Screw Paypal. Seriously.
I've quit dealing with anybody only accepting Paypal as payment methods, I've voiced my dissent (in a calm fashion) over their continued poor service and especially after the recent charity "issues", I'd urge other people to do the same.
As an aussie, can somebody please point out to me at what point I've been all too happy to give up privacy?
When can I look forward to a slashdot submission including the line; ".. beer companies should be taking notice of the North American tendancy to drink piss poor beer and act like a jackass"
Nobody down here has willingly given up a damn thing. Privacy is still invaded by sneaky bastards with legislation or smoke & mirrors (or often both).
We don't give up anything easily, so please don't feel the need to print a line making us sound like morons. Cheers very much.
"Don't make me regret the boxes are already printed; that would've gone great on the front cover."
Best comeback ever.
The BBS documentary isn't my 'thing' but congratulations to you sir for doing something so commited. Even more props to you for responding to a troll like that without using a "your mother" joke;)
"The Wachowski brothers had better not fuck this one up."
I'm awfully afraid they will.
I've been reading some old Hellraiser comics lately, some of which were written by Larry. He managed to take a brilliant premise for a great horror story and twist it into an unreadable mess.
No matter how great the original material, I have total faith in the Wachoskis to totally fucking butcher it.
I get the feeling this is going to be another movie I will want desperately to love but will be sadly let down. C'mon, fucking 'bullet time' on the throwing knives?
I'll assume none of you fuckers read the article then?
As mentioned in other comments, the AP was open, but it wasn't like this guy just accidentally came across it while sitting on his sofa next door, he was parked outside the AP owners house and abusing the connection.
Read what I said again. I didn't say I would be responsible for what people said over that phone line, I said it would be an irresponsible act to place the phone a way that would allow people to abuse it.
Human nature is fucked, that's why we need to lock our doors, windows, keep guns in safe cabinets and put immobilisers on our cars.
What colour is the sky where you live? Do they have cookies there?
This "it's called sharing" shit just doesn't cut it. I share my wireless access point with my neighbour, that doesn't mean it's unsecured. Let's compare it to your phone service.
I am well within my legal right to place my landline telephone on my front porch. I could even put a big sign up saying "Hey, free phone." Now let's imagine that somebody uses that phone to make numerous threatening calls to people. I am then an irresponsible jackass for allowing my service to be used in that manner.
The analogy isn't so much broken as peoples perceptions of this issue are. If I find an open point, I find the owners and tell them. Most genuinely don't realise what they're doing and that they're allowing access to strangers. Letting them know or offering my knowledge is also called "sharing", I share the knowledge of how to secure their shit so they're not only covering their own ass but they're not paying for freeloaders to utilise their 'net connection.
No, it's more like me leaving my doors and windows open and not expecting someone to come in and either take goods from my house, or use my utilities for free.
I have at first done something stupid by not securing my shit, but the people that find my shit unsecured and using it to their advantage are still scumbags.
This guy is a scumbag. Not the same kind of scumbag that steals cars or mugs old ladies, just the vanilla lazy scumbag with lax morality and sense of ownership.
... I shouldn't expect to be robbed, or for someone to come in and watch my TV and drink my beer any time they like.
The cost of them watching my TV and drinking my beer might be minimal, but that's not the point. It's my TV and my beer.
This is the reason people lock their doors and close their windows. We shouldn't need to worry about people coming into our homes, but we do. These people need to learn to secure their wireless points.
I am in no way justifying what this guy did, but hopefully it will highlight something to Joe Average and get them to lock their AP's down tighter (or in most cases, lock them down at all). On noting the open point, this guy should have at least tried to locate its owner and let them know about it, maybe even offer to help them fix the problem. Instead he took advantage for his own gain, just like any petty theft act really.
Hopefully being beaten to death with a book of knock-knock jokes while somebody sodomizes him with a roll of his own fresh material (although this would be an amazingly small roll).
Illiad has done approximately two fifths of fuck all for comic entertainment lately. "OMG Windoze ams teh crashest!" wasn't funny to start with and doesn't come anywhere near being mainstream entertainment.
Fuck, even Penny-Arcade are easier to follow for the layman than Illiads painfully trite garbage, and that's saying something.
How? She'll buy whatever she thinks will keep the 'rents off her back and either, as the GP says, toss it in the trash or puke it into the toilet bowl. I fail to see how this helps identify the problem at all."
If you think it's that simple, then I suggest you start taking more notice of the people around you and the way you interact with them.
Perhaps I was born with an uncanny gift (hint, this is sarcasm) but I have an amazing ability to pick with startling accuracy when I am being lied to.
Maybe I type with an accent and you didn't quite catch what I said earlier, this is not an easy solution. Parents that brand it as such will not see any benefit from it, and they're crappy parents anyway. This would be a useful tool in many cases, when combined with natural intuition and a little human empathy.
Fuck, I swear some days this is like nailing wet shit to a wall...
"So.. Do you advocate random drug testing?
Because pissing into a cup really promotes self-esteem."
You're asking the wrong guy. I work in the mining industry where random drug testing (and blanket drug testing across sites) is commonplace and a required safety practice. I'm used to it. I don't think kids should be drug tested however, I don't care what little Billy does in his spare time as long as he isn't disruptive in the school as far as that goes.
"How about DNA/pregnancy testing?
We need to intervine if Jack/Jane is depressed or pregnant as soon as possible."
That's a big leap you're taking, but fine, I'll bite.
I was almost a father at fifteen years of age, so please listen carefully if you'd like to know what goes through the head of a kid in that situation.
Testing for pregnancy or DNA screening is totally insane. It also wouldn't help after the fact, unless you could somehow weed out the kids that were more likely to start fucking at an early age.
Honestly, I am really finding it hard to argue your points down here, because I don't see the relevance of them. You seem to suggest that parents don't have the rights to monitor their children, when this couldn't be further from the truth. They have every right to monitor what their children do. I've said it already today, this is just a tool. How it is used is up to the parents.
Shitty parenting will always be shitty parenting, no matter if they're able to monitor their kids purchasing habits or not.
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Pwnage? Noobs? I don't think I'll waste the bandwidth.
If I wanted to listen to aimless, painful l337sp34k, I'd just start playing Counterstrike again.
"Name an alternative."
Why? I'm happy just not dealing with them at all. If it means I 'miss out' on some crap I didn't need in the first place, so be it.
Screw Paypal. Seriously. I've quit dealing with anybody only accepting Paypal as payment methods, I've voiced my dissent (in a calm fashion) over their continued poor service and especially after the recent charity "issues", I'd urge other people to do the same.
...shouldn't we be taking a heavy focus on more fuel efficient, cost efficient forms of transport and increasing passive safety over gizmos like this?
I honestly can't say I'd trust a vehicle to do my driving for me.
... please feel free to change the /. tagline. This is hardly news for nerds, nor is it something that matters.
This is indeed a sad day...
As an aussie, can somebody please point out to me at what point I've been all too happy to give up privacy?
When can I look forward to a slashdot submission including the line; ".. beer companies should be taking notice of the North American tendancy to drink piss poor beer and act like a jackass"
Nobody down here has willingly given up a damn thing. Privacy is still invaded by sneaky bastards with legislation or smoke & mirrors (or often both).
We don't give up anything easily, so please don't feel the need to print a line making us sound like morons. Cheers very much.
"Don't make me regret the boxes are already printed; that would've gone great on the front cover."
;)
Best comeback ever.
The BBS documentary isn't my 'thing' but congratulations to you sir for doing something so commited. Even more props to you for responding to a troll like that without using a "your mother" joke
"Good news everyone!"
"The Wachowski brothers had better not fuck this one up."
I'm awfully afraid they will.
I've been reading some old Hellraiser comics lately, some of which were written by Larry. He managed to take a brilliant premise for a great horror story and twist it into an unreadable mess.
No matter how great the original material, I have total faith in the Wachoskis to totally fucking butcher it.
I get the feeling this is going to be another movie I will want desperately to love but will be sadly let down. C'mon, fucking 'bullet time' on the throwing knives?
I'll assume none of you fuckers read the article then?
As mentioned in other comments, the AP was open, but it wasn't like this guy just accidentally came across it while sitting on his sofa next door, he was parked outside the AP owners house and abusing the connection.
Read what I said again. I didn't say I would be responsible for what people said over that phone line, I said it would be an irresponsible act to place the phone a way that would allow people to abuse it.
Human nature is fucked, that's why we need to lock our doors, windows, keep guns in safe cabinets and put immobilisers on our cars.
What colour is the sky where you live? Do they have cookies there?
This "it's called sharing" shit just doesn't cut it. I share my wireless access point with my neighbour, that doesn't mean it's unsecured. Let's compare it to your phone service.
I am well within my legal right to place my landline telephone on my front porch. I could even put a big sign up saying "Hey, free phone." Now let's imagine that somebody uses that phone to make numerous threatening calls to people. I am then an irresponsible jackass for allowing my service to be used in that manner.
The analogy isn't so much broken as peoples perceptions of this issue are. If I find an open point, I find the owners and tell them. Most genuinely don't realise what they're doing and that they're allowing access to strangers. Letting them know or offering my knowledge is also called "sharing", I share the knowledge of how to secure their shit so they're not only covering their own ass but they're not paying for freeloaders to utilise their 'net connection.
No, it's more like me leaving my doors and windows open and not expecting someone to come in and either take goods from my house, or use my utilities for free.
I have at first done something stupid by not securing my shit, but the people that find my shit unsecured and using it to their advantage are still scumbags.
This guy is a scumbag. Not the same kind of scumbag that steals cars or mugs old ladies, just the vanilla lazy scumbag with lax morality and sense of ownership.
... I shouldn't expect to be robbed, or for someone to come in and watch my TV and drink my beer any time they like.
The cost of them watching my TV and drinking my beer might be minimal, but that's not the point. It's my TV and my beer.
This is the reason people lock their doors and close their windows. We shouldn't need to worry about people coming into our homes, but we do. These people need to learn to secure their wireless points.
I am in no way justifying what this guy did, but hopefully it will highlight something to Joe Average and get them to lock their AP's down tighter (or in most cases, lock them down at all).
On noting the open point, this guy should have at least tried to locate its owner and let them know about it, maybe even offer to help them fix the problem. Instead he took advantage for his own gain, just like any petty theft act really.
Different episode. You're thinking of "Crimes of the hot".
... than the brown eye of Goatse.
"They are also fat and delicious." The Maori people, or the rats?
... Hey, at least here in Australia we have nice beaches and beautiful women and our governing body is just stupid, not totally morally corrupt. Yet.
... thems some might big balls you've got my lad. Well done!
... slashdot.xxx
It's the natural order of things.
Like the jocks picking on the nerds in Porkys films.
Hopefully being beaten to death with a book of knock-knock jokes while somebody sodomizes him with a roll of his own fresh material (although this would be an amazingly small roll).
.. flame suit on...
Illiad has done approximately two fifths of fuck all for comic entertainment lately. "OMG Windoze ams teh crashest!" wasn't funny to start with and doesn't come anywhere near being mainstream entertainment.
Fuck, even Penny-Arcade are easier to follow for the layman than Illiads painfully trite garbage, and that's saying something.
Because image did a bad job of keeping their collective shit together, every other independant enterprise is also bound to fail, right?
How? She'll buy whatever she thinks will keep the 'rents off her back and either, as the GP says, toss it in the trash or puke it into the toilet bowl. I fail to see how this helps identify the problem at all."
If you think it's that simple, then I suggest you start taking more notice of the people around you and the way you interact with them.
Perhaps I was born with an uncanny gift (hint, this is sarcasm) but I have an amazing ability to pick with startling accuracy when I am being lied to.
Maybe I type with an accent and you didn't quite catch what I said earlier, this is not an easy solution. Parents that brand it as such will not see any benefit from it, and they're crappy parents anyway. This would be a useful tool in many cases, when combined with natural intuition and a little human empathy.
Fuck, I swear some days this is like nailing wet shit to a wall...
"So.. Do you advocate random drug testing? Because pissing into a cup really promotes self-esteem."
You're asking the wrong guy. I work in the mining industry where random drug testing (and blanket drug testing across sites) is commonplace and a required safety practice. I'm used to it. I don't think kids should be drug tested however, I don't care what little Billy does in his spare time as long as he isn't disruptive in the school as far as that goes.
"How about DNA/pregnancy testing? We need to intervine if Jack/Jane is depressed or pregnant as soon as possible."
That's a big leap you're taking, but fine, I'll bite.
I was almost a father at fifteen years of age, so please listen carefully if you'd like to know what goes through the head of a kid in that situation.
Testing for pregnancy or DNA screening is totally insane. It also wouldn't help after the fact, unless you could somehow weed out the kids that were more likely to start fucking at an early age.
Honestly, I am really finding it hard to argue your points down here, because I don't see the relevance of them. You seem to suggest that parents don't have the rights to monitor their children, when this couldn't be further from the truth. They have every right to monitor what their children do. I've said it already today, this is just a tool. How it is used is up to the parents.
Shitty parenting will always be shitty parenting, no matter if they're able to monitor their kids purchasing habits or not.