As a long time redditor myself, I've watched all of this with mild interest.
There are at least 3 sides to this, and that's not counting the mods/users of the banned/quarantined subs (you can pretty much guess their position in any case).
The Braveheart faction just wants everything to be free. Stop censoring me man. Live and let live. M'FREEDOM! These people are idiots.
The largely shouted down (and thus usually silent) faction of Social Justice Warrior subs of which SRS is arguably the figurehead but which think that an internet forum that allows people to register, post, and comment anonymously should somehow be a "safe space" and that through cutting wit and calling out the evildoers that this can be achieved and change can be realized!. These people adopt the exact same tactics and attitudes of the hate groups in the process, which would be irony except its probably just a coincidence. These people are idiots.
The admins and for the most part the moderators of most popular subs, that want to
a) make money off these groups if at all possible and
b) have them behave like rational human beings towards one another in the process.
These people are idiots.
Its a dumpster fire, but its fun to watch when there is nothing new on Netflix.
Its like saying "Hey, Chevrolet, you know your customers like the radio station set to 101.9, why cant you engineer your cars to respect their choice instead of forcing your nefarious 101.5 agenda." You're installing a new operating system. If you think there is going to be zero configuration, you have no business installing an operating system. Setting the default applications is in the same place it always was. With all of Mozilla's other problems solved, its good to see Beard focus on what matters/s.
Regardless, this is a surprisingly good browser. I think Microsoft has finally taken the feedback to heart. Now they just need to drag IE out behind the woodshed and put it out of its misery.
My daughter uses a $30 AT&T Go Phone plan. They charge $5 per 100 MB. That is almost criminal if you ask me.
At > $50/GB, there is plenty of room for plans like this in the pay-as-you-go market.
Once I realized what she (or...mostly I) am getting for the money there is no way I will ever do business with that company again. When her service runs out, time for a new carrier.
We use visual studio constantly, every day, usually with multiple large projects open per box at a time, building to Debug, pushing and pulling from git repo's, and being really productive in the process.
Apparently running it on a 486 with 256mb of RAM is, well, your fucking problem. Get a box that can support and IDE, or use notepad. There are hundreds of thousands of VS users that can call bullshit on your rant.
Apple is probably the king of the designated editor group, with microsoft coming in at a close second
Wut. Visual Studio is light years ahead of any other IDE anywhere
This is the correct answer. IDGAF what anyone says about it, VS has no equal. That debugger is as close to magic as I've seen a computer come.
This guys is obviously mentally ill. Having seen a number of his posts, and having seen him doxed right here on slashdot, it's incredible that he is just persistently returns for the inevitable abuse from the very people he is seeking acceptance from.
I assumed the guy was just trolling and being an asshat because someone on/. had pissed him off. Even the most dedicated troll would not take the time to write out these elaborate use cases for his tool. This guy genuinely wants you to LISTEN, and TRY his super awesome software.
Another clue is that he places an inordinate amount of emphasis on the 64bit compilation of said software. This has a 'rain man' quality to it that points to some very acute underlying mental disorder. Can we get APK some help?
-TWID
For the credit reporting agency, there simply isn't any data there if you don't go around borrowing money.
Not true.
The credit data on me does not EXIST. It's literally nothing (beyond maybe a phone book listing). So you're comparing NOTHING, no data being collected, to a vast database of our daily activities. You're saying the NSA spying is equalivent to - literally - nothing.
If I claimed "I don't use the phone or email" then I am re-framing your own argument. You are saying that one collection is BAD and one is OK based solely on the volume of information.(and since there is nothing of any value or volume, in your case, which is not at all true for the majority of people). You make an allowance for CR agencies because you (incorrectly) believe that its all about you asking for something from someone, or using their service. That same argument could be turned around if the government facilitates any network that your data travels over, then. So what's your problem?!? You want them to give your data a free ride, they just want a quick peek at its content! How is that unfair?!?!?/s
No I don't see the difference, its is one of placing personal value on specific instances of privacy. Your opinion that "I don't use credit so there is nothing to see" is no more valid than my "I don't talk about terrorist plots so I have nothing to hide" where phone calls or email are concerned.
And I reject the assertion that its "Asking for free stuff". They check your credit to rent an apartment, and then report your new address when you move in. They check your credit during the hiring process, and weirdly enough my credit report has my current employer on it with no intervention on my behalf whatsoever.
And if you think that only people you are asking to do business with or work for or rent from can access your CR, you haven't been paying attention.
Consider for a moment your standard, run of the mill credit report that is easily obtainable by just about anybody. It contains an actual chronological record of anything you do from a financial standpoint, but the metadata that is able to be gleaned from it tells a much more invasive story about you than just who you called and when. It tells me the kind of car you drive, the amount of money you make, the kind of neighborhood you live in, I know where you work, where your kids go to school. I can even make a pretty good estimate on if you are having marital problems. This data collection has been going on for decades, without your consent, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. You can't even own the data about yourself, and others are both allowed and encouraged to make money off said information, mostly be way of penalizing you if they don't like what it says. Where is the outrage? Where is the oversight? Is it because one dataset is owned by corporate pimps and the other is owned by the government?
I personally don't give a shit if the NSA knows who I called. The furniture store down the street can spend $7 and find out all about my medical procedure from 2007, and absolutely anything else about my life they care to look into within about 30 seconds. We conceded privacy for the sake of convenience a long, long time ago.
Is that somewhere out there exists a universe where beer is free and all the girls look like Natalie Portman, and here I am stuck with you nerds reading flaimbait on slashdot.
By that same logic, though, you can flush most of Einsteins work too. We do not posses, nor are we likely to posses in our lifetimes barring alien intervention, the technology to directly test and observe either the General or Special theories of relativity. The math works, its elegant, and is therefore the best explanation people can come up with. String theory tries to tie the quantum aspects together with the space time and forces described by AE. Its only as credible as the information that its based on.
The guy is out on the most feeble of limbs with his multiverse idea, since 'string theory' itself is little more than conjecture... but to take the edge off the 'not science' rhetoric here, the guy is a very well regarded theoretical physicist. Is it any less scientific-wild-ass-guess than Hawkings' notions about black holes? No. He at least has enough clout to get data access to the CERN supercollider experiments, so its not like its -me- throwing this crap out there hoping it will stick.
Wow... the number of Apple fanboys on/. is breathtaking. That this article is tagged sourgrapes tells me that many of the people on this site are not so much anti-closed source, anti patent troll, anti evil corp, as much as they are simply anti Microsoft. That is a beautiful irony. The opposite extremes of technology access.... Linux and Apple, have the same mouthpieces here. Any time I need a good strong dose of sobering disgust, you guys never let me down. Thanks assholes.
So, you are implying that being comfortable with the syntax and instructions of VB precludes you from being an elitist fucktard curly-bracket programmer? I think not, it just means said ft's are insular and critical of anything that doesnt fit neatly into their own skillset. Oh, and the french pronunciation is even gayer, so Ill go with the alternate spelling you provided. Thanks!!!
My only defense of VB in general is this.... if you are programming for Windows and the.NET framework anyway, then its tomato/tomato (pronounce the latter like a french douche).
I write for and maintain several enterprise level apps in VB, and others in C#. It does not matter one damn bit which you use, they are equivalent in every way. Anything you can do in C#, I can do in VB... and C#. People that bash one over the other usually cant code in either, or very well in any language.
This is about as flamebait as they get... dropping an review on VB, the most Microsoft of Microsoft languages, in this place is like dropping off your son to sell lemonade at a NAMBLA convention.
I second that. For fucks sake, the is/., do we need another excuse to tsk-tsk Microsoft? Now we know the truth of the thing, the closely guarded secret that they would have killed to protect.... the fact their accountants are bad people too! Intrigue! Drama! Petty! Self Serving!
Seriously? Unless Microsoft is cooking the books, who gives a rats ass how they account for the gajillion dollar revenue. If this is how FOSS scores points, by proclaiming "Ah HA!!!, they tried to trick us! The only sold 40 Million licenses of whatever, not 60 Million!. We... ummm, win?"
This article is douchebaggery.
Sofware infection is one thing, manufacturers can claim ignorance, disgruntled employees, or, as in Sony's case, claim is was DRM.
Designing a physical circuit for the purpose of intentionally harvesting information from a device is quite another. Let Dell ship machines to DOJ with hardware backdoors and see how much they bleed cash.
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I hope you were not expecting a reply. The man clearly said he dropped the mic on reading, Kevin.
As a long time redditor myself, I've watched all of this with mild interest. There are at least 3 sides to this, and that's not counting the mods/users of the banned/quarantined subs (you can pretty much guess their position in any case). The Braveheart faction just wants everything to be free. Stop censoring me man. Live and let live. M'FREEDOM! These people are idiots. The largely shouted down (and thus usually silent) faction of Social Justice Warrior subs of which SRS is arguably the figurehead but which think that an internet forum that allows people to register, post, and comment anonymously should somehow be a "safe space" and that through cutting wit and calling out the evildoers that this can be achieved and change can be realized!. These people adopt the exact same tactics and attitudes of the hate groups in the process, which would be irony except its probably just a coincidence. These people are idiots. The admins and for the most part the moderators of most popular subs, that want to a) make money off these groups if at all possible and b) have them behave like rational human beings towards one another in the process. These people are idiots. Its a dumpster fire, but its fun to watch when there is nothing new on Netflix.
Its like saying "Hey, Chevrolet, you know your customers like the radio station set to 101.9, why cant you engineer your cars to respect their choice instead of forcing your nefarious 101.5 agenda." You're installing a new operating system. If you think there is going to be zero configuration, you have no business installing an operating system. Setting the default applications is in the same place it always was. With all of Mozilla's other problems solved, its good to see Beard focus on what matters /s.
Regardless, this is a surprisingly good browser. I think Microsoft has finally taken the feedback to heart. Now they just need to drag IE out behind the woodshed and put it out of its misery.
My daughter uses a $30 AT&T Go Phone plan. They charge $5 per 100 MB. That is almost criminal if you ask me. At > $50 /GB, there is plenty of room for plans like this in the pay-as-you-go market.
Once I realized what she (or ...mostly I) am getting for the money there is no way I will ever do business with that company again. When her service runs out, time for a new carrier.
We use visual studio constantly, every day, usually with multiple large projects open per box at a time, building to Debug, pushing and pulling from git repo's, and being really productive in the process. Apparently running it on a 486 with 256mb of RAM is, well, your fucking problem. Get a box that can support and IDE, or use notepad. There are hundreds of thousands of VS users that can call bullshit on your rant.
Apple is probably the king of the designated editor group, with microsoft coming in at a close second Wut. Visual Studio is light years ahead of any other IDE anywhere
This is the correct answer. IDGAF what anyone says about it, VS has no equal. That debugger is as close to magic as I've seen a computer come.
Oops... I meant Visual Studio and C#
This coming from the same culture that adopted "veg" as the shortened form of vegetables. Just sayin'.
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This guys is obviously mentally ill. Having seen a number of his posts, and having seen him doxed right here on slashdot, it's incredible that he is just persistently returns for the inevitable abuse from the very people he is seeking acceptance from. I assumed the guy was just trolling and being an asshat because someone on /. had pissed him off. Even the most dedicated troll would not take the time to write out these elaborate use cases for his tool. This guy genuinely wants you to LISTEN, and TRY his super awesome software.
Another clue is that he places an inordinate amount of emphasis on the 64bit compilation of said software. This has a 'rain man' quality to it that points to some very acute underlying mental disorder. Can we get APK some help?
-TWID
What the actual fuck? This person is mentally ill. Also, the person I am replying to.
For the credit reporting agency, there simply isn't any data there if you don't go around borrowing money.
Not true.
The credit data on me does not EXIST. It's literally nothing (beyond maybe a phone book listing). So you're comparing NOTHING, no data being collected, to a vast database of our daily activities. You're saying the NSA spying is equalivent to - literally - nothing.
If I claimed "I don't use the phone or email" then I am re-framing your own argument. You are saying that one collection is BAD and one is OK based solely on the volume of information.(and since there is nothing of any value or volume, in your case, which is not at all true for the majority of people). You make an allowance for CR agencies because you (incorrectly) believe that its all about you asking for something from someone, or using their service. That same argument could be turned around if the government facilitates any network that your data travels over, then. So what's your problem?!? You want them to give your data a free ride, they just want a quick peek at its content! How is that unfair?!?!? /s
No I don't see the difference, its is one of placing personal value on specific instances of privacy. Your opinion that "I don't use credit so there is nothing to see" is no more valid than my "I don't talk about terrorist plots so I have nothing to hide" where phone calls or email are concerned. And I reject the assertion that its "Asking for free stuff". They check your credit to rent an apartment, and then report your new address when you move in. They check your credit during the hiring process, and weirdly enough my credit report has my current employer on it with no intervention on my behalf whatsoever. And if you think that only people you are asking to do business with or work for or rent from can access your CR, you haven't been paying attention.
Consider for a moment your standard, run of the mill credit report that is easily obtainable by just about anybody. It contains an actual chronological record of anything you do from a financial standpoint, but the metadata that is able to be gleaned from it tells a much more invasive story about you than just who you called and when. It tells me the kind of car you drive, the amount of money you make, the kind of neighborhood you live in, I know where you work, where your kids go to school. I can even make a pretty good estimate on if you are having marital problems. This data collection has been going on for decades, without your consent, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. You can't even own the data about yourself, and others are both allowed and encouraged to make money off said information, mostly be way of penalizing you if they don't like what it says. Where is the outrage? Where is the oversight? Is it because one dataset is owned by corporate pimps and the other is owned by the government? I personally don't give a shit if the NSA knows who I called. The furniture store down the street can spend $7 and find out all about my medical procedure from 2007, and absolutely anything else about my life they care to look into within about 30 seconds. We conceded privacy for the sake of convenience a long, long time ago.
There is no part of what you just said that I dont agree with. Fuck Yeah.
Is that somewhere out there exists a universe where beer is free and all the girls look like Natalie Portman, and here I am stuck with you nerds reading flaimbait on slashdot.
By that same logic, though, you can flush most of Einsteins work too. We do not posses, nor are we likely to posses in our lifetimes barring alien intervention, the technology to directly test and observe either the General or Special theories of relativity. The math works, its elegant, and is therefore the best explanation people can come up with. String theory tries to tie the quantum aspects together with the space time and forces described by AE. Its only as credible as the information that its based on.
The guy is out on the most feeble of limbs with his multiverse idea, since 'string theory' itself is little more than conjecture... but to take the edge off the 'not science' rhetoric here, the guy is a very well regarded theoretical physicist. Is it any less scientific-wild-ass-guess than Hawkings' notions about black holes? No. He at least has enough clout to get data access to the CERN supercollider experiments, so its not like its -me- throwing this crap out there hoping it will stick.
Wow... the number of Apple fanboys on /. is breathtaking. That this article is tagged sourgrapes tells me that many of the people on this site are not so much anti-closed source, anti patent troll, anti evil corp, as much as they are simply anti Microsoft. That is a beautiful irony. The opposite extremes of technology access.... Linux and Apple, have the same mouthpieces here. Any time I need a good strong dose of sobering disgust, you guys never let me down. Thanks assholes.
So, you are implying that being comfortable with the syntax and instructions of VB precludes you from being an elitist fucktard curly-bracket programmer? I think not, it just means said ft's are insular and critical of anything that doesnt fit neatly into their own skillset. Oh, and the french pronunciation is even gayer, so Ill go with the alternate spelling you provided. Thanks!!!
My only defense of VB in general is this.... if you are programming for Windows and the .NET framework anyway, then its tomato/tomato (pronounce the latter like a french douche).
I write for and maintain several enterprise level apps in VB, and others in C#. It does not matter one damn bit which you use, they are equivalent in every way. Anything you can do in C#, I can do in VB... and C#. People that bash one over the other usually cant code in either, or very well in any language.
This is about as flamebait as they get... dropping an review on VB, the most Microsoft of Microsoft languages, in this place is like dropping off your son to sell lemonade at a NAMBLA convention.
I second that. For fucks sake, the is /., do we need another excuse to tsk-tsk Microsoft? Now we know the truth of the thing, the closely guarded secret that they would have killed to protect.... the fact their accountants are bad people too! Intrigue! Drama! Petty! Self Serving!
Seriously? Unless Microsoft is cooking the books, who gives a rats ass how they account for the gajillion dollar revenue. If this is how FOSS scores points, by proclaiming "Ah HA!!!, they tried to trick us! The only sold 40 Million licenses of whatever, not 60 Million!. We... ummm, win?" This article is douchebaggery.
Sofware infection is one thing, manufacturers can claim ignorance, disgruntled employees, or, as in Sony's case, claim is was DRM. Designing a physical circuit for the purpose of intentionally harvesting information from a device is quite another. Let Dell ship machines to DOJ with hardware backdoors and see how much they bleed cash.