Why should I work for 60 hours a week busting my rear so that you can sit in your parents basement getting high scores on Call of Duty since you have virtually no lag time thanks to my taxes?
Well, um...I'm still getting lag time, so apparently you're not working hard enough...
But when it comes to animal abuse, I loose (sic) some of that rationality.
Exactly. You admit yourself that you are not nearly as rational when it comes to acts of cruelty against animals.
Don't get me wrong - I love animals. Had a number of pets as a kid. But, lists like these ones are an extremely slippery slope and are really just politicians playing against people's fears and/or lack of rationality, or are a way to mask real problems. Lists create an environment for a person to be judged for the rest of their life (because, ya know, everybody ELSE is messed up, but I'm perfect and can judge them) for something that they may have already been punished for.
Additionally, you also say:
Sure, let animal abusers serve their time. Even give'em a job.
The problem is, there will be enough people who will not only not give them a job, but they will also go out of their way to abuse and harm these individuals for something that may have been a brief, stupid adolescent move when they were young. One punishment, and done.
Good luck feeling inner piece when your daughter says she is going camping with him, when his little discresion in life was nailing a cat to a plank of wood while performing some autopsy while it was still alive. Over the course of an hour.
Good grief. Now you're just fear-mongering as well as any politician. Heck, the fact that you can even come up with this might mean that you should be on that list...
If I remember correctly, there was a story on here recently about cows that produce less methane and, thus, are better for the environment and won't cause global warming. So, is the fact that the Arctic releasing methane proof that it is suicidal? (Or maybe the Arctic is just Mother Nature farting a little...)
I don't know. I haven't had a problem with patching in a looooong time. I just turn on automatic patches and I never see a thing. My virus scanner updates, Windows 7 updates, and a few of the applications that I use do autoupdates as well. I think Secunia is probably just trying to sell something. You know, like it's Personal Software Inspector...
This is a very fantastic idea. I would love to have something like this as, when I typically go to the grocery store, I find myself buying the same stinking food again and again (it's tough to have a good imagination when you're in a rush).
Any Google engineers out there with a penchant for cooking - this would be a great 20% time project.
I have recently been reading The Innovator's Dilemma which has quite a case study on the hard drive market and, in particular, disruptive innovations to the market. If anybody else has read the book, I am wondering - does SSD really representing a disruptive innovation to the market?
Haven't you heard? If your application doesn't have a synergistic community portal for leveraging paradigm-changing reality matricies you're officially a member of the Software 1.0 generation. I can't wait until the new version of TurboTax comes out with 1-click facebook export, twitter feed for liability expenses and a CoverFlow-alike system for making your tax returns totally pimped.
Crap. That's an awesome idea! I can totally see how we can utilize this agile platform for demonstrating first-order capabil...wait...what? Am I a manager? Why, yes, yes I am. Why do you ask?
Hello. I would say that you must be new here to Slashdot, but looking at your low, six-digit ID number, that is obviously not true. So, I must assume it has been quite some time since you have logged in given your surprise at a duplicated story on Slashdot. See, here at Slashdot, we believe that a story isn't a story until it's been posted two, three, maybe even four times. Only when that happens is the story something that has become true. Of course, it's also a good idea to post multiple duplications of a story in case someone missed the first one. The internet is really fast and stories can fly by in the blink of an eye. It's the same reason there are multiple road signs telling you of an exit on a highway - sometimes you miss the first one or two.
In any case, I just wanted to inform you, dear groucho, that this is not a mistake. Our editors are wise and the repeated stories they post are for the benefit of you and your brethren so that we may repeatedly make the same comments (and hopefully garner more karma).
Until the next "Google Dropping Gears Support" story, I bid you good day.
I know what you are hinting at with your answer (AKA "Don't use Facebook") but, the reality of the matter is that Facebook is used all the time with various groups, friends, etc that people are part of. Yeah, there is a high amount of noise, but it is *the* place for people to plan events, talk about life events, etc. While I wouldn't "die" without Facebook, my social life would most definitely suffer (and, yes, I mean a social life outside of Facebook - Facebook is a tool to help plan that). So, leaving Facebook is not necessarily an option.
To answer the GP post, I too would like to see Buzz integrate with Facebook - even if it is to see status and provide status updates.
We had something similar at my university as well. The line for line copying is understandable - cheating is easy to spot then. But, I was always concerned with the "copied structure." With a large enough class (or classes as the case for intro CS class would be) and a simple enough problem, structures should typically look very similar. I wonder how programs like MOSS account for this.
Did that happen? No, the industrial capitalists just found new ways to put us (and now our wives too, who are no longer required for housework thanks to all these appliances) to work for our own insatiable greed.
Fixed that for you.
While I understand that *some* families have to have both parents working just to survive (and I truly mean survive), much of what we work for is extra. Nobody *needs* two cars. Nobody needs cable. Nobody needs internet. Nobody needs any of that stuff. Is it really nice to have? Yup. Do I enjoy it? Yup. But, we do it to ourselves. Competing with the Joneses, etc keeps us working those late hours and not focusing on what is truly important (but does not have an instant satisfaction guarantee).
Thank you! Came in here to say this. Did the submitter even read the article?
And for those interested:
Our proposed DNS protocol extension lets recursive DNS resolvers include part of your IP address in the request sent to authoritative nameservers. Only the first three octets, or top 24 bits, are sent providing enough information to the authoritative nameserver to determine your network location, without affecting your privacy.
Google toolbar, analytics, ad sense, double click, chrome... My love for Google is diminishing faster than the DOW in 2008.
Hrm...what's wrong with Chrome, exactly? It's a sweet browser and has really helped to push other browsers forward as well.
As for Analytics, Ad Sense, and Doubleclick - I'm not sure of your exact problems with them, but ads are how Google makes money so they can keep giving away all this "free" stuff. Sure, those ads may annoy you, but you can block them easily enough if they do.
I am a developer, so I can definitely answer your question...
A typical day at the office involves me sitting in my king-sized, overstuffed easy-chair, programming on quad 48" hi-def monitors while being fed bon-bons by some very beautiful ladies. While this is rough, once I head home (driving in my day car, of course, I save my better cars for more important occasions), I can then relax in one of the many 289 rooms in my mansion, spend time in one of 6 hot tubs (of course, they come stocked with their own set of beautiful ladies) or just enjoy the 27 hole golf course that's spread across part of my 1000 acres of property.
Of course, after all of this, it is nice to spend a little time watching the latest movie in my own movie theater (iMax and 3D, of course), and then I always enjoy topping the night off by snuggling down in my King-King sized bed (yeah...a king sized bed x 2) - again, the aforementioned beautiful ladies are always there.
So...is being a developer a lucrative career? Well...it's not like being a rapper...but it pays the bills.
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A torpedo that comes back if it misses? What could possibly go wrong?
Ahhh...that really lends a whole new kind of meaning to the word BOOMerang.
Now, normally, I don't like to be a jerk. But, I'm sick. So I feel justified. Is it really so hard to look this up when you have an entire internet to help you search plus an article linked above?!
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Why should I work for 60 hours a week busting my rear so that you can sit in your parents basement getting high scores on Call of Duty since you have virtually no lag time thanks to my taxes?
Well, um...I'm still getting lag time, so apparently you're not working hard enough...
And then there are people who just take themselves too seriously.
And then there are grammar Nazis.
But when it comes to animal abuse, I loose (sic) some of that rationality.
Exactly. You admit yourself that you are not nearly as rational when it comes to acts of cruelty against animals.
Don't get me wrong - I love animals. Had a number of pets as a kid. But, lists like these ones are an extremely slippery slope and are really just politicians playing against people's fears and/or lack of rationality, or are a way to mask real problems. Lists create an environment for a person to be judged for the rest of their life (because, ya know, everybody ELSE is messed up, but I'm perfect and can judge them) for something that they may have already been punished for.
Additionally, you also say:
Sure, let animal abusers serve their time. Even give'em a job.
The problem is, there will be enough people who will not only not give them a job, but they will also go out of their way to abuse and harm these individuals for something that may have been a brief, stupid adolescent move when they were young. One punishment, and done.
Good luck feeling inner piece when your daughter says she is going camping with him, when his little discresion in life was nailing a cat to a plank of wood while performing some autopsy while it was still alive. Over the course of an hour.
Good grief. Now you're just fear-mongering as well as any politician. Heck, the fact that you can even come up with this might mean that you should be on that list...
Hahaha. This was a great post! Thanks for the laugh. (Still laughing.)
If I remember correctly, there was a story on here recently about cows that produce less methane and, thus, are better for the environment and won't cause global warming. So, is the fact that the Arctic releasing methane proof that it is suicidal? (Or maybe the Arctic is just Mother Nature farting a little...)
I don't know. I haven't had a problem with patching in a looooong time. I just turn on automatic patches and I never see a thing. My virus scanner updates, Windows 7 updates, and a few of the applications that I use do autoupdates as well. I think Secunia is probably just trying to sell something. You know, like it's Personal Software Inspector...
This is a very fantastic idea. I would love to have something like this as, when I typically go to the grocery store, I find myself buying the same stinking food again and again (it's tough to have a good imagination when you're in a rush).
Any Google engineers out there with a penchant for cooking - this would be a great 20% time project.
I have recently been reading The Innovator's Dilemma which has quite a case study on the hard drive market and, in particular, disruptive innovations to the market. If anybody else has read the book, I am wondering - does SSD really representing a disruptive innovation to the market?
google are not stupid.
Is they now?
Haven't you heard? If your application doesn't have a synergistic community portal for leveraging paradigm-changing reality matricies you're officially a member of the Software 1.0 generation. I can't wait until the new version of TurboTax comes out with 1-click facebook export, twitter feed for liability expenses and a CoverFlow-alike system for making your tax returns totally pimped.
Crap. That's an awesome idea! I can totally see how we can utilize this agile platform for demonstrating first-order capabil...wait...what? Am I a manager? Why, yes, yes I am. Why do you ask?
Dear grouchomarxist,
Hello. I would say that you must be new here to Slashdot, but looking at your low, six-digit ID number, that is obviously not true. So, I must assume it has been quite some time since you have logged in given your surprise at a duplicated story on Slashdot. See, here at Slashdot, we believe that a story isn't a story until it's been posted two, three, maybe even four times. Only when that happens is the story something that has become true. Of course, it's also a good idea to post multiple duplications of a story in case someone missed the first one. The internet is really fast and stories can fly by in the blink of an eye. It's the same reason there are multiple road signs telling you of an exit on a highway - sometimes you miss the first one or two.
In any case, I just wanted to inform you, dear groucho, that this is not a mistake. Our editors are wise and the repeated stories they post are for the benefit of you and your brethren so that we may repeatedly make the same comments (and hopefully garner more karma).
Until the next "Google Dropping Gears Support" story, I bid you good day.
Sincerely,
D
I know what you are hinting at with your answer (AKA "Don't use Facebook") but, the reality of the matter is that Facebook is used all the time with various groups, friends, etc that people are part of. Yeah, there is a high amount of noise, but it is *the* place for people to plan events, talk about life events, etc. While I wouldn't "die" without Facebook, my social life would most definitely suffer (and, yes, I mean a social life outside of Facebook - Facebook is a tool to help plan that). So, leaving Facebook is not necessarily an option.
To answer the GP post, I too would like to see Buzz integrate with Facebook - even if it is to see status and provide status updates.
They said the same thing about the Titanic...
We had something similar at my university as well. The line for line copying is understandable - cheating is easy to spot then. But, I was always concerned with the "copied structure." With a large enough class (or classes as the case for intro CS class would be) and a simple enough problem, structures should typically look very similar. I wonder how programs like MOSS account for this.
You're pretty dumb for someone getting a PhD.
Maybe it's a PhD in Basket Weaving?
NTTAWWT
Did that happen? No, the industrial capitalists just found new ways to put us (and now our wives too, who are no longer required for housework thanks to all these appliances) to work for our own insatiable greed.
Fixed that for you.
While I understand that *some* families have to have both parents working just to survive (and I truly mean survive), much of what we work for is extra. Nobody *needs* two cars. Nobody needs cable. Nobody needs internet. Nobody needs any of that stuff. Is it really nice to have? Yup. Do I enjoy it? Yup. But, we do it to ourselves. Competing with the Joneses, etc keeps us working those late hours and not focusing on what is truly important (but does not have an instant satisfaction guarantee).
You guys never played Zelda, Metroid, Diablo or StarCraft, have you?
I play Duke Nukem, you insensitive clod!
Thank you! Came in here to say this. Did the submitter even read the article?
And for those interested:
Our proposed DNS protocol extension lets recursive DNS resolvers include part of your IP address in the request sent to authoritative nameservers. Only the first three octets, or top 24 bits, are sent providing enough information to the authoritative nameserver to determine your network location, without affecting your privacy.
Though I'll admit I'm biased, since that connection means my bird watching is a little less nerdy since it's actually dinosaur watching!
In Jurassic period Soviet Union, dinosaur watches you!
Google toolbar, analytics, ad sense, double click, chrome... My love for Google is diminishing faster than the DOW in 2008.
Hrm...what's wrong with Chrome, exactly? It's a sweet browser and has really helped to push other browsers forward as well.
As for Analytics, Ad Sense, and Doubleclick - I'm not sure of your exact problems with them, but ads are how Google makes money so they can keep giving away all this "free" stuff. Sure, those ads may annoy you, but you can block them easily enough if they do.
I am a developer, so I can definitely answer your question...
A typical day at the office involves me sitting in my king-sized, overstuffed easy-chair, programming on quad 48" hi-def monitors while being fed bon-bons by some very beautiful ladies. While this is rough, once I head home (driving in my day car, of course, I save my better cars for more important occasions), I can then relax in one of the many 289 rooms in my mansion, spend time in one of 6 hot tubs (of course, they come stocked with their own set of beautiful ladies) or just enjoy the 27 hole golf course that's spread across part of my 1000 acres of property.
Of course, after all of this, it is nice to spend a little time watching the latest movie in my own movie theater (iMax and 3D, of course), and then I always enjoy topping the night off by snuggling down in my King-King sized bed (yeah...a king sized bed x 2) - again, the aforementioned beautiful ladies are always there.
So...is being a developer a lucrative career? Well...it's not like being a rapper...but it pays the bills.
A torpedo that comes back if it misses? What could possibly go wrong?
Ahhh...that really lends a whole new kind of meaning to the word BOOMerang.
According to studies, talking on a cellphone is far more distracting than talking on a car.
You know one of the advantages of talking on a car? Auto-dial.
Ah well. -1 point for me for not clicking the anonymous button. Ah well. Like I said, I'm sick. Stupid flu. :: grumbles ::
Now, normally, I don't like to be a jerk. But, I'm sick. So I feel justified. Is it really so hard to look this up when you have an entire internet to help you search plus an article linked above?!
Seriously.
(I'm being an anonymous jerk.)