Eh...there probably was some half baked documentation at some point, but I doubt it was maintained very well
That may well be because any decent COBOL programmer knows (or knew) that the code itself is indeed self-documenting. COBOL code may be tedious to write (actually, it certainly is) but it has the advantage of being quite easily maintained.
So, no excuses. It's more likely the US Govt is too cheap to hire anyone with the appropriate skills. It's also quite possible that an age bias has been applied by their HR bozos, thus excluding that generation most likely to be good at this work.
On the other hand, such a certificate may be redundant in the case of a properly P2P process, as TFS suggests re their app. However, I can't see any reason why they need one for their homepage, which (from having looked at the content in Links) shouldn't need https at all.
Let's say that the PRISM program managed to stop X number of terrorist attacks.
Yeah, and let's also assume X monkeys can fly out of my butt. If you start with such an implausible supposition, it's no wonder you reach such farfetched conclusions.
Well, that's perfectly plausible if you first assume that your monkeys are frictionless spheres...
He won't. Even if he does receive and accept asylum from some compliant state, we have already seen that the US will make damn sure he won't get there.
And indeed he isn't. Nor should he in fact be a problem to the US. After all, a government that is doing nothing wrong has nothing to fear from whistleblowers.
Although I'm not a US voter, I am mightily disappointed in Obama's stance on this issue. His election platform was supposed to represent transparency in Government dealings, but instead he has perpetuated and compounded the worst excesses of the former Republican administration.
Not that I'm surprised, mind you. An election promise is as empty as a politician's soul.
What an AMAZING idea! If only somebody had thought of that before, then you wouldn't have to see the sun reflected behind you...
I think I might be in a minority in not being a big fan of reflective screens, but I would have thought Apple in particular would be grumpy about the latest/best glass not being shiny any more.
...or it could include just about any heavy metal, e.g. Cu or Al. Lots of bacteria are inhibited by these, so this kind of treatment might lend itself quite well to such a broad-brush application (which is how your deodorants containing aluminium-based compounds work).
But unlike the others, the ear is seperated from your inner body by a watertight seal
It is, but that membrane and the surrounding tissue are fragile and comparatively prone to infection (a warm, humid environment for bugs to thrive in). However, obviously many of us have grown up accustomed to shared or public phones without having suffered major issues.
When I was younger (much, much younger) I had a girlfriend who liked licking ears. I always found it just a bit creepy, but nowhere near as surprising as when she stuck her tongue in my ass. I had never imagined anyone would do that...
If you've ever left things in your Amazon shopping cart for a long time, you'd know the price changes aren't based on supply and demand -- or even promoted sales. I have over 200 items in my cart and it's a curious, curious ride the prices of different items take.
I often do this. Since I mostly use Amazon to buy music (since book transactions with Australia are problematic enough to make me not bother), I quite often leave stuff in my shopping cart, and I've found that a few days review period has saved me a lot of money in unwise purchases.
Whatever other faults Amazon may have, this is a major plus. That, and their excellent return policy. Also, I've had parcels go astray in the post, and Amazon have re-sent, only for me to receive the original parcels later. To their credit, Amazon have never demanded repayment or return.
I haven't lived in the UK for a while, but I remember back in the '80s Waterstone's used to have some seriously good stock. Of course, that was before ePubs etc, but that's no reason why they couldn't make more of an effort.
If you want old books, Project Gutenberg [gutenberg.org] might be worth your time.
Ditto, Feedbooks is another good source for the same, but often much better formatted ePubs. (They also have non-free publications, but at a reasonable price).
If you have a Kindle device, I guess you might have to convert the files, in which case my suggestion would be to use Calibre (which handles just about anything, and which I use exclusively to manage content on my Sony reader), but there are plenty of other options available.
I suspect that this has more to to with the limited public attention span fostered by the 30-second soundbite that passes for journalism these days. I don't think the symptom is unique to the US. All of the media seem to be in a conspiracy to disengage peoples' brains from actually thinking about what they are reading.
I suspect this is why so many of the media manage to get away with recycling the same syndicated garbage day after day (or sometimes for weeks on end). This is why I absolutely refuse to take out subscriptions to any of the major media.
You need a newer phone. My iPhone 3GS can usually figure-out where I am within 200 meters.
If he wants to protect his privacy, then he doesn't need a newer phone. On the other hand, if he wants to use GPS navigation, then he might. On another hand, for those of us who are polychiral, he appears to live in a populated metropolitan area, so he should probably expect to get reasonably precise GPS data.
Where I live in regional Tasmania, it is not unusual for GPS locations reported by phones to be out by as much as 2km, possibly (I imagine) as a result of satellites being too close to the horizon.
So you send someone an email "This is a touchy subject, let's switch to PGP, my key is $MY_KEY"...
You need a secure channel to exchange keys with other parties.
Or you need to revise your approach and use something other than email. Like a one-to-one conversation at a nudist beach or something...;-)
If you're talking about POP3, you're wrong. There are lots of good reasons to use POP3 (though Lookout isn't one of them), and there's absolutely nothing stopping you from using your preferred desktop client with both Yahoo and Gmail.
I'm not 74 yet, but I find it pretty handy to have all of my email accounts (including a couple of legacy Yahoo ones) managed from the same desktop client (in my case Thunderbird, though almost any will do). And if you spend any amount of time out in the sticks or otherwise out of reach of an internet connection (or if you're attempting to avoid roaming charges), being able to access previous mail can often be very handy.
Complaining will avail you nothing. Ditto, the link referenced in TFS which just points the user to an "opt-out" page which will probably be just about as effective as those handy "unsubscribe" links you get in all that spam email. The only way you can stop your ISP from selling your data is to (attempt to) prevent them from having it in the first place. In other words, tunnel through a VPN and make sure you block any trackers you come across along the way.
Funny your mentioning systemd, as I was just thinking about that earlier today. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of it, for several reasons, and I was gratified to see that (for now, at least) Pat Volkerding has kept it out of Slackware.
However, I suspect that sooner or later, everything will depend on it, and unless we introduce forks of udev, we'll be stuck with it, just like many distros are with pulse audio, which I really do hate. It is my contention that "pulse" stands for Pretty Useless Load of Superfluous Excreta.
Charging advertisers to put ads in front of users and then making users pay for the Xbox so that they can be pummelled with ads seems, somehow, really fucking greedy.
Spot on. Has Microsoft actually succeeded in selling one of these machines yet? To anyone with an IQ greater than 30?
The claim to make ads "more engaging" seems pretty specious if it is actually impossible for the user to "disengage" from them.
I have to say, I'm pretty appalled at the degree of hypocrisy Obama has shown on this issue. OK, I'm not a US citizen, so I don't get to vote there, but there was a time when he showed a certain amount of promise as a leader with some moral backbone. However, I can't say I'm very surprised. Obama is (or was) also a successful lawyer, which puts him in an unscrupulous bracket of humanity.
I hope he's planning on returning that Nobel Peace Prize.
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Our military is the most expensive in the world because we give it more money. We can spend less by simply spending less.
You can also spend less by not treating every other nation on the planet as an enemy.
Eh...there probably was some half baked documentation at some point, but I doubt it was maintained very well
That may well be because any decent COBOL programmer knows (or knew) that the code itself is indeed self-documenting. COBOL code may be tedious to write (actually, it certainly is) but it has the advantage of being quite easily maintained.
So, no excuses. It's more likely the US Govt is too cheap to hire anyone with the appropriate skills. It's also quite possible that an age bias has been applied by their HR bozos, thus excluding that generation most likely to be good at this work.
made middle mouse click be minimize windows
OK, but anyone who has been around *nix for a while, or has the remotest claim to nerd cred should be aware that middle-click is supposed to paste.
On the other hand, such a certificate may be redundant in the case of a properly P2P process, as TFS suggests re their app. However, I can't see any reason why they need one for their homepage, which (from having looked at the content in Links) shouldn't need https at all.
The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided.
Let's say that the PRISM program managed to stop X number of terrorist attacks.
Yeah, and let's also assume X monkeys can fly out of my butt. If you start with such an implausible supposition, it's no wonder you reach such farfetched conclusions.
Well, that's perfectly plausible if you first assume that your monkeys are frictionless spheres...
If Snowden has a happy ending...
He won't. Even if he does receive and accept asylum from some compliant state, we have already seen that the US will make damn sure he won't get there.
Russia views him as not their problem...
And indeed he isn't. Nor should he in fact be a problem to the US. After all, a government that is doing nothing wrong has nothing to fear from whistleblowers.
Although I'm not a US voter, I am mightily disappointed in Obama's stance on this issue. His election platform was supposed to represent transparency in Government dealings, but instead he has perpetuated and compounded the worst excesses of the former Republican administration.
Not that I'm surprised, mind you. An election promise is as empty as a politician's soul.
What an AMAZING idea! If only somebody had thought of that before, then you wouldn't have to see the sun reflected behind you...
I think I might be in a minority in not being a big fan of reflective screens, but I would have thought Apple in particular would be grumpy about the latest/best glass not being shiny any more.
...or it could include just about any heavy metal, e.g. Cu or Al. Lots of bacteria are inhibited by these, so this kind of treatment might lend itself quite well to such a broad-brush application (which is how your deodorants containing aluminium-based compounds work).
But unlike the others, the ear is seperated from your inner body by a watertight seal
It is, but that membrane and the surrounding tissue are fragile and comparatively prone to infection (a warm, humid environment for bugs to thrive in). However, obviously many of us have grown up accustomed to shared or public phones without having suffered major issues.
When I was younger (much, much younger) I had a girlfriend who liked licking ears. I always found it just a bit creepy, but nowhere near as surprising as when she stuck her tongue in my ass. I had never imagined anyone would do that...
:-}
Oops, sorry...
Yes, but will it ever have the courage to say "Yes, you do look fat in that"?
If you've ever left things in your Amazon shopping cart for a long time, you'd know the price changes aren't based on supply and demand -- or even promoted sales. I have over 200 items in my cart and it's a curious, curious ride the prices of different items take.
I often do this. Since I mostly use Amazon to buy music (since book transactions with Australia are problematic enough to make me not bother), I quite often leave stuff in my shopping cart, and I've found that a few days review period has saved me a lot of money in unwise purchases.
Whatever other faults Amazon may have, this is a major plus. That, and their excellent return policy. Also, I've had parcels go astray in the post, and Amazon have re-sent, only for me to receive the original parcels later. To their credit, Amazon have never demanded repayment or return.
I haven't lived in the UK for a while, but I remember back in the '80s Waterstone's used to have some seriously good stock. Of course, that was before ePubs etc, but that's no reason why they couldn't make more of an effort.
If you want old books, Project Gutenberg [gutenberg.org] might be worth your time.
Ditto, Feedbooks is another good source for the same, but often much better formatted ePubs. (They also have non-free publications, but at a reasonable price).
If you have a Kindle device, I guess you might have to convert the files, in which case my suggestion would be to use Calibre (which handles just about anything, and which I use exclusively to manage content on my Sony reader), but there are plenty of other options available.
I wonder why their desk workers have to wear those day-glo jackets. Maybe it's so they're easier to spot for the front-end-loader drivers... :|
You Americans deserve what you're about to get.
I suspect that this has more to to with the limited public attention span fostered by the 30-second soundbite that passes for journalism these days. I don't think the symptom is unique to the US. All of the media seem to be in a conspiracy to disengage peoples' brains from actually thinking about what they are reading.
I suspect this is why so many of the media manage to get away with recycling the same syndicated garbage day after day (or sometimes for weeks on end). This is why I absolutely refuse to take out subscriptions to any of the major media.
You need a newer phone. My iPhone 3GS can usually figure-out where I am within 200 meters.
If he wants to protect his privacy, then he doesn't need a newer phone. On the other hand, if he wants to use GPS navigation, then he might. On another hand, for those of us who are polychiral, he appears to live in a populated metropolitan area, so he should probably expect to get reasonably precise GPS data.
Where I live in regional Tasmania, it is not unusual for GPS locations reported by phones to be out by as much as 2km, possibly (I imagine) as a result of satellites being too close to the horizon.
So you send someone an email "This is a touchy subject, let's switch to PGP, my key is $MY_KEY"... You need a secure channel to exchange keys with other parties.
Or you need to revise your approach and use something other than email. Like a one-to-one conversation at a nudist beach or something... ;-)
...nobody but NOBODY uses download mail anymore.
If you're talking about POP3, you're wrong. There are lots of good reasons to use POP3 (though Lookout isn't one of them), and there's absolutely nothing stopping you from using your preferred desktop client with both Yahoo and Gmail.
I'm not 74 yet, but I find it pretty handy to have all of my email accounts (including a couple of legacy Yahoo ones) managed from the same desktop client (in my case Thunderbird, though almost any will do). And if you spend any amount of time out in the sticks or otherwise out of reach of an internet connection (or if you're attempting to avoid roaming charges), being able to access previous mail can often be very handy.
Complaining will avail you nothing. Ditto, the link referenced in TFS which just points the user to an "opt-out" page which will probably be just about as effective as those handy "unsubscribe" links you get in all that spam email. The only way you can stop your ISP from selling your data is to (attempt to) prevent them from having it in the first place. In other words, tunnel through a VPN and make sure you block any trackers you come across along the way.
Funny your mentioning systemd, as I was just thinking about that earlier today. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of it, for several reasons, and I was gratified to see that (for now, at least) Pat Volkerding has kept it out of Slackware.
However, I suspect that sooner or later, everything will depend on it, and unless we introduce forks of udev, we'll be stuck with it, just like many distros are with pulse audio, which I really do hate. It is my contention that "pulse" stands for Pretty Useless Load of Superfluous Excreta.
Charging advertisers to put ads in front of users and then making users pay for the Xbox so that they can be pummelled with ads seems, somehow, really fucking greedy.
Spot on. Has Microsoft actually succeeded in selling one of these machines yet? To anyone with an IQ greater than 30?
The claim to make ads "more engaging" seems pretty specious if it is actually impossible for the user to "disengage" from them.
I have to say, I'm pretty appalled at the degree of hypocrisy Obama has shown on this issue. OK, I'm not a US citizen, so I don't get to vote there, but there was a time when he showed a certain amount of promise as a leader with some moral backbone. However, I can't say I'm very surprised. Obama is (or was) also a successful lawyer, which puts him in an unscrupulous bracket of humanity.
I hope he's planning on returning that Nobel Peace Prize.