Fine. Read peoples' emails. Whenever you think it's necessary. But don't be surprised when people stop trusting you, and, consequently, your profits go down because of it.
Before it did look inside the blogger's account, however, the company claims it went through a "rigorous process" to justify the snooping.
'Terrorist propaganda online has a direct impact on the radicalisation of individuals and we work closely with the internet industry to remove terrorist material hosted in the UK or overseas,'
Hasn't history taught us that preventing free speech creates fertile ground for extremism? Spread their nonsense with a megaphone so that sane people can try to explain to them what is wrong with it. Without proper feedback, the rage grows.
...then why not simply disable classic altogether and get it over with ?
This has me stumped too. Dice obviously doesn't give a fuck about our family. The current Slashdot without the beta has more value than they could possibly understand, and they are going to flush it down the toilet so they can pursue their "vision" of caching in on the Slashdot name. Which won't make them money like they think it will. Sad, indeed.
Mod me down too. It really doesn't matter any more.
in Slashdot history, comments about the story are the ones that are offtopic. They may not be modded that way, but I find myself skipping them. Is it really that difficult to keep classic in addition to beta? You have a lot of loyal, intelligent people here. Why give them the finger?
It's never too late to do the right thing. Please reconsider killing classic. It's instantly recognizable as Slashdot. A "trademark" of Slashdot if you will. It is a big reason why people come here to comment and lurk. It is loved. FFS, beta is the New Coke!
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tl;dr
I was a bit disappointed that this wasn't the first post. :)
It's a large building with lots of doctors, but that's not important right now.
...and don't call me Shirley
What exactly are the upsides of having my fridge, toaster, microwave oven, sock drawer or fork connected to the internet?
You won't be able to understand the upsides because you aren't part of the "today's busy idiot" demographic.
Should people be able to opt-out of this knowledge?
If they couldn't, it would be interesting to know how many more people would avoid going to the doctor altogether.
Also interesting would be to know if the risk of getting a predicted illness would go up just from knowing about it.
Welcome to April 1st. Your wish will be granted on April 2nd.
Worst. April. Fools. Joke. Ever.
Monster cables' gold-plated, titanium-coated, oxygen-free optical cables
Thank you for this. lmao
million jars of peanut butter
Jars of peanut butter come in many different sizes. Could you please convert the amount to Olympic Sized Swimming Pools?
Thanks.
"We've gone a long way down the road of violating Americans' basic civil rights, as far as privacy is concerned."
I wonder what he thinks should happen to the people that have secretly taken us down this road.
'I think it's an intrusion on one of the basic human rights of Americans..."
I would add every innocent person on the planet. Somehow, that's not a common belief.
In 2011, the NSA released 200,000 lines of code to the Apache Foundation.
it may be time for people to start looking for the backdoors that the NSA may have put into Apache.
You know what scares me most? Code obfuscation.
Similar features could control access to data about U.S. citizens.
Defund the NSA NOW. It is an abomination of what it was supposed to be and it is morally wrong for them to be doing what they are doing.
A lot of the technology we put [in] is to protect rights
Trust in you is gone. A promise like this is laughable.
Before it did look inside the blogger's account, however, the company claims it went through a "rigorous process" to justify the snooping.
Uh huh.
People need to be arrested for this.
Absolutely. It's astonishing that it hasn't happened already. Where's the line? What will it take to cross it? That is the scary part.
Isn't this a bit like the company that mines your data for profit is complaining about the government that mines your data for power?
Well said.
'Terrorist propaganda online has a direct impact on the radicalisation of individuals and we work closely with the internet industry to remove terrorist material hosted in the UK or overseas,'
Hasn't history taught us that preventing free speech creates fertile ground for extremism? Spread their nonsense with a megaphone so that sane people can try to explain to them what is wrong with it. Without proper feedback, the rage grows.
We need to think of sanitation as a business opportunity, and turn the toilet into a status symbol.
AL (LOOKS UPWARD) Oh, dad. Look. I'm sitting on a Ferguson of my own. Just like you knew I would.
PEGGY (BEAT) Remember this at the trial, kids.
Now we need to ask why Google didn't take action to prevent this sort of thing.
Because the 30 minute *cha-ching!* window was making the corporate overlords and their shareholders cream their jeans?
Oh, come on! Mod this up!
External WIFI router and a Faraday cage. Just when you thought Comcast couldn't be more evil. Bam! F-you Comcast.
Do you realize that the "fuck beta" comments are already much more annoying than the actual beta?
Fuck "fuck beta" comments.
How should people voice their displeasure with the potential death of Slashdot?
...then why not simply disable classic altogether and get it over with ?
This has me stumped too. Dice obviously doesn't give a fuck about our family. The current Slashdot without the beta has more value than they could possibly understand, and they are going to flush it down the toilet so they can pursue their "vision" of caching in on the Slashdot name. Which won't make them money like they think it will. Sad, indeed.
Mod me down too. It really doesn't matter any more.
in Slashdot history, comments about the story are the ones that are offtopic. They may not be modded that way, but I find myself skipping them. Is it really that difficult to keep classic in addition to beta? You have a lot of loyal, intelligent people here. Why give them the finger?
that the motto for Slashdot should be changed from the beloved "News for nerds, stuff that matters" to "FUCK YOU, THAT'S WHY"
So, Slashdot beta == Rancid Breasts. Sounds about right. I make the same face when I think of either one.
It's never too late to do the right thing. Please reconsider killing classic. It's instantly recognizable as Slashdot. A "trademark" of Slashdot if you will. It is a big reason why people come here to comment and lurk. It is loved. FFS, beta is the New Coke!
I think it was tux racer.