a new markup language that's meant to do pixel perfect rendering (HTML is not, but its used that way)
Very few people want a pixel perfect rendering markup language. They just say they want one while using a table to get the content to reflow into three columns of identical height with each 33.3% of the width of the window, whatever that is or is changed to.
Has anyone come up with a good way to test user interfaces yet other than to have someone sit slack-jawed and wiggle everything they see on the screen for hours on end?
So you think you should be able to sign a contract agreeing to certain terms, then blow them off at your descretion
I thought we were talking about former HP employees here, not Hostess/Airlines/insert-name-of-every-other-company-that-uses-regular-bankruptcies-to-wipe-out-their-contracts.
but I have never considered this type of collusion before
What, you never possibly considered that collusion happens because nobody wants to stop the gravy train? AT&T and Verizon and everyone else there have got it good, their train will chug along with minimum investment and massive profits for as long as none of the people aboard says "Stop the train! I want to spend billions of dollars on infrastructure investments and charge less to compete with you head on!"
So what you're saying is that if only Democrats hadn't stopped Bush from creating this new agency, the housing bubble would have magically disappeared? Has there ever been a bubble that just went away without popping? Would this agency have had any oversight at all over all the "Alt-A", NINJA, and other sub-prime loans that Freddie and Fannie didn't insure?
How about this: if the rating agencies hadn't rated all the toxic CDOs triple A doubleplusgood, Fannie and Freddie would not have bought the derivatives as investments to back their insurance of prime mortgages. They'd still have had large losses when (if) the economy crashed and prime mortgages started falling through, but it would have been nowhere near the total collapse they had. Not only that, but if the CDOs were honestly rated, the pool of suckers would be significantly smaller, which would have put the brakes on the banks and unregulated non-bank lenders (that originated over 50% of the subprime mortgage pool) that were making hundreds of millions of dollars by giving away their money to bums and selling the debt to suckers, which probably would have prevented the bubble in the first place.
It's (the end of) 2012, why the hell are people STILL putting their data stores in web-accessible directories below DocumentRoot?
I specifically made a conscious decision to set up my very first PHP application to store uploaded files and configuration files in an inaccessible folder way back in 2002 specifically to avoid bullshit like that, which seems to me it must have had been going on for long enough that I knew better back then as a noob fresh out of college.
As I've pointed out many times before. The farmer in this case intentionally collected seeds only from the field closest to and down wind from a neighbor that he knew for certain had planted Monsanto corn.
Except that doesn't make a difference. If you drive by my house and throw a bag of shit and a diamond ring on my lawn, whether I keep the shit or not has no bearing at all on the laws that say whether I can keep the diamond ring or not.
the boundary of the law was tested and the correct verdict was returned.
And then the government refunded the guy the money and time it cost to fix their mistake, right? Especially considering that had the guy run out of time and money, the incorrect verdict would have been returned by default.
Did these automakers make bad choices? Sure. The question is, how much influence did the unions have in those choices? Clearly the UAW is one of the most powerful unions in the country, and has extremely significant influence.
Did these homeowners make bad choices? Sure. The question is, how much influence did the banks have in these choices? Clearly Citi is one of the most powerful banks in the country and has extremely significant influence.
Now, tell me how homeowners who signed contracts for mortgages they couldn't afford is different from companies who signed contracts for labor they couldn't afford?
Most traffic is from ring point to ring point and has been for many years
Now that Houston's growing it's third ring (the Grand Parkway), I guess you can say that with a straight face as long as nobody cares about the fact that none of the points are on the same ring.
Actually, there's a simpler explanation than that (I'm in Houston where we have perpetual construction and nothing ever gets better).
The people who design the roads can't decide if they are there for people to get from Point A to Point B as quickly as possible, or if they're there to subsidize all the developments. (Built on land that just happened to have been bought by friends and family members in the middle of nowhere dirt cheap just months before a major throughfare was announced, when it's not directly owned by the people building it already).
But that's not really the problem, freeway design is. On one freeway intersection (southbound 59 and 610 on the west side) we have a two lane exit going away from one of the city's major destinations that nobody takes (except as a shortcut to pull ahead of the 1/2 mile line of cars sitting to wait to get into...) and a one-lane exit getting onto 610 towards The Galleria. This lane exit-onlys at some pointless road nobody uses before you reach any of the exits that gets you to The Galleria, leading to everyone slamming on their breaks and trying to get out of the exit-only lane nobody wanted. All over the place you can see exits placed so close to stop lights that people are stopping on freeways for the red light. They didn't do a thing about this for 610's Galleria exits when it was widened (I regularly see entrance ramps blocked by people waiting in line to exit on my morning commute). Here's hoping that when 290 is finished, they will have moved some of these exits back from the lights (here's lookin' at you, W 43rd... yet another entrance ramp to an exit only that regularly backed up past the entrance ramp, trapping everyone trying to get on in the exit only lane. They expanded the exit to TWO lanes, which did speed things up but now people getting on have to fight that much harder to stay on)
But even that's not really the problem. Really, the fundamental problem is that once three million people use the freeway to get where they're going at 60MPH, they're going to sit there and wait while everyone in front of them gets stuck in 30MPH zones, poorly timed lights (because "having the light turn yellow as you approach slows down traffic") and narrow surface streets where granny gets a shitfit and screams for larger traffic humps if someone strange drives by her house.
Free speech is not just speech you just like. It's any speech.
Unless its obscene. I bet 12 angry men could be found who would determine WBC's speeches to be obscene. Does it have literary, scientific or social merit? Does it describe sexual conduct? What does the local community standards have to say about it?
Is an electromagnetic coil in the door frame an realistic idea?
While it was a cool trick in Cryptonomicon, the reality is that you'd probably rip the drives out of the person's hand before you actually managed to erase it. It's pretty hard to do from outside the case.
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a new markup language that's meant to do pixel perfect rendering (HTML is not, but its used that way)
Very few people want a pixel perfect rendering markup language. They just say they want one while using a table to get the content to reflow into three columns of identical height with each 33.3% of the width of the window, whatever that is or is changed to.
the modem was set to IRQ 2
For people who still don't get it: http://bucarotechelp.com/computers/anatomy/90032101.asp
Has anyone come up with a good way to test user interfaces yet other than to have someone sit slack-jawed and wiggle everything they see on the screen for hours on end?
I bet your test system came to a screeching halt though, so it's still good!
So you think you should be able to sign a contract agreeing to certain terms, then blow them off at your descretion
I thought we were talking about former HP employees here, not Hostess/Airlines/insert-name-of-every-other-company-that-uses-regular-bankruptcies-to-wipe-out-their-contracts.
on the part of non-taxpayers
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that they pay taxes.
What, you never possibly considered that collusion happens because nobody wants to stop the gravy train? AT&T and Verizon and everyone else there have got it good, their train will chug along with minimum investment and massive profits for as long as none of the people aboard says "Stop the train! I want to spend billions of dollars on infrastructure investments and charge less to compete with you head on!"
So what you're saying is that if only Democrats hadn't stopped Bush from creating this new agency, the housing bubble would have magically disappeared? Has there ever been a bubble that just went away without popping? Would this agency have had any oversight at all over all the "Alt-A", NINJA, and other sub-prime loans that Freddie and Fannie didn't insure?
How about this: if the rating agencies hadn't rated all the toxic CDOs triple A doubleplusgood, Fannie and Freddie would not have bought the derivatives as investments to back their insurance of prime mortgages. They'd still have had large losses when (if) the economy crashed and prime mortgages started falling through, but it would have been nowhere near the total collapse they had. Not only that, but if the CDOs were honestly rated, the pool of suckers would be significantly smaller, which would have put the brakes on the banks and unregulated non-bank lenders (that originated over 50% of the subprime mortgage pool) that were making hundreds of millions of dollars by giving away their money to bums and selling the debt to suckers, which probably would have prevented the bubble in the first place.
hypocrisy abounds
Most insightful two words on slashdot this week.
if the building is properly maintained and monitored
An insurance company would likely assume that an empty building is being maintained and monitored by the vagrants that live in it.
It's (the end of) 2012, why the hell are people STILL putting their data stores in web-accessible directories below DocumentRoot?
I specifically made a conscious decision to set up my very first PHP application to store uploaded files and configuration files in an inaccessible folder way back in 2002 specifically to avoid bullshit like that, which seems to me it must have had been going on for long enough that I knew better back then as a noob fresh out of college.
And no, last time I checked openssh could not do that
Last I checked, PasswordAuthentication is allowed inside a Match block, so
PubkeyAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication no
Match Address 10.0.0.0/8
PasswordAuthentication yes
As I've pointed out many times before. The farmer in this case intentionally collected seeds only from the field closest to and down wind from a neighbor that he knew for certain had planted Monsanto corn.
Except that doesn't make a difference. If you drive by my house and throw a bag of shit and a diamond ring on my lawn, whether I keep the shit or not has no bearing at all on the laws that say whether I can keep the diamond ring or not.
50 Shades of Grey, obviously.
that requires some kind of backing evidence
He's busy looking up "eroto toxins" on google.
the boundary of the law was tested and the correct verdict was returned.
And then the government refunded the guy the money and time it cost to fix their mistake, right? Especially considering that had the guy run out of time and money, the incorrect verdict would have been returned by default.
Did these automakers make bad choices? Sure. The question is, how much influence did the unions have in those choices? Clearly the UAW is one of the most powerful unions in the country, and has extremely significant influence.
Did these homeowners make bad choices? Sure. The question is, how much influence did the banks have in these choices? Clearly Citi is one of the most powerful banks in the country and has extremely significant influence.
Now, tell me how homeowners who signed contracts for mortgages they couldn't afford is different from companies who signed contracts for labor they couldn't afford?
Yes, one has to assume that the defense council is capable and actually doing his job.
Yep, it's all the fault of them damn lazy nonpsychic public defenders not doing their job.
They always have a 100% success rate. If they can't bust you for anything else, you get a resisting arrest charge.
I told you they'd listen to Reason.
Most traffic is from ring point to ring point and has been for many years
Now that Houston's growing it's third ring (the Grand Parkway), I guess you can say that with a straight face as long as nobody cares about the fact that none of the points are on the same ring.
Actually, there's a simpler explanation than that (I'm in Houston where we have perpetual construction and nothing ever gets better).
The people who design the roads can't decide if they are there for people to get from Point A to Point B as quickly as possible, or if they're there to subsidize all the developments. (Built on land that just happened to have been bought by friends and family members in the middle of nowhere dirt cheap just months before a major throughfare was announced, when it's not directly owned by the people building it already).
But that's not really the problem, freeway design is. On one freeway intersection (southbound 59 and 610 on the west side) we have a two lane exit going away from one of the city's major destinations that nobody takes (except as a shortcut to pull ahead of the 1/2 mile line of cars sitting to wait to get into...) and a one-lane exit getting onto 610 towards The Galleria. This lane exit-onlys at some pointless road nobody uses before you reach any of the exits that gets you to The Galleria, leading to everyone slamming on their breaks and trying to get out of the exit-only lane nobody wanted. All over the place you can see exits placed so close to stop lights that people are stopping on freeways for the red light. They didn't do a thing about this for 610's Galleria exits when it was widened (I regularly see entrance ramps blocked by people waiting in line to exit on my morning commute). Here's hoping that when 290 is finished, they will have moved some of these exits back from the lights (here's lookin' at you, W 43rd... yet another entrance ramp to an exit only that regularly backed up past the entrance ramp, trapping everyone trying to get on in the exit only lane. They expanded the exit to TWO lanes, which did speed things up but now people getting on have to fight that much harder to stay on)
But even that's not really the problem. Really, the fundamental problem is that once three million people use the freeway to get where they're going at 60MPH, they're going to sit there and wait while everyone in front of them gets stuck in 30MPH zones, poorly timed lights (because "having the light turn yellow as you approach slows down traffic") and narrow surface streets where granny gets a shitfit and screams for larger traffic humps if someone strange drives by her house.
With just a little work on it, it can definitely be through of as a muscle car.
The same could be said about my 1990 Geo Metro ;-)
Free speech is not just speech you just like. It's any speech.
Unless its obscene. I bet 12 angry men could be found who would determine WBC's speeches to be obscene. Does it have literary, scientific or social merit? Does it describe sexual conduct? What does the local community standards have to say about it?
Is an electromagnetic coil in the door frame an realistic idea?
While it was a cool trick in Cryptonomicon, the reality is that you'd probably rip the drives out of the person's hand before you actually managed to erase it. It's pretty hard to do from outside the case.