Still, it was pretty irritating to see an address I had been quite careful with destroyed because the Slashdot editors didn't consider carefully what they were doing.
Your fault. Everybody knows that the/. editors don't know what they're doing, so your first (and last) mistake was not using a throwaway email address.
At 17 or 18 they're already making their own descisions about a lot of things...At 18 that's their legal right, so you've got no say over it whatsoever.
My house, my rules. Until you're living on your own, you aren't an adult.
they should also require profiles owned by minors to be private.
How do you propose to verify age? These aren't 10 year olds (by and large). They're teenagers looking for sex. Since teenagers are invulnerable, good luck getting them to protect themselves.
people are spaced out further; hence the potential for actual rape to happen would be higher in California, wouldn't it?
We aren't talking about rape here - this is statutory rape, which just means the girls was underage. If it was just the boy who was underage, nobody would have been charged.
A man stuck his neck out. He risked his job and possibly his life to expose corrupt and criminal actions that undermine the very foundations of out government
Yes, it's a travesty, but this is a dangerous world - whenever you stick your neck out, there's a chance for you to lose your head.
Until he gets out of prison, will you also be supporting his family? Paying the mortgage on his house? Sending his daughter to school? Or will you just be grinning about how he stuck it to the man on your behalf?
Put another way, will you sell out your country for a few trinkets? Liberty must be preiodically renewed with the blood of patrioits and traitors. Besides, his daughter can send herself to school if she wants.
Likewise, if you're touting your awesome GTK mediaplayer on your resume, and googling you comes up with you begging for help on GTK, media, and playing comes up over the span of most of your project's life, thats not good either.
So remember kids, always do your begging and Flamewars by way of a pseudonym. That way, your 'real' persona remains unsullied by such inconveniences. As a bonus, this will help you later in life when you get recruited by CTU and have to save the world while maintaining cover as a computer salesman.
Completly OT, but many tribes such as you describe are non-violent.
I very much doubt that. I recall an anthropologist who spent some time interviewing a bunch of tribes, and she found that all or nearly all had died in these revenge cycles.
Then perhaps the online community needs to learn how to respect intellectual property holder's rights.
Call it by its right name: Copyright. IP is just another attempt to redefine the battleground in the favor of entrenched corporations. Besides, we're talking about Canada - with the blank media levy, copying is perfectly legal.
Create a browser based application that has been thouroughly tested by user interface professionals, not just their tax lawyers and software engineers.
I've got news for you: UI professionals are software engineers. Only problem is that sometimes they use the wrong software engineer to build the UI.
You're not looking for a tax system to fund government, your're looking for a way to transfer wealth from those have earned it to those who have not, all in the name of equality of outcome. That is not fair. That is government theft so you can sleep better at night, knowing that everyone life sucks equally.
Someone's got to pay for all the stuff the government does, and Bill Gates is far more able to do so than the janitors in his campus. 95% is a disaster waiting to happen, but 40% is doable (he pays no state income tax, by the way).
As for the socialist accusations, the high earners (the wealthy, really, but that's covered somewhat by property tax) do benefit more from police protection.
Okay, how do you accidentally create a bunch of shell corporations, sell to them, and call that revenue (or was that another company?)? Woops Cali, sorry about your energy crisis. Bookkeeping error, don'tcha know.
Perhaps if you researched a bit you'd discover that "Blue Ray" is a generic term with respect to trademarks. The original name was to be "Blue Ray" until they discovered you can't trademark it. Thus the removal of the "e" to make a term that can't be pilfered by competitors like Intel's 386, 486, etc.
Got a cite for that? You can trademark Blue ray as it relates to disc based storage, just like people can trademark common English words to describe their stuff. You can't, however, trademark a number, so Intel started with the Pentium, p2, p3, p4, Xeon and all that crap.
About 5-6 years ago, Intel had a spec for something called "Device Bay", which was a standardized slot for removable hard disks. If something like this could catch on, the disk industry would probably respond with cheaper, smaller, more durable drives.
I've got something like that - a hot plug SATA drive bay. If it were standardized, it'd porbably cost $15.
Err, no you get fired for costing your employers billions in lost profits - then you can't work in the field again because you've got a reputation as someone who is disloyal to your employer.
What are you smoking? A Cancer cure is quite the feather in a company's cap, and who's going to value loyalty over results, anyway? That's the road to irrelevance, right there.
My Republican friends may say: "you have free speech, but there are consequences". In this environment, one of the consequences may just be that they rifle through your stuff.
That's not a consequence, it's a reprisal. Let's be clear about things.
If you are a cancer researcher, and this is all you have done for 15 years, and you discover a cure, but risk loosing all of your funding, and having to persue another medical problem, do you release it to the masses? Some people will, some people will not.
Holy shit, of course you do! Then you go get funding for the next thing by saying 'My team cured Cancer, fuck you'. Do you really think Bruce Willis auditions anymore?
Now, it's our jobs in the next evolution of IT to come up with a happy medium. I'm fully convinced that we don't need the same rigid framework as civil engineering projects have when they're building bridges, etc.
Suggestions? My preference is to have techs running the show, with project managers dealing with schedules and facilitating dialogue on important things like overly aggressive schedules and external dependencies. Combine that with a somewhat rigorous development plan based on solid requirements and phased implementation, and I think you've got a winner.
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Still, it was pretty irritating to see an address I had been quite careful with destroyed because the Slashdot editors didn't consider carefully what they were doing.
Your fault. Everybody knows that the /. editors don't know what they're doing, so your first (and last) mistake was not using a throwaway email address.
But you're right in that men have a societal barrier to claiming rape charges against a woman.
I was thinking more about the tendency to charge only the boy when finding two kids screwing - the girls is often assumed to be innocent.
At 17 or 18 they're already making their own descisions about a lot of things...At 18 that's their legal right, so you've got no say over it whatsoever.
My house, my rules. Until you're living on your own, you aren't an adult.
they should also require profiles owned by minors to be private.
How do you propose to verify age? These aren't 10 year olds (by and large). They're teenagers looking for sex. Since teenagers are invulnerable, good luck getting them to protect themselves.
people are spaced out further; hence the potential for actual rape to happen would be higher in California, wouldn't it?
We aren't talking about rape here - this is statutory rape, which just means the girls was underage. If it was just the boy who was underage, nobody would have been charged.
A man stuck his neck out. He risked his job and possibly his life to expose corrupt and criminal actions that undermine the very foundations of out government
Yes, it's a travesty, but this is a dangerous world - whenever you stick your neck out, there's a chance for you to lose your head.
Until he gets out of prison, will you also be supporting his family? Paying the mortgage on his house? Sending his daughter to school? Or will you just be grinning about how he stuck it to the man on your behalf?
Put another way, will you sell out your country for a few trinkets? Liberty must be preiodically renewed with the blood of patrioits and traitors. Besides, his daughter can send herself to school if she wants.
There's something seriously fucked with our public trust in this country.
Public trust generally refers to the obligation of the elected to serve the electorate. In this, I agree with you.
Minimum 10 years experience in Windows 2000 and a valid tractor-trailer license. $9.00/hour. Apply within. We are a drug-free workplace.
Hey, I got 2 out of 3...
Likewise, if you're touting your awesome GTK mediaplayer on your resume, and googling you comes up with you begging for help on GTK, media, and playing comes up over the span of most of your project's life, thats not good either.
So remember kids, always do your begging and Flamewars by way of a pseudonym. That way, your 'real' persona remains unsullied by such inconveniences. As a bonus, this will help you later in life when you get recruited by CTU and have to save the world while maintaining cover as a computer salesman.
Yeah, right. This was in the link from your cited section.
Completly OT, but many tribes such as you describe are non-violent.
I very much doubt that. I recall an anthropologist who spent some time interviewing a bunch of tribes, and she found that all or nearly all had died in these revenge cycles.
And the rich don't think they should have to subsidize your children going to public schools.
Just ask them who they expect to hire in 20 years.
Education is a commonly used reason given to increase property taxes, which are disproportionately paid by the rich.
That makes sense - they get the good schools.
Then perhaps the online community needs to learn how to respect intellectual property holder's rights.
Call it by its right name: Copyright. IP is just another attempt to redefine the battleground in the favor of entrenched corporations. Besides, we're talking about Canada - with the blank media levy, copying is perfectly legal.
Simple - we're still fighting the last war, which involved an actual nation.
Create a browser based application that has been thouroughly tested by user interface professionals, not just their tax lawyers and software engineers.
I've got news for you: UI professionals are software engineers. Only problem is that sometimes they use the wrong software engineer to build the UI.
You're not looking for a tax system to fund government, your're looking for a way to transfer wealth from those have earned it to those who have not, all in the name of equality of outcome. That is not fair. That is government theft so you can sleep better at night, knowing that everyone life sucks equally.
Someone's got to pay for all the stuff the government does, and Bill Gates is far more able to do so than the janitors in his campus. 95% is a disaster waiting to happen, but 40% is doable (he pays no state income tax, by the way).
As for the socialist accusations, the high earners (the wealthy, really, but that's covered somewhat by property tax) do benefit more from police protection.
Just tell that to Enron.
Okay, how do you accidentally create a bunch of shell corporations, sell to them, and call that revenue (or was that another company?)? Woops Cali, sorry about your energy crisis. Bookkeeping error, don'tcha know.
Perhaps if you researched a bit you'd discover that "Blue Ray" is a generic term with respect to trademarks. The original name was to be "Blue Ray" until they discovered you can't trademark it. Thus the removal of the "e" to make a term that can't be pilfered by competitors like Intel's 386, 486, etc.
Got a cite for that? You can trademark Blue ray as it relates to disc based storage, just like people can trademark common English words to describe their stuff. You can't, however, trademark a number, so Intel started with the Pentium, p2, p3, p4, Xeon and all that crap.
About 5-6 years ago, Intel had a spec for something called "Device Bay", which was a standardized slot for removable hard disks. If something like this could catch on, the disk industry would probably respond with cheaper, smaller, more durable drives.
I've got something like that - a hot plug SATA drive bay. If it were standardized, it'd porbably cost $15.
Err, no you get fired for costing your employers billions in lost profits - then you can't work in the field again because you've got a reputation as someone who is disloyal to your employer.
What are you smoking? A Cancer cure is quite the feather in a company's cap, and who's going to value loyalty over results, anyway? That's the road to irrelevance, right there.
Do you want someone fresh to work on aids, or someone with 15 years of cancer research.
How about geriatric drugs? There's a lot of overlap there.
My Republican friends may say: "you have free speech, but there are consequences". In this environment, one of the consequences may just be that they rifle through your stuff.
That's not a consequence, it's a reprisal. Let's be clear about things.
If you are a cancer researcher, and this is all you have done for 15 years, and you discover a cure, but risk loosing all of your funding, and having to persue another medical problem, do you release it to the masses? Some people will, some people will not.
Holy shit, of course you do! Then you go get funding for the next thing by saying 'My team cured Cancer, fuck you'. Do you really think Bruce Willis auditions anymore?
Now, it's our jobs in the next evolution of IT to come up with a happy medium. I'm fully convinced that we don't need the same rigid framework as civil engineering projects have when they're building bridges, etc.
Suggestions? My preference is to have techs running the show, with project managers dealing with schedules and facilitating dialogue on important things like overly aggressive schedules and external dependencies. Combine that with a somewhat rigorous development plan based on solid requirements and phased implementation, and I think you've got a winner.