"Hacking Victim Can't Sue Foreign Government For Hacking Him On US Soil, Says Court "
It SHOULD say "US Court Rules that it lacks jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit against a sovereign government by a private citizen."
It didn't say that the hacking victim can't sue the Ethiopian government, just that he can't sue the Ethiopian government in U.S. Court. Sounds like the U.N. or the African Council of Nations, or another international body - someone that has any purview over the Ethiopian government would be the place to go.
Otherwise, we'd have every-day, all-day long lawsuits of individuals against governments around the world - further clogging up our courts - with people expecting the U.S. to uphold their private agendas against other countries.
it can't make a big mac *worse*, so i'm all for giving it a try. and 'lab grown' burgers **SHOULD BE** cheaper once the processes are worked out and production can ramp-up. i would NOT, however, even consider a fake steak. a t-bone or prime rib has to be real cow.
Why make assumptions? I would happily try an IVM steak. Don't knock it until you try it, as they say.
That's not to say that I wouldn't try it, think it was absolute rubbish compared to a a "real cow" T-Bone or Prime Rib, then take up an internet crusade against the culinary sin that IVM just turned out to be....
"This suggests there is scope to persuade consumers that they should convert to IVM if a suitable product is available. As an indication of this potential, 53 percent said it was seen as preferable to soy substitutes"
Would Vegans eat it? Vegetarians? I find this interesting.
Could someone be so kind as to copy/paste the WSJ article into here so that we can read it? FYI, a summary to news that no one can read is shite editing.
Is it a warm fluid like the shower? I'd be pretty happy standing in the shower forever, peeing whenever I needed. Nothing better than peeing in the shower while you bask in the hot water. I even bring my coffee in sometimes.
You don't have to be from AZ - put in whatever information you like. Express your discomfort that he's submitted a bill removing consumer protections that let ISPs violate our privacy and sell our medical, health, and financial information to anyone they want without our permission.
In general if we deport all the foreign criminals and illegal aliens ahd their families we wiil save billions in incarceration costs, and the cost to society from all their descrtuction, muder, and thievery. All of this wasted money can go to space exploration and discovery!
I say that we deport them all to Greenland. They can be our Australia, and in 100 years, Nuuk and Sisimiut will be full of sexy eskimo women who will have to overpay Microsoft and Steam for the shipping costs of digital distribution to their far away island.
I have interviewed so many Americans and not one, not an effing single one made the bar. They cannot even answer simple questions like reversing link list, don't know different between swap and virtual memory etc etc....we reject those Indian and Chinese candidates because they are still not good enough.
That's the purpose of this idea called "on the job training."
If your search for talent across the world is so barren of fruit, then bring in promising people, and train them.
Draft a threatening letter to the agency: -- To: Get it Right ETC ETC RE: Illegal Download
Subject: Cease and Desist Notification
Dear (Fill in the blank),
This letter constitutes a cease and desist notification for wrongful accusations of copyright violation. Further misuse of copyright violation claims will result in a discussion with (government approving agency that you referenced) to revoke support for your work as a misrepresentation of government interests.
This letter further serves as formal notification of intent to file suit for defamatory libel, either through gross negligence or malicious action. To prevent this suit, please respond to this certified letter with written acknowledgement and consent to cease and desist wrongful accusations. --
A tax on volcanoes should help curb mantle warming.
It won't help. Smart people all knew that global warming starts with warming the GLOBE. Soon, scientists are going to show that the mantle has been growing progressively hotter since we started tracking temperatures, and forecasting out 100 years, we're going to be hopping around because the ground is too hot,or walking on stilts.
The climate change scientists will get into a fight about it because while this accounts for ice melting, it also means that instead of flooding the world's coastlines, the increasing heat is going to start boiling off water.
The religious people are going to jump in because the constant water loss will cause mostly perpetual rainfall, leading to Flood #2, and the world being re-cleansed by God.
Businesses will race to recalibrate to making boats, ships, and arks.
Waterworld surges back as a cult classic, and Kevin Costner enters "demigod" status as most of the world uses the movie as a literal planning tool.
Although I'm pleased to see this announcement, living here in Lakeland, FL where there's a fairly large Amazon distribution center I'm really disappointed that there's no move this year to put these here, when they're going to be putting them in Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. In virtually every solar radiation average exposure map I've seen, Florida generally receives more solar radiation than all three of those states - and sometimes more than areas of California as well. This area is ripe for this, at least from a physical standpoint. I have to assume there's some sort of governmental roadblock in the way at the moment that isn't to their tastes, because it certainly can't be because they won't generate enough power down here.
Yes, it is harder to get solar in Florida. If you voted in November, don't you remember the solar amendment?
Because XBoxes run, while PCs, you spend more time installing, fiddling with drivers, dealing with viruses, cleaning up after ransomware, activating, reinstalling, updating, rebooting, than you do actually doing work.
Consoles just plug and play.
That sounds like the 90s when we had to configure games.
Good lord, paying a company in another country doesn't amount to foreign aid. Holy shit, what the fuck has become of what used to be a country of fairly sensible people?
It's become a country where the fairly sensible people have been laid off and replaced by outsourced companies getting American dollars from publicly funded institutions.
Well, then I'd tell the ATM to go fuck itself, since adjustable rate mortgages are a scam, then I'd go find a different ATM that would sell me a fixed rate mortgage.
The first ATM would of course end up needing a machine-government bailout because it's too big to fail.
That's not any different from the argument that companies shouldn't outsource manufacturing because it's eroding their customer base. It's meaningless in the era short term sales goals, meeting quarterly projections, and golden parachutes.
Yes, it is different. Those manufacturing companies aren't milking the government teat for funding. Whether companies outsource or not is a different beast - but a public institution using taxpayer money and outsourcing - giving that taxpayer money to non-nationals in what amounts to foreign aid, should be a big no-no.
...and this test probably wouldn't work in Olympic pools since those swimmers are on rigorous diets...
You do know that an "Olympic pool" is referring to the size, not the fact that only Olympians can swim in them? For 99.99% of their life, an Olympic pool is used by regular pool pissing patrons.
Yes....I realize that. But like I said, the original story started around olympic swimmers admitting to peeing in the pool. Not non-olympic swimmers peeing in an olympic sized pool.
First - this is a copy/paste from Soylent. I thought they were supposed to be trying to be like Slashdot, not the other way around? We're used to mainstream news beating Slashdot to the punch by days, but when our own RIPOFF site has news before we do, that Slashdot copies...WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK?!?
Also...this test only works for people who are using one particular artificial sweetener. Since the discussion started around Olympic swimmers - and this test probably wouldn't work in Olympic pools since those swimmers are on rigorous diets...
Welp, I guess we just shift it to try being more topical.
They've been looking since the Snowden revelations tanked morale. During Obama's tenure. In fact, it was in the news, here on slashdot with an almost identical headline, minus the trump bit.
Maybe what has been said here applies only to huge corporations. In almost all of the companies I've worked for, the boss was very happy to hear my ideas. We might argue over some of them but, generally, he was entirely happy to steal them outright. My code, my policies, my naming schemes... or should I say, "his". I got paid for it. I'm only mildly miffed. I have more where that came from. Still, I was the engine in his company, and the one before it, and the one before that. That's kind've why I got the jobs, though, so this had an adequate payout. They did always listen.
This.
I was at a global all-hands meeting for my division of GE a year or two ago (I'm a project manager). Our GM went through all the numbers for our industry - we own most of the market share in most areas of the world except for the United States, and his challenge for the upcoming year was to increase market penetration in the U.S. by 4%.
Now..it just so happened that as a project manager, my metrics for success are revenue, margin, and customer satisfaction - and if there's one thing you can count on at GE, it's your bonus structure being tied to unreasonable goals that are "stretched" beyond anything achievable. Like...if your division does 4 billion in sales in a year and the market contracts - you may forecast an optimistic 4 billion in repeat sales, but you're stretched to 6 billion. I'd been working for a year or two to improve GE's reputation within a certain customer segment, and had a solid plan that probably would have gotten us half of that market penetration goal by expanding the scope of my non-GE services to other customers who wanted to utilize our repair network.
GE is risk averse, and this GM had been pushing the removal of involvement with non-GE equipment as an ongoing "risk avoidance" program. At the end of his pitch to all of us, I raised my hand, got called on, and made a 30 second pitch on how we could grow our U.S. services penetration by $36 million immediately, $9 million year over year GUARANTEED, with the ability to platform that movement into growth that I couldn't accurately forecast. All I needed was a thumbs up and I would have taken care of the rest. He says, "We just signed _____ for $3 billion. Fuck your $36 million."
The video shows off Kalanick's pugnacious personality and short temper, which may cause some investors to question whether he has the disposition to lead a $69 billion company with a footprint that spans the globe.
"Pleasant temperament" doesn't seem to be a requirement for being CEO.
If you watch the video linked in the article...Kalanick is getting a ride - he gets to the end, and the driver strikes up a conversation with him. The driver starts getting riled up about fares dropping and (car purchases?) or something, which cost him "minus seven thousand" - so I'm assuming his car has negative equity or something.
Point being, Kalanick disagrees with the driver over "black" - asks for examples...and the driver gets loud and...well, I'd call it shouting. CEO guy gets irritated, tries to be heard over the driver shouting at him, then exits the car with a "Good luck."
If I had been him, I would have been like, "DUDE! It doesn't matter whether I'm the CEO or not - treat your passengers with respect and courtesy. You're fired."
If you're an evolutionist, human greed caused us to rise to the top of the food chain.
No. If you think you can summarize something biological in one simple, glib line, you are almost certainly wrong. So far, my (albeit limited) dabbling in actual biology research leads me to the following conclusion:
"no matter how complex you think it is, you are wrong: it is actually far more complex and subtle"
Well, your dabbling in biological research should have led you to do some sort of foundational research and education in biology...which would have taught you that human brains are designed to compartmentalize, stereotype and group.
Here's another glib line for you: You basically just said that science is so hard that we shouldn't try explaining things.
You know what that's called? Faith. Also, don't be a dick.
Slashdot Mirror
"Hacking Victim Can't Sue Foreign Government For Hacking Him On US Soil, Says Court "
It SHOULD say "US Court Rules that it lacks jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit against a sovereign government by a private citizen."
It didn't say that the hacking victim can't sue the Ethiopian government, just that he can't sue the Ethiopian government in U.S. Court. Sounds like the U.N. or the African Council of Nations, or another international body - someone that has any purview over the Ethiopian government would be the place to go.
Otherwise, we'd have every-day, all-day long lawsuits of individuals against governments around the world - further clogging up our courts - with people expecting the U.S. to uphold their private agendas against other countries.
it can't make a big mac *worse*, so i'm all for giving it a try. and 'lab grown' burgers **SHOULD BE** cheaper once the processes are worked out and production can ramp-up. i would NOT, however, even consider a fake steak. a t-bone or prime rib has to be real cow.
Why make assumptions? I would happily try an IVM steak. Don't knock it until you try it, as they say.
That's not to say that I wouldn't try it, think it was absolute rubbish compared to a a "real cow" T-Bone or Prime Rib, then take up an internet crusade against the culinary sin that IVM just turned out to be....
But then again, it might be awesome.
"This suggests there is scope to persuade consumers that they should convert to IVM if a suitable product is available. As an indication of this potential, 53 percent said it was seen as preferable to soy substitutes"
Would Vegans eat it? Vegetarians? I find this interesting.
Could someone be so kind as to copy/paste the WSJ article into here so that we can read it? FYI, a summary to news that no one can read is shite editing.
Looking at you BeauHD.
Is it a warm fluid like the shower? I'd be pretty happy standing in the shower forever, peeing whenever I needed. Nothing better than peeing in the shower while you bask in the hot water. I even bring my coffee in sometimes.
Try a cold beer sometime.
Contact Senator Flake: https://www.flake.senate.gov/p...
You don't have to be from AZ - put in whatever information you like. Express your discomfort that he's submitted a bill removing consumer protections that let ISPs violate our privacy and sell our medical, health, and financial information to anyone they want without our permission.
In general if we deport all the foreign criminals and illegal aliens ahd their families we wiil save billions in incarceration costs, and the cost to society from all their descrtuction, muder, and thievery. All of this wasted money can go to space exploration and discovery!
I say that we deport them all to Greenland. They can be our Australia, and in 100 years, Nuuk and Sisimiut will be full of sexy eskimo women who will have to overpay Microsoft and Steam for the shipping costs of digital distribution to their far away island.
I have interviewed so many Americans and not one, not an effing single one made the bar. They cannot even answer simple questions like reversing link list, don't know different between swap and virtual memory etc etc....we reject those Indian and Chinese candidates because they are still not good enough.
That's the purpose of this idea called "on the job training."
If your search for talent across the world is so barren of fruit, then bring in promising people, and train them.
Draft a threatening letter to the agency:
--
To: Get it Right ETC ETC
RE: Illegal Download
Subject: Cease and Desist Notification
Dear (Fill in the blank),
This letter constitutes a cease and desist notification for wrongful accusations of copyright violation. Further misuse of copyright violation claims will result in a discussion with (government approving agency that you referenced) to revoke support for your work as a misrepresentation of government interests.
This letter further serves as formal notification of intent to file suit for defamatory libel, either through gross negligence or malicious action. To prevent this suit, please respond to this certified letter with written acknowledgement and consent to cease and desist wrongful accusations.
--
Spice it up as you like.
Is to read "U.S. to Temporarily Suspend H-1B Visa Program" followed by a snippet on investigation into rampant misuse and an intensive investigation.
Welcome to the post-factual era. It's gonna be awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Both Democrats and Republicans selectively use facts to support their views. Both sides are fuckwits.
A tax on volcanoes should help curb mantle warming.
It won't help. Smart people all knew that global warming starts with warming the GLOBE. Soon, scientists are going to show that the mantle has been growing progressively hotter since we started tracking temperatures, and forecasting out 100 years, we're going to be hopping around because the ground is too hot,or walking on stilts.
The climate change scientists will get into a fight about it because while this accounts for ice melting, it also means that instead of flooding the world's coastlines, the increasing heat is going to start boiling off water.
The religious people are going to jump in because the constant water loss will cause mostly perpetual rainfall, leading to Flood #2, and the world being re-cleansed by God.
Businesses will race to recalibrate to making boats, ships, and arks.
Waterworld surges back as a cult classic, and Kevin Costner enters "demigod" status as most of the world uses the movie as a literal planning tool.
Although I'm pleased to see this announcement, living here in Lakeland, FL where there's a fairly large Amazon distribution center I'm really disappointed that there's no move this year to put these here, when they're going to be putting them in Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. In virtually every solar radiation average exposure map I've seen, Florida generally receives more solar radiation than all three of those states - and sometimes more than areas of California as well. This area is ripe for this, at least from a physical standpoint. I have to assume there's some sort of governmental roadblock in the way at the moment that isn't to their tastes, because it certainly can't be because they won't generate enough power down here.
Yes, it is harder to get solar in Florida. If you voted in November, don't you remember the solar amendment?
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/...
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/op...
Because XBoxes run, while PCs, you spend more time installing, fiddling with drivers, dealing with viruses, cleaning up after ransomware, activating, reinstalling, updating, rebooting, than you do actually doing work.
Consoles just plug and play.
That sounds like the 90s when we had to configure games.
Good lord, paying a company in another country doesn't amount to foreign aid. Holy shit, what the fuck has become of what used to be a country of fairly sensible people?
It's become a country where the fairly sensible people have been laid off and replaced by outsourced companies getting American dollars from publicly funded institutions.
Well, then I'd tell the ATM to go fuck itself, since adjustable rate mortgages are a scam, then I'd go find a different ATM that would sell me a fixed rate mortgage.
The first ATM would of course end up needing a machine-government bailout because it's too big to fail.
That's not any different from the argument that companies shouldn't outsource manufacturing because it's eroding their customer base. It's meaningless in the era short term sales goals, meeting quarterly projections, and golden parachutes.
Yes, it is different. Those manufacturing companies aren't milking the government teat for funding. Whether companies outsource or not is a different beast - but a public institution using taxpayer money and outsourcing - giving that taxpayer money to non-nationals in what amounts to foreign aid, should be a big no-no.
...and this test probably wouldn't work in Olympic pools since those swimmers are on rigorous diets...
You do know that an "Olympic pool" is referring to the size, not the fact that only Olympians can swim in them? For 99.99% of their life, an Olympic pool is used by regular pool pissing patrons.
Yes....I realize that. But like I said, the original story started around olympic swimmers admitting to peeing in the pool. Not non-olympic swimmers peeing in an olympic sized pool.
First - this is a copy/paste from Soylent. I thought they were supposed to be trying to be like Slashdot, not the other way around? We're used to mainstream news beating Slashdot to the punch by days, but when our own RIPOFF site has news before we do, that Slashdot copies...WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK?!?
Also...this test only works for people who are using one particular artificial sweetener. Since the discussion started around Olympic swimmers - and this test probably wouldn't work in Olympic pools since those swimmers are on rigorous diets...
Welp, I guess we just shift it to try being more topical.
Now prepare for an influx of IBM lawsuits to everyone that has an out-of-office messaging system.
They've been looking since the Snowden revelations tanked morale. During Obama's tenure. In fact, it was in the news, here on slashdot with an almost identical headline, minus the trump bit.
The only the a moon colony needs to drop onto Earth from the moon is Brianna Wu.
Dear Slashdot editors: Not every dumbass in the world needs a soapbox.
Maybe what has been said here applies only to huge corporations. In almost all of the companies I've worked for, the boss was very happy to hear my ideas. We might argue over some of them but, generally, he was entirely happy to steal them outright. My code, my policies, my naming schemes... or should I say, "his". I got paid for it. I'm only mildly miffed. I have more where that came from. Still, I was the engine in his company, and the one before it, and the one before that. That's kind've why I got the jobs, though, so this had an adequate payout. They did always listen.
This.
I was at a global all-hands meeting for my division of GE a year or two ago (I'm a project manager). Our GM went through all the numbers for our industry - we own most of the market share in most areas of the world except for the United States, and his challenge for the upcoming year was to increase market penetration in the U.S. by 4%.
Now..it just so happened that as a project manager, my metrics for success are revenue, margin, and customer satisfaction - and if there's one thing you can count on at GE, it's your bonus structure being tied to unreasonable goals that are "stretched" beyond anything achievable. Like...if your division does 4 billion in sales in a year and the market contracts - you may forecast an optimistic 4 billion in repeat sales, but you're stretched to 6 billion. I'd been working for a year or two to improve GE's reputation within a certain customer segment, and had a solid plan that probably would have gotten us half of that market penetration goal by expanding the scope of my non-GE services to other customers who wanted to utilize our repair network.
GE is risk averse, and this GM had been pushing the removal of involvement with non-GE equipment as an ongoing "risk avoidance" program. At the end of his pitch to all of us, I raised my hand, got called on, and made a 30 second pitch on how we could grow our U.S. services penetration by $36 million immediately, $9 million year over year GUARANTEED, with the ability to platform that movement into growth that I couldn't accurately forecast. All I needed was a thumbs up and I would have taken care of the rest. He says, "We just signed _____ for $3 billion. Fuck your $36 million."
I sat back down.
The video shows off Kalanick's pugnacious personality and short temper, which may cause some investors to question whether he has the disposition to lead a $69 billion company with a footprint that spans the globe.
"Pleasant temperament" doesn't seem to be a requirement for being CEO.
If you watch the video linked in the article...Kalanick is getting a ride - he gets to the end, and the driver strikes up a conversation with him. The driver starts getting riled up about fares dropping and (car purchases?) or something, which cost him "minus seven thousand" - so I'm assuming his car has negative equity or something.
Point being, Kalanick disagrees with the driver over "black" - asks for examples...and the driver gets loud and ...well, I'd call it shouting. CEO guy gets irritated, tries to be heard over the driver shouting at him, then exits the car with a "Good luck."
If I had been him, I would have been like, "DUDE! It doesn't matter whether I'm the CEO or not - treat your passengers with respect and courtesy. You're fired."
If you're an evolutionist, human greed caused us to rise to the top of the food chain.
No. If you think you can summarize something biological in one simple, glib line, you are almost certainly wrong. So far, my (albeit limited) dabbling in actual biology research leads me to the following conclusion:
"no matter how complex you think it is, you are wrong: it is actually far more complex and subtle"
Well, your dabbling in biological research should have led you to do some sort of foundational research and education in biology...which would have taught you that human brains are designed to compartmentalize, stereotype and group.
Here's another glib line for you: You basically just said that science is so hard that we shouldn't try explaining things.
You know what that's called? Faith. Also, don't be a dick.