Congratulations, Slashdot
I swear, we could make Slashdot twice as intelligent by getting rid of the 7 digit ids.
It interests me that you posted this response as an A/C.
The problem with Slashdot isn't the 7-digit ID.
The problem with Slashdot is that the geek's mind turns to mush when the talk turns to certain subjects, like intellectual property or gender issues in tech.
Except that Windows probably has just as many holes only you dont know about them because they aren't public or because Microsoft has decided not to invest the engineering resources to fix them.
I think it is fair to remind the geek that BASH is a product of the FSF and has been in use since 1989.
25 years ago.
Which makes a perfect farce of the notion that many eyes make all bugs shallow.
The financial collapse was a result of mistakes, not crimes.
They may not have been crimes, but do not try and say the financial collapse was a result of "mistakes".
The solution is that I shouldn't have to send my credit card number to every retailer I want to do business with.
The online retailer knows what you are buying and it needs a shipping address, and e-mail address and/or or phone number as a point of contact. Simply shopping the brick and mortar stores exposes pretty much everything anyone would want to know about your health, income, employment, housing, marital status, lifestyle choices and so on.
They do not have the same equal opportunity TO SUCCEED, nobody does.
The point is to set a reasonable baseline.
They have the same equal opportunity TO TRY to succeed and not be discriminated against by the government, be treated equally under law.
No, they don't.
Your society destroyed that concept.
Bullshit. "My" society _created_ the fucking concept.
You have left-wing, progressive politics to thank for everything you cherish, from property rights through freedom of speech to the ability to vote.
The world is going neither "right" nor "left", it's going more authoritarian on an orthogonal axis.
Rubbish. We've had thirty years of tax reductions, deregulation and shrinking public services.
The world is most assuredly moving "right"wards.
We have been watching these sorts of things come out of Australia for years. The labor government was at least as bad about it with their black lists and various censorship schemes. In the article also notice that the bill has the support of both the conservative government and the labor establishment. So blaming this on the conservatives seems questionable.
New Labor have been just another conservative party for over a decade now.
As for as I can see there is no party, other than the greens, who are really against this stuff in Australia.
That is because the Greens are the only left-wing party of any size.
We have the same problem in the US.
In fact, the whole Anglosphere has the same problem. The steady march of selfish, greedy, narcissistic right-wing politics that has been taking over since Thatcher and Reagan kicked it off, has all but eliminated left-wing politics and brought with it the destru
Reports validate a manager's existence in an organization and shiny charts make them feel warm and fuzzy inside.
It's a manager's job to manage. It's IT's job to present the information he needs to manage things well in a form with which he is comfortable.
Yes, well the devil's in the details. My definition of 'fair' is not the same as the left's. Mine is keep what you earn (or at least 90% of it or so), and allow the meritocracy to operate more naturally.
Right. So you favour increasingly concentrated wealth, the power it wields, and the inevitable corruption it breeds.
Theirs boils down to insistence on equal outcome, everywhere, even at the cost of liberty and bonafide justice.
Completely false.
The "insistence" is on equal opportunities.
The comical fantasy promulgated by the Right, however, is that everyone born into a western democracy inherently has equal opportunities. That the black child born to a drug addicted single mother has the same opportunities in life as the white child born to two high-earning professionals, because both were born in America. Undoubtedly, they will be able to trot out a couple of cherry-picked examples of such disadvantaged children who have, against all odds, escaped their demographic destiny. They might even produce some similar cherry-picked examples of rich white kids whose parents abandoned them after one too many low-level drug charges or car crashes and have sunk into desperate poverty.
But it's just ideological bullshit. Statistics, data and history show the truth. Wealth breeds increasingly more wealth and poverty more poverty, in feedback loops. The best society springs from both of those ends of the scale being curtailed to build a strong middle class. The period of human history with the greatest increase in wealth, productivity and living standards were the few decades post-WW2 - with its high taxes, strong regulations and comprehensive welfare systems - before Thatcher, Reagan and their acolytes' neoliberal cancer started destroying western democracies from within in the name of greed, selfishness, and free-market fundamentalism.
Historically, leftists (of any flavor) want to centralize power in the state under the guise of doing 'The Peoples'' bidding, and rightists prefer smaller governments and traditional values.
You sound like the people who say "historically, marriage was one man and one woman".
Ie: You're cherry-picking a very specific point in time to call "historically".
In reality, "historically" - that is to say, where the terms originated - the Right is the side of concentrated, inherited power - monarchies and serfs - and the Left is the side of democracy, individual rights, equality, freedom of speech, and the like.
Every "freedom" you cherish today, you need to thank progressive politics for.
That she didn't call their bluff...
Means that she probably did take some nudies at some point.
She is not obliged to call anyone's bluff.
Not everyone has a mind as adolescent as the geek who mods up craptastic sexist comments like yours as "Interesting."
I think that sacred texts (from any religion) in general should not be in public school libraries - those can be had at public libraries.
The Library of America recently published Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now:
It could do the same for the King James Bible, with only the slightest of changes in the wording of this introduction:
"The history of Shakespeare in America is also the history of America itself."
Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America's literary inheritance, and a prism through which crucial American issues---revolution, slavery, war, social justice---were refracted and understood. In tracing the many surprising forms this influence took, Shapiro draws on many genres---poetry, fiction, essays, plays, memoirs, songs, speeches, letters, movie reviews, comedy routine---and on a remarkable range of American writers from Emerson, Melville, Lincoln, and Mark Twain to James Agee, John Berryman, Pauline Kael, and Cynthia Ozick.
The Judeo-Christian sacred texts are woven even more deeply into our history, language and culture. You stumble about blindly if you don't know them.
Read the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton".
Milverton was shot dead by one of his victims who wouldn't pay up and suffered accordingly, with Holmes instinctively tidying things up for her afterward.
in Elementary, both blackmailer and accomplice are killed by a not-so-innocent victim who saw a chance to take their place.
In "Sherlock," it is Holmes himself who pulls the trigger.
The character of Charles Augustus Milverton was based on a real blackmailer, Charles Augustus Howell. He was an art dealer who preyed upon an unknown number of people, including the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Doyle's literary inspiration often came from his natural interest in crime, and he had no tolerance for predators. Howell died in 1890 in circumstances as strange as any of Doyle's novels: His body was found near a Chelsea public house with his throat posthumously slit, with a ten-shilling coin in his mouth. The presence of the coin was known to be a criticism of those guilty of slander.
Holding all the cards makes you the one everyone want to kill --- or crack wide open.
The geek who can keep his big mouth shut outside the narrow bounds of the darknet is a rare beast indeed. If I held secrets hot enough to burn, my first instinct would be to publish them straight-way and slip away quietly in the ensuing chaos.
It's cute to see how much money they blow on their designs, but really, is this news, or stuff that matters?
It matters to the geek who thinks that a kickstarter and 3D printer is a viable business plan in market where style, design, fit and finish in hardware matters.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
