You would have had a net gain of 1 point of karma last week despite all 30 or so of your posts.
Spiral! You were supposed to tell me how points were being awarded. I thought I was supposed to try to get the most posts to +5, not the most positive mod values!!! Yeeesh...
In other, unrelated news, several mothers have reported candy being stolen from their babies near the filming location of the latest Star Wars movie. George Lucas was unavailable for comment at the time of this release.
I can't believe it... Signal 11... corrected? Well, nevermind that it was 7 replies down the tree... the mere idea that I might be wrong precludes me clicking on that link.
But still, that's no reason for the demeaning tone of this post.
I think you meant "manner", not "tone". As you know, the only tones made during the creation of that post were tapity-tap-tap-clickity-click-SUBMIT.
I just love the way we geeks all tend to rip each other to shreds when we make stupid mistakes,
And why not? It's not like it was an intelligent mistake.. we have an entire kernel filled with intelligent mistakes. But stupid mistakes can be spotted from a mile away through dense fog across the english channel... there's no excuse for him to have not bothered to secure those passwords. I did it, and I don't even know perl!
You had no moral obligation to inform the readers of anything.
Major newspapers have a similar attitude. You might guess how interesting the content is.
Slashdot folks are a pretty educated crew
How quickly ye forgets why we have a moderation system!
This is nice to see. Big, front-page article saying they've been hacked, letting their users know. How many web sites do you think would do that for their users?
Well, the answer rather depends on who the hacker was, now doesn't it?:D
Bah, I cracked slashdot years ago. How'da think I manage to get +5, funny all the time? You think I actually post something like that? Nah. It was late one night, I was karma whoring like I usually do, and I spotted this little pi symbol on the bottom of the page (it was right after they were aquired by Andover.net) and so I clicked on it.. and there it was! Full access to everything. So, I like, gave myself 5000 karma points and changed my default posting score to be +4.
Let's see, after all the negative publicity surrounding Carnivore, not the least of which is its name, which evokes imagery of a huge machine eating its citizens (Big brother, maybe?), is it at all suprising they have "stacked the deck", as it were?
Remind the press that almost categorically down the line every major university has declined to review carnivore, citing the FBI's NDA, amongst other things.
The thought that ought to be on the mind of every citizen ought to be "What are they hiding?" This is a government that was, at one time, by and for the people. We were supposed to have a government accessible to the common man, and where things were out in the open. Most congressional votes (And I think it should be *all*) are public - you know who your rep voted for. Who's voting for Carnivore?
The only important thing about books is the content.
That's not true. Books can be counted on to be readable thousands of years from now. You write a book and bury it somewhere, and in a thousand years you can count on someone, somewhere, being able to figure out the idea behind your words. Put it in a digital black box, and maybe we will no longer have the technology available to read it. Books are a form of putting ideas into a tangible, and archivable form. Despite all our computer advances, books, not discs, are what we use for long term archiving.
is akin to dismissing art lovers who purchase prints instead of originals.
Mmm, but there's only one original. That is, afterall, why they're called "originals". A bad analogy to use with books, because everyone these days has the ability to produce one. Given the literary talent one finds in most of them, this is quite obvious. However, if that isn't convincing enough, simply send a 500 page Word document to your printer, and then take it to Kinkos and ask them to bind it for you. Viola, one book.
What the hell does the media have to do with what I'm trying to say?
It doesn't diminish the quality of the work, only the experience. Ideas are intangible.
If I were a writer...
Funny.. what were you doing just now?
Digital books are fundamentally the Right Thing.
Yes, in the same way that the telegraph was the Right Thing before the telephone, or the telgram was the Right Thing before the radio, or the radio before the television, or the calculator before the computer...
Digital books will break down, become worn out. REAL books don't have that limitation. You can't archive a digital book for a thousand years.. the batteries will go dead. Somebody might not be able to service it. There is no sticker on the back of a real book that says "no user serviceable parts inside". Not only that, but you can loan a REAL book to your friend. Under the spectre of the stranglehold IP proponents have, it's unlikely you'll be able to loan your digital book to your friend without being thrown in jail and fined a half million dollars.
Now it's your turn to step down from your pedestal and get a firm grip on reality. Digital books are not the end all and be all of content distribution, in the same way that digital music isn't the end all and be all of music distribution. I still prefer going to a concert as opposed to watching it on TV or listening to it in the form of a CD.
There's something to be said for being able to hold a book in your hand. The flexible pages, the weight, the simple fact that you know it is something tangible.
All of the current "digital books" that I've seen are a kind of tablet and you click buttons to make the pages scroll by. A big version of a palm pilot, or one of those Transmeta "web appliances". They won't replace books, because books have a quality that pure digital devices don't.
A book has texture, substance, density, weight, alot of things that make it much more physical, and therefore real, than these digital books do. If you're asking me, this is a fad. These digital books will wind up looking more like the Star Trek pads that you saw being waved about. Small palm-pilot sized devices which can interface with nearby systems (bluetooth) and upload/download information. They will have texts in them, of course, but people won't use them to read volumes - it strains the eye.
So I think the better question would be "What will these books evolve into?"
You can only commit treason if you are a government employee. So if a CIA agent decides to leave a packet containing nuclear secrets at my doorstep and I ring up the Libya Embassy and say "Hey guys, guess what I just found!"... The CIA guy gets the chair, not me. Instead, I'd probably be nailed under one of the new (and stupid) 'terrorism' acts that congress passed. And if by some quirk of fate there is no law, they'll just charge me with something bogus and then as soon as I show up for court, find me in contempt of court and throw me in jail for life (Yes, they really can do this).
CDE... that rings a bell. Wasn't that a failed effort to get UNIX' X-windows interface standardized... but blew up because it was hard to code for, wasn't self consistent, and was incompatible with everything else?
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Spiral! You were supposed to tell me how points were being awarded. I thought I was supposed to try to get the most posts to +5, not the most positive mod values!!! Yeeesh...
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What kind of pervert thinks all this stuff up?!
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You can tell because it's marked -1, offtopic.
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Ngggh. Resist urge.
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$password = crypt($password,"XX");
/* XX 'cuz I can't remember how to gen 16 bits of entropy in perl /*
Heck, even now, I don't know that you can hold them to "Customer focus."
"All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2000 OSDN."
But still, that's no reason for the demeaning tone of this post.
I think you meant "manner", not "tone". As you know, the only tones made during the creation of that post were tapity-tap-tap-clickity-click-SUBMIT.
I just love the way we geeks all tend to rip each other to shreds when we make stupid mistakes,
And why not? It's not like it was an intelligent mistake.. we have an entire kernel filled with intelligent mistakes. But stupid mistakes can be spotted from a mile away through dense fog across the english channel... there's no excuse for him to have not bothered to secure those passwords. I did it, and I don't even know perl!
You had no moral obligation to inform the readers of anything.
Major newspapers have a similar attitude. You might guess how interesting the content is.
Slashdot folks are a pretty educated crew
How quickly ye forgets why we have a moderation system!
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Oh. Her. Well, all I gotta say is that if that was UNIX... Not like you forget a detail like that.
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Well, the answer rather depends on who the hacker was, now doesn't it? :D
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Now you know HOW natalie portman wound up being petrified (and coincidentally, was naked at the time)... it was marketing.
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If I find the group of engineers responsible for this and pokemon broadcasts.. *grumble*
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Remind the press that almost categorically down the line every major university has declined to review carnivore, citing the FBI's NDA, amongst other things.
The thought that ought to be on the mind of every citizen ought to be "What are they hiding?" This is a government that was, at one time, by and for the people. We were supposed to have a government accessible to the common man, and where things were out in the open. Most congressional votes (And I think it should be *all*) are public - you know who your rep voted for. Who's voting for Carnivore?
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If I'm gonna spend 4-6 hours reading a book, it damned well be pleasing to do so, I think!
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The only important thing about books is the content.
That's not true. Books can be counted on to be readable thousands of years from now. You write a book and bury it somewhere, and in a thousand years you can count on someone, somewhere, being able to figure out the idea behind your words. Put it in a digital black box, and maybe we will no longer have the technology available to read it. Books are a form of putting ideas into a tangible, and archivable form. Despite all our computer advances, books, not discs, are what we use for long term archiving.
is akin to dismissing art lovers who purchase prints instead of originals.
Mmm, but there's only one original. That is, afterall, why they're called "originals". A bad analogy to use with books, because everyone these days has the ability to produce one. Given the literary talent one finds in most of them, this is quite obvious. However, if that isn't convincing enough, simply send a 500 page Word document to your printer, and then take it to Kinkos and ask them to bind it for you. Viola, one book.
What the hell does the media have to do with what I'm trying to say?
It doesn't diminish the quality of the work, only the experience. Ideas are intangible.
If I were a writer...
Funny.. what were you doing just now?
Digital books are fundamentally the Right Thing.
Yes, in the same way that the telegraph was the Right Thing before the telephone, or the telgram was the Right Thing before the radio, or the radio before the television, or the calculator before the computer...
Digital books will break down, become worn out. REAL books don't have that limitation. You can't archive a digital book for a thousand years.. the batteries will go dead. Somebody might not be able to service it. There is no sticker on the back of a real book that says "no user serviceable parts inside". Not only that, but you can loan a REAL book to your friend. Under the spectre of the stranglehold IP proponents have, it's unlikely you'll be able to loan your digital book to your friend without being thrown in jail and fined a half million dollars.
Now it's your turn to step down from your pedestal and get a firm grip on reality. Digital books are not the end all and be all of content distribution, in the same way that digital music isn't the end all and be all of music distribution. I still prefer going to a concert as opposed to watching it on TV or listening to it in the form of a CD.
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All of the current "digital books" that I've seen are a kind of tablet and you click buttons to make the pages scroll by. A big version of a palm pilot, or one of those Transmeta "web appliances". They won't replace books, because books have a quality that pure digital devices don't.
A book has texture, substance, density, weight, alot of things that make it much more physical, and therefore real, than these digital books do. If you're asking me, this is a fad. These digital books will wind up looking more like the Star Trek pads that you saw being waved about. Small palm-pilot sized devices which can interface with nearby systems (bluetooth) and upload/download information. They will have texts in them, of course, but people won't use them to read volumes - it strains the eye.
So I think the better question would be "What will these books evolve into?"
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I smell a marketing department here...
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