The original article also continues: "They denied FOIA requests in their entirety based on exemptions 20,005 times last fiscal year, compared with 21,057 times the previous year."
You are correct it is interesting and warrants further reading but maybe some of use don't want to give clicks to a website so ridiculous he has a whole dedicated "bighollywood" subdomain? AP is no bastion of journalistic integrity either. People should learn they are a coop of newspaper writers that pushes controversy on both sides.
Comodo has always had a wonderful firewall, and lately I have been thinking of trying their AV for my less than tech savvy relatives on windows. Avast has bothered me lately with their voice updates, though generally I still like Avast. AVG is the only one I think is not so good.
1 Introduction
This section is non-normative.
This specification introduces two related mechanisms, similar to HTTP session cookies, for storing structured data on the client side. [COOKIES]
The first is designed for scenarios where the user is carrying out a single transaction, but could be carrying out multiple transactions in different windows at the same time.
Hokay...
Someday the W3C is going to learn how to write I think. You know, in a human language, where the laws of physics apply. Non-normative indeed.
Why was this moderated troll? Do you mods not remember the crusade in the US against newsgroups because of alt.binaries.erotica etc? Or the current crusade on bittorrent? Remember napster?
This looks nice as a way of exploring, debugging, and documenting code especially. I like how you can save layouts by date. But I feel like I would want to step back into eclipse to do the writing. I would be nice if they made a way to integrate with other IDEs.
If you think my post was about compile or execution time, you perfectly missed the point. And, I really mean no offense by this (hope you dont take it personally), but quite frankly you epitomize what I meant when I spoke of developers who don't understand how people learn, and instead guage arbitrary factors like compile time or execution time. Hence your defense of QBasic's 3D capabilities which are wholly irrelevant to someone writing their first for loop.
Indeed, the professors work for the students, not vice versa. It always perplexed me why some college profs took attendance. They are there to teach not to babysit. If some schmo wants to blow his 30 grand a year tuition playing bejeweled, what does the professor care? I mean does the professor have some high score and he's hoping to eliminate the competition for the next international bejeweled tournament? Well actually, if that's the case, I guess it's ok.
That's just nonsense. JavaScript is great for learning simply because it's good at giving immediate results that users can see, in a format they can all relate to (web pages). It's also a very nice language that doesn't throw too much IO stuff or memory addressing at the beginner. It adds a bit of "fun" to the coding process. Something that was sorely lacking when I wrote my first hello world in fortran.
A lot of the older coders hate it though because it's easy and flexible and gives the programmer much rope to hang themselves, but that's just "get off my lawn" nonsense. The reality is, and I'm surprised no slashdotter has mentioned this yet, is we all feel like we cut our teeth on the best programming language. And those other guys who do stuff differently must be wrong.
I swear I hear Foghorn Leghorn's voice when reading some of these comments. "I say, I say, a those new-fangled curly braces languages are an abominations boy! An abominable snowman, I say!"
This attitude is pervasive in the developer world and if you dont believe me, re-read all these comments. Developers need a bit more self reflection about what it means to be a good developer. It's not just about what crazy hard language you started with, or what perfect cohesion, or design pattern mastery you have. Rather nowadays, it's also about teamwork, problem solving, readability, modularity, and user experience. I know a few guys who might be masters of the command line, wizards at writing regex, and zen-like in their ability to do bit shifting math. But, for most projects, I wouldn't want them anywhere near my team/code.
People forget that learning isn't all about what the "right way" is. Learning is about accumulating knowledge in steps, and then retaining it. Making the process fun means better retention. I'd hope that more of the developer world groks this soon, as the machismo bullshit that comes out of these conversations is what drives smart and nice people away from developing.
Or maybe the "colleague" already had these viruses and they hopped over to the USB? Or maybe Panda just made it all up? Kinda hard to say when it's a single phone. But time to get out the pitchforks regardless! I like pitchforks.
Next we'll be reading stuff like "My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious. He might have Mariposa, or Confiker or something. Better get Ferris some AntiVirus software from PandaAV"
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The original article also continues: "They denied FOIA requests in their entirety based on exemptions 20,005 times last fiscal year, compared with 21,057 times the previous year."
Damming indeed.... *rolls eyes*
They denied FOIA requests in their entirety based on exemptions 20,005 times last fiscal year, compared with 21,057 times the previous year.
I think all that can be said from these numbers is that they don't add up to a conclusion.
Who's comparing? I asked a question based on his comment that where an article is posted is "utterly irrelevant."
For whatever it's worth HuffPo posted the AP article.
Devil's advocate: If a good story came out of Stromfront, would you link to it?
You are correct it is interesting and warrants further reading but maybe some of use don't want to give clicks to a website so ridiculous he has a whole dedicated "bighollywood" subdomain? AP is no bastion of journalistic integrity either. People should learn they are a coop of newspaper writers that pushes controversy on both sides.
You have 3 extra question marks. :)
Comodo has always had a wonderful firewall, and lately I have been thinking of trying their AV for my less than tech savvy relatives on windows. Avast has bothered me lately with their voice updates, though generally I still like Avast. AVG is the only one I think is not so good.
Maybe it prints money too?
A lot of those "fancy phones" weren't worth buying until recently.
Where's the Logo love?
1 Introduction This section is non-normative. This specification introduces two related mechanisms, similar to HTTP session cookies, for storing structured data on the client side. [COOKIES] The first is designed for scenarios where the user is carrying out a single transaction, but could be carrying out multiple transactions in different windows at the same time.
Hokay...
Someday the W3C is going to learn how to write I think. You know, in a human language, where the laws of physics apply. Non-normative indeed.
It's illegal in the private sector too. Microsoft got dinged for $100M for doing that. MTV / Viacom too iirc. It gave rise to the term "permalancer."
Nevermind, I see some mod decided to rank as many comments as troll as possible if you look further down the page. Time to meta-moderate I guess.
Indeed, one has 67% more letters in it's acronym than the other.
Why was this moderated troll? Do you mods not remember the crusade in the US against newsgroups because of alt.binaries.erotica etc? Or the current crusade on bittorrent? Remember napster?
This looks nice as a way of exploring, debugging, and documenting code especially. I like how you can save layouts by date. But I feel like I would want to step back into eclipse to do the writing. I would be nice if they made a way to integrate with other IDEs.
If you think my post was about compile or execution time, you perfectly missed the point. And, I really mean no offense by this (hope you dont take it personally), but quite frankly you epitomize what I meant when I spoke of developers who don't understand how people learn, and instead guage arbitrary factors like compile time or execution time. Hence your defense of QBasic's 3D capabilities which are wholly irrelevant to someone writing their first for loop.
If you read that as a friendly reminder between CEO pals, you really have to take the Apple colored glasses off.
You sound like Alliance.
Indeed, the professors work for the students, not vice versa. It always perplexed me why some college profs took attendance. They are there to teach not to babysit. If some schmo wants to blow his 30 grand a year tuition playing bejeweled, what does the professor care? I mean does the professor have some high score and he's hoping to eliminate the competition for the next international bejeweled tournament? Well actually, if that's the case, I guess it's ok.
That's just nonsense. JavaScript is great for learning simply because it's good at giving immediate results that users can see, in a format they can all relate to (web pages). It's also a very nice language that doesn't throw too much IO stuff or memory addressing at the beginner. It adds a bit of "fun" to the coding process. Something that was sorely lacking when I wrote my first hello world in fortran.
A lot of the older coders hate it though because it's easy and flexible and gives the programmer much rope to hang themselves, but that's just "get off my lawn" nonsense. The reality is, and I'm surprised no slashdotter has mentioned this yet, is we all feel like we cut our teeth on the best programming language. And those other guys who do stuff differently must be wrong.
I swear I hear Foghorn Leghorn's voice when reading some of these comments. "I say, I say, a those new-fangled curly braces languages are an abominations boy! An abominable snowman, I say!"
This attitude is pervasive in the developer world and if you dont believe me, re-read all these comments. Developers need a bit more self reflection about what it means to be a good developer. It's not just about what crazy hard language you started with, or what perfect cohesion, or design pattern mastery you have. Rather nowadays, it's also about teamwork, problem solving, readability, modularity, and user experience. I know a few guys who might be masters of the command line, wizards at writing regex, and zen-like in their ability to do bit shifting math. But, for most projects, I wouldn't want them anywhere near my team/code.
People forget that learning isn't all about what the "right way" is. Learning is about accumulating knowledge in steps, and then retaining it. Making the process fun means better retention. I'd hope that more of the developer world groks this soon, as the machismo bullshit that comes out of these conversations is what drives smart and nice people away from developing.
Or maybe the "colleague" already had these viruses and they hopped over to the USB? Or maybe Panda just made it all up? Kinda hard to say when it's a single phone. But time to get out the pitchforks regardless! I like pitchforks.
Dont go the way of kdawson, soulskill.
Next we'll be reading stuff like "My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious. He might have Mariposa, or Confiker or something. Better get Ferris some AntiVirus software from PandaAV"
Compared to the GDP of the US in 2009 ($14.26T) that's what, like 0.0007% ? *
*Disclamer: that's internet math, some of the logic could have been stolen/pilfered.