Comment Re:First Post (Score 1) 201
Maybe 2nd ?
Looks more like a stump than a post.
Maybe it's just me, but aren't posts supposed to be
Maybe 2nd ?
Looks more like a stump than a post.
Maybe it's just me, but aren't posts supposed to be
I have nothing to hide, and if this helps catch bad guys, it's still a tremendous invasion of privacy and morally wrong under just about any definition of "moral" you want to use (aside from the "moral = whatever the hell I say it is" definition that seems to be increasingly more prevalent).
If I spend my spare time doing the most boring, non-threatening things imaginable, that is nobody's business but my own. If I spend my spare time doing unusual or asinine things, that's still nobody's business but my own. If I spend my spare time hurting other people and committing crimes that result in damage... then hey, maybe it's time to look into what I'm doing, not before.
Moxie Marlinspike had a great article/journal entry/essay on this topic. I'm not saying he's the next hemmingway, but I'd rather let him explain why we should all have something to hide.
TL;DR - Lots of good things were illegal, once. Big things, like equality (smaller things, too).
when this would happen. You just had to know that someone would go after them for this. I wonder how it will hold up in court. The bigger question I have is what else will be found during discovery
Well, they'll settle out of court if discovery is an option, and
No, this is distinctly different than, say
Frankly, considering the economic damage he did, the thousands (if not millions) of people he screwed over and caused pain and suffering to, the time wasted to clean up his mess...
18 years is quite small, I'd have no problem with executing him. If people who commit crimes behind computer keyboards were actually punished more often, we might have less of it. As it is, the fraud and abuse online are really more like the wild west than the 21st century.
Economic damage is not a good way to assess penalties. Compare and contrast with Aaron Swartz, Jamie Thomas-Rasset, Kevin Mitnick
No, this guy needs to go away because he was breaking the law - not because of how much he broke it.
This is just the same approach as Coffee Joulies, which is a former Kickstarter project. I have a bunch of these, they work well. No need for a custom mug.
Well, it's not quite the same as coffee joulies, for a number of reasons.
First, it's integrated/built in.
Second, well
Third... uh
Seriously though, this is just an improvement on the thermos. A fancy improvement, and it might even be more effective
The insulator – which Maxwell won't identify but swears is non-toxic
I think this is a case where it most certainly needs to be disclosed in an MSDS and/or patent filing (though more likely in the MSDS, as the patent filing is allowed to be vague).
MSDS sheets aren't required for consumer products in most places in Canada. They're a workplace 'thing'.
Nevermind the fact you can get an exemption for 'trade secrets'.
That Snowden got all the attention, maybe others were planing on blowing some whistles
They've been upset for a long time, about doing secret, unapproved missions. It's a snowden LEAK that make their discontent
At least, that had better be the story. Because anything else is just a bunch of rich kids whining that they've been outed (and treated poorly). They weren't slaves, prisoners or compelled to remain.
Yeah, I very intentionally used that word, just so that I wouldn't get bogged down in the inevitable "let's define what 'worse' is" discussion.
Wait, let's define bogged-down. I wouldn't want to get off-topic and go off on a tangent.
I'm not seeing your point. I don't consider blind obedience to be a good thing. I don't even consider grades (especially not high school grades) to be very important, if that's what you're trying to get at.
I have not said any of that, and I've agreed with you, so I'm not sure what you're asking
The problem is that a worse standard is being applied.
Now that's an interesting proposal. I wonder how long it would take to come to a consensus on the meaning of 'worse'? And likely, it'd be biased, because we'd have old people on the decision committee
Why would you publish your competitive research in industry? I don't see SpaceX at conferences or publishing journal papers. They definitely aren't filing patents, according to Musk.
And besides, as a business owner, I'm not interested in paying for you to write that paper and shepherd it through the publication process. You're a smart guy or gal, I want you working on the next problem so we can all make money, not burnishing your resume with high impact factor pubs. Do it on your own time if you like, but make sure our IP lawyers have a chance to review it before you send the abstract in; you do recall that paper you signed when you hired on.
Ah, by research, you mean peer-reviewed, published research. I see we have the same words but different meanings. I wonder if that could cause misunderstanding.
You might not see the research results immediately, but they are protected (patents and such) and eventually pass into the general knowledge pool.
At least, in theory. Now, if IP laws weren't so restrictive
Because, if he did, then you had a clear success criteria, and you failed to follow instructions.
And? I would think that anyone with a brain would already realize that's a terrible idea to begin with. I don't consider it a failing to not follow such ridiculous instructions.
Obviously not a great way to evaluate Gym class. Maybe the coach should have counted the number of pushups each person could do. That would be better, right?
No. Obviously not. Quantity is rarely better than quality. On the other hand, if someone says "for every hour you sit in this chair and do nothing, I'll give you $50", and you do it for 8 hours
Not if ignoring the instructions gives no advantages, neither to you, nor to someone you want to help, nor the society as a whole.
Exactly. If the whole point is to learn to follow instructions, and you don't follow instructions... well, you fail.
And, lets face it, we're talking about Gym Class, not Medical School, where, incidentally, you also learn to follow instructions (only, they call them procedures).
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