.... but it irks me when folks, particularly technical persons who should know better, blithely refer to "the web" (perpetuating the miscomprehension of the online environment) and thus ignore/devalue the many non "web" parts of it.
Certainly.... now I'm one of those horny net geeks you speak of?:P
It's actually kind of funny at the place I work. It's an enterprise data center with a collaboration of thousands of companies.... not often do you see a girl in there.... when you do, however, everyone is like "hey, hey.... did you see that!"
Yea.... I guess we're all pervs... heh
I understand the difference between the types of court but I had thought that the prosecuter would have to communicate with the person who filed the complaint but thats apparently where I was mistaken.
Thanks for the info tho.... definately appriciated.
The best word in the whole article is "settled"... Microsoft settled with the government. This means if I get pulled over for speeding, I can settle with the office by giving him $50 and him leaving me alone, right?
When you settle in court, you settle with the person you wronged.... You can't settle with the enforcement -- or at least shouldnt be able to. Your punishment is your punishment.
Tucows, Inc.
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, ON
Canada M6K 3M1
To whom it may concern,
I just wanted to express my extreme disappointment regarding your recent actions to disable Blue Security's account in an attempt to stop the attacks of a notorious spammer. I fully understand that the attacks were a technical nightmare for your team, however, it is unbelievable that you would rather give in to a criminal and follow their demands and step on an organization that aims to protect innocent citizens from around the globe. Regardless of what your motive was, this action clearly states that you are more interested in profit than you are about ethics. As a result, I am recommending that all contacts I have that use Tucow's services remove their accounts and utilize a service which supports consumer protection. It is my sincere hope that should a similar situation arise, you will think of the company that is trying to protect the Internet.
....and overcoming the challenge of users not reading dialog boxes....
I have to agree that this is a serious concern and as a tech, I often want to blame the stupid user since I deal with them frequently but on the other hand, can you really blame them? In any given day, an end user sees an unmeasurable amount of dialog boxes and our minds are designed to filter out things that are annoying. Instead of "Hey your email wasnt sent" you get 3 dialog boxes first that have no meaning. Of course, there is the next-next-finish epidemic as well. Does anyone really ready any options anymore? We all just go for the next button until it turns into a finish button. There are 2 huge problems with this. The first is that mixed in with all these stupid notices, there are important messages that go unnoticed. The second issue is that this is something that spyware companies thrive on for legalities.... in the middle of those next-next-finish games is the little line that signs your computer over to the dark side.
I don't want to pay the monthly fee as in any given month I may only rent one movie -- or none at all.
Good point! I would really like it if Geico would start charging me for my auto insurance only for the months that I have an accident. That would really make my experience with Geico worth while.
It's amazing that I received this link two times before I even read it on slashdot... both came from nerds.
It's News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters.... and it appears that to most on slashdot, this is news and it does matter. WTF is everyone's problem on here that doesnt like something so they whine and moan hoping to take away something that other people actually may enjoy. Heaven forbid they just change their preferences -- they want to change everyones!
Yes, we certainly do have to think of the children but there truly are enough ways that we can prosecute offenders under current laws. It's human nature to make excuses to give when we want to do something (or have done something) that is not going to be a popular thing. This is what the government is doing. Child porn is disgusting but the government is using child porn to accomplish their own disgusting goals. Something to think about is this.... Would you allow the government to put cameras in your computer room so that they could verify that you were not interested in child pronography? Any other legal activity that you did would be monitored.... even looking at what is legal pornography. The question is where do we draw the line and, more importantly, at what point do we hit the "point of no return" in which the government has too much power and we are powerless?
The article also says that Gonzalez is looking at ways to force webhosts to track user activity, but this could easily mean just tracking user activity to the illegal child-porn websites, which also seems reasonable.
How do you log only child pornography? Sure, you could filter out keywords but if that is what they are trying to accomplish, then Google already provides this so why do we need to log anything in the first place?
I hate to say it, but the comment you made is the exact reason why we are losing our privacy.
We need the seats in our cars using these.... User slams breaks, bolts short circuit, seats let go of the floor, car hits tree....
In other news, company creates "retro bolts" as a backup to smart bolts.
I have to argue this. I work for a usenet company and storage is a huge issue in respect to physical space. We (as most) have to pay per rack our our colocation facility. Unfortunately, 48U can only hold so many hard drives. People want higher retention which means adding more racks of drive arrays.... at more than $1k per rack, do the math.
WTF do you have against Hyundai? Quality vehucles with the warranty and service to back it -- yea, I guess I see your point. It would totally not make sense to buy a product with lots of support.
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Ahhh.... what great inventions...
:)
Laptops! I mean LAPTOPS!
Tho I *COULD* ask you what your wearing :P
.... but it irks me when folks, particularly technical persons who should know better, blithely refer to "the web" (perpetuating the miscomprehension of the online environment) and thus ignore/devalue the many non "web" parts of it.
Like gopher?
Certainly.... now I'm one of those horny net geeks you speak of? :P
It's actually kind of funny at the place I work. It's an enterprise data center with a collaboration of thousands of companies.... not often do you see a girl in there.... when you do, however, everyone is like "hey, hey.... did you see that!"
Yea.... I guess we're all pervs... heh
There's just something about that nick, GeekGirlSarah.... sounds hot :P
I understand the difference between the types of court but I had thought that the prosecuter would have to communicate with the person who filed the complaint but thats apparently where I was mistaken. Thanks for the info tho.... definately appriciated.
The best word in the whole article is "settled" ... Microsoft settled with the government. This means if I get pulled over for speeding, I can settle with the office by giving him $50 and him leaving me alone, right?
When you settle in court, you settle with the person you wronged.... You can't settle with the enforcement -- or at least shouldnt be able to. Your punishment is your punishment.
No... its for the children.
I'm mailing this via the postal service today:
May 8th, 2006
Tucows, Inc.
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, ON
Canada M6K 3M1
To whom it may concern,
I just wanted to express my extreme disappointment regarding your recent actions to disable Blue Security's account in an attempt to stop the attacks of a notorious spammer. I fully understand that the attacks were a technical nightmare for your team, however, it is unbelievable that you would rather give in to a criminal and follow their demands and step on an organization that aims to protect innocent citizens from around the globe. Regardless of what your motive was, this action clearly states that you are more interested in profit than you are about ethics. As a result, I am recommending that all contacts I have that use Tucow's services remove their accounts and utilize a service which supports consumer protection. It is my sincere hope that should a similar situation arise, you will think of the company that is trying to protect the Internet.
....and overcoming the challenge of users not reading dialog boxes....
I have to agree that this is a serious concern and as a tech, I often want to blame the stupid user since I deal with them frequently but on the other hand, can you really blame them? In any given day, an end user sees an unmeasurable amount of dialog boxes and our minds are designed to filter out things that are annoying. Instead of "Hey your email wasnt sent" you get 3 dialog boxes first that have no meaning. Of course, there is the next-next-finish epidemic as well. Does anyone really ready any options anymore? We all just go for the next button until it turns into a finish button. There are 2 huge problems with this. The first is that mixed in with all these stupid notices, there are important messages that go unnoticed. The second issue is that this is something that spyware companies thrive on for legalities.... in the middle of those next-next-finish games is the little line that signs your computer over to the dark side.
I don't want to pay the monthly fee as in any given month I may only rent one movie -- or none at all.
Good point! I would really like it if Geico would start charging me for my auto insurance only for the months that I have an accident. That would really make my experience with Geico worth while.
Disclaimer: Not a republican. Not a democrat. I loath both wings of our crappy single party system equally.
Shit, dude... do you like anything?
It's amazing that I received this link two times before I even read it on slashdot... both came from nerds. It's News for Nerds and Stuff that Matters.... and it appears that to most on slashdot, this is news and it does matter. WTF is everyone's problem on here that doesnt like something so they whine and moan hoping to take away something that other people actually may enjoy. Heaven forbid they just change their preferences -- they want to change everyones!
I think we should throw him in a room with the mythical person that runs SPEWS and let the best man win.
Most definately.... Sarcasm is about the only way I am able to survive in a Microsoft world :)
Microsoft's Linux Lab is currently working on a solution. "WILO" (Windows Loader) 1.0 should be released shortly after Vista hits shelves in 2009.
It's times like these that I wish /. had a "Dumbass" moderation, among other possibilities.
C'mon, people. Invent a solution that people would actually buy.
Hey, it worked for Microsoft
Yes, we certainly do have to think of the children but there truly are enough ways that we can prosecute offenders under current laws. It's human nature to make excuses to give when we want to do something (or have done something) that is not going to be a popular thing. This is what the government is doing. Child porn is disgusting but the government is using child porn to accomplish their own disgusting goals. Something to think about is this.... Would you allow the government to put cameras in your computer room so that they could verify that you were not interested in child pronography? Any other legal activity that you did would be monitored.... even looking at what is legal pornography. The question is where do we draw the line and, more importantly, at what point do we hit the "point of no return" in which the government has too much power and we are powerless?
The article also says that Gonzalez is looking at ways to force webhosts to track user activity, but this could easily mean just tracking user activity to the illegal child-porn websites, which also seems reasonable.
How do you log only child pornography? Sure, you could filter out keywords but if that is what they are trying to accomplish, then Google already provides this so why do we need to log anything in the first place?
I hate to say it, but the comment you made is the exact reason why we are losing our privacy.
If slashdot released a torrent of all archives,i'll download it too,just for entertainment.I got a new 250Gb drive
All that wasted space! The whole internet only needs 80GB so you should only need a CD for all of slashdot.
*THIS* is why Google created "Google Desktop"
We need the seats in our cars using these.... User slams breaks, bolts short circuit, seats let go of the floor, car hits tree.... In other news, company creates "retro bolts" as a backup to smart bolts.
I have to argue this. I work for a usenet company and storage is a huge issue in respect to physical space. We (as most) have to pay per rack our our colocation facility. Unfortunately, 48U can only hold so many hard drives. People want higher retention which means adding more racks of drive arrays.... at more than $1k per rack, do the math.
WTF do you have against Hyundai? Quality vehucles with the warranty and service to back it -- yea, I guess I see your point. It would totally not make sense to buy a product with lots of support.