Good post. I mean, I can fully understand a dupe every once in a while. It happens. But for the love of all that is holy, maybe at least scan the frigging front page and see if there's one already posted first? Not to mention this story has been posted a total of 4, yes, 4 times now. A dupe I can see. A triplicate is even possible on rare occasions. But 4?!?
Also, I could see it if the two articles were posted within minutes of each other by different editors. Although the subscriber base would likely catch it in the mysterious future and it'd probably be corrected. But, these are 3 hours apart. The first would have clearly been visible on the front page when the second was posted.
I have no idea why I bitch about it, other than to mock them, which, as KMFDM said, is much more effecitve than getting pissed off. Not that it'll make them do anything to fix it, but it makes me feel better.:)
I have yet to find a current generation Motorola phone that doesn't up and die in 24 hours of no use. I HAVE to charge mine every night, or it will NOT make it to COB on day 2. I get the same thing from pretty much everyone I've talked to about them as well.
I even found and installed a flash pack that kills unneeded stuff to make the battery last longer, but it didn't help much.
I don't know why, but the battery life on them just sucks.
Yes people can carry out "initiatives" but these "initiatives" are every three to four months.
Dude? 3 to 4 months? We can barely dredge up half the registered voters once every 4 YEARS! Yep. that proves it. A Direct Deomcracy could never work here. And if we tried it, it would just send us into Totalitarianism even faster than our current system...
From TFA: Stowe's hydrogen-producing cylinder was "very rudimentary." Among its many problems was a nasty habit of blowing up.
"They had a lot of UFO sightings around the area because whenever his cylinder blew it sent a disc flying 200 to 300 feet into the air," Williams said, chuckling.
Kinda funny in and of itself, but then I had to wonder, was that in any way related to this next line?
Stowe died six months after their meeting. Williams was intrigued enough by that time to try to take the idea to the next level.
In other words, he would hope to install the H2N-Gen unit in, say, every Canadian National railway and truck engine for free in return for a percentage of CN's fuel savings.
See? Now that is thinking. The government gets the units for free to add to the vehicles. If it doesn't work, the government is not out any money, and only he loses. If it does work, and he gets, say 25% of what they saved? They spend 75% less on fuel for no investment, and he makes a fortune. It's a win win situation all around. That's the kind of business thinking that is going to make him exteremely wealthy. Assuming it's not vaporware. Pun intended...:)
From TFA: Any software that they write, irrespective of whether it is during or outside normal working hours, legally belongs to their employer.
Uhhh.. No. The company I worked for was started by geeks and the IP contract made it very clear things we did outside of work with our own resources was ours. When we got bought out about a year ago, this was a major concern. I read the new IP contract front to back, and was pleased to see it made the same exceptions. However, IANAL and had it checked by an attorney, who agreed. $50 seemed extremely reasonable to make sure I wasn't signing away all the IP I ever possessed. If they had not made the exception nor been willing to renegotiate, I would have quit. Luckily, I didn't have to.
The point here is that Stephen Marshall seems to be spreading FUD, albiet I believe unintentionally, but FUD none the less. I know some people are not so lucky, but anything I write outside work on my own time and equipment is mine. His first major attack on open source software is just flat out wrong.
MySQL's biggest problem is that if you try to update or insert with invalid data, in many cases it successfully inserts wrong data.
While that can be annoying, to be sure, why do people rely on the database to do their data validation? That should be done in the application code long before you ever run an insert or update. If you're trying to insert invlaid data, you're the only one to blame.
Well, obviously, no one has bothered to actually read the decision, just the completely inaccurate write-ups about it.
The case is not about not being able to refill your ink cartridge, but about the fact that customers were given an option of a cheaper cartridge, with the contractual agreement that, in compensation for the lower price, they would return the cartridge to Lexmark after a single use. Customers had a choice to agree to the contract or not. They could have bought the same exact ink cartridge for a higher price, and not been under any obligation to return it or not refill it.
Me, personally, I'll never own a Lexmark product, ever, and neither will the company I work for as long as I can help it, thanks to the crap they've pulled in the past. Having said that, in this particular case, I am on their side. Why should a consumer get a benefit, and then complain that they have to actually uphold their end of the deal that gave them the benefit?
Anyway, the article linked, and the initial post, really have absolutely no bearing on the actual facts. Typical slashdot.
I was working on a machine and saw a little "string" of plastic sticking off the case in one of the drive bays. I grabbed it and gave it a good pull to break it off and make everything look clean and tidy. Unfortunately, it wasn't platic at all, but a tiny thin strip of metal from the case. Yeah, that sucked.
Seriously, if you let words offend and anger you, then really, all you have done is give up control of your emotions and your mind to those who use the words against you. You are their slave and puppet.
If I can walk into a room full of [any "sensitive" group] and say ["offensive" name for group] and start a riot, really, all they have done is given me the power to control their lives. Power by mere speech.
Not saying it's okay, and kind of off the point, but a word is only as bad as your perception of it. Let it go, and stop being an emotional slave to those who would control you with their tongues.
We'll get at least two more dupes out of this. One when the final issue is actually published, and one more a few days later when some news site reports on the last issue having been published. And if we're really lucky, some news site trying to be cool and failing will notice like a month or two later and we'll get yet one last posting about it.
2. Calling for a journalist to be disciplined, up and including being fired, for a clearly inaccurate and evil piece of journalism is not, in any way, "nutty" or indicative of "mob rule". To lump those who have done so with those on the fringes making death threats is to lump all christians with anti-abortionist murderers of doctors, or all muslims concerned about the US presence in the Middle East with Osama Bin Laden.
Ask most Joe 6-Pack Americans what they think of muslims. Sure, someone with a little intelligence such as you or I can see the difference. The general public does not have that intelligence. I won't go into even the remotest detail to avoid off topic flames that it would surely generate. But in that one point, Dvorak is correct. If the general public see a few Linux extremists in the public eye acting like asshats, then they see all linux users as asshats.
Granted, my faith in humanity is near nil, so my perspective may be off. Maybe when people can stop killing each other over skin color, or beliefs, or what flag they live under, then I'll agree that a few idoits won't sway public opinion. Until then, the most sure fire way to stop the general public from adopting linux is for the users to make complete asses of themselves in public in the name of Linux.
Heh. I'm looking forward to Serenity much more than the next Star Wars film Lucas has crapped out. Although I am a geek and I do want to see them both.:)
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What's to prevent a company in India from making this software for willing costumers to use?
Bombs. And lots of them. Examples: Iraq... Afghanistan...
I suppose then I'd have to learn the name of yet another world leader too...
Actually, that's kind of funny. Because of the laws in the US that a telemarketer can not contact you on your cellphone as you incur the cost of their call (and not just telemarketers, but no charities or "poll takers" either), I give my cellphone to EVERY bank, credit card company, etc, that needs a number from me. It might become a problem if I miss payments or something, but then, they would have a legitimate reason to be contacting me. I've done this for the past 5 years, and I've never had a single telemarketing call on it. In fact, besides the occasional wrong number, the only calls from people I didn't know were from 3 people at various times offering to buy one of my domain names (where I also use my cellphone number in the registry).
Personally, until that law changes, I won't give out anything BUT my cellphone to businesses. They don't even get the "prior business" excuse. They can't call you to sell you anything on your dime.
In fact, since most VoIP services base their fees on minutes just like a cellphone does, I'm betting the same laws apply here too. How do you know if the person you're about to call has VoIP and is unlimited monthly, or paying $12.95 for 500 minutes? Guess wrong and you're screwed.
So the calls might go out from VoIP, but they won't go into known VoIP numbers. So people just switch to VoIP. Granted, that's easy for me to say, since I have a VoIP phone, and a cellphone, but no landline.
The problem with retribution is that if, for some reason, I happen to not like you, and I spam a few hundred thousand emails with:
Go check out my cool site!
http://craigbuchek.com/
And whammo, you get screwed and you did nothing wrong but piss off an asshole. It'd be bad enough wading through the responses and bounce messages (if I use your real email as the return addy) but to get your site whacked on top of it?
That is the one biggest drawback to an active defense, imho. It WILL target innocents at some point.
At one of my old jobs in a lab, there was a bad keyboard we pitched. Next day, we thought we had another bad keyboard, and pitched it too. The third day, we finally realized someone was taking the "good" keyboard out of the garbage and plugging it back in. I took great satisfaction in snapping it in half and cutting the cable with a pocket knife.:)
See, we all pay taxes, and some use the road more, some use it less, but it all comes out in the wash. If I get taxed more for driving more, then I want people with kids to pay more property tax than me. Since I don't have kids, why should I pay for your kid's education, if you don't give me the reach around and pay for my roads?
If we all pay we all benefit. If we want to start paying based on use, then suddenly I can make a strong case against a lot of taxes that I pay for services that I NEVER use. Why go through that hassel? I'll pay the same property tax, you pay the same gas tax, and everyone's happy.
I wonder about this. I admittedly didn't read all 900 comments (so this could be redundant), but could Peguin be held criminally responsible for a DDOS attack? They had to know full well publishing a book with a domain name as the title would result in tremendous traffic to the site. Indeed, the publicity would render the site useless for its intended purpose. And even if you can't prove malicious intent, you should be able to get gross negligence. It would only be negligence, if not for the fact that they changed the title based on the site content of girl.com, meaning they knew full well what would happen, which is gross negligence at the minimum, and decent proof of intent. I wonder if the UK equivilant of a general prosecutor would be willing to step up and file criminal charges against Penguin for a Denial if Service. Just a thought, and IANAL, so I could be way off base.
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JWRHOSBP!
Good post. I mean, I can fully understand a dupe every once in a while. It happens. But for the love of all that is holy, maybe at least scan the frigging front page and see if there's one already posted first? Not to mention this story has been posted a total of 4, yes, 4 times now. A dupe I can see. A triplicate is even possible on rare occasions. But 4?!?
:)
Also, I could see it if the two articles were posted within minutes of each other by different editors. Although the subscriber base would likely catch it in the mysterious future and it'd probably be corrected. But, these are 3 hours apart. The first would have clearly been visible on the front page when the second was posted.
I have no idea why I bitch about it, other than to mock them, which, as KMFDM said, is much more effecitve than getting pissed off. Not that it'll make them do anything to fix it, but it makes me feel better.
I have yet to find a current generation Motorola phone that doesn't up and die in 24 hours of no use. I HAVE to charge mine every night, or it will NOT make it to COB on day 2. I get the same thing from pretty much everyone I've talked to about them as well.
I even found and installed a flash pack that kills unneeded stuff to make the battery last longer, but it didn't help much.
I don't know why, but the battery life on them just sucks.
Yes people can carry out "initiatives" but these "initiatives" are every three to four months.
Dude? 3 to 4 months? We can barely dredge up half the registered voters once every 4 YEARS! Yep. that proves it. A Direct Deomcracy could never work here. And if we tried it, it would just send us into Totalitarianism even faster than our current system...
From TFA:
:)
Stowe's hydrogen-producing cylinder was "very rudimentary." Among its many problems was a nasty habit of blowing up.
"They had a lot of UFO sightings around the area because whenever his cylinder blew it sent a disc flying 200 to 300 feet into the air," Williams said, chuckling.
Kinda funny in and of itself, but then I had to wonder, was that in any way related to this next line?
Stowe died six months after their meeting. Williams was intrigued enough by that time to try to take the idea to the next level.
Hmmmm......
In other words, he would hope to install the H2N-Gen unit in, say, every Canadian National railway and truck engine for free in return for a percentage of CN's fuel savings.
:)
See? Now that is thinking. The government gets the units for free to add to the vehicles. If it doesn't work, the government is not out any money, and only he loses. If it does work, and he gets, say 25% of what they saved? They spend 75% less on fuel for no investment, and he makes a fortune. It's a win win situation all around. That's the kind of business thinking that is going to make him exteremely wealthy. Assuming it's not vaporware. Pun intended...
From TFA: Any software that they write, irrespective of whether it is during or outside normal working hours, legally belongs to their employer.
Uhhh.. No. The company I worked for was started by geeks and the IP contract made it very clear things we did outside of work with our own resources was ours. When we got bought out about a year ago, this was a major concern. I read the new IP contract front to back, and was pleased to see it made the same exceptions. However, IANAL and had it checked by an attorney, who agreed. $50 seemed extremely reasonable to make sure I wasn't signing away all the IP I ever possessed. If they had not made the exception nor been willing to renegotiate, I would have quit. Luckily, I didn't have to.
The point here is that Stephen Marshall seems to be spreading FUD, albiet I believe unintentionally, but FUD none the less. I know some people are not so lucky, but anything I write outside work on my own time and equipment is mine. His first major attack on open source software is just flat out wrong.
MySQL's biggest problem is that if you try to update or insert with invalid data, in many cases it successfully inserts wrong data.
While that can be annoying, to be sure, why do people rely on the database to do their data validation? That should be done in the application code long before you ever run an insert or update. If you're trying to insert invlaid data, you're the only one to blame.
Well, obviously, no one has bothered to actually read the decision, just the completely inaccurate write-ups about it.
The case is not about not being able to refill your ink cartridge, but about the fact that customers were given an option of a cheaper cartridge, with the contractual agreement that, in compensation for the lower price, they would return the cartridge to Lexmark after a single use. Customers had a choice to agree to the contract or not. They could have bought the same exact ink cartridge for a higher price, and not been under any obligation to return it or not refill it.
Me, personally, I'll never own a Lexmark product, ever, and neither will the company I work for as long as I can help it, thanks to the crap they've pulled in the past. Having said that, in this particular case, I am on their side. Why should a consumer get a benefit, and then complain that they have to actually uphold their end of the deal that gave them the benefit?
Anyway, the article linked, and the initial post, really have absolutely no bearing on the actual facts. Typical slashdot.
3.) Keep the guys out of those same meetings as much as humanly possible.
I love you. *sniff* <wipes tear>
I was working on a machine and saw a little "string" of plastic sticking off the case in one of the drive bays. I grabbed it and gave it a good pull to break it off and make everything look clean and tidy. Unfortunately, it wasn't platic at all, but a tiny thin strip of metal from the case. Yeah, that sucked.
Seriously, if you let words offend and anger you, then really, all you have done is give up control of your emotions and your mind to those who use the words against you. You are their slave and puppet.
If I can walk into a room full of [any "sensitive" group] and say ["offensive" name for group] and start a riot, really, all they have done is given me the power to control their lives. Power by mere speech.
Not saying it's okay, and kind of off the point, but a word is only as bad as your perception of it. Let it go, and stop being an emotional slave to those who would control you with their tongues.
Am I missing something here?
You mean besides the fact that you seem to have a great deal of common sense and the rest of the world has pretty much none?
We'll get at least two more dupes out of this. One when the final issue is actually published, and one more a few days later when some news site reports on the last issue having been published. And if we're really lucky, some news site trying to be cool and failing will notice like a month or two later and we'll get yet one last posting about it.
2. Calling for a journalist to be disciplined, up and including being fired, for a clearly inaccurate and evil piece of journalism is not, in any way, "nutty" or indicative of "mob rule". To lump those who have done so with those on the fringes making death threats is to lump all christians with anti-abortionist murderers of doctors, or all muslims concerned about the US presence in the Middle East with Osama Bin Laden.
Ask most Joe 6-Pack Americans what they think of muslims. Sure, someone with a little intelligence such as you or I can see the difference. The general public does not have that intelligence. I won't go into even the remotest detail to avoid off topic flames that it would surely generate. But in that one point, Dvorak is correct. If the general public see a few Linux extremists in the public eye acting like asshats, then they see all linux users as asshats.
Granted, my faith in humanity is near nil, so my perspective may be off. Maybe when people can stop killing each other over skin color, or beliefs, or what flag they live under, then I'll agree that a few idoits won't sway public opinion. Until then, the most sure fire way to stop the general public from adopting linux is for the users to make complete asses of themselves in public in the name of Linux.
Anyway, that's my $0.02 worth...
Heh. I'm looking forward to Serenity much more than the next Star Wars film Lucas has crapped out. Although I am a geek and I do want to see them both. :)
What's to prevent a company in India from making this software for willing costumers to use?
:)
Bombs. And lots of them. Examples: Iraq... Afghanistan...
I suppose then I'd have to learn the name of yet another world leader too...
Yes, this is mostly sarcasm...
Actually, that's kind of funny. Because of the laws in the US that a telemarketer can not contact you on your cellphone as you incur the cost of their call (and not just telemarketers, but no charities or "poll takers" either), I give my cellphone to EVERY bank, credit card company, etc, that needs a number from me. It might become a problem if I miss payments or something, but then, they would have a legitimate reason to be contacting me. I've done this for the past 5 years, and I've never had a single telemarketing call on it. In fact, besides the occasional wrong number, the only calls from people I didn't know were from 3 people at various times offering to buy one of my domain names (where I also use my cellphone number in the registry).
Personally, until that law changes, I won't give out anything BUT my cellphone to businesses. They don't even get the "prior business" excuse. They can't call you to sell you anything on your dime.
In fact, since most VoIP services base their fees on minutes just like a cellphone does, I'm betting the same laws apply here too. How do you know if the person you're about to call has VoIP and is unlimited monthly, or paying $12.95 for 500 minutes? Guess wrong and you're screwed.
So the calls might go out from VoIP, but they won't go into known VoIP numbers. So people just switch to VoIP. Granted, that's easy for me to say, since I have a VoIP phone, and a cellphone, but no landline.
Unfortunately, that's the business address, not his personal address. But people can always call the business and ask them to reconsider...
Phone: (408) 436-8885
Fax: (408) 715-6183
support@ultracade.com
No, this is the first time you can comment spam and have it modded off topic incorrectly! :)
The problem with retribution is that if, for some reason, I happen to not like you, and I spam a few hundred thousand emails with:
Go check out my cool site!
http://craigbuchek.com/
And whammo, you get screwed and you did nothing wrong but piss off an asshole. It'd be bad enough wading through the responses and bounce messages (if I use your real email as the return addy) but to get your site whacked on top of it?
That is the one biggest drawback to an active defense, imho. It WILL target innocents at some point.
At one of my old jobs in a lab, there was a bad keyboard we pitched. Next day, we thought we had another bad keyboard, and pitched it too. The third day, we finally realized someone was taking the "good" keyboard out of the garbage and plugging it back in. I took great satisfaction in snapping it in half and cutting the cable with a pocket knife. :)
See, we all pay taxes, and some use the road more, some use it less, but it all comes out in the wash. If I get taxed more for driving more, then I want people with kids to pay more property tax than me. Since I don't have kids, why should I pay for your kid's education, if you don't give me the reach around and pay for my roads?
If we all pay we all benefit. If we want to start paying based on use, then suddenly I can make a strong case against a lot of taxes that I pay for services that I NEVER use. Why go through that hassel? I'll pay the same property tax, you pay the same gas tax, and everyone's happy.
I wonder about this. I admittedly didn't read all 900 comments (so this could be redundant), but could Peguin be held criminally responsible for a DDOS attack? They had to know full well publishing a book with a domain name as the title would result in tremendous traffic to the site. Indeed, the publicity would render the site useless for its intended purpose. And even if you can't prove malicious intent, you should be able to get gross negligence. It would only be negligence, if not for the fact that they changed the title based on the site content of girl.com, meaning they knew full well what would happen, which is gross negligence at the minimum, and decent proof of intent. I wonder if the UK equivilant of a general prosecutor would be willing to step up and file criminal charges against Penguin for a Denial if Service. Just a thought, and IANAL, so I could be way off base.
Sanswire site has been slashdotted.
Maybe they need a bigger blimp?