It's not at all nice to deliberately misframe the comments of another merely to create an artificial opportunity to mock him. You're being a tool, and not the useful kind.
I said it was a WORRY that it COULD be used that way. I said nothing at all about whether I thought such extensions and proxies could be updated to compensate, and I said nothing about it because I don't actually know that to be the case with any authority; for all I know it might not even be possible to intercept such repackaged elements. I also don't know with any authority that it ISN'T the case... I SIMPLY DON'T KNOW and thus didn't address it. Then you came along gunning for an opportunity to make yourself feel superior and decided to manufacture an opportunity out of thin air. You help no one with that bullshit, least of all yourself.
My worry, if I understand this correctly, is that this could be used as a means to thwart every ad-blocker and page tweaker and HTTP proxy filter in existence. That would not be a good thing at all....
I noticed from the Wikipedia article that it had a long history dating back to the late Nineties. Webmail certainly had more limitations back then, not that HTML was really designed to handle that job.
I've been reading the Wikipedia entry, and if I grasp it correctly there's a distinct negative repercussion to use of them: they could apparently be used to stuff HTML elements into one "get" and possibly defeat all sorts of HTTP proxy filters, ad blockers, and other sundry Web-page tweakers in the process. If that's true, I would not be in favor of their use or support at all. I use all sorts of tools and extensions to "take back the Web"; I don't want to lose the abilities those tools enable.
I have five: one cat and four Consequences. (I took in a skinny stray, kept her indoors. How was I to know the growing bulge was four little 'pre-existing' embryos and not just a consequence of being well-fed?) Each is unique, though they have all learned some perceptions or behaviors from me (I raised them from birth). There were at least two fathers involved, and the two long-hairs share certain behavioral traits that the short-hairs do not; much about those "personalities" is hard-wired by the father's epigenetics, according to what I've read. Still, I am routinely amazed by how much they behave like hairy little one-year-old nonverbal autistic children. Do they lack self-awareness, as some homo-centric people like GiT claim? I'm not so sure we have the proper tests to disprove it.
Technically Mr. Not-Noel Coward is correct... technically. The Law of the Jungle is: there are no laws at all. Anything goes if you can get away with it and survive to try it again another day. Nature has no ethics, unless entropy is an ethic.
However... nature and the Law of the Jungle are DEscriptive of the "way things are". Ethics are PREscriptive, defining behaviors that should (|not) be followed. GirlInTraining is referring to a prescriptive ideal. Is it HER ideal alone? Maybe, but probably not. If it is just her ideal alone, then if she tries to impose it on an unwilling universe it would wind up smelling a lot like tyranny. More importantly, then, is it a unanimous or universal ideal? Probably not... YET. We might be getting there eventually. Ethics can be learned, in fact they MUST be learned because nature knows nothing of them. Ethics must be taught, and frankly we're only doing a passable but not especially awesome job of it yet. We screw up and backpedal a lot. I for one am glad that GirlInTraining is here doing a bit of that teaching.
The butcher might have to ask permission very nicely, promise financial reparations to next-of-kin, and perform appropriate religious rites before he does the deed?
Correction: concept of what it means to be a person.
Personhood includes - or should include - other living things, like cats and dogs and other sundry 'pets', wildlife, extraterrestrials, cyborgs, artificial intelligences (Bicentennial Man, et al), etc. Theory of mind might be involved here.
Linux developers don't listen to their "user base". Instead they listen to their "muse"... which is apparently a six-foot-tall invisible rabbit named Harvey (or Anthony, for you Doc Martin fans).
If this is truly confirmed, then the obvious next step is to determine what particles being emitted by the sun are causing this effect. Is it a neutrino thing? Neutrinos aren't affected by the magnetosphere at all, IIRC. Once we know the particle(s) involved, there might be some useful tech emerge from it; perhaps it could be used to build a new generation of fission reactors where this effect can be used to enhance control or safety? I dunno... it's not my field at all but that seems obvious enough.
Jeez, the whole thing was tongue in cheek... I was picturing a good old round galvanized metal tub. Poor folk on the frontier might have used it as a bathtub, but it ain't your kinda bathtub and wouldn't accommodate Roseanne Barr. Well, maybe just her head?:-)
How about a block of ice in a tub in the passenger seat? You'll have to drill a hole in the floorboard for drainage from the tub, but that's a small price, right? Requires no battery and no gasoline, and if you park next to a garden or flower bed even the drainage will be doing some good! As a bonus you can chip some off to keep your thermos of Dr. Pepper cold.
International House of Pancakes has announced that for all of the American Labour Day Weekend they will be offering free pancakes with all-you-can-slurp maple syrup, and every customer will get a free bottle of (unlabeled) genuine maple syrup to take home.
Valve also thinks denying (coercing) clients their fundamental right to pursue cooperative collective class-action lawsuits against the company, even when such suits would be ethically warranted, is great. In that context, as a Valve client who wishes he could get his damned money back for the games he can now no longer access or play, even in single-player modes, for having resisted the aforementioned coercion, I couldn't care less what Valve or Gabe Newell thinks about open source drivers or anything else.
Of course they tried to learn from the failures. The difference is that they didn't obsess and over-engineer in the first place like NASA; they simply couldn't afford it, didn't have the resources, as this little rover demonstrates rather clearly. They satisfied some minimum standard, and then if/when that failed them they learned from it how the minimum standard needed to be revised for the next time... because for them there always was a next time. That is very different from how NASA has operated. I'm an unwilling perfectionist myself, so my natural tendency is to approach things like NASA, get it perfect the first time. Seeing this rover was an "offense" to the way I'm compelled to do things, but I understand why it was done that way. Not everyone is or can afford to be a perfectionist. Some people don't have a choice afford it or not, but that's another story.
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It's not at all nice to deliberately misframe the comments of another merely to create an artificial opportunity to mock him. You're being a tool, and not the useful kind.
I said it was a WORRY that it COULD be used that way. I said nothing at all about whether I thought such extensions and proxies could be updated to compensate, and I said nothing about it because I don't actually know that to be the case with any authority; for all I know it might not even be possible to intercept such repackaged elements. I also don't know with any authority that it ISN'T the case... I SIMPLY DON'T KNOW and thus didn't address it. Then you came along gunning for an opportunity to make yourself feel superior and decided to manufacture an opportunity out of thin air. You help no one with that bullshit, least of all yourself.
My worry, if I understand this correctly, is that this could be used as a means to thwart every ad-blocker and page tweaker and HTTP proxy filter in existence. That would not be a good thing at all....
I noticed from the Wikipedia article that it had a long history dating back to the late Nineties. Webmail certainly had more limitations back then, not that HTML was really designed to handle that job.
I've been reading the Wikipedia entry, and if I grasp it correctly there's a distinct negative repercussion to use of them: they could apparently be used to stuff HTML elements into one "get" and possibly defeat all sorts of HTTP proxy filters, ad blockers, and other sundry Web-page tweakers in the process. If that's true, I would not be in favor of their use or support at all. I use all sorts of tools and extensions to "take back the Web"; I don't want to lose the abilities those tools enable.
What are some benevolent use cases of these data URIs that justify supporting them? I'm not baiting you, just ignorant and curious.
I have five: one cat and four Consequences. (I took in a skinny stray, kept her indoors. How was I to know the growing bulge was four little 'pre-existing' embryos and not just a consequence of being well-fed?) Each is unique, though they have all learned some perceptions or behaviors from me (I raised them from birth). There were at least two fathers involved, and the two long-hairs share certain behavioral traits that the short-hairs do not; much about those "personalities" is hard-wired by the father's epigenetics, according to what I've read. Still, I am routinely amazed by how much they behave like hairy little one-year-old nonverbal autistic children. Do they lack self-awareness, as some homo-centric people like GiT claim? I'm not so sure we have the proper tests to disprove it.
You are clearly so less sentient that I can't see you as anything but food. You're food, you don't have rights.
Tosser.
I don't share your particular preferences for (pheno-|geno-|whatever-) type. Competitors - 1. Lucky you!
Technically Mr. Not-Noel Coward is correct... technically. The Law of the Jungle is: there are no laws at all. Anything goes if you can get away with it and survive to try it again another day. Nature has no ethics, unless entropy is an ethic.
However... nature and the Law of the Jungle are DEscriptive of the "way things are". Ethics are PREscriptive, defining behaviors that should (|not) be followed. GirlInTraining is referring to a prescriptive ideal. Is it HER ideal alone? Maybe, but probably not. If it is just her ideal alone, then if she tries to impose it on an unwilling universe it would wind up smelling a lot like tyranny. More importantly, then, is it a unanimous or universal ideal? Probably not... YET. We might be getting there eventually. Ethics can be learned, in fact they MUST be learned because nature knows nothing of them. Ethics must be taught, and frankly we're only doing a passable but not especially awesome job of it yet. We screw up and backpedal a lot. I for one am glad that GirlInTraining is here doing a bit of that teaching.
The butcher might have to ask permission very nicely, promise financial reparations to next-of-kin, and perform appropriate religious rites before he does the deed?
... concept of what it means to be human.
Correction: concept of what it means to be a person .
Personhood includes - or should include - other living things, like cats and dogs and other sundry 'pets', wildlife, extraterrestrials, cyborgs, artificial intelligences (Bicentennial Man, et al), etc. Theory of mind might be involved here.
Linux developers don't listen to their "user base". Instead they listen to their "muse"... which is apparently a six-foot-tall invisible rabbit named Harvey (or Anthony, for you Doc Martin fans).
Off, on... what's in a preposition, eh?
You're welcome! Was it good for you, too?
Are they leaving him behind on Vesta? I guess it's about time. Maybe his act will be fresher for the Vestans....
If this is truly confirmed, then the obvious next step is to determine what particles being emitted by the sun are causing this effect. Is it a neutrino thing? Neutrinos aren't affected by the magnetosphere at all, IIRC. Once we know the particle(s) involved, there might be some useful tech emerge from it; perhaps it could be used to build a new generation of fission reactors where this effect can be used to enhance control or safety? I dunno... it's not my field at all but that seems obvious enough.
Somehow the real benefits elude me.
Big tumble in population, huge gain in lebensraum?
Jeez, the whole thing was tongue in cheek... I was picturing a good old round galvanized metal tub. Poor folk on the frontier might have used it as a bathtub, but it ain't your kinda bathtub and wouldn't accommodate Roseanne Barr. Well, maybe just her head? :-)
How about a block of ice in a tub in the passenger seat? You'll have to drill a hole in the floorboard for drainage from the tub, but that's a small price, right? Requires no battery and no gasoline, and if you park next to a garden or flower bed even the drainage will be doing some good! As a bonus you can chip some off to keep your thermos of Dr. Pepper cold.
International House of Pancakes has announced that for all of the American Labour Day Weekend they will be offering free pancakes with all-you-can-slurp maple syrup, and every customer will get a free bottle of (unlabeled) genuine maple syrup to take home.
A little syrup in the stirrup never hurt anybody.
Valve also thinks denying (coercing) clients their fundamental right to pursue cooperative collective class-action lawsuits against the company, even when such suits would be ethically warranted, is great. In that context, as a Valve client who wishes he could get his damned money back for the games he can now no longer access or play, even in single-player modes, for having resisted the aforementioned coercion, I couldn't care less what Valve or Gabe Newell thinks about open source drivers or anything else.
I heard she wears Army boots, so she can probably scare the crap outta the script kiddies.
Of course they tried to learn from the failures. The difference is that they didn't obsess and over-engineer in the first place like NASA; they simply couldn't afford it, didn't have the resources, as this little rover demonstrates rather clearly. They satisfied some minimum standard, and then if/when that failed them they learned from it how the minimum standard needed to be revised for the next time... because for them there always was a next time. That is very different from how NASA has operated. I'm an unwilling perfectionist myself, so my natural tendency is to approach things like NASA, get it perfect the first time. Seeing this rover was an "offense" to the way I'm compelled to do things, but I understand why it was done that way. Not everyone is or can afford to be a perfectionist. Some people don't have a choice afford it or not, but that's another story.
No doubt with apologies to all the furniture craftsmen who've been making furniture with radiused corners for... centuries?