If they don't want you to do that, especially since they're hindering you, tough on them, really. It might be tempting to just not turn up and/or move to the next job quicker, but if the notice-period has been agreed then it would be wiser to adhere to it - you don't want the new people thinking you don't honour agreements.
a) it's not a matter for Paypal to "support" browsers, but rather, this being the web, for them to write according to standards and let browsers display their site how they will, etc...
b) if they cannot trust me to use my own choice of browser (currently epiphany) correctly and put an error-message in front of me, they will not get my custom. I only use sites who want me to use them.
c) Right when I was getting all interested in them because of the convenience, too...
d) of course it's no real security at all. How will they know what the browser is? User-agents are so fakeable it would be beyond preposterous; javascript can be disabled (and if they refuse to work without js, that raises whole questions about accessibility)
e) what about the effects on people using paypal for "donate" buttons on their sites - do they deserve the subsequent drop in income *and* ill-will this will engender?
Someone remind me who the alternativs are for sending money back & forth...
No. If anything, it's exactly the opposite. It's not the banks' job to "support" end-users any more than it was to "support" their browsers. Remember the hideous errors with online banking when you pointed NS4 or earlier versions of Firefox at them, with rejection messages based on user-agent? That stems from a failure to understand that the bank provides a service over HTTP that people should point whatever browser they like at. If websites were designed with that in mind, the web would have been a whole lot better.
I don't even understand why there's a question like "Should end users be ultimately responsible for the state of their systems?". Of *course* it's every user's individual responsibility to look after their machine. Why else did they buy it?
I'm not sure what extra firewall and anti-virus software I need for debian/testing with security updates updated daily, mind.;)
The reason this works is because he's a sensible fellow who knows standards-compliance. both in network protocols and data formats, is more important than the mere name of the OS or application issuing them.
Tssssch. One of the few useful things Dad has ever told me about driving is how to reverse-park. You can do the whole thing in your mirrors if you know (a) aim your rear nearside corner mid-way between the two vehicles, and (b) aim your rear offside corner at the middle of the car behind's numberplate.
Other than that, if you don't know the length of your own car, what the hell are you doing sitting behind the wheel?
Oh... vauxhall drivers don't have to know their own length nor look around nor use mirrors nor use cameras. They just wait for the crunch:)
What, client-side auth? It's not like GPG keys don't grow on trees, y'know. OK, it might be slow for a spammer to regenerate a new key, but you wouldn't need to do that for every potential post, just the ones once it starts failing.
You're better off asking for a simple computation ("what's 2^3?") or even doing it in javascript ("here, what's the largest prime factor of this huge number?"), I think.
Ah, yet another moron thinking the internet is all about the Web. Have you ever wondered what effect this will have on your email spam-filters that do DNS lookups to check the sender domain exists, and suddenly find it does regardless?
> Linux rather be Not Yet Ready for the desktop, rather than joining the Desktop bandwagon, and becoming yet another Patch --> Update --> Service Pack --> Antivirus --> Unstable kind of a desktop OS.
Funny, I thought it's already a continual patch->update cycle without even being reliable on the desktop already.
When you've had to roll-out a filter across a multi-user netowrk, you'll have more data to be going on with.
DSPAM might be all spangly and wonderful, but switch it to use a proper RDBMS backend on a separate box and its usage is *SO* inefficient that analysing *one* email went from about 1s to >10mins. ("I need a wordlist! So I'll just, erm, select * from a 10k-row table." Er yeah - I'm sure it's good programming to have multiple switchable backends, but they didn't have a clue about efficiency.)
Ditto spamassassin: it ain't cheap. Particularly so when you have multiple remote lookups against RBLs (hey, they're crap, but spamcop.net is worth something in the scores) and razor2 and pyzor et al, that time-out and add to the box's load.
Personal favourite, without having bothered wasting bandwidth on these videos where plain text would've sufficed, is a combination of strong sender-verification in exim, spamassassin (with score>10 => reject at source) and bogofilter. I cross-train bogofilter and SA regularly, and include my sent-mail box in bogofilter so it knows *exactly* what topics I like to talk about, thereby increasing term-value-separation.
Obligatory data-point: in the past week, spamhaus rather idiotically blocked a/23 (yes, they can't count to 24) netblock around one of my colo-servers, claiming it was related to a Russian spam-outfit. I suppose, being yanks, they don't know the difference between Russia and the UK until someone sues them.
> You mean, like an eye where the retina was put in backward,
That sounds a very likely case. Thanks. Would you happen to know of a suitable phrase for which one might google to find more? (I ain't no biologist...)
I already avoid D-Link for producing crap hardware anyway, ever since work had hubs and network-cards that kept flaking-out under moderate levels of (mostly UDP) traffic. As if the permanent low-grade hatred I now have for D-Link wasn't bad enough, it's now gone up a notch.
The real test will be their official response - so they've screwed-up, now we see how they handle it.
Note how estimates vary for how long Neanderthals overlapped. I'd expect there to be a much larger overlap in cases of major diversion.
As for microevolution... actually, I'd be more interested in a proof concentrating on errors-in-progress. If the general thesis of Natural Selection through Evolution is that mutations beneficial to an environment tend to stick, you'd expect there to be examples of species that are *behind the curve* in various ways - eg an eye slightly *less* well-developed than you might otherwise encounter. (Hard to prove, of course, but more interesting than a mere list of "look, this animal's equipement fits its environment just fine" many times over.)
> Take this number 141592653589793238462643383279. I can compresses it very well: > [the first 30 digits of pi after the comma]
zsh% echo '[the first 30 digits of pi after the comma]' | wc -c
44;) Otherwise an interesting idea though. Could come in handy for crypto headers signing email too - succinct, easily represented in ascii, requires sender to do a lot of work (shame about the cost to verify, though).
I only come to this after the photo's been removed, apparently. But if we know this datum from a photo's metadata - what makes us sure it hasn't been edited to say that as a diversion / to call your bluff?
I disagree with the story for the simple reason that the poster has a rather short-term memory. When I graduated, the nature of unix sysadmin was to be "fascist" - to implement policies that people should be only allowed to do certain things at certain times. The swing between 1995-2003 towards jeans & t-shirt (optionally "unless customers are coming") has just been an opportunity for the masses, who, backed by manglement, demanded control and every little gadget on their desktop, and are now realising this to have been a Bad Idea, and that delegating some things to the resident BoFH wasn't such a bad ploy after all.
Calling cars weapons is bollocks. You might as well call humans weapons because, after all, you never know when someone might push one out of an upstairs window onto your head as you pass by. Funny that, 'cos incidents of death-by-human as a proportion of all humans on the planet is ruddy low, just like the deaths-by-car as a proportion of all cars.
Vehicles are the only way to capitalise on your freedom to go when you want, where you want. Public transport is overpriced and inflexible.
> i also agree with rfid systems and black-box for cars.
> Blurry photos are almost always caused by camera shake
Erm... where do you get that idea from? Have you ever used something other than a point-'n'-shoot camera in automatic mode where it tries to maximize DoF all the time?
Me, I'm wondering if this will facilitate software that implements tilt after the event, too.
Interesting, but flawed. I would feel bad that I had a bunch of emails stacking-up to be done later. Plus I'm not at my most productive before about 11pm, mebbe that doesn't help...
I thought the standard approach was to allow double-quotes for obscurely named fields - it works in everything I've used over the years (oracle, postgresql, ingres,..) apart from mysql (spot the odd-idiot-out!).
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If they don't want you to do that, especially since they're hindering you, tough on them, really. It might be tempting to just not turn up and/or move to the next job quicker, but if the notice-period has been agreed then it would be wiser to adhere to it - you don't want the new people thinking you don't honour agreements.
Ah crap, there's a whole load of angles on this.
a) it's not a matter for Paypal to "support" browsers, but rather, this being the web, for them to write according to standards and let browsers display their site how they will, etc...
b) if they cannot trust me to use my own choice of browser (currently epiphany) correctly and put an error-message in front of me, they will not get my custom. I only use sites who want me to use them.
c) Right when I was getting all interested in them because of the convenience, too...
d) of course it's no real security at all. How will they know what the browser is? User-agents are so fakeable it would be beyond preposterous; javascript can be disabled (and if they refuse to work without js, that raises whole questions about accessibility)
e) what about the effects on people using paypal for "donate" buttons on their sites - do they deserve the subsequent drop in income *and* ill-will this will engender?
Someone remind me who the alternativs are for sending money back & forth...
No. If anything, it's exactly the opposite. It's not the banks' job to "support" end-users any more than it was to "support" their browsers. Remember the hideous errors with online banking when you pointed NS4 or earlier versions of Firefox at them, with rejection messages based on user-agent? That stems from a failure to understand that the bank provides a service over HTTP that people should point whatever browser they like at. If websites were designed with that in mind, the web would have been a whole lot better.
;)
I don't even understand why there's a question like "Should end users be ultimately responsible for the state of their systems?". Of *course* it's every user's individual responsibility to look after their machine. Why else did they buy it?
I'm not sure what extra firewall and anti-virus software I need for debian/testing with security updates updated daily, mind.
The reason this works is because he's a sensible fellow who knows standards-compliance. both in network protocols and data formats, is more important than the mere name of the OS or application issuing them.
Tssssch. One of the few useful things Dad has ever told me about driving is how to reverse-park. You can do the whole thing in your mirrors if you know (a) aim your rear nearside corner mid-way between the two vehicles, and (b) aim your rear offside corner at the middle of the car behind's numberplate.
:)
Other than that, if you don't know the length of your own car, what the hell are you doing sitting behind the wheel?
Oh... vauxhall drivers don't have to know their own length nor look around nor use mirrors nor use cameras. They just wait for the crunch
Duh. That's no more X11 than a regular xterm.
Real geeks use Gnus. There is no better mail client anywhere.
is blonde, brunette, redhead ;)
You're probably onto something.
As for causation: so if I run around a hill a few times, I'll get cleverer again?
What, client-side auth? It's not like GPG keys don't grow on trees, y'know. OK, it might be slow for a spammer to regenerate a new key, but you wouldn't need to do that for every potential post, just the ones once it starts failing.
You're better off asking for a simple computation ("what's 2^3?") or even doing it in javascript ("here, what's the largest prime factor of this huge number?"), I think.
Ah, yet another moron thinking the internet is all about the Web. Have you ever wondered what effect this will have on your email spam-filters that do DNS lookups to check the sender domain exists, and suddenly find it does regardless?
Static kernel, for *what* reasons of security? http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=60&a=8 is ages old.
> Linux rather be Not Yet Ready for the desktop, rather than joining the Desktop bandwagon, and becoming yet another Patch --> Update --> Service Pack --> Antivirus --> Unstable kind of a desktop OS.
Funny, I thought it's already a continual patch->update cycle without even being reliable on the desktop already.
When you've had to roll-out a filter across a multi-user netowrk, you'll have more data to be going on with.
DSPAM might be all spangly and wonderful, but switch it to use a proper RDBMS backend on a separate box and its usage is *SO* inefficient that analysing *one* email went from about 1s to >10mins. ("I need a wordlist! So I'll just, erm, select * from a 10k-row table." Er yeah - I'm sure it's good programming to have multiple switchable backends, but they didn't have a clue about efficiency.)
Ditto spamassassin: it ain't cheap. Particularly so when you have multiple remote lookups against RBLs (hey, they're crap, but spamcop.net is worth something in the scores) and razor2 and pyzor et al, that time-out and add to the box's load.
Personal favourite, without having bothered wasting bandwidth on these videos where plain text would've sufficed, is a combination of strong sender-verification in exim, spamassassin (with score>10 => reject at source) and bogofilter. I cross-train bogofilter and SA regularly, and include my sent-mail box in bogofilter so it knows *exactly* what topics I like to talk about, thereby increasing term-value-separation.
Obligatory data-point: in the past week, spamhaus rather idiotically blocked a /23 (yes, they can't count to 24) netblock around one of my colo-servers, claiming it was related to a Russian spam-outfit. I suppose, being yanks, they don't know the difference between Russia and the UK until someone sues them.
Even better still: who needs a lens when a pin-hole will suffice? ;)
> You mean, like an eye where the retina was put in backward,
That sounds a very likely case. Thanks. Would you happen to know of a suitable phrase for which one might google to find more? (I ain't no biologist...)
I already avoid D-Link for producing crap hardware anyway, ever since work had hubs and network-cards that kept flaking-out under moderate levels of (mostly UDP) traffic. As if the permanent low-grade hatred I now have for D-Link wasn't bad enough, it's now gone up a notch.
The real test will be their official response - so they've screwed-up, now we see how they handle it.
Note how estimates vary for how long Neanderthals overlapped. I'd expect there to be a much larger overlap in cases of major diversion.
As for microevolution... actually, I'd be more interested in a proof concentrating on errors-in-progress. If the general thesis of Natural Selection through Evolution is that mutations beneficial to an environment tend to stick, you'd expect there to be examples of species that are *behind the curve* in various ways - eg an eye slightly *less* well-developed than you might otherwise encounter. (Hard to prove, of course, but more interesting than a mere list of "look, this animal's equipement fits its environment just fine" many times over.)
> Take this number 141592653589793238462643383279. I can compresses it very well:
;) Otherwise an interesting idea though. Could come in handy for crypto headers signing email too - succinct, easily represented in ascii, requires sender to do a lot of work (shame about the cost to verify, though).
> [the first 30 digits of pi after the comma]
zsh% echo '[the first 30 digits of pi after the comma]' | wc -c
44
> If you've disabled single user mode, there's not much that can be done. That's the nature of security.
:)
linux single rw init=/bin/sh
Next?
You might also like to keep an alternative such as _super_ installed, against this eventuality.
> - Lives in Roland, OK
I only come to this after the photo's been removed, apparently. But if we know this datum from a photo's metadata - what makes us sure it hasn't been edited to say that as a diversion / to call your bluff?
> Is that what you want?
;)
Well, yes, but..
I disagree with the story for the simple reason that the poster has a rather short-term memory. When I graduated, the nature of unix sysadmin was to be "fascist" - to implement policies that people should be only allowed to do certain things at certain times. The swing between 1995-2003 towards jeans & t-shirt (optionally "unless customers are coming") has just been an opportunity for the masses, who, backed by manglement, demanded control and every little gadget on their desktop, and are now realising this to have been a Bad Idea, and that delegating some things to the resident BoFH wasn't such a bad ploy after all.
Calling cars weapons is bollocks. You might as well call humans weapons because, after all, you never know when someone might push one out of an upstairs window onto your head as you pass by. Funny that, 'cos incidents of death-by-human as a proportion of all humans on the planet is ruddy low, just like the deaths-by-car as a proportion of all cars.
Vehicles are the only way to capitalise on your freedom to go when you want, where you want. Public transport is overpriced and inflexible.
> i also agree with rfid systems and black-box for cars.
yes, and I agree with sticking both up your ass.
> Blurry photos are almost always caused by camera shake
Erm... where do you get that idea from? Have you ever used something other than a point-'n'-shoot camera in automatic mode where it tries to maximize DoF all the time?
Me, I'm wondering if this will facilitate software that implements tilt after the event, too.
Interesting, but flawed. I would feel bad that I had a bunch of emails stacking-up to be done later. Plus I'm not at my most productive before about 11pm, mebbe that doesn't help...
I thought the standard approach was to allow double-quotes for obscurely named fields - it works in everything I've used over the years (oracle, postgresql, ingres, ..) apart from mysql (spot the odd-idiot-out!).