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A Curmudgeonly Look At Google Wave
rsmiller510 writes "For those of you who think Google Wave is all that and a bag of chips, I put on the brakes and give you a few questions to ponder."
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Take a break from your open sores circle jerk and fix your fucking code.
Dumb and non topical I know but all the title bars on the articles are blue except this one which is red. What's up with that?
The Samba team already use email and IM effectively, try asking them.
--dave
davecb@spamcop.net
My message to you is about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the way to end it. I had not intended to speak to you about this issue, because, for us, this issue is already decided on: diamonds cut diamonds. Praise be to God, our conditions are always improving and becoming better, while your conditions are to the contrary of this. However, what prompted me to speak are the repeated fallacies of your President Bush in his comment on the outcome of the US opinion polls, which indicated that the overwhelming majority of you want the withdrawal of the forces from Iraq, but he objected to this desire and said that the withdrawal of troops would send a wrong message to the enemy. Bush said: It is better to fight them on their ground than they fighting us on our ground. In my response to these fallacies, I say: The war in Iraq is raging, and the operations in Afghanistan are on the rise in our favour, praise be to God. The Pentagon figures indicate the rise in the number of your dead and wounded, let alone the huge material losses, and let alone the collapse of the morale of the soldiers there and the increase in the suicide cases among them. So, just imagine the state of psychological breakdown that afflicts the soldier while collecting the remnants of his comrades' dead bodies after they hit mines, which torn them. Following such situation, the soldier becomes between two fires. If he refuses to go out of his military barracks for patrols, he will face the penalties of the Vietnam butcher, and if he goes out, he will face the danger of mines. So, he is between two bitter situations, something which puts him under psychological pressure - fear, humiliation, and coercion. Moreover, his people are careless about him. So, he has no choice but to commit suicide. What you hear about him and his suicide is a strong message to you, which he wrote with his blood and soul while pain and bitterness eat him up so that you would save what you can save from this hell. However, the solution is in your hand if you care about them. The news of our brother mujahideen, however, is different from what is published by the Pentagon. This news indicates that what is carried by the news media does not exceed what is actually taking place on the ground. What increases doubts on the information of the White House's administration is its targeting of the news media, which carry some facts about the real situation. Documents have recently showed that the butcher of freedom in the world [US President Bush] had planned to bomb the head office of al-Jazeera Space Channel in the state of Qatar after he bombed its offices in Kabul and Baghdad, although despite its defects, it is [Al-Jazeera] one of your creations. Jihad is continuing, praise be to God, despite all the repressive measures the US army and its agents take to the point where there is no significant difference between these crimes and those of Saddam. These crimes include the raping of women and taking them hostage instead of their husbands. There is no power but in God. The torturing of men has reached the point of using chemical acids and electric drills in their joints. If they become desperate with them, they put the drill on their heads until death. If you like, read the humanitarian reports on the atrocities and crimes in the prisons of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. I say that despite all the barbaric methods, they have failed to ease resistance, and the number of mujahideen, praise be to God, is increasing. In fact, reports indicate that the defeat and devastating failure of the ill-omened plan of the four - Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz - and the announcement of this defeat and working it out, is only a matter of time, which is to some extent linked to the awareness of the American people of the magnitude of this tragedy. The wise ones know that Bush has no plan to achieve his alleged victory in Iraq. If you compare the small number of the dead when Bush made that false and stupid show-like announceme
Had no problem viewing that site without the rollovers on my browser.
I checked my submissions. I have a pending submission that turned a year old last month and crap like this makes it through. Good QC, /.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
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(warning, offtopic coming, mod appropriately)
Spam may not be a problem to me, but it is a general problem. Likewise, those ads are. Allow me to elaborate.
I don't get to see spam. My spamfilter is set well, it works great, it catches 99% of the trash. All peachy. But the problem of spam isn't just that I might get to see and have to delete it. The problem is that spam is one vector of infection for malware. People with less restrictive spamfilters (who usually are also less computer savvy) get to see it, might click it and become part of a botnet herd. Ready to spam or execute DDoS attacks. And then it may well be your problem again when your server goes down due to overload.
Likewise, those ads. I don't like adblocking software. Adblockers increase instead of solve the ad problem. First of all, people making pages for me to view have bills to pay. And they either pay them themselves, have advertisers pay them or have me pay them. The first is usually short lived because invariably they run out of money or simply lose interest in sinking money into something that they may not enjoy anymore one day. The last is out of the question, I won't pay for something I get free elsewhere. So ads have to generate the revenue. They can only do that, though, if I get to see them. I don't mind banner ads or other forms of advertising between the content.
Worse, though, those ad blockers scrub away those obnoxious full screen in-your-face ads. Without blockers, people would eventually simply ignore those pages and go elsewhere, because they don't want to put up with the junk. Which leads to fewer impressions and thus might have some "educational value" for webmasters who could maybe gain the insight that less obtrusive ads is the way. Since adblockers take this nuisance away, visitor numbers are steady and thus full page ads are here to stay.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
That's no different than saying "spam isn't a problem, my spam filters get almost all of it".
Actually, it's very different. When a jerk sends spam, they suck up resources within the network, where it must be transmitted, and on the servers and clients, where it must be stored and filtered.
Annoying popups and rollovers, on the other hand, may never be downloaded at all (thanks to NoScript), meaning no waste, other than the extra bit of javascript that's downloaded but never executed. And even if the content is downloaded but just not shown (as is sometimes the case with AdBlock and similar tools), it's a fairly small amount of extra crap, so it's not a lot of extra expense... and the lions share of that expense is actually paid by the provider of the content (who must serve all those page views), rather than the user viewing said content.
Dude Bush isn't president anymore, update your spam please