Very doubtful. Groklaw doesn't represent sensitive communications on the scale that the NSA or CIA would care about. PJ is delusional if she really thinks anyone in the government gives a damn about her site and the emails between her and her collaborators.
Having started browsing Groklaw again after several years absence, it is my personal observation that Groklaw is a pale shadow of its former self. PJ's posts lately seem like painfully-biased missives against the companies that don't share her specific values (putting aside the fact that the companies she sides with don't either) as she willfully ignores the subtler details of every single issue she reports on in order to continue her angry screeds. That's not journalism. It's not even entertaining.
I think deep down, PJ knows this. And I think this closure is just a convenient excuse to get out. Good riddance, says me.
(And this is coming from someone who was very pro-Groklaw during the SCO saga).
I have been typing for more than 30 years and I don't have an issue.
I have been touch typing for 30 years and I don't have an issue either. If you think either of our statements actually proves anything, you're not very smart.
In the phone industry, a few millimeters is everything. Massive engineering efforts are launched to reduce the Z of a phone by fractions of a millimeter.
Do you think it's Fair for Samsung to demand 2.4% of the total price of the phone -- somewhere around $16 per unit -- for a tweak to the standard implemented by the Infineon baseband processor? Do you think it's Fair that Samsung is demanding this fee despite the fact that Infineon paid for a license to manufacture a part that used that patent? Do you think it's Fair that Samsung is essentially double-dipping here?
If your publishing can't handle smart quotes, then stop publishing. All they are is a different character. Deal with it properly or GTFO.
Why bother? Smart quotes add no value to the document. They are just fluff. I would think that any self-respecting slashdot reader would immediately see through such silliness.
Not if you employed other technical measures. Search around a bit and you'll find captchas are unnecessary.
You keep saying this, and you continue to not provide any citations. Just because you say it is so does not make it so.
I run a web forum that is attacked every single minute of every single day by spambots from China, Russia, India, and Pakistan. Captchas are one of several technical countermeasures I use to keep from being overrun with spam -- and by overrun, I mean really, seriously overrun. Forum spam is incredibly prolific.
Each of the technical countermeasures stops some of the spam. Dropping captchas from the mix would allow far too much spam to get through. And yes, I've closely examined the contribution of each countermeasure.
I agree with other posters in this thread that the best option is to stop caring about benchmarks at all and just focus on how well the device works in practice.
Exactly. Now we just need to devise some way to uniformly measure how well the device works in practice, distilling that experience down to a single number, where larger numbers are better.
This doesn't match my experience. Time Machine fires up in the background, does its thing, and then stops shortly thereafter. Certainly much less than 15 minutes. More like five or less. This is on a new-ish iMac with a 3TB internal drive.
It wouldn't even be noticeable were it not for the fact that I can hear the TM destination drive (sitting on a shelf behind me) spin up once an hour.
The summary goes on to talk about only being able to buy AirPlay speakers. Where can I buy MagicPlay speakers? Nowhere? thought so. Not really a standard then is it?
Wow. I'm often critical of slashdot users for missing the forest for the trees, but rarely do I find slashdotters who are simultaneously as clueless, willfully ignorant, and aggressively obnoxious in a single post.
Well done, sir. You're a complete and utter fucktard.
1 - The State is out of the marriage business, and into the business of Civil Unions. Those pieces of State-respected status and benefits are conferred upon Civil Unions.
What possible point does this serve? How does splitting the the institution of marriage into two different categories that are supposedly equal serve any point at all?
Oh, right... it keeps the religious nutjobs (who are laboring under the opinion that they "own" the term marriage) from having to fret and worry that their "institution" (which was never actually theirs to begin with) is being eroded.
Fuck 'em. Seriously. Your "workaround" is a thinly-disguised attempt at putting the veneer of reason on what can only be described as irrational. It won't work.
1) I completely concur on government staying out of marriage. For sake of argument, let's call "marriage recognized by the state" as "civil union". Two people who enter into a civil union are recognized by the state as having certain benefits, including tax and legal.
Thus relegating atheists and other irreligious folks to a separate (but supposedly equal) "civil union". No. Fuck that.
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Very doubtful. Groklaw doesn't represent sensitive communications on the scale that the NSA or CIA would care about. PJ is delusional if she really thinks anyone in the government gives a damn about her site and the emails between her and her collaborators.
Having started browsing Groklaw again after several years absence, it is my personal observation that Groklaw is a pale shadow of its former self. PJ's posts lately seem like painfully-biased missives against the companies that don't share her specific values (putting aside the fact that the companies she sides with don't either) as she willfully ignores the subtler details of every single issue she reports on in order to continue her angry screeds. That's not journalism. It's not even entertaining.
I think deep down, PJ knows this. And I think this closure is just a convenient excuse to get out. Good riddance, says me.
(And this is coming from someone who was very pro-Groklaw during the SCO saga).
The only thing worse than the "America -- Fuck Yeah!" assholes are the "America -- Fuck No!" assholes.
Okay, tough guy.
Where's your control group? How many data points do you have?
I think your conclusion lacks any basis in science or logic.
Have you considered therapy for your anger management issue?
I have been typing for more than 30 years and I don't have an issue.
I have been touch typing for 30 years and I don't have an issue either. If you think either of our statements actually proves anything, you're not very smart.
In the phone industry, a few millimeters is everything. Massive engineering efforts are launched to reduce the Z of a phone by fractions of a millimeter.
Do you think it's Fair for Samsung to demand 2.4% of the total price of the phone -- somewhere around $16 per unit -- for a tweak to the standard implemented by the Infineon baseband processor? Do you think it's Fair that Samsung is demanding this fee despite the fact that Infineon paid for a license to manufacture a part that used that patent? Do you think it's Fair that Samsung is essentially double-dipping here?
Nice try.
Samsung demanded cross-licenses to Apple's non-FRAND patents. That puts the D back in Discriminatory.
Well, at least it will be secure there.
Sorry, but you have that exactly backwards.
Online publishing is a blight on smart quotes.
If your publishing can't handle smart quotes, then stop publishing. All they are is a different character. Deal with it properly or GTFO.
Why bother? Smart quotes add no value to the document. They are just fluff. I would think that any self-respecting slashdot reader would immediately see through such silliness.
Oh, wait...
Not if you employed other technical measures. Search around a bit and you'll find captchas are unnecessary.
You keep saying this, and you continue to not provide any citations. Just because you say it is so does not make it so.
I run a web forum that is attacked every single minute of every single day by spambots from China, Russia, India, and Pakistan. Captchas are one of several technical countermeasures I use to keep from being overrun with spam -- and by overrun, I mean really, seriously overrun. Forum spam is incredibly prolific.
Each of the technical countermeasures stops some of the spam. Dropping captchas from the mix would allow far too much spam to get through. And yes, I've closely examined the contribution of each countermeasure.
I agree with other posters in this thread that the best option is to stop caring about benchmarks at all and just focus on how well the device works in practice.
Exactly. Now we just need to devise some way to uniformly measure how well the device works in practice, distilling that experience down to a single number, where larger numbers are better.
Sorry, internal drive is 2TB. Time Machine destination is 3TB.
This doesn't match my experience. Time Machine fires up in the background, does its thing, and then stops shortly thereafter. Certainly much less than 15 minutes. More like five or less. This is on a new-ish iMac with a 3TB internal drive.
It wouldn't even be noticeable were it not for the fact that I can hear the TM destination drive (sitting on a shelf behind me) spin up once an hour.
Wow. 1999 called. They want their meme back.
Or just select the Reset Safari menu option.
See: http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2013/07/fbi-ransomware-now-targeting-apples-mac-os-x-users/
There's a simple menu option to reset Safari, which completely eliminates the lingering web page. See: http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2013/07/fbi-ransomware-now-targeting-apples-mac-os-x-users/
Calling this malware is a pretty desperate stretch.
This isn't that malware. This is just an annoying bit of javascript.
Nope. I can walk into Best Buy or Walmart and purchase AirPlay and HDMI devices. In neither store can I find MagicPlay/HDMI-open-alternative devices.
Do you see the glaring similarity?
There was a time not long ago when you couldn't buy an AirTunes/AirPlay device (other than from Apple) for all the Bitcoins in the world.
How the @#$% do you think standards get established? Hint: it's not overnight.
The summary goes on to talk about only being able to buy AirPlay speakers. Where can I buy MagicPlay speakers? Nowhere? thought so. Not really a standard then is it?
Wow. I'm often critical of slashdot users for missing the forest for the trees, but rarely do I find slashdotters who are simultaneously as clueless, willfully ignorant, and aggressively obnoxious in a single post.
Well done, sir. You're a complete and utter fucktard.
Bet you can't name two.
Simple workaround:
1 - The State is out of the marriage business, and into the business of Civil Unions. Those pieces of State-respected status and benefits are conferred upon Civil Unions.
What possible point does this serve? How does splitting the the institution of marriage into two different categories that are supposedly equal serve any point at all?
Oh, right... it keeps the religious nutjobs (who are laboring under the opinion that they "own" the term marriage) from having to fret and worry that their "institution" (which was never actually theirs to begin with) is being eroded.
Fuck 'em. Seriously. Your "workaround" is a thinly-disguised attempt at putting the veneer of reason on what can only be described as irrational. It won't work.
1) I completely concur on government staying out of marriage. For sake of argument, let's call "marriage recognized by the state" as "civil union". Two people who enter into a civil union are recognized by the state as having certain benefits, including tax and legal.
Thus relegating atheists and other irreligious folks to a separate (but supposedly equal) "civil union". No. Fuck that.