Comment Re:This is a good thing overall... (Score 3, Insightful) 196
Re-read that sentence, specifically the word "special." If it's a special developer build, then it's not the same thing that your users are using.
Re-read that sentence, specifically the word "special." If it's a special developer build, then it's not the same thing that your users are using.
The problem in my eyes is not the default requirement that only signed extensions are allowed; the problem is that they don't even allow users to override it.
Even if you're only concerned about development of extensions, it's a terrible idea to say that, essentially, developers can't test and develop with release versions of Firefox.
Domain grabbing should be illegal
What harm is being done to society? Even if he just sits on those domains forever, who cares if "email.com" doesn't point to something useful?
#3 sounds like a technical failing that needs to be addressed to make spoofing more difficult.
Making spoofing more difficult would also make it easier to block everyone else engaged in phone fraud.
Which is why it is never going to happen.
Well, I wasn't responding to you. Rather I was responding to the guy who claimed that it was my opinion that the vast majority of copyrighted material available via bittorrent or usenet is fairly recent.
Since you apparently need some proof, I went to the Pirate Bay, since it's the torrent site that everyone's heard of.
In the first 150 torrents in the "recent" list, I counted 4 that were created more than 14 years ago. (In fairness, I didn't bother checking the dates on the porn, so it's possible there may have been a few more -- but it's obvious that from this sample it's still way less than 10%.)
I then looked at the top 100 list, which should give a picture of what content is being downloaded most frequently. From that list, there was just 1 from more than 14 years ago.
Just like ShanghaiBill, that's your opinion. My torrent list is a pile of shows from the 60s through to the 80s.
It's not an opinion. Go to any general-use bittorrent tracker, or a usenet index, and count up how much of the available media is recent (within the original 14-year copyright term) versus older. The vast majority will be recent.
Anyone who seriously disputes that needs to spend some time in reality.
and they wonder why there is a 'war on content owners/providers' by torrent/usenet fans.
Widespread piracy of copyrighted material has very little to do with copyright terms being continuously extended. The vast majority of material available on bittorrent and usenet are recent works, not things that would have fallen out of copyright even under 14-year term of original US copyright law.
My thoughts exactly while reading this. If you're not going to say anything more than generic PR-friendly statements that just sidestep the questions, then why bother framing it as an "Ask Slashdot"? Just pay Slashdot a few bucks and have them post a link to your webpage on the Slashdot front page.
No. IBM is not asking for volunteers. They are cutting their under-performers. Employees usually know which of their coworkers are deadwood, and if done right, some pruning can lead to a morale boost. The big risk is if you don't cut deep enough and have to come back for another round.
This certainly was false in my area during the last big round of layoffs. (No word yet on whether we'll be seeing layoffs this time round or not.) High performers were cut as well as low performers. You're right that we know who falls into which category -- and it is very obvious that they're not just cutting underperformers.
In addition, whenever there are ill-conceived layoffs in process, there are always some employees that decide that they have had enough of taking on extra work while waiting for the axe to fall on themselves, and jump ship of their own accord. We've seen a couple of those already, and they tend to be high performers themselves -- since they're the ones who are confident of being able to find another job.
[1]: CS and IT get relatively little respect as a profession compared to others that take as much education and experience. Tell someone you are a veteran IT person, they will immediately ask you what to do because their Windows PC seems slow.
To be fair, tell anybody that you're a doctor and they'll immediately ask you what that weird growth on their foot is.
We all know where it originates from. Doesn't change the fact that sticking -gate onto the end of every scandal's name is utterly stupid.
It doesn't even make sense. It's not like the Watergate scandal had anything to do with water.
Any additional taxes will just be added to the sales price, so there's no point in having them.
Sure there's a point. It becomes a hidden tax rather than a visible one, and voters don't get as pissy about those even when they disproportionately affect the poor.
Apparently the secret to creating a habitable world is to remove the cloud of gas that surrounds Uranus?
I don't even care if they allow spoofing or not -- Just when the number is spoofed, the receiver should get an indication that it has been spoofed, and then I can make my own decision on whether I want to receive those calls or not.
I'd just drop any call from a spoofed number. If somebody want to talk to me, they can get a real phone.
Ah, I get it now
The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
