The Secret Service agent I spoke with was interested, but let me know why he couldn't justify further investigation. Without a clear abused victim with a clear monetary damage of at least $30,000, he couldn't justify obtaining the necessary necessary agency time to get the warrants to track the spammers and the fraud. So I learned a hard lesson: getting the specific criminal act of large enough damage to *justify* prosecutorial interest is key. It's why so many low scale spammers and fraudsters continue so long: they operate under the radar of police or FBI or Secret Service wire fraud thresholds.
On the other hand... had that spammer tried to sell *one* bootleg copy of a movie...
It's not quite that misinformed. Emacs lisp is a special purpose language....
Well... It's a version of LISP customized for text-editor use. At its core it's still LISP. [And you're talking to someone who has used Emacs and written Emacs LISP, as well as Common LISP, Franz LISP (and ported the interpreter from BSD to SunOS and Ultrix), and InterLISP-D, since the mid 1980s... So, while certainly not an expert, I have some Emacs and LISP exposure.:-) ]
...instead of "special-purpose scripting languages" like Emacs...
One of the least informed statements I've ever read on/.
Ignoring the fact that Emacs is an editor, not a scripting language, one can do just about anything in LISP (and Emacs LISP), and LISP itself has been around since 1958. I even got paid as a research assistant in college in 1985 to work in LISP on a Xerox 1108 graphical workstation using InterLISP-D (still have the manual). The whole OS was written in LISP and the system had ethernet, mouse and 19" gray-scale monitor. It was fucking awesome.
Sure, he got his pay docked by 1/2 to $11.5M for the bank's bad behavior - while he was at the helm - but then gets a a raise to (reportedly) $20M because, "Mr. Dimon should be rewarded for his stewardship of the bank during such a difficult period." -- a difficult period in which, again, he was at the helm.
Nothing but a boys club, patting each other on the back for screwing over the little people and the regulators...
I suspect that a simple change such as requiring a bank be contained to just the state their HQ is located...
Technically that would be Delaware for most (all?) banks, though those offices tend to be just shells for taxes/litigation. But I get your point for really big national banks, like BofA, and combined investment/savings banks. There are already smaller regional banks, like SunTrust, as well as state/local banks, which are *not* too big to fail.
The *manufacturer* has a vested interest in making sure your car has a safety update...
That's adorable. The manufacturer has a vested interested if the recall/update costs exceed the projected liability costs from wrongful death/injury suits and/or negative publicity / shareholder response./cynical
Every manufacturer will switch to auto-upgrades when the first one loses a massive tort case over failure to auto-upgrade.
That simply will not happen - or not in any of our lifetimes (which, of course, may be determined by the lack of auto-update...)
... how much money does someone really need? I'm not against Capitalism, but seriously, does one person really need $100 million, or even $20 million as an (semi?) annual salary or bonus? Does a CEO need 500 times (recent figures) the average salary of his/her own employees - you know, the people doing the actual work?
The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood
If... such a [infinite improbability] machine is a virtual impossibility, it must have finite improbability. So all [one has] to do in order to make one is to work out how exactly improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea... and turn it on!
Ah yes, Cop Space augmented reality in the book Rule 34. Hopefully, the future won't be like the rest if that novel - though even that would be better than/. Beta.
the rest - to read tons of Insightful comments from fellow Slashdotters
Simply put, the new site is designed to put an end to this. Have you ever seen a comment on YouTube that is as long as you've posted? Not many?...
Perhaps because many (younger?) people these days have the attention span of a dog at a squirrel farm. Which, I guess, is good for glancing through ads designed for [insert profitable demographic], but not anything more serious.
I have only tried beta a few times (not logged in and in Private mode) and found the overabundance of white space, especially on the article pages, most egregious and wasteful as it horizontally compresses the comments so as to be difficult to read. I also generally agree with ost of the negative comments I so far read about beta. I've had a/. account since the late 1990s, but if beta is the future of/., that future probably won't include me.
Slashdot Mirror
Jetpacks make sense if you can get them to work.
As would many, many other things, like Warp Drive and the G Spot.
Geo Networks runs the cables along the roof of the sewers, avoiding any 'waste' issues ...
The Internet is a series of tubes sending digital crap to your home, that runs through a series of tubes sending physical crap away from your home.
The Secret Service agent I spoke with was interested, but let me know why he couldn't justify further investigation. Without a clear abused victim with a clear monetary damage of at least $30,000, he couldn't justify obtaining the necessary necessary agency time to get the warrants to track the spammers and the fraud. So I learned a hard lesson: getting the specific criminal act of large enough damage to *justify* prosecutorial interest is key. It's why so many low scale spammers and fraudsters continue so long: they operate under the radar of police or FBI or Secret Service wire fraud thresholds.
On the other hand... had that spammer tried to sell *one* bootleg copy of a movie...
I had three cars totaled while they were parked by cell phone users ...
That's what you get for letting cell phone users park your cars. :-)
Wayland waylaid; now way late.
It's not quite that misinformed. Emacs lisp is a special purpose language. ...
Well... It's a version of LISP customized for text-editor use. At its core it's still LISP. [And you're talking to someone who has used Emacs and written Emacs LISP, as well as Common LISP, Franz LISP (and ported the interpreter from BSD to SunOS and Ultrix), and InterLISP-D, since the mid 1980s... So, while certainly not an expert, I have some Emacs and LISP exposure. :-) ]
...instead of "special-purpose scripting languages" like Emacs ...
One of the least informed statements I've ever read on /.
Ignoring the fact that Emacs is an editor, not a scripting language, one can do just about anything in LISP (and Emacs LISP), and LISP itself has been around since 1958. I even got paid as a research assistant in college in 1985 to work in LISP on a Xerox 1108 graphical workstation using InterLISP-D (still have the manual). The whole OS was written in LISP and the system had ethernet, mouse and 19" gray-scale monitor. It was fucking awesome.
"Peggy" or "Pegging" the programmer? Given the current job market, either seems plausible.
How did Nissan get a list of Tesla owners and their email addresses?
Fire department. :-)
No matter where you go, there you are.
Thanks Buckaroo.
- out with soap!
It seems that Watson learned some bad words when IBM turned it on to the Urban Dictionary.
The alternative would be Watson talking about things like "The Shocker" (Google it, but not at work) - which would probably creep most of us out.
I wanna live forever!!!
Even if your eternal existence is as a glorified chatbot doomed to bulk Google+'s userbase for unbounded time?
I thought Google+ is where things go to die. :-)
Time/money/value decisions are something you make dozens of every day.
Exactly. As noted in the movie Volunteers
Most CEO's do not make $20,000,000. Only a sliver of the very best and top bankers who have proven to make 10x that to their employers.
While certainly not "most", I'm having trouble defining Jamie Dimon as "the very best":
Fined Billions, JPMorgan Chase Will Give Dimon a Raise
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/20...
Sure, he got his pay docked by 1/2 to $11.5M for the bank's bad behavior - while he was at the helm - but then gets a a raise to (reportedly) $20M because, "Mr. Dimon should be rewarded for his stewardship of the bank during such a difficult period." -- a difficult period in which, again, he was at the helm.
Nothing but a boys club, patting each other on the back for screwing over the little people and the regulators...
I suspect that a simple change such as requiring a bank be contained to just the state their HQ is located ...
Technically that would be Delaware for most (all?) banks, though those offices tend to be just shells for taxes/litigation. But I get your point for really big national banks, like BofA, and combined investment/savings banks. There are already smaller regional banks, like SunTrust, as well as state/local banks, which are *not* too big to fail.
When people care about safety the car companies give it to them.
Umm... "give"? Pretty sure those things show up in the sticker price.
The *manufacturer* has a vested interest in making sure your car has a safety update...
That's adorable. The manufacturer has a vested interested if the recall/update costs exceed the projected liability costs from wrongful death/injury suits and/or negative publicity / shareholder response. /cynical
Every manufacturer will switch to auto-upgrades when the first one loses a massive tort case over failure to auto-upgrade.
That simply will not happen - or not in any of our lifetimes (which, of course, may be determined by the lack of auto-update...)
I'm getting a DOI not found for the paper from TFS, the DOI being 10.1038/nature13026.
Does anyone know the correct identifier?
So, the DOI is precise and you're asking if it's accurate? :-)
If Slashdot were created today, I wonder if it would be some kind of homogenized youtube channel or twitter account.
[cough] /. Beta [cough]
Now if only we could harness this to make an infinite improbability drive!
From HHGTTG, quoting from here: Infinite Improbability Drive:
The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood
If ... such a [infinite improbability] machine is a virtual impossibility, it must have finite improbability. So all [one has] to do in order to make one is to work out how exactly improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea... and turn it on!
Ah yes, Cop Space augmented reality in the book Rule 34. Hopefully, the future won't be like the rest if that novel - though even that would be better than /. Beta.
The name will change to avoid any trademark problems.
Just call it "slashcott.org" - satirical and political.
Simply put, the new site is designed to put an end to this. Have you ever seen a comment on YouTube that is as long as you've posted? Not many? ...
Perhaps because many (younger?) people these days have the attention span of a dog at a squirrel farm. Which, I guess, is good for glancing through ads designed for [insert profitable demographic], but not anything more serious.
I have only tried beta a few times (not logged in and in Private mode) and found the overabundance of white space, especially on the article pages, most egregious and wasteful as it horizontally compresses the comments so as to be difficult to read. I also generally agree with ost of the negative comments I so far read about beta. I've had a /. account since the late 1990s, but if beta is the future of /., that future probably won't include me.