Too late. It's very first moderation was "-1 overrated"...same thing...which I thought was amusing since how can it be overrated if no one had even rated it first:-)
You're apparently new here. Let me explain the Rules of Slashdot.
1. We love Apple (especially when they do something just like Microsoft, and even more if their product is vaporware). 2. We hate Microsoft (especially when they do something just like Apple, and even more when their product is vaporware). 3. Steve Jobs can do no wrong (especially when he does the same as Bill Gates). 4. Bill Gates can do no right (especially when he does the same as Steve Jobs). 5. Any story that is positive about Bill Gates or Microsoft will get tagged "fud" or "troll". 6. Any story that is negative about Steve Jobs or Apple will get tagged "fud" or "troll". 7. "One Laptop Per Child" is the second coming of Christ. 8. Nicholas Negroponte is Christ. 9. We ignore Sun (especially when they dominate any specific industry). 10. We adore Java (even though it was developed by Sun). 11. It has been "The Year That Linux Takes Over the Desktop" for about 8 years. 12. It has been "The Year That Microsoft Dies" for about 15 years. 13. It has been "The Year That Apple Overtakes Microsoft" for about 10 years. 14. Ubuntu is God's chosen Linux distribution. 15. All other distributions of Linux are wannabes...especially the ones that have been around longer than Ubuntu.
I've got $5 US that says this reply gets moderated as "troll" or "flamebait" because it contains so much truth about the attitudes of the majority of the Slashdot community.
writes in the context of Jobs' latest success in launching the iPhone
I realize the Slashdot community believes that the sun rises and sets out of Steve Jobs' pants, but aren't we going a bit far here? Not only is the iphone not yet in production or available for sale, it doesn't even have FCC approval to be made or sold yet. Then there is the matter of that little debate over the name.
Calling the launch of the iPhone a success is almost as over zealous as most OLPC stories are on here.
They are only kidding themselves and their users here. Even if they succeed in buying the rig/nation, they still have to buy their net access from somewhere...and that somewhere can cut off their service at the drop of a hat and a flip of a switch. And I don't think they plan to launch their own satellite system anytime soon, even if they do get the "island".
It doesn't surprise me that Apple wants to lock the iPhone. But will it really make that much of a difference?
I have service with Verizon Wireless (because I want a cellular network that actually works when you need it). I also have a genuine Verizon Wireless phone...a V3c Razr. When I bought the phone, it had Verizon's bullshit functional restrictions on it. Later in the day that I bought the phone, and after a 15 minute conversation between the phone and my laptop computer, those bullshit restrictions and limitations are gone;-)
My point is that once the phone actually hits the market, I predict that within 24 hours someone will announce a method to completely unlock it. And within two weeks, someone will have Linux running on the damned thing.
You mean to tell me that Slashdotters, some of the most paranoid people on the planet, didn't just automatically assume hotels did crap like this on their networks to make extra money? Are people here that damned naive? The story that would be news would be a hotel that does *not* do this.
Any time I use a network that isn't my own, be it a hotel, restaurant, or even the public library, I just automatically assume that someone who wants to remain unknown is taking an active interest in what I'm doing. Otherwise, why would any of these places provide free networking in the first place. They aren't doing it out of the goodness of their heart and so they can sleep warm and cuddly at night. They're doing it because they've found other ways to make a buck off of it.
This is a case where it sucks that I did in fact RTFA.
I feel sorry for Adam Knox, his family, and his platoon.
I don't feel a damned bit sorry for Deadspin. And I hope "The douche" who wrote the story on Deadspin "goes home tonight and is fucking beaten by Jason Kidd's wife" and then "have their entrails dragged through the street".
And I wish Slashdot could learn to not hype stories where there really is no big story, and to check all the facts before they post it. But that's about as likely to happen as it is for me to win tonight's Powerball drawing (that I didn't buy a ticket for).
I feel the sudden need to go buy something and use PayPal...
Everyone seems to be blaiming either Microsoft or the ignorant user. Let's not leave out the ISP. ISPs should cut off anyone who's connection is showing suspicious activity like spewing out hundreds of emails over a short period of time, etc.
I understand that its cool to "fight the good fight" and "take a moral stand" and all that. But quite frankly, $52.50 is not worth the hours it would take me to get it. I can use that time for something more productive with a better pay rate.
Okay, so Google pushes their own products ahead of everyone else's. Would someone please name me a company that produces a product but pushes someone else's product ahead of their own? I guess you expect Ford to start selling Chryslers, eh? I bet you think Apple will start positively advertising the availability of Windows Vista, too.
Grow up. Google is a company. It can preach all the "do no evil" it wants to. But ultimately it will behave like a corporation. And putting your own product first is not "evil".
Some of the replies here should be put on DVD and sold as a comedy collection. I can't believe there are this many idiots in the world who think that giving away some of your product is a new idea and Microsoft, being the Evil Empire that they are, is the first to do it.
Kids, I've got a news flash for you. This sort of thing has been going on since manufacturers of dehydrated food sent free samples to Moses while he and the Jews were crossing the Sinai. There is not one industry on this planet that isn't guilty of doing the same thing Microsoft is doing, and most have done it *long* before Microsoft ever entered the picture.
The only reason this story made it to Slashdot is because its a slow news week and this can be turned in to an anti-Microsoft story. If it were Apple or a Linux company doing it, it would be rejoyced as the greatest new marketing technique since the invention of sex.
There is nothing wrong with code, and I think there should always be some reserved space in the band plans for only cw. Those who enjoy it should be allowed to use it.
But in the 21st century, requiring the knowledge of morse code to get a ham license is like requring one to successfully demonstrate how to start a hand-cranked auto before one can get a drivers license.
I started out with Verizon about 8 years ago, and I'm still with them as I come to the end of my 4th contract. I'll stay with them. Their customer service and rates may not be the best, and they lock features of their phones (which is why I specifically bought a phone I can hack), but at least for me and in the areas I live (rural central Indiana) and travel in, their coverage is *by far* the best. At the end of the day, and especially since I'm one of those people that dropped my landline years ago and depend on my cellphone, cheaper rates, better customer service, and open phone features don't matter diddly-squat if you can't make a phone call.
Same song, second verse same as the first.
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Anyone who thinks the Democrats are any more "net friendly" than the Republicans is being woefully naive. Neither party gives a flying fuck about John Q. AverageAmericanNetUser or Jane Y. Nerd. Except for one tiny difference (the Republicans rob from the middle class and give to the rich, while the Democrats rob from the middle class and give to the poor), both parties are a carbon copy of each other. And just like the Republicrats, the Democins will do what is in their own best interests and the best interests of their corporate contributors.
The United States has the best political system in the world...we have the best political system money can buy.
Paris Hilton is a perfect example of what's wrong.
Two scientists could invent a cure for the common cold tomorrow and hardly anyone would take notice of it. But if Paris Hilton farts its front page news tomorrow and someone is filming a documentary about it next week.
3. The United States and its citizens needs to place as much importance and admiration on the sciences, and those who persue knowledge in them, as they do on sports players, movie stars, and "socialites".
Come on my property while I'm home and threaten me or that property and I'll allow you to possess 10/10ths of a number of pieces of lead, all flying at high speed. And in my state, gun ownership os legal. And so is deadly force if you feel yourself, your family, or your property is under imminent threat.
And if I'm not home, my two dogs will possess 9/10ths of your body parts.
...if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. And "if you can't pay the fine, don't do the crime" works too.
Most people seem to be bringing up the lack of security on NASA systems or the inflated monetary loss estimates. Totally irrelevant. If I secure my house with a 100 year old skeleton key lock and also place a big sign in front of the house that says "Door key under welcome mat, $100,000 US in freezer behind ground beef", I may be stupid but that still does not give you the right to enter my house without my permission.
There is something that's worse than the MPAA regulating home theaters. And that's Slashdot posting a link to an obvious satire piece and a great many of its readers (and possibly a certain editor) not having the intelligence to realize that its satire.
I don't see how blocking this is such a problem. If a machine suddenly starts pumping out email, the ISP cuts its net connection and phones the owner and asks about it. If the owner doesn't know about it, refuse them access until their machine is fixed, since after all it is the *owner's* responsibility to keep their computer clean.
Now, what am I overlooking? Why is that apparently so hard?
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Too late. It's very first moderation was "-1 overrated"...same thing...which I thought was amusing since how can it be overrated if no one had even rated it first :-)
Actually, and really not surprisingly either, the very first mod it got was "-1 overrated".
You're apparently new here. Let me explain the Rules of Slashdot.
1. We love Apple (especially when they do something just like Microsoft, and even more if their product is vaporware).
2. We hate Microsoft (especially when they do something just like Apple, and even more when their product is vaporware).
3. Steve Jobs can do no wrong (especially when he does the same as Bill Gates).
4. Bill Gates can do no right (especially when he does the same as Steve Jobs).
5. Any story that is positive about Bill Gates or Microsoft will get tagged "fud" or "troll".
6. Any story that is negative about Steve Jobs or Apple will get tagged "fud" or "troll".
7. "One Laptop Per Child" is the second coming of Christ.
8. Nicholas Negroponte is Christ.
9. We ignore Sun (especially when they dominate any specific industry).
10. We adore Java (even though it was developed by Sun).
11. It has been "The Year That Linux Takes Over the Desktop" for about 8 years.
12. It has been "The Year That Microsoft Dies" for about 15 years.
13. It has been "The Year That Apple Overtakes Microsoft" for about 10 years.
14. Ubuntu is God's chosen Linux distribution.
15. All other distributions of Linux are wannabes...especially the ones that have been around longer than Ubuntu.
I've got $5 US that says this reply gets moderated as "troll" or "flamebait" because it contains so much truth about the attitudes of the majority of the Slashdot community.
writes in the context of Jobs' latest success in launching the iPhone
I realize the Slashdot community believes that the sun rises and sets out of Steve Jobs' pants, but aren't we going a bit far here? Not only is the iphone not yet in production or available for sale, it doesn't even have FCC approval to be made or sold yet. Then there is the matter of that little debate over the name.
Calling the launch of the iPhone a success is almost as over zealous as most OLPC stories are on here.
They are only kidding themselves and their users here. Even if they succeed in buying the rig/nation, they still have to buy their net access from somewhere...and that somewhere can cut off their service at the drop of a hat and a flip of a switch. And I don't think they plan to launch their own satellite system anytime soon, even if they do get the "island".
It doesn't surprise me that Apple wants to lock the iPhone. But will it really make that much of a difference?
;-)
I have service with Verizon Wireless (because I want a cellular network that actually works when you need it). I also have a genuine Verizon Wireless phone...a V3c Razr. When I bought the phone, it had Verizon's bullshit functional restrictions on it. Later in the day that I bought the phone, and after a 15 minute conversation between the phone and my laptop computer, those bullshit restrictions and limitations are gone
My point is that once the phone actually hits the market, I predict that within 24 hours someone will announce a method to completely unlock it. And within two weeks, someone will have Linux running on the damned thing.
You mean to tell me that Slashdotters, some of the most paranoid people on the planet, didn't just automatically assume hotels did crap like this on their networks to make extra money? Are people here that damned naive? The story that would be news would be a hotel that does *not* do this.
Any time I use a network that isn't my own, be it a hotel, restaurant, or even the public library, I just automatically assume that someone who wants to remain unknown is taking an active interest in what I'm doing. Otherwise, why would any of these places provide free networking in the first place. They aren't doing it out of the goodness of their heart and so they can sleep warm and cuddly at night. They're doing it because they've found other ways to make a buck off of it.
This is a case where it sucks that I did in fact RTFA.
I feel sorry for Adam Knox, his family, and his platoon.
I don't feel a damned bit sorry for Deadspin. And I hope "The douche" who wrote the story on Deadspin "goes home tonight and is fucking beaten by Jason Kidd's wife" and then "have their entrails dragged through the street".
And I wish Slashdot could learn to not hype stories where there really is no big story, and to check all the facts before they post it. But that's about as likely to happen as it is for me to win tonight's Powerball drawing (that I didn't buy a ticket for).
I feel the sudden need to go buy something and use PayPal...
Everyone seems to be blaiming either Microsoft or the ignorant user. Let's not leave out the ISP. ISPs should cut off anyone who's connection is showing suspicious activity like spewing out hundreds of emails over a short period of time, etc.
I understand that its cool to "fight the good fight" and "take a moral stand" and all that. But quite frankly, $52.50 is not worth the hours it would take me to get it. I can use that time for something more productive with a better pay rate.
Okay, so Google pushes their own products ahead of everyone else's. Would someone please name me a company that produces a product but pushes someone else's product ahead of their own? I guess you expect Ford to start selling Chryslers, eh? I bet you think Apple will start positively advertising the availability of Windows Vista, too.
Grow up. Google is a company. It can preach all the "do no evil" it wants to. But ultimately it will behave like a corporation. And putting your own product first is not "evil".
Some of the replies here should be put on DVD and sold as a comedy collection. I can't believe there are this many idiots in the world who think that giving away some of your product is a new idea and Microsoft, being the Evil Empire that they are, is the first to do it.
Kids, I've got a news flash for you. This sort of thing has been going on since manufacturers of dehydrated food sent free samples to Moses while he and the Jews were crossing the Sinai. There is not one industry on this planet that isn't guilty of doing the same thing Microsoft is doing, and most have done it *long* before Microsoft ever entered the picture.
The only reason this story made it to Slashdot is because its a slow news week and this can be turned in to an anti-Microsoft story. If it were Apple or a Linux company doing it, it would be rejoyced as the greatest new marketing technique since the invention of sex.
Deep Shit File System
There is nothing wrong with code, and I think there should always be some reserved space in the band plans for only cw. Those who enjoy it should be allowed to use it.
But in the 21st century, requiring the knowledge of morse code to get a ham license is like requring one to successfully demonstrate how to start a hand-cranked auto before one can get a drivers license.
I started out with Verizon about 8 years ago, and I'm still with them as I come to the end of my 4th contract. I'll stay with them. Their customer service and rates may not be the best, and they lock features of their phones (which is why I specifically bought a phone I can hack), but at least for me and in the areas I live (rural central Indiana) and travel in, their coverage is *by far* the best. At the end of the day, and especially since I'm one of those people that dropped my landline years ago and depend on my cellphone, cheaper rates, better customer service, and open phone features don't matter diddly-squat if you can't make a phone call.
Anyone who thinks the Democrats are any more "net friendly" than the Republicans is being woefully naive. Neither party gives a flying fuck about John Q. AverageAmericanNetUser or Jane Y. Nerd. Except for one tiny difference (the Republicans rob from the middle class and give to the rich, while the Democrats rob from the middle class and give to the poor), both parties are a carbon copy of each other. And just like the Republicrats, the Democins will do what is in their own best interests and the best interests of their corporate contributors.
The United States has the best political system in the world...we have the best political system money can buy.
Paris Hilton is a perfect example of what's wrong.
Two scientists could invent a cure for the common cold tomorrow and hardly anyone would take notice of it. But if Paris Hilton farts its front page news tomorrow and someone is filming a documentary about it next week.
3. The United States and its citizens needs to place as much importance and admiration on the sciences, and those who persue knowledge in them, as they do on sports players, movie stars, and "socialites".
Come on my property while I'm home and threaten me or that property and I'll allow you to possess 10/10ths of a number of pieces of lead, all flying at high speed. And in my state, gun ownership os legal. And so is deadly force if you feel yourself, your family, or your property is under imminent threat.
And if I'm not home, my two dogs will possess 9/10ths of your body parts.
...if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. And "if you can't pay the fine, don't do the crime" works too.
Most people seem to be bringing up the lack of security on NASA systems or the inflated monetary loss estimates. Totally irrelevant. If I secure my house with a 100 year old skeleton key lock and also place a big sign in front of the house that says "Door key under welcome mat, $100,000 US in freezer behind ground beef", I may be stupid but that still does not give you the right to enter my house without my permission.
Just think...maybe if they add 5 or 10 more gears to the device, it will then also be able to predict dupes on Slashdot...
There is something that's worse than the MPAA regulating home theaters. And that's Slashdot posting a link to an obvious satire piece and a great many of its readers (and possibly a certain editor) not having the intelligence to realize that its satire.
P.T. Barnum was right.
I can understand why Katz and his dog were so close. What Katz wrote was almost identical to what came out of his dog's rear end.
Over 70% of statistics are made up on the spot :-)
I don't see how blocking this is such a problem. If a machine suddenly starts pumping out email, the ISP cuts its net connection and phones the owner and asks about it. If the owner doesn't know about it, refuse them access until their machine is fixed, since after all it is the *owner's* responsibility to keep their computer clean.
Now, what am I overlooking? Why is that apparently so hard?