There is a difference between restricting free speech and committing a crime. Yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater when there is no danger is not free speech. Likewise, denying horrific acts for the sole purpose of inciting hate is not free speech but a crime.
And before requesting that someone does a sexual act on themselves you should be happy that there are still many Germans who do not forget. How easy would it be for many today to claim they had nothing to do with the Holocaust because they were not even born when it happened? I was born decades after the Holocaust and I see it as my duty to not only set the record straight as you request, but go beyond that and actively engage (neo)nazis and holocaust deniers. Back in the 30s the generation of my grandparents totally missed doing that (with too few exceptions). Will it fix what happened? It surely does not, but we can at least try our hardest to not have anything like that ever happen again. I wish others had that sense of collective guilt.
One could see it that way, but which other religious group was faced with such an atrocity in the history of mankind? None I can think of. Sadly, the holocaust did nothing to change the minds of many about Jewish people, in many areas and regions they are as baselessly hated as they were by the Nazis. To this day even nation-states have on their agenda to eliminate Israel and Jewish people, and before and after the Holocaust many have tried. I don't think that Israel shamelessly exploits this in any way, they have all the right to protect the existence of their people. That said, they do not always extend that same right to some of their neighbors.
I always send a complaint to the FCC each time the SuperBowl is on TV. What else is that than glorified violence paired with explicitly sexual public display (aka cheer leaders)? So far I never received a response. Same when I complain about boxing or ice hockey (as if there is a difference!). But oh jolly if a bare breast is on TV for a total of 0.032 seconds, all FCC hell breaks lose. Since then US live TV is on 5 second delay, just like in open and forward thinking countries as Saudi-Arabia or Qatar.
Dear Mozillas!
Stop being so ridiculously arrogant and just once listen to what your users want.
- stop changing the UI and fix it by rolling back to how it was before version 4 when there actually was a UI
- start fixing the gazillion memory leaks that make Firefox be a resource hog and unstable
- focus on what users request rather than what you lead developers need to boost their egos
- stop aping Chrome, if we'd want to use Chrome we would just do that
Otherwise, wait another year and then you can do whatever you want because Firefox user share is then at 0.0003% and the world stopped caring.
"although modern handguns were not in common use at the time of enactment of the Second Amendment, their basic function has not changed"
The principle stayed the same, but modern guns shoot more than one round, and those much faster, and with tremendously better accuracy than the hand crafted muskets that the settlers used to ward off a bear once in a while or a Native more frequently.
Back then there was only small city life with incomes roughly the same for most and not as much of a multitude more for the rich folks. The entire socio-economic fabric of the US is vastly different than it was 200 years ago paired with incredible (and very deadly) advances in firearm tech.
So whoever claims that because the basic principle did not change we do not have to ditch a 200 year old law that only generates death and devastation is either blind, dumb, or a triggerhappy moron.
Repeal the Second Amendment...or how many more innocent people have to get shot by 'legal' guns????
"lack of compatibility between the proprietary and the open source systems"
There are two key points to be taken here:
- governments big and small have to opt for open, free document formats that are not created by a megacompany like Microsoft. OOXML is the most convoluted and ridiculously complicated office file format ever invented, so bad that even the inventors (Microsoft) cannot make software that fully complies with that standard.
- OOo (although who still uses that?) and LO need to have much better MSO file support. The issue here is that I could submit plenty of samples to the LO folks, but I fail to find any avenue to get an NDA from them because most of my samples are business docs that I would need to spend hours on to sanitize before submitting. At that point I have to throw the towel in.
Most sites require 2345234 different CDNs and other sources for their comment section to work. By the time you allowed those all in NoScript you forgot what you wanted to comment and then abandon the site.
Yes, managing comments is a tough task, but I fail to see how that is any better on FB or other social media garbage blasters. I abandoned those sites because there was 99.9% stuff that I really don't care about. Finding the neat bits within the "I'm on the toilet now" and "I just had a big fat fart" posts is just as difficult. The only difference is that the mods do not have to bother with that, that responsibility is pushed to the readers.
I like comments and especially/. which for the most part consist of comments...if I could just figure out how the voting system works here and what the heck I am supposed to do with my five moderator points.
It is a 2002 Rio with 55000 miles....I never go anywhere. You might need to vacuum the floor mats....
The most advanced tech in that car is the fuel injection, the digital odometer and the FM radio. It is a stick shift, has cranks for the windows, no central locking, and none of that hackable entertainment and computer crap in it. It will be a sad day when I have to let go of it. Maybe I should take the bus instead then....
Supposedly KB3081438 fixes this, but that patch fails to install with the exact same problem. I guess we have to wait for the patch that fixes the patch that fixes the patch...or just ditch Win 10 until it is out of alpha stage....even beta software performs better.
Browsing the web, watching videos, and playing games are the most common uses for smartphones followed by non-voice based communication. That dropped call might be annoying, but it appears to be only a problem for a small number of users. So why bother?
If Facebook was really as forward thinking and revolutionary in any kind they would have kept that young fella and offered him a permanent position on the security team. Punishing people for such actions is just old style HR policy. Sure, he should have gone about it differently maybe, as in not making it a publicly available tool, but the core of the issue is that he found a significant vulnerability on his own.
It is just too typical that folks get punished for a job well done, either by firing them, giving them more work, or promoting them to a management position where they waste their talent on annual reviews, budget planning, and singing kumbayah at management retreats.
Netflix has a lousy library...at least for my taste. They have almost no international content and they really lost my interest when they did away with mailing DVDs.
I don't mind paying for quality content. I do mind paying for quality content packaged in with tons of junk. I cut back the package that I used to have even if that meant losing a few channels I liked. There were just too many craptastic channels in that bigger package that I no longer wanted to pay for.
I understand that service providers buy the content in packages. So if they want channels A and B they also have to carry the right-wing propaganda news channel and the three shopping channels. I wouldn't mind that if I could block those channels effectively and if the packages were not so ridiculously expensive. Technically it is not a problem to have a pick and choose option, but that would be the end to shopping channels.
The other issue are the ridiculous fees. There I like to see government to step in and end this. I pay a 'local sports fee' that supposedly pays for a channel that shows one or two high school basketball games per month. Seriously? And then all the other fees that even the provider cannot explain. It should further be allowed to buy your own equipment. Most cable boxes are between 40 to 60 bucks street price...so why do we have to pay rental fees? Likewise with sat companies, they insist on providing the equipment which is of dismal quality. In Europe you can buy your own sat equipment and receive hundreds of channels in top quality for free. Too bad that model was not introduced in the US, we would be watching in entirely different ways.
I agree to some extent, but from my experience it is customers who have ZERO upfront interest in security and quality and ABSOLUTELY NO interest in paying for it. Working in the software industry for 20 years now I am still baffled that in all the projects and sales I ever was involved only once a customer asked to see the test plans and test results. Customers should ask for that each time they sign a contract to purchase software licenses. In return they need to sign an NDA. That disclosure should only be limited to functional tests, not any tests for the licensing engine or vendor-only configuration.
As far as WSUS goes, it is the worst software Microsoft ever released. It is a pain to configure, a pain to use, it is dog slow, and most of the time it just does not work. We used it for a while to maintain 80 systems and then threw it away, it is much faster to download the small updates on each box and grab the big updates as redistributables.
Shooting the messenger was always easy. I wonder why the RIAA does not drag USPS, UPS, FedEx, or DHL to court. After all, they 'distribute' plenty of copyrighted material.
While I get your point you err in one: the bombing were pointless in regards to Japanese defeat. The bombings took only place to make a point to the Soviets.
The common cause was not "stop Hitler, defeat the Japanese". While that may have been a cause initially, Hitler was already history and the Japanese offered surrender several times, but accepting it was dragged out by the US because Japan was the only enemy left in the war that could be nuked without fear of retribution. The sole purpose in the end was not to defeat Japan, but to demonstrate to the Soviets that the US has a big, deadly weapon...and not just one, but two and that they work. The hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese civilians paid with their lives just so that the US could make a point!
Sadly, neither the US government nor many other governments have learned a single thing from this sheer insanity.
The Reps bend over backwards to cut even the little bit of public funding left that goes to PBS and then complain that PBS goes in with big corp for pushing a questionable agenda. Restore and increase public funding for PBS with NO STRINGS ATTACHED and get some real decent and independent programming....or stop whining. All the Reps can do is say no to everything and then complain that nothing works right. How about a constructive proposal once in a while? But that would require them to look at facts and think rather than blurt out right-wing tea bagger populist bar talk.
Parliaments pay attention to those who write the biggest checks. Research labs rarely do that unless they are convinced that their 'research' will gain a lot of commercial success and they just need the tax payer for initial funding rather than go through the trouble of seeking private investment.
So why do we see the exact same flaws and shortcomings in Edge as we did in IE11? Are we made to believe that Microsoft's developers were utterly inept twice in a row? I think it is more than the IE rendering engine got all the backwards compatibility removed but otherwise did not change by much. Even worse, simple JS that works in IE11 fails on Edge.
Return to sender.....
Fact is, users do not value quality. Even if a dinky app crashes five times during a ten minute period they will continue using it if it suits their needs. Do users like the app to crash less often or not at all? Sure!! Do they want to wait on features or even pay up for better quality? Hells no!
I work as quality assurance specialist (aka tester) and while we testers have user satisfaction as main goal in mind it is incredibly frustrating to inject quality during the design phase and keep quality up during development. Main problem: businesses and organizations do not value software quality, even if it is totally obvious that better quality is good for success and that spending a wee bit more time on quality before release will effectively reduce much bigger cost later, be it technical, financial, or ideally. Many books, papers, blogs, and posts have been written about this and as soon as this reaches decision makers it falls on deaf ears. Doing software QA is the most frustrating job in IT! Nevertheless, I still like it.
I am not a developer, but if a few days after release are enough to find such a significant bug then it makes me wonder which quality processes Microsoft has in place and if anyone in Redmond even bothers using their own stuff for at least some test projects.
So what's the plan for software companies these days? Fire everyone in quality assurance and hire more project managers who set arbitrary release dates and force rushed releases? Oh yay!
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There is a difference between restricting free speech and committing a crime. Yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater when there is no danger is not free speech. Likewise, denying horrific acts for the sole purpose of inciting hate is not free speech but a crime. And before requesting that someone does a sexual act on themselves you should be happy that there are still many Germans who do not forget. How easy would it be for many today to claim they had nothing to do with the Holocaust because they were not even born when it happened? I was born decades after the Holocaust and I see it as my duty to not only set the record straight as you request, but go beyond that and actively engage (neo)nazis and holocaust deniers. Back in the 30s the generation of my grandparents totally missed doing that (with too few exceptions). Will it fix what happened? It surely does not, but we can at least try our hardest to not have anything like that ever happen again. I wish others had that sense of collective guilt.
One could see it that way, but which other religious group was faced with such an atrocity in the history of mankind? None I can think of. Sadly, the holocaust did nothing to change the minds of many about Jewish people, in many areas and regions they are as baselessly hated as they were by the Nazis. To this day even nation-states have on their agenda to eliminate Israel and Jewish people, and before and after the Holocaust many have tried. I don't think that Israel shamelessly exploits this in any way, they have all the right to protect the existence of their people. That said, they do not always extend that same right to some of their neighbors.
I always send a complaint to the FCC each time the SuperBowl is on TV. What else is that than glorified violence paired with explicitly sexual public display (aka cheer leaders)? So far I never received a response. Same when I complain about boxing or ice hockey (as if there is a difference!). But oh jolly if a bare breast is on TV for a total of 0.032 seconds, all FCC hell breaks lose. Since then US live TV is on 5 second delay, just like in open and forward thinking countries as Saudi-Arabia or Qatar.
Dear Mozillas! Stop being so ridiculously arrogant and just once listen to what your users want. - stop changing the UI and fix it by rolling back to how it was before version 4 when there actually was a UI - start fixing the gazillion memory leaks that make Firefox be a resource hog and unstable - focus on what users request rather than what you lead developers need to boost their egos - stop aping Chrome, if we'd want to use Chrome we would just do that Otherwise, wait another year and then you can do whatever you want because Firefox user share is then at 0.0003% and the world stopped caring.
"although modern handguns were not in common use at the time of enactment of the Second Amendment, their basic function has not changed" The principle stayed the same, but modern guns shoot more than one round, and those much faster, and with tremendously better accuracy than the hand crafted muskets that the settlers used to ward off a bear once in a while or a Native more frequently. Back then there was only small city life with incomes roughly the same for most and not as much of a multitude more for the rich folks. The entire socio-economic fabric of the US is vastly different than it was 200 years ago paired with incredible (and very deadly) advances in firearm tech. So whoever claims that because the basic principle did not change we do not have to ditch a 200 year old law that only generates death and devastation is either blind, dumb, or a triggerhappy moron. Repeal the Second Amendment...or how many more innocent people have to get shot by 'legal' guns????
Newspaper is called "Die Welt", OP should fix that in the article.
"lack of compatibility between the proprietary and the open source systems" There are two key points to be taken here: - governments big and small have to opt for open, free document formats that are not created by a megacompany like Microsoft. OOXML is the most convoluted and ridiculously complicated office file format ever invented, so bad that even the inventors (Microsoft) cannot make software that fully complies with that standard. - OOo (although who still uses that?) and LO need to have much better MSO file support. The issue here is that I could submit plenty of samples to the LO folks, but I fail to find any avenue to get an NDA from them because most of my samples are business docs that I would need to spend hours on to sanitize before submitting. At that point I have to throw the towel in.
Most sites require 2345234 different CDNs and other sources for their comment section to work. By the time you allowed those all in NoScript you forgot what you wanted to comment and then abandon the site. Yes, managing comments is a tough task, but I fail to see how that is any better on FB or other social media garbage blasters. I abandoned those sites because there was 99.9% stuff that I really don't care about. Finding the neat bits within the "I'm on the toilet now" and "I just had a big fat fart" posts is just as difficult. The only difference is that the mods do not have to bother with that, that responsibility is pushed to the readers. I like comments and especially /. which for the most part consist of comments...if I could just figure out how the voting system works here and what the heck I am supposed to do with my five moderator points.
It is a 2002 Rio with 55000 miles....I never go anywhere. You might need to vacuum the floor mats.... The most advanced tech in that car is the fuel injection, the digital odometer and the FM radio. It is a stick shift, has cranks for the windows, no central locking, and none of that hackable entertainment and computer crap in it. It will be a sad day when I have to let go of it. Maybe I should take the bus instead then....
Supposedly KB3081438 fixes this, but that patch fails to install with the exact same problem. I guess we have to wait for the patch that fixes the patch that fixes the patch...or just ditch Win 10 until it is out of alpha stage....even beta software performs better.
Browsing the web, watching videos, and playing games are the most common uses for smartphones followed by non-voice based communication. That dropped call might be annoying, but it appears to be only a problem for a small number of users. So why bother?
If Facebook was really as forward thinking and revolutionary in any kind they would have kept that young fella and offered him a permanent position on the security team. Punishing people for such actions is just old style HR policy. Sure, he should have gone about it differently maybe, as in not making it a publicly available tool, but the core of the issue is that he found a significant vulnerability on his own. It is just too typical that folks get punished for a job well done, either by firing them, giving them more work, or promoting them to a management position where they waste their talent on annual reviews, budget planning, and singing kumbayah at management retreats.
Netflix has a lousy library...at least for my taste. They have almost no international content and they really lost my interest when they did away with mailing DVDs.
I don't mind paying for quality content. I do mind paying for quality content packaged in with tons of junk. I cut back the package that I used to have even if that meant losing a few channels I liked. There were just too many craptastic channels in that bigger package that I no longer wanted to pay for. I understand that service providers buy the content in packages. So if they want channels A and B they also have to carry the right-wing propaganda news channel and the three shopping channels. I wouldn't mind that if I could block those channels effectively and if the packages were not so ridiculously expensive. Technically it is not a problem to have a pick and choose option, but that would be the end to shopping channels. The other issue are the ridiculous fees. There I like to see government to step in and end this. I pay a 'local sports fee' that supposedly pays for a channel that shows one or two high school basketball games per month. Seriously? And then all the other fees that even the provider cannot explain. It should further be allowed to buy your own equipment. Most cable boxes are between 40 to 60 bucks street price...so why do we have to pay rental fees? Likewise with sat companies, they insist on providing the equipment which is of dismal quality. In Europe you can buy your own sat equipment and receive hundreds of channels in top quality for free. Too bad that model was not introduced in the US, we would be watching in entirely different ways.
I agree to some extent, but from my experience it is customers who have ZERO upfront interest in security and quality and ABSOLUTELY NO interest in paying for it. Working in the software industry for 20 years now I am still baffled that in all the projects and sales I ever was involved only once a customer asked to see the test plans and test results. Customers should ask for that each time they sign a contract to purchase software licenses. In return they need to sign an NDA. That disclosure should only be limited to functional tests, not any tests for the licensing engine or vendor-only configuration. As far as WSUS goes, it is the worst software Microsoft ever released. It is a pain to configure, a pain to use, it is dog slow, and most of the time it just does not work. We used it for a while to maintain 80 systems and then threw it away, it is much faster to download the small updates on each box and grab the big updates as redistributables.
Shooting the messenger was always easy. I wonder why the RIAA does not drag USPS, UPS, FedEx, or DHL to court. After all, they 'distribute' plenty of copyrighted material.
While I get your point you err in one: the bombing were pointless in regards to Japanese defeat. The bombings took only place to make a point to the Soviets.
The common cause was not "stop Hitler, defeat the Japanese". While that may have been a cause initially, Hitler was already history and the Japanese offered surrender several times, but accepting it was dragged out by the US because Japan was the only enemy left in the war that could be nuked without fear of retribution. The sole purpose in the end was not to defeat Japan, but to demonstrate to the Soviets that the US has a big, deadly weapon...and not just one, but two and that they work. The hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese civilians paid with their lives just so that the US could make a point! Sadly, neither the US government nor many other governments have learned a single thing from this sheer insanity.
So have them do broadcasting and phone service without computers and then let's see how well that works.
The Reps bend over backwards to cut even the little bit of public funding left that goes to PBS and then complain that PBS goes in with big corp for pushing a questionable agenda. Restore and increase public funding for PBS with NO STRINGS ATTACHED and get some real decent and independent programming....or stop whining. All the Reps can do is say no to everything and then complain that nothing works right. How about a constructive proposal once in a while? But that would require them to look at facts and think rather than blurt out right-wing tea bagger populist bar talk.
Parliaments pay attention to those who write the biggest checks. Research labs rarely do that unless they are convinced that their 'research' will gain a lot of commercial success and they just need the tax payer for initial funding rather than go through the trouble of seeking private investment.
Before killing Caps Lock remove that ridiculous Windows key that constantly gets in the way!
So why do we see the exact same flaws and shortcomings in Edge as we did in IE11? Are we made to believe that Microsoft's developers were utterly inept twice in a row? I think it is more than the IE rendering engine got all the backwards compatibility removed but otherwise did not change by much. Even worse, simple JS that works in IE11 fails on Edge. Return to sender.....
Fact is, users do not value quality. Even if a dinky app crashes five times during a ten minute period they will continue using it if it suits their needs. Do users like the app to crash less often or not at all? Sure!! Do they want to wait on features or even pay up for better quality? Hells no! I work as quality assurance specialist (aka tester) and while we testers have user satisfaction as main goal in mind it is incredibly frustrating to inject quality during the design phase and keep quality up during development. Main problem: businesses and organizations do not value software quality, even if it is totally obvious that better quality is good for success and that spending a wee bit more time on quality before release will effectively reduce much bigger cost later, be it technical, financial, or ideally. Many books, papers, blogs, and posts have been written about this and as soon as this reaches decision makers it falls on deaf ears. Doing software QA is the most frustrating job in IT! Nevertheless, I still like it.
I am not a developer, but if a few days after release are enough to find such a significant bug then it makes me wonder which quality processes Microsoft has in place and if anyone in Redmond even bothers using their own stuff for at least some test projects. So what's the plan for software companies these days? Fire everyone in quality assurance and hire more project managers who set arbitrary release dates and force rushed releases? Oh yay!