The British style is always less ambiguous. Putting punctuation inside quotes that are not part of the original quote is wrong. Any style manual that recommends it is wrong. Nesting matters.
Reasonable people can disagree on things like the Oxford comma. There is no sane argument whatsoever for breaking the meaning of quotation marks just because you like the way it looks.
Basically the WiFi standards bunch screwed up. So I actually blame them for a lot of the problems. So many years and they still haven't got WiFi to the level of TLS/HTTPS.
So use TLS/HTTPS over wifi. Why should the Wifi standard solve a problem that's already been solved? Wifi only has to be as secure as a wired network, at which point we can use all the protocols we use to keep our systems secure on the public internet.
Yes, it has changed. You were always able to get the PDFs for free. Now you can't. If you want a printer friendly instructable, you have to pay. That's not what a lot of people signed up for when they gave Instructables free content.
Hell yes! Here's another one. If I search for a "literal string" the results damn well better contain that exact literal string. I used the quotes for a reason Google.
A well formed MP3 file cannot execute code when played on a well coded MP3 player. There's nothing in principle that would stop a deliberately corrupted MP3 file from overflowing a buffer in a buggy MP3 player and injecting code. Such exploits exist for data only formats like JPG.
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That's the problem, it's making lots of money for all the wrong people. Control leads to prosperity, for those in control.
True, but some trackers will not allow you to seed more than a certain number of torrents before it stops accepting connections from you.
Which trackers do this, and why? It's in everyone's interest to keep torrents seeded for as long as possible. From experience, only about 5-10% of my torrents have leechers at any one time. If I were limited to, say, 10 torrents I wouldn't be uploading anything half the time. By keeping 100 torrents open, I can ensure that my upstream bandwith is saturated, and all those torrents never get dropped from the tracker. I really don't understand the reasoning behind this policy.
Study after study shows that non-parents are happier than parents. You might be the exception, especially if you're independently wealthy and never have to worry about providing for them. But probably not, if there's one thing parents do it's worry. Worry, worry, worry. No kids = fewer responsibilities = less stress = happier life.
I don't pretend at all that parents are jealous of non parents. Their capacity for self deception is too strong. Evolution has tricked them into thinking that raising kids is a proposition that pays off for the individual, instead of just for the genes. I see parents work their ass off, live in stress, hour after hour of noise, of whining, of crying, and one little "I love you daddy" at the end of the day makes it all worthwhile? Bullshit. Your genes are lying to you, and we have the science to prove it.
E.g., if for the same price I can buy a plasma TV which turns itself off every 2-3 hours, or a normal TV which doesn't, you can bet your ass that I'll buy the first one.
That's insane. This is why we can't buy quality products anymore. People are far, far, too willing to put up with crap.
Actually, you don't need to be technical to test a game. (Or a web site, or anything else.) You just need to try every combination and write a bug report for everything that doesn't work.
It takes a technical person to recognize all the different possible combinations and try them out methodically. Maybe not a coder, but it definitely takes a technical mindset. Troubleshooting is Science. You have to know how to design an experiment with proper controls or your bug reports are useless (or worse).
Why would you want to launch an ICBM from a submarine? The benefit of a submarine is that you can take it in close to the enemy and they can't find you. But the whole point of an ICBM is that it's intercontinental. You can launch them from disguised missile platforms in the middle of Wyoming and it's exactly as effective.
Yeah, just because other people are suckers doesn't mean I am. You can have your kids, live stressed out, and be less happy than childless people if you want. I'll be spending my best years actually living my life and saving my money.
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Solved already? Really? The last I checked "zillions" of sites don't support https. Slashdot for instance.
Yes, and you should treat everything you send to such sites as potentially compromised. A false sense of security is worse than none at all.
How do you figure? Sex and drugs are the only reason I have a social life at all.
It's still better than the alternatives, but it's losing ground. It's nowhere near as nice to use as it was 5 years ago.
If the style guides recommend illogical punctuation, they are wrong and should be corrected or discarded.
The British style is always less ambiguous. Putting punctuation inside quotes that are not part of the original quote is wrong. Any style manual that recommends it is wrong. Nesting matters.
Reasonable people can disagree on things like the Oxford comma. There is no sane argument whatsoever for breaking the meaning of quotation marks just because you like the way it looks.
Basically the WiFi standards bunch screwed up. So I actually blame them for a lot of the problems. So many years and they still haven't got WiFi to the level of TLS/HTTPS.
So use TLS/HTTPS over wifi. Why should the Wifi standard solve a problem that's already been solved? Wifi only has to be as secure as a wired network, at which point we can use all the protocols we use to keep our systems secure on the public internet.
Yes, it has changed. You were always able to get the PDFs for free. Now you can't. If you want a printer friendly instructable, you have to pay. That's not what a lot of people signed up for when they gave Instructables free content.
Only because the author was kind enough to host them on his own server.
Haven't you heard? The recession is over.
Hell yes! Here's another one. If I search for a "literal string" the results damn well better contain that exact literal string. I used the quotes for a reason Google.
Please, Google! You don't have to compete on glitz when you have a hands-down superior product!
That's why they're competing on glitz. Their product is not as superior as it once was.
"To Download the PDF or View All Steps,
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Need I say more?
A well formed MP3 file cannot execute code when played on a well coded MP3 player. There's nothing in principle that would stop a deliberately corrupted MP3 file from overflowing a buffer in a buggy MP3 player and injecting code. Such exploits exist for data only formats like JPG.
That's the problem, it's making lots of money for all the wrong people. Control leads to prosperity, for those in control.
True, but some trackers will not allow you to seed more than a certain number of torrents before it stops accepting connections from you.
Which trackers do this, and why? It's in everyone's interest to keep torrents seeded for as long as possible. From experience, only about 5-10% of my torrents have leechers at any one time. If I were limited to, say, 10 torrents I wouldn't be uploading anything half the time. By keeping 100 torrents open, I can ensure that my upstream bandwith is saturated, and all those torrents never get dropped from the tracker. I really don't understand the reasoning behind this policy.
Study after study shows that non-parents are happier than parents. You might be the exception, especially if you're independently wealthy and never have to worry about providing for them. But probably not, if there's one thing parents do it's worry. Worry, worry, worry. No kids = fewer responsibilities = less stress = happier life.
I don't pretend at all that parents are jealous of non parents. Their capacity for self deception is too strong. Evolution has tricked them into thinking that raising kids is a proposition that pays off for the individual, instead of just for the genes. I see parents work their ass off, live in stress, hour after hour of noise, of whining, of crying, and one little "I love you daddy" at the end of the day makes it all worthwhile? Bullshit. Your genes are lying to you, and we have the science to prove it.
I remember PacMan for the Atari 2600. It was a shitty port, but I don't remember any bugs. What exactly are you referring to?
E.g., if for the same price I can buy a plasma TV which turns itself off every 2-3 hours, or a normal TV which doesn't, you can bet your ass that I'll buy the first one.
That's insane. This is why we can't buy quality products anymore. People are far, far, too willing to put up with crap.
Actually, you don't need to be technical to test a game. (Or a web site, or anything else.) You just need to try every combination and write a bug report for everything that doesn't work.
It takes a technical person to recognize all the different possible combinations and try them out methodically. Maybe not a coder, but it definitely takes a technical mindset. Troubleshooting is Science. You have to know how to design an experiment with proper controls or your bug reports are useless (or worse).
Everyone is wringing their hands about the worldwide drop in sperm counts
Why? Isn't reduced fertility a good thing if we want to increase the time until we reach the Earth's carrying capacity?
Chuck Norris jokes stopped being funny when he started writing for WND. And Bruce Schneier is the appropriate reference for technology related jokes.
Why would you want to launch an ICBM from a submarine? The benefit of a submarine is that you can take it in close to the enemy and they can't find you. But the whole point of an ICBM is that it's intercontinental. You can launch them from disguised missile platforms in the middle of Wyoming and it's exactly as effective.
Yeah, just because other people are suckers doesn't mean I am. You can have your kids, live stressed out, and be less happy than childless people if you want. I'll be spending my best years actually living my life and saving my money.
Isn't the entire point of twitter communicating with a large audience? If no one knows who you are, then what's the point?
So how good is the AMD open source driver? How much luck have you had running 3d games under Wine with it?