Yeah, I recall in the story about the pull from iTunes there were number of posts about how now it's "easier to steal," but not only can you get them from their own website, but you can purchase the DVD's. Sure, waiting for DVD's means you won't be able to see them the second they come out, but since when were you entitled to that right, anyway? Especially in light of their availability online through legal means.
The coolest part of the project is a tool called Writeprint, which 'automatically extracts thousands of multilingual, structural, and semantic features to determine who is creating "anonymous" content' with an accuracy of 95%, according to the release."
70% huh? You know, 87.395% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Sure, coworkers may do it, but do you really think that makes it alright? Not saying I have anything personally against porn, but it still doesn't make it alright. I don't see why it's so hard to understand that from the perspective of the company, they're paying you to do work, nothing else, and certainly not to look at porn.
The ethical dilemma is that you shouldn't, ethically, be invading someone's privacy.
We're assuming, of course, that the information was gained through means not allowed by company policy, and that you were just snooping. This is why police have to get warrants to bust into peoples houses and all that.
Sure, it could be considered unethical to invade one's "privacy" at work by abusing IT privileges, assuming it's done outside of company policy, but that's just the thing...it's only "privacy," not privacy. Why would you be doing anything personal on company time? The answer is, you shouldn't. Getting in trouble for it is an assumed risk.
As a Best Buy employee, I take every opportunity to switch those stickers around on various products. We were one of the stores that got some macbooks to display in store, and while setting the display, I slapped one on it by the keyboard.
The computer sales reps tried to explain it away, saying it's x86 compatible and everything, lol.
So you're fine with allowing harmful content onto your computer for the sake of the site owner? Wow, very altruistic of you....I really wouldn't like to see how long it takes your computer to boot, though.
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Yeah, I recall in the story about the pull from iTunes there were number of posts about how now it's "easier to steal," but not only can you get them from their own website, but you can purchase the DVD's. Sure, waiting for DVD's means you won't be able to see them the second they come out, but since when were you entitled to that right, anyway? Especially in light of their availability online through legal means.
There's going to be a lot of people with analog TV's for a damn long time, and waiting for everyone to switch is just not feasible.
Hopefully they don't pull the date back too long. Seems like we're going to be the last to switch as it stands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_television#Digital_switchover
Those are some nice fair use rights you got there...Be a shame if anything happened to 'em.
In Soviet Russia, Harry Potter bullies you!
Oh come on, who modded this as interesting? The pun is too much.
The coolest part of the project is a tool called Writeprint, which 'automatically extracts thousands of multilingual, structural, and semantic features to determine who is creating "anonymous" content' with an accuracy of 95%, according to the release."
Oh no, looks like 4chan's in trouble!
70% huh? You know, 87.395% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Sure, coworkers may do it, but do you really think that makes it alright? Not saying I have anything personally against porn, but it still doesn't make it alright. I don't see why it's so hard to understand that from the perspective of the company, they're paying you to do work, nothing else, and certainly not to look at porn.
Do you expect to be able to look at porn while at work because of your company's privacy policy? I'm sorry you're so naive.
The ethical dilemma is that you shouldn't, ethically, be invading someone's privacy.
We're assuming, of course, that the information was gained through means not allowed by company policy, and that you were just snooping. This is why police have to get warrants to bust into peoples houses and all that.
Sure, it could be considered unethical to invade one's "privacy" at work by abusing IT privileges, assuming it's done outside of company policy, but that's just the thing...it's only "privacy," not privacy. Why would you be doing anything personal on company time? The answer is, you shouldn't. Getting in trouble for it is an assumed risk.
It's news because it was on G4 yesterday.
A bunch of geeks eventually running hardware at thousands of degrees in their cluttered, and probably somehow very flammable, rooms.
As a Best Buy employee, I take every opportunity to switch those stickers around on various products. We were one of the stores that got some macbooks to display in store, and while setting the display, I slapped one on it by the keyboard.
The computer sales reps tried to explain it away, saying it's x86 compatible and everything, lol.
$3 a titty?! Jesus, what am I paying for, their implants?
Yeah, but the porn I fill it up with is free.
Maybe they'll have to fight over your box, and it'll be...black and blue! I'll be here all week folks.
p2p, huh? Stealing minutes from the phone company now! When will those kids ever learn?!
So you're fine with allowing harmful content onto your computer for the sake of the site owner? Wow, very altruistic of you. ...I really wouldn't like to see how long it takes your computer to boot, though.
I wonder if blinking during them is a misdemeanor?
Hey! My mother got hosting from them, you insensitive clod!
You shouldn't underestimate /.'s influence. If you keep saying we have too many, there's gonna be some suicide pact among engineers.