Maybe you should have learned by senior year that a University degree doesn't prove anything besides your endurance. Degree or no degree, that doesn't change one's credibility as an expert in any given field.
I don't expect ANYONE to read orange crate really, but the story has to be posted somewhere. And the best they could do is hope that a well read site or media outlet picks the story up. And oh my, look what happened...
I totally agree with you about the "editorial selection"
In all fairness, this is not such a bad article. Just because everyone that reads Slashdot has the oppurtunity to be well informed about these issues, doesn't make his interview any less valid for the millions of non-slashdot readers that are not so well informed. Slashdot readers just assume that when they open up a new story, they're going to read something groundbreaking, and that just wasn't the case this time.
Sure he's just a student. But he's a phD student, which means he's been accepted into a program where his life will consist of academically monitored research in this ares.
Cut the kid some slack; he's the closest thing there is to an expert in his field.
And, unfortunately, I have thought long and hard about the Guantanamo Bay prisoners, however given my current working position, I am best not to, and explicitly forbidden from, comment.
You offer a very well thought out and well written argument. I would like you to know, that I wasn't taking a "moral high ground", but merely reflecting what US law should curtail. If your reference is to the allaeged terrorists being held in Cuba without trial, that is something that I can not comment on.
You assume that minors are going to use a carving knife with malicious intent. I'm not sure where you're from, but in the United States, people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Sounds like the UK assumes that a 15 year old buying a kitchen knife is going to stab someone with it, instead of peel a potato.
Not sure why you guys are so opposed to the idea of sueing the school. They're not even being apologetic. The bare minimum I would expect would be a formal apology.
Where would the money come from? From the school of course. This would just raise tuition you say? Well sure, but why would you want to goto a schoo like this after an incident of this magnitude. I wouldn't trust them. And there are other options. Its not like we're talking about Waterloo or MIT here.
So what legal recourse do the students have? As far as I'm concerned, the organization is liable, and the students should launch a class action lawsuit, if nothing else, but for lost productivity time, which is what companies usually seek when they go after hackers. The school is no better than the people that hacked them if they couldn't safeguard this personal and highly sensitive information.
You'll also notice that the asshole of a VP didn't even apologize for the situation. Just that he regrets it. Makes me sick how there's no sense of responsibility there.
Its such a waste to visit a tech show and focus on the major players. This is where the little guy truly has a place to shine. Startup's aren't able to catch much press with their news releases because they don't command the attention a fortune 500 company does. But small innovative companies that can raise enough money to get a small booth often has the slickest technology. Many companies have also been bought out because of the exposure they've gained at these kind of events -- such as Jana, who was later acquired by Microsoft after they gained enough attention just from being booth neighbors at Comdex.
Yeah draw your gun out of anger, that makes sense. I'm all for people having guns, but its idiots like you that think anger is a suitable reason to make a hasty decision that make me second guess gun laws (assuming you're carrying this legally, which you're probably not)
A major exporter of hydrogen? Are you mad? You can make hydrogen yourself, right now. Run a DC current in some water and watch it bubble. Voila hydrogen. Now if you only had a market...
If the guns were stored properly, then kids improperly handling weapons wouldn't be a concern. Its common sense. Put sharp objects up high, keep small things they can choke on out of their hands, etc.
Better yet, educate your kids about weapons if you're going to have them in the house. My dad was a sniper in his younger days, so I grew up with weapons. I knew at a young age how to use them, but more importantly to respect them.
Wow, I just read the article you posted from your link above. Its hard to believe a whole country can condone not selling household knives to persons under the age of 16. Whatever happened to discrimination laws? Maybe women shouldn't be allowed to purchase them either after that whole Lorena Bobbit incident.
Some people are a little naive about energy generation. While hydrogen can be isolated from hydro carbons, it can also be produced from water... and yes this requires electricity. But there's a number of ways to generate electricity that doesn't involve oil including solar, wind and tidal power plants. For example, Toronto, Canada now uses 2 windmills located within the city to generate electrical power for 42,000 homes. This same technology could easily be employed to seperate hydrogen from water and produce a true "green" fuel.
Sadly for Canada it eventually will lead to gun confiscation. Especially in a national crisis, where guns maybe the deciding factor against a hostile government, the controlling body will know exactly who has what and where they are.
This technology has very little merit. Since there are over 100 million weapons in North America, there will never be a problem for a criminal to find a gun that does not contain this "smart" technology. People that legitimately acquire weapons are not the ones that mis-use them.
In Canada, there has been National debate over their new control registry that has legislated that all gun owners must now register their weapons. It's not very likely that legitimate gun owners are going to commit a crime with their.22 calibre hunting rifle. It is very likely the continued importation of illegal automatic assault weapons will be used for crimes though.
The only place this technology has any applicability is in the hands of police if they feel they may lose their firearm to a suspect and have it used against them. And you don't hear about that happening to often because police have training. Develop smart people, not smart weapons.
Well apparently 3 million readers think its funny. You've never made that many people laugh or want to return to your website. I tell you what, if you don't get the jokes, post them to "Ask Slahdot" and we'll help you interpret them.
Since when has not making any money off of an idea ever stopped a.com. As we all saw during the.com explosion, most of these companies didn't have a business plan. So its no surprise the desktop version of the.com search engine has no way of making money -- yet.
Fair enough, but you could switch companies. Many companies, including my former employer offered a Distinguished Engineer title, that gave employees the prestiege and salary they were looking for, without them having to become management.
I could write a short list of products that I've created that have generated millions of dollars for companies that I've done work for, either as an employee or a contractor. But in doing the work, I was paid a guaranteed salary, and knew I would receive that whether the products were profitable or not.
There's more to making profit than just creating an invention. If the company didn't provide the supporting technology and capital to research and produce the product, then it wouldn't have been invented. Not to mention the whole marketing aspect. Sure you can be sitting on a million dollar idea, but without capital, marketing and a distribution model, it's worthless.
If he felt this product was going to be such a success and could have produced it without his company, he should have left, raised venture capital and produced it himself.
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Maybe you should have learned by senior year that a University degree doesn't prove anything besides your endurance. Degree or no degree, that doesn't change one's credibility as an expert in any given field.
Yeah I was accepted there, what's your point?
I don't expect ANYONE to read orange crate really, but the story has to be posted somewhere. And the best they could do is hope that a well read site or media outlet picks the story up. And oh my, look what happened...
I totally agree with you about the "editorial selection"
In all fairness, this is not such a bad article. Just because everyone that reads Slashdot has the oppurtunity to be well informed about these issues, doesn't make his interview any less valid for the millions of non-slashdot readers that are not so well informed. Slashdot readers just assume that when they open up a new story, they're going to read something groundbreaking, and that just wasn't the case this time.
Sure he's just a student. But he's a phD student, which means he's been accepted into a program where his life will consist of academically monitored research in this ares.
Cut the kid some slack; he's the closest thing there is to an expert in his field.
Your welcome :).
And, unfortunately, I have thought long and hard about the Guantanamo Bay prisoners, however given my current working position, I am best not to, and explicitly forbidden from, comment.
You offer a very well thought out and well written argument. I would like you to know, that I wasn't taking a "moral high ground", but merely reflecting what US law should curtail. If your reference is to the allaeged terrorists being held in Cuba without trial, that is something that I can not comment on.
You assume that minors are going to use a carving knife with malicious intent. I'm not sure where you're from, but in the United States, people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Sounds like the UK assumes that a 15 year old buying a kitchen knife is going to stab someone with it, instead of peel a potato.
Not sure why you guys are so opposed to the idea of sueing the school. They're not even being apologetic. The bare minimum I would expect would be a formal apology.
Where would the money come from? From the school of course. This would just raise tuition you say? Well sure, but why would you want to goto a schoo like this after an incident of this magnitude. I wouldn't trust them. And there are other options. Its not like we're talking about Waterloo or MIT here.
So what legal recourse do the students have? As far as I'm concerned, the organization is liable, and the students should launch a class action lawsuit, if nothing else, but for lost productivity time, which is what companies usually seek when they go after hackers. The school is no better than the people that hacked them if they couldn't safeguard this personal and highly sensitive information.
You'll also notice that the asshole of a VP didn't even apologize for the situation. Just that he regrets it. Makes me sick how there's no sense of responsibility there.
Its such a waste to visit a tech show and focus on the major players. This is where the little guy truly has a place to shine. Startup's aren't able to catch much press with their news releases because they don't command the attention a fortune 500 company does. But small innovative companies that can raise enough money to get a small booth often has the slickest technology. Many companies have also been bought out because of the exposure they've gained at these kind of events -- such as Jana, who was later acquired by Microsoft after they gained enough attention just from being booth neighbors at Comdex.
Yeah draw your gun out of anger, that makes sense. I'm all for people having guns, but its idiots like you that think anger is a suitable reason to make a hasty decision that make me second guess gun laws (assuming you're carrying this legally, which you're probably not)
A major exporter of hydrogen? Are you mad? You can make hydrogen yourself, right now. Run a DC current in some water and watch it bubble. Voila hydrogen. Now if you only had a market...
So of the ones that die from their own weapon, how many would have been prevented with this technology. Once again, we need smart people.
If the guns were stored properly, then kids improperly handling weapons wouldn't be a concern. Its common sense. Put sharp objects up high, keep small things they can choke on out of their hands, etc.
Better yet, educate your kids about weapons if you're going to have them in the house. My dad was a sniper in his younger days, so I grew up with weapons. I knew at a young age how to use them, but more importantly to respect them.
Wow, I just read the article you posted from your link above. Its hard to believe a whole country can condone not selling household knives to persons under the age of 16. Whatever happened to discrimination laws? Maybe women shouldn't be allowed to purchase them either after that whole Lorena Bobbit incident.
Some people are a little naive about energy generation. While hydrogen can be isolated from hydro carbons, it can also be produced from water... and yes this requires electricity. But there's a number of ways to generate electricity that doesn't involve oil including solar, wind and tidal power plants. For example, Toronto, Canada now uses 2 windmills located within the city to generate electrical power for 42,000 homes. This same technology could easily be employed to seperate hydrogen from water and produce a true "green" fuel.
Sadly for Canada it eventually will lead to gun confiscation. Especially in a national crisis, where guns maybe the deciding factor against a hostile government, the controlling body will know exactly who has what and where they are.
This technology has very little merit. Since there are over 100 million weapons in North America, there will never be a problem for a criminal to find a gun that does not contain this "smart" technology. People that legitimately acquire weapons are not the ones that mis-use them.
.22 calibre hunting rifle. It is very likely the continued importation of illegal automatic assault weapons will be used for crimes though.
In Canada, there has been National debate over their new control registry that has legislated that all gun owners must now register their weapons. It's not very likely that legitimate gun owners are going to commit a crime with their
The only place this technology has any applicability is in the hands of police if they feel they may lose their firearm to a suspect and have it used against them. And you don't hear about that happening to often because police have training. Develop smart people, not smart weapons.
Just because you enjoy a Disney flick, doesn't mean you can't appreciate a great classic Academy Award winning film.
Some people need an idol, some need a leader, and some appreciate witty humor. You seem to need to get laid. I'll pass your mom over when I'm done.
Well apparently 3 million readers think its funny. You've never made that many people laugh or want to return to your website. I tell you what, if you don't get the jokes, post them to "Ask Slahdot" and we'll help you interpret them.
Now go tell your mom I'll be over soon.
Since when has not making any money off of an idea ever stopped a .com. As we all saw during the .com explosion, most of these companies didn't have a business plan. So its no surprise the desktop version of the .com search engine has no way of making money -- yet.
I think this comic from Penny Arcade pretty much sums up how much we all care about N-Gage
Fair enough, but you could switch companies. Many companies, including my former employer offered a Distinguished Engineer title, that gave employees the prestiege and salary they were looking for, without them having to become management.
I could write a short list of products that I've created that have generated millions of dollars for companies that I've done work for, either as an employee or a contractor. But in doing the work, I was paid a guaranteed salary, and knew I would receive that whether the products were profitable or not.
There's more to making profit than just creating an invention. If the company didn't provide the supporting technology and capital to research and produce the product, then it wouldn't have been invented. Not to mention the whole marketing aspect. Sure you can be sitting on a million dollar idea, but without capital, marketing and a distribution model, it's worthless.
If he felt this product was going to be such a success and could have produced it without his company, he should have left, raised venture capital and produced it himself.