That's another 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Too bad I couldn't have spent it reading a good article.
Re:No, hacking is not a good thing
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Hacking The Tivo
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I think you have things a bit confused. We're talking adding a second hard drive to yer TV, yer talking about breaking into people's computers. Check out the link from the page, and also go to www.tivo.com, you'll prolly find it quite interesting.
"...there are some geeks here who like his stuff..." There were some people who liked the new coke, that doesn't mean its worth having around.
Perhaps this would make a good slashdot poll. Vote on JonKatz's future. Lets do it the democratic way. Personally, I don't think JonKatz is a good writer, maybe being fired is just what he needs to realize that he might be talented at sometime else. I know that if I wasn't good at what I do then I'd be fired, I just think that the same should go for him.
I wonder if Jon's reading these comments... perhaps it would do him some good.
I can understand why they hired him, but what I can't understand is why the don't fire him. So he's a published writer, that's nice. So his by line means a little more to casual readers, that's nice too. The way I've always felt about slashdot is that its out there so that we can get the news the way we want it "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters," not so that we can sit here and let out "ooohs" and "aaahs" about the authors' resumes.
Now if Dan Rather called up slashdot and asked for a job, of course they should hire him (I've always been a Dan Rather fan), but the minute he starts turning out articles like the one we're discussing now they should kick his ass back to network TV. Another point I should bring up is that Jon Katz is no Dan Rather. If Dan Rather was to read a JonKatz style article on TV I think it would hurt the ratings quite a bit.
I'm very impressed by Jon's credentials, its too bad he's not a good writer. Go back to Wired Jon, yer deffinitly not slashdot material.
We're just trying to make slashdot a better place for all readers. JonKatz's articles bring down the overall quality of the articles on slashdot (have fun moderating me down for saying that). I read just about every article on slashdot (gotta love my free time), and JonKatz is the only author that consistantly posts articles that are inaccurate and full of his own wacked out opinions. JonKatz has proved to myself and a large number of the slashdot readers that he knows very little about the computing industry, especially how it relates to us slashdot reading "geeks."
While this article does has a little bit of truth behind it, it is more the kind of thing I would expect to see printed in a newspaper or some other publication read mostly by computer novices. Maybe he should hold on to a copy of this article and print it again when the lines really do disappear and when all the web pages that have replaced the lines are easily connected to by everyone in the world at the same time.
To sum it all up, this is the worst article I've seen on slashdot since the last JonKatz article. I'm going to keep reading his articles and bitching about them until someone at slashdot wises up and kicks Jon out on his wanna-be-geek ass and starts posting articles that have some relivance to those of us living outside of JonKatz's little world.
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That's another 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Too bad I couldn't have spent it reading a good article.
I think you have things a bit confused. We're talking adding a second hard drive to yer TV, yer talking about breaking into people's computers. Check out the link from the page, and also go to www.tivo.com, you'll prolly find it quite interesting.
Its all because cc's the man. The big bad tivo hacker himself.
"...there are some geeks here who like his stuff..." There were some people who liked the new coke, that doesn't mean its worth having around.
Perhaps this would make a good slashdot poll. Vote on JonKatz's future. Lets do it the democratic way. Personally, I don't think JonKatz is a good writer, maybe being fired is just what he needs to realize that he might be talented at sometime else. I know that if I wasn't good at what I do then I'd be fired, I just think that the same should go for him.
I wonder if Jon's reading these comments... perhaps it would do him some good.
I can understand why they hired him, but what I can't understand is why the don't fire him. So he's a published writer, that's nice. So his by line means a little more to casual readers, that's nice too. The way I've always felt about slashdot is that its out there so that we can get the news the way we want it "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters," not so that we can sit here and let out "ooohs" and "aaahs" about the authors' resumes.
Now if Dan Rather called up slashdot and asked for a job, of course they should hire him (I've always been a Dan Rather fan), but the minute he starts turning out articles like the one we're discussing now they should kick his ass back to network TV. Another point I should bring up is that Jon Katz is no Dan Rather. If Dan Rather was to read a JonKatz style article on TV I think it would hurt the ratings quite a bit.
I'm very impressed by Jon's credentials, its too bad he's not a good writer. Go back to Wired Jon, yer deffinitly not slashdot material.
We're just trying to make slashdot a better place for all readers. JonKatz's articles bring down the overall quality of the articles on slashdot (have fun moderating me down for saying that). I read just about every article on slashdot (gotta love my free time), and JonKatz is the only author that consistantly posts articles that are inaccurate and full of his own wacked out opinions. JonKatz has proved to myself and a large number of the slashdot readers that he knows very little about the computing industry, especially how it relates to us slashdot reading "geeks."
While this article does has a little bit of truth behind it, it is more the kind of thing I would expect to see printed in a newspaper or some other publication read mostly by computer novices. Maybe he should hold on to a copy of this article and print it again when the lines really do disappear and when all the web pages that have replaced the lines are easily connected to by everyone in the world at the same time.
To sum it all up, this is the worst article I've seen on slashdot since the last JonKatz article. I'm going to keep reading his articles and bitching about them until someone at slashdot wises up and kicks Jon out on his wanna-be-geek ass and starts posting articles that have some relivance to those of us living outside of JonKatz's little world.
huh?
OpenBSD isn't as secure as you think it is.
Yes it is. It says so on their web site