"Ice isn't just great for keeping your drinks cool at parties..."
Was this written for 3rd-graders?
Thanks for the credible scientific lead in. I mean, I had NO IDEA that ice was good for anything beyond keeping my drinks cold at parties. And now it turns out it's got something or other to do with the planet? Well I'll be damned. Can't we just go to the mini-mart and buy a few more bags?
FWIW, it seems that the latest FF build is more capable at memory management. I've only had it up about 12 ~ 15 hours and it's hovering around 1.4Gb. We'll see where it is after a day or two.
If it stays there and doesn't keep climbing then I'll be very happy...I've been dealing with FF memory issues for the last 20 releases or so.
Shut the fuck up, they've been designing electrolysis to use a sane number of processes in order to reduce memory usage, do you know any other modern browser doing that?
Shut the fuck up, I don't care. You're the kind of dick who brags about his car's awesome paint job when it's been up on cinder blocks for the last 5 years.
Isn't that the browser a lot of people used to use before the developers decided to wreck just about everything they liked in order to turn it into some kind of inferior imitation of Chrome?
But search engines might, as they rank slowly loading documents lower
This might surprise you, but unlike most site owners I don't give a shit about search engines or SEO. My clients don't come in through search engines.
One or two of my sites might benefit from improved SEO, but only one or two. The rest of them I wouldn't spend 5 minutes optimizing for any improvement in search engine ranking or visibility or mojo or page speed or dick hardness or whatever the fuck the magic sauce is these days.
Unless the site doesn't need to be looked up at all because it's already cached.
Yes, but it does because it's still got to check a version number. What's the problem if I want to serve it directly? Does that bother you somehow?
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These CDNs use HTTPS nowadays. What's the real probability of a CA compromise?
Silly me, you're right- no site on the net has ever been compromised and web security is flawless!
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These CDNs use versioned URLs so that they can set Expires: in the far future. An upgrade would produce a different URL.
So what? Now I have to check for the URL changing, or code it to the version I want. Either way it's simpler and more secure to serve it myself.
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And if your traditional hosting provider is down, so is your site.
Doing it my way I only have to worry about my site, not all the other sites that remote libraries may reside at. If my site is down that's my problem, if Joe Blow's CDN site is down I'm dead in the water. And then my clients complain that "my" site doesn't work.
Seriously, what's the problem if I want to serve my files directly? Does that keep you up at night or something? Why do you give a shit how I run my business and serve my clients? If you want to rely on other people to make sure your site is up, be my guest, but I'll do it my way.
If you're pissing your panties because my site takes an extra 100 milliseconds to load for you the first time you visit, go somewhere else.
Almost 20 years of operating web sites and serving clients day in and day out has taught me a few things, and one of them is not to rely on other sites or services unless I have to.
You're wrong. I've been doing this for three decades now. If you're serving a page to a client, sending them to a third-party to get the library always sucks.
I agree, partly for the same reasons and partly for different reasons.
Extra lookups to remote sites suck- more time, more misdirection, etc. You run the risk that the remote site has been compromised and is now serving up something malicious. Similarly, you run the risk of MITM stuff taking place. If they upgrade some file and it introduces an incompatibility it may very well break something on your site. If the remote site is down, guess what? So is your site.
I always host my own library files, period. GeoIP tables, javascript libraries, etc etc etc...if you're on my site, everything you need will be coming from my site. Basically, if I can host it then I will. The only exceptions are certain DNS/Whois lookups.
Thank you for calling Microsoft Advanced Combat Systems technical support
Please press 1 if you are in a combat situation other wise please hold for the next technician... beep Please in put your mission number... beep boop beep booop beeep boop beep boop beep beeep boop boop beep boop beep Mission verification complete we will now transfer you to a support technician......hold music...
Thank you for calling Microsoft Advanced Combat Systems technical support, may name is nahmeed how may I be helping you?
Look buddy my radar is froze up and I'm dodging a MIG 35 at the moment how about you fix this thing so I can take this sucker out.
I'm sorry to hear about that sir what Microsoft Advanced Combat System system are you calling about? The radar!! I understand sir but we have a lot of radar systems do you know the model number? No!... its the radar in the f-35.
Ok very good sir I can look that up. please hold......more hold music... Sir you still there ?? Yes I am I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to shake this MIG. Thats fine sir, can you tell me what firmware revision of the radar you are using?
What?? I don't know all I know is that its stuck with the same blips thats been on the screen for the last 15 minutes and nothing has changed. Look just log in and fix it.
I would be happy to be helping you sir. Let me know when you have landed the plane and come to a full stop and all weapon systems are in their safe position.
Are you kidding me?? I can't land this plane right now this MIG will make mince meat of me once I stop evasive maneuvers!
Ah I see sir unfortunately I can not help you until the planes is at a full stop and all weapons are safe.
Is there any thing else I can be doing for you?
Yeah how about you.... BOOM*&@!*shzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzsssssssssssss
Sir hello are you there? Hello sir?? Thank you for calling Microsoft Advanced Combat Systems technical support I hope you found this session helpful please reply to the survey at the end of this call. have a good day
Now we're fucked. Well and truly fucked. America has officially elected an ignorant, narcissistic crank with an attention span measured in milliseconds. A guy who claims he knows more than all the generals. President Pussy Grabber.
And every fucked up thing that happens from here on out is on you, the people who voted for him. Just remember this when the shit really starts to pile up- this is what you voted for. This is on you, and you're going to own it.
Apparently the nice people at IBM are still trying to live down their cooperation with the Nazis in WW2, when they helped with the cataloging of undesirables in the concentration camps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
Yeah, it's true. The role of IBM's German subsidiary, known as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft was documenting operations which allowed the Nazis to better organize their war effort, and in particular the Holocaust and use of Nazi concentration camps.
I don't think you'll find a Project Plaque for this in the lobby of IBM's main office, but I could be wrong. In any case, props to them for not getting involved this time.
IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.
Only after Jews were identified -- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately -- could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.
But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.
IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich's needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed.
Firstly....If they are going to assert porn = human trafficking, I wanna see some reliable evidence.
You want evidence? Why do you hate America so much, Noble713? (If that even is your real name...)
This is the new normal- "evidence", like "facts" and "proof" are optional at best, and contraindicated at worst. They are to be ignored in favor of strident shouting and jingoistic bellowing.
People who want evidence are just trying to get in the way of the current paradigm, which is that "whatever you assert" is now to be taken as fact, regardless of reality. That's how Trump can claim he "won" the popular vote when in reality (that word- ewwww!) he lost it by ~3 million votes.
So lets not have any more of this communistic, terror-based talk about "evidence". Embrace the Trump Distortion Field and just go with the flow. Remember, "Arbeit macht frei".
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I've never used or considered using Bitcoin and I don't know a single person who has.
Same here...the risks of owning bitcoins seem to greatly outweigh the benefits, at least to me.
"Ice isn't just great for keeping your drinks cool at parties..."
Was this written for 3rd-graders?
Thanks for the credible scientific lead in. I mean, I had NO IDEA that ice was good for anything beyond keeping my drinks cold at parties. And now it turns out it's got something or other to do with the planet? Well I'll be damned. Can't we just go to the mini-mart and buy a few more bags?
FWIW, it seems that the latest FF build is more capable at memory management. I've only had it up about 12 ~ 15 hours and it's hovering around 1.4Gb. We'll see where it is after a day or two.
If it stays there and doesn't keep climbing then I'll be very happy...I've been dealing with FF memory issues for the last 20 releases or so.
Ain't seen memory leaks for years... are you with us in 2016?
Obviously because you don't personally see them, they don't exist.
Shut the fuck up, they've been designing electrolysis to use a sane number of processes in order to reduce memory usage, do you know any other modern browser doing that?
Shut the fuck up, I don't care. You're the kind of dick who brags about his car's awesome paint job when it's been up on cinder blocks for the last 5 years.
Firefox doesn't leak memory these days.
WRONG.
Isn't that the browser a lot of people used to use before the developers decided to wreck just about everything they liked in order to turn it into some kind of inferior imitation of Chrome?
Nicely put. Yes, that would be the one.
"With Firefox 50, Mozilla has rolled out the first major piece of its new multi-process architecture."
That's nice, but I'd rather you jackasses just fix yer fuckin' memory leaks.
Pro Tip: Stop "improving" shit until it turns into a steaming pile of donkey shit. Oh, wait, we passed that point back around Firefox 30 or so.
But search engines might, as they rank slowly loading documents lower
This might surprise you, but unlike most site owners I don't give a shit about search engines or SEO. My clients don't come in through search engines.
One or two of my sites might benefit from improved SEO, but only one or two. The rest of them I wouldn't spend 5 minutes optimizing for any improvement in search engine ranking or visibility or mojo or page speed or dick hardness or whatever the fuck the magic sauce is these days.
Unless the site doesn't need to be looked up at all because it's already cached.
Yes, but it does because it's still got to check a version number. What's the problem if I want to serve it directly? Does that bother you somehow?
-
These CDNs use HTTPS nowadays. What's the real probability of a CA compromise?
Silly me, you're right- no site on the net has ever been compromised and web security is flawless!
-
These CDNs use versioned URLs so that they can set Expires: in the far future. An upgrade would produce a different URL.
So what? Now I have to check for the URL changing, or code it to the version I want. Either way it's simpler and more secure to serve it myself.
-
And if your traditional hosting provider is down, so is your site.
Doing it my way I only have to worry about my site, not all the other sites that remote libraries may reside at. If my site is down that's my problem, if Joe Blow's CDN site is down I'm dead in the water. And then my clients complain that "my" site doesn't work.
Seriously, what's the problem if I want to serve my files directly? Does that keep you up at night or something? Why do you give a shit how I run my business and serve my clients? If you want to rely on other people to make sure your site is up, be my guest, but I'll do it my way.
If you're pissing your panties because my site takes an extra 100 milliseconds to load for you the first time you visit, go somewhere else.
Almost 20 years of operating web sites and serving clients day in and day out has taught me a few things, and one of them is not to rely on other sites or services unless I have to.
The analyst said that Twitter's data quality is "horrible".
Using "twitter" and "data" and "quality" in the same sentence made me laugh.
You're wrong. I've been doing this for three decades now. If you're serving a page to a client, sending them to a third-party to get the library always sucks.
I agree, partly for the same reasons and partly for different reasons.
Extra lookups to remote sites suck- more time, more misdirection, etc.
You run the risk that the remote site has been compromised and is now serving up something malicious.
Similarly, you run the risk of MITM stuff taking place.
If they upgrade some file and it introduces an incompatibility it may very well break something on your site.
If the remote site is down, guess what? So is your site.
I always host my own library files, period. GeoIP tables, javascript libraries, etc etc etc...if you're on my site, everything you need will be coming from my site. Basically, if I can host it then I will. The only exceptions are certain DNS/Whois lookups.
Thank you for calling Microsoft Advanced Combat Systems technical support
Please press 1 if you are in a combat situation other wise please hold for the next technician... ...hold music...
beep
Please in put your mission number...
beep boop beep booop beeep boop beep boop beep beeep boop boop beep boop beep
Mission verification complete we will now transfer you to a support technician...
Thank you for calling Microsoft Advanced Combat Systems technical support, may name is nahmeed how may I be helping you?
Look buddy my radar is froze up and I'm dodging a MIG 35 at the moment how about you fix this thing so I can take this sucker out.
I'm sorry to hear about that sir what Microsoft Advanced Combat System system are you calling about? ... its the radar in the f-35.
The radar!!
I understand sir but we have a lot of radar systems do you know the model number?
No!
Ok very good sir I can look that up. please hold ... ...more hold music...
Sir you still there ??
Yes I am I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to shake this MIG.
Thats fine sir, can you tell me what firmware revision of the radar you are using?
What?? I don't know all I know is that its stuck with the same blips thats been on the screen for the last 15 minutes and nothing has changed. Look just log in and fix it.
I would be happy to be helping you sir. Let me know when you have landed the plane and come to a full stop and all weapon systems are in their safe position.
Are you kidding me?? I can't land this plane right now this MIG will make mince meat of me once I stop evasive maneuvers!
Ah I see sir unfortunately I can not help you until the planes is at a full stop and all weapons are safe.
Is there any thing else I can be doing for you?
Yeah how about you.... BOOM*&@!*shzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzsssssssssssss
Sir hello are you there?
Hello sir??
Thank you for calling Microsoft Advanced Combat Systems technical support I hope you found this session helpful please reply to the survey at the end of this call. have a good day
Then I go to bed so I could wake up at 5:30 am and walk to school. Five miles away through the snow, uphill each way.
You had it easy. We had to crawl 10 miles each way through the snow over broken glass on our knees, dodging mortar rounds and horny priests.
Goddammit, so depression is another thing I miss out on by not frittering my time away tweeting, instacrapping, or facebooking.
How am I supposed to get a good, honest depression going without using these time-wasting shithole sites?
Maybe I'll just have to resign myself to being happy.
Yes, all indications point to him being a terrible president,
I rest my case.
You can only speculate about the results, but Trump may very well have won that, too.
Oh please, give it a rest. He didn't win the popular vote, and that's a fact.
I didn't vote for Hillary because of her attitude. To me it seem like she thought she was entitled to the office.
I did the same. I hate Hillary Clinton, but the alternative was (is) far, far worse.
As someone who voted for Clinton (not as a vote for her, but a vote against the Orangegutan), don't thank the EC.
I did the same. I hate Hillary Clinton, but the alternative was (is) far, far worse.
As for the EC, this is the kind of disaster they were intended to stop, not rubber stamp.
It's funny you saw that because he's said before he wants to turn the Republican party into a worker's party.
Yeah, sure he does. And there are elephants living on the Abyssal Plain.
She did win the popular vote though.
Yes, only in America can you win by 3 million votes and still somehow lose. Thanks, Electoral College!
Now we're fucked. Well and truly fucked. America has officially elected an ignorant, narcissistic crank with an attention span measured in milliseconds. A guy who claims he knows more than all the generals. President Pussy Grabber.
And every fucked up thing that happens from here on out is on you, the people who voted for him. Just remember this when the shit really starts to pile up- this is what you voted for. This is on you, and you're going to own it.
Apparently the nice people at IBM are still trying to live down their cooperation with the Nazis in WW2, when they helped with the cataloging of undesirables in the concentration camps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
Yeah, it's true. The role of IBM's German subsidiary, known as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft was documenting operations which allowed the Nazis to better organize their war effort, and in particular the Holocaust and use of Nazi concentration camps.
I don't think you'll find a Project Plaque for this in the lobby of IBM's main office, but I could be wrong. In any case, props to them for not getting involved this time.
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More reading available at http://www.ibmandtheholocaust....
IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.
Only after Jews were identified -- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately -- could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.
But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.
IBM and its German subsidiary custom-designed complex solutions, one by one, anticipating the Reich's needs. They did not merely sell the machines and walk away. Instead, IBM leased these machines for high fees and became the sole source of the billions of punch cards Hitler needed.
Firstly....If they are going to assert porn = human trafficking, I wanna see some reliable evidence.
You want evidence? Why do you hate America so much, Noble713? (If that even is your real name...)
This is the new normal- "evidence", like "facts" and "proof" are optional at best, and contraindicated at worst. They are to be ignored in favor of strident shouting and jingoistic bellowing.
People who want evidence are just trying to get in the way of the current paradigm, which is that "whatever you assert" is now to be taken as fact, regardless of reality. That's how Trump can claim he "won" the popular vote when in reality (that word- ewwww!) he lost it by ~3 million votes.
So lets not have any more of this communistic, terror-based talk about "evidence". Embrace the Trump Distortion Field and just go with the flow. Remember, "Arbeit macht frei".
"South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers"
Translation: "South Carolina Lawmaker Bill Chumley Is A Fucking Idiot"
No surprise it's from South Carolina, where the state motto is, "At Least We're Not Louisiana"