Uhmmm... not always. If someone is malicious enough to write/deploy malware, they're malicious enough to tamper with the program icon. And, yes, you can edit/replace the default icon of a program http://stackoverflow.com/quest... The developer is asking on stackoverflow about getting a custom icon to display on the executable. Sticking in a "textfile" or "pdf" icon into an exe file is relatively easy.
> We need a manufacturing economy to bring jobs back. Service economies are third world.
Sorry, the 1950's are *NOT* coming back. Forget about those well-paying factory jobs that only required a grade 10 education. More and more jobs are being automated out of existance. And those that aren't are being shipped out to Foxconn and friends in China.
> The only "good" reason I could think of is that they wanted to retain the > formula "Rocky planets inside, gassy planets outside" and Pluto kinda messed > with this. But with Pluto no longer being a planet, the order is restored.
When Ceres was discovered, it was originally called a "planet". More and more bodies were discovered in a similar orbit. Rather than having thousands of "planets", the definition changed to make Ceres and friends "asteroids".
Fast-forward a century or two. Uranus' orbit was not as predicted for a 7-planet solar system. Mathematicians scrawled away with their pencils, and astronomers found an 8th planet, Neptune. This was a major triumph for Newton's Law of Gravity.
Neptune's mass was estimated, but after a while, Uranus and Neptune were still not orbiting exactly as predicted. Another planet hunt began, and we stumbled over Pluto, which was originally estimated to be about the size and mass of Neptune. However, even as early as 1934 http://blog.modernmechanix.com... it became obvious that Pluto was a lot smaller/lighter. It obviously wasn't the cause of anomalies in Uranus' and Neptune's orbits. The downward revisons to Pluto's size continued. From 2600 mile diameter (1934) to 2372 km or 1474 miles (2015).
Actually there was no "Planet X perturbing Uranus' and Neptune's orbits". The original estimate for Neptune's mass was off by 1/2 of 1%. This threw the calculations off. The Voyager 2 flyby gave the correct value for Neptunes mass, which was figured out 2 or 3 years later. https://www.nasaspaceflight.co... When the corrected Neptunian mass was plugged into the gravitational equations, the "orbital anomalies" disappeared.
Anyhow, a whole bunch of similar objects have been found in the area. Just like with Ceres, it became obvious that Pluto was merely one of many. The discovery of Eris, approximately same size as Pluto, brought things to a head. There was no way of classifying Pluto as a planet, without also classifying Eris, Sedna, etc as planets. This hearkened back to "the asteroid problem" of the 1800's. Just like Ceres, Pluto was kicked out of the planet club.
> Here are two good ones: > 1) transgender person preparing for transition should be able to get a new > license for their post-transition gender with gender-appropriate name 2) person who has legally changed their name should be able to get a new license with their new name
Errrr, uhmmm; A person comes in with a valid driver's licence under name "A", *AND TURNS IT IN TO BE REPLACED* with a driver's licence under name "B" is not a problem. It's the people who've had their licence taken away for DWI, or who want to fraudulently pose as somebody else that are the problem.
Facebook's real customers are afvertisers. Their product is eyeballs. There is a large number of conservatives in the USA. Losing those eyeballs because of a boycott would hurt Facebook's bottom line. The same thing happens when blacks/women/whatever-victim-du-jour is "offended" by something. Do you think conservatives have fewer rights than other people?
> The difference here is that they're burying the content after they have the > rights, simply because they didn't have the rights first. That's a far cry > from not featuring content you lack, which is what you're talking about.
There is a major difference between being able to play today's hits, versus last year's hits. The audience is much larger for the current stuff. To use TV terminology... depriving Spotify of the "first run revenues" hurts them. Spotify, in turn, deprives the artist of "syndication revenues", which doesn't cost Spotify that much.
> Facebook announced Thursday the social network it is getting rid of the > âoeWho can look up your Timeline by name?â privacy feature, meaning > any user can be found when searched by name. Facebook says this provides > users more autonomy over individual posts, but privacy advocates > say this opens social networkers up to unprecedented exposure.
There's a service called "FaceWash" that cleans up your FB account to make it suitable for inspection by prospective employers, etc. http://mashable.com/2013/01/25... I could easily see a similar application happening for Instagram. This could undermine the entire basis of using Instagram feeds as appraisal tools.
Stop playing games trying to identify the user agent and sending to different pages,. Mozilla has gone off the deep end, and there are multiple forks of Firefox (I use Pale Moon). Many idiot webmasters try to match user-agent to one of the "big 3 or 4". If the match fails, they assume it's some weird mobile browser, and force even desktop browsers to the mobile site. If I specify "bad.example.com/", I want the desktop version, not the mobile version.
If you absolutely insist on doubling your workload, go ahead and create a separate "m.bad.example.com/", but please don't try to force users to it, because it probably sucks. A couple of "obligatory" cartoons for you... http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/... https://xkcd.com/869/
> You're a fool. There's extensive datacollection from Facebook on other web sites, tied > to cookies, browser fingerprinting and various other means. Even here on Slashdot.
> A better analogy would be if you owned a large apartment complex, and one of > your tenants was found to be running a prostitution business from one of the > rooms. Notionally you could be in a place to find out who was running it, where > they were running it, and you could stop it.
> Whether you should or not is another question. And if you should, the > mechanism by which you should do so is yet another question.
You may think you're making up stupid shit as a counter-example... but...
1) unknown to parents, their son sells drugs from home 2) police seize the parents' house 3) profit
Same mentality. You will take what we tell you to.
What gets people really annoyed is that Redhat / Poettering have hijacked mainstream linux. Yes, I understand that Redhat runs "services in the cloud". And that having VM's spin up a few seconds faster means they can run fewer VM's in reserve, and therfore save RAM/CPU/electricity and, most importantly for their shareholders, MONEY.
If Redhat had offered systemd/pulseaudio/avahi/dbus as "extra features" on their distro, no-one would've complained. The complaints come from the fact that Redmondhat is trying to push their crud down the throats of all linux users. They took advantage of the fact that some of the voting members on the Debian council were Redmondhat employees. When the Debian council voted on standardizing on one startup system, guess which way the Redmondhat employees voted? Since Debian is the base from which Ubunti+variants, plus a lot of other distros, build on, Redmondhat now brags about "widespread adoption" of systemd.
I run Gentoo, but even there, I can't totally escape Redmondhat. I stopped using GNOME long ago, because it was too bloated. So the fact that GNOME now has a gratuitously hard-coded dependancy on systemd didn't affect me. But I do use GNUMERIC, which seems to be the best spreadsheet. In Gentoo, you can see dependancies being pulled in. Years ago, GNUMERIC did not require harfbuzz and ghostscript, but now it does. And it requires GTK+3 which now requires dbus.
Years ago, OS/2 was my first love. When it flopped, I looked around for another non-Microsoft alternative. I fell in love with lightweight, snappy, modular GNU/Lin-ux. But now it has degenerated into bloated, slow, monolithic GNOME/Lenn-ax. Coincidentally, Arca Noae is expected to release ArcOS 5.0 later this year. http://www.techrepublic.com/ar... The 5.0 is the next version after OS/2 4.52, the last maintenance release by IBM. I may have no choice, but to go back.
> There is also still a strong social stigma against seeking mental health. Nobody is > embarrassed to say something like "My arm was broke so I went to see the doctor," > but the moment someone utters the phrase "mental health" everyone thinks of > him as crazy, weak, and pathetic.
Problem... if you go see a psychiatrist once, you become virtually unemployable in many sought-after jobs. This has to change before people will consider seeing a psychiatrist.
Unfortunately, "big data" has ways of finding out if you've ever visited a psychiatrist. And even if they don't, it can always make the patient a target for blackmail years later.
ANI is expensive for a regular residential line. If it was made free, people would know the real number calling them. Give phones the option that if caller ID doesn't match ANI, the call goes to voicemail.
> The trick is to pre-warm the vehicle in a garage both at home and at work. > And that user scenario accounts for most of the mileage this electric vehicle sees.
Great. You've reduced burning hydrocarbons, or using electricity, to power your car, in winter. But you've replaced that portion with burning hydrocarbons, or using electricity, to heat a garage in winter. Care to compute the overall cost?
Correction... but that number falls off drastically for people born before 1941. They were in their 40's when the first, floppy-based IBM PC hit the market. They aren't making those pre-1941 people any more. In 20 years, the 75-year-olds will have been born in 1961, and will have had significant exposure to computers during their working lives.
> You do realize that at least in the U.S. once you reach the end of your > contract period (or, for prepaid services, after certain other conditions > are met) the carrier is required to unlock the phone at your request.
Unlock == allow the phone to be transferred to another (compatable) carrier's network, and subscribe to phone/data service from that other carrier
Root == take full control of your phone, allowing you to remove bundled crapware, or even install an alternate OS like Cyanogen Mod.
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> The icon tells you the extension type.
Uhmmm... not always. If someone is malicious enough to write/deploy malware, they're malicious enough to tamper with the program icon. And, yes, you can edit/replace the default icon of a program http://stackoverflow.com/quest... The developer is asking on stackoverflow about getting a custom icon to display on the executable. Sticking in a "textfile" or "pdf" icon into an exe file is relatively easy.
Only app writers can app apps that app other apps. Palo Alto wants app appers, not luddite program coders. (I've been reading too much Slashdot)
> We need a manufacturing economy to bring jobs back. Service economies are third world.
Sorry, the 1950's are *NOT* coming back. Forget about those well-paying factory jobs that only required a grade 10 education. More and more jobs are being automated out of existance. And those that aren't are being shipped out to Foxconn and friends in China.
> The only "good" reason I could think of is that they wanted to retain the
> formula "Rocky planets inside, gassy planets outside" and Pluto kinda messed
> with this. But with Pluto no longer being a planet, the order is restored.
When Ceres was discovered, it was originally called a "planet". More and more bodies were discovered in a similar orbit. Rather than having thousands of "planets", the definition changed to make Ceres and friends "asteroids".
Fast-forward a century or two. Uranus' orbit was not as predicted for a 7-planet solar system. Mathematicians scrawled away with their pencils, and astronomers found an 8th planet, Neptune. This was a major triumph for Newton's Law of Gravity.
Neptune's mass was estimated, but after a while, Uranus and Neptune were still not orbiting exactly as predicted. Another planet hunt began, and we stumbled over Pluto, which was originally estimated to be about the size and mass of Neptune. However, even as early as 1934 http://blog.modernmechanix.com... it became obvious that Pluto was a lot smaller/lighter. It obviously wasn't the cause of anomalies in Uranus' and Neptune's orbits. The downward revisons to Pluto's size continued. From 2600 mile diameter (1934) to 2372 km or 1474 miles (2015).
Actually there was no "Planet X perturbing Uranus' and Neptune's orbits". The original estimate for Neptune's mass was off by 1/2 of 1%. This threw the calculations off. The Voyager 2 flyby gave the correct value for Neptunes mass, which was figured out 2 or 3 years later. https://www.nasaspaceflight.co... When the corrected Neptunian mass was plugged into the gravitational equations, the "orbital anomalies" disappeared.
Anyhow, a whole bunch of similar objects have been found in the area. Just like with Ceres, it became obvious that Pluto was merely one of many. The discovery of Eris, approximately same size as Pluto, brought things to a head. There was no way of classifying Pluto as a planet, without also classifying Eris, Sedna, etc as planets. This hearkened back to "the asteroid problem" of the 1800's. Just like Ceres, Pluto was kicked out of the planet club.
1944 called... they want their V1 back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> Here are two good ones:
> 1) transgender person preparing for transition should be able to get a new
> license for their post-transition gender with gender-appropriate name
2) person who has legally changed their name should be able to get a new license with their new name
Errrr, uhmmm; A person comes in with a valid driver's licence under name "A", *AND TURNS IT IN TO BE REPLACED* with a driver's licence under name "B" is not a problem. It's the people who've had their licence taken away for DWI, or who want to fraudulently pose as somebody else that are the problem.
Facebook's real customers are afvertisers. Their product is eyeballs. There is a large number of conservatives in the USA. Losing those eyeballs because of a boycott would hurt Facebook's bottom line. The same thing happens when blacks/women/whatever-victim-du-jour is "offended" by something. Do you think conservatives have fewer rights than other people?
> The difference here is that they're burying the content after they have the
> rights, simply because they didn't have the rights first. That's a far cry
> from not featuring content you lack, which is what you're talking about.
There is a major difference between being able to play today's hits, versus last year's hits. The audience is much larger for the current stuff. To use TV terminology... depriving Spotify of the "first run revenues" hurts them. Spotify, in turn, deprives the artist of "syndication revenues", which doesn't cost Spotify that much.
Facebook is for adults who still have "invisible friends".
Just like socialism is for adults who still believe in Santa Claus.
> Then make your account not searchable...
That feature died almost 3 years ago... http://www.csmonitor.com/Techn...
> Facebook announced Thursday the social network it is getting rid of the
> âoeWho can look up your Timeline by name?â privacy feature, meaning
> any user can be found when searched by name. Facebook says this provides
> users more autonomy over individual posts, but privacy advocates
> say this opens social networkers up to unprecedented exposure.
What else did you get wrong?
There's a service called "FaceWash" that cleans up your FB account to make it suitable for inspection by prospective employers, etc. http://mashable.com/2013/01/25... I could easily see a similar application happening for Instagram. This could undermine the entire basis of using Instagram feeds as appraisal tools.
In Pale Moon, and possibly Firefox, change 2 settings in "about:config" as follows...
media.autoplay.allowscripted; false
media.autoplay.enabled; false
Puh-h-h-lease...
Stop playing games trying to identify the user agent and sending to different pages,. Mozilla has gone off the deep end, and there are multiple forks of Firefox (I use Pale Moon). Many idiot webmasters try to match user-agent to one of the "big 3 or 4". If the match fails, they assume it's some weird mobile browser, and force even desktop browsers to the mobile site. If I specify "bad.example.com/", I want the desktop version, not the mobile version.
If you absolutely insist on doubling your workload, go ahead and create a separate "m.bad.example.com/", but please don't try to force users to it, because it probably sucks. A couple of "obligatory" cartoons for you...
http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/...
https://xkcd.com/869/
> You're a fool. There's extensive datacollection from Facebook on other web sites, tied
> to cookies, browser fingerprinting and various other means. Even here on Slashdot.
IP ranges to block...
31.13.24.0 - 31.13.31.255
31.13.24.0/21
IE-FACEBOOK-20110418
Facebook Ireland Ltd
IE
31.13.64.0 - 31.13.127.255
31.13.64.0/18
AMS2
Facebook
NL
66.220.144.0 - 66.220.159.255
66.220.144.0/20
Facebook, Inc.
THEFA-3
69.63.176.0 - 69.63.191.255
69.63.176.0/20
Facebook, Inc.
THEFA-3
69.171.224.0 - 69.171.255.255
69.171.224.0/19
Facebook, Inc.
TFBNET
74.119.76.0 - 74.119.79.255
74.119.76.0/22
Facebook, Inc.
TFBNET4
103.4.96.0 - 103.4.99.255
103.4.96.0/22
FACEBOOK-SG
173.252.64.0 - 173.252.127.255
173.252.64.0/18
AS32934
FACEBOOK-INC
204.15.20.0 - 204.15.23.255
204.15.20.0/22
Facebook, Inc.
TFBNET1
> A better analogy would be if you owned a large apartment complex, and one of
> your tenants was found to be running a prostitution business from one of the
> rooms. Notionally you could be in a place to find out who was running it, where
> they were running it, and you could stop it.
> Whether you should or not is another question. And if you should, the
> mechanism by which you should do so is yet another question.
You may think you're making up stupid shit as a counter-example... but...
1) unknown to parents, their son sells drugs from home
2) police seize the parents' house
3) profit
See http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/...
Same mentality. You will take what we tell you to.
What gets people really annoyed is that Redhat / Poettering have hijacked mainstream linux. Yes, I understand that Redhat runs "services in the cloud". And that having VM's spin up a few seconds faster means they can run fewer VM's in reserve, and therfore save RAM/CPU/electricity and, most importantly for their shareholders, MONEY.
If Redhat had offered systemd/pulseaudio/avahi/dbus as "extra features" on their distro, no-one would've complained. The complaints come from the fact that Redmondhat is trying to push their crud down the throats of all linux users. They took advantage of the fact that some of the voting members on the Debian council were Redmondhat employees. When the Debian council voted on standardizing on one startup system, guess which way the Redmondhat employees voted? Since Debian is the base from which Ubunti+variants, plus a lot of other distros, build on, Redmondhat now brags about "widespread adoption" of systemd.
I run Gentoo, but even there, I can't totally escape Redmondhat. I stopped using GNOME long ago, because it was too bloated. So the fact that GNOME now has a gratuitously hard-coded dependancy on systemd didn't affect me. But I do use GNUMERIC, which seems to be the best spreadsheet. In Gentoo, you can see dependancies being pulled in. Years ago, GNUMERIC did not require harfbuzz and ghostscript, but now it does. And it requires GTK+3 which now requires dbus.
Years ago, OS/2 was my first love. When it flopped, I looked around for another non-Microsoft alternative. I fell in love with lightweight, snappy, modular GNU/Lin-ux. But now it has degenerated into bloated, slow, monolithic GNOME/Lenn-ax. Coincidentally, Arca Noae is expected to release ArcOS 5.0 later this year. http://www.techrepublic.com/ar... The 5.0 is the next version after OS/2 4.52, the last maintenance release by IBM. I may have no choice, but to go back.
> There is also still a strong social stigma against seeking mental health. Nobody is
> embarrassed to say something like "My arm was broke so I went to see the doctor,"
> but the moment someone utters the phrase "mental health" everyone thinks of
> him as crazy, weak, and pathetic.
Problem... if you go see a psychiatrist once, you become virtually unemployable in many sought-after jobs. This has to change before people will consider seeing a psychiatrist.
Unfortunately, "big data" has ways of finding out if you've ever visited a psychiatrist. And even if they don't, it can always make the patient a target for blackmail years later.
> If medical imagers were producing compressed video instead of displaying
> an uncompressed stream then they deserve their rightful place in the bin.
Have you heard of this thing called "lossless video compression" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ?
ANI is expensive for a regular residential line. If it was made free, people would know the real number calling them. Give phones the option that if caller ID doesn't match ANI, the call goes to voicemail.
The viruses and trojans will have a new "attack surface". However, there is hope... "Butt Defender" anti-virus to the rescue!
That's what happened to Aaron Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... He was charged under the CFAA.
Gotta love the "contextual advertising" around this article on Slashdot. I see a "Clear Your Criminal Record for Life" ad (I'm in Canada).
> The trick is to pre-warm the vehicle in a garage both at home and at work.
> And that user scenario accounts for most of the mileage this electric vehicle sees.
Great. You've reduced burning hydrocarbons, or using electricity, to power your car, in winter. But you've replaced that portion with burning hydrocarbons, or using electricity, to heat a garage in winter. Care to compute the overall cost?
> but that number falls off drastically after 75;
Correction... but that number falls off drastically for people born before 1941. They were in their 40's when the first, floppy-based IBM PC hit the market. They aren't making those pre-1941 people any more. In 20 years, the 75-year-olds will have been born in 1961, and will have had significant exposure to computers during their working lives.
Spread the new meme.
> You do realize that at least in the U.S. once you reach the end of your
> contract period (or, for prepaid services, after certain other conditions
> are met) the carrier is required to unlock the phone at your request.
Unlock == allow the phone to be transferred to another (compatable) carrier's network, and subscribe to phone/data service from that other carrier
Root == take full control of your phone, allowing you to remove bundled crapware, or even install an alternate OS like Cyanogen Mod.