Once the hackers give the rest of us geeks the thumbs up...
Okay, point taken, investigatory hacking isn't evil. I've read one of the articles which was about mostly monitoring what it did. But obviously some will use this to make it a private server, breaking the implied contract (talking morally, not legally). But this will be beyond most users, so it's probbaly not going to make much impact on the scheme if it is on the up-and-up.
Anyone remember the CueCat?
You can't give geeks a free gift then cry when they use it for something other than you intended.
Morally, there is a difference. Cuecat was a lame method of delivering ads; fair game. This, I gather, is service to share wifi access: unless I misunderstand, it's providing a real service. Hacking this is like hacking a P2P client so you can leech without uploading; or even more, like those assholes who "hacked" (in this case, meaning stealing) rental bicycles to get free rides. It's parasitic and selfish behaviour.
s this a new species or a deformed member of a known species.Deformations can be caused by illness, by foetus development abnormality, by ponctual mutation.
How can they be sure this is not such a case ? This dolphin only have an extra pair of fins, couldn't this be an extreme case of conjointed twins
They don't. It's just been discovered. It's only journalistic speculation. But looking at the photo, the extra fins look to be in a "natural" place, not a random growth. Thus the speculation it's an old feature that's been reactivated; like the small tails on some humans.
The moral of the story is that if you are going to let someone go, don't rely on _any_ sort of message conveyance system to deliver the message, talk directly to the employee.
Conversely, when I quit my job, after a long period of money disputes, I really didn't want a face-to-face confrontation, but I did need a clear record of exactly when I had left and why, for later hearing at the Labour Tribunal when I was extracting my unpaid salary and banefits. I left a letter on my desk after faxing it to the boss, and the next day posted another copy by registerd mail. Otherwise he would certainly have said I'd walked out with insufficient notice (he did try to claim damages for that anyway, but it didn't fly).
Not very clever, because getting an email that you've been fired isn't something you forget about. When you follow it up you find it's bogus, and everyone is alerted. What's the point of a keylogger if it's removed immediately? You want a keylogger to be installed without anyone the wiser so it can leech information.
ah, so you're not being illiterate, just presumptive,
You manage to both concede the point and insult me again at the same time. As for how important this guy is, or the conference (you claim I'm ignorant of that too, on what grounds I'm unsure), that's really immaterial. MS may make noises about withdrawing fomr China, but if they ever mention it to the Chinese governement it will be simply as a bargaining point, quickly conceded for similarly empty promises. China has been playing this game a lot longer than MS.
read the summary, even: "senior policy counsel" != "PR flack"
Whatever his official title, his function appears to be dealing with PR. Job titles are designed to sound important, I'm not an MS initiate so I don't know what his job "really" is. Not that it's important, anyway. My point is that his statement has little import and will probably be repudiated, or just forgotten.
(whatever a "flack" is; perhaps you meant "hack"?).
flack : one who provides publicity; especially : PRESS AGENT.
One PR flack backed into a corner by human rights activists at a conference said they would "consider" pulling out. When he gets back to Redmond he'll be in deep shit.
Re:There is no such thing as bad publicity
on
Utube Sues YouTube
·
· Score: 1
How can a company with such massive hit numbers draw so little in sales (especially since they are a real company)
Because they're selling "Used Pipe Mills and Used Rollforming Machines". People loooking for Britney Spears upskirt videos are rarely in the market for gigantic steel milling machines.
Without the crank it won't be very useful in a lot of the target locations.
They tested cranks and found it stressed the case too much. They may offer a foot pedal charger option. A rather more sensible idea. Your legs are stronger than your arms and you can pump a pedal while you type. My grandmother had a treadle-powered sewing machine, which probably used more power.
The GP's point wasn't that the laptop wasn't cost effective, or that the hardware is inferior to other mass market items. He alluded to that, sure, but that wasn't his main point at all.
Whether it was minor or major, he started out with the same sneering attitude to the concept that gets parroted here every time it comes up. That's what I responded to, not his "main point". If you introduce your argument with a fallacy, it's hard to take it seriously.
As for the general utility of a laptop, I have mixed feelings. But it would not be instead of solving any of the other problems, it's a false dilemma to keep saying they need this or that more. They do. But Negroponte et al can't help with agriculture, immunisation, etc, even if they wanted to. They can help with building some access to computer knowledge. As long as it's not taken out of the general education budget it has a chance to jump start a local information economy.
Wow, when you think of it that way, cable or satellite TV is a hell of a deal.
Maybe for you, but no cable here and none of the available satellite stations (China and Philippines) offer Comedy Central. (And no iTunes, for that matter, they won't sell to me.)
figured Slashdot editors didn't seem to care about simple things like this and, given the context and purpose of Slashdot, shouldn't really be a big deal.
Obviously they don't care. You want to give them a pass. I don't. There's nothing I can do to change their minds, but I refuse to endorse this unprofessional attitude. They get paid to edit, it's not a hobby. Proofing a dozen paragraphs of text a day is not a great burden.
And still I see no admission that your original reply was off-base
I don't understand what you mean. If you were implying that it was correct to quote the submitter's misquote, I disagree. For one thing it reflects unfairly on the original article, which is why I quoted that. For another it's an editor's job to catch mistakes like that before they are published. Slashdot editors routinely mess around with submissions when the mood takes them, so thay have no "hands-off" policy to hide behind. I've seen numerous comments by people complaining how their submission was messed up.
people who now go to Wikipedia first, Google second
Well, I still go to Google first. But if I find the results full of spam and fake pages my next stop is Wikipedia. Generally there is a good collection of links to real pages, not just SEO-optimised crap (though occasionally spammers insert stuff, it's usually rapidly deleted).
Yea, but you're managing to sidestep the fact that the laws which protect Jane Doe & her 10yr investment also protect George Lucas.
Well, actually Jane isn't being protected at all unless she can afford a lawyer.
My point is that you were trying to pull on our heartstrings to make us feel sorry for an imaginary victim, when the real one is a billionaire. He has rights too, of course, but leave it at that. Don't talk about brave entrepreneurs losing their homes.
...from the Slashdot post, NOT the article itself (There was nothing wrong with the "its" in the article). The Slashdot editors don't need to edit a user submission, even if the user mistyped something from the original article.
Yes, editors DO need to edit submissions. I actually am an editor in real life, if I let crap like that get past me I'd be out of a job.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, point taken, investigatory hacking isn't evil. I've read one of the articles which was about mostly monitoring what it did. But obviously some will use this to make it a private server, breaking the implied contract (talking morally, not legally). But this will be beyond most users, so it's probbaly not going to make much impact on the scheme if it is on the up-and-up.
Ugh, I wouldn't take a flier from Circuit City as an authority to abuse the language like that.
Morally, there is a difference. Cuecat was a lame method of delivering ads; fair game. This, I gather, is service to share wifi access: unless I misunderstand, it's providing a real service. Hacking this is like hacking a P2P client so you can leech without uploading; or even more, like those assholes who "hacked" (in this case, meaning stealing) rental bicycles to get free rides. It's parasitic and selfish behaviour.
my classification
They don't. It's just been discovered. It's only journalistic speculation. But looking at the photo, the extra fins look to be in a "natural" place, not a random growth. Thus the speculation it's an old feature that's been reactivated; like the small tails on some humans.
I didn't say that.
good job so far.
Pretentious twat.
Conversely, when I quit my job, after a long period of money disputes, I really didn't want a face-to-face confrontation, but I did need a clear record of exactly when I had left and why, for later hearing at the Labour Tribunal when I was extracting my unpaid salary and banefits. I left a letter on my desk after faxing it to the boss, and the next day posted another copy by registerd mail. Otherwise he would certainly have said I'd walked out with insufficient notice (he did try to claim damages for that anyway, but it didn't fly).
Not very clever, because getting an email that you've been fired isn't something you forget about. When you follow it up you find it's bogus, and everyone is alerted. What's the point of a keylogger if it's removed immediately? You want a keylogger to be installed without anyone the wiser so it can leech information.
You manage to both concede the point and insult me again at the same time. As for how important this guy is, or the conference (you claim I'm ignorant of that too, on what grounds I'm unsure), that's really immaterial. MS may make noises about withdrawing fomr China, but if they ever mention it to the Chinese governement it will be simply as a bargaining point, quickly conceded for similarly empty promises. China has been playing this game a lot longer than MS.
Whatever his official title, his function appears to be dealing with PR. Job titles are designed to sound important, I'm not an MS initiate so I don't know what his job "really" is. Not that it's important, anyway. My point is that his statement has little import and will probably be repudiated, or just forgotten.
(whatever a "flack" is; perhaps you meant "hack"?).
flack : one who provides publicity; especially : PRESS AGENT.
One PR flack backed into a corner by human rights activists at a conference said they would "consider" pulling out. When he gets back to Redmond he'll be in deep shit.
Because they're selling "Used Pipe Mills and Used Rollforming Machines". People loooking for Britney Spears upskirt videos are rarely in the market for gigantic steel milling machines.
They tested cranks and found it stressed the case too much. They may offer a foot pedal charger option. A rather more sensible idea. Your legs are stronger than your arms and you can pump a pedal while you type. My grandmother had a treadle-powered sewing machine, which probably used more power.
Whether it was minor or major, he started out with the same sneering attitude to the concept that gets parroted here every time it comes up. That's what I responded to, not his "main point". If you introduce your argument with a fallacy, it's hard to take it seriously.
As for the general utility of a laptop, I have mixed feelings. But it would not be instead of solving any of the other problems, it's a false dilemma to keep saying they need this or that more. They do. But Negroponte et al can't help with agriculture, immunisation, etc, even if they wanted to. They can help with building some access to computer knowledge. As long as it's not taken out of the general education budget it has a chance to jump start a local information economy.
WOW won't run on these. They don't meet the hardware spec, let alone they don't run Windows abd will very likely not have relisble net access.
It DOESN'T HAVE A FUCKING CRANK.
See OLPC hardware. The crank was one suggestion long ago; and it would only have been a backup when there wasn't any mains power.
Think of another excuse.
No.
There are more important things in life than bitching about an apostrophe in the contraction of it is...
90% of the posts here are or of similar, or less, significance.
Maybe for you, but no cable here and none of the available satellite stations (China and Philippines) offer Comedy Central. (And no iTunes, for that matter, they won't sell to me.)
Obviously they don't care. You want to give them a pass. I don't. There's nothing I can do to change their minds, but I refuse to endorse this unprofessional attitude. They get paid to edit, it's not a hobby. Proofing a dozen paragraphs of text a day is not a great burden.
And still I see no admission that your original reply was off-base
I don't understand what you mean. If you were implying that it was correct to quote the submitter's misquote, I disagree. For one thing it reflects unfairly on the original article, which is why I quoted that. For another it's an editor's job to catch mistakes like that before they are published. Slashdot editors routinely mess around with submissions when the mood takes them, so thay have no "hands-off" policy to hide behind. I've seen numerous comments by people complaining how their submission was messed up.
Well, I still go to Google first. But if I find the results full of spam and fake pages my next stop is Wikipedia. Generally there is a good collection of links to real pages, not just SEO-optimised crap (though occasionally spammers insert stuff, it's usually rapidly deleted).
Well, actually Jane isn't being protected at all unless she can afford a lawyer.
My point is that you were trying to pull on our heartstrings to make us feel sorry for an imaginary victim, when the real one is a billionaire. He has rights too, of course, but leave it at that. Don't talk about brave entrepreneurs losing their homes.
Yes, editors DO need to edit submissions. I actually am an editor in real life, if I let crap like that get past me I'd be out of a job.
You are mistaken. RTFA:
Yes, because it would obviously be impossible to do both. Why should someone who's pulling down a salary as an editor actually have to edit?
Mel was born in New York. You can keep him.
The board shows: AW, TA, ZA, NO, AN, NO, KA, OP and UP.