There seems to be the suggestion here that because he's autistic he couldn't possibly have cheated, and possibly also that because he's autistic he is thus better at gaming. While the latter might actually be true simply because of perseveration and focus, the former is not. A diagnosis of autism - even if correct - does not also exclude a diagnosis of cheater. Autistic people can cheat, though they may be somewhat less inclined to do so.
Can we trust that such statistical information is definitive when it originates from a private party that may very well have an agenda that doesn't include the truth or the Common Good? If you'd like some definitive information about the true (United) state of broadband, volunteer with the SamKnows project that was started by the FCC. They'll send you a special router that periodically samples your data rates (not your data). In about three years we'll have some very accurate statistics, and the participants allegedly get to keep the WNR3500L routers as a thank-you.
SamKnows is the crowd-sourced way to answer this question.
Just borrow a TSA squad - complete with embarrassing scanner - from the USA. That'll fix it. Leave your guns AND your gadgets (and your privacy) at the door, buddy!
Why are people modding this as funny? Is it an inside joke that depends upon me being part of the clique, part of BadAnalogyGuy's inner circle, to recognize that his tongue was jammed in his cheek as he wrote?
I've used a blog CMS called Pivot that allowed limited HTML but was VERY effective - like 100% effective - at stopping comment spam. Why the techniques it used aren't an industry standard might spark a lively discussion somewhere.
The NoScript extension has an option on the Advanced tab, under Untrusted: Forbid META redirections inside NOSCRIPT elements. Do you have that option enabled? It's probably a key factor to whether NoScript blocks it or not.
Ditto here. The redirect is inside a comment! ITWorld apparently allows too much HTML inside comments, and some comment-spammer figured that out and embedded a meta-refresh tag in a comment. It very effectively hijacks the ITWorld page from inside the comment.
NoScript blocks the redirect if you have itworld.com blacklisted (I didn't initially).
The White House also has a convenient Web contact form. How about this?
Dear President Obama:
During your Presidential campiagn, you made a specific promise to reform the Patriot Act. I quote from an official campaign document:
"Revise the PATRIOT Act. Barack Obama believes that we must provide law
enforcement the tools it needs to investigate, disrupt, and capture terrorists, but he
also believes we need real oversight to avoid jeopardizing the rights and ideals of all
Americans. There is no reason we cannot fight terrorism while maintaining our civil
liberties. Unfortunately, the current administration has abused the powers given to it
by the PATRIOT Act. A March 2007 Justice Department audit found the FBI
improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the PATRIOT Act to secretly obtain
personal information about American citizens. As president, Barack Obama would
revisit the PATRIOT Act to ensure that there is real and robust oversight of tools like
National Security Letters, sneak-and-peek searches, and the use of the material
witness provision."
I and many other Americans would rather prefer you allow it to fully expire or repeal it. In fact, the current Department of Justice has vigorously resisted any proposals to change it. Thus far it appears that you have neither reformed nor repealed it. Why?
I further understand that the Patriot Act is yet again due to expire, and that predictably a House member, Mike Rogers, has introduced a bill, H.R. 67, which would yet again extend the effects of this repugnant legislation. Will you please honor your campaign promise and at least vow to veto this bill if Congress quietly rubber-stamps its renewal yet again?
Sometimes they're described as "over-the-ear" headphones when the audience is afraid of fifty-cent words. "Fully enclosing" might have been a rephrasing less prone to misinterpretation and fun-poking. What a difference a suffix makes!
... I have to wonder what sort of mentality thinks exposing growers to the very real risk of armed robbery by criminals is justifiable.
Oh, look... he's advocating security through obscurity. Haven't we already agreed this isn't security? I guess not.
The way to FIX this is to legalize it. Then anybody can grow it - it's not that hard or expensive - and they'd have no reason to send squads of armed thugs to someone else's house to raid their stash. Then security wouldn't even be an issue. Diamonds and gold are valuable because they're relatively scarce (hard to mine), but marijuana is valuable ONLY because it's been arbitrarily made illegal.
I know. I've watched Food, Inc., more than once. I'd never read that John Robbins story, but I've been supportive of efforts to end factory farming of all kinds.
... than not allowing dolphins such rights to personage would be to simply stop there, when there are hundreds of millions - billions? - of feline and canine "pets" WHO are routinely denied those same rights and often subjected to serfdom and slavery. Since cats and dogs are reported to have intelligence equivalent to at least a one-year-old human child (and I observe behavior myself every day that seems to confirm it) and we normally treat those children as persons, the bigger crime is that we have this huge population IN OUR MIDST that is often treated worse than the dolphins. Hell, for that matter humans routinely still treat other humans as non-persons: when people use mental trickery like racism, tribalism, demonization, and marginalization, they do it specifically so they can then justify to themselves treating other humans as non-persons or sub-human and thus not deserving of the ethics accorded to persons or the Golden Rule.
"Freeing Willie" is the infinitesimal tip of the ethical iceberg.
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Who's askin'? The IANA, or some dude wearing nothing but underwear and a threadbare tinfoil hat?
Pot via railgun, that's the next upgrade....
There seems to be the suggestion here that because he's autistic he couldn't possibly have cheated, and possibly also that because he's autistic he is thus better at gaming. While the latter might actually be true simply because of perseveration and focus, the former is not. A diagnosis of autism - even if correct - does not also exclude a diagnosis of cheater. Autistic people can cheat, though they may be somewhat less inclined to do so.
Can we trust that such statistical information is definitive when it originates from a private party that may very well have an agenda that doesn't include the truth or the Common Good? If you'd like some definitive information about the true (United) state of broadband, volunteer with the SamKnows project that was started by the FCC. They'll send you a special router that periodically samples your data rates (not your data). In about three years we'll have some very accurate statistics, and the participants allegedly get to keep the WNR3500L routers as a thank-you.
SamKnows is the crowd-sourced way to answer this question.
... don't they have anything better to do, like eat some surfers? And just who gave them the lasers in the first place? Damn Pentagon!
Just borrow a TSA squad - complete with embarrassing scanner - from the USA. That'll fix it. Leave your guns AND your gadgets (and your privacy) at the door, buddy!
Why are people modding this as funny? Is it an inside joke that depends upon me being part of the clique, part of BadAnalogyGuy's inner circle, to recognize that his tongue was jammed in his cheek as he wrote?
I certainly hope he was kidding.
My family and friends insist that I'm seriously cranky, so I volunteer. Half - 1.
(You almost had me until the mention of HTML.)
Using Proxomitron or privoxy, are ya? :-)
None that I know about....
I've used a blog CMS called Pivot that allowed limited HTML but was VERY effective - like 100% effective - at stopping comment spam. Why the techniques it used aren't an industry standard might spark a lively discussion somewhere.
There's an Advanced NoScript option that apparently dictates whether it happens or not.
The NoScript extension has an option on the Advanced tab, under Untrusted: Forbid META redirections inside NOSCRIPT elements. Do you have that option enabled? It's probably a key factor to whether NoScript blocks it or not.
Not THAT one! My eyes, my EYES!
Ditto here. The redirect is inside a comment! ITWorld apparently allows too much HTML inside comments, and some comment-spammer figured that out and embedded a meta-refresh tag in a comment. It very effectively hijacks the ITWorld page from inside the comment.
NoScript blocks the redirect if you have itworld.com blacklisted (I didn't initially).
The White House also has a convenient Web contact form. How about this?
Cut, paste, and Submit....
Perhaps Windows CE instead? *ducks*
Sometimes they're described as "over-the-ear" headphones when the audience is afraid of fifty-cent words. "Fully enclosing" might have been a rephrasing less prone to misinterpretation and fun-poking. What a difference a suffix makes!
Uhhhh... if they're fully enclosed, how can you hear anything from them?
There's a word for that: circumaural.
I can say with comfortable certainty that my Porterhouse steaks have never farted at me, before or after the griddle. And lucky for them, too.
Oh, look... he's advocating security through obscurity. Haven't we already agreed this isn't security? I guess not.
The way to FIX this is to legalize it. Then anybody can grow it - it's not that hard or expensive - and they'd have no reason to send squads of armed thugs to someone else's house to raid their stash. Then security wouldn't even be an issue. Diamonds and gold are valuable because they're relatively scarce (hard to mine), but marijuana is valuable ONLY because it's been arbitrarily made illegal.
I know. I've watched Food, Inc., more than once. I'd never read that John Robbins story, but I've been supportive of efforts to end factory farming of all kinds.
I'll bet Monk doesn't have this problem!
... than not allowing dolphins such rights to personage would be to simply stop there, when there are hundreds of millions - billions? - of feline and canine "pets" WHO are routinely denied those same rights and often subjected to serfdom and slavery. Since cats and dogs are reported to have intelligence equivalent to at least a one-year-old human child (and I observe behavior myself every day that seems to confirm it) and we normally treat those children as persons, the bigger crime is that we have this huge population IN OUR MIDST that is often treated worse than the dolphins. Hell, for that matter humans routinely still treat other humans as non-persons: when people use mental trickery like racism, tribalism, demonization, and marginalization, they do it specifically so they can then justify to themselves treating other humans as non-persons or sub-human and thus not deserving of the ethics accorded to persons or the Golden Rule.
"Freeing Willie" is the infinitesimal tip of the ethical iceberg.