Yesterday's slashdot post on this got over 900 comments, and it was a weekend post. Do we really need another round on this topic?
Your logic is backwards. A lot of comments means people care about this issue and want to discuss it. A very low number of comments would be better evidence that another round is unwarranted.
Except they opted not to actually argue against what he was saying...
These issues have been argued to death. For centuries people have been saying "Women can't do X because biology says they should be home having babies", where X= policing, soldiering, leading, working as a professional, thinking about hard stuff, and now programming. So far the naysayers have always been wrong, but were never convinced by "arguments", only the performance of women in the jobs they supposedly couldn't do.
The article is saying nothing new at all, other than repeating the garbage you can find on any alt-right blog.
All ISPs have limited resources, they can only transit a certain amount of data.
That isn't the point. Of course there is a physical limit to what they can provide. That is different from ARTIFICIALLY limiting data while advertising no data caps. That is dishonest and deceptive.
If I go to an "all-you-can-eat" buffet, I understand that they may run out of some items, and if it is crowded, the kitchen may not be able to keep up. That is different from them telling me "You've had enough, so pay extra if you want more food."
They have been doing this in Japan and some northern European countries for at least a decade.
They have also been used in America. Philadelphia started using them in 2008. Philly uses virtual pyramids like in Japan, rather than the virtual humps used in London.
It's an odd feeling, you know they are just painted on but feel like you want to slow down anyway for some reason.
Short term effectiveness has been shown. But I couldn't find any data about how effective they are over the long term, as people get used to them. Can anyone cite long term data?
How do you propose to deal with guys like Bernie Madoff then?
He can clean bedpans too. He is not a violent person, and is not going to attack the patients. Or he can work in a recycling center, sorting trash. How is society better served by him sitting in a prison cell, rather than doing constructive work?
Plus I've cleaned bedpans. While not fun work it isn't nearly awful enough.
I have cleaned bedpans, and I have been in jail. While in jail, I spent my time reading books and watching TV. It was much nicer than cleaning bedpans.
Using incarceration as the default punishment is idiotic. It is expensive and wasteful. It should be a last resort.
Uhh.. no. They control three of three. In addition to the presidency, senate, and house, 5 of 9 justices on the supreme court are Republican appointees. The Republicans also control 2/3 of the governorships and state legislatures.
The Democrats really need to figure out how to start winning some elections.
Prisons should only be used for violent people that must be separated from civilized society. For everyone else, there are more constructive punishments. For instance, Ajit could wear an ankle tracker will cleaning bedpans in nursing homes everyday for the next 10 years.
Six characters that are alpha numeric is not that much entropy.
(26 + 26 + 10) ^ 6 = 56800235584
If they know the word from the text file and your convention...
1. They don't know the convention 2. They have no way to do offline search, so each attempt will be online and take a significant fraction of a second. 3. All the accounts I care about shut down after 3 to 5 unsuccessful attempts and require 2 factor to re-enable. 4. Most important accounts don't allow ANY attempts from an unrecognized device without 2 factor.
To seize the money you would need one of two things: 1. The cryptographic keys 2. Cooperation of the majority of the miners that control the blockchain.
The miners have precisely zero incentive to cooperate. If they agreed to compromise the integrity of the blockchain, it would have a huge negative effect on the value of the currency.
Trust me, this is the kind of law firm that will take a lot more than 30%.
As they should. A lawsuit like this takes a lot of time and money, and has a high probability of netting $0. So the contingency has to be high to make it worthwhile.
In a class action, if another qualified law firm is willing to do it for less, the judge can allow them to represent the class instead.
For the injured parties, 70% of something is better than 100% of nothing.
That is not necessarily bad. If criminals are forced to pay lawyers, that is still a deterrent to crime. You should think of these lawsuits as the outsourcing of law enforcement to the private sector.
The US has put sanctions on specific individuals involved in abuses and political violence. Of course these did nothing whatsoever to cause Venezuela's problems, because they are not on the country or government, but only on individuals... and they were only put in place a few weeks ago.
Putting a bunch of cars in landfills doesn't help the environment.
They won't go in landfills. They will be exported to countries with lower pollution standards. Even if they were scrapped, they would not go to landfills. Cars are 90% recyclable.
Public parking spaces with chargers already exist and are becoming more common. There are several within a 5 minute walk of my home. There are chargers at my local Walmart, Costco, and Safeway. My employer also provides a few EV parking spaces, and will be installing more.
If you think open spectrum is such a bad idea, they why do you use technology based on it, such as Wifi? Why don't you use a closed spectrum proprietary solution that is "better"? Perhaps because they suck, are expensive, and mostly no longer exist (because they sucked)?
We already have a ton of problems with the 2.4GHZ spectrum because devices don't play well with each other.
The solution to that is MORE open spectrum, rather than cramming everything into 2.4GHz. The UHF spectrum would be perfect for things like sensors and other IoT devices where range and battery life is more important than bandwidth.
To be fair, von Bismarck (it's an old name and predates the modern "mark" spelling) intended to suppress socialists that way.
Of course. I was being sarcastic when I called him a liberal. But the reasons for his policies are not what is important. What is important is that they worked. Germany was socially stable and prospered. In fact, they did so well that by 1914 the Germans felt they could fight the whole world and win.
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Yesterday's slashdot post on this got over 900 comments, and it was a weekend post. Do we really need another round on this topic?
Your logic is backwards. A lot of comments means people care about this issue and want to discuss it. A very low number of comments would be better evidence that another round is unwarranted.
Except they opted not to actually argue against what he was saying...
These issues have been argued to death. For centuries people have been saying "Women can't do X because biology says they should be home having babies", where X= policing, soldiering, leading, working as a professional, thinking about hard stuff, and now programming. So far the naysayers have always been wrong, but were never convinced by "arguments", only the performance of women in the jobs they supposedly couldn't do.
The article is saying nothing new at all, other than repeating the garbage you can find on any alt-right blog.
they still don't understand how/why Trump won.
Trump lost overwhelmingly in Silicon Valley.
All ISPs have limited resources, they can only transit a certain amount of data.
That isn't the point. Of course there is a physical limit to what they can provide. That is different from ARTIFICIALLY limiting data while advertising no data caps. That is dishonest and deceptive.
If I go to an "all-you-can-eat" buffet, I understand that they may run out of some items, and if it is crowded, the kitchen may not be able to keep up. That is different from them telling me "You've had enough, so pay extra if you want more food."
They have been doing this in Japan and some northern European countries for at least a decade.
They have also been used in America. Philadelphia started using them in 2008. Philly uses virtual pyramids like in Japan, rather than the virtual humps used in London.
It's an odd feeling, you know they are just painted on but feel like you want to slow down anyway for some reason.
Short term effectiveness has been shown. But I couldn't find any data about how effective they are over the long term, as people get used to them. Can anyone cite long term data?
It's hard to win elections when the incumbents gerrymander the shit out of everything.
Senate and governor elections are statewide, and gerrymandering has no effect on them. Yet Democrats still lose.
How do you propose to deal with guys like Bernie Madoff then?
He can clean bedpans too. He is not a violent person, and is not going to attack the patients. Or he can work in a recycling center, sorting trash. How is society better served by him sitting in a prison cell, rather than doing constructive work?
Plus I've cleaned bedpans. While not fun work it isn't nearly awful enough.
I have cleaned bedpans, and I have been in jail. While in jail, I spent my time reading books and watching TV. It was much nicer than cleaning bedpans.
Using incarceration as the default punishment is idiotic. It is expensive and wasteful. It should be a last resort.
the GOP controls the two of the three branches.
Uhh .. no. They control three of three. In addition to the presidency, senate, and house, 5 of 9 justices on the supreme court are Republican appointees. The Republicans also control 2/3 of the governorships and state legislatures.
The Democrats really need to figure out how to start winning some elections.
Personally I think he should be thrown in prison.
Prisons should only be used for violent people that must be separated from civilized society. For everyone else, there are more constructive punishments. For instance, Ajit could wear an ankle tracker will cleaning bedpans in nursing homes everyday for the next 10 years.
When men express an interest in childcare or teaching young children they're socially accused of being pedophiles or creeps.
96% of child molesters are male.
And yet, given that the half-life of a software engineer is 3 years ...
This is not "given". Where did you get this factoid?
Six characters that are alpha numeric is not that much entropy.
(26 + 26 + 10) ^ 6 = 56800235584
If they know the word from the text file and your convention ...
1. They don't know the convention
2. They have no way to do offline search, so each attempt will be online and take a significant fraction of a second.
3. All the accounts I care about shut down after 3 to 5 unsuccessful attempts and require 2 factor to re-enable.
4. Most important accounts don't allow ANY attempts from an unrecognized device without 2 factor.
And why exactly wasn't the money seized?
To seize the money you would need one of two things:
1. The cryptographic keys
2. Cooperation of the majority of the miners that control the blockchain.
The miners have precisely zero incentive to cooperate. If they agreed to compromise the integrity of the blockchain, it would have a huge negative effect on the value of the currency.
Trust me, this is the kind of law firm that will take a lot more than 30%.
As they should. A lawsuit like this takes a lot of time and money, and has a high probability of netting $0. So the contingency has to be high to make it worthwhile.
In a class action, if another qualified law firm is willing to do it for less, the judge can allow them to represent the class instead.
For the injured parties, 70% of something is better than 100% of nothing.
You're paying the legal fees up front
I know nothing about the Ukrainian legal system, but in America most class action lawsuits are 100% contingency. There are no up-front fees.
Sounds like the attorneys.
That is not necessarily bad. If criminals are forced to pay lawyers, that is still a deterrent to crime. You should think of these lawsuits as the outsourcing of law enforcement to the private sector.
Which "overt US economic sanctions"?
The US has put sanctions on specific individuals involved in abuses and political violence. Of course these did nothing whatsoever to cause Venezuela's problems, because they are not on the country or government, but only on individuals ... and they were only put in place a few weeks ago.
You can easily make any device frustrating enough to use that people will hate using it
Proof: Windows Mobile
Oh and Walmart, Costco and Safeway don't mind if the fella who lives in the apartment down the street parks there and charges?
The chargers are not free. You plug in, a sensor identifies your car, and your account is debited for the amount of energy you draw.
Every study I've ever read says ...
Vacuously true?
Putting a bunch of cars in landfills doesn't help the environment.
They won't go in landfills. They will be exported to countries with lower pollution standards. Even if they were scrapped, they would not go to landfills. Cars are 90% recyclable.
im glad i dont own vw stock.
This may be a good time to buy at the bottom.
where do you charge it . . . ?
Public parking spaces with chargers already exist and are becoming more common. There are several within a 5 minute walk of my home. There are chargers at my local Walmart, Costco, and Safeway. My employer also provides a few EV parking spaces, and will be installing more.
And that's what makes it such a bad idea.
If you think open spectrum is such a bad idea, they why do you use technology based on it, such as Wifi? Why don't you use a closed spectrum proprietary solution that is "better"? Perhaps because they suck, are expensive, and mostly no longer exist (because they sucked)?
We already have a ton of problems with the 2.4GHZ spectrum because devices don't play well with each other.
The solution to that is MORE open spectrum, rather than cramming everything into 2.4GHz. The UHF spectrum would be perfect for things like sensors and other IoT devices where range and battery life is more important than bandwidth.
To be fair, von Bismarck (it's an old name and predates the modern "mark" spelling) intended to suppress socialists that way.
Of course. I was being sarcastic when I called him a liberal. But the reasons for his policies are not what is important. What is important is that they worked. Germany was socially stable and prospered. In fact, they did so well that by 1914 the Germans felt they could fight the whole world and win.
Open source developers are just a bunch of chumps.
Not really. If Linus had closed sourced Linux back in 1991, approximately this many people would use it today: 0.
Instead, by making it free, he has made $150 Million.