Ej, CaptainZapp; in 20 meters to the right there is a sporting goods shop specialized on baseball bats. We have a FREE baseball bat for you. Come inside
That would probably teach them about spamming my cell phone.
For those not familiar with the terms of the former German Democratic Republic, the "Stasi" was the "Ministerium für Staatssicherheit" (department for interior security). Comparable with the Gestapo of earlier German times.
Dude, the GDR Stasi was certainly not a bunch of nice, likeable dudettes and dudes and there's no doubt that they committed their share of crimes.
Comparing them to the gestapo, however, who is directly responsible for the murder of 100000s - if not millions of people is more then a bit rich.
Not sure that this was mentioned, but in my opinion the most painful moment in Slashdots history (at least as far as I was reading) was when the Scientology(R) church managed to get a post actually deleted.
You could really feel the pain oozing through the/. crew being forced to do something, which goes so much against the grain and the spirit of this board. Nevertheless I think it was the right decision since this would have been a fight with no way to win.
However, and to stay in Scientology(R) slang, the whole sordid affair was a big win for Slashdot. As usual: the good Scieno(R) burgers created so much rotten publicity and once again so many folks, who didn't give a shit in the first place, learned about the sinister methods of this "applied religious philosophy".
And all for the price of pulling a piece of bad science fiction. Science fiction for which some less enlightened members of our species pay 300'000 or so bucks to read at that. But then again you can find it on a lot of other places on the net for completely free.
Yeah, maybe. But winding up in the FBIs criminal database for such offenses is about like winding up in a federal sex offenders register for urinating behind a tree in public.
It's just blown out of proportion (and has a stench of pure malice, at that).
IE you're troublemakers, therefore the border agents were quite right to deny you entry. So, peaceful protesters are troublemakers? May I kindly point you into the general direction of this gentleman?
Do you think he should be on a list of criminals, maybe? Possibly for his relentless non-violent protest?
You'd better point me at where the iPods are "locking" you into iTunes. According to all reports 90% of iPod content is not fro iTunes.
he's probably talking about iTunes, the software, as opposed to iTunes, the store.
And yes Apple started to implement a hash to the iPod database. This is probably in order to lock out 3rd party software in the future (it was easily hacked this time). They also started to disable video out signals unless you connect it to Apple TV.
So I think his point is very, very valid and since there is competition in the cell phone -, as well in the portable media player market it's not really that hard to pull off.
So, you mean to say that flying with EasyJet and Ryanair costs just as much as flying with, say Lufthansa?
As a matter of fact: It depends.I can't speak for Ryanair, but Easyjet may not be so darn cheap if you fly on short notice or during a popular period. The trick is to book as early as possible.
See, even when an airline only sports one class, the cabin for any specific flight is divided into a number of sub-classes. Each of those classes are priced in a specific range and this may fluctuate daily. There's probably not such a perishable product as an airline seat. An airline rather charges 50$, which is 50$ in the till then 500$ for a seat that they can't sell and that also goes for airlines with a good reputation. They will set the price for said seat at 500$ though, if they think that it's sellable at that price.
There may be other feats connected with higher sub-classes. You are usually more flexible in scheduling and there may not be a penalty when you change your schedule or even cancel the flight.
Since business travelers require this flexibility, tickets for typical business flight patterns or destinations are usually sold relatively very expensive. Discount airlines are not different in that they want to gauge out the most of a seat for any given flight, as long as this seat doesn't remain empty.
The good thing though, is that discount airlines generally drive prices down.
No personal jet. No military style compound. But a nice house isn't a bad way to start off your adult life.
Taco, as a fairly long-time reader and contributor of comments, let me add the following statement:
You gained something more important then that and that's despite all the pissing, moaning and shoveling dreck into your general direction: Credibility & integrity and that's not a bad feat after being scrutinized to hell and back for ten years.
Look, I don't want to be a miserable git, and I think it's really great that somebody is willing top pay over 500$ to win low/.-UIDs urinating competitions. But there's something that bugs me:
From the auction:
Ships to: United States
Do you guys think it's strictly necessary that only US residents shall win such competitions, or is it a billing issue?
Not that I'd bid on that specific item, but there may be a lot of Europeans, Aussies, rich Russian biznismen, or even the odd Chinese gentleman who is tired of investing in rare Bordeaux.
Else then that mild complaint: Kudos to all of you for pulling it off and may the auctions fill the coffers of a worthy organization.
Well, you see, the problem is not with the 99% users that get nagged into enabling automatet updates, but with the 1% conciously disabling it and then nevertheless get updates shoved down the pipe. Updates they didn't ask for and didn't order.
Add to that Microsofts attitude and the blog entry doesn't sound that alarmist anymore, but actually quite sensible.
Boy, are you right. But you're also in trouble now, since you don't publicly believe that the iPhone is da best and that Saint Steve can do nothing wrong. Oh my; you can call it a lucky day if the fanboyz only tar and feather you.
On a more serious note: I can really only shake my head. Aplle bricks thousands of phones either on purpose or with some very, very shoddy firmware update (I believe the first to be the case, but what do I know). And thousands of people actually defend such totally rotten behavior.
So are you saying that they shouldn't patch the vulnerabilities, that they shouldn't release new firmware at all, or that they should break their contract with AT&T
So you know the terms of the contract between AT&T and Apple?
Oh, please, good sir: enlighten us ignorant masses.
Herearound there's a sleazy outfit called Ticketcorner, which had virtually no competition and charged an arm and a leg for "service". Then a competitor set up shop, which provided exactly the service you describe. Only that they don't email shit; you download the individualized PDF from the download section of your account; for zip service fee.
I bought tickets a couple of times and never had a problem. ACtually quite the opposite: It has the huge advantage that tickets can be bought on very short notice.
Slashdot Mirror
Source?
Well, I read it on Slashdot.
Claiming that an EULA is not a legal document sounds somewhat hypocritical.
Ej, CaptainZapp; in 20 meters to the right there is a sporting goods shop specialized on baseball bats. We have a FREE baseball bat for you. Come inside
That would probably teach them about spamming my cell phone.
Dude, the GDR Stasi was certainly not a bunch of nice, likeable dudettes and dudes and there's no doubt that they committed their share of crimes.
Comparing them to the gestapo, however, who is directly responsible for the murder of 100000s - if not millions of people is more then a bit rich.
Well, there's really nothing older then yesterdays newspaper.
You could really feel the pain oozing through the /. crew being forced to do something, which goes so much against the grain and the spirit of this board. Nevertheless I think it was the right decision since this would have been a fight with no way to win.
However, and to stay in Scientology(R) slang, the whole sordid affair was a big win for Slashdot. As usual: the good Scieno(R) burgers created so much rotten publicity and once again so many folks, who didn't give a shit in the first place, learned about the sinister methods of this "applied religious philosophy".
And all for the price of pulling a piece of bad science fiction. Science fiction for which some less enlightened members of our species pay 300'000 or so bucks to read at that. But then again you can find it on a lot of other places on the net for completely free.
It's just blown out of proportion (and has a stench of pure malice, at that).
Do you think he should be on a list of criminals, maybe? Possibly for his relentless non-violent protest?
You sir are so dead wrong!
he's probably talking about iTunes, the software, as opposed to iTunes, the store.
And yes Apple started to implement a hash to the iPod database. This is probably in order to lock out 3rd party software in the future (it was easily hacked this time). They also started to disable video out signals unless you connect it to Apple TV.
So I think his point is very, very valid and since there is competition in the cell phone -, as well in the portable media player market it's not really that hard to pull off.
I strongly assume that companies like Nokia very much disagree with your statement.
Being a neighboring state I'm not sure that New York is too keen about a new nuclear power plant.
Technology doesn't breed crime, it facilitates crime (as it does massive election fraud and bad customer service, but that's for another /. story).
As a matter of fact: It depends.I can't speak for Ryanair, but Easyjet may not be so darn cheap if you fly on short notice or during a popular period. The trick is to book as early as possible.
See, even when an airline only sports one class, the cabin for any specific flight is divided into a number of sub-classes. Each of those classes are priced in a specific range and this may fluctuate daily. There's probably not such a perishable product as an airline seat. An airline rather charges 50$, which is 50$ in the till then 500$ for a seat that they can't sell and that also goes for airlines with a good reputation. They will set the price for said seat at 500$ though, if they think that it's sellable at that price.
There may be other feats connected with higher sub-classes. You are usually more flexible in scheduling and there may not be a penalty when you change your schedule or even cancel the flight.
Since business travelers require this flexibility, tickets for typical business flight patterns or destinations are usually sold relatively very expensive. Discount airlines are not different in that they want to gauge out the most of a seat for any given flight, as long as this seat doesn't remain empty.
The good thing though, is that discount airlines generally drive prices down.
Maybe force him or her to swallow it?
They can probably save 37cents per applicant by shipping it off to some cheap off-shore country.
I agree with you. They should be held 100% responsible for their negligence, just like the rest of us.
Well, I gather that you never had to deal with ClearCase?
Taco, as a fairly long-time reader and contributor of comments, let me add the following statement:
You gained something more important then that and that's despite all the pissing, moaning and shoveling dreck into your general direction: Credibility & integrity and that's not a bad feat after being scrutinized to hell and back for ten years.
Congratulations to the whole team!
From the auction:
Ships to: United StatesDo you guys think it's strictly necessary that only US residents shall win such competitions, or is it a billing issue?
Not that I'd bid on that specific item, but there may be a lot of Europeans, Aussies, rich Russian biznismen, or even the odd Chinese gentleman who is tired of investing in rare Bordeaux.
Else then that mild complaint: Kudos to all of you for pulling it off and may the auctions fill the coffers of a worthy organization.
Add to that Microsofts attitude and the blog entry doesn't sound that alarmist anymore, but actually quite sensible.
that's what I always thought, but was afraid to ask...
Boy, are you right. But you're also in trouble now, since you don't publicly believe that the iPhone is da best and that Saint Steve can do nothing wrong. Oh my; you can call it a lucky day if the fanboyz only tar and feather you.
On a more serious note: I can really only shake my head. Aplle bricks thousands of phones either on purpose or with some very, very shoddy firmware update (I believe the first to be the case, but what do I know). And thousands of people actually defend such totally rotten behavior.
So you know the terms of the contract between AT&T and Apple?
Oh, please, good sir: enlighten us ignorant masses.
Dude, I really like your definition for Muzak. Else then that I agree completely.
At this point it really feels like there's just rattling empty threats and Mr. Ballmer lost of few more of his marbles.
BTW: Software patents are not enforcable in the EU.
I bought tickets a couple of times and never had a problem. ACtually quite the opposite: It has the huge advantage that tickets can be bought on very short notice.