Comment Re:I found much the same thing (Score 1) 965
In the minds of people who see switching off a System Preferences option to only install signed packages a major obstacle.
Has symphony EVER been attractive to youth?
It's all in how it's presented.
Note to all: Not a rickroll. It's a masterpiece of symphonic comedy.
I find it Intereresting and disturbing that in the US we provide "Universal Service" for many old technologies - US Mail, Analog Telephones, and T1s, but we don't even have a discussion about universal broadband.
That's all well and good, and I agree that access to internet should be taken as a basic service, but did nobody else notice the real evil in this story:
The e-textbooks used in the project, run by the Fairfax County Public Schools, worked only when students were online—and some features required fast connections.
Why the fuck was there not an offline version of this textbook? I don't want to go all Stallmannite, but the problem right here is not lack of bandwidth. The problem here is a fucking textbook that can't be downloaded and used offline.
Americans have no one to blame but themselves and their short sighted insistence that they be paid enough money to keep themselves in food, shelter, transportation and medical care here in America, rather than what it would take to do all of the above in Bangladesh.
I take your point - it's a good one. But the story here seems to be a lack of confidence in the ability to get a return on investment. I'm actually half-inclined to see the core problem here as investors who ask, 'Why should I get a modest rate of return here at home when I can get a higher rate of return elsewhere?'
That's fine, as far as it goes, but it doesn't consider quality, long-term stability, or even pride and brand identity. In other words, I'm not sure that even backing down and selling out completely to the top-hat crowd would change their perspective that the US is a bad investment.
So yeah, shame on us for wanting a living wage and refusing to sacrifice our last modicum of health and well-being at the altar of investment; and shame on them too for not even caring enough about the place they live.
i don't think what nikon is paying for has a whole lot to do with android (omg i can't believe slashdot would be spreading fud!)
I'll reserve judgment until we learn more, but answer me this: why is Nikon, a long established company, only paying now? If they're using Android in their new cameras, then one can reasonably surmise that it might be the reason.
It was a typo. They meant to write 'vulnerable'.
I thought it was an autocorrect of 'venerial'.
Well unless the submitter is planning on developing iOS/OS X software, perhaps you missed the point about "trying to keep the cost down reasonable" ?
There are such things as VMs, so basic platform isn't too much of a problem. Also, I do most of my Linux programming on a Mac, because I work entirely with scripting languages (Perl, PHP, Python, JavaScript etc.), and it's trivially easy to set up a compatible working environment on OS X.
But you're right - the cost of hardware is very high. The 27" Thunderbolt monitors (and/or iMacs) come with the brand tax applied, as well as some confidence about their construction, quality and engineering. I have 27" iMacs at home and at the office, and I've never had a better display. Now, it needs to be said that my primary reason for getting them was photography (which occupies an increasing amount of my time). For contrast (especially in greyscale) and colour accuracy, I've never seen better, even at these high prices.
If it's true that those Korean 27" monitors really are basically Apples with a couple of dead pixels, then I'd say go for it. Getting a close approximation of an Apple monitor at hundreds of dollars less is still a great deal.
Many of us here have been saying DNT is a bad idea since it first appeared (and often, on slashdot, we've been downmodded for it). The right way to do this is NOT to depend on the good will of the remote side....
What do you mean by 'us', Kemo Sabe?
Okay, seriously: It's almost axiomatic in programming that you never trust your inputs, and you never assume that just because the external party (be it a function, another object, or a completely separate system) says it's going to X, that X will actually happen. So I'm good with the principle so far....
You CAN avoid giving them much data in the first place. You don't have to load their web bugs, their trackers, accept their cookies, or flash objects, and you can obscure your user agent string, and if you're really paranoid, even your IP address.
That's all well and good, but sometimes part of protecting yourself consists of telling someone else to stop doing what they're doing. Instead of just avoiding a particular street because of its dangers, why not roll a cruiser through from time to time and maybe make it clear that certain kinds of behaviour are Not Cool? That won't necessarily make the street safe, but it might serve to make it safer.
It is unfortunate that Do Not Track seems more like politely asking the school bully, 'Please stop taking my lunch money.' But sometimes it's a matter of getting the rule first, and adding teeth to it after the fact. All of this is, however, predicated on making it clear that wanton, indiscriminate data collection is decidedly Not Cool.
It's a first step. A pretty feeble first step, as the story makes clear. But it's a necessary one.
And it goes without saying, don't use bloody Facebook.
For a great many people, that's practically impossible. My employer operates a page where I share administrative duties, but you have to have a personal account in order to be granted admin access. Yes, I know that I'm not compelled to put anything personally incriminating there; I'm just saying that there are social and economic pressures that exist which sometimes make 'bloody Facebook' unavoidable.
So... what's the pre-flip good side of the industry's sway?
It's win/win: Heads I win; tails you lose.
You weren't looking for a downside, were you?
Wow, what an unbelievably horrible story. Everyone: we need to send a message to
It's particularly annoying because it would actually be cool to have a designated place for die-hard slashdotters to talk about employment issues, good and bad places to work, etc. But that wouldn't work for Dice, because we might end up insulting - or worse, telling the truth about prominent companies. So, our community management team [sic] instead brings us absurdly disingenuous stories about how great their clients are, as long as you have the Right Stuff.
Who the eff is EMC???
Well, it was Run EMC originally. A Run DMC tribute group that ended up washing out when the LA gangstas took over the music scene, so they moved on to data storage and virtualisation.
...give as a fuck who this guy says? Community manager?
In Soviet Slashdotistan, community manages you!*
* "It's funny because it's true." - Homer Simpson
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