I know that this being/. that people like to bash Trump at every opportunity (even when unwarranted), but isn't this problem one of crappy cert management?
Waiting until the very last minute before renewing a cert isn't a Best Practice. It's not like your wasting money by renewing a cert early.
I'll be content with... the fact that I have no nagging wife, kids, or roommates to deal with. I'll be content with being able to surf everyday after work because I'm not stuck in school. I'll be content with having free time and money for dating and crawling pubs because I don't have any homework to do.
No wife, kids, and surfing the web in between getting knackered? You are a wild man, I want to party with you!
I'll give you a shout when I'm at DisneyWorld, or wherever else you're living your man-child life.
I'd rather not have the option myself. Having Flash available is a disincentive to creating a better HTML5 experience suitable for mobile devices. With Flash available, mobile site developers can just create their sites and call it a day, regardless of how poor the experience is.
Not having the fallback means that you have no alternative but to create suitable code in order to reach mobile users. Since Flash for whatever reason already encourages lazy development, it would be better that the option didn't exist at all.
Websites written in HTML have all kinds of issues when rending on different platforms and browsers, for some reason HTML encourages developers to be lazy. To fix this problem, in iOS5 Steve is removing HTML rendering from the browser. Boy am I happy that Apple is single-handedly trying to improve things for all of us! If only every tech company had the guts to question the status quo!
Oh yeah, esp. the "Dateline" during the East Coast drivetime: "OK Jim-Bob, you're trying to score a date with Ethyl from Idaho using the words 'stupid' and 'yawn'" Now that's what I call Entertainment! Sheesh.
Didn't you get the memo?He was prosecuted at tremendous taxpayer expense, and sprung by a jury that wanted to "stick it to the pigs". It made all the papers.
LOL! It may lose a couple of points for accuracy, but I like the way you put it, A-
I'm sure this class-warfare rhetoric of yoursgoes over great with impressionable undergrads, but the fact of the matter is that wealth doesn't shield anyone from prosecution.
Yeah, you tell him!! Justice works! Power to the People! Oh, wait a minute, what about Orenthal "The Juice" Simpson? And Global Crossing's CEO/Chairman Gary Winnick who paid off --err, donated-- enough to both sides of the political fence so that he would not face prosecution? Not only were no charges brought, but on Christmas Eve, Ass-croft announced that there wouldn't even be any f-king investigation.
Justice works, it just seems to work better for you if you're rich.
As far as using this new cultural background idea, it sounds more like a way to block people out based off of race (that's racism folks).
Gee, thanks for the linguistics lesson, Einstein.
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Me: "Alex, I'll take 'Fallacious Arguments' for $200"
Alex: "The original poster said, What if I but don't much care about my cultural background or simply have not learned about it, what then?
Me: "What is 'too damn bad'?"
Alex: "Correct!"
(You get why this is funny, right? That I'm using a "cultural reference," the common game show Jeopardy, to poke fun at your criticism about cultural reference? I'm just pointing it out in case you don't care about the contemporary past-time called "game shows"?)
Otherwise whats stoping me from grabbing this 10 meg spreadsheet with all kindsa of useful customer info on it and emailing it to myself at home?
...or putting 100 such spreadsheets on a 1G USB thumbdrive that I can pick up at OfficeBestCompStaplesMax? The road warrior that has a laptop with a 60GB hard drive? Or how about the mobile worker on a VPN connection that can download an unlimited amount of data?
I don't think Negroponte or any other "owner" is going to be exploiting starving children or their poor governments in order to buy shiny red Ferraris.
You go with that. Maybe I'm bitter and jaded, but Executive-level malfeasance is not limited to for-profit corporations (n.b. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Winter_Olympic_b id_scandal/). Mark my words, there will be misappropriations and excesses, just not as egregious as a Fortune 500 company. I.e., a Cadillac or BMW instead of a Ferrari, or large contibutions to the Executive's charity of choice.
Wouldn't you consider replacing human cashiers with self-checkout machines a form out outsourcing? The end result is the same.
Very interesting point! People will say "there's no way we could replace all cashiers! They perform a useful service." Yet, look at how many gas station attendants there are (outside of NJ, of course). Now, you have a Hess station with 16 pumps and a single person behind the counter, who also happens to supervise its quick-e-mart too.
Surely you must be joking, who would consider hitting buttons like a monkey on Jolt watching crap going by on a moving belt a career? Maybe a "job for life" but certainly not a career. How many little boys or girls say to their parents, "When I grow up I want to be a checkout clerk!"
But, there is a bright side, unlike software development, cashiering cannot be outsourced.
I call bullshit on this, not in your specific case, but for local media in general. With the downsizing of local media and subsequently overworked reporters, any reporting that they can get others to do seems to be gladly received. In my Western NY city, the coverage of the local government's pet project-du-jour always gets top billing in the most positive light. Then, if some cost overruns or shenanigans are revealed, the local media is "shocked, shocked, I tell you!". I don't know about your spouse, but our local reporters make Kent Brockman look like Bob Woodward. Here's an actual apocryphal transcript of a local "investigative" reporter phone call:
"Hello, I'm Joe Reporter from Channel 10, is it true that you were involved with channeling government money thru a shell corportation to your own pockets?"
"Why, that's preposterous, it's simply not true!"
"OK, well, glad we could clear that up, thank you very much for your time. "
Not only Walmart. I did once a report for a police dept on the effectivness of various hi-tech deterrents, and they recommend that only 30% of all red-light camera boxes hold actual units. 2/3s of the units only hold flash units.
Interesting!
Cameras are to be rotated on a bi-weekly schedule.
Of course, the semi-intelligent person realizes that with that many cameras, and with the staffing levels at places like Wal-Mart, they can't possibly be actively watching all the cameras, all the time, particularly if every dome on the cieling [sic] was real.
You may know that most of them are fake, but figuring out *which* ones are fake is the trick of it, that's why they don't make the domes clear:-)
because I could, theoretically, market directly to Geek Squad's customers and raise my prices, but only to a level where my company would be undercutting Geek Squad
Yeah, let us know how it goes getting ad space in the weekly Best Buy sale circular for "Ferguson's PC Repair".
I agree, micropayments would be great. But FTA: "Google plans to charge merchants a 2.2% commission on a sale, plus 30 cents per transaction using its payment service, according to people briefed on Google's pricing. That is higher than Pay-Pal's lowest published rate of a 1.9% commission plus 30 cents per transaction."
So looks like micropayments are off the table for now. Oh, and notice the misleading part about "lowest published rate"? IIRC their rate for smaller transactions is 2.9%*, further gouging you on small amounts. The 1.9% rate only applies if you have over 100k in monthly sales.
Right now you are, among aother things, arguing that it is essential for a well-functioning market to allow the seller to unilaterally change the contract (e.g. revocinga all your songs) for any or no reason and at any time after the deal is done, signed and paid.
How do you get that out of what he said?? Is this just a thinly veiled use of the Chewbacca Defense?
But I save my outrage for crimes that have actual victims, of which there are far too many anyway.
This really is the bottom line! The courts are being wasted (and indirectly our tax dollars too!) with this drivel when we as a nation and justice system could be doing more important things. How many collective man-hours have been wasted on just this one slashdot article instead of doing something (anything!) more useful, just because some stupid-ass organization wants to maintain their slipping strangehold on music and movie profits?? Don't we as a society have something better to do? Ok, Ok, I'll sit down and shut up now:-)
If you and your spouse have a matching pair of AKs and a few 30 round mags, you have a fighting chance.
OK, I was 100% with you up until this little bout of hyperbole, which helps nobody. The ad-homineim attacks will be running aplenty with this, so here's some troll repellent:
"Yeah, my wife and I always pack AKs when we visit the supermarket, one never knows what kind of crazies will be shopping!"
"I always bring my AKs camping because of the drunk kooks"
"We always gear up because of them 'burb lynch mobs, yo!"
"Packin' at the liquor store is required, cuz ya never know when a robbery will happen. Same for banks and post offices too!"
"So if I'm not married or only have one magazine, am I doomed to be lynched?"
Like I said, except for that the comment was very good.
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I know that this being /. that people like to bash Trump at every opportunity (even when unwarranted), but isn't this problem one of crappy cert management?
Waiting until the very last minute before renewing a cert isn't a Best Practice. It's not like your wasting money by renewing a cert early.
etc.
I'll be content with ... the fact that I have no nagging wife, kids, or roommates to deal with. I'll be content with being able to surf everyday after work because I'm not stuck in school. I'll be content with having free time and money for dating and crawling pubs because I don't have any homework to do.
No wife, kids, and surfing the web in between getting knackered? You are a wild man, I want to party with you! I'll give you a shout when I'm at DisneyWorld, or wherever else you're living your man-child life.
A factory farm is ... strewn with feces six-inches deep and animals literally one foot in the grave.
You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
So robots can now replicate what my 2 year old does daily? Time to stock up NOW! on food and weapons to survive the coming robot horde!
I'd rather not have the option myself. Having Flash available is a disincentive to creating a better HTML5 experience suitable for mobile devices. With Flash available, mobile site developers can just create their sites and call it a day, regardless of how poor the experience is.
Not having the fallback means that you have no alternative but to create suitable code in order to reach mobile users. Since Flash for whatever reason already encourages lazy development, it would be better that the option didn't exist at all.
Websites written in HTML have all kinds of issues when rending on different platforms and browsers, for some reason HTML encourages developers to be lazy. To fix this problem, in iOS5 Steve is removing HTML rendering from the browser. Boy am I happy that Apple is single-handedly trying to improve things for all of us! If only every tech company had the guts to question the status quo!
Oh yeah, esp. the "Dateline" during the East Coast drivetime: "OK Jim-Bob, you're trying to score a date with Ethyl from Idaho using the words 'stupid' and 'yawn'" Now that's what I call Entertainment! Sheesh.
Yeah, you tell him!! Justice works! Power to the People! Oh, wait a minute, what about Orenthal "The Juice" Simpson? And Global Crossing's CEO/Chairman Gary Winnick who paid off --err, donated-- enough to both sides of the political fence so that he would not face prosecution? Not only were no charges brought, but on Christmas Eve, Ass-croft announced that there wouldn't even be any f-king investigation.
Justice works, it just seems to work better for you if you're rich.
Gee, thanks for the linguistics lesson, Einstein.
------------
Me: "Alex, I'll take 'Fallacious Arguments' for $200"
Alex: "The original poster said, What if I but don't much care about my cultural background or simply have not learned about it, what then?
Me: "What is 'too damn bad'?"
Alex: "Correct!"
(You get why this is funny, right? That I'm using a "cultural reference," the common game show Jeopardy, to poke fun at your criticism about cultural reference? I'm just pointing it out in case you don't care about the contemporary past-time called "game shows"?)
...or putting 100 such spreadsheets on a 1G USB thumbdrive that I can pick up at OfficeBestCompStaplesMax? The road warrior that has a laptop with a 60GB hard drive? Or how about the mobile worker on a VPN connection that can download an unlimited amount of data?
You go with that. Maybe I'm bitter and jaded, but Executive-level malfeasance is not limited to for-profit corporations (n.b. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Winter_Olympic_b id_scandal/). Mark my words, there will be misappropriations and excesses, just not as egregious as a Fortune 500 company. I.e., a Cadillac or BMW instead of a Ferrari, or large contibutions to the Executive's charity of choice.
Surely you must be joking, who would consider hitting buttons like a monkey on Jolt watching crap going by on a moving belt a career? Maybe a "job for life" but certainly not a career. How many little boys or girls say to their parents, "When I grow up I want to be a checkout clerk!"
But, there is a bright side, unlike software development, cashiering cannot be outsourced.
You may know that most of them are fake, but figuring out *which* ones are fake is the trick of it, that's why they don't make the domes clear :-)
Yeah, let us know how it goes getting ad space in the weekly Best Buy sale circular for "Ferguson's PC Repair".
So looks like micropayments are off the table for now. Oh, and notice the misleading part about "lowest published rate"? IIRC their rate for smaller transactions is 2.9%*, further gouging you on small amounts. The 1.9% rate only applies if you have over 100k in monthly sales.
* https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display -receiving-fees-outside
LOL, it's not German at all but actually from Das Blinkenlightst ml/
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Blinkenlights
See: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/blinkenlights.h
I'm Jim Thorpe, and I approve this message.
This really is the bottom line! The courts are being wasted (and indirectly our tax dollars too!) with this drivel when we as a nation and justice system could be doing more important things. How many collective man-hours have been wasted on just this one slashdot article instead of doing something (anything!) more useful, just because some stupid-ass organization wants to maintain their slipping strangehold on music and movie profits?? Don't we as a society have something better to do? Ok, Ok, I'll sit down and shut up now :-)
Like I said, except for that the comment was very good.