You're right. I don't know that. But it would seem obvious (to me) that if he did, he would've mentioned it on his website. Come on, this would just put more fuel on the fire if this was the case, right?
Exactly. There are legal ways that he didn't even try. He went to the seller, and when he found out he couldn't get any further, he resorted to these actions. I'm not at all familiar with the justice system in the UK, but i can imagine that if he faces trial, he'll be asked something like "Why didn't you contact the police first?". Because involving the police means no publicity for himself maybe? Come on, what webmaster wouldn't be happy to get 2 million hits in less than a week?
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No sense of humor because that person didn't find it funny when another human being dies? Hmmm... I fail to see how this can be a case of exaggerated self-importance either, but okay. It's good to see this comment was moderated as Interesting, because that it is indeed. Among a whole lot of other things Slashdot unfortunately has no way of moderating. In the grand scheme of 'things' (nicely said), it most certainly does matter if a single person dies. Just because it's nobody related to you doesn't mean it's not important. I think by making this comment, you yourself have proven to have an exaggerated self-importance.
Reminds me somewhat of the Palm Desktop software. You can't install it as administrator, because then the user can't run it anymore. You can't install it as the user because he/she requires admin rights. So you have to give the user admin rights, install the app and take the rights off again. This kind of works, because there are many missing functionalities after taking the rights away. And then after you got everything working and you notice some Outlook calendar appointments aren't synchronised and you contact Palm helpdesk about it, you get to hear their superb answer on this: "It's a known problem. You will need to buy a third-party sync app if you want to get it working.". Hurrah!
The only link i could find to the actual interview in which she made the statement is in Dutch. I hope it's useful to you though. The interview itself was published in dutch newspaper 'Trouw' on Saturday, January 25th, 2003. link
Here in the Netherlands there was a big uproar when Hirshi Ali basically said the same thing: Mohammed was a pedophile because he took a 9 year old for a wife. Yet she gets elected Woman of the Year by Times magazine.
Reference please? (Nederlands of Engels)
She didn't get elected Woman of the Year. She was named as one of the Time 100 most influential persons of 2005. See this link
I didn't have time to fully read these stories, but i did browse through them a bit. One sentence made me agree with Google: "Bush is actually fighting a war on two fronts. One is with Islam, the real enemy". This isn't news. This is stating an opinion, which has no place in reporting the news. Key word here is 'reporting'. Just stick to that. Don't bring your opinion, because it's not the same as all of your readers'.
I'm working in the IT dept. so i'm not too familiar with the procedures. I only pick up what i hear;) But yes, an entire section was off-limits to most of the employees. And there are certain organisations that have to be notified when this occurs. I don't know the english equivalent for the organisations here, but it's one that also reports if there are outbreaks of a virus, if there was a problem in the nearby industry that could affect health. All these kind of things.
True, but if you imagine everyone that installs WinXP arrives at the same point during the installation: "Please enter the usernames". And these users that are being made (by the (unknowing/unsuspecting) customer) all have Administrator rights. It's then kind of difficult trying to convince these people that it's a good thing _not_ to have Administrator rights. Seriously, try to convince some random user that it's better to have limited rights and use the 'run as' function (or log off/log on as admin) to install applications. I can give you the reaction which 90% of them will have: "Pfffff! That's too much work! Why would i change things now that i got them working?". I'm trying to come up with valid responses to that, such as explaining them about self-installing trojans etc. To some this makes sense. Most of them continue using Administrator accounts though, because it's "too much trouble to do extra things". Sad but true.
I can relate to that. I work in a hospital and earlier this year we had to shut down an entire section of the hospital because of this. It's very contagious (correct spelling?) and it involves alot of work, because you have to see who the patient had contact with, inform those people about the situation and, if deemed necessary, invite these persons back to the hospital to check them too. All kinds of institutions will need to be informed too.
If i stopped when somebody said somethign similar, i would've never used linux. Really, my first experience with linux went soemthing like this:
me: i'm being nuked on irc and bad people keep me from having fun
friend: install linux
me: what who where?
friend: *sigh* here's a cd
me: slackware 3.4? what do i do with it?
friend: install, read doc on root cd. stop asking questions right now
so i read everything i could on the cd, installed linux, totally screwed up everything, re-installed, totally screwed things up again (repeat last 2 steps a couple of times), installed linux, work with linux. I had no help whatsoever and this is also why it took me 2 months before i was online (my modem required a special init string), but man! the satisfaction you get then! I felt great because i found all my answers. Not somebody from the internet, newsgroups or fora! So when i got a little better in it, and somebody asked me the same questions i asked in the beginning, my response was similar to "rtfm".
I don't think the person in the article was treated with such disrespect. More likely the person kept asking the same questions, without doing a little research for himself. I treat somebody like that exactly the same. RTFM first, and if you have questions about that, that's okay.
I disagree. In the last couple of months, we've virtualized almost half our network. About 20 servers that used to run on physical hardware now runs on one of our four VMWare ESX servers. Everything runs more than fine, without paying alot for the hardware. Granted, the machines that ESX runs on are quite bloated, but hey, if you can run about 8 servers on 1 machine you'll find that the costs aren't that big anymore. No, virtualization has come a long way since the first time i used it to boot linux inside windows (and vice versa).
Funny is that this whole business is just 'in your head'. The physical need for nicotine lasts 3-4 days after you smoke your last cig. After that it's just your mind that wants the nicotine.
Hm. Invading a country. Letting the invaded people work for you at your base with your stuff. And now there's stuff missing you say? Really? Who would've thought....
While i agree that it would be worth the effort for anyone not reading the review through a text-based webbrowser (lynx for example), don't you need Macromedia Flash for this? AFAIK they haven't created a 'free' version yet, so how would i make a review?
If the ad makes you stop and look at it, they win.
I'm not so sure about that. Yes, it makes you stop and look. But then? If i see an ad, promoting a magazine by displaying it on a ton of fresh poop, i will stop and look as well because it stands out from the crowd. But that's not a guarantee that i'll buy it. In fact, if my line of thought goes something like this "Hm, nice magazine... probably.. but wtf is up with that pile of poo? I'm not even going to check out the magazine, because this promises little good", the ad will influence my opinion in a negative way.
You cannot buy culture. You learn about it, you appriciate it, you emulate it.
You move your Great Artist into a city and have him create a Great Work. You increase the culture tax a bit. You can buy culture! And i'll throw a nuke on everyone who says i can't!
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You're right. I don't know that. But it would seem obvious (to me) that if he did, he would've mentioned it on his website. Come on, this would just put more fuel on the fire if this was the case, right?
Exactly. There are legal ways that he didn't even try. He went to the seller, and when he found out he couldn't get any further, he resorted to these actions. I'm not at all familiar with the justice system in the UK, but i can imagine that if he faces trial, he'll be asked something like "Why didn't you contact the police first?". Because involving the police means no publicity for himself maybe? Come on, what webmaster wouldn't be happy to get 2 million hits in less than a week?
No sense of humor because that person didn't find it funny when another human being dies? Hmmm ... I fail to see how this can be a case of exaggerated self-importance either, but okay. It's good to see this comment was moderated as Interesting, because that it is indeed. Among a whole lot of other things Slashdot unfortunately has no way of moderating. In the grand scheme of 'things' (nicely said), it most certainly does matter if a single person dies. Just because it's nobody related to you doesn't mean it's not important. I think by making this comment, you yourself have proven to have an exaggerated self-importance.
Reminds me somewhat of the Palm Desktop software. You can't install it as administrator, because then the user can't run it anymore. You can't install it as the user because he/she requires admin rights. So you have to give the user admin rights, install the app and take the rights off again. This kind of works, because there are many missing functionalities after taking the rights away. And then after you got everything working and you notice some Outlook calendar appointments aren't synchronised and you contact Palm helpdesk about it, you get to hear their superb answer on this: "It's a known problem. You will need to buy a third-party sync app if you want to get it working.". Hurrah!
The only link i could find to the actual interview in which she made the statement is in Dutch. I hope it's useful to you though. The interview itself was published in dutch newspaper 'Trouw' on Saturday, January 25th, 2003. link
I didn't have time to fully read these stories, but i did browse through them a bit. One sentence made me agree with Google: "Bush is actually fighting a war on two fronts. One is with Islam, the real enemy". This isn't news. This is stating an opinion, which has no place in reporting the news. Key word here is 'reporting'. Just stick to that. Don't bring your opinion, because it's not the same as all of your readers'.
I'm working in the IT dept. so i'm not too familiar with the procedures. I only pick up what i hear ;) But yes, an entire section was off-limits to most of the employees. And there are certain organisations that have to be notified when this occurs. I don't know the english equivalent for the organisations here, but it's one that also reports if there are outbreaks of a virus, if there was a problem in the nearby industry that could affect health. All these kind of things.
True, but if you imagine everyone that installs WinXP arrives at the same point during the installation: "Please enter the usernames". And these users that are being made (by the (unknowing/unsuspecting) customer) all have Administrator rights. It's then kind of difficult trying to convince these people that it's a good thing _not_ to have Administrator rights. Seriously, try to convince some random user that it's better to have limited rights and use the 'run as' function (or log off/log on as admin) to install applications. I can give you the reaction which 90% of them will have: "Pfffff! That's too much work! Why would i change things now that i got them working?". I'm trying to come up with valid responses to that, such as explaining them about self-installing trojans etc. To some this makes sense. Most of them continue using Administrator accounts though, because it's "too much trouble to do extra things". Sad but true.
I can relate to that. I work in a hospital and earlier this year we had to shut down an entire section of the hospital because of this. It's very contagious (correct spelling?) and it involves alot of work, because you have to see who the patient had contact with, inform those people about the situation and, if deemed necessary, invite these persons back to the hospital to check them too. All kinds of institutions will need to be informed too.
Aha. Javascript. Thankee for all the replies :) It makes more sense now.
Not just an organ, but the biggest one in a human.
If i stopped when somebody said somethign similar, i would've never used linux. Really, my first experience with linux went soemthing like this: me: i'm being nuked on irc and bad people keep me from having fun friend: install linux me: what who where? friend: *sigh* here's a cd me: slackware 3.4? what do i do with it? friend: install, read doc on root cd. stop asking questions right now so i read everything i could on the cd, installed linux, totally screwed up everything, re-installed, totally screwed things up again (repeat last 2 steps a couple of times), installed linux, work with linux. I had no help whatsoever and this is also why it took me 2 months before i was online (my modem required a special init string), but man! the satisfaction you get then! I felt great because i found all my answers. Not somebody from the internet, newsgroups or fora! So when i got a little better in it, and somebody asked me the same questions i asked in the beginning, my response was similar to "rtfm". I don't think the person in the article was treated with such disrespect. More likely the person kept asking the same questions, without doing a little research for himself. I treat somebody like that exactly the same. RTFM first, and if you have questions about that, that's okay.
I disagree. In the last couple of months, we've virtualized almost half our network. About 20 servers that used to run on physical hardware now runs on one of our four VMWare ESX servers. Everything runs more than fine, without paying alot for the hardware. Granted, the machines that ESX runs on are quite bloated, but hey, if you can run about 8 servers on 1 machine you'll find that the costs aren't that big anymore. No, virtualization has come a long way since the first time i used it to boot linux inside windows (and vice versa).
Funny is that this whole business is just 'in your head'. The physical need for nicotine lasts 3-4 days after you smoke your last cig. After that it's just your mind that wants the nicotine.
Hm. Invading a country. Letting the invaded people work for you at your base with your stuff. And now there's stuff missing you say? Really? Who would've thought ....
While i agree that it would be worth the effort for anyone not reading the review through a text-based webbrowser (lynx for example), don't you need Macromedia Flash for this? AFAIK they haven't created a 'free' version yet, so how would i make a review?
or "what's the meaning of life?"
...
oh wait, we already have an answer for that one
I don't know why, but since i'm on /. and it includes support for more displays i automaticly think of porn. Maybe it's the crowd ....