But what is it of Googles any business what I block on my phone or what traffic shaping I do ?
None, from what I can see. What's your point?
Sure the play store is theirs but then they can fuck off and let me remove all google related stuff from the phone with out having to root it.
Then root your phone or get a different brand or whatever you like. I'm not stopping you.
I'm just pointing out that it should come as no surprise to anyone with an IQ above room temperature that a company whose raison d'être is to serve ads would have a problem with something that blocks ads.
Seriously, would it be SO hard to include a couple of words about what "Scrapy" is? Just a couple of words?
Fuck it. You know, I had high hopes that the new owners of slashdot might exercise just the tiniest fucking bit of editorial skill or acumen, but I must be one of those perpetual optimists, doomed to disappointment.
Pro Tip to the "editors": When you write an article about something, it's considered good journalistic practice to explain potentially obscure references so people know what the fuck you're talking about.
Yeah, that works really well for APK, cows guy, and all the others.
Nothing is perfect, but restricting everyone because of a few bad actors seems unreasonable.
No, slashdot will never be free of pukebags like APK, but why should you suffer or be hobbled because he's an asshole? Why should you pay for his bad behavior?
It's like saying you can't use your yard because your neighbor's yard is a mess.
I'm fine with whatever they want to do to prevent moderation abuse, but editing one's post seems to be a basic bit of functionality dating from about 1998 or so. A site like slashdot has no real excuse not to allow it in some form.
Eliminate all the employees...problem solved, and think of the money they'd save!
Seriously, I've never seen a company circle the drain as long as Yahoo has, it's like they have some magic drain-circling power than no amount of swirling or flushing can overcome.
I swear, ten years from now we'll still be reading stories like this...."Yahoo Set To Fire Its Last 20 Employees, Mayer Predicts Huge Cost Savings".
I think that's a relatively minor concern. If this happens it'll be called out, modded down, and the troller will be exposed.
Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad, and personally I think the benefit of being able to edit a post outweighs the potential disadvantages.
It's 2016- virtually every forum, discussion, and comment platform in the world has the option to allow editing except slashdot. It's one of the only things I feel is a real deficit here. If necessary, make it a short 5-minute grace period, but please allow editing.
"There's no doubt that the Slashdot community is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and prolific communities on the web."
Awww, garsh, (shuffle, shuffle). And it's a well-known fact that Slashdot users are uncommonly attractive, witty, and humble, too.
Anyway...
How about letting users edit a post for, I don't know, maybe 30 minutes after posting? I can't count the number of times I've made a typo or screwed up the HTML for italics or whatever, turning the whole post into a block of italic crap.
Jeebus, look at how complicated those instructions are just to disable it. If they had wanted to they could have made it a simple checkbox in the install pop-up.
Sounds like Microsoft's completely fucked-up "stack ranking" bullshit, where you HAD to give the lower 10 or 20 percent of your team "failing" grades no mater how good or talented or productive they were. So fucking STUPID.
So you have this awesome team of ten people, they're all really good and the team works well together. Everyone is, in fact, a valuable contributing member with useful skills and knowledge.
TOUGH SHIT! At least two of them will have to be marked as "no good" or "non-productive" and fired. It doesn't matter that they were good, all that matters is the lowest 10% or 20% is marked for pruning. And sure as shit, it all came down to who you knew and how hard you could suck or buddy-up to the manager.
As a contractor I saw this time and time again at Microsoft. I was never subject to it (I was a contractor, ha ha!) but good, talented people would get cut from the team simply because "those were the rules". Utter stupid bullshit. It was appalling.
Didn't suck your manager's dick hard enough? Didn't bring her enough cookies and compliment her hair often enough? Didn't make enough small talk?
Out you go, and good luck finding another spot after being one of the "discards".
Yeah, this stack ranking idiocy contributed to a LOT of needless unhappiness at Microsoft and the back-biting and sabotage reached epic proportions, with people actively fucking one another over so their all-important "value" would stay above their coworker's "value".
It's what made me decide to never, EVER take a direct position at Microsoft. Any company that does this is fucked up. I'll work there and I'll drink your free soda, but at the end of the day I get to go home and leave all that office politics horsecrap behind.
Unlike the hapless direct employees, I never spent one sleepless night worrying about getting cut, or if I had to play "me suck you" with my managers. The instant I walked out the door each day it was, "Fuck you and the greasy dildo you rode in on", and that was that.
I was happier and better paid than any of the directs I knew, and I fucking reveled in it. I was out the door at 5:01 while the rest of the much-vaunted direct chimps slaved away until 7 or 8 each night hoping to be seen as "industrious" or "productive". Lol, losers.
Ha ha, suckers! You thought the Holy Blue Badge was the Key to Heaven, but it was nothing but a portable heartache and a clip-on reminder to buy more Xanax. Ha ha!
Actually I was fiddling with my wife's updated iPad and it seems I can indeed move the icons around.
I'm 99% sure that I could not do this on earlier version (ipad version 1 or 2), but I definitely can on this one (iPad mini, latest model whatever that is).
So, I stand corrected. The icons can be moved around and with a bit of fiddling can be made to appear in whatever order you want (although it appears to be a bit of a chase, since they all rearrange with each move and as near as I can tell you cannot move one to a blank space (i.e. an empty row or column).
Your point is irrelevant. Apple fixes its bugs and provides updates to devices that are over 4 years old.
BLASPHEMY!! No Apple product has ever had a security vulnerability, now or in the future. It's impossible. Apple is perfect and godlike, and death to the unbelievers!
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But what is it of Googles any business what I block on my phone or what traffic shaping I do ?
None, from what I can see. What's your point?
Sure the play store is theirs but then they can fuck off and let me remove all google related stuff from the phone with out having to root it.
Then root your phone or get a different brand or whatever you like. I'm not stopping you.
I'm just pointing out that it should come as no surprise to anyone with an IQ above room temperature that a company whose raison d'être is to serve ads would have a problem with something that blocks ads.
He or she makes an overworked timothy look like an outstanding editor in comparison,
A monkey with a severe head injury would look like an outstanding editor in comparison with timothy.
Who could have guessed that Google, a company that exists primarily to serve ads, would have a problem with something that blocks ads?
It's shocking and was completely unforeseen.
This is the most amazing thing I have ever heard! Scrapy is ... a thing, which ... does ... stuff,
I know, isn't it incredible? It's the most amazing thing I've never heard of. I can't wait for another "article" about some "thing" that does "stuff".
Thank you, Slashdot editors, for maintaining the high journalistic stands we've come to never, ever expect!
Seriously, would it be SO hard to include a couple of words about what "Scrapy" is? Just a couple of words?
Fuck it. You know, I had high hopes that the new owners of slashdot might exercise just the tiniest fucking bit of editorial skill or acumen, but I must be one of those perpetual optimists, doomed to disappointment.
Pro Tip to the "editors": When you write an article about something, it's considered good journalistic practice to explain potentially obscure references so people know what the fuck you're talking about.
Yeah, that works really well for APK, cows guy, and all the others.
Nothing is perfect, but restricting everyone because of a few bad actors seems unreasonable.
No, slashdot will never be free of pukebags like APK, but why should you suffer or be hobbled because he's an asshole? Why should you pay for his bad behavior?
It's like saying you can't use your yard because your neighbor's yard is a mess.
"...and found that more than 20% were using the same login credentials across different ecommerce sites."
And this is why you shouldn't do that.
Basic, basic Password Security 101. Ignore at your own risk.
I'm fine with whatever they want to do to prevent moderation abuse, but editing one's post seems to be a basic bit of functionality dating from about 1998 or so. A site like slashdot has no real excuse not to allow it in some form.
And I remember Alta Vista now get off my lawn
Hell, I still pine for the days when Webcrawler was a thing. Or Northern Lights, remember them? Or Dogpile....
Eliminate all the employees...problem solved, and think of the money they'd save!
Seriously, I've never seen a company circle the drain as long as Yahoo has, it's like they have some magic drain-circling power than no amount of swirling or flushing can overcome.
I swear, ten years from now we'll still be reading stories like this...."Yahoo Set To Fire Its Last 20 Employees, Mayer Predicts Huge Cost Savings".
But that enables bait & switch trolling.
I think that's a relatively minor concern. If this happens it'll be called out, modded down, and the troller will be exposed.
Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad, and personally I think the benefit of being able to edit a post outweighs the potential disadvantages.
It's 2016- virtually every forum, discussion, and comment platform in the world has the option to allow editing except slashdot. It's one of the only things I feel is a real deficit here. If necessary, make it a short 5-minute grace period, but please allow editing.
"There's no doubt that the Slashdot community is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and prolific communities on the web."
Awww, garsh, (shuffle, shuffle). And it's a well-known fact that Slashdot users are uncommonly attractive, witty, and humble, too.
Anyway...
How about letting users edit a post for, I don't know, maybe 30 minutes after posting? I can't count the number of times I've made a typo or screwed up the HTML for italics or whatever, turning the whole post into a block of italic crap.
Well isn't that lovely...in addition to being the eBay of Thieves, now they can infect your PC as well.
It's like an extra service, I'm only surprised they aren't charging for it.
That one's fixed too.
Thank goodness there will never again be another vulnerability in IOS.
Everything must be owned- every word, every phrase, every idea. Nothing can be unclaimed, everything must be owned.
"Microsoft has been accused of pushing Windows 10 rather aggressively"
In the same way that atom bombs are accused of being "rather loud".
Yeah, fuck off, Microsoft. I DO NOT WANT Windows 10.
If and when I do want it, I'm sure I'll manage to find a way to install it, but for now I don't want it, so stop trying to buttfuck my PC.
I've been looking at Linux Mint, and this may be the thing that pushes me over the line to install it and leave MS behind.
Jeebus, look at how complicated those instructions are just to disable it. If they had wanted to they could have made it a simple checkbox in the install pop-up.
Yes, but then people would have used it.
It's obvious Yahoo is trying to redefine these as "not layoffs"
They aren't "layoffs", we're just umm..."laying you off". See, it's TOTALLY different!
Sounds like Microsoft's completely fucked-up "stack ranking" bullshit, where you HAD to give the lower 10 or 20 percent of your team "failing" grades no mater how good or talented or productive they were. So fucking STUPID.
So you have this awesome team of ten people, they're all really good and the team works well together. Everyone is, in fact, a valuable contributing member with useful skills and knowledge.
TOUGH SHIT! At least two of them will have to be marked as "no good" or "non-productive" and fired. It doesn't matter that they were good, all that matters is the lowest 10% or 20% is marked for pruning. And sure as shit, it all came down to who you knew and how hard you could suck or buddy-up to the manager.
As a contractor I saw this time and time again at Microsoft. I was never subject to it (I was a contractor, ha ha!) but good, talented people would get cut from the team simply because "those were the rules". Utter stupid bullshit. It was appalling.
Didn't suck your manager's dick hard enough? Didn't bring her enough cookies and compliment her hair often enough? Didn't make enough small talk?
Out you go, and good luck finding another spot after being one of the "discards".
Yeah, this stack ranking idiocy contributed to a LOT of needless unhappiness at Microsoft and the back-biting and sabotage reached epic proportions, with people actively fucking one another over so their all-important "value" would stay above their coworker's "value".
It's what made me decide to never, EVER take a direct position at Microsoft. Any company that does this is fucked up. I'll work there and I'll drink your free soda, but at the end of the day I get to go home and leave all that office politics horsecrap behind.
Unlike the hapless direct employees, I never spent one sleepless night worrying about getting cut, or if I had to play "me suck you" with my managers. The instant I walked out the door each day it was, "Fuck you and the greasy dildo you rode in on", and that was that.
I was happier and better paid than any of the directs I knew, and I fucking reveled in it. I was out the door at 5:01 while the rest of the much-vaunted direct chimps slaved away until 7 or 8 each night hoping to be seen as "industrious" or "productive". Lol, losers.
Ha ha, suckers! You thought the Holy Blue Badge was the Key to Heaven, but it was nothing but a portable heartache and a clip-on reminder to buy more Xanax. Ha ha!
Make the whole thing fail at once? That would be an engineering accomplishment on the same order as making a device that never failed.
Why on Earth would you want to do this? It's idiotic and I feel like a sucker for even responding to this steaming pile of "news story".
Wise words, and well said.
Better x-ray the riders too. Maybe not today, but it won't be long...
Yeah, we laugh now, but in the future? Yes, they would probably go so far as to implant stuff if they thought they could get away with it.
Actually I was fiddling with my wife's updated iPad and it seems I can indeed move the icons around.
I'm 99% sure that I could not do this on earlier version (ipad version 1 or 2), but I definitely can on this one (iPad mini, latest model whatever that is).
So, I stand corrected. The icons can be moved around and with a bit of fiddling can be made to appear in whatever order you want (although it appears to be a bit of a chase, since they all rearrange with each move and as near as I can tell you cannot move one to a blank space (i.e. an empty row or column).
But anyway, you're correct and I was mistaken.
Your point is irrelevant. Apple fixes its bugs and provides updates to devices that are over 4 years old.
BLASPHEMY!! No Apple product has ever had a security vulnerability, now or in the future. It's impossible. Apple is perfect and godlike, and death to the unbelievers!
Same for the bikes. Have the winner hand in their bike for inspection after the race,
Have all the bikes inspected. 2nd place is worth cheating for too, I'm sure.