Slashdot started not letting me post for a while because I ran a Tor node. It took a couple E-mails back and forth after I'd shut it down to be able to post on Slashdot again.
Caching resolver, not server. Anyhow, why on earth would you do such a thing? The only reason to use Google's resolver is to save yourself the effort of configuring your own. Once you've installed the software, you may as well let it do the work.
I run dnscache on every PC I have or administer that isn't stuck on Windows.
Oooh, that sounds like the land of the free. Sarcasm about the American anthem aside, when are the residents of the home of the brave going to act the part and stand up to these egregious intrusions into their homes and minds?
Imagine for a moment the reaction if the government were trying to get libraries a century ago to keep data on all the books and periodicals looked at by citizens so that law enforcement could come down on the interests they dislike faster and easier. I'm quite certain even today that librarians would react with hostility where ISPs have not.
This has nothing to do with Google, and everything to do with growing up with traditional media.
I'm sick and tired of watching a TV show and having to watch ads for feminine hygiene products because they think that's the target market for the show I enjoy. I have no problem watching (and often enjoy) ads for products I actually use or like.
Like the GP I suspect, I'd much rather see advertising on websites that is relevant to my needs and caters to my interests than advertising that doesn't, given only those two options.
After Fox News won their argument in Florida establishing there was no need for them to report only the truth or facts, I see lots of room for regulation.
You feel free to believe that a free market can self-regulate, but don't put the media under that umbrella. We all know what sells, what makes money, and its not good unbiased reporting with lots of research and fact checking. Those things were only ever done on the basis of personal or imposed integrity, a sense of honour that seems to be mostly lost.
There's no reason they can't bind the shortcuts for their internal apps to IE6 and not allow it to access the rest of the Internet either, then using Firefox or another modern browser to connect to the Internet.
I don't see how it suggests anything of the sort really. What I saw was that Steve Jobs came back to Apple and got rid of all the projects associated with certain people he disliked in the company. In fact, at the time, Newton was its own company and he first brought it back into Apple and then canned the project to be vindictive IMHO.
Palm was a software company who made graffiti for the Newton long before they ever made hardware, and a significant number of their engineers were brought over from Apple after the sudden vapourizing of the Newton project.
Most Newton users never migrated to Palm, at least not for long, because they'd used something better and couldn't go down so many rungs and be happy. I had hopes for Symbian at the time but I don't think they ever saw anything but the business market clearly.
Nope, still in yours. There's nothing stopping anyone from saying anything they like for any reason they like, but you've made a claim, I didn't.
The one who makes the claim gets to provide the proof.
You claimed there is no God. I made no claims that need justification at all.
To explain this to you by way of example, next time you feel the need to mouth off that there "is no God", you could just respond to the OP requesting why they believe there is one and not be stuck in this logical fallacy.
You never used a Newton, did you? I have netbooks, I have an Android phone, and I have two Newtons.
I can still demonstrate things that are easier to do on the Newton than on a tablet, notebook, iphone, etc. Some of them aren't even possible except on a Newton.
I passed mine around in class as a way of sharing notes. The girls loved drawing little pictures on fresh notes and passing it back to me. They all learned to draw a long horizontal line to start a new note. I still have all of those notes, in both my Newtons, as well as my actual notes from school.
I own two Newtons. Both fit in my jeans pocket, even if they are much larger than my Android phone, or an iPhone. Of course, the first is an original Newton from 1994.
The Newton was innovative. It could do fascinating things with very low power requirements on a very legible screen, and most of the things it could do well the iPhone still doesn't do. "Assist" alone was an excellent feature that many people never saw in action. For example, you're on a blank notes page and you type "Remember Brian's birthday on wednesday" and tap assist. Your calendar pops up on the next Wednesday starting from tomorrow and puts a reminder up "Brian's birthday".
Simple enough? Sure. Easier than scrolling, tapping and creating the memo yourself? Definitely.
I brought my Newton along to a major event around the time Microsoft was pushing their tablets and I showed it to the Microsoft evangelist who was trying to convince me the tablet was amazing. I showed him shape recognition and started doing diagrams on the screen at full speed. He was a little shocked, especially when I pointed out (again) that it was over ten years old.
People have even written driver interfaces for the Newton to allow the use of huge flash memory drives to use it as an MP3 player. Do I wish Apple would bring it back? Maybe not the way it was, but I was one of many who hoped the iPhone would be at least as capable as the Newton was. And yes, it had E-mail support, but no browser built-in.
I'm no iPhone fan, but now you're claiming Linux isn't a multitasking OS. Linux also (optionally) kills apps just because of memory needs, the infamous OOM killer.
Android also kills background apps because of memory pressure, and does a miserable job of it sometimes but that's fixable. Its also Linux.
I didn't say God did or didn't do anything (in this thread), all I implied was that your comment is inane.
You can't prove God had nothing to do with it, so don't say it. Say what you can prove, or what you suspect, or humbly admit that what you stated was an opinion based on your own experience.
Stating that God doesn't exist is not hard science, you may as well claim he does -- you'll sound just as ridiculous either way from a scientific perspective.
Just because claiming God doesn't exist is popular, what with some high profile anti-God evangelists selling a bunch of books doesn't make the claim any less ludicrous.
I'm quite certain those on Slashdot or even my close friends and relatives with Masters and PhDs in everything from computer mathematics to microbiology are very impressed with your BS.
To summarize my point again: making an unprovable claim is the opposite of science, whether its saying God does or does not exist. Quit claiming it either way if you want to make a scientific point.
LMAO -- I know what I'm talking about, and plenty of people with a lot more credentials than you agree with me.
You didn't post citations in the replies I originally commented on, so quit rambling.
Your knowledge of home theatre systems (and the ability to read a date stamp on my website) are laughable. CRT HDTVs have much better blackness than Plasma, always did, always will. 700 watts is not a measurement of performance; my receiver alone puts out less than 0.08% THD at 85W per channel which provides deafening levels of crystal-clear audio.
We call what you just wrote foot in mouth disease.
Re-read your own original post, you made no distinction, you claimed security issues, and you never justified any of the points you made with any citations, so it certainly would seem you misunderstood how cookies can and are used properly and securely.
If in fact you do understand them and wrote the prior post anyway, then you simply have communications issues and don't understand how to make the necessary distinctions in your own logic to argue properly.
Secondly: you made his point, alanstr claimed science showed up in (popular) media, and you said the show got the idea from science; precisely the point he was making: fail.
If you mounted a nice little fibre-optic receivers on your clothing you could even see behind you or in various direction with your eyes open or closed.
We could all remember to throw in (or someone) after God, and perhaps (evolved|were desgined) when necessary, to cater to all audiences, except that Christians don't regularly rant on Slashdot about people who throw 'evolved' into their sentences the way idiots who don't actually understand science parade against the use of the words God or designed.
That is to say, before he started raving like one of the religious lunatics he claims to be so dead set against? I often find it subtly ironic that his arguing style sounds much more like that of an Evangelical preacher than of a scientist.
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Slashdot started not letting me post for a while because I ran a Tor node. It took a couple E-mails back and forth after I'd shut it down to be able to post on Slashdot again.
Caching resolver, not server. Anyhow, why on earth would you do such a thing? The only reason to use Google's resolver is to save yourself the effort of configuring your own. Once you've installed the software, you may as well let it do the work.
I run dnscache on every PC I have or administer that isn't stuck on Windows.
Oooh, that sounds like the land of the free. Sarcasm about the American anthem aside, when are the residents of the home of the brave going to act the part and stand up to these egregious intrusions into their homes and minds?
Imagine for a moment the reaction if the government were trying to get libraries a century ago to keep data on all the books and periodicals looked at by citizens so that law enforcement could come down on the interests they dislike faster and easier. I'm quite certain even today that librarians would react with hostility where ISPs have not.
This has nothing to do with Google, and everything to do with growing up with traditional media.
I'm sick and tired of watching a TV show and having to watch ads for feminine hygiene products because they think that's the target market for the show I enjoy. I have no problem watching (and often enjoy) ads for products I actually use or like.
Like the GP I suspect, I'd much rather see advertising on websites that is relevant to my needs and caters to my interests than advertising that doesn't, given only those two options.
After Fox News won their argument in Florida establishing there was no need for them to report only the truth or facts, I see lots of room for regulation.
You feel free to believe that a free market can self-regulate, but don't put the media under that umbrella. We all know what sells, what makes money, and its not good unbiased reporting with lots of research and fact checking. Those things were only ever done on the basis of personal or imposed integrity, a sense of honour that seems to be mostly lost.
There's no reason they can't bind the shortcuts for their internal apps to IE6 and not allow it to access the rest of the Internet either, then using Firefox or another modern browser to connect to the Internet.
I don't see how it suggests anything of the sort really. What I saw was that Steve Jobs came back to Apple and got rid of all the projects associated with certain people he disliked in the company. In fact, at the time, Newton was its own company and he first brought it back into Apple and then canned the project to be vindictive IMHO.
Palm was a software company who made graffiti for the Newton long before they ever made hardware, and a significant number of their engineers were brought over from Apple after the sudden vapourizing of the Newton project.
Most Newton users never migrated to Palm, at least not for long, because they'd used something better and couldn't go down so many rungs and be happy. I had hopes for Symbian at the time but I don't think they ever saw anything but the business market clearly.
Nope, still in yours. There's nothing stopping anyone from saying anything they like for any reason they like, but you've made a claim, I didn't.
The one who makes the claim gets to provide the proof.
You claimed there is no God. I made no claims that need justification at all.
To explain this to you by way of example, next time you feel the need to mouth off that there "is no God", you could just respond to the OP requesting why they believe there is one and not be stuck in this logical fallacy.
PS I wasn't the OP.
You never used a Newton, did you? I have netbooks, I have an Android phone, and I have two Newtons.
I can still demonstrate things that are easier to do on the Newton than on a tablet, notebook, iphone, etc. Some of them aren't even possible except on a Newton.
I passed mine around in class as a way of sharing notes. The girls loved drawing little pictures on fresh notes and passing it back to me. They all learned to draw a long horizontal line to start a new note. I still have all of those notes, in both my Newtons, as well as my actual notes from school.
I own two Newtons. Both fit in my jeans pocket, even if they are much larger than my Android phone, or an iPhone. Of course, the first is an original Newton from 1994.
The Newton was innovative. It could do fascinating things with very low power requirements on a very legible screen, and most of the things it could do well the iPhone still doesn't do. "Assist" alone was an excellent feature that many people never saw in action. For example, you're on a blank notes page and you type "Remember Brian's birthday on wednesday" and tap assist. Your calendar pops up on the next Wednesday starting from tomorrow and puts a reminder up "Brian's birthday".
Simple enough? Sure. Easier than scrolling, tapping and creating the memo yourself? Definitely.
I brought my Newton along to a major event around the time Microsoft was pushing their tablets and I showed it to the Microsoft evangelist who was trying to convince me the tablet was amazing. I showed him shape recognition and started doing diagrams on the screen at full speed. He was a little shocked, especially when I pointed out (again) that it was over ten years old.
People have even written driver interfaces for the Newton to allow the use of huge flash memory drives to use it as an MP3 player. Do I wish Apple would bring it back? Maybe not the way it was, but I was one of many who hoped the iPhone would be at least as capable as the Newton was. And yes, it had E-mail support, but no browser built-in.
I think you're looking for this. Not all browsing is done from smartphones.
I'm no iPhone fan, but now you're claiming Linux isn't a multitasking OS. Linux also (optionally) kills apps just because of memory needs, the infamous OOM killer.
Android also kills background apps because of memory pressure, and does a miserable job of it sometimes but that's fixable. Its also Linux.
You're the one making claims, not me.
I didn't say God did or didn't do anything (in this thread), all I implied was that your comment is inane.
You can't prove God had nothing to do with it, so don't say it. Say what you can prove, or what you suspect, or humbly admit that what you stated was an opinion based on your own experience.
Stating that God doesn't exist is not hard science, you may as well claim he does -- you'll sound just as ridiculous either way from a scientific perspective.
Just because claiming God doesn't exist is popular, what with some high profile anti-God evangelists selling a bunch of books doesn't make the claim any less ludicrous.
I'm quite certain those on Slashdot or even my close friends and relatives with Masters and PhDs in everything from computer mathematics to microbiology are very impressed with your BS.
To summarize my point again: making an unprovable claim is the opposite of science, whether its saying God does or does not exist. Quit claiming it either way if you want to make a scientific point.
LMAO -- I know what I'm talking about, and plenty of people with a lot more credentials than you agree with me.
You didn't post citations in the replies I originally commented on, so quit rambling.
Your knowledge of home theatre systems (and the ability to read a date stamp on my website) are laughable. CRT HDTVs have much better blackness than Plasma, always did, always will. 700 watts is not a measurement of performance; my receiver alone puts out less than 0.08% THD at 85W per channel which provides deafening levels of crystal-clear audio.
You might want to get off your bandwagon now.
I've used mininova for a long time, they were a great site for finding TV episodes I'd missed.
Luckily the RIAA/MPAA think the way you do.
I've connected to at least fifty trackers in the last few months, and I doubt I've connected to all of them.
We call what you just wrote foot in mouth disease.
Re-read your own original post, you made no distinction, you claimed security issues, and you never justified any of the points you made with any citations, so it certainly would seem you misunderstood how cookies can and are used properly and securely.
If in fact you do understand them and wrote the prior post anyway, then you simply have communications issues and don't understand how to make the necessary distinctions in your own logic to argue properly.
I had a dentist say something similar about using antimicrobial mouthwash too often.
Wow, way to miss a point :-)
First off, going off on a fictional show: fail.
Secondly: you made his point, alanstr claimed science showed up in (popular) media, and you said the show got the idea from science; precisely the point he was making: fail.
Have a nice fail.
If you mounted a nice little fibre-optic receivers on your clothing you could even see behind you or in various direction with your eyes open or closed.
We could all remember to throw in (or someone) after God, and perhaps (evolved|were desgined) when necessary, to cater to all audiences, except that Christians don't regularly rant on Slashdot about people who throw 'evolved' into their sentences the way idiots who don't actually understand science parade against the use of the words God or designed.
LMAO, I've always wanted to meet someone who was there and could prove it, how do you do?
Get off your freakin horse.
That is to say, before he started raving like one of the religious lunatics he claims to be so dead set against? I often find it subtly ironic that his arguing style sounds much more like that of an Evangelical preacher than of a scientist.