My advice to the peons working on Slashdot: find another job. The veracity with which this "upgrade" is being pushed displays a stubbornness that can only be attributed to MBAs with no idea of what Slashdot is about. The fact that the commenting system is such an afterthought in the Beta is as much evidence as I need that the people pushing this redesign never use this site.
I know you don't get to decide whether or not the Beta moves forward or which design gets used, but believe this: You WILL be blamed when it fails. You work for a corporation now and the higher ups with undoubtedly throw you under the bus when they have to explain to their bosses or shareholders why the website redesign failed. This failure is going to be associated with you and your teammates and it will set back any hopes you have of being promoted within the company. Take the advice of me and my fellow Slashdotters: Get out now.
My advice to the peons working on Slashdot: find another job. The veracity with which this "upgrade" is being pushed displays a stubborness that can only be attributed to MBAs with no idea of what Slashdot is about. The fact that the commenting system is such an afterthought in the Beta is as much evidence as I need that the people pushing this redesign never use this site.
I know you don't get to decide whether or not the Beta moves forward or which design gets used, but believe this: You WILL be blamed when it fails. You work for a corporation now and the higher ups with undoubtedly throw you under the bus when they have to explain to their bosses or shareholders why the website redesign failed. This failure is going to be associated with you and your teammates and it will set back any hopes you have of being promoted within the company. Take the advice of me and my fellow Slashdotters: Get out now.
The beta doesn't add any useful new features. All it does is remove them and severely fucks up the best part of this site: the commenting and moderation system. If the commenting system goes out the window, why would I come here? The stories are always several days or a week old, the editors are terrible at their job, and all of the actual articles are on other sites I could browse instead.
The beta doesn't add any useful new features. All it does is remove them and severely fucks up the best part of this site: the commenting and moderation system. If the commenting system goes out the window, why would I come here? The stories are always several days or a week old, the editors are terrible at their job, and all of the actual articles are on other sites I could browse instead.
The beta doesn't add any useful new features. All it does is remove them and severely fucks up the best part of this site: the commenting and moderation system. If the commenting system goes out the window, why would I come here? The stories are always several days or a week old, the editors are terrible at their job, and all of the actual articles are on other sites I could browse instead.
The beta doesn't add any useful new features. All it doors is remove them and severely fucks up the best part of this site: the commenting and moderation system. If the commenting system goes out the window, why would I come here? The stories are always several days or a week old, the editors are terrible at their job, and all of the actual articles are on other sites I could browse instead.
This is all information that most people deeply interested in the statistics of this match up know already. Wolfram Alpha doesn't really bring anything new to the table.
That's a nice false equivalence you've got there. Too bad you miss the point. Almost half of all of the nominee filibusters in the entire history of this country have been by this Republican party during this president's time in office.
The Democrats have never even done close to the same thing.
The problem is that you are assuming that the creator is subject to causality. It's possible that the "creator", which could just be a physical process and not an imaginary person, exists in a universe external to ours in which questions of what caused what and who created who are meaningless because time does not exist.
And how do you become a famous scientist for conforming to the scientific consensus? Name one famous scientist whose only accomplishment was confirming what the scientific consensus already was.
Without showing that light can be bent by gravity, Einstein would have just been some schmuck we've never heard of. He gained a hell of a lot from his fame after that work. His rewards were by no means posthumous. Same with Darwin, whose fame was achieved from his chronicling of his voyages in which he developed evolutionary theory. Galileo was only persecuted because the "scientific consensus" of the time was a religious one, making his work blasphemous. It's in no way similar to what a scientist would experience today.
The reason science moves forward at all, and I think you can agree with me that it has, is because scientists challenge the scientific consensus. In fact, even an experiment which aims to prove that the scientific consensus is correct is a challenge because it exposes weaknesses in the standard model when the experiment fails to produce the expected results. See, for example, The Michelson-Morely Experiment.
It's a good start, although I'd like "Removed from his position" to be replaced with "Prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
More people need to be shitcanned over this but, really, the fact that these programs are event "arguably" legal is the major issue here. The laws that allow the NSA to snoop on all of us need to be repealed first and foremost.
Scientists in any field don't get famous by showing that the "scientific consensus" is erroneous, they get their grants turned down and their papers rejected.
What!?!? Your assertion is completely absurd. Every famous scientist is famous precisely because they proved the standard consensus to be wrong.
Galileo for his work on a model of the heliocentric solar system. Newton for his work showing that planets are governed by the same rules as an apple falling to earth. Darwin for his work showing how animals can evolve over time. Einstein for his work showing that energy, mass, space, and time are all interconnected. Hubble for showing that the universe is not static but instead expanding.
The US government can essentially borrow for free right now because the stability of the US dollar makes the US a safe place to store your money. Hence the reason why the government has so many foreign lenders.
The government recommends that you guys do something that will cost you money and empower the consumers! Why haven't you done it yet!?!?!
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Wealth (and with it, power) is heavily concentrated at the top. The top 1% of the top 1% make even most of the 1%-ers look poor. Being able to attend Stanford might make you part of the upper class, but that's not the kind of money I'm talking about.
"I do not wish to have the government choose for me which content is appropriate for my viewing. Unblock all of it. If I am worried about what my children will get into, I will monitor them myself or purchase configurable child blocking software. Thank you. Have a nice day."
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The worst part is that the appalling behavior of the prosecution is standard practice. Any laws that could possibly apply (and some that have no chance of sticking) get thrown at the defendant in an effort to get them into a plea deal because they can't possibly afford the law talent required to protect themselves.
Meanwhile, if you have money or power, you are only charged under the laws that absolutely apply and only if they absolutely have proof you did it and are fully at fault. We wind up with corporations, governments, and the wealthy doing incredibly immoral things that obviously should be illegal but are not "technically" illegal or it's just too difficult to prove that they did it, so no prosecutor wants to take it on.
Whether or not his actions were worth it largely depends on how we view him NOW. If we dismiss him as a criminal, nothing will change and his efforts were for naught. If we treat him as a hero by recognizing the unconstitutional actions of the NSA as wrong, we can force a change to happen.
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My advice to the peons working on Slashdot: find another job. The veracity with which this "upgrade" is being pushed displays a stubbornness that can only be attributed to MBAs with no idea of what Slashdot is about. The fact that the commenting system is such an afterthought in the Beta is as much evidence as I need that the people pushing this redesign never use this site.
I know you don't get to decide whether or not the Beta moves forward or which design gets used, but believe this: You WILL be blamed when it fails. You work for a corporation now and the higher ups with undoubtedly throw you under the bus when they have to explain to their bosses or shareholders why the website redesign failed. This failure is going to be associated with you and your teammates and it will set back any hopes you have of being promoted within the company. Take the advice of me and my fellow Slashdotters: Get out now.
My advice to the peons working on Slashdot: find another job. The veracity with which this "upgrade" is being pushed displays a stubborness that can only be attributed to MBAs with no idea of what Slashdot is about. The fact that the commenting system is such an afterthought in the Beta is as much evidence as I need that the people pushing this redesign never use this site.
I know you don't get to decide whether or not the Beta moves forward or which design gets used, but believe this: You WILL be blamed when it fails. You work for a corporation now and the higher ups with undoubtedly throw you under the bus when they have to explain to their bosses or shareholders why the website redesign failed. This failure is going to be associated with you and your teammates and it will set back any hopes you have of being promoted within the company. Take the advice of me and my fellow Slashdotters: Get out now.
The beta doesn't add any useful new features. All it does is remove them and severely fucks up the best part of this site: the commenting and moderation system. If the commenting system goes out the window, why would I come here? The stories are always several days or a week old, the editors are terrible at their job, and all of the actual articles are on other sites I could browse instead.
What the hell, Dice?
The beta doesn't add any useful new features. All it does is remove them and severely fucks up the best part of this site: the commenting and moderation system. If the commenting system goes out the window, why would I come here? The stories are always several days or a week old, the editors are terrible at their job, and all of the actual articles are on other sites I could browse instead.
What the hell, Dice?
The beta doesn't add any useful new features. All it does is remove them and severely fucks up the best part of this site: the commenting and moderation system. If the commenting system goes out the window, why would I come here? The stories are always several days or a week old, the editors are terrible at their job, and all of the actual articles are on other sites I could browse instead.
What the hell, Dice?
The beta doesn't add any useful new features. All it doors is remove them and severely fucks up the best part of this site: the commenting and moderation system. If the commenting system goes out the window, why would I come here? The stories are always several days or a week old, the editors are terrible at their job, and all of the actual articles are on other sites I could browse instead.
What the hell, Dice?
This is all information that most people deeply interested in the statistics of this match up know already. Wolfram Alpha doesn't really bring anything new to the table.
That's a nice false equivalence you've got there. Too bad you miss the point. Almost half of all of the nominee filibusters in the entire history of this country have been by this Republican party during this president's time in office.
The Democrats have never even done close to the same thing.
The problem is that you are assuming that the creator is subject to causality. It's possible that the "creator", which could just be a physical process and not an imaginary person, exists in a universe external to ours in which questions of what caused what and who created who are meaningless because time does not exist.
That's how the courts are supposed to work. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it does not.
And how do you become a famous scientist for conforming to the scientific consensus? Name one famous scientist whose only accomplishment was confirming what the scientific consensus already was.
Without showing that light can be bent by gravity, Einstein would have just been some schmuck we've never heard of. He gained a hell of a lot from his fame after that work. His rewards were by no means posthumous. Same with Darwin, whose fame was achieved from his chronicling of his voyages in which he developed evolutionary theory. Galileo was only persecuted because the "scientific consensus" of the time was a religious one, making his work blasphemous. It's in no way similar to what a scientist would experience today.
The reason science moves forward at all, and I think you can agree with me that it has, is because scientists challenge the scientific consensus. In fact, even an experiment which aims to prove that the scientific consensus is correct is a challenge because it exposes weaknesses in the standard model when the experiment fails to produce the expected results. See, for example, The Michelson-Morely Experiment.
It's a good start, although I'd like "Removed from his position" to be replaced with "Prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
More people need to be shitcanned over this but, really, the fact that these programs are event "arguably" legal is the major issue here. The laws that allow the NSA to snoop on all of us need to be repealed first and foremost.
Scientists in any field don't get famous by showing that the "scientific consensus" is erroneous, they get their grants turned down and their papers rejected.
What!?!? Your assertion is completely absurd. Every famous scientist is famous precisely because they proved the standard consensus to be wrong.
Galileo for his work on a model of the heliocentric solar system.
Newton for his work showing that planets are governed by the same rules as an apple falling to earth.
Darwin for his work showing how animals can evolve over time.
Einstein for his work showing that energy, mass, space, and time are all interconnected.
Hubble for showing that the universe is not static but instead expanding.
Hey, when you oppose everything the president does, it's gotta work in our favor sometimes!
You are obviously not a Republican.
$33,500? He probably could have gotten WAY more on the black market. This is ultimately the problem with stingy bug bounties.
Sounds like the strategy being used in West Virgina.
Hell, the Voyager spacecraft flew higher!
Usually interest on debt is higher than inflation, so that doesn't work.
Usually.
But that's not true right now and hasn't been since about mid-to late 2010. http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2011/11/negative-real-interest-rates.html
The US government can essentially borrow for free right now because the stability of the US dollar makes the US a safe place to store your money. Hence the reason why the government has so many foreign lenders.
The government recommends that you guys do something that will cost you money and empower the consumers! Why haven't you done it yet!?!?!
Wealth (and with it, power) is heavily concentrated at the top. The top 1% of the top 1% make even most of the 1%-ers look poor. Being able to attend Stanford might make you part of the upper class, but that's not the kind of money I'm talking about.
Maybe you should include a robots.txt file attached to your email.
"I do not wish to have the government choose for me which content is appropriate for my viewing. Unblock all of it. If I am worried about what my children will get into, I will monitor them myself or purchase configurable child blocking software. Thank you. Have a nice day."
The worst part is that the appalling behavior of the prosecution is standard practice. Any laws that could possibly apply (and some that have no chance of sticking) get thrown at the defendant in an effort to get them into a plea deal because they can't possibly afford the law talent required to protect themselves.
Meanwhile, if you have money or power, you are only charged under the laws that absolutely apply and only if they absolutely have proof you did it and are fully at fault. We wind up with corporations, governments, and the wealthy doing incredibly immoral things that obviously should be illegal but are not "technically" illegal or it's just too difficult to prove that they did it, so no prosecutor wants to take it on.
It's sickening.
Whether or not his actions were worth it largely depends on how we view him NOW. If we dismiss him as a criminal, nothing will change and his efforts were for naught. If we treat him as a hero by recognizing the unconstitutional actions of the NSA as wrong, we can force a change to happen.