"Average" citizens have a number of protections. But journalists have the added protection of freedom of press and lawyers have the added protection of client confidentiality. It's much easier to argue that the protections for press and lawyers is violated by warrantless wiretaps than freedom of speech or other rights. It's quite clear that with a warrantless wiretap the government can easily listen to a lawyer speak to his client or find a newspaper's secret informant. There's no "right to privacy" per se for average citizens, so that's a harder case to prove.
I don't find the results very surprising. While he's trying to prove to Slashdotters the reasons for his methods he only responds with the financial ones. The reason developers on/. are generally against crippling software is because it just feels wrong to do it. If we can write software to perform a task then want to do it and give it to those who want it. The method of profit becomes secondary to the functionality of the software. Therefore we feel slightly better offering a trial period because the user gets to really use the software in all its glory. But we'd prefer to pass out our software fully functional and hope some who like it offer us something back.
I think figuring out the way to profit is a difficult problem. Not because it's hard to pick between trial periods and crippling. But because we want to feel good about the software we write and at the same time make a living from it.
When the government gives a press release or other means of communication directed at the news media, then the news media is responsible for any deception to the public. But when the government gives a video faking a report directed at the public then the government and the news media are equally responsible.
Press releases or public statements in audio, visual, or written form are all valid for the government to release. A fake news segment is not. There's a BIG difference.
I certainly will blame the government. There is no valid reason at all for the US government to deceive its own citizens. You can debate the value of dropping propaganda into the media of your enemies. But elected officials should never be permitted to do such a thing to the people they represent.
it appears that most technology nerds on slashdot (including me) aren't really up on technology trends as much as we should.
I don't consider the popularity of social networking sites to be a technology trend. Sure, there's technology involved, but there's little technically new. This trend is social, and that's why many/. nerds don't bother to keep up with it. If social networking used newly innovative software platforms or languages slashdotters would be all over it. The fact that some old converging technologies are now getting very popular simply doesn't interest many of the people here. And I don't see anything wrong with that.
Obviously the RIAA will try to license the content to YouTube for a huge fee. But even the record labels know that music videos are like advertisements for songs. They make far more money selling records than videos. Free videos give their music more exposure, which means more sales.
That would be so useful! My web development company uses Macs. Obviously we need Windows for testing, so we keep one or two machines running just Windows. It would be so convenient to instead have one or two external drives that we could each bring into our offices as needed. I imagine it's biggest niche would be testers.
And with names like these... Eefoof.com, Panjea.com, Revver and Blip.TV
YouTube's brand recognition will remain just fine. Those are some of the worst web site names I've ever heard. Randomly pounding the keyboard would create site names that are easier to remember.
What's sad is that governments have known about plans to destroy aircraft with carry-on liquids since at least 1995. With a small fraction of the Iraq war budget (I've heard 1%) the US could have those air blowing detectors at every airport to at least catch many solid explosives. If enough of the government actually cared we could have had this liquid detector problem solved a long time ago. This should have been a/. story back in 1995.
I submitted this story to/. a month ago and it was rejected. Back then the MoD stated they were already working with the OpenOffice.org developers to have the appropriate changes made. Apparently it's been completed within the last one or two months. This is old news (by internet standards).
I'm always curious to know exactly how many people are reporting issues when someone claims there's a major widespread problem. If a few dozen people complain of a problem it may sound like a lot. But if it's only a small percent of all customers it could be specific to only one lot of adapters or one specific subcontractor. He claims there's a design flaw but many thousands of people have been using these adapters for years with relatively few complaints.
I'm simply stating there's no good reason for us to be there today. We can live without the small percent (13% is it?) of our oil supply they give us. It's certainly not worth the carnage for the slight lowering of US energy costs. We can't adjust the past. But if we stay away for the foreseeable future we'll reduce the cause of the hatred.
I'm going to skip all of the many things I have to say in response except for one. We can actually blame the US government to a large extent as the original source of our troubles. It's only the US' deep involvement in the Middle East that created any hatred against us. If our presidents didn't hold hands with Saudi princes, our military stayed out of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc., and we didn't send billions of dollars to Israel every year no one there would hate us. We're not hated for our freedom. We're hated for our manipulation of Middle Eastern governments. If we had no involvement in the region except for support of Israel we'd remove two of the three complaints made in Bin Ladin's fatwahs.
I say we forget about Middle Eastern oil. I'm ok with $8 per gallon if we were to completely remove all of our military and political influence in the region. We can support Israel without manipulating other governments and their influence on their populace. Let them do what they want. They only end up hating us because the US government (and corporations by proxy) has been so manipulative in the region.
I don't know where you get the idea a high-speed train would be safer. Can you imagine someone exploding a train car and derailing at 300 mph as it passes through a heavily populated area? Or even today if someone were to blow up a train as it enters Grand Central Station, possibly taking down a skyscraper? Or exploding a train in Penn Station while a game is being played at MSG? A train with explosives can easily kill as many people as a plane turned into a guided bomb.
IBM definitely has the resources to create many of these software services themselves for alot less money. I think it's as much about buying these companies up before the competition can than getting the software.
Time Machine will be a huge aid to developers. It will be even more awesome if there's a way to integrate it with source control systems.
I'm not sure it'll be a huge help to developers themselves. But the Apple site states they're exposing an API. So it probably can be integrated with source control to some extent.
Actually, you can blame just the current administration for letting Microsoft get away with things. The Microsoft anti-trust case began during the previous administration. A few weeks after Bush entered office he removed every lawyer on the case with any experience in monopoly law. He had them replaced with novices and shortly after the case ended with Microsoft not even getting a slap on the wrist. Gates was never even investigated for his perjury in federal court. While Microsoft is guilty of illegal business the current administration specifically let them off the hook.
Of course the customers let them off the hook for writing bad software, but that's another story.
You are asserting, with no basis, something which is empirically proved to be untrue.
I'm asserting with much basis. I wrote the spam filter for one of Europe's largest web sites and I've been studying the data for over a week, working to improve it. You are correct that most valid email contains user specific words. But those words are few and far between when in the context of a whole message. Without creating a white list a basic filter does not know that a special word is special (with the exception of special consideration of URLs and email addresses).
Most text messages are caught because spammers must repeatedly send the same or similar URLs, email addresses, or phone numbers. User-specific keywords have little to do with non-spam getting a low score. (To qualify that: I'm referring only to generic inboxes, not special cases like corporate departments.)
Maybe, but I doubt it. With URLs giving us the ability to track clicks I bet advertisers are tracking as much as they can. I know one big online advertiser who has people carefully tracking every set of keywords they target (in AdWords, etc.). I think if a company goes to a spammer and doesn't at least see an increase in sales after spamming they'll give up.
The vast majority of valid email contains generic words. Even though each of us may know 50,000 words we only use 5,000 or so for normal daily conversation. Most inboxes, not containing many "special" words like "IRQ" and "Johannsen", are filled with these common words. If a Bayesian filter were to assume that all emails in your inbox are to be learned as non-spam then spammers using the most common 5,000 words would get through most filters. Even including "special" words most of your emails are filled with common words. A person could whitelist these special words, but almost no one does that.
Why the hell do you fucking spammers think that anyone will ever buy from you?
If there wasn't money being made there wouldn't be any spam. At least a tiny percent of the people who get this are acting on them. It must be paying off for someone.
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"Average" citizens have a number of protections. But journalists have the added protection of freedom of press and lawyers have the added protection of client confidentiality. It's much easier to argue that the protections for press and lawyers is violated by warrantless wiretaps than freedom of speech or other rights. It's quite clear that with a warrantless wiretap the government can easily listen to a lawyer speak to his client or find a newspaper's secret informant. There's no "right to privacy" per se for average citizens, so that's a harder case to prove.
I don't find the results very surprising. While he's trying to prove to Slashdotters the reasons for his methods he only responds with the financial ones. The reason developers on /. are generally against crippling software is because it just feels wrong to do it. If we can write software to perform a task then want to do it and give it to those who want it. The method of profit becomes secondary to the functionality of the software. Therefore we feel slightly better offering a trial period because the user gets to really use the software in all its glory. But we'd prefer to pass out our software fully functional and hope some who like it offer us something back.
I think figuring out the way to profit is a difficult problem. Not because it's hard to pick between trial periods and crippling. But because we want to feel good about the software we write and at the same time make a living from it.
When the government gives a press release or other means of communication directed at the news media, then the news media is responsible for any deception to the public. But when the government gives a video faking a report directed at the public then the government and the news media are equally responsible.
Press releases or public statements in audio, visual, or written form are all valid for the government to release. A fake news segment is not. There's a BIG difference.
I certainly will blame the government. There is no valid reason at all for the US government to deceive its own citizens. You can debate the value of dropping propaganda into the media of your enemies. But elected officials should never be permitted to do such a thing to the people they represent.
Most of them probably don't run Linux. :(
it appears that most technology nerds on slashdot (including me) aren't really up on technology trends as much as we should.
/. nerds don't bother to keep up with it. If social networking used newly innovative software platforms or languages slashdotters would be all over it. The fact that some old converging technologies are now getting very popular simply doesn't interest many of the people here. And I don't see anything wrong with that.
I don't consider the popularity of social networking sites to be a technology trend. Sure, there's technology involved, but there's little technically new. This trend is social, and that's why many
Obviously the RIAA will try to license the content to YouTube for a huge fee. But even the record labels know that music videos are like advertisements for songs. They make far more money selling records than videos. Free videos give their music more exposure, which means more sales.
That would be so useful! My web development company uses Macs. Obviously we need Windows for testing, so we keep one or two machines running just Windows. It would be so convenient to instead have one or two external drives that we could each bring into our offices as needed. I imagine it's biggest niche would be testers.
And with names like these... Eefoof.com, Panjea.com, Revver and Blip.TV
YouTube's brand recognition will remain just fine. Those are some of the worst web site names I've ever heard. Randomly pounding the keyboard would create site names that are easier to remember.
Simple:
It's common sense.
Where's my book deal?
What's sad is that governments have known about plans to destroy aircraft with carry-on liquids since at least 1995. With a small fraction of the Iraq war budget (I've heard 1%) the US could have those air blowing detectors at every airport to at least catch many solid explosives. If enough of the government actually cared we could have had this liquid detector problem solved a long time ago. This should have been a /. story back in 1995.
I submitted this story to /. a month ago and it was rejected. Back then the MoD stated they were already working with the OpenOffice.org developers to have the appropriate changes made. Apparently it's been completed within the last one or two months. This is old news (by internet standards).
I'm always curious to know exactly how many people are reporting issues when someone claims there's a major widespread problem. If a few dozen people complain of a problem it may sound like a lot. But if it's only a small percent of all customers it could be specific to only one lot of adapters or one specific subcontractor. He claims there's a design flaw but many thousands of people have been using these adapters for years with relatively few complaints.
I'm simply stating there's no good reason for us to be there today. We can live without the small percent (13% is it?) of our oil supply they give us. It's certainly not worth the carnage for the slight lowering of US energy costs. We can't adjust the past. But if we stay away for the foreseeable future we'll reduce the cause of the hatred.
I'm going to skip all of the many things I have to say in response except for one. We can actually blame the US government to a large extent as the original source of our troubles. It's only the US' deep involvement in the Middle East that created any hatred against us. If our presidents didn't hold hands with Saudi princes, our military stayed out of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc., and we didn't send billions of dollars to Israel every year no one there would hate us. We're not hated for our freedom. We're hated for our manipulation of Middle Eastern governments. If we had no involvement in the region except for support of Israel we'd remove two of the three complaints made in Bin Ladin's fatwahs.
I say we forget about Middle Eastern oil. I'm ok with $8 per gallon if we were to completely remove all of our military and political influence in the region. We can support Israel without manipulating other governments and their influence on their populace. Let them do what they want. They only end up hating us because the US government (and corporations by proxy) has been so manipulative in the region.
I don't know where you get the idea a high-speed train would be safer. Can you imagine someone exploding a train car and derailing at 300 mph as it passes through a heavily populated area? Or even today if someone were to blow up a train as it enters Grand Central Station, possibly taking down a skyscraper? Or exploding a train in Penn Station while a game is being played at MSG? A train with explosives can easily kill as many people as a plane turned into a guided bomb.
IBM definitely has the resources to create many of these software services themselves for alot less money. I think it's as much about buying these companies up before the competition can than getting the software.
Time Machine will be a huge aid to developers. It will be even more awesome if there's a way to integrate it with source control systems.
I'm not sure it'll be a huge help to developers themselves. But the Apple site states they're exposing an API. So it probably can be integrated with source control to some extent.
Ok, so which part of 'News for Nerds' does this come under?
from the does-it-really-matter dept.
(Really.)
We're not doing anything with Colorado these days anyway, but imagine the appeal of a new and improved state with a virile name like Colberado.
It would be much more appropriate to rename Idaho's Portugal, a.k.a. California's Canada, a.k.a. Washington's Mexico, a.k.a. Oregon.
Stevegon? Orebert? Stevegonebert?
Actually, you can blame just the current administration for letting Microsoft get away with things. The Microsoft anti-trust case began during the previous administration. A few weeks after Bush entered office he removed every lawyer on the case with any experience in monopoly law. He had them replaced with novices and shortly after the case ended with Microsoft not even getting a slap on the wrist. Gates was never even investigated for his perjury in federal court. While Microsoft is guilty of illegal business the current administration specifically let them off the hook.
Of course the customers let them off the hook for writing bad software, but that's another story.
You are asserting, with no basis, something which is empirically proved to be untrue.
I'm asserting with much basis. I wrote the spam filter for one of Europe's largest web sites and I've been studying the data for over a week, working to improve it. You are correct that most valid email contains user specific words. But those words are few and far between when in the context of a whole message. Without creating a white list a basic filter does not know that a special word is special (with the exception of special consideration of URLs and email addresses).
Most text messages are caught because spammers must repeatedly send the same or similar URLs, email addresses, or phone numbers. User-specific keywords have little to do with non-spam getting a low score. (To qualify that: I'm referring only to generic inboxes, not special cases like corporate departments.)
Maybe, but I doubt it. With URLs giving us the ability to track clicks I bet advertisers are tracking as much as they can. I know one big online advertiser who has people carefully tracking every set of keywords they target (in AdWords, etc.). I think if a company goes to a spammer and doesn't at least see an increase in sales after spamming they'll give up.
The vast majority of valid email contains generic words. Even though each of us may know 50,000 words we only use 5,000 or so for normal daily conversation. Most inboxes, not containing many "special" words like "IRQ" and "Johannsen", are filled with these common words. If a Bayesian filter were to assume that all emails in your inbox are to be learned as non-spam then spammers using the most common 5,000 words would get through most filters. Even including "special" words most of your emails are filled with common words. A person could whitelist these special words, but almost no one does that.
Why the hell do you fucking spammers think that anyone will ever buy from you?
If there wasn't money being made there wouldn't be any spam. At least a tiny percent of the people who get this are acting on them. It must be paying off for someone.