I think moderation, when taken on a single comment, could be said not to work sometimes, but when taken as a whole, over a group of comments, does what it is supposed to - provide readers with a means to read the most relevant comments. If only a few people are moderating, an agenda may be promoted, but with a large group of moderators, it is more difficult for a few people to promote an agenda and a more well-rounded group of points of view can emerge.
/. doesn't automatically send users to the/.ed webpages,/. just says 'you might want to go here'. Each individual user chooses whether they want to click the link, and the pages actually get viewed by an interested (?) reader. And who the hell is gonna sue over free publicity? If they didn't want anyone looking at their pages, they shouldn'ta posted 'em.
Considering articles post, what, about every hour, it probably would not be a good idea to disallow A/C posting in the other threads during the subscriber-only period...
Just playing devil's advocate here...but wouldn't getting the e-mails from the government necessarily have to include the e-mail addresses? For instance, if a government employee sent out an e-mail saying he was going to condemn someone's house, does it really mean anything for public record if it cannot be determined to whom the e-mail was sent to?
If a spammer could request copies of the e-mails, they could easily harvest the addresses from them. And they probably wouldn't be the addresses people use to dump their junk to - if a person thinks they might receive useful information like what was stated in the article, they would probably use an e-mail address that they actually read.
Which 'they' are you referring to? Are you referring to the government, or are you referring to the media? Although I think it is probable that the government supplies the media with, for example, the name and pictures of a suspected terrorist, the media certainly (a) is under no obligation to publish them, and (b) would not publish them if we, the viewing public, were not obsessive viewers of sordid subjects.
and I used to leave my case off of my computer, which sat on the floor just to the left of my desk. And I chainsmoked while I was unwinding playing video games after work.
One night four or five years ago, while I was drinking a rum and Crystal Light and smoking, I reached to grab my drink which was sitting to the left of my keyboard (this was not my first drink of the night) and I knocked the entire drink (probably 20 ounces at least) into my computer. While I was trying to catch the cup, I hit my hand on my ashtray and flipped that over too.
I fully expected the computer to just stop working, but, with the exception of the CD-ROM opening and closing on its own several times that night, the computer worked fine and still continues to work fine.
I cannot say I have had the same luck with keyboards. I have unknowingly spilled drinks into keyboards multiple times and not realized it, until the next morning when I would realize that, no I was NOT so drunk that I could not type, it was just that the keys were sticking together...
Survivor is about attracting viewers who have no real intimacy in their lives to watch a show where they can pretend to have some level of intimacy with something or someone. It's all about voyeurism and a way to get something that they don't have without having to take the risks that people with healthy, emotionally available psyches take to form lasting bonds with real human beings.
Kinda like bonding with a computer game instead of going out and getting a real girlfriend...
So do they have a way to correlate this with traffic light data, so that, for instance, they would be able to tell if someone ran a red light and caused an accident? I know they probably would not be able to tell WHICH car did it, but it would be nice if they could tell that A car coming from THIS direction ran a red light at approximately the time of an accident.
This sounds a little like what one of my co-workers does. Any time he signs up for something, he uses 'dave@yahoo.com' as his e-mail address. I feel really sorry for Dave...
The only spam I got after registering was from NYT, but it took SEVERAL e-mails and threatening to post a story on/. about not getting removed from their mailing list to get them to stop sending me stuff.
We've been locking down XP boxes for use with custom medical software, and we have managed to lock the systems down to the point where you really can't even breathe on them. We lock down one system then use Ghost to create all the other systems.
A program that you might find helpful for managing your registry hacks is Winguides Tweak Manager. It offers a pretty simple way to turn on/off most registry hacks, and includes links to their website detailing exactly how to manually perform most of the hacks. I don't know if there is a version for W2K, though.
But none of the/. crowd would know about sex, and even if they did, you're making a big assumption that it would last long enough for it to get interrupted by a phone call from a telemarketer...
I know that the parachute is just a backup, and flying is safer than driving blah blah blah, but the thought of riding in a plane that has a parachute just creeps me out, worse even than the lectures the airline attendants give in case of a crash. It's kinda like, having health insurance can create a need for health insurance, so a parachute could create... I'm gonna go crawl under my bed now.
Living in the Denver/Boulder metro area isn't exactly cheap either. I'm not talking about not making a living wage, I'm talking about paying HTML coders $70K. For some people (and I'm not saying you're one of them, I don't know your circumstances), complaining about not being able to afford cost-of-living increases means having to sell the big gas-guzzling SUV and the $.25million home and not eat out every weekend. One of my above-mentioned co-workers complains that he can't afford to move out of his parents' house--but he and his girlfriend eat out several times a week and he just bought a brand spanking new car. Sometimes it's just a matter of priorities.
The company I work for is one of the few companies that has not been hit by the recession, as a matter of fact we are growing--we have had to almost double the size of our IS/IT and software development, and software testing departments. I think part of the reason our company has been able to grow is because salaries are a little less than market value, but we get semi-annual bonuses based on the company's profitability. (Well, once it was a small pay cut, but given the choice between asking everyone to take a small pay cut for three months, which we got back plus some three months later, or laying off three employees to cover the deficit, I think our company made the right choice). This gives us a huge incentive to make sure the company makes money - in everything from turning out a quality product to keeping our office supply orders reasonable.
I am amazed at the poor attitudes I see in some of the new hires, though--the two people that were hired to help in my department are always grousing about how they make so much less money than they were making at their previous jobs and they can't wait for the recession to be over so they can go find 'real jobs'. Don't they understand that there is a reason the dot-bombs they worked for went out of business? These two new people are currently trying to convince upper management that we are sorely suffering because we are not using a $2000/seat configuration management tool. Let's just gut our company here and then they can move on to gut the next one...
It's just as easy for a small business to say, "Yes, we are still investigating this" as it is for a big business to do so--I didn't notice anywhere that concrete proof of an ongoing investigation was necessary. Matter of fact, it may be easier for a small business to argue that their investigation is still ongoing, since they could easily contend that their resources to investigate are limited.
Your 'special clauses' solution also provides a bias for big business, since larger businesses are more likely to be able to afford the attorneys to get the court orders every time they are hacked - whereas mom and pop businesses could easily go out of business just from the legal fees, not to mention that the mom and pop businesses are more likely to abide by the letter of the law instead of playing fast and loose.
Besides, it is much more likely that a big corporation would have a judge in their pocket than a small company.
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I think moderation, when taken on a single comment, could be said not to work sometimes, but when taken as a whole, over a group of comments, does what it is supposed to - provide readers with a means to read the most relevant comments. If only a few people are moderating, an agenda may be promoted, but with a large group of moderators, it is more difficult for a few people to promote an agenda and a more well-rounded group of points of view can emerge.
Oh, c'mon, this isn't funny at all! This is exactly what MS is doing to my company and its DOS software! Where is the '+1, Tragic' modifier?
/. doesn't automatically send users to the /.ed webpages, /. just says 'you might want to go here'. Each individual user chooses whether they want to click the link, and the pages actually get viewed by an interested (?) reader. And who the hell is gonna sue over free publicity? If they didn't want anyone looking at their pages, they shouldn'ta posted 'em.
Considering articles post, what, about every hour, it probably would not be a good idea to disallow A/C posting in the other threads during the subscriber-only period...
Just playing devil's advocate here...but wouldn't getting the e-mails from the government necessarily have to include the e-mail addresses? For instance, if a government employee sent out an e-mail saying he was going to condemn someone's house, does it really mean anything for public record if it cannot be determined to whom the e-mail was sent to?
If a spammer could request copies of the e-mails, they could easily harvest the addresses from them. And they probably wouldn't be the addresses people use to dump their junk to - if a person thinks they might receive useful information like what was stated in the article, they would probably use an e-mail address that they actually read.
Which 'they' are you referring to? Are you referring to the government, or are you referring to the media? Although I think it is probable that the government supplies the media with, for example, the name and pictures of a suspected terrorist, the media certainly (a) is under no obligation to publish them, and (b) would not publish them if we, the viewing public, were not obsessive viewers of sordid subjects.
and I used to leave my case off of my computer, which sat on the floor just to the left of my desk. And I chainsmoked while I was unwinding playing video games after work.
One night four or five years ago, while I was drinking a rum and Crystal Light and smoking, I reached to grab my drink which was sitting to the left of my keyboard (this was not my first drink of the night) and I knocked the entire drink (probably 20 ounces at least) into my computer. While I was trying to catch the cup, I hit my hand on my ashtray and flipped that over too.
I fully expected the computer to just stop working, but, with the exception of the CD-ROM opening and closing on its own several times that night, the computer worked fine and still continues to work fine.
I cannot say I have had the same luck with keyboards. I have unknowingly spilled drinks into keyboards multiple times and not realized it, until the next morning when I would realize that, no I was NOT so drunk that I could not type, it was just that the keys were sticking together...
And actually, none of the original actors are currently on the show.
Survivor is about attracting viewers who have no real intimacy in their lives to watch a show where they can pretend to have some level of intimacy with something or someone. It's all about voyeurism and a way to get something that they don't have without having to take the risks that people with healthy, emotionally available psyches take to form lasting bonds with real human beings.
Kinda like bonding with a computer game instead of going out and getting a real girlfriend...
So do they have a way to correlate this with traffic light data, so that, for instance, they would be able to tell if someone ran a red light and caused an accident? I know they probably would not be able to tell WHICH car did it, but it would be nice if they could tell that A car coming from THIS direction ran a red light at approximately the time of an accident.
I unsubscribed at least three times using the instructions provided. They chose to ignore it.
So, does this mean that people can sue companies that advertise using pop-ups for using their limited bandwidth without permission?
This sounds a little like what one of my co-workers does. Any time he signs up for something, he uses 'dave@yahoo.com' as his e-mail address. I feel really sorry for Dave...
The only spam I got after registering was from NYT, but it took SEVERAL e-mails and threatening to post a story on /. about not getting removed from their mailing list to get them to stop sending me stuff.
We've been locking down XP boxes for use with custom medical software, and we have managed to lock the systems down to the point where you really can't even breathe on them. We lock down one system then use Ghost to create all the other systems.
A program that you might find helpful for managing your registry hacks is Winguides Tweak Manager. It offers a pretty simple way to turn on/off most registry hacks, and includes links to their website detailing exactly how to manually perform most of the hacks. I don't know if there is a version for W2K, though.
Today is the anniversary of Jimmy Carter's UFO sighting.
I am so sorry for you that regular underwear and clean underwear are not the same thing...
But none of the /. crowd would know about sex, and even if they did, you're making a big assumption that it would last long enough for it to get interrupted by a phone call from a telemarketer...
oh, yeah, that's even more comforting. thanks...
I know that the parachute is just a backup, and flying is safer than driving blah blah blah, but the thought of riding in a plane that has a parachute just creeps me out, worse even than the lectures the airline attendants give in case of a crash. It's kinda like, having health insurance can create a need for health insurance, so a parachute could create... I'm gonna go crawl under my bed now.
Uh, they're Buddhists, not commies.
I guess you never bought the computer...
Living in the Denver/Boulder metro area isn't exactly cheap either. I'm not talking about not making a living wage, I'm talking about paying HTML coders $70K. For some people (and I'm not saying you're one of them, I don't know your circumstances), complaining about not being able to afford cost-of-living increases means having to sell the big gas-guzzling SUV and the $.25million home and not eat out every weekend. One of my above-mentioned co-workers complains that he can't afford to move out of his parents' house--but he and his girlfriend eat out several times a week and he just bought a brand spanking new car. Sometimes it's just a matter of priorities.
The company I work for is one of the few companies that has not been hit by the recession, as a matter of fact we are growing--we have had to almost double the size of our IS/IT and software development, and software testing departments. I think part of the reason our company has been able to grow is because salaries are a little less than market value, but we get semi-annual bonuses based on the company's profitability. (Well, once it was a small pay cut, but given the choice between asking everyone to take a small pay cut for three months, which we got back plus some three months later, or laying off three employees to cover the deficit, I think our company made the right choice). This gives us a huge incentive to make sure the company makes money - in everything from turning out a quality product to keeping our office supply orders reasonable.
I am amazed at the poor attitudes I see in some of the new hires, though--the two people that were hired to help in my department are always grousing about how they make so much less money than they were making at their previous jobs and they can't wait for the recession to be over so they can go find 'real jobs'. Don't they understand that there is a reason the dot-bombs they worked for went out of business? These two new people are currently trying to convince upper management that we are sorely suffering because we are not using a $2000/seat configuration management tool. Let's just gut our company here and then they can move on to gut the next one...
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It's just as easy for a small business to say, "Yes, we are still investigating this" as it is for a big business to do so--I didn't notice anywhere that concrete proof of an ongoing investigation was necessary. Matter of fact, it may be easier for a small business to argue that their investigation is still ongoing, since they could easily contend that their resources to investigate are limited.
Your 'special clauses' solution also provides a bias for big business, since larger businesses are more likely to be able to afford the attorneys to get the court orders every time they are hacked - whereas mom and pop businesses could easily go out of business just from the legal fees, not to mention that the mom and pop businesses are more likely to abide by the letter of the law instead of playing fast and loose.
Besides, it is much more likely that a big corporation would have a judge in their pocket than a small company.