I would not feel sorry for anyone who got banned from posting nothing of value. An e-mail was sent around to my office recently that basically said "Any bug reports that do not have sufficient details and recreation steps will automatically be rejected". I had seen some of the bug reports that they were trying to avoid, they're not helpful at all and usually require sending an e-mail to whoever submitted the report asking what is wrong and what they did. Sitting around waiting for replies is a waste of time really, and you've got to hope that the submitter can actually remember what they did by the time a developer gets to it (it can take some time to get from submission to scheduled to be worked on).
This is a high priority bug that has no excuse for not being fixed within days of it being reported.
Considering it happens for some people sometimes, and some people not at all, and when I had a read through the comments yesterday there wasn't a definite method to reproduce it 100% of the time, it sounds like it could be a Heisenbug, which may take longer than a few days to fix (most of the time would probably be trying to figure out what is going wrong as opposed to actually implementing a fix).
This is also true. I used to try and print off the lecture slides before a lecture, and add notes in the margins whenever something extra was mentioned. It meant I didn't have to take down notes of the entire lesson and could supplement the lecture slides, so was a nice balance. Obviously people have different ways of learning, and while that worked well for me, I'm sure other methods will work better for others.
When I was doing my undergraduate, we had to use our Uni ID card to swipe by one of the readers on campus. We were recommended to do this once a week and if we hadn't done so in a week we would be contacted by the Uni to check we were OK (attendance wasn't mandatory but encouraged and it was mainly a check to ensure people weren't falling behind, an automatically generated e-mail probably).
When doing my masters, a register was taken at the start of lessons (a print out of everyone in the class people had to sign next to their name). I can't remember exactly who it was passed onto, some bureaucratic department either in the Uni or one that issues the student Visas I suspect. It may have been a new thing (I didn't pay much attention whenever it was mentioned as I was a home student so it didn't apply to me)
Some people brought along their laptops to lectures when I was at Uni, and played computer games, probably ones that didn't need an internet connection. I think I saw someone playing solitaire once.
I went to Uni in the UK and, while lectures were generally optional when I was doing my undergraduate degree, international students who didn't attend could loose their student VISA so had to turn up to them all when I was doing my masters (I don't know if they had the same situation when I was doing my undergraduate degree, but it was mentioned more when I was doing my masters).
Yes you get distracted. But you know what I do when I have paper and I'm bored ? I doodle or daydream.
At the start of my first year at Uni, one lecturer said "I don't mind if you sit around in the lecture doodling, because at least doing that you're engaging your brain so might take something in, just don't talk to people around you". I think the idea was that, even though you may be doodling something not at all related to the subject, doodling meant your brain wasn't switching off (for example, like when watching TV), and talking would distract others, making it the preferred method allowed for not paying attention in lectures.
Undoubtedly there are lots of things that our governments hide from us which should not be hidden but it's a shame that no one from Wikileaks could be troubled to consider the potential repercussions of this particular exposure.
I thought Wikileaks contacted the US government asking for help redacting to avoid potential repercussions such as this, yet received none. Was this the case? I have heard it mentioned on slashdot a few times.
It does unfortunately read as though the wikileak cable could be replaced by another pretence and still have the same effect, as if any excuse was being looked for and wikileaks was the first one that came along.
With the leak of the Pentagon Papers, not all of it was leaked initially. In fact, portions of it were held back for years because the leak would only cause harm to diplomatic relations and it had no bearing on the purpose of the leak (to expose the fact that the US government lied to its people about Vietnam).
I've not been following the WikiLeaks coverage as closely for the last week or so, have they recently released all of the cables? I thought they had so far only released a few, and still have many more as yet unreleased.
The index page of the website seems to be working fine, its just the articles that are down. This means that while you won't be able to read all of TFA, you can read three sentences and see a photo.
That was something I would worry about; there might be a rise in ads that pop up and cover the whole page, with a tiny 'x' to close right next to (or underneath so unclickable) the 'save this for later' button.
Worse still, drive-by-ad-saving if someone figures out how to automatically add ads to a user accounts without them needing to click on them.
You make a good point, it has been mentioned that they won't be able to feasibly buy all possible combinations, so I initially thought that they might just be trying to flood search engine results with empty or misleading or incorrect pages, but your comment fairly effectively counters my idea.
My dad was in his early 20's when I was born. He is now mid to late 40's and me and my brother have grown up so he no longer has to look after us, so can go out (on holiday usually) and have fun without having to worry about his kids. He says he thinks he prefers that to some of his friends who had kids later on, and are still looking after them now, who don't have the same level of freedom as him.
Fake data sounds like a solution to a symtom, as opposed to a solution to the inital problem; better selection on what parts can and can't be accessed at all would be a better solution (but that may be either harder or easier than your solution)
lol, that's a great joke. Wait, you were joking right?
I think it was at the end of a recent episode of QI (UK quiz show), usually accurate although this would have been a humorous story they usually end the show with, so it's hard to tell if they were making it up or not.
Back on topic... I tried this thing a while back and it doesn't really do any good if people aren't experienced in the matter. Sure, they train you very briefly on what this and that may be but in reality, you'll not only get a bunch of people unable to properly identify things (and the human aspect for the professionals are still there), but you'll also get trolls. I would rather put my trust in an automated system designed by NASA and I do believe their project is doing well with that as it is. Will it be 2016 before they are done scanning the parts that they wanted to scan? Well, either way, machines make better computations with brightness than humans can these days and can do it at an insanely fast speed.
In the video in the msnbc article they mentioned how the human brains capacity at pattern matching is better than using lots of computers. Plus I would assume that they have a professional look at areas that have been flagged up by lots of people. If there is something there, success and they can look into it further. If there is nothing there, just ignore it and move on to the next most flagged area.
I heard a story of someone trying to claim ownership of the Sun to try and charge everyone one on Earth for using it. Lawyers told her she could have a legal claim so long as she had lived there for three years.
Now I can see the effect of, well, the slashdot effect (i.e. website unavailable), but before (just after the article was posted) it was complaining of a redirect loop. Very odd.
The video is interesting, it gave a brief overview of the site (I think, I'll have to try to view the actual site later). They did mention on the video that they had underestimated initial interest in the site a few years back and broke one of their servers, so I would have thought they'd be a little bit more prepared for a slashdotting.
Have tried the first and second link (trying to get to planethunters.org), and the link in the msn.com article, but get an error message from Chrome about too many redirects (error 310, I would copy the message here but can't seem to paste into the slashdot text box).
There have been a lot of programs mentioned so far that may require a caps lock key
Considering the Chrome OS is basically a browser, I think I better question might be "Does anyone actually use it legitimately while browsing the internet"?
I've not had an Avast! window refuse to close. Its generally quiet and unobtrusive. Unlike AVG which I had been using previously.
I think the non-free version has some extra features on top of the free version (sandboxing something I believe, I'm happy enough with the free version at the moment so haven't paid much attention to the paid ones)
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I would not feel sorry for anyone who got banned from posting nothing of value. An e-mail was sent around to my office recently that basically said "Any bug reports that do not have sufficient details and recreation steps will automatically be rejected". I had seen some of the bug reports that they were trying to avoid, they're not helpful at all and usually require sending an e-mail to whoever submitted the report asking what is wrong and what they did. Sitting around waiting for replies is a waste of time really, and you've got to hope that the submitter can actually remember what they did by the time a developer gets to it (it can take some time to get from submission to scheduled to be worked on).
This is a high priority bug that has no excuse for not being fixed within days of it being reported.
Considering it happens for some people sometimes, and some people not at all, and when I had a read through the comments yesterday there wasn't a definite method to reproduce it 100% of the time, it sounds like it could be a Heisenbug, which may take longer than a few days to fix (most of the time would probably be trying to figure out what is going wrong as opposed to actually implementing a fix).
This is also true. I used to try and print off the lecture slides before a lecture, and add notes in the margins whenever something extra was mentioned. It meant I didn't have to take down notes of the entire lesson and could supplement the lecture slides, so was a nice balance. Obviously people have different ways of learning, and while that worked well for me, I'm sure other methods will work better for others.
When I was doing my undergraduate, we had to use our Uni ID card to swipe by one of the readers on campus. We were recommended to do this once a week and if we hadn't done so in a week we would be contacted by the Uni to check we were OK (attendance wasn't mandatory but encouraged and it was mainly a check to ensure people weren't falling behind, an automatically generated e-mail probably).
When doing my masters, a register was taken at the start of lessons (a print out of everyone in the class people had to sign next to their name). I can't remember exactly who it was passed onto, some bureaucratic department either in the Uni or one that issues the student Visas I suspect. It may have been a new thing (I didn't pay much attention whenever it was mentioned as I was a home student so it didn't apply to me)
Listening is more passive than actively taking notes; its easier to get distracted and/or switch off if you're not doing anything.
Some people brought along their laptops to lectures when I was at Uni, and played computer games, probably ones that didn't need an internet connection. I think I saw someone playing solitaire once.
I went to Uni in the UK and, while lectures were generally optional when I was doing my undergraduate degree, international students who didn't attend could loose their student VISA so had to turn up to them all when I was doing my masters (I don't know if they had the same situation when I was doing my undergraduate degree, but it was mentioned more when I was doing my masters).
Yes you get distracted. But you know what I do when I have paper and I'm bored ? I doodle or daydream.
At the start of my first year at Uni, one lecturer said "I don't mind if you sit around in the lecture doodling, because at least doing that you're engaging your brain so might take something in, just don't talk to people around you". I think the idea was that, even though you may be doodling something not at all related to the subject, doodling meant your brain wasn't switching off (for example, like when watching TV), and talking would distract others, making it the preferred method allowed for not paying attention in lectures.
Undoubtedly there are lots of things that our governments hide from us which should not be hidden but it's a shame that no one from Wikileaks could be troubled to consider the potential repercussions of this particular exposure.
I thought Wikileaks contacted the US government asking for help redacting to avoid potential repercussions such as this, yet received none. Was this the case? I have heard it mentioned on slashdot a few times.
It does unfortunately read as though the wikileak cable could be replaced by another pretence and still have the same effect, as if any excuse was being looked for and wikileaks was the first one that came along.
With the leak of the Pentagon Papers, not all of it was leaked initially. In fact, portions of it were held back for years because the leak would only cause harm to diplomatic relations and it had no bearing on the purpose of the leak (to expose the fact that the US government lied to its people about Vietnam).
I've not been following the WikiLeaks coverage as closely for the last week or so, have they recently released all of the cables? I thought they had so far only released a few, and still have many more as yet unreleased.
What about an Ubuntu tablet, like one mentioned in a story on slashdot earlier today?
I originally read that as 'Not Safe For Humans'
The index page of the website seems to be working fine, its just the articles that are down. This means that while you won't be able to read all of TFA, you can read three sentences and see a photo.
That was something I would worry about; there might be a rise in ads that pop up and cover the whole page, with a tiny 'x' to close right next to (or underneath so unclickable) the 'save this for later' button.
Worse still, drive-by-ad-saving if someone figures out how to automatically add ads to a user accounts without them needing to click on them.
With a team of SEO geeks it won't even matter.
You make a good point, it has been mentioned that they won't be able to feasibly buy all possible combinations, so I initially thought that they might just be trying to flood search engine results with empty or misleading or incorrect pages, but your comment fairly effectively counters my idea.
My dad was in his early 20's when I was born. He is now mid to late 40's and me and my brother have grown up so he no longer has to look after us, so can go out (on holiday usually) and have fun without having to worry about his kids. He says he thinks he prefers that to some of his friends who had kids later on, and are still looking after them now, who don't have the same level of freedom as him.
Fake data sounds like a solution to a symtom, as opposed to a solution to the inital problem; better selection on what parts can and can't be accessed at all would be a better solution (but that may be either harder or easier than your solution)
Why the linked article has this in the 'breaking news' section is beyond me; this was discussed on slashdot about a month ago.
lol, that's a great joke. Wait, you were joking right?
I think it was at the end of a recent episode of QI (UK quiz show), usually accurate although this would have been a humorous story they usually end the show with, so it's hard to tell if they were making it up or not.
Back on topic... I tried this thing a while back and it doesn't really do any good if people aren't experienced in the matter. Sure, they train you very briefly on what this and that may be but in reality, you'll not only get a bunch of people unable to properly identify things (and the human aspect for the professionals are still there), but you'll also get trolls. I would rather put my trust in an automated system designed by NASA and I do believe their project is doing well with that as it is. Will it be 2016 before they are done scanning the parts that they wanted to scan? Well, either way, machines make better computations with brightness than humans can these days and can do it at an insanely fast speed.
In the video in the msnbc article they mentioned how the human brains capacity at pattern matching is better than using lots of computers. Plus I would assume that they have a professional look at areas that have been flagged up by lots of people. If there is something there, success and they can look into it further. If there is nothing there, just ignore it and move on to the next most flagged area.
I heard a story of someone trying to claim ownership of the Sun to try and charge everyone one on Earth for using it. Lawyers told her she could have a legal claim so long as she had lived there for three years.
Now I can see the effect of, well, the slashdot effect (i.e. website unavailable), but before (just after the article was posted) it was complaining of a redirect loop. Very odd.
The video is interesting, it gave a brief overview of the site (I think, I'll have to try to view the actual site later). They did mention on the video that they had underestimated initial interest in the site a few years back and broke one of their servers, so I would have thought they'd be a little bit more prepared for a slashdotting.
Have tried the first and second link (trying to get to planethunters.org), and the link in the msn.com article, but get an error message from Chrome about too many redirects (error 310, I would copy the message here but can't seem to paste into the slashdot text box).
Is anyone else getting this problem?
There have been a lot of programs mentioned so far that may require a caps lock key
Considering the Chrome OS is basically a browser, I think I better question might be "Does anyone actually use it legitimately while browsing the internet"?
Which commandment? This isn't stealing by any legal definition.
I wouldn't have thought that commandments have any legal standing. More like a moral code (that may be open to interpretation).
I've not had an Avast! window refuse to close. Its generally quiet and unobtrusive. Unlike AVG which I had been using previously.
I think the non-free version has some extra features on top of the free version (sandboxing something I believe, I'm happy enough with the free version at the moment so haven't paid much attention to the paid ones)