I use Bing daily in China. I also used Yahoo but that was blocked while I was outside the country several months ago. It was difficult when I first arrived here, habituated as I was to using Google services but I got used to it.
I went to bed after using Bing for search queries and woke up this morning at 4:30 with it being blocked. Now that Yahoo and Bing are gone, I need to find another English search engine that doesn't require a VPN:'(
Sci-Hub provides access to truly open material as well, so nothing wrong with the wording. It matters because people say similar things to justify blocking torrent sites simply because they too provide access to protected material and we all know there are many legitimate uses for BitTorrent. I don't think website operators should be forced to censor or filter protected materials, especially when laws can be drastically different in various jurisdictions.
Clicking the cog at the top of the comments section and setting your filter to 1+ seems to make it all go away. But I don't know why having filter set to 0+ doesn't hide it automatically as it has clearly been moderated to -1. My guess is there a conflict in the automated moderation system caused by so many responses (such as ours) underneath it.
The character limit allows people to write as they wish without worry about the economics of a character limit. Besides, the post is collapsed until you click on it and as soon as you see what it is, a second click collapses it again. Equally bad things could be said (or represented in ascii) even if the Slashdot gods restricted everyone to 256 characters.
Employees don't run a corporation no matter their rank. Authority is vested in a board of directors who are controlled by large shareholders. Unless we are talking about Facebook, in which case Mark Zuckerberg is to blame for everything. He effectively limited the power of shareholders allowing himself to retain effective control over his company. If only the founders of Google had the foresight to pull a "Benevolent Zuckerberg" then we may not have this mess and the "Be Not Evil" mantra might have lived on...
Just get over it. It has been down modded and rendered invisible unless you are looking for something to whine about. People have been posting garbage longer than you and I have been on the internet, it was on Slashdot before I joined. People mature enough to know that and think things through appreciate that certain rights suffer a certain amount of abuse but that doesn't mean they should be abolished.
Like posting AC for example. I am proud that Slashdot hasn't ceded to pressure to force everyone to an account or worse - verify their identity as numerous platforms have already teased.
Everyone else had a Nintendo but at 7 years old I was glad to have the Atari. It came (used from a garage sale) with a small briefcase full of games so even though we were lower income I felt like I had quite a bit.
One of the earliest birthdays was at a Chuck E. Cheese and in my small town we had a couple until they went in decline just before the Millennium.
Ted Dabney, I had no idea who you were until today, but to honor your effect on my chlidhood I spent 20 minutes logging into an account I created when I was 14 years old.
RIP!
Maybe one day Slashdot will allow an occasional name change.
Just because Bill isn't around to rant about the evil communists doesn't mean the corporate profit motive or the principles of Open Source have changes. What exactly are you talking about?
The only way someone can bully you online is if you let them. You CHOOSE to be in a room with an OP who you know abuses his authority; You CHOOSE to stay in a particular community; etc.
The biggest problem is with the kiddies coming and DDoS'ing you while you try to play StarCraft:-D
-sp0nge
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I use Bing daily in China. I also used Yahoo but that was blocked while I was outside the country several months ago. It was difficult when I first arrived here, habituated as I was to using Google services but I got used to it.
:'(
I went to bed after using Bing for search queries and woke up this morning at 4:30 with it being blocked. Now that Yahoo and Bing are gone, I need to find another English search engine that doesn't require a VPN
Sci-Hub provides access to truly open material as well, so nothing wrong with the wording. It matters because people say similar things to justify blocking torrent sites simply because they too provide access to protected material and we all know there are many legitimate uses for BitTorrent. I don't think website operators should be forced to censor or filter protected materials, especially when laws can be drastically different in various jurisdictions.
Clicking the cog at the top of the comments section and setting your filter to 1+ seems to make it all go away. But I don't know why having filter set to 0+ doesn't hide it automatically as it has clearly been moderated to -1. My guess is there a conflict in the automated moderation system caused by so many responses (such as ours) underneath it.
The character limit allows people to write as they wish without worry about the economics of a character limit. Besides, the post is collapsed until you click on it and as soon as you see what it is, a second click collapses it again. Equally bad things could be said (or represented in ascii) even if the Slashdot gods restricted everyone to 256 characters.
Employees don't run a corporation no matter their rank. Authority is vested in a board of directors who are controlled by large shareholders. Unless we are talking about Facebook, in which case Mark Zuckerberg is to blame for everything. He effectively limited the power of shareholders allowing himself to retain effective control over his company. If only the founders of Google had the foresight to pull a "Benevolent Zuckerberg" then we may not have this mess and the "Be Not Evil" mantra might have lived on...
Just get over it. It has been down modded and rendered invisible unless you are looking for something to whine about. People have been posting garbage longer than you and I have been on the internet, it was on Slashdot before I joined. People mature enough to know that and think things through appreciate that certain rights suffer a certain amount of abuse but that doesn't mean they should be abolished.
Like posting AC for example. I am proud that Slashdot hasn't ceded to pressure to force everyone to an account or worse - verify their identity as numerous platforms have already teased.
But definitely screwed up with my handle. Why do I keep it? Because I always hope to stumble across old online friends.
Also, many tradesmen are not self employed so much of that money may be absorbed elsewhere.
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Everyone else had a Nintendo but at 7 years old I was glad to have the Atari. It came (used from a garage sale) with a small briefcase full of games so even though we were lower income I felt like I had quite a bit. One of the earliest birthdays was at a Chuck E. Cheese and in my small town we had a couple until they went in decline just before the Millennium. Ted Dabney, I had no idea who you were until today, but to honor your effect on my chlidhood I spent 20 minutes logging into an account I created when I was 14 years old. RIP! Maybe one day Slashdot will allow an occasional name change.
*changed
Just because Bill isn't around to rant about the evil communists doesn't mean the corporate profit motive or the principles of Open Source have changes. What exactly are you talking about?
Oops, wrong account. As you can see from both of these handles, nothing to be proud of here ;P
Hmm, they make these for compiling errors when microsoft compiles their OS...[:-P] -sp0nge
Reminds me of all those people talking about the evil hackers targeting airports and cereal factories...
The only way someone can bully you online is if you let them. You CHOOSE to be in a room with an OP who you know abuses his authority; You CHOOSE to stay in a particular community; etc. The biggest problem is with the kiddies coming and DDoS'ing you while you try to play StarCraft :-D
-sp0nge