It's not about people that poor. Negroponte seems to like to think it is, but a quick look at the countries signed up for the program will tell you otherwise. Think Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela.
Why would you kill/pay someone for a laptop you could get for free from your government? Why would you want one unless you had a kid who could use it, and therefore would already have one?
Wrong. That's a common view you see here, but it's not the case that these people visit solely to push this view. They take part in discussions on politics, processors, NASA and piracy as well. This guy msfanboi2 doesn't.
And why does the OS you use come into this matter? A bit oversensitive perhaps?
No, dumbfuck, I want him banned because I've seen better contributors banned for less down mods, like I fucking said. Their post history goes +5 2 2 +4 then suddenly -1 and it ends. This is a completely separate issue from his particular views.
Also, I said that I have nothing against being an MS Fanboy. I SPECIFICALLY SAID THIS IN BOLD CAPS. What pisses me off about him is that he lies in wait for a Windows topic in which to be pro-Windows. This is all he does here. Anyone with any balls will tell you that this is trolling.
After all this time on Slashdot, I'm starting to build a resistance to this weak trick so many people here use - arguing against a point that's completely different to the one I made. Fascist? Give me a fucking break.
Seems he only ever posts when a topic has an opening for a pro-Microsoft slogan. NOT THAT THIS IS BAD IN ITSELF, but I've seen people banned for less negative moderation than he's had.
I find it suspicious, however, that he posts so exclusively in this one topic. It's one thing to have dissenting views. It's another matter if your sole purpose in visiting a site is to throw those views in everyone's face.
I'm in favour of diversification of Slashdot's 'culture', and sometimes I despair at the blandness of the opinions expressed here, but this kind of crap is not the solution, it's just trolling.
...Linus Torvalds who thinks that all software licences are legitimate and it is wrong ever to violate them. So his views on this are more or less the same as Microsoft's.
I respect the guy for his significant contributions to Free Software, but shit like that prevents him from ever reaching the status of "admired". Comparing Linus to Microsoft only makes me wonder just how reasoned the rest of his words actually are.
On one hand, we need guys like this to be counterparts to guys like me who don't give a damn. But on the other, things like the GNU/Linux naming controversy bullshit aren't doing FOSS any good at all. A rational person would realise this, but RMS' good intentions tend to overshadow reality and what is reasonable.
So a coordinated campaign of !gay taggers accurately tagged the stories as !gay just enough so that in all but one case, they were balanced perfectly and neither "gay" nor "!gay" showed up? And the same with straight vs !straight?
I'm more inclined to believe that both were manually reducded. But then I'm a pretty paranoid guy (one who has a website and email address on public display, go figure).
We'll use whatever words we want, and if you don't like them, deal with it your fucking self instead of begging the admins to censor them. How the fuck have you been here so long if you don't understand this?
Case in point: I'm pretty disgusted that they've taken down so many "gay" tags already. Sure, they said they reserved the right to do this, but I'm disappointed by the lack of balls. Apparently our words aren't good enough for Slashdot, unless we're hidden away from the front page. So they can't stomach the true nature of their main source of content: the posters?
Note (I'm not a subsriber): I found the original use of the word gay in the tags juvenile myself. Then I got sick of the endless bitching, and started tagging it myself. (Then they started censoring and I revoked all of my contributions ever to the tag database)
There's a nearly identical post elsewhere in this thread claiming the opposite, that the comment proves that Slashdotters are inferior to the rest of the world, as opposed to sinking to their level.
How about accepting that Slashdot is owned, operated and participated by human beings. All human beings can individually and momentarily be lewd, cruel, rude, selfish, and many other things. Not every one of these moments is 'telling' or 'a sign' or 'typical'.
In whose "wider society" are compliments or even crudeness looked down on? If anything, the submitter demonstrated that he's more 'normal' than the average Slashdotter, in being able to casually refer to a woman's physical beauty.
Fuck you, you elitist snob. (I imagine we're freaks for getting pissed off at those who insult us too, right?)
Red Hat stopped being a distribution in 2003. I'm talking about the likes of FC5 and XP SP2, not Red Hat and XP SP0, which are both very different things.
Yeah, fucking brilliant reply. Cite a carelessness-based hole as if it were an example of configuration security, then follow it with a bash at Linux hardware compatibility compared to BSDs.
What? What? Don't know what *nix you're running, but Linux and BSD distros all come secure. The hard part is setting up your network hardware, but after that, you're safe. This is exactly the sort of thing you're talking about, so you've basically proved yourself wrong.
No wonder I was so bored by this story. I thought it was a Slashvertisement for "MAKE switches", some fictional electronic component, available for PURCHASE.
I shit thee not. Too much time has been spent on Slashdot by me today.
S'oright. I'm just bored right now, and trying to lower the SNR myself. I'm on the come-down from what's been an enjoyable afternoon (check my post history - the visibile part consists of the last 24 hours).
I still say you're crazy for giving a shit about search though. I've been considering this sort of thing a lot myself lately. I eventually decided that I wasn't going to waste code and processor cycles on tags at all. It cost a lot of what would have been easily gained accuracy in 90% of cases, but I found tags too unpredictable compared to titles and article text anyway - they were causing chaos in a minority of searches, simply because Slashdotters can't be trusted.
But that's not my point. My point is that it doesn't matter in the slightest. It's at worst a corruption of a potential future search term on a tech website. The moment of fun we all got out of seeing "gay" come up on each story is worth more than that.
HAHA, don't you realise that the only reason that every story has been tagged gay is that we know that it's pissing people like you off? This certainly isn't the sort of website where you see the word "gay" is ever applied seriously. It's a joke, at your expense.
Seems all the mod points have dried up. That'll teach you to waste them on dipshits saying "mod me up". What the fuck is the point of that anyway? It's of no entertainment value, so why is it a part of April 1st here?
The best thing is that I can get away with directly antagonising them, because they're no longer moderators! HAHA!
Just you wait, they're going to have to hardcode a block for this, because it's going to run and run and run. Anything we don't like from now on? GAY! And every time, the gay rights nutters will scuttle out from under the fridge to complain.
I'm in*, and I too was inspired by his post. Once I read that, I gave this day a real chance to shine, instead of just enjoying it, and it's quite true. If you spend a few hours of April 1st on the internet, it can really cheer you up.
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Perfect. Costa Rica is one of the vaguely committed participating countries!
It's not about people that poor. Negroponte seems to like to think it is, but a quick look at the countries signed up for the program will tell you otherwise. Think Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela.
Why would you kill/pay someone for a laptop you could get for free from your government? Why would you want one unless you had a kid who could use it, and therefore would already have one?
And why does the OS you use come into this matter? A bit oversensitive perhaps?
Also, I said that I have nothing against being an MS Fanboy. I SPECIFICALLY SAID THIS IN BOLD CAPS. What pisses me off about him is that he lies in wait for a Windows topic in which to be pro-Windows. This is all he does here. Anyone with any balls will tell you that this is trolling.
After all this time on Slashdot, I'm starting to build a resistance to this weak trick so many people here use - arguing against a point that's completely different to the one I made. Fascist? Give me a fucking break.
Seems he only ever posts when a topic has an opening for a pro-Microsoft slogan. NOT THAT THIS IS BAD IN ITSELF, but I've seen people banned for less negative moderation than he's had.
I find it suspicious, however, that he posts so exclusively in this one topic. It's one thing to have dissenting views. It's another matter if your sole purpose in visiting a site is to throw those views in everyone's face.
I'm in favour of diversification of Slashdot's 'culture', and sometimes I despair at the blandness of the opinions expressed here, but this kind of crap is not the solution, it's just trolling.
On one hand, we need guys like this to be counterparts to guys like me who don't give a damn. But on the other, things like the GNU/Linux naming controversy bullshit aren't doing FOSS any good at all. A rational person would realise this, but RMS' good intentions tend to overshadow reality and what is reasonable.
I'm more inclined to believe that both were manually reducded. But then I'm a pretty paranoid guy (one who has a website and email address on public display, go figure).
Case in point: I'm pretty disgusted that they've taken down so many "gay" tags already. Sure, they said they reserved the right to do this, but I'm disappointed by the lack of balls. Apparently our words aren't good enough for Slashdot, unless we're hidden away from the front page. So they can't stomach the true nature of their main source of content: the posters?
Note (I'm not a subsriber): I found the original use of the word gay in the tags juvenile myself. Then I got sick of the endless bitching, and started tagging it myself. (Then they started censoring and I revoked all of my contributions ever to the tag database)
How about accepting that Slashdot is owned, operated and participated by human beings. All human beings can individually and momentarily be lewd, cruel, rude, selfish, and many other things. Not every one of these moments is 'telling' or 'a sign' or 'typical'.
Fuck you, you elitist snob. (I imagine we're freaks for getting pissed off at those who insult us too, right?)
While your personal standards are largely none of my business, I can tell you that for Slashdot they are too high.
Red Hat stopped being a distribution in 2003. I'm talking about the likes of FC5 and XP SP2, not Red Hat and XP SP0, which are both very different things.
Swish!
What? What? Don't know what *nix you're running, but Linux and BSD distros all come secure. The hard part is setting up your network hardware, but after that, you're safe. This is exactly the sort of thing you're talking about, so you've basically proved yourself wrong.
It'll probably continue until people stop complaining about it. Or what else did you think was fuelling it?
i feel ur pain, i rly rly do :~(
I shit thee not. Too much time has been spent on Slashdot by me today.
I still say you're crazy for giving a shit about search though. I've been considering this sort of thing a lot myself lately. I eventually decided that I wasn't going to waste code and processor cycles on tags at all. It cost a lot of what would have been easily gained accuracy in 90% of cases, but I found tags too unpredictable compared to titles and article text anyway - they were causing chaos in a minority of searches, simply because Slashdotters can't be trusted.
But that's not my point. My point is that it doesn't matter in the slightest. It's at worst a corruption of a potential future search term on a tech website. The moment of fun we all got out of seeing "gay" come up on each story is worth more than that.
not needed? I direct you to this.
HAHA, don't you realise that the only reason that every story has been tagged gay is that we know that it's pissing people like you off? This certainly isn't the sort of website where you see the word "gay" is ever applied seriously. It's a joke, at your expense.
The best thing is that I can get away with directly antagonising them, because they're no longer moderators! HAHA!
Just you wait, they're going to have to hardcode a block for this, because it's going to run and run and run. Anything we don't like from now on? GAY! And every time, the gay rights nutters will scuttle out from under the fridge to complain.
I'm loving that this got tagged "chairs". Nice to see we're all on the same page!
I'm in*, and I too was inspired by his post. Once I read that, I gave this day a real chance to shine, instead of just enjoying it, and it's quite true. If you spend a few hours of April 1st on the internet, it can really cheer you up.