Eisenhower wasn't responsible for McCarthy and by all accounts didn't like or approve of him. It's not as if the president can just fire a congressman he doesn't like.
Why is the ethical responsibility on the end user? Does YouTube not benefit from the hard work of "content creators?" Keep in mind, there are plenty who YouTube doesn't compensate at all, who don't even have the option to display ads. There are a few ways they could level the playing field.
Display ads on every video and give every channel the option to collect a portion of the total revenue based on how many views they generate. This way, YouTube partners who call their ad-blocking viewers "unethical, freeloading scumbags" won't feel like hypocritical assholes when they enjoy non-partner content on YouTube.
Make the site paid-only and give every channel the option to collect a portion of the total revenue based on how many views they generate. This also eliminates the "unethical freeloading scumbag" problem. Of course, YouTube wouldn't do this because it would interfere with their oh-so-ethical data-mining operation.
It appears that YouTube has chosen a combination of these options with ad-free subscriptions. So now, they get my money, partners get a portion, and the non-partners I watch with my paid subscription continue to get absolutely nothing. Now that's what I call ethical!
As a developer, he uses the term "impossible". Nobody says
"impossible" in a development framework.
Read the emails carefully. You're taking the word out of context.
From the original:
We would also like permission to use the Truecrypt trademark as part of this effort. If that’s not possible, we would accept a clear statement that you would prefer the software not be renamed.
Re:The original wasn't "colorful blocks"
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The full quote that you so strategically took out of context is...
the colorful block puzzle has sold an estimated 170 million copies
So unless 170 of those 8" floppies were sold, it's a good bet the original is not what was being referred to.
It’s a standard frustrated angry geeky guy manifesto, except for the part
Except for the part where it isn't. The manifesto is a lot of things. It's a case study in narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, social anxiety disorder...you name it, it's in there, and you can spin it however you want.
The kid played WoW, so he must be a geek.
Never mind that he didn't excel in academics, that he never showed any interest in science, mathematics or technology, that he took a handful of liberal arts courses that he had to drop because the only thing he could concentrate on were girls. Does that sound like a geek? No, to me it pretty much sounds like everybody who isn't a geek.
There was no solicitation, therefore, no entrapment. If you really think that being 10 years old on the internet is in and of itself enticement or solicitation of sex, it's time for some serious self-evaluation.
You can download and host it if you want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download. Keeping it in sync is a different story, but I think enough people fetch it that there's no risk of an Alexandria Library senario.
The fact that they even attempted to DDoS EC2 shows they are nothing more than script kiddies. EC2 is not a PIII in Amazon's broom closest. It's a large scale server infrastructure designed by some of the smartest hackers in the world explicitly to withstand incredibly high traffic. Any legitimate hacker could have explained that to them, but they managed to get well passed the planning stage of their little DDoS with not a single one of them mentioning it?
The concept of innocent until proven guilty is widely misunderstood. It is the obligation of the jury to presume innocence. Nobody else. Not the prosecution. Not the police. Not the accuser. If it were their obligation, nobody would be charged with anything ever.
I assume you're from Hacker News. I'd be very weary of Namecheap. I personally wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. They have been very dishonest in their dealings with GoDaddy in order to make themselves out to be some David fighting Goliath. In particular, accusing GoDaddy of noncompetitively restricting their whois access. Experts have already confirmed that that's standard practice in the industry to prevent abuse, and honestly, even I, a nonexpert, already knew that. Their making an issue out of it public reeks of dishonesty. As most/.ers will gleefully tell you, no-name domain registrars can be as crooked as a barrel of snakes. If you look in the comments sections of most anti-GoDaddy stories, you'll see plenty of them spamming their SOPASUCKSALLCAPS coupon codes.
My advice to anyone looking for a new registrar is not to go with whomever screams "Screw SOPA! Screw GoDaddy!" the loudest. Do some actually research on who provides quality service and has a long established reputation of not being a snake. I personally like eNom, but there may be better ones out there.
And here I thought/. cared about a person's right to privacy. I guess it's completely evil and deplorable for Google and Facebook to invade your privacy, but perfectly legitimate for some asshole with a grudge to do it. In fact, we should encourage him and help him and undermine the law to do so.
This, this, and this. I can't believe so many/.ers live in some fantasy world where Google willfully has RIAA cronies in their offices scanning their Music Beta users's collections with highly sophisticated forensic tools that can distinguish a pirated MP3 from a non-pirated one. It's not happening and it's not going to happen.
I wouldn't be surprised actually if Google was developing Go for the explicit purpose of replacing Java on Android. They announced Go a few months after Oracle acquired Sun, and last month at Google I/O, Rob Pike had this to say about it.
Nowadays you can download most of it as JSON: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api. If you're logged in, the links on that page will automatically be populated with authorization keys, so you can just right-click-save-as.
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Eisenhower wasn't responsible for McCarthy and by all accounts didn't like or approve of him. It's not as if the president can just fire a congressman he doesn't like.
Why is the ethical responsibility on the end user? Does YouTube not benefit from the hard work of "content creators?" Keep in mind, there are plenty who YouTube doesn't compensate at all, who don't even have the option to display ads. There are a few ways they could level the playing field.
It appears that YouTube has chosen a combination of these options with ad-free subscriptions. So now, they get my money, partners get a portion, and the non-partners I watch with my paid subscription continue to get absolutely nothing. Now that's what I call ethical!
Did you just mansplain mansplaining to me?
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As a developer, he uses the term "impossible". Nobody says "impossible" in a development framework.
Read the emails carefully. You're taking the word out of context.
From the original:
We would also like permission to use the Truecrypt trademark as part of this effort. If that’s not possible, we would accept a clear statement that you would prefer the software not be renamed.
The full quote that you so strategically took out of context is...
the colorful block puzzle has sold an estimated 170 million copies
So unless 170 of those 8" floppies were sold, it's a good bet the original is not what was being referred to.
It’s a standard frustrated angry geeky guy manifesto, except for the part
Except for the part where it isn't. The manifesto is a lot of things. It's a case study in narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, social anxiety disorder...you name it, it's in there, and you can spin it however you want.
The kid played WoW, so he must be a geek.
Never mind that he didn't excel in academics, that he never showed any interest in science, mathematics or technology, that he took a handful of liberal arts courses that he had to drop because the only thing he could concentrate on were girls. Does that sound like a geek? No, to me it pretty much sounds like everybody who isn't a geek.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7M71wmwWRo
There was no solicitation, therefore, no entrapment. If you really think that being 10 years old on the internet is in and of itself enticement or solicitation of sex, it's time for some serious self-evaluation.
You can download and host it if you want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download. Keeping it in sync is a different story, but I think enough people fetch it that there's no risk of an Alexandria Library senario.
Who's Eric Snowdon?
Because vim users would like to take advantage of nice emacs goodies like Slime without changing the way they edit text.
There are 400K users according to the article. I assume that means active users since they cited a previous figure of 600K.
The fact that they even attempted to DDoS EC2 shows they are nothing more than script kiddies. EC2 is not a PIII in Amazon's broom closest. It's a large scale server infrastructure designed by some of the smartest hackers in the world explicitly to withstand incredibly high traffic. Any legitimate hacker could have explained that to them, but they managed to get well passed the planning stage of their little DDoS with not a single one of them mentioning it?
There were some New York accents in The Last Temptation of Christ which I found amusing. I wonder if Martin Scorsese even noticed.
The concept of innocent until proven guilty is widely misunderstood. It is the obligation of the jury to presume innocence. Nobody else. Not the prosecution. Not the police. Not the accuser. If it were their obligation, nobody would be charged with anything ever.
She was waiting for Gentoo to finish compiling.
I assume you're from Hacker News. I'd be very weary of Namecheap. I personally wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. They have been very dishonest in their dealings with GoDaddy in order to make themselves out to be some David fighting Goliath. In particular, accusing GoDaddy of noncompetitively restricting their whois access. Experts have already confirmed that that's standard practice in the industry to prevent abuse, and honestly, even I, a nonexpert, already knew that. Their making an issue out of it public reeks of dishonesty. As most /.ers will gleefully tell you, no-name domain registrars can be as crooked as a barrel of snakes. If you look in the comments sections of most anti-GoDaddy stories, you'll see plenty of them spamming their SOPASUCKSALLCAPS coupon codes.
My advice to anyone looking for a new registrar is not to go with whomever screams "Screw SOPA! Screw GoDaddy!" the loudest. Do some actually research on who provides quality service and has a long established reputation of not being a snake. I personally like eNom, but there may be better ones out there.
This is very true. I transferred my domains from GoDaddy almost a year ago just because their control panel is horrible.
And here I thought /. cared about a person's right to privacy. I guess it's completely evil and deplorable for Google and Facebook to invade your privacy, but perfectly legitimate for some asshole with a grudge to do it. In fact, we should encourage him and help him and undermine the law to do so.
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Stay classy,
This, this, and this. I can't believe so many /.ers live in some fantasy world where Google willfully has RIAA cronies in their offices scanning their Music Beta users's collections with highly sophisticated forensic tools that can distinguish a pirated MP3 from a non-pirated one. It's not happening and it's not going to happen.
And perhaps most telling of all is that Go has supported ARM processors since day one.
I wouldn't be surprised actually if Google was developing Go for the explicit purpose of replacing Java on Android. They announced Go a few months after Oracle acquired Sun, and last month at Google I/O, Rob Pike had this to say about it.
Nowadays you can download most of it as JSON: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api. If you're logged in, the links on that page will automatically be populated with authorization keys, so you can just right-click-save-as.
Would you please shut down Bloglines?