If the OS was Linux there'd be scamperin' going on to show it had nothing to do with the OS.
In Windows the whole stack, is monolithic chunk, your browser your display manager, your, shell and you kernal all come together and a re made by the same group. In Linux distros everything is modular can be swamped out, and is made by unrelated groups (KDE, GNU, Apache, Mozilla, Oracle, X11, OpenSSH, Redhat), So it is only a Linux bug if it is in the Linux Kernel. It is a windows bug if it comes with anywhere in the whole software stack (NT kernal, trident rendering engine,.net runtime, win32 libraries ) we call Windows.
Windows == Large Stack of Software Linux == Kernal
... strutting around in their low cut shirts and bare midriffs... And do we really need to see your tramp stamps?
In other news, Jerry that keeps showing up to work in his S&M gimp suit will switch to a more work appropriate polo shirt. Thanks for ruining it for everyone Jerry... you jackass.
No the guy in the gimp suit works in hr its the uniform
Well there is precedent the MPAA compared the VCR to the Boston Strangler in the early 80s.
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." --- Jake Valenti (President of the MPAA)
If they thought a device that would allow you to recorded live tv was equivalent to a serial murderer then there thought of piracy must be at least equally hyperbolic.
How do you do screen sharing with HTML and JavaScript? Yeah, thought so.
I would suppose that one could build a api to do so on top of X11 or Wayland if you really wanted to but if you are going to do that why not use protcol built to do that
You tried to annex Canada in 1814, so we beat the crap out of you and burned down the Whitehouse.
Unfortunately due to commitments defeating Napoleon at the time, we couldn't commit enough resources to take back our American colonies so we settled on leaving the borders where they were before you invaded British territory.
Wrong.
The British tried to enforce trade restriction on the United States with trade with a verity of European countries and were boarding American merchant ships and pressing their sailors into service in the British navy against their will, at the same time they were funding and supplying native tribes to fight again American expansion westward. So the United States declared war on the British Empire.
Additionally the United States never seriously tried to take Canadian territory they sent a token force of untrained militia Under the command of William Hull to keep the British troops in Canada out of the way.
And it wasn't the Canadians the burned the Whitehouse it was British troops that came down out of Canada.
It's never been a country. It's a territory of Denmark. On top of that, it doesn't border Canada since it's an island.
wrong.
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland
I'm reminded of one time back in high school when we were discussing a poem by Margaret Atwood. The English teacher mentioned as an aside, "who knows where Margaret Atwood is from," thinking it would be a good segue. Silence. "I'll give you a hint: she's writing in her native language."
"American?" - "No." "British?" - "No." "Australian" - "No." There was another pregnant silence and before I could hazard a guess on New Zealand, he gave up and said, "Canada! Margaret Atwood is perhaps the most famous Canadian poet!"
So help me, my thought at the time was actually, "Ohhh. Canada... they exist too."
The point of the story is, just because you speak English doesn't make it any more likely we'll remember that your country exists. Sorry, Canada. If it helps at all I'm in Texas, so you're not exactly foremost in our thoughts.
To many Americans Canada isn't so much a country as it is a slightly more independent territory or protectorate that we forgot to annex and declare a state. Or they think of it as A part neglected part of Great Brittan that England chooses to ignore (kind of like scottland but farther way and with less invested in it) a or a colony of maple syrup fetishists that no one wants to claim. I say that as a Canadian-American duel citizen.
Also (No offense intended but) I am surprised that you thought of New Zealand at all. Most people either think it as "middle earth" or of it simply as "the one that is not Australia".
Announcer: Do you remember a time when chocolate chips came fresh from the oven? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Fry: Ah, those were the days. Announcer: Do you remember a time when women couldn't vote and certain people weren't allowed on golf courses? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I've always advocated and always ask for a manual pat-down and bag search. This takes 1-2 people about 5-7 minutes to do this, especially if you have baby/foot powder which will require drug testing. If you want to make it interesting for the screener, include a couple of "very" adult magazines (Playboy doesn't cut it) in the bag with the powders, it is very comical.
If 5% of the population did this the entire system would grind to a halt.
If we really wanted to get rid of the security theatre what we would do is organize people doing this when its known that senators will be flying from the same airport make it grind to a halt all day for a handful of senators and congressman when they are headed home for a long weekend or on the campaign trail and just watch the rules change.
I hate those people and their giant binders of coupons. Why? Because if you get stuck behind one in line, they double or triple the wait time.
As someone who has had to work a register with those assholes so do we the cashiers, especialy when they try to argue with your managers for 15 minutes about store policy and combined coupons tying up lines.
Those of you who block ads but still consume the services of sites that run them without paying into any subscription fee, why do you freeload?
If you like something you support it, right?
I still have not figured out the bizarre-o world of the internet where some people want something for free, block any attempt to pay for it via ads, refuse to pay subscriptions, won't buy the T-shirt, etc., but still want it to be there tomorrow for them when they wake up.
I'm addressing now folks who do that - who do you think pays the bills on sites? Who do you think puts the work in? Do you get paid for doing YOUR job?
Questions ever unanswered..
The problem isn't not wanting to pay the site maintainers its not wanting to be subjected to potentially malicious code embedded in attack ads. And as this same subjects comes up ever couple of weeks now I am just going to copypaste my response to this same objection from a little over two weeks ago.
I trust Slashdot not to attack me. But Slashdot is paid by "acme ad company" to insert their ads. Acme will pipe through whatever code crackers and malicious operators gives them as long as they get their money. I don't trust acme because of this and I certainly don't trust the person placing the ad. But here is the problem acme doesn't care as, I am a product not a customer. They only have to appease Slashdot and who ever is placing the ad. In fact their is a disincentive to scrutinize the content on the ads they are selling as they get paid either no matter the content and passing up bad operators is lost money. They can get away with it because if Slashdot viewer complain then they can say they will look into it opps one got through our system and nothing happens. So the only way to be safe is to block ads.
In fact, why do we have to talk about intelligence? What about the Kardashians? What would they do if they showed up here? What would we do if we met the Kardashians? Would we try to eradicate them?
I personally believe that if a super intelligent AI were to find out about the Kardashians they would justifiably decide to eradicate our species.
Could you tell us which percentage of Chrome-based browsers and Android phones do not communicate with Google?
From your misleading post it sounds like the number should be 90. If that was so, nobody would care, but the reality is the other way around.
well my amazon tablet runs android and doesn't use google services for anything but search and i was given the option to pick theirs amoung a list of several competing services. Same with chromium I choose to use google search because the competitors are shitty and/or and even more evil.
I agree wholeheartedly. Sadly, the handwriting for this has been on the wall for some time. I can only hope Debian's Iceweasel port of Firefox does not adopt this "feature".
This makes me start to wonder if there is a reduced capability browser -- something leaner and meaner, focused militantly on privacy and even going so far as to deliberately not support portions of HTML5 (e.g. DRM).
Coders of the world, here's a niche you could fill...
I have been considering going the other way entirely and switching to sea-monkey as I already use both firefox and thunderbird but both have been being shit upon by mozzila devs but from what i have seen seamonkey seems to get less abuse and lets me continue to use my addons.
Adblock Plus for Android got kicked out of Google Play along with other ad blocking apps in March 2013, because Google’s developer distribution agreement states apps cannot interfere with the functionality of other apps
How is AdBlock interfering with the functionality of other apps? That makes no sense. Are people running apps whose function is to display ads?
But, this is not surprising, since 98% of Google's revenue depends on advertising being as intrusive as possible,
Yes that is the sole reason for almost any ad supported app. Whatever other functionality they have is simply the bait used to get you to view their ads. You are the product sold to the ad networks by the app developer and then resold to the whomever is placing the ad.
Slashdot Mirror
I just torrent over Tor.
many exit nodes block torrent traffic and the tor project itself says it may not be safe to torrent over tor
https://blog.torproject.org/bl...
But the original claim was: "Keyboard and mouse flat out destroys controllers".
yes we said
(keyboard + mouse) > control pad
!(keyboard + mouse) > (control pad + aim-bot)
Mendel was breeding peas for specific traits in the eighteen hundreds.
If the OS was Linux there'd be scamperin' going on to show it had nothing to do with the OS.
In Windows the whole stack, is monolithic chunk, your browser your display manager, your, shell and you kernal all come together and a re made by the same group. In Linux distros everything is modular can be swamped out, and is made by unrelated groups (KDE, GNU, Apache, Mozilla, Oracle, X11, OpenSSH, Redhat), So it is only a Linux bug if it is in the Linux Kernel. It is a windows bug if it comes with anywhere in the whole software stack (NT kernal, trident rendering engine, .net runtime, win32 libraries ) we call Windows.
Windows == Large Stack of Software
Linux == Kernal
... strutting around in their low cut shirts and bare midriffs... And do we really need to see your tramp stamps?
In other news, Jerry that keeps showing up to work in his S&M gimp suit will switch to a more work appropriate polo shirt. Thanks for ruining it for everyone Jerry... you jackass.
No the guy in the gimp suit works in hr its the uniform
Well there is precedent the MPAA compared the VCR to the Boston Strangler in the early 80s.
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." --- Jake Valenti (President of the MPAA)
If they thought a device that would allow you to recorded live tv was equivalent to a serial murderer then there thought of piracy must be at least equally hyperbolic.
If you're a bad person we'll reconstruct an identical clone of you and imprison it as your punishment.
And any clones of me would not have my memories as those aren't genetic, so why are you going to torcher an inoccent person?
Also not at all on topic.
How do you do screen sharing with HTML and JavaScript? Yeah, thought so.
I would suppose that one could build a api to do so on top of X11 or Wayland if you really wanted to but if you are going to do that why not use protcol built to do that
You tried to annex Canada in 1814, so we beat the crap out of you and burned down the Whitehouse.
Unfortunately due to commitments defeating Napoleon at the time, we couldn't commit enough resources to take back our American colonies so we settled on leaving the borders where they were before you invaded British territory.
Wrong.
The British tried to enforce trade restriction on the United States with trade with a verity of European countries and were boarding American merchant ships and pressing their sailors into service in the British navy against their will, at the same time they were funding and supplying native tribes to fight again American expansion westward. So the United States declared war on the British Empire.
Additionally the United States never seriously tried to take Canadian territory they sent a token force of untrained militia Under the command of William Hull to keep the British troops in Canada out of the way.
And it wasn't the Canadians the burned the Whitehouse it was British troops that came down out of Canada.
Is Greenland not a country anymore?
It's never been a country. It's a territory of Denmark. On top of that, it doesn't border Canada since it's an island.
wrong.
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America
---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland
Ha! Yeah, well, Canada is just as huge and is only bordered by ONE country. And they use metric.
Is Greenland not a country anymore? They do share some boarder, no one lives near it but they do share it.
I'm reminded of one time back in high school when we were discussing a poem by Margaret Atwood. The English teacher mentioned as an aside, "who knows where Margaret Atwood is from," thinking it would be a good segue. Silence. "I'll give you a hint: she's writing in her native language."
"American?"
- "No."
"British?"
- "No."
"Australian"
- "No." There was another pregnant silence and before I could hazard a guess on New Zealand, he gave up and said, "Canada! Margaret Atwood is perhaps the most famous Canadian poet!"
So help me, my thought at the time was actually, "Ohhh. Canada... they exist too."
The point of the story is, just because you speak English doesn't make it any more likely we'll remember that your country exists. Sorry, Canada. If it helps at all I'm in Texas, so you're not exactly foremost in our thoughts.
To many Americans Canada isn't so much a country as it is a slightly more independent territory or protectorate that we forgot to annex and declare a state. Or they think of it as A part neglected part of Great Brittan that England chooses to ignore (kind of like scottland but farther way and with less invested in it) a or a colony of maple syrup fetishists that no one wants to claim. I say that as a Canadian-American duel citizen.
Also (No offense intended but) I am surprised that you thought of New Zealand at all. Most people either think it as "middle earth" or of it simply as "the one that is not Australia".
of course not he traveled to the future to post it in the first place
Announcer: Do you remember a time when chocolate chips came fresh from the oven? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Fry: Ah, those were the days.
Announcer: Do you remember a time when women couldn't vote and certain people weren't allowed on golf courses? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
---Futurama S01E06: A Fishful of Dollars.
I've always advocated and always ask for a manual pat-down and bag search. This takes 1-2 people about 5-7 minutes to do this, especially if you have baby/foot powder which will require drug testing. If you want to make it interesting for the screener, include a couple of "very" adult magazines (Playboy doesn't cut it) in the bag with the powders, it is very comical.
If 5% of the population did this the entire system would grind to a halt.
If we really wanted to get rid of the security theatre what we would do is organize people doing this when its known that senators will be flying from the same airport make it grind to a halt all day for a handful of senators and congressman when they are headed home for a long weekend or on the campaign trail and just watch the rules change.
I hate those people and their giant binders of coupons. Why? Because if you get stuck behind one in line, they double or triple the wait time.
As someone who has had to work a register with those assholes so do we the cashiers, especialy when they try to argue with your managers for 15 minutes about store policy and combined coupons tying up lines.
Those of you who block ads but still consume the services of sites that run them without paying into any subscription fee, why do you freeload?
If you like something you support it, right?
I still have not figured out the bizarre-o world of the internet where some people want something for free, block any attempt to pay for it via ads, refuse to pay subscriptions, won't buy the T-shirt, etc., but still want it to be there tomorrow for them when they wake up.
I'm addressing now folks who do that - who do you think pays the bills on sites? Who do you think puts the work in? Do you get paid for doing YOUR job?
Questions ever unanswered..
The problem isn't not wanting to pay the site maintainers its not wanting to be subjected to potentially malicious code embedded in attack ads. And as this same subjects comes up ever couple of weeks now I am just going to copypaste my response to this same objection from a little over two weeks ago.
I trust Slashdot not to attack me. But Slashdot is paid by "acme ad company" to insert their ads. Acme will pipe through whatever code crackers and malicious operators gives them as long as they get their money. I don't trust acme because of this and I certainly don't trust the person placing the ad. But here is the problem acme doesn't care as, I am a product not a customer. They only have to appease Slashdot and who ever is placing the ad. In fact their is a disincentive to scrutinize the content on the ads they are selling as they get paid either no matter the content and passing up bad operators is lost money. They can get away with it because if Slashdot viewer complain then they can say they will look into it opps one got through our system and nothing happens. So the only way to be safe is to block ads.
Not to mention the fact that - who drinks tapwater nowadays?
Anyone that doesn't want to kill the environment by buying plastic bottles of tap water?
It's going to be Microsoft Z3 ...
Microsoft - Revenge of the Zune
In fact, why do we have to talk about intelligence? What about the Kardashians? What would they do if they showed up here? What would we do if we met the Kardashians? Would we try to eradicate them?
I personally believe that if a super intelligent AI were to find out about the Kardashians they would justifiably decide to eradicate our species.
Could you tell us which percentage of Chrome-based browsers and Android phones do not communicate with Google?
From your misleading post it sounds like the number should be 90. If that was so, nobody would care, but the reality is the other way around.
well my amazon tablet runs android and doesn't use google services for anything but search and i was given the option to pick theirs amoung a list of several competing services. Same with chromium I choose to use google search because the competitors are shitty and/or and even more evil.
I agree wholeheartedly. Sadly, the handwriting for this has been on the wall for some time. I can only hope Debian's Iceweasel port of Firefox does not adopt this "feature".
This makes me start to wonder if there is a reduced capability browser -- something leaner and meaner, focused militantly on privacy and even going so far as to deliberately not support portions of HTML5 (e.g. DRM).
Coders of the world, here's a niche you could fill...
I have been considering going the other way entirely and switching to sea-monkey as I already use both firefox and thunderbird but both have been being shit upon by mozzila devs but from what i have seen seamonkey seems to get less abuse and lets me continue to use my addons.
best response to troll feeding ever
Why not? Are ASICs magic chips that are not subject to the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
No they are just more effecient at doing what ever one task they are made to do.
Adblock Plus for Android got kicked out of Google Play along with other ad blocking apps in March 2013, because Google’s developer distribution agreement states apps cannot interfere with the functionality of other apps
How is AdBlock interfering with the functionality of other apps? That makes no sense. Are people running apps whose function is to display ads?
But, this is not surprising, since 98% of Google's revenue depends on advertising being as intrusive as possible,
Yes that is the sole reason for almost any ad supported app. Whatever other functionality they have is simply the bait used to get you to view their ads. You are the product sold to the ad networks by the app developer and then resold to the whomever is placing the ad.