Fellow Slashdotters, nothing good can come of this. All Wu and her ally the OP wants is to harvest any comments that express disagreement with Wu, are less than nice, or that reference Wu's past bad behavior. She won't answer any real questions, much less hard ones. She will take all those harvested posts and tell everyone in the SJW-sphere that she was subjected to a "sexist hate campaign on a male-dominated tech site" or some such. Note that Wu has an incentive to get attention and be attacked, since this leads to Patreon bucks. She has no incentive to do anything to "help women in tech", since that won't get her any money.
But I've said too much - maybe my post will be evidence of "misogyny"! Oh well.
TLDR: Don't take this bait. If someone's Patreon is linked front and center, that should tell you everything you need to know about them.
... I help so many users that run one program full screen. I just sit back and shake my head as they constantly switch from one program to another instead of arranging the program windows to see everything they need at one time.
Power user for multiple decades here. I have a big monitor and I run all my apps fullscreen. I have for the last 15 years at least. I do this because whatever I'm looking at - code, shell output, web pages - I want to see as much of it on the screen as possible. Running things fullscreen also means window-management buttons, when I need them, are located at screen corners where they're easy to hit.
When I need to switch apps, I just alt-tab. It's super fast. If an efficient workflow that's different from yours pisses you off, I feel sorry for you.
I liked KDE when I first tried it in the late 90s, but never loved it. I've been living in Gnome since switching to Ubuntu in 2005 or 2006.
Whenever I try it after a hiatus, KDE always feels too visually busy. Little things seem to lack polish: the fonts, the stock clock app, things like that. The file manager is nice, but these days most file managers have a decent baseline level of functionality. (It's not the 90s anymore.) I also like some Gnome apps better: the system-monitor panel applet and terminal for example.
Unity and vanilla Gnome 3 are atrocious, but Gnome3 in the latest Ubuntu with the 'gnome-classic' session is basically Gnome2 with bug fixes. With two panels on the bottom (one with a window list, one with menus, app launchers, and widgets/panel applets) I have the familiarity of KDE (I can't stand the mac-style menubar-on-top layout) with the more-pleasing-to-me visuals of Gnome.
A coworker of mine gets stopped by TSA goons at T stations all the time. Every time, he politely and firmly tells them "I do not consent to a search". They don't let him on the train, so he just walks to the next T stop and gets on there. (It's very unlikely you'll be stopped at two consecutive stations.) He usually tells the goons he's doing this too, but they've never followed him or radioed ahead, despite often threatening to do so.
TLDR: Say "I don't consent to a search" and go to the next T stop. Optionally tell the goons how stupid there plan is, or don't; we don't need them smartening up.
Man, I hear you. I ran into the same problems with cert management and SSLSocketFactories a couple of times over the last 2.5 years in an app I work on. It's good to know it wasn't just me having this trouble.
The Sun solution of setting some global System properties seems insane. It vastly complicates one of my cases, where the client portion of app A that talks to the server portion of app A is embedded in app B. There are race conditions about setting the global properties, and on and on. We were only able to work around things with some fairly nasty hacks.
What I found was that the problem leads back to the implementation of the SAAJ library, which does the low-level SSL communications. The sun-supplied version of SAAJ - which is required by other libs we use, like the JAXWS reference implementation - requires setting JVM-wide properties. The Apache Axis version of SAAJ allows (fairly) easily setting up non-global SSLSocketFactories. Predictably, the two SAAJ impls are incompatible; and besides the SSL issue, Axis is a huge pain to use compared to JAXWS, so it seems you really can't win.
I think the Google lib is a good idea, generally. I made a quite similar set of classes for the apps I work on. It's simplified our use of crypto quite a bit, and got us to use crypto much more widely. It seems like a fairly straightforward application of the 80-20 rule.
Dude, practice a little more before you troll again. Do you really expect me to believe that you're both a jesus freak and you use words like "fucking"?
A lot of [pharmaceutical company CEOs] really are headed by well-meaning scientists who would like nothing better than to help the world.
Big Pharma wants nothing more than to help the world? Please. These are businesses we're talking about. Their objective is making money - only - and they'll do whatever makes the most money. You may or may not think there's anything wrong with this, but it's certainly at right angles to every notion of human morality. If the drug companies wanted to help the world over all else, they would give free AIDS drugs to all of Africa, no matter the cost.
If this was a troll, well played.
A related anecdote: Some friends of mine were arrested for public drunkenness in a small town on Cape Cod a couple of years ago. One of them wasn't actually drunk. In court, his lawyer asked for the surveillance tapes from the booking room at the police station to show him standing straight, not stumbling, and generally not looking drunk. The prosecutor said the cops removed the cameras after too many people got off or were hit with greatly reduced charges after juries saw the tapes.
When a bomb goes off somewhere, I want justice, but I also want an explanation. Who were the bombers? Why did they do it? If we need to interview their families to find out, so be it.
Being concerned with why things like terrorist attacks happen has nothing to do with guilting anyone into anything, and it certainly doesn't imply a lack of interest in fixing problems.
Yes, everyone should be given the tools to make themselves happy (whether stupid, sick handicapped, etc.), but an external force will NEVER be able to make someone happy.
I believe that the primary function of society is to give everyone an even chance. Beyond that, what you do with it is your own affair.
Dude, you just summed up the Green Party's ideals.
just don't claim that killing a 3 year old on a bus is a legimitate military target.
I certainly won't, and I hope you won't either. What do you think happened when an Israeli F16 shoots missiles into an apartment building in one of the most densely populated places on Earth? Innocents get turned into "legitimate military targets." Is the inevitable civilian carnage and misery, and the bus-bombers it creates, worth a couple dead possible Hamas supporters?
The leaders of the PA have to keep their population upset with Israli because they do not want their people to know how much money they have taken from them. With as much aid as the PA gets from the EU, USA and the UN it should be a much better place to live.
Dude, Yasser Arafat doesn't need to make the Palestinian people hate Israel. The Israeli bulldozers, tanks, and snipers probably do a good enough job of that.
I'm certainly no supporter of the current Palestinian government. But really, they're pretty irrelevant. For me, the real issue is the immense suffering visited on an occupied people by an occupying army - that's made possible by my tax dollars. (30 or 40 billion a year!)
And, don't you think that Israel would stop counter attacking if the PA would put a stop to the suicide bomb attacks against Israel?
No, I really don't. Aggressive settlement (in any other situation, we'd call it colonization) of the occupied lands has been a stated aim of the Israeli givernment for decades. Why would Israel stop building settlements if the occupied population suddenly became complacent? It would just make things easier. The settlements are just one example, but my argument applies more generally.
On the other hand, if the occupation was less brutal, if people's houses stopped being demolished, if soldiers stopped humiliating and murdering people for sport**, I think Hamas wouldn't be able to find a single recruit, and the violence would stop.
**I went to college with a guy who just finished a tour in Gaza. He told some pretty gruesome stories.
Insane? It's only as insane as the people who post there, which is a group with a fairly broad range of political views.
The neat thing about indymedia is that generally (there are some minor checks and balances), anyone can post anything. You get nutty posts like the first one, and everything else in between.
From reading your other posts, I get the feeling you're the sort of person who equates criticism of the Israeli government with anti-semetism, so I won't even address the second link you posted.
WHY DOES EVERY FUCKING GAME COME WITH COPY PROTECTION? WHY DOES EVERY FUCKING APP HAVE A SERIAL NUMBER? OF COURSE! COPY PROTECTION DOESNT WORK AT ALL. THATS WHY!
If you can show me one game or application where the copy "protection" stopped it from being cracked within a day, I'll show you 1000 where it didn't. Copy protection doesn't affect warez people at all. It only affects people who actually buy the software.
Punishment? Who's gettign punished? If the company folds, she still has a few hundred million dollars, and a whole bunch of people who need money to live are out of work.
First, I should say that I'm definately not pro-government across the board. However, this
Yay government. The lack of the private remedy is bad.
is a little naive. This law is a private solution! Businesses effectively wrote the law.
As long as there's money to be made spamming or selling anti-spam software, no 'private solution' will work. It's pretty sad, but I trust government more than big business.
Dude, the democrats aren't liberal. Even *if* those democrat-voting anchors make editorial decisions, the resulting bias would still be very conservative.
rewarding people based on intelligence and hard work
Actually, in America the strongest predictor of one's future earnings is how much money their parents have. Intelligence and hard work are much lower down the scale.
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You're not wrong, but there's no need to use the transphobic 'he'.
We don't actually know that she got sent the hard questions.
Well, we know she saw at least some of them, because she complained about them.
Note that in Brianna's circle, disagreement is "harassment" or being "toxic".
Fellow Slashdotters, nothing good can come of this. All Wu and her ally the OP wants is to harvest any comments that express disagreement with Wu, are less than nice, or that reference Wu's past bad behavior. She won't answer any real questions, much less hard ones. She will take all those harvested posts and tell everyone in the SJW-sphere that she was subjected to a "sexist hate campaign on a male-dominated tech site" or some such. Note that Wu has an incentive to get attention and be attacked, since this leads to Patreon bucks. She has no incentive to do anything to "help women in tech", since that won't get her any money.
But I've said too much - maybe my post will be evidence of "misogyny"! Oh well.
TLDR: Don't take this bait. If someone's Patreon is linked front and center, that should tell you everything you need to know about them.
... I help so many users that run one program full screen. I just sit back and shake my head as they constantly switch from one program to another instead of arranging the program windows to see everything they need at one time.
Power user for multiple decades here. I have a big monitor and I run all my apps fullscreen. I have for the last 15 years at least. I do this because whatever I'm looking at - code, shell output, web pages - I want to see as much of it on the screen as possible. Running things fullscreen also means window-management buttons, when I need them, are located at screen corners where they're easy to hit.
When I need to switch apps, I just alt-tab. It's super fast. If an efficient workflow that's different from yours pisses you off, I feel sorry for you.
I liked KDE when I first tried it in the late 90s, but never loved it. I've been living in Gnome since switching to Ubuntu in 2005 or 2006.
Whenever I try it after a hiatus, KDE always feels too visually busy. Little things seem to lack polish: the fonts, the stock clock app, things like that. The file manager is nice, but these days most file managers have a decent baseline level of functionality. (It's not the 90s anymore.) I also like some Gnome apps better: the system-monitor panel applet and terminal for example.
Unity and vanilla Gnome 3 are atrocious, but Gnome3 in the latest Ubuntu with the 'gnome-classic' session is basically Gnome2 with bug fixes. With two panels on the bottom (one with a window list, one with menus, app launchers, and widgets/panel applets) I have the familiarity of KDE (I can't stand the mac-style menubar-on-top layout) with the more-pleasing-to-me visuals of Gnome.
A coworker of mine gets stopped by TSA goons at T stations all the time. Every time, he politely and firmly tells them "I do not consent to a search". They don't let him on the train, so he just walks to the next T stop and gets on there. (It's very unlikely you'll be stopped at two consecutive stations.) He usually tells the goons he's doing this too, but they've never followed him or radioed ahead, despite often threatening to do so.
TLDR: Say "I don't consent to a search" and go to the next T stop. Optionally tell the goons how stupid there plan is, or don't; we don't need them smartening up.
Man, I hear you. I ran into the same problems with cert management and SSLSocketFactories a couple of times over the last 2.5 years in an app I work on. It's good to know it wasn't just me having this trouble.
The Sun solution of setting some global System properties seems insane. It vastly complicates one of my cases, where the client portion of app A that talks to the server portion of app A is embedded in app B. There are race conditions about setting the global properties, and on and on. We were only able to work around things with some fairly nasty hacks.
What I found was that the problem leads back to the implementation of the SAAJ library, which does the low-level SSL communications. The sun-supplied version of SAAJ - which is required by other libs we use, like the JAXWS reference implementation - requires setting JVM-wide properties. The Apache Axis version of SAAJ allows (fairly) easily setting up non-global SSLSocketFactories. Predictably, the two SAAJ impls are incompatible; and besides the SSL issue, Axis is a huge pain to use compared to JAXWS, so it seems you really can't win.
I think the Google lib is a good idea, generally. I made a quite similar set of classes for the apps I work on. It's simplified our use of crypto quite a bit, and got us to use crypto much more widely. It seems like a fairly straightforward application of the 80-20 rule.
Also AEGIS from Children's Hospital: http://aegis.chip.org/pages/software-main
Dude, practice a little more before you troll again. Do you really expect me to believe that you're both a jesus freak and you use words like "fucking"?
The problem is that most people consistently make bad choices.
A related anecdote: Some friends of mine were arrested for public drunkenness in a small town on Cape Cod a couple of years ago. One of them wasn't actually drunk. In court, his lawyer asked for the surveillance tapes from the booking room at the police station to show him standing straight, not stumbling, and generally not looking drunk. The prosecutor said the cops removed the cameras after too many people got off or were hit with greatly reduced charges after juries saw the tapes.
Seriously. There are sites where you can easily track what congressperson takes what money from whom.
When a bomb goes off somewhere, I want justice, but I also want an explanation. Who were the bombers? Why did they do it? If we need to interview their families to find out, so be it.
Being concerned with why things like terrorist attacks happen has nothing to do with guilting anyone into anything, and it certainly doesn't imply a lack of interest in fixing problems.
Yes, everyone should be given the tools to make themselves happy (whether stupid, sick handicapped, etc.), but an external force will NEVER be able to make someone happy.
I believe that the primary function of society is to give everyone an even chance. Beyond that, what you do with it is your own affair.
Dude, you just summed up the Green Party's ideals.
just don't claim that killing a 3 year old on a bus is a legimitate military target.
I certainly won't, and I hope you won't either. What do you think happened when an Israeli F16 shoots missiles into an apartment building in one of the most densely populated places on Earth? Innocents get turned into "legitimate military targets." Is the inevitable civilian carnage and misery, and the bus-bombers it creates, worth a couple dead possible Hamas supporters?
The leaders of the PA have to keep their population upset with Israli because they do not want their people to know how much money they have taken from them. With as much aid as the PA gets from the EU, USA and the UN it should be a much better place to live.
Dude, Yasser Arafat doesn't need to make the Palestinian people hate Israel. The Israeli bulldozers, tanks, and snipers probably do a good enough job of that.
I'm certainly no supporter of the current Palestinian government. But really, they're pretty irrelevant. For me, the real issue is the immense suffering visited on an occupied people by an occupying army - that's made possible by my tax dollars. (30 or 40 billion a year!)
And, don't you think that Israel would stop counter attacking if the PA would put a stop to the suicide bomb attacks against Israel?
No, I really don't. Aggressive settlement (in any other situation, we'd call it colonization) of the occupied lands has been a stated aim of the Israeli givernment for decades. Why would Israel stop building settlements if the occupied population suddenly became complacent? It would just make things easier. The settlements are just one example, but my argument applies more generally.
On the other hand, if the occupation was less brutal, if people's houses stopped being demolished, if soldiers stopped humiliating and murdering people for sport**, I think Hamas wouldn't be able to find a single recruit, and the violence would stop.
**I went to college with a guy who just finished a tour in Gaza. He told some pretty gruesome stories.
Insane? It's only as insane as the people who post there, which is a group with a fairly broad range of political views.
The neat thing about indymedia is that generally (there are some minor checks and balances), anyone can post anything. You get nutty posts like the first one, and everything else in between.
From reading your other posts, I get the feeling you're the sort of person who equates criticism of the Israeli government with anti-semetism, so I won't even address the second link you posted.
WHY DOES EVERY FUCKING GAME COME WITH COPY PROTECTION? WHY DOES EVERY FUCKING APP HAVE A SERIAL NUMBER? OF COURSE! COPY PROTECTION DOESNT WORK AT ALL. THATS WHY!
If you can show me one game or application where the copy "protection" stopped it from being cracked within a day, I'll show you 1000 where it didn't. Copy protection doesn't affect warez people at all. It only affects people who actually buy the software.
hotttness
What happens when the orders you and your superiors are given aren't intended to further the cause of democracy at home or abroad?
How is getting the military involved in space exploration a good thing? The world needs fewer weapons, not more, especially in space.
Punishment? Who's gettign punished? If the company folds, she still has a few hundred million dollars, and a whole bunch of people who need money to live are out of work.
Dude, the democrats aren't liberal. Even *if* those democrat-voting anchors make editorial decisions, the resulting bias would still be very conservative.
rewarding people based on intelligence and hard work
Actually, in America the strongest predictor of one's future earnings is how much money their parents have. Intelligence and hard work are much lower down the scale.