... it's OK to report on what's happening with SOPA. but linking to a list for response to SOPA and encouraging members to get active against it is political...
I've been wondering about this for a day now. Is there another list posted by Congress listing entities against SOPA? If not, why not?
Why is the US' Congress taking a side in favour of SOPA before it's even been voted into law? Shouldn't "Congress" (the institution, apart from its members) be impartial, at least until it decides one way or another?
Insisting I be tethered to a cell phone == "I won't work for you." I could be performing miracles for you, but I'm not anybody's slave. For some of us, it's not just a means to a paycheck. For some of us, if it's going to be done, it has to be done right, else what's the point?
I am constantly offended by the arrogance of you employers. You dangle a paycheck at me and believe I'll jump at any whim you may have to get it? Think again. You don't get to own me. You don't get the benefit of my tens of thousands of hours of hard work and experience. There's plenty of employers or clients out there who don't expect me to be happy being treated like crap just to get that paycheck.
Go ahead and shoot the other foot. It's entertaining.:-|
A failed phone call is known to be failed the moment that the caller gets sent to voicemail.
And if I don't have vmail enabled on my phone, then what? You cell phone lovers make a lot of assumptions about the rest of us. The technology may work flawlessly, but if I don't care to talk to you, you're not going to get through, and you'll have no idea why.
I see incoming calls all the time that I don't care to answer. I click "silent", they hang up or leave vmail, I ignore the vmail, and a few days later it disappears.
In the last twenty years, I've known one person who's warned me that emails to them appeared to be flakey at the moment (while their Smarthost was fiddling with its config). Someone who hates phones is going to be a lot more difficult to contact via phone. Emails can fail temporarily, then retry. Phone calls I don't want to hear can fail interminably from the outset.
If I think this way, why do I even have a cell phone? Because my aging Mom might need help some day, or a good friend might want to talk to me. I love CID!
The rest of you? "Silent". Email me if you want to contact me. Don't bother trying to phone me.
However, killing an elephant with a legal game tag that had been repeatedly destroying local food crops and feeding the village with that animal isn't infuriatingly bad enough for me to boycott the company.
Tortuous logic (but I'm not a hunter). I think there's better ways to protect crops that don't end up with rich bastards shooting elephants for mere kicks.
I'd prefer the crops feed the village, and the elephant finds its own sustenance, and the rich bastard... sigh, dunno. "Go to hell" feels like what I'm thinking, but seems excessive.
From the looks of things, this's just multiplied the Drop GoDaddy boycott by the Steisand Effect.
Then divided it by zero. Fffffuuuuu----
I have no idea what that means.
I meant, GD backpeddles to say they don't support SOPA. That doesn't mean, "We hate SOPA", so SOPA haters discount GD's backpeddling, and continue to abandon GD en masse.
So I guess you're OK with Africans starving because they can't keep crops alive due to them being trampled?
This, on a techie site?!? I've watched documentaries on TV showing Africans' defences against just this. Pointy sticks driven into the ground on an angle, facing out? Barbed wire on steroids! The VietNamese won a war against France and the USA with such things.
While I agree that it is indeed fucked up to kill animals simply for fun, sensible thinking people can take the foolishness of others and turn it around so it has a net positive effect!
Okay, so let's go one further and turn it around again. Let's put a price on the heads of these "fucked up" individuals. Why not? They enjoy hunting, yes? So hunt them.
Logic can often be illogical.
However, I am very much of the opinion that "it is indeed fucked up to kill animals simply for fun", and I can easily see a case for declaring open season on psychopaths like that, just as a Public Service. The world needs none of that sort of person.
Phone calls have one very positive attribute: you know that you spoke to someone, and there is a record of that call in the phone company's system.
The reality of the situation is more cloudy on both sides of this argument. I think both sides are heavily dependent upon who is at the receiving end and what tech they're using.
For me, email is great, very seldom does anything get lost, and it just sits and waits for me to get to it. And I do get to it. However, others nowadays hate email, and I can often await notice from those people for weeks at a time.
A phone call is no more guaranteed to get through than an email. I have the ringer set to high and vibrate on my phone, yet I often don't notice incoming calls. Street traffic and Muzak easily drown my phone's ringer so my "missed calls" count can get pretty high.
Email to me is very reliable. Phone calls to me are very unreliable. Send an email to me, and you can be assured I got it. Phone me, and you'll need to wonder if my phone's even on, whether I have and check voicemail, or any of a number of ways calls can fall through the cracks.
Yes, they are. We're still trying to get over the sticker shock. "Free phone!" Yeah, if you sign up for exorbitant monthly bills for X many years. "Unlimited!" Yeah, but only up to X MB/mo., then extortionate overcharges kick in. $deity help you if you try to use it outside your carrier's service area (worse than extortionate roaming charges). If carriers haven't even figured how to price their usage yet, how're we supposed to make any sense of the mess? Oh yeah, "Unlimited", but we're changing the plan on you next month. "Shut up! You signed the contract that says we can at any time,..." Heard about CarrierIQ yet?
No way of checking email, web, etc when on the go? I think a great many more nerds will [say?] no to that.
Not this one. Email is asynchronous by design. The web is not really that much more entertaining than the thousand or so books I'd like to get to before I die. It's nowhere near as attractive as the thousand or so cute chicks I could be chatting up during the commute, asking me about the book I'm reading.
Don't get me wrong. I would like a pocket sized Linux server (Nokia N900?) I could carry around. But would it really make sense most of the time? I think it is eminently do-withoutable at this point. In fact, in a lot of ways, paying for one now looks like a positively boneheaded "sucker bet". No thanks.
Why didn't you send me email, if you wanted me to care!?!
I really do not understand the cell-phone craze. Why the !@#$ do you need to talk to me when you need information?!? Yeah, I get it, you hate email. Well, I hate phones, so we're even. Just !@#$ing email me, FFS!
Just the very idea that you can sign up to data only plans for your cell-phone says a lot. Some CP users don't actually have a CP!
Sorry, forgot to close my bold tag, slashdot really should warn you about that.
It does. It's called the Preview button. Why the !@#$ proofreading went out of style, I don't know, but no-one's being forced to be stupid. It's a lifestyle choice.
Who the heck (what 1 million monkeys) are reviewing Patents nowadays?
It does appear that whether you can patent something or not is dependent upon nothing whatsoever. Prior art and obviousness don't appear to matter. All that's necessary is an ignorant patent examiner, and they appear to be all there are. Then, once you get it, file suit in East Texas, and extort your competitors.
"Apple Patents Using Apps During Calls"... What programmer isn't going to see this as merely calling a subroutine upon some specific event happening?
The worst part is that Google wants to build a driverless car.
I wish I had mod points. OFF TOPIC!
I can't help wondering just how a piece of code, which presumably didn't test its input data for validity before acting on it, could become part of a modern jet's onboard software suite?
That's on topic!
I don't even use Google, but it's pretty trollish to bring them up on something like this.
But the "maybe you shouldn't have used Java" comment irks me. I for one would like to see Linux gain more traction in UserLand, and comments that blame the user are stupid and short sighted.
I suspect that comment was directed at developers, not users. I've often wondered how java got such traction among devs. I don't know any who actually enjoy using it. Their stories sound a lot like those told by Cobol programmers ("Things to do today: write code, write code, write code,...").
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... it's OK to report on what's happening with SOPA. but linking to a list for response to SOPA and encouraging members to get active against it is political ...
I beg to differ. SOPA's proponents started it.
Supporters.pdf
I've been wondering about this for a day now. Is there another list posted by Congress listing entities against SOPA? If not, why not?
Why is the US' Congress taking a side in favour of SOPA before it's even been voted into law? Shouldn't "Congress" (the institution, apart from its members) be impartial, at least until it decides one way or another?
Stack the deck, anyone?
Not answering the phone = "you're fired".
Insisting I be tethered to a cell phone == "I won't work for you." I could be performing miracles for you, but I'm not anybody's slave. For some of us, it's not just a means to a paycheck. For some of us, if it's going to be done, it has to be done right, else what's the point?
I am constantly offended by the arrogance of you employers. You dangle a paycheck at me and believe I'll jump at any whim you may have to get it? Think again. You don't get to own me. You don't get the benefit of my tens of thousands of hours of hard work and experience. There's plenty of employers or clients out there who don't expect me to be happy being treated like crap just to get that paycheck.
Go ahead and shoot the other foot. It's entertaining. :-|
A failed phone call is known to be failed the moment that the caller gets sent to voicemail.
And if I don't have vmail enabled on my phone, then what? You cell phone lovers make a lot of assumptions about the rest of us. The technology may work flawlessly, but if I don't care to talk to you, you're not going to get through, and you'll have no idea why.
I see incoming calls all the time that I don't care to answer. I click "silent", they hang up or leave vmail, I ignore the vmail, and a few days later it disappears.
In the last twenty years, I've known one person who's warned me that emails to them appeared to be flakey at the moment (while their Smarthost was fiddling with its config). Someone who hates phones is going to be a lot more difficult to contact via phone. Emails can fail temporarily, then retry. Phone calls I don't want to hear can fail interminably from the outset.
If I think this way, why do I even have a cell phone? Because my aging Mom might need help some day, or a good friend might want to talk to me. I love CID!
The rest of you? "Silent". Email me if you want to contact me. Don't bother trying to phone me.
Pretty much [any] company big enough to hire IT staff has to deal with SOX now.
Except... all those companies not based in the USA.
Fail. Canucks need to know about your laws even if they don't apply here. Do business with Yanquis, know their law or they can bury you.
What did you mean? Divide by zero --> COREDUMP?
Memes r in his brainz, corruptin his intelligences.
I don't think that sort of post says much about his incompetence, but do think it says something about yours.
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Excellent advice!
However, killing an elephant with a legal game tag that had been repeatedly destroying local food crops and feeding the village with that animal isn't infuriatingly bad enough for me to boycott the company.
Tortuous logic (but I'm not a hunter). I think there's better ways to protect crops that don't end up with rich bastards shooting elephants for mere kicks.
I'd prefer the crops feed the village, and the elephant finds its own sustenance, and the rich bastard ... sigh, dunno. "Go to hell" feels like what I'm thinking, but seems excessive.
From the looks of things, this's just multiplied the Drop GoDaddy boycott by the Steisand Effect.
Then divided it by zero. Fffffuuuuu----
I have no idea what that means.
I meant, GD backpeddles to say they don't support SOPA. That doesn't mean, "We hate SOPA", so SOPA haters discount GD's backpeddling, and continue to abandon GD en masse.
What did you mean? Divide by zero --> COREDUMP?
So I guess you're OK with Africans starving because they can't keep crops alive due to them being trampled?
This, on a techie site?!? I've watched documentaries on TV showing Africans' defences against just this. Pointy sticks driven into the ground on an angle, facing out? Barbed wire on steroids! The VietNamese won a war against France and the USA with such things.
White people make me fucking sick.
Fuck off, you racist asshole.
Yeah, real manly. Why not torture puppies also?
That's odd. I was just thinking of Jeffrey Dahmer too.
Even vicious, hardened criminals can't stand to be in the room with these people.
While I agree that it is indeed fucked up to kill animals simply for fun, sensible thinking people can take the foolishness of others and turn it around so it has a net positive effect!
Okay, so let's go one further and turn it around again. Let's put a price on the heads of these "fucked up" individuals. Why not? They enjoy hunting, yes? So hunt them.
Logic can often be illogical.
However, I am very much of the opinion that "it is indeed fucked up to kill animals simply for fun", and I can easily see a case for declaring open season on psychopaths like that, just as a Public Service. The world needs none of that sort of person.
The story of GoDaddy supporting SOPA is still on /.'s front page, and now this....
Funniest thing I've seen in ages. :-)
From the looks of things, this's just multiplied the Drop GoDaddy boycott by the Steisand Effect.
Funny as hell. And I thought they'd lost any thinking customers once the elephant shoot hit the headlines.
Yuk, yuk, yuk, ...
Phone calls have one very positive attribute: you know that you spoke to someone, and there is a record of that call in the phone company's system.
The reality of the situation is more cloudy on both sides of this argument. I think both sides are heavily dependent upon who is at the receiving end and what tech they're using.
For me, email is great, very seldom does anything get lost, and it just sits and waits for me to get to it. And I do get to it. However, others nowadays hate email, and I can often await notice from those people for weeks at a time.
A phone call is no more guaranteed to get through than an email. I have the ringer set to high and vibrate on my phone, yet I often don't notice incoming calls. Street traffic and Muzak easily drown my phone's ringer so my "missed calls" count can get pretty high.
Email to me is very reliable. Phone calls to me are very unreliable. Send an email to me, and you can be assured I got it. Phone me, and you'll need to wonder if my phone's even on, whether I have and check voicemail, or any of a number of ways calls can fall through the cracks.
I would NEVER get passed the physical.
You would never get past the language exam.
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Smart phones are no longer new tech.
Yes, they are. We're still trying to get over the sticker shock. "Free phone!" Yeah, if you sign up for exorbitant monthly bills for X many years. "Unlimited!" Yeah, but only up to X MB/mo., then extortionate overcharges kick in. $deity help you if you try to use it outside your carrier's service area (worse than extortionate roaming charges). If carriers haven't even figured how to price their usage yet, how're we supposed to make any sense of the mess? Oh yeah, "Unlimited", but we're changing the plan on you next month. "Shut up! You signed the contract that says we can at any time, ..." Heard about CarrierIQ yet?
No way of checking email, web, etc when on the go? I think a great many more nerds will [say?] no to that.
Not this one. Email is asynchronous by design. The web is not really that much more entertaining than the thousand or so books I'd like to get to before I die. It's nowhere near as attractive as the thousand or so cute chicks I could be chatting up during the commute, asking me about the book I'm reading.
Don't get me wrong. I would like a pocket sized Linux server (Nokia N900?) I could carry around. But would it really make sense most of the time? I think it is eminently do-withoutable at this point. In fact, in a lot of ways, paying for one now looks like a positively boneheaded "sucker bet". No thanks.
Somebody, please mod the good Dr. up. This post could make my accursed dumb phone useful.
"Why didn't you respond when I sent that?"
Why didn't you send me email, if you wanted me to care!?!
I really do not understand the cell-phone craze. Why the !@#$ do you need to talk to me when you need information?!? Yeah, I get it, you hate email. Well, I hate phones, so we're even. Just !@#$ing email me, FFS!
Just the very idea that you can sign up to data only plans for your cell-phone says a lot. Some CP users don't actually have a CP!
"Why didn't you respond when I sent that?"
"Sent what? And who the !@#$ gave you my CP no.?"
That judge must be blind (or bought off by Big Piracy) not to see that BitTorrent exists solely for piratical purposes.
'Scuse me? I've dl'd FLOSS isos via BT. Not my preferred way of getting them, but sometimes it's the better option.
Guns *can* be used to kill people, but that's not all they can do.
Sorry, forgot to close my bold tag, slashdot really should warn you about that.
It does. It's called the Preview button. Why the !@#$ proofreading went out of style, I don't know, but no-one's being forced to be stupid. It's a lifestyle choice.
Oh c'mon, graphic novels: This is /.
And you're on the wrong website.
Add my vote for anything by Alan Furst and anything in Ian M. Banks' "Culture" series. Be careful of the latter's other stuff.
Who the heck (what 1 million monkeys) are reviewing Patents nowadays?
It does appear that whether you can patent something or not is dependent upon nothing whatsoever. Prior art and obviousness don't appear to matter. All that's necessary is an ignorant patent examiner, and they appear to be all there are. Then, once you get it, file suit in East Texas, and extort your competitors.
"Apple Patents Using Apps During Calls" ... What programmer isn't going to see this as merely calling a subroutine upon some specific event happening?
All hail the New American Way.
A rock is not evil. Does that imply it is good?
Benign is good, though you can't really ascribe qualities like that to inanimate objects. Followers of Shinto may disagree.
Was the meteor that took out the dinosaurs good or bad? Neither. It just was.
The worst part is that Google wants to build a driverless car.
I wish I had mod points. OFF TOPIC!
I can't help wondering just how a piece of code, which presumably didn't test its input data for validity before acting on it, could become part of a modern jet's onboard software suite?
That's on topic!
I don't even use Google, but it's pretty trollish to bring them up on something like this.
Define... "good"
Not evil? Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?
It's not that difficult a concept. Philosophers have been working on it for quite some time now.
But the "maybe you shouldn't have used Java" comment irks me. I for one would like to see Linux gain more traction in UserLand, and comments that blame the user are stupid and short sighted.
I suspect that comment was directed at developers, not users. I've often wondered how java got such traction among devs. I don't know any who actually enjoy using it. Their stories sound a lot like those told by Cobol programmers ("Things to do today: write code, write code, write code, ...").