For someone from a community that has a healthy scepticism to all things published both on- and offline, the average slashdot reader appears to have an unshakable faith in snopes.com
I've heard that after reading that article, Steve Ballmer has been throwing another chair around the office, claiming that they "must close the insecurity gap with Open Source"
So they put a couple of DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS on it (freshly pulled of that Vista thingy), in the hope to have IE once again become market leader in security flaws.
You'd think so, and many of us know this fact and see this as an excellent reason to oppose this scheme. Our government however, consists of people who only know something if it is taught in business school or in the Bible, and most of them have a tenuous grip on those subjects.
Just shout 'Terrorists' or 'Child Abuse' and the rest of the country will follow blindly.
That is precisely what has happened here. Partly because of cuts in funding and related lack of staff and partly because of gross incompetence by the social workers concerned, these children were passed off from agency to agency with no one taking responsability. In the subsequent inquiry no blame was apportioned (which is usual in these cases) and no one even lost their job for something that would be considered criminal negligence in many other countries. Social workers still are not accountable for their actions, one reason being given was the fear that it would be difficult to get competent staff if they were to be held accountable for their action or inaction (I wish I were joking, but I'm not.)
This is a mere cosmetic patch to cover a crumbling system, and a nice pretext for a united database for all people.
It is easy to subject children to this, and when they grow up, we'll just keep the records and pretty soon everyone will be accounted for.
In the business world it is the responsibility of the newcomer, not the existing business, to conduct a name search when launching a new product or service, so as to avoide disputes like the one described here.
Come on, you can't expect a simple web company like Google to know about searching.
I think in the end you're probably better off just using the telephone
--krrrr click--Thank you for calling FEMA, we regret to inform you that since you're using a Nokia mobile phone, we cannot connect you to an operator, please switch to a Motorola cellphone to make full use of our services. -bzzz- Have a nice day. --bleep--
What we really want is SlashFlash! With animated buttons, swooshing sounds and banners about a deranged amphibian imitating some kind of motor vehicle.
If I were restricted to a single region, I'd buy fewer discs, as I'd just do without most of the stuff that I buy PAL.
I have to agree with you there, I don't notice the speedup caused by conversion, but some films are available either for half the price in region 1 or are never released on region 2 discs.
There you go again, confusing irony with hypocracy.
All industries do this. Look at the way the proponents of free markets are making the clothes you buy more expensive by pushing for quotas on Chinese imports for a current example.
(I know, Chinese commie sweatshops are EVIL(TM) whereas the democratic sweatshops in Indonesia obviously are not.)
That sounds great in theory, but would the Iridium network be able to handle the load when everybody has an Iridium phone? I would imagine that there are hundreds of cell phone towers in the coverage area of a single iridium satellite. In rural areas this system works, but in densely populated areas, Iridium service will jam up pretty quickly, making it useless in case of major disasters. Even ubiquitous land based networks jam up at New Years Eve, now imagine half a million people needing to get through with only four satellites overhead at any time.
"The Puppet Masters" by Robert Heinlein is an early example, then there are a handful of Star Trek episodes and at least one X-Files episode. At a stretch you could even add every vampire and werewolf movie to that list (the spread of vampirism and lycanthropy seem to mimic the spread of parasitic infection).
This one has been milked dry in fiction. Doesn't make it less interesting when you see it happening in real life though.
I'm not in the US, so people here aren't suffering the kind of moral panic you seem to have succumbed to.
Television serves up sex and violence on a daily basis and children are exposed to many of the things the "guardians of morality" are decrying. Society hasn't broken down, my country has very low teenage pregnancy rates and a low crime rate. Children do get to see the bad / strange side of the world and that tends to make them more socially engaged, more tolerant and better informed.
There is nothing wrong with showing the customers where meat comes from, even the children. If they can't handle that truth, they shouldn't be eating meat in the first place. I'm not a vegetarian, I eat meat on a daily basis, but I believe in treating the animals well in life, killing them quickly and slaughtering them efficiently.
Oh and by the way, the word 'cunt' is the most widely used expletive in my language (only it's an adjective around here) it's bandied about by everybody both in real life and on television day and night, even in polite conversation. It lost it's power to shock twenty years ago.
People hate the web? That's the first time I've heard that. But anyway, like life, the web is about change and URLs can and do change. I see this as a simple and effective way to get rid of unwanted guests. Complaining to a big company tends not to do very much, suing is expensive and suing over a hotlink is against the spirit of the web.
He is fully entitled to put his views online just as the company is fully entitled to link to the content. If the company doesn't want people to see a slaughterhouse (I wonder why?), they are free to remove the link.
This is not jackassery this is legitimate protest.
You see why open source is a good thing? The Quake 3 source hasn't been open for a month and already the REGENERATION upgrade has been incorporated into mice. Now let's all hope and pray that the QUAD DAMAGE code doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
A 'google search killer' An 'ipod killer' A 'bittorrent killer'
A load of X killers that I can't be bothered to remember
now a Skype killer
How about, well I don't know, eh, ACTUALLY MAKING A DECENT OS THAT'S FINISHED ON TIME?
I guess that's asking too much.
Come on MS finish what you start before you do something else. we NEED a slower operating system on our computers. It's the only thing that will lead to faster processors.
/me puts on tinfoil hat
Or do you think it's a mere coincidence that since the introduction of WinXP and the long wait for it's successor, processor speed suddenly stopped doubling every 18 months?
It may not be long. If this this artice is a sign of things to come, they are really starting to piss off judges. Apparently judges don't like that their courts are being used as part of the RIAA extortion racket.
Slashdot Mirror
Why not have like a beta.slashdot.org...
Because google will sue for stealing their business model?
After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night we finally switched over to clean HTML 4.01 with a full compliment of CSS.
A spokesman for CSS said: "well done you guys!"
Or did you mean a full complement?
For someone from a community that has a healthy scepticism to all things published both on- and offline, the average slashdot reader appears to have an unshakable faith in snopes.com
t could become a terrorist target.
Even worse, it may be used for copyright infringement.
I've heard that after reading that article, Steve Ballmer has been throwing another chair around the office, claiming that they "must close the insecurity gap with Open Source"
So they put a couple of DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS on it (freshly pulled of that Vista thingy), in the hope to have IE once again become market leader in security flaws.
Looks like they are catching up quickly.
You'd think so, and many of us know this fact and see this as an excellent reason to oppose this scheme. Our government however, consists of people who only know something if it is taught in business school or in the Bible, and most of them have a tenuous grip on those subjects.
Just shout 'Terrorists' or 'Child Abuse' and the rest of the country will follow blindly.
That is precisely what has happened here. Partly because of cuts in funding and related lack of staff and partly because of gross incompetence by the social workers concerned, these children were passed off from agency to agency with no one taking responsability. In the subsequent inquiry no blame was apportioned (which is usual in these cases) and no one even lost their job for something that would be considered criminal negligence in many other countries. Social workers still are not accountable for their actions, one reason being given was the fear that it would be difficult to get competent staff if they were to be held accountable for their action or inaction (I wish I were joking, but I'm not.)
This is a mere cosmetic patch to cover a crumbling system, and a nice pretext for a united database for all people.
It is easy to subject children to this, and when they grow up, we'll just keep the records and pretty soon everyone will be accounted for.
ya he must have been the one behind the site design of TFA. scrolling, scrolling scrolling scrolling scrolling, ....
Raw HIIIIIDE!!!
In the business world it is the responsibility of the newcomer, not the existing business, to conduct a name search when launching a new product or service, so as to avoide disputes like the one described here.
Come on, you can't expect a simple web company like Google to know about searching.
I think in the end you're probably better off just using the telephone
--krrrr click--Thank you for calling FEMA, we regret to inform you that since you're using a Nokia mobile phone, we cannot connect you to an operator, please switch to a Motorola cellphone to make full use of our services. -bzzz- Have a nice day. --bleep--
The first person to land on Mars, and to live there some specified minimum duration (such as a year), and to return alive owns the entire Red Planet.
Sounds like geocentric thinking to me. Are we talking earth years or mars years?
What we really want is SlashFlash! With animated buttons, swooshing sounds and banners about a deranged amphibian imitating some kind of motor vehicle.
I have it looping back and forth in the quicktime player, and it looks really nice.
Especially the East African lakes glistening in the sun at around 7 seconds.
If I were restricted to a single region, I'd buy fewer discs, as I'd just do without most of the stuff that I buy PAL.
I have to agree with you there, I don't notice the speedup caused by conversion, but some films are available either for half the price in region 1 or are never released on region 2 discs.
..or even hypocrisy. Damn, forgot to spell check. Come to think of it, isn't it called hypocracy when you are ruled by a hypocrite?
There you go again, confusing irony with hypocracy.
All industries do this. Look at the way the proponents of free markets are making the clothes you buy more expensive by pushing for quotas on Chinese imports for a current example.
(I know, Chinese commie sweatshops are EVIL(TM) whereas the democratic sweatshops in Indonesia obviously are not.)
That sounds great in theory, but would the Iridium network be able to handle the load when everybody has an Iridium phone? I would imagine that there are hundreds of cell phone towers in the coverage area of a single iridium satellite. In rural areas this system works, but in densely populated areas, Iridium service will jam up pretty quickly, making it useless in case of major disasters. Even ubiquitous land based networks jam up at New Years Eve, now imagine half a million people needing to get through with only four satellites overhead at any time.
"The Puppet Masters" by Robert Heinlein is an early example, then there are a handful of Star Trek episodes and at least one X-Files episode. At a stretch you could even add every vampire and werewolf movie to that list (the spread of vampirism and lycanthropy seem to mimic the spread of parasitic infection).
This one has been milked dry in fiction. Doesn't make it less interesting when you see it happening in real life though.
I'm not in the US, so people here aren't suffering the kind of moral panic you seem to have succumbed to.
Television serves up sex and violence on a daily basis and children are exposed to many of the things the "guardians of morality" are decrying. Society hasn't broken down, my country has very low teenage pregnancy rates and a low crime rate. Children do get to see the bad / strange side of the world and that tends to make them more socially engaged, more tolerant and better informed.
There is nothing wrong with showing the customers where meat comes from, even the children. If they can't handle that truth, they shouldn't be eating meat in the first place.
I'm not a vegetarian, I eat meat on a daily basis, but I believe in treating the animals well in life, killing them quickly and slaughtering them efficiently.
Oh and by the way, the word 'cunt' is the most widely used expletive in my language (only it's an adjective around here) it's bandied about by everybody both in real life and on television day and night, even in polite conversation. It lost it's power to shock twenty years ago.
People hate the web? That's the first time I've heard that. But anyway, like life, the web is about change and URLs can and do change. I see this as a simple and effective way to get rid of unwanted guests. Complaining to a big company tends not to do very much, suing is expensive and suing over a hotlink is against the spirit of the web.
He is fully entitled to put his views online just as the company is fully entitled to link to the content. If the company doesn't want people to see a slaughterhouse (I wonder why?), they are free to remove the link.
This is not jackassery this is legitimate protest.
You see why open source is a good thing? The Quake 3 source hasn't been open for a month and already the REGENERATION upgrade has been incorporated into mice. Now let's all hope and pray that the QUAD DAMAGE code doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
Over the last year MS introduced/announced:
/me puts on tinfoil hat
A 'google search killer'
An 'ipod killer'
A 'bittorrent killer'
A load of X killers that I can't be bothered to remember
now a Skype killer
How about, well I don't know, eh, ACTUALLY MAKING A DECENT OS THAT'S FINISHED ON TIME?
I guess that's asking too much.
Come on MS finish what you start before you do something else.
we NEED a slower operating system on our computers. It's the only thing that will lead to faster processors.
Or do you think it's a mere coincidence that since the introduction of WinXP and the long wait for it's successor, processor speed suddenly stopped doubling every 18 months?
It may not be long. If this this artice is a sign of things to come, they are really starting to piss off judges. Apparently judges don't like that their courts are being used as part of the RIAA extortion racket.
I sure hope not. An immortal Tom Cruise is a frightening prospect.
...we'll all be working 36 hour shifts.