The title for this post should be "New York Times Asks Twitter to Shut Down Paywall-Evading Account". The actual story here is how NYT's paywall is flawed
Here's some screenshots. It's all content + videos. I'm still scratching my head over it being called a "gay cure app". As much as I disagree with Exodus, I really feel like I've been duped by a clever "remove this app" marketing campaign by Truth Wins Out.
Did anyone actually checkout the app? Here are some screenshots. It wasn't a "gay cure app", it was content + videos, mostly events and FAQs and other stuff you can easily access through the Exodus website.
As much as I disagree with the entire message of Exodus, I feel like I've been hosed by the clever marketing campaign by Truth Wins Out.
Expanding knowledge by constantly entertaining alternative theories is what science does all the time.
Nope. Science is full of people trying to prove their theories correct, there's really no such thing as the truly objective researcher. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn has a good analysis of this.
Science is skepticism, the exact opposite of dogma. Science is not "hey that theory sounds entertaining, let's say we like it too", it's "does this theory make predictions that we can test?"
Science is done by people, and people have agendas. Once again, no such thing as the truly objective researcher.
Calling them "wackos" and "crackpots" is exactly the type of dogmatic fanaticism I'm talking about.
With dogmatic fanatics on both sides of the debate, we need to encourage scientific research in areas OUTSIDE of the current theoretical paradigm without fear of losing tenure or credibility. It's the anomalies that spur interesting scientific debate and discoveries, not the boring "our study supports XYZ theory". Without people researching and publishing papers on alternative theories, we will never grow in our scientific knowledge.
That said, I'm sure my post will get modded as "troll" or "flame" because I don't embrace the typical slashdot "creationists are stupid" attitude. Let creationists and intelligent design and aliens-were-here-first have their fun, do their research, and submit it to the larger scientific community.
But hey, Drupal only has 2% market share of all sites on the web, is being adopted by government and corporate organizations at a maddening pace, and just had their first major release in 3 years. There's no reason why this Drupal shit should be discussed on Slashdot.
That's a nice question that brings warm fuzzies to my stomach thinking of all the people in Libya we could liberate by giving them internet, unfortunately only 5.1% of the population has internet.
There are some movements in Drupal to become more of a framework, such as entities and features, and of course there's always drush. This article discusses the parallels between Drupal programming and OOP, interesting read for programmers new to Drupal.
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wondering how this can be used for porn
The title for this post should be "New York Times Asks Twitter to Shut Down Paywall-Evading Account". The actual story here is how NYT's paywall is flawed
Here's some screenshots. It's all content + videos. I'm still scratching my head over it being called a "gay cure app". As much as I disagree with Exodus, I really feel like I've been duped by a clever "remove this app" marketing campaign by Truth Wins Out.
Did anyone actually checkout the app? Here are some screenshots. It wasn't a "gay cure app", it was content + videos, mostly events and FAQs and other stuff you can easily access through the Exodus website. As much as I disagree with the entire message of Exodus, I feel like I've been hosed by the clever marketing campaign by Truth Wins Out.
Exactly, you have to have a PhD to make up words.
?? I'm an evolutionist and definitely not a Bible thumper. I just think the peer review process if flawed.
Expanding knowledge by constantly entertaining alternative theories is what science does all the time.
Nope. Science is full of people trying to prove their theories correct, there's really no such thing as the truly objective researcher. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn has a good analysis of this.
Science is skepticism, the exact opposite of dogma. Science is not "hey that theory sounds entertaining, let's say we like it too", it's "does this theory make predictions that we can test?"
Science is done by people, and people have agendas. Once again, no such thing as the truly objective researcher.
Calling them "wackos" and "crackpots" is exactly the type of dogmatic fanaticism I'm talking about.
With dogmatic fanatics on both sides of the debate, we need to encourage scientific research in areas OUTSIDE of the current theoretical paradigm without fear of losing tenure or credibility. It's the anomalies that spur interesting scientific debate and discoveries, not the boring "our study supports XYZ theory". Without people researching and publishing papers on alternative theories, we will never grow in our scientific knowledge.
That said, I'm sure my post will get modded as "troll" or "flame" because I don't embrace the typical slashdot "creationists are stupid" attitude. Let creationists and intelligent design and aliens-were-here-first have their fun, do their research, and submit it to the larger scientific community.
Move along, now, move along...
That should be 3 steps:
/., reading xkcd (again), and boobies.
1. Investigate cybercrime
2. ???
3. Profit
#2 is mostly filled with commenting on
Deathmatch, really? I was hoping to see tablets thrown over buildings and smashed on the ground, not a comparison of iOS 4 vs. Honeycomb.
My point exactly.
most of the time I wish this wasn't true.
Do we really want to discuss blogging platforms
Look at who started using Drupal in the last year or two: The Economist, The Grammys, Fast Company, The Examiner, House.gov (and all ~535 house websites) recently moved to Drupal, Energy.gov, WhiteHouse.gov, and here's a list of some 120 national governments using Drupal.
But hey, Drupal only has 2% market share of all sites on the web, is being adopted by government and corporate organizations at a maddening pace, and just had their first major release in 3 years. There's no reason why this Drupal shit should be discussed on Slashdot.
will never die.
Great, I get to keep the possessions I own on Mars, I'm fine with this punishment.
That's a nice question that brings warm fuzzies to my stomach thinking of all the people in Libya we could liberate by giving them internet, unfortunately only 5.1% of the population has internet.
How long till they're available to public, so I can put a frickin laser beam on it.
So they made 16.5m and had to pay 10.1m, netting about 5.4m. Was it worth it?
could be making forensic analysis at a later date by police forces and intelligence agencies almost impossible to carry out to legally safe standards
So then they're sending SSDs out of the country for hard-core, waterboarding-style data extraction?
So you're saying they should sell OSS? Sign this guy up.
Does this mean me or my son will get sued for copyright infringement?
There are some movements in Drupal to become more of a framework, such as entities and features, and of course there's always drush. This article discusses the parallels between Drupal programming and OOP, interesting read for programmers new to Drupal.
It's from Ferris Bueller's Day Off