No, ED was proposed for deletion several times. Here's the right one.
Long short story, ED has a few articles making fun of Wikipedia. One of them was about MONGO, so he decided to use one of his puppets and list the ED article on Wikipedia for deletion. Since lots of wikipedians can't stand satire when they're the target of it, many voted delete. Now, if you're familiar with Wikipedia and look at the AfD, it's obvious that it should have been closed as "No consensus" instead of "Delete", but the admin decided to ignore the votes and get away with his bias. So much for democracy, huh?
It's sad, but not even Wikipedia is free from censorship. If the majority of the Wikipedians don't like or agree with something, it WILL get deleted. All it takes is putting up an AfD and writing "Delete per WP:CNEIAMUP" (Wikipedia: Completely Non-Existant, Irrelevant And Made Up Policy). Being a wikibot is all about linking to WP: policies, make up interpretations for them and pretend they apply to the current article. And of course, you also need double-standards for all those "Shitty Webcomic with 10 hits per day", because webcomics rock!
It's denying information to people "just because". They're not even saving space by deleting the article, the history is still saved. That AfD was just a childish "Ha-ha, we don't like you so we're going to deny information to anyone that happens to be interested in Encyclopedia Dramatica!". Jimbo Wales said, "Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.". He should have added "As long as we like that subject."
Personally, I enjoyed this one. It illustrated well the nature of the Internet, someone finds something, links it to another person, that person links it again, repeat.
I loved the different blog personas and their comments. I don't know, call me stupid, but there's just something about it that I can't help finding fascinating.
It's redundant when the joke in question is made in the post itself. They link to Daikatana, you know.
Slashdot should have better mod options though. Something like "Unfunny" and "Dumb". That would make live much easier, I could just set everyone modded unfunny to -5 and avoid all the tired old in-jokes.
Picturing someone enraged jumping around and yelling "mother fucking unpatriotic piece of horse shit!!!" made me actually laugh out loud. Somehow, the unexpected and excessive swearing turned the parent's post hilarious. I swear, I even saw his face turning red in my mind. Someone mod this Funny, I just spent my mod points a few hours ago.
I've been following this lately, and Six Apart's behaviour on this situation seems quite lacking. If what the article says is true and bantown have been just stealing cookies, the only measure they took, a recent change in LJ's subdomain policy seems quite pointless, since cookies are binded to.livejournal.com, anyway.
They also don't tell us which browser is affected on the newspost. How can we be safe if we are not informed? Can Six Apart actually deal with this in a professional way? I've been noticing LiveJournal is really slow and it hangs a lot lately. It seems that they know nothing about security and are just randomly mashing buttons in a attempt to hit the nail in the head.
Is Six Apart that incompetent that they can't prevent such attacks after they have been going for days, or is this bantown group really that good?
Err, redundant maybe, because someone already pointed that they'd only gave to go the GAIM way, but Offtopic? Wait, let me try this again:
"Hay guyz, does any1 use msn, anyway? aim ftw!"
Is this on topic now? I love it how the obligatory "AIM vs MSN vs whatever" debate that pops up every time an article about an IM network is posted is rated Insightful, but a comment talking about the specific software whose release the article talked about is modded Offtopic.
The A in AIM stands for America. MSN is used almost exclusively in most European countries. In fact, in the past, I knew about the existence of MSN, Y! and ICQ, but I only found out AIM after I started talking to American people online.
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Easy. All they have to do is say that aMSN is an acronym for Alvaro's MeSseNger and that it has nothing to do with MicroSoft Network.
Exactly. Heavy DRM only punishes people who actually buy the CDs. DRM in Audio CDs is the most stupid thing ever, since companies *need* to make their CDs compatible with regular CD players. I'm sorry, but if you can play it with a CD player, you can rip it. Unless they start shipping little gnomes that smash your PC if you insert the CD in your computer, music piracy isn't going to stop.
No matter how good the DRM is, audio CDs will always be pirated. This means that whoever prefers to do the illegal thing and download the tracks can do it without any hassles. On the other hand, people who do the right thing and buy the CDs get their computers rootkit'D. Good job.
Why do companies even bother wasting money on Audio CD DRM is beyond me. It's technically impossible to make a CD compatible with audio players that can't be pirated. Don't they lose even more money by researching and developing these pseudo-protection techniques that only harm customers instead of the pirates?
In case you missed it, the point of this post is that no matter how many times we repeat something on Slashdot, that doesn't make it a undeniable fact. Yes, it's completely offtopic and it was modded fairly, but it's still a good read.
Exactly. Bittorrent is awesome for mainstream stuff, but if you want something that almost no one has, eMule is the way to go, even if you have to wait for ages.
couldn't eMule create servers and get people to run them?
They already do that... for as long as I use eMule. eMule downloads a server list and connects to servers hosted by indivuduals, mostly. God, do people moderate at random to get rid of those extra mod points?
Exactly. I know I wouldn't give away my bandwidth just because a random company is feeling greedy and wants to save on bandwidth costs. You know how things work, it would be just like ebooks. If companies started using BitTorrent to distribute their commercial software, they wouldn't drop their prices by one cent. Bittorrent will never work for companies that want to make a profit. It's simple, if you could choose from donating to Microsoft or UNICEF, what would you pick?
Considering you got such a long first post, you must be TMM himself. Hiding behind Anonymous Coward to bash an Editor while starting a "TMM for editor!" campaign for yourself? Man. I was going to mod you down, but someone got you before I did. Plus, I just had to point this out.
That reminds me of an article I read in a magazine 5 years ago. It also talked about the 5 year OS cycle and predicted that everyone would be using Linux in 2005.
Microsoft killed the software cycle. When computers weren't so widespread and when their purposes were limited, it was easy to "reset" OSes. Right now, we depend too much on our OSes to throw them away and start over. If it wasn't for the backwards-compatibility sake, the x86 architecture would be dead, Win32 would be dead, IPv4 would be dead, etc. It's one thing to lose your spreadsheet and word processing program, but we're not talking about that anymore. Too many things rely on the OSes we are using right now. I doubt we'll see a reset in the future, it will be more like a "soft transition" (9x-NT, anyone?).
It's called brand awareness. If for some reason you see "Sloan Royal Valve" products in real life, you'll recognise the brand. Making the customer recognize a brand is a huge goal in marketing.
In the private sector, ever cent counts. I mean, we're talking about financial services, these people can do the math about the costs. If I worked for a company and had the option of save the company thousands of dollars in software and licenses, that's what I would do, switch to Free alternatives when possible and make my boss happy.
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Long short story, ED has a few articles making fun of Wikipedia. One of them was about MONGO, so he decided to use one of his puppets and list the ED article on Wikipedia for deletion. Since lots of wikipedians can't stand satire when they're the target of it, many voted delete. Now, if you're familiar with Wikipedia and look at the AfD, it's obvious that it should have been closed as "No consensus" instead of "Delete", but the admin decided to ignore the votes and get away with his bias. So much for democracy, huh?
It's sad, but not even Wikipedia is free from censorship. If the majority of the Wikipedians don't like or agree with something, it WILL get deleted. All it takes is putting up an AfD and writing "Delete per WP:CNEIAMUP" (Wikipedia: Completely Non-Existant, Irrelevant And Made Up Policy). Being a wikibot is all about linking to WP: policies, make up interpretations for them and pretend they apply to the current article. And of course, you also need double-standards for all those "Shitty Webcomic with 10 hits per day", because webcomics rock!
It's denying information to people "just because". They're not even saving space by deleting the article, the history is still saved. That AfD was just a childish "Ha-ha, we don't like you so we're going to deny information to anyone that happens to be interested in Encyclopedia Dramatica!". Jimbo Wales said, "Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.". He should have added "As long as we like that subject."
Finally, my sig is actually relevant within this context.
Because if you could unprotect DRM'd files just by setting your PC clock to 2100, DRM would be pretty pointless, wouldn't it?
I loved the different blog personas and their comments. I don't know, call me stupid, but there's just something about it that I can't help finding fascinating.
Slashdot should have better mod options though. Something like "Unfunny" and "Dumb". That would make live much easier, I could just set everyone modded unfunny to -5 and avoid all the tired old in-jokes.
Picturing someone enraged jumping around and yelling "mother fucking unpatriotic piece of horse shit!!!" made me actually laugh out loud. Somehow, the unexpected and excessive swearing turned the parent's post hilarious. I swear, I even saw his face turning red in my mind. Someone mod this Funny, I just spent my mod points a few hours ago.
Mod parent up, it's true. A user posted an email he got from bantown saying that on his LJ, too.
They also don't tell us which browser is affected on the newspost. How can we be safe if we are not informed? Can Six Apart actually deal with this in a professional way? I've been noticing LiveJournal is really slow and it hangs a lot lately. It seems that they know nothing about security and are just randomly mashing buttons in a attempt to hit the nail in the head.
Is Six Apart that incompetent that they can't prevent such attacks after they have been going for days, or is this bantown group really that good?
"Hay guyz, does any1 use msn, anyway? aim ftw!"
Is this on topic now? I love it how the obligatory "AIM vs MSN vs whatever" debate that pops up every time an article about an IM network is posted is rated Insightful, but a comment talking about the specific software whose release the article talked about is modded Offtopic.
The A in AIM stands for America. MSN is used almost exclusively in most European countries. In fact, in the past, I knew about the existence of MSN, Y! and ICQ, but I only found out AIM after I started talking to American people online.
Easy. All they have to do is say that aMSN is an acronym for Alvaro's MeSseNger and that it has nothing to do with MicroSoft Network.
No matter how good the DRM is, audio CDs will always be pirated. This means that whoever prefers to do the illegal thing and download the tracks can do it without any hassles. On the other hand, people who do the right thing and buy the CDs get their computers rootkit'D. Good job.
Why do companies even bother wasting money on Audio CD DRM is beyond me. It's technically impossible to make a CD compatible with audio players that can't be pirated. Don't they lose even more money by researching and developing these pseudo-protection techniques that only harm customers instead of the pirates?
In case you missed it, the point of this post is that no matter how many times we repeat something on Slashdot, that doesn't make it a undeniable fact. Yes, it's completely offtopic and it was modded fairly, but it's still a good read.
If Microsoft and Sony both turn to crappy proprietary DRM formats, you can bet my money's going to be with Nintendo.
God, I hate you trolls more than GNAA first posts and Anti-slash people. At least they admit they're trolling.
Hey, why does your IP resolve to a .gov hostname?
*ducks*
I was wondering that as well, what can the Da Vinci drawings of a heart have that a realistic computer model doesn't?
Exactly. Bittorrent is awesome for mainstream stuff, but if you want something that almost no one has, eMule is the way to go, even if you have to wait for ages.
They already do that... for as long as I use eMule. eMule downloads a server list and connects to servers hosted by indivuduals, mostly. God, do people moderate at random to get rid of those extra mod points?
Exactly. I know I wouldn't give away my bandwidth just because a random company is feeling greedy and wants to save on bandwidth costs. You know how things work, it would be just like ebooks. If companies started using BitTorrent to distribute their commercial software, they wouldn't drop their prices by one cent. Bittorrent will never work for companies that want to make a profit. It's simple, if you could choose from donating to Microsoft or UNICEF, what would you pick?
Considering you got such a long first post, you must be TMM himself. Hiding behind Anonymous Coward to bash an Editor while starting a "TMM for editor!" campaign for yourself? Man. I was going to mod you down, but someone got you before I did. Plus, I just had to point this out.
æ is my favorite wiki. I'm a regular contributor there. Sure, its humor is not made for everyone to enjoy, but it amuses me.
Microsoft killed the software cycle. When computers weren't so widespread and when their purposes were limited, it was easy to "reset" OSes. Right now, we depend too much on our OSes to throw them away and start over. If it wasn't for the backwards-compatibility sake, the x86 architecture would be dead, Win32 would be dead, IPv4 would be dead, etc. It's one thing to lose your spreadsheet and word processing program, but we're not talking about that anymore. Too many things rely on the OSes we are using right now. I doubt we'll see a reset in the future, it will be more like a "soft transition" (9x-NT, anyone?).
It's called brand awareness. If for some reason you see "Sloan Royal Valve" products in real life, you'll recognise the brand. Making the customer recognize a brand is a huge goal in marketing.
In the private sector, ever cent counts. I mean, we're talking about financial services, these people can do the math about the costs. If I worked for a company and had the option of save the company thousands of dollars in software and licenses, that's what I would do, switch to Free alternatives when possible and make my boss happy.