I know, these open source guys are always pushing us to use the keyboard. I can only launch the terminal when I have to navigate through hierarchical menus with my mouse. Bring back the mouse!
How dare anyone criticize/.'s ordained non-evil multinational! It was just an accident, duh. Google doesn't do anything unethical. And even if it was slightly unethical, you gave up your privacy when you joined the web. It's kinda like how you basically lose all consititutional rights when you enter an airport. It's just the price of progress, guys!
How dare anyone criticize/.'s ordained non-evil multinational! It was just an accident, duh. Google doesn't do anything unethical. And even if it was slightly unethical, you gave up your privacy when you joined the web. It's kinda like how you basically lose all consititutional rights when you enter an airport. It's just the price of progress, guys!
Who, in this day and age, has had a boss who would care about this? Hell, at some jobs, the boss will just let you cut out early for a doctors or dentist appointment without taking PTO. That's the ultimate personal business at work.
This is like arguing that the government can seize your car from the garage and dismantle it into thousands of parts, but that they haven't deprived you of your property, because you are free to hire a mechanic (at great cost) to put it all back together again.
The government DOES seize vehicles without due process.
Perhaps this is a political move on the part of Netflix. They can say that they're acting in good faith to alleviate the ISPs bandwidth concerns. If the ISPs keep balking, it could expose their motives more. What I mean is eventually it could be come indeniable that bandwidth isn't their concern and any unfair treatment of Netflix's traffic is just that, plain unfair. It could be good for all of us, backing the ISPs into a corner where they either have to admit defeat to Netflix in some sense (the lesser good outcome) or their nefarious tinkering with internet traffic comes under fire (a real win).
I am actually switching to DuckDuckGo more and more (you know voting with your dollars and eyeballs and all that jazz). But, we all know Google's search algorithms are the best, so it's hard to give up.
Well, they certainly have one from when I used their services. But, I am deleting it all (it's really quite hard to disentangle myself from Gmail, but I'm getting closer.
I love this comment and wish I had the mod points to spend. Maybe ACs start at 0, but I don't know. I don't have a hard time choosing. I don't really mind closed source (but I slowly loosing trust in closed source software, so maybe I'll agree with it one day). I make comments like this and get downmodded. It's insane to me. These people on slashdot think I'm crazy because I don't want google to harvest my information. I use startpage, NoScript and randomize my user agent on start of Firefox. And, I STILL think Google's probably got a dossier on me. But, we're the nuts I guess.
Do we call Cal UofC? I had to check the article to make sure this very serious research project was coming out of California and not the University of Cambodia.
It seems like Dell should have a good track record. They are tried and failed with linux and now they're getting back in the saddle. I, for one, will not fault them for that.
Or that your car, computer, mobile phone, blender, pace-maker etc. are not products someone who's self-taught banged together in their garage out of bubblegum and lint.
I'm from the auto-industry and I have been to some suppliers that were little more than 2 guys in a rented warehouse. But, I promise, they only use high quality bubblelicious.
I have felt from the time it came out that GPL 3.0 was a step too far. With any attempt to write a legally binding document (whether a license like the GPL or a law) that applies to people you have never met you have to make a choice between one of two options. You can either write it so that no one can ever abuse it, or you can write it so that it is flexible and can be applied in innovative ways to solve problems that it never occurred to you might be connected to it somehow. If you do the first one, the document will, at best, be unusable in situations that are outside of what you considered possible when you wrote it, but more likely will actually restrain innovation in any area where your document applies. GPL 3.0 does this.
The primary objective of the GPL and free software was not innovation; it was freedom. Freedom for the little guy. RMS has underlined again and again that some software might not be so shiny because of that freedom, or proprietary products might have more features. This however, has always been a non-issue; the primary objective has always been the four freedoms, regardless of how others might want to use or abuse the software or the essential right to freedom.
GPL 3.0 is less free because in the strictest sense. Regardless, thinking practically, GPL 3.0 seems to me like a hollow victory. It's too idealistic. Freedom for the little guy? How many GPL projects are supported by companies and corporations who use the open source project to make money. This seems like the best of both worlds. You create an incentive to make the open source project better, and it will be a better product for us all, open and free. The GPL 3.0 just seems to destroy this symbiosis and I can't see how it's freer in any sense.
Let's sum up the whole thing, "Google had not violated any laws". That's straight from the article and the FCC investigation report. Not one single law was broken, PERIOD. So how is this news? If the NYT really wants to do news about privacy rights why doesn't it put the bullshit CISPA on the front page instead of ignoring it.
I find your attitude dangerous. We wouldn't have a concept of ethics if our laws made all corporations perfect citizens. We need outrage when companies act so blatantly unethical. It hurts me, because I don't want to live in the world we're building. This behavior was completely unacceptable, and the fact that this is currently the highest rated comment on Slashdot, of all places, means I might be a small minority. That scares the shit out of me.
> Any monkey can regurgitate a book. IT's time we get real teachers in there and fire all the administration that makes retard decisions to have the Phys Ed teacher, to hold the algebra classes because he knows how to use a calculator.
Heh. Michigander here too. On the flip side, now we've got these "well qualified" restrictions where you can't even teach high school math without a math degree. So, I have a masters in CS, but I can't teach HS math? Get a life. I've considered teaching (I've always had a passion for it and sometimes a more fulfilling career is better than making more money), but not if I have to get a new degree. With well-intentioned regulation, you lose good teachers who can do the financial math and skip it all together for a better paying career.
> NoSQL is widely taken to be a joke by professionals, who can easily achieve the same scalability using relational databases, without giving up their many useful and even necessary features.
I wish I had mod points to mod you down. Now, I'm not a database expert and even Stonebraker seems to agree with you, but NoSQL has some very large success stories and the NoSQL movement is taken quite seriously by many academics and professionals. At the very minimum, the NoSQL boom has lit a fire under the asses of the RDBMS movement to prove their superiority. NoSQL (despite the dumb name) is a serious academic and commercial movement, despite some of its shortcomings.
I woke up one day recently and realized it's not 1999 anymore; it's not even 2005. Javascript is everywhere and does everything. Deleted doesn't have to mean deleted anymore and the US government (and probably others) is likely hooked into all of your communications. To top it all off, TOSes have gotten worse not better (look at Google's evolution).
I have deleted my facebook for good. I have deleted my google accounts (I am working on Gmail, but it's going ASAP). I quit using Opera so I can use NoScript in FF. I never search with google, yahoo or bing on my personally owned computers (always use startpage.com or previously scroogle.org). The web is a changed place and we, the users, have given our trust away too easily. It was one massive bait and switch. We need to change the way we think about our e-lives and fast.
I call this the golden touch. It happens, invariably, when someone technical (like me or you) comes around to help a friend with a computer problem. Instead of getting to the bottom of it, it just stops happening. It's actually quite frustrating, because nothing is actually solved (or maybe nothing was ever wrong, who knows)
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I know, these open source guys are always pushing us to use the keyboard. I can only launch the terminal when I have to navigate through hierarchical menus with my mouse. Bring back the mouse!
How dare anyone criticize /.'s ordained non-evil multinational! It was just an accident, duh. Google doesn't do anything unethical. And even if it was slightly unethical, you gave up your privacy when you joined the web. It's kinda like how you basically lose all consititutional rights when you enter an airport. It's just the price of progress, guys!
How dare anyone criticize /.'s ordained non-evil multinational! It was just an accident, duh. Google doesn't do anything unethical. And even if it was slightly unethical, you gave up your privacy when you joined the web. It's kinda like how you basically lose all consititutional rights when you enter an airport. It's just the price of progress, guys!
That's how solid thinking is done! If the sound rules get in the way of something I think is right, the rules must be wrong!
Who, in this day and age, has had a boss who would care about this? Hell, at some jobs, the boss will just let you cut out early for a doctors or dentist appointment without taking PTO. That's the ultimate personal business at work.
This is like arguing that the government can seize your car from the garage and dismantle it into thousands of parts, but that they haven't deprived you of your property, because you are free to hire a mechanic (at great cost) to put it all back together again.
The government DOES seize vehicles without due process.
Wise words from a wise man
Perhaps this is a political move on the part of Netflix. They can say that they're acting in good faith to alleviate the ISPs bandwidth concerns. If the ISPs keep balking, it could expose their motives more. What I mean is eventually it could be come indeniable that bandwidth isn't their concern and any unfair treatment of Netflix's traffic is just that, plain unfair. It could be good for all of us, backing the ISPs into a corner where they either have to admit defeat to Netflix in some sense (the lesser good outcome) or their nefarious tinkering with internet traffic comes under fire (a real win).
I am actually switching to DuckDuckGo more and more (you know voting with your dollars and eyeballs and all that jazz). But, we all know Google's search algorithms are the best, so it's hard to give up.
Well, they certainly have one from when I used their services. But, I am deleting it all (it's really quite hard to disentangle myself from Gmail, but I'm getting closer.
I love this comment and wish I had the mod points to spend. Maybe ACs start at 0, but I don't know. I don't have a hard time choosing. I don't really mind closed source (but I slowly loosing trust in closed source software, so maybe I'll agree with it one day). I make comments like this and get downmodded. It's insane to me. These people on slashdot think I'm crazy because I don't want google to harvest my information. I use startpage, NoScript and randomize my user agent on start of Firefox. And, I STILL think Google's probably got a dossier on me. But, we're the nuts I guess.
we damn well need one side or the other to be the "spend less" party or we're all doomed.
Last election we had three! Ha!
tapspace's take: when you're a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Do we call Cal UofC? I had to check the article to make sure this very serious research project was coming out of California and not the University of Cambodia.
It seems like Dell should have a good track record. They are tried and failed with linux and now they're getting back in the saddle. I, for one, will not fault them for that.
Or that your car, computer, mobile phone, blender, pace-maker etc. are not products someone who's self-taught banged together in their garage out of bubblegum and lint.
I'm from the auto-industry and I have been to some suppliers that were little more than 2 guys in a rented warehouse. But, I promise, they only use high quality bubblelicious.
I have felt from the time it came out that GPL 3.0 was a step too far. With any attempt to write a legally binding document (whether a license like the GPL or a law) that applies to people you have never met you have to make a choice between one of two options. You can either write it so that no one can ever abuse it, or you can write it so that it is flexible and can be applied in innovative ways to solve problems that it never occurred to you might be connected to it somehow. If you do the first one, the document will, at best, be unusable in situations that are outside of what you considered possible when you wrote it, but more likely will actually restrain innovation in any area where your document applies. GPL 3.0 does this.
The primary objective of the GPL and free software was not innovation; it was freedom. Freedom for the little guy. RMS has underlined again and again that some software might not be so shiny because of that freedom, or proprietary products might have more features. This however, has always been a non-issue; the primary objective has always been the four freedoms, regardless of how others might want to use or abuse the software or the essential right to freedom.
GPL 3.0 is less free because in the strictest sense. Regardless, thinking practically, GPL 3.0 seems to me like a hollow victory. It's too idealistic. Freedom for the little guy? How many GPL projects are supported by companies and corporations who use the open source project to make money. This seems like the best of both worlds. You create an incentive to make the open source project better, and it will be a better product for us all, open and free. The GPL 3.0 just seems to destroy this symbiosis and I can't see how it's freer in any sense.
Let's sum up the whole thing, "Google had not violated any laws". That's straight from the article and the FCC investigation report. Not one single law was broken, PERIOD. So how is this news? If the NYT really wants to do news about privacy rights why doesn't it put the bullshit CISPA on the front page instead of ignoring it.
I find your attitude dangerous. We wouldn't have a concept of ethics if our laws made all corporations perfect citizens. We need outrage when companies act so blatantly unethical. It hurts me, because I don't want to live in the world we're building. This behavior was completely unacceptable, and the fact that this is currently the highest rated comment on Slashdot, of all places, means I might be a small minority. That scares the shit out of me.
Aw, SNAP!
Are you also avoiding Android? Because that requires you to be signed into your Google account to do a lot of useful things (like sync stuff).
I'll field this one. Yep.
> Any monkey can regurgitate a book. IT's time we get real teachers in there and fire all the administration that makes retard decisions to have the Phys Ed teacher, to hold the algebra classes because he knows how to use a calculator.
Heh. Michigander here too. On the flip side, now we've got these "well qualified" restrictions where you can't even teach high school math without a math degree. So, I have a masters in CS, but I can't teach HS math? Get a life. I've considered teaching (I've always had a passion for it and sometimes a more fulfilling career is better than making more money), but not if I have to get a new degree. With well-intentioned regulation, you lose good teachers who can do the financial math and skip it all together for a better paying career.
I don't really understand your comment or why you're calling me kid. Maybe you got hit with a couple of shells in Nam, who knows, crazy old guy.
> the RDBMS community was a bunch of academics
From the University of IBM?
> RDBMS movement
RDBMS *community* (/facepalm)
> NoSQL is widely taken to be a joke by professionals, who can easily achieve the same scalability using relational databases, without giving up their many useful and even necessary features.
I wish I had mod points to mod you down. Now, I'm not a database expert and even Stonebraker seems to agree with you, but NoSQL has some very large success stories and the NoSQL movement is taken quite seriously by many academics and professionals. At the very minimum, the NoSQL boom has lit a fire under the asses of the RDBMS movement to prove their superiority. NoSQL (despite the dumb name) is a serious academic and commercial movement, despite some of its shortcomings.
I woke up one day recently and realized it's not 1999 anymore; it's not even 2005. Javascript is everywhere and does everything. Deleted doesn't have to mean deleted anymore and the US government (and probably others) is likely hooked into all of your communications. To top it all off, TOSes have gotten worse not better (look at Google's evolution).
I have deleted my facebook for good. I have deleted my google accounts (I am working on Gmail, but it's going ASAP). I quit using Opera so I can use NoScript in FF. I never search with google, yahoo or bing on my personally owned computers (always use startpage.com or previously scroogle.org). The web is a changed place and we, the users, have given our trust away too easily. It was one massive bait and switch. We need to change the way we think about our e-lives and fast.
I call this the golden touch. It happens, invariably, when someone technical (like me or you) comes around to help a friend with a computer problem. Instead of getting to the bottom of it, it just stops happening. It's actually quite frustrating, because nothing is actually solved (or maybe nothing was ever wrong, who knows)