Slashdot has no idea how many people hate Bennett's crap
When the first 50 posts, all at +4/+5, all say essentially the same thing I did - Slashdot has no "plausible deniability" here. No editor can approve Benny's crap with a straight face at this point - Anyone putting his crap on the front page at this point does so solely to troll the community.
I can't answer that for Sony in particular, but I can tell you with absolute certainty why it happens at smaller companies that could easily segregate such sensitive systems from the general corporate network...
"Damnit, $peon, I don't give a damn about HIPAA or PCI or SOX! Make it so I can get to all the files I want, from my desk computer, or I'll find someone who can. Don't worry about it, just keep the bad guys off our network, and we'll have no problems. What??? No you can't lock down my computer so I can't browse por... er... financial news sites at lunch!"
The problem comes from the people who do legitimately need access to such data considering themselves "too important" (and naturally, infallible) to follow the policies and procedures required to maintain meaningful access limitations. That, and the people who actually understand the need for an air gap almost never having the authority to say "tough, you work for this company, and this company requires that you do it this way".
If only that "close and dont show me this again" button...
...Fucking worked?
As far as I can tell, it works exactly once, per browser session. Close and reopen/. even on the same computer, and get the "deals" BS again.
Of course, I can't rule out the possibility that it would remember the setting for logged-in users. But - oh bother - it appears that I need to load Slashdot before I can log in.
You could get a partial refund of whatever you paid for your vote.
So 80% of my income taxes over the past six years, then? Well, I'd rather have a functional, non-full-of-shit government, but, I'll take what I can get - Cut me a check, Barry!
This is completely at odds with everything I've heard about US legal system, where the victims need to prove they didn't provoke the attacker ("stand your ground"), especially if the attacker is a cop, so citation needed.
Not quite sure what you need a cite on - That police in the US don't have the right to beat the shit out of you for no reason?
In theory, when cops give a lawful order, you need to obey it. When cops give an unlawful order, you can ignore it.
In practice, ignoring any order from a cop, lawful or not, will result in you having a very bad day. Resisting at that point will make your day even worse, from "bad" to potentially "dead".
If, however, you complied (note I didn't say "consented") fully, that drastically improves your chances in any subsequent legal proceedings, whether against you using illegally obtained evidence, or against the cop for abuse/assault/etc.
What exactly do you gain by consenting to an illegal request of a power they do not have?
"Comply" does not equal "consent".
Make it absolutely clear that you do not consent to illegal searches or other orders, but remain entirely passive throughout the encounter. If Officer Friendly finds something in an illegal search, it makes it that much easier for your lawyer to get it thrown out. If Officer Friendly breaks your arm throwing you against a car to violently frisk you, it makes it that much easier for your lawyer to end his career and win you a nice chunk of change.
And if Officer Friendly caps yo axe, the grand jury doesn't need to deliberate for six months to decide to charge him with murder (or, if you have the opportunity, to decide not to charge you with the same for acting in self defense).
No. He said "there's no hatred directed at women here" - A categorically true statement, given that I made no mention of women at all. None.
Disagree with my stance on the merits of basing your world-view on mock indignation, if you will. But do make an attempt to stick to the topic at hand, rather than whatever strawmen (sorry, "strawpersons") you'd prefer to attack.
I said nothing about women. Reading comprehension - You can haz it?
Nice rant though, I'd recommend you save it to for next week. Protip: Look for someone actually, y'know, mentioning women, preferably in a negative way, before you recycle that drivel.
The first person to use the term "SJW" has probably just proven the point of the article.
Funny thing about using a group's identity pejoratively...
If retards didn't exist, we wouldn't call them retards. And if we considered retards a good thing, we wouldn't use that word as an insult. Similarly, much as "retarded" replaced "idiot" and "moron", "SJW" itself replaced "PC", once that older term had become too commonplace.
If you manage to make the actual use of "SJW" gauche, you can expect to simply see something else replace it - Of course, I suppose people could just start calling them the more accurate "indignation whores", but that seems a bit too blunt to adopt for common usage.
Nowhere does it mention the Declaration. Go ahead, try citing it as legal authority in a courtroom and see how far it gets you, Mr. Constitutional Scholar.
Don't confuse "legal" for "ethical", Mr. Rules Lawyer.
All people have a right - An obligation - To resist an oppressive government to the greatest extent possible. For some people, that means voting. For some, it means running for office. For some, it means running issues ads. For some, it means stalling paperwork as a low-level clerk in some office deep in a government building. And for some... It means preparing for when, not if, all the lesser options fail to achieve the desired result.
FWIW, I don't think we've reached that point - yet. Getting harder and harder not to notice that the asshats in Washington seem intent on getting us there as rapidly as possible, however.
They know everything that could go wrong in ten years of space travel.
...Except landing in a shadow in the most important 30 seconds of the mission?
Though overall, I agree, and offer the ESA a hearty congratulations - Well done! Just somewhat disappointing that the coolest part of the whole mission, while "technically" successful, won't get to do anything more than drill a few small holes.
Y'know, I realize that all the self-righteous "Papa knows best" crowd recently learned the term "Dunning Kruger", but casually tossing it out as a way to instantly shut down any discussion works about as well as complaining about "privilege".
More importantly - For all you know, koan works for the Mars Rover program, and has a legitimate right to mock the ESA's lack of foresight.
On a purely practical level - Yes, more instruments means more weight. But to have no maneuvering capabilities, not even the ability to flip itself over if it landed on its side, or make short hops around the surface - Keep in mind the gravity here - A tiny piston slightly off-center on each side of the cube would have added a few hundred grams and meant a billion dollar mission wouldn't die later today because of shadows, of all things.
What does "court order" mean? Are they going to require an actual warrant, or will they just cough up your data on any request by a court? Because if a warrant ain't required, I ain't interested.
Even if they do require a warrant, I ain't interested. They can keep their BS extra features that require tracking me. I can call AAA on my own. I can read a map on my own. I can remember to schedule my regular maintenance without automated reminders based on telemetry data.
Free hint, automakers - Any feature that requires data to leave my car, I will actively disable. And even any feature that requires the car to log data locally, I will minimize to the greatest extent possible. I don't trust you, I don't trust the NSA, I don't trust the state government not to retroactively issue speeding tickets in a revenue-tight year (like they've already proven they will do with EZ-Pass type toll transponders - You know, the ones they promised (just like in TFA) they'd never use for anything other than paying your tolls).
Someone want to get rich? Develop an ODBC-II dongle that erases my car's EDR every time I turn the car off... Or for that matter, continually if possible.
Think you're smarter than a Supreme court justice?
Argumentum ad verecundiam. Try again.
Do not assume that you know the law better than a prosecutor that's poring over emails after your dean forwarded them on with a note "Hey frank, I hate this kid... screwer him if you can"
The fact that, given "six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, [you] will find something in them which will hang him" doesn't have any bearing on whether or not plagiarism itself counts as a crime. Which it doesn't.
I never said it would be a copyright law you broke. You have no idea which laws you could break... none what-so-ever...
Put up or shut up - Pick an actual law, or cede the point.
First, I agree with almost all of what you said. Never implicate yourself. Ever. Don't lie about it, don't tell the truth about it, don't say anything about it unless compelled to speak by a court (and even then, run every word by your lawyer first). However, before we go all tough-guy with "get a warrant"...
By admitting to copying someone else's code you could be confessing to a real crime that could result in time in prison.
Complete and utter bullshit. Plagiarism does not commit a crime, period. Academic violation, yes. Institutional violation, yes. Intellectual violation, yes. Probably a workplace violation in some cases (though typically only if you create content for your employer intended for public consumption). But criminal violation? No, no, no.
At most, the real author could sue for copyright violation - non-commercial, academic, non-distributed copyright violation. Good luck even finding a lawyer to waste time on that goldmine of a case.
In a way, using the internet to get the answer is the way it works in IT these days. I routinely get my solutions for problems at work by going to the internet â" I don't memorize every command and algorithm. These kids aren't cheating, they're doing it the current/modern way.
In third grade, you don't do your math homework by Googling "what is 153/17", because learning how to do it counts as the entire purpose of the exercise.
The working world cares about results. School doesn't; it cares about the steps you took to get your result.
It is to hard to decide exactly what is research and copying in these cases.
Not really, no - Unless they all copied a stock answer right out of their textbook, programming assignments don't involve "research". They require either implementing the algorithm of the week, or solving a toy "problem" that, if you speak English and have a high school diploma in the US, you need to turn in the latter if you need to look up how to approach the problem.
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Slashdot has no idea how many people hate Bennett's crap
When the first 50 posts, all at +4/+5, all say essentially the same thing I did - Slashdot has no "plausible deniability" here. No editor can approve Benny's crap with a straight face at this point - Anyone putting his crap on the front page at this point does so solely to troll the community.
I can't answer that for Sony in particular, but I can tell you with absolute certainty why it happens at smaller companies that could easily segregate such sensitive systems from the general corporate network...
"Damnit, $peon, I don't give a damn about HIPAA or PCI or SOX! Make it so I can get to all the files I want, from my desk computer, or I'll find someone who can. Don't worry about it, just keep the bad guys off our network, and we'll have no problems. What??? No you can't lock down my computer so I can't browse por... er... financial news sites at lunch!"
The problem comes from the people who do legitimately need access to such data considering themselves "too important" (and naturally, infallible) to follow the policies and procedures required to maintain meaningful access limitations. That, and the people who actually understand the need for an air gap almost never having the authority to say "tough, you work for this company, and this company requires that you do it this way".
"Do you know who I am???"
Not your blog. Go away.
If only that "close and dont show me this again" button...
...Fucking worked?
/. even on the same computer, and get the "deals" BS again.
As far as I can tell, it works exactly once, per browser session. Close and reopen
Of course, I can't rule out the possibility that it would remember the setting for logged-in users. But - oh bother - it appears that I need to load Slashdot before I can log in.
You could get a partial refund of whatever you paid for your vote.
So 80% of my income taxes over the past six years, then? Well, I'd rather have a functional, non-full-of-shit government, but, I'll take what I can get - Cut me a check, Barry!
Bush was horrible at business as well.
And just look how well he did as PUSA! XD
I might seriously vote for Jeb before I'd vote for Carly - And I say that as someone who would vote for a Satan/Hitler ticket before I'd vote for Jeb.
$0.50/GB? Seriously?
That would put this thing at $1,600, vs an HDD with twice the capacity at $300.
Until they get below $0.1/GB, HDDs will have a very, very safe hold on the "capacity" side of the market.
"There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
This is completely at odds with everything I've heard about US legal system, where the victims need to prove they didn't provoke the attacker ("stand your ground"), especially if the attacker is a cop, so citation needed.
Not quite sure what you need a cite on - That police in the US don't have the right to beat the shit out of you for no reason?
In theory, when cops give a lawful order, you need to obey it. When cops give an unlawful order, you can ignore it.
In practice, ignoring any order from a cop, lawful or not, will result in you having a very bad day. Resisting at that point will make your day even worse, from "bad" to potentially "dead".
If, however, you complied (note I didn't say "consented") fully, that drastically improves your chances in any subsequent legal proceedings, whether against you using illegally obtained evidence, or against the cop for abuse/assault/etc.
What exactly do you gain by consenting to an illegal request of a power they do not have?
"Comply" does not equal "consent".
Make it absolutely clear that you do not consent to illegal searches or other orders, but remain entirely passive throughout the encounter. If Officer Friendly finds something in an illegal search, it makes it that much easier for your lawyer to get it thrown out. If Officer Friendly breaks your arm throwing you against a car to violently frisk you, it makes it that much easier for your lawyer to end his career and win you a nice chunk of change.
And if Officer Friendly caps yo axe, the grand jury doesn't need to deliberate for six months to decide to charge him with murder (or, if you have the opportunity, to decide not to charge you with the same for acting in self defense).
The ideology in question simply states that women are equal to men. That's it.
Do homeless white males still need to check their privilege?
Kindly explain "eye rape" to me, please.
Can misandry exist?
Does giving preferential treatment to any group, at the expense of another, meet your requirement for "equality"?
You are saying there is no hatred
No. He said "there's no hatred directed at women here" - A categorically true statement, given that I made no mention of women at all. None.
Disagree with my stance on the merits of basing your world-view on mock indignation, if you will. But do make an attempt to stick to the topic at hand, rather than whatever strawmen (sorry, "strawpersons") you'd prefer to attack.
I said nothing about women. Reading comprehension - You can haz it?
Nice rant though, I'd recommend you save it to for next week. Protip: Look for someone actually, y'know, mentioning women, preferably in a negative way, before you recycle that drivel.
The first person to use the term "SJW" has probably just proven the point of the article.
Funny thing about using a group's identity pejoratively...
If retards didn't exist, we wouldn't call them retards. And if we considered retards a good thing, we wouldn't use that word as an insult. Similarly, much as "retarded" replaced "idiot" and "moron", "SJW" itself replaced "PC", once that older term had become too commonplace.
If you manage to make the actual use of "SJW" gauche, you can expect to simply see something else replace it - Of course, I suppose people could just start calling them the more accurate "indignation whores", but that seems a bit too blunt to adopt for common usage.
I'm actually the CIO and they made me part time 3D designer because of that :D
"I make half a mil a year to align the corporate IT strategy with the CEO's vision... But the company would rather use me to fill a 50k chair".
I wish I hadn't already posted so I could mod you up. Beautiful!
Slashdot is not a your blog. Go away.
Nowhere does it mention the Declaration. Go ahead, try citing it as legal authority in a courtroom and see how far it gets you, Mr. Constitutional Scholar.
Don't confuse "legal" for "ethical", Mr. Rules Lawyer.
All people have a right - An obligation - To resist an oppressive government to the greatest extent possible. For some people, that means voting. For some, it means running for office. For some, it means running issues ads. For some, it means stalling paperwork as a low-level clerk in some office deep in a government building. And for some... It means preparing for when, not if, all the lesser options fail to achieve the desired result.
FWIW, I don't think we've reached that point - yet. Getting harder and harder not to notice that the asshats in Washington seem intent on getting us there as rapidly as possible, however.
They know everything that could go wrong in ten years of space travel.
...Except landing in a shadow in the most important 30 seconds of the mission?
Though overall, I agree, and offer the ESA a hearty congratulations - Well done! Just somewhat disappointing that the coolest part of the whole mission, while "technically" successful, won't get to do anything more than drill a few small holes.
Y'know, I realize that all the self-righteous "Papa knows best" crowd recently learned the term "Dunning Kruger", but casually tossing it out as a way to instantly shut down any discussion works about as well as complaining about "privilege".
More importantly - For all you know, koan works for the Mars Rover program, and has a legitimate right to mock the ESA's lack of foresight.
On a purely practical level - Yes, more instruments means more weight. But to have no maneuvering capabilities, not even the ability to flip itself over if it landed on its side, or make short hops around the surface - Keep in mind the gravity here - A tiny piston slightly off-center on each side of the cube would have added a few hundred grams and meant a billion dollar mission wouldn't die later today because of shadows, of all things.
What does "court order" mean? Are they going to require an actual warrant, or will they just cough up your data on any request by a court? Because if a warrant ain't required, I ain't interested.
Even if they do require a warrant, I ain't interested. They can keep their BS extra features that require tracking me. I can call AAA on my own. I can read a map on my own. I can remember to schedule my regular maintenance without automated reminders based on telemetry data.
Free hint, automakers - Any feature that requires data to leave my car, I will actively disable. And even any feature that requires the car to log data locally, I will minimize to the greatest extent possible. I don't trust you, I don't trust the NSA, I don't trust the state government not to retroactively issue speeding tickets in a revenue-tight year (like they've already proven they will do with EZ-Pass type toll transponders - You know, the ones they promised (just like in TFA) they'd never use for anything other than paying your tolls).
Someone want to get rich? Develop an ODBC-II dongle that erases my car's EDR every time I turn the car off... Or for that matter, continually if possible.
Think you're smarter than a Supreme court justice?
Argumentum ad verecundiam. Try again.
Do not assume that you know the law better than a prosecutor that's poring over emails after your dean forwarded them on with a note "Hey frank, I hate this kid... screwer him if you can"
The fact that, given "six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, [you] will find something in them which will hang him" doesn't have any bearing on whether or not plagiarism itself counts as a crime. Which it doesn't.
I never said it would be a copyright law you broke. You have no idea which laws you could break... none what-so-ever...
Put up or shut up - Pick an actual law, or cede the point.
First, I agree with almost all of what you said. Never implicate yourself. Ever. Don't lie about it, don't tell the truth about it, don't say anything about it unless compelled to speak by a court (and even then, run every word by your lawyer first). However, before we go all tough-guy with "get a warrant"...
By admitting to copying someone else's code you could be confessing to a real crime that could result in time in prison.
Complete and utter bullshit. Plagiarism does not commit a crime, period. Academic violation, yes. Institutional violation, yes. Intellectual violation, yes. Probably a workplace violation in some cases (though typically only if you create content for your employer intended for public consumption). But criminal violation? No, no, no.
At most, the real author could sue for copyright violation - non-commercial, academic, non-distributed copyright violation. Good luck even finding a lawyer to waste time on that goldmine of a case.
In a way, using the internet to get the answer is the way it works in IT these days. I routinely get my solutions for problems at work by going to the internet â" I don't memorize every command and algorithm. These kids aren't cheating, they're doing it the current/modern way.
In third grade, you don't do your math homework by Googling "what is 153/17", because learning how to do it counts as the entire purpose of the exercise.
The working world cares about results. School doesn't; it cares about the steps you took to get your result.
It is to hard to decide exactly what is research and copying in these cases.
Not really, no - Unless they all copied a stock answer right out of their textbook, programming assignments don't involve "research". They require either implementing the algorithm of the week, or solving a toy "problem" that, if you speak English and have a high school diploma in the US, you need to turn in the latter if you need to look up how to approach the problem.
Just say no - To allowing the SJWs to destroy yet another site. "Once a poster crosses this line, they should lose all credibility". Indeed!
... post nude pictures
We can start by stating the obvious:
You fucktards have no sense of humor.
Similarly, it is never acceptable to
Ahahahaahahaha... 10/10, perfect, friend! I actually took you as serious up to that point. Truly a magnificent FP troll!