True, but it is stuff that matters. Sounds as if without Hamming Code (or whatever it would have been called had someone else discovered it) we wouldn't be where we are today.
Honestly, this begins at home with parents who won't discipline their children, if you really want to go back to root cause.
Parents are ultimately responsible, and those that act irresponsible with their children are going to have children, most of the time, who emulate them and the parents won't do anything about it. Then, when they get to school (a school whose hands are tied with regards to disciplinary measures), it's no holds barred.
When a website makes it easy to link to any site you want, to start censoring the links its users share is counter-intuitive, is garbage, and must stop (or stop making link sharing so easy). They made themselves obligated to link to whatever site users posts when they made it dead easy to share links.
I did say that "this content blocking garbage must stop", which it should. I've been blocked to legitimate sites several times because FB thinks I don't want to go there because other people reported it as offensive.
Why don't you read what I wrote before commenting.
Oh I know, and I tend to not use those sites anymore (and if I encounter one, I avoid it from then on, it's just not useful to me). Unfortunately, the rest of FB is still useful for me, so again, I will just not use FB Messaging. Simple.
That's all I was really commenting on. I'm tired of sites that try to make it hard to share links, especially when they already have designed themselves to make doing so ridiculously easy.
No, Facebook isn't, but if they are providing a communications service, and I cannot use that service to link users to my content (legal or not), then it's a useless service.
I only brought in the legality of my torrents (which are fully 100% legal to share and distribute, as I created the content and licensed it thusly) because I felt a need to clarify that I do share links to content that has been licensed for legal sharing that happens to be torrented. If FB is breaking or blocking links to legit torrent sites (again, Jamendo (though they only provide torrents as an after thought now), Clearbits, and Vodo all offer legitimate torrented content that is freely distributable by all to name just a few) as well as illegitimate ones (99% of Demonoid content, The Pirate Bay, etc.) then the FB messaging service is useless to me.
Your other comment is laughable at best because you continue with whatever assumptions about what I was talking about that you present in the above replied-to comment that you made.
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True, but it is stuff that matters. Sounds as if without Hamming Code (or whatever it would have been called had someone else discovered it) we wouldn't be where we are today.
That's what I'm thinking (both, geeks are devaluated and /.'s demographics have changed).
News for nerds, stuff that matters.
This submission qualifies.
you sir (or ma'am) are hilarious. (:
They went from retarded "Lindows" to even more retarded "Linspire"
awesome song, btw.
I don't think the lawyers would be stupid to try and defend its trademark outside the realm of which the company operates.
You must be new around here.
Honestly, this begins at home with parents who won't discipline their children, if you really want to go back to root cause.
Parents are ultimately responsible, and those that act irresponsible with their children are going to have children, most of the time, who emulate them and the parents won't do anything about it. Then, when they get to school (a school whose hands are tied with regards to disciplinary measures), it's no holds barred.
If only this were a singular case of nuttery in this profession.
which is unfortunate. He made a good post.
Not really, unless we're talking about the soulless corporations and not actual people.
That is awesome. (:
love your Princess Bride reference. (:
Psht. I'm not a Stallman fanboi, nor am I afraid of him (as tongue-in-cheek you might have been in saying that).
I absolutely love Patton and hate how he was treated (even if he was brusque).
Naturally? Psht.
You are probably right. I'd fight hard to defend Open Source (as much as I dislike the GPL as an OS license), but probably not to the death.
wow, that so wasn't the point. Whoosh.
When a website makes it easy to link to any site you want, to start censoring the links its users share is counter-intuitive, is garbage, and must stop (or stop making link sharing so easy). They made themselves obligated to link to whatever site users posts when they made it dead easy to share links.
No. I said I do not use FB messaging. Read my OP.
I did say that "this content blocking garbage must stop", which it should. I've been blocked to legitimate sites several times because FB thinks I don't want to go there because other people reported it as offensive.
Why don't you read what I wrote before commenting.
Yeah, and your point is? The way we communicate with others hasn't changed (written or spoken word), just the medium.
that wouldn't be surprising since your FB login is based upon your email address.
Oh I know, and I tend to not use those sites anymore (and if I encounter one, I avoid it from then on, it's just not useful to me). Unfortunately, the rest of FB is still useful for me, so again, I will just not use FB Messaging. Simple.
That's all I was really commenting on. I'm tired of sites that try to make it hard to share links, especially when they already have designed themselves to make doing so ridiculously easy.
Yep, pretty much sums it up. Perhaps I should have used smaller sentences.
No, Facebook isn't, but if they are providing a communications service, and I cannot use that service to link users to my content (legal or not), then it's a useless service.
I only brought in the legality of my torrents (which are fully 100% legal to share and distribute, as I created the content and licensed it thusly) because I felt a need to clarify that I do share links to content that has been licensed for legal sharing that happens to be torrented. If FB is breaking or blocking links to legit torrent sites (again, Jamendo (though they only provide torrents as an after thought now), Clearbits, and Vodo all offer legitimate torrented content that is freely distributable by all to name just a few) as well as illegitimate ones (99% of Demonoid content, The Pirate Bay, etc.) then the FB messaging service is useless to me.
Your other comment is laughable at best because you continue with whatever assumptions about what I was talking about that you present in the above replied-to comment that you made.