If that's all they want then why don't they just re-write the Firefox JS engine and push it upstream? Isn't that what open source is all about? Nope, that explanation doesn't quite make sense to me.
This "the browser is the OS" rubbish is really starting to annoy me. It's just not the case.
in that they consider the computer broken if web access isn't working, and in that they consider webapps to be on par with native apps
This really doesn't signal a change in paradigm in computing. Rather, it signals that many users who don't understand the distinction between local and remote applications have become the majority, and those who understand the distinction are now the minority. Buzzwords like "cloud computing" and "online OS" don't change the fact that this is not a paradigm shift so much as a widespread misperception.
The so-called "browser is the OS" paradigm is simply a use case where the majority of a user's tasks are performed in a browser. Cloud computing really just describes people who use a PC for Facebook more than they use the PC for productive work with a word processor.
I know what you're thinking. Yes, you, thinking "it's just a matter of time until word processors get implemented in JavaScript". Please, I beg you, go and get a vasectomy. For the sake of mankind.
Do that, and it's just a matter of time until they fix whatever loophole allowed you to disable it while following the letter. If you disagree in principle, then fight the principle, not the letter. Even if you beat the letter, their principle remains in law, and will bite you in the ass next time round.
You underestimate the capacity of government contractors to make a cheap item expensive.
You also seem to underestimate the capacity of the US government to simply raise taxes when oppressing those very taxpayers is outside the current budget.
I see your studies, research and science, and raise you 10,000 years of what worked. Positive reinforcement works *as well*, it's not a binary choice where one excludes the other.
For me I got Nintendo if I ate my vegetables. I got a spanking when I set off a firecracker in my neighbor's dog house.
Sorry, spanking works. I don't give a shit what some band of idiots greedy for research grants say.
I was spanked, my parents were spanked, their parents were spanked. It works, and has worked, since forever.
In this day and age, kids seem to be getting overdoses of "it's a free country and I want my rights", giving them absurd senses of entitlement over anything and everything.
Seriously, society has gone mad. The concept of individual rights has been twisted into some disfigured unrecognizable mass of idiocy. We can't spank our kids any more, which is why the current generation is such a rabble of unruly, apathetic, self-centered brats. On the other hand, civil liberties are so far gone that we can't protest outside of designated protest zones.
Kids need spankings. It's worked for thousands of years of human behavioral evolution. Governments need checks. Demonstrated over thousands of years of human social evolution.
People, its time to pull our heads out of our asses.
Does that mean that I can put CQ at the end of all of my posts to cover my bases? That way if I haven't made a mistake, then it's correct, and if I have then people will think the obscure use of CQ indicates that my error is in actuality an obscure exception to whatever rule of spelling I broke.*
That's just the point. Facebook's TOS would have allowed them to take your previously private email-like data and published it wherever they felt would be profitable.
Actually, this is a test of key issue in what was perhaps the most watched US election of all time.
People who voted had expectations that are manifestly being tested in this particular scenario. So, it is not off topic, it's the mods who lack the ability to connect two dots that are not immediately adjacent.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like fun. I'm free this weekend...
Yes, because any statement even orthogonally favoring Microsoft *must* be the work of a fanboi, and contain no rational point.
Also, fuck you.
If that's all they want then why don't they just re-write the Firefox JS engine and push it upstream? Isn't that what open source is all about? Nope, that explanation doesn't quite make sense to me.
YES!
YYYY/MM/DD makes so much more sense, as it means that you get sane sorting when ordering using a computer.
DD/MM/YYYY results in a mess of dates, whereas YYYY/MM/DD always orders dates in chronological order.
This "the browser is the OS" rubbish is really starting to annoy me. It's just not the case.
This really doesn't signal a change in paradigm in computing. Rather, it signals that many users who don't understand the distinction between local and remote applications have become the majority, and those who understand the distinction are now the minority. Buzzwords like "cloud computing" and "online OS" don't change the fact that this is not a paradigm shift so much as a widespread misperception.
The so-called "browser is the OS" paradigm is simply a use case where the majority of a user's tasks are performed in a browser. Cloud computing really just describes people who use a PC for Facebook more than they use the PC for productive work with a word processor.
I know what you're thinking. Yes, you, thinking "it's just a matter of time until word processors get implemented in JavaScript". Please, I beg you, go and get a vasectomy. For the sake of mankind.
Will cyborg raptors freeze to death in the winter?
You forgot to end with "Also, fuck you."
Nah, that he's an alien makes more sense to me. I can't swallow the fact that a human being can be both not dead and that stupid at the same time.
Because as more and more evidence piles up, the point on the IQ bell curve at which people are able to deny the facts moves to the left.
Don't worry, we'll get to you eventually.
Do that, and it's just a matter of time until they fix whatever loophole allowed you to disable it while following the letter. If you disagree in principle, then fight the principle, not the letter. Even if you beat the letter, their principle remains in law, and will bite you in the ass next time round.
Come now. Seriously. "In Soviet Russia, Streissand affects you!"
Was it that hard?
They'll also lower the threshold for what is a crime. That, too, will be retroactive.
Crime is not crime as reported by police, it's crime as reported by citizens. This is not a "tree falling in the woods" scenario.
"A" doesn't work.
"B" doesn't work.
Oh, I know! Let's try "A+B"!
Twit.
You underestimate the capacity of government contractors to make a cheap item expensive.
You also seem to underestimate the capacity of the US government to simply raise taxes when oppressing those very taxpayers is outside the current budget.
My right to not being run over trumps your right to drive a vehicle you're incapable of controlling.
You mean Chewbacca crap.
I see your studies, research and science, and raise you 10,000 years of what worked. Positive reinforcement works *as well*, it's not a binary choice where one excludes the other.
For me I got Nintendo if I ate my vegetables. I got a spanking when I set off a firecracker in my neighbor's dog house.
Sorry, spanking works. I don't give a shit what some band of idiots greedy for research grants say.
I was spanked, my parents were spanked, their parents were spanked. It works, and has worked, since forever.
I agree.
In this day and age, kids seem to be getting overdoses of "it's a free country and I want my rights", giving them absurd senses of entitlement over anything and everything.
Seriously, society has gone mad. The concept of individual rights has been twisted into some disfigured unrecognizable mass of idiocy. We can't spank our kids any more, which is why the current generation is such a rabble of unruly, apathetic, self-centered brats. On the other hand, civil liberties are so far gone that we can't protest outside of designated protest zones.
Kids need spankings. It's worked for thousands of years of human behavioral evolution. Governments need checks. Demonstrated over thousands of years of human social evolution.
People, its time to pull our heads out of our asses.
Does that mean that I can put CQ at the end of all of my posts to cover my bases? That way if I haven't made a mistake, then it's correct, and if I have then people will think the obscure use of CQ indicates that my error is in actuality an obscure exception to whatever rule of spelling I broke.*
* CQ
If he's a Mac user, then all I can say is... ...That's no butt plug...
That's just the point. Facebook's TOS would have allowed them to take your previously private email-like data and published it wherever they felt would be profitable.
Who wins? The guy with the Trace Buster Buster Buster.
Never been involved in anything even remotely emotionally complex, have you?
Actually, this is a test of key issue in what was perhaps the most watched US election of all time.
People who voted had expectations that are manifestly being tested in this particular scenario. So, it is not off topic, it's the mods who lack the ability to connect two dots that are not immediately adjacent.