Yeah we all know that Paypal, SpaceX, and Tesla have contributed nothing to the world, definitely no economic activity... And Linus has a vision man, a true vision. I hear he is planning a major change to the kernel.... number.
Sarcasm aside, some very clever computer programmer's pet project becoming foundational in our world due to the dedication of 10s of thousands of people is quite a bit different from a visionary who attempts to completely change every industry he touches.
If Linus wants to be worshiped he should actually *try* and change the world, rather than just being happen when it happens.
You're allowed to defend yourself in most countries. The difference is if your attacker isn't from the USA you may stand a chance.
Sidenote: I thank god that I live in a country where obtaining a gun is incredibly difficult. Being hospitalised 15 years ago with cuts to my hand because someone tried to stab me would have gone very differently had the assailant had a gun.
And before someone says I could defend myself, or someone would have defended me, allow me to preempt you: bull-fucking-shit.
Because an argument that lead to one of the parties getting to pissed off they decided to find the other in meatspace so that could stab them to death can't have ended particularly well...
Given the rarity of such an event it's pretty safe to say that this wasn't a typical internet argument....
Please don't stab me for my difference in opinion.
Seems to me that he either didn't practice what he lectured on, or his lecture probably wasn't worth attending....
The worlds greatest experts in their field aren't 100% right 100% of the time. Especially when it comes to lectures about the human psyche they are ALL worth attending, if for no other reason than to gather yet another data point in the wide and very varied set that is data on human interaction.
I would also point out the true outlier case here. Internet abuse happens on a daily basis all over the world. But it's very rare to hear that someone actually gets murdered over it (suicide is far more common). This is no different than saying that you can't believe anything a certain police officer ever did was right because someone robbed him.
Average end user doesn't even notice when a major site isn't EV
It is literally the difference between a greenlock, and half the URL bar lit up in bright green displaying the full registered company name.
It is a far more obvious change than an s in the URL, or a tiny colour. In some browsers an EV certificate will replace the entire URL. This is about the most obvious thing available in terms of informing users about encryption that we have come up with. Users have historically taken on the in retrospect incorrect advice of looking for the encryption lock leading to fraudsters obtaining DV certificates in an attempt to continue to look legitimate.
It is 2018. The age of blaming users for being blind is over. Vendors have provided the tools to very easily identify the information needed and it is now up to me and you to educate users about what to look for in their legitimacy of their website.
Indeed. Now feel free to translate all the companies you know into a foreign language you can't understand and into a keyboard with which you're not used to typing.
Just because you're talking about a subset of computing doesn't make it any less of a distinction without a difference.
How about a way to stop all javascript when the tab isn't active?
To what end? Revert the usefulness of the browser back to the early naughties? You do realise that the browser is now a core OS component right, and your tabs are actively running applications right?
Exactly. These silly acceleration features are exactly what cause responsiveness issues, not solve them. Every good UI programmer is supposed to know this.
What an absolute daft reply. UI responsiveness issues come up when a lot of activities queue at the same time. Starting some of them earlier and delaying others is one of the main ways to improve this responsiveness and has been part of the speed improvements from everything like UI design, background service management, kernel schedules, and even CPU design itself.
Do you want the rendering of the current page to slow down because you flicked the mouse out of view, which happened to be over a tab?
If you're spending so much time rendering the page that this is an issue then the web designer should have their testicles removed for the good of humanity.
Do you want the machine and network to slow to a crawl because you dragged the pointer across a great many tabs on the way to the one you wanted, and they all start rendering?
There is a difference between pre-fetching and pre-rendering.
Do you want even higher memory/CPU use for a product that's already considered seriously bloated?
Define higher CPU usage. Just because I do an activity earlier than planned doesn't mean I do more of it.
You're assuming that people care about the order through which they access their tabs. Honestly this article was no less interesting than the one about the possibility that we're alone in the universe that I just finished reading. It just happened that the other opened up first when I hit ctrl+4f.
For the less technical but still English speaking you should be fine as long as you only visit sites with HTTPS. No reputable CA should be signing EV certs
Okay stop right there. Is that advice there? Do you go tell your grandma that HTTPS is safe? I think what you meant to say is that you should examine the EV certificate of every site you want to hand credentials to.
I just realised... are we even on Slashdot or is some MITMer stealing my Slashdot login on this fraudulent lookalike site?
People got along just fine with ASCII back in the days.
Yeah. I look around at American English speakers and see that ASCII was just fine, so what was the problem?
Yes I am mocking your ignorance. People did NOT get along just fine in the ASCII days. Simply using a computer was an incredibly painful event for those not using the Latin alphabet. Hell it was a problem for those using derivations of the Latin alphabet that weren't uniquely English.
I've used a lot of plastic bags quite a few times.
Out of necessity or out of environmental courtesy? One thing we have learnt over the years is that latter doesn't work. The one person who looks after the environment won't offset the other who runs his heater in one room, AC in the other and leaves the door open between them.
Banning plastic bags forces this issue towards necessity. I too had a re-use bag when I go shopping. I have for many years. I also used biodegradable bin liners. Yet when shops started charging for plastic bags years back people thought the world would end. End result a lot of behaviors changed.
This is also why for the global warming debate we need to start thinking of mitigation rather than prevention. The human race is too up itself to achieve prevention en mass.
Yes, single reuse of the worst kind of plastic, the kind that breaks down into small pieces and enters the food cycle. Banning them at least make people aware of alternatives, such as biodegradable bin liners. The rest of the plastic cycle of stupidity is the same. Ban straws and people may realise lips can do more than just making a duck face for instagram.
But ultimately we as a species are screwed. People can't think beyond what they are told to believe. It's like when my workplace tried to deal with it's plastic problem by replacing the plastic cups in the coffee machine with paper/wax ones. Do you know what would work even better? Getting people to bring in their own mugs and rinse it out at the end of the day.
Person A might spend 100 grand on a really nice sports car.
And then he'll drive it through a school zone at 30km/h. Quite an apt comparison to what the GP quoted: "No, you can't really wear it or put anything in that pocket, but look at the face of the other players when they see how fabulous your character is looking now!* Note: Other players' faces may or may not be visible."
Many of the activities we do in our live are pointeless by the GP's standards.
No, you can't really wear it or put anything in that pocket, but look at the face of the other players when they see how fabulous your character is looking now!*
Are we still talking about a game, or are you reflecting on life itself?
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Yeah we all know that Paypal, SpaceX, and Tesla have contributed nothing to the world, definitely no economic activity ... And Linus has a vision man, a true vision. I hear he is planning a major change to the kernel .... number.
Sarcasm aside, some very clever computer programmer's pet project becoming foundational in our world due to the dedication of 10s of thousands of people is quite a bit different from a visionary who attempts to completely change every industry he touches.
If Linus wants to be worshiped he should actually *try* and change the world, rather than just being happen when it happens.
You're allowed to defend yourself in most countries. The difference is if your attacker isn't from the USA you may stand a chance.
Sidenote: I thank god that I live in a country where obtaining a gun is incredibly difficult. Being hospitalised 15 years ago with cuts to my hand because someone tried to stab me would have gone very differently had the assailant had a gun.
And before someone says I could defend myself, or someone would have defended me, allow me to preempt you: bull-fucking-shit.
Killing somebody in anger is only "easy' if you're a psychopath.
No. That's the exact opposite of a psychopath. A psychopath is able to kill someone easily without external influence of emotions on his thought.
Because an argument that lead to one of the parties getting to pissed off they decided to find the other in meatspace so that could stab them to death can't have ended particularly well...
Given the rarity of such an event it's pretty safe to say that this wasn't a typical internet argument. ...
Please don't stab me for my difference in opinion.
Seems to me that he either didn't practice what he lectured on, or his lecture probably wasn't worth attending....
The worlds greatest experts in their field aren't 100% right 100% of the time. Especially when it comes to lectures about the human psyche they are ALL worth attending, if for no other reason than to gather yet another data point in the wide and very varied set that is data on human interaction.
I would also point out the true outlier case here. Internet abuse happens on a daily basis all over the world. But it's very rare to hear that someone actually gets murdered over it (suicide is far more common). This is no different than saying that you can't believe anything a certain police officer ever did was right because someone robbed him.
Make them come over to your side instead.
You must be new here. Or on the blue team. The blue team is always wrong.
Average end user doesn't even notice when a major site isn't EV
It is literally the difference between a greenlock, and half the URL bar lit up in bright green displaying the full registered company name.
It is a far more obvious change than an s in the URL, or a tiny colour. In some browsers an EV certificate will replace the entire URL. This is about the most obvious thing available in terms of informing users about encryption that we have come up with. Users have historically taken on the in retrospect incorrect advice of looking for the encryption lock leading to fraudsters obtaining DV certificates in an attempt to continue to look legitimate.
It is 2018. The age of blaming users for being blind is over. Vendors have provided the tools to very easily identify the information needed and it is now up to me and you to educate users about what to look for in their legitimacy of their website.
Seriously it doesn't take much effort. Which one is more legit when displayed to the user:
Secure: https://www.banksofaamerica.co...
Bank of America Corporation [US]: https://www.bankofamerica.com/
Claiming the users can't tell the difference is just silly.
Indeed. Now feel free to translate all the companies you know into a foreign language you can't understand and into a keyboard with which you're not used to typing.
Just because you're talking about a subset of computing doesn't make it any less of a distinction without a difference.
Tired of google changing the browser, moving the interface around and breaking things Every 6 Weeks?
*me looks at the Google browser*. "Seems like everything is where it was last year. No I'm not tired at all, but thanks for asking." /marketing fail.
How about a way to stop all javascript when the tab isn't active?
To what end? Revert the usefulness of the browser back to the early naughties? You do realise that the browser is now a core OS component right, and your tabs are actively running applications right?
If you don't like multi-tasking, install DOS.
Exactly. These silly acceleration features are exactly what cause responsiveness issues, not solve them. Every good UI programmer is supposed to know this.
What an absolute daft reply. UI responsiveness issues come up when a lot of activities queue at the same time. Starting some of them earlier and delaying others is one of the main ways to improve this responsiveness and has been part of the speed improvements from everything like UI design, background service management, kernel schedules, and even CPU design itself.
Do you want the rendering of the current page to slow down because you flicked the mouse out of view, which happened to be over a tab?
If you're spending so much time rendering the page that this is an issue then the web designer should have their testicles removed for the good of humanity.
Do you want the machine and network to slow to a crawl because you dragged the pointer across a great many tabs on the way to the one you wanted, and they all start rendering?
There is a difference between pre-fetching and pre-rendering.
Do you want even higher memory/CPU use for a product that's already considered seriously bloated?
Define higher CPU usage. Just because I do an activity earlier than planned doesn't mean I do more of it.
You're assuming that people care about the order through which they access their tabs. Honestly this article was no less interesting than the one about the possibility that we're alone in the universe that I just finished reading. It just happened that the other opened up first when I hit ctrl+4f.
Let's Encrypt will happily do it.
Lets Encrypt does not and will not issue EV certificates.
For the less technical but still English speaking you should be fine as long as you only visit sites with HTTPS. No reputable CA should be signing EV certs
Okay stop right there. Is that advice there? Do you go tell your grandma that HTTPS is safe? I think what you meant to say is that you should examine the EV certificate of every site you want to hand credentials to.
I just realised... are we even on Slashdot or is some MITMer stealing my Slashdot login on this fraudulent lookalike site?
People got along just fine with ASCII back in the days.
Yeah. I look around at American English speakers and see that ASCII was just fine, so what was the problem?
Yes I am mocking your ignorance. People did NOT get along just fine in the ASCII days. Simply using a computer was an incredibly painful event for those not using the Latin alphabet. Hell it was a problem for those using derivations of the Latin alphabet that weren't uniquely English.
Biodegradable ones. Shit man put at least some token effort into engaging your brain rather than (literally) shitting on the environment.
Or just buy the Brita waterbottle with built in filter.
I've used a lot of plastic bags quite a few times.
Out of necessity or out of environmental courtesy? One thing we have learnt over the years is that latter doesn't work. The one person who looks after the environment won't offset the other who runs his heater in one room, AC in the other and leaves the door open between them.
Banning plastic bags forces this issue towards necessity. I too had a re-use bag when I go shopping. I have for many years. I also used biodegradable bin liners. Yet when shops started charging for plastic bags years back people thought the world would end. End result a lot of behaviors changed.
This is also why for the global warming debate we need to start thinking of mitigation rather than prevention. The human race is too up itself to achieve prevention en mass.
Yes, single reuse of the worst kind of plastic, the kind that breaks down into small pieces and enters the food cycle.
Banning them at least make people aware of alternatives, such as biodegradable bin liners. The rest of the plastic cycle of stupidity is the same. Ban straws and people may realise lips can do more than just making a duck face for instagram.
But ultimately we as a species are screwed. People can't think beyond what they are told to believe. It's like when my workplace tried to deal with it's plastic problem by replacing the plastic cups in the coffee machine with paper/wax ones. Do you know what would work even better? Getting people to bring in their own mugs and rinse it out at the end of the day.
would we recognize life that is 100 000 times ... dumber than us?
Yes. That seemed to be a requirement for becoming the Press Secretary of the White House.
I know. Why not just say it's 0.33 libraries of congress high and be done with it. Or 1/3rd for the imperial folk.
Makes sense. Restaurants here are refusing to serve her, so she should go back to her home planet.
Person A might spend 100 grand on a really nice sports car.
And then he'll drive it through a school zone at 30km/h. Quite an apt comparison to what the GP quoted: "No, you can't really wear it or put anything in that pocket, but look at the face of the other players when they see how fabulous your character is looking now!* Note: Other players' faces may or may not be visible."
Many of the activities we do in our live are pointeless by the GP's standards.
No, you can't really wear it or put anything in that pocket, but look at the face of the other players when they see how fabulous your character is looking now!*
Are we still talking about a game, or are you reflecting on life itself?