Slashdot is basically the techie equivalent of Fox News. We don't really come here to get information, we come here to get entertained and enraged by things that fit our point of view.
So, taking money from people (ie, taxes) are stealing, but you support a safety net. Where does the money for that come from? What about money for roads? The police? The military? Firefighters? Schools?
It sounds to me like you're defining "stealing" to mean "any government program that I don't like."
I'm not saying I disagree with you, but when you see a car with no person in the driver's seat, you don't expect it to move. Until people have time to adjust to seeing cars drive themselves, it could be a legitimate safety issue. I wouldn't have an issue with it being banned at first, at least until the majority of cars on the road can be used driverlessly and there can be a switchover.
The thing is, if he says he clocked you at 91, and you tell him you were actually only going 79... you've still admitted to speeding, with the exact same fine as if you were going 91 (I'm assuming reckless driving or similar charges comes in at +20 mph like most places).
Not to mention the fact you said your cruise control was set to a speed, rather than actually having looked at your speedometer. If you're going downhill, your car will probably be going considerably faster than your cruise control is set for (unless modern cruise controls actually apply breaks, which I haven't heard of).
I once saw two rabbits in what I assume was battle. The were both standing on their hind legs facing each other, and one of them jumped into the air and kicked the other one with the legs it had been standing on, then landed on its hind legs again. Most shocking/freaky animal behaviour I've ever actually seen in person.
How in the world have I just scrolled by a dozen furious replies to an obvious joke, and all are rated 5 Insightful? For fuck's sake, "stop whining about real people" didn't tip you off?
Over-zealous law enforcement, big media, and oppressive government isn't terrorism, it's fascism. Attacking countries at random is also not terrorism, it's more like imperialism or colonialism in the case of the US.
The problem is, it's pretty hard to tell the difference between freedom fighters and terrorists. If a fascist, imperialist nation is invading your poor country with the intent to install their own puppet governors, what are you going to do to keep them out? It's going to look a lot like terrorism, isn't it?
What amazes me is that they actually sent physical money, rather than just a few bits over the internet. Are the Iraqis using US currency in their day-to-day activities or something?
Exactly. Who knows, if it turns out that in 100 years we know enough to make cheap, super-efficient heat pumps, it could counter-balance heat increases caused by global warming, while providing us with ridiculous increases in power generation capacity (and longevity).
That scenario is extremely similar to the resolution of "The Gods Themselves" by Asimov. Earth starts getting too hot? Ramp up the heat pumps. Too much heat being turned into electricity? Start burning more dead dinosaurs (or ramp up the nuclear plants).
One problem is that many homeless people have dogs. Homeless shelters generally do not allow dogs (I'm just assuming the same applies to Germany). Therefore, a homeless person is not going to live in a shelter, because they would have to give up their dog.
I personally think it's mostly a popularity thing, since WordPress pretty much owns the blog market. I think the other problem, however, is just with how simple they've made it to accidentally backdoor your site. There are thousands of plugins for WordPress, installable with just a couple of clicks, written by people who know nothing about security, or have possibly even maliciously left holes in their plugin. Unlike large projects that are generally maintained and reviewed by dozens of people, a plugin is usually written by one person who could just decide to backdoor your site in the next update.
I've got a couple of moderately popular plugins, and every time I release an update I think about just how easy it would be to take over thousands of sites by just adding a few innocuous-looking lines of code. Except I'm not evil, so I don't.
WordPress is extremely easy and quick to update. You can click a single button and update every single plugin and theme, or another button to update core. That's it. If you're upgrading by manually uploading files to a bunch of different servers for some reason, you should at least look into something like updating with Subversion or using multisite and just updating once for every site.
From that quote, I can't help but feel that this entire study was funded in some way by the alcohol industry.
The "legal limit" in most places is specifically set there because that's where you're barely impaired at all. That's why it's the legal limit. For most people in most places, the legal limit is about 1 can of beer.
A more fair comparison would be someone at the legal limit compared to someone who stood next to someone smoking marijuana for a couple minutes. I'd like to see this study done with someone considerably over the limit; drunk, or at least tipsy.
On a couple of small sites I manage, I just require email verification (or an account that was verified by email) to post a comment. So far there have been about 50 legit comments and about 5000 failed spam comment attempts. Not a single spam has made it through. I know for a more popular site I'd have problems, but even then, you can generally just block addresses from a few specific domains (or just *.ru and *.cn).
For the first time in months, I recently had to fill out a captcha on Facebook. I failed twice, and then tried the audio captcha, which was somehow even harder. After that, my only option to proceed was to provide a mobile phone number.
I couldn't help but think the entire purpose of the process was to collect my phone number.
I should add, however, that you would get some free advertising/bragging rights for winning something like this, so it could still very well be worth it. Especially if you do get a genius idea for a simple little app you could knock out in a few hours.
For the amount of work required and the skills necessary to build this, a $5000 first prize is chump change. That's about the price something with a chance of winning would be if you were to build it for a paying client, unless you've already got some genius yet simple ideas for government datasets.
You're not guaranteed to win, however. You're not even likely to place. So you've sunk several days or weeks worth of work on something for a very slim chance to get a normal wage for it.
That's not how these things usually work. It's more like when he's at the country club golfing with a few MS lawyers, they mention that if the FTC were to somehow hurt Google, there could be a cushy spot waiting for him at MS after.
Every product Apple has created in the last 10 years has been designed specifically to drive sales of their other products, while maintaining a closed, integrated system that can't be broken out of. That is literally Apple's core business model, if you look at anything Steve Jobs has ever said. If they ever actually achieve market dominance in an area, they will be destroyed by anti-trust litigation (or should, but with $80+ billion for lawyers, they're untouchable) because their entire strategy is abusing power in one area of their business to feed and promote another.
I think you're confused about what the term "walled garden" refers to. It means that the carrier or service provider controls exactly what is and isn't allowed on the phone.
Apple is the only platform you mentioned with a walled garden approach. Google (Android), Microsoft (MS Mobile), and RIM (Blackberry) all allow users to install any application they want. They may not be allowed in an official app store, but you can just connect your phone via usb or email files to your phone and do whatever you want. Each of those platforms may have varying levels of what features/hardware the software is allowed access to once it's on the phone, usually for security but sometimes for business reasons, but that is not the same thing as a walled garden.
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Slashdot is basically the techie equivalent of Fox News. We don't really come here to get information, we come here to get entertained and enraged by things that fit our point of view.
So, taking money from people (ie, taxes) are stealing, but you support a safety net. Where does the money for that come from? What about money for roads? The police? The military? Firefighters? Schools?
It sounds to me like you're defining "stealing" to mean "any government program that I don't like."
I'm not saying I disagree with you, but when you see a car with no person in the driver's seat, you don't expect it to move. Until people have time to adjust to seeing cars drive themselves, it could be a legitimate safety issue. I wouldn't have an issue with it being banned at first, at least until the majority of cars on the road can be used driverlessly and there can be a switchover.
The thing is, if he says he clocked you at 91, and you tell him you were actually only going 79... you've still admitted to speeding, with the exact same fine as if you were going 91 (I'm assuming reckless driving or similar charges comes in at +20 mph like most places).
Not to mention the fact you said your cruise control was set to a speed, rather than actually having looked at your speedometer. If you're going downhill, your car will probably be going considerably faster than your cruise control is set for (unless modern cruise controls actually apply breaks, which I haven't heard of).
I once saw two rabbits in what I assume was battle. The were both standing on their hind legs facing each other, and one of them jumped into the air and kicked the other one with the legs it had been standing on, then landed on its hind legs again. Most shocking/freaky animal behaviour I've ever actually seen in person.
Yeah, but a lot of homeless people have emotions.
How in the world have I just scrolled by a dozen furious replies to an obvious joke, and all are rated 5 Insightful? For fuck's sake, "stop whining about real people" didn't tip you off?
I think you failed at humor comprehension. The post you're replying to is an obvious joke.
Over-zealous law enforcement, big media, and oppressive government isn't terrorism, it's fascism. Attacking countries at random is also not terrorism, it's more like imperialism or colonialism in the case of the US.
The problem is, it's pretty hard to tell the difference between freedom fighters and terrorists. If a fascist, imperialist nation is invading your poor country with the intent to install their own puppet governors, what are you going to do to keep them out? It's going to look a lot like terrorism, isn't it?
What amazes me is that they actually sent physical money, rather than just a few bits over the internet. Are the Iraqis using US currency in their day-to-day activities or something?
Meanwhile, the millions of LEDs covering its body will provide mood lighting for everyone in the vicinity.
Exactly. Who knows, if it turns out that in 100 years we know enough to make cheap, super-efficient heat pumps, it could counter-balance heat increases caused by global warming, while providing us with ridiculous increases in power generation capacity (and longevity).
That scenario is extremely similar to the resolution of "The Gods Themselves" by Asimov. Earth starts getting too hot? Ramp up the heat pumps. Too much heat being turned into electricity? Start burning more dead dinosaurs (or ramp up the nuclear plants).
One problem is that many homeless people have dogs. Homeless shelters generally do not allow dogs (I'm just assuming the same applies to Germany). Therefore, a homeless person is not going to live in a shelter, because they would have to give up their dog.
I personally think it's mostly a popularity thing, since WordPress pretty much owns the blog market. I think the other problem, however, is just with how simple they've made it to accidentally backdoor your site. There are thousands of plugins for WordPress, installable with just a couple of clicks, written by people who know nothing about security, or have possibly even maliciously left holes in their plugin. Unlike large projects that are generally maintained and reviewed by dozens of people, a plugin is usually written by one person who could just decide to backdoor your site in the next update.
I've got a couple of moderately popular plugins, and every time I release an update I think about just how easy it would be to take over thousands of sites by just adding a few innocuous-looking lines of code. Except I'm not evil, so I don't.
WordPress is extremely easy and quick to update. You can click a single button and update every single plugin and theme, or another button to update core. That's it. If you're upgrading by manually uploading files to a bunch of different servers for some reason, you should at least look into something like updating with Subversion or using multisite and just updating once for every site.
From that quote, I can't help but feel that this entire study was funded in some way by the alcohol industry.
The "legal limit" in most places is specifically set there because that's where you're barely impaired at all. That's why it's the legal limit. For most people in most places, the legal limit is about 1 can of beer.
A more fair comparison would be someone at the legal limit compared to someone who stood next to someone smoking marijuana for a couple minutes. I'd like to see this study done with someone considerably over the limit; drunk, or at least tipsy.
On a couple of small sites I manage, I just require email verification (or an account that was verified by email) to post a comment. So far there have been about 50 legit comments and about 5000 failed spam comment attempts. Not a single spam has made it through. I know for a more popular site I'd have problems, but even then, you can generally just block addresses from a few specific domains (or just *.ru and *.cn).
For the first time in months, I recently had to fill out a captcha on Facebook. I failed twice, and then tried the audio captcha, which was somehow even harder. After that, my only option to proceed was to provide a mobile phone number.
I couldn't help but think the entire purpose of the process was to collect my phone number.
I should add, however, that you would get some free advertising/bragging rights for winning something like this, so it could still very well be worth it. Especially if you do get a genius idea for a simple little app you could knock out in a few hours.
For the amount of work required and the skills necessary to build this, a $5000 first prize is chump change. That's about the price something with a chance of winning would be if you were to build it for a paying client, unless you've already got some genius yet simple ideas for government datasets.
You're not guaranteed to win, however. You're not even likely to place. So you've sunk several days or weeks worth of work on something for a very slim chance to get a normal wage for it.
In my university, the only professor who taught from his own book was teaching a class on technical writing.
That's so cute, you think the corporations aren't the government :)
That's not how these things usually work. It's more like when he's at the country club golfing with a few MS lawyers, they mention that if the FTC were to somehow hurt Google, there could be a cushy spot waiting for him at MS after.
Every product Apple has created in the last 10 years has been designed specifically to drive sales of their other products, while maintaining a closed, integrated system that can't be broken out of. That is literally Apple's core business model, if you look at anything Steve Jobs has ever said. If they ever actually achieve market dominance in an area, they will be destroyed by anti-trust litigation (or should, but with $80+ billion for lawyers, they're untouchable) because their entire strategy is abusing power in one area of their business to feed and promote another.
I think you're confused about what the term "walled garden" refers to. It means that the carrier or service provider controls exactly what is and isn't allowed on the phone.
Apple is the only platform you mentioned with a walled garden approach. Google (Android), Microsoft (MS Mobile), and RIM (Blackberry) all allow users to install any application they want. They may not be allowed in an official app store, but you can just connect your phone via usb or email files to your phone and do whatever you want. Each of those platforms may have varying levels of what features/hardware the software is allowed access to once it's on the phone, usually for security but sometimes for business reasons, but that is not the same thing as a walled garden.