This is so excruciatingly stupid I don't know where to begin.
Where is the potential for abuse? You have a list of sex offenders along with their mugshots. If the machine picks up a hit, the person in question gets asked a couple of questions. It has nothing to do with hiring practices. There are THOUSANDS of pedophiles out there that don't have a criminal record, and a background check is useless there. Also, fuck the slippery slope. I've been hearing this slippery slope bullshit for twenty fucking years and I still don't have a goddamn tracking device shoved up my ass, there are no thought crimes, and I don't even have a tinfoil hat.
I don't know if you've paid much attention in stores for the past 10-15 years, but there are already cameras everywhere. Cameras have been used in school and on buses for better than a decade. Wake up and smell the present.
No, it's not. If they are on parole then they have restrictions, and a lot of sex offenders have lifetime limitations imposed on them. Screwing children is generally frowned upon and you're not gonna find to many sympathetic to their being unable to hang around middle schools.
You're not paying attention. A teacher at my elementary school was kidnapped from her classroom at gunpoint one day by her estranged husband. One possible use for this would be to feed his picture into it and when he showed up, the cops could have been called before he even got to the door. In cases where a child is in the middle of a custody battle where one parent is psycho or something, this would be a good thing.
This doesn't mean I'm a proponent of the system, just that there ARE some legitimate uses for this.
Considering that it specifically states that it reads from a list of alleged CHILD ABDUCTORS, then I guess alleged child abductors are on the list. You get on the list by being a suspect in a child abduction case. Duh.
I can't remember the last time I found myself wandering around Home Depot looking for the perfect book to give me all the advice I'd need to build my own home. People wander around Best Buy looking for books on how to do things with their computer all the time.
Boohoo fucking wah. You're getting paid to sit there and do a fucking job, not whine about what OS is on the computer. I'm sorry, but you're not going to get a choice in the matter when it comes to what you use at work.
Yeah, that's nice. Spend 5-7 days waiting for the CD to arrive when you could just have easily downloaded it in 4 minutes time. Really well thought out plan there, dude.
Or, the editor cut out something that he saw as superfluous to the article. In commercial software the difference between a 2.4 release and a 2.6 release is negligible, usually only minor bugfixes and things of that nature. Maybe the editor doesn't understand or know that OSS releases can have major revisions in such a small timeframe. Who knows?
So what you're saying is that he's automatically wrong because he disagrees that SA rocks.
In any case, if you'd read the letter the author sent to the SA mailing list regarding this article you'd find out that he had mentioned his reasons for using the older version of SA, but it was cut out by an editor (happens all the time). He also mentions that he planned on doing a review of the latest SA, but that also wasn't mentioned in the article.
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This is so excruciatingly stupid I don't know where to begin.
Where is the potential for abuse? You have a list of sex offenders along with their mugshots. If the machine picks up a hit, the person in question gets asked a couple of questions. It has nothing to do with hiring practices. There are THOUSANDS of pedophiles out there that don't have a criminal record, and a background check is useless there. Also, fuck the slippery slope. I've been hearing this slippery slope bullshit for twenty fucking years and I still don't have a goddamn tracking device shoved up my ass, there are no thought crimes, and I don't even have a tinfoil hat.
I don't know if you've paid much attention in stores for the past 10-15 years, but there are already cameras everywhere. Cameras have been used in school and on buses for better than a decade. Wake up and smell the present.
Yeah, that's really a valid concern... except for the fact that most sex offenders are middle-aged white males.
And really, in black and white, a person's skin tone depends entirely on the contrast. I could be the darkest bastard you've ever seen on camera.
No, it's not. If they are on parole then they have restrictions, and a lot of sex offenders have lifetime limitations imposed on them. Screwing children is generally frowned upon and you're not gonna find to many sympathetic to their being unable to hang around middle schools.
Are you uncomfortable with people LOOKING at you too? Or being on a security camera? Get a grip. Don't rape children and you'll stay off their list.
You're not paying attention. A teacher at my elementary school was kidnapped from her classroom at gunpoint one day by her estranged husband. One possible use for this would be to feed his picture into it and when he showed up, the cops could have been called before he even got to the door. In cases where a child is in the middle of a custody battle where one parent is psycho or something, this would be a good thing.
This doesn't mean I'm a proponent of the system, just that there ARE some legitimate uses for this.
Considering that it specifically states that it reads from a list of alleged CHILD ABDUCTORS, then I guess alleged child abductors are on the list. You get on the list by being a suspect in a child abduction case. Duh.
Tivo makes the GPL portions of their software freely available. Just look up or down the thread, there's about 50 links to it.
In which case you should be fired for not doing your job. See the point now?
Nah. Us Sega guys were too busy playing GOOD games to fuck about with that RPG crap. ;-)
That was the most convoluted horseshit statement I've ever read on Slashdot. You get a gold star!
Midtown Madness was a pure racing game. No taxi elements at all.
I for one like seeing this. Maybe now companies will stop ripping shit off and slapping a license on it to make some quick bucks.
That's is truly geektacular and dorkariffic. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. How long before we see cheap versions on Thinkgeek?
I can't remember the last time I found myself wandering around Home Depot looking for the perfect book to give me all the advice I'd need to build my own home. People wander around Best Buy looking for books on how to do things with their computer all the time.
Like they're not sick of having to deal with your idiotic Linux-jizzing? The door swings both ways.
Well, technically it swings THREE ways, because of the Mac people, but who's counting?
Boohoo fucking wah. You're getting paid to sit there and do a fucking job, not whine about what OS is on the computer. I'm sorry, but you're not going to get a choice in the matter when it comes to what you use at work.
Which is all well and good as long as the company is already running Samba.
Yeah, that's nice. Spend 5-7 days waiting for the CD to arrive when you could just have easily downloaded it in 4 minutes time. Really well thought out plan there, dude.
Opera has a mail component. I used to use it all the time, until I switched to Linux.
Not a troll, just bloody annoyed that people bitch so much about a damn slang term.
GOD DAMNED GEEK ASS BASTARDS!
How many of you have ever said "boxen"? I rest my case. Shut the fuck up, viri and virii are fucking slang terms. Fucking hell.
The difference being that it would take MS 6 months to release a patch, and even then most sysadmins wouldn't apply it.
Or, the editor cut out something that he saw as superfluous to the article. In commercial software the difference between a 2.4 release and a 2.6 release is negligible, usually only minor bugfixes and things of that nature. Maybe the editor doesn't understand or know that OSS releases can have major revisions in such a small timeframe. Who knows?
So what you're saying is that he's automatically wrong because he disagrees that SA rocks.
In any case, if you'd read the letter the author sent to the SA mailing list regarding this article you'd find out that he had mentioned his reasons for using the older version of SA, but it was cut out by an editor (happens all the time). He also mentions that he planned on doing a review of the latest SA, but that also wasn't mentioned in the article.
Slashdot does it all the time. Hello, Microsoft ads!
It doesn't pay for Slashdot either. Notice those nice shiny MS ads up there?