"Hey you guys are really smart, right? Want to come hang out with a bunch of people who aren't? They aren't too annoying until they come by and start correcting you, when they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. C'mon, it will be fun!!"
I don't even like academics but the self proclaimed wikilords trying to attract knowledgeable people is pretty hilarious.
This is exactly why we didn't want the.xxx domain name. It seems like it exists for the sole purpose of being censored.
I would argue the exact opposite and say that this is why we DID want the TLD to exist.
Reputable smut dealers don't exactly try to hide what they're selling and will have no problem hosting their domains under the.xxx TLD.
Most people have no problem with the product in adult hands, but would like it to be as easy as possible to block traffic from.xxx domains to an elementary school library without some stupid third party whitelist or blacklist.
It works out for everybody except porn fans in puritanical countries, as TFA illustrates.
I'm a tech guy. The best manager I've ever had was a guy with very limited technical ability -- but he knew it. He won me over by apologizing about an offhand comment he made, some joke about paying me too much if I remember correctly. The fact that he was sensitive enough to realize that he may have hurt my feelings -- and then took steps to make sure he fixed it.. I haven't had a manager since then that cared that much about the people he managed.
I brushed it off at the time but it's obviously stuck with me.
Nerd: feel like a.. chocolate cheeseburger? *snort*
Girl: what do you mean
Nerd: it's a cheeseburger, made of chocolate *chuckles*
Girl: why is that funny?
Nerd: it's-
Girl: OK, I'm leaving
Microsoft should write some server code that can talk to Google's Cloud Connect plugin! Then we can have Google search results on Bing and Google Doc files on Microsoft's cloud servers!!
I'm certain your arm chair quarterbacking the largest computer company in the world, and the second largest US based corporation is beyond reproach, but it would be kind to the Apple stockholders (including me) if you'd share some of your data.
What metric are you using? Hewlett Packard beats Apple soundly in the Fortune 500.
Despite the massive revenues, Apple still ranks third, behind HP (ranked 10th overall) and Dell (ranked 38th overall), in Fortune's "Computers, Office Equipment" industry rankings.
Except Mark Zuckerberg
He deserves to have every facet of his life known and subjected to Liking or DisLiking.
I just decided to go to Facebook to see how open Zuckerberg's personal facebook page is.
The answer?
I can't find his personal Facebook page. You can't "friend" him. He has a "public figure" page where someone posts news snippets and you can "like" it.
Hypocrite.
I have an idea! Maybe if the TSA stopped molesting people, air travel would be more pleasant, and you wouldn't have to spend BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on passenger trains. Just an idea, I don't live in the States so I'm not sure how much you like being groped by goons with a badge just so that you can visit your parents.
Putting a few engineers in executive positions is not going to change a corporate culture that thinks stealing search results from Google is "innovation"
Religiosity gene. Wow, really? Gee, what's next, the gay gene?
We have religious conservatives arguing that homosexuality is a choice, and we have university academics arguing that religious leanings are genetic.
The funny thing is that I thought academics would lean towards the free will argument, but I guess sometimes they take "there must be an explanation for everything" too far and convince themselves that human behaviour is easily explained with statistical models with ridiculously weak premises.
an individual's predisposition toward religion is likely to be influenced by genetics
AKA i'm going to deliberately ignore a "nature vs nurture" debate that has raged on for centuries, and go with "nature" in an offhand comment that states a specific behaviour determined by nature is.. likely.
Oh and this is the lynchpin of my entire preposition. I'm a professor.
No one will stock or publish an ESRB AO game, just like no theatres ever show NC-17 films.
I was about to make a snide comment about digital distribution eventually making this argument moot. However, I then realized that digital distribution is rapidly coalescing into a handful of retailers like Steam and iTunes app store, and they're just as unlikely to carry boobs than their brick and mortar counterparts.
I don't think anyone really dares to touch that with a mile long pole.
I hadn't heard of this story out of Germany and it definitely makes sense to me. Language is more deeply cherished than people realise, it's perhaps one of the strongest bonds between people and their parents, grandparents, ancestors. Parents start teaching their children to communicate before they're even out of diapers.
Having the government intrude into this deeply personal relationship just seems like a small minded bureaucrat trying to impose their will where it isn't wanted or needed.
The government is formed by the people, not vice versa.
That's fucking ridiculous. The argument should be HTML5 versus proprietary plugins.
Nobody is arguing this because everything will be HTML5 eventually. I linked you to youtube's page where you can test drive their HTML5 player with h264 content or WebM content depending on your browser. Google owns Youtube.
This is the whole point. Google (among others) is trying to re-frame the debate as a war between different video CODECs, when HTML5, as a standard, should be CODEC-neutral.
HTML5 is codec neutral, it can embed h264 or webm content. The debate is what to embed. It's simply GIF vs PNG all over again.
Google's position on WebM, realistically, means that Flash's dominance on the web is going to be prolonged. After all, it's not likely anybody is going to seriously adopt WebM while Google continues to support Flash.
It might just be late, but I have no idea how you are reaching this conclusion. Are you aware that Adobe is one of the companies that has pledged to support WebM?
The fight to adopt WebM has nothing to do with WebM vs Flash. The fight is h264/html5 vs WebM/html5. Take a quick look at this page:
Could any of the higher ranking nerds on this site tell me if they design satellites to burn up during de-orbit without reaching the ground or ocean? Seems like it would be a pretty compromising design feature since they're trying to pack in as much communications equipment as they can into the smallest possible space.
The headline is Slashdot crap. The linked article and another article provided in these comments have security researchers pointing out ways in which Stuxnet could have been written better. This strokes their own egos and ironically provides free design advice to whoever wrote the thing in the first place when they go to create their next weapon.
It's pretty safe to assume at this point that Stuxnet was developed as an Israel/USA military collaboration. Spokespeople from both countries smirk before saying "no comment" when asked about it.
That being said, hackers have huge egos. The types of hackers that present at security conferences even more so. It's tremendously easy for them to pick apart the worm several months after it was discovered and say "oh ho ho, it doesn't encrypt it's command and control communications!!" like they're smarter than the people that built it.
If another country starts to outshine you, try changing the rules.
America's strength used lie in an immense manufacturing culture, and that's given way to "intellectual property". Instead of dealing with tangibles, America is content to sit behind a desk and let the Chinese labour.
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Exactly.
"Hey you guys are really smart, right? Want to come hang out with a bunch of people who aren't? They aren't too annoying until they come by and start correcting you, when they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. C'mon, it will be fun!!"
I don't even like academics but the self proclaimed wikilords trying to attract knowledgeable people is pretty hilarious.
I would argue the exact opposite and say that this is why we DID want the TLD to exist.
Reputable smut dealers don't exactly try to hide what they're selling and will have no problem hosting their domains under the .xxx TLD.
Most people have no problem with the product in adult hands, but would like it to be as easy as possible to block traffic from .xxx domains to an elementary school library without some stupid third party whitelist or blacklist.
It works out for everybody except porn fans in puritanical countries, as TFA illustrates.
I'm a tech guy. The best manager I've ever had was a guy with very limited technical ability -- but he knew it. He won me over by apologizing about an offhand comment he made, some joke about paying me too much if I remember correctly. The fact that he was sensitive enough to realize that he may have hurt my feelings -- and then took steps to make sure he fixed it.. I haven't had a manager since then that cared that much about the people he managed.
I brushed it off at the time but it's obviously stuck with me.
Nerd: feel like a.. chocolate cheeseburger? *snort* Girl: what do you mean Nerd: it's a cheeseburger, made of chocolate *chuckles* Girl: why is that funny? Nerd: it's- Girl: OK, I'm leaving
Microsoft should write some server code that can talk to Google's Cloud Connect plugin! Then we can have Google search results on Bing and Google Doc files on Microsoft's cloud servers!!
What metric are you using? Hewlett Packard beats Apple soundly in the Fortune 500.
Reference:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/15/apple-56-in-fortune-500-rankings/
But not financially bankrupt!! Cha-ching!!
I just decided to go to Facebook to see how open Zuckerberg's personal facebook page is. The answer? I can't find his personal Facebook page. You can't "friend" him. He has a "public figure" page where someone posts news snippets and you can "like" it. Hypocrite.
I have an idea! Maybe if the TSA stopped molesting people, air travel would be more pleasant, and you wouldn't have to spend BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on passenger trains. Just an idea, I don't live in the States so I'm not sure how much you like being groped by goons with a badge just so that you can visit your parents.
Putting a few engineers in executive positions is not going to change a corporate culture that thinks stealing search results from Google is "innovation"
I think someone just saw the social network and wanted to make their own facemash.com
Handing out SATA cards would certainly be cheaper, but respectable companies repair or replace a product with defects.
We have religious conservatives arguing that homosexuality is a choice, and we have university academics arguing that religious leanings are genetic.
The funny thing is that I thought academics would lean towards the free will argument, but I guess sometimes they take "there must be an explanation for everything" too far and convince themselves that human behaviour is easily explained with statistical models with ridiculously weak premises.
AKA i'm going to deliberately ignore a "nature vs nurture" debate that has raged on for centuries, and go with "nature" in an offhand comment that states a specific behaviour determined by nature is.. likely.
Oh and this is the lynchpin of my entire preposition. I'm a professor.
I was about to make a snide comment about digital distribution eventually making this argument moot. However, I then realized that digital distribution is rapidly coalescing into a handful of retailers like Steam and iTunes app store, and they're just as unlikely to carry boobs than their brick and mortar counterparts.
I hadn't heard of this story out of Germany and it definitely makes sense to me. Language is more deeply cherished than people realise, it's perhaps one of the strongest bonds between people and their parents, grandparents, ancestors. Parents start teaching their children to communicate before they're even out of diapers. Having the government intrude into this deeply personal relationship just seems like a small minded bureaucrat trying to impose their will where it isn't wanted or needed. The government is formed by the people, not vice versa.
Nobody is arguing this because everything will be HTML5 eventually. I linked you to youtube's page where you can test drive their HTML5 player with h264 content or WebM content depending on your browser. Google owns Youtube.
HTML5 is codec neutral, it can embed h264 or webm content. The debate is what to embed. It's simply GIF vs PNG all over again.
Ah yes, the famous open, patented, royalty-encumbered standard. Except for the open part
It might just be late, but I have no idea how you are reaching this conclusion. Are you aware that Adobe is one of the companies that has pledged to support WebM?
The fight to adopt WebM has nothing to do with WebM vs Flash. The fight is h264/html5 vs WebM/html5. Take a quick look at this page:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
Could any of the higher ranking nerds on this site tell me if they design satellites to burn up during de-orbit without reaching the ground or ocean? Seems like it would be a pretty compromising design feature since they're trying to pack in as much communications equipment as they can into the smallest possible space.
The headline is Slashdot crap. The linked article and another article provided in these comments have security researchers pointing out ways in which Stuxnet could have been written better. This strokes their own egos and ironically provides free design advice to whoever wrote the thing in the first place when they go to create their next weapon.
It's pretty safe to assume at this point that Stuxnet was developed as an Israel/USA military collaboration. Spokespeople from both countries smirk before saying "no comment" when asked about it. That being said, hackers have huge egos. The types of hackers that present at security conferences even more so. It's tremendously easy for them to pick apart the worm several months after it was discovered and say "oh ho ho, it doesn't encrypt it's command and control communications!!" like they're smarter than the people that built it.
ie. non-story
If another country starts to outshine you, try changing the rules.
America's strength used lie in an immense manufacturing culture, and that's given way to "intellectual property". Instead of dealing with tangibles, America is content to sit behind a desk and let the Chinese labour.
God I love slashdot sometimes