Breaking in is breaking in. Intent doesn't count. The method doesn't count. Your desire to make crimes committed on a computer somehow have less impact than traditional crimes don't count. Your attempts to lessen the act through invalid analogies are worthless.
He broke in. The fact that he did it using a computer doesn't change the fact that he broke in. I know the general Slashdot imaginarium likes to believe that somehow things don't count when they're done using a computer, but that's fantasy.
It's easy to boil things down to absurdity and claim they are obvious after someone else has done the actual hard work. That doesn't make you a genius, it just makes you a Slashdotter.
But why? There's not a single reason in that post, it's just a lot of insults and the strong implication of a vague misunderstanding of the webapp stack.
The government is going broke because it is spending more than it takes in, period. Giving the incapable more comfortable lives won't fix that at all, it'll just make people like you feel better. You are, of course, free to donate all of your money to that cause. You're just not free to donate mine.
You are committing the basic nerd mistake of believing your needs mean anything to the world at large. The success of the iPad disproves your stance - and did so a year+ before you posted it in this story.
Stop foaming at the mouth and start thinking. You'll feel better, we'll feel better.. win-win!
People bitch and moan about every change, but you learn to filter out the whiners, pick out the constructive feedback, and incorporate it. Not getting a ton of compliments doesn't mean you did a bad job, because the whiners go out of their way to whine.
Not including Slashdot, apparently they just do whatever they want to their interface with no regard for users.
Maybe you don't get to be cutting edge anymore? It's not like you have some right to continue using old hardware forever but get the most up-to-date experience.
No, what it is is what it has always been. They respond to what they perceive their target market wants. Internet bitching from nerds who hate them isn't really a factor in their strategy.
Very few people who actually accomplishes things strive for purity. Those who do inevitably compromise somewhere to achieve it, then gloss over the compromises. Only in the mind of the idealist is it even possible.
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Breaking in is breaking in. Intent doesn't count. The method doesn't count. Your desire to make crimes committed on a computer somehow have less impact than traditional crimes don't count. Your attempts to lessen the act through invalid analogies are worthless.
He broke in. The fact that he did it using a computer doesn't change the fact that he broke in. I know the general Slashdot imaginarium likes to believe that somehow things don't count when they're done using a computer, but that's fantasy.
It's easy to boil things down to absurdity and claim they are obvious after someone else has done the actual hard work. That doesn't make you a genius, it just makes you a Slashdotter.
Take the pointless rage away and all nerds have left is silly obsessions and bad hygiene. That's not enough to fill a life.
Yeah, it's terrible how Netflix just works but it's inconvenient to copy the streams for "sharing" or whatever the cool word is these days.
Free my entertainment!
That's the most insanely impractical philosophy I can imagine. I have to assume you don't actually make anything people use.
But why? There's not a single reason in that post, it's just a lot of insults and the strong implication of a vague misunderstanding of the webapp stack.
The government is going broke because it is spending more than it takes in, period. Giving the incapable more comfortable lives won't fix that at all, it'll just make people like you feel better. You are, of course, free to donate all of your money to that cause. You're just not free to donate mine.
If you think there's no difference between a regulated market and central planning, I invite you live in a Chinese ghost city for a little while.
Yeah, let's make these assholes give up something for the good of the white man, to their own detriment. That's a reasonable thing to ask of them.
Maybe we can compensate them by resettling them somewhere.
"merely"
Because I guess everything you didn't and can't do is trivial and easily dismissed, huh?
You are committing the basic nerd mistake of believing your needs mean anything to the world at large. The success of the iPad disproves your stance - and did so a year+ before you posted it in this story.
Stop foaming at the mouth and start thinking. You'll feel better, we'll feel better.. win-win!
People bitch and moan about every change, but you learn to filter out the whiners, pick out the constructive feedback, and incorporate it. Not getting a ton of compliments doesn't mean you did a bad job, because the whiners go out of their way to whine.
Not including Slashdot, apparently they just do whatever they want to their interface with no regard for users.
Maybe you don't get to be cutting edge anymore? It's not like you have some right to continue using old hardware forever but get the most up-to-date experience.
Who said each application? A browser has fairly unique needs and usage patterns.
People are browsing from the server? Your problem isn't Firefox....
No, what it is is what it has always been. They respond to what they perceive their target market wants. Internet bitching from nerds who hate them isn't really a factor in their strategy.
*shrug* I've been called worse by better people.
The biggest threat to free speech is jackass pretending every time someone does something stupid they don't like, it's a systemic problem.
Okay, that's not actually a threat at all... but this non-story is so stupid it made my head spin. Did it really need to be posted?
It's like asking "why does Slashdot only run stories that promote piracy as a human right?"
Never. We can laugh at everything because nothing is sacred, not even your precious sensibilities.
When you added "Or anything from Apple, for that matter" you basically undercut any pretense of asking a serious question.
Whips? Kept the slaves motivated under much more adverse conditions.
Rather like fixing a cut on your finger by cutting off your arm.
Very few people who actually accomplishes things strive for purity. Those who do inevitably compromise somewhere to achieve it, then gloss over the compromises. Only in the mind of the idealist is it even possible.