Comment Re:Hey Verizon, can you hear us NOW! (Score 5, Insightful) 175
Hmm, well sometimes you need a little socialism to keep the capitalists in line.
Hmm, well sometimes you need a little socialism to keep the capitalists in line.
Nice to see cities stepping up to build better network infrastructure
And if we can hold onto Net Neutrality, even better.
RIM were beaten by their own cowardice. Just hours before they were due to win, they caved in and signed a deal with the patent troll.
Then they began giving governments backdoor access. Saudi Arabia (not exactly known for their human rights) was the first. That is when RIM should have said "no." That, and the switch to QNX a few months prior, started the slide down the slippery slope.
With a wounded brand AND an odd-ball os, what could possibly go wrong? Turns out, pretty much everything.
Oh, it's "Barbara".
Ouch! Why the quotes? It's the name on my bank statement, my lease, my signature on my Quebec medicare card, the only name my neighbors have ever known me as, the name on court documents, proceedings before the human rights commission, government correspondence, etc.
As an experiment, use an account with a masculine name and see if your results don't crater.
No thanks - my personal troll will come along and claim I'm karma farming
In addition to posting good material, you may be tapping a diversity nerve.
Or it may be that there are fewer users, and fewer who are posting stories, so the odds of getting accepted are better. Or you could be right - I may have tapped into a diversity nerve. In which case, "vive la difference"
Blackberry is rumoured to consider selling their handset division
So, Blackberry, after changing their name to Blackberry would no longer be making or selling... Blackberrys.
That's right, and it makes sense. They tried to get Lenovo to buy them in 2013, and that didn't pan out, because of IP issues. Now, if they sold just the handset division and the brand name, they could resurrect the Research in Motion brand, and emphasize their services division, which they've been beefing up via acquisitions. In other words, they want to do with their phones what IBM did with their laptops. Get rid of a low-margin hardware business with high inventory requirements and concentrate on high-margin services.
Having lived it first-hand from both sides of the gender divide, I'm not exactly in a position to argue the point, because I find that my decision-making process takes into consideration the feelings of those involved a lot more now. It might be because I'm more able to detect the cues, or that everyone - of both sexes - is more open to communicating their emotional state to me (which is definitely true), or that I'm now "permitted" to include that data in any analysis. Or, as my personal troll (APK, the HOSTS file guy) keeps reminding everyone here, it's just the estrogen destroying my brain
But seeing as I have a personal bias, I have to disqualify myself as to which is the better approach. I'm much more comfortable making decisions now, because I feel I'm getting a broader base of information on which to base any decision, and it's so much better now because anything can be discussed - even feelings - without having to worry about "what someone might think."
I will say this, though. When it comes to making heavily emotional decisions, men generally tend to do worse. Suicide - 3x to 10x worse. Murder. Stalkers. Violent assaults. Men lead women in all these categories. So many men try so hard to deny their emotions (possibly because they don't want to be seen as weak or wrong) that when it leaks out, it's like a gusher. Everyone ends up losing.
But which is better? That depends on the people and the situation, same as it always has.
You're basing that on an assumption of maturity that may no longer hold true.
Probably not, but they were never true anyway. But that's okay - I've made my share of really stupid mistakes too.
A big part of the problem nowadays is hidden agendas. Trying to decipher who's over-reacting on purpose as opposed to who's over-reacting because that's the way they are is a problem in these scenarios. And unfortunately, I believe that the evidence tends towards drama queens being at least partially an act. When you have internet-savvy people saying they're moving because they received death threats on twitter, it just doesn't hold up.
And I know I'm going to catch heck for saying so - especially me. But it doesn't change the facts. These are not credible threats, and pretty much everyone who takes a moment to think will realize that the nature of the recipients of the threats - that these were people in the tech world and should at least have some idea of how the internet works - and not some soccer mom whose entire experience is facebook and twitter and
The question now is, is it even worth trying to sort it out any more? In the case of gamergate, probably not.
People behind keyboards, with a certain amount of anonymity or pseudo-anonymity, will behave more like jerks. That's a given, it's not news. Squiggy is asking what can be done, and how (and his observation is certainly true) people who post unpopular opinions are going to get attacked if they don't post anonymously.
Of course, the opposite also holds true - people who post popular opinions will also be attacked. That's how the internet works in 2014 - dysfunctionally. It's more a source of entertainment than "the information superhighway." Me, I just can't be bothered to check the "post anonymously" box. Plus, if I do have a brain fart, the proper thing to do would be to apologize, not hide behind anonymity in the original post. But that's just me, and that's probably because, as Dark Helmet said, "good is dumb."
BTW - I must be on some sort of run - the last seven stories I've submitted have all made the front page. The most recent ones were about soda pop and telomeres, and now blackberry and lenovo. In fact, I've only had one rejection.
Considering that Lenovo owns Motorola Mobility now, they could probably use those patents in their upcoming litigation battles with Apple.
Anecdotal evidence isn't proof. You should know this.
I do. That's why I wrote "Ask any endocrinologist. Type two diabetics come in all shapes and sizes. "
We also know that women tend to use more emotion in judgement than men. In fact women use emotion all the time quite, and quite differently from men.
Please check this out. Emotions are used by both sexes in making decisions.
one of the world’s top neuroscientists, Antonio Damasio, profiled his patient, Elliott, one of his most well-known cases. Formerly a successful businessman, model father and husband, Elliott suffered from ventromedial frontal lobe damage as a result of a tumor and subsequent surgery for removal.
Following his operation, Elliot dispassionately reported to Damasio that his life was falling apart. While still in the 97th percentile for IQ, Elliot lacked all motivation. His marriage collapsed as did each new business he started. Damasio found Elliott an “uninvolved spectator” in his own life, “He was always controlled. Nowhere was there a sense of his own suffering, even though he was the protagonist. I never saw a tinge of emotion in my many hours of conversation with him: no sadness, no impatience, no frustration.”
It was clear to Damasio that as a result of his surgery, Elliot was incapable of making decisions, “Elliott emerged as a man with a normal intellect who was unable to decide properly, especially when the decision involved personal or social matters.” Even small decisions were fraught with endless deliberation: making an appointment took 30 minutes, choosing where to eat lunch took all afternoon, even deciding which color pen to use to fill out office forms was a chore. Turns out Elliott’s lack of emotion paralyzed his decision-making.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
