Not really, as you have to test the same things, just for more scripts. If the ISP in question had implemented a fall back to a local copy, the user wouldn't have had an issue at all.
Your morals and hangups are your morals and hangups - if your morals and hangups stop you from using a website, then that's mainly your issue, don't assume everyone needs to bend over backward to not step on your self imposed limitations.
But block google on any of my websites and you will get a copy served to you from my backup CDN.
That's great, for when you have only one website. When you have multiple, you can cut down on a lot of traffic when you turn 30 calls for jQuery into one, or even none when you use GoogleAPI or any of the other CDNs out there, or even your own.
These are the things you need to think about when you have high traffic sites under your responsibility.
GoogleAPI gives you the ability to choose an exact version of the script, and maintains that as a permalink, so when the next version becomes available your code isn't broken.
The advantage of using GoogleAPI far outweighs your perceived negatives - Google has a far better uptime and availability than any other free host, they often place the most frequently used scripts into the Google search homepage using the same link as you would, so stuff like jQuery et al are already cached by a high percentage of your visitors, and it goes someway to cut down a small percentage of my traffic, especially if I maintain multiple sites or subdomains that use the same scripts.
Have they security vetted everyone who does their redaction for them? If not, then what's the point in doing the redaction other than public relations theatre?
The birth rates might indeed be high in those countries, but what is the infant mortality rate there as well?
There is a reason those countries have a high birth rate, because it's the cheapest internal method of ensuring enough survive in order to allow for enough hands to provide for the family a few years down the line.
Take my friend in Uganda - he comes from a family that lives in the southwest region, in a typical village that has no mains electricity, water or sewerage. He is the eldest out of 12 births, 7 surviving children. His father sent him to university to train as a nurse by selling off family land, something his father was ostracised for in the village (you don't sell off your lands, you need them to live). Wilber is now a successful nurse in Ugandan society, and he is paying the fees to put his siblings through university as well, with his two younger brothers both graduating as nurses, one sister as a pharmacist.
Because Wilber now has access to modern medical knowledge, something his parents did not, his first child survived and his wife is now working on their second, and that's it - that's all they plan to have. Oh, and his wife is also a nurse.
In the places you note, large families are often a necessity for later life, rather than the result of the woman being stuck in a position - and it's changing even now where modern medicine is becoming more and more available.
Which has nothing to do with this thread - the point at issue was not the capability of the RAF pilots, who regularly conducted postings to NAS as exchange pilots anyway, but the RAF aircraft were not built for air combat, with the radar being the most obvious deficit.
I will bet they didn't, due to lack of air to air radar - the RAF operated the GR-type Harrier, suitable for ground attack and recon only, while the air defence force was made up of Royal Navy FRS Harriers, which were equipped with radar as part of their fleet defence ability.
Spend time in any African country and you realise that the ignorance about medical issues is an inbred thing - I was in South Africa in 2011 and saw lots of billboards all over the country with the Health Ministers image on it and the quote "avoid AIDS, get circumcised". She also held the policy of rejecting antivirals and instead promoted her own diet of garlic and beet root.
I've seen similar issues in Namibia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and others.
The problem is, it doesn't solve the issue at all - infact, it causes a lot of issues along the line.
Robots.txt is an extremely coarse method of control, it's either "yup, come in and do what you want" or it's "go away". There is absolutely no "you can use my content for a search index or non-commercial use, but not commercial use" leeway.
To use your example, it tells the aggregators that they can do what they like on the lawn (but not the drive way, path or porch), up to and including digging chunks of it up, filming a porn film or holding a mass Tea Party rally, or it tells them to get lost. Ether, or - no middle ground.
Also, a lot of companies are taking Robots.txt far far too literally - quite regularly you find people complaining on the Dropbox forums that they are having issues having a third party distribute their pod casts or whatever because that third party is checking the Dropbox Robots.txt and rejecting the URL as a result. Im quite sure that Robots.txt was never meant to prevent such usage, it was more aimed at search engine bots.
There definitely needs to be a permissions set for served content, Robots.txt is nowhere near good enough.
Artificial Intelligence techniques are routinely used to detect plagiarism and recently were employed to reveal that Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling is indeed the author of The Cuckoo's Calling, which was published under the byline of Robert Galbraith.
Uhm, what? It was revealed by someone at Rowlings agency tweeting it to a Sunday Times reporter, after the reporter commented on how good it was for a debut novel - that has all been confirmed by the agency.
Unless the above line is badly phrased and is meant to say "recently were employed to confirm prior reports that..." - it didn't reveal anything of the sort, the link had already been revealed by plain old journalism.
I keep seeing this come up, but I distinctly remember from my childhood that it was established that the Time Lords had the ability to reset the regeneration count and give Lords new sets of regenerations - has that been forgotten for the new series or something?
I'm not saying there aren't relevant things in amongst those 250,000 cables that were released.
I am saying however that there was also a lot of stuff in there that didn't expose anything illegal or immoral, but were released anyway and some were indeed damaging to US foreign policy. Manning had no grounds to release those cables, but he did anyway.
Which proves due diligence was not done by Manning.
I agree with you, he released a lot of information which exposed the US governments less desirable actions, actions which should be looked at in great depth.
However,my issue with Manning is that he also released a lot of other documents. 250,000 cables, for example.
Now, let's say that he actually went through those cables to determine that they all had some relevance in exposing unfavourable aspects of the US government - lets say that it took 30 seconds to read each cable and make that determination, left pile or right pile, relevant to exposing actions or not, release or not.
That means that if he actually did his due diligence, if he actually ensured that he was only releasing documents worthy of exposing unsavoury actions and nothing else, nothing that didn't actually directly support his reasons for handing the documents over, then he would have had to have spent 86 days solid doing that.
86 days, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week determining if the document should have been released. Assuming he touched nothing other than the 250,000 cables he released.
No one can argue that he did that - he hands over a huge bunch of stuff in which he likely didn't actually know the contents of for a significant proportion. That right there is why I think these verdicts are proper. That's not whistle blowing, that's acting inappropriately for his position and even his intentions.
Yes, he is a whistle blower, and yes he did whistle blow on a lot of things that should have been blown, but he did it in a manner in which he could not reasonably claim he had limited his actions to documents and files that supported his whistle blowing.
His act of legitimate whistle blowing and his act of illegitimate disclosure of unrelated documents are two things that can 100% be dealt with separately.
What about contracts that already exist and do not allow for this extra tax? Doesn't matter when it will be collected, it matters when it can be accounted for in revenue flows - this is going to hurt some people big time.
You can't expand a partition downwards - I tried that a whole back when I needed to increase the bootcamp partition, resized my OSX partition down and then tried to resize the Windows partition in Disk Manager but it refused to expand into space that exists before the start of the partition.
A few reasons - 25 million subscriber base for the BBC against a Sky subscriber base of 10 million, as well as the fact that Sky has more premier programming like Battlestar Galactica, The Newsroom, Game of Thrones etc etc.
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Not really, as you have to test the same things, just for more scripts. If the ISP in question had implemented a fall back to a local copy, the user wouldn't have had an issue at all.
You have to realise that an edge case, caused by poor situation testing, is not a valid reason for always avoiding something.
Your morals and hangups are your morals and hangups - if your morals and hangups stop you from using a website, then that's mainly your issue, don't assume everyone needs to bend over backward to not step on your self imposed limitations.
But block google on any of my websites and you will get a copy served to you from my backup CDN.
That's great, for when you have only one website. When you have multiple, you can cut down on a lot of traffic when you turn 30 calls for jQuery into one, or even none when you use GoogleAPI or any of the other CDNs out there, or even your own.
These are the things you need to think about when you have high traffic sites under your responsibility.
Yup, easily done :)
GoogleAPI gives you the ability to choose an exact version of the script, and maintains that as a permalink, so when the next version becomes available your code isn't broken.
The advantage of using GoogleAPI far outweighs your perceived negatives - Google has a far better uptime and availability than any other free host, they often place the most frequently used scripts into the Google search homepage using the same link as you would, so stuff like jQuery et al are already cached by a high percentage of your visitors, and it goes someway to cut down a small percentage of my traffic, especially if I maintain multiple sites or subdomains that use the same scripts.
Have they security vetted everyone who does their redaction for them? If not, then what's the point in doing the redaction other than public relations theatre?
The birth rates might indeed be high in those countries, but what is the infant mortality rate there as well?
There is a reason those countries have a high birth rate, because it's the cheapest internal method of ensuring enough survive in order to allow for enough hands to provide for the family a few years down the line.
Take my friend in Uganda - he comes from a family that lives in the southwest region, in a typical village that has no mains electricity, water or sewerage. He is the eldest out of 12 births, 7 surviving children. His father sent him to university to train as a nurse by selling off family land, something his father was ostracised for in the village (you don't sell off your lands, you need them to live). Wilber is now a successful nurse in Ugandan society, and he is paying the fees to put his siblings through university as well, with his two younger brothers both graduating as nurses, one sister as a pharmacist.
Because Wilber now has access to modern medical knowledge, something his parents did not, his first child survived and his wife is now working on their second, and that's it - that's all they plan to have. Oh, and his wife is also a nurse.
In the places you note, large families are often a necessity for later life, rather than the result of the woman being stuck in a position - and it's changing even now where modern medicine is becoming more and more available.
Which has nothing to do with this thread - the point at issue was not the capability of the RAF pilots, who regularly conducted postings to NAS as exchange pilots anyway, but the RAF aircraft were not built for air combat, with the radar being the most obvious deficit.
That's a world of difference to "i bet they got in some air combat".
I will bet they didn't, due to lack of air to air radar - the RAF operated the GR-type Harrier, suitable for ground attack and recon only, while the air defence force was made up of Royal Navy FRS Harriers, which were equipped with radar as part of their fleet defence ability.
No no no, they are holding it wrong!
Wrong, uninfected men can carry the virus for several days, and so promiscuous men can infect women without becoming afflicted themselves.
Which is why "get circumcised" is pathetic advice as a means to avoid HIV, it doesn't even begin to solve the issue.
Yes, because it doesn't stop women becoming infected.
Spend time in any African country and you realise that the ignorance about medical issues is an inbred thing - I was in South Africa in 2011 and saw lots of billboards all over the country with the Health Ministers image on it and the quote "avoid AIDS, get circumcised". She also held the policy of rejecting antivirals and instead promoted her own diet of garlic and beet root.
I've seen similar issues in Namibia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and others.
The problem is, it doesn't solve the issue at all - infact, it causes a lot of issues along the line.
Robots.txt is an extremely coarse method of control, it's either "yup, come in and do what you want" or it's "go away". There is absolutely no "you can use my content for a search index or non-commercial use, but not commercial use" leeway.
To use your example, it tells the aggregators that they can do what they like on the lawn (but not the drive way, path or porch), up to and including digging chunks of it up, filming a porn film or holding a mass Tea Party rally, or it tells them to get lost. Ether, or - no middle ground.
Also, a lot of companies are taking Robots.txt far far too literally - quite regularly you find people complaining on the Dropbox forums that they are having issues having a third party distribute their pod casts or whatever because that third party is checking the Dropbox Robots.txt and rejecting the URL as a result. Im quite sure that Robots.txt was never meant to prevent such usage, it was more aimed at search engine bots.
There definitely needs to be a permissions set for served content, Robots.txt is nowhere near good enough.
Uhm, what? It was revealed by someone at Rowlings agency tweeting it to a Sunday Times reporter, after the reporter commented on how good it was for a debut novel - that has all been confirmed by the agency.
Unless the above line is badly phrased and is meant to say "recently were employed to confirm prior reports that..." - it didn't reveal anything of the sort, the link had already been revealed by plain old journalism.
Actually, for Sky, Virgin, O2 and Plusnet routers you can derive the wifi password from the SSID...
I keep seeing this come up, but I distinctly remember from my childhood that it was established that the Time Lords had the ability to reset the regeneration count and give Lords new sets of regenerations - has that been forgotten for the new series or something?
I'm not saying there aren't relevant things in amongst those 250,000 cables that were released.
I am saying however that there was also a lot of stuff in there that didn't expose anything illegal or immoral, but were released anyway and some were indeed damaging to US foreign policy. Manning had no grounds to release those cables, but he did anyway.
Which proves due diligence was not done by Manning.
I agree with you, he released a lot of information which exposed the US governments less desirable actions, actions which should be looked at in great depth.
However,my issue with Manning is that he also released a lot of other documents. 250,000 cables, for example.
Now, let's say that he actually went through those cables to determine that they all had some relevance in exposing unfavourable aspects of the US government - lets say that it took 30 seconds to read each cable and make that determination, left pile or right pile, relevant to exposing actions or not, release or not.
That means that if he actually did his due diligence, if he actually ensured that he was only releasing documents worthy of exposing unsavoury actions and nothing else, nothing that didn't actually directly support his reasons for handing the documents over, then he would have had to have spent 86 days solid doing that.
86 days, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week determining if the document should have been released. Assuming he touched nothing other than the 250,000 cables he released.
No one can argue that he did that - he hands over a huge bunch of stuff in which he likely didn't actually know the contents of for a significant proportion. That right there is why I think these verdicts are proper. That's not whistle blowing, that's acting inappropriately for his position and even his intentions.
Yes, he is a whistle blower, and yes he did whistle blow on a lot of things that should have been blown, but he did it in a manner in which he could not reasonably claim he had limited his actions to documents and files that supported his whistle blowing.
His act of legitimate whistle blowing and his act of illegitimate disclosure of unrelated documents are two things that can 100% be dealt with separately.
They didn't,for one simple reason - so they can say later on that "the general sales tax applies to you guys too". Just wait and see....
What about contracts that already exist and do not allow for this extra tax? Doesn't matter when it will be collected, it matters when it can be accounted for in revenue flows - this is going to hurt some people big time.
You can't expand a partition downwards - I tried that a whole back when I needed to increase the bootcamp partition, resized my OSX partition down and then tried to resize the Windows partition in Disk Manager but it refused to expand into space that exists before the start of the partition.
A few reasons - 25 million subscriber base for the BBC against a Sky subscriber base of 10 million, as well as the fact that Sky has more premier programming like Battlestar Galactica, The Newsroom, Game of Thrones etc etc.