OK, so the campaign started giving boatloads of money to Scott Goodstein, and maybe they didn't want to pay twice for the same type of work. There are still a lot of options. When the workload on the site increased, he needed to either:
1. be payed to sacrifice all of his free time in the effort 2. be payed to be able to leave his day job 3. or be much less responsive and have the site be an unofficial Obama page only.
Assuming none of those were acceptable, Goodstein could have: 1. Payed the reasonable sum to take over the myspace page. 2. Offered less after receiving the offer that they had solicited. 3. Set up ObamaForPresident. Make it the official profile, and point impact.myspace.com to there. or 4. Steal Anthony's profile and make Mr. Obama look like an asshole.
They chose number four. Please note that Bill Richardson didn't steal myspace.com/billrichardson just to get more visibility. richardsonforpresident was good enough, and the right thing to do. Pay attention to what people do, not who they say they are.
Hey Barack. Fire that Goodstein. He was supposed to be an expert at building online community support, and he's obviously misrepresented himself. You have to work with communities, you can't dictate to them. F-ing over your supporters is a bit more of a visible and permanent error online. You don't have to pay Goodstein six figures to learn that.
Remains to be seen if Vista will ever achieve enough market penetration to apply such pressures effectively
Once you're unable to buy a new computer with any version of Windows except Vista, the uptake of Vista should be pretty brisk. I just manually installed XP yesterday, and it's a safe bet that Microsoft has guaranteed that no user is going to want to go through that horrible process, assuming they also are willing to pay full retail "nobody really pays this" price to "downgrade".
Do not underestimate how much Microsoft owns their user base. Did you not get Windows Genuine Advantage?
What has open source accomplished that Microsoft didn't accomplish 10 years in advance?
Pretty much everything. Those open source projects that didn't pre-date the MS versions were easily coded afterwards in somewhat less than 10 years. It's not as if MS was the original innovator anyway. Did Internet Explorer come out 10 years before Netscape? Is MS not copying ideas for their browser from Firefox now? Come on! They wrote their spreadsheet after Lotus123. Their word processor after Word Perfect. Where is this technical leadership that you think they have? That has never been their competitive advantage.
It's commentary-in-the-tags that caused me to disable them in my profile months ago.
It can be useful user commentary. If the editors were of a higher caliber, I admit there wouldn't be much use, but I regularly see "slashvertisement", "hoax", "oldnews", "vaporware", or some original tag that saves me the time of reading some of the useless articles that come through here too often these days.
I'd like the option to vote against a bad tag though. They can be too hard to supplant otherwise.
The simple fact is that unless you have an explicit reason to believe that you are meant to access someone's wireless, you should not; and to access it anyway is unethical.
Oh come on. An open access point is often joined automatically without user intervention. Throw my laptop in jail then. If the owner's defense is incompetence to be able to turn on security, then it's my defense too for not knowing who I'm connected to.
People are expected to put "No Trespassing" signs when they don't want people walking across their open land. Same idea here.
Patched quickly, yes, but if the patched driver was released Dec. 7, 2006 then the news that "a flaw was found", is even older than that. On top of that I didn't see mention of an exploit, so the article is a little sensational, but for some reason wireless seems to do that to journalists.
I think most of us would rather have a third choice that combines reasonable prices with reasonable service.
That seems like a reasonable assumption, but I suspect that the reality is that people will accept terrible customer service and even a less durable product to save a buck or two. This works even better if you tell them that you have great customer service and great products. Just imagine back a few decades when stores would sell us full service and genuine quality. Then, look are where we are now. As we accept the new lower standard, they continue to surprise us with how much lower it can get.
Married, but childless by choice, and a strong gay and lesbian advocate for someone who claims to be unbiased. During her Lynn Cheney interview she only wanted to talk about gay rights, even after the woman had repeatedly declined further comment. She mentions the general confusion about her orientation in her book, and implies that she's straight, although she's "flattered by the assumption" that she's gay. So we don't know for sure, and you don't need to get mad in any case.
It's slightly different. It only keeps your plea from being used against you in other cases. Otherwise, it's treated the same as a guilty plea. This is typically done when the defendant expects a civil case to follow the criminal one, and the confession of guilt would prejudice it. This could be why she's not saying, "I admit that I was wrong, and I'm grateful for the judgement," because technically she didn't admit to being wrong, she was just surrendering her case.
The judge didn't accept the pleas anyway, preferring to dismiss the charges, so it didn't matter in the end.
Since I found out you're supposed to have a spare box when installing a new OS
As if to prove that people have wasted their time trying to help you... You don't need a second computer. You also don't need a Windows CD to install Ubuntu. Only if you are trying to set up a dual-boot system should you have your install disks (for both OSes), and that is only as a backup. I'm not saying you didn't hit an installer bug, but you certainly didn't come out of it any wiser.
BTW, if you add Windows to a running Linux system, it *will* rewrite your MBR and make your Linux OS unbootable every time. So you need a Linux CD to install Windows, right?
And one more thing: No, you are not a poisonous developer/contributor. That would be promoting you. You're just a troll, and you're obviously reliving your favorite troll by reposting it here.
Exactly! Although my motivations are for my favorite sites to not lose revenue, and so that they can't detect that I haven't read it. Seriously, how long is it until servers check which elements I have downloaded and warn me to turn off my adblocker?
I used to use bugmenot extensively, but then I just decided to avoid those sites that require a free sign-up. For news sites, everyone has the same news as the NY Times, so they are not missed. When I absolutely can't forego a sign-up, I use Trashmail, but places are starting to catch on.
It derails the train of thought for those who are trying to browse quickly. A random letter would be easier to filter, but for "loose" I have to check that the literal interpretion is not possible before discarding it. I'd appreciate the correct version, especially from an "editor".
Furthermore, it isn't lost seconds that we're talking about. It's a case of learning it once and getting it right thereafter. No revision required.
I hereby loose you on the Slashdot hordes to critique their depth and development.
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Let's compare Bill Richardson's behavior in that situation then. Let's see if he decides to screw over the guy who registered http://www.myspace.com/billrichardson - simply for the sake of expediency - or if he can manage with http://www.myspace.com/richardsonforpresident
The Obama Rule means that the "little" Bill doesn't stand a chance. Do you really want to entrust more power to someone with that attitude?
Obama's campaign didn't steal anything here.
The Obama campaign's inability to recognize that they did steal something here is what's going to cost them a lot of good will.
OK, so the campaign started giving boatloads of money to Scott Goodstein, and maybe they didn't want to pay twice for the same type of work. There are still a lot of options. When the workload on the site increased, he needed to either:
1. be payed to sacrifice all of his free time in the effort
2. be payed to be able to leave his day job
3. or be much less responsive and have the site be an unofficial Obama page only.
Assuming none of those were acceptable, Goodstein could have:
1. Payed the reasonable sum to take over the myspace page.
2. Offered less after receiving the offer that they had solicited.
3. Set up ObamaForPresident. Make it the official profile, and point impact.myspace.com to there.
or
4. Steal Anthony's profile and make Mr. Obama look like an asshole.
They chose number four. Please note that Bill Richardson didn't steal myspace.com/billrichardson just to get more visibility. richardsonforpresident was good enough, and the right thing to do. Pay attention to what people do, not who they say they are.
Hey Barack. Fire that Goodstein. He was supposed to be an expert at building online community support, and he's obviously misrepresented himself. You have to work with communities, you can't dictate to them. F-ing over your supporters is a bit more of a visible and permanent error online. You don't have to pay Goodstein six figures to learn that.
Remains to be seen if Vista will ever achieve enough market penetration to apply such pressures effectively
Once you're unable to buy a new computer with any version of Windows except Vista, the uptake of Vista should be pretty brisk. I just manually installed XP yesterday, and it's a safe bet that Microsoft has guaranteed that no user is going to want to go through that horrible process, assuming they also are willing to pay full retail "nobody really pays this" price to "downgrade".
Do not underestimate how much Microsoft owns their user base. Did you not get Windows Genuine Advantage?
What has open source accomplished that Microsoft didn't accomplish 10 years in advance?
Pretty much everything. Those open source projects that didn't pre-date the MS versions were easily coded afterwards in somewhat less than 10 years. It's not as if MS was the original innovator anyway. Did Internet Explorer come out 10 years before Netscape? Is MS not copying ideas for their browser from Firefox now? Come on! They wrote their spreadsheet after Lotus123. Their word processor after Word Perfect. Where is this technical leadership that you think they have? That has never been their competitive advantage.
Someone beat you to it: #18887037
The difference between Redundant and Informative can be so small... and the difference is placement. +5 for you.
It'll be harder for MS to throw money at it if one judge has already decided that tabbing infringes.
Throw money at a judge? hmmmm, now there's an idea.
It's commentary-in-the-tags that caused me to disable them in my profile months ago.
It can be useful user commentary. If the editors were of a higher caliber, I admit there wouldn't be much use, but I regularly see "slashvertisement", "hoax", "oldnews", "vaporware", or some original tag that saves me the time of reading some of the useless articles that come through here too often these days.
I'd like the option to vote against a bad tag though. They can be too hard to supplant otherwise.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-04-14-tunn el_N.htm
Summary: If the channel tunnel went bankrupt, how can you spend $13 billion on a Mediterranian tunnel and expect it to pay for itself?
The simple fact is that unless you have an explicit reason to believe that you are meant to access someone's wireless, you should not; and to access it anyway is unethical.
Oh come on. An open access point is often joined automatically without user intervention. Throw my laptop in jail then. If the owner's defense is incompetence to be able to turn on security, then it's my defense too for not knowing who I'm connected to.
People are expected to put "No Trespassing" signs when they don't want people walking across their open land. Same idea here.
Patched quickly, yes, but if the patched driver was released Dec. 7, 2006 then the news that "a flaw was found", is even older than that. On top of that I didn't see mention of an exploit, so the article is a little sensational, but for some reason wireless seems to do that to journalists.
God damn it, when will people get it right? Begging the question means.... no, wait, you got it right.
I'm just surprised is all. Is this Slashdot?
Bzzzt... wrong!
Worst... comment... ever.
It does not address the RH negative issue, however
OK, so not everyone would be a universal recipient, but most people would be. 85% of the US population (apologies to the international community.
Ignoring them hasn't made them go away. What do I try next?
Warning people at the top of the thread and criticizing the editors seems reasonable to me.
I think most of us would rather have a third choice that combines reasonable prices with reasonable service.
That seems like a reasonable assumption, but I suspect that the reality is that people will accept terrible customer service and even a less durable product to save a buck or two. This works even better if you tell them that you have great customer service and great products. Just imagine back a few decades when stores would sell us full service and genuine quality. Then, look are where we are now. As we accept the new lower standard, they continue to surprise us with how much lower it can get.
I shudder to think where this train is heading.
Also, being vulnerable to viruses isn't counted as a security threat. Good thing too!
Married, but childless by choice, and a strong gay and lesbian advocate for someone who claims to be unbiased. During her Lynn Cheney interview she only wanted to talk about gay rights, even after the woman had repeatedly declined further comment. She mentions the general confusion about her orientation in her book, and implies that she's straight, although she's "flattered by the assumption" that she's gay. So we don't know for sure, and you don't need to get mad in any case.
Not that it matters.
they plead no contest. It's much different.
It's slightly different. It only keeps your plea from being used against you in other cases. Otherwise, it's treated the same as a guilty plea. This is typically done when the defendant expects a civil case to follow the criminal one, and the confession of guilt would prejudice it. This could be why she's not saying, "I admit that I was wrong, and I'm grateful for the judgement," because technically she didn't admit to being wrong, she was just surrendering her case.
The judge didn't accept the pleas anyway, preferring to dismiss the charges, so it didn't matter in the end.
I'm still waiting for SP5 for Windows 2000. I think I'm going to be waiting a long time.
They're still selling new ass TVs at Best Buy that don't support this. If these were really obsolete, then you might have an argument.
Since I found out you're supposed to have a spare box when installing a new OS
As if to prove that people have wasted their time trying to help you... You don't need a second computer. You also don't need a Windows CD to install Ubuntu. Only if you are trying to set up a dual-boot system should you have your install disks (for both OSes), and that is only as a backup. I'm not saying you didn't hit an installer bug, but you certainly didn't come out of it any wiser.
BTW, if you add Windows to a running Linux system, it *will* rewrite your MBR and make your Linux OS unbootable every time. So you need a Linux CD to install Windows, right?
And one more thing: No, you are not a poisonous developer/contributor. That would be promoting you. You're just a troll, and you're obviously reliving your favorite troll by reposting it here.
Exactly! Although my motivations are for my favorite sites to not lose revenue, and so that they can't detect that I haven't read it. Seriously, how long is it until servers check which elements I have downloaded and warn me to turn off my adblocker?
I used to use bugmenot extensively, but then I just decided to avoid those sites that require a free sign-up. For news sites, everyone has the same news as the NY Times, so they are not missed. When I absolutely can't forego a sign-up, I use Trashmail, but places are starting to catch on.
It derails the train of thought for those who are trying to browse quickly. A random letter would be easier to filter, but for "loose" I have to check that the literal interpretion is not possible before discarding it. I'd appreciate the correct version, especially from an "editor".
Furthermore, it isn't lost seconds that we're talking about. It's a case of learning it once and getting it right thereafter. No revision required.
I hereby loose you on the Slashdot hordes to critique their depth and development.