You need to acknowledge that the delay in publication was a fuckup PUBLICLY, at the top of the story. In all caps.
As it stands a meek "I'm sorry" in TFS can be construed in multiple ways, and while you may intend it one way, the people with the pitchforks and torches do not see it that way. Until you do that the pitchforks and torches will still be out.
And I am pointing out that posting two mutually exclusive reasons for why this particular story was not posted until today is a major fuck up. But continually repeating them (without acknowledging that it is a fuck up) just adds to the fucked upness of the whole situation.
Your statement here appears to conflict with your edit in TFS. Both of which look like excuses rather than genuine reasons. As such the damage IS done. You are going to need to be 100% transparent even to start recovering from this debacle.
Editors on news aggregation websites are very susceptible to being replaced by computerization. In fact I am pretty sure that I have seen examples of (albeit bad) computerization already happening on a website that I regularly read.
No, he is not trolling, he is merely pointing out the power of propaganda as mentioned by the OP. I believe it should be more considered irony given the context off this story
I kind of have this idea that the comments section on CNN.com or foxnews.com is all troll bots.
I occasionally check into the PINAC site, and in the comments there is always one guy there taking such an outrageously contrary opinion to all the other posters that I am beginning to suspect he is actually a sock puppet of the site's owner, solely to drum up reactions from those other posters.
Sort of like what's his name, who treated this place as his personal blog and who we haven't seen here for a while (an no I am not saying his name doing so is sort of like saying "Beetlejuice" 3 times)
The article forgot to mention that the team has hidden a life-size Waldo in the photo. Can you find him?
Of course you can't. Waldo only lives in the US and Canada. Everywhere else in the world you're looking for where Wally is.
And this being a picture of Mont Blanc, in Europe no less, no self respecting freedom loving Waldo would be seen anywhere any cheese eating surrender monkeys*.
Now if you want to know where Wally is.. well I'm sure he is there somewhere. Just keep on looking, or perhaps fling a few $$ at googles mechanical turk, and rent out a real turk for a day or so to do your work for you.
* Not that I consider the French to be cheese eating surrender monkeys. I am just pandering to the Americans who seem to have totally forgotten why there is a 93m copper woman sitting in New Jersey**
** Yeah.. look it up. Its technically in New jersey and not NYC
Over the last few weeks I have started to notice messages from various websites along the line of "It looks like you are using ad blocking software.
I also see those messages, but I don't use any ad blocking software. Java is disabled, plug-ins are disabled, javascript is enabled and cookies are limited to the same domain. Whoever wrote those "ad blocking detection" functions is an idiot.
Or are very smart.. because I assumed that they actually worked.
Those of you who block ads but still consume the services of sites that run them without paying into any subscription fee, why do you freeload?
Leaving aside the technical issues for blocking ads (EG taking up *my* bandwidth for things I have no interest in, nefarious tracking schemes and their ilk, etc), your argument seems to be predicated on an RIAA lost revenue model.
If I "freeload" now in order to view content a website, I severely doubt that I would buy a subscription to view content on that website if it became closed. Therefore if the website can't survive without monetizing all 100% of their viewers, why do you think it can survive with monetizing 100% of a smaller pool of viewers? IE I am not a "lost" sale - I was never a potential "sale" in the first place.
Over the last few weeks I have started to notice messages from various websites along the line of "It looks like you are using ad blocking software. Do you want to contribute to this site in another way?" Meaning do I want to give cash directly to the site.
At the moment I am a bit divided over this issue. I understand their desire to collect revenue to fund a site. But I do need to balance that against the opening up of my system to all sorts of tracking. And at the moment my privacy trumps the websites revenue.
And then you get sites like Slashdot, which have this wonderful checkbox that says because I am such a good user, that they will disable advertising for me if I want. Which even if I do, I still get ads served up to me - hence another reason for ad blocking software.
Sadly, we do still need checklists, as this case seems to illustrate. First item on that checklist: no system should be directly connected to the Internet unless its purpose is to directly send information to the public at large.
I disagree that checklists are a "sadly" item. To me they are the bare minimum. If you don't have a checklist of best practices (EG the example you gave or also at a more detailed level only storing hashed and salted passwords) how will upcoming software architects know what they should be doing? If the software industry really wants to earn the "engineering" moniker, then it is going to have to start enforcing some ground rules.
Graeme wishes to start a pirate bank, a pirate bus service, and a pirate Church of England, all outside Britain's 5 mile (9.3 km) limit, as well as having also planned a fiendish scheme to tow the whole of Britain outside the 5 mile limit and become leader of a pirate state..
.. and when the Statue of Liberty can be seen moving past the window behind them, it soon becomes apparent that Britain has been towed much further than Graeme had ever envisaged.
Ive is in a supreme position of one of the most powerful/richest companies on the planet.
There is no cash offer big enough that could tempt him away from that.
What would get him there is the chance to do something that he couldn't do at Apple...
Speculation being that he wants to bring his family up in the UK and not in the USA. There is no amount of money that Apple can pay him that could keep Ive in the USA and provide his family with an upbringing in the UK. Thus it is a question of life and not money.
When I was taking a look at that article, this jumped out at me. It's a quote from a Times article:
He still visits the institution in the north-east to give masterclasses, giving up part of his three weeks’ annual leave.
Really? Probably the most influential person in the the biggest company in the US, and you only give him 3 weeks annual leave? What does he have to do to get 4 weeks?
Slashdot Mirror
I suspect Timothy just loads stuff on cron at the start of the weekend and takes off fishing, or something.
I actually think that someone loads "Timmy" up on cron at the start of the weekend and takes off fishing.
You need to acknowledge that the delay in publication was a fuckup PUBLICLY, at the top of the story. In all caps.
As it stands a meek "I'm sorry" in TFS can be construed in multiple ways, and while you may intend it one way, the people with the pitchforks and torches do not see it that way. Until you do that the pitchforks and torches will still be out.
And I am pointing out that posting two mutually exclusive reasons for why this particular story was not posted until today is a major fuck up. But continually repeating them (without acknowledging that it is a fuck up) just adds to the fucked upness of the whole situation.
Your statement here appears to conflict with your edit in TFS. Both of which look like excuses rather than genuine reasons. As such the damage IS done. You are going to need to be 100% transparent even to start recovering from this debacle.
^^ THIS
Editors on news aggregation websites are very susceptible to being replaced by computerization. In fact I am pretty sure that I have seen examples of (albeit bad) computerization already happening on a website that I regularly read.
I dunno, maybe you could power things that need external batteries?
Why did Dice buy Slashdot?
So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!
SHAME ON YOU DICE!
Are you trolling?
No, he is not trolling, he is merely pointing out the power of propaganda as mentioned by the OP. I believe it should be more considered irony given the context off this story
I kind of have this idea that the comments section on CNN.com or foxnews.com is all troll bots.
I occasionally check into the PINAC site, and in the comments there is always one guy there taking such an outrageously contrary opinion to all the other posters that I am beginning to suspect he is actually a sock puppet of the site's owner, solely to drum up reactions from those other posters.
Sort of like what's his name, who treated this place as his personal blog and who we haven't seen here for a while (an no I am not saying his name doing so is sort of like saying "Beetlejuice" 3 times)
I saw this yesterday How did my dad's Uber account get hacked?
Only in English speaking countries, I would assume.
Yeah .. OK .. you got me there. But the original author was English.
I just dug into it and found the list of localized names Wally's name in international editions
The article forgot to mention that the team has hidden a life-size Waldo in the photo. Can you find him?
Of course you can't. Waldo only lives in the US and Canada. Everywhere else in the world you're looking for where Wally is.
And this being a picture of Mont Blanc, in Europe no less, no self respecting freedom loving Waldo would be seen anywhere any cheese eating surrender monkeys*.
Now if you want to know where Wally is .. well I'm sure he is there somewhere. Just keep on looking, or perhaps fling a few $$ at googles mechanical turk, and rent out a real turk for a day or so to do your work for you.
* Not that I consider the French to be cheese eating surrender monkeys. I am just pandering to the Americans who seem to have totally forgotten why there is a 93m copper woman sitting in New Jersey**
** Yeah .. look it up. Its technically in New jersey and not NYC
I also see those messages, but I don't use any ad blocking software. Java is disabled, plug-ins are disabled, javascript is enabled and cookies are limited to the same domain. Whoever wrote those "ad blocking detection" functions is an idiot.
Or are very smart .. because I assumed that they actually worked.
Those of you who block ads but still consume the services of sites that run them without paying into any subscription fee, why do you freeload?
Leaving aside the technical issues for blocking ads (EG taking up *my* bandwidth for things I have no interest in, nefarious tracking schemes and their ilk, etc), your argument seems to be predicated on an RIAA lost revenue model.
If I "freeload" now in order to view content a website, I severely doubt that I would buy a subscription to view content on that website if it became closed. Therefore if the website can't survive without monetizing all 100% of their viewers, why do you think it can survive with monetizing 100% of a smaller pool of viewers? IE I am not a "lost" sale - I was never a potential "sale" in the first place.
Over the last few weeks I have started to notice messages from various websites along the line of "It looks like you are using ad blocking software. Do you want to contribute to this site in another way?" Meaning do I want to give cash directly to the site.
At the moment I am a bit divided over this issue. I understand their desire to collect revenue to fund a site. But I do need to balance that against the opening up of my system to all sorts of tracking. And at the moment my privacy trumps the websites revenue.
And then you get sites like Slashdot, which have this wonderful checkbox that says because I am such a good user, that they will disable advertising for me if I want. Which even if I do, I still get ads served up to me - hence another reason for ad blocking software.
Sadly, we do still need checklists, as this case seems to illustrate. First item on that checklist: no system should be directly connected to the Internet unless its purpose is to directly send information to the public at large.
I disagree that checklists are a "sadly" item. To me they are the bare minimum. If you don't have a checklist of best practices (EG the example you gave or also at a more detailed level only storing hashed and salted passwords) how will upcoming software architects know what they should be doing? If the software industry really wants to earn the "engineering" moniker, then it is going to have to start enforcing some ground rules.
Elon just invented single teacher, country schools with low student numbers!
While I admire his ambition, any school system is going to improve if you bump the teacher/student ratio by a factor 2 or 3
Apple has enough money to bring the UK to the USA. It's already an island, after all.
Some other Brits already did that back in early 70's
Radio Goodies
Graeme wishes to start a pirate bank, a pirate bus service, and a pirate Church of England, all outside Britain's 5 mile (9.3 km) limit, as well as having also planned a fiendish scheme to tow the whole of Britain outside the 5 mile limit and become leader of a pirate state ..
.. and when the Statue of Liberty can be seen moving past the window behind them, it soon becomes apparent that Britain has been towed much further than Graeme had ever envisaged.
If he gets annual leave separate from his paid sick leave he's already ahead of the game.
Civilized countries already do that.
Ive is in a supreme position of one of the most powerful/richest companies on the planet.
There is no cash offer big enough that could tempt him away from that.
What would get him there is the chance to do something that he couldn't do at Apple...
Speculation being that he wants to bring his family up in the UK and not in the USA. There is no amount of money that Apple can pay him that could keep Ive in the USA and provide his family with an upbringing in the UK. Thus it is a question of life and not money.
When I was taking a look at that article, this jumped out at me. It's a quote from a Times article:
He still visits the institution in the north-east to give masterclasses, giving up part of his three weeks’ annual leave.
Really? Probably the most influential person in the the biggest company in the US, and you only give him 3 weeks annual leave? What does he have to do to get 4 weeks?
Can't blame silicon valley when 19 kids and counting is on the home TV every night.
Don't know where you have been hiding the last week, but that show has been pulled due to various allegations.
It's valued at $41 billion because of the private investors it has.... who might be idiots ;-)
Do you mean the ones who loan Uber for free the means for Uber to collect their revenue .. you know .. the drivers?
Why don't we wear seatbelts in taxi cabs? Is it even legal to not wear seat belts?
Its hard to convince Americans in general to wear seat belts.
Sorry but that is not a very big market.
Ya think that in 40 years there might have been some improvements in propulsion technology????