Of course you can say whatever you like, but without any substantive proof of your claims we'll just write you off as another looney who believes in urban legends.
Why? Because This. Is. Slashdoooooot! And as long as you make us laugh or give us a target, we'll overlook all your other sins.:>
Here, allow me to translate from English to/.:
Microsoft = Evildoers, Satan's Emissary on Earth
Anything made by Anyone Else : Given to us by the Angels, Perfect in every way.
Seriously, it would be nice to read a single day's/. postings where the summaries were actual news and not (horribly biased) opinion.
is to stop calling IT professionals Nerds and Geeks. Frankly I'm sick and tired of it. I'm not a nerd or a geek, I'm a professional, just like your Doctor or Dentist. You wouldn't refer to them cavalierly when they had your life in their hands, so why would you do the same to me when I may have your career or business or financial health in my hands? Furthermore, we should be treating this like the "N" word and stop using it amongst ourselves.
No one sees any definitions at *all* from the article, including whether this law is intended to be used only retroactively; in other words, if this law only comes into play AFTER the defendant is accused of illegal behavior. It would be helpful to this conversation to see a link to the actual law. Otherwise everything here is just based on speculation and personal interpetation - not that something like *that* has ever stopped us/.'ers...
I hate to put a crease in your tinfoil hat, but...
1. What the hell does your health insurance rant have to do with the subject at hand?
2. You quote the Constitution like fundamentalists quote the Bible; you're damn sure there's something about 'insert rantable subject here' in there but you have no proof of reference.
3. The Federal Government doesn't HAVE to have the power to 'fine people for not buying a product'; your State/Commonwealth has been doing it for years with Auto Insurance. Don't want to pay those insurance bills? Then you don't get to drive that car of yours.
4. You sir, can take your tinfoil hat and leave and we'll not shed a tear... Go form your own country or find one that you like better. You don't even have to wait until 2010.
but that wasn't the "change"; in fact that clause has been there for a while. The only change on 11/30 was
"If you are on a term plan and Verizon ceases offering service to your location prior to the end of your term commitment, you will not have to pay an Early Termination Fee."
Sorry to piss on your misplaced outrage, but there's no story here - nor is it censorship.
"Intel set up a proof-of-concept using 900 production servers in a 1,000 square foot trailer in New Mexico, which it divided into two equal sections using low-cost direct-expansion (DX) air conditioning equipment. Recirculated air was used to cool servers in one half of the facility, while the other used air-side economization, expelling all hot waste air outside the data center, and drawing in exterior air to cool the servers. It ran the experiment over a 10-month period, from October 2007 to August 2008.
The temperature of the outside air ranged between 64 and 92 degrees, and Intel made no attempt to control humidity, and applied only minimal filtering for particulates, using "a standard household air filter that removed only large particles from the incoming air but permitted fine dust to pass through." As a result, humidity in the data center ranged from 4 percent to more than 90 percent, and the servers became covered with a fine layer of dust.
Despite the dust and variation in humidity and temperature, the failure rate in the test area using air-side economizers was 4.46 percent, not much different from the 3.83 percent failure rate in Intel's main data center at the site over the same period. Interestingly, the trailer compartment with recirculated DX cooling had the lowest failure rate at just 2.45 percent, even lower than Intel's main data center."
And although the failure rate was similar, the electricity bills were night and day. So I'm not buying into this unless your running a HUGE data warehousing op with more transactions than WalMart...
I agree with you in principle, the problem is that they are not POSTING just opinions from people who are relevantly related to the stories at hand.
And isn't it the media's JOB to seek these people out and vet them and interview them properly? Call me old fashioned.
48, I guess, because I didn't know about his personal life at all. While many may be well acquainted with Turing's professional life they may not know of his personal life. Please don't make blanket assumptions that someone is aware of all aspects of any subject here; that in fact is why I subscribe to Slashdot in the first place...to find out what I *DON'T* know.
Bloggers should remain anonymous because they have no institution to protect them from frivolous lawsuits like newspaper columnists do.
So if you don't have an "institution" to protect you, you should still be allowed to publish whatever you want without impunity? That's like saying if you can't afford to pay for car insurance, you should still be allowed to drive a car - just without any ID or license plates so no one can go after you.
I'm sorry but I don't buy that; if you want to play with the big boys and consider yourself a "journalist" you should be subject to the same standards.
One one hand, why should bloggers get to remain anonymous? It's not like they are commenters on an original post; they are the source of the article. If anyone can post anything about anyone else, how can we determine what is valid and what is mere conjecture (at best) or complete fabrication (at worst).
However on the other hand, I can see the argument "why aren't bloggers offered the same freedoms that press reporters have?" coming out of this, but then bloggers aren't held to the same standards that reporters in the press/print media are held to...yet another reason why we should ALL be concerned that newspapers may go the way of the dinosaur.
If Time took the picture of Bush or Obama or paid for the rights to it, then yes it is ok. Flickr doesn't have such assurances so they acted appropriately. If you really want to see it that badly, Google it. If you want to run the risk of rights infringement, feel free to post it on your own web site.
I'll repeat it for those who didn't get it the first time; Websense doesn't censor anything; it merely categorizes. Admins are then free to check or uncheck entire categories or go as granular as a site level. If your admins are lazy and check everything, don't blame Websense, blame your HR department or CIO.
As far as docs.google.com being on the internet telephony category, did you or your admins contact Websense to find out why it was miscategorized or did you just stay silent? (BTW, it "sure as hell" could have been your admins as the software will allow you to create your own entries in any category you so choose...)
Websense, a U.S.-based Internet censoring software maker
Websense, a U.S. based Internet filtering software maker
There. Fixed that for you. Websense doesn't *censor*, that is left up to the individual admins who purchase the product. They take great pains to make sure that the software doesn't censor by using actual real human beings to categorize their list of websites and peer review to make sure that they agree on the categories assigned. THAT IS ALL THEY DO. The purchasers decide what categories they want to turn off or on. And as the product is OEM in a number of appliances, it is quite possible they are not aware of it's use in Yemen.
Disclaimer: I appeared in a promo video for Websense when they first started out; I was a big fan of the product for use in a private school setting precisely because it *wasn't* like all the other filtering software out there and censorship was a major issue with the students there.
While I agree with most of what you had to say, I find it interesting that *this* makes news on slashdot while hundreds of people in the US are beaten (and sometimes killed) for being gay, but we don't seem to be as outraged. Thousands are routinely abused in mental institutions and elder care facilities (and again, many die) and again, it's not as apparent that slashdotters feel the need to draw attention to it.
Is this because it's our *own* dirty laundry or simply because it didn't involve the words "internet addiction"? The OP mentions electroshock as being only recently banned, but it was routinely used here in the US for everything from dementia to compulsive behavior and is STILL used in the US to treat severe depression.
It just reminds me of the kind of cultural hypocrisy you see in things like Discovery Channel's Whale Wars - US whale activists fight with Japanese whalers, (who utilize every part of the whale, btw) when the US used to slaughter entire whale populations wholesale, only to extract the oil and leave the carcasses to rot. The US helped drive the whales into extinction, and now we have this "born again virgin" attitude about other countries.
I'm just saying if we spent half as much time cleaning our own back yards, we wouldn't have time to complain about our neighbors. You want to bring attention to injustices? There are plenty here to work on.
While Brown seemingly lacks the scientific and academic background needed to write such fiction, Juels has a Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley and is currently the Chief Scientist and director at RSA Laboratories, the research division of RSA Security.
And while Juels is a Chief Scientist and director at RSA Labs, Dan Brown is a multimillionaire and is currently hanging out in his pool at his palatial mansion and dating smoking hot models and actresses.
Slashdot Mirror
I *hope* you mean Small Gaming Network parties. I have "LAN Party" trademarked.
the do it yourself Homeland Security visit kit.
Of course you can say whatever you like, but without any substantive proof of your claims we'll just write you off as another looney who believes in urban legends.
:>
Why? Because This. Is. Slashdoooooot! And as long as you make us laugh or give us a target, we'll overlook all your other sins.
Here, allow me to translate from English to /.:
/. postings where the summaries were actual news and not (horribly biased) opinion.
Microsoft = Evildoers, Satan's Emissary on Earth
Anything made by Anyone Else : Given to us by the Angels, Perfect in every way.
Seriously, it would be nice to read a single day's
Rim Shot!
Sorry, you have the wrong orifice.
is to stop calling IT professionals Nerds and Geeks. Frankly I'm sick and tired of it. I'm not a nerd or a geek, I'm a professional, just like your Doctor or Dentist. You wouldn't refer to them cavalierly when they had your life in their hands, so why would you do the same to me when I may have your career or business or financial health in my hands? Furthermore, we should be treating this like the "N" word and stop using it amongst ourselves.
Half of /. content would be gone!
This is why we STILL don't have fucking jet packs and robotic sex dolls.
All kidding aside, if these jokers spent as much time DEVELOPING as they did LITIGATING, just imagine the cool stuff we'd have.
No one sees any definitions at *all* from the article, including whether this law is intended to be used only retroactively; in other words, if this law only comes into play AFTER the defendant is accused of illegal behavior. It would be helpful to this conversation to see a link to the actual law. Otherwise everything here is just based on speculation and personal interpetation - not that something like *that* has ever stopped us /.'ers...
I hate to put a crease in your tinfoil hat, but...
1. What the hell does your health insurance rant have to do with the subject at hand?
2. You quote the Constitution like fundamentalists quote the Bible; you're damn sure there's something about 'insert rantable subject here' in there but you have no proof of reference.
3. The Federal Government doesn't HAVE to have the power to 'fine people for not buying a product'; your State/Commonwealth has been doing it for years with Auto Insurance. Don't want to pay those insurance bills? Then you don't get to drive that car of yours.
4. You sir, can take your tinfoil hat and leave and we'll not shed a tear... Go form your own country or find one that you like better. You don't even have to wait until 2010.
Sorry to piss on your misplaced outrage, but there's no story here - nor is it censorship.
Source for excerpt below
"Intel set up a proof-of-concept using 900 production servers in a 1,000 square foot trailer in New Mexico, which it divided into two equal sections using low-cost direct-expansion (DX) air conditioning equipment. Recirculated air was used to cool servers in one half of the facility, while the other used air-side economization, expelling all hot waste air outside the data center, and drawing in exterior air to cool the servers. It ran the experiment over a 10-month period, from October 2007 to August 2008.
The temperature of the outside air ranged between 64 and 92 degrees, and Intel made no attempt to control humidity, and applied only minimal filtering for particulates, using "a standard household air filter that removed only large particles from the incoming air but permitted fine dust to pass through." As a result, humidity in the data center ranged from 4 percent to more than 90 percent, and the servers became covered with a fine layer of dust.
Despite the dust and variation in humidity and temperature, the failure rate in the test area using air-side economizers was 4.46 percent, not much different from the 3.83 percent failure rate in Intel's main data center at the site over the same period. Interestingly, the trailer compartment with recirculated DX cooling had the lowest failure rate at just 2.45 percent, even lower than Intel's main data center."
And although the failure rate was similar, the electricity bills were night and day. So I'm not buying into this unless your running a HUGE data warehousing op with more transactions than WalMart...
I agree with you in principle, the problem is that they are not POSTING just opinions from people who are relevantly related to the stories at hand. And isn't it the media's JOB to seek these people out and vet them and interview them properly? Call me old fashioned.
1. How can you steal a service that's provided to you for free?
2. How can you steal a service that's provided to you for free?
3. As many of these groups are simple mirrors from Usenet, how do you propose Google control servers that they have no control over?
48, I guess, because I didn't know about his personal life at all. While many may be well acquainted with Turing's professional life they may not know of his personal life. Please don't make blanket assumptions that someone is aware of all aspects of any subject here; that in fact is why I subscribe to Slashdot in the first place...to find out what I *DON'T* know.
1. Fake Auditing Tests 2. Assimilate 3. ???? 4. Profit
Bloggers should remain anonymous because they have no institution to protect them from frivolous lawsuits like newspaper columnists do.
So if you don't have an "institution" to protect you, you should still be allowed to publish whatever you want without impunity? That's like saying if you can't afford to pay for car insurance, you should still be allowed to drive a car - just without any ID or license plates so no one can go after you. I'm sorry but I don't buy that; if you want to play with the big boys and consider yourself a "journalist" you should be subject to the same standards.
One one hand, why should bloggers get to remain anonymous? It's not like they are commenters on an original post; they are the source of the article. If anyone can post anything about anyone else, how can we determine what is valid and what is mere conjecture (at best) or complete fabrication (at worst). However on the other hand, I can see the argument "why aren't bloggers offered the same freedoms that press reporters have?" coming out of this, but then bloggers aren't held to the same standards that reporters in the press/print media are held to...yet another reason why we should ALL be concerned that newspapers may go the way of the dinosaur.
If Time took the picture of Bush or Obama or paid for the rights to it, then yes it is ok. Flickr doesn't have such assurances so they acted appropriately. If you really want to see it that badly, Google it. If you want to run the risk of rights infringement, feel free to post it on your own web site.
As far as docs.google.com being on the internet telephony category, did you or your admins contact Websense to find out why it was miscategorized or did you just stay silent? (BTW, it "sure as hell" could have been your admins as the software will allow you to create your own entries in any category you so choose...)
Websense, a U.S.-based Internet censoring software maker
Websense, a U.S. based Internet filtering software maker
There. Fixed that for you. Websense doesn't *censor*, that is left up to the individual admins who purchase the product. They take great pains to make sure that the software doesn't censor by using actual real human beings to categorize their list of websites and peer review to make sure that they agree on the categories assigned. THAT IS ALL THEY DO. The purchasers decide what categories they want to turn off or on. And as the product is OEM in a number of appliances, it is quite possible they are not aware of it's use in Yemen.
Disclaimer: I appeared in a promo video for Websense when they first started out; I was a big fan of the product for use in a private school setting precisely because it *wasn't* like all the other filtering software out there and censorship was a major issue with the students there.
..to make Slashdot postings increasingly irrelevant. Can we ever get through a morning without another tired anti-MS post?
While I agree with most of what you had to say, I find it interesting that *this* makes news on slashdot while hundreds of people in the US are beaten (and sometimes killed) for being gay, but we don't seem to be as outraged. Thousands are routinely abused in mental institutions and elder care facilities (and again, many die) and again, it's not as apparent that slashdotters feel the need to draw attention to it. Is this because it's our *own* dirty laundry or simply because it didn't involve the words "internet addiction"? The OP mentions electroshock as being only recently banned, but it was routinely used here in the US for everything from dementia to compulsive behavior and is STILL used in the US to treat severe depression. It just reminds me of the kind of cultural hypocrisy you see in things like Discovery Channel's Whale Wars - US whale activists fight with Japanese whalers, (who utilize every part of the whale, btw) when the US used to slaughter entire whale populations wholesale, only to extract the oil and leave the carcasses to rot. The US helped drive the whales into extinction, and now we have this "born again virgin" attitude about other countries. I'm just saying if we spent half as much time cleaning our own back yards, we wouldn't have time to complain about our neighbors. You want to bring attention to injustices? There are plenty here to work on.
So do you mean to imply that wealth trumps truth?
No, I mean to imply that the three people who didn't get the joke don't realize that they're arguing about a fiction book.
And while Juels is a Chief Scientist and director at RSA Labs, Dan Brown is a multimillionaire and is currently hanging out in his pool at his palatial mansion and dating smoking hot models and actresses.
So much for writing *accurate* fiction...