sfmarco - Slashdot User

Comment what does regret mean? (Score 1) 145

by sfmarco on Monday April 18, 2011 @09:50AM (#35855528) Attached to: Google Teaches Computers "Regret"

Son to dad: what does regret mean?
Dad: well son, the funny thing about regret is that it is better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you have not done.
And if you see your mom this weekend tell her ..

Buthole Surfers.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Facebook Archiving

Submitted by Stenchwarrior on Thursday March 03, 2011 @09:01AM

Stenchwarrior writes: I was in the car with my wife and 15 year old daughter this morning talking about the future of Facebook and how it's likely that they will not be around forever (or at least not at the same capacity as now) and my daughter asked "Well, what's going to happen to all of my pictures?"...it never occurred to her to that Facebook might not be around someday and all of those thousands of photos that she's uploaded might someday be gone. So this is what I ask the good people at Slashdot: What's a good way to preserve all of those memories? Many devices nowadays have direct access to the Internet and even to Facebook and once the images are uploaded they are eventually deleted to make room for more. How do we make sure we can access or backup those files in case Zuckerberg decides to sell out to Google or Microsoft and they do away with everyone's profiles?

Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts 428

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 07, 2010 @01:58PM from the check-your-family-status dept.

Most kids hate having their parents join in on a discussion on Facebook, but one 16-year-old in Arkansas hates it so much he has filed suit against his mother, charging her with harassment. From the article: "An Arkadelphia mother is charged with harassment for making entries on her son's Facebook page. Denise New's 16-year-old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no-contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting." Seems like he could just unfriend her.

Comment Re:Keep fighting, but be realistic (Score 2, Insightful) 573

by sfmarco on Thursday May 22, 2008 @09:14AM (#23504792) Attached to: Video Game Actors Say They Don't Get Their Due

I actually never understood why actors are sharing profits. How did this ever happen? It's not that the actors are investing a large sum of money.

Even actors in a commercial is getting a bonus every time a commercial is shown! It's not that they did not get paid initially.

I can even take it to the recent writers strike. When I write code for a software company, should I get a recurring income on every copy of the software sold?

So we see these unions are very powerful. Anybody up to start the Software Programmers Union and squeeze some profits for 'our people'?

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