It's not an actually cold-war press release. It's just a sarcastic one by parent.
Ummm...No it's not a cold war press release. You might have a point, but "It's just a sarcastic one" makes no sense.
And proof to my theory that slashdot mods are idiots.
Not exactly original, your theory.
BTW, I consider parent to be troll.
Thanks for your opinion. It's really too bad you didn't have mod points to protect us from his trolling. May I point out that the OP was making a joke, but you're just spouting shit and adding nothing?
The NSA has a budget larger than the CIA. Yes some of that money may involve some breaking of encryption, or maybe they spend 3 billion plus a year researching how to protect consumers credit card numbers.
"It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gasses: gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected."
I don't know what studies have found, but I know several people who got fed up with windows and have moved to Linux. Download an image, burn, reboot, there ya go.
Woody is more conservative than almost anyone needs. Testing ("sarge") or unstable ("sid"), are missnamed. Try sarge.
For any debian users who don't know this; change all 'stable' to 'testing' or 'unstable' in/etc/apt/sources.list and run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' as root.
OK, first; You are probably wrong, but at least interesting, and not offtopic.
Second; if you select "HTML Formatted" and insert <p> in your post, you get paragraph breaks! Much easier to read. There are other formatting options available, also.
Seeing as there is a lot of interest in this thing, and you're the only one who's seen it, can you either post a torrent or expound on what was lacking ?
You're talking nonsense. What's stopping the project from seeding a torrent? You think maybe it will not work if only 10 people are downloading it? If a torrent was up, we wouldn't have to wait for somwone to complete a download.
Your linked document proves you wrong. Google has never accepted paid listings in search results, and has always clearly deliniated results from ads. Fuck the "recommendations".
Yes, to the point that anyone has obligations to society. I would have been proud to have worked on GTA, but not if I knew it was going to be marketed to kids. I know kids will play it, but that shouldn't stop it from being made for adults. Parents have that role.
"Some engines, like Google - one of the few majors not named in the original FTC complaint - took pains to visually segregate paid results from non-paid results"
"This transformation of search results from impartial and algorithmic to commercial and advertising-driven went largely unnoticed by consumers, since there was little attempt -- with Google as a notable exception -- to distinguish between paid and non-paid placement listings. Disclosure of paid inclusion was essentially non-existent."
"Paid inclusion, on the other hand, represents a far more subtle and pervasive practice. Indeed, with a few notable exceptions (Google, AOL and Netscape), virtually every search engine uses paid inclusion for its main results,..."
"...a Google executive reiterated his company's deep-seated aversion to paid inclusion, which he denounced as a violation of consumer trust. "The only way to keep user trust is to keep a church-and-state divide between what is paid and non-paid," said Tim Armstrong, Google's vice president of advertising."
Where is your point, exactly? This is slashdot. We collectivly know a lot about Google, and generally hold it in pretty high regard. That, combined with the unreality of your argument, and the fact that your linked doc doesn't back you up, makes you a troll or FUD spreader. How stupid would you like us to make the internet? Should we have the user click on a button saying "I understand that the links returned might not be the best of all possible links expected"?
And I'm sorry, but if you can't read "Sponsored links" as "paid for" you are a fucking idiot.
What the hell are you going on about? It says 'sponsored links'. That's pretty clear english. A small amount of research would turn up Googles statement that $$ for adwords will not effect search results (and it doesn't, as anyone with an addwords account can tell you). There is a clear seperation between ads and search results. There is a huge amount of knowledge on the web about how Google works, and it's widely respected and held up as a model of good practice. If an internet user is continually clicking on 'sponsered links' and thinking that she's getting search results, well, not everyone should drive a car, either.
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Correct. Very sharp on your part.
It's not an actually cold-war press release. It's just a sarcastic one by parent.
Ummm...No it's not a cold war press release. You might have a point, but "It's just a sarcastic one" makes no sense.
And proof to my theory that slashdot mods are idiots.
Not exactly original, your theory.
BTW, I consider parent to be troll.
Thanks for your opinion. It's really too bad you didn't have mod points to protect us from his trolling. May I point out that the OP was making a joke, but you're just spouting shit and adding nothing?
lachrymatory gas = tear gas.
Just so ya know...
A very interesting read. The Dunkels interview is also very good, this guy seems to be doing some very interesting things.
For any debian users who don't know this; change all 'stable' to 'testing' or 'unstable' in /etc/apt/sources.list and run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' as root.
Second; if you select "HTML Formatted" and insert <p> in your post, you get paragraph breaks! Much easier to read. There are other formatting options available, also.
"Ebibo QUA!?" (or something like that)
Of course, Socrate(s) knew what he was drinking....
Your linked document proves you wrong. Google has never accepted paid listings in search results, and has always clearly deliniated results from ads. Fuck the "recommendations".
"Some engines, like Google - one of the few majors not named in the original FTC complaint - took pains to visually segregate paid results from non-paid results"
"This transformation of search results from impartial and algorithmic to commercial and advertising-driven went largely unnoticed by consumers, since there was little attempt -- with Google as a notable exception -- to distinguish between paid and non-paid placement listings. Disclosure of paid inclusion was essentially non-existent."
"Paid inclusion, on the other hand, represents a far more subtle and pervasive practice. Indeed, with a few notable exceptions (Google, AOL and Netscape), virtually every search engine uses paid inclusion for its main results,..."
"...a Google executive reiterated his company's deep-seated aversion to paid inclusion, which he denounced as a violation of consumer trust. "The only way to keep user trust is to keep a church-and-state divide between what is paid and non-paid," said Tim Armstrong, Google's vice president of advertising."
Where is your point, exactly? This is slashdot. We collectivly know a lot about Google, and generally hold it in pretty high regard. That, combined with the unreality of your argument, and the fact that your linked doc doesn't back you up, makes you a troll or FUD spreader. How stupid would you like us to make the internet? Should we have the user click on a button saying "I understand that the links returned might not be the best of all possible links expected"?
And I'm sorry, but if you can't read "Sponsored links" as "paid for" you are a fucking idiot.