I agree the weekly strips aren't the quality they used to be (I still love the sunday 'topical' comic), but I don't understand the big deal with him trying to make money.
Besides, I never even heard of ufmedia until you pointed it out. I just read the strips.
He makes his ENTIRE collection of comics available freely over the net. Not free enough for you? Geeze who cares if he tries to make a little money on the side for his work?
I guess some whiners will never be happy though...
it'd be interesting if such a ruling helped discourage hard-drive searching by software which searches for "undesirable" content without your consent or knowledge.
Yeah right. eBay is a big company with money. Even more, they have a little 'e' at the begining of their name.
Are we (as individules) big conpanies? No. So why on earth would you think the law would protect us?
What is a good video card to get if you don't want to spend a lot of money, don't play games, but still want decent graphics, and want it to work well with X.
It seems we focus so much on high end, game orientated cards, when I imagine a good many of us would be happy with a well supported mid range card.
They are, their actions up to this point have proven that. But they are spoiled children with money and power. A scary combo.
Finkployd
Re:Article Moderation: -1, Redundant
on
At The Crossroads
·
· Score: 1
No one made you read it. Certainly no one made you comment on it.
That is the great thing about this medium, you can just skip over stuff you are not interested in.
Finkployd
Re:Jon, corporations are not the danger
on
At The Crossroads
·
· Score: 2
Perhaps the danger is not directly from companies, since the government's have the power.
and Power corrupts
Money buys corrupt power
Corporations have the money
So indirectly, yes corporation can (and do) directly manipulate government. Many a senator and congressman/woman have been bought by companies to do their bidding.
The laws that do not respect were pushed through on behalf of the corporations. Do you think the government came up with the idea of the DMCA all by themselves?
I agree that government is also to blame for eroding our rights, but companies are trying just as hard, and they can accompolish much working through the existing government to the same end.
Assuming that something happened to severly piss off the population, there could be a sucessful revolt. Well over 50% of the population has firearms and depending on what triggered the revolt, I'd imagine most of the armed forces would fight on the people's side.
What makes us powerless peasants now is that we just blindly accept whatever the government tell us.
Ok, let's look at that example. Historically on Slashdot (and Chips N Dips before it) the discussions were supposed to surround the TOPIC that the story contained. Before the trolls hit, there was no problem and no moderation was required. Now we have people who post completly offtopic junk and and some (most) of us would like to be able to only read the relevant posts. Along comes moderation and we can once again do that.
Back to your post. I don't think that it was moded down because it indirectly attacked slashdot, I think it was moded down because it was offtopic, and seemingly pointless. Who cares if they fixed the spelling on their page? Apparently nobody, since it was not moded up, and was moded down instead. I'm glad, since when I want to read comments and participate in discussion revelant to the topic at hand, I don't want to have to filter through whiny complaints about slashdot any more than I want to filter out hot grits posts.
Remember it's the users who are the moderators, not some brainwashed army of little CmdrTacos. Why you thought that everyone would be interested in slashdot correcting their spelling (so much that you posted it +2) is beyond me, but you were apearently wrong.
A Systems Programmer doesn't actually write much code. A Systems Programmer (at least in the mainframe field) is one who designs and maintains a mainframe system (excuse me, "enterprise computing" system). As a newbie in this field, I can tell you that the real motivation for me was not money (although it's nice to eat) but a desire to learn a system that not many others know. Yes, anyone can build a computer from parts, but how many can configure CHPID between some 30 pieces of hardware (and no S/390 Hardware Wizard exists!)
For me it's nice to get into a huge world that normally exists quietly in the background, running the essential computing services for huge companies.
Finkployd
Re:The new century is in for some nastiness
on
Fahrenheit 451
·
· Score: 1
Could you give some examples of where this has happend? The only times I can think of that a non-obvious-troll post has been moded down are when they are either a) factualy wrong or b) illerate flames.
I've seen plenty of +5 comments in a row that completly contradict each other in opinion.
Having spent plently of time browsing at -1, I've come to believe that moderation not only works, but is essential here. I would hate to have to wade through the mass of imature attention seekers to read the intelligent posts.
Another thing to remember is that everyone on slashdot has to right to speak. No posts have been deleted (even under threat of Microsoft), but nobody has a right to be heard. If I want to filter out noise, I have that right.
ask your banking friends how many cases of internet credit card fraud they have seen, mine have all answered none
The only credit card fraud I've ever seen happend to me, and it wasn't even a result of a purchase over the internet (which I do alot)
It was Damark, a pissant mail order company that decided to sigh me up for some stupid travel service after I told their telemarketers "no" at least 5 times. Appearently this is standard business practice for them.
Oddly enough, the Internet companies I've dealt with seem much more professional (and trustworthy) than traditional mail order companies.
I never thought of it that way. Two things can come of this: 1 - People who do not historically support the second amendment may find a reason to do so.
2 - The government's war on the second amendment will be stepped up, since they could kill two birds with one stone. It would sure be a big step in making us into powerless peasants.
'But the European Union does not make their policies dependent on the opinion of the United States.'
First up, the opinion of the United States and the opinion of the United States Federal Government tend to differ, I would imagine. With regard to privacy issues, the government has a long history of going against public opinion.
While I like this from a crypto standpoint, I can't help but wonder why the sudden change in policy. It most likely was not due to any kind of public support of crypto, since by and large, the public does not care about this issue.
I'm guessing that corporations have been pushing for this and exerting power to make this happen. While I'm glad they did, it is another example of money buying policy (and for once, not in the US). What happens when these companies exert their influence for the purpose of making the DMCA an international law?
Granted, this is all conjuncture on my part. This story doesn't do into enough detail for me to support these guesses. But given recent events, I still find this pretty scary.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree the weekly strips aren't the quality they used to be (I still love the sunday 'topical' comic), but I don't understand the big deal with him trying to make money.
Besides, I never even heard of ufmedia until you pointed it out. I just read the strips.
Finkployd
I haven't seen a lot of tennis players sniffing their balls
I play tennis, but I'm not anywhere near that flexible...
-1: Tasteless Joke
Finkployd
Ever see the people who race little hondas
:)
I think most people would be blown on their ass if they knew what a little honda civic can do after some work with common tools
Finkployd - proud (modified) civic owner
He makes his ENTIRE collection of comics available freely over the net. Not free enough for you? Geeze who cares if he tries to make a little money on the side for his work?
I guess some whiners will never be happy though...
Finkployd
Oh that's interesting.
I've never heard of that.
Thanks
Finkployd
Accident. I usually do for this kind of thing. I really wish the +1 was NOT the default.
It's moded down anyway, so all is good.
Finkployd
it'd be interesting if such a ruling helped discourage hard-drive searching by software which searches for "undesirable" content without your consent or knowledge.
Yeah right.
eBay is a big company with money. Even more, they have a little 'e' at the begining of their name.
Are we (as individules) big conpanies? No.
So why on earth would you think the law would protect us?
Finkployd
What is a good video card to get if you don't want to spend a lot of money, don't play games, but still want decent graphics, and want it to work well with X.
It seems we focus so much on high end, game orientated cards, when I imagine a good many of us would be happy with a well supported mid range card.
Finkployd
They sound like spoiled children
They are, their actions up to this point have proven that. But they are spoiled children with money and power. A scary combo.
Finkployd
No one made you read it. Certainly no one made you comment on it.
That is the great thing about this medium, you can just skip over stuff you are not interested in.
Finkployd
Perhaps the danger is not directly from companies, since the government's have the power.
and Power corrupts
Money buys corrupt power
Corporations have the money
So indirectly, yes corporation can (and do) directly manipulate government. Many a senator and congressman/woman have been bought by companies to do their bidding.
The laws that do not respect were pushed through on behalf of the corporations. Do you think the government came up with the idea of the DMCA all by themselves?
I agree that government is also to blame for eroding our rights, but companies are trying just as hard, and they can accompolish much working through the existing government to the same end.
Finkployd
Thay have since fixed this. Nevermind.
Anyone notice the date stamp on the new files is may 25, 1999? (on the ftp.gnome.org site?)
Finkployd
who knows, IBM might even bring back OS/2 for the occasion.
OS/2 is dead (officially, again)
http://thebusiness.vnunet.com/print/1101410
Finkployd
Assuming that something happened to severly piss off the population, there could be a sucessful revolt. Well over 50% of the population has firearms and depending on what triggered the revolt, I'd imagine most of the armed forces would fight on the people's side.
What makes us powerless peasants now is that we just blindly accept whatever the government tell us.
Finkployd
My God, I never thought of that! (hits head over and over "I'm so stupid!")
/. reader some money :)
Thanks, you saved a poor
Finkployd
Ok, let's look at that example. Historically on Slashdot (and Chips N Dips before it) the discussions were supposed to surround the TOPIC that the story contained. Before the trolls hit, there was no problem and no moderation was required. Now we have people who post completly offtopic junk and and some (most) of us would like to be able to only read the relevant posts. Along comes moderation and we can once again do that.
Back to your post. I don't think that it was moded down because it indirectly attacked slashdot, I think it was moded down because it was offtopic, and seemingly pointless. Who cares if they fixed the spelling on their page? Apparently nobody, since it was not moded up, and was moded down instead. I'm glad, since when I want to read comments and participate in discussion revelant to the topic at hand, I don't want to have to filter through whiny complaints about slashdot any more than I want to filter out hot grits posts.
Remember it's the users who are the moderators, not some brainwashed army of little CmdrTacos. Why you thought that everyone would be interested in slashdot correcting their spelling (so much that you posted it +2) is beyond me, but you were apearently wrong.
Finkployd
A Systems Programmer doesn't actually write much code. A Systems Programmer (at least in the mainframe field) is one who designs and maintains a mainframe system (excuse me, "enterprise computing" system). As a newbie in this field, I can tell you that the real motivation for me was not money (although it's nice to eat) but a desire to learn a system that not many others know. Yes, anyone can build a computer from parts, but how many can configure CHPID between some 30 pieces of hardware (and no S/390 Hardware Wizard exists!)
For me it's nice to get into a huge world that normally exists quietly in the background, running the essential computing services for huge companies.
Finkployd
We're losing the DeCSS battle on the DVD front.
I still have at least 10 mirrors up.
Finkployd
Could you give some examples of where this has happend? The only times I can think of that a non-obvious-troll post has been moded down are when they are either a) factualy wrong or b) illerate flames.
I've seen plenty of +5 comments in a row that completly contradict each other in opinion.
Having spent plently of time browsing at -1, I've come to believe that moderation not only works, but is essential here. I would hate to have to wade through the mass of imature attention seekers to read the intelligent posts.
Another thing to remember is that everyone on slashdot has to right to speak. No posts have been deleted (even under threat of Microsoft), but nobody has a right to be heard. If I want to filter out noise, I have that right.
Finkployd
Here's hoping they never catch up :)
Finkployd
ask your banking friends how many cases of internet credit card fraud they have seen, mine have all answered none
The only credit card fraud I've ever seen happend to me, and it wasn't even a result of a purchase over the internet (which I do alot)
It was Damark, a pissant mail order company that decided to sigh me up for some stupid travel service after I told their telemarketers "no" at least 5 times. Appearently this is standard business practice for them.
Oddly enough, the Internet companies I've dealt with seem much more professional (and trustworthy) than traditional mail order companies.
Finkployd
Hehe
I never thought of it that way. Two things can come of this:
1 - People who do not historically support the second amendment may find a reason to do so.
2 - The government's war on the second amendment will be stepped up, since they could kill two birds with one stone. It would sure be a big step in making us into powerless peasants.
Finkployd
If you try to stop someone from doing something, and they do it anyway, you generally get pissed.
While there was no press statement from the Whitehouse with the phrase "we are pissed" in it, it think it is a resonable assertion to make.
Finkployd
'But the European Union does not make their policies dependent on the opinion of the United States.'
First up, the opinion of the United States and the opinion of the United States Federal Government tend to differ, I would imagine. With regard to privacy issues, the government has a long history of going against public opinion.
While I like this from a crypto standpoint, I can't help but wonder why the sudden change in policy. It most likely was not due to any kind of public support of crypto, since by and large, the public does not care about this issue.
I'm guessing that corporations have been pushing for this and exerting power to make this happen. While I'm glad they did, it is another example of money buying policy (and for once, not in the US). What happens when these companies exert their influence for the purpose of making the DMCA an international law?
Granted, this is all conjuncture on my part. This story doesn't do into enough detail for me to support these guesses. But given recent events, I still find this pretty scary.
Finkployd