Wikipedia wants citation, they want references to some obscure ISBN number you'll never check out, or some web-site made by a wacko.
Yet influencial people there are NOT referenced. They are silly nicknames that you cannot contact in any way, except by adding messages on some kind of blog they are free to read or not. Everytime I tried to contribute to this clique (add to an article) or requested information (why has this article been deleted? I have x, y and z relevant source...) I hit a wall very hard - or I am forwarded to 200KB worth of wiki-bureaucracy articles explaining this or that, always on the defensive, with big rhetorical arguments written with red&green crayons. (similar to what I'm posting actually!)
So my question is, more precisely: who is the person that will approve my edit, will he be held responsible for its actions, and will people be able to contact him in a professional and timely fashion?
Wikipedia communications are non-existent, it's a total void. You are supposed to write on some page that is supposed to be the editor's message center or something where he bloats about himself... there are no email addresses, formal form of contact, anything.
My question is: how will you get feedback if your modifications are approved or not? Who can you contact to appeal if you feel the approver is wrong? Is there a discussion process?
Trying to make sense of Wikipedia "bureaucracy on a fuckin' wiki!!" has made me throw my keyboard on the walls many times!
> May I suggest that if a man approaches you with a business arrangement involving African personages of royal ancestry, you consider that he may not have your best interests at heart?
Such a man approached me. I was suspicious at first, but he had a legit Facebook profile and we started really connecting on our walls, I feel I can trust him with my other 10'000USD.
All the benifits of aluminum paper and saran wrap combined together for all my food needs! Marvelous! Is it eatable and delicious too? Think about never having to unwrap a sandwich again!
I know a lot of people who bought HD players and half a dozen movies at bargain price when everyone knew that the format was dying. They already had a home cinema setup and were thrilled to find content that challenged it for a few couple hundred of bucks. But right now it probably lays down in a box, or remain as a living room decoration.
Yes, I totally agree! For instance, I always find the distribution of chocolate chips in my cookies quite disturbing! This makes me sooooo angry sometimes!
Once we fix this problem, everyone will eat happily for once!
Vulnerabilities? What does this word mean? "31 vulnerabilities, including 18 bugs marked as critical."
In my mind a bug and a vulnerability are 2 different things, one englobing the other.
Let me get this straight... if you're telling me my computer has a "vulnerability", it means I got chances to get a notepad.exe application start out of nowhere with the words "I've hax0r Ur C8mput8r" or something in my face.
Reading the article I don't know if it's some random critical bug in some MS application, or if it depends of me running a service in X or Y situation and the attacker is in the intranet or whatever, or if I need to go to a very *very* untrusted site that even Avast! won't let me do to get attacked... please be specific!
Every month or so there is such articles about MS patches... hell, let's do this with every god-damn software patches around? With Ubuntu you get to install patches every week also! Heck, the Java upgrader thingy pops-up every month too.
What does "vulnerabilities" mean, in this context, seriously? Am I in danger?
Slashdot Mirror
Did you mean romantic in the anal-lube sense?
If your heart is broken by a blonde you're not a geek!
A real geek's heart breaks when his water-cooling system breaks ...
I want to add to this:
Wikipedia wants citation, they want references to some obscure ISBN number you'll never check out, or some web-site made by a wacko.
Yet influencial people there are NOT referenced. They are silly nicknames that you cannot contact in any way, except by adding messages on some kind of blog they are free to read or not. Everytime I tried to contribute to this clique (add to an article) or requested information (why has this article been deleted? I have x, y and z relevant source ...) I hit a wall very hard - or I am forwarded to 200KB worth of wiki-bureaucracy articles explaining this or that, always on the defensive, with big rhetorical arguments written with red&green crayons. (similar to what I'm posting actually!)
So my question is, more precisely: who is the person that will approve my edit, will he be held responsible for its actions, and will people be able to contact him in a professional and timely fashion?
Wikipedia communications are non-existent, it's a total void. You are supposed to write on some page that is supposed to be the editor's message center or something where he bloats about himself ... there are no email addresses, formal form of contact, anything.
My question is: how will you get feedback if your modifications are approved or not? Who can you contact to appeal if you feel the approver is wrong? Is there a discussion process?
Trying to make sense of Wikipedia "bureaucracy on a fuckin' wiki!!" has made me throw my keyboard on the walls many times!
Please think of the keyboards! :)
Do you have a tutorial about how to build a wiki? That would be very handy! :)
"Love is a persistent online first-person shooter ...", try explaining THAT to my girlfriend!
> May I suggest that if a man approaches you with a business arrangement involving African personages of royal ancestry, you consider that he may not have your best interests at heart?
Such a man approached me. I was suspicious at first, but he had a legit Facebook profile and we started really connecting on our walls, I feel I can trust him with my other 10'000USD.
> How many social networking sites are we gonna go through before we settle on an open platform?
I'd say 60 or so. By that time we'll totally have lost our interests in so called "friends" and just go along our cyborg life.
Short answer: yes
Long answer: /golfclap
What is this Google thing you are talking about? Should I Yahoo it?
All the benifits of aluminum paper and saran wrap combined together for all my food needs! Marvelous! Is it eatable and delicious too? Think about never having to unwrap a sandwich again!
Thanks for me! I'm all for sale babyyy!
Roku?? Box? A/V? (Anti-Virus?) Aggregation Service?? (Google News?)
WTH are they talking about?
I know a lot of people who bought HD players and half a dozen movies at bargain price when everyone knew that the format was dying. They already had a home cinema setup and were thrilled to find content that challenged it for a few couple hundred of bucks. But right now it probably lays down in a box, or remain as a living room decoration.
(for some reaason the site is behaving weird right now, maybe it's going on... but..)
Hack slashdot! If you can do that you'll get a great job, and CowboyNeal will give you nice neck massages everyday. Trembling massages, in FEAR!!!1
Oh, and yeah, you can get a job at M$ or Google easily afterwards, if you answer some dumb IQ questionaire.
What is installing certified fibers doing with a computer major?
But are you in a solid state?
Diluting the problem in the solution!
The guy that thought of that was a genious.
He just had one drop of genious though, diluted in a sea of being a complete dumb-shit.
Yes, I totally agree! For instance, I always find the distribution of chocolate chips in my cookies quite disturbing! This makes me sooooo angry sometimes!
Once we fix this problem, everyone will eat happily for once!
Please do not state strong opinions out of nowhere in parenthesis without backing them up or giving a source in a first sentence of a summary.
What is there more in life to long for, than a nice little hour of pleasure here and there?
Vulnerabilities? What does this word mean? "31 vulnerabilities, including 18 bugs marked as critical."
In my mind a bug and a vulnerability are 2 different things, one englobing the other.
Let me get this straight ... if you're telling me my computer has a "vulnerability", it means I got chances to get a notepad.exe application start out of nowhere with the words "I've hax0r Ur C8mput8r" or something in my face.
Reading the article I don't know if it's some random critical bug in some MS application, or if it depends of me running a service in X or Y situation and the attacker is in the intranet or whatever, or if I need to go to a very *very* untrusted site that even Avast! won't let me do to get attacked ... please be specific!
Every month or so there is such articles about MS patches ... hell, let's do this with every god-damn software patches around? With Ubuntu you get to install patches every week also! Heck, the Java upgrader thingy pops-up every month too.
What does "vulnerabilities" mean, in this context, seriously? Am I in danger?
I'd rather have 2 very nice escorts, I'd least I'd get screwed right!
... so these Non-Suitable-For pictures and videos started in the 80ies!
they should just use air, no?