I heard a FOAF story about a taxi driver who installed a GPS in his taxi. He'd always say to new fares: "You can have the GPS route, or you can have the route I think is best. Which do you want?"
Many, perhaps most, people would pick the GPS... and promptly get stuck in traffic, because it doesn't know when to avoid main roads, all the shortcuts available, etc. It paid itself off in a few weeks..
It occurs to me that there is certainly overlap between "gay & lesbian themed" and each of those other categories, so this is not quite a complete denial..
I think the proper solution is to just stop making ridiculously long URLs to begin with, so we don't have to rely on obfuscation/hashing/shortening to accommodate services that have character limit restrictions. And we'd save bandwidth too, apparently. Win-win?
If Slashdot used longer, descriptive URLs, I could mouseover it and see, perhaps, something like 'tech.slashdot.org/are-long-urls-wasting-bandwidth/'. Perhaps I remember reading the article a few weeks ago, and don't need to click. As it is, though, the only way I can find out what you're talking about is by clicking on the link and loading the page. That's wasting bandwidth.
In the original Elite, the first mission was to destroy some kind of experimental space ship that had been stolen. You were told that the ship had ECM, which meant that you needed to kill it in a dogfight; you couldn't just hit it with a missile.
...well, unless you got really close. Easiest way to win was to fly straight at it, target a missile, and launch at point-blank range. Boom.
I recall reading a while ago about a javascript exploit that would attempt to log in to your router using the default admin login/password. It had a list of a few hundred different defaults to try. If it got in, it would mess with your DNS.
Well, if we're still talking about New Zealand, then we don't have a constitution.
But really, are the politicians meant to do whatever the "people" wants? 'cause right now, depending on which polls you read, the "people" want a 3-strikes system for violent crime, want the police to be able to crush the cars of any teenage males, lower taxes without cutting services, and probably a pony too. We elect the politicians whom we think best represent our interests, but once they're elected, they're supposed to use their brains and think for themselves.
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For a moment there, I read that headline as:
Time Warner Plans Pricing For Tiered Shelves
I heard a FOAF story about a taxi driver who installed a GPS in his taxi. He'd always say to new fares: "You can have the GPS route, or you can have the route I think is best. Which do you want?"
Many, perhaps most, people would pick the GPS ... and promptly get stuck in traffic, because it doesn't know when to avoid main roads, all the shortcuts available, etc. It paid itself off in a few weeks..
It occurs to me that there is certainly overlap between "gay & lesbian themed" and each of those other categories, so this is not quite a complete denial..
Intriguing; I wonder if Jesus agrees with the law of the excluded middle? Or would he be more of a ternary logic guy?
Your post contains its own rebuttal:
You had a link on "we'd save bandwidth too", pointing to this: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/27/2017250
If Slashdot used longer, descriptive URLs, I could mouseover it and see, perhaps, something like 'tech.slashdot.org/are-long-urls-wasting-bandwidth/'. Perhaps I remember reading the article a few weeks ago, and don't need to click. As it is, though, the only way I can find out what you're talking about is by clicking on the link and loading the page. That's wasting bandwidth.
In the original Elite, the first mission was to destroy some kind of experimental space ship that had been stolen. You were told that the ship had ECM, which meant that you needed to kill it in a dogfight; you couldn't just hit it with a missile.
...well, unless you got really close. Easiest way to win was to fly straight at it, target a missile, and launch at point-blank range. Boom.
At least devils are lawful...
..which is why they should allow Australian taxpayer-owned companies like HP to use their tech for free!
Wait...
It might not be stupid .. because a different group did the same thing?
You know, there's another possible conclusion we could draw...
I remember seeing a couple of documentaries on this a while ago...
Mod parent -1 catastrophically ignorant.
There's no way our politicians would work for 363 days in a year.
How could slashdot possibly run out of stories? They've got over ten years' worth of them to keep posting!
Is Jack the Ripper really the dodgiest connotation you can come up with for "slash"?
"You've seeded 4.3x as much as you've donwloaded overall. Increase that ratio to 5x to gain Level 3!
Yes, but only if it's air that no one else has breathed before.
Don't forget the American logo: Terrorist Buster!
Interestingly, there are over 5,000 google results for "vegan bacon"...
The scientific method?
I recall reading a while ago about a javascript exploit that would attempt to log in to your router using the default admin login/password. It had a list of a few hundred different defaults to try. If it got in, it would mess with your DNS.
I'm not sure what came of that..
<shrug> Ask one of the 80,000 who got infected :-)
If you allow ssh access from the wide internet, and you have a weak password for root, you are probably still vulnerable..
Considering that TFA says one of the things the bot does is lock you out, I suggest that if you can log in, you are fine :-)
If you study maths, you may encounter the Jones polynomial...
Circus: Guy with a whip tells people what to do.
Parliament: Whips tell people what to do.
Circus: Includes midgets and bearded ladies.
Parliament: Includes libertarians and greenies.
Circus: People do backflips on high platforms.
Parliament: People do backflips on policy.
Well, if we're still talking about New Zealand, then we don't have a constitution.
But really, are the politicians meant to do whatever the "people" wants? 'cause right now, depending on which polls you read, the "people" want a 3-strikes system for violent crime, want the police to be able to crush the cars of any teenage males, lower taxes without cutting services, and probably a pony too. We elect the politicians whom we think best represent our interests, but once they're elected, they're supposed to use their brains and think for themselves.