Check out that guy's definition of "Embarrased"...In English, it only carries the abstract meaning of making ((sb)) feel confused, mentally frustrated, and/or self-conscious.
vast majority ( 85%) want a mutual ceasefire,...If the two sides agree on a mutual cessation of violence, 59% (compared to 50% last June) would support taking measures by the PA to prevent attacks on Israelis.The poll found that the popularity of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat has shapely increased from 35% last June to 50% in October, mainly due to Israeli threats against him, yet 82% believes the PA is corrupt.90% support internal and external calls for extensive political reforms. 89% of those polled thought Arafat's sudden increase in popularity was due to Israeli threats to kill or deport him. His popularity is at the highest in five years.
78% believe that current Israeli measures, including the building of the separation fence reduce the chances for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
But, you did make good use of selective statistics to make asinine empty points. How many Israelis support "assassinations" that take out 10-20 civilians in the process? Enough to keep the assassins in power, anyway More palistinan women and children have been killed then isreali's in total. What diffrence does the tactic make?
Why the hell don't people on this site know how to hyperlink? Pasting URLS into Slashdot does not work. You have to make a link like <a href="yoururl">link text</a>
There are a lot of searches that work better on ATW then google these days. The most obvious to me is Autopr0nAutopr0n
Now, I'm not just being narsisistic here, When I started AP google returned not a single result for "autopr0n". Now there are thousands. Google's first result is my slashdot info, it's second Is my live journal, then my k5 info. All of those sites link to Autopr0n.com. After the main link, Alltheweb links to a lot of sites that link to me, just like google did for several months. Now google returns a seeming random sites that either link to me or mention me. It used to be bogs and people actually talking about my site.
I guess a page with a bunch of pr0n links == "crap" to them, but it's still annoying. I'm not trying to google bomb them, and in the first month I got lots of hits from people searching google for "autopr0n". Pretty stupid, but still.
I've also noticed bad results for a lot of technical queries lately. If I could remember any, I might have been able to come up with a better post. A month or so ago a search for "make file syntax" would return a message board post asking about it, while ATW would return the make file manual. They seem to have fixed that, though.
I think it's kind of silly to claim everyone is being dense when they say google is a "search engine bussness". Google only started selling advertizing on other sites a couple months ago!
Before that, they only sold advertizing on their own site. They were advertizing, sure. But that's like saying slashdot is an 'advertizing site', or Law and Order is an "advertizing show" or something.
Obviously it's not better then actually paying for the software, but it still extends their monopoly. That's why they didn't care about the piracy in Taiwan for such a long time, and still don't really care about piracy in emerging markets. It's better to become the standard while piracy wipes out smaller and local development.
It all comes down to a balance of maintaining their monopoly and making money. I'm sure that if their market share starts to slip, their lighten up on their more annoying registration requirements.
1 entry found for Redacted.
redact
To draw up or frame (a proclamation, for example).
To make ready for publication; edit or revise.
So I guess this could be taken to mean "un-edited", but it still seems like pretty poor word choice to me. Although "Un-redacted" might be a good word to describe slashdot in general.
All Voting in this country is "electronic", including punch card systems. The touch screen voting systems are bad, because they are so easy to tamper with. The best solution (IMO) is the scantron style, where you fill in the oval with a pen (Obviously you don't want to use a #2 pencile for voting, here in IA you use a felt tip pen).
That way, if there's a question, you can go back and look at each balot.
It dosn't seem like a security risk to us, but we don't know what someone else might know.
Imagine you had a maid, and she posted a picture of a package, addressed to you, from Victoria's secret on her blog with the caption "Looks like gidds is going to have some fun with wife tonight!" Then a month later you wife sees the entry and thinks "Wtf, he never gave me any VC stuff!"
Hackers are a rich subculture, and it's been that way for decades. Hackers share common life views, activities, and experiences that are different than the mainstream. So they're distinctive and weird, not unlike peace-activists, republicans, Christians, motorcyclists, masons, homosexuals, etc.
Oh pulleez. Maybe in the most idiotic geek-pride soaked delusional ESRist mind. Not even peace-activists, republicans, Christians or motorcyclists are really that similar.
Let's say you hire a maid or something and one day you read her blog and you see a picture of a box from Victoria's secret with a caption like "looks like mr. fmaxwell will be having fun with his wife tonight!" or something? How would you feel? Would you keep them on the job?
Of course, it's not just a question of the one photo, seeing that on her blog makes you wonder what else she's taking photo's around your house. And it makes you wonder why she's so interested in your personal life.
Now, the reason I picked Victoria's secret is that a purchase from there tells people a lot about your personal life, and those Macs do tell people about Microsoft's "corporate life".
And imagine if the stuff wasn't for your wife, but your mistress? You don't know what actual information that picture conveys to someone with the right context.
You don't have to be some beurocratic bitch wearing really unflattering department of homeland security strech pants to see that this is a pretty big problem. Who knows else he was taking pictures of?
In my world, an employee can be fired for
1. Gross incompetence
2. Lack of work
3. There is no number three.
Which world is better? I'm undecided.
Not even "Not having any money to pay them"? Not "not trusting them"? I would hate to try to run a company in your world.
How can you employ someone you don't trust? MS dosn't know how many other pics he's taking or what he's doing with him. And as someone mentioned, he works in the print shop and could have access to all kinds of classified info.
The question isn't "Would you please take that picture down" the question is "why are you taking pictures of random happenings on campus?" and "What are you doing with those pictures, other then posting them on your blog?"
What's Microsoft's market cap these days? I know they have around $40 in cash on hand.
The point is, money is important to people. The more money, the more importance. Money (in sufficient quantities) is a lot more important to people then Privacy, saftey, and neuclear proliforation. If you give $10 to iraqi police at the border, they'll let you through without a search, even though you could be bringing in bombs to kill more cops.
The point is, you see a box of Macs, someone else might see "ooh, a bunch of Macs outside of... hmm... looks like building four, maybe for the AI research department?" Or maybe they thing. "Hmm. A bunch of Macs about to be installed in building four, they'll probably be in IP-range [whatever]. Since I know of an OSX exploit, I'll be able to hack in and see what's going on."
Is it likely? Probably not. But you never know. Corporate espionage is a big deal. And the risk of having someone going around taking pictures of happening's on campus isn't worth the cost of replacing this dude.
(Plus, is this the only picture he's taken? why is he walking around with a dc?)
Slashdot Mirror
That was someone's oppinion, not any sort of scientific poll
They won't be to worried about the missed check when their backs are up against the wall!
DH wins
...In English, it only carries the abstract meaning of making ((sb)) feel confused, mentally frustrated, and/or self-conscious.
Check out that guy's definition of "Embarrased"
That was another show in the UK, made by Sky telivision (AKA FOX)
You could probably do a gene splice if you really wanted to...
That would ruin the slashdot "You do the work, we take the money!" bussness model!
Well, anyone is better then bush, but shouldn't we get someone who will end this ridiculous war on drugs soon?
As long as you're not sending the data over port 80 using HTTP, you're not going to be violating the patent!
I don't think this company is going to to take the time to file the other 2^32-1 patents they are going to need to cover the rest of the 'net.
vast majority ( 85%) want a mutual ceasefire, ... If the two sides agree on a mutual cessation of violence, 59% (compared to 50% last June) would support taking measures by the PA to prevent attacks on Israelis.
The poll found that the popularity of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat has shapely increased from 35% last June to 50% in October, mainly due to Israeli threats against him, yet 82% believes the PA is corrupt.90% support internal and external calls for extensive political reforms. 89% of those polled thought Arafat's sudden increase in popularity was due to Israeli threats to kill or deport him. His popularity is at the highest in five years.
78% believe that current Israeli measures, including the building of the separation fence reduce the chances for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
But, you did make good use of selective statistics to make asinine empty points. How many Israelis support "assassinations" that take out 10-20 civilians in the process? Enough to keep the assassins in power, anyway More palistinan women and children have been killed then isreali's in total. What diffrence does the tactic make?
Why the hell don't people on this site know how to hyperlink? Pasting URLS into Slashdot does not work. You have to make a link like <a href="yoururl">link text</a>
Why not point us all to an engine with better search results then?
here you go
There are a lot of searches that work better on ATW then google these days. The most obvious to me is Autopr0n Autopr0n Now, I'm not just being narsisistic here, When I started AP google returned not a single result for "autopr0n". Now there are thousands. Google's first result is my slashdot info, it's second Is my live journal, then my k5 info. All of those sites link to Autopr0n.com. After the main link, Alltheweb links to a lot of sites that link to me, just like google did for several months. Now google returns a seeming random sites that either link to me or mention me. It used to be bogs and people actually talking about my site.
I guess a page with a bunch of pr0n links == "crap" to them, but it's still annoying. I'm not trying to google bomb them, and in the first month I got lots of hits from people searching google for "autopr0n". Pretty stupid, but still. I've also noticed bad results for a lot of technical queries lately. If I could remember any, I might have been able to come up with a better post. A month or so ago a search for "make file syntax" would return a message board post asking about it, while ATW would return the make file manual. They seem to have fixed that, though.
arn't you talking about it right now?
I think it's kind of silly to claim everyone is being dense when they say google is a "search engine bussness". Google only started selling advertizing on other sites a couple months ago!
Before that, they only sold advertizing on their own site. They were advertizing, sure. But that's like saying slashdot is an 'advertizing site', or Law and Order is an "advertizing show" or something.
Obviously it's not better then actually paying for the software, but it still extends their monopoly. That's why they didn't care about the piracy in Taiwan for such a long time, and still don't really care about piracy in emerging markets. It's better to become the standard while piracy wipes out smaller and local development.
It all comes down to a balance of maintaining their monopoly and making money. I'm sure that if their market share starts to slip, their lighten up on their more annoying registration requirements.
1 entry found for Redacted.
redact
To draw up or frame (a proclamation, for example).
To make ready for publication; edit or revise.
So I guess this could be taken to mean "un-edited", but it still seems like pretty poor word choice to me. Although "Un-redacted" might be a good word to describe slashdot in general.
All Voting in this country is "electronic", including punch card systems. The touch screen voting systems are bad, because they are so easy to tamper with. The best solution (IMO) is the scantron style, where you fill in the oval with a pen (Obviously you don't want to use a #2 pencile for voting, here in IA you use a felt tip pen).
That way, if there's a question, you can go back and look at each balot.
If they were to even try to physically confiscate the camera, I would be well within my rights to call the police and sue for assault.
They would probably ask you to leave first, and if you didn't, it be them calling the cops.
It dosn't seem like a security risk to us, but we don't know what someone else might know.
Imagine you had a maid, and she posted a picture of a package, addressed to you, from Victoria's secret on her blog with the caption "Looks like gidds is going to have some fun with wife tonight!" Then a month later you wife sees the entry and thinks "Wtf, he never gave me any VC stuff!"
Hackers are a rich subculture, and it's been that way for decades. Hackers share common life views, activities, and experiences that are different than the mainstream. So they're distinctive and weird, not unlike peace-activists, republicans, Christians, motorcyclists, masons, homosexuals, etc.
Oh pulleez. Maybe in the most idiotic geek-pride soaked delusional ESRist mind. Not even peace-activists, republicans, Christians or motorcyclists are really that similar.
Eric S Raymond's pompus head on a stick.
Let's say you hire a maid or something and one day you read her blog and you see a picture of a box from Victoria's secret with a caption like "looks like mr. fmaxwell will be having fun with his wife tonight!" or something? How would you feel? Would you keep them on the job?
Of course, it's not just a question of the one photo, seeing that on her blog makes you wonder what else she's taking photo's around your house. And it makes you wonder why she's so interested in your personal life.
Now, the reason I picked Victoria's secret is that a purchase from there tells people a lot about your personal life, and those Macs do tell people about Microsoft's "corporate life".
And imagine if the stuff wasn't for your wife, but your mistress? You don't know what actual information that picture conveys to someone with the right context.
You don't have to be some beurocratic bitch wearing really unflattering department of homeland security strech pants to see that this is a pretty big problem. Who knows else he was taking pictures of?
In my world, an employee can be fired for 1. Gross incompetence 2. Lack of work 3. There is no number three. Which world is better? I'm undecided.
Not even "Not having any money to pay them"? Not "not trusting them"? I would hate to try to run a company in your world.
How can you employ someone you don't trust? MS dosn't know how many other pics he's taking or what he's doing with him. And as someone mentioned, he works in the print shop and could have access to all kinds of classified info.
The question isn't "Would you please take that picture down" the question is "why are you taking pictures of random happenings on campus?" and "What are you doing with those pictures, other then posting them on your blog?"
What's Microsoft's market cap these days? I know they have around $40 in cash on hand.
The point is, money is important to people. The more money, the more importance. Money (in sufficient quantities) is a lot more important to people then Privacy, saftey, and neuclear proliforation. If you give $10 to iraqi police at the border, they'll let you through without a search, even though you could be bringing in bombs to kill more cops.
The point is, you see a box of Macs, someone else might see "ooh, a bunch of Macs outside of... hmm... looks like building four, maybe for the AI research department?" Or maybe they thing. "Hmm. A bunch of Macs about to be installed in building four, they'll probably be in IP-range [whatever]. Since I know of an OSX exploit, I'll be able to hack in and see what's going on."
Is it likely? Probably not. But you never know. Corporate espionage is a big deal. And the risk of having someone going around taking pictures of happening's on campus isn't worth the cost of replacing this dude.
(Plus, is this the only picture he's taken? why is he walking around with a dc?)