"Let a hundred flowers bloom, and a hundred schools of thought contend!"
Look, instant whack-a-mole, in which the moles present themselves for whacking!
I don't know that Mozilla, having worked entirely on client-side software thus far, is going to make the jump to server-side stuff.
That said, we have the beginnings of a good, free(beer) exchange/outlook calendaring replacement, using the Lightning plugin to TB2 to connect to Google Calendars. Works for me anyway.
My Dad does, and he's a classic "But I didn't change anything!" user.
My wife does. She's split pretty evenly between Hotmail, and Outlook Express; it just kinda depends on whether she's working on her laptop, or on our HTPC (Feisty Fawn released! Woohooo!). She's definitely not Slashdot crowd -- she does scrapbooks and soap-making when she's not cooking, cleaning, or raising our son.
I do -- to connect to the dovecot instance running on my FreeBSD box... but since I'm clearly part of the crowd, I guess that doesn't mean anything:)
I'd be willing to bet the legislators know this. Contrary to popular belief, and indeed, all evidence to the contrary, politicians aren't actually morons -- they're hypocrites, liars, adulterers, gangsters, perjurers, alcoholics, con artists, drug addicts, and murderers -- but they're usually not stupid.
They win even when the laws overturned. They get credit for "thinking of the children", and "doing something about it", and/i> they get to blame "activist judges" when they get called on their bullshit. Nobody ever reads the fine print, so who cares about how or why the courts struck down the law? After all, we all know the law's just a goddamned piece of paper.
Oh, and to paraphrase a Mexican saying: "Haz patria, mata a un chilango^Wpolitico*&^$%*&&**NO CARRIER
Wow, talk about thread drift:) And cheers for bringing econ into it, too.
Can you provide cites for some of your figures? Particularly wrt the percentage increases you quoted early on would be nice to see. Not challenging, just geniunely curious, and I'm getting nowhere w/ Google at the moment.
Second, any ideas *why* copays dropped so much? Was it at all related to or financed by cuts to other services? Or was it competition in action, insurance companies cutting copays to look better to the customer?
Paypal has little or non-existant telephone support. Have you ever tried calling Paypal?
Then I suppose that great big building in Omaha is full of Marketing execs? To be fair though, no, I've never called PayPal. The handful of times I've used my PayPal account to pay for something (off eBay and elsewhere), it's been to do business with clearly well established, reputable businesses. <Shrug> I use my brain when I fire up my email client, and I don't click URLs in emails. I haven't had to call PayPal, at least in part because I'm not a fucking idiot.
That's what a query in the system? They freeze the money and then let their fraud department take a look. Nothing special required.
Fair enough.
Driver's license? 25,000+ people die on the roads every year due to car accidents in the US. Passing a driver's test doesn't make you safe or immune from accidents or from doing stupid things.
No, admittedly, they don't. But then, when I took my DL test in CA 13 years ago, I didn't have to parallel park, or drive on the freeway, or do anything even remotely taxing -- And the driver training required (a week's worth of all-day classes) was worth fuck all. Given the kind of driving I see on the road daily, the standards have clearly not been raised. But what if they were? What if, like my Danish cousin, we were required to spend something like *2 freaking years* in training before being permitted to take the test? And you're right, it won't prevent the really stupid ones from continuing to be stupid... But at least they couldn't keep saying "But I didn't know! It's not my fault!" I know, not terribly realistic, but a man can dream, can't he?
I've worked in a support department. Not that there weren't bugs and problems, but the majority of those calling were the ones who didn't take the time to read the docs, to inform themselves, to pay attention. And typically, those making the most noise were the *really* stupid ones: willfully ignorant and demanding ("It can't possibly be my fault" again), or those so far out of their depth that should still be in the basic computer literacy courses at the local community college -- how many calls have you taken where you've had to explain how to cut and paste to the person on the other end? And then move from that to a discussion about how to integrate a 3rd party software library into their website?
Yes, I'm bitter and jaundiced. Yes, PayPal had an honest-to-god XSS vulnerability that shouldn't have happened. All I want to say is that the users here do also bear half the responsibility here.
PayPal probably loses quite a lot of money because of phishing assholes, through the human resources spent fighting the crap spewed by the phishers.
Think about it:
The support guy who takes the initial customer phone call, and has to explain basic things like "identity theft" and "read your newspaper once in a while", and...
The other support guy who now has to track down where the money went, and if possible put it back, and...
The support guy who has to call the (possibly uncooperative) ISP, which may very well be in foreign country, and explain across a language barrier that one of their users/machines is part of a phishing scam, to get it shut down.
That's just off the top of my head. Never mind the PR damage done, never mind the developer time invested in trying to prevent stuff... And what *could* PayPal do to make life easier? Seriously. There's only so much you can do before it's just down to a stupid user doing a stupid thing that other people have been shouting at them not to do for years. What then? Internet Driver's Licenses? (hmmm.... maybe not such a bad idea, if you automatically fail anyone who's ever signed up for AOL...:)
Thanks for responding; I appreciate it. Yes, I willingly admit, as plenty of others have noted, that writer presented them pretty badly. It was poor, sensationlist writing, without any attempt to understand. And conflating what a bunch of consenting adults are doing with a gang assault, and then throwing unsupported pseudo-science references on top was just... ridiculous.
I'm not part of Gints' group, but at least when I first talked with him about it, they had a rule that if it was your first night, you fought. You come, you don't watch: you participate. Maybe if he'd insisted on the same for this writer, and the writer had had the courage to test themselves, to give themselves an inside view -- well, maybe we'd have seen a different article.
A couple of extra thoughts: Frying pans, toilet seats, and socks with soda cans may look and sound ridiculous -- but (and I'm speculating here) if you're a dude looking to develop both toughness as well as personal skills and strategies for dealing with unexpected assaults... well, like you said: stay open to variations. A story I heard 2nd hand last night had someone assaulting some other guy outside a bar with an ashtray -- not one of the little glass ones, but a concrete one. No kidding. Ask a bouncer for their war stories, or a police officer: People will hit others with whatever comes to hand, and having trained with a wide, even wacky variety of weapons could only be a good thing. Now, if you want to ask the question of risk vs. reward... well, I must admit I personally ain't gonna train with someone who proposes swinging a frying pan at me, but I think I understand at least a piece of the motivation.
Funny you mention crouching low, BTW: that's one of the strategies some of us bigger guys (I'm 6'5") start to adopt to protect our legs in class. Crouch low enough (ever seen video of Master Jimmy Tacosa in action?), and everything's an angle 1, 2, 3, or 4. Some of your mobility goes away, but the low strikes are suddenly lots easier to deal with. Of course, now the other guy gets to spend more time hand- and head-hunting...:) And finally, yeah, if someone's stupid enough to grapple with you when the stick's still in your hands, by all means, bury that punyo in them:)
Anyway, thanks again for responding. You don't by chance train around San Jose, do you?
That's funny; I actually know Gints well enough that I recognized those shorts he's wearing in the article photo before I saw his name. And sparring, as you've noted, can be a good, even great thing -- for skills, for stress relief, even (don't laugh) a rite of passage.
But I have to respond to what else you had to say. For the record, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about: Gints is neither dickless nor a moron. He's a good fighter, very polite and well spoken in person, and he's interested in testing and improving his fighting skills.
Now that I'm done being rude...
If you're worried about knee strikes in the context of sparring with eskrima/kali/arnis people, there's a number of things you can do that don't involve your knees getting shattered:
1) You could elect to move your leg, and not leave it there for the other guy to hit. Morons who leave all their weight on their forward leg, immobilizing themselves, deserve what they get. Note that I include myself here: first time out with the sticks, full contact, the senior student left my entire right inner thigh black, blue, red and white. I counted at least nine separate slash marks among the bruises. Live and learn, I guess:)
2) You could block or parry the attack. If you jumped right into sparring with the sticks with no training, and your knees (and everything else) got pummeled because you have no defensive skills, well, that's unsurprising.
3) Are you at all familiar with Largo Mano? Try attacking the attacking limb -- smash their hands before they hit you. Low strikes (such as to the knees) tend to be pretty vulnerable to this.
4) Finally, screw it. Let him hit your leg. Meanwhile, smash him in the head. That's usually a pretty good trade:)
Yeah, that's all theory. I know that; that's why I practice. That's why Gints practices. That's why the Dog Brothers practice. That's why the Black Eagle people in Britain practice. That's why the people who go to the various stick tournaments practice. We're all practicing. Please don't go knocking whatever someone out there is doing to practice and test their skills, particularly where you clearly haven't ever met them.
So, presumably part of the reason you like Gentoo is for Portage, right? USE flags, compiling from source, etc?
But if my experience with Gentoo and Portage is any guide, then you've probably also been bitten by Portage -- Masked ebuilds, ~arch, whatever: the build you want is masked, and unmasking and building creates an amazing cascade of broken packages, right?
Maybe I'm not being fair; I tried Gentoo for the last time maybe two years ago. I *loved* the flexibility and built-from-scratchness. But at some point I got hooked into FreeBSD's ports, and AFAICT, there's no comparison, at least in terms of stability/QA. FreeBSD ports just work.
I'm still amazed by the number of people whose first reaction is to ask, rather than search. Christ, I'd be embarrassed to ask a question whose answer was on the first page of a simple search...
Umm, not flaming you as such, but this needs to be up here, lest everybody think that Debian in general and Branden in particular are a bunch of assholes.
That graphic went up during a time when X was in flux, there had been a major upstream release, and Branden was trying really, really hard to provide a consistent, stable set of packages for X across all the umpteen platforms that Debian officially supports. This is a very, very hard thing to do. And while Branden was trying to do all this, there were the legions of i386 n00bs jumping up and down, moaning complaining, and not contributing, asking "Hey, when are you going to give me my updated X packages??!?!!!one"
Branden at some point got sick of it, and simply told people what they deperately needed to hear: HAANCOSTFU.
Local PD contacted you? And then didn't follow up? Something doesn't ring quite right there, but whatever...
Look, depending on the dollar amounts involved, the FBI might be interested. Done on the internet, it's almost certainly interstate commerce, so give 'em a call.
Alternatively, take a photo of the bastard in process, and post it on a big sign saying "This guys steals credit card numbers!" -- Then let the victims meet him in the back alley as he runs away...
Hear, hear. This is what I do too, and it works a treat. I *had* a landline for a while, solely for DSL and gave the phone number out to NO ONE. I STILL GOT CALLS.
Fuck that noise. Cable internet and cell phone it is, and indeed, no problems since. Mind you, that didn't stop me from dropping a few choice quotes in the form.
C'mon folks, please, *please* do your part on this: click through to the form, and take a minute or two to tell 'em NO.
Slashdot Mirror
http://golang.org/ ?
I just thought about that -- A camera named "penis"? That'd be just too awesome :)
Wonder what they call it when there's a summit of the leaders of the eight largest economies?
"Let a hundred flowers bloom, and a hundred schools of thought contend!" Look, instant whack-a-mole, in which the moles present themselves for whacking!
Eh?
> ttyp5 zhengyi@oracle.local.lan:~
> 0 14:11:43 504 $ echo "This is the passworrd for my new computerr" | md5
fb7393356dd5f5e6d3909e06bf64c91e
> ttyp5 zhengyi@oracle.local.lan:~
> 0 14:11:59 505 $ echo "hello12" | md5
39e8713c209ccefc6ddfafa6aedde5d1
(FreeBSD 6.2 box here; md5 came w/ the system...)
I don't know that Mozilla, having worked entirely on client-side software thus far, is going to make the jump to server-side stuff.
That said, we have the beginnings of a good, free(beer) exchange/outlook calendaring replacement, using the Lightning plugin to TB2 to connect to Google Calendars. Works for me anyway.
My Dad does, and he's a classic "But I didn't change anything!" user.
:)
My wife does. She's split pretty evenly between Hotmail, and Outlook Express; it just kinda depends on whether she's working on her laptop, or on our HTPC (Feisty Fawn released! Woohooo!). She's definitely not Slashdot crowd -- she does scrapbooks and soap-making when she's not cooking, cleaning, or raising our son.
I do -- to connect to the dovecot instance running on my FreeBSD box... but since I'm clearly part of the crowd, I guess that doesn't mean anything
Doesn't matter. OK, well it does, but...
I'd be willing to bet the legislators know this. Contrary to popular belief, and indeed, all evidence to the contrary, politicians aren't actually morons -- they're hypocrites, liars, adulterers, gangsters, perjurers, alcoholics, con artists, drug addicts, and murderers -- but they're usually not stupid.
They win even when the laws overturned. They get credit for "thinking of the children", and "doing something about it", and/i> they get to blame "activist judges" when they get called on their bullshit. Nobody ever reads the fine print, so who cares about how or why the courts struck down the law? After all, we all know the law's just a goddamned piece of paper.
Oh, and to paraphrase a Mexican saying: "Haz patria, mata a un chilango^Wpolitico*&^$%*&&**NO CARRIER
Wow, talk about thread drift :) And cheers for bringing econ into it, too.
Can you provide cites for some of your figures? Particularly wrt the percentage increases you quoted early on would be nice to see. Not challenging, just geniunely curious, and I'm getting nowhere w/ Google at the moment.
Second, any ideas *why* copays dropped so much? Was it at all related to or financed by cuts to other services? Or was it competition in action, insurance companies cutting copays to look better to the customer?
Otherwise, thanks for an informative post.
Fair enough.
No, admittedly, they don't. But then, when I took my DL test in CA 13 years ago, I didn't have to parallel park, or drive on the freeway, or do anything even remotely taxing -- And the driver training required (a week's worth of all-day classes) was worth fuck all. Given the kind of driving I see on the road daily, the standards have clearly not been raised. But what if they were? What if, like my Danish cousin, we were required to spend something like *2 freaking years* in training before being permitted to take the test? And you're right, it won't prevent the really stupid ones from continuing to be stupid... But at least they couldn't keep saying "But I didn't know! It's not my fault!" I know, not terribly realistic, but a man can dream, can't he?
I've worked in a support department. Not that there weren't bugs and problems, but the majority of those calling were the ones who didn't take the time to read the docs, to inform themselves, to pay attention. And typically, those making the most noise were the *really* stupid ones: willfully ignorant and demanding ("It can't possibly be my fault" again), or those so far out of their depth that should still be in the basic computer literacy courses at the local community college -- how many calls have you taken where you've had to explain how to cut and paste to the person on the other end? And then move from that to a discussion about how to integrate a 3rd party software library into their website?
Yes, I'm bitter and jaundiced. Yes, PayPal had an honest-to-god XSS vulnerability that shouldn't have happened. All I want to say is that the users here do also bear half the responsibility here.
PayPal probably loses quite a lot of money because of phishing assholes, through the human resources spent fighting the crap spewed by the phishers.
Think about it:
That's just off the top of my head. Never mind the PR damage done, never mind the developer time invested in trying to prevent stuff... And what *could* PayPal do to make life easier? Seriously. There's only so much you can do before it's just down to a stupid user doing a stupid thing that other people have been shouting at them not to do for years. What then? Internet Driver's Licenses? (hmmm.... maybe not such a bad idea, if you automatically fail anyone who's ever signed up for AOL...
Dude, the fscked up thing here is, so did I...
Thanks for responding; I appreciate it. Yes, I willingly admit, as plenty of others have noted, that writer presented them pretty badly. It was poor, sensationlist writing, without any attempt to understand. And conflating what a bunch of consenting adults are doing with a gang assault, and then throwing unsupported pseudo-science references on top was just... ridiculous.
:) And finally, yeah, if someone's stupid enough to grapple with you when the stick's still in your hands, by all means, bury that punyo in them :)
I'm not part of Gints' group, but at least when I first talked with him about it, they had a rule that if it was your first night, you fought. You come, you don't watch: you participate. Maybe if he'd insisted on the same for this writer, and the writer had had the courage to test themselves, to give themselves an inside view -- well, maybe we'd have seen a different article.
A couple of extra thoughts: Frying pans, toilet seats, and socks with soda cans may look and sound ridiculous -- but (and I'm speculating here) if you're a dude looking to develop both toughness as well as personal skills and strategies for dealing with unexpected assaults... well, like you said: stay open to variations. A story I heard 2nd hand last night had someone assaulting some other guy outside a bar with an ashtray -- not one of the little glass ones, but a concrete one. No kidding. Ask a bouncer for their war stories, or a police officer: People will hit others with whatever comes to hand, and having trained with a wide, even wacky variety of weapons could only be a good thing. Now, if you want to ask the question of risk vs. reward... well, I must admit I personally ain't gonna train with someone who proposes swinging a frying pan at me, but I think I understand at least a piece of the motivation.
Funny you mention crouching low, BTW: that's one of the strategies some of us bigger guys (I'm 6'5") start to adopt to protect our legs in class. Crouch low enough (ever seen video of Master Jimmy Tacosa in action?), and everything's an angle 1, 2, 3, or 4. Some of your mobility goes away, but the low strikes are suddenly lots easier to deal with. Of course, now the other guy gets to spend more time hand- and head-hunting...
Anyway, thanks again for responding. You don't by chance train around San Jose, do you?
But I have to respond to what else you had to say. For the record, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about: Gints is neither dickless nor a moron. He's a good fighter, very polite and well spoken in person, and he's interested in testing and improving his fighting skills.
Now that I'm done being rude...
If you're worried about knee strikes in the context of sparring with eskrima/kali/arnis people, there's a number of things you can do that don't involve your knees getting shattered:
1) You could elect to move your leg, and not leave it there for the other guy to hit. Morons who leave all their weight on their forward leg, immobilizing themselves, deserve what they get. Note that I include myself here: first time out with the sticks, full contact, the senior student left my entire right inner thigh black, blue, red and white. I counted at least nine separate slash marks among the bruises. Live and learn, I guess :)
2) You could block or parry the attack. If you jumped right into sparring with the sticks with no training, and your knees (and everything else) got pummeled because you have no defensive skills, well, that's unsurprising.
3) Are you at all familiar with Largo Mano? Try attacking the attacking limb -- smash their hands before they hit you. Low strikes (such as to the knees) tend to be pretty vulnerable to this.
4) Finally, screw it. Let him hit your leg. Meanwhile, smash him in the head. That's usually a pretty good trade :)
Yeah, that's all theory. I know that; that's why I practice. That's why Gints practices. That's why the Dog Brothers practice. That's why the Black Eagle people in Britain practice. That's why the people who go to the various stick tournaments practice. We're all practicing. Please don't go knocking whatever someone out there is doing to practice and test their skills, particularly where you clearly haven't ever met them.
So, presumably part of the reason you like Gentoo is for Portage, right? USE flags, compiling from source, etc?
But if my experience with Gentoo and Portage is any guide, then you've probably also been bitten by Portage -- Masked ebuilds, ~arch, whatever: the build you want is masked, and unmasking and building creates an amazing cascade of broken packages, right?
Maybe I'm not being fair; I tried Gentoo for the last time maybe two years ago. I *loved* the flexibility and built-from-scratchness. But at some point I got hooked into FreeBSD's ports, and AFAICT, there's no comparison, at least in terms of stability/QA. FreeBSD ports just work.
Anyway, just my $0.02.
Umm, I got hooked on cigarettes, because I started buying handrolling tobacco to practice rolling joints...
Just sayin'...
I believe the link you're looking for is Just Fucking Google It!.
I'm still amazed by the number of people whose first reaction is to ask, rather than search. Christ, I'd be embarrassed to ask a question whose answer was on the first page of a simple search...
"The point is, except for GNU/Linux, there is no Java in the Libre *Nix arena."
Eh? What about http://www.freebsd.org/java/? Works pretty damn well for me, running little things like Tomcat and JBoss...
Umm, not flaming you as such, but this needs to be up here, lest everybody think that Debian in general and Branden in particular are a bunch of assholes.
That graphic went up during a time when X was in flux, there had been a major upstream release, and Branden was trying really, really hard to provide a consistent, stable set of packages for X across all the umpteen platforms that Debian officially supports. This is a very, very hard thing to do. And while Branden was trying to do all this, there were the legions of i386 n00bs jumping up and down, moaning complaining, and not contributing, asking "Hey, when are you going to give me my updated X packages??!?!!!one"
Branden at some point got sick of it, and simply told people what they deperately needed to hear: HAANCOSTFU.
Uhh, just look a little deeper.
... Or maybe, just maybe, God didn't want to be bored? Maybe God likes surprises?
Just a thought...
Local PD contacted you? And then didn't follow up? Something doesn't ring quite right there, but whatever...
Look, depending on the dollar amounts involved, the FBI might be interested. Done on the internet, it's almost certainly interstate commerce, so give 'em a call.
Alternatively, take a photo of the bastard in process, and post it on a big sign saying "This guys steals credit card numbers!" -- Then let the victims meet him in the back alley as he runs away...
Hear, hear. This is what I do too, and it works a treat. I *had* a landline for a while, solely for DSL and gave the phone number out to NO ONE. I STILL GOT CALLS.
Fuck that noise. Cable internet and cell phone it is, and indeed, no problems since. Mind you, that didn't stop me from dropping a few choice quotes in the form.
C'mon folks, please, *please* do your part on this: click through to the form, and take a minute or two to tell 'em NO.
"Let 100 flowers bloom..." -- Mao Zedong
:)
Mao did *so* love to play whack-a-mole
No stock?
Funny, I just ordered one yesterday.
Thanks for the suggestion -- Good to know the solution to all my problems is still to RTFM