I actually thought it was pretty good. He didn't spoil the joke with that stupid ~ symbol or a retarded smiley or anything. Alternatively, if he was serious, who cares what he thinks, he's an asshole! I'm an asshole, you're an asshole, we're all assholes!
No, I didn't say that nice guys are morons, I never even implied it. Your imagining of that literal insult perfectly illustrates how over-sensitive you are. Even if I did say that word (which, I will re-iterate, I never did, you put words into my mouth), I wouldn't mean it in the way you're obviously taking the word you just pretended I said so that you could get angry at me.
There's a difference between being an asshole and being an abusive psychopath. If you could tell the difference you wouldn't be so offended when I call you a shit-for-brains for running the wrong play in a game. If your definition of "griefer" includes that, well, count yourself lucky because you haven't dealt with a real griefer.
I also take issue with you calling it "your" ecosystem, and excluding me because you have a problem taking criticism. Oh, sure, you can fall back on the might-makes-right arguments so prevalent in your mindset, where there's more of you and therefore my preferences are worthless, but how exactly does that make you nice? I mean, you just said, knowing practically nothing about me other than that I like to talk to people like adults instead of children, that if I'm unhappy all is right with the world. Meanwhile, all I want to do is be able to curse and give frank assessments of your skill.
Woah, full-on internet toughguy. Sure, I'm the bully, because I singled you out and started calling you names for expressing your opinion. Thanks for showing us all what a nice guy really is.
I won't say I've never used absolutes, but what about the post you replied to indicated that? Did you interpret my hyperbole used to highlight a point as actual beliefs? And where did you learn to make personality judgments based on short posts on the internet? That seems like an amazingly useful skill.
Each player could start out with their "Protection from assholes" flag set by default. If they either behave abusively (according to whatever flawed metric Valve uses to make that call) or turn the flag off intentionally, they will lose the ability to communicate with people who still have the flag set.
See, now that sounds fine to me. I'd turn that flag off and happily exclude myself from the milquetoast masses. The very first thing I do anywhere it's available is turn off the profanity filter, and turn on the PvP flag.
I'm not out to actually ruin anyone's day. Hell, I don't even want to make dipshits like the post above yours feel bad just because they can't tell the difference between a troll and somebody who prefers a more honest interaction style between their peers. I just want to call you a fucking moron when you do something stupid and have you be mildly embarrassed and have that mild embarrassment be a motivator to fix your behavior in the future instead of going, "uh, gee, golly gosh, you know it's actually more effective..." and then have somebody mash "UNLIKEABLE" because I didn't make them feel like a perfect snowflake.
And I want the same thing back. I don't want language couched in fifteen layers of inoffensiveness, just tell me what I did wrong, feel free to throw a curse or two in for emphasis if you think it's warranted. I'll sort out if I'm actually a dipshit on my own.
I don't like this. What if I want to surround myself with jerks?
That's a completely serious question. I actually prefer to talk to, and be surrounded by, people who are assholes. I think they're more fun, and I couldn't give less of a fuck about being insulted by some random dipshit on the internet. Or in person, really. Hell, I feel slightly uncomfortable when somebody doesn't take a shot at me that I know they could have. A community of "nice" people? Gag me with a spoon, that sounds like an incredibly dull place, and stressful too, where you have to worry every second about hurting somebody's feelings. Verbally knocking people around (and being knocked around) is half the fun, making this community sound like a great place if you like playing football with a bunch of grandmothers with osteoporosis.
Besides which, the true assholes out there are the ones that make the "community" turning on their target just another part of the making-them-feel-like-shit process. Can't wait to see what the trolls do with the new game (that game being the new pricing model, not DotA).
I had the intention. I travel to lots of countries to see the sights, stay in the hotels, and eat at the restaurants, Most countries value tourists as they bring in money, the US treats them like criminals.
Because their parents did it to them, and most people believe that morals are externally dictated instead of internally decided. It's not their fault; coming to that conclusion on your own is an exceptional thing. Parents should be telling their children at some point that deciding what's right and wrong is part of being an adult, but most parents' parents probably never told them that either.
That doesn't make the whole thing any more right, but it's explainable.
Sorry, I left out part of the sentence I'd meant to put in there, and thought it wasn't worth a self-reply to clarify due to obviousness (forgetting that it's obviously going to be obvious to me, I was thinking it, but not necessarily obvious what I meant to others, who are used to people with awful opinions posting on slashdot): I think it's an horrific thing that it happens, and that the lesson is one of the most traumatic things a child is can be subjected to, but it's better than being ignorant of it.
I say arguably, because some might think ignorance of the reality is better, at least until they're likely to have to deal with it personally.
Hooray for our puritanical society. Two people could beat the living shit out of each other in front of kids, which is almost certainly far more damaging to a kid's psyche than this incident, and as long as they don't press charges on each other, the most they'd get is a disturbing the peace ticket. Police officers will publicly taser (effectively, short-term torture) anyone who doesn't follow their instructions immediately and without question, although arguably that's a good lesson for a child to learn. But appearing naked in a context where they're voluntary observers at most (i.e. they can look away, and there's no stress at doing so because nobody is observing them back, making it more akin to seeing someone naked on an ultra-hi-def 3D TV than an encounter with a pervert), and he's a child molester. It's ridiculous, and anybody with an ounce of sense will see that if they actually look at the details, but the automated list escalates the offense from a silly if ill-conceived protest to a potentially life-ruining thing. I don't care if it was somebody protesting for increased TSA searches and power, the offense does not deserve that.
I personally think this guy is a hero. If he needs any help with legal costs or finding employment in the future, I'll be donating for sure. My thanks to anyone who draws more attention to how screwed up the state of things is, especially if it's in such a funny way.
Like most people, I probably have more opinions than experience on this--it mostly boils down to people asking me to do them a favor, but only if I agree to sign their NDA and then getting indignant when I'm perfectly happy to not code for them for free.
So, with that in mind, I'm curious how an expired NDA is more protection than not having signed the NDA in the first place. Once it expires, aren't you back to the situation where there's no NDA in place? Or is there an assumed, "signer of the NDA has rights to anything covered by the NDA once it's expired" clause in place?
So, they'll sue me over anything and everything, and I should make it easier? I don't think I'm cut out for VC work.
Per my comment below though, I wasn't talking about signing an NDA for a company. TFA was about the crazy pitches you get from everybody and their brother with an idea for something that's "just like X, but Y", at least that's how I understood it.
Oh, apparently others didn't make the same assumption I did, that we're talking about the "I'll pitch my idea to you, but you need to sign an NDA first" deal.
For a legitimate, established business? Sure, if it's either a.) short and clear enough that I can evaluate my own legal liability, or b.) You give me enough incentive to go pay for a lawyer to review it. Cash works. I have to say though, I've never had a legitimate business ask me to sign one.
Yep, this well-known successful freelance programmer is clearly the naive one.
My personal reason for never signing one is, the only reason to want me to sign one is so that it's easier to sue me in the future. Regardless of whether your case has merit (it won't), I still need to defend against it. No thanks.
SMB grade is a 12-year-old desktop that hasn't been rebooted in 436 days running in a closet acting as a fileserver with the root of C: shared out and constantly at 98% full.
It doesn't have to mean "this sucks ass" to be a negative or dismissive-seeming comment. Asking "what's new?" implies that if there isn't something new, it's not worthy. Maybe that's not what the poster intended, but that's how I, and apparently at least 4 mods, read it. And posts toward the top of the page tend to be either +5 or -1 until the story drops off the front page when the fine-tuning mods don't get drowned out, that's just human nature combined with Slashdot's moderation system.
Rochester, NY, for at least 2 years. Actually, I think it's more like 10, but I'm certain of 2.
I've been running my own DNS server that just goes straight to root because, aside from the sheer audacity of it and privacy implications, their DNS fuckery hosed my spam RBL.
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Fair enough, then other than the whole putting words in my mouth thing and being glad that other people are miserable, we're in agreement.
I actually thought it was pretty good. He didn't spoil the joke with that stupid ~ symbol or a retarded smiley or anything. Alternatively, if he was serious, who cares what he thinks, he's an asshole! I'm an asshole, you're an asshole, we're all assholes!
This has been Lessons in Having a Thick Skin 101.
No, I didn't say that nice guys are morons, I never even implied it. Your imagining of that literal insult perfectly illustrates how over-sensitive you are. Even if I did say that word (which, I will re-iterate, I never did, you put words into my mouth), I wouldn't mean it in the way you're obviously taking the word you just pretended I said so that you could get angry at me.
There's a difference between being an asshole and being an abusive psychopath. If you could tell the difference you wouldn't be so offended when I call you a shit-for-brains for running the wrong play in a game. If your definition of "griefer" includes that, well, count yourself lucky because you haven't dealt with a real griefer.
I also take issue with you calling it "your" ecosystem, and excluding me because you have a problem taking criticism. Oh, sure, you can fall back on the might-makes-right arguments so prevalent in your mindset, where there's more of you and therefore my preferences are worthless, but how exactly does that make you nice? I mean, you just said, knowing practically nothing about me other than that I like to talk to people like adults instead of children, that if I'm unhappy all is right with the world. Meanwhile, all I want to do is be able to curse and give frank assessments of your skill.
What problem?
Woah, full-on internet toughguy. Sure, I'm the bully, because I singled you out and started calling you names for expressing your opinion. Thanks for showing us all what a nice guy really is.
I won't say I've never used absolutes, but what about the post you replied to indicated that? Did you interpret my hyperbole used to highlight a point as actual beliefs? And where did you learn to make personality judgments based on short posts on the internet? That seems like an amazingly useful skill.
Oh yeah. You're the nice guy.
Each player could start out with their "Protection from assholes" flag set by default. If they either behave abusively (according to whatever flawed metric Valve uses to make that call) or turn the flag off intentionally, they will lose the ability to communicate with people who still have the flag set.
See, now that sounds fine to me. I'd turn that flag off and happily exclude myself from the milquetoast masses. The very first thing I do anywhere it's available is turn off the profanity filter, and turn on the PvP flag.
I'm not out to actually ruin anyone's day. Hell, I don't even want to make dipshits like the post above yours feel bad just because they can't tell the difference between a troll and somebody who prefers a more honest interaction style between their peers. I just want to call you a fucking moron when you do something stupid and have you be mildly embarrassed and have that mild embarrassment be a motivator to fix your behavior in the future instead of going, "uh, gee, golly gosh, you know it's actually more effective..." and then have somebody mash "UNLIKEABLE" because I didn't make them feel like a perfect snowflake.
And I want the same thing back. I don't want language couched in fifteen layers of inoffensiveness, just tell me what I did wrong, feel free to throw a curse or two in for emphasis if you think it's warranted. I'll sort out if I'm actually a dipshit on my own.
I don't like this. What if I want to surround myself with jerks?
That's a completely serious question. I actually prefer to talk to, and be surrounded by, people who are assholes. I think they're more fun, and I couldn't give less of a fuck about being insulted by some random dipshit on the internet. Or in person, really. Hell, I feel slightly uncomfortable when somebody doesn't take a shot at me that I know they could have. A community of "nice" people? Gag me with a spoon, that sounds like an incredibly dull place, and stressful too, where you have to worry every second about hurting somebody's feelings. Verbally knocking people around (and being knocked around) is half the fun, making this community sound like a great place if you like playing football with a bunch of grandmothers with osteoporosis.
Besides which, the true assholes out there are the ones that make the "community" turning on their target just another part of the making-them-feel-like-shit process. Can't wait to see what the trolls do with the new game (that game being the new pricing model, not DotA).
I had the intention. I travel to lots of countries to see the sights, stay in the hotels, and eat at the restaurants, Most countries value tourists as they bring in money, the US treats them like criminals.
What, you don't like the native experience?
Because their parents did it to them, and most people believe that morals are externally dictated instead of internally decided. It's not their fault; coming to that conclusion on your own is an exceptional thing. Parents should be telling their children at some point that deciding what's right and wrong is part of being an adult, but most parents' parents probably never told them that either.
That doesn't make the whole thing any more right, but it's explainable.
Sorry, I left out part of the sentence I'd meant to put in there, and thought it wasn't worth a self-reply to clarify due to obviousness (forgetting that it's obviously going to be obvious to me, I was thinking it, but not necessarily obvious what I meant to others, who are used to people with awful opinions posting on slashdot): I think it's an horrific thing that it happens, and that the lesson is one of the most traumatic things a child is can be subjected to, but it's better than being ignorant of it.
I say arguably, because some might think ignorance of the reality is better, at least until they're likely to have to deal with it personally.
Hooray for our puritanical society. Two people could beat the living shit out of each other in front of kids, which is almost certainly far more damaging to a kid's psyche than this incident, and as long as they don't press charges on each other, the most they'd get is a disturbing the peace ticket. Police officers will publicly taser (effectively, short-term torture) anyone who doesn't follow their instructions immediately and without question, although arguably that's a good lesson for a child to learn. But appearing naked in a context where they're voluntary observers at most (i.e. they can look away, and there's no stress at doing so because nobody is observing them back, making it more akin to seeing someone naked on an ultra-hi-def 3D TV than an encounter with a pervert), and he's a child molester. It's ridiculous, and anybody with an ounce of sense will see that if they actually look at the details, but the automated list escalates the offense from a silly if ill-conceived protest to a potentially life-ruining thing. I don't care if it was somebody protesting for increased TSA searches and power, the offense does not deserve that.
I personally think this guy is a hero. If he needs any help with legal costs or finding employment in the future, I'll be donating for sure. My thanks to anyone who draws more attention to how screwed up the state of things is, especially if it's in such a funny way.
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Do you realize how difficult it is to find a 1 Gbps hub? I'm not sure it's possible without going to old enterprise equipment. It's very
unlikely that anyone with a 1 Gbps network at home is running anything but a switch.
Now, the backbone of the switch may be considerably less than 2 Gbps per port, and probably is, but that's another matter entirely.
Like most people, I probably have more opinions than experience on this--it mostly boils down to people asking me to do them a favor, but only if I agree to sign their NDA and then getting indignant when I'm perfectly happy to not code for them for free.
So, with that in mind, I'm curious how an expired NDA is more protection than not having signed the NDA in the first place. Once it expires, aren't you back to the situation where there's no NDA in place? Or is there an assumed, "signer of the NDA has rights to anything covered by the NDA once it's expired" clause in place?
So, they'll sue me over anything and everything, and I should make it easier? I don't think I'm cut out for VC work.
Per my comment below though, I wasn't talking about signing an NDA for a company. TFA was about the crazy pitches you get from everybody and their brother with an idea for something that's "just like X, but Y", at least that's how I understood it.
Oh, apparently others didn't make the same assumption I did, that we're talking about the "I'll pitch my idea to you, but you need to sign an NDA first" deal.
For a legitimate, established business? Sure, if it's either a.) short and clear enough that I can evaluate my own legal liability, or b.) You give me enough incentive to go pay for a lawyer to review it. Cash works. I have to say though, I've never had a legitimate business ask me to sign one.
Yep, this well-known successful freelance programmer is clearly the naive one.
My personal reason for never signing one is, the only reason to want me to sign one is so that it's easier to sue me in the future. Regardless of whether your case has merit (it won't), I still need to defend against it. No thanks.
That's a purely marketing consideration though. The GP implied that there's a technical reason.
Do you know something about ARM processors the rest of us don't?
The only "obvious" reason is to squeeze more money out of their customers.
No matter how many times I see it, RT is apparently going to imply realtime to me. I have to remind myself it means "Windows API 2.0" every time.
SMB grade is a 12-year-old desktop that hasn't been rebooted in 436 days running in a closet acting as a fileserver with the root of C: shared out and constantly at 98% full.
It doesn't have to mean "this sucks ass" to be a negative or dismissive-seeming comment. Asking "what's new?" implies that if there isn't something new, it's not worthy. Maybe that's not what the poster intended, but that's how I, and apparently at least 4 mods, read it. And posts toward the top of the page tend to be either +5 or -1 until the story drops off the front page when the fine-tuning mods don't get drowned out, that's just human nature combined with Slashdot's moderation system.
Rochester, NY, for at least 2 years. Actually, I think it's more like 10, but I'm certain of 2.
I've been running my own DNS server that just goes straight to root because, aside from the sheer audacity of it and privacy implications, their DNS fuckery hosed my spam RBL.