AwesomeBar is one of the things I miss now that I switched to Chrome. (Nuke Anything is another, I'm not seeing an extension that can right click -> Remove This Object. Really helpful on sites like slashdot where shitty html makes invisible divs float over the top of the text like that <div id="slug-Bottom"> that's over the bottom 2-3 comments on every slashdot page.)
In Firefox I had AwesomeBar trained pretty good. "Q" brought me to my comments page, "f" pulled up the firehose, set to display journals, "sl" brought up the main slashdot site, and so on. I could get pretty much anywhere with one-two letters and tab completion. Now in chrome I have to type sla then hit right to complete slashdot.org, then wait a couple of seconds for Chrome to realize that I want more options, then I can get to my comments page or the firehose or whatever.
Bug #12512523512 Issue: Windows does not have Russian rootkit installed Status: Critical
Steps to Reproduce: 1) Install Windows 2) KGB unable to access Windows remotely with secret password 3) --- Reply: Thank you for your feedback, we believe the latest build fixes your problem!
though curiously the DEA and FDA get plenty, within their respective scopes
Actually, they don't. Politicians are terrible at being proactive, they need to look like they're solving some major crisis in order to justify their continued employment to the people who vote for them. Much like IT, if there were no crises they'd be doing it right but nobody would give a damn about them anymore.
People have short memories. I remember when we all used land lines, and there were times when I'd call someone and they could hear me but I couldn't hear them. Or the phone would just ring randomly and there'd be nothing on the other end. Or...
My (old) candy bar nokia does the "silent call" thing every now and then, it doesn't need a reboot I just have to hang up and try again. Sometimes if I retry too soon I get a "network error" message.
Please explain to me how implementing that is obvious.
Implementing what? The page turn animation that's been around for years?
Or the "WITH TOUCH!!!!!" part of the patent, which is the default for any touchscreen that works as a mouse, where your finger clicks and drags the page just like a mouse would have.
If I run a 10 year old program that used the mouse to drag the page on my computer and plug in the 10 year old serial-port-mouse touchscreen monitor overlay, do I infringe the patent right away, or only when I drag my finger on the screen to turn a page?
Of course, Microsoft's version is pretty specific on the application side (I'd have to find a buggy app that shows the next page through the current one as soon as I start turning it) but frankly, any patent claiming to have invented the default mode of operation of hardware a decade old should be invalid.
Yep. Those D-to-A boxes function as the tuner for the TV. Places where you can change the channel have one box for every channel you can choose, with more gear to recombine all the channels back into an analog cable on different analog station numbers (plus amplification) so cable channel 142 is TV channel 3, 248 becomes 4 and so on.
Your alternative is to get CableCARD TVs and hope comcast and CableCARD play nice in your region (hint: comcast doesn't get to soak you for settop box rental if you use cablecard, so they're especially disinclined to make it work). Otherwise, get one box and an amplifier and everyone in the building watches the same thing.
The first thing companies will do is spin off "Offshore Labor, Inc" to a separate corporation headquartered in the Cayman Islands or wherever, then import the products for sale here. No offshored labor here!
HIPAA seems to be part "let's make an attempt - it doesnt matter if it's a good one" and part "this should appease the non-technical public, who wont know any better"
Ding ding ding!
Can't keep count of the number of people who send me an email declaring that I have a secure message waiting for me! Just follow this un-password-protected link to our web site and read it without any further authentication other than having read the link from my email. Oh, but the site uses SSL, so it's secure!
Last I checked, the Creative Commons licenses were applied to the music by the people who created the music... you know, the ones who actually have ownership of the music per current copyright laws.
Clearly ASCAP's problem is that they assume they should own everything and receive all the money from whatever automatic and inescapable royalties they can bribe Congress into assigning to them instead of to the actual musicians. Musicians being allowed to let other people play their music for free are cutting into their profits.
The idea was to hit the "pause" button on 33 new wells while we figure out why the new-well drilling at Deepwater went so wrong.
Yeah, well, the well construction corporations hit "stop" and started laying everyone off, because apparently they have zero confidence in the ability of BP and the government to fix this anytime soon.
I really thing a medical savings account kind of plan is the right idea.
If it can be rescued from the companies, it would be great. It should be something that I can go and open at any bank, transfer money into whenever I want, and have no "use it or lose it" rush to waste money in December (or if I get laid off). The banks could use the interest they'd normally pay on the savings accounts to administer them (not that much administration should be necessary beyond reporting how much money was taken out.
What print bug does Firefox have that's not actually just expected behavior
Well, there's this one that's been critical since 2005. At least they've fixed the truncation problems and missing thead/tfoot (comments say that 3.0 release candidates fixed the dataloss) but it still has weird border issues in print preview. (note the missing bottom edge of the input above the first sample table... at least on my windows xp print preview anyway, it's a shame that windows printing is really a function of how shitty your printer driver is.)
I have been forced to bend crap environments to my will and I suspect that most developers around slashdot have bent bad systems until they cried; but made them work in the end.
I bent and bent, then cried and gave up and I had to tell my users to use IE. There's a table printing bug from 2005 that is still open, though fortunately my specific flavor of printing problems (entire rows of data going missing at page breaks) eventually went away several versions after firefox 2.
Nowadays I use PDF, though several PDF generation libraries I've tried had serious deficiencies like being unable to tell me how much space a block of text will take before it places it on the page, or being unable to override Acrobat Reader's default printing settings, which fuck up anything you're trying to print onto an existing form. (I hacked it into fpdf once, but it was essentially a copy-and-paste of a command from another pdf that was able to force me to print with auto-fuckup-and-center turned off. It worked for me and my version of reader, but I didn't dare put it into production since I had to change the spec version fpdf inserts into the header (1.3) to one that supported overriding the printer options).
If your reports don't need anything too fancy and they already pop out in HTML, you can use html2ps | ps2pdf to get something kinda resembling the original webpage. You can't make it look pretty and I'm fairly certain it's text only, but it'll print out exactly as it appears no matter what browser you are using.
Slashdot Mirror
AwesomeBar is one of the things I miss now that I switched to Chrome. (Nuke Anything is another, I'm not seeing an extension that can right click -> Remove This Object. Really helpful on sites like slashdot where shitty html makes invisible divs float over the top of the text like that <div id="slug-Bottom"> that's over the bottom 2-3 comments on every slashdot page.)
In Firefox I had AwesomeBar trained pretty good. "Q" brought me to my comments page, "f" pulled up the firehose, set to display journals, "sl" brought up the main slashdot site, and so on. I could get pretty much anywhere with one-two letters and tab completion. Now in chrome I have to type sla then hit right to complete slashdot.org, then wait a couple of seconds for Chrome to realize that I want more options, then I can get to my comments page or the firehose or whatever.
It'd be hilarious if the copy protection caused Milo to scream "You're not my daddy/mommy!" every time you try talking to him.
Bug #12512523512
Issue: Windows does not have Russian rootkit installed
Status: Critical
Steps to Reproduce:
1) Install Windows
2) KGB unable to access Windows remotely with secret password
3)
---
Reply: Thank you for your feedback, we believe the latest build fixes your problem!
Status: FIXED
post anon as I moderated
Not anymore you didn't, unless you moved to a new IP.
Slashdot just doesn't tell you that you're undoing your mods when you check the anonymous coward box.
Pivoting from the floor is what gets the mats on top of them
What they need is to stop using shitty 10 cent plastic hooks to hold the mat in place. Mine broke off a year after I got the car.
though curiously the DEA and FDA get plenty, within their respective scopes
Actually, they don't. Politicians are terrible at being proactive, they need to look like they're solving some major crisis in order to justify their continued employment to the people who vote for them. Much like IT, if there were no crises they'd be doing it right but nobody would give a damn about them anymore.
This is why only eight states have banned "synthetic marijuana", why until a few years ago several places had neglected to mention in their child labor laws that 12 year olds can't be strippers and so on.
People have short memories. I remember when we all used land lines, and there were times when I'd call someone and they could hear me but I couldn't hear them. Or the phone would just ring randomly and there'd be nothing on the other end. Or...
My (old) candy bar nokia does the "silent call" thing every now and then, it doesn't need a reboot I just have to hang up and try again. Sometimes if I retry too soon I get a "network error" message.
Please explain to me how implementing that is obvious.
Implementing what? The page turn animation that's been around for years?
Or the "WITH TOUCH!!!!!" part of the patent, which is the default for any touchscreen that works as a mouse, where your finger clicks and drags the page just like a mouse would have.
If I run a 10 year old program that used the mouse to drag the page on my computer and plug in the 10 year old serial-port-mouse touchscreen monitor overlay, do I infringe the patent right away, or only when I drag my finger on the screen to turn a page?
Of course, Microsoft's version is pretty specific on the application side (I'd have to find a buggy app that shows the next page through the current one as soon as I start turning it) but frankly, any patent claiming to have invented the default mode of operation of hardware a decade old should be invalid.
does it turn transparent?
Try reading a Bible, or any other book printed on thin paper.
they have to defend their patent or risk losing it.
That's trademarks.
So if we watch the logo carefully, we'll know when someone tries to change the mission statement?
Yep. Those D-to-A boxes function as the tuner for the TV. Places where you can change the channel have one box for every channel you can choose, with more gear to recombine all the channels back into an analog cable on different analog station numbers (plus amplification) so cable channel 142 is TV channel 3, 248 becomes 4 and so on.
Your alternative is to get CableCARD TVs and hope comcast and CableCARD play nice in your region (hint: comcast doesn't get to soak you for settop box rental if you use cablecard, so they're especially disinclined to make it work). Otherwise, get one box and an amplifier and everyone in the building watches the same thing.
due to, say, buying two bundles with overlap
Most bundles don't let you give away parts of them. If you already own the game you'll get a warning that you can't gift part of the bundle.
The first thing companies will do is spin off "Offshore Labor, Inc" to a separate corporation headquartered in the Cayman Islands or wherever, then import the products for sale here. No offshored labor here!
so unless you plan on pirating from INSIDE the building
It worked for the Permanent Assurance.
HIPAA seems to be part "let's make an attempt - it doesnt matter if it's a good one" and part "this should appease the non-technical public, who wont know any better"
Ding ding ding!
Can't keep count of the number of people who send me an email declaring that I have a secure message waiting for me! Just follow this un-password-protected link to our web site and read it without any further authentication other than having read the link from my email. Oh, but the site uses SSL, so it's secure !
Either that, or they're too busy looking at other things on those web pages...
Purely for research.
Last I checked, the Creative Commons licenses were applied to the music by the people who created the music... you know, the ones who actually have ownership of the music per current copyright laws.
Clearly ASCAP's problem is that they assume they should own everything and receive all the money from whatever automatic and inescapable royalties they can bribe Congress into assigning to them instead of to the actual musicians. Musicians being allowed to let other people play their music for free are cutting into their profits.
The idea was to hit the "pause" button on 33 new wells while we figure out why the new-well drilling at Deepwater went so wrong.
Yeah, well, the well construction corporations hit "stop" and started laying everyone off, because apparently they have zero confidence in the ability of BP and the government to fix this anytime soon.
If you listen closely you can make out the lyrics:
I did get the HSA confused with the FSA, but the HSA still needs more work.
According to Wikipedia, an individual can have a yearly deductible of up to $5950, but you can only put $3050 per year into the account.
until you say how you got from point A of catastrophic insurance to point B of chronic conditions not being treated
Chronic conditions are like having a catastrophe every month when the bill for the next month of drugs comes due.
I really thing a medical savings account kind of plan is the right idea.
If it can be rescued from the companies, it would be great. It should be something that I can go and open at any bank, transfer money into whenever I want, and have no "use it or lose it" rush to waste money in December (or if I get laid off). The banks could use the interest they'd normally pay on the savings accounts to administer them (not that much administration should be necessary beyond reporting how much money was taken out.
What print bug does Firefox have that's not actually just expected behavior
Well, there's this one that's been critical since 2005. At least they've fixed the truncation problems and missing thead/tfoot (comments say that 3.0 release candidates fixed the dataloss) but it still has weird border issues in print preview. (note the missing bottom edge of the input above the first sample table... at least on my windows xp print preview anyway, it's a shame that windows printing is really a function of how shitty your printer driver is.)
I have been forced to bend crap environments to my will and I suspect that most developers around slashdot have bent bad systems until they cried; but made them work in the end.
I bent and bent, then cried and gave up and I had to tell my users to use IE. There's a table printing bug from 2005 that is still open, though fortunately my specific flavor of printing problems (entire rows of data going missing at page breaks) eventually went away several versions after firefox 2.
Nowadays I use PDF, though several PDF generation libraries I've tried had serious deficiencies like being unable to tell me how much space a block of text will take before it places it on the page, or being unable to override Acrobat Reader's default printing settings, which fuck up anything you're trying to print onto an existing form. (I hacked it into fpdf once, but it was essentially a copy-and-paste of a command from another pdf that was able to force me to print with auto-fuckup-and-center turned off. It worked for me and my version of reader, but I didn't dare put it into production since I had to change the spec version fpdf inserts into the header (1.3) to one that supported overriding the printer options).
If your reports don't need anything too fancy and they already pop out in HTML, you can use html2ps | ps2pdf to get something kinda resembling the original webpage. You can't make it look pretty and I'm fairly certain it's text only, but it'll print out exactly as it appears no matter what browser you are using.