Not irrelevant. And "back in the day", a lot of folks would have noted this right off, and posted under their actual logins, instead of being afraid for making geeky observations about the weakness of the writing/editing.
I'm pretty sure this response comment will get modded down, but hey. Old/.ers don't die, they just get modded into oblivion...
Honestly wondering if the individual who downvoted me here even knows what Strata is, and the difference between a business tech conference and an actual, you know, technical conference./. : digging its own grave.
... they have run out of cute ideas for buzfeed videos that even have a tenuous connection to reality, so are trying to arrange things such that they can make one about "10 Dead Tech Websites That Used To Rule The World, and The Greybeards That Died With Them"?
Why, despite the number of folks posting submissions are we getting buzzfeed sourced articles with no submitter except msmash or BeauHD? Seriously - I had to go back two pages on the firehose feed to find any submitted articles except one AC submitted one.
Although we'd like to think that all real estate on the 'net is equal, it isn't.
Sure, one could start up guntube, or foodtube, or whatever. But right now, YouTube the one-stop-shopping for all tubes. They are at the center of the proverbial town. Your guntube and foodtube have to be placed on the outskirts. Which means at best, there will be a delay of months/years before the audience of speaking in the town square can be acquired, and at worst, it never will.
Again, remember: YouTube only started being fair once they had the real estate locked down. Or to put it another way, they played nice until they effectively became a monopoly.
The problem is that YouTube has become the town square for video.
Sure, anyone is free to build their own. The problem is, though, that metaphorically speaking, the only land available is out near the town dump.
When YouTube was assuming this role, they were far more benign to viewpoints that differed from their own. But now that they have a lock on internet video, they know they can control the content. They wrap it up in removing "objectionable" video - but they keep changing the standards of "objectionable". With disturbing increading frequency, "objectionable" is defined to include religious views held by people for thousands of years, exercise of constitutional rights, and advocacy for political positions and candidates that do not meet with the approval of the Alphabet ownership.
Hey, now, I hear he's pretty 1337. If anybody around here can sniff out some srs h@x0ring, it's msmash. You can't have the srs hax that he does without being able to recognize them when he seez them.
I mean, I hear that he once used a bread clip for an iPhone charger holder!
And when it comes to OS's, no one's better. One time, he managed to trick an old lady out of her place at the front of the line at the Genius Bar, and managed to get his password reset in under 10 minutes!
He's a master at networking, too. He once talked to 7 actual real people in three hours at a cocktail mixer that he only had to pay $89 to attend!
No, he's a guy who wears his flair with pride and who empathizes with people having a case of the Mondays.
There was a time when the editors of this site would have augmented the submitted summary of the article to make it significantly more mocking than your comment.
Today, though, it is hard to tell if our benighted editors could get a job at the Apple Genius Bar.
Pointing out the... ah... youthful and inexperienced nature of our current crop of editors, let alone their lack of technical prowess, blatant political agenda, or patronizing manner of address to the folks who have been here just a wee bit longer than they have has consequences beyond being called an insensitive clod.
How those who themselves are in need of a serious LARTing are now running this place is beyond me.
Slashdot Mirror
But... "Don't Be Evil"...
I would like to pit Jolly Roger against Google...
http://jollyrogertelephone.com...
Love the way you stand boldly forth and display your valor by posting this as AC.
Yep, got modded down. /. is no longer a "safe space" for geeks.
Sad.
Not irrelevant. And "back in the day", a lot of folks would have noted this right off, and posted under their actual logins, instead of being afraid for making geeky observations about the weakness of the writing/editing.
I'm pretty sure this response comment will get modded down, but hey. Old /.ers don't die, they just get modded into oblivion...
Even with a good password vault, if basic security practices aren't in force, your data is up for grabs.
And your data is stored in so many places. It is, these days, not a matter of "if" but "when".
Honestly wondering if the individual who downvoted me here even knows what Strata is, and the difference between a business tech conference and an actual, you know, technical conference. /. : digging its own grave.
It doesn't matta.
... they have run out of cute ideas for buzfeed videos that even have a tenuous connection to reality, so are trying to arrange things such that they can make one about "10 Dead Tech Websites That Used To Rule The World, and The Greybeards That Died With Them"?
Why, despite the number of folks posting submissions are we getting buzzfeed sourced articles with no submitter except msmash or BeauHD? Seriously - I had to go back two pages on the firehose feed to find any submitted articles except one AC submitted one.
News has been deeded in violation of the TOS and will not be viewed at 11 or at any other time!
One in ten are kept to shine the robots' bits.
The rest are no longer useful or needed, and have been retired.
Well played.
Two editors, one shark.
Who can jump it better?
Although we'd like to think that all real estate on the 'net is equal, it isn't.
Sure, one could start up guntube, or foodtube, or whatever. But right now, YouTube the one-stop-shopping for all tubes. They are at the center of the proverbial town. Your guntube and foodtube have to be placed on the outskirts. Which means at best, there will be a delay of months/years before the audience of speaking in the town square can be acquired, and at worst, it never will.
Again, remember: YouTube only started being fair once they had the real estate locked down. Or to put it another way, they played nice until they effectively became a monopoly.
Sounds like there might be a plot for a good movie in here. Oh, wait:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Film at 11!
The problem is that YouTube has become the town square for video.
Sure, anyone is free to build their own. The problem is, though, that metaphorically speaking, the only land available is out near the town dump.
When YouTube was assuming this role, they were far more benign to viewpoints that differed from their own. But now that they have a lock on internet video, they know they can control the content. They wrap it up in removing "objectionable" video - but they keep changing the standards of "objectionable". With disturbing increading frequency, "objectionable" is defined to include religious views held by people for thousands of years, exercise of constitutional rights, and advocacy for political positions and candidates that do not meet with the approval of the Alphabet ownership.
Hey, now, I hear he's pretty 1337. If anybody around here can sniff out some srs h@x0ring, it's msmash. You can't have the srs hax that he does without being able to recognize them when he seez them.
I mean, I hear that he once used a bread clip for an iPhone charger holder!
And when it comes to OS's, no one's better. One time, he managed to trick an old lady out of her place at the front of the line at the Genius Bar, and managed to get his password reset in under 10 minutes!
He's a master at networking, too. He once talked to 7 actual real people in three hours at a cocktail mixer that he only had to pay $89 to attend!
No, he's a guy who wears his flair with pride and who empathizes with people having a case of the Mondays.
I will now go weep for the state of /.
There was a time when the editors of this site would have augmented the submitted summary of the article to make it significantly more mocking than your comment.
Today, though, it is hard to tell if our benighted editors could get a job at the Apple Genius Bar.
But what does this insensitive old clod know?
You ARE Johnnycab. You have been assimilated. Welcome to Hell.
NT I Could See
Back in the day, NT was actually a pretty good OS, and used in a number of mission critical applications. (Including some I worked on.)
But... 95? Really?
That was certainly not MILSPEC approved for that sort of thing. And NASA had even tighter requirements and a higher specification bar.
I really suspect that the author has their facts a bit scrambled.
The enemy's gate is down.
Please tell me that you yourself left off the /sarcasm flag in your response here, that you understood the reference being made.
Whelp, there go your mod privileges for life.
Pointing out the... ah... youthful and inexperienced nature of our current crop of editors, let alone their lack of technical prowess, blatant political agenda, or patronizing manner of address to the folks who have been here just a wee bit longer than they have has consequences beyond being called an insensitive clod.
How those who themselves are in need of a serious LARTing are now running this place is beyond me.