We really need a corollary for Godwin's Law adapted specifically to Bitcoin discussions: as soon as you say, "The US dollar doesn't have any intrinsic value either!", you lose.
Godwin's Law isn't actually about losing an argument; it simply predicts that the longer an Internet discussion goes on, the higher the probability that someone will bring up Hitler.
You're right. I shouldn't get upset by people who choose to believe things that aren't true. I apologize.
Good call. Life's too short. And getting upset by "people who choose to believe things that aren't true" is how religious crusades and emacs/vi flamewars start.
I understand the definition of journalism you're using. However, I do not believe that it's necessary to be negative at all times.
Neither do I. But it should be based on something more than, "[Subject name here] likes it." Something needs to be of interest to a large number of people in order to be news.
Re portmanteaus: Anybody can create one. For instance, I could coin "Slashcretin" to describe some of our less intelligent readers.
Yes, and when you can show me lists of articles on Slashdot tagged "Slashcretin," give me a holler.:)
Then it's free advertising. Still not seeing the distinction, except that StrongAuth got an even better deal than we thought.
Those who want to believe otherwise are free to do so, but that doesn't alter the facts.
Slashvertising is a common enough practice that it has its own portmanteau. That's a fact. And I don't know what you think constitutes journalism, but to me, it doesn't mean sitting down one-on-one with a company talking head and tossing him a bunch of softball questions. That's public relations at best, marketing at worst, but it is not journalism.
Also FYI: America's elected president wasn't born in Kenya and little blue men don't truck the sun around the earth on an invisible track every day.
Right, because insulting your readers does wonders to bolster your credibility.
Responsible journalists do their damnedest to make sure their work looks nothing like the ads that appear on their sites. You've just done the exact opposite. In fact, remember when The Atlantic posted a Scientology ad as editorial content? Remember the outcry that went up about the distinction between advertising and news? Well, you've just done the exact same thing.
Knock it the fuck off. Slashdot was supposed to be "news for nerds." If you want to sell out, do it on your personal time, not here.
I suspect casual gamers and SimCity fans thought EA was up to the task of making the newest SimCity work. But folks who saw Blizzard struggle with the Diablo 3 launch saw the epic fail coming from a mile (or two SimCity maps) away.
Have you considered doing a Kickstarter to resurrect Crusade with your own artistic vision?
Also, do you think the whole space station trope has played itself out between Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9, or do you think there's room for other stories out there?
Even if you are correct, do you think arguing with someone in a position of authority over something so trivial is a good idea?
We're talking Bill of Rights stuff here. "What's your objection to the scanner?" is a question that violates privacy and could lead to self-incrimination. The agent had no business asking the question.
You don't understand that getting shit done in a society sometimes necessitates you being polite to someone who happens to be wearing a uniform.
I wore a uniform for 12 years. So yeah, I think I do understand that. But I also expect people in uniform to be polite and professional -- and for a TSA agent to ask a question that wasn't really his business is neither.
If you want to challenge the law, then go ahead and cause a scene, and take your case all the way to the supreme court. But don't profess the slightest bit of surprise that an agent of the executive branch, whose job it is to enforce and apply the law, applies the law by tackling you to the ground and beating the shit out of you.
That's what it took in Selma.
Given his story, I can absolutely guarantee you that he was acting like a shithead...
You know, I gotta say that as somebody who travels all over the country for work, the people who get the hassle from the TSA are the people like you who think they're being cute, funny, or "proving a point" by being a smart-ass to the TSA agent, and cracking jokes about weapons, or sexual assault.
I saw nothing that was "cute" or "proving a point" or even "being a smart-ass" in anon's narrative. It was none of the TSA agent's business why anon declined to be scanned.
So, the TSA is still going to judge us for potential thoughtcrime, grope us, and detain people for making (albeit stupid) jokes, but they're going to let POCKETKNIVES back onto planes? Really?
What's the harm? I mean, who ever heard of someone hijacking a plane with a knife? That'd just be...
Except that everything that broke SimCity (e.g., always-online requirement, Origin, in-game product placement, etc.) was more than likely pushed down by EA.
Nope. In the US that doesn't fly. You'll go to jail, and the ones who gave the orders will put you there. (See Abu Ghraib)
Actually, if Abu Ghraib is any indication, you'll be thrown into jail, and the ones who gave the orders will, at worst, have to take a cut to their retirement pay. The military even has a term for this: different spanks for different ranks.
I bought x-wing when it first came out, but ended up abandoning it due to the poor targeting graphics. The target would turn a dark red, and like many males I have red/green colorblindness, which caused the targeted object to pretty much disappear.
To be fair, you would also have a hard time with being an actual pilot. That said, it would be nice if more companies gave some thought to the colorblindness issue: I remember Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri had problems as well.
By the end of May, support for the older API will be pulled completely, and you won't be able to use it anymore.
I'd noticed some annoying pop-up messages on my copy at home. I don't get them at work (behind a firewall that allows access to Twitter but not to Tweetdeck).
Still, good to know. Hopefully someone will program a non-broken Twitter app that's comparable to what Tweetdeck used to be.
That kind of depends on the things you worry about. If you're confident in the security of your job or the security of your finances should the job disappear from under you, then yes, that six-figure salary helps. But if your worries include things like whether little Johnny is getting some 15-year-old girl pregnant, well, no amount of money is going to help with that.
But management is a real job with a real skill-set, and a good manager is worth his/her weight in gold.
And the funny thing is, most of that "skill set" is just trusting the people who work for you to (a) give you good advice and (b) do the right thing, listening to your people, and making sure they can do their jobs with minimal outside interference.
Interesting comment... my boss takes no interest in the machines that I keep up 24/7, and rather than believing that he's just trusting me to do my job, I think it's because he doesn't care.
How often does your boss stop by just to see how you're doing?
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We really need a corollary for Godwin's Law adapted specifically to Bitcoin discussions: as soon as you say, "The US dollar doesn't have any intrinsic value either!", you lose.
Godwin's Law isn't actually about losing an argument; it simply predicts that the longer an Internet discussion goes on, the higher the probability that someone will bring up Hitler.
You're right. I shouldn't get upset by people who choose to believe things that aren't true. I apologize.
Good call. Life's too short. And getting upset by "people who choose to believe things that aren't true" is how religious crusades and emacs/vi flamewars start.
I understand the definition of journalism you're using. However, I do not believe that it's necessary to be negative at all times.
Neither do I. But it should be based on something more than, "[Subject name here] likes it." Something needs to be of interest to a large number of people in order to be news.
Re portmanteaus: Anybody can create one. For instance, I could coin "Slashcretin" to describe some of our less intelligent readers.
Yes, and when you can show me lists of articles on Slashdot tagged "Slashcretin," give me a holler. :)
FYI - none of these videos are paid ads.
Then it's free advertising. Still not seeing the distinction, except that StrongAuth got an even better deal than we thought.
Those who want to believe otherwise are free to do so, but that doesn't alter the facts.
Slashvertising is a common enough practice that it has its own portmanteau. That's a fact. And I don't know what you think constitutes journalism, but to me, it doesn't mean sitting down one-on-one with a company talking head and tossing him a bunch of softball questions. That's public relations at best, marketing at worst, but it is not journalism.
Also FYI: America's elected president wasn't born in Kenya and little blue men don't truck the sun around the earth on an invisible track every day.
Right, because insulting your readers does wonders to bolster your credibility.
Dear "Editors":
This is a new low, even for slashvertising.
Responsible journalists do their damnedest to make sure their work looks nothing like the ads that appear on their sites. You've just done the exact opposite. In fact, remember when The Atlantic posted a Scientology ad as editorial content? Remember the outcry that went up about the distinction between advertising and news? Well, you've just done the exact same thing.
Knock it the fuck off. Slashdot was supposed to be "news for nerds." If you want to sell out, do it on your personal time, not here.
I suspect casual gamers and SimCity fans thought EA was up to the task of making the newest SimCity work. But folks who saw Blizzard struggle with the Diablo 3 launch saw the epic fail coming from a mile (or two SimCity maps) away.
Have you considered doing a Kickstarter to resurrect Crusade with your own artistic vision?
Also, do you think the whole space station trope has played itself out between Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9, or do you think there's room for other stories out there?
Even if you are correct, do you think arguing with someone in a position of authority over something so trivial is a good idea?
We're talking Bill of Rights stuff here. "What's your objection to the scanner?" is a question that violates privacy and could lead to self-incrimination. The agent had no business asking the question.
You don't understand that getting shit done in a society sometimes necessitates you being polite to someone who happens to be wearing a uniform.
I wore a uniform for 12 years. So yeah, I think I do understand that. But I also expect people in uniform to be polite and professional -- and for a TSA agent to ask a question that wasn't really his business is neither.
If you want to challenge the law, then go ahead and cause a scene, and take your case all the way to the supreme court. But don't profess the slightest bit of surprise that an agent of the executive branch, whose job it is to enforce and apply the law, applies the law by tackling you to the ground and beating the shit out of you.
That's what it took in Selma.
Given his story, I can absolutely guarantee you that he was acting like a shithead ...
No, you can't. You weren't there. Dimwit.
Also, never bring Susan Ivanova with you through airport security.
You know, I gotta say that as somebody who travels all over the country for work, the people who get the hassle from the TSA are the people like you who think they're being cute, funny, or "proving a point" by being a smart-ass to the TSA agent, and cracking jokes about weapons, or sexual assault.
I saw nothing that was "cute" or "proving a point" or even "being a smart-ass" in anon's narrative. It was none of the TSA agent's business why anon declined to be scanned.
So, the TSA is still going to judge us for potential thoughtcrime, grope us, and detain people for making (albeit stupid) jokes, but they're going to let POCKETKNIVES back onto planes? Really?
What's the harm? I mean, who ever heard of someone hijacking a plane with a knife? That'd just be ...
Oh, wait.
Except that everything that broke SimCity (e.g., always-online requirement, Origin, in-game product placement, etc.) was more than likely pushed down by EA.
Nope. In the US that doesn't fly. You'll go to jail, and the ones who gave the orders will put you there. (See Abu Ghraib)
Actually, if Abu Ghraib is any indication, you'll be thrown into jail, and the ones who gave the orders will, at worst, have to take a cut to their retirement pay. The military even has a term for this: different spanks for different ranks.
Didn't that come out after the whole brouhaha about the original tileset, though?
Bioware is good. Bioware on EA is questionable. EA... I have choice words I shall choose to not repeat at this time.
BioWare: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect
BioWare/EA: Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Star Wars: The Old Republic
EA: SimCity
I bought x-wing when it first came out, but ended up abandoning it due to the poor targeting graphics. The target would turn a dark red, and like many males I have red/green colorblindness, which caused the targeted object to pretty much disappear.
To be fair, you would also have a hard time with being an actual pilot. That said, it would be nice if more companies gave some thought to the colorblindness issue: I remember Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri had problems as well.
Any one of those would be better than Star Wars Kinect, which will forever live in infamy.
By the end of May, support for the older API will be pulled completely, and you won't be able to use it anymore.
I'd noticed some annoying pop-up messages on my copy at home. I don't get them at work (behind a firewall that allows access to Twitter but not to Tweetdeck).
Still, good to know. Hopefully someone will program a non-broken Twitter app that's comparable to what Tweetdeck used to be.
Compare Tweetdeck's HTML5 version with its native app. Can you tell the difference?
No, because I'm still using Tweetdeck 0.38.1. I tried the newer version, but every so often it just decides it doesn't want to pull updates anymore.
Of course. Venison with a nice Chianti just isn't the same.
A prior agreement ... like a EULA?
Who drives in rivers? Seriously?
That kind of depends on the things you worry about. If you're confident in the security of your job or the security of your finances should the job disappear from under you, then yes, that six-figure salary helps. But if your worries include things like whether little Johnny is getting some 15-year-old girl pregnant, well, no amount of money is going to help with that.
But management is a real job with a real skill-set, and a good manager is worth his/her weight in gold.
And the funny thing is, most of that "skill set" is just trusting the people who work for you to (a) give you good advice and (b) do the right thing, listening to your people, and making sure they can do their jobs with minimal outside interference.
Interesting comment ... my boss takes no interest in the machines that I keep up 24/7, and rather than believing that he's just trusting me to do my job, I think it's because he doesn't care.
How often does your boss stop by just to see how you're doing?