I know virtually nothing about Mormons, but the US media often give me the impression of Mormons being highly conservative medieval puritans, married to lots of wives and lying about that. On the other hand, the handful of Mormons I meet online, like Howard Tayler, creator of the Schlock Mercenary webcomic, all tend to be intelligent, funny, and generally pretty enlightened.
My guess is that most Mormons are actually surprisingly similar to regular people.
Two GPUs on a single card? Who the hell needs that kind of power? Besides, don't modern graphics cards waste ridiculous amounts of energy even when they're simply drawing your desktop?
For those who haven't been following the recent releases of ATI graphics cards, it's probably interesting to note that the AI HD2850 and HD2870 use only 20 Watt when idling (most low-end cards use at least 30W nowadays, and high-end cards are often closer to 100W).
So that should mean that this new card should eat about 40W when idling, making this card not just the most powerful graphics card today, but also less wasteful than nVidia's 8800GT. Not a bad choice if you're in dire need of more graphics power. Although personally I'm planning to buy a simple 3850.
Most workers in the United States do not work on contract at all. I have never had a contract with any of my employers.
I suppose that explains a lot about how employees are sometimes treated in the US. I have never worked without a contract. Occasionally the contract wasn't fully finished and signed when I started, it may even have been a verbal contract (which is still binding, as long as you can prove it) (only for student/side jobs, I think), but there has always been a contract.
That would have been smart, yes. But as far as we can tell, obscurity worked well enough. The only problem of her approach is that she wouldn't have had a leg to stand on in court, had someone else found it and read it.
What is so advanced about C++ that people feel the need to rewrite code for it? Might as well pick one of the other new languages while you're at it.
The point is that C++ is so un-advanced that you do not have to rewrite most of the code to for it. Apart from classes and a few other minor details, C++ is pretty much identical to C. Yet encapsulating tons of junk in classes restricts scopes in an understandable way and generally makes it a lot easier to maintain.
Personally I think C++ is just as obsolete as C for anything other than low-level system stuff, but if you've already got C, C++ is the obvious choice. Exactly because C++ == C + optional extra structure.
(Yeah I know, I'm responding to a troll in an ancient discussion. I happened to still have it open, and felt the need to make this point clear.)
Although I can understand that union leaders like deals like that, I can't help but feel that such deals are harmful to the workers themselves (the writers, in this case). If a union has a complete monopoly on a certain kind of labour, that means workers aren't free to choose which union to let them be represented by, they're not free not to join a union, and if they're not in a union, they're not allowed to do the work they want. If a minority of union members disagree with union policy, they're not free to start their own union.
IMO all of these are vital for keeping unions and labour circumstances healthy. In Netherland, we've got multiple competing unions that cooperate when necessary, but have the freedom to disagree. I'm convinced that a labour union monopoly, like any other kind of monopoly, is in the end harmful to everybody.
The name "guild" is very well chosen; this kind of construction seems to have more in common with medieval trade guilds than with modern labour unions. Note that I'm very much in favor of labour unions, but I'm also very much against monopolies.
Talks broke down Dec. 7 after the union rejected an alliance demand that a half-dozen guild proposals be taken off the table, including jurisdiction over reality and animation writers.
I don't understand what they mean by jurisdiction here. Surely the WGA isn't a law enforcement organisation? It's just a union, right? Aren't writers, be they for TV series, animation or games, free to choose their own union to represent them? How can the alliance stop writers from choosing their own union? How can the WGA demand jurisdiction over them?
This sounds like a really weird way to deal with labour unions (but then, I've heard more weird stories about US unions).
The act of putting up a website (or any other internet server) on the public internet should be enough to say the operator of the server gave you permission to access it.
Should be, but what if I didn't intend the whole world to see it? Perhaps my webpage is only for my friends or family. My sister did that, actually. Set up a website with het pregnancy log, mail the address to the family and request that nobody link to it so google wouldn't find it. The intent is clearly that not everybody has permission to access this website, but would that hold up in court? As much as I respect her privacy, I really hope not.
Same thing with public DNS or open wifi. If you don't intend for it to be open, don't make it open.
By this reasoning, looking at a website without written permission of the webmaster would be illegal too. The Judge has basically declared the internet illegal.
The protocol is promoted to be "touch-and-go", not requiring any setup or user intervention. Thus you simply "touch" (meaning bringing within 3cm) a device and an action is performed automatically - such as downloading your photos or displaying a video.
This has the possibility of simplifying connections (we'll have to wait and see if it works) and the 3cm distance makes it such that you have to consciously activate the connection, possibly saving you from embarrassing situations.
So if I carry a couple of USB sticks in my pocket, they automatically all contain exactly the same files?
Sweden most likely exports the greatest amount of metal, of any European country.
Really? I thought Norway and Finland were bigger. And I actually expected Germany, Netherland and Italy to also be bigger in metal, but that could be because I'm more at home in symphonic metal than death metal.
Hate to break it to you, but forced "sharing" without the owner's permission is stealing...
That has nothing to do with sharing. Sharing means it's the owner that does it. In this case it's the owner that shares his wifi access point and his internet connection. No one is forcing him to do that. The standard access protocol for wifi handles permission perfectly fine.
Would any one in the western world even think of buying this car? Even for driving in the cities/small towns?
Not in Europe, anyway. It doesn't EU emision standards. I don't know about US emision standards, but I thought the ones in California were even stricter than the ones in the EU.
Yes, and these nations are either Cambodia, in Southeast Africa, or in the Middle East.
Or in Europe. In Netherland, it's legal to download everything except kiddie porn. It's only the distribution of copyrighted materials that's illegal. I'm not sure if that makes it illegal to download illegal files with bittorrent, which also allows immediate upload of the stuff you just downloaded.
It depends on whether you're talking about economic liberalism (freedom if you can afford it), as Dutch conservative liberals do, or social liberalism (freedom also for those who can't afford it), which is more of a progressive left-wing thing.
I seem to recall a story where someone from Sony denied they were behind and claimed it was an even race. Now Toshiba denies losing. I really don't know who not to believe anymore.
The most obvious hypothesis is that the universe is a Beta Release! If the universe ever goes gold, I think we are all hosed, because we either will be eliminated because of backward computability issues, or we won't be able to afford the upgrade.
Could that be what biblical salvation, or the new heaven and the new earth refers to? Being ported to the final release version where all this buggy evil is fixed?
Then the gnashing of teeth comes from the poor sods who are then forever condemned to using this then abandoned and unsupported beta version.
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The problem is even these libraries will have exploits.
Can you name a single exploit for Tidy?
It isn't as easy to parse html as some people make it out to seem.
Oh yes it is. It's rendering that's hard. For parsing it, there are tons of standard libraries. And using XHTML makes it especially easy.
There are a lot of details to nail down right (angle brackets "http://www.google.com/ to become a clickable URL automatically when they type it in. You have to sanitize that URL somehow and make sure your URL code doesnt let evil crap like " slip by and into a real quote, thus prematurely closing your final href attribute and "executing" the user's javascript inside your page.
That's a simple matter of using something akin to URLencode. Any halfway decent webframework should know how to proprly encode a URL. Something like
which is harmless. If this is not trivial in your webframework, you're using the wrong webframework.
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You dont understand the problem. HTML injections are from users like me posting busted HTML as a comment to slashdot.
You're right. I don't understand why this should be a problem. Tidy the tainted HTML, so you end up with clean, reliable XHTML.
The comment injects evil bits of javascript into the output when the page gets displayed.
So remove the bits of javascript. Script tags and event handlers are easy to find, and links can be cleaned up.
Using XHTML and having the browser choke and die on the output is just another security loophole as far as i'm concerned. Being able to get the end browser to choke on XHTML errors is a DOS. Imagine how much trolls would like it if they could get firefox to not even display this page because their evil XHTML caused this page to no longer validate?
The "div/float/clear" approach to layout was a terrible mistake. It's less powerful than tables, because it isn't a true 2D layout system. Absolute positioning made things even worse. And it got to be a religious issue. This dumb but heavily promoted article was largely responsible for the problem.
Excuse me, but what's so bad about that article? I hadn't seen it before, but everything it says is true. Using those complex, overwrought tables full of spacer.gifs is incredibly stupid. I'm afraid the oldest sites my employer hosts are built like that, and they're a pain to maintain. Modern designs that organise all the content in divs and use CSS to position them make everything a lot easier.
CSS layout is incompatible with WYSIWYG tools
So? The web isn't a WYSIWYG medium anyway. The web is about content, and about presenting that content in a friendly manner. Tables make content subservient to layout, throws semantics out the window, and makes your content inaccessible to anyone who does not use your graphical representation to access the content.
Clear, semantic HTML + CSS is much more powerful than table layout.
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I know virtually nothing about Mormons, but the US media often give me the impression of Mormons being highly conservative medieval puritans, married to lots of wives and lying about that. On the other hand, the handful of Mormons I meet online, like Howard Tayler, creator of the Schlock Mercenary webcomic, all tend to be intelligent, funny, and generally pretty enlightened.
My guess is that most Mormons are actually surprisingly similar to regular people.
Two GPUs on a single card? Who the hell needs that kind of power? Besides, don't modern graphics cards waste ridiculous amounts of energy even when they're simply drawing your desktop?
For those who haven't been following the recent releases of ATI graphics cards, it's probably interesting to note that the AI HD2850 and HD2870 use only 20 Watt when idling (most low-end cards use at least 30W nowadays, and high-end cards are often closer to 100W).
So that should mean that this new card should eat about 40W when idling, making this card not just the most powerful graphics card today, but also less wasteful than nVidia's 8800GT. Not a bad choice if you're in dire need of more graphics power. Although personally I'm planning to buy a simple 3850.
I suppose that explains a lot about how employees are sometimes treated in the US. I have never worked without a contract. Occasionally the contract wasn't fully finished and signed when I started, it may even have been a verbal contract (which is still binding, as long as you can prove it) (only for student/side jobs, I think), but there has always been a contract.
What are we talking about here? Millihertz? Millibitz (or whatever the 'z' in mbz means)?
That would have been smart, yes. But as far as we can tell, obscurity worked well enough. The only problem of her approach is that she wouldn't have had a leg to stand on in court, had someone else found it and read it.
The point is that C++ is so un-advanced that you do not have to rewrite most of the code to for it. Apart from classes and a few other minor details, C++ is pretty much identical to C. Yet encapsulating tons of junk in classes restricts scopes in an understandable way and generally makes it a lot easier to maintain.
Personally I think C++ is just as obsolete as C for anything other than low-level system stuff, but if you've already got C, C++ is the obvious choice. Exactly because C++ == C + optional extra structure.
(Yeah I know, I'm responding to a troll in an ancient discussion. I happened to still have it open, and felt the need to make this point clear.)
Although I can understand that union leaders like deals like that, I can't help but feel that such deals are harmful to the workers themselves (the writers, in this case). If a union has a complete monopoly on a certain kind of labour, that means workers aren't free to choose which union to let them be represented by, they're not free not to join a union, and if they're not in a union, they're not allowed to do the work they want. If a minority of union members disagree with union policy, they're not free to start their own union.
IMO all of these are vital for keeping unions and labour circumstances healthy. In Netherland, we've got multiple competing unions that cooperate when necessary, but have the freedom to disagree. I'm convinced that a labour union monopoly, like any other kind of monopoly, is in the end harmful to everybody.
The name "guild" is very well chosen; this kind of construction seems to have more in common with medieval trade guilds than with modern labour unions. Note that I'm very much in favor of labour unions, but I'm also very much against monopolies.
I read this as "WGA's New Media Circus".
I don't understand what they mean by jurisdiction here. Surely the WGA isn't a law enforcement organisation? It's just a union, right? Aren't writers, be they for TV series, animation or games, free to choose their own union to represent them? How can the alliance stop writers from choosing their own union? How can the WGA demand jurisdiction over them?
This sounds like a really weird way to deal with labour unions (but then, I've heard more weird stories about US unions).
Should be, but what if I didn't intend the whole world to see it? Perhaps my webpage is only for my friends or family. My sister did that, actually. Set up a website with het pregnancy log, mail the address to the family and request that nobody link to it so google wouldn't find it. The intent is clearly that not everybody has permission to access this website, but would that hold up in court? As much as I respect her privacy, I really hope not.
Same thing with public DNS or open wifi. If you don't intend for it to be open, don't make it open.
By this reasoning, looking at a website without written permission of the webmaster would be illegal too. The Judge has basically declared the internet illegal.
So if I carry a couple of USB sticks in my pocket, they automatically all contain exactly the same files?
Can we stick to realistic scenarios please? I'm sure it won't be much use to me if I visit Mars either.
That, but also the lack of cables. If I always had exactly the right cables with me, 3cm wireless would be useless. But I don't, so it's usefull.
Really? I thought Norway and Finland were bigger. And I actually expected Germany, Netherland and Italy to also be bigger in metal, but that could be because I'm more at home in symphonic metal than death metal.
That has nothing to do with sharing. Sharing means it's the owner that does it. In this case it's the owner that shares his wifi access point and his internet connection. No one is forcing him to do that. The standard access protocol for wifi handles permission perfectly fine.
Not in Europe, anyway. It doesn't EU emision standards. I don't know about US emision standards, but I thought the ones in California were even stricter than the ones in the EU.
Or in Europe. In Netherland, it's legal to download everything except kiddie porn. It's only the distribution of copyrighted materials that's illegal. I'm not sure if that makes it illegal to download illegal files with bittorrent, which also allows immediate upload of the stuff you just downloaded.
In many countries, liberal == capitalist.
It depends on whether you're talking about economic liberalism (freedom if you can afford it), as Dutch conservative liberals do, or social liberalism (freedom also for those who can't afford it), which is more of a progressive left-wing thing.
I seem to recall a story where someone from Sony denied they were behind and claimed it was an even race. Now Toshiba denies losing. I really don't know who not to believe anymore.
Reverse-engineers, then. They don't create something themselves, they're analysing someone else's creation.
Could that be what biblical salvation, or the new heaven and the new earth refers to? Being ported to the final release version where all this buggy evil is fixed?
Then the gnashing of teeth comes from the poor sods who are then forever condemned to using this then abandoned and unsupported beta version.
Can you name a single exploit for Tidy?
Oh yes it is. It's rendering that's hard. For parsing it, there are tons of standard libraries. And using XHTML makes it especially easy.
That's a simple matter of using something akin to URLencode. Any halfway decent webframework should know how to proprly encode a URL. Something like
should become: which is harmless. If this is not trivial in your webframework, you're using the wrong webframework.You're right. I don't understand why this should be a problem. Tidy the tainted HTML, so you end up with clean, reliable XHTML.
So remove the bits of javascript. Script tags and event handlers are easy to find, and links can be cleaned up.
Exactly. So clean it up! Do not trust user input. Use Tidy or JTidy. It's really not hard to find. Hell, there's even a web-based version! This is all extremely standard stuff. Use it!
Excuse me, but what's so bad about that article? I hadn't seen it before, but everything it says is true. Using those complex, overwrought tables full of spacer.gifs is incredibly stupid. I'm afraid the oldest sites my employer hosts are built like that, and they're a pain to maintain. Modern designs that organise all the content in divs and use CSS to position them make everything a lot easier.
So? The web isn't a WYSIWYG medium anyway. The web is about content, and about presenting that content in a friendly manner. Tables make content subservient to layout, throws semantics out the window, and makes your content inaccessible to anyone who does not use your graphical representation to access the content.
Clear, semantic HTML + CSS is much more powerful than table layout.