Two users, Foo Bar <foobar@gmail.com> and Foo Baz <foo.baz@gmail.com> want to register at example.com's wonderful new Blagoweb 2.0 site.
Foo Bar registers as foobar@gmail.com.
Foo Baz is incompetent and registers as foo.bar@gmail.com instead of foo.baz.
example.com allows it because it doesn't match any address they've got on file.
Now example.com has two distinct accounts for two different people, but the email is going to the same place.
It's still Mr. Baz's fault at this point, unless Mr. Bar goes ahead and confirms this second registration, not noticing the problem. And of course it's still within Mr. Bar's power to login as Mr. Baz and disable the account or whatever needs to happen.
None of this contradicts what you said, but there's still some room for legitimate confusion, I think.
This was the first time I've actually contacted my senators. I have not heard anything from Dick Durbin's office yet, but Obama's office had some encouraging things to say in a well-written response. Among other things:
Congress is working on reforms to the FISA bill to be enacted before the expiration of the current legislation. On November 15, 2007, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3773, the "Responsible Electronic
Surveillance That is Overseen, Reviewed, and Effective Act of 2007" (RESTORE Act) by a vote of 227-189. The House bill does not provide retroactive immunity for private companies that may have participated in the illegal collection of personal information, nor does it provide immunity for administration officials who may have acted illegally. The Senate committees on Intelligence and the Judiciary have since approved proposals with their own reforms to FISA. The debate over retroactive immunity is still ongoing, and I will support a filibuster should legislation that includes such a provision come to the Senate floor.
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Just banish his stories from your home page. I did. It works. It's amazing how much the signal to noise ratio increased.
I use both the Drupal module you've mentioned and the MediaWiki plugin that the CMU team (apparently) maintains. If you don't use either of those, you've still got a lot of options.
This is my main gripe with RoR: It's boasted into the stratosphere by zealots, but hasn't proven itself in The Real World at all...
Err... In case it wasn't common knowledge, 37signals is largely responsible for the development of Ruby on Rails. As such, I'm pretty sure it powers all of their apps, like Ta-da List, Basecamp, and Highrise. I think Highrise is pretty new, but Basecamp has been around for a while, and I think it qualifies as proven.
It's hard to believe you "get around on the Web 2.0" and yet haven't heard of 37signals or any of their products; perhaps you just don't remember hearing of them. Jason Fried, the founder (a co-founder?) of 37signals, gave the keynote at our campus webmaster forum this year. I'm pretty sure most of us knew who he was. (I could be wrong!)
All that said, I've tried RoR and not liked it. It's on my list of things to play with again the next time I have some free cycles.:)
I helped build a module for Gallery2 that will display your photos or albums in a map. Some good folks have been adding features and maintaining it since then. Check out my photo map if you're interested; you can tell at a glance that it's pretty similar to what TFA describes.
The onus is still on you to make sure that either you tag your content with the right coordinates or that your camera or other software gets it into the EXIF block, but beyond that, it's all pretty automagic.
I'd like to know how many times his 'credentials' have been called upon as proof in Wiki arguments... My guess? Very few. I don't remember interacting with him specifically, but my general experience with editing Wikipedia has been that very few arguments are won by appeal to authority. If you can't cite supporting references, you're not going to be very successful. Of course you could fabricate references, but that's sort of a second-order problem.
You don't get it, do you? It's not just about backup - it is about everything else. The organization, the tags, the categorized way of storing your pictures. Do they offer an API for exporting all of this valuable metadata? That's one thing that made it easy for me to get into del.icio.us a few years ago: no worries about being locked into their system. Of course del.icio.us has been acquired by Yahoo now, too, and as far as I know the APIs are all still there and quite usable!
other idiocies: ...
3. a dollar coin you can't tell apart from quarters easily (still, i am talking about the sacagawea: same approximate size/ weight) Granted, I've never been in a situation where I had to frequently, quickly, and accurately differentiate them, but I'm pretty sure this is not a problem for people who do: Quarters are reeded, and the Scagawea dollars are not. This was surely one of the features specifically intended to set them apart.
Oh, how I miss my 48GX. It was like my best friend through high school. My first one died, I bought a replacement, and it died probably four or five years ago. Are they still available for purchase?
I can't get into using x48; just too clunky. I found orpie as a good, open source, RPN calculator. I even started writing an interpreter so I could salvage some of my old programs running, but it didn't really go anywhere.
How do the newer HPs stack up? Are the UserRPl, SysRPL, and assembly environments comparable? Will my old programs run?
I'm beginning to think that some media conglomerates must hold a stake in Second Life, and that's why we keep reading/hearing "news" on it. You may be on to something...
The thing that took the fun out of Gran Turismo for me, when GT4 came out, was that unlike in GT3, it was very difficult to set up a race that was close in GT4 without getting completely blown away. My favorite race series in GT3 was the Polyphony Digital Cup, in which you had to race a completely stock car against other stock cars. It took an awfully long time to complete (though nothing compared to this 24-hour stuff), but allowed you to hone your racing line for 20 laps on 10 different tracks against closely-matched opponents.
There's no point in me even keeping track of all these silly stats anymore, without that. You'd think the points system (distinct from the money system) they introduced in GT4 would have helped in this regard, but the fact that you can't determine the number of points the race is worth without actually beginning the race makes it all but worthless.
*sigh*... Here's hoping for a return to "fun" in GT5.
(P.S. Last time I tried the 24 Hours of Nurburgring, my power went out at 14.5 hours. I won't try again until I can get a UPS for my system.)
I'm sorry, but I'm tried a friend's Wii and there's no way I would have dropped or launched the remote across the window... I guess we know what kind of Wii-gamer you are...;)
Whoops... just accidentally moderated that "Flamebait" instead of "Funny". Stupid javascript moderation widget. Anyway, replying just to undo my moderation.
Even easier is the so-called Baym technique for opening CDs. Just pop the hinge of the jewel case off. The case will then be hinged on the sticky tape, and it's trivial to pull off at that point. There's some minor risk of breaking the hinge, but I've only had it happen once, as far as I remember.
Once I used this technique on a White Zombie CD I bought from Best Buy, only to find that the disc inside was an old, horribly scratched Black Sabbath tribute album. I reassembled the case before removing the tape and had an interesting time explaining to the people at Best Buy how I knew it had the wrong CD inside...
Remedial does not mean "basic" or "rudimentary"; just look at the root of the word, remedy. Not to overestimate my fellow Slashdotters, but I surmise that most of us have not had remedial education. Surely a fancy gentleman like yourself, with your very fine hat, should know the correct usage.:)
(Full disclosure: I had to be set straight on this misuse a couple of years ago. D'oh!)
...it is a better demo if you look at the computer-generated image that the whiskers were able to extract. See the figure in the original article.
So you're suggesting I should read the article before drawing conclusions about your research? I can't imagine how that will help, but I guess I could give it a shot just this one time...
My only problem with NoScript is that the authors have embedded a bunch of default sites (none of which I had any specific reason to trust) into the whitelist, which (as far as I could tell) were not something you could remove, short of unzipping the jar and editing the config file. Which I did and was happy until I upgraded and had to remove them all again.
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...ironically bolstering your point--it made your code more readable!
Obvious reply: I'd rather have him screw up my Big Mac than my Freddie Mac.
So just pick a place where there aren't any hurricanes. :)
Two users, Foo Bar <foobar@gmail.com> and Foo Baz <foo.baz@gmail.com> want to register at example.com's wonderful new Blagoweb 2.0 site.
- Foo Bar registers as foobar@gmail.com.
- Foo Baz is incompetent and registers as foo.bar@gmail.com instead of foo.baz.
- example.com allows it because it doesn't match any address they've got on file.
- Now example.com has two distinct accounts for two different people, but the email is going to the same place.
It's still Mr. Baz's fault at this point, unless Mr. Bar goes ahead and confirms this second registration, not noticing the problem. And of course it's still within Mr. Bar's power to login as Mr. Baz and disable the account or whatever needs to happen.None of this contradicts what you said, but there's still some room for legitimate confusion, I think.
A handy one you left out:
SHIFT+F10 - Bring up the context menu; essentially like a right-click.
As an example, SHIFT+F10 W F will create a new folder in Explorer, or SHIFT+F10 R will bring up the Properties dialog for a file.Just banish his stories from your home page. I did. It works. It's amazing how much the signal to noise ratio increased.
I use both the Drupal module you've mentioned and the MediaWiki plugin that the CMU team (apparently) maintains. If you don't use either of those, you've still got a lot of options.
I beg to differ. ;)
Pretty sure. Read this!
Err... In case it wasn't common knowledge, 37signals is largely responsible for the development of Ruby on Rails. As such, I'm pretty sure it powers all of their apps, like Ta-da List, Basecamp, and Highrise. I think Highrise is pretty new, but Basecamp has been around for a while, and I think it qualifies as proven.
It's hard to believe you "get around on the Web 2.0" and yet haven't heard of 37signals or any of their products; perhaps you just don't remember hearing of them. Jason Fried, the founder (a co-founder?) of 37signals, gave the keynote at our campus webmaster forum this year. I'm pretty sure most of us knew who he was. (I could be wrong!)
All that said, I've tried RoR and not liked it. It's on my list of things to play with again the next time I have some free cycles. :)
I helped build a module for Gallery2 that will display your photos or albums in a map. Some good folks have been adding features and maintaining it since then. Check out my photo map if you're interested; you can tell at a glance that it's pretty similar to what TFA describes.
The onus is still on you to make sure that either you tag your content with the right coordinates or that your camera or other software gets it into the EXIF block, but beyond that, it's all pretty automagic.
Indeed. Always one of my favorite links to dig out:
The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World
3. a dollar coin you can't tell apart from quarters easily (still, i am talking about the sacagawea: same approximate size/ weight) Granted, I've never been in a situation where I had to frequently, quickly, and accurately differentiate them, but I'm pretty sure this is not a problem for people who do: Quarters are reeded, and the Scagawea dollars are not. This was surely one of the features specifically intended to set them apart.
Oh, how I miss my 48GX. It was like my best friend through high school. My first one died, I bought a replacement, and it died probably four or five years ago. Are they still available for purchase?
I can't get into using x48; just too clunky. I found orpie as a good, open source, RPN calculator. I even started writing an interpreter so I could salvage some of my old programs running, but it didn't really go anywhere.
How do the newer HPs stack up? Are the UserRPl, SysRPL, and assembly environments comparable? Will my old programs run?
The thing that took the fun out of Gran Turismo for me, when GT4 came out, was that unlike in GT3, it was very difficult to set up a race that was close in GT4 without getting completely blown away. My favorite race series in GT3 was the Polyphony Digital Cup, in which you had to race a completely stock car against other stock cars. It took an awfully long time to complete (though nothing compared to this 24-hour stuff), but allowed you to hone your racing line for 20 laps on 10 different tracks against closely-matched opponents.
There's no point in me even keeping track of all these silly stats anymore, without that. You'd think the points system (distinct from the money system) they introduced in GT4 would have helped in this regard, but the fact that you can't determine the number of points the race is worth without actually beginning the race makes it all but worthless.
*sigh*... Here's hoping for a return to "fun" in GT5.
(P.S. Last time I tried the 24 Hours of Nurburgring, my power went out at 14.5 hours. I won't try again until I can get a UPS for my system.)
Whoops... just accidentally moderated that "Flamebait" instead of "Funny". Stupid javascript moderation widget. Anyway, replying just to undo my moderation.
Even easier is the so-called Baym technique for opening CDs. Just pop the hinge of the jewel case off. The case will then be hinged on the sticky tape, and it's trivial to pull off at that point. There's some minor risk of breaking the hinge, but I've only had it happen once, as far as I remember.
Once I used this technique on a White Zombie CD I bought from Best Buy, only to find that the disc inside was an old, horribly scratched Black Sabbath tribute album. I reassembled the case before removing the tape and had an interesting time explaining to the people at Best Buy how I knew it had the wrong CD inside...
Remedial does not mean "basic" or "rudimentary"; just look at the root of the word, remedy. Not to overestimate my fellow Slashdotters, but I surmise that most of us have not had remedial education. Surely a fancy gentleman like yourself, with your very fine hat, should know the correct usage. :)
(Full disclosure: I had to be set straight on this misuse a couple of years ago. D'oh!)
So you're suggesting I should read the article before drawing conclusions about your research? I can't imagine how that will help, but I guess I could give it a shot just this one time...
My only problem with NoScript is that the authors have embedded a bunch of default sites (none of which I had any specific reason to trust) into the whitelist, which (as far as I could tell) were not something you could remove, short of unzipping the jar and editing the config file. Which I did and was happy until I upgraded and had to remove them all again.
Has this behavior been improved upon recently?