Patents are actually anti-capitalistic. They give the patent holder an artificial temporary monopoly, and therefore for that time shield him from the free market.
As far as I'm concerned, if you attach something to my car without my permission, it's mine.
Interesting theory. So if A has something B doesn't want him to have, then B just has to attach it to your car without your permission, and then it's yours and therefore no longer A's...
Ah, now I start to get the picture. There's a big behind-the-scenes competition going on between Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg, about who can collect more data about the people.
Of course, relationships change. You can have a friend, and then he learns something about you which makes him hate you (doesn't matter if it's true or not, as long as he believes it's true). You cannot know this before he makes it known to you. And if he decides to make it known to you by doing revenge, you cannot prevent it, because you cannot expect it.
Moreover, someone who was never really a friend can play a friend exactly to get your trust, and thus to enable him to do more serious damage to you.
Damn, I should have read that preview. The message should have read: "Dear Mr. Yourname. An attempt to get $<larger than to be expected on your bank account> from your bank account <your account number> [...] bought by member <your ebay ID> [...]"
They can tailor their attack to your behaviour. For example, most phishing mails are quite easy to spot, simply from the fact that you never have been at the bank this phishing mail sends you to. But imagine someone would know not only your bank, but even your account number. And moreover they know that you are buying a lot on ebay. And they find out that your account is usually not filled very well. Now they can send you a mail, seemingly coming from your bank, containing a message like "Dear Mr. Yourname. An attempt to get $ from your bank account by ebay failed since there's not enough money on the account. The bank transfer message was: "Payment for item #65465489, offered by member #674567, bought by member ". Please follow this link [linking to the attacker's "bank" site, asking for your banking login] to solve this problem."
With all that detailed information, it would surely look much more credible (and probably it would look even more credible if I knew more about ebay and about the American banking system:-)).
So the problem is browsers silently removing them.
A browser should never modify an URL. Especially it should not remove invalid characters. It should give an error if you try to go to an invalid URL. It should not try to be "helpful" here.
If you want to know what your PDF presentation will look like when shown at the conference computer (which almost certainly will be running Adobe reader on Windows), you have no option but to use Adobe reader to check. I don't want to buy Windows just to check presentations. You don't want to be mostly sure that it displays correctly, you want to be sure. The nice thing about Adobe reader is that it displays the same on Linux and Windows, so you can preview on Linux without caring about details.
Also I've seen presentations (generated with LaTeX!) which worked fine on Adobe reader, but looked completely wrong when opened with a free alternative (I can't give you details, because I didn't write those presentations, nor do I know the details of the packages/options used; the presentations I make always seem to look right either way). This shows that simply assuming it will look the same in both is not a sure bet.
Of course, on conferences where you use your own laptop, you are free to use whatever works on that. But I've been on conferences where they discouraged that.
Given that it's not a valid domain name (as opposed to a valid, but unregistered domain name), it shouldn't even hit the DNS server. The browser should detect it as invalid, and give you an error straight away. It should not pass it on, neither literally, nor altered.
I think this is a mistake. "goo gle.com" should lead to an error. If there is anything which should be treated by the stricted rules possible, then it's URLs.
Are registrars accepting domain names with soft hyphens? And if so, why? It's rather obvious that such domain names would only be used for fraud. IMHO registrars should not accept any non-printable character in domain names.
"Since it is difficult for a computer program to automatically make good decisions on when to hyphenate a word, the concept of a soft hyphen was introduced to allow manual specification of a place where a hyphenated break was allowed without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text was later re-flowed."
So a soft hyphen marks a position where you can hyphenate a word. If you don't do it, you of course shouldn't print anything at that position.
Well, the idea is probably to use the email as additional security so that even if someone has your password, he cannot use this function, because you get a mail.
However, they could just send an unique code which you have to enter at the facebook get-data page, without a link. You already navigated to that page (otherwise you'd not have gotten that mail), and if you closed it in the mean time, you know how to get back there (after all, you found it once; and if you fear to forget how to get there, just bookmark it).
An A(n+1) page is what you get if you cut an An page in halves.
If additionally I tell you that all An pages have the same shape, and an A0 page has an area of 1 square meter, you now can calculate what A4 looks like.
<pedatic>No I can't. You did not specify the aspect ratio.
Yes, I did. In the first sentence and the first part of the second sentence there's everything you need to calculate the aspect ratio. Of course it's still possible that you can't do it.
OK, strictly speaking I omitted one detail: An pages are, of course, rectangular.
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However my overall weight can change quite significantly over a very short time. It's called backpack.
I've always wanted a phone that won't work if I am [...] riding a bicycle
Bad example. Riding a bike while talking on the phone is like riding a bike with 0.08% ethyl alcohol in your blood.
You mean it will damage my liver?
Patents are actually anti-capitalistic. They give the patent holder an artificial temporary monopoly, and therefore for that time shield him from the free market.
Maybe you want to learn the difference between possession (you have it) and ownership (it's yours).
Interesting theory. So if A has something B doesn't want him to have, then B just has to attach it to your car without your permission, and then it's yours and therefore no longer A's ...
Ah, now I start to get the picture. There's a big behind-the-scenes competition going on between Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg, about who can collect more data about the people.
They all will face lawsuits for violating Marlon Brando's copyright on his look.
Of course, relationships change. You can have a friend, and then he learns something about you which makes him hate you (doesn't matter if it's true or not, as long as he believes it's true). You cannot know this before he makes it known to you. And if he decides to make it known to you by doing revenge, you cannot prevent it, because you cannot expect it.
Moreover, someone who was never really a friend can play a friend exactly to get your trust, and thus to enable him to do more serious damage to you.
Damn, I should have read that preview. The message should have read:
"Dear Mr. Yourname. An attempt to get $<larger than to be expected on your bank account> from your bank account <your account number> [...] bought by member <your ebay ID> [...]"
They can tailor their attack to your behaviour. For example, most phishing mails are quite easy to spot, simply from the fact that you never have been at the bank this phishing mail sends you to. But imagine someone would know not only your bank, but even your account number. And moreover they know that you are buying a lot on ebay. And they find out that your account is usually not filled very well. Now they can send you a mail, seemingly coming from your bank, containing a message like "Dear Mr. Yourname. An attempt to get $ from your bank account by ebay failed since there's not enough money on the account. The bank transfer message was: "Payment for item #65465489, offered by member #674567, bought by member ". Please follow this link [linking to the attacker's "bank" site, asking for your banking login] to solve this problem."
With all that detailed information, it would surely look much more credible (and probably it would look even more credible if I knew more about ebay and about the American banking system :-)).
So the problem is browsers silently removing them.
A browser should never modify an URL. Especially it should not remove invalid characters. It should give an error if you try to go to an invalid URL. It should not try to be "helpful" here.
If you want to know what your PDF presentation will look like when shown at the conference computer (which almost certainly will be running Adobe reader on Windows), you have no option but to use Adobe reader to check. I don't want to buy Windows just to check presentations. You don't want to be mostly sure that it displays correctly, you want to be sure. The nice thing about Adobe reader is that it displays the same on Linux and Windows, so you can preview on Linux without caring about details.
Also I've seen presentations (generated with LaTeX!) which worked fine on Adobe reader, but looked completely wrong when opened with a free alternative (I can't give you details, because I didn't write those presentations, nor do I know the details of the packages/options used; the presentations I make always seem to look right either way). This shows that simply assuming it will look the same in both is not a sure bet.
Of course, on conferences where you use your own laptop, you are free to use whatever works on that. But I've been on conferences where they discouraged that.
hyphenating-urls.can-make-sense.com.
however.soft-hyphenating.cannot.org.
If Microsoft buys Adobe, can they reverse that?
I'd prefer the name Micradoble.
More importantly, what would happen to adobe reader and flash player on Linux?
Given that it's not a valid domain name (as opposed to a valid, but unregistered domain name), it shouldn't even hit the DNS server. The browser should detect it as invalid, and give you an error straight away. It should not pass it on, neither literally, nor altered.
That's because it's so shy, it always hides.
I think this is a mistake. "goo gle.com" should lead to an error.
If there is anything which should be treated by the stricted rules possible, then it's URLs.
Are registrars accepting domain names with soft hyphens? And if so, why? It's rather obvious that such domain names would only be used for fraud.
IMHO registrars should not accept any non-printable character in domain names.
I thought the only situation where you need Viagra is exactly human contact (in the most literal meaning of the word).
Why don't modern browsers render this character?
From Wikipedia:
"Since it is difficult for a computer program to automatically make good decisions on when to hyphenate a word, the concept of a soft hyphen was introduced to allow manual specification of a place where a hyphenated break was allowed without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text was later re-flowed."
So a soft hyphen marks a position where you can hyphenate a word. If you don't do it, you of course shouldn't print anything at that position.
Hey, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is easy to remember.
Yeah, but it's very insecure, because everyone knows that sequence. That's why I use 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 instead.
Well, the idea is probably to use the email as additional security so that even if someone has your password, he cannot use this function, because you get a mail.
However, they could just send an unique code which you have to enter at the facebook get-data page, without a link. You already navigated to that page (otherwise you'd not have gotten that mail), and if you closed it in the mean time, you know how to get back there (after all, you found it once; and if you fear to forget how to get there, just bookmark it).
An A(n+1) page is what you get if you cut an An page in halves.
If additionally I tell you that all An pages have the same shape, and an A0 page has an area of 1 square meter, you now can calculate what A4 looks like.
<pedatic>No I can't. You did not specify the aspect ratio.
Yes, I did. In the first sentence and the first part of the second sentence there's everything you need to calculate the aspect ratio. Of course it's still possible that you can't do it.
OK, strictly speaking I omitted one detail: An pages are, of course, rectangular.