Im outta here. It's been a good 10 years, but this reminds me of when Coke changed their formula. It's been fun guys, but I is outta here.
Anonymous Coward! Nooooooo!
What will we do without your countless comments on every story? Even when the story was stupid and no cared, we could always count on you to pop in with something to say, even if it was only a "first post!". (I know you got modded down for those "First!!" posts, but somebody had to get the ball rolling and you were always there when no one else was.) You've been tireless in you support of this site, and we've never really thanked you for it.
You dont understand ho astroturfing works. The goal is transparency and deception. Astroturfing appears as opinion, but is actually scumbag capitalism.
As I understand it, astroturfing doesn't work without people to participate in the process. Don't be friends with those people and you won't have to wonder whether you're hearing opinion or advertising.
You make a good point. When the Alan Jones cash for comments scandal broke, he got absolutely slammed in court for not disclosing who was paying him to promote various things on his show.
The same should apply to tweets. They are broadcasts, and so the people making them should disclose whether it is advertising or not.
Or you could just not be friends with people who will spam you with crap so they can earn 8 cents a week.
We've already done that. The US, USSR, French and British have all exploded nuclear bombs, and the footage is available on YouTube. The USA even seriously irradiated a Japanese fishing vessel in one of these explosions, and some of the crew died from radiation sickness.
Yeah, knowledge isn't good or bad and by itself it's useless. The application of that knowledge can take countless forms, any of which might be judged good or bad depending on your perspective. To say some line of research is dangerous is merely saying you think there are uses you consider bad.
On a less humorous note, what possible benefit could come from knowing that one race was superior to another? It has been scientifically proven, and... well, no one wants to believe that it's been proven. And even if it *is* true, there is no benefit to knowing, unless we're willing to backtrack on human rights.
That's a good example of my point. Scientific proof that one race is superior wouldn't actually do anything in itself. The world isn't suddenly a better/worse place. Backtracking on human rights would be an example of an application of that knowledge. You could chose to do that if you want, but that's a reflection of you, not the knowledge. Your inability to think of a "good" application of that knowledge doesn't make the knowledge itself somehow bad.
And in any case, any information you try to blacklist will eventually get out. Of course, I suppose there's a limit to that too - if we arrive at a point where a scientific discovery can lead to virtually anyone creating a WMD at low cost and with readily available materials, then there is a problem. But we're not there yet and anyway, at that point, there's no easy solution (though I personally believe a 'solution' should then be more along the lines of changing the root of the issue: why those people would want to create WMD to begin with).
I think the key is making humanity's morality improve faster than the rate of scientific progression. If you don't do that, it's not going to end well.
Yeah, knowledge isn't good or bad and by itself it's useless. The application of that knowledge can take countless forms, any of which might be judged good or bad depending on your perspective. To say some line of research is dangerous is merely saying you think there are uses you consider bad.
Remind me what TLDs have done for the world? Great idea, but bad because normal people do not know what they are. I work at a.org, and a coworker thinks wikipedia.com is wikipedia.org Why? Wikipedia.com works. Nobody uses.biz,.name,.museum,.mobi or.org or anything but.com and ocassionally.edu I dont think anyone knows what.net or.ly are. In fact google is my hostname looker upper just like most peoples.
I visit plenty of.org sites and used to run one. There's a lot of useful stuff on various.edu sites. On the other hand, I can think of only one legitimate.biz site i've used. I vaguely recall going to a.name site once. And until this thread, I've never heard of.museum,.mobi, or.ly.
Patents wouldn't be so bad if everyone who had them cleared their throat from the beginning and got all this out of the way and agreed upon... right now the patent ecosystem is this mentality of having a huge patent war chest because if you're producing a lot of anything, you're infringing on someone's rights and the odds are you'll pay for it at the time you're making the most money. This is unfair that Apple priced out these devices and sold millions of them with the possibility that they may be paying a hindsight licensing fee for each device.
Maybe there ought to be a type of statute of limitations on retroactive claims? Something like you've got a year(?) to make a claim between when you know of or should know of the infringement. If you don't, then you're assumed to have granted a royalty free license. If at a later point you do want to assert your patent, you can't make claims for any past infringement and are required to provide a royalty free grace period for usage of the patent.
In fact, I would enjoy seeing a corporation take a case like this to the Supreme Court and say, "I am legally a person and so the blah blah blah law shouldn't apply to me because it is a violation of my Nth amendment rights as a person.
Great...another opportunity for the Supreme Court to FURTHER expand on the insanity of the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision. Like my mom says: "We need that like a hole in the head."
Without context, I don't know how to interpret that quote. Does your mom suffer from intercranial bleeding? Because in that case, a hole in the head might save her life.
That is the obvious question. If you support the creation of a system full of loopholes, then a claim of "we don't intend to abuse the system" has the unspoken addition "...but we think it's OK for people to abuse the system (and we reserve the right to abuse it if we change our minds)." If they don't agree with that little addition, then they should oppose it until the potential for abuse is fixed. Why start with a broken system and try to fix it later?
Am I the only one who thinks it shouldn't take 3 years to figure out how to make a car produce engine noises? There are plenty of video games out there that manage to pull it off and I doubt any of them spent even 3 months on designing engine noises. Granted they didn't have to work out all the hardware involved, but even that doesn't seem like it should take years.
Only sales people that I've had trouble with past that generally are car salesmen, who've even tried the technique of blocking the exit driveway with staff so I couldn't drive off. I saw their block, and raised them a 4x4 through the hedge row. Shoulda seen the looks on their faces...
+1 awesomeness. I have little sympathy for dealerships with staff that pull tricks to prevent you from leaving.
Soon:
- First maleware for cars spotted in the wild. Car manufacturers: "No problem. it only infects the multimedia system"
- Maleware displays a huge kitty on the HUD. First malware caused traffic accident with casualties.
- Anti-Virus Software mandatory for cars
- Kaspersky/McAffee/.. : ~40% of all cars infected with one virus or another....
Great, so now my car's only gonna go 15 mph because McAffee is using 90% of my engine resources.
Slashdot Mirror
SlashPHB and be done with it?
I'm gonna guess that the people who dreamed up SlashBI don't understand the PHB reference.
Im outta here. It's been a good 10 years, but this reminds me of when Coke changed their formula. It's been fun guys, but I is outta here.
Anonymous Coward! Nooooooo!
What will we do without your countless comments on every story? Even when the story was stupid and no cared, we could always count on you to pop in with something to say, even if it was only a "first post!". (I know you got modded down for those "First!!" posts, but somebody had to get the ball rolling and you were always there when no one else was.) You've been tireless in you support of this site, and we've never really thanked you for it.
We're gonna miss you, old friend.
You dont understand ho astroturfing works. The goal is transparency and deception. Astroturfing appears as opinion, but is actually scumbag capitalism.
As I understand it, astroturfing doesn't work without people to participate in the process. Don't be friends with those people and you won't have to wonder whether you're hearing opinion or advertising.
You make a good point. When the Alan Jones cash for comments scandal broke, he got absolutely slammed in court for not disclosing who was paying him to promote various things on his show. The same should apply to tweets. They are broadcasts, and so the people making them should disclose whether it is advertising or not.
Or you could just not be friends with people who will spam you with crap so they can earn 8 cents a week.
We've already done that. The US, USSR, French and British have all exploded nuclear bombs, and the footage is available on YouTube. The USA even seriously irradiated a Japanese fishing vessel in one of these explosions, and some of the crew died from radiation sickness.
But we haven't done it in 3D yet.
Why can't we make it through a single story without someone bringing up Nazis?
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Yeah, knowledge isn't good or bad and by itself it's useless. The application of that knowledge can take countless forms, any of which might be judged good or bad depending on your perspective. To say some line of research is dangerous is merely saying you think there are uses you consider bad.
On a less humorous note, what possible benefit could come from knowing that one race was superior to another? It has been scientifically proven, and ... well, no one wants to believe that it's been proven. And even if it *is* true, there is no benefit to knowing, unless we're willing to backtrack on human rights.
That's a good example of my point. Scientific proof that one race is superior wouldn't actually do anything in itself. The world isn't suddenly a better/worse place. Backtracking on human rights would be an example of an application of that knowledge. You could chose to do that if you want, but that's a reflection of you, not the knowledge. Your inability to think of a "good" application of that knowledge doesn't make the knowledge itself somehow bad.
And in any case, any information you try to blacklist will eventually get out. Of course, I suppose there's a limit to that too - if we arrive at a point where a scientific discovery can lead to virtually anyone creating a WMD at low cost and with readily available materials, then there is a problem. But we're not there yet and anyway, at that point, there's no easy solution (though I personally believe a 'solution' should then be more along the lines of changing the root of the issue: why those people would want to create WMD to begin with).
I think the key is making humanity's morality improve faster than the rate of scientific progression. If you don't do that, it's not going to end well.
All forms of scientific inquiry have "dual use"
Yeah, knowledge isn't good or bad and by itself it's useless. The application of that knowledge can take countless forms, any of which might be judged good or bad depending on your perspective. To say some line of research is dangerous is merely saying you think there are uses you consider bad.
... OR another option for stopping the leaks would be to clean up the corruption that people are revealing. WWJD?
Remind me what TLDs have done for the world? Great idea, but bad because normal people do not know what they are. I work at a .org, and a coworker thinks wikipedia.com is wikipedia.org Why? Wikipedia.com works. Nobody uses .biz, .name, .museum, .mobi or .org or anything but .com and ocassionally .edu I dont think anyone knows what .net or .ly are. In fact google is my hostname looker upper just like most peoples.
I visit plenty of .org sites and used to run one. There's a lot of useful stuff on various .edu sites. On the other hand, I can think of only one legitimate .biz site i've used. I vaguely recall going to a .name site once. And until this thread, I've never heard of .museum, .mobi, or .ly.
Patents wouldn't be so bad if everyone who had them cleared their throat from the beginning and got all this out of the way and agreed upon ... right now the patent ecosystem is this mentality of having a huge patent war chest because if you're producing a lot of anything, you're infringing on someone's rights and the odds are you'll pay for it at the time you're making the most money. This is unfair that Apple priced out these devices and sold millions of them with the possibility that they may be paying a hindsight licensing fee for each device.
Maybe there ought to be a type of statute of limitations on retroactive claims? Something like you've got a year(?) to make a claim between when you know of or should know of the infringement. If you don't, then you're assumed to have granted a royalty free license. If at a later point you do want to assert your patent, you can't make claims for any past infringement and are required to provide a royalty free grace period for usage of the patent.
Sounds like the bureaucracy did it's job perfectly.
hackity hack hack wait till you lose one on the tarmack.....
First they have to find some way to keep their developers from leaving the prototype in a bar. For some reason, that isn't as easy as you'd think.
What do you mean AIDS gets all the pub? Cancer wins 2:1
In fact, I would enjoy seeing a corporation take a case like this to the Supreme Court and say, "I am legally a person and so the blah blah blah law shouldn't apply to me because it is a violation of my Nth amendment rights as a person.
Great...another opportunity for the Supreme Court to FURTHER expand on the insanity of the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision. Like my mom says: "We need that like a hole in the head."
Without context, I don't know how to interpret that quote. Does your mom suffer from intercranial bleeding? Because in that case, a hole in the head might save her life.
That is the obvious question. If you support the creation of a system full of loopholes, then a claim of "we don't intend to abuse the system" has the unspoken addition "...but we think it's OK for people to abuse the system (and we reserve the right to abuse it if we change our minds)." If they don't agree with that little addition, then they should oppose it until the potential for abuse is fixed. Why start with a broken system and try to fix it later?
Caligula's Creativity Suite?
I think that's one to stay away from.
That's how I read it at first too. I was intrigued, then disappointed when I realized my mistake.
Am I the only one who thinks it shouldn't take 3 years to figure out how to make a car produce engine noises? There are plenty of video games out there that manage to pull it off and I doubt any of them spent even 3 months on designing engine noises. Granted they didn't have to work out all the hardware involved, but even that doesn't seem like it should take years.
Requirement: A million dollars.
Disqualification: Openly admitting that you don't believe in fairy tales.
It'll likely cost more than a million dollars to successfully run for congress. In 2010, the average successful campaign for a house seat cost nearly 1.5 million. For the senate it was 9 million. ( data from: http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/stats.php?display=A&type=W&cycle=2010 )
Only sales people that I've had trouble with past that generally are car salesmen, who've even tried the technique of blocking the exit driveway with staff so I couldn't drive off. I saw their block, and raised them a 4x4 through the hedge row. Shoulda seen the looks on their faces...
+1 awesomeness. I have little sympathy for dealerships with staff that pull tricks to prevent you from leaving.
Unless the third party proxy were the extortionists DDOSing you.
Good business model!
Soon: - First maleware for cars spotted in the wild. Car manufacturers: "No problem. it only infects the multimedia system" - Maleware displays a huge kitty on the HUD. First malware caused traffic accident with casualties. - Anti-Virus Software mandatory for cars - Kaspersky/McAffee/.. : ~40% of all cars infected with one virus or another....
Great, so now my car's only gonna go 15 mph because McAffee is using 90% of my engine resources.
Even the original Enterprise would probably take up about the same footprint as the Pentagon. I say we build it.
Kickstarter anyone?