Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Not Counterfeit, Just Crap (Score 1) 72

"Counterfeit" is not best word choice. It appears to be all real Cisco equipment and software. They were not producing the equipment from scratch or simply rebadging non Cisco equipment. The most problematic thing is it's unsupported and may not function properly, and consequently didn't.

From TFA:
"To create the counterfeits, the Chinese suppliers often took older, lower-model products, some of which were previously discarded, and modified them to appear new, while loading pirated Cisco software on the hardware."

Comment Double Edged Sword (Score 1) 242

First, I hope it works and becomes a model that this kind of public transportation should continue to be built out.

Second, it's irresponsible to continue to promote and encourage large groups of people to live and play in the desert southwest of the U.S, especially with tax dollars. They have serious problems with water and no one really seems to care to solve the real underlying issues, historic water mismanagement and now too many people.

Comment Time and Technology (Score 1) 100

Yes and expectedly so, but not always in a bad way.

First, as stated already, are there really any "new" stories humans have not told? Finding something new after several thousand years of story telling is tough. That doesn't mean we can't freshen up or retell a story in a new and engaging way. Take the acting styles of the silent era and compare it to method acting post WWII. Also, societal norms and expectations shift, which may allow the story tellers to be more free with their new vision of past work or force them to use clever metaphors and analogies to retell stories, depending on which way that shift goes.

Now the technology part. Oral tradition, written, audio recording, silent movies, talkies, Technicolor, VistaVision, practical effects, digital effects etc. These have allowed story tellers to tell stories in new, modern fashion continually bringing new audiences to "old" stories. Yes, some have become very niche retellings aimed at a specific audience or "test grouped" into bland servings of celebrity faces, but sometimes you get some great reinterpretations.

Yojimbo (1961, Japanese samurai film in black and white) and it's Italian, color remake, A fist Full of Dollars (1964), are both very good films, the later taking the story and making it their art by retelling as a Spaghetti Western.

Comment Re:Easy solution (Score 2, Interesting) 98

The framers of the Constitution also lived in a pre-industrialized world, pre full auto guns, pre atomic etc. This is not abdication of responsibility, it's congress knowing it can't act fast enough and putting the power where it needs to be, just what the framers would have wanted.

I'm OK with courts striking down particular enforcement actions, but not gutting agencies simply because they can respond too quickly to potential harm.

Comment Re:If you trust the EPA. you're fool... (Score 1, Flamebait) 98

Banning DDT has killed untold millions due to fly and mosquito borne diseases.

You're one of those people. I have an in-law by marriage that said "Rachel Carson is the biggest mass murderer in history". I already knew he was a Southern Baptist, but that really confirmed it.

I hope you like a uninhabitable planet because we keep killing everything. Humans cannot survive if they are the only species. We need a rich diversity for balance.

I like to think if there is a god, the real test is to get us to save the planet and live in harmony with it, not destroy it. How do you think God will treat you if you ruin his creations before he's ready to do for the second coming?

Comment Legislating from the Bench (Score 4, Insightful) 98

Congress: We give the EPA broad authority to regulate pollutants because we can't keep up with how fast companies make new ways to pollute.

EPA: Thank you congress for a sensible mandate.

SCOTUS: That power is to broad because companies can't make enough money polluting in new ways and it cost them a lot in lawyer fees and process design. It's too uncertain how they can continue to pollute and make money. OVER RULED!

Corporate America: Thank you Mitch McConnel! Oh, and I guess Donald Trump too.

I thought legislating from the bench was the GPOs biggest feat under President Obama, besides the obvious reasons.

Comment Re:whole lot of communists in these comments. (Score 1) 53

Become an abusive monopoly, duopoly, what have you, suffer the wrath of regulation.

Markets are only fair and competitive when they have rules to keep them that way; history has certainly taught us that. Economics is not supposed to only benefit a company/business. Markets are supposed to be beneficial to the society in which they operate. So, if a company starts to abuse its market power, governments can step in and address the problem.

Comment No and No (Score 0) 77

First, I have not used 23andMe or any such service, due to the obvious concerns about a private company holding my genetic information with no real privacy laws in effect.

Second, this new tact: "sells subscription health reports".

More subscriptions can screw off.

Slashdot Top Deals

Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.

Working...