giving it away for free? About the only difference I can see is that the giving away for free simply saturates the market more with the illegitimate goods, since more people would take it. But for some reason (latent jealousy is about the only reason I can come up with), making money is frowned upon, and even though we don't prosecute it, it somehow makes every crime worse.
That's definitely a problem, but not the one at issue here. I'd say that problem has to do with the contracts artists enter into with big companies to sell their work for them. In this case the artist (or developer) was already paid the pittance they agreed to write the software for I'm quite sure.
..and the interviewer if he googles will find that article and see why. the guy is a legend now. bet you 20 bucks he reads slashdot.
If I was considering an applicant and the background check came up with a sex offender hit I wouldn't waste another second on him. In this case the guy wold be getting a raw deal but there's far too many engineers out there without a major red flag to make further research worth my time.
The article specifically mentions being a software engineer at a startup or startup like environment is a great job to have, because you get to sit in cafes with your macbook air all day.
As a software engineer at a startup, I understand that sentiment. I do have a lot of flexibility. I can work from anywhere, come in at any time, leave at any time. The work I do is fun, and considering that there the management hierarchy is essentially flat, I get to make important customer facing decisions AND implement them.
There is a big downside to this. There is a very high risk when you work into startups. You could be rolling in success one month, and the next month you could be forced to shutdown. TFA and most comments on startups looking inside out, don't often write about the stress that comes with this kind of risk. And you know what? We have a lot of fun, but we have plenty of 60 hour weeks too, when shit hits the fan.
I miss the days when my workweeks were only 60 hours...
P.S. It will be a cold day in hell before you find Police patching potholes.
True. Though I'd never thought about... that would be a really good idea. They're out there anyway, 99% of their job is idle time and they've got the vehicle and equipment to block off a lane of traffic.
Potholes and the asshole of a citizen are two different things. They are only interested in putting things into one of the two.
Business ethics gets very complicated very quickly.
Here is an example. Your job is to sell your product to a foreign country (You sell a good product at a good price). In this country offering bribes is common and legal, however it is considered immoral and illegal for you and your culture and country to offer the bribes. So you go to the business deal the the owner says, you are offering a fine offer however what is in it for me (wink, wink).
Do you.
1. Turn down the bribe and loose the business.
2. Offer the bribe and hope they don't find out.
3. Offer to close the deal near your headquarters in Orlando Florida, and give him prepaid tickets and cover expenses (and his family who should be leaving his side) to come to headquarters to fill out the deal.
The problem is the more diverse set of people you meet the more muddy ethics get.
It only seems complicated because (most?) businesspeople think there are a separate set of rules just for them. Hence the fact that the term "business ethics" even exists. Option 1 is the correct answer.
So, not only are we not innocent, we also get to pay – through taxes – for the machinery that will be used to prove our guilt.
Why is it that we aren't voting the bastards out?
And bottomless storage? Maybe. Maybe I'll set up a cron job to automatically email myself a different uuencoded DVD movie every day. I guess that'll work until they make doing that a felony.
Where have you been the last 12 years.. or maybe longer? Who you vote for is completely irrelevant.
Soon will be applied to land pirates too. When you get up from your computer after downloading a movie, watch out for incoming automated missiles. Yesterday, they tried throwing a whole plane at some guy who downloaded a copy of Microsoft office illegally.
Lawyers didn't make it up, it's a well used word here in the UK. It's just fallen out of use in US English.
No, but they do everything they can (such as use archaic words like treble) to confuse the people and prevent them from understanding laws and court proceedings without hiring one of them.
50 cent roll of electrical tape. Cut a 3x3cm square using scissors. Place it over the camera aperature.
1$ bottle of superglue. The watery runny kind that whicks up into paper, and has a long neck applicator. Lay the television temporarily on a soft, cushioned surface face up, say, on the sofa. Into the microphone grill, gently dribble the runny superglue. Leave in this position for 2 to 3 hours for maximal cone set. Return television to the entertainment center, and feel marginally safer.
The first one is obvious how it works, but the second helps prevent the vibrational movement of the microphone pickup, greatly reducing its sensitivity. Sufficiently glued so that the cone can't move the coil, or the piezo crystal can't be flexed, and you have basically neutered it without opening the system unit.
These little steps are not hard at all. The hard part is staunchly refusing to buy such an intrusive Little whore of a gadget in the first place, as the powers that be all try like mad to get you to swallow that shit pill, and telescreen sensors become standard features.
Shit like this is why I refuse to buy stuff like the kinect. While you can unplug the ethernet cable on your console to ensure the thought police and social services don't see you spanking junior on candid camera, (with audio and motion tracking!), the act of buying an obvious spying device and installing it in your home tells fucked up marketing assholes that you want MOAR spying. I don't want to send that message.
Or... just don't by a Samsung tv maybe? I'm thinking this might be the simpler option.
That's like saying "I'll drive Mercedes if the Audi-Speedometer finally works in it!".
Only if the majority of car buyers wanted their car specifically because they wanted an Audi-Speedometer. Most people don't care about details like that, they want their computer to run their games and apps, and they want it to do those things without much hassle. They might be willing to give up the functionality of running their games/apps as long as it's trendy, and still hassle-free. That's how I see it, anyway.
Torvold (main Linux fellow...) said that Android code will merge back into Linux in the next five years. If so, Linux via Android is going to be on tablets, etc, competing in some way for use in the office.
Slashdot Mirror
I hope they serve more than just apples.
Coming soon: the $900 iphone 6 featuring "MIT Glass". People will buy it anyway.
No wipers? This is sure to run afoul of the powerful Brotherhood of Parking Lot Leaflet Stuffers union. BoPLLS will be drafting model legislation to ban its use.
I doubt it, have you ever used that rain-x stuff that makes the water bead on your windshield? When I did, I found the beads of water to be very distracting while driving.
I thought most of anonymous was in prison after that last big bust a month or two ago. Didn't even know they were still operating.
Grr. This is a pet peeve of mine.
Copyright law is supposed to protect the artist, not stop people from making a profit. The problem is that the people who have the artistic talent are not seeing results for their hard work, not that someone else is making money. You have to remember that the wrongdoing is against the artist. What harm does the money do to the artist, over giving it away for free? About the only difference I can see is that the giving away for free simply saturates the market more with the illegitimate goods, since more people would take it. But for some reason (latent jealousy is about the only reason I can come up with), making money is frowned upon, and even though we don't prosecute it, it somehow makes every crime worse.
That's definitely a problem, but not the one at issue here. I'd say that problem has to do with the contracts artists enter into with big companies to sell their work for them. In this case the artist (or developer) was already paid the pittance they agreed to write the software for I'm quite sure.
It's a survival trait.
Right. Just like when I was a kid we used to say "skateboarding is not a crime".... until we got in trouble for it.
..and the interviewer if he googles will find that article and see why. the guy is a legend now. bet you 20 bucks he reads slashdot.
If I was considering an applicant and the background check came up with a sex offender hit I wouldn't waste another second on him. In this case the guy wold be getting a raw deal but there's far too many engineers out there without a major red flag to make further research worth my time.
There is no power involved. The only FCAT that matters is the 10th grade one. You need that to graduate.
3rd grade FCAT also matters. If a student does not pass 3rd grade FCAT the law says they can't be promoted to 4th.
Who's right doesn't matter, who has the power does!
Yes, but kiddies also need to be taught that it *ought* to work that way.
Otherwise some of them will get uppity later in life.
Then they'll end up posting on slashdot all the time.. we can't have that.
So when Apple starts selling the iGun, we should all be very afraid?
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/iphone-gun-accessory-for-augmented-reality-shooting/
The article specifically mentions being a software engineer at a startup or startup like environment is a great job to have, because you get to sit in cafes with your macbook air all day.
As a software engineer at a startup, I understand that sentiment. I do have a lot of flexibility. I can work from anywhere, come in at any time, leave at any time. The work I do is fun, and considering that there the management hierarchy is essentially flat, I get to make important customer facing decisions AND implement them.
There is a big downside to this. There is a very high risk when you work into startups. You could be rolling in success one month, and the next month you could be forced to shutdown. TFA and most comments on startups looking inside out, don't often write about the stress that comes with this kind of risk. And you know what? We have a lot of fun, but we have plenty of 60 hour weeks too, when shit hits the fan.
I miss the days when my workweeks were only 60 hours...
They are blocking free speech by users.
Chinese people don't have free speech.
P.S. It will be a cold day in hell before you find Police patching potholes.
True. Though I'd never thought about... that would be a really good idea. They're out there anyway, 99% of their job is idle time and they've got the vehicle and equipment to block off a lane of traffic.
Potholes and the asshole of a citizen are two different things. They are only interested in putting things into one of the two.
Business ethics gets very complicated very quickly. Here is an example. Your job is to sell your product to a foreign country (You sell a good product at a good price). In this country offering bribes is common and legal, however it is considered immoral and illegal for you and your culture and country to offer the bribes. So you go to the business deal the the owner says, you are offering a fine offer however what is in it for me (wink, wink). Do you. 1. Turn down the bribe and loose the business. 2. Offer the bribe and hope they don't find out. 3. Offer to close the deal near your headquarters in Orlando Florida, and give him prepaid tickets and cover expenses (and his family who should be leaving his side) to come to headquarters to fill out the deal. The problem is the more diverse set of people you meet the more muddy ethics get.
It only seems complicated because (most?) businesspeople think there are a separate set of rules just for them. Hence the fact that the term "business ethics" even exists. Option 1 is the correct answer.
So, not only are we not innocent, we also get to pay – through taxes – for the machinery that will be used to prove our guilt.
Why is it that we aren't voting the bastards out?
And bottomless storage? Maybe. Maybe I'll set up a cron job to automatically email myself a different uuencoded DVD movie every day. I guess that'll work until they make doing that a felony.
Where have you been the last 12 years.. or maybe longer? Who you vote for is completely irrelevant.
Soon will be applied to land pirates too. When you get up from your computer after downloading a movie, watch out for incoming automated missiles. Yesterday, they tried throwing a whole plane at some guy who downloaded a copy of Microsoft office illegally.
French press is better ...
I misread that and had a good chuckle for a moment. Perhaps I've seen one too many Bear Grylls jokes lately.
The terrorists aren't trying to get on our airplanes. The terrorists are blowing up Planned Parenthood clinics.
No, they're murdering infants by the hundreds of thousands.
Now here's the fun part (probably): Watch my post get modded into oblivion, while the parent stays at "5".
Let's hope so, since that post is as -1 Offtopic as they come.. not unlike this post...
It's the number that exposes Barack Obama as the antichrist.
http://www.scoreboard-canada.com/babylon-216obama.htm
Lawyers didn't make it up, it's a well used word here in the UK. It's just fallen out of use in US English.
No, but they do everything they can (such as use archaic words like treble) to confuse the people and prevent them from understanding laws and court proceedings without hiring one of them.
There ought to be a law.... oh wait.
http://media.fukung.net/images/9917/e5f144493d43160d7b51bd25bd24a138.gif
Oh hush. It's very easy.
50 cent roll of electrical tape. Cut a 3x3cm square using scissors. Place it over the camera aperature.
1$ bottle of superglue. The watery runny kind that whicks up into paper, and has a long neck applicator. Lay the television temporarily on a soft, cushioned surface face up, say, on the sofa. Into the microphone grill, gently dribble the runny superglue. Leave in this position for 2 to 3 hours for maximal cone set. Return television to the entertainment center, and feel marginally safer.
The first one is obvious how it works, but the second helps prevent the vibrational movement of the microphone pickup, greatly reducing its sensitivity. Sufficiently glued so that the cone can't move the coil, or the piezo crystal can't be flexed, and you have basically neutered it without opening the system unit.
These little steps are not hard at all. The hard part is staunchly refusing to buy such an intrusive Little whore of a gadget in the first place, as the powers that be all try like mad to get you to swallow that shit pill, and telescreen sensors become standard features.
Shit like this is why I refuse to buy stuff like the kinect. While you can unplug the ethernet cable on your console to ensure the thought police and social services don't see you spanking junior on candid camera, (with audio and motion tracking!), the act of buying an obvious spying device and installing it in your home tells fucked up marketing assholes that you want MOAR spying. I don't want to send that message.
Or... just don't by a Samsung tv maybe? I'm thinking this might be the simpler option.
Nothing of value was lost (or reduced).
That's like saying "I'll drive Mercedes if the Audi-Speedometer finally works in it!".
Only if the majority of car buyers wanted their car specifically because they wanted an Audi-Speedometer. Most people don't care about details like that, they want their computer to run their games and apps, and they want it to do those things without much hassle. They might be willing to give up the functionality of running their games/apps as long as it's trendy, and still hassle-free. That's how I see it, anyway.
Torvold (main Linux fellow...) said that Android code will merge back into Linux in the next five years. If so, Linux via Android is going to be on tablets, etc, competing in some way for use in the office.
It has already happened. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/19/0237245/linux-33-released