Not only that, but with web forums, you're always on someone else's turf, and they can censor or ban you for any reason at all, whether it's expressing an unpopular view, dissing the site, or not agreeing with a moderator. The thing that makes Usenet great is that it's a distributed discussion system, and the only way to kick someone off is if they do something so egregious that their ISP TOSes them.
If anyone had doubts about how much PayPal cares about consumers, this should dispell all doubts -- people with low feedback should be forced to take credit cards only, that way any customer who gets ripped off can dispute the charge and recover the money.
Which is all well and good as long as everything works. If you forget to pay a bill, you're outside a big city, or something goes FUBAR on the server end, you're SOL.
Off site storage is good for backup, but you definitely want to keep everything local in case of an emergency.
Actually it makes more sense to just put "Dashiell Hammett" into the search bar
No it doesn't. First, "Dashiell Hammett" in the search bar takes more keystrokes than "Dash" followed by down arrow and enter in the Awesome Bar. Secondly, with the search bar you have to load a search engine page and then click on the Wikipedia article, while the Awesome Bar lets you navigate directly there.
It makes no sense to put anything other than addresses into the address bar.
Makes plenty of sense to me -- you're still putting the address in the address bar, but now you can find the one you want by typing the page title or using a nickname you gave it in your bookmarks. But more importantly, it makes navigating the web a lot easier, so even if the Awesome Bar doesn't make sense, I'd accept it.
If I really wanted to go to maps.google.com, I'd have started typing with an 'm' not an 's'.
However, if you want to look at a Wikipedia article about Dashiell Hammett that you read last week, it makes a lot more sense to type "Dash" in the address bar than "wikip^H^H^H^H^Hen.wikipedia.org/Dash."
Besides, after the first week, the Awesome Bar learned what sites I visit most, so now when I hit "S" it brings up Slashdot, Sword and Laser, and South Park Studios as the top results. Even better, I can now type in "amazon book" or "amazon mp3" to get right to a specific Amazon store instead of having to go through the mainpage and look at the giant Kindle ad.
If all you want is a list of your favorite sites accessible through a keypress, that's what bookmarks are for. I can see how that feature would be nice, but it really belongs as some sort of smart bookmarks, not in the address bar.
Why? The address bar is already searching my history, so why not bookmarks too? Making a separate search bar would just add clutter.
But both you and me know that the price for OS X is the same for everyone because it's supposed to be bought by mac users only,
And if frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their asses when they jump.
I don't have any contract with Apple promising that I'll only buy OS X to install on a Mac running a previous version. If I can get a computer that will work with Apple operating systems, and a legal copy of that OS, Apple has no claim over me.
I mean, if I print a book that's sealed with tape saying, "If you break this seal, you promise not to use this book as toilet paper," do you think I have any legal recourse if you use the book as toilet paper?
The river of molten gold wasn't an ending either. It was just a convenient stopping place until the sequel, which he doesn't seem to have any intention of writing.
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People were complaining about specialty pieces when they started making spaceship canopies and castle wall pieces.
I picked up a couple of the big Bionicle robot sets a couple years ago, and they do have a lot of new pieces. All of them are compatible with older bricks, but they wouldn't be terribly useful unless you're building a Bionicle style robot. The main difference is the sets are based more on axles, hinges, and ball joints than bricks.
I know a guy who tried to join a police department and was turned down because of his MySpace page, which looks like it belongs to Travis Bickle. The guy also posts things like this to public forums:
It was 2001, maybe 2002. Somewhere in Hawai'i. Anyway, we were doing military training in civilian clothes. Intel, so no one was shooting at anyone, don't think of it like that. So, our command had cleared this with the security firm for the strip mall, but not with each individual store manager. So we corner and apprehend the guy we thought we had made. "You're coming with us," we told him. He laughed and continued shopping. We continued following him around and talked about taking him down and dragging him out of the store. Mind you, this guy is not a part of the exercise. He was just a dumbass who behaved extremely weird, therefore put us in the position of looking like dumbasses, by apprehending the wrong guy. Anyway, he finally realizes we aren't joking, tells management, management asks us what are we doing, we debrief him as much as much as we can about the exercise, he throws us out of the store. We're leaving through the most immediate means available, which so happens to be the entrance, and he comments "you're not so intelligent for being military intelligence." I had to hold my friend and fellow troop back from beating him senseless in his own store. In retrospect, I should've just let him have at him.
So, yeah, Googling potential employees and checking out their social networking pages -- good thing in my book. Especially for positions of public trust.
Seriously, though. There are very, very few people left who use the USENET for anything real.
Rec.arts.sf.written has 120 posts so far today. Rec.arts.tv has over 200. And I'm basing this on my newsfeed which aggressively filters out spam. That's not to bad for a resource few people use.
Among serious Usenet participants, alt.* has always been seen as the place where 13 year olds go to have flamewars over whether Mighty Mouse could beat up Superman.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Detecting binary groups is trivial -- discussion groups use plain text message, where you're unlikely to see any message larger than a dozen kilobytes.
Unless you're going to divide a simple.jpgs and.mp3s into hundreds of parts, and videos into tens of thousands, it'll be pretty obvious which messages are binaries.
It'll be easier for people who want to trade binaries to pay for Usenet access from a company that doesn't care about Andrew Cuomo.
Well no, the alt.* hierarchy is the only one where you can create your own group easily -- and that's a bug, not a feature, caused by someone figuring out the command for creating alt.* groups. The traditional Big 8 require you to go through a long Request for Discussion process to prove there's enough interest in a subject to justify a dedicated group. This is why you don't see rec.binaries.bestiality.hamsters.duct-tape and rec.fan.karl-malden.nose but there are tons of such groups in alt.*
That's the first rule of 1337 filesharers who like to pretend Usenet is some cooltastic secret fount of pirated files. Those of us who've been using newsgroups for their intended purpose of completely unmoderated discussion fora think you guys are twits.
Keep in mind, though, that the companies that release public domain films rarely have access to the original negatives, which are necessary for high quality transfers, and often have to rely on scratched up 16mm copies. So even if Dr. No were in the public domain, the official MGM release would be preferable to any other.
Which version have you seen? The film was completely rewritten when it premiered in the US, with a simplistic capital vs labor plot and 90 minute run time, which is what many DVDs are based upon. The two hour version on the Kino disc is much more complex and has better characterization.
Fritz Lang was Catholic, though he had some Jewish blood. Hitler claimed that Jewish ancestry was the same as being a Jew, but he wasn't beyond making exceptions for people that were useful to him. If Lang had agreed to make propaganda films, it's likely his ancestry would've been overlooked.
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Not only that, but with web forums, you're always on someone else's turf, and they can censor or ban you for any reason at all, whether it's expressing an unpopular view, dissing the site, or not agreeing with a moderator. The thing that makes Usenet great is that it's a distributed discussion system, and the only way to kick someone off is if they do something so egregious that their ISP TOSes them.
If anyone had doubts about how much PayPal cares about consumers, this should dispell all doubts -- people with low feedback should be forced to take credit cards only, that way any customer who gets ripped off can dispute the charge and recover the money.
Which is all well and good as long as everything works. If you forget to pay a bill, you're outside a big city, or something goes FUBAR on the server end, you're SOL.
Off site storage is good for backup, but you definitely want to keep everything local in case of an emergency.
No it doesn't. First, "Dashiell Hammett" in the search bar takes more keystrokes than "Dash" followed by down arrow and enter in the Awesome Bar. Secondly, with the search bar you have to load a search engine page and then click on the Wikipedia article, while the Awesome Bar lets you navigate directly there.
Makes plenty of sense to me -- you're still putting the address in the address bar, but now you can find the one you want by typing the page title or using a nickname you gave it in your bookmarks. But more importantly, it makes navigating the web a lot easier, so even if the Awesome Bar doesn't make sense, I'd accept it.
However, if you want to look at a Wikipedia article about Dashiell Hammett that you read last week, it makes a lot more sense to type "Dash" in the address bar than "wikip^H^H^H^H^Hen.wikipedia.org/Dash."
Besides, after the first week, the Awesome Bar learned what sites I visit most, so now when I hit "S" it brings up Slashdot, Sword and Laser, and South Park Studios as the top results. Even better, I can now type in "amazon book" or "amazon mp3" to get right to a specific Amazon store instead of having to go through the mainpage and look at the giant Kindle ad.
Why? The address bar is already searching my history, so why not bookmarks too? Making a separate search bar would just add clutter.
And if frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their asses when they jump.
I don't have any contract with Apple promising that I'll only buy OS X to install on a Mac running a previous version. If I can get a computer that will work with Apple operating systems, and a legal copy of that OS, Apple has no claim over me.
I mean, if I print a book that's sealed with tape saying, "If you break this seal, you promise not to use this book as toilet paper," do you think I have any legal recourse if you use the book as toilet paper?
Generally speaking, things you do behind fences and no trespassing signs in the middle of nowhere aren't "in plain sight."
Can you develop FOSS programs for non-jail-broken iPhones?
That's GNU/Linux, you proprietary fascist nazi puppy killer.
If Childs had died in a car accident, the city would be completely unable to access their network. That's not security.
Middle Endians, I spit upon thee for using the system that makes the least amount of sense. The only correct date format is 09092008.
The river of molten gold wasn't an ending either. It was just a convenient stopping place until the sequel, which he doesn't seem to have any intention of writing.
People were complaining about specialty pieces when they started making spaceship canopies and castle wall pieces. I picked up a couple of the big Bionicle robot sets a couple years ago, and they do have a lot of new pieces. All of them are compatible with older bricks, but they wouldn't be terribly useful unless you're building a Bionicle style robot. The main difference is the sets are based more on axles, hinges, and ball joints than bricks.
Generals is equally incorrect -- they're actually general officers, but nobody bothers to be pedantic about that to get karma points.
So, yeah, Googling potential employees and checking out their social networking pages -- good thing in my book. Especially for positions of public trust.
Rec.arts.sf.written has 120 posts so far today. Rec.arts.tv has over 200. And I'm basing this on my newsfeed which aggressively filters out spam. That's not to bad for a resource few people use.
Among serious Usenet participants, alt.* has always been seen as the place where 13 year olds go to have flamewars over whether Mighty Mouse could beat up Superman.
What makes you think any of those groups contain anything from pirated copies of Hustler's Barely Legal videos?
You have no idea what you're talking about. Detecting binary groups is trivial -- discussion groups use plain text message, where you're unlikely to see any message larger than a dozen kilobytes.
.jpgs and .mp3s into hundreds of parts, and videos into tens of thousands, it'll be pretty obvious which messages are binaries.
Unless you're going to divide a simple
It'll be easier for people who want to trade binaries to pay for Usenet access from a company that doesn't care about Andrew Cuomo.
Well no, the alt.* hierarchy is the only one where you can create your own group easily -- and that's a bug, not a feature, caused by someone figuring out the command for creating alt.* groups. The traditional Big 8 require you to go through a long Request for Discussion process to prove there's enough interest in a subject to justify a dedicated group. This is why you don't see rec.binaries.bestiality.hamsters.duct-tape and rec.fan.karl-malden.nose but there are tons of such groups in alt.*
That's the first rule of 1337 filesharers who like to pretend Usenet is some cooltastic secret fount of pirated files. Those of us who've been using newsgroups for their intended purpose of completely unmoderated discussion fora think you guys are twits.
Keep in mind, though, that the companies that release public domain films rarely have access to the original negatives, which are necessary for high quality transfers, and often have to rely on scratched up 16mm copies. So even if Dr. No were in the public domain, the official MGM release would be preferable to any other.
Which version have you seen? The film was completely rewritten when it premiered in the US, with a simplistic capital vs labor plot and 90 minute run time, which is what many DVDs are based upon. The two hour version on the Kino disc is much more complex and has better characterization.
Fritz Lang was Catholic, though he had some Jewish blood. Hitler claimed that Jewish ancestry was the same as being a Jew, but he wasn't beyond making exceptions for people that were useful to him. If Lang had agreed to make propaganda films, it's likely his ancestry would've been overlooked.