"Note: SourceForge and Slashdot share a corporate parent."
Then, have any of you (the editorial staff) thought to voice a complaint to your parent about being associated with what is widely considered a shady practice?
Posted again verbatim just in case they missed it the first time around. It is truly shady to pull this crap.
Haven't been impressed by SourceForge's recent policy of late- especially when I unclick the 'free software' offers attached to each download, yet they install anyway!
Gee, that happens to you too? And here I was thinking that it was just Operator Error on my part.
Okay, where is the most effective place to send hate mail or equivalent to Facebook? As many of you know, FB is almost impossible to contact directly or actually speak with a live person despite them employing thousands of them. Even their telephone number only leads you to a number of different messages and voice mail boxes that appears to mostly be dead-end bit buckets.
Seconded. I can give you plenty of reasons not to buy Linksys, or Cisco, or NetGear, or D-Link. I can give you 0 reasons not to buy Buffalo;-)
And I can give you one reason yes to buy Netgear. My new Wireless N-150 WNR1000 cost me $9.95 through my cable company. Make that 2 reasons - It has run rock solid for ~3 years now on its standard firmware. Point: Always look at the overall ROI.
My kid ate one or your magnets and had to have his bowel removed is not necessarily a bogus claim.
You have to eat more than one to have the problem. A single one passes through without attracting itself to anything else.
And if you commonly let your kid near or play with dangerous items you are a totally ignorant crappy parent who ought take some personal responsibility for all of your failings instead of blaming other people for them.
Honestly, I'm sick of technological advances being blocked because it hurts someones bottom line.
How about the taxpayer's bottom line who are being forced to fund a Liberal agenda for 100mbps Internet, which while it's nice and good for bragging rights, still exceeds the capacity requirements by far of most home users?
I find nothing wrong with scantily clad women and think better of them then of the wussified males made afraid to admit enjoying what a million years of evolution has created them to enjoy. And I'm left to wonder if the women of today are really all that happy with those results either, given their actionable preferences for Bad Boys.
More Big Scare tactics. These articles belong in the Science Fiction category so far. We don't know what's going to happen, we've never been there before, but we're assured that it's going to be bad and only by taking and transferring hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to someone else who is more Progressive than ourselves can we save us all. HA! (because Slashdot won't let me type: bullshit) Back in 1975 we were supposed to be freezing by now. Anyone remember that? Take this with with an equal grain of properly salted password hashes.
The prior poster was referring to the fictional Librarian of the Unseen University in Ankh Mor-pork on the Discworld in novels written by Terry Pratchett. People don't criticize him as he tends to rip off their arms and or head.
The publisher's problem is that this isn't some nut-job that can just be dismissed out of hand. Dale Askey appears to have the qualifications to know exactly what he's talking about here so they have to try and shut him up. But suing McMaster University over the personal blog of one of their employees personal blog opinions is way beyond reasonable -- although that's probably either were the money is, or that they hope to punish Mr. Askey by getting the university to fire him as him being too much trouble to keep onboard.
Under all circumstances the publisher is wrong here. The proper course of action would have been for them to line up equally (apparently) qualified academicians on their side of the argument and let the book-buying institutions decide for themselves. It would seem that both sides of the argument were already being hashed out on the blog, and now arrives The Streisand Effect in spades!
This is nothing more than outright theft of another person's intellectual property by gay and lesbian activists in the same way they have attempted theft of other terms. (I'll leave making that list of those terms to the reader since this is obvious/. flamebait already.) How long before they also demand to own gaymer.com because they deserve it more? This is nothing more than the slow and indolent attempting to steal from the smart and quick what the former couldn't come up with on their own and needed someone else to point it out to them. I support the person who got there first keeping the trademark that they legally acquired and SHAME ON THE EFF for getting involved in this! No soup for them this quarter.
Do they never do controlled burns to reduce the burden of undergrowth? Seems like they keep having large bush fires threaten important stuff.
One wonders if this is Environmentalism run amuck of putting out all fires until instead of number of small natural fires that don't do significant damage, the fuel builds up into inferno range that does great damage?
Or you could just clear the brush around your observatory regularly -- again if the Environmentalists let you. Australia is rather weird in this regard.
It's the guns that are responsible for the shootings. Forget Constitutional rights, just ban them and problem solved. It's the iPhones/Pads that are responsible for the spike in crime that makes me look bad as America's Mayor. Blame them, and the dead guy, and I'm in the clear. Without a doubt if there weren't all of these lovely iPhones and iPads all over the place criminals would stop stealing stuff altogether, so spake Mayor Bloomberg (S)*
Julian should just go, face Swedish justice (which I never hear as ever being particularly bad or unfair), do his time if guilty (I've never seen Swedish prisons on the world's worst list and it's hardly a life sentence that he's facing), and finally put all of this nonsense behind him. Assange tries to act like he is somehow above The Law and that rankles a lot of people just in and of itself.
I wonder how many Bitcoins I can mine with a few hours in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud? Or maybe I can put my mining in as the idle loop of some of these new petaflop supers.
Slashdot Mirror
"Note: SourceForge and Slashdot share a corporate parent."
Then, have any of you (the editorial staff) thought to voice a complaint to your parent about being associated with what is widely considered a shady practice?
Posted again verbatim just in case they missed it the first time around. It is truly shady to pull this crap.
Haven't been impressed by SourceForge's recent policy of late- especially when I unclick the 'free software' offers attached to each download, yet they install anyway!
Gee, that happens to you too? And here I was thinking that it was just Operator Error on my part.
Okay, where is the most effective place to send hate mail or equivalent to Facebook? As many of you know, FB is almost impossible to contact directly or actually speak with a live person despite them employing thousands of them. Even their telephone number only leads you to a number of different messages and voice mail boxes that appears to mostly be dead-end bit buckets.
Seconded. I can give you plenty of reasons not to buy Linksys, or Cisco, or NetGear, or D-Link. I can give you 0 reasons not to buy Buffalo ;-)
And I can give you one reason yes to buy Netgear. My new Wireless N-150 WNR1000 cost me $9.95 through my cable company.
Make that 2 reasons - It has run rock solid for ~3 years now on its standard firmware.
Point: Always look at the overall ROI.
Hey, wouldn't Linux itself constitute prior art to patents that threaten it?
My kid ate one or your magnets and had to have his bowel removed is not necessarily a bogus claim.
You have to eat more than one to have the problem. A single one passes through without attracting itself to anything else.
And if you commonly let your kid near or play with dangerous items you are a totally ignorant crappy parent who ought take some personal responsibility for all of your failings instead of blaming other people for them.
Honestly, I'm sick of technological advances being blocked because it hurts someones bottom line.
How about the taxpayer's bottom line who are being forced to fund a Liberal agenda for 100mbps Internet, which while it's nice and good for bragging rights, still exceeds the capacity requirements by far of most home users?
I find nothing wrong with scantily clad women and think better of them then of the wussified males made afraid to admit enjoying what a million years of evolution has created them to enjoy.
And I'm left to wonder if the women of today are really all that happy with those results either, given their actionable preferences for Bad Boys.
The answer is that the CFO is incompetent for having not already figured this out for himself.
They both need to go.
More Big Scare tactics. These articles belong in the Science Fiction category so far. We don't know what's going to happen, we've never been there before, but we're assured that it's going to be bad and only by taking and transferring hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to someone else who is more Progressive than ourselves can we save us all.
HA! (because Slashdot won't let me type: bullshit)
Back in 1975 we were supposed to be freezing by now. Anyone remember that?
Take this with with an equal grain of properly salted password hashes.
The prior poster was referring to the fictional Librarian of the Unseen University in Ankh Mor-pork on the Discworld in novels written by Terry Pratchett. People don't criticize him as he tends to rip off their arms and or head.
Sounds like Wookie problem resolution practices.
The publisher's problem is that this isn't some nut-job that can just be dismissed out of hand. Dale Askey appears to have the qualifications to know exactly what he's talking about here so they have to try and shut him up. But suing McMaster University over the personal blog of one of their employees personal blog opinions is way beyond reasonable -- although that's probably either were the money is, or that they hope to punish Mr. Askey by getting the university to fire him as him being too much trouble to keep onboard.
Under all circumstances the publisher is wrong here. The proper course of action would have been for them to line up equally (apparently) qualified academicians on their side of the argument and let the book-buying institutions decide for themselves. It would seem that both sides of the argument were already being hashed out on the blog, and now arrives The Streisand Effect in spades!
This is nothing more than outright theft of another person's intellectual property by gay and lesbian activists in the same way they have attempted theft of other terms. (I'll leave making that list of those terms to the reader since this is obvious /. flamebait already.) How long before they also demand to own gaymer.com because they deserve it more? This is nothing more than the slow and indolent attempting to steal from the smart and quick what the former couldn't come up with on their own and needed someone else to point it out to them. I support the person who got there first keeping the trademark that they legally acquired and SHAME ON THE EFF for getting involved in this! No soup for them this quarter.
Do they never do controlled burns to reduce the burden of undergrowth? Seems like they keep having large bush fires threaten important stuff.
One wonders if this is Environmentalism run amuck of putting out all fires until instead of number of small natural fires that don't do significant damage, the fuel builds up into inferno range that does great damage?
Or you could just clear the brush around your observatory regularly -- again if the Environmentalists let you. Australia is rather weird in this regard.
Price?
It's the guns that are responsible for the shootings. Forget Constitutional rights, just ban them and problem solved.
It's the iPhones/Pads that are responsible for the spike in crime that makes me look bad as America's Mayor. Blame them, and the dead guy, and I'm in the clear. Without a doubt if there weren't all of these lovely iPhones and iPads all over the place criminals would stop stealing stuff altogether, so spake Mayor Bloomberg (S)*
*(S) = the Stupid Party affiliation.
Julian should just go, face Swedish justice (which I never hear as ever being particularly bad or unfair), do his time if guilty (I've never seen Swedish prisons on the world's worst list and it's hardly a life sentence that he's facing), and finally put all of this nonsense behind him. Assange tries to act like he is somehow above The Law and that rankles a lot of people just in and of itself.
I wonder how many Bitcoins I can mine with a few hours in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud?
Or maybe I can put my mining in as the idle loop of some of these new petaflop supers.
Julian Assange just doesn't know when to quit. Everyone is out to get him and he couldn't possibly be the reason for any of it.
Where is the single Make Everything Private Now and Forever button? I keep looking for it without success.
Or do only FB stockholders get that one--as long as they promise never to sell?
Oh well, at least it's privately funded, so we can rest assured our tax money isn't being pissed in the wind.
Yes, fortunately it isn't solar or other green energy powered. If it was green you could kiss another $50 million of our tax dollars gone on it.
All things considered, I'd rather have a 1000mpg car than a 1000mph car.
Existing business models need to die - sooner rather than later.
A definite Own Goal. This gaffe is one that will be repeated for years to come, if not decades.
At least this ought to help BHO understand the difference of Free as in Beer.