I self identify as an asshole but would rather not be one, and am fine with being modded down when I'm actually an asshole..
...which literally never happens. I always get modded down for having a view contrary to a large, loud, subset of Slashdotters, but I can pretty much respond to anyone and call them names if I don't touch a third rail subject.
We're terrible people at Slashdot. We should be better. Good moderation would help. Perhaps adding a (-1, Personal attack) to the list of negative mods might work.
Uh, what? What on earth makes you think the same people advocating for H1Bs are also arguing for less drugs testing?
One group is actively trying to reduce wages, the other is simply pointing out that it's ludicrous to eliminate a high talent pool of workers from software development simply because they wear faded black clothes and smell like a teacher's breakroom.
Are you trolling or do you have a serious reason to believe the two are the same group, because I'm not seeing it.
Just anecdotal data, but I've worked with a number of cannabis smokers who were programmers or system admins. They were honestly amongst the smartest people I've ever met, and consistently showed that when I worked with them.
I probably wouldn't want someone who's actively high operating a piece of dangerous machinery, but I see no reason to tolerate it at work in a software context if the individual's overall work output is just as high quality, or higher, than everyone else's.
There should be no drug testing for software developers, period. It's stupid, unnecessary, and will eliminate high quality developers from the industry.
My dad always used to say that if you wanted to know if the way you were treating someone else was right or wrong--just reverse the situation and imagine if the other person were treating YOU the same way
And with that, he put down his gun and let the burglar take his TV and other valuables.
So let's flip your statement and imagine that it's 1966 and all the Nebula winners this year were male:
What about we don't, because that's not even a reversed situation in this context. If several women including a movie director had won Nebulas in 1966, we'd have been celebrating women overcoming substantial legal and social oppression to produce major works of art that are award worthy.
But that didn't happen in 1966, of course, and there's no reason to celebrate that several men won Nebulas because, frankly, none of them had to overcome substantial legal and social oppression. We celebrate their works, obviously, and Miller et al are awesome and deserve celebrating, but we're not going to go out on a limb the same way we might have done had a women in 1966 won a major science fiction award for a movie she directed.
But let's pretend 2016 was a reverse of 1966. Only one woman won anything, and she had to share that award with a collaborator, so let's pretend in 2016 only one man won anything, and he shared credit with a collaborator. If those works truly are Nebula worthy, then after centuries of discrimination against women, and with men continuing to live as full citizens in our world while women also (start to, we're still far from it) move to an equal position, wouldn't that also be something to celebrate?
So, with the best will in the world, your reversal trick just doesn't work. It's not even fixable. And the reasons it's not fixable should tell you something.
As a default from the default installation repos? No. LTS is meant to be stable, as in updates from the default repositories do not install newer (ie, security and bug fixes only) versions of anything. As an option? It's rare that installing a recent kernel breaks older distributions and from time to time when I've looked there's usually been several people providing easily installable new kernels for older Ubuntus.
So I wouldn't worry about it. If you truly need something from a new version it'll be available.
The gamergaters didn't get set off by a woman daring to whatever she did, but by the flood of stereotyping attack articles pushed by gamejournopros
The word "Gamergate" in relation to this movement was first used by Adam Baldwin, in a tweet linking to a video supposedly claiming Zoe Quinn was cheating on her "boyfriend". The "Ethics in journalism" "justifications" started later.
If this is just for home use, you don't need a commercial grade NAS, so presumably something like this would be fine: http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Pe...
For that style of NAS, depending upon storage capacity, you're looking at anything from $125-200. Yes, the price rises significantly if you want a version that implements software RAID, but if you're just making backups...
FWIW, I can see how he would be right. Vista was horrifically inefficient, and required machines with much better specs than many Windows 7 PCs to run usefully. Chances are if you're still running Vista, you have a minimum of 4G or more of memory (probably much more), a decent CPU, and a half decent GPU, whereas Windows 7 is quite usable in 2G or less on a machine with an Atom and Intel Integrated graphics.
I am running Windows 10 on two machines at home, a former Windows 7 laptop with 2G, on which it stinks, and a former Windows 8.1 tablet with 1G, on which, surprisingly perhaps (better CPU?) it runs acceptably. I'm not sure what terrible configuration your other Windows 7 PCs have, but there's quite a good chance you'd have never gotten Vista to run on them either.
There's no doubt in my mind that prostitution should be legalized, but this incident specifically involves white slavery and human trafficking, and it's reasonable for prosecutors to attack it, just as it's entirely legitimate for a prosecutor to send someone to prison for selling rat poison laced heroin, even though unsafe heroin is pretty much entirely the result of legislators making regulated, safe, heroin illegal.
Why in the world should "we" be building a high speed rail at taxpayer expense that will have huge operating subsidies throughout its life and still never service a significant number of passengers?
Why do you keep beating your wife?
Even at high speed rail velocity, going to the airport will be more convenient and speedier for most folks.
No it won'.
The whole point of hyperloop is to demonstrate that there are ways to positively compete with air travel on all fronts, from cost to environmental to travel time.
Nope, the whole point of hyperloop is to pretend there's a cheaper alternative to HSR. The system Musk proposed didn't even join the same points (it served only two of the four cities CAHSR is slated to serve, supported a quarter of the number of people, and both stations were over 50 miles away from the cities they "served".) In fact, total travel time with the Hyperloop will be more than by CAHSR, despite the supposedly faster speeds, because it doesn't join the end points. Musk also seriously lowballed the pricing, suggesting it can be done for $250,000 a mile. Real price is likely to be 100x that.
Basically the entire proposal was a fraud: it would have been obvious to Musk when he made the announcement that it wasn't a replacement for CAHSR yet he announced it anyway,and claimed we should be building that, not rail.
A hyperloop from LA to NY would have a distinct advantage...
Nobody is going to site in a vibrating swinging windowless vomit train for 8 hours. And nobody's going to build it either.
Nobody is taking a train that costs more and takes longer. It just doesn't make any sense.
Nobody's proposing either a train or hyperloop connecting NY and LA.
Hyperloop is a fraud. You've been hoodwinked. Just admit it and move on.
The nearest I can come up with for logic on this one is that perhaps ISPs assume that anyone subscribing to TV will use their Roku less frequently, relieving their networks of 4-5Mbps of streaming (1080p) data at peak times.
Roku, Amazon Stick, etc, are all being pushed as ways to cut the cord, so there may be some logic there.
It's not going to put millions out of work. Most fast food restaurants will still need staffing - someone has to clean the tables, clean the toilets, fill the machines, ensure the machines are working and resolve customer issues when they're not, etc.
Looking at an average fast food restaurant, at breakfast/lunch/dinnertimes I see one or two people at the windows, and three or four people making sandwiches.
At other times, the numbers are considerably lower, usually just one person prepping food and one person actually at the window.
So, realistically, we're removing two full time jobs, and perhaps a handful of barely qualify even as part time jobs, at each restaurant. We're also introducing new jobs, manufacturing, maintenance, etc. And while minimum wage/sub CoL wage jobs aren't as focussed on young, pre-independent, people as some claim (the people who work at Walmart look pretty much spead evenly across the wage spectrum to me) these are jobs that are predominantly done by younger people.
I don't see this as a problem, and it might actually help the economy in the long run if fewer sub-CoL jobs exist.
So your argument is that Fox isn't biased because... Democrats want nothing to do with it?
I don't understand the logic. Wouldn't you expect Democrats and liberals to want nothing to do with an organization that's biased against them and constantly demonizes them?
It's taken Hollywood a long time, but they are actually answering this demand right now. Being able to rip DVDs and BDs is still necessary for (many) older titles, but in general if you want a version of a movie that you can access from a menu on your TV, or download onto a tablet for offline viewing, that's possible with virtually all new releases and probably all movies released or rereleased in the last 3-5 years, and many others.
Before the inevitable complaints, I'm not saying what they're offering is perfect, or that it's not overpriced or anything like that, but the argument "They're ignoring the market by not allowing ${ILLEGALTOOL} to provide ${LEGITIMATESERVICE}" is weakening. Support for non-mainstream platforms and the right to a back-up are still elusive, but (limited) format shifting and the video juke box is becoming a thing you can do legally.
The wording on your last sentence is slightly wrong enough to ensure that pedants will come out and tell you you're flat out wrong without acknowledging that the principle was right. Hillary and Powell used private email systems. Clinton, however, owned her own server while Powell didn't (so technically Powell didn't "have" his "own" private email server.)
But certainly neither used a government supplied email system, which is the point you were trying to make.
Rice, I believe, didn't actually use email to conduct official business.
Information on Powell here. Warning, Politico link. Doesn't tell us which email service Powell used, so until proven otherwise we have to assume Hotmail, because hilarious.
In fairness, that law change looks absurd on the face of it and I'm not surprised the officers writing tickets - and the drivers who voluntarily paid the fines didn't realize this.
The fact both sides, drivers and police, thought a parking violation had been committed hints the law is actually wrong here and probably should be changed back.
These idiots are missing the point of Hyperloop by trying to build it. It's not meant to be built. It's meant to be an argument to shut down HSR projects, to use as yet another excuse to not do what we should do by pretending there are better alternatives.
Texas Central will hopefully change things, as will, to a lesser extent, All Aboard Florida.
That was the provisional name. The final name of the product has just been released, it's the 'Q' revision of Google's Killer App 9 (the internal code name for their voice recognition project), so will be named 'KA9Q', which is kind of catchy.
OK, so instead of acknowledging that I wasn't trying to critique your post on technical grounds, you're digging in.
Your post was the equivalent of "The Zune is technically superior because X, Y, and Z, so people will flock to it.".
My post was the equivalent of "OK, but people like the iPod because of Q, and we can't do Q on a Zune, so it's not going to become popular."
You're now complaining that I didn't address why the Zune is technically superior. And AFTER I POINTED OUT that I never addressed which was technically superior, I was just explaining why the Zune will be ignored, instead of saying "Ah, OK, I didn't realize you weren't critiquing X, Y, and Z" you're saying "But Q has nothing to do with X, Y, and Z so you shouldn't have replied."
We're not going to Venus. We're going to Mars. We're going to Mars because we can land on it and colonize it today, without terraforming it. You might not like that, you may feel that's the wrong approach because there are technically ways in which we can float people in the clouds around Venus or half a dozen other ways, but the fact is they're not what anyone wants to do.
BTW Saturn's bigger and has the same gravity as Venus and Earth, but we're probably not going to colonize that before Mars either. For most of the same reasons (plus the radiation.)
I appreciate my posts are often opaque and I have great difficulty being understood from time to time, but I also have to say that I have little or no sympathy for people who continue to interpret a post the same way after they've been told specifically that's not what it meant.
A significant difference between Mars and Venus is that we can land someone on the former before terraforming it. It's quite possible to envisage us colonizing Mars before its terraformed too.
Venus has some nice aspects, notably a surface gravity that's in Earth's ballpark, but until we can deal with the fact that virtually anything we drop into it is going to dissolve within minutes, perhaps even seconds, assuming it doesn't melt first, and assuming it's not enclosed in something strong enough to prevent it from being crushed before it's melted and dissolved, it's not a planet that's going to capture any proto-colonists' imagination.
No, very few people do, indeed part of the appeal of candidates like Trump and (dare I speak of them in the same breath) Sanders is that they're capitalizing on the disenchantment with the way the world is run at the moment.
But, yeah, good job equating unhappiness with the status quo with mental illness. How hard has it been to get work since the Soviet Union collapsed and the asylums closed there?
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I self identify as an asshole but would rather not be one, and am fine with being modded down when I'm actually an asshole..
We're terrible people at Slashdot. We should be better. Good moderation would help. Perhaps adding a (-1, Personal attack) to the list of negative mods might work.
Uh, what? What on earth makes you think the same people advocating for H1Bs are also arguing for less drugs testing?
One group is actively trying to reduce wages, the other is simply pointing out that it's ludicrous to eliminate a high talent pool of workers from software development simply because they wear faded black clothes and smell like a teacher's breakroom.
Are you trolling or do you have a serious reason to believe the two are the same group, because I'm not seeing it.
Just anecdotal data, but I've worked with a number of cannabis smokers who were programmers or system admins. They were honestly amongst the smartest people I've ever met, and consistently showed that when I worked with them.
I probably wouldn't want someone who's actively high operating a piece of dangerous machinery, but I see no reason to tolerate it at work in a software context if the individual's overall work output is just as high quality, or higher, than everyone else's.
There should be no drug testing for software developers, period. It's stupid, unnecessary, and will eliminate high quality developers from the industry.
And with that, he put down his gun and let the burglar take his TV and other valuables.
What about we don't, because that's not even a reversed situation in this context. If several women including a movie director had won Nebulas in 1966, we'd have been celebrating women overcoming substantial legal and social oppression to produce major works of art that are award worthy.
But that didn't happen in 1966, of course, and there's no reason to celebrate that several men won Nebulas because, frankly, none of them had to overcome substantial legal and social oppression. We celebrate their works, obviously, and Miller et al are awesome and deserve celebrating, but we're not going to go out on a limb the same way we might have done had a women in 1966 won a major science fiction award for a movie she directed.
But let's pretend 2016 was a reverse of 1966. Only one woman won anything, and she had to share that award with a collaborator, so let's pretend in 2016 only one man won anything, and he shared credit with a collaborator. If those works truly are Nebula worthy, then after centuries of discrimination against women, and with men continuing to live as full citizens in our world while women also (start to, we're still far from it) move to an equal position, wouldn't that also be something to celebrate?
So, with the best will in the world, your reversal trick just doesn't work. It's not even fixable. And the reasons it's not fixable should tell you something.
As a default from the default installation repos? No. LTS is meant to be stable, as in updates from the default repositories do not install newer (ie, security and bug fixes only) versions of anything. As an option? It's rare that installing a recent kernel breaks older distributions and from time to time when I've looked there's usually been several people providing easily installable new kernels for older Ubuntus.
So I wouldn't worry about it. If you truly need something from a new version it'll be available.
The word "Gamergate" in relation to this movement was first used by Adam Baldwin, in a tweet linking to a video supposedly claiming Zoe Quinn was cheating on her "boyfriend". The "Ethics in journalism" "justifications" started later.
If this is just for home use, you don't need a commercial grade NAS, so presumably something like this would be fine: http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Pe...
For that style of NAS, depending upon storage capacity, you're looking at anything from $125-200. Yes, the price rises significantly if you want a version that implements software RAID, but if you're just making backups...
FWIW, I can see how he would be right. Vista was horrifically inefficient, and required machines with much better specs than many Windows 7 PCs to run usefully. Chances are if you're still running Vista, you have a minimum of 4G or more of memory (probably much more), a decent CPU, and a half decent GPU, whereas Windows 7 is quite usable in 2G or less on a machine with an Atom and Intel Integrated graphics.
I am running Windows 10 on two machines at home, a former Windows 7 laptop with 2G, on which it stinks, and a former Windows 8.1 tablet with 1G, on which, surprisingly perhaps (better CPU?) it runs acceptably. I'm not sure what terrible configuration your other Windows 7 PCs have, but there's quite a good chance you'd have never gotten Vista to run on them either.
There's no doubt in my mind that prostitution should be legalized, but this incident specifically involves white slavery and human trafficking, and it's reasonable for prosecutors to attack it, just as it's entirely legitimate for a prosecutor to send someone to prison for selling rat poison laced heroin, even though unsafe heroin is pretty much entirely the result of legislators making regulated, safe, heroin illegal.
Why do you keep beating your wife?
No it won'. The whole point of hyperloop is to demonstrate that there are ways to positively compete with air travel on all fronts, from cost to environmental to travel time.
Nope, the whole point of hyperloop is to pretend there's a cheaper alternative to HSR. The system Musk proposed didn't even join the same points (it served only two of the four cities CAHSR is slated to serve, supported a quarter of the number of people, and both stations were over 50 miles away from the cities they "served".) In fact, total travel time with the Hyperloop will be more than by CAHSR, despite the supposedly faster speeds, because it doesn't join the end points. Musk also seriously lowballed the pricing, suggesting it can be done for $250,000 a mile. Real price is likely to be 100x that.
Basically the entire proposal was a fraud: it would have been obvious to Musk when he made the announcement that it wasn't a replacement for CAHSR yet he announced it anyway,and claimed we should be building that, not rail.
Nobody is going to site in a vibrating swinging windowless vomit train for 8 hours. And nobody's going to build it either.
Nobody's proposing either a train or hyperloop connecting NY and LA.
Hyperloop is a fraud. You've been hoodwinked. Just admit it and move on.
Oh no! A terror attack! We all need to shit our pants and end civil liberties and stop worrying about real problems immediately!!
The nearest I can come up with for logic on this one is that perhaps ISPs assume that anyone subscribing to TV will use their Roku less frequently, relieving their networks of 4-5Mbps of streaming (1080p) data at peak times.
Roku, Amazon Stick, etc, are all being pushed as ways to cut the cord, so there may be some logic there.
It's not going to put millions out of work. Most fast food restaurants will still need staffing - someone has to clean the tables, clean the toilets, fill the machines, ensure the machines are working and resolve customer issues when they're not, etc.
Looking at an average fast food restaurant, at breakfast/lunch/dinnertimes I see one or two people at the windows, and three or four people making sandwiches.
At other times, the numbers are considerably lower, usually just one person prepping food and one person actually at the window.
So, realistically, we're removing two full time jobs, and perhaps a handful of barely qualify even as part time jobs, at each restaurant. We're also introducing new jobs, manufacturing, maintenance, etc. And while minimum wage/sub CoL wage jobs aren't as focussed on young, pre-independent, people as some claim (the people who work at Walmart look pretty much spead evenly across the wage spectrum to me) these are jobs that are predominantly done by younger people.
I don't see this as a problem, and it might actually help the economy in the long run if fewer sub-CoL jobs exist.
So your argument is that Fox isn't biased because... Democrats want nothing to do with it?
I don't understand the logic. Wouldn't you expect Democrats and liberals to want nothing to do with an organization that's biased against them and constantly demonizes them?
It's taken Hollywood a long time, but they are actually answering this demand right now. Being able to rip DVDs and BDs is still necessary for (many) older titles, but in general if you want a version of a movie that you can access from a menu on your TV, or download onto a tablet for offline viewing, that's possible with virtually all new releases and probably all movies released or rereleased in the last 3-5 years, and many others.
Before the inevitable complaints, I'm not saying what they're offering is perfect, or that it's not overpriced or anything like that, but the argument "They're ignoring the market by not allowing ${ILLEGALTOOL} to provide ${LEGITIMATESERVICE}" is weakening. Support for non-mainstream platforms and the right to a back-up are still elusive, but (limited) format shifting and the video juke box is becoming a thing you can do legally.
The wording on your last sentence is slightly wrong enough to ensure that pedants will come out and tell you you're flat out wrong without acknowledging that the principle was right. Hillary and Powell used private email systems. Clinton, however, owned her own server while Powell didn't (so technically Powell didn't "have" his "own" private email server.)
But certainly neither used a government supplied email system, which is the point you were trying to make.
Rice, I believe, didn't actually use email to conduct official business.
Information on Powell here. Warning, Politico link. Doesn't tell us which email service Powell used, so until proven otherwise we have to assume Hotmail, because hilarious.
In fairness, that law change looks absurd on the face of it and I'm not surprised the officers writing tickets - and the drivers who voluntarily paid the fines didn't realize this.
The fact both sides, drivers and police, thought a parking violation had been committed hints the law is actually wrong here and probably should be changed back.
These idiots are missing the point of Hyperloop by trying to build it. It's not meant to be built. It's meant to be an argument to shut down HSR projects, to use as yet another excuse to not do what we should do by pretending there are better alternatives.
Texas Central will hopefully change things, as will, to a lesser extent, All Aboard Florida.
That was the provisional name. The final name of the product has just been released, it's the 'Q' revision of Google's Killer App 9 (the internal code name for their voice recognition project), so will be named 'KA9Q', which is kind of catchy.
OK, so instead of acknowledging that I wasn't trying to critique your post on technical grounds, you're digging in.
Your post was the equivalent of "The Zune is technically superior because X, Y, and Z, so people will flock to it.".
My post was the equivalent of "OK, but people like the iPod because of Q, and we can't do Q on a Zune, so it's not going to become popular."
You're now complaining that I didn't address why the Zune is technically superior. And AFTER I POINTED OUT that I never addressed which was technically superior, I was just explaining why the Zune will be ignored, instead of saying "Ah, OK, I didn't realize you weren't critiquing X, Y, and Z" you're saying "But Q has nothing to do with X, Y, and Z so you shouldn't have replied."
We're not going to Venus. We're going to Mars. We're going to Mars because we can land on it and colonize it today, without terraforming it. You might not like that, you may feel that's the wrong approach because there are technically ways in which we can float people in the clouds around Venus or half a dozen other ways, but the fact is they're not what anyone wants to do.
BTW Saturn's bigger and has the same gravity as Venus and Earth, but we're probably not going to colonize that before Mars either. For most of the same reasons (plus the radiation.)
I appreciate my posts are often opaque and I have great difficulty being understood from time to time, but I also have to say that I have little or no sympathy for people who continue to interpret a post the same way after they've been told specifically that's not what it meant.
I did read yours. I'm explaining why Venus is not likely to the target of colonists, not why your plan isn't technically feasible.
It's the Reverse Star Wars Rule: Numbers after 3 are bad. (Regular Star Wars rule is the opposite, of course.)
A significant difference between Mars and Venus is that we can land someone on the former before terraforming it. It's quite possible to envisage us colonizing Mars before its terraformed too.
Venus has some nice aspects, notably a surface gravity that's in Earth's ballpark, but until we can deal with the fact that virtually anything we drop into it is going to dissolve within minutes, perhaps even seconds, assuming it doesn't melt first, and assuming it's not enclosed in something strong enough to prevent it from being crushed before it's melted and dissolved, it's not a planet that's going to capture any proto-colonists' imagination.
No, very few people do, indeed part of the appeal of candidates like Trump and (dare I speak of them in the same breath) Sanders is that they're capitalizing on the disenchantment with the way the world is run at the moment.
But, yeah, good job equating unhappiness with the status quo with mental illness. How hard has it been to get work since the Soviet Union collapsed and the asylums closed there?
Probably not, but let's be honest, very few of us want to live in this one either.