The UK is generally urban, which means people get plenty of exercise, and spend 20 minutes getting to and from work leaving more time in their day for healthy food preparation.
You must have lived in n expensive flat near to your high powered job in the City of London if you believe that.
In London, most normal people take an hour to get to work on over-crowded public transport, and pile out of their office at 5 to go down the pub then have a burger on the bus home.
Interestingly, in the UK it is the exact opposite.
Local councils have the responsibility for keeping pavements (sidewalks) clear and you can theoretically be sued if you clear the bit outside your house and end up causing someone an injury (e.g. by pouring hot water over snow/slush and creating a sort of black ice).
My heart says... go get that bastard who did this.
My head says... that's a violation of privacy expectations. No one expects their details to be released to other users of the system. In this case it was perhaps justified, but if they open the door there will be other requests for private information, some less just.
Nonsense, your privacy expectations do not extend to exemption from civil or criminal actions as a consequence of what you do.
Yup, a friend of mine in uni asked me to leave his office when I walked in eating a snickers, I would have been about 3 metres from him and he could feel himself reacting. The first thing he said to me when I walked in was "does that have peanuts in it"
Up until that point I had no idea you could be that sensitive to peanuts.
Is there any actual physical explanation for such an apparent sensitivity? Were some peanutty molecules sprayed over him when you breathed out or something? It sounds about as scientific as homeopathy on the face of it.
Blaming the victim of the crime for the crime being committed? What's next? "Yes, I slipped a date rape drug in her drink, your honor, but what happened next was her fault because she drank the drink."
Sometimes victims are to blame. If I handed a lady a note saying "I put a date rape drug in your drink, and if you drink it, I or someone will have our way with you", and they still chose to drink it, I would say that guilt falls on them too.
Guilt in a criminal case does not get apportioned between criminal and victim: you are thinking of contributory negligence in a civil case.
If I deliberately empty an automatic pistol into your head, it is not a defence to say "I warned you I was going to shoot, and you just stood there". It's still murder.
Tnansgenderism is a mental disorder, probably rooted in depression. It was recognized as such by the DSM up until 5 minutes ago. Transgenders, even post-op and after hormones therapy, still have a 20x higher suicide rate than normal population.
No, come on, don't sit on the fence like that, let us know what you really think.
If your company is subsidizing your office, keep all the money; buy a cheap desk and chair, and use wifi. no need to trench for crying out loud. Maybe buy a bigger screen if you don't have a good laptop screen, but really, you're overthinking it.
Yes, because obviously the company is just going to give him a big bag of cash and say "spend whatever you like and don't bother with receipts or invoices or any tedious shit like that".
Like many of the proclamations from the UN, such a ban will have little influence over the development and use of "killer robots".
If a ban is agreed, then countries contravening it can be prosecuted for war crimes. For instance, look at chemical weapons.
It won't eliminate the problem, any more than murder being illegal means there are no murders, but at least the perpetrators can be brought to justice and this acts as a strong disincentive.
"Theft by finding" is certainly a criminal offence here in the UK, so I'd be surprised if it wasn't in the US too bearing in mind the underlying similarity of our legal systems..
Do you really think that 'finders keepers' would apply if the previous occupant of your taxi, sorry Uber ride, had left a suitcase full of cash or diamonds in the back and you just walked off with it?
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The UK is generally urban, which means people get plenty of exercise, and spend 20 minutes getting to and from work leaving more time in their day for healthy food preparation.
You must have lived in n expensive flat near to your high powered job in the City of London if you believe that.
In London, most normal people take an hour to get to work on over-crowded public transport, and pile out of their office at 5 to go down the pub then have a burger on the bus home.
It does for me. I always have to stop by a kebab joint or a Burger King or whatever on my way home.
I would humbly suggest that you are just moderately drunk, and therefore sensibly hungry, as you probably haven't eaten since lunchtime.
If you go out and get seriously drunk, you are unlikely to disrupt the flow by breaking for food, in my experience.
for an organism new to alcohol, that is a lot imo
I think a bottle and a half of wine is a hell of a lot to drink for a mouse regardless.
The Marketing Division of LG is a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Why wait for a revolution, I say we hunt 'em down now and fix this fucking problem before it gets out of hand.
Or alternatively you could not buy a fucking internet fridge.
Which is admittedly less macho than taking out the Board of Directors with an M134 mini gun.
True! I hope she is OK.
You're not really trying very hard with this troll are you?
Local councils have the responsibility for keeping pavements (sidewalks) clear and you can theoretically be sued if you clear the bit outside your house and end up causing someone an injury (e.g. by pouring hot water over snow/slush and creating a sort of black ice).
Why would someone not like an ideal? Is it not, by definition, perfect?
For some people their ideal would be a world where everybody was perfectly equal and equally happy.
For others, this would be their worst nightmare.
We live in a world of shades of grey.
But for many people on slashdot it's one of just black or white.
My heart says... go get that bastard who did this.
My head says... that's a violation of privacy expectations. No one expects their details to be released to other users of the system. In this case it was perhaps justified, but if they open the door there will be other requests for private information, some less just.
Nonsense, your privacy expectations do not extend to exemption from civil or criminal actions as a consequence of what you do.
Shouldn't we be aghast? We want tech companies to resist the courts, not comply.
Depends on the circumstances. This sounds reasonable, it was a deliberate, targeted attempt to cause physical harm to someone.
YMBNH. On slashdot everything is either wrong or right, regardless.
Yup, a friend of mine in uni asked me to leave his office when I walked in eating a snickers, I would have been about 3 metres from him and he could feel himself reacting. The first thing he said to me when I walked in was "does that have peanuts in it"
Up until that point I had no idea you could be that sensitive to peanuts.
Is there any actual physical explanation for such an apparent sensitivity? Were some peanutty molecules sprayed over him when you breathed out or something? It sounds about as scientific as homeopathy on the face of it.
Blaming the victim of the crime for the crime being committed? What's next? "Yes, I slipped a date rape drug in her drink, your honor, but what happened next was her fault because she drank the drink."
Sometimes victims are to blame. If I handed a lady a note saying "I put a date rape drug in your drink, and if you drink it, I or someone will have our way with you", and they still chose to drink it, I would say that guilt falls on them too.
Guilt in a criminal case does not get apportioned between criminal and victim: you are thinking of contributory negligence in a civil case.
If I deliberately empty an automatic pistol into your head, it is not a defence to say "I warned you I was going to shoot, and you just stood there". It's still murder.
Tnansgenderism is a mental disorder, probably rooted in depression. It was recognized as such by the DSM up until 5 minutes ago. Transgenders, even post-op and after hormones therapy, still have a 20x higher suicide rate than normal population.
No, come on, don't sit on the fence like that, let us know what you really think.
If Uber went bust, the customers and drivers could just use Lyft, or conventional taxis.
If you believe fictional stories about us, yes. Also we spend our nights huddled in our homes hiding from vampires.
That last bit isn't fictional, I've seen it on the TV.
If money is no object, then put it underground with access tunnel to the house. :-)
If money really is no object, construct a small space station and base your office there.
It's unlikely any passing astronauts will be meth-head burglars.
If your company is subsidizing your office, keep all the money; buy a cheap desk and chair, and use wifi. no need to trench for crying out loud. Maybe buy a bigger screen if you don't have a good laptop screen, but really, you're overthinking it.
Yes, because obviously the company is just going to give him a big bag of cash and say "spend whatever you like and don't bother with receipts or invoices or any tedious shit like that".
a heavily noble hopped Scottish lager that's been let sit under a UV light for a month.
Ah, warm Tennent's Super...truly the breakfast of champions.
Like many of the proclamations from the UN, such a ban will have little influence over the development and use of "killer robots".
If a ban is agreed, then countries contravening it can be prosecuted for war crimes. For instance, look at chemical weapons.
It won't eliminate the problem, any more than murder being illegal means there are no murders, but at least the perpetrators can be brought to justice and this acts as a strong disincentive.
Do you really think that 'finders keepers' would apply if the previous occupant of your taxi, sorry Uber ride, had left a suitcase full of cash or diamonds in the back and you just walked off with it?
Could someone provide a link to the porn so I can better evaluate the case and comment appropriately?
Ladies and gentlemen, please meet the only person on the internet who can't find porn.
Uber: "But laws about computer security don't apply to us!"
And to judge by Uber's absurdly high valuation, nor do the laws of common sense.
Karl Malden and Leslie Nielson and early 70s cars bouncing down the Frisco hills. What's not to like?
Michael Douglas?
Taking bets on the date of the first drone shotgun casualty....
Unless you could prove it was attacking you, that sounds like a good way to lose your shotgun licence here in the UK.
Driving is a very low IQ skill. 85 IQ people drive.
But current computers have IQs below 40 (or whatever the Idiot level is).