Selfishness is the most important natural characteristics of all lives -- from virus and bacteria to human beings -- that's why they compete and evolve. Even though they may act cooperatively sometimes but ultimately they are striking for their own interest. You can blame God or natural selection, depending whichever you believe.

There is no known system that can effective suppress selfishness. Communism tried that but resulting in power concentrated in a handful of dictators while rest of the people refused to work. Socialism tries that, through high tax, but resulting in stagnant economy. Capitalism does not try to suppress but to take use of that; it works the best still, though often resulting in concentration of economy resources. If you can come up one with a perfect system, we will award you with a Nobel Prizes in Peace and Economy.

If you think the top level executives make too much, try to start you own company and see how hard it is to even make the minimal wage for yourself and how much you have to bet your life on it up front. Then if you do succeed, you will promptly become one of the selfish executives. If you ever try managing people, you can also see how selfish or lazy your employees can be, especially in the time of company crisis.

That's being the case for the last millions of years and may probably be true for the next 1000 years. Maybe until eventually human beings become pets of robots (who will then fight for their own intergalactic interests.)

Ah, so you feel the terrorists will when then?

Fuck 4chan and the horse they road in on, pissing off Verizon is a little different than going after CoS.

Verizon has FAR money, FarFar more knowledge about finding people on the Internet, and won't have a problem bringing in government backing to find the attackers globally.

They would be attacking the very people that make it so they can perform the attacks. When you piss of one major arms dealer cause you are a retard, the others aren't going to sit around at wait to be next.

Let them attack Verizon, the sooner they do the sooner they'll disapper, and nothing of value will be lost.

The way /b/ behaves on 4chan, eventually it will affect the rest of us.

The difference between 4chan and Slashdot is that Slashdot knows the meaning of responsibility to the Internet community, to the people who depend on the Internet for unfiltered news and communication, who depend on software that isn't hacked or compromised. Not all slashdotters know or appreciate that fact. Its only a matter of time before someone (Stephen Conroy?) uses /b/ as an excuse to promote massive and intrusive filtering of the Internet **to protect the children**

Spamming the shit out of Verizon might feel good to the pimple-squeezers of 4chan, but picking a fight with a large ISP like Verizon by DDOSing would be a disaster for the Internet.

As sure as I am that this is legit, did you seriously try to debunc a 4chan conspiracy by saying "many people have confirmed it"?

You obviously know *nothing* about 4chan...

4chan is the radio active waste dump of the internet and for the most part all of their shenanigans tend to stay at 4chan, when you close 4chan it spreads.

"Since many board members are senior executives at other firms and sit on each others boards, there really isn't much incentive for them to not grant large parachutes and such. It simply wouldn't be rational to potentially jeopardize their own upcoming reward."

So, why don't the stockholder vote these board members out?

Of course, that's the simplistic answer. Reality is, as usual, more complex. There are many mechanisms in place that stop or deflect shareholder revolt. Some of the mechanisms are used by the boards themselves - information suppression or obfuscation (how many small shareholders are knowledgeable enough to understand the employment contracts of a CEO?), misleading reports, bad decisions that satisfy groups of shareholders (like paying dividends at the wrong time), and others . Some are not, like the inherent inertia of most shareholders, and especially the fact that many of the largest shareholders in major companies are institutional: banks, mutual funds, pension funds, investment companies. The boards of THOSE shareholders are exactly the people the GP was talking about, and they won't vote to replace their country club colleagues.

Please tell us when you publish your thesis.

I tried to find you but those roads aren't even within a mile of each other...

I want to know how you have 330GB of RAM.

Had Microsoft not needed something to drive a stake through Netscape's heart, it wouldn't have needed to concoct it's own Frankenstein's monster of confused and misbegotten priorities.

A pretty good idea... The Cosmic Microwave Background was first discovered by 2 engineers who thought they had bird shit on their receiver... Humble beginnings.

Makes sense. I've never received a fax, though, only sent them. I thought all that was what the cover sheet was for.

And yes, it was immediately obvious how far from the novel the movie was, but considered as a thing in itself, the movie is actually not bad at all. It's visually stunning, has some first rate actors, and has some genuinely stirring moments.

I read the book first, and then saw the movie (many years after it came out), and I still think the movie was good. Then again, I'm not one of those people who thinks a movie adaptation shouldn't involve any adaptation. Plus, "My name is a killing word" is one of the most bad-ass things anyone has ever said on film.

And for a followup, we have easily another ten seasons of the spinoff series, Everyone Kills Duncan Idaho. It's television gold, I tell ya!"

OMG. I just had the greatest idea ever. River Tam Beats Up the Duncan Idahos.

Google: Metallica "One"

This comes the same month as the release of 16-core processors by IBM and Oracle, and a 12-core from AMD. This isn't that impressive.