I'm not in the mood to google more "skype outages" for you. Do your own homework.
I'm good with you doing it. While you're at it, do the research on M$ services in general, and how reliable they are compared to their peers in the industry. Post it as an article and link it here at slashdot. If the article gets picked up and some troll doesn't tell you to "Do your homework", you get 100%.
Microsoft is not running Skype yet. It takes months for these deals to go through. And TFA suggests that Skype has never gone down before, which is BS. 'Disappeared from the Internet'? Seriously?
The only useful thing in this submission is that I learned the word 'snaffled.'
It's a safe assumption that the word snaffled derives from the early Latin acronym, snafu, which translates: Situation Normal All Fucked Up.
Or, you know, it could just be a server issue. If you look, and ask Skype users, the outage is already over.
I know, not as fun as MS-bashing, but the best bashing is based on fact.
And the fact is that Skype has run flawlessly for at least seven years (according to the article) without a hiccup and as soon as M$ gets it, they break it.
There you go, an off the cuff, fact based, M$ bash.
The original article also does not bother to define "kpc." Not being an astronomer, I guessed kiloparsec, but I wasn't sure.
kpc = kiloparsec
1 parsec = 3.26163626 light years according to google's internal unit converter, which, "if my calculations are correct" means 18 kiloparsecs = 58,709.45268 light years.
That was my guess, KiloParsecs, which I roughly equated to 3 light years, or 45,000 light years.
I suppose it's really closer to 50,000. I'm sure I would have checked before gassing up for the trip.
It will include yet even more revenue, and assume yet even more power over the people, all the while making the business of government more lucrative for those at the top of the pyramid.
I can't put my finger on it, but this all seems very, very familiar, as if this cyclical expansion of government has been repeating for 200 years.
Of course, you can't just have a free and open internet, anywhere in the world. You get upstarts like WikiLeaks and DemocracyNow that tell people things they should not know.
This does not please the corporate Overlords. Look for the complete reversal of net neutrality over the next few years.
Sad, depressing, relentless. And our education system is constantly under attack.
Sigh. Maybe we should just give up and welcome the middle ages back. We live in a feudal system anyway.
I think he knows that. This is Sony making a deal with a 3rd party which deals in identity theft to help out people who may be affected by the PSN hack.
Despite it being something that they should really be obliged to do after their screwup, and therefore they shouldn't be congratulated too much, it's also something that the "Sony is the devil" types around here wouldn't actually expect them to do. I think that people should at least recognise that they're doing the right thing here.
Since it seems to be official (although it could potentially be a social engineering trick by whoever hacked the network, since they presumably have the details to upload to the PSN blog, etc), and free, I probably will sign up, despite having already cancelled the card I used for PSN stuff.
It isn't free, it's free for a year. That's not free, that's "Oh, well, we have this insurance in place, so we are not obligated"
It doesn't even come close to being free, but it does set a precedent for the future. Making it free for a year has the effect of sliding it by us.
And I agree, it is something they should be obliged to do, regardless of whether or not they have "screwed up", under the laws of the land. (Or what the laws should be.)
If I understand this correctly, Sony will sell you insurance to the tune that, if doing business with them gets you ripped off, you get reimbursed?
And a year for free!
I have the lifetime policy, I don't do business with them.
Atlas did indeed shrug. Anyone who wants to see what liberals are all about should head to Detroit.
This is SPAM, it has nothing to do with the topic, it's a totally irrelevant bigoted shot at Black people. (I'd mod it down, but I've commented, so I'll comment it down)
to that point how did they find an Anonymous spokes person. they don't have meetings nor a roster. to join Anonymous you just need to participate in a DOS attack or just say you are part of Anonymous
They found him, then shot him in the head and dumped his body in the ocean.
Honest!
Agreed. It just does not sound plausible. Sometimes it's fun to attribute stuff like this to some scheming corporate overlord, sometimes what appears to be poorly handled public relations nightmare is, in fact, a poorly handled public relations nightmare.
I was suggesting that Sony might be using this story to cover up another problem, and so cash out on the propaganda, not that they specifically creating this problem to attack hackers. I agree that that would be overboard and unrealistic.
Not believing in God is just as rational as not believing in fairies, ancestral spirits, or super-advanced fungal space aliens - you can't prove that they don't exist. And more importantly, why doesn't the governor ever tell people to ask them for help?
The governor takes it upon himself to ask for help from fairies personally. In the washroom. At the bus station.
I've actually seen a surprisingly lack of "I told you so". I figured it would be every second comment at this point...
LOL! I'm with you there. I have a PS3, I plugged it into the net. Halfway through reading the Sony online licence agreement I unplugged it vowing never to plug it in again. I don't recall what it was that set me off exactly, it was years ago, but I haven't changed my mind.
A journalist friend of mine has suggested the possibility that Sony is staging this "hacker" attack as a fortuitous propaganda stunt to make hackers look bad and possibly cover up a real infrastructure problem caused by Sony itself.
Can't say it doesn't sound reasonable, after all, they are capable of writing and distributing viruses.
Obvously, that's my point. People who self-righteously proclaim "belief in god is proof of incompetence" are themselves no different from people who want you to "get right with god".
People believe in a god largely because they have been raised to do so. This does not mean that they are incompetent, and I don't think anyone above has claimed that this is so. It does mean that they are irrational about certain things.
If an unlikely premise is impossible to prove, that doesn't make it equally likely. It's still an unlikely premise.
The freedom to not have a fucking NIGGER president, that's what. I bet that next we'll have a queer or some weird shit and say that it's for "diversity" and "multiculturalism". But just what the fuck would you know, you pansy foreign faggot. Get the fuck off Slashdot.
Wahahaha!
Would you say that you have any prejudices?
Thanks for the laugh, you should be watching the Fox protaganda channel, cleaning your gun and drinking a Bud Light. Not playing the white trash bigot on Slashdot.
BTW, the freedoms you have lost include the right to privacy, any privacy, the right to be protected by and from the government, the tight to a speedy trial, or any trial at all, the right to free assembly, etc, etc, etc. All things that are granted to you in the constitution. And all things that Corporations have had granted to them as citizens who have more rights that you do, and through their new found right to anonymously donate as much as they want to political parties, now own your government.
Yeah, you go clean your gun while you still have one. You're gonna need it.
> It's so exciting, Corporations now have the unrestricted ability to rape vast and uncharted regions of the earth, completely hidden away from watchful eyes while we sleep peacefully in our beds.
You may remember BP didn't need a submarine to pretty much destroy the bottom of the sea.
Yes, now they can go right to the bottom of the greatest depths and fuck the rest of it up. And I'm sure they will, they destroy with impunity.
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I'm not in the mood to google more "skype outages" for you. Do your own homework.
I'm good with you doing it. While you're at it, do the research on M$ services in general, and how reliable they are compared to their peers in the industry. Post it as an article and link it here at slashdot. If the article gets picked up and some troll doesn't tell you to "Do your homework", you get 100%.
Or not.
Microsoft is not running Skype yet. It takes months for these deals to go through. And TFA suggests that Skype has never gone down before, which is BS. 'Disappeared from the Internet'? Seriously?
The only useful thing in this submission is that I learned the word 'snaffled.'
It's a safe assumption that the word snaffled derives from the early Latin acronym, snafu, which translates: Situation Normal All Fucked Up.
Or, you know, it could just be a server issue. If you look, and ask Skype users, the outage is already over.
I know, not as fun as MS-bashing, but the best bashing is based on fact.
And the fact is that Skype has run flawlessly for at least seven years (according to the article) without a hiccup and as soon as M$ gets it, they break it.
There you go, an off the cuff, fact based, M$ bash.
And when we find out that a modified smallpox vaccinates against AIDS, will you still have that opinion?
That's an argument against everything. i.e. it's useless.
The original article also does not bother to define "kpc." Not being an astronomer, I guessed kiloparsec, but I wasn't sure.
kpc = kiloparsec 1 parsec = 3.26163626 light years according to google's internal unit converter, which, "if my calculations are correct" means 18 kiloparsecs = 58,709.45268 light years.
That was my guess, KiloParsecs, which I roughly equated to 3 light years, or 45,000 light years.
I suppose it's really closer to 50,000. I'm sure I would have checked before gassing up for the trip.
It will include yet even more revenue, and assume yet even more power over the people, all the while making the business of government more lucrative for those at the top of the pyramid.
I can't put my finger on it, but this all seems very, very familiar, as if this cyclical expansion of government has been repeating for 200 years.
Of course, you can't just have a free and open internet, anywhere in the world. You get upstarts like WikiLeaks and DemocracyNow that tell people things they should not know.
This does not please the corporate Overlords. Look for the complete reversal of net neutrality over the next few years.
Sad, depressing, relentless. And our education system is constantly under attack.
Sigh. Maybe we should just give up and welcome the middle ages back. We live in a feudal system anyway.
A sandwich is not insurance, it isn't even in any way like or symbolic of insurance.
It's a sandwich.
lousy analogy.
Heh, you better keep your gun, you're going to need it.
Nice to see that we are still supporting science for the sake of science, not just science that turns into profits for some private corporation.
I think he knows that. This is Sony making a deal with a 3rd party which deals in identity theft to help out people who may be affected by the PSN hack.
Despite it being something that they should really be obliged to do after their screwup, and therefore they shouldn't be congratulated too much, it's also something that the "Sony is the devil" types around here wouldn't actually expect them to do. I think that people should at least recognise that they're doing the right thing here.
Since it seems to be official (although it could potentially be a social engineering trick by whoever hacked the network, since they presumably have the details to upload to the PSN blog, etc), and free, I probably will sign up, despite having already cancelled the card I used for PSN stuff.
It isn't free, it's free for a year. That's not free, that's "Oh, well, we have this insurance in place, so we are not obligated"
It doesn't even come close to being free, but it does set a precedent for the future. Making it free for a year has the effect of sliding it by us.
And I agree, it is something they should be obliged to do, regardless of whether or not they have "screwed up", under the laws of the land. (Or what the laws should be.)
I think that was sarcasm.
If I understand this correctly, Sony will sell you insurance to the tune that, if doing business with them gets you ripped off, you get reimbursed?
And a year for free!
I have the lifetime policy, I don't do business with them.
TellaPhony?
for decades:
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/05/04/report-nearly-half-of-detroiters-cant-read/
Atlas did indeed shrug. Anyone who wants to see what liberals are all about should head to Detroit.
This is SPAM, it has nothing to do with the topic, it's a totally irrelevant bigoted shot at Black people. (I'd mod it down, but I've commented, so I'll comment it down)
TellaFace
to that point how did they find an Anonymous spokes person. they don't have meetings nor a roster. to join Anonymous you just need to participate in a DOS attack or just say you are part of Anonymous
They found him, then shot him in the head and dumped his body in the ocean. Honest!
hey! I didn't do crap!
Coward
Agreed. It just does not sound plausible. Sometimes it's fun to attribute stuff like this to some scheming corporate overlord, sometimes what appears to be poorly handled public relations nightmare is, in fact, a poorly handled public relations nightmare.
I was suggesting that Sony might be using this story to cover up another problem, and so cash out on the propaganda, not that they specifically creating this problem to attack hackers. I agree that that would be overboard and unrealistic.
Not believing in God is just as rational as not believing in fairies, ancestral spirits, or super-advanced fungal space aliens - you can't prove that they don't exist. And more importantly, why doesn't the governor ever tell people to ask them for help?
The governor takes it upon himself to ask for help from fairies personally. In the washroom. At the bus station.
(I'm not homophobic, I couldn't resist)
I've actually seen a surprisingly lack of "I told you so". I figured it would be every second comment at this point...
LOL! I'm with you there. I have a PS3, I plugged it into the net. Halfway through reading the Sony online licence agreement I unplugged it vowing never to plug it in again. I don't recall what it was that set me off exactly, it was years ago, but I haven't changed my mind.
A journalist friend of mine has suggested the possibility that Sony is staging this "hacker" attack as a fortuitous propaganda stunt to make hackers look bad and possibly cover up a real infrastructure problem caused by Sony itself.
Can't say it doesn't sound reasonable, after all, they are capable of writing and distributing viruses.
Obvously, that's my point. People who self-righteously proclaim "belief in god is proof of incompetence" are themselves no different from people who want you to "get right with god".
People believe in a god largely because they have been raised to do so. This does not mean that they are incompetent, and I don't think anyone above has claimed that this is so. It does mean that they are irrational about certain things.
If an unlikely premise is impossible to prove, that doesn't make it equally likely. It's still an unlikely premise.
Besides, the evidence is there for all to see, there is no Abrahamic god, we know that because Zeus took out that statue of Jesus. http://scotteriology.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/zeus-attacks-jesus-statue/
Don't fuck with Zeus.
this means that there's an even better backdoor for the NSA in Win7?
Lovely! The first comment was my first thought when I saw the headline.
The freedom to not have a fucking NIGGER president, that's what. I bet that next we'll have a queer or some weird shit and say that it's for "diversity" and "multiculturalism". But just what the fuck would you know, you pansy foreign faggot. Get the fuck off Slashdot.
Wahahaha!
Would you say that you have any prejudices?
Thanks for the laugh, you should be watching the Fox protaganda channel, cleaning your gun and drinking a Bud Light. Not playing the white trash bigot on Slashdot.
BTW, the freedoms you have lost include the right to privacy, any privacy, the right to be protected by and from the government, the tight to a speedy trial, or any trial at all, the right to free assembly, etc, etc, etc. All things that are granted to you in the constitution. And all things that Corporations have had granted to them as citizens who have more rights that you do, and through their new found right to anonymously donate as much as they want to political parties, now own your government.
Yeah, you go clean your gun while you still have one. You're gonna need it.
(I know, he's a troll, sorry.)
> It's so exciting, Corporations now have the unrestricted ability to rape vast and uncharted regions of the earth, completely hidden away from watchful eyes while we sleep peacefully in our beds.
You may remember BP didn't need a submarine to pretty much destroy the bottom of the sea.
Yes, now they can go right to the bottom of the greatest depths and fuck the rest of it up. And I'm sure they will, they destroy with impunity.