Whatever happened to the supposedly libertarian stance of the average Slashdot reader? When it comes to those who make charitable contributions, whatever their motives may be, let's not forget that it's their money to do with as they please. How many people here would support a welfare system that gives away billions of dollars with virtually no oversight on how the money is actually being spent? Oh, wait...
How many rich people do you count as close personal associates? Blanket statements like yours are irritating at best, and idiotic at worst. Let's talk about how much money you donate to charities. No? Fine... then consider this: whether it's a tax write-off or not, charitable foundations depend on the generosity of wealthy patrons to continue their work. That's just how the system is structured. Don't like it? Okay, work to get the tax benefits of charitable contributions eliminated. While you're at it, please explain to those who benefit from the monies donated to medical research, food programs, etc why they don't deserve the help.
I'm no Bill Gates fanboy (kinda hard to be when I refuse to use Microsoft products at home), but your position is ridiculous.
How would you go about determining what type of traffic you're seeing on the network? If you can't weed it out, proposals like this end up causing access to be cut in whole.
Why has nobody brought up the point that you'd effectively be buying your hosting from Microsoft if the buyout goes through? Do you really want to pump more money into that beast?
No, you've got it all wrong. You're going to get unlimited storage and data transfer, at very high speeds. Unfortunately, all your pages will be modified in real time to include a nice little header: "Yahoo Hosting: Powered By Microsoft!!!"
Moderating someone's comment as "flamebait" when the person is merely expressing an opinion that you disagree with is just wrong. There is nothing factually inaccurate about the parent post, and if it gets your panties in a wad that's just too darn bad. For people who claim to vehemently oppose censorship, especially considering the article we're discussing, you're all pretty eager to keep some peoples' comments off the radar.
The two terms are almost interchangeable. The leading alternative to Google in China is Baidu.com (Wikipedia article), which really acts as little more than a state-sanctioned portal.
Quite true. University students, researchers, and hobbyists have been swapping code around since the inception of computing. When I was a kid in the 80s, I used to get all sorts of neat code from bulletin board systems. I suppose this might mark the anniversary of what most people consider formalized open source licensing practices, but it's certainly not the anniversary of open code.
If it's trouble you're looking for, try wearing a t-shirt depicting a really hideous couple, with the caption reading "Keeping It In The Family" around a Wal-Mart in Kentucky. Make sure you get footage; you'll need to sell it to pay for the hospital bills (or funeral).
Bad form to reply to one's own post, but I just had a vivid mental image of Rob Malda loading high powered automatic weapons at his house, laughing maniacally, something about how he'll get them all...
Apparently the "ohnoitsroland" tag on this article has now been replaced with "ohshititsroland". If that's not funny, I don't know what is. I spewed coffee when I read it.
Sorry about my quickdraw response... I'm a little testy at this hour. Actually, submariners are frequently testy:). I should have viewed you original post in a humorous context. Thanks!
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Whatever happened to the supposedly libertarian stance of the average Slashdot reader? When it comes to those who make charitable contributions, whatever their motives may be, let's not forget that it's their money to do with as they please. How many people here would support a welfare system that gives away billions of dollars with virtually no oversight on how the money is actually being spent? Oh, wait...
How many rich people do you count as close personal associates? Blanket statements like yours are irritating at best, and idiotic at worst. Let's talk about how much money you donate to charities. No? Fine... then consider this: whether it's a tax write-off or not, charitable foundations depend on the generosity of wealthy patrons to continue their work. That's just how the system is structured. Don't like it? Okay, work to get the tax benefits of charitable contributions eliminated. While you're at it, please explain to those who benefit from the monies donated to medical research, food programs, etc why they don't deserve the help.
I'm no Bill Gates fanboy (kinda hard to be when I refuse to use Microsoft products at home), but your position is ridiculous.
Can somebody please explain to me how my parent comment about Linus Torvalds was moderated off-topic? Wow.
How would you go about determining what type of traffic you're seeing on the network? If you can't weed it out, proposals like this end up causing access to be cut in whole.
Why has nobody brought up the point that you'd effectively be buying your hosting from Microsoft if the buyout goes through? Do you really want to pump more money into that beast?
No, you've got it all wrong. You're going to get unlimited storage and data transfer, at very high speeds. Unfortunately, all your pages will be modified in real time to include a nice little header: "Yahoo Hosting: Powered By Microsoft!!!"
I've gotta get my sense of humor fixed. Dang thing's been screwed up ever since I enlisted.
That's what he's been doing for the last decade. Giving a few talks here and there doesn't mean 99% of his time isn't still devoted to the kernel.
What's funny is that entering the text "dissident Chinese professor" into MSN Search shows the article as the first result.
Moderating someone's comment as "flamebait" when the person is merely expressing an opinion that you disagree with is just wrong. There is nothing factually inaccurate about the parent post, and if it gets your panties in a wad that's just too darn bad. For people who claim to vehemently oppose censorship, especially considering the article we're discussing, you're all pretty eager to keep some peoples' comments off the radar.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not outright endorsing Qwest. I'm simply saying that within reason, almost anything is better than Comcast.
The two terms are almost interchangeable. The leading alternative to Google in China is Baidu.com (Wikipedia article), which really acts as little more than a state-sanctioned portal.
The summary is the article. Here's the real article, instead of TechDirt's blogvertisement.
The full article is here. Unless you just want to hook this guy up with ad revenue instead of getting the full story, of course.
Quite true. University students, researchers, and hobbyists have been swapping code around since the inception of computing. When I was a kid in the 80s, I used to get all sorts of neat code from bulletin board systems. I suppose this might mark the anniversary of what most people consider formalized open source licensing practices, but it's certainly not the anniversary of open code.
If it's trouble you're looking for, try wearing a t-shirt depicting a really hideous couple, with the caption reading "Keeping It In The Family" around a Wal-Mart in Kentucky. Make sure you get footage; you'll need to sell it to pay for the hospital bills (or funeral).
Bad form to reply to one's own post, but I just had a vivid mental image of Rob Malda loading high powered automatic weapons at his house, laughing maniacally, something about how he'll get them all...
Roland's writeups are always shitty enough that no amount of ignoring on my part will ever make people stop complaining en masse about them.
You're late. But have some trolls anyhow. I hear they're legal now, in all 50 states!
Don't Feed The Trolls
It only empowers them to wield attack lawyers.
We now have a Slashdot article on trolling? Holy crap, this is gonna be bad, really bad. Does this mean all trolls are now on-topic?
I'm sure he's doing all right on ad revenue, considering the fact that ZDNet picked him up.
Apparently the "ohnoitsroland" tag on this article has now been replaced with "ohshititsroland". If that's not funny, I don't know what is. I spewed coffee when I read it.
If you're including Roland in that list of smart people, you haven't been hanging around Slashdot that long, and definitely don't know Roland.
Sorry about my quickdraw response... I'm a little testy at this hour. Actually, submariners are frequently testy :). I should have viewed you original post in a humorous context. Thanks!