Unless you're cursed with a Zyxel 5001... That piece of crap completely soils itself if it loses connection (such as might happen given SW Florida's weekly power flickers) in "Transparent bridging" mode. For some reason, it seems completely incapable of reestablishing a connection until I log into the admin panel, set it back to DHCP, and let it reconnect before resetting the whole thing.
I thought about getting a UPS for it, then I decided that if I'm going to spend more dough on it, I'd be better off getting a real DSL modem and ditching the one that the assholes at my ISP can log into regardless of settings. Now I just have to find one.
When you purchase a game disc at your local retailer, you're merely purchasing a license to play the game. That's the nature of your business relationship with Ubisoft, EA, or whoever. As such, canceling your business relationship with them would mean rescinding your licenses. For a physical game, the way you'd do that would be by snapping the game discs in half, deleting any copies of the games that you had made, and refusing to make use of their services.
Not quite. Physical (excepting scumbags who put steam DRM on box copies) and DRM-free digital purchases are different in that they don't allow "Ubisoft, EA, or whoever" to decide when the discs get snapped in half.
Once again valve has proven that they shouldn't be trusted. I'm glad I got out the last time they did, and was only out $40 worth of games.
I used to swear by slrn back in the day. These days, I'm not running a *nix desktop anymore, though. It looks like the OSS windows clients are all abandoned.
Not *my* contributions, the discussions as a whole. There sure as hell isn't 3 million+ signups worth of value coming out of week-old stale "news". The common thread of the complaints all basically say the same thing: what the site offers by way of articles is pretty pale against other sites that do it much better, but/. has the community that brings them back.
Look at the way he referred to "UX" as if it was actually advancement, instead of a snake-oil fad peddled by bullshit artists trying to make a market for their shitty design degrees that never included any coursework on the concept of "use cases." Everything should be a phone!
Dice probably has a stable of them behind this "Beta" crap.
Those passive viewers aren't coming for the fresh, hot-off-the-presses news. If enough of the active participants are ducking out and not posting in the famous slashdot discussions, they'll find something better to do.
something functionally identical to USENET/NNTP except architected with anti-spam provisions and the fact that if a site gets known for uncontrolled spamming, other sites just won't forward that site's stuff.
So... USENET/NNTP? It could do that stuff: the failure wasn't technical, it was the human element. Admins tended to be notably reluctant to employ the UDP, for some reason
With "ads off" button checked, (not to mention adblock and safescript running, I fail to see how I am a product.
Simple, because ad blockers are apparently a minority, even on slashdot, where the draw isn't the five-day-old articles. It's the community. Even if you're not looking at ads, you're commenting and taking part in the discussions that are what keep us coming back here (the same discussions which are marginalized and crippled in the horrible new design). "We", as individuals, aren't the product; "We," as a community, are.
Their chief revenue is from ads that are viewed by slashdotters
It's not just google et al selling our data that makes us "the product." The "customer" is the one who gives them money (the advertisers). What they're getting in exchange is exposure; our "eyeballs", in scumbag speak. Complaints and feedback go ignored, so clearly they don't care whether we like it or not: the theory to be tested by the "Valentine's Day Massacre" is whether they care if we don't like it enough to drop their ad impressions and, subsequently, their revenue.
Nope. As people are so fond of pointing out, we're the product. Since our displeasure with the new UX-infested abortion obviously, as you so correctly put it, "means squat to Dice," maybe having a bunch of "products" walking off the shelves and out of the store will get their attention.
Can't speak for the others, but whether or not I walk back onto the shelves on the 18th depends on whether or not they manage to complete the cranio-rectal extraction or not.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure it is, you just have to know how to configure it. It's not that difficult.
Brian Kernighan's famous quote comes to mind. I wonder what the multiplier becomes for something like this...
No, that's just humor (or humour, considering the source).
Granted, one could argue that many "governments" we support are actually regimes in disguise...
If one uses a definition of "disguise" loose enough to mean "can fool Lois Lane."
Why did I just have a mental image of Maxwell's Daemon playing the part of the "Breakout" paddle in front of the camera lenses?
Unless you're cursed with a Zyxel 5001... That piece of crap completely soils itself if it loses connection (such as might happen given SW Florida's weekly power flickers) in "Transparent bridging" mode. For some reason, it seems completely incapable of reestablishing a connection until I log into the admin panel, set it back to DHCP, and let it reconnect before resetting the whole thing.
I thought about getting a UPS for it, then I decided that if I'm going to spend more dough on it, I'd be better off getting a real DSL modem and ditching the one that the assholes at my ISP can log into regardless of settings. Now I just have to find one.
When you purchase a game disc at your local retailer, you're merely purchasing a license to play the game. That's the nature of your business relationship with Ubisoft, EA, or whoever. As such, canceling your business relationship with them would mean rescinding your licenses. For a physical game, the way you'd do that would be by snapping the game discs in half, deleting any copies of the games that you had made, and refusing to make use of their services.
Not quite. Physical (excepting scumbags who put steam DRM on box copies) and DRM-free digital purchases are different in that they don't allow "Ubisoft, EA, or whoever" to decide when the discs get snapped in half.
Once again valve has proven that they shouldn't be trusted. I'm glad I got out the last time they did, and was only out $40 worth of games.
You forgot
*) Possibility to cancel your business relationship with Valve and keep playing the games you paid for.
Oh, wait.. No you didn't.
DRM is DRM, and there's no such thing as "DRM done right."
To be fair to GP, it can be kind of hard to tell, some days.
Yes it is, you imbecile. A transitive verb, to be more precise.
Unless you're on Android KitKat, of course. Apparently, it ignores /etc/hosts completely now.
I used to swear by slrn back in the day. These days, I'm not running a *nix desktop anymore, though. It looks like the OSS windows clients are all abandoned.
Not *my* contributions, the discussions as a whole. There sure as hell isn't 3 million+ signups worth of value coming out of week-old stale "news". The common thread of the complaints all basically say the same thing: what the site offers by way of articles is pretty pale against other sites that do it much better, but /. has the community that brings them back.
I'm tempted. At this point, though, it's been so long that I can't even remember the name of any of the old NNTP clients!
Like most communities we will protect what we value, even if it means building a new town and moving everyone there.
And don't think we're above setting up a fake toll booth in the desert to keep you from following us, either.
Look at the way he referred to "UX" as if it was actually advancement, instead of a snake-oil fad peddled by bullshit artists trying to make a market for their shitty design degrees that never included any coursework on the concept of "use cases." Everything should be a phone!
Dice probably has a stable of them behind this "Beta" crap.
Those passive viewers aren't coming for the fresh, hot-off-the-presses news. If enough of the active participants are ducking out and not posting in the famous slashdot discussions, they'll find something better to do.
something functionally identical to USENET/NNTP except architected with anti-spam provisions and the fact that if a site gets known for uncontrolled spamming, other sites just won't forward that site's stuff.
So... USENET/NNTP? It could do that stuff: the failure wasn't technical, it was the human element. Admins tended to be notably reluctant to employ the UDP, for some reason
In the Quakenet comments.
The festering, designed-by-committee bullshit that passes for "standards" these days makes me long for the semi-anarchy of the 80s again.
Not onlike the festering, MBA approved garbage that is the slashdot redesign.
Good luck with that one. I've looked; it's a ghost town.
With "ads off" button checked, (not to mention adblock and safescript running, I fail to see how I am a product.
Simple, because ad blockers are apparently a minority, even on slashdot, where the draw isn't the five-day-old articles. It's the community. Even if you're not looking at ads, you're commenting and taking part in the discussions that are what keep us coming back here (the same discussions which are marginalized and crippled in the horrible new design). "We", as individuals, aren't the product; "We," as a community, are.
Fantastic. And is there any intention of leashing the crazed mass downmodder that downmods en masse?
Their chief revenue is from ads that are viewed by slashdotters
It's not just google et al selling our data that makes us "the product." The "customer" is the one who gives them money (the advertisers). What they're getting in exchange is exposure; our "eyeballs", in scumbag speak. Complaints and feedback go ignored, so clearly they don't care whether we like it or not: the theory to be tested by the "Valentine's Day Massacre" is whether they care if we don't like it enough to drop their ad impressions and, subsequently, their revenue.
Without users, they have nothing to sell.
You are NOT a paying customer
Nope. As people are so fond of pointing out, we're the product. Since our displeasure with the new UX-infested abortion obviously, as you so correctly put it, "means squat to Dice," maybe having a bunch of "products" walking off the shelves and out of the store will get their attention.
Can't speak for the others, but whether or not I walk back onto the shelves on the 18th depends on whether or not they manage to complete the cranio-rectal extraction or not.