I support a number of Real Estate offices, and the agents use MLS sites to list and find properties. Now, one of the big sites recently implemented a new flash based system. Their old system worked only with Internet Explorer versions 7-9. Their new system has worked reliably ONLY with firefox (depending on what they've broken lately, IE and FF, or FF and Chrome work. Never all three), and so that's what they have been telling everyone to use.
The last security change to FF broke PDF's. Now Java.
Well, that would be the sensible thing. Identify the problem, determine the cause, and develop a fix. But this is government, so the course of action is this: Identify a problem, assume the cause is the ideology of your opponents, and jam through a 'fix' for the symptoms the instant you have the votes.
Well, NPR is pretty darn close to what you're talking about. There's also the BBC.
But how do you get around the problem of a media outlet becoming an organ of the state? There is an unavoidable risk that news reporting will become beholden to whomever controls the purse strings. But the more of them there are competing for advertising revenue, the less it costs to advertise with them. The broader the base of financial support, the harder it is to become beholden to any one source.
Of course, the theory behind public funding (through the government, not pledge drives) is that the media is then beholden to each individual. However, it is the body that funnels the funds to them to which they will become beholden.
Hey, be careful, that's an awfully broad brush you're painting with.
Don't forget, Benjamin Franklin was a wealthy media mogul. And following him was a time when people would start newspapers just to slander their political opponents...
...which I guess we have kind of come back to. (I'm looking at you Drudge and KOS).
I guess that I'm not just going to assume nefarious intent just because somebody is wealthy.
Bittorrent activity can cause what look like DoS attacks if you aren't running your client. You get a lot of former peers attempting to access a torrent, but since your client isn't listening it looks like an attack. That's happened to me quite a bit, and I have a feeling that some of the offending peers may not have been entirely honest.
Azerbaijanis should be thanking their government for working to save them the time and trouble of going out to vote. At long last, Democracy has become convenient!
To my knowledge, smoothwall is not set up to handle running wifi adapters. I'm sure you could compile it with the necessary support, but OpenWRT would make more sense. And DD-WRT is just OpenWRT for people who fear linux.
Yeah, I said it. Screw DD. Its just a slower, lamer, version of OpenWRT.
I support a number of real estate offices, and the agents in those offices use a pair of MLS websites, both of which are written in flash. For continually varying reasons, there are compatibility issues with Chrome's (and now IE's) built in flash players. Now, I'm sure that Adobe will eventually have an NaCL plugin, but all I thought when I read this article was, "Oh crap. As if reInsight wasn't my nightmare already..."
...or at least more palatable.
Using humor engages more of the brain and makes processing dry material more enjoyable. The only thing better is setting it to a goofy tune.
I learned and retained more about James K. Polk from They Might Be Giants than I did from any other source.
These are jokes about sex, not sexist jokes. Specifically, these apps are jokes about male responses to sex. Who are these women that think they have a monopoly on sex? Men are involved as well, and I think that gives them some right to talk (or joke) about it.
So, artificial molecular machinery... That sounds like nanotech to me!
I don't know why all the bother with trying to make atomic scale gears and hands (besides how cool it is) when we can just use the machinery already present. Ever look at the structure of the ion channels in nerve cells? Biomechanical valves! So cool.
Hew, not to worry! I came across a fantastic supply of lithium not too long ago, which I've been using as the core of my new experimental power cells.
They can be a bit of a hassle around half the time, but I'm running my laptop off one right now. His name is Steve. I found him at a mental health clinic.
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The last security change to FF broke PDF's. Now Java.
I'm not looking forward to this.
I was trying to copy music with my scanner, but the reflection off the disk burned it out.
Well, that would be the sensible thing. Identify the problem, determine the cause, and develop a fix. But this is government, so the course of action is this: Identify a problem, assume the cause is the ideology of your opponents, and jam through a 'fix' for the symptoms the instant you have the votes.
I'm upgrading to Web 8.1 today.
But how do you get around the problem of a media outlet becoming an organ of the state? There is an unavoidable risk that news reporting will become beholden to whomever controls the purse strings. But the more of them there are competing for advertising revenue, the less it costs to advertise with them. The broader the base of financial support, the harder it is to become beholden to any one source.
Of course, the theory behind public funding (through the government, not pledge drives) is that the media is then beholden to each individual. However, it is the body that funnels the funds to them to which they will become beholden.
I guess that I'm not just going to assume nefarious intent just because somebody is wealthy.
I recall how my geeky little self was treated by the girls in Junior High. Statan would have been preferable.
Bittorrent activity can cause what look like DoS attacks if you aren't running your client. You get a lot of former peers attempting to access a torrent, but since your client isn't listening it looks like an attack. That's happened to me quite a bit, and I have a feeling that some of the offending peers may not have been entirely honest.
Why is it that 'citizen's groups' are (almost) always so unrepentantly dumb?
Azerbaijanis should be thanking their government for working to save them the time and trouble of going out to vote. At long last, Democracy has become convenient!
I don't see how this will grow hair or prolong erections. Why are we bothering?
Al Capone had an IQ of 90, and look how far he got!
And it was messy.
Yeah, I said it. Screw DD. Its just a slower, lamer, version of OpenWRT.
The fact that they were limited to Asia was the only reason I tolerated their existence in the first place.
I quit. I'm moving to Antarctica. Hornets have scared the ******* out of me for as long as I can remember. I'm out.
So that's why Autism!
My biggest fear with the NSA revelations has always been exactly this.
I support a number of real estate offices, and the agents in those offices use a pair of MLS websites, both of which are written in flash. For continually varying reasons, there are compatibility issues with Chrome's (and now IE's) built in flash players. Now, I'm sure that Adobe will eventually have an NaCL plugin, but all I thought when I read this article was, "Oh crap. As if reInsight wasn't my nightmare already..."
...or at least more palatable. Using humor engages more of the brain and makes processing dry material more enjoyable. The only thing better is setting it to a goofy tune. I learned and retained more about James K. Polk from They Might Be Giants than I did from any other source.
These are jokes about sex, not sexist jokes. Specifically, these apps are jokes about male responses to sex. Who are these women that think they have a monopoly on sex? Men are involved as well, and I think that gives them some right to talk (or joke) about it.
Right and Left united against jackassery!
So, the cure is sleeping in? Someone call Steve Hawking!
I don't know why all the bother with trying to make atomic scale gears and hands (besides how cool it is) when we can just use the machinery already present. Ever look at the structure of the ion channels in nerve cells? Biomechanical valves! So cool.
There's nothing wrong with being rich.
They can be a bit of a hassle around half the time, but I'm running my laptop off one right now. His name is Steve. I found him at a mental health clinic.
BiPolarPower!