Honestly, what purpose does a bomb threat serve anyway?
It makes the terrorists look better if they don't kill random civilians, and just set off a big bang which looks impressive on TV and scares people. As someone said above, the PIRA generally (although not exclusively) used this tactic in their bombings on the mainland, at least when directed at civilian targets.
Groups like Daesh don't seem to care about who they kill though, so this bomb threat is pretty unconvincing.
'Closes' and 'evacuates' are verbs. You don't have lists of verbs, you have lists of nouns.
Anyway, the title is in Newspaper Headline, not proper English. It has its own rules. For example, in the UK, tabloid headlines will often refer to teachers as "Sir" in headlines ("Sick Sir Shags Student") as it's nice and short, despite being forty years out of date.
Although the Rotherham case does not cast a great light on anyone involved, the fact is that the men responsible were eventually prosecuted.
The real scandal was not the fact that a group of paedophiles had brown instead of white skin, it was that the social services allowed it to happen because they didn't want to interfere with the "human rights" of twelve year olds to have sex.
In NONE of the countries (that I'm aware of) where people have colanders on their head on their mugshot there is a law against headgear.
In the UK you are not allowed to have any headware in your passport photo unless it is for religious or medical reasons. I don't know if this is the same for all EU countries.
People who own Yahoo shares in theory owe money, since the company's market capitalization is negative if you subtract the value of Yahoo's Alibaba stock.
That's not how shares work. Your liability is limited to the unpaid nominal value of the shares. Their market value is irrelevant.
I do my fair share of technical editing, and one of the most frequent mistakes I encounter is not defining acronyms on first use. I constantly (and repeatedly) have to remind people to treat ANY technical document as if, even though it's expected that the reader is assumed to have some level of technical experience, that it's to be treated as if someone is picking up material on this particular subject for the first time. That includes defining all acronyms.
Don't get me started on how often I have to explain that "data" is plural.
Yes, but there are some acronyms which you are entitled to assume people know.
You wouldn't expect to see every article mentioning NASA or NATO spelling it out as National Aeronautics and Space Administration or North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, unless perhaps it was for children.
In context here, it is pretty obvious that the story is about Yahoo's finances, and M&A is a standard financial abbreviation. Slashdot is a site for adults, so it is not unreasonable to expect most readers to have a basic group of the real world.
Males have a ridiculous number of advantages when it comes to becoming entrepreneurs, having the occasional female-specific event to try and correct some of the imbalance does not count as discrimination.
"Advantages"? Like what?
"Correct"? Why is there a need to "correct"?
"Men don't have any advantages, and if they do they don't need to be corrected because men are superior".
perhaps males have a ridiculous number of advantages because at some point in the past, women had all the advantages and males were treated as charity cases and given preferential treatment which they exploited to revolt.
sexism is sexism. put lipstick on the pig all you want... you're an ignorant hypocrite.
I can't tell if you're trolling or an explorer from an alternate dimension.
I love how you got modded troll yourself for this.
Slashdot itself appears to be inhabited by mods from an alternate dimension.
By the way, claiming that "it's obvious why discrimination against women is wrong!" is begging the question on top of undermining your argument.
It's axiomatic, like "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
And you have the false premise that there is a lack of equal opportunity. Of course sound bites promoting an agenda based off ideology is better than actual evidence.
I just think many British people are so used to these sorts of things that they don't realise that it is not normal that someone from the North without a posh accent grows up believing they can never be prime minister because they weren't born into the right family.
Off the top of my head, neither Jim Callaghan or John Major were posh or came from well off families.
For the most part Amdahl seems like a put your pants on one leg at a time guy, while Cray would figure out how to simply have pants in the same place that he needed to be
My dad worked at CDC. Cray was a notorious eccentric, although at that time (early 1960s) taking your jacket and tie off as you crawled under mainframes was considered evidence of communism.
It is their choice whether or not to participate. If a programmer does not want to work under this model, he or she is free to develop under a model that suits their preference. No one is holding a gun to any programmer's head and demanding that they must participate in this program.
As a primary job it is indeed pretty bleak. Depending on pay level though I could see it as a pretty decent second job to pad income. I've already got stability and health insurance and the like through my main job. If however, I could take on some projects on something like this on the side I could potentially save up a better down payment on my next car, or pay down my mortgage a bit, etc.
If you can afford the time and effort to do a second job, your primary job must be pretty low level.
Either that or you're a failed human being with no interests outside earning money.
And why would ANYBODY be so stupid to admit to any crime?
You generally get a lighter sentence.
If you know you're guilty (and more to the point know you're going to be found guilty in a trial) for most non-capital crimes it's sensible to bite the bullet and plead guilty.
One of the horrible things about innocent people who are found guilty is that they get longer prison sentences and often no parole when they won't show remorse for a crime they didn't commit.
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a somewhat credible threat
A random email is not a credible threat.
Honestly, what purpose does a bomb threat serve anyway?
It makes the terrorists look better if they don't kill random civilians, and just set off a big bang which looks impressive on TV and scares people. As someone said above, the PIRA generally (although not exclusively) used this tactic in their bombings on the mainland, at least when directed at civilian targets.
Groups like Daesh don't seem to care about who they kill though, so this bomb threat is pretty unconvincing.
Anyway, the title is in Newspaper Headline, not proper English. It has its own rules. For example, in the UK, tabloid headlines will often refer to teachers as "Sir" in headlines ("Sick Sir Shags Student") as it's nice and short, despite being forty years out of date.
The real scandal was not the fact that a group of paedophiles had brown instead of white skin, it was that the social services allowed it to happen because they didn't want to interfere with the "human rights" of twelve year olds to have sex.
I don't think that the book should be thrown at somebody for exposing criminally negligent security practices.
You would not need to release the information you obtained on to the internet to demonstrate this.
In NONE of the countries (that I'm aware of) where people have colanders on their head on their mugshot there is a law against headgear.
In the UK you are not allowed to have any headware in your passport photo unless it is for religious or medical reasons. I don't know if this is the same for all EU countries.
People who own Yahoo shares in theory owe money, since the company's market capitalization is negative if you subtract the value of Yahoo's Alibaba stock.
That's not how shares work. Your liability is limited to the unpaid nominal value of the shares. Their market value is irrelevant.
I do my fair share of technical editing, and one of the most frequent mistakes I encounter is not defining acronyms on first use. I constantly (and repeatedly) have to remind people to treat ANY technical document as if, even though it's expected that the reader is assumed to have some level of technical experience, that it's to be treated as if someone is picking up material on this particular subject for the first time. That includes defining all acronyms.
Don't get me started on how often I have to explain that "data" is plural.
Yes, but there are some acronyms which you are entitled to assume people know.
You wouldn't expect to see every article mentioning NASA or NATO spelling it out as National Aeronautics and Space Administration or North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, unless perhaps it was for children.
In context here, it is pretty obvious that the story is about Yahoo's finances, and M&A is a standard financial abbreviation. Slashdot is a site for adults, so it is not unreasonable to expect most readers to have a basic group of the real world.
Males have a ridiculous number of advantages when it comes to becoming entrepreneurs, having the occasional female-specific event to try and correct some of the imbalance does not count as discrimination.
"Advantages"? Like what?
"Correct"? Why is there a need to "correct"?
"Men don't have any advantages, and if they do they don't need to be corrected because men are superior".
Got it.
perhaps males have a ridiculous number of advantages because at some point in the past, women had all the advantages and males were treated as charity cases and given preferential treatment which they exploited to revolt.
sexism is sexism. put lipstick on the pig all you want... you're an ignorant hypocrite.
I can't tell if you're trolling or an explorer from an alternate dimension.
I love how you got modded troll yourself for this.
Slashdot itself appears to be inhabited by mods from an alternate dimension.
By the way, claiming that "it's obvious why discrimination against women is wrong!" is begging the question on top of undermining your argument.
It's axiomatic, like "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Or "slavery is wrong."
And you have the false premise that there is a lack of equal opportunity. Of course sound bites promoting an agenda based off ideology is better than actual evidence.
Indeed, everyone is free to dine at the Ritz.
I just think many British people are so used to these sorts of things that they don't realise that it is not normal that someone from the North without a posh accent grows up believing they can never be prime minister because they weren't born into the right family.
Off the top of my head, neither Jim Callaghan or John Major were posh or came from well off families.
Is it a Ph.D? Nope. Many would discount him - because of that.
Then they are quite wrong. There is a vast difference between "uneducated" and "not actually a Nobel prize winner with a string of degrees".
The ones who pirate the most, are also the ones to watch it 4 or 5 times in the theater if it's a good movie.
I have never seen a film more than once in a cinema. Maybe I'm unusual and most people go at least once a day and run out of new films to see.
For fucks sake, the number of films from Hollywood that have been worth seeing in the past decade has been dismal.
Exactly, so why would you bother downloading them?
For the most part Amdahl seems like a put your pants on one leg at a time guy, while Cray would figure out how to simply have pants in the same place that he needed to be
My dad worked at CDC. Cray was a notorious eccentric, although at that time (early 1960s) taking your jacket and tie off as you crawled under mainframes was considered evidence of communism.
And we like it like that.
It is their choice whether or not to participate. If a programmer does not want to work under this model, he or she is free to develop under a model that suits their preference. No one is holding a gun to any programmer's head and demanding that they must participate in this program.
You do have the right to say no.
Yes, you do at the moment.
As a primary job it is indeed pretty bleak. Depending on pay level though I could see it as a pretty decent second job to pad income. I've already got stability and health insurance and the like through my main job. If however, I could take on some projects on something like this on the side I could potentially save up a better down payment on my next car, or pay down my mortgage a bit, etc.
If you can afford the time and effort to do a second job, your primary job must be pretty low level.
Either that or you're a failed human being with no interests outside earning money.
Doesn't sound like a fair deal to me.
Then don't participate.
The point is that once the "gig economy" takes over you won't have any choice about participating.
Your comment is about as useful as saying to a child chimney sweep in the 1850s that they are perfectly free to start their own business instead.
Heisenberg joined a paramilitary group to overthrow the government of Bavaria.
Yes, and this early experiment in right wing terrorism certainly helped impress the Nazis and get him a cushy job later on.
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You're a funny guy.
And why would ANYBODY be so stupid to admit to any crime?
You generally get a lighter sentence.
If you know you're guilty (and more to the point know you're going to be found guilty in a trial) for most non-capital crimes it's sensible to bite the bullet and plead guilty.
One of the horrible things about innocent people who are found guilty is that they get longer prison sentences and often no parole when they won't show remorse for a crime they didn't commit.
Autism isn't a handicap, it's evolution neurotypicals are too simple to perceive.
Says the person who has never dealt with anyone with real autism.
Note: self-diagnosing yourself as being "on the autistic spectrum" because you're anti-social and good at maths doesn't mean you have autism.