Or... you can keep your wild weekend stories off your Facebook page altogether.
Or you could not use Facebook.
What you're proposing would be a world of confusion for most users -- having to adjust permissions of each and every bit of information you post? Just try explaining Unix-ish file permissions to someone (even some IT types) and it's bad enough. Your suggestion would inevitably lead to showing the wrong thing to the wrong person right off the bat due to the learning curve.
It kind of sounds like you want to live the life of a double-agent, hiding information from certain people in your lives. You may have bigger problems.
... And then one [US user] even had the nerve to customize my front end, and then try and charge people for the software package!
If I recall correctly, many (most?) OSS licenses explicitly permit this kind of activity. If you don't want that to happen, be sure you're using the right kind of license.
I live in Modi'in (in Israel)... [he] said he'd sick the gestapo on anyone who doesn't pick up after their pets.
(emphasis mine)
Israel... Gestapo. I'm guessing you're paraphrasing? It would seem usage of the term would be rather frowned upon. I can't imagine the general population frequently employing such a phrase and saying, "oh, we're over that -- it's all history now."
You must be either very young, keep your personal info very private, or some other combination of things. I can't seem to find a reasonable match for that alias Devin Lott.
The bulk of stuff you will find in basic programming is going to suck everywhere for a long time to come, because, well, it has to cater to the 50% of us who are under average.
I beg of you not to confuse "average" and "median".
What's the average of the following values? [10, 20, 25, 30, 100]
How many of the elements in the list above are below the average value?
eh? wtf? Yeah, the name is "Thompson Submachine Gun". And if you look at your own link, submachine guns (full auto, pistol cartridge ammo) are a subset of all machine guns (fully automatic). What are you complaining about?
If you were carping about the differences between "Assault Rifle" and "Assault Weapon", I could have backed you. But you're not makin' sense, boy.
You're leading yourself to a rather pure philosophical argument. But I might agree that we need "bad" extremists.
Having nutjobs on both ends of a spectrum lends the rest of us (middle of the bell curve) a bit of perspective, whether it's in regards to technology, politics or religion.
Of course, it might be that my "good" extremists are your "bad" extremists and so on.
Man... people have complained about all the hype and publicity of the presidential race, yet STILL can't spell Obama's first name correctly. It's "Barack", for cryin' out loud.
Well, you know, it's nice to have idle.slashdot.org as an outlet where all the editors can, in fact, editorialize and otherwise have fun with the articles, even if posting unrelated or misleading photos. The editors can get it out of their systems and keep the other articles they post factual, unbiased and objective. *grins*
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... GlaxoSmithKline stock (maker of Imitrex) is up.
If Apple is so dependent on the health of one person, they have bigger problems than the antics of a few "journalists".
Fixed that for you.
Or... you can keep your wild weekend stories off your Facebook page altogether.
Or you could not use Facebook.
What you're proposing would be a world of confusion for most users -- having to adjust permissions of each and every bit of information you post? Just try explaining Unix-ish file permissions to someone (even some IT types) and it's bad enough. Your suggestion would inevitably lead to showing the wrong thing to the wrong person right off the bat due to the learning curve.
It kind of sounds like you want to live the life of a double-agent, hiding information from certain people in your lives. You may have bigger problems.
I do like to point people to one of Carter's contributions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_brewing#Liberalization:_post_1960
d'oh! You bit. Shame on you.
... And then one [US user] even had the nerve to customize my front end, and then try and charge people for the software package!
If I recall correctly, many (most?) OSS licenses explicitly permit this kind of activity. If you don't want that to happen, be sure you're using the right kind of license.
No, no, no. You found it when it "fell off a truck", remember?
Stellar reference. Your post is highly underrated, good sir.
you warned me... I want to bleach my brain. Thanks! (I think)
I'm sorry I have to ask, but wtf is "/b/" ? Is this some kind of reference to something on 4chan (something else I know little of)?
(emphasis mine)
Israel... Gestapo. I'm guessing you're paraphrasing? It would seem usage of the term would be rather frowned upon. I can't imagine the general population frequently employing such a phrase and saying, "oh, we're over that -- it's all history now."
YHBT. HAND.
You must be either very young, keep your personal info very private, or some other combination of things. I can't seem to find a reasonable match for that alias Devin Lott.
RedSeal, no doubt, is the perfect solution to the problem of all these rouge devices everyone in this discussion keeps talking about.
Obligatory geek reference: Enemy Mine!
I think it's been in a few people's sigs, and I have to agree with it:
If you've never been modded flamebait or troll, you're not even trying.
Look in my history and you'll see I've had a few.
The bulk of stuff you will find in basic programming is going to suck everywhere for a long time to come, because, well, it has to cater to the 50% of us who are under average.
I beg of you not to confuse "average" and "median".
What's the average of the following values? [10, 20, 25, 30, 100]
How many of the elements in the list above are below the average value?
Kidding about the dirty hippies part, but I do have a real point [...]
Well, I'm not kidding about dirty hippies. They smell. Bad.
eh? wtf? Yeah, the name is "Thompson Submachine Gun". And if you look at your own link, submachine guns (full auto, pistol cartridge ammo) are a subset of all machine guns (fully automatic). What are you complaining about?
If you were carping about the differences between "Assault Rifle" and "Assault Weapon", I could have backed you. But you're not makin' sense, boy.
-giggles-
Yeah, you know, I was just reading and... sorry, what were we talking about again?
Please pass the cheetos!
Surveys show that roughly half of married men admit to having extramaital affairs, but 75 of married woman do.
*citation needed
You're leading yourself to a rather pure philosophical argument. But I might agree that we need "bad" extremists.
Having nutjobs on both ends of a spectrum lends the rest of us (middle of the bell curve) a bit of perspective, whether it's in regards to technology, politics or religion.
Of course, it might be that my "good" extremists are your "bad" extremists and so on.
Man... people have complained about all the hype and publicity of the presidential race, yet STILL can't spell Obama's first name correctly. It's "Barack", for cryin' out loud.
PHPMyAdmin, OSCommerce, CodeIgniter... yep. Just quick and dirty hacks. Come on, lay off the generalizations.
PHP doesn't make crappy code, coders do. The same could be said (and has been said) about Perl, but it doesn't make it true.
Well, you know, it's nice to have idle.slashdot.org as an outlet where all the editors can, in fact, editorialize and otherwise have fun with the articles, even if posting unrelated or misleading photos. The editors can get it out of their systems and keep the other articles they post factual, unbiased and objective. *grins*
Cue flamebait mods in 3..2..1..