Comment OK, so it's April 1 & all, but still.... (Score 3) 91
Who can expect anyone to believe they "lost 16 years" of data?
192 consecutive months without backups? Zero offline storage?
Pull the other one: it's got bells on it!
Journal Journal: Is deep thought possible in the Internet Age? 4
Go ahead, make my Christmas! All I want for Christmas is a deep thought and a star to steer by! Apologies to John Masefield, but I'm convinced the Internet (as in Slashdot) is making many people more lonely (and duller), not better, and so...
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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What's your best cure for shallow thinking caused by the WWW? (wikipedia.org) 1
shanen writes: Go ahead, make my Christmas! All I want for Christmas is a deep thought and a star to steer by! Apologies to John Masefield, but I'm convinced the Internet (as in Slashdot) is making many people more lonely (and duller), not better, and so...
I think the best description of the problem I've read is The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. Not exactly his formulation, but in brief I would say that too much information is overwhelming us. Can you recommend other books? Or even URLs for non-shallow articles?
Some approaches towards solutions appear in The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli (based on the German Die Kunst des klaren Denkens : 52 Denkfehler, die Sie besser anderen uberlassen . Again, better references would be greatly appreciated, especially as regards the problem of disaster porn overwhelming journalism...
Seems to be a rather forlorn search for a secret Santa, eh?
I think the best description of the problem I've read is The Shallows by Nicholas Carr. Not exactly his formulation, but in brief I would say that too much information is overwhelming us. Can you recommend other books? Or even URLs for non-shallow articles?
Some approaches towards solutions appear in The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli (based on the German Die Kunst des klaren Denkens : 52 Denkfehler, die Sie besser anderen uberlassen . Again, better references would be greatly appreciated, especially as regards the problem of disaster porn overwhelming journalism...
Seems to be a rather forlorn search for a secret Santa, eh?
Submission + - Court Throws Out Libel Lawsuit Brought by Open Source Security (reason.com)
SlaveToTheGrind writes: As previously discussed on Slashdot, Grsecurity developer Open Source Security sued Bruce Perens for allegedly defamatory statements about Grsecurity's licensing policies. Yesterday, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of the District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the lawsuit, holding that Perens's statements were not libelous:
Mr. Perens counters, and the court agrees, that the blog posts are opinions about a disputed legal issue, are not false assertions of fact, and thus are not actionable libel. . . . Mr. Perens — who is not a lawyer — voiced an opinion about whether the Grsecurity Access Agreement violated the General Public License. No court has addressed the legal issue. Thus, his "opinion" is not a "fact" that can be proven provably false and thus is not actionable as defamation.
While Open Source Security technically has the ability amend its complaint to allege a new legal theory, Judge Beeler said any amendment likely would fall under California's anti-SLAPP statute: "Mr. Perens’s statements were made in a public forum and concern issues of public interest, and the plaintiffs have not shown a probability of prevailing on their claims."
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