Excuse me? Rewriting history much? Jobs was not an engineer. Except for a short interlude as 'technician', he always was a designer and salesman. But his gift for self-promotion, the modesty of his engineer partners (especially that other Steve), and his Legion of Faithful obviously managed to hide that fact and turned Jobs into the God-Engineer.
Oh yes, the right to anonymously slander and libel people is such an important right, taking that away would be chilling.
All the proposal says is that if you run a site, you'd better be willing to moderate the anonymous trolls unless you want to be accused of libel. And to be fair, if an anonymous libel is posted on your site, it's hard to see who's legally liable but yourself when you let it stand.
Really, whining that this is an affront to free speech is missing the point. A right is a right as long as it doesn't infringe on others' rights. Free speech ends at libel and slander.
If you're doing graphics work, just tap the top left corner of your tablet. Or, if you're not sufficiently professional to use a tablet, just whip your mouse cursor to the top left. Voila: Activities menu, just like pressing the Windows key.
Really, have all those complaining ever actually used Gnome3?
No, I'm not going to niggle about details. If you want to know what Nazi ideology was about, go visit the remains of Buchenwald or Auschwitz instead of nitpicking.
And I think I have read quite a bit more of (neo-)Nazi literature than you; a lot of it in the original German even.
The very ideology is about mass murder. You can't display a swastika in earnest without advocating mass murder. Stop apologising for genocidal maniacs.
Well, that leaves indeed not a lot of societies that I would consider 'civilised' in that definition, no.
But then again, I think we've been backsliding ever since the Sixties or so. Even my home country of the Netherlands, which used to be a sensible place where people conferred and violence was rare, has become an insane asylum with paranoid citizens and ever more authoritarian bullies in government.
Shorting is a speculative act, and virtually useless for anything but speculation. If you want to insure your portfolio, you take a long position in puts.
Of course people are blowing it out of proportion.
I feel quite confident to state that Sturgeon's Law applies to programmers: 95% are clueless code monkeys that can do nothing but blindly crank out patterns without understanding their meaning, or they're PHP kiddies with the intelligence of amoebas copy/pasting code from the web and leaving gaping security holes.
I'm a mere sysadmin, and my Perl scripts follow Best Practices better than much code written by actual programmers I get to see.
Since a large part of Slashdot's audience are programmers, of course we're going to get people to blow this out of proportion. Half of them don't even understand the limits of their liability, and the other half does understand and is afraid the gravy train is finally about to stop.
I am going that far. Apple hasn't been an innovator since the Lisa. They've been very good at incremental improvement and ever shinier packaging, but name me one actual innovation they've come up with.
And I'm being charitable at giving them the Lisa, as that can be argued to be a derivative of Xerox work in the first place.
And on the gripping hand: I don't believe the myth of 'innovation' anyway. Most new things build on what came before, true innovation is very rare. However, trying to market what Apple does as innovation definitely does not count.
No, what we have here is the same as in Apple vs. Nokia: Apple trying to buy into the FRAND terms by offering their patents for crosslicensing, and then going home and taking their ball with them when the members of the consortium correctly point out that rounded corners and questionable multitouch patents are not a fair price for actual innovations in hardware.
3G phones have been a hot property for at least ten years. May I point out how absolutely huge the established players like Nokia and Samsung already were before Apple showed up?
Kudos to Apple for gauging the market correctly and taking a chunk of a very competitive market. But they were late to a party that was already in full swing.
That some countries with a third world 3G infrastructure didn't notice the party doesn't change those facts.
Yep. Completely round the bend. Absolutely bonkers.
And like I predicted, spinning like top. You said you wouldn't trust anything built by a government. You weren't arguing that there might have been a private alternative, so now you're just shifting the goalposts. Again: I would never in my entire life trust a gov't of any kind to do [any work].
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Excuse me? Rewriting history much? Jobs was not an engineer. Except for a short interlude as 'technician', he always was a designer and salesman. But his gift for self-promotion, the modesty of his engineer partners (especially that other Steve), and his Legion of Faithful obviously managed to hide that fact and turned Jobs into the God-Engineer.
"Of course there was Woz too". Fah. Fanboys.
I think you missed the point. GP was referring to giving 'em the 9mm cure, a course i heartily agree with.
Oh yes, the right to anonymously slander and libel people is such an important right, taking that away would be chilling.
All the proposal says is that if you run a site, you'd better be willing to moderate the anonymous trolls unless you want to be accused of libel. And to be fair, if an anonymous libel is posted on your site, it's hard to see who's legally liable but yourself when you let it stand.
Really, whining that this is an affront to free speech is missing the point. A right is a right as long as it doesn't infringe on others' rights. Free speech ends at libel and slander.
<Looks at desktop> <Moves mouse>
Strange. My focus changes without clicks and no autoraise.
Perhaps you could try, you know, acutally using software before parroting blogosphere rants?
If you're doing graphics work, just tap the top left corner of your tablet. Or, if you're not sufficiently professional to use a tablet, just whip your mouse cursor to the top left. Voila: Activities menu, just like pressing the Windows key.
Really, have all those complaining ever actually used Gnome3?
Mart
No, I'm not going to niggle about details. If you want to know what Nazi ideology was about, go visit the remains of Buchenwald or Auschwitz instead of nitpicking.
And I think I have read quite a bit more of (neo-)Nazi literature than you; a lot of it in the original German even.
Mart
The very ideology is about mass murder. You can't display a swastika in earnest without advocating mass murder. Stop apologising for genocidal maniacs.
Mart
Bovine faeces.
Most antispam appliances and services default to using Spamhaus.
Well, that leaves indeed not a lot of societies that I would consider 'civilised' in that definition, no.
But then again, I think we've been backsliding ever since the Sixties or so. Even my home country of the Netherlands, which used to be a sensible place where people conferred and violence was rare, has become an insane asylum with paranoid citizens and ever more authoritarian bullies in government.
Mart
Perhaps that is a suggestion as to the nature of American society? Parent poster did after all specify 'civilized society'.
Mart
Read what they wrote: derivatives shorting.
Shorting is a speculative act, and virtually useless for anything but speculation. If you want to insure your portfolio, you take a long position in puts.
Mart
Of course people are blowing it out of proportion.
I feel quite confident to state that Sturgeon's Law applies to programmers: 95% are clueless code monkeys that can do nothing but blindly crank out patterns without understanding their meaning, or they're PHP kiddies with the intelligence of amoebas copy/pasting code from the web and leaving gaping security holes.
I'm a mere sysadmin, and my Perl scripts follow Best Practices better than much code written by actual programmers I get to see.
Since a large part of Slashdot's audience are programmers, of course we're going to get people to blow this out of proportion. Half of them don't even understand the limits of their liability, and the other half does understand and is afraid the gravy train is finally about to stop.
Mart
So instead of arguing, you start calling names. Yes, I shall call you what you are: a fscking fanboi.
Now go play with your iShiny, and leave the grownups alone.
I am going that far. Apple hasn't been an innovator since the Lisa. They've been very good at incremental improvement and ever shinier packaging, but name me one actual innovation they've come up with.
And I'm being charitable at giving them the Lisa, as that can be argued to be a derivative of Xerox work in the first place.
And on the gripping hand: I don't believe the myth of 'innovation' anyway. Most new things build on what came before, true innovation is very rare. However, trying to market what Apple does as innovation definitely does not count.
No, what we have here is the same as in Apple vs. Nokia: Apple trying to buy into the FRAND terms by offering their patents for crosslicensing, and then going home and taking their ball with them when the members of the consortium correctly point out that rounded corners and questionable multitouch patents are not a fair price for actual innovations in hardware.
Mart
3G phones have been a hot property for at least ten years. May I point out how absolutely huge the established players like Nokia and Samsung already were before Apple showed up?
Kudos to Apple for gauging the market correctly and taking a chunk of a very competitive market. But they were late to a party that was already in full swing.
That some countries with a third world 3G infrastructure didn't notice the party doesn't change those facts.
Mart
There are most definitely good guys here: Samsung.
They have actual inventions that are relevant to 3G phone hardware. Apple has silly design patents on obvious shapes.
Yeah, I'm using a bit of hyperbole, but the point stands: between an actual innovator and a shiny packager there is no moral equivalency.
Mart
If you have to edit obscure registry keys to change the way your desktop looks, Windows is not ready for the desktop.
Imagine trying to explain this to your Grandma over the phone.
Mart
I'm always surprised that in these discussion someone always turns up to find excuses for twits like Sean Duffy.
What he did was harassment, and that's a crime everywhere. That it's happening via the Internet is irrelevant here.
And as for intent: if you go as far as he did, to deny that there was intent to harass becomes just plain silly.
Mart
Slashdot really needs a '-1, Gibberish' option.
LeVar Burton knows what happens if you cross the almighty Paramount execs and express your own opinion. Wil Wheaton is an object example.
Mart
[citation needed]
As it turns out, the cert was issued by hackers during a break-in in July.
Something tells me my boss is very happy we didn't go with Vasco for our identity solution.
Mart
Yep. Completely round the bend. Absolutely bonkers.
And like I predicted, spinning like top. You said you wouldn't trust anything built by a government. You weren't arguing that there might have been a private alternative, so now you're just shifting the goalposts. Again: I would never in my entire life trust a gov't of any kind to do [any work].
Your words. So what are you still doing here?