Well childporn is natural because of genes and stuff, and BIOTRUTH!!! Victimless crime! They take Bitcoins! If pedos can't have porn they will make it! Im not a pedo, I'm an ephebophile!
If you haven't noticed the decline in the quality of this site in the last couple years, and haven't noticed just how odious and disgusting a lot of the people commenting on it have gotten, you might not have been paying attention.
Unless you believe in said "invisible wizards", (which given the tone of such a mocking statement likely that you do not) and believe that leaders among those that believe in said invisible wizard are in direct communication with the wiz, I think a more accurate description of your position is:
"I have few problems with leaders who claim to be acting on the words of a magical invisible wizard, provided they do not order large mobs to kill others."
Because it would at least be a first step. Looking at this from a context of "well why fix one injustice when there are so many others" is a really dumb platform to stand on.
Apple isn't getting a free pass, a lot of people are just not very well informed about the matter. Now that Apple's manufacturing practices are becoming better known, there is a growing back lash. Will it last? Maybe, maybe not. The truth is that the electronic devices like smart phones, computers and tablets are a part of everyday life in the US for a very large part of the population. Convincing people that they need to pay more for these devices isn't an easy cause to champion.
I am not even sure what the point of your comment was outside of a thinly veiled stab at a political movement that you obviously disagree with. Should everyone give a free pass to Apple just because you produced an anecdote that occupy protesters use too many apple devices?
Puzzles with subjective answers can show a number of traits in a potential employee. People with overly rigid communication styles or those that fail in the ability to see through analogies are going to be a pain in your ass because they often can't get along well with or understand others in a work environment.
Honestly how many autistic spectrum IT people do you really need?
I mean Slashdot is literally like reddit in the sense that allowing any schmuck to moderate you are basically asking for a hivemind mentality. True, slashdot relies on a semi-random sampling (of people that like to moderate no less) of the user base, but overall you get the same net-effect.
The whole system should just be scraped. Disallow anonymous posting and consider implementing a short "lurk" time on new accounts (more for the spam) and the quality of comments is going to improve.
Knowing it exists, will not tell you what is and isn't tainted with propaganda. For this reason, I don't think they are going to lose all that much sleep over the big secret getting out.
Embarrassing? Well maybe a little, but remember this is the same nation that had a pretty damning video of a helicopter attack on civilian targets go public, and there was disturbingly little backlash from the public all things considered.
As distasteful as it is, this is hardly a new thing. Pretty much everyone in history has done this to some degree. The only real "news" is that a new mechanism is going into place, but the machinery has been there all along.
I search for my name (I have a peculiar first name even) and it returns several accounts that match, none of them are mine because I don't have one. How would I prove that none of these (some have no public pictures) are mine?
There are laws in most places protecting so called "good Samaritans" If however you act in a malicious or irresponsible way when you render said help, you may still be vulnerable to legal action. Realistically, if you are the first person on the scene of an accident, you should do what is in your capabilities to assist, even if all you can do is call for more capable help.
Honestly there is no excuse to not know Basic Life Support (aka CPR) in this day and age. Most communities have classes on the cheap, it doesn't take long to learn, and it really makes a huge difference in survival rates for people that need it.
It did have a striking visual design, and the basic idea was good, but after you get past that first impression the gameplay never really progressed. I liken it to the first Assassin's Creed, great first impression, but after about 2 hours you have seen everything the game has to offer and the experience begins to stagnate.
The thing is though, is that it isn't complex, it is actually quite simple. The beauty of the algorithm is that it produced complex and interesting behavior using minimal resources, that behavior however is absolutely predictable and exploitable to top-level players. There is a charm to the lack of randomness though, and even the modern Champion Editions of Pac-Man, use very similar chase algorithms to the originals, and thus share the deterministic nature of the originals.
I can't read the actual article since their hosting has been crushed, but I read an article about the algorithm a couple years ago, and always found it funny that Pinky's chase code had an error in it causing him to target the wrong square when pacc-man was moving upwards (if I remember right correctly that is)
Years ago we had Mystery Science Theater 3000's Turkey Day to help us get through the holiday.
Now instead gathering around Joel and the bots as they riff on terrible movies, we gather round and riff on released documentation of war crimes and military SNAFU's.
Google is hardly some poor little fish lost in a big pond with some big bad guppy bearing down on it. Google can handle itself at this point, no need to drag out the M$ rhetoric again.
Of course it isn't moral, but the problem is humans, especially humans with an agenda, are not rational beings and will bend/break rules or violate the spirit of a law (or the law itself) if they think that the ends justify the means. I highly doubt that the agents/officials that are part of the prosecution are sitting around laughing about how they sent some fat kid to the slammer for kicks, I would wager that most all of them think that what they are doing is the absolute right thing.
"Hypothesis: making medical records available for data analysis might expose redundancy, over-testing, and other methods of extracting profits from the fee-for-service model"
Besides being perhaps the most ignorant thing I have read this morning, this statement reminds me of the irony inherent in listening to tech people whine about how medical caregivers have no trust or knowledge of IT, while the caregivers complain non-stop that IT has no idea how to design a decent medical record system.
I forget, do we like final fantasy in these parts or not?
Final Fantasy, while the very definition of a game series that has been milked for all it is worth, is notable in the fact that almost all of the iterations of the franchise come to a concise ending. Characters die, are rejoined with their long lost whosits et cetera. The Dragon Quest series does this too, although they do tend towards three game story-arcs with a running theme.
Given that the two above series are two of the most successful franchises in the games industry worldwide, I would say "no they don't have to fail, but loose ends are the bread and butter of modern media"
Less a valid strategy, and more an "oops" is what I would guess. Does making it harder to produce games, make better games? Darwin would say so, but then Darwin never saw anything like the companies that shovel out budget level drek, that while low in individual sales, often provide a safer return in the long run than larger projects costing millions to produce.
My biggest issue with sony now is, that when games get ported to both the xbox and the ps3, the xbox version is often better and less flawed in terms of performance on the hardware (often is not equal to always) and typically gets better support from the publisher, take Fallout 3, and GTA4 for a couple of high profile examples. This disparity is only going to get worse if the gap between the systems continues to widen.
Slashdot Mirror
Well childporn is natural because of genes and stuff, and BIOTRUTH!!! Victimless crime! They take Bitcoins! If pedos can't have porn they will make it! Im not a pedo, I'm an ephebophile!
If you haven't noticed the decline in the quality of this site in the last couple years, and haven't noticed just how odious and disgusting a lot of the people commenting on it have gotten, you might not have been paying attention.
Unless you believe in said "invisible wizards", (which given the tone of such a mocking statement likely that you do not) and believe that leaders among those that believe in said invisible wizard are in direct communication with the wiz, I think a more accurate description of your position is:
"I have few problems with leaders who claim to be acting on the words of a magical invisible wizard, provided they do not order large mobs to kill others."
Because it would at least be a first step. Looking at this from a context of "well why fix one injustice when there are so many others" is a really dumb platform to stand on.
"And this isn't meant as flamebait. "
And yet it is.
Apple isn't getting a free pass, a lot of people are just not very well informed about the matter. Now that Apple's manufacturing practices are becoming better known, there is a growing back lash. Will it last? Maybe, maybe not. The truth is that the electronic devices like smart phones, computers and tablets are a part of everyday life in the US for a very large part of the population. Convincing people that they need to pay more for these devices isn't an easy cause to champion.
I am not even sure what the point of your comment was outside of a thinly veiled stab at a political movement that you obviously disagree with. Should everyone give a free pass to Apple just because you produced an anecdote that occupy protesters use too many apple devices?
Puzzles with subjective answers can show a number of traits in a potential employee. People with overly rigid communication styles or those that fail in the ability to see through analogies are going to be a pain in your ass because they often can't get along well with or understand others in a work environment.
Honestly how many autistic spectrum IT people do you really need?
Today a patent on titration, tomorrow on breathing.
It's like reddit.
I mean Slashdot is literally like reddit in the sense that allowing any schmuck to moderate you are basically asking for a hivemind mentality. True, slashdot relies on a semi-random sampling (of people that like to moderate no less) of the user base, but overall you get the same net-effect.
The whole system should just be scraped. Disallow anonymous posting and consider implementing a short "lurk" time on new accounts (more for the spam) and the quality of comments is going to improve.
Knowing it exists, will not tell you what is and isn't tainted with propaganda. For this reason, I don't think they are going to lose all that much sleep over the big secret getting out.
Embarrassing? Well maybe a little, but remember this is the same nation that had a pretty damning video of a helicopter attack on civilian targets go public, and there was disturbingly little backlash from the public all things considered.
As distasteful as it is, this is hardly a new thing. Pretty much everyone in history has done this to some degree. The only real "news" is that a new mechanism is going into place, but the machinery has been there all along.
So this was a list in Forbes?
Forbes?!
Unless they became a good judge of humanity when I wasn't looking I think the source of this list has a lot to say about who is on the list.
I search for my name (I have a peculiar first name even) and it returns several accounts that match, none of them are mine because I don't have one. How would I prove that none of these (some have no public pictures) are mine?
There are laws in most places protecting so called "good Samaritans" If however you act in a malicious or irresponsible way when you render said help, you may still be vulnerable to legal action. Realistically, if you are the first person on the scene of an accident, you should do what is in your capabilities to assist, even if all you can do is call for more capable help.
Honestly there is no excuse to not know Basic Life Support (aka CPR) in this day and age. Most communities have classes on the cheap, it doesn't take long to learn, and it really makes a huge difference in survival rates for people that need it.
Except that Mirror's Edge was short on both.
It did have a striking visual design, and the basic idea was good, but after you get past that first impression the gameplay never really progressed. I liken it to the first Assassin's Creed, great first impression, but after about 2 hours you have seen everything the game has to offer and the experience begins to stagnate.
The thing is though, is that it isn't complex, it is actually quite simple. The beauty of the algorithm is that it produced complex and interesting behavior using minimal resources, that behavior however is absolutely predictable and exploitable to top-level players. There is a charm to the lack of randomness though, and even the modern Champion Editions of Pac-Man, use very similar chase algorithms to the originals, and thus share the deterministic nature of the originals.
I can't read the actual article since their hosting has been crushed, but I read an article about the algorithm a couple years ago, and always found it funny that Pinky's chase code had an error in it causing him to target the wrong square when pacc-man was moving upwards (if I remember right correctly that is)
Years ago we had Mystery Science Theater 3000's Turkey Day to help us get through the holiday. Now instead gathering around Joel and the bots as they riff on terrible movies, we gather round and riff on released documentation of war crimes and military SNAFU's.
People that think the brain works like a computer, don't understand either of them.
Meanwhile in the United States, the popularity of the "Snuggie" suggests that dementia may be setting in as early as age 30.
Google is hardly some poor little fish lost in a big pond with some big bad guppy bearing down on it. Google can handle itself at this point, no need to drag out the M$ rhetoric again.
Star Wars needs to get a restraining order against George Lucas. That man should not be allowed within 500 feet of it.
At this rate, the next gen of DRM will require everyone in the world with a PC to buy a copy in order to cut off any would be pirates at the pass.
Of course it isn't moral, but the problem is humans, especially humans with an agenda, are not rational beings and will bend/break rules or violate the spirit of a law (or the law itself) if they think that the ends justify the means. I highly doubt that the agents/officials that are part of the prosecution are sitting around laughing about how they sent some fat kid to the slammer for kicks, I would wager that most all of them think that what they are doing is the absolute right thing.
"Hypothesis: making medical records available for data analysis might expose redundancy, over-testing, and other methods of extracting profits from the fee-for-service model"
Besides being perhaps the most ignorant thing I have read this morning, this statement reminds me of the irony inherent in listening to tech people whine about how medical caregivers have no trust or knowledge of IT, while the caregivers complain non-stop that IT has no idea how to design a decent medical record system.
So I should put that 18 in to charisma, and not Intelligence?
I forget, do we like final fantasy in these parts or not?
Final Fantasy, while the very definition of a game series that has been milked for all it is worth, is notable in the fact that almost all of the iterations of the franchise come to a concise ending. Characters die, are rejoined with their long lost whosits et cetera. The Dragon Quest series does this too, although they do tend towards three game story-arcs with a running theme.
Given that the two above series are two of the most successful franchises in the games industry worldwide, I would say "no they don't have to fail, but loose ends are the bread and butter of modern media"
Less a valid strategy, and more an "oops" is what I would guess. Does making it harder to produce games, make better games? Darwin would say so, but then Darwin never saw anything like the companies that shovel out budget level drek, that while low in individual sales, often provide a safer return in the long run than larger projects costing millions to produce. My biggest issue with sony now is, that when games get ported to both the xbox and the ps3, the xbox version is often better and less flawed in terms of performance on the hardware (often is not equal to always) and typically gets better support from the publisher, take Fallout 3, and GTA4 for a couple of high profile examples. This disparity is only going to get worse if the gap between the systems continues to widen.