A private organisation banning you is no more suppressing free speech than me calling the police to remove you if you're camped out on my front lawn yelling slogans through a megaphone at 3am.
In some cases it's like that, in some cases it's not, it depends on why you were banned. Banning all Democrats is not like that at all.
Most of the people I know who are homeless aren't as bad as the ones mentioned in that story. They have skills, and sometimes are astonishingly good at what they do. But they are demoralized for various reasons. Besides the things mentioned directly in that story I linked to, a lot of times it really helps when someone reaches out and gives them a hand. Just shows that they care, even a little bit. Like that guy who hadn't had a kind word spoken to him in over a decade, what kind of life is that?
All these weird stories about the movie Suicide Squad.......it makes me wonder if someone is trying some kind of astro-turfing thing to give support to the movie. The studio themselves probably leaked the soundtrack. Maybe they hired people with sock-puppet accounts to complain about Rotten Tomatoes. The whole thing is weird.
But no privately owned venue or forum is required to give you a platform on which to speak.....Likewise, Twitter can choose to ban someone, or not ban them, under their terms of service. They can allow certain people to speak at their venue, or decide that they don't want them there any more and ban them. They are free to do so, because Twitter is not owned by the government......
Blah blah blah you're still a moron because you only think it violates free speech if a government does it. You probably also think that censorship isn't censorship if the censor isn't a government agent.
You're wrong. The government is prevented by law from impinging on free speech, and other corporate entities are not prevented by law from doing so, but law is not the end of everything. If a private entity censors people, then they are preventing free speech, by definition.
Yeah, free speech doesn't have to be nice, and it isn't always nice.
On other sites, you would be banned for your opening sentence on your post. And frankly, you should be banned: you are a caustic fool who adds nothing to the conversation, neither here nor elsewhere (your posts are derivative drivel). There is no benefit to keeping you here.
Freedom of speech means keeping people like you around. That is the price we must pay.
If you post (for example), some racist screed on a private owned forum (such as Slashdot, or Twitter, or wherever), and they decide to ban you, it's not a violation of your first amendment rights, because Twitter isn't run by the government
It's not a violation of first amendment rights, but it is a violation of free speech.
One of the reasons I like Slashdot is the commitment to free speech, and the use of alternate methods besides banning people.
Yeah, and AltaVista became a wasteland of broken links as a result. Google was so great because it boosted the signal out of the noise, but eventually SEO techniques caught up.
Yip, they really need to automate the slapping of PHB's if they want smoother software development.
Unfortunately there are two types of programmers: those who can self-manage, and those who need someone to constantly push then to get to work.
It's unfortunate because most programmers are of the latter type, and those are the ones who are helped by having a PHB. The rest of us are just collateral damage.
My understanding was that the experts said, "The code was copied, anyone can see which code was copied by looking at place A, B, C."
But that isn't how copyright cases work in the German courts. In the German court, you have to say, "here are Exhibits A, B, and C, these are the lines of code that VMWare copied."
So they need to follow the proper procedures in court. Usually a lawyer should help with that, but maybe this kind of copyright case isn't very common?
My worry is the poor (especially the Working Poor) are either going to be completely shut out of home ownership and trapped in the cycle of increasing rents.
That's happening right now lol. Anyway, there are already companies willing to finance solar panels, so I don't think this will be a problem. If it is, we can have some kind of subsidy.
Has it ever been extended to programming and software engineering? If so that's the new idea.
That's similar to claiming that X deserves a patent when you convert it to "X on the internet." In 40 years, if we have a Y industry, and someone creates a Y free university, I claim prior art for all values of Y.
There are plenty of people willing to loan money at low interest rates, just like now for cars.
Again though, my apartment complex has a better water heater system than most private houses, so it's really only an issue if you own a house. Apartments are already required by law to have electricity in most states.
If rich people start going to local battery storage, it will be because it's cheaper than our current system of utilities. If it's cheaper, then it means poor people will get it cheaper, too (and poor people mostly live in rented places anyway).
In general, fear of inequality is not a reason to oppose improved technology.
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Heh. One of you two is on my Foes list, and it's not the one you think.
That's ok, I don't mind.
A private organisation banning you is no more suppressing free speech than me calling the police to remove you if you're camped out on my front lawn yelling slogans through a megaphone at 3am.
In some cases it's like that, in some cases it's not, it depends on why you were banned. Banning all Democrats is not like that at all.
No, that's not my experience with homeless people. Here's an example story.
Most of the people I know who are homeless aren't as bad as the ones mentioned in that story. They have skills, and sometimes are astonishingly good at what they do. But they are demoralized for various reasons. Besides the things mentioned directly in that story I linked to, a lot of times it really helps when someone reaches out and gives them a hand. Just shows that they care, even a little bit. Like that guy who hadn't had a kind word spoken to him in over a decade, what kind of life is that?
"Another Kaspersky Lab researcher noted on Twitter that there is “nothing” in the dumped files that links them to the Equation Group"
All these weird stories about the movie Suicide Squad.......it makes me wonder if someone is trying some kind of astro-turfing thing to give support to the movie. The studio themselves probably leaked the soundtrack. Maybe they hired people with sock-puppet accounts to complain about Rotten Tomatoes. The whole thing is weird.
If you travel, eventually you'll get the evil eye from some border agent or another. That's just how it goes.
But no privately owned venue or forum is required to give you a platform on which to speak.....Likewise, Twitter can choose to ban someone, or not ban them, under their terms of service. They can allow certain people to speak at their venue, or decide that they don't want them there any more and ban them. They are free to do so, because Twitter is not owned by the government......
Blah blah blah you're still a moron because you only think it violates free speech if a government does it. You probably also think that censorship isn't censorship if the censor isn't a government agent.
You're wrong. The government is prevented by law from impinging on free speech, and other corporate entities are not prevented by law from doing so, but law is not the end of everything. If a private entity censors people, then they are preventing free speech, by definition.
Yeah, free speech doesn't have to be nice, and it isn't always nice.
On other sites, you would be banned for your opening sentence on your post. And frankly, you should be banned: you are a caustic fool who adds nothing to the conversation, neither here nor elsewhere (your posts are derivative drivel). There is no benefit to keeping you here.
Freedom of speech means keeping people like you around. That is the price we must pay.
There aren't jobs for everyone.
I don't think that's true. Even homeless people I know can find jobs (unless they have self-destructive issues or something).
If you post (for example), some racist screed on a private owned forum (such as Slashdot, or Twitter, or wherever), and they decide to ban you, it's not a violation of your first amendment rights, because Twitter isn't run by the government
It's not a violation of first amendment rights, but it is a violation of free speech.
One of the reasons I like Slashdot is the commitment to free speech, and the use of alternate methods besides banning people.
Yeah, and AltaVista became a wasteland of broken links as a result. Google was so great because it boosted the signal out of the noise, but eventually SEO techniques caught up.
why would they? Nobody can be forced to cooperate with their own procecution.
Because that's how discovery works lol Check it out and become educated
Yip, they really need to automate the slapping of PHB's if they want smoother software development.
Unfortunately there are two types of programmers: those who can self-manage, and those who need someone to constantly push then to get to work.
It's unfortunate because most programmers are of the latter type, and those are the ones who are helped by having a PHB. The rest of us are just collateral damage.
My understanding was that the experts said, "The code was copied, anyone can see which code was copied by looking at place A, B, C."
But that isn't how copyright cases work in the German courts. In the German court, you have to say, "here are Exhibits A, B, and C, these are the lines of code that VMWare copied."
So they need to follow the proper procedures in court. Usually a lawyer should help with that, but maybe this kind of copyright case isn't very common?
My worry is the poor (especially the Working Poor) are either going to be completely shut out of home ownership and trapped in the cycle of increasing rents.
That's happening right now lol. Anyway, there are already companies willing to finance solar panels, so I don't think this will be a problem. If it is, we can have some kind of subsidy.
If they don't, then they won't be able to buy their own house, either.
Good thing no one has patented the idea of looking up in a dictionary, you still have a chance to look up "similar" and relieve your ignorance.
Here is the list of manufacturers that take security seriously:
Unless the vehicle has steering that's drive-by-wire you're not really going to have to worry about much from a safety perspective
Yeah, it's basically that bad. Not just steering, but brakes, and acceleration.
If it was so obvious why hasn't anyone done it with the IT and CS industries before?
You have a question.
Now they just resort to importing H1Bs.
You have an answer.
Has it ever been extended to programming and software engineering? If so that's the new idea.
That's similar to claiming that X deserves a patent when you convert it to "X on the internet." In 40 years, if we have a Y industry, and someone creates a Y free university, I claim prior art for all values of Y.
There are plenty of people willing to loan money at low interest rates, just like now for cars.
Again though, my apartment complex has a better water heater system than most private houses, so it's really only an issue if you own a house. Apartments are already required by law to have electricity in most states.
Presumably they'll start charging later, once the experiment is shown to work. The initial students are guinea pigs, after all.
Alternately, they can expand, and when they have three consecutive quarters of exponential growth, go public (then, of course, sell their shares).
Which they are. If you want to avoid being tracked by all means necessary, only pay in quarters.
This sentence is pure, beautiful, trollish, poetry. (Because the ridges on quarters are like barcodes.....better pay in nickels or pennies).
If rich people start going to local battery storage, it will be because it's cheaper than our current system of utilities. If it's cheaper, then it means poor people will get it cheaper, too (and poor people mostly live in rented places anyway).
In general, fear of inequality is not a reason to oppose improved technology.