Right. And then next year when some maniac makes the same device, only this time attaches a block of C4 to it, who will you hold responsible when it blows up a few dozen of your fellow citizens?
Tell ya what, give me your address and I'll personally drop off a package at your front door. Then you can try and figure out whether it's got explosives in it or not. For added fun, you can also try and figure out whether it's wired to a pressure or mercury switch that'll set it off if you try to move it. Maybe one of your kids will see it first, before you even get home. Then you'll have the pleasure of explaining to the media how happy you are that your kid was the one who detonated it, instead of those silly cops over-reacting and sending in the bomb-squad.
This kind of action is only considered an "over-reaction" when it turns out to be a false alarm.
Living in a country where people like you overpopulate and elect our current batch of public officials makes me want to plant bombs. Unfortunately, the worst side effect of terrorism (and this is where they truly win) is that their actions empower and embolden the right wing hardasses. It's like chinese finger cuffs. The only way to get out of them is to relax. So: (petting the back of your head) there there, nothing bad is going to happen to you honey. It'll be okay. There there.
I agree with you up to the point of stating "Second: nobody should place devices such as this in public places where they can cause a nuisance like this"
I would rather like to think that putting homemade electronic signs in public is part of protected free speech.
A homemade electronic device may look out of the ordinary to your average citizen, but that should not prevent your out of the ordinary citizens from expressing themselves.
The use of homemade electronics in public should be normalized by continued and repeated exposure, rather than scandalized.
The thing I'm worried about is some who are speculating that this means if you have work files on your home computer, then you have no reasonable expectation of privacy because your computer is now the same as a work laptop. My company's IT policy implies this and I'm sure in a random sampling of judges, you would find one that would rule this way.
I was expecting comments like this, the minute that I saw the article.
While I am extremely impressed by your ability to set up a home server, I think the category of nerd (not used in the derogatory fashion) that you are and the category of nerd of the question asker, are completely different.
Yes, taking a spare computer and setting up host is leet. It's pretty badass. But it's pretty obvious by the question itself that the poster is not capable of doing that. They have probably never compiled a line of code in their life, much less written a little routine to spit out an rss feed.
They may be inexperienced in that route, but the poster is smart enough to know that someone else has probably already created a simple solution to their problem and probably has a "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" web solution. I almost think that's even more elite. The poster gets what they want without writing a single line of code. How's that for a programming language.
I think that there should be room in slashdot for people who like and use technology without going under the hood too deeply, as well as the normal slashdot crowd of programmers, IT people, EEs, and pr0n hounds. I guess that's asking a little too much though.
well the mpaa and riaa might have been itching to pick on poor little youtube but do they wanna pick a fight with google? i expect google will force these companies to deal with it and accept the internet isn't gonna go away (and share some ad revenue)
Or they will force YouTube to deal with it. Either way, the infernet won't go away.
The interview with the QA manager went OK even though I kept asking myself if I wanted to work with someone who has a mohawk and body piercings (not exactly uber-professional).
Actually the person with a mowhawk WAS being professional. They were getting paid to do their job, making them professional. Their employer decided to evaluate them based upon their abilities, not what culture that person was a part of.
Attire cannot tell you a person's value as a worker. Sloppy dressers can be detail-oriented. Worse than that is many people learn to dress well, but are actually horrible workers.
To the main point of your post, I agree. You cannot run a company by it's marketing department. You can also not run a company without letting the marketing department have input and decision making into the product.
I'm actually a big fan of the four foot high wall with another three feet of glass. Depth of field which lets me see the windows is a big deal.
I know where you're coming from with the 8 foot tall walls, (i.e. privacy, sense of personal space) but I do better with shorter walls that let me see over them.
Poster should ask their employees what they would like.
I would concur. The "I demand something for nothing crowd" is a very small percentage of the internet surfing population. Besides, what good would it do to show an ad to a cynic?
Would you like your waiter to try and convince you to change your order because they don't think it's right to eat lamb?
I damn well DO wish that my waiter would let me know if they think an item is gross and that there is a better item on the menu. I usally ask the waiter if it's any good first. To continue the analogy even further, the waiter DOES promote the daily specials.
The lasers and chip to chip interconnects will be sealed. You couldn't use open air transmission because the placement error of two chips would keep the alignment of the signal from being effective.
This isn't for the AC kook. This is for anyone else who is actually interested. I'm just a guy, who lives in a house that wanted to make a difference by spreading awareness. You don't get rich selling magnetic ribbons unless you're wallmart.
I've got a huge pile (>300) of magnetic ribbons that say "Demand Open Source Voting" that I will GIVE away to someone that can prove they will use it as a fundraising premium to fight for open sourced voting initiatives (Or equivalent) I've offered it to Blackbox Voting and a couple of other groups to no avail. I just want them to be gone and to have them affect the world in a positive way
RibbonsJust email opensource at pomosideshow dot com.
Heaven forbid we care about our friends and family that aren't computer literate. Heaven forbid those of us who are responsible for networks at work might want to educate those who use our networks. Heaven forbid we educate those rubes who subsidize all of our technological fetishes.
Anyone spouting "ah kin put wut ah like in muh body" crap has never been addicted to anything, and never had to have friends, family and loved ones suffer with the side effects of that addiction.
So, if I've been addicted to multiple substances and had family members and friends who have died or worse (live a long and frustrating life), does that mean that your argument is null and void? I happen to still feal that I can put whatever I want in my body. Just because someone can mess up their life and yours in the process doesn't mean we should remove their ability to do it.
I wish I could mod you down for being a rude jackass. Or at least for trying to link 5th graders and stoners.
I've got some stoner logic for you "Woah man, what if there was, like, this kind of person who was really smart, and like totally understood math and science concepts, but like, is totally stupid when it comes to dealing with people. Like they're just plain condescending and rude."
On the other hand, your logic for the existance of macro or micro organisms holds weight.
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I know where you are coming from. I once applied for a job selling knives until I saw them cut a penny with the kitchen shears and then proceded to shove a clipboard in my face. They wanted the names of friends and family BEFORE I was even offered a "position". (Naturally I left the interview).
The other side of this story, is that there are some families who actually want a decent set of knives (yes, the knives were very nice).
An informal poll of my office revealed that about 80% have never heard of Firefox (What you say? What sort of unintelligent rubes do I work with? I work with some pretty damn smart engineers that have families and social lives and barely spend time on the internet except to download a datasheet). I have non-technical friends who have also never heard of firefox. Nobody's asking you to try and win over people who will get annoyed. There is a lot of momentum that can be gained for this and all open source movements before IE7 is released and most of the FF features are rendered "meh" to the casual internet user.
If you can't think of someone who you can convince to switch without a hassle, then don't try. No one is going to think less of you. You are probably already surrounded by intelligent proactive people. If there's an aunt or coworker who would shit there pants if they saw tabbed browsing or any of the awesome extensions that have been written, then drop them a line. I personally think it would be cool to have my name in source code without having to worry about getting a phone call three years later.
Illustrator CS2 has added an amazing raster to vector conversion tool. It was so-so up until CS2, but if you're trying to vectorize a photograph or drawing, it really is the bees knees.
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Tell ya what, give me your address and I'll personally drop off a package at your front door. Then you can try and figure out whether it's got explosives in it or not. For added fun, you can also try and figure out whether it's wired to a pressure or mercury switch that'll set it off if you try to move it. Maybe one of your kids will see it first, before you even get home. Then you'll have the pleasure of explaining to the media how happy you are that your kid was the one who detonated it, instead of those silly cops over-reacting and sending in the bomb-squad.
This kind of action is only considered an "over-reaction" when it turns out to be a false alarm.
Living in a country where people like you overpopulate and elect our current batch of public officials makes me want to plant bombs. Unfortunately, the worst side effect of terrorism (and this is where they truly win) is that their actions empower and embolden the right wing hardasses. It's like chinese finger cuffs. The only way to get out of them is to relax. So: (petting the back of your head) there there, nothing bad is going to happen to you honey. It'll be okay. There there.
I would rather like to think that putting homemade electronic signs in public is part of protected free speech. A homemade electronic device may look out of the ordinary to your average citizen, but that should not prevent your out of the ordinary citizens from expressing themselves.
The use of homemade electronics in public should be normalized by continued and repeated exposure, rather than scandalized.
The thing I'm worried about is some who are speculating that this means if you have work files on your home computer, then you have no reasonable expectation of privacy because your computer is now the same as a work laptop. My company's IT policy implies this and I'm sure in a random sampling of judges, you would find one that would rule this way.
FM Radio doesn't suck in totality. Just visit those stations to the left of the dial.
While I am extremely impressed by your ability to set up a home server, I think the category of nerd (not used in the derogatory fashion) that you are and the category of nerd of the question asker, are completely different.
Yes, taking a spare computer and setting up host is leet. It's pretty badass. But it's pretty obvious by the question itself that the poster is not capable of doing that. They have probably never compiled a line of code in their life, much less written a little routine to spit out an rss feed.
They may be inexperienced in that route, but the poster is smart enough to know that someone else has probably already created a simple solution to their problem and probably has a "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" web solution. I almost think that's even more elite. The poster gets what they want without writing a single line of code. How's that for a programming language.
I think that there should be room in slashdot for people who like and use technology without going under the hood too deeply, as well as the normal slashdot crowd of programmers, IT people, EEs, and pr0n hounds. I guess that's asking a little too much though.
Or they will force YouTube to deal with it. Either way, the infernet won't go away.
Actually the person with a mowhawk WAS being professional. They were getting paid to do their job, making them professional. Their employer decided to evaluate them based upon their abilities, not what culture that person was a part of.
Attire cannot tell you a person's value as a worker. Sloppy dressers can be detail-oriented. Worse than that is many people learn to dress well, but are actually horrible workers.
To the main point of your post, I agree. You cannot run a company by it's marketing department. You can also not run a company without letting the marketing department have input and decision making into the product.
I know where you're coming from with the 8 foot tall walls, (i.e. privacy, sense of personal space) but I do better with shorter walls that let me see over them.
Poster should ask their employees what they would like.
I would concur. The "I demand something for nothing crowd" is a very small percentage of the internet surfing population. Besides, what good would it do to show an ad to a cynic?
NOW, whose the fucktard?
I can't even imagine a world with eugenics that purge everyone but linux users. Luckily it wouldn't make it to the second generation.
I damn well DO wish that my waiter would let me know if they think an item is gross and that there is a better item on the menu. I usally ask the waiter if it's any good first. To continue the analogy even further, the waiter DOES promote the daily specials.
The lasers and chip to chip interconnects will be sealed. You couldn't use open air transmission because the placement error of two chips would keep the alignment of the signal from being effective.
This isn't for the AC kook. This is for anyone else who is actually interested. I'm just a guy, who lives in a house that wanted to make a difference by spreading awareness. You don't get rich selling magnetic ribbons unless you're wallmart.
Yes, I get that a lot.
RibbonsJust email opensource at pomosideshow dot com.
Heaven forbid we care about our friends and family that aren't computer literate. Heaven forbid those of us who are responsible for networks at work might want to educate those who use our networks. Heaven forbid we educate those rubes who subsidize all of our technological fetishes.
So, if I've been addicted to multiple substances and had family members and friends who have died or worse (live a long and frustrating life), does that mean that your argument is null and void? I happen to still feal that I can put whatever I want in my body. Just because someone can mess up their life and yours in the process doesn't mean we should remove their ability to do it.
I've got some stoner logic for you "Woah man, what if there was, like, this kind of person who was really smart, and like totally understood math and science concepts, but like, is totally stupid when it comes to dealing with people. Like they're just plain condescending and rude."
On the other hand, your logic for the existance of macro or micro organisms holds weight.
The other side of this story, is that there are some families who actually want a decent set of knives (yes, the knives were very nice).
An informal poll of my office revealed that about 80% have never heard of Firefox (What you say? What sort of unintelligent rubes do I work with? I work with some pretty damn smart engineers that have families and social lives and barely spend time on the internet except to download a datasheet). I have non-technical friends who have also never heard of firefox. Nobody's asking you to try and win over people who will get annoyed. There is a lot of momentum that can be gained for this and all open source movements before IE7 is released and most of the FF features are rendered "meh" to the casual internet user.
If you can't think of someone who you can convince to switch without a hassle, then don't try. No one is going to think less of you. You are probably already surrounded by intelligent proactive people. If there's an aunt or coworker who would shit there pants if they saw tabbed browsing or any of the awesome extensions that have been written, then drop them a line. I personally think it would be cool to have my name in source code without having to worry about getting a phone call three years later.
Wait. I thought that propaganda was DHS's job.
Maybe her and Pia Zidora (sp?) can star in a movie together.
Speaking of Misss Spellings, how is old Tori doing? She must be taking her dad's death hard.
Illustrator CS2 has added an amazing raster to vector conversion tool. It was so-so up until CS2, but if you're trying to vectorize a photograph or drawing, it really is the bees knees.
'nuff said.
But isn't it? Lots of things that are perfectly fine to do are outlawed by another non-participating section of the populace.