The biases involved in a study like this are incalculable. I own a successful market research company and I wouldn't have any faith in publishing selected results of a survey where respondents are asked if they've participated in illegal activities. It's bullshit, there's too many variables involved.
I also dislike that they recruited for this survey off video game review websites. That's stupid, they're pre-biasing the data to a) people with access to internet connections and b) people who visit videogame websites. You can't project that kind of information onto the public as a whole. We're talking huge swaths of inaccuracies. The percentages reported could be off by 40 - 50%.
Normally I would mod something like this down as flamebait, but you got a point there. How come public opinion seems to have shifted so dramatically? Is it just a case of astro-turfing?
They were pretty popular here in Los Angeles for a while. In the past month though I've noticed that the three in my neighborhood have gone out of business.
eBay does a good job of convincing people that they can do it themselves. The consignment shop idea is a bad one.
While Opera has some interesting features like mouse gestures, it's really hard to imagine that anyone who's spent any amount of time using both would actually prefer Opera. I spent years using Opera as my main browser. I even purchased it.
When Firefox came along though, it won me over. It simply doesn't crash like Opera does.
In regards to your diatribe against vigilantes: when the authorities are corrupt or unwilling to help, vigilante justice is the only justice to be had. With spam crossing state and national borders, and the U.S. authorities being unwilling to take a stand, a little vigilante justice makes sense.
Lycos's solution doesn't make much sense though. What about spoofed mails? What's to stop me from spamming ten million people about my competitor's website, so Lycos shuts THEM down? It seems poorly thought out to me.
There's nothing that makes a two mile wide mushroom cloud other than a nuclear explosion.
Actually, any large fire could create a mushroom cloud that big.
Last summer, we had a brushfire here in Los Angeles and the mushroom cloud it created was five miles wide. I'd love to post a link to the pictures I took, especially the ones where the cloud reached overhead and turned the ambient light orange, but sadly, it wasn't digital film.
This is the second glaring typo on the front page in the last 24 hours. You'd think that with Slashdot being nearly as popular as wired.com (and certainly having as many ads as Wired does) could afford to hire someone with a degree in English to proof the submissions part-time.
Plus, this is a duplicate story.
Go ahead, mod me down as troll. Whoop de do. But think for a second about what all of this says about the amount of attention put into choosing which news matters.
If Dell's terms say they'll accept any iPod, dead or alive, it's not the least bit dishonest.
Their TOS neglects to state the condition the iPod must be in for this offer, so you're discussing exploiting a loophole or oversight and it is dishonest.
I feel like a moron for explaining this to you*. Any eight-year-old on the planet would know that sending Dell a broken iPod is _wrong_. If they accept it or not as a trade-in is up to their upper-management (perhaps they'll bite the bullet,) but damn-it-all, it's unfair to take advantage of them and you know it!
* You = the original poster, all who moderated him +5 Insightful, all who could moderate him down, but didn't, and all who could have replied to this saying, "That's bullshit" but decided instead to make redundant jokes about taking broken iPods off others' hands.
I should have been clearer with my writing. We love booting packrats -- who willfully violate our terms of service. We don't boot users for made up or fradulent reasons.
Its the same amount of space if its a 500mb ISO image of a ripped application, or if its 500mb of vacation images sent to gramma..
So whats the difference..
The difference is that the offer is built around average use rather than maximum use. If you use disk space over the average (say ~10MB), then Google's losing money on you. By storing 500MB of anything, you can bet your ass that you'll pop up on their radar and they'll check your account out. Both you and Grandma will likely be booted for using your account for "3.(iv)...for inappropriate purpose;" (from their TOS.) But really, you're being booted for being unprofitable.
I run a free hosting service and it works much the same way. Everyone gets all excited that we offer 200MB of disk space, but the average uses just 1.4MB. We know that's how it works, and count on it. Same with DSL providers, banks, and gyms.
Think about it, each neighborhood gym has thousands of memberships, but no gym could handle every member working out once a day for 20 minutes. It's not dishonest, it's just understanding the nature of the business. They price their offer attractively for average use. They're being reasonable as long as they don't set up their offer so the average user gets screwed (e.g. unbreakable long-term contracts.)
We LOVE to boot the packrats on our service for not following the rules.
"After a night in bulk club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off."
Maybe this parody of Fight Club helps shine insight on how spammers can sleep peacefully knowing full well that millions of barbs of dislike and spite are pointed their way. What do they care? They've got the bulk club.
Grammar fun! Submission with commas included.
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Suse 9.1 Reviews?
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
"There have been several reviews of SuSE 9.1 lately in the online press. However, I'd like to hear what the buying public has to say about Novell's first release of SuSE since buying the company. I'm currently typing this article from SuSE 9.1 x86_64 and I have to say that, past a few quirks, I'm really starting to love this distro and admire how polished it has become since 8.2 (my last SuSE purchase.) What are others' opinions of the software after trying it out? What problems and new things have you discovered? If you're sticking with it after a move from another distro why did you decide to stick?"
That's how I would edit this and my grammar is admittedly lacking in the fundamentals. How would you edit it?
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You're an asshole. They're providing a free service and you're joking about abusing it. Why would you do that? Because they're a big company?
Why don't you use your funny little smarts to go start your own company running a free service, then you can deal with assholes like you every day.
In fact, your biggest problem as a dot com wonderboy isn't going to be making money, not that that's easy, it's going to be dealing with the human sleaze element of society (again, you) that's determined to lie, cheat, and steal whatever minor benefit they can out of your service.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm tired of the editors acting like assholes. I'm so fucking out of here.
The biases involved in a study like this are incalculable. I own a successful market research company and I wouldn't have any faith in publishing selected results of a survey where respondents are asked if they've participated in illegal activities. It's bullshit, there's too many variables involved.
I also dislike that they recruited for this survey off video game review websites. That's stupid, they're pre-biasing the data to a) people with access to internet connections and b) people who visit videogame websites. You can't project that kind of information onto the public as a whole. We're talking huge swaths of inaccuracies. The percentages reported could be off by 40 - 50%.
Normally I would mod something like this down as flamebait, but you got a point there. How come public opinion seems to have shifted so dramatically? Is it just a case of astro-turfing?
There's some attrocious spelling errors here. You should get someone trustworthy to look over your communications with the public.
In case you find this above poster's actions to be obnoxious and completely out of line, be sure not to visit him at home and tell him:
Understudy
Domain Name: UNDERSTUDY.NET
Registrant:
Mr Brendhan Horne
5331 Ruth Dr.
West Palm Beach
FL
33415
US
Stings a little to have your privacy violated in front of tens of thousands, doesn't it?
Ugh. Your opinion is immature and ill-informed. Take a sociology class sometime.
It's amazing that nobody's backing you up on this.
None of the people responding to your post get it that Linux is a fucking nightmare to get anything installed on.
Whoooosh.
They were pretty popular here in Los Angeles for a while. In the past month though I've noticed that the three in my neighborhood have gone out of business.
eBay does a good job of convincing people that they can do it themselves. The consignment shop idea is a bad one.
You should have been modded up for this. From the responses in here, it looks like the anti-video game legislators may be on to something.
While Opera has some interesting features like mouse gestures, it's really hard to imagine that anyone who's spent any amount of time using both would actually prefer Opera. I spent years using Opera as my main browser. I even purchased it.
When Firefox came along though, it won me over. It simply doesn't crash like Opera does.
In regards to your diatribe against vigilantes: when the authorities are corrupt or unwilling to help, vigilante justice is the only justice to be had. With spam crossing state and national borders, and the U.S. authorities being unwilling to take a stand, a little vigilante justice makes sense.
Lycos's solution doesn't make much sense though. What about spoofed mails? What's to stop me from spamming ten million people about my competitor's website, so Lycos shuts THEM down? It seems poorly thought out to me.
Doesn't it seem odd that a small form factor PC is named after a very large bird?
A very large, endangered species of bird, no less.
Wait, I'm confused. Who are you saying are the victims of the recording industry: the musicians? The consumers?
Nobody's a fucking victim, you asshole.
Ooooh. They charge a lot for music. Something must be done!
There's nothing that makes a two mile wide mushroom cloud other than a nuclear explosion.
Actually, any large fire could create a mushroom cloud that big.
Last summer, we had a brushfire here in Los Angeles and the mushroom cloud it created was five miles wide. I'd love to post a link to the pictures I took, especially the ones where the cloud reached overhead and turned the ambient light orange, but sadly, it wasn't digital film.
Here's some photos from the news coverage.
This is the second glaring typo on the front page in the last 24 hours. You'd think that with Slashdot being nearly as popular as wired.com (and certainly having as many ads as Wired does) could afford to hire someone with a degree in English to proof the submissions part-time.
Plus, this is a duplicate story.
Go ahead, mod me down as troll. Whoop de do. But think for a second about what all of this says about the amount of attention put into choosing which news matters.
If Dell's terms say they'll accept any iPod, dead or alive, it's not the least bit dishonest.
Their TOS neglects to state the condition the iPod must be in for this offer, so you're discussing exploiting a loophole or oversight and it is dishonest.
I feel like a moron for explaining this to you*. Any eight-year-old on the planet would know that sending Dell a broken iPod is _wrong_. If they accept it or not as a trade-in is up to their upper-management (perhaps they'll bite the bullet,) but damn-it-all, it's unfair to take advantage of them and you know it!
* You = the original poster, all who moderated him +5 Insightful, all who could moderate him down, but didn't, and all who could have replied to this saying, "That's bullshit" but decided instead to make redundant jokes about taking broken iPods off others' hands.
I should have been clearer with my writing. We love booting packrats -- who willfully violate our terms of service. We don't boot users for made up or fradulent reasons.
"...while surfing on lava."
Obi-wan: You will not fall to the dark side!
Anakin: Hang ten old man!
(Anakin escapes)
Obi-wan: Bogus
My wife says that the only joy she takes from this is that it's the last movie.
No, you're right. Encrypted data would be nearly impossible to prove as being illegitimate on an email service.
I wonder what they would do if 1GB of emails just started rolling in over the course of an hour or two.
Hey, if its offered, who cares how its used...
...for inappropriate purpose;" (from their TOS.) But really, you're being booted for being unprofitable.
Its the same amount of space if its a 500mb ISO image of a ripped application, or if its 500mb of vacation images sent to gramma..
So whats the difference..
The difference is that the offer is built around average use rather than maximum use. If you use disk space over the average (say ~10MB), then Google's losing money on you. By storing 500MB of anything, you can bet your ass that you'll pop up on their radar and they'll check your account out. Both you and Grandma will likely be booted for using your account for "3.(iv)
I run a free hosting service and it works much the same way. Everyone gets all excited that we offer 200MB of disk space, but the average uses just 1.4MB. We know that's how it works, and count on it. Same with DSL providers, banks, and gyms.
Think about it, each neighborhood gym has thousands of memberships, but no gym could handle every member working out once a day for 20 minutes. It's not dishonest, it's just understanding the nature of the business. They price their offer attractively for average use. They're being reasonable as long as they don't set up their offer so the average user gets screwed (e.g. unbreakable long-term contracts.)
We LOVE to boot the packrats on our service for not following the rules.
"After a night in bulk club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off."
Maybe this parody of Fight Club helps shine insight on how spammers can sleep peacefully knowing full well that millions of barbs of dislike and spite are pointed their way. What do they care? They've got the bulk club.
Go play at AloofHosting.com, free web hosting that makes sense.
"There have been several reviews of SuSE 9.1 lately in the online press. However, I'd like to hear what the buying public has to say about Novell's first release of SuSE since buying the company. I'm currently typing this article from SuSE 9.1 x86_64 and I have to say that, past a few quirks, I'm really starting to love this distro and admire how polished it has become since 8.2 (my last SuSE purchase.) What are others' opinions of the software after trying it out? What problems and new things have you discovered? If you're sticking with it after a move from another distro why did you decide to stick?"
That's how I would edit this and my grammar is admittedly lacking in the fundamentals. How would you edit it?
Answer: PerlMonks
Oh well, there's always geocities...
Or AloofHosting free web hosting
- 200MB disk space / 1GB bandwidth
- 2-line footer text ad, rather than popups or banners.
May 27th we're switching to link content ads (so we'll take up even less screen real estate) and upgrading our free hosting offering to 250MB disk space / 3GB bandwidth (metered daily.)
It's an exciting time for us.
10,000 websites hosted since Christmas.
You're an asshole. They're providing a free service and you're joking about abusing it. Why would you do that? Because they're a big company?
Why don't you use your funny little smarts to go start your own company running a free service, then you can deal with assholes like you every day.
In fact, your biggest problem as a dot com wonderboy isn't going to be making money, not that that's easy, it's going to be dealing with the human sleaze element of society (again, you) that's determined to lie, cheat, and steal whatever minor benefit they can out of your service.
Have some respect for others' livelihoods.