2. Replace "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" with "https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/"
This is kinda off-topic, but seems as good a place as any to ask. I've always wondered, why do people often use the secure.wikimedia.org url when linking to wikipedia? Is HTTPS really necessary for reading an encyclopedia page? Or is there something else to it that I'm missing?
You're right in theory. Not in practice. I don't really feel like talking about it in more detail, but I know of a non-profit (not sure if it was c3) that was effectively taken over by another one against its bylaws, with not even the AG office doing anything to stop it after an investigation (since it was a group comprised mostly of students nobody had money to fight it in court).
My experience with both makes my severely doubt Consumer Reports' impartiality on the customer service issue. Heck, Verizon wouldn't fix a $10 clear-cut billing issue after arguing wiht them on the phone and trying their twitter account too. T-Mo on the other hand is happy to issue credits even for more ambiguous situations and always works hard to make things right.
On the reception issue, I'll acknowledge that a lot of people do seem to find Verizon to be better, but my personal experience has not borne that out. The 2 times I tried Verizon I had more dropped and not-received calls than I've had on T-Mo the entire 8 or so years I've been with them. There were a few places where Verizon showed bard and T-Mo didn't, but the thing is that Verizon's bars are unreliable (I had situations where I had 3 bars but when I tried to make a call it wouldn't go through, and many times I didn't get calls I know were made) whereas with T-Mo generally if it says I have signal, I do.
They sued Free Republic as well, but I believe that case was settled. Would have been fun to see both sites teaming up to fight the trolls:-D
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Wait, the status bar is seriously gone from FF4? (I hadn't investigated or used it yet) How do they expect people to avoid phishing/suspect links if there's no simple way to tell where a link leads? Or is there a different place in the UI for it now?
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So please, swallow a chill pill or do some deep breathing exercises or whatever it is you do when you need to gain some perspective, and realize what's really important here.
Read your own multiple posts repeating the same (debunked) points over and over again and misinterpreting supreme court rulings, and then read my single (well, now 2) clear post that you conveniently ignored all the points in, and then consider taking your own advice quoted above.
Anyways, since it seems pretty clear from this post and others that you either hate kids as another poster suggested above, or are a teacher/principal who likes to abuse authority, I'm done here. Have fun stewing in your hatred of "sociopathic brats". (Also, this is clearly a situation of http://xkcd.com/386/ on both sides so no point wasting my time).
P.S. Amongst all your hate, you do have a somewhat reasonable point (though I still think it's a overreaction) if indeed it went down like you suggested and the article is lying (principal offering deletion as alternative to punishment, as opposed to principal forcing login+deletion)
The lockers are school property. Would you also claim schools have a right to search a student's locked chest at home? To force the student to bring it in and unlock it so they can do that? What if there were rumors that the student's diary locked in that chest had records of accusatory conversations they had had with other students? Or even just requiring a student to bring in their diary so the principal can look at it? That's effectively what they did, forcing the student to provide access to their personal facebook account that had absolutely nothing to do with the school. It is absolutely disingenuous and total nonsense to compare searching property the student has voluntarily brought to school with this. Should they also be forced to log in to their e-mail? Bring in all of their personal letters and correspondence? Nonsense. Get over it, already.
Interesting. It wouldn't be very helpful for me because my use case is when I accidentally start typing thinking it's going to go where I'm looking. I can see the annoyance of focus always following eyes though... maybe it only switches when you type? Anyways, that's what options/settings are for... the really interesting part would be the technology to achieve any of these.
Good point... maybe something to detect rapid eye movements to the keyboard and filter out the in-between points if such a rapid movement occurs (and just staying at the last area of the screen that was looked at before the rapid movement).
I've wanted a "focus follows eyes" option for a long time. The place where I think I'm typing is usually what I'm looking at, which doesn't correspond to where my mouse is (for focus-follows-mouse), and occasionally (rarely) I'll forget to click the right place for click-to-focus
Umm, the broadcast flag was all about over-the-air channels anyways. Have you seen any decline in content on those that could be attributed to not having a broadcast flag?
Remember when all the content providers protested that nobody would broadcast anything in digital if the broadcast flag was struck down? How did that work out?
Except in most states you only have to carry the ID if your right to be in the country comes from something other than being a citizen. A US citizen isn't legally required to carry ID proving that fact (except in Arizona). IANAL and I may have accidentally oversimplified things, but that's the basic idea of how the Arizona law is different
I'm confused... you like having your cars make low rumbling sounds that driver people crazy (in other posts), but don't like blaring bass? Is there a difference or is it more a case of it's ok when you do it? (For the record, I hate both kinds of low noise)
How about quoting the whole sentence instead of selectively picking the part that makes your point?
If you want good reporting on labor from anything but a business perspective (ie how will this effect share value), you have to look at the media of the labor movement itself, not the corporate owned and controlled mainstream media.
Yes, that's why people have written programs for Windows to provide the missing functionality. It's very important if your laptop happens to live in your bedroom:)
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Please explain fix (seriously... why are people so eager to make sure wikipedia links are SSL? I don't get it)
2. Replace "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" with "https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/"
This is kinda off-topic, but seems as good a place as any to ask. I've always wondered, why do people often use the secure.wikimedia.org url when linking to wikipedia? Is HTTPS really necessary for reading an encyclopedia page? Or is there something else to it that I'm missing?
Homework in kindergarten? Wow, that's ridiculous
You're right in theory. Not in practice. I don't really feel like talking about it in more detail, but I know of a non-profit (not sure if it was c3) that was effectively taken over by another one against its bylaws, with not even the AG office doing anything to stop it after an investigation (since it was a group comprised mostly of students nobody had money to fight it in court).
My experience with both makes my severely doubt Consumer Reports' impartiality on the customer service issue. Heck, Verizon wouldn't fix a $10 clear-cut billing issue after arguing wiht them on the phone and trying their twitter account too. T-Mo on the other hand is happy to issue credits even for more ambiguous situations and always works hard to make things right.
On the reception issue, I'll acknowledge that a lot of people do seem to find Verizon to be better, but my personal experience has not borne that out. The 2 times I tried Verizon I had more dropped and not-received calls than I've had on T-Mo the entire 8 or so years I've been with them. There were a few places where Verizon showed bard and T-Mo didn't, but the thing is that Verizon's bars are unreliable (I had situations where I had 3 bars but when I tried to make a call it wouldn't go through, and many times I didn't get calls I know were made) whereas with T-Mo generally if it says I have signal, I do.
They sued Free Republic as well, but I believe that case was settled. Would have been fun to see both sites teaming up to fight the trolls :-D
Wait, the status bar is seriously gone from FF4? (I hadn't investigated or used it yet) How do they expect people to avoid phishing/suspect links if there's no simple way to tell where a link leads? Or is there a different place in the UI for it now?
I'd use Chrome.
So please, swallow a chill pill or do some deep breathing exercises or whatever it is you do when you need to gain some perspective, and realize what's really important here.
Read your own multiple posts repeating the same (debunked) points over and over again and misinterpreting supreme court rulings, and then read my single (well, now 2) clear post that you conveniently ignored all the points in, and then consider taking your own advice quoted above.
Anyways, since it seems pretty clear from this post and others that you either hate kids as another poster suggested above, or are a teacher/principal who likes to abuse authority, I'm done here. Have fun stewing in your hatred of "sociopathic brats". (Also, this is clearly a situation of http://xkcd.com/386/ on both sides so no point wasting my time).
P.S. Amongst all your hate, you do have a somewhat reasonable point (though I still think it's a overreaction) if indeed it went down like you suggested and the article is lying (principal offering deletion as alternative to punishment, as opposed to principal forcing login+deletion)
The lockers are school property. Would you also claim schools have a right to search a student's locked chest at home? To force the student to bring it in and unlock it so they can do that? What if there were rumors that the student's diary locked in that chest had records of accusatory conversations they had had with other students? Or even just requiring a student to bring in their diary so the principal can look at it? That's effectively what they did, forcing the student to provide access to their personal facebook account that had absolutely nothing to do with the school. It is absolutely disingenuous and total nonsense to compare searching property the student has voluntarily brought to school with this. Should they also be forced to log in to their e-mail? Bring in all of their personal letters and correspondence? Nonsense. Get over it, already.
Interesting. It wouldn't be very helpful for me because my use case is when I accidentally start typing thinking it's going to go where I'm looking. I can see the annoyance of focus always following eyes though... maybe it only switches when you type? Anyways, that's what options/settings are for... the really interesting part would be the technology to achieve any of these.
Good point... maybe something to detect rapid eye movements to the keyboard and filter out the in-between points if such a rapid movement occurs (and just staying at the last area of the screen that was looked at before the rapid movement).
I've wanted a "focus follows eyes" option for a long time. The place where I think I'm typing is usually what I'm looking at, which doesn't correspond to where my mouse is (for focus-follows-mouse), and occasionally (rarely) I'll forget to click the right place for click-to-focus
Umm, the broadcast flag was all about over-the-air channels anyways. Have you seen any decline in content on those that could be attributed to not having a broadcast flag?
Remember when all the content providers protested that nobody would broadcast anything in digital if the broadcast flag was struck down? How did that work out?
There is. It's called Muphry's Law :)
Parts of India in particular is what I was thinking of, but yeah it's not vegan (lots of dairy)
And I'm sure in the societies where a large portion of society is vegetarian they're all lying and secretly sneak in meat, right?
Also, I realize this could actually be anybody, but a very complete and thorough explanation (that can probably be double checked if you care) by someone claiming to be a CA police officer http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060711011931AAbmgHG
I think what you heard was probably rumor/urban legend
I don't think that's true in California, but I don't claim to know authoritatively. Read this, it's interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_Identify_statutes Based on that, and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolender_v._Lawson it looks like the law that California had was struck down as too vague (and if I'm reading correctly only required verbal identification in the first place)
Except in most states you only have to carry the ID if your right to be in the country comes from something other than being a citizen. A US citizen isn't legally required to carry ID proving that fact (except in Arizona). IANAL and I may have accidentally oversimplified things, but that's the basic idea of how the Arizona law is different
I'm confused... you like having your cars make low rumbling sounds that driver people crazy (in other posts), but don't like blaring bass? Is there a difference or is it more a case of it's ok when you do it? (For the record, I hate both kinds of low noise)
How about quoting the whole sentence instead of selectively picking the part that makes your point?
If you want good reporting on labor from anything but a business perspective (ie how will this effect share value), you have to look at the media of the labor movement itself, not the corporate owned and controlled mainstream media.
(No, seriously, I'm not making it up. Hamat Gader is one of the world's finest Roman-bath-slash-crocodile-farming establishments I've ever visited.)
Do you visit such establishments often?
Yes, that's why people have written programs for Windows to provide the missing functionality. It's very important if your laptop happens to live in your bedroom :)