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by largesse 14y ago
Nice start, but it needs to come down directly on use of social media to harass a conference participant. It's not strong enough for what she did.
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by largesse 14y ago
In fact, the next day she made a phallus joke herself ( http://imgur.com/7XGY8wB ). This suggests that her motivations may be questionable. When you read her blog, you notice that she felt that she was taking a stand for other women and f
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by largesse 14y ago
Maybe PyCon's Code of Conduct should be amended to deal with bullying use of social media.
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by largesse 14y ago
In the article, he hints at it with his discussion of acceptance, but more directly there have been reports of people dealing better with chronic pain through meditation. Apparently, it comes down to the same thing: your attitude and emotio
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by largesse 14y ago
Moral of the story: Coding mindlessly can be almost as bad as blogging mindlessly.
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by largesse 14y ago
Let me know how that works for you.
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by largesse 14y ago
That's a fine observation, but unless it can be fixed in the aggregate it's still part of the intractability of the problem. Or (more directly), you're not offering a solution, you're making a complaint.
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by largesse 14y ago
In divorce, there is a settlement agreement. Once you are locked in no one is looking at the cost of living.
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by largesse 14y ago
I know. I didn't know what to make of that one either.
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by largesse 14y ago
Pwned? You really think those problems are going to be solved in the near term? Given the state of our government?
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by largesse 14y ago
He's talking about programmer productivity per line of code, not machine efficiency.
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by largesse 14y ago
If the cost of those and impact of taxation varied at the same time and the same degree that would be no problem. But that has never happened. Given the state of our governmental problem-solving ability in the US all those numbers can do i
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by largesse 14y ago
You know, I love these posts calling for high taxation by relatively young people who are just starting their careers. Wait until you have kids about to go to college or, if you are unlucky, alimony and child-support obligations. Or major
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by largesse 14y ago
Canada has a very different culture despite its proximity to the US. You can't even compare the two. In my experience, people in the US are taught to feel that they are losers if they don't achieve a certain amount (or basically get what th
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by largesse 14y ago
It could be but I have a swimming pool, kitchen knives, and stairs also so it isn't a high priority. Oh, and my bath mat. I'm very worried about my bath mat.
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by largesse 14y ago
Nice story, but it's a bit like management fad books. Experiences of a sample size of one extrapolated to the status of general truth.
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by largesse 14y ago
I have several friends who've defended themselves with guns during a home invasion. It does happen.
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by largesse 14y ago
You don't get to decide the purpose of all guns. Mine are for target shooting.
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by largesse 14y ago
Nice, but the DMCA needs more reform than that. There is a severe imbalance in the fact that parties who feel that they have been infringed can serve financially disastrous take-downs that must be complied with immediately. The only recours
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by largesse 14y ago
Could a site have a policy where if you issue a DMCA takedown for something on the site they drop your content and ban you? It's sort of like the logic of GPL.
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by largesse 14y ago
Apparently, the notices say "under penalty of perjury", but at the very least you should be able to sue abusers civilly. I'm just not sure that is a great recourse for open source. DMCA needs reform on this. There needs to be scale of fines
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by largesse 14y ago
Nope, I think this is just a legal compliance issue.
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by largesse 14y ago
I came here to post that I felt there must be some legal reason for the change. I don't remember MS being this responsive to press about their licensing.
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by largesse 14y ago
What are the penalties for a false DMCA claim?
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by largesse 14y ago
It's funny that when people enter into the realm of hypotheticals they never think about how a laptop or tablet can put a good sized dent in someone's head. The thing that keeps airplanes safe is the miniscule number of bad actors. That's a
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by largesse 14y ago
Sometimes I think this guy just wants to be controversial.
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by largesse 14y ago
It's odd about technology. The more pervasive it becomes before it legislators are aware of it, the harder it is to crack down upon. I don't know what the legal challenges will be to the widespread use of BitCoin in commerce, but I'm sure t
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by largesse 14y ago
I don't buy the lawmaker's 'fairness' argument either. True, cyclists do use streets but so do automobile passengers yet no one is floating the idea of applying a tax to them. Many revenue sources have this quality. Property taxes foot the
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by largesse 14y ago
Not the best case for the original issue then.
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by largesse 14y ago
Politicians don't do science well, and they don't listen to people who do. The prognosis is bad.

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