If I want to give the car some extra gas through a corner and kick the back end out, don't interfere with me.
If you're acting in a dangerous manner, you can be damn sure I'll interfere with you.
Some people have this odd notion that a great time to get their jollies off is when tey're behind the wheel of a two ton box moving at 60mph. Sorry, your right to enjoy yourself ends when you're able to kill other people. End of story. You can whine, "you're oppressing me" all you like, but if you're in a position where you can do me or my family member harm, that's just too bad.
Furthermore, I doubt that it will prevent so-called cyberbullying; it will just remind the more intelligent bullies to wreak their mischief anonymously.
Yeah! Same with those laws against murder. They don't prevent murders, they just make smarter criminals.
Boy, are you the fucking poster child for this study, or what? Add to that you heaping your own self loathing on the kid, and you just take the cake, buddy.
...I know I'm not the only one that has been frustrated by all the shenanigans that SCO's lawyers and management have been allowed to pull...
Have you ever studied Aikido? It's a martial art that stresses defense, and specifically using the attacker's energy against them. In Aikido you let the attacker attack, as hard as they can. Only when they become off balance, often by attacking too hard, do you "help them" to the ground.
In this light the IBM strategy makes perfect sense: let SCO do as much as possible to hang themselves. Then, when they are least balanced (and most confident in their own greatness and your apparent incompetance) you tip them over and help them destroy themselves.
Sure, if those three Democrats voted for it, you would have had a 20-11 vote, and then Republicans would have defeated the proposal.
So, basically you're saying the Republicans defeated the proposal? (Because the subcomittee was so stacked along partisan lines that the three Democrats who did vote against were a moot point...) How nice of you to drop a grain of truth in that nice long lie of yours. You're not a lobbyist by trade, by chance?
Sounds like you hope/. folk are simpletons. That's about the only way your tripe would get through.
They spent, we estimate, at least 25 mod points worth of specific attention on him.
Slashdot moderation needs a form of DOS defense, apparently. Too many mods to several posts in a short period of time should raise a red flag.
Question to slashcode folks: are moderation actions timestamped? If not they should be. Once you do that you can track all sorts of behavior: moderation to old posts, time clustered moderations by source and target, etc.
Another technique: moderation to older posts have less value, say 20% less per day. (This would lead to fractional point values for posts, but so what?)
Abuses like these are on the rise. Slashdot has paved the way for automatic policing of forums. They should lead the way on these new forms of attack as well.
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You see, one thing economists (and many, many others) get wrong time and time again, is self organisation...
And the amazing thing is that, if you say businesses should be regulated, they're very likely to yell, "NO! The market must be FREE! The market has WISDOM!" Then they go back to saying open source is socialism...
Cognitive dissonance ain't just for psychologists and Republicans anymore.
I bought a tivo for my mom. I was supposed to get a $150 rebate on the pvr if I bought a year's subscription. After all was said and done they said the rebate request didn't get in on time. I sent it in one month before the deadline.
Bastards.
I was thinking of getting one for myself. Even though a MythTV setup could be more expensive (and definately harder to set up) that's what I'm going to do. They've lost my business.
I always thought that if I was a (tenured) professor would be a "Cheating 101" class. The objectives would be to teach the students how to cheat effectively. The class would have exams that were on arbitrary and difficult subjects. The students would be forced to cheat to pass them. The exams would be graded not only on how well they did on the exam itself, but how well they cheated and how well they avoided detection. (Even with me knowing they're cheating.)
The true objective wouldn't be to increase the student's ability to cheat, but to discover what techniques were being used by the students...
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If I want to give the car some extra gas through a corner and kick the back end out, don't interfere with me.
If you're acting in a dangerous manner, you can be damn sure I'll interfere with you.
Some people have this odd notion that a great time to get their jollies off is when tey're behind the wheel of a two ton box moving at 60mph. Sorry, your right to enjoy yourself ends when you're able to kill other people. End of story. You can whine, "you're oppressing me" all you like, but if you're in a position where you can do me or my family member harm, that's just too bad.
I'm clearly superior because I go to 11.
11, 11, 11.
It'll be a cold day in hell before Sun releases the source code to any software that people actually use.
You mean like source to the jdk, j2ee, and various reference implementations?
Still not a serious comment on the news story...
What's up? Got a stick up yer blue ring?
It could also be argued that the administration is picking people who know something about what they're regulating...
Hey, so why don't we hire pedophiles to protect our children?
Oh wait...we do
Furthermore, I doubt that it will prevent so-called cyberbullying; it will just remind the more intelligent bullies to wreak their mischief anonymously.
Yeah! Same with those laws against murder. They don't prevent murders, they just make smarter criminals.
Boy, are you the fucking poster child for this study, or what? Add to that you heaping your own self loathing on the kid, and you just take the cake, buddy.
Really?
Naw. Couldn't happen!
Hey!
You!
Yeah, you.
With the face!
What you lookin' at?
Gonna break my foot up yer ass!
I wouldn't give you credit for that many bits.
Got a question fou you: where have you been for the past three years?
You wouldn't be an astroturfer using a purchased account, would you?
...I know I'm not the only one that has been frustrated by all the shenanigans that SCO's lawyers and management have been allowed to pull...
Have you ever studied Aikido? It's a martial art that stresses defense, and specifically using the attacker's energy against them. In Aikido you let the attacker attack, as hard as they can. Only when they become off balance, often by attacking too hard, do you "help them" to the ground.
In this light the IBM strategy makes perfect sense: let SCO do as much as possible to hang themselves. Then, when they are least balanced (and most confident in their own greatness and your apparent incompetance) you tip them over and help them destroy themselves.
Sure, if those three Democrats voted for it, you would have had a 20-11 vote, and then Republicans would have defeated the proposal.
/. folk are simpletons. That's about the only way your tripe would get through.
So, basically you're saying the Republicans defeated the proposal? (Because the subcomittee was so stacked along partisan lines that the three Democrats who did vote against were a moot point...) How nice of you to drop a grain of truth in that nice long lie of yours. You're not a lobbyist by trade, by chance?
Sounds like you hope
They spent, we estimate, at least 25 mod points worth of specific attention on him.
Slashdot moderation needs a form of DOS defense, apparently. Too many mods to several posts in a short period of time should raise a red flag.
Question to slashcode folks: are moderation actions timestamped? If not they should be. Once you do that you can track all sorts of behavior: moderation to old posts, time clustered moderations by source and target, etc.
Another technique: moderation to older posts have less value, say 20% less per day. (This would lead to fractional point values for posts, but so what?)
Abuses like these are on the rise. Slashdot has paved the way for automatic policing of forums. They should lead the way on these new forms of attack as well.
We'd like to see it used.
I'd like to see a GNOME logo that doesn't look like a foot with a penis in it, but I've learned to live with disappointment.
Because, as trhe gospels tell us, the more pirates there are in the world, the cooler the average global temperature.
May you be Touched by His Noodly Appendage...
This is no test of "open government" or any such claptrap.
This is right wing blogger chow.
This is a daily drip of anticipation to keep the faithful fed.
This is pablum that lets right wing folks cloud the air with cries of "...but...but...tomorrow document X comes out, and it'll PROVE we're right!"
So, don't be fooled. This is not some wonderful egalitarian thought experiment. It's politics as usual.
When the US govt says no, there is normally a reason behind it, or active intelligence efforts supporting their rationale.
As opposed to when they say yes...
You see, one thing economists (and many, many others) get wrong time and time again, is self organisation...
And the amazing thing is that, if you say businesses should be regulated, they're very likely to yell, "NO! The market must be FREE! The market has WISDOM!" Then they go back to saying open source is socialism...
Cognitive dissonance ain't just for psychologists and Republicans anymore.
I bought a tivo for my mom. I was supposed to get a $150 rebate on the pvr if I bought a year's subscription. After all was said and done they said the rebate request didn't get in on time. I sent it in one month before the deadline.
Bastards.
I was thinking of getting one for myself. Even though a MythTV setup could be more expensive (and definately harder to set up) that's what I'm going to do. They've lost my business.
I always thought that if I was a (tenured) professor would be a "Cheating 101" class. The objectives would be to teach the students how to cheat effectively. The class would have exams that were on arbitrary and difficult subjects. The students would be forced to cheat to pass them. The exams would be graded not only on how well they did on the exam itself, but how well they cheated and how well they avoided detection. (Even with me knowing they're cheating.)
The true objective wouldn't be to increase the student's ability to cheat, but to discover what techniques were being used by the students...
From your posting history I can see that you express antigovernment views the vast majority of the time.
So, why now are you saying that government would solve this problem, that Heller should have reported to the government agencies first?
Just wondering...
Where can I contribute to Heller's defense fund? Anyone?
Could be worse.
Maybe soon it will be.