According to our time system, I worked an average of 44.5 hours per week last year, based on 50 weeks (assumes 2 weeks vacation). I took off six weeks. That means I really worked 48.3 hours per week, on average. And that doesn't count the time spent working at home.
The meeting closed with Kimberley retorting, "If my child sees porn, how will you erase that image from his mind?"
The best answer I can think of is "Why is your young child wandering about without your adult supervision?", with the idea being to re-frame the debate away from a shrill "anti-porn" to one of parental responsibility. It is not the Library, or any other government agency's responsibility to be parents to us all. Ask Ms. Fraser if she wants the government to legislate how she raises her child, or censor what she reads. She will most surely respond "No". Then follow through and let her argue the hypocracy.
But will he be on the board of VA? Will his contractual agreemeents for editorial control and continued involvement remain in force? Those are the important questions for the community here.
Quite frankly I was surprised that I read about this hours ago on CNNfn before any notice ever appeared here. I even submitted a story to get it reported here.
The critical question remains - does the editorial control agreement that Rob and Jeff have with Andover transfer intact to VA?
I certainly hope not! GraphOn's products seem to be competitive with Windows Terminal Server, not WINE. Bridges might provide a nice, if closed source, complement to WINE. And it would be nice to see a Linux-based alternative to Terminal Server for all those up-and-coming ASPs to consider.
1) How do we best publicize the contradiction that exists in the TRUSTe service mark to the end that TRUSTe becomes a pariah? Should we forward this story to the major news services? They might well be interested in an organization whose actions run counter to its stated purpose.
and
2) Has anybody sued TRUSTe yet for misrepresentation?
Between pagers, cellphones, email, and PDAs I'm already a little more connected than I really want to be. Disconnecting enhances independent intelligence.
I've seen the Borg. I don't really want to be one.
Regulating M$ doesn't make any long-term sense, unless the USG declares them a legal monopoly vis a vis the original AT&T. I don't think any of us want that.
Breaking the company into several different individually owned, operated, and traded companies makes the most sense. There needs to be an Operating Systems company, and Applications company, a Tools company, and an "Other" company with real firewalls between the three. That will help create a more level playing field.
Naysayers will bemoan the loss, and criticize the "sellout". Ignore them. This is your project, and it is up to you to keep it one you can live with. With your agreement giving you full creative control I hope Slashdot will continue it's focused, relevant, and occasionally irreverent view of the technology world.
Slashdot is a great place to be, and I for one look forward to watching it evolve.
The proposed Mindcraft comparison is obviously a stacked deck, and the conditions are unacceptable. The only way to dodge this sucker punch without refusing to cooperate is to offer up an equally ridiculous proposal. Say, NT40sp5 vs RedHat 6.0 on single processor PII400s with 128mb of ram, 40GB of disk space, and one ethernet card configured by factory reps to be identical, and with software installed by randomly chosen users and tuned according to written specifications provided by test advisors - one team for MS and the other for Linux - on a 33-33-33 mix of 95, NT and Linux clients. Oh, and lets do the test at Networld/Interop, in front of an audience, using tests developed by an independent organization (by definition not Mindcraft) to be platform neutral, and representative of what real users do - login, access files, save files, read and respond to email, view & publish web pages, and logout.
Oh, and let's run the tests continuously for the length of the show, comparing performance at the outset vs performance at the close.
Thank you for providing a forum for all points of view. Your reporting and summations are helping bring about a realization in the rest of the world that their might just be more to these kids than Doom and Quake. You might just have opened some eyes and engendered some understanding.
So how does it feel to change the world, just a little bit?
I'm afraid I have to agree with the courts on this one. Just because you want to say it doesn't mean I have to listen, or that I have to let you use my resources to broadcast your message.
The article quotes Bill McSwain of the Harvard Law Review: "The issue of the case is which is more important: Intel's right to protect against trespass or Hamidi's right to free speech," he said. "To the average Netizen, the message is: If you're sending messages to people's e-mail boxes, they can stop you no matter how important your speech is."
Well Duh! Free speech doesn't mean required listening. I delete unread spam regularly. Does that mean I'm violating someone's free speech? No, I'm exercising my choice to listen or not. Under the argument proposed above you have to read all spam, like it or not. Next stop: postage due junk mail you're required to read, and long distance collect calls from telemarketers you cannot refuse without risking violating the marketer's right to free speech.
Intel does not provide a public network. They pay for the systems that provide those services within their company, and as such are responsible for the information flowing on those systems. I think Intel is well within their rights to enjoin this private individual from utilizing the resources of their company.
As I read through the emails you posted I felt again the fear, anger, and pain I felt as a kid in High School. I haven't felt those in a long time.
I went to a small, relatively affluent HS, and I was one of the outcasts. In our school, there was no middle ground - you were either with the "in crowd", or you were an outcast. I never succeded with the "in crowd". After a few tries, I made no effort to be a part of the crowd - they seemed to have no values, or morals, or any socially redeeming value whatsoever. Mommies and Daddies had money, so no one ever could get in any serious trouble. (Tough to discipline up the Mayor's son.) I spent my middle and HS years practicing the art of being invisible - eating alone in classrooms, taking the long way around buildings to classes, coming and going at odd times, finding out of the way places to exist without being found. It is what you have to do when you're the butt of the joke, the object of ridicule, the outcast. It was how I survived. But I hated it.
I hated not being able to walk across campus without fearing for my safety. I hated the taunting, the bullying, the group beatings. I hated not being able to store anything in my locker, because it would get vandalized regularly. I hated all the "beautiful people", with the perfect/popular lives, and their storybook childhoods. I was angry for the way they treated me, and jealous of the life that I couldn't have because I wasn't just like THEM. I was never so glad to escape someplace in my life.
I have never been back.
Fifteen years later, as I sit here in my office and read these letters, I am astounded at how clearly the feelings come back. My gut wrenches with the trepidation of just having to live life outside of my own bedroom. I've no reason to feel this way anymore - good job, spectacular wife, and some of the best friends on the planet - some of whom were outcasts themselves in HS. I am one extremely fortunate person. But reading those messages reopens those wounds, just a little bit.
The issues that create the environment that the outcasts of yesterday and today live in haven't changed all that much - us versus them, groupthink is good, conformity above all, different is dangerous, understanding unthinkable, enlightenment unbearable. They are some of the same causes behind racism, sexism, religious persecution, etc. The solutions lie in education, compassion, understanding, and acceptance. They also take courage, which seems to be even less evident today nationwide than it was in the hometown of my youth.
To the kids out there: occasionally, when one of the adults says they want to talk, or that they understand, consider the possibility that they do. At the very least, find out what their background is like - they may really understand. In the meantime keep a low profile, compromise a little to get through it, and get out as quick as you can. Then maybe you can help change the world. I know I'm trying.
I have to agree with several of the folks here that not allowing moderators to moderate and comment within the same topic is probably not for the best. It would be too limiting to the moderators, and might reduce the number of people willing to moderate. I know I only read the topics that interest me, and respond to threads that I find intelligent. If I was a moderator who had been excercising my franchise, and knew that adding my 2 cents to one thread would negate any voting I had done in other threads in the same topic I would think twice before responding. I don't believe that's what you have in mind.
I think it would make more sense to allow/disallow moderation at the thread level. That way moderators can speak up on issues that concern them in one thread without eliminating their ability to do the job they were asked to do in other threads.
Or am I asking for the impossible?
BTW, I'm not a moderator, and with a UID in the nosebleed section, I don't anticipate becoming one anytime soon.
Slashdot Mirror
Gee, Microsoft has once again "extended" an open standard with proprietary extentions, which it is so far refusing to document to the standards body.
If this comes as a surprise to you, then you haven't been paying attention.
According to our time system, I worked an average of 44.5 hours per week last year, based on 50 weeks (assumes 2 weeks vacation). I took off six weeks. That means I really worked 48.3 hours per week, on average. And that doesn't count the time spent working at home.
32.9 hours? Who do they think they're kidding?
The meeting closed with Kimberley retorting, "If my child sees porn, how will you erase that image from his mind?"
The best answer I can think of is "Why is your young child wandering about without your adult supervision?", with the idea being to re-frame the debate away from a shrill "anti-porn" to one of parental responsibility. It is not the Library, or any other government agency's responsibility to be parents to us all. Ask Ms. Fraser if she wants the government to legislate how she raises her child, or censor what she reads. She will most surely respond "No". Then follow through and let her argue the hypocracy.
Your memory serves remarkably accurately. It is also a perfectly reasonable way of arguing with an extremist.
Those responsible seem to be making the rounds of high volume/high profile sites. How long before Slashdot becomes a target? Rob, are you ready?
Once the dust settles it will be interesting to see who all of the victims were. Whatever pattern there is will probably be deliberately misleading.
>>I think they call him "Mr. Malda"....
But will he be on the board of VA? Will his contractual agreemeents for editorial control and continued involvement remain in force? Those are the important questions for the community here.
Quite frankly I was surprised that I read about this hours ago on CNNfn before any notice ever appeared here. I even submitted a story to get it reported here.
The critical question remains - does the editorial control agreement that Rob and Jeff have with Andover transfer intact to VA?
There aren't but a couple of things I need:
New car stereo
A Car worthy of the system.
I certainly hope not! GraphOn's products seem to be competitive with Windows Terminal Server, not WINE. Bridges might provide a nice, if closed source, complement to WINE. And it would be nice to see a Linux-based alternative to Terminal Server for all those up-and-coming ASPs to consider.
1) How do we best publicize the contradiction that exists in the TRUSTe service mark to the end that TRUSTe becomes a pariah? Should we forward this story to the major news services? They might well be interested in an organization whose actions run counter to its stated purpose.
and
2) Has anybody sued TRUSTe yet for misrepresentation?
Between pagers, cellphones, email, and PDAs I'm already a little more connected than I really want to be. Disconnecting enhances independent intelligence.
I've seen the Borg. I don't really want to be one.
Regulating M$ doesn't make any long-term sense, unless the USG declares them a legal monopoly vis a vis the original AT&T. I don't think any of us want that.
Breaking the company into several different individually owned, operated, and traded companies makes the most sense. There needs to be an Operating Systems company, and Applications company, a Tools company, and an "Other" company with real firewalls between the three. That will help create a more level playing field.
Cmdr & Hemos-
Congrats and best wishes.
Naysayers will bemoan the loss, and criticize the "sellout". Ignore them. This is your project, and it is up to you to keep it one you can live with. With your agreement giving you full creative control I hope Slashdot will continue it's focused, relevant, and occasionally irreverent view of the technology world.
Slashdot is a great place to be, and I for one look forward to watching it evolve.
Dave
The proposed Mindcraft comparison is obviously a stacked deck, and the conditions are unacceptable. The only way to dodge this sucker punch without refusing to cooperate is to offer up an equally ridiculous proposal. Say, NT40sp5 vs RedHat 6.0 on single processor PII400s with 128mb of ram, 40GB of disk space, and one ethernet card configured by factory reps to be identical, and with software installed by randomly chosen users and tuned according to written specifications provided by test advisors - one team for MS and the other for Linux - on a 33-33-33 mix of 95, NT and Linux clients. Oh, and lets do the test at Networld/Interop, in front of an audience, using tests developed by an independent organization (by definition not Mindcraft) to be platform neutral, and representative of what real users do - login, access files, save files, read and respond to email, view & publish web pages, and logout.
Oh, and let's run the tests continuously for the length of the show, comparing performance at the outset vs performance at the close.
That might prove interesting...
Jon & Rob-
Thank you for providing a forum for all points of view. Your reporting and summations are helping bring about a realization in the rest of the world that their might just be more to these kids than Doom and Quake. You might just have opened some eyes and engendered some understanding.
So how does it feel to change the world, just a little bit?
Dave
I'm afraid I have to agree with the courts on this one. Just because you want to say it doesn't mean I have to listen, or that I have to let you use my resources to broadcast your message.
The article quotes Bill McSwain of the Harvard Law Review:
"The issue of the case is which is more important: Intel's right to protect against trespass or Hamidi's right to free speech," he said. "To the average Netizen, the message is: If you're sending messages to people's e-mail boxes, they can stop you no matter how important your speech is."
Well Duh! Free speech doesn't mean required listening. I delete unread spam regularly. Does that mean I'm violating someone's free speech? No, I'm exercising my choice to listen or not. Under the argument proposed above you have to read all spam, like it or not. Next stop: postage due junk mail you're required to read, and long distance collect calls from telemarketers you cannot refuse without risking violating the marketer's right to free speech.
Intel does not provide a public network. They pay for the systems that provide those services within their company, and as such are responsible for the information flowing on those systems. I think Intel is well within their rights to enjoin this private individual from utilizing the resources of their company.
Dave
Jon-
As I read through the emails you posted I felt again the fear, anger, and pain I felt as a kid in High School. I haven't felt those in a long time.
I went to a small, relatively affluent HS, and I was one of the outcasts. In our school, there was no middle ground - you were either with the "in crowd", or you were an outcast. I never succeded with the "in crowd". After a few tries, I made no effort to be a part of the crowd - they seemed to have no values, or morals, or any socially redeeming value whatsoever. Mommies and Daddies had money, so no one ever could get in any serious trouble. (Tough to discipline up the Mayor's son.) I spent my middle and HS years practicing the art of being invisible - eating alone in classrooms, taking the long way around buildings to classes, coming and going at odd times, finding out of the way places to exist without being found. It is what you have to do when you're the butt of the joke, the object of ridicule, the outcast. It was how I survived. But I hated it.
I hated not being able to walk across campus without fearing for my safety. I hated the taunting, the bullying, the group beatings. I hated not being able to store anything in my locker, because it would get vandalized regularly. I hated all the "beautiful people", with the perfect/popular lives, and their storybook childhoods. I was angry for the way they treated me, and jealous of the life that I couldn't have because I wasn't just like THEM. I was never so glad to escape someplace in my life.
I have never been back.
Fifteen years later, as I sit here in my office and read these letters, I am astounded at how clearly the feelings come back. My gut wrenches with the trepidation of just having to live life outside of my own bedroom. I've no reason to feel this way anymore - good job, spectacular wife, and some of the best friends on the planet - some of whom were outcasts themselves in HS. I am one extremely fortunate person. But reading those messages reopens those wounds, just a little bit.
The issues that create the environment that the outcasts of yesterday and today live in haven't changed all that much - us versus them, groupthink is good, conformity above all, different is dangerous, understanding unthinkable, enlightenment unbearable. They are some of the same causes behind racism, sexism, religious persecution, etc. The solutions lie in education, compassion, understanding, and acceptance. They also take courage, which seems to be even less evident today nationwide than it was in the hometown of my youth.
To the kids out there: occasionally, when one of the adults says they want to talk, or that they understand, consider the possibility that they do. At the very least, find out what their background is like - they may really understand. In the meantime keep a low profile, compromise a little to get through it, and get out as quick as you can. Then maybe you can help change the world. I know I'm trying.
Dave
I have to agree with several of the folks here that not allowing moderators to moderate and comment within the same topic is probably not for the best. It would be too limiting to the moderators, and might reduce the number of people willing to moderate. I know I only read the topics that interest me, and respond to threads that I find intelligent. If I was a moderator who had been excercising my franchise, and knew that adding my 2 cents to one thread would negate any voting I had done in other threads in the same topic I would think twice before responding. I don't believe that's what you have in mind.
I think it would make more sense to allow/disallow moderation at the thread level. That way moderators can speak up on issues that concern them in one thread without eliminating their ability to do the job they were asked to do in other threads.
Or am I asking for the impossible?
BTW, I'm not a moderator, and with a UID in the nosebleed section, I don't anticipate becoming one anytime soon.