In a leak from the Defense Department, the first Photos of Eros revealed a race of insectoid beings that insider's are calling Buggers. Speculation is flying as to how to deal with the threat, with one idea of gathering all the most brilliant children up and putting them on a space station to train as generals. More at 11.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, read Ender's Game
I haven't heard of a single cable access provider yet portrayed in a good light, and it isn't because of shoddy hardware, or bad connections (thought they have those from time to time too), Almost every complaint I hear is about their Wetware, most notably their Tech. I realize it's probably not their tech, but the folks in the next couple of levels up, but it seems to me that when the Cable folk were figuring out ways to compete with the already intrenched telco's, they forgot one tensy little detail, you have to stop treating the customers like rodents!!! With cable tv, there isn't a lot to screw up, so they could get away with not talking to their customers, and treating them like idiots if they did manage to screw up. But this is a rather more complicated affair.
I hate to say it, but perhaps some of that tech money should have gone to some of the touchy feely Customer Service types.
Criminalize the production, sale, distribution or otherwise making available of devices or computer programs who's primary use is to access, intercept or interfere with computer systems or communications;
Criminalize a program who's sole purpose is to ACCESS a computer system??? I can't think of anything on my computer that DOSN'T fit that discription!!! My OS access resources on my Computer System, is it illegal now too? My browser accesses servers on port 80 (usualy), that's gone too eh? Guess we just turn the whole damn thing off and go back to living in caves, or stuff our heads in the sand, along with whoever drafted this piece of crap.
I am a longtime reader of Slashdot, however I have never before felt the need to create a user and post. However, Mr. Katz, and yes that is an assumption, i'm sorry if that assumption is in error, Mr. Katz has moved me to post on this and for that I thank him. However, my thanks stops there. I, along with my co-workers and friends who read slashdot, come here for technical and industry news and rumors. We come to dwell in a comunity that is, for lack of a better term "Like us". When Mr Katz wrote his first post, I didn't agree with it, but took it in stride. We are now up to the 3rd or 4th post on this subject, and quite frankly, i am sick of it. Discussing the methods that Slashdot moderates it's forum is one thing, on topic, but by a small margin. Discussion of harassment and mistreatment of women is quite another, and this is most decidedly off topic. Now don't get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for those on the front lines of those issues. However, this is a site that flies, as it's motto, News for geeks, news that matters. Not only are these issues not news for geeks, they really aren't NEWS at all! I come to slashdot to read what is happening in the linux world, what Microsoft screwed up today, and general humor that anyone who dosn't spend hours in front of a computer wouldn't get. You seem to feel that this is a spot to post on these issues, and while i can only speak for myself, the rest of the posts seem to support me when i say that I don't appreciate it. You say that this is the perfect spot to develop a "tech community", However, you yourself are contributing to destry that. If you have a political issue to or agenda to foward, Please do it in the appropriate spaces. Just as it's not appropriate to flame here, it is also not appropriate to go completely off topic, Be it to discuss recipies or Women's rights, They are BOTH off topic here.
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In a leak from the Defense Department, the first Photos of Eros revealed a race of insectoid beings that insider's are calling Buggers. Speculation is flying as to how to deal with the threat, with one idea of gathering all the most brilliant children up and putting them on a space station to train as generals. More at 11.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, read Ender's Game
I haven't heard of a single cable access provider yet portrayed in a good light, and it isn't because of shoddy hardware, or bad connections (thought they have those from time to time too), Almost every complaint I hear is about their Wetware, most notably their Tech. I realize it's probably not their tech, but the folks in the next couple of levels up, but it seems to me that when the Cable folk were figuring out ways to compete with the already intrenched telco's, they forgot one tensy little detail, you have to stop treating the customers like rodents!!! With cable tv, there isn't a lot to screw up, so they could get away with not talking to their customers, and treating them like idiots if they did manage to screw up. But this is a rather more complicated affair.
I hate to say it, but perhaps some of that tech money should have gone to some of the touchy feely Customer Service types.
-Sir.Cracked
I am a longtime reader of Slashdot, however I have never before felt the need to create a user and post. However, Mr. Katz, and yes that is an assumption, i'm sorry if that assumption is in error, Mr. Katz has moved me to post on this and for that I thank him. However, my thanks stops there. I, along with my co-workers and friends who read slashdot, come here for technical and industry news and rumors. We come to dwell in a comunity that is, for lack of a better term "Like us". When Mr Katz wrote his first post, I didn't agree with it, but took it in stride. We are now up to the 3rd or 4th post on this subject, and quite frankly, i am sick of it. Discussing the methods that Slashdot moderates it's forum is one thing, on topic, but by a small margin. Discussion of harassment and mistreatment of women is quite another, and this is most decidedly off topic. Now don't get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for those on the front lines of those issues. However, this is a site that flies, as it's motto, News for geeks, news that matters. Not only are these issues not news for geeks, they really aren't NEWS at all! I come to slashdot to read what is happening in the linux world, what Microsoft screwed up today, and general humor that anyone who dosn't spend hours in front of a computer wouldn't get. You seem to feel that this is a spot to post on these issues, and while i can only speak for myself, the rest of the posts seem to support me when i say that I don't appreciate it. You say that this is the perfect spot to develop a "tech community", However, you yourself are contributing to destry that. If you have a political issue to or agenda to foward, Please do it in the appropriate spaces. Just as it's not appropriate to flame here, it is also not appropriate to go completely off topic, Be it to discuss recipies or Women's rights, They are BOTH off topic here.