This post is "new". Nobody has ever made a post quite like this one before. Is it a "copy"? Absolutely. Could I get a patent on it? Almost certainly yes, as it's just sufficiently different (99% existing text, 1% new text) to claim "invention".
It's STILL a blatant ripoff of the parent, but hell, this kind of "invention" is what has kept the pharma companies in gold plated toilet seats since the patents of the REALLY useful drugs ran out years ago.
Bang a new molecule onto an existing complex chain, claim it cures not only small and big warts, but now medium warts also, and get another 15 years carte blanche to ripoff the consumer.
Real currency is exchanged for virtual currency (balls) that can be played in the machines. The machine pays out winnings of more balls. Officially / legally, these balls cannot be exchanged back into real currency, although it does happen courtesy of the local Yakuza mafia who will have an exchange center close to (but not in) the same location as the machines.
Kind of parallels the whole Gold Farming / Selling websites that abound in MMOs chat screens. The Internet mirrors real life once again.
But I digress, this patent is bullshit, so of course it will be awarded.
Perform a non-necessary fget on a file already known to be zero bytes, just so we can get a result "this fget failed because the file is zero bytes".
while (!eof()) {
readsomething(); }
is something I learnt perhaps 20 years ago, and it's never failed me yet. Why must people always try reinventing the wheel, just to end up with an octagon ?
Perhaps because the parent said "most Macs", and not "Spaham's Mac" ?
Really, it's a valid comment. Just because it's about something Apple, you DON'T have to take it as a personal attack, no matter what they told you at the last I-meter test session.
It's amazing how the Slashdot crowd are lighting torches and sharpening the pitchforks whenever Google or Facebook do some opt-out privacy trick by making the "new thing" the default... and yet when Slashdot themselves pull the same trick, the silence is deafening.
I've been offline for a week, I come back and all my settings have been changed ?
Any "sane" filesystem will simply unlink that entry in the directory or table.
The only reason to be physically overwriting the entire space occupied by the 1GB file is some "super secret secure" filesystem used by people scared of having their porn browsing habits discovered by the FBI.
It did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped shortly after Charcoal Tuesday.
So he STILL doesn't pay... everyone else who dutifully paid into the Homeowners Insurance ends up footing the bill. What's the betting this asshole didn't pay his dues to the homeowners association either ?
They have more than half of the web using their browser, compared to all other browsers COMBINED, and they failed ???
Interesting concept of failure you have there.
Something like a tug of war, with a really fat guy on one end, and ten olympic athletes on the other, and the athletes all shouting "haw haw you fail" because the fat guy moved half an inch.
So everyone who uses Internet Explorer 6 for accessing their corporate intranet don't count then... only when they visit some web page that has the statcounter system in place.
So how is market-share any better OR worse than web usage stats like this ? They are both inaccurate in representing "browser usage".
Oh, right, because it helps support the myth that browser X is now more popular than browser Y.
Pretty much everywhere that has Google Streetview I'd guess...
It seems to default back to IP geolocation (despite claims that it doesn't), as it got the correct country and city, but at least 30km out on the position for my router / static IP address.
If your routers MAC hasn't been scanned, how could they possibly match it in a DB ? This is no more "scary" than the fact they scanned places in the first place, and now are happy to release that info to anyone who queries it.
So they are more akin to the Nazi Sympathizers who actively identified members of the French Resistance in the hope of receiving favours from the Nazis.
There's plenty of people who think pot is horribly dangerous, and there's many of those people who more or less make it their life's work to spread terror about how bad marijuana is to the public at large.
Yes, and most of those people think so, because someone in government decided it should be a class A drug instead of a potential wood pulp replacement, and spread the message "POT IS BAD*".
Before then, it was just another plant in the forest, used as a painkilling medicine by shamans and witch doctors for millennia. Or something like that.
When you think about it pretty much ALL our beliefs are shaped by either Government or Religion. That doesn't make the majority "right", it just makes them "more listened to".
* Of course, drugs in this context do not include Alcohol or Nicotene, two of the most dangerous and addicting substances known to man. But we tax those, so its okay.
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This post is "new". Nobody has ever made a post quite like this one before. Is it a "copy"? Absolutely. Could I get a patent on it? Almost certainly yes, as it's just sufficiently different (99% existing text, 1% new text) to claim "invention".
It's STILL a blatant ripoff of the parent, but hell, this kind of "invention" is what has kept the pharma companies in gold plated toilet seats since the patents of the REALLY useful drugs ran out years ago.
Bang a new molecule onto an existing complex chain, claim it cures not only small and big warts, but now medium warts also, and get another 15 years carte blanche to ripoff the consumer.
Pachinko machines circa 1920 ?
Real currency is exchanged for virtual currency (balls) that can be played in the machines. The machine pays out winnings of more balls. Officially / legally, these balls cannot be exchanged back into real currency, although it does happen courtesy of the local Yakuza mafia who will have an exchange center close to (but not in) the same location as the machines.
Kind of parallels the whole Gold Farming / Selling websites that abound in MMOs chat screens. The Internet mirrors real life once again.
But I digress, this patent is bullshit, so of course it will be awarded.
Wow, that's a new one ?
Perform a non-necessary fget on a file already known to be zero bytes, just so we can get a result "this fget failed because the file is zero bytes".
while (!eof()) {
readsomething();
}
is something I learnt perhaps 20 years ago, and it's never failed me yet. Why must people always try reinventing the wheel, just to end up with an octagon ?
Unfortunately, due to the global recession, the only person who can currently afford to buy one is the Sultan of Brunei.
Perhaps because the parent said "most Macs", and not "Spaham's Mac" ?
Really, it's a valid comment. Just because it's about something Apple, you DON'T have to take it as a personal attack, no matter what they told you at the last I-meter test session.
It's amazing how the Slashdot crowd are lighting torches and sharpening the pitchforks whenever Google or Facebook do some opt-out privacy trick by making the "new thing" the default ... and yet when Slashdot themselves pull the same trick, the silence is deafening.
I've been offline for a week, I come back and all my settings have been changed ?
*sound of cricket rubbing it's legs together*
Depends on the paranoia of the user. FTFY.
Any "sane" filesystem will simply unlink that entry in the directory or table.
The only reason to be physically overwriting the entire space occupied by the 1GB file is some "super secret secure" filesystem used by people scared of having their porn browsing habits discovered by the FBI.
Well they're supposed to, that's kinda the attraction ... when they're not making sammiches, that is.
It did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped shortly after Charcoal Tuesday.
So he STILL doesn't pay ... everyone else who dutifully paid into the Homeowners Insurance ends up footing the bill. What's the betting this asshole didn't pay his dues to the homeowners association either ?
Sorry, but anyone who really wants your password that badly will either :-
Look at the keyboard rather than the screen.
OR
Install a damn keylogger.
Besides, the majority of users will use the same password for everything, and it'll most likely be "12345" or "swordfish" anyway ...
Do we really need this simple obfuscation that contributes NOTHING to real security ?
In this case, I tend to agree with Nielsen.
Firefox lacks any deep pocket hundred-billion-dollar backer to push its adoption
So Google is just like a rich uncle who ensures the developers have plenty of Mountain Dew and Cheetos while they "play" at running a business ?
They have more than half of the web using their browser, compared to all other browsers COMBINED, and they failed ???
Interesting concept of failure you have there.
Something like a tug of war, with a really fat guy on one end, and ten olympic athletes on the other, and the athletes all shouting "haw haw you fail" because the fat guy moved half an inch.
So everyone who uses Internet Explorer 6 for accessing their corporate intranet don't count then ... only when they visit some web page that has the statcounter system in place.
So how is market-share any better OR worse than web usage stats like this ? They are both inaccurate in representing "browser usage".
Oh, right, because it helps support the myth that browser X is now more popular than browser Y.
In Soviet Russia, button presses idiot ?
Which standard ?
The one that is already 10 years out of date, or the new one that will be 10 years out of date before it's finalized ?
Pretty much everywhere that has Google Streetview I'd guess ...
It seems to default back to IP geolocation (despite claims that it doesn't), as it got the correct country and city, but at least 30km out on the position for my router / static IP address.
If your routers MAC hasn't been scanned, how could they possibly match it in a DB ? This is no more "scary" than the fact they scanned places in the first place, and now are happy to release that info to anyone who queries it.
How about you shut the fuck up, and try to come up with some originality next time, ok?
You first, Steve.
I can't work out if your +3 Insightful is due to people actually rewarding your sarcasm, or due to dumb-ass Yanks who really DO believe that shit.
Better than your spelling. It's Britney, you moron.
Nah, 0 seeds, 3790 peers (all on 99.9%) ... DOUBLE FFFFFUUUUUU
So they are more akin to the Nazi Sympathizers who actively identified members of the French Resistance in the hope of receiving favours from the Nazis.
And do you know WHY there is a big knife problem in UK ? Because Guns are more tightly regulated.
And when they started regulating knives to the same extent, the statistics for "assault with blunt objects" went sky high.
Perhaps it's time these idiots realized, it's not the choice of weapon that is the problem, but the fucking nutter holding it.
Someone crazy enough to kill a complete stranger can do so with a rolled up newspaper if they choose. Should we ban those too, just in case ?
There's plenty of people who think pot is horribly dangerous, and there's many of those people who more or less make it their life's work to spread terror about how bad marijuana is to the public at large.
Yes, and most of those people think so, because someone in government decided it should be a class A drug instead of a potential wood pulp replacement, and spread the message "POT IS BAD*".
Before then, it was just another plant in the forest, used as a painkilling medicine by shamans and witch doctors for millennia. Or something like that.
When you think about it pretty much ALL our beliefs are shaped by either Government or Religion. That doesn't make the majority "right", it just makes them "more listened to".
* Of course, drugs in this context do not include Alcohol or Nicotene, two of the most dangerous and addicting substances known to man. But we tax those, so its okay.
Why would anyone argue about your Grandmother ?
Oh, you meant grammAr ???