That, and the article names are in an ugly font that seems to be the standard these days. Why designers choose this font is beyond me. It's not that I have an outdated browser or anything, but the typesetting of the font is just wrong. Vertical lines like in l, i h, b, u and n are much fatter compared to the round parts of letters.
What I also like better in the old style is the inverted style of article name. It makes it that much easier to spot the next article.
If the fraudulent sign in for someone else is a problem, I'm sure the company would have used that argument as a reason. Fingerprints can also be spoofed. The only fool-proof method to prevent fraud is a visual recognition with your badgephoto.
And even then you don't catch twins. The controlfreaks have gone too far already.
In the Netherlands there is currently a measles epidemic ongoing. As of august 22nd, 1162 cases have been reported (many more thought to exist but not reported). The map that is shown will give you a good idea of where the heavy religious people (often against vaccination, because of their favourite deity) live.
I am paying € 0,22 per kWh, have a contract that is supposed to deliver me green power only and am not really concerned by the price of electricity because I generate 75% myself (solar) which means that my energy bill is negative (there are some statedeductions that make that happen).
If the price of enery would go up, I have enough roof to supply myself with 100% of the electricity I need.
Ok, let me comment on those who do not understand hyperbole.
Going off the net is like saying "I'm not going to school anymore so my high school bullies can't touch me anymore" (I'm sure there is a Calvin & Hobbes comic like that out there). That's just not true. If it is your government or the NSA you're hiding from, no chance. They will come to your work, to your house, to your bedroom when you sleep. Looking under the bed before you go to sleep to see if the bogeyman is not hiding there is not an option.
Did Rosa Parks stop using the bus because she wasn't allowed to sit there? No, she went ahead and sat and claimed her right.
Let it be clear that I have the utmost respect for Pj for doing Groklaw all those years. The entertainment part came only second to its necessity. And it still is necessary. If I could continue it, I would. And I'm sure I couldn't do a better job than Pj did all those years.
But I still maintain: going off the net is no solution. Sure, if you'r planning something drastic then it might be a good temporary action, so if you're starting to arm your bears then I'll just wait it out.
Yes, there is some sarcasm and hyperbole in this post too. But here I am actually being serious too.
I'm sorry, I can not believe this. This is a prank. This must be.
How can you be so spineless to give in to these people? This is the day you have to fight them! And you don't do that by going off the grid.
So... all these people could have gotten a message or phonecall from just anyone during the night? Then what are they bitching about?
Where I live, AMBER alerts are normally sent only between 6 AM and 10 PM. You have to take action yourself to enable receiving messages during the night. That's not such a strange thing to implement. Why hasn't NYPD implemented that? I'm sure the technology is sophisticated enough that you should also be able to specify an interval where you don't want to receive alerts yourself.
People should be this upset about the government doing this too. CCTV's are popping up everywhere, even in rural US cities.
As much as I would like to agree with you, I can't. The government does not video in my face, does not follow me around with a camera, and most of all: does not post these videos on Youtube.
Having said that: I am absolutely not in favour of CCTV surveillance but I can see its merits. Just recently, a group of youths, attacking and repeatedly kicking a man lyong on the ground, was arrested in the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands because of being recognised on CCTV footage. I know it's a fine line between using CCTV footage to search for and arrest violators of the law and following just random people.
I experienced some crashes too with VMS. I don't remember te version, but this was around 1999-2000. The console was running X and logging out of X made the machine crash. Every time. The only way to avoid it was to log in to a single shell from the X-Windows login prompt.
Because that was not really a stable solution and X on the console was useless anyway, we decided to disable X. Which led to all our programmers not being able to link any console program anymore. For some reason, disabling X on the console put some libraries out of play that console-programs needed.
No, I was not impressed by VMS and even less by Dec/Digital/HP in their hardware implementation. At one point we had a GS160 because it was a bigger project that we thought could not be handled anymore by two fully loaded ES40's. The GS160 turned out to be just a cabinet that could hold 4 ES40's, one of which was solely tasked with the communication of all 4.
Added to that the horrendous filesystem. We did a lot of logging in our applications which slowed down the machines so much that we decided to move a few heavy logging apps to a then-current single CPU Pentium-III with IDE drive. That alone lifted all the load of the machine.
No, by that time was already clear to us that VMS and the Alpha was EOL for us and we moved to Windows and Intel. The only big plus of VMS was the seamless clustering.
The problem is also the ambiguous use of "22.210 miles". That automatically makes you think it is 22210 miles and not 22.21 miles.
I was reading 35760 and 22210 also.
They must be so stupid. Coverage of Google Maps for western countries (US, Europe) is far better than for middle-eastern countries. If anyhting, Google is enabling Iran to select the best places to invade and attac. Even services that supply detailed aireal photo's have better coverage in the west than in the middle-east.
Mindless rhetoric from a mindless government. And then they want to spend their valuable resources mapping their countries even better? Looks like a loose-loose situation to me.
My current PC with XP is showing signs of old age. I am considering building a new PC and... installing XP on it.
Yes, I know support for XP will end in one year. I already do not see the added value in Windows 7, let alone 8.
The ultimate end-effect is that either everybody is getting killed by their or other state's secret services, or goverments understand that they can not regulate this.
I think the latter will happen, but with frequent and feeble attempts to change that.
You get funny looks with an Linux boot CD but not when you hand them an iPad? Maybe you should look funny at your "friends".
Go with the Linux boot CD (or better: USB stick). If your friends really can't use Firefox or Chrome in Linux than they're just too stupid to breathe.
Haha, I read the whole story. This guy is the stupidest guy ever. What was he thinking? This is wat dumb movies are made of. From the first scene you know this is going to end bad. Only he is too stupid to see it.
Even earlier? Mid summer the sun rises here at 5:20 and sets at 22:00. That is with DST. Without DST it rises at 4:20. How early do you want to go to work?
Agreed, our sleep and work pattern is not mirrored around mid day. But would you want to? Typically you would need to move your schedule 3-4 hours back. So go to bed at 20:00 and wake up at 4:00.
My car runs 900 to 1000 km (560 to 620 miles) on one filling of gas. It then takes me 5 minutes to fill up and I'm go to go for another 900 to 1000 km.
A Tesla (or any current electric vehicle) can run 265 miles (that half that distance) and takes 1 hours to charge if you have the superfast charger (that's still 12 times longer).
So, best case: refueling takes 24 times longer. That's a big change in your car habits. Worst case it will take 100 times longer. That makes an electric vehicle only useful for short trips. Short being "less than the range of one charge".
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That, and the article names are in an ugly font that seems to be the standard these days. Why designers choose this font is beyond me. It's not that I have an outdated browser or anything, but the typesetting of the font is just wrong. Vertical lines like in l, i h, b, u and n are much fatter compared to the round parts of letters.
What I also like better in the old style is the inverted style of article name. It makes it that much easier to spot the next article.
All in all: for now IMHO the old style is better.
If the fraudulent sign in for someone else is a problem, I'm sure the company would have used that argument as a reason. Fingerprints can also be spoofed. The only fool-proof method to prevent fraud is a visual recognition with your badgephoto.
And even then you don't catch twins. The controlfreaks have gone too far already.
In the Netherlands there is currently a measles epidemic ongoing. As of august 22nd, 1162 cases have been reported (many more thought to exist but not reported). The map that is shown will give you a good idea of where the heavy religious people (often against vaccination, because of their favourite deity) live.
So true. America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave anymore. It is the land of the opressors and the home of the frightened.
Because in analysing what makes Kopi Luwak real Kopi Luwak they know exactly what to add to reproduce it.
You clearly haven't read my second comment.
I am paying € 0,22 per kWh, have a contract that is supposed to deliver me green power only and am not really concerned by the price of electricity because I generate 75% myself (solar) which means that my energy bill is negative (there are some statedeductions that make that happen).
If the price of enery would go up, I have enough roof to supply myself with 100% of the electricity I need.
Ok, let me comment on those who do not understand hyperbole.
Going off the net is like saying "I'm not going to school anymore so my high school bullies can't touch me anymore" (I'm sure there is a Calvin & Hobbes comic like that out there). That's just not true. If it is your government or the NSA you're hiding from, no chance. They will come to your work, to your house, to your bedroom when you sleep. Looking under the bed before you go to sleep to see if the bogeyman is not hiding there is not an option.
Did Rosa Parks stop using the bus because she wasn't allowed to sit there? No, she went ahead and sat and claimed her right.
Let it be clear that I have the utmost respect for Pj for doing Groklaw all those years. The entertainment part came only second to its necessity. And it still is necessary. If I could continue it, I would. And I'm sure I couldn't do a better job than Pj did all those years.
But I still maintain: going off the net is no solution. Sure, if you'r planning something drastic then it might be a good temporary action, so if you're starting to arm your bears then I'll just wait it out.
Yes, there is some sarcasm and hyperbole in this post too. But here I am actually being serious too.
I'm sorry, I can not believe this. This is a prank. This must be. How can you be so spineless to give in to these people? This is the day you have to fight them! And you don't do that by going off the grid.
Pj, you gutless coward! Come back!
I'm just waiting for Linux 3.14 and then to see the version numbering go wild in the subdigits.
So... all these people could have gotten a message or phonecall from just anyone during the night? Then what are they bitching about?
Where I live, AMBER alerts are normally sent only between 6 AM and 10 PM. You have to take action yourself to enable receiving messages during the night. That's not such a strange thing to implement. Why hasn't NYPD implemented that? I'm sure the technology is sophisticated enough that you should also be able to specify an interval where you don't want to receive alerts yourself.
People should be this upset about the government doing this too. CCTV's are popping up everywhere, even in rural US cities.
As much as I would like to agree with you, I can't. The government does not video in my face, does not follow me around with a camera, and most of all: does not post these videos on Youtube.
Having said that: I am absolutely not in favour of CCTV surveillance but I can see its merits. Just recently, a group of youths, attacking and repeatedly kicking a man lyong on the ground, was arrested in the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands because of being recognised on CCTV footage. I know it's a fine line between using CCTV footage to search for and arrest violators of the law and following just random people.
Never used it, won't ever miss it.
I experienced some crashes too with VMS. I don't remember te version, but this was around 1999-2000. The console was running X and logging out of X made the machine crash. Every time. The only way to avoid it was to log in to a single shell from the X-Windows login prompt.
Because that was not really a stable solution and X on the console was useless anyway, we decided to disable X. Which led to all our programmers not being able to link any console program anymore. For some reason, disabling X on the console put some libraries out of play that console-programs needed.
No, I was not impressed by VMS and even less by Dec/Digital/HP in their hardware implementation. At one point we had a GS160 because it was a bigger project that we thought could not be handled anymore by two fully loaded ES40's. The GS160 turned out to be just a cabinet that could hold 4 ES40's, one of which was solely tasked with the communication of all 4.
Added to that the horrendous filesystem. We did a lot of logging in our applications which slowed down the machines so much that we decided to move a few heavy logging apps to a then-current single CPU Pentium-III with IDE drive. That alone lifted all the load of the machine.
No, by that time was already clear to us that VMS and the Alpha was EOL for us and we moved to Windows and Intel.
The only big plus of VMS was the seamless clustering.
1998 QE2 will be about 3 Million miles away. I think we're pretty safe, no Nukes needed. =)
How about 1969 QE2 then. Reportedly that's a lot closer already.
The problem is also the ambiguous use of "22.210 miles". That automatically makes you think it is 22210 miles and not 22.21 miles. I was reading 35760 and 22210 also.
They must be so stupid. Coverage of Google Maps for western countries (US, Europe) is far better than for middle-eastern countries. If anyhting, Google is enabling Iran to select the best places to invade and attac. Even services that supply detailed aireal photo's have better coverage in the west than in the middle-east.
Mindless rhetoric from a mindless government. And then they want to spend their valuable resources mapping their countries even better? Looks like a loose-loose situation to me.
Mali is giving addresses away for free. thepiratebay.ml
Or better still. Go and make a deal with the republic of Adygea. thepirateb.ay
My current PC with XP is showing signs of old age. I am considering building a new PC and... installing XP on it.
Yes, I know support for XP will end in one year. I already do not see the added value in Windows 7, let alone 8.
The ultimate end-effect is that either everybody is getting killed by their or other state's secret services, or goverments understand that they can not regulate this.
I think the latter will happen, but with frequent and feeble attempts to change that.
You get funny looks with an Linux boot CD but not when you hand them an iPad? Maybe you should look funny at your "friends".
Go with the Linux boot CD (or better: USB stick). If your friends really can't use Firefox or Chrome in Linux than they're just too stupid to breathe.
Haha, I read the whole story. This guy is the stupidest guy ever. What was he thinking? This is wat dumb movies are made of. From the first scene you know this is going to end bad. Only he is too stupid to see it.
Or it's an april fool's joke.
Even earlier? Mid summer the sun rises here at 5:20 and sets at 22:00. That is with DST. Without DST it rises at 4:20. How early do you want to go to work?
Agreed, our sleep and work pattern is not mirrored around mid day. But would you want to? Typically you would need to move your schedule 3-4 hours back. So go to bed at 20:00 and wake up at 4:00.
...you can touch me now.
My car runs 900 to 1000 km (560 to 620 miles) on one filling of gas. It then takes me 5 minutes to fill up and I'm go to go for another 900 to 1000 km.
A Tesla (or any current electric vehicle) can run 265 miles (that half that distance) and takes 1 hours to charge if you have the superfast charger (that's still 12 times longer).
So, best case: refueling takes 24 times longer. That's a big change in your car habits. Worst case it will take 100 times longer. That makes an electric vehicle only useful for short trips. Short being "less than the range of one charge".