Comment Is Torvalds abusing people again (Score 0) 156
...in the current debate?
...in the current debate?
I want military^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdefense employees that fuse with higher human brain function.
Wow, that's deep.
So this is what fear looks like.
Technology making guns more prevalent. Slashdot editors' enthusiasm for this is noted, once again.
Let's destroy ocean ice at an even FASTER rate!
Let's all MARVEL at this new icebreaker technology.
I manage the network for a defense contractor....Am I wrong?
Solution to your problem: give up your blood-drenched paycheck and re-examine your life. You're an enabler in the warfare/surveillance state.
In the end, they're a huge internet company that gives all our stuff up to the spooks. "Going to bat" would be doing what Snowden did - INFORMING us. They had years to do that.
...651 bomb-detecting device had one little problem: it wouldn't detect explosives...
Good.
It's not surprising at all that piecemeal work, with no provision for healthcare, vacation etc. - much less reliable, ongoing income - is more profitable for business.
Why should technology workers be intrigued or inspired by this? Why is this information presented to technology workers as another avenue to praise Google's or Mozilla's cleverness? And why do technology workers so consistently dig their own graves by latching onto this kind of ideology and failing to fight for labor rights?
I'm still wondering why everyday tech people should care what companies these overpaid pricks are jumping to to further their careers? Slashdot posts a lot of such stories.
Yeah, Rush and Pink Floyd should be next.
I was the best of the best at it (and still am)...
Along with a thousand other people reading this comment. But I get it, this is you illustrating your positive attitude, right?
And much more to do with his youngness, hipness, price, and malleability.
4) Conceived by extroverts
It seems that more and more mathematicians are using a new, high level language named "research student".