I have points and so want to give them to you, but you're damn insightful and the funny will just drown that sense out. The thing is, if Dotcom was so forward with his 'desire' to be transparent, at least he'd say how much he paid out. I know Google does, and may not credit direct names, but did for a pseudonym. $60K is a nice haul for one bug!
Exactly what I was thinking! In the world of the graphic artist, you see this shit a lot... It's called 'spec work' and it's the reason that there's fewer and fewer good-paying graphics positions out there. Hungry artists make logos, interfaces, and designs with the hope that their submission will be chosen. Who wins? The person on the receiving end. What a fucking joke. Seriously people, DO NOT do work for free! This is reminding me of the recent post where the submitter asks, "How much should I reveal in an interview" --Really?? I had no idea that people were becoming that scummy (read: greedy) that they give people the false hope of a job while trying to fish answers out of them to help them with their problem.
Oh fuck, I feared this kid of tripe would filter through after Dice bought/.... The worst part of that 'content injection' (I'm assuming it's being used to drive traffic and raise search status for Dice) is it's not even a question, aka, Ask Slashdot!
So as not to digress too far, I want to add that it's pretty unthinkable that Sony would be able to purchase MS's entertainment division: They're not doing so hot, financially, themselves, and the DOJ/FTC probably wouldn't allow the acquisition, and that's not taking into consideration the shareholders' wishes. And, would Sony want to even if they could??
Guess what? Yes, that was the question you linked.
I'm glad someone else was paying attention! I'd mod you up if I had points.. It sounds like he told that guy what he thought of his code, albeit not to gracefully.
Actually, I jailbroke my iPhone so I could change the MMS server because I wasn't able to access that setting. But I don't think that's what you're talking about.
Some more pro and con about ebooks and paper books: You don't ever have to worry about one of your ebooks disappearing because the publisher decided to wipe it from your device without your consent. If is if your house is on fire, you only have to grab your ereader --trying to save your entire library of paper books could make you one crispy critter.
Yeah, and an ebook reader is suited to reading lying on the couch - they're lighter and easier to use with one hand.
Since i got an ereader, i've read a lot of books i would never have read if i didn't have it. I live in a remote location and the nearest town has only one small bookshop. Being able to buy books online allows me to read books that i'd never bother ordering from the bookshop in town.
If a book is too heavy for you to hold with one hand on the couch, maybe it's time to do some pushups, seriously. I'm assuming you're reading a novel, not a medical dictionary. I understand you live in the boonies, but you still get mail, yes? And you have internet, so you're not too far out. What if the title you want isn't on an ebook?
"[ebooks] are well suited to certain reading situations (plane trips) but less well suited to others (lying on the couch at home)."
Regarding the quoted text, 'ebooks aren't great for airplanes', I have some problems with that. Flight attendants still make you turn off all electronic devices, whether is has wifi/3g or not --Thankfully the FAA is starting dialogue about that lame rule. Have you read a backlit screen for hours on end with no other ambient light? It's excruciating! And, if you have a non-backlit ereader, you'll still need the overhead light to read the screen when flying at night. I'm still confused why the author thinks that ebooks aren't well-suited for reading at home.
Paper books don't need batteries. I LOVE the feel of paper. I love how I never see any glare from paper. I love that I can resell a paper book with no pains.
... which is what the majority of people want: something that "just works" and isn't hard to use. Apple gives them this, which explains why they are the most valuable technology company.
Spoken like a true fan boi! And what a total load of tripe! Apple TV doesn't even play "WMV, AVI, DivX, RealMedia (rm), and Flash format files." So I'd say that's a big fat 'it just doesn't work'. Really, my WD Live+ plays anything I've thrown at it and it was cheaper than an Apple TV and it sees all the SMB mounts on our local network plus the Mac Samba mounts. Apple has remained nothing but a slight disappointment to me since the mid 2000s. I used to be the #1 Evangelist next to Guy Kawasaki back in the 90s, but I really don't care too much for them, anymore. Sad, really. Sorry, I digress a bit, but I really did love them tons.... I still don't understand why they won't let me use my iPhone as a mass-storage device like I could with my iPods.. at least, without the assistance of software I have to pay for and wonder if it's stealing my contacts. **Sigh**
I'd give you a mod point if I had one! Exactly my thoughts... so, why would Intel **literally** waste money to make something to compete in an already too-crowded market. A lot of this software is being built-in to TV sets, so no one needs another set-top box to attach to their (pick one or two) cable/dsl/satellite box and/or their WD Live+, PopcornHour, TiVO, etc. Plus, they'll have to compete with all the other companies that want to have exclusive content, so that's just going to turn a lot of people off that they can only get a specific movie or TV show if they have to pay for YetAnotherService.
The overall problem with this group is that it is too loosely organized and completely lacking in any direction.
I can say the same about our legislative body. However, OWS did not form because they were "lacking in any direction." They formed because they had a direction: The main issues are social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the perceived undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector.
I'm pretty sure that you can agree that corporations have more influence over the body politic than the lowest people on the totem pole do. OWS has goals, yes. Does everyone associated with OWS agree with those goals? Probably not, and I'll wager it's rare for any group of people to see eye-to-eye on all issues. OK, so you have friends that work in the financial sector. If one of them noted possible fraud and told their manager, would they be 'let go' a little later for some complex and undefined reason or would they be 'rewarded' because they found the loose thread so it could be better hidden? I really can't say, but I can imagine that no bank president wants to tell regulators that they found a case of impropriety, lest he lose his job in the end.
The folks who work at banks can lose their jobs and face criminal prosecution if they don't report activity that looks exactly like what OWS was doing with the bank accounts they were opening
What a fucking joke. 1994: UBS execs got a slap on the wrist for laundering Colombian drug money --a low-level exec was reported to be arrested. 2012: HSBC laundered billions for Mexican drug lords and Iranian banks via American subsidiaries --no arrests have been made. I'm not even going to get into the mortgage fraud side of the story in the USA. Go ahead and search for bank fraud before the 1990s. There are many accounts of internal mismanagement and relatively few arrests.
Nothing has stopped these unaccounted accounting practices to be slowed or even stop. The biggest falsehood that's circulating now is 'criminal prosecution of criminal bankers will only destabilize the economy' --pardon my French, but really....what a fucking joke. This country is falling apart at the seams and you are getting down on OWS banking practices? Truthfully, I'm surprised that the feds didn't declare OWS protesters as a terrorist group allowing the banks to freeze all their assets
Really? What site did you think you were posting to? Yes, making a slick web site. That must take a team of computer nerds and years of labor.
You're making the word 'nerd' sound derogatory. And you're not making yourself look any better by building incomplete sentences. What site do you think you're posting to? 4chan? Reddit?
...a crew member entered a zero into a database field causing a divide by zero error in the ship's Remote Data Base Manager which brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.[5]
I laughed at the 'divide by zero' error that brought the mighty warship down, if not for the practical programming error, but because of my sig. I knew about this incident, but not the reason why. Now that's funny! Divide by zero...
Shit rolls downhill. The Constitution is just fine when the Judicial correctly interprets it relative to the case at hand. It's not the police officer's duty to interpret. After too many mistakes by the police, the governor tells the mayor what to tell the police chief to tell his subordinates. Then all sorts of money gets allocated towards 'sensitivity' training for the police so they don't muck things up, again.
Of course, this depends on the judicial actually doing its job with no bias. Unfortunately, SCOTUS seems to be more pro-business than ever.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Paying lawyers for decades on-end only cuts away at their bottom-line. And, they can't pass those losses off to the consumer by raising prices too much, lest they get offended and buy some cheap Android. My friend has a Windows 8 phone and he's really regretting the purchase. I'm not too keen on BBs, but I'd like to see them stick around for the sake of competition and choice...if even, some new technology they create. RIM seems to me that they rested on their laurels for too long and are now scrambling.
Are kind of missing the point. If you actually need to use a gun, you don't want a ton of hardware that will prevent it from firing when you pull the trigger.
Exactly. And when the zombie apocalypse starts, I don't want any extra biometric crap stopping me from my right to clean up!
Apparently, they're able to get stories about guns on websites that are only about technology. Seriously, why is this on/. ? If we were talking about making a 3D-printed gun, or the takedown notices 3D repositories may get over a printed gun, then I could see that story here, but a story about people being massacred has no reason to be here. Where's the tech?? Show me the tech!
I really don't recall just how technically-specific Cory Doctorow got, but this is something out of his book, "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," where a side character is setting up an ad-hoc mesh network. Yeah, it can work for a city, but someone's gonna have to provide the 'last mile' of data from some server miles away running on a corporate-owned line. But, it's a start. Unfortunately, many cities were sued for trying to make their own network for free access on the grounds of unfair competitive advantage.
Indeed. If it is real, and I don't know if the N9 was jailbroken, but closing the only way for people to legitimately purchase software will only result in more piracy. That will bring on more malware and all the headaches many sides suffer from infected hardware.
Exactly what I thought! It only took a warning from the Australian Police to NOT use Apple's maps to get Google's version fast-tracked to the App Store. Not only was it the top "Featured" app, but probably debuted at #1 in "Top 25".
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I have points and so want to give them to you, but you're damn insightful and the funny will just drown that sense out. The thing is, if Dotcom was so forward with his 'desire' to be transparent, at least he'd say how much he paid out. I know Google does, and may not credit direct names, but did for a pseudonym. $60K is a nice haul for one bug!
Exactly what I was thinking! In the world of the graphic artist, you see this shit a lot... It's called 'spec work' and it's the reason that there's fewer and fewer good-paying graphics positions out there. Hungry artists make logos, interfaces, and designs with the hope that their submission will be chosen. Who wins? The person on the receiving end. What a fucking joke. Seriously people, DO NOT do work for free! This is reminding me of the recent post where the submitter asks, "How much should I reveal in an interview" --Really?? I had no idea that people were becoming that scummy (read: greedy) that they give people the false hope of a job while trying to fish answers out of them to help them with their problem.
Can someone explain to me why this was modded down?
Overzealous modders that didn't note timothy mentioning that it would be "best answered both in the U.S. and around the world"?
How could anyone forget: How To Use a Linux Virtual Private Server?
Oh fuck, I feared this kid of tripe would filter through after Dice bought /.... The worst part of that 'content injection' (I'm assuming it's being used to drive traffic and raise search status for Dice) is it's not even a question, aka, Ask Slashdot!
So as not to digress too far, I want to add that it's pretty unthinkable that Sony would be able to purchase MS's entertainment division: They're not doing so hot, financially, themselves, and the DOJ/FTC probably wouldn't allow the acquisition, and that's not taking into consideration the shareholders' wishes. And, would Sony want to even if they could??
Wow could you not even be bothered to even read the first sentence of the summary?
A week ago, you read the other side of the same question.
Guess what? Yes, that was the question you linked.
I'm glad someone else was paying attention! I'd mod you up if I had points.. It sounds like he told that guy what he thought of his code, albeit not to gracefully.
Actually, I jailbroke my iPhone so I could change the MMS server because I wasn't able to access that setting. But I don't think that's what you're talking about.
I protest business(es) by not buying anything from them. Where you put your money is the most important form of democracy.
Some more pro and con about ebooks and paper books: You don't ever have to worry about one of your ebooks disappearing because the publisher decided to wipe it from your device without your consent. If is if your house is on fire, you only have to grab your ereader --trying to save your entire library of paper books could make you one crispy critter.
Yeah, and an ebook reader is suited to reading lying on the couch - they're lighter and easier to use with one hand.
Since i got an ereader, i've read a lot of books i would never have read if i didn't have it. I live in a remote location and the nearest town has only one small bookshop. Being able to buy books online allows me to read books that i'd never bother ordering from the bookshop in town.
If a book is too heavy for you to hold with one hand on the couch, maybe it's time to do some pushups, seriously. I'm assuming you're reading a novel, not a medical dictionary. I understand you live in the boonies, but you still get mail, yes? And you have internet, so you're not too far out. What if the title you want isn't on an ebook?
"[ebooks] are well suited to certain reading situations (plane trips) but less well suited to others (lying on the couch at home)."
Regarding the quoted text, 'ebooks aren't great for airplanes', I have some problems with that. Flight attendants still make you turn off all electronic devices, whether is has wifi/3g or not --Thankfully the FAA is starting dialogue about that lame rule. Have you read a backlit screen for hours on end with no other ambient light? It's excruciating! And, if you have a non-backlit ereader, you'll still need the overhead light to read the screen when flying at night. I'm still confused why the author thinks that ebooks aren't well-suited for reading at home.
Paper books don't need batteries. I LOVE the feel of paper. I love how I never see any glare from paper. I love that I can resell a paper book with no pains.
my Kindle fits perfectly into a quart sized Ziplock baggie, and it's survived many dunks in the tub (as well as floating across the hot tub).
Kindles in your hot tub, huh? Man, what a raging party that must have been!
I completely misread that as 'piranha blood' and I said, "well, no doubt"
... which is what the majority of people want: something that "just works" and isn't hard to use. Apple gives them this, which explains why they are the most valuable technology company.
Spoken like a true fan boi! And what a total load of tripe! Apple TV doesn't even play "WMV, AVI, DivX, RealMedia (rm), and Flash format files." So I'd say that's a big fat 'it just doesn't work'. Really, my WD Live+ plays anything I've thrown at it and it was cheaper than an Apple TV and it sees all the SMB mounts on our local network plus the Mac Samba mounts. Apple has remained nothing but a slight disappointment to me since the mid 2000s. I used to be the #1 Evangelist next to Guy Kawasaki back in the 90s, but I really don't care too much for them, anymore. Sad, really. Sorry, I digress a bit, but I really did love them tons.... I still don't understand why they won't let me use my iPhone as a mass-storage device like I could with my iPods.. at least, without the assistance of software I have to pay for and wonder if it's stealing my contacts. **Sigh**
I'd give you a mod point if I had one! Exactly my thoughts... so, why would Intel **literally** waste money to make something to compete in an already too-crowded market. A lot of this software is being built-in to TV sets, so no one needs another set-top box to attach to their (pick one or two) cable/dsl/satellite box and/or their WD Live+, PopcornHour, TiVO, etc. Plus, they'll have to compete with all the other companies that want to have exclusive content, so that's just going to turn a lot of people off that they can only get a specific movie or TV show if they have to pay for YetAnotherService.
The overall problem with this group is that it is too loosely organized and completely lacking in any direction.
I can say the same about our legislative body. However, OWS did not form because they were "lacking in any direction." They formed because they had a direction: The main issues are social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the perceived undue influence of corporations on government—particularly from the financial services sector.
I'm pretty sure that you can agree that corporations have more influence over the body politic than the lowest people on the totem pole do. OWS has goals, yes. Does everyone associated with OWS agree with those goals? Probably not, and I'll wager it's rare for any group of people to see eye-to-eye on all issues. OK, so you have friends that work in the financial sector. If one of them noted possible fraud and told their manager, would they be 'let go' a little later for some complex and undefined reason or would they be 'rewarded' because they found the loose thread so it could be better hidden? I really can't say, but I can imagine that no bank president wants to tell regulators that they found a case of impropriety, lest he lose his job in the end.
Actually, here in NH a splinter group of ONH incorporated itself as a non-profit. I think they still rail against corporations...
Now that's the way to do it! Unfortunately, you have to play by the rules, but you protect yourself and your personal assets by doing so.
In the article, the author asks, "why are nonprofits now some of the only entities in America left breaking major civil liberties news?"
A: Because they're not beholden to a group of shareholders who may not like what the board is doing!
The folks who work at banks can lose their jobs and face criminal prosecution if they don't report activity that looks exactly like what OWS was doing with the bank accounts they were opening
What a fucking joke. 1994: UBS execs got a slap on the wrist for laundering Colombian drug money --a low-level exec was reported to be arrested. 2012: HSBC laundered billions for Mexican drug lords and Iranian banks via American subsidiaries --no arrests have been made. I'm not even going to get into the mortgage fraud side of the story in the USA. Go ahead and search for bank fraud before the 1990s. There are many accounts of internal mismanagement and relatively few arrests.
Nothing has stopped these unaccounted accounting practices to be slowed or even stop. The biggest falsehood that's circulating now is 'criminal prosecution of criminal bankers will only destabilize the economy' --pardon my French, but really....what a fucking joke. This country is falling apart at the seams and you are getting down on OWS banking practices? Truthfully, I'm surprised that the feds didn't declare OWS protesters as a terrorist group allowing the banks to freeze all their assets
Really? What site did you think you were posting to? Yes, making a slick web site. That must take a team of computer nerds and years of labor.
You're making the word 'nerd' sound derogatory. And you're not making yourself look any better by building incomplete sentences. What site do you think you're posting to? 4chan? Reddit?
Yup. And Windows was their downfall.
I laughed at the 'divide by zero' error that brought the mighty warship down, if not for the practical programming error, but because of my sig. I knew about this incident, but not the reason why. Now that's funny! Divide by zero...
Of course, this depends on the judicial actually doing its job with no bias. Unfortunately, SCOTUS seems to be more pro-business than ever.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Paying lawyers for decades on-end only cuts away at their bottom-line. And, they can't pass those losses off to the consumer by raising prices too much, lest they get offended and buy some cheap Android. My friend has a Windows 8 phone and he's really regretting the purchase. I'm not too keen on BBs, but I'd like to see them stick around for the sake of competition and choice...if even, some new technology they create. RIM seems to me that they rested on their laurels for too long and are now scrambling.
Are kind of missing the point. If you actually need to use a gun, you don't want a ton of hardware that will prevent it from firing when you pull the trigger.
Exactly. And when the zombie apocalypse starts, I don't want any extra biometric crap stopping me from my right to clean up!
The gun lobby is untouchable in America.
Apparently, they're able to get stories about guns on websites that are only about technology. Seriously, why is this on /. ? If we were talking about making a 3D-printed gun, or the takedown notices 3D repositories may get over a printed gun, then I could see that story here, but a story about people being massacred has no reason to be here. Where's the tech?? Show me the tech!
I really don't recall just how technically-specific Cory Doctorow got, but this is something out of his book, "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," where a side character is setting up an ad-hoc mesh network. Yeah, it can work for a city, but someone's gonna have to provide the 'last mile' of data from some server miles away running on a corporate-owned line. But, it's a start. Unfortunately, many cities were sued for trying to make their own network for free access on the grounds of unfair competitive advantage.
but language alone is not enough to dismiss this.
Indeed. If it is real, and I don't know if the N9 was jailbroken, but closing the only way for people to legitimately purchase software will only result in more piracy. That will bring on more malware and all the headaches many sides suffer from infected hardware.
Exactly what I thought! It only took a warning from the Australian Police to NOT use Apple's maps to get Google's version fast-tracked to the App Store. Not only was it the top "Featured" app, but probably debuted at #1 in "Top 25".