I know NO open source programmers that worship IBM.
Read through the threads about the contributions to the kernel from IBM. Once the fiaSCO broke out, there were open source programmers *leaping* to the defence of IBM contributors and heaping mounds of praise on them.
I don't disagree with their praise, but the lovefest did get a bit out of hand.
Your troll of a parent was not being hypocritical, just controversial.
Lucky me, eh?;)
Oh, and your pedantism really makes you look good.
So why doesn't she sue her ex-boyfriend whom posted this information without her consent?
I'm sure he is next.
Yahoo the site is just a tool, it would seem the person who posted those pictures should be the one to be sued not the tool which was misused.
The article states that she requested that the information be removed on several occasions. They didn't comply with her requests. That could make them jointly liable to the original act.
I think that portal-based adult groups will probably go "bye-bye" if they are viewed as a financial risk to the hosting site. Yahoo puts all of this webspace up without asking questions about the veracity of the information and then doesn't have the resources to properly police it. I'm sure MSN will drop theirs as well if this case goes against Yahoo.
I'm sure that this woman is not the first person who has had an ex-boyfriend/husband/lover post nude pictures of them on the net.
If you are doing the hiring, I would hope that at that point you will have learned to write in complete sentences.
I don't understand your hostility. The guy is making a living. I assume that you 'like' IBM because it supports open source. Not long ago that 'support' for IBM would have been heresy to open computing advocates.
Now open source programmers worship at the feet of people who work for IBM. I would hire the guy even if (and a pretty *big* if at this point) Microsoft becomes a niche player.
The danger is that, having touted.Net as "all that and a scoop of ice cream", people finally wake up and realize that viable alternative exist.
Well, I got that impression from folks in our shop who code.NET. They were happy to jettison VB in favor of what one of my colleagues described as "true object oriented programming" in Windows.
If.NET is stalled for any of the reasons you have described it would be a shame. There are programmers who are quite excited about the prosepects of building applications for the long-term with.NET.
If Microsoft seems unwilling to bind.NET to its next flagship OS, then why all the rush to produce.NET-capable products? Is.NET going to be a wash? Why bother worrying about Mono's fate as well? If Microsoft doesn't seem to work hard to integrate it into their primary platform, then should the Mono developers continue to look over their shoulders?
Is.NET another Microsoft vaporware?
Instead, the.Net Framework will be the core for a small subset of Longhorn, specifically the Windows API Platform (WAP), which consists primarily of the "Avalon" Windows presentation system and the "Indigo" Windows communications system, our tipsters say.
Okay, but will Avalon be a core system in Longhorn? The new file system is out, and some of the early discussion from Microsoft indicated that Avalon might be 'out' until after the first version of Longhorn ships.
I use Microsoft products and am really getting confused about their software roadmap.
I've lived in Turkey and have seen their jails and I know a number of Russians who have given me feedback about theirs. You're an idiot. There is NO comparison.
You think that the Carthaginians' Mediterranean supremacy millennia ago is now as militarily irrelevant as France's military power centuries ago?!
No, but it is historically ignorant to dismiss the contribution of the France to the formation of the United States. The parents throwaway phrase ignores French contributions American life. Just ask the folks in New Orleans. Or take a look out into the New York harbor...oh, what's that? You only recognize the word "French Fries" in our cultural lexicon?
Try working somewhere other than McDonalds. There is an entire world waiting for you to explore it.
The bottom line is, was, and always will be, this: if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about!
Unless you are a political dissident.
Oooops! Forgot about that one, didn't you?
I'm going to assume that you aren't a US citizen, but it has been our political heritage that the government only gets the powers the citizenry grant to it, not the other way around.
Dude, EVERYTHING in Slashdot is "scooped" by someone.
I should be more explict when posting what I believed to be a tongue-in-cheek jab at our geekyness.
Considering the fact that most of NPR's audience is probably older than dirt, when they get something before the "News for Nerds" does, we are in trouble.
Put down the bottle and see an attorney in your jurisdiction (preferably one who has also put down the bottle).
Perhaps you should have read the entire post, my esteemed council. In it you would have read that I had highlighted the discriminatory application of the law by the states in question as contributing to the 5-4 decision.
Also, my comment about Michigan tracks well with your statements regarding the state's ability to regulate alcohol. I never said they couldn't but instead ridiculed them for doing so.
As for my consumption of alcohol, I rarely drink. And whether I drink heavily or not should is hardly a reason for the government to step in and regulate personally destructive behavior. In several forums I have argued that the government has extended its reach well beyond what was originally envisioned in the formation of the US Constitution.
I am fully capable of taking care of myself, thanks.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advise.
Good thing. I wasn't asking for it.
I am a geologist and here is some free hydrologeologic advice: Don't put your well downgradient from your septic tank. Doing so won't affect you nearly as much as your guests.
Why should the government care if I visit Cuba or not?
Is Castro any more repressive than the government of China? I don't see travel restrictions for anyone who wants to visit the 3 Gorges dam.
A pack of rabid anti-Castro Cubans would rather the people of Cuba starved rather than let one US dollar flow into the country. Do they think that dork is going to live forever?
How about antibiotics? Should government be able to regulate the sale and use of antibiotics thorugh keeping them prescription-only with the aim of preventing resistant strains?
Yep, but that has less to do with protecting the individual from themselves than it does society protecting itself from an infectious disease.
Lest you begin to think that I'm arguing that some crackhead should be allowed to steal to support their habit because I don't favor regulating what people do to themselves, I feel compelled to point out that theft is already illegal.
Putting someone in jail because they do drugs but keep themselves employed and refrain from stealing is a waste of taxpayer money.
Should we incarcerate everyone with a compulsive disorder? How about compulsive eaters? Some of them steal food and their lifestyle will add to the already skyrocketing costs of the healthcare system.
Welcome to the world of higher education - $15,000 is 1/2 of an FTE on average, not 1/5.
Are you including benefits and administrative overhead?
Take the annual salary and multiply by 1.5. That covers benefits. Add in administratve overhead (departmental adders) and you have a salary of $30K pumped up to $75K.
We hire students and post-docs from universities all of the time. What we get charged by your department is different than what you see in your administrative reports.
Gasoline is a central nervous system depressant that can cause liver damage due to naturally occuring benzene that is expensive to remove.
Do you propose that children should be kept more than 15 meters from a gasoline pump? Kids are exposed to gasoline vapors while their parents are fueling their vehicles.
How about spray paint? Care to legislate the use of that material?
The fact is governmental attempts to control the or abuse of substances is expensive and bound to fail. You can argue that the damage done to individuals from substance abuse is a burden to society, while I can counter-point that the money spent to arrest, adjudicate, and incarcerate someone would be better spent on treatment.
But consider this: It is a big loss for "states rights", because it says that states have no right to control interstate commerce that passes through their borders.
The states can still regulate the sale of alcohol within their borders.
They are just prohibited from applying the law in a manner that is discriminatory to out-of-state vendors.
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I know NO open source programmers that worship IBM.
;)
Read through the threads about the contributions to the kernel from IBM. Once the fiaSCO broke out, there were open source programmers *leaping* to the defence of IBM contributors and heaping mounds of praise on them.
I don't disagree with their praise, but the lovefest did get a bit out of hand.
Your troll of a parent was not being hypocritical, just controversial.
Lucky me, eh?
Oh, and your pedantism really makes you look good.
It takes practice, believe me.
So why doesn't she sue her ex-boyfriend whom posted this information without her consent?
I'm sure he is next.
Yahoo the site is just a tool, it would seem the person who posted those pictures should be the one to be sued not the tool which was misused.
The article states that she requested that the information be removed on several occasions. They didn't comply with her requests. That could make them jointly liable to the original act.
That is what the court will have to decide.
I think that portal-based adult groups will probably go "bye-bye" if they are viewed as a financial risk to the hosting site. Yahoo puts all of this webspace up without asking questions about the veracity of the information and then doesn't have the resources to properly police it. I'm sure MSN will drop theirs as well if this case goes against Yahoo.
I'm sure that this woman is not the first person who has had an ex-boyfriend/husband/lover post nude pictures of them on the net.
At least if I'm doing the hiring.
If you are doing the hiring, I would hope that at that point you will have learned to write in complete sentences.
I don't understand your hostility. The guy is making a living. I assume that you 'like' IBM because it supports open source. Not long ago that 'support' for IBM would have been heresy to open computing advocates.
Now open source programmers worship at the feet of people who work for IBM. I would hire the guy even if (and a pretty *big* if at this point) Microsoft becomes a niche player.
The danger is that, having touted .Net as "all that and a scoop of ice cream", people finally wake up and realize that viable alternative exist.
.NET. They were happy to jettison VB in favor of what one of my colleagues described as "true object oriented programming" in Windows.
.NET is stalled for any of the reasons you have described it would be a shame. There are programmers who are quite excited about the prosepects of building applications for the long-term with .NET.
Well, I got that impression from folks in our shop who code
If
If Sun seems unwilling to bind .=Java to its next flagship OS, then why all the rush to produce Java-capable products? Is Java going to be a wash?
I had no idea that Sun dominated the desktop market.
Imagine my confusion on that point.
If Microsoft seems unwilling to bind .NET to its next flagship OS, then why all the rush to produce .NET-capable products? Is .NET going to be a wash? Why bother worrying about Mono's fate as well? If Microsoft doesn't seem to work hard to integrate it into their primary platform, then should the Mono developers continue to look over their shoulders?
.NET another Microsoft vaporware?
.Net Framework will be the core for a small subset of Longhorn, specifically the Windows API Platform (WAP), which consists primarily of the "Avalon" Windows presentation system and the "Indigo" Windows communications system, our tipsters say.
Is
Instead, the
Okay, but will Avalon be a core system in Longhorn? The new file system is out, and some of the early discussion from Microsoft indicated that Avalon might be 'out' until after the first version of Longhorn ships.
I use Microsoft products and am really getting confused about their software roadmap.
I've lived in Turkey and have seen their jails and I know a number of Russians who have given me feedback about theirs. You're an idiot. There is NO comparison.
True, but I'll bet you've never been to GitMo.
Heh... good one ;)
Mine says "You k'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke? -- Joel Chandler Harris, proverbs of Uncle Remus"
Obscure, isn't it?
You think that the Carthaginians' Mediterranean supremacy millennia ago is now as militarily irrelevant as France's military power centuries ago?!
..oh, what's that? You only recognize the word "French Fries" in our cultural lexicon?
No, but it is historically ignorant to dismiss the contribution of the France to the formation of the United States. The parents throwaway phrase ignores French contributions American life. Just ask the folks in New Orleans. Or take a look out into the New York harbor.
Try working somewhere other than McDonalds. There is an entire world waiting for you to explore it.
The bottom line is, was, and always will be, this: if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about!
Unless you are a political dissident.
Oooops! Forgot about that one, didn't you?
I'm going to assume that you aren't a US citizen, but it has been our political heritage that the government only gets the powers the citizenry grant to it, not the other way around.
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion. - Jed Babbin
They should add a second tour and show Animal House in Eugene, Oregon.
Or maybe the Chamber of Commerce of Eugene would rather forget that episode.
..50% are 35-54.
That is my category.
As I said, older than dirt.
Or that should be "Dir-te".
Dude, EVERYTHING in Slashdot is "scooped" by someone.
;)
I should be more explict when posting what I believed to be a tongue-in-cheek jab at our geekyness.
Considering the fact that most of NPR's audience is probably older than dirt, when they get something before the "News for Nerds" does, we are in trouble.
Maybe a smiley would help.
NPR covered this story yesterday.
Put down the bottle and see an attorney in your jurisdiction (preferably one who has also put down the bottle).
Perhaps you should have read the entire post, my esteemed council. In it you would have read that I had highlighted the discriminatory application of the law by the states in question as contributing to the 5-4 decision.
Also, my comment about Michigan tracks well with your statements regarding the state's ability to regulate alcohol. I never said they couldn't but instead ridiculed them for doing so.
As for my consumption of alcohol, I rarely drink. And whether I drink heavily or not should is hardly a reason for the government to step in and regulate personally destructive behavior. In several forums I have argued that the government has extended its reach well beyond what was originally envisioned in the formation of the US Constitution.
I am fully capable of taking care of myself, thanks.
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advise.
Good thing. I wasn't asking for it.
I am a geologist and here is some free hydrologeologic advice: Don't put your well downgradient from your septic tank. Doing so won't affect you nearly as much as your guests.
..or what countries you could visit?
No shit.
Why should the government care if I visit Cuba or not?
Is Castro any more repressive than the government of China? I don't see travel restrictions for anyone who wants to visit the 3 Gorges dam.
A pack of rabid anti-Castro Cubans would rather the people of Cuba starved rather than let one US dollar flow into the country. Do they think that dork is going to live forever?
His face is still worth $20, after all.
And a few thousand Cherokee bodies on his conscience.
Oh, that's right. They were just brutal savages who deserved to die.
Why is society obliged to provide a safety net for drug use?
Or compulsive gamblers, or compulsive shoppers, or compulsive eaters.....
And I can argue that that money would be better spent on one bullet and a tax rebate.
I say we start with fucktards like yourself.
I'll use my own piece, thank you.
How about antibiotics? Should government be able to regulate the sale and use of antibiotics thorugh keeping them prescription-only with the aim of preventing resistant strains?
Yep, but that has less to do with protecting the individual from themselves than it does society protecting itself from an infectious disease.
Lest you begin to think that I'm arguing that some crackhead should be allowed to steal to support their habit because I don't favor regulating what people do to themselves, I feel compelled to point out that theft is already illegal.
Putting someone in jail because they do drugs but keep themselves employed and refrain from stealing is a waste of taxpayer money.
Should we incarcerate everyone with a compulsive disorder? How about compulsive eaters? Some of them steal food and their lifestyle will add to the already skyrocketing costs of the healthcare system.
You seem to presume that the only thing a government can do in response to substance abuse is to make it illegal.
That is what the legislature thinks, not what I think.
Well, why don't you put two and two together and wonder if the government has any reason to be involved in treatment and harm-minimisation strategies.
The recidivism rate calls bullshit on your argument. Convicts are users when they go into prision and are users shortly after parole.
Consider some of the examples of Australian responses to problems with petrol sniffing or chroming.
Why should I consider Austraila as a shining example of liberty?
Governments may not be good nannies but they are a damn side better than most people at taking care of themselves.
You just answered my question.
Welcome to the world of higher education - $15,000 is 1/2 of an FTE on average, not 1/5.
Are you including benefits and administrative overhead?
Take the annual salary and multiply by 1.5. That covers benefits. Add in administratve overhead (departmental adders) and you have a salary of $30K pumped up to $75K.
We hire students and post-docs from universities all of the time. What we get charged by your department is different than what you see in your administrative reports.
LOL, this is a health issue.
Then why involve the government in the equation?
Gasoline is a central nervous system depressant that can cause liver damage due to naturally occuring benzene that is expensive to remove.
Do you propose that children should be kept more than 15 meters from a gasoline pump? Kids are exposed to gasoline vapors while their parents are fueling their vehicles.
How about spray paint? Care to legislate the use of that material?
The fact is governmental attempts to control the or abuse of substances is expensive and bound to fail. You can argue that the damage done to individuals from substance abuse is a burden to society, while I can counter-point that the money spent to arrest, adjudicate, and incarcerate someone would be better spent on treatment.
Goverments are not good nannies.
But consider this: It is a big loss for "states rights", because it says that states have no right to control interstate commerce that passes through their borders.
The states can still regulate the sale of alcohol within their borders.
They are just prohibited from applying the law in a manner that is discriminatory to out-of-state vendors.