I'm not sure what all the indignation is about. The data shown is about 80% of the bare minimum needed for core Facebook functionality (I imagine there's lots more involved in the fancier features).
Are people really surprised that FB is storing the info that shows up in their profiles? Or that FB stores their list of friends and the stuff they post?
How do they imagine Facebook works? Magic?
(also, measuring structured, relational data in PDF "pages" is about as useful as measuring it in Volkswagens)
Doctors aren't supposed to have a relationship with patients. Lawyers aren't supposed to have a relationship with clients. Detectives aren't supposed to have a relationship with a suspect, etc.
Which is a sound way to approach things, but you'll notice there are no laws regarding any of those.
Teachers already had these restrictions in Missouri and most other places. The only difference is that it now extends to online relationships.
Wait, friendships between teachers and students are illegal in most places?
1) except the games industry is bigger than Hollywood by far
How do you figure? All the numbers I've seen have games somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 of film. Their "core" sales - game software and domestic box office - are very close to each other, $10B or so.
Is this silly slashdot comment the property of *my* employer because I'm writing it at their computer?
Yes, it absolutely is.
There are plenty of employment contracts out there that specify that even work done outside of your duties, on your own time, and with your own resources is theirs (though I would advise against working under one of those). Work done with company resources? Forget about it, of course it belongs to the company.
You don't make a good language by smashing a bunch of "projects" together. If you do that, you end up with C++.
On the other hand, having people use new features for a few years "in the wild", before incorporating them into the language seems like a pretty reasonable way to do things.
The old fashioned way: scan through the abstracts for about a dozen journals in molecular biology, genetics, and comp bio (most journals have handy feeds for new articles), and, at least theoretically, read the papers relevant to my work.
It's sometimes informative, less often engaging, but (apparently) doesn't require a PhD.
For non work-related stuff I enjoy the Discover blogs.
People seem to want social security because they've paid into it their entire lives without having an alternative of opting out.
Personally, I want social security - as a concept, not my social security - because I want to feel like I live in a civilized country. Not because of any money I may have paid into it so far.
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This isn't really relevant, but I'm kinda curious - why do you think that the subject in that sentence needs to be in the accusative?
I see people do this sometimes and it's just baffling.
I love it when stuff redefines other stuff! So exciting.
I'm not sure what all the indignation is about. The data shown is about 80% of the bare minimum needed for core Facebook functionality (I imagine there's lots more involved in the fancier features).
Are people really surprised that FB is storing the info that shows up in their profiles? Or that FB stores their list of friends and the stuff they post?
How do they imagine Facebook works? Magic?
(also, measuring structured, relational data in PDF "pages" is about as useful as measuring it in Volkswagens)
Anyone wanna join me in Norway? Wealthy, non-EU state with lots of jobs!
No thanks. We have this thing here, where we get sunlight (hours of it!) every single day of the year - sounds crazy, but I like it.
It's been a while since I read it - what is it exactly that people object to in Brave New World?
At worst, I remember it being a bit preachy.
And I am not sure what they got by doing this...
My guess is "money from Facebook".
Unfortunately, there's no viable competitor to Facebook out there.
I don't care about Facebook, it's that there is no good alternative to Spotify that bothers me here.
Hmm, judging from your uid, I'd estimate you're at least 24 years old, probably older. Which is depressing.
Thanks. It all makes so much more sense now.
I just feel silly for assuming that Texas legalized polygamy and human-computer marriage.
I am a scientist (B.A. in Comp Sci at a small liberal arts school)
That's a pretty liberal application of the term 'scientist'.
Doctors aren't supposed to have a relationship with patients. Lawyers aren't supposed to have a relationship with clients. Detectives aren't supposed to have a relationship with a suspect, etc.
Which is a sound way to approach things, but you'll notice there are no laws regarding any of those.
Teachers already had these restrictions in Missouri and most other places. The only difference is that it now extends to online relationships.
Wait, friendships between teachers and students are illegal in most places?
What's so special about teachers? Shouldn't all online relationships between adults and minors be illegal? And why only online?
I know this is probably redundant, but can someone explain to me how anyone could consider this to be in any way constitutional?
I'm serious. Maybe I just don't understand a couple of the amendments.
1) except the games industry is bigger than Hollywood by far
How do you figure? All the numbers I've seen have games somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 of film. Their "core" sales - game software and domestic box office - are very close to each other, $10B or so.
The "P" in "PC" stands for "personal computer"
What does the "C" stand for?
Creating a browser that blocks popups would be a great first step. Something insanely trivial to implement that everyone on the planet wants.
You actually have a browser that doesn't block popups? I'm pretty sure they've all been doing that for about a decade now.
But this was better than Transformers 3 and Green Lantern.
That's just harsh.
Is this silly slashdot comment the property of *my* employer because I'm writing it at their computer?
Yes, it absolutely is.
There are plenty of employment contracts out there that specify that even work done outside of your duties, on your own time, and with your own resources is theirs (though I would advise against working under one of those). Work done with company resources? Forget about it, of course it belongs to the company.
So Texas legalized both human-computer marriage and polygamy? Didn't see that coming.
So companies "employ" robots now? I hope they pay them a fair wage.
I'm curious how much of an impact the new 'invokedynamic' has - specifically on Ruby and Python - any good performance analysis out there?
You don't make a good language by smashing a bunch of "projects" together. If you do that, you end up with C++.
On the other hand, having people use new features for a few years "in the wild", before incorporating them into the language seems like a pretty reasonable way to do things.
The old fashioned way: scan through the abstracts for about a dozen journals in molecular biology, genetics, and comp bio (most journals have handy feeds for new articles), and, at least theoretically, read the papers relevant to my work.
It's sometimes informative, less often engaging, but (apparently) doesn't require a PhD.
For non work-related stuff I enjoy the Discover blogs.
I think he meant "unfunded" in the sense that no provisions were made to actually come up with the funds that were spent.
People seem to want social security because they've paid into it their entire lives without having an alternative of opting out.
Personally, I want social security - as a concept, not my social security - because I want to feel like I live in a civilized country. Not because of any money I may have paid into it so far.
I think that if the ISS is ever found to be "near the equator" it's safe to say that the project is not doing well.