Their fix was lying and claiming that the company is still Sun Microsystems, and you think this isn't still news? As far as I can tell, that is an incredibly shitty work-around and the real problem still exists.
Of course, the "real problem" isn't that Oracle changed the company field, it's that "Java programmers still continue to use poor programming practices despite layers and layers of 'best practice' crud". Seriously, isn't the great appeal of Java supposed to be that you can avoid shit like this?
Most people don't drive at the speed limit, are the speed limits wrong?
Yes. Local governments routinely lower speed limits, or rapidly change the speed limit on different sections of road as a way to encourage speeding so that they can get more fine money. As it is now, speed limits are not set by engineers who have the technical expertise to set safe speed limits, they are set by politicians who probably barely passed trig in 10th grade.
If the safe drivable speed of a road is higher than the speed limit, then the speed limit is wrong.
If you watch the video (or RTFA), you'll see that the police officer was 1) not in a marked police car (or even in a police car at all? he was off duty), and 2) Parked in front of the motorcycle.
Even then, it wouldn't terribly matter. You'd have to have someone dedicated enough to comment on every article informing people of the deception and they'd surely be modded offtopic for their trouble (citation: the guy that posts in all the articles to tell people that sopssa is a troll).
Besides, if someone had low enough karma that they felt the need to reset their account, chances are most regulars already know them as a troll. Resetting their account would mainly serve to make sure their posts started off at neutral karma again, not -1.
Regardless of the reasons the government had for doing it, the fact remains that telecom monopolies are generally government enforced in the United States. Comcast works very poorly as an example of what happens when "the government doesn't get involved".
I'm not saying that in absence of government intervention we wouldn't have issues with Comcast, I don't have enough information to make that statement. I'm just saying that his example is bad, and does not work to reinforce his point.
People are better at recognizing people by names than numbers. If a prolific slashdot poster, say TheRaven64, deleted his account, then registered it with a new UID, I know for sure that I wouldn't notice, and I'd wager that most other people wouldn't either.
Is a free market one in which Comcast controls everything b/c the government keeps its hands off?
You've got it wrong. Comcast controls everything because they enter into contracts with local governments that forbid other cable providers from coming in.
Effectively in this example, Comcast controls everything because the government can't keep it's hands off.
That's a fine theory and all, includes the standard America thrashing and whatnot. Pretty standard stuff but effective nevertheless.
Unfortunately, China has a history of implementing a national firewall and blocking porn. The US does not. Any slashdotter worth their salt knows this, so what exactly are you thinking?
It's not a terribly meaningful or interesting question. All sorts of people do stupid things every day, generally because they didn't think a situation through, bother to consider the consequences, or miss-estimated the risk. Doesn't matter if it doesn't logically make sense to you. Welcome to the real world, where people do stupid shit for no apparent reason.
I think you are looking for deeper meaning than there most likely is.
Because obviously the existence of good and affordable Li battery tech today implies the existence of good and affordable Li battery tech 40 years ago.
FYI: The term "child pornographers" (or more generally, the term "pornographers") refers to people who produce, not to those who simply consume. Similarly, I enjoy photography, but I am not a photographer (and don't even own a camera).
Child pornographers who limit themselves to people who are over 18 would, by definition, not be child pornographers.
If we rephrase this as: "why do people who are attracted to child pornography view child pornography?"... well I think that is relatively obvious.
I can't know for sure, but I'd wager that raising squirrels in cages would actually be more expensive than paying some local hunter a couple of dollars for a dead squirrel.
Squirrels are all over the place, pay somebodies nephew to go out and get a few with his bb gun and you're good to go.
This really can't be stressed enough. For my area (Philadelphia) Open Street Map seems rather flawless for roads, and is way better than the other maps for things like bike trails, rails, streams, etc. If you enjoy hiking/biking and google maps doesn't cut it, give open street map a try.
had them re-create it with the Source (Half-Life 2 etc) engine.
Are we having reading comprehension problems today? Valve hired them, of course they are getting paid. And they re-made it for the Source engine. While the UT2k4 version no doubt still exists this is not it.
Not reading TFA is one thing, not reading the fucking summary is another, but not reading the posts you are responding too is just too far.
Nexiuz uses the Darkspaces engine, which has Quake 1 roots. Unless you actually have evidence that they are actually using Unreal code you shouldn't accuse them of doing so. Copying look/feel is one thing, but accusing them of having proprietary code is a very serious allegation.
That's not really how orbits work. Unlike airplanes, when you blow up a satellite it doesn't all of a sudden fall out of the sky. It's quite unlikely they actually "shot it down".
The difference between the space junk made by the US and the space junk made my the Chinese is that the US isn't blowing up satellites in orbit creating massive clouds of debris, on fucking purpose.
The US has been in space for years, but at this rate the Chinese should be able to catch up to us in the "space junk race" in no time.
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Their fix was lying and claiming that the company is still Sun Microsystems, and you think this isn't still news? As far as I can tell, that is an incredibly shitty work-around and the real problem still exists.
Of course, the "real problem" isn't that Oracle changed the company field, it's that "Java programmers still continue to use poor programming practices despite layers and layers of 'best practice' crud". Seriously, isn't the great appeal of Java supposed to be that you can avoid shit like this?
Yes. Local governments routinely lower speed limits, or rapidly change the speed limit on different sections of road as a way to encourage speeding so that they can get more fine money. As it is now, speed limits are not set by engineers who have the technical expertise to set safe speed limits, they are set by politicians who probably barely passed trig in 10th grade.
If the safe drivable speed of a road is higher than the speed limit, then the speed limit is wrong.
Next question?
It's not in the C Standard Library, but there most certainly is async IO for C. See 'aio.h' in POSIX for example.
If you watch the video (or RTFA), you'll see that the police officer was 1) not in a marked police car (or even in a police car at all? he was off duty), and 2) Parked in front of the motorcycle.
Even then, it wouldn't terribly matter. You'd have to have someone dedicated enough to comment on every article informing people of the deception and they'd surely be modded offtopic for their trouble (citation: the guy that posts in all the articles to tell people that sopssa is a troll).
Besides, if someone had low enough karma that they felt the need to reset their account, chances are most regulars already know them as a troll. Resetting their account would mainly serve to make sure their posts started off at neutral karma again, not -1.
Regardless of the reasons the government had for doing it, the fact remains that telecom monopolies are generally government enforced in the United States. Comcast works very poorly as an example of what happens when "the government doesn't get involved".
I'm not saying that in absence of government intervention we wouldn't have issues with Comcast, I don't have enough information to make that statement. I'm just saying that his example is bad, and does not work to reinforce his point.
People are better at recognizing people by names than numbers. If a prolific slashdot poster, say TheRaven64, deleted his account, then registered it with a new UID, I know for sure that I wouldn't notice, and I'd wager that most other people wouldn't either.
You've got it wrong. Comcast controls everything because they enter into contracts with local governments that forbid other cable providers from coming in.
Effectively in this example, Comcast controls everything because the government can't keep it's hands off.
Hell, it's failure to properly market itself and gain market share is part of the reason it's a laughing stock!
That's a fine theory and all, includes the standard America thrashing and whatnot. Pretty standard stuff but effective nevertheless.
Unfortunately, China has a history of implementing a national firewall and blocking porn. The US does not. Any slashdotter worth their salt knows this, so what exactly are you thinking?
If he tells, then the cat will be out of the bag and assassination would be pointless. Now if he keeps it a secret....
It's not a terribly meaningful or interesting question. All sorts of people do stupid things every day, generally because they didn't think a situation through, bother to consider the consequences, or miss-estimated the risk. Doesn't matter if it doesn't logically make sense to you. Welcome to the real world, where people do stupid shit for no apparent reason.
I think you are looking for deeper meaning than there most likely is.
Because obviously the existence of good and affordable Li battery tech today implies the existence of good and affordable Li battery tech 40 years ago.
You know what is going to heat up the tissue in your head a hell of a lot more than a cellphone? Stepping outside on a hot summer day.
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FYI: The term "child pornographers" (or more generally, the term "pornographers") refers to people who produce, not to those who simply consume. Similarly, I enjoy photography, but I am not a photographer (and don't even own a camera).
Child pornographers who limit themselves to people who are over 18 would, by definition, not be child pornographers.
If we rephrase this as: "why do people who are attracted to child pornography view child pornography?"... well I think that is relatively obvious.
Well played sir, well played.
I can't know for sure, but I'd wager that raising squirrels in cages would actually be more expensive than paying some local hunter a couple of dollars for a dead squirrel.
Squirrels are all over the place, pay somebodies nephew to go out and get a few with his bb gun and you're good to go.
This really can't be stressed enough. For my area (Philadelphia) Open Street Map seems rather flawless for roads, and is way better than the other maps for things like bike trails, rails, streams, etc. If you enjoy hiking/biking and google maps doesn't cut it, give open street map a try.
Show me the source, or STFU.
Of course, you probably don't even know what that means.
Are we having reading comprehension problems today? Valve hired them, of course they are getting paid. And they re-made it for the Source engine. While the UT2k4 version no doubt still exists this is not it.
Not reading TFA is one thing, not reading the fucking summary is another, but not reading the posts you are responding too is just too far.
Nexiuz uses the Darkspaces engine, which has Quake 1 roots. Unless you actually have evidence that they are actually using Unreal code you shouldn't accuse them of doing so. Copying look/feel is one thing, but accusing them of having proprietary code is a very serious allegation.
No. Tremulous uses the Quake 3 engine from iD, which is now open source.
That's not really how orbits work. Unlike airplanes, when you blow up a satellite it doesn't all of a sudden fall out of the sky. It's quite unlikely they actually "shot it down".
The difference between the space junk made by the US and the space junk made my the Chinese is that the US isn't blowing up satellites in orbit creating massive clouds of debris, on fucking purpose.
The US has been in space for years, but at this rate the Chinese should be able to catch up to us in the "space junk race" in no time.
The term for this sort of scenario is Kessler Syndrome, and if China keeps this up it might become a quite likely.