Yea, it's on the reply screen right under the list of allowed HTML tags. IIRC, it was added with the update that broke Slashdot so badly this past summer.
URLs <URL:http://example.com/> will auto-link a URL
Okay, 8 if you count SHIFT+, and SHIFT+. as two strokes.
Nyah nyah.
I mean, c'mon, that's like 4 seconds taken out of my life that could have been spent cleaning wax out of my ear!
Heh. You'd think with that stupid 20 second post rule people would be happy to have things eat up time while they're trying to build their repsonses (spell checking comes to mind... yes, I'm aware I didn't fix it).
You fail it! ("it" is coming even remotely close to properly identifying my party affiliation).
You are such a miserable, miserable failure. Go back to your blue state subsidized lifestyle you wife-beating welfare monkey. I didn't request the services of a gap-toothed inbred mountain man, so keep your mouth shut until you're called upon or I'll cut off your free supply of government cheese and food stamps you red state retard.
You succeed it! ("it" is being trolled by an obviously baited sig line like the red state failure that you are).
Telemarketers are hired on the cheap. Generally, you hire people who are as unqualified as possible and offer around $7 an hour. Think about it this way: if you read an ad in the paper for a job that requires no previous knowledge and no skills that 99% of the population couldn't technically claim to have, and your only other option is McDonald's at $5.50 an hour, which are you going to choose?
As a result, turnover rates are very high for the sector. There's no real reason to train the TMs then, so basically, you wind up with a bunch of overpaid High School kids who can best do their jobs by being given a huge list of viable numbers and a few scripts, and then you let them loose on the world.
In this situation, there's no incentive to train the workers or to purge the lists (although, we do proactively purge the phone lists to some extent anyway) because you have a cost center masquerading as a profit center. Since the point of the TM calls is not so much to get you to buy anything then and there as it is to spread brand recognition, it's most cost effective to just carpet bomb the numbers you have and be done with it.
That said, all you have to do is say not to call that number again and not to sell your information, and any legitimate group will wipe you from their personal lists anyway. Barring mistakes or people with multiple phone numbers, we don't call anyone or sell anyone's number who asks us not to, whether we're obliged to listen to them or not. I actually had a heavy hand in the programming that allowed us to automate our number removal process, and even though we quote "up to 30 days" for a number removal, it's done in 1 business day now thanks to the system I built for the process. That's more than most groups have, but any legit group will remove you within a month when you ask them to stop calling.
It's that it's a nasty scheme to harvest contacts for junk mail, telemarketing, etc.
The company I work for partners with a lot of these companies, offering one of the things you can sign up for as part of your work toward a free whatever. The companies we work with are legit, but the idiots that sign up for this shit don't read the agreement details and then they wind up getting deluged with legally clear spam, junk mail, and telemarketing.
It's not really free, it's just that you don't pay for what you get with cash. You pay for it with your time. You have to sift through legit spam, junk mailers, hassle with telemarketers who can now legally call you even if you're on the DNC list.
So, hey, if you sign up and didn't read the agreement, too bad. You're an idiot, and you deserve all the crap that you get deluged with. Hope all that extra advertising was worth the free iPod.
Doubtful. The reason your job was outsourced was that you're a lazy, overpaid, fat, bill-milking son-of-a-bitch and you had half the tech skills of the Indians who "stole" your job to boot.
Maybe if you didn't suck so much ass at your job, you wouldn't have lost it, non? How does it feel to be so under-skilled that people in developing nations are better at your area of "expertise" than you are?
Erm. 1 in 2 would be exciting. 1 in 5 would be interesting. 1 in 10 might get my attention. 1 in 62 is dull.
Just for reference, the odds of winning most instant ticket lottery games (the little scratch off things) is usually around 1 in 4 for most of them, and they're still not a good bet.
Because it's the biggest coastal city on the eastern shoreline. The only other significant options are Miami and Boston (which is just as likely to get hit with any catastrophic tsunami that hits NYC), and neither one of them has the brand appeal of New York.
That's not quite true.... you can be biased and still hand down decisions on an issue that aren't biased. The problem, however, is that if someone doesn't like your decision, and you are biased, even if you didn't let that bias affect your decision, they can still pinpoint that as a reason not to accept your judgement.
I'm sorry... who is Jeremy Zawodny and why should I care if Knoppix is his favorite live cd? As far as I can tell, he's a MySQL bigshot, and that's not really saying so much, all things considered.
More importantly, perhaps, is why does the submitter seem to think he's "everybody"?
More to the specific point of the article, I still fail to see the allure of Live CDs. Does Knoppix actually boot without touching the hdds on the system, or does it do some footprinting on the disks? If it does use disk space - for virtual memory, for example, it's rather useless for anything other than a demo of Linux. While that's great if you're, say, demo'ing Linux for someone who's interested in moving to it, I don't understand what other practical purpose it serves that so much time should be devoted to it?
I can't be the only Slashdotter with this question. Perhaps someone could enlighten me?
Healthy and fair competition is different from favortism and near-monopolistic power grabbing.
Wal-Mart and other similarly large companies leverage extreme control on market sectors that they got through legitimate means to do questionable things. The problem here is that people like Sam Walton found companies by working their bloody asses off and being smart about their business, then they turn it over to ass-lickers like Michael Duke and company who just leverage their predecessor's success to make their own lazy fortunes.
Capitalism works great until it succeeds. Then, it's just a welfare program for the already-rich. The longer that system is allowed to run, the more corrupt the original idea of capitalism becomes. We began regulating companies for a reason, don't turn your back on those reasons just because you don't know history.
Lanzaa feels a cold cock striking his face as he realizes that he has been added to the ever-growing group of people who have realized, thanks to TMP, that he is a gibbering, cock-smoking retard with no life. So far, TMP has bitch-slapped a total of 40,000 simpletons who have nothing better to do with their time than waste bandwidth on the intarweb while furiously masturbating to furry porn on their virus-and-spyware-laden Windox machine, you being one of them.
And yet, despite that early-morning fog, my post was still about fifty times smarter than the smartest thing Dubya has ever uttered or written. That smartest thing, of course, being his first words.
Yea, it's all been pretty much downhill from there...
Actually, Philip Coyle, the man who used to be in charge of weapons testing, specifically pinned the blame for this failure on Bush last night. See, everyone who worked on this knew it didn't work. That's why Clinton decided against going forward with it - he wanted to wait for more testing to occur and let his predecessor decide on its fate based on the results.
Bush, however, didn't just call for more testing, he called for implementation. Back in 2002, he promised to have the beginnings of the system - the system everyone (except him, apparently) knows doesn't work right - in place by the end of this year. As a result, testing halted while production pieces were rolled out. Now, we see that not only do the revised test systems not work, the production pieces that are already in place almost certainly don't work (actually, this is pretty much a forgone conclusion because they never DID work and now they STILL DON'T work).
So, yes, this is directly Bush's fault because he halted development in favor of putting a known-useless system into production. If you are a Bush supporter, I fully expect a bizarre, otherwordly excuse that only a mentally retard lemur would believe to now emanate from your general direction.
Yea, there's a big difference. But, a smarter person might have used the analogy of "breaking into the Lowes.com hosting facility and stealing the tape backups containing all of the stored credit numbers"
You took a quote from the prosecuter - a guy with a vested interest in slamming people and playing it up so he looks better - as evidence defending the sentence? While there's no technical problem with that, the level of bias is so extreme that I find it hard to believe anyone in their right mind would take it as a reasonable amount of evidence.
I also find it hard to believe they'd have been slapped with that sentence had they stolen the tape backups instead of used a network.
Yea... okay. Good idea. Let's throw all those big badass hackers into prison and clog it up even more so that the killers and the rapists can turn parole faster.
Get a grip on reality. Breaking into a computer system is a non-violent crime. It involves monetary damages. Slap the bastard with heavy fines, hit him up with community service and make him pay it back.
You can't just throw everyone who inconveniences you, the poor system admin, into jail.
For reference, a typical sentence for breaking and entering with intent to steal is about two to four years...
But, hey. It looks better when they catch a guy "breaking" into a computer across the internet then when they catch someone actually breaking into a house. Best to throw the biggest book in the area at them to play the circus up some.
Wow. Congratulations. I don't think you could possibly have been any more wrong about so many different things in a single post if you'd have pulled that little marble-sized lump of hardened carbon out of your head and flushed it down the toilet before you began spilling your infinte lack of wisdom for the masses.
First of all, if "miss priss" fails half of her class of simpletons, not only will she answer to the principal, school board, and parents, if it continues to happen she will lose her job and, possibly, her teaching credentials. On top of that, "miss priss" is charged with educating people regardless of how dumb they are. That puts the burden of success squarely on her shoulders and, unlike big bad Mr. Matt Damon, she can't write her miserable failings at her job off on bad writers.
In addition, whereas "miss priss" cannot "coast" through her job, Halle Berry has been coasting for years. Sorry to point out the obvious to you, since you're clearly too much of an ignoramous to see it yourself, but Halle Berry is a pretty face, not a good actress.
Continuing on this romp of mindless ignorance you called a thought, we'll point out that a doctor's real job is to save your arrogant ass from death, not make you feel like you're warm and loved (unless they're a head doctor, but if I were you, I wouldn't worry about it because it's hard to hold cognitive therapy sessions with a person who clearly has no cognitive processes). In addition, the reason you had any bad teachers, I'm sure, is that you are a complete and utter moron and they simply got tired of trying to teach the kid who just couldn't figure out that he wasn't supposed to eat the glue.
If your post is any reflection on you as an individual, your competency, or your knowledge, you are a terrible person, you are a complete idiot, and you couldn't possibly know less if you actively tried to forget things. I have no doubt in my mind that you are a bible belt Bush voter, and, if nothing else, you certainly are stupid enough to fit right in with them. I think you should strongly consider suicide before you have the chance to procreate, as we really can't afford to have you dragging down the national averages for any future generation.
Note how well the moderation system works, as well. Even though it was knocked to -1, Troll, it got a few +2 posts attached directly to it and ultimately it wound up with 27 posts nested underneath it, not including this one.
Given this incredible failure, I'd say Michael's imbecilic, semi-coherent editorials on the pros of organized Socialism are a good reflection of how well slashdot works in general....
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Yea, it's on the reply screen right under the list of allowed HTML tags. IIRC, it was added with the update that broke Slashdot so badly this past summer.
Okay, 8 if you count SHIFT+, and SHIFT+. as two strokes.
Nyah nyah.
I mean, c'mon, that's like 4 seconds taken out of my life that could have been spent cleaning wax out of my ear!
Heh. You'd think with that stupid 20 second post rule people would be happy to have things eat up time while they're trying to build their repsonses (spell checking comes to mind... yes, I'm aware I didn't fix it).
You fail it! ("it" is coming even remotely close to properly identifying my party affiliation).
You are such a miserable, miserable failure. Go back to your blue state subsidized lifestyle you wife-beating welfare monkey. I didn't request the services of a gap-toothed inbred mountain man, so keep your mouth shut until you're called upon or I'll cut off your free supply of government cheese and food stamps you red state retard.
You succeed it! ("it" is being trolled by an obviously baited sig line like the red state failure that you are).
Telemarketers are hired on the cheap. Generally, you hire people who are as unqualified as possible and offer around $7 an hour. Think about it this way: if you read an ad in the paper for a job that requires no previous knowledge and no skills that 99% of the population couldn't technically claim to have, and your only other option is McDonald's at $5.50 an hour, which are you going to choose?
As a result, turnover rates are very high for the sector. There's no real reason to train the TMs then, so basically, you wind up with a bunch of overpaid High School kids who can best do their jobs by being given a huge list of viable numbers and a few scripts, and then you let them loose on the world.
In this situation, there's no incentive to train the workers or to purge the lists (although, we do proactively purge the phone lists to some extent anyway) because you have a cost center masquerading as a profit center. Since the point of the TM calls is not so much to get you to buy anything then and there as it is to spread brand recognition, it's most cost effective to just carpet bomb the numbers you have and be done with it.
That said, all you have to do is say not to call that number again and not to sell your information, and any legitimate group will wipe you from their personal lists anyway. Barring mistakes or people with multiple phone numbers, we don't call anyone or sell anyone's number who asks us not to, whether we're obliged to listen to them or not. I actually had a heavy hand in the programming that allowed us to automate our number removal process, and even though we quote "up to 30 days" for a number removal, it's done in 1 business day now thanks to the system I built for the process. That's more than most groups have, but any legit group will remove you within a month when you ask them to stop calling.
It's that it's a nasty scheme to harvest contacts for junk mail, telemarketing, etc.
The company I work for partners with a lot of these companies, offering one of the things you can sign up for as part of your work toward a free whatever. The companies we work with are legit, but the idiots that sign up for this shit don't read the agreement details and then they wind up getting deluged with legally clear spam, junk mail, and telemarketing.
It's not really free, it's just that you don't pay for what you get with cash. You pay for it with your time. You have to sift through legit spam, junk mailers, hassle with telemarketers who can now legally call you even if you're on the DNC list.
So, hey, if you sign up and didn't read the agreement, too bad. You're an idiot, and you deserve all the crap that you get deluged with. Hope all that extra advertising was worth the free iPod.
Doubtful. The reason your job was outsourced was that you're a lazy, overpaid, fat, bill-milking son-of-a-bitch and you had half the tech skills of the Indians who "stole" your job to boot.
Maybe if you didn't suck so much ass at your job, you wouldn't have lost it, non? How does it feel to be so under-skilled that people in developing nations are better at your area of "expertise" than you are?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4125643.stm
Dude, come on. That only took an extra 6 keystrokes.
Erm. 1 in 2 would be exciting. 1 in 5 would be interesting. 1 in 10 might get my attention. 1 in 62 is dull.
Just for reference, the odds of winning most instant ticket lottery games (the little scratch off things) is usually around 1 in 4 for most of them, and they're still not a good bet.
Because it's the biggest coastal city on the eastern shoreline. The only other significant options are Miami and Boston (which is just as likely to get hit with any catastrophic tsunami that hits NYC), and neither one of them has the brand appeal of New York.
No.
Red states.
Which are effectively ghettos.
Sorry. I guess you were right.
That's not quite true.... you can be biased and still hand down decisions on an issue that aren't biased. The problem, however, is that if someone doesn't like your decision, and you are biased, even if you didn't let that bias affect your decision, they can still pinpoint that as a reason not to accept your judgement.
I'm sorry... who is Jeremy Zawodny and why should I care if Knoppix is his favorite live cd? As far as I can tell, he's a MySQL bigshot, and that's not really saying so much, all things considered.
More importantly, perhaps, is why does the submitter seem to think he's "everybody"?
More to the specific point of the article, I still fail to see the allure of Live CDs. Does Knoppix actually boot without touching the hdds on the system, or does it do some footprinting on the disks? If it does use disk space - for virtual memory, for example, it's rather useless for anything other than a demo of Linux. While that's great if you're, say, demo'ing Linux for someone who's interested in moving to it, I don't understand what other practical purpose it serves that so much time should be devoted to it?
I can't be the only Slashdotter with this question. Perhaps someone could enlighten me?
Healthy and fair competition is different from favortism and near-monopolistic power grabbing.
Wal-Mart and other similarly large companies leverage extreme control on market sectors that they got through legitimate means to do questionable things. The problem here is that people like Sam Walton found companies by working their bloody asses off and being smart about their business, then they turn it over to ass-lickers like Michael Duke and company who just leverage their predecessor's success to make their own lazy fortunes.
Capitalism works great until it succeeds. Then, it's just a welfare program for the already-rich. The longer that system is allowed to run, the more corrupt the original idea of capitalism becomes. We began regulating companies for a reason, don't turn your back on those reasons just because you don't know history.
And yet, despite that early-morning fog, my post was still about fifty times smarter than the smartest thing Dubya has ever uttered or written. That smartest thing, of course, being his first words.
Yea, it's all been pretty much downhill from there...
We're not playing limbo here, mate.... you can set the bar up a bit higher than that...
Actually, Philip Coyle, the man who used to be in charge of weapons testing, specifically pinned the blame for this failure on Bush last night. See, everyone who worked on this knew it didn't work. That's why Clinton decided against going forward with it - he wanted to wait for more testing to occur and let his predecessor decide on its fate based on the results.
Bush, however, didn't just call for more testing, he called for implementation. Back in 2002, he promised to have the beginnings of the system - the system everyone (except him, apparently) knows doesn't work right - in place by the end of this year. As a result, testing halted while production pieces were rolled out. Now, we see that not only do the revised test systems not work, the production pieces that are already in place almost certainly don't work (actually, this is pretty much a forgone conclusion because they never DID work and now they STILL DON'T work).
So, yes, this is directly Bush's fault because he halted development in favor of putting a known-useless system into production. If you are a Bush supporter, I fully expect a bizarre, otherwordly excuse that only a mentally retard lemur would believe to now emanate from your general direction.
So.... a majority... of the minority..... is made up of genuine bad guys.
Nice.
Incidentally, he didn't commit CC fraud, he committed what is the equivalent meatspace felony of "Breaking and Entering with Intent to Steal".
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Yea, there's a big difference. But, a smarter person might have used the analogy of "breaking into the Lowes.com hosting facility and stealing the tape backups containing all of the stored credit numbers"
Good rebuttal.
You're truly an intellectual force to be reckoned with, what with those supreme debate tactics.
You took a quote from the prosecuter - a guy with a vested interest in slamming people and playing it up so he looks better - as evidence defending the sentence? While there's no technical problem with that, the level of bias is so extreme that I find it hard to believe anyone in their right mind would take it as a reasonable amount of evidence.
I also find it hard to believe they'd have been slapped with that sentence had they stolen the tape backups instead of used a network.
Yea... okay. Good idea. Let's throw all those big badass hackers into prison and clog it up even more so that the killers and the rapists can turn parole faster.
Get a grip on reality. Breaking into a computer system is a non-violent crime. It involves monetary damages. Slap the bastard with heavy fines, hit him up with community service and make him pay it back.
You can't just throw everyone who inconveniences you, the poor system admin, into jail.
For reference, a typical sentence for breaking and entering with intent to steal is about two to four years...
But, hey. It looks better when they catch a guy "breaking" into a computer across the internet then when they catch someone actually breaking into a house. Best to throw the biggest book in the area at them to play the circus up some.
Wow. Congratulations. I don't think you could possibly have been any more wrong about so many different things in a single post if you'd have pulled that little marble-sized lump of hardened carbon out of your head and flushed it down the toilet before you began spilling your infinte lack of wisdom for the masses.
First of all, if "miss priss" fails half of her class of simpletons, not only will she answer to the principal, school board, and parents, if it continues to happen she will lose her job and, possibly, her teaching credentials. On top of that, "miss priss" is charged with educating people regardless of how dumb they are. That puts the burden of success squarely on her shoulders and, unlike big bad Mr. Matt Damon, she can't write her miserable failings at her job off on bad writers.
In addition, whereas "miss priss" cannot "coast" through her job, Halle Berry has been coasting for years. Sorry to point out the obvious to you, since you're clearly too much of an ignoramous to see it yourself, but Halle Berry is a pretty face, not a good actress.
Continuing on this romp of mindless ignorance you called a thought, we'll point out that a doctor's real job is to save your arrogant ass from death, not make you feel like you're warm and loved (unless they're a head doctor, but if I were you, I wouldn't worry about it because it's hard to hold cognitive therapy sessions with a person who clearly has no cognitive processes). In addition, the reason you had any bad teachers, I'm sure, is that you are a complete and utter moron and they simply got tired of trying to teach the kid who just couldn't figure out that he wasn't supposed to eat the glue.
If your post is any reflection on you as an individual, your competency, or your knowledge, you are a terrible person, you are a complete idiot, and you couldn't possibly know less if you actively tried to forget things. I have no doubt in my mind that you are a bible belt Bush voter, and, if nothing else, you certainly are stupid enough to fit right in with them. I think you should strongly consider suicide before you have the chance to procreate, as we really can't afford to have you dragging down the national averages for any future generation.
Note how well the moderation system works, as well. Even though it was knocked to -1, Troll, it got a few +2 posts attached directly to it and ultimately it wound up with 27 posts nested underneath it, not including this one.
Given this incredible failure, I'd say Michael's imbecilic, semi-coherent editorials on the pros of organized Socialism are a good reflection of how well slashdot works in general....