Sarkozy won because he controls the media. He said waaay more stupid shit than Royal. He had no program but tax cuts for his coke-snorting, whore-banging, Rolex-wearing buddies while Royal had a detailed program, and SHE was depicted as the one without a program.
And Sarkozy is not a centrist. He ran on Le Pen's platform of xenophobia, and economically, he's FAR right wing, despite his recent conversion to moderate capitalism due to the financial crisis. Just think that in the summer of last year, he was in London praising the UK's deregulation, the same that brought down the whole fucking system! And now he's lecturing on the evils of unchecked capitalism, the son of a motherfucking bitch.
Bush killed hundred of thousand of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, and had hundreds of people raped in Abu Ghraib. Certainly much worse than what that fucked up son of a bitch pedophile Mitterrand.
What a fucked up country.
Plus Frédéric Mitterrand is a buddy of Sarkozy, who is a typical neo-con, another great US invention. You can keep them.
Anyway, all things considered I'm glad of this scandal and Polanski's because it pits Sarkozy's far right party against the extreme right party of Le Pen. Sarkozy got elected by sucking up to the xenophobic, authoritarian fringe. Now it's gonna be clear that he loves pedophiles and rapists. Might help get rid of that supreme scumbag in 2012 before he can ruin the country, Bush style.
I could point out that banking regulations are quite a bit removed from the social problems you mention; or that said "riots" might not have been quite as fantastic as Fox News reported them; or that I didn't imply that things were better here in other areas, especially not now that we have a Bush-class moron in charge.
For example there is no subprime bullshit in my country, because the courts have consistently upheld the notion that when a banker lends money to someone who couldn't possibly pay back, it's their own fault because it's their job to find that out in the first place. They can suck their credit up.
So they don't lend to deadbeats. Sure, it's harder to get a loan, but there was no subprime bullshit here.
That's the part that makes the libertardians' dream of everything in a market a complete joke. You don't have access to that information. You CAN'T look at the god damn bank's web site design papers, or their source code or something.
So I don't know why you're even bringing this up, because on top of that, 99.9999% of all bank customers (i.e: everyone) is incapable of evaluating a bank's computer security even if they had access to this info.
Contrast this to putting that responsibility into the bank's hands; oh my dear, the poor rugged individuals, having to take responsibility for their actions. Ayn Rand would just cry.
Because I use only Linux and it's a bitch to sync with an iPhone.
The fact remains that the iPhone is simply twice as good as the next best phone OS I've tried, which is Android. And it in turns is 10x better than CrapBerry I have from work or any crashy kludgy clanky winmo phone. The Palm Pre is supposedly coming very close to the iPhone but I haven't tried it yet.
I'm talking from a usability point of view. How easy it is to get shit done, how easy it is to understand, how confused or not you get when you're trying to do something simple, how fast it reacts and how logically it does.
They've already been mentioned: multi factor auth, out of band notification and confirmation (SMS, snailmail, phone), intrusion detection among other things.
If the bank does not implement those, there's nothing you can do. So having the customer bear that burden is pointless.
I've blacklisted it from my google results along with sex change expert. It's so ugly and hard to read, the superfluous cognitive load is too much too bear when you're already trying to solve a complex problem.
Even the commercially supported and very expensive ones are *terrible*. They're full of distracting and useless information, their design is full of lines and tables and outlines that serve no purpose whatsoever, they don't present information in a sensible manner (usually signatures, dates, names and navigation take 5 times more space than the actual messages, for instance), and they just simply suck.
Look at stackoverflow. What do you see? Pure information. Navigation is the bare minimum. There is no useless labels. Things work as expected, along the principle of least surprise. The site is snappy. It uses Ajax where it's useful, not for the sake of it. It uses OpenID. It does tag quite well. The wiki markup is one of the most sensible around, and the editor is the best trade-off I've seen between unreadable markup and slow, clunky wysiwyg.
It's very well designed. Compared to anything else in the same category, it's like the iPhone to a generic WinMo phone. It's easy to use, it's intuitive, it's powerful, it's fast, it's obvious and yet nobody comes close.
I've heard many people make fun of Joel, and I would have been a bit skeptical but stackoverflow is an undeniable success.
Say the bank does not implement basic security measures such as monitoring brute force attempts, and someone brute forces your account... how are YOU gonna prove you didn't just post your password on myspace? You can't! Only the bank can! It's better to put the burden on them, and have them, in turn, enforce security measures on the clients, because the other way around cannot work, and would screw over even the few of us who have a clue about comp.sec.
Also, I would like to take this opportunity to point out that banks have had a few centuries of experience looking after their clients' cash.. it's their GOD DAMN JOB for fuck's sake.
Did he steal anything? Did he cause any actual damage, not counting the fake damage that is the cost of securing the whole damn thing in the first place? No and no. Stop with the analogies, if you can't argue without an analogy, that means you're probably wrong.
No, it's not like "entering someone's home." It's nowhere near that. Nothing at all. I could excuse this reckless stupidity on the Dumbtube (aka TV) but this is Slashdot. A technical website. People know what we're talking about, and those retarded, idiotic comparisons do not explain or enlighten, they just dumb the whole thing down. And in your case, they are completely wrong. Besides, he didn't cause substantial damage. He didn't break anything. Hey, what if by posting this stupid message of yours you caused the death of someone? Hmm? What if? What if you caused the death of a million people? You'd be a mass murderer, that's what you'd be!
Me I would just install the new DB in parallel with the new one, on a new set of machines; and migrate the apps one by one. They're probably thinking of upgrading in place and/or migrating all the apps at once; I see idiot admins trying to do that quite often... and fail, obviously.
That's quite the major feature compared to VMWare and XenServer, esp. if they already have bought the whole storage infrastructure required to support it. A few millions in SAN, HBAs and FC switches when they don't get that much more value than a host based disks.
The V shape gives it a little asymmetry of charge. If I remember correctly, that's the cause of many interesting properties such as the fact that it doesn't mix with oil and that it dilutes things that it would not otherwise. Methane (CH4) doesn't have that property.
They couldn't be broadcast anywhere in Europe lest they get instantly sued and convicted under hate speech laws.
Not that I like hate speech laws -- I'm a fan of the 1st amendment (in its modern interpretation). I oppose them because they are useless and have nasty side effects that end up stifling worthwhile speech.
However, if we have them, it's precisely because of and against inflammatory, racist, hate-mongering, war-mongering and plain lying messages routinely found on Fox. Just like while I am against the death penalty, I'm not going to go out of my way to save a noted psychopath.
Long answer: this is the death of non-corporate backed hotspots.
Thankfully this piece of shit is 99% guaranteed to be blocked by the Constitutional Council.
But it's typical of Sarkoleon's governance. The media coverage of this whole thing has been almost as sickening as that of Fox wrt Obama's health care plan: unashamedly ignorant propaganda, ridiculous talking points, and Godwin galore. Did you know that opponents of the law were Nazi collaborators? That's what the head of a local Mafiaa repeated on the media, without being challenged much. That's particularly offensive considering that the most prominent opponents have names such as Bloche or Zimmerman.
For a technical audience like/. this kind of crap is obviously going to fail on a dozen of levels; but those fucktards keep pushing this nonsense, and they probably even believe it. Without even thinking very hard,
What happens when you're out of coverage?
What about your own ripped CDs?
What about plain old mp3 you bought on eMusic or Amazon?
What about unencrypted AAC you bought on iTunes but want to listen to on your other phone?
Planes?
Going abroad?
Will the authentication servers always be up? All the time? Riight.
What about the added complexity? How often will the phone crash because of that useless crap?
What about CC-licensed works?
Who do you call when the damn thing doesn't work for one reason or another? Who's going to pay for customer service?
What happens when a user finds he can't listen to lawfully-acquired music? How mad is he going to get? Sword wielding samurai mad?
Will they pull a Sony or a Microsoft when they realize the exercise is pointless, and leave millions of former customers w/o service? (Answer is obviously YES)
But that won't stop that merry band of fucktards.
Tomorrow, Sarkozy's merry band of obedient scumsuckers is going to vote on the Hadopi law v2, which is equally absurd.
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Sarkozy won because he controls the media. He said waaay more stupid shit than Royal. He had no program but tax cuts for his coke-snorting, whore-banging, Rolex-wearing buddies while Royal had a detailed program, and SHE was depicted as the one without a program.
And Sarkozy is not a centrist. He ran on Le Pen's platform of xenophobia, and economically, he's FAR right wing, despite his recent conversion to moderate capitalism due to the financial crisis. Just think that in the summer of last year, he was in London praising the UK's deregulation, the same that brought down the whole fucking system! And now he's lecturing on the evils of unchecked capitalism, the son of a motherfucking bitch.
Wake up, for fuck's sake!
Bush killed hundred of thousand of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, and had hundreds of people raped in Abu Ghraib. Certainly much worse than what that fucked up son of a bitch pedophile Mitterrand.
What a fucked up country.
Plus Frédéric Mitterrand is a buddy of Sarkozy, who is a typical neo-con, another great US invention. You can keep them.
Anyway, all things considered I'm glad of this scandal and Polanski's because it pits Sarkozy's far right party against the extreme right party of Le Pen. Sarkozy got elected by sucking up to the xenophobic, authoritarian fringe. Now it's gonna be clear that he loves pedophiles and rapists. Might help get rid of that supreme scumbag in 2012 before he can ruin the country, Bush style.
are full of people like you.
That's the main thing hampering it. IPv6 hosts need to be able to connect to IPv4 servers.
I could point out that banking regulations are quite a bit removed from the social problems you mention; or that said "riots" might not have been quite as fantastic as Fox News reported them; or that I didn't imply that things were better here in other areas, especially not now that we have a Bush-class moron in charge.
Or I could just ask you about Rodney King.
All one (1) of them.
... have stronger regulations than in the US.
For example there is no subprime bullshit in my country, because the courts have consistently upheld the notion that when a banker lends money to someone who couldn't possibly pay back, it's their own fault because it's their job to find that out in the first place. They can suck their credit up.
So they don't lend to deadbeats. Sure, it's harder to get a loan, but there was no subprime bullshit here.
That's the part that makes the libertardians' dream of everything in a market a complete joke. You don't have access to that information. You CAN'T look at the god damn bank's web site design papers, or their source code or something.
So I don't know why you're even bringing this up, because on top of that, 99.9999% of all bank customers (i.e: everyone) is incapable of evaluating a bank's computer security even if they had access to this info.
Contrast this to putting that responsibility into the bank's hands; oh my dear, the poor rugged individuals, having to take responsibility for their actions. Ayn Rand would just cry.
Because I use only Linux and it's a bitch to sync with an iPhone.
The fact remains that the iPhone is simply twice as good as the next best phone OS I've tried, which is Android. And it in turns is 10x better than CrapBerry I have from work or any crashy kludgy clanky winmo phone. The Palm Pre is supposedly coming very close to the iPhone but I haven't tried it yet.
I'm talking from a usability point of view. How easy it is to get shit done, how easy it is to understand, how confused or not you get when you're trying to do something simple, how fast it reacts and how logically it does.
They've already been mentioned: multi factor auth, out of band notification and confirmation (SMS, snailmail, phone), intrusion detection among other things.
If the bank does not implement those, there's nothing you can do. So having the customer bear that burden is pointless.
I've blacklisted it from my google results along with sex change expert. It's so ugly and hard to read, the superfluous cognitive load is too much too bear when you're already trying to solve a complex problem.
What are you talking about?
Thanks for the link, this looks very nice indeed. I've heard from a PHP developer that the Garden framework is great.
Even the commercially supported and very expensive ones are *terrible*. They're full of distracting and useless information, their design is full of lines and tables and outlines that serve no purpose whatsoever, they don't present information in a sensible manner (usually signatures, dates, names and navigation take 5 times more space than the actual messages, for instance), and they just simply suck.
Look at stackoverflow. What do you see? Pure information. Navigation is the bare minimum. There is no useless labels. Things work as expected, along the principle of least surprise. The site is snappy. It uses Ajax where it's useful, not for the sake of it. It uses OpenID. It does tag quite well. The wiki markup is one of the most sensible around, and the editor is the best trade-off I've seen between unreadable markup and slow, clunky wysiwyg.
It's very well designed. Compared to anything else in the same category, it's like the iPhone to a generic WinMo phone. It's easy to use, it's intuitive, it's powerful, it's fast, it's obvious and yet nobody comes close.
I've heard many people make fun of Joel, and I would have been a bit skeptical but stackoverflow is an undeniable success.
Say the bank does not implement basic security measures such as monitoring brute force attempts, and someone brute forces your account ... how are YOU gonna prove you didn't just post your password on myspace? You can't! Only the bank can! It's better to put the burden on them, and have them, in turn, enforce security measures on the clients, because the other way around cannot work, and would screw over even the few of us who have a clue about comp.sec.
Also, I would like to take this opportunity to point out that banks have had a few centuries of experience looking after their clients' cash .. it's their GOD DAMN JOB for fuck's sake.
Your point is ...?
Did he steal anything? Did he cause any actual damage, not counting the fake damage that is the cost of securing the whole damn thing in the first place? No and no. Stop with the analogies, if you can't argue without an analogy, that means you're probably wrong.
No, it's not like "entering someone's home." It's nowhere near that. Nothing at all.
I could excuse this reckless stupidity on the Dumbtube (aka TV) but this is Slashdot. A technical website. People know what we're talking about, and those retarded, idiotic comparisons do not explain or enlighten, they just dumb the whole thing down. And in your case, they are completely wrong.
Besides, he didn't cause substantial damage. He didn't break anything. Hey, what if by posting this stupid message of yours you caused the death of someone? Hmm? What if? What if you caused the death of a million people? You'd be a mass murderer, that's what you'd be!
Me I would just install the new DB in parallel with the new one, on a new set of machines; and migrate the apps one by one. They're probably thinking of upgrading in place and/or migrating all the apps at once; I see idiot admins trying to do that quite often ... and fail, obviously.
That's quite the major feature compared to VMWare and XenServer, esp. if they already have bought the whole storage infrastructure required to support it. A few millions in SAN, HBAs and FC switches when they don't get that much more value than a host based disks.
The V shape gives it a little asymmetry of charge. If I remember correctly, that's the cause of many interesting properties such as the fact that it doesn't mix with oil and that it dilutes things that it would not otherwise. Methane (CH4) doesn't have that property.
They couldn't be broadcast anywhere in Europe lest they get instantly sued and convicted under hate speech laws.
Not that I like hate speech laws -- I'm a fan of the 1st amendment (in its modern interpretation). I oppose them because they are useless and have nasty side effects that end up stifling worthwhile speech.
However, if we have them, it's precisely because of and against inflammatory, racist, hate-mongering, war-mongering and plain lying messages routinely found on Fox. Just like while I am against the death penalty, I'm not going to go out of my way to save a noted psychopath.
Long answer: this is the death of non-corporate backed hotspots.
Thankfully this piece of shit is 99% guaranteed to be blocked by the Constitutional Council.
But it's typical of Sarkoleon's governance. The media coverage of this whole thing has been almost as sickening as that of Fox wrt Obama's health care plan: unashamedly ignorant propaganda, ridiculous talking points, and Godwin galore. Did you know that opponents of the law were Nazi collaborators? That's what the head of a local Mafiaa repeated on the media, without being challenged much. That's particularly offensive considering that the most prominent opponents have names such as Bloche or Zimmerman.
For a technical audience like /. this kind of crap is obviously going to fail on a dozen of levels; but those fucktards keep pushing this nonsense, and they probably even believe it. Without even thinking very hard,
But that won't stop that merry band of fucktards.
Tomorrow, Sarkozy's merry band of obedient scumsuckers is going to vote on the Hadopi law v2, which is equally absurd.