If paying attention to the safety briefing were the issue, they'd ask people to put away paper reading materials as well. And yes, I'm inconvenienced, and no, taxi, takeoff, landing, and the ascent to cruising altitude is not just "5 minutes." Is the inconvenience major? No, but it's also completely unnecessary. My kindle is no more likely to interfere with the plane's electronics than the guy next to me's NewsWeek, so there's no reason I should be stuck without anything to read because of a nonexistent danger.
Right, I'm sure that the problem is just that all those young peoples' music sucks, and literally no one appreciates classical and other forms of acoustic music any more. That's why no one can distinguish the difference, and it has nothing at all to do with the difference lying entirely beyond your ear's range of physical perception.
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Multiple inheritance is supported in some form or another in just about every OO language in existence. It's just that most prefer to restrict multiply-inherited traits to methods and call them "interfaces" instead of "base classes." IMO, that's entirely unnecessary. If I want an "interface" in C++, then I write a pure abstract class without any member variables and use it the same way I'd use an interface in Java. If I want true multiple inheritance in Java, I'm just out of luck. MI can be used in some very nasty ways, but if you tried to remove each and every feature that a programmer could possibly misuse from a language you'd pretty quickly find yourself with an insanely verbose toy language that no experienced developer would ever want to touch.
Regardless of the outcome, I think secretly recording and broadcasting someone else's sexual activities should absolutely get you jailtime. It's difficult to even imagine a worse violation of privacy.
You must have missed the part where he downloaded their (trade secret) source code, and could have (may have, for all we know) done whatever he wanted with it.
Who says he doesn't understand the issue? What this kid did was illegal and wrong, regardless of his "ethical" motivations for doing it. If you suspect that there's a security vulnerability somewhere, then you can notify the owner of the systems in question about it. If they feel inclined, they might ask you to do some penetration testing for them. If you just go ahead and do it without permission, though, you're illegally accessing someone else's systems without their consent, and by all means you should be convicted and sentenced for it. If I forget to lock my door on my way out of my house one day and come home to find an "ethical" thief in my home waiting to educate me on the importance of locking my doors, you can bet that I'll be calling the police.
You're completely missing the point. No one (at least no one with half a brain) believes that women are under-represented in technology because they're somehow inferior at it. They're under-represented because it's a subculture loaded with misogyny and sexism. Seeing women begin to break through those barriers and attain high ranking positions in what has traditionally been a boys only club is kind of a big deal. I'm sure this is a significant personal achievement for Robyn, but it's also a great achievement for the entire industry in moving towards a more gender-equal culture.
Right, because it's not like abhorrent attitudes towards X in the Y community have had anything to do with the colossal under-representation of X in Y, and seeing Xs begin to break through those barriers is a big deal or anything. Today I learned just how thoroughly ignorant the average Slashdotter is of his male privilege...
Oh, enough with the smug superiority. Is it really that atrocious to think of handing over so much as your first and last name to use an increasingly-common communication medium? It's not like Facebook magically sucks your personal data from your brain; if you're not comfortable with some information being on Facebook then don't put it on Facebook, it's not an all-or-nothing proposition.
Well, assuming that you're actually working for them (I'm pretty sure you have no stake if you declined an offer), I would imagine that if they're found guilty there will be some kind of compensation for the employees, or at least an opportunity for a class-action.
Just because things are good doesn't mean they couldn't be better. Evidently, they were trying to avoid having to pay even more for high-caliber employees than they already were...
Copyright as an imposition on private communications is untenable in the digital era. There's no reason we can't have a limited copyright that applies only to commercial entities, as copyright effectively did when it was originally instated.
...and "Christians" slaughtered untold millions during the Crusades, not to mention inquisitions, witch burning, and so on. If we're to follow your logic, then at least 54% of the humans on Earth are homicidal maniacs, and that's only counting two religions that I have some reasonable knowledge of.
Oh, and yes, Sikhs and Muslims are different, but give the guy a break, he was just looking for something that rhymed. Perhaps he meant "Sheikhs."
I'm a computer programmer, and yet I have to buy my furniture from a store. But wait, how is it possible that I could have the technological capacity to produce software when I have to rely on others for something as rudimentary as furniture? It's almost as if some skills and technical abilities were completely independent of others, and you could be very good at one while remaining completely ignorant of others...
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There's not necessarily any correlation between the amount of work you're putting in to remove brown M&Ms from a bowl and the amount of work you're putting into safety...or if there is, it may very well be an inverse relationship if you're now short a tech guy because he drew the short straw and had to pick all the brown M&Ms out of the bag. The point of the M&Ms clause was just to make sure that someone had actually read the riders, and you could just as easily accomplish that with any other unique request, there's no need for it to be labor intensive.
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To be fair, it was still kind of a dick move. They could just as easily have asked for, say, a hand-written note with some nonsensical but memorable phrase written on it to be stuck to the mirror. There's no reason they had to stick some poor sap at the venue with the job of rooting through a bag of M&Ms and picking out all the brown ones...
I think it's pretty much certain that if you've developed any useful technology since the dawn of software patents, you've accidentally stepped on at least a couple actionable patents, and you just have to hope that the patent holder either doesn't find out about it or doesn't extort you for too much of your revenues. Is there a name for this principle yet? I'd love to slap mine on it if there isn't...
Because we all know that everything in life is a checklist you have to complete in descending order of importance.
Give me a break. There are unsolved murders in my city, but you know what? I still expect the cops to respond if I find my house has been broken into, even though they haven't solved all the problems of greater scale and importance. In real life, we can do more than one thing at a time, and "There are more important things to do" is not an excuse to put off every task in life that doesn't make it to the very top of the list.
Let me guess: man who wouldn't be caught dead with "a purse". I have a bag for my netbook.
I'll carry a backpack if I need to, but I see no compelling reason to carry a bag with me everywhere just to accommodate a computing device that I really don't need just on the offchance that it may at some point be useful as an alternative to a sheet of paper.
Such device could be a mobile phone.
Now I have to carry a smartphone which basically takes up an entire pocket and a separate bag for my tablet with me everywhere? Even when my pockets end up stuffed with relatively absurd amounts of paper, it's still less cumbersome than that.
Apple iOS ships with a PDF reader, and several PDF readers are available for Android
PDF is actually a pretty bad format for mobile devices, because it's page-based. If your PDF document was generated such that it's ideal to be printed on 8.5x11 paper, it's not going to render well on a device with a smaller screen. This is a huge problem with e-readers: I've spent entirely too much time trying to effectively strip PDFs of their page-based formatting to get them displaying well on my Kindle. The only really ideal use for PDF, imo, is preparing a document for printing.
Of course, there are better solutions (heck, I'm a fan of plain text unless you really need advanced formatting), but the problem is getting people to use them. Unfortunately, we still live in a world where university professors distribute one-page assignments as Microsoft Word documents.
right when they're making tablets so popular that we don't need hard copy anymore.
Surely you jest. Even if tablets become absolutely, positively dirt cheap, they still won't be a proper replacement for paper documents.
Size. I can't fold up a tablet, put it in my pocket, and take it back out again when I need to look up a subway route. A tablet small enough to be pocketable is also going to be small enough that it will be a royal pain to read anything significant off of it. There's no way I can ever conceive of lugging a tablet around with me just going about everyday tasks, not so long as it has a readable surface large enough to be worthwhile.
Durability. If I drop a sheet of paper in water, or even let it go through a wash cycle it will still be readable afterwards. No such luck with electronics.
Archiving. Yes, digital archives are superior in almost every way, but for really important documents I want a paper backup that I can still access in case of a power outage.
Display. A lot of the things people print are meant to be displayed. This primarily applies to images, but it also goes for things like certificates. Why would I want to replace all the picture frames that just passively sit on my wall with tablets that would need to be powered, not to mention costing more?
Easy distribution. I can very easily hand a person a paper copy of a document. With an electronic copy, we need some kind of digital device to accommodate the transfer, and we have to make sure the document is in some format that both of our devices understand. If you're face to face with another person and all you have are your (possibly different brand) tablets, sharing documents becomes a trickier problem.
That's a completely silly comparison to make. My entire point is that when Linux was released, HURD had been under active development for a year. After Linux was released and widely adopted there was obviously no need to continue serious work on the HURD, so it more or less fizzled out. You're making the completely unfounded assumption that HURD would still be in its current state even if the release of Linux hadn't effectively killed off the major motivations driving its development.
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If paying attention to the safety briefing were the issue, they'd ask people to put away paper reading materials as well. And yes, I'm inconvenienced, and no, taxi, takeoff, landing, and the ascent to cruising altitude is not just "5 minutes." Is the inconvenience major? No, but it's also completely unnecessary. My kindle is no more likely to interfere with the plane's electronics than the guy next to me's NewsWeek, so there's no reason I should be stuck without anything to read because of a nonexistent danger.
Right, I'm sure that the problem is just that all those young peoples' music sucks, and literally no one appreciates classical and other forms of acoustic music any more. That's why no one can distinguish the difference, and it has nothing at all to do with the difference lying entirely beyond your ear's range of physical perception.
Multiple inheritance is supported in some form or another in just about every OO language in existence. It's just that most prefer to restrict multiply-inherited traits to methods and call them "interfaces" instead of "base classes." IMO, that's entirely unnecessary. If I want an "interface" in C++, then I write a pure abstract class without any member variables and use it the same way I'd use an interface in Java. If I want true multiple inheritance in Java, I'm just out of luck. MI can be used in some very nasty ways, but if you tried to remove each and every feature that a programmer could possibly misuse from a language you'd pretty quickly find yourself with an insanely verbose toy language that no experienced developer would ever want to touch.
Regardless of the outcome, I think secretly recording and broadcasting someone else's sexual activities should absolutely get you jailtime. It's difficult to even imagine a worse violation of privacy.
You must have missed the part where he downloaded their (trade secret) source code, and could have (may have, for all we know) done whatever he wanted with it.
Who says he doesn't understand the issue? What this kid did was illegal and wrong, regardless of his "ethical" motivations for doing it. If you suspect that there's a security vulnerability somewhere, then you can notify the owner of the systems in question about it. If they feel inclined, they might ask you to do some penetration testing for them. If you just go ahead and do it without permission, though, you're illegally accessing someone else's systems without their consent, and by all means you should be convicted and sentenced for it. If I forget to lock my door on my way out of my house one day and come home to find an "ethical" thief in my home waiting to educate me on the importance of locking my doors, you can bet that I'll be calling the police.
You're completely missing the point. No one (at least no one with half a brain) believes that women are under-represented in technology because they're somehow inferior at it. They're under-represented because it's a subculture loaded with misogyny and sexism. Seeing women begin to break through those barriers and attain high ranking positions in what has traditionally been a boys only club is kind of a big deal. I'm sure this is a significant personal achievement for Robyn, but it's also a great achievement for the entire industry in moving towards a more gender-equal culture.
Right, because it's not like abhorrent attitudes towards X in the Y community have had anything to do with the colossal under-representation of X in Y, and seeing Xs begin to break through those barriers is a big deal or anything. Today I learned just how thoroughly ignorant the average Slashdotter is of his male privilege...
Oh, enough with the smug superiority. Is it really that atrocious to think of handing over so much as your first and last name to use an increasingly-common communication medium? It's not like Facebook magically sucks your personal data from your brain; if you're not comfortable with some information being on Facebook then don't put it on Facebook, it's not an all-or-nothing proposition.
Well, assuming that you're actually working for them (I'm pretty sure you have no stake if you declined an offer), I would imagine that if they're found guilty there will be some kind of compensation for the employees, or at least an opportunity for a class-action.
Just because things are good doesn't mean they couldn't be better. Evidently, they were trying to avoid having to pay even more for high-caliber employees than they already were...
Copyright as an imposition on private communications is untenable in the digital era. There's no reason we can't have a limited copyright that applies only to commercial entities, as copyright effectively did when it was originally instated.
You do realize that average statistics aren't based solely on your individual salary, correct?
Err, replace the first "disagree" with "agree."
Protest, Rally: Free speech that I disagree with. Riot, Disorder, Squatting: Free speech that I disagree with.
...and "Christians" slaughtered untold millions during the Crusades, not to mention inquisitions, witch burning, and so on. If we're to follow your logic, then at least 54% of the humans on Earth are homicidal maniacs, and that's only counting two religions that I have some reasonable knowledge of.
Oh, and yes, Sikhs and Muslims are different, but give the guy a break, he was just looking for something that rhymed. Perhaps he meant "Sheikhs."
I'm a computer programmer, and yet I have to buy my furniture from a store. But wait, how is it possible that I could have the technological capacity to produce software when I have to rely on others for something as rudimentary as furniture? It's almost as if some skills and technical abilities were completely independent of others, and you could be very good at one while remaining completely ignorant of others...
There's not necessarily any correlation between the amount of work you're putting in to remove brown M&Ms from a bowl and the amount of work you're putting into safety...or if there is, it may very well be an inverse relationship if you're now short a tech guy because he drew the short straw and had to pick all the brown M&Ms out of the bag. The point of the M&Ms clause was just to make sure that someone had actually read the riders, and you could just as easily accomplish that with any other unique request, there's no need for it to be labor intensive.
To be fair, it was still kind of a dick move. They could just as easily have asked for, say, a hand-written note with some nonsensical but memorable phrase written on it to be stuck to the mirror. There's no reason they had to stick some poor sap at the venue with the job of rooting through a bag of M&Ms and picking out all the brown ones...
Oh, come on...I have to do something to reclaim the Google search results from Justin.
I think it's pretty much certain that if you've developed any useful technology since the dawn of software patents, you've accidentally stepped on at least a couple actionable patents, and you just have to hope that the patent holder either doesn't find out about it or doesn't extort you for too much of your revenues. Is there a name for this principle yet? I'd love to slap mine on it if there isn't...
Because we all know that everything in life is a checklist you have to complete in descending order of importance.
Give me a break. There are unsolved murders in my city, but you know what? I still expect the cops to respond if I find my house has been broken into, even though they haven't solved all the problems of greater scale and importance. In real life, we can do more than one thing at a time, and "There are more important things to do" is not an excuse to put off every task in life that doesn't make it to the very top of the list.
Let me guess: man who wouldn't be caught dead with "a purse". I have a bag for my netbook.
I'll carry a backpack if I need to, but I see no compelling reason to carry a bag with me everywhere just to accommodate a computing device that I really don't need just on the offchance that it may at some point be useful as an alternative to a sheet of paper.
Such device could be a mobile phone.
Now I have to carry a smartphone which basically takes up an entire pocket and a separate bag for my tablet with me everywhere? Even when my pockets end up stuffed with relatively absurd amounts of paper, it's still less cumbersome than that.
Apple iOS ships with a PDF reader, and several PDF readers are available for Android
PDF is actually a pretty bad format for mobile devices, because it's page-based. If your PDF document was generated such that it's ideal to be printed on 8.5x11 paper, it's not going to render well on a device with a smaller screen. This is a huge problem with e-readers: I've spent entirely too much time trying to effectively strip PDFs of their page-based formatting to get them displaying well on my Kindle. The only really ideal use for PDF, imo, is preparing a document for printing.
Of course, there are better solutions (heck, I'm a fan of plain text unless you really need advanced formatting), but the problem is getting people to use them. Unfortunately, we still live in a world where university professors distribute one-page assignments as Microsoft Word documents.
right when they're making tablets so popular that we don't need hard copy anymore.
Surely you jest. Even if tablets become absolutely, positively dirt cheap, they still won't be a proper replacement for paper documents.
Easy distribution. I can very easily hand a person a paper copy of a document. With an electronic copy, we need some kind of digital device to accommodate the transfer, and we have to make sure the document is in some format that both of our devices understand. If you're face to face with another person and all you have are your (possibly different brand) tablets, sharing documents becomes a trickier problem.
That's a completely silly comparison to make. My entire point is that when Linux was released, HURD had been under active development for a year. After Linux was released and widely adopted there was obviously no need to continue serious work on the HURD, so it more or less fizzled out. You're making the completely unfounded assumption that HURD would still be in its current state even if the release of Linux hadn't effectively killed off the major motivations driving its development.