I've actually had conversations with people about their daily graphs, which clearly show huge profits from new players within the first 10 minutes of play, followed by no profit thereafter. When I've pointed out what those graphs indicate, by and large the response was always "but the analytics says these people are all in the 30-40 year old age range, so we aren't exploiting children in the way you're suggesting".
If you have verifiable data available that shows this I would love to see it.
I have a friend who is a retired newspaper journalist. I wonder if I could interest him in devising some guidelines for ShashDot postings that even amateurs could apply with some improvement to the quality of their posts. Anyone enthusiastic about this?
This will remain irrelevant until the editors do some editing rather than accepting article submissions that are no more than the output of a script that scrapes an RSS feed.
What's with this urge to punish? What has Marvell done that's so evil? Other than being a powerful US corporation, that is.
They made billions of dollars off the patents of others and didn't pay appropriately to the patent holders?
I would hope that a judge/jury would only be able to award punitive damages if the plaintiff provided convincing evidence that the defendant willfully and knowingly violated the plaintiff's patents.
As OT as this is, I was moderating but all I seem to being doing lately is moderating down advertising 'comment' crap like this wasting mod points that could have been used for of upmodding other, more relevant and interesting comments.
Surely there must be a way of moderating this junk "Advertising" or something that doesn't affect your other mod point for relevant stuff. aaarrrggghh
This is why slashdot is doomed and will likely fail completely within the next year or so. Readership apathy is increasing for the following reasons, among others:
1. It is no longer "news for nerds", just random crap scraped from tech related sites.
2. Summaries are basically just the first paragraph from TFA, scraped by a script most likely.
3. Moderation has become a part time job, not just a "giving back" to help make the site work.
Eventually people will tire of just filtering comment spam and will stop moderating altogether. Combine that with the declining content quality and the people that provide intelligent, interesting or insightful commentary will stop coming. After that it will become just another 4chan. It's a shame and I will be sorry to see it go, but that's the way things are going.
Google just brought out a map product for Apple and Apple's sales have again risen far higher than usual - people were holding off buying their products until it was fixed.
Or as adamstew pointed out in another article, maybe there was another explanation.
Tough luck. Commercial transactions with willing parties are only dependent on what the two parties are willing to exchange. And that regardless of the societal/group value of the goods exchanged.
But I, as the recipient of these messages, am not a willing party. If I were, then there would be an option where I could choose to opt-in or opt-out.
I suggest a law that puts the responsibility on the gun owner to keep their guns safe and locked up. If your gun is stolen and used to kill, you should be just as guilty for those murders. Looking over stats it seems about 80% of gun crimes happen with stolen guns. Negligent gun owners not locking up their guns and keeping them out of the hands of others seems to be a big problem. Had this mother had her guns in a safe, this shit would not have happened. Just my two cents.
Speak for yourself, for some of us defrauding lonely and desperate people using an online profile only loosely grounded in reality is still the best way to get dates.
Also, as a content provider, you could sue for breach of copyright.
This assumes that the actual content providers care and are willing to take action. I'm guessing that they are not. This might also open a can of worms that you would prefer stay closed. For example, by blocking ads in your browser you could be considered in breach of the content provider's copyright. Frankly I'm surprised that content providers haven't taken this approach before now.
Violate the first rule of Usenet before its too late to get your regurgitated 'high definition' content of movies and series concepts already produced.
With nzbmatrix and several other nzb indexes being taken down lately, it looks like the various *AAs are taking an active interest in usenet as well. I look for a lot more of these to go private.
It's just like speeding, or having insurance, or seat belts, or having a driver's license; you agree to these terms to be able to use public roads.
So you won't mind another black box that records your location and speed continuously, then uploads that information automatically to the various governments that have jurisdictions over the roads you traveled? You will, of course, be sent all relevant tickets, etc. for any infractions you may have incurred during your travels. This will be handled by a private corporation, who in exchange are compensated with a percentage of the ticket revenue. This private company will also be selling the information to your insurance provider so that your rates can be properly adjusted to match your driving risk. Similarly the information will be sold to the manufacturer of your car in case there are any warranty claims or concerns. Laugh if you wish, but until the US passes some fundamental data privacy laws, I firmly believe that we should oppose any sort of automated data gathering tool in general, and in particular ones mandated by our governments.
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This is the reason that indie music, games and movies can often break through and become a runaway success.
They can, but I'm not sure I'd say often.
For an interesting look into indie game development, take a look at the film Indie Game. It is quite revealing
I've actually had conversations with people about their daily graphs, which clearly show huge profits from new players within the first 10 minutes of play, followed by no profit thereafter. When I've pointed out what those graphs indicate, by and large the response was always "but the analytics says these people are all in the 30-40 year old age range, so we aren't exploiting children in the way you're suggesting".
If you have verifiable data available that shows this I would love to see it.
Boeing was hemmoraging(sic) cash up until recently, and this switchover may save them a lot of money at the cost of some run-up problems.
Does the cost of those run-up problems remind anyone else of this little bit of dialog?
Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Define "interesting".
Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: [deadpan] Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?
I have a friend who is a retired newspaper journalist. I wonder if I could interest him in devising some guidelines for ShashDot postings that even amateurs could apply with some improvement to the quality of their posts. Anyone enthusiastic about this?
This will remain irrelevant until the editors do some editing rather than accepting article submissions that are no more than the output of a script that scrapes an RSS feed.
tl;dr: security by obscurity is a bad thing!
Maybe that's why this is an article about steganography rather than security?
How is this not an "Ask Slashdot" article?
Where can you buy a decent RPN device today?
You buy an older HP calculator on eBay of course.
You think you can "educate" people, best of luck to you, but you just want to interest people to something they do not want to care about, full stop.
As the old saying goes, Never try to teach a pig to sing. It just wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Could some astute lawyer (IANAL) produce a standard boilerplate response form and offer it for a nominal fee?
I believe that the proper reply can be found here.
Atleast in the EU, there is some evidence that intelligent life exists, and rational debate is encouraged.
Citation needed.
Apples are pretty much alike. This apple has worms, therefore all apples have worms. QED.
He looks more like a cross between something from "Leprechaun" and "Hardware".
What's with this urge to punish? What has Marvell done that's so evil? Other than being a powerful US corporation, that is.
They made billions of dollars off the patents of others and didn't pay appropriately to the patent holders?
I would hope that a judge/jury would only be able to award punitive damages if the plaintiff provided convincing evidence that the defendant willfully and knowingly violated the plaintiff's patents.
As OT as this is, I was moderating but all I seem to being doing lately is moderating down advertising 'comment' crap like this wasting mod points that could have been used for of upmodding other, more relevant and interesting comments.
Surely there must be a way of moderating this junk "Advertising" or something that doesn't affect your other mod point for relevant stuff. aaarrrggghh
This is why slashdot is doomed and will likely fail completely within the next year or so. Readership apathy is increasing for the following reasons, among others:
Eventually people will tire of just filtering comment spam and will stop moderating altogether. Combine that with the declining content quality and the people that provide intelligent, interesting or insightful commentary will stop coming. After that it will become just another 4chan. It's a shame and I will be sorry to see it go, but that's the way things are going.
A gun is more like a car. If you want to own it and operate it there some regulations to limit the risk that your neighbors have to endure.
None of the regulation around firearms are in any way related to "the risk that your neighbors have to endure". Try again dumb ass.
WW2, The Firebombing of Dresden. need i say more?
I think Hiroshima and Nagasaki beat the hell out of anything else for "collateral damage".
Yeah. Well, I suppose it would be my country that would turn killing people into a sport. ;(
I think the Romans beat us to that quite a while ago.
Google just brought out a map product for Apple and Apple's sales have again risen far higher than usual - people were holding off buying their products until it was fixed.
Or as adamstew pointed out in another article, maybe there was another explanation.
Tough luck. Commercial transactions with willing parties are only dependent on what the two parties are willing to exchange. And that regardless of the societal/group value of the goods exchanged.
But I, as the recipient of these messages, am not a willing party. If I were, then there would be an option where I could choose to opt-in or opt-out.
I suggest a law that puts the responsibility on the gun owner to keep their guns safe and locked up. If your gun is stolen and used to kill, you should be just as guilty for those murders. Looking over stats it seems about 80% of gun crimes happen with stolen guns. Negligent gun owners not locking up their guns and keeping them out of the hands of others seems to be a big problem. Had this mother had her guns in a safe, this shit would not have happened. Just my two cents.
Looks like slashdot owes you some change back.
Speak for yourself, for some of us defrauding lonely and desperate people using an online profile only loosely grounded in reality is still the best way to get dates.
Well, first dates anyway.
Also, as a content provider, you could sue for breach of copyright.
This assumes that the actual content providers care and are willing to take action. I'm guessing that they are not. This might also open a can of worms that you would prefer stay closed. For example, by blocking ads in your browser you could be considered in breach of the content provider's copyright. Frankly I'm surprised that content providers haven't taken this approach before now.
Less guns = less gun violence. Pretty straightforward.
Yet
less guns != less violence
Violate the first rule of Usenet before its too late to get your regurgitated 'high definition' content of movies and series concepts already produced.
With nzbmatrix and several other nzb indexes being taken down lately, it looks like the various *AAs are taking an active interest in usenet as well. I look for a lot more of these to go private.
It's just like speeding, or having insurance, or seat belts, or having a driver's license; you agree to these terms to be able to use public roads.
So you won't mind another black box that records your location and speed continuously, then uploads that information automatically to the various governments that have jurisdictions over the roads you traveled? You will, of course, be sent all relevant tickets, etc. for any infractions you may have incurred during your travels. This will be handled by a private corporation, who in exchange are compensated with a percentage of the ticket revenue. This private company will also be selling the information to your insurance provider so that your rates can be properly adjusted to match your driving risk. Similarly the information will be sold to the manufacturer of your car in case there are any warranty claims or concerns. Laugh if you wish, but until the US passes some fundamental data privacy laws, I firmly believe that we should oppose any sort of automated data gathering tool in general, and in particular ones mandated by our governments.