it just shows how fucking out of touch current mozilla is. it's showing up on their % rate too, so they're trying all kinds of stupid shit and this "the user is a stupid dolt" move from them is just the latest dick move
I think it's much less "user is a stupid dolt" and more "I'm tired of closing all these invalid bug reports." Software development fatigue.
actually, they're the ones that make re-make after re-make of the same old shit, over and over again.
Yeah. And they do it because people want it. People vote with their dollars. Movie execs are capitalists. They'll make whatever people will open up their wallets for.
Are you under the impression that if story A is here, story B is not?
It might be. Does Slashdot run 100 stories a day? Why not? At some point there is a cutoff point where they decide to run roughly a certain number of stories a day. If you include some, you'll eventually bump off some others not considered "important enough."
Hmmm, what if you married someone who had been adopted at birth by a lesbian couple? Wouldn't that mean you had two mothers-in-law and no father-in-law? Not biologically speaking, of course, but biology doesn't matter much on the topic of in-laws.
And lately, CNN has used their banner to "break" news about just about everything.
It is, for some reason, very important to the news networks that they perceive as being the "first" to tell you something. The notion of waiting a few minutes to collect facts is anathema! So everything will pre-empt everything else. It's "breaking news!!" because they're on the forefront!!!
Group marriage, Rock On. Again what would be the problem with that. How are you being injured? It would be the business of the group not yours and not the states.
I'm not so wild about this just because it seems like every issue would be incredibly legally murky. Tax law, inheritance, property law. I'm not sure how to settle disputes there.
Rights are given and taken. They do not somehow "exist" naturally -- all 'rights' are a restriction upon behavior. These restrictions are imposed by those with the power to do so.
The constitution is old though. The concept of states being the same as independent nations that are just joined together into a loose federation is obsolete, and it started the process of becoming obsolete almost immediately
Well, it was obsolete before the US Constitution was drafted. That was the major feature of the Articles of Confederation, but because the resulting alliance ended up not being strong enough, they decided a re-do.
Sounds like Obama's best option when deciding policy is decide what he wants to do, announce the exact opposite meaning the Republicans will back what he wants to do just to spite the exact opposite he announced and then announce "Hey, Republicans, you know what, you're right, let's do what you want" and watch as they sit smugly thinking they've won and pass the bills he wanted to pass in the first place.
Hmm. That's the exact plot of a Saturday Night Live skit from two months ago! You could be an SNL writer!
My larger question is...who cares if it is climate change natural or man made? By the time it all goes to hell, I'll be long gone, dead and in the ground. And if anyone *is* still around that wants to curse my name or my generation, I'll be DEAD..and not terribly bothered about it.
If you're actively working against future generations, I'm not sure why the younger folk don't take you out now. You're clearly a waste, so what would be the point of leaving you around to party?
Yes, and his insurance company will see that he was trying to erase evidence, and neither insurance company will give him the benefit of the doubt anymore.
He just has to hope he doesn't get into any accident.
Oh man. I sortof feel sorry for the runner-up of the 2009 contest. From the evaluation: "The bug is plausibly deniable as poor coding, and rests on your caffeine-addled inability to notice a ‘0’ instead of a ‘\0’ when testing for end-of-string. The comparison in safe_strcmp has unnecessary terms, which achieves two evil goals: first, it sets up a pattern that fools your eyes, and second, it looks just amateurish enough that the bug, if found, looks like a sophomoric mistake rather than an intentional backdoor."
Now the problem is.. any time he makes a minor coding glitch, he'll be accused of putting in a super-secret backdoor, because he did that once for some contest.:-)
The minster of truth (or information? can't remember)
The Iraqi Information Minister. I still have the mug in my office from WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com: "I now inform you that you are too far from reality."
was frothing at the mouth about using chem/bio weapons on all of the invaders if they took another step. Then the Military would take a step and see what happened. He would just get louder and bluff harder. Only nukes would matter anyways. Chem/bio is nearly useless against the main US body
Eh, tell that to all the vets who had Gulf War Syndrome. We still don't know exactly what they were exposed to.
When I took on the role, it had an inordinate amount of calls from users who wanted to short circuit the help desk (no logging means we can't prove we've done the work to the accountants for a start).
Interestingly, I've had more savvy users call with a problem to get things started, then offer to open a case so we get credit for work done. My job doesn't really work like that, though I appreciate the offer.
A lot of work goes through unofficial channels when a user thinks that the question is so minor it doesn't merit a case. Some of the most problematic, frustrating, and time-consuming issues I've ever gotten have have started with a private question that starts with: "This is probably isn't worth a case and I might be overthinking things.. am I crazy for thinking situation XYZ isn't working quite right?"
Actual constitutional law is defined by the actual constitution.
It's defined by interpretation of the actual Constitution. After all, what does "due process" mean? That term isn't defined by the Constitution itself, and its our legal system that defines it. The Constitution contains a lot of simple, plain language that sometimes leaves a lot of wiggle room and interpretation.
Hi AK Marc. There are ants crawling on my keyboard, can you fix that for me please? Thanks. -- actual IT request we got.
Well. Keyboard == IT.:D I've found some peoples' keyboards so messy and foul on the inside that it wouldn't surprise me one bit to find ants attacking it for food. My suggestion for them would be to no longer eat at their desk.
This is another case of corporate S.O.P: declare bankruptcy for one reason; to void any and all obligations to current - and especially - retired employees.
This is one reason why I dislike corporate pensions so much -- there are so many ways for companies to get out of those obligations. Never accept compensation that assumes that the company will even be around anymore in the next month, much less the next year.
You got lucky, I had to get a special technician who knew how to handle cablecards. Even then there was a lot of back and forth with the Tivo office. "I don't get a signal." "It should be working." "It's set up correctly. Something's wrong." "It looks like you should have service." (some time later) "Ok, now it works." "Yeah, we changed something in the office."
I learned quickly then and the one time I had to move that activating cablecards at comcast sucks. They don't train most of their technicians to do it, and they strongly discourage it because they don't want you to be using Tivos.
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it just shows how fucking out of touch current mozilla is. it's showing up on their % rate too, so they're trying all kinds of stupid shit and this "the user is a stupid dolt" move from them is just the latest dick move
I think it's much less "user is a stupid dolt" and more "I'm tired of closing all these invalid bug reports." Software development fatigue.
actually, they're the ones that make re-make after re-make of the same old shit, over and over again.
Yeah. And they do it because people want it. People vote with their dollars.
Movie execs are capitalists. They'll make whatever people will open up their wallets for.
It's often better than the movie itself.
Are you under the impression that if story A is here, story B is not?
It might be. Does Slashdot run 100 stories a day? Why not? At some point there is a cutoff point where they decide to run roughly a certain number of stories a day. If you include some, you'll eventually bump off some others not considered "important enough."
....try the idea of two mother-in-laws
Hmmm, what if you married someone who had been adopted at birth by a lesbian couple? Wouldn't that mean you had two mothers-in-law and no father-in-law? Not biologically speaking, of course, but biology doesn't matter much on the topic of in-laws.
Except the OP explicitly called out the marriage certificate as the only thing punishing gays.
No, that is exactly NOT what the OP said. Read it again. He said banning marriage certificates serves no purpose other than to punish gay people.
stuff that matters.
By that token there is almost no standard for what runs on Slashdot then.
And lately, CNN has used their banner to "break" news about just about everything.
It is, for some reason, very important to the news networks that they perceive as being the "first" to tell you something. The notion of waiting a few minutes to collect facts is anathema! So everything will pre-empt everything else. It's "breaking news!!" because they're on the forefront!!!
We are saying they can't call themselves married and make the rest of us pay for it.
Hey I'm not fond of the notion of helping pay for "Octomom" either, but I hold my nose and do it.
Group marriage, Rock On. Again what would be the problem with that. How are you being injured? It would be the business of the group not yours and not the states.
I'm not so wild about this just because it seems like every issue would be incredibly legally murky. Tax law, inheritance, property law. I'm not sure how to settle disputes there.
Rights are given and taken. They do not somehow "exist" naturally -- all 'rights' are a restriction upon behavior. These restrictions are imposed by those with the power to do so.
The constitution is old though. The concept of states being the same as independent nations that are just joined together into a loose federation is obsolete, and it started the process of becoming obsolete almost immediately
Well, it was obsolete before the US Constitution was drafted. That was the major feature of the Articles of Confederation, but because the resulting alliance ended up not being strong enough, they decided a re-do.
Sounds like Obama's best option when deciding policy is decide what he wants to do, announce the exact opposite meaning the Republicans will back what he wants to do just to spite the exact opposite he announced and then announce "Hey, Republicans, you know what, you're right, let's do what you want" and watch as they sit smugly thinking they've won and pass the bills he wanted to pass in the first place.
Hmm. That's the exact plot of a Saturday Night Live skit from two months ago! You could be an SNL writer!
My larger question is...who cares if it is climate change natural or man made?
By the time it all goes to hell, I'll be long gone, dead and in the ground. And if anyone *is* still around that wants to curse my name or my generation, I'll be DEAD..and not terribly bothered about it.
If you're actively working against future generations, I'm not sure why the younger folk don't take you out now. You're clearly a waste, so what would be the point of leaving you around to party?
NPR can be obnoxious and has its own issues, but at least they dont yell
NPR is generally ok except for Bill Moyers. Man that guy is annoying.
And you're right about the yelling, and I'm not even too old to use age as an excuse for disliking it.
Yes, and his insurance company will see that he was trying to erase evidence, and neither insurance company will give him the benefit of the doubt anymore.
He just has to hope he doesn't get into any accident.
Oh man. I sortof feel sorry for the runner-up of the 2009 contest. From the evaluation: "The bug is plausibly deniable as poor coding, and rests on your caffeine-addled inability to notice a ‘0’ instead of a ‘\0’ when testing for end-of-string. The comparison in safe_strcmp has unnecessary terms, which achieves two evil goals: first, it sets up a pattern that fools your eyes, and second, it looks just amateurish enough that the bug, if found, looks like a sophomoric mistake rather than an intentional backdoor."
Now the problem is.. any time he makes a minor coding glitch, he'll be accused of putting in a super-secret backdoor, because he did that once for some contest. :-)
The minster of truth (or information? can't remember)
The Iraqi Information Minister. I still have the mug in my office from WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com: "I now inform you that you are too far from reality."
was frothing at the mouth about using chem/bio weapons on all of the invaders if they took another step. Then the Military would take a step and see what happened. He would just get louder and bluff harder. Only nukes would matter anyways. Chem/bio is nearly useless against the main US body
Eh, tell that to all the vets who had Gulf War Syndrome. We still don't know exactly what they were exposed to.
While we are at it, can you tell me who are the suicide bombers ? The Christians ?
Sure, remember the IRA? That was a political AND religious disagreement, just as the middle eastern countries are embroiled in.
The Buddhists ? or those ISLAMIC FUCKERS ??
The Buddhists at least have pure peace as a central part of their religion. None of the Abrahamic faiths do beyond the barest of lip service.
When I took on the role, it had an inordinate amount of calls from users who wanted to short circuit the help desk (no logging means we can't prove we've done the work to the accountants for a start).
Interestingly, I've had more savvy users call with a problem to get things started, then offer to open a case so we get credit for work done. My job doesn't really work like that, though I appreciate the offer.
A lot of work goes through unofficial channels when a user thinks that the question is so minor it doesn't merit a case. Some of the most problematic, frustrating, and time-consuming issues I've ever gotten have have started with a private question that starts with: "This is probably isn't worth a case and I might be overthinking things.. am I crazy for thinking situation XYZ isn't working quite right?"
Actual constitutional law is defined by the actual constitution.
It's defined by interpretation of the actual Constitution. After all, what does "due process" mean? That term isn't defined by the Constitution itself, and its our legal system that defines it. The Constitution contains a lot of simple, plain language that sometimes leaves a lot of wiggle room and interpretation.
Hi AK Marc. There are ants crawling on my keyboard, can you fix that for me please? Thanks. -- actual IT request we got.
Well. Keyboard == IT. :D
I've found some peoples' keyboards so messy and foul on the inside that it wouldn't surprise me one bit to find ants attacking it for food.
My suggestion for them would be to no longer eat at their desk.
office admin is much like being the IT janitor
I like putting "digital plumber" as my job title on my business card.
This is another case of corporate S.O.P: declare bankruptcy for one reason; to void any and all obligations to current - and especially - retired employees.
This is one reason why I dislike corporate pensions so much -- there are so many ways for companies to get out of those obligations. Never accept compensation that assumes that the company will even be around anymore in the next month, much less the next year.
Corporate 401ks are almost benign in comparison.
You got lucky, I had to get a special technician who knew how to handle cablecards. Even then there was a lot of back and forth with the Tivo office. "I don't get a signal." "It should be working." "It's set up correctly. Something's wrong." "It looks like you should have service." (some time later) "Ok, now it works." "Yeah, we changed something in the office."
I learned quickly then and the one time I had to move that activating cablecards at comcast sucks. They don't train most of their technicians to do it, and they strongly discourage it because they don't want you to be using Tivos.