No, but it's stupid to mention foreign support for Iraq without mentioning the Soviet Union/Russia/France. France built the Iraqis an entire nuclear reactor which probably would have been used to create bombs for use on Israel. It isn't that you're wrong, it's that you're stating opinion without knowing the history of the countries.
Sorry if the US took sides in the Iran-Iraq war. Sure, it was a dictator attempting a land grab, but it started during the Iran Hostage Crisis. The Iranians were ignorant to reality/history and were blaming the US for everything. So sorry if the US wasn't friends with the Iranians. Besides, US support for the Iranians is overstated, especially in the chemical weapons area.
Man, it would be super easy picking up women at bars if only I worked on a super popular site like SourceForge. The only thing that would get me more chicks is if I worked as a Slashdot editor.
In the future, companies (those that are both hardware and media comapnies) will stop selling regular speakers and only sell digital/encrypted speakers. It's already illegal to "mod" the speakers by soldering a connection directly to the speaker output. Maybe it's not feasable, but don't pretend like they didn't already think about this.
What if the virus was just an executable that didn't use an exploit? What is Microsoft supposed to do about that? Bundle anti-virus software and get slammed by the EU?
Are you saying that the Secret Service is going to investigate all of them?
You mean, are they going to investigate someone who has an anti-bush bumper sticker? Or a kuro5hin poster offering theories on how to spread smallpox (which, by the way, doesn't offer a political view)? YES, THEY REALLY DO. I believe I read about Rabin's assassination where someone reported the to-be assassin, but nobody investigated. That's the situation the secret service tries to avoid by investigating every little threat.
Note: Slashdot editors, despite all the negative comments about them, are able to distinguish between comments and questions. They will only foward questions, and they will foward them regardless of whether or not they were answered by a comment.
The secret service investigates all threats, even ones that seem relatively stupid. It's so nobody will go "why didn't we see all these obvious clues?" after the fact. And yes, they've been doing it for decades.
Mustangs are fun with traction control. It's on by default, but has a button to turn it off for the duration of the ride. It's really funny when people try to a burnout or race and the traction control senses the wheels turning and cuts off the engine.
Uhhh, I think you're being misleading. This is inaccuracies per entry. Which means in 42 entries there's 126 inaccuracies vs 168 inaccuracies, which is best described by saying "1/3 more inaccuracies" not "1% less accurate." The Nature article says pretty much the same thing in its writeup:
"The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three."
Yeah, and when Paypal refused to give the money directly to the Red Cross? That was awesome.
If paypal had really believed it was a scam they should have reported it to the police. What they did was they automatically profiled their account as fradulent, froze the account, and intentionally made it difficult to contact support.
At least at places where I get gas, there is an extra $.50 charge for paying at the pump. I think that's how they get money for credit card usage without actually charging an extra fee for credit card use (which would be against ToS).
I remember walking around the house while my mom was in the living room. I walked into the living room and heared a constant and really high pitch noise. It was loud enough that it was almost hurt my ears. So I asked my mom what it is and she said "what? I can't hear anything." So I looked around the house and tracked it down a gym bag that was in the kitchen. I picked it up and brought it to her so she could hear it, being right next to it really did hurt my ears. So she puts it right next to ear and just shrugs. We open the bag to find a camera with a charged flash.
I thought it was funny because the volume was really loud but because of the frequency she couldn't hear it at all.
A note about Slackware, the name sucks. When Wind River dropped it's support of Slackware some friends and I went around (I was a high school senior at the time) and tried to collect money to send in for a donation. We made about $10 from the A/V geeks before going to the other students. We'd yell "save slackware!" and get some nickels thrown at us. People told us to get a job and such. Anyway, I'd always hate how I'd hit ctrl+d and it would tell me to type "exit" to logout.
Not programming really, but there was a case of the military blacking out classified text in a PDF document and releasing it. Later they found out that placing black boxes over the text does not erase the text from the document. Reminds me of people that do "?username=foobar" or javascript authentication. Stupid things like that should not be tolerated. If you don't know the medium well enough to provide basic security, you should not be working with it. In the case of bugs? They happen to even good programmers, it's not negligence.
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No, but it's stupid to mention foreign support for Iraq without mentioning the Soviet Union/Russia/France. France built the Iraqis an entire nuclear reactor which probably would have been used to create bombs for use on Israel. It isn't that you're wrong, it's that you're stating opinion without knowing the history of the countries.
Sorry if the US took sides in the Iran-Iraq war. Sure, it was a dictator attempting a land grab, but it started during the Iran Hostage Crisis. The Iranians were ignorant to reality/history and were blaming the US for everything. So sorry if the US wasn't friends with the Iranians. Besides, US support for the Iranians is overstated, especially in the chemical weapons area.
Man, it would be super easy picking up women at bars if only I worked on a super popular site like SourceForge. The only thing that would get me more chicks is if I worked as a Slashdot editor.
I imagine it would fall under the same laws as modding gaming consoles to play burned discs.
In the future, companies (those that are both hardware and media comapnies) will stop selling regular speakers and only sell digital/encrypted speakers. It's already illegal to "mod" the speakers by soldering a connection directly to the speaker output. Maybe it's not feasable, but don't pretend like they didn't already think about this.
What if the virus was just an executable that didn't use an exploit? What is Microsoft supposed to do about that? Bundle anti-virus software and get slammed by the EU?
How do current Californian solar power plants make money? Or even come close?
Are you saying that the Secret Service is going to investigate all of them?
You mean, are they going to investigate someone who has an anti-bush bumper sticker? Or a kuro5hin poster offering theories on how to spread smallpox (which, by the way, doesn't offer a political view)? YES, THEY REALLY DO. I believe I read about Rabin's assassination where someone reported the to-be assassin, but nobody investigated. That's the situation the secret service tries to avoid by investigating every little threat.
Note: Slashdot editors, despite all the negative comments about them, are able to distinguish between comments and questions. They will only foward questions, and they will foward them regardless of whether or not they were answered by a comment.
The secret service investigates all threats, even ones that seem relatively stupid. It's so nobody will go "why didn't we see all these obvious clues?" after the fact. And yes, they've been doing it for decades.
Do you have any links about this story?
I usually check the counter.com to get a better idea of what people are using. They recorded 134 billion units (hits?) last month.
Mustangs are fun with traction control. It's on by default, but has a button to turn it off for the duration of the ride. It's really funny when people try to a burnout or race and the traction control senses the wheels turning and cuts off the engine.
Uhhh, I think you're being misleading. This is inaccuracies per entry. Which means in 42 entries there's 126 inaccuracies vs 168 inaccuracies, which is best described by saying "1/3 more inaccuracies" not "1% less accurate." The Nature article says pretty much the same thing in its writeup:
"The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three."
Is your javascript an embedded object?
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Yeah, and when Paypal refused to give the money directly to the Red Cross? That was awesome.
If paypal had really believed it was a scam they should have reported it to the police. What they did was they automatically profiled their account as fradulent, froze the account, and intentionally made it difficult to contact support.
At least at places where I get gas, there is an extra $.50 charge for paying at the pump. I think that's how they get money for credit card usage without actually charging an extra fee for credit card use (which would be against ToS).
I remember walking around the house while my mom was in the living room. I walked into the living room and heared a constant and really high pitch noise. It was loud enough that it was almost hurt my ears. So I asked my mom what it is and she said "what? I can't hear anything." So I looked around the house and tracked it down a gym bag that was in the kitchen. I picked it up and brought it to her so she could hear it, being right next to it really did hurt my ears. So she puts it right next to ear and just shrugs. We open the bag to find a camera with a charged flash.
I thought it was funny because the volume was really loud but because of the frequency she couldn't hear it at all.
I'm not holding anything ransom, the site is forked: Open Web Design.
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Joe Barr sucks in general. Check out this biased newsforge article written by him and then the even worse slashdot writeup.
A note about Slackware, the name sucks. When Wind River dropped it's support of Slackware some friends and I went around (I was a high school senior at the time) and tried to collect money to send in for a donation. We made about $10 from the A/V geeks before going to the other students. We'd yell "save slackware!" and get some nickels thrown at us. People told us to get a job and such. Anyway, I'd always hate how I'd hit ctrl+d and it would tell me to type "exit" to logout.
(unlike Joe Barr, my bad review is a joke)
It seems the solution to this problem is to add a basement.
Not programming really, but there was a case of the military blacking out classified text in a PDF document and releasing it. Later they found out that placing black boxes over the text does not erase the text from the document. Reminds me of people that do "?username=foobar" or javascript authentication. Stupid things like that should not be tolerated. If you don't know the medium well enough to provide basic security, you should not be working with it. In the case of bugs? They happen to even good programmers, it's not negligence.
Most interesting is how the user interface more closely resembles a traditional local application. It's definitely a big step in that direction.
Coincidentally a step in the direction of their other webmail offering: exchange server/outlook webmail.