I love Chrome, but it's full of annoying issues that cripple it completely.
Lack of real adblock is one of them. The way adblock works on chrome is an ugly hack, and it slows down the browser. At least on GNU/Linux, if you have adblock on, and you try to scroll on one tab while you have other tabs loading, scrolling slows to a halt. Also, adblock cripples scrolling while page is still loading on heavy pages. I develop security systems, if you load more than 2 or 3 mjpeg streams on chrome, they all slow down badly. There are several compatibility issues. It's canvas implementation is broken in many ways. The URL bar suggest drop down sucks. History is broken, dates are all wrong, it's impossible to see where you've been actually ordered by date. Not to mention the most stupid of all chrome issues, the throttle limit on error pages. It makes debugging web apps IMPOSSIBLE on chrome. Also, the view-source functionality is broken and stupid. When you click on view-source, instead of seeing the current source, it GETs the page again, alongside any POST or GETs you have. Effectively a reload. This is CAOS when you are developing a web app. I went nuts seeing double-hits on my apache logs, seeing forms being submitted twice, until I figured it out (it's not properly documented anywhere, there is a work around, but it sucks). Also, the JS debugger sucks. It shows files you can't get to, shows errors on non-existing line numbers. At least on Ubuntu 10.10 Gnome/compiz the sync between current tab title and window title is broken, so after you click on another tab, you still see the old window title most of the time, you have to click back and forth several times to fix it. It makes it very hard to know where you are if you have many tabs open and can't see the full title in them. I can go on and on all night on things that are just totally brain-dead about chrome.
I fucking love chrome, it certainly is the best browser out there, but it has a long list of incredibly stupid bugs, miss-features and design errors that make it sometimes unusable, at least to me.
Fascinating. I only applied logic, it seems I had my concepts all wrong. I must say, IANAP, obviously:)
Thanks for proving me wrong, now I've learned something new. And, damn you, I'm going to be trapped reading about this the rest of the night (It's 1 A.M here). I was supposed to get up early, but fuck it, wikipedia is almost as bad as tvtropes.
Getting your ISP to filter the packets won't work, since your ISP will still be spending their inbound traffic. You can drop packages, but can't prevent them from being sent. So, the ISP would still charge you for that traffic.
Actually, since neither object can move faster than c, we'll have to calculate the limit of the function, that'll be close to 2c, but never 2c.
Also, most probably there's effectively a minimum space-unit that objects can move (since there must be a minimum subatomic particle, even if we don't know it yet for sure), so that'll surely limit how close to c we can get, and 2x that value will be the max relative velocity.
The easiest, more graphical example I can think of are two trains A and B on the same rail speeding at each other, with an observation point C just close to the rail around the middle. If each train is going at 100km per hour, point C will see both A and B travelling at 100km/h. A will see B moving at 200km/h, and B will see A moving at 200km/h. If instead of 100km/h they where moving at 0.99 c, A would see B moving at almost 2c, but that's just the relative velocity.
microsoft AND apple are trying to kill the video tag with the patent-encumbered h.264. Google is saving it by offering WebM. ALL BROWSERS except for microsoft's explorer and apple's safari support Google's move. You can say whatever you want about Google regarding any other aspect, but in this case, they are doing the right thing.
hey, where were you? I've been waiting for you to get here for a long time. Oh, took you a while to click through the entire nested thread after you clicked on your notification?
It's not so much about security as it is about flexibility and a new way of doing things. At the time Unix was created, most operating systems where huge, ugly and complex beasts, developed in a bureaucratic way by enormous corporations. Software development was done similarly to the way processors are designed. It was a land of engineers, not a land of hackers. Unix was simpler, more elegant, modular and hacker friendly. At the time, OSs where written in assembly, almost no exceptions. Have you ever seen a mainframe sysadmin? Those guys where running the circus back then. Then this bunch of hippies came in and wrote an OS in a high-level language, and it turned out to be awesome. Unix was the software-world response to the social events and revolutions during the 60's.
At first, it wasn't as evolved or secure as other systems, and it was ridiculed because of that. But Unix is like Lego, and there was a huge amount of young people in computing that related to this concept, and could do awesome things with the building blocks provided by Unix.
It was the first OS to change the way things where done and introduce metaphors in computing. People think thap FApple and m$ started the metaphor-in-computing trend, with icons, menues and folders. That's just not true. "Everything is a file" was a revolution. The simple, short commands, pipes, advanced interactive shells, all of that made Unix the choice of a new generation. And it still is, anyone serious about software development is on some kind of Unix variant. It's wasn't the technical merits of Unix, it was the philosophy that made it so huge.
I once asked RMS if he could imagine the Free Software world as it is today, developing something like the Incompatible time-sharing system. Of course, this is RMS and I didn't really get a straight answer, he just rambled about how it wasn't a valid question because the Incompatible time-sharing system wasn't modern enough to be usable nowdays. But I know the answer is NO. The Unix model and Free Software have a LOT in common, and Unix helped pave the way for the way the world works right now. Whether the usual suspects like it or not, Free Software runs most of the Internet, and the world as we know wouldn't exist without the internet. Unix has always been the man behind the curtain, but it's been more relevant in the last 40 years of history than many think. Even now, it's still obscure, think, for instance, how everyone has a Unix OS in their pocket (Android phones/tablets and other devices, ipods/iphones/ipads), and most don't even know about it. It was about damn time that it got some mainstream recognition.
And what is exactly the christian message? Be week, sick and mediocre? Don't try to be a better person because you are gonna die and go to a better life anyway? believe in my stupid imaginary friend in the sky, receive wine and bread?
the 'christian message' is a message of death, destruction and involution, and we would all be better if it didn't exist.
Of course. Also, it's not like there are many world leaders that take his word into account because they share the same imaginary friend, and certainly the church doesn't own land and companies all over the world, and is certainly not one of the biggest and most effective lobbying organizations in the world.
Sadly, stupid stupid people with imaginary friends have more power than you think.
Agreed. I would actually go a step further, I know that my ideas aren't very popular here on slashdot, but religion needs to be banned and treated a a psychological issue, and we need to recover all the land and other property that has been stolen by various churches throughout history. Also, Religious leaders should be put on trial for the crimes of their followers. Put the pope in jail for harassing children, and get Travolta and company in jail for helping spread a scam, and see how quickly they all drop their imaginary friends in the sky and hire lawyers.
There's a simple way to beat terrorism, and it is to stop being assholes and give them what they want. Guess what? it's rightfully theirs in most cases. This is something that gets ignored all the time, but why does terrorism exist? well, it's an incredibly desperate measure, that has few chances of success. It's the only thing oppressed people without access to an army can do. During the US independence war, countless acts of "terrorism" where committed, but they don't get called "terrorism", they are labeled as "patriotic". Terrorism is the last desperate action of an oppressed group to regain their freedom, or right a wrong. Its own people will call it patriotic, the oppressor will call it terrorism. It is actually quite simple. Do you see well fed middle class businessman blowing up stuff to achieve something? You don't, because they have something to loose. When you put people in that worse position, of being oppressed, and having nothing to loose, that's when you get desperate acts. By definition, just about anything that is requested through terror threats is possibly a reasonable demand (Why? Well, because somebody put that person in a such a desperate situation. Nobody should ever be pushed that far back into a corner).
Palestinians are being murdered by an invasion force, and being kicked out of their own land (land they've had for thousands of years). They just want peace and their own land returned. The IRA just wants the British to stop invading them and get out of their land. The ETA just wants to be free from Spain and France.
Sure, some of them are just religious idiots or other kind of fanatics, but even then, we could just settle most of them just by recognizing their basic request of land, freedom and fair treatment, give them independence and stop messing with their business, and 99% of them will just go away. Sure, 1% will keep trying to murder you just because your skin looks different or because you have a different imaginary guy in the sky, well, they don't stand a chance. Do you think that if tomorrow Spain and France free the Basque territory, and some ETA jerks continue to bomb Spain, they would get support from the Basques? No way, the Basque people themselves would turn them in to the police. Sure, there are a few crazy bastards just about everywhere, but they can't do anything by themselves. They are dangerous when large sectors of the population supports them. Do you know why large sectors of the population support them? Because large sectors of the population are poor and oppressed, change that situation, and the problem goes away.
Now, how did Romero miss that in Land of the Dead?. In the scene where he shows the zombies trying to do stuff they did when they were alive, he should have shown some of them going to pay their AOL accounts and then trying to insert the CD into some wound in their bodies.
True, I just can't get my head around the concept of this social bullshit.
People talk about 'blogs' as if they were something new, come on! it's a personal webpage with a CMS on it, that's all. Remember when the word blog appeared in the scene?/.ers hated it. We complained, and we made fun of people using it. Then we accepted it, and now most/.ers say blog without a blink.
facebutt? we used to make fun of myspace and all that crap... now most of/. uses facebutt. We also laughed at twitter when it first came up online, but now we report based on the stupid crap people post on it.
Personally, I have fixed this situation, with a few gmail filters, a brain-filter to ignore people talking about it, and this:
Slashdot Mirror
Of course the aren't the same. Also, SCP is not the same as HTTP 1.1.
But parent asked how to SSH to port 80 to retrieve a webpage, and I explained precisely that.
It's funny, laugh.
I love Chrome, but it's full of annoying issues that cripple it completely.
Lack of real adblock is one of them. The way adblock works on chrome is an ugly hack, and it slows down the browser. At least on GNU/Linux, if you have adblock on, and you try to scroll on one tab while you have other tabs loading, scrolling slows to a halt. Also, adblock cripples scrolling while page is still loading on heavy pages. I develop security systems, if you load more than 2 or 3 mjpeg streams on chrome, they all slow down badly. There are several compatibility issues. It's canvas implementation is broken in many ways. The URL bar suggest drop down sucks. History is broken, dates are all wrong, it's impossible to see where you've been actually ordered by date.
Not to mention the most stupid of all chrome issues, the throttle limit on error pages. It makes debugging web apps IMPOSSIBLE on chrome. Also, the view-source functionality is broken and stupid. When you click on view-source, instead of seeing the current source, it GETs the page again, alongside any POST or GETs you have. Effectively a reload. This is CAOS when you are developing a web app. I went nuts seeing double-hits on my apache logs, seeing forms being submitted twice, until I figured it out (it's not properly documented anywhere, there is a work around, but it sucks). Also, the JS debugger sucks. It shows files you can't get to, shows errors on non-existing line numbers. At least on Ubuntu 10.10 Gnome/compiz the sync between current tab title and window title is broken, so after you click on another tab, you still see the old window title most of the time, you have to click back and forth several times to fix it. It makes it very hard to know where you are if you have many tabs open and can't see the full title in them. I can go on and on all night on things that are just totally brain-dead about chrome.
I fucking love chrome, it certainly is the best browser out there, but it has a long list of incredibly stupid bugs, miss-features and design errors that make it sometimes unusable, at least to me.
Like this:
#On the server /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/init.d/ssh restart
apache2ctl stop
sed -i s/Port.*/Port\ 80/g
#On the client /tmp/ && cat /tmp/FILE_TO_BE_RETRIEVED
scp -P80 root@SERVER:/var/www/htdocs/FILE_TO_BE_RETRIEVED
Not exactly an HTTP 1.1 GET command, but close enough :)
Fascinating. I only applied logic, it seems I had my concepts all wrong. I must say, IANAP, obviously :)
Thanks for proving me wrong, now I've learned something new. And, damn you, I'm going to be trapped reading about this the rest of the night (It's 1 A.M here). I was supposed to get up early, but fuck it, wikipedia is almost as bad as tvtropes.
Getting your ISP to filter the packets won't work, since your ISP will still be spending their inbound traffic. You can drop packages, but can't prevent them from being sent. So, the ISP would still charge you for that traffic.
Actually, since neither object can move faster than c, we'll have to calculate the limit of the function, that'll be close to 2c, but never 2c.
Also, most probably there's effectively a minimum space-unit that objects can move (since there must be a minimum subatomic particle, even if we don't know it yet for sure), so that'll surely limit how close to c we can get, and 2x that value will be the max relative velocity.
The easiest, more graphical example I can think of are two trains A and B on the same rail speeding at each other, with an observation point C just close to the rail around the middle. If each train is going at 100km per hour, point C will see both A and B travelling at 100km/h. A will see B moving at 200km/h, and B will see A moving at 200km/h. If instead of 100km/h they where moving at 0.99 c, A would see B moving at almost 2c, but that's just the relative velocity.
Dude, I hope you are a very clever troll.
microsoft AND apple are trying to kill the video tag with the patent-encumbered h.264. Google is saving it by offering WebM. ALL BROWSERS except for microsoft's explorer and apple's safari support Google's move. You can say whatever you want about Google regarding any other aspect, but in this case, they are doing the right thing.
Your sig, same here :)
hey, where were you? I've been waiting for you to get here for a long time. Oh, took you a while to click through the entire nested thread after you clicked on your notification?
Enjoy the new slashdot. :)
Oh, and, Hello World.
Please update the last line of your sig. (And, yes, I do agree that it's the awesomest sig ever.
It's not so much about security as it is about flexibility and a new way of doing things. At the time Unix was created, most operating systems where huge, ugly and complex beasts, developed in a bureaucratic way by enormous corporations. Software development was done similarly to the way processors are designed. It was a land of engineers, not a land of hackers. Unix was simpler, more elegant, modular and hacker friendly. At the time, OSs where written in assembly, almost no exceptions. Have you ever seen a mainframe sysadmin? Those guys where running the circus back then. Then this bunch of hippies came in and wrote an OS in a high-level language, and it turned out to be awesome. Unix was the software-world response to the social events and revolutions during the 60's.
At first, it wasn't as evolved or secure as other systems, and it was ridiculed because of that. But Unix is like Lego, and there was a huge amount of young people in computing that related to this concept, and could do awesome things with the building blocks provided by Unix.
It was the first OS to change the way things where done and introduce metaphors in computing. People think thap FApple and m$ started the metaphor-in-computing trend, with icons, menues and folders. That's just not true. "Everything is a file" was a revolution. The simple, short commands, pipes, advanced interactive shells, all of that made Unix the choice of a new generation. And it still is, anyone serious about software development is on some kind of Unix variant. It's wasn't the technical merits of Unix, it was the philosophy that made it so huge.
I once asked RMS if he could imagine the Free Software world as it is today, developing something like the Incompatible time-sharing system. Of course, this is RMS and I didn't really get a straight answer, he just rambled about how it wasn't a valid question because the Incompatible time-sharing system wasn't modern enough to be usable nowdays. But I know the answer is NO. The Unix model and Free Software have a LOT in common, and Unix helped pave the way for the way the world works right now. Whether the usual suspects like it or not, Free Software runs most of the Internet, and the world as we know wouldn't exist without the internet. Unix has always been the man behind the curtain, but it's been more relevant in the last 40 years of history than many think. Even now, it's still obscure, think, for instance, how everyone has a Unix OS in their pocket (Android phones/tablets and other devices, ipods/iphones/ipads), and most don't even know about it. It was about damn time that it got some mainstream recognition.
I can't see it from god's perspective, because there is no god.
And what is exactly the christian message? Be week, sick and mediocre? Don't try to be a better person because you are gonna die and go to a better life anyway? believe in my stupid imaginary friend in the sky, receive wine and bread?
the 'christian message' is a message of death, destruction and involution, and we would all be better if it didn't exist.
Of course. Also, it's not like there are many world leaders that take his word into account because they share the same imaginary friend, and certainly the church doesn't own land and companies all over the world, and is certainly not one of the biggest and most effective lobbying organizations in the world.
Sadly, stupid stupid people with imaginary friends have more power than you think.
Agreed. I would actually go a step further, I know that my ideas aren't very popular here on slashdot, but religion needs to be banned and treated a a psychological issue, and we need to recover all the land and other property that has been stolen by various churches throughout history. Also, Religious leaders should be put on trial for the crimes of their followers. Put the pope in jail for harassing children, and get Travolta and company in jail for helping spread a scam, and see how quickly they all drop their imaginary friends in the sky and hire lawyers.
There's a simple way to beat terrorism, and it is to stop being assholes and give them what they want. Guess what? it's rightfully theirs in most cases. This is something that gets ignored all the time, but why does terrorism exist? well, it's an incredibly desperate measure, that has few chances of success. It's the only thing oppressed people without access to an army can do. During the US independence war, countless acts of "terrorism" where committed, but they don't get called "terrorism", they are labeled as "patriotic". Terrorism is the last desperate action of an oppressed group to regain their freedom, or right a wrong. Its own people will call it patriotic, the oppressor will call it terrorism. It is actually quite simple. Do you see well fed middle class businessman blowing up stuff to achieve something? You don't, because they have something to loose. When you put people in that worse position, of being oppressed, and having nothing to loose, that's when you get desperate acts. By definition, just about anything that is requested through terror threats is possibly a reasonable demand (Why? Well, because somebody put that person in a such a desperate situation. Nobody should ever be pushed that far back into a corner).
Palestinians are being murdered by an invasion force, and being kicked out of their own land (land they've had for thousands of years). They just want peace and their own land returned. The IRA just wants the British to stop invading them and get out of their land. The ETA just wants to be free from Spain and France.
Sure, some of them are just religious idiots or other kind of fanatics, but even then, we could just settle most of them just by recognizing their basic request of land, freedom and fair treatment, give them independence and stop messing with their business, and 99% of them will just go away. Sure, 1% will keep trying to murder you just because your skin looks different or because you have a different imaginary guy in the sky, well, they don't stand a chance. Do you think that if tomorrow Spain and France free the Basque territory, and some ETA jerks continue to bomb Spain, they would get support from the Basques? No way, the Basque people themselves would turn them in to the police. Sure, there are a few crazy bastards just about everywhere, but they can't do anything by themselves. They are dangerous when large sectors of the population supports them. Do you know why large sectors of the population support them? Because large sectors of the population are poor and oppressed, change that situation, and the problem goes away.
"would you like FIRES with that". That's probably the best misspell EVER.
Sadly, you are right.
That's how it works in many industries: You are the product. It's how TV works, you are the product and they are selling you to advertisers.
I am not an Ubuntu fanboy, and I actually use Slackware (and I've used it since version 3).
I said Ubuntu because it's simple and adequate for old people that have a hard time using computers.
Not devoid of context. Using an insecure and expensive OS when there are ethical, free, secure alternatives is just plain idiotic.
Now, how did Romero miss that in Land of the Dead?. In the scene where he shows the zombies trying to do stuff they did when they were alive, he should have shown some of them going to pay their AOL accounts and then trying to insert the CD into some wound in their bodies.
Ubuntu.
True, I just can't get my head around the concept of this social bullshit.
People talk about 'blogs' as if they were something new, come on! it's a personal webpage with a CMS on it, that's all. Remember when the word blog appeared in the scene? /.ers hated it. We complained, and we made fun of people using it. Then we accepted it, and now most /.ers say blog without a blink.
facebutt? we used to make fun of myspace and all that crap ... now most of /. uses facebutt. We also laughed at twitter when it first came up online, but now we report based on the stupid crap people post on it.
Personally, I have fixed this situation, with a few gmail filters, a brain-filter to ignore people talking about it, and this:
almafuerte@almafuerte-laptop:~$ cat /etc/hosts ::1 almafuerte-laptop localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
192.168.0.101 almafuerte-laptop
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.1.1 almafuerte-laptop
127.0.0.1 hotmail.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 twitter.com
127.0.0.1 live.com
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
almafuerte@almafuerte-laptop:~$
Get 3G. Same expense, better service.