An employee of internet.com, Kevin Reichard (kreichard@internet.com) posted on Linux Today (http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=11259) in regards to concerns that were voiced about Linux Today's site changing due to the takeover.
This is one of his postings:
> If Java appeared on linuxplanet.com, it's because it was initiated by an > advertiser or to solicit feedback on how we're doing. > > If someone is irritated at our solicitation of opinions about how we're doing, > then I'm sorry -- but I think that we should be given some credit for soliciting > the specific feelings of our reades. > > If it's an advertiser, then I'm sorry and powerless. It's akin to fragrance ads in a magazine. > > --Kevin
Is this not terribly disconcerting for the future of sites aquired by internet.com?
"We are not responsible for the content our advertisers bring into the page... if it's obnoxious, if it's offensive, whatever it is, it's beyond our control"
The worst of it?.... At least one employee of internet.com, who has been with the company for over 2 years now, is sorry... and powerless to do anything about the content of the advertisment of the site.
Is there anyone at internet.com that is not sorry and powerless against their advertisers?
What movie or book best describes your ideal life and life goals?
World altering, personal evolution and getting the girl ala Fight Club or more focused on internal issues of understanding with something like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintance... or something utterly else...?
Now there's a new BSD section (looks like the boxes on the left hand side haven't been updated yet, but they will be) in which more of the BSD specific material can be posted, in exactly the same way that the "Your Rights Online" section works.
Nikc, could you please explain the rationalization in having a completely seperate section for BSD related articles?
Specfically, How does having a BSD Section have an advantage over simply having more posted articles?
How do you resolve the apparent inequality that results in a BSD section as compared with other Open Source Operating Systems (ie Linux, eCos)?
If demand is the primary motivation for establishing a seperate BSD section, would you initiate a push with CmdrTaco and Hemos about a policy change to enact a more open submissions record, so that the Slashdot community as a whole had access to see the real numbers on types of articles submitted?
Thanks in advance fot taking the time to address these issues.
While *BSD is great, and (to placate any that thing I'm trying to flame) is better than Linux in certain areas, the first coming to mind OpenBSD's security,
I do not feel it neccessary or prudent to have a completely seperate section for BSD. We do not have a seperate section for Linux or BeOS with dedicated authors for it, and trying to create a need for another section when there are other alternatives is overkill, redundant, etc.
If Those In Charge feel more BSD coverage is neccessary, then cover more articles, but I for one feel things are unbalanced to have a whole dedicated section simply for BSD.
We need it implemented from the small LAN's to network-to-network traffic on the backbone. If the big carriers wont implement it, so be it, it can be done at a grassroots level.
Even weak encryption would be helpful in this case, anything to prevent the widescale sieve/sifting of informtion sent across the net would go a long way to heading off this fate.
>>>>>> This week I spoke with Joe McMoneagle, a "remote viewer" for many years in military intelligence programs. Called a "natural" by observers because of the detail of his best "hits," McMoneagle engaged in a disciplined kind of clairvoyance using structured protocols. (Remote viewing is the ability to be present in our consciousness to events or places at which we are not physically present). >>>>>>>
Note, he fully quotes all the terms that deserve it... when this paragraph is taken in context with the rest of the article, it's seen he isn't reporting on this "remote viewing" or even trying to state its real, simply that reality is comprimised of diffrent aspects for diffrent ppl.
Personally, I like his writing style... its more complex and substatial than most popular writers, with deep twists of words that are actually meaningful, instead of someone simply showing of the thesaurus thier word processor.
Rob Malda is someone who can lay claim to an enviable drawing ability while constantly and honestly disclaiming any ability with the English language whatsoever and throwing considerable and mostly-laudable effort into running what has become a popular public service. He's also someone who appears to be functionally illiterate (cf his review of the 'Open Source Book' on Slashdot) and it looks as if he would think that 'editorial balance' has something to do with spreading webserving load via SMP.
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An employee of internet.com, Kevin Reichard (kreichard@internet.com)
posted on Linux Today (http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=11259) in regards
to concerns that were voiced about Linux Today's site changing due to the takeover.
This is one of his postings:
> If Java appeared on linuxplanet.com, it's because it was initiated by an
> advertiser or to solicit feedback on how we're doing.
>
> If someone is irritated at our solicitation of opinions about how we're doing,
> then I'm sorry -- but I think that we should be given some credit for soliciting
> the specific feelings of our reades.
>
> If it's an advertiser, then I'm sorry and powerless. It's akin to fragrance ads in a magazine.
>
> --Kevin
Is this not terribly disconcerting for the future of sites aquired by internet.com?
"We are not responsible for the content our advertisers bring into the page...
if it's obnoxious, if it's offensive, whatever it is, it's beyond our control"
The worst of it?....
At least one employee of internet.com, who has been with the company for over 2 years now,
is sorry... and powerless to do anything about the content of the advertisment of the site.
Is there anyone at internet.com that is not sorry and powerless against their advertisers?
What movie or book best describes your ideal life and life goals?
World altering, personal evolution and getting the girl ala Fight Club or more focused on internal issues of understanding with something like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintance... or something utterly else...?
No, this is about Sections, Not Topics,
to quote nikc in post #18:
Now there's a new BSD section (looks like the boxes on the left hand side haven't been updated
yet, but they will be) in which more of the BSD specific material can be posted, in exactly the
same way that the "Your Rights Online" section works.
Nikc, could you please explain the rationalization in having a completely seperate section for BSD related articles?
Specfically,
How does having a BSD Section have an advantage over simply having more posted articles?
How do you resolve the apparent inequality that results in a BSD section as compared with other Open Source Operating Systems (ie Linux, eCos)?
If demand is the primary motivation for establishing a seperate BSD section, would you initiate a push with CmdrTaco and Hemos about
a policy change to enact a more open submissions record, so that the Slashdot community as a whole had access to see the real numbers on types of articles submitted?
Thanks in advance fot taking the time to address these issues.
This is not about Topics, of which there are over 60, (http://slashdot.org/topics.shtml)
This is about Sections....
so far the only sections are:
askslashdot
books
features
interviews
radio
yro
Having a BSD Section doesn't fit well, nor is it balanced considering other Open Source OS's.
While *BSD is great, and (to placate any that thing I'm trying to flame) is better than Linux in certain areas, the first coming to mind OpenBSD's security,
I do not feel it neccessary or prudent to have a completely seperate section for BSD. We do not have a seperate section for Linux or BeOS with dedicated authors for it, and trying to create a need for another section when there are other alternatives is overkill, redundant, etc.
If Those In Charge feel more BSD coverage is neccessary, then cover more articles, but I for one feel things are unbalanced to have a whole dedicated section simply for BSD.
We need it implemented from the small LAN's to network-to-network traffic on the backbone.
If the big carriers wont implement it, so be it, it can be done at a grassroots level.
Even weak encryption would be helpful in this case,
anything to prevent the widescale sieve/sifting of informtion sent across the net would go a long way to heading off this fate.
>>>>>>
This week I spoke with Joe McMoneagle, a "remote viewer" for many years in
military intelligence programs. Called a "natural" by observers because of the
detail of his best "hits," McMoneagle engaged in a disciplined kind of
clairvoyance using structured protocols. (Remote viewing is the ability to be
present in our consciousness to events or places at which we are not
physically present).
>>>>>>>
Note, he fully quotes all the terms that deserve it...
when this paragraph is taken in context with the rest of the article,
it's seen he isn't reporting on this "remote viewing" or even
trying to state its real, simply that reality is comprimised of
diffrent aspects for diffrent ppl.
Personally, I like his writing style... its more complex and substatial
than most popular writers, with deep twists of words that are actually
meaningful, instead of someone simply showing of the thesaurus thier
word processor.
From the article...
Rob Malda is someone who can lay claim to an enviable drawing ability
while constantly and honestly disclaiming any ability with the English
language whatsoever and throwing considerable and mostly-laudable
effort into running what has become a popular public service. He's
also someone who appears to be functionally illiterate (cf his review
of the 'Open Source Book' on Slashdot) and it looks as if he would
think that 'editorial balance' has something to do with spreading
webserving load via SMP.
Noone is deciding whut you can and cant read ...
set your threshold to -5 or so as suggested,
and you can read any and everything your heart desires.
Filters and killfiles are a good idea regardless,
if they can be implemented without adding significantly
to the load.