As for "try and X," I do agree that it lacks proper punctuation. If you want to be taken seriously you need philosophical rantings to take on a more precise syntax:
Try, and develop a style.
Do or do not; there is no try.
It does not matter whether your try, it only matters whether you develop a style.
Yes, dentists are well paid - eventually - but they start earning late, a few years after a software dev, they have a much larger school debt to pay off, and just like a software dev, the early years don't pay so well.
... and they have to spend their working lives peering into people's mouths. I've never understood why anyone would choose that as a career (unless the money is really good).
I'm just basing the relative experience level by your UID...
And on what did you base your assumption that UID correlates to writing experience? I would have expected that someone who has apparently been writing for longer than Slashdot has existed would have realised that other posters might also have been writing for longer than they have been registered at Slashdot.
TFA: Just about every business cares about data privacy
Reality: Just about every business says they care about data privacy
The first line of the typical company privacy policy is "we value your privacy", but the next ten pages list all the ways they are going to violate it.
I think Ford should invest in getting everyone a moving map GPS
... displays will be in all new cars starting in 2018, because backup cameras will be mandatory. So sticking in a GPS is a minimal cost. For many current cars, the backup camera and GPS are part of the same package.....
That's all very well, but I don't usually have a problem navigating when I'm reversing - I want the GPS to work when I going forwards!
... Much like we have a national do-not-call registry, we need a national do-not-track registry that covers the individual and any information source they choose to register.
Wrong.
We need a DO-call registry and a DO-track register.
Privacy should be the default state. I should have to opt IN to being called by tele-marketers, spammed, tracked etc, not opt out.
I don't know if it is Harlequin80's bank, but Westpac (https://online.westpac.com.au/esis/Login/SrvPage) requires exactly 6 characters, with no lowercase.
100 percent of all point-of-sale transactions are done with plastic... at least they are in Australia where we replaced paper notes with plastic ones back in 1988. Australia's $1 notes were also replaced with coins back in 1984 (go figure).
Wrong. Some transactions use coins, which are made of metal, not plastic. Last I checked, not every transaction was in multiples of $5 (the lowest denomination Australian note/bill).
Office 97 will read.docx and.xlsx files if you install the converters from http://support.microsoft.com/k...
New functionality won't work - eg new functions in Excel 2007 will give #NAME errors in 97, but otherwise it works fine.
TV Shows now include Twitter names and hashtags quite regularly as watermark bugs... It's quite telling they put them up as bugs during the actual show...
I've stopped watching some TV programs because the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has started displaying hashtags during the programs. The ABC is supposed to be non-commercial, and I refuse to watch anything that includes these advertisements. (For what it's worth, I also wrote to them and told them I was switching off. Now if only a few million other people would do likewise...)
Only in theory. In practice, they'll reverse your edits if you're anonymous.
"They" will revert vandalism and other inappropriate edits regardless of whether you are logged in or not. Likewise "they" often keep good edits from editors who are not logged in. Feel free to provide links here to reasonable edits (as diffs) that were reverted just because you were "anonymous", and I'll probably be able to tell you exactly why they were reverted.
(Disclosure: I am a frequent editor of Wikipedia - registered with a different name there to what I use here.)
.... A share of stock is ownership in a company, making a bet that the value of the company will increase - over the long term - faster than inflation will.
Remember the good old days when a share of stock was ownership in a company, making a bet that the company would make a profit and pay a dividend...
I'll presume that you're a troll but you drag out the age old "If you've got nothing to hide... argument"
Here are a couple of issues with this argument.
1. Retroactive violation of new laws:
Let's imagine that you're a smoker and that you smoke in your house. The government could pass a law saying "Smoking is not allowed inside any building. Anyone caught must pay a $500 fine." They can now either go back and look at their surveillance data and retroactively charge you for smoking in your house in the past
The problem there is not the surveillance, it's the retroactive law. It's fundamentally wrong that I can do something legal today, and then tomorrow the law might change retroactively so that I can be prosecuted for doing something that was legal at the time that I did it. It's irrelevant whether the evidence is from surveillance (covert or otherwise) or from witnesses who saw me (in public or in private), or by my own admission. If I can't travel back in time to change my behaviour, nobody should be able to change the legality of my past behaviour.
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And you have to enter the password using the mouse and an on-screen keyboard so you can't copy/paste the password from a password manager.
3)Install updates promptly.
4)Don't run things from sources you don't trust.
Those two are mutually exclusive for Windows 7 users. I no longer trust Microsoft updates, thanks to the spyware that is Windows 10.
As for "try and X," I do agree that it lacks proper punctuation. If you want to be taken seriously you need philosophical rantings to take on a more precise syntax:
Do or do not; there is no try.
It does not matter whether your try, it only matters whether you develop a style.
... [did something] With absolutely no backup. ...
Lesson learnt: Backup
Yes, dentists are well paid - eventually - but they start earning late, a few years after a software dev, they have a much larger school debt to pay off, and just like a software dev, the early years don't pay so well.
... and they have to spend their working lives peering into people's mouths. I've never understood why anyone would choose that as a career (unless the money is really good).
Want old-school Firefox without the new-age crap? Try Seamonkey.
Pale Moon (www.palemoon.org) is a quite good fork of FF pre-Australis.
I'm just basing the relative experience level by your UID ...
And on what did you base your assumption that UID correlates to writing experience? I would have expected that someone who has apparently been writing for longer than Slashdot has existed would have realised that other posters might also have been writing for longer than they have been registered at Slashdot.
.... someone who has not been writing as long as I have...
Just to satisfy my curiosity, could you quantify that please?
How long have I been writing, and how long have you been writing?
But at least they will have to pay going forward.
Will they get a refund if they go backwards?
(Perhaps the words you were looking for were "in future".)
Reality: Just about every business says they care about data privacy
The first line of the typical company privacy policy is "we value your privacy", but the next ten pages list all the ways they are going to violate it.
I think Ford should invest in getting everyone a moving map GPS
... displays will be in all new cars starting in 2018, because backup cameras will be mandatory. So sticking in a GPS is a minimal cost. For many current cars, the backup camera and GPS are part of the same package. ....
That's all very well, but I don't usually have a problem navigating when I'm reversing - I want the GPS to work when I going forwards!
... Much like we have a national do-not-call registry, we need a national do-not-track registry that covers the individual and any information source they choose to register.
Wrong. We need a DO-call registry and a DO-track register. Privacy should be the default state. I should have to opt IN to being called by tele-marketers, spammed, tracked etc, not opt out.
I don't know if it is Harlequin80's bank, but Westpac (https://online.westpac.com.au/esis/Login/SrvPage) requires exactly 6 characters, with no lowercase.
Prohibit circular cites to other Wiki articles.
That's already a well-established policy: WP:CIRCULAR
... With the ebook you get a ... license to read the book but only in the format you purchased your license for.
This applies equally to physical books.
100 percent of all point-of-sale transactions are done with plastic... at least they are in Australia where we replaced paper notes with plastic ones back in 1988. Australia's $1 notes were also replaced with coins back in 1984 (go figure).
Wrong. Some transactions use coins, which are made of metal, not plastic. Last I checked, not every transaction was in multiples of $5 (the lowest denomination Australian note/bill).
As I understand it, they must update to "'Windows 8.1 Update 1". A new marketing name for the old "Service Pack" ?
"Service Pack" itself being a marketing name for "Version 8.1.1"
Office 97 will read .docx and .xlsx files if you install the converters from http://support.microsoft.com/k...
New functionality won't work - eg new functions in Excel 2007 will give #NAME errors in 97, but otherwise it works fine.
since when is "easier to hold" prioritized over "easier to view" ?
Since you used it as a telephone, not a television.
TV Shows now include Twitter names and hashtags quite regularly as watermark bugs ... It's quite telling they put them up as bugs during the actual show ...
I've stopped watching some TV programs because the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has started displaying hashtags during the programs. The ABC is supposed to be non-commercial, and I refuse to watch anything that includes these advertisements. (For what it's worth, I also wrote to them and told them I was switching off. Now if only a few million other people would do likewise...)
Only in theory. In practice, they'll reverse your edits if you're anonymous.
"They" will revert vandalism and other inappropriate edits regardless of whether you are logged in or not. Likewise "they" often keep good edits from editors who are not logged in. Feel free to provide links here to reasonable edits (as diffs) that were reverted just because you were "anonymous", and I'll probably be able to tell you exactly why they were reverted. (Disclosure: I am a frequent editor of Wikipedia - registered with a different name there to what I use here.)
Slashdot is practically the only place left on the web where you can do anything (such as posting a comment) without an account.
Wikipedia allows editing of most articles without requiring an account.
.... A share of stock is ownership in a company, making a bet that the value of the company will increase - over the long term - faster than inflation will.
Remember the good old days when a share of stock was ownership in a company, making a bet that the company would make a profit and pay a dividend ...
I'll presume that you're a troll but you drag out the age old "If you've got nothing to hide... argument" Here are a couple of issues with this argument. 1. Retroactive violation of new laws: Let's imagine that you're a smoker and that you smoke in your house. The government could pass a law saying "Smoking is not allowed inside any building. Anyone caught must pay a $500 fine." They can now either go back and look at their surveillance data and retroactively charge you for smoking in your house in the past
The problem there is not the surveillance, it's the retroactive law. It's fundamentally wrong that I can do something legal today, and then tomorrow the law might change retroactively so that I can be prosecuted for doing something that was legal at the time that I did it. It's irrelevant whether the evidence is from surveillance (covert or otherwise) or from witnesses who saw me (in public or in private), or by my own admission. If I can't travel back in time to change my behaviour, nobody should be able to change the legality of my past behaviour.
The proper format is YYYY-MM-DD, not YYYY/MM/DD.
By "proper", of course, you mean international standard ISO 8601.