I don't think its too much to ask that they had all of this hardware ready to go in the event of a spill is it?
In my view, this entire situation is a huge failure on BP's part. The well being open for more than 1-2 days after the rig went down is completely unacceptable, and anyone settling for less is, well, insane as far as I'm concerned.
Look, if you are going to do drilling 5000 feet down in the ocean, you damn well better be ready with all the equipment you need to seal that well should it decide to pump oil into the ocean.
Actually its more like "we wanted to try and save as much oil as possible so we tried a bunch of bullshit solutions that didn't work and destroyed an ecosystem"
This entire situation boils down to one simple thing: Greed.
Extensions that don't get updated often are massive security holes waiting to happen. If the dev has stopped updating an extension, you should stop using it. Why would you continue to use software that can put your entire system at risk?
From my experience, if autoupdate kills an addon it generally wasn't a useful one anyway. The core addons that are needed to run a FF install (Adblock, NS, etc) are updated regularly. Everything else is just bells and whistles really. I'm not willing to risk my computers security for bells and whistles.
Agreed. I really think that the folks over at Scroogle are trying to paint Google in a bad light on this when its their own software that is inadequate. If you are doing scraping and are going to throw a hissy fit whenever the page you scrape changes you might want to try something other than scraping...
A good days worth of work would fix this for Scroogle. I give them a day only because its clear they don't know what they are doing:)
What a horrible summary. Google didn't block anything, they just changed the page that Scroogle scrapes off of. Scroogle claims that they need a "simple" interface to scrape off of. Sounds to me like they are too lazy to adjust their service.
Like I said, if you want to run out of date, potentially buggy software, that's on you. For the general user it makes a lot more sense to have auto updates enabled by default.
You are a power user, you can't expect software designers to design their apps to your ridiculous (and frankly IMHO stupid) expectations. For every one of you there are 30 Joe Average's using the browser. Joe Average needs those updates on.
So wait let me get this straight. You don't use the browser because it lacks a feature, and you come to/. to complain about it. Someone tells you how to get around it, and you say "I don't use it often enough to bother googling"...? Do you see whats wrong with this picture here?
Probably a mod-troll modding you down because this is a somewhat common topic here. The mods assume that if it was posted once, somewhere, sometime, that it is now a stupid and/or redundant question.
Overall in general browsing I find Chrome to have an edge over FF right now, but I do a lot of manual ad blocking outside of my browser (hosts, corporate proxy & FW) so most ads never make it to me even if I open up IE *shudder*.
That is in relation to the previous Chrome version but even still, 30% is a significant increase in speed over the competition. 30% increase in browsing speed is more than enough reason to change browsers.
You claim to know where the website is... The FIRST PAGE of the website gives install instructions, source download, and RPM/DEB packages.
Why do people complain when they are too stupid/lazy to take 5 seconds to read 1 page? Honestly if you can't be bothered to read 2 lines of text to learn how to install something, you probably should be using Photoshop anyway.
Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning dude? Chill the fuck out.
This IS funny.
- It's NOT funny when I'm on a slow connection and slashdot is stealing it, and I have no way to turn this shit off.
Don't visit the site? Use an RSS reader if you need low bandwidth news.
- It's NOT funny when I'm at work, and the admin wants to know why I streaming mega-videos & tying up work servers.
Try working when you are at work then, instead of slacking off.
- It's NOT funny. Slashdot is now acting like Microsoft, ramming crap down my pipe that I don't want.
Then stop coming here if you really don't enjoy it. Hint: You are full of shit and will continue to frequent a website that you are apparently mad at. Yes, that sounds stupid, because it is.
Basic human right to do whatever lawful activities you want inside your home?
Situation: I'm your neighbor, and I'm telling you that you aren't allowed to host a wireless network INSIDE YOUR OWN HOME. When you disagree citing that this is crazytalk, I sue you for half a million dollars. How is that NOT attacking and violating your rights?
Its a basic human right to do whatever lawful activities you want to do inside your home. Her jackass neighbor is trying to legally force her to not use Wifi. If someone was doing that to me, I'd feel like my rights were being violated / attacked too. To the point where I would fire back a counter suit and sue him into the ground.
Its her right to use Wifi. If he becomes sick from it, thats his problem, not hers. He needs to wrap his house in a Faraday cage and then he needs to shut the fuck up.
I can't really see this situation from his point of view all that well since he's a crazy fucking moron.
Its not what people post on FB that causes my company issues. Frankly they could care less. Its more about how much time the average worker is willing to waste sitting on Facebook doing 0 work. Probably quite similar to how I'm spending my time now, but at least/. can be a learning experience about 0.05% of the time (Once in a blue moon there is a good Ask Slashdot post). I don't think anyone learned anything of value from playing Farmville all day.
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I don't think its too much to ask that they had all of this hardware ready to go in the event of a spill is it?
In my view, this entire situation is a huge failure on BP's part. The well being open for more than 1-2 days after the rig went down is completely unacceptable, and anyone settling for less is, well, insane as far as I'm concerned.
Look, if you are going to do drilling 5000 feet down in the ocean, you damn well better be ready with all the equipment you need to seal that well should it decide to pump oil into the ocean.
Actually its more like "we wanted to try and save as much oil as possible so we tried a bunch of bullshit solutions that didn't work and destroyed an ecosystem"
This entire situation boils down to one simple thing: Greed.
What could possibly go wrong?
Extensions that don't get updated often are massive security holes waiting to happen. If the dev has stopped updating an extension, you should stop using it. Why would you continue to use software that can put your entire system at risk?
From my experience, if autoupdate kills an addon it generally wasn't a useful one anyway. The core addons that are needed to run a FF install (Adblock, NS, etc) are updated regularly. Everything else is just bells and whistles really. I'm not willing to risk my computers security for bells and whistles.
Sounds about right, the US uses Oil for everything else, midaswell use it for this too!
Agreed. I really think that the folks over at Scroogle are trying to paint Google in a bad light on this when its their own software that is inadequate. If you are doing scraping and are going to throw a hissy fit whenever the page you scrape changes you might want to try something other than scraping...
A good days worth of work would fix this for Scroogle. I give them a day only because its clear they don't know what they are doing :)
What a horrible summary. Google didn't block anything, they just changed the page that Scroogle scrapes off of. Scroogle claims that they need a "simple" interface to scrape off of. Sounds to me like they are too lazy to adjust their service.
Like I said, if you want to run out of date, potentially buggy software, that's on you. For the general user it makes a lot more sense to have auto updates enabled by default.
You are a power user, you can't expect software designers to design their apps to your ridiculous (and frankly IMHO stupid) expectations. For every one of you there are 30 Joe Average's using the browser. Joe Average needs those updates on.
So wait let me get this straight. You don't use the browser because it lacks a feature, and you come to /. to complain about it. Someone tells you how to get around it, and you say "I don't use it often enough to bother googling" ...? Do you see whats wrong with this picture here?
Auto updates should be on by default. If you want to run buggy out of date software then you can disable the updates on your own.
One of the few FTFY's on /. that I can agree with. Honestly anyone who thinks this tactic is new to Obama is in serious need of a history lesson.
Probably a mod-troll modding you down because this is a somewhat common topic here. The mods assume that if it was posted once, somewhere, sometime, that it is now a stupid and/or redundant question.
Overall in general browsing I find Chrome to have an edge over FF right now, but I do a lot of manual ad blocking outside of my browser (hosts, corporate proxy & FW) so most ads never make it to me even if I open up IE *shudder*.
The Adblock extension for Chrome only hides ads, it doesn't block them. Chrome does *NOT* have Adblock PLUS functionality.
Nevertheless, I still use it because, well, Chrome is awesome.
My bad, that link is in German. English Linky!
We already have a tinfoil hat version of Chrome, its called Iron
"Only by about 30%"?
That is in relation to the previous Chrome version but even still, 30% is a significant increase in speed over the competition. 30% increase in browsing speed is more than enough reason to change browsers.
This is Slashdot, and idle no less. Par for the course my friend.
You claim to know where the website is... The FIRST PAGE of the website gives install instructions, source download, and RPM/DEB packages.
Why do people complain when they are too stupid/lazy to take 5 seconds to read 1 page? Honestly if you can't be bothered to read 2 lines of text to learn how to install something, you probably should be using Photoshop anyway.
Its in idle, what did you expect? If you don't like it, stop browsing idle.slashdot.org ...
Fail.
Apple does more flashy useless bullshit on less but more expensive hardware.
FTFY.
Who pissed in your cornflakes this morning dude? Chill the fuck out.
This IS funny.
- It's NOT funny when I'm on a slow connection and slashdot is stealing it, and I have no way to turn this shit off.
Don't visit the site? Use an RSS reader if you need low bandwidth news.
- It's NOT funny when I'm at work, and the admin wants to know why I streaming mega-videos & tying up work servers.
Try working when you are at work then, instead of slacking off.
- It's NOT funny. Slashdot is now acting like Microsoft, ramming crap down my pipe that I don't want.
Then stop coming here if you really don't enjoy it. Hint: You are full of shit and will continue to frequent a website that you are apparently mad at. Yes, that sounds stupid, because it is.
Basic human right to do whatever lawful activities you want inside your home?
Situation:
I'm your neighbor, and I'm telling you that you aren't allowed to host a wireless network INSIDE YOUR OWN HOME. When you disagree citing that this is crazytalk, I sue you for half a million dollars. How is that NOT attacking and violating your rights?
Its a basic human right to do whatever lawful activities you want to do inside your home. Her jackass neighbor is trying to legally force her to not use Wifi. If someone was doing that to me, I'd feel like my rights were being violated / attacked too. To the point where I would fire back a counter suit and sue him into the ground.
Its her right to use Wifi. If he becomes sick from it, thats his problem, not hers. He needs to wrap his house in a Faraday cage and then he needs to shut the fuck up.
I can't really see this situation from his point of view all that well since he's a crazy fucking moron.
Its not what people post on FB that causes my company issues. Frankly they could care less. Its more about how much time the average worker is willing to waste sitting on Facebook doing 0 work. Probably quite similar to how I'm spending my time now, but at least /. can be a learning experience about 0.05% of the time (Once in a blue moon there is a good Ask Slashdot post). I don't think anyone learned anything of value from playing Farmville all day.