So...
Kudos to those running the experiment. Cheap labor is great.
Isn't this "reward" added to the money they already get? As I understand it, it's not like they are doing the experiment for free. The experiment is their job and the $20.000 is a bonus if they complete the experiment. It's just to motivate the crew to try to stay the whole experiment.
Lawsuit from what? Slowing down P2P traffic which is mostly illegal downloads anyways?
So in essence, you say that those damned WoW players can blaim themselves for giving money to a company that uses a technology which is "mostly used for illegal downloads". Yes. That should teach them.
I don't know about USA, but here in Norway, only the smallest cinemas don't have assigned seating.
I really like this because you can buy tickets on the internet and pick them up 5 minutes before the start of a premiere and get the best seat in the cinema. If there is no good seats left, I'll wait until the day after.
Many of the replies here goes along the lines of: "Time spent gaming is time lost doing sports, helping elders, reading books, socially interacting face to face."
So these kids "hanging out" in the malls; better or worse than joining a raid online? What about the 3 meatbags spread out on the floor in front of the TV watching Nth season of American Idol. Is that so very healthy?
Yes, sports is healthy. Yes, talking face to face is healthy, but using your brains during gaming is also healthy. Nothing is healthy to spend too much time on. Nothing!
Kids today socially interact face-to-face all day at school. If you want to worry, worry about all the elder people that don't understand online communities (games, social websites...) and haven't spoken to anyone for the last 6 days.
I certainly see that kids should learn social online interaction under "controlled forms". My partner has a son of 11 and we teach him how to behave online by playing online games with him.
Some of his friends are among the anoying kids you meet online that begs for gold just because you are older and have more money. Their parents are ignorant to how they behave online. If they started going out in real life begging for money from strangers, you can bet they would care.
We are now currently socially interacting through slashdot. Is this really so bad? Should we just log off and go out and interact in the "real world" just because online is so different?
> Of course someone who is stripping the exif data will never resize the image and run
> some sharpening over the image just to cover their traces, right?
Some will, some won't. Criminals are notoriously careless and stupid.
If you are careless and stupid, how did you remove the EXIF-data? It's difficult enough to find a good EXIF-editor alerady. And if you actually go through all the labour of removing the EXIF-data, you probably would also go through the steps of altering the image. Unless, of course, you are a photo freak and really, really have to use the raw format to capture all the details of your crime.
> Yep, this one was taken by a Canon Powershot A510 of which only 5.7 million were sold.
> We also know that this particular model was either sold in North America, Japan, Europe,
> Africa, Australia, South East Asia and South America. That should narrow it down.
Yes. Of the 18 initial suspects only two own that camera. Concentrate your investigation on them.
What do pagers offer that SMS can't?
If someone calls while I'm in a store, I just "hang up". Then I call back when I get out. If someone wants to send me a message saying "I'll be late.", SMS is your answer.
I carry enough gadgets already without having a designated "call me"-device.
scratch.mit.edu should be enough for introduction. It is visual and like building Lego. It contains the known parts of a programming language (loops and tests and stuff).
Clearly these spotters were actively violating the security measures implemented in the systems by "being small, being far away and travel fast".
Teens across all of USA will be visited by the feds, getting all their viewing equipment seized (telescopes, binoculars, glasses, contact lenses). You just wait and see!;)
My significant other plays video games, has a far better computer than I and she actually played Planetarion. I don't consider my story newsworthy.
This is just another way of saying: "Hey, World! Here on Slashdot, we consider women far inferior to men when it comes to technology. We can't imagine girls interested in computers, so we will make it a headline whenever a girl tries something techy."
Drop the American market. It's just a matter of time before some idiot uses a real bat on a controller, spreading plastic splinters all over his mates.
"How would I supposed to know that a real bat would destroy the wiimote? Nintendo should make it impossible to throw the wiimote. They should pay me a gadzjillion dollars!"
If Nintendo drops the american market, we here in Europe could get some;)
When you're sitting in meetings thinking "I would cheerfully shoot any one of you fuckers in the face to get my last job back", it's probably time to move on.
Could I interest you in our collection of office guns?;)
... I can't think of anything else you would need...
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Ah, this is an interesting rule. Well, in that case, I'd like to point out that next year will not be the year for Linux on the desktop.
It would be neat to have a program that scanned your email archives (with Gmail this wouldn't be too hard, since all mail is retained in the archive unless manually deleted) and constructed a social network from it.
This way, my closest friends will be "Ur fav0ur1te pharm n Canada";)
Sir Bedevere:...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped. King Arthur: This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
(Okay! I know it is not about the Earth, but anyway...)
Please tell us which company you work for. A company with no backup routines and blame a guy for evaluating and testing a free product is not a company I would want to work for.
I would go as far as to say that your company seems like a poor excuse for a company anyway. Have you heard of backup? What about version control systems? Losing a copule of hours work actually is nothing. Shit happens! A few hours?! You fired the other guy because this guy would not keep backup? Is your hair pointy by the way? This kind of management I've only seen the like of in http://www.dilbert.com/
"that is really awesome, they should sell some of those things "
And how much are you willing to pay for that? A team of 4-5 people doing all that manual labour. I don't know your income, but I believe most of us can't afford that.
I like to take it with me to the computer store to try out on the various laptops I am considering buying.
"Sir!. I want you to leave the store. Or else I'll have to call the police. Your |\/|4D h4x0R 5k1Lz have no place here."
But seriously. I believe you have to be prepared to use about 30 minutes to explain to the clerk what you are trying to do. Too many have not heard about Linux (and even fewer have heard about Knoppix) and think you are damaging the setup of the computers.
"Are we going to be looking back at these episodes in five years wondering how we let things get so out of hand so quickly?"
No, we are going to look back at this in five years and think: "Why did we not like this? This is for the best". Because in five years we are so used to this (now I will go as far as call it brainwashed) that we don't see the obvious problems as we do now.
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I discovered today FreeCiv as an online game. http://www.freeciv.net/ I don't know when this happened and I haven't tried it yet.
Kudos to those running the experiment. Cheap labor is great.
I believe the $20.000 comes as a bonus to their regular pay.
So... Kudos to those running the experiment. Cheap labor is great.
Isn't this "reward" added to the money they already get? As I understand it, it's not like they are doing the experiment for free. The experiment is their job and the $20.000 is a bonus if they complete the experiment. It's just to motivate the crew to try to stay the whole experiment.
Lawsuit from what? Slowing down P2P traffic which is mostly illegal downloads anyways?
So in essence, you say that those damned WoW players can blaim themselves for giving money to a company that uses a technology which is "mostly used for illegal downloads". Yes. That should teach them.
I don't know about USA, but here in Norway, only the smallest cinemas don't have assigned seating. I really like this because you can buy tickets on the internet and pick them up 5 minutes before the start of a premiere and get the best seat in the cinema. If there is no good seats left, I'll wait until the day after.
So these kids "hanging out" in the malls; better or worse than joining a raid online? What about the 3 meatbags spread out on the floor in front of the TV watching Nth season of American Idol. Is that so very healthy?
Yes, sports is healthy. Yes, talking face to face is healthy, but using your brains during gaming is also healthy. Nothing is healthy to spend too much time on. Nothing!
Kids today socially interact face-to-face all day at school. If you want to worry, worry about all the elder people that don't understand online communities (games, social websites...) and haven't spoken to anyone for the last 6 days.
Some of his friends are among the anoying kids you meet online that begs for gold just because you are older and have more money. Their parents are ignorant to how they behave online. If they started going out in real life begging for money from strangers, you can bet they would care.
We are now currently socially interacting through slashdot. Is this really so bad? Should we just log off and go out and interact in the "real world" just because online is so different?
> Of course someone who is stripping the exif data will never resize the image and run > some sharpening over the image just to cover their traces, right?
Some will, some won't. Criminals are notoriously careless and stupid.
If you are careless and stupid, how did you remove the EXIF-data? It's difficult enough to find a good EXIF-editor alerady. And if you actually go through all the labour of removing the EXIF-data, you probably would also go through the steps of altering the image. Unless, of course, you are a photo freak and really, really have to use the raw format to capture all the details of your crime.
> Yep, this one was taken by a Canon Powershot A510 of which only 5.7 million were sold. > We also know that this particular model was either sold in North America, Japan, Europe, > Africa, Australia, South East Asia and South America. That should narrow it down.
Yes. Of the 18 initial suspects only two own that camera. Concentrate your investigation on them.
Here, I must agree.
What do pagers offer that SMS can't? If someone calls while I'm in a store, I just "hang up". Then I call back when I get out. If someone wants to send me a message saying "I'll be late.", SMS is your answer. I carry enough gadgets already without having a designated "call me"-device.
scratch.mit.edu should be enough for introduction. It is visual and like building Lego. It contains the known parts of a programming language (loops and tests and stuff).
Clearly these spotters were actively violating the security measures implemented in the systems by "being small, being far away and travel fast". Teens across all of USA will be visited by the feds, getting all their viewing equipment seized (telescopes, binoculars, glasses, contact lenses). You just wait and see! ;)
This is just another way of saying: "Hey, World! Here on Slashdot, we consider women far inferior to men when it comes to technology. We can't imagine girls interested in computers, so we will make it a headline whenever a girl tries something techy."
Come on!
Drop the American market. It's just a matter of time before some idiot uses a real bat on a controller, spreading plastic splinters all over his mates. "How would I supposed to know that a real bat would destroy the wiimote? Nintendo should make it impossible to throw the wiimote. They should pay me a gadzjillion dollars!" If Nintendo drops the american market, we here in Europe could get some ;)
I better lock the door before my pointy haired boss comes in: "This looks interesting. I want VoIP before you can go home for Christmas."
... I can't think of anything else you would need...
Sir Bedevere: ...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.
King Arthur: This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
(Okay! I know it is not about the Earth, but anyway...)
I would go as far as to say that your company seems like a poor excuse for a company anyway. Have you heard of backup? What about version control systems? Losing a copule of hours work actually is nothing. Shit happens! A few hours?! You fired the other guy because this guy would not keep backup? Is your hair pointy by the way? This kind of management I've only seen the like of in http://www.dilbert.com/
And how much are you willing to pay for that? A team of 4-5 people doing all that manual labour. I don't know your income, but I believe most of us can't afford that.
"Sir!. I want you to leave the store. Or else I'll have to call the police. Your |\/|4D h4x0R 5k1Lz have no place here."
But seriously. I believe you have to be prepared to use about 30 minutes to explain to the clerk what you are trying to do. Too many have not heard about Linux (and even fewer have heard about Knoppix) and think you are damaging the setup of the computers.
No, we are going to look back at this in five years and think: "Why did we not like this? This is for the best". Because in five years we are so used to this (now I will go as far as call it brainwashed) that we don't see the obvious problems as we do now.
This really scares me.
I'm pretty sure we could pin this on those notorious P2P-guys. You know the ones I'm talking about. ;)