You misspelled AJAX. It is supposed to be spelled j-a-v-a-s-c-r-i-p-t. What you memers call "AJAX" is some company's rebranding of existing javascript functionality that's been around for years. Please stop.
I am recalling an issue that came up after the 2000 US Census. In previous censuses respondents typically indicated one racial category. In the 2000 census a substantial number of respondents indicated two or more racial categories. This led to an issue with calculating racial demographics in the aggregate. Specific racial identity (let alone skin color) at the individual level is nearly meaningless for a large number of people around the world.
If you're looking for non-American people, I would recommend reasking the question in terms of citizenship or nationality. Then again, there are a lot of people with plurality there too.
Albert Einstein when asked to describe radio, replied:
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
In recent years no cat has become slang for wireless communication networks.
Flash 8 in Portable Firefox works for me now. I'm in a corporate environment behind a proxy to the public internet and where I cannot install software (hence using PFF). After copying the Flash 8 dll and connecting to Macromedia's Flash site I was prompted by PFF for proxy credentials like it always does. When PFF attempted to load the Flash plugin to display the Flash content my OS prompted me for proxy credentials which it has never done for Flash (at least in PFF 1.0.6/Flash 7) before. Uncomfortable with this prompt I cancelled it which caused the Flash content not to load which led me to believe the plugin didn't work. In my testing today I accepted the prompt and the Flash content loaded. Sorry for the confusion related to our "secure" environment.
Thanks for putting together PFF, your work is very appreciated here.
To use the most obvious example, which flag are you going to use for English? The USA flag?
Excellent example. The best reason for not doing this with regards to the USA flag is that English is not the official language of the country. Using the USA flag to represent a language that isn't even recognized as the country's official language is just plain silly.
Wake me when someone integrates simple push button calendar publishing with an email client. Yes, I know about Sunbird. Not so simple to publish/sync, is it?
Firefox... is the popular Internet browser becoming a security nightmare for IT administrators
Not a statement of fact but by asking it as a question you give the meme credibility. Get those ad servers warmed up.
As you can see, the facade that Firefox is the cure to the Internet Explorer security blues is quickly fading.
Really, need some straw?
[statistics of vulnerabilities provided without context]... It just goes to prove that any popular software worth hacking that has security vulnerabilities will eventually have to deal with live working exploits.
Oh, I see you are already building your straw man. What was your point again... FF is no better than IE so don't bother trying to use it? Nice. Not sure which is worse, the the zdnet Microsoft shill or this poseur inciting a flame war to embiggen ad server revenues. Bravo, your internship at FoxNews is waiting.
Microsoft intends to launch the service by the end of the year.
Why not wait until the end of the year to make an announcement when it will be news? Anything more than that is free advertising for something that doesn't exist. *sigh*
While it sounds like a lot of fun for the researchers involved, and anything that stems the spiral of the US into a culture of anti-intellectualism is a good thing in my book.
Stupid people are quite well distributed over pretty much every ISP these days.
I don't disagree with that at all. But few will disagree with me that October 1995 was the start of the AOL Asshat Invasion onto our beloved Intarweb. Back then, not now, but back then the idiots came from aol.com. If I can't run a MUD and be hypercritical about the intelligence of players then would I be doing my job correctly? I think not, sir.
It was bad enough we had to endure the onslaught of connections from *.aol.com in the mid '90s. Now we have to assuage hordes of disaffected EverCrack babies? Nooo!!1eleventyone
Everyone, wake up. You're letting Microsoft drive the discussion of OSS and Linux. I love all the responses like "But Windows...!" You need someone on your side to the drive the discussion in a manner which you see fit. Otherwise Microsoft and others are going to be the only voice of direction and everyone else is just reacting to them in a whiny obstructionist fashion.
For anecdotal evidence, Windows 2000 is the most modern OS that runs on my old 1998 Dell Inspiron 3500 with 100% functionality. All linux distros choke on the NeoMagic sound card, 2 out of 3 choke on the NeoMagic video card. I hate to give it up because it still works.. even the battery still holds a couple hour charge.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it (*) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(*) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck (*) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud (*) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (*) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (*) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
how the hell did you get first post with so much freakin' writing?
In the real world.. writers, journalists, and copy editors have a many simultaneous articles being worked on concurrently. They write copy that they know will be used at future date either by known possible outcomes, known debates, known players (e.g. obits, election results, abortion, etc.)
The "linux is not ready for the desktop" meme has been stewing in the slashdotosphere for years. Most old schoolers have an opinion and have written on it in the past or not-so-past. It wouldn't surprise me that some slashdot commentors worth reading today already have copy written for certain topics. For example, I'm always ready to jump in when a "Best Buy sucks" article appears.:)
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You misspelled AJAX. It is supposed to be spelled j-a-v-a-s-c-r-i-p-t. What you memers call "AJAX" is some company's rebranding of existing javascript functionality that's been around for years. Please stop.
If you're looking for non-American people, I would recommend reasking the question in terms of citizenship or nationality. Then again, there are a lot of people with plurality there too.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ is worth checking out if you haven't had the pleasure already.
Pete and Repeat are on a boat, Pete jumps off, who's left . . . ?
Repeat.
Pete and Repeat are on a boat. Pete jumps off. Who's left?
What was all that about cats???
Albert Einstein when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
In recent years no cat has become slang for wireless communication networks.
I wish someone at LucasFilm had this thought three movies ago.
Those roaming charges must be astronomical!
$65+ million over the next 15 years to put a number on it. My mobile bill doesn't seem so bad anymore.
Flash 8 in Portable Firefox works for me now. I'm in a corporate environment behind a proxy to the public internet and where I cannot install software (hence using PFF). After copying the Flash 8 dll and connecting to Macromedia's Flash site I was prompted by PFF for proxy credentials like it always does. When PFF attempted to load the Flash plugin to display the Flash content my OS prompted me for proxy credentials which it has never done for Flash (at least in PFF 1.0.6/Flash 7) before. Uncomfortable with this prompt I cancelled it which caused the Flash content not to load which led me to believe the plugin didn't work. In my testing today I accepted the prompt and the Flash content loaded. Sorry for the confusion related to our "secure" environment.
Thanks for putting together PFF, your work is very appreciated here.
Anyone else having an issue running Flash 8 in the portable firefox 1.0.7?
Or do you go scanning and discovering holes on other's network for you to offer them your solution?
I believe that's called extortion. Watch your step.
That's a really great story, thanks for sharing. Let us know when you're ready to stop having dinner at the kiddie table. *plonk*
To use the most obvious example, which flag are you going to use for English? The USA flag?
Excellent example. The best reason for not doing this with regards to the USA flag is that English is not the official language of the country. Using the USA flag to represent a language that isn't even recognized as the country's official language is just plain silly.
Wake me when someone integrates simple push button calendar publishing with an email client. Yes, I know about Sunbird. Not so simple to publish/sync, is it?
Firefox ... is the popular Internet browser becoming a security nightmare for IT administrators
Not a statement of fact but by asking it as a question you give the meme credibility. Get those ad servers warmed up.As you can see, the facade that Firefox is the cure to the Internet Explorer security blues is quickly fading.
Really, need some straw?[statistics of vulnerabilities provided without context] ... It just goes to prove that any popular software worth hacking that has security vulnerabilities will eventually have to deal with live working exploits.
Oh, I see you are already building your straw man. What was your point again... FF is no better than IE so don't bother trying to use it? Nice. Not sure which is worse, the the zdnet Microsoft shill or this poseur inciting a flame war to embiggen ad server revenues. Bravo, your internship at FoxNews is waiting.Microsoft intends to launch the service by the end of the year.
Why not wait until the end of the year to make an announcement when it will be news? Anything more than that is free advertising for something that doesn't exist. *sigh*
While it sounds like a lot of fun for the researchers involved, and anything that stems the spiral of the US into a culture of anti-intellectualism is a good thing in my book.
Why do you hate His Noodliness?
Your September never ended either, did it?
Stupid people are quite well distributed over pretty much every ISP these days.
I don't disagree with that at all. But few will disagree with me that October 1995 was the start of the AOL Asshat Invasion onto our beloved Intarweb. Back then, not now, but back then the idiots came from aol.com. If I can't run a MUD and be hypercritical about the intelligence of players then would I be doing my job correctly? I think not, sir.
It was bad enough we had to endure the onslaught of connections from *.aol.com in the mid '90s. Now we have to assuage hordes of disaffected EverCrack babies? Nooo!!1eleventyone
Remind you of anything else?
For anecdotal evidence, Windows 2000 is the most modern OS that runs on my old 1998 Dell Inspiron 3500 with 100% functionality. All linux distros choke on the NeoMagic sound card, 2 out of 3 choke on the NeoMagic video card. I hate to give it up because it still works.. even the battery still holds a couple hour charge.
how the hell did you get first post with so much freakin' writing?
In the real world.. writers, journalists, and copy editors have a many simultaneous articles being worked on concurrently. They write copy that they know will be used at future date either by known possible outcomes, known debates, known players (e.g. obits, election results, abortion, etc.)
The "linux is not ready for the desktop" meme has been stewing in the slashdotosphere for years. Most old schoolers have an opinion and have written on it in the past or not-so-past. It wouldn't surprise me that some slashdot commentors worth reading today already have copy written for certain topics. For example, I'm always ready to jump in when a "Best Buy sucks" article appears. :)
OSS Web-based File Management? from 7/7/05