The precedent from the Nuremberg trials is that if you participate in the military aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq, this makes you a war criminal. Indeed the Nuremberg defense that you are following superior orders doesn't even apply because you are going there voluntarily.
And while I don't believe you will be held accountable for your crimes in a court of law, I see no compelling reason for you to do this. It is dangerous. As others have said you can work in plenty of countries. You can also find many lines of work like financial planning that only require minimal additional training and certification.
So my advice is there are plenty of other better opportunities to pursue, and you would be wrong for doing it. So your proposed plan of action is completely illogical.
In the 200,000 years of human history the most import event occurred 325 years ago when Newton wrote Principia. The world changed more in the last 325 years than the preceding 200,000.
The lives of people in Newton's time where more like cavemen than modern men. Indeed many people effectively where cavemen in Newton's time. When Newton was a kid he went away to school. Because his school was five miles from his parents house! Do you live within five miles of your job? Or do you perhaps do a lot of telecommuting?
To be fair, the world was already changing and would have kept moving forward either way. But in the book "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History" Newton came in second. (As you can guess, I think he was robbed.) Now, in the Newton section, the phrase "this accomplishment along would have put him in the 100" appeared about four times. Calculus was invented independently without him by Leibniz. From there it probably would have taken another 100 to 200 years for it to find itself applied to physics and have all of his laws rediscovered. So if Newton had not lived, you would not be on Slashdot right now.
The most logical thing to do would be for the US government to commission the creation of free textbooks. Since they buy the books for poor students, they would recover their costs very quickly.
The fact that you have to pay much for any grade school or high school book is silly. A fourth grade math textbook can be written once and once then it just needs to have a few cultural references updated every twenty years. A history or science book will need more updates. But those could mostly be produced for free for students working on their Education doctorates, teachers earning continuing education credits, or other volunteers submitting small changes wiki style.
Maybe they sold the remaining stock of WebOS tablets cheap to prime interest from geeks and get on Slashdot. And now that they have our attention they want to take on Android. While Android is open source, Google has lost their rep with on Geeks on purity. Everyone thinks of Android as Big Brother in your pocket. If they are smart they can make WebOS, the mobile phone platform that RMS can approve of. And then they'd have something of value.
I agree that it sucks that people have ten minutes pay docked because they took a dump at the wrong time. But why do you think people tolerate it? Because they are desperate for work.
On the other hand, you do have a good point. The reason these things happen is that people too many people have drank the capitalist Kool-Aid and won't show solidarity with their workers. Remember, people DIED for the forty hour work week. And computer workers today are so spineless and weak that they gave that away for no reason.
I'm pretty excited for when Voyager crashes into the wall at the edge of creation. Then all the angels will fly in and all the sinners who believe in dinosaurs will be SOORRRY.
If a lot of people know about the vaccine, it will be harder for them to do that. So be reassured that you know about it. If you are afraid of weaponization, and want to do something about it, post this story on your blog/Facebook. I actually predict most countries are going to stay within the Biological Weapons Convention.
Slashdot, are you saying that you are trying to emulate the functions of StackOverflow?
What's the deal with the sponsors? Are you saying Oracle (for example) is going to have some expert answer common Java questions in a slashvertisement/tech support type thing?
TV used to be great; when it was free. After they went digital, it is almost impossible to get a signal over the airwaves that creates watchable television. When it was analog, you could watch free television almost anywhere, if you didn't mind a little snow.
Nowadays, you have to pay for tv on top of paying for internet (and you still generally end up watching ads). So the problem is that I want free tv. Especially if it has advertising.
Their biggest problem is that they are about to lose Google funding. It would make sense for Google to pay Firefox to put revenue into their search engine product, except they don't want to because they compete with their web browser product.
So Firefox's problem is that Google has a conflict of interest born of the fact that they have two products in two arenas. However, Mozilla cannot really seek a legal remedy to their problem, because the market has give Google access to far more lawyer man-hours than Mozilla can ever hope to have.
While Google has made a very nice browser, the title of this article is "Will Firefox Lose Google Funding?" So this is a story about free market abuses, not the beauty of the free market system. Indeed, if Google somehow decided to maintain their contract with Mozilla, Google (and all browser makers) would have a greater incentive to make a better browser.
I don't think PC's or open source software will die from cheap hardware. They'll all thrive.
I don't think walled gardens can be imposed in a world of $100 PC's any more than you can pay force people to pay for OS's when the machines are so cheap. Tablets and smart phones are new. Of course they are dominated by for-profit companies. When the phones get cheap enough, phone companies won't have that leverage to get you into contracts.
And when the tablet/smart phone OS war is over, open source phones will be developed pretty quickly and will probably take over quickly. After all, people don't do much serious work on their tablets/smart phones. So a GNU phone can easily be made and all popular software can be made for it. And there will be another company like HTC, that will be happy to start making them.
Just a nit. Facebook is not publicly traded. Which is actually a stroke of brilliance. Without Wall Street to answer to, the strategy can stay far-sighted. Zuckerberg might become the richest man in the world.
However, even if they go public, it is possible for a publicly traded company to not grow but just be profitable. You can shut shareholders up with dividends.
I think Slashdot eds are being a little too sensitive. They didn't sue Slashdot or harm it, they simply claimed in a patent that they devised a better system. While I think software patents are dumb, I don't think creating a different system and saying why you think it's better is much of a problem.
It is well known that IT staff are hated. If you telecommute you are only known for the tasks you perform. Which can be valued. If you are invisible at a personal level, no one develops feelings about you except for an abstract understanding of the value you add. This also frees you of concerns about office politics, which gives you time to perform additional work.
In classic mechanics, the universe is held to be deterministic, so nothing is "truly random." But in quantum mechanics there is uncertainty, so true randomness does exist.
P.S. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is actually a mathematical theorem. So assuming you believe in mathematics, you should only reject quantum uncertainty if the underlying premise that energy exists in discrete quantities does such violence to your intuitions, that you cannot accept the mountains of empirical evidence in its favor. But if that is the case you are saying that energy exists at infinitely discrete increments. But this just reintroduces the idea that energy levels can be unknowable.
I think they have a couple problems. First their library isn't great. It's $8 a month for all the b movies you can watch. They'd be better off raising the prices and consistently having new movies in stock. Indeed, I hope they are going unprofitable to get more content.
I think their second problem is that if you have cable, your On Demand is probably as good as Netflix and if you get a premium channel, it comes with an On Demand that blows Netflix out of the water.
I wish Netflix was going to give the cable companies a run for their money. I think it would be great if the service provider wasn't so tied to the content providers, but I guess Netflix isn't in a position to take them on at this time.
So that video of a bunch of soldiers killing people for no reason was put in the hands of some random 23 year old. He released it, and now they want to charge the 23 year old with "aiding the enemy" which is a capital crime, along with 22 other charges. And they put him in solitary confinement while awaiting trial.
Well at least they are giving him a trial instead of just executing him.
What's the difference? What is the difference between something being a "mathematical description of reality" and being real? I mean you can go back and forth between if numbers are real, etc. Have they discovered something "more real" than they previously thought?
I mean this sounds pretty good. Do you really think you have work place privacy anyway? There is plenty of psychological data to show that managers are more obnoxious than underlings. Personally, I'm pretty agreeable and don't seek interaction with others anyway. I would love it if my boss didn't bother me during off hours for stupid reasons. I now want to work for Microsoft.
They aren't "energy companies." They are mining companies that mine fossil fuels. That is why they will never be involved in renewable resources. It just has nothing to do with their core business. When the Earth runs out of things for them to mine, they'll just have to try to mine the moon.
A lot of problems rating developer productivity. First, if a system is that good, then managers won't be able to game it to play favorites. Second, writing code for future use is always harder than writing code specific to the problem. Third, almost any metric is going to penalize a simpler solution. (Keep in mind that once you see a simple solution it seems obvious and everyone thinks they'd think of it. Fourth, evaluating developers well would require making the best coders managers, and that rarely happens for several reasons.
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I mean, really. Occupy Flash? A) Adobe admitted that HTML5 is the future, and B) you need something better to occupy your time.
While I agree that HTML5 is better than Flash, it is pretty surprising that they are going down without a fight, and doing so early in the process. I would think they would drum it up as long as possible so they could sell off their stocks. After all plenty of businesses use Flex, and they aren't going to re-factor anytime soon. Likewise, old browsers with bad HTML5 support are not going away soon?
Do they perhaps think that Flash/Flex can out compete HTML5 if they open source it? Do they think Flex development will be a good gateway to AIR development? I guess I just don't get the strategy.
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The precedent from the Nuremberg trials is that if you participate in the military aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq, this makes you a war criminal. Indeed the Nuremberg defense that you are following superior orders doesn't even apply because you are going there voluntarily.
And while I don't believe you will be held accountable for your crimes in a court of law, I see no compelling reason for you to do this. It is dangerous. As others have said you can work in plenty of countries. You can also find many lines of work like financial planning that only require minimal additional training and certification.
So my advice is there are plenty of other better opportunities to pursue, and you would be wrong for doing it. So your proposed plan of action is completely illogical.
In the 200,000 years of human history the most import event occurred 325 years ago when Newton wrote Principia. The world changed more in the last 325 years than the preceding 200,000.
The lives of people in Newton's time where more like cavemen than modern men. Indeed many people effectively where cavemen in Newton's time. When Newton was a kid he went away to school. Because his school was five miles from his parents house! Do you live within five miles of your job? Or do you perhaps do a lot of telecommuting?
To be fair, the world was already changing and would have kept moving forward either way. But in the book "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History" Newton came in second. (As you can guess, I think he was robbed.) Now, in the Newton section, the phrase "this accomplishment along would have put him in the 100" appeared about four times. Calculus was invented independently without him by Leibniz. From there it probably would have taken another 100 to 200 years for it to find itself applied to physics and have all of his laws rediscovered. So if Newton had not lived, you would not be on Slashdot right now.
The most logical thing to do would be for the US government to commission the creation of free textbooks. Since they buy the books for poor students, they would recover their costs very quickly.
The fact that you have to pay much for any grade school or high school book is silly. A fourth grade math textbook can be written once and once then it just needs to have a few cultural references updated every twenty years. A history or science book will need more updates. But those could mostly be produced for free for students working on their Education doctorates, teachers earning continuing education credits, or other volunteers submitting small changes wiki style.
Maybe they sold the remaining stock of WebOS tablets cheap to prime interest from geeks and get on Slashdot. And now that they have our attention they want to take on Android. While Android is open source, Google has lost their rep with on Geeks on purity. Everyone thinks of Android as Big Brother in your pocket. If they are smart they can make WebOS, the mobile phone platform that RMS can approve of. And then they'd have something of value.
Watson can just file all the patents before humans can think of them.
From there it can invent a machine that is more smarter than itself.
I agree that it sucks that people have ten minutes pay docked because they took a dump at the wrong time. But why do you think people tolerate it? Because they are desperate for work.
On the other hand, you do have a good point. The reason these things happen is that people too many people have drank the capitalist Kool-Aid and won't show solidarity with their workers. Remember, people DIED for the forty hour work week. And computer workers today are so spineless and weak that they gave that away for no reason.
I'm pretty excited for when Voyager crashes into the wall at the edge of creation. Then all the angels will fly in and all the sinners who believe in dinosaurs will be SOORRRY.
If a lot of people know about the vaccine, it will be harder for them to do that. So be reassured that you know about it. If you are afraid of weaponization, and want to do something about it, post this story on your blog/Facebook. I actually predict most countries are going to stay within the Biological Weapons Convention.
Slashdot, are you saying that you are trying to emulate the functions of StackOverflow?
What's the deal with the sponsors? Are you saying Oracle (for example) is going to have some expert answer common Java questions in a slashvertisement/tech support type thing?
TV used to be great; when it was free. After they went digital, it is almost impossible to get a signal over the airwaves that creates watchable television. When it was analog, you could watch free television almost anywhere, if you didn't mind a little snow.
Nowadays, you have to pay for tv on top of paying for internet (and you still generally end up watching ads). So the problem is that I want free tv. Especially if it has advertising.
Their biggest problem is that they are about to lose Google funding. It would make sense for Google to pay Firefox to put revenue into their search engine product, except they don't want to because they compete with their web browser product.
So Firefox's problem is that Google has a conflict of interest born of the fact that they have two products in two arenas. However, Mozilla cannot really seek a legal remedy to their problem, because the market has give Google access to far more lawyer man-hours than Mozilla can ever hope to have.
While Google has made a very nice browser, the title of this article is "Will Firefox Lose Google Funding?" So this is a story about free market abuses, not the beauty of the free market system. Indeed, if Google somehow decided to maintain their contract with Mozilla, Google (and all browser makers) would have a greater incentive to make a better browser.
I don't think PC's or open source software will die from cheap hardware. They'll all thrive.
I don't think walled gardens can be imposed in a world of $100 PC's any more than you can pay force people to pay for OS's when the machines are so cheap. Tablets and smart phones are new. Of course they are dominated by for-profit companies. When the phones get cheap enough, phone companies won't have that leverage to get you into contracts.
And when the tablet/smart phone OS war is over, open source phones will be developed pretty quickly and will probably take over quickly. After all, people don't do much serious work on their tablets/smart phones. So a GNU phone can easily be made and all popular software can be made for it. And there will be another company like HTC, that will be happy to start making them.
Just a nit. Facebook is not publicly traded. Which is actually a stroke of brilliance. Without Wall Street to answer to, the strategy can stay far-sighted. Zuckerberg might become the richest man in the world.
However, even if they go public, it is possible for a publicly traded company to not grow but just be profitable. You can shut shareholders up with dividends.
I think Slashdot eds are being a little too sensitive. They didn't sue Slashdot or harm it, they simply claimed in a patent that they devised a better system. While I think software patents are dumb, I don't think creating a different system and saying why you think it's better is much of a problem.
It is well known that IT staff are hated. If you telecommute you are only known for the tasks you perform. Which can be valued. If you are invisible at a personal level, no one develops feelings about you except for an abstract understanding of the value you add. This also frees you of concerns about office politics, which gives you time to perform additional work.
In classic mechanics, the universe is held to be deterministic, so nothing is "truly random." But in quantum mechanics there is uncertainty, so true randomness does exist.
P.S. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is actually a mathematical theorem. So assuming you believe in mathematics, you should only reject quantum uncertainty if the underlying premise that energy exists in discrete quantities does such violence to your intuitions, that you cannot accept the mountains of empirical evidence in its favor. But if that is the case you are saying that energy exists at infinitely discrete increments. But this just reintroduces the idea that energy levels can be unknowable.
I think they have a couple problems. First their library isn't great. It's $8 a month for all the b movies you can watch. They'd be better off raising the prices and consistently having new movies in stock. Indeed, I hope they are going unprofitable to get more content.
I think their second problem is that if you have cable, your On Demand is probably as good as Netflix and if you get a premium channel, it comes with an On Demand that blows Netflix out of the water.
I wish Netflix was going to give the cable companies a run for their money. I think it would be great if the service provider wasn't so tied to the content providers, but I guess Netflix isn't in a position to take them on at this time.
So that video of a bunch of soldiers killing people for no reason was put in the hands of some random 23 year old. He released it, and now they want to charge the 23 year old with "aiding the enemy" which is a capital crime, along with 22 other charges. And they put him in solitary confinement while awaiting trial.
Well at least they are giving him a trial instead of just executing him.
What's the difference? What is the difference between something being a "mathematical description of reality" and being real? I mean you can go back and forth between if numbers are real, etc. Have they discovered something "more real" than they previously thought?
I mean this sounds pretty good. Do you really think you have work place privacy anyway? There is plenty of psychological data to show that managers are more obnoxious than underlings. Personally, I'm pretty agreeable and don't seek interaction with others anyway. I would love it if my boss didn't bother me during off hours for stupid reasons. I now want to work for Microsoft.
They aren't "energy companies." They are mining companies that mine fossil fuels. That is why they will never be involved in renewable resources. It just has nothing to do with their core business. When the Earth runs out of things for them to mine, they'll just have to try to mine the moon.
A lot of problems rating developer productivity. First, if a system is that good, then managers won't be able to game it to play favorites. Second, writing code for future use is always harder than writing code specific to the problem. Third, almost any metric is going to penalize a simpler solution. (Keep in mind that once you see a simple solution it seems obvious and everyone thinks they'd think of it. Fourth, evaluating developers well would require making the best coders managers, and that rarely happens for several reasons.
I mean, really. Occupy Flash? A) Adobe admitted that HTML5 is the future, and B) you need something better to occupy your time.
Steve Jobs Wanted an iPhone-Only Wireless Network, but now he's dead. So who had the last laugh?
While I agree that HTML5 is better than Flash, it is pretty surprising that they are going down without a fight, and doing so early in the process. I would think they would drum it up as long as possible so they could sell off their stocks. After all plenty of businesses use Flex, and they aren't going to re-factor anytime soon. Likewise, old browsers with bad HTML5 support are not going away soon?
Do they perhaps think that Flash/Flex can out compete HTML5 if they open source it? Do they think Flex development will be a good gateway to AIR development? I guess I just don't get the strategy.