After RTFAing, I found myself with the impression that the magazine was quite happy to take money for ads until their subscribers started threatening to cancel their subscriptions. Yes, I know ad revenue is bigger than subscriptions, but if enough people cancel, you don't have a magazine any more.
Besides, when's the last time an average person has read a book?
I've spoken to people who have bragged that they've never read a book since they graduated from High School. I also have a friend who's severely dyslexic, but reads more books than most people every year, because he doesn't let his dyslexia stop him. Not only does he read, he reads science-fiction, mostly, and is proud when he can finish a book in under a week and comprehend it. For him, that's a major achievement. What really gets me is all those people who are quite capable of reading, but simply won't. I've taken to call them "pseudo-literate," because they can pass a literary test, but refuse to use that skill, even when they'd profit by it.
I don't know about the clothing, but Einstein was a pipe smoker. I did read once, a story about him taking apart some cigarettes to use the tobacco in his pipe, but I can assure you the experiment didn't turn out well. I can't picture him ever scrounging butts off the street to resmoke, even if he'd been a cigarette smoker. It just doesn't sound like him.
I'm a software tech support geek. The people I deal with use Windows. Unless I used it, I wouldn't be able to help them very much. Instead of refusing to use it, I've turned myself into a specialist in Windows internals, so I can talk my customers through undoing the damage Windows has done to itself without either uninstalling/reinstalling the software or reinstalling Windows.
Geeks do use Windows, when their job needs it, or they need to use a program that only exists for Windows. Geeks don't, however, think Windows is the be-all/end-all of computing.
Now, I'm not advocating that merging all TLDs would be a good idea, because there would certainly be a performance hit. However, my point is that there is nothing in DNS, per se, that would prohibit such a merge. If you think otherwise, I'd like to hear it.
OK, I can agree with that. I do think the perfomrance hit would be worse than you think, but that's just quibbling about the details.
I take it you don't know how DNS is resolved. When you ask your DNS servers for the IP of a machine and it's not in their own files, they ask the root server for that TLD. That TLD root server gives them the IP address of the authoritative servers for that domain, and the request goes to them next. Now, imagine what it would be like with no TLD. Every root server would have to know who gives authoritative ansers for every domain in the world. Imagine the size of the database, the time and computing power needed to search it, in parallel, hundreds, if not thousands of times per second. Imagine the delays on response. Imagine millions of people complaining about the lag. Having the root servers only carry one TLD each spreads this around enough to keep things under control.
I take it you have no idea how DNS works. Without TLDs, we'd have to come up with an entirely new way to resolve DNS, and I very much doubt it'd be as quick or as reliable as what we have now.
The right to privacy is a post-war interpolation from the set of Constitutional rights. It was hardly a consideration before single-family households became common beyond the elite classes consequent to industrialisation.
Both the concept of privacy and the right to it go back much farther than you believe. As a simple example, do you think the inhabitants of a Roman insula (Equivalent to a modern apartment house.) had a communal lifestyle? No, of course they didn't, any more than renters in a modern apartment complex do today, and for the same reason. Each family has their own private space, and what they do there is nobody else's business. I suggest you study at least a little history before you start sounding off about it again, lest you put your other foot into your mouth.
Democracy to me does not mean freedom -- democracy means insanity of the masses to agree to perform a basic action against the will of another mass or individual.
That may be what it means to you, but I doubt you'd find a dictionary that agreed with you. Changing your definitions to prop up your arguments is just another way of weasling out of admiting you were wrong in the first place. I've spent some time reading your various posts in this discussion, and come away with the impression that you have a mind like a steel trap; rusted shut from disuse.
As I remember, the attack on Okinawa was set for "T Day." Partially to avoid confusion, partially in hope they'd hit the jackpot again as far as the home front was concerned. No more of a nitpick than yours, just a trivia.
BTW, D Day and H Hour can be traced back to WW I, and was first used (so far as is known) in one of the American offensives. Don't remember off hand which one, and my source isn't available right now.
Nobody owns them, anymore than anybody owns the fact that D Day was June 6, 1944 or that General Lee lost the Battle of Gettysburg. Not only shouldn't MLB have the right to prevent the fantasy league from using them, the league should demand that MLB refund all the money they've ever collected for them.
Just about everybody clicks on it once, simply because they've never heard of it. Now, let's say I give you a link to SomeRandomSite, nobody's going to know what it is without checking it out.
How long do the authors think it takes the average web-surfer to see that a page doesn't have anything they're looking for, is filled with banner adds or was laid out with an ugly-stick? 50 ms? Less?
I think it's more like invisible strands of spaghetti.
You may be right. If so, that spaghetti is flying around the universe. Now, all we need to do is prove it's affecting evolution, and we've proven that His Noodleyness exists.
If you think a tinfoil-hatter is going to refuse all cookies, but still allow this sort of Javascript web bug I think you've vastly underestimated the power of paranoia.
I wasn't thinking so much in terms of paranoia as half-understood outdated info. Back about ten years ago or so, any site could read all your cookies, allowing you to be tracked from site to site. Many people started rejecting all cookies at that time, and tried to teach their friends to do the same. Once that problem was cleared up, most people relaxed. However, I've run across many folks on the net who either learned back then that "All Cookies are Bad." or had that meme passed on by a friend and never learned better. Those are the ones I had in mind.
And yes, I agree with you that a True-blue Paranoid Tinfoil Hatter will have javascript turned off. I remember back when I did tech support getting several calls from one of these guys. He was certain that his building manager slipped in and changed his Internet Settings to keep him off-line and that "they" were packet sniffing his phone line. He even claimed, once, that somebody had hung a dead chicken on the fence as part of an attempt to use voodoo on him. When I asked him why he didn't report this to the authorities, he told me that he'd tried, but they'd stopped returning his calls or listening to him. The weird thing is, except for that, he was a really nice guy, and a pleasure to work with.
Blocking specific sites for specific reasons is Not A Problem. Blocking all cookies because you're afraid of them just makes life more difficult for you. My ISP has a personalized start page. Instead of having you log in every time you go there, it sets a few cookies. One of them contains the login data, another points to a record in a database that contains your preferences. If you block all cookies, all you'll ever get is the generic start page, and a request to log in if you want your personalized one. (Of course, you don't have to use their page if you don't want to.)
You assume he's guilty of everyting you accuse him of because he probably is guilty of some of it.
No, Parent Poster isn't assuming anything of the kind. The post was listing things the perp had either admitted, or had been found guilty of in a court of law. Your "Insightful" comments are just quibbling.
Assumption. You say he 'is' guilty when all we've done is to find him guilty relative to the law.
What other way is there to measure guilt? Guilt is not an absolute. As an example, a number of the Watergate crowd were found guilty of Conspiricy. In a number of European nations, they'd not have been guilty of anything, because those countries have no laws against conspiricy.
The last company I worked for deserved revenge, although I didn't stoop to taking it. Not because they let me go, or for how (or why) they did. They deserved it because of some of the features of their products, and their insanely micromanaging style. No tech could send out a repairman without permission from their manager; the manager had to get permission from some other manager or tech. If a repairman were on the line, you couldn't end the call without consulting. I once made a note that a caller had asked for a stupid change to the softwware, "...but that wasn't going to happen." There was an angry letter from the CEO objecting to that, and not accepting my statement that I'd never said that. It took a manager's statement that he'd heard me enough on the phone to believe that I'd not said it before it died down. I may not have a job there, but I still have my self-respect.
And you can't build this sort of page view history on a per user basis yourself using a cookie and a tracking database?
Not as long as the tinfoil hat brigade thinks that all cookies are evil and blocks them. You need something that's outside the user's control to make sure you get the info you need from every visitor, not just those with enough sense not to block session cookies.
I've been using Flashblock for quite some time now, and it's great. I've also noticed some odd things, lately. Sometimes, I'll click on some Flash to see what it is and get a static image consisting of nothing but text. There's no reason in the world to use Flash to display text like that, except that some ID10T decided to waste bandwidth on it because it could. Second, on a few sites, I click on the Flash icon and it goes away, leaving nothing. Refresh gets back the icon, but it's a case of lather, rinse, repeat. Don't know why it happens, but it does.
Nice thought, and if we'd been runing on Unix/Linux instead of Win2K, it might have been possible. If, of course, I had the privileges to add a chron job, which I didn't as that wasn't part of my responsibility.
The best security policy - although it seems cruel - is to escort someone out of the building immediately after receiving their resignation, or informing them that they are being terminated - and simultaneously disable their tokens, badges, RFID devices, company credit cards, voicemail accounts.
Although I've never liked losing a job, I'd rather have that done than be allowed to wander out on my own. This way I have a witness that can testify that any damage done after I was terminated isn't my fault.
Last time I was let go, I told my manager that I was logged in and asked him to come over to my desk and log me out because I didn't even want to touch that computer again. He told me that he trusted me not to do anything foolish, but I still had him watch me log out, just to be safe.
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After RTFAing, I found myself with the impression that the magazine was quite happy to take money for ads until their subscribers started threatening to cancel their subscriptions. Yes, I know ad revenue is bigger than subscriptions, but if enough people cancel, you don't have a magazine any more.
I've spoken to people who have bragged that they've never read a book since they graduated from High School. I also have a friend who's severely dyslexic, but reads more books than most people every year, because he doesn't let his dyslexia stop him. Not only does he read, he reads science-fiction, mostly, and is proud when he can finish a book in under a week and comprehend it. For him, that's a major achievement. What really gets me is all those people who are quite capable of reading, but simply won't. I've taken to call them "pseudo-literate," because they can pass a literary test, but refuse to use that skill, even when they'd profit by it.
I don't know about the clothing, but Einstein was a pipe smoker. I did read once, a story about him taking apart some cigarettes to use the tobacco in his pipe, but I can assure you the experiment didn't turn out well. I can't picture him ever scrounging butts off the street to resmoke, even if he'd been a cigarette smoker. It just doesn't sound like him.
I'm a software tech support geek. The people I deal with use Windows. Unless I used it, I wouldn't be able to help them very much. Instead of refusing to use it, I've turned myself into a specialist in Windows internals, so I can talk my customers through undoing the damage Windows has done to itself without either uninstalling/reinstalling the software or reinstalling Windows.
Geeks do use Windows, when their job needs it, or they need to use a program that only exists for Windows. Geeks don't, however, think Windows is the be-all/end-all of computing.
OK, I can agree with that. I do think the perfomrance hit would be worse than you think, but that's just quibbling about the details.
I take it you don't know how DNS is resolved. When you ask your DNS servers for the IP of a machine and it's not in their own files, they ask the root server for that TLD. That TLD root server gives them the IP address of the authoritative servers for that domain, and the request goes to them next. Now, imagine what it would be like with no TLD. Every root server would have to know who gives authoritative ansers for every domain in the world. Imagine the size of the database, the time and computing power needed to search it, in parallel, hundreds, if not thousands of times per second. Imagine the delays on response. Imagine millions of people complaining about the lag. Having the root servers only carry one TLD each spreads this around enough to keep things under control.
I take it you have no idea how DNS works. Without TLDs, we'd have to come up with an entirely new way to resolve DNS, and I very much doubt it'd be as quick or as reliable as what we have now.
In the Soviet Union, Roland Piquepaille complained about you!
Both the concept of privacy and the right to it go back much farther than you believe. As a simple example, do you think the inhabitants of a Roman insula (Equivalent to a modern apartment house.) had a communal lifestyle? No, of course they didn't, any more than renters in a modern apartment complex do today, and for the same reason. Each family has their own private space, and what they do there is nobody else's business. I suggest you study at least a little history before you start sounding off about it again, lest you put your other foot into your mouth.
That may be what it means to you, but I doubt you'd find a dictionary that agreed with you. Changing your definitions to prop up your arguments is just another way of weasling out of admiting you were wrong in the first place. I've spent some time reading your various posts in this discussion, and come away with the impression that you have a mind like a steel trap; rusted shut from disuse.
BTW, D Day and H Hour can be traced back to WW I, and was first used (so far as is known) in one of the American offensives. Don't remember off hand which one, and my source isn't available right now.
Nobody owns them, anymore than anybody owns the fact that D Day was June 6, 1944 or that General Lee lost the Battle of Gettysburg. Not only shouldn't MLB have the right to prevent the fantasy league from using them, the league should demand that MLB refund all the money they've ever collected for them.
Just about everybody clicks on it once, simply because they've never heard of it. Now, let's say I give you a link to SomeRandomSite, nobody's going to know what it is without checking it out.
How long do the authors think it takes the average web-surfer to see that a page doesn't have anything they're looking for, is filled with banner adds or was laid out with an ugly-stick? 50 ms? Less?
You may be right. If so, that spaghetti is flying around the universe. Now, all we need to do is prove it's affecting evolution, and we've proven that His Noodleyness exists.
I wasn't thinking so much in terms of paranoia as half-understood outdated info. Back about ten years ago or so, any site could read all your cookies, allowing you to be tracked from site to site. Many people started rejecting all cookies at that time, and tried to teach their friends to do the same. Once that problem was cleared up, most people relaxed. However, I've run across many folks on the net who either learned back then that "All Cookies are Bad." or had that meme passed on by a friend and never learned better. Those are the ones I had in mind.
And yes, I agree with you that a True-blue Paranoid Tinfoil Hatter will have javascript turned off. I remember back when I did tech support getting several calls from one of these guys. He was certain that his building manager slipped in and changed his Internet Settings to keep him off-line and that "they" were packet sniffing his phone line. He even claimed, once, that somebody had hung a dead chicken on the fence as part of an attempt to use voodoo on him. When I asked him why he didn't report this to the authorities, he told me that he'd tried, but they'd stopped returning his calls or listening to him. The weird thing is, except for that, he was a really nice guy, and a pleasure to work with.
Blocking specific sites for specific reasons is Not A Problem. Blocking all cookies because you're afraid of them just makes life more difficult for you. My ISP has a personalized start page. Instead of having you log in every time you go there, it sets a few cookies. One of them contains the login data, another points to a record in a database that contains your preferences. If you block all cookies, all you'll ever get is the generic start page, and a request to log in if you want your personalized one. (Of course, you don't have to use their page if you don't want to.)
No, Parent Poster isn't assuming anything of the kind. The post was listing things the perp had either admitted, or had been found guilty of in a court of law. Your "Insightful" comments are just quibbling.
What other way is there to measure guilt? Guilt is not an absolute. As an example, a number of the Watergate crowd were found guilty of Conspiricy. In a number of European nations, they'd not have been guilty of anything, because those countries have no laws against conspiricy.
What was lacking, more than anything else was Administrator access to do anything worth doing.
The last company I worked for deserved revenge, although I didn't stoop to taking it. Not because they let me go, or for how (or why) they did. They deserved it because of some of the features of their products, and their insanely micromanaging style. No tech could send out a repairman without permission from their manager; the manager had to get permission from some other manager or tech. If a repairman were on the line, you couldn't end the call without consulting. I once made a note that a caller had asked for a stupid change to the softwware, "...but that wasn't going to happen." There was an angry letter from the CEO objecting to that, and not accepting my statement that I'd never said that. It took a manager's statement that he'd heard me enough on the phone to believe that I'd not said it before it died down. I may not have a job there, but I still have my self-respect.
Not as long as the tinfoil hat brigade thinks that all cookies are evil and blocks them. You need something that's outside the user's control to make sure you get the info you need from every visitor, not just those with enough sense not to block session cookies.
I've been using Flashblock for quite some time now, and it's great. I've also noticed some odd things, lately. Sometimes, I'll click on some Flash to see what it is and get a static image consisting of nothing but text. There's no reason in the world to use Flash to display text like that, except that some ID10T decided to waste bandwidth on it because it could. Second, on a few sites, I click on the Flash icon and it goes away, leaving nothing. Refresh gets back the icon, but it's a case of lather, rinse, repeat. Don't know why it happens, but it does.
Nice thought, and if we'd been runing on Unix/Linux instead of Win2K, it might have been possible. If, of course, I had the privileges to add a chron job, which I didn't as that wasn't part of my responsibility.
Although I've never liked losing a job, I'd rather have that done than be allowed to wander out on my own. This way I have a witness that can testify that any damage done after I was terminated isn't my fault.
Last time I was let go, I told my manager that I was logged in and asked him to come over to my desk and log me out because I didn't even want to touch that computer again. He told me that he trusted me not to do anything foolish, but I still had him watch me log out, just to be safe.