Comment "Pet Peeve" or "How To Get Your Submission Posted" (Score 1) 18
If you're disinterested in my reasons for thinking the Canada pet peeve is petty, you might want to skip to the "***" section below, where I actually get back on topic.
Since US press will often refer to major US cities without specifying states, I assume your complaint with specifying city/country in the case of Canadian cities is that the US press uses the US as a default country when specifying location.
Is that really it? Seems weak.
As far as your point regarding Americans not taking the time to learn Canada's thirteen provinces... Canada is just another country in the world. Sure, it's on the same continent as the US, but do you know all the provinces (or whatever) of Mexico? I doubt it.
For whatever reason, the States are well-known all over the world. I don't think the same can be said for many other countries.
Further, US people aren't even aware of their own states. Asking them to memorize your provinces (and why shouldn't every country demand the same?) is absurd.
Further still, does the Canadian press list city, province, AND country every time a Canadian location is specified? I doubt it. Does the Canadian press ever simply specify major Canadian cities, omitting the province? I suspect so.
I really think you need to find a better source of stress. (Clearly you're searching.)
*** Here's where the on-topic stuff starts ***
Now I want to voice a pet peeve of my own.
I keep getting the feeling that the obviously biased and uninformed opinions expressed by slashdot "reporters" are not accidental. I think they're manipulating the readers (that's YOU), because they know that controversy creates interest.
By selecting biased/uninformed submissions like this one in which "karma vs Dogma" was indignant about what he/she believes are inflated expense claims relating to cracking, slashdot is hoping to spawn a lot of great free commentary from qualified professionals. As has been pointed out repeatedly, just about any IT professional understands that incident response involves much more than restoring a couple files from a backup.
I don't think I need to go into further detail on this particular article, since other people have already done a fine job, but I think it's clear that one way to get an article posted on slashdot is to submit something obviously wrong about something controversial.
Since US press will often refer to major US cities without specifying states, I assume your complaint with specifying city/country in the case of Canadian cities is that the US press uses the US as a default country when specifying location.
Is that really it? Seems weak.
As far as your point regarding Americans not taking the time to learn Canada's thirteen provinces... Canada is just another country in the world. Sure, it's on the same continent as the US, but do you know all the provinces (or whatever) of Mexico? I doubt it.
For whatever reason, the States are well-known all over the world. I don't think the same can be said for many other countries.
Further, US people aren't even aware of their own states. Asking them to memorize your provinces (and why shouldn't every country demand the same?) is absurd.
Further still, does the Canadian press list city, province, AND country every time a Canadian location is specified? I doubt it. Does the Canadian press ever simply specify major Canadian cities, omitting the province? I suspect so.
I really think you need to find a better source of stress. (Clearly you're searching.)
*** Here's where the on-topic stuff starts ***
Now I want to voice a pet peeve of my own.
I keep getting the feeling that the obviously biased and uninformed opinions expressed by slashdot "reporters" are not accidental. I think they're manipulating the readers (that's YOU), because they know that controversy creates interest.
By selecting biased/uninformed submissions like this one in which "karma vs Dogma" was indignant about what he/she believes are inflated expense claims relating to cracking, slashdot is hoping to spawn a lot of great free commentary from qualified professionals. As has been pointed out repeatedly, just about any IT professional understands that incident response involves much more than restoring a couple files from a backup.
I don't think I need to go into further detail on this particular article, since other people have already done a fine job, but I think it's clear that one way to get an article posted on slashdot is to submit something obviously wrong about something controversial.
