Would all you morons shouting about firewalls shut up for thirty seconds and consider the following scenario:
User is in big corp behind firewall. User receives email claiming to be something or other. User runs attachment. All 'doze boxes in big corp stop working.
Firewalls are (a) not the answer to all crap coding and (b) not perfect solutions even so.
You are such a pc prick. The author doesn't compare the open-source struggle to Helen Keller's. He just points out that some well respected minds have ensured their delivery matched their content and so should we. Don't put words in people's mouths then criticise them.
I bet all they do is log them to a file and then they use a computer-aided approach just like yours to attempt to transfer a random amount of money from each account.
That's what I'd do anyway. Still, your approach is much better than nothing.
When playing a game, always put yourself in the mind of the opponent and work out what they would least like you to do. So, fellow slashdotters, what would really annoy these people?
I totally agree with everything but your last para: when your purpose is public service broadcasting and news collection, what sense does it make to raise the money via a tax on the facility with which you watch?
Not only does that (by forcing ratings requirements into the equation) undermine the principle of pursuing quality and fairness above all, but it has no sensible basis as a means of raising tax*.
The Beeb should receive a block grant, possibly index linked, possibly derived from the number of receivers in the country. The only problem with that is that vote-hungry scu^H^H^Hpoliticians would want to cut the budget to offer tax concessions.
Justin.
*All taxes should either have a purpose (cigarette tax, airport tax) or be removed and added to the Income Tax. Then we'd have a simply, clearer tax system, as most of the deviations from the above are solely to make it harder to know what money is going to the taxman.
I'll give you Solaris, but Mac X was hardly new. To a high degree it is a gui and compatibility layer over one of the BSDs (I forget which).
But I'll replace it with BeOS if you'll forgive the, to my mind pointless, server clause from the grandparent. And there's SkyOS too. Not necessarily world class, *yet*, but damn well on the way.
Really the only thing holding back non-MS operating systems is device drivers, and the manufacturers appear to be coming across, slowly but surely.
Absolutely, it's been, what, at least 66 'stealth taxes' to date. But the one I detailed is the only one that is mathematically equivalent to what they absolutely promised they would not do, and therefore I consider it an outright lie.
Yep, and you've completely failed to mention what they did: changed National Insurance (a non-ring fenced tax), adding one per cent, without limit. Previously, NI had always had a limit.
So the change to NI was exactly, perfectly, mathematically, equivalent to putting 1% on the basic rate of income tax, but under another name.
If that's not lying through their teeth, I don't know what it.
Blair: You can't raise income tax Gordon, I promised I wouldn't.
Brown: Well I need to.
Blair: Can't you raise the money some other way?
Brown: No. Economics dictates that's the money I need to raise.
Blair: Well how about calling it something else but keeping the economics the same?
Brown: How about 'Old Mrs Nantucket's Tax on Money', 1% of your income across the board?
Blair: Right principle, but the name's a giveaway. How about 'National Insurance'?
Brown: But we've already got one of those...
Fantastic, I was sat here thinking 'oh god, not another/. cat-fight';-)
I talk to anyone and everyone I meet (I'm that kind of guy), in the queue at the cash point, taxi drivers, train guards, everyone. For six months now, no-one I have talked to intends to vote Labour - or Conservative. They are all either staying at home or voting Lib Dem. Please god let it be so, and roll on May 5th, I can't wait to see Blair's face as he packs and leaves, and Michael Howards as he resigns. Come to think of it, and Charlie's as he whoops for joy and lights another fag!
What actually upset them was the claim that they knew it not to be true when the dossier was published.
This is now demonstrably the case as they had let us all think they meant 45 minutes to attack us with NBC weapons, when it meant 45 minutes if we went into their country and attacked them!. Blair, as a lawyer, should look up the meaning of the phrase "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but".
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't scrape Michael Howard off my shoe - I'd throw them out and buy a new pair.
I think both parties are control freaks. The biggest difference is Labour is more inclined to lie and spin, and better at it. q.v. "45 minutes", "active detailed and growing", "no top-up fees and we have legislated against them", "we will not increase income tax" - feel free to question the last one if you don't get it.
I think for me, the only sane option is the Lib Dems. I don't actually agree with everything they say (Europe) but I do believe they are telling the truth and that's worth more than anything to me.
Somehow I doubt the members of the trust will be free from political influence... and being separated from the management of the day, do they not sound a little more like, say, OfBeeb*, than the 'cheerleaders' that the current Governers tend to be? I could see this being either good or bad, and based on my opinion of the current bastards ruining our country's good name at home and abroad, I'm inclined to be worried.
My tuppence is: just because they've called it a 'Trust' doesn't mean anything. Remember Sir Humphrey Appleby: "Always do the difficult bit in the title. Then everyone will assume that the content must fulfil it". Alternatively, think of Paxman: "Why is this lying lier lying to me?". Then you'll understand the Labour Party.
Justin. * Note for non-UK readers. We name our regulatory bodies along these lines: OfGas, Office for the Gas industry. OfWat, Office for the Water industry. For some reason the Rail watchdog's office isn't called OfRail though...
Yep, it's what I need next too... I currently have exactly one non-Linux (XP) box for the sole reason that I assumed "well it must be in there by now" when last buying hardware and it isn't. Damn.
My young lady and I were discussing exactly the same thing t'other night. I bought a fucking film, not an opportunity to be advertised at. I have already started downloading TV I miss, which I consider perfectly acceptable... it's only a short amount more irritation before I get films too.
I sent mail to the advertisers of 28 Days Later saying that their ad (which sort of vibrated) was incredibly annoying, and that therefore I was blocking their server (I prefer to let them know you see) for the time being.
The response (not auto, an actual person): Yes, it's out on DVD in the UK *now*!
My response was along the lines of 'I am/trying/ to point out that your ad is annoying, not enquire about the film'.
Theirs: What are you talking about? It's already released! Go buy it!
Total fuckwittery. They really couldn't understand at all that I was complaining about an advert. Tells you everything you need to know about marketeers. They are morons.
Yes - some people. Not everyone, therefore to decry a project on the grounds it won't make money is to admit to having missed the point.
Ever help a stranger? Would you accept that the business plan for helping a stranger will never work? Now, the big question: does that matter, next time you see a stranger needing help?
Yeah: everything Debian stable has ever included. T'other day I wanted to set up webmail access to my home email server. So I surfed for ninety seconds, logged in as root, typed "apt-get install squirrelmail" and thirty seconds later (literally) I had web access to my home mail. Call it three minutes from 'want' to 'got'.
*That's* what is supposed to happen. IMO the Debian project is the ultimate 'OS' - componentised, modular, and *stable*.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree with all your points... in fact they serve to demonstrate the point I was making, which is exactly your point too!
Well, you've got to support your old APIs, right? This is reverse compatibility taken to the logical extreme ;-)
J.
Would all you morons shouting about firewalls shut up for thirty seconds and consider the following scenario:
User is in big corp behind firewall.
User receives email claiming to be something or other.
User runs attachment.
All 'doze boxes in big corp stop working.
Firewalls are (a) not the answer to all crap coding and (b) not perfect solutions even so.
Justin.
You are such a pc prick. The author doesn't compare the open-source struggle to Helen Keller's. He just points out that some well respected minds have ensured their delivery matched their content and so should we. Don't put words in people's mouths then criticise them.
Justin.
I bet all they do is log them to a file and then they use a computer-aided approach just like yours to attempt to transfer a random amount of money from each account.
That's what I'd do anyway. Still, your approach is much better than nothing.
When playing a game, always put yourself in the mind of the opponent and work out what they would least like you to do. So, fellow slashdotters, what would really annoy these people?
Justin.
I totally agree with everything but your last para: when your purpose is public service broadcasting and news collection, what sense does it make to raise the money via a tax on the facility with which you watch?
Not only does that (by forcing ratings requirements into the equation) undermine the principle of pursuing quality and fairness above all, but it has no sensible basis as a means of raising tax*.
The Beeb should receive a block grant, possibly index linked, possibly derived from the number of receivers in the country. The only problem with that is that vote-hungry scu^H^H^Hpoliticians would want to cut the budget to offer tax concessions.
Justin.
*All taxes should either have a purpose (cigarette tax, airport tax) or be removed and added to the Income Tax. Then we'd have a simply, clearer tax system, as most of the deviations from the above are solely to make it harder to know what money is going to the taxman.
I'll give you Solaris, but Mac X was hardly new. To a high degree it is a gui and compatibility layer over one of the BSDs (I forget which).
But I'll replace it with BeOS if you'll forgive the, to my mind pointless, server clause from the grandparent. And there's SkyOS too. Not necessarily world class, *yet*, but damn well on the way.
Really the only thing holding back non-MS operating systems is device drivers, and the manufacturers appear to be coming across, slowly but surely.
Justin.
Mod you interesting! I see your point.
;-)
Even more reason to vote Lib Dem then
J.
Absolutely, it's been, what, at least 66 'stealth taxes' to date. But the one I detailed is the only one that is mathematically equivalent to what they absolutely promised they would not do, and therefore I consider it an outright lie.
J.
Nope: if you rta, you'll see that there is also a prohibition on models which are easily circumvented by the user. So no kit tvs.
J.
If that's not lying through their teeth, I don't know what it.
Blair: You can't raise income tax Gordon, I promised I wouldn't.
Brown: Well I need to.
Blair: Can't you raise the money some other way?
Brown: No. Economics dictates that's the money I need to raise.
Blair: Well how about calling it something else but keeping the economics the same?
Brown: How about 'Old Mrs Nantucket's Tax on Money', 1% of your income across the board?
Blair: Right principle, but the name's a giveaway. How about 'National Insurance'?
Brown: But we've already got one of those...
Justin.
Fantastic, I was sat here thinking 'oh god, not another /. cat-fight' ;-)
I talk to anyone and everyone I meet (I'm that kind of guy), in the queue at the cash point, taxi drivers, train guards, everyone. For six months now, no-one I have talked to intends to vote Labour - or Conservative. They are all either staying at home or voting Lib Dem. Please god let it be so, and roll on May 5th, I can't wait to see Blair's face as he packs and leaves, and Michael Howards as he resigns. Come to think of it, and Charlie's as he whoops for joy and lights another fag!
Justin.
Thanks for the suggestion Doc!
Justin.
This is now demonstrably the case as they had let us all think they meant 45 minutes to attack us with NBC weapons, when it meant 45 minutes if we went into their country and attacked them!. Blair, as a lawyer, should look up the meaning of the phrase "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but".
I could spit in that man's face.
Justin.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't scrape Michael Howard off my shoe - I'd throw them out and buy a new pair.
I think both parties are control freaks. The biggest difference is Labour is more inclined to lie and spin, and better at it. q.v. "45 minutes", "active detailed and growing", "no top-up fees and we have legislated against them", "we will not increase income tax" - feel free to question the last one if you don't get it.
I think for me, the only sane option is the Lib Dems. I don't actually agree with everything they say (Europe) but I do believe they are telling the truth and that's worth more than anything to me.
Justin.
Somehow I doubt the members of the trust will be free from political influence... and being separated from the management of the day, do they not sound a little more like, say, OfBeeb*, than the 'cheerleaders' that the current Governers tend to be? I could see this being either good or bad, and based on my opinion of the current bastards ruining our country's good name at home and abroad, I'm inclined to be worried.
My tuppence is: just because they've called it a 'Trust' doesn't mean anything. Remember Sir Humphrey Appleby: "Always do the difficult bit in the title. Then everyone will assume that the content must fulfil it". Alternatively, think of Paxman: "Why is this lying lier lying to me?". Then you'll understand the Labour Party.
Justin.
* Note for non-UK readers. We name our regulatory bodies along these lines: OfGas, Office for the Gas industry. OfWat, Office for the Water industry. For some reason the Rail watchdog's office isn't called OfRail though...
Yep, it's what I need next too... I currently have exactly one non-Linux (XP) box for the sole reason that I assumed "well it must be in there by now" when last buying hardware and it isn't. Damn.
J.
*Ahem* Craig isn't sending the fucking messages. Perhaps you should try RTFA.
J.
All that an intelligent species will care about is the non-natural arrangement of information - then we have first contact.
If it's paid for by idiots for the expected publicity, then all the better - less budget for them to spend on spamming me!
Justin.
There's a guide to macros here, but it's in OOo format... and I don't have OOo here at work!
HTH
Justin.
Given that symbolically the two snippets are identical, I take it you are referring to a *structure* that has some *quality* to be taken advantage of?
In other words that 'thing[][]' should be looped on the interior array first?
If that's not what you mean, then I would suspect you may be mistaken, but would love to hear more...?
J.
My young lady and I were discussing exactly the same thing t'other night. I bought a fucking film, not an opportunity to be advertised at. I have already started downloading TV I miss, which I consider perfectly acceptable... it's only a short amount more irritation before I get films too.
J.
I sent mail to the advertisers of 28 Days Later saying that their ad (which sort of vibrated) was incredibly annoying, and that therefore I was blocking their server (I prefer to let them know you see) for the time being.
/trying/ to point out that your ad is annoying, not enquire about the film'.
The response (not auto, an actual person): Yes, it's out on DVD in the UK *now*!
My response was along the lines of 'I am
Theirs: What are you talking about? It's already released! Go buy it!
Total fuckwittery. They really couldn't understand at all that I was complaining about an advert. Tells you everything you need to know about marketeers. They are morons.
Justin.
Yes - some people. Not everyone, therefore to decry a project on the grounds it won't make money is to admit to having missed the point.
Ever help a stranger? Would you accept that the business plan for helping a stranger will never work? Now, the big question: does that matter, next time you see a stranger needing help?
Justin.
Yeah: everything Debian stable has ever included. T'other day I wanted to set up webmail access to my home email server. So I surfed for ninety seconds, logged in as root, typed "apt-get install squirrelmail" and thirty seconds later (literally) I had web access to my home mail. Call it three minutes from 'want' to 'got'.
*That's* what is supposed to happen. IMO the Debian project is the ultimate 'OS' - componentised, modular, and *stable*.
J.