The problem in this case is two-fold, but the cause is the same: wikipedia reaching worldwide popularity.
First of all, wikipedia by it's nature is not supposed to have higher-ups, but an administrator group is a technical necessity. These administrators are motivated by the growing popularity of wikipedia in two ways: they gained more power ("Cmon! I'm an administrator on the english wikipedia! Wow!") or in other words, the social status of their administrator title got more important. This is bound to make the admins feel a lot more different, even if unconsciously or unwittingly. They try to protect wikipedia and overreact, get overly paranoid and lose focus of their true goal.
The second reason they can behave wrongly is simply that the social infrastructure didn't adapt to the popularity yet. What I mean is that administrators are not distinct, named, accountable people.
They edit using their administrator account (officially, even if some of them use alternative accounts in reality), they are not named people. To fix these problems there has to be a clear separation of priviledges, and clear identifiability and accountability for administrators.
Admins should be compelled to do their actions with their real names attached to it, not behind nicknames. No non-administrator wikipedia contribution should take place on their admin accounts. They should be editing using a non-priviledged account. The regular account of admin personnel should not necessarily be revealed, but admins should be verifying each other's work.
It's the difference between letting passers by see you on the street and having a 24/7 surveillance network watch you in every public moment of your life, with total search capabilities.
Exactly. They should have just went with Catalyst. RoR is overhyped. Perl on Rails just appears to be a way to hype something. Catalyst is actually a nice MVC spirited implementation that has the advantages of well written Perl code.
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I'd consider one of the most important points in teenager education to be social responsiblity and the explanation of democracy to kids (not the "We're a great democracy? Why? Because!" reasoning, but a broad education about what it means to be living in a democracy, what are the specific requirements of a democracy, comparisons and examples for the lack and successful fulfillments of those requirements, what responsibilities does a citizen have who is living in a democracy, etc.).
Videos like this are very educational. For example police brutality in Hungary, that was orchestrated by the current government on peaceful protesters, where even an opposition member of the parliament got beaten up by police wearing no identification numbers, should not be allowed to occur without major effects to that government. It did. It was only possible, because there is still a large portion of contemporary hungarian society that was born and educated in the pre 1990 era, when a citizen only had to shut up in order to be a good citizen, only had to shut up and look for their own interest. Forming groups and exercising solidarity was prosecuted. In a democracy minding your own business is not enough. A democracy presupposes an educated electorate that actually gives a shit about the leadership of a country, it presupposes social solidarity. Otherwise, what would be the point of living in a society at all?
They are not mandated by law not to engage in censorship, but that doesn't mean that this is something other than censorship and I don't have to like it. This is a big difference.
There is an adult content flag for certain videos on Youtube for a reason. That is more than ample to protect users from unwanted contect. Besides, if someone finds one of his videos I doubt they did so by searching for cute pink daisies. They are owned by Google, after all.
YouTube said the decision to remove Abbas' videos had nothing to do with the Egyptian government, but was rather an internal decision.
This internal decision was made because of the internal management who decided that they like the internally spent money from their internal bank account which was transferred from an unkown party, internally. Or they simply don't want to lose the internal bonus if Egypt decides to block Youtube nationwide, strictly internally speaking.
In operating systems there is a saying that those who do not know Unix will reinvent it, badly.
Among interpreted languages, those who do not know Perl will reinvent it, badly. (Python and Ruby were designed learning from Perl, not by ignoring it, unlike PHP in which case I would say we cannot talk about design.)
PHP is an ugly templating engine. PHP IS for websites.
Yeah, right PHP is easy to use...until you don't know what you're doing and just want to get a website up. Once you need it for something professional, then it gets really REALLY annoying. Inconsistent interface, 2700+ core functions, slow speed, but wait! it will have NAMESPACES finally! Didn't Perl have that since 1998?
Actually, the traditional spelling is oe. Historically, the two letters started merging and the two dots on top of ö are the "remains" of e.
However, saying that something which is a merely one's view or opinion is "wrong" is pretty arrogant, as is (apparently) believing that your own views or opinions are not merely so, but are actually immutably correct positions.
I don't think in absolutes. I merely think that my opinion, in the few issues that we seem to having a differing opinion in, is much more likely to be correct given that I do look into the subject matter, establish historical context, facts, etc. My point is: in the issues that I would consider myself well studied you've taken a position which is contrary to my beliefs.
The general tone of your post seems to be something I regularly encounter: any remotely "conservative" viewpoint must either be dishonest or obviously not based on fact, while views that could traditionally be termed "liberal" or "progressive" are more enlightened and intelligent. Therefore, anyone not agreeing firmly with such a viewpoint must be doing so out of dishonesty, greed, or mental incapacity. After all, it's not possible for anyone who is intelligent or educated to have such a view, is it? (Hint: it is.)
Conservative and liberal are meaningless terms. They do not define a viewpoint adequately. I've been called a conservative extreme right-winger just like a liberal or a socialist many times. People tend to associate conservative and liberal with parties and party opinions and political sides. It's counter productive. Right or left wing is another meaningless term.
You say my positions are indefensible. That is false. You may disagree with some of them, but that doesn't make you correct, nor does it make my positions "indefensible".
What I really ment is that I strongly believe that some views no intelligent person can believe. You're an intelligent person, it's just that I feel you're not applying that to some of your beliefs.
Actually, daveschröder is the kind of guy who usually well articulates his point and manages to come up with better reasoned posts. The trouble is, he's better in rhetorics, not better in facts. I'm sure he's an intelligent person, which is why it is harder to explain some of his undefensible viewpoints.
He's the guy who should really know better, because he's got the smarts to comprehend the issues at hand. Instead he's using his mental capacity to engage in rhetorics. This leads me to believe that he's either dishonest or engages in a mental doublethink, kind of similar what a creationist biologist would have to do to keep his worldview internally consistent. I'd say that the latter case is more likely than the former and it is not too far fetched to say it's very much so influenced by upbringing and his immediate peers.
When someone behaves in this manner it is very noticeable to me, mostly because it is rare to find a person like this at least on slashdot. I think another person I've noticed acting similarly would be the slashdot user Scentcone.
I've got no beef with these people, although I do consider it an ethical responsibility that an intellgent person uses his mental faculties to the betterment of his community (ideally in the widest sense).
that any law related to terrorism or homeland security is really interested in oppressing Americans for purposes of control, and nothing else
You've just described a superset of fascism and there are a growing number of people inside the US and especially outside that think the USA is starting to show signs of a fascist regime.
I've seen plenty of terrorist propaganda too. For example, look at the Lancet Report which claims that not only around 650 000 people have died between 2003 and 2006 in Iraq due to bringing democracy to that country, but even more hienously it claims that at least 30% of those deaths were caused by direct coalition actions. Clearly, this study only serves to destroy the morale of our troops and it should not be permitted to exist on the web.
Since absolutely noone mentioned it before, 112 is the european emergency number aswell as the international GSM emergency number. Glad to be able to tell you this important bit of information first!
Seldom mentioned, but good news for computer users who want low energy usage:
If you've got a kernel that is >= 2.6.21, if you've got dynticks enabled, Firefox 3 fixes a few things and the result is that the browser doesn't generate as many ticks as before.
I've submitted an explanation about the ping-pong game between the developers and the users as a story a while ago. The memory hogging problem boils down to memory fragmentation instead of memory leaks basically, that is why the devs weren't finding leaks and the users feel there are some...guess it turns out both groups were right.
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What took you so long?
This is old news for at least a few million people.
I'm not sure if someone is already doing this with laws, but I think it would be a good thing to hilight the changes.
The problem in this case is two-fold, but the cause is the same: wikipedia reaching worldwide popularity.
First of all, wikipedia by it's nature is not supposed to have higher-ups, but an administrator group is a technical necessity. These administrators are motivated by the growing popularity of wikipedia in two ways: they gained more power ("Cmon! I'm an administrator on the english wikipedia! Wow!") or in other words, the social status of their administrator title got more important. This is bound to make the admins feel a lot more different, even if unconsciously or unwittingly. They try to protect wikipedia and overreact, get overly paranoid and lose focus of their true goal.
The second reason they can behave wrongly is simply that the social infrastructure didn't adapt to the popularity yet. What I mean is that administrators are not distinct, named, accountable people. They edit using their administrator account (officially, even if some of them use alternative accounts in reality), they are not named people. To fix these problems there has to be a clear separation of priviledges, and clear identifiability and accountability for administrators.
Admins should be compelled to do their actions with their real names attached to it, not behind nicknames. No non-administrator wikipedia contribution should take place on their admin accounts. They should be editing using a non-priviledged account. The regular account of admin personnel should not necessarily be revealed, but admins should be verifying each other's work.
It's the difference between letting passers by see you on the street and having a 24/7 surveillance network watch you in every public moment of your life, with total search capabilities.
Exactly. They should have just went with Catalyst. RoR is overhyped. Perl on Rails just appears to be a way to hype something. Catalyst is actually a nice MVC spirited implementation that has the advantages of well written Perl code.
Since ID is not science, it is not an issue she should have remained neutral on, because it has nothing to do with the board.
I'd consider one of the most important points in teenager education to be social responsiblity and the explanation of democracy to kids (not the "We're a great democracy? Why? Because!" reasoning, but a broad education about what it means to be living in a democracy, what are the specific requirements of a democracy, comparisons and examples for the lack and successful fulfillments of those requirements, what responsibilities does a citizen have who is living in a democracy, etc.).
Videos like this are very educational. For example police brutality in Hungary, that was orchestrated by the current government on peaceful protesters, where even an opposition member of the parliament got beaten up by police wearing no identification numbers, should not be allowed to occur without major effects to that government. It did. It was only possible, because there is still a large portion of contemporary hungarian society that was born and educated in the pre 1990 era, when a citizen only had to shut up in order to be a good citizen, only had to shut up and look for their own interest. Forming groups and exercising solidarity was prosecuted. In a democracy minding your own business is not enough. A democracy presupposes an educated electorate that actually gives a shit about the leadership of a country, it presupposes social solidarity. Otherwise, what would be the point of living in a society at all?
They are not mandated by law not to engage in censorship, but that doesn't mean that this is something other than censorship and I don't have to like it. This is a big difference.
There is an adult content flag for certain videos on Youtube for a reason. That is more than ample to protect users from unwanted contect. Besides, if someone finds one of his videos I doubt they did so by searching for cute pink daisies. They are owned by Google, after all.
Whoa, so it's true. There IS a masochist district in Amsterdam!
In operating systems there is a saying that those who do not know Unix will reinvent it, badly.
Among interpreted languages, those who do not know Perl will reinvent it, badly. (Python and Ruby were designed learning from Perl, not by ignoring it, unlike PHP in which case I would say we cannot talk about design.)
PHP is an ugly templating engine. PHP IS for websites.
Yeah, right PHP is easy to use...until you don't know what you're doing and just want to get a website up. Once you need it for something professional, then it gets really REALLY annoying. Inconsistent interface, 2700+ core functions, slow speed, but wait! it will have NAMESPACES finally! Didn't Perl have that since 1998?
I don't think in absolutes. I merely think that my opinion, in the few issues that we seem to having a differing opinion in, is much more likely to be correct given that I do look into the subject matter, establish historical context, facts, etc. My point is: in the issues that I would consider myself well studied you've taken a position which is contrary to my beliefs. Conservative and liberal are meaningless terms. They do not define a viewpoint adequately. I've been called a conservative extreme right-winger just like a liberal or a socialist many times. People tend to associate conservative and liberal with parties and party opinions and political sides. It's counter productive. Right or left wing is another meaningless term. What I really ment is that I strongly believe that some views no intelligent person can believe. You're an intelligent person, it's just that I feel you're not applying that to some of your beliefs.
Actually, daveschröder is the kind of guy who usually well articulates his point and manages to come up with better reasoned posts. The trouble is, he's better in rhetorics, not better in facts. I'm sure he's an intelligent person, which is why it is harder to explain some of his undefensible viewpoints.
He's the guy who should really know better, because he's got the smarts to comprehend the issues at hand. Instead he's using his mental capacity to engage in rhetorics. This leads me to believe that he's either dishonest or engages in a mental doublethink, kind of similar what a creationist biologist would have to do to keep his worldview internally consistent. I'd say that the latter case is more likely than the former and it is not too far fetched to say it's very much so influenced by upbringing and his immediate peers.
When someone behaves in this manner it is very noticeable to me, mostly because it is rare to find a person like this at least on slashdot. I think another person I've noticed acting similarly would be the slashdot user Scentcone.
I've got no beef with these people, although I do consider it an ethical responsibility that an intellgent person uses his mental faculties to the betterment of his community (ideally in the widest sense).
I've seen plenty of terrorist propaganda too. For example, look at the Lancet Report which claims that not only around 650 000 people have died between 2003 and 2006 in Iraq due to bringing democracy to that country, but even more hienously it claims that at least 30% of those deaths were caused by direct coalition actions. Clearly, this study only serves to destroy the morale of our troops and it should not be permitted to exist on the web.
Since absolutely noone mentioned it before, 112 is the european emergency number aswell as the international GSM emergency number. Glad to be able to tell you this important bit of information first!
Seldom mentioned, but good news for computer users who want low energy usage:
If you've got a kernel that is >= 2.6.21, if you've got dynticks enabled, Firefox 3 fixes a few things and the result is that the browser doesn't generate as many ticks as before.
...and Eeeenglishman in New York... (Sting lyrics in post and in my sig)
I've submitted an explanation about the ping-pong game between the developers and the users as a story a while ago. The memory hogging problem boils down to memory fragmentation instead of memory leaks basically, that is why the devs weren't finding leaks and the users feel there are some...guess it turns out both groups were right.
They were all guilty! We know they were all guilty! How? We just know!
Besides, would you let a killer/terrorist/robber free?
Hey DS, nice to see you on /. too!
With lots of love, an ex signature snipper.