I'm not part of the vocal crowd, but I do support the efforts. Let me explain clearly and concisely on what's going on.
1. You are considered "audience";/. is useful mainly because of the discussion threads (ie. user contribution), yet the management consider you "audience", even if you are actually the reason of the site's traffic.
2. In 2013 the site failed to increase on ad-revenue. And there is no evidence it will increase in the future. Hence Dice decided to slash the site's budget from several millions to zero. (source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news... "Recent Developments" chapter).
3. Hence, in layman's terma, Dice has (most probably) decided to kill the site.
4. Since there is no budget, you will (most probably) not see the Classic functionality implemented in Beta (comment and moderation system, which is the heart of the community, which is the heart of the site)
5. Hence, Dice's "reaching out to the audience" at this point is pretty useless, as they might as well listen, but they will do nothing about it.
6. Hence, this site is already dead. The community wants to migrate to better shores and there are several ideas as to how/where. Not calling them out by name, because I don't want to be slanted.
7. At this point, I don't think the Slashcott will be of any effect, but it's worth trying; you never know.
Bonus Point. Since the heart of the site is user-generated content, an aspect of the boycott is stopping the regular flow of comments. Can't argue with that.
It's says that the code is 'sponsored' and not 'contracted'. If the government sponsors a research of yours, you still get the credit and aknowledgement. Should work the same with any kind of project, I guess?
The action in itself is highly symbolic. It's not like a brief distruption of service (at the web page) will cause any major or even minor damage to the company. The point is raising awarness in users about all of this spying. Both by the agencies and the industry. I actually find the Agencies' technology brilliant: sniffing the traffic of the Industries' spying on you. Genius. Evil Genius, tho.
Anyway, only here to say that it's sybolical and to raise awarness. I actually didn't have the perception of how far the industrial spying went. Thanks Snowden!
To be fair, they were convicted because they actually they DID predict there would be NO earthquake, and encouraged people to return to their homes. For political/economical interests. The journalists got it wrong, no one ever checked the sources.
Yes, I immagine that from an anti-open perspective it does sound like that. Good thing that you don't actually need to be particularly pro-open to see that they have a point. No closed software can be considered secure, ever; no steps to assure more security "regardless of promises or even intent" can change that.
"Even if this looks like a good thing, this can't be a good thing because it's proprietary". How can you disagree? They bother making the statement, because it's their mission, and to warn off non tech-savvy people who might fall for it.
A Massively Multiplayer Augmented Reality Game. Very Unique, even if sometimes it gets a little repetitive. The "grinding" isn't as boring tho.
If I had the time, this is the game I'd play.
I seem to be missing a point here, why sould the PD care about identifying devices by MAC Address if they alredy have the capability (and have had this capability for decades) to trace the same device by it's phone number and just make your tipical Verizon collaborte with them. I mean, this is how you recieve phone calls, it wouldn't even work without this capability.
So what do they plan to do with it?
Since nobody else pointed this out: there are also other apps and markets similar to Play Store, just "unofficial", with all the benefits and quirks that come along. Just sayin'.
I picked on Islam because its 2013, and its culturally aware.
So, following your logic, because it's 2013 it is "culturally aware" to associate Islam with terrorism? Yes, that is discrimination/racism. I'm not throwing terms around.
Since nobody in the thread seems to get it: it's not even in TFA, it's in TFS: the Brazilian Govt wants a secure system for the Brazilian Govt official (ie internal) communications. They probably will, at some point, offer this new system to their citizens (for obvious reasons), but that's not the intended goal, for now.
Neither patriarchy nor (private) property are thought to be present until very recent history (about 10.000 years, compared to 200.000 of Homo Sapiens). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy
For the vast majority of human history (200.000 years or so) there is no trace whatsoever of signs of war. On the countrary human comunities are thought to live in peaceful sustenaince. With the introduction of patriarchy and private property, some 7-10.000 years ago (last 5% of human history), are the first traces of war found.
All this information is freely available on Wikipedia, but you might want to take a book for more insight.
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I'm not part of the vocal crowd, but I do support the efforts. Let me explain clearly and concisely on what's going on.
/. is useful mainly because of the discussion threads (ie. user contribution), yet the management consider you "audience", even if you are actually the reason of the site's traffic.
1. You are considered "audience";
2. In 2013 the site failed to increase on ad-revenue. And there is no evidence it will increase in the future. Hence Dice decided to slash the site's budget from several millions to zero. (source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news... "Recent Developments" chapter).
3. Hence, in layman's terma, Dice has (most probably) decided to kill the site.
4. Since there is no budget, you will (most probably) not see the Classic functionality implemented in Beta (comment and moderation system, which is the heart of the community, which is the heart of the site)
5. Hence, Dice's "reaching out to the audience" at this point is pretty useless, as they might as well listen, but they will do nothing about it.
6. Hence, this site is already dead. The community wants to migrate to better shores and there are several ideas as to how/where. Not calling them out by name, because I don't want to be slanted.
7. At this point, I don't think the Slashcott will be of any effect, but it's worth trying; you never know.
Bonus Point. Since the heart of the site is user-generated content, an aspect of the boycott is stopping the regular flow of comments. Can't argue with that.
Hope this helps.
It's says that the code is 'sponsored' and not 'contracted'.
If the government sponsors a research of yours, you still get the credit and aknowledgement. Should work the same with any kind of project, I guess?
The action in itself is highly symbolic. It's not like a brief distruption of service (at the web page) will cause any major or even minor damage to the company. The point is raising awarness in users about all of this spying. Both by the agencies and the industry.
I actually find the Agencies' technology brilliant: sniffing the traffic of the Industries' spying on you. Genius. Evil Genius, tho.
Anyway, only here to say that it's sybolical and to raise awarness. I actually didn't have the perception of how far the industrial spying went. Thanks Snowden!
While I support your position, I won't mod you up, because you could have at least provided some detailed information and some links.
Sure someone can hack off your hand and get your passwords.
In my day and age, hackers were much more of a sophisticated bunch.
To be fair, they were convicted because they actually they DID predict there would be NO earthquake, and encouraged people to return to their homes. For political/economical interests.
The journalists got it wrong, no one ever checked the sources.
Yes, I immagine that from an anti-open perspective it does sound like that.
Good thing that you don't actually need to be particularly pro-open to see that they have a point. No closed software can be considered secure, ever; no steps to assure more security "regardless of promises or even intent" can change that.
"Even if this looks like a good thing, this can't be a good thing because it's proprietary". How can you disagree? They bother making the statement, because it's their mission, and to warn off non tech-savvy people who might fall for it.
A Massively Multiplayer Augmented Reality Game. Very Unique, even if sometimes it gets a little repetitive. The "grinding" isn't as boring tho.
If I had the time, this is the game I'd play.
Oh wait, it does.
To rule them all.
I seem to be missing a point here, why sould the PD care about identifying devices by MAC Address if they alredy have the capability (and have had this capability for decades) to trace the same device by it's phone number and just make your tipical Verizon collaborte with them. I mean, this is how you recieve phone calls, it wouldn't even work without this capability. So what do they plan to do with it?
Since nobody else pointed this out: there are also other apps and markets similar to Play Store, just "unofficial", with all the benefits and quirks that come along. Just sayin'.
I couldn't support this post more.
("binaries match the source code" + "compiler exploits") modulo "compiler exploits" = "binaries match the source code". Thank you.
You can have it signed by Microsoft ;)
You CLEARLY missed the whole point of a Ken Thompson attack. It's a very interesting read, highly reccomended.
Why everybody in this area keep on using the modulo notation? It makes no sense.
I picked on Islam because its 2013, and its culturally aware.
So, following your logic, because it's 2013 it is "culturally aware" to associate Islam with terrorism?
Yes, that is discrimination/racism. I'm not throwing terms around.
Which makes me wonder, what's their level of clearance?
The list wouldn't be complete without "Allah", would it?
It really shows the level of your discrimination and/or racism.
Too "inside" to be actually funny.
Since nobody in the thread seems to get it: it's not even in TFA, it's in TFS: the Brazilian Govt wants a secure system for the Brazilian Govt official (ie internal) communications. They probably will, at some point, offer this new system to their citizens (for obvious reasons), but that's not the intended goal, for now.
Neither patriarchy nor (private) property are thought to be present until very recent history (about 10.000 years, compared to 200.000 of Homo Sapiens).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy
Anthropologists debung male-centric myths, tech site breeds tens of sexist-joke comments.
Stay classy.
For the vast majority of human history (200.000 years or so) there is no trace whatsoever of signs of war. On the countrary human comunities are thought to live in peaceful sustenaince.
With the introduction of patriarchy and private property, some 7-10.000 years ago (last 5% of human history), are the first traces of war found.
All this information is freely available on Wikipedia, but you might want to take a book for more insight.