Give me your email and I will send you a Heroes of Newerth beta invite if you don't have one yet. It's S2's new game, a clone of Defense of the Ancients (a popular custom scenario for WC3). VERY Nice, for it's niche.
Re "seeing a commercial these days just feels odd"... I get the same feeling when I am stuck using a public PC (e.g. at a library) and start seeing ads on the web.
Kudzu is trivial to get rid of. Just let a herd of goats loose. Not only do they eat kudzu, they PREFER it, and will eat it before almost any other human-desirable plants. There are companies that rent out goats specifically for this purpose.
If you think Kudzu is bad, read up on Cogon Grass.
The point of the article here is that Groups DOES trust random strangers on the internet who claim to be u@b.com. What I'm saying is that it then doesn't trust gmail's mail servers when they claim the same thing.
I am not setting a reply-to. The only instance of sparr@gmail.com in the email I sent is the Sender: header.
Google's web apps are notorious for poorly handling email headers.
Case in point:
sparr@domain.com is subscribed to the group@googlegroups.com sparr@gmail.com checks sparr@domain.com via POP, and can send as sparr@domain.com using the gmail interface to send email From:sparr@domain.com To:group@googlegroups.com (Sender:sparr@gmail.com) fails, resulting in a bounceback message *TO SPARR@GMAIL.COM* stating that sparr@gmail.com is not a member of the group.
I could understand some concern over spoofing and authentication if this was coming from a third party, but I am sending from a google application to a google application. Gmail has already verified that I have permission to send From:sparr@domain.com, why doesn't ggroups trust that?
Here's a novel idea... It isn't up to her family. It is up to her. Facebook should make the post-mortem page an opt-in service, and then not allow anyone to interfere with the wishes of the deceased.
Well, typically the selection of units is based on the magnitude of the quantity being measured. You rarely hear "millions of meters", but instead "thousands of kilometers". In the same vein, I would say "a number of days" tops out around 13 or 60, at which point you have "weeks" or "months" to satisfy the "or more" category.
That last part is illegal. You should have continued to clock in on time and read the newsletter (or not) afterwards. If you got fired for not reading the newsletter, you get unemployment. If you got fired for reading it on company time, you get unemployment. Either way the company gets some scrutiny from your local version of the labor standards board.
screw "send to voice mail". I want the phone to *PICK UP*, play one of a selection of pre-recorded messages, and then allow the caller to press a button if they really really want to interrupt, or answer the question in the message. 200MHz on an ARM is plenty of power to implement this.
Forget the monetary savings. That $280 is an investment in the environment. More efficient computers typically are no more pollution-causing to build than their less efficient counterparts. So let's say he has sunk $280 that he will never recover monetarily. That $280 is still worth the net environmental impact that he will have over the lifetime of those computers.
You fail to extrapolate this savings to the thousands of people/companies that could benefit from this potential solution. Or to consider that he is saving electricity (and thus pollution) as well as saving money. And thus you continue to be part of the precipitate.
You realize that your +5 is not the same as others' +5, right? I browse at Funny=-3, so maybe your +5 is my +1, and you would be doing something constructive to moderate it accurately regardless of its current score.
Who said anything about Nintendo, Apple, or Steam? 2DBoy wrote the game once, and compiled it for multiple platforms. 2DBoy has all 7(?) versions. I want to buy them from 2DBoy, not from a half dozen different distributors.
(yes, I know licensing and such are to blame, this is why I don't buy consoles or DRMed software or DRM-enforcing hardware)
"Funny long URLs" are not obviously sensitive the way username/password pairs are, so right there the strongest defense against human error is wiped out.
"Funny long URLs" (that effectively cannot be brute forced or guessed, and have to be explicitly shared by the owner) are the same sort of security that Google Calendar uses for sharing "private" calendar data[1], and that flickr uses for private/protected image files. They are the only no-hassle-for-unregistered-recipients way to share such information. If users are too stupid to figure out the implications of sharing links on the internet, that is not Google's fault.
[1] "This is the private address for this calendar. Don't share this address with others unless you want them to see all the events on this calendar." But with the additional feature of being able to "Reset Private URLs" if you want to revoke a previously shared one. Maybe GVoice needs that warning and feature as well.
I am with you, but there is a minimum bar. I like being able to take photos with my phone that are at least high enough resolution for the following tasks:
A) contact pictures in the phone B) crime documentation
Ion thrusters use only energy and atmospheric (even space isn't a perfect vacuum) particles for reaction mass. There are some nifty underwater engine prototypes that use ionic thrust to accelerate water out a (very low speed) jet.
I have recently noticed that on Vista Home Premium on my laptop, the screen blanks when I am away. When I come back and wiggle the mouse, the first thing I see when the screen wakes up is "Locking your computer" for a fraction of a second, THEN the "Locked, please enter password" screen.
I know numerous people who have bluetooth phones linked to their macs, and iChat sets their here/away status based on the state of the BT connection. This is particularly annoying when someone walks PAST their desk during the work day.
The "exception" is that they are pretending that this is not a fine for a crime, but instead is a fee for a non-crime interaction with the govt. You don't need a jury trial to tell you that [any non-criminal interaction with the DMV or court clerk or registrar] is going to have a fee attached to it. They are trying to put this "fee" for keeping your driver's license after a violation in the same category as the fee for getting your driver's license in the first place.
Slashdot Mirror
Give me your email and I will send you a Heroes of Newerth beta invite if you don't have one yet. It's S2's new game, a clone of Defense of the Ancients (a popular custom scenario for WC3). VERY Nice, for it's niche.
Re "seeing a commercial these days just feels odd"... I get the same feeling when I am stuck using a public PC (e.g. at a library) and start seeing ads on the web.
Kudzu is trivial to get rid of. Just let a herd of goats loose. Not only do they eat kudzu, they PREFER it, and will eat it before almost any other human-desirable plants. There are companies that rent out goats specifically for this purpose.
If you think Kudzu is bad, read up on Cogon Grass.
The point of the article here is that Groups DOES trust random strangers on the internet who claim to be u@b.com. What I'm saying is that it then doesn't trust gmail's mail servers when they claim the same thing.
I am not setting a reply-to. The only instance of sparr@gmail.com in the email I sent is the Sender: header.
Google's web apps are notorious for poorly handling email headers.
Case in point:
sparr@domain.com is subscribed to the group@googlegroups.com
sparr@gmail.com checks sparr@domain.com via POP, and can send as sparr@domain.com
using the gmail interface to send email From:sparr@domain.com To:group@googlegroups.com (Sender:sparr@gmail.com) fails, resulting in a bounceback message *TO SPARR@GMAIL.COM* stating that sparr@gmail.com is not a member of the group.
I could understand some concern over spoofing and authentication if this was coming from a third party, but I am sending from a google application to a google application. Gmail has already verified that I have permission to send From:sparr@domain.com, why doesn't ggroups trust that?
There are already PDA map applications that pre-download google maps at multiple zoom levels along your planned route.
http://fragostech.com/MaemoMapper/
Here's a novel idea... It isn't up to her family. It is up to her. Facebook should make the post-mortem page an opt-in service, and then not allow anyone to interfere with the wishes of the deceased.
Well, typically the selection of units is based on the magnitude of the quantity being measured. You rarely hear "millions of meters", but instead "thousands of kilometers". In the same vein, I would say "a number of days" tops out around 13 or 60, at which point you have "weeks" or "months" to satisfy the "or more" category.
That last part is illegal. You should have continued to clock in on time and read the newsletter (or not) afterwards. If you got fired for not reading the newsletter, you get unemployment. If you got fired for reading it on company time, you get unemployment. Either way the company gets some scrutiny from your local version of the labor standards board.
screw "send to voice mail". I want the phone to *PICK UP*, play one of a selection of pre-recorded messages, and then allow the caller to press a button if they really really want to interrupt, or answer the question in the message. 200MHz on an ARM is plenty of power to implement this.
Forget the monetary savings. That $280 is an investment in the environment. More efficient computers typically are no more pollution-causing to build than their less efficient counterparts. So let's say he has sunk $280 that he will never recover monetarily. That $280 is still worth the net environmental impact that he will have over the lifetime of those computers.
You fail to extrapolate this savings to the thousands of people/companies that could benefit from this potential solution. Or to consider that he is saving electricity (and thus pollution) as well as saving money. And thus you continue to be part of the precipitate.
You realize that your +5 is not the same as others' +5, right? I browse at Funny=-3, so maybe your +5 is my +1, and you would be doing something constructive to moderate it accurately regardless of its current score.
Who said anything about Nintendo, Apple, or Steam? 2DBoy wrote the game once, and compiled it for multiple platforms. 2DBoy has all 7(?) versions. I want to buy them from 2DBoy, not from a half dozen different distributors.
(yes, I know licensing and such are to blame, this is why I don't buy consoles or DRMed software or DRM-enforcing hardware)
Meh... In that situation, I usually have a better camera (even if just the one in my laptop) with me already.
"Funny long URLs" are not obviously sensitive the way username/password pairs are, so right there the strongest defense against human error is wiped out.
"Funny long URLs" (that effectively cannot be brute forced or guessed, and have to be explicitly shared by the owner) are the same sort of security that Google Calendar uses for sharing "private" calendar data[1], and that flickr uses for private/protected image files. They are the only no-hassle-for-unregistered-recipients way to share such information. If users are too stupid to figure out the implications of sharing links on the internet, that is not Google's fault.
[1] "This is the private address for this calendar. Don't share this address with others unless you want them to see all the events on this calendar." But with the additional feature of being able to "Reset Private URLs" if you want to revoke a previously shared one. Maybe GVoice needs that warning and feature as well.
I am with you, but there is a minimum bar. I like being able to take photos with my phone that are at least high enough resolution for the following tasks:
A) contact pictures in the phone
B) crime documentation
There is an atmosphere in space. Mostly hydrogen, some other light elements. It's just very sparse.
If the power supply fails, it's screwed no matter what the thrust mechanism is (except a light sail... but that's science fiction for now)
Ion thrusters use only energy and atmospheric (even space isn't a perfect vacuum) particles for reaction mass. There are some nifty underwater engine prototypes that use ionic thrust to accelerate water out a (very low speed) jet.
I have recently noticed that on Vista Home Premium on my laptop, the screen blanks when I am away. When I come back and wiggle the mouse, the first thing I see when the screen wakes up is "Locking your computer" for a fraction of a second, THEN the "Locked, please enter password" screen.
I know numerous people who have bluetooth phones linked to their macs, and iChat sets their here/away status based on the state of the BT connection. This is particularly annoying when someone walks PAST their desk during the work day.
If you don't like Chrome, try Opera. It is almost as fast, still like lightning compared to FF and IE. If you do like Chrome, keep using Chrome :)
http://xkcd.com/570/ would like to talk to you about licensing that joke :)
The "exception" is that they are pretending that this is not a fine for a crime, but instead is a fee for a non-crime interaction with the govt. You don't need a jury trial to tell you that [any non-criminal interaction with the DMV or court clerk or registrar] is going to have a fee attached to it. They are trying to put this "fee" for keeping your driver's license after a violation in the same category as the fee for getting your driver's license in the first place.
I ditched Netscape around the time of v5... and moved to Opera, which was itself far ahead of IE or NS at the time, and continued to be so for years.