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No the language hasn't changed much. People just didn't know what was possible.

Most of the programmers thought it was just a simple language with a lot of bad parts.

Turns out, it is actually a very flexible and effective language and you can avoid the bad parts.

Read a book like "JavaScript the good parts" or watch a video [0][1] Douglas Crockford in it, he wrote that book and the JSON-specification.

[0] http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/
[1] http://www.livestream.com/etsy/video?clipId=pla_1463e546-47ed-4a93-b59a-bd52b236e8b8

Are you out of your mind? Sports riots are well established in the US and Canada prior to this. http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=capress-hkn_stanley_cup_riots_list-7164094

No dude Fuck you! Canada generally well ordered? LOL... I have lived in Canada for 18 years, and now I live in Switzerland. Now that is a country with order and well behaved people. Canada has the impression of being well behaved, but it really ain't. Just google Canadian riots and wow here is a list: http://ca.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-canadian-riots.html Or how about the following list: http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=capress-hkn_stanley_cup_riots_list-7164094 Topping the list are HOCKEY riots. You would have figured that MAYBE just MAYBE the police would have been prepared...

So next time do some soul searching before saying that Canada is so good and the rest are bad!

Dumb Ass!

Oh wait... Dumb Ass Eh!

>>"Lifeguards who can retire at 50 on 200k a year." Do tell. Pull the other one while you're at it.

Let me Google that for you, asshat:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Lifeguards-high-pay-riles-apf-3067894082.html

>>Meanwhile, my grandmother worked for 40 years as a WI schoolteacher

That's why I said California, not WI. The public unions are out of control here.

>>It's clearly an obvious troll with no connection to reality.

Go fuck yourself.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Lifeguards-high-pay-riles-apf-3067894082.html

Public wages in California average 25% higher than Texas, after adjusting for COL. Texas doesn't allow public unions.

Do you really want Rep. Weiner sending you pics of himself?

As a purchaser, you are better off with a regular or secured credit card and pay it off at the end of the month (this is key) than ever dealing with Paypal. You get extra warranties, cash-back, fraud protection, frequent flier miles, etc. Indeed, just comparing credit card fraud protection to Paypal's version of "fraud protection" and the differences are staggering. Only a fool would pick Paypal.

I use Paypal for:

• Small purchases where it's a nuisance to dig out the credit card.
• Cheapo Hong Kong purchases from places like Meritline (my wife doesn't trust them with CC info).
• Paypal promo discounts.
• Forced.

I've never understood why anyone would use a Debit Card over a Credit Card. You have money withdrawn directly from your account with much less fraud protection (while a bank may limit your losses it's not legally mandated like it is with credit cards and protections usually only cover signature transactions), and you can't manage your cash flow by paying the credit card bills at a time of your choosing. Of course, I've never been buried under a pile of debt and have always paid off my cards monthly since 1987 so maybe I lack the debt-o-phobia perspective.

What Debit Card Companies Don't Tell You

A Debit Card is basically a paperless check except that if there's fraud it hurts the issuer instead of the receiver. If you receive a counterfeit check then the banks come back to you for the funds and the account holder is not liable. If someone counterfeits a debit card transaction then the money's gone.

If you carry balances on all of your cards then you're screwed anyway. You should have one card that you ALWAYS pay off regardless of how painful it is.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/apple-store-employee-seeks-plant-union-seed-162709710.html

This should be fun to watch. Liberals LOVE unions and making arguments about a "fair" wage. Hell, why doesn't Jobs just pay all of his unskilled part-time employees $1M a year? Make them all rich. He's made enough money for himself, hasn't he? The selfish bastard!

Word. As a parent of 2, I wouldn't even really trust Nickelodeon or X Kids's Channel and especially not Disney to be in charge of programming for my children. I really like Google, but I'd still rather decide what content was important to expose my kids to, and be available to talk through events with them. So it's just as well that they haven't taken it on.

That said, you might have more luck with sites like Yahoo!, which does more hand-created search/directory content. Other than maybe the doodles, Google seems to only provide technical tools rather than actual content, and I respect that decision.

For younger kids, there's Starfall which has a bunch of interactive early education stuff.

If you really need to stick your kids on something so you can have some adult time to do taxes or have adult conversations or get drunk off your asses ( :-P ) , just stick them on the children's section of Neflix or something, so at least you can choose and control the content. Have them do Magic Schoolbus or Liberty's Kids or something else, but the idea is that you do the programming. Your children's upbringing while they're young is one of the few things you do have control of in this life, so exercise that control while you have it.

I know that's not really anything like "the internet" that you want to expose your kids to safely, but I think "your safety is not guaranteed" is one of the basic fundamental rules that makes the internet what it is, and it's not really worthwhile trying to make it so. Maybe a better analogy is leaving your kid alone in a city, even if you drop them off in the toy section of the mall. You really want to keep them in your sight... you don't necessarily have to stand over their shoulders, but at least be aware of where they're wandering around to.

Finally, I wouldn't let them near any "kid-friendly MMO" or any kind of kid social site. I'm actually not even afraid of pedo poseurs, just other people's children. There are probably not much worse influences on your children than other people's children. If you know the other kids and their parents IRL and you can follow up on stuff that happens online then sure... but something about the anonymity of the internet just brings out the dicks in people and in kids doubly so.

I have to wonder if anybody else remember Yahoolagins (Now Yahoo Kids) and how it changed after to become an all-encompassing web portal of kids stuff and a search engine?

http://kids.yahoo.com/

http://kids.yahoo.com/ Be sure to still watch em. The internet can go from kids to adult in about two seconds.

Apple isn't bigger than HP. Compare the revenues here:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=HPQ+Income+Statement&annual
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AAPL+Income+Statement&annual

Apple makes more income for every dollar of revenue, but HP has a lot more revenues.

Apple isn't bigger than HP. Compare the revenues here:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=HPQ+Income+Statement&annual
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AAPL+Income+Statement&annual

Apple makes more income for every dollar of revenue, but HP has a lot more revenues.

Like saying she needs to visit all 60 states ("one left to go," plus Alaska and Hawaii)? Or maybe signing her signature and dating it three years in the past?

Put under a spotlight, and speaking or writing away from a script, you are bound to be caught saying something stupid. Of course, that goes doubly if you are stupid.

up its investment in

Will the Chinese continue loaning us enough money to do that?

Doesn't look like it.

Fortunately, glass or plastic fiber doesn't rust, unlike old iron water mains. Of course, newer pipes aren't usually made out of iron, either, but it will take a while for all the old pipe to go away.

Contrast this with a for-profit utility company, in which a gas main exploded, 8 people were killed, and 38 homes were destroyed, all because of a leak that had been reported several times and had never been fixed. Worse, the city emergency officials were not even aware of the pipe's existence, and nobody knew how to turn the gas off, which likely made the damage far worse than it would otherwise have been.

There's only one thing worse than the government running things, and that's a for-profit corporation running things. The government is out to break even. The corporation is out to make a profit for its shareholders and its executives. Guess which one inevitably cuts more corners. Here's a hint: it's not the government. Just saying.

Thomas Drake will plead guilty to exceeding authorized use of a computer, a misdemeanor, and the government will drop 10 felony counts that could have sent him to prison for the rest of his life, according to court documents. In return, prosecutors say they won't oppose a sentence that spares the 54-year-old Maryland man a prison term.

In summation:

• Exceeding authorized use of a computer: guilty.
• All other charges: dropped.
• Jail time: unlikely.

I'd find a .gov source for you, but I don't know where to look.

http://maps.yahoo.com/map?q1=21300%20Gulf%20Frwy%20Webster%2C%20TX%20us&mag=5&ard=1#mvt=s&lat=29.519696&lon=-95.124641&mag=5&zoom=21&q1=21300%20Gulf%20Frwy%20Webster%2C%20TX%20us&gid1=30563989

According to the map, it is a underground moon base built under a forest...

Not a new euphemism at all. Mind you, "vagina" is the Latin word for "scabbard".

LOL ... he's not joking.

That's the funniest thing I've heard in weeks. :-P

And Brazilian labor is already pushing back. Interesting to see how this plays out over time and which culture ultimately wins out. If only the Chinese had a Great Artist they could dispatch to culture bomb Rio De Janiero.

1. Both the senate and house were under democrat control for a long long time, until the awesome election in 2010, did they pass a budget, nope. 2. Sure, our welfare is very comfortable compared to lots of other countries, this guy thinks so http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localdtw/20110518/ts_yblog_localdtw/2m-michigan-lottery-winner-defends-use-of-food-stamps 3. I am 27, i will never ever see SSN or Medicare. According to the democratic plan, medicare ends in 13 years anyways. If this highly moral government would give me the choice i would much rather my tax dollars go to a good charity, but no, they force me to pay into a system i will never benefit from. 4. Will you give charity away to able bodied people who refuse to work. If they can work, they should do something for the money. Please stop playing the moral high ground with other peoples money. 5. As for the GOP, yeah, lets out alot of them tooo, they tend to just be socialism light, the answer is smaller government all around. 6. LOL, GM will go bankrupt again, eventually. Do you know how many Americans will never ever buy GM again?? When 5% can make or break a company, Ford will laugh all the way to the bank. We all will pay for these bailouts eventually, with an even bigger recession... Have you been watching the stock market? You preach about sources, but site none yourself... Because its a comment string, the purpose is to yell loud talking points. Please list out how Obama has lived up to his promises/made things better??

I can't remember where I heard it exactly but I think it was something similar to this or this. I do not know where I picked up the specific idea that earth's possible orbits were influenced by it's wave-particle function. The idea was the if a planet has a wave function as predicted then that wave function would influence it's orbit. I'm not a physicist though so I'm not going to defend the idea, it's just something I remember hearing in relation to electron orbits.

Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about the law in France

Yes, but where is the line drawn at? If they include the headlines along with the various gimmics, could they be seen as news shows? Sure they're trashy, almost as much as our current affairs shows (Non-Aussie's: these two shows are tabloid crap, flitting from moral outrage to shameless advertisement in the space of a few seconds). But I doubt that a sense of taste comes into legalities

Yeah, not so much. There was a really painful period for them in the early to mid 90s as people stopped buying as many mainframes and IBM pcs. It was almost a daily news story at 5:30.

IBM Stock history

See the crater just before 1995. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

10 pallets of the gel were donated back in April http://finance.yahoo.com/news/DeconGel-Provides-prnews-1482369894.html?x=0

Maybe if you decided to look it up you might have some answers.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080109100012AAnxeJY

...with the exception of two sets of goodwill gifts presented to 135 nations, the 50 states, and the U.S. provinces

According to this week-old story

A recent count showed 10 states and more than 90 countries could not account for their shares of the gray rocks.

Am I the only one who noticed that the Tea Party was co-opted and neutralized by the Republican party?

That's because you're ignorant and apparently blind to front page news. The Tea Party has made far more effort to stay true to its philosophy than say "hope and change" Obama has. It just so happens that they're a bit outnumbered at the moment, having to fight not only Democrats, but also their own party.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/26/patriot-act-extension-passes-senate_n_867736.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20110516/ts_csm/382261_1

Well, I'm not worried then. Personally, I'm not connected to the internet. I type all my messages on a computer without an Internet connection, then save it using a thumb-sized flash drive. I then pass the flash drive to a trusted courier, who heads for a distant Internet café.

At that location, the courier plugs the memory drive into a computer, copies the message into Slashdot and sends it. Reversing the process, the courier copies any incoming email to the flash drive and returns, where I read messages offline.

Why I go though this amount of security for slashdot, I don't know.

I'm pretty sure this has been done before. Though I can't remember by who...

Mac Defender just proves that Apple has finally broken the Microsoft Windows monopoly on the desktops of the sort mouth-breathing idiot who can be socially engineered into incredibly stupid actions.

So, when I said "your" (plural, as denoted by the previous plural "people", "idiots", and "assholes"), you took it personally? Yes, I was thinking of you, personally, individually, when I wrote that. o_O

You're quite easily offended. I made a general comment. You made a directed reply to me.

I have some links for you that may assist you (and I mean you, singular, specifically):

http://forum.psychlinks.ca/psychology-psychiatry-and-mental-health/22189-do-you-need-to-take-everything-personally-before-you-can-get-over-it.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090807073108AAf5Jzf
http://www.bpdfriends.com/blog/2009/11/how-to-not-take-things-personally/

So are the shoes a gender thing or sex thing? I've never been outside of US and Europe so just wondering... I think yahoo answers, my usual source of info, has a selection bias.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070407112648AAB9WHV

He pretty clearly broke the law, and they're not going to let that go.

In what court has that been determined?

He abused his position of trust in the government and he has admitted that he shared classified information with people not authorized to receive it.

What if you could write software for your TV? I started learning Javascript because I have a TV that can be programmed with it, and I want to be able to stream music from my fileserver to it, instead of having to hook up a separate box. The TV already plays Netflix just fine, and has apps avaiable (although I haven't used them) for Hulu, Amazon, Blockbuster, Vudu, Vimeo, etc, etc. As far as I can tell, the TV is basically a display with a builtin Linux computer that runs apps written in Javascript.

Yahoo isn't the only one, BTW.

Just in case i wasn't the only one in need of a basic grammar refresher.

While these three terms are related, their meanings are subtly different. To help understand the distinction, we consulted a number of sources -- American Heritage Dictionary, the Yahoo! Grammar, Usage, and Style category, and web search results for the three terms.

The dictionary defines a "metaphor" as a figure of speech that uses one thing to mean another and makes a comparison between the two. For example, Shakespeare's line, "All the world's a stage," is a metaphor comparing the whole world to a theater stage. Metaphors can be very simple, and they can function as most any part of speech. "The spy shadowed the woman" is a verb metaphor. The spy doesn't literally cast his shadow on the woman, but he follows her so closely and quietly that he resembles her own shadow.

A simile, also called an open comparison, is a form of metaphor that compares two different things to create a new meaning. But a simile always uses "like" or "as" within the phrase and is more explicit than a metaphor. For example, Shakespeare's line could be rewritten as a simile to read: "The world is like a stage." Another simile would be: "The spy was close as a shadow." Both metaphor and simile can be used to enhance writing.

An analogy is a bit more complicated. At the most basic level, an analogy shows similarity between things that might seem different -- much like an extended metaphor or simile. But analogy isn't just a form of speech. It can be a logical argument: if two things are alike in some ways, they are alike in some other ways as well. Analogy is often used to help provide insight by comparing an unknown subject to one that is more familiar. It can also show a relationship between pairs of things. This form of analogy is often used on standardized tests in the form "A is to B as C is to D."

You have absolutely no chance to get anything close to it on your own, so just don't.

We disagree

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/GammaSpectrometry

Go counter to the market. Buy during a selloff and sell during a bubble. It isn't difficult.

It sounds easy, the problem is picking the right time. Look at the history of Microsoft: In the two years between 1995 and 1997 their stock price more than tripled from ~$5 to ~$15. Then it went from $15 to more than $50 between 1997 and 1999. And then it quickly fell back to ~$35 the next year. It hasn't materially exceeded that last price at any time since and has in fact slowly lost almost 30% of its value since then.

The trouble is that it's far too easy to see a bubble and sell Microsoft for $15 in 1997 and then buy the same shares for $35 during the sell off in 2000, when anyone with the advantage of hindsight can see that what someone should have done is sell Microsoft for ~$50 in 1999 and then never reinvest in it again.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110518/od_afp/usreligionanimalsoffbeat_2011051

A much fairer assessment. You missed the part where the new person politically appointed walks in a demands network information with no credentials.

http://ca.tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/article/453

"Sources have stated that not only was Childs the only admin, he was always on call, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. As the only admin with the knowledge and access to the FiberWAN, he had no help. During the past few years, the DTIS staff has been significantly reduced due to budget cuts, keeping the city dependent on a sole admin for its core network."

"The confrontation that started the standoff

On Friday, June 20, there was an altercation between Childs and Jeana Pieralde, the new DTIS security manager at the 1 Market Street datacenter in San Francisco. Until her promotion, she had been a city network engineer who worked with Childs. The city's court filings claimed that Childs harassed Pieralde, confronted her, and took photos of her with his cell phone. Fearing for her safety, Pieralde retreated to a room in the building, locked herself in, and called the DTIS CIO for help. The DTIS CIO then called Childs and the two had words. Childs subsequently left the premises. Why was Childs so upset? According to the city, no one had told him or others that Pieralde was auditing his network, and he perceived it as a threat or intrusion.

Childs disputed this interpretation of events, claiming in court documents that Pieralde was conducting clandestine searches of DTIS employee workspaces and had removed a hard drive from an office when he confronted her. He also denied taking photos of Pieralde.

What occurred over the next two weeks remains a mystery, but at some point, DTIS officials demanded that Childs relinquish the usernames and passwords used to access the FiberWAN network devices, and Childs refused to do so. He was suspended for insubordination on July 9."

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Clearly he was no longer employed with the city. Clearly he had no obligation to the city in any form. Clearly nothing he did was illegal. Clearly the city is the one that scapegoated a citizen. Clearly! Any audit of the city's security and management procedures was at the very least, negligent.

Childs could be the biggest ass in the world and he still was not the one that did not follow procedures.

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---- http://rixstep.com/1/20100428,01.shtml

Paul Venezia reports on a leak to Slashdot from one of the jurors.

'This case should have never come to be. Management in the city's IT organisation was terrible. There were no adopted security policies or procedures in place. This was a situation that management allowed to develop until it came to this unfortunate point. They did everything wrong that they possibly could have to create this situation.'

Venezia picks up the ball.

'Shouldn't the letter of the law be applied to other 'denial of service' problems caused by the city while they pursued this case? In particular, the person or persons who released hundreds passwords in public court filings in 2008 be tried for causing a denial of service for the city's widespread VPN services? After all, once the story broke that a large list of usernames and passwords had been released to the public, the city had to take down its VPN services for days while they reset every password and communicated those changes to the users. And the kicker is that the VPN password debacle had immediate and widespread negative effects on the users and clearly caused a service outage, while Childs' actions did not effect users in any way.'

The difference of course is that Childs wasn't 'connected', wasn't political, and Robinson, at the head of the notorious city IT organisation described by a juror as 'terrible', was.

'If the letter of the law is what convicted Terry Childs, then the law is simply wrong', concl

Here's a couple of links:

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Nearly-half-of-US-households-apf-1105567323.html?x=0&.v=1
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/business/economy/14leonhardt.html
[3] http://www.google.com/search?q=47%25+households

Here's another little fact that is rarely mentioned (from item #1):

The bottom 40 percent, on average, make a profit from the federal income tax, meaning they get more money in tax credits than they would otherwise owe in taxes. For those people, the government sends them a payment.

Awesome, no?

Even #2, which is trying to cloud the issue, flat out says:

The 47 percent number is not wrong. The stimulus programs of the last two years — the first one signed by President George W. Bush, the second and larger one by President Obama — have increased the number of households that receive enough of a tax credit to wipe out their federal income tax liability.

He goes on to talk about payroll taxes, etc. But the thing about payroll taxes is that they are dedicated to specific programs. Payments into social security aren't available to be used for running the government and funding non-entitlement services. When you hear about the government spending the money in the social security trust fund, what is happening is that the trust fund is buying treasury bonds, i.e. it's a loan that will be paid back. The other point that people should be aware of is that for all the payroll taxes items (medicare, medicaid, social security) the "poor" will draw more out than they ever put in.

Mr. Childs clashed with the new Security Manager on the subject of authentication and control, which led to poor formal review.

Sorting out fact from fiction in the Terry Childs case

Among my set of "daily" tabs is a random wikipedia page, and couple of other random searches.

At least it gives me a chance of seeing something I wouldn't have otherwise seen.

They Yahoo news version is available here

Given that the earth is warming, and that we have chosen adaptation over mitigation, it seems reasonable and responsible for a government to determine what would be required to adapt. How much would it cost? Compare this proactive approach to the one taken in Illinois. There the US is blowing up a levee, flooding 100,000 acres of farmland, causing 1 billion in property damage, in order to save a town from flooding: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110502/us_nm/us_weather_flooding_decision

We get to choose between mitigation or adaptation. Neither one is pretty. It's better to plan up front either way.

Cults and religions are different not in the number of followers they have, but how they conduct their activities.

Garbage. A cult is a religion that a) is small, and b) you're not a member of.

Do research on the subject.

I did, and I found this.

I don't see where anyone has yet mentioned Doug Crockford's excellent videos on JavaScript. These are all on YUI theater. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ All the criticisms mentioned here are discussed in depth. Crockford deals with the good and bad parts of JavaScript from the perspective of years of detailed research on it. And like it or no, JS is available in a useful, common subset on all modern browsers. The whole HTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript ball of wax is a kludge that happened by the chaos of historic accident. But we are stuck with them, and Crockford's notions of how to do JS right are worth your time in viewing the videos.

Wasn't the guy live blogging it on Twitter saying that "The noise alarmed him"? Not sure the "stealthy" part worked out so well.

It sounds so weird when you put it like that. "Lunar capable space program".

Gosh, way more weird:

1. Mark Whittington submits stories related to space faring, NASA, Moon and such. Clearly a person that has a strong passion and strange attraction for space (given the fact that his education is a BA in History)
2. the majority of his feet-on-the-ground posts are rejected, however less so for stories like: "Former Senator Wants to Mine The Moon", "The Prospects for Lunar Mining", "Does the Moon Have Military Value?"

The result? I was almost about to believe Mark Whittington a lunatic dreamer, with nothing in his mind but to start mining the Moon and install military bases there.

They claim it was the franchisee that did it, and it wasn't SOP for the company. Sounds like a branch manager and tech department is going to take the fall.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Aarons-Inc-Responds-to-prnews-1949739725.html?x=0&.v=1