Oblig. bash.org quote:
The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Like much of bash.org that's actually a Bill Hicks quote.
As for the article... The warning "Do not iron" on the lottery ticket is pretty funny as my mother did just that to a winning ticket a couple of weeks ago. My brother won some money and she said she'd cash it in for him - he handed her a crumpled up sliver of a ticket. She thought "They'll never take this!" and slapped it on the ironing board......well, these things are printed on thermal paper (as many of you may know) so you can guess what happened next.
Numerous experts have said there's no practical or safe way to make a bomb from separate liquids onboard an airplane.
Hmmm... I wonder if you could use a two part expanding foam - two separate containers of nondescript looking liquid which when mixed could quickly block off part of the plane from interference....or just chuck them in the cockpit:)
Not perfectly. That's where the "Fuzzy" part comes in. It uses the String::Approx Perl module to attempt to derive sensible output and match it against a list of spammy words (which you can add to yourself). I find it works quite well even with noisy images but I did tweak the settings a little on my own installation.
There are a couple of downsides... one is the overhead - it can take a few seconds to process each mail which contains an image. You also need to patch gocr and giftext as there are some segfault problems.
I think it's worth it - the amount of spam that gets through on our installation is negligible and I have bayes learning scripts run nightly on the stuff that isn't filtered. Don't really have to think about it much any more:)
Come on, I think cops are a pain in the ass as much as the next guy, but they don't just beat you for no reason.
I got beaten up and down a police station all night once. My crime was being beaten unconscious earlier that night by a guy outside a night club, being confused when I came to and trying to find out from one of them what happened.
The "assaulting an officer" charges were later dropped.
I have video of police here (Ireland) beating the shit out of people at a peaceful protest as well as verbally abusing anyone who even looked at them. Probably the worst clip is the one with 4 or 5 of them in a doorway pounding their trunchoens into the corner. When they disperse one girl appears with blood pouring down her face. I'm sure I missed the earlier clip where she took them all on...
I don't know how it is in LA but here the police are a bunch of angry people who've never lived in a city, they have their heads pumped with all sorts of BS about the nature of society and then are turned loose on the streets waiting for that junkie to inject a needle full of cotton into their jugular or whatever it is they're so on edge about. I don't go to town at night any more - it's not because of the gangs of drunken thugs looking for a fight, it's because of the gangs of legally sanctioned thugs looking for lives to screw with.
They will just beat you for no reason... You have the wrong haircut today or you're the wrong type of non-caucasian or you're on your own and don't look all that wealthy... Reason enough for them.
What I wanted to write further is that, in spite of the insistence of some Slashbots that coding is an artform, people who code for aesthetic reasons are a minority. Most of the time people just want to get their work done and cash their paycheck.
You could say the same about professional musicians - they just want to play the session, get paid and smoke that joint so they can think of guitar notes that would irritate an executive kind of guy.
Just because working in the medium is often as soulless as any other assembly line doesn't mean there can't be some level of artistic appreciation for the work of those who are truly committed. Sure, most of what's churned out is what works for cash but there are always those who'll go that extra mile to impress and delight. It might not make the big bucks for the creator but great artists are never appreciated in their own time;)
This recent example still has people scratching their heads. "^ this isn't" indeed...
Are these people a minority? Most definitely, but the number of true artists in any field is a minority.
Haven't tried this myself, but doesn't setting 'middlemouse.contentLoadURL' to 'true' in about:config solve this issue?
Could do... I'll check it out, thanks.
You can adjust browser.tabs.closeButtons in about:config to get the close button to your liking. Options are on each tab, single button on the right or no close buttons at all.
I did... But then I went right back. One of the ways I use a browser is to select text in a xterm or other app and middle click on a new Firefox tab. The keyword.URL key is set to search rather than return the first result so I get a page of search results on that text - most useful. In FF2 this doesn't work - a middle click on the browser window != typing something into the URL bar now. No problem, but I don't know what it == so I could set that. I did try Seamonkey but that had bigger problems - thing is, this is a habit I picked up using the old Mozilla suite.
They also moved the tab close button. The browser is one of the few apps where I make use of the mouse so I like it to be as efficient as possible to do stuff. Being able to close a bunch of windows by repeatedly clicking the same button was very handy - I would press ^W repeatedly but if the page focus isn't just right then the window won't close... While I'm on the topic, did the order the tabs are focussed when the current tab is closed change? ISTR being irritated by something like that.
A few of my extensions stopped working but that's excusable - they've probably been fixed by now. I'm just not on FF2 any more.
I hope the Moz team hasn't become obsessed with market share... that's what promotion and campaigns, not release dates, are for.
I think he means that it's not a de-facto standard, because it's a real ISO standard. That's about as standard standard as they come. There's nothing defacto about it.
That depends... It certainly is an ISO standard but that doesn't make its use standard in certain areas.
In the scientific community it's a de-facto standard. There are no rules to say you must use PDF (to my knowledge), it's just a convenient and useful standard to use so everyone uses it.
That said, the poster who originally said "de-facto" was completely wrong:)
As much as I love the country, remember that you're talking about a nation that banned the sale of condoms to minors for a long time. They're simply more conservative over there; I don't believe that makes them wrong (or right, for that matter).
I believe it makes them wrong but then I live here. Things have improved of late. I've noticed around the college I'm studying at now that safe sex is promoted heavily - even more than last year. I think there's been a realisation that promoting safe sex isn't promoting casual sex. I know when I'm looking at that chlamidya poster in the toilets I don't care if I never get laid again (althought that soon passes);).
As for the.ie domain? Who cares? They priced themselves out of the market a long time ago - only larger businesses can afford them anyway. The current management of the.ie domain seems to run contrary to the overriding trend of making communications infrastructure more accessible - it took serious government pressure to make affordable broadband available in even the most densely populated areas. It was laughable when Ireland was dubbed by the government as the "e-hub of Europe" when most of the population who wanted to connect to the outside world were paying per minute for flakey dialup.
In summary, is Ireland a conservative, moralistic hellhole? Yes, but it's getting better. We no longer export pregnant teens and force them to surrender their children for adoption!
"The phenomenon hasn't happened in 476 years, said Heinrich Hemme, a physicist at Germany's University of Aachen who crunched the numbers to find that the double-whammy last occurred Jan. 13, 1520."
1) Quake 3 Arena - Still immense fun and still hilariously overblown.
2) MAME - Just because I can't choose a single arcade game... Metal Slug, Dig Dug, Pac Man, Out Run, Paper Boy, Wonder Boy, Double Dragon, Space Harrier, Afterburner, Hang On, Spy Hunter... I could go on:)
3) Enemy Territory - One of the best freebies ever.
4) Super Mario Bros (1 & 3) - I get my real NES out to play these every once in a while.
5) Chuckie Egg - Still one of my favourite ZX Spectrum games of all time. Again, real hardware for this. Contenders: Fred, Panama Joe, The Great Escape (a little frustrating for relaxation), Kokotoni Wilf, Combat School (Great joystick destroyer), Bubble Bobble, Bomb Jack, Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, 3D Deathchase, Jetpac, Gilligan's Gold... Again, I could go on:)
OK, so I cheated - might be a couple more than five there...
Anyone know why they stuck with making 2.4 series kernel default over 2.6?
I'd guess because there's no 2.7 branch - 2.6 is open to a lot of experimentation. If I'm looking for stability 2.6 isn't it... It might be functionally stable but as far as dev goes it could be broken at any time.
That said, I install a 2.6 kernel on all my Slack boxes (Which is not a subset of all my boxes now that I think about it...)
Just out of interest, is there any way to 'slipstream' (to use an MSism) an extension into a FF install? I want to build some to just hand out to people with IETab ready to go.
You might try installing an extension on Firefox portable and giving them that in a self extractor that includes a shortcut to Firefox on the All Users desktop... or something... Man, it's so long since I've done this Windows stuff I'm not even sure what's feasible any more:)
Think of it as a personality trait rather than a diagnosis or disorder (if you must give it thought at all). If you can get on with day to day life without adversely affecting those around you then I don't think you have much to be concerned about:)
Why is it these days that whenever someone appears to be smarter or slightly more focused that suddenly they must have Aspergers? It's like the ADHD of the new millennium, everyone's got it.
Well, AD(H)D is a popular one for pushing drugs on kids... get them used to a life of pharmacuetical consumption. I always thought kids were supposed to have some attention deficits - I know I used to get restless after a few hours of the school day had elapsed. Kinda glad ritalin wasn't fashionable back then.
Asperger's may be to geeks what depression is to goths... It could be a popular affectation. Feel validated as part of your peer group!:)
A friend of mine passed this test on to me. I score fairly highly for autistic tendencies and low for "neurotypical" ones. I had a think about it - I don't really think I'm autistic. I'm not very socially awkward (a little rude at times but just nudge me if I don't pick it up), I like to be alone quite a bit, I'm a little pedantic and really fucking hate repetitive noises - dance music and mobile phones can kiss the fattest part of my ass. Self diagnosis: Misanthropic geek.
Not much of a disorder but then I don't define myself by my asthma either:)...could be fun, though: "Yeah, I have fat, wheezy nerd who hates your fucking guts syndrome!"
I always got the impression that it was some sort of high-functioning autism such as Asperger syndrome but then, IANAD (...doctor):)
Social withdrawal or discomfort in social situations, pedantic mannerisms, some odd habits based on views rooted in pure practicality (anyone remember that ep where his lunch was basically a sack of nutrition?), and a fairly intense engineering interest might all, when taken together, point that way.
What does it matter? He seems like a decent guy and he's certainly and entertaining presenter (on what is, essentially, an entertainment show rather than a rigorously investigated scientific journal):)
Don't bother the poor schmuck asking for facts and credible evidence.
If you look at the April archive of edonkey's webpage you'll see that they offered paid services and software. I don't find it that hard to believe that they picked up enough subscribers over the years to be able to afford to, erm, give the money and run:)
well, ScummVM certainly doesn't allow me to play my "backup version" of Day of the Tentacle - the copy protection quiz is there in full effect:(
ScummVM is also distributed with Broken Sword I & II these days. It must be the easiest way to run these games on modern Windows systems. Games such as Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen have been released as freeware specifically to show off the capabilities of ScummVM and rekindle interest in these classic point-and-click adventures.
I'd consider that "official endorsment" from the original creators of these games. It's not like the situation with Nintendo, who have spoken out against emulation as bad and evil and wrong and causes cancer - I assume this is the attitude which gave rise to Paypal's policy. ScummVM is a useful project with industry acceptance and the backing of the companies whose software it enables. It might behoove the original authors of the games to petition Paypal about their policy in this case - I've bought several LucasArts games to play on ScummVM and I reckon others have done the same. If ScummVM didn't exist it might not be so easy to run these games on my platform of choice and I wouldn't have bothered.
The downside is you can't always trust a strong leader. I'm stuck with GW running (and ruining) the US.
There's a difference between a democratically elected asshole and a Benevolent Dictator For Life.:)
There's a trust relationship between the users of a distro and the distro's BDFL. As a Slackware user I trust Patrick Volkerding to make sound decisions and he mostly does. If he started making a lot of decisions I didn't like I'm free to fork Slackware and do it my way or simply choose another distro.
You can't fork a nation state so easily but I suppose you can choose another one to "use"... at least until the establishment of The World Government;)
There are a lot of really shitty sitcoms out there. King of Queens anyone? Two and a Half Men? Oh man... Will and Grace?
It's fine that all these shows have unispired contrivances and stolen jokes - we expect nothing else from TV - but all the lines are stolen from Who's The Boss?!
I think every episode of these shows has exactly the same type of set up in it too... You know the line:
$wacky_cousin_or_neighbour enters with chimpanzee/dog/cat/other mammal and hands it to $patriarch.
$wacky_cousin_or_neighbour: I'll be back in a week. Feed him these kibbles and rye every night $patriarch: Fine, $wacky_cousin_or_neighbour. Have fun!
$matriarch enters with $embittered_friend
$matriarch: Not another dumb, sweaty, smelly, turd encrusted, hairy, hungry, drooling, cross-eyed beast to take care of $embittered_friend: Yeah, and a chimpanzee/dog/cat/other mammal too!
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Like much of bash.org that's actually a Bill Hicks quote.
As for the article... The warning "Do not iron" on the lottery ticket is pretty funny as my mother did just that to a winning ticket a couple of weeks ago. My brother won some money and she said she'd cash it in for him - he handed her a crumpled up sliver of a ticket. She thought "They'll never take this!" and slapped it on the ironing board...
Good thing it was only for 9 euro
Oh, well that completely excludes him from being able to comment on the semantics and euphemisms used by the mass media to mask the truth.
Hmmm... I wonder if you could use a two part expanding foam - two separate containers of nondescript looking liquid which when mixed could quickly block off part of the plane from interference.
Not perfectly. That's where the "Fuzzy" part comes in. It uses the String::Approx Perl module to attempt to derive sensible output and match it against a list of spammy words (which you can add to yourself). I find it works quite well even with noisy images but I did tweak the settings a little on my own installation.
There are a couple of downsides... one is the overhead - it can take a few seconds to process each mail which contains an image. You also need to patch gocr and giftext as there are some segfault problems.
I think it's worth it - the amount of spam that gets through on our installation is negligible and I have bayes learning scripts run nightly on the stuff that isn't filtered. Don't really have to think about it much any more
The "assaulting an officer" charges were later dropped.
I have video of police here (Ireland) beating the shit out of people at a peaceful protest as well as verbally abusing anyone who even looked at them. Probably the worst clip is the one with 4 or 5 of them in a doorway pounding their trunchoens into the corner. When they disperse one girl appears with blood pouring down her face. I'm sure I missed the earlier clip where she took them all on...
I don't know how it is in LA but here the police are a bunch of angry people who've never lived in a city, they have their heads pumped with all sorts of BS about the nature of society and then are turned loose on the streets waiting for that junkie to inject a needle full of cotton into their jugular or whatever it is they're so on edge about. I don't go to town at night any more - it's not because of the gangs of drunken thugs looking for a fight, it's because of the gangs of legally sanctioned thugs looking for lives to screw with.
They will just beat you for no reason... You have the wrong haircut today or you're the wrong type of non-caucasian or you're on your own and don't look all that wealthy... Reason enough for them.
You could say the same about professional musicians - they just want to play the session, get paid and smoke that joint so they can think of guitar notes that would irritate an executive kind of guy.
Just because working in the medium is often as soulless as any other assembly line doesn't mean there can't be some level of artistic appreciation for the work of those who are truly committed. Sure, most of what's churned out is what works for cash but there are always those who'll go that extra mile to impress and delight. It might not make the big bucks for the creator but great artists are never appreciated in their own time
This recent example still has people scratching their heads. "^ this isn't" indeed...
Are these people a minority? Most definitely, but the number of true artists in any field is a minority.
Could do... I'll check it out, thanks.
I did... But then I went right back. One of the ways I use a browser is to select text in a xterm or other app and middle click on a new Firefox tab. The keyword.URL key is set to search rather than return the first result so I get a page of search results on that text - most useful. In FF2 this doesn't work - a middle click on the browser window != typing something into the URL bar now. No problem, but I don't know what it == so I could set that. I did try Seamonkey but that had bigger problems - thing is, this is a habit I picked up using the old Mozilla suite.
They also moved the tab close button. The browser is one of the few apps where I make use of the mouse so I like it to be as efficient as possible to do stuff. Being able to close a bunch of windows by repeatedly clicking the same button was very handy - I would press ^W repeatedly but if the page focus isn't just right then the window won't close... While I'm on the topic, did the order the tabs are focussed when the current tab is closed change? ISTR being irritated by something like that.
A few of my extensions stopped working but that's excusable - they've probably been fixed by now. I'm just not on FF2 any more.
I hope the Moz team hasn't become obsessed with market share... that's what promotion and campaigns, not release dates, are for.
That depends... It certainly is an ISO standard but that doesn't make its use standard in certain areas.
In the scientific community it's a de-facto standard. There are no rules to say you must use PDF (to my knowledge), it's just a convenient and useful standard to use so everyone uses it.
That said, the poster who originally said "de-facto" was completely wrong
I believe it makes them wrong but then I live here. Things have improved of late. I've noticed around the college I'm studying at now that safe sex is promoted heavily - even more than last year. I think there's been a realisation that promoting safe sex isn't promoting casual sex. I know when I'm looking at that chlamidya poster in the toilets I don't care if I never get laid again (althought that soon passes)
As for the
In summary, is Ireland a conservative, moralistic hellhole? Yes, but it's getting better. We no longer export pregnant teens and force them to surrender their children for adoption!
I keep my lart polished and my wrist keen and sharp.
Is is possible for filesystems to inherit personality traits from their programmers?
I always wondered why ReiserFS was so damn unstable
Well, since you started it...
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1) Quake 3 Arena - Still immense fun and still hilariously overblown.
2) MAME - Just because I can't choose a single arcade game... Metal Slug, Dig Dug, Pac Man, Out Run, Paper Boy, Wonder Boy, Double Dragon, Space Harrier, Afterburner, Hang On, Spy Hunter... I could go on
3) Enemy Territory - One of the best freebies ever.
4) Super Mario Bros (1 & 3) - I get my real NES out to play these every once in a while.
5) Chuckie Egg - Still one of my favourite ZX Spectrum games of all time. Again, real hardware for this. Contenders: Fred, Panama Joe, The Great Escape (a little frustrating for relaxation), Kokotoni Wilf, Combat School (Great joystick destroyer), Bubble Bobble, Bomb Jack, Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, 3D Deathchase, Jetpac, Gilligan's Gold... Again, I could go on
OK, so I cheated - might be a couple more than five there...
I'd guess because there's no 2.7 branch - 2.6 is open to a lot of experimentation. If I'm looking for stability 2.6 isn't it... It might be functionally stable but as far as dev goes it could be broken at any time.
That said, I install a 2.6 kernel on all my Slack boxes (Which is not a subset of all my boxes now that I think about it...)
You might try installing an extension on Firefox portable and giving them that in a self extractor that includes a shortcut to Firefox on the All Users desktop... or something... Man, it's so long since I've done this Windows stuff I'm not even sure what's feasible any more
I wouldn't worry about it...
Think of it as a personality trait rather than a diagnosis or disorder (if you must give it thought at all). If you can get on with day to day life without adversely affecting those around you then I don't think you have much to be concerned about
IIRC mine was about 150/50. I get all my diagnoses from online quizzes :)
It is an interesting test, that said.
Well, AD(H)D is a popular one for pushing drugs on kids... get them used to a life of pharmacuetical consumption. I always thought kids were supposed to have some attention deficits - I know I used to get restless after a few hours of the school day had elapsed. Kinda glad ritalin wasn't fashionable back then.
Asperger's may be to geeks what depression is to goths... It could be a popular affectation. Feel validated as part of your peer group!
A friend of mine passed this test on to me. I score fairly highly for autistic tendencies and low for "neurotypical" ones. I had a think about it - I don't really think I'm autistic. I'm not very socially awkward (a little rude at times but just nudge me if I don't pick it up), I like to be alone quite a bit, I'm a little pedantic and really fucking hate repetitive noises - dance music and mobile phones can kiss the fattest part of my ass. Self diagnosis: Misanthropic geek.
Not much of a disorder but then I don't define myself by my asthma either
I always got the impression that it was some sort of high-functioning autism such as Asperger syndrome but then, IANAD (...doctor)
Social withdrawal or discomfort in social situations, pedantic mannerisms, some odd habits based on views rooted in pure practicality (anyone remember that ep where his lunch was basically a sack of nutrition?), and a fairly intense engineering interest might all, when taken together, point that way.
What does it matter? He seems like a decent guy and he's certainly and entertaining presenter (on what is, essentially, an entertainment show rather than a rigorously investigated scientific journal)
If you look at the April archive of edonkey's webpage you'll see that they offered paid services and software. I don't find it that hard to believe that they picked up enough subscribers over the years to be able to afford to, erm, give the money and run
ScummVM is also distributed with Broken Sword I & II these days. It must be the easiest way to run these games on modern Windows systems. Games such as Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen have been released as freeware specifically to show off the capabilities of ScummVM and rekindle interest in these classic point-and-click adventures.
I'd consider that "official endorsment" from the original creators of these games. It's not like the situation with Nintendo, who have spoken out against emulation as bad and evil and wrong and causes cancer - I assume this is the attitude which gave rise to Paypal's policy. ScummVM is a useful project with industry acceptance and the backing of the companies whose software it enables. It might behoove the original authors of the games to petition Paypal about their policy in this case - I've bought several LucasArts games to play on ScummVM and I reckon others have done the same. If ScummVM didn't exist it might not be so easy to run these games on my platform of choice and I wouldn't have bothered.
There's a difference between a democratically elected asshole and a Benevolent Dictator For Life.
There's a trust relationship between the users of a distro and the distro's BDFL. As a Slackware user I trust Patrick Volkerding to make sound decisions and he mostly does. If he started making a lot of decisions I didn't like I'm free to fork Slackware and do it my way or simply choose another distro.
You can't fork a nation state so easily but I suppose you can choose another one to "use"... at least until the establishment of The World Government
Apparently not...
There are a lot of really shitty sitcoms out there. King of Queens anyone? Two and a Half Men? Oh man... Will and Grace?
It's fine that all these shows have unispired contrivances and stolen jokes - we expect nothing else from TV - but all the lines are stolen from Who's The Boss?!
I think every episode of these shows has exactly the same type of set up in it too... You know the line:
$wacky_cousin_or_neighbour enters with chimpanzee/dog/cat/other mammal and hands it to $patriarch.
$wacky_cousin_or_neighbour: I'll be back in a week. Feed him these kibbles and rye every night
$patriarch: Fine, $wacky_cousin_or_neighbour. Have fun!
$matriarch enters with $embittered_friend
$matriarch: Not another dumb, sweaty, smelly, turd encrusted, hairy, hungry, drooling, cross-eyed beast to take care of
$embittered_friend: Yeah, and a chimpanzee/dog/cat/other mammal too!
"Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns."
"Heheheh...how does he keep up with the news like that?"