Well, considering how many people in the US still think we're the best at absolutely everything, it's not that hard to believe.
It's a lot easier to believe reports that your country is doing well when you own a house, have a decent car and a good job, and already have eaten one meal this morning with the almost certainty of having two more later in the day.
There are a lot of others, too. I follow quite a few software authors to hear about problems they've found or new releases. "Found a glitch when posting to Reddit" or "Apple just approved version 2.4.1!" don't deserve replies.
I never retweet famous people or software authors. I figure that if you wanted to hear Conan O'Brien's latest quip, you'd follow him. If you don't own a copy of OmniFocus, then you won't care about a new version. While I don't ignore those tweets, I have no incentive to pass them along so I don't.
So you might be wondering what the original research that Mann did cost the university? Answer: under $500,000. So with this latest round of litigation, the Attorney General -- who is championing this effort under the guise of protecting tax payer dollars -- will force the state of Virginia to pay up again.
I have to disagree with your logic. OK, so the Slashdot consensus is that Mann is on the right side of things and this is a witch hunt. Suppose that he wasn't, though. Should the AG ignore the matter just because it might be expensive to prosecute or defend against? And what if there was a hive of scum and villainy that the AG was trying to browbeat into legality by setting an example against one particular actor - surely that's justifiable up to a point?
Don't interpret this to mean that I'm supporting the AG, because I'm not. I just don't think you can use "it's expensive" as a reason not to enforce the law, if in fact that was actually the AG's goal.
Fits the profile of someone you want to keep an eye on pretty well, actually.
What: having a dad and brothers is bad? David Kaczynski turned in his brother, the Unabomber; should he also be on a watch list for having suspicious relatives?
The sad part is while this would probably kill most OSX sales
Out of all the Mac users I currently know, not one of them is a likely Photoshop user. I don't doubt that there are plenty of graphic artists that would migrate off of OS X if PS was no longer available for it, but I don't think you appreciate how many non-artists use Macs these days.
It can't possibly be worse. We've all heard a thousand times how wonderful and "standard" Photoshop is, but have you ever actually used it? I had the occasion to recently, and it was horrible. Just absolutely terrible in every way. It seemed as though the sole interface guideline was "don't do anything like any other program a customer might have ever used, and make it slow and unresponsive while you're at it". Is no one at Adobe aware that OS-native windowing toolkits come with a lot of widgets these days, and it might be a nice idea to use some of them?
Frankly, a Silverlight Photoshop would probably be a vast improvement over the current state of affairs.
"I know! I'll run off and register up.kp for my new service! Surely Kim Jong-* won't mind if I toss out some links to starvation in the People's Democratic Republic of Nutjobs!"
Seriously? It seemed like a good idea to set up a business in the gTLD a country widely known for religious extremity, full well knowing that your business would never be physically tolerated, and that it can be shut down by clicking a checkbox without even having to call in police and bulldozers?
And perhaps I'd care more if this wasn't a stupid kind of business to be running in the first place. The "product" is useless outside Twitter and it adds an unnecessary single point of failure (homed in freaking LIBYA!) to an otherwise robust Internet. Well, you rolls the dice and you takes your chances.
Because it's physically impossible for the union boss / supervisor / Godfather / policeman to stand in the voting booth with you while you vote against their interests. It's very easy for those same people to set up a voting computer in their office so they and their assistants can "help" you vote exactly like they want you to.
Add to this another set of laws formed by a radical feminist basically assuming any image of a female that you can't prove is of someone over the age of consent (16) is an image of a child (this includes cached images that may be advertisments that you never intended to view).
Wow. I hadn't thought of that before. Consider that until about 2 months ago, Chrome's version of AdBlock downloaded everything on a page and hid the parts you didn't want to see. If that's your browser setup, then it's statistically certain that you have downloaded (and presumably cached) images that you have never seen.
Right now, at this moment, it is very possible that you have child porn or other illegal content in your browser's cache, and that those images have never once been displayed on your monitor. If the cops seized your computer for utterly non-related reasons - maybe the RIAA managed to convince a judge to issue a warrant for an MP3 - then forensic software would find your hidden stash of child porn that you never knew about, saw, requested, or had any reason to be aware of.
Do you need to print to your printer from anywhere on the internet?
Sure do! I'm not a heavy printer user by any means, but I love the fact that I can send jobs to my home printer from the office or while roaming around with my laptop. Say I'm sitting in a coffee shop and buy airline tickets. I could save the etickets as a PDF and then either email it to myself or remember to print it whenever I open my laptop at home, or I can just hit "print" and know they'll be sitting there for me later without having to remind myself.
So yes, personally, I like having the option to send stuff anywhere, any time, to my home printer. If I can do it securely, why not?
I have unsubscribe from Slashdot today due to the trend typified in your article VS the one published. (No this is not a new trend, but I'm fed up and finished with it.) See you on Reddit's Science/Linux/Everything else
You read Slashdot via RSS? No wonder you don't like it. See, the thing is that we all know the stories suck. Furthermore, they've always sucked. There's isn't some Golden Age of Slashdot when the editors edited and the headlines matched the summary which matched the linked article. The point of Slashdot isn't in the news but in the discussions that follow. I promise you that I've learned far more by listening to subject matter experts who disagree to the death with each other and expound on why the other person's solution is clearly inferior to their own than I ever have by reading the article. Did you think all those "What?!? Read the article?!? Read the summary?!?" comments were jokes?
If all you want to do is catch an interesting headline and a paragraph about something cool, look elsewhere. If you want to hear the behind-the-scenes stories and talk directly to computer scientists and particle physicists and lawyers and doctors and farmers and mechanics about their favorite fields, then you're in the right place.
I can't believe this story's been up for nearly two hours and no one's rushed in to explain that these are one kibibyte demos, thus depriving us of our right to make fun of them and their dumb-sounding pet units.
Instead it's just another protocol with bad interoperability between V4 and V6. If I'm a V6 client I can't talk to a V4 server without some ugly "help". So how do they expect to move every one to V6 if it can't be done gradually ?
If only every OS sold in the last 5 years came out of the box with the capability of connecting to IPv4 and IPv6 networks at the same time so you could begin using IPv6 services as the DNS records for them became available. Boy, how convenient that would have been!
I'm sorry, but I have a hard time not being sarcastic when people keep trotting out that same dumb argument. Every host I use at home and work is dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 and I have none of the hypothetical problems that people keep inventing to panic over.
I was thinking recently that we were lucky that most of the ecosphere-killing events in our history were astoundingly long ago and that our local space should be pretty clear by now. And then I realized that the dinosaur extinction event that happened 65 million years ago took place when the Earth was about 98.6% as old as it is now. If the Earth was now a day old, the dinosaurs were wiped out at 11:40PM. Suddenly those past catastrophes seemed not as comfortingly ancient.
It's really handy when you have a folder full of client URL's and you need to check them on multiple browsers and operating systems.
If only there was some mechanism by which your browser could home in on a certain page of links when you started it. Bonus points if the mechanism provides an animated image reminding you and the other people who stopped on by to log into it that it's under construction.
Depends on if you pronounce zebra with a long "e", as is the typical American pronunciation, or if you pronounce it with a short "e" as is typical in other places.
Other... places? Sorry, I'm still recovering from the exclamations! in an earlier post.
Builds that take half an hour just to "configure", checking for the existence of things like strcpy(), but anyway fail at compile or link time because a missing symbol in an upgraded dynamic library?
Is there ever a situation in which configure couldn't cache the "yes" answers and reuse them between programs? That's what I find most frustrating about autoconf.
I can understand not caching "no" answers long-term. For example, you try to configure package Foo and find that it depends on package Bar. Once you've installed Bar, you don't want configure to remember that Bar wasn't installed last time.
However, once "checking for bar.h... yes" comes up, is there ever a situation (short of uninstalling Bar) when you don't want that answer to be cached? I could happily imagine a case where configure always uses a specific host-wide cache file by default. Add some logic to "pkg_delete" or "aptitude remove" to delete that cache file so that removing an installed package would invalidated the cache, but otherwise leave it intact. Is there a corner case that could cause problems with this arrangement? On the FreeBSD systems I administer, I'd be willing to bet that half the time spent in a typical software upgrade is spent waiting for configure to decide if stdlib.h is still installed.
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Well, considering how many people in the US still think we're the best at absolutely everything, it's not that hard to believe.
It's a lot easier to believe reports that your country is doing well when you own a house, have a decent car and a good job, and already have eaten one meal this morning with the almost certainty of having two more later in the day.
I registered bit.kp for use as a URL shortener, in honor of Kim Jong-il's adorable short stature. What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, crap. They just repossessed it. I better go blog about this!
There are a lot of others, too. I follow quite a few software authors to hear about problems they've found or new releases. "Found a glitch when posting to Reddit" or "Apple just approved version 2.4.1!" don't deserve replies.
I never retweet famous people or software authors. I figure that if you wanted to hear Conan O'Brien's latest quip, you'd follow him. If you don't own a copy of OmniFocus, then you won't care about a new version. While I don't ignore those tweets, I have no incentive to pass them along so I don't.
So you might be wondering what the original research that Mann did cost the university? Answer: under $500,000. So with this latest round of litigation, the Attorney General -- who is championing this effort under the guise of protecting tax payer dollars -- will force the state of Virginia to pay up again.
I have to disagree with your logic. OK, so the Slashdot consensus is that Mann is on the right side of things and this is a witch hunt. Suppose that he wasn't, though. Should the AG ignore the matter just because it might be expensive to prosecute or defend against? And what if there was a hive of scum and villainy that the AG was trying to browbeat into legality by setting an example against one particular actor - surely that's justifiable up to a point?
Don't interpret this to mean that I'm supporting the AG, because I'm not. I just don't think you can use "it's expensive" as a reason not to enforce the law, if in fact that was actually the AG's goal.
Fits the profile of someone you want to keep an eye on pretty well, actually.
What: having a dad and brothers is bad? David Kaczynski turned in his brother, the Unabomber; should he also be on a watch list for having suspicious relatives?
The sad part is while this would probably kill most OSX sales
Out of all the Mac users I currently know, not one of them is a likely Photoshop user. I don't doubt that there are plenty of graphic artists that would migrate off of OS X if PS was no longer available for it, but I don't think you appreciate how many non-artists use Macs these days.
I wouldn't want to be the one to get Ballmer's furniture out of the walls of the meeting room . . .
There's a lot to be said for job security in this economy.
Enjoy your new all Silverlight Photoshop.
It can't possibly be worse. We've all heard a thousand times how wonderful and "standard" Photoshop is, but have you ever actually used it? I had the occasion to recently, and it was horrible. Just absolutely terrible in every way. It seemed as though the sole interface guideline was "don't do anything like any other program a customer might have ever used, and make it slow and unresponsive while you're at it". Is no one at Adobe aware that OS-native windowing toolkits come with a lot of widgets these days, and it might be a nice idea to use some of them?
Frankly, a Silverlight Photoshop would probably be a vast improvement over the current state of affairs.
Note that if [ $TARGET = "cp" ], you'll have some explaining to do at this point.
"I know! I'll run off and register up.kp for my new service! Surely Kim Jong-* won't mind if I toss out some links to starvation in the People's Democratic Republic of Nutjobs!"
Seriously? It seemed like a good idea to set up a business in the gTLD a country widely known for religious extremity, full well knowing that your business would never be physically tolerated, and that it can be shut down by clicking a checkbox without even having to call in police and bulldozers?
And perhaps I'd care more if this wasn't a stupid kind of business to be running in the first place. The "product" is useless outside Twitter and it adds an unnecessary single point of failure (homed in freaking LIBYA!) to an otherwise robust Internet. Well, you rolls the dice and you takes your chances.
Why is voting so different?
Because it's physically impossible for the union boss / supervisor / Godfather / policeman to stand in the voting booth with you while you vote against their interests. It's very easy for those same people to set up a voting computer in their office so they and their assistants can "help" you vote exactly like they want you to.
16 weeks is better than 16 years
But it's a hell of a lot worse than 16 seconds. Did you have a point?
Add to this another set of laws formed by a radical feminist basically assuming any image of a female that you can't prove is of someone over the age of consent (16) is an image of a child (this includes cached images that may be advertisments that you never intended to view).
Wow. I hadn't thought of that before. Consider that until about 2 months ago, Chrome's version of AdBlock downloaded everything on a page and hid the parts you didn't want to see. If that's your browser setup, then it's statistically certain that you have downloaded (and presumably cached) images that you have never seen.
Right now, at this moment, it is very possible that you have child porn or other illegal content in your browser's cache, and that those images have never once been displayed on your monitor. If the cops seized your computer for utterly non-related reasons - maybe the RIAA managed to convince a judge to issue a warrant for an MP3 - then forensic software would find your hidden stash of child porn that you never knew about, saw, requested, or had any reason to be aware of.
Have a nice day!
Do you need to print to your printer from anywhere on the internet?
Sure do! I'm not a heavy printer user by any means, but I love the fact that I can send jobs to my home printer from the office or while roaming around with my laptop. Say I'm sitting in a coffee shop and buy airline tickets. I could save the etickets as a PDF and then either email it to myself or remember to print it whenever I open my laptop at home, or I can just hit "print" and know they'll be sitting there for me later without having to remind myself.
So yes, personally, I like having the option to send stuff anywhere, any time, to my home printer. If I can do it securely, why not?
I have unsubscribe from Slashdot today due to the trend typified in your article VS the one published. (No this is not a new trend, but I'm fed up and finished with it.) See you on Reddit's Science/Linux/Everything else
You read Slashdot via RSS? No wonder you don't like it. See, the thing is that we all know the stories suck. Furthermore, they've always sucked. There's isn't some Golden Age of Slashdot when the editors edited and the headlines matched the summary which matched the linked article. The point of Slashdot isn't in the news but in the discussions that follow. I promise you that I've learned far more by listening to subject matter experts who disagree to the death with each other and expound on why the other person's solution is clearly inferior to their own than I ever have by reading the article. Did you think all those "What?!? Read the article?!? Read the summary?!?" comments were jokes?
If all you want to do is catch an interesting headline and a paragraph about something cool, look elsewhere. If you want to hear the behind-the-scenes stories and talk directly to computer scientists and particle physicists and lawyers and doctors and farmers and mechanics about their favorite fields, then you're in the right place.
Oh, so I'm not the only one still using a RAZR?
Me: Call. Home.
Phone: Did you say... call Kazakhstan?
Me: CALL MY HOUSE YOU STUPID PIECE OF CRAP!
Phone: Insurance agent... calling.
You've got a disk which can store decompressed 1080p in real time?You've got a disk which can store decompressed 1080p in real time?
It's my understanding that many new-fangled media devices have "pause" buttons that would enable you to break the task into manageable chunks.
I can't believe this story's been up for nearly two hours and no one's rushed in to explain that these are one kibibyte demos, thus depriving us of our right to make fun of them and their dumb-sounding pet units.
Instead it's just another protocol with bad interoperability between V4 and V6. If I'm a V6 client I can't talk to a V4 server without some ugly "help". So how do they expect to move every one to V6 if it can't be done gradually ?
If only every OS sold in the last 5 years came out of the box with the capability of connecting to IPv4 and IPv6 networks at the same time so you could begin using IPv6 services as the DNS records for them became available. Boy, how convenient that would have been!
I'm sorry, but I have a hard time not being sarcastic when people keep trotting out that same dumb argument. Every host I use at home and work is dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 and I have none of the hypothetical problems that people keep inventing to panic over.
Yeah, because I don't want anyone pinging the 2^64 addresses in my home netblock to see which ones reply.
I was thinking recently that we were lucky that most of the ecosphere-killing events in our history were astoundingly long ago and that our local space should be pretty clear by now. And then I realized that the dinosaur extinction event that happened 65 million years ago took place when the Earth was about 98.6% as old as it is now. If the Earth was now a day old, the dinosaurs were wiped out at 11:40PM. Suddenly those past catastrophes seemed not as comfortingly ancient.
It's really handy when you have a folder full of client URL's and you need to check them on multiple browsers and operating systems.
If only there was some mechanism by which your browser could home in on a certain page of links when you started it. Bonus points if the mechanism provides an animated image reminding you and the other people who stopped on by to log into it that it's under construction.
Depends on if you pronounce zebra with a long "e", as is the typical American pronunciation, or if you pronounce it with a short "e" as is typical in other places.
Other... places? Sorry, I'm still recovering from the exclamations! in an earlier post.
Good God! That exhausted my emphasis neurotransmitters! And now I have to stare at a mauve wall for a while until I'm recharged!
Builds that take half an hour just to "configure", checking for the existence of things like strcpy(), but anyway fail at compile or link time because a missing symbol in an upgraded dynamic library?
Is there ever a situation in which configure couldn't cache the "yes" answers and reuse them between programs? That's what I find most frustrating about autoconf.
I can understand not caching "no" answers long-term. For example, you try to configure package Foo and find that it depends on package Bar. Once you've installed Bar, you don't want configure to remember that Bar wasn't installed last time.
However, once "checking for bar.h... yes" comes up, is there ever a situation (short of uninstalling Bar) when you don't want that answer to be cached? I could happily imagine a case where configure always uses a specific host-wide cache file by default. Add some logic to "pkg_delete" or "aptitude remove" to delete that cache file so that removing an installed package would invalidated the cache, but otherwise leave it intact. Is there a corner case that could cause problems with this arrangement? On the FreeBSD systems I administer, I'd be willing to bet that half the time spent in a typical software upgrade is spent waiting for configure to decide if stdlib.h is still installed.