Me too. Blows my mind; now and then I find myself suddenly thinking: oh yeah, there's a frickin ROBOT on another PLANET right frickin NOW! It is incredibly cool.
That, and voyager passing the heliosphere. That is in some ways the number one human physical achievement.
Good post AC. I think you are on to something with your last sentence too. Technical research on the web is a nightmare, because you have to parse the motivation behind the opinions and filter on that too. Low level programmers... obsessing over pointers or garbage collection... indeed. These people can come across as enormously well-informed but their opinions are often worthless outside their tiny, unknowable silos.
This comes up all the time. Pay attention now. There is no such thing as "road tax" in the UK. Instead, there is Vehicle Excise Duty and is based on the emissions of the vehicle. Electric cars pay 0. Low emission cars pay less than gas guzzlers. Roads are paid for out of general taxation and have been since 1936.
Also, many cyclists have insurance, either through large scale organisations (CTC, LCC etc) or their home or travel insurance. And what is now required is a socialised insurance fund for all people, giving all citizens automatic 3rd party insurance cover when riding a bicycle. This would be cheaper than administering a authoritarian bicycle or rider registration system.
Furthermore, were cyclists to be asked to contribute to the cost of the road infrastructure, then they would be absolutely right to demand much more extensive, cycling-specific infrastructure and much stronger rights in conflict or collision situations with motorists.
Sociopaths are the most manipulative people in the world. It's why the alphas go into politics. They thrive there. They are one of the three types of people in this world that you never EVER trust along with junkies and Party loyalist ideologues.
Arguably, junkies and ideologues are sociopaths too. It's enough to say "never trust a sociopath". Except the problem is that sociopathy isn't simply absent or present in a person; sociopathy exists in all people to a greater or lesser extent. And sociopathy is probably the result of the interactions of a set of underlying psychological states and conditions: the forces that establish such properties as self-esteem, motivation, empathy and so on.
Neither one of us has setup a Windows box as a VC server before, so I'm really not sure how well-supported that is.
If you are using Git or Hg, all you need is SSH accounts on a box somewhere, and git or hg installed. There is no server as such. If you can SSH into each other's machine, do it like that. Take one repo, clone it on the other and you are about there. There is no cost. There is no management lunch. There is no need to even mention what you are doing. Just do it. If you have mounted file share access, use that: no need for SSH, just clone/push/pull across the file system.
you keep saying "mysql" as a solution to this. Hey crutchy boy I've read enough of your shit already, but do tell how "mysql" is the solution to anything here?
So just to be clear, your proposed alternatives to cookies are:
1. sending exactly the same kind of state information (session ID etc.) but in places like hidden POST fields instead of cookies
Which of course requires every link on the page to fire up the hidden FORM submit too. Didn't the wise guys at microsoft ASP try this for a while? Wrap every page in a FORM?
I am a developer who has already gone too deep into D6 and D7 and ended up walking away from the thing. I am happy, when asked why, to just say I don't get it. Privately, I actually think it's totally fucked as a project. Its only tenuous merit is as a platform to allow non-techs to build a site. Which they do, and then hang themselves from the sheer amount of string it produces. I am kind of waiting for its demise now, although I frankly don't care much as it is already apparent that it will have little long-term bearing on web development and practices. So I note with some schadenfreude that this piece is getting almost totally ignored on slashdot.
A sign, perhaps, that we are at the end of the era of slashdot Drupal Book reviews. TF for that anyway.
Good post. However it could be said that the alcoholic employee needs treatment too and that this should be the responsibility of the employer to at least oversee this process and basically exhibit some care towards their employee. Your point about the drunk driver, though is spot on and speaks to something even deeper, to a moral obligation to make the most of your talents and not wilfully squander them on piss.
It's funny looking at this in contrast to the general decriminalise drugs movement. We may be heading into a future where an individual's ability to source and use recreational drugs becomes much more normalised yet usage is totally crimped off amongst the (literally) working classes employed by any kind of organisation of any size. Mandatory drug testing is fast becoming a standard part of any employment contract, no matter if your job is behind a desk with no health and safety rationale whatsover. Much recreational drug use will become restricted to students, the independantly wealthy, the criminal and the feckless.
If you want cash, the money is in an end-of-day armored car robbery. There's a high risk, and a good chance you're going to have to kill a few people, but the payoff can be millions. You're going to need a lot of surveillance time to find the routes, a biggish truck with a Faraday cage in case there's any tracking devices (and the same thing in your warehouse when you unload), and a good way to launder large quantities of cash. Wouldn't hurt to have several good radio jammers positioned, both for the armored car frequencies and the police frequencies, and that won't jam whatever you're using to talk to your partners. Might even have a few timed charges on the local police antenna towers. Probably need a crew of 4-5, at least 2 to deal with the driver and guard, one getaway driver and at least one surveillance guy. Remember, they're probably wearing body armor, so go for the headshot or if you're a great shot and don't want to kill, take out their shooting arm and legs, in that order.
Only if you are set up as an exit node on tor, no? Or can an ISP, say, detect tor usage from network patterns, even if the packet destinations are all over the place? The whole point is it's supposed to be anonymous. But I suppose the access point is the hard one to disguise: you have to connect to the internet from somewhere.
...but I've just hidden her from my feed, because I'm a bastard and don't care about them that much. It wasn't hard. But everyone else on my friends list is like me - kind of minimalist. We don't treat FB like a 15-year-old girl just discovering Twitter.
Yup, sounds like me. I have deleted every private message, wall post, update and all that activity shit. Talk too much on that feed; you're hidden henceforth. I simply don't care that much. It's not that I am not emotional, but I just don't feel the love over a loose, sloppy, broadcast-based system. Facebook is just another online profile, yeah i'm on there, and twitter and linkedin and g+ and myspace and slashdot and stack and xhamster and for sure on the next big social network to come too. I doubt you could build a $100b IPO out of 600m users like me.
+1 for RequestPolicy, although I have to say when I restart my browser, then immediately find my self staring at a FUBAR page, I usually just hit "temporarily allow all requests" and get on with life, tracked as I may be. I do log out of facebook each time and delete facebook.com cookies, but I suspect that facebook still tracks me on other domains they control. I am like a tiny tiny person shaking a tiny tiny fist at the giant.
Quite right. I was certainly over 16 when I first used SSH. In fact, I thought I was late to the party, but I have just read the wikipedia page on SSH and there it is: first released in 1995. So basically, it's only 17 year olds that can say this. Like the GP.
Slashdot Mirror
Me too. Blows my mind; now and then I find myself suddenly thinking: oh yeah, there's a frickin ROBOT on another PLANET right frickin NOW! It is incredibly cool.
That, and voyager passing the heliosphere. That is in some ways the number one human physical achievement.
Actually, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
I really should get around to updating my bookmark.
Yeah, YouTube really nailed the comment system...
Good post AC. I think you are on to something with your last sentence too. Technical research on the web is a nightmare, because you have to parse the motivation behind the opinions and filter on that too. Low level programmers ... obsessing over pointers or garbage collection ... indeed. These people can come across as enormously well-informed but their opinions are often worthless outside their tiny, unknowable silos.
This comes up all the time. Pay attention now. There is no such thing as "road tax" in the UK. Instead, there is Vehicle Excise Duty and is based on the emissions of the vehicle. Electric cars pay 0. Low emission cars pay less than gas guzzlers. Roads are paid for out of general taxation and have been since 1936.
Also, many cyclists have insurance, either through large scale organisations (CTC, LCC etc) or their home or travel insurance. And what is now required is a socialised insurance fund for all people, giving all citizens automatic 3rd party insurance cover when riding a bicycle. This would be cheaper than administering a authoritarian bicycle or rider registration system.
Furthermore, were cyclists to be asked to contribute to the cost of the road infrastructure, then they would be absolutely right to demand much more extensive, cycling-specific infrastructure and much stronger rights in conflict or collision situations with motorists.
ooo my own personal troll. how nice.
Sociopaths are the most manipulative people in the world. It's why the alphas go into politics. They thrive there. They are one of the three types of people in this world that you never EVER trust along with junkies and Party loyalist ideologues.
Arguably, junkies and ideologues are sociopaths too. It's enough to say "never trust a sociopath". Except the problem is that sociopathy isn't simply absent or present in a person; sociopathy exists in all people to a greater or lesser extent. And sociopathy is probably the result of the interactions of a set of underlying psychological states and conditions: the forces that establish such properties as self-esteem, motivation, empathy and so on.
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"It is easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission"
Neither one of us has setup a Windows box as a VC server before, so I'm really not sure how well-supported that is.
If you are using Git or Hg, all you need is SSH accounts on a box somewhere, and git or hg installed. There is no server as such. If you can SSH into each other's machine, do it like that. Take one repo, clone it on the other and you are about there. There is no cost. There is no management lunch. There is no need to even mention what you are doing. Just do it. If you have mounted file share access, use that: no need for SSH, just clone/push/pull across the file system.
Or maybe just leave anything alone that is pointed to localhost?
That seems sensible, but pointing to 127.0.0.1 could still be malicious if you've got a rogue web server running too.
In the context, there's a certain irony there in that VirtualBox is an Oracle product, no?
you keep saying "mysql" as a solution to this. Hey crutchy boy I've read enough of your shit already, but do tell how "mysql" is the solution to anything here?
So just to be clear, your proposed alternatives to cookies are:
1. sending exactly the same kind of state information (session ID etc.) but in places like hidden POST fields instead of cookies
Which of course requires every link on the page to fire up the hidden FORM submit too. Didn't the wise guys at microsoft ASP try this for a while? Wrap every page in a FORM?
I am a developer who has already gone too deep into D6 and D7 and ended up walking away from the thing. I am happy, when asked why, to just say I don't get it. Privately, I actually think it's totally fucked as a project. Its only tenuous merit is as a platform to allow non-techs to build a site. Which they do, and then hang themselves from the sheer amount of string it produces. I am kind of waiting for its demise now, although I frankly don't care much as it is already apparent that it will have little long-term bearing on web development and practices. So I note with some schadenfreude that this piece is getting almost totally ignored on slashdot.
A sign, perhaps, that we are at the end of the era of slashdot Drupal Book reviews. TF for that anyway.
$ google --type=images --keywords="cats" --image-size=medium --safesearch=off
Nah. More like:
$ google --type=images --keywords="cats" --image-size=medium --safesearch=off -exec weird {} shit \; | sed -irtdqvwlxz '1: + ; s/wtf/woot/giR' > nerd.txt 2>nerd.msg &
Good post. However it could be said that the alcoholic employee needs treatment too and that this should be the responsibility of the employer to at least oversee this process and basically exhibit some care towards their employee. Your point about the drunk driver, though is spot on and speaks to something even deeper, to a moral obligation to make the most of your talents and not wilfully squander them on piss.
It's funny looking at this in contrast to the general decriminalise drugs movement. We may be heading into a future where an individual's ability to source and use recreational drugs becomes much more normalised yet usage is totally crimped off amongst the (literally) working classes employed by any kind of organisation of any size. Mandatory drug testing is fast becoming a standard part of any employment contract, no matter if your job is behind a desk with no health and safety rationale whatsover. Much recreational drug use will become restricted to students, the independantly wealthy, the criminal and the feckless.
chapeau
Yep, robbing a bank doesn't get you much.
If you want cash, the money is in an end-of-day armored car robbery. There's a high risk, and a good chance you're going to have to kill a few people, but the payoff can be millions. You're going to need a lot of surveillance time to find the routes, a biggish truck with a Faraday cage in case there's any tracking devices (and the same thing in your warehouse when you unload), and a good way to launder large quantities of cash. Wouldn't hurt to have several good radio jammers positioned, both for the armored car frequencies and the police frequencies, and that won't jam whatever you're using to talk to your partners. Might even have a few timed charges on the local police antenna towers. Probably need a crew of 4-5, at least 2 to deal with the driver and guard, one getaway driver and at least one surveillance guy. Remember, they're probably wearing body armor, so go for the headshot or if you're a great shot and don't want to kill, take out their shooting arm and legs, in that order.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
sweaty palms much?
Detecting tor users is simple.
Only if you are set up as an exit node on tor, no? Or can an ISP, say, detect tor usage from network patterns, even if the packet destinations are all over the place? The whole point is it's supposed to be anonymous. But I suppose the access point is the hard one to disguise: you have to connect to the internet from somewhere.
...but I've just hidden her from my feed, because I'm a bastard and don't care about them that much. It wasn't hard. But everyone else on my friends list is like me - kind of minimalist. We don't treat FB like a 15-year-old girl just discovering Twitter.
Yup, sounds like me. I have deleted every private message, wall post, update and all that activity shit. Talk too much on that feed; you're hidden henceforth. I simply don't care that much. It's not that I am not emotional, but I just don't feel the love over a loose, sloppy, broadcast-based system. Facebook is just another online profile, yeah i'm on there, and twitter and linkedin and g+ and myspace and slashdot and stack and xhamster and for sure on the next big social network to come too. I doubt you could build a $100b IPO out of 600m users like me.
...you are on crack....
Writing like that, and on crack? Chapeau!
pfffft. shill.
+1 for RequestPolicy, although I have to say when I restart my browser, then immediately find my self staring at a FUBAR page, I usually just hit "temporarily allow all requests" and get on with life, tracked as I may be. I do log out of facebook each time and delete facebook.com cookies, but I suspect that facebook still tracks me on other domains they control. I am like a tiny tiny person shaking a tiny tiny fist at the giant.
succinct. I will go with that. The rest is handwaving and agenda pushing.
Quite right. I was certainly over 16 when I first used SSH. In fact, I thought I was late to the party, but I have just read the wikipedia page on SSH and there it is: first released in 1995. So basically, it's only 17 year olds that can say this. Like the GP.