cornicefire - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Copyright infringement cannot be suppressed (Score 1) 90

by cornicefire on Monday May 11, 2015 @03:50PM (#49667323) Attached to: How To Set Up a Pirate EBook Store In Google Play Books

You're a jerk. How would you like someone to come into your place of work and take 20,30, 50, or even 90% of your revenue. Then for grins, they would accuse you of trying to monopolize your own work. Yeah. That's the ticket. That guy wouldn't let us steal his car so we're going to call him a monopolist. And that girl? She's trying to monopolize her body parts by not letting us have sex with her.

Comment So they petition to protect their hard work (Score -1) 163

by cornicefire on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @11:50AM (#49520169) Attached to: Copyright For Sale: What the Sony Docs Say About MPAA Buying Political Influence

Big deal. Everyone does it. You can bet that Google is out there arguing that all of the content should be free so they can sell more ads alongside it. And you can bet that the unions are looking for political influence to protect their hard work too. It's called living in a democracy.

Comment Re:Principles vs Practicality (Score 1) 220

by cornicefire on Friday January 09, 2015 @08:09AM (#48773677) Attached to: EFF: Apple's Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App For iOS

Exactly. The EFF's only job is to apologize for Google and make piracy seem legit. They're just piracy apologists.

Comment More about a Gay Guy Flirting (Score 1) 421

by cornicefire on Sunday January 04, 2015 @09:36AM (#48729743) Attached to: What Isn't There an App For?

Not that there's anything wrong with that. But the percentage of discussion of apps was pretty low. Not zero. But low.

Comment The "majority" is only 51%! (Score 2) 197

by cornicefire on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @05:14PM (#48699217) Attached to: CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us'

What about the other 49%? Are they real aliens? Or just NSA? Or some other TLA?

Comment About time.... (Score 1) 100

by cornicefire on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @07:05AM (#48607889) Attached to: The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax

I've been waiting to find out about this one. Waiting a long time.

Submission + - Should technology help customers discriminate? (nytimes.com)

Submitted by cornicefire on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @07:36AM

cornicefire writes: The New York Times takes a break from focusing on the number of female employees in Silicon Valley to celebrate a cab company in New York (SheRides) that matches female passengers up with female drivers. The article briefly acknowledges the gender bias, but goes on to list ways that female drivers are better. The gender discrimination is enforced by technology platform built SheRides (also called SheTaxis in other cities). Is this company decision to use technology to enhance and encourage gender discrimination a mistake? Or are they just giving the customers what they want?

Comment There's plenty of diversity-- but not all races (Score 3, Interesting) 459

by cornicefire on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @01:16PM (#48361169) Attached to: Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech

I see plenty of racial diversity. There are folks from India, China, Korea, Japan and many of the islands in the south Pacific where I work. And if you look closely at the so-called "white" folk, many come from all across Europe and Arabia. Are they represented equally? No. If anything, "white" people are underrepresented compared to their percentage of the population. It's a mistake to talk about "racial diversity" when that's not really the problem. It just distracts us by framing it as a problem of white people discriminating against non-whites.

Submission + - Is Gender Imbalance A Problem In Other Fields? (newrepublic.com)

Submitted by cornicefire on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @08:15AM

cornicefire writes: The tech industry is constantly criticized by people who argue that society should aim for 50% of the jobs in the tech industry to be filled by women. But other occupations are even more imbalanced. For instance, Greg Veis at the New Republic interviews Steven Antonelli, about what it's like to be one of the few men who work in early childhood education. When he started, he had to use the women's bathroom because there was no key for the mens' room. Only 2% of the preschool teachers are male and the women dominate most elementary schools. Even high school teachers are predominantly female. Many of these jobs have full health insurance and rich pensions-- two benefits rarely seen in tech startups or even some well-established tech firms. Should the battle for gender equality in Silicon Valley be expanded into other areas like early childhood education? Should society aim for all job categories to be filled with an equal number of both genders?

Comment I quit a long time ago (Score 3, Interesting) 229

by cornicefire on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @05:14PM (#48144291) Attached to: The Subtle Developer Exodus From the Mac App Store

After a few attempts that made it through the gauntlet, it quickly became a fool's errand. Why should anyone risk months of work only to watch some nameless, faceless drone at Apple issue a thumbs down rejection? At least in Roman times, the Emperor was brave enough to show his face when issuing the thumbsdown. What a wretched market. It's impossible to do anything except sell stupid games. (And I say that as someone who likes stupid games.) Then they have the gall to take 30% for doing next to nothing. Seriously. It's just a db insert and some FTP.

Comment By this definition, FB and GOOG are malware (Score 1) 103

by cornicefire on Thursday October 09, 2014 @05:42AM (#48100941) Attached to: The Malware of the Future May Come Bearing Real Gifts

They rape our privacy for their profit. Now they both happen to be extremely useful and this is their real gift. I'm not sure what the point here is, except that there's a fine line between malware and a $100b company.

Comment All the better to boost company-wide demographics (Score 1) 134

by cornicefire on Monday October 06, 2014 @07:02PM (#48078269) Attached to: Google's Security Guards Are Now Officially Google Employees

If someone complains you don't hire enough people in group X because you can't find many techies in group X, you now add another pool of talent.

Comment Re:ask your advisor (Score 1) 479

by cornicefire on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @05:18PM (#47978181) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D?

Alas, it's the advisor's responsibility to get jobs for his/her students. If this PhD doesn't have a job, the advisor is either incompetent or doesn't like the student. Or both.

Comment Re:Don't put PhD in the resume (Score 1) 479

by cornicefire on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @05:17PM (#47978167) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D?

Dream on. There are some who were in industry, but every single one of them chose grad school over working in industry. The PhD sends the signal, "I don't like industry. I want to write papers." So why hire a guy like that?

Comment Article shows fundamental lack of understanding (Score 2) 183

by cornicefire on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @08:00AM (#47916263) Attached to: Why Apple Should Open-Source Swift -- But Won't

"We have no plans to do anything like that. Swift is a new option for developing on the platform. We have no plans to drop C, C++ or Objective-C. If youÃ(TM)re happy with them, please feel free to keep using them."

https://lists.apple.com/archiv...

"Swift is Apple's modern, type-safe language for Cocoa development But Objective-C remains a first-class citizen too"

http://devstreaming.apple.com/...

Seems like it's not meant to supplant but to live alongside it.

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