Taking advice from random people on/. (particularly if they're typing with Caps Lock on) about how to get along well with fellow (senior) employees is like asking your new hair stylist to help you decide between USB3 and Thunderbolt. It's not impossible that you'll get good advice that fits your situation... but I wouldn't count on it.
Your hairstylist will pick Thunderbolt every time.
IOW, the original AT&T monopoly reassembling itself, exactly like GPP said. The fact that the company which kept the AT&T name was swallowed by one of its children, rather than the reverse, is really irrelevant -- the point is that it was all Ma Bell originally, and it keeps coming back to that, the monster that just won't die.
Yep, it's the T-1000 of monopolies. Although I think it's going to have a hard time swallowing Verizon, and it's still anyone's guess which of the two ends up with Qwest (assuming the CenturyLink thing falls apart)
Modern living is highly stressful and I think it drives us down into what they call the "reptilian" part of the brain. I would call it an engagement of base instincts when stressed. We hail from nomadic hunter/seekers and finding any "treasure" laying about not nailed down, engages our older instincts. We pick it up instinctively, thinking we have a treasure we will need later, if the gaze of the more powerful members of the tribe aren't directly intimidating you from this thing you think you need, you will make off with it.
This isn't instinct, this is from playing Zork and/or nethack during one's formative years.
Anyway, the towels at most of the hotels I stay in aren't worth stealing. Either they're crap to begin with, or they've worn thin after many uses and washings, or both. If I'm going to steal something, it's going to be better than that.
Never steal small, you hurt the small people, and we NEVER hurt the small people.
Good. Private lenders weren't doing shit to begin with. They were underwriting the loan, but then not only did they get to collect money from students, and charge them fees and interest, but they had the whole thing guaranteed by the government. There was no downside for them, and they were essentially printing money. By having the government handle the loans directly, we got rid of a middle man, and now the loans can be cheaper, more efficient, and possibly bring in some revenue.
All that does is remove a relatively small parasite. The problem with the student loan system is it makes it easier for colleges and universities to raise tuition and fees without losing students. The higher prices justify more loans, which result in higher prices. And so education costs spiral out of control.
I am admittedly very hazy on the whole hacker terminology thing, but isn't the difference between a white hat and a black hat not what they hack, but what they do with the results?
No. White hats are self-styled, and black hats are anyone who would do something the white hats say they wouldn't do.
Any attempts to write a better definition than that always gets bogged down. For instance, some of the more sanctimonious white hats claim white hats always follow the law... but the laws are so bad that it's pretty unlikely they're actually doing so.
For some time around here, Slashdot user's general attitude seems to be that it's OK to violate patents.
Attributing a general attitude to Slashdot users is dangerous. But I think you could safely say that generally Slashdot users oppose _software_ patents; a smaller group opposes all patents. For any given patent posted here, there will be an even larger group opposed to that particular patent. Of course, if someone doesn't think a patent should exist, it's perfectly reasonable for them to believe it's OK to violate said patent.
You don't even have the "stealing" excuse with patents, no matter how valiently you try. Because if two programmers independently apply the same technique to the same problem, neither one is stealing. Not even if one of them did it first, and not even if that one filed a patent.
Makes me happy to hear that somebody knows how to do it properly. I'd love to see high speed trains come to the US if it could be done well.
Airplanes make a lot more sense in the US. Security is the only thing making this not obvious, and if high speed rail were to become popular, we'd be one bomb away from TSA ball fondling there as well
Do you have such devices? I don't have any at my worksite. Everything is serial. Assuming you do communicate between devices via USB - how difficult would it be to use a serial?
At a previous employer we had some USB programmers for TI MSP430 processors. Sure, they could have been serial, and we had serial ones. But serial is a legacy port nowadays.
That was seriously considered for an early MMORPG. Annoying players would be dumped into a dungeon level full of NPCs and other annoying players, where they could flame war and player kill as long as they wanted, without bothering anybody else. It wasn't done due to resource constraints, but it remains a good idea.
Best part about it is that, like the proverbial mud-wrestling pig, the trolls would like it.
No, "Windows," as applied to computing, is not generic at all.
Of course it is. You've got your web browser windows, your word processor windows, your alert windows, etc. Calling the operating system "Windows" is synecdoche; it's at best descriptive, but IMO generic. And before Microsoft Windows there was X Windows, which makes a strong argument for the term being generic.
I disagree about it being US propaganda, because the US can royally lose and lose big in a pissing contest these days. China can do three things in less than 24 hours to royally fsck the US and her economy:
1: Allow the yuan to trade freely.
And price Chinese manufactured goods out of reach? Yeah, that would fsck the US economy. It would fsck the Chinese economy a whole lot more.
2: Push for a "currency basket", or have oil be traded by the yuan.
#1 is a precondition to this.
3: Start arming countries or factions that don't like the US. For example, if the Taliban started getting access to UCAVs from a mysterious source. Or Ahmadinejad showing off his new technology of ICBMs that isn't enhanced by Photoshop skills.
Been there and done that, during the Cold War. That wouldn't royally fsck the US economy by any means.
An IQ test predicts how well you will do on the next IQ test that you take.
True but vacuous. An IQ test measures more than that. It correlates well with a lot of things people mean by "intelligence".
Period. A high IQ does not mean you have any manners, are an interesting person or even that you can use your brain.
Sure, it's not intended to measure your manners or how interesting you are. It does measure that you can use your brain.
This is one of the most popular subjects for discussion in Mensa. Invariably, each and every debate ends up with the same conclusion.
That is because Mensa is stuck in the middle. The unwashed masses see Mensans as elitist prigs, but if any Mensans let their IQs to their heads they get slapped down by the Triple 9s and Prometheus Society members. So they have to (at least overtly) downplay their intelligence.
Less trollishly, if Mensans included a few people with average or low IQs in that debate, the debates would end up differently.
In space you want the waste away from you and with a low probability to collision. The best way is to dump it into gravity wells like gas giants and suns.
Why spend so much delta-v? Space is big. Just put the waste into an orbit which doesn't intersect with anything you care about, and you're done. Spending the energy to collide it with the local star is ridiculous.
This is exactly what happened in the US. We can still afford to build cars here, Honda, BMW, Subaru, Kia & others do so. It's just the American-owned companies that chronically can't seem to cut it.
Yeah. Did they ever find the other half of the front door at Waco? Or come up with a credible reason for the recording of the entry to have come up blank? As for Ruby Ridge, I imagine that cops who taunt a man over their killing of his wife DO have to be a bit aggressive for self-preservation.
We played that alternative renewable energy game 30 years ago. Quietly. Saved an extra +$100k to do better things than to heat or cool our house, like paying tuition, paying off our mortgage early and finding good naturist beaches.
$100,000 over 30 years is $277/month. You saved $277/month? What were you heating and cooling, a mansion?
You understand the difference between climate and weather, right?
It's possible to make testable predictions about the weather. You can't make testable predictions about the climate, because if a prediction about the climate is falsified by data, it must have been weather after all.
As for precedent, the earlier precedent being cited is Shenck v United States, where the "fire in a crowded theatre" example comes from. This isnt some urban legend thing; it is real case law, and it has been known for quite some time.
Schenck is real case law, but it's no longer good law. Brandenburg v. Ohio is. Douglas, in that same concurring opinion, referred to the "clear and present danger" test originated in Schenck thus:
When one reads the opinions closely and sees when and how the "clear and present danger" test has been applied, great misgivings are aroused. First, the threats were often loud but always puny and made serious only by judges so wedded to the status quo that critical analysis made them nervous.
Dwarf: Smells strongly of BO, smoke, and earth Elf: Smells of BO poorly covered with essential oils Half-Elf: More BO, less essential oils. Halfling: BO, but at half strength, with a hint of bacon and eggs. Orc: 8 times the BO standard, plus the stench of rotten breath. Cleric: BO covered with incense Fighter: BO, double strength Mage: Smells like Brylcreme. Mages can make BO disappear but are clearly at a loss as to what to do with their hair.
Hey, I'm in the mood for digging out facts today. Perhaps the knowledge is there and lung cancer is decreasing, but nevertheless overall there is much more cancer than 50 years ago. Check it out:
I did. For men, age-adjusted lung cancer deaths way down from the ~1990 peak (probably mostly due to reduced smoking). Prostate and colorectal, down. Other cancers, pretty flat. For women, breast cancer is down, colorectal cancers down, stomach and uterine cancers way down, lung cancer up ("You've come a long way, baby") until the mid-90s, now flat.
So your statement is true, in that lung cancer deaths are still well above 1961 levels, and these dominate cancer rates. But misleading, in that this is mainly the lingering effects of a single cause (smoking) which has largely been addressed.
Not exactly. The complaining party has 10 business days (14 days) to get an injunction to prevent the material from being reinstated; if they do not get the injunction in that time period, it must be promptly reinstated or the ISP actually becomes liable for damages if it is later found that the material did not in fact infringe on the complaining party's copyright.
They don't have to get the injunction, merely to claim they have filed for it. See 17 USC 512(g)(C)
There are certainly more and less helpful providers; but nobody in the US is likely to do anything that imperils their safe-harbor status, unless you are paying them fairly extraordinary rates to be your registrar, your lawyer, and your insurance agent all in one. GoDaddy appears to have rolled over even more compliantly than strictly necessary; but it's a difference of degree rather than kind.
Not imperiling their safe harbor status is one thing. Rolling over for obviously defective notices is another. GoDaddy is big enough to have a legal department; if they had any care at all for their customer, they would have run this by them. This lawyer (with the assistance of technical staff) could have determined that GoDaddy was not hosting any of the material in question, and are therefore was not liable in any case. As far as I know, no case law exists indicating that merely maintaining a domain name for a site which contains copyright infringement is any form of secondary infringement.
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More likely he'll say "No", and if pressed will give a few of the corporate lickspittle excuses posted above, and then say "get out of my hair".
Your hairstylist will pick Thunderbolt every time.
Yep, it's the T-1000 of monopolies. Although I think it's going to have a hard time swallowing Verizon, and it's still anyone's guess which of the two ends up with Qwest (assuming the CenturyLink thing falls apart)
This isn't instinct, this is from playing Zork and/or nethack during one's formative years.
Anyway, the towels at most of the hotels I stay in aren't worth stealing. Either they're crap to begin with, or they've worn thin after many uses and washings, or both. If I'm going to steal something, it's going to be better than that.
Hey, Hilton IS pretty big.
Let me be the first to say "WHOOSH!". That will show everyone how big my e-peen is.
All that does is remove a relatively small parasite. The problem with the student loan system is it makes it easier for colleges and universities to raise tuition and fees without losing students. The higher prices justify more loans, which result in higher prices. And so education costs spiral out of control.
No. White hats are self-styled, and black hats are anyone who would do something the white hats say they wouldn't do.
Any attempts to write a better definition than that always gets bogged down. For instance, some of the more sanctimonious white hats claim white hats always follow the law... but the laws are so bad that it's pretty unlikely they're actually doing so.
Attributing a general attitude to Slashdot users is dangerous. But I think you could safely say that generally Slashdot users oppose _software_ patents; a smaller group opposes all patents. For any given patent posted here, there will be an even larger group opposed to that particular patent. Of course, if someone doesn't think a patent should exist, it's perfectly reasonable for them to believe it's OK to violate said patent.
You don't even have the "stealing" excuse with patents, no matter how valiently you try. Because if two programmers independently apply the same technique to the same problem, neither one is stealing. Not even if one of them did it first, and not even if that one filed a patent.
Airplanes make a lot more sense in the US. Security is the only thing making this not obvious, and if high speed rail were to become popular, we'd be one bomb away from TSA ball fondling there as well
At a previous employer we had some USB programmers for TI MSP430 processors. Sure, they could have been serial, and we had serial ones. But serial is a legacy port nowadays.
Best part about it is that, like the proverbial mud-wrestling pig, the trolls would like it.
Of course it is. You've got your web browser windows, your word processor windows, your alert windows, etc. Calling the operating system "Windows" is synecdoche; it's at best descriptive, but IMO generic. And before Microsoft Windows there was X Windows, which makes a strong argument for the term being generic.
And price Chinese manufactured goods out of reach? Yeah, that would fsck the US economy. It would fsck the Chinese economy a whole lot more.
#1 is a precondition to this.
Been there and done that, during the Cold War. That wouldn't royally fsck the US economy by any means.
And if your system relies on USB to talk to the devices it is supposed to be programming, that hot glue isn't so useful.
True but vacuous. An IQ test measures more than that. It correlates well with a lot of things people mean by "intelligence".
Sure, it's not intended to measure your manners or how interesting you are. It does measure that you can use your brain.
That is because Mensa is stuck in the middle. The unwashed masses see Mensans as elitist prigs, but if any Mensans let their IQs to their heads they get slapped down by the Triple 9s and Prometheus Society members. So they have to (at least overtly) downplay their intelligence.
Less trollishly, if Mensans included a few people with average or low IQs in that debate, the debates would end up differently.
Why spend so much delta-v? Space is big. Just put the waste into an orbit which doesn't intersect with anything you care about, and you're done. Spending the energy to collide it with the local star is ridiculous.
To be fair, Ford can.
Yeah. Did they ever find the other half of the front door at Waco? Or come up with a credible reason for the recording of the entry to have come up blank? As for Ruby Ridge, I imagine that cops who taunt a man over their killing of his wife DO have to be a bit aggressive for self-preservation.
$100,000 over 30 years is $277/month. You saved $277/month? What were you heating and cooling, a mansion?
It's possible to make testable predictions about the weather. You can't make testable predictions about the climate, because if a prediction about the climate is falsified by data, it must have been weather after all.
Schenck is real case law, but it's no longer good law. Brandenburg v. Ohio is. Douglas, in that same concurring opinion, referred to the "clear and present danger" test originated in Schenck thus:
Dwarf: Smells strongly of BO, smoke, and earth
Elf: Smells of BO poorly covered with essential oils
Half-Elf: More BO, less essential oils.
Halfling: BO, but at half strength, with a hint of bacon and eggs.
Orc: 8 times the BO standard, plus the stench of rotten breath.
Cleric: BO covered with incense
Fighter: BO, double strength
Mage: Smells like Brylcreme. Mages can make BO disappear but are clearly at a loss as to what to do with their hair.
I did. For men, age-adjusted lung cancer deaths way down from the ~1990 peak (probably mostly due to reduced smoking). Prostate and colorectal, down. Other cancers, pretty flat. For women, breast cancer is down, colorectal cancers down, stomach and uterine cancers way down, lung cancer up ("You've come a long way, baby") until the mid-90s, now flat. So your statement is true, in that lung cancer deaths are still well above 1961 levels, and these dominate cancer rates. But misleading, in that this is mainly the lingering effects of a single cause (smoking) which has largely been addressed.
They don't have to get the injunction, merely to claim they have filed for it. See 17 USC 512(g)(C)
Not imperiling their safe harbor status is one thing. Rolling over for obviously defective notices is another. GoDaddy is big enough to have a legal department; if they had any care at all for their customer, they would have run this by them. This lawyer (with the assistance of technical staff) could have determined that GoDaddy was not hosting any of the material in question, and are therefore was not liable in any case. As far as I know, no case law exists indicating that merely maintaining a domain name for a site which contains copyright infringement is any form of secondary infringement.