Malda doesn't approve too many stories any more but the ones he does are fairly reasonable. Robin is reasonable and can only really be critisized for his opinion. Beyond that it is really hit an miss. You need to have a decent editorial team if you want to have a good site.
I'm sure if this story had been mentioned to anyone else there they would have confirmed that it was really mis-informed. Perhaps this is why Kuro5hin.org is often brought up in posts like this.
By selling the software to an individual, Microsoft should have a responsibility to make "safe" software. Comparing it to auto manufacturers is reasonable. Microsoft should hire "software engineers" who are professionally licenced and insured to sign off product as safe.
Open source on the other hand shouldn't have this responsibility because it is given out for free. The the responsibility exists with the individual who implements the systems. If I designed a car and left the drawings open source. I would never be held liable for the car if it proved to be a defective design. If I sold the designs, I would.
If someone else sells my free drawings, maybe they should be liable as well.
It's true. What we need is a new standard. The thing that bugs me most about search engines is getting multiple hits on a particular site. If you could distribute the load of the search to the site itself (have a standard search db that could talk to the search engines) and simply index the general idea of the site through meta tags. Then using a search engine (which is more like a distributed database browser) you can browse the individual and up-to-date search dbs of the site.
I think that is an interesting point but/. excels in "reporting by democracy." While there might be a slight bias here you are likely to see at least some people post on the opposing side of any issue.
As well, errors tend to get weeded out in the comments people post. If a story is really interesting I always take the time to read the comments to see if an error has been made (like this story.)
As far as media making up stories: Sometimes you just have to fill space:)
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1. Canada has a President? True/False
2. We drive dog sleds?
3. You can say the RRRR in Roll up the rim to win.
Malda doesn't approve too many stories any more but the ones he does are fairly reasonable. Robin is reasonable and can only really be critisized for his opinion. Beyond that it is really hit an miss. You need to have a decent editorial team if you want to have a good site.
I'm sure if this story had been mentioned to anyone else there they would have confirmed that it was really mis-informed. Perhaps this is why Kuro5hin.org is often brought up in posts like this.
By selling the software to an individual, Microsoft should have a responsibility to make "safe" software. Comparing it to auto manufacturers is reasonable. Microsoft should hire "software engineers" who are professionally licenced and insured to sign off product as safe.
Open source on the other hand shouldn't have this responsibility because it is given out for free. The the responsibility exists with the individual who implements the systems. If I designed a car and left the drawings open source. I would never be held liable for the car if it proved to be a defective design. If I sold the designs, I would.
If someone else sells my free drawings, maybe they should be liable as well.
It's true. What we need is a new standard. The thing that bugs me most about search engines is getting multiple hits on a particular site. If you could distribute the load of the search to the site itself (have a standard search db that could talk to the search engines) and simply index the general idea of the site through meta tags. Then using a search engine (which is more like a distributed database browser) you can browse the individual and up-to-date search dbs of the site.
here's a bunch
www.joker.com is cheaper. 20.45 Euro, or around 67.60 cdn for two years or around $20/year us I believe
I think that is an interesting point but /. excels in "reporting by democracy." While there might be a slight bias here you are likely to see at least some people post on the opposing side of any issue.
:)
As well, errors tend to get weeded out in the comments people post. If a story is really interesting I always take the time to read the comments to see if an error has been made (like this story.)
As far as media making up stories: Sometimes you just have to fill space
I know my parents don't like computers being left on... imagine billy saying "but ma, I can't turn it off I'm helping crack RC-5"
Isn't it bizzare how they skipped right over 9? Talk about hype. At least they didn't skip over 4 through 94 like windows.
Some good Communications Security Establishment information can be found here