Isn't "buying something just so you can turn around and sell it to someone else for more money" exactly what all retailers do everyday?
Retailers at least provide a useful service by providing a place to buy goods. Domain squatters are purely parasitic, as someone above stated more eloquently than at the moment.
My uneducated guess is that the cable is so long that you'd wind up with (for example) a CW twist near the top of the cable and a CCW twist near the bottom of the cable - twists at the top wouldn't propagate all the way down.
My local Amiga Users Group chartered a bus back in 1989 or so and went to an Amiga convention in NYC. The bus's route took us through Harlem and I did notice a lot of little fried chicken places - almost every other corner seemed to have one. So, it seems there is some basis in fact for that particular stereotype.
I think the problem arises when the stereotype is used as an intentionally insulting caricature. That's more likely to be done by an individual than an organization.
This latest story only reinforces the generalization that Scripting Is Dangerous.
Java, not Javascript. You have no idea what you are talking about whatsoever, and neither do the moderators who modded you up.
But NoScript will block a Java applet embedded in a web page, and thus protects an Apple user who would otherwise be vulnerable. I think that's what the poster was referring to.
I often rail against the "12-year-olds" in WoW and other games, more because it's a convenient label for immature idiots than because I truly believe that they are that age. It's a comment on their apparent age.
You're right though, it is disrespectful to younger kids who actually do behave well and it's something I'll keep in mind in the future.
You're right. All I can think of is maybe he wanted to send a message to them, or maybe he had some sort of subscription through them? Not sure if Amazon has anything like that.
In the 80s and early 90s, you saw quite a lot of real names, addresses, and phone numbers in peoples' USENET signatures. Of course most people had their accounts through school or work (or the military) and may not have had a choice of username, but it was definitely a different mindset.
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I think I first saw this at segfault.org (RIP?) about 10 years ago. Thanks for digging it up again.
I say we take off and shrink-wrap the whole site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I hope he knew when to hold 'em, when to walk away, and when to run.
Isn't "buying something just so you can turn around and sell it to someone else for more money" exactly what all retailers do everyday?
Retailers at least provide a useful service by providing a place to buy goods. Domain squatters are purely parasitic, as someone above stated more eloquently than at the moment.
My uneducated guess is that the cable is so long that you'd wind up with (for example) a CW twist near the top of the cable and a CCW twist near the bottom of the cable - twists at the top wouldn't propagate all the way down.
But at least the trolls are running on time.
That varied quite a bit in the arcades, at least back in the 1980s. I don't know if any sort of 'standard' emerged after that.
Robotron, probably my favorite game of the time, used a joystick for each hand.
My local Amiga Users Group chartered a bus back in 1989 or so and went to an Amiga convention in NYC. The bus's route took us through Harlem and I did notice a lot of little fried chicken places - almost every other corner seemed to have one. So, it seems there is some basis in fact for that particular stereotype.
I think the problem arises when the stereotype is used as an intentionally insulting caricature. That's more likely to be done by an individual than an organization.
Postscript to amendment to addendum to note to self: I do a lot of things I don't remember.
Post-postscript to amendment to addendum to note to self: I am persona non grata in the state of Oklahoma.
Addendum to note to self: Stop leaving notes to myself.
So, one of those Cheese Council creeps got to you too, huh?
That's Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester III to you!
This latest story only reinforces the generalization that Scripting Is Dangerous.
Java, not Javascript. You have no idea what you are talking about whatsoever, and neither do the moderators who modded you up.
But NoScript will block a Java applet embedded in a web page, and thus protects an Apple user who would otherwise be vulnerable. I think that's what the poster was referring to.
Here at Slashdot, we synergize a Total Quality Format paradigm of humor.
Neat trick - when I slept through Calculus, I made Zs. :-)
Won't someone please think of the script kiddiez?
Doesn't it make you literally angry with rage when people question your word choices?
I often rail against the "12-year-olds" in WoW and other games, more because it's a convenient label for immature idiots than because I truly believe that they are that age. It's a comment on their apparent age.
You're right though, it is disrespectful to younger kids who actually do behave well and it's something I'll keep in mind in the future.
You're right. All I can think of is maybe he wanted to send a message to them, or maybe he had some sort of subscription through them? Not sure if Amazon has anything like that.
(and would never have an asterisk after it).
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Hypocrite!
(But more seriously, well said, and those are my feelings as well.)
I'd vote for talk.bizarre.slashdot
Don't go overboard with the analogies. Try to keep an even keel here.
Oar knot.
In the 80s and early 90s, you saw quite a lot of real names, addresses, and phone numbers in peoples' USENET signatures. Of course most people had their accounts through school or work (or the military) and may not have had a choice of username, but it was definitely a different mindset.
I've always disliked "music industry" for the same reason :-).
Well, sir, there's nothing like a bona fide, electrified, warp-six, ion sail!
What'd I say?
Ion Sail!
What's it called?
Ion Sail!
That's right! Ion Sail!