My bank (ASB, New Zealand) is right up with the 1990's, and uses eight letters. They ignore case (but require at least two capitals in new passwords) to make up for it.
No, I actually made that mistake deliberately, just to see what discussion would ensue. It seems to be the only way to effectively troll slashdot these days, simply use a word incorrectly, confuse kB with kiB, whatever, if you pull it off right you can't find any on-topic posts on the entire page.
Obviously the GP is paraphrasing the policy, but it sounds to me like it's so vague and subjective as to be useless as well. If you need to fire someone because of the policy, you need to be able to show not only that they clearly breached the policy, but that they knew where the boundaries of the policy are. If "excessive bandwidth" or "too much time" are not quantified, you can't safely fire someone (depending on your local employment law of course, you might be allowed to fire someone simply for losing the toss of a coin in your area).
You don't understand what that means. All you need to know is, if something is stolen (not necessarily by you), but you are in posession of it, you get to carry the can. It doesn't mean "finders, keepers", law of the kindergarten.
Nice. Two of you linked (one quoting) a FAQ I have already read entirely, about seven years ago.
I actually like that Slashdot has a clear stance on its US-centric-ism, and even though I (obviously) am not a US Citizen enjoy the US Political News I get from the site - it really is my primary source of what's happening in the US because it focuses on the US issues that matter the most to me, half a world away.
The existence of Timezone differences are - to me - an entirely different thing, and it's very unfortunate that a site with a large international readership happens to be in a timezone where "days happen later than everyone else". Now I'm not just half a world away, I'm actually almost an entire world away (NZ). Does that mean I think April 1 stories should be reported in my timezone? UTC? No. I don't think they should be reported at all.
News about US law and politics is interesting and useful to people around the globe. But by the time April 1 rolls around here, many of us have already the reprimand, the cleanup, and sometimes even a good 8 hours sleep.
And you appear to have simply drummed up whatever context best suits your argument.
I posted in response to someone asserting that 'streaming video' is a reason to use 'flash'. I do not find that agreeable at all. You not being able to run a particular platform the way you want is another discussion, and one I won't be having with you. Furthermore, the AC to which you respond seems under no illusion as to the meaning of the word "need".
You not having the choice to run Flash is not relevant to the discussion as whether it is required to play streaming video, or whether its omission is a Good Thing.
Get over it - cellphone cameras are fun. Nobody's pretending they're going to get print quality out of their cellphone camera.
Several years ago I proudly lugged an SLR (sometimes two) everywhere I went, but I've moved on from that. Cellphone cameras have enabled me to get a lot of really nice opportunity shots with at least enough quality for enjoyment, based mainly on comments and "Likes" on my Facebook page, where people see most of my shots in shameless low resolution.
^ This ^. What looks to any reasonable person to be a close button (It's got a big "X") is actually called "Smart Minimize". Like most features that start with the word "Smart", it's entirely stupid. The process simply goes into the background, and you need to use the "Task Manager" (Yes, a Windows Mobile has and needs one) to kill them. Maybe it's because they're using memory. Maybe it's because they're using (expensive) data. Maybe it's because they've still got a file open, which is preventing you from moving / deleting it.
It took me ages to figure this one out, by the way. I was sorting through my, uhm, "media", trying to delete the crap. I could never delete the last file I looked at in media player ("Access Denied" was the error, not a more clueful "File locked" or "open by another process"), I had to either open a different file briefly and then delete, or kill the media player entirely. Or memorize the list of files I want to delete, open a temporary file, and delete said list.
Yep, it's just like life on a Windows PC, except with Display Size, RAM, and clock speed all scaled down proportionally, and stupidity kept more or less constant.
Often, it was less work on my part to simply power-cycle the phone, since removing and replacing the battery was by far the easiest and fastest task to do, and then do something else while it booted again.
Yes, the Apple approach is restrictive, and they've flagrantly given themselves a big advantage over 3rd Party Devs, but I can't say I blame them given that it "Is Actually a Phone After All" and don't want to get sued when someone can't call E911 because his IRC server has gone into an infinite loop (right about the same time his Postgresql backups usually kick off, too).
Get some pills. You're making a determined effort to find fault with what I'm doing, and bluntly refusing to take my points at face value. Again, get some pills for it and calm the fuck down.
It could be that, I use both FB and Twitter for very different things. One big difference twitter does not use mutual "Friendships", you do not necessarily follow back people who follow you. On FB I never friend people I don't know (and only have 32 in the list), on twitter it's a different story, and many of my actual friends don't have accounts. Similarly, many people I do not know follow me, but that's fine, I consider twitter my "public" account. You can protect your twitter feed and manually approve followers; in my experience few people do.
Are you so shallow as to believe that the only people who have anything interesting to share are the people you are "following"? That those few dozen people you "follow" are the conduit by which anything that's important that's happening in the world will come to you?
You have no idea which people and organisations (yes, newspapers tweet) I follow. Having headlines tweeted means I see them sooner, and without specifically visiting the site. Sure, I can get this with RSS, but I can get so much more with twitter. You completely don't understand the point of following the feeds I'm interested in, and not following the other stuff, so I can (for just one example) get my hypothetical "6 O'Clock news" fill, but on my terms.
I also suspect you don't realise that people often use hyperlinks in their tweets so you can read full articles if the headline piques their curiosity. Actually, the more I think about, you probably don't know anything about twitter.
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I was being facetious: Case insensitive and up to 20 chars is a huge improvement on ASB
Some people can't comprehend that I use about 15 distinct passwords, but I'm sure they'd be capable if they decided they needed to do that too.
My bank (ASB, New Zealand) is right up with the 1990's, and uses eight letters. They ignore case (but require at least two capitals in new passwords) to make up for it.
What about people who really are minors who gave fake DOBs (purely out of habit) that make them seem older, I wonder?
I'm not 100% sure, but I think he means he's currently 20 years old, and used a 1200 baud modem around about when he was negative five.
Dad?
Thanks for setting a world record at the fastest inaccurate re-telling of a joke.
Well done, chaps.
Obviously the GP is paraphrasing the policy, but it sounds to me like it's so vague and subjective as to be useless as well. If you need to fire someone because of the policy, you need to be able to show not only that they clearly breached the policy, but that they knew where the boundaries of the policy are. If "excessive bandwidth" or "too much time" are not quantified, you can't safely fire someone (depending on your local employment law of course, you might be allowed to fire someone simply for losing the toss of a coin in your area).
People with good eyesight who use complicated applications or requirements.
I know those MSPaint drawings you toss around on 4chan get a chuckle, but that does not mean that Photoshop is overkill for "photoshopping" things.
Hopefully you'll now understand that it was not at all noteworthy.
You don't understand what that means. All you need to know is, if something is stolen (not necessarily by you), but you are in posession of it, you get to carry the can. It doesn't mean "finders, keepers", law of the kindergarten.
Like most things ranging from Browser Exploits to the discovery of new Earth-like planets, this was probably on peta.org a fortnight before Slashdot.
I actually like that Slashdot has a clear stance on its US-centric-ism, and even though I (obviously) am not a US Citizen enjoy the US Political News I get from the site - it really is my primary source of what's happening in the US because it focuses on the US issues that matter the most to me, half a world away. The existence of Timezone differences are - to me - an entirely different thing, and it's very unfortunate that a site with a large international readership happens to be in a timezone where "days happen later than everyone else". Now I'm not just half a world away, I'm actually almost an entire world away (NZ). Does that mean I think April 1 stories should be reported in my timezone? UTC? No. I don't think they should be reported at all.
News about US law and politics is interesting and useful to people around the globe. But by the time April 1 rolls around here, many of us have already the reprimand, the cleanup, and sometimes even a good 8 hours sleep.
I posted in response to someone asserting that 'streaming video' is a reason to use 'flash'. I do not find that agreeable at all. You not being able to run a particular platform the way you want is another discussion, and one I won't be having with you. Furthermore, the AC to which you respond seems under no illusion as to the meaning of the word "need".
You not having the choice to run Flash is not relevant to the discussion as whether it is required to play streaming video, or whether its omission is a Good Thing.
Interested readers will find the terms "suicide battery" helpful, quite a bit of documentation done by the MAME project.
Nope. Each year, the April 1 jokes don't start on Slashdot until it's April 2 in pretty much 80% of the world.
Several years ago I proudly lugged an SLR (sometimes two) everywhere I went, but I've moved on from that. Cellphone cameras have enabled me to get a lot of really nice opportunity shots with at least enough quality for enjoyment, based mainly on comments and "Likes" on my Facebook page, where people see most of my shots in shameless low resolution.
It took me ages to figure this one out, by the way. I was sorting through my, uhm, "media", trying to delete the crap. I could never delete the last file I looked at in media player ("Access Denied" was the error, not a more clueful "File locked" or "open by another process"), I had to either open a different file briefly and then delete, or kill the media player entirely. Or memorize the list of files I want to delete, open a temporary file, and delete said list.
Yep, it's just like life on a Windows PC, except with Display Size, RAM, and clock speed all scaled down proportionally, and stupidity kept more or less constant.
Often, it was less work on my part to simply power-cycle the phone, since removing and replacing the battery was by far the easiest and fastest task to do, and then do something else while it booted again.
Yes, the Apple approach is restrictive, and they've flagrantly given themselves a big advantage over 3rd Party Devs, but I can't say I blame them given that it "Is Actually a Phone After All" and don't want to get sued when someone can't call E911 because his IRC server has gone into an infinite loop (right about the same time his Postgresql backups usually kick off, too).
Fantastic. Now I can use my iPhone in all the places my iPod Touch works! (geddit?)
That is not a reason to use Flash. Would banning Hummers would make it a 'royal pain in the ass' when you need to pick your kids up from school?
Get some pills. You're making a determined effort to find fault with what I'm doing, and bluntly refusing to take my points at face value. Again, get some pills for it and calm the fuck down.
It could be that, I use both FB and Twitter for very different things. One big difference twitter does not use mutual "Friendships", you do not necessarily follow back people who follow you. On FB I never friend people I don't know (and only have 32 in the list), on twitter it's a different story, and many of my actual friends don't have accounts. Similarly, many people I do not know follow me, but that's fine, I consider twitter my "public" account. You can protect your twitter feed and manually approve followers; in my experience few people do.
You have no idea which people and organisations (yes, newspapers tweet) I follow. Having headlines tweeted means I see them sooner, and without specifically visiting the site. Sure, I can get this with RSS, but I can get so much more with twitter. You completely don't understand the point of following the feeds I'm interested in, and not following the other stuff, so I can (for just one example) get my hypothetical "6 O'Clock news" fill, but on my terms.
I also suspect you don't realise that people often use hyperlinks in their tweets so you can read full articles if the headline piques their curiosity. Actually, the more I think about, you probably don't know anything about twitter.