every human on earth can trace their ancestry back to someone who may have lived as recently as the Golden Age of Greece (around 500 BC)
. . . is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Did they previously think that perhaps some of us just spontaneously appeared out of thin air, and do not have any ancestors from that time period?
One of my colleagues at AOL has developed a solution that enables AJAX applications to work with the JAWS screen reader. With it, JAWS detects and reads parts of the page that are updated dynamically with an XMLHttpRequest, or really with any other DOM update -- it's not just limited to AJAX stuff. It's done with standard (but really clever) JavaScript.
He's working right now to figure out how to get it out to the world. Once it's made available, I'm not sure where it will be announced. If you'd like, feel free to fire me an email at "bkocik at gmail dot com" and I'll be happy to let you know once it's ready.
I'll be the first to admit I was using my Mac's "stickies" to keep track of the password for the first six months.
Just an FYI - in the future, consider using Keychain for this. If you poke around in the Keychain Access utility a bit, you'll see it offers a "Secure Note" facility that's quite handy for this sort of thing.
Wow, I didn't know slashdot put the URL in brackets for you after links
This is a function of your settings. If you look in your preferences on the "Comments" tab, near the bottom of that page is a section called "Display Link Domains?"
The settings there dictate whether or not you see the domain of a link in brackets after the link in a comment. Note that this is not about comments you post, it's about comments you view.
U of MD (even the online courses) and UMUC are not the same school, though they're part of the same university system, their campuses are right next door to one another, and as a UMUC student myself I sometimes take classes on the UMD campus in College Park.
It amazes me how many people have full faith in our legal system when the system is horribly, horribly broken nearly to the point of being purposely evil. There are people out there--lots of them--who honestly believe that innocent people have nothing to fear from the system, despite that there are hundreds upon hundreds of stories of corruption and injustice that leave innocent people rotting in prisons. Prosecutors lie, police lie (not all of them in either case, but enough to make it treacherous at best), and bloodthirsty juries will believe anything and convict on very flimsy evidence and the testimony of eyewitnesses. If someone says they saw you do it, that's usually enough for a jury (I read an article about that somewhere; sorry that I don't have a reference). It happens all the time.
Let me say that again: It happens all the time.
We have laws that prevent innocent people from proving their innocence if there weren't blatant procedural mistakes made in their original trial. "Yes, we know you didn't do it, but since your conviction was legally sound, you're screwed." The list goes on and on. It both saddens and disgusts me that our system is this way, and it shocks me to the core that so many people are so blissfully--and even willfully--ignorant of it. Innocent people have plenty to fear from our system, whether they accept it or not.
Where is your outrage? (That question's not directed at the parent poster, obviously.)
Heh . . . I had missed that. It was not, however, lost on me that the world's first mention of the www also contains what has to be the world's first now-dead link:
Documentation is readable using www (Plain text of the instalation instructions
is included in the tar file!). Document
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
is as good a place to start as any. Note these coordinates may change with
later releases.
Unless you already created your AIM account while the AOL account was opened, which he did.
Ahh, see, I didn't get that impression from his post. Since he said that his account was created before AIM existed, I took it to mean he was using an AOL SN with AIM (which you can do without creating a seperate AIM account). I didn't infer that he had gone and created an AIM account with the SN. In fact, I didn't know you could do that, and I didn't know that if you did, it would ensure that the AIM account outlived the AOL account.
So, my apologies if my answer was wrong, or based on incorrect assumptions.
Is it possible to use an AOL account on AIM after that plan that account was on is canceled?
No. When the AOL account that the screen name belongs to is canceled, all of it's screen names will be locked in a "reserved" status for 6 months or more. You will not be able to register your SN as an AIM name or in the creation of a new AOL account until the waiting period is over and the SN's are freed up.
While I was shopping for a home and a mortgage, I was using Experian's "CreditExpert" service to keep an eye on my report. One day, they put someone else's overdue credit card bill on my report, and bumped my score down 22 points. When I reported this to them, they deleted the entry. My score came back up - 13 points. Not a single other entry on my report had changed. Not one word, comma, period, or character (believe me, I diff'd them). Experian refused to discuss with me why I didn't get the full 22 points back. "We can't divulge how scores are calculated, it's a trade secret."
Nearly a year ago Sprint overcharged me on my phone bill. I called them up, and they promised to fix it. A short while later, my service was disconnected. I'll spare you the details, and just say that I've gone back and forth on this issue with them for months - they promise to fix the billing issue, later they disconnect my service, I call them up and they promise to fix it again, ad infinitum. Now they've transferred the erroneous charges to a collection agency who calls me at least three times a day, and Sprint will not discuss the matter with me because "now that it's been turned over to a third party, it's out of our hands." Bastards. Of course, the collection agency doesn't want to hear that the debt is invalid; they bought it from Sprint, so it's valid to them.
Once upon a time I had a land line through Verizon. Then I decided I didn't need it anymore, so I called up and asked them to cancel it, and paid off the final bill at the same time. A week or two later I get a notice from a collection agency asking for the same amount I'd paid Verizon. It turns out that when you cancel your phone service with them, they *automatically* turn you over to collections, whether or not you owe them anything. That marks the last time I will ever do business with them.
You're right, this sort of stuff goes on way too much.
I can't really vouch for anything outside of their call center environment.
I can. I'm a Sr. Software Engineer here, formerly a Sr. Unix Admin. I've been here a few years, and am largely happy with the place. They're not perfect, like any other employer, but I'd say they're a better employer than many. The pay is very good, the working conditions are outstanding (at least in Dulles and Reston), the perks are nice, and most of the managers I've worked for have been pretty easy going types.
It's one of those places that, speaking from my own experience, if you deliver in your job you're treated like a professional, and an adult. It's never been a problem if I need to come in a little late, leave a little early, work from home, or take a day off. They're great about that sort of thing.
Yeah, I like it here. Hopefully you (the parent) will, too if you get in. Good luck to you.
Slashdot Mirror
That's gotta be rough on the eyes.
I would call it "Enron Paper".
every human on earth can trace their ancestry back to someone who may have lived as recently as the Golden Age of Greece (around 500 BC)
. . . is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Did they previously think that perhaps some of us just spontaneously appeared out of thin air, and do not have any ancestors from that time period?
+5: Awesome. :)
One of my colleagues at AOL has developed a solution that enables AJAX applications to work with the JAWS screen reader. With it, JAWS detects and reads parts of the page that are updated dynamically with an XMLHttpRequest, or really with any other DOM update -- it's not just limited to AJAX stuff. It's done with standard (but really clever) JavaScript.
He's working right now to figure out how to get it out to the world. Once it's made available, I'm not sure where it will be announced. If you'd like, feel free to fire me an email at "bkocik at gmail dot com" and I'll be happy to let you know once it's ready.
AOL bought Broadcast.com for Internet stock . . .
Umm. AOL didn't buy Brodcast.com for any price, stock, cash, or otherwise. Yahoo bought them.
If only I had mod points today, I would gladly spend them on you simply for introducing me to the word "twatwaffle".
That rules.
Just an FYI - in the future, consider using Keychain for this. If you poke around in the Keychain Access utility a bit, you'll see it offers a "Secure Note" facility that's quite handy for this sort of thing.
SpotDark? Wow, that's clever.
Okay, not really.
This is a function of your settings. If you look in your preferences on the "Comments" tab, near the bottom of that page is a section called "Display Link Domains?"
The settings there dictate whether or not you see the domain of a link in brackets after the link in a comment. Note that this is not about comments you post, it's about comments you view.
U of MD (even the online courses) and UMUC are not the same school, though they're part of the same university system, their campuses are right next door to one another, and as a UMUC student myself I sometimes take classes on the UMD campus in College Park.
UMD offers EE degrees, UMUC does not.
You saw it here first.
Strict vegetarians do eventually die.
=)
It amazes me how many people have full faith in our legal system when the system is horribly, horribly broken nearly to the point of being purposely evil. There are people out there--lots of them--who honestly believe that innocent people have nothing to fear from the system, despite that there are hundreds upon hundreds of stories of corruption and injustice that leave innocent people rotting in prisons. Prosecutors lie, police lie (not all of them in either case, but enough to make it treacherous at best), and bloodthirsty juries will believe anything and convict on very flimsy evidence and the testimony of eyewitnesses. If someone says they saw you do it, that's usually enough for a jury (I read an article about that somewhere; sorry that I don't have a reference). It happens all the time.
Let me say that again: It happens all the time.
We have laws that prevent innocent people from proving their innocence if there weren't blatant procedural mistakes made in their original trial. "Yes, we know you didn't do it, but since your conviction was legally sound, you're screwed." The list goes on and on. It both saddens and disgusts me that our system is this way, and it shocks me to the core that so many people are so blissfully--and even willfully--ignorant of it. Innocent people have plenty to fear from our system, whether they accept it or not.
Where is your outrage? (That question's not directed at the parent poster, obviously.)
Clearly I'm offtopic, but, well, screw it.
Documentation is readable using www (Plain text of the instalation instructions is included in the tar file!). Document
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
is as good a place to start as any. Note these coordinates may change with later releases.
Ahh, see, I didn't get that impression from his post. Since he said that his account was created before AIM existed, I took it to mean he was using an AOL SN with AIM (which you can do without creating a seperate AIM account). I didn't infer that he had gone and created an AIM account with the SN. In fact, I didn't know you could do that, and I didn't know that if you did, it would ensure that the AIM account outlived the AOL account.
So, my apologies if my answer was wrong, or based on incorrect assumptions.
No. When the AOL account that the screen name belongs to is canceled, all of it's screen names will be locked in a "reserved" status for 6 months or more. You will not be able to register your SN as an AIM name or in the creation of a new AOL account until the waiting period is over and the SN's are freed up.
Have they?
A Brief History of AOL
Here's my "me too!" post:
While I was shopping for a home and a mortgage, I was using Experian's "CreditExpert" service to keep an eye on my report. One day, they put someone else's overdue credit card bill on my report, and bumped my score down 22 points. When I reported this to them, they deleted the entry. My score came back up - 13 points. Not a single other entry on my report had changed. Not one word, comma, period, or character (believe me, I diff'd them). Experian refused to discuss with me why I didn't get the full 22 points back. "We can't divulge how scores are calculated, it's a trade secret."
Nearly a year ago Sprint overcharged me on my phone bill. I called them up, and they promised to fix it. A short while later, my service was disconnected. I'll spare you the details, and just say that I've gone back and forth on this issue with them for months - they promise to fix the billing issue, later they disconnect my service, I call them up and they promise to fix it again, ad infinitum. Now they've transferred the erroneous charges to a collection agency who calls me at least three times a day, and Sprint will not discuss the matter with me because "now that it's been turned over to a third party, it's out of our hands." Bastards. Of course, the collection agency doesn't want to hear that the debt is invalid; they bought it from Sprint, so it's valid to them.
Once upon a time I had a land line through Verizon. Then I decided I didn't need it anymore, so I called up and asked them to cancel it, and paid off the final bill at the same time. A week or two later I get a notice from a collection agency asking for the same amount I'd paid Verizon. It turns out that when you cancel your phone service with them, they *automatically* turn you over to collections, whether or not you owe them anything. That marks the last time I will ever do business with them.
You're right, this sort of stuff goes on way too much.
Really? It was like an unholy "bet in which you pick the first three winners of a horse race" of the English language?
40% think that we should teach just creationism in schools.
I dare you to reconcile those two statements. (Hint: What's 68 + 40?)
I can. I'm a Sr. Software Engineer here, formerly a Sr. Unix Admin. I've been here a few years, and am largely happy with the place. They're not perfect, like any other employer, but I'd say they're a better employer than many. The pay is very good, the working conditions are outstanding (at least in Dulles and Reston), the perks are nice, and most of the managers I've worked for have been pretty easy going types.
It's one of those places that, speaking from my own experience, if you deliver in your job you're treated like a professional, and an adult. It's never been a problem if I need to come in a little late, leave a little early, work from home, or take a day off. They're great about that sort of thing.
Yeah, I like it here. Hopefully you (the parent) will, too if you get in. Good luck to you.
I have mod points right now, but I couldn't find the "Certainly *looks* informative, but how the hell would I know?" option.
Dude...that quote is priceless. May I steal it?
=)