I'm actually not so much for the right against self-incrimination....
You should be for it, because someday you may need it -- especially if you're falsely accused (which happens a LOT). The 5th Amendment isn't there to make life unnecessarily hard for two branches of government. It is there to protect the innocent from all three branches of government.
Why not use the host file to 'fix' this problem if you have metered connection.
Because you shouldn't have to. After being raped, would you suggest that the victim just keep a better brand of lube around? Or would you suggest that maybe the rapist needs to be in prison? Or barring that, maybe suggest that living in, "Rape City, USA" is a bad idea?
It's a goddamn embarrassment that there are fracking measles outbreaks in the 21st goddamn century, much less that they're getting larger and occurring with increased frequency.
Outbreaks have been rampant in fully vaccinated populations, ones that are at or above the mythical "Herd Immunity" (hint: it doesn't exist with vaccinations, regardless of vaccine coverage) levels. Vaccinations are little more than a bill of sale, the effectiveness of which is based more on popular assumption than on actual science.
The actual science on vaccine effectiveness is nearly non-existent, as the pharmaceutical companies have nearly complete control over the message and the messengers. But from time to time, the messengers are caught lying about their message, as is what happened with Merck recently regarding the MMR vaccine.
On top of that, most of the diseases for which vaccinations are routinely given are shockingly benign the vast majority of the time, and are better left to nature to provide a vastly superior and reliable immunity. The best possible outlook for a vaccine, in the cases that they work at all (vaccine failure rates are very high), is 20 years of fairly week immunity (with 10 years being the most common point at which the vaccine-acquired immunities becomes negligible or non-existent), whereas naturally acquired immunities from these common and fairly benign diseases (Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chicken Pox, etc.) usually last a lifetime.
When I subscribed to Cable TV between 1999 and 2009, HBO and Cinemax (which were the only ones I subscribed to) still had lots of commercials. It was much like broadcast TV.
The entire basis of kids programming is to sell toys.
For the most part, that is correct. One shining exception to that rule is, "Trollhunters," which may very well be the single best "children's show" ever created.
What? Cable TV was almost never "commercial free" except for maybe 5 minutes at the dawn of the cable channel industry.
The "premium" Cable TV channels (HBO, Cinemax, etc.) were indeed commercial free for some time, at least in the market where my family was served (SouthernCalifornia). That was one of the major draws of watching movies on Cable versus broadcast TV. I don't remember how long it took for commercials to appear, but (according to my infallible memory), it seemed like a number of years.
That said, I never see ads. Its not that hard to find the option to turn them off....
Statements like this just astound me. It's as if you've just been raped with a spintered stick for the hundredth time, keep begging for more, all the while justifying the perpetrator's behavior by saying, "it won't happen one hundred one times.
I don't think the timing itself is what everyone complains about. I think it's the constant switching of the timing that pisses people off. Most of the complainers (including me) want to just pick a time and stick with it.
This is a glaring example of corruption at work. Microsoft bribes the council into shoveling millions back into Microsoft. I wish I could say something like, "how are these clowns not being thrown out of office?!" However, this is standard operating procedure in corrupt governments around the world.
Remember 15-20 years ago when we had <table> based layouts?
I was going to say nearly the exact same thing. To be fair, CSS has a bit more capabilities than standard tables of the past. It is funny, though. Tables were considered obsolete until they suddenly weren't. So, tables 2.0 it is.
Most of these blockchain articles fail to mention the important technical details about how a blockchain would be used.
For every reason you mentioned, and an additional infinite reasons, using Blockchain to eliminate middlemen is a pipe dream even in a make believe world. It will do exactly the opposite. There will be a few (at most, and eventually merging into one) extremely large middlemen guarding all the doors and holding all the keys. It is not even a remotely viable replacement for our current economic system.
Au contraire. Microsoft knows full well. It's an expensive Sadism & Masochism platform where you pay to be abused.
You will bend over, get anal-raped with a spintered stick, and beg profusely for a larger bat. That has always been the mindset of Microsoft customers. But for some reason, they think that a gaping huge butt hole is somehow normal, and that a normal sized sphincter is a sign of a crazy person who hates Microsoft for being "successful". They think that if they just give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, the company will somehow change its practices.
Read my lips: it...will...never...happen.
I was abused by Microsoft between 1991 and 1999, and I behaved as though the abuse was unavoidable. I was introduced to Linux in 1993, flirted with it until 1999, and then was saved by it sometime that year. That was when I realized how a computing partner was supposed to treat me. It has helped me with my work, rather than generating mountains of it, and has kept me safe.
You need to work on those files on a Windows 10 PC that has a wireless chipset built into it.
You have already lost. You have an NSA/CIA-controlled operating system with wireless communications. The NSA/CIA most likely already have your client files.
This makes open hardware more imperative. Are the operating system flaws all software, or are they hardware? Or firmware? If the latter two, are they flaws or cooperative effort by the manufacturers?
I don't have time to read the entire thing, so I'm wondering what part of my Linux installations are being exploited. FOSS and FOSH are the only real digital defenses we have against our governments, as they are our only avenues of control.
There is no safe harbor when it comes to kids and sex.
Due to the irrational hysteria surrounding child porn, the only safe harbor is to simply pretend you never saw it.
1) You can't report it to the company, because they will turn your attempt at fighting child porn into a potential life sentence in prison. So you can't trust the company to fight child porn.
2) You can't report it to the police, because they will arrest you for having viewed it, even (or maybe especially) if it was unwillingly. So you can't trust the police to fight child porn.
So basically, you are correct. When both technology giants and the Police are promoting child porn by imprisoning those trying to stop it, there is nothing you can safely do but pretend it never happened and get on with your life.
"James Andrew Bates Faces New Charges from Alexa Disclosures"
This man is an idiot.
Rule #1: If you're guilty, it's imperative to give prosecutors nothing not absolutely required by law. Rule #2: There are so many laws on the books, you're guilty of something; even if you have done absolutely nothing wrong.
I'm just going to address the Java aspect of your posting.
That's why it's called Write Once, Debug Everywhere!
I think this is just an attempt at humor, as it does not in any way, shape, or form reflect my experiences in my 18 years of Java programming. Native programming is: write once, debug forever, write again, debug forever again, ad-naseum. Switch platforms, and repeat. I've been doing this for 32 years, and the experience hasn't improved much over that time.
Neither has made me want to give up native solutions.
Java + Netbeans has been such a good experience for me that I cringe whenever I think about doing something natively. Whether it's Windows* (which is so especially cringe-worthy, there is no exaggeration in any language, human, computer, or alien that can adequately convey it) or Linux, programming in Java is several orders of magnitude more pleasant.
My Java/Swing software runs on both Linux and Windows with no additional effort. By far, the largest pain in the ass in distributing my Java programs is dealing with the brain disease that is Java's minimum and maximum memory usage. This exists to reign in applet memory issues, and is completely and utterly retarded for desktop software. Aside from that, write once, run anywhere has been an apt description of my process.
Native programming has exactly two benefits over Java:
1) Raw speed. For speed critical apps, native programs usually win by significant margins. However, most programs are not bound by speed requirements. Most programs spend most of their time waiting. And Java can wait just as fast as a native program. And for *most* application needs, the speed difference is negligible.
2) Special needs. Java supports the intersection of the capabilities of all the platforms it supports. Things like scanning, though, are not standardized across platforms to the point that Sun/Oracle want to support it. Most of these things, though, are addressable far more easily than Oracle would like to admit. So most of the time, it's not a significant issue.
* KDE comes close, though, as the enormous number of hoops that must be jumped through to get even a simple KDE development environment in place is quite unpleasant.
As a Web browser, Konqueror has sucked for a long time. While there was a time when I used Konqueror exclusively, its renderer fell increasingly further behind the other browsers. It needs to die as a Web browser.
As a file manager, though, it is still top dog. Its killer feature (aside from I/O Slaves, which are awesome) is the ability to split the screen into multiple panels. Dolphin is a brain disease that needs to die, just for its inability to do more than two panels, and Konqueror as just a file manager needs to resume its rightful place as the default file manager.
A second-best would be to have Dolphin be able to split panes like Konqueror does. At least then, Dolphin would no longer be the abomination that it is.
Before my company moved from internally managed email to office365 managed email, the email service was highly reliable. But now, Microsoft unilaterally deleted half of our entire corporate email history due to some internal mistake. It was able to restore most (if not all) of the deleted email, so we narrowly avoided a disaster.
But this kind of stuff is a disaster waiting to happen that too many management-level boneheads seem to either not understand or not care about until it's too late.
Anyone relinquishing control over their infrastructure to unaccountable third parties needs to fired ASAP, and be replaced with someone who isn't a complete and utter moron. The mine is littered with dead canaries, and too many responses are of the line, "that won't happen to our canaries. Let's forge ahead."
You don't get to decide if I get interrupted either today or 3 days later....
Since you're still using Windows after all these years of Microsoft doing those very things, you have informed Microsoft over the years that it does indeed get to decide if you get interrupted either today or 3 days later. You have indicated that you will accept it, you will like it, and you will always come back asking for more abuse.
Microsoft knows that you are its slaughter sheep, and it will continue treating you as such until you stand up for yourself and switch to something else. Otherwise, you are just pissing into the wind and getting colored yellow.
Yahoo effectively killed off my chat program back in (roughly) 2000, via frequent changes to the protocol. After chasing the changes a few times, I just gave up and stopped using Yahoo entirely.
When a company changes a stable service, or starts blocking access to it, it's usually not a good sign for the longevity of the service.
I find parameterized queries a pain to test and troubleshoot on some platforms....
You need more training before you write anything that uses a database. Parameterized queries in PHP are easier to use and read than inline SQL, and are trivially easy to see the actual SQL the RDBMS is using.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I'm disappointed with them.
If your statement is a true reflection of your opinion of parameterized queries, then: yes, you are doing it wrong.
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I'm actually not so much for the right against self-incrimination....
You should be for it, because someday you may need it -- especially if you're falsely accused (which happens a LOT). The 5th Amendment isn't there to make life unnecessarily hard for two branches of government. It is there to protect the innocent from all three branches of government.
Why not use the host file to 'fix' this problem if you have metered connection.
Because you shouldn't have to. After being raped, would you suggest that the victim just keep a better brand of lube around? Or would you suggest that maybe the rapist needs to be in prison? Or barring that, maybe suggest that living in, "Rape City, USA" is a bad idea?
The vast, VAST majority of all these cases were caused by:
1) Infections spread before sanitation and nutrition.
2) The vaccines themselves.
It's a goddamn embarrassment that there are fracking measles outbreaks in the 21st goddamn century, much less that they're getting larger and occurring with increased frequency.
Outbreaks have been rampant in fully vaccinated populations, ones that are at or above the mythical "Herd Immunity" (hint: it doesn't exist with vaccinations, regardless of vaccine coverage) levels. Vaccinations are little more than a bill of sale, the effectiveness of which is based more on popular assumption than on actual science.
The actual science on vaccine effectiveness is nearly non-existent, as the pharmaceutical companies have nearly complete control over the message and the messengers. But from time to time, the messengers are caught lying about their message, as is what happened with Merck recently regarding the MMR vaccine.
On top of that, most of the diseases for which vaccinations are routinely given are shockingly benign the vast majority of the time, and are better left to nature to provide a vastly superior and reliable immunity. The best possible outlook for a vaccine, in the cases that they work at all (vaccine failure rates are very high), is 20 years of fairly week immunity (with 10 years being the most common point at which the vaccine-acquired immunities becomes negligible or non-existent), whereas naturally acquired immunities from these common and fairly benign diseases (Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chicken Pox, etc.) usually last a lifetime.
When I subscribed to Cable TV between 1999 and 2009, HBO and Cinemax (which were the only ones I subscribed to) still had lots of commercials. It was much like broadcast TV.
The entire basis of kids programming is to sell toys.
For the most part, that is correct. One shining exception to that rule is, "Trollhunters," which may very well be the single best "children's show" ever created.
What? Cable TV was almost never "commercial free" except for maybe 5 minutes at the dawn of the cable channel industry.
The "premium" Cable TV channels (HBO, Cinemax, etc.) were indeed commercial free for some time, at least in the market where my family was served (SouthernCalifornia). That was one of the major draws of watching movies on Cable versus broadcast TV. I don't remember how long it took for commercials to appear, but (according to my infallible memory), it seemed like a number of years.
I'm sorry, but religion and morality are usually diametrically opposed.
The Vatican is probably casing the conference as a potential new pool of young boys for its priests to molest.
That said, I never see ads. Its not that hard to find the option to turn them off....
Statements like this just astound me. It's as if you've just been raped with a spintered stick for the hundredth time, keep begging for more, all the while justifying the perpetrator's behavior by saying, "it won't happen one hundred one times.
Wake up and smell the delusion.
I don't think the timing itself is what everyone complains about. I think it's the constant switching of the timing that pisses people off. Most of the complainers (including me) want to just pick a time and stick with it.
I recommend that his sentence be reduced from 40 years to 39 years in exchange for his complete cooperation.
This is a glaring example of corruption at work. Microsoft bribes the council into shoveling millions back into Microsoft. I wish I could say something like, "how are these clowns not being thrown out of office?!" However, this is standard operating procedure in corrupt governments around the world.
Remember 15-20 years ago when we had <table> based layouts?
I was going to say nearly the exact same thing. To be fair, CSS has a bit more capabilities than standard tables of the past. It is funny, though. Tables were considered obsolete until they suddenly weren't. So, tables 2.0 it is.
Most of these blockchain articles fail to mention the important technical details about how a blockchain would be used.
For every reason you mentioned, and an additional infinite reasons, using Blockchain to eliminate middlemen is a pipe dream even in a make believe world. It will do exactly the opposite. There will be a few (at most, and eventually merging into one) extremely large middlemen guarding all the doors and holding all the keys. It is not even a remotely viable replacement for our current economic system.
Microsoft don't seem to know.
Au contraire. Microsoft knows full well. It's an expensive Sadism & Masochism platform where you pay to be abused.
You will bend over, get anal-raped with a spintered stick, and beg profusely for a larger bat. That has always been the mindset of Microsoft customers. But for some reason, they think that a gaping huge butt hole is somehow normal, and that a normal sized sphincter is a sign of a crazy person who hates Microsoft for being "successful". They think that if they just give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, the company will somehow change its practices.
Read my lips: it...will...never...happen.
I was abused by Microsoft between 1991 and 1999, and I behaved as though the abuse was unavoidable. I was introduced to Linux in 1993, flirted with it until 1999, and then was saved by it sometime that year. That was when I realized how a computing partner was supposed to treat me. It has helped me with my work, rather than generating mountains of it, and has kept me safe.
You need to work on those files on a Windows 10 PC that has a wireless chipset built into it.
You have already lost. You have an NSA/CIA-controlled operating system with wireless communications. The NSA/CIA most likely already have your client files.
This makes open hardware more imperative. Are the operating system flaws all software, or are they hardware? Or firmware? If the latter two, are they flaws or cooperative effort by the manufacturers?
I don't have time to read the entire thing, so I'm wondering what part of my Linux installations are being exploited. FOSS and FOSH are the only real digital defenses we have against our governments, as they are our only avenues of control.
There is no safe harbor when it comes to kids and sex.
Due to the irrational hysteria surrounding child porn, the only safe harbor is to simply pretend you never saw it.
1) You can't report it to the company, because they will turn your attempt at fighting child porn into a potential life sentence in prison. So you can't trust the company to fight child porn.
2) You can't report it to the police, because they will arrest you for having viewed it, even (or maybe especially) if it was unwillingly. So you can't trust the police to fight child porn.
So basically, you are correct. When both technology giants and the Police are promoting child porn by imprisoning those trying to stop it, there is nothing you can safely do but pretend it never happened and get on with your life.
The next headline we can expect:
"James Andrew Bates Faces New Charges from Alexa Disclosures"
This man is an idiot.
Rule #1: If you're guilty, it's imperative to give prosecutors nothing not absolutely required by law.
Rule #2: There are so many laws on the books, you're guilty of something; even if you have done absolutely nothing wrong.
I'm just going to address the Java aspect of your posting.
That's why it's called Write Once, Debug Everywhere!
I think this is just an attempt at humor, as it does not in any way, shape, or form reflect my experiences in my 18 years of Java programming. Native programming is: write once, debug forever, write again, debug forever again, ad-naseum. Switch platforms, and repeat. I've been doing this for 32 years, and the experience hasn't improved much over that time.
Neither has made me want to give up native solutions.
Java + Netbeans has been such a good experience for me that I cringe whenever I think about doing something natively. Whether it's Windows* (which is so especially cringe-worthy, there is no exaggeration in any language, human, computer, or alien that can adequately convey it) or Linux, programming in Java is several orders of magnitude more pleasant.
My Java/Swing software runs on both Linux and Windows with no additional effort. By far, the largest pain in the ass in distributing my Java programs is dealing with the brain disease that is Java's minimum and maximum memory usage. This exists to reign in applet memory issues, and is completely and utterly retarded for desktop software. Aside from that, write once, run anywhere has been an apt description of my process.
Native programming has exactly two benefits over Java:
1) Raw speed. For speed critical apps, native programs usually win by significant margins. However, most programs are not bound by speed requirements. Most programs spend most of their time waiting. And Java can wait just as fast as a native program. And for *most* application needs, the speed difference is negligible.
2) Special needs. Java supports the intersection of the capabilities of all the platforms it supports. Things like scanning, though, are not standardized across platforms to the point that Sun/Oracle want to support it. Most of these things, though, are addressable far more easily than Oracle would like to admit. So most of the time, it's not a significant issue.
* KDE comes close, though, as the enormous number of hoops that must be jumped through to get even a simple KDE development environment in place is quite unpleasant.
As a Web browser, Konqueror has sucked for a long time. While there was a time when I used Konqueror exclusively, its renderer fell increasingly further behind the other browsers. It needs to die as a Web browser.
As a file manager, though, it is still top dog. Its killer feature (aside from I/O Slaves, which are awesome) is the ability to split the screen into multiple panels. Dolphin is a brain disease that needs to die, just for its inability to do more than two panels, and Konqueror as just a file manager needs to resume its rightful place as the default file manager.
A second-best would be to have Dolphin be able to split panes like Konqueror does. At least then, Dolphin would no longer be the abomination that it is.
Before my company moved from internally managed email to office365 managed email, the email service was highly reliable. But now, Microsoft unilaterally deleted half of our entire corporate email history due to some internal mistake. It was able to restore most (if not all) of the deleted email, so we narrowly avoided a disaster.
But this kind of stuff is a disaster waiting to happen that too many management-level boneheads seem to either not understand or not care about until it's too late.
Anyone relinquishing control over their infrastructure to unaccountable third parties needs to fired ASAP, and be replaced with someone who isn't a complete and utter moron. The mine is littered with dead canaries, and too many responses are of the line, "that won't happen to our canaries. Let's forge ahead."
You don't get to decide if I get interrupted either today or 3 days later....
Since you're still using Windows after all these years of Microsoft doing those very things, you have informed Microsoft over the years that it does indeed get to decide if you get interrupted either today or 3 days later. You have indicated that you will accept it, you will like it, and you will always come back asking for more abuse.
Microsoft knows that you are its slaughter sheep, and it will continue treating you as such until you stand up for yourself and switch to something else. Otherwise, you are just pissing into the wind and getting colored yellow.
After September I just quit using yahoo.
Yahoo effectively killed off my chat program back in (roughly) 2000, via frequent changes to the protocol. After chasing the changes a few times, I just gave up and stopped using Yahoo entirely.
When a company changes a stable service, or starts blocking access to it, it's usually not a good sign for the longevity of the service.
I find parameterized queries a pain to test and troubleshoot on some platforms....
You need more training before you write anything that uses a database. Parameterized queries in PHP are easier to use and read than inline SQL, and are trivially easy to see the actual SQL the RDBMS is using.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I'm disappointed with them.
If your statement is a true reflection of your opinion of parameterized queries, then: yes, you are doing it wrong.