In checking your other posts, I realize when you said "Apple turfers" you may have meant "anti Apple turfers", not "Apple astroturfers". If that's the case, sorry I let you have both barrels because you mispoke or I misunderstood.
Still, group labeling of accounts is pretty offensive. You can block any user.
I guess I don't participate in/. conversations as much as I did in the nineties, so I've only had to block on a few occasions.
"Labeling" users? How offensive. How do you propose doing that, by affixing "armbands" to their usernames? Maybe you are the one who needs to wear a stigmatic identifier.
I'm -pretty sure- Apple's roaring success depends naught on maintaining an army of "turfers". However there seems to be no end of anti-Apple posters like yourself, suggesting they exist. I see the value of pre-emptively accusing your opponent of your OWN sins, however all documented instances of "astroturfing" have been attributed to Microsoft or their agents.
I'm not an Apple fanboy. Been running Linux at home since 1994. But at least Apple advanced desktop computing, while Microsoft held it back AND helped change the Internet into this incredibly insecure thing, by virtue of a PERMANENT army of zombie computers. Old MacOS was never as cavalier about security as Windows still is, and Apple's record on security is pretty damn good with OS X. I can still gripe about the window dressing on the Mac desktop, but the underpinnings of OSX are a solid standard UNIX kernel... the modern Apple OS foundation is solid, unlike Microsoft's.
Are you saying Oracle (for example) is going to have some expert answer common Java questions in a slashvertisement/tech support type thing?
This -does- have the feel of something which came out of a 'monetize' brainstorming session. The description reads just as badly... it sounds like Soulskill is reading off of marketing's talking-points.
So HOW exactly does this benefit Slashdot users? Or is there one at all?
HOW are sponsor representatives represented in discussion? Are their comments automatic +5, and totally immune to moderation? This doesn't need explanation, apparently.:-/
I've been on Slashdot.org for about 14 years, and seen it survive the threat from Digg (and the the Digg self-destruct). But my interest is declining. The original stories are less insightful, more incidence of stories linking to overtly 'controversial' blog posts elsewhere designed to troll web clicks. Years ago I switched from viewing this website, to monitoring the RSS feed, and less and less often do I find reason to stick around when I click one of the feed items.
My biggest complaint of all is there is no benefit or advantage to the older accounts. I gave up submitting stories because even if I were one of the first (just a guess), there are semi-professional story submitters who get the credit. No wait, that's not my worst grievance... Slashdot has a checkbox for "Do not display ads", given for past participation on the site... but the checkbox doesn't work.
Maybe the worst annoyance is when I visit my ~user page, it tells me there's a new post on Will Wheaton's Slashdot journal.. which was deleted like 10 years ago, and because of that deletion I can't unsubscribe from it (it's a silent error, but probably failed SQL stupidity... and my support emails to slashdot go unanswered).
I think Slashdot recognizes that their future's probably in nurturing "communities" where the users interact more with each other (like Slashdot USED to be). GOOD call. But that space is served by Ning. If Slashdot's owners think the answer is "commercially sponsored questions and posts"... really? lulz. For me the answer is, different websites for different genres of information. That's way easier to follow, and you can somewhat get to know people.
I'm sorry, this isn't a story. This is a blog entry, and a short one at that.
I'm sorry, you lack cynicism: what this submission IS is a troll for ad revenue. It's almost a troll... kind of like every John Dvorak article since 1990 (but without the legitimacy he had built up prior to that time).
I thought I had it good when we ditched our "desktop" computers 6 years ago and went with just laptops in the home. Now it's an iPad 1 and 2. When I am developing for Drupal, I use my iPad and laptop (Ubuntu, with Komodo IDE). When I take notes or read OReilly/Safari Books, it's the iPad. When I take notes or set appointments, it's the iPad and Google apps. When I play games, I use either the iPad or the PS3. When I watch movies, it's NetFlix on the iPad or PS3. I suppose for some the droid tablets are the same (although they all seem rather sluggish to me, and have inconsistent UIs.. but maybe I'm just jealous).
There's that, and the fact that the Walmart cupcakes were made using Chinese flour, in a Mexican bakery, and then shipped 2000 miles by a non-union trucker who was only permitted 6 hours rest before resuming his driving shift.
PS - the meat you get at a local butchery is also way better quality than Wal-mart's.
Most companies will pay tens or hundreds of thousands to license a patent, over the howls of their engineers if need be. A lawyer fight will easily cost more.
Companies stand up to patent bullying when it is life or death for their products.. getting someone's phone "banned" from the EU or the US tends to increase the stakes. Even then, they don't care about the patent's validity, just getting the patent holder to back down. Seeking to overturn the patent is merely a threat... offer a better price on the patent and no corporation will refuse it and keep fighting to overturn the patent. So, you're completely wrong.
Yes and no. Patents are a problem -- you can NOT launch a small technology firm and make anything useful without violating patents. This is a barrier to US businesses and Europe, but not China as they will simply ignore patents (for their domestic market).
I'd say America lost because Wall Street *wanted* America to lose. Maybe not explicitly, but as a result of all those outsourcing tax credits Wall Street wanted. Talk to a US based electronics manufacturer... all of them had NO CHOICE but to move their R&D to China, because that's where all the manufacturing is. Often times, the latest and greatest micro chip thingy will be documented by a Data Sheet which is written in Chinese. Eventually it will be translated to English, but the part might be depricated by then if it is a short lived market item.
Linksys, D-Link, Buffalo etc. all of these router manufacturers have almost NO knowledge what is in "their" products. They simply say "I'll take one of those" from the ODM and slap their web GUI on the firmware.
Apple is the last remaining US manufacturer who -designs- in the US. They pay a high price in terms of cost of operating. And even then, all their manufacturing is outsourced, and they don't really R&D any of the low level stuff.
Back to my original point... even if you reformed patents, and even un-did the Bush era outsourcing credit, NONE of those R&D jobs would come back. You'd have to convince China and Japan to subsidize their businesses to move operations back to the USA. No other country is dumb enough to kill their manufacturing, deliberately.
But hey, Wall Street knows what it's doing... killing US manufacturing kills unions, and higher unemployment means workers will accept forced overtime and less safe working conditions. It's all pretty basic stuff, really.
Actually, yes, Zynga has "alleged" connections to Russian organized crime (who, to their credit, recognize that corporate games are more profitable than street ones, and less likely to result in actual jail time).
This is known, but I just had to point it out as so many replies didn't get your jest.
Maybe ABI they make their money not off accurate predictions, but page hits from controversial predictions. Or maybe zacharye makes the referral cash (90 published submissions? I remember back when this site was a blog, and quality posts came from interesting folks who weren't SEO peddlers.
If the government DENIES big companies the ability to abuse taxpayer funded courts, that is NOT raining big government on the companies. Quite the opposite.
Because dd-wrt wanted to take the project closed. Not necessarily closed source, but effectively so with some deliberate barriers to discourage folks getting into the code and making their own customizations. This drove away both users and potential contributers. Big surprise, that.
Everyone has gone over to open-wrt because it is... well, open.
Plus dd-wrt is a bit "closed". They seem to deliberately go out of their way to make it difficult even for experienced developers to package up their own custom firmware. (If I don't qualify that, someone will reply with a red herring case why newbies shouldn't hack router firmware... and in such an extreme example, I agree).
Supposedly open source projects shouldn't go out of their way to keep people from modifying the source. This hurts not just the users, but it drives away potential new contributers. Which is why of course we have open-wrt. You'd have to pay me to use dd-wrt.
You can add USB hubs and switches if need be, OR you can choose an already available low-end single-board system which has multiple ports onboard.
This is -supposed- to be minimalist, low-energy tiny-footprint platform. And adding more hardware changes what it is. I like the fact that it's basically the cost of an Arduino, but can do so much more.
So pretty much you're saying you aren't very productive with a computer, and also: it's the user's fault if the OS is exploited. Gotcha.... and I laugh at any Windows user who calls any other OS a "walled garden". Sour grapes from someone stuck inside a prison, I think.
As perpenso said, these things don't use RAM for data.
These Atmel processors come with (besides the "CPU") RAM, flash RAM, and EPROM storage. External SD storage and more RAM, Flash etc are available if you add it yourself to the board.
So anyways, your script/sketch is saved to flash, which loads up in RAM (just like a regular script or program). If you code things correctly, your bitmaps, your font definitions, are all in flash memory and so almost no RAM is used by that resource.
Some folks don't care, and the resource is embedded into the script (which means the resource lives in RAM). This is fine as long as you have enough memory and you weren't expecting other folks to run your sketch on smaller processors.
For end user data like an ebook on SD card, that gets loaded straight from the SD card and tossed onto the screen. The system is not trying to load the whole thing before display (which would blow out memory). Instead you scan and display things line by line... like you would do in an old-school shell script when your shell/console had very little memory (even on a server).
Sun wanted control of these open source technologies NOT because they are kind sponsors, but so they could sow confusion in an attempt to kill these projects. Sun acts in bad faith, much like SCO did.
Sun -kicked out- the OpenOffice developers. Also MySQL developers. These are facts. Why would you make such a misinformed comment, other than to be deliberately obtuse? To troll?
If the PTR request results in NXDOMAIN: then add a X-Warning-no-RDNS header.
Customers are informed of this header. If they wish to make a client-side quarantine rule, they can. Customers are advised not to make rules to automatically delete such emails, as rDNS can get overloaded.
Also - if the rDNS resolves, and the answer is a KNOWN "dynamic or residential" rdns type name, then graylist that sender for 15 minutes. Most spam bots will not queue and retry their spam... they just move on and attack an easier mailserver. Note this is better than trying to use a "dynamic IP block list" because there isn't any, really (not anymore). Spamhaus PBL is not a dynamic IP list.
I use DynaStop http://dynastop.tanaya.net/ for this. Note this is far better than maintaining your own IP blacklist. You're only graylisting IF the rDNS resolves to say 123-123-123-123-comcastbusiness.net for example. There are PLENTY of legitimate servers in domain space like that (albiet, IT running Exchange and not having a clue..). You would not want to block/refuse based on the rDNS. But the graylisting does thwart spam... in a very hands-off maintenance method. The sender can get through after 15 minutes OR after fixing their reverse DNS. (Once the sender gets through, their IP is considered green/OK for 4 days.. this eliminates the graylisting for frequent senders with bad rDNS)
US businesses can make an argument that the US can not be competitive with China until the US: * permits industrial pollution on a large scale * has no workman's compensation law for on-job injuries * has no mandatory overtime-pay laws * Shrugs when notified of sexual harassment * turns a blind eye when a company roughs up "agitators" * participates in state sanctioned murder of dissidents and union activists
We used to have tarrifs on countries with poor environmental and labor policies. When we lifted those barriers, we basically PUNISHED companies for not outsourcing.... and then comes Bush's post 9/11 tax break that's only available for creation of offshore jobs.
Strategists call this "cutting off the oxygen supply". The liberal wing of the Republican party died decades ago, and on the Democratic party it went out with Carter.
Conservative business elites want our elections to be very expensive and privately funded.. why? The less money the middle class and unemployed have, the more responsive politicians will be to those who DO attend those $1,000/plate dinners.
This is why conservatives are OK with funding unemployment benefits (for now), because of the insecurity, and because it's not going to affect their investment profile (ie, Chinese investments)... in fact it'll just drive up the debt (but in a way that many middle class Americans do not view as a government benefit). The old "drown the baby" strategy conservatives talked about, decades ago..
Robocalls -do- leave voicemail. I get tons of it. Voicemail spam is actually THE major reason I am going to kill my land-line (hear that, FairPoint?).
Sadly, you are right about the parties trying to "close the cell phone loophole". While the bill's primary sponsor is a house gop'er, it is co-sponsored by a NYC democrat.
It only takes half a brain cell to realize that allowing customers to opt in or out of spam checks on OUTBOUND email is a bad fucking idea.
If this is true, it would explain why Yahoo server IPs are always blacklisted at SpamCop. Pick an article and timeline: http://www.google.com/search?q=yahoo+spamcop as many of their IPs are compromised on and off since 2007.
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What the frell? No Farscape??
I misread the headline as:
Viagra May Help People Pay For Space Burials
In checking your other posts, I realize when you said "Apple turfers" you may have meant "anti Apple turfers", not "Apple astroturfers".
If that's the case, sorry I let you have both barrels because you mispoke or I misunderstood.
Still, group labeling of accounts is pretty offensive. You can block any user. /. conversations as much as I did in the nineties, so I've only had to block on a few occasions.
I guess I don't participate in
"Labeling" users? How offensive. How do you propose doing that, by affixing "armbands" to their usernames? Maybe you are the one who needs to wear a stigmatic identifier.
I'm -pretty sure- Apple's roaring success depends naught on maintaining an army of "turfers". However there seems to be no end of anti-Apple posters like yourself, suggesting they exist. I see the value of pre-emptively accusing your opponent of your OWN sins, however all documented instances of "astroturfing" have been attributed to Microsoft or their agents.
I'm not an Apple fanboy. Been running Linux at home since 1994. But at least Apple advanced desktop computing, while Microsoft held it back AND helped change the Internet into this incredibly insecure thing, by virtue of a PERMANENT army of zombie computers. Old MacOS was never as cavalier about security as Windows still is, and Apple's record on security is pretty damn good with OS X. I can still gripe about the window dressing on the Mac desktop, but the underpinnings of OSX are a solid standard UNIX kernel... the modern Apple OS foundation is solid, unlike Microsoft's.
Are you saying Oracle (for example) is going to have some expert answer common Java questions in a slashvertisement/tech support type thing?
This -does- have the feel of something which came out of a 'monetize' brainstorming session. The description reads just as badly... it sounds like Soulskill is reading off of marketing's talking-points.
So HOW exactly does this benefit Slashdot users? Or is there one at all? :-/
HOW are sponsor representatives represented in discussion? Are their comments automatic +5, and totally immune to moderation?
This doesn't need explanation, apparently.
I've been on Slashdot.org for about 14 years, and seen it survive the threat from Digg (and the the Digg self-destruct). But my interest is declining. The original stories are less insightful, more incidence of stories linking to overtly 'controversial' blog posts elsewhere designed to troll web clicks. Years ago I switched from viewing this website, to monitoring the RSS feed, and less and less often do I find reason to stick around when I click one of the feed items.
My biggest complaint of all is there is no benefit or advantage to the older accounts. I gave up submitting stories because even if I were one of the first (just a guess), there are semi-professional story submitters who get the credit. No wait, that's not my worst grievance... Slashdot has a checkbox for "Do not display ads", given for past participation on the site... but the checkbox doesn't work.
Maybe the worst annoyance is when I visit my ~user page, it tells me there's a new post on Will Wheaton's Slashdot journal.. which was deleted like 10 years ago, and because of that deletion I can't unsubscribe from it (it's a silent error, but probably failed SQL stupidity... and my support emails to slashdot go unanswered).
I think Slashdot recognizes that their future's probably in nurturing "communities" where the users interact more with each other (like Slashdot USED to be). GOOD call. But that space is served by Ning. If Slashdot's owners think the answer is "commercially sponsored questions and posts"... really? lulz. For me the answer is, different websites for different genres of information. That's way easier to follow, and you can somewhat get to know people.
I'm sorry, this isn't a story. This is a blog entry, and a short one at that.
I'm sorry, you lack cynicism: what this submission IS is a troll for ad revenue. It's almost a troll... kind of like every John Dvorak article since 1990 (but without the legitimacy he had built up prior to that time).
I thought I had it good when we ditched our "desktop" computers 6 years ago and went with just laptops in the home. Now it's an iPad 1 and 2. When I am developing for Drupal, I use my iPad and laptop (Ubuntu, with Komodo IDE). When I take notes or read OReilly/Safari Books, it's the iPad. When I take notes or set appointments, it's the iPad and Google apps. When I play games, I use either the iPad or the PS3. When I watch movies, it's NetFlix on the iPad or PS3. I suppose for some the droid tablets are the same (although they all seem rather sluggish to me, and have inconsistent UIs.. but maybe I'm just jealous).
I was going to post the same exact thing. It's not a syntax error, but the mistake still flew over everyone else's head.
Pretty sure the land WAS occupied. The railbuilders had bounties on both natives and buffalo.
There's that, and the fact that the Walmart cupcakes were made using Chinese flour, in a Mexican bakery, and then shipped 2000 miles by a non-union trucker who was only permitted 6 hours rest before resuming his driving shift.
PS - the meat you get at a local butchery is also way better quality than Wal-mart's.
Most companies will pay tens or hundreds of thousands to license a patent, over the howls of their engineers if need be. A lawyer fight will easily cost more.
Companies stand up to patent bullying when it is life or death for their products.. getting someone's phone "banned" from the EU or the US tends to increase the stakes. Even then, they don't care about the patent's validity, just getting the patent holder to back down. Seeking to overturn the patent is merely a threat... offer a better price on the patent and no corporation will refuse it and keep fighting to overturn the patent. So, you're completely wrong.
Yes and no. Patents are a problem -- you can NOT launch a small technology firm and make anything useful without violating patents. This is a barrier to US businesses and Europe, but not China as they will simply ignore patents (for their domestic market).
I'd say America lost because Wall Street *wanted* America to lose. Maybe not explicitly, but as a result of all those outsourcing tax credits Wall Street wanted.
Talk to a US based electronics manufacturer... all of them had NO CHOICE but to move their R&D to China, because that's where all the manufacturing is.
Often times, the latest and greatest micro chip thingy will be documented by a Data Sheet which is written in Chinese. Eventually it will be translated to English, but the part might be depricated by then if it is a short lived market item.
Linksys, D-Link, Buffalo etc. all of these router manufacturers have almost NO knowledge what is in "their" products. They simply say "I'll take one of those" from the ODM and slap their web GUI on the firmware.
Apple is the last remaining US manufacturer who -designs- in the US. They pay a high price in terms of cost of operating. And even then, all their manufacturing is outsourced, and they don't really R&D any of the low level stuff.
Back to my original point... even if you reformed patents, and even un-did the Bush era outsourcing credit, NONE of those R&D jobs would come back. You'd have to convince China and Japan to subsidize their businesses to move operations back to the USA. No other country is dumb enough to kill their manufacturing, deliberately.
But hey, Wall Street knows what it's doing... killing US manufacturing kills unions, and higher unemployment means workers will accept forced overtime and less safe working conditions. It's all pretty basic stuff, really.
Actually, yes, Zynga has "alleged" connections to Russian organized crime (who, to their credit, recognize that corporate games are more profitable than street ones, and less likely to result in actual jail time).
This is known, but I just had to point it out as so many replies didn't get your jest.
>How did that turn out?
Maybe ABI they make their money not off accurate predictions, but page hits from controversial predictions. Or maybe zacharye makes the referral cash (90 published submissions? I remember back when this site was a blog, and quality posts came from interesting folks who weren't SEO peddlers.
Straw argument you made there.
If the government DENIES big companies the ability to abuse taxpayer funded courts, that is NOT raining big government on the companies. Quite the opposite.
Because dd-wrt wanted to take the project closed. Not necessarily closed source, but effectively so with some deliberate barriers to discourage folks getting into the code and making their own customizations. This drove away both users and potential contributers. Big surprise, that.
Everyone has gone over to open-wrt because it is... well, open.
Plus dd-wrt is a bit "closed". They seem to deliberately go out of their way to make it difficult even for experienced developers to package up their own custom firmware. (If I don't qualify that, someone will reply with a red herring case why newbies shouldn't hack router firmware... and in such an extreme example, I agree).
Supposedly open source projects shouldn't go out of their way to keep people from modifying the source. This hurts not just the users, but it drives away potential new contributers. Which is why of course we have open-wrt. You'd have to pay me to use dd-wrt.
>I'd rather it have 2 network ports.
You can add USB hubs and switches if need be, OR you can choose an already available low-end single-board system which has multiple ports onboard.
This is -supposed- to be minimalist, low-energy tiny-footprint platform. And adding more hardware changes what it is. I like the fact that it's basically the cost of an Arduino, but can do so much more.
So pretty much you're saying you aren't very productive with a computer, and also: it's the user's fault if the OS is exploited. Gotcha. ... and I laugh at any Windows user who calls any other OS a "walled garden". Sour grapes from someone stuck inside a prison, I think.
As perpenso said, these things don't use RAM for data.
These Atmel processors come with (besides the "CPU") RAM, flash RAM, and EPROM storage. External SD storage and more RAM, Flash etc are available if you add it yourself to the board.
So anyways, your script/sketch is saved to flash, which loads up in RAM (just like a regular script or program).
If you code things correctly, your bitmaps, your font definitions, are all in flash memory and so almost no RAM is used by that resource.
Some folks don't care, and the resource is embedded into the script (which means the resource lives in RAM). This is fine as long as you have enough memory and you weren't expecting other folks to run your sketch on smaller processors.
For end user data like an ebook on SD card, that gets loaded straight from the SD card and tossed onto the screen. The system is not trying to load the whole thing before display (which would blow out memory). Instead you scan and display things line by line... like you would do in an old-school shell script when your shell/console had very little memory (even on a server).
Sun wanted control of these open source technologies NOT because they are kind sponsors, but so they could sow confusion in an attempt to kill these projects.
Sun acts in bad faith, much like SCO did.
Sun -kicked out- the OpenOffice developers. Also MySQL developers. These are facts. Why would you make such a misinformed comment, other than to be deliberately obtuse? To troll?
If the PTR request results in NXDOMAIN:
then add a X-Warning-no-RDNS header.
Customers are informed of this header. If they wish to make a client-side quarantine rule, they can. Customers are advised not to make rules to automatically delete such emails, as rDNS can get overloaded.
Also - if the rDNS resolves, and the answer is a KNOWN "dynamic or residential" rdns type name, then graylist that sender for 15 minutes. Most spam bots will not queue and retry their spam... they just move on and attack an easier mailserver. Note this is better than trying to use a "dynamic IP block list" because there isn't any, really (not anymore). Spamhaus PBL is not a dynamic IP list.
I use DynaStop http://dynastop.tanaya.net/ for this.
Note this is far better than maintaining your own IP blacklist. You're only graylisting IF the rDNS resolves to say 123-123-123-123-comcastbusiness.net for example. There are PLENTY of legitimate servers in domain space like that (albiet, IT running Exchange and not having a clue..). You would not want to block/refuse based on the rDNS. But the graylisting does thwart spam... in a very hands-off maintenance method. The sender can get through after 15 minutes OR after fixing their reverse DNS. (Once the sender gets through, their IP is considered green/OK for 4 days.. this eliminates the graylisting for frequent senders with bad rDNS)
Only if you stole their eggs...
US businesses can make an argument that the US can not be competitive with China until the US:
* permits industrial pollution on a large scale
* has no workman's compensation law for on-job injuries
* has no mandatory overtime-pay laws
* Shrugs when notified of sexual harassment
* turns a blind eye when a company roughs up "agitators"
* participates in state sanctioned murder of dissidents and union activists
We used to have tarrifs on countries with poor environmental and labor policies. ... and then comes Bush's post 9/11 tax break that's only available for creation of offshore jobs.
When we lifted those barriers, we basically PUNISHED companies for not outsourcing.
Strategists call this "cutting off the oxygen supply". The liberal wing of the Republican party died decades ago, and on the Democratic party it went out with Carter.
Conservative business elites want our elections to be very expensive and privately funded.. why?
The less money the middle class and unemployed have, the more responsive politicians will be to those who DO attend those $1,000/plate dinners.
This is why conservatives are OK with funding unemployment benefits (for now), because of the insecurity, and because it's not going to affect their investment profile (ie, Chinese investments)... in fact it'll just drive up the debt (but in a way that many middle class Americans do not view as a government benefit). The old "drown the baby" strategy conservatives talked about, decades ago..
Robocalls -do- leave voicemail. I get tons of it.
Voicemail spam is actually THE major reason I am going to kill my land-line (hear that, FairPoint?).
Sadly, you are right about the parties trying to "close the cell phone loophole". While the bill's primary sponsor is a house gop'er, it is co-sponsored by a NYC democrat.
If this is true, Yahoo deserves to die.
It only takes half a brain cell to realize that allowing customers to opt in or out of spam checks on OUTBOUND email is a bad fucking idea.
If this is true, it would explain why Yahoo server IPs are always blacklisted at SpamCop.
Pick an article and timeline: http://www.google.com/search?q=yahoo+spamcop as many of their IPs are compromised on and off since 2007.