I work for Firebird; So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do. Cos some Slashdotters believe anything they hear.
I guess to clarify without sounding like I know anything about the company's organization: The problem I identified is managerial, not technical. The people involved in hiring programmers to do fancy RIAA CYA business should also hire more customer service representatives to handle "CYA from federal law" business. It just makes sense. Even PayPal had to do this eventually.
I apologize for sounding like I was blaming somebody (a computational audio expert) for doing their job. I meant to suggest that somebody else entirely (a CEO, or perhaps a controlling company) was not doing their job.
...and not on, say, responding to emails from my friend. He's being stalked on the Internet by a ruthless AOL-using lunatic who has conjured death threats against his ex-girlfriend while faking his identity, using publicly available information from Yahoo & Facebook & a personal blog. Whoever this is has convinced the police in three different states that my friend is writing these death threats (and thereby gotten him questioned and an investigation ongoing) and has convinced my friend's ex-girlfriend to file a restraining order.
It's a terrible mess, and Myspace is dragging their feet. Average age of each new profile created by the stalker: weeks to months, even though they're contacted promptly by email each time. Amount of uniquely identifying information provided about the stalker to police by Myspace: zero.
This is the kind of situation you would expect a very large, very public Web site to have some defined policy for. As far as I can tell my friend has not been able to find this policy. (Or to find a working phone number for these folks.)
But instead of worrying about little details like freakish Internet stalkers who pose a significant danger of actually hurting someone, they're working on bottom-line things like "not getting sued by recording industry".
Color me surprised?
(Poor "my friend", though. At least all I have to worry about is problem sets.)
Because of the way the painting was centered, if you start out with the default view and zoom in -- all the way in -- you are treated to a sudden and rather unpleasant close-up of Jesus's crotch. On the cross.
Despite my general laziness and particular enjoyment of online games like Eve-Online, I am prepared to fight, and if necessary, die, for my country. Even if it means that it will be other Americans that I will have to fight to protect the United States of America.
With respect, your paranoid delusions and violent fantasies won't do much to change the political climate. Just vote, please.
See, this is why nobody likes the Open Source community: they're so mean and unapproachable.
Geez, you go and create *one* exciting new technology -- which, sure, only your company supports, but that's a feature! -- and instead of gratefully implementing it for you, those damn longhaired hippies expect you to do the work!
Hi Adrian, As we both well know, Poulsen isn't really a reporter. The closest he's gotten to journalism is the culture writing for Wired. Your criticism is about as useful as calling Hunter S Thompson out for not being unbiased.
From the study: Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey, we first establish that the amount of television a young child watches is positively related to the amount of precipitation in the child's community. This suggests that, if television is a trigger for autism, then autism should be more prevalent in communities that receive substantial precipitation. We then look at county-level autism data for three states - California, Oregon, and Washington - characterized by high precipitation variability. Employing a variety of tests, we show that in each of the three states (and across all three states when pooled) there is substantial evidence that county autism rates are indeed positively related to county-wide levels of precipitation.
Perhaps there's something in the water.
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People who self-select a career in information technology tend to have poor social skills.
What scares the shit out me is that this article is perfectly consistent with the theory that the Bush administration knew just what bin Laden was up to, and chose to ignore it: the CIA (whom Bush, Jr., has always publicly kept at arm's length or further) told the administration, repeatedly and emphatically...and the administration most pointedly ignored everything the CIA had to say.
What keeps me up at nights is that this article is perfectly consistent with the theory that savage, hungry wild jackals jump through my bedroom window every October 2 and try to eat me...and it's nearly October 2.
What I find much more curious is that the article was printed without a byline, and that there was an apologetic Editor's Note explaining why they felt they were justified in printing the story.
The editor's note is interesting, but I don't read it as apologetic. Rather it's adding context using the standard journalistic practice of presenting enough facts to make the "what she said" and "what the facts say" reality gap clear. This is a little less strong than printing "liar", but it's considerably more effective.
As a New York county lawyer, you've doubtless heard of William Glaberson's "Broken Bench" series for the Times (part one), part two, username/password "cyberpunks" if you need one).
At least five dozen sources were contacted, and probably hundreds more; this series has been maybe a year in the making.
Do you think that citizen journalists, working alone with little "journalism school experience" and presumably holding down some other job, can produce similarly well-researched articles?
Slashdot Mirror
I work for Firebird;
So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me.... You don't.
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about.
This is how bad info gets passed around.
If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do.
Cos some Slashdotters believe anything they hear.
We used to call these "hobos".
...why use the mouse at all?
I guess to clarify without sounding like I know anything about the company's organization:
The problem I identified is managerial, not technical. The people involved in hiring programmers to do fancy RIAA CYA business should also hire more customer service representatives to handle "CYA from federal law" business. It just makes sense. Even PayPal had to do this eventually.
I apologize for sounding like I was blaming somebody (a computational audio expert) for doing their job. I meant to suggest that somebody else entirely (a CEO, or perhaps a controlling company) was not doing their job.
...and not on, say, responding to emails from my friend. He's being stalked on the Internet by a ruthless AOL-using lunatic who has conjured death threats against his ex-girlfriend while faking his identity, using publicly available information from Yahoo & Facebook & a personal blog. Whoever this is has convinced the police in three different states that my friend is writing these death threats (and thereby gotten him questioned and an investigation ongoing) and has convinced my friend's ex-girlfriend to file a restraining order.
It's a terrible mess, and Myspace is dragging their feet. Average age of each new profile created by the stalker: weeks to months, even though they're contacted promptly by email each time. Amount of uniquely identifying information provided about the stalker to police by Myspace: zero.
This is the kind of situation you would expect a very large, very public Web site to have some defined policy for. As far as I can tell my friend has not been able to find this policy. (Or to find a working phone number for these folks.)
But instead of worrying about little details like freakish Internet stalkers who pose a significant danger of actually hurting someone, they're working on bottom-line things like "not getting sued by recording industry".
Color me surprised?
(Poor "my friend", though. At least all I have to worry about is problem sets.)
Because of the way the painting was centered, if you start out with the default view and zoom in -- all the way in -- you are treated to a sudden and rather unpleasant close-up of Jesus's crotch. On the cross.
Thanks a lot, Slashdot.
Careful there.
People on the moon might throw rocks at you.
Despite my general laziness and particular enjoyment of online games like Eve-Online, I am prepared to fight, and if necessary, die, for my country. Even if it means that it will be other Americans that I will have to fight to protect the United States of America.
With respect, your paranoid delusions and violent fantasies won't do much to change the political climate. Just vote, please.
See, this is why nobody likes the Open Source community: they're so mean and unapproachable.
Geez, you go and create *one* exciting new technology -- which, sure, only your company supports, but that's a feature! -- and instead of gratefully implementing it for you, those damn longhaired hippies expect you to do the work!
Hmpf.
I know people who are actively wrecking their lives and risking their jobs by playing to much of a video game.
Translation: "Zonk, stop fragging Master Chief and get back to work!"
Hi Adrian,
As we both well know, Poulsen isn't really a reporter. The closest he's gotten to journalism is the culture writing for Wired. Your criticism is about as useful as calling Hunter S Thompson out for not being unbiased.
(Cue 'rain man' quotes).
From the study:
Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey, we first establish that the amount of television a young child watches is positively related to the amount of precipitation in the child's community. This suggests that, if television is a trigger for autism, then autism should be more prevalent in communities that receive substantial precipitation. We then look at county-level autism data for three states - California, Oregon, and Washington - characterized by high precipitation variability. Employing a variety of tests, we show that in each of the three states (and across all three states when pooled) there is substantial evidence that county autism rates are indeed positively related to county-wide levels of precipitation.
Perhaps there's something in the water.
People who self-select a career in information technology tend to have poor social skills.
Think about it.
Why have Zork when you can have Adventure?
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(why? (am (forced 'I (to-learn (language (programming 'the-LISP))))))
(seriously?)
(what? 'the-hell)
(can 'I (program (in 'C) 'just-fine)
)
Fixed that for you.
I hear he's really approachable in person.
The Wikipedia entry you're looking for is titled May you live in interesting times.
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad.
Lame.
What scares the shit out me is that this article is perfectly consistent with the theory that the Bush administration knew just what bin Laden was up to, and chose to ignore it: the CIA (whom Bush, Jr., has always publicly kept at arm's length or further) told the administration, repeatedly and emphatically...and the administration most pointedly ignored everything the CIA had to say.
What keeps me up at nights is that this article is perfectly consistent with the theory that savage, hungry wild jackals jump through my bedroom window every October 2 and try to eat me...and it's nearly October 2.
What I find much more curious is that the article was printed without a byline, and that there was an apologetic Editor's Note explaining why they felt they were justified in printing the story.
c le/2006/09/30/AR2006093000293.html. This sidebar is implicitly Woodward's as well.
There's no byline because it's a sidebar that's part of the rank one article (which was the top story on the front page of the Sunday issue, and which spilled to pages 16/17.) See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
The editor's note is interesting, but I don't read it as apologetic. Rather it's adding context using the standard journalistic practice of presenting enough facts to make the "what she said" and "what the facts say" reality gap clear. This is a little less strong than printing "liar", but it's considerably more effective.
So you're Roland Piquapelle! It's such an honor to finally meet you! So what's it like to, uh, be you?
As a New York county lawyer, you've doubtless heard of William Glaberson's "Broken Bench" series for the Times (part one), part two, username/password "cyberpunks" if you need one).
At least five dozen sources were contacted, and probably hundreds more; this series has been maybe a year in the making.
Do you think that citizen journalists, working alone with little "journalism school experience" and presumably holding down some other job, can produce similarly well-researched articles?
due to AIDS
I prefer edlin.
I'm not sure. I, myself, have never been to far.