Also amused to see I can only go back to 2007 for my postings. I've posted to SlashDot since at least 2000.

I used to moderate on at least a weekly basis. Once Beta came out and I posted under the Fuck Beta, I was banned from moderating.

Oh, Lucas didn't create the mythology -- he copied major points (without credit) from Akira Kurasawa's Seven Samaurai. This is why Darth Vader has the Samurai-style mask. R2 and C3PO come straight from Kurasawa's film.

That is why the first movie has such dramatic appeal, whereas the third movie has fish-people and teddy bears.

A better focus is on the happiness of the people working there. Ask about turnover. What is the size of the team, and when/why did the last 2 people leave? Walk around the place. Meet your teammates. Are they gloomy? Cracking jokes? Ask how conflict is managed. How does the team celebrate milestones? What does the average day look like?

IMO the only useful metric is how the VPN provider responds to a request from MPAA about a clien't's torrent activity.

My use case doesn't consider Chinese govt' monitoring important. I would be curious to hear why non-Chinese slashdot readers would consider this a threat.

IMO the major threat is MPAA.

Don't forget the Tempe Police Department immediately placed all blame on the pedestrian.

Caitlin Johnstone documents this was a coordinated attempt by Facebook and Twitter to remove content offensive to the corporate masters.

Alex Jones was the canary in the coalmine, now they will continue ensuring Sanders (and other upstarts) never gets a second chance.

She writes:

Regardless of where you’re at on the political spectrum, if you oppose the status quo then opposing internet censorship of any political speech is now a matter of simple self defense. If this wasn’t obvious to you when they shut down Alex Jones, it should damn well be obvious to you now. If you want to change the existing system in any way which takes power away from those currently in power, your voice is next on the chopping block. They’re locking all the doors down as fast as they can to keep us trapped in this Orwellian oligarchy until they get us all killed by war or ecocide. If they shut down the public’s ability to share dissident information, they’ll have locked the final door. Don’t let them.

OK, I'm asking in good faith... Is the AGPL v3 license in accordance with what the owner of iTextSharp says? There appears to be a huge disconnect in the licensing terms for AGPL v3 vs. what iTextSharp says.

The ambiguity is apparently so sharp that Google forbids usage of any open source software using AGPL:

WARNING: Code licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) MAY NOT be used at Google.

The license places restrictions on software used over a network which are extremely difficult for Google to comply with. Using AGPL software requires that anything it links to must also be licensed under the AGPL. Even if you think you aren’t linking to anything important, it still presents a huge risk to Google because of how integrated much of our code is. The risks heavily outweigh the benefits.

Do not attempt to check AGPL-licensed code into google3 or use it in a Google product in any way.
Do not install AGPL-licensed programs on your workstation, Google-issued laptop, or Google-issued phone without explicit authorization from the Open Source Programs Office.


Given this confusion, does anyone wishing to speak about the economics of open source want to actually talk about the legal amgiguities of open source licensing?

"This week, State Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes called poverty California’s No. 1 priority during a forum of legislative leaders in Sacramento. Mayes, who represents parts of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, claimed the state’s poverty rate is higher than any state in the nation when considering factors such as cost-of-living."

We decided to fact-check whether the report Mayes cited really shows that California has the highest poverty rate in the nation.

Please don't forget that the Tempe Police Dept. immediately placed all blame on the pedestrian. We now know that the Uber car know of the obstruction and had enough braking time to have reduced it to a non-fatal accident.

Please remember the faked darkened videos, when the street was well lit.

I have no idea what is happening in this accident in Tempe... Any locals have a clue?

The reporting for the stock market is just as bad. You can have movements of 50% within a day, but if the final number evens out, it is reported as a "modest" change, with just 10 points change in the Dow, etc., when in reality there were major changes. Day traders could make a ton of money while the average Joe thought nothing was going on.

NPR's "Market Place" is a fantastic example of the corrupt (it is so bad I don't think it is merely incomptence) reporting. IMO the "incomptentence" is deliberate, and a feature.

PS -- wow, it has been such a long time since I commented, I forgot how abysmal Slashdot's editing system is...

Wiki says:
Several studies have associated paroxetine with suicidal thinking and behavior in children and adolescents.[10]

and

GlaxoSmithKline has paid substantial fines, paid settlements in class-action lawsuits, and become the subject of several highly critical books about its marketing of paroxetine, in particular the off-label marketing of paroxetine for children, the suppression of negative research results relating to its use in children, and allegations that it failed to warn consumers of substantial withdrawal effects associated with use of the drug.

The smoking gun :
Published in July 2001 in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), which listed Keller and 21 other researchers as co-authors, study 329 became controversial when it was discovered that the article had been ghostwritten by a PR firm hired by SmithKline Beecham; had made inappropriate claims about the drug's efficacy; and had downplayed safety concerns.

Yet the United States continues to hand out SSRIs like candy to children. Many school shooters were taking SSRIs, yet the topic is censored in mainstream media.

This is easy! Conservatives (aka Repubs) have to support the USPS, because that old white man Ben Franklin created the USPS!

Come on Republicans, are you really going to argue against Ben Franklin???

Ron Paul received this sort of treatment when he ran for president (as R) in 2012. His censorship from the press prepared me for Sanders' run in 2016. The tricks were the same...

Paul had second place in the Iowa primaries, but his name was never mentioned by the mainstream media. They seamlessly transitioned from first to third place without blinking an eye. An uninformed primary voter would not have heard of Ron Paul. If I recall correctly, he was unable to purchase ads in key markets.

Fast forward to 2016, and magically we're concerned about the popular vote numbers while never mentioning super delegates. Google and Facebook now get to "filter" so the hapless voter is protected from thoughtcrime.