Sure the first result might be good, but as I said, half the results are irrelevant. A search on Google for Moscow gives me a page full of links about the Moscow I care about (one link about some business method with strange caps). It's not until the second page (and the second half of the page) that I get a result about the city of Moscow in SomeState USA.
Of course, a lot of the results from Google are irrelevant recent news. If I search Ixquick, I get fewer news articles, only two hits for that city in Idawhere and the official website (now that could be useful).
The point is, that Bing provides some hits that are quite useless, and a few hits that are the same as the other two search engines I tested (Wikipedia, some travel guides, and some other random shit).
Different search engines are good for different things, but Bing is not good for anything.
I use Ixquick as well, along with NoScript and RequestPolicy. And I still see ads. I don't care though, because they aren't using JS or coming from a site that tracks me.
I also use Duckduckgo, Wolfram Alpha, and other search engines as necessary. And sometimes I find that Google still provides the best results (particularly for location specific information, and for non-USA information). But it's getting rarer.
But there are so many tools out there that do provide better results than Google a lot of the time, that I just don't use it.
I also don't use Bing, but that's because it sucks. I always found it had too much of a US bias, e.g. search for Melbourne and it comes up with stuff for a city in Florida. Similarly for Moscow, half the first page results are for some insignificant location in Idaho. Repeat for St Petersburg and you get results for the St Petersburg, and another one in some irrelevant location. Here's a hint MS, I don't care about the shitty cities in the USA with the same name as more famous places, unless I am in the USA, in that state, or also search for the name of the state.
I would happily see all governments fall, and all presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens dead, hung by the guts of the priesthood (however they might call themselves, imans, rabbis and gurus included). The war will not be civil, but will be a vast uprising of the masses against the oppressors. Capitalists shall be drawn and quartered in an orgy of revenge that shall make the French and Russian Revolutions look like picnics.
It won't be pretty. And I certainly don't desire it. But I can't see a good way out of it, other than the fanciful. Perhaps the powerful might be convinced to give up their wealth and powerful, and sit with the rest of us and eat common food. I doubt it.
You talk as if some governments are better than others, or even that some are good. I see the reality, that they are all bad. Saddam Hussein was an awful man, no doubt. But the "liberation" of Iraq did not lead to fewer deaths or a more free country.
it's better for all humanity to know how we are spied upon. And if I could, I would release all government secrets at once (and fuck the soldiers and special ops and spies, who all knew what they were getting into signing up to fight for their country). And if I couldn't, but if I could instead just release the secrets of one government, I would do that.
I go further than Thoreau, who suggested that the government that governs least governs best. I say that no government governs well at all, and all should be abolished.
It may have been legal in the USA for the NSA to spy on others. But it may not be legal in other countries. Moreover, talking about benefits, it benefits all of humanity to know more details of how governments spy on us and each other.
Historically, regimes that have claimed to be representing the workers, and to be moving towards communism (just as soon as they finished oppressing the bourgeoisie) had no problem with using forced labor. But the thing is, they never claimed that the place was communist, only that the party was, and that the country was in the transitional state. Total bullshit of course. Hence the use of the modifier "true" on "communist". A true communist being someone who actually desires a classless stateless society where the means of production are held in common. As opposed to a functionary who merely claims to want that, but really just wants a bit more power (or even merely to not get shot for opposing the state).
I could go on about it a bit more if you desire, but I hope you get the point.
That's funny. Except that it's too easy for other nations (also with an "infinite" amount of cash) to simply get together and push US Govt. out of controlling 51% of the network. They don't even need to get to 51% themselves, just to whatever percentage stops the one entity from controlling the network. There so many various people mining now, I doubt that it's at all likely that the US Govt. has or would easily get to 51%.
Labor camp, or any other similar phrases, are just another term for slavery. Slavery, forcing a person to work. Labor camp, forcing a person to work. Labor camp=slavery.
The United States prison system is being called "a new form of inhumane exploitation." Current penal labor in the U.S., it adds, "has its roots on slavery."
If you're a real communist you wouldn't be advocating for such shit.
Quite. I think that the foundation could send back a nicely worded letter to the effect that they write software/sponsor the writing of software (delete as applicable). They do not sell cars, sell drugs, or engage in money transfer. They should not be held any more responsible for the use their software is put to, than Microsoft is responsible for MS Word being used to write threatening letters to people.
Also, dear the editors, specifically samzenpus, please link to the original source, in this case Forbes, rather than to some random other website. You might also link to the cease and desist letter itself.
If you were looking for a gardener, who would you rather hire (of two otherwise equivalent people): someone who grew their own vegetables, or someone who bought them from the supermarket?
OK, bad example. We don't need an analogy here.
It's simple. Having your own website allows you maximum control. And it's not complicated. It's downright simple to setup WordPress on shared hosting. And if you can't, and instead link to MySpace on your resume, or whatever social media website is in vogue at the moment, then you just failed. And that also applies for Github (I don't even use Git, I use Bzr, why do I want to use Github again?).
The post I responded to suggested using a thirdparty as a portfolio site. A portfolio is something you want to make look good. And you can't do that on Github.
Because why should I be forced to agree to a third-parties terms and conditions to get a job, when I can put all my code that I want to share up on my own website?
Any software person who can't mange their own website isn't worth hiring. Why should I use Github when I've got a perfectly good website?
If a professional designer was using Deviantart or similar to publish a profile, I would similarly be a bit, "wait a minute, don't they care about controlling the whole experience?".
Having your own website (costs can be as low as $30 a year, including the domain) is essential for any serious developer/designer who wants to show off what they wrote. If nothing else, it can serve as a basic portal to other online places. But, ideally it should be sufficient on its own.
I hope you discover that you are wrong. That anyone who exposes the misdeeds of governments is a hero. And that rather than wishing them to be punished, that they should be rewarded. We should encourage people to step forward and denounce wrong doing, not punish them.
You are one of the worst sort of enablers, you claim to care about the misdeeds, but you still wish to punish those who expose them.
When a form is submitted, there is no bare 0, there is only "0", so PHP treating "0" as if it where 0 in certain cases is certainly understandable. It may not be obvious or intuitive to you, but there is certainly a good reason for it.
It's a language designed for the web. When you submit a form, everything is a string (or a file), there are no ints or floats. So, the language has to work around this issue, and being loose-typed, and having two comparison operators that work they way they do, is part of what makes PHP easy to use for the web.
A lot of crap. First we have this "Coin" business, instead of Bitcoin. If you want to talk about various *coins, say cryptocurrency or cryptocurrency based on Bitcoin.
Also, alternative bitcoin based currencies are mostly scams or failures for various reasons. There is no way there will be a 51% attack on Bitcoin. Sure your math says there could be. But it ain't happening. Sure Feathercoin got attacked. But what the fuck are they? What can I buy with that?
The transaction fee is 0% at present. Most miners will still accept your transaction, even if you don't pay a fee. And any fee is voluntary (except if you use the default client, in which case it will, in some cases, enforce a 0.005 bitcoin, I think, fee).
Oh, and its easy to lose your bitcoins. Gee, just like "paper" money. Whoops I ran my hundred dollar bill through the washer a few times. And now it's indistinguishable from lint. Or, hey, my house just burnt down, and I lost my life savings ('cause fuck banks). In fact, if you pay attention (i.e. take backups like you should with any digital stuff you want to keep; run a decent OS), it's harder to lose your bitcoins.
So Bitcoin is wonderful. Alternative cryptocurrencies may or may not be (but probably not). And the author should have done a little more research.
Hey hey! I punched someone in the face this morning for using a park bench too long! Just 'cause you're a pansy, doesn't mean we all are.
And I'll have you know I punch people on a regular basis. Often just because they look like they voted Republicunt or Democunt. Oh wait, I just proved your point didn't I.
More to the point, we have enough production surplus right now to give everyone in the world a reasonable standard of living. However, if you want to claim six houses, then maybe you should split into six people. Because you can only live in one at a time.
Yeah, fuck Al Gore and his private jet. But the only reason he's in the position he's in is because of capitalism.
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RequestPolicy + NoScript works better, and neither are run by advertising companies.
If ONLY HP had ALLOWED others TO FLOSS their teeth FOR them. Then we could all have FOUND this SERIOUS backdoor OURSELVES!
Once more WE CAN see that NON-FREE software IS bad FOR businesses and EVERYONE ELSE!
Personally, I use DEJA DUP and a HOMEGROWN rsync&dd-based SOLUTION. You MIGHT find CLONZILLA useful.
Torbrowser, and you get the added benefit of Tor! Or, if you just want Firefox, download the latest ESR release (10.X I think). If you can find it.
Sure the first result might be good, but as I said, half the results are irrelevant. A search on Google for Moscow gives me a page full of links about the Moscow I care about (one link about some business method with strange caps). It's not until the second page (and the second half of the page) that I get a result about the city of Moscow in SomeState USA.
Of course, a lot of the results from Google are irrelevant recent news. If I search Ixquick, I get fewer news articles, only two hits for that city in Idawhere and the official website (now that could be useful).
The point is, that Bing provides some hits that are quite useless, and a few hits that are the same as the other two search engines I tested (Wikipedia, some travel guides, and some other random shit).
Different search engines are good for different things, but Bing is not good for anything.
I use Ixquick as well, along with NoScript and RequestPolicy. And I still see ads. I don't care though, because they aren't using JS or coming from a site that tracks me.
I also use Duckduckgo, Wolfram Alpha, and other search engines as necessary. And sometimes I find that Google still provides the best results (particularly for location specific information, and for non-USA information). But it's getting rarer.
But there are so many tools out there that do provide better results than Google a lot of the time, that I just don't use it.
I also don't use Bing, but that's because it sucks. I always found it had too much of a US bias, e.g. search for Melbourne and it comes up with stuff for a city in Florida. Similarly for Moscow, half the first page results are for some insignificant location in Idaho. Repeat for St Petersburg and you get results for the St Petersburg, and another one in some irrelevant location. Here's a hint MS, I don't care about the shitty cities in the USA with the same name as more famous places, unless I am in the USA, in that state, or also search for the name of the state.
I would happily see all governments fall, and all presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens dead, hung by the guts of the priesthood (however they might call themselves, imans, rabbis and gurus included). The war will not be civil, but will be a vast uprising of the masses against the oppressors. Capitalists shall be drawn and quartered in an orgy of revenge that shall make the French and Russian Revolutions look like picnics.
It won't be pretty. And I certainly don't desire it. But I can't see a good way out of it, other than the fanciful. Perhaps the powerful might be convinced to give up their wealth and powerful, and sit with the rest of us and eat common food. I doubt it.
You talk as if some governments are better than others, or even that some are good. I see the reality, that they are all bad. Saddam Hussein was an awful man, no doubt. But the "liberation" of Iraq did not lead to fewer deaths or a more free country.
it's better for all humanity to know how we are spied upon. And if I could, I would release all government secrets at once (and fuck the soldiers and special ops and spies, who all knew what they were getting into signing up to fight for their country). And if I couldn't, but if I could instead just release the secrets of one government, I would do that.
I go further than Thoreau, who suggested that the government that governs least governs best. I say that no government governs well at all, and all should be abolished.
It may have been legal in the USA for the NSA to spy on others. But it may not be legal in other countries. Moreover, talking about benefits, it benefits all of humanity to know more details of how governments spy on us and each other.
Fuck you.
Historically, regimes that have claimed to be representing the workers, and to be moving towards communism (just as soon as they finished oppressing the bourgeoisie) had no problem with using forced labor.
But the thing is, they never claimed that the place was communist, only that the party was, and that the country was in the transitional state.
Total bullshit of course. Hence the use of the modifier "true" on "communist". A true communist being someone who actually desires a classless stateless society where the means of production are held in common. As opposed to a functionary who merely claims to want that, but really just wants a bit more power (or even merely to not get shot for opposing the state).
I could go on about it a bit more if you desire, but I hope you get the point.
Whoops. OK, you got me.
That's funny. Except that it's too easy for other nations (also with an "infinite" amount of cash) to simply get together and push US Govt. out of controlling 51% of the network. They don't even need to get to 51% themselves, just to whatever percentage stops the one entity from controlling the network. There so many various people mining now, I doubt that it's at all likely that the US Govt. has or would easily get to 51%.
Even better, the Bitcoin software is BSD, not GPL.
Labor camp, or any other similar phrases, are just another term for slavery.
Slavery, forcing a person to work. Labor camp, forcing a person to work. Labor camp=slavery.
Oh look, even Wikipedia makes that point.
If you're a real communist you wouldn't be advocating for such shit.
Quite.
I think that the foundation could send back a nicely worded letter to the effect that they write software/sponsor the writing of software (delete as applicable). They do not sell cars, sell drugs, or engage in money transfer. They should not be held any more responsible for the use their software is put to, than Microsoft is responsible for MS Word being used to write threatening letters to people.
Also, dear the editors, specifically samzenpus, please link to the original source, in this case Forbes, rather than to some random other website. You might also link to the cease and desist letter itself.
If you were looking for a gardener, who would you rather hire (of two otherwise equivalent people): someone who grew their own vegetables, or someone who bought them from the supermarket?
OK, bad example. We don't need an analogy here.
It's simple. Having your own website allows you maximum control. And it's not complicated. It's downright simple to setup WordPress on shared hosting. And if you can't, and instead link to MySpace on your resume, or whatever social media website is in vogue at the moment, then you just failed. And that also applies for Github (I don't even use Git, I use Bzr, why do I want to use Github again?).
The post I responded to suggested using a thirdparty as a portfolio site. A portfolio is something you want to make look good. And you can't do that on Github.
Because why should I be forced to agree to a third-parties terms and conditions to get a job, when I can put all my code that I want to share up on my own website?
Yeah, and it helps to keep the bastards trying to track you on their toes.
Anarchist here. Of the the red variety.
Any software person who can't mange their own website isn't worth hiring. Why should I use Github when I've got a perfectly good website?
If a professional designer was using Deviantart or similar to publish a profile, I would similarly be a bit, "wait a minute, don't they care about controlling the whole experience?".
Having your own website (costs can be as low as $30 a year, including the domain) is essential for any serious developer/designer who wants to show off what they wrote. If nothing else, it can serve as a basic portal to other online places. But, ideally it should be sufficient on its own.
I hope you discover that you are wrong. That anyone who exposes the misdeeds of governments is a hero. And that rather than wishing them to be punished, that they should be rewarded. We should encourage people to step forward and denounce wrong doing, not punish them.
You are one of the worst sort of enablers, you claim to care about the misdeeds, but you still wish to punish those who expose them.
assert(""==false);
assert(0==false);
assert("0"==false);
assert(null==false);
When a form is submitted, there is no bare 0, there is only "0", so PHP treating "0" as if it where 0 in certain cases is certainly understandable. It may not be obvious or intuitive to you, but there is certainly a good reason for it.
See also: PHP type comparison tables
A comment on that page says:
Hardly complicated.
It's a language designed for the web. When you submit a form, everything is a string (or a file), there are no ints or floats. So, the language has to work around this issue, and being loose-typed, and having two comparison operators that work they way they do, is part of what makes PHP easy to use for the web.
Cheers.
A lot of crap. First we have this "Coin" business, instead of Bitcoin. If you want to talk about various *coins, say cryptocurrency or cryptocurrency based on Bitcoin.
Also, alternative bitcoin based currencies are mostly scams or failures for various reasons. There is no way there will be a 51% attack on Bitcoin. Sure your math says there could be. But it ain't happening. Sure Feathercoin got attacked. But what the fuck are they? What can I buy with that?
The transaction fee is 0% at present. Most miners will still accept your transaction, even if you don't pay a fee. And any fee is voluntary (except if you use the default client, in which case it will, in some cases, enforce a 0.005 bitcoin, I think, fee).
Oh, and its easy to lose your bitcoins. Gee, just like "paper" money. Whoops I ran my hundred dollar bill through the washer a few times. And now it's indistinguishable from lint. Or, hey, my house just burnt down, and I lost my life savings ('cause fuck banks). In fact, if you pay attention (i.e. take backups like you should with any digital stuff you want to keep; run a decent OS), it's harder to lose your bitcoins.
So Bitcoin is wonderful. Alternative cryptocurrencies may or may not be (but probably not). And the author should have done a little more research.
Hey hey! I punched someone in the face this morning for using a park bench too long! Just 'cause you're a pansy, doesn't mean we all are.
And I'll have you know I punch people on a regular basis. Often just because they look like they voted Republicunt or Democunt. Oh wait, I just proved your point didn't I.
A decade? It's been on calculators for at least two decades. Actually, Wikipedia says since the 1970's. So, that's a lot more than a decade.
No. Not on its own it doesn't. It still requires the binary blob from Skype.
Anarchy means never having to say sorry.
More to the point, we have enough production surplus right now to give everyone in the world a reasonable standard of living. However, if you want to claim six houses, then maybe you should split into six people. Because you can only live in one at a time.
Yeah, fuck Al Gore and his private jet. But the only reason he's in the position he's in is because of capitalism.