Technically, you are guilty. In many countries and states it is illegal to be in possession of a controlled substance or certain weapons regardless of the way you got it. As long as it is in your possession or on your property, you're guilty.
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The value of that fraction for me is 8 (found by experience). So if I think it takes one hour, it will take the whole day. That's actually normal, because half of the time I'll be reading Slashdot, half of the time left I'll be debugging, half of the time left I'll be thinking about the implementation and the hour I have left will be used for writing and tweaking the code. Seriously. So I come up with a WAG in a few seconds, I multiply it by 8 and management knows they can always count on my estimates, because they very rarely fail. Luckily, they know a lot about software development, so one day for adding a minor feature is no surprise to them (TDD, mercurial patches, merges, builds that take 10 minutes, installing virtual machines, etc).
... i use multiple browsers... firefox plugin... etc
Guess what?! Most people use a single browser, don't know about Firefox plugins (as most people don't use Firefox) and most computers are used by two people. That's enough for the marketers. So 10% of their pool is flawed because of the multiple browsers and FF plugin? That leaves them with 90%. Divide that by 2 and you get a 45% chance of targeted advertising. Considering the size of the pool is a few hundred million people... I'd say that's pretty good!
Are you sure? Each browsing instance runs as its own process and AFAIK each process is sandboxed individually. That means cross-tabs access is still blocked. Correct me if I'm wrong.
^ And this, dear children, is the reason we should all be pushing for open-source; if IE were open-source, I wouldn't need to ask that question, I would just look over its source code
Why not slip a copy of Firefox as their default browser and remove the Internet Explorer shortcuts, by exploiting the bug? Of course, this depends on the laws of the country where you host your website.
This is like asking what is your preferred way of being tortured.
True, true! But most our our decisions are similar: "Who should I vote for?" "What brand of food should I buy?" etc. The truth is, I rather lose a finger than a whole hand.
And as bad as 3000 deaths a month sounds, the part of that sample you don't mention are the number of people who go from point A to point B each day unscathed.
That's a horrible fallacy. Just because it didn't happen to you doesn't make it "highly unlikely." Reason.
BTW, I've got some bad news for you: There is a 1 in 96 chance that you will die in a car accident in your lifetime. The odds seem pretty gruesome to me... Do the math yourself: Population = 300,000,000 people; Deaths/year = 40,000 people/year; Life expectancy = 78.2 years. If your family has four members, then there is a 1 in 24 chance that one of you will die in a car accident during their lifetime.
"Ah, but you don't consider the people that DON'T die" sounds nice, until one of your family members or maybe even YOU are one of them.
Further, why Microsoft doesn't "fix" these accounts is very simple - it isn't their problem
Remember the GMail search, which scans your emails for a given text? Some people went nuts about that one and it took Google forever to explain to those idiots what a script is. I mean, while we're at it, why didn't they complain that Google's web servers and their web browsers "read" their email? I would expect those same people to consider any kind of action on Microsoft's side to be a breach of account privacy. Another way to put it: would you agree if GMail removed your signature because it contained the word "fuck" in it?
Nobody takes into consideration the serious environmental impact of C++ over PHP when it comes to designing, implementing and debugging applications, which take much more time and stress people more. They eat more, they shit more, they breath faster, they need to spend more time working and most of them don't live close enough to the office to walk so they either drive or use public transportation. It takes a lot longer to learn C++ than PHP, therefore the developers will be wasting a lot of time without actually producing anything. Why would PHP be 10 times slower than C++ on the web, when most of the work is done by the [most likely written in C] database engine?
In short: TFA is comparing apples to oranges and says that oranges have 10 times more juice than apples after particularly squeezing that exact amount from them.
Off-topic, I would like to answer to that one: yes, they might count as an evil corporation. Their "news" is usually what regular people are saying, which don't know squat about what's really going on. I've heard countless stupid and untrue things in their interviews, which are full of biased opinions. The upside is that you have a source of information that tells you what is going on; the downside is that you can't trust them to tell you why that is happening.
Well... damn! I tried to search for information on "ARM" by completely avoiding to type "arm" in Google, thinking that it would only give me information about the human arm. I guess Google is a smarter than I thought and I find that frightening. Thank you for helping me out.
Business charges $0 for its product, runs out of cash due to lack of viable revenue. Details at 11.
Unless you're Google and can sell tons of ads, "free" is not going to survive.
Yes, I'm sure that none of those millions of websites that survive only by ads revenue will go down any day now, including one of my pet projects that hasn't been updated since last year and still generates over $200/month from [non-Google] ad clicks.
But it's so cool! When someone calls in for support, I could say "let me go to the other computer; now let me switch to my work tab; now let me switch to my browsers tab; now let me switch to the customer support tab; oops, sorry, i accidentally opened my porn tab."
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Technically, you are guilty. In many countries and states it is illegal to be in possession of a controlled substance or certain weapons regardless of the way you got it. As long as it is in your possession or on your property, you're guilty.
For this, I use Paint.NET on Windows.
How about this: older workers have families to feed and they're more experienced.
Hello Rola
The value of that fraction for me is 8 (found by experience). So if I think it takes one hour, it will take the whole day. That's actually normal, because half of the time I'll be reading Slashdot, half of the time left I'll be debugging, half of the time left I'll be thinking about the implementation and the hour I have left will be used for writing and tweaking the code. Seriously. So I come up with a WAG in a few seconds, I multiply it by 8 and management knows they can always count on my estimates, because they very rarely fail. Luckily, they know a lot about software development, so one day for adding a minor feature is no surprise to them (TDD, mercurial patches, merges, builds that take 10 minutes, installing virtual machines, etc).
If your website has only 1 vulnerability and no scanner detects, then it's 100% ineffective. The cat and mouse game continues.
FTFY
Expression. You fail it.
Actually, it depends on your definition of "place" which can be a well-defined point in space-time or a vague
Funny? Wake up, this is sad!
... i use multiple browsers ... firefox plugin ... etc
Guess what?! Most people use a single browser, don't know about Firefox plugins (as most people don't use Firefox) and most computers are used by two people. That's enough for the marketers. So 10% of their pool is flawed because of the multiple browsers and FF plugin? That leaves them with 90%. Divide that by 2 and you get a 45% chance of targeted advertising. Considering the size of the pool is a few hundred million people ... I'd say that's pretty good!
Tough decision: +1 Informative or +1 Flamebait ?
Are you sure? Each browsing instance runs as its own process and AFAIK each process is sandboxed individually. That means cross-tabs access is still blocked. Correct me if I'm wrong.
^ And this, dear children, is the reason we should all be pushing for open-source; if IE were open-source, I wouldn't need to ask that question, I would just look over its source code
No, it can't. Well technically, it can be exploited, but IE runs sandboxed in Win 7 so the exploiter can't really do much.
Why not slip a copy of Firefox as their default browser and remove the Internet Explorer shortcuts, by exploiting the bug? Of course, this depends on the laws of the country where you host your website.
This is like asking what is your preferred way of being tortured.
True, true! But most our our decisions are similar: "Who should I vote for?" "What brand of food should I buy?" etc. The truth is, I rather lose a finger than a whole hand.
And as bad as 3000 deaths a month sounds, the part of that sample you don't mention are the number of people who go from point A to point B each day unscathed.
That's a horrible fallacy. Just because it didn't happen to you doesn't make it "highly unlikely." Reason.
BTW, I've got some bad news for you: There is a 1 in 96 chance that you will die in a car accident in your lifetime. The odds seem pretty gruesome to me... Do the math yourself: Population = 300,000,000 people; Deaths/year = 40,000 people/year; Life expectancy = 78.2 years. If your family has four members, then there is a 1 in 24 chance that one of you will die in a car accident during their lifetime.
"Ah, but you don't consider the people that DON'T die" sounds nice, until one of your family members or maybe even YOU are one of them.
PS: to the mod who gave all discussion of the irrationality of the golden ratio an offtopic mod: get a life.
Of course, you realize that mod HAS a life, which is why (s)he didn't get the joke ;)
Further, why Microsoft doesn't "fix" these accounts is very simple - it isn't their problem
Remember the GMail search, which scans your emails for a given text? Some people went nuts about that one and it took Google forever to explain to those idiots what a script is. I mean, while we're at it, why didn't they complain that Google's web servers and their web browsers "read" their email? I would expect those same people to consider any kind of action on Microsoft's side to be a breach of account privacy.
Another way to put it: would you agree if GMail removed your signature because it contained the word "fuck" in it?
Nobody takes into consideration the serious environmental impact of C++ over PHP when it comes to designing, implementing and debugging applications, which take much more time and stress people more. They eat more, they shit more, they breath faster, they need to spend more time working and most of them don't live close enough to the office to walk so they either drive or use public transportation. It takes a lot longer to learn C++ than PHP, therefore the developers will be wasting a lot of time without actually producing anything. Why would PHP be 10 times slower than C++ on the web, when most of the work is done by the [most likely written in C] database engine?
In short: TFA is comparing apples to oranges and says that oranges have 10 times more juice than apples after particularly squeezing that exact amount from them.
The sports stories are the worse.
I’ll just leave this here.
I won't:
I've saw
Off-topic, I would like to answer to that one: yes, they might count as an evil corporation. Their "news" is usually what regular people are saying, which don't know squat about what's really going on. I've heard countless stupid and untrue things in their interviews, which are full of biased opinions. The upside is that you have a source of information that tells you what is going on; the downside is that you can't trust them to tell you why that is happening.
Well... damn! I tried to search for information on "ARM" by completely avoiding to type "arm" in Google, thinking that it would only give me information about the human arm. I guess Google is a smarter than I thought and I find that frightening. Thank you for helping me out.
YABA
WTF is ARM?
What you guys need is some sort of regulator that will regulate everything by assigning new regulators every once in a while.
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Business charges $0 for its product, runs out of cash due to lack of viable revenue. Details at 11.
Unless you're Google and can sell tons of ads, "free" is not going to survive.
Yes, I'm sure that none of those millions of websites that survive only by ads revenue will go down any day now, including one of my pet projects that hasn't been updated since last year and still generates over $200/month from [non-Google] ad clicks.
How is this a novel step forward?
But it's so cool! When someone calls in for support, I could say "let me go to the other computer; now let me switch to my work tab; now let me switch to my browsers tab; now let me switch to the customer support tab; oops, sorry, i accidentally opened my porn tab."