My girlfriend of 2.5 years has yet to see slashdot or my sig:-) And if I actually lived by it, I don't think she would have stuck around... Stay tuned for the latest iteration of it though. I'm thinking "I like my women like I like my coffee, decapita -er, decaffeinated."
Or better yet, when you find out a good, definitive answer (that could potentially help those of us in the same boat to convince our higher-ups), do a nice write up of all of the info you collected and THEN submit it to slashdot.
yeah, but theirs don't often land somewhere and park it for a month or two at a time... If they did, I'm sure some hick would have submitted his blurry pictures to the National Inquirer already. What we really need to do is modify the Mach 10 scramjet to work in martian atmosphere (don't ask me how, that's up to the NASA brainiacs) and just have it fly laps...
While the mobility is an interesting concept (being able to move 100+ km at once), how does this change the vehicle's ability to analyze more area? The other crafts "can only examine a few square metres of ground"... at a time. But then it moves and does it again... The only differences I see is that the gashopper does it's analysis of the "few square metres of ground" then hops ~100km away only to analyze a "few square metres of ground." How is this spotty analysis better than continuous examination? Maybe it could be used in conjunction with other crafts of old style. The gashopper gets sent to interesting locations to determine if they should send a more traditional land-based craft? One thing is does have going for it is the ability to refuel itself.
No no no! Then they'll spend all day trying to find people on IM to swap pictures with or try to find "web cam buddies." Making teenagers hornier is a BAD idea... Instead, just adjust the monitor so that it hurts their eyes to look at it for more than an hour at a time. Long term damage? Maybe. But at least they'll be 4-eyed socialites instead of 20-20 outcasts. Either that or chop their hands off... that way IM *and* porno are both pointless...
I'm thinking it will be similar to bittorrent in that once you download a song from them, you help unload the server load as other's download it. They still track the downloads and bill the downloader, but with reduced server load and it gets the PR hype of P2P. They confused the next generation into thinking that P2P means Pay to Play and they're rolling in a new generation of mindless drones.
How is what Michael posted at all inaccurate? I said nothing about being inaccurate.
How does your inability to ignore a single sentence outweigh his right to add editorial comments? My inability to ignore a single sentece doesn't outweigh his right to add editorial comments.
How exactly does any of this reflect on his ego?
It reflects on his ego because he chooses to add those editorial comments in a place where they obviously don't belong. Comments belong in the discussion. His comment, by default, carries no more weight than anyone elses. He should place it with everyone elses instead of using his "editorial rights" to get more exposure.
Thanks, doc... would you like to talk about my childhood now? Maybe fantasies about my mother or the mental abuse I suffered in middle school? Do you want me to draw a picture?
I'm not pissed because "I had to be modded up to be seen" because the choice to read comments at a certain mod level is your own. I browse raw posts with no filters or bonuses and that's my choice. You obviously don't.
There might be hints of jealousy - who knows. I'm certainly not going to psychoanalyze myself to the point where I can distinguish jealousy from genuine disgust at some editor's obvious lack of professionalism. There are shrinks for that, and if something I see on slashdot pisses me off to the point of changing my life, I might go see one.
The point I was trying to make is that, in general, individuals with the title of "Editor" generally don't make comments like that unless they are editorializing. news for nerds... not editorials by nerds. That's why I read slashdot. For the news. Not for the editor's opinion. I read the discussion for opinions.
Because he's inserting his own personal comments to the story IN the story text. If he wants to contribute to the discussion (and I think editors should!), he should do it the same we all do by posting in the discussion threads. Professionalism would dictate that editors would post the story as is and then, if they so wished to discuss, do so with everyone else.
Story contents aside, why wouldn't michael just post that IN THE FORUM? I think the objection here essentially lies in his ego being so large to think that his opinion is so important that it needs to be in the article text as opposed to posting a comment like us underlings get to do. Forget about Half-Life, forget about steam - the editors are abusing their privilages by posting their personal comments where they don't belong.
Amen!!! A similar thing happened w/ timothy in How To Manage Your Home Directory? earlier today. Granted, they're editors and have the right to edit things, including adding their own comments. But where is the professionalism?/. is a pseudo proefessional, advertising, revenue-generating web site with a large audience. That does NOT mean they should get to add their own little quips where ever they want. If the editors want to post something like that, DO IT IN THE FORUM, not in the story text.
We're not talking about typos. We're talking about an ISP assuming they know what their customers want more than their customers. In this case, they very well may have, but that doesn't justify their actions.
What if you hosted a website, Q.com. Everytime someone types Q.com into their address bar, a page comes up that says, "You asked for Q.com, but are you sure you don't want R.com? R.com is better because we say so and for reason X, Y and Z. Here's a pretty picture about R.com and while you're looking at it, we're going to redirect you to R.com instead of Q.com unless you click on that other link." How would you feel? How much would you pay for the ISP to recommend Q.com over R.com? Without regulation, this could become a reality.
If there is a domain name similar to yours and you don't want any confusion, ADVERTISE MORE CLEARLY. I host a site at a.org domain. There are.com and.net domains that are VERY different from mine and I'll be damned if an ISP is going to tell people that typed in my.org address that they should visit the.net or.com address instead.
This doesn't use taste, it uses electrical impulses. As long as you still have feeling on your tongue, you're ok. Well, you're not necessarily ok, but you are able to use this apparatus. If you lose feeling in your tongue, this technology has been proven with sensors on subject's backs, chests, and foreheads.
That's not really the point unless BigPond contacted the admin of the porno site first. If they didn't, this sets a dangerous precedent where ISPs can guess what their customers were really looking for and redirect them there - kinda like a forced "I'm feeling lucky" google search. What's to stop BigPond from redirecting all web searches for "Australian ISP" to their own site and their affiliates? What if Coke decides they want the linkage and pays BigPond an "undisclosed amount" for 75% of searches for "soft drink" to end up pointing to cocacola.com?? Dangerous...
I think the reasoning behind this isn't necessarily that they need you to register the product (but they'd still love you to I'm sure). All this really does is give the police something to compare against when they do a raid on a suspected counterfeiting location.They bust your door down and check the forged bills printed serial number against the serial number your printer embeds in every image. If it matches, say goodbye to your anal virginity and ability to vote for the rest of your life (if you're an American). If it doesn't match, you get a half-assed apology, a really messy apartment and splinters in your carpet in the entry way for weeks.
I think you may be overestimating the popularity of the game... Regardless, you would have to do this before the game starts and the random nature of the game makes the chance that you violated the appropriate topics quite slim indeed.
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Well defined buttocks my a... wait... no, nevermind.
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So where does this guy get his "paid" spyware removal applications? Clicking on popups? Oh... wait...
And when I click on the link to his story, I get "Firefox prevented this site from opening a popup window. Click here for options..."
Coincidence? I think not...
My girlfriend of 2.5 years has yet to see slashdot or my sig :-) And if I actually lived by it, I don't think she would have stuck around... Stay tuned for the latest iteration of it though. I'm thinking "I like my women like I like my coffee, decapita -er, decaffeinated."
Obligatory Southpark-Inspired Quote: "Microsoft is pat'nting ev'rything, Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb..."
It's not under Censorship - it's "Your Rights Online."
Isn't SOX only for the medical field?
Or better yet, when you find out a good, definitive answer (that could potentially help those of us in the same boat to convince our higher-ups), do a nice write up of all of the info you collected and THEN submit it to slashdot.
yeah, but theirs don't often land somewhere and park it for a month or two at a time... If they did, I'm sure some hick would have submitted his blurry pictures to the National Inquirer already. What we really need to do is modify the Mach 10 scramjet to work in martian atmosphere (don't ask me how, that's up to the NASA brainiacs) and just have it fly laps...
While the mobility is an interesting concept (being able to move 100+ km at once), how does this change the vehicle's ability to analyze more area? The other crafts "can only examine a few square metres of ground"... at a time. But then it moves and does it again... The only differences I see is that the gashopper does it's analysis of the "few square metres of ground" then hops ~100km away only to analyze a "few square metres of ground." How is this spotty analysis better than continuous examination? Maybe it could be used in conjunction with other crafts of old style. The gashopper gets sent to interesting locations to determine if they should send a more traditional land-based craft? One thing is does have going for it is the ability to refuel itself.
No no no! Then they'll spend all day trying to find people on IM to swap pictures with or try to find "web cam buddies." Making teenagers hornier is a BAD idea... Instead, just adjust the monitor so that it hurts their eyes to look at it for more than an hour at a time. Long term damage? Maybe. But at least they'll be 4-eyed socialites instead of 20-20 outcasts. Either that or chop their hands off... that way IM *and* porno are both pointless...
I'm thinking it will be similar to bittorrent in that once you download a song from them, you help unload the server load as other's download it. They still track the downloads and bill the downloader, but with reduced server load and it gets the PR hype of P2P. They confused the next generation into thinking that P2P means Pay to Play and they're rolling in a new generation of mindless drones.
How is what Michael posted at all inaccurate?
I said nothing about being inaccurate.
How does your inability to ignore a single sentence outweigh his right to add editorial comments?
My inability to ignore a single sentece doesn't outweigh his right to add editorial comments.
How exactly does any of this reflect on his ego?
It reflects on his ego because he chooses to add those editorial comments in a place where they obviously don't belong. Comments belong in the discussion. His comment, by default, carries no more weight than anyone elses. He should place it with everyone elses instead of using his "editorial rights" to get more exposure.
Thanks, doc... would you like to talk about my childhood now? Maybe fantasies about my mother or the mental abuse I suffered in middle school? Do you want me to draw a picture?
I'm not pissed because "I had to be modded up to be seen" because the choice to read comments at a certain mod level is your own. I browse raw posts with no filters or bonuses and that's my choice. You obviously don't.
There might be hints of jealousy - who knows. I'm certainly not going to psychoanalyze myself to the point where I can distinguish jealousy from genuine disgust at some editor's obvious lack of professionalism. There are shrinks for that, and if something I see on slashdot pisses me off to the point of changing my life, I might go see one.
The point I was trying to make is that, in general, individuals with the title of "Editor" generally don't make comments like that unless they are editorializing. news for nerds... not editorials by nerds. That's why I read slashdot. For the news. Not for the editor's opinion. I read the discussion for opinions.
Because he's inserting his own personal comments to the story IN the story text. If he wants to contribute to the discussion (and I think editors should!), he should do it the same we all do by posting in the discussion threads. Professionalism would dictate that editors would post the story as is and then, if they so wished to discuss, do so with everyone else.
Ok ok, good point. We'll leave the editor dieties alone so they can quietly bask in their overrated glory... I was being generous.
Story contents aside, why wouldn't michael just post that IN THE FORUM? I think the objection here essentially lies in his ego being so large to think that his opinion is so important that it needs to be in the article text as opposed to posting a comment like us underlings get to do. Forget about Half-Life, forget about steam - the editors are abusing their privilages by posting their personal comments where they don't belong.
Amen!!! A similar thing happened w/ timothy in How To Manage Your Home Directory? earlier today. Granted, they're editors and have the right to edit things, including adding their own comments. But where is the professionalism? /. is a pseudo proefessional, advertising, revenue-generating web site with a large audience. That does NOT mean they should get to add their own little quips where ever they want. If the editors want to post something like that, DO IT IN THE FORUM, not in the story text.
We're not talking about typos. We're talking about an ISP assuming they know what their customers want more than their customers. In this case, they very well may have, but that doesn't justify their actions.
.org domain. There are .com and .net domains that are VERY different from mine and I'll be damned if an ISP is going to tell people that typed in my .org address that they should visit the .net or .com address instead.
What if you hosted a website, Q.com. Everytime someone types Q.com into their address bar, a page comes up that says, "You asked for Q.com, but are you sure you don't want R.com? R.com is better because we say so and for reason X, Y and Z. Here's a pretty picture about R.com and while you're looking at it, we're going to redirect you to R.com instead of Q.com unless you click on that other link." How would you feel? How much would you pay for the ISP to recommend Q.com over R.com? Without regulation, this could become a reality.
If there is a domain name similar to yours and you don't want any confusion, ADVERTISE MORE CLEARLY. I host a site at a
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This doesn't use taste, it uses electrical impulses. As long as you still have feeling on your tongue, you're ok. Well, you're not necessarily ok, but you are able to use this apparatus. If you lose feeling in your tongue, this technology has been proven with sensors on subject's backs, chests, and foreheads.
That's not really the point unless BigPond contacted the admin of the porno site first. If they didn't, this sets a dangerous precedent where ISPs can guess what their customers were really looking for and redirect them there - kinda like a forced "I'm feeling lucky" google search. What's to stop BigPond from redirecting all web searches for "Australian ISP" to their own site and their affiliates? What if Coke decides they want the linkage and pays BigPond an "undisclosed amount" for 75% of searches for "soft drink" to end up pointing to cocacola.com?? Dangerous...
Convicted felons cannot vote in any US election in any state. Misdemeanors don't cause you to lose the right to vote.
I think the reasoning behind this isn't necessarily that they need you to register the product (but they'd still love you to I'm sure). All this really does is give the police something to compare against when they do a raid on a suspected counterfeiting location.They bust your door down and check the forged bills printed serial number against the serial number your printer embeds in every image. If it matches, say goodbye to your anal virginity and ability to vote for the rest of your life (if you're an American). If it doesn't match, you get a half-assed apology, a really messy apartment and splinters in your carpet in the entry way for weeks.
I think you may be overestimating the popularity of the game... Regardless, you would have to do this before the game starts and the random nature of the game makes the chance that you violated the appropriate topics quite slim indeed.
Well defined buttocks my a... wait... no, nevermind.