Reddit, Digg, YouTube, and FaceBook have a standard of comments so low that Slashdot looks like the Encyclopedia Brittanica in contrast.
I disagree at least WRT reddit. Reddit has none of the first post and GNAA trolling. The moderation system works to fast to give it any voice. The article yesterday about the guy who got bashed in McDonalds had racist statements all through the slashdot thread, and little like that in the reddit version.
It was started in the mid 2000s as a link sharing site similar to digg, but with a better discussion system, probably inspired by slashdot. It is now a far better site for discussions than slashdot.
It happens. I was in a huge food court in Kuala Lumpur where the goodness only starts with the Malaysian food, The place was seriously crowded and I noticed a young English couple (they looked that way, I could tell) perched on a little ledge meakly eating subway sandwiches.
The conclusion from the reddit thread on this incident was that the attackers were McDonalds employees, and were reacting against community oposition to a McDonalds in that location. Apparently there are issues with local people using cameras to collect evidence and the McDonalds have a hair trigger response to that activity.
People in Egypt and the Philippines are being paid to click on links. By doing that the client "VirtualBagel" pays more for their advertising service (a facebook page).
That Han wouldn't have fucked up so badly. Also the cops would have been reduced to shooting at random while he lifted off and made the jump into hyperspace.
For a start we all live in kludged up timezones anyway. I could be as much as an hour from "the correct solar time". People in China could be three hours from that time, because they have fewer timezones.
There shouldn't be any problems with operating systems at all. The only problems I know about are with critical real time systems which use GPS to set the time at both ends of an interface, but which slew the time by different rules.
Well yeah maybe. There are degrees in these things. AVR outsourced their entire developer toolchain for working on their microprocessors so that you can compile for any of their chips with gcc. Its very convenient and it sells a lot of hardware for them.
My wife has been running open office on linux and macos for years. Recently when she needed a copy of microsoft office she reacted with incredulity when she found out that our son's laptop (which came with windows) doesn't have microsoft office.
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Reddit, Digg, YouTube, and FaceBook have a standard of comments so low that Slashdot looks like the Encyclopedia Brittanica in contrast.
I disagree at least WRT reddit. Reddit has none of the first post and GNAA trolling. The moderation system works to fast to give it any voice. The article yesterday about the guy who got bashed in McDonalds had racist statements all through the slashdot thread, and little like that in the reddit version.
It was started in the mid 2000s as a link sharing site similar to digg, but with a better discussion system, probably inspired by slashdot. It is now a far better site for discussions than slashdot.
It happens. I was in a huge food court in Kuala Lumpur where the goodness only starts with the Malaysian food, The place was seriously crowded and I noticed a young English couple (they looked that way, I could tell) perched on a little ledge meakly eating subway sandwiches.
How could he not order a Royale with Cheese?
The conclusion from the reddit thread on this incident was that the attackers were McDonalds employees, and were reacting against community oposition to a McDonalds in that location. Apparently there are issues with local people using cameras to collect evidence and the McDonalds have a hair trigger response to that activity.
People in Egypt and the Philippines are being paid to click on links. By doing that the client "VirtualBagel" pays more for their advertising service (a facebook page).
Its about spam.
People say the USA is bad, but Australia seems to have the most draconian internet legislation I've heard of.
This is US policy by proxy. The US pushes foreign governments into doing stuff like this in return for "cooperation", especially trade agreements.
There is the openmoko which can run enlightenment.
Wow he went off the deep end right at the end there. Hope he is okay.
Does that actually mean they expect to get a cut?
That Han wouldn't have fucked up so badly. Also the cops would have been reduced to shooting at random while he lifted off and made the jump into hyperspace.
And then he didn't put it back!
while noting your location with a GPS
Yeah but what happens if you forget the coordinates? You write it down. Then what happens if the police find a WGS84 coordinate in your stuff?
IIRC Reiser was trying to sell his company after he was arrested, but I doubt he got 15*10^6 USD for it, and a lot would have gone to lawyers.
A bigger problem for free software is the current boom in closed tablet devices. Some android devices are open. iPads and MS Surface devices are not.
Yeah I am getting some crash dialog at startup and every hour after that. And Thunderbird crashed yesterday. Its very strange for an LTS release.
My wife uses iGoogle on her macbook in Safari. Now I suppose she will just use the apple provided desktop widgets.
Where I work 300ms is a co-worker.
No I think it was okay for half an hour or so after 0000. Slashdot can make a profit for the next couple of hours anyway.
For a start we all live in kludged up timezones anyway. I could be as much as an hour from "the correct solar time". People in China could be three hours from that time, because they have fewer timezones.
There shouldn't be any problems with operating systems at all. The only problems I know about are with critical real time systems which use GPS to set the time at both ends of an interface, but which slew the time by different rules.
This is another good reason not to google self incrimination while planning a murder.
Well yeah maybe. There are degrees in these things. AVR outsourced their entire developer toolchain for working on their microprocessors so that you can compile for any of their chips with gcc. Its very convenient and it sells a lot of hardware for them.
My wife has been running open office on linux and macos for years. Recently when she needed a copy of microsoft office she reacted with incredulity when she found out that our son's laptop (which came with windows) doesn't have microsoft office.