I remember last time a cable cut was reported they said Iran was offline that time as well. I'm not so sure Iran is really offline now either. I have been clicking into the websites of various Iranian universities and all of the ones I've checked so far are up, although some are kind of slow. While I guess it's possible some of them are hosting their main websites offshore, I doubt all of them are. Unfortunately, the routers here block outgoing traceroute for some dumb reason, so I can't verify for sure, but it seems like Iran is not as offline as we might think.
You really shouldn't put the guy down just because he has some weird sexual proclivities. Guys with a fetish for pre-op transsexuals are people too, you know.
Sure, but using pseudonyms for so long can have it's drawbacks, such as not ever being recognized for work you may have done in the past online under a different name than the one you use today. Luckily for me, virtually everything I've ever done online has been nothing but a colossal waste of time, so this doesn't impact me, but others may not be so lucky.
I never thought my name was all that common, but apparently Google things I'm a Mathematician, Associate Professor at two Universities on two different continents, and a former Canadian member of Parliament, so I've either led a much richer life than I thought or my name is more common than I realized.
Of course, I guess I could find it mildly troubling that even after almost 20 years online, it's still difficult to find me by name on a Google search. Sex offender registries maybe, but then...I've said too much.
The tiger was an innocent victim, and people feel sympathy for her. She was provoked and did what her instincts told her to do. The guy who got mauled is at fault for taunting her, and the zoo is at fault for not making the wall high enough. The only real innocent party in all of this is the tiger.
I wouldn't mess with the turtles if I were you. While the tiger's retribution may be swift and deadly, the turtle is content to bide his time, and has a much colder, darker heart. Once you get on a turtle's bad side, your life will never be the same. The turtle will make the rest of your long life a living hell. A turtle is cold and evil, and he never forgets.
Unfortunately, the zoo made their initial estimates for the enclosure based on the ballistic characteristics of a Southern Asian tiger carrying a coconut, not an unladen Siberian tiger, so their calculations were off slightly.
But wouldn't it be more reasonable to assume that the spiders would be more numerous the closer you get to the mechanism by which they're able to enter your house? In that case, assuming you don't actually know how they're getting into the house, you could draw no conclusion at all from looking at just one room.
No, your analogy is terrible. Since this is Slashdot, what we really need in order to properly visualize this is a bad car analogy, thusly:
Let's say you're walking down a standard neighborhood street, and you count 5 cars parked on the side of the road. With this information, you can easily extrapolate out that if there are 50 other streets in your neighborhood, there must be 250 cars in the neighborhood that you haven't yet seen. Cars that you see actually moving down the street are just chaotic side effects of the car phenomenon, and can safely be discarded from the analysis.
Or, perhaps a more accurate, but still poor, car analogy: If scientists have scanned half the sky at random, and have discovered around 5,000 cars hurtling toward Earth, they can reasonably state that there are probably around 10,000 cars hurtling toward Earth at any given moment. However, even if they're completely wrong, it's probably best to keep an eye out for falling cars.
Back in the olden days when everyone POP'd their email and disk quotas on the mail server were in the 5-10 MB range, most ISPs didn't bother to back up email for very long because it was expensive and mostly pointless. These days, however, with everyone pushing huge disk quotas and webmail interfaces, the ISPs must be aware that most people will be keeping their email on the server for long periods of time. If this service were free, I might be able to excuse some shoddy backup practices, but in the case of an ISP your mail service is part of the overall service that you're paying for.
So, either Charter doesn't back up email very well, or their process to "clear out old accounts" involves actually deleting all of the backups of those accounts as well. I already addressed the issue with the former scenario, but if it's the latter, I'd have to say that's a pretty nasty practice too. Any time you clear out old and "unused" data, you have to assume that you're likely to accidentally hit some false positives, which is one of the reasons we have backups in the first place.
I'm pretty pumped that he'd waste your time with us Really, is that any way to treat someone who you claim is your hero? By suggesting he's wasting our time? Show the man some respect, you insensitive clod!
Mozilla as spun off in 1998 was never the dominant browser. By the time Mozilla was open sourced 10 years ago, IE was the dominant browser by a significant margin. If the browser was still dominant, I doubt Netscape would have ever open sourced it.
The Terminator show looks promising, but what the hell is up with the chick playing Sarah Connor? The show is supposed to take place right after T2, but at the end of T2 Sarah Connor was buff, and now she's a skinny, muscle-less pansy. Sure, she acts tough, but she doesn't look like she could beat up a housefly. Couldn't they have gotten her to buff up a little? Or maybe hired someone else?
Also, the female terminator is a little weird. They seem to be angling toward some sort of plot point where it turns out she was built with emotions or something like that, and I hope that's not where they're going. It's good to see John Connor is still the whiny little prick he was in T2 though, except without his voice breaking every 5 minutes.
Agreed, Wii Play is basically just a demo just like Wii Sports is. I wouldn't have bought it even if it was in the bargain bin for $5 if it didn't have the Wiimote. It should be included in accessory sales, not software sales.
AT&T does offer dry loop, but they won't admit it, and most of their call center drones don't know that it exists. I ordered it a few months back, and after being transferred all over the place just to find someone that would admit that it existed and knew how to set it up, I finally got someone to actually hook it up.
After I got my first bill, I jumped online and set up automatic payment, and everything was fine. Then, two months later, I get a nastygram saying my bill was overdue. The notice had a completely different account number. So, I call AT&T and tell them I'm getting double billed with two account numbers for the same service. Two hours of transfers later, I get a lady who tells me that this happens "ALL the time" and agrees to close the past due account and credit back the charges.
A week later, my DSL is disconnected. Of course, when they closed that one account, they disconnected the service as well. After another couple of hours on the phone, I finally got my DSL turned back on under (I hope) the right account number. Good times.
I think it's pretty safe to say at this point that if you work for a company that has anything to do with middleware, database software, or pretty much any other enterprise software, you'll eventually end up working for Oracle or being laid off by Oracle.
It's not about making things pretty, it's about making things functional. In fact, I'd argue that too much effort has gone into making everything pretty and shiny and not enough on making things intuitive.
A UI designer should be concerned first and foremost with making things intuitive: putting the most common tasks in obvious places, making the program work the way people would expect it to work, that sort of thing. Then, they can send it off to the art department to make the buttons shiny if they want to.
I've often worked on projects where my job as a programmer (we didn't have "UI designers") was to make sure the program worked, flowed well, and performed tasks in an intuitive way. The designs were ugly as sin, but they worked. Then, we'd send the thing off to some graphic designer to make everything look pretty without changing the flow, button placement, etc.
'The same gear needed to make a good film is today generally available to amateurs -- which was not so even a decade ago. Film making gear is approaching a convergence between professional and amateur, so that what counts in artistry and inventiveness.'" I think this is a little too optimistic. Sure, the equipment needed to make (some of) the special effects in wide use today is becoming affordable for amateurs, but the special effects industry is constantly evolving. It won't be long before the big movie studios up the bar using far more expensive equipment and more complicated techniques. It's not like special effects have reached some magical point where it's impossible for them to be any better than they are now.
No no, the correct thing to do is to employ a shadow government that holds all the power, and then operate merely as a figurehead. That way, you get all the perks without any of the responsibility.
Not that the Bill of Rights has much sway in cases where "terrorism" or "national security" can be applied, but the 5th amendment applies to "persons" rather than "citizens" (this distinction is made several times in the Constitution), and thus applies equally to anyone under US jurisdiction, whether they are a citizen or not.
So, if we actually followed the Bill of Rights, no one should be compelled to give that information, regardless of where they come from.
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I remember last time a cable cut was reported they said Iran was offline that time as well. I'm not so sure Iran is really offline now either. I have been clicking into the websites of various Iranian universities and all of the ones I've checked so far are up, although some are kind of slow. While I guess it's possible some of them are hosting their main websites offshore, I doubt all of them are. Unfortunately, the routers here block outgoing traceroute for some dumb reason, so I can't verify for sure, but it seems like Iran is not as offline as we might think.
You really shouldn't put the guy down just because he has some weird sexual proclivities. Guys with a fetish for pre-op transsexuals are people too, you know.
It's a parody of a very well known (to those of us who browse at -1 anyway) troll. The profanity is absolutely critical to the joke.
The next step is to implant the embryo into Arnold Schwarzenegger. Get ready for some madcap fun!
In Soviet Slashdot, tired meme jokes are in before YOU!
Sure, but using pseudonyms for so long can have it's drawbacks, such as not ever being recognized for work you may have done in the past online under a different name than the one you use today. Luckily for me, virtually everything I've ever done online has been nothing but a colossal waste of time, so this doesn't impact me, but others may not be so lucky.
I never thought my name was all that common, but apparently Google things I'm a Mathematician, Associate Professor at two Universities on two different continents, and a former Canadian member of Parliament, so I've either led a much richer life than I thought or my name is more common than I realized.
Of course, I guess I could find it mildly troubling that even after almost 20 years online, it's still difficult to find me by name on a Google search. Sex offender registries maybe, but then...I've said too much.
The tiger was an innocent victim, and people feel sympathy for her. She was provoked and did what her instincts told her to do. The guy who got mauled is at fault for taunting her, and the zoo is at fault for not making the wall high enough. The only real innocent party in all of this is the tiger.
I wouldn't mess with the turtles if I were you. While the tiger's retribution may be swift and deadly, the turtle is content to bide his time, and has a much colder, darker heart. Once you get on a turtle's bad side, your life will never be the same. The turtle will make the rest of your long life a living hell. A turtle is cold and evil, and he never forgets.
Unfortunately, the zoo made their initial estimates for the enclosure based on the ballistic characteristics of a Southern Asian tiger carrying a coconut, not an unladen Siberian tiger, so their calculations were off slightly.
Well, I would hope they would have at least informed Bruce Willis by now.
But wouldn't it be more reasonable to assume that the spiders would be more numerous the closer you get to the mechanism by which they're able to enter your house? In that case, assuming you don't actually know how they're getting into the house, you could draw no conclusion at all from looking at just one room.
No, your analogy is terrible. Since this is Slashdot, what we really need in order to properly visualize this is a bad car analogy, thusly:
Let's say you're walking down a standard neighborhood street, and you count 5 cars parked on the side of the road. With this information, you can easily extrapolate out that if there are 50 other streets in your neighborhood, there must be 250 cars in the neighborhood that you haven't yet seen. Cars that you see actually moving down the street are just chaotic side effects of the car phenomenon, and can safely be discarded from the analysis.
Or, perhaps a more accurate, but still poor, car analogy: If scientists have scanned half the sky at random, and have discovered around 5,000 cars hurtling toward Earth, they can reasonably state that there are probably around 10,000 cars hurtling toward Earth at any given moment. However, even if they're completely wrong, it's probably best to keep an eye out for falling cars.
Back in the olden days when everyone POP'd their email and disk quotas on the mail server were in the 5-10 MB range, most ISPs didn't bother to back up email for very long because it was expensive and mostly pointless. These days, however, with everyone pushing huge disk quotas and webmail interfaces, the ISPs must be aware that most people will be keeping their email on the server for long periods of time. If this service were free, I might be able to excuse some shoddy backup practices, but in the case of an ISP your mail service is part of the overall service that you're paying for.
So, either Charter doesn't back up email very well, or their process to "clear out old accounts" involves actually deleting all of the backups of those accounts as well. I already addressed the issue with the former scenario, but if it's the latter, I'd have to say that's a pretty nasty practice too. Any time you clear out old and "unused" data, you have to assume that you're likely to accidentally hit some false positives, which is one of the reasons we have backups in the first place.
Mozilla as spun off in 1998 was never the dominant browser. By the time Mozilla was open sourced 10 years ago, IE was the dominant browser by a significant margin. If the browser was still dominant, I doubt Netscape would have ever open sourced it.
The Terminator show looks promising, but what the hell is up with the chick playing Sarah Connor? The show is supposed to take place right after T2, but at the end of T2 Sarah Connor was buff, and now she's a skinny, muscle-less pansy. Sure, she acts tough, but she doesn't look like she could beat up a housefly. Couldn't they have gotten her to buff up a little? Or maybe hired someone else?
Also, the female terminator is a little weird. They seem to be angling toward some sort of plot point where it turns out she was built with emotions or something like that, and I hope that's not where they're going. It's good to see John Connor is still the whiny little prick he was in T2 though, except without his voice breaking every 5 minutes.
Agreed, Wii Play is basically just a demo just like Wii Sports is. I wouldn't have bought it even if it was in the bargain bin for $5 if it didn't have the Wiimote. It should be included in accessory sales, not software sales.
Try getting dry loop DSL, it's even worse.
AT&T does offer dry loop, but they won't admit it, and most of their call center drones don't know that it exists. I ordered it a few months back, and after being transferred all over the place just to find someone that would admit that it existed and knew how to set it up, I finally got someone to actually hook it up.
After I got my first bill, I jumped online and set up automatic payment, and everything was fine. Then, two months later, I get a nastygram saying my bill was overdue. The notice had a completely different account number. So, I call AT&T and tell them I'm getting double billed with two account numbers for the same service. Two hours of transfers later, I get a lady who tells me that this happens "ALL the time" and agrees to close the past due account and credit back the charges.
A week later, my DSL is disconnected. Of course, when they closed that one account, they disconnected the service as well. After another couple of hours on the phone, I finally got my DSL turned back on under (I hope) the right account number. Good times.
I think it's pretty safe to say at this point that if you work for a company that has anything to do with middleware, database software, or pretty much any other enterprise software, you'll eventually end up working for Oracle or being laid off by Oracle.
It's not about making things pretty, it's about making things functional. In fact, I'd argue that too much effort has gone into making everything pretty and shiny and not enough on making things intuitive.
A UI designer should be concerned first and foremost with making things intuitive: putting the most common tasks in obvious places, making the program work the way people would expect it to work, that sort of thing. Then, they can send it off to the art department to make the buttons shiny if they want to.
I've often worked on projects where my job as a programmer (we didn't have "UI designers") was to make sure the program worked, flowed well, and performed tasks in an intuitive way. The designs were ugly as sin, but they worked. Then, we'd send the thing off to some graphic designer to make everything look pretty without changing the flow, button placement, etc.
No no, the correct thing to do is to employ a shadow government that holds all the power, and then operate merely as a figurehead. That way, you get all the perks without any of the responsibility.
Not that the Bill of Rights has much sway in cases where "terrorism" or "national security" can be applied, but the 5th amendment applies to "persons" rather than "citizens" (this distinction is made several times in the Constitution), and thus applies equally to anyone under US jurisdiction, whether they are a citizen or not.
So, if we actually followed the Bill of Rights, no one should be compelled to give that information, regardless of where they come from.