by Feminist-Mom (816033) Alter Relationship on Thursday December 17, @04:14PM (#30479212)
As a 49 yo grandmother, feminist, and C programmer for 20+ years I feel highly qualified to comment on this. The answer is that in my experience merit alone has been the only factor.
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17, @01:34PM (#30476526)
As a 49 yo grandmother, a feminist, and having had a long career as a C programmer, I find that offensive. Would they have said his father couldn't see it? This is just another racist characterization of women being incompetent with technology.
The theater is a supplier in the product/service market (technically, they make most of their money off the concession stand, but that's totally irrelevant). It is a consumer in the factor market (the movie (or license) is a factor of production of a service). Bob isn't involved in the factor market at all; Ed is the consumer, and Hollywood is the producer.
They're also those annoying things that leave a bajillion failed SSH logins - each one from a different IP address - for user fluffy in your syslog. Or, the annoying things that can act as a group to DDoS, quickly create a rainbow table, attempt to mass-redirect DNS on each bot's local subnet to infection sites, etc.
We use papyrus, and a few slav- I mean scriveners to enter our bugs. The problem is that we only fix the latest bugs, because the older papyri are buried below a huge stack.
FYI, we solved that problem by using thin metal pins to fix the bugs to the papyrus instead of relying on gravity to smoosh them into place.
So why do people still say this Debian is so much better than RPM?
Because apt-hell isn't the popular term. Even when I'm in apt-hell on a weird Ubuntu variant, I call it rpm-hell because that's what people understand. It's like Kleenex or Coke, a package management problem Brand so popular that it's a generic term for all package management problems. Even gentoo users don't say portage-hell, they call it portage.
And if I was your dean, I'd reprimand you for abusing your power. After all, all that really matters is if the person in question learns morturaly science, not if she takes a pleasure in doing so. Science doesn't care about your attitude, no matter how unpleasant it might be to other humans, as long as you accept the supremacy of facts over your pet theory.
For the record, I enjoy my (chemics) labs.
There's not a lot of room for Necrophiliac Sadism in chemistry, but I suppose if you were making (and taking) LSD or pouring HCL on biology's lab mice for therapy, you'd be having a sit-down with your dean.
I was working on a VPN project with various distros when suddenly l2tpd disappeared on my Fedora VM. Took me a bit to notice that it was replaced with xl2tpd. Not even a symlink pointing to the new binary. That was kind of annoying, but I did start compiling xl2tpd on on the other distros since it worked better. I don't know how many other things they replace this way, but if you can't trust command names to remain static after an ordinary yum -y update, then I'd not even trust it for a stable desktop distro.
Given that she was a student of mortuary science the first message which read "looking forward to Monday's embalming therapy.... Give me room, lots of aggression to be taken out with a troca", sounds reasonably harmless, assuming there was some sort of embalming practice or lab on Monday. It shows signs of pent up anger/agression, which she feels would help be relieved by said exercises. I'm sure most people would rather she take out her frustration on a corpse then on a living person.
People leave their [dead] bodies to science, not recreational therapy. If she wants to stab something, she should go deer hunting with a Bowie knife.
If I were a prof in mortuary science, I'd boot her for expressing pleasure for stabbing a human corpse.
Get my drift? It's that very kind of behavior at a border crossing that makes her the least likely candidate to be carrying explosives.
And if a giant lizard breathing radioactive flames walks into Tokyo, it's the least likely candidate to start tearing up the place?
What if she had been spouting anti-semitic rhetoric? Would that have made her even less likely of a candidate?
What if she shouts "I have a bomb!"? No sensible terrorist would shout that where the casualties would be minimal, so she should be funneled into the ez-pass border line.
In a fight between Frankenstien and Chewbacca, I've got to go with the undead dude. Claws or no claws, Frank packs a mighty whallop and can take quite a beating. Plus I kind of doubt that Chewy is clever enough to think of the whole 'fire' weakness.
Fire? Chewie would just rip the monster's arms off. They're just stitched on anyway.
If I hire say a lock smith to work on my house, and then they do not provide the key to the house but instead say rob it or trash it, there is all kinds of laws to fit those crimes.
This is much more like you hiring a professional lock company to fit your doors with their locks. They have master keys to all their cores, and they always will. If you don't want to do business with them any more, it's your right, but you'd better hire another locksmith fast (preferably, hire the old lock company for one last time to help remove the locks since they have the masters that can remove the cores).
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by Feminist-Mom (816033) Alter Relationship on Thursday December 17, @04:14PM (#30479212)
As a 49 yo grandmother, feminist, and C programmer for 20+ years I feel highly qualified to comment on this. The answer is that in my experience merit alone has been the only factor.
Stop Plagerising poor anon-cowards.
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1482242&cid=30476526
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17, @01:34PM (#30476526)
As a 49 yo grandmother, a feminist, and having had a long career as a C programmer, I find that offensive. Would they have said his father couldn't see it? This is just another racist characterization of women being incompetent with technology.
My cranium nearly exploded while attempting to parse
"3yo lesbian, father of seven"
Father of 7, then transgendered 3 years ago?
The theater is a supplier in the product/service market (technically, they make most of their money off the concession stand, but that's totally irrelevant). It is a consumer in the factor market (the movie (or license) is a factor of production of a service). Bob isn't involved in the factor market at all; Ed is the consumer, and Hollywood is the producer.
I'm confused, where are Alice and Carol?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113996743
I'm guessing whoever modded my above comment heard the same story on the radio.
Oops, this is a better link, and links to the audio too!
:(
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113996743
Slow Down Cowboy!
Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment
Uggh, I have to wait 5 minutes? I just want to post a correction.
Source? That sounds too awesomely Last Starfighter-esque to be true.
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=113996743
I heard the radio broadcast, if you can find it, there's a lot more info.
They let just anyone fly jets too.
Although it's not a jet, the top drone pilot is a 20 y/o kid whose only experience prior was video games.
They're also those annoying things that leave a bajillion failed SSH logins - each one from a different IP address - for user fluffy in your syslog. Or, the annoying things that can act as a group to DDoS, quickly create a rainbow table, attempt to mass-redirect DNS on each bot's local subnet to infection sites, etc.
I'm sure he will have a lot more experience "behind" him in a couple years.
He's a child rapist. He's not going to be prison-raped, he's going to be killed.
We use papyrus, and a few slav- I mean scriveners to enter our bugs. The problem is that we only fix the latest bugs, because the older papyri are buried below a huge stack.
FYI, we solved that problem by using thin metal pins to fix the bugs to the papyrus instead of relying on gravity to smoosh them into place.
So why do people still say this Debian is so much better than RPM?
Because apt-hell isn't the popular term. Even when I'm in apt-hell on a weird Ubuntu variant, I call it rpm-hell because that's what people understand. It's like Kleenex or Coke, a package management problem Brand so popular that it's a generic term for all package management problems. Even gentoo users don't say portage-hell, they call it portage.
And if I was your dean, I'd reprimand you for abusing your power. After all, all that really matters is if the person in question learns morturaly science, not if she takes a pleasure in doing so. Science doesn't care about your attitude, no matter how unpleasant it might be to other humans, as long as you accept the supremacy of facts over your pet theory. For the record, I enjoy my (chemics) labs.
There's not a lot of room for Necrophiliac Sadism in chemistry, but I suppose if you were making (and taking) LSD or pouring HCL on biology's lab mice for therapy, you'd be having a sit-down with your dean.
Windows 7 doesn't automagically install drivers for all slightly old hardware either. There's only so much space on that... DVD?
I was working on a VPN project with various distros when suddenly l2tpd disappeared on my Fedora VM. Took me a bit to notice that it was replaced with xl2tpd. Not even a symlink pointing to the new binary. That was kind of annoying, but I did start compiling xl2tpd on on the other distros since it worked better. I don't know how many other things they replace this way, but if you can't trust command names to remain static after an ordinary yum -y update, then I'd not even trust it for a stable desktop distro.
Given that she was a student of mortuary science the first message which read "looking forward to Monday's embalming therapy. ... Give me room, lots of aggression to be taken out with a troca", sounds reasonably harmless, assuming there was some sort of embalming practice or lab on Monday. It shows signs of pent up anger/agression, which she feels would help be relieved by said exercises. I'm sure most people would rather she take out her frustration on a corpse then on a living person.
People leave their [dead] bodies to science, not recreational therapy. If she wants to stab something, she should go deer hunting with a Bowie knife. If I were a prof in mortuary science, I'd boot her for expressing pleasure for stabbing a human corpse.
Here in Canada, we almost have government-backed monopolies with even higher monthly bills.
Don't worry we have cable companies for that.
What do the cable companies control? The higher monthly bills, the monopolies, or the government?
The joke in GGP's comment: X doesn't work well enough for me to make X worse.
Fellow /.s, don't be fooled. Parent's a four-digit; he wrote that on purpose.
...and "noon" should be tied to a timezone, otherwise it's several smaller spikes.
I already use my data connection at maximum quite often at lunch. It's called reading /. *waits for all the JS to download*
You're talking ethics, GP was talking practicality. Two quite different things. Martyrs tend to ethics, survivors tend to practicality.
Contrast and compare that with the US customs, which says: [...]If we took away your possessions, you will never see them again
unless you shop on ebay or the TSA public auctions.
Get my drift? It's that very kind of behavior at a border crossing that makes her the least likely candidate to be carrying explosives.
And if a giant lizard breathing radioactive flames walks into Tokyo, it's the least likely candidate to start tearing up the place?
What if she had been spouting anti-semitic rhetoric? Would that have made her even less likely of a candidate?
What if she shouts "I have a bomb!"? No sensible terrorist would shout that where the casualties would be minimal, so she should be funneled into the ez-pass border line.
In a fight between Frankenstien and Chewbacca, I've got to go with the undead dude. Claws or no claws, Frank packs a mighty whallop and can take quite a beating. Plus I kind of doubt that Chewy is clever enough to think of the whole 'fire' weakness.
Fire? Chewie would just rip the monster's arms off. They're just stitched on anyway.
If I hire say a lock smith to work on my house, and then they do not provide the key to the house but instead say rob it or trash it, there is all kinds of laws to fit those crimes.
This is much more like you hiring a professional lock company to fit your doors with their locks. They have master keys to all their cores, and they always will. If you don't want to do business with them any more, it's your right, but you'd better hire another locksmith fast (preferably, hire the old lock company for one last time to help remove the locks since they have the masters that can remove the cores).