His suggestion had nothing to do with the topic at hand, banning an ad for a rival network does not imply they are burying their heads in the sand, nor does it imply that they are suffering from a lack of innovation - learn to think for yourself, you pathetic little shit.
I'm sorry, but I didn't realise that GMs or Blockbusters troubles started when they refused to advertise their rivals in their own stores or showrooms...
JS is a horrible language, but the principles it is made from are the same across all languages.
It has foreach loops, it has while loops, it has if statements, it has user input and output....
I'm doing a BSc in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the moment with the Open University (a renowned UK distance learning university), and the first computing module (which, even tho I have a decade of experience in computing I cannot skip) uses JS to introduce the basics of programming. I don't see anything wrong with it for the purposes they are using it for.
Its not about connection, its about routing - how does your mesh node know which other mesh node its directly connected to is the best one to pass your packet on to so it reaches its destination? Or do your packets just bounce around the mesh for ever, randomly being passed from node to node until it happens to arrive? No, it gets intelligently routed, which means knowledge of the path beyond the current node is needed.
The current internet uses routing tables for that - they used to be simple (this class B lives somewhere off this interface...) and have gradually got more complex as smaller chunks of address spaces have been allocated, so you end up with routing tables that are huge as they start to deal with small blocks of addresses rather than millions of addresses.
To connect to the internet, someone in the mesh still has to act as a gateway - it doesn't happen magically, someone routes those packets outside of the mesh.
If you don't like the contract someone else has signed, don't buy their music.
If you want to make a statement, go without. Nothing gets my back up more than the people here on Slashdot who says "this has pushed me to piracy" - grow a pair and go without if you aren't willing to pay for it otherwise you are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Yes, the RIAA and MPAA have onerous terms and conditions, if you don't like them then find something you do agree with and support that.
Re your comment on the F-22 - the Pentagon (and the USAF) wanted significantly more F-22s than your government were willing to fund, which was why Obama forcibly closed the production line.
The aircraft you want to use as an example is the C-17, where the USAF said "we have enough" but Congress voted to buy them more, without any requirement for them. Stupid eh?
What if they're just old and have trouble controlling the pencil well enough to keep the mark in one box? You're throwing out an awfully large number of ballots for no reason if you reject everything that isn't perfect.
In the 2001 UK general election, 0.3% of all cast votes were spoiled ballots, and for the 2010 election the figure fell to 0.25% - I wouldn't call that an "awfully large number".
As for your examples, if the vote isn't plain and obvious, it is discounted - it is up to the voter to make their choice obvious, not the ballot counter to interpret it. Interpretation brings bias.
You have highlighted the actual problem - the fact that the voting system used is so complex, and the voting method implemented does nothing to simplify the system, it just works with it. If you simplify the system, the issues are reduced.
In the UK, its quite typical to get handed two or three ballots at each voting session - each ballot is on a different bit of paper, each bit of paper is a different colour, each colour goes into its own voting box, and each voting box goes to its own set of counters and invigilators. Returns are done within 24 hours by different returning officers.
You know what? It works. It works to such an extent that the British public recently voted to keep it as their voting mechanism.
In the UK spoiled ballots are spoiled ballots, and the only count they are ever attributed to is the spoiled ballot count - they are never interpreted precisely because of the chance of bias being introduced.
IF your election is that close, then why not simply hold a second round of voting?
its also time we don't let things ever get to the point where things are 'too big to fail' or too big to be stopped or fought with. companies should NOT be allowed to just grow and grow.
Its starting to sound like you want it to be "too big to succeed" - punish success, screw the business owners over if they are too successful.
I wouldn't ever take behaviour on Slashdot as an indication of anything for a browser, Slashdots Javascript is just shit, its layout is just shit, and in general its just shit - there are so many shitty bugs in the code that have been complained about for ages and yet the team constantly roll out new candy rather than fix fairly major bugs.
My two pet ones are the "load another comment further up the chain when you click in the comment box, and remove the focus from the comment box. Yeah, that means the next click will load another comment..." and the random lack of karma scores on comments.
And yet they recently changed the page layout slightly, which fixed none of the bugs commonly reported. Eye candy over functionality.
Utterly pathetic. The only reason I come here any more is for the entertainment from the discussion, which actually I haven't found elsewhere. But as an example of a front end, Slashdot is just shit.
As someone who visited East Germany a *lot* between 1984 and 1990, I can safely say that most Western visitors were not going to East Germany to shop at Intershop, they were going for the excellent exchange rates on cut glass crystal sets, wooden goods, dolls houses and associated furniture etc etc, all of which was pennies to the mark.
My family now has about $40,000 worth of cut glass crystal sets (wine goblets, decanters, cheese boards etc), top quality figurines etc etc, and my parents would have paid less than $1,000 for it. It was that cheap to shop there.
Yes, you couldn't get the Western technology, but you could get high quality hand made stuff at knock down prices.
We could get *really* crazy and have your *browser* stop giving out identifiable information to anyone that asks...
Is a little personal responsibility too much to ask? After all, it is your browser thats kindly storing these cookies, and kindly giving them out on request. Your browser. Yours. That falls within the scope of something you can do stuff about.
Ahh, the common excuse given for whenever Mozilla fucks someone over.
Also, your point doesn't really hold - I have invested time and money in plugin development, and many of the plugins I use myself haven't don't work elsewhere.
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His suggestion had nothing to do with the topic at hand, banning an ad for a rival network does not imply they are burying their heads in the sand, nor does it imply that they are suffering from a lack of innovation - learn to think for yourself, you pathetic little shit.
I'm sorry, but I didn't realise that GMs or Blockbusters troubles started when they refused to advertise their rivals in their own stores or showrooms...
No - Facebook aren't doing anything here to stop the competition, nothing says they have to advertise their competition within their own service.
Not just that, but now you have to remember to back up your browsers private key, and have them synced across different browser installs...
Just the response (and modding) I expected.
No surprise there.
Here we go again...
Manning did nothing wrong.
Wired did everything wrong.
Poor little Manning is being discriminated against and victimised.
Blah blah blah.
Regarding the GNU/Linux issue, from the first day I heard it I apply a very simple two part test to see whether I agreed with one stance or the other.
If I took a standard Linux distribution, what ever is popular at the time, and replaced the user land, would I still call it Linux?
If I took a separate copy of that Linux distribution and replaced the kernel, would I still call it Linux?
And that's why I don't call it GNU/Linux.
JS is a horrible language, but the principles it is made from are the same across all languages.
It has foreach loops, it has while loops, it has if statements, it has user input and output....
I'm doing a BSc in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the moment with the Open University (a renowned UK distance learning university), and the first computing module (which, even tho I have a decade of experience in computing I cannot skip) uses JS to introduce the basics of programming. I don't see anything wrong with it for the purposes they are using it for.
Its not about connection, its about routing - how does your mesh node know which other mesh node its directly connected to is the best one to pass your packet on to so it reaches its destination? Or do your packets just bounce around the mesh for ever, randomly being passed from node to node until it happens to arrive? No, it gets intelligently routed, which means knowledge of the path beyond the current node is needed.
The current internet uses routing tables for that - they used to be simple (this class B lives somewhere off this interface...) and have gradually got more complex as smaller chunks of address spaces have been allocated, so you end up with routing tables that are huge as they start to deal with small blocks of addresses rather than millions of addresses.
Who in the mesh network is going to do that?
My thought was more, how many mesh points before the routing tables become stupidly heavy for mesh points to handle?
To connect to the internet, someone in the mesh still has to act as a gateway - it doesn't happen magically, someone routes those packets outside of the mesh.
I agree.
If you don't like the contract, don't sign it.
If you don't like the contract someone else has signed, don't buy their music.
If you want to make a statement, go without . Nothing gets my back up more than the people here on Slashdot who says "this has pushed me to piracy" - grow a pair and go without if you aren't willing to pay for it otherwise you are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Yes, the RIAA and MPAA have onerous terms and conditions, if you don't like them then find something you do agree with and support that.
Re your comment on the F-22 - the Pentagon (and the USAF) wanted significantly more F-22s than your government were willing to fund, which was why Obama forcibly closed the production line.
The aircraft you want to use as an example is the C-17, where the USAF said "we have enough" but Congress voted to buy them more, without any requirement for them. Stupid eh?
Did they push it on the Thursday, or did they push it a week ago and Apple approved it on Thursday?
What if they're just old and have trouble controlling the pencil well enough to keep the mark in one box? You're throwing out an awfully large number of ballots for no reason if you reject everything that isn't perfect.
In the 2001 UK general election, 0.3% of all cast votes were spoiled ballots, and for the 2010 election the figure fell to 0.25% - I wouldn't call that an "awfully large number".
As for your examples, if the vote isn't plain and obvious, it is discounted - it is up to the voter to make their choice obvious, not the ballot counter to interpret it. Interpretation brings bias.
Excuse me? Wordpress is a security joke, not an example to be held aloft.
You have highlighted the actual problem - the fact that the voting system used is so complex, and the voting method implemented does nothing to simplify the system, it just works with it. If you simplify the system, the issues are reduced.
In the UK, its quite typical to get handed two or three ballots at each voting session - each ballot is on a different bit of paper, each bit of paper is a different colour, each colour goes into its own voting box, and each voting box goes to its own set of counters and invigilators. Returns are done within 24 hours by different returning officers.
You know what? It works. It works to such an extent that the British public recently voted to keep it as their voting mechanism.
In the UK spoiled ballots are spoiled ballots, and the only count they are ever attributed to is the spoiled ballot count - they are never interpreted precisely because of the chance of bias being introduced.
IF your election is that close, then why not simply hold a second round of voting?
its also time we don't let things ever get to the point where things are 'too big to fail' or too big to be stopped or fought with. companies should NOT be allowed to just grow and grow.
Its starting to sound like you want it to be "too big to succeed" - punish success, screw the business owners over if they are too successful.
I wouldn't ever take behaviour on Slashdot as an indication of anything for a browser, Slashdots Javascript is just shit, its layout is just shit, and in general its just shit - there are so many shitty bugs in the code that have been complained about for ages and yet the team constantly roll out new candy rather than fix fairly major bugs.
My two pet ones are the "load another comment further up the chain when you click in the comment box, and remove the focus from the comment box. Yeah, that means the next click will load another comment..." and the random lack of karma scores on comments.
And yet they recently changed the page layout slightly, which fixed none of the bugs commonly reported. Eye candy over functionality.
Utterly pathetic. The only reason I come here any more is for the entertainment from the discussion, which actually I haven't found elsewhere. But as an example of a front end, Slashdot is just shit.
IF you were stupid enough to transfer 40GB over SMS, you can pay the price for that stupidity.
As someone who visited East Germany a *lot* between 1984 and 1990, I can safely say that most Western visitors were not going to East Germany to shop at Intershop, they were going for the excellent exchange rates on cut glass crystal sets, wooden goods, dolls houses and associated furniture etc etc, all of which was pennies to the mark.
My family now has about $40,000 worth of cut glass crystal sets (wine goblets, decanters, cheese boards etc), top quality figurines etc etc, and my parents would have paid less than $1,000 for it. It was that cheap to shop there.
Yes, you couldn't get the Western technology, but you could get high quality hand made stuff at knock down prices.
We could get *really* crazy and have your *browser* stop giving out identifiable information to anyone that asks...
Is a little personal responsibility too much to ask? After all, it is your browser thats kindly storing these cookies, and kindly giving them out on request. Your browser. Yours. That falls within the scope of something you can do stuff about.
Ahh, the common excuse given for whenever Mozilla fucks someone over.
Also, your point doesn't really hold - I have invested time and money in plugin development, and many of the plugins I use myself haven't don't work elsewhere.
Is it any worse than Mozilla saying, essentially, a big "fuck you" to every one of their users that will listen?
More people will be affected by Mozillas new stance than this, and they don't seem to give a shit.