Pretty funny that anyone would care about Facebook's "explanation" about why the independent researchers finding all those tracking cookies are all mistaken... but to be honest, I'm pretty sure that killing off Facebook's tracking wouldn't do anything if everyone else is tracking you anyhow.
More cynically, there are enough cheaper and more convenient ways to track people nowadays than attaching a special-purpose GPS tracker to their property, that pretending to value the Constitution just this once is worth more than the inconvenience of getting a warrant for those few times they want to use a physical GPS tracker.
I'll still cheer their doing the right thing this once, but if they want my general approval they still have way more to do.
Bitcoin is not a finite resource, or a resource at all. It was designed with artificial scarcity.
I wouldn't waste the HDD space to store a bitcoin hash.
Sounds similar to diamonds -- let me guess, if someone gave you a diamond you'd just throw it out like the worthless little piece of carbon it is, am I right?
Haven't you heard? God said such things are OK now, like shrimp and women's rights.
You want to go after a really bad sin? Try greed -- which is one of the most pervasive violations of the rule "Love your neighbor as yourself". Be a real man, and make your stand against a *popular* sin, rather than one most people can't even be tempted by.
I'm counting "life in prison" as "death sentence without the usual appeals and standards of evidence". None of the extra expense in a death sentence is the execution, it's all the extra scrutiny. If you're innocent, you should hope they're going for a death sentence rather than life in prison, because you have a higher chance of getting your life back.
Real engineers *get paid to* make things that are reliable, tested, and safe, because the company could be sued into bankruptcy if things go wrong. Some software engineers *get paid to* make things that are reliable, tested, and safe, because the company could be sued into bankruptcy if things go wrong. Other software engineers *get paid to* get it done by tomorrow, because if something goes wrong no one but a few nerds gives a crap. But none of that could possibly be the fault of the managers.
Most humane way to execute someone: Bullet (or bolt gun) to the head, followed by organ donation to more worthy human beings. This may be ugly, but it is very humane.
Least humane way to execute someone: Put them in a box till they die, funded by money that could have been spent saving lives.
I'm opposed to the death penalty, but my opposition starts at the most common method -- putting them in a box until they die because someone was too afraid of the automatic appeals process required for a faster death penalty.
This being Slashdot, one might say they're waiting on the balls transplant. (Yet if "having balls" works like people say, nerds wouldn't want that anyways.)
What about migratory birds? Has anyone bothered to solve the problem of mass kills during migration season?
Easy, simply replace all coal power plants with wind power. Or do birds killed by carcinogenic particulates, mercury poisoning, strip mining, global warming, all not count because they don't die at the coal plant itself?
Your theory is that eventually a transformer and rectifier and a semiconductor, will be about as cheap as a wire filament? Or that humans are particularly good at spending their money in the present to save more in the future?
The Bible also does not say anything about abortion
Yes it does. It says that abortion is an appropriate response to infidelity (when there are no witnesses as required for the death sentence). See Numbers 5:27. Also, the Bible says that children should not be punished for their parent's sin, but there is nothing that grants pregnant women an exemption from the death sentence.
And the great irony is that, although the whole purpose of IP is to give inventors and artists their due,
The great irony is that the purpose of IP is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, yet the massive extensions in term and coverage mean the opposite occurs. The inventors and artists can stick their IP where the sun don't shine, the only reason we care about them getting their due is so that they're encouraged to produce and share their work.
In fact, I recently got terminated from one such place because they finally started to make money and could no longer dance around the fact that they hadn't given me the shares in the company that they had been promising for the previous 9 years.
Would you like to work for my company? We can't pay too much right now, but you'll get shares in the company, work hard and we'll make your rich beyond your wildest dreams.
I can't tell the difference between a bar of gold, and a bar of gold hollowed out and filled with lead*.
Archimedes sorted that problem years ago.
Then how about a bar of tungsten with a little lead to lower it's density to that of gold, then coated with gold?
In case you missed it, the parent's point was that sometimes people buy things because other people value or are expected to value them, of which any form of money including gold bars are a perfect example.
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Pretty funny that anyone would care about Facebook's "explanation" about why the independent researchers finding all those tracking cookies are all mistaken... but to be honest, I'm pretty sure that killing off Facebook's tracking wouldn't do anything if everyone else is tracking you anyhow.
More cynically, there are enough cheaper and more convenient ways to track people nowadays than attaching a special-purpose GPS tracker to their property, that pretending to value the Constitution just this once is worth more than the inconvenience of getting a warrant for those few times they want to use a physical GPS tracker.
I'll still cheer their doing the right thing this once, but if they want my general approval they still have way more to do.
Bitcoin is not a finite resource, or a resource at all. It was designed with artificial scarcity.
I wouldn't waste the HDD space to store a bitcoin hash.
Sounds similar to diamonds -- let me guess, if someone gave you a diamond you'd just throw it out like the worthless little piece of carbon it is, am I right?
Besides, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.
Haven't you heard? God said such things are OK now, like shrimp and women's rights.
You want to go after a really bad sin? Try greed -- which is one of the most pervasive violations of the rule "Love your neighbor as yourself". Be a real man, and make your stand against a *popular* sin, rather than one most people can't even be tempted by.
I'm counting "life in prison" as "death sentence without the usual appeals and standards of evidence". None of the extra expense in a death sentence is the execution, it's all the extra scrutiny. If you're innocent, you should hope they're going for a death sentence rather than life in prison, because you have a higher chance of getting your life back.
The problem is that it costs the state more to kill someone than it does to fund the rest of their lives in a box.
It is more worthwhile to spend money giving someone better chance to prove their innocence, than to spend it keeping them in a box til they die.
:-)
Real engineers *get paid to* make things that are reliable, tested, and safe, because the company could be sued into bankruptcy if things go wrong. Some software engineers *get paid to* make things that are reliable, tested, and safe, because the company could be sued into bankruptcy if things go wrong. Other software engineers *get paid to* get it done by tomorrow, because if something goes wrong no one but a few nerds gives a crap. But none of that could possibly be the fault of the managers.
Most humane way to execute someone:
Bullet (or bolt gun) to the head, followed by organ donation to more worthy human beings. This may be ugly, but it is very humane.
Least humane way to execute someone:
Put them in a box till they die, funded by money that could have been spent saving lives.
I'm opposed to the death penalty, but my opposition starts at the most common method -- putting them in a box until they die because someone was too afraid of the automatic appeals process required for a faster death penalty.
Two, some forms of IP crime are used to fund terrorism.
Well, most forms of money are used to fund terrorism. We should ban money!
This being Slashdot, one might say they're waiting on the balls transplant. (Yet if "having balls" works like people say, nerds wouldn't want that anyways.)
Now I'll need to charge my wallet.
Just use your charge card.
What about migratory birds? Has anyone bothered to solve the problem of mass kills during migration season?
Easy, simply replace all coal power plants with wind power. Or do birds killed by carcinogenic particulates, mercury poisoning, strip mining, global warming, all not count because they don't die at the coal plant itself?
Your theory is that eventually a transformer and rectifier and a semiconductor, will be about as cheap as a wire filament? Or that humans are particularly good at spending their money in the present to save more in the future?
The Bible also does not say anything about abortion
Yes it does. It says that abortion is an appropriate response to infidelity (when there are no witnesses as required for the death sentence). See Numbers 5:27. Also, the Bible says that children should not be punished for their parent's sin, but there is nothing that grants pregnant women an exemption from the death sentence.
And the great irony is that, although the whole purpose of IP is to give inventors and artists their due,
The great irony is that the purpose of IP is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, yet the massive extensions in term and coverage mean the opposite occurs. The inventors and artists can stick their IP where the sun don't shine, the only reason we care about them getting their due is so that they're encouraged to produce and share their work.
I have a Big Mac.
In fact, I recently got terminated from one such place because they finally started to make money and could no longer dance around the fact that they hadn't given me the shares in the company that they had been promising for the previous 9 years.
Would you like to work for my company? We can't pay too much right now, but you'll get shares in the company, work hard and we'll make your rich beyond your wildest dreams.
I can't tell the difference between a bar of gold, and a bar of gold hollowed out and filled with lead*.
Archimedes sorted that problem years ago.
Then how about a bar of tungsten with a little lead to lower it's density to that of gold, then coated with gold?
In case you missed it, the parent's point was that sometimes people buy things because other people value or are expected to value them, of which any form of money including gold bars are a perfect example.
No, what would be funny is if he had been charged for espionage, privacy violations, or something along those lines.
Also gotta wonder how much CO2 this outputs per Joule of energy. (Not that this would be a problem on Mars, just the opposite in fact)
What kind of yahoo is running that country anyhow?
Netanyahu.
It was actually an "F.U." rating. Did you want those public records... well, [see rating].
Even that is not absolutely definitive (see also: sperm bank, lab error).