At the same time, there's nothing terribly moral about capitalism either. In an ideal capialist society, The sick, old and infirm are left to die. The people in a capitalistic society may be moral and charitable, setting up orphanages to help stranded children, feeding and housing grandma even when she ran out of savings, but thats not Capitalism.
I disagree, both with your assertion and your corollary. In an ideal capitalist society, everyone is free to do whatever brings them the most personal gain. For many, this involves helping sick/old/infirm/stranded children. Furthermore, in an ideal capitalist society---and pretty much in practice, although I don't want to make that assertion too strongly because I just woke up and don't really feel like going to the evidence bin (:-P)---this works better than any communist or government program could to ensure the welfare of all. In an ideal capitalist society, all benefit from the invisible hand. But the greatest benefit is the freedom to pursue achievement and excellence, as opposed to forced mediocrity (of results, and thus likely of actions).
So I know I'm inviting the flames with this line, but if you haven't been biased against her already, I would suggest reading some Rand---just to get the "ideal capitalist" perspective, of course maintaining an open mind to both sides while doing so. Atlas Shrugged is the place to start for capitalism; The Fountainhead for individuality.
No, this isn't something that patches would fix. I could easily write a program that has no visible effect---or perhaps pops up a funny picture/animatin or something---that, in the background, uses the administrative privileges it runs with by default to do lots of exciting things. Heck, even without admin privileges I could execute the idea from a few threads up (sticking a shortcut to shutdown.exe in the user's startup folder). It has nothing to do with patches: once the user runs my program, it's all over, no matter how patched they are.
If a kid on myspace -- aka the backwater of the web where HTML from 1995 is still popular -- is talking about plans to take out a group of students, or running drugs onto campus to sell during lunch, then I think the district not only has a duty, but an obligation, to try and make sure neither happens.
The district has an obligation to inform the police.
I agree; it's far past time that putrid HTML started being reported to law enforcement. Talk about inflicting psychological trauma! I've always said that the W3C needs enforcers, and the police will do just as well as anyone else. *Nods seriously*.
Taking statistics (well, learning it on my own in preparation for the AP test) made me realize that yes, this is quite possible. A claim like "potential contributing cause" is probably based on a chi-square. The most obvious explanation I can think of is that it would be expected to occur in 0.001 % (or something) of cases if there were no link.
Er. That would be a very nice high-and-mighty I'm-better-than-you-because-I'm-not-jealous-of-you r-real-ultimate-power-promise speech, if it were true. As it stands, it appears that the config supports:
Call of Duty
Chronicles of Riddick
Doom III
Far Cry
F.E.A.R.
Half-Life 2
Quake 4
Serious Sam 2
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Project Snowblind
Now granted, I didn't check every one of those pages to make sure they didn't contain a "we couldn't get it to run" blurb, but a random sampling produces successes in all cases (although sometimes the results are unexpected).
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For example, whenever I meet militant PETA people I really want to go kill baby bunnies, skin them, and wear their bloody firs as a coat...
There's some kind of bad pun in there for me to make... something about bunnies and bloody fir trees... like... "I didn't know bunnies had their own personal menstruating trees." Except funnier...
Ah well, I suppose I shall leave it to more insightful intellects than I;).
DUDE! You are SUCH a LOSER! XHTML 1.1 all the way... seriously! I mean come on guys, can you believe what's wrong with this parent poster? It's a disgrace. Just go duck your head in a tub of N_2(l) and do us all a favor. Pssh! XHTML 1.0 Transitional? The only transititioning I see going on here is your FACE onto the DISGRACED NERD WALL.
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Maybe this is the whole 'not making friends' the grandparent was talking about...
Just want to say, I never use the front page any more. I just use my Firefox live bookmark (i.e. RSS feed). I think other users might be in the same situation.
So, whatever changes you make, I think you should definitely keep in mind that at least some people (probably a lot) rely on the RSS feed as the main means of getting slashdot information.
Thanks for the great site, and especially the recent efforts towards improvements!
I really think you're looking at meta-discussion the wrong way. My opinion: because people moderate up spelling/grammar corrections, you should take them seriously. The fact is, more people think that a comment correcting spelling is "insightful" than think it's "off-topic."
That should tell you something: we value correct spelling and grammar. While you may think we're abusing the system, I think we're using the system to tell you something. The moderation system is designed to highlight comments people think are worth our time. Well, we've decided correctness is worth our time.
Finally, I found it pretty disgusting reading your earlier post that you kept spelling and grammar mistakes in the editorial just "to prove a point." What point are you proving? That you like cultivating an unprofessional image?
I have 56K at home, and thus use my 114 Kbps Verizon phone (as a modem) for web browsing, but its latency makes it unusable for game playing. I get like 800 ms pings.
If T-mobile has a low-latency (< 200 ms ping) 150 Kbps, I'd jump on it in a minute.
If wikipedia called itself the "Unreliable Encyclopedia",
I think that's what the "Wiki" in Wikipedia means. Along with a lot of good things, like freedom, up-to-date-ness, etc., but unreliability is in there too.
You are not alone. Very similar experience here, just more recent (I'm only 17). I think you say it very well:
It's not about the drug "curing" me. All the drug can do (and this is the case in most psych drugs) is get me to a state where I can begin to deal with what the real issues are.
Slashdot Mirror
Fixed that for ya ;)
IANAL, but don't you think being a public school has some effect on this?
I haven't seen ads since I installed Adblock Plus with the Filterset.G updater.
OMFSM, did Slashdot just add a checkbox to my read posts? That is seriously cool.
No, this isn't something that patches would fix. I could easily write a program that has no visible effect---or perhaps pops up a funny picture/animatin or something---that, in the background, uses the administrative privileges it runs with by default to do lots of exciting things. Heck, even without admin privileges I could execute the idea from a few threads up (sticking a shortcut to shutdown.exe in the user's startup folder). It has nothing to do with patches: once the user runs my program, it's all over, no matter how patched they are.
WTFSM is with the underscores?
I agree; it's far past time that putrid HTML started being reported to law enforcement. Talk about inflicting psychological trauma! I've always said that the W3C needs enforcers, and the police will do just as well as anyone else. *Nods seriously*.
Taking statistics (well, learning it on my own in preparation for the AP test) made me realize that yes, this is quite possible. A claim like "potential contributing cause" is probably based on a chi-square. The most obvious explanation I can think of is that it would be expected to occur in 0.001 % (or something) of cases if there were no link.
Er. That would be a very nice high-and-mighty I'm-better-than-you-because-I'm-not-jealous-of-you r-real-ultimate-power-promise speech, if it were true. As it stands, it appears that the config supports:
Now granted, I didn't check every one of those pages to make sure they didn't contain a "we couldn't get it to run" blurb, but a random sampling produces successes in all cases (although sometimes the results are unexpected).
There's some kind of bad pun in there for me to make... something about bunnies and bloody fir trees... like... "I didn't know bunnies had their own personal menstruating trees." Except funnier...
Ah well, I suppose I shall leave it to more insightful intellects than I
DUDE! You are SUCH a LOSER! XHTML 1.1 all the way... seriously! I mean come on guys, can you believe what's wrong with this parent poster? It's a disgrace. Just go duck your head in a tub of N_2(l) and do us all a favor. Pssh! XHTML 1.0 Transitional? The only transititioning I see going on here is your FACE onto the DISGRACED NERD WALL.
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Maybe this is the whole 'not making friends' the grandparent was talking about...
... but apparently nVidia now has SLI in notebooks ready to roll. I'm waiting to upgrade my XPS Gen 2 to one of those...
On a slightly related note, am I the only one whose brain instantly went to "Nickel Metal Hydride"?
I'm such a nerd!
Amen, brother! ;).
Hmmm.... ;)
Just want to say, I never use the front page any more. I just use my Firefox live bookmark (i.e. RSS feed). I think other users might be in the same situation.
So, whatever changes you make, I think you should definitely keep in mind that at least some people (probably a lot) rely on the RSS feed as the main means of getting slashdot information.
Thanks for the great site, and especially the recent efforts towards improvements!
Here's the target: http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/hs/
And here's the weapon: http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/
I really think you're looking at meta-discussion the wrong way. My opinion: because people moderate up spelling/grammar corrections, you should take them seriously. The fact is, more people think that a comment correcting spelling is "insightful" than think it's "off-topic."
That should tell you something: we value correct spelling and grammar. While you may think we're abusing the system, I think we're using the system to tell you something. The moderation system is designed to highlight comments people think are worth our time. Well, we've decided correctness is worth our time.
Finally, I found it pretty disgusting reading your earlier post that you kept spelling and grammar mistakes in the editorial just "to prove a point." What point are you proving? That you like cultivating an unprofessional image?
I was going to mod this "funny", but then I wasn't sure.
:-P
You know that the underlying base of the above joke is the internet, right?
A grandparent once said "the net is large enough that somebody won't get the joke". Therefore, always use a smiley when you're telling a joke.
Why, the solution to annoying technology is always more technology, of course.
That is, you use your iPod!
Here's a useful Firefox extension for this kind of stuff:
http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/
Because you whine too much :-P. I kid, I kid...
Could you do a quick test for me? Ping yahoo.com.
I have 56K at home, and thus use my 114 Kbps Verizon phone (as a modem) for web browsing, but its latency makes it unusable for game playing. I get like 800 ms pings.
If T-mobile has a low-latency (< 200 ms ping) 150 Kbps, I'd jump on it in a minute.
I think that's what the "Wiki" in Wikipedia means. Along with a lot of good things, like freedom, up-to-date-ness, etc., but unreliability is in there too.
You are not alone. Very similar experience here, just more recent (I'm only 17). I think you say it very well:
Thank the FSM for antidepressants.