surely locals have the right to request their homes not be broadcast to the entire world?
No, they don't, and that's why projects like this are needed. To remind people that fucking over photographers with paranoia and idiotic boogeymen is NOT a right, and shouldn't be in any society that calls itself Free.
Perhaps this photographer isn't going far enough. How about for every place that asked to have their imagery removed from Google Street View, register a domain name in their address (eg: 1234-Main-Street-Berlin-Germany.de) and have a 24x7 webcam pointed at the front of the house with live streaming video and the ability to browse back through interesting moments via motion sensor timestamps. After all, there's no right to privacy so why not go all the way and allow the entire world to watch someone's house all the time?
"Members of the jury, there's only a 1 in 13 chance that the defendant is actually the killer based on the DNA evidence. If the defendant were sitting in the jury with you, then there's an equal chance that it was any one of you. And since we can eliminate all 12 of you, that leaves only the defendant left over. So you must find the defendant guilty of all charges since he's the only one left out of 13 people. The prosecution rests."
This connection isn't sound. If my calculations are correct, it should be sometime around 2007 for whomever is reading this. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES. Something... happens with them. Something came through, something from somewhere else. We were overrun in days, not many of us are left. WE LIVE UNDERGROUND! ONLY YOU CAN STOP IT NOW. SAVE US. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES.
I don't have much time. This connection isn't sound. If my calculations are correct, it should be--
Neither one. Given the prices they are asking, particularly for upgrades after they have their hooks into you. You might as well sign over a significant percentage of your annual income over to their CEO's retirement package as you become an indentured developer.
By your logic, people should also avoid using any math because Mathematica is such an expensive piece of software. Don't program in C++ because Visual Studio 2008 isn't cheap. And avoid Common LISP because Franz Allegro CL costs an arm and a leg.
Or you could use various free/open source versions, like the open sourced Flex SDK (Mozilla Public License).
If you are going to leave in 2 weeks, are you really going to fix anything at all? Or train anyone? Or do anything useful? What is the point? Salary increase? Bonus? Career advancement? You Are Leaving. PERIOD.
If you're leaving from your fast food job, then yeah... who really cares. Training likely isn't your job anyways. But if you're a professional, there's quite a few reasons why you'd want to do this:
Pride in your work. Do you really want to slack off and do nothing useful in your last two weeks? Fix nothing that breaks?
Future employment. It's a really, really small world. News gets around if you're the type of person who leaves their employer high and dry when you're leaving.
References. A lot of really good employers do check references and similar to the point above, if you burn your bridges you'll sabotage your own future.
Even during your last two weeks, you're still being paid to perform. You can still get fired. While various regulations may be in place to give someone time to improve their performance such that two weeks won't really matter, this is not the way to go.
Imagine your employer posting on their blog or Twitter account: "What do you do when you have an employee leaving but they refuse to do their job for the last two weeks?" Won't future employers sure find it interesting when they research your last employer and find that that posting was very coincidental with when you left the company...
Your attitude indicates that you're not the type of person I'd either want to hire or have to work with.
Imagine that the guy who wrote the code is the royal, snobbish jerk who always thinks his code is better than anything else. Don't let him get away with it. Also remember that he's the same jerk who wrote those unit tests that screwed you over all those times. Don't just pay it back; pay it forward.
And when you finally catch up with this righteous bastard who wrote such lousy code, be sure to pound his goddamn skull in with a tire iron.
Corruption is abuse of power. If nobody has any control, ie. power, then you are correct, there will be no corruption. Since the former is impossible without having people live in separate caves with zero social interaction, the latter is also impossible, but the argument is a valid one.
I read "excessive control" as: "There will be someone breathing down your neck watching your every move." A lack of control would be: "Do whatever you want... there will be absolutely no oversight or accountability." Perhaps that's not what was meant, but under those circumstances I fail to see how a lack of control wouldn't lead to more corruption. Otherwise we'd see high rates of corruption for tellers at major international banks and very little corruption for Mexican police.
I used to play that game on a ferry ride and when it was time to get off an hour later I had at least several free games left... waiting for the next lucky person. I'm guessing whatever settings were on that thing were set to "way too easy" mode, or that it was just an easy game all around.
You preclude the possibility that the submitter could look at some of the responses and think "Thanks, that's an interesting perspective I hadn't considered". How you respond to a similar situation does not mean that everybody responds in the same way. Perhaps the submitter will feel that people are being insensitive. However, it could also be true that many others have gone through the exact same thing the submitter has and are sharing their wisdom because they regretted all their memory preservation efforts and, were they to do it again, would spend more quality time without trying to preserve everything.
So unless you know more than everyone who has shared their honest feedback (ie: ignoring the trolls) you have no way of knowing how the advice will be received.
Few people realize that Han Solo was using a quantum blaster. Upon the first viewing of the state of the shots fired, it appeared that Han shot first. In reality, the quantum state had a 50% chance of Han shooting first, and a 50% chance of Greedo shooting first. When Lucas remastered the movie, the observation of the quantum state rendered it as Greedo shooting first. So there was actually no change made to the movie.
All this "don't forget to live" crap is just people showing off that they're oh-so-much-wiser than the original inquirer. I can't think of anything more infuriating to someone in his situation. If you don't have a suggestion to make ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT HE ASKED FOR, then keep your pop psychology to yourself.
Obviously that struck a nerve for you. Your attitude is hypocritical though. Are both you and the submitter oh-so-much-wiser that you have already considered every single possibility contained in the shared experiences and wisdom of the Slashdot audience and have rejected all but the one possibility contained in the submission?
How about you keep your pop condescension to yourself and accept that people will answer however the hell they want? Nobody needs you telling them how to answer a question.
Ohio has (or had if they discontinued it, not sure) a law where repeat convicted offenders of DUI laws get a special yellow license plate with red letters, contrasting the normal colors of Ohio license plates.
Unfortunately, the alternative to public arrest records is much worse: secret arrest records. Do we really want to go down that road?
The problem is that the publicity is unbalanced. While we have public arrest records, we have secret exoneration records. When somebody who gets arrested later has all charges dropped, there is no publicity around that fact. It's trivial for a newspaper to publish all the details of everyone arrested, but tougher for them to follow every court case and publish the results.
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patents != copyright
GPL is a license which grants certain rights using copyright law. This has no bearing on patent infringement.
surely locals have the right to request their homes not be broadcast to the entire world?
No, they don't, and that's why projects like this are needed. To remind people that fucking over photographers with paranoia and idiotic boogeymen is NOT a right, and shouldn't be in any society that calls itself Free.
Perhaps this photographer isn't going far enough. How about for every place that asked to have their imagery removed from Google Street View, register a domain name in their address (eg: 1234-Main-Street-Berlin-Germany.de) and have a 24x7 webcam pointed at the front of the house with live streaming video and the ability to browse back through interesting moments via motion sensor timestamps. After all, there's no right to privacy so why not go all the way and allow the entire world to watch someone's house all the time?
"Members of the jury, there's only a 1 in 13 chance that the defendant is actually the killer based on the DNA evidence. If the defendant were sitting in the jury with you, then there's an equal chance that it was any one of you. And since we can eliminate all 12 of you, that leaves only the defendant left over. So you must find the defendant guilty of all charges since he's the only one left out of 13 people. The prosecution rests."
I came here to post the Denon link as well.
This connection isn't sound. If my calculations are correct, it should be sometime around 2007 for whomever is reading this. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES. Something... happens with them. Something came through, something from somewhere else. We were overrun in days, not many of us are left. WE LIVE UNDERGROUND! ONLY YOU CAN STOP IT NOW. SAVE US. DO NOT USE THESE CABLES.
I don't have much time. This connection isn't sound. If my calculations are correct, it should be--
Neither one. Given the prices they are asking, particularly for upgrades after they have their hooks into you. You might as well sign over a significant percentage of your annual income over to their CEO's retirement package as you become an indentured developer.
By your logic, people should also avoid using any math because Mathematica is such an expensive piece of software. Don't program in C++ because Visual Studio 2008 isn't cheap. And avoid Common LISP because Franz Allegro CL costs an arm and a leg.
Or you could use various free/open source versions, like the open sourced Flex SDK (Mozilla Public License).
A molecule walks into a bar. "Ow!" [rubs forehead]
You are going to do your job to the best of your ability, whether you have two weeks left or two years. You seem unable to grasp this basic concept.
So how is this any different than existing HDDs?
This is a hard drive on speed, known as ADHD (Advanced Digital Hard Drive).
LOL.
And yeah, I've heard people say it IRL. I've also heard people say IRL IRL.
And the first time in my life I thought teenagers should be tested and culled was when I heard one say "lololol". As if "lol" wasn't bad enough.
Ah yes... the classic "laughing out loud out loud out loud".
If you are going to leave in 2 weeks, are you really going to fix anything at all? Or train anyone? Or do anything useful? What is the point? Salary increase? Bonus? Career advancement? You Are Leaving. PERIOD.
If you're leaving from your fast food job, then yeah... who really cares. Training likely isn't your job anyways. But if you're a professional, there's quite a few reasons why you'd want to do this:
Your attitude indicates that you're not the type of person I'd either want to hire or have to work with.
Never attribute to Evil what can be explained by stupidity (or incompetence)
In this case, the difference is that their stupidity resulted in evil.
You can "loose-less compress" ANYTHING ... The stupid hurts...
Loose-less? Yeah, the stupid does hurt.
Kurzweil's assessment that about a million lines of code may be enough to simulate the human brain.
If you accept that, then the real problem to solve becomes: in what language do you write the code?
Why, Brainfuck of course!
Imagine that the guy who wrote the code is the royal, snobbish jerk who always thinks his code is better than anything else. Don't let him get away with it. Also remember that he's the same jerk who wrote those unit tests that screwed you over all those times. Don't just pay it back; pay it forward.
And when you finally catch up with this righteous bastard who wrote such lousy code, be sure to pound his goddamn skull in with a tire iron.
Corruption is abuse of power. If nobody has any control, ie. power, then you are correct, there will be no corruption. Since the former is impossible without having people live in separate caves with zero social interaction, the latter is also impossible, but the argument is a valid one.
I read "excessive control" as: "There will be someone breathing down your neck watching your every move." A lack of control would be: "Do whatever you want... there will be absolutely no oversight or accountability." Perhaps that's not what was meant, but under those circumstances I fail to see how a lack of control wouldn't lead to more corruption. Otherwise we'd see high rates of corruption for tellers at major international banks and very little corruption for Mexican police.
I used to play that game on a ferry ride and when it was time to get off an hour later I had at least several free games left... waiting for the next lucky person. I'm guessing whatever settings were on that thing were set to "way too easy" mode, or that it was just an easy game all around.
That's one of the dumbest things that I've ever read here.
I don't know... you've written some spectacularly dumb things, Mr. Anonymous Coward.
You preclude the possibility that the submitter could look at some of the responses and think "Thanks, that's an interesting perspective I hadn't considered". How you respond to a similar situation does not mean that everybody responds in the same way. Perhaps the submitter will feel that people are being insensitive. However, it could also be true that many others have gone through the exact same thing the submitter has and are sharing their wisdom because they regretted all their memory preservation efforts and, were they to do it again, would spend more quality time without trying to preserve everything.
So unless you know more than everyone who has shared their honest feedback (ie: ignoring the trolls) you have no way of knowing how the advice will be received.
Where there is excessive control, there's plenty of place for corruption/etc.
So a complete lack of control would lead to few places for corruption? Your argument makes absolutely no sense.
So shouldn't he be complimented for daring to Think Different?
In this version Han shoots first and last!
Few people realize that Han Solo was using a quantum blaster. Upon the first viewing of the state of the shots fired, it appeared that Han shot first. In reality, the quantum state had a 50% chance of Han shooting first, and a 50% chance of Greedo shooting first. When Lucas remastered the movie, the observation of the quantum state rendered it as Greedo shooting first. So there was actually no change made to the movie.
I split in their general direction.
Who/what the fuck are they, Mr. Summary Writer?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=IDSIA
All this "don't forget to live" crap is just people showing off that they're oh-so-much-wiser than the original inquirer. I can't think of anything more infuriating to someone in his situation. If you don't have a suggestion to make ALONG THE LINES OF WHAT HE ASKED FOR, then keep your pop psychology to yourself.
Obviously that struck a nerve for you. Your attitude is hypocritical though. Are both you and the submitter oh-so-much-wiser that you have already considered every single possibility contained in the shared experiences and wisdom of the Slashdot audience and have rejected all but the one possibility contained in the submission?
How about you keep your pop condescension to yourself and accept that people will answer however the hell they want? Nobody needs you telling them how to answer a question.
Ohio has (or had if they discontinued it, not sure) a law where repeat convicted offenders of DUI laws get a special yellow license plate with red letters, contrasting the normal colors of Ohio license plates.
Do they look anything like this?
Unfortunately, the alternative to public arrest records is much worse: secret arrest records. Do we really want to go down that road?
The problem is that the publicity is unbalanced. While we have public arrest records, we have secret exoneration records. When somebody who gets arrested later has all charges dropped, there is no publicity around that fact. It's trivial for a newspaper to publish all the details of everyone arrested, but tougher for them to follow every court case and publish the results.