Interesting. I had concluded the site was fake for my reply to the GP --I had only noticed that their "about us" page and their root index page recycle the content almost fully. Also, it was odd to see no stock photos of blisful temps that legit sites have.
I looked around and found these reasons for legitimacy:
* I missed the list of postings * Area code 585 and an 800 number. Normally phones aren't available at all, specially a real company name. * Listed names that google confirms have linked in and other pages tied to the company name they list. All other sites hide the names or give you a few that are fake (no web links at all to that first/lastname combination, or even the company's name) * Fake sites are meant to have just one landing page and maybe another for filling the trap application form. Here, they even have a login form with the usual red asterisks, and even a "forgot your pw?" link --mouseover shows they do not go to a single, catchall url like fake sites. * Ditto for their "latest projects" section. Fake sites have no need to even make up assignments --they still somehow get people to give up their info.
Leave the signs as they are, and refund that money to the taxpayers.
Funneling that street-sign money to the transportation services will have a more welcome impact. New York is already expensive, and its unlimited public transportation pass is about to die, so economically that means fewer shopping sprees and reduced tourism.
Visiting Indian/Mexican/wherever tourists making cents of US$ per hour can't spend DOLLARS for transportation like us local wage-earners can earn. "Crisis averted" tag, indeed.
After posting my email address publicly on careerbuilder.com, I started getting lots of emails advertising money mule positions.
I hear you. It is a annoying that so many +75k job offers [fake salary even if the job were real] completely unrelated to my career follow two principles:
* Taking advantage of our assumption [we are all naive at some point] that all "employers" and "jobs" there are authenticated, which is the whole reason we all fork over a phone, email address and tons of details that facebook would LOVE to data mine
* They're making enough scam-cash to profit despite $400-$600/month fees that job boards charge employers for the most basic rights to access our resumes.
The number of work-from-home emails plummeted when I 1) started aggressively filtering domains, subject lines and even blocking TO: lines lacking my email address (how does that even work?!) 2) most importantly, realized that an e-mail address allows spammers and lazy/obnoxious headhunters to add me to lists [the latter ignoring my OBJECTIVE line]
US headhunters cold-emails for BCC'ing dozens of candidates about bullet points completely absent from my resume. When I withhold that email, their reduced anonymity of being on a phone call has meant that they mention company name, callback number, and almost ALWAYS actually read my resume before making stupid mistakes that the other "toss-garbage-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks" headhunters make constantly. Even on a call, it's obvious that they too say "must have 3 years of active directory experience" or a CCNA, which is not something you just forget to put on your resume --they then realize they called the wrong person and wasted both of our time.
Once on the phone though, legit reps request your email, so you can't go wrong with having screened the callers so you can verify by caller ID / domain names and rep names that you're dealing with a legit entity. Also, to this day no mule jobs have been offered to me over the phone... it's too easy to track phone calls and bust their business model that way.
It's as much "French" as it is "Spanish." It is 100% latin: liber. The word Liberty now has a new ring, eh? That suggestion by another/. poster to properly name LibreOffice as "Liberty Office Suit" is sounding better by the hour from a PR perspective.
I started having doubts about it when I noticed the branding got changed (Oracle rebranded everything in its favor after the acquisition of Sun.) The new program icons are not color coded, so it's extremely hard to relearn which sub-program you're about to start that new document in. The older one's colors are pretty quick to memorize.
This gives me more power for ALWAYS saving software installers. I haven't noticed real changes under the hood other than the look's 2010 refresh. I install the old version whenever my kin group needs "Office."
I had spread OpenOffice since version 1 with very little success with the technical people (and their less-technical friends that know who to ask to just pirate MS Office so they can keep all the features.) They always turn me down when I offer to replace their expired trial of Office with something that is not MS Office.
Shame, because they must put up with MS's constant GUI changes --see the 2007 ribbon. The problem with my less technical friends happily using OOo is that "Libre" is a little-known loan word in English and will destroy my years of publicizing "Open." Spanish-like words are a bad idea for PR in the United States unless you work for Chevy and have "Silverado" naming your product line.
I don't see market for all this stuff. Who need a cell phone (or 2), netbook, ebook reader and tablet at the same time? I predict gadget saturation.
If saturation does happen, we'll welcome it! I'm tiring of waiting for $200 price tags for netbooks, Android smartphones and tablets. Amazon's ereader finally got way under that mark, an my wallet is itching for more supply so I can demand low prices.
Subsidized contracts bring lock-in and force you into data plans even if you just want a lightweight wifi device to carry with no 3G service. Maybe next year's christmas gifts will include these cheap tablets?
That man's survival due to head/brain injury in the face of certain death reminds me of another "believe it or not" jewel duscussed OT on/. few weeks back.
A XIX century miner named Phineas Gage long survived a mining explosion that put a 13 pound metal rod of 3.5 feet across a room, after leaving a vertical hole in his head.
Wikipedia's mention of seizures for both, and the related links citing auras and other pre-seizure electrical phenomena sound like a sobering human depiction of how power lines in movies keep crackling with current after being torn appart. The odd part is that after the original wounds "heal" (as far as a big hole in your head can be healed) the symptoms are few. Unlike your story, though, Mr. Gage did have the expected behavioral changes that IIRC head trauma patients are usually related to, at least in Cog Sci courses:)
Funny. At the risk of being "in before Whoosh!" I'll say one important thing to remember if you're planning to live in the US soon.
This extremely low maximum under 30 IP's per month in a country of 300,000,000 people (that's 10^7 times larger) is an unfortunate result of
1) The decreasing trust in American "work productivity." 2) Our legal system getting in the way of any expectation of speedy processing of (1).
Creating a "smaller legal" system to counter that will never happen. The US probably needs to do like Russia and break up into smaller countries with no more than EU-like ties. That way, independent but decisive laws are born because they won't need to account for 3x10^8 people from different time-zones, wildly different backgrounds, federal law putting people under one banner on issues that are clearly best decided more locally, and law enforcement complaining about lack of jurisdiction because conmen took you for a ride and then moved around.
And they wonder why Slashdot is declining in popularity.
There might be something yet unexplained about proto-nerds faced with the seriousness of our discussion systems and news (yes, funny comments and all.) I have tried to pimp slashdot to a few geeks-in-training over the years in two different tech-support environments; mostly because I'd like to see them become more code-friendly. They're not digg users, like one child comment to yours considered. I tried to use how their looking up to me for being resourceful and tech-savvy when they needed experienced help was due to slashdot, and didn't hide how much I come here and all. And still, they couldn't care less about coming here even if they are news junkies.
Seeing that it takes a specific mindset to stick around here, just like it takes a kind of person to be active on deviantart, I'll have to guess that it's not that often "digg kids" keep a/. account more than a few days. The rest is probably just digg culture rubbing off on us, the/. mindset people.
and if I was the CEO of AMD I'd be fricking dancing in the streets at this news.
You mention that and a future with AMD not copying this choice of CPU software paywalls. The shareholders bear more profit by copying today's move by Intel under the approach dubbed "everyone's doing this, we're just joining the cash bandwagon."
Once a similar stench hit the ISP industry a few years ago, ISP's didn't stand idly mocking competitors for the single aggro-generating move in the room. Instead, their quick and widespread annihilation of the free alt.binary usenet ensued --it was standard practice for decades to give it away free.
The economy is only the catalyst that we will indeed see the worst take place with AMD and all others. Even Microsoft has been shipping their CDs with the files in place to upgrade your Windows Home editions. We stopped owning our PC the day serial keys hit the drawing board.
An official client means they can follow in MS and Yahoo Messenger's footsteps: capitalize on rotating ad delivery. Ads are not enforced by alternative clients, simply because the IM delivery protocols weren't designed to deliver ads. Now, they want in on that, and perhaps later ban unofficial clients by breaking their backward compat if they're bold.
Slightly OT, like you: How much it be just our geek IQ and how much game training?
Would the improvement on "making decisions" faster also have to do with why an informally tested IQ of 136 (or the training in me) lets me laugh or note the subtly telegraphed gags, or scary moments, seconds before others at the movie theathers?
Happened in fast-paced scenes like the new Scott Pilgrim movie for example.
so £35 per month buys you much more bandwidth than it did five years ago.
The problem is that we don't need expensive abundance. We need cheap abundance. My pipes at home are not going to change in size, and most people are being forced to pay a reservoir's share of water to be able to fill no more than a swimming pools'.
It's even worse when we account for increasing QoS and non-compete policies (the ban of HTTP servers and VPN's as well as the destruction of standards like ye olde bundling of binary usenet) that effectively remove value from your fixed price
Free speech does not mean you are not responsible for the content of your speech.
But at least in the USA, free speech is exactly that, except for your being legally liable when "crying fire" to endanger others [the metaphone is "wolf" in general,] and slandering. Removing that exception, you are left with anonymous speech in that the content of your speech cannot be traced and attributed to you for punishment or praise.
Yeah, e-mail does not "forget" and everyone knows that by now, especially when someone has the clarity of mind to locate the email address of a potential enemy not already in their address book for a new written attack.
"Forgetting" in his statements sounds like it is impossible for him to go back to his outbook and print it out to better position him on his own defense. This is like the "I was crazy at the time, your honor" defense. It's also like lying about having called me when you owed me something, claiming that my answering machine did not kick in on the supposed call, and that the call's [false] happening would evade our ubiquitous caller ID logging. Mostly older fools use this latter defense. They don't understand technology enough to lie well.
but sometimes I have to shake my head at how quickly some of you jump to defend an individual who claims to be innocent, framed, whatever
Since "a fellow geek" on slashdot to a point believes that "information wants to be free", and that "knowlege is power" and so on, it doesn't matter if our advise is used for good or evil.
Availability of information alone would not make a guilty party innocent, would it? Let the courts decide that, and not us.
To quote someone else on this thread (scrib (1277042)):
We think a brand-new, top of the line phone should cost $100-200, not $600+.
So that about kills the nexus and nokia for most people here. Lacking subsidy, they're high up there in the $450 - $550 range and I doubt they cost that much in euros out there, because there's little incentive to buy an expensive phone in Europe when all others are already cheap and unlocked.
Returning to the price range above: unlike a hammer, tech keeps being reinventing itself and hiding the bodies of supposedly ever-cheapening older versions. I remember the G1 android phone was discontinued shortly after it went down to half price.
Slashdot Mirror
Interesting. I had concluded the site was fake for my reply to the GP --I had only noticed that their "about us" page and their root index page recycle the content almost fully. Also, it was odd to see no stock photos of blisful temps that legit sites have.
I looked around and found these reasons for legitimacy:
* I missed the list of postings
* Area code 585 and an 800 number. Normally phones aren't available at all, specially a real company name.
* Listed names that google confirms have linked in and other pages tied to the company name they list. All other sites hide the names or give you a few that are fake (no web links at all to that first/lastname combination, or even the company's name)
* Fake sites are meant to have just one landing page and maybe another for filling the trap application form. Here, they even have a login form with the usual red asterisks, and even a "forgot your pw?" link --mouseover shows they do not go to a single, catchall url like fake sites.
* Ditto for their "latest projects" section. Fake sites have no need to even make up assignments --they still somehow get people to give up their info.
Leave the signs as they are, and refund that money to the taxpayers.
Funneling that street-sign money to the transportation services will have a more welcome impact. New York is already expensive, and its unlimited public transportation pass is about to die, so economically that means fewer shopping sprees and reduced tourism.
Visiting Indian/Mexican/wherever tourists making cents of US$ per hour can't spend DOLLARS for transportation like us local wage-earners can earn. "Crisis averted" tag, indeed.
After posting my email address publicly on careerbuilder.com, I started getting lots of emails advertising money mule positions.
I hear you. It is a annoying that so many +75k job offers [fake salary even if the job were real] completely unrelated to my career follow two principles:
* Taking advantage of our assumption [we are all naive at some point] that all "employers" and "jobs" there are authenticated, which is the whole reason we all fork over a phone, email address and tons of details that facebook would LOVE to data mine
* They're making enough scam-cash to profit despite $400-$600/month fees that job boards charge employers for the most basic rights to access our resumes.
The number of work-from-home emails plummeted when I
1) started aggressively filtering domains, subject lines and even blocking TO: lines lacking my email address (how does that even work?!)
2) most importantly, realized that an e-mail address allows spammers and lazy/obnoxious headhunters to add me to lists [the latter ignoring my OBJECTIVE line]
US headhunters cold-emails for BCC'ing dozens of candidates about bullet points completely absent from my resume. When I withhold that email, their reduced anonymity of being on a phone call has meant that they mention company name, callback number, and almost ALWAYS actually read my resume before making stupid mistakes that the other "toss-garbage-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks" headhunters make constantly. Even on a call, it's obvious that they too say "must have 3 years of active directory experience" or a CCNA, which is not something you just forget to put on your resume --they then realize they called the wrong person and wasted both of our time.
Once on the phone though, legit reps request your email, so you can't go wrong with having screened the callers so you can verify by caller ID / domain names and rep names that you're dealing with a legit entity. Also, to this day no mule jobs have been offered to me over the phone... it's too easy to track phone calls and bust their business model that way.
Thanks. I do remember going there for Winamp 2.5 some years ago. I have also acquired old versions there that slashdotters would shoot me for ;)
Libre is French for Free
You and I are both correct, yet not accurate. The etymology seems to dictate yet another true source.
It's as much "French" as it is "Spanish." It is 100% latin: liber. The word Liberty now has a new ring, eh? That suggestion by another /. poster to properly name LibreOffice as "Liberty Office Suit" is sounding better by the hour from a PR perspective.
amen! #1 reason I've never understood podcasts... Reading is sooo much faster and more convenient.
Moder OS's have text-to-speech so we can all lay back and read that transcript
I googled his name on altavista.com...
That's priceless.
Amazing all the... brain rewiring for tech fields. Which applies for the GP and I, who also didn't even bat an eye till you pointed it out. Ouch.
I started having doubts about it when I noticed the branding got changed (Oracle rebranded everything in its favor after the acquisition of Sun.) The new program icons are not color coded, so it's extremely hard to relearn which sub-program you're about to start that new document in. The older one's colors are pretty quick to memorize.
This gives me more power for ALWAYS saving software installers. I haven't noticed real changes under the hood other than the look's 2010 refresh. I install the old version whenever my kin group needs "Office."
I had spread OpenOffice since version 1 with very little success with the technical people (and their less-technical friends that know who to ask to just pirate MS Office so they can keep all the features.) They always turn me down when I offer to replace their expired trial of Office with something that is not MS Office.
Shame, because they must put up with MS's constant GUI changes --see the 2007 ribbon. The problem with my less technical friends happily using OOo is that "Libre" is a little-known loan word in English and will destroy my years of publicizing "Open." Spanish-like words are a bad idea for PR in the United States unless you work for Chevy and have "Silverado" naming your product line.
I don't see market for all this stuff. Who need a cell phone (or 2), netbook, ebook reader and tablet at the same time? I predict gadget saturation.
If saturation does happen, we'll welcome it! I'm tiring of waiting for $200 price tags for netbooks, Android smartphones and tablets. Amazon's ereader finally got way under that mark, an my wallet is itching for more supply so I can demand low prices.
Subsidized contracts bring lock-in and force you into data plans even if you just want a lightweight wifi device to carry with no 3G service. Maybe next year's christmas gifts will include these cheap tablets?
That man's survival due to head/brain injury in the face of certain death reminds me of another "believe it or not" jewel duscussed OT on /. few weeks back.
A XIX century miner named Phineas Gage long survived a mining explosion that put a 13 pound metal rod of 3.5 feet across a room, after leaving a vertical hole in his head.
Wikipedia's mention of seizures for both, and the related links citing auras and other pre-seizure electrical phenomena sound like a sobering human depiction of how power lines in movies keep crackling with current after being torn appart. The odd part is that after the original wounds "heal" (as far as a big hole in your head can be healed) the symptoms are few. Unlike your story, though, Mr. Gage did have the expected behavioral changes that IIRC head trauma patients are usually related to, at least in Cog Sci courses :)
Funny. At the risk of being "in before Whoosh!"
I'll say one important thing to remember if you're planning to live in the US soon.
This extremely low maximum under 30 IP's per month in a country of 300,000,000 people (that's 10^7 times larger) is an unfortunate result of
1) The decreasing trust in American "work productivity."
2) Our legal system getting in the way of any expectation of speedy processing of (1).
Creating a "smaller legal" system to counter that will never happen. The US probably needs to do like Russia and break up into smaller countries with no more than EU-like ties. That way, independent but decisive laws are born because they won't need to account for 3x10^8 people from different time-zones, wildly different backgrounds, federal law putting people under one banner on issues that are clearly best decided more locally, and law enforcement complaining about lack of jurisdiction because conmen took you for a ride and then moved around.
Wife/SO: "That's it, I'm leaving. Masturbating to porn I could handle, but to Slashdot?!?"
Rule34: For anything you can think of, there is pr0n of it somewhere waiting to be found.
And they wonder why Slashdot is declining in popularity.
There might be something yet unexplained about proto-nerds faced with the seriousness of our discussion systems and news (yes, funny comments and all.) I have tried to pimp slashdot to a few geeks-in-training over the years in two different tech-support environments; mostly because I'd like to see them become more code-friendly. They're not digg users, like one child comment to yours considered. I tried to use how their looking up to me for being resourceful and tech-savvy when they needed experienced help was due to slashdot, and didn't hide how much I come here and all. And still, they couldn't care less about coming here even if they are news junkies.
Seeing that it takes a specific mindset to stick around here, just like it takes a kind of person to be active on deviantart, I'll have to guess that it's not that often "digg kids" keep a /. account more than a few days. The rest is probably just digg culture rubbing off on us, the /. mindset people.
and if I was the CEO of AMD I'd be fricking dancing in the streets at this news.
You mention that and a future with AMD not copying this choice of CPU software paywalls. The shareholders bear more profit by copying today's move by Intel under the approach dubbed "everyone's doing this, we're just joining the cash bandwagon."
Once a similar stench hit the ISP industry a few years ago, ISP's didn't stand idly mocking competitors for the single aggro-generating move in the room. Instead, their quick and widespread annihilation of the free alt.binary usenet ensued --it was standard practice for decades to give it away free.
The economy is only the catalyst that we will indeed see the worst take place with AMD and all others. Even Microsoft has been shipping their CDs with the files in place to upgrade your Windows Home editions. We stopped owning our PC the day serial keys hit the drawing board.
An official client means they can follow in MS and Yahoo Messenger's footsteps: capitalize on rotating ad delivery. Ads are not enforced by alternative clients, simply because the IM delivery protocols weren't designed to deliver ads. Now, they want in on that, and perhaps later ban unofficial clients by breaking their backward compat if they're bold.
Slightly OT, like you: How much it be just our geek IQ and how much game training?
Would the improvement on "making decisions" faster also have to do with why an informally tested IQ of 136 (or the training in me) lets me laugh or note the subtly telegraphed gags, or scary moments, seconds before others at the movie theathers?
Happened in fast-paced scenes like the new Scott Pilgrim movie for example.
I appreciate the info. Sorry for my hours of absence from the thread, since a question about my exact meaning is implied.
I referred to the INS's practice of letting you "Americanize" your old name at citizenship time.
so £35 per month buys you much more bandwidth than it did five years ago.
The problem is that we don't need expensive abundance. We need cheap abundance. My pipes at home are not going to change in size, and most people are being forced to pay a reservoir's share of water to be able to fill no more than a swimming pools'.
It's even worse when we account for increasing QoS and non-compete policies (the ban of HTTP servers and VPN's as well as the destruction of standards like ye olde bundling of binary usenet) that effectively remove value from your fixed price
...but does he run Linux?
Seeing how he stated "and maybe things have gotten better with a new name and changes"
the question should be:
Did he legally change his name to "Linux" ?
Free speech does not mean you are not responsible for the content of your speech.
But at least in the USA, free speech is exactly that, except for your being legally liable when "crying fire" to endanger others [the metaphone is "wolf" in general,] and slandering. Removing that exception, you are left with anonymous speech in that the content of your speech cannot be traced and attributed to you for punishment or praise.
Yeah, e-mail does not "forget" and everyone knows that by now, especially when someone has the clarity of mind to locate the email address of a potential enemy not already in their address book for a new written attack.
"Forgetting" in his statements sounds like it is impossible for him to go back to his outbook and print it out to better position him on his own defense. This is like the "I was crazy at the time, your honor" defense. It's also like lying about having called me when you owed me something, claiming that my answering machine did not kick in on the supposed call, and that the call's [false] happening would evade our ubiquitous caller ID logging. Mostly older fools use this latter defense. They don't understand technology enough to lie well.
but sometimes I have to shake my head at how quickly some of you jump to defend an individual who claims to be innocent, framed, whatever
Since "a fellow geek" on slashdot to a point believes that "information wants to be free", and that "knowlege is power" and so on, it doesn't matter if our advise is used for good or evil.
Availability of information alone would not make a guilty party innocent, would it? Let the courts decide that, and not us.
If your whole system locks due to the browser hanging, that's poor system design (Windows, Mac) or failing hardware.
Or your IE box just got owned and spyware needs to be removed from it.
One big feature is missing when you take this approach: the classic system lacks a "Quote Parent" button.
To quote someone else on this thread (scrib (1277042)):
We think a brand-new, top of the line phone should cost $100-200, not $600+.
So that about kills the nexus and nokia for most people here. Lacking subsidy, they're high up there in the $450 - $550 range and I doubt they cost that much in euros out there, because there's little incentive to buy an expensive phone in Europe when all others are already cheap and unlocked.
Returning to the price range above: unlike a hammer, tech keeps being reinventing itself and hiding the bodies of supposedly ever-cheapening older versions. I remember the G1 android phone was discontinued shortly after it went down to half price.