>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?
I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.
Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.
What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.
Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.
This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.
I haven't posted a journal here in almost three years, because I couldn't find the button to start a new entry.
So... hi, Slashdot. I used to be really active here, but now I mostly lurk and read. I've missed you.
Yeah, and you can use a multimeter and wire your iPod to a standard USB port. That doesn't make it USB-compatible.
Are you trying to say that Apple is using a USB plug, but it's not USB-compatible? I'd love to hear the details.
What does the Netflix streaming service have? A brand name and some servers. That's it.
Technically, since they use Amazon for servers, all they really have is a brand, but that's a bit beside the point.
I like to think of Netflix as the HBO of streaming. They simply provide a single interface to get access to a mix of old and new content of varying quality. They will have competitors (maybe Amazon will become the Showtime of streaming), and there's nothing keeping the studios from going direct to the viewers (FX, or DisneyChannel).
But the studios still need Netflix for revenue the same way Disney still sells movies to Stars even though they could easily put them on the Disney Channel. Some people will only pay for one or two subscription sources, and if Netflix is still on the top of everyone's list, then the studios will continue to license them movies.
The general consensus here seems to be: "Apple didn't invent any new features, therefore the iPhone was not innovative". Something I don't get about that: If all this stuff had been around for decades, and it was so obvious, why couldn't I buy an iPhone/Android-like device in the 90s? Why was Microsoft selling crap like the iPaq? Why were so many people using a roller ball to navigate a mouse pointer around on a blackberry? Palm even understood that the OS had to be written from the ground up as a mobile OS, but failed to see where the market really was.
Sure it was all "possible"; but no one did it, because no one had the vision to put it all together this way.
Netflix only spent $800m on streaming rights this year, and neither company in this deal has disclosed the numbers. I suspect the number slashdot is quoting here is bullshit.
Its strange to me so many people still fall for that misdirection. The very first time he said 'the web is the development platform for the iphone' he knew he would be releasing a sdk eventually. People act as if he changed his mind, and Apple created cocoa touch, the sdk and the enhancements to xcode in a weekend.
You wrongly assume most iPhone owners are having antenna issues, and that most iPhone owners have heard that Steve Jobs quote so you can associate satisfied users who want an upgrade with member of religious groups... and moderators decided that rather than trolling, you're saying something insightful?
Way to go slashdot moderators.
Not only have I never met anyone who bought an Apple product to appear 'well off'. I know a couple of people who have passed on Apple products because they don't want to seem like they're trying to show off.
After that, the "IT guy" can use detailed instructions available on the 'net and create an installer/boot DVD or USB thumbdrive. It's easy as that!
It's even easier than that if you don't need to do a clean install. The app store just downloads the installer to the Applications directory. From there, you can copy it off to a network drive and run it from any Snow Leopard machine. No bootable media required.
...if someone offers you a bitcoin what exactly is the harm in accepting it?
"Bitcoin raises untested legal concerns related to securities law, the Stamp Payments Act, tax evasion, consumer protection and money laundering, among others. And that’s just in the U.S."
you mean like Windows; which died and was replaced by OS2?
Nice post. 1 minor nitpick though. According to Google finance, Apple did pay a dividend up until the mid 90s.
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