So, as someone who likes maths too much to have anyone dear to me go through unneccessary suffering, I always advice them to take a little playing cash to the casino and let the rush of "winning some, losing some" come, instead of taking most of their life savings to the stock market. At the casino, at least they know it's just a game of chance with a strong bias toward the casino, while on the stock market, everyone claims to have a "system". A system predicting non-linearity mixed with chaos? Yeah right.
Well, the stock market would be a much safer place to invest in. I remember a time (in the Dark Ages of typewriters and people actually queuing at the teller to cash their checks), where you had to write the amount in digits _and_ in longhand on the check for it to be valid. I for one vote for the return of the use of longhand in online trading!
Why would hitting 'i' be so bad? If he'd hit 's', he would need to do an inverse Laplace transform to set things straight. If he'd hit 'i', the transaction would have been imaginary anyway.
I do, sir|madam. So does the dictionary. hiatus/haets/ -noun, plural -tuses, -tus. 1. a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
And in this context, so does Slashdot. The Russians have indicated that they will put space tourism on hold in 2010. Since the last space tourist is now back on Earth, the Americans are in dire need of a spacecraft able to carry human occupants, let alone space tourists (with the Space Shuttles being retired and all), and there are no clear indications from other countries willing to send up space tourists, space tourism is now effectively on hold for the foreseeable future, There is no reason to believe it will not resume some time in the future, economic and energy crisis notwithstanding.
I had no problem putting the 'ä' in there at all. If I look at the HTML source for this post's preview, it's there. No HTML entity, no nothing, just 'ä'. So my conclusion stands: I gave Slashcode an IDN URL, and it ate it up and barfed. More interestingly, Slashcode is true to its name like the Cookie monster. Give it an IDN URL and it bucks at the first non-ASCII char, slams a slash in there (ending the hostname part right there, starting on the path part), then it converts the rest of the non-ASCII stuff into HTML entities and goes on its merry way.
What now if I want to post an IDN URL with a password in it? Say the hostname is shady.org, the username is: mr.no.name and the password is: 2531ä Not very strong stuff but bear with me. The spam-split URL becomes:
http colon slash slash mr dot no dot name colon 2531ä at shady.org slash filez slash
Viola! Slashcode will be instrumental in allowing the whole Slashdot-reading world[*] access to mr.no.name's private pr0n collection at port 2531 ! Guess I should file a report on Bugtraq immediately. EVERYBODY PANIC!:-)
[*] Plus or minus CowboyNeal, depending on whether you're an insensitive clod or not
Neither is anyone "stuck" on the Earth. Space tourism now officially on hiatus, one could always buy oneself a Soyuz launch vehicle and capsule, do cosmonaut training, pay licenses for spaceflight etc. and launch oneself into space.
No-one is "stuck" here, but some are more "stuck" than others/sarcasm
If I paste this into Firefox address bar, it works, but clicking the Slashfungarbulated link from this post's preview doesn't. Conclusion: Slashcode barfs on IDN. Bad Slashcode.
I have to inform you that adding a -h parameter to an application invocation to instruct it to produce human-readable output is patented by us. If you do not already have a license agreement with us for using the -h parameter in your application, please contact our sales department.
Any use of the -h parameter in this way without a proper license agreement with us will be considered patent infringement and will result in legal action to the fullest extent of the law.
I disagree, GP just got with the times. Currently, waterfront property in Florida is either under foreclosure, carries a mortgage of indeterminate origin or is owned by the Cuban mob. Take your pick.
There is mush room for humour on slashdot, but sadly, some don't give a pig's ear. Others have missed their chance or blewit. Mods who can't take it are just arrogant puffballs.
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"To tweet or not to tweet, that's the question. I tweet therefore I am, so I am part of a question looking for an answer: to assert myself."
Lately, the money that I DO keep in my home has done better than the money that's "in the market".
How is that a result of betrayed trust?
How about the Madoffs, Icesaves, et. al in the world? How about those credit rating companies passing out Triple A ratings like free donuts? Trust? Yeah right.
if emacs could run on the supercomputers of the 80s, surely it can run on the mobile phones of today.
...or on a wristwatch (see post somewhere up tree). Only the watch will probably be so bulky it'll tear your arm off or make you look like an escaped convict.
Has any mass-transit system actually been required by law to provide this, or beeen successfully sued for a failure to?
I believe many European countries have such laws, but I'm afraid many 'merkins will look at those as inhumane Socialist slavery states anyway</humor> At least I believe it to have been so until many mass transit operators got privatized. Service and reliability have been going downhill (sorry about the pun) ever since.
Oh yes, and developers are prohibited from implementing real-time navigation using Google Maps data or APIs for the same reasons. That's why you now have AndNav2 and Nav4All on Android phones (AndNav2 uses OpenStreetMap data, Nav4All uses its own data source and will soon start charging for its services). There used to be real-time navigation APIs in the Android SDK, but they were ripped from the current release.
Ok, I'll stick with the first point, the rest Google could do if they could do the first, and the first probably makes up at least 80% of the final cost.
Put bluntly, Google cannot provide real-time, turn-by-turn navigation because Google has no licenses from the map providers for providing that kind of service. Period. If Google had to buy those licenses, they would need to negotiate them with all the data providers in turn, and would certainly need to pass the cost on to users.
This must be one of the biggest dupe-fests of answers to a single question in the history of Slashdot. If my eyes were ears they'd still be ringing from the echoes...
You're forgetting that there are (still) some people and communities out there that do without money just fine. They grow their own food and/or barter for stuff they can't make or do. There's bound to be a few programmers there, too.
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The best investment for weathering the collapse of civilization is ammunition, and ammunition dispensers.
W.R.O.N.G.
(or has human metabolism changed overnight such that a person can survive on a meal of bullets and guns?)
Worse yet, the stock market is probably (mathematically) chaotic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_crash#Mathematical_theory_and_stock_market_crashes
So, as someone who likes maths too much to have anyone dear to me go through unneccessary suffering, I always advice them to take a little playing cash to the casino and let the rush of "winning some, losing some" come, instead of taking most of their life savings to the stock market.
At the casino, at least they know it's just a game of chance with a strong bias toward the casino, while on the stock market, everyone claims to have a "system".
A system predicting non-linearity mixed with chaos? Yeah right.
Well, the stock market would be a much safer place to invest in. I remember a time (in the Dark Ages of typewriters and people actually queuing at the teller to cash their checks), where you had to write the amount in digits _and_ in longhand on the check for it to be valid.
I for one vote for the return of the use of longhand in online trading!
Why would hitting 'i' be so bad? If he'd hit 's', he would need to do an inverse Laplace transform to set things straight. If he'd hit 'i', the transaction would have been imaginary anyway.
Here you go.
In Soviet Russia, Bugs Phone You.
Satisfied?
I do, sir|madam. So does the dictionary. /haets/
hiatus
-noun, plural -tuses, -tus.
1. a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
And in this context, so does Slashdot.
The Russians have indicated that they will put space tourism on hold in 2010.
Since the last space tourist is now back on Earth, the Americans are in dire need of a spacecraft able to carry human occupants, let alone space tourists (with the Space Shuttles being retired and all), and there are no clear indications from other countries willing to send up space tourists, space tourism is now effectively on hold for the foreseeable future, There is no reason to believe it will not resume some time in the future, economic and energy crisis notwithstanding.
I had no problem putting the 'ä' in there at all. If I look at the HTML source for this post's preview, it's there. No HTML entity, no nothing, just 'ä'. So my conclusion stands: I gave Slashcode an IDN URL, and it ate it up and barfed.
More interestingly, Slashcode is true to its name like the Cookie monster. Give it an IDN URL and it bucks at the first non-ASCII char, slams a slash in there (ending the hostname part right there, starting on the path part), then it converts the rest of the non-ASCII stuff into HTML entities and goes on its merry way.
What now if I want to post an IDN URL with a password in it?
Say the hostname is shady.org, the username is: mr.no.name and the password is: 2531ä
Not very strong stuff but bear with me.
The spam-split URL becomes:
http colon slash slash mr dot no dot name colon 2531ä at shady.org slash filez slash
This is what Slashcode makes of that:
http://mr.no.name:2531/ä@shady.org/filez/
Viola! Slashcode will be instrumental in allowing the whole Slashdot-reading world[*] access to mr.no.name's private pr0n collection at port 2531 ! :-)
Guess I should file a report on Bugtraq immediately. EVERYBODY PANIC!
[*] Plus or minus CowboyNeal, depending on whether you're an insensitive clod or not
This idea has a nasty morbid twist: forcing those who've lost a finger in an accident to pay more attention to detail from now on...
Neither is anyone "stuck" on the Earth. Space tourism now officially on hiatus, one could always buy oneself a Soyuz launch vehicle and capsule, do cosmonaut training, pay licenses for spaceflight etc. and launch oneself into space.
No-one is "stuck" here, but some are more "stuck" than others /sarcasm
How about IDN URLs? Example: http://anmälan.museum/
If I paste this into Firefox address bar, it works, but clicking the Slashfungarbulated link from this post's preview doesn't.
Conclusion: Slashcode barfs on IDN. Bad Slashcode.
I have to inform you that adding a -h parameter to an application invocation to instruct it to produce human-readable output is patented by us. If you do not already have a license agreement with us for using the -h parameter in your application, please contact our sales department.
Any use of the -h parameter in this way without a proper license agreement with us will be considered patent infringement and will result in legal action to the fullest extent of the law.
I disagree, GP just got with the times. Currently, waterfront property in Florida is either under foreclosure, carries a mortgage of indeterminate origin or is owned by the Cuban mob. Take your pick.
There is mush room for humour on slashdot, but sadly, some don't give a pig's ear. Others have missed their chance or blewit. Mods who can't take it are just arrogant puffballs.
"To tweet or not to tweet, that's the question. I tweet therefore I am, so I am part of a question looking for an answer: to assert myself."
Lately, the money that I DO keep in my home has done better than the money that's "in the market".
How is that a result of betrayed trust?
How about the Madoffs, Icesaves, et. al in the world? How about those credit rating companies passing out Triple A ratings like free donuts? Trust? Yeah right.
if emacs could run on the supercomputers of the 80s, surely it can run on the mobile phones of today.
...or on a wristwatch (see post somewhere up tree). Only the watch will probably be so bulky it'll tear your arm off or make you look like an escaped convict.
Well, I can call you yesterday right now. Well, since you're an AC so I don't know your real name, I can call you anything. Let's do both :-)
Hello yesterday, how are you?
Hello anything, nice to meet you.
Has any mass-transit system actually been required by law to provide this, or beeen successfully sued for a failure to?
I believe many European countries have such laws, but I'm afraid many 'merkins will look at those as inhumane Socialist slavery states anyway</humor> At least I believe it to have been so until many mass transit operators got privatized. Service and reliability have been going downhill (sorry about the pun) ever since.
Oh yes, and developers are prohibited from implementing real-time navigation using Google Maps data or APIs for the same reasons.
That's why you now have AndNav2 and Nav4All on Android phones (AndNav2 uses OpenStreetMap data, Nav4All uses its own data source and will soon start charging for its services). There used to be real-time navigation APIs in the Android SDK, but they were ripped from the current release.
Ok, I'll stick with the first point, the rest Google could do if they could do the first, and the first probably makes up at least 80% of the final cost.
Put bluntly, Google cannot provide real-time, turn-by-turn navigation because Google has no licenses from the map providers for providing that kind of service. Period. If Google had to buy those licenses, they would need to negotiate them with all the data providers in turn, and would certainly need to pass the cost on to users.
Source
w.h.o.w.
This must be one of the biggest dupe-fests of answers to a single question in the history of Slashdot.
If my eyes were ears they'd still be ringing from the echoes...
There are many places in Europe where you can pass through three countries in less than an hour..!
Franks don't exist anymore.
Aren't you forgetting Switzerland?
The current exchange rates for Swiss Franks are here.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA BEOWULF CLUSTERS OF POSTERS TROLL SLASHDOT.
And yes, they run Linux, while BSD is still dying. Netcraft confirms it!
You're forgetting that there are (still) some people and communities out there that do without money just fine. They grow their own food and/or barter for stuff they can't make or do. There's bound to be a few programmers there, too.