I know you're trolling, but I actually liked Howard the Duck. I thought it did a reasonable job of matching the spirit, if not the details, of the comic. Watching Lea Thompson in lingerie wasn't all bad either.
Apple CANNOT Force an OS Update onto an iPhone remotely. I requires the User to either bring up the Update function or at the very least, Confirm a Dialog prompt.
Are you sure? Yes, normally an OS update puts up a courtesy prompt to say, "Is this a good time to do it?" But are you sure they don't have the capability to set some sort of "no questions asked" flag on the update to tell the phone to go ahead and do it right away without bothering the user about it? It's all just software, there's no need to flip a physical switch or anything to enter OS update mode.
If I was designing a phone I'd probably throw in a no-prompt update capability just to make QA's life easier when they have to push an update to a testing farm.
If it's a thing, and it connects to the Internet, it's part of the Internet of Things.
Usually this is reserved for "things" whose primary purpose is not what you'd use a desktop computer for. A RasPi hooked up to a keyboard and monitor running LibreOffice? Not a thing. The same RasPi running headless to control your hot tub? Thing.
It's the same blurry line that differentiates "embedded" and "non-embedded" systems. On one side you have devices that are clearly embedded, IoT devices. On the other side you have devices that are clearly non-embedded, non-IoT, plain ol' computers. In the middle you have devices that could go either way depending on what you're using them for and what aspects of "embedded" or "IoT" are relevant to your current discussion.
Maps? Bah! They're a crutch for people who can't be arsed to walk around and get a feel for the neighborhood. How are you going to get to know the local shops and people from staring at a piece of paper? People need to stop relying on maps and build up an in-depth understanding of the area by asking homeless guys for directions.
* Fix the fscking comment page code so it doesn't break the 'Back' button. I hate it when I click to view "X replies beneath your current threshold", then press 'Back' and lose my place in the thread because the main comments page refreshes back to the beginning.
The article quotes the FBI memo as saying, "the FBI and DHS have no information to indicate any specific, credible threats to or associated with Super Bowl 50 or related events". Which means that the people paid to be professionally paranoid and anticipate potential attacks have... Done their fscking jobs and anticipated potential attacks! ZOMG, the sky is falling! Personally, I think it's going to go down like this.
It probably hasn't been determined yet, but I'd like to know where the problem ultimately lies: Is it actually in the formulation of the drug, or was it mis-manufactured, mis-administered, or simply contaminated at some point?
Humans can be deceitful and self-doubting and are definitely the weakest link in the launch system. Thus we must eliminate the human element. I propose that effective immediately we put the War Operation Plan Response computer in charge of igniting the missiles when it comes time to do so.
Put all your mail on an imap server. You'll be able to access it with any mail client. Set up the imap server as the archive destination for TBird. Now all your mail is archived in the imap server and is accessible.
You don't trust your email host? That's fair. Run your own imap server on your NAS or even your desktop machine. Everything stays right there on your own media and is still future-proof with regard to changing clients. If you need to change servers you just use your favorite email client to transfer mail from one to another.
I have everything online at my email provider. In my case, "everything" goes back to the mid-90s. I recently switched hosting providers and did just as I described: Set up separate accounts in TBird with the old and new providers. Select all in a folder on the old provider, drag to a folder on the new provider. (Well, actually I had to do it in chunks of under 5000 messages or TBird would get all crashy on me. But you get the idea.) It was kind of tedious to move hundreds of thousands of messages, but it was merely tedious. It wasn't problematic.
First, I don't believe anything I read at Indiegogo.
Second, if this is on the up-and-up... Cat's out of the bag, I guess. If this guy can do it so can any number of other guys, including your favorite bad guys. Quit talking about how to prevent it and start talking about how to cope with it.
My favorite example of this comes from Stargate Atlantis. Here they are out in another galaxy where all the aliens speak English, and this one alien asks the Scottish guy why he sounds funny.
Thank you. I've been saying this for years. I'm glad someone else can see that the Emperor has no clothes.
SQL sucks. Not the concept of a relational database; that's something that's pretty cool. But the so-called "Structured Query Language" used to interact with the database is the worst affront to programming ever(*). It's not bad for user interaction, and I know it was an easy path to hacking in database support for languages that didn't have it. But for crying out loud, continuing to use it is just like passing a single string to the shell for execution. You never do that, you use execv() or whatever your language has for a wrapper around it. At the very least you should be able to do the same damned thing for your database!
(* One could argue that PHP or AppleScript are worse. I won't quibble.)
This. Tree Style Tabs is also what's keeping me on Firefox. For me, it is *the* killer feature. And I note that it's provided by an extension, as tab groups undoubtedly will be if it's at all technically possible and there's a developer with the desire to keep the functionality alive.
And get rid of the whole pro wrestling everything's-a-grudge-match coverage. In fact, get rid of the sports commentators in the green-screen studio altogether. I know they're trying to pretend it's a real sporting event but I feel that they're losing their core audience by playing up all the tropes that engineers tend to hate.
I tried to go all high-tech this year. What a disaster! First, let me tell you that when the manual for the revivification table says it needs a bolt of lightning, you can't just substitute wall current. You need real lightning or you don't jump-start the corpse, you just end up charring the internal organs. Right away that puts a requirement on the weather and limits you to working during thunderstorms. And you don't want to deal with a thunderstorm on Halloween night. That keeps all the trick-or-treaters home. It's getting harder and harder these days to lure kids into your basement. Halloween's the one time of year when kids are *supposed* to accept candy from creepy guys in poorly-lit houses! You don't want a little thing like the weather screwing up that chance or you might not harvest enough test subjects to last through the year.
Next year I'm going back to good old-fashioned necromancy, just like we did when I was a kid. Sure, it takes a little longer and the entrails really make a mess, but you know you're going to get an unliving minion out of it instead of just a charred corpse that's too burned even to bother to eat. With necromancy, even if the ritual goes wrong the worst that could happen is you'll end up with an unholy abomination that will try to turn on its creator. Anyone who can't handle that once in a while doesn't deserve to call himself "mad".
I'm extremely interested in this. For years now I've been thinking that there's plenty of wealth to go around; that we can assure basic standards of living for everyone while still leaving room for people to achieve arbitrary levels of wealth through work. I hope this program works out.
Preach it, brother! My parents were hooked on Dristan nasal spray and I ended up hooked on it as a teenager. I had a serious dependency on it all through high school, especially when trying to sleep. I decided to go nearly cold-turkey in college which led to many sleepless nights due to feeling like I was suffocating and a roommate who almost punched me for snoring when I finally did get to sleep. It was worth finally kicking the habit, though.
I don't know that it should be banned. It's wonderful stuff when you're suffering a cold but you really need to stop using it when the cold is gone.
Apologies. I had mis-read your initial post as wanting email and IM in order to work.
I still think you're unfairly blaming the other users, though. Blame the provider. Any decent network config should easily transport email and IM even when it's so clogged as to make video unwatchable. They probably over-prioritize audio and video to avoid buffering issues to the point of completely destroying everything else. It's not the fault of the other people. After all, they're just using the service they paid for. It's the fault of the service provider for under-provisioning that location and for prioritizing streaming video such that it trumps everything else.
it makes me angry to see the people streaming video on their phone like their entertainment is more important than everyone else who wants their email and IM to work.
And what makes you think your work is so much more important than someone else's entertainment? Seriously. Your work does not trump someone else's play simply because it's "work".
Besides, IM and email are low bandwidth activities. The streaming video should be rendered unwatchable by network congestion long before you have any difficulty with your precious email. This particular problem is self-limiting.
I love some of Lessig's ideas, but he doesn't have a prayer of getting into any position to implement them. The current electoral system is rigged so that only the two major parties have any hope of getting a candidate elected to national office. You have to get inside the system in order to have the power to change it -- But why in the world would either party allow in someone whose stated goal is to upset the apple cart and make it harder for the party to win in the future?
The only people in favor of electoral reform are those outside the system. The ones inside the system benefit too much from the status quo.
I just had Amazon sneakernet some movies to me. Instead of suffer that tedious streaming download I had them put the data on optical disks and mail them to me. When they get here I'll rip them to my hard drive and be all set! That's customer service you just can't get from Hulu. I expect this sort of download to really take off over the next few years.
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I know you're trolling, but I actually liked Howard the Duck. I thought it did a reasonable job of matching the spirit, if not the details, of the comic. Watching Lea Thompson in lingerie wasn't all bad either.
The people who have pirated this album have probably listened to it. So quit persecuting them, they've suffered enough.
Are you sure? Yes, normally an OS update puts up a courtesy prompt to say, "Is this a good time to do it?" But are you sure they don't have the capability to set some sort of "no questions asked" flag on the update to tell the phone to go ahead and do it right away without bothering the user about it? It's all just software, there's no need to flip a physical switch or anything to enter OS update mode.
If I was designing a phone I'd probably throw in a no-prompt update capability just to make QA's life easier when they have to push an update to a testing farm.
If it's a thing, and it connects to the Internet, it's part of the Internet of Things.
Usually this is reserved for "things" whose primary purpose is not what you'd use a desktop computer for. A RasPi hooked up to a keyboard and monitor running LibreOffice? Not a thing. The same RasPi running headless to control your hot tub? Thing.
It's the same blurry line that differentiates "embedded" and "non-embedded" systems. On one side you have devices that are clearly embedded, IoT devices. On the other side you have devices that are clearly non-embedded, non-IoT, plain ol' computers. In the middle you have devices that could go either way depending on what you're using them for and what aspects of "embedded" or "IoT" are relevant to your current discussion.
Maps? Bah! They're a crutch for people who can't be arsed to walk around and get a feel for the neighborhood. How are you going to get to know the local shops and people from staring at a piece of paper? People need to stop relying on maps and build up an in-depth understanding of the area by asking homeless guys for directions.
* Fix the fscking comment page code so it doesn't break the 'Back' button. I hate it when I click to view "X replies beneath your current threshold", then press 'Back' and lose my place in the thread because the main comments page refreshes back to the beginning.
You owe me a new keyboard.
The article quotes the FBI memo as saying, "the FBI and DHS have no information to indicate any specific, credible threats to or associated with Super Bowl 50 or related events". Which means that the people paid to be professionally paranoid and anticipate potential attacks have... Done their fscking jobs and anticipated potential attacks! ZOMG, the sky is falling! Personally, I think it's going to go down like this.
It probably hasn't been determined yet, but I'd like to know where the problem ultimately lies: Is it actually in the formulation of the drug, or was it mis-manufactured, mis-administered, or simply contaminated at some point?
Seductive, the Dark Side is.
Humans can be deceitful and self-doubting and are definitely the weakest link in the launch system. Thus we must eliminate the human element. I propose that effective immediately we put the War Operation Plan Response computer in charge of igniting the missiles when it comes time to do so.
Put all your mail on an imap server. You'll be able to access it with any mail client. Set up the imap server as the archive destination for TBird. Now all your mail is archived in the imap server and is accessible.
You don't trust your email host? That's fair. Run your own imap server on your NAS or even your desktop machine. Everything stays right there on your own media and is still future-proof with regard to changing clients. If you need to change servers you just use your favorite email client to transfer mail from one to another.
I have everything online at my email provider. In my case, "everything" goes back to the mid-90s. I recently switched hosting providers and did just as I described: Set up separate accounts in TBird with the old and new providers. Select all in a folder on the old provider, drag to a folder on the new provider. (Well, actually I had to do it in chunks of under 5000 messages or TBird would get all crashy on me. But you get the idea.) It was kind of tedious to move hundreds of thousands of messages, but it was merely tedious. It wasn't problematic.
First, I don't believe anything I read at Indiegogo.
Second, if this is on the up-and-up... Cat's out of the bag, I guess. If this guy can do it so can any number of other guys, including your favorite bad guys. Quit talking about how to prevent it and start talking about how to cope with it.
My favorite example of this comes from Stargate Atlantis. Here they are out in another galaxy where all the aliens speak English, and this one alien asks the Scottish guy why he sounds funny.
Thank you. I've been saying this for years. I'm glad someone else can see that the Emperor has no clothes.
SQL sucks. Not the concept of a relational database; that's something that's pretty cool. But the so-called "Structured Query Language" used to interact with the database is the worst affront to programming ever(*). It's not bad for user interaction, and I know it was an easy path to hacking in database support for languages that didn't have it. But for crying out loud, continuing to use it is just like passing a single string to the shell for execution. You never do that, you use execv() or whatever your language has for a wrapper around it. At the very least you should be able to do the same damned thing for your database!
(* One could argue that PHP or AppleScript are worse. I won't quibble.)
This. Tree Style Tabs is also what's keeping me on Firefox. For me, it is *the* killer feature. And I note that it's provided by an extension, as tab groups undoubtedly will be if it's at all technically possible and there's a developer with the desire to keep the functionality alive.
Oh, tell me they're going to send a guy up on one of these with a high pressure hose! I'd pay good money to see that!
And get rid of the whole pro wrestling everything's-a-grudge-match coverage. In fact, get rid of the sports commentators in the green-screen studio altogether. I know they're trying to pretend it's a real sporting event but I feel that they're losing their core audience by playing up all the tropes that engineers tend to hate.
I tried to go all high-tech this year. What a disaster! First, let me tell you that when the manual for the revivification table says it needs a bolt of lightning, you can't just substitute wall current. You need real lightning or you don't jump-start the corpse, you just end up charring the internal organs. Right away that puts a requirement on the weather and limits you to working during thunderstorms. And you don't want to deal with a thunderstorm on Halloween night. That keeps all the trick-or-treaters home. It's getting harder and harder these days to lure kids into your basement. Halloween's the one time of year when kids are *supposed* to accept candy from creepy guys in poorly-lit houses! You don't want a little thing like the weather screwing up that chance or you might not harvest enough test subjects to last through the year.
Next year I'm going back to good old-fashioned necromancy, just like we did when I was a kid. Sure, it takes a little longer and the entrails really make a mess, but you know you're going to get an unliving minion out of it instead of just a charred corpse that's too burned even to bother to eat. With necromancy, even if the ritual goes wrong the worst that could happen is you'll end up with an unholy abomination that will try to turn on its creator. Anyone who can't handle that once in a while doesn't deserve to call himself "mad".
I'm extremely interested in this. For years now I've been thinking that there's plenty of wealth to go around; that we can assure basic standards of living for everyone while still leaving room for people to achieve arbitrary levels of wealth through work. I hope this program works out.
Preach it, brother! My parents were hooked on Dristan nasal spray and I ended up hooked on it as a teenager. I had a serious dependency on it all through high school, especially when trying to sleep. I decided to go nearly cold-turkey in college which led to many sleepless nights due to feeling like I was suffocating and a roommate who almost punched me for snoring when I finally did get to sleep. It was worth finally kicking the habit, though.
I don't know that it should be banned. It's wonderful stuff when you're suffering a cold but you really need to stop using it when the cold is gone.
Apologies. I had mis-read your initial post as wanting email and IM in order to work.
I still think you're unfairly blaming the other users, though. Blame the provider. Any decent network config should easily transport email and IM even when it's so clogged as to make video unwatchable. They probably over-prioritize audio and video to avoid buffering issues to the point of completely destroying everything else. It's not the fault of the other people. After all, they're just using the service they paid for. It's the fault of the service provider for under-provisioning that location and for prioritizing streaming video such that it trumps everything else.
And what makes you think your work is so much more important than someone else's entertainment? Seriously. Your work does not trump someone else's play simply because it's "work".
Besides, IM and email are low bandwidth activities. The streaming video should be rendered unwatchable by network congestion long before you have any difficulty with your precious email. This particular problem is self-limiting.
I love some of Lessig's ideas, but he doesn't have a prayer of getting into any position to implement them. The current electoral system is rigged so that only the two major parties have any hope of getting a candidate elected to national office. You have to get inside the system in order to have the power to change it -- But why in the world would either party allow in someone whose stated goal is to upset the apple cart and make it harder for the party to win in the future?
The only people in favor of electoral reform are those outside the system. The ones inside the system benefit too much from the status quo.
I just had Amazon sneakernet some movies to me. Instead of suffer that tedious streaming download I had them put the data on optical disks and mail them to me. When they get here I'll rip them to my hard drive and be all set! That's customer service you just can't get from Hulu. I expect this sort of download to really take off over the next few years.