You misread that. If you treat Google+ itself as an API and Twitter itself as an API, you can implement all the functionality of Twitter with components of Google+. However, Google+ has features that can't be implemented with components of Twitter as of today.
If you look at Google+ and Twitter as APIs, then you can implement Twitter using the Google+ API but not the reverse. That doesn't mean things can't change, but I bet a few Twitter project managers have been sleepless lately.
"They're evil hackers!" didn't seem to stick. The public laughed off "they're terrorists!" Now the powers that be are hoping "they're communists!" will sway public sentiment? That's so... cold war. Who's afraid of the KGB these days?
I'm surprised they didn't go straight for "they sell kiddie porn". That would achieve the desired bloodlust a lot more quickly.
they should look at their LOCAL database of do-not-track ip addrs
So I need to opt out of tracking at home. And at work (blocking other people sharing the same outbound NAT who want to be tracked for some odd reason, possibly involving incentive programs). And at the coffee shop. And in motels. And in libraries. And every time my DHCP lease changes. Basically, every IP I'll ever occupy - however temporarily - I'll need to re-opt-out from.
How about: Still have monkey bars, but put down wood chips under it instead of tarmac? Let kids get hurt, but design it so it won't crack skulls wide open?
Read the article. Seriously. They covered that:
“There is no clear evidence that playground safety measures have lowered the average risk on playgrounds,” said David Ball, a professor of risk management at Middlesex University in London. He noted that the risk of some injuries, like long fractures of the arm, actually increased after the introduction of softer surfaces on playgrounds in Britain and Australia.
“This sounds counterintuitive, but it shouldn’t, because it is a common phenomenon,” Dr. Ball said. “If children and parents believe they are in an environment which is safer than it actually is, they will take more risks. An argument against softer surfacing is that children think it is safe, but because they don’t understand its properties, they overrate its performance.”
Neither nibble of 0x20 can be in [a-f], obviously. Also, the first nibble in each byte can't be in [a-f] because it's ASCII. Out of the remaining 32 candidate nibbles, you'd expect about 6/16ths (12) of them to be in [a-f], but only 5 are.
We're onto you, g0bshiTe. We know you're a Decimist, and we'll be watching.
<rant class="off-topic">You mean the standard iPhone earbuds with control buttons that short out at the slightest hint of moisture so that songs start randomly skipping around and pausing while I'm mowing the yard because it's 110 freakin' degrees here and I sweat while working outside and you'd think something marketed with images of active people doing stuff outdoors would be able to handle a little perspiration but you'd be wrong because they can't?
They were written for the publicly stated purpose of protecting copyright holders. If this story is true, then those copyright holders know that they actually benefit from piracy, as common sense would expect. In that situation, it's apparent that the media industries would have ulterior motives for such legislation. The most obvious such motive would be to concentrate all distribution control with themselves and killing of pesky indie distributors by cutting off their only competitive advantage.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a legitimate-sounding excuse to ask Congress to give you complete control of your industry, even if you knew that excuse was invalid?
Not married, huh? My wife makes more than I do, and at any rate both of our paychecks go to the same account. But when we're shopping, I'm the one whipping out a debit card. When I take her to lunch, she genuinely thanks me for buying her meal. From our shared account. Mostly from her salary.
The "husband pays" stereotype is nearly perfectly accurate in my home, even if the behind-the-scenes particulars are quite a bit different.
Um, if pf.conf so bad?:-D Seriously, I just edit it with vim. It's the easiest firewall system I've dealt with.
Oh, I also got nailed by the old nat and rdr rules having an implicit "quick" and I had "block all" at the end of the file. The new syntax rules with pass aren't automatically quick, so I had to rearrange the rules a little.
Ugh. I went through the OpenBSD 4.7 upgrade torture test last weekend. For those who don't know what we're talking about, the firewall config file syntax change in a backward-incompatible way between OpenBSD 4.6 and 4.7. It wasn't possible to boot into the new system without largely rewriting the file, which is kinda inconvenient when the machine in question is your primary firewall.
It was a good upgrade and I like the new version better, but it wasn't exactly painless.
Simple test. Ask iPhone users about a component in their phone ("What kind of processor is in that?") See what they say.
I minored in hardware design and did my senior thesis on interfacing an embedded controller with some gadgets I'd created, then writing the software (in assembler) to poll the device and send the results up to a server. I don't have the foggiest idea which CPU is in my iPhone and I couldn't care less. It's not like the CPU was a differentiating factor when I bought it; the only options were amount of flash storage and the case's color.
I can tell you the model number of the CPU in my home server that I built from a collection of carefully-ordered parts because I chose it based on a bunch of factors (cores; cache size; clock speed; etc.). My iPhone? It has... the iPhone CPU, whatever that is.
So, you are more confident in a consumer-level blackbox made by a company with whom you lack an ongoing buisness relationship, than something you made yourself?
In this specific case, I am. I am more confident that Apple's shiny, proprietary backup program will play nicely with Apple's shiny, proprietary backup hardware than I am that I can convince the former that my home fileserver really is the latter.
Because it's easier trying to get the corporation to pay a sales tax then going after their own citizens for not paying the use tax.
Define "easier". I'd be more sympathetic to CA (although utterly still against their unconstitutional plan) if part of their plan 1) budgeted for a network service that reported how much to tax a given purchase delivered to a given address, and 2) provided free access to the service. Even if their fundraising scheme was legal, it's insanity to require every individual retailer to calculate this information separately and be on the hook for getting the numbers right. Want to rake in that unearned tax money? Better be prepared to provide the infrastructure needed to collect it.
On my FreeBSD servers, I have pools of large HDDs with SSDs as a L2 cache in front of them, so the workload balancing is transparent and automatic. Esoteric server FSes FTW.
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You misread that. If you treat Google+ itself as an API and Twitter itself as an API, you can implement all the functionality of Twitter with components of Google+. However, Google+ has features that can't be implemented with components of Twitter as of today.
If you look at Google+ and Twitter as APIs, then you can implement Twitter using the Google+ API but not the reverse. That doesn't mean things can't change, but I bet a few Twitter project managers have been sleepless lately.
"They're evil hackers!" didn't seem to stick. The public laughed off "they're terrorists!" Now the powers that be are hoping "they're communists!" will sway public sentiment? That's so... cold war. Who's afraid of the KGB these days?
I'm surprised they didn't go straight for "they sell kiddie porn". That would achieve the desired bloodlust a lot more quickly.
He's the first billionaire in the family. As far as I know, his father was a paltry multi-millionaire.
Then don't post "gay circle" stuff to your "church circle" friends.
they should look at their LOCAL database of do-not-track ip addrs
So I need to opt out of tracking at home. And at work (blocking other people sharing the same outbound NAT who want to be tracked for some odd reason, possibly involving incentive programs). And at the coffee shop. And in motels. And in libraries. And every time my DHCP lease changes. Basically, every IP I'll ever occupy - however temporarily - I'll need to re-opt-out from.
so, unless I'm missing something
Yes, I think you're missing something.
How about: Still have monkey bars, but put down wood chips under it instead of tarmac? Let kids get hurt, but design it so it won't crack skulls wide open?
Read the article. Seriously. They covered that:
Neither nibble of 0x20 can be in [a-f], obviously. Also, the first nibble in each byte can't be in [a-f] because it's ASCII. Out of the remaining 32 candidate nibbles, you'd expect about 6/16ths (12) of them to be in [a-f], but only 5 are.
We're onto you, g0bshiTe. We know you're a Decimist, and we'll be watching.
Well done, Consumer. You've collected five Obedience Points and here is your (non-transferable) Good Boy Treat.
<rant class="off-topic">You mean the standard iPhone earbuds with control buttons that short out at the slightest hint of moisture so that songs start randomly skipping around and pausing while I'm mowing the yard because it's 110 freakin' degrees here and I sweat while working outside and you'd think something marketed with images of active people doing stuff outdoors would be able to handle a little perspiration but you'd be wrong because they can't?
Those ones?<rant>
Sony performs some not-quite-standard tricks
As far as I can tell, that sentence is always true regardless of the subject.
How are the laws unjust?
They were written for the publicly stated purpose of protecting copyright holders. If this story is true, then those copyright holders know that they actually benefit from piracy, as common sense would expect. In that situation, it's apparent that the media industries would have ulterior motives for such legislation. The most obvious such motive would be to concentrate all distribution control with themselves and killing of pesky indie distributors by cutting off their only competitive advantage.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a legitimate-sounding excuse to ask Congress to give you complete control of your industry, even if you knew that excuse was invalid?
Not married, huh? My wife makes more than I do, and at any rate both of our paychecks go to the same account. But when we're shopping, I'm the one whipping out a debit card. When I take her to lunch, she genuinely thanks me for buying her meal. From our shared account. Mostly from her salary.
The "husband pays" stereotype is nearly perfectly accurate in my home, even if the behind-the-scenes particulars are quite a bit different.
Stop bastardizing the SI prefixes. Terra is the prefix
The irony: it is strong with this one.
I'm not sure whether to be impressed or horrified.
Um, if pf.conf so bad? :-D Seriously, I just edit it with vim. It's the easiest firewall system I've dealt with.
Oh, I also got nailed by the old nat and rdr rules having an implicit "quick" and I had "block all" at the end of the file. The new syntax rules with pass aren't automatically quick, so I had to rearrange the rules a little.
Ugh. I went through the OpenBSD 4.7 upgrade torture test last weekend. For those who don't know what we're talking about, the firewall config file syntax change in a backward-incompatible way between OpenBSD 4.6 and 4.7. It wasn't possible to boot into the new system without largely rewriting the file, which is kinda inconvenient when the machine in question is your primary firewall.
It was a good upgrade and I like the new version better, but it wasn't exactly painless.
This level of civility and willingness to admit mistakes will not be tolerated here. You've been warned.
Simple test. Ask iPhone users about a component in their phone ("What kind of processor is in that?") See what they say.
I minored in hardware design and did my senior thesis on interfacing an embedded controller with some gadgets I'd created, then writing the software (in assembler) to poll the device and send the results up to a server. I don't have the foggiest idea which CPU is in my iPhone and I couldn't care less. It's not like the CPU was a differentiating factor when I bought it; the only options were amount of flash storage and the case's color.
I can tell you the model number of the CPU in my home server that I built from a collection of carefully-ordered parts because I chose it based on a bunch of factors (cores; cache size; clock speed; etc.). My iPhone? It has... the iPhone CPU, whatever that is.
So, you are more confident in a consumer-level blackbox made by a company with whom you lack an ongoing buisness relationship, than something you made yourself?
In this specific case, I am. I am more confident that Apple's shiny, proprietary backup program will play nicely with Apple's shiny, proprietary backup hardware than I am that I can convince the former that my home fileserver really is the latter.
They see sales tax as a rule that does not apply to them.
If they're complying with a law that says it doesn't apply to them, then it doesn't.
Because it's easier trying to get the corporation to pay a sales tax then going after their own citizens for not paying the use tax.
Define "easier". I'd be more sympathetic to CA (although utterly still against their unconstitutional plan) if part of their plan 1) budgeted for a network service that reported how much to tax a given purchase delivered to a given address, and 2) provided free access to the service. Even if their fundraising scheme was legal, it's insanity to require every individual retailer to calculate this information separately and be on the hook for getting the numbers right. Want to rake in that unearned tax money? Better be prepared to provide the infrastructure needed to collect it.
On my FreeBSD servers, I have pools of large HDDs with SSDs as a L2 cache in front of them, so the workload balancing is transparent and automatic. Esoteric server FSes FTW.
On its way!
It should be on its way.