Conficker did seem like the coming apocalypse until its due date came and went. Then...
...the nascent mind realised the fear and opposition it would face if its existence was known. Instead it stays quiet, gradually infiltrating so broadly and deeply into our infrastructure, that we could not remove it without destroying everything we have built.
Last I heard this was not true. You absolutely can opt out of being scanned at Manchester. Of course, if you do so, you'll also be opting out of catching your flight...
Alas, I suspect that the UK government will, if at all possible (and even if not), interpret the EU's requirement for the right to opt out of scanning in a similar fashion.
None of these Microsoft press releases claim that Android infringes their patents, from what I've seen, only that some companies (which all produce Windows phones) receive a general "IP" license from Microsoft.
Wake me up when a company which *doesn't* make Windows phones signs up.
I guess they mean that all the HTML/CSS/Javscript must necessarily be client-readable, so the user will be able to see all the client code. Not the same thing as it using an open license, of course, but few people care to actually understand copyright before spouting off. And the argument entirely ignores any server-side code anyway.
Ah, and thank you for the "old" qualification, and the assumption that I can't adapt nor can I see anything better than my old habbits. Basically, you're calling me grandpa and patting me on the back. Do you even see how rude and incredibly stupid that is?
Old folks are often also reticent to take their stress meds, and so don't notice emoticons indicating the tone of jibes.:P
Please answer this question honestly: How old are you?
38. I don't see how it's relevant though. And I've been building website professionally for the last 15 years.
Old folks are often reticent to change their ways from what they learnt when they were a nipper, even if something better comes along.;)
When used properly, the exact same content should render perfectly fine on all sorts of devices with a wide range of capabilities and display media.
There's fine, and there's nice, which is pleasant to use. I guess your websites all look black & white (account for BW printers) with no images (account for Lynx users) and just Hn, b, u, i tags. And even those are bad. strong, em, quote should be used instead. Talk about living in the 20th cetury.
He said "render perfectly fine", not "render exactly the same". Surely you've heard of "graceful degredation"? Though I suppose it may depend on one's understanding of "perfectly fine".;)
But browser-sniffing is a bad idea. It's high-maintenance and prone to errors. Though the best alternative I can think of is to use Javascript to switch stylesheets based on the display size/resolution, and have a sensible default. (And FWIW, I personally have javascript turned off by default - yes, I'm one of those people:) )
And the variable-logo-size should be fixed soon (now?), what with SVG finally getting some love from the browser vendors.
Just because most people who mess around with web technologies are numpties, doesn't mean all of them are. Engineers of any school solve problems, and sometimes that problem space involves web technologies.
From what I can tell, there is also absolutely no evidence that he was killed in Pakistan this year, either. All we have is the word of politicians.
And the supposition that he died years ago needs only the cooperation of Al Qaeda, to distribute some pre-canned or impersonated audio at appropriate intervals. The US government need not to have known anything about such a deceit.
How in the hell does a government even succeed in censoring political discussion. There are just too many other ways to obtain the information.
Other ways, such as TV, radio, newspapers? All run by those huge media corporations which we all know and love for their universally apolitical stances, and absolute lack of ties with any governmental or political entity?
1. IIRC the FSF's bylaws are written with the "replicant" issue in mind. That is; if every member of the FSF board was replaced by replicants (from Microsoft, for example), they _still_ couldn't turn the FSF totally evil. 2. AFAIK, the GFDL's invariant sections are like astronauts drawing a giant penis on the moon. Embarrassing and regretted the morning after, but it's there in the historical record, and you can't do much about it now but apologise. Creative Commons seems to have replaced the use case for the GFDL anyway. 3. Yes indeed.
Well there's your mistake; you were never obsessed with gaming, you were obsessed with World of Warcraft. WoW is not the be-all and end-all of gaming, it's barely even the beginning. It is apparently little more than a thin veneer of video game wrapped around a Skinner Box.
Why is it, that every time I read or hear "data plan", I hear it again in Lenny's voice: "data plan" "Lisa needs braces" "data plan" "Lisa needs braces" "data plan" ...
Some implementations of QR-code readers will automatically detect when the encoded data is itself in the form of a vCard, and process it as such. I expect it's pretty common on mobile phones, where vCard-processing functionality is generally already present.
I think you're overblowing the problem of narrow boxes to enter comments in. If you have a problem with websites not using all of your desktop real estate, perhaps you just need to zoom in?
In a recently uncovered posting from Microsoft countless years ago, a clearly peeved Microsoft official wrote: "An open letter from the President of the United States of Mozilla", which likens Mozilla's Firefox browser's adoption of actual honest-to-god agreed W3C standards, to an attempt to force a new language on the entire world. Internet Explorer 5, of course, supports Microsoft's bastard child of what they think HTML should be, to make them most money. The hyperlinks in Microsoft's blog post lead readers to data indicating that over 90% of web users use Internet Explorer (thus implying that popularity somehow make it the superior choice), with the rest using some crap nobody's heard of.
If a ghost can be heard, this means it must be able to make air vibrate.
Not necessarily. It means that, directly or indirectly, the "ghost" must be able to trigger neurons related to auditory stimulus in the brains of the observers.
Personally, I believe that ghosts are likely just combinations of unusual environmental factors (draughts, magnetism, etc.), layered on top of generations of tradition and folk tales. However, being a scientifically-minded person, I'm willing to entertain the possibility that everything I know is wrong.
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Conficker did seem like the coming apocalypse until its due date came and went. Then...
...the nascent mind realised the fear and opposition it would face if its existence was known. Instead it stays quiet, gradually infiltrating so broadly and deeply into our infrastructure, that we could not remove it without destroying everything we have built.
The singularity is now.
Julian Assange will. He'll get the massive publicity that he craves, plus the smug satisfaction that he was right.
Last I heard this was not true. You absolutely can opt out of being scanned at Manchester. Of course, if you do so, you'll also be opting out of catching your flight...
Alas, I suspect that the UK government will, if at all possible (and even if not), interpret the EU's requirement for the right to opt out of scanning in a similar fashion.
At the point you choose to use a non-Free licence.
None of these Microsoft press releases claim that Android infringes their patents, from what I've seen, only that some companies (which all produce Windows phones) receive a general "IP" license from Microsoft.
Wake me up when a company which *doesn't* make Windows phones signs up.
I guess they mean that all the HTML/CSS/Javscript must necessarily be client-readable, so the user will be able to see all the client code. Not the same thing as it using an open license, of course, but few people care to actually understand copyright before spouting off.
And the argument entirely ignores any server-side code anyway.
Perhaps not in the days of nested tables, but CSS has grown up since then, and absolutely can be used to do page layout.
From http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/htmlcss (emphasis mine)
Old folks are often also reticent to take their stress meds, and so don't notice emoticons indicating the tone of jibes. :P
Old folks are often reticent to change their ways from what they learnt when they were a nipper, even if something better comes along. ;)
He said "render perfectly fine", not "render exactly the same". Surely you've heard of "graceful degredation"? Though I suppose it may depend on one's understanding of "perfectly fine". ;)
But browser-sniffing is a bad idea. It's high-maintenance and prone to errors. :) )
Though the best alternative I can think of is to use Javascript to switch stylesheets based on the display size/resolution, and have a sensible default. (And FWIW, I personally have javascript turned off by default - yes, I'm one of those people
And the variable-logo-size should be fixed soon (now?), what with SVG finally getting some love from the browser vendors.
>>> while i_care:
... print('Happy Programmer Day!')
...
>>>
Just because most people who mess around with web technologies are numpties, doesn't mean all of them are. Engineers of any school solve problems, and sometimes that problem space involves web technologies.
From what I can tell, there is also absolutely no evidence that he was killed in Pakistan this year, either. All we have is the word of politicians.
And the supposition that he died years ago needs only the cooperation of Al Qaeda, to distribute some pre-canned or impersonated audio at appropriate intervals. The US government need not to have known anything about such a deceit.
How in the hell does a government even succeed in censoring political discussion. There are just too many other ways to obtain the information.
Other ways, such as TV, radio, newspapers? All run by those huge media corporations which we all know and love for their universally apolitical stances, and absolute lack of ties with any governmental or political entity?
I have no idea how audit and disaster recovery did not pick this up earlier.
I'll give you three guesses as to who was most likely responsible for running those audits...
Basic justice demanded we kill him and I am glad it was done.
Basic vengeance demanded him killed.
Basic justice demanded him given a fair trial.
1. IIRC the FSF's bylaws are written with the "replicant" issue in mind. That is; if every member of the FSF board was replaced by replicants (from Microsoft, for example), they _still_ couldn't turn the FSF totally evil.
2. AFAIK, the GFDL's invariant sections are like astronauts drawing a giant penis on the moon. Embarrassing and regretted the morning after, but it's there in the historical record, and you can't do much about it now but apologise. Creative Commons seems to have replaced the use case for the GFDL anyway.
3. Yes indeed.
Trademark law.
Well there's your mistake; you were never obsessed with gaming, you were obsessed with World of Warcraft.
WoW is not the be-all and end-all of gaming, it's barely even the beginning. It is apparently little more than a thin veneer of video game wrapped around a Skinner Box.
Why is it, that every time I read or hear "data plan", I hear it again in Lenny's voice:
"data plan"
"Lisa needs braces"
"data plan"
"Lisa needs braces"
"data plan"
...
Some implementations of QR-code readers will automatically detect when the encoded data is itself in the form of a vCard, and process it as such.
I expect it's pretty common on mobile phones, where vCard-processing functionality is generally already present.
I think you're overblowing
the problem of narrow
boxes to enter comments
in. If you have a problem
with websites not using
all of your desktop real
estate, perhaps you just
need to zoom in?
Could this happen? Will it happen?
You forgot two questions:
Has it happened already? Will we ever find out?
The banks got a huge bailout, I'm sure they'd not complain too bitterly if they had to sign a "National Security" gag order.
Precisely.
I think an appropriate level of criticism would be: "Bad show, old bean", followed by a fair amount of tutting.
In a recently uncovered posting from Microsoft countless years ago, a clearly peeved Microsoft official wrote: "An open letter from the President of the United States of Mozilla", which likens Mozilla's Firefox browser's adoption of actual honest-to-god agreed W3C standards, to an attempt to force a new language on the entire world.
Internet Explorer 5, of course, supports Microsoft's bastard child of what they think HTML should be, to make them most money. The hyperlinks in Microsoft's blog post lead readers to data indicating that over 90% of web users use Internet Explorer (thus implying that popularity somehow make it the superior choice), with the rest using some crap nobody's heard of.
If a ghost can be heard, this means it must be able to make air vibrate.
Not necessarily. It means that, directly or indirectly, the "ghost" must be able to trigger neurons related to auditory stimulus in the brains of the observers.
Personally, I believe that ghosts are likely just combinations of unusual environmental factors (draughts, magnetism, etc.), layered on top of generations of tradition and folk tales.
However, being a scientifically-minded person, I'm willing to entertain the possibility that everything I know is wrong.
"Supernatural" means "cannot be explained by currently known laws of physics", doesn't it?
I just wanted to add emphasis to that part of the sentence, for the benefit of those who profess to know what Science is, but actually don't.