Comment Re:Verizon won't roll them out to kiosks. . . (Score 1) 412
It's proper usage to say "just deserts":
It's proper usage to say "just deserts":
Yeah HR has no clue. Our company has an HR/IT person that's supposed to be up on these things, but she pronounces C# as "sea pound".
Bizarre esoteric hardware is essential for console makers to prevent PC emulation.
It's been a while but my understanding is that symmetric interpretations in QM have observers, they just don't have Observers. That is, there is nothing metaphysically special about an observation unit, whether that be a recording device or a human. The reason why Observers are not required is because there is no collapse of the wave function. The collapse of the wave function is the Observation. Without collapse, there is nothing particularly special about the point at which we choose to measure the system.
And I didn't mean to say causation needs to be discarded. I meant to say that we need to stop thinking about causation asymmetrically, at least at the level of particle physics.
Well, the Copenhagen interpretation leads to problematic issues regarding "measurement", leading to the "observer" being an irreducible part of any QM experiment. There's a solution that exists for all the wonky metaphysics of QM that people like Penrose like to harp on. Pretty much everything is symmetric in particle physics except "causation". "Causation" has been made explicitly asymmetric more due to our own anthropogenic biases than any theoretical need. Eliminating this asymmetry pretty much solves all the nonsensical metaphysics that QM has spawned over the past century.
The "quiz" questions are good to see if people are lying on their resume. In Java, for example, we ask "What is the class all other classes are derived from?" "What is the difference between == and
You are correct that asking for X number of years in a narrow skillset is a bad idea. And I don't expect someone to know a technology if they didn't put it on their resume. However, if a coder is a master of those things he puts on his resume, that's a good indicator of his future success. This has been our experience.
Well do you trust proprietary encryption implementations? I don't.
Well do you trust proprietary encryption implementations? I don't.
Taxes have been cut multiple times since the early 80s, while spending has increased. I'm all for cutting taxes, AFTER we get our spending under control. The govt should only be able to cut taxes if receipts > expenses AND there is no current deficit. It'll be a long time before our budgets are balanced unless we lay off the entire military or let poor people start dying in the streets. Had we been a little more responsible over the past 30 years none of this would have been an issue.
If PJ regularly featured tough challenges to her worldview and responded to them with reason and nuance, then she might be credited with merely trying to create a high S/N discussion site. The impression I get from many posters to this discussion is that she simply removes the side of the debate she doesn't agree with. I'm not capable of proving that's the case. Any evidence of that would be deleted from her site. Lacking any transparency in moderation it's difficult to just take her word that nothing she deleted had any value to begin with. Those charging her with tyrannical moderation seem to be disaffected supporters more than sockpuppet trolls. There could be a conspiracy there, but we'd need evidence to believe that. Maybe if all the post IP addresses came from Darl McBride's house that would be believable. Otherwise I regard it as fanciful.
Running an open discussion site while keeping trolls at bay without deleting posts is not easy. You should try it sometime. I did, and failed.
Slashdot has managed to get by fine for more than a decade without a similar deletion policy. I would prefer the distinction between troll and serious debater be left up to the reader, and not the admin. I don't want to be a part of any site that can only deal with trolls through heavy handed moderation. I think many here feel the same way. If she's been deleting posts, where is the exact line? Are we even able to see what posts were deleted to see if they deserved deletion? I doubt it. It's this lack of transparency and seeming lack of interest in open discussion that turns me off of any community she may head.
Now, PJ is hardly alone in running her site this way. But I'm a free software supporter with strong ideals and high expectations. Slashdot, for all its flaws, manages to meet these ideals. Groklaw has fallen short.
Last I checked, there were several complaints of post deletions on groklaw, to which her response was she was not really interested in "open" debate. I agree with many of her opinions and analysis of the SCO debacle, but I wouldn't want to be part of any community she's running.
I'm sure she could be valuable as a writer on various IP issues surrounding free software.
Yup I googled what you said to and came up with this:
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/07/response-to-right-wing-personal.html
Doesn't exactly confirm your accusations.
OK, so the only high speed providers in your town are Verizon DSL and Comcast cable. Both have made a business decision to block Fox News. Now what do you do? Go back to dial up? Move to another locality?
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
