They are Google's figures. If they get released early, they are still Google's figures.
The fact that releasing what (I assume) is the correct information a few hours early can result in a company's share price dropping 10% simply proves what a futile irrelevance the financial markets are.
Now that we've had the requisite 400 posts complaining about the video codec and the bad jokes, does anyone care to comment on what he said?
Anyone?
I think it was something to do with software. But as there was no violence, no sex, no swearing and no explosions I can't say I was paying much attention. Slashdot really needs to liven up its videos. Also, the soundtrack was shit.
Also I, like many here, read slashdot at work and if you are reading a web page you may be doing some research or something, but if you are watching a video then it is pretty clear you are not doing your job.
Exactly. Also, where I work you aren't allowed to sit at your desk with headphones on ignoring the outside world, so even if you could get away with watching the video you still wouldn't be able to hear it, which is kind of a disadvantage for an interview.
No nonsense about "targetted advertising". That's one of the advertising industries big lies. "Targetting" just means that two ad's in a thousand are relevant rather than
one ad in a thousand. The practical difference from the point of view of the target is nil.
I hate the idea of targeted advertising. When I'm on the family laptop at home I don't want my gmail account displaying loads of invitations to visit further anal blonde cheerleader webcam chatrooms, and trying to explain to the wife where they got that idea from.
I'm trying to get away from "social" apps, not get more into them.
Glad to see I'm not alone in my sentiments towards the "social" apps".
If only they had a 'KILL' button for 'em.
Maybe I'm just more 1337 than you, but I find that the best way to avoid facebook (for example) is by not clicking on any button called facebook, nor typing "facebook.com" into a browser.
If the latest version of Ubuntu made logging onto facebook compulsory, you might have a point.
If you're serious I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'm still selling shares in. For a one- off fee of $10m you get a 51% share. If you introduce two friends they can get a 51% share too, but it will cost them more. So I urge you to get in quickly.
Remove all the street cameras in UK as a first step before talking about bad things in other countries.
Here's a tap with the clue stick to all you paranoid fuckwits out there: if you're going to watch child porn, deal drugs or whatever it is you're worried about being caught doingdon't do it in a public place where you might be seen by witnesses. And CCTV cameras are in public places.
Funny thing - last year a professor (UCLA?) used standard statistical measures on various news outlets to measure overall bias. I don't recall the details of the methodology, but it is one that has been used for a long time for this sort of thing. He found that most of the mainstream news media were far to the left (over 70%), and Fox News was only slightly to the left (IIRC 52%, within experimental error).
That is the funniest thing I have read all week.
It's also worth noting that in DC something over 90% of all news professionals are registered to left or extreme left parties - IIRC last survey showed over 12/13. Among the reporters and editors the ratio is more extreme. I just read a quote from the editor or publisher or something at NY Times, who said (as I recall) that everyone in the news room and editorial staff is so far left that they don't even know how to cover a story from any other angle.
If you are a college grad, realize that at most colleges over 95% of instructors are left or far left - so your education started out from a very left perspective. Chances are, based on the available inputs to most of us, your idea of 'center' is probably somewhere to the left of where it really is. Of course I don't know you, I'm generalizing.
IMHO any news organization that presumes to be nonpartisan should have approximately equal numbers of personnel of all common persuasions. AFAIK the only 'mainstream' news TV outlet with _any_ regular non-leftist onscreen personalities is Fox - I don't have cable and rarely see TV, so I could be mistaken on that by now. (plus also maybe Bloomberg and some other financial channels?) I think the experience of Juan Williams (is he still on Fox?) is a useful example.
Oh, you were being serious. I'd get some urgent professional help if I were you, whatever drugs you're on aren't helping.
I bet there are certainly a few, though with a pay rate higher than 50 cents. I'd believe $5 per thread. $10 if they are getting a luxury payout for being good.
I can confirm that the figure is in fact $108.50 (less withholding tax) per thread. If you have accounts with all the major players (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook) and accounts on slashdot, reddit, digg, twitter, faceboook and a few others and you post on a few threads on each every day, you can pretty soon get yourself a nice 7 figure annual salary for a couple of hours work a day. You won't get rich like Bill Gates, but you'll be comfortable.
However, these gigs are appointment only. If you'd like an "in", I can arrange it for a small finders' fee, just to cover my time and expenses, of $1000 per company, which you'll recoup in your first day's work!
The Vietnam war was about stopping the spread of communism into South Vietnam (see the Domino Theory)
The entirely discredited Domino Theory was an absurd piece of justification for military/economic intervention. Here's a clue: if a country wants to be "communist" [*] it's not the job of the US to stop them.
[*] This was used to describe any vaguely left wing or democratic movement that did not pander to the US military-industrial complex.
Just because someone says Fag, doesn't mean they're a homophobic. It's similar to how I can say "Nigger" without being racist.
Using fag or gay as an insult is either (1) homophobic or (2) childishly ignorant. And unless you're black using the word "nigger" will pretty much always be seen as racist.
Political correctness doesn't come into it. You might think you're being bold and outspoken, but if your language offends people unnecessarily, then you can't complain that people treat you as offensive. You have the right to be as much of an arsehole as you want, just don't whine when people react as though you're an arsehole.
Its perfectly legal to yell fire and cause people to panic if there actually is a fire, or even just smoke.
And slashdot literalism strikes again.
The statement "you can't shout Fire! in a crowded theatre" is quite obviously a shorthand for "you can't maliciously shout Fire! and cause panic and even death in a crowded theatre when there is no actual sign of a fire, but obviously if you do see signs of a fire it is your duty to warn people of the danger."
I would like to believe that you were joking, but there is absolutely no evidence that you were, so I can only assume you are a fucking idiot.
This is both really good and really bad at the same time. Although I want these guys to be shut up, I do not agree that Google should censor opinions even if most of us find those opinions abhorrent.
If the government won't shut them up, the people will. With their boots and fists. That's the only language these fascists understand anyway.
So all privacy laws (HIPAA, etc) are violations of free speech? Holy crap you're a dumb fuck.
Strictly speaking, yes they are. Issues like privacy show where the concept of absolute freedom of speech falls down. If I get hold of your medical records and want to publish them, you are interfering with my freedom to publish what I like by denying me that option. (Same for publishing classified material or whatever).
So...Germany is another country without free speech guarantee laws?
Bizarrely, the Germans have looked at the balance between absolute free speech and preventing a return to Nazism, and have come down in favour of the latter. Who'd have thought that a country responsible for the Second World War, the Holocaust and so on would think that it was a good idea never to be seen to be going back along that road at the expense of the theoretical civil rights of a bunch of lunatics?
And before anyone starts on the "first they came for the..." argument, Germany isn't rounding up and executing these neo-Nazi fuckers. Unfortunately.
Well, different countries - different priorities. In the EU, for example, there exists a right to life, in the USA there is no such thing (otherwise death penalty would not be possible).
Are you serious?? The EU has outlawed abortion? When did this happen?
A foetus isn't alive, genius.
Or do you think it's murder when you wank into a tissue and flush it down the toilet?
Should Twitter also censor disparaging comments about Mohammed in Muslim countries?
If it's specifically illegal there, then unfortunately yes.
If you can't abide by the laws in a certain country, you shouldn't go there, and this applies to companies as well as individuals on holiday. It is up to the people in that country to choose their own laws.
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What's the point of rhetorical questions?
I don't know, what's the point of rhetorical questions?
They are Google's figures. If they get released early, they are still Google's figures.
The fact that releasing what (I assume) is the correct information a few hours early can result in a company's share price dropping 10% simply proves what a futile irrelevance the financial markets are.
Now that we've had the requisite 400 posts complaining about the video codec and the bad jokes, does anyone care to comment on what he said?
Anyone?
I think it was something to do with software. But as there was no violence, no sex, no swearing and no explosions I can't say I was paying much attention. Slashdot really needs to liven up its videos. Also, the soundtrack was shit.
Also I, like many here, read slashdot at work and if you are reading a web page you may be doing some research or something, but if you are watching a video then it is pretty clear you are not doing your job.
Exactly. Also, where I work you aren't allowed to sit at your desk with headphones on ignoring the outside world, so even if you could get away with watching the video you still wouldn't be able to hear it, which is kind of a disadvantage for an interview.
No nonsense about "targetted advertising". That's one of the advertising industries big lies. "Targetting" just means that two ad's in a thousand are relevant rather than one ad in a thousand. The practical difference from the point of view of the target is nil.
I hate the idea of targeted advertising. When I'm on the family laptop at home I don't want my gmail account displaying loads of invitations to visit further anal blonde cheerleader webcam chatrooms, and trying to explain to the wife where they got that idea from.
I'm trying to get away from "social" apps, not get more into them.
Glad to see I'm not alone in my sentiments towards the "social" apps". If only they had a 'KILL' button for 'em.
Maybe I'm just more 1337 than you, but I find that the best way to avoid facebook (for example) is by not clicking on any button called facebook, nor typing "facebook.com" into a browser.
If the latest version of Ubuntu made logging onto facebook compulsory, you might have a point.
we all moved to LibreOffice
So who downloaded OpenOffice 20 million times?
Me. It was just me. Over and over again. I was having personal issues at the time and needed something to keep my mind off things. Soz.
Are you, like, Larry as in Leisure Suit Larry?
The one thing Open Office has going for it is brand recognition by the average user.
Well you're half right: they'd recognise the Office part of the brand all right.
What's the difference between the Timecube guy and Bitcoin fans?
Gene Ray's funnier.
If you're serious I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'm still selling shares in. For a one- off fee of $10m you get a 51% share. If you introduce two friends they can get a 51% share too, but it will cost them more. So I urge you to get in quickly.
You forgot to say copyright != theft because no one on slashdot has the brains to appreciate that distinction either.
Remove all the street cameras in UK as a first step before talking about bad things in other countries.
Here's a tap with the clue stick to all you paranoid fuckwits out there: if you're going to watch child porn, deal drugs or whatever it is you're worried about being caught doingdon't do it in a public place where you might be seen by witnesses. And CCTV cameras are in public places.
Funny thing - last year a professor (UCLA?) used standard statistical measures on various news outlets to measure overall bias. I don't recall the details of the methodology, but it is one that has been used for a long time for this sort of thing. He found that most of the mainstream news media were far to the left (over 70%), and Fox News was only slightly to the left (IIRC 52%, within experimental error).
That is the funniest thing I have read all week.
It's also worth noting that in DC something over 90% of all news professionals are registered to left or extreme left parties - IIRC last survey showed over 12/13. Among the reporters and editors the ratio is more extreme. I just read a quote from the editor or publisher or something at NY Times, who said (as I recall) that everyone in the news room and editorial staff is so far left that they don't even know how to cover a story from any other angle.
If you are a college grad, realize that at most colleges over 95% of instructors are left or far left - so your education started out from a very left perspective. Chances are, based on the available inputs to most of us, your idea of 'center' is probably somewhere to the left of where it really is. Of course I don't know you, I'm generalizing.
IMHO any news organization that presumes to be nonpartisan should have approximately equal numbers of personnel of all common persuasions. AFAIK the only 'mainstream' news TV outlet with _any_ regular non-leftist onscreen personalities is Fox - I don't have cable and rarely see TV, so I could be mistaken on that by now. (plus also maybe Bloomberg and some other financial channels?) I think the experience of Juan Williams (is he still on Fox?) is a useful example.
Oh, you were being serious. I'd get some urgent professional help if I were you, whatever drugs you're on aren't helping.
I bet there are certainly a few, though with a pay rate higher than 50 cents. I'd believe $5 per thread. $10 if they are getting a luxury payout for being good.
I can confirm that the figure is in fact $108.50 (less withholding tax) per thread. If you have accounts with all the major players (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook) and accounts on slashdot, reddit, digg, twitter, faceboook and a few others and you post on a few threads on each every day, you can pretty soon get yourself a nice 7 figure annual salary for a couple of hours work a day. You won't get rich like Bill Gates, but you'll be comfortable.
However, these gigs are appointment only. If you'd like an "in", I can arrange it for a small finders' fee, just to cover my time and expenses, of $1000 per company, which you'll recoup in your first day's work!
The Vietnam war was about stopping the spread of communism into South Vietnam (see the Domino Theory)
The entirely discredited Domino Theory was an absurd piece of justification for military/economic intervention. Here's a clue: if a country wants to be "communist" [*] it's not the job of the US to stop them.
[*] This was used to describe any vaguely left wing or democratic movement that did not pander to the US military-industrial complex.
Just because someone says Fag, doesn't mean they're a homophobic. It's similar to how I can say "Nigger" without being racist.
Using fag or gay as an insult is either (1) homophobic or (2) childishly ignorant. And unless you're black using the word "nigger" will pretty much always be seen as racist.
Political correctness doesn't come into it. You might think you're being bold and outspoken, but if your language offends people unnecessarily, then you can't complain that people treat you as offensive. You have the right to be as much of an arsehole as you want, just don't whine when people react as though you're an arsehole.
Its perfectly legal to yell fire and cause people to panic if there actually is a fire, or even just smoke.
And slashdot literalism strikes again.
The statement "you can't shout Fire! in a crowded theatre" is quite obviously a shorthand for "you can't maliciously shout Fire! and cause panic and even death in a crowded theatre when there is no actual sign of a fire, but obviously if you do see signs of a fire it is your duty to warn people of the danger."
I would like to believe that you were joking, but there is absolutely no evidence that you were, so I can only assume you are a fucking idiot.
You can be arrested for inciting panic, ie purely for your words. That is a limit on free speech.
Exactly. It's like saying "you have absolute freedom to criticise the King, but if you are caught doing so you will be executed."
This is both really good and really bad at the same time. Although I want these guys to be shut up, I do not agree that Google should censor opinions even if most of us find those opinions abhorrent.
If the government won't shut them up, the people will. With their boots and fists. That's the only language these fascists understand anyway.
So all privacy laws (HIPAA, etc) are violations of free speech? Holy crap you're a dumb fuck.
Strictly speaking, yes they are. Issues like privacy show where the concept of absolute freedom of speech falls down. If I get hold of your medical records and want to publish them, you are interfering with my freedom to publish what I like by denying me that option. (Same for publishing classified material or whatever).
So...Germany is another country without free speech guarantee laws?
Bizarrely, the Germans have looked at the balance between absolute free speech and preventing a return to Nazism, and have come down in favour of the latter. Who'd have thought that a country responsible for the Second World War, the Holocaust and so on would think that it was a good idea never to be seen to be going back along that road at the expense of the theoretical civil rights of a bunch of lunatics?
..." argument, Germany isn't rounding up and executing these neo-Nazi fuckers. Unfortunately.
And before anyone starts on the "first they came for the
Well, different countries - different priorities. In the EU, for example, there exists a right to life, in the USA there is no such thing (otherwise death penalty would not be possible).
Are you serious?? The EU has outlawed abortion? When did this happen?
A foetus isn't alive, genius.
Or do you think it's murder when you wank into a tissue and flush it down the toilet?
Should Twitter also censor disparaging comments about Mohammed in Muslim countries?
If it's specifically illegal there, then unfortunately yes.
If you can't abide by the laws in a certain country, you shouldn't go there, and this applies to companies as well as individuals on holiday. It is up to the people in that country to choose their own laws.
You have an NDA that you can't even name your employer?
He could, but then he'd have to kill you.