The FBI is asking for irrelevant information. It does not matter who wants to know. What matters is that the operations of government are transparent to everyone. I want to ask the FBI the question they always ask when they are seeking information from people who are suspicious of their motives. "What is your problem with answering our questions... unless you have something to hide?" (This line should be delivered with an arrogant leer)
And what if that email request is coming from China or Russia?
Validating the source of the request is perfectly legitimate. It's a shame that they have to take a step backwards, technology-wise, but their reasoning is sound.
From http://www.dictionary.com/brow...: a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating.
The British definition is a little clearer: (in Zen Buddhism) a problem or riddle that admits no logical solution
things should be such that smoking is inconvenient, difficult and expensive
Why? Many health care plans already factor in smoking to their rates based on a subscriber's tobacco use. If an adult chooses to spark up a cigarette in some location where he's not inflicting harm on others, what's the big problem?
Because many people who smoke don't have steady jobs that provide health care. Or they work 2 or 3 part-time jobs, which do not provide health care. Or they "live" on welfare, and their health care is "paid for" by tax payers.
Just need... Seamonkey and Thunderbird ported to Palemoon, then a 6 month focused effort by the internet community sorting out the crapfest of C++ interfaces in gecko and plugging all the holes.
Thunderbird has already has been ported by the makers of Palemoon. It's called FossaMail
I've been using PaleMoon in both Windows and Linux, and Fossamail in just Linux, ever since Mozilla "chromed" Firefox. Although I had to choose a few different add-ons in PM, most of my chosen FF add-ons work fine in PM.
I use Firefox almost exclusively and I am very happy with it.
I don't see how this article is relevant to Firefox anyway. Who was going to use firefox on a TV, or toaster IoT anyway?
THis is Mozilla being smart so they can put more resources into the projects that matte more, including firefox for mobile and desktop.
Good for you, but you are in the minority.
Mozilla signed Firefox's death certificate when they decided to abandon their developers and their users by turning FF into a clone of Chrome. Announcing the intentional breaking of add-ons that have millions of users was downright ignorant. Completely redesigning FF so that longtime developers essentially have to learn a new programming language was also ignorant.
Mozilla will die because of their stupid decisions. Unfortunately, only the users will suffer from it. Ignorant management has already been paid, and they'll just move on to another company.
Luck tends to not be the most consistent factor in a tournament, that's why you frequently see the same professional players making it through to the top 50 and frequently even the final table out of thousands. When you take the human factor out and boil it down to purely mathematics (i.e. chance and betting patterns etc) I would expect a computer to win long term. Poker though is more than just mathematics, it is about reading people and quite often manipulating them, playing a computer isn't the same as playing poker at a table of people.
I play a lot of poker, both in cash games and in tournaments. Luck is a HUGE factor in tournaments. That is why so many unknown players win them. If it was mostly skill, then only the pros would be winning them, which absolutely IS NOT the case.
There is a saying in poker tournaments: in order to win, to have to win your share of "coin flips." An example of a "coin flip" is my matched (paired) hole cards against your two cards that are higher than mine. For example, my pair of 8s against your King-Queen. My pair only has a 52% chance of winning the hand. You have a 48% chance of improving your hand with any King or Queen, or making a higher straight, flush, or full house than I do.
That being said, luck is only a factor at the end of the hand, when both of us have to show our cards. I often say that "poker is about everything except the cards, unless and until you have paid to see my cards." If I can make you fold with just my betting, then the cards are irrelevant. That happens in AT LEAST 4 out of 5 hands in live games. Most of the time, poker is about the size of my chip stack vs. yours, who bet first, how much they bet, how often they bet, how often they raise, how many hands they play (vs. just folding), how much they usually raise, do they have an aggressive image at the table, do they ever re-raise, have you seen them fold every time someone raises, etc., etc.
Why not have a checkbox on every tab that defaults to off, and which dictates whether the page updates at all when the tab is inactive?
Almost all tab use is, unfortunately, a lazy substitute for bookmarking, of pages that don't need to update when not viewed.
You're an idiot to assume that your use case is also everyone else's use case. Or just an arrogant ass. Or both.
I use multiple tabs when doing Internet searches. I always right-click links and select Open Link in New Tab. That way, I can close an irrelevant new tab without losing track of my search, and without having to backtrack to the correct page in the history. I can also leave a slow-loading new tab alone while I look at another tab. Or even right-click > Open on 2 or 3 links in a row so they can refresh in the background.
I'm waiting for the Canadian anti-spam/anti-malware law to authorize class actions, sometime later this year. It will be interesting to see if US-style class actions will cause companies like MS to not install things without the users' permission.
I was about to write some really snarky prose until I read the rest of the article and realized that the headline was a dog whistle specifically for me. There's some good stuff there, for the poor souls who accept such limited control over their computer.
Wait, someone on/. RTF?!?!?!?!?!
My life is complete. I could die today in complete peacefulness, knowing that all is right with the world.
The moral of the story is that HP/Compaq is shit and has always been shit. Compaq was shit before being acquired by HP and the resulting combination is also shit. In case you're wondering, Sony is also shit. You want Asus, Lenovo, or Toshiba, in no particular order.
I agree with the "HP is shit" comments, and that includes their printers.
For laptops and desktops, my employer only buys Dells, and we've had pretty good luck with them.
Educated atheists? Wow, now there is a contradictory pair of words.
Quite the opposite, actually. Educated people have the intelligence to think for themselves, and to realize that religion is made-up bullshit.
Educated people also have the intelligence to recognize that religion is popular because much of humanity needs it, not because there is any truth to religion itself.
Here are some reasons why people believe in, or need, religion:
* To please their parents.
* Because society has taught them that it is "the right thing to do."
* Because it answers the question "where did I come from?"
* Because it answers the question "where did the world come from?"
* Because it answers the question "where did the universe come from?"
* Because it answers the question "what happens to me after I die?"
* Because it answers the question "why is life unfair?"
* Because it gives them a sense of purpose.
* Because it gives them a sense of belonging.
* Because it satisfies an emotional need.
* Centuries ago, when science was in its infancy, religion could answer every "why" question that science could not answer.
Jodie Foster's character in the movie Contact is a good example of how science (education) and religion do not mix. Religious characters tried to explain the unknown with their "faith", while Jodie's character tried to explain it with science.
Um bullshit. Companies hire contractors at their own set rates. The ability to set your own rate has nothing to do with being a contractor.
You might want to stop talking out of your ass. All it does is make you look like a fool.
As a contractor, only I set my rates. Companies usually have a budget for a project, but I've never seen one that "only hires contractors for $45 an hour".
Somebody found a bug in a piece of proprietary software. This is news? It happens all the time. Google will fix it soon and we'll all forget about it. Nothing to see here, folks.
For those who have an Epson printer and did not know that this could happen, it is definitely news.
If you think it is not, then you are probably in the wrong forum.
I get prints at 0.2c, no cartridge lock-ins, ink refills are cheap and I get to do it myself.
Also: This bug was caused by Google and now has been fixed by Google. I never required GCP, because Epson Connect Services have handled printing and scanning for me.
Same here. I used to have an HP OfficeJet, until a firmware update corrupted it so that it would only work with genuine-HP ink. It would no longer work with 3rd party ink, even though it had been doing that fine for the previous 2 years.
I donated the HP to Goodwill, and bought an Epson. The Epson works great with cheap, refilled ink cartridges.
Oh, and I will never buy another HP product again, nor will I ever install another firmware update.
According to TFS, "Roughly four in five Americans agree that... they can easily determine what information is trustworthy."
Considering how many Americans only use their computers to access Facebook and email, that "4 out of 5" claim seems unlikely. What seems more likely is that "4 out of 5 Americans have no idea what information is trustworthy because they get said information from social media."
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The FBI is asking for irrelevant information. It does not matter who wants to know. What matters is that the operations of government are transparent to everyone. I want to ask the FBI the question they always ask when they are seeking information from people who are suspicious of their motives. "What is your problem with answering our questions... unless you have something to hide?" (This line should be delivered with an arrogant leer)
And what if that email request is coming from China or Russia?
Validating the source of the request is perfectly legitimate. It's a shame that they have to take a step backwards, technology-wise, but their reasoning is sound.
and WTF is a koan?
From http://www.dictionary.com/brow...: a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating.
The British definition is a little clearer: (in Zen Buddhism) a problem or riddle that admits no logical solution
things should be such that smoking is inconvenient, difficult and expensive
Why? Many health care plans already factor in smoking to their rates based on a subscriber's tobacco use. If an adult chooses to spark up a cigarette in some location where he's not inflicting harm on others, what's the big problem?
Because many people who smoke don't have steady jobs that provide health care. Or they work 2 or 3 part-time jobs, which do not provide health care. Or they "live" on welfare, and their health care is "paid for" by tax payers.
Just need ... Seamonkey and Thunderbird ported to Palemoon, then a 6 month focused effort by the internet community sorting out the crapfest of C++ interfaces in gecko and plugging all the holes.
Thunderbird has already has been ported by the makers of Palemoon. It's called FossaMail
I've been using PaleMoon in both Windows and Linux, and Fossamail in just Linux, ever since Mozilla "chromed" Firefox. Although I had to choose a few different add-ons in PM, most of my chosen FF add-ons work fine in PM.
All our business computers were just converted to Firefox.
I'm sorry. Hopefully, your computers are not locked down so tightly that you cannot install an alternate browser.
I use Firefox almost exclusively and I am very happy with it. I don't see how this article is relevant to Firefox anyway. Who was going to use firefox on a TV, or toaster IoT anyway? THis is Mozilla being smart so they can put more resources into the projects that matte more, including firefox for mobile and desktop.
Good for you, but you are in the minority.
Mozilla signed Firefox's death certificate when they decided to abandon their developers and their users by turning FF into a clone of Chrome. Announcing the intentional breaking of add-ons that have millions of users was downright ignorant. Completely redesigning FF so that longtime developers essentially have to learn a new programming language was also ignorant.
Mozilla will die because of their stupid decisions. Unfortunately, only the users will suffer from it. Ignorant management has already been paid, and they'll just move on to another company.
IIRC, I saw an article a week or two ago that said "It's time to admit Apple Watch is a Failure." Seriously.
Luck tends to not be the most consistent factor in a tournament, that's why you frequently see the same professional players making it through to the top 50 and frequently even the final table out of thousands. When you take the human factor out and boil it down to purely mathematics (i.e. chance and betting patterns etc) I would expect a computer to win long term. Poker though is more than just mathematics, it is about reading people and quite often manipulating them, playing a computer isn't the same as playing poker at a table of people.
I play a lot of poker, both in cash games and in tournaments. Luck is a HUGE factor in tournaments. That is why so many unknown players win them. If it was mostly skill, then only the pros would be winning them, which absolutely IS NOT the case.
There is a saying in poker tournaments: in order to win, to have to win your share of "coin flips." An example of a "coin flip" is my matched (paired) hole cards against your two cards that are higher than mine. For example, my pair of 8s against your King-Queen. My pair only has a 52% chance of winning the hand. You have a 48% chance of improving your hand with any King or Queen, or making a higher straight, flush, or full house than I do.
That being said, luck is only a factor at the end of the hand, when both of us have to show our cards. I often say that "poker is about everything except the cards, unless and until you have paid to see my cards." If I can make you fold with just my betting, then the cards are irrelevant. That happens in AT LEAST 4 out of 5 hands in live games. Most of the time, poker is about the size of my chip stack vs. yours, who bet first, how much they bet, how often they bet, how often they raise, how many hands they play (vs. just folding), how much they usually raise, do they have an aggressive image at the table, do they ever re-raise, have you seen them fold every time someone raises, etc., etc.
Challenge accepted.
Indeed.
Why not have a checkbox on every tab that defaults to off, and which dictates whether the page updates at all when the tab is inactive? Almost all tab use is, unfortunately, a lazy substitute for bookmarking, of pages that don't need to update when not viewed.
You're an idiot to assume that your use case is also everyone else's use case. Or just an arrogant ass. Or both.
I use multiple tabs when doing Internet searches. I always right-click links and select Open Link in New Tab. That way, I can close an irrelevant new tab without losing track of my search, and without having to backtrack to the correct page in the history. I can also leave a slow-loading new tab alone while I look at another tab. Or even right-click > Open on 2 or 3 links in a row so they can refresh in the background.
I'm waiting for the Canadian anti-spam/anti-malware law to authorize class actions, sometime later this year. It will be interesting to see if US-style class actions will cause companies like MS to not install things without the users' permission.
We can only hope.
32% of the people who were surveyed admit to watching pirated content.
That says nothing about those who lied to the surveyors, nor does it say anything about the millions of law-abiding citizens that were not surveyed.
Once again inanimate rock you have failed us you helped out the dinosaurs god really does hate us
By no means. This is just God's way of reminding us not to get caught doing what the dinosaurs got caught doing.
Yup, eating and procreating are evil things. You will burn in an imaginary hell forever!
I was about to write some really snarky prose until I read the rest of the article and realized that the headline was a dog whistle specifically for me. There's some good stuff there, for the poor souls who accept such limited control over their computer.
Wait, someone on /. RTF?!?!?!?!?!
My life is complete. I could die today in complete peacefulness, knowing that all is right with the world.
At least I can upgrade the SSD to 1 TB or more but no upgrading the RAM soldered to the system board.
Wait, people buy laptops that have the RAM soldered to the system board? Who would do that?
A tablet, sure, but a laptop? And no USB ports either? To each their own, I guess, but wow, what a waste of money.
I don't like most people, so I avoid conversation, including smalltalk.
Moral of the story? Fuck, I don't know.
The moral of the story is that HP/Compaq is shit and has always been shit. Compaq was shit before being acquired by HP and the resulting combination is also shit. In case you're wondering, Sony is also shit. You want Asus, Lenovo, or Toshiba, in no particular order.
I agree with the "HP is shit" comments, and that includes their printers.
For laptops and desktops, my employer only buys Dells, and we've had pretty good luck with them.
In another 90 years, they'll have run out of the visible spectrum, and we'll get the Ultra-Violet Screen of Death.
In another 90 years, MS will be a distant memory.
No, cron has a binary. It is indeed a binary for a daemon, but it is named 'cron', and lives in /usr/sbin
crond would be what you would find in /etc/init.d
There is no cron binary in Mageia:
/usr/sbin | grep cron
~ $ which cron
which: no cron in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/lib64/qt4/bin:/usr/lib64/qt5/bin:/home/username/bin:/sbin)
~ $ ll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37104 Oct 18 2014 anacron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 63192 Oct 18 2014 crond
Educated atheists? Wow, now there is a contradictory pair of words.
Quite the opposite, actually. Educated people have the intelligence to think for themselves, and to realize that religion is made-up bullshit.
Educated people also have the intelligence to recognize that religion is popular because much of humanity needs it, not because there is any truth to religion itself.
Here are some reasons why people believe in, or need, religion:
* To please their parents.
* Because society has taught them that it is "the right thing to do."
* Because it answers the question "where did I come from?"
* Because it answers the question "where did the world come from?"
* Because it answers the question "where did the universe come from?"
* Because it answers the question "what happens to me after I die?"
* Because it answers the question "why is life unfair?"
* Because it gives them a sense of purpose.
* Because it gives them a sense of belonging.
* Because it satisfies an emotional need.
* Centuries ago, when science was in its infancy, religion could answer every "why" question that science could not answer.
Jodie Foster's character in the movie Contact is a good example of how science (education) and religion do not mix. Religious characters tried to explain the unknown with their "faith", while Jodie's character tried to explain it with science.
Um bullshit. Companies hire contractors at their own set rates. The ability to set your own rate has nothing to do with being a contractor.
You might want to stop talking out of your ass. All it does is make you look like a fool.
As a contractor, only I set my rates. Companies usually have a budget for a project, but I've never seen one that "only hires contractors for $45 an hour".
Somebody found a bug in a piece of proprietary software. This is news? It happens all the time. Google will fix it soon and we'll all forget about it. Nothing to see here, folks.
For those who have an Epson printer and did not know that this could happen, it is definitely news.
If you think it is not, then you are probably in the wrong forum.
Currently, Epson is the best thing there is.
I get prints at 0.2c, no cartridge lock-ins, ink refills are cheap and I get to do it myself.
Also: This bug was caused by Google and now has been fixed by Google. I never required GCP, because Epson Connect Services have handled printing and scanning for me.
Same here. I used to have an HP OfficeJet, until a firmware update corrupted it so that it would only work with genuine-HP ink. It would no longer work with 3rd party ink, even though it had been doing that fine for the previous 2 years.
I donated the HP to Goodwill, and bought an Epson. The Epson works great with cheap, refilled ink cartridges.
Oh, and I will never buy another HP product again, nor will I ever install another firmware update.
According to TFS, "Roughly four in five Americans agree that ... they can easily determine what information is trustworthy."
Considering how many Americans only use their computers to access Facebook and email, that "4 out of 5" claim seems unlikely. What seems more likely is that "4 out of 5 Americans have no idea what information is trustworthy because they get said information from social media."
As in most cases, going to extremes is rarely a good thing.