In nhavar's quote, nhavar quotes slashdot editors who posted a story, in which Richard Dawkins was quoted as writing that Nobel-winner Murray Gell-Mann once said, "Smolin? Is he that young guy with those crazy ideas? He may not be wrong."
But the idea is to force the spammers out of business by taking away the small fraction of customers that they get from sending out their spam. If you just have an intermediate page saying this website is involved in spam, all you're doing is putting one more mouse click between the customer and the website. Remember, these are people that *want* to visit the spammers site that are being blocked.
IMHO, even though it is all for a good cause, once you start blocking websites "for the good of the internet" it's a slippery slope to full-on censorship.
Okay, so you're strengthening my point. The initial analogy didn't mention anything like that, and was making out that the withholder of information was stupid and irresponsible.
What I'm saying is that this is a bad analogy because on the surface it makes the reader think "oh yes the Police Chief is an idiot, and by inference so are those who withhold vulnerability information," when in actual fact, if you look at the situation more closely, the Police Chief is acting in this way for a well thought out reason.
It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to strengthen an argument by duping people with convoluted analogies that miss a vital point. It is a common technique of misdirection in debate and discussion.
My case in point, Donald Rumsfeld saying yesterday re. the WMD fiasco, "we haven't found Saddam yet, but there aren't any people running around saying he doesn't exist. We just haven't found the WMD yet," or words to that effect. Again, a bad analogy because the difference is that, we KNOW Saddam existed before the war, and he has gone into hiding. True the weapons could have been hidden in the same way, but we don't KNOW they existed and that's the proof the public are asking for.
This is all getting a bit OT, but I guess my point is to BE WARY of bad analogies.
It/isn't/ an apt analogy. In your analogy, if the Police Chief released the information, it could only benefit the population by warning the pizza guys to steer clear of the area for a bit until the muggers are caught.
What it wouldn't do, is tell other muggers "oh that four block area is a great place to pick up pizza guys!" or help the muggers in any way.
In order for your analogy to be accurate you need to factor in some kind of disadvantage to disclosing the information such as mass hysteria, or starvation for the pizza dependent inhabitants. In which case your analogy breaks down because it's no longer an idiotic Police Chief being irresponsible, it's damage limitation.
Firstly, forget about graph paper. It is already common practise in photography to examine the properties of a camera's lens and viewfinder using standard test images such as this (don't use this actual image though, it is a photograph itself, not actually the source image).
I think the poster already has an idea how to solve the problem, he mentions digital mappings, but the point is that he doesn't want to go to the effort of coding if it has been done before.
It was my understanding that MacDonalds like to get their customers out as quick as possible, so they don't take up the seating for too long. I have heard stories here in England of people being asked to leave during busy hours because they were taking too long finishing their drink or something similarly ridiculous.
I'm not sure how offering an hour of Wi-Fi access would help this, unless they expect us to stand outside and use it.
Just the fact that you read and post to slashdot indicates that you are not the *average* internet user. I would bet my bottom Euro that the *average* internet user would start using IE before they stopped using MSN.
Use angle brackets, making them display properly with this syntax, thus:
... however this may not work in Opera. You might in fact have to write an entirely separate website for Opera browsers and use browser detection. Being a competent web designer for a very large corporation, I know this to be the One True Way.
You seem to be missing an important point. By making Opera render the page incorrectly, the MSN users are not going to stop using MSN, they are going to change browser. At least this is what Microsoft seem to intend.
No doubt MSN users will still want to access their MSN email and communities, so they will find another way to access it, viz. Internet Explorer.
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Energy isn't free, I have to pay for the food that I eat in order to generate that energy that they are taking.
In nhavar's quote, nhavar quotes slashdot editors who posted a story, in which Richard Dawkins was quoted as writing that Nobel-winner Murray Gell-Mann once said, "Smolin? Is he that young guy with those crazy ideas? He may not be wrong."
What would be better is if they create a client for Second Life that runs in a web browser. I think you can see where I'm going with this...
1. Sell pirated films and CDs for cash from the boot of your car, and use it to bribe politicians.
2. ???
3. Break even.
>"Digital versatile disc" or DVD?
You mean "Digital Video Disk", surely?
No, I think he means Digital Versatile Disc.
already a GUI.
How did you think the command line program ordered it? Magic?
straight from the
But the idea is to force the spammers out of business by taking away the small fraction of customers that they get from sending out their spam. If you just have an intermediate page saying this website is involved in spam, all you're doing is putting one more mouse click between the customer and the website. Remember, these are people that *want* to visit the spammers site that are being blocked.
IMHO, even though it is all for a good cause, once you start blocking websites "for the good of the internet" it's a slippery slope to full-on censorship.
I'm going to post something interesting later too.
Mod me up please.
It happens to the best of us.
Okay, so you're strengthening my point. The initial analogy didn't mention anything like that, and was making out that the withholder of information was stupid and irresponsible.
What I'm saying is that this is a bad analogy because on the surface it makes the reader think "oh yes the Police Chief is an idiot, and by inference so are those who withhold vulnerability information," when in actual fact, if you look at the situation more closely, the Police Chief is acting in this way for a well thought out reason.
It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to strengthen an argument by duping people with convoluted analogies that miss a vital point. It is a common technique of misdirection in debate and discussion.
My case in point, Donald Rumsfeld saying yesterday re. the WMD fiasco, "we haven't found Saddam yet, but there aren't any people running around saying he doesn't exist. We just haven't found the WMD yet," or words to that effect. Again, a bad analogy because the difference is that, we KNOW Saddam existed before the war, and he has gone into hiding. True the weapons could have been hidden in the same way, but we don't KNOW they existed and that's the proof the public are asking for.
This is all getting a bit OT, but I guess my point is to BE WARY of bad analogies.
It /isn't/ an apt analogy. In your analogy, if the Police Chief released the information, it could only benefit the population by warning the pizza guys to steer clear of the area for a bit until the muggers are caught.
What it wouldn't do, is tell other muggers "oh that four block area is a great place to pick up pizza guys!" or help the muggers in any way.
In order for your analogy to be accurate you need to factor in some kind of disadvantage to disclosing the information such as mass hysteria, or starvation for the pizza dependent inhabitants. In which case your analogy breaks down because it's no longer an idiotic Police Chief being irresponsible, it's damage limitation.
Firstly, forget about graph paper. It is already common practise in photography to examine the properties of a camera's lens and viewfinder using standard test images such as this (don't use this actual image though, it is a photograph itself, not actually the source image).
I think the poster already has an idea how to solve the problem, he mentions digital mappings, but the point is that he doesn't want to go to the effort of coding if it has been done before.
It was my understanding that MacDonalds like to get their customers out as quick as possible, so they don't take up the seating for too long. I have heard stories here in England of people being asked to leave during busy hours because they were taking too long finishing their drink or something similarly ridiculous.
I'm not sure how offering an hour of Wi-Fi access would help this, unless they expect us to stand outside and use it.
Except if you read the post, it's not just for school credit, he wishes to sell the DVDs. For money.
Microsoft patent,
Client-server computing.
We owe royalties.
Just the fact that you read and post to slashdot indicates that you are not the *average* internet user. I would bet my bottom Euro that the *average* internet user would start using IE before they stopped using MSN.
Use angle brackets, making them display properly with this syntax, thus:
... however this may not work in Opera. You might in fact have to write an entirely separate website for Opera browsers and use browser detection. Being a competent web designer for a very large corporation, I know this to be the One True Way.
;)
You seem to be missing an important point. By making Opera render the page incorrectly, the MSN users are not going to stop using MSN, they are going to change browser. At least this is what Microsoft seem to intend.
No doubt MSN users will still want to access their MSN email and communities, so they will find another way to access it, viz. Internet Explorer.
Ironic that you should be so emphatic about Opera on the same day that five new vulnerabilities are discovered in it.
Long live Mozilla \o/
... your husband doesn't read slashdot ;)
"information superhighway" = anagram("a rough whimper of insanity")
also:
"information superhighway" = anagram("im on a huge wispy rhino fart")
Don't forget to take a towel.
Just because he was blind before doesn't mean that he doesn't have eyelids.
Yes and a record player raises the needle when it gets to the middle of the record, and returns the arms to its start position.