Mmmm. I'm not sure that not being able to hide your past assholery is a bad thing.
Though I object to businesses harvesting my personal information without my knowledge and consent ( per case ), and I volentairly put very little personal information on the internet.
It's because of idiots like this that we can't have nice toys.
True dat. It's always the one person who can't repect others who ruins it for everybody else.
I was going to ask how they found him, but then I saw that he did it to a police helicopter! %-|
Doh! STUPID!
Apart from the fact that from a distance there is a line of light narrowing and pointing back at the perp, a helecopter can come down and spot you! I mean, that's like egging a cop car and expecting they won't come looking for you!
So if I convince you to eat or drink a poison by telling you that it's good for you, no harm will come to you?
If I purger myself in court, and get you wrongly convicted of murder, no-harm, no-foul? If I convince your spouse that you've been cheating, all's still good? If I lie to your professor that you've been cheating, he fails you, and you get expelled, you are not harmed? If I lie to your employer saying you've stolen corporate secrets, so they fire and prosecute you, and you can never get another good paying job, it must be that it's all good because lying causes no damages? If I call you a pedophile, get you put on the sex offender registry, your neighbors get you kicked out of your house, and you cannot find a place to live, I suppose you are not harmed. If you make a product, and I create a rumor that results in a 50% drop in sales, I suppose your business is not harmed. If you are a politician, and I lie about you demanding kickbacks, so you loose the election, no one is harmed at all? Ask the young girl who's wrongly believed to be a slut if lying causes no damages. Ask the investors who lost all their money to a scam if lying causes no damages.
And before you say that it was the actions that came after the lie that caused the damage, realize that in the case of a scam, it isn't the taking of the money that caused the harm either, if you want to be specific, it is the INACTION of not living up to expectations created by the lie that causes the harm. And according to you only actions can cause harm.
The fact is that, apart from lying, the liar does not necessarily need to take any action to cause harm. Often the harm is caused by the actions of OTHERS who believe the lie. And that is the liar's action, convincing others of the lie, or at least causing doubt.
In fact the corollary to your statement would be that telling the truth can cause no benefit. A concept just as ridiculous as your statement that lying is not an action. The logical root of these misapprehensions is that you must believe that speech is not an action. This logically leads to the concept that communication is not an action. And if communication isn't an action, how can thought be an action? Which makes sense, because both speech and writing are both just thought in another form, AKA communication.
If speech aka communication, is not an action, then my response is not a reaction to your post, and your post cannot be a reaction to someone else's post.
Even physics has understood for hundreds of years that there must be an action before a re-action.
The fact is that COMMUNICATION of ANY kind (internal or external) is an action and that data of ANY kind (lies, truth or misapprehension) can cause harm or good.
I think we should do what Canada does - make it the law that if you're specifically calling your media "news", then it MUST be the truth. Tell all the lies you want, you just can't call it "news".
We do that already, they are called "Opinion Pieces", and are the most popular parts of TV, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines and Websites.
Essentially, properly conceived, a "hate crime" is a kind of terrorism—and it's bona fide terrorism, in this case. It's using egregious violence to intimidate a civilian population.
By that logic all law is terrorism, or is intended as such. That's the preventative effect of law and the punishment it prescribes.
But, what's wrong with terrorizing people into not murdering, beating up, etc. those they fear? (Fear is the basis of all hate, yes even revenge-driven hate.)
"Uh, no honey, I'm not using a simple software program (written by a 12) year old to patronize you and your (stupid) self-conscious questions!" "I would never minimize your feelings by sending you canned, semi-random, phrases in response to your very real concerns!" "'Why do I have an icon on my phone named LazyHusband?' Oh, you know my friends and how they like to joke around!" "Uh... Why don't you put the pan down now?" "Ow! Come-on, be reasonable!" "Bad choice of words, I didn't mean to imply that you're unreasonable!" "Help!"
Riiiiiight. My previous post not withstanding, management is never wrong, and you will make yourself the problem if you try telling them otherwise.
MY experience with upper management is that they don't even want to be in the room while you fix whatever perceived problem they have. Explaining anything they didn't specifically ask about to them is, at best, you wasting their valuable time. At worst, it's you being insubordinate.
Management's job is not to listen to their subordinates tell them how they should do things, that undercuts their concept of what a manager does. Their job is to visualize ways that reality could be better, without any regard to it's practicality or possibility. Making that vision happen is YOUR job, NOT telling them it's not possible or bringing up 'irrelevant' facts.
Uh... It's ugly as shit? It raises the temperature in the room making it uncomfortable? It makes the room reek of plastic and foam, giving you headaches and making you nauseous?
All of which feeds your ADHD, making it even MORE impossible to study and/or sleep?
Maybe you have a room-mate who has taste, and so objects to you making the room look like the inside of a FedEx box?
Slashdot Mirror
Fox and Universal!
While reading this thread? Of boredom!
Mmmm. I'm not sure that not being able to hide your past assholery is a bad thing.
Though I object to businesses harvesting my personal information without my knowledge and consent ( per case ), and I volentairly put very little personal information on the internet.
No one cares about cricket bats.
Now I have images in my brain of roving gangs of crickets carrying bats, and itching for a fight!
(Yes, I know what cricket is.)
It's because of idiots like this that we can't have nice toys.
True dat. It's always the one person who can't repect others who ruins it for everybody else.
I was going to ask how they found him, but then I saw that he did it to a police helicopter! %-|
Doh! STUPID!
Apart from the fact that from a distance there is a line of light narrowing and pointing back at the perp, a helecopter can come down and spot you! I mean, that's like egging a cop car and expecting they won't come looking for you!
The point is that the lying causes no damages.
Really?
So if I convince you to eat or drink a poison by telling you that it's good for you, no harm will come to you?
If I purger myself in court, and get you wrongly convicted of murder, no-harm, no-foul?
If I convince your spouse that you've been cheating, all's still good?
If I lie to your professor that you've been cheating, he fails you, and you get expelled, you are not harmed?
If I lie to your employer saying you've stolen corporate secrets, so they fire and prosecute you, and you can never get another good paying job, it must be that it's all good because lying causes no damages?
If I call you a pedophile, get you put on the sex offender registry, your neighbors get you kicked out of your house, and you cannot find a place to live, I suppose you are not harmed.
If you make a product, and I create a rumor that results in a 50% drop in sales, I suppose your business is not harmed.
If you are a politician, and I lie about you demanding kickbacks, so you loose the election, no one is harmed at all?
Ask the young girl who's wrongly believed to be a slut if lying causes no damages.
Ask the investors who lost all their money to a scam if lying causes no damages.
And before you say that it was the actions that came after the lie that caused the damage, realize that in the case of a scam, it isn't the taking of the money that caused the harm either, if you want to be specific, it is the INACTION of not living up to expectations created by the lie that causes the harm. And according to you only actions can cause harm.
The fact is that, apart from lying, the liar does not necessarily need to take any action to cause harm. Often the harm is caused by the actions of OTHERS who believe the lie. And that is the liar's action, convincing others of the lie, or at least causing doubt.
In fact the corollary to your statement would be that telling the truth can cause no benefit. A concept just as ridiculous as your statement that lying is not an action. The logical root of these misapprehensions is that you must believe that speech is not an action. This logically leads to the concept that communication is not an action. And if communication isn't an action, how can thought be an action? Which makes sense, because both speech and writing are both just thought in another form, AKA communication.
If speech aka communication, is not an action, then my response is not a reaction to your post, and your post cannot be a reaction to someone else's post.
Even physics has understood for hundreds of years that there must be an action before a re-action.
The fact is that COMMUNICATION of ANY kind (internal or external) is an action and that data of ANY kind (lies, truth or misapprehension) can cause harm or good.
I think we should do what Canada does - make it the law that if you're specifically calling your media "news", then it MUST be the truth. Tell all the lies you want, you just can't call it "news".
We do that already, they are called "Opinion Pieces", and are the most popular parts of TV, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines and Websites.
Essentially, properly conceived, a "hate crime" is a kind of terrorism—and it's bona fide terrorism, in this case. It's using egregious violence to intimidate a civilian population.
By that logic all law is terrorism, or is intended as such. That's the preventative effect of law and the punishment it prescribes.
But, what's wrong with terrorizing people into not murdering, beating up, etc. those they fear? (Fear is the basis of all hate, yes even revenge-driven hate.)
What you don't understand is that I wrote an app that posts to /., and I'm responding to one of it's posts right now! ;)
No, "In Soviet Russia TFA reads YOU!"
"Your food is in the refrigerator, take it out, combine it in any way you please, season it, put it in the stove and cook it."
I use to be in a relationship with one. I cannot stress enough how important it is to stay away from those relationships. :)
And, on behalf of feminists everywhere, thank you for avoiding us. I assure you the disinterest is entirely mutual.
Oh Snap!
Just don't ever get caught using it!
"Uh, no honey, I'm not using a simple software program (written by a 12) year old to patronize you and your (stupid) self-conscious questions!"
"I would never minimize your feelings by sending you canned, semi-random, phrases in response to your very real concerns!"
"'Why do I have an icon on my phone named LazyHusband?' Oh, you know my friends and how they like to joke around!"
"Uh... Why don't you put the pan down now?"
"Ow! Come-on, be reasonable!"
"Bad choice of words, I didn't mean to imply that you're unreasonable!"
"Help!"
The transcript is immediately below the video. Click the "Hide/Show Transcript" link.
Too much work
You show him a better way.
Riiiiiight. My previous post not withstanding, management is never wrong, and you will make yourself the problem if you try telling them otherwise.
MY experience with upper management is that they don't even want to be in the room while you fix whatever perceived problem they have. Explaining anything they didn't specifically ask about to them is, at best, you wasting their valuable time. At worst, it's you being insubordinate.
Management's job is not to listen to their subordinates tell them how they should do things, that undercuts their concept of what a manager does. Their job is to visualize ways that reality could be better, without any regard to it's practicality or possibility. Making that vision happen is YOUR job, NOT telling them it's not possible or bringing up 'irrelevant' facts.
For each "retarded" VP (in a true IT sense) there's a thousand "retarded" Average Joes (And Janes).
True enough, but most of the damage done by an "average Joe" can usually be mitigated. To REALLY screw things up, it usually takes management.
It makes someone feeling like they're doing something... management.
It makes management feel like they're doing something? Of course it will be implemented!
3) Why can't you cover your walls in foam?
Uh... It's ugly as shit?
It raises the temperature in the room making it uncomfortable?
It makes the room reek of plastic and foam, giving you headaches and making you nauseous?
All of which feeds your ADHD, making it even MORE impossible to study and/or sleep?
Maybe you have a room-mate who has taste, and so objects to you making the room look like the inside of a FedEx box?
Booo!
[What if you want war?] Well, then you accuse everybody else of wanting war and attack first.
So this here I came up with just now: If you want war, accuse others of warmongering and attack them.
Ancient tactic, used even before recorded history.
It's just short for Goddamn particle, because it was so hard to find..
Don't mod that as funny, it's the truth!
The day a robot can post this comment will be the day we really have artificial intelligence.
Ah, so you hope to one day read an intelligent exchange here on SlashDot?
There's no shortage of people out there who do want their meat ground by great industry, if you know what I mean.
Don't you mean "want their meat ground WITH great industry"?
What about a sexbot? Surely you don't want your robot ghost `maid' to look like an industrial meat grinder....
Industrial meat grinder??!
If ANYTHING you use in connection with sex looks like an industrial meat grinder heed the following warning:
URGENT MESSAGE: PSEUDONYM AUTHORITY: STOP NOW! YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG!
Failure to follow the above instructions will inevitably lead to serious physical injuries that neither I, nor /. can be held responsible for.
R/C model planes are much harder to legislate against.
So it's drone, dammit!
And there will be many more incidents like this one because drones are getting popular. Ref: http://diydrones.com/