Comment If I accidentally see pics... (Score 1) 173
I will gouge my eyes out with a rusty fork!
I will gouge my eyes out with a rusty fork!
It's an abuse of power, the tragedy is it took a suicide for people to notice.
Something I only learned yesterday, Heymann (Ortiz's boss) had done it before a couple of years prior to Swartz--hounded a 16 year-old with heavy-handed charges until the kid put a bullet through his brain.
Stop blaming others for his inability to cope with the consequences of his actions.
OK, how about blaming them for such overzealous prosecution of such minor crimes, that it had cost him over $1,000,000 before the trial began. Can we blame them for that? (And fuck only knows how much of the taxpayers' money those clowns spent on their side...)
They can do whatever they want, it's their site.
Did you think about that before you wrote it? If not, take a second and think about it.
There are many, many, many things they cannot do with their site.
That only applies to federally funded research (which means almost all colleges and universities). Attempting to apply this to the private sector would raise serious First Amendment questions. What one person calls "psychological experiments", another might call "protected free speech".
This study appears to have taken federal funds...
There are laws governing obtaining informed consent from humans before performing psychological experiments on them. I doubt that a EULA can override them. This should be interesting...
Right... this seems like more of "A scientist that doesn't know anything about music explains something everyone who plays already knew" type of thing.
No, more like: everybody pretty much knew that the bridge being mounted on a vibrating membrane would affect the sound, but a scientist thoroughly analyzed and modeled the whole setup in order to quantitatively figure out exactly how all the parts and vibrations contributed to the sound. Then a dumbass know-nothing journalist wrote an article that misstated what had actually happened
Those of you who believe that an H-1B worker is paid less than a domestic worker don't know anything about the requirements of the program.
And you, apparently, know nothing about the ways employers game the system wrt advertised job titles vs actual duties. If you had friends who are program managers in large tech companies (I do), you'd know that the reason they are forced by upper management to hire H-1B's is most often explicitly to pay a lower wage. As in being told by the big boss "use H-1B's on this contract because we can't afford Americans."
I shall allow this. Sometimes dumbassery warrants jackassery in response.
Why, thank you, Your Most Exalted Highness, Prince of Internet Manners.
And that shall conclude my participation in this thread
Interesting... Although, I'm pretty sure it's already been said, at this point, how variations in statistical reporting methods pretty much invalidate comparisons between nations. Probably municipalities, too, if we bothered to look hard enough.
I would hope that municipalities would at least be pretty comparable. But this is still something to check to the extent one can. Especially since from time to time a local scandal emerges when police get caught falsifying crime statistics.
So, kudos to you for making a valid point and not being a jackass about it.
Well, your point to which I responded, although wrong in my opinion, was reasonable. One does not necessarily expect that some other culture's understanding of "suicide" and "homicide" could possibly be so very different. Believe me, my posting history here has plenty of flat-out insulting posts with no sort of justification at all. The difference is, I'm a jackass to dumbasses
Do you have any reference source for this claim?
Directly, no. It has been way too long since I first learned this for me to remember where.
But googling gets you this news article from today. Can you imagine any police or newspaper in North America, the EU or UK using the phrase "forced family suicide"???
And don't give me that "fuh fuh culture fuh fuh" crap, we're talking pure statistics here...
Actually, no they are not pure at all. They are contaminated with cultural interpretation. For instance, and my specific point, Japan's patriarchal society counts things very differently than we in the west do. When a stressed-out man comes home, kills his wife and two children, then himself, we call that a "murder-suicide" and count 3 murders + 1 suicide. In Japan they call it "familial suicide" and count it as 4 suicides.
Doesn't everyone program this way?
No, actually
There seem to be at least a couple of distinct ways of "sensing" the code you're working on. (And I'm not even counting the poor schmucks who are never really able to understand what they're doing.)
Here's hoping "kids these days" don't skip out on the importance of programmer's imagination over these new fangled tools.
Here's hoping they do. Us old farts need all the advantages we can get.
Maybe he's a misunderstood genius, but he's going to have to prove it.
Well, that's just a ridiculous suggestion. How the heck is he supposed to do that when no one else in the world is smart enough to understand his invention???
;-)
Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.
