You've never been to a farm, then? If you can't drive pretty much all the machinery by the time you're 11, then there's clearly something wrong with you.
Isn't the 13 year existence of a security bug in open source code a valid argument that open source does not really mean a product is more secure?
It's not really insecure if there isn't a practicable exploit for it. This bug is more of a "sticky door" - annoying, but not really a big problem in day-to-day use.
However, the prices of elective procedures like LASIK and plastic surgery are dropping.
Yeah, but are you *really* going to buy something like LASER eye surgery on price? "HEY FOLKS, COME DOWN TO UNCLE ERNIE'S LASIK SUPER-SAVER-CENTRE! ONCE IN A LIFETIME DISCOUNT DEALS!"
Look at the fiasco that is private healthcare when nursing staff are selected by hospital administrators, purely on grounds of how little they can be paid. Great if your hospital is entirely full of suicidal Eastern Europeans, not so great if you actually want to make people well again.
What you tend to find is that someone buys a Lexus as a company car (often through a leasing company). After a year or two, it's no longer a Brand New Lexus, and the price drops dramatically. Since it's still under warranty and a bloody good car to begin with, they're a very cost-effective buy - and with the reputation for reliability, that's what you want in a taxi; something cheap and reliable that's not going to cost you money while preventing you earning money.
Brand new Lexuses are quite expensive in the UK. Second-hand Lexuses cost less than the Toyota equivalent model.
Capitalism is a dirty word, because what it means is that everything gradually migrates to being run for maximum profit at minimum cost. Look at the American healthcare system, which is geared up to keeping patients just alive enough to sign cheques with the barest minimum of care. Quality of life be damned, if they can pay they *will* pay!
This is something that the hippy dippy laissez-faire capitalists don't seem to appreciate. "Oh hey, the market will pay whatever price it will bear" - yes, right up until someone prices all the competition out of the market, waits for them to fold, then starts to either increase their prices or reduce the service provided. Or both, as in the case of ISPs in the US and Canada.
I know it hurts, but you have to let go of the naive idealism that drives this "capitalism is always the best answer" thinking. Oh, and burn your Ayn Rand books, they suck. Rand's onanistic selfishness only works when you haven't got people relying on you to provide for them. Sling your copy of "Atlas Shrugged" and get a girlfriend.
It's a Lexus, therefore it's a taxi. Unless you really want to look like you ought to be ferrying drunk people home from the pub every weekend night, get something better.
If you had Israel as your near neighbours, wouldn't you want decent missiles too? Remember, this is the country that is herding Palestinians into ghettos and slaughtering them. The war criminal Ariel Sharon used to talk about a "final solution" for the Palestinian problem - chilling stuff, I'm sure you'll agree!
Oh, and look at the latest piece of crazyness from the Israeli terrorist wackos:
Do you think a Lexus or Porsche has better design than Chevy?
Depends on the Chevy. If you mean American Chevy, then they're all equally bad. If you mean the Chevy-badged Daewoos then no, definitely not.
Porsches used to look cool but now they're rather bland-looking, and they've always had fundamentally broken handling. They're badly-designed, because the engine is at the wrong end, the drive axle is at the wrong end, and to make matters worse the weight of the engine and gearbox is *behind* the rear axle. Imagine you're playing darts. Hold a dart with the point towards you and throw it feathers-first at the dartboard. What happens? Did you notice how it flipped around in flight and stuck point-first into the dartboard? Things that are heavy at one end will try to ensure that the heavy end is in front. This has disasterous consequences for the poor old Porsche, which is constantly trying to rearrange itself so that the physics works - which invariably ends up with an excursion backwards through the hedge. No, the Porsche is a bad design, because it's designed with one forwards gear and five reverses.
Lexuses are well-designed, but they're well-designed in the way that Ikea furniture is well-designed. It's all very efficient and comfortable, but it's bloody boring. Let's face it - a Lexus is a minicab. It's always going to be a minicab, and no matter which Lexus you have you're always going to have a niggling suspicion in the back of your mind whenever you drive it that something is missing - like, three drunk young women on the way home from a hen night party, puking their Bacardi Breezers all over the back seat. So, the Lexus is a good design, but a dull one - and way too expensive for what it is.
Let's pick a particular Chevy - the Matiz. It's a small, light car, presumably designed for driving around in cities. Is it well-designed? Well, you only need to look at the list of other vehicles from the stables of Guigiaro - the original Mk1 VW Golf, the Fiat Uno, and the Alfa Romeo Alfasud. So, they obviously know how to do small cars, then. The one to go for is the 1l version which loses a little off the top speed (but it's a city car, so who cares) and is three seconds slower from 0 to 60mph (but, how often do you accelerate from a standstill to 60mph? Never, that's how often). To paraphrase a well-known quote, 67bhp ought to be enough for anybody, and the low exhaust emissions rating squeezes it into the cheapest road tax band - 35 quid a year. In realistic driving, the 1l version gets about 50mpg, pushing the fuel economy into Prius territory without all the nasty battery chemicals to lug around, and apparently you can order them with the Indian-market gas conversion for very clean emissions.
So, the tl;dr version is, yes. A Chevy is a more well-designed car than a Porsche or a Lexus.
What do you do when the voters are conditioned and misinformed and the majority is wrong?
Let them sit out a winter shivering in the dark. We *need* nuclear power. Wind power isn't a solution, because the turbines only last a few years and cannot easily be refurbished - and they don't work if there's no wind (like today) or too much wind (like last week). Hydro-electric? Yeah, let's just flood a few thousand square miles of mountain wilderness, that surely won't have *any* ecological impact!
the only way I know to do it now is to to re-edit every single one of those 100,000+ pages.
This is why you don't write your pages in straight HTML;-)
That doesn't answer your question, though. So let's go through some possible ways of doing it.
The first, most obvious way is to edit a menu into every single page in the same place. You can do the same with the headers and footers too. That's a lot of copy-and-paste, though. Some editors will let you expand out a macro, so in your static text you'd put some suitably flagged thing like **MENU** that won't appear in real text. You then cook up the pages from tagged body text and upload them. This works, but is tedious. If you change one thing in a common block of text, then you have to recreate and upload the entire site every time. This is how Actinic E-Commerce used to work, I don't know if it still does. It sucks.
Okay, so how about some means of including the menu from a single file? Back in the day, we used to use Server-Side Includes. Rename your page to my_beachball_collection.shtml and stick a line like
<-- #include virtual="menu.html" -->
to insert the menu. This doesn't always work, especially if SSI isn't enabled. There's an excellent chance your host has PHP though, so instead you do this:
<?php require "menu.html"; ?>
Great! But before long you work out that actually it might be easier to just write the body text and have an index.php file that reads it in with a line like
<?php require $QUERY['page']; ?>
and a URL like http://mysite.me/index.php?page=my_beachball_collection - and this works perfectly. Until someone feeds it http://mysite.me/index.php?page=../../../etc/shadow and of course because your misconfigured server is running as root, it serves up your shadow password file.
Or, you could put the pages into a database, and then use a query like
printf("SELECT title, body FROM pages WHERE page='%s';", $QUERY['page']);
. Then you have URLs like the ones before, but you don't let people read files, you feed the content from a database. This works, except you're Sony so someone feeds it http://mysite.me/index.php?page='; UPDATE PAGES SET body="0wned"; and wipes out all your content since you didn't sanitise the database strings, or set up sane database permissions.
At which point, you give up and just install Drupal.
Do you know how quick and easy to grow softwood forests are? There's a few hundred acres that I planted when I was at school that are just about ready to harvest; longest payoff for a summer job *ever*.
I'm sorry that my job requires me to be available 24/7.
I guess that means no movies for me because some hypersensitive person might be offended.
Your job must suck. What happens if you want to go for a beer, or take a holiday? Oops, no - got to work!
I bet that must make your girlfriend feel really special, too - out for dinner? Quiet little restaurant, dinner for two? DIDIDI DEEDEEDEE DIDIDI! Oops, sorry dear, work calls and they're more important than my social life!
You need a better job. I bet you're not paid your salary pro rata for 24/7 work.
Not really, because a certain amount of energy would just pass through the Earth - but the real damage would be that all that energy would (long story involving splitting atmospheric gases cut short) blow the ozone layer on the affected side away, leaving the rest to spread out in a layer half as thick. We'd get lots more UVs and have lovely tans, briefly.
You think that's bad, wait until you read about Gamma-Ray Bursts. A big pulse of gamma radiation which - if one occurred near enough to us (say, in the same galaxy and pointing in our direction) would wipe out all life on Earth. Gamma rays travel at the speed of light. We wouldn't see it coming. There might be one hitting the edge of the atmosphere right now.
I had one company (UKMail) deliver a "We called but you were out" card without even attempting to deliver the parcel. The guy stopped his van in the middle of the road, got out, put the card through the letterbox, got back in and went to drive off.
I was outside the house working on my car. He walked right past me. You'd have thought that the extension cable running through the slightly-open front door would have been a dead giveaway...
You buy your satellite STB. I don't know why anyone would put up with overpriced cable crap.
The FTA satellites have got all the same channels as FTA terrestrial, except you stand a chance of receiving it more than 50 miles from a city. For a lot of people in remote areas it's the only way of getting off-air TV.
Why don't you just buy another STB for the other room? Since you're likely to be plugging it into a relatively small TV then cheap crappy SD STB will work just fine. You can pick up an el-cheapo DVB-S STB for about (can't type a pound sign, since slashcode has a horrible regression)10 these days.
ATTENTION SLASHDOT JANITORS: YOUR SITE HAS A REGRESSION. I filed a bug months ago. Fix non-ASCII characters, or at least put them back the way they were.
How can people say, that animal farming is not inhumane. It is absurd for me to see people not seeing this!
Because no-one outside of the US farms this way. Over there you get to eat cheap, greasy, bland meat that you can burn on a grill and then smear with cheap hot sauce. Mmmm, yum.
I'll stick with sustainable farming, thanks. You need livestock farming to make arable farming work properly. A vegan diet is astoundingly bad for the environment, simply due to the massive quantities of petrochemicals needed to intensively farm the cheap crappy vegetables in the supermarket.
Maplin are pretty crap compared to what they used to be like. They used to have thick catalogues full of all kinds of bits - not just electronic components but servos, motors, gearboxes and bits for building organs and synthesizers like keyboard assemblies, leslie speakers and even flat-pack wooden cabinets. The catalogue often had a page or so devoted to a particular IC (three or four pages, for the ubiquitous AY-3-891x family) showing example circuits and technical information.
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You've never been to a farm, then? If you can't drive pretty much all the machinery by the time you're 11, then there's clearly something wrong with you.
Isn't the 13 year existence of a security bug in open source code a valid argument that open source does not really mean a product is more secure?
It's not really insecure if there isn't a practicable exploit for it. This bug is more of a "sticky door" - annoying, but not really a big problem in day-to-day use.
However, the prices of elective procedures like LASIK and plastic surgery are dropping.
Yeah, but are you *really* going to buy something like LASER eye surgery on price? "HEY FOLKS, COME DOWN TO UNCLE ERNIE'S LASIK SUPER-SAVER-CENTRE! ONCE IN A LIFETIME DISCOUNT DEALS!"
Look at the fiasco that is private healthcare when nursing staff are selected by hospital administrators, purely on grounds of how little they can be paid. Great if your hospital is entirely full of suicidal Eastern Europeans, not so great if you actually want to make people well again.
What you tend to find is that someone buys a Lexus as a company car (often through a leasing company). After a year or two, it's no longer a Brand New Lexus, and the price drops dramatically. Since it's still under warranty and a bloody good car to begin with, they're a very cost-effective buy - and with the reputation for reliability, that's what you want in a taxi; something cheap and reliable that's not going to cost you money while preventing you earning money.
Brand new Lexuses are quite expensive in the UK. Second-hand Lexuses cost less than the Toyota equivalent model.
Capitalism is a dirty word, because what it means is that everything gradually migrates to being run for maximum profit at minimum cost. Look at the American healthcare system, which is geared up to keeping patients just alive enough to sign cheques with the barest minimum of care. Quality of life be damned, if they can pay they *will* pay!
This is something that the hippy dippy laissez-faire capitalists don't seem to appreciate. "Oh hey, the market will pay whatever price it will bear" - yes, right up until someone prices all the competition out of the market, waits for them to fold, then starts to either increase their prices or reduce the service provided. Or both, as in the case of ISPs in the US and Canada.
I know it hurts, but you have to let go of the naive idealism that drives this "capitalism is always the best answer" thinking. Oh, and burn your Ayn Rand books, they suck. Rand's onanistic selfishness only works when you haven't got people relying on you to provide for them. Sling your copy of "Atlas Shrugged" and get a girlfriend.
It's a Lexus, therefore it's a taxi. Unless you really want to look like you ought to be ferrying drunk people home from the pub every weekend night, get something better.
If you had Israel as your near neighbours, wouldn't you want decent missiles too? Remember, this is the country that is herding Palestinians into ghettos and slaughtering them. The war criminal Ariel Sharon used to talk about a "final solution" for the Palestinian problem - chilling stuff, I'm sure you'll agree!
Oh, and look at the latest piece of crazyness from the Israeli terrorist wackos:
Jerusalem rabbis 'condemn dog to death by stoning'
So the mad rabbis are ordering children to stone a stray dog to death?
You're going to find a lot of racists in this thread. Already very nearly every post is "ZOMG THE IRANIANS ARE MONKEYS LOL!"
Do you think a Lexus or Porsche has better design than Chevy?
Depends on the Chevy. If you mean American Chevy, then they're all equally bad. If you mean the Chevy-badged Daewoos then no, definitely not.
Porsches used to look cool but now they're rather bland-looking, and they've always had fundamentally broken handling. They're badly-designed, because the engine is at the wrong end, the drive axle is at the wrong end, and to make matters worse the weight of the engine and gearbox is *behind* the rear axle. Imagine you're playing darts. Hold a dart with the point towards you and throw it feathers-first at the dartboard. What happens? Did you notice how it flipped around in flight and stuck point-first into the dartboard? Things that are heavy at one end will try to ensure that the heavy end is in front. This has disasterous consequences for the poor old Porsche, which is constantly trying to rearrange itself so that the physics works - which invariably ends up with an excursion backwards through the hedge. No, the Porsche is a bad design, because it's designed with one forwards gear and five reverses.
Lexuses are well-designed, but they're well-designed in the way that Ikea furniture is well-designed. It's all very efficient and comfortable, but it's bloody boring. Let's face it - a Lexus is a minicab. It's always going to be a minicab, and no matter which Lexus you have you're always going to have a niggling suspicion in the back of your mind whenever you drive it that something is missing - like, three drunk young women on the way home from a hen night party, puking their Bacardi Breezers all over the back seat. So, the Lexus is a good design, but a dull one - and way too expensive for what it is.
Let's pick a particular Chevy - the Matiz. It's a small, light car, presumably designed for driving around in cities. Is it well-designed? Well, you only need to look at the list of other vehicles from the stables of Guigiaro - the original Mk1 VW Golf, the Fiat Uno, and the Alfa Romeo Alfasud. So, they obviously know how to do small cars, then. The one to go for is the 1l version which loses a little off the top speed (but it's a city car, so who cares) and is three seconds slower from 0 to 60mph (but, how often do you accelerate from a standstill to 60mph? Never, that's how often). To paraphrase a well-known quote, 67bhp ought to be enough for anybody, and the low exhaust emissions rating squeezes it into the cheapest road tax band - 35 quid a year. In realistic driving, the 1l version gets about 50mpg, pushing the fuel economy into Prius territory without all the nasty battery chemicals to lug around, and apparently you can order them with the Indian-market gas conversion for very clean emissions.
So, the tl;dr version is, yes. A Chevy is a more well-designed car than a Porsche or a Lexus.
What do you do when the voters are conditioned and misinformed and the majority is wrong?
Let them sit out a winter shivering in the dark. We *need* nuclear power. Wind power isn't a solution, because the turbines only last a few years and cannot easily be refurbished - and they don't work if there's no wind (like today) or too much wind (like last week). Hydro-electric? Yeah, let's just flood a few thousand square miles of mountain wilderness, that surely won't have *any* ecological impact!
the only way I know to do it now is to to re-edit every single one of those 100,000+ pages.
This is why you don't write your pages in straight HTML ;-)
That doesn't answer your question, though. So let's go through some possible ways of doing it.
The first, most obvious way is to edit a menu into every single page in the same place. You can do the same with the headers and footers too. That's a lot of copy-and-paste, though. Some editors will let you expand out a macro, so in your static text you'd put some suitably flagged thing like **MENU** that won't appear in real text. You then cook up the pages from tagged body text and upload them. This works, but is tedious. If you change one thing in a common block of text, then you have to recreate and upload the entire site every time. This is how Actinic E-Commerce used to work, I don't know if it still does. It sucks.
Okay, so how about some means of including the menu from a single file? Back in the day, we used to use Server-Side Includes. Rename your page to my_beachball_collection.shtml and stick a line like
to insert the menu. This doesn't always work, especially if SSI isn't enabled. There's an excellent chance your host has PHP though, so instead you do this:
Great! But before long you work out that actually it might be easier to just write the body text and have an index.php file that reads it in with a line like
and a URL like http://mysite.me/index.php?page=my_beachball_collection - and this works perfectly. Until someone feeds it http://mysite.me/index.php?page=../../../etc/shadow and of course because your misconfigured server is running as root, it serves up your shadow password file.
Or, you could put the pages into a database, and then use a query like
. Then you have URLs like the ones before, but you don't let people read files, you feed the content from a database. This works, except you're Sony so someone feeds it http://mysite.me/index.php?page='; UPDATE PAGES SET body="0wned"; and wipes out all your content since you didn't sanitise the database strings, or set up sane database permissions.
At which point, you give up and just install Drupal.
Do you know how quick and easy to grow softwood forests are? There's a few hundred acres that I planted when I was at school that are just about ready to harvest; longest payoff for a summer job *ever*.
I'm sorry that my job requires me to be available 24/7.
I guess that means no movies for me because some hypersensitive person might be offended.
Your job must suck. What happens if you want to go for a beer, or take a holiday? Oops, no - got to work!
I bet that must make your girlfriend feel really special, too - out for dinner? Quiet little restaurant, dinner for two? DIDIDI DEEDEEDEE DIDIDI! Oops, sorry dear, work calls and they're more important than my social life!
You need a better job. I bet you're not paid your salary pro rata for 24/7 work.
Not really, because a certain amount of energy would just pass through the Earth - but the real damage would be that all that energy would (long story involving splitting atmospheric gases cut short) blow the ozone layer on the affected side away, leaving the rest to spread out in a layer half as thick. We'd get lots more UVs and have lovely tans, briefly.
You think that's bad, wait until you read about Gamma-Ray Bursts. A big pulse of gamma radiation which - if one occurred near enough to us (say, in the same galaxy and pointing in our direction) would wipe out all life on Earth. Gamma rays travel at the speed of light. We wouldn't see it coming. There might be one hitting the edge of the atmosphere right now.
Too late to use those mod points...
I had one company (UKMail) deliver a "We called but you were out" card without even attempting to deliver the parcel. The guy stopped his van in the middle of the road, got out, put the card through the letterbox, got back in and went to drive off.
I was outside the house working on my car. He walked right past me. You'd have thought that the extension cable running through the slightly-open front door would have been a dead giveaway...
Well, aviation is the only field of human endeavour where we've had a 100% success rate - we've never left anyone stuck up there yet!
Go to a site like Spokeo.com
Doesn't even get the right country for me. Not even the right continent.
not sure which, but I'm pretty sure you can exclude all of these...
http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone/ [apple.com]
Since the iPhone already has all sorts of nasty malware designed into its OS, there's no point in adding any more.
You buy your satellite STB. I don't know why anyone would put up with overpriced cable crap.
The FTA satellites have got all the same channels as FTA terrestrial, except you stand a chance of receiving it more than 50 miles from a city. For a lot of people in remote areas it's the only way of getting off-air TV.
Why don't you just buy another STB for the other room? Since you're likely to be plugging it into a relatively small TV then cheap crappy SD STB will work just fine. You can pick up an el-cheapo DVB-S STB for about (can't type a pound sign, since slashcode has a horrible regression)10 these days.
ATTENTION SLASHDOT JANITORS: YOUR SITE HAS A REGRESSION. I filed a bug months ago. Fix non-ASCII characters, or at least put them back the way they were.
I've still got a real, genuine, bought-and-paid-for copy of Windows 3.11 somewhere. It didn't suck, much. I wish XP was as quick and compact.
How can people say, that animal farming is not inhumane. It is absurd for me to see people not seeing this!
Because no-one outside of the US farms this way. Over there you get to eat cheap, greasy, bland meat that you can burn on a grill and then smear with cheap hot sauce. Mmmm, yum.
I'll stick with sustainable farming, thanks. You need livestock farming to make arable farming work properly. A vegan diet is astoundingly bad for the environment, simply due to the massive quantities of petrochemicals needed to intensively farm the cheap crappy vegetables in the supermarket.
Maplin are pretty crap compared to what they used to be like. They used to have thick catalogues full of all kinds of bits - not just electronic components but servos, motors, gearboxes and bits for building organs and synthesizers like keyboard assemblies, leslie speakers and even flat-pack wooden cabinets. The catalogue often had a page or so devoted to a particular IC (three or four pages, for the ubiquitous AY-3-891x family) showing example circuits and technical information.
If that wasn't enough, they had really cool pictures of spaceships on the cover. Even their adverts had cool artwork.
Here's one featuring one of the spaceship covers, and just look at all the fun toys in this one!
All I saw was a summary slightly shorter than the /. summary, and a bunch of ad links. Where's the actual story?