Troubling trends on the web
I am drifting ever further away from my blogs focus on development, but I feel the need to rant again.
I already ranted about people trying to derive facts from things people don't say, or that aren't worded concretely enough.
I'll add blatant plagiarism to the list. Do a google search for "Windows 8", then click "Past 24 hours" on the left of the search results. You should find that 2/3's of them are probably on the exact same topic. If you keep drilling into them, you'll probably notice something... most of them are either A) the exact same content or B) the exact same content quoted with 5% original reporting. You may also notice that it is really really difficult to determine who actually wrote the original article and which web site they actually work for. Journalism on the web is a sad sad thing.
And that isn't where it stops. There also seems to be an abundance of writing without thinking. Today's little journalism faux pas comes from this site. I'm not sure if this is the original content or one of the thousands of people who has decided to plagiarize someone else's work, but they take the offensive in a manner that is laughably stupid, here is the exact idiocy laden sentence from the aforementioned link
The salient point is that article is comparing hacks to a legitimate supported solution. So we aren't comparing apples to apples here. If you wanted a fair comparison, compare jailbreaking and rooting to the original ChevronWP7 which was both free and unsupported. And as long as you don't upgrade your phone you can still use the original ChevronWP7 tool if you can still find it.
Common sense is so uncommon, I sometimes wonder how the term has survived.
I already ranted about people trying to derive facts from things people don't say, or that aren't worded concretely enough.
I'll add blatant plagiarism to the list. Do a google search for "Windows 8", then click "Past 24 hours" on the left of the search results. You should find that 2/3's of them are probably on the exact same topic. If you keep drilling into them, you'll probably notice something... most of them are either A) the exact same content or B) the exact same content quoted with 5% original reporting. You may also notice that it is really really difficult to determine who actually wrote the original article and which web site they actually work for. Journalism on the web is a sad sad thing.
And that isn't where it stops. There also seems to be an abundance of writing without thinking. Today's little journalism faux pas comes from this site. I'm not sure if this is the original content or one of the thousands of people who has decided to plagiarize someone else's work, but they take the offensive in a manner that is laughably stupid, here is the exact idiocy laden sentence from the aforementioned link
"Android users root for free, iOS users jailbreak for free, why do Windows Phone 7 users have to pay a fee for this feature?"????????????? Are you serious?!?!?!?! My favourite part of that sentence is the use of the word 'feature'. It isn't a 'feature' of those operating systems. These are in fact things that bypass 'features' of those operating systems. Tell me which one of those methods is supported by their respective hardware or software providers? It isn't Google and Apple allowing you to do these things while Microsoft is being a big bully and taking your toys away. In fact, Apple makes a point of breaking the current set of jail break hacks with every new release. As I don't follow Android I can't say anything there with certainty.
The salient point is that article is comparing hacks to a legitimate supported solution. So we aren't comparing apples to apples here. If you wanted a fair comparison, compare jailbreaking and rooting to the original ChevronWP7 which was both free and unsupported. And as long as you don't upgrade your phone you can still use the original ChevronWP7 tool if you can still find it.
Common sense is so uncommon, I sometimes wonder how the term has survived.
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