It's a good thing "abc3340.com" doesn't count as "a social networking site", or else the City Council would have violated the "Don't Embarrass Us On Online Social Networking" rule already.
Maybe, but in pre-Internet times, address books were private, and the only time someone saw who was in yours was when you died and your kids were going through it to see whom they needed to call and tell. If you were crossed out of someone's, the only clue was that you stopped getting cards at Christmas or she stopped returning your calls. Nowadays, the analogous list is public, and removing someone from it is essentially a public shunning of the removee, and there is some shame that comes along with that shunning. In the long run, does it matter? Probably not, in 100 years both of you will be dead, but in the here and now, it is foolish to ignore social conventions and their consequences. If I don't talk to my dad IRL, life goes on. But if I de-friend my sister on Facebook, the entire family's going to find out.
hypocrisy n. pl -sies 1. the practice of professing standards, beliefs, etc, contrary to one's real character or actual behaviour, esp he pretence of virtue and piety (-source: World English Dictionary)
Alice bitches about the evil of Product X but makes such choices in her life so as to use more Product X than all of her friends and neighbors.
Bob points out that Person A does both, but he doesn't pretend to care one way or the other about Product X.
Alice is a hypocrite. Bob is not. Bob might be irresponsibly using Product X himself, or he might be a pompous asshole who likes to point out others' mistakes, but unless Bob at the same time explicitly points out or at least strongly implies that he does not share those self-same faults, Bob is not practicing hypocrisy.
I have the keyboard-switching applet in my systray that cycles through American English, Spanish, German, and Esperanto (those four give me all the diacriticals I need). I do recall at one point ALT-CTRL-K or something similar was a global shortcut to cycle it, instead of having to click. Yeah, that was so annoyingly convenient, I can see why they had to pull the functionality.
And if you took six VGA displays and stacked them 2x3 (something I tried to do in my college dorm, which I deny was that long ago), you still wouldn't have 1920x1080. In fact, you could have the status bar right below the cutoff that your 1080 still has. Given that there are still plenty of websites "optimized" for 800x600 or 1024x768, you're not really missing that much.
I think I see your real problem here: the hi-res porn you're looking at is in portrait, rather than landscape. That's a problem you should be taking up with the photographers, not/.
You're ignoring the fact that it wasn't all that long ago when 480 pixels was the vertical standard. Hell, I'm not even 30 and I can remember CGA in all its 640×200 glory. So what if the resolution bubble burst and we're finally finding a happy medium? There's still plenty of reason to make an intelligent use of space.
The video directs the user to state at a stationary object (and even then it's not hard to notice some progression). If you actually look at the moving objects (you know, like the way people who aren't undergoing the Ludovico Technique normally look at stuff), it's quite easy to notice what's going on.
Fact: a driver who is "not otherwise detain-able" is one who's not committing the already-existing crime of "reckless driving".
If said driver is not driving dangerously on account of his intoxication level, then any accident he's involved in is by its very nature just that—an accident. In such a case, the harm that is done to society by treating everyone as a latent criminal—from things as simple as lost time, to things as dangerous as malicious prosecutions and maintaining a general state of fear of jackbooted thuggery—far outweighs the purported good of safening the roadways from people who are dangerous on paper only. From there, the "what's next?" argument does logically extend to things like roadblock checkpoints to make sure your tire treads aren't a millimeter under regulation, or your radio isn't too loud, or indeed even to potential pedestrian offenses like needing regular shoe check-ups (because a faulty lace could result in tripping, and a trip could fall into the street, where the tripper could be hit by a car, or a driver might swerve to miss him and do more damage to an innocent pedestrian). And a "pedestrian permit" is also analogous in that it would generate every bit as much revenue as fining drivers who are only dangerous on paper.
I'm not sure when these Arabs were encountering Europeans, but during the Crusades, a lot of the Europeans tended to come and go, except for the Knights Templar, who had a permanent base of operations in the area. Guess what language guys with names like "Hugh de Payens" and "Jacques de Molay" all spoke?
She blatantly accused an adulteree of wrongdoing, calling him a "hacker" in the pejorative, press-release parlance of the word.
In the process, she stuck up for a guy who beats women—and possibly children—in so doing, preventing said children's concerned parents from ensuring their safety.
Yeah, "just trying to clarify the issue" sounds like the most rational explanation here.
Every Russian bureaucrat who benefits from the government's coders' access to source code, or simply has access to a computer to do his job (or just plain has a job) because they're not locked in to one proprietary vendor is an end user who "gains" something from the GPL. I'm not a programmer (well, not much of one) but to say the GPL doesn't affect me is just plain wrong.
I thought that when I saw the photo in the article along with the prosecutor's contention that he possessed some sort of unnatural skill at "hacking" because he read the paper on which his wife wrote all her passwords that she kept next to the computer. In other words, due either to institutional racism or affirmative action lowering the bar so far, black people are no longer expected by our legal system to be literate or have any sort of basic problem-solving skills.
Only for the past hundred years or so has "love" been seen as a valid factor in either forming or maintaining a marriage. For most of human history, including the time when most of the groundwork concerning the legal principles of marriage, it was simply a fact of life that you just did because society expected it and economically you needed kids (and due to inheritance laws before genetic testing was possible, a "reasonable" legal expectation of knowing whose kids were whose was needed). Most of the time you didn't even get to pick the person who you were married, because (a) knowing and "loving" the person you were marrying was seen as irrelevant to the social construct that was being legally protected, and (b) who wants to do all the work of investigating partners when you have a cousin who also just turned 12?
My first thought was that he just went to Gmail and let the browser's stored password do the work. Then I read TFA: "Leon Walker told the Free Press he routinely used the computer and that she kept all of her passwords in a small book next to the computer."
So no. He didn't "guess" the password. He didn't have to—she gave it to him. By this lawyer's logic, someone who enters a building via a door that has the word "PUSH" written on it is a master catburglar.
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It's a good thing "abc3340.com" doesn't count as "a social networking site", or else the City Council would have violated the "Don't Embarrass Us On Online Social Networking" rule already.
Maybe, but in pre-Internet times, address books were private, and the only time someone saw who was in yours was when you died and your kids were going through it to see whom they needed to call and tell. If you were crossed out of someone's, the only clue was that you stopped getting cards at Christmas or she stopped returning your calls. Nowadays, the analogous list is public, and removing someone from it is essentially a public shunning of the removee, and there is some shame that comes along with that shunning. In the long run, does it matter? Probably not, in 100 years both of you will be dead, but in the here and now, it is foolish to ignore social conventions and their consequences. If I don't talk to my dad IRL, life goes on. But if I de-friend my sister on Facebook, the entire family's going to find out.
hypocrisy n. pl -sies
1. the practice of professing standards, beliefs, etc, contrary to one's real character or actual behaviour, esp he pretence of virtue and piety (-source: World English Dictionary)
Alice bitches about the evil of Product X but makes such choices in her life so as to use more Product X than all of her friends and neighbors.
Bob points out that Person A does both, but he doesn't pretend to care one way or the other about Product X.
Alice is a hypocrite. Bob is not. Bob might be irresponsibly using Product X himself, or he might be a pompous asshole who likes to point out others' mistakes, but unless Bob at the same time explicitly points out or at least strongly implies that he does not share those self-same faults, Bob is not practicing hypocrisy.
I have the keyboard-switching applet in my systray that cycles through American English, Spanish, German, and Esperanto (those four give me all the diacriticals I need). I do recall at one point ALT-CTRL-K or something similar was a global shortcut to cycle it, instead of having to click. Yeah, that was so annoyingly convenient, I can see why they had to pull the functionality.
they'd put Ksirtet back in kdegames. At one point, I was 81st in the world on its worldwide high scores board, and that was my life's peak.
Not the Fonz.
Is that Boom Boom riding a Koopa Troopa?
All I see is the Æ ligature (U+00C6). That's in Latin-1.
Tell me again, where the *$!@ did all the dancing hamsters go?
Oh, that's right, this is /. Nevermind.
And if you took six VGA displays and stacked them 2x3 (something I tried to do in my college dorm, which I deny was that long ago), you still wouldn't have 1920x1080. In fact, you could have the status bar right below the cutoff that your 1080 still has. Given that there are still plenty of websites "optimized" for 800x600 or 1024x768, you're not really missing that much.
I think I see your real problem here: the hi-res porn you're looking at is in portrait, rather than landscape. That's a problem you should be taking up with the photographers, not /.
You're ignoring the fact that it wasn't all that long ago when 480 pixels was the vertical standard. Hell, I'm not even 30 and I can remember CGA in all its 640×200 glory. So what if the resolution bubble burst and we're finally finding a happy medium? There's still plenty of reason to make an intelligent use of space.
Yeah, but look at all the holes they shot through their cheese!
The video directs the user to state at a stationary object (and even then it's not hard to notice some progression). If you actually look at the moving objects (you know, like the way people who aren't undergoing the Ludovico Technique normally look at stuff), it's quite easy to notice what's going on.
Riiiiiight, because governments never spend more money than they have.
Fact: a driver who is "not otherwise detain-able" is one who's not committing the already-existing crime of "reckless driving".
If said driver is not driving dangerously on account of his intoxication level, then any accident he's involved in is by its very nature just that—an accident. In such a case, the harm that is done to society by treating everyone as a latent criminal—from things as simple as lost time, to things as dangerous as malicious prosecutions and maintaining a general state of fear of jackbooted thuggery—far outweighs the purported good of safening the roadways from people who are dangerous on paper only. From there, the "what's next?" argument does logically extend to things like roadblock checkpoints to make sure your tire treads aren't a millimeter under regulation, or your radio isn't too loud, or indeed even to potential pedestrian offenses like needing regular shoe check-ups (because a faulty lace could result in tripping, and a trip could fall into the street, where the tripper could be hit by a car, or a driver might swerve to miss him and do more damage to an innocent pedestrian). And a "pedestrian permit" is also analogous in that it would generate every bit as much revenue as fining drivers who are only dangerous on paper.
Hence the airporn scanners' true purpose: to help decide whose chests to colonize.
What, were you hoping TFA would surrender?
I'm not sure when these Arabs were encountering Europeans, but during the Crusades, a lot of the Europeans tended to come and go, except for the Knights Templar, who had a permanent base of operations in the area. Guess what language guys with names like "Hugh de Payens" and "Jacques de Molay" all spoke?
The Italians? I'm thinking the French would have used something like "langue française".
Yeah, "just trying to clarify the issue" sounds like the most rational explanation here.
The photo of Putin at his desk shows him wearing a shirt and not brandishing a crossbow. Everything I thought I knew is a lie!
Every Russian bureaucrat who benefits from the government's coders' access to source code, or simply has access to a computer to do his job (or just plain has a job) because they're not locked in to one proprietary vendor is an end user who "gains" something from the GPL. I'm not a programmer (well, not much of one) but to say the GPL doesn't affect me is just plain wrong.
I thought that when I saw the photo in the article along with the prosecutor's contention that he possessed some sort of unnatural skill at "hacking" because he read the paper on which his wife wrote all her passwords that she kept next to the computer. In other words, due either to institutional racism or affirmative action lowering the bar so far, black people are no longer expected by our legal system to be literate or have any sort of basic problem-solving skills.
Only for the past hundred years or so has "love" been seen as a valid factor in either forming or maintaining a marriage. For most of human history, including the time when most of the groundwork concerning the legal principles of marriage, it was simply a fact of life that you just did because society expected it and economically you needed kids (and due to inheritance laws before genetic testing was possible, a "reasonable" legal expectation of knowing whose kids were whose was needed). Most of the time you didn't even get to pick the person who you were married, because (a) knowing and "loving" the person you were marrying was seen as irrelevant to the social construct that was being legally protected, and (b) who wants to do all the work of investigating partners when you have a cousin who also just turned 12?
My first thought was that he just went to Gmail and let the browser's stored password do the work. Then I read TFA: "Leon Walker told the Free Press he routinely used the computer and that she kept all of her passwords in a small book next to the computer."
So no. He didn't "guess" the password. He didn't have to—she gave it to him. By this lawyer's logic, someone who enters a building via a door that has the word "PUSH" written on it is a master catburglar.