(I assume this mention of 'hops' means that the beer referred to is proper beer, aka ale, which has fortunately made a good comeback in the UK in the last 10-15 years. A harmless 'welcome to the UK' ceremony I like to perform on arrivals from... well, anywhere, really, except Ireland perhaps, is to go for a drink and subtly pressure them into trying a pint or two of ale. They tend to think about beer in terms of how much lager they can consume, neck three pints and get entertainly messy, even tho' the alcohol content is about the same.
I was going to write a detailed rebuttal of your post. Then I realised that fuckwits like you don't deserve to have there arrogance and stupidity pointed out to them; karma will take care of you in the end.
Why is it so hard to believe that us humans are responsible for global warming?
It's not, except in America. No-one else seems to have any dispute over it. In fact, the sceptics don't seem to have noticed that even that well-known tree hugger George Bush accepted anthropogenic global warming years ago - early in the first term, IIRC.
Maybe the C02 level rises every million years or so, each time life evolves into things that make internal combustion engines. Then it falls for a while after each thermonuclear war.
We whine when they delay and push back release dates of their OS over and over again but when they finally do come out with something "on time" (whatever that means) and it's not up to par we give them shit.
No, no, no... you misunderstand. We don't whine... we take the piss.
So if you lived all alone on an island, no other human being at all on that island, which nobody new about and nobody was coming to...then you would have no rights? No, of course not. You have rights as defined and enforced by yourself, just as you do anywhere else. Only difference is, in the company of other people, you generally find ways to restrict your rights by agreement, or others violate them by force.
Heh, great thought experiment. Actually (IMO) it rather proves my point. Where I live I have the right to vote in various elections. Were I on the desert island, although the 'inalienable' part of that right still exists (in that the laws in my country haven't changed, or we don't have a military dictatorship etc) - *if* I was back in my country. On the island, I have no right to vote in any meaningful sense. (Of course I could enact an election myself, which I'd win by a landslide.)
And if you think that the police exist to enforce your rights, you are an idiot.
A now sadly-deceased old Irish man I used to know had a saying: "I may be an idiot, but I'm not stupid!". I'm definitely an idiot, but I don't think the police exist purely to enforce my rights, or to enable me to exercise them, although they do help me to do so.
The PoC exploit hangs Firefox for some time, too. (not permanently - it comes back eventually - but it's definitely exposed a weakness in Gecko.) However the ffx hackers are hard at work as you can see at Bugzilla.mozilla.org in Bug #317334... [that number looks kinda weird to me... "elteea"? ha!]
It's the height of irresponsibility to release details in this way. The only point is to scare people into buying their product. And therefore I consider it, until actual details emerge, a malicious hoax.
If you're talking about iDwefence , AFAIK they don't have a product; they're a services and consulting firm (could be wrong though.) iDefence have only been going a few years but have a reasonable record so far; their policy of byuing 0day exploit details and PoC code being the only controversy abotu them that I'm aware of.
eEye do sell products, some of which are pretty good. What importantly they have an excellent record with vulnerability research. Ryan Russell works for them f'heavens sake. (clue: who gave the Code Red worm it's name, and why?) Sorry Pudge, you're way out of line on this one. (Could it be you're speculating about an area you don't know much about? On Slashdot? Who woulda thunk it?!:)
Oh, and Apple already released a patched version, a week or so ago. Monitoring Full Disclosure, Bugtraq and so on is part of my job:)
Off topic, cos you specifically said you're only looking at coding standards at present, but of course you know/realise that there's a lot more to a project development methodology than coding standards. It's a tough line to walk though, my one bit of advice would be 'allow for people to be fallible human beings" - make your processes be robust in the event of other stages failing,or duplicating activities, going off on their own direction for a while, getting blocked for ages etc.
inasmuch as rights derive from laws (and like politics, are the art of the possible) but you don't have any such right at present.
You obviously have no idea what a "right" is.
And you obviously have no idea what the term 'semantics' signifies;p
I refute that definition of 'rights'. For instance, according to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to free speech, life and (I dunno exactly what else) a bunch of other Good Stuff. However quite clearly lots of people are losing their lives prematurely, every day. What good is the right to be alive when you've been murdered, died in a civil war or a terrorist attack? Your so-called 'inalienable' rights are bollocks, a legal fiction, a statement of intent or aspiration, perhaps - but nothing more.
Sorry, I'm a big Register fan, but they're wrong about this. It's not going to happen. Consider that the existing old-skool 'GATSOs' are now pretty universally revived and being deactivated (latest snippet was research demonstrating dangerous bunching on the M4 where they were introduced as a trial.) I drive past 2 or 3 on my daily commute, virtually always over the speed limit, and I've driven round the SE and London - been flashed once or twice but never fined, and these days I don't even get flashed.
Bear in mind that Blair's ability to railroad through deeply unpopular legislation is seriously damaged after losing the "90 days" vote last week. The PLP are restive and not likely to rubberstamp deeply unpopular legislation.
I've been had by the London congestion charge system many times, which is always a pain but overall I don't moan about it because it's a Good Thing to ration traffic in central london (for lots of reasons.) That argument won't wash outside of city centres though.
I have a right to go and download a copy of a song I already own, as backup copies for personal use are fine.
Er, no, no you don't. Not at all. Really. Perhaps you should have that right, but inasmuch as rights derive from laws (and like politics, are the art of the possible) but you don't have any such right at present.
ou need to use a full HTTP request to get new data,
I thought that was the whole point of the 'asynchronous' - that HTTP request *only* fetches data, rather than a whole new HTML document. The UI and logic (HTML/CSS/DOM and Javascript respectively) don't get refetched and the browser doesn't have to freeze for a few moments whilst reflowing and repainting the entire document. (I've never used XMLRequest myself so... I could be wrong.)
4. I understand I have to click thru' as much as possible to get more money in displayed ads but the emails are in yahoo "one click too far" compared to Google
What - a - which? I don't think I understand you here. ( I don't have a Yahoo mail account BTW.) Do they have some sort of scheme where you get paid for clicking ads you're not interested in? ie *you* the mail user gets money? (Surely not.)
Or do you mean "I have to click thru' as much as possible to get more money *for Yahoo*, ie that advertisers will still pay for Yahoo eyeballs, and thus Yahoo will be able to carry on offering the free service? (surely not.)
Or something else entirely? (presumably.) Sorry, I'm feeling dense,.. it's been a long day. Make that week. No, month. Wait, what century's this?
As it happens, I was just reading a slightly old (May 2005) issue of Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram that I'd printed off and not finished reading. it had a link to this article about the possible legal liability you carry for running an open access point.
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And slow, but playable (just) in Firefox 1.5rc3 opn GNU/Linux 2.6.8 on a P2/233. How's that for backwards compatibility ;)
Strange but true, hops are related to marijuana. Hence the definite high you get from a pint of real beer vs. the the fuzzy-headed blaaah that a pint of fizzy yellow larger brewed in a 40,000 gallon chemical plant produces.
(I assume this mention of 'hops' means that the beer referred to is proper beer, aka ale, which has fortunately made a good comeback in the UK in the last 10-15 years. A harmless 'welcome to the UK' ceremony I like to perform on arrivals from... well, anywhere, really, except Ireland perhaps, is to go for a drink and subtly pressure them into trying a pint or two of ale. They tend to think about beer in terms of how much lager they can consume, neck three pints and get entertainly messy, even tho' the alcohol content is about the same.
Warning: do not try this on a school night *)
...actually, the word I was looking for was 'twat'.
I was going to write a detailed rebuttal of your post. Then I realised that fuckwits like you don't deserve to have there arrogance and stupidity pointed out to them; karma will take care of you in the end.
No, no, no... you misunderstand. We don't whine... we take the piss.
Heh, great thought experiment. Actually (IMO) it rather proves my point. Where I live I have the right to vote in various elections. Were I on the desert island, although the 'inalienable' part of that right still exists (in that the laws in my country haven't changed, or we don't have a military dictatorship etc) - *if* I was back in my country. On the island, I have no right to vote in any meaningful sense. (Of course I could enact an election myself, which I'd win by a landslide.)
A now sadly-deceased old Irish man I used to know had a saying: "I may be an idiot, but I'm not stupid!". I'm definitely an idiot, but I don't think the police exist purely to enforce my rights, or to enable me to exercise them, although they do help me to do so.What's a tailgate?
The rate of at which Slashdot runs stories that appeared on BoingBoing first is getting embarrassing.
I think we're arguing definitions, TBH.
The PoC exploit hangs Firefox for some time, too. (not permanently - it comes back eventually - but it's definitely exposed a weakness in Gecko.) However the ffx hackers are hard at work as you can see at Bugzilla.mozilla.org in Bug #317334 ... [that number looks kinda weird to me... "elteea"? ha!]
I profoundly disagree. A right that you are unable to exercise is a tautology.
eEye do sell products, some of which are pretty good. What importantly they have an excellent record with vulnerability research. Ryan Russell works for them f'heavens sake. (clue: who gave the Code Red worm it's name, and why?) Sorry Pudge, you're way out of line on this one. (Could it be you're speculating about an area you don't know much about? On Slashdot? Who woulda thunk it?! :)
Oh, and Apple already released a patched version, a week or so ago. Monitoring Full Disclosure, Bugtraq and so on is part of my job :)
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You obviously have no idea what a "right" is.
And you obviously have no idea what the term 'semantics' signifies ;p
I refute that definition of 'rights'. For instance, according to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to free speech, life and (I dunno exactly what else) a bunch of other Good Stuff. However quite clearly lots of people are losing their lives prematurely, every day. What good is the right to be alive when you've been murdered, died in a civil war or a terrorist attack? Your so-called 'inalienable' rights are bollocks, a legal fiction, a statement of intent or aspiration, perhaps - but nothing more.
Bear in mind that Blair's ability to railroad through deeply unpopular legislation is seriously damaged after losing the "90 days" vote last week. The PLP are restive and not likely to rubberstamp deeply unpopular legislation.
I've been had by the London congestion charge system many times, which is always a pain but overall I don't moan about it because it's a Good Thing to ration traffic in central london (for lots of reasons.) That argument won't wash outside of city centres though.
Er, no, no you don't. Not at all. Really. Perhaps you should have that right, but inasmuch as rights derive from laws (and like politics, are the art of the possible) but you don't have any such right at present.
> Thanks a lot, you just made my wish to migrate to Linux increase.
Come on in, the freedom's lovely
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Or do you mean "I have to click thru' as much as possible to get more money *for Yahoo*, ie that advertisers will still pay for Yahoo eyeballs, and thus Yahoo will be able to carry on offering the free service? (surely not.)
Or something else entirely? (presumably.) Sorry, I'm feeling dense,.. it's been a long day. Make that week. No, month. Wait, what century's this?
As it happens, I was just reading a slightly old (May 2005) issue of Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram that I'd printed off and not finished reading. it had a link to this article about the possible legal liability you carry for running an open access point.