Of course. However, imagine a popular long domain gets frequently cited on Slashdot. Over time, people see the domain in brackets and get accustomed to it and may click on the link without checking the status bar when rolling over the link. Keep in mind that many security flaws rely on human laziness and the fact that things aren't always checked. For domain previews in the square brackets, Slashdot will always show at least 10 characters. What's the harm in always showing the full domain name?
Interestingly enough, your post highlights a potential risk in the way Slashdot shortens the square bracket preview of long URLs. Example of what I mean
DerekLyons: "The phrase 'they aren't forced to work there' is moot when they have no other place to earn money so they can eat."
ThePhilips: "Though you didn't mention it, let me introduce the topic of civil war."
DerekLyons: "That has nothing to do with what I said."
ThePhilips: "I don't care that you never mentioned it because now I'm foaming at the mouth about civil wars. I'm going to presume that you're in favor of an invasion of China by the US/EU, you fucking moron? Who's your war bitch now?"
DerekLyons: "Uh, you're crazy."
ThePhilips: "Oh, so now you're a Satan worshipper? Why do you support killing babies with a dull can opener?"
DerekLyons: "..."
ThePhilips: "Too busy dumping toxic waste into the Pacific Ocean to respond? That just proves that you think babies should be soldiers in a US-led invasion of all the countries in Asia."
There's no such thing as an "economics geek"; nerds are scientists, engineers, programmers, designers. If your're only interested in money, you're not a geek or nerd.
I think it depends on the reason. An economics geek would be one who is fascinated by how the global financial marketplace works and loves learning about the interactions between the players in the market. If their sole motivation was money and they didn't care how things worked, I'd say you're correct that it wouldn't be a geek. I can think of people I'd consider art geeks or cooking geeks. Similarly, there are programmers who do it solely for the money and don't have any passion or particular interest in it. Those aren't geeks.
They do not need to be manufactured in the kind of quantities that require these working conditions to be profitable.
So Microsoft doubles the amount for the manufacturer's contract and says "give it to your employees". The Chinese manufacturer says "of course we will" then still hires teenage students, works them crazy hours, and pockets an even greater profit.
I made the argument a couple days ago that video codecs should not be directly supported in browsers. The market must be able to innovate, and by forcing specific technologies, the playing field is narrowed and users are ultimately hurt by such prescriptive actions.
So, the reason that you don't like this one unrelated innovation (browser video codec support) is that... there must be room to innovate? What are you talking about?
Sixth Sense also had the benefit that you didn't have to crush all the bones in your finger trying to apply sufficient force to get it to recognize tapping an object on the table. Seriously... check out from 0:50 in the video. Looks painful!
Sorry, but that distinction has long since been lost... if it was ever popular to begin with. These days we have good hackers and we have evil hackers.
More likely the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/TLA took a sampling of total users connected to a popular torrent and compared that to the total people downloading pirated material from BitTorrent and then extrapolated that to the entire US population to show that everyone's a pirate.
The biggest difference I see is that the German site has way more capitals. That aside, everything else looks on the surface (ie: when not actually trying to read anything) to follow the same general pattern. From a linguistics perspective, I don't doubt you're correct and many alterations have been introduced into each language as it diverged from a common root... but to an untrained eye scanning over the text of the sites above I'm not seeing a lot of variance.
It is possible to get more, but uncapped connections are completely unaffordable. I can't remember the numbers now, but I think it started somewhere around R1000/month for fairly low-speed ADSL, line rental not included.
For the benefit of others who, like me, had no clue: about $137 USD (source) plus whatever line rental costs are.
If it was a matter of these two excelling individuals not being paid enough, they should put MW & MW2 on their resumes and leave it behind them. If they are so talented, any game development firm will hire them on the spot for gainful employment...
You mean like what just happened including a cool one million dollar signing bonus, only without the "leaving it behind them" part?
"Dear ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I come before you today with the intent to prove that Microsoft Corporation is the only company available in our area with the capability to provide this operating system, and moreover, is required by federal law to provide this software as a purchasable product to the public."
It may only be $20/month, but I know PLENTY of families that can't risk that extra $$ on television each month, so therefore will just have to go without.
If their budget is that tight, why are they paying for television at all?
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However, I've wondered how long til someone uses a fraudulent card to do something vicious.
It probably took about three hours after Amazon's EC2 launch before someone used a stolen card to do something nasty.
Of course. However, imagine a popular long domain gets frequently cited on Slashdot. Over time, people see the domain in brackets and get accustomed to it and may click on the link without checking the status bar when rolling over the link. Keep in mind that many security flaws rely on human laziness and the fact that things aren't always checked. For domain previews in the square brackets, Slashdot will always show at least 10 characters. What's the harm in always showing the full domain name?
At least it's not like the Nicorette inhaler which looks like you're sucking on a tampon: http://www.nicorette.ca/stop-smoking/products/inhaler.aspx
Interestingly enough, your post highlights a potential risk in the way Slashdot shortens the square bracket preview of long URLs. Example of what I mean
To recap this conversation for other readers:
DerekLyons: "The phrase 'they aren't forced to work there' is moot when they have no other place to earn money so they can eat."
ThePhilips: "Though you didn't mention it, let me introduce the topic of civil war."
DerekLyons: "That has nothing to do with what I said."
ThePhilips: "I don't care that you never mentioned it because now I'm foaming at the mouth about civil wars. I'm going to presume that you're in favor of an invasion of China by the US/EU, you fucking moron? Who's your war bitch now?"
DerekLyons: "Uh, you're crazy."
ThePhilips: "Oh, so now you're a Satan worshipper? Why do you support killing babies with a dull can opener?"
DerekLyons: "..."
ThePhilips: "Too busy dumping toxic waste into the Pacific Ocean to respond? That just proves that you think babies should be soldiers in a US-led invasion of all the countries in Asia."
There's no such thing as an "economics geek"; nerds are scientists, engineers, programmers, designers. If your're only interested in money, you're not a geek or nerd.
I think it depends on the reason. An economics geek would be one who is fascinated by how the global financial marketplace works and loves learning about the interactions between the players in the market. If their sole motivation was money and they didn't care how things worked, I'd say you're correct that it wouldn't be a geek. I can think of people I'd consider art geeks or cooking geeks. Similarly, there are programmers who do it solely for the money and don't have any passion or particular interest in it. Those aren't geeks.
They do not need to be manufactured in the kind of quantities that require these working conditions to be profitable.
So Microsoft doubles the amount for the manufacturer's contract and says "give it to your employees". The Chinese manufacturer says "of course we will" then still hires teenage students, works them crazy hours, and pockets an even greater profit.
I made the argument a couple days ago that video codecs should not be directly supported in browsers. The market must be able to innovate, and by forcing specific technologies, the playing field is narrowed and users are ultimately hurt by such prescriptive actions.
So, the reason that you don't like this one unrelated innovation (browser video codec support) is that... there must be room to innovate? What are you talking about?
Wait, are you saying that guy made a bad analogy?
This is just a Flash video web transcoder...
And this article is also not much more than a press release.
Sixth Sense also had the benefit that you didn't have to crush all the bones in your finger trying to apply sufficient force to get it to recognize tapping an object on the table. Seriously... check out from 0:50 in the video. Looks painful!
He was implying no such thing.
Most serious Microsoft-oriented shops will do X =/=> All shops who do not do X are not both serious and Microsoft-oriented.
It does follow logically:
1. If (serious Microsoft shop) then (will upgrade to VS2010)
If you've studied logic, you know that given "If A then B" then it logically follows that "If (not B) then (not A)". Thus:
2. If (won't upgrade to VS2010) then (not a serious Microsoft shop)
Perhaps it wasn't meant to be read in an if/then format, but if you do read it that way then statements 1 and 2 are logically equivalent.
If you talk to most people about XSS issues, there's something hard-wired in our brains to shut them off after about
TL;DR
Sorry, but that distinction has long since been lost... if it was ever popular to begin with. These days we have good hackers and we have evil hackers.
More likely the RIAA/MPAA/BSA/TLA took a sampling of total users connected to a popular torrent and compared that to the total people downloading pirated material from BitTorrent and then extrapolated that to the entire US population to show that everyone's a pirate.
Is it sent by the department of accounting department? See meaning 1. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bill
Indeed, however I was jokingly referring to definition 5(a).
See also: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/whoosh and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
While you have valid points, in my mind the OP is for the most part correct. I tried visiting the following sites to get an impression of each:
http://news.google.com/
http://news.google.fr/
http://news.google.de/
http://news.google.es/
http://news.google.nl/
http://news.google.it/
http://news.google.es/
The biggest difference I see is that the German site has way more capitals. That aside, everything else looks on the surface (ie: when not actually trying to read anything) to follow the same general pattern. From a linguistics perspective, I don't doubt you're correct and many alterations have been introduced into each language as it diverged from a common root... but to an untrained eye scanning over the text of the sites above I'm not seeing a lot of variance.
It is possible to get more, but uncapped connections are completely unaffordable. I can't remember the numbers now, but I think it started somewhere around R1000/month for fairly low-speed ADSL, line rental not included.
For the benefit of others who, like me, had no clue: about $137 USD (source) plus whatever line rental costs are.
Then why my telecom is sending me a monthly fee?
Where do I sign up? Mine sends me a monthly bill.
A bill? Luxury. Mine sends me an invoice.
If it was a matter of these two excelling individuals not being paid enough, they should put MW & MW2 on their resumes and leave it behind them. If they are so talented, any game development firm will hire them on the spot for gainful employment...
You mean like what just happened including a cool one million dollar signing bonus, only without the "leaving it behind them" part?
Thanks to my sockpuppet account above for the hilarious tongue-in-cheek banter.
... after you buy the $25 book, that is. Anyone know if there's an open source "Ubuntu On a Dime on a Dime"?
I'm all of the above people... I just forgot to login.
"Dear ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I come before you today with the intent to prove that Microsoft Corporation is the only company available in our area with the capability to provide this operating system, and moreover, is required by federal law to provide this software as a purchasable product to the public."
It may only be $20/month, but I know PLENTY of families that can't risk that extra $$ on television each month, so therefore will just have to go without.
If their budget is that tight, why are they paying for television at all?
even the fans would have to stretch to defend the new policy. It's a fairly obvious dick move by Apple
Well that about explains goatse.