Would it matter if that picture was being passed onto a server somewhere where someone could post it publicly and show that you were a dirty bird looking at something you'd rather not have your peers know you're looking at?
It wouldn't matter to me, but some prudes or hypocrites might get all pissy about it.
Why would I care if they had my picture, what exactly does that prove or how does it harm me?
Personally, ransomware authors should be hunted down and shot, but I think having my picture and claiming that it came from some porn app is a pretty weak threat.
I'm so glad I'm not on Win10. With any luck, I never will be.
This blatant crap of tracking every click, every mouse movement, every site, etc etc etc is mind boggling in the fact that they would even propose doing this, let alone brag about it.
"Telemetry"? I think the word they really want is "spying".
They probably don't think in terms like this, but I know a lot of people that don't like to watch a show until it's done
I won't watch a show until it's done because there is nothing on TV compelling enough to make me sit through tampon and cat food commercials to watch it, and because there's nothing on TV compelling enough to make me wait a week between episodes.
But "commit" to a show? It's a fucking TV program, not a marriage or a decision whether or not to amputate a limb.
I would tell these people who are worried about "committing" to a TV program to get a fucking grip and reevaluate what their life is all about.
I swear to god, there are times when I think that Pottering is a secret, deep-cover plant by Microsoft whose job is to disrupt the Linux community, fragment the OS by introducing shit like systemd, and generally make a hash of the Linux ecosystem.
This whole systemd fiasco has caused a boatload of infighting, dissension among what should be cooperative members and teams, and it makes the process of administering Linux systems that much harder. I'm no dev guru or Linux wizard, but even I know that swallowing stderr messages and mucking with long-time, well-established syslog formats is a Bad Thing.
If he's not a secret, deep-cover plant owned and directed by Microsoft, he should be. Microsoft should be paying him handsomely for all the trouble he's caused.
* No, I don't think he's really a Microsoft operative, but damn...he may as well be.
Why should I commit to a show if the network won't?
Who thinks in terms like this, in terms of "committing" to a show? Has Hollywood and the mass-entertainment industry really gotten people so fucked up so that people actually think about "committing to a show"? Do you have to sign some fucking Loyalty Oath or document that states you'll watch it faithfully? This is just fucking stupid.
Seriously, that's one of the saddest things I've heard in quite a while. "Commit" to a show. FFS, get a life.
Same here. We have a huge TV and never turn it on. No cable, but we have free Netflix, and even that can't get us interested enough to slog through all the shit in their listings in a vain attempt to find something, anything, worth watching.
Breaking Bad was the last thing we actually watched, and it'll probably be the last thing we ever watch.
Is there "good stuff" on TV? Probably, but it's buried by the mountain of shit-shows that are standard fare these days. And so we just don't watch TV anymore.
I get you. See "Extreme Couponing" for a wild example.
Oh my goodness, "Extreme Couponing"....that does sound exciting. I'm not sure my heart could take that level of action and drama, not to mention the plot twists.
stop watching BECAUSE EVERY EPISODE WILL BE THE SAME.
Yep, this is the problem. Ice Road Truckers, Most Dangerous Catch, etc etc etc. they're all the same formulaic nonsense. Every Damn. Time.
1) Guy/gal has a job. -- commercials -- 2) Guy/gal encounters a problem on the job (OH NOES!) -- commercials -- 3) Guy/gal finds a way to solve the problem (YIPPEES!) -- commercials -- 4) Roll credits & more commercials.
And this is why, despite having a giant TV, we have no cable and almost never turn the fucking thing on. Even Netflix has become 90 minutes of searching to find a program or show that doesn't old our interest for more than ~15 minutes. (Some people say it's always been that way, but those people also claim that once upon a time MTV didn't have commercials.)
What Node.js based forum software is better than phpBB? What Node.js based wiki software is better than MediaWiki? And what Node.js based blog software is any good?
1) None. 2) None. 3) None.
They don't exist because writing these applications in Hode.js would be stupid and pointless.
(I personally prefer SMF to phpBB, but both of them are pretty capable forum systems.)
The fact is that PHP works. It gets the job done. Most everything else is irrelevant to me.
The fact is that in the last 10 ~ 12 years, PHP has made me hundreds of thousands of dollars and hasn't cost me anything. It works, I like it, The End.
If these nancy-boy frou-frou programmers turn their nose up at it, good for them. But PHP is making me money every day, allowing me to goof off and live a life without of relative leisure, while they have to drag their "elite-coder" asses into work each day and grumble about how much they hate their fucking job. lol
It gets the job done and makes me money every single day, so honestly, I don't care how inconsistent it is or how silly the syntax seems. I make my house payment with PHP every month and that's the bottom line.
2003 called, they want their lame "PHP is for teh losers" joke back.
The fact is that PHP has made me hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last few years without costing me a cent. I have dozens of websites churning away earning money, and they all run on PHP. (A classic LAMP stack, actually.)
Feel free to rag on PHP to your heart's content, but coding in PHP has allowed me to work from home for years, do what I want, retire early, and enjoy my life....while you probably have to go into work and slave away each day, hoping that The Boss doesn't fire you.
So by all means, please keep telling me how awful PHP is, I'd love to hear more.;)
Crowd sourced medicine and pharmaceuticals, what could possibly go wrong?
I mean, there's no way that spammers and scammers would ever abuse this. They already sell fake penis pills so this whole industry will be a natural for them to invade and infest.
Yep, this is true across large swaths of SE Asia...Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, etc etc etc. They DO have some actual doctors and Vietnam has some excellent hospitals that do top-notch work, but sadly much of the population believes in magical medicine and "herbal cures" that have no effect (other than as a placebo).
Got a chest pain? "Wear this copper key on a leather thong around your neck for 2 weeks and you'll be cured." That's often the level of "medicine" you'll encounter among neighborhoods both poor and rich.
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Maybe you are younger or in better shape.
Neither, which is probably why I wouldn't care. (If any gets off looking at me, they have bigger problems than a wad of cash will solve.)
Would it matter if that picture was being passed onto a server somewhere where someone could post it publicly and show that you were a dirty bird looking at something you'd rather not have your peers know you're looking at?
It wouldn't matter to me, but some prudes or hypocrites might get all pissy about it.
Why would I care if they had my picture, what exactly does that prove or how does it harm me?
Personally, ransomware authors should be hunted down and shot, but I think having my picture and claiming that it came from some porn app is a pretty weak threat.
A shit-written app for social-media numpties has a glaring vulnerability?? Geez, who coulda seen that coming??
Obligatory: I'm shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU!!
That makes three of us.
I'm so glad I'm not on Win10. With any luck, I never will be.
This blatant crap of tracking every click, every mouse movement, every site, etc etc etc is mind boggling in the fact that they would even propose doing this, let alone brag about it.
"Telemetry"? I think the word they really want is "spying".
They probably don't think in terms like this, but I know a lot of people that don't like to watch a show until it's done
I won't watch a show until it's done because there is nothing on TV compelling enough to make me sit through tampon and cat food commercials to watch it, and because there's nothing on TV compelling enough to make me wait a week between episodes.
But "commit" to a show? It's a fucking TV program, not a marriage or a decision whether or not to amputate a limb.
I would tell these people who are worried about "committing" to a TV program to get a fucking grip and reevaluate what their life is all about.
Because he's old.
Stop being so Dice-friendly PC! It's because he's a guy.
No, no...it's because I'm a guy AND because I'm old. Sheesh.
I swear to god, there are times when I think that Pottering is a secret, deep-cover plant by Microsoft whose job is to disrupt the Linux community, fragment the OS by introducing shit like systemd, and generally make a hash of the Linux ecosystem.
This whole systemd fiasco has caused a boatload of infighting, dissension among what should be cooperative members and teams, and it makes the process of administering Linux systems that much harder. I'm no dev guru or Linux wizard, but even I know that swallowing stderr messages and mucking with long-time, well-established syslog formats is a Bad Thing.
If he's not a secret, deep-cover plant owned and directed by Microsoft, he should be. Microsoft should be paying him handsomely for all the trouble he's caused.
* No, I don't think he's really a Microsoft operative, but damn...he may as well be.
"The nice thing about Snappy is that it's completely worry-free updates"
Any time anyone says something is "completely worry-free", that's your cue to worry. Ask me how I know.
I found a neat show when I was in the UK last but I've forgotten the title so I can't really tell you much.
Now there's a ringing endorsement: it was so neat that you blanked out everything about it, including the name of the show.
I'm gonna print this out and frame it.
This damages the viewers' trust in future shows
Lol, like I ever had any "trust" in any show, anywhere, ever. That's a supremely retarded thing to say.
Why should I commit to a show if the network won't?
Who thinks in terms like this, in terms of "committing" to a show? Has Hollywood and the mass-entertainment industry really gotten people so fucked up so that people actually think about "committing to a show"? Do you have to sign some fucking Loyalty Oath or document that states you'll watch it faithfully? This is just fucking stupid.
Seriously, that's one of the saddest things I've heard in quite a while. "Commit" to a show. FFS, get a life.
Same here. We have a huge TV and never turn it on. No cable, but we have free Netflix, and even that can't get us interested enough to slog through all the shit in their listings in a vain attempt to find something, anything, worth watching.
Breaking Bad was the last thing we actually watched, and it'll probably be the last thing we ever watch.
Is there "good stuff" on TV? Probably, but it's buried by the mountain of shit-shows that are standard fare these days. And so we just don't watch TV anymore.
I get you. See "Extreme Couponing" for a wild example.
Oh my goodness, "Extreme Couponing"....that does sound exciting. I'm not sure my heart could take that level of action and drama, not to mention the plot twists.
stop watching BECAUSE EVERY EPISODE WILL BE THE SAME.
Yep, this is the problem. Ice Road Truckers, Most Dangerous Catch, etc etc etc. they're all the same formulaic nonsense. Every Damn. Time.
1) Guy/gal has a job.
-- commercials --
2) Guy/gal encounters a problem on the job (OH NOES!)
-- commercials --
3) Guy/gal finds a way to solve the problem (YIPPEES!)
-- commercials --
4) Roll credits & more commercials.
And this is why, despite having a giant TV, we have no cable and almost never turn the fucking thing on. Even Netflix has become 90 minutes of searching to find a program or show that doesn't old our interest for more than ~15 minutes. (Some people say it's always been that way, but those people also claim that once upon a time MTV didn't have commercials.)
^^^ This.
It amazes me just how many people (criminals especially) just don't get this.
They're carrying a GPS-enabled device, and if that's not enough, triangulating off the cell towers it passes near to is trivial and accurate.
And they wonder how they get caught....
I was reading,waiting for your language retort, then I read java
do you actually take yourself serious?
I laughed too, especially at the "stellar performance" bit. Ya gotta admit, that was funny.
What Node.js based forum software is better than phpBB? What Node.js based wiki software is better than MediaWiki? And what Node.js based blog software is any good?
1) None.
2) None.
3) None.
They don't exist because writing these applications in Hode.js would be stupid and pointless.
(I personally prefer SMF to phpBB, but both of them are pretty capable forum systems.)
The fact is that PHP works. It gets the job done. Most everything else is irrelevant to me.
The fact is that in the last 10 ~ 12 years, PHP has made me hundreds of thousands of dollars and hasn't cost me anything. It works, I like it, The End.
If these nancy-boy frou-frou programmers turn their nose up at it, good for them. But PHP is making me money every day, allowing me to goof off and live a life without of relative leisure, while they have to drag their "elite-coder" asses into work each day and grumble about how much they hate their fucking job. lol
It gets the job done and makes me money every single day, so honestly, I don't care how inconsistent it is or how silly the syntax seems. I make my house payment with PHP every month and that's the bottom line.
Is php even relevant any more?
2003 called, they want their lame "PHP is for teh losers" joke back.
The fact is that PHP has made me hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last few years without costing me a cent. I have dozens of websites churning away earning money, and they all run on PHP. (A classic LAMP stack, actually.)
Feel free to rag on PHP to your heart's content, but coding in PHP has allowed me to work from home for years, do what I want, retire early, and enjoy my life....while you probably have to go into work and slave away each day, hoping that The Boss doesn't fire you.
So by all means, please keep telling me how awful PHP is, I'd love to hear more. ;)
Crowd sourced medicine and pharmaceuticals, what could possibly go wrong?
I mean, there's no way that spammers and scammers would ever abuse this. They already sell fake penis pills so this whole industry will be a natural for them to invade and infest.
Yep, this is true across large swaths of SE Asia...Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, etc etc etc. They DO have some actual doctors and Vietnam has some excellent hospitals that do top-notch work, but sadly much of the population believes in magical medicine and "herbal cures" that have no effect (other than as a placebo).
Got a chest pain? "Wear this copper key on a leather thong around your neck for 2 weeks and you'll be cured." That's often the level of "medicine" you'll encounter among neighborhoods both poor and rich.
Indeed, on the surface this appears to be nothing more than an updated version of nethack
Yeah, but this is webscale. Huge difference.