I went to this LAN Party and everyone was wearing togas and drinking alcoholic beverages and making out and... and I didn't even see any computers anywhere. It was very strange.
"Toga shmoga. Look at the score for Christ's sake. It's only the second period and I'm up 12 to 2. Toga parties come and go, Rene, but Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime."
If it's so damned dangerous, why do the cops get a permanent exception?
Same reason they get an exception on driving like an asshole in general: because they can.
Percentage-wise, I'd say I see way more police offers perform unexpected/dangerous maneuvers and nearly cause wrecks than all other drivers on the road. Probably by quite a bit. I always watch them extra carefully because god only knows what stupid shit they might pull, and I doubt they're taking the blame if they do something dumb and our vehicles colide. Hell, I once saw someone get pulled over because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time when a cop did something stupid, and there wasn't even a wreck that time--the cop just had to tap his brakes a bit because he was driving like a nut (no, his lights and siren weren't on) and bam, ticket for the innocent bystander (bydriver?).
Police cars: treat every one as if its driver is distracted and has no respect for the rules of the road or for common- sense driving behavior--because all of that is likely true.
Aside from feel-good "adhering to the standards" crap, it makes your site look less inviting to attackers (a 4xx page returning a 200 OK looks, and is, sloppy as hell) which isn't a bad thing. It discourages automatic scanners from marking vulnerabilities that don't actually exist, which can get your site on all sorts of lists that can drive even more (often automated) traffic your way, wasting cycles and bandwidth. I'd much rather Chinese proxy and Wordpress installation scanners get a 4xx FUCK OFF than an erroneous 200 OK.
With accurate status codes, end users' web clients can (possibly) provide them with better information. It makes it way the hell easier to convert your content or processes in to consumable RESTful services (maybe you want to expose your site resources to a mobile app, say) if you're already reliably and universally slinging appropriate HTTP status codes. Makes writing quick-n-dirty remote unit tests or QoS monitors easier. Apache (or whatever) error logs remain useful.
Lots of reasons. I'm sure there are others that aren't coming to mind, or that I don't know about.
Incidentally, we do need a 400-range "FUCK OFF" status code.
I should add that appropriate error codes can help drive off traffic from automated scanners of various sorts, looking for open proxies and other problems. Things like your 404 or 401 pages should definitely not return a 200 OK, for that reason if no other.
Why wouldn't you return a more appropriate code (something from 4xx or 5xx) in those cases? Since you can always send whatever content you want along with (almost) any code, might as well give standards-compliant HTTP feedback.
How is paying a (very small) flat fee for every day you rent something remotely similar to Blockbuster's "that'll be $4 for a '1-day' rental that's due back at 9AM tomorrow, and if you bring it in at 10AM that'll be another $6 since you had the audacity to keep your '1-day' rental more than 12 hours Also, we'll kick a puppy. And that last bit is happening whether you bring it back on time or not."
FFS, at least the first Redbox rental "day" usually rounds to 24 hours.
I'd be more worried if they were cloning ancient, long-extinct bacteria or even rodents.
Megafauna? People we pay for the privilege of helping make them re-extinct if they become a problem. Even a half-assed elimination effort could likely wipe them out in short order. Hell, just not protecting something like that would probably doom it.
Just wait until the government is done with it. Prices will go the same direction as tuition and housing and for the same reason.
Right, just like how it's making health care so much more expensive in every other OECD nation, since they all have universal/nearly-universal health care systems with (at least relatively) heavy government involvement.
Good thing we have all these real-world, concrete examples to base our decision on, and they all strongly support the position of less regulation and more privatization in health care.
Truth is, you cannot legislate people to do things they don't want to do. They will just find a way to do what they want, either legally or illegally despite any rules and penalties you may create. If you need an example, see most death penality laws and how it has been super effective (sarcasm) in stopping murder and violent crimes.
It's strange how under-appreciated the chapter of 1984 that covered municipal garbage collection is. One of the best parts of the book, IMO. Really highlighted the dehumanization and unconscionable restriction on personal liberty that socialized waste removal inherently represents.
"Comprises" would suffice. The proper usage of "to comprise" != that of "to (be) compose(d of)".
Tegra 3 comprises a quad-core primary CPU complex with a 5th companion core for lower-end processing requirements and power management
To confuse the two is to hasten the now-seemingly-inevitable death of a perfectly good word.
A useful guide: if you think you can substitute any uncommon word or phrase for a more common word or phrase with no change whatsoever in meaning or the structure of your sentence, you probably ought to check a dictionary first.
but it cannot explain why and therefore is not a complete explanation of everything.
Isn't there at least one big assumption implicit in this? "There is a why" seems like a much bigger and less-well-supported leap than "science seems to explain how stuff works so well that, until shown otherwise, we might as well treat its best-explored findings as true and keep using it to learn more stuff".
As for what the underlying premises of science assume about the nature of reality, I for one am fairly certain that a fist is real, and that the resulting motion when it punches a face is pretty well explained by F=MA. Anyone doubting this should go to a seedy bar and ask around, I'm sure someone will help demonstrate it. Keep trying until you're sure there's no "black swan" in the reality and consistency of behavior of force and matter. Be aware that if you're going to insist on applying a strict logical definition of "proof" to the real world without any allowances for statistical significance, it may take a while.
Reductio ad Pugilism--beating the fuck out of the wankier side of philosophy since forever.
how come we don't have a Russian icon. A samovar with Putin's face worked into it? A double eagle with Putin's face worked into it? Anything with Putin's face worked into it?
I very much doubt it's just a webview showing gmail.com. I'd check, but it looks like it's still out of the store.
I'm not saying quite a bit of shit doesn't make it through Apple's review process, but it is generally *not* the case that you can just throw a frame around your website, do NOTHING else, and get your app accepted.
You *can*, in some cases, re-write the front end to your site in Objective-C or Air and get it accepted:)
Apple's actually pretty quick to reject apps for not offering enough functionality over a website. Simply embedding a site in a webview and calling it an app (what was implied to be happening upthread) is pretty much a 100% guaranteed way to get your app rejected.
A bunch of people getting together to collectively bargain to sell their labor is an unnatural evil perpetrated by greedy parasites who just want to steal from the middle class. Its leaders much surely be criminals. The very idea is anti-Capitalism and anti-freedom.
A bunch of people getting together to collectively bargain to sell widgets is natural, desirable, and can only help the nation and the middle class. The people leading such an organization are, categorically, HEROES. It is the foundation of Capitalism and everything good.
(this is what the U.S. right wing actually believes)
Half the time the stuff that breaks in Linux is media-related, but who cares you've got Win7 running under it? Watch movies, listen to music, play games, run emulators, use Adobe products, etc. in Windows, develop and run test servers locally in Linux. Bonus: no need for a full featured DE, just run XFCE or something even lighter.
I'm not so worried that someone is recording all of my SSH streams for future use in the hope that Quantum Computing becomes a reality and they can decode the stream and see that I typed "sudo service apache2 restart".
Clearly you know more than you're letting on since that's the exact command I ran over SSH on my server an hour ago!
I guess SSH is insecure after all, since you were able to break it so easily and post a line from my super secret command line session on Slashdot.
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Goodbye IE7/8 support!
"Toga shmoga. Look at the score for Christ's sake. It's only the second period and I'm up 12 to 2. Toga parties come and go, Rene, but Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime."
Same reason they get an exception on driving like an asshole in general: because they can.
Percentage-wise, I'd say I see way more police offers perform unexpected/dangerous maneuvers and nearly cause wrecks than all other drivers on the road. Probably by quite a bit. I always watch them extra carefully because god only knows what stupid shit they might pull, and I doubt they're taking the blame if they do something dumb and our vehicles colide. Hell, I once saw someone get pulled over because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time when a cop did something stupid, and there wasn't even a wreck that time--the cop just had to tap his brakes a bit because he was driving like a nut (no, his lights and siren weren't on) and bam, ticket for the innocent bystander (bydriver?).
Police cars: treat every one as if its driver is distracted and has no respect for the rules of the road or for common- sense driving behavior--because all of that is likely true.
Yeah, it's kind of like throwing a baseball through someone's window then asking for the ball back.
Corporatism
Looks like nginx uses a non-standard code 444 No Response for that purpose. May have to modify my Apache config to start using that, if I can...
... carry acroread.exe and/or iexplore.exe around on their USB sticks.
Weird.
Aside from feel-good "adhering to the standards" crap, it makes your site look less inviting to attackers (a 4xx page returning a 200 OK looks, and is, sloppy as hell) which isn't a bad thing. It discourages automatic scanners from marking vulnerabilities that don't actually exist, which can get your site on all sorts of lists that can drive even more (often automated) traffic your way, wasting cycles and bandwidth. I'd much rather Chinese proxy and Wordpress installation scanners get a 4xx FUCK OFF than an erroneous 200 OK.
With accurate status codes, end users' web clients can (possibly) provide them with better information. It makes it way the hell easier to convert your content or processes in to consumable RESTful services (maybe you want to expose your site resources to a mobile app, say) if you're already reliably and universally slinging appropriate HTTP status codes. Makes writing quick-n-dirty remote unit tests or QoS monitors easier. Apache (or whatever) error logs remain useful.
Lots of reasons. I'm sure there are others that aren't coming to mind, or that I don't know about.
Incidentally, we do need a 400-range "FUCK OFF" status code.
Haha, yeah, there's always that I suppose.
I should add that appropriate error codes can help drive off traffic from automated scanners of various sorts, looking for open proxies and other problems. Things like your 404 or 401 pages should definitely not return a 200 OK, for that reason if no other.
Why wouldn't you return a more appropriate code (something from 4xx or 5xx) in those cases? Since you can always send whatever content you want along with (almost) any code, might as well give standards-compliant HTTP feedback.
How is paying a (very small) flat fee for every day you rent something remotely similar to Blockbuster's "that'll be $4 for a '1-day' rental that's due back at 9AM tomorrow, and if you bring it in at 10AM that'll be another $6 since you had the audacity to keep your '1-day' rental more than 12 hours Also, we'll kick a puppy. And that last bit is happening whether you bring it back on time or not."
FFS, at least the first Redbox rental "day" usually rounds to 24 hours.
I'd be more worried if they were cloning ancient, long-extinct bacteria or even rodents.
Megafauna? People we pay for the privilege of helping make them re-extinct if they become a problem. Even a half-assed elimination effort could likely wipe them out in short order. Hell, just not protecting something like that would probably doom it.
Right, just like how it's making health care so much more expensive in every other OECD nation, since they all have universal/nearly-universal health care systems with (at least relatively) heavy government involvement.
Good thing we have all these real-world, concrete examples to base our decision on, and they all strongly support the position of less regulation and more privatization in health care.
Oh, wait.
Wow.
I mean, holy crap. The stupid, it burns.
It's strange how under-appreciated the chapter of 1984 that covered municipal garbage collection is. One of the best parts of the book, IMO. Really highlighted the dehumanization and unconscionable restriction on personal liberty that socialized waste removal inherently represents.
"Comprises" would suffice. The proper usage of "to comprise" != that of "to (be) compose(d of)".
To confuse the two is to hasten the now-seemingly-inevitable death of a perfectly good word.
A useful guide: if you think you can substitute any uncommon word or phrase for a more common word or phrase with no change whatsoever in meaning or the structure of your sentence, you probably ought to check a dictionary first.
Isn't there at least one big assumption implicit in this? "There is a why" seems like a much bigger and less-well-supported leap than "science seems to explain how stuff works so well that, until shown otherwise, we might as well treat its best-explored findings as true and keep using it to learn more stuff".
As for what the underlying premises of science assume about the nature of reality, I for one am fairly certain that a fist is real, and that the resulting motion when it punches a face is pretty well explained by F=MA. Anyone doubting this should go to a seedy bar and ask around, I'm sure someone will help demonstrate it. Keep trying until you're sure there's no "black swan" in the reality and consistency of behavior of force and matter. Be aware that if you're going to insist on applying a strict logical definition of "proof" to the real world without any allowances for statistical significance, it may take a while.
Reductio ad Pugilism--beating the fuck out of the wankier side of philosophy since forever.
How about a picture of Sean Connery?
I very much doubt it's just a webview showing gmail.com. I'd check, but it looks like it's still out of the store.
I'm not saying quite a bit of shit doesn't make it through Apple's review process, but it is generally *not* the case that you can just throw a frame around your website, do NOTHING else, and get your app accepted.
You *can*, in some cases, re-write the front end to your site in Objective-C or Air and get it accepted :)
Apple's actually pretty quick to reject apps for not offering enough functionality over a website. Simply embedding a site in a webview and calling it an app (what was implied to be happening upthread) is pretty much a 100% guaranteed way to get your app rejected.
A bunch of people getting together to collectively bargain to sell their labor is an unnatural evil perpetrated by greedy parasites who just want to steal from the middle class. Its leaders much surely be criminals. The very idea is anti-Capitalism and anti-freedom.
A bunch of people getting together to collectively bargain to sell widgets is natural, desirable, and can only help the nation and the middle class. The people leading such an organization are, categorically, HEROES. It is the foundation of Capitalism and everything good.
(this is what the U.S. right wing actually believes)
Run Windows 7 on the metal.
Run Linux in VirtualBox.
Best of both worlds.
Half the time the stuff that breaks in Linux is media-related, but who cares you've got Win7 running under it? Watch movies, listen to music, play games, run emulators, use Adobe products, etc. in Windows, develop and run test servers locally in Linux. Bonus: no need for a full featured DE, just run XFCE or something even lighter.
Clearly you know more than you're letting on since that's the exact command I ran over SSH on my server an hour ago!
I guess SSH is insecure after all, since you were able to break it so easily and post a line from my super secret command line session on Slashdot.
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