Yahoo, Google, etc, should stay true and operate at 100%, and if they get banned, then they become martyrs. It is loosely analogous to the Iraq war, how people say that you can't impose revolution on the people, they need to decide it for themselves, etc. If the Chinese get p.o.'d enough at the govt banning things, they'll eventually revolt, which would potentially be a good thing (good in the long run, potentially catastrophic in the short run, but that's life). Money may or may not be the root of all evil, but at minimum, it is a strong catalyst. The Chinese govt is wrong. Anyone who goes along with it is a little bit wrong themselves. I see the point that having some presence is better than no presence, but I am still 60/40 in favor of my above stated position.
I can't bear to read any more of that. Scum sucking shiat bags get that way by doing what they do, and I try not to think about it. I skimmed it, but it looks more like the author has a morbid fanboi fascination with arseholeism than anything new or actionable. If anyone thinks I should go back and read it, lemme know, otherwise ppblbltblt.
So the web programmer read out the current price and stored it in the browser until the user hits 'submit' and then uses the submitted price instead of rereading it?! I wonder if he could have spoofed form variable values and got everything at $0.01? But TFA says the trader would get the stock for whatever it was at closing, so maybe the app isn't re-passing the price. Anyway, if the programmer at least had enough of his head external to his ass to record a time stamp, they should be able to nix any trades made after hours and also nix any accounts that exploited it. But then I bet if our hero from TFA was running 1600 accounts, I bet at least once he hit submit trying to squeak by right at the close but went past close by a minute or two. It'd be a shame if he wasted 12 hours a day and got dinked for accidentally exploiting the same hole as the real cheaters. Yeah, next time check the current time on submit. Lol, I'm kind of a hack web programmer, but even I know to validate forms in the client and at the server on submit.
That's why I gave up on ink-jet printers and went with a laser. It's only b/w, but I've bought toner exactly once over the past three years. When I need a color print, I send it to Kinkos. It's not the most convenient thing in the world, but I print in color so infrequently that it really doesn't make any difference to me. If I needed to print in color frequently, I'd probably buy a color laser. Ink jet is just a huge ripoff as far as I'm concerned.
Amen to that, QFT. I just popped in a 2nd toner cartridge after using this $250 laser printer for like 4 years, and it still prints laser perfect. The 2 times that I've needed good color prints, I suffered the inconvenience of driving to the print store, just like you said. My wife just bought herself a Canon multi function with inkjet against my wishes. I can't wait to laugh at her when it s***s the bed one day.
Amen, and bravo to someone for saying it. I am sick-to-damn-death of codenames. Sick. To. Damn. Death. Stopit.
Maybe it's my geeky math side, but version numbers have always just sort of made sense to me. Is this an increase from the Pentium 4.3.1 to the 4.3.2, or is it from 4.3.1 to 4.4.0? Even if you have no idea what the numbers mean, you can look at it, and it *means* something. If the middle number increases, you need a new motherboard or whatever.
Trying to discuss anything today is just retarded: "bro, is the upgrade from the wollywanker to the puddlehumper worth the money?" "Naw, dude, that's just a few ghz's, but move from the hollendorfer to the puddinspanker is going to be totally bitchin!" "Whoa, dude." "I know, dude, whoa."
Bill Gates, if you're reading this, hook me up with a laptop, and I'll tell everyone how much I like Vista, which I do, which is the only reason why I would extend this offer.
Short list of reasons I like Vista:
The Aero Glass theme is very nice and very clean looking.
The start button enhancements are fantastic. I love the instant search box.
The sidebar is very well executed, and I especially like the default picture slideshow.
Runs great and fast for everyday use (ie, not multitasking WoW) on 1gig ram (2 is better).
Solid as a f'n rock, and I don't say that lightly.
"Poor" driver support is still easier than dealing with Linux, 95% automatic so far, and I'm actually fairly good with Linux.
I say halt this charade and force the US to break up Microsoft, get to the root of the problem.
Amen.. we should have stuck while the iron was hot many years ago, when the plan was to make Office its own company. We would probably have a fully compatible Mac and *nix version by now. This whole shtick of using dominance in one market to bully people around in other markets is getting really f'n old.
only people who have actually used Vista comment. These articles about operating systems are already boring enough without the same boring comments. At the very least I would like a few +5 funny comments.
I can't promise you anything funny, but I'm using 3 Vista machines now (4 if you count my buddy's machine at work, which I installed/support):
1. my station at work: custom built, pentium d 3.0, 2gigs ram, nvidia 7300gs, vista x64 business edition
2. laptop at work: dell inspiron 6400, dual core 1.83ghz, 1gig ram, vista 32 ultimate
3. home machine: custom built, amd 64 single core 1.8ghz, 1gig ram, nvidia 6600gt, vista x64 ultimate
4. assistant's station: custom built, amd 2.0ghz, 2gigs ram, nvidia geforce2, vista 32 business edition
So far, all 4 are 100% flawless. The laptop is the only one that is not used every day. I haven't used nearly as much hardware as the guy in the article, but all 4 machines have perfect driver compatiblity. I don't think I even had to install drivers, I think they all just worked. The only thing that doesn't have a driver is #3, my home machine, which has an adaptec 2940uw pci scsi card, and there was not an x64 driver the last time I checked. All of them have bells and whistles set at max except #4, because the geforce2 doesn't support directx9.
I do use Windows almost exclusively, and have for years, so I'm kind of a pro, but I don't recall having any real problems that took any kind of expertise to solve. So far it just works (times 4). I like the aero glass theme, so I have no intention of switching to classic mode, although I have, at times, turned everything off while doing things on my home machine (1gig ram) that were chugging a bit too much. Turning off aero did speed up the machine, but I still turned it back on when I was done.
So far, I have nothing but positive things to say about Vista. No, I'm not a fanboy. The scsi drive in my home computer has slamd64 on it, and I have been using Linux on and off for 12 years. But I believe in giving credit where credit is due, and so far I am a big fan of Vista. It has not let me down yet except for being kind of a fat, bloated pig (c:\windows is 10.5 gigs on #1).
I usually don't even look at the box art. I just look at the title to see if I recognize it and then turn the box over to see what the game is. And then what do I see? Five great screen shots of cut-scenes that give no information whatsoever on what the gameplay may be like. Man, I hate that.
I would think that they *are* in fact selling windows free boxes to linux users. Support would be nothing more than hardware warranty support and maybe a linux faq for support reps, and anything else is outside of scope. Maybe the dellux cd that negative nancy above you thought was a horrible idea could be a hardware diagnostic boot disk that doesn't even run in gui. I will be very surprised if their current plan (if you can call it that) for preinstalled linux for joe blow users isn't scrapped by the end of the year. To work the Linux angle, they should keep it as simple as possible. My prediction is that they're going to devote too much resource in the wrong direction, and it's not going to be profitable. Linux comes in theoretically infinite number of flavors, and anybody who's interested is not going to like 100% of the choices Dell makes for them. They should just partner with distrowatch and call it done.
I agree that the profit incentive looks questionable. I have 2 suggestions on how to work this angle: 1- Dellux, 'nuff said 2- Ship unformatted systems, and include a monster pack of cd's/dvd's every major free distribution of Linux and BSD, and include a couple supplemental disks with extra packages such as open office, mysql, swaret, anything that people ordinarily download and install. Also include extensive hardware parameters for things like vertical and horizontal sync rates on the monitor and other trivia that Linux can't always guess. Save people the time on downloading and trying things out, and provide real benefit to the newb linux hackers in that they can try out a zillion distros and not have to worry about obtaining good iso's, taking 30 minutes to make a coaster, etc. The distros wouldn't have to be 100% up to date, just a recent, stable version, and have a date on the disk. Plus, how much effort would it take to compile a special pack of 20 or 50 distros and slap them on a cake spindle? Probably anyone reading this could be given some work space with 5 or so dell pc's and put that set together in a week, easy. Dell could maybe even charge the same price as for a windows based pc, and it would be pure profit as long as they could keep the hard cost down on the cake. Heck, they could probably even use the magic word "please" and someone in the community would do basic qc for them to make sure all the disks actually install, because the Linux crowd is cool like that. This would also answer the question of "which distro" to which there can only be one acceptable answer: "All of them!"
I thought of a similar way to clean up the internet, if you will, but this guy is coming at it from the wrong direction. Rather than bending everyone else to your will, he needs to just segregate himself. I figured it something like this:
1. establish a new port number, but this will be the clean port rather than the dirty port.
2. the US government mandates that all servers 'broadcasting' on this port must be inside the US, ie, no foreign servers. requires configuration on routers that go overseas
3. optionally have something like an ssl certificate to be required for servers.. new browsers may require it, etc.
4. 'clean' sites may 'broadcast' on both port 80 and the new port. try to get all.gov and.edu sites to broadcast on both. family friendly.com sites would follow. There could be a license of some type required to broadcast on the new port that would pay for enforcement efforts.
5. once there is enough content availabe on the new port that people can realistically go about their business without port 80, ISP's then give customers the option to block port 80. businesses may choose to do the same. people who keep port 80 would have access to both.
6. get the big browsers to put in native support for the new port and maybe the big operating systems too so you can lock down your kids' pc's, etc
I like this approach the best for a number of reasons:
* sites that don't want to deal with the new port can simply stick with port 80, and nothing changes
* users that don't want to deal with the new port can simply stick with port 80, and nothing changes
* making the new port US-only would not step on anybody's toes internationally, because they weren't using the port anyway
* making the new port US-only would establish a jurisdiction which we could really control
* if the new port did not require an ssl certificate or whatever, then 99% of web sites right this very minute could go into their config and start broadcasting on a new port, meaning low burden on admins.. of course over time more options may be developed, etc
* spammers and porn sites would be tempted only very briefly before deciding it's just not worth it to mess with trying to make money on it
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Yahoo, Google, etc, should stay true and operate at 100%, and if they get banned, then they become martyrs. It is loosely analogous to the Iraq war, how people say that you can't impose revolution on the people, they need to decide it for themselves, etc. If the Chinese get p.o.'d enough at the govt banning things, they'll eventually revolt, which would potentially be a good thing (good in the long run, potentially catastrophic in the short run, but that's life). Money may or may not be the root of all evil, but at minimum, it is a strong catalyst. The Chinese govt is wrong. Anyone who goes along with it is a little bit wrong themselves. I see the point that having some presence is better than no presence, but I am still 60/40 in favor of my above stated position.
I can't bear to read any more of that. Scum sucking shiat bags get that way by doing what they do, and I try not to think about it. I skimmed it, but it looks more like the author has a morbid fanboi fascination with arseholeism than anything new or actionable. If anyone thinks I should go back and read it, lemme know, otherwise ppblbltblt.
So the web programmer read out the current price and stored it in the browser until the user hits 'submit' and then uses the submitted price instead of rereading it?! I wonder if he could have spoofed form variable values and got everything at $0.01? But TFA says the trader would get the stock for whatever it was at closing, so maybe the app isn't re-passing the price. Anyway, if the programmer at least had enough of his head external to his ass to record a time stamp, they should be able to nix any trades made after hours and also nix any accounts that exploited it. But then I bet if our hero from TFA was running 1600 accounts, I bet at least once he hit submit trying to squeak by right at the close but went past close by a minute or two. It'd be a shame if he wasted 12 hours a day and got dinked for accidentally exploiting the same hole as the real cheaters. Yeah, next time check the current time on submit. Lol, I'm kind of a hack web programmer, but even I know to validate forms in the client and at the server on submit.
That's why I gave up on ink-jet printers and went with a laser. It's only b/w, but I've bought toner exactly once over the past three years. When I need a color print, I send it to Kinkos. It's not the most convenient thing in the world, but I print in color so infrequently that it really doesn't make any difference to me. If I needed to print in color frequently, I'd probably buy a color laser. Ink jet is just a huge ripoff as far as I'm concerned.
Amen to that, QFT. I just popped in a 2nd toner cartridge after using this $250 laser printer for like 4 years, and it still prints laser perfect. The 2 times that I've needed good color prints, I suffered the inconvenience of driving to the print store, just like you said. My wife just bought herself a Canon multi function with inkjet against my wishes. I can't wait to laugh at her when it s***s the bed one day.
Amen, and bravo to someone for saying it. I am sick-to-damn-death of codenames. Sick. To. Damn. Death. Stopit.
Maybe it's my geeky math side, but version numbers have always just sort of made sense to me. Is this an increase from the Pentium 4.3.1 to the 4.3.2, or is it from 4.3.1 to 4.4.0? Even if you have no idea what the numbers mean, you can look at it, and it *means* something. If the middle number increases, you need a new motherboard or whatever.
Trying to discuss anything today is just retarded:
"bro, is the upgrade from the wollywanker to the puddlehumper worth the money?"
"Naw, dude, that's just a few ghz's, but move from the hollendorfer to the puddinspanker is going to be totally bitchin!"
"Whoa, dude."
"I know, dude, whoa."
reeeetch!
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Bill Gates, if you're reading this, hook me up with a laptop, and I'll tell everyone how much I like Vista, which I do, which is the only reason why I would extend this offer.
Short list of reasons I like Vista:
Suck it, haters. Vista==100% satisfaction so far.
I say halt this charade and force the US to break up Microsoft, get to the root of the problem.
Amen.. we should have stuck while the iron was hot many years ago, when the plan was to make Office its own company. We would probably have a fully compatible Mac and *nix version by now. This whole shtick of using dominance in one market to bully people around in other markets is getting really f'n old.
only people who have actually used Vista comment. These articles about operating systems are already boring enough without the same boring comments. At the very least I would like a few +5 funny comments.
I can't promise you anything funny, but I'm using 3 Vista machines now (4 if you count my buddy's machine at work, which I installed/support):
1. my station at work: custom built, pentium d 3.0, 2gigs ram, nvidia 7300gs, vista x64 business edition
2. laptop at work: dell inspiron 6400, dual core 1.83ghz, 1gig ram, vista 32 ultimate
3. home machine: custom built, amd 64 single core 1.8ghz, 1gig ram, nvidia 6600gt, vista x64 ultimate
4. assistant's station: custom built, amd 2.0ghz, 2gigs ram, nvidia geforce2, vista 32 business edition
So far, all 4 are 100% flawless. The laptop is the only one that is not used every day. I haven't used nearly as much hardware as the guy in the article, but all 4 machines have perfect driver compatiblity. I don't think I even had to install drivers, I think they all just worked. The only thing that doesn't have a driver is #3, my home machine, which has an adaptec 2940uw pci scsi card, and there was not an x64 driver the last time I checked. All of them have bells and whistles set at max except #4, because the geforce2 doesn't support directx9.
I do use Windows almost exclusively, and have for years, so I'm kind of a pro, but I don't recall having any real problems that took any kind of expertise to solve. So far it just works (times 4). I like the aero glass theme, so I have no intention of switching to classic mode, although I have, at times, turned everything off while doing things on my home machine (1gig ram) that were chugging a bit too much. Turning off aero did speed up the machine, but I still turned it back on when I was done.
So far, I have nothing but positive things to say about Vista. No, I'm not a fanboy. The scsi drive in my home computer has slamd64 on it, and I have been using Linux on and off for 12 years. But I believe in giving credit where credit is due, and so far I am a big fan of Vista. It has not let me down yet except for being kind of a fat, bloated pig (c:\windows is 10.5 gigs on #1).
I usually don't even look at the box art. I just look at the title to see if I recognize it and then turn the box over to see what the game is. And then what do I see? Five great screen shots of cut-scenes that give no information whatsoever on what the gameplay may be like. Man, I hate that.
Open source doesn't guarantee transparency, it's just one of the basic prerequisites for having transparency.
QFT
I would think that they *are* in fact selling windows free boxes to linux users. Support would be nothing more than hardware warranty support and maybe a linux faq for support reps, and anything else is outside of scope. Maybe the dellux cd that negative nancy above you thought was a horrible idea could be a hardware diagnostic boot disk that doesn't even run in gui. I will be very surprised if their current plan (if you can call it that) for preinstalled linux for joe blow users isn't scrapped by the end of the year. To work the Linux angle, they should keep it as simple as possible. My prediction is that they're going to devote too much resource in the wrong direction, and it's not going to be profitable. Linux comes in theoretically infinite number of flavors, and anybody who's interested is not going to like 100% of the choices Dell makes for them. They should just partner with distrowatch and call it done.
I agree that the profit incentive looks questionable. I have 2 suggestions on how to work this angle:
1- Dellux, 'nuff said
2- Ship unformatted systems, and include a monster pack of cd's/dvd's every major free distribution of Linux and BSD, and include a couple supplemental disks with extra packages such as open office, mysql, swaret, anything that people ordinarily download and install. Also include extensive hardware parameters for things like vertical and horizontal sync rates on the monitor and other trivia that Linux can't always guess. Save people the time on downloading and trying things out, and provide real benefit to the newb linux hackers in that they can try out a zillion distros and not have to worry about obtaining good iso's, taking 30 minutes to make a coaster, etc. The distros wouldn't have to be 100% up to date, just a recent, stable version, and have a date on the disk. Plus, how much effort would it take to compile a special pack of 20 or 50 distros and slap them on a cake spindle? Probably anyone reading this could be given some work space with 5 or so dell pc's and put that set together in a week, easy. Dell could maybe even charge the same price as for a windows based pc, and it would be pure profit as long as they could keep the hard cost down on the cake. Heck, they could probably even use the magic word "please" and someone in the community would do basic qc for them to make sure all the disks actually install, because the Linux crowd is cool like that. This would also answer the question of "which distro" to which there can only be one acceptable answer: "All of them!"
Holy stripped formatting, Batman Sorry about that, guys
I thought of a similar way to clean up the internet, if you will, but this guy is coming at it from the wrong direction. Rather than bending everyone else to your will, he needs to just segregate himself. I figured it something like this: 1. establish a new port number, but this will be the clean port rather than the dirty port. 2. the US government mandates that all servers 'broadcasting' on this port must be inside the US, ie, no foreign servers. requires configuration on routers that go overseas 3. optionally have something like an ssl certificate to be required for servers.. new browsers may require it, etc. 4. 'clean' sites may 'broadcast' on both port 80 and the new port. try to get all .gov and .edu sites to broadcast on both. family friendly .com sites would follow. There could be a license of some type required to broadcast on the new port that would pay for enforcement efforts.
5. once there is enough content availabe on the new port that people can realistically go about their business without port 80, ISP's then give customers the option to block port 80. businesses may choose to do the same. people who keep port 80 would have access to both.
6. get the big browsers to put in native support for the new port and maybe the big operating systems too so you can lock down your kids' pc's, etc
I like this approach the best for a number of reasons:
* sites that don't want to deal with the new port can simply stick with port 80, and nothing changes
* users that don't want to deal with the new port can simply stick with port 80, and nothing changes
* making the new port US-only would not step on anybody's toes internationally, because they weren't using the port anyway
* making the new port US-only would establish a jurisdiction which we could really control
* if the new port did not require an ssl certificate or whatever, then 99% of web sites right this very minute could go into their config and start broadcasting on a new port, meaning low burden on admins.. of course over time more options may be developed, etc
* spammers and porn sites would be tempted only very briefly before deciding it's just not worth it to mess with trying to make money on it