The weak, maybe, but targeting the young is often a huge mistake. There are few things more ferocious than a mother protecting her cubs - most predators that fail to realise this don't pass on their genes.
This is false in most cases. If you want proof, do research on why most animals produce incredible numbers of offspring, and why so few actually survive.
The "wealth redistribution" to which you refer is not so much from the government to the farmer as it is from the wealthy to the poor.
Oh, gee, that's ok then.
The wealthy are gonna be able to afford food anyway.
Sure are. Now the question is, how many poor people will the wealthy be able to employ in their businesses? The fact is, the more you tax them, the less they can employ, the less they can pay those they do employ, the more they'll have to bring in from selling.
Raising taxes on one section of society just indirectly taxes the other.
Why we out here in California get dinged with really high prices after these hurricanes? They always say that our prices are because of the lack of refineries in California, and that they cannot ship gas in from out of state. Yet now when these two hurricanes go through, our prices jump up like $.20.
Sometimes due to CA having to use their refineries to make gas for other states in need.
Maybe if the environmentalists would let some new refineries be built, and would ease restrictions on what states need what special blends, and cut back on gas taxes, you'd be paying reasonable prices.
I dunno about you but i live near a bunch of refineries in so cal. and I see pumps going all the time, yet wonder why we pay more than everyone else in the US for gas.
Simple: Gas taxes, and there's a higher demand:supply ratio compared to other areas.
If you really want single minded kool aid drinkers you sould hang out at gotdotnet. There not only are you shouted down and berated if you say anything anti MS, pro java or pro open source they even delete your posts. That's one of a cult they have going there.
Well, uhhh, it's a site devoted to.NET. Is it really surprising that they get rid of off-topic conversations? I don't see a problem with it. If someone wants to debate whether.NET is good, Java is good, open source is good, they have a thousand sites to choose from, what's wrong with one devoted to pro-.NET conversation?
Like social security providing a safety net for those who do not make enough to afford a 401K, perhaps we could also provide a safety net for those who can't or won't prepare for disasters.
There is already a safety net for that -- death.
The problem is the government is not intended to protect you from everything, nor is it good at it. Yet because it has its fingers in everything, many people (like you) are now confused about the role of federal government, and come to RELY on it for EVERYTHING. If the people that stayed in New Orleans weren't conditioned into thinking Mother Government would look out for them, maybe they would have prepared themselves for the worst?
What better way to help prevent the large scale suffering that so many endured during Katrina while waiting for rescue efforts.
Stop allowing people to (try to) rely on the government for everything?
Why is it that there are so many loud complaints about government when it helps individual citizens, but silence when government bails out corporations and the rich?
If you're talking to a libertarian, there's not silence in either situation.
I'm in the camp that thinks government is to help protect people.
Then you are also in the (huge) camp of people that have never read or bothered to understand the Constitution and the role of the Federal government.
how easy it would be to track him down (anonymity in internet really does not exist).
No, but if you're blogging criticism about Microsoft on the blog network of one of their biggest competitors (Google), I'm guessing it will last longer than you think, assuming he's not dumb enough to post or visit his blog from within the MS LAN.
What's insane is that making a criticism of the company is perceived these days as "a liability for incalculable damages".
That statement was made assuming a whole bunch about the contracts the employee signed and what Microsoft would do if they found him.
That's insane.
Why? If someone does something that damages a company, that person is damaging, in some way, the lives of everyone associated with the company: owners, employees, shareholders, and customers.
Why is it that the damages to the company are important anyway?
See above?
A company is a fictitious entity.
No, you're thinking of comic book characters.
Damages to people matter more than damges to companies, and in this case employees are important people, and they are the ones being damaged and not the other way around.
How are the employees at Microsoft being "damaged"?
Network Associates are not the government, and could not force anyone to give up their first amendment rights
Wow, you're so close but have got it dead wrong.
Network Associates is not the government, and therefore, the 1st amendment doesn't apply to them! The 1st amendment tells THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT they can't abridge those freedoms. This is because you can't escape the federal government if you want to live in America.
All they really understand is that if you don't sign, you don't have a job so enjoy living under a bridge when you lose your house! That is not far from holding a gun to your head, and saying, "sign this". An agreement under duress is no agreement at all.
Ummm, no, taking a voluntary job is not at all like having a gun held to your head. You can find another job.
The coolest thing about the ipods with photo capabilities are that they have video out and let you do slideshows from your ipod to your TV. I have no interest in browsing photos on my ipod, but being able to show photos from a recent trip so easily is awesome.
Now you see iTunes with video podcast support. How far behind are movie/TV show sales?
The video ipod's draw won't be so much in watching videos on the tiny little screen, but in sending them out to your TV.
Hmmm, Quicktime now does HD decoding, ergo iTunes does HD decoding. How hard will it be to put those algos in a video ipod? How cheaply (and efficiently, size-wise) can Apple fit an HD video decoder into an ipod?
Kind of the idea that Mark Cuban was touting recently -- what's the distribution method of the future for movies? He says, hard drives. Well, Apple just so happens to sell lots of hard drives... with nice white interfaces wrapped around them. And they've got the most popular, legal media distribution store on the planet.
C'mon folks, 2+2 =...
P.S. I had to post this through an anonymizing service, because Slashdot's fucked moderation system has deemed me a troll. This is based on a couple downmods received, versus how many +3, +4, +5 posts I've had in the past few weeks? Is there any logic to their system at all? I have Excellent karma and a huge track record of non-troll behavior. Another reason I've stopped subscribing to this place.
To steal something, you have to gain what another person loses - you steal a car, someone loses a car and you gain a car. Copyright infringement is NOT stealing.
It could be argued that you are stealing money from labels who lose sales due to the pirated copies being sold. That's why copyright infringement is a crime in the first place. Something is being stolen, just not what you think it is.
Maybe the knee jerk skeptics from Zonk down could back up their skepticism with some fact checking, but I guess that is asking a bit much.
This statement makes no sense. Skepticism requires that it be "knee jerk" to function properly. See, first you read a story that sounds extraordinary, and then you are skeptical of it AUTOMATICALLY. If you have time, you research it and try to find extraordinary evidence to back it up, and then you might start to believe it is true.
You don't ever have to "back up your skepticism with fact checking." You do fact checking to ease your skepticism.
But industry shouldn't have a role? That's crazy talk. Parents ought to keep a close eye on the things their kids do, but it is also the community's responsibility to raise kids rightly.
No, it's not. That's because the parent has the right to teach their child THEIR VALUES, and not have to worry about you ("the community") brainwashing them with YOUR VALUES.
The fact that many parents don't act responsibly doesn't mean we take that innate right away from everyone else.
But that is doing a huge disservice to the child who will not learn proper behavior.
And the parent and the child will have to suffer with that improper behavior, or do something about it, or wait until it escalates into a criminal act, and then the legal system will do something about it.
So too is it important that industries concentrate on producing high-quality, wholesome products.
I disagree completely. Industries produce nothing, companies do. Companies produce what people want to buy. People want to buy what suits them and their values. Don't worry about other people's values, worry about your own.
We do not accept people who wish to sell drugs to minors, nor do we absolve of guilt those who would ply them with alcohol.
I absolutely believe it should be the right of a parent to allow their child (and themselves, in the case of drugs) to ingest those things. Many countries have lowered or no cutoff year for when you can drink alcohol. Many of the best parents I know allow their children to responsibly enjoy alcohol before they turn 21, with no ill effects.
It is not always 100% the job of the parent. The community must be held responsible to the extent that they have offered moral corruption from beyond the purview of the child's parents.
Uh huh, and just who is going to decide what moral corruption is? Your signature reveals you are a Jesus worshiper, should you be allowed to force your ideals upon my child? If my child is walking through Wal-Mart talking about how Satan is his personal savior, should you have the right to enforce your belief system upon him?
Just mind your own business. That's a good rule of thumb forgotten by most right-wingers.
Re:A "best-practice" in Perl is like...
on
Perl Best Practices
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Actually, there are 4 (5 if you count the empty regex after the first split):
//
/ ^$P/ix
/^[ P.]/
/^r/
/\S/
I agree with the grandparent, I don't get how this code example means Perl is bad. You can do something similar with any language that doesn't require newlines between statements, and which allows regular expressions.
Where did I indicate the blog was not good for Google Corp? No where. I even indicated it's for Google fans. Obviously it's great advertising for their target market.
The point of my post was to criticize the idea that press releases are somehow "crap." Press releases are what they are -- release of information to the press. If you have a better way for companies to release information, please let us know.
These days, it's the point for the press.
Well, now is that a problem with the companies, or the press? The press sucks, by and large. You'll get no argument from me there.
I stand by my original statement- the "google blog" looks exactly like a press release page on a website.
Your original statement was also that press releases are crap on a stick. And that was the main point I was addressing.
Spend a few months working for an advertising firm. See every day emails floating into your inbox from executives bragging about successful "placement" campaigns with the press. See your company hawk the most incredible crap like it was the best thing since sliced bread. Feel your skin crawl- and realize that PR and marketing people are in the business of LYING . We'll see how skeptical you are of anything a corporation publishes...
Actually, I've spent over a decade working for a small company, and occasionally helping craft our press releases. Just because some of you like to think "Corporations == Evil" doesn't make it so.
When I was young, we used to call a "corporate blog" the "press release page." They're functionally equivalent, it's just that the web log has a more casual tone than your typical press release which usually follows a strict format.
Actually, they're not functionally equivalent. A press release necessarily contains information to help the press cover a company's announcement, such as the contact information for the company media contact, times, dates, brief company overview, pictures, etc.
As I write this, there is nothing up there about Lee, nor many of the other notices posted to the Google Blog. That should be another clue to the fact that the Google Blog is not a Press Release center. It contains info on many things that the general public don't, but Google fans do, care about.
When are y'all going to realize that crap on a stick is still crap on a stick, even if you call it "aromatic material on a thin rod"?
Why is a press release "crap on a stick"? How do you propose companies release information to the press or the public in general?
They are obviously just a release of information intended as a starting point for the press (i.e. a member of the public that is good at research/writing/reporting). If you want more information, you contact the spokesman listed at the bottom of the release.
Then the job of the press is to take the release and write about it, hopefully verifying claims, gathering more information, presenting alternate viewpoints, in an unbiased way.
You certainly must be trolling.. stories abound as to the un-availability of adequate transportation for those without cars and/or money.
Setting aside for the moment that this would be a problem caused by the local and state government, I would really like to see some newspaper articles referencing this problem.
Looking at the color of someone's skin does not make you a racist.
Judging the situation based on skin color, as the person did with me, is being racist.
Looking at the color of someone's skin and determining that it was "ignorance and idiocy at their decision to stay in a flood plain for a massive hurricane," without understanding the disparity of wealth and poverty between people of color in the South... that might very well qualify you as an ignorant racist.
Except that I am referring to all the morons that stayed there regardless of their skin color. In fact, of the morons I PERSONALLY KNOW who stayed there, 100% of them are white.
The race card is something the race pimps like to bring out to divide the nation. Keeps people busy, you know.
If you can't conceive of that as you drive your SUV to your local suburban mall
Ahh yes, another party trick from the left, class warfare. Actually, I drive a Camry, and it gets great gas mileage.
But tell me again why making a good living makes me a bad person?
It is your ignorance, not my racism that is the issue
Since I'm not racist and haven't made any racist comments, I believe it is your ignorance and attempt to paint non-PC people as racists that is the problem.
Slashdot Mirror
The weak, maybe, but targeting the young is often a huge mistake. There are few things more ferocious than a mother protecting her cubs - most predators that fail to realise this don't pass on their genes.
This is false in most cases. If you want proof, do research on why most animals produce incredible numbers of offspring, and why so few actually survive.
The "wealth redistribution" to which you refer is not so much from the government to the farmer as it is from the wealthy to the poor.
Oh, gee, that's ok then.
The wealthy are gonna be able to afford food anyway.
Sure are. Now the question is, how many poor people will the wealthy be able to employ in their businesses? The fact is, the more you tax them, the less they can employ, the less they can pay those they do employ, the more they'll have to bring in from selling.
Raising taxes on one section of society just indirectly taxes the other.
Why we out here in California get dinged with really high prices after these hurricanes? They always say that our prices are because of the lack of refineries in California, and that they cannot ship gas in from out of state. Yet now when these two hurricanes go through, our prices jump up like $.20.
Sometimes due to CA having to use their refineries to make gas for other states in need.
Maybe if the environmentalists would let some new refineries be built, and would ease restrictions on what states need what special blends, and cut back on gas taxes, you'd be paying reasonable prices.
I dunno about you but i live near a bunch of refineries in so cal. and I see pumps going all the time, yet wonder why we pay more than everyone else in the US for gas.
Simple: Gas taxes, and there's a higher demand:supply ratio compared to other areas.
If you really want single minded kool aid drinkers you sould hang out at gotdotnet. There not only are you shouted down and berated if you say anything anti MS, pro java or pro open source they even delete your posts. That's one of a cult they have going there.
.NET. Is it really surprising that they get rid of off-topic conversations? I don't see a problem with it. If someone wants to debate whether .NET is good, Java is good, open source is good, they have a thousand sites to choose from, what's wrong with one devoted to pro-.NET conversation?
Well, uhhh, it's a site devoted to
Like social security providing a safety net for those who do not make enough to afford a 401K, perhaps we could also provide a safety net for those who can't or won't prepare for disasters.
There is already a safety net for that -- death.
The problem is the government is not intended to protect you from everything, nor is it good at it. Yet because it has its fingers in everything, many people (like you) are now confused about the role of federal government, and come to RELY on it for EVERYTHING. If the people that stayed in New Orleans weren't conditioned into thinking Mother Government would look out for them, maybe they would have prepared themselves for the worst?
What better way to help prevent the large scale suffering that so many endured during Katrina while waiting for rescue efforts.
Stop allowing people to (try to) rely on the government for everything?
Why is it that there are so many loud complaints about government when it helps individual citizens, but silence when government bails out corporations and the rich?
If you're talking to a libertarian, there's not silence in either situation.
I'm in the camp that thinks government is to help protect people.
Then you are also in the (huge) camp of people that have never read or bothered to understand the Constitution and the role of the Federal government.
Slashdot subscription: $0.00
Getting to download the next version of Firefox because mozilla.org can withstand a slashdotting: $0.00
Flaming a stupid use of an old joke: priceless!
how easy it would be to track him down (anonymity in internet really does not exist).
No, but if you're blogging criticism about Microsoft on the blog network of one of their biggest competitors (Google), I'm guessing it will last longer than you think, assuming he's not dumb enough to post or visit his blog from within the MS LAN.
What's insane is that making a criticism of the company is perceived these days as "a liability for incalculable damages".
That statement was made assuming a whole bunch about the contracts the employee signed and what Microsoft would do if they found him.
That's insane.
Why? If someone does something that damages a company, that person is damaging, in some way, the lives of everyone associated with the company: owners, employees, shareholders, and customers.
Why is it that the damages to the company are important anyway?
See above?
A company is a fictitious entity.
No, you're thinking of comic book characters.
Damages to people matter more than damges to companies, and in this case employees are important people, and they are the ones being damaged and not the other way around.
How are the employees at Microsoft being "damaged"?
Network Associates are not the government, and could not force anyone to give up their first amendment rights
Wow, you're so close but have got it dead wrong.
Network Associates is not the government, and therefore, the 1st amendment doesn't apply to them! The 1st amendment tells THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT they can't abridge those freedoms. This is because you can't escape the federal government if you want to live in America.
All they really understand is that if you don't sign, you don't have a job so enjoy living under a bridge when you lose your house! That is not far from holding a gun to your head, and saying, "sign this". An agreement under duress is no agreement at all.
Ummm, no, taking a voluntary job is not at all like having a gun held to your head. You can find another job.
The coolest thing about the ipods with photo capabilities are that they have video out and let you do slideshows from your ipod to your TV. I have no interest in browsing photos on my ipod, but being able to show photos from a recent trip so easily is awesome.
...
Now you see iTunes with video podcast support. How far behind are movie/TV show sales?
The video ipod's draw won't be so much in watching videos on the tiny little screen, but in sending them out to your TV.
Hmmm, Quicktime now does HD decoding, ergo iTunes does HD decoding. How hard will it be to put those algos in a video ipod? How cheaply (and efficiently, size-wise) can Apple fit an HD video decoder into an ipod?
Kind of the idea that Mark Cuban was touting recently -- what's the distribution method of the future for movies? He says, hard drives. Well, Apple just so happens to sell lots of hard drives... with nice white interfaces wrapped around them. And they've got the most popular, legal media distribution store on the planet.
C'mon folks, 2+2 =
P.S. I had to post this through an anonymizing service, because Slashdot's fucked moderation system has deemed me a troll. This is based on a couple downmods received, versus how many +3, +4, +5 posts I've had in the past few weeks? Is there any logic to their system at all? I have Excellent karma and a huge track record of non-troll behavior. Another reason I've stopped subscribing to this place.
To steal something, you have to gain what another person loses - you steal a car, someone loses a car and you gain a car. Copyright infringement is NOT stealing.
It could be argued that you are stealing money from labels who lose sales due to the pirated copies being sold. That's why copyright infringement is a crime in the first place. Something is being stolen, just not what you think it is.
Maybe the knee jerk skeptics from Zonk down could back up their skepticism with some fact checking, but I guess that is asking a bit much.
This statement makes no sense. Skepticism requires that it be "knee jerk" to function properly. See, first you read a story that sounds extraordinary, and then you are skeptical of it AUTOMATICALLY. If you have time, you research it and try to find extraordinary evidence to back it up, and then you might start to believe it is true.
You don't ever have to "back up your skepticism with fact checking." You do fact checking to ease your skepticism.
These mice probably died of bubonic plague already.
Yeah, NO ONE expects the Spanish Astronomers.
Especially Michael Brown, apparantly.
Dartmouth researchers have developed the world's smallest untethered, controllable microrobot
Let me know when they develop uncontrollable microrobots.
But industry shouldn't have a role? That's crazy talk. Parents ought to keep a close eye on the things their kids do, but it is also the community's responsibility to raise kids rightly.
No, it's not. That's because the parent has the right to teach their child THEIR VALUES, and not have to worry about you ("the community") brainwashing them with YOUR VALUES.
The fact that many parents don't act responsibly doesn't mean we take that innate right away from everyone else.
But that is doing a huge disservice to the child who will not learn proper behavior.
And the parent and the child will have to suffer with that improper behavior, or do something about it, or wait until it escalates into a criminal act, and then the legal system will do something about it.
So too is it important that industries concentrate on producing high-quality, wholesome products.
I disagree completely. Industries produce nothing, companies do. Companies produce what people want to buy. People want to buy what suits them and their values. Don't worry about other people's values, worry about your own.
We do not accept people who wish to sell drugs to minors, nor do we absolve of guilt those who would ply them with alcohol.
I absolutely believe it should be the right of a parent to allow their child (and themselves, in the case of drugs) to ingest those things. Many countries have lowered or no cutoff year for when you can drink alcohol. Many of the best parents I know allow their children to responsibly enjoy alcohol before they turn 21, with no ill effects.
It is not always 100% the job of the parent. The community must be held responsible to the extent that they have offered moral corruption from beyond the purview of the child's parents.
Uh huh, and just who is going to decide what moral corruption is? Your signature reveals you are a Jesus worshiper, should you be allowed to force your ideals upon my child? If my child is walking through Wal-Mart talking about how Satan is his personal savior, should you have the right to enforce your belief system upon him?
Just mind your own business. That's a good rule of thumb forgotten by most right-wingers.
Actually, there are 4 (5 if you count the empty regex after the first split):
//
/ ^$P/ix
/^[ P.]/
/^r/
/\S/
I agree with the grandparent, I don't get how this code example means Perl is bad. You can do something similar with any language that doesn't require newlines between statements, and which allows regular expressions.
Where did I indicate the blog was not good for Google Corp? No where. I even indicated it's for Google fans. Obviously it's great advertising for their target market.
The point of my post was to criticize the idea that press releases are somehow "crap." Press releases are what they are -- release of information to the press. If you have a better way for companies to release information, please let us know.
These days, it's the point for the press.
Well, now is that a problem with the companies, or the press? The press sucks, by and large. You'll get no argument from me there.
I stand by my original statement- the "google blog" looks exactly like a press release page on a website.
Your original statement was also that press releases are crap on a stick. And that was the main point I was addressing.
Spend a few months working for an advertising firm. See every day emails floating into your inbox from executives bragging about successful "placement" campaigns with the press. See your company hawk the most incredible crap like it was the best thing since sliced bread. Feel your skin crawl- and realize that PR and marketing people are in the business of LYING . We'll see how skeptical you are of anything a corporation publishes...
Actually, I've spent over a decade working for a small company, and occasionally helping craft our press releases. Just because some of you like to think "Corporations == Evil" doesn't make it so.
When I was young, we used to call a "corporate blog" the "press release page." They're functionally equivalent, it's just that the web log has a more casual tone than your typical press release which usually follows a strict format.
Actually, they're not functionally equivalent. A press release necessarily contains information to help the press cover a company's announcement, such as the contact information for the company media contact, times, dates, brief company overview, pictures, etc.
You can see Google's press releases here:
http://googlepress.blogspot.com/
As I write this, there is nothing up there about Lee, nor many of the other notices posted to the Google Blog. That should be another clue to the fact that the Google Blog is not a Press Release center. It contains info on many things that the general public don't, but Google fans do, care about.
When are y'all going to realize that crap on a stick is still crap on a stick, even if you call it "aromatic material on a thin rod"?
Why is a press release "crap on a stick"? How do you propose companies release information to the press or the public in general?
They are obviously just a release of information intended as a starting point for the press (i.e. a member of the public that is good at research/writing/reporting). If you want more information, you contact the spokesman listed at the bottom of the release.
Then the job of the press is to take the release and write about it, hopefully verifying claims, gathering more information, presenting alternate viewpoints, in an unbiased way.
DBAN doesn't -- last I checked -- have SCSI or RAID drivers, so it is only viable if you're on a plain vanilla IDE system.
Which brings up a good question, what IS the best way to secure wipe a RAID setup?
Apple itself will then rename itself to iTunes. To go with the iTunes Music Store.
Since by 2010, Apple will be the largest distributor of movies in the world, I would think they should name their company iMedia.
You certainly must be trolling.. stories abound as to the un-availability of adequate transportation for those without cars and/or money.
Setting aside for the moment that this would be a problem caused by the local and state government, I would really like to see some newspaper articles referencing this problem.
Looking at the color of someone's skin does not make you a racist.
Judging the situation based on skin color, as the person did with me, is being racist.
Looking at the color of someone's skin and determining that it was "ignorance and idiocy at their decision to stay in a flood plain for a massive hurricane," without understanding the disparity of wealth and poverty between people of color in the South... that might very well qualify you as an ignorant racist.
Except that I am referring to all the morons that stayed there regardless of their skin color. In fact, of the morons I PERSONALLY KNOW who stayed there, 100% of them are white.
The race card is something the race pimps like to bring out to divide the nation. Keeps people busy, you know.
If you can't conceive of that as you drive your SUV to your local suburban mall
Ahh yes, another party trick from the left, class warfare. Actually, I drive a Camry, and it gets great gas mileage.
But tell me again why making a good living makes me a bad person?
It is your ignorance, not my racism that is the issue
Since I'm not racist and haven't made any racist comments, I believe it is your ignorance and attempt to paint non-PC people as racists that is the problem.