it would be better to have a broad array of choices. With a dozen packages on the market, that might mean 11 times out of 12 the bad guys wouldn't exploit our site
1 Staffing and maintaining a single project is no small feat in itself.
2 The smaller the piece of the puzzle that you are trying to replace, the more likely you will be driven towards the same solution.
3 Does even the IT pro have the time and resources to research and test a dozen choices for each of the one hundred, three hundred, or more third party libraries they may need?
Disney didn't write the story in the Lion King, right? It's an age old story. They don't write _any_ of their own stories...even Lilo and Stitch was just something they bought...
The Lion King is a Broadway musical comedy in animated form, rich in music, drama and spectacle.
The live stage adaptation would call on to become a legend in its on right. The geek doesn't have the least understanding of all the elements that must come together to make a theatrical project a success.
There have been countless productions in all media that draw on the same sources as Disney. It surprises me when the geek has heard of any one of them. It surprises me more when he knows the primary sources and can see their limitations.
The Brothers Grimm, for example, collected folk tales that had already been hammered into publishable form by a generation of scholars and enthusiasts, and some would be later retrofitted to serve a nationalistic Germanic folk-myth. Philip Pullman translated fifty of his favorites into modern English, averaging a little less than ten pages each. That's fine for the fireside, but it doesn't work for the theater. Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
The idea was that copyright and patents encouraged people to share information so that it wouldn't be lost.
The idea was to encourage the production of something new --- something that would in the end eclipse the old, a real advance and not a trivial derivative. The geek in 2015 is still willing to put enormous effort into an literal, slavish, fan remake of the fifty-year old Star Trek: TOS.
If you are in the market for something new and less pretentious in space opera, you have to look to Marvel and Disney ---- who could and did take an obscure funny animal character and make him into something far more interesting and entertaining than a Wookie, an Ewok or a Jar-Jar Binks
Then books, movies, and music will continue to be produced and shaped for those who do buy them.
Disney has been taking chances with projects with serious geek cred like Guardians of the Galaxy and Big Hero 6 and been rewarded handsomely in return. You will excuse me if I share some doubts about the geek's commitment to the boycott.
If I were an attacker looking to design the next generation of sophisticated DDoS attacks, the first thing I'd do is post a question to SlashDot asking about the next generation of defenses.
For robotic cars to be successful laws will have to recognize that the passenger is not in control of the vehicle and therefore is not legally responsible or liable for the operation or the results.
Not going to happen unless someone else has to bear the cost of accidents and injuries.
Case 1. Roads are officially closed because of extreme weather conditions or other hazards. The owner fires up his Google Car and takes to the roads anyway.
Case 2. Traffic is unexpectedly diverted to secondary roads, dirt and gravel construction roads, and the like. These are edge cases for the robotic navigation system because many of the visual clues that would aid a human driver are missing or untrustworthy.
In such situations a human may have greater "situational awareness" than the machine.
I think you underestimate the potential demographic of drivers that only need limited access to roads and speeds. The elderly for one.
We have a in-county, go anywhere, subsidized van service for seniors. Round-trip fees max out at $3.
There is adequate cargo space on board for groceries, wheelchairs. walkers and so on. The drivers can provide some assistance with lifting and mobility and know the passengers well enough to respond properly to most emergencies. It is a relaxed and secure way to travel.
She is nothing more than a "feminazi" with a political agenda and she'll seek public attention through shock jock styled reporting that is very often times devoid of fact.
You could make a drinking game of it.
Take a shot for each time a geek shouts out "Feminazi!" in response to Slashdot story about gender issues in tech. Two shots for each high-pitched whine where he sounds like he's just been kicked where it hurts.
Christ, even the asshole nominating him for the least prestigious award in history can't even remember where he landed a probe...
It happens when the only thing the geek remembers are the leather clad babes with guns on his tee shirt.
Maybe it's because I grew up in Pasadena, home of Caltech, mother ship of science nerdery, but I recognized Taylor's type immediately. Take a look at him: the dorky eyeglasses, the beard that's not really hip enough to be hipster, the elaborate tattoos that spill out from under that shirt all the way to Taylor's wrists. The man even had a tattoo of the Rosetta landing needled onto his leg back in January! And garish casual shirts of all kinds are part of his everyday wardrobe. Matt Taylor could be a character in ''The Big Bang Theory.''
And part of Science Nerd culture seems to be that if your brain is big enough, it's OK for you to dress for every single occasion as though you were pondering the theory of relativity while walking your dog. So Matt Taylor donned completely inappropriate wear -- inappropriate because a scientist ought to dress professionally when presenting his work to the public, which is not the same as messing around in a lab.
Playstation owners should demand their money back, NOW! And the rest of you dummies have to stop enabling this practice of requiring a network connection to play a damn game!
The console has long since become more of an Internet-enabled home media center than a single purpose video game player --- and most of the video games these days have a online multiplayer component.
I doubt it's going to change anything, because customers are too used to computers not working. That is the real damage that 30 years of Microsoft dominance have done to the world.
The truth of it is that significant outages are rare considering the size of the Microsoft ecosystem.
The geek posts his rant to Slashdot in the hope that his story will make the front page before service is restored.
Why do these systems need network access to play a game bought on a disk? That is the bigger question, sure I can understand only supporting multiplayer through a centralized service, my issue is with the activation and phone home crap.
Consoles have long since ceased to be video game players alone.
That is why Xbox Live Status posts a breakdown by services and apps.
It is perfectly possible for activation and content management services to be up while multiplayer gaming is down.
That way the scope of these little disasters would be limited.
The geek needs to remember that he pays a high price for these attacks.
"The Lizard Squad" is a perfect fit for the popular stereotype of the eternally-adolescent-and-irresponsible geek, aka the malicious practical joker, the hacker. Each hack chips away at the geek's credibility and political effectiveness where he needs it the most.
OK, early fish could see in colors. And clearly modern birds (and their dino ancestors) can see in color
The mineralized rods and cones in this fossil fish are the first to be found in any vertebrate fossil. The argument for color vision in dinosaurs is more or less based on the theory that if a sexually attractive feather-like structure was colored, a dino must have seen it in color.
Get rid of the sports that cannot measure the success of the competitors using the Olympic motto: higher, faster, stronger. That means no figure skating, no synchronized swimming, and, especially, no more rhythmic gymnastics. Essentially, nothing that requires assigning a number to a performance via a panel of judges.
The motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894."These three words represent a programme of moral beauty. The aesthetics of sport are intangible."
I take that as an explicit rejection of the notion that the human element can be taken out of the equation.
That "higher, faster, stronger" implies an aesthetically pleasing and moral achievement, not merely something which can be captured and understood by examining the clock and camera alone.
Coubertin would go on to say that "The most important thing is not to win but to take part!"
the prevailing opinion remains, that any speech should be allowed and countered only with one's own speech.
That is simply not true.
Free Speech in the states has never been interpreted as a right to libel. To shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
The roots of free speech in American law lie deep in the desire for open and civilized debate over public affairs without fear of governmental interference and reprisals. But there can be no debate if the other side is free to shout you down, take control of the mike, drive you off the stage, threaten your life, your family.
Cory Doctorow has an article in Wired explaining why crafting laws to restrict software is going to hurt us in the long run. The reason? Because we're on an irreversible trajectory toward integrating technology with our cars and houses, bodies and brains. If we don't control the software, then at some point, we won't control parts of our homes and our selves.
The technocrat in every generation sees himself as the undisputed, never-to-be-questioned, master of an irresistible force of nature. It stings when law and society intrudes to set some boundaries of their own.
Thiel also plans to launch a floating sovereign nation in international waters, freeing him and like-minded thinkers to live by libertarian ideals with no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.
Looser "building" codes?
Traditionally, the sailor's greatest fear has always been fire, not water, but there are countless ways a poorly designed and engineered boat can kill you. Not that drowning is a particularly easy way to go.
No welfare? No minimum wage?
The Potemkin School of Maritine Management:
Rampant incompetence at very top, Long hours. Hard Work. Low Pay. Bad food, Unforgiving and hazardous environments. Not a trace of concern for the sick, injured or aging.
No wonder all those upper-class libertarian idealists on board are packing a rod.
Welcome to what happens when you host your content on someone else's systems.
Amazon isn't your host.
It's your printer and publisher --- and both have always had a say in grammar, style and formatting.
The subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, has taken a lot of flack because these mostly self-published (aka vanity press) books have been edited so sloppily they wouldn't pass muster with your high school English teacher.
I can appreciate the energy and enthusiasm that goes into these projects.
But with 85 years of modern science fiction to explore, with excellent examples available to draw upon in from all media, you would think even the die-hard fan would have grown a little weary of gearing up to prduce yet another retread of Star Trek: TOS.
Dover of course used to re-publish the out-of-copyright and out-of-print math and science classics. There was a time when a professor could have a rare out-of-print book, that nobody else could get, and teach an entire class out of that book. Dover put an end to that.
Of course the Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension Act put an end to Dover (or at least their reprint business) by extending the copyright to 100 years after the author's death.
Does anyone ever bother to fact-check their rants before posting them to Slashdot?
The police can set up a road-block and demand that drivers provide a breath test and proof of their license at any time. Isn't that a presumption of guilt rather than innocence?
The "presumption of innocence" is where you begin in a US criminal trial.
It does not define the geek's every encounter with the law.
Driving a car or truck on the public roads is not a right but a privilege. It has never been out-of-bounds to demand proof of your sobriety or a show of your license.
Slashdot Mirror
it would be better to have a broad array of choices. With a dozen packages on the market, that might mean 11 times out of 12 the bad guys wouldn't exploit our site
1 Staffing and maintaining a single project is no small feat in itself.
2 The smaller the piece of the puzzle that you are trying to replace, the more likely you will be driven towards the same solution.
3 Does even the IT pro have the time and resources to research and test a dozen choices for each of the one hundred, three hundred, or more third party libraries they may need?
Disney didn't write the story in the Lion King, right? It's an age old story. They don't write _any_ of their own stories...even Lilo and Stitch was just something they bought...
The Lion King is a Broadway musical comedy in animated form, rich in music, drama and spectacle.
The live stage adaptation would call on to become a legend in its on right. The geek doesn't have the least understanding of all the elements that must come together to make a theatrical project a success.
There have been countless productions in all media that draw on the same sources as Disney. It surprises me when the geek has heard of any one of them. It surprises me more when he knows the primary sources and can see their limitations.
The Brothers Grimm, for example, collected folk tales that had already been hammered into publishable form by a generation of scholars and enthusiasts, and some would be later retrofitted to serve a nationalistic Germanic folk-myth. Philip Pullman translated fifty of his favorites into modern English, averaging a little less than ten pages each. That's fine for the fireside, but it doesn't work for the theater. Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
The idea was that copyright and patents encouraged people to share information so that it wouldn't be lost.
The idea was to encourage the production of something new --- something that would in the end eclipse the old, a real advance and not a trivial derivative. The geek in 2015 is still willing to put enormous effort into an literal, slavish, fan remake of the fifty-year old Star Trek: TOS.
If you are in the market for something new and less pretentious in space opera, you have to look to Marvel and Disney ---- who could and did take an obscure funny animal character and make him into something far more interesting and entertaining than a Wookie, an Ewok or a Jar-Jar Binks
i refuse to buy books, movies and music anymore
Then books, movies, and music will continue to be produced and shaped for those who do buy them.
Disney has been taking chances with projects with serious geek cred like Guardians of the Galaxy and Big Hero 6 and been rewarded handsomely in return. You will excuse me if I share some doubts about the geek's commitment to the boycott.
If I were an attacker looking to design the next generation of sophisticated DDoS attacks, the first thing I'd do is post a question to SlashDot asking about the next generation of defenses.
Too much noise. Not enough signal.
Why does the police need to know who is in a house anyway?
Because it makes the house safer to enter.
You may have played games like SWAT 4 where the tension builds when you don't know who or what lies around the next corner.
For robotic cars to be successful laws will have to recognize that the passenger is not in control of the vehicle and therefore is not legally responsible or liable for the operation or the results.
Not going to happen unless someone else has to bear the cost of accidents and injuries.
Case 1. Roads are officially closed because of extreme weather conditions or other hazards. The owner fires up his Google Car and takes to the roads anyway.
Case 2. Traffic is unexpectedly diverted to secondary roads, dirt and gravel construction roads, and the like. These are edge cases for the robotic navigation system because many of the visual clues that would aid a human driver are missing or untrustworthy.
In such situations a human may have greater "situational awareness" than the machine.
I think you underestimate the potential demographic of drivers that only need limited access to roads and speeds. The elderly for one.
We have a in-county, go anywhere, subsidized van service for seniors. Round-trip fees max out at $3.
There is adequate cargo space on board for groceries, wheelchairs. walkers and so on. The drivers can provide some assistance with lifting and mobility and know the passengers well enough to respond properly to most emergencies. It is a relaxed and secure way to travel.
She is nothing more than a "feminazi" with a political agenda and she'll seek public attention through shock jock styled reporting that is very often times devoid of fact.
You could make a drinking game of it.
Take a shot for each time a geek shouts out "Feminazi!" in response to Slashdot story about gender issues in tech. Two shots for each high-pitched whine where he sounds like he's just been kicked where it hurts.
Christ, even the asshole nominating him for the least prestigious award in history can't even remember where he landed a probe...
It happens when the only thing the geek remembers are the leather clad babes with guns on his tee shirt.
Maybe it's because I grew up in Pasadena, home of Caltech, mother ship of science nerdery, but I recognized Taylor's type immediately. Take a look at him: the dorky eyeglasses, the beard that's not really hip enough to be hipster, the elaborate tattoos that spill out from under that shirt all the way to Taylor's wrists. The man even had a tattoo of the Rosetta landing needled onto his leg back in January! And garish casual shirts of all kinds are part of his everyday wardrobe. Matt Taylor could be a character in ''The Big Bang Theory.''
And part of Science Nerd culture seems to be that if your brain is big enough, it's OK for you to dress for every single occasion as though you were pondering the theory of relativity while walking your dog. So Matt Taylor donned completely inappropriate wear -- inappropriate because a scientist ought to dress professionally when presenting his work to the public, which is not the same as messing around in a lab.
The real problem with Rosetta scientist's inappropriate shirt
''Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.''
and never do business with Kim Dotcom.
You mean "script kiddies" who are desperate for attention.
Fine distinctions of this sort may still matter to the geek, but no one else gives a damn any more.
Playstation owners should demand their money back, NOW! And the rest of you dummies have to stop enabling this practice of requiring a network connection to play a damn game!
The console has long since become more of an Internet-enabled home media center than a single purpose video game player --- and most of the video games these days have a online multiplayer component.
They haven't taken over 3000 Tor relays - they have set up 3000 new relays of their own, thus having control of over 50% of the available relays.
If you capture over half of the traffic that moves over Tor haven't you for all practical purposes taken control of the network?
I doubt it's going to change anything, because customers are too used to computers not working. That is the real damage that 30 years of Microsoft dominance have done to the world.
The truth of it is that significant outages are rare considering the size of the Microsoft ecosystem.
The geek posts his rant to Slashdot in the hope that his story will make the front page before service is restored.
Why do these systems need network access to play a game bought on a disk? That is the bigger question, sure I can understand only supporting multiplayer through a centralized service, my issue is with the activation and phone home crap.
Consoles have long since ceased to be video game players alone.
That is why Xbox Live Status posts a breakdown by services and apps.
It is perfectly possible for activation and content management services to be up while multiplayer gaming is down.
That way the scope of these little disasters would be limited.
The geek needs to remember that he pays a high price for these attacks.
"The Lizard Squad" is a perfect fit for the popular stereotype of the eternally-adolescent-and-irresponsible geek, aka the malicious practical joker, the hacker. Each hack chips away at the geek's credibility and political effectiveness where he needs it the most.
OK, early fish could see in colors. And clearly modern birds (and their dino ancestors) can see in color
The mineralized rods and cones in this fossil fish are the first to be found in any vertebrate fossil. The argument for color vision in dinosaurs is more or less based on the theory that if a sexually attractive feather-like structure was colored, a dino must have seen it in color.
Get rid of the sports that cannot measure the success of the competitors using the Olympic motto: higher, faster, stronger. That means no figure skating, no synchronized swimming, and, especially, no more rhythmic gymnastics. Essentially, nothing that requires assigning a number to a performance via a panel of judges.
The motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894."These three words represent a programme of moral beauty. The aesthetics of sport are intangible."
I take that as an explicit rejection of the notion that the human element can be taken out of the equation.
That "higher, faster, stronger" implies an aesthetically pleasing and moral achievement, not merely something which can be captured and understood by examining the clock and camera alone.
Coubertin would go on to say that "The most important thing is not to win but to take part!"
Olympic symbols
the prevailing opinion remains, that any speech should be allowed and countered only with one's own speech.
That is simply not true.
Free Speech in the states has never been interpreted as a right to libel. To shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
The roots of free speech in American law lie deep in the desire for open and civilized debate over public affairs without fear of governmental interference and reprisals. But there can be no debate if the other side is free to shout you down, take control of the mike, drive you off the stage, threaten your life, your family.
Cory Doctorow has an article in Wired explaining why crafting laws to restrict software is going to hurt us in the long run. The reason?
Because we're on an irreversible trajectory toward integrating technology with our cars and houses, bodies and brains. If we don't control the software, then at some point, we won't control parts of our homes and our selves.
The technocrat in every generation sees himself as the undisputed, never-to-be-questioned, master of an irresistible force of nature. It stings when law and society intrudes to set some boundaries of their own.
Thiel also plans to launch a floating sovereign nation in international waters, freeing him and like-minded thinkers to live by libertarian ideals with no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.
Looser "building" codes?
Traditionally, the sailor's greatest fear has always been fire, not water, but there are countless ways a poorly designed and engineered boat can kill you. Not that drowning is a particularly easy way to go.
No welfare? No minimum wage?
The Potemkin School of Maritine Management:
Rampant incompetence at very top, Long hours. Hard Work. Low Pay. Bad food, Unforgiving and hazardous environments. Not a trace of concern for the sick, injured or aging.
No wonder all those upper-class libertarian idealists on board are packing a rod.
Welcome to what happens when you host your content on someone else's systems.
Amazon isn't your host.
It's your printer and publisher --- and both have always had a say in grammar, style and formatting.
The subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, has taken a lot of flack because these mostly self-published (aka vanity press) books have been edited so sloppily they wouldn't pass muster with your high school English teacher.
It would seem that all of their sets are based on the original set plans which were designed for the 4:3 aspect ratio.
I posted earlier about my own growing weariness with fan remakes of Star Trek: TOS.
This slavish obsession with recreating the original sets with all their flaws and limitations being one of the reasons.
I can appreciate the energy and enthusiasm that goes into these projects.
But with 85 years of modern science fiction to explore, with excellent examples available to draw upon in from all media, you would think even the die-hard fan would have grown a little weary of gearing up to prduce yet another retread of Star Trek: TOS.
Dover of course used to re-publish the out-of-copyright and out-of-print math and science classics. There was a time when a professor could have a rare out-of-print book, that nobody else could get, and teach an entire class out of that book. Dover put an end to that.
Of course the Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension Act put an end to Dover (or at least their reprint business) by extending the copyright to 100 years after the author's death.
Does anyone ever bother to fact-check their rants before posting them to Slashdot?
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The police can set up a road-block and demand that drivers provide a breath test and proof of their license at any time. Isn't that a presumption of guilt rather than innocence?
The "presumption of innocence" is where you begin in a US criminal trial.
It does not define the geek's every encounter with the law.
Driving a car or truck on the public roads is not a right but a privilege. It has never been out-of-bounds to demand proof of your sobriety or a show of your license.