Pedophiles have a disorder that's not of their choosing, and they should be helped to control their orientation by whatever means are available- therapy and finding an outlet for their urges. Persecuting them does nothing to help them or the community in which they reside. If persecution does anything, it drives them underground where they may be more likely to offend.
I know this is a "hot button" topic for many if not most people, but gays used to be treated similarly. Persecuting gay people was idiotic, ineffective, and it ignored the fact of who they are. (Granted, it's not the same as pedophilia because of the obvious issue of consent.)
But here's the thing: no one, and I mean no one deliberately chooses to be a pedophile; it's simply the way they're made. Just like none of us chooses to be gay or straight or bi or whatever. It's just the way we are, it's almost never a "choice".
None of us chooses our sexuality, but we can choose who we have sex with. Pedophiles are at one end of the spectrum, and I think it's clearly not something of their own choosing, it's simply baked into them the way heterosexuality or homosexuality is baked into the rest of us.The same way some of us prefer vanilla and some of us prefer mint chocolate chip- it's just what we happen to like and 99.9% of the time it's not something we get to consciously choose.
I have sympathy for pedophiles in that they're saddled with a socially unacceptable desire, and what they desire is never going to be socially acceptable. It's far better to find ways to help them deal with it and mitigate the problem than to simply demonize them for the way they're "made", if you will.
And before everyone jumps on me for "defending" pedophiles, please understand I am not defending or minimizing what they do. I'm simply cognizant of the fact that they didn't choose to be attracted to children, and I think it makes far more sense to recognize that and deal with it as effectively as possible (therapy, sex dolls, comics, whatever).
Anything that keeps them from engaging in actual sex with actual children is infinitely preferable to shunning them and leaving them to try and deal with it on their own (which is obviously ineffective).
Eventually society will grasp this, and hopefully promote treatment instead of ineffective persecution.
I agree- although javascript has some bad design flaws, it's actually an enormously useful tool for which there is no real replacement.
For example, how else would one do any kind of dynamic page manipulation? Yes, JS has flaws, but it works fine for what it does. It was never meant to be used to create huge, enterprise applications...I mean, who would write (for example) a medical billing application in JS? No one, because there are better languages for that. But for client-side page manipulation and calculation, JS is the best (and probably only) choice.
Like Sen. Everett Dirksen supposedly said, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
The fact that Microsoft not only could write this off, but did write this off shows how little they care about anything but the bottom line. They took a good company with a generally excellent history and reputation, and, after beating it half to death, threw it away like a crumpled Dixie cup.
You won't get many counter-arguments on Slashdot. Most people here also think the same way, we hate Twitter and Facebook.
For me it's gone way, way beyond simple hate...I'm deep into "utter loathing" territory when it comes to twitter, facebook, linkedin, pinterest, etc etc etc.
So...you're saying it's webscale? Thank god, because we were just about to do it the old-fashioned way so we would end up with a working product before the end of the century.
And then? If a wallet is lost, the bitcoin is lost forever? No way to re-mine it or anything? Because this would be bad for the future of bitcoin. 7% disappeared with the demise of MtGox. A large number got lost to some UK garbage belt. More will be lost to whatever causes.
I've always thought that this was a fatal flaw in bitcoin...if (somehow) a major portion of bitcoins were truly lost irrecoverably, the effect on the bitcoin-based economy would be disastrous in several ways, wouldn't it?
It seems it would be a strong incentive for Bad Guys(r) to deliberately engineer some sort of event to "lose" a huge number of bitcoins, making sure, of course, that their coins weren't among the ones lost. Suddenly the value of the their (remaining) bitcoins would skyrocket, no?
But no one would ever do anything underhanded like that. Perish the thought!
(It's entirely possible that I've completely misunderstood some of the details of how bitcoin works, but this is more or less what I've gleaned from much of the discussion on bitcoin here. Please feel free to flame me and/or correct me if I'm mistaken.)
It's amazing how little people know about stuff like this, and yet how certain they are that they do.
You're correct- a dedicated crystal produces no better or worse clock than a PLL clock derived from a crystal input. If they thought about it for a moment they'd realize this, but that would require thinking about it for a moment.
If there's a more gullible group of people on this planet than audiophiles, I've never met them. I suspect it's the same on other planets as well.
I mean, who else would pay $400 for a wooden knob that supposedly makes the sound better? Or colored pebbles in a jar that (again, supposedly) "purify the tonal balance" of the room the music is played in?
On behalf of all internet users everywhere, whether in this specific space-time continuum or not, I would like to formally apologize to Samsung for all of the totally unwarranted bashing they took over over this issue. And I would also like to express my gratitude to them for finding a bug, fixing it, and posting a fix. Good job.
It may be that my phone is vulnerable, but any hacker who could manage to exploit it would have my respect. In fact, I'd be proud to have my phone rooted or compromised by someone who could do it, considering the obscureness of my device.
PS: I just checked the stone tablets that the original Owner's Manual came on, and there's nothing mentioned about vulnerabilities there.;)
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Pretty soon they'll just be able to move all their databases and schemas and stuff to systemd. Problem solved!
I agree.
Pedophiles have a disorder that's not of their choosing, and they should be helped to control their orientation by whatever means are available- therapy and finding an outlet for their urges. Persecuting them does nothing to help them or the community in which they reside. If persecution does anything, it drives them underground where they may be more likely to offend.
I know this is a "hot button" topic for many if not most people, but gays used to be treated similarly. Persecuting gay people was idiotic, ineffective, and it ignored the fact of who they are. (Granted, it's not the same as pedophilia because of the obvious issue of consent.)
But here's the thing: no one, and I mean no one deliberately chooses to be a pedophile; it's simply the way they're made. Just like none of us chooses to be gay or straight or bi or whatever. It's just the way we are, it's almost never a "choice".
None of us chooses our sexuality, but we can choose who we have sex with. Pedophiles are at one end of the spectrum, and I think it's clearly not something of their own choosing, it's simply baked into them the way heterosexuality or homosexuality is baked into the rest of us.The same way some of us prefer vanilla and some of us prefer mint chocolate chip- it's just what we happen to like and 99.9% of the time it's not something we get to consciously choose.
I have sympathy for pedophiles in that they're saddled with a socially unacceptable desire, and what they desire is never going to be socially acceptable. It's far better to find ways to help them deal with it and mitigate the problem than to simply demonize them for the way they're "made", if you will.
And before everyone jumps on me for "defending" pedophiles, please understand I am not defending or minimizing what they do. I'm simply cognizant of the fact that they didn't choose to be attracted to children, and I think it makes far more sense to recognize that and deal with it as effectively as possible (therapy, sex dolls, comics, whatever).
Anything that keeps them from engaging in actual sex with actual children is infinitely preferable to shunning them and leaving them to try and deal with it on their own (which is obviously ineffective).
Eventually society will grasp this, and hopefully promote treatment instead of ineffective persecution.
Stop being the voice of reason, Gaygirlie, there's no room for that here! :)
If I had mod points, they'd be yours.
I agree- although javascript has some bad design flaws, it's actually an enormously useful tool for which there is no real replacement.
For example, how else would one do any kind of dynamic page manipulation? Yes, JS has flaws, but it works fine for what it does. It was never meant to be used to create huge, enterprise applications...I mean, who would write (for example) a medical billing application in JS? No one, because there are better languages for that. But for client-side page manipulation and calculation, JS is the best (and probably only) choice.
What I want to know is how does Haxe compare to the javascript compiler in systemd?
PLEASE stop with this "everything in the world is sexist against women" horseshit. You're just making yourselves look like a bunch of jackasses.
"Stuff that matters", indeed.
Yep. I think their next project is bailing out the Indian Ocean with a thimble and a sponge.
Like Sen. Everett Dirksen supposedly said, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."
The fact that Microsoft not only could write this off, but did write this off shows how little they care about anything but the bottom line. They took a good company with a generally excellent history and reputation, and, after beating it half to death, threw it away like a crumpled Dixie cup.
Give corporations the ability to wage war online with their own privately-branded malware....what could possibly go wrong?
800 down, only 3,453,721,904 left to go.....
You won't get many counter-arguments on Slashdot. Most people here also think the same way, we hate Twitter and Facebook.
For me it's gone way, way beyond simple hate...I'm deep into "utter loathing" territory when it comes to twitter, facebook, linkedin, pinterest, etc etc etc.
That code gave me brain cancer.
So...you're saying it's webscale? Thank god, because we were just about to do it the old-fashioned way so we would end up with a working product before the end of the century.
There hasn't been "job security" in America for DECADES. This isn't recent phenomenon, you dimwits.
If only we had something we could schedule the explosion with...
Easy- just use systemd's built-in crontab module to do that.
C'mon, this shindig will be the perfect place to showcase systemd's conference-room booking module.
The critical question that must be asked is, "Is systemd webscale?"
And then? If a wallet is lost, the bitcoin is lost forever? No way to re-mine it or anything? Because this would be bad for the future of bitcoin. 7% disappeared with the demise of MtGox. A large number got lost to some UK garbage belt. More will be lost to whatever causes.
I've always thought that this was a fatal flaw in bitcoin...if (somehow) a major portion of bitcoins were truly lost irrecoverably, the effect on the bitcoin-based economy would be disastrous in several ways, wouldn't it?
It seems it would be a strong incentive for Bad Guys(r) to deliberately engineer some sort of event to "lose" a huge number of bitcoins, making sure, of course, that their coins weren't among the ones lost. Suddenly the value of the their (remaining) bitcoins would skyrocket, no?
But no one would ever do anything underhanded like that. Perish the thought!
(It's entirely possible that I've completely misunderstood some of the details of how bitcoin works, but this is more or less what I've gleaned from much of the discussion on bitcoin here. Please feel free to flame me and/or correct me if I'm mistaken.)
Same here. I find that if I turn the radio all the way down to the point where I can no longer hear it, that's when it sounds the best.
^^^ THIS
It's amazing how little people know about stuff like this, and yet how certain they are that they do.
You're correct- a dedicated crystal produces no better or worse clock than a PLL clock derived from a crystal input. If they thought about it for a moment they'd realize this, but that would require thinking about it for a moment.
If there's a more gullible group of people on this planet than audiophiles, I've never met them. I suspect it's the same on other planets as well.
I mean, who else would pay $400 for a wooden knob that supposedly makes the sound better? Or colored pebbles in a jar that (again, supposedly) "purify the tonal balance" of the room the music is played in?
On behalf of all internet users everywhere, whether in this specific space-time continuum or not, I would like to formally apologize to Samsung for all of the totally unwarranted bashing they took over over this issue. And I would also like to express my gratitude to them for finding a bug, fixing it, and posting a fix. Good job.
How dare you post working code! This site has standards and we expect you not to exceed them.
It may be that my phone is vulnerable, but any hacker who could manage to exploit it would have my respect. In fact, I'd be proud to have my phone rooted or compromised by someone who could do it, considering the obscureness of my device.
;)
PS: I just checked the stone tablets that the original Owner's Manual came on, and there's nothing mentioned about vulnerabilities there.
Can someone explain why the program handling interaction with assorted media files would be so closely linked to the rest of the system working?
Because 1) programmers are lazy and 2) management doesn't want them to "waste time" programming all those pesky security checks.