You've got that backwards that should be "when we can code to one standard -- W3C compliance -- and have it work everywhere. At the very least that should be your startingpoint. Having everyone code for firefox isn't really that much better to having everyone code to IE
Its not that backwards though. The theory behind coding for FireFox, is that it is the most standards compliant browser, and odds are if it works and works well in firefox and developing for that first the fine tuning for other browsers is easier after that.
Running your stuff through a W3C validator is nice, but its also nice to actually see and interact with the website itself as well.
From what I know, Safari 1.3 that comes with Tiger supports "DesignMode" now.
The only real annoyance left in Safari (and all other browsers) is when #anchor links are used or I hit page down or space to page down and I'm near the end of the page it does not put the #anchor or the last bit of text at the top of the page like "it should".
Netscape was good, or at lest the best of the day. It ran on every obscure platform under the sun. It was like java before even java. Runs and is able to be debugged and crashed everywhere.
I've heard from Netscape developers that the highlight was when they realized they were _the_ browser for the web, and they were seeing web addresses (complete with the http:/// part on them) on the side of trucks and all that. I also heard that the secretary is quite wealthy now due to stock options, the whole nine yards.
Well, they stagnated. And IE came and IMNSHO, ruined the web experience in the late 90s to early 00s. And during that time Netscape released their code into the Mozilla project. It then got worse. AOL bought Netscape, and Netscape is just a memory.
But then, guess what happened?
Because of the open code and open standards, we got the web back! My browser of choice is Safari. I really like it. It does almost 100% of what I think a browser should do. And it too is based on open standards and OSS (KHTML), and Apple has given patches back to the KHTML people.
And then Mozilla grew into Firefox, and things are getting better on the web again. I recently ran into two websites that required IE. One was for my taxes, and I told them that sure this time I can use IE on the Mac, but IE on the Mac is dead and if they want my business, they need to support standards. At work, there is one system that requires IE _on windows_, and we had to get a new computer, with windows just to view one website, and I had a word or two with them. And guess what? They told me that they are now targeting Firefox as the target browser, and for that to be cross platform.
Hey, as sucky as IE was, it did help the scene a little bit. It focused the other guys to care about security and for standards compliance, and today I have a number of good choices for browsing the web on a number of platforms, and its getting better every day.
An interesting meta-question is what might that (female-only reproduction) do to evolution?
I asked a PhD in mathematics about dividing by zero, and he told me it was infinity (he's often wrong:), and I assume I'm still correct and said it was undefined.
hackstraw, if you're "confused why money keeps coming into the picture," please have your paycheck direct deposited to my checking account for the next six months. I guarantee your confusion on this issue will disappear.
Deal, if you fuck me and feed me and make wise choices with the money.
Actually it is a misconception that adoption is cheaper and easier. Average adoption costs are $12k US. Significantly more than the doctors bill for our first child. Also adoption, at least in the state of CA, is very dificult and requires 50+ hours of classes. Much more time invested then a couple hours at a bar and some drinks.;)
I would assume you have to be over 18, in good health, have a job, and all of the stuff that takes the fun out of the surprise that makes people get in good health, get a job, and all of that.
But seriously, if this technology would to be taken seriously, it would be best to take the reproductive material from a generation or so _before_ the current one.
People live longer than they ever have in recorded history. We could pick the ones that have long, healthy, productive lives (already with big bank accounts to boot) by simply picking from that population.
Being that it is new knowledge that smarter humans develop more slowly and that they typically reproduce less...
Wow, where does this stop? If we could just later in life pick and choose what kind of offspring we wanted, what would we choose?
Surely, nobody would pick any of the most necessary jobs like a trash person, so who would do that?
When a news article about such research cropped up last year, I saw people on the internet worrying about a science-fiction type scenario where the development could lead to a world devoid of women.
And the original slashdot article could lead to a world devoid of men.
Think about a world with humans without the game of sex mixed in with things.
Sheesh, what would we do from puberty to 50?
Most females don't have the testosterone drive that men do. Most men don't care that much about kids. For better or worse, it still seems that we are stuck with two sexes.
But Dave's the right guy to get this promotion, even though we only brought him in from that middle-manager position at Nabisco three weeks ago, and I'll tell you why. Frankly Bob, you just don't have Dave's passion."
Yeah, that would be the first time that objective merit has won over subjective goals and vision.
Apple has fanatical customers as well as staff. Call up 1-800-SOS-APPLE, and the computer voice is a little more human sounding than most. Its perceived as a male voice over a female one (female voices cause more stress in males), and the guy says "OK, what do you want to have support with...", you speak to it, and blah blah. Its much better than a chick voice saying "Please choose from one of 8 options..." "Please choose from one of 5 options" "Please enter you're customer number to expedite service" "Please hold for the next available customer representative..." Customer representative: "What is your customer number?"
That is a simple example, and one of many, but there is passion at Apple. Granted, Microsoft products may be more technologically "correct" and they have the greater marketshare, and all of that jazz, but Apple has gotten my promotion over the years, and Microsoft has been fired. Linux is still in the server room, busy as a beaver.
The difference? A company like Microsoft has chosen to appeal to the drones of the world, and has done it well. Apple has decided to target those that don't shave every morning, wear not necessarily clean clothes, all of those quiz items that are on the OS personality quiz. Apple has sayings like "Think different", Microsoft is more goal oriented with "Where do you want to go today?"
Different strokes for different folks, but at this time passion driven companies like Google and Apple are making more headlines than mass marketed things like IBM and Microsoft. Even though IBM and MS have huge market shares in their markets, Google only has something like 37% market share, Apple less than 10%, but they are all the buzz.
Yes, it's nice to enjoy what you do, but do you get out of bed in the morning to an alarm clock to have fun
Alarm clock? How pleasant is starting the day via an alarm that is designed to keep me from doing what I'm doing? Do people time their shits, and punish themselves when they are late?
If I didn't care about money i'd do exactly what I'm doing now, but I'd do it when I wanted, how I wanted.
I'm confused why money keeps coming into the picture.
It's impossible to blend "fun" and "work" in any consistent/logical decision that necessarily produces happy.
News to me. "fun" + "work" + "human brain function" != "happy". I work with people that don't set schedules, make plenty of money, are happy, have human brains that function, and work beyond their.75-1.0 "full time equivalent" or FTE worth in psycho-management terms. AFAIK, this is fairly common, but I guess its not that common at many jobs that are not that flexible.
The rest of the parent's post does not even parse by my interpreter...
Until the RIAA and MPAA are disbanded, I won't be trusting either industry - and I'll be doing my level best to avoid buying their products, even if that means my not having any movies or music at all.
But, even though you are one of the most popular persons here on slashdot and the internet and world as a whole (Anonymous Coward), even you cannot completely avoid paying the *AA products, and most people are just too lazy and have the cash to just buy movies and music at Wal-mart or wherever.
Also, not all movies and music are not RIAA/MPAA ones, but we always want more, and the *AAs have the most. I don't know how these data are arrived (like most), but even the RIAA only states that they represent 90% of the world's "legitimate" music distribution. Source, http://www.riaa.com/about/default.asp
Emotion. People trust businesses more than people, even though businesses are just an abstraction of people that are more likely to screw them vs doing business with just individual people.
Does that make sense?
Well, although there is little that can be done to stop a business, there are many checks and balances to make that business exist in the first place. Neither the article summary, nor the article, nor myself are clear yet, so keep reading.
In this context, Bittorent means the recently created via a purchase for an insane amount of money (don't remember the details, but Google will help) to make what was already legit, really legit because people feel better when a company does something vs it just being "free".
In other words, some dude, Brahm Cohen, created an open source, freely available, p2p network protocol and client and tracker system, and it quickly became popular because it kicks ass for large data files (legal, grey, or illegal, does not matter) with the popularity of asynchronous (upload speed lower than download speed) home networks. In other words, its a hack that works really damn well. It makes something seemingly impossible possible. It makes a popular download _FASTER_ rather than slower because it uses synergetic sharing and distribution of resources that makes the sum greater than the parts, and that is so cool.
I believe at this time that the seemingly legitimate Bittorent is still the same as the seemingly non-letitimate Bittorent stuff that we all know and already love, but many don't trust it because of the crap that has come with other "free" p2p solutions. Napster, the first popular p2p network, was supposedly illegal, and now is supposedly legal, but supposedly sucks now that its supposedly legal. Bittorent, as a protocol is free, and works really damn well. But the protocol is not inherently good or bad, and it is currently used for this that are completely 100% legal to things that are not.
Anywhoo, if it makes you feel good (back to the emotion thing), download something via bittorent. Be nice, don't firewall off your crap, and its best to always have at least a 1:1 upload:download ratio, but even if you don't follow the rules, its still OK.
Bittorent is proof of another irony. There is TONS of money in free software. Just ask Brahm and other people like the man behind the hackstraw who makes a living off of free stuff.
Although Asperger's syndrome is a fad right now, and fairly commonly self diagnosed here on slashdot for people to make themselves feel better (sic), from what I have read about Einstein, he seems healthy to me, with no exceptions.
Yes, I did a cursory Google search, and it did have a number of hits, but it seems in question at best. Also on the list of newly rediagnosed Asperger's syndrome people is Mozart, which to my understanding is of Mozart and Asperger's is completely wrong.
And while I'm offtopic, also regarding schizophrenia, yes, it may have been labeled for the first time around 1900, and until then, many people just called them "nuts", well, that is true today, but more commonly referred to ass "crazy". Schizophrenia is #1 on the layman's term of "crazy", with #2 being those that are on the manic upswing of bipolar disorder. A vast majority of homeless people fall into these two categories.
This, on the other hand, is one of the biggest mistakes that MS ever made! Someone should have lost their job over this idiocy!
Anyone want to guess how many hours of work have been lost from this, and jobs "created"?
I'm not 100% into this, but I try to not use special characters, including spaces, in filenames. It causes too much problems with scripting, and to my eye, an '_' is the same as a space, but does not use the same _default_ input file separator on *NIX systems as part of the filename.
Quoting of special characters gets VERY nasty when going from machine to machine.
Oh, and one of my biggest gripes with most (possibly all) Linux implementations recently has been the exporting of the LANG=UTF-8 or whatever that makes 'ls' lie to you. ls now implies that case does not matter, but it does! And I prefer to have Makefile in the beginning of the list vs somewhere in the middle. Oh, and I also _usually_ don't use case, except for Makefile, even though makefile is parsed first by 'make'.
I've noticed that I"ve gotten more random as OSes have gotten more random.
Oh, to fix the 'ls' sorting, export LANG=C to fix that. Also, I alias ls to be ls -h for "human" sorting of filenames so that file10.txt comes _after_ file2.txt, and not before, but even that is lost via wildcard expansion, so I usually do something with ls in backticks vs pure wildcards.
Software is insane, and getting more insane over time.
I sure am glad that my hardware is not as random, but that too seems to be decreasing towards entropy as well.
Dunno, seems like the government would make it illegal so that they would no longer have any competition.
Good question.
Actually, since the government usually sucks at their spying on citizens and keeping their own data secure, maybe they need these guys around for help?
What I find funny about this is that it's spoofs supposedly sent by a company notoriously hard to contact by phone. Anyone who has ever tried to contact Paypal about anything would know this. (Of course, the average user doesn't, which is probably what they count on).
But my first thought was how easy this would be to implement because of it being common for credit card companies to ask for CC numbers, and in fact just today I called my gas company because I didn't get/can't find this month's bill, and they asked for my account number or my SSN.
Like typosquatters, I've thought of registering a dialasquatter number that is similar to a service and ask for all kinds of stuff:)
However, I'm too chicken and honest and just don't have the desire to scam people that much, but I still have those th... (author gets pulled from keyboard immediately for thought crime)...
Wind like ocean currents is free. Airliners already try to catch tail winds when they can on the jetstream here in the US, and I guess its common for other countries as well. I believe that tankers already take advantage of currents as well.
What is interesting is that people used to be grateful to spend long periods (months?) of time to travel across oceans with an acceptable death/sickness rate of what about 30% to do international travel. Now, if an airline is delayed 30 minutes for an international flight that takes on order of hours we get pissed, and the risk of getting sick or dying is lower than driving to work.
You know, thats funny, but lets think about this for a minute.
These people are paid by me and work for me right?
Being a hobbiest psychologist who likes to monitor my own behavior, and being that these people are working for me to also monitor my own behavior, why don't they just send me the results so I can assess what I'm up to?
I would like to have subtotals and summaries of all my behavior and how those compare to averages of people my same age, economic status, etc.
In other words, I want to be spied on so long as it benefits me, not hurts me at my expense.
The SSI office does this. They tell me how much I've paid, and what I'm supposed to get when I retire at certain ages. My credit card gives me annual reports, and I like those.
I would like to see things like I'm in the top 99 percentile of travel, and the bottom 1 percentile of the tax bracket, and that I'm above average for saving/spending ratio, etc.
So, in other words, if you spy on my on my dime, give me a detailed report so I benefit. Seal the results, and I don't want to pay.
made your clothes, your house, your car, and your computer, and virtually everything else you own or consume.
I buy my clothes used from the thrift store at a very low price compared to the retail stores. Its almost cheaper to throw them away than to wash them. My car is used, I paid cash, so I don't have to give the title to the loan place _AND_ pay higher taxes and higher insurance rates for full coverage that costs more than a cheap car does like mine. My computer I bought new from Apple with a discount, no hidden fees, in fact they gave me a deal on some software that I wanted as well.
The moral here is that to escape the bait and switching, hidden fees, fees on returning defective equipment from manufacturers that failed to ship working versions of their products for the past _2_ revisions of their product (true story!), and all of this crap, I do have to "drop out" to some degree and find more unconventional and more honest and upfront means of doing commerce.
And to me, that is sad.
Extra taxes and fees at hotels? Gone, I will pay a flat, upfront fee at a campground that is lower and more honest and upfront, and well, at least a different experience than the luxury of having the ability to pay an exorbitant fee for room service. In fact, most campgrounds will just take cash put in an envelope (about $10/night). They don't also ask your life history and sell it to someone either. Why they need life history to rent a room for one night is only benefiting someone I don't know, and hurting my right to privacy.
Its not that I can't pay these extra fees, that is the whole reason that they charge them. Because they can.
Why am I protesting, and saving my hard earned money for me and the people I love?
Because I can _and_ I want to do that vs pay extra for nothing to someone I don't know and don't care about.
Its also common for me to get tickets to sold out rock concerts from people _minus_ the Tickemaster tax for the privilege of them selling a ticket. They typically get 30+% of the face value of the ticket and have the balls to charge the buyer _EXTRA_ to print the ticket on their own paper with their own ink vs mailing it to the customer for only the included extortion fees.
Legitimate businesses are making the mafia look like pussies. Any inquiry at the local "Payday loan" place will convince you that loan sharking by the mafia is a better deal. (No refund on your kneecaps though:)
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You've got that backwards that should be "when we can code to one standard -- W3C compliance -- and have it work everywhere. At the very least that should be your startingpoint. Having everyone code for firefox isn't really that much better to having everyone code to IE
Its not that backwards though. The theory behind coding for FireFox, is that it is the most standards compliant browser, and odds are if it works and works well in firefox and developing for that first the fine tuning for other browsers is easier after that.
Running your stuff through a W3C validator is nice, but its also nice to actually see and interact with the website itself as well.
From what I know, Safari 1.3 that comes with Tiger supports "DesignMode" now.
The only real annoyance left in Safari (and all other browsers) is when #anchor links are used or I hit page down or space to page down and I'm near the end of the page it does not put the #anchor or the last bit of text at the top of the page like "it should".
That too will be fixed in the near future.
Netscape was good, or at lest the best of the day. It ran on every obscure platform under the sun. It was like java before even java. Runs and is able to be debugged and crashed everywhere.
I've heard from Netscape developers that the highlight was when they realized they were _the_ browser for the web, and they were seeing web addresses (complete with the http:/// part on them) on the side of trucks and all that. I also heard that the secretary is quite wealthy now due to stock options, the whole nine yards.
Well, they stagnated. And IE came and IMNSHO, ruined the web experience in the late 90s to early 00s. And during that time Netscape released their code into the Mozilla project. It then got worse. AOL bought Netscape, and Netscape is just a memory.
But then, guess what happened?
Because of the open code and open standards, we got the web back! My browser of choice is Safari. I really like it. It does almost 100% of what I think a browser should do. And it too is based on open standards and OSS (KHTML), and Apple has given patches back to the KHTML people.
And then Mozilla grew into Firefox, and things are getting better on the web again. I recently ran into two websites that required IE. One was for my taxes, and I told them that sure this time I can use IE on the Mac, but IE on the Mac is dead and if they want my business, they need to support standards. At work, there is one system that requires IE _on windows_, and we had to get a new computer, with windows just to view one website, and I had a word or two with them. And guess what? They told me that they are now targeting Firefox as the target browser, and for that to be cross platform.
Hey, as sucky as IE was, it did help the scene a little bit. It focused the other guys to care about security and for standards compliance, and today I have a number of good choices for browsing the web on a number of platforms, and its getting better every day.
Thank you Mozilla team, and thank you Microsoft.
An interesting meta-question is what might that (female-only reproduction) do to evolution?
:), and I assume I'm still correct and said it was undefined.
I asked a PhD in mathematics about dividing by zero, and he told me it was infinity (he's often wrong
hackstraw, if you're "confused why money keeps coming into the picture," please have your paycheck direct deposited to my checking account for the next six months. I guarantee your confusion on this issue will disappear.
Deal, if you fuck me and feed me and make wise choices with the money.
Actually it is a misconception that adoption is cheaper and easier. Average adoption costs are $12k US. Significantly more than the doctors bill for our first child. Also adoption, at least in the state of CA, is very dificult and requires 50+ hours of classes. Much more time invested then a couple hours at a bar and some drinks. ;)
I would assume you have to be over 18, in good health, have a job, and all of the stuff that takes the fun out of the surprise that makes people get in good health, get a job, and all of that.
Cart before horse.
Screw your god, I'll do what I want.
Regards,
Steve
Tried time and time again every day.
So tell me, why don't you have everything you want in life already right now? Is everybody and everything still in your way?
is everyone ENTITLED to have children?
:)
Absolutely not. Ask anybody here on slashdot
But seriously, if this technology would to be taken seriously, it would be best to take the reproductive material from a generation or so _before_ the current one.
People live longer than they ever have in recorded history. We could pick the ones that have long, healthy, productive lives (already with big bank accounts to boot) by simply picking from that population.
Being that it is new knowledge that smarter humans develop more slowly and that they typically reproduce less...
Wow, where does this stop? If we could just later in life pick and choose what kind of offspring we wanted, what would we choose?
Surely, nobody would pick any of the most necessary jobs like a trash person, so who would do that?
When a news article about such research cropped up last year, I saw people on the internet worrying about a science-fiction type scenario where the development could lead to a world devoid of women.
And the original slashdot article could lead to a world devoid of men.
Think about a world with humans without the game of sex mixed in with things.
Sheesh, what would we do from puberty to 50?
Most females don't have the testosterone drive that men do. Most men don't care that much about kids. For better or worse, it still seems that we are stuck with two sexes.
Don't forget killing bugs...
What about buying houses, cars, etc, and agreeing to pay for the wife and kids a set fee, no matter if the wife and kids are around anymore?
But Dave's the right guy to get this promotion, even though we only brought him in from that middle-manager position at Nabisco three weeks ago, and I'll tell you why. Frankly Bob, you just don't have Dave's passion."
Yeah, that would be the first time that objective merit has won over subjective goals and vision.
Apple has fanatical customers as well as staff. Call up 1-800-SOS-APPLE, and the computer voice is a little more human sounding than most. Its perceived as a male voice over a female one (female voices cause more stress in males), and the guy says "OK, what do you want to have support with...", you speak to it, and blah blah. Its much better than a chick voice saying "Please choose from one of 8 options..." "Please choose from one of 5 options" "Please enter you're customer number to expedite service" "Please hold for the next available customer representative..." Customer representative: "What is your customer number?"
That is a simple example, and one of many, but there is passion at Apple. Granted, Microsoft products may be more technologically "correct" and they have the greater marketshare, and all of that jazz, but Apple has gotten my promotion over the years, and Microsoft has been fired. Linux is still in the server room, busy as a beaver.
The difference? A company like Microsoft has chosen to appeal to the drones of the world, and has done it well. Apple has decided to target those that don't shave every morning, wear not necessarily clean clothes, all of those quiz items that are on the OS personality quiz. Apple has sayings like "Think different", Microsoft is more goal oriented with "Where do you want to go today?"
Different strokes for different folks, but at this time passion driven companies like Google and Apple are making more headlines than mass marketed things like IBM and Microsoft. Even though IBM and MS have huge market shares in their markets, Google only has something like 37% market share, Apple less than 10%, but they are all the buzz.
Yes, it's nice to enjoy what you do, but do you get out of bed in the morning to an alarm clock to have fun
.75-1.0 "full time equivalent" or FTE worth in psycho-management terms. AFAIK, this is fairly common, but I guess its not that common at many jobs that are not that flexible.
Alarm clock? How pleasant is starting the day via an alarm that is designed to keep me from doing what I'm doing? Do people time their shits, and punish themselves when they are late?
If I didn't care about money i'd do exactly what I'm doing now, but I'd do it when I wanted, how I wanted.
I'm confused why money keeps coming into the picture.
It's impossible to blend "fun" and "work" in any consistent/logical decision that necessarily produces happy.
News to me. "fun" + "work" + "human brain function" != "happy". I work with people that don't set schedules, make plenty of money, are happy, have human brains that function, and work beyond their
The rest of the parent's post does not even parse by my interpreter...
Until the RIAA and MPAA are disbanded, I won't be trusting either industry - and I'll be doing my level best to avoid buying their products, even if that means my not having any movies or music at all.
But, even though you are one of the most popular persons here on slashdot and the internet and world as a whole (Anonymous Coward), even you cannot completely avoid paying the *AA products, and most people are just too lazy and have the cash to just buy movies and music at Wal-mart or wherever.
Also, not all movies and music are not RIAA/MPAA ones, but we always want more, and the *AAs have the most. I don't know how these data are arrived (like most), but even the RIAA only states that they represent 90% of the world's "legitimate" music distribution. Source, http://www.riaa.com/about/default.asp
How is bittorrent a business model?
Emotion. People trust businesses more than people, even though businesses are just an abstraction of people that are more likely to screw them vs doing business with just individual people.
Does that make sense?
Well, although there is little that can be done to stop a business, there are many checks and balances to make that business exist in the first place. Neither the article summary, nor the article, nor myself are clear yet, so keep reading.
In this context, Bittorent means the recently created via a purchase for an insane amount of money (don't remember the details, but Google will help) to make what was already legit, really legit because people feel better when a company does something vs it just being "free".
In other words, some dude, Brahm Cohen, created an open source, freely available, p2p network protocol and client and tracker system, and it quickly became popular because it kicks ass for large data files (legal, grey, or illegal, does not matter) with the popularity of asynchronous (upload speed lower than download speed) home networks. In other words, its a hack that works really damn well. It makes something seemingly impossible possible. It makes a popular download _FASTER_ rather than slower because it uses synergetic sharing and distribution of resources that makes the sum greater than the parts, and that is so cool.
I believe at this time that the seemingly legitimate Bittorent is still the same as the seemingly non-letitimate Bittorent stuff that we all know and already love, but many don't trust it because of the crap that has come with other "free" p2p solutions. Napster, the first popular p2p network, was supposedly illegal, and now is supposedly legal, but supposedly sucks now that its supposedly legal. Bittorent, as a protocol is free, and works really damn well. But the protocol is not inherently good or bad, and it is currently used for this that are completely 100% legal to things that are not.
Anywhoo, if it makes you feel good (back to the emotion thing), download something via bittorent. Be nice, don't firewall off your crap, and its best to always have at least a 1:1 upload:download ratio, but even if you don't follow the rules, its still OK.
Bittorent is proof of another irony. There is TONS of money in free software. Just ask Brahm and other people like the man behind the hackstraw who makes a living off of free stuff.
Although Asperger's syndrome is a fad right now, and fairly commonly self diagnosed here on slashdot for people to make themselves feel better (sic), from what I have read about Einstein, he seems healthy to me, with no exceptions.
Yes, I did a cursory Google search, and it did have a number of hits, but it seems in question at best. Also on the list of newly rediagnosed Asperger's syndrome people is Mozart, which to my understanding is of Mozart and Asperger's is completely wrong.
And while I'm offtopic, also regarding schizophrenia, yes, it may have been labeled for the first time around 1900, and until then, many people just called them "nuts", well, that is true today, but more commonly referred to ass "crazy". Schizophrenia is #1 on the layman's term of "crazy", with #2 being those that are on the manic upswing of bipolar disorder. A vast majority of homeless people fall into these two categories.
Its crazy.
So Taco, when did Harry Knowles join the editorial staff?
When did slashdot get an editorial staff?
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This, on the other hand, is one of the biggest mistakes that MS ever made! Someone should have lost their job over this idiocy!
Anyone want to guess how many hours of work have been lost from this, and jobs "created"?
I'm not 100% into this, but I try to not use special characters, including spaces, in filenames. It causes too much problems with scripting, and to my eye, an '_' is the same as a space, but does not use the same _default_ input file separator on *NIX systems as part of the filename.
Quoting of special characters gets VERY nasty when going from machine to machine.
Oh, and one of my biggest gripes with most (possibly all) Linux implementations recently has been the exporting of the LANG=UTF-8 or whatever that makes 'ls' lie to you. ls now implies that case does not matter, but it does! And I prefer to have Makefile in the beginning of the list vs somewhere in the middle. Oh, and I also _usually_ don't use case, except for Makefile, even though makefile is parsed first by 'make'.
I've noticed that I"ve gotten more random as OSes have gotten more random.
Oh, to fix the 'ls' sorting, export LANG=C to fix that. Also, I alias ls to be ls -h for "human" sorting of filenames so that file10.txt comes _after_ file2.txt, and not before, but even that is lost via wildcard expansion, so I usually do something with ls in backticks vs pure wildcards.
Software is insane, and getting more insane over time.
I sure am glad that my hardware is not as random, but that too seems to be decreasing towards entropy as well.
It might also be relevant that this study was done only on a Hungarian news site.
It might also be that they used Hungarian notation.
Maybe if they tried reverse Polish notation they would get different results.
There is no bait and switching.
Oh?
"Free stuff on the internet: Traysaver.com"
Foed by me!
So I repeat, why is spyware not illegal?
Dunno, seems like the government would make it illegal so that they would no longer have any competition.
Good question.
Actually, since the government usually sucks at their spying on citizens and keeping their own data secure, maybe they need these guys around for help?
What I find funny about this is that it's spoofs supposedly sent by a company notoriously hard to contact by phone. Anyone who has ever tried to contact Paypal about anything would know this. (Of course, the average user doesn't, which is probably what they count on).
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But my first thought was how easy this would be to implement because of it being common for credit card companies to ask for CC numbers, and in fact just today I called my gas company because I didn't get/can't find this month's bill, and they asked for my account number or my SSN.
Like typosquatters, I've thought of registering a dialasquatter number that is similar to a service and ask for all kinds of stuff
However, I'm too chicken and honest and just don't have the desire to scam people that much, but I still have those th... (author gets pulled from keyboard immediately for thought crime)
Keep in mind that you're going to need a keel/centerboard as well unless the wind is right behind you in order to go straight.
Wind like ocean currents is free. Airliners already try to catch tail winds when they can on the jetstream here in the US, and I guess its common for other countries as well. I believe that tankers already take advantage of currents as well.
What is interesting is that people used to be grateful to spend long periods (months?) of time to travel across oceans with an acceptable death/sickness rate of what about 30% to do international travel. Now, if an airline is delayed 30 minutes for an international flight that takes on order of hours we get pissed, and the risk of getting sick or dying is lower than driving to work.
You know, thats funny, but lets think about this for a minute.
These people are paid by me and work for me right?
Being a hobbiest psychologist who likes to monitor my own behavior, and being that these people are working for me to also monitor my own behavior, why don't they just send me the results so I can assess what I'm up to?
I would like to have subtotals and summaries of all my behavior and how those compare to averages of people my same age, economic status, etc.
In other words, I want to be spied on so long as it benefits me, not hurts me at my expense.
The SSI office does this. They tell me how much I've paid, and what I'm supposed to get when I retire at certain ages. My credit card gives me annual reports, and I like those.
I would like to see things like I'm in the top 99 percentile of travel, and the bottom 1 percentile of the tax bracket, and that I'm above average for saving/spending ratio, etc.
So, in other words, if you spy on my on my dime, give me a detailed report so I benefit. Seal the results, and I don't want to pay.
Thanks.
made your clothes, your house, your car, and your computer, and virtually everything else you own or consume.
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I buy my clothes used from the thrift store at a very low price compared to the retail stores. Its almost cheaper to throw them away than to wash them. My car is used, I paid cash, so I don't have to give the title to the loan place _AND_ pay higher taxes and higher insurance rates for full coverage that costs more than a cheap car does like mine. My computer I bought new from Apple with a discount, no hidden fees, in fact they gave me a deal on some software that I wanted as well.
The moral here is that to escape the bait and switching, hidden fees, fees on returning defective equipment from manufacturers that failed to ship working versions of their products for the past _2_ revisions of their product (true story!), and all of this crap, I do have to "drop out" to some degree and find more unconventional and more honest and upfront means of doing commerce.
And to me, that is sad.
Extra taxes and fees at hotels? Gone, I will pay a flat, upfront fee at a campground that is lower and more honest and upfront, and well, at least a different experience than the luxury of having the ability to pay an exorbitant fee for room service. In fact, most campgrounds will just take cash put in an envelope (about $10/night). They don't also ask your life history and sell it to someone either. Why they need life history to rent a room for one night is only benefiting someone I don't know, and hurting my right to privacy.
Its not that I can't pay these extra fees, that is the whole reason that they charge them. Because they can.
Why am I protesting, and saving my hard earned money for me and the people I love?
Because I can _and_ I want to do that vs pay extra for nothing to someone I don't know and don't care about.
Its also common for me to get tickets to sold out rock concerts from people _minus_ the Tickemaster tax for the privilege of them selling a ticket. They typically get 30+% of the face value of the ticket and have the balls to charge the buyer _EXTRA_ to print the ticket on their own paper with their own ink vs mailing it to the customer for only the included extortion fees.
Legitimate businesses are making the mafia look like pussies. Any inquiry at the local "Payday loan" place will convince you that loan sharking by the mafia is a better deal. (No refund on your kneecaps though