Of course they don't ask why people have unique finger prints. Maybe it evolved to make murderers easier to catch.
I would guess that the only question is why at all do we have finger prints. The uniqueness would then be expected since it would be much more complicated for a system giving rise to same print for everyone to evolve. Start with a system that produces finger prints (for whatever reason), and the usual error while copying the genetic code would certainly make sure that people get unique finger prints.
Someday I hope to be a professor, teaching my own classes. The one thing I would like my students to do is respect me as someone who contributes strongly to their development as a person and as a professional. It surprises me that the teacher in question would rather claim idiotic copyright policies just to be able to avoid having to come up with new assignments. I can not think of any purpose this would achieve other than helping him be a lazy ass.
Even if there was a valid reason for him to ask the student to remove the code, I would expect a teacher to keep the student's intent in mind and try to be as accomodating as possible; clearly the student is taking his homework seriously enough and that is already a good thing that should be encouraged as much as possible.
Ignoring your bitterness about losing your job to an Indian, I believe the-indian-mindset is at least partly responsible for very good Indian programmers not being in the contest.
India has very recently seen an economic boom and with a huge populations things have been pretty tough till quite recently. Something as basic as getting a job (any job) used to be a lot tougher and a large chunk of Indians grow up focusing on *making a career*. Now why would that result in a lack of good programmers competing here? I believe that quite a few good brains get pushed into climbing the social and economic ladder - I mean why try to prepare for a job that will only fetch you 50000 Rupees a month in the best case if you can aim for much more?
You just don't have a culture of taking a break and doing something just for the fun of it. Sure many people end up doing the things that they enjoy (I do research and quite enjoy it) but if there is a risk that your "hobby" might not result in a successful career, you change your track early on!
I suppose things will change as more and more Indians get rich and assuming Indians are as capable as any other group of humans (a reasonable assumption, wouldn't you say?) you should see a lot more guru-coders from India in future just due to the fact that there are a *lot* of Indians (China had it's own economic boom quite before India and you see that reflected here already).
By the way, it might not be any consolation to you but I think the reason you were replaced with inferior programmers was because the better ones probably are heading up higher than "programmer"; the Indian psyche is fiercely ambitious and competitive.
Despite the judgment of your own court to release them...hmmm
What exactly makes them terrorists - being in Gitmo?
Do yourself a favor and never do anything - anything at all - that might make anybody suspicious, because you know just the suspicion is enough to make you actually guilty.
... but if I overhear someone say they liked Friends (or even worse, LOVED it) then I have a pretty good idea of the kind of person I'm dealing with.
And every time I hear someone saying how something as mundane as a preference for one TV show over another highlights anything deep, I wish they would just shut the fuck up. Seriously, I enjoy some stupid goofy sitcom and you don't - is that such a big deal? Go ahead and find something deeper in a sitcom if that if your thing, but don't expect everyone to do that.
I see how your doomsday scenario would be bad for everyone, but my whole point was that it is never going to happen. There will always be people, however few, who will keep building non-mainstream stuff; and there will always be users, however few, who will keep consuming the said software.
Underhanded tactics are bad for the market - I see that; and it is desirable, even necessary, that such tactics are kept under check, but Linux - having started and still supported to a very large degree by people who create and consume it just because they feel like it - has not much to worry about imho. But then maybe I am just being naively optimistic today!:-)
Despite my desire to see Linux being the most popular OS, I fail to see why it should be so worrying to see that MS keeps using what seem to be underhanded deals to keep Linux away from the market. After all, it is not like Linux hasn't been making great progress in spite of a small userbase. Things have come a long way since I started using it around the beginning of the century; I don't have to fiddle with my machine everytime I want to try a new distro; all major distros look quite polished and mature, etc.
Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise to not have "familiarity" as the most important feature of the OS for Linux. Developers can decide to go with the completely radical way of doing thing (Sure it does not happen that often, but with a larger userbase even the possibility would become a challenge).
Hahaha, some idiot really thinks that was flamebait? Who is going to be too upset to start warring with me over that? Kdawson? He has enough summaries to twist into propaganda to look over what is being said about it. Or are there any fans of kdawson way of writing summaries here?
What in the heavens is the matter with kdawson? Is everyone on slashdot so dumb that they need to be "led" to the right opinion about whatever the fuck the story is about?
This story was already published here without the kdawsonishness and the response was overwhelmingly what the editor seems to be leading everyone up to anyway. But you still can't resist putting the drama in the summary. Can you?
Please, really. If we want an editorial, we would ask for one. Just give us the story and let the discussion unravel. Slashdot has quite a homogeneous viewpoint of many thing already. There is no need to try to lead up the discussion somewhere you like even before it has started - especially if you are (most probably) not going to be in the discussion. Furthermore, just the thought that you think you can change the wordings of a sentence and fool anyone into making a different opinion than I would make otherwise should be quite offensive for them.
That is quite some way of putting things! In all fairness you have to realize that India and Pakistan have a serious trust problem with each other. Even though India would claim that the increased border defense (read more military near India-Pakistan border) is only for defense, in case of a future tense situation it would put Pakistan under immense pressure to mobilize its forces quite suddenly. The only rational move for them, therefore, is to move forces to the border already. And that implies weakening the force available at the Pakistan-Afganistan border and thus "reducing their efforts" in the war against terror.
Now you can all wish that we lived in a perfect world where such a reasoning in not needed, but unfortunately the reality of India-Pakistan relations is ugly and one of deep mistrust for each other. And in such a situation what you wrote in your post is a natural way to react for the parties.
PS: I am Indian and believe that Pakistan has a fucked up priorities with regards to India and its vision for its own future, but there is no need to put a shade of propaganda to everything.
The internet wasn't designed to be used the way it is being used today anyway. So, you keep finding shortcomings and try to work your way around. SMTP has problems? Well here use some PGP and *some* of the problems are taken care of. Most things work in an evolutionary way anyway.
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Not only that, kdawson posted a feel-good story instead of a world-is-coming-to-an-end story! Something is seriously wrong around here.
I was going to fiercely argue against all that you wrote, but your punchline was in Latin so now I have to agree to every word you say!
Yes, darknet is attractive to bad guys but so is expectation of privacy in general.
Of course they don't ask why people have unique finger prints. Maybe it evolved to make murderers easier to catch.
I would guess that the only question is why at all do we have finger prints. The uniqueness would then be expected since it would be much more complicated for a system giving rise to same print for everyone to evolve. Start with a system that produces finger prints (for whatever reason), and the usual error while copying the genetic code would certainly make sure that people get unique finger prints.
Someday I hope to be a professor, teaching my own classes. The one thing I would like my students to do is respect me as someone who contributes strongly to their development as a person and as a professional. It surprises me that the teacher in question would rather claim idiotic copyright policies just to be able to avoid having to come up with new assignments. I can not think of any purpose this would achieve other than helping him be a lazy ass.
Even if there was a valid reason for him to ask the student to remove the code, I would expect a teacher to keep the student's intent in mind and try to be as accomodating as possible; clearly the student is taking his homework seriously enough and that is already a good thing that should be encouraged as much as possible.
I was about to tag the story "kdawsonsucks" :-D
Ignoring your bitterness about losing your job to an Indian, I believe the-indian-mindset is at least partly responsible for very good Indian programmers not being in the contest.
India has very recently seen an economic boom and with a huge populations things have been pretty tough till quite recently. Something as basic as getting a job (any job) used to be a lot tougher and a large chunk of Indians grow up focusing on *making a career*. Now why would that result in a lack of good programmers competing here? I believe that quite a few good brains get pushed into climbing the social and economic ladder - I mean why try to prepare for a job that will only fetch you 50000 Rupees a month in the best case if you can aim for much more?
You just don't have a culture of taking a break and doing something just for the fun of it. Sure many people end up doing the things that they enjoy (I do research and quite enjoy it) but if there is a risk that your "hobby" might not result in a successful career, you change your track early on!
I suppose things will change as more and more Indians get rich and assuming Indians are as capable as any other group of humans (a reasonable assumption, wouldn't you say?) you should see a lot more guru-coders from India in future just due to the fact that there are a *lot* of Indians (China had it's own economic boom quite before India and you see that reflected here already).
By the way, it might not be any consolation to you but I think the reason you were replaced with inferior programmers was because the better ones probably are heading up higher than "programmer"; the Indian psyche is fiercely ambitious and competitive.
Despite the judgment of your own court to release them...hmmm
What exactly makes them terrorists - being in Gitmo?
Do yourself a favor and never do anything - anything at all - that might make anybody suspicious, because you know just the suspicion is enough to make you actually guilty.
... but if I overhear someone say they liked Friends (or even worse, LOVED it) then I have a pretty good idea of the kind of person I'm dealing with.
And every time I hear someone saying how something as mundane as a preference for one TV show over another highlights anything deep, I wish they would just shut the fuck up. Seriously, I enjoy some stupid goofy sitcom and you don't - is that such a big deal? Go ahead and find something deeper in a sitcom if that if your thing, but don't expect everyone to do that.
I see how your doomsday scenario would be bad for everyone, but my whole point was that it is never going to happen. There will always be people, however few, who will keep building non-mainstream stuff; and there will always be users, however few, who will keep consuming the said software.
Underhanded tactics are bad for the market - I see that; and it is desirable, even necessary, that such tactics are kept under check, but Linux - having started and still supported to a very large degree by people who create and consume it just because they feel like it - has not much to worry about imho. But then maybe I am just being naively optimistic today! :-)
Despite my desire to see Linux being the most popular OS, I fail to see why it should be so worrying to see that MS keeps using what seem to be underhanded deals to keep Linux away from the market. After all, it is not like Linux hasn't been making great progress in spite of a small userbase. Things have come a long way since I started using it around the beginning of the century; I don't have to fiddle with my machine everytime I want to try a new distro; all major distros look quite polished and mature, etc.
Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise to not have "familiarity" as the most important feature of the OS for Linux. Developers can decide to go with the completely radical way of doing thing (Sure it does not happen that often, but with a larger userbase even the possibility would become a challenge).
You want summaries to just be summaries and not editorials? You must be new here.
Oh, and prepare for the karma burn mate! ;-)
If human history has anything to tell us, it is that problems don't get fixed before the problems arise.
Hahaha, some idiot really thinks that was flamebait? Who is going to be too upset to start warring with me over that? Kdawson? He has enough summaries to twist into propaganda to look over what is being said about it. Or are there any fans of kdawson way of writing summaries here?
Offtopic, sure. Flamebait? Hardly.
Now if anything *this* post is flamebait!
Go ahead, I have enough karma to burn.
Idiots.
What in the heavens is the matter with kdawson? Is everyone on slashdot so dumb that they need to be "led" to the right opinion about whatever the fuck the story is about?
This story was already published here without the kdawsonishness and the response was overwhelmingly what the editor seems to be leading everyone up to anyway. But you still can't resist putting the drama in the summary. Can you?
Please, really. If we want an editorial, we would ask for one. Just give us the story and let the discussion unravel. Slashdot has quite a homogeneous viewpoint of many thing already. There is no need to try to lead up the discussion somewhere you like even before it has started - especially if you are (most probably) not going to be in the discussion. Furthermore, just the thought that you think you can change the wordings of a sentence and fool anyone into making a different opinion than I would make otherwise should be quite offensive for them.
That is quite some way of putting things! In all fairness you have to realize that India and Pakistan have a serious trust problem with each other. Even though India would claim that the increased border defense (read more military near India-Pakistan border) is only for defense, in case of a future tense situation it would put Pakistan under immense pressure to mobilize its forces quite suddenly. The only rational move for them, therefore, is to move forces to the border already. And that implies weakening the force available at the Pakistan-Afganistan border and thus "reducing their efforts" in the war against terror.
Now you can all wish that we lived in a perfect world where such a reasoning in not needed, but unfortunately the reality of India-Pakistan relations is ugly and one of deep mistrust for each other. And in such a situation what you wrote in your post is a natural way to react for the parties.
PS: I am Indian and believe that Pakistan has a fucked up priorities with regards to India and its vision for its own future, but there is no need to put a shade of propaganda to everything.
Actually, what you are suggesting is very odd!
any hacker worth his/her salt should have changed all the ones to zeros and all the zeros to ones! N00BS!!
+5 informative!
I'd like to see a Windows-free educational system
Me too!
I never liked those little brats. I say put them in a windowless environment, put them all in one!
You might want to rethink your usage of a question mark though?
Unless, of course, our new alien overlords also drink Pepsi!
At that temperature I doubt they would be "drinking" it.
Isn't it too early for you to start gloating?
Film at 11!
The internet wasn't designed to be used the way it is being used today anyway. So, you keep finding shortcomings and try to work your way around. SMTP has problems? Well here use some PGP and *some* of the problems are taken care of. Most things work in an evolutionary way anyway.
This mcheck service is super secure. From their FAQ:
Who else will get my Credit Card information?
mChek will NEVER disclose your Credit Card information to anybody, including to you.
(Emphasis mine)