I believe that this sets the precedent for the general behavior of internet trolls:
Colm Coss's activities were uncovered when he posted photos of himself to neighbours
That's what they do. They troll you online, and then they send you photos of themselves. That's their nature and MO. They can't help it cause they are a bit wrong in the head like that.
Ergo, when you get a photo in your mail - it's the person who's been trolling you. Call the police to arrest him/her.
An employer is someone who gives you a job which provides money you need for food, shelter, and clothes.
And you "provide" work from which your employer derives a profit, but that doesn't really count as providing cause you are not the one giving money and there are plenty people like you or better BEGGING for a job like that.
BULLSHIT!
You WORK for your PAY so you could "provide" for YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. Your employer does diddly-squat in that relationship unless there is money in it FOR HIM, through direct or indirect profit.
but I seriously doubt that a "social gaming" company with 3 successfull games in a market space limited to 150 million users is worth more than a traditional game publisher with multiple successful games in a market space with more than 1.9 billion people (the number of people connected to the Internet, the real number is probably bigger)
...or is that the just the part of your "completely missing the point" strategy? Zynga games are (according to you) somehow NOT a part of that 1.9 BILLLLLIIIIOOONN market? Everyone on the Internets buys EA games constantly? Are you even aware what kind of games Zynga is pushing? Ever been to Facebook?
The point the parent poster was making is that EA is in business of selling DVDs. Which is a physical object with mass, size etc. Some of their products even come in a huge promotional box - just so you could play a game for a couple of hours. They also cost significant amounts of money - both for the software AND the hardware. And even should they switch to a completely electronic form of software delivery - their software weighs several gigabytes.
On the other hand, those Zynga games are basically free (or appear to be) - unless you REALLY want to spend money on them. There are no software and hardware requirements other than that which is needed to browse the internet today. And the items that they DO sell to their players cost $0.00 to produce, deliver, stock, install... REGARDLESS how big their or 7/11's commission on the items is - they are making money cause their products cost basically NOTHING to produce and deliver. They can be making 0.00001% of the purchase in that deal AND STILL making loads of money cause they are selling ACTUAL IMAGINARY PROPERTY. Forget IP-rights bullshit - this is the real deal. They are selling single bits of information wrapped in hot air.
And the best part is - putting their "products" on consumables means that thousands of people who actually DON'T play their games will also be giving them money anyway. They are basically making money out of thin air.
So because you're not able to skip past a tabloid-style story that results in some harmless speculation about time travel, you're advocating that someone kill the slashdot employee?
Really??
It's because I'm too far away to do that myself. Also, I do believe that there are people out there who would do it for free. $10 is more like for beer or coffee afterwards.
Yeah, you could. You could also ignore just stories posted by samzenpus - there's a check-box for that. Or you could go somewhere else for your "all things nerdy" news, stories and discussions.
But that would be purposefully ignoring a chunk of Slashdot and something like reverse self-censorship. And I don't want even my "silly news" to be censored. Hell, there are days when half the stories on Slashdot are "idle" stories.
What I DO want is for ALL OF MY NEWS to be at least not pointlessly stale (if not actually new) and with SOME level of logic/quality control implemented during the picking of the stories. NOT reading on Slashdot something that could be seen on youtube 10 days ago or a week ago in local papers. Or a story about something that has been around for TWO FUCKING YEARS like that Thumbler replica the other day.
If I want clueless people who have no contact with the outside world dumping nonsense disguised as news in front of my eyeballs I'll go browse digg or watch some TV.
Won't someone close to 'that' which calls itself 'samzenpus' please end our suffering and remove that hack from this plane of existence? For fucks sake, it is a constant barrage of chewed over, stale, incorrect, unchecked, "Bigfoot-sighting", irrelevant, pathetic excuse for "news" not even fit for a schoolgirl's blog.
What's next? That story about that guy who recently found the image of Jesus (that looks like a Dalek) in the rings of a fallen tree? Or a "news story" about canals on Mars? How about a link to a blog claiming a scientific basis to the reading of tea leaves?
Jon Katz was at least... well... you could laugh at him. This pus guy on the other hand is simply intellectually insulting.
*Stakes are free and biodegradable. Plates, silver or otherwise are neither.
Seriously samzenpus, what's your next "news" story? Are you gonna tell us about this brand new Batman movie with aweeeeesoooomeeeee Joker played by (yourenotgonnabelieveit) Heath Ledger of all people? Or how about the upcoming Star Trek reboot - with completely new actors playing the original crew?
FFS... Can't there be SOME quality control to his stories posted here?
At about... oh... 100 random students (as in - didn't really pick to be there by themselves, not their favorite subject but they have to this subject anyway) you will start to notice those that simply... don't function properly. Not retarded or stupid even, their minds simply can't bend around certain concepts or tasks. The best they can do is just memorize - or cheat. Think bog standard PC's - where one has an integrated graphic card and another comes with a pluginable one with similar performances. Similar on paper. And let's not even go into what makes a "standard" PC. Even two "standard" Macs are not exactly the same, let alone two random home-built boxes.
As for "Anyone with that aspiration can"... everyone MAY not be able to. Ramanujan was a mathematical genius who was cast aside by two other professors before Hardy decided to take a closer look at his "scribblings". And just as things were starting to pick up for him - he died.
Invictus may be a nice poem - but it is full of shit. Particularly the last two lines.
I can't escape a feeling that what they are doing is akin to slicing apples and then taking high grain black and white photos of those slices - in order to find out how they taste.
Delorean is PUSHED through a portal created by the flux capacitor which actually exploits naturally occurring folds in the space-time by poking a tiny hole (from the universe's point of view) in those folds for a fraction of a second. Delorean needs to be moving at 88 mph in order to get to the other side in one piece before the portal closes.
So you see... it is more like the Star Gate than like H.G. Wells' time machine. Now, that one should have ended floating in space upon arrival... Unless...
What if gravity wells (being a dent in the fabric of space-time) extend like a trench instead of like a circular dent? So, just as it holds you firmly attached to Earth instead of flying out to space while going slowly forward through space-time, Earth's gravity-trench keeps you moving along the same line up/down the trench while you are moving fast forward/backward through space-time.
The 'funny' part is in the fact that you are treating this as if it is a technical problem with a technical solution. Namely, "let's wash our hands off this and give them a jailbreak button"-solution. It isn't.
Apple is a corporation - first and foremost. THEN, after we establish that, we determine what kind of a corporation they are this day, month, decade... Are they more into technical business, artistic, musical, IP rights... etc. Being a corporation, their main (possibly only) goal is MAKING MONEY. And that means make it NOW! FUCK THE CSR!
And there is no money in giving users a 'jailbreak button'. Not for Apple that is. In fact, you can probably bet your ass that somewhere in the wast field of corporate spreadsheets there is a column (or several) that would suddenly dip into 'red' should Apple users get such an option. Say... something like... 'planned number of apps/products bought through the app store per user'. Apps/products they will no longer have access to as they have chosen not to accept the EULAs that give exclusive salesman rights to Apple stores and services. And suddenly, with each (now thoroughly documented) 'jailbreak' - Apple starts losing money. Sure, it's only perceived spreadsheet money to us - but not to the stockholders and bankers.
Apple's customers are not tied into Apple's services because of their own convenience or safety - they are LOCKED IN because that makes sure they don't spend their money somewhere else. And a 'jailbroken' iPhone gives them exactly that option - to go somewhere else. Besides, that stinks a lot like that obscenity that Google is doing.
Actually I've been lurking around here since the late 90s
Even funnier. All it lacks is a "Back in my day..." or a "Get off my lawn!" to tie into a classic Slashdot meme.
Well I'm not that guy, as I think ACs are the cancer killing/. and making it too much like the chans
You do realize how hilarious that sounds from someone so high up the ID ladder? I mean.. if ACs were 'cancer killing Slashdot' - how did you get here? Fuck... How did I get here? Shouldn't this place have been dead somewhere around 30k accounts?
but it seems to me the solution would be allowing an "end run" like Apple did with iTunes DRM. What they should do is put a button in the options that says "If you type in your name in this box and pick yes the phone is officially jailbroken. We hold NO responsibility for it any more, you void the warranty, blah blah blah all the legalese" and if the owner follows the instructions he/she has a broken phone and is on their own. This would allow Apple to have a legal way to disolve any responibility for the phone, while allowing the owner to do what they want with the phone. Better than having to have users "hack" their phones and risk Apple iPhone becoming a haven for malware pretending to be jailbreaking tools. Seems like a win/win to me.
Seriously... Do you do stand-up in your free time?
But please... do keep it up. This place COULD use some naivete. We are all WAY to cynical.
Parent meant that you can't listen to digital radio broadcast on an analog radio - as any radio built from homemade components would be utterly analog.
As for wikipedia not being available... It is not the knowledge without, it is the knowledge within that counts. Most libraries are just as useful as wikipedia if you know WHAT you are looking for. And just like with wikipedia, you don't have to know everything about a certain topic to be able to find texts on it - just a couple of keywords. Sure, searching through dozens of books will page by page is slower than googling but hey - we are talking about being dumped back to early 19th century at least.
Slashdot Mirror
Why would anyone believe him?
I believe that this sets the precedent for the general behavior of internet trolls:
Colm Coss's activities were uncovered when he posted photos of himself to neighbours
That's what they do.
They troll you online, and then they send you photos of themselves. That's their nature and MO. They can't help it cause they are a bit wrong in the head like that.
Ergo, when you get a photo in your mail - it's the person who's been trolling you. Call the police to arrest him/her.
Asperger's is the new sheik.
Asperger's is the new Arabian tribal elder?
"You're alive because you're lucky" would be a better response.
He already pointed out that he is rich.
An employer is someone who gives you a job which provides money you need for food, shelter, and clothes.
And you "provide" work from which your employer derives a profit, but that doesn't really count as providing cause you are not the one giving money and there are plenty people like you or better BEGGING for a job like that.
BULLSHIT!
You WORK for your PAY so you could "provide" for YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
Your employer does diddly-squat in that relationship unless there is money in it FOR HIM, through direct or indirect profit.
but I seriously doubt that a "social gaming" company with 3 successfull games in a market space limited to 150 million users is worth more than a traditional game publisher with multiple successful games in a market space with more than 1.9 billion people (the number of people connected to the Internet, the real number is probably bigger)
...or is that the just the part of your "completely missing the point" strategy?
Zynga games are (according to you) somehow NOT a part of that 1.9 BILLLLLIIIIOOONN market?
Everyone on the Internets buys EA games constantly?
Are you even aware what kind of games Zynga is pushing?
Ever been to Facebook?
The point the parent poster was making is that EA is in business of selling DVDs.
Which is a physical object with mass, size etc.
Some of their products even come in a huge promotional box - just so you could play a game for a couple of hours.
They also cost significant amounts of money - both for the software AND the hardware.
And even should they switch to a completely electronic form of software delivery - their software weighs several gigabytes.
On the other hand, those Zynga games are basically free (or appear to be) - unless you REALLY want to spend money on them.
There are no software and hardware requirements other than that which is needed to browse the internet today.
And the items that they DO sell to their players cost $0.00 to produce, deliver, stock, install...
REGARDLESS how big their or 7/11's commission on the items is - they are making money cause their products cost basically NOTHING to produce and deliver.
They can be making 0.00001% of the purchase in that deal AND STILL making loads of money cause they are selling ACTUAL IMAGINARY PROPERTY.
Forget IP-rights bullshit - this is the real deal. They are selling single bits of information wrapped in hot air.
And the best part is - putting their "products" on consumables means that thousands of people who actually DON'T play their games will also be giving them money anyway.
They are basically making money out of thin air.
So because you're not able to skip past a tabloid-style story that results in some harmless speculation about time travel, you're advocating that someone kill the slashdot employee?
Really??
It's because I'm too far away to do that myself.
Also, I do believe that there are people out there who would do it for free. $10 is more like for beer or coffee afterwards.
Yeah, you could. You could also ignore just stories posted by samzenpus - there's a check-box for that.
Or you could go somewhere else for your "all things nerdy" news, stories and discussions.
But that would be purposefully ignoring a chunk of Slashdot and something like reverse self-censorship.
And I don't want even my "silly news" to be censored.
Hell, there are days when half the stories on Slashdot are "idle" stories.
What I DO want is for ALL OF MY NEWS to be at least not pointlessly stale (if not actually new) and with SOME level of logic/quality control implemented during the picking of the stories.
NOT reading on Slashdot something that could be seen on youtube 10 days ago or a week ago in local papers.
Or a story about something that has been around for TWO FUCKING YEARS like that Thumbler replica the other day.
If I want clueless people who have no contact with the outside world dumping nonsense disguised as news in front of my eyeballs I'll go browse digg or watch some TV.
That wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Compared to this pus guy, ACs posting goatse links have quality control.
Won't someone close to 'that' which calls itself 'samzenpus' please end our suffering and remove that hack from this plane of existence?
For fucks sake, it is a constant barrage of chewed over, stale, incorrect, unchecked, "Bigfoot-sighting", irrelevant, pathetic excuse for "news" not even fit for a schoolgirl's blog.
What's next? That story about that guy who recently found the image of Jesus (that looks like a Dalek) in the rings of a fallen tree?
Or a "news story" about canals on Mars?
How about a link to a blog claiming a scientific basis to the reading of tea leaves?
Jon Katz was at least... well... you could laugh at him.
This pus guy on the other hand is simply intellectually insulting.
*Stakes are free and biodegradable. Plates, silver or otherwise are neither.
Same way their ancestors spread over North America and Europe somewhere around 60 million years ago.
Aliens carried them around as pets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IU6dBAYywA
Seriously samzenpus, what's your next "news" story?
Are you gonna tell us about this brand new Batman movie with aweeeeesoooomeeeee Joker played by (yourenotgonnabelieveit) Heath Ledger of all people?
Or how about the upcoming Star Trek reboot - with completely new actors playing the original crew?
FFS... Can't there be SOME quality control to his stories posted here?
Again... not all of them.
analyzing the tatooed numbers on holocaust's survivors' arms to determine how many actually got killed?
Unlike tanks, not all holocaust victims had serial numbers tattooed on their bodies.
At about... oh... 100 random students (as in - didn't really pick to be there by themselves, not their favorite subject but they have to this subject anyway) you will start to notice those that simply... don't function properly.
Not retarded or stupid even, their minds simply can't bend around certain concepts or tasks.
The best they can do is just memorize - or cheat.
Think bog standard PC's - where one has an integrated graphic card and another comes with a pluginable one with similar performances. Similar on paper.
And let's not even go into what makes a "standard" PC. Even two "standard" Macs are not exactly the same, let alone two random home-built boxes.
As for "Anyone with that aspiration can"... everyone MAY not be able to.
Ramanujan was a mathematical genius who was cast aside by two other professors before Hardy decided to take a closer look at his "scribblings".
And just as things were starting to pick up for him - he died.
Invictus may be a nice poem - but it is full of shit.
Particularly the last two lines.
I can't escape a feeling that what they are doing is akin to slicing apples and then taking high grain black and white photos of those slices - in order to find out how they taste.
Note the portal forming in front of the Delorean just before it disappears.
Delorean is PUSHED through a portal created by the flux capacitor which actually exploits naturally occurring folds in the space-time by poking a tiny hole (from the universe's point of view) in those folds for a fraction of a second.
Delorean needs to be moving at 88 mph in order to get to the other side in one piece before the portal closes.
So you see... it is more like the Star Gate than like H.G. Wells' time machine.
Now, that one should have ended floating in space upon arrival...
Unless...
What if gravity wells (being a dent in the fabric of space-time) extend like a trench instead of like a circular dent?
So, just as it holds you firmly attached to Earth instead of flying out to space while going slowly forward through space-time, Earth's gravity-trench keeps you moving along the same line up/down the trench while you are moving fast forward/backward through space-time.
There... Now your fiction can make sense.
There... you're doing it again.
The 'funny' part is in the fact that you are treating this as if it is a technical problem with a technical solution.
Namely, "let's wash our hands off this and give them a jailbreak button"-solution. It isn't.
Apple is a corporation - first and foremost.
THEN, after we establish that, we determine what kind of a corporation they are this day, month, decade... Are they more into technical business, artistic, musical, IP rights... etc.
Being a corporation, their main (possibly only) goal is MAKING MONEY. And that means make it NOW! FUCK THE CSR!
And there is no money in giving users a 'jailbreak button'. Not for Apple that is.
In fact, you can probably bet your ass that somewhere in the wast field of corporate spreadsheets there is a column (or several) that would suddenly dip into 'red' should Apple users get such an option.
Say... something like... 'planned number of apps/products bought through the app store per user'.
Apps/products they will no longer have access to as they have chosen not to accept the EULAs that give exclusive salesman rights to Apple stores and services.
And suddenly, with each (now thoroughly documented) 'jailbreak' - Apple starts losing money.
Sure, it's only perceived spreadsheet money to us - but not to the stockholders and bankers.
Apple's customers are not tied into Apple's services because of their own convenience or safety - they are LOCKED IN because that makes sure they don't spend their money somewhere else.
And a 'jailbroken' iPhone gives them exactly that option - to go somewhere else.
Besides, that stinks a lot like that obscenity that Google is doing.
Actually I've been lurking around here since the late 90s
Even funnier.
All it lacks is a "Back in my day..." or a "Get off my lawn!" to tie into a classic Slashdot meme.
Well I'm not that guy, as I think ACs are the cancer killing /. and making it too much like the chans
You do realize how hilarious that sounds from someone so high up the ID ladder?
I mean.. if ACs were 'cancer killing Slashdot' - how did you get here?
Fuck... How did I get here? Shouldn't this place have been dead somewhere around 30k accounts?
but it seems to me the solution would be allowing an "end run" like Apple did with iTunes DRM. What they should do is put a button in the options that says "If you type in your name in this box and pick yes the phone is officially jailbroken. We hold NO responsibility for it any more, you void the warranty, blah blah blah all the legalese" and if the owner follows the instructions he/she has a broken phone and is on their own. This would allow Apple to have a legal way to disolve any responibility for the phone, while allowing the owner to do what they want with the phone. Better than having to have users "hack" their phones and risk Apple iPhone becoming a haven for malware pretending to be jailbreaking tools. Seems like a win/win to me.
Seriously... Do you do stand-up in your free time?
But please... do keep it up. This place COULD use some naivete.
We are all WAY to cynical.
Is that you?
Unless it explodes it is neither fun nor scientific.
Mythbusters taught me that.
Weren't those called firecrackers and fireworks?
Or are we talking more like filling a bag with hydrogen and throwing matches at it?
...by HOLOGRAM HOLOGRAM HOLOGRAM from hologram hologram hologram of hologram hologram, hologram hologram hologram!
Hologram hologram hologram hologram? Hologram?!
Parent meant that you can't listen to digital radio broadcast on an analog radio - as any radio built from homemade components would be utterly analog.
As for wikipedia not being available...
It is not the knowledge without, it is the knowledge within that counts.
Most libraries are just as useful as wikipedia if you know WHAT you are looking for.
And just like with wikipedia, you don't have to know everything about a certain topic to be able to find texts on it - just a couple of keywords.
Sure, searching through dozens of books will page by page is slower than googling but hey - we are talking about being dumped back to early 19th century at least.
Oh and... you keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
There are several telegraphs that can and have been built from the things found in the forest without the need of copper. Including this one.
Even this might count, if you are only ever going to send one message, one way.