Mainstream geekery? Is this some insider's club of outsiders that I wasn't informed of? I reject the supposition that geekery is some well-defined essence with outskirts and mainstreams, or that ham radio is on the outskirts. Hams are contributing daily to our safety and security, in a semi-obscure technical way which creates great rewards for those who thrive on hard work, long hours, and being often misunderstood. I say that's completely mainstream geekiness.
Geez, everybody, just be "human" and get over yourselves.
I am inclined to believe the above statement is contradictory. From my observations, being human seems to require inflating your self-worth and belittling others. Humans have always separated and stratified over distinctions of marginal or dubious value. Yet the depth to which they clung to these distinctions made Paul so radical when he wrote "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28) This idea is still radical today, as parent attests to. Cultural "progress" and civilization "advances" haven't rooted out human nature. Paul proposed that under Christ this could be achieved, which made the message of Christianity highly attractive to everyone who wasn't a Powerful Wealthy Senatorial Male (PWSM) in Greco-Roman times.
Feh! Back in high school, I remember registering as "sysop" at a variety of free email sites. No malicious intent, just liked the coolness factor of it. Ended up receiving and dealing with quite a bunch of requests for help with spammers etc.
Yes, I helped them. I figured I owed it to them since I'd taken the email address. One solution would be to have standardized contact addresses: postmaster, root, admin, sysop, and have them universally applied. The lack of these standards let me have my fun, and additionally makes it so difficult for many folks to get help online.
Parent is seeking to redefine hypocrisy. Unlike parent's attempted definition, it is not hypocritical to follow some rules and not follow other rules. If you pay your taxes perfectly but you speed on the way home from work, you are not a hypocrite. You're also not perfect, but Christianity is probably the one faith that claims your lack of perfection won't stop you from getting to heaven.
No no no. We shouldn't be spending more money to make nuclear weapons. Instead, we should be working to get more use out of the ones we already have. =)
I rent, so mounting a tower might freak out my landlord. I have a mobile HAM radio mounted in my truck. The only problem is when I'm going through parking garages in San Francisco and the antenna scrapes. Next time I'm getting an antenna with an adjustable base so I can fold it down when in SF.
If "this kind of crap just irritates me," look into having the law changed, not circumvented please. We have a legislative process; if you don't like what exists today, write your Congressman/woman/critter. You see benefits; others see detriments. This post is neither for or against existing copyright law, just for following the established process of a democratic republic, not devolving into anarchy.
To hear that the Red Cross is bringing in telecom equipment surprises me. Are there not enough sick and homeless people that need care? Cell phone usage is not going to be limited to "Hi, Mom, I'm okay but I've gotta go so a thousand other folks can say hello." The cell phone is a luxury right now; a dry place to sleep is the real need.
Maybe now that the power is down, all that broadband-over-power-lines will be down so the ham radio operators can help with the truly urgent info.
IT certifications may be a lot like college degrees. Just because you know that they are not well-correlated with knowledge and ability doesn't mean that your employer knows this.
I would caution against too-specialized advanced degrees (yes, Museum Training in Anthropology really exists) and certifications when you're not sure what you want to do, because the employer will think this is your specific field of interest and not think as broadly about where he can apply your skills.
Google is no different, it's a crap shoot, it's monkeys throwing dart whether you'd make money by owning it or short-selling it.
Actually, the monkeys fling poo. This is where Google PR (Poo-Rank) comes from. And everyone would rather have virtual poo flung at their web pages than the alternative.
You presume that any person with personal preferences [in this case, George Bush for President] would have no moral boundaries restraining his actions to ethical methods of achieving his goals [talking to neighbours and friends, having a sign on his lawn and his car bumper, and donating to the campaign] rather than pursuing blatantly illegal actions [fixing elections]. May I presume then that your nature is to deviously attempt to distort accurate election results, since you are predisposed to expect it in others?
If you cannot allow others to have different views, and believe they may choose to pursue them in legal and ethical means when such are available, you have no faith in humanity and ought to leave this planet swiftly. Conspiracy theory pandering does nothing to elevate the dialogue.
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The grandparent is correct. The parent confuses "management" with "owner." In the event of a legal hostile take-over, the buyer purchases a majority stake in the company by convincing enough owners to sell their portions to him or otherwise support him.
It is only illegal hostile take-overs, such as raping and pillaging castles, that require no such convincing.
As a result, they are unlikely to ever hire anyone black or female, and are likely to go on believing in their current prejudices. On the other hand, if they were forced to hire black people and women, [...] over time [...] they'd begin hiring genuinely qualified members of various minorities of their own volition.
Counterpoint:
Two firms exist. One hires only qualified persons of race A and gender B. The other hires all races and genders of qualified persons. [Yes, the distributive principle allows you to make a joke about all gender >=2] Which firm will be more successful and profitable? The second firm. Natural selection will give it a larger pool of applicants from which to select the best talent.
Quick example: suppose the first firm only wanted Swedish female Nobel laureates? Now suppose the second would hire all Nobel laureates. Absent proof that Swedish female Nobel laureates were superior workers to other Nobel laureates, the second company will be more successful.
Oddly enough, higher fuel prices may help reduce, not increase, our dependency on foreign oil. When fuel prices rise, someone's getting that money, and that expected price increase is incentive to oil pumpers in Texas and the rest of the US, to invest in repairs or marginally-productive sites, since the extra money makes it profitable.
Your quote about broccoli and your Africa implication suggests you have an agenda; you've forgotten of course that we went into Liberia recently. But I'll turn your fallacy on its head: if we went to war for economic power, we should invade Africa for the diamond market.
Furthermore, if any one of your friends will do the math, you'll see that for a hundred billion dollars spent to go to war, this was not about economic benefit. Iraq produces (when sabotage is prevented) three years of output given to us for free to equal the cost of the war.
The economic argument is complete garbage, and isn't worthy of a/. reader who RTFN (reads the news)
Next, who says you have to listen to recorded music? If you don't want Avril Lavigne plus ads, go to a coffee shop open mic. Live music, original songs, some of it's bad and some of it's good. Served up with your favourite caffeinated beverage.
Don't like their music? Make your own. Read a book. Work on the FreeBSD distro. When you decide you have to listen to what's coming for free over the airwaves, that's your choice, and that really is a choice.
Okay, petabytes and exabytes sound interesting from a "Wow - technology" perspective, but why do I care? Will they improve how we live our lives, increase the amount of face time we spend with each other, decrease hunger and poverty, elevate the human spirit or cure race relations?
That amount of computer storage probably won't be enough to help men understand women. =)
I'm growing in favour of technology being just a little more clunky and difficult so that people will move their heads away from the monitor once in a while - and not just to make new PC mods.
If you ask that question, 'can the old saddlebag gas tanks on Ford Rangers kill?, you're letting made-for-TV drama substitute for real life. The Dateline NBC segment was rigged; more fun about the joys of testing can be found here.
By wasting our time and energy pursuing a fictitious case whose reported results were scientifically unrepeatable, Dateline NBC drew resources in terms of money, time, and mindshare away from very real life-threatening incidents. Can we seek the death penalty for TV shows?
Note also that if used responsibly, a gun can result in injury or death. Just because some nitwit can kill his brother instead of a criminal with that gun doesn't make the manufacturer liable.
Although I'm pleased that nobody has yet suggested combining IFF (Indentification: Friend or Foe) software with guns as a way of making them safer.
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Mainstream geekery? Is this some insider's club of outsiders that I wasn't informed of? I reject the supposition that geekery is some well-defined essence with outskirts and mainstreams, or that ham radio is on the outskirts. Hams are contributing daily to our safety and security, in a semi-obscure technical way which creates great rewards for those who thrive on hard work, long hours, and being often misunderstood. I say that's completely mainstream geekiness.
I am inclined to believe the above statement is contradictory. From my observations, being human seems to require inflating your self-worth and belittling others. Humans have always separated and stratified over distinctions of marginal or dubious value. Yet the depth to which they clung to these distinctions made Paul so radical when he wrote "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28) This idea is still radical today, as parent attests to. Cultural "progress" and civilization "advances" haven't rooted out human nature. Paul proposed that under Christ this could be achieved, which made the message of Christianity highly attractive to everyone who wasn't a Powerful Wealthy Senatorial Male (PWSM) in Greco-Roman times.
Yes, I helped them. I figured I owed it to them since I'd taken the email address. One solution would be to have standardized contact addresses: postmaster, root, admin, sysop, and have them universally applied. The lack of these standards let me have my fun, and additionally makes it so difficult for many folks to get help online.
Parent is seeking to redefine hypocrisy. Unlike parent's attempted definition, it is not hypocritical to follow some rules and not follow other rules. If you pay your taxes perfectly but you speed on the way home from work, you are not a hypocrite. You're also not perfect, but Christianity is probably the one faith that claims your lack of perfection won't stop you from getting to heaven.
The universal picture of the Slashdot logo: 404.
No no no. We shouldn't be spending more money to make nuclear weapons. Instead, we should be working to get more use out of the ones we already have. =)
I rent, so mounting a tower might freak out my landlord. I have a mobile HAM radio mounted in my truck. The only problem is when I'm going through parking garages in San Francisco and the antenna scrapes. Next time I'm getting an antenna with an adjustable base so I can fold it down when in SF.
If "this kind of crap just irritates me," look into having the law changed, not circumvented please. We have a legislative process; if you don't like what exists today, write your Congressman/woman/critter. You see benefits; others see detriments. This post is neither for or against existing copyright law, just for following the established process of a democratic republic, not devolving into anarchy.
Maybe now that the power is down, all that broadband-over-power-lines will be down so the ham radio operators can help with the truly urgent info.
I would caution against too-specialized advanced degrees (yes, Museum Training in Anthropology really exists) and certifications when you're not sure what you want to do, because the employer will think this is your specific field of interest and not think as broadly about where he can apply your skills.
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Separation of duties? Conflict of interests? Wanting two different companies for these things sounds like Sarbanes Oxley legislation gone insane...
Actually, the monkeys fling poo. This is where Google PR (Poo-Rank) comes from. And everyone would rather have virtual poo flung at their web pages than the alternative.
If you cannot allow others to have different views, and believe they may choose to pursue them in legal and ethical means when such are available, you have no faith in humanity and ought to leave this planet swiftly. Conspiracy theory pandering does nothing to elevate the dialogue.
It is only illegal hostile take-overs, such as raping and pillaging castles, that require no such convincing.
Counterpoint:
Two firms exist. One hires only qualified persons of race A and gender B. The other hires all races and genders of qualified persons. [Yes, the distributive principle allows you to make a joke about all gender >=2] Which firm will be more successful and profitable? The second firm. Natural selection will give it a larger pool of applicants from which to select the best talent.
Quick example: suppose the first firm only wanted Swedish female Nobel laureates? Now suppose the second would hire all Nobel laureates. Absent proof that Swedish female Nobel laureates were superior workers to other Nobel laureates, the second company will be more successful.
Yeah but it hasn't affected much of Slashdot. I mean, who cares about marriage if you can't find a geek to date.
Disclaimer: I am currently dating a self-described geek. I'm sorry, I took the last one.
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Mod parent +5 Funny. Those words are completely out of sync with the times. Personal responsibility is so passe.
Your quote about broccoli and your Africa implication suggests you have an agenda; you've forgotten of course that we went into Liberia recently. But I'll turn your fallacy on its head: if we went to war for economic power, we should invade Africa for the diamond market.
Furthermore, if any one of your friends will do the math, you'll see that for a hundred billion dollars spent to go to war, this was not about economic benefit. Iraq produces (when sabotage is prevented) three years of output given to us for free to equal the cost of the war.
The economic argument is complete garbage, and isn't worthy of a /. reader who RTFN (reads the news)
Next, who says you have to listen to recorded music? If you don't want Avril Lavigne plus ads, go to a coffee shop open mic. Live music, original songs, some of it's bad and some of it's good. Served up with your favourite caffeinated beverage.
Don't like their music? Make your own. Read a book. Work on the FreeBSD distro. When you decide you have to listen to what's coming for free over the airwaves, that's your choice, and that really is a choice.
That amount of computer storage probably won't be enough to help men understand women. =)
I'm growing in favour of technology being just a little more clunky and difficult so that people will move their heads away from the monitor once in a while - and not just to make new PC mods.
[emote:Silly American ducks flying utensils from English counterparts]
Great... as if management didn't give me enough sh*t when they're trying to "enlighten" me, now someone had to go invent a machine to help them.
By wasting our time and energy pursuing a fictitious case whose reported results were scientifically unrepeatable, Dateline NBC drew resources in terms of money, time, and mindshare away from very real life-threatening incidents. Can we seek the death penalty for TV shows?
Although I'm pleased that nobody has yet suggested combining IFF (Indentification: Friend or Foe) software with guns as a way of making them safer.
Guns don't kill people. I do.