"The Bitcoin mine has come to Ocean Falls after almost four decades of false starts."
They've been trying to mine Bitcoin for almost four decades? Wow, those Canadians are really a forward-looking bunch. Did they start on an Apple II or something?
10 REM THIS PROGRAM WILL GENERATE SHA HASHES 20 FOR A = 1 TO 256 ...
I've been a huge procrastinator all my life. It was never because I didn't have time to do something -- it was because I didn't want to do whatever the task in question was.
So you pay for the device, then you can watch shows, and it's supported by ads? Welcome to 1941!
"Since inception in the US in 1941, television commercials have become one of the most effective, persuasive, and popular methods of selling products of many sorts, especially consumer goods."
Somewhere, deep inside Amazon, there is an executive who got a big bonus for floating this innovative idea.
Once, I wanted to get some info from a paper that I had left at my house. I knew that someone would be home but I didn't know who. So I had to call a few people before I found someone who was home. What I really wanted was the ability to call the house itself, and whoever was there could answer, rather than having to call individual people who may or may not be there until I found one who was. Perhaps Amazon can invent such a device next.
I think I can carefully click between or around the stoplight buttons -- but not too close to the borderless left edge of the first tab! Thanks for not actually putting a visible indicator there. I *love* the challenge of trying to guess clickable zones in UI I use dozens of times a day. It looks like I can also click the fingernail-sized area at the far right, and perhaps I can very carefully click the few pixels you so generously left at the top. (Careful here, too -- there's not much room for error. A pixel off means I'll activate a random tab or activate whatever is behind it.)
Also, thanks for making it so I always have to mouse over a tab to actually see the full title of a page. It's worth suffering through all this bullshit just so I can enjoy seeing another 20 whole pixels of the web page.
This is basically like trying to play whack-a-mole *and* Operation at the same time. While blindfolded. Fun fun!
"... for the most part, their patents are real inventions..."
IBM (and others) simply patent everything under the sun. From TFA:
Two of the four patents at issue relate to Prodigy, a late-1980s forerunner to the internet, developed by IBM and others, that describe a system for showing applications and advertisements that reduces server loads.
IBM also said it patented so-called "single sign on" technology that allows consumers to log in to a retailer's website with their Facebook or Google account.
1. Go to Apple.com or an Apple store. 2. Buy the most expensive MacBook they make. 3. Buy the most expensive iPhone they make. 4. Then buy a $19-$35 cable to connect them. https://www.apple.com/shop/iph...
It is NOT "totally fine". "Good enough" from a few years ago is NOT "good enough" here in the future year of 2018. The #1 thing done on a computer is browse the web. Web pages have gotten fatter and slower with JavaScript and parallax scrolling and a bunch of other shit that I don't care about but people insist on doing and the trend is not going away.
Intel is making faster chips. Memory is cheap. I just want a computer in a form factor I like that runs my OS of choice and can keep up with the world that's changing around it.
So they took the.com. So what? It DOES NOT MATTER that someone uses that handle elsewhere. Trademark might not have even helped -- one guy writes JS stuff, the other company does email newsletters. Yes, they are both "on computers", but what isn't these days? If 'substack' (the guy) wanted the name, he could have had it years ago for a few bucks. The fact that he didn't register it is a good indication that HE DOESN'T FUCKING CARE, ergo, no big deal.
Unless I'm missing something, HE didn't even complain -- just a few people whining in the forum that they were confused about the name. "Ooh, he wrote a package used by millions of people" -- WHO GIVES A SHIT? There are literally THOUSANDS of devs who can make that claim. And NOBODY knows their github handle or anything else about them.
Are you dumb, or trolling? AC, so I'll guess troll. You ALWAYS need server-side validation. Bad actors won't use the client -- they will use telnet, curl, or a million other tools. Client-side validation will save some load on your server from honest people like honest mistakes -- no need to round-trip that data just to find that they left the '@' out of an email address, or missed a digit in a credit card number -- but for the ACTUAL data, you can ONLY trust the server to do the validation before saving.
What you're saying is like saying "we don't need police to enforce traffic laws -- we have signs saying what drivers should and shouldn't do."
> If Tesla is getting 133 ft stopping distances in their internal testing, while CR got a 152 ft stopping distance, > that would suggest a QA problem at Tesla is resulting in large variability in the effectiveness of the brakes.
OR it suggests a problem with CR's testing. Why would you assume the fault lies with Tesla?
... like when a pre-SCO Caldera had Tetris in their installer. You'd start the installer, set up your disk, it would start copying essential files from the CD, you'd get asked a few config questions (network settings, select optional packages, etc.), then, when you were done, half of the screen would be Tetris and the other half would show the progress of the remaining files.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it...
A, I wasn't being sarcastic. B. Those charts all include various resolutions. C. your question depends on distance. There could be a one-mile red square on the moon and you wouldn't be able to see it from Earth. But at arm's length, you can see a square on your phone that's 1/100th of an inch on each side.
Bonus: you only get maximum visual acuity in the center ~10-20 degrees of your vision. I'm sitting less than 2 feet from a 27" display. Looking at this text box in the center of the screen, I can't even discern details on the edges. I can't read what's on a post-it note that is stuck to the edge without moving my eyes.
... a package that was supposed to arrive at my work yesterday was "Delivery attempted" last night at 6:15pm (and failed, natch, because we're closed) because one of the world leaders in computing and AI has NO WAY to know that this location is a business. This is a 4-story building, in a 6-building, many-acre office park, on a street full of strip malls and office parks. Because evidently Amazon does NOT have an existing list of locations that are businesses, and evidently the AMZL delivery sap has no magic button on his handheld to mark a location as a business for future use (and I doubt that I'm the first person here to ever order something from Amazon.) Oh, and there's no way for me to edit my shipping address and specify that it's a business, although the customer service chat person told me that I could delete my address and re-enter it and then there will be a box to check that it's a business, which I will try AFTER my package successfully arrives. But hey, this has only been a known issue for a YEAR. https://www.reddit.com/r/amazo...
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"The Bitcoin mine has come to Ocean Falls after almost four decades of false starts."
They've been trying to mine Bitcoin for almost four decades? Wow, those Canadians are really a forward-looking bunch. Did they start on an Apple II or something?
I've been a huge procrastinator all my life. It was never because I didn't have time to do something -- it was because I didn't want to do whatever the task in question was.
Digg still exists?
So you pay for the device, then you can watch shows, and it's supported by ads? Welcome to 1941!
"Since inception in the US in 1941, television commercials have become one of the most effective, persuasive, and popular methods of selling products of many sorts, especially consumer goods."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Somewhere, deep inside Amazon, there is an executive who got a big bonus for floating this innovative idea.
Once, I wanted to get some info from a paper that I had left at my house. I knew that someone would be home but I didn't know who. So I had to call a few people before I found someone who was home. What I really wanted was the ability to call the house itself, and whoever was there could answer, rather than having to call individual people who may or may not be there until I found one who was. Perhaps Amazon can invent such a device next.
Pronounced "eleven".
tl;dr: hackers taking over millions of anything is bad.
So when you're not driving, you can pretend to drive, and when you *are* driving, you can set the car to drive itself.
What a time to be alive.
This is the perfect vehicle to drive the to the gym so you can walk on a treadmill.
What's a "USB drive"?
Sent from my iPad
Dear Google,
Please indicate on the attached screenshot where I can click to drag the window around.
https://cnet2.cbsistatic.com/i...
I think I can carefully click between or around the stoplight buttons -- but not too close to the borderless left edge of the first tab! Thanks for not actually putting a visible indicator there. I *love* the challenge of trying to guess clickable zones in UI I use dozens of times a day. It looks like I can also click the fingernail-sized area at the far right, and perhaps I can very carefully click the few pixels you so generously left at the top. (Careful here, too -- there's not much room for error. A pixel off means I'll activate a random tab or activate whatever is behind it.)
Also, thanks for making it so I always have to mouse over a tab to actually see the full title of a page. It's worth suffering through all this bullshit just so I can enjoy seeing another 20 whole pixels of the web page.
This is basically like trying to play whack-a-mole *and* Operation at the same time. While blindfolded. Fun fun!
Fuck you very much,
- sootman
"... for the most part, their patents are real inventions..."
IBM (and others) simply patent everything under the sun. From TFA:
1. Go to Apple.com or an Apple store.
2. Buy the most expensive MacBook they make.
3. Buy the most expensive iPhone they make.
4. Then buy a $19-$35 cable to connect them.
https://www.apple.com/shop/iph...
... anyone else here using gmail in Simple HTML view?
It is NOT "totally fine". "Good enough" from a few years ago is NOT "good enough" here in the future year of 2018. The #1 thing done on a computer is browse the web. Web pages have gotten fatter and slower with JavaScript and parallax scrolling and a bunch of other shit that I don't care about but people insist on doing and the trend is not going away.
Intel is making faster chips. Memory is cheap. I just want a computer in a form factor I like that runs my OS of choice and can keep up with the world that's changing around it.
... for the first 3D-printed Slashdot editor.
So they took the .com. So what? It DOES NOT MATTER that someone uses that handle elsewhere. Trademark might not have even helped -- one guy writes JS stuff, the other company does email newsletters. Yes, they are both "on computers", but what isn't these days? If 'substack' (the guy) wanted the name, he could have had it years ago for a few bucks. The fact that he didn't register it is a good indication that HE DOESN'T FUCKING CARE, ergo, no big deal.
Unless I'm missing something, HE didn't even complain -- just a few people whining in the forum that they were confused about the name. "Ooh, he wrote a package used by millions of people" -- WHO GIVES A SHIT? There are literally THOUSANDS of devs who can make that claim. And NOBODY knows their github handle or anything else about them.
Are you dumb, or trolling? AC, so I'll guess troll. You ALWAYS need server-side validation. Bad actors won't use the client -- they will use telnet, curl, or a million other tools. Client-side validation will save some load on your server from honest people like honest mistakes -- no need to round-trip that data just to find that they left the '@' out of an email address, or missed a digit in a credit card number -- but for the ACTUAL data, you can ONLY trust the server to do the validation before saving.
What you're saying is like saying "we don't need police to enforce traffic laws -- we have signs saying what drivers should and shouldn't do."
Wired magazine, FIFTEEN YEARS AGO:
https://www.wired.com/2003/09/...
Or maybe The Long Walk (1979). Or maybe the idea of "kids in a competition to the death" just isn't that hard to come up with.
> If Tesla is getting 133 ft stopping distances in their internal testing, while CR got a 152 ft stopping distance,
> that would suggest a QA problem at Tesla is resulting in large variability in the effectiveness of the brakes.
OR it suggests a problem with CR's testing. Why would you assume the fault lies with Tesla?
Self-absorbed assholes... in Los Angeles?!? Say it ain't so!
@everyone: You don't like it? Fucking walk.
... like when a pre-SCO Caldera had Tetris in their installer. You'd start the installer, set up your disk, it would start copying essential files from the CD, you'd get asked a few config questions (network settings, select optional packages, etc.), then, when you were done, half of the screen would be Tetris and the other half would show the progress of the remaining files.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/comput...
Anyone else here old enough to remember this template? :-)
-=-=-
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative (x) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ...
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
A, I wasn't being sarcastic.
B. Those charts all include various resolutions.
C. your question depends on distance. There could be a one-mile red square on the moon and you wouldn't be able to see it from Earth. But at arm's length, you can see a square on your phone that's 1/100th of an inch on each side.
Here. Enjoy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bonus: you only get maximum visual acuity in the center ~10-20 degrees of your vision. I'm sitting less than 2 feet from a 27" display. Looking at this text box in the center of the screen, I can't even discern details on the edges. I can't read what's on a post-it note that is stuck to the edge without moving my eyes.
... a package that was supposed to arrive at my work yesterday was "Delivery attempted" last night at 6:15pm (and failed, natch, because we're closed) because one of the world leaders in computing and AI has NO WAY to know that this location is a business. This is a 4-story building, in a 6-building, many-acre office park, on a street full of strip malls and office parks. Because evidently Amazon does NOT have an existing list of locations that are businesses, and evidently the AMZL delivery sap has no magic button on his handheld to mark a location as a business for future use (and I doubt that I'm the first person here to ever order something from Amazon.) Oh, and there's no way for me to edit my shipping address and specify that it's a business, although the customer service chat person told me that I could delete my address and re-enter it and then there will be a box to check that it's a business, which I will try AFTER my package successfully arrives. But hey, this has only been a known issue for a YEAR. https://www.reddit.com/r/amazo...
Fuck you, AMZL. This is fucking brain-dead.