No, not me; because fundamentalism == "a belief in a strict adherence to a set of basic principles", and depending on what the principles are, I might either applaud or abhor any given kind of fundamentalism.
For example, I don't like the principle that you shouldn't have any principles (or that actually adhering to them is a bit too much) -> therefore I don't like anti-fundamentalist fundamentalists =P
And what makes you so sure Google did not just followed a link? put differently, how do you know it's the fault of google and not the CMS/webmaster? are you sure it wasn't a rogue spider simply giving a Googlebot UA string, that is, did you check the ip addresses. etc... ?
Also, going to that page and being greeted with a "you need to be logged in to do that" message is not the same as trying to log in. not by any stretch of the imagination.
If your CMS doesn't check credentials AND you're not excluding bots from these URLs via robots.txt, you have a huge problem - but Google is not it;)
Did I mention the link was not found in Google itself?
Not every link that is spidered shows up instanlty (or ever) in search results, so that doesn't really mean anything.
Yeah... that doesn't match my experience either. At least when it comes to all the little tools: they are usually made by people who scratch their own itch (i.e. there is no little tool that does it, or none that does it correctly or efficiently enough for the taste of that programmer). Then other people use it, request features and report bugs, and unless the project dies prematurely, the creators usually (more often than not I would say) take pride in perfecting the little tool they have made.
Then there's shareware, which does less, is bloated, costs 10-20 bucks while being WORSE than the free alternatives. This is the norm, not the exception. SO many little shareware tools suck so much, and they only exist because they're easy to make AND because someone was asshole enough to want to make money off it. They only, if ever, get bought by people who don't know about the free alternative or are too lazy to read the manuals and configure it.
Just look at Exact Audio Copy, and compare with shareware or even expensive alternatives. It's a fucking joke. Case closed.
And when they blow up in your face? EVERY software comes with a liability clause, freeware or 20.000$ product. You're screwed in that case anyway.
That being said, I'm sure when it comes to bigger stuff like video/audio editing, (wisely!) spending bucks really can save time and effort. But when it comes to the little things, it's the other way around.
That's why greedy people and the people who fall for them spread FUD. Cuz they suck =D
BS. Unless the path they're trying is excluded by robots.txt, why shouldn't they try links? Because you say so? Well, then you'd at least need to argue for it.
It's your job to properly configure your webserver, and it's trivial. Worrying about bots trying out stuff is just a waste of time IMHO: If there is a hole, fix it - if there is no hole, there is no need to keep track of every squirrel sneaking around the premises.
changing commands in my cms is not allowed in the Netherlands.
(Obviously they aren't talking about "What is 2 + 2?")
.. or any of infinite number of other questions which have one definitive answer, or any of infinite number of other "questions" which have more than two "sides".
So if you think that *every* question has two sides, you're an idiot, because a.) plenty have less and plenty have more, and b.) because questions don't have "sides" to begin with.
I for one have no empathy for people conducting such tests. They should be harvested for organs before they waste more money and time =)
How is basically saying "please don't do it, it's lame" naive? I'm not expecting every single human to wise up anytime soon. I'm just saying it's utterly retarded and useless, which is correct.. and don't think I'm just saying that to an American, instead of to everybody.
It's been bullshit on Earth, it will be bullshit in space. No conqueror, no Empire ever had anything of worth. Kind acts and honesty last, power doesn't. History gets forced to praise the winnars for a few centuries, and then most of what seemed shiny becomes dull and ugly and gets swept under the rug.
To be unaware of that, to be so distracted, that is naive.
What you said kinda reminded me of the Cold War and Dr. Strangelove, and isn't it funny how after the Soviet Block collapsed, the weapons industry kept right on chugging? Hardly anyone even blinks. Because "the world is still a dangerous place"...... war is a racket, and always has been.
I replied to someone whom I (mistakenly) believed had said they wish the US would "take the moon". that's obviously not thinking beyond national borders, so I replied in within that framework, and while the wording was bleh, I stand by the content, or rather, intention of wanting to say "you think having the biggest stick is so great, but let me tell you, there is a horrible, horrible hangover".
But yeah, it's not like all Americans don't know that and Europeans magically do, so good call ^^
besides, you say this as if you would NOT be waving swastikas, and more importantly, as if swastikas were the issue. millenia of buddhists would probably disagree here, so I guess you don't mean the symbol. is it the jews? nah, stalin wasn't so great either. so hmm, maybe it's the whole "with empire comes horrible bullshit" thing? oh wait, wasn't that my original point?
and just like in the nazi empire it was absolutely ridiculous to consider Germany as anything but a victim and the bearer of light and peace, so it is now in hearing range of the minds that belong to the American empire.
therefore all the bullshit replies I guess. you don't even blink. you think you really showed me uhh. *groans*
again, if anyone is able to address a point I raised, I'm kinda still waiting for that (if anything, it's off-topic after all.. but I'm not going to dignify that load of crap with individual answers haha)
no shit sherlock. but then again, if *anything* in the past would have been different, *anything* could be reality right now. let's say, Columbus never liked boats or something - we might all be waving swiss cheese right now. who knows? it's a silly "argument" in any case, but to reply to my statement of "fuck empire" with something like that is just idiotic.
if you have anything to argue against what I posted, do that, but save me your strawmen and ad-hominems. I simply misread "take the moon (seriously)" as "take the moon" and made some utterly random, yet true observations. bam! come the monkeys.
off-topic? yeah. flamebait? you wish. well, whatever.
people who identify with their "countries" inevitably get fucked over, starting with the fact that they can't make a fucking straightforward reply to a single statement they don't like. fact! cheers:P
unless you're very, very rich, that'd make you "Chinese" though, not "people who own China" or "people who own America". that's the whole point! a pawn is a pawn is a pawn, and it's better to not own anybody or anything and not be a pawn, than to be super mostest world leader of #1 acclaim and, well, be a pawn.
That's because I'm German and when it comes to the things you jokingly brag about, America is nothing but a shitty noob compared to stuff which sadly is much closer to my home. (I guess any European could say that: America is a kid still utterly fascinated by things the adolescents are growing tired of...)
As such I'm very much aware of the following hierarchy (just an example):
[people who own America] [people who own third world countries like Germany] ["Americans"] ["Germans"]
So when such a patriot says "we pwn you", it just means "the people that pwn me also pwn you." Another example is "we (sic!) have the nukes": nope, your owners do, they also own the bunkers, and they definitely lack a healthy lack of concern for you or anyone you care about.
It's true, too, and that's why all the flag/dick waving is utterly ridiculous unless you're a billionaire. You're basically waving someone elses dick.
Yeah... how dare the makers of GTA make a "GTA + Western" game, when someone else made that already!
I don't know Gun, but I search and this is the last paragraph from a review:
"Despite a great presentation that'll likely give a very positive first impression, Gun ultimately offers too little content for it to be a truly satisfying game. Most all of the right ingredients are here in some quantity. But the hastily delivered storyline (which, fittingly, concludes with an incredibly abrupt ending) and the lack of any real depth to the gameworld make Gun much better suited for some quick, fleeting thrills instead of for the long haul."
Doesn't sound all that hot to me, and certainly not open ended.
I'm no biologist, but when I pondered this as a teenager I came up with the idea that since plants usually cannot react very much to their environment, and therefore it would not make sense for them to be as susceptible to pain or fear. That's hardly an argument, but it doesn't feel completely bogus either, at least not to me.
Why is it more right to eat them than the good old mmmmm grilled beef.
It's not about *eating* them as much as it is about forcing them together in cramped spaces where they can literally smell the death of those that went before them, brutalizing them, transporting them for thousands of miles through the blazing sun, feeding them all sorts of pharmaceuticals, feeding them ground up parts of the other butchered animals... the list goes on, unfortunately.
And yeah, I'm aware that you can say the same about plants, too, and that it doesn't have to be this way (although there is NO way around the fact that feeding plants to animals and eating the animals will always be less energy efficient than eating the plants themselves). But that's the gist of it, and if one needs to explain that to a grown up I think one might as well write them off as heartless or addicted.
I can't logically, objectively explain WHY I don't feel pity for salad and don't blink when I step on an ant, yet don't feel quite right when I think of the actual animal I'm eating and that it likely lived and perished into very shitty conditions - it just is that way. And the whole "but if I don't think about it, it never happened", is like a 3 year old thinking you can't see them because they're holding their hands over their eyes. So, that doesn't count... and if you're someone who can watch for example "Earthlings" and then order a bloody steak, well, you're not a person I likely like. Just like there are jokes or movies where you know that anyone into then cannot be your friend. If you kill your food yourself and you do it respectfully, have at it! Eat until you burst. But that is not the case usually, it's just a bunch if ignorant and/or heartless people... and I for one am rather sick of those, even a fucking desert makes more sense to me.
So in short: Cool People -> Animals -> Plants -> (Radiated) Deserts -> The way too many;)
No. That is not a required argument for the fact that "it's the laws that count, not your idea of common sense".
Is it? I mean specifically the wifi aspect of it pertaining to broadcasting unencrypted information?
Even if there was NO law regulating it, your idea of common sense would STILL have no bearing. What is so hard to understand about that?
Naturally 2 wrongs don't make a right but claiming for privacy breach on those grounds would be admitting your own breach of the law.
As you said, 2 wrongs don't make a right. It can very well be illegal to not secure something, and also illegal to "take advantage of" something unsecured.
now if that wasn't random I don't know haha... oh no, you dissed my camera and my snapshots of random pretty things and personal stuff! that hurt me very deeply, so allow me to retort: you seem to take pictures of people I wouldn't even talk to! HAH!:D you also fight like a cow.
and why, exactly? because I mentioned I don't like Macs in passing while pointing out that the people bashing the Mac for being oh so not-open haven't WTFV (watched the fucking video)?
There is a difference between your opininion of privacy and the laws surrounding it. Doing things on large scales and recording them simply might mean the "but someone could have overheard it anyway" doesn't apply. It's regulated in law, not (your claim of what) common sense (ought to be).
I don't *know* if Google violated the law, I'm just saying many arguments brought forward here as to why they didn't are simply not valid.
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"The ability to weigh the pros and cons of each individual action is what determines rightness and wrongness."
and also not the worst principle... now believe in adhering to it, adhere to it, and ta-daa! you're now a fundamentalist, too :P
No, not me; because fundamentalism == "a belief in a strict adherence to a set of basic principles", and depending on what the principles are, I might either applaud or abhor any given kind of fundamentalism.
For example, I don't like the principle that you shouldn't have any principles (or that actually adhering to them is a bit too much) -> therefore I don't like anti-fundamentalist fundamentalists =P
And what makes you so sure Google did not just followed a link? put differently, how do you know it's the fault of google and not the CMS/webmaster? are you sure it wasn't a rogue spider simply giving a Googlebot UA string, that is, did you check the ip addresses. etc... ?
Also, going to that page and being greeted with a "you need to be logged in to do that" message is not the same as trying to log in. not by any stretch of the imagination.
If your CMS doesn't check credentials AND you're not excluding bots from these URLs via robots.txt, you have a huge problem - but Google is not it ;)
Not every link that is spidered shows up instanlty (or ever) in search results, so that doesn't really mean anything.
Yeah... that doesn't match my experience either. At least when it comes to all the little tools: they are usually made by people who scratch their own itch (i.e. there is no little tool that does it, or none that does it correctly or efficiently enough for the taste of that programmer). Then other people use it, request features and report bugs, and unless the project dies prematurely, the creators usually (more often than not I would say) take pride in perfecting the little tool they have made.
Then there's shareware, which does less, is bloated, costs 10-20 bucks while being WORSE than the free alternatives. This is the norm, not the exception. SO many little shareware tools suck so much, and they only exist because they're easy to make AND because someone was asshole enough to want to make money off it. They only, if ever, get bought by people who don't know about the free alternative or are too lazy to read the manuals and configure it.
Just look at Exact Audio Copy, and compare with shareware or even expensive alternatives. It's a fucking joke. Case closed.
And when they blow up in your face? EVERY software comes with a liability clause, freeware or 20.000$ product. You're screwed in that case anyway.
That being said, I'm sure when it comes to bigger stuff like video/audio editing, (wisely!) spending bucks really can save time and effort. But when it comes to the little things, it's the other way around.
That's why greedy people and the people who fall for them spread FUD. Cuz they suck =D
do search engine bots send referrer headers though? (honest question, since I stopped looking at/caring about bot activity a long time ago...)
BS. Unless the path they're trying is excluded by robots.txt, why shouldn't they try links? Because you say so? Well, then you'd at least need to argue for it.
It's your job to properly configure your webserver, and it's trivial. Worrying about bots trying out stuff is just a waste of time IMHO: If there is a hole, fix it - if there is no hole, there is no need to keep track of every squirrel sneaking around the premises.
What does that even mean haha??
So if you think that *every* question has two sides, you're an idiot, because a.) plenty have less and plenty have more, and b.) because questions don't have "sides" to begin with.
I for one have no empathy for people conducting such tests. They should be harvested for organs before they waste more money and time =)
You're naive. It will happen
How is basically saying "please don't do it, it's lame" naive? I'm not expecting every single human to wise up anytime soon. I'm just saying it's utterly retarded and useless, which is correct.. and don't think I'm just saying that to an American, instead of to everybody.
It's been bullshit on Earth, it will be bullshit in space. No conqueror, no Empire ever had anything of worth. Kind acts and honesty last, power doesn't. History gets forced to praise the winnars for a few centuries, and then most of what seemed shiny becomes dull and ugly and gets swept under the rug.
To be unaware of that, to be so distracted, that is naive.
What you said kinda reminded me of the Cold War and Dr. Strangelove, and isn't it funny how after the Soviet Block collapsed, the weapons industry kept right on chugging? Hardly anyone even blinks. Because "the world is still a dangerous place"... ... war is a racket, and always has been.
well, thanks for the laughs :D
I replied to someone whom I (mistakenly) believed had said they wish the US would "take the moon". that's obviously not thinking beyond national borders, so I replied in within that framework, and while the wording was bleh, I stand by the content, or rather, intention of wanting to say "you think having the biggest stick is so great, but let me tell you, there is a horrible, horrible hangover".
But yeah, it's not like all Americans don't know that and Europeans magically do, so good call ^^
besides, you say this as if you would NOT be waving swastikas, and more importantly, as if swastikas were the issue. millenia of buddhists would probably disagree here, so I guess you don't mean the symbol. is it the jews? nah, stalin wasn't so great either. so hmm, maybe it's the whole "with empire comes horrible bullshit" thing? oh wait, wasn't that my original point?
and just like in the nazi empire it was absolutely ridiculous to consider Germany as anything but a victim and the bearer of light and peace, so it is now in hearing range of the minds that belong to the American empire.
therefore all the bullshit replies I guess. you don't even blink. you think you really showed me uhh. *groans*
again, if anyone is able to address a point I raised, I'm kinda still waiting for that (if anything, it's off-topic after all.. but I'm not going to dignify that load of crap with individual answers haha)
no shit sherlock. but then again, if *anything* in the past would have been different, *anything* could be reality right now. let's say, Columbus never liked boats or something - we might all be waving swiss cheese right now. who knows? it's a silly "argument" in any case, but to reply to my statement of "fuck empire" with something like that is just idiotic.
if you have anything to argue against what I posted, do that, but save me your strawmen and ad-hominems. I simply misread "take the moon (seriously)" as "take the moon" and made some utterly random, yet true observations. bam! come the monkeys.
off-topic? yeah. flamebait? you wish. well, whatever.
people who identify with their "countries" inevitably get fucked over, starting with the fact that they can't make a fucking straightforward reply to a single statement they don't like. fact! cheers :P
unless you're very, very rich, that'd make you "Chinese" though, not "people who own China" or "people who own America". that's the whole point! a pawn is a pawn is a pawn, and it's better to not own anybody or anything and not be a pawn, than to be super mostest world leader of #1 acclaim and, well, be a pawn.
pawn. pawn pawn pawn. :D
uh... yeah, that makes a LOT more sense than "take the moon" haha... oh well, thanks for the opportunity to rant anyway huh ^^
meh, that was supposed to read "they definitely own a healthy lack of concern"
That's because I'm German and when it comes to the things you jokingly brag about, America is nothing but a shitty noob compared to stuff which sadly is much closer to my home. (I guess any European could say that: America is a kid still utterly fascinated by things the adolescents are growing tired of...)
As such I'm very much aware of the following hierarchy (just an example):
[people who own America]
[people who own third world countries like Germany]
["Americans"]
["Germans"]
So when such a patriot says "we pwn you", it just means "the people that pwn me also pwn you." Another example is "we (sic!) have the nukes": nope, your owners do, they also own the bunkers, and they definitely lack a healthy lack of concern for you or anyone you care about.
It's true, too, and that's why all the flag/dick waving is utterly ridiculous unless you're a billionaire. You're basically waving someone elses dick.
Which is an icky thing to do.
Fuck Empire.
Why would you want the US to "take the Moon"?
Fuck Empire. Everywhere, always. Don't take that bullshit to space, kthx.
they seem to have *some* kind of problem, but that's not really a defacement. just a cute way of say try again later I guess.
it's down right now, but when it's not, it's a very easy way to get results very quickly without, you know, wasting your time learning crap:
http://love2d.org/
(mod as you wish, I'm posting this now since I might forget later)
and why in this case is it "not to be done"?
Yeah... how dare the makers of GTA make a "GTA + Western" game, when someone else made that already!
I don't know Gun, but I search and this is the last paragraph from a review:
"Despite a great presentation that'll likely give a very positive first impression, Gun ultimately offers too little content for it to be a truly satisfying game. Most all of the right ingredients are here in some quantity. But the hastily delivered storyline (which, fittingly, concludes with an incredibly abrupt ending) and the lack of any real depth to the gameworld make Gun much better suited for some quick, fleeting thrills instead of for the long haul."
Doesn't sound all that hot to me, and certainly not open ended.
I'm no biologist, but when I pondered this as a teenager I came up with the idea that since plants usually cannot react very much to their environment, and therefore it would not make sense for them to be as susceptible to pain or fear. That's hardly an argument, but it doesn't feel completely bogus either, at least not to me.
It's not about *eating* them as much as it is about forcing them together in cramped spaces where they can literally smell the death of those that went before them, brutalizing them, transporting them for thousands of miles through the blazing sun, feeding them all sorts of pharmaceuticals, feeding them ground up parts of the other butchered animals... the list goes on, unfortunately.
And yeah, I'm aware that you can say the same about plants, too, and that it doesn't have to be this way (although there is NO way around the fact that feeding plants to animals and eating the animals will always be less energy efficient than eating the plants themselves). But that's the gist of it, and if one needs to explain that to a grown up I think one might as well write them off as heartless or addicted.
I can't logically, objectively explain WHY I don't feel pity for salad and don't blink when I step on an ant, yet don't feel quite right when I think of the actual animal I'm eating and that it likely lived and perished into very shitty conditions - it just is that way. And the whole "but if I don't think about it, it never happened", is like a 3 year old thinking you can't see them because they're holding their hands over their eyes. So, that doesn't count... and if you're someone who can watch for example "Earthlings" and then order a bloody steak, well, you're not a person I likely like. Just like there are jokes or movies where you know that anyone into then cannot be your friend. If you kill your food yourself and you do it respectfully, have at it! Eat until you burst. But that is not the case usually, it's just a bunch if ignorant and/or heartless people... and I for one am rather sick of those, even a fucking desert makes more sense to me.
So in short: Cool People -> Animals -> Plants -> (Radiated) Deserts -> The way too many ;)
No. That is not a required argument for the fact that "it's the laws that count, not your idea of common sense".
Even if there was NO law regulating it, your idea of common sense would STILL have no bearing. What is so hard to understand about that?
As you said, 2 wrongs don't make a right. It can very well be illegal to not secure something, and also illegal to "take advantage of" something unsecured.
now if that wasn't random I don't know haha... oh no, you dissed my camera and my snapshots of random pretty things and personal stuff! that hurt me very deeply, so allow me to retort: you seem to take pictures of people I wouldn't even talk to! HAH! :D you also fight like a cow.
and why, exactly? because I mentioned I don't like Macs in passing while pointing out that the people bashing the Mac for being oh so not-open haven't WTFV (watched the fucking video)?
There is a difference between your opininion of privacy and the laws surrounding it. Doing things on large scales and recording them simply might mean the "but someone could have overheard it anyway" doesn't apply. It's regulated in law, not (your claim of what) common sense (ought to be).
I don't *know* if Google violated the law, I'm just saying many arguments brought forward here as to why they didn't are simply not valid.