I work for a company that has no offices at all. It's fairly small, but everyone works from home.
Yeah, but let's be clear. wWrking form home, and working in the "nomadic" office with no assigned desks, are the antithesis of each other.
At home, you're always in your own territory, you can customize it as works best for you, and there's no wondering, each morning, where you'll sit that day.
So I can understand why you'd be more productive there.
But the "cube-less office" means having to find and re-establish territory everyday. That takes time, it takes effort, and it's psychologically draining: humans are territorial, and there will inevitably be tensions involved in competing for one's space every morning.
And all that effort just to start the day is effort that otherwise could have gone into doing work.
I work for the military and that's how we've been doing it all along.
No offense, but I don't recall the military being noted for innovation or productivity in software.
(Well, Ada, I supposed, but opinions are pretty mixed on that.)
Again, no offense: the military has different needs and different goals than those of software companies. But precisely for that reason, it's not clear that it makes a good model for civilian knowledge industries.
What purpose do a glowing fish have? 1) No need to install lights in fish tanks/ponds 2) Makes nightime fishing easier 3) You can actually see your food during the candle lit dinner with your girlfriend....:-)
Obviously this is a troll.
How do we know?
3) You can actually see your food during the candle lit dinner with your girlfriend....
Slashdotters do not have girlfriends.
And if they did, they'd take her to a candle-lit LAN party, not a candle-lit dinner.
I take it you realise that your post would have been banned if such a filter were active?;)
A funny observation, but in reality perhaps, and perhaps not. The Bayesian filter works on an accumulation of tokens; a brief quote, or even several as in my comment, will not necessarily rise to the spam threshold (which threshold of course, can be arbitrarily set).
When I first installed a Bayesian filter for my email, I tested it by sending it spam-like email (containing words like "mortgage", "lolitas", "penis", etc.) but from my own address. The email was tagged at 5% spam, well under the (SpamBayes default) 15% threshold for "suspicious", and 18 times lower than the "definitely spam" threshold of 90%. This was because the filter had been trained that anything from my own address wasn't spam.
Most people play games to get AWAY from life and INTO a world where they can use their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
Precisely. If MMORG players want social interaction, there's a great simulation of it available 24/7 in the big room with the really high blue ceiling. No modem required.
You're forgeting in the GPL case code is being appropriated by someone intending to make a business profit, possibly in competition with you. Preventing such actions is the original reasoning behind copyright law. The author gets a short monopoly to spur creation. It doesn't apply to 15 year old Kazaa users.
Not so. The RIAA is sueing her precisely because by sharing those 1000 albums, she is implicitly saying, "Rather than buy a CD from the RIAA for $16.00, get it from me for free."
And the RIAA has a point. If everybody got their music from her, she'd be the RIAA's only customer. And they'd make precisely $16.00 off the entire run of an album. Since that would be far less than their production costs, they would not be spurred to create more albums.
Now you and I may relish the idea of the RIAA going out of business, but just as I would argue that we have a fair use right to format-shift media, the RIAA has a right to the fruits of its labors.
Look, I don't like the RIAA, and I'm doing my best not to support them.
And I think that in terms of customer relations, the RIAA is making a big mistake, which will turn around and bite them in the ass.
And I agree that the RIAA has long overcharged for CDs.
But I also don't download files (or share them) in violation of copyright.
And I'd sue if my copyright were violated. As for instance, if code I'd licensed under the GPL were used in a closed source product in contravention of the GPL.
This is ludicrous, but save your moral indignation for Direct TV's suits against people who purchase legal hardware, or for Belkin and its spam-vertising, or for John Ashcroft's willingness to trample the 4th Amendment.
What the RIAA is doing is stupid and heavy-handed. What the 15 year old did was stupid and illegal. But moral indignation against the RIAA is misplaced.
Thanks to Asscroft, most citizens can be accused of commiting crimes ["terrorism"] at any arbitary point in time.
Now that's just unfair. John Ashcroft's a great Christian Attorney General.
And 'Operation Cyber Thought Crime Sweep' doesn't start until next week, you commie pinko medical-marijuana-using atheist Muslim non-Allegiance-pledging bong-selling Democrat terrorist.
3) Do not permit SCO to audit your premises without legal authorization.
Huh? Are there actually companies stupid enough to say,
"Sure, Darl, come right on over. Nah, a week of disruption as your people trample through our offices and server rooms is no problem!"
"And you're looking to bill us $699 for each unix, linux, minix, or *bsd box, and for any microwave with an embedded controller? Hey, that's cool, you're the rightful owners after all!"
'Not only did the software that controls audible and visual alarms stop working at 2:14 p.m. EDT, but about a half hour later, two servers supporting the emergency system failed, too.' According to the product specs, it is a Unix system with X Windows.
Darl McBride had repossessed the system, leaving a bill for $699 and a subpoena in its place.
What about installation of a trojan to turn on and transmit audio from your PC's microphone, or pictures from the web cam?
I'll bet this is already part of the FBI's arsenal.
Prudence dictates disconnecting that microphone when not in use. And hardware based (less easily suborned) monitoring of outbound network traffic.
(The accomplished tin-foil hat wearer will suggest that a disconnected microphone will just mean a free-standing bug being installed, and he'd be right. But why connect the mic and make it easy for you to be spied upon?)
Hey, ah, you wanna buy some, ah, Slashdot mod-points?
Yeah, they're real! Honest to Taco mod points.
I gots some "Interesting"s, some "Troll"s, a "Flamebait", couple "Informative"s, and a bunch of "Funny"s. Well, because the "Funny"s don't increase Karma, so there's an over-supply.
You can have 'em all for 200 simoleons or 75 gold pieces, or a light-sabre, or....
Apparently the discovery was made through the DNA analysis of nine already dead specimens.
Already dead since they'd been "harvested" (hunted) for "scientific research". After the "research" requirements are met, in order not to waste precious resources, the whales are turned over to Japan's whaling industry.
As it happens, Japan does a lot of "scientific research", "harvesting" a quantity of whales that just coincidently matches the country's appetite for whale meat and blubber, considered a delicacy by the Japanese.
But it's all about science, really. As it happens the new species was identified by examining skeletons of whales "harvested" in 1970.
So only 33 years after the whales were turned into sushi, the science has caught up! Great work Japan!
I hope the new species hasn't already been hunted, I mean harvested, I mean researched, to extinction. Wouldn't that be ironic?
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I work for a company that has no offices at all. It's fairly small, but everyone works from home.
Yeah, but let's be clear. wWrking form home, and working in the "nomadic" office with no assigned desks, are the antithesis of each other.
At home, you're always in your own territory, you can customize it as works best for you, and there's no wondering, each morning, where you'll sit that day.
So I can understand why you'd be more productive there.
But the "cube-less office" means having to find and re-establish territory everyday. That takes time, it takes effort, and it's psychologically draining: humans are territorial, and there will inevitably be tensions involved in competing for one's space every morning.
And all that effort just to start the day is effort that otherwise could have gone into doing work.
I work for the military and that's how we've been doing it all along.
No offense, but I don't recall the military being noted for innovation or productivity in software.
(Well, Ada, I supposed, but opinions are pretty mixed on that.)
Again, no offense: the military has different needs and different goals than those of software companies. But precisely for that reason, it's not clear that it makes a good model for civilian knowledge industries.
Ever thought that Canada would be better off as a state in USA?
How about as a big, white, cold, amusement park?
If it was billed on per-use and per byte transmitted, then it should not have been public.
An opinion that will find much support at the local jail:
"If da bitch dint want me stealing her purse, she shouldn't a put money it it an wore it on dat loose strap. Dat bitch wuz askin for it.
"Whut wuz she thinkin leavin her house anyway, if she dint want no trubble?
"I'm a bein framed I tell ya."
What purpose do a glowing fish have? 1) No need to install lights in fish tanks/ponds 2) Makes nightime fishing easier 3) You can actually see your food during the candle lit dinner with your girlfriend.... :-)
Obviously this is a troll.
How do we know?
3) You can actually see your food during the candle lit dinner with your girlfriend....
Slashdotters do not have girlfriends.
And if they did, they'd take her to a candle-lit LAN party, not a candle-lit dinner.
right, but shouldnt he have to be extradited?
Yeah, the Canadian police want to treat him like a Native, and leave him to die in the snow.
I take it you realise that your post would have been banned if such a filter were active? ;)
A funny observation, but in reality perhaps, and perhaps not. The Bayesian filter works on an accumulation of tokens; a brief quote, or even several as in my comment, will not necessarily rise to the spam threshold (which threshold of course, can be arbitrarily set).
When I first installed a Bayesian filter for my email, I tested it by sending it spam-like email (containing words like "mortgage", "lolitas", "penis", etc.) but from my own address. The email was tagged at 5% spam, well under the (SpamBayes default) 15% threshold for "suspicious", and 18 times lower than the "definitely spam" threshold of 90%. This was because the filter had been trained that anything from my own address wasn't spam.
[Yoda troll]
Now why can't Slashdot incorporate a Bayesian filter for common trolls? It works pretty well for email.
Surely there are not many legitimate comments that contain the tokens "Yoda", "anus", "anal", "nigger", "vagabonds", "and "regurgitates".
This ain't rocket science.
Most people play games to get AWAY from life and INTO a world where they can use their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
Precisely. If MMORG players want social interaction, there's a great simulation of it available 24/7 in the big room with the really high blue ceiling. No modem required.
MMORGs meet other needs.
The real slashdot doesn't render particularly well at all with Firebird for me.
Consider using the "lite" version of slashdot. It works fine, and is much easier on the eyes as well.
I became quite adept at identifying what was going on with people's lives by interacting with them
Are you sure that Slashdot is the right web site for you?
You're forgeting in the GPL case code is being appropriated by someone intending to make a business profit, possibly in competition with you. Preventing such actions is the original reasoning behind copyright law. The author gets a short monopoly to spur creation. It doesn't apply to 15 year old Kazaa users.
Not so. The RIAA is sueing her precisely because by sharing those 1000 albums, she is implicitly saying, "Rather than buy a CD from the RIAA for $16.00, get it from me for free."
And the RIAA has a point. If everybody got their music from her, she'd be the RIAA's only customer. And they'd make precisely $16.00 off the entire run of an album. Since that would be far less than their production costs, they would not be spurred to create more albums.
Now you and I may relish the idea of the RIAA going out of business, but just as I would argue that we have a fair use right to format-shift media, the RIAA has a right to the fruits of its labors.
Look, I don't like the RIAA, and I'm doing my best not to support them.
And I think that in terms of customer relations, the RIAA is making a big mistake, which will turn around and bite them in the ass.
And I agree that the RIAA has long overcharged for CDs.
But I also don't download files (or share them) in violation of copyright.
And I'd sue if my copyright were violated. As for instance, if code I'd licensed under the GPL were used in a closed source product in contravention of the GPL.
This is ludicrous, but save your moral indignation for Direct TV's suits against people who purchase legal hardware, or for Belkin and its spam-vertising, or for John Ashcroft's willingness to trample the 4th Amendment.
What the RIAA is doing is stupid and heavy-handed. What the 15 year old did was stupid and illegal. But moral indignation against the RIAA is misplaced.
[Ashcroft]'s not invading peoples privacy or instituting some terrible law, he's actually helping people.
And notice how surprising that is.
Thanks to Asscroft, most citizens can be accused of commiting crimes ["terrorism"] at any arbitary point in time.
Now that's just unfair. John Ashcroft's a great Christian Attorney General.
And 'Operation Cyber Thought Crime Sweep' doesn't start until next week, you commie pinko medical-marijuana-using atheist Muslim non-Allegiance-pledging bong-selling Democrat terrorist.
I didn't check my email, so I guess I missed the memo announcing that Darl McBride got recruited by AT&T.
That'll teach me to spend all day reading Slashdot.
Huh? Are there actually companies stupid enough to say,
Why would the FBI be interested in the sights and sounds of your mother's basement? Get lost, troll. NEXT!
Hey, those WMDs have to be somewhere, right?
So you're saying that Darwin has been born again?
Click here to enter the GOLDEN BET ONLINE CASINO !
Let's all wget that link at 2:00 pm EST, and see how the spammer's server handles a Slashdoting.
'Not only did the software that controls audible and visual alarms stop working at 2:14 p.m. EDT, but about a half hour later, two servers supporting the emergency system failed, too.' According to the product specs, it is a Unix system with X Windows.
Darl McBride had repossessed the system, leaving a bill for $699 and a subpoena in its place.
must be a great country he comes from where you can be "free" and be spyed on all at the same time, isnt democracy wonderful
Please report to your local Block Warden for re-education and social adjustment, Citizen!
What about installation of a trojan to turn on and transmit audio from your PC's microphone, or pictures from the web cam?
I'll bet this is already part of the FBI's arsenal.
Prudence dictates disconnecting that microphone when not in use. And hardware based (less easily suborned) monitoring of outbound network traffic.
(The accomplished tin-foil hat wearer will suggest that a disconnected microphone will just mean a free-standing bug being installed, and he'd be right. But why connect the mic and make it easy for you to be spied upon?)
Psst!
Psst! Yeah, you!
Hey, ah, you wanna buy some, ah, Slashdot mod-points?
Yeah, they're real! Honest to Taco mod points.
I gots some "Interesting"s, some "Troll"s, a "Flamebait", couple "Informative"s, and a bunch of "Funny"s. Well, because the "Funny"s don't increase Karma, so there's an over-supply.
You can have 'em all for 200 simoleons or 75 gold pieces, or a light-sabre, or....
Apparently the discovery was made through the DNA analysis of nine already dead specimens.
Already dead since they'd been "harvested" (hunted) for "scientific research". After the "research" requirements are met, in order not to waste precious resources, the whales are turned over to Japan's whaling industry.
As it happens, Japan does a lot of "scientific research", "harvesting" a quantity of whales that just coincidently matches the country's appetite for whale meat and blubber, considered a delicacy by the Japanese.
But it's all about science, really. As it happens the new species was identified by examining skeletons of whales "harvested" in 1970.
So only 33 years after the whales were turned into sushi, the science has caught up! Great work Japan!
I hope the new species hasn't already been hunted, I mean harvested, I mean researched, to extinction. Wouldn't that be ironic?