(yes, that was a taunt for somebody to post the little-known about:config preference to disable this mis-feature)
In SeaMonkey, it's:
dom.disable_window_open_feature.status true keeps new windows from being opened without the status bar dom.disable_window_status_change true keeps the current window statusbar from being changed.
The latter is available under prefs - advaned - scripts and plugins.
Net neutrality, inasmuch as it advocates no peak rate, turns things upside-down
But that's not what we're asking to block, and that's not what the CEOs are publicly demanding. We don't care what they bill their subscribers, after all, the subscribers are their customers.
Do you remember the days of MCI and "family calling" where you could talk to selected "in-network" people for lower rates than others? Now imagine that MCI let you do this for people who were using AT&T, but while they charge you only 5 cents a minute when you were talking to your mother who had subscribed to AT&T, they would send your mother a bill for $2 a minute for having the privilege of being called by an MCI subscriber. And thats what the ISPs are talking about: they want Google's, Amazon's, and iTMS's money, so they want to bill Google, Amazon, and iTMS for the "privilege" of being able to communicate with their subscriber base. They dress it up really nice with words like "preferred" and "expedited", but seriously, when was the last time you had a problem pulling up Google's site? Do you think Google has any incentive at all to pay to make their site pull up "faster" when it's already fast enough for their users? And this is where the implied threat appears: of course Google needs to pay, because if they don't, something might happen to their packets, and that would be a terrible shame.
(That raises my opinion of FOX, I thought it was a one-opinion monolith)
This is the same short-sighted trap that the people who are convinced that the big media are all liberal mouthpieces fall into. The media is there to make money, and whatever message makes them the money is what gets put out there.
No, we just need to convince everyone that the two party system breeds corruption and incompetence. As long as people vote straight ticket whatever because thats what they've always done, we'll continue to scrape the bottom of the bucket thanks to people who run on the grounds that they're not doing anything that the other scumbag didn't do too.
I don't even pay credit cards 15%!!!... Give it time.
That, I'm impressed with. I have to continually threaten to cancel my cards to keep the rate below 15%. I never hold a balance, never pay late, yet every few months I get a bill in the mail that has a little figure at the bottom letting me know that my rate on balances is now 17.9% or whatever.
As for mortgages, the subprime lending stuff has really driven the market insane, I think once the banks stop underwriting bad loans, we'll get a real look at what the rates are.
Not sure why this hasn't happened yet. But $4/gal gas, here we come!
Actually, that's why. When gas was a quarter a gallon, people bought more. Cars were less efficient. Now that gas is $3 and approaching $4, car companies make more efficient cars, making the more expensive oil last longer. We still get shortages, see Katrina, they're just short term until everyone quits panicking (gee, just like back then).
Even if the code is open source, even if everyone is a seasoned programmer, even if everyone compiles the code themselves before executing it, there is still no way to guarantee that the same code is what is running on the machine when you push the "Straight Ticket: Dimwitted Scumbags" button.
Without some visually verifiable token that is used to actually tally the results, there is no practical way to prove to the average person that the election was run correctly. Even the current habit of using the electronic tally for the official count and the paper (when available) to check the results of a certain percentage of districts is running into issues with the people doing the checking cherry-pick the districts to ensure that the districts they chose agree with the electronic tally.
Until doing the elections right is more important over chest thumping over whether the Dimwitted Scumbags or the Idiotic Windbags are "stealing" the elections, things will not get better.
For those who couldn't figure it out (it took me a few minutes of thought to "get it") the reason why is that precision is limited such that adding (let's do this in base 10 with 4 significant figures) 1.562*10E-5 to 1.328*10E+30 gets you 1.328*10E+30, even if you do the addition 10E50 times. If you start with the little numbers, you'll have added all of the little numbers up by the time you start pushing your significant digits farther and farther from the decimal point. If the answer can't be accurately expressed within that precision, you'll still be "wrong", but at least you'll be right to the extent of your precision/significant digits.
the government doesn't want to admit that if we took the government out of the equation, that the system would look a whole lot less broken than it really is.
Is that before or after all the banks and credit agencies implode when the government's social security number is taken away from them?
because we can't be trusted to make the right choices on our own, but legislators can
None of the credit agencies seem to be willing to lift a finger to do "the right thing". I guess we're going to have to start suing the credit agencies for defamation or something whenever they associate our identity and credit with a criminal in order for them to take notice, if we're not going to be allowed to make laws to tell the credit agencies to get their act together.
Stuck trying to live off an $8/hr job with no way to even well consider a second job? Nope, forget it.
Agreed. If someone wants me on call, that time is on the clock because that's time I could have been doing something, except for the fact that I'm working.
The computer knows exactly where you are, exactly what you are doing, and exactly where and when that rocket will blow up. The challenge is to make the computer ignore that enough of the time to convince you that its stupid. The bot does not "see" you, it's programmed to respond to your location only when you're within X of it. Likewise, it knows exactly where and when to shoot in order to hit you, it's programmed to miss Y% of the time. Not just FPSes, the computer in Starcraft knows exactly where your base is and how many units you have defending it. It also knows how much damage each unit does and how much damage each can take and assign attackers to units appropriately.
Game AI is currently an Artificial Stupidity problem, and will remain that way until we have bots that play via a video camera (or screen-scraper) pointing at a monitor and running the mouse itself.
The credit reporting companies, banks, and data brokers might howl, but too bad.
Yes, too bad. It's obvious by now that the market is not going to come up with a solution for this on their own as long as they can use the SSN as a crutch. It's time to yank that crutch back out. The SSN should be discontinued and replaced with a tax id that should only be used for two things: reporting income to the government and paying your taxes or getting your refund. If someone steals my SSN, they're more than welcome to paying my taxes for me, and if they try to hide their income in my tax id we'll find out about it at the end of the year when my tax forms don't match the reports. And if I don't get my refund, well...
*mboverload is sad because he hears these arguments from people but doesn't know how to fight against it. Someone help.*
"If you have nothing to hide, then you won't mind taking out a newspaper ad with your SSN, your DOB, your credit card numbers, your mother's maiden name, and your driver's license number. Either you have something to hide, or you'll quickly learn that you had something you should have kept hidden."
The one's that aren't dead? Many of them own couches.
And how many dead people owned couches? Your point?
Look, it's fine to say "well, we don't know if this will kill you or not so you pays your money and you takes your chances", but if the producer isn't going to bother to do the legwork to figure it out, then they have absolutely no grounds to object when someone else does the work and says "hey, this stuff is coming out in breast milk, maybe it's not a good thing" since they couldn't be bothered to do the research themselves.
Well, thanks! Now I'm going to have to go home and throw out all the furniture that uses polyurethane foam, and try and find replacements that aren't death traps.
While CSPI defended trans fats in their 1987 Nutrition Action newsletter, by 1992 CSPI began to speak against trans fats and is currently strongly against their use.[17]
So they were either wrong the first time or wrong the second time. If they were wrong the second time, then someone should have stood up and said so. If they were wrong the first time, well, then I'm glad to hear we're not basing our current eating decisions on outdated, incorrect information.
You go with the best information you've got. That's the difference between discontinuing a product and being liable for the damages when you don't.
Will Bush and party push for federal legislation limiting state's rights to enforce stricter than federal laws?
Bush wouldn't be the first. For whatever reason, the Clean Air Act states that nobody can set stricter standards for vehicle emissions than the federal government unless California does, and then those states have to use standards identical to California for a given model year (or back down to the federal requirements).
It's highly unlikely that Bush wrote the bill himself personally, but government policy bills like these are typically authored by the executive's administration, for instance, the Department of Energy. Unfortunately, Thomas doesn't track the original authors of bills (and wiki doesn't even bother to note the bill's sponsors).
My Intel DG965SS provides an external Marvell chip (IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6101 (rev b1)) for PATA, and I can boot off of it just fine. It's all a matter of providing the code in the BIOS to make it use the hardware thats available (remember the days before we had all-in-one north/southbridge chipsets?) and MSI just didn't do it. Maybe they saved a few cents on flash for the BIOS to make it fit...
But wait, what's worse is that that is a USB-to-IDE interface, which means that any drive on there should appear to the system as plugged into the USB interface, which is itself almost certainly bootable, just based on the standard USB mass storage class (which your url claims compliance with)! So it's not even a matter of providing "special" proprietary drivers, if the thing can boot off of a usb drive, there is no driver issue for booting off of an IDE drive because at the base level they're exactly the same.
There is really only two logical reasons for this to happen: the motherboard can't boot off of USB at all (save a few KB in their flash), or for some reason MSI did not want the BIOS to probe the USB controller that chip is wired to for drives (maybe the JMicron chip can't detect whether it has drives plugged in or not and shits itself if you ask it?). The alternative is that the BIOS can use the drives there, but it's been specifically crippled to keep the drives on that specific controller from being bootable.
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(yes, that was a taunt for somebody to post the little-known about:config preference to disable this mis-feature)
In SeaMonkey, it's:
dom.disable_window_open_feature.status true keeps new windows from being opened without the status bar
dom.disable_window_status_change true keeps the current window statusbar from being changed.
The latter is available under prefs - advaned - scripts and plugins.
I always preferred the AlphaLinux logo here myself, it certainly looks more alive and aggressive.
Net neutrality, inasmuch as it advocates no peak rate, turns things upside-down
But that's not what we're asking to block, and that's not what the CEOs are publicly demanding. We don't care what they bill their subscribers, after all, the subscribers are their customers.
Do you remember the days of MCI and "family calling" where you could talk to selected "in-network" people for lower rates than others? Now imagine that MCI let you do this for people who were using AT&T, but while they charge you only 5 cents a minute when you were talking to your mother who had subscribed to AT&T, they would send your mother a bill for $2 a minute for having the privilege of being called by an MCI subscriber. And thats what the ISPs are talking about: they want Google's, Amazon's, and iTMS's money, so they want to bill Google, Amazon, and iTMS for the "privilege" of being able to communicate with their subscriber base. They dress it up really nice with words like "preferred" and "expedited", but seriously, when was the last time you had a problem pulling up Google's site? Do you think Google has any incentive at all to pay to make their site pull up "faster" when it's already fast enough for their users? And this is where the implied threat appears: of course Google needs to pay, because if they don't, something might happen to their packets, and that would be a terrible shame.
I guess you're right - globalism isn't lowering the cost of goods for the lowest sectors of society at all.
Goods like gasoline, food and housing?
Don't worry, I'm sure that the lowest sectors of society are living the high life with their cheap walmart TV.
(That raises my opinion of FOX, I thought it was a one-opinion monolith)
This is the same short-sighted trap that the people who are convinced that the big media are all liberal mouthpieces fall into. The media is there to make money, and whatever message makes them the money is what gets put out there.
You need a different complaint.
No, we just need to convince everyone that the two party system breeds corruption and incompetence. As long as people vote straight ticket whatever because thats what they've always done, we'll continue to scrape the bottom of the bucket thanks to people who run on the grounds that they're not doing anything that the other scumbag didn't do too.
I don't even pay credit cards 15%!!! ... Give it time.
That, I'm impressed with. I have to continually threaten to cancel my cards to keep the rate below 15%. I never hold a balance, never pay late, yet every few months I get a bill in the mail that has a little figure at the bottom letting me know that my rate on balances is now 17.9% or whatever.
As for mortgages, the subprime lending stuff has really driven the market insane, I think once the banks stop underwriting bad loans, we'll get a real look at what the rates are.
Not sure why this hasn't happened yet. But $4/gal gas, here we come!
Actually, that's why. When gas was a quarter a gallon, people bought more. Cars were less efficient. Now that gas is $3 and approaching $4, car companies make more efficient cars, making the more expensive oil last longer. We still get shortages, see Katrina, they're just short term until everyone quits panicking (gee, just like back then).
Even if the code is open source, even if everyone is a seasoned programmer, even if everyone compiles the code themselves before executing it, there is still no way to guarantee that the same code is what is running on the machine when you push the "Straight Ticket: Dimwitted Scumbags" button.
Without some visually verifiable token that is used to actually tally the results, there is no practical way to prove to the average person that the election was run correctly. Even the current habit of using the electronic tally for the official count and the paper (when available) to check the results of a certain percentage of districts is running into issues with the people doing the checking cherry-pick the districts to ensure that the districts they chose agree with the electronic tally.
Until doing the elections right is more important over chest thumping over whether the Dimwitted Scumbags or the Idiotic Windbags are "stealing" the elections, things will not get better.
Now, you don't get why?
;)
For those who couldn't figure it out (it took me a few minutes of thought to "get it") the reason why is that precision is limited such that adding (let's do this in base 10 with 4 significant figures) 1.562*10E-5 to 1.328*10E+30 gets you 1.328*10E+30, even if you do the addition 10E50 times. If you start with the little numbers, you'll have added all of the little numbers up by the time you start pushing your significant digits farther and farther from the decimal point. If the answer can't be accurately expressed within that precision, you'll still be "wrong", but at least you'll be right to the extent of your precision/significant digits.
Incidentally, I started with C64 BASIC
the government doesn't want to admit that if we took the government out of the equation, that the system would look a whole lot less broken than it really is.
Is that before or after all the banks and credit agencies implode when the government's social security number is taken away from them?
because we can't be trusted to make the right choices on our own, but legislators can
None of the credit agencies seem to be willing to lift a finger to do "the right thing". I guess we're going to have to start suing the credit agencies for defamation or something whenever they associate our identity and credit with a criminal in order for them to take notice, if we're not going to be allowed to make laws to tell the credit agencies to get their act together.
and on call at times--like evenings and weekends.
Stuck trying to live off an $8/hr job with no way to even well consider a second job? Nope, forget it.
Agreed. If someone wants me on call, that time is on the clock because that's time I could have been doing something, except for the fact that I'm working.
Unless the bot "cheats"
The computer knows exactly where you are, exactly what you are doing, and exactly where and when that rocket will blow up. The challenge is to make the computer ignore that enough of the time to convince you that its stupid. The bot does not "see" you, it's programmed to respond to your location only when you're within X of it. Likewise, it knows exactly where and when to shoot in order to hit you, it's programmed to miss Y% of the time. Not just FPSes, the computer in Starcraft knows exactly where your base is and how many units you have defending it. It also knows how much damage each unit does and how much damage each can take and assign attackers to units appropriately.
Game AI is currently an Artificial Stupidity problem, and will remain that way until we have bots that play via a video camera (or screen-scraper) pointing at a monitor and running the mouse itself.
The credit reporting companies, banks, and data brokers might howl, but too bad.
Yes, too bad. It's obvious by now that the market is not going to come up with a solution for this on their own as long as they can use the SSN as a crutch. It's time to yank that crutch back out. The SSN should be discontinued and replaced with a tax id that should only be used for two things: reporting income to the government and paying your taxes or getting your refund. If someone steals my SSN, they're more than welcome to paying my taxes for me, and if they try to hide their income in my tax id we'll find out about it at the end of the year when my tax forms don't match the reports. And if I don't get my refund, well...
That's the mostest bester grammar correction I've seen on the slashdots ever.
report any purchases that are out of the ordinary or suspicious
"Honey, what's this $50 charge from pedo.com?"
Most likely whoever was running this charged the cards in small amounts to an account like "Joe's BBQ" or something else far less suspicious.
*mboverload is sad because he hears these arguments from people but doesn't know how to fight against it. Someone help.*
"If you have nothing to hide, then you won't mind taking out a newspaper ad with your SSN, your DOB, your credit card numbers, your mother's maiden name, and your driver's license number. Either you have something to hide, or you'll quickly learn that you had something you should have kept hidden."
The one's that aren't dead? Many of them own couches.
And how many dead people owned couches? Your point?
Look, it's fine to say "well, we don't know if this will kill you or not so you pays your money and you takes your chances", but if the producer isn't going to bother to do the legwork to figure it out, then they have absolutely no grounds to object when someone else does the work and says "hey, this stuff is coming out in breast milk, maybe it's not a good thing" since they couldn't be bothered to do the research themselves.
Well, thanks! Now I'm going to have to go home and throw out all the furniture that uses polyurethane foam, and try and find replacements that aren't death traps.
While CSPI defended trans fats in their 1987 Nutrition Action newsletter, by 1992 CSPI began to speak against trans fats and is currently strongly against their use.[17]
So they were either wrong the first time or wrong the second time. If they were wrong the second time, then someone should have stood up and said so. If they were wrong the first time, well, then I'm glad to hear we're not basing our current eating decisions on outdated, incorrect information.
You go with the best information you've got. That's the difference between discontinuing a product and being liable for the damages when you don't.
How many CDs will it take to ship all of that?
I dunno... probably somewhere around 21.
Will Bush and party push for federal legislation limiting state's rights to enforce stricter than federal laws?
Bush wouldn't be the first. For whatever reason, the Clean Air Act states that nobody can set stricter standards for vehicle emissions than the federal government unless California does, and then those states have to use standards identical to California for a given model year (or back down to the federal requirements).
Demonstrate (if you can't prove) that there is _good_ reason for concern before flying off the handle.
Demonstrate (if you can't prove) that there is _good_ reason to believe that this stuff is harmless?
It's highly unlikely that Bush wrote the bill himself personally, but government policy bills like these are typically authored by the executive's administration, for instance, the Department of Energy. Unfortunately, Thomas doesn't track the original authors of bills (and wiki doesn't even bother to note the bill's sponsors).
My Intel DG965SS provides an external Marvell chip (IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6101 (rev b1)) for PATA, and I can boot off of it just fine. It's all a matter of providing the code in the BIOS to make it use the hardware thats available (remember the days before we had all-in-one north/southbridge chipsets?) and MSI just didn't do it. Maybe they saved a few cents on flash for the BIOS to make it fit...
But wait, what's worse is that that is a USB-to-IDE interface, which means that any drive on there should appear to the system as plugged into the USB interface, which is itself almost certainly bootable, just based on the standard USB mass storage class (which your url claims compliance with)! So it's not even a matter of providing "special" proprietary drivers, if the thing can boot off of a usb drive, there is no driver issue for booting off of an IDE drive because at the base level they're exactly the same.
There is really only two logical reasons for this to happen: the motherboard can't boot off of USB at all (save a few KB in their flash), or for some reason MSI did not want the BIOS to probe the USB controller that chip is wired to for drives (maybe the JMicron chip can't detect whether it has drives plugged in or not and shits itself if you ask it?). The alternative is that the BIOS can use the drives there, but it's been specifically crippled to keep the drives on that specific controller from being bootable.