Great, more lock-in! Now your hosting provider or ISP has got you by the balls, because if you move you lose all the links, bookmarks, etc that point to your website.
Why? What possible purpose would that have that wouldn't be massively counteracted by losing links, which are the cornerstone of the web (it's called hypertext for a reason!) ?
Phone numbers solve a completely different use case. Applying the same solution to them makes absolutely no sense.
The fact that one motorcyclist getting caught is deemed an event just demonstrates how different it actually is. If detectors of cellphone users were widespread there, that would happen so often that it wouldn't make sense to talk about particular events but only about statistics.
take your hourly rate and times it by how much you're spending researching homebrew solutions and then actually getting something to work to your satisfaction.
Where do you people work where you can decide for yourselves that you'll just spend a couple more hours working and charge for it? Most people have a fixed salary, possible with overtime if it's needed, but that's it. Their hours outside of their fixed working time are probably worth a pittance.
Now, I fully understand that paying money to save time makes perfect sense, but that's because I value my leisure, not because it makes economical sense.
There's a huge difference between maybe having a conversation reported and systematic recording of many conversations. Just like there's a difference between a cop happening to see your face in the street and full blown constant CCTV surveillance.
Do you suppose when your ancestors up through the last 20 years earned a living, they were worried about down-time, checking in, fulfillment, or any of that other stuff? Or do you suppose maybe they were more concerned about earning a living to support their family?
First off, I'm not "worried" about that stuff, so that's a nice big strawman. Second, while I'm sure one* of my grandfathers was indeed worried about supporting his family, he had more socializing time at work than me, because - guess what - they're not incompatible, and they can actually help each other, so that's a big fat red herring. Thirdly, I don't have a family to support, so it'd be kind'a stupid to be worrying about that, wouldn't it?
Fourth, my grandparents actually went on strikes, which I'm pretty sure their bosses disliked more than using Facebook. But that's because they were subservient rats.
What you think makes you more productive isnt really relevant.
Relevant to what? To a Slashdot thread where we're supposed to comment? Pretty sure "what I think" is the only thing relevant.
Unless your company has specific policies allowing employee downtime during work hours, Im guessing your boss would be less than pleased about your sense of entitlement to using facebook for 1/6th of the work day.
You should guess again, because you're wrong.
Firstly, I don't have a Facebook account.
Secondly, my bosses have no problem with the fact that I don't spend every working second doing "work stuff", because 1) they don't either, 2) they know I get shit done, 3) I more than "repay" them by staying the 10th or 11th hour if it's needed. Essentially, they trust me.
So I'm sorry if you are a slave to your company, but I'm not, and my opinion stands.
* The other had his own business, so while he was worried too, this doesn't apply to him.
Seems like a policy designed to have lots of false positives and be completely useless against actual attempts at evading it. You can use almost anything to send data, even Google Translate. Unless you check each and every HTTP request, such protection is hardly effective.
Spending 10 minutes of every hour on Facebook probably makes them more productive workers as a whole; the attitude that you have to be working every second from clocking in to clocking out is not only extremely selfish, but also completely stupid since it's bad for the company too.
Criminals as in gang member, don't. Criminals as in drunken wife beater who one day shoots his wife do.
The flaw in gun owners is that they see the world in blank and white, with the law-abiding beacons of righteousness on one side and the tattoo ridden coke pushing gang bangers on the other.
In reality, there's plenty of Joes just one more drink away from becoming news for the worst reasons.
You're all fucking idiots for falling for an obvious troll like parent. "We liberal gun-grabbers"? Do you really think anyone would say this in a serious manner?
It's Gonzalez, but besides that, a single ruling on a very different case hardly proves anything.
The bitter truth is that sites like megaupload make it prohibitively expensive to run any content creation business, especially a small unfunded startup can be sunk with a swish. Usually by tha competition too.
Not everything can be free. Not everything can be ad supported, and you cant sell consulting on everything.
I know many content distributors are dinosaurs with idiotic demands, I am not arguing their case, but megaupload's reward programs for piracy and the obscene scale of the operation and money that was being turned around are hardly a fair file sharing service.
I disagree, and so do some studies. But in any case, that's irrelevant to whether Megaupload will be convicted of involvement in illegal activity.
What involvement in illegal activity? Megaupload is still (legally) innocent. You can only sue them for that if they're found guilty, which can take a while, if it ever happens.
OK, with the caveats that I'm not affiliated and I've owned the VPS for less than a month, so it's not my fault if they fuck up;)
Oh, and it only has 7GB of disk. It's enough for me since I delete the stuff constantly (and with that upload speed, I always get a ratio greater than 3), but it's limited. You can get 10GB more, but it's $3.7 per month - more than a new VPS!
So yeah, if you can live with that, they seem fine. If not, check http://www.lowendbox.com/ that's where I found them.
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Great, more lock-in! Now your hosting provider or ISP has got you by the balls, because if you move you lose all the links, bookmarks, etc that point to your website.
I'm a citizen of two countries. Under what TLD should I register my personal domain?
Why? What possible purpose would that have that wouldn't be massively counteracted by losing links, which are the cornerstone of the web (it's called hypertext for a reason!) ?
Phone numbers solve a completely different use case. Applying the same solution to them makes absolutely no sense.
Remember? Here's a nickel, kid. Go get yourself a decent email client.
The fact that one motorcyclist getting caught is deemed an event just demonstrates how different it actually is. If detectors of cellphone users were widespread there, that would happen so often that it wouldn't make sense to talk about particular events but only about statistics.
take your hourly rate and times it by how much you're spending researching homebrew solutions and then actually getting something to work to your satisfaction.
Where do you people work where you can decide for yourselves that you'll just spend a couple more hours working and charge for it? Most people have a fixed salary, possible with overtime if it's needed, but that's it. Their hours outside of their fixed working time are probably worth a pittance.
Now, I fully understand that paying money to save time makes perfect sense, but that's because I value my leisure, not because it makes economical sense.
Loading from a canonical source means the client is much more likely to have it in cache and skip the whole download. How the fuck is that retarded?
And those rules can be selfish and stupid. I never said you should try to subvert them. You're arguing against a strawman.
There's a huge difference between maybe having a conversation reported and systematic recording of many conversations. Just like there's a difference between a cop happening to see your face in the street and full blown constant CCTV surveillance.
Uh, you're comparing a platform (.NET) to a language (Java); it doesn't quite work that way.
weren't subservient rats.
Fuck me for not previewing.
Do you suppose when your ancestors up through the last 20 years earned a living, they were worried about down-time, checking in, fulfillment, or any of that other stuff? Or do you suppose maybe they were more concerned about earning a living to support their family?
First off, I'm not "worried" about that stuff, so that's a nice big strawman. Second, while I'm sure one* of my grandfathers was indeed worried about supporting his family, he had more socializing time at work than me, because - guess what - they're not incompatible, and they can actually help each other, so that's a big fat red herring. Thirdly, I don't have a family to support, so it'd be kind'a stupid to be worrying about that, wouldn't it?
Fourth, my grandparents actually went on strikes, which I'm pretty sure their bosses disliked more than using Facebook. But that's because they were subservient rats.
What you think makes you more productive isnt really relevant.
Relevant to what? To a Slashdot thread where we're supposed to comment? Pretty sure "what I think" is the only thing relevant.
Unless your company has specific policies allowing employee downtime during work hours, Im guessing your boss would be less than pleased about your sense of entitlement to using facebook for 1/6th of the work day.
You should guess again, because you're wrong.
Firstly, I don't have a Facebook account.
Secondly, my bosses have no problem with the fact that I don't spend every working second doing "work stuff", because 1) they don't either, 2) they know I get shit done, 3) I more than "repay" them by staying the 10th or 11th hour if it's needed. Essentially, they trust me.
So I'm sorry if you are a slave to your company, but I'm not, and my opinion stands.
* The other had his own business, so while he was worried too, this doesn't apply to him.
Seems like a policy designed to have lots of false positives and be completely useless against actual attempts at evading it. You can use almost anything to send data, even Google Translate. Unless you check each and every HTTP request, such protection is hardly effective.
Spending 10 minutes of every hour on Facebook probably makes them more productive workers as a whole; the attitude that you have to be working every second from clocking in to clocking out is not only extremely selfish, but also completely stupid since it's bad for the company too.
How does that work nowadays when they can shoot you through the wall where you're baiting them?
Criminals as in gang member, don't. Criminals as in drunken wife beater who one day shoots his wife do.
The flaw in gun owners is that they see the world in blank and white, with the law-abiding beacons of righteousness on one side and the tattoo ridden coke pushing gang bangers on the other.
In reality, there's plenty of Joes just one more drink away from becoming news for the worst reasons.
You're all fucking idiots for falling for an obvious troll like parent. "We liberal gun-grabbers"? Do you really think anyone would say this in a serious manner?
look up Judge Irma Gonsales in Perfect 10 vs MU
It's Gonzalez, but besides that, a single ruling on a very different case hardly proves anything.
The bitter truth is that sites like megaupload make it prohibitively expensive to run any content creation business, especially a small unfunded startup can be sunk with a swish. Usually by tha competition too.
Not everything can be free. Not everything can be ad supported, and you cant sell consulting on everything.
I know many content distributors are dinosaurs with idiotic demands, I am not arguing their case, but megaupload's reward programs for piracy and the obscene scale of the operation and money that was being turned around are hardly a fair file sharing service.
I disagree, and so do some studies. But in any case, that's irrelevant to whether Megaupload will be convicted of involvement in illegal activity.
What involvement in illegal activity? Megaupload is still (legally) innocent. You can only sue them for that if they're found guilty, which can take a while, if it ever happens.
And it is. Of course, it shouldn't be the only place where you store your data, but then again, nothing should.
OK, with the caveats that I'm not affiliated and I've owned the VPS for less than a month, so it's not my fault if they fuck up ;)
Oh, and it only has 7GB of disk. It's enough for me since I delete the stuff constantly (and with that upload speed, I always get a ratio greater than 3), but it's limited.
You can get 10GB more, but it's $3.7 per month - more than a new VPS!
So yeah, if you can live with that, they seem fine. If not, check http://www.lowendbox.com/ that's where I found them.
Finally, Netherlands for 7â ($8.7) per 3 months: https://clients.inceptionhosting.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=3
Because being gay makes you infertile and being straight forces you to breed?
Just go away, ignorant buffoon.
He would only have "robbed" if he had killed fetuses or infants.
He "robbed" the world much like you are robbing me by not giving me all your money.
Allergies are usually caused by dust mites, which thrive on the cozy environment of made beds: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4181629.stm
Frankly, I find the naming issue irrelevant; my point is that Linux is forever tied to GNU regardless of what you call it.
By the way, I haven't seen FreeBSD on Linux, but I'd like to try Plan9/Linux: http://www.glendix.org/