Yeah I wish slashdot would just remove that whole option, and so put a giant brake on all the gutless passive-aggressive morons and outright trolls. They should at least add a viewing filter option to hide all the AC posts. I've already made it a general rule to only respond to posters that have the balls to at least stand behind their own words by not posting as AC.
It will all come down to what effect he actually has. If you look at the "quality of life" figures such as the health of the economy, inflation rate, national debt, unemployment rate, average income, etc, Obama is leaving the country in a significantly worse state than when he took it over.
>> Many cancers cannot be even remotely considered as routinely curable. Prostate cancer happens to be one of them.
Breast cancer also used to not be even remotely considered as routine curable, yet now it is, thanks to the billions that people donate to it. This is EXACTLY why prostate cancer does need more attention and research money.
>> rather than put up with the side effects of CURRENTLY AVAILABLE treatment that is ultimately futile, BECAUSE NO_ONE IS TAKING FUNDING IT AS SERIOUSLY AS BREAST CANCER JUST BECAUSE VAGINA, EVEN THOUGH BREAST CANCER IS ALREADY A FAR MORE BEATEN PROBLEM.
>> Men are the ones who are deciding NOT to treat prostate cancer. Thats not what the article says at all. Did you even read it? It actually says "More Men With Early Prostate Cancer Are Choosing to Avoid Treatment".
>> So no, I'm not furthering any stereotype, you jerk.
I wish I owned an acre of land right in the middle of where he wants to build his house. I'd put a big barbed-wire fence around it, park the biggest, ugliest, smelliest old trailer I could find on it, demand continued access rights and refuse to sell at any money.
Gee who knew that sitting too much is only something that affects post-menopausual women?
And since Prostate cancer USUALLY doesn't actually kill you quickly, then men should just suck it up and keep donating to Susan G Komen instead?
Yeah thanks for being part of the problem and further reinforcing the stereotype by just laughing it off with a boob joke. I didn't expect that from you of all people.
Why did they just study women? It seems like anything that affects women gets attention, while society doesn't even value men. Another prime example is the massive amount of attention and funding that breast cancer gets compared to prostate cancer, even though 1 in 7 men get prostate cancer while 1 in 8 women get breast cancer.
So what other motivations do you believe he has then? I mean how could the shit he knowingly chose to land himself in be considered self-serving or a better lifestyle in any way? I'm fairly sure he'd have been personally much better off if he had just shut up and kept working at his highly paid consultancy job.
>> If his actions were purely altruistic then why would he not be willing to go for full martyrdom and come back and face trial?
Because that serves no-one other than the corrupt crazies in the US government who want revenge. It would also stop him leaking yet more stuff for the benefit of all (except the corrupt crazies).
>> we cannot say for sure what his motivations were.
Sure we can. There are plenty of interviews with him around the web such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You can even hear it in his own words.
I used to love Atari stuff. Their 8 bit computers were WAY ahead of their time.. I remember my mind being blown when I saw Space Raiders at some expo back in the day. I struggled to get the money to buy an Atari 400 and my first significant programming experiences were all from it. I've lost track of exactly what Atari has become and who really owns it. Sadly wikipedia just seems to show its all been split up into tiny parts, all owned by a bunch of different shell companies, with no employees or real assets other than the trademark. After my Atari 400 I got an Amiga which again was a truly pioneering machine and which I absolutely loved, but sadly Commodore seem to have gone exactly the same way as Atari. I would give my left nut to change history so Microsoft was the company that failed instead of Atari and Commodore.
>> He believes that leaders should engage people, and then provide context for self-organizing,
Definately. The elephant in the room here is that benefit analysis has clearly shown the need for a lazer-focussed pushback. Leaders should be imagineering win-win solutions by doubling down on proactively facilitating a circling of the wagons in order to adopt deep-dive ecosystems that promote a sales-driven call to action.
Unless this was done just as a massive tax-writeoff, then I bet Zuckerberg is kicking himself for it now. There's no way Oculus is worth 3 billion now. A string of over-greedy and shortsighted decisions by Oculus management (presumably the new people put in place by Zuckerberg after the purchase) totally devalued the product and company. Mostly thanks to marketing strategies such as drivers including always-on spying, making it a closed/DRM'd windows-only platform and store, and also totally underestimating the value of roomscale, In like 6 months Rift went from being the next big thing to a relatively dead duck compared to Steam/HTC Vive.
Yeah they probably did something like buy a whole bunch of real estate and build a new office building, then claimed they needed to do that for Oculus employee retention reasons.
There's lots more than just the browser that is insecure about Windows 7, but since they still didn't fix that stuff in 10 either, then I have to agree with you.
Haven't seen any blue rings of death, but under Windows 10 I have seen Firefox and several other apps regularly not exactly die, but just lock up and never come back, like resource starvation or something.
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It doesn't need actuators if it can simply convince people to do its bidding for it.
Just yet another reason to uninstall Windows 10.
Err whut? didn't the last few Nazis at the bunker burn his corpse already?
Yeah I wish slashdot would just remove that whole option, and so put a giant brake on all the gutless passive-aggressive morons and outright trolls.
They should at least add a viewing filter option to hide all the AC posts.
I've already made it a general rule to only respond to posters that have the balls to at least stand behind their own words by not posting as AC.
It will all come down to what effect he actually has.
If you look at the "quality of life" figures such as the health of the economy, inflation rate, national debt, unemployment rate, average income, etc, Obama is leaving the country in a significantly worse state than when he took it over.
>> Many cancers cannot be even remotely considered as routinely curable. Prostate cancer happens to be one of them.
Breast cancer also used to not be even remotely considered as routine curable, yet now it is, thanks to the billions that people donate to it. This is EXACTLY why prostate cancer does need more attention and research money.
No, I really wouldn't. Probably because I'm not American so don't always think of everything just in terms of money.
>> rather than put up with the side effects of CURRENTLY AVAILABLE treatment that is ultimately futile, BECAUSE NO_ONE IS TAKING FUNDING IT AS SERIOUSLY AS BREAST CANCER JUST BECAUSE VAGINA, EVEN THOUGH BREAST CANCER IS ALREADY A FAR MORE BEATEN PROBLEM.
http://healthydebate.ca/person...
There fixed it for ya.
>> Men are the ones who are deciding NOT to treat prostate cancer.
Thats not what the article says at all. Did you even read it?
It actually says "More Men With Early Prostate Cancer Are Choosing to Avoid Treatment".
>> So no, I'm not furthering any stereotype, you jerk.
Yes you absolutely are. Jerk yourself.
I wish I owned an acre of land right in the middle of where he wants to build his house. I'd put a big barbed-wire fence around it, park the biggest, ugliest, smelliest old trailer I could find on it, demand continued access rights and refuse to sell at any money.
Gee who knew that sitting too much is only something that affects post-menopausual women?
And since Prostate cancer USUALLY doesn't actually kill you quickly, then men should just suck it up and keep donating to Susan G Komen instead?
Yeah thanks for being part of the problem and further reinforcing the stereotype by just laughing it off with a boob joke. I didn't expect that from you of all people.
Why did they just study women?
It seems like anything that affects women gets attention, while society doesn't even value men.
Another prime example is the massive amount of attention and funding that breast cancer gets compared to prostate cancer, even though 1 in 7 men get prostate cancer while 1 in 8 women get breast cancer.
So what other motivations do you believe he has then? I mean how could the shit he knowingly chose to land himself in be considered self-serving or a better lifestyle in any way?
I'm fairly sure he'd have been personally much better off if he had just shut up and kept working at his highly paid consultancy job.
>> Obama got this one backwards.
Totally agree.
>> If his actions were purely altruistic then why would he not be willing to go for full martyrdom and come back and face trial?
Because that serves no-one other than the corrupt crazies in the US government who want revenge. It would also stop him leaking yet more stuff for the benefit of all (except the corrupt crazies).
>> we cannot say for sure what his motivations were.
Sure we can. There are plenty of interviews with him around the web such as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You can even hear it in his own words.
Sure it is. What Snowden did was altruistic and for the good of the people. What Nixon did was abuses of power designed to line his own pockets.
I used to love Atari stuff. Their 8 bit computers were WAY ahead of their time.. I remember my mind being blown when I saw Space Raiders at some expo back in the day. I struggled to get the money to buy an Atari 400 and my first significant programming experiences were all from it. I've lost track of exactly what Atari has become and who really owns it. Sadly wikipedia just seems to show its all been split up into tiny parts, all owned by a bunch of different shell companies, with no employees or real assets other than the trademark.
After my Atari 400 I got an Amiga which again was a truly pioneering machine and which I absolutely loved, but sadly Commodore seem to have gone exactly the same way as Atari. I would give my left nut to change history so Microsoft was the company that failed instead of Atari and Commodore.
>> He believes that leaders should engage people, and then provide context for self-organizing,
Definately. The elephant in the room here is that benefit analysis has clearly shown the need for a lazer-focussed pushback. Leaders should be imagineering win-win solutions by doubling down on proactively facilitating a circling of the wagons in order to adopt deep-dive ecosystems that promote a sales-driven call to action.
Unless this was done just as a massive tax-writeoff, then I bet Zuckerberg is kicking himself for it now. There's no way Oculus is worth 3 billion now.
A string of over-greedy and shortsighted decisions by Oculus management (presumably the new people put in place by Zuckerberg after the purchase) totally devalued the product and company. Mostly thanks to marketing strategies such as drivers including always-on spying, making it a closed/DRM'd windows-only platform and store, and also totally underestimating the value of roomscale, In like 6 months Rift went from being the next big thing to a relatively dead duck compared to Steam/HTC Vive.
Yeah they probably did something like buy a whole bunch of real estate and build a new office building, then claimed they needed to do that for Oculus employee retention reasons.
Sigh it can only decode 1080p H.264/MPEG-4 at 30fps?
I guess I'll have to wait for at least another generation before I get my mythtv client.
>> which businesses/industries need modern technology to operate? Oh, right, computer industries.
The only "computer industry" I can think of where this is credibly true is the PC sales industry.
There's lots more than just the browser that is insecure about Windows 7, but since they still didn't fix that stuff in 10 either, then I have to agree with you.
Haven't seen any blue rings of death, but under Windows 10 I have seen Firefox and several other apps regularly not exactly die, but just lock up and never come back, like resource starvation or something.