From what I've seen from the SJW camp, they try to get people to bypass the grey matter and get an emotional reaction. Same as trolls. So, if it acts like a troll...
I think what he did was a dick move (pun intended), and he's demonstrated a level of immaturity by thinking this will get his "real" projects more publicity. Not all publicity is good publicity. Maybe he was thinking of the old adage "Bad publicity is better than no publicity." He should have been thinking "Better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you're a fool than open and prove it."
So we need more "Aliens" (the first and second, the rest were kind of blah). And a female Blade Runner in the next movie would be nice as well. I think both sexes would be on board for that.
In zero g? It's bad enough when guys aim is "off" on earth. In space, you don't want to be breathing that stuff.
Yes, this too happens every day on the planet. And others urinating in bus shelters, elevators, their pants, on cars, and pretty much everywhere the "mood takes them." And take a dump in the subway car in front of other passengers.
The horse was out of the barn decades ago. All the hand-wringing in the world achieves nothing. China will be just as hard hit once automatic robots can do anything - their massive job losses will really irk their new middle class, same as is happening hear.
I hope people aren't basing their studies on freedom based on a work of fiction. If you're going to do that, why not pick Lord of the Flies?
Or if you want to base it on reality, Black Like Me.
Just because it's difficult to study, doesn't mean 'absolute freedom' doesn't/can't exist.
There is no such thing. Everyone is constrained in what they can do. You might want to fly like Superman, but physics and biology say it's not going to happen. Or you might want to lgo to a live Beatles concert. Nature kind of limits your freedom to.
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have no net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a daemon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
... or this rant. Since most sites no longer work without javascript, hahahaha. He's still, for all intents and purposes, stuck in the last century.
So then how do you propose that people find/identify the people you know, since so many people have the same first and last name? Oh, right, by their friends... oops:-)
There is no such thing as absolute safety, just as there is no such thing as absolute freedom. The closest you can get to that is to live alone on an abandoned island ir in an abandoned mine. And even then, Mother Nature is a b*tch. The whole "one or the other" argument is just a false dichotomy, acerbated by people who are motivated to present unrealistic arguments to further their own agendas or beliefs.
In the case of a swatting, they're going to get an answer. Either when they phone, or when they take out the megaphones and start trying to get the attention of anyone inside.
If it's for real, then the first step should be to attempt negotiations with the perp. Make the perp realize that the hostage is way more valuable alive than dead.
I want the repo to stay where it is, so he has to live with the unintended consequences. However, putting this on the front page was "feeding the troll". The guy wrote this with the express purpose of getting people to react negatively, to get more publicity for his other projects.
As to my sig, I put it there in response to a few trolls who repeatedly tried to embarrass me for what I am. Nothing more, nothing less. Not to get a negative reaction. Not to get publicity for anything I'm doing. If trolls are going to repeatedly out me, might as well embrace it:-)
As I wrote, different things are appropriate in different settings. Slashdot isn't exactly noted for being the epitome of social grace, any more than the Nasty Show or reddit is. If he had written that in his journal, nobody would give a darn. And really, nobody should in this case either. As I said, if you're going to make jokes, at least TRY to make them funny.
It's one thing to put slacker comments in source code that's not going to be seen in public, and quite another to stick it in a public repository for the express purpose of getting an emotional reaction from people. The latter is called trolling.
This is especially true in the current case, because that is, by the authors' own admission, the reason he did it - to get attention. The so-called "project" doesn't actually DO anything.
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From what I've seen from the SJW camp, they try to get people to bypass the grey matter and get an emotional reaction. Same as trolls. So, if it acts like a troll ...
I think what he did was a dick move (pun intended), and he's demonstrated a level of immaturity by thinking this will get his "real" projects more publicity. Not all publicity is good publicity. Maybe he was thinking of the old adage "Bad publicity is better than no publicity." He should have been thinking "Better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you're a fool than open and prove it."
Qui, moi? Never going back :-)
500 calories a day? They'll be so hungry they'll be eating their toothpaste !
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
If there are "as many Y chromosomes as X chromosomes", your team is all male (XY)
So we need more "Aliens" (the first and second, the rest were kind of blah). And a female Blade Runner in the next movie would be nice as well. I think both sexes would be on board for that.
The Flintstones, The Honeymooners, Here Comes Lucy
Yes, this too happens every day on the planet. And others urinating in bus shelters, elevators, their pants, on cars, and pretty much everywhere the "mood takes them." And take a dump in the subway car in front of other passengers.
The horse was out of the barn decades ago. All the hand-wringing in the world achieves nothing. China will be just as hard hit once automatic robots can do anything - their massive job losses will really irk their new middle class, same as is happening hear.
So, is he continuing to rail against something he's never used, or has he tried it to get an informed view of the trade-offs?
u, then v, w, x, y, and z :-)
And who is going to pay to set this up and fund the day-to-day running of this operation?
So your recommendation is to give people less privacy than now by putting even more information about them out there for the whole world to see?
I hope people aren't basing their studies on freedom based on a work of fiction. If you're going to do that, why not pick Lord of the Flies?
Or if you want to base it on reality, Black Like Me.
Just because it's difficult to study, doesn't mean 'absolute freedom' doesn't/can't exist.
There is no such thing. Everyone is constrained in what they can do. You might want to fly like Superman, but physics and biology say it's not going to happen. Or you might want to lgo to a live Beatles concert. Nature kind of limits your freedom to.
"Absolute" is a very dangerous word.
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have no net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a daemon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.
... or this rant. Since most sites no longer work without javascript, hahahaha. He's still, for all intents and purposes, stuck in the last century.
So then how do you propose that people find/identify the people you know, since so many people have the same first and last name? Oh, right, by their friends ... oops :-)
After all, he doesn't use a web browser, so it's not like he can conduct any original research.
After all, he says he doesn't use a web browser.
There is no such thing as absolute safety, just as there is no such thing as absolute freedom. The closest you can get to that is to live alone on an abandoned island ir in an abandoned mine. And even then, Mother Nature is a b*tch. The whole "one or the other" argument is just a false dichotomy, acerbated by people who are motivated to present unrealistic arguments to further their own agendas or beliefs.
espite the confirmed vulnerability, Cisco said the flaw was unlikely to be used
Not any more ...
the advice is not to have the phones on internet-facing connections.
Guess Cisco doesn't expect people to use Voice-over-Internet-Protocol phones over the Internet.
In the case of a swatting, they're going to get an answer. Either when they phone, or when they take out the megaphones and start trying to get the attention of anyone inside.
If it's for real, then the first step should be to attempt negotiations with the perp. Make the perp realize that the hostage is way more valuable alive than dead.
I want the repo to stay where it is, so he has to live with the unintended consequences. However, putting this on the front page was "feeding the troll". The guy wrote this with the express purpose of getting people to react negatively, to get more publicity for his other projects.
As to my sig, I put it there in response to a few trolls who repeatedly tried to embarrass me for what I am. Nothing more, nothing less. Not to get a negative reaction. Not to get publicity for anything I'm doing. If trolls are going to repeatedly out me, might as well embrace it :-)
As I wrote, different things are appropriate in different settings. Slashdot isn't exactly noted for being the epitome of social grace, any more than the Nasty Show or reddit is. If he had written that in his journal, nobody would give a darn. And really, nobody should in this case either. As I said, if you're going to make jokes, at least TRY to make them funny.
It's one thing to put slacker comments in source code that's not going to be seen in public, and quite another to stick it in a public repository for the express purpose of getting an emotional reaction from people. The latter is called trolling.
This is especially true in the current case, because that is, by the authors' own admission, the reason he did it - to get attention. The so-called "project" doesn't actually DO anything.
Maybe someone should clone the whole repo so he can't just delete it at will :-)
Cover the home, then phone them.