The C&D was referring to an article that could harm NYSE's reputation, so why should the organization just sit idly by and be tarnished?
Yes, of course the NYSE should be able to veto any news articles that aren't sufficiently respectful.That they could sue anyone who published untrue stories as libel isn't enough.
My guess is they have more prisoners than computers
In China you can buy a basic PC for 1-2000 RMB. A used one for a few hundred. If the figures are correct that would be paid off in an hour's work. They'd have as many PCs as they could find room for.
I doubt the veracity of these figures. I think the income is exaggerated by at least a factor of 10.
ybe you missed all the extra steps JUST to get to the application
Yeah, because I don't remember having to go through all that crap. I'm pretty sure sit files were associated with Stuffit and just need to be clicked on. Mybe you werent doing it right. Who cares?
I just know that Mac OS 7/8/9 was lot easier to use, especially for the less computer literate office staff (like my boss). This was in the days before people were weaned on Windows.I was brought up on Unix and punch cards myself.
You obviously never had to try to use Apple OS 9 or earlier on a (mixed) network.
Seemed to work okay, but it wasn't my area. Mostly had stand-alones and later connected via Internet mail.
Anyway, obviously it was getting crufty and had to be reworked; Apple tried for 10 years before they bit the bullet and went to X. But in all that time; from the desktop user's point of view, it was very pleasant and a lot harder to fuck yourself up than Windows or DOS.
You're comparing Stuffit and Winzip. Those are apps, not OS components. And Stuffit is a proprietary format, so there wasn't an alternative (that I recall). I'm sure you could find some annoying Windows archivers.
The technical inferiority of classic MacOS was a real, quantifiable usability problem at times
You're obviously nostalgic for a classic 20th century Mac vs Windows flame war. Well I'm not. I used and supported both back in the day. I know what I know, and I disagree, and am not going to waste more time arguing about the merits of dead OSes.
Possibly, in features and power, not in usability. In any case, NT was pretty much only used on servers and hardcore geeks, not average desktops. (And I use Win2k, which is just an upgrade of NT, so I like it myself.)
Yet OS/2 was quite superior to the versions of Windows that Microsoft had out at the time.
Apple OS was superior to Windows at the time. It was superior marketing, cheaper hardware and sneaky and unscrupulous business tactics that gave MS the lead.
sane people do not take every possible advantage of the law to bludgeon people, and then use that same law as a defense when they're the ones on the receiving end of the bludgeoning. Sane people do their best to avoid legal conflict altogether, which is something the IP industry is notably reluctant to do.
You seem to be using the word "sane" to mean "not assholes". Unfortunately, many sane people are assholes, and will use any method available if it profits them. They're well aware of the hypocrisy, they just don't care.
Sure. You could be a creationist physicist, say. Just as long as your work had nothing to do with biology. Your colleagues would probably have a hard time taking you seriously though.
I think Avatar has been a great harbinger for smart science fiction films. I know some people disagree with me, but honestly I think that film could not have been made by anyone other than James Cameron, and now that it has been made and itâ(TM)s such a success, it proves that hard science fiction â" and that film is full of ideas â" can work on a large commercial scale.
Some of this may be kiddie pr0n. I'm always afraid to GIS stuff like this...
You won't find real kiddie porn with Google.
Despite all the hysteria, it must be at least 10 years since I've seen any kiddie porn turn up anywhere on the open web, and I turned off "safe search" long ago. It's too dangerous for anyone involved.
In any case. we're talking about cartoons, and that there is plenty of. There's more hysteria about cartoon porn, but there have been only a few odd cases of people charged with possession of that, and I doubt any would have stuck if they actually went to court. Not that that's much consolation if you get vilified as being busted for it.
You seem to be saying that stealing the porn on someone's PC is more egregious than stealing financial information/credit card numbers etc...;)
A Hong Kong singer/actor who liked to take photos of girls spreading their legs and having having sex with him, several of whom were popular actresses/singers with "nice girl " images, sent his laptop in for repair....
the idea that women in japan somehow are huge fans of child sexual molestation is just bizarre.
WTF are you talking about? "Child"? "Molestation"?
Yaoi is mostly teen romance. With both being pretty young boys. And it isn't just "in Japan". Most of the western slash fan fiction is written by and read by women. But I:m sure that plenty of males are into it too. Since everyone lies about what porn they like it is hard (impossible) to prove stuff like this. But it is easy to prove what the content is, Google for "yaoi" and see for yourself.
You are probably thinking of "shota". I've become familiar with all these terms as a way to filter out what I don't want to see -- try "futa', "guro" if you have a strong stomach.
YAOI is known as "Boy Love". I don't think anybody need discuss further why Amazon pulled it, they don't want to be known as the NAMBL library of choice.
Yaoi is actually "Boy-Boy love". Big difference. Usually two cute teenage guys getting it on. The biggest market is young women. Same as western slash fiction, like Harry Potter + Draco Malfoy.
Doesn't bother me if it's actually the author of an original story. After all, they could easily get a shill account and post it rather than being upfront.
What does bother me are the bloggers who copy a story from a real publication and then submit their copy to Slashdot and get all the ad hits for their plagiarism. And often these assholes misrepresent the story, due to carelessness, stupidity or attempting to make it more dramatic.
Star Trek's communicators functioned far more like cell phones than old military radiotelephones. They were personal devices that everyone kept on them all the time, and could be used to contact other individuals at will who also wore them, without respect to distance. Sound like anything we all carry these days?
They look vaguely like cell phones. They operate like walkie talkies. Cell phones require a network of cells to work. Communicators, like walkie talkies, can directly contact other units. Cell phones are useless on alien planets (unless Doctor Who has jailbroken it for you.)
Facebook, and many other social network sites, ignore children.
Because if they explicitly cater to them, they'd have to create kid safe content, supervise all interactions, certify everyone's age, and at the same time not be able to exploit them in the same way as users assumed to be adults. Much easier just to let the kids lie and then treat them as adults.
NASA seems to not be all into the promotion thing. So its not going out of its way to post this on/.
Bullshit. NASA has a huge website and sends out press releases to the media.
So I ask you, Did you liked seeing the info about the asteroid on/. ? If not just move on. If you like it you should be thanking coondoggie for posting his WEblog. He posted the NASA link in the first few lines of the article. SO we get both A link on/. and a link to the NASA source.
Coodoggie is a parasitic plaigiarist. He's using NASA's content and adding his own ads, then whoring for hits here. His submission had no links to the NASA story, only his own blog. And he DID NOT provide a link to NASA in his submission. In his blog he steals not only NASA's story, but hotlinks their images.
So you see CmdrTaco also the right thing!
He did, finally, after seeing the comments here. If you look now, besides correcting the typo in the headline "NASAsatellite" (from Coodoggie's submission) NASA's page is now linked directly.
When I e-mail friends about stuff I see on/. I send the/. link. I do not by pass it.
If I was your friend (not likely, I guess) I'd sigh at you sending me to a page which had a link to a blog which had a copy of a story from a real site. After a while I'd just ignore your posts. You don't need to credit every asshole who mentions an article. Just go to the source.
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Loony, an upskirt cartoon is porn. Anyway, as they say on /b/, PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
The C&D was referring to an article that could harm NYSE's reputation, so why should the organization just sit idly by and be tarnished?
Yes, of course the NYSE should be able to veto any news articles that aren't sufficiently respectful.That they could sue anyone who published untrue stories as libel isn't enough.
My guess is they have more prisoners than computers
In China you can buy a basic PC for 1-2000 RMB. A used one for a few hundred. If the figures are correct that would be paid off in an hour's work. They'd have as many PCs as they could find room for.
I doubt the veracity of these figures. I think the income is exaggerated by at least a factor of 10.
http://www.google.com/search?&q=asshat
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http://slashdot.org/~Osgeld
Well, no wonder you're proud.Congratulations!
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I did it fucking Thursday
You're fucking right. Looks like a real fucking showstopper. Better send a report to Steve.
the OS was so broken they sought a total replacement as fast as possible, the reason it was one of the shortest lived major releases.
Yet you're still using it 13 years later... is it just to give you an excuse to vent about Apple?
I've still got a G3 in the corner, ran OS9 on it for several years. No idea what you're doing wrong. Maybe you should read a book.
ybe you missed all the extra steps JUST to get to the application
Yeah, because I don't remember having to go through all that crap. I'm pretty sure sit files were associated with Stuffit and just need to be clicked on. Mybe you werent doing it right. Who cares?
I just know that Mac OS 7/8/9 was lot easier to use, especially for the less computer literate office staff (like my boss). This was in the days before people were weaned on Windows.I was brought up on Unix and punch cards myself.
You obviously never had to try to use Apple OS 9 or earlier on a (mixed) network.
Seemed to work okay, but it wasn't my area. Mostly had stand-alones and later connected via Internet mail.
Anyway, obviously it was getting crufty and had to be reworked; Apple tried for 10 years before they bit the bullet and went to X. But in all that time; from the desktop user's point of view, it was very pleasant and a lot harder to fuck yourself up than Windows or DOS.
lets say I want to open some stuffit files...
You're comparing Stuffit and Winzip. Those are apps, not OS components. And Stuffit is a proprietary format, so there wasn't an alternative (that I recall). I'm sure you could find some annoying Windows archivers.
I used ZipIt on Mac, seemed pretty simple.
The technical inferiority of classic MacOS was a real, quantifiable usability problem at times
You're obviously nostalgic for a classic 20th century Mac vs Windows flame war. Well I'm not. I used and supported both back in the day. I know what I know, and I disagree, and am not going to waste more time arguing about the merits of dead OSes.
MacOS 7.x to 9.x was *not* superior to NT.
Possibly, in features and power, not in usability. In any case, NT was pretty much only used on servers and hardcore geeks, not average desktops. (And I use Win2k, which is just an upgrade of NT, so I like it myself.)
Yet OS/2 was quite superior to the versions of Windows that Microsoft had out at the time.
Apple OS was superior to Windows at the time. It was superior marketing, cheaper hardware and sneaky and unscrupulous business tactics that gave MS the lead.
sane people do not take every possible advantage of the law to bludgeon people, and then use that same law as a defense when they're the ones on the receiving end of the bludgeoning. Sane people do their best to avoid legal conflict altogether, which is something the IP industry is notably reluctant to do.
You seem to be using the word "sane" to mean "not assholes". Unfortunately, many sane people are assholes, and will use any method available if it profits them. They're well aware of the hypocrisy, they just don't care.
? Can you be an "creationist scientist"?
Sure. You could be a creationist physicist, say. Just as long as your work had nothing to do with biology. Your colleagues would probably have a hard time taking you seriously though.
I think Avatar has been a great harbinger for smart science fiction films. I know some people disagree with me, but honestly I think that film could not have been made by anyone other than James Cameron, and now that it has been made and itâ(TM)s such a success, it proves that hard science fiction â" and that film is full of ideas â" can work on a large commercial scale.
Avatar -- Smart? -- Full of ideas?? HARD SF???
Some of this may be kiddie pr0n. I'm always afraid to GIS stuff like this...
You won't find real kiddie porn with Google.
Despite all the hysteria, it must be at least 10 years since I've seen any kiddie porn turn up anywhere on the open web, and I turned off "safe search" long ago. It's too dangerous for anyone involved.
In any case. we're talking about cartoons, and that there is plenty of. There's more hysteria about cartoon porn, but there have been only a few odd cases of people charged with possession of that, and I doubt any would have stuck if they actually went to court. Not that that's much consolation if you get vilified as being busted for it.
You seem to be saying that stealing the porn on someone's PC is more egregious than stealing financial information/credit card numbers etc... ;)
A Hong Kong singer/actor who liked to take photos of girls spreading their legs and having having sex with him, several of whom were popular actresses/singers with "nice girl " images, sent his laptop in for repair....
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Chen_photo_scandal
I wish I could view Slashdot via a filter bubble that would omit or correct dupes, slashvertisements, blogspam and obvious spelling mistakes.
the idea that women in japan somehow are huge fans of child sexual molestation is just bizarre.
WTF are you talking about? "Child"? "Molestation"?
Yaoi is mostly teen romance. With both being pretty young boys. And it isn't just "in Japan". Most of the western slash fan fiction is written by and read by women. But I:m sure that plenty of males are into it too. Since everyone lies about what porn they like it is hard (impossible) to prove stuff like this. But it is easy to prove what the content is, Google for "yaoi" and see for yourself.
You are probably thinking of "shota". I've become familiar with all these terms as a way to filter out what I don't want to see -- try "futa', "guro" if you have a strong stomach.
YAOI is known as "Boy Love". I don't think anybody need discuss further why Amazon pulled it, they don't want to be known as the NAMBL library of choice.
Yaoi is actually "Boy-Boy love". Big difference. Usually two cute teenage guys getting it on. The biggest market is young women. Same as western slash fiction, like Harry Potter + Draco Malfoy.
What does bother me are the bloggers who copy a story from a real publication and then submit their copy to Slashdot and get all the ad hits for their plagiarism. And often these assholes misrepresent the story, due to carelessness, stupidity or attempting to make it more dramatic.
No, you and the other poster are being silly overly pedantic geeks.
Whatever, trekkie.
Star Trek's communicators functioned far more like cell phones than old military radiotelephones. They were personal devices that everyone kept on them all the time, and could be used to contact other individuals at will who also wore them, without respect to distance. Sound like anything we all carry these days?
They look vaguely like cell phones. They operate like walkie talkies. Cell phones require a network of cells to work. Communicators, like walkie talkies, can directly contact other units. Cell phones are useless on alien planets (unless Doctor Who has jailbroken it for you.)
Facebook, and many other social network sites, ignore children.
Because if they explicitly cater to them, they'd have to create kid safe content, supervise all interactions, certify everyone's age, and at the same time not be able to exploit them in the same way as users assumed to be adults. Much easier just to let the kids lie and then treat them as adults.
NASA seems to not be all into the promotion thing. So its not going out of its way to post this on /.
Bullshit. NASA has a huge website and sends out press releases to the media.
So I ask you, Did you liked seeing the info about the asteroid on /. ? If not just move on. If you like it you should be thanking coondoggie for posting his WEblog. He posted the NASA link in the first few lines of the article. SO we get both A link on /. and a link to the NASA source.
Coodoggie is a parasitic plaigiarist. He's using NASA's content and adding his own ads, then whoring for hits here. His submission had no links to the NASA story, only his own blog. And he DID NOT provide a link to NASA in his submission. In his blog he steals not only NASA's story, but hotlinks their images.
So you see CmdrTaco also the right thing!
He did, finally, after seeing the comments here. If you look now, besides correcting the typo in the headline "NASAsatellite" (from Coodoggie's submission) NASA's page is now linked directly.
When I e-mail friends about stuff I see on /. I send the /. link. I do not by pass it.
If I was your friend (not likely, I guess) I'd sigh at you sending me to a page which had a link to a blog which had a copy of a story from a real site. After a while I'd just ignore your posts. You don't need to credit every asshole who mentions an article. Just go to the source.