We're testing out new(ish) anti-phishing technology. At least, new enopugh that the argument that IE7 is the "incumbent" doesn't really hold unless the sites are exploiting leftovers from IE6. Then the point becomes obvious - if MS is pushing IE7's relative security over "previous browsers" (read: IE6), they should have fixed these holes.
It depends on what your definition of "should" is. No really...
From a political standpoint, a gay person who (while following party lines) advocates banning same sex marriages, is too easily attackable. It creates a political risk to the party.
From an ethical stand point, should someone be required to or feel obliged to stand down from any post because of their sexual orientation? No (imo at least), and this seems to be what you're getting at.
However, if one is a high-visibility figure in a political party who's sexual orientation is likely to cause resentment/concern/feelings of ickiness among the party's voter base ("Eww, two men kissing!! Won't somebody think of the children?!?!"), the good thing for the party is for the person to step down. It doesn't make it the right thing to do, in the ethical sense, but it makes it the right thing to do for the good of the party.
To me it nets out as a sad commentary on the policies and position of the GOP regarding gay people.
There is correlation, as well. The amount of concrete in-use has skyrocketed since the beginning of the 20th century. Over the same time period, the average global temperature has risen.
And the number of pirates on the high seas has also fallen during this period. Clearly, if we're to avert the imminent global warming disaster, we need more pirates! ARGGH!!!
Horsecrap. Espousing Alberta-only policies has won how many federal elections? NONE. Alberta may be the Conservative's "power base" but where they're desperately seeking in-roads is the urban centres. Which means they'll espouse some of the policies of the Liberals to make themselves more palatable to the urban canadians.
As to the "kow-towing" to the auto-union, wrong party, that would be the NDP.
Anyways, independent academic research is always vastly superior to anything done by some political body, be it the lefto-pinko non-armpit-shaving granola hippy-comrades, the oil burning smoke-stack-ocracy oil tycoon neo-cons, or the UN (clearly some kind of convex combination of the previous two).
If there was a globat greenhouse effect, we should see temperature rises in data from pretty much anywhere in the world. This is not the case. There are plenty of data sets from different parts of the world that show either a flat line or a decrease...
there are some pockets where drastic temperature increases are seen... urbanization of an area increases its temperature.
Hmmm, you seem to be contradicting yourself.
At first you claim that all locations must follow the trend, or they invalidate the trend. Then you allow for location-specific reasons of temperature increases. It swings both ways.
If one is trying to demonstrate the greenhouse effect, one would expect to see a general trend towards higher temperatures. However, deviation from this trend at some locations in the world does not invalidate the theory of the trend.
As you point out a cause for location-specific temperature increase(urbanisation), there could also be causes for location-specific temperature decreases that are unrelated to or even caused by a general global trend towards higher temperatures. For example, rising global temp -> higher water levels for a given area -> more % of surface covered by water -> less light absorbed -> lower temp in immediate area.
It will when they take the "IE vs. Netscape" approach and innundate Windows users with links ad shortcuts to their software, and roll out OS-integrated featuers that google can't compete with.
"Just saying his story still holds together, if you want to believe it."
Pfft. Any story holds together if you want to believe it.
This is such an obvious "escape clause", that it is, to me at least, the clearest sign that the guy is full of manure.
"Here are my predictions, oh and in case any of them don't become true, blah blah alternate time line blah blah reverse polarity on the neutron flux blah blah"
The lower PC sales have very little to do with piracy. Fiascos like Anarchy Online's non-functional release are what almost killed PC gaming.
I know several people who stopped PC gaming because a) some games are released in a state that doesn't even merit the term "beta" b) Windows is so flaky, buggy, prone to spyware. Gamer does not necessarily imply technical understanding, and console's are so easy. That's why consoles sell more games.
A slashdot post claimed last week that the previous week (so two weeks ago), a Paul Thurrott article called MS IE non compliant. This is just plain wrong, the Thurrott article is over a year old, and/. should probably apologise, regardless of the standards compliance or lack thereof of the latest MS browser offering.
Why, becasuse what the MPAA says and what the MPAA do are usually the same thing? What do you expect them to say?
"This guy's got us scared shitless. We're presently developing a strategy to tuck our tails between our legs and run away, screaming like little schoolgirls."
The reason why the movie industry is getting clobered, and the music industry got clobered: they didn't offer legal alternatives to the service.
To say it's a battle between free and paid is oversimplifying: iPod + iTunes is wildly succesful. It's paid, but it leverages the ease of the internet to get legally downloaded music.
If these industries had tried to embrace the new tech instead of surpressing it, most would go to them, and the black market would be a fringe issue.
For movies, the choice right now is either online and illegal/unpaid, or offline and legal.
A lot of people are choosing online, not illegal.
Example: if they offered movies for download, or online streaming movies and paid subscription, and the price wasn't retarded, a LOT of people would ditch piratebay et al.
I don't see how this is a problem. This keeps me employed. Please people, keep writting enterprise apps in ColdFusion tied to MS Access databases, and run them on Win2k Pro Dell Desktops. I'm getting married soon, and imagine when I (eventually) have kids they'll want to go to university (college for all you yanks) at some point. So keep up the good work!
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We're testing out new(ish) anti-phishing technology. At least, new enopugh that the argument that IE7 is the "incumbent" doesn't really hold unless the sites are exploiting leftovers from IE6. Then the point becomes obvious - if MS is pushing IE7's relative security over "previous browsers" (read: IE6), they should have fixed these holes.
Gay Republican != Pinko Fairy, the pinko part is all wrong.
I believe you mean Nazi Fairy, jeez...
According to your argument, then, the comparison is valid. Most pipping(even shitty pipping) is installed by plumbers.
It depends on what your definition of "should" is. No really...
From a political standpoint, a gay person who (while following party lines) advocates banning same sex marriages, is too easily attackable. It creates a political risk to the party.
From an ethical stand point, should someone be required to or feel obliged to stand down from any post because of their sexual orientation? No (imo at least), and this seems to be what you're getting at.
However, if one is a high-visibility figure in a political party who's sexual orientation is likely to cause resentment/concern/feelings of ickiness among the party's voter base ("Eww, two men kissing!! Won't somebody think of the children?!?!"), the good thing for the party is for the person to step down. It doesn't make it the right thing to do, in the ethical sense, but it makes it the right thing to do for the good of the party.
To me it nets out as a sad commentary on the policies and position of the GOP regarding gay people.
I think my republican neighbour's head just exploded...
Horsecrap. Espousing Alberta-only policies has won how many federal elections? NONE. Alberta may be the Conservative's "power base" but where they're desperately seeking in-roads is the urban centres. Which means they'll espouse some of the policies of the Liberals to make themselves more palatable to the urban canadians.
As to the "kow-towing" to the auto-union, wrong party, that would be the NDP.
Anyways, independent academic research is always vastly superior to anything done by some political body, be it the lefto-pinko non-armpit-shaving granola hippy-comrades, the oil burning smoke-stack-ocracy oil tycoon neo-cons, or the UN (clearly some kind of convex combination of the previous two).
At first you claim that all locations must follow the trend, or they invalidate the trend. Then you allow for location-specific reasons of temperature increases. It swings both ways.
If one is trying to demonstrate the greenhouse effect, one would expect to see a general trend towards higher temperatures. However, deviation from this trend at some locations in the world does not invalidate the theory of the trend.
As you point out a cause for location-specific temperature increase(urbanisation), there could also be causes for location-specific temperature decreases that are unrelated to or even caused by a general global trend towards higher temperatures. For example, rising global temp -> higher water levels for a given area -> more % of surface covered by water -> less light absorbed -> lower temp in immediate area.
It will when they take the "IE vs. Netscape" approach and innundate Windows users with links ad shortcuts to their software, and roll out OS-integrated featuers that google can't compete with.
Dude, be nice to the belgians. They have Hercule Poirot, and they're not afraid to use him!
"turn them even more against PHP"
So you're saying this is a good thing?
"Just saying his story still holds together, if you want to believe it."
Pfft. Any story holds together if you want to believe it.
This is such an obvious "escape clause", that it is, to me at least, the clearest sign that the guy is full of manure.
"Here are my predictions, oh and in case any of them don't become true, blah blah alternate time line blah blah reverse polarity on the neutron flux blah blah"
I've seen better plotlines in Star Trek episodes.
in french, at least, called Bescherelle. Prior art FTW!
The lower PC sales have very little to do with piracy. Fiascos like Anarchy Online's non-functional release are what almost killed PC gaming.
I know several people who stopped PC gaming because a) some games are released in a state that doesn't even merit the term "beta" b) Windows is so flaky, buggy, prone to spyware. Gamer does not necessarily imply technical understanding, and console's are so easy. That's why consoles sell more games.
Because the internet is not a Truck...
Actually, this kind of thing we be great for public access terminals (Internet Cafes, libraries, etc...).
A lot of people leave cached files (images, etc...), cookies, cached pages with sensitive info on these terminals, and this would help.
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Don't forget to buy lotto tickets and get extended warranties on electronics. You'd be stupid not to....
A slashdot post claimed last week that the previous week (so two weeks ago), a Paul Thurrott article called MS IE non compliant. This is just plain wrong, the Thurrott article is over a year old, and /. should probably apologise, regardless of the standards compliance or lack thereof of the latest MS browser offering.
Pfft, you just can't handle how l33ut we all are, eh.
Why, becasuse what the MPAA says and what the MPAA do are usually the same thing? What do you expect them to say?
"This guy's got us scared shitless. We're presently developing a strategy to tuck our tails between our legs and run away, screaming like little schoolgirls."
I think this proves what we've innately known all along: Tim Berners Lee is God, and metadata is His message.
So we're in agreement!
The Rand Coporation, in conjunction with the saucer people, under the direction of the reverse vampires are introducing zero-day Excel exploits!
The reason why the movie industry is getting clobered, and the music industry got clobered: they didn't offer legal alternatives to the service.
To say it's a battle between free and paid is oversimplifying: iPod + iTunes is wildly succesful. It's paid, but it leverages the ease of the internet to get legally downloaded music.
If these industries had tried to embrace the new tech instead of surpressing it, most would go to them, and the black market would be a fringe issue.
For movies, the choice right now is either online and illegal/unpaid, or offline and legal.
A lot of people are choosing online, not illegal.
Example: if they offered movies for download, or online streaming movies and paid subscription, and the price wasn't retarded, a LOT of people would ditch piratebay et al.
My $0.02
I don't see how this is a problem. This keeps me employed. Please people, keep writting enterprise apps in ColdFusion tied to MS Access databases, and run them on Win2k Pro Dell Desktops. I'm getting married soon, and imagine when I (eventually) have kids they'll want to go to university (college for all you yanks) at some point. So keep up the good work!