I'd like to say that, as a full red-blooded, maple syrup-sweating, moose riding Canuck, I've never been prouder of my country
Thing is the ass-hat (Celine) that led the party that voted against this law was the same ass-hat that was a member of the party who created that law.
AND keep in mind that this same ass-hat (again, Celine) who is saying the govt is not doing anything to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is the same ass hat who sat as environment minister in the previous government and was also part of that same government for a number of years.
Just remember those facts when you vote Red next election.
It was a company I used to work for where the IT people were morons, more interested in working on the next cool thing (at that point was implementing NDS) instead of doing real IT work like managing the network and the like.
As a parent I take photos of my baby daughter in the tub having a bath (no bottom shots or anything) because I think it's cute. I don't take pictures of her naked because I'm a perv, I take it because bath time is so damned cute. I wonder if that can get into the wrong hands if I upload to one of these companies.
That'd really kinda suck, and might even land me in trouble if the wrong person were to read something bad into that that really shouldn't be read.
Props to you for such a great reply to such an ass hat IT person.
Truth is, many IT people don't seem to "get" it. They call everything a security hole and make b2b communications more difficult.
Not everything needs tight-arsed security. If I want my outside people to send me a file with not-so-sensitive information that isn't very useful to anyone else, I think they should be able to FTP it to me ( or SFTP or SCP or FTP with SSL if pedantic IT people were so inclined). Instead of an ass-hat saying " you can't have an ftp server up because it's a security hole", the ass hat IT person should say "I'll set up a secure FTP server instead and they can send it there".
I've had those conversations all the time with idiot IT people.
Truth is I think they're just on a rampage sometimes without any real knowledge of why they're doing something.
That said, the IT department at the company I work for is the first competent group I've seen. They locked down IM, but set up a jabber server instead with an MSN gateway. IMO that's the way to go - set something up that's a viable alternative instead of just saying "no" to anyone who wants anything.
Fuck sometimes it'd be just easier to pull all ethernet cables.
I just use a program called Unison and sync up my photos and home videos to an NFS share on another box on my lan, but the idea of off site storage has always appealed to me...
I wonder what kind of solutions that support Linux users are out there... Just talking about a way for a user like me to do an off site backup without having to burn a dvd and take it off site to a safety deposit box...
So the user takes the form and positions it off screen where the input type="file" tag is.
The real problem lies in that it is there, just not visible in the browser.
I can accept that. The key is style="position: absolute; left: -500px;...
And then the div tag's style: style="position: absolute; left: 510px;... that takes the form and puts it back to pop
Then the dev closes the div tag and places the file field to the left.
Clever. But there is some security in obscurity. Knowing which files to grab that are of real use... I suppose grabbing someone's registry could yield something interesting about the user, and then parsing through it to find relevant keys and then using another form to get something of real value would be about the most useful thing you can do...
would be interesting to see how ID resolved that one. FWIW I never bothered. I bought the game for $20 way after it was released and it wasn't worth the effort to get it all dealt with.
Honestly Q3A probably already sucked at that point anyway - with all the spawn killers and cheaters it became almost stupid anyway...
what if there was a bug that caused the software to delete your files without a pirated serial being entered?
I recall a day where I bought myself a copy of Quake III Arena, and the key the game came with was already in use and identified as a pirate key - thanks to keygens.
This is the program doing exactly what it's designed to do: Stop ex-convicts at the border
Yeah, because a guy who shoplifted 30 years ago is obviously of unscrupulous character and should be denied entry to our glorious Canada.
However when a guy runs down a women in a street racing incident and kills her he gets two years house arrest, 240hrs of community service and then it takes another three years to deport him.\
I never quite understood this; can't you compile FF2 on your Fedora?
Yes, I suppose I could do that, or I can grab a development rpm version, but that isn't the point. FF2 has been out for a couple months now and is quite nice and stable.
Legal reasons and upgrade to FC7 reasons are what's in the way, and the FC team feels that FF2 should really have been FF1.5.1 and it was just a marketing ploy to rename to FF2.
I don't want to run FF2 in parallel to FF, I want my system to have FF2 on it.
I disagree with the maintainers here, and I've been mulling a move to Ubuntu because of it.
Exactly. And for that matter, why the hell should Linus care what DE I ( and a great deal of people ) like to use? Just because Linus likes KDE doesn't mean Gnome is a POS.
Still, I have to agree with Raymond - you are almost forced to use third party repositories like freshrpms or dag because the repositories just plain suck.
Then you get stuck in dependency hell because one site doesn't necessarily use the same package names as the other.
And where the hell is Firefox 2 for Fedora anyway? They decided that we don't need it and they're going to hold out for Firefox 3? What the hell's that all about anyway?
Amen. I'm not the biggest fan of RoR - I don't find it all that fast unless you're building a ground-up app, and even then it bugs me sometimes.
Ruby for other things - text parsing and the like is just awesome. I have a hard time with some doofuses in my office explaining them that Ruby on Rails != Ruby...
the losses are distributed amongst the other divisions.
Think about that next time the interest rates on home mortgages goes up
That's just ignorant on your part. Interest rates on mortgages are tied to the bond market. Any move in the yield curve will present itself in the mortgage market.
Now mortgage brokers have made lenders so competitive that the spread between bond rates and mortgages should be nominal at best. Mortgage lenders profit by issuing bonds ( borrowing money ) and issuing bonds ( lending boney ). The spread is their profit, and it's pretty slim.
And who holds bonds? You do. In your pension fund, or your 401(k), etc. Anyone can buy them. Heck, you can buy your own mortgage even if you want to, although the rate of return is so nominal that it's not really worth it right now - you can better invest your money elsewhere.
As far as they're concerned, we're just a bunch of whiners and worry-warts.:-
Isn't completely unfounded. Many IT people are just that unfortunately. People on a power trip who want to call anything and everything a security hole without first stopping to think that not every network resource be as tight as a nun's twat. Case and point, I ( and others I know ) have had conversations with IT people something like:
"I need an FTP server set up so someone can send me some data".
"No, it's a security hole" says ignorant IT person.
"They're sending me some photoshop files that aren't security problems" says I.
"Doesn't matter, I don't want an outward facing FTP server on our network. It's a security hole. Have them mail you a CD instead".
Of course I reply: "why don't you just pull the ethernet cable from all computers along with any disk drives, after all, each has their share of security risks too"
It's ass hats like that in IT who don't know about SFTP, SCP or FTP with SSL and are on a power trip to call everything they don't want to do a security hole.
Truth is, the company I work for now is very successful and has a world class IT department, and is the first time I haven't seen IT people who act like that.
Most home alarms out there installed are utter crap.
First of all, in the event of a break in, the police will show up about half an hour too late. They don't care, because you should have insurance. They know there's more important things to do like bust serious crimes.
Second of all, if I have an alarm and have made it clear by posting signs all over my house that I'm alarmed, the thief will move onto the next home that doesn't have one anyway.
Honestly, I could give a rat's ass if my alarm is top quality, I have it because I get a break on my home insurance, not because I feel safer when I go out.
If a thief wants your stuff, they'll get at it, alarm be damned. Thieves can be in and out before the police arrive. Cops show up to write a report and give you a file number for insurance purposes.
David Wilkins ( US Ambassador to Canada), who states that Canada doesn't dictate US policy should now go put his head back in his ass. Read about Maher Arar and the ass hattery that came out of David Wilkins mouth.
If Canada doesn't dictate US policy, so too should the US not concern themselves with Canadian policies.
Funny - most online newspapers and the like seem to, from what I can tell, make their articles fully available to Google from an SEO side of things but want the consumer to not see the same article... They probably just look for the Google browser string and allowo that to see the articles.
IMO if a site allows Google to see it, they should allow users to see it too, otherwise Google yields too many false positives.
Tough shit IMO for the site that wants to have its cake and eat it too.
Unless you are Google, don't worry about what Google's browser stats are.
Thing is Google probably has the largest sampling available meaning that their numbers will be most accurate about true browser market share.
As another poster pointed out, your web server logs will reinforce the policy your web site's already had, proving nothing to PHB's about enhancing your compatibility.
A good conversation with a PHB would be: Our users on our sites are 99% IE. IE is 80% of the market, therefore in the long run we stand to grow our business by 20% if we start supporting all browsers, and you stand to make 20% more money.
It is, by FAR, the best web-based e-mail I've ever seen.
I agree - I really like it too, although I wish they made scrolling through your list a bit better - it's kinda sucky, but other than that I'm crazy about that interface too... IMO it's the best one...
say, fix prices [usatoday.com] then market forces would also not apply.
In a day without an alternative I'd agree with you. However by price fixing, they've artificially inflated the equilibrium price and create excess supply. Consumers flock to iTunes or Bitorrent to get their music. Those two are alternatives to buying CD's ( although one is kinda shady ).
The market is already punishing the RIAA.
Also, I'd argue the amount of artists being brought to market is way higher now than in 1982. Again, a supply side issue which has kept the market price down.
By that premise a computer in 1983 should cost how much by today's standards?
And an 8-track in the 1970-s should be worth how much today according to said logic?
Not everything appreciates according to inflation. Stick it in your pie hole RIAA. Raise the price to $33 a CD and let's see how fast an exodus from the CD market consumers make.
The only people I know who don't like iPods are tech snops who won't like it just because its made by apple, even though its a very competant little player.
Personally, I don't like them because I have to use gtkPod or iTunes ( if I had a windows or mac ). I want an mp3 player where I can just add folders and songs and let the player handle the rest.
Sorry, but IMO ( and I'm obviously NOT the majority ), iPods are overblown hype and don't really offer me anything that I'm interested in.
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I'd like to say that, as a full red-blooded, maple syrup-sweating, moose riding Canuck, I've never been prouder of my country
Thing is the ass-hat (Celine) that led the party that voted against this law was the same ass-hat that was a member of the party who created that law.
AND keep in mind that this same ass-hat (again, Celine) who is saying the govt is not doing anything to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is the same ass hat who sat as environment minister in the previous government and was also part of that same government for a number of years.
Just remember those facts when you vote Red next election.
It was a company I used to work for where the IT people were morons, more interested in working on the next cool thing (at that point was implementing NDS) instead of doing real IT work like managing the network and the like.
Let say you want to archive your digital photos.
As a parent I take photos of my baby daughter in the tub having a bath (no bottom shots or anything) because I think it's cute. I don't take pictures of her naked because I'm a perv, I take it because bath time is so damned cute. I wonder if that can get into the wrong hands if I upload to one of these companies.
That'd really kinda suck, and might even land me in trouble if the wrong person were to read something bad into that that really shouldn't be read.
Props to you for such a great reply to such an ass hat IT person.
Truth is, many IT people don't seem to "get" it. They call everything a security hole and make b2b communications more difficult.
Not everything needs tight-arsed security. If I want my outside people to send me a file with not-so-sensitive information that isn't very useful to anyone else, I think they should be able to FTP it to me ( or SFTP or SCP or FTP with SSL if pedantic IT people were so inclined). Instead of an ass-hat saying " you can't have an ftp server up because it's a security hole", the ass hat IT person should say "I'll set up a secure FTP server instead and they can send it there".
I've had those conversations all the time with idiot IT people.
Truth is I think they're just on a rampage sometimes without any real knowledge of why they're doing something.
That said, the IT department at the company I work for is the first competent group I've seen. They locked down IM, but set up a jabber server instead with an MSN gateway. IMO that's the way to go - set something up that's a viable alternative instead of just saying "no" to anyone who wants anything.
Fuck sometimes it'd be just easier to pull all ethernet cables.
I just use a program called Unison and sync up my photos and home videos to an NFS share on another box on my lan, but the idea of off site storage has always appealed to me...
I wonder what kind of solutions that support Linux users are out there... Just talking about a way for a user like me to do an off site backup without having to burn a dvd and take it off site to a safety deposit box...
So the user takes the form and positions it off screen where the input type="file" tag is.
The real problem lies in that it is there, just not visible in the browser.
I can accept that. The key is style="position: absolute; left: -500px;...
And then the div tag's style: style="position: absolute; left: 510px;... that takes the form and puts it back to pop
Then the dev closes the div tag and places the file field to the left.
Clever. But there is some security in obscurity. Knowing which files to grab that are of real use... I suppose grabbing someone's registry could yield something interesting about the user, and then parsing through it to find relevant keys and then using another form to get something of real value would be about the most useful thing you can do...
would be interesting to see how ID resolved that one.
FWIW I never bothered. I bought the game for $20 way after it was released and it wasn't worth the effort to get it all dealt with.
Honestly Q3A probably already sucked at that point anyway - with all the spawn killers and cheaters it became almost stupid anyway...
what if there was a bug that caused the software to delete your files without a pirated serial being entered?
I recall a day where I bought myself a copy of Quake III Arena, and the key the game came with was already in use and identified as a pirate key - thanks to keygens.
Makes me wonder how bulletproof this is.
This is the program doing exactly what it's designed to do: Stop ex-convicts at the border
Yeah, because a guy who shoplifted 30 years ago is obviously of unscrupulous character and should be denied entry to our glorious Canada.
However when a guy runs down a women in a street racing incident and kills her he gets two years house arrest, 240hrs of community service and then it takes another three years to deport him.\
Awesome country Canada is eh?
I never quite understood this; can't you compile FF2 on your Fedora?
Yes, I suppose I could do that, or I can grab a development rpm version, but that isn't the point. FF2 has been out for a couple months now and is quite nice and stable.
Instructions here
Reasons here
Legal reasons and upgrade to FC7 reasons are what's in the way, and the FC team feels that FF2 should really have been FF1.5.1 and it was just a marketing ploy to rename to FF2.
I don't want to run FF2 in parallel to FF, I want my system to have FF2 on it.
I disagree with the maintainers here, and I've been mulling a move to Ubuntu because of it.
Can't a prominent OSS person just switch anymore?
Exactly. And for that matter, why the hell should Linus care what DE I ( and a great deal of people ) like to use? Just because Linus likes KDE doesn't mean Gnome is a POS.
Still, I have to agree with Raymond - you are almost forced to use third party repositories like freshrpms or dag because the repositories just plain suck.
Then you get stuck in dependency hell because one site doesn't necessarily use the same package names as the other.
And where the hell is Firefox 2 for Fedora anyway? They decided that we don't need it and they're going to hold out for Firefox 3? What the hell's that all about anyway?
But really, Ruby's for more than just Web stuff.
Amen. I'm not the biggest fan of RoR - I don't find it all that fast unless you're building a ground-up app, and even then it bugs me sometimes.
Ruby for other things - text parsing and the like is just awesome. I have a hard time with some doofuses in my office explaining them that Ruby on Rails != Ruby...
the losses are distributed amongst the other divisions.
Think about that next time the interest rates on home mortgages goes up
That's just ignorant on your part. Interest rates on mortgages are tied to the bond market. Any move in the yield curve will present itself in the mortgage market.
Now mortgage brokers have made lenders so competitive that the spread between bond rates and mortgages should be nominal at best. Mortgage lenders profit by issuing bonds ( borrowing money ) and issuing bonds ( lending boney ). The spread is their profit, and it's pretty slim.
And who holds bonds? You do. In your pension fund, or your 401(k), etc. Anyone can buy them. Heck, you can buy your own mortgage even if you want to, although the rate of return is so nominal that it's not really worth it right now - you can better invest your money elsewhere.
As far as they're concerned, we're just a bunch of whiners and worry-warts. :-
Isn't completely unfounded. Many IT people are just that unfortunately. People on a power trip who want to call anything and everything a security hole without first stopping to think that not every network resource be as tight as a nun's twat. Case and point, I ( and others I know ) have had conversations with IT people something like:
"I need an FTP server set up so someone can send me some data".
"No, it's a security hole" says ignorant IT person.
"They're sending me some photoshop files that aren't security problems" says I.
"Doesn't matter, I don't want an outward facing FTP server on our network. It's a security hole. Have them mail you a CD instead".
Of course I reply: "why don't you just pull the ethernet cable from all computers along with any disk drives, after all, each has their share of security risks too"
It's ass hats like that in IT who don't know about SFTP, SCP or FTP with SSL and are on a power trip to call everything they don't want to do a security hole.
Truth is, the company I work for now is very successful and has a world class IT department, and is the first time I haven't seen IT people who act like that.
Most home alarms out there installed are utter crap.
First of all, in the event of a break in, the police will show up about half an hour too late. They don't care, because you should have insurance. They know there's more important things to do like bust serious crimes.
Second of all, if I have an alarm and have made it clear by posting signs all over my house that I'm alarmed, the thief will move onto the next home that doesn't have one anyway.
Honestly, I could give a rat's ass if my alarm is top quality, I have it because I get a break on my home insurance, not because I feel safer when I go out.
If a thief wants your stuff, they'll get at it, alarm be damned. Thieves can be in and out before the police arrive. Cops show up to write a report and give you a file number for insurance purposes.
David Wilkins ( US Ambassador to Canada), who states that Canada doesn't dictate US policy should now go put his head back in his ass. Read about Maher Arar and the ass hattery that came out of David Wilkins mouth.
If Canada doesn't dictate US policy, so too should the US not concern themselves with Canadian policies.
Funny - most online newspapers and the like seem to, from what I can tell, make their articles fully available to Google from an SEO side of things but want the consumer to not see the same article... They probably just look for the Google browser string and allowo that to see the articles.
IMO if a site allows Google to see it, they should allow users to see it too, otherwise Google yields too many false positives.
Tough shit IMO for the site that wants to have its cake and eat it too.
Unless you are Google, don't worry about what Google's browser stats are.
Thing is Google probably has the largest sampling available meaning that their numbers will be most accurate about true browser market share.
As another poster pointed out, your web server logs will reinforce the policy your web site's already had, proving nothing to PHB's about enhancing your compatibility.
A good conversation with a PHB would be: Our users on our sites are 99% IE. IE is 80% of the market, therefore in the long run we stand to grow our business by 20% if we start supporting all browsers, and you stand to make 20% more money.
It is, by FAR, the best web-based e-mail I've ever seen.
I agree - I really like it too, although I wish they made scrolling through your list a bit better - it's kinda sucky, but other than that I'm crazy about that interface too... IMO it's the best one...
Well itunes is as dependent on the cooperation of the members of the riaa
Uhm, didn't the RIAA want iTunes to raise their prices? And Apple said no...
So price fixing didn't work there... IMO that qualifies as a viable alternative.
Government regulation is not incompatible with a free market.
Bull crap. Government regulation is necessary. Free market's don't work where natural monopolies exist. Even with oligopolies.
Look what's happening today. What do YOU think exxon is doing with all their excess profits? How much is "enough" profits?
say, fix prices [usatoday.com] then market forces would also not apply.
In a day without an alternative I'd agree with you. However by price fixing, they've artificially inflated the equilibrium price and create excess supply. Consumers flock to iTunes or Bitorrent to get their music. Those two are alternatives to buying CD's ( although one is kinda shady ).
The market is already punishing the RIAA.
Also, I'd argue the amount of artists being brought to market is way higher now than in 1982. Again, a supply side issue which has kept the market price down.
By that premise a computer in 1983 should cost how much by today's standards?
And an 8-track in the 1970-s should be worth how much today according to said logic?
Not everything appreciates according to inflation. Stick it in your pie hole RIAA. Raise the price to $33 a CD and let's see how fast an exodus from the CD market consumers make.
The only people I know who don't like iPods are tech snops who won't like it just because its made by apple, even though its a very competant little player.
Personally, I don't like them because I have to use gtkPod or iTunes ( if I had a windows or mac ). I want an mp3 player where I can just add folders and songs and let the player handle the rest.
Sorry, but IMO ( and I'm obviously NOT the majority ), iPods are overblown hype and don't really offer me anything that I'm interested in.
Is anyone still running 1.5.0? I thought the auto upgrade had handled that months ago.
Fedora has no plans to officially release a 2.0 for FC6:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox2
"Fedora users will be to stay with Firefox 1.5 and wait for the Firefox 3.0 update"
That's left me a bit annoyed personally... I like the changes to FF2...