Since the side of your car isn't a public forum, then I would term it "cleaning up vandalism".
Words are squishy things. PETA calls eating meat "murder". I had a very tasty pig murdered for my Cuban sandwich just yesterday. Strange, but I don't feel guilty about it.
You've got to wonder, though... what would you do if you were Apple?
Allow your support forums to be littered with direct recommendations not to buy the product? That kind of gets into the sales side of things. Do you allow Android phone makers to post ads for their products that compete with the iPhone?
It's a tough situation to be in. They should probably just come clean about the problem and offer customers the workaround cover thing... or refunds.
I'm glad I don't have any Apple stock these days. Might be a good time to buy some after the panic sets in and the price drops like a fire sale.
Under the Federal Reserve system, the value of money is controlled by a US organization that's insufficiently transparent. Under a gold standard the value of money is controlled by international traders and mining cartels. This is better... how?
The gold standard was something that most people with a highschool education could understand. Oversight of such a system is straightforward through auditing to ensure that money supply estimates reasonably match provable gold reserves.
The Federal Reserve system is black magic that I'd bet that most of congress doesn't understand. It places extraordinary power and wealth in the hands of unelected bureaucrats and economists who are completely unaccountable to any kind of useful auditing.
That said, I don't at all advocate a return to the gold standard. My comment was really just to provoke thought along the lines of "Should you trust human nature's corruptibility in a complicated system with more benefits than a simple system with less room for shenanigans?"
All too often (especially with political discussions), I see arguments put forth for systems that rely on strongly ethical and motivated actors to be superior to the current one. Communism is a good example. On paper, it seems very Kumbaya with sharing and caring and progress. The reality is that without individual rewards for achievement, the bad apples take advantage of the good ones; destroying the system until authoritarian measures are put into place to force everyone to work. Nevertheless, die-hards will argue for the communist system despite the fact that human beings just aren't made for it.
And if history shows again and again that the people in charge of keeping money supply and value supply roughly in sync can't be trusted with that much power, then is the shiny stuff silly?
Actually, I worked with a software developer who stocked several barrels of rice and over 10,000 rounds of ammo in preparation for Y2K. Damn, his wife was pissed. She dragged him over the coals about it publicly whenever she got the chance.
My sense is that Slashdot has become infested with moderators (possibly) gaming the system with a vengeance when it comes to these comments threads.
I noticed it at first when I posted several politely stated but skeptical posts on a global warming thread a couple of months ago that were nuke-moderated. Because of that, I looked in subsequent climate threads for a pattern and I think I see one. Even remotely skeptical posts questioning the basis of event parts of AGW will often be moderated downward. Seriously... look through some of these thread. Notice how all of the highly ranked pro-AGW posts are responses to other posts that you have to click to expand.
You don't see that kind of moderation vitriol even in DRM/RIAA threads, so I doubt it's the general Slashdot populace. I think that it's someone or a small group of someones with a bunch of/. accounts that have lots of moderation points and they're bent on silencing any dissent to AGW.
I tend to be skeptical about most things, but I'm trying to learn what I can about climate science when I have time. I wouldn't want to be wrong about something so important. A discussion forum that has some rogue censorship element can't be trusted to provide a variety of sides to the issue, though.
Well, maybe there are better sources, but that link just points to someone's opinion. It provides no correlation statistics to demonstrate the predictive capability of climate modeling.
As a software developer who's worked in commercial modeling of the RF characteristics for cellular networks, I have huge bags of salt when the press, politicians, or even scientists start breathlessly talking about what computer modeling shows in any field. Except for narrowly focused physical phenomenon, computer modeling is still an art more than a science.
Modeling RF in a small geographical area seems a lot simpler than modeling global climate change; but I've seen so many at-first-blush good RF models go bad due to some outlier condition of the area, some poorly chosen starting condition, or often just programmer error. I have yet to see the model that doesn't require tweaking and tuning to some degree for every other metropolitan area thrown at it.
The only way to build confidence in a model is to time and again show how well it predicts reality. The climateprediction.net link is interesting. Their "Validation and attribution experiment" looks like the approach I'd want to see the results of. Reading that site tells me that some good work is happening; but seriously... you can't rely on any computer modeler's findings to much of a degree without a lot more of a track record than what they have so far. I'll bookmark them, though, so thanks for the link.
Backward compatibility bothered me at first because I wanted to consolidate things; but there are so many great PS3 games out there now, that I just don't have time to play them all. I still have my old PS2 with some unfinished games that I never seem to turn on anymore.
I guess if you're a voracious gamer who spends 40 hours a week finishing one game after the other, you should worry about having a huge library available. But since I only average 5-10 hours a week, the PS3 market keeps me more than satisfied.
I 3 my PS3. What a great way to kill a few hours on a Saturday. Enjoying the hell out of God of War III at the moment.
They had an engineer out in the field testing the antenna in real world situations... but he lost it in a German brew pub and it got sold to Gizmodo. I think you guys might have heard about that story. It made all the papers.
And if you were in charge of a business, you'd see your customers as... buddies to lend money to? Of course customers are their source of profit. Naturally, they want to keep those little walking wallets loyal to them, so they charge as much as they can without driving them away.
They're a business. They have the best network out there and it's not cheap for them to run. I'd switch to it in a heartbeat if my damned iPhone supported Verizon. AT&T blows ponies.
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What the hell has happened to Slashdot moderation these days? Maybe the lack of meta moderation? Sad sad.
That is an awesome demo.
Can you share details of the business model? Is it a one time price or a price/percentage per unit sold?
I love how in TFA Zuckerberg is looking down, like he's guilty of something.
Very entertaining indeed.
A bad car analogy strikes again! Seriously, poor reception when you touch part of the phone isn't in the same league as an exploding vehicle.
Apple will have to do something about it soon. They'll need to come clean, announce a fix/return policy, and get this behind them.
They'll want to take charge, though, and not let the support department's forum pages lead the way.
Since the side of your car isn't a public forum, then I would term it "cleaning up vandalism".
Words are squishy things. PETA calls eating meat "murder". I had a very tasty pig murdered for my Cuban sandwich just yesterday. Strange, but I don't feel guilty about it.
You've got to wonder, though... what would you do if you were Apple?
Allow your support forums to be littered with direct recommendations not to buy the product? That kind of gets into the sales side of things. Do you allow Android phone makers to post ads for their products that compete with the iPhone?
It's a tough situation to be in. They should probably just come clean about the problem and offer customers the workaround cover thing... or refunds.
I'm glad I don't have any Apple stock these days. Might be a good time to buy some after the panic sets in and the price drops like a fire sale.
Under the Federal Reserve system, the value of money is controlled by a US organization that's insufficiently transparent. Under a gold standard the value of money is controlled by international traders and mining cartels. This is better... how?
The gold standard was something that most people with a highschool education could understand. Oversight of such a system is straightforward through auditing to ensure that money supply estimates reasonably match provable gold reserves.
The Federal Reserve system is black magic that I'd bet that most of congress doesn't understand. It places extraordinary power and wealth in the hands of unelected bureaucrats and economists who are completely unaccountable to any kind of useful auditing.
That said, I don't at all advocate a return to the gold standard. My comment was really just to provoke thought along the lines of "Should you trust human nature's corruptibility in a complicated system with more benefits than a simple system with less room for shenanigans?"
All too often (especially with political discussions), I see arguments put forth for systems that rely on strongly ethical and motivated actors to be superior to the current one. Communism is a good example. On paper, it seems very Kumbaya with sharing and caring and progress. The reality is that without individual rewards for achievement, the bad apples take advantage of the good ones; destroying the system until authoritarian measures are put into place to force everyone to work. Nevertheless, die-hards will argue for the communist system despite the fact that human beings just aren't made for it.
Yeah, any reasonable botnet could destroy trust in this currency.
Neat idea, but if that's a weakness... Next!
And if history shows again and again that the people in charge of keeping money supply and value supply roughly in sync can't be trusted with that much power, then is the shiny stuff silly?
With Y2K, if you talked to computer scientists,
Actually, I worked with a software developer who stocked several barrels of rice and over 10,000 rounds of ammo in preparation for Y2K. Damn, his wife was pissed. She dragged him over the coals about it publicly whenever she got the chance.
My sense is that Slashdot has become infested with moderators (possibly) gaming the system with a vengeance when it comes to these comments threads.
I noticed it at first when I posted several politely stated but skeptical posts on a global warming thread a couple of months ago that were nuke-moderated. Because of that, I looked in subsequent climate threads for a pattern and I think I see one. Even remotely skeptical posts questioning the basis of event parts of AGW will often be moderated downward. Seriously... look through some of these thread. Notice how all of the highly ranked pro-AGW posts are responses to other posts that you have to click to expand.
You don't see that kind of moderation vitriol even in DRM/RIAA threads, so I doubt it's the general Slashdot populace. I think that it's someone or a small group of someones with a bunch of /. accounts that have lots of moderation points and they're bent on silencing any dissent to AGW.
I tend to be skeptical about most things, but I'm trying to learn what I can about climate science when I have time. I wouldn't want to be wrong about something so important. A discussion forum that has some rogue censorship element can't be trusted to provide a variety of sides to the issue, though.
Well, maybe there are better sources, but that link just points to someone's opinion. It provides no correlation statistics to demonstrate the predictive capability of climate modeling.
As a software developer who's worked in commercial modeling of the RF characteristics for cellular networks, I have huge bags of salt when the press, politicians, or even scientists start breathlessly talking about what computer modeling shows in any field. Except for narrowly focused physical phenomenon, computer modeling is still an art more than a science.
Modeling RF in a small geographical area seems a lot simpler than modeling global climate change; but I've seen so many at-first-blush good RF models go bad due to some outlier condition of the area, some poorly chosen starting condition, or often just programmer error. I have yet to see the model that doesn't require tweaking and tuning to some degree for every other metropolitan area thrown at it.
The only way to build confidence in a model is to time and again show how well it predicts reality. The climateprediction.net link is interesting. Their "Validation and attribution experiment" looks like the approach I'd want to see the results of. Reading that site tells me that some good work is happening; but seriously... you can't rely on any computer modeler's findings to much of a degree without a lot more of a track record than what they have so far. I'll bookmark them, though, so thanks for the link.
Backward compatibility bothered me at first because I wanted to consolidate things; but there are so many great PS3 games out there now, that I just don't have time to play them all. I still have my old PS2 with some unfinished games that I never seem to turn on anymore.
I guess if you're a voracious gamer who spends 40 hours a week finishing one game after the other, you should worry about having a huge library available. But since I only average 5-10 hours a week, the PS3 market keeps me more than satisfied.
I 3 my PS3. What a great way to kill a few hours on a Saturday. Enjoying the hell out of God of War III at the moment.
Rom 1:26-27: "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural
Anybody else get a little wood from this part? Just me? Okay... I'll be in my bunk.
Really? Flamebait? Being sarcastic about shitty 70's TV is flamebait? Nice moderation.
Like the Simpsons version of Bill Gates said, "I didn't make all that money writing checks."
They had an engineer out in the field testing the antenna in real world situations... but he lost it in a German brew pub and it got sold to Gizmodo. I think you guys might have heard about that story. It made all the papers.
WKRP in Cincinnati not available in its pristine original form on DVD? Oh, the humanity!
Next you'll be telling me that the Perfect Strangers DVD release is in jeopardy. Somebody call Lawrence Lessig!
So, the if I get behind the wheel of my car intending to kill someone, it's a crime.
If I just go out drinking to have fun but someone I kill someone on my way home, it's not?
I don't think she's ever been a judge, so I don't think it's inappropriate for her to have expressed her opinion in other contexts.
But it's not criminal, no one was harmed except in their wallet.
Quick, tell Bernie Madoff's lawyer to use that line in his appeals.
Without citizens voting for ethical candidates who will protect the values inherent in the Constitution, the whole system falls apart.
Shhh, he's on a roll.
Definitely a case of RTFS.
And if you were in charge of a business, you'd see your customers as... buddies to lend money to? Of course customers are their source of profit. Naturally, they want to keep those little walking wallets loyal to them, so they charge as much as they can without driving them away.
They're a business. They have the best network out there and it's not cheap for them to run. I'd switch to it in a heartbeat if my damned iPhone supported Verizon. AT&T blows ponies.
How does "government founded nonprofit org" belong anywhere near something as rapidly evolving as the telecom industry?
Sounds like a heck of a plan to completely put the brakes on ever seeing the industry advance again.
The government's involvement should be limited to preventing and dismantling monopolies in the marketplace.