I know alot of people are pointing out easy changes to get around this.
I never worried about that when I read this article.
It's that you even have to get around it. Absoutely ridiculous. They will never force everyone to switch over to IE, but they will get a whole bunch. I can't believe you have to put extra work to even look at their site.
I really don't think this is a good idea. While I agree that most ACs are idiots, I have seen some pretty insightful, interesting or funny AC posts. On top of that, adding a -1 to all AC posts will make it very easy for them to be browsed over by moderators (many don't follow anything below their thresholds) and will essentially weed out the good posts along with the bad.
Perhaps a massive amount of censoring is needed. While Slashdot, in my eyes, has a reputation for not censoring much, an AC post can be that exception. How about no cusses, especially nothing with "is gay" in it, nothing with the names of any of the Slashdot guys in it (I hate seeing "CMDRTACO EATS NUTS") and most DEFINATELY not anything with the word goat even in it. Not even anything that rhymes with the word goat.
And if a legtimiate user is angry about the censorship (and would be using the privelage of no censorship to an apprporiate degree), well, he/she can get an account. It's fairly easy.
What? Why do we need desktop biodetectors? I thought Anthrax was just being distributed in the mail! Not the e-mail! Nooooo! I haven't been handling my keyboard with biomedical gloves!
It's like the landlord of a building telling a tenant who complains about the shabby building structure that doesn't protect anyone inside "Listen, by talking about it, you're not making it any better. People will find about it and now break in".
Maybe the problem isn't the source, but what's in the source.
The page asks is the thing can be held. Of course it can... space your hands about 1 feet away from each other in the air, palms facing each other.
Ok... now start twindling your fingers as if you're playing a game!
Ok, got it? Seems comfortable enough doesn't it? Ok, now scream something you'd scream during game play. Like "COME ON! I HAD THAT!" while moving the imaginary controller around like a mad man.
Digital cameras lack something real cameras have. Take the classic blackmail example:
Me: TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
*Neema throws down photos on desk* Senator: *GASP*
Me: That's right. You. Dancing with the forbidden monkey. Dancing the forbidden dance with the forbidden monkey!
Senator: Please... if these get out, I'll never get reelected. And if I don't get reelected, I can't get the Senator's discount at Ben and Jerry's!
Me: And don't even think of ripping these up! I have copies at home! But, I think we can work something out...
*Senator pulls out check book*
But now, with these god damn digital cameras:
Me: TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
*Neema gently places digital camera on desk, so it doesn't break* Senator: Yeah, my daughter has one of these.
Me: No, no, no. Argh. It turned off. It does that. Turns off automatically after 3 minutes... ok... gimme that...
*Neema turns on camera, places on desk again* Me: OK, TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
Senator: It's a dog.
Me: Oh yeah, that's my dog Scruffy. Argh. Yeah, press the right arrow. Get past those pictures. Yep, that's Aunt Sally. Come on, a bit faster. ARGH, JUST GIVE IT TO ME!
*Grabs camera, scrolls to incriminating pictures* Me: THERE YOU ARE! YOU, DANCING THE FORBIDDEN DANCE WITH THE FORBIDDEN MONKEY!
Senator: Please... if these get out, I'll never get reelected. And if I don't get reelected, I can't get the Senator's discount at Ben and Jerry's!
Me: Yeah, well, I'm going to stop by staples to get glossy photo paper and I'll be printing out a bunch of these!
*Senator pulls out check book*
Does he just want his linux box destroyed or does it have to be a virus? He can give me his address, I'll gladly fly down to his house and smash up his linux box with a bat for 10,000 pounds (that's around 14,534 dollars and 22 cents).
At first, I wanted DSL for broadband over cable. I called Verizon or whoever it was I was getting it from and they told me I was in perfect shape to receive it.
And then they told me I was too far away.
And then they told me I was fine again.
And so on.
Finally, After about a month and a week or two, I just called Time Warner to get road runner. By the weekend, it had been set up.
I'm not suprised these guys are losing tremendous amounts of money. (DSL)
Are these the right preventive measurements we should be taking?
There are three vague aspects of criminal law. They split them up into the classic criminal, the socio-behavioral criminal and the conflict criminal.
Now the theory behind the classic criminal is that he/she/they think out the crime before they commit it. Think about it in advance, look at the reprecussions, weigh the benefits and the detriments and make the decision.
To combat these criminals, a process known as target hardening and situational prevention. Make it harder to commit the crime, catch 'em in the act, make examples and make punishments harsh enough to scare them off.
But then you get to the other criminals. Socio-behavioral and conflict criminals.
Socio-behavioral criminals are affected by factors just as social pressure, social interaction, social dysfunction, behavior dysfunction and social moral development.
The general concept of preventing socio-behavioral criminals from emerging is to find the flaws in their society and environment and work on them.
A similar concept behind the conflict criminology.
A conflict criminal is suppose to be one who commits "crime" (crime by our definition may be rebellion by theirs) because of situations of oppression, injustice or inequality.
A conflict criminologist would also most likely disagree with the anti-terrorism package proposal set forth as one would believe that this would just increase the injustice, inequality and oppression, at least in the eyes of the "criminal". For them, the real prevention methods would be to set forth to equalize the people and lift any oppression.
Now of course, lets apply this to our own time. Osama bin Laden personally declares Palestine as a reasoning for America being devoid of safety.
My personal opinion is that this won't work, because Osama bin Laden is more a conflict criminal, or a socio-behavioral criminal, then anything. So are most of these terrorists. Whether we agree with it or not, the guns and tanks and other support we give to Israel is being used to occupy Palestine and expand Israeli land. Palestenian people are being killed by our bullets. Palestenian kids are standing in front of our tanks and throwing rocks (as a kid of 16 years old, I find it a bit crazy and a bit admirable for a kid of my age to throw rocks at a tank coming torwards them. It requires either alot of balls or so much anger as an injustice that you simply don't care).
So even if these changes to American privacy go through, how much good can they do before they're just being used against American people? Not only will the terrorists find other ways, but when someone is willing to give their lives to do something, it's very hard to stop them.
Perhaps we should look torwards our foreign policy before we jump the gun and "declare war". The relatives and friends of the innocent "callataral" people who may get harmed by our bombings are potential terrorists, and so are the relatives and friends of the terorrists we imprison. Punishment is necessary, I agree, but so is prevention.
I wonder how much of this comes from the fact that Zimmerman was receiving hate mail for reports that Osama Bin Laden was using his encryption for communications, something he resorted to after he found out the US can monitor his satellite phone conversations.
But doesn't Osama know... the download page specifically says for US residents only!
These terrible people, taking advantage of such tragedies...
In completely unrelated break through, I will be selling white t-shirts with "Check out this shirt, I'm a real American!" written on it with black magic marker. Only 29.95.
Orders to come in anytime now.
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Osama bin Laden reportedly vows to destroy America for the attacks it launched against Afghanistan. His evil partner Bert was quick to add "Oh, and we're going to blow up that fucking rubber ducky too."
"would a person, if they had a choice pick windows media player over WinAmp if they had to do research and make a choice?"
WinAmp is the most popular mp3 client for Windows. Obviously their attempt at a monopoly failed there.
"Would they buy windows compression over winzip?"
Again, WinZip is more popular.
"Would they choose IE over Netscape?"
I use to use Netscape a bit ago. Use to hate IE. However, Netscape's software around the 4.6 series turned into shit and I turned to IE. I was quite pleased with it and am running IE6 with no problems. Netscape had the market a while back, they just couldn't hold it.
The fact of the matter is that the fact that Microsoft bundles it's own software with it's OS challenges programmers to make a program that destroys programs that Microsoft includes. A truly good program will get downloads to replace the Microsoft one, even from Average users. WinAmp is a perfect example. And while Microsoft's buisness practices are unethical, rather then bitch about it, we should see more software that is superior to Microsoft products.
This "attempt" at a monopoly through file extensions is something that would only be successful for those who know nothing about the OS at all. Using Win2k as we speak, right clicking on any file and going to "Open with" seems easy enough. Better yet, it has a check box of "use this program to open up the file as default". Very easy. Of course, if no one bothers to look for it, I'm sure it can be considered hard.
I agree that Microsoft does things specifically to retain a monopoly, but does everything it do have that purpose?
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"This probably would have been a better submission if it had included a download link of some sort."
Then you should of got the submission from one of the everybody else.
Or their pets.
Ancient Red Cross centers were also accidently destroyed by the meteor.
... and those of you who were really wrong, slap yourselves in the face.
I know alot of people are pointing out easy changes to get around this.
I never worried about that when I read this article.
It's that you even have to get around it. Absoutely ridiculous. They will never force everyone to switch over to IE, but they will get a whole bunch. I can't believe you have to put extra work to even look at their site.
I really don't think this is a good idea. While I agree that most ACs are idiots, I have seen some pretty insightful, interesting or funny AC posts. On top of that, adding a -1 to all AC posts will make it very easy for them to be browsed over by moderators (many don't follow anything below their thresholds) and will essentially weed out the good posts along with the bad.
Perhaps a massive amount of censoring is needed. While Slashdot, in my eyes, has a reputation for not censoring much, an AC post can be that exception. How about no cusses, especially nothing with "is gay" in it, nothing with the names of any of the Slashdot guys in it (I hate seeing "CMDRTACO EATS NUTS") and most DEFINATELY not anything with the word goat even in it. Not even anything that rhymes with the word goat.
And if a legtimiate user is angry about the censorship (and would be using the privelage of no censorship to an apprporiate degree), well, he/she can get an account. It's fairly easy.
After realizing that "Downloadin' is stealin'", she went back to spending "$125 on CDs with her five-cent salary".
The moral is: spend 2500 times your salary on us or you're going to jail.
What? Why do we need desktop biodetectors? I thought Anthrax was just being distributed in the mail! Not the e-mail! Nooooo! I haven't been handling my keyboard with biomedical gloves!
It's like the landlord of a building telling a tenant who complains about the shabby building structure that doesn't protect anyone inside "Listen, by talking about it, you're not making it any better. People will find about it and now break in".
Maybe the problem isn't the source, but what's in the source.
The page asks is the thing can be held. Of course it can... space your hands about 1 feet away from each other in the air, palms facing each other.
Ok... now start twindling your fingers as if you're playing a game!
Ok, got it? Seems comfortable enough doesn't it? Ok, now scream something you'd scream during game play. Like "COME ON! I HAD THAT!" while moving the imaginary controller around like a mad man.
There you go!
Congratulations!
You successfully look like an idiot.
Anyone ever have the Lego Candy?
That stuff was tasty. But probably took out a few of my teeth.
Digital cameras lack something real cameras have. Take the classic blackmail example:
Me: TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
*Neema throws down photos on desk*
Senator: *GASP*
Me: That's right. You. Dancing with the forbidden monkey. Dancing the forbidden dance with the forbidden monkey!
Senator: Please... if these get out, I'll never get reelected. And if I don't get reelected, I can't get the Senator's discount at Ben and Jerry's!
Me: And don't even think of ripping these up! I have copies at home! But, I think we can work something out...
*Senator pulls out check book*
But now, with these god damn digital cameras:
Me: TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
*Neema gently places digital camera on desk, so it doesn't break*
Senator: Yeah, my daughter has one of these.
Me: No, no, no. Argh. It turned off. It does that. Turns off automatically after 3 minutes... ok... gimme that...
*Neema turns on camera, places on desk again*
Me: OK, TAKE A LOOK AT THESE SENATOR!
Senator: It's a dog.
Me: Oh yeah, that's my dog Scruffy. Argh. Yeah, press the right arrow. Get past those pictures. Yep, that's Aunt Sally. Come on, a bit faster. ARGH, JUST GIVE IT TO ME!
*Grabs camera, scrolls to incriminating pictures*
Me: THERE YOU ARE! YOU, DANCING THE FORBIDDEN DANCE WITH THE FORBIDDEN MONKEY!
Senator: Please... if these get out, I'll never get reelected. And if I don't get reelected, I can't get the Senator's discount at Ben and Jerry's!
Me: Yeah, well, I'm going to stop by staples to get glossy photo paper and I'll be printing out a bunch of these!
*Senator pulls out check book*
I still like the first situation better.
Don't forget, he doesn't just want you to write the virus, but actually infect his computer with it. That's considerably harder.
Does he just want his linux box destroyed or does it have to be a virus? He can give me his address, I'll gladly fly down to his house and smash up his linux box with a bat for 10,000 pounds (that's around 14,534 dollars and 22 cents).
At first, I wanted DSL for broadband over cable. I called Verizon or whoever it was I was getting it from and they told me I was in perfect shape to receive it.
And then they told me I was too far away.
And then they told me I was fine again.
And so on.
Finally, After about a month and a week or two, I just called Time Warner to get road runner. By the weekend, it had been set up.
I'm not suprised these guys are losing tremendous amounts of money. (DSL)
Are these the right preventive measurements we should be taking?
There are three vague aspects of criminal law. They split them up into the classic criminal, the socio-behavioral criminal and the conflict criminal.
Now the theory behind the classic criminal is that he/she/they think out the crime before they commit it. Think about it in advance, look at the reprecussions, weigh the benefits and the detriments and make the decision.
To combat these criminals, a process known as target hardening and situational prevention. Make it harder to commit the crime, catch 'em in the act, make examples and make punishments harsh enough to scare them off.
But then you get to the other criminals. Socio-behavioral and conflict criminals.
Socio-behavioral criminals are affected by factors just as social pressure, social interaction, social dysfunction, behavior dysfunction and social moral development.
The general concept of preventing socio-behavioral criminals from emerging is to find the flaws in their society and environment and work on them.
A similar concept behind the conflict criminology.
A conflict criminal is suppose to be one who commits "crime" (crime by our definition may be rebellion by theirs) because of situations of oppression, injustice or inequality.
A conflict criminologist would also most likely disagree with the anti-terrorism package proposal set forth as one would believe that this would just increase the injustice, inequality and oppression, at least in the eyes of the "criminal". For them, the real prevention methods would be to set forth to equalize the people and lift any oppression.
Now of course, lets apply this to our own time. Osama bin Laden personally declares Palestine as a reasoning for America being devoid of safety.
My personal opinion is that this won't work, because Osama bin Laden is more a conflict criminal, or a socio-behavioral criminal, then anything. So are most of these terrorists. Whether we agree with it or not, the guns and tanks and other support we give to Israel is being used to occupy Palestine and expand Israeli land. Palestenian people are being killed by our bullets. Palestenian kids are standing in front of our tanks and throwing rocks (as a kid of 16 years old, I find it a bit crazy and a bit admirable for a kid of my age to throw rocks at a tank coming torwards them. It requires either alot of balls or so much anger as an injustice that you simply don't care).
So even if these changes to American privacy go through, how much good can they do before they're just being used against American people? Not only will the terrorists find other ways, but when someone is willing to give their lives to do something, it's very hard to stop them.
Perhaps we should look torwards our foreign policy before we jump the gun and "declare war". The relatives and friends of the innocent "callataral" people who may get harmed by our bombings are potential terrorists, and so are the relatives and friends of the terorrists we imprison. Punishment is necessary, I agree, but so is prevention.
I wonder how much of this comes from the fact that Zimmerman was receiving hate mail for reports that Osama Bin Laden was using his encryption for communications, something he resorted to after he found out the US can monitor his satellite phone conversations.
But doesn't Osama know... the download page specifically says for US residents only!
u r redudant asshole u r so stupid die dumb udmb heafsdfsdfasdfasd
These terrible people, taking advantage of such tragedies...
In completely unrelated break through, I will be selling white t-shirts with "Check out this shirt, I'm a real American!" written on it with black magic marker. Only 29.95.
Orders to come in anytime now.
Osama bin Laden reportedly vows to destroy America for the attacks it launched against Afghanistan. His evil partner Bert was quick to add "Oh, and we're going to blow up that fucking rubber ducky too."
Well, how would you like driving down the road with your mother in the seat while you have your phone and the ads change to "Strip Bar, Exit 79"?
"would a person, if they had a choice pick windows media player over WinAmp if they had to do research and make a choice?"
WinAmp is the most popular mp3 client for Windows. Obviously their attempt at a monopoly failed there.
"Would they buy windows compression over winzip?"
Again, WinZip is more popular.
"Would they choose IE over Netscape?"
I use to use Netscape a bit ago. Use to hate IE. However, Netscape's software around the 4.6 series turned into shit and I turned to IE. I was quite pleased with it and am running IE6 with no problems. Netscape had the market a while back, they just couldn't hold it.
The fact of the matter is that the fact that Microsoft bundles it's own software with it's OS challenges programmers to make a program that destroys programs that Microsoft includes. A truly good program will get downloads to replace the Microsoft one, even from Average users. WinAmp is a perfect example. And while Microsoft's buisness practices are unethical, rather then bitch about it, we should see more software that is superior to Microsoft products.
Lets hope the bathroom servers don't have a disk dump!
Get it?
Eh?
Eh?
This "attempt" at a monopoly through file extensions is something that would only be successful for those who know nothing about the OS at all. Using Win2k as we speak, right clicking on any file and going to "Open with" seems easy enough. Better yet, it has a check box of "use this program to open up the file as default". Very easy. Of course, if no one bothers to look for it, I'm sure it can be considered hard.
I agree that Microsoft does things specifically to retain a monopoly, but does everything it do have that purpose?
I doubt it.
Salon is not a pay site. Try it again. Works fine.
Maybe this is a response to this.