Ooh, it's our arch-nemesis, Semantics Man, come to burst our collective bubble once again! Our general point is no match for your ability to point out the inappropiateness of our word choice!
What are you talking about? Look at the amount of firefox extension that have made it to the front page there in the last 30 days!!! If that's not cutting edge tech news, then I'm a comminazi!!
This is a joke, by the way (you can't be too careful).
Do you Digg fans even think before you use something to talk trash about Slashdot? This is negative information about Digg, not positive. I understand that Digg users are not accustomed to seeing this kind of information, but I hardly think that talk of censorship on Digg is likely to provoke a of newfeatures on Slashdot.
You've obviously not spent enough time posting on Digg. People skim down the comments, clicking either on the red or green hand based on their gut reactions to posts. This is called "the tyranny of the masses", and it's in total control of the Digg mindset.
Your comment here, for example, would disappear into the negatives 100% of the time in a Digg thread. Here, it may easily make it to +5.
As I have pointed out after previous mentions of Alexa, Digg has an obsession with Alexa stats that has lead many Digg users to install Alexa for the sake of adding to the view count for Digg.
I noticed this earlier, I tried to say something by circumventing the URL ban, but it didn't work out - got buried like all the other stories about this latest episode. The most successful one so far somehow got buried despite receiving a huge amount of "Diggs".
Today was the first time I ever tried to participate in Digg. I'm not impressed at all. I know that by starting off on such a contentious issue, I've skewed my data, but general consensus in the comments seems to be that people won't "digg" anything that's even slightly critical of Digg.
So I say that the censorship issue is nothing to do with the admins at Digg. It's the users. Here at Slashdot we see views and ideas that are critical of this site all the time, often at +5. This is a very important difference, and I don't think I'll be going back to Digg after this. Either too many users are too narrow-minded to listen to potential criticism, or the balance of the story selection algorithm is off, and is too conducive to groupthink.
Heh, it was a stupid way to try to make a point, so I'll just say it - I meant that ignoring all other things, like inflation and the retail price of the graphics card, the bottom line, no-bullshit price is higher than most people will pay.
Yeah, except all the Microsoft bashing I see here at +5 is reasoned. The only time there are peasants and pitchforks is in the caricatures painted in comments like this.
"Troll" doesn't mean "untrue". It's perfectly possible to troll without telling a single lie. The post in question is an attention seeking troll.
Intentionally posting an outrageous argument, deliberately constructed around a fundamental but obfuscated flaw or error.
Politically contentious messages: "Everyone knows that all Republicans/Democrats are evil."
combines inflammatory statements with poor grammar
You don't troll continuously for this long and then suddenly one day decide "Hey, today I'm going to post a sincere opinion, only I'm going to do it in broken English for a change!".
Don't be a dick. this anti Linux post is full of fake English errors and blatant contradictions. It was carefully created to drag the most replies possible, and worked beautifully. And if you still don't think this is trollish behaviour, check this, or this, or this, or this, or this?
The I-HATE-LINUX-ZEALOTS things is valid, but not when it blinds you to the fucking glaringly obvious, or when you twist it to support a statement that lots of troll and flamebait mods might mean that he's not a troll.
Are newbie's now required to show greater grace, more patience and richer respect than those already in the community? I'm not sure that's a better way.
Of course they are. Welcome to society. People are suspicious of newcomers. They're held to higher standards until the existing group becomes used to them. If you don't like it, you're free to cryogenically freeze yourself and wait and see if evolution removes these traits from the human psyche.
So the point of all this is to say, although most people don't choose technology based on personality, often personality can influence important decisions such as business expenditures.
Anyone allowing business decisions to be influenced by treatment they receive from a casual community of unpaid acquaintances is a dumbass and deserves to go out of business. Maybe if paid-for tech support told you to go RTFM, I'd be interested. Otherwise, you're just asking the wrong people.
The right people, if anyone cares to know, are to be found at linuxquestions.org. That's the epicentre of Linux users helping each other. Nobody who isn't interested in helping will even read your post.
One last thing: I'm getting a little sick of this obsession with amassing more users. This snobbery thing is an issue, absolutely. But not every issue has to be seen in terms of how it affects Linux adoption.
We sent an email to Linus Torvalds to let him know about our testing. He replied:
That said, it sounds like it's a regular program that just happens to work on both Windows and Linux, and that happens to do things that are perfectly OK per se (i.e. writing to files that are owned by the user). So it's interesting just because of the "works on both Linux and Windows" angle, not because of any viral nature.
This is a really good insight, I think. While the rest of us are thinking about the "virus" and wondering what it means for the future, Linus identifies all these ignored technical aspects.
It's much worse than you think. A while back there was a review of the Das Keyboard, which featured many accusations and much screaming about what a blatant "Slashvertisment" it was.
Slashdot-bashing is too often driven by a desire for easy karma, in my opinion.
Seconded. Especially for the puzzles in the back. I had a great time doing one of them the hard way by making a crappy frequency analysis graph (pictured in the wikipedia article).
The only bad part was the amount of hypothetical "Adam" and "Eve" style in there, which was a bit of a shock to someone used to code and grammar books which just bluntly state their points.
Realistically, though, I would never have taken the time to learn those basics of cryptography if the level had been much higher, so it's highly recommended.
Tools/users aren't even remotely analagous to products/development models. But then neither are inventors/inventions, so at least you're standards-compliant for this thread.
The linked article and the Slashdot summary twist McAffee's report to invoke images of someone blaming the likes of KDE for the existence of rootkits, which is misleading. They are in fact blaming increasing effectiveness on the fact that people are collaborating. If anything it's a glowing advert for the Open Source development model.
Also, the majority of the article is not about this issue, despite it being both the title and the Slashdot title. Instead, it's about current trends in rootkit design.
Maybe my attitude is just a projection of my doormat personality, but I liken this to the scenario of the bathtub. You turn on the hot tap, it's a little too hot, so on goes the cold. You go on incrementing each tap in search of the optimum temperature, until suddenly they won't turn any further. The problem isn't an underpowered boiler, it's a reluctance to rethink your temperature calibration methodology.
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Viewing failed submissions with the submitters names not shown sounds a lot better.
Ooh, it's our arch-nemesis, Semantics Man, come to burst our collective bubble once again! Our general point is no match for your ability to point out the inappropiateness of our word choice!
This is a joke, by the way (you can't be too careful).
Do you Digg fans even think before you use something to talk trash about Slashdot? This is negative information about Digg, not positive. I understand that Digg users are not accustomed to seeing this kind of information, but I hardly think that talk of censorship on Digg is likely to provoke a of new features on Slashdot.
They have that, it's called "ok, this is lame". Some things seem to decrement the digg count, some don't - I haven't figured that part out yet.
Your comment here, for example, would disappear into the negatives 100% of the time in a Digg thread. Here, it may easily make it to +5.
As I have pointed out after previous mentions of Alexa, Digg has an obsession with Alexa stats that has lead many Digg users to install Alexa for the sake of adding to the view count for Digg.
Today was the first time I ever tried to participate in Digg. I'm not impressed at all. I know that by starting off on such a contentious issue, I've skewed my data, but general consensus in the comments seems to be that people won't "digg" anything that's even slightly critical of Digg.
So I say that the censorship issue is nothing to do with the admins at Digg. It's the users. Here at Slashdot we see views and ideas that are critical of this site all the time, often at +5. This is a very important difference, and I don't think I'll be going back to Digg after this. Either too many users are too narrow-minded to listen to potential criticism, or the balance of the story selection algorithm is off, and is too conducive to groupthink.
I think "explosive growth" means logos and adverts during loading times and the like. If there's one thing we can count on, it's corporate greed.
Heh, it was a stupid way to try to make a point, so I'll just say it - I meant that ignoring all other things, like inflation and the retail price of the graphics card, the bottom line, no-bullshit price is higher than most people will pay.
On the other hand, if you take its price into account, it is very expensive indeed.
Too scared of someone rebuking you to actually pick a comment to attach this to?
Yeah, except all the Microsoft bashing I see here at +5 is reasoned. The only time there are peasants and pitchforks is in the caricatures painted in comments like this.
You don't troll continuously for this long and then suddenly one day decide "Hey, today I'm going to post a sincere opinion, only I'm going to do it in broken English for a change!".
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The I-HATE-LINUX-ZEALOTS things is valid, but not when it blinds you to the fucking glaringly obvious, or when you twist it to support a statement that lots of troll and flamebait mods might mean that he's not a troll.
You're being trolled, you dumbasses.
Of course they are. Welcome to society. People are suspicious of newcomers. They're held to higher standards until the existing group becomes used to them. If you don't like it, you're free to cryogenically freeze yourself and wait and see if evolution removes these traits from the human psyche.
Anyone allowing business decisions to be influenced by treatment they receive from a casual community of unpaid acquaintances is a dumbass and deserves to go out of business. Maybe if paid-for tech support told you to go RTFM, I'd be interested. Otherwise, you're just asking the wrong people.
The right people, if anyone cares to know, are to be found at linuxquestions.org. That's the epicentre of Linux users helping each other. Nobody who isn't interested in helping will even read your post.
One last thing: I'm getting a little sick of this obsession with amassing more users. This snobbery thing is an issue, absolutely. But not every issue has to be seen in terms of how it affects Linux adoption.
This is a really good insight, I think. While the rest of us are thinking about the "virus" and wondering what it means for the future, Linus identifies all these ignored technical aspects.
The power of a mind untouched by Slashdot?
Slashdot-bashing is too often driven by a desire for easy karma, in my opinion.
I call sniper!
The only bad part was the amount of hypothetical "Adam" and "Eve" style in there, which was a bit of a shock to someone used to code and grammar books which just bluntly state their points.
Realistically, though, I would never have taken the time to learn those basics of cryptography if the level had been much higher, so it's highly recommended.
Tools/users aren't even remotely analagous to products/development models. But then neither are inventors/inventions, so at least you're standards-compliant for this thread.
Also, the majority of the article is not about this issue, despite it being both the title and the Slashdot title. Instead, it's about current trends in rootkit design.
Maybe my attitude is just a projection of my doormat personality, but I liken this to the scenario of the bathtub. You turn on the hot tap, it's a little too hot, so on goes the cold. You go on incrementing each tap in search of the optimum temperature, until suddenly they won't turn any further. The problem isn't an underpowered boiler, it's a reluctance to rethink your temperature calibration methodology.