Actually they are no longer cencoring. http://blog.digg.com/?p=74
They have heard the community that a number can't be copyrighted and they will take a stand with the community against the abuse of the dmca.
This is ignorant. (fictional-example) Here in Lake Thomson, we strongly oppose the evil thoughts of women. Therefore we will outlaw them from writing anything on the internet because... well... They are evil. Hey google. Help us. (/fictional-example)
Are you actually ignorant enough to define evil by what is illegal? Google is an american company staffed largely by americans. Therefore, if they say they will do no evil, they should strive to do no evil at LEAST by american standards. If that means they don't compete as well in some market where people are oppressed then so be it. They made the world a little better by not cooperating.
If they choose be be evil to furthur their business, then fine but don't claim to "do no evil".
Citizendium seems like a great idea, however I'm a tad annoyed at the implication, on the front page, that to be an expert on a subject, you have PHDs.
==We want expert involvement, but most of our hundreds of contributors are "authors," not "editors," and most lack PhDs. Many lack any degrees at all. The project is expert-led, not experts-only!==
I'm sorry but an advanced degree is a nice indicator of knowledge and ability when you are fresh out of school. However in the real world you will find that there are many experts on many subjects that do not hold an advanced degree. In addition, these real world experts are likely to know more than the PHD. I am not trashing the degrees. They are exceptional accomplishments, however I do question the attitude that the degree is everything.
Why stop at biology. I suggest an alternative to physics. Magic. Specifically the evocation school. Man a 4d6 fireball would do wonders for the worlds energy problems.
They say they NEED scientific validation in order to get this into peoples every day lives. WHY? If you create a laptop battery that never goes dead, people will buy it. Let them question how it works later. I mean really. Sell me something that can run my car forever for free and people will buy it.
You are just copping out because the scientific community is never going to accept this until you simply prove it by releasing a product. It is too far from accepted scientific fact.
See, but he's in the computer science department. I'd also have a problem with the bio dep if they disallowed students with AIDS because they might infect others. Professors are supposed to be rational and intellegent because they are responsible for educating others. They do have a say in the IT policy.
Why exactly should be give any weight to anything from and organization so ignorant as to disallow bittorrent? I take someone pretty darn ignorant to disallow a protocol because some use it to transport illegal content. Why havn't then banned TCP? It is an evil technology used every day to violate copyright.
This guy should spend his time educating the fools at his institution.
Why is this ok? Is Cornell in the pirate game now. Will they hit the pesky DirectTV encryption next and provide us all with free tv?
I'm not usually one to call foul but did it ever occur to them that the people who spent many many many millions of dollars to put the damn sats up there have the right to encrypt the signal? Doesn't Cornell have something more useful to do? Like say invent something?
Interesting. I wasn't bashing microsoft at all. In fact I said the talk was 'Good'. I was commenting on how difficult the speaker was to listen to.
Also don't you have anything better to do than to rip on my use of an apostraphe in a casual online post. Really, who cares.
Ahhh but since these are reviews that volunteers write they only write reviews for things that are worthy. If you worked for a newspaper then you'd get assigned books of varying quality. I a slashdotter reads something shitty they usually burn it or run away, instead of spending time reviewing it.
I agree that they are not fuckers but I really don't feel that they have any legitimate claim to that symbol. It is used by militaries around the world on their medical vehicles. It has become a generic symbol for medical/first aid and has been for so many years that I doubt they could lay any claim to it in court.
Why should a trust a story with a url like this: "www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/notorious.htm"
Second I'm not saying that time travel to the past is possible but reletivity has been proven and if you travel away from earth at a reletavistic speed and return you will have effectivly traveled forward in time. Granted it's not intantanious but time for you reletive to earth-time will have been much slower.
I admit my example was the extreme. I was not talking about covert cameras. However if you say, "Hey, why don't you come join me in the bathroom and watch" Then it shouldn't matter if I just look or if I snap a picture.
As for the stripper and the stage play. This is not a reasonable protection for society to provide them. If they do not provide a compelling enough performance for a repeat viewing then that isn't my fault. Honestly a photograph can't replace a good stage performance and you can see photos of naked women in a hundred magazines and on the net. I doubt a photo of a stripper would prevent someone from returning.
Back to privacy. It is just as illegal to be a peeping tom as it is to covertly photograph someone when they have an expectation of privacy. Preventing someone from taking pictures in a public mall is not reasonable. There is no expectation of privacy. I've been invited in by the owners to do some shopping.
I really really disagree. If they let a person onto their property, they should be able to take photos. Period. If you reflect light at me no one should have the right to prevent me from capturing it. Whether I see it with my eye or with my camera should make no difference. If you don't want me to witness the light in your building then do not allow/invite me in.
Of course you do have rights if I photographed your copyrighted material. I should still be able to photograph it if I'm allowed to see it but I cannot sell/distribute said photos because the work belongs to you.
Please don't quote law. This is my opinion and how I feel about it. I know the law disagrees.
But your employer pays YOU. In the case of the school, they are punnishing a paying customer for what they said. I don't know what company you work for but if one of our big clients called me a cockmaster I sure wouldn't stop taking their money. You flipped my argument around backward. You employer can punish you because you are the employee and the company is paying you.
If I said the apple itunes music store sucked ass on my blog they sure as hell wouldn't stop letting me buy their products. Schools are FAR too full of themselves. They are being payed to provide a service, to educate a person in the subject of their choice. Where do they get off punnishing paying ADULTS as if they were children.
I'm regularily astonished by the arrogance of institutions of higher learning. They are constantly attempting to control the lives of the ADULTS that PAY them for a service. Imagine this kind of behavior in any other buisness relationship.
Schools of all kinds are incredibly power mad. My kid got caught doing donuts in a supermarket parking lot on a saturday. He was fined by the police and grounded by me. But for some reason his high-school decided that they were god and were going to punish him as well. If it doesn't happen on school property it isn't the schools buisness, period.
If blockbuster refused to rent you movies because you write bad reviews of Tom Cruise movies, that would not be tolerated. Why should it be tolerated from a school. They are a buisness that like any other.
Ummm. It says to kill the person who gave you the title of corporate stylist and then yourself. You'd only be doing it twice if you gave yourself that title and then you'd be extra pathetic.:)
First, don't confuse hygene and dress. These are separate topics. I wear a tee-shirt and old jeans but they are clean and do-not-stink.
I "CHOOSE"(TM) to wear comfy jeans and tee shirts.
While you may think someone who doesn't dress up is a slob, I'd say the oposite. How much of your life do you waste preening?
Do your kids miss the 90 minutes you spend arranging every used-car-salesman hair on your head? "We didn't really know daddy, but damn did he look good." It's called vanity.
Now frankly I don't care what you wear. I'm just trying to give you a taste of being judged. Every minute you spend worrying about what others wear is one minute you are not doing something useful.
Instead of trying to trick people into thinking you're professional by the 'Constume' you wear, why not convince them you're a professional by working hard and being competant?
I've had no trouble "progessing through life" wearing what I want because I am skilled (not irreplacable), I work hard and I have good social skills. If you think less of me because of how I dress, I can easily turn the table and think of you as small minded and foolish for attempting to con people with your stylish costume.
I agree that if you are customer facing then you should modify how you look because there is no control of how they will judge your appearance. However the assertion that they pay me is silly. We exchange money for work of equal value. I need their money and they need the code that I write. There are PLENTY of jobs where I can code and they don't care if I wear jeans and a tee-shirt. I simply choose not to work for a company who does.
If I do have to have a meeting with a customer however, I will dress up. I'm not unreasonable.
I have great social skills. I wear jeans and a tee-shirt to work. Quite frankly I place no value in the type of people who preen and poke and care what how other people look. I've done quite fantastically in my career by portraying that I am a professional by hard work and being competent, not by the 'Costume' I wear.
Quite frankly, as an engineer, I'd quite insulted if I recieved advancement based on how I dressed. If you choose to associate with those type of shallow people, that is your choice. However I'll stick with people of substance who judge others by their skills and value to society and not at how they look.
Agreed. And my form of control is to quit. Enjoy the expense of getting a new engineer up to speed on the code-base.
I accept control where proper and necessary. My managment tells me when you have my work done and what direction we are going. They also approve my vacation time. These are proper forms of control.
My previous employer (Intel Corp), decided to tell the eng team that they HAD to be at their desks at 8am. (this is a team that often put in 60 hour work weeks). As a team, we all started leaving EXACTLY at 5pm. We would actually walk out together. This quickly ended when they realized that we were not working all the extra time that we were.
Employment is give and take. Company treats employee well and with respect and the employee give the company the best performance they can.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually they are no longer cencoring. http://blog.digg.com/?p=74
They have heard the community that a number can't be copyrighted and they will take a stand with the community against the abuse of the dmca.
This is ignorant. (fictional-example) Here in Lake Thomson, we strongly oppose the evil thoughts of women. Therefore we will outlaw them from writing anything on the internet because... well... They are evil. Hey google. Help us. (/fictional-example)
Are you actually ignorant enough to define evil by what is illegal? Google is an american company staffed largely by americans. Therefore, if they say they will do no evil, they should strive to do no evil at LEAST by american standards. If that means they don't compete as well in some market where people are oppressed then so be it. They made the world a little better by not cooperating.
If they choose be be evil to furthur their business, then fine but don't claim to "do no evil".
Citizendium seems like a great idea, however I'm a tad annoyed at the implication, on the front page, that to be an expert on a subject, you have PHDs.
==We want expert involvement, but most of our hundreds of contributors are "authors," not "editors," and most lack PhDs. Many lack any degrees at all. The project is expert-led, not experts-only!==
I'm sorry but an advanced degree is a nice indicator of knowledge and ability when you are fresh out of school. However in the real world you will find that there are many experts on many subjects that do not hold an advanced degree. In addition, these real world experts are likely to know more than the PHD. I am not trashing the degrees. They are exceptional accomplishments, however I do question the attitude that the degree is everything.
Why stop at biology. I suggest an alternative to physics. Magic. Specifically the evocation school. Man a 4d6 fireball would do wonders for the worlds energy problems.
Goodbye mate. You were a beauty!
Nuf said.
They say they NEED scientific validation in order to get this into peoples every day lives. WHY? If you create a laptop battery that never goes dead, people will buy it. Let them question how it works later. I mean really. Sell me something that can run my car forever for free and people will buy it. You are just copping out because the scientific community is never going to accept this until you simply prove it by releasing a product. It is too far from accepted scientific fact.
See, but he's in the computer science department. I'd also have a problem with the bio dep if they disallowed students with AIDS because they might infect others. Professors are supposed to be rational and intellegent because they are responsible for educating others. They do have a say in the IT policy.
Why exactly should be give any weight to anything from and organization so ignorant as to disallow bittorrent? I take someone pretty darn ignorant to disallow a protocol because some use it to transport illegal content. Why havn't then banned TCP? It is an evil technology used every day to violate copyright.
This guy should spend his time educating the fools at his institution.
Why is this ok? Is Cornell in the pirate game now. Will they hit the pesky DirectTV encryption next and provide us all with free tv? I'm not usually one to call foul but did it ever occur to them that the people who spent many many many millions of dollars to put the damn sats up there have the right to encrypt the signal? Doesn't Cornell have something more useful to do? Like say invent something?
Interesting. I wasn't bashing microsoft at all. In fact I said the talk was 'Good'. I was commenting on how difficult the speaker was to listen to. Also don't you have anything better to do than to rip on my use of an apostraphe in a casual online post. Really, who cares.
Good talk but man that guy is whiney. He sound's like my four-year-old.
Ahhh but since these are reviews that volunteers write they only write reviews for things that are worthy. If you worked for a newspaper then you'd get assigned books of varying quality. I a slashdotter reads something shitty they usually burn it or run away, instead of spending time reviewing it.
I agree that they are not fuckers but I really don't feel that they have any legitimate claim to that symbol. It is used by militaries around the world on their medical vehicles. It has become a generic symbol for medical/first aid and has been for so many years that I doubt they could lay any claim to it in court.
Example pic: Army Medical Vehicle
Why should a trust a story with a url like this: "www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/notorious.htm"
Second I'm not saying that time travel to the past is possible but reletivity has been proven and if you travel away from earth at a reletavistic speed and return you will have effectivly traveled forward in time. Granted it's not intantanious but time for you reletive to earth-time will have been much slower.
I admit my example was the extreme. I was not talking about covert cameras. However if you say, "Hey, why don't you come join me in the bathroom and watch" Then it shouldn't matter if I just look or if I snap a picture.
As for the stripper and the stage play. This is not a reasonable protection for society to provide them. If they do not provide a compelling enough performance for a repeat viewing then that isn't my fault. Honestly a photograph can't replace a good stage performance and you can see photos of naked women in a hundred magazines and on the net. I doubt a photo of a stripper would prevent someone from returning.
Back to privacy. It is just as illegal to be a peeping tom as it is to covertly photograph someone when they have an expectation of privacy. Preventing someone from taking pictures in a public mall is not reasonable. There is no expectation of privacy. I've been invited in by the owners to do some shopping.
I really really disagree. If they let a person onto their property, they should be able to take photos. Period. If you reflect light at me no one should have the right to prevent me from capturing it. Whether I see it with my eye or with my camera should make no difference. If you don't want me to witness the light in your building then do not allow/invite me in.
Of course you do have rights if I photographed your copyrighted material. I should still be able to photograph it if I'm allowed to see it but I cannot sell/distribute said photos because the work belongs to you.
Please don't quote law. This is my opinion and how I feel about it. I know the law disagrees.
But your employer pays YOU. In the case of the school, they are punnishing a paying customer for what they said. I don't know what company you work for but if one of our big clients called me a cockmaster I sure wouldn't stop taking their money. You flipped my argument around backward. You employer can punish you because you are the employee and the company is paying you.
If I said the apple itunes music store sucked ass on my blog they sure as hell wouldn't stop letting me buy their products. Schools are FAR too full of themselves. They are being payed to provide a service, to educate a person in the subject of their choice. Where do they get off punnishing paying ADULTS as if they were children.
I'm regularily astonished by the arrogance of institutions of higher learning. They are constantly attempting to control the lives of the ADULTS that PAY them for a service. Imagine this kind of behavior in any other buisness relationship.
Schools of all kinds are incredibly power mad. My kid got caught doing donuts in a supermarket parking lot on a saturday. He was fined by the police and grounded by me. But for some reason his high-school decided that they were god and were going to punish him as well. If it doesn't happen on school property it isn't the schools buisness, period.
If blockbuster refused to rent you movies because you write bad reviews of Tom Cruise movies, that would not be tolerated. Why should it be tolerated from a school. They are a buisness that like any other.
Because it's fun to go to an event and compete and see people and have fun.
Ummm. It says to kill the person who gave you the title of corporate stylist and then yourself. You'd only be doing it twice if you gave yourself that title and then you'd be extra pathetic. :)
First, don't confuse hygene and dress. These are separate topics. I wear a tee-shirt and old jeans but they are clean and do-not-stink. I "CHOOSE"(TM) to wear comfy jeans and tee shirts.
While you may think someone who doesn't dress up is a slob, I'd say the oposite. How much of your life do you waste preening?
Do your kids miss the 90 minutes you spend arranging every used-car-salesman hair on your head? "We didn't really know daddy, but damn did he look good." It's called vanity.
Now frankly I don't care what you wear. I'm just trying to give you a taste of being judged. Every minute you spend worrying about what others wear is one minute you are not doing something useful.
Instead of trying to trick people into thinking you're professional by the 'Constume' you wear, why not convince them you're a professional by working hard and being competant?
I've had no trouble "progessing through life" wearing what I want because I am skilled (not irreplacable), I work hard and I have good social skills. If you think less of me because of how I dress, I can easily turn the table and think of you as small minded and foolish for attempting to con people with your stylish costume.
I agree that if you are customer facing then you should modify how you look because there is no control of how they will judge your appearance. However the assertion that they pay me is silly. We exchange money for work of equal value. I need their money and they need the code that I write. There are PLENTY of jobs where I can code and they don't care if I wear jeans and a tee-shirt. I simply choose not to work for a company who does.
If I do have to have a meeting with a customer however, I will dress up. I'm not unreasonable.
I have great social skills. I wear jeans and a tee-shirt to work. Quite frankly I place no value in the type of people who preen and poke and care what how other people look. I've done quite fantastically in my career by portraying that I am a professional by hard work and being competent, not by the 'Costume' I wear.
Quite frankly, as an engineer, I'd quite insulted if I recieved advancement based on how I dressed. If you choose to associate with those type of shallow people, that is your choice. However I'll stick with people of substance who judge others by their skills and value to society and not at how they look.
Agreed. And my form of control is to quit. Enjoy the expense of getting a new engineer up to speed on the code-base.
I accept control where proper and necessary. My managment tells me when you have my work done and what direction we are going. They also approve my vacation time. These are proper forms of control.
My previous employer (Intel Corp), decided to tell the eng team that they HAD to be at their desks at 8am. (this is a team that often put in 60 hour work weeks). As a team, we all started leaving EXACTLY at 5pm. We would actually walk out together. This quickly ended when they realized that we were not working all the extra time that we were.
Employment is give and take. Company treats employee well and with respect and the employee give the company the best performance they can.
corporate stylist, Melanie Moss
OMG if your job title is corporate stylist you must immediatly proceed to kill whomever gave you that title and then yourself.