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Re: CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace

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Post by blattimwind »

HenryBemis wrote: post #50

I don't see this as price shaming. I see a HUGE "we don't trust these folks to begin with...". Facebook is cancer for humanity. It gives 1 and takes 50. And then dilligently finds ways to use that 50 to hurt you, for their profit. I wouldn't trust any sensitive information with them. And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life. Some random admin with god-mode that will get bribed by Saudis/ wouldn'…

> I wouldn't trust any sensitive information with them. And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life.

This is a matter of GALACTIC SECURITY.

Re: CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace

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Post by blattimwind »

saalweachter wrote: post #76
codeduck wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life. Wat.

They have both hammers and phone books, I'm sure.

Have you seen the entrances to the accelerator caverns? You really need to watch your step there, if you fall you'll die for sure! The CERN is harnessing these ancient, fundamental powers for this, we barely understand how they work... gravity.

Re: CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace

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Post by mmmuhd »

harunurhan wrote: post #96
HenryBemis wrote: post #50

I don't see this as price shaming. I see a HUGE "we don't trust these folks to begin with...". Facebook is cancer for humanity. It gives 1 and takes 50. And then dilligently finds ways to use that 50 to hurt you, for their profit. I wouldn't trust any sensitive information with them. And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life. Some random admin with god-mode that will get bribed by Saudis/ wouldn'…

> And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life I work at CERN, no we do not.

I am just thinking why can't CERN make their own worplace equivalent platform for their people considering the fact that they help create the internet itself.

Re: CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace

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Post by GhettoMaestro »

mmmuhd wrote: post #103
harunurhan wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life I work at CERN, no we do not.

I am just thinking why can't CERN make their own worplace equivalent platform for their people considering the fact that they help create the internet itself.

They don’t create the internet rofl. The quality of HN comments is toilet bowl tier.

Re: CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace

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Post by wolfgke »

mmmuhd wrote: post #103
harunurhan wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life I work at CERN, no we do not.

I am just thinking why can't CERN make their own worplace equivalent platform for their people considering the fact that they help create the internet itself.

CERN did not create the internet. Tim Berners-Lee created the world wide web.

Also keep in mind that there actually existed many predecessors of hypertext systems (EDIT: see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_hyper... ); just for some reason (let's say because the world wide web was in the right spot at the right time), the world wide web became hugely popular.

Re: CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace

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Post by ryanmercer »

krapp wrote: post #99
harunurhan wrote: post #96

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> And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life I work at CERN, no we do not.

I heard CERN broke the Matrix when they accidentally opened an occult black hole with the LHC and that's why things like the cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom logo are getting erased from reality. /s

Ha, remember when those articles [1] came out claiming Musk and some other billionaires were trying to hack the simulation.

cough if that was real I'm happy to work as a janitor or more cough

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-billionaires-want-to-br...

Re: CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace

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Post by 9HZZRfNlpR »

filmgirlcw wrote: post #21

They only had 150 active users (despite 1000 signups), so choosing not to pay for the offering makes sense. I have the utmost respect for CERN as an institution — I want to make that clear. What I don’t love, however, is this trend that seems to be using a PR offensive of “price shaming” whenever contract or license terms change. I understand CERN is publicly funded and that it doesn’t have an unlimited budget. But I…

The so-called price shaming is what keeps prices in check for the customers in general.

Re: CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace

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Post by pushpop »

JorgeGT wrote: post #89
pushpop wrote: post #81

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Without wanting to sound dismissive to the massive contribution Tim Berners-Lee, and CERN as a whole, has made to IT; we’d probably have ended up with the same user experience we have today but with Gopher as the base tech. Or maybe something else entirely different from markup perspective, such as something RTF or s-expressions...? Great technological advancements are rarely the work of one genius in isolation. Usua…

I agree, but if you patent certain processes, concepts, etc. early on, you can get filthy rich as everyone has to license your technology.

In theory, yes. But there are a few caveats to that:

1. CERN wouldn’t have been able to patent anything too generalised because there was prior art (Gopher)

2. Thus if the patent was too expensive developers would have just used a similar technology (bare in mind it took quite a few years before the web to evolve from a toy, then something that companies “needed” but it wasn’t contributing massively to their bottom line, to what it is today where a great many businesses sole market is web based).

3. Even if it had somehow became part of industry standard or CERN had achieved a vague patent that prevented similar implementations from coexisting, Europe has this thing called (if I remember the acronym correctly) FRAND patents where patents which are required as part of a standard have to be fairly licensed.

None of this means CERN couldn’t have potentially made a lot from HTML & HTTP. But I also think part of the reason it was the success it was, was because it was a royalty free open specification.

Re: CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace

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Post by SuoDuanDao »

ryanmercer wrote: post #106
krapp wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I heard CERN broke the Matrix when they accidentally opened an occult black hole with the LHC and that's why things like the cornucopia on the Fruit of the Loom logo are getting erased from reality. /s

Ha, remember when those articles [1] came out claiming Musk and some other billionaires were trying to hack the simulation. cough if that was real I'm happy to work as a janitor or more cough [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-billionaires-want-to-br...

This is straightforward third century gnosticism. Granted, the Matrix was inspired by that religion, but it's funny to see these old beliefs come back and be taken so literally.

Re: CERN Ends Trial of Facebook Workplace

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Post by aaronmdjones »

mmmuhd wrote: post #103
harunurhan wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life I work at CERN, no we do not.

I am just thinking why can't CERN make their own worplace equivalent platform for their people considering the fact that they help create the internet itself.

The Internet and the Web are not the same thing. The Web is a service that runs on the Internet, just like DNS, E-Mail, and the like. Your cellphone is not a text messaging program.
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