Uhm... technically, what you said is, "Purchasing nothing online constitutes an emergency to most people."
I scrolled back, and icebike did indeed say "Nothing purchased on line constitutes an emergency to most people" in his first post, rather than your version. That's the advantage of written media, you can scroll back to the original comment, and check what really was said.
So what's your point of (literally...) twisting his words around? Yes, if you change word order, and replace past participium (purchased) with present participium (purchasing), then a sentence can be made to mean the opposite of what was intended. D'oh! In this case, it's not merely a matter of intonation or word grouping, but you actually had to change word order to change his meaning. So what's your point?
Or the folks who couldn't wait and went with eBay instead
Couldn't wait and went with eBay? Haha...
So you have to participate in an auction, wait until it is over (several days), and see your deal sniped away from you at the last minute while you're away. Ok, rinse, lathe, repeat.
After 3 or more attempts (taking each a couple of days, due to the auction's durations), just pick a "buy now" offering that looks juicy.
Unfortunately, the seller is an amateur who simply forgets to send the goods for two weeks. After reminder, he overnights it to you.
But then, surprise, it's not the item that you bid on. After inquiry "o, sorry, I must have picked the wrong model designation from the selection list when I entered it into e-bay. Just send it back to me, and I'll see you get the right one". You do an then, "sorry, I'll be on a business trip the entire month, but you'll sure get it when I'll be back".
O, and yes, the seller had excellent ratings... as a buyer (lesson learned: look closely about where ratings are coming from, don't just go by the summary count...).
Better wait half a day until Amazon comes back up, pay a couple of Euros more, and get your stuff within the same week...
E-bay is a lottery. You use it for stuff which you don't need urgently, and on which you can afford to be defrauded...
So, if a website is down, and someone goes to buy something, that means they are unable to purchase it later when the site is back up?
The logic behind how they arrived at that number is slightly flawed.
The logic initially applied to airline reservation systems (Sabre, etc.). Apparently, in that industry, if a customer is unable to book a flight on one system (with one alliance), many will then just book with a competitor, rather than waiting and trying again at a later time... Especially if they aren't doing this from the comfort of their home, but from a travel agent's office, and might have to come back there later to try again.
With amazon, this seems rather unlikely. People like to comparison shop, and they'll go with the cheapest / most convenient, not necessarily with the one whose site is up at the spur of the moment.
Basically tanks can't see very well, can only shoot in one direction (and slowly) and are remarkably fragile other than frontal armor hits where they are, admittedly, pretty much invincible.
In addition to their main canon, many tanks have slits for machine guns in all of their sides, with which they can defend against infantry trying to sneak in.
Makes more sense. Shopping carts roll on their own wheels, and you can leave a cup in the holder without extra effort.
This iphone cup-holder, on the other hand, will put a huge torque on your hands, especially with that super-sized Starbucks cup shown in the illustration. Your wrists will ache after just a few minutes of using this. And if you really try to text with this on, and are not careful, the entire cup might end up on your pants...
The iPad or iPhone holders that strap to your arm are used by joggers who want to use their iShiny as a cardiometer or training logbook. (well, so far I've only seen the iPhone variant of them, iPad would indeed be rather unpractical...)
It depends. In some jurisdictions, being fired gives you rights to extra compensation, so it may be better to be fired rather than resigning...
Moreover, being fired gets you unemployment benefit, whereas resigning doesn't.
So the smart move may indeed be to show how smart you are, and cause yourself being fired. Of course, it all depends on the circumstances, as being fired rather than resigning dimishes your chances of finding a job elsewhere.
Interesting, it still finds lots of music. Weird that the MAFIAA hasn't discovered this yet, and sent them lawyer's love letters...
On a hunch, I tried my own search terms too, an I was quite surprised to notice that inurl:cfm inurl:page_id has several vulnerable sites on its second page...
Actually, in the glory old days of SQL injection, google did shut down search for certain patterns (such as inurl:cfm inurl:page_id or inurl:asp inurl:password). If you did too many searches for these, you got a captcha to prove that you were not a "bot"...
In some of these instances, all of ~/.ssh/ did actually end up in the project directory. Or maybe they used their entire home directory as the project root? Stoopid, stoopid people.
(Yes, there is also a nice ~/.ssh/config file, so that you also know which locks those key fits...)
Do that without any sort of authentication, and then you end up with people removing all of the good entries for their competitors.
Of course, common sense and human supervision would still be needed. Common sense would have told them that keeping "myname bankrupt" is certainly not a good entry for myname...
Google does not owe you the ability to filter their product.
If this was meatspace, it would translate into "Exxon does not owe fish the ability to swim in oil-free water".
If they pollute, yes, they do owe to the community to help clean up. Whether it be oil drillers, chemical plants or just spammers.
If his website had all of this information on it and Google discovered it and he did nothing to block them (robots.txt) it's his fault.
It was not his website. But websites of unrelated third parties which got misinterpreted by Google's artificial "intelligence". A robots.txt would not have helped here.
If you don't want Google to discover things about you don't let those things get on the internet.
But what if other people let those things get on the internet?
The least they could do is have a presence online where they could be reached for a manual fix-up.
Why the hell would he do such a braindead thing? Or is this a case of pre-typing his comment in Word, which mangles it, before copy-pasting it back into the browser. Or does Internet Exploder now also do "smart-quotes" (smart minus?)
As I said in one other comment, the minus sign is in all character sets, even the oldest one, because it is a sign for an arithmetic operation. And arithmetic signs were present in character sets since the dawn of the computing age, since computation was their primary purpose back then. Just picture a pocket calculator without a -...
No, he was talking about both the minus and the degree sign.
But you are right the degree symbol is indeed not ASCII, but ISO-Latin-1 (a very common 8 bit charset which is a subset of ASCII). Oddly enough, Slashdot still removes it, even though it predates Unicode.
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Fixing a computer for an accountant and with tax season starting up it was rather an emergency
If it really was just that much of an emergency, you'd have rushed out to town, paid 50% more, and got it immediately...
however given that I have the whole weekend to finish the machine up I suppose not really
indeed...
Uhm... technically, what you said is, "Purchasing nothing online constitutes an emergency to most people."
I scrolled back, and icebike did indeed say "Nothing purchased on line constitutes an emergency to most people" in his first post, rather than your version. That's the advantage of written media, you can scroll back to the original comment, and check what really was said.
So what's your point of (literally...) twisting his words around? Yes, if you change word order, and replace past participium (purchased) with present participium (purchasing), then a sentence can be made to mean the opposite of what was intended. D'oh! In this case, it's not merely a matter of intonation or word grouping, but you actually had to change word order to change his meaning. So what's your point?
Or the folks who couldn't wait and went with eBay instead
Couldn't wait and went with eBay? Haha...
So you have to participate in an auction, wait until it is over (several days), and see your deal sniped away from you at the last minute while you're away. Ok, rinse, lathe, repeat.
After 3 or more attempts (taking each a couple of days, due to the auction's durations), just pick a "buy now" offering that looks juicy.
Unfortunately, the seller is an amateur who simply forgets to send the goods for two weeks. After reminder, he overnights it to you.
But then, surprise, it's not the item that you bid on. After inquiry "o, sorry, I must have picked the wrong model designation from the selection list when I entered it into e-bay. Just send it back to me, and I'll see you get the right one". You do an then, "sorry, I'll be on a business trip the entire month, but you'll sure get it when I'll be back".
O, and yes, the seller had excellent ratings... as a buyer (lesson learned: look closely about where ratings are coming from, don't just go by the summary count...).
Better wait half a day until Amazon comes back up, pay a couple of Euros more, and get your stuff within the same week...
E-bay is a lottery. You use it for stuff which you don't need urgently, and on which you can afford to be defrauded...
So, if a website is down, and someone goes to buy something, that means they are unable to purchase it later when the site is back up?
The logic behind how they arrived at that number is slightly flawed.
The logic initially applied to airline reservation systems (Sabre, etc.). Apparently, in that industry, if a customer is unable to book a flight on one system (with one alliance), many will then just book with a competitor, rather than waiting and trying again at a later time... Especially if they aren't doing this from the comfort of their home, but from a travel agent's office, and might have to come back there later to try again.
With amazon, this seems rather unlikely. People like to comparison shop, and they'll go with the cheapest / most convenient, not necessarily with the one whose site is up at the spur of the moment.
Especially funny, there's even a guy whose last name is LNU: Fnu LNU...
Basically tanks can't see very well, can only shoot in one direction (and slowly) and are remarkably fragile other than frontal armor hits where they are, admittedly, pretty much invincible.
In addition to their main canon, many tanks have slits for machine guns in all of their sides, with which they can defend against infantry trying to sneak in.
But bringing it back alive does...
This iphone cup-holder, on the other hand, will put a huge torque on your hands, especially with that super-sized Starbucks cup shown in the illustration. Your wrists will ache after just a few minutes of using this. And if you really try to text with this on, and are not careful, the entire cup might end up on your pants...
The iPad or iPhone holders that strap to your arm are used by joggers who want to use their iShiny as a cardiometer or training logbook. (well, so far I've only seen the iPhone variant of them, iPad would indeed be rather unpractical...)
... and lots of chocolate icecream in the cup, which will end up getting smeared all over both iphones?
I wasn't idiot enough!
Maybe you were...
It depends. In some jurisdictions, being fired gives you rights to extra compensation, so it may be better to be fired rather than resigning...
Moreover, being fired gets you unemployment benefit, whereas resigning doesn't.
So the smart move may indeed be to show how smart you are, and cause yourself being fired. Of course, it all depends on the circumstances, as being fired rather than resigning dimishes your chances of finding a job elsewhere.
Another example is here: https://github.com/nouh/dotfile/tree/master/ssh
They had some when I posted this. Looks like the "candidate" (or github admins?) have cleaned them up...
... and intitle:index.of confidential finds loads of pages too (most are false positives, but the very first one is definately "the real thing"..)
intitle:index.of
Interesting, it still finds lots of music. Weird that the MAFIAA hasn't discovered this yet, and sent them lawyer's love letters...
On a hunch, I tried my own search terms too, an I was quite surprised to notice that inurl:cfm inurl:page_id has several vulnerable sites on its second page...
Visual Basic monkeys live all over the world unfortunately. Only the jumping monkey lives in or near Redmond...
Actually, in the glory old days of SQL injection, google did shut down search for certain patterns (such as inurl:cfm inurl:page_id or inurl:asp inurl:password). If you did too many searches for these, you got a captcha to prove that you were not a "bot"...
But on the other hand, you certainly wouldn't object to any gals exposing their pubic "locks"...
(Yes, there is also a nice ~/.ssh/config file, so that you also know which locks those key fits...)
inurl:sourceforge inurl:id_dsa -inurl:id_dsa.pub
site:github.com inurl:id_dsa
Idiots...
When you sleep with Ballmer, don't be astonished to wake up with crabs...
Do that without any sort of authentication, and then you end up with people removing all of the good entries for their competitors.
Of course, common sense and human supervision would still be needed. Common sense would have told them that keeping "myname bankrupt" is certainly not a good entry for myname...
Google does not owe you the ability to filter their product.
If this was meatspace, it would translate into "Exxon does not owe fish the ability to swim in oil-free water".
If they pollute, yes, they do owe to the community to help clean up. Whether it be oil drillers, chemical plants or just spammers.
If his website had all of this information on it and Google discovered it and he did nothing to block them (robots.txt) it's his fault.
It was not his website. But websites of unrelated third parties which got misinterpreted by Google's artificial "intelligence". A robots.txt would not have helped here.
If you don't want Google to discover things about you don't let those things get on the internet.
But what if other people let those things get on the internet?
The least they could do is have a presence online where they could be reached for a manual fix-up.
As I said in one other comment, the minus sign is in all character sets, even the oldest one, because it is a sign for an arithmetic operation. And arithmetic signs were present in character sets since the dawn of the computing age, since computation was their primary purpose back then. Just picture a pocket calculator without a - ...
No, he was talking about both the minus and the degree sign. But you are right the degree symbol is indeed not ASCII, but ISO-Latin-1 (a very common 8 bit charset which is a subset of ASCII). Oddly enough, Slashdot still removes it, even though it predates Unicode.