I've seen jobs that wouldn't even pay enough to make student loan payments on the degrees I would have to get just to qualify for them. Not to mention the jobs that want 10 years experience programming in languages that aren't even 10 years old.
Lets see anyone reasonable come try and fill that job post without asking for more money.
No they'll just go crying to their cronies in Congress to give them more H1B visas, saying there aren't any American workers out there. Then they'll hire some guy from India willing to work for next to nothing--who will produce shitty work in the long run, but hey it's all about the short term profits on paper anyway.
Translation: We can't find anyone to fill these positions at wages slightly above minimum wage. Please give us more H1B visas so we can import workers willing to work for slave wages.
He'll be lucky to even make it to court. They'll probably have him on a plane to the U.S. long before it reaches that phase. And either way, he'll be locked up and shut up (which was the goal all along).
Seems to me that's it's too low on both the top end and bottom end. You couldn't use it for detecting real hotspots on the top end and it's so sensitive on the bottom end that even exposure to direct sunlight will have everyone panicking. I think it's more likely to cause irrational behavior than help.
Excellent summary. I would also add that the descrediting campaign has also involved a suspected CIA plant/informant within Wikileaks itself--who has no only tried to discredit Assange, but also sabotage Wikileaks, steal data on submitters, and set up his own obvious honeypot leaks site.
I suspect Assange is a contrarian, not a libertarian. Either way, it has nothing to do with the case at hand.
You haven't a clue about what slavery really is.
No, but if you succeed in getting rid of the government and creating a "utopia" where the rich and powerful rule like kings--we're certainly all going to find out.
The meaning of the phrase is easily understood by just putting together the meaning of the individual words.
No, it's not. It has a specific meaning in the field which cannot be derived from the individual words. That's why it's called "jargon." Here is another piece of jargon for you "object-oriented programming." Each word is standard English, but there is no fucking way that you could even begin to understand the concept just by understanding the meaning of the individual words. That's why I don't go around using that term in anything aimed at the general reader (not without defining it first, anyway).
Now go read a dictionary and stop living up to the stereotype of the proud-to-be-ignorant American.
...only if you'll stop playing into the stereotype of the arrogant pedantic prick.
I think a “pretty well educated” person should be able to express ideas without the use of four letter words
And It think a pretty well educated person wouldn't be bothered by expletives, and certainly wouldn't use the childish phrase "four letter words" (which BTW, isn't even true, as most expletives aren't even four letters--motherfucker).
“Culturally congruent risk perception“ poses no mystery to me
Each individual word isn't to me either. But the term has a specific meaning in the field, obviously.
Apparently, the CIA's 21st century equivalent of assassination is the rape charge. Just ask Dominique Strauss Kahn. A few months after he began criticizing the value of the U.S. dollar as international currency, he became a rapist.
I don't see what he and his attorneys hoped to gain from fighting the extradition.
They know the fix is in in Sweden. They know that if he goes to Sweden, he's fucked. Either Sweden is setting him up for a bogus prison sentence there or, more likely, extradition to the U.S. for "indefinite detention."
Not to mention it's a pretty offensive idea that all lefties are community-oriented egalitarians and all righties are just selfish hierarchs. Methinks more than a little author bias there.
why people still explain what an ip address is when writing about technology.
If they're writing for a general audience, they should. Now you wouldn't need to do that here, because this is slashdot. But this is a technology site, not a sociology site (or whatever the fuck field that term comes from). I wouldn't head over to a popular sociology site and expect them to understand a summary that uses the terminology of object-oriented programming, now would I?
I'm pretty well educated, and all that jargon gave even me a fucking headache. Here is a much better summary, FTFA:
A US government-funded survey has found that Americans with higher levels of scientific and mathematical knowledge are more sceptical regarding the dangers of climate change than their more poorly educated fellow citizens. . . .
According to the [authors], this is not because the idea of imminent carbon-driven catastrophe is perhaps a bit scientifically suspect. Rather it is because people classed as "egalitarian communitarians" (roughly speaking, left-wingers) are always highly concerned about climate change, and become slightly more so as they acquire more science and numeracy. Unfortunately, however, "hierarchical individualists" (basically, right-wingers) are quite concerned about climate change when they're ignorant: but if they have any scientific, mathematic or technical education this causes them to become strongly sceptical.
And here's a news-flash for whoever wrote that summary: Terms like "Culturally congruent risk perception" have no obvious meaning for the general reader. Field-specific jargon is just annoying to everyone who doesn't happen to be in your field (i.e., almost everyone else on the planet).
And could you say "culturally" a few more dozen times in your next summary? It really makes you sound smart, and not full of shit at all.
I hate to be a cynic, but I have a funny feeling that the EU (or some treaty agreement or trade deal) will just force you to implement it later. And the government will cave, of course, with politicians giving the excuse "Well, it was out of our hands." The RIAA/MPAA and their ilk are quite relentless. If you defeat them in one piece of legislation, they just quietly sneak the same provisions into some new law, treaty, or requirement. Eventually they find a way to get either de jure or de facto enforcement one way or another, usually the with public completely unaware of what's even happening until it's too late. And if your country supports extradition to the U.S., they don't even need your law--they can just use U.S. law.
Do you think the U.S. public would have ever approved of the DMCA if they had actually known about it--if it hadn't been quietly slipped in as part of a treaty that was negotiated behind closed doors, that no one outside of Washington even knew about until it was signed? Sleazing around behind the curtains is what these guys do best.
Probably if IP address will be shared with other resources (who are not related at all to Pirate Bay), it will be illegal to block the IP.
Why would you think that would make it illegal to block the IP? I'm not aware of any laws that say "You can only block an IP address if it ONLY hosts illegal material." In fact, quite a few raids have been made against servers that also hosted legitimate content (MegaUpload, for example).
First of all, the summary has it wrong. The company is 4ormat, not Huddles. And read this article for an explanation of how this claim is just a publicity stunt. It works just fine in IE (ironically, the only browser it doesn't work in is Opera).
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I've seen jobs that wouldn't even pay enough to make student loan payments on the degrees I would have to get just to qualify for them. Not to mention the jobs that want 10 years experience programming in languages that aren't even 10 years old.
Lets see anyone reasonable come try and fill that job post without asking for more money.
No they'll just go crying to their cronies in Congress to give them more H1B visas, saying there aren't any American workers out there. Then they'll hire some guy from India willing to work for next to nothing--who will produce shitty work in the long run, but hey it's all about the short term profits on paper anyway.
IT positions are hard to fill
Translation: We can't find anyone to fill these positions at wages slightly above minimum wage. Please give us more H1B visas so we can import workers willing to work for slave wages.
He'll be lucky to even make it to court. They'll probably have him on a plane to the U.S. long before it reaches that phase. And either way, he'll be locked up and shut up (which was the goal all along).
Seems to me that's it's too low on both the top end and bottom end. You couldn't use it for detecting real hotspots on the top end and it's so sensitive on the bottom end that even exposure to direct sunlight will have everyone panicking. I think it's more likely to cause irrational behavior than help.
Rich and powerful don't rule like kings without governments creating and defending the corporations that allow that to happen.
But perhaps you have a counterexample.
I have a whole list of them
Excellent summary. I would also add that the descrediting campaign has also involved a suspected CIA plant/informant within Wikileaks itself--who has no only tried to discredit Assange, but also sabotage Wikileaks, steal data on submitters, and set up his own obvious honeypot leaks site.
As opposed to people like Assange?
I suspect Assange is a contrarian, not a libertarian. Either way, it has nothing to do with the case at hand.
You haven't a clue about what slavery really is.
No, but if you succeed in getting rid of the government and creating a "utopia" where the rich and powerful rule like kings--we're certainly all going to find out.
The meaning of the phrase is easily understood by just putting together the meaning of the individual words.
No, it's not. It has a specific meaning in the field which cannot be derived from the individual words. That's why it's called "jargon." Here is another piece of jargon for you "object-oriented programming." Each word is standard English, but there is no fucking way that you could even begin to understand the concept just by understanding the meaning of the individual words. That's why I don't go around using that term in anything aimed at the general reader (not without defining it first, anyway).
Now go read a dictionary and stop living up to the stereotype of the proud-to-be-ignorant American.
...only if you'll stop playing into the stereotype of the arrogant pedantic prick.
I think a “pretty well educated” person should be able to express ideas without the use of four letter words
And It think a pretty well educated person wouldn't be bothered by expletives, and certainly wouldn't use the childish phrase "four letter words" (which BTW, isn't even true, as most expletives aren't even four letters--motherfucker).
“Culturally congruent risk perception“ poses no mystery to me
Each individual word isn't to me either. But the term has a specific meaning in the field, obviously.
Apparently, the CIA's 21st century equivalent of assassination is the rape charge. Just ask Dominique Strauss Kahn. A few months after he began criticizing the value of the U.S. dollar as international currency, he became a rapist.
I don't see what he and his attorneys hoped to gain from fighting the extradition.
They know the fix is in in Sweden. They know that if he goes to Sweden, he's fucked. Either Sweden is setting him up for a bogus prison sentence there or, more likely, extradition to the U.S. for "indefinite detention."
sex crimes
A bogus crime that anyone in their right mind knows is just a laughably-obvious setup to get him for his real crimes.
What are they extraditing him for?
For fucking with the U.S. government.
Neurologists are physicians, NOT psychologists. But cognitive science is indeed not science.
Happy, Senator Hansen?
Not to mention it's a pretty offensive idea that all lefties are community-oriented egalitarians and all righties are just selfish hierarchs. Methinks more than a little author bias there.
why people still explain what an ip address is when writing about technology.
If they're writing for a general audience, they should. Now you wouldn't need to do that here, because this is slashdot. But this is a technology site, not a sociology site (or whatever the fuck field that term comes from). I wouldn't head over to a popular sociology site and expect them to understand a summary that uses the terminology of object-oriented programming, now would I?
Behold, one of the problems with trying to relay science to the common person.
Psychology/sociology is to science what Dr. Drew is to medicine.
Clearly a man who lacks culturally congruent risk perception.
I'm pretty well educated, and all that jargon gave even me a fucking headache. Here is a much better summary, FTFA:
A US government-funded survey has found that Americans with higher levels of scientific and mathematical knowledge are more sceptical regarding the dangers of climate change than their more poorly educated fellow citizens. . . .
According to the [authors], this is not because the idea of imminent carbon-driven catastrophe is perhaps a bit scientifically suspect. Rather it is because people classed as "egalitarian communitarians" (roughly speaking, left-wingers) are always highly concerned about climate change, and become slightly more so as they acquire more science and numeracy. Unfortunately, however, "hierarchical individualists" (basically, right-wingers) are quite concerned about climate change when they're ignorant: but if they have any scientific, mathematic or technical education this causes them to become strongly sceptical.
And here's a news-flash for whoever wrote that summary: Terms like "Culturally congruent risk perception" have no obvious meaning for the general reader. Field-specific jargon is just annoying to everyone who doesn't happen to be in your field (i.e., almost everyone else on the planet).
And could you say "culturally" a few more dozen times in your next summary? It really makes you sound smart, and not full of shit at all.
Well, they couldn't very well poison Castro with shitty food, now could they?
I hate to be a cynic, but I have a funny feeling that the EU (or some treaty agreement or trade deal) will just force you to implement it later. And the government will cave, of course, with politicians giving the excuse "Well, it was out of our hands." The RIAA/MPAA and their ilk are quite relentless. If you defeat them in one piece of legislation, they just quietly sneak the same provisions into some new law, treaty, or requirement. Eventually they find a way to get either de jure or de facto enforcement one way or another, usually the with public completely unaware of what's even happening until it's too late. And if your country supports extradition to the U.S., they don't even need your law--they can just use U.S. law.
Do you think the U.S. public would have ever approved of the DMCA if they had actually known about it--if it hadn't been quietly slipped in as part of a treaty that was negotiated behind closed doors, that no one outside of Washington even knew about until it was signed? Sleazing around behind the curtains is what these guys do best.
Probably if IP address will be shared with other resources (who are not related at all to Pirate Bay), it will be illegal to block the IP.
Why would you think that would make it illegal to block the IP? I'm not aware of any laws that say "You can only block an IP address if it ONLY hosts illegal material." In fact, quite a few raids have been made against servers that also hosted legitimate content (MegaUpload, for example).
First of all, the summary has it wrong. The company is 4ormat, not Huddles. And read this article for an explanation of how this claim is just a publicity stunt. It works just fine in IE (ironically, the only browser it doesn't work in is Opera).