No, what I meant is that I sincerely doubt the North Koreans would ever be able to get a spacecraft of any kind to the Moon, period.
The Soviet manned lunar programs were a series of completely unsuccessful programs that tried to land a man on the Moon, and their unmanned programs were only marginally successful at best. This page shows just how spectacularly unsuccessful they were:
Out of 60+ attempts, only about a dozen made it anywhere near the Moon. Some of them were able to orbit, but only a few of them actually touched down without crashing.
It's much harder than it sounds and I would genuinely be shocked if North Korea ever managed to pull it off.
That's not a confidence scheme, Officer, it's performance art!
That's what I told the judge, and he sentenced me to conduct a 3-to-5 year "performance art" piece in prison with time off for "creative ability" or something.
Ah, that's not what I meant. Our web services are used as a back end for our website (as well as through mobile apps & windows clients). That way the majority of the website is static (and cached) and just the dynamic data is fetched (through the abomination that is javascript!). It also means that bugs (or at least some of them) can be fixed quickly with no need to update clients.
If people access your web services through Firefox and there is a 404 error, then I would think that your service will probably appear broken or will malfunction for that user. You may be able to intercept the error (catch the 404 return code) and direct the user to another page.
Firefox should disable this 'feature' by default, but of course they won't.
Sure, they use caller ID spoofing so that we, the recipients, can't block the number, but you know who knows exactly who the spammers are? The phone company, for two reasons: first, they're routing the calls from end to end, so they know the real source rather than the spoofed one.
Exactly.
Many of them are operating out of places like Cypress, Sao Paulo, the Philippines, etc and they use Skype or some other VOIP service. I get calls where the caller ID says "Albuquerque, NM" or "Portland OR"...and they're clearly from an overseas call center. But the phone company knows where they're coming from and could block them if they wanted to.
What happens when I use a 404 status in a web service to signal that the requested resource couldn't be found - the front end handles 404 gracefully and informs the user, updates the UI, etc. Will it still return a 404 status, but inject a whole load of unexpected content?
If I understand the article correctly, web services will be unaffected because this will be baked into Firefox itself.
So, unless you're running your web service through an instance of Firefox, this won't make any difference.
Thank GOD that slashdot doesn't allow any super-advanced features like editing a post, even for a 2-minute period after posting. Because that would just be pandering to its users, eh?
Seriously, slashdot- get your shit together and let people edit a fucking post. If you're worried about malicious edits, make posts editable for some short period after they've been posted. A couple of minutes would do it, just long enough to fix a typo or something.
Now, cue the anal-retentive douche bags who'll feel that this idea is crazily permissive or something.
But the IOC's over-the-top "We own it all!" is just a bit much. They're almost to the point of enforcing death penalty should someone even think about posting a selfie of themselves at the Olympics.
Dear mpercy,
In a recent slashdot post, you used the word "Olympics" without the express written permission of the International Olympic Committee. This constitutes copyright infringement and unauthorized use of our intellectual property. To avoid a lawsuit, send us $980 within the next 24 hours, or face the wrath of our lawyers. Do not delay; we know where your little girl goes to school.
Yours Truly, The International Olympic Committee An international, non-profit, non-governmental organization
Aren't they like two generations out of date? Maybe in 1980 folks cared about that crap.
Are you referring to brand name stuff? Lol, if so, you're the one that's out of date.
All that stuff- Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Prada, etc -all of it sells like fucking hotcakes. I was with my wife was in the Chanel store last night, she was looking for a little leather keycase that she wanted. They were all sold out. This thing was $750 plus tax, and there's a 2-month waiting list. That's about what I paid for my first car, a looooong time ago.
Purses? $3500 and up, for a tiny little purse. (The big ones are expensive.) Sunglasses are $500 a pair, easy.
And it's not artificial scarcity, they get 50 of these keycases in and they're gone in 2 days. People buy that stuff like crazy, you have no idea.
So trust me, some people still care about that "crap", you probably just don't make enough money to be aware of it.
One of the effects of getting older is that some things become depressingly obvious, and a lot of the time you know exactly what's going to happen next. Not always, of course, but often. Once you've seen shit play out the same way hundreds or thousands of times, when you see it start again you just know what's going to happen, the "story arc", if you will.
This applies to jobs, relationships, divorces, dating, social interaction, and all sorts of other things. It doesn't take a wizard to see it and you don't have to be a genius either, it's just that after you see it over and over again, the pattern (and the outcome) becomes obvious.
I deal with more than a few millennials, and to be honest, I feel sorry for them. They're inheriting a pretty fucked-up world where jobs are scarce, competition is fierce, and housing is probably going to be out of reach for many of them forever. Dating seems to be a total mess, way worse than when I was in the dating sphere.
For example, when people my age grew up and started our careers (about 50 million years ago) we didn't have to worry about people from China or India swooping in and taking our jobs. But now it's a common occurrence. That's fucked up; it's gotta be stressful, no?
Also, the socially-isolating effects of the internet has dropped a lot of unexpected problems on millennials, and one of those seems to be a reduced ability to carry on meaningful social interactions. This doesn't apply to all millennials of course, but it does apply to a lot of them. So I'm speaking in generalities, but still...
Without a phone many of them feel cast adrift and nervous, disconnected and unsure of how to act or how to conduct themselves. Oh sure, simple stuff isn't a big deal, but many millennials are out of their depth at a large social function where they're expected to interact with lots of people in non-shallow ways. I've seen it firsthand, and like I said, I feel sorry for many of them.
The social "lubricant" of normal interaction (both the good and the bad) that we older farts learned as we grew up is often missing, and it seems a lot of millennials have reduced attention spans. I'm not joking, it's often seems very difficult for them to focus on anything for protracted periods of time, to basically devote themselves to a single task and ignore everything else until it's done.
So no, I don't hate millennials, I feel like they've got a shit deck stacked against them and not a lot of chances for things to get better for them. If anything, I see things becoming harder for them in a lot of ways, and I feel sorry for what they've been thrust into- a world that's out to monetize them at every turn and bend, a world where employers will dump them at the first sign of trouble, and so on.
... so it's really closer to $50 per month to not be spied upon.
And they'll still spy on you, they'll just call it something else, like "Customer Satisfaction Metrics" or some such bullshit. But either way, they'll still spy on you.
As an aging techy, Smart TVs are among the gadgets that I look at and say "Is there something I am missing here, am I finally going over the hill, or is this really just the crappiest dogpile of UX malpractice, feature bloat, and scamware ever created?"
That's been my experience when I go to Best Buy or Frys or whatever and look at the new gadgets, especially TVs.
I look at them and think, "I don't need this shit, just give me a TV without all the 5-level nested menus and other horsecrap." But almost no one makes a TV that doesn't include loads of useless shit. My last TV (a couple years old) has firmware that never seems to have an update available and loads of picture settings that don't seem to do much at all. Adjusting settings is frustrating as fuck, and I speak as someone that's been in tech for 40 fucking years.
My Blu Ray player came with a load of utter bullshit like screen savers and some of the lamest games you've ever seen, and it also doesn't ever seem to have an update available either.
The Blu Ray player's craptastic "Opera Store" doesn't even have a browser available (!!) nor does it have an Amazon TV app, and there's no way to get one. The USB port on the front is WORTHLESS, it's only for showing stored pics and movies, and it won't recognize a keyboard (or any other device), which is really too bad since the on-screen keyboard is the WORST, most user-unfriendly piece of shit in the known universe.
Seriously, fuck you, TV manufacturers, fuck you in the ass with a telephone pole wrapped in barbed-wire.
Now i'm 47 and the hormone cloud has dispersed, and I have a hard time (ha) getting interested in a conversation with most women. The occasional bright one still brings out some mild interest but the vast majority are boring as hell, because I know where it ends, and it isn't pretty at all.
This contains far more truth than the average person (male or female) can handle.
It's a fact: once the hormones stop raging, women cease to have any power over you at all. We older guys can take 'em or leave 'em, and that makes most women really, really mad. "Wait- I let you look at my butt and you didn't immediately drop everything and ask if you could buy me a car? You *^$%#@ bastard!!"
Sorry sweetie, shaking your boobs won't do it for me anymore, you've got to bring more to the table than cleavage.
The waves of desperation coming off of most unmarried women over 30 or 35 is sad and scary, but at the same time it's delicious and satisfying.
Now you're the ones begging for a morsel of attention, ladies, but I've moved on and have no time to play your silly games.:)
Is there anything that can't be used to suck up your personal information, location, spending habits, etc etc?
"Some companies may be analysing the possibility of monetising the access to battery levels"
Holy shit, kill me now. But first let me throw a few marketers into the wood chipper.
"When battery is running low, people might be prone to some -- otherwise different -- decisions. In such circumstances, users will agree to pay more for a service."
Okay, now I really mean it, just kill me. And make sure to plaster advertisements all over my headstone, okay?
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No, what I meant is that I sincerely doubt the North Koreans would ever be able to get a spacecraft of any kind to the Moon, period.
The Soviet manned lunar programs were a series of completely unsuccessful programs that tried to land a man on the Moon, and their unmanned programs were only marginally successful at best. This page shows just how spectacularly unsuccessful they were:
http://www.russianspaceweb.com...
Out of 60+ attempts, only about a dozen made it anywhere near the Moon. Some of them were able to orbit, but only a few of them actually touched down without crashing.
It's much harder than it sounds and I would genuinely be shocked if North Korea ever managed to pull it off.
That's not a confidence scheme, Officer, it's performance art!
That's what I told the judge, and he sentenced me to conduct a 3-to-5 year "performance art" piece in prison with time off for "creative ability" or something.
Ah, that's not what I meant. Our web services are used as a back end for our website (as well as through mobile apps & windows clients). That way the majority of the website is static (and cached) and just the dynamic data is fetched (through the abomination that is javascript!). It also means that bugs (or at least some of them) can be fixed quickly with no need to update clients.
If people access your web services through Firefox and there is a 404 error, then I would think that your service will probably appear broken or will malfunction for that user. You may be able to intercept the error (catch the 404 return code) and direct the user to another page.
Firefox should disable this 'feature' by default, but of course they won't.
The NSA can tap every phone in the country, but they can't find Rachel from cardholder services.
^^^^ This, times a million billion.
If I ever find that bitch, I'll rip her limb from limb. Slowly. While she's impaled on an iron spike.
Sure, they use caller ID spoofing so that we, the recipients, can't block the number, but you know who knows exactly who the spammers are? The phone company, for two reasons: first, they're routing the calls from end to end, so they know the real source rather than the spoofed one.
Exactly.
Many of them are operating out of places like Cypress, Sao Paulo, the Philippines, etc and they use Skype or some other VOIP service. I get calls where the caller ID says "Albuquerque, NM" or "Portland OR"...and they're clearly from an overseas call center. But the phone company knows where they're coming from and could block them if they wanted to.
Another terrible idea thought up by some bored ding-dong at Google.
What happens when I use a 404 status in a web service to signal that the requested resource couldn't be found - the front end handles 404 gracefully and informs the user, updates the UI, etc. Will it still return a 404 status, but inject a whole load of unexpected content?
If I understand the article correctly, web services will be unaffected because this will be baked into Firefox itself.
So, unless you're running your web service through an instance of Firefox, this won't make any difference.
Yes, it'll be a copy of michelle obama's website.
Melanoma Trump didn't copy Michelle's speech, she um, "creatively re-purposed" her work by quoting it verbatim!
Like when I duplicate a $100 bill and spend it at the store, it's like an art project, I'm not copying it!
No doubt North Korea will manage to plant their flag on the moon; in today's context it is no longer an immodest proposition for a country.
I sincerely doubt this will ever happen.
Ahh! "word" not "work". *sigh*
Thank GOD that slashdot doesn't allow any super-advanced features like editing a post, even for a 2-minute period after posting. Because that would just be pandering to its users, eh?
Seriously, slashdot- get your shit together and let people edit a fucking post. If you're worried about malicious edits, make posts editable for some short period after they've been posted. A couple of minutes would do it, just long enough to fix a typo or something.
Now, cue the anal-retentive douche bags who'll feel that this idea is crazily permissive or something.
On any media at all.
But the IOC's over-the-top "We own it all!" is just a bit much. They're almost to the point of enforcing death penalty should someone even think about posting a selfie of themselves at the Olympics.
Dear mpercy,
In a recent slashdot post, you used the word "Olympics" without the express written permission of the International Olympic Committee. This constitutes copyright infringement and unauthorized use of our intellectual property. To avoid a lawsuit, send us $980 within the next 24 hours, or face the wrath of our lawyers. Do not delay; we know where your little girl goes to school.
Yours Truly,
The International Olympic Committee
An international, non-profit, non-governmental organization
And the secret is.....sending a shitload of money to the mortgage company. lol
Aren't they like two generations out of date? Maybe in 1980 folks cared about that crap.
Are you referring to brand name stuff? Lol, if so, you're the one that's out of date.
All that stuff- Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Prada, etc -all of it sells like fucking hotcakes. I was with my wife was in the Chanel store last night, she was looking for a little leather keycase that she wanted. They were all sold out. This thing was $750 plus tax, and there's a 2-month waiting list. That's about what I paid for my first car, a looooong time ago.
Purses? $3500 and up, for a tiny little purse. (The big ones are expensive.) Sunglasses are $500 a pair, easy.
And it's not artificial scarcity, they get 50 of these keycases in and they're gone in 2 days. People buy that stuff like crazy, you have no idea.
So trust me, some people still care about that "crap", you probably just don't make enough money to be aware of it.
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One of the effects of getting older is that some things become depressingly obvious, and a lot of the time you know exactly what's going to happen next. Not always, of course, but often. Once you've seen shit play out the same way hundreds or thousands of times, when you see it start again you just know what's going to happen, the "story arc", if you will.
This applies to jobs, relationships, divorces, dating, social interaction, and all sorts of other things. It doesn't take a wizard to see it and you don't have to be a genius either, it's just that after you see it over and over again, the pattern (and the outcome) becomes obvious.
I deal with more than a few millennials, and to be honest, I feel sorry for them. They're inheriting a pretty fucked-up world where jobs are scarce, competition is fierce, and housing is probably going to be out of reach for many of them forever. Dating seems to be a total mess, way worse than when I was in the dating sphere.
For example, when people my age grew up and started our careers (about 50 million years ago) we didn't have to worry about people from China or India swooping in and taking our jobs. But now it's a common occurrence. That's fucked up; it's gotta be stressful, no?
Also, the socially-isolating effects of the internet has dropped a lot of unexpected problems on millennials, and one of those seems to be a reduced ability to carry on meaningful social interactions. This doesn't apply to all millennials of course, but it does apply to a lot of them. So I'm speaking in generalities, but still...
Without a phone many of them feel cast adrift and nervous, disconnected and unsure of how to act or how to conduct themselves. Oh sure, simple stuff isn't a big deal, but many millennials are out of their depth at a large social function where they're expected to interact with lots of people in non-shallow ways. I've seen it firsthand, and like I said, I feel sorry for many of them.
The social "lubricant" of normal interaction (both the good and the bad) that we older farts learned as we grew up is often missing, and it seems a lot of millennials have reduced attention spans. I'm not joking, it's often seems very difficult for them to focus on anything for protracted periods of time, to basically devote themselves to a single task and ignore everything else until it's done.
So no, I don't hate millennials, I feel like they've got a shit deck stacked against them and not a lot of chances for things to get better for them. If anything, I see things becoming harder for them in a lot of ways, and I feel sorry for what they've been thrust into- a world that's out to monetize them at every turn and bend, a world where employers will dump them at the first sign of trouble, and so on.
"Facebook Changed One of it's Algorithms And You Won't Believe What Happened Next!"
"Facebook Reduced Its Clickbait Using This One Weird Trick!"
Since I'm one of the last few carbon-based lifeforms in the entire world who doesn't use Facebook, I can ignore this whole mess. Yay for meeeeeeee!
I just listed the phone in the name of my "roommate", who didn't exist and was obviously never home.
If anyone, and I mean ANYONE ever called asking for him, they were told that "he died" and then we would hang up.
... so it's really closer to $50 per month to not be spied upon.
And they'll still spy on you, they'll just call it something else, like "Customer Satisfaction Metrics" or some such bullshit. But either way, they'll still spy on you.
I think I bought the same thing. It's soooooooooooo tempting to just pull out a gun and shoot the fucker full of holes.
As an aging techy, Smart TVs are among the gadgets that I look at and say "Is there something I am missing here, am I finally going over the hill, or is this really just the crappiest dogpile of UX malpractice, feature bloat, and scamware ever created?"
That's been my experience when I go to Best Buy or Frys or whatever and look at the new gadgets, especially TVs.
I look at them and think, "I don't need this shit, just give me a TV without all the 5-level nested menus and other horsecrap." But almost no one makes a TV that doesn't include loads of useless shit. My last TV (a couple years old) has firmware that never seems to have an update available and loads of picture settings that don't seem to do much at all. Adjusting settings is frustrating as fuck, and I speak as someone that's been in tech for 40 fucking years.
My Blu Ray player came with a load of utter bullshit like screen savers and some of the lamest games you've ever seen, and it also doesn't ever seem to have an update available either.
The Blu Ray player's craptastic "Opera Store" doesn't even have a browser available (!!) nor does it have an Amazon TV app, and there's no way to get one. The USB port on the front is WORTHLESS, it's only for showing stored pics and movies, and it won't recognize a keyboard (or any other device), which is really too bad since the on-screen keyboard is the WORST, most user-unfriendly piece of shit in the known universe.
Seriously, fuck you, TV manufacturers, fuck you in the ass with a telephone pole wrapped in barbed-wire.
"We have reached out to Microsoft for clarification, and will update the post when we hear back from them."
In other words, "We have reached out to Microsoft for clarification, and will update the post when they tell us to fuck off and stop complaining."
Now i'm 47 and the hormone cloud has dispersed, and I have a hard time (ha) getting interested in a conversation with most women. The occasional bright one still brings out some mild interest but the vast majority are boring as hell, because I know where it ends, and it isn't pretty at all.
This contains far more truth than the average person (male or female) can handle.
It's a fact: once the hormones stop raging, women cease to have any power over you at all. We older guys can take 'em or leave 'em, and that makes most women really, really mad. "Wait- I let you look at my butt and you didn't immediately drop everything and ask if you could buy me a car? You *^$%#@ bastard!!"
Sorry sweetie, shaking your boobs won't do it for me anymore, you've got to bring more to the table than cleavage.
The waves of desperation coming off of most unmarried women over 30 or 35 is sad and scary, but at the same time it's delicious and satisfying.
Now you're the ones begging for a morsel of attention, ladies, but I've moved on and have no time to play your silly games. :)
3) Have you ever considered making a porn site? Perhaps "Booby on Rails"
I think you meant "Booby on Tails", no?
Is there anything that can't be used to suck up your personal information, location, spending habits, etc etc?
"Some companies may be analysing the possibility of monetising the access to battery levels"
Holy shit, kill me now. But first let me throw a few marketers into the wood chipper.
"When battery is running low, people might be prone to some -- otherwise different -- decisions. In such circumstances, users will agree to pay more for a service."
Okay, now I really mean it, just kill me. And make sure to plaster advertisements all over my headstone, okay?
It's a truly spectacular way to take money away from paranoid anti-establishment off-the-grid people.
Yep, except they can't even be off the grid to use it, lol.