I'll bet that MS and Adobe would 'adjust' their pricing accordingly as this would not just affect Australia's buying preferences, but the markets worldwide.
More likely, they'd just tell their lawyers to sue (governments have deep pockets (eg. taxpayers, printing presses)), and sic their lobbyists on ParliamentCritters. Everybody (excepting the lawyers & lobbyists) has a bad day/week/year/decade/century.
It's not the entire cost, you forgot the bit where it had to [be] localised into Australian
You didn't even touch on the translation cost. It's not like they speak English after all. In what Universe does "G'day mate" make any sense whatsoever, and don't get me started on vegamite and billabongs.
Those people were shipped down there for a reason.:-P
There's a simple answer for this. Tell him to give up on desktops. I haven't needed them for more than a decade. Portables are smarter tech., and he'll save (some) on power bills. Buy a docking station.
Sometimes, allergies express themselves in mysterious ways. Go with the flow; path of least resistance; yada yada.
I can let you have something extraordinary outside the rules If you do something for me. Let's hold on to that, one day a bribe may save you and your family's lives.
Think "loaded gun." It doesn't care. If it's pointed at you, you may have a big problem. If you're pointing it, you may have less of a problem, but (apparently) still a problem (else why would you be pointing it?). Anyone can bribe, given enough cash and corruptible officials. How much are you willing to pay, as compared to your opposition?
Given the choice between dieing slowly or quickly, which appears the more palatable choice to you? I can go on and on for days on this, splitting hairs left and right. "How slow is "slowly"?, & etc.
BTW, seeing if a doorknob turns != opening the door.
Note, I've since been educated to the fact that he UL'd a binary. I missed that.
If all he did was see if the doorknob turned, then how is it he turned it into a botnet?
Interesting question.
For example (no cars, sorry), if I embed a URL in my/..sig that goes to a malicious iframe (or whatever), did I do anything wrong? I didn't ask anyone to click on it. If that URL adds them to a botnet, was that really my fault? They chose to click on it. I just stuck it out there offering it to them, and *everyone knows* that clicking on that sort of thing is anathema, right? Who's more guilty: the fraudster, or the too greedy mark?
Ostriches do not stick their heads in sand or ever try to simply ignore danger.
Actually, I knew all of that, but the concept is what I was trying to use. Blame the Brits for not understanding what they were seeing. Perhaps that's akin to racism or stereotyping of some kind. I applaud your eloquent defence of that mighty bird (or dinosaur remnant, whatever:-).
I don't mind that there are long posts here, but it's annoying to have to scroll past them.
Syrians are re-inventing WW1 warfare, ffs.
What do Syrians have to do with this?
Wow you're shallow, as a pane of glass. People are dying out there fighting civil wars, and you're complaining about having to page past stuff you'd prefer not to see.:-|
Again, I ask what does this have to do with a complaint about a usability problem with a website?
"Shallow" refers to your lack of "depth", as in "deep thinking" or "inability to prioritize." Lots of things can be complained about. There's lots that's wrong in the world. But, max. three seconds to spacebar past annoying posts?!? Come on.
I see !@#$ like this all the time. People get five spams a day, and they think it's the end of the world. It drives them to avoid email and use FaceFuck to communicate instead.
Dumbth!
... a pane of glass isn't shallow, it's transparent.
Pardon me. I was previously unaware that you were an idiot. Carry on. Bon chance.
If an unnamed biologist did his research this way (constructed a virus that infects creatures around the world)...
What "infection" did this researcher transmit to his "victims"? Isn't this more like someone offering free susceptability tests? They're on the net, meaning they're open to the offer. The net's always a potentially dangerous place if you're connected to it. Researcher tests to see if they're in any way vulnerable. Shazam, they are. Where's the story?
I don't like the idea of someone going around testing all of these devices any better than I like the idea of some guy going around my neighborhood checking to see if all the doors and windows are locked.
Ah, the ostrich plan. Don't run away; don't protect yourself; just stick your head in the sand, or put on the Beeblebrox safety glasses.
If he can do this, *please* imagine what a true black hat could do with it. FFS!!!111
BTW, seeing if a doorknob turns != opening the door.
I don't mind that there are long posts here, but it's annoying to have to scroll past them.
Syrians are re-inventing WW1 warfare, ffs.
What do Syrians have to do with this?
Wow you're shallow, as a pane of glass. People are dying out there fighting civil wars, and you're complaining about having to page past stuff you'd prefer not to see.:-|
Most of the registrars in the world either don't support this, or make it more than a pain to implement it. Try to find one that supports adding DNSSEC and IPv6 simultaneously is a nightmare.
So, do it yourself. You don't have to use others' DNS, and IPv6 can be tunnelled via IPv4. I don't use my ISP's DNS. I use OpenNIC.
Build (or buy, or rent) your own server to do this stuff. It's not that difficult or expensive, as others have mentioned. With experience in both, you should be more valuable in the future.
I'm already awaiting a somewhat pedantic correction from a neckbeard...
Defensive much? I've used MaraDNS. It worked. Now I use bind9. It works.
For me, when the US gov. thinks DNSSec would be a step back, hindering their ubiquitous surveillance of everyone and everything always, I like DNSSec. Rage against the machine.
[My beard's a Van Dyke, and my neck's been shaved.]
I don't mind that there are long posts here, but it's annoying to have to scroll past them.
Um, poor baby? Do you not know how lame that is, you and those above complaining about the same thing? Gahd! Syrians are re-inventing WW1 warfare, ffs. It takes max. three seconds to spacebar past that crap. Sheesh!
Any old lady that wants to die in the house she has lived in all her life can essentially bring the whole thing to a halt.
So, make her an offer she can't refuse. Put her up in a suite in the Ritz-Carlton including housekeeper, personal care assistant and chauffeur. She might even go for just full coverage health insurance.
Otherwise, suck it up. You shouldn't get special favours from your government just because you're a rich corporation wanting to develop something. She's been paying taxes all her life too.
The real crime against his memory is that the DoJ scofflaws -- who, when you get down to it, don't seem to recognize any kind of legitimate authorty -- want to convert him into some kind of mentally ill, deluded arch-criminal.
When someone tries to define "civilized" as "does this one thing the way I like"...
Mon petit naïf pauvre, alors... Do you actually believe that "civilised" means anything else?
Emphasis mine. I think he meant that a country that illegalizes murder but doesn't illegalize stoning women for getting raped isn't what most people in our part of the world consider civilized. Civilized implies a whole raft of things, not just any one big one (as should be obvious to anyone).
Personally, I preferred the old non-commercial Internet. It was more fun. There was no Netflix or Amazon, but there was also nobody crawling up my ass. I would trade Facebook for Usenet in a hot second.
I take it you're unaware that the old non-commercial Internet still exists? I can still read comp.risks in slrn (nntp.aioe.org), IRC in irssi (irc.freenode.net) still works fine, you don't actually need to use Firefox/Opera/Safari/IE to browse the web when lynx/w3m/... work in some ways better than their counterparts, and with IXQuick you don't need to Google or Bing. Gopher and Veronica may be extinct, but a lot of the rest of the old is still ticking over quite healthily and even improving.
Salary's about the last thing I care about too. A manager with at least half a brain is all I ask. I've worked happily alongside others who were pulling three times my rate and were goggle-eyed at my skillset. I live for the challenge and the work.
All I'm sayin' is, yes, we're out here and do want to do good work. If you can't even find us, you need to step up your game. It's not my fault you can't find me when you need me. I'm all over the web on multiple jobsites, multiple successful contracts with multiple headhunters/recruiters, and I'm on LinkedIn, etc.
HR are essentially incompetent corporate drones following flawed procedures, possibly capable of sourcing the low hanging fruit. Don't rely on those morons. In fact, you'd save a lot of money by firing all of those twits. You're welcome.
... it was like watching some schoolboy getting his first lay, only to ejaculate all over her panty-covered mons. A disappointment...
Not true. Think of it as natural birth control, or akin to fellatio prior to sex. She ought to consider it a compliment. By the way, (some?) women suffer (?!?) from the same affliction sometimes, and it doesn't embarass them.
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I'll bet that MS and Adobe would 'adjust' their pricing accordingly as this would not just affect Australia's buying preferences, but the markets worldwide.
More likely, they'd just tell their lawyers to sue (governments have deep pockets (eg. taxpayers, printing presses)), and sic their lobbyists on ParliamentCritters. Everybody (excepting the lawyers & lobbyists) has a bad day/week/year/decade/century.
It's not the entire cost, you forgot the bit where it had to [be] localised into Australian
You didn't even touch on the translation cost. It's not like they speak English after all. In what Universe does "G'day mate" make any sense whatsoever, and don't get me started on vegamite and billabongs.
Those people were shipped down there for a reason. :-P
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At least we all drive on the same side of the road. (Well, mostly. Seattle traffic is pretty random these days.)
That's (sadly) not specific to Seattle. There's people out there who shave their private regions while driving. No joke.
There's a simple answer for this. Tell him to give up on desktops. I haven't needed them for more than a decade. Portables are smarter tech., and he'll save (some) on power bills. Buy a docking station.
Sometimes, allergies express themselves in mysterious ways. Go with the flow; path of least resistance; yada yada.
I can let you have something extraordinary outside the rules If you do something for me. Let's hold on to that, one day a bribe may save you and your family's lives.
Think "loaded gun." It doesn't care. If it's pointed at you, you may have a big problem. If you're pointing it, you may have less of a problem, but (apparently) still a problem (else why would you be pointing it?). Anyone can bribe, given enough cash and corruptible officials. How much are you willing to pay, as compared to your opposition?
Given the choice between dieing slowly or quickly, which appears the more palatable choice to you? I can go on and on for days on this, splitting hairs left and right. "How slow is "slowly"?, & etc.
It is that hard... or more people would be doing it...
No, it's not. People are lazy, or they prefer to conform, or they want to be safe. FLOSS is very easy to use, once you grow a backbone.
BTW, seeing if a doorknob turns != opening the door.
Note, I've since been educated to the fact that he UL'd a binary. I missed that.
If all he did was see if the doorknob turned, then how is it he turned it into a botnet?
Interesting question.
For example (no cars, sorry), if I embed a URL in my /. .sig that goes to a malicious iframe (or whatever), did I do anything wrong? I didn't ask anyone to click on it. If that URL adds them to a botnet, was that really my fault? They chose to click on it. I just stuck it out there offering it to them, and *everyone knows* that clicking on that sort of thing is anathema, right? Who's more guilty: the fraudster, or the too greedy mark?
Ostriches do not stick their heads in sand or ever try to simply ignore danger.
Actually, I knew all of that, but the concept is what I was trying to use. Blame the Brits for not understanding what they were seeing. Perhaps that's akin to racism or stereotyping of some kind. I applaud your eloquent defence of that mighty bird (or dinosaur remnant, whatever :-).
I don't mind that there are long posts here, but it's annoying to have to scroll past them.
Syrians are re-inventing WW1 warfare, ffs.
What do Syrians have to do with this?
Wow you're shallow, as a pane of glass. People are dying out there fighting civil wars, and you're complaining about having to page past stuff you'd prefer not to see. :-|
Again, I ask what does this have to do with a complaint about a usability problem with a website?
"Shallow" refers to your lack of "depth", as in "deep thinking" or "inability to prioritize." Lots of things can be complained about. There's lots that's wrong in the world. But, max. three seconds to spacebar past annoying posts?!? Come on.
I see !@#$ like this all the time. People get five spams a day, and they think it's the end of the world. It drives them to avoid email and use FaceFuck to communicate instead.
Dumbth!
... a pane of glass isn't shallow, it's transparent.
Pardon me. I was previously unaware that you were an idiot. Carry on. Bon chance.
He uploaded a binary to 'insecure' devices ...
Ah. I'll take a slap to the back of the head for not RTFA or understanding the summary. /. SOP bites again. Thx.
Doesn't the ostrich plan involve leaving your rear end out in the open while keeping your eyes unawares of who's raping you from behind?
And you're already bent over presenting. Enjoy. Hum God Save The Queen if it helps.
If an unnamed biologist did his research this way (constructed a virus that infects creatures around the world) ...
What "infection" did this researcher transmit to his "victims"? Isn't this more like someone offering free susceptability tests? They're on the net, meaning they're open to the offer. The net's always a potentially dangerous place if you're connected to it. Researcher tests to see if they're in any way vulnerable. Shazam, they are. Where's the story?
I don't like the idea of someone going around testing all of these devices any better than I like the idea of some guy going around my neighborhood checking to see if all the doors and windows are locked.
Ah, the ostrich plan. Don't run away; don't protect yourself; just stick your head in the sand, or put on the Beeblebrox safety glasses.
If he can do this, *please* imagine what a true black hat could do with it. FFS!!!111
BTW, seeing if a doorknob turns != opening the door.
I don't mind that there are long posts here, but it's annoying to have to scroll past them.
Syrians are re-inventing WW1 warfare, ffs.
What do Syrians have to do with this?
Wow you're shallow, as a pane of glass. People are dying out there fighting civil wars, and you're complaining about having to page past stuff you'd prefer not to see. :-|
Most of the registrars in the world either don't support this, or make it more than a pain to implement it. Try to find one that supports adding DNSSEC and IPv6 simultaneously is a nightmare.
So, do it yourself. You don't have to use others' DNS, and IPv6 can be tunnelled via IPv4. I don't use my ISP's DNS. I use OpenNIC.
Build (or buy, or rent) your own server to do this stuff. It's not that difficult or expensive, as others have mentioned. With experience in both, you should be more valuable in the future.
I'm already awaiting a somewhat pedantic correction from a neckbeard ...
Defensive much? I've used MaraDNS. It worked. Now I use bind9. It works.
For me, when the US gov. thinks DNSSec would be a step back, hindering their ubiquitous surveillance of everyone and everything always, I like DNSSec. Rage against the machine.
[My beard's a Van Dyke, and my neck's been shaved.]
I don't mind that there are long posts here, but it's annoying to have to scroll past them.
Um, poor baby? Do you not know how lame that is, you and those above complaining about the same thing? Gahd! Syrians are re-inventing WW1 warfare, ffs. It takes max. three seconds to spacebar past that crap. Sheesh!
he had relatives buy books for the purpose of reselling them in a country where people have a lot more money
So, they had first sale rights. They were paid for, which is all the seller should care about and be able to expect.
Any old lady that wants to die in the house she has lived in all her life can essentially bring the whole thing to a halt.
So, make her an offer she can't refuse. Put her up in a suite in the Ritz-Carlton including housekeeper, personal care assistant and chauffeur. She might even go for just full coverage health insurance.
Otherwise, suck it up. You shouldn't get special favours from your government just because you're a rich corporation wanting to develop something. She's been paying taxes all her life too.
The real crime against his memory is that the DoJ scofflaws -- who, when you get down to it, don't seem to recognize any kind of legitimate authorty -- want to convert him into some kind of mentally ill, deluded arch-criminal.
FTFY.
While it might be the alcohol that had helped jump start the human society, in places around the world alcohol is being banned
Moonshiners will save us.
When someone tries to define "civilized" as "does this one thing the way I like"...
Mon petit naïf pauvre, alors... Do you actually believe that "civilised" means anything else?
Emphasis mine. I think he meant that a country that illegalizes murder but doesn't illegalize stoning women for getting raped isn't what most people in our part of the world consider civilized. Civilized implies a whole raft of things, not just any one big one (as should be obvious to anyone).
Personally, I preferred the old non-commercial Internet. It was more fun. There was no Netflix or Amazon, but there was also nobody crawling up my ass. I would trade Facebook for Usenet in a hot second.
I take it you're unaware that the old non-commercial Internet still exists? I can still read comp.risks in slrn (nntp.aioe.org), IRC in irssi (irc.freenode.net) still works fine, you don't actually need to use Firefox/Opera/Safari/IE to browse the web when lynx/w3m/... work in some ways better than their counterparts, and with IXQuick you don't need to Google or Bing. Gopher and Veronica may be extinct, but a lot of the rest of the old is still ticking over quite healthily and even improving.
salary is about the last thing we discuss.
Salary's about the last thing I care about too. A manager with at least half a brain is all I ask. I've worked happily alongside others who were pulling three times my rate and were goggle-eyed at my skillset. I live for the challenge and the work.
All I'm sayin' is, yes, we're out here and do want to do good work. If you can't even find us, you need to step up your game. It's not my fault you can't find me when you need me. I'm all over the web on multiple jobsites, multiple successful contracts with multiple headhunters/recruiters, and I'm on LinkedIn, etc.
HR are essentially incompetent corporate drones following flawed procedures, possibly capable of sourcing the low hanging fruit. Don't rely on those morons. In fact, you'd save a lot of money by firing all of those twits. You're welcome.
... it was like watching some schoolboy getting his first lay, only to ejaculate all over her panty-covered mons. A disappointment ...
Not true. Think of it as natural birth control, or akin to fellatio prior to sex. She ought to consider it a compliment. By the way, (some?) women suffer (?!?) from the same affliction sometimes, and it doesn't embarass them.