The group is highly politically motivated and while you can spurt a bunch of ideological crap about legions and everybody acting separately in different directions according to their own interest, when you look at the group as a whole the actions line up pretty well in one direction and while not the only factor, political motivation seems to be an incredibly strong driving force for the selection of targets in the majority of cases.
That is one really long sentence that doesn't say anything at all.
Next thing you know you're going to tell me that smoking is bad for my health, TV isn't good for children, and that marijuana may actually help glaucoma. Whatever. I know you snake oil salespeople when I see you.
Quoting: 'But too much of the debate is still around financial valuation, as opposed to the underlying intrinsic value of the best of Silicon Valley's new companies.
This is EXACTLY the point that anyone who works in IT makes: we're financially undervalued and our intrinsic value is overlooked.
Ceglia’s lawyers are claiming the “authentic contract” is shielded from use in the suit because it is designated as “confidential” under the rules of an agreement between the two parties. Facebook is asking the federal judge overseeing the case in New York to overrule that designation.
Damn Zuckerberg, it must be hard to actually *ask* people if you can change their priva... I mean, overrule their confidentiality settings.
shut down the business, incorporate a new business with a similar name, and transfer all assets from old business to new. Shouldn't cost anything more than a couple thousand bucks. A little shady and legally gray, but hey, so is the BSA.
My point is that, in the direction it's going, it's only a matter of time before legislators and their corporate sponsors mandate some type of separate secure internet. It wouldn't surprise me if today's "anonymous" internet someday becomes synonymous with Usenet, but that's just me being cynical.
And I would venture to say that advertisers know more about everyone than you think.
What's the difference if G+ (or Facebook, or Twitter, or ???) knows my real name or not? Advertisers et. al. can still track my every click, ISPs keep the last 6-18 mos. of activity, and even if I go to extremes to mask/hide this, my browser fingerprint is unique enough to identify me. Oh and don't forget my always-on, always-with-me GPS enabled cell phone. Anonymity on the web is dead.
In the EULA it says:
2.3 Server Use. [] No other network use is permitted, including, but not limited to use of the Software, either directly or through commands, data or instructions, from or to a Computer not part of your Internal Network, for Internet or web hosting services or by any user not licensed to use this copy of the Software under a valid license from Adobe [...]
How am I supposed to trust Americans Elect 2012 when they illegally embed fonts onto their website (eg. this page, this font)? I'm not trying to be a troll, but if they're not doing their homework for a freaking website (or hiring the right web design firm to do it for them), how do I know they're going to succeed in the political landscape?
That's called an encore, for which MS was quickly sued for copyright infringement from Starz Entertainment, LLC for infringing on their ENCORE and ENCORE on demand service.
To be fair, FCKeditor was named after its author, Frederico Caldeira Knabben, who is from Brazil. Evidently that was his real name and he didn't at first realize the unfortunate similarity of his initials to an English swear word--but even if he had realized this, they were still his real initials, so I think he would still have some right to name it that. In any case, the name of the editor has now been changed to CKEditor.
According to wikipedia, he changed the name of the editor because of the similarity to FUCK.
It's a slippery slope if the FOSS community enforces decency through naming conventions. However:
It’s not that the names were simply sexual in nature: it was that they targeted a women over the very thing that makes them a minority in the Python community in the first place: you could call it a sexual exploit.
So generally speaking, I support the name change, especially if this is true:
She, not being a native English-speaker, had accepted on trust a foreign-language name for her library. According to Holden, the revelation - and the attention to her unknowing complicity - brought about with the name was so uncomfortable for her that she quit working in open source altogether.
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The group is highly politically motivated and while you can spurt a bunch of ideological crap about legions and everybody acting separately in different directions according to their own interest, when you look at the group as a whole the actions line up pretty well in one direction and while not the only factor, political motivation seems to be an incredibly strong driving force for the selection of targets in the majority of cases.
That is one really long sentence that doesn't say anything at all.
Next thing you know you're going to tell me that smoking is bad for my health, TV isn't good for children, and that marijuana may actually help glaucoma. Whatever. I know you snake oil salespeople when I see you.
French fries would be better.
Quoting: 'But too much of the debate is still around financial valuation, as opposed to the underlying intrinsic value of the best of Silicon Valley's new companies.
This is EXACTLY the point that anyone who works in IT makes: we're financially undervalued and our intrinsic value is overlooked.
Here 'tis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABPKd0vFxQ
Funny enough, this is the only article on /. that the OP, Mig55, has commented on.
orange you glad I didn't say banana?
We have huge discussions on Slashdot I might add
Ceglia’s lawyers are claiming the “authentic contract” is shielded from use in the suit because it is designated as “confidential” under the rules of an agreement between the two parties. Facebook is asking the federal judge overseeing the case in New York to overrule that designation.
Damn Zuckerberg, it must be hard to actually *ask* people if you can change their priva... I mean, overrule their confidentiality settings.
shut down the business, incorporate a new business with a similar name, and transfer all assets from old business to new. Shouldn't cost anything more than a couple thousand bucks. A little shady and legally gray, but hey, so is the BSA.
I think the problem with the Tea Partiers is that they see it as being their way or nothing.
Isn't that the party line that got them elected into office in the first place?
Yep, I'm a youngin'.
My point is that, in the direction it's going, it's only a matter of time before legislators and their corporate sponsors mandate some type of separate secure internet. It wouldn't surprise me if today's "anonymous" internet someday becomes synonymous with Usenet, but that's just me being cynical.
And I would venture to say that advertisers know more about everyone than you think.
What's the difference if G+ (or Facebook, or Twitter, or ???) knows my real name or not? Advertisers et. al. can still track my every click, ISPs keep the last 6-18 mos. of activity, and even if I go to extremes to mask/hide this, my browser fingerprint is unique enough to identify me. Oh and don't forget my always-on, always-with-me GPS enabled cell phone. Anonymity on the web is dead.
That genuinely made me laugh out loud.
In the EULA it says: 2.3 Server Use. [] No other network use is permitted, including, but not limited to use of the Software, either directly or through commands, data or instructions, from or to a Computer not part of your Internal Network, for Internet or web hosting services or by any user not licensed to use this copy of the Software under a valid license from Adobe [...]
Good point: http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/font_infringement
How am I supposed to trust Americans Elect 2012 when they illegally embed fonts onto their website (eg. this page, this font)? I'm not trying to be a troll, but if they're not doing their homework for a freaking website (or hiring the right web design firm to do it for them), how do I know they're going to succeed in the political landscape?
Or you can learn how to calculate p-value: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value
That's called an encore, for which MS was quickly sued for copyright infringement from Starz Entertainment, LLC for infringing on their ENCORE and ENCORE on demand service.
Skype has confirmed the flaw, but calls it 'minor,' saying it only affects people who communicate with a potential attacker on a regular basis.
Phew, good news. This is the same security model I use on my web server, I think Sony does too, thankfully there ain't no haxxors visiting my sites!
OSS used for foul play, off with their heads!
To be fair, FCKeditor was named after its author, Frederico Caldeira Knabben, who is from Brazil. Evidently that was his real name and he didn't at first realize the unfortunate similarity of his initials to an English swear word--but even if he had realized this, they were still his real initials, so I think he would still have some right to name it that. In any case, the name of the editor has now been changed to CKEditor.
According to wikipedia, he changed the name of the editor because of the similarity to FUCK.
It’s not that the names were simply sexual in nature: it was that they targeted a women over the very thing that makes them a minority in the Python community in the first place: you could call it a sexual exploit.
So generally speaking, I support the name change, especially if this is true:
She, not being a native English-speaker, had accepted on trust a foreign-language name for her library. According to Holden, the revelation - and the attention to her unknowing complicity - brought about with the name was so uncomfortable for her that she quit working in open source altogether.
But it's still a slippery slope.
Not *too* bad, only three entities tracking /.'ers.
allows it to release groundbreaking products that are actually impossible to duplicate
Just because the design of an Apple product is distinctive doesn't mean that the product is automatically groundbreaking.
Their patent portfolio wants you to think otherwise.