Goddamnit, how many times do I have to tehr you? You don't use the WMDs untihr you see the signahr! I have worked ten years on this pran! It is a very precise, and a compricated pran! I am sick of you terrorists fucking it up! Now take the weapons where I tord you and wait for the *goddamn* signahr this time.
yeah, the "unusual behavior" is that nobody except registrars and ICANN gives a fuck about new generic tlds. the corporate world has finally figured out how much of a ripoff the whole system is.
Any other country wanting to build a rocket to send a satellite into space could build on the 100+ years of research and development done by the rest of the world.
yeah cos that's why NASA astronauts are hitching rides on Russian rockets
the biggest obstacle to getting in space has always been cost, not technological know-how
what sort of control could the US exercise over iran if the playing field was leveled a bit?
the real threat from iran having nukes originating from thew US being a global asshole wouldn't warrant a political rethink of its behavior on the world stage in the future. dammit we just have to stop them getting nukes right now!!! by any and all means necessary... as long as it requires dropping a fuckload of ammo all over iran.
if you're paid to send messages to your friends, since there's a good chance your friends will know what company you work for (mine do), they will know that you're astroturfing for your employer pretty easily and it should be pretty obvious why you would be doing it.
i don't really understand why astroturfing should be looked at so negatively when its for your employer, since many employees are passionate about their work anyway (if they're lucky) and would happily praise the products/services they are involved in. it may be spam, but promoting your employer would have to be the most innocent and inoffensive form of spam (unless of course you're sole job is to be a spammer).
if you're in a job where you wouldn't want to astroturf for your employer, maybe you're not happy with them and should be looking for another job regardless.
this is slashdot... of course it was necessary, and relevance is irrelevant here.
...and why do a lot of people here write "ad hominem"? it may convey what you mean, but you sound like an ivy-league poofter for saying it. why not just say "personal"?
no need to use latin unless you're quoting monty python
except if you want to keep your job its often better to tow the company line.
employees once risked their lives on a daily basis for their employer in the days before occupational health and safety regulation and enforcement
nowadays an employer could be sued if an employee got a paper cut (admittedly probably only the US legal system is stupid enough to award damages for a paper cut but you get my drift)
what is the risk to you for astroturfing? if you get caught by your friends (you probably will) you just say you were doing your job (which will probably be obvious anyway since nobody in their right mind astroturfs without being paid... unless you're an apple fanboi but then i did say anyone "in their right mind"). if you get caught by a competitor, you might risk landing a new job offer. legally there is no risk to you personally (except if your employer goes under you'll lose your job I guess, but so will everyone else including those in the company that didn't astroturf).
a laptop with chrome os is basically a web-based terminal. ok so it runs an operating system locally, but how would you propose to boot a completely dumb terminal with a modern system over nothing but wifi? pxe maybe, and maybe for gigabit cat6, but i wouldn't have thought really practical for wifi, even in educational institutions. i remember years ago there was netware+win for workgroups. gosh now i feel like grandpa simpson. "it was the style at the time"
you can get a toshiba laptop with win7 in australia for under $500 (http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XC7989/toshiba-satellite-c665d-056-notebook) and that's from a major retailer without much effort.
chrome OS not going to make a dent here with the kind of deals you mentioned.
"cloud-only" maybe, but the cloud is a cheap, readily available and useful resource. it also isn't restricted to datacenter hosts. i work for an sme that hosts its own browser-based app for day-to-day functions. web browsers+w3c are useful delivery tools from a development point of view (particularly since MS has pulled its finger out and realized that IE6 is a POS and that w3c standards are better than their own.
Then let them explain themselves if they don't hire you. They'd have to demonstrate how your off-hours activity did NOT influence their hiring process.
actually they don't have to explain anything. haven't you ever got one of those boilerplate... "we regret to inform you that your application for xxxx was unsucessful...".
the tricks used by HR to dwindle the pile down are many and varied (push the pile off the desk and bin any that land upside down). just because we know them doesn't mean they have to be justified. as a job applicant you have fuck all say in anything. if you believe you have been discriminated against in the selection process, you can take it to court, but based on what evidence?
its a win-win... for employers, but only as an additional tool in their already substantial repertoire of job applicant selection tools.
and if/when companies aren't allowed to ask for facebook passwords, they'll figure out some other way of getting the dirt on you. HR isn't rocket science.
corps that aren't gonna give a rat's ass what some guy cooked up in his basement
yeah you're right i'm totally mistaken! also, why would router manufacturers give a rats about some hobby OS that some finnish student cooked up in his basement. jeez i must be totally retarded or something:)
99% of the population ain't gonna give a rat's ass if you can run linux on your router
oh but they do, because if linux didn't run on routers we wouldn't have routers with the same capabilities. if suddenly every linux-powered router was taken off the shelves tomorrow, what would fill the void? would the population care? of course they would, because while they don't need know about linux, they do know that they can get routers that do what they want, and if all of a sudden they couldn't, they would care.
Again just another article that makes linux look like a tinker toy for geeks with nothing to do on a Saturday night
yeah you're probably right, but then maybe your just a microsoft douchebag who's pissy that windows can't make it past consumer and sme because linux is guarding the doors to all the corporate datacenters, not to mention windows sucks at smartphones, and doesn't even really exist in embedded. all the while, linux is still gradually making headway on the desktop, even with microsoft's dirty business practices, fud and legal threats.
actually a guy running win7 on a p2 would be newsworthy, though i guess he probably waits 4 hours for bootup too. poor sucker.
Win 7 runs just fine on a circa 2004 Sempron with 1.5Gb of RAM
yeah, maybe on its own with nothing else running, and whoopy-fucking-do i run the latest debian on a p4 with 512 Mb ram. your ego trip doesn't really do much for windows, because your "circa 2004" hardware isn't really that bad. i have win7 on my workstation at work with aero disabled, and it still gobbles up 2 gb+ of the 16 Gb ram available.
regarding TFA, just cos you don't see the point doesn't mean others don't. if anything it makes you appear rather shortsighted, imho; maybe you see a tree as a tree, but others see a tree as something that could be used to build a house
how do you think set top boxes and routers come about in the first place? someone had to figure out how to get something running on three-fifths of fuck all, and we're not talking the linux kernel from 15 years ago. is there any wonder why there aren't set top boxes and routers with the windows logo?
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Goddamnit, how many times do I have to tehr you? You don't use the WMDs untihr you see the signahr! I have worked ten years on this pran! It is a very precise, and a compricated pran! I am sick of you terrorists fucking it up! Now take the weapons where I tord you and wait for the *goddamn* signahr this time.
God. Why is everyone so fucking stupid?
yeah, the "unusual behavior" is that nobody except registrars and ICANN gives a fuck about new generic tlds. the corporate world has finally figured out how much of a ripoff the whole system is.
maybe it didn't fail and they just fed western media with a bullshit video clip of a rocket exploding.
western arrogance would more likely believe it than the possibility of NK launching a nuclear weapons platform into earth orbit.
many people seem to be happily gobbling up endless spurts of corporate media spooge. ignorance is surely bliss.
Any other country wanting to build a rocket to send a satellite into space could build on the 100+ years of research and development done by the rest of the world.
yeah cos that's why NASA astronauts are hitching rides on Russian rockets
the biggest obstacle to getting in space has always been cost, not technological know-how
fuck yeah!!!!
suck my balls
more like... nobody ever got fired for buying microsoft
wtf!!! are there really alien gorillas in israel?!!
i knew it
what sort of control could the US exercise over iran if the playing field was leveled a bit?
the real threat from iran having nukes originating from thew US being a global asshole wouldn't warrant a political rethink of its behavior on the world stage in the future. dammit we just have to stop them getting nukes right now!!! by any and all means necessary... as long as it requires dropping a fuckload of ammo all over iran.
america, fuck yeah!
to the bunkers people
if someone merely loads malware onto a computer? what's viral about that?
if you're paid to send messages to your friends, since there's a good chance your friends will know what company you work for (mine do), they will know that you're astroturfing for your employer pretty easily and it should be pretty obvious why you would be doing it.
i don't really understand why astroturfing should be looked at so negatively when its for your employer, since many employees are passionate about their work anyway (if they're lucky) and would happily praise the products/services they are involved in. it may be spam, but promoting your employer would have to be the most innocent and inoffensive form of spam (unless of course you're sole job is to be a spammer).
if you're in a job where you wouldn't want to astroturf for your employer, maybe you're not happy with them and should be looking for another job regardless.
this is slashdot... of course it was necessary, and relevance is irrelevant here.
...and why do a lot of people here write "ad hominem"? it may convey what you mean, but you sound like an ivy-league poofter for saying it. why not just say "personal"?
no need to use latin unless you're quoting monty python
will create more traffic jams, use more petrol
the invention is probably funded by exxonmobil
...still exist!?
except if you want to keep your job its often better to tow the company line.
employees once risked their lives on a daily basis for their employer in the days before occupational health and safety regulation and enforcement
nowadays an employer could be sued if an employee got a paper cut (admittedly probably only the US legal system is stupid enough to award damages for a paper cut but you get my drift)
what is the risk to you for astroturfing? if you get caught by your friends (you probably will) you just say you were doing your job (which will probably be obvious anyway since nobody in their right mind astroturfs without being paid... unless you're an apple fanboi but then i did say anyone "in their right mind"). if you get caught by a competitor, you might risk landing a new job offer. legally there is no risk to you personally (except if your employer goes under you'll lose your job I guess, but so will everyone else including those in the company that didn't astroturf).
i'm not religion-ist... i detest all religions equally, including atheism.
a laptop with chrome os is basically a web-based terminal. ok so it runs an operating system locally, but how would you propose to boot a completely dumb terminal with a modern system over nothing but wifi? pxe maybe, and maybe for gigabit cat6, but i wouldn't have thought really practical for wifi, even in educational institutions. i remember years ago there was netware+win for workgroups. gosh now i feel like grandpa simpson. "it was the style at the time"
you can get a toshiba laptop with win7 in australia for under $500 (http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XC7989/toshiba-satellite-c665d-056-notebook) and that's from a major retailer without much effort.
chrome OS not going to make a dent here with the kind of deals you mentioned.
cloud-only computing is a pipe dream
"cloud-only" maybe, but the cloud is a cheap, readily available and useful resource. it also isn't restricted to datacenter hosts. i work for an sme that hosts its own browser-based app for day-to-day functions. web browsers+w3c are useful delivery tools from a development point of view (particularly since MS has pulled its finger out and realized that IE6 is a POS and that w3c standards are better than their own.
Then let them explain themselves if they don't hire you. They'd have to demonstrate how your off-hours activity did NOT influence their hiring process.
actually they don't have to explain anything. haven't you ever got one of those boilerplate... "we regret to inform you that your application for xxxx was unsucessful...".
the tricks used by HR to dwindle the pile down are many and varied (push the pile off the desk and bin any that land upside down). just because we know them doesn't mean they have to be justified. as a job applicant you have fuck all say in anything. if you believe you have been discriminated against in the selection process, you can take it to court, but based on what evidence?
its a win-win... for employers, but only as an additional tool in their already substantial repertoire of job applicant selection tools.
and if/when companies aren't allowed to ask for facebook passwords, they'll figure out some other way of getting the dirt on you. HR isn't rocket science.
cores should instead communicate the same way computers hooked to the Internet do
apparently never heard of beowulf clustering
I think the original poster needs to read up on what the Internet is
i think armchair experts are really just wankers with big hats
T9000... sounds like a terminator model. that company you worked for wasn't cyberdyne systems by any chance?
Ur doin it wrong
actually, "ur" full of shit
corps that aren't gonna give a rat's ass what some guy cooked up in his basement
yeah you're right i'm totally mistaken! also, why would router manufacturers give a rats about some hobby OS that some finnish student cooked up in his basement. jeez i must be totally retarded or something :)
99% of the population ain't gonna give a rat's ass if you can run linux on your router
oh but they do, because if linux didn't run on routers we wouldn't have routers with the same capabilities. if suddenly every linux-powered router was taken off the shelves tomorrow, what would fill the void? would the population care? of course they would, because while they don't need know about linux, they do know that they can get routers that do what they want, and if all of a sudden they couldn't, they would care.
Again just another article that makes linux look like a tinker toy for geeks with nothing to do on a Saturday night
yeah you're probably right, but then maybe your just a microsoft douchebag who's pissy that windows can't make it past consumer and sme because linux is guarding the doors to all the corporate datacenters, not to mention windows sucks at smartphones, and doesn't even really exist in embedded. all the while, linux is still gradually making headway on the desktop, even with microsoft's dirty business practices, fud and legal threats.
actually a guy running win7 on a p2 would be newsworthy, though i guess he probably waits 4 hours for bootup too. poor sucker.
Win 7 runs just fine on a circa 2004 Sempron with 1.5Gb of RAM
yeah, maybe on its own with nothing else running, and whoopy-fucking-do i run the latest debian on a p4 with 512 Mb ram. your ego trip doesn't really do much for windows, because your "circa 2004" hardware isn't really that bad. i have win7 on my workstation at work with aero disabled, and it still gobbles up 2 gb+ of the 16 Gb ram available.
regarding TFA, just cos you don't see the point doesn't mean others don't. if anything it makes you appear rather shortsighted, imho; maybe you see a tree as a tree, but others see a tree as something that could be used to build a house
how do you think set top boxes and routers come about in the first place? someone had to figure out how to get something running on three-fifths of fuck all, and we're not talking the linux kernel from 15 years ago. is there any wonder why there aren't set top boxes and routers with the windows logo?