Comment Good Luck With That (Score 3, Insightful) 705
So in essence, the complaint is that Cox appeared more competent than an ordinary citizen is allowed.
So in essence, the complaint is that Cox appeared more competent than an ordinary citizen is allowed.
This is the natural outcome of 'publish or perish.' If keeping your job depends almost solely on getting 'results' published, you will find those results.
Discovery is more prestigious than replication. I don't see how to fix that.
Annually, just to be safe. Others will be Googling you, so it's important to know what's out there.
Who'll want to create apps for it?
How'll that make Facebook any money?
All countries are referred to as "developed." It is now politically correct to divide them into more developed countries (MDC) and less developed countries (LDC). Ah, progress.
The Hacker Ethic, as maintained by the CCC.
Access to computers - and anything which might teach you something about the way the world really works - should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
All information should be free.
Mistrust authority - promote decentralization.
Hackers should be judged by their acting, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
You can create art and beauty on a computer.
Computers can change your life for the better.
Don't litter other people's data.
Make public data available, protect private data.
I cannot wait for the first comment along the following lines:
"Yep, flying a jumbo at 20000 feet right now.
Posted from my iPad."
In some states you can be arrested and charged with a full-blown DUI for riding a bicycle while drunk.
?
How many people are killed by drunk bicyclists?
'These are ultimately consumer businesses and if you piss off enough of them, you will not have any more.'
He may be a lawyer, but he doesn't understand who the consumers are in the newspaper model.
Newspapers, like much of modern media, sell audiences to advertisers.
So asking the news media to think of their readers, is meaningless. They never do, except as a product to sell to the advertisers.
This is ultimately an Advertiser business.
I suspect he views the readers as the consumers and the advertisers as the customers.
You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all alike.