I love the "GNU/Linux" debate. Is the "GNU/" bit required by GNU's license? No? End of discussion. You can ask nicely, but don't continue to bitch about it ad infinitum if the request is turned down.
What else could he possibly say? "We cheated taxes worldwide by colluding with corrupt governments and setting up legal constructs explicitely designed to avoid paying due taxes and now we've been caught and have to pay just the unpaid taxes without so much as a penalty or even interest".
It just has a dent in it, and the dented area is still functioning (albeit somewhat less efficient). Seems to me they got it just about as good as you could realistically wish for. Or would you rather have had a hole that might have severed electrical connections?
Because there isn't a single list price for a '93 Escort; it depends on the body type and engine. I also took into account haggling on the price. Also, the number was chosen randomly.
JavaScript seems like an extraordinarily bad choice for a customer-scripting language. I like JavaScript, but it has way too many dark corners to push it as a language for people with limited coding experience. This is what a language like BASIC was built for.
10 print "Wow, I can make apps with this tool without hiring an expensive developer." 20 print "Oh, this tool only lets me make generic apps and none of the unique features I need; hire a developer." 30 goto 10
Pointer math is a problem. And if pointer math isn't a problem for you; you have a problem.
Seriously though; pretty much any language is nicer to work with than c. c is still here because none of those language can do everything that c can do nor do it quite as well. It's no good having a language that can do 99% of the work better and 1% of the work not at all.
Problem is that making deals with a government is not illegal. These companies, no matter how evil, acted according to how the lawmakers told them would not be illegal. The government may be acting illegally, but who's going to sue them?
Same here. I hate AV software with a passion bcause it slows your computer to a crawl, gives a false sense of security and once it's on your computer it takes a complete reinstall of the OS to get it off again.
Good AV software would have prevented you installing Symantec.
My car stereo only takes CD's, so yeah... still using optical media. I rarely ever use DVD's any more; only for archival grade DVD backups (and even those are becoming increasingly rare) and have never even bothered with BD. I own a BD player as an amplifier for my TV because the audio quality was better than a similarly priced home theater system or *spit* "soundbar", but have never tried an actual BD disc.
The assumption is that you are a terrorist. Assuming you are a terrorist, why would you not use Twitter or Facebook? Because they are US products, and terrorists hate the US! Therefore you have now provided evidence to back up the assumption that you are a terrorist. If you did use Twitter or Facebook, the question would be why a terrorist would do so? The obvious reason would be that you were trying to create a fake cover story. You'd only need a cover story if you were a terrorist, therefore you have once again proven to be a terrorist.
Seriously though; is the idea of asking for social media names really that much more insane than building a physical wall?
Making a "perfect" version of anything is hard. Making a password strength checker that is (far!) better than the common "atleast 8 chars, 1 caps, 1 digit" isn't.
Imagine a good password checker, which can actually does do some proper calculation of entropy.
User types in password "Password1". Checker reports "password not strong enough". The user says "Welll... it contains 8 chars, a capital and a number, that's usually enough" and tries "Password_1". Checker reports "password not strong enough". "Uhm... what more do I need to do?" the user thinks, "It doesn't tell me what's missing" and tries "ThisIsMyPassword_1!" Checker reports "password not strong enough". User gives up and signs up for a competitor's service.
The problem isn't that improving password checkers is hard (it's not), the problem it's nearly impossible to giving the user feedback that actually helps them.
I made a password generator which tries to do some sort of entropy calculation: http://random.toyls.com/. When I tried to implement the same calculation for a password checker on a website, I ran into exactly these kind of usability problems. Explaining you need 8 characters, atleast 1 capital and 1 digit is easy. Explaining a more involved algorithm is not.
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I love the "GNU/Linux" debate. Is the "GNU/" bit required by GNU's license? No? End of discussion.
You can ask nicely, but don't continue to bitch about it ad infinitum if the request is turned down.
What else could he possibly say? "We cheated taxes worldwide by colluding with corrupt governments and setting up legal constructs explicitely designed to avoid paying due taxes and now we've been caught and have to pay just the unpaid taxes without so much as a penalty or even interest".
It just has a dent in it, and the dented area is still functioning (albeit somewhat less efficient). Seems to me they got it just about as good as you could realistically wish for. Or would you rather have had a hole that might have severed electrical connections?
I don't have to imagine; I'm seeing it right here.
Custom firmware will make most brandname hardware work well.
It's the lack of excessive preinstalled malware that made Nexus devices special.
Because there isn't a single list price for a '93 Escort; it depends on the body type and engine.
I also took into account haggling on the price.
Also, the number was chosen randomly.
Kill all birds.
They've been providing quills to terrorists since before the dawn of mankind.
Twitter has much more money that could be awarded to the plaintiff, that's the difference.
At 30% discount a year? Sure! Do you have change for $ 0.23?
JavaScript seems like an extraordinarily bad choice for a customer-scripting language. I like JavaScript, but it has way too many dark corners to push it as a language for people with limited coding experience. This is what a language like BASIC was built for.
10 print "Wow, I can make apps with this tool without hiring an expensive developer."
20 print "Oh, this tool only lets me make generic apps and none of the unique features I need; hire a developer."
30 goto 10
Because WASD would be a bitch to use on alphabetic keyboards.
Pointer math is a problem.
And if pointer math isn't a problem for you; you have a problem.
Seriously though; pretty much any language is nicer to work with than c. c is still here because none of those language can do everything that c can do nor do it quite as well. It's no good having a language that can do 99% of the work better and 1% of the work not at all.
That's because despite all the repeated and very loud claiming, there are still going to be retards assuming it's aliens.
Problem is that making deals with a government is not illegal.
These companies, no matter how evil, acted according to how the lawmakers told them would not be illegal.
The government may be acting illegally, but who's going to sue them?
You do understand that the point is that those people should come out without debilitating psychological disorders, right?
Same here. I hate AV software with a passion bcause it slows your computer to a crawl, gives a false sense of security and once it's on your computer it takes a complete reinstall of the OS to get it off again.
Good AV software would have prevented you installing Symantec.
Profit in a visible virus; very little.
Profit in a virus that acts as a slave in a botnet and monitors your computer usage; a lot more.
My car stereo only takes CD's, so yeah... still using optical media. I rarely ever use DVD's any more; only for archival grade DVD backups (and even those are becoming increasingly rare) and have never even bothered with BD. I own a BD player as an amplifier for my TV because the audio quality was better than a similarly priced home theater system or *spit* "soundbar", but have never tried an actual BD disc.
And that $1 sim card comes with unlimited, free bandwidth? Wow, that IS better than open wi-fi!
In a way. If we weren't users of Linux, Linus wouldn't be so famous or get any of the benefits of this fame.
The assumption is that you are a terrorist.
Assuming you are a terrorist, why would you not use Twitter or Facebook?
Because they are US products, and terrorists hate the US!
Therefore you have now provided evidence to back up the assumption that you are a terrorist.
If you did use Twitter or Facebook, the question would be why a terrorist would do so?
The obvious reason would be that you were trying to create a fake cover story.
You'd only need a cover story if you were a terrorist, therefore you have once again proven to be a terrorist.
Seriously though; is the idea of asking for social media names really that much more insane than building a physical wall?
Making a "perfect" version of anything is hard. Making a password strength checker that is (far!) better than the common "atleast 8 chars, 1 caps, 1 digit" isn't.
The problem is one of usability.
Imagine a good password checker, which can actually does do some proper calculation of entropy.
User types in password "Password1".
Checker reports "password not strong enough".
The user says "Welll... it contains 8 chars, a capital and a number, that's usually enough" and tries "Password_1".
Checker reports "password not strong enough".
"Uhm... what more do I need to do?" the user thinks, "It doesn't tell me what's missing" and tries "ThisIsMyPassword_1!"
Checker reports "password not strong enough".
User gives up and signs up for a competitor's service.
The problem isn't that improving password checkers is hard (it's not), the problem it's nearly impossible to giving the user feedback that actually helps them.
I made a password generator which tries to do some sort of entropy calculation: http://random.toyls.com/.
When I tried to implement the same calculation for a password checker on a website, I ran into exactly these kind of usability problems.
Explaining you need 8 characters, atleast 1 capital and 1 digit is easy. Explaining a more involved algorithm is not.
How about performance-per-dollar?