The analysis of rusty's March 26th announcement is shoddy. There never was anonymous posting on K5, and no "trials" for news users were announced. The announcement was that each new user would have to be sponsored by an existing user, and that if the new user was banned, the sponsor would be too.
Whatever the practicality of that, what actually happened is that since March 26th, new user registration on Kuro5hin has been closed. The sponsorship system has not been turned on (or implemented, although rusty claimed it was effectively done when he announced it). It's just closed. As of the time of writing, you cannot create a new account on Kuro5hin, and so you cannot post.
The catalyst for all this was some users posting links to a badly photoshopped fake image of rusty's wife's head on a porn body. rusty's reaction was instant and extreme. The accounts were banned and several other long term trolls were purged in the aftermath. To this day, the criteria for banning is still unclear.
It should be noted that rusty has previously removing rating abilities, banned and anonymised (i.e. wiped commands of) accounts, and IP blocked posters at his sole whim and discretion. The freedom of Kuro5hin is the freedom to things rusty's way or not at all. The trouble with having a benign dictator is that he's still a dictator. Without oversight, there's no security.
Of course, rusty can do whatever he wants with his site. Except that, in his own words, after taking $70K (or $35K or $45K or $80K or whichever of his various figures and calculationg that you want to believe) it's not his site. "I think the clearest way I can put it is: you just purchased Kuro5hin.org". Well, that's a funny kind of ownership.
K5 might recover. Stranger things have happened, and a (sketchy) article on prime numbers just made it to the front page, so there are still non-trolls there. They just don't contribute much content any more.
In the long term though, it can't recover its past popularity without new users, that's for damn sure. The salient lesson: dictators are never a good idea, no matter how benign. In fact, the more benign they appear, the harder they can finally snap.
Can you count to five? Can you name five animated films with this theme?
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Eisner turned Disney around in the eighties by turning its focus on movies and new characters. Remember Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King?
Sure, I remember them. Now, which of them were new characters, and which were recycled folklore?
Pixar is creating new content. Disney is still stuck slapping (C) and (TM) over the commons. See the difference?
I look forward to seeing you on "Best Police Shootouts Ever #7".
I notice that my USian brothers and sisters have a great tendency to talk about sticking together (i.e. dying together) when the Man inevitably comes for their guns. Can you cite any instances where this has actually happened?
What makes you think that you'll be the first case?
But what's the point? Nielsen confirms: SF is dying.
The networks know that the "Star Trek demographic" will watch anything remotely Trekish or science/spec fictional. So why go to all the trouble of doing decent hard science fiction i.e. using a consistent set of rules with no Deus Ex Machines, or even decent drama, like B5 or some of the more daring DS9 plots.
It's too much trouble. It's too risky. They know we'll watch it anyway. The target market they have to win is Joe Sixpack, and Joe doesn't like to feel like he's missing something. So just pad it with Plasma Discombubulators, Tachyon Defragglers and sprinkle liberally with large breasted aliens and sub soft core teasers (c.f. Enterprise pilot), and remember: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
With Farscape and Stargate gone, we're pretty much out of self aware shows. Berman and Brago toughed it out by never compromising their one overriding principle - give Joe what he wants - and now they're the only game on the block. Scient Fiction is dead. Long live Emo Fiction.
If the college receives any Federal funding, file a Freedom of Information Act discovery. Depending on the state, you may also have similiar rights even if it doesn't get Federal money.
I'm going to have to stop you there. If your answer is anything other than "because the pesky old Constitution, as defended vigorously by powerful lobby groups, prevents it", then you are the weakest link.
Start suing their own customers and pick up where SCO just left off in claiming that the GPL is unconstitutional, supports terrorists and drowns puppies. SUN could fund a LOT of anti-linux FUD lawsuits, especially with M$ backing them all the way.
Of course we need it. Independent analyist and journalist Pamela Jones of Groklaw says we do, and I believe her because she has no interest in OSRM. I mean, it's not as though she works for them or anything. If she did, then someone who spends so much time talking about integrity and honesty would be very, very careful to say so in every astroturf article that she writes about them.
I tried whipping it with a buggy whip, but no, the shop computer still insisted that it needed a new lamda probe. I have stripped a car down to a pile of nuts and bolts and rebuilt it in a different shape, but I do not know what a lamda probe is, nor why I should need one. That makes me sad.
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The analysis of rusty's March 26th announcement is shoddy. There never was anonymous posting on K5, and no "trials" for news users were announced. The announcement was that each new user would have to be sponsored by an existing user, and that if the new user was banned, the sponsor would be too.
Whatever the practicality of that, what actually happened is that since March 26th, new user registration on Kuro5hin has been closed. The sponsorship system has not been turned on (or implemented, although rusty claimed it was effectively done when he announced it). It's just closed. As of the time of writing, you cannot create a new account on Kuro5hin, and so you cannot post.
The catalyst for all this was some users posting links to a badly photoshopped fake image of rusty's wife's head on a porn body. rusty's reaction was instant and extreme. The accounts were banned and several other long term trolls were purged in the aftermath. To this day, the criteria for banning is still unclear.
It should be noted that rusty has previously removing rating abilities, banned and anonymised (i.e. wiped commands of) accounts, and IP blocked posters at his sole whim and discretion. The freedom of Kuro5hin is the freedom to things rusty's way or not at all. The trouble with having a benign dictator is that he's still a dictator. Without oversight, there's no security.
Of course, rusty can do whatever he wants with his site. Except that, in his own words, after taking $70K (or $35K or $45K or $80K or whichever of his various figures and calculationg that you want to believe) it's not his site. "I think the clearest way I can put it is: you just purchased Kuro5hin.org". Well, that's a funny kind of ownership.
K5 might recover. Stranger things have happened, and a (sketchy) article on prime numbers just made it to the front page, so there are still non-trolls there. They just don't contribute much content any more.
In the long term though, it can't recover its past popularity without new users, that's for damn sure. The salient lesson: dictators are never a good idea, no matter how benign. In fact, the more benign they appear, the harder they can finally snap.
Best. Troll. Evir.
Sir, I salute you. You have raised the bar for us all.
fish in the sea (countless animated films).
Can you count to five? Can you name five animated films with this theme?
Eisner turned Disney around in the eighties by turning its focus on movies and new characters. Remember Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King?
Sure, I remember them. Now, which of them were new characters, and which were recycled folklore?
Pixar is creating new content. Disney is still stuck slapping (C) and (TM) over the commons. See the difference?
I look forward to seeing you on "Best Police Shootouts Ever #7".
I notice that my USian brothers and sisters have a great tendency to talk about sticking together (i.e. dying together) when the Man inevitably comes for their guns. Can you cite any instances where this has actually happened?
What makes you think that you'll be the first case?
Apologies for assuming that you were a USian. I'm not one either, and no insult was intended.
And I hear that Darth Poochy is just bitchin', man.
My pants! I came in right in my pants!
But what's the point? Nielsen confirms: SF is dying.
The networks know that the "Star Trek demographic" will watch anything remotely Trekish or science/spec fictional. So why go to all the trouble of doing decent hard science fiction i.e. using a consistent set of rules with no Deus Ex Machines, or even decent drama, like B5 or some of the more daring DS9 plots.
It's too much trouble. It's too risky. They know we'll watch it anyway. The target market they have to win is Joe Sixpack, and Joe doesn't like to feel like he's missing something. So just pad it with Plasma Discombubulators, Tachyon Defragglers and sprinkle liberally with large breasted aliens and sub soft core teasers (c.f. Enterprise pilot), and remember: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
With Farscape and Stargate gone, we're pretty much out of self aware shows. Berman and Brago toughed it out by never compromising their one overriding principle - give Joe what he wants - and now they're the only game on the block. Scient Fiction is dead. Long live Emo Fiction.
Fetch an axe.
If the college receives any Federal funding, file a Freedom of Information Act discovery. Depending on the state, you may also have similiar rights even if it doesn't get Federal money.
Um, I'm having trouble finding it. Is that anything like sweeping generalization or faulty analogy?
Thanks for the help!
> Yet we don't ban guns because...
I'm going to have to stop you there. If your answer is anything other than "because the pesky old Constitution, as defended vigorously by powerful lobby groups, prevents it", then you are the weakest link.
I love you, Coward!
A 0.01% chance of aquittal isn't statistically significant.
> Couldn't you say the same thing about guns?
Why, yes, you could. Now, given the utter irrelevance of the comparison between guns and mp3s, could you explain why you made this comment?
> if you trade e-mails about how you should close them out of the market that's illegal.
And you're a lawyer, are you?
No? But you've read a lot of case law, right?
No? Then what's your basis for saying that?
And who are you?
Start suing their own customers and pick up where SCO just left off in claiming that the GPL is unconstitutional, supports terrorists and drowns puppies. SUN could fund a LOT of anti-linux FUD lawsuits, especially with M$ backing them all the way.
Because Slashdot's 3 premium subscribers get a chance to see it, and everybody else views ads while venting their rage in a comment. Next question?
Not many injured. And now the weather, with Stacey Implants.
Dollars or Rupees?
Of course we need it. Independent analyist and journalist Pamela Jones of Groklaw says we do, and I believe her because she has no interest in OSRM. I mean, it's not as though she works for them or anything. If she did, then someone who spends so much time talking about integrity and honesty would be very, very careful to say so in every astroturf article that she writes about them.
Misreporting Yesterday's News, Tomorrow?
I tried whipping it with a buggy whip, but no, the shop computer still insisted that it needed a new lamda probe. I have stripped a car down to a pile of nuts and bolts and rebuilt it in a different shape, but I do not know what a lamda probe is, nor why I should need one. That makes me sad.