Probably because of the duality of Slashdot members. On one hand, a bunch of neo-hippies, high-school/college students, and disgruntled cubicle drones who want everything and fuck the company. On the other hand are fearful middle managers who immediately scream "call the lawyers".
Maybe you should change the beginning of the first sentence to read:
Probably because of the duality of Slashdot posters.
Don't judge the whole heard based on what a few percentage say.
rabtech does have a point. Businesses have to protect themselves from rabid lawyers. Businesses also have to give workers privacy. The hard part is going to be finding the middle ground between reasonable use (of computers) and reasonable privacy (of workers).
You'll notice that MSFT never uses coders to present their side--they use polished people like Craig Mundie who have a good idea of what their position is and how to express it clearly. Why should the community be any different?
Because this community isn't out to make a ton of money and rule the world. This community is out to make software that works so amazingly well the gods will notice.
If you want to beat up Microsoft, be my guest. Just don't tie yourself so closely to us code writers that you take us down with you should you loose.
Again, I repeat. I'm not here writting code to beat Microsoft. I'm here to make this f*&king computer do my bidding. Don't tell me to change my licensing practices, or my direction (beat Microsoft at all costs) just becuase you think Microsoft needs to be beaten.
I didn't make my code GPL so you could fight a battle with it. I made it GPL so you could use your computer efficiently, to help advance humanity, to some day get the human race to the stars.
Assuming that when I write something and release it to the public it's for the purpose of making money.
I'm growing tired of this rat race. I know what Microsoft is saying - they want to make money, pure and simply, but can't do it under the GPL. In addition to this, they want all competition eliminated (GPL software). So, they spend all this time boo-hooing about how the GPL is bad becuase it doesn't foster Microsoft's Universal Law - making money.
I would have thought that all those in the business world with their degrees and such would see this and let the air of Microsoft's tire. But it would seem that we are SO CONSUMED with the urge to argue that we engage Microsoft and discuss it with them.
We should be concentrating on doing what we do best - writing good code and sharing it with each other. We made it this far by concentrating on that - writing good software. We did not get this far by targetting a company and attempting to beat it with a free alternative. We should not be targetting Microsoft and attempting to beat them. They will out manuever us.
We should drop all this bickering with MS and go back to doing something that Microsoft can't beat us at: writing good code.
If it weren't for companies like McDonald's, millions of people would be malnourished, having no time and too little money to feed themselves in
the few minutes they have between their two jobs.
If you didn't eat at McDonald's, you probably wouldn't need two jobs. Eating something from the grocery store is much cheaper.
Witches are to be burned, not honored, and I don't think that most God-fearing Christians out there want their children corrupted by such "gateway" groups.
The public. Give the public one week to find prior art before awarding the patent. Since it takes months to years to get a patent you don't really have to worry about anyone stealing your idea.
If they're doing this already then I'll be damned - I can't find anything on their website that lets me review patents about to be granted.
At the beginning of the war, France had more planes, more tanks, more of just about everything than Germany.
More does not mean better. They simply weren't prepared for what Germany threw at them. Germany also spent a few years trying out new battle tactics in the Spanish Civil War.
Maginot Line! Great idea! Let's build half a wall and hope they don't go around!
From what I remember, the Germans went over the Maginot Line (paratroopers), not around it.
But despite those nit picky things, I do agree with you. France's banishment of anything Nazi does seem to be a knee-jerk reaction to a section of history we'd all rather not repeat.
Even if you detected the airplane...
Even if a single pixel was devoted for that tiny return received by the dish covering hundreds of square miles...
Even if you could track that return between radar zones...
You'd still have a hard time telling it apart from all the other birds happily flapping around.
It supposedly scares the pants of the US military cuz there are no military radar transmitters to hit, only civilian transmitters.
Once you use those civilian transmitters to support your military, they become weapons of war and are open to destruction.
Additionally, this can be easily fooled by swamping the entire area with the same frequency their transmitters use. Their entire radar screen will light up like a Christmas tree and they won't know where anything is, or think there are 1 billion stealth fighters overhead.
Yes, it seems I was confused. Which isn't to hard to do since layoff round two was last Friday.
Thanks for clearing it up though. I do agree, it seems pointly to sue when we all know that SDMI can be circumvented. Probably has something to do with sending a message to use pirates. Or with the fact that even though the damage has already been done, they still did something illegal according to the DCMA.
So the next time they make a faulty product and try to pass it on to the industry and consumers as the holy grail to save all those starving artists, we can call them on it and publish.
Yes, I do see what you mean now that you've explained it a bit more. The temptation is now greater to fire up and gamble.
I still think there are ways to circumvent this, though. Put a sign on your monitor that says "No Gambling". Avoid web sites that have gambling adverts (I know, hard to do). Use your computer for a specific purpose (play Starcraft, code, make a web page, do the family finances) not random entertainment (surf the web).
I don't think ease of accessibility has anything to do with it. If a person is addicted to gambling they will find a way to gamble - no matter the effort required.
It could take those who currently gamble for fun and make them become addicted. But that's simply a personal restraint issue. We all know better, but few of us care enough to restrain ourselves. If they truly want to become addicted then it does not require on-line gambling to do it.
If you don't like what the corps give you, then don't take it. Find something else.
Shit, there are days that I don't even turn on the radio while driving to work. I have more fun listening to the hum of tires, the clanking of engines in need of a tunning, and simply not having the radio blare at me. It sure does make for a peaceful, low stress drive.
Not to mention more suspenseful than anything else on TV. Even the most creepy, spine tingling, scare you to death movies aren't half as bad as a real guy going "Look! The most posionous snake in the world! He's mighty pissed at me for distrubin' him. Let's have a closer look!"
Dehumanizing? Nah. If anything, it's a nice, early eye opener to the real world. A world in which the cops are watching you drive, the convience store is taping you, and your boss is looking over your shoulder, watching you work, and judging how much you make based upon what you do.
I think it's about time this was implemented. Kids get the idea, real early in age, that when they are at school there is no control. No one watching them, making sure they are behaving. There are lots of examples: the first school yard bully I ran into was at 2nd grade. No teacher: lots of bullying. Teacher showed up: he behaved himself.
I also like this idea of being able to monitor my child in school. I give him money to buy lunch, I want to make sure he buys something other than candy bars and soda. Sugar does not get you through the day as good as a well rounded meal.
Link this up with live video feeds and I can find out which kids in school are harassing him verbally and physically and BRING A STOP TO IT before it gets out of hand.
Kids aren't interested in trust. No one is interested in trust. It doesn't enter into the equation.
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When corporate America determines they can make a profit from it.
Amen!!!
The power suit Ripley used was in "Aliens", the second movie.
Maybe you should change the beginning of the first sentence to read:
Probably because of the duality of Slashdot posters.
Don't judge the whole heard based on what a few percentage say.
rabtech does have a point. Businesses have to protect themselves from rabid lawyers. Businesses also have to give workers privacy. The hard part is going to be finding the middle ground between reasonable use (of computers) and reasonable privacy (of workers).
Because this community isn't out to make a ton of money and rule the world. This community is out to make software that works so amazingly well the gods will notice.
If you want to beat up Microsoft, be my guest. Just don't tie yourself so closely to us code writers that you take us down with you should you loose.
Again, I repeat. I'm not here writting code to beat Microsoft. I'm here to make this f*&king computer do my bidding. Don't tell me to change my licensing practices, or my direction (beat Microsoft at all costs) just becuase you think Microsoft needs to be beaten.
I didn't make my code GPL so you could fight a battle with it. I made it GPL so you could use your computer efficiently, to help advance humanity, to some day get the human race to the stars.
Assuming that when I write something and release it to the public it's for the purpose of making money. I'm growing tired of this rat race. I know what Microsoft is saying - they want to make money, pure and simply, but can't do it under the GPL. In addition to this, they want all competition eliminated (GPL software). So, they spend all this time boo-hooing about how the GPL is bad becuase it doesn't foster Microsoft's Universal Law - making money.
I would have thought that all those in the business world with their degrees and such would see this and let the air of Microsoft's tire. But it would seem that we are SO CONSUMED with the urge to argue that we engage Microsoft and discuss it with them.
We should be concentrating on doing what we do best - writing good code and sharing it with each other. We made it this far by concentrating on that - writing good software. We did not get this far by targetting a company and attempting to beat it with a free alternative. We should not be targetting Microsoft and attempting to beat them. They will out manuever us.
We should drop all this bickering with MS and go back to doing something that Microsoft can't beat us at: writing good code.
She had to stuff her bra. It was all over the news.
But I do agree with you, security cameras are still best... for the time being.
If you didn't eat at McDonald's, you probably wouldn't need two jobs. Eating something from the grocery store is much cheaper.
Haven't turned on your TV in a while, have you?
Yikes! Moderators can now delete posts! Scary....
If they're doing this already then I'll be damned - I can't find anything on their website that lets me review patents about to be granted.
More does not mean better. They simply weren't prepared for what Germany threw at them. Germany also spent a few years trying out new battle tactics in the Spanish Civil War.
Maginot Line! Great idea! Let's build half a wall and hope they don't go around!
From what I remember, the Germans went over the Maginot Line (paratroopers), not around it.
But despite those nit picky things, I do agree with you. France's banishment of anything Nazi does seem to be a knee-jerk reaction to a section of history we'd all rather not repeat.
You aren't actually proposing that the desert be used for something just because you think it's useless, are you????
Even if you detected the airplane...
Even if a single pixel was devoted for that tiny return received by the dish covering hundreds of square miles...
Even if you could track that return between radar zones...
You'd still have a hard time telling it apart from all the other birds happily flapping around.
Once you use those civilian transmitters to support your military, they become weapons of war and are open to destruction.
Additionally, this can be easily fooled by swamping the entire area with the same frequency their transmitters use. Their entire radar screen will light up like a Christmas tree and they won't know where anything is, or think there are 1 billion stealth fighters overhead.
Thanks for clearing it up though. I do agree, it seems pointly to sue when we all know that SDMI can be circumvented. Probably has something to do with sending a message to use pirates. Or with the fact that even though the damage has already been done, they still did something illegal according to the DCMA.
So the next time they make a faulty product and try to pass it on to the industry and consumers as the holy grail to save all those starving artists, we can call them on it and publish.
I still think there are ways to circumvent this, though. Put a sign on your monitor that says "No Gambling". Avoid web sites that have gambling adverts (I know, hard to do). Use your computer for a specific purpose (play Starcraft, code, make a web page, do the family finances) not random entertainment (surf the web).
It could take those who currently gamble for fun and make them become addicted. But that's simply a personal restraint issue. We all know better, but few of us care enough to restrain ourselves. If they truly want to become addicted then it does not require on-line gambling to do it.
If you don't like what the corps give you, then don't take it. Find something else.
Shit, there are days that I don't even turn on the radio while driving to work. I have more fun listening to the hum of tires, the clanking of engines in need of a tunning, and simply not having the radio blare at me. It sure does make for a peaceful, low stress drive.
You're welcome.
Not to mention more suspenseful than anything else on TV. Even the most creepy, spine tingling, scare you to death movies aren't half as bad as a real guy going "Look! The most posionous snake in the world! He's mighty pissed at me for distrubin' him. Let's have a closer look!"
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I think it's about time this was implemented. Kids get the idea, real early in age, that when they are at school there is no control. No one watching them, making sure they are behaving. There are lots of examples: the first school yard bully I ran into was at 2nd grade. No teacher: lots of bullying. Teacher showed up: he behaved himself.
I also like this idea of being able to monitor my child in school. I give him money to buy lunch, I want to make sure he buys something other than candy bars and soda. Sugar does not get you through the day as good as a well rounded meal.
Link this up with live video feeds and I can find out which kids in school are harassing him verbally and physically and BRING A STOP TO IT before it gets out of hand.
Kids aren't interested in trust. No one is interested in trust. It doesn't enter into the equation.