Comment Re:Will people learn to watch what's said online? (Score 2, Insightful) 806
Exactly. You can argue "freedom of speech" all you want, but freedom means responsibility for how people react to what you say.
Comment Re:Will people learn to watch what's said online? (Score 1) 806
Learn that what you post online will stay with you FOREVER. I've found Usenet posts I made dating back to my college days online; that's dating back almost fifteen years.
Is it fair? No. But it's the reality of life.
Comment Re:Will people learn to watch what's said online? (Score 1) 806
It's not a thoughtcrime; it's a sad reality. You are judged from the words that come out of your mouth and text lives on forever.
Comment Will people learn to watch what's said online? (Score 4, Insightful) 806
Yes, she was upset and "venting" but what you put on the Net stays on the Net. I always treat EVERYTHING I post online as public and manage my words with care, as they may come to haunt me someday.
It's a shame. What she needed was to be forced to attend counseling, not have her entire college career ruined. But maybe people will learn from her mistake.
Comment Re:You mean like Ireland's blasphemy laws? (Score 1) 187
Oh, I believe it. We're extraordinarily screwed up, and giving away our freedoms right, left and center while proclaiming here to still be better than "in the rest of the world". T'ain't so....
Comment Re:You mean like Ireland's blasphemy laws? (Score 1) 187
*snerk* Awesome. Where's my mod points so I can rightfully mark this as funny?
Submission + - Can the power of Slashdot fix a Firefox bug? (mozilla.org)
BcNexus writes: For two years in Firefox, Bookmark All Tabs creates a new folder in bookmarks instead of allowing you to select an existing folder. This aggravating bug is reported in Bugzilla, and I voted for resolution, but other than that, I don't know how to encourage anyone to fix the issue, nor do I have the tools to do it myself. Thus, I'm turning to the Slashdot community to ask, "Can Slashdot squash this bug?"
Submission + - Want Wi-Fi With That? McD's Serves Free Hotspots (computerworld.com) 2
CWmike writes: McDonald's restaurants may soon serve up free Wi-Fi, allowing customers to browse the Web as long as you like in a bid to encourage them to stay longer and buy McDonald's coffee drinks and hamburgers. The fast-food giant is lifting a $2.95 fee for two hours of wireless Internet access starting in mid-January, reports say. The free Wi-Fi will reportedly be available at about 11,000 of 14,000 U.S. locations. McDonald's has used Wi-Fi provided by AT&T Inc. for several years, after first launching the service at 75 locations in San Francisco in 2003. One comment overheard on Twitter: 'Great now we'll have pervs hanging out at McD's.'
Submission + - Downside to LED traffic lights
Timex writes: "Some communities that are converting their traffic lights to energy-saving LEDs are finding a problem: the LED lights aren't burning hot enough to melt now during winter storms, causing accidents and at least one death."
Submission + - Student Banned From Campus Over Facebook Comments (postbulletin.com) 1
kungfugleek writes: A University of Minnesota student has been banned from the Twin Cities campus after three of her instructors felt threatened by some of her Facebook postings. Amanda Tatro was patted down and questioned by campus police when she got to class Monday. The 29-year-old mortuary science student had posted comments on her Facebook page after breaking up with her boyfriend. She told her Facebook friends she wanted to stab a "certain someone in the throat" with an embalming instrument. Tatro said she was "looking forward to Monday's embalming therapy." When the instructors learned of the postings, they contacted police. Tatro told investigators she was just venting because she was upset over the breakup. Tatro tells the Star Tribune she has now set her Facebook profile to private.
That's pretty much the whole article (apologies for the plagiarism). I wonder how long it will be before people realize that nothing online, especially on FB, is private.
That's pretty much the whole article (apologies for the plagiarism). I wonder how long it will be before people realize that nothing online, especially on FB, is private.
Comment Re:You mean like Ireland's blasphemy laws? (Score 1) 187
I never saw it over here. By "over here", I hail from Boston. If it weren't for my Irish friends, I never would've known.
Comment You mean like Ireland's blasphemy laws? (Score 5, Informative) 187
Ireland passed laws recently against uttering "blasphemy" and no one batted an eye...except on Twitter.
A lot of this is getting swept under the rug, and it both shocks and appalls me.
UK Government Seeks New Web Censorship Powers 187
oldandcold writes "Given the recent coverage and controversy over Australia's forthcoming web censorship system, it is somewhat surprising (and worrying) that Clause 11 of the UK's proposed Digital Economy Bill seems to have gone by largely unnoticed. It amends the Communications Act 2003 to insert a new section 124H that could give the Secretary of State powers to order ISPs to block pretty much any website for pretty much any reason. Such orders would not require the scrutiny of parliament, or anyone else for that matter, because the Secretary of State would not be required to publish them."
Submission + - Microsoft Awarded 30% More H-1B Approvals for 2009
theodp writes: As Steve Ballmer faced Congressional scrutiny earlier this year over Microsoft's H-1B plans amidst U.S. layoffs, Microsoft Chief Counsel Brad Smith adeptly defused the situation, telling the press, "I think we're going to see substantially fewer H-1B applications filed this year compared to last year." What Smith didn't say was that Microsoft actually obtained approval for 30% more H-1B visas for 2009 than 2008, according to newly-disclosed USCIS figures. Microsoft's 1,318 H-1B visa tally earned it the top spot for U.S. firms, and second overall (entire list). Hey, it's not Microsoft's job to explain the difference between FY2010 visa applications and FY2009 visa approvals, right?
Comment Re:Obligatory Q quote (Score 1) 929
If I had mod points I'd give them to you for the Q quote. Total win!
