I consider it at least rude of Myspace to go over the site owner's head and get the registrar to take out the entire domain without letting the site owner know about it.
Well, we don't really know this. Not sayin' it's so, but I can see Fyodor Vaskovich telling them to "get fucked" or simular.
...asked GoDaddy to remove a site that happened to archive a list of thousands of MySpace usernames and passwords...
Sounds reasonable to me. Fyodor was out of line. And, it's not up to GoDaddy to filter through the 100,000's of Fyodor's pages, he's alrady shown the domain to be a security threat. If he wants GoDaddy to reverse its actions, he needs to clean up his act himself. That's not GoDaddy's job.
One of the reasons I personally pirate movies is it's easier. I don't have to mess around with anything, I just find a torrent (easy as pie)...
But when ever the regular anti record / movie industry stoy pops up here, the story is exactly the opposite, that P2P file shairing protocols like BitTorrent are not used for this sort of thing, certainly not by anyone here! So which is it? You can't have it both ways...
I doubt many geeks have non-genuine Windows installs.
Oh you've got to be kidding. This is the hight of Slashdot delusional thinking. You know as well as I do that the primary source of cracked XP is geeks. Same with cracked Photoshop and all the rest. Next thing, you'll be telling me that no one here has any pirated music.
and (perhaps worst of all) ruined the company's talks with Cisco over the iPhone name
I don't think Apple feels they where going anywhere with Cisco, and that they had nothing to loose. There is some speculation that Apple thinks Cisco abandoned the trademark, and that Apple can win that point in court. Cisco needs Apple, not the other way around. Apple can name the phone device something else with little or no loss in visibility or branding power.
I'm not sure why it's a google problem, there's a bandwidth crunch coming no doubt about it. The ISPs, the backbones, and everybody in between have been selling a whole thing and knowing that people are only going to use the thing 1% of the time so they sold the same thing a hundred times; now people are using more and more of what they are paying for. Something got to give
Nonsense. There is plenty of bandwidth. ISP wish to leverage the current levels of usage to their profit advantage. This is the only reason they sell the same chunk of bandwidth to many people. It has no relationship to the availability of bandwidth to the ISP.
If microsoft was pulling some of the stuff that google had done in the past, people would be up in arms. Instead, simply because they're not microsoft, they get the public's and the IT's blessing.
We know with almost 100% certainty that if Microsoft where doing something like this, there is no possible way it would benifit the consumer. With Google, that's not such a sure thing. Maybe it's bad, maybe it's not. But with Microsoft, it's sure to be bad.
My feeling is that if you are at MIT, you can be expected to do this.
You might think that. But, do you want to bet your network on it? And, not all of the disciplines revolve around computers. There may very well be scientists there who computer geeks might consider Luddites.
It's only a problem if you haven't read and understood (or had a trustworthy, competent person read and understand on your behalf) the source code of the software you are running, and know for sure that it does only what you want and expect it to do.
Yes, and we know everyone does that, right? Right?
This would be a good thing. Just think of how 99% of all blogs would then disappear, freeing up HUGE amounts of wasted bandwidth and reducing the Google Index by 1 good 2/3rds!
Somebody really needs a life, here. He's so tasteless, I guess he gets no chances with women.
I dunno... Plenty of real good-looking and smart women are interested in Sci-Fi, and from the looks of this guys toys, he's loaded... Probably gets more tail than the average Slashdotter...
Yes, people do not care to address these issues, rather they wish to see Draper through rose colored glasses. He broke into the phone system and wrote an early word processor, but he's hardly Stphen Hawking or even The Woz. He's a nut, and nuts generally end up where Mr. Draper has.
Mr. Draper's unusual behavior, such as shouting at anyone smoking anywhere near him, could wear on fellow workers and employers.
Maybe someone should tell him if he cleans himself up and brushes his teeth, it'll be easier to pick up the young raver boys.
Municipal and government networks do not have the advantage of competition, and therefore disparage innovation, not vice versa.
Municipal networks encourage competition by forcing commercial networks to provide services that they had to that point refused. Municipal networks exist only because commercial networks refuse to compete, instead maintaining a "status quo."
This is a great example of non-news being used in an attempt to stir up some Patents Suck shit here. Nano-Proprietary owns some technology that Toshiba doesn't wish to pay the price for. This get's in the way of the SED venture, so Canon buys 'em out. Earth-shaking. Down with patents, blah, blah, blah...
It's interesting that so far, most of the posts here are saying "What's the problem? Don't do stupid and shameful things, no problems", yet wherever the issue of CCTV Brit style comes up, it's nothing but outrage. What's the difference?
We hear this suggestion all the time, but the reality is that the reason Firefox and Opera are "more secure" is that there are less people using them. Their market share isn't worthwhile to the commercial malware authors.
Is this really true? Anecdotal pronouncements like this never seem to come with any references. Everyone says the sky is firmly in place, but how many have looked up recently? It's falling at an amazing speed!
it's about principle. if enough of us demand the 52 bucks, thats a good deal of money for Dell and Microsoft to eat.
For me, it's about the 52 bucks. As to this ever making a noticable dent in Dell, don't hold your breath. The majority of Dell's customers want Windows. Indeed, the majority of all computer buyers want Windows. You see, most of the applications out there that most people use only run on Windows.
"Unless the time required to sign-in, post to, and maintain profiles across each network is reduced, it will be impossible for most users to participate in multiple sites for very long."
This will not happen because these for profit sites do not want you to use other networks, certainly not with theirs.
I hear this business about "burnt" beans all the time, but I have to wonder if they do it because their customers like the product? There are certainly many alternatives to Starbucks (which I use whenever possible)...
As to QA, this just isn't so. My son did his internship at the Starbucks roasting facility in Auburn, WA, an operation that is highly computer controlled (so they do know exactly how they are roasting the beans), they have an extensive QA program. So, if the coffee sucks, it's because they like it that way (!!!).
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Well, we don't really know this. Not sayin' it's so, but I can see Fyodor Vaskovich telling them to "get fucked" or simular.
Sounds reasonable to me. Fyodor was out of line. And, it's not up to GoDaddy to filter through the 100,000's of Fyodor's pages, he's alrady shown the domain to be a security threat. If he wants GoDaddy to reverse its actions, he needs to clean up his act himself. That's not GoDaddy's job.
Oh you've got to be kidding. This is the hight of Slashdot delusional thinking. You know as well as I do that the primary source of cracked XP is geeks. Same with cracked Photoshop and all the rest. Next thing, you'll be telling me that no one here has any pirated music.
I don't think Apple feels they where going anywhere with Cisco, and that they had nothing to loose. There is some speculation that Apple thinks Cisco abandoned the trademark, and that Apple can win that point in court. Cisco needs Apple, not the other way around. Apple can name the phone device something else with little or no loss in visibility or branding power.
Nonsense. There is plenty of bandwidth. ISP wish to leverage the current levels of usage to their profit advantage. This is the only reason they sell the same chunk of bandwidth to many people. It has no relationship to the availability of bandwidth to the ISP.
We know with almost 100% certainty that if Microsoft where doing something like this, there is no possible way it would benifit the consumer. With Google, that's not such a sure thing. Maybe it's bad, maybe it's not. But with Microsoft, it's sure to be bad.
You might think that. But, do you want to bet your network on it? And, not all of the disciplines revolve around computers. There may very well be scientists there who computer geeks might consider Luddites.
Yes, and we know everyone does that, right? Right?
Most people's attitude about things like this change drastically after they actually have kids of their own to be responsible for.
This would be a good thing. Just think of how 99% of all blogs would then disappear, freeing up HUGE amounts of wasted bandwidth and reducing the Google Index by 1 good 2/3rds!
I dunno... Plenty of real good-looking and smart women are interested in Sci-Fi, and from the looks of this guys toys, he's loaded... Probably gets more tail than the average Slashdotter...
And naturally that's Microsofts fault? Not the developer who doesn't know anything about their tool?
Maybe someone should tell him if he cleans himself up and brushes his teeth, it'll be easier to pick up the young raver boys.
Municipal networks encourage competition by forcing commercial networks to provide services that they had to that point refused. Municipal networks exist only because commercial networks refuse to compete, instead maintaining a "status quo."
This is a great example of non-news being used in an attempt to stir up some Patents Suck shit here. Nano-Proprietary owns some technology that Toshiba doesn't wish to pay the price for. This get's in the way of the SED venture, so Canon buys 'em out. Earth-shaking. Down with patents, blah, blah, blah...
It's interesting that so far, most of the posts here are saying "What's the problem? Don't do stupid and shameful things, no problems", yet wherever the issue of CCTV Brit style comes up, it's nothing but outrage. What's the difference?
Is this really true? Anecdotal pronouncements like this never seem to come with any references. Everyone says the sky is firmly in place, but how many have looked up recently? It's falling at an amazing speed!
And in that context, if anyone "owned" the experience of what ever transpired, wouldn't it more likely be CNet?
It says it was "successful" but all I see is a bunch of pictures of the thing sitting on the ground.
Who the hell uses percolators anymore? Do they even sell them?
This will not happen because these for profit sites do not want you to use other networks, certainly not with theirs.
Let's see... That means the $1.80 grande drip costs .45 to .90 at other coffe shops? Sorry, I can't stand Boyds or Folgers...
As to QA, this just isn't so. My son did his internship at the Starbucks roasting facility in Auburn, WA, an operation that is highly computer controlled (so they do know exactly how they are roasting the beans), they have an extensive QA program. So, if the coffee sucks, it's because they like it that way (!!!).