2. You'd still get sued for confusing similarity and passing off, since tau only has one leg less than pi. It's INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, you just CAN'T TAKE ANY CHANCES!
You're right. There's just no telling what kinds of incalculable damage is being done to the reputation of Slashdot and the psyche of its membership by being denied another Bitcoin story, a Dice slashvertisement, or another Bennet Haselton blog post masquerading as a slashstory. Because, you know, bringing one inappropriate story to the front page is clearly denying the really important stuff the critical editorial attention every story deserves.
Good point. The Sirius Cybernetics Clonomatic Person Dispenser would probably decant something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Natalie Portman. And don't ask about the grits, hot or otherwise.
Not for anything that is repeated over time. I've seen countless spreadsheet "managed" items and the errors that creep in over the months and years is pretty hilarious | scary | useful (for cons) etc
Sounds like the classic definition of "legacy software".
You know, custom software written so bright and new and error-free a dozen years ago but now is so bug-ridden and completely incomprehensible that no one can maintain it? You've heard of it, right?
I've lived it. Trust me, there's nothing inherently worse about a spreadsheet compared to a 150,000 card COBOL deck.
In fact, TFA's hysterics completely miss the point. The tool isn't the problem: it's the skill and care of the person using the tool. A few thousands lines of FORTRAN written by a PhD meteorologist or a nuclear physicist prove that pretty clearly. (I've had to maintain those, too.)
A well-written, well-reviewed spreadsheet is better than a sloppily-written program written in (what's the flavor of the week, Python?) Python.
As anyone who's watched the most famous recent use of Twitch will realize, this should result in epic loltrolling and griefing of the development process.
That or else the development process will be sufficiently insulated from the rabble that this announcement boils down to just marketing.
- A passenger is able to spot and point out driving hazards
- A passenger is another set of eyes
- A passenger is able to recognize when traffic is challenging and stop talking.
Written like someone who's never driven with small children. Who are, technically passengers, but generally more distracting than texting while tuning the radio and eating fast food (and doing makeup, if you're that sort).
"Shut UP and keep your hands TO YOURSELF! Do NOT make me REACH BACK THERE AND SMACK YOU! So HELP ME GOD!"
Oh, you don't think it would devolve into a crude bidding war, with direct marketing shitbags upping the rate they're willing to pay to outbid the rate you're willing to pay to not be junk-mailed?
If you think you can outbid an entire industry whose survival depends on delivering your ass to the advertisers, you're crazier than the average Slashdotter.
There's your problem. You flashed your firewall with the firmware package for a mid-90s Hayes-compatible telephone modem. I hope you have a spare; that firewall is hung up good.
Once upon a time, in a Slashdot epoch of heroes and myths and CowboyNeal and editors who would actually edit, you could work with the editor that accepted your submission and get an update to TFS.
Alas, the time of the Gods is gone, and all we have is Beta and today's "editors".
But I still find myself wishing for heroes, as foolish as it seems.
In practice, however, a lobbyist is much more valuable if he or she has cultivated contacts and inside access to a particular regulatory bureaucracy. They guy pestering the Assistant Deputy Undersecretary in the lobby is vastly less effective, and commands much less money, than the guy who can dial the private phone number of the department head's own secretary and schedule a couple hours with his immediate successor in the job of department head.
And that's where the conflict of interest lives: a person gained access and personal trust in the context of public service. He cashes in on that asset, originally conferred for the benefit of the public, for his own personal benefit (bigtime lobbying contracts) and the benefit of his private clients (in the regulated field). Plus, you know, regulatory capture.
Proof-positive that Darwin was right. Natural selection yielded a subset of the species with strong survival characteristics, while winnowing out the weak.
Yeah, even today, I'm terribly surprised and disappointed if any of my Amiga floppies fail while I'm reading them. I suppose I should hurry up and copy them onto a hard drive as image files before something I care about dies.
Of course you could still hammer nails with it, but can you plug it in and *type* on it?
If it's one of the classic Model "M"s, you could type by hammering nails with it, if you're skilled enough to strike the nailhead with the specific keys you want.
Nowadays. Feh. I have given up on decent keyboards. I will settle for less violently sucky ones. And have to look pretty far afield to fine one.
Well, you're "morally obligated" to watch the advertisements. And, in a broadcast executive's mind, you're obligated to buy stuff being advertised, too, in order to prove that advertising is worth the money.
I think the real point has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread: allowing Aereo to do this without paying some license money to the broadcaster undercuts the negotiated licenses cable and satellite providers have to pay to the broadcasters to do essentially the same thing. If Aereo shut up and paid, they wouldn't be in trouble. But of course, they probably wouldn't be able to make money either. As stupid as it sounds, if a customer pays for a service that intervenes between the broadcast and the consumer, that service may be liable for fees to the broadcaster. I don't know about if the customer buys hardware (like an OTA Tivo to timeshift)... did they have to pay out license fees?
"Nice phone. Good luck in the US of A getting any carrier to activate it and let you use it. But hey, at least it's a small wifi-only tablet with theoretically access to cell data."
I suppose it'll work out OK in the more communications-civilized* regions of the world.
*In other words, places where regulatory capture hasn't occurred and customers have more rights than livestock.
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1. Agreed.
2. You'd still get sued for confusing similarity and passing off, since tau only has one leg less than pi. It's INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, you just CAN'T TAKE ANY CHANCES!
You're right. There's just no telling what kinds of incalculable damage is being done to the reputation of Slashdot and the psyche of its membership by being denied another Bitcoin story, a Dice slashvertisement, or another Bennet Haselton blog post masquerading as a slashstory. Because, you know, bringing one inappropriate story to the front page is clearly denying the really important stuff the critical editorial attention every story deserves.
"Whoosh": the sound a basketball makes going over your head.
Basketball, as a sport, already has some familiarity with this problem.
Good point. The Sirius Cybernetics Clonomatic Person Dispenser would probably decant something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Natalie Portman. And don't ask about the grits, hot or otherwise.
Oh, and the Saxons are German.
FTFY.
Also, the Angles are Germans. (Nearly Danes, I suppose, but Germans nonetheless.)
Not for anything that is repeated over time. I've seen countless spreadsheet "managed" items and the errors that creep in over the months and years is pretty hilarious | scary | useful (for cons) etc
Sounds like the classic definition of "legacy software".
You know, custom software written so bright and new and error-free a dozen years ago but now is so bug-ridden and completely incomprehensible that no one can maintain it? You've heard of it, right?
I've lived it. Trust me, there's nothing inherently worse about a spreadsheet compared to a 150,000 card COBOL deck.
In fact, TFA's hysterics completely miss the point. The tool isn't the problem: it's the skill and care of the person using the tool. A few thousands lines of FORTRAN written by a PhD meteorologist or a nuclear physicist prove that pretty clearly. (I've had to maintain those, too.)
A well-written, well-reviewed spreadsheet is better than a sloppily-written program written in (what's the flavor of the week, Python?) Python.
Scientists have released a very scientific study saying that scientists should conduct our first contact with aliens.
And also run the world.
Second thought was, how is this something to "unveil"? it's just a typical solar panel install... *on*a*carport*!
Careful, that's going to be the next wave of stupid patents, right after "on a computer" and "on a mobile device."
Good Lord. You make it sound like the story icon for Linux here should be Borg Bill Gates. Or maybe Borg Leonnart Poettering.
"Resistance is futile."
As anyone who's watched the most famous recent use of Twitch will realize, this should result in epic loltrolling and griefing of the development process.
That or else the development process will be sufficiently insulated from the rabble that this announcement boils down to just marketing.
People should not start trotting out a 'variable constant' hypothesis because some ratio of elements is wrong in ore.
Nonetheless:
-- Isaac Asimov
- A passenger is able to spot and point out driving hazards
- A passenger is another set of eyes
- A passenger is able to recognize when traffic is challenging and stop talking.
Written like someone who's never driven with small children. Who are, technically passengers, but generally more distracting than texting while tuning the radio and eating fast food (and doing makeup, if you're that sort).
"Shut UP and keep your hands TO YOURSELF! Do NOT make me REACH BACK THERE AND SMACK YOU! So HELP ME GOD!"
At least, right now.
Oh, you don't think it would devolve into a crude bidding war, with direct marketing shitbags upping the rate they're willing to pay to outbid the rate you're willing to pay to not be junk-mailed?
If you think you can outbid an entire industry whose survival depends on delivering your ass to the advertisers, you're crazier than the average Slashdotter.
[NO CARRIER]
There's your problem. You flashed your firewall with the firmware package for a mid-90s Hayes-compatible telephone modem. I hope you have a spare; that firewall is hung up good.
How 'bout it's a major problem because the company won't honor its warranty and support contract until you slavishly install every update?
The good news, though, is that after this update you'll probably have a better reason to open a ticket than the piddly-ass one you had before.
Maybe the inhabitants of those other planets aren't ravening imperialist douchebags. In that case, I'm liking our odds.
Consider Jack Handey's observation:
--Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
In the immortal words of the Prophet, "You must be new here".
Just wait until the story gets reposted here. And again, a couple of days later.
After all, this sin't madness, it's Slashdot. Dupes of old news are not an option. They're standard equipment.
Once upon a time, in a Slashdot epoch of heroes and myths and CowboyNeal and editors who would actually edit, you could work with the editor that accepted your submission and get an update to TFS.
Alas, the time of the Gods is gone, and all we have is Beta and today's "editors".
But I still find myself wishing for heroes, as foolish as it seems.
In theory, true.
Just like a good manager can manage anything.
In practice, however, a lobbyist is much more valuable if he or she has cultivated contacts and inside access to a particular regulatory bureaucracy. They guy pestering the Assistant Deputy Undersecretary in the lobby is vastly less effective, and commands much less money, than the guy who can dial the private phone number of the department head's own secretary and schedule a couple hours with his immediate successor in the job of department head.
And that's where the conflict of interest lives: a person gained access and personal trust in the context of public service. He cashes in on that asset, originally conferred for the benefit of the public, for his own personal benefit (bigtime lobbying contracts) and the benefit of his private clients (in the regulated field). Plus, you know, regulatory capture.
Proof-positive that Darwin was right. Natural selection yielded a subset of the species with strong survival characteristics, while winnowing out the weak.
Yeah, even today, I'm terribly surprised and disappointed if any of my Amiga floppies fail while I'm reading them. I suppose I should hurry up and copy them onto a hard drive as image files before something I care about dies.
i have a mint amiga 600!
Poser! They never made the Amiga in any color than dead-fish beige! (Except for the CDTV and CD32, which were "A/V component charcoal".)
Hell, does any computer come in a primary color, other than overaggressive "compensating for something" red on certain gaming-grade systems?
And yes, I'm joking, and I know you don't mean color when you say "mint".
I'm just trying to forestall the inevitable "whoosh" here. Even if it kills the joke.
Of course you could still hammer nails with it, but can you plug it in and *type* on it?
If it's one of the classic Model "M"s, you could type by hammering nails with it, if you're skilled enough to strike the nailhead with the specific keys you want.
Nowadays. Feh. I have given up on decent keyboards. I will settle for less violently sucky ones. And have to look pretty far afield to fine one.
Well, you're "morally obligated" to watch the advertisements. And, in a broadcast executive's mind, you're obligated to buy stuff being advertised, too, in order to prove that advertising is worth the money.
And no, you're not supposed to skip the ads, although I don't think that's really what's at stake here.
I think the real point has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread: allowing Aereo to do this without paying some license money to the broadcaster undercuts the negotiated licenses cable and satellite providers have to pay to the broadcasters to do essentially the same thing. If Aereo shut up and paid, they wouldn't be in trouble. But of course, they probably wouldn't be able to make money either. As stupid as it sounds, if a customer pays for a service that intervenes between the broadcast and the consumer, that service may be liable for fees to the broadcaster. I don't know about if the customer buys hardware (like an OTA Tivo to timeshift)... did they have to pay out license fees?
Came here to say this.
"Nice phone. Good luck in the US of A getting any carrier to activate it and let you use it. But hey, at least it's a small wifi-only tablet with theoretically access to cell data."
I suppose it'll work out OK in the more communications-civilized* regions of the world.
*In other words, places where regulatory capture hasn't occurred and customers have more rights than livestock.