Why are independent inventors and startups harmed by this? First to invent involves costly court cases and deep pockets to prove your case, first to file is pretty straightforward. Who has the deepest pockets?
Same here. I stopped sending out invites, and gave up using G+. With the real names policy only a portion of the people I know will be prepared to switch, not making it worth my while to badger and cajole people into switching from Facebook. G+ is pretty much dead in the water. But people still hate Facebook so there is still room for a new competitor!
It even has "could be" plainly in the url, which should have immediately ruled it out if anybody was actually monitoring submissions. Not as bad as the deliberately fake "nuclear leak" story but I agree with jumping the shark. Slashdot has fallen apart recently.
Agreed. This is beyond pathetic. One of the first sentences is "There was no risk of a radioactive leak after the blast" and later it says there are no nuclear reactors on that site. The fact somebody was killed in an industrial accident is sad, not matter how many times it happens each day, but the nuclear element is spurious.
There is nothing quoted that even insinuates there is a remote possibility of a leak, and so I agree with lwatcdr that the whole Slashdot post is a made-up lie. This is majorly damaging to the reputation of Slashdot.
I wasn't vaccinated, had measles, and am still around today. Not sure about what new strains there are, but plenty of people used to get measles at school when I was there and it just meant you had a few days off. A quick Google check tells me there was one measle death in 10 years in the UK, and that one person had lung problems and was already heavily on immuno-suppressant drug.
Getting measles = staying in bed with plenty of water and some nice warm soup. Dangling kid off balcony = potential death.
KDE 3.5 made me move to Gnome. KDE4 made me move back. I *much* prefer KDE 4.5. However I agree with both yourself and qbast below. Dolphin is the worst pile of crap I have used in living memory. After I drag and drop it randomly starts a drag box around files, it's incredibly slow, buggy, crashes a lot, for some reason 1-click launches files by default (so everybody that installs it ends up starting 2 movies, opening 2 Word documents, etc), you can't browse archives transparently, the preview only seems to work for images for me and even then it won't do it by default.
Of course I use Firefox instead of Konq, Thunderbird instead of Kmail, Geany instead of Kate, etc. As an actual OS though it's not bad at all.
where reasonable is not a matter of a few hours or even a few days
A few hours might be pushing it, but a few days is reasonable to plug a gaping security hole that compromises all your users and can enable the identity theft of up to millions of users. As for wouldn't it be better to contact the site owners, didn't they warn in advance last time that they would be dumping the database of passwords? (was it NASA?) I would say it is fair to assume that if Anon have it, then more shady characters will already have had it for a while. If it's dumped publically, it shouldn't be hard to write a script that emails each person to warn them their account has been compromised, assuming some joker hasn't gone in there first and reset the password. I agree with the general thrust of your argument but I don't see it quite as black and white since we don't know that they weren't warned and just couldn't be bothered to fix it.
We get the same even within Europe. The French thought Tony Blair was right wing, and in England he was considered a left-wing socialist. Same with Sarkozy, the French thinking he's extreme right and the English thinking he is left.
I can't think of any country in Europe that has a party as extreme right-wing as the Democrats though.
The driving age is 18 in France and 17 in UK, don't remember when it has been any different. The drinking age for *buying* alcohol is 18 in both countries, but in both there is no particular drinking age to go to a pub (only to get served). In the UK you shouldn't buy alcohol for anybody under 18. In the UK kids start getting smashed at around 13 years old (no coincidence they have highest teenage pregnancy) whereas in France you start getting a sip of wine or champaign from when you are a child and alcohol abuse is relatively rare. There is no difference in age for getting served beer/hard liquor, that is down to the license of the bar. In both countries we get amused by Americans falling over in the streets as they can't handle their beer. If you like cider, UK is better than French as it's crisper and dryer... but try Swedish pear cider. Fantastic.
Way behind the times. All buses and city vehicles in my town have been running on natural gas for the past couple of decades. Of course many of the city vehicles are now already EVs. You can even hire an electric car pretty much anywhere in town for €5 per hour. You should try living in civilisation, it's really quite pleasant.
Google is awesome! Google+ already has 25 million users. So what if your info is out there, you give out your info with everything you do. It's not a big deal
Until they started forcing linking Google+ to real names, and deleting all other accounts. Now many people have binned G+ much as they have Facebook.
Seems there is still potential for yet another social networking site to carve out a sizeable chunk of the market.
It was my first thought also. Then we will probably see sniping (ala eBay) and the HFT technology will be used to be first or last into the discrete block. However with the volume reduced so will the impact of HFT on volatility.
How on earth did parent get modded up? He is like the other crazies that claim if we don't help Sudan then we shouldn't help Libya. So if you don't take on every "bad guy" in the world simultaneously then there is no point doing anything at all? If he knows about Exxon and they are doing bad things then he can highlight it. If somebody else knows more about Gazprom then they can highlight that. You aren't judge and jury about what other people can protest, why don't you do your own protest against Gazprom?
People in England don't quite have the same obsession with male anal sex as Americans seem to. I doubt anybody would get ass-raped in an English prison, and pretty much zero chance for somebody in a low security prison. Interesting Reddit article on coping in prison here.
The other posts in this thread are just depressing, and they don't seem to understand this fact at all. I've let plenty of people stay at my place, rent free, including from abroad stranded with no money and nowhere to live. I've never had a single bad experience. Sure I may have been lucky, but I think I helped a number of people out. Once I had a party and I let some foreigners keep a set of my keys as I had to rush off and catch a plane. When I got back my favourite watch had disappeared. I thought about asking them for it, they were in town for a few more days after I got back, but I went with my gut instinct and believed they hadn't touched it. I found it, of all the cliched places, down the back of my couch. I was SO glad I hadn't gone up to them and accused them of theft!
Sometimes you will get robbed, you may occasionally rent to somebody that abuses your trust, in business or personal life a supposed friend may stab you in the back. Get over it and get on with your life, and be thankful that 99% of people simply aren't like that.
Wow that was one of the most bitter unsubstantiated sad rants I've seen in a long time. And it comes from some banker waiting for his anticipated bonus on top, for +1 Hypocrite. Unlike yourself, Google actually adds value to society in many ways. What a nutter.
It is obvious. And I'm not sure why it's a criminal offense. I've been DDOS'd plenty of times, the last one pretty sure paid for by a certain rival. I tracked down one of the sources as a compromised router in Japan, but due to being out of hours it took ages before I could get hold of somebody to shut it down. They should compensate me for lost business, but prison? Sure it would give me personal satisfaction but it would be more logical they compensate me.
Sure you might have moral reasons for protesting a company by DDOS but you should know that might come at a price. In fact it may backfire and make you pay more money to the company you are protesting against. Plus a hefty bill from law enforcement for tracking you down and making them waste their resources. But throwing people in jail for something so trivial doesn't appear to offer any tangible benefits to society.
Interesting point. What if somebody organises a bus for a bunch of protesters to make it easier to get to the protest point. Have they then relinquished control to the bus driver? After all the volounteers have all signed up for their packets to be delivered by the group organiser.
That's not really true. One person using their maximum bandwidth is unable to take down a web site, you cannot single-handedly block access completely unless others (who're making their own decisions) work together with you. In fact I think you've actually successfully proven yourself wrong.
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Why are independent inventors and startups harmed by this? First to invent involves costly court cases and deep pockets to prove your case, first to file is pretty straightforward. Who has the deepest pockets?
Phillip.
Same here. I stopped sending out invites, and gave up using G+. With the real names policy only a portion of the people I know will be prepared to switch, not making it worth my while to badger and cajole people into switching from Facebook. G+ is pretty much dead in the water. But people still hate Facebook so there is still room for a new competitor!
Phillip.
It even has "could be" plainly in the url, which should have immediately ruled it out if anybody was actually monitoring submissions. Not as bad as the deliberately fake "nuclear leak" story but I agree with jumping the shark. Slashdot has fallen apart recently.
Phillip.
Agreed. This is beyond pathetic. One of the first sentences is "There was no risk of a radioactive leak after the blast" and later it says there are no nuclear reactors on that site. The fact somebody was killed in an industrial accident is sad, not matter how many times it happens each day, but the nuclear element is spurious.
There is nothing quoted that even insinuates there is a remote possibility of a leak, and so I agree with lwatcdr that the whole Slashdot post is a made-up lie. This is majorly damaging to the reputation of Slashdot.
Phillip.
I wasn't vaccinated, had measles, and am still around today. Not sure about what new strains there are, but plenty of people used to get measles at school when I was there and it just meant you had a few days off. A quick Google check tells me there was one measle death in 10 years in the UK, and that one person had lung problems and was already heavily on immuno-suppressant drug.
Getting measles = staying in bed with plenty of water and some nice warm soup. Dangling kid off balcony = potential death.
Phillip.
"and whether it's possible for the group to turn its attentions to more constructive pursuits."
Take a look at the list of charges against Aaron Barr in the comments above. How is taking him out of circulation not constructive?
Phillip.
Wouldn't Google be more concerned about scalability and ability to cope with heavy load, rather than achieving lowest possible latency?
Phillip.
KDE 3.5 made me move to Gnome. KDE4 made me move back. I *much* prefer KDE 4.5. However I agree with both yourself and qbast below. Dolphin is the worst pile of crap I have used in living memory. After I drag and drop it randomly starts a drag box around files, it's incredibly slow, buggy, crashes a lot, for some reason 1-click launches files by default (so everybody that installs it ends up starting 2 movies, opening 2 Word documents, etc), you can't browse archives transparently, the preview only seems to work for images for me and even then it won't do it by default.
Of course I use Firefox instead of Konq, Thunderbird instead of Kmail, Geany instead of Kate, etc. As an actual OS though it's not bad at all.
Phillip.
where reasonable is not a matter of a few hours or even a few days
A few hours might be pushing it, but a few days is reasonable to plug a gaping security hole that compromises all your users and can enable the identity theft of up to millions of users. As for wouldn't it be better to contact the site owners, didn't they warn in advance last time that they would be dumping the database of passwords? (was it NASA?) I would say it is fair to assume that if Anon have it, then more shady characters will already have had it for a while. If it's dumped publically, it shouldn't be hard to write a script that emails each person to warn them their account has been compromised, assuming some joker hasn't gone in there first and reset the password. I agree with the general thrust of your argument but I don't see it quite as black and white since we don't know that they weren't warned and just couldn't be bothered to fix it.
Phillip.
Caveat emptor. If you don't do your own due diligence on your investments then don't complain about the consequences.
Phillip.
We get the same even within Europe. The French thought Tony Blair was right wing, and in England he was considered a left-wing socialist. Same with Sarkozy, the French thinking he's extreme right and the English thinking he is left.
I can't think of any country in Europe that has a party as extreme right-wing as the Democrats though.
Phillip.
The driving age is 18 in France and 17 in UK, don't remember when it has been any different. The drinking age for *buying* alcohol is 18 in both countries, but in both there is no particular drinking age to go to a pub (only to get served). In the UK you shouldn't buy alcohol for anybody under 18. In the UK kids start getting smashed at around 13 years old (no coincidence they have highest teenage pregnancy) whereas in France you start getting a sip of wine or champaign from when you are a child and alcohol abuse is relatively rare. There is no difference in age for getting served beer/hard liquor, that is down to the license of the bar. In both countries we get amused by Americans falling over in the streets as they can't handle their beer. If you like cider, UK is better than French as it's crisper and dryer... but try Swedish pear cider. Fantastic.
Phillip.
Way behind the times. All buses and city vehicles in my town have been running on natural gas for the past couple of decades. Of course many of the city vehicles are now already EVs. You can even hire an electric car pretty much anywhere in town for €5 per hour. You should try living in civilisation, it's really quite pleasant.
Phillip.
Google is awesome! Google+ already has 25 million users. So what if your info is out there, you give out your info with everything you do. It's not a big deal
Until they started forcing linking Google+ to real names, and deleting all other accounts. Now many people have binned G+ much as they have Facebook.
Seems there is still potential for yet another social networking site to carve out a sizeable chunk of the market.
Phillip.
Why oh why oh why is CookieSwap still not compatible with Firefox 4?
Phillip.
It was my first thought also. Then we will probably see sniping (ala eBay) and the HFT technology will be used to be first or last into the discrete block. However with the volume reduced so will the impact of HFT on volatility.
Phillip.
How on earth did parent get modded up? He is like the other crazies that claim if we don't help Sudan then we shouldn't help Libya. So if you don't take on every "bad guy" in the world simultaneously then there is no point doing anything at all? If he knows about Exxon and they are doing bad things then he can highlight it. If somebody else knows more about Gazprom then they can highlight that. You aren't judge and jury about what other people can protest, why don't you do your own protest against Gazprom?
Phillip.
People in England don't quite have the same obsession with male anal sex as Americans seem to. I doubt anybody would get ass-raped in an English prison, and pretty much zero chance for somebody in a low security prison. Interesting Reddit article on coping in prison here.
Phillip.
Wow you must live in a rough depressed neighbourhood. Maybe you should consider moving?
Phillip.
The other posts in this thread are just depressing, and they don't seem to understand this fact at all. I've let plenty of people stay at my place, rent free, including from abroad stranded with no money and nowhere to live. I've never had a single bad experience. Sure I may have been lucky, but I think I helped a number of people out. Once I had a party and I let some foreigners keep a set of my keys as I had to rush off and catch a plane. When I got back my favourite watch had disappeared. I thought about asking them for it, they were in town for a few more days after I got back, but I went with my gut instinct and believed they hadn't touched it. I found it, of all the cliched places, down the back of my couch. I was SO glad I hadn't gone up to them and accused them of theft!
Sometimes you will get robbed, you may occasionally rent to somebody that abuses your trust, in business or personal life a supposed friend may stab you in the back. Get over it and get on with your life, and be thankful that 99% of people simply aren't like that.
Phillip.
Wow that was one of the most bitter unsubstantiated sad rants I've seen in a long time. And it comes from some banker waiting for his anticipated bonus on top, for +1 Hypocrite. Unlike yourself, Google actually adds value to society in many ways. What a nutter.
Phillip.
It is obvious. And I'm not sure why it's a criminal offense. I've been DDOS'd plenty of times, the last one pretty sure paid for by a certain rival. I tracked down one of the sources as a compromised router in Japan, but due to being out of hours it took ages before I could get hold of somebody to shut it down. They should compensate me for lost business, but prison? Sure it would give me personal satisfaction but it would be more logical they compensate me.
Sure you might have moral reasons for protesting a company by DDOS but you should know that might come at a price. In fact it may backfire and make you pay more money to the company you are protesting against. Plus a hefty bill from law enforcement for tracking you down and making them waste their resources. But throwing people in jail for something so trivial doesn't appear to offer any tangible benefits to society.
Phillip.
Interesting point. What if somebody organises a bus for a bunch of protesters to make it easier to get to the protest point. Have they then relinquished control to the bus driver? After all the volounteers have all signed up for their packets to be delivered by the group organiser.
Phillip.
That's not really true. One person using their maximum bandwidth is unable to take down a web site, you cannot single-handedly block access completely unless others (who're making their own decisions) work together with you. In fact I think you've actually successfully proven yourself wrong.
Phillip.
Easy slip to say a few days rather than a couple of billion years.
Phillip.