Which one do you think will be the "working" one? IMHO, standards only work when they're cast in stone. Otherwise, they're unreliable.
History show that web developers will use the <blink> tag. And will use javascript to do exactly what an <a href=...> can do. I'm not sure what that tells us.
> took years to hammer into people's heads the importance of including the HTML version information in their pages
Am I the only one who refuses to do that? If there's a problem with my pages, blame the W3C, and netscape, and Microsoft; they're the ones who broke things, not me.
I've had linux on 4 machines (my workstation, my g/f's workstation, my internally-facing server, my externally-facing server) for the last decade or more. I've not compiled a kernel for them once in that time. What gives you the impression that die-hard linux users are obsessed with compiling their own kernels?
And it's not that I'm incapable of configuring and compiling the linux kernel - I spend the last 3+ years compiling the linux kernel many times a day as part of my $DAYJOB.
However, you are right, grandma probably does have a fairly limited technical capability, so an iPad would probably be preferable for her.
Alas your test failed in this case - the rapist actually lives the next town over, but grew up in your town of 5000, and liked to go back there as he hated the daughter of the woman who ran the post office, who jilted him in high school.
That's actually not the failure that makes this useless. The failure is that the dangerous psychos are such a small minority of the population that even if you throw away 99% (and I'm being generous) of the relatively normals, you're still left with a huge pool of normals with just a few pschos in it. You've not made the problem of actually finding the psychos significantly easier. Now 99.99% of the people who seem suspicious are dangerous rather than 99.9999%.
This is exactly the same flaw as the face scanner tech they were proposing at airports which Bruce Schneier et al. ripped to pieces when it was first proposed.
> unless you're a charity you can't use the donate button
According to TFA, they're tax exempt, just like the other political parties who are using a donate button.
Is this incompetence on google's part, or is it malice? Google are notoriously incompetent, I have proof of this as another one of their head-hunters approached me the other day, apparently unaware of the fact that I repeatedly say that they both are evil and suck. They'd better hope they're incompetent, as if it's malice I reckon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnd5ilKx2Y) that it will reach court otherwise. (But they have the bigger lawyers, so can probably buy a victory.)
""" you are the line of defense between you and your family surviving unscathed, or being tied up and watching your wife get raped and shot, etc. This isn't kindergarten, it's real life. """
There was a real case in the UK news just over a decade ago of a guy who stormed, mostly naked, into a church wielding an oriental sword and started indiscriminately attacking people. Not only were his few victims only non-fatally wounded, but he was restrained by a couple of people who attacked back using the processional crucifixes.
The problem there is that you've provided data for civilized countries with high gun ownership. That's not comparing like with like. America should be compared against other barbaric countries with high gun ownership.
Note that whilst that was clearly presented in a flamebaity way for comic effect, it's not that different from the "don't blame the guns" counterarguments that are often seen - the NRA 'script', as it's sometimes called.
However, unlike the NRA, I would say that whilst the country remains barbaric, it should seriously reconsider its gun laws, with a view to making it harder for them to end up in the hands of homicidal maniacs.
Thank goodness, there's no gender in Finnish and Estonian. I often hear Finns in English just use 'he' and 'she' interchangably, likewise 'him' and 'her' etc. .
I don't hang around Estonian speakers enough to have spotted this error from them yet (and most of the Estonians I know work in translation, and have excellent English).
For a laugh, when living in Finland my g/f and I decided to get some "his & hers" embroidered pillowcases, which obviously just had the same word on both them!
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/20/us/colorado-theater-shooting/index.html "President Barack Obama, who was notified of the shooting on Friday morning by his homeland security adviser, John Brennan,"
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/07/northeast_portland_man_who_str.html "Judge acquits John Brennan on indecent exposure charge"
I'm curious about the chronological order - did they drop the misdemeanor charge only after he indicated that he expressed his right for a jury trial? If so, that's heading in a direction dangerously close to double jeopardy - the prosecution defaulted on the original charge, IMHO. They shouldn't be able to just have a second attempt at a conviction for the same action.
> When I look at other Nordic languages, they look degenerate (I'm sure to them, Icelandic looks archaic)
I've seen an exact analogue of that first hand. The last 2 countries I've lived are Finland and Estonia. To Estonians, Finnish looks all old-fashioned and posh and formal with all those unnecessary extra trailing vowels. To Finns, Estonian looks all old-fashioned, backwards and plebby with all those dropped trailing vowels.
Icelandic does sound a bit scary, but at least in "3 drinking horns" in Icelandic, I'm sure "drinking horns" is plural. In Estonian/Finnish it's singular (but "partitive" instead). Mind kerblown...
Exactly the same thoughts went through my mind when I was writing my previous post. The European powers were greedy imperialistic dicks back in that era, the US deserved independence from them all. Alas they became what they initially stood against. History repeats itself, just with different names and faces, that's for sure. If you look at a lot of world history from C20, you'll find close analogues in US history in C18 and C19. For example anyone who thinks there weren't death camps (not extermination camps, just prisons where you go to be routinely malnourished and provided no medical aid, and then eventually die) during the US civil war after the prisoner exchange program program broke down is rose-tinting their view of history.
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So its driving force includes the companies who popularised the tag and the one-button mouse.
Which one do you think will be the "working" one? IMHO, standards only work when they're cast in stone. Otherwise, they're unreliable.
History show that web developers will use the <blink> tag. And will use javascript to do exactly what an <a href=...> can do. I'm not sure what that tells us.
There's at least a very long precedent for that. I believe standards committees call this "codifying existing practice".
I remember seeing VRML on an SGI box back in, ... so bloody far back I can't even remember when it was. When VRML was "the future of the internet".
> took years to hammer into people's heads the importance of including the HTML version information in their pages
Am I the only one who refuses to do that? If there's a problem with my pages, blame the W3C, and netscape, and Microsoft; they're the ones who broke things, not me.
Absolutely. Duck, weave, bob, trip, fall, vomit, the works.
/caveat browsor/
It's basically synomymous for "not a standard, by the usual definition of the term".
I've had linux on 4 machines (my workstation, my g/f's workstation, my internally-facing server, my externally-facing server) for the last decade or more. I've not compiled a kernel for them once in that time. What gives you the impression that die-hard linux users are obsessed with compiling their own kernels?
And it's not that I'm incapable of configuring and compiling the linux kernel - I spend the last 3+ years compiling the linux kernel many times a day as part of my $DAYJOB.
However, you are right, grandma probably does have a fairly limited technical capability, so an iPad would probably be preferable for her.
Alas your test failed in this case - the rapist actually lives the next town over, but grew up in your town of 5000, and liked to go back there as he hated the daughter of the woman who ran the post office, who jilted him in high school.
> Do all? No.
That's actually not the failure that makes this useless. The failure is that the dangerous psychos are such a small minority of the population that even if you throw away 99% (and I'm being generous) of the relatively normals, you're still left with a huge pool of normals with just a few pschos in it. You've not made the problem of actually finding the psychos significantly easier. Now 99.99% of the people who seem suspicious are dangerous rather than 99.9999%.
This is exactly the same flaw as the face scanner tech they were proposing at airports which Bruce Schneier et al. ripped to pieces when it was first proposed.
Unless you live in a house with 1m thick stone walls.
> unless you're a charity you can't use the donate button
According to TFA, they're tax exempt, just like the other political parties who are using a donate button.
Is this incompetence on google's part, or is it malice? Google are notoriously incompetent, I have proof of this as another one of their head-hunters approached me the other day, apparently unaware of the fact that I repeatedly say that they both are evil and suck. They'd better hope they're incompetent, as if it's malice I reckon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnd5ilKx2Y) that it will reach court otherwise. (But they have the bigger lawyers, so can probably buy a victory.)
"""
you are the line of defense between you and your family surviving unscathed, or being tied up and watching your wife get raped and shot, etc. This isn't kindergarten, it's real life.
"""
The US sounds ghastly.
The only thing that removes force from the menu is a threat of force.
It looks like he's used his laser sights and shot himself in the foot.
There was a real case in the UK news just over a decade ago of a guy who stormed, mostly naked, into a church wielding an oriental sword and started indiscriminately attacking people. Not only were his few victims only non-fatally wounded, but he was restrained by a couple of people who attacked back using the processional crucifixes.
The problem there is that you've provided data for civilized countries with high gun ownership. That's not comparing like with like. America should be compared against other barbaric countries with high gun ownership.
Note that whilst that was clearly presented in a flamebaity way for comic effect, it's not that different from the "don't blame the guns" counterarguments that are often seen - the NRA 'script', as it's sometimes called.
However, unlike the NRA, I would say that whilst the country remains barbaric, it should seriously reconsider its gun laws, with a view to making it harder for them to end up in the hands of homicidal maniacs.
I've seen metal detectors (the loop doorways, plus hand-held scanners) in a pub in St. Petersburg (the Tinkoff brewpub, specifically).
I didn't know whether to feel safer after that, or more paranoid!
Thank goodness, there's no gender in Finnish and Estonian. I often hear Finns in English just use 'he' and 'she' interchangably, likewise 'him' and 'her' etc. .
I don't hang around Estonian speakers enough to have spotted this error from them yet (and most of the Estonians I know work in translation, and have excellent English).
For a laugh, when living in Finland my g/f and I decided to get some "his & hers" embroidered pillowcases, which obviously just had the same word on both them!
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/20/us/colorado-theater-shooting/index.html
"President Barack Obama, who was notified of the shooting on Friday morning by his homeland security adviser, John Brennan,"
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/07/northeast_portland_man_who_str.html
"Judge acquits John Brennan on indecent exposure charge"
Hence "rubber hose", I guess.
I'm curious about the chronological order - did they drop the misdemeanor charge only after he indicated that he expressed his right for a jury trial? If so, that's heading in a direction dangerously close to double jeopardy - the prosecution defaulted on the original charge, IMHO. They shouldn't be able to just have a second attempt at a conviction for the same action.
Well, there has been an Ignobel prize for a bra (which turned into a pair of breathing filters).
> When I look at other Nordic languages, they look degenerate (I'm sure to them, Icelandic looks archaic)
I've seen an exact analogue of that first hand. The last 2 countries I've lived are Finland and Estonia. To Estonians, Finnish looks all old-fashioned and posh and formal with all those unnecessary extra trailing vowels. To Finns, Estonian looks all old-fashioned, backwards and plebby with all those dropped trailing vowels.
Icelandic does sound a bit scary, but at least in "3 drinking horns" in Icelandic, I'm sure "drinking horns" is plural. In Estonian/Finnish it's singular (but "partitive" instead). Mind kerblown...
Exactly the same thoughts went through my mind when I was writing my previous post. The European powers were greedy imperialistic dicks back in that era, the US deserved independence from them all. Alas they became what they initially stood against. History repeats itself, just with different names and faces, that's for sure. If you look at a lot of world history from C20, you'll find close analogues in US history in C18 and C19. For example anyone who thinks there weren't death camps (not extermination camps, just prisons where you go to be routinely malnourished and provided no medical aid, and then eventually die) during the US civil war after the prisoner exchange program program broke down is rose-tinting their view of history.
Que?
Drugs are baad, mmmkay.