Some issues (the girls) brought up included fears that their friends will think (working in IT) is a geeky thing to do
If someone is going to be influenced by what their friends think, perhaps we should let them be influenced. Many consider going into IT to be geeky. If you're immature enough to let your friends stop you from going into a particular market, then maybe your not really ready for any serious market and should work in a market that requires next to no maturity (I hear McDonalds is looking for people to hire).
There is NO logical reason why Mickey Mouse isn't in the public domain now
FYI, it is in Australia and New Zealand. Now I have to ask, what does this mean? I can create cartoons with Mickey Mouse without giving Disney anything? What about actual cartoons? Can I trade them on p2p with other Australians? Or is just the character itself in the public domain?
The premise being Ebay has bad code. The code should NOT allow you to bid against yourself. They can justify it with "that's how the code works, we like it like that" but it's bad code. It's a bad design to allow you to bid against yourself. People shouldn't have to guard against bad code when making bids. They should put a check, where if you up your maximum it checks to see if your the highest bidder.
Not doing this at best is bad code, at worst it's deliberately ripping people off.
Who here, expects to bid against themselves when bidding (online or offline)? I don't think many people would say they do (unless they already know about Ebay's questionable code).
That redcone fella did say something about some rag reporting some computer thingymebob that lets me understand what all those japs are saying. The city rag reckons it's real fast.
Are steak-knives included in the article?
Here's a tip for the AC. Don't make your post sound like a cheap advert. This is a news aggregator (well, it claims to be anyway). Articles should have summaries in a manner that most respected news-sources use. Not like some used car salesman.
And if this is off-topic. Sorry, but I'm discussing all that I can, the article summary. The site's down so I can't read the article itself.
Just so you know, many work places actually allow browsing slashdot (or other work-safe sites you may wish too) during down-time at work. Assuming that the person is unable to browse slashdot may be incorrect. Having said that, most work places don't allow you to look at adult websites.
The very fact that you are on Slashdot wipes away any claim of ignorance that you could make
With all the opinions bantered about and IANAL, I'd say being a slashdot poster would prove that you have little to no grasp of any law you want;) After all, for every poster who says one thing about a law, another says the opposite. Who do you believe? None of them. Therefore you're ignorant on whether or not you really are breaking the law. All you know is that you COULD be breaking A law. Which law, that's debateable.
Oh how dare they only scan french books. I'm concenred that they're going to ignore us English-speakers, I demand they start scanning more English books.
Sorry, just wanted to see how the French would like it. What's good for the goose is good for the garner.
So wait, they'll bitch, because Google (an American company) is concentrating on book's that most Americans can read. When starting something new, Google concentrates on America. If it decides the venture is worth making it a core part of Google, it ventures off to the non-American google sites. But France can't wait, so it bitches about it:rolleyes:
If the french don't want to help google in something, then they can't really bitch about Google not providing it to them. Google has STARTED something new, but no, they want google to do the french books first.
This is of course assuming France is bitching, which the person you quoted was.
Not voting is NOT a political statement......I have absolutely no sympathy towards people who say "I don't vote". Apathy is not a valid political point of view.I agree. When you vote for the winner, whatever that winner does that he said he would do during his campaign, you lose the justification to bitch about (after all, he said he'd do it and you voted for him). When you don't vote at all, whoever gets into power and does what he said he would during his election campaign, you lose the ability to bitch about it, because you did nothing to stop him.
I believe Gates and Company have taken the approach of patents to protect themselves from suits from others. Has Microsoft actually sued someone over copying their technologies?
They've threatened too. When all you have to do is threaten to kill someone to get what you want, there's no point in killing them.
That's a great idea. Also if you often visit www.blahblah.ru and someone does www.blahblah--[JAPANESE CHARACTER].ru you'll see [JP] instead of [RU] and you know it won't be the correct site.
no more killer waves to surf, and the area where these will be deployed will become almost like kiddie pools.
If that's the price that must be paid, that's a bad thing? If that's the price I would happily pay it. Save the environment VS allowing people to surf. Tough choice.
If they can block VOIP and not msn messenger they should be able to block kiddy-porn that's downloaded. They can have a black-list, it won't be extensive, but they can try. And if they're made aware of a kiddy-porn site and don't block it, and someone downloads it, they should be able to be prosecuted/sued. They allowed someone access to kiddy-porn.
If they're a common carrier, they are legally obliged to allow all content through. If they're a private carrier, they have a responsibility to block access to known illegal content.
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You must have a hand with an abnormally large amount of fingers.
Or perhaps my particular university just has more women in IT classes?
Some issues (the girls) brought up included fears that their friends will think (working in IT) is a geeky thing to do
If someone is going to be influenced by what their friends think, perhaps we should let them be influenced. Many consider going into IT to be geeky. If you're immature enough to let your friends stop you from going into a particular market, then maybe your not really ready for any serious market and should work in a market that requires next to no maturity (I hear McDonalds is looking for people to hire).
There is NO logical reason why Mickey Mouse isn't in the public domain now
FYI, it is in Australia and New Zealand. Now I have to ask, what does this mean? I can create cartoons with Mickey Mouse without giving Disney anything? What about actual cartoons? Can I trade them on p2p with other Australians? Or is just the character itself in the public domain?
The premise being Ebay has bad code. The code should NOT allow you to bid against yourself. They can justify it with "that's how the code works, we like it like that" but it's bad code. It's a bad design to allow you to bid against yourself. People shouldn't have to guard against bad code when making bids. They should put a check, where if you up your maximum it checks to see if your the highest bidder.
Not doing this at best is bad code, at worst it's deliberately ripping people off.
Who here, expects to bid against themselves when bidding (online or offline)? I don't think many people would say they do (unless they already know about Ebay's questionable code).
It could just mean life began on Mars or Earth and life was transferred as the original poster said.
How long can they survive in this natural "near suspended animation"?
Of course, if it turns out that earth was seeded by metorites thrown up from mars (or visa-versa) the effect will not be so great
What would be great is if both planets were seeded with life from another star system. I don't know how that could be proved though.
Hence, this is a made up story
Any references?
I can translate it to Australian:
That redcone fella did say something about some rag reporting some computer thingymebob that lets me understand what all those japs are saying. The city rag reckons it's real fast.
It said Nothing for me to see, please move along. I didn't know Slashdot was so zen.
Are steak-knives included in the article? Here's a tip for the AC. Don't make your post sound like a cheap advert. This is a news aggregator (well, it claims to be anyway). Articles should have summaries in a manner that most respected news-sources use. Not like some used car salesman. And if this is off-topic. Sorry, but I'm discussing all that I can, the article summary. The site's down so I can't read the article itself.
Stop browsing Slashdot and get back to work!!
- Your Boss
Just so you know, many work places actually allow browsing slashdot (or other work-safe sites you may wish too) during down-time at work. Assuming that the person is unable to browse slashdot may be incorrect. Having said that, most work places don't allow you to look at adult websites.
The very fact that you are on Slashdot wipes away any claim of ignorance that you could make
;) After all, for every poster who says one thing about a law, another says the opposite. Who do you believe? None of them. Therefore you're ignorant on whether or not you really are breaking the law. All you know is that you COULD be breaking A law. Which law, that's debateable.
With all the opinions bantered about and IANAL, I'd say being a slashdot poster would prove that you have little to no grasp of any law you want
Definitely. You did your best to stop the winner.
Oh how dare they only scan french books. I'm concenred that they're going to ignore us English-speakers, I demand they start scanning more English books.
Sorry, just wanted to see how the French would like it. What's good for the goose is good for the garner.
So wait, they'll bitch, because Google (an American company) is concentrating on book's that most Americans can read. When starting something new, Google concentrates on America. If it decides the venture is worth making it a core part of Google, it ventures off to the non-American google sites. But France can't wait, so it bitches about it :rolleyes:
If the french don't want to help google in something, then they can't really bitch about Google not providing it to them. Google has STARTED something new, but no, they want google to do the french books first.
This is of course assuming France is bitching, which the person you quoted was.
Not voting is NOT a political statement......I have absolutely no sympathy towards people who say "I don't vote". Apathy is not a valid political point of view.I agree. When you vote for the winner, whatever that winner does that he said he would do during his campaign, you lose the justification to bitch about (after all, he said he'd do it and you voted for him). When you don't vote at all, whoever gets into power and does what he said he would during his election campaign, you lose the ability to bitch about it, because you did nothing to stop him.
I believe Gates and Company have taken the approach of patents to protect themselves from suits from others. Has Microsoft actually sued someone over copying their technologies?
They've threatened too. When all you have to do is threaten to kill someone to get what you want, there's no point in killing them.
That's a great idea. Also if you often visit www.blahblah.ru and someone does www.blahblah--[JAPANESE CHARACTER].ru you'll see [JP] instead of [RU] and you know it won't be the correct site.
I guess I'll have to switch back to MSIE where I *know* I'll be safe from that ONE kind of attack.
But prone to quite a few other attacks that you aren't prone to in Firefox? That's illogical
Did you stop to think that the ocean life in those areas needs those waves and currents to survice and that this system might damage them?
That would constitute something other then stopping surfers
no more killer waves to surf, and the area where these will be deployed will become almost like kiddie pools.
If that's the price that must be paid, that's a bad thing? If that's the price I would happily pay it. Save the environment VS allowing people to surf. Tough choice.
If they can block VOIP and not msn messenger they should be able to block kiddy-porn that's downloaded. They can have a black-list, it won't be extensive, but they can try. And if they're made aware of a kiddy-porn site and don't block it, and someone downloads it, they should be able to be prosecuted/sued. They allowed someone access to kiddy-porn.
If they're a common carrier, they are legally obliged to allow all content through. If they're a private carrier, they have a responsibility to block access to known illegal content.
I don't know. I'd say that's better quality then GNAA.
Wow. I'd hate to have a system with games that had such little re-playability.