Indeed, the schoolboy slang I used had "siffy" (from "syphilis") as somewhere between "disgusting", "contaminated" and "unclean". Modern slang along those lines would be "minging" (UK) or "gross" (US).
It isn't. firefox makes it quite visible when it next starts up.
how long will it take until someone finds a way to send you one via Exchange?
This one is installed when you.. gasp.. run an installer. if you are running a random exe that exchange sent you, you already have problems that go well beyond firefox addins. like silent keyloggers and stuff.
Firefox needs to validate its add-ons and make sure the list can't be manipulated without user interaction.
Will this affect the date of Singularity? Is Obama pro-singularity?
President Obama: "We will build the... digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders..."
You also have integration and systems testing as well, which your link blatantly ignores.
Yes, those links ignore a lot of things, but that doesn't make those things bad and wrong. They are just less important if you have good tests upfront, and run them before you commit (and after as a CI build).
I cannot conceive of a scenario where... a centralized VCS like svn may be a better option.
Try any commercial development shop, with 2-10 coders working on the same code. The version control is on a server which does CI and release builds, is backed up, etc. Try a typical open source project - one guy maintaining the code, and 2-10 people submitting the occasional patch. (Linux is not a typical open source project, it is an exceptional one)
My experience is that situations where you don't want a centralised source repository are really rare. But then I don't make the mistake of assuming that my experience is the whole world, and that things outside my experience are inconceivable.
Space has definitely become a "build it and they will come" scenario.
Except with the space shuttle, which hasn't lived up to expectations. And the ISS, which is behind schedule. And the way that no-one has sent a manned mission to the moon in decades.
Nope, it's just the user name. The site at the end of it still has to authenticate you, usually after you log in and supply your... password. On sites like slashdot or Livejournal you are generally still logged into them when you come back later due to the magic of cookies, so you may be missing that the password-login actually happened earlier.
if I did compromise your account at myopenid, I could use it to log into OpenID enabled websites you never visited in your life and say nasty things about your mother. You'd know it from within MyOpenID, but the damage would have been done.
True, but. This is the current just-as-bad situation that Openid replaces: if I did compromise your email account, I could use it to reset passwords at websites you frequent, and create new accounts in your name to say nasty things about your mother. You'd know it soon enough, but the damage would have been done.
The lessen here is that if someone gains control of your account, they can cause damage. Film at 11.
RMS would never know I was using his account on sites he has never visited himself.
Incorrrect. the Openid provider does (or should) keep a list of sites that it has granted authentication to. When the real user (e.g. RMS) logs in there next time, he should see an audit trail that shows that his OpenId was used to log into a site (e.g. stackoverflow.com) recently.
The idea is dumb, it does put your eggs all in one basket because once someone has your login credentials they have your whole online identity.
Only if you use one single OpenId for everything. There's nothing forcing you to do that. Don't tell me that it's too much hassle to run multiple OpenIds, you already run multiple password/login ids.
OpenId is for me an 80/20 thing - I have around 100 password-based logins on various websites. less than 20 of them are actually important and need separate logins, but the other 80 could be better managed by a couple of Openids.
Is there anything wrong with emailing the bill to the customer and letting them archive it (or not)? I know it's not secure, but neither is a piece of paper in the physical mail.
most people perceive X as old and complicated, therefore it must be junk. It doesn't matter if it's the best solution for the problem at hand
X seems to me to be a good solution to the problems that were at hand when it was designed - around 1984 according to Wikipedia. Thus the network transparency. So to most people today, it just looks bizarre and complicated. Would you say that it's been an influential design?
Only if the group in question was "smokers". I live in England, and was pleased when the smoking ban in bars and restaurants came into force. I do prefer establishments that are less dangerous to my health. The rest is just racism. But I could see it happening in places where it isn't illegal.
I do have a question for you: in this day and age, how many people do you know that would be willing to patronize a sandwich shop that had a sign like that?
A sign exactly like that? Or a sign somewhat like that; e.g. replace "Niggers" with "Muslims", "Gays", "Atheists" or the like?
Throwing hardware at a problem means the writer failed to use his sysadmin staff to do basic capacity planning while there wasn't a problem.
The writer is Jeff Atwood, who runs Stack overflow, a web site that has become quite popular since it launched this year. For sites like that, I think the best approach is to start small (i.e. cheap) and expand as needed.
If you think otherwise, tell me: how would you do capacity planning for a new website with an unknown growth curve?
You concentrate on CPU. Many web apps, including probably the one that I am looking at now (stats from the live system are still pending...), could go faster with more and better caching. I.e. more memory on the web or D=batabase tier. That's hardware too.
I think it should be dismissed out of hand. There's no evidence that there's anything to look into.
I totally disagree. Even if it is a normal and regional fluctuation, this article raises the idea that fluctuations in acorn yield cpuld be normal, regional... and not well studied or understood. Hundreds of plant biology grad students should be leaping at the chance to make a name for themselves by understanding what is a normal fluctuation and what drives it.
That's part of what science is about - investigating anything that's not yet explained - not an ignorance-seeking "nothing to see here, move along" attitude.
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Indeed, the schoolboy slang I used had "siffy" (from "syphilis") as somewhere between "disgusting", "contaminated" and "unclean". Modern slang along those lines would be "minging" (UK) or "gross" (US).
If it is possible to silently install add-ons
It isn't. firefox makes it quite visible when it next starts up.
how long will it take until someone finds a way to send you one via Exchange?
This one is installed when you .. gasp .. run an installer. if you are running a random exe that exchange sent you, you already have problems that go well beyond firefox addins. like silent keyloggers and stuff.
Firefox needs to validate its add-ons and make sure the list can't be manipulated without user interaction.
What a good idea. They do that.
Will this affect the date of Singularity? Is Obama pro-singularity?
President Obama: "We will build the ... digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders..."
I think that's a yes.
You also have integration and systems testing as well, which your link blatantly ignores.
Yes, those links ignore a lot of things, but that doesn't make those things bad and wrong. They are just less important if you have good tests upfront, and run them before you commit (and after as a CI build).
You can't create quality software without ... testing after coding.
Yes you can. You can test before coding.
I cannot conceive of a scenario where ... a centralized VCS like svn may be a better option.
Try any commercial development shop, with 2-10 coders working on the same code. The version control is on a server which does CI and release builds, is backed up, etc. Try a typical open source project - one guy maintaining the code, and 2-10 people submitting the occasional patch. (Linux is not a typical open source project, it is an exceptional one)
My experience is that situations where you don't want a centralised source repository are really rare. But then I don't make the mistake of assuming that my experience is the whole world, and that things outside my experience are inconceivable.
Space has definitely become a "build it and they will come" scenario.
Except with the space shuttle, which hasn't lived up to expectations.
And the ISS, which is behind schedule.
And the way that no-one has sent a manned mission to the moon in decades.
Ah, US law. I wonder why my (UK) bank also won't do it, despite being very internet-aware. perhaps some similar law?
The Magic URL *IS THE USERNAME AND PASSWORD*.
Nope, it's just the user name. The site at the end of it still has to authenticate you, usually after you log in and supply your ... password. On sites like slashdot or Livejournal you are generally still logged into them when you come back later due to the magic of cookies, so you may be missing that the password-login actually happened earlier.
Mostly fast-growing, soft-wooded pine is used for that.
It makes cheap and lousy furniture, though. Too soft.
if I did compromise your account at myopenid, I could use it to log into OpenID enabled websites you never visited in your life and say nasty things about your mother. You'd know it from within MyOpenID, but the damage would have been done.
True, but. This is the current just-as-bad situation that Openid replaces: if I did compromise your email account, I could use it to reset passwords at websites you frequent, and create new accounts in your name to say nasty things about your mother. You'd know it soon enough, but the damage would have been done.
The lessen here is that if someone gains control of your account, they can cause damage. Film at 11.
RMS would never know I was using his account on sites he has never visited himself.
Incorrrect. the Openid provider does (or should) keep a list of sites that it has granted authentication to. When the real user (e.g. RMS) logs in there next time, he should see an audit trail that shows that his OpenId was used to log into a site (e.g. stackoverflow.com) recently.
The idea is dumb, it does put your eggs all in one basket because once someone has your login credentials they have your whole online identity.
Only if you use one single OpenId for everything. There's nothing forcing you to do that. Don't tell me that it's too much hassle to run multiple OpenIds, you already run multiple password/login ids.
OpenId is for me an 80/20 thing - I have around 100 password-based logins on various websites. less than 20 of them are actually important and need separate logins, but the other 80 could be better managed by a couple of Openids.
Is there anything wrong with emailing the bill to the customer and letting them archive it (or not)? I know it's not secure, but neither is a piece of paper in the physical mail.
I am not a user so
You're a user of slashdot. Do you have logins on other sites too?
but I personally don't like all my eggs in one basket.
Your current situation: one egg per basket. With OpenId: you decide how many baskets. Could be one, could be two, or many.
I hardly want a security breach on some forum I post to to be able to have access to my email or credit cards site.
You do not understand OpenId. Then again, you do not understand "user".
I don't believe any police were ever tried for the murder of that Brazilian electrician, were they?
Tried? Yes, twice. Just not in the right way.
And yet, you said ... I wrote it that way very carefully
Sorry, I didn't read it as carefully. You win at pedantry. Unfortunately, that's all you win at.
most people perceive X as old and complicated, therefore it must be junk. It doesn't matter if it's the best solution for the problem at hand
X seems to me to be a good solution to the problems that were at hand when it was designed - around 1984 according to Wikipedia. Thus the network transparency. So to most people today, it just looks bizarre and complicated. Would you say that it's been an influential design?
I take it, then, that it's OK with you to discriminate against people simply because they smoke, even if they never do so in your presence?
Not at all, some of my friends smoke. They do so outside the pub.
Only if the group in question was "smokers". I live in England, and was pleased when the smoking ban in bars and restaurants came into force. I do prefer establishments that are less dangerous to my health. The rest is just racism. But I could see it happening in places where it isn't illegal.
I do have a question for you: in this day and age, how many people do you know that would be willing to patronize a sandwich shop that had a sign like that?
A sign exactly like that? Or a sign somewhat like that; e.g. replace "Niggers" with "Muslims", "Gays", "Atheists" or the like?
Throwing hardware at a problem means the writer failed to use his sysadmin staff to do basic capacity planning while there wasn't a problem.
The writer is Jeff Atwood, who runs Stack overflow, a web site that has become quite popular since it launched this year. For sites like that, I think the best approach is to start small (i.e. cheap) and expand as needed.
If you think otherwise, tell me: how would you do capacity planning for a new website with an unknown growth curve?
You concentrate on CPU. Many web apps, including probably the one that I am looking at now (stats from the live system are still pending...), could go faster with more and better caching. I.e. more memory on the web or D=batabase tier. That's hardware too.
I think it should be dismissed out of hand. There's no evidence that there's anything to look into.
I totally disagree. Even if it is a normal and regional fluctuation, this article raises the idea that fluctuations in acorn yield cpuld be normal, regional ... and not well studied or understood. Hundreds of plant biology grad students should be leaping at the chance to make a name for themselves by understanding what is a normal fluctuation and what drives it.
That's part of what science is about - investigating anything that's not yet explained - not an ignorance-seeking "nothing to see here, move along" attitude.
Sadly, Vista is still unstable long-term on my machine
There. Fixed that headline for you.