What's bizarre to me is that we learn that the human body is 98.6 and that water boils at 100. When I was young I thought that human body temperature was close to boiling. I really doubt that I'm the only person in the U.S. who didn't know.
Most people in the U.S. probably couldn't tell you that human body temperature is ~37 Celsius or that water boils at 212 Fahrenheit.
As someone who's actually watched Al Jazeera English, I'd just recommend that people watch it before they judge it, rather than just assuming it's the "Al Qaeda network". It's not.
Every time I read a story like this, I wonder if the person running their website is just really really good at search engine optimization.
"I couldn't pay people to link to my site, but if I tell people not to they're going to do it out of spite. More links to my site means higher search engine placement means more revenue for me."
Screw it. You don't want me to link to you? I won't. And I hope your site goes out of business.
Spammers use bots to browse the internet and scoop up email addresses. Then they send messages with one of those addresses in the "From" header and one in the "To" header. If the messages go through, one person receives spam. If they don't go through, the other person receives spam. Either way, someone gets spam.
None of this requires much technical knowledge. I can make backscatter spam by filling in a registration form on any website. I just put your address in the "email address" field, and the site sends you a confirmation email, typically from a no-reply@whatever.com email address. So it's basically impossible to stop.
Backscatter spam works because it looks like it came from someone it didn't. It's why web sites shouldn't provide alerts for messages that weren't delivered and why "out of office" messages or messages to confirm addresses are bad. Because any bot (or any person, too) can fill in a form and turn your website into a backscatter machine.
Tell him that the "from" that shows up in emails is like the upper left corner of an envelope.
I could write a letter, address it, and in the upper left corner write
PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. NW WASHINGTON, DC 20500-0003
And you could mail the letter. And the letter might even be delivered. But that doesn't mean that the President really sent that letter. It just means that whoever sent it claimed to be someone else when they were sending it.
I can't imagine it would be that difficult to convince the psychopaths in management to institute mandatory testing that would find and remove psychopaths from management positions...
As you may know, all browsers have a set of CSS features that are either considered a vendor extension (e.g. -ms-interpolation-mode), are partial implementations of properties that are fully defined in the CSS specifications, or are implementation of properties that exist in the CSS specifications, but aren’t completely defined. According to the CSS 2.1 Specification, any of the properties that fall under the categories listed previously must have a vendor specific prefix, such as '-ms-' for Microsoft, '-moz-' for Mozilla, '-o-' for Opera, and so on.
As part of our plan to reach full CSS 2.1 compliance with Internet Explorer 8, we have decided to place all properties that fulfill one of the following conditions behind the '-ms-' prefix:
If the property is a Microsoft extension (not defined in a CSS specification/module) If the property is part of a CSS specification or module that hasn’t received Candidate Recommendation status from the W3C If the property is a partial implementation of a property that is defined in a CSS specification or module This change applies to the following properties, and therefore they should all be prefixed with '-ms-' when writing pages for Internet Explorer 8 (please note that if Internet Explorer 8 users are viewing your site in Compatibility View, they will see your page exactly as it would have been rendered in Internet Explorer 7, and in that case the prefix is neither needed nor acknowledged by the parser):
If a site designer doesn't code things correctly by also including the CSS property *without* vendor-specific prefixes that's a problem with the quality of the site designer and not with Safari.
Walmart has some velcro strap in the sewing section. It's about 1" thick, and is spooled around itself. Whenever I need to tie a cable, I just wrap it around the bunch of cables and cut. It works a lot better than things like plastic ties or twist ties, because it can easily be undone.
If I have a bunch of cables tied together and you can't identify them(like networking cable), I will wrap a piece of paper masking tape around each end of each cable(like a flag made of tape rather than like a band going around the wire), and then write a description of the cable on both sides of the tape and on both sides of each flag.
If you notice that someone is following you in a car and he has a gun, and if he gets out of his car and runs after you with his gun, I can't imagine why you'd feel justified hitting him first...
This is an instance in which the court is just wrong.
The fact that they don't understand that it's electronically stored has no effect on whether it is. Courts can make all of the rulings in the world but if something objectively is or is not then it just objectively is or is not and regardless of court rulings.
Humanity will live on ships in space. Not just on planets. The ships will recycle to degrees you never thought possible: purifying waste, reusing vitamins and minerals and using photosynthesis or similar chemical reactions to get energy from the most widely available energy sources.
Landing on a rock is all well and good, but space travel should not be about how far you can go. It should be about understanding that movement little-by-little will happen. If we find a way to travel at the speeds needed to get to other planets then it might happen quickly, but if we can just get to the point where getting off the planet is commonplace, there are going to be reasons to go a little bit further and a little bit further and a little bit further. If we give up the notion that we must always end up on a rock, it will make it much easier for some of us to end up very far away.
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I hope you're not intending to imply that the legal system in the United States is proper.
If it's 15, starting your car and leaving it in park just to have the heater on so you can stay warm is not drunk driving.
Legally it may be *considered* drunk driving, but it's not.
No, this is how Nokia intends to make money in the future: by selling stolen credit card information.
What's bizarre to me is that we learn that the human body is 98.6 and that water boils at 100. When I was young I thought that human body temperature was close to boiling. I really doubt that I'm the only person in the U.S. who didn't know.
Most people in the U.S. probably couldn't tell you that human body temperature is ~37 Celsius or that water boils at 212 Fahrenheit.
100 kilos = 220 pounds. Once you know that, it's not that difficult.
I'm in the U.S. I'm not a carpenter, but I sure enough have two sets of tools, an imperial set and a metric set.
It wouldn't bankrupt me to have everything be metric. It would mean that I'd always pick the correct tool for the job.
Backslash leans back.
Forward slash leans forward.
As someone who's actually watched Al Jazeera English, I'd just recommend that people watch it before they judge it, rather than just assuming it's the "Al Qaeda network". It's not.
Every time I read a story like this, I wonder if the person running their website is just really really good at search engine optimization.
"I couldn't pay people to link to my site, but if I tell people not to they're going to do it out of spite. More links to my site means higher search engine placement means more revenue for me."
Screw it. You don't want me to link to you? I won't. And I hope your site goes out of business.
Well that's the problem. You're not supposed to put them in the toilet.
You misspelled "by".
Have you ever heard of backscatter spam?
Spammers use bots to browse the internet and scoop up email addresses. Then they send messages with one of those addresses in the "From" header and one in the "To" header. If the messages go through, one person receives spam. If they don't go through, the other person receives spam. Either way, someone gets spam.
None of this requires much technical knowledge. I can make backscatter spam by filling in a registration form on any website. I just put your address in the "email address" field, and the site sends you a confirmation email, typically from a no-reply@whatever.com email address. So it's basically impossible to stop.
Backscatter spam works because it looks like it came from someone it didn't. It's why web sites shouldn't provide alerts for messages that weren't delivered and why "out of office" messages or messages to confirm addresses are bad. Because any bot (or any person, too) can fill in a form and turn your website into a backscatter machine.
Tell him that the "from" that shows up in emails is like the upper left corner of an envelope.
I could write a letter, address it, and in the upper left corner write
And you could mail the letter. And the letter might even be delivered. But that doesn't mean that the President really sent that letter. It just means that whoever sent it claimed to be someone else when they were sending it.
The tendency to believe things which agree with your existing beliefs is called "confirmation bias".
You're adorable.
I can't imagine it would be that difficult to convince the psychopaths in management to institute mandatory testing that would find and remove psychopaths from management positions...
Mod parent way up.
CSS3 prefixes are something that's added to a CSS property if support for the final standard isn't complete, so you end up with things like
border-radius: 15px;
-moz-border-radius: 15px;
-ms-border-radius: 15px;
-o-border-radius: 15px;
-webkit-border-radius: 15px;
Vendor prefixes are something that's done by every vendor for testing. That includes Microsoft. Here's a page from MSDN with a Microsoft representative explaining that:
If a site designer doesn't code things correctly by also including the CSS property *without* vendor-specific prefixes that's a problem with the quality of the site designer and not with Safari.
Walmart has some velcro strap in the sewing section. It's about 1" thick, and is spooled around itself. Whenever I need to tie a cable, I just wrap it around the bunch of cables and cut. It works a lot better than things like plastic ties or twist ties, because it can easily be undone.
If I have a bunch of cables tied together and you can't identify them(like networking cable), I will wrap a piece of paper masking tape around each end of each cable(like a flag made of tape rather than like a band going around the wire), and then write a description of the cable on both sides of the tape and on both sides of each flag.
What part of
didn't you understand?
The number of Android-based phones is greater than the number of iOS-based phones.
BUT
The total number of iOS-based devices is greater than the total number of Android-based devices.
It's a common misconception that Android has more marketshare than iOS.
Android has more marketshare if you count only phones.
If you count the iPhone, iPad and iPod vs Android phones and all other Android-based devices, iOS has more marketshare.
That's not even counting the marketshare of OS X(which iOS evolved from).
I work at a school for special-needs teenagers, and we could probably use about 200 of them if they were available.
I see your point.
If you notice that someone is following you in a car and he has a gun, and if he gets out of his car and runs after you with his gun, I can't imagine why you'd feel justified hitting him first...
This is why we need an assault Skittles ban.
This is an instance in which the court is just wrong.
The fact that they don't understand that it's electronically stored has no effect on whether it is. Courts can make all of the rulings in the world but if something objectively is or is not then it just objectively is or is not and regardless of court rulings.
Didn't Tesla believe that as something moved faster it would lose mass and that things could move faster than the speed of light?
If this story turned out to be true, that would be a huge victory for Tesla.
That's absurd.
Humanity will live on ships in space. Not just on planets. The ships will recycle to degrees you never thought possible: purifying waste, reusing vitamins and minerals and using photosynthesis or similar chemical reactions to get energy from the most widely available energy sources.
Landing on a rock is all well and good, but space travel should not be about how far you can go. It should be about understanding that movement little-by-little will happen. If we find a way to travel at the speeds needed to get to other planets then it might happen quickly, but if we can just get to the point where getting off the planet is commonplace, there are going to be reasons to go a little bit further and a little bit further and a little bit further. If we give up the notion that we must always end up on a rock, it will make it much easier for some of us to end up very far away.