We should be mad. Not because of who it is happening to this time but because it happens and they don't take as seriously as they should for anyone unless they're best pals with someone high up. This guy clearly wasn't high up enough to merit looking into. I deplore this sort of behavior. It reeks of the same crap you can find yourself in trouble with Google on YouTube. Whether or not your demerits or concerns are warranted or not, good luck ever getting the issue resolved with anyone at Google over it. Too much trust is placed in automated systems and it can really wreck someones livelihood should some kinks find their way to the surface.
Facebook already has systems for determining if someone is who they say they are, so hiring a detective isn't necessary for this sort of identification dispute. They also explicitly ask the public at large to report suspicious accounts exactly like those in grandparents post. All things considered, they should have looked into it, because they ask us to tell them when it happens.
Your child's window appeared in streetview and you think that's dealing child porn? No wonder they didn't take you seriously the first 2 times. They probably complied if only to shut up a nutter.
Wow, I jokingly made comments a long while back that it wouldn't surprise me if the TSA opened up these comments the moment a bomb went off somewhere, considering how long they've just been sitting on it.
But now that it's happened, I am surprised. If there really is a connection to the timing, that's downright shameful. However that's not entirely anything new for the TSA.
Are you serious? Are people honestly OK with this over there?
If I publicly state the CEO of a company is essentially stealing from a voluntary funding program inside said company (think donation jar) for orphans and using it to buy 3 course meals for himself, because I'm angry it's happening and want the world to see how horrible he is, can I seriously be sued for defamation?
It's true! I don't understand how the law could punish me for bringing something horrible to light just because the guy might actually need to face the shame associated with his actions.
No kidding. Jesus Christ, I know some people are seriously upset by what happened (and for good reason), but the whole lynch mob mentality going around right now is more than a bit disturbing.
BSD definitely is closer to my ideals than the GPL is, and the smaller size of the license definitely contributes to that.
Some of us just want to write code and share it with the world. We don't care about the huge political movement behind GPL, copyleft licenses and the like. For those of you who use and appreciate it, more power to you. However it's just not for me. I don't mind if a commercial entity or some novice developer uses my code in a closed project. I give him that right by the very nature of my license choice. If they can/want to help make my code better by contributing back, then that's great too.
As far as users are concerned, everyone has access to my version. Someone closing off a derivative doesn't hide my version from everyone. I'm fine with that.
When I read the title in my RSS feed I had assumed Iceland had began some sort of absurd wiretapping program to catch people engaging in incest.
Kinda sad how quickly that was my first assumption. I'm glad I was wrong and not yet another government going to weird lengths to catch people doing things.
When I was a kid, I loved looking through them and seeing all the pictures of exotic places. I've got editions twenty or more years older than I am, and it's interesting to see how exotic some things were back then that are absolutely standard or normal today. It is probably the only magazine that has retained my interest over the years.
Toxic brand? Tainting everything associated with it? Have you actually seen the sales figures? The damn thing is doing ridiculously well despite the always on DRM and the launch mishaps.
I know we all want to feel like SimCity was a massive win for anti-always on DRM, but reality has to sink in eventually. It is far from it. EA is making so much money on SimCity that I'm sure they're planning their next game to function exactly the same.
That didn't last that long. He has a point. We can scream about it till we're blue in the face, but enough people just don't seem to care. If a severe misstep like SimCity could happen and yet still be insanely profitable, then I don't know what else could wake the public at large.
Gigahertz has not been a particularly big matter of distinction in PCs in a long time now. There's lots of other things that go alongside it. Really, your modern phone does not hold a candle to even the lowest tier of PC being shoveled out on the market today.
It may be sufficient for him and maybe you, but that's sort of like stopping advancement and keeping technology in the mid 2000s for the sake of one guy who doens't happen to do much computing in the first place. I have to question what he defines "media creation" as, as anything video would take eons to encode on a phone. Even photography retouching thorugh Photoshop can be a lengthy endevor on strong machines, let alone using a "modern smartphone"
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No, Chii. That's just source code.
Are you not familiar with multiple page articles? You literally only read half the story.
Yikes, that's quite the accusatory statement for someone who apparently couldn't be bothered to read the article all the way through.
Dude. Don't laundry money; it will just ruin it.
No, Chii. Those are just robots.
Yeah man, just imagining each country having its own laws fills me with rage.
No, Chii. That's the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
We should be mad. Not because of who it is happening to this time but because it happens and they don't take as seriously as they should for anyone unless they're best pals with someone high up. This guy clearly wasn't high up enough to merit looking into. I deplore this sort of behavior. It reeks of the same crap you can find yourself in trouble with Google on YouTube. Whether or not your demerits or concerns are warranted or not, good luck ever getting the issue resolved with anyone at Google over it. Too much trust is placed in automated systems and it can really wreck someones livelihood should some kinks find their way to the surface.
Man, wouldn't it be great if only "remotely competent" people ever voted or anything like that!
Facebook already has systems for determining if someone is who they say they are, so hiring a detective isn't necessary for this sort of identification dispute. They also explicitly ask the public at large to report suspicious accounts exactly like those in grandparents post. All things considered, they should have looked into it, because they ask us to tell them when it happens.
No, Chii. That's Facebook.
It should have been in the deal? Really?
Your child's window appeared in streetview and you think that's dealing child porn? No wonder they didn't take you seriously the first 2 times. They probably complied if only to shut up a nutter.
Wow, I jokingly made comments a long while back that it wouldn't surprise me if the TSA opened up these comments the moment a bomb went off somewhere, considering how long they've just been sitting on it.
But now that it's happened, I am surprised. If there really is a connection to the timing, that's downright shameful. However that's not entirely anything new for the TSA.
Are you serious? Are people honestly OK with this over there?
If I publicly state the CEO of a company is essentially stealing from a voluntary funding program inside said company (think donation jar) for orphans and using it to buy 3 course meals for himself, because I'm angry it's happening and want the world to see how horrible he is, can I seriously be sued for defamation?
It's true! I don't understand how the law could punish me for bringing something horrible to light just because the guy might actually need to face the shame associated with his actions.
No kidding. Jesus Christ, I know some people are seriously upset by what happened (and for good reason), but the whole lynch mob mentality going around right now is more than a bit disturbing.
Westward in a literal sense, dude.
Yes, it has a place on slashdot.
Every time you or anyone else makes this cliche statement, the editors post 2 more that you wont think belongs here just to spite you.
BSD definitely is closer to my ideals than the GPL is, and the smaller size of the license definitely contributes to that.
Some of us just want to write code and share it with the world. We don't care about the huge political movement behind GPL, copyleft licenses and the like. For those of you who use and appreciate it, more power to you. However it's just not for me. I don't mind if a commercial entity or some novice developer uses my code in a closed project. I give him that right by the very nature of my license choice. If they can/want to help make my code better by contributing back, then that's great too.
As far as users are concerned, everyone has access to my version. Someone closing off a derivative doesn't hide my version from everyone. I'm fine with that.
When I read the title in my RSS feed I had assumed Iceland had began some sort of absurd wiretapping program to catch people engaging in incest.
Kinda sad how quickly that was my first assumption. I'm glad I was wrong and not yet another government going to weird lengths to catch people doing things.
When I was a kid, I loved looking through them and seeing all the pictures of exotic places. I've got editions twenty or more years older than I am, and it's interesting to see how exotic some things were back then that are absolutely standard or normal today. It is probably the only magazine that has retained my interest over the years.
Toxic brand? Tainting everything associated with it? Have you actually seen the sales figures? The damn thing is doing ridiculously well despite the always on DRM and the launch mishaps.
I know we all want to feel like SimCity was a massive win for anti-always on DRM, but reality has to sink in eventually. It is far from it. EA is making so much money on SimCity that I'm sure they're planning their next game to function exactly the same.
That didn't last that long. He has a point. We can scream about it till we're blue in the face, but enough people just don't seem to care. If a severe misstep like SimCity could happen and yet still be insanely profitable, then I don't know what else could wake the public at large.
Gigahertz has not been a particularly big matter of distinction in PCs in a long time now. There's lots of other things that go alongside it. Really, your modern phone does not hold a candle to even the lowest tier of PC being shoveled out on the market today.
It may be sufficient for him and maybe you, but that's sort of like stopping advancement and keeping technology in the mid 2000s for the sake of one guy who doens't happen to do much computing in the first place. I have to question what he defines "media creation" as, as anything video would take eons to encode on a phone. Even photography retouching thorugh Photoshop can be a lengthy endevor on strong machines, let alone using a "modern smartphone"
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