Friend of mine had customs/whoever want to search his laptop. They said they saw something suspicious (child porn) though I have no idea how given that it wasn't switched on. The guy was travelling with his wife and wouldn't have had anything of the sort on his machine. The only reason he avoided having it searched was that the battery had died, though they asked him to prove it.
Made me think: if you try the dead battery ruse, if you're holding the laptop, perhaps use the hand supporting the laptop to dislodge the battery slightly when you hit the power button to prove that it's 'out of power'.
Slashdot is rarely considered a timely news source at the best of times, which makes me wonder why they would approve an openly acknowledged poorly sourced story, rather than waiting?
Fair enough, two answers might be "kdawson" and page impressions from all of us Vista haters, but are not the editors adult employees with some sense of quality and thought?
Anyone else ever feel sad when thinking that they won't live for the centuries it may take humankind to find answers to such immense questions?
The scale of the universe (even as we know it) is almost incomprehensible. Most of us will be getting well on in age even by the time that there could be a manned mission to Mars. I don't want to seem ungrateful, but that's stepping foot on a nearby planet. Not visiting another solar system, another galaxy or anything like that. A nearby planet.
In my general travels through news sites and places like Slashdot, a good portion of waiting comes from the third-party embedded ads. When I hit some Slashdot pages, it can literally take 5-8 or so seconds (count it out - that's slow for a page that's largely text) to show the content. For most of that time, the status bar is flickering with action from one of Doubleclick or Mediaplex's (I think) ad servers.
"What was it that prompted Slashdot to start posting its hate mail?"
300+ comments in reply = ad revenue. We all keep coming here to whinge and read the complaints, they get pageviews and want more of the same.
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I know that's a standard joke here (my UID is lowish after all), but no matter how many dupes, bad summaries and shoddy Idle stories I see, it doesn't mean that I don't hope for better going forward.
Someone else sells the ad space, right? Users submit the content. Others work on the codebase. How hard is it for the editors to check over what they're putting their name/alias to?
I faithfully went to see each review hoping for something insightful, and one was down (hard to avoid), one was benchmarks and not too interesting other than that, and the third was simply embarrassing Made For AdSense junk from someone who, as I said, hadn't even spent a couple of minutes to download the product itself.
Chrome Day II: Shitter than the first day.
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Oh, and I forgot to ask - why has Taco linked to a "review" by someone who openly admits to not having even downloaded the product!?
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In Chrome, using the scroll button on my mouse can scroll a page down, but not back up. Have seen a few others mention the same bug around the net.
Other than that and the lack of extensions that I use with Firefox, it looks decent for a first release. More innovative/interesting than what Apple originally did with Safari, IMO.
I think the ability to launch from an icon to a chromeless web-app could prove quite useful - can imagine small businesses using something like that for web-based to-do lists, project apps, etc.
Was in China for three weeks recently using global roaming and found that around half of my messages heading out of China were not received by the intended recipient at all. I do suspect, however, that I was charged for them.
My brother, first using roaming, had a problem whereby messages would send 3-12 times each. He then switched to a local sim and we believe that all messages from that point were sent/received OK.
If it were the case that it was planted, then I disagree completely with you. Cost someone a few moments to post, yet they got the competition in front of countless eyeballs. For every person who stops to gripe about privacy, you'll have a number of others who think "Ooh Wii, wouldn't mind one - I'll give it a shot."
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"doesn't make him sound like he knows what he's talking about - either"
The other clues were the "I don't know" comments interspersed throughout the transcript.
Put your charger in checked-in baggage. Take two batteries. Put the full one in your partner's carry-on baggage. Keep a drained one in the laptop.
When they ask, say the battery's flat and you don't have your charger. Unless they're really suspicious, they might just wave you through?
Friend of mine had customs/whoever want to search his laptop. They said they saw something suspicious (child porn) though I have no idea how given that it wasn't switched on. The guy was travelling with his wife and wouldn't have had anything of the sort on his machine. The only reason he avoided having it searched was that the battery had died, though they asked him to prove it.
Made me think: if you try the dead battery ruse, if you're holding the laptop, perhaps use the hand supporting the laptop to dislodge the battery slightly when you hit the power button to prove that it's 'out of power'.
Plus you've got a strangely appropriate alias to go with the story. A bit too convenient some might say.
Slashdot is rarely considered a timely news source at the best of times, which makes me wonder why they would approve an openly acknowledged poorly sourced story, rather than waiting?
Fair enough, two answers might be "kdawson" and page impressions from all of us Vista haters, but are not the editors adult employees with some sense of quality and thought?
Fun to make, fun to eat!
Anyone else ever feel sad when thinking that they won't live for the centuries it may take humankind to find answers to such immense questions?
The scale of the universe (even as we know it) is almost incomprehensible. Most of us will be getting well on in age even by the time that there could be a manned mission to Mars. I don't want to seem ungrateful, but that's stepping foot on a nearby planet. Not visiting another solar system, another galaxy or anything like that. A nearby planet.
Maybe I'm just really impatient!
"... is that this Canadian and a lot of people that I know will, with glowing hearts, ignore this piece of nonsense on the basis of prior art."
Just looking to clarify - would you say that "2,010 people that you know" will, with glowing hearts, ignore it?
Remember all the hype on Slashdot? It got pretty out of hand IIRC. Reminds me a bit of the Segway in that regard.
"It's good to see the industry coming clean on this issue."
That should be:
"It's good to see a publication suggest that one player within an industry is slightly tweaking their method of measuring this issue."
The Church of Scientology recommends that to save power on your laptop, you not watch any videos on YouTube that criticise them.
In my general travels through news sites and places like Slashdot, a good portion of waiting comes from the third-party embedded ads. When I hit some Slashdot pages, it can literally take 5-8 or so seconds (count it out - that's slow for a page that's largely text) to show the content. For most of that time, the status bar is flickering with action from one of Doubleclick or Mediaplex's (I think) ad servers.
It's OK, I'm sure the editors checked before publishing the story.
"What was it that prompted Slashdot to start posting its hate mail?"
300+ comments in reply = ad revenue. We all keep coming here to whinge and read the complaints, they get pageviews and want more of the same.
I know that's a standard joke here (my UID is lowish after all), but no matter how many dupes, bad summaries and shoddy Idle stories I see, it doesn't mean that I don't hope for better going forward.
Someone else sells the ad space, right? Users submit the content. Others work on the codebase. How hard is it for the editors to check over what they're putting their name/alias to?
I faithfully went to see each review hoping for something insightful, and one was down (hard to avoid), one was benchmarks and not too interesting other than that, and the third was simply embarrassing Made For AdSense junk from someone who, as I said, hadn't even spent a couple of minutes to download the product itself.
Chrome Day II: Shitter than the first day.
Oh, and I forgot to ask - why has Taco linked to a "review" by someone who openly admits to not having even downloaded the product!?
In Chrome, using the scroll button on my mouse can scroll a page down, but not back up. Have seen a few others mention the same bug around the net.
Other than that and the lack of extensions that I use with Firefox, it looks decent for a first release. More innovative/interesting than what Apple originally did with Safari, IMO.
I think the ability to launch from an icon to a chromeless web-app could prove quite useful - can imagine small businesses using something like that for web-based to-do lists, project apps, etc.
Looked to me like it was written in the Idle.Slashdot comment box.
Was in China for three weeks recently using global roaming and found that around half of my messages heading out of China were not received by the intended recipient at all. I do suspect, however, that I was charged for them.
My brother, first using roaming, had a problem whereby messages would send 3-12 times each. He then switched to a local sim and we believe that all messages from that point were sent/received OK.
If you have an Internode ADSL account at multiple locations, look for DAD which is the multi-account version of MUM:
http://www.users.on.net/~johnson/internode/
They're quite useful little apps, warning you when you're ahead of your quota (averaged over the month) and should cut back your usage a little.
"Sure they do: snotty, good, small, and fake."
Sorry, only just woke up half-way down the comments. Are we talking about breasts again?
For sure, but still enough to be worth a two-minute article submission.
Look at spam, cost of delivery is virtually nil, so even a 0.0001% response rate would make it worthwhile.
If it were the case that it was planted, then I disagree completely with you. Cost someone a few moments to post, yet they got the competition in front of countless eyeballs. For every person who stops to gripe about privacy, you'll have a number of others who think "Ooh Wii, wouldn't mind one - I'll give it a shot."
Easy publicity for Duracell. Have someone complain about a non-issue with your competition, and get free press.
Are they going to just shut it down, or could they hand it over to the community to maintain?