A story about a supposedly educated productive member of society completely ignoring and disregarding the blatant and clear warnings and advice of someone who was in control of a potentially risky situation... and you completely absolve the a--hat who should never have been allowed to procreate? No wonder you posted as AC...
Sure the dog owner should have taken extra steps to protect herself from people too full of their own self-righteousness to listen to those in command of the situation... but to lay the blame solely at her feet is disingenuous at best and sets a dangerous precedent at worst. Oh, I'm sorry -- that precedent is already set... we're too stupid to be responsible for anything we do these days, even when we are warned.
I want to patent the process of applying for a patent. Then, I'll make a mint in licensing!
I'm not greedy... after my first billion I'll start rejecting all patent process licensing requests and we should start to see a decline in stupid patents.
Dell's in business for the money... if this increases sales even 1% over what their sales would have been without it, then it doesn't matter one whit if it's PC or stereotypical or random BS... it's successful marketing.
Actually I think you're on to the more important aspect in that while merit or higher pay will encourage those who want to and can teach, the real problem is getting rid of the ones who see it as simply a paycheck (albeit likely a small one in most areas) that can't be easily taken away.
I once overheard in a restaurant someone say something to the effect of "well, babysitting a bunch of kids is better than sitting around collecting wellfare..." I'm guessing they were teachers based upon the topics they seemed to be discussing, but I don't know for sure.
Either way, if she was a teacher, paying the others more won't help the kids saddled with her... we gotta fire the crappy ones, too.
Then I lost the key due to a hard drive and floppy disk failure within the same week (wow, that dates this a bit...)
Now I have these wonderful encrypted documents that contain proof of alien intervention with the history of our planet and I can't get at it anymore...
... feels as if the government *must do something* owing to his loss...
Hell's bells, why do we excuse this ridiculous assumption everyone has that the government is the solution...
Did he teach his child to be aware of his surroundings, or was the government supposed to provide cops to watch his every step?
Did he consider moving since the neighborhood was turning to shit or did he expect the government to clean up the streets at some other tax payers expense?
Did he teach his kid not to piss off and enrage the unstable or was the government supposed to put him in a protective custody so he could shoot off his mouth without consequences?
Maybe none of these apply, maybe all of them do, but damn... this insistance that we can't make changes ourselves, that it HAS to be done by the government is 80% of why the economy in both our countries is sucking the crack pipe right now.
Don't know about you, but my daughter has known for the last 10 years (she's 14) that if she's ever uncomfortable being somewhere, get off the streets and call me, anytime and anyplace. And I've taught her to be paranoid an err on the side of caution... should I have to? Well, not if we lived in Candyland...
But we don't... so get off your ass, protect yourselves, and then see what you can do to make the place better... after that, then maybe the government can help. But if you haven't done that first, you make idiots look smart and the crime situation is a direct result of your (and your predecessors) actions.
And a minute later, some software company is "extending" the format because it doesn't let them include data from Blah in the format of BlahBlah usable by their blahblahblah equipment...
Standards are great, but a federally mandated standard is sure way to stifle innovation because it makes it difficult if not illegal to exceed the standard.
I've yet to go to a hospital and have them tell me the information sent to them from my previous doctor is unusable and they have to redo all my tests and throw out my previous medical history... otoh I'll admit I haven't had to go in often, so I can't comment on how big of a problem this might be... but I'll bet that for most of us, it isn't.
Standards evolve because they help the industry... if they haven't evolved, isn't it possible that the industry won't benefit from them? I mean I like a good industrial conspiracy as much as the next guy... but sometimes they're just a good bed time story...
So a government like Franco's Spain or Mao's China could be considered democratic as long as you had the right to leave your own country or the government could throw you out?
I wouldn't call it democracy, but it's certainly more free than many dictatorships... this is called voting with your feet, and as long as the citizens don't become capital criminals when exercising it, then yes, these regimes are somewhat more democratic than others in history have sometimes been.
... "Yeah I did X, but X shouldn't be a crime" is a fine political statement, but obviously not a defense in a court of law, while X is still a crime by current law.
I'm sorry, you don't belong on Slashdot as you have too much intelligence... this very argument has been used to justify illegal immigration and marijuana too often on this site for me to condone it's use as anything other than a get out of jail free card here...
It's easier to sue a private entity than a government, esp since the government can pass legislation limiting damages it's liable for and even what it can be liable for.
I suppose they could do so as well for the private sector, but that would be considered tort reform and we can't have a government of lawyers limiting the fees their brethren can take in, now can we?
Because, at least in most places, it's illegal. Against the law. A crime.
I'll agree with you that it shouldn't be.
But when you apply to a job with the police force, or when your name comes up as a potential nominee as a federal judge, I won't give a rats a$$ that you smoked marijuana... I'll light the torches and bring out the pitch forks because you believe yourself above or better than the law and now want to help administer it.
If misrepresenting yourself on an immigration form is a civil matter (and I'm not saying it is, I honestly don't know...) then the burden of proof is "over 50%".
A criminal matter, say bombing or gunning people down on the highway, or even planning to, has a burden of proof at "beyond a shadow of a doubt" which is much harder to prove.
If so, that would be yet another reason governments tend to run worse than private enterprises.:)
Not to say that government as good as private enterprise or better, but that's some shady logic you're using to for a general indictment of government.
Maybe I'm being nitpicky, but I don't think he used this one item to suggest governments run worse... somehow "yet another reason" suggests to me that he has more to add to the list...
but I forget...
This is Slashdot... actual understanding of what someone is saying is a detriment to general merriment.
"...comsumers desire high-quality digital content on the Internet, and it is not being provided in any widespread, legal fashion."
At one point in America's history, this would have looked like an opportunity for profit... if the demand exists, as this argument asserts piracy shows, whose fault is it that a "legal fashion" for aquiring content doesn't exist?
What about government monitoring if you're *not* under justifiable suspicion?
I'm not saying that government == bad; they do provide usefull and necessary services. But like any entity, they can suffer from various levels of corruption... improperly served warrants, evidence tampering, "lost" fbi background check documentation, blacklisting (circa 1930's?), etc. Sure, these aren't the norm (well, we hope;-), but they happen.
The way I see it, encryption and privacy tools aren't *intended* to aid me in comitting a crime. They are *intended* to prevent a crime from being commited against me. This applies to web server SSL certificates for secure on-line ordering, just as much as it applies to personal e-mail and web browsing.
Can they be abused? Sure. But I can also think of a million uses for a fork that probably aren't on the *intended* list for kitchen utensils... and some would probably land me in jail for committing a crime. Not because I used a fork to commit the crime, but because I committed the crime.
Let the government set up an anonymizing service. They are, in theory, there for our protection. Just don't make it illegal for private companies to do the same. I mean, even though the police can offer me protection if I receive threatening mail, I also have the option of hiring a private bodyguard. I see no reason on-line privacy services have to be an either-or proposition. Allow both and choose the type of service you are most comfortable with.
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Directive 10-289 anybody?
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Nice...
A story about a supposedly educated productive member of society completely ignoring and disregarding the blatant and clear warnings and advice of someone who was in control of a potentially risky situation... and you completely absolve the a--hat who should never have been allowed to procreate? No wonder you posted as AC...
Sure the dog owner should have taken extra steps to protect herself from people too full of their own self-righteousness to listen to those in command of the situation... but to lay the blame solely at her feet is disingenuous at best and sets a dangerous precedent at worst. Oh, I'm sorry -- that precedent is already set... we're too stupid to be responsible for anything we do these days, even when we are warned.
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I drank what?
I want to patent the process of applying for a patent. Then, I'll make a mint in licensing!
I'm not greedy... after my first billion I'll start rejecting all patent process licensing requests and we should start to see a decline in stupid patents.
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I drank what?
Dell's in business for the money... if this increases sales even 1% over what their sales would have been without it, then it doesn't matter one whit if it's PC or stereotypical or random BS... it's successful marketing.
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The check's in the e-mail.
Actually I think you're on to the more important aspect in that while merit or higher pay will encourage those who want to and can teach, the real problem is getting rid of the ones who see it as simply a paycheck (albeit likely a small one in most areas) that can't be easily taken away.
I once overheard in a restaurant someone say something to the effect of "well, babysitting a bunch of kids is better than sitting around collecting wellfare..." I'm guessing they were teachers based upon the topics they seemed to be discussing, but I don't know for sure.
Either way, if she was a teacher, paying the others more won't help the kids saddled with her... we gotta fire the crappy ones, too.
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I drank what?
Yeah, I used to do this...
Then I lost the key due to a hard drive and floppy disk failure within the same week (wow, that dates this a bit...)
Now I have these wonderful encrypted documents that contain proof of alien intervention with the history of our planet and I can't get at it anymore...
D*MN YOU GRAYS!!!
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... feels as if the government *must do something* owing to his loss...
Hell's bells, why do we excuse this ridiculous assumption everyone has that the government is the solution...
Did he teach his child to be aware of his surroundings, or was the government supposed to provide cops to watch his every step?
Did he consider moving since the neighborhood was turning to shit or did he expect the government to clean up the streets at some other tax payers expense?
Did he teach his kid not to piss off and enrage the unstable or was the government supposed to put him in a protective custody so he could shoot off his mouth without consequences?
Maybe none of these apply, maybe all of them do, but damn... this insistance that we can't make changes ourselves, that it HAS to be done by the government is 80% of why the economy in both our countries is sucking the crack pipe right now.
Don't know about you, but my daughter has known for the last 10 years (she's 14) that if she's ever uncomfortable being somewhere, get off the streets and call me, anytime and anyplace. And I've taught her to be paranoid an err on the side of caution... should I have to? Well, not if we lived in Candyland...
But we don't... so get off your ass, protect yourselves, and then see what you can do to make the place better... after that, then maybe the government can help. But if you haven't done that first, you make idiots look smart and the crime situation is a direct result of your (and your predecessors) actions.
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And a minute later, some software company is "extending" the format because it doesn't let them include data from Blah in the format of BlahBlah usable by their blahblahblah equipment...
Standards are great, but a federally mandated standard is sure way to stifle innovation because it makes it difficult if not illegal to exceed the standard.
I've yet to go to a hospital and have them tell me the information sent to them from my previous doctor is unusable and they have to redo all my tests and throw out my previous medical history... otoh I'll admit I haven't had to go in often, so I can't comment on how big of a problem this might be... but I'll bet that for most of us, it isn't.
Standards evolve because they help the industry... if they haven't evolved, isn't it possible that the industry won't benefit from them? I mean I like a good industrial conspiracy as much as the next guy... but sometimes they're just a good bed time story...
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I drank what?
So a government like Franco's Spain or Mao's China could be considered democratic as long as you had the right to leave your own country or the government could throw you out?
I wouldn't call it democracy, but it's certainly more free than many dictatorships... this is called voting with your feet, and as long as the citizens don't become capital criminals when exercising it, then yes, these regimes are somewhat more democratic than others in history have sometimes been.
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... "Yeah I did X, but X shouldn't be a crime" is a fine political statement, but obviously not a defense in a court of law, while X is still a crime by current law.
I'm sorry, you don't belong on Slashdot as you have too much intelligence... this very argument has been used to justify illegal immigration and marijuana too often on this site for me to condone it's use as anything other than a get out of jail free card here...
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I dunno...
It's easier to sue a private entity than a government, esp since the government can pass legislation limiting damages it's liable for and even what it can be liable for.
I suppose they could do so as well for the private sector, but that would be considered tort reform and we can't have a government of lawyers limiting the fees their brethren can take in, now can we?
And make the government the sole holder of this information...
At least our new corporate overlords need us for something other than our tax money -- as cogs in their vast metropolis...
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And much, much more boring...
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Because, at least in most places, it's illegal. Against the law. A crime.
I'll agree with you that it shouldn't be.
But when you apply to a job with the police force, or when your name comes up as a potential nominee as a federal judge, I won't give a rats a$$ that you smoked marijuana... I'll light the torches and bring out the pitch forks because you believe yourself above or better than the law and now want to help administer it.
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There can be many dissenting opinions and sometimes are, even of the majority opinion.
The opinion(s) of those who voted against is more properly referred to as the minority opinion(s).
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If misrepresenting yourself on an immigration form is a civil matter (and I'm not saying it is, I honestly don't know...) then the burden of proof is "over 50%".
A criminal matter, say bombing or gunning people down on the highway, or even planning to, has a burden of proof at "beyond a shadow of a doubt" which is much harder to prove.
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If so, that would be yet another reason governments tend to run worse than private enterprises. :)
Not to say that government as good as private enterprise or better, but that's some shady logic you're using to for a general indictment of government.
Maybe I'm being nitpicky, but I don't think he used this one item to suggest governments run worse... somehow "yet another reason" suggests to me that he has more to add to the list...
but I forget...
This is Slashdot... actual understanding of what someone is saying is a detriment to general merriment.
Great... this explains why I can't get my xkcd fix for the day!
Just to point out the obvious...
"...comsumers desire high-quality digital content on the Internet, and it is not being provided in any widespread, legal fashion."
At one point in America's history, this would have looked like an opportunity for profit... if the demand exists, as this argument asserts piracy shows, whose fault is it that a "legal fashion" for aquiring content doesn't exist?
What about government monitoring if you're *not* under justifiable suspicion?
;-), but they happen.
I'm not saying that government == bad; they do provide usefull and necessary services. But like any entity, they can suffer from various levels of corruption... improperly served warrants, evidence tampering, "lost" fbi background check documentation, blacklisting (circa 1930's?), etc. Sure, these aren't the norm (well, we hope
The way I see it, encryption and privacy tools aren't *intended* to aid me in comitting a crime. They are *intended* to prevent a crime from being commited against me. This applies to web server SSL certificates for secure on-line ordering, just as much as it applies to personal e-mail and web browsing.
Can they be abused? Sure. But I can also think of a million uses for a fork that probably aren't on the *intended* list for kitchen utensils... and some would probably land me in jail for committing a crime. Not because I used a fork to commit the crime, but because I committed the crime.
Let the government set up an anonymizing service. They are, in theory, there for our protection. Just don't make it illegal for private companies to do the same. I mean, even though the police can offer me protection if I receive threatening mail, I also have the option of hiring a private bodyguard. I see no reason on-line privacy services have to be an either-or proposition. Allow both and choose the type of service you are most comfortable with.