My big question is - why are they even bothering to ask you for credit card information? Why not first do a scan to see if you have this information already on your hard drive and then just suck the info over the net to their site?
wtf?
Who said anything about corner wardens? Gestapo? Fascism is an ideology, not a costume party. None of us seriously expects the good citizens to start turning out zieg heiling or anything. We don't need to wait for a president in uniform (oh, wait...)
Yes, the generally accepted practice is to use POST whenever changing state on the server side. But I disagree with you about only using XMLHttpRequest when i would've POSTed something normally. Being able to maintain state on the client and fetch more data (a GET) from the server is a Good Thing, also. In fact, it's what i mostly use XMLHttpRequest for.
Not that that in itself helps with the bookmarking issue, though i also agree with you that providing a link where it may reasonably be useful, as google does, is also a Good Thing.
To your 1st point: you may feel that IT's reaction was overly cautious (and perhaps it was) and that incurring a $2M hit is bad. But by slamming the doors shut for a day, they may have saved your company many times that amount, both financially, and in down-time. Worms like SoBig and friends are not simple problems to deal with. When an outbreak happens, often there's not much that can be done except to batten down and wait it out. Sure, that's going to cost money, but what other option is there? I'm sure it would have been *far* worse had the worm gotten inside your network to wreak havoc.
The basic story may be true, but Cringely might be inflating the numbers a bit. It would be like him to take the wind out of google's sails a bit by overstating things.
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My big question is - why are they even bothering to ask you for credit card information? Why not first do a scan to see if you have this information already on your hard drive and then just suck the info over the net to their site? wtf?
Yeah, they've completely invalidated themselves because blender isn't in that list.
Have you ever heard of a distro called Mediainlinux? It sounds like they're into all of that.
because it was found that none of the survivors had shot the marshal. It's a shame that they refused to leave when they had the chance.
I think you missed the latest talking points. We'll be sure to send those along shortly.
I wonder if the lawyers have contacted NASA yet about the name of that new ring. I hope they name the next moon negativland.
watch how fast the ascent module takes off. This is 1/6 gravidity and it took off like a rocket.
i get the feeling he's a troll, though. (A moon troll!)
you just posted it instinctively
You dismiss this too lightly.
Can you elaborate on that? I've had no problems with it. I agree with your other statements, though.
The book was on the list at one time. What list? So if there's a list somewhere, i'd like to see it!
but it's funny to think about our "recent election" considering we're in the middle of another one.
about 10% of US pop. But our method scales easily. More voters? Use more election workers.
Yes, the generally accepted practice is to use POST whenever changing state on the server side. But I disagree with you about only using XMLHttpRequest when i would've POSTed something normally. Being able to maintain state on the client and fetch more data (a GET) from the server is a Good Thing, also. In fact, it's what i mostly use XMLHttpRequest for.
Not that that in itself helps with the bookmarking issue, though i also agree with you that providing a link where it may reasonably be useful, as google does, is also a Good Thing.
I wish people being stupid was just a fad.
To your 1st point: you may feel that IT's reaction was overly cautious (and perhaps it was) and that incurring a $2M hit is bad. But by slamming the doors shut for a day, they may have saved your company many times that amount, both financially, and in down-time. Worms like SoBig and friends are not simple problems to deal with. When an outbreak happens, often there's not much that can be done except to batten down and wait it out. Sure, that's going to cost money, but what other option is there? I'm sure it would have been *far* worse had the worm gotten inside your network to wreak havoc.
Where do you bank?
joke ruins YOU!
i burd throu nine - no - TEN glasess of th stuf!!
you'd better ease up a bit on the coffee
Convert your image to PNG, trace it with delineate, and open the resulting SVG in Illustrator.
The basic story may be true, but Cringely might be inflating the numbers a bit. It would be like him to take the wind out of google's sails a bit by overstating things.
You need to use more flux!
they hold the TLDs :-(