They physically tested the phone at the equator and in Sweden and that was the only way they could figure out that the solar flux would be higher at the equator?
Like, someone couldn't sit down at a desk with a calculator and trig it out and find out how much exactly the phone would get at 50 degrees N latitude as opposed to 0?
Someone fucking hire me. I will figure this shit out for you. I won't even need to be flown out anywhere (though southern Italy would be nice). I'll just crunch out the numbers and they will be accurate and a lot faster than what Nokia got their results.
No, he's perfectly free to look like an idiot if he wants to wear a flag shirt. And I am entirely free to call him an idiot. I am absolutely free to use flag etiquette to do it with.
This all started out because the poster I replied to claimed that you can't wear a flag shirt in the state of California because it's not politically correct. This false assumption bruised his inflated sense of patriotism in which he thinks that wearing a flag shirt demonstrates it. Those of us who actually know the actual (non binding) flag code know that he's a douche nozzle. And I decided that beating him over the head with the (non binding) flag code was fitting.
But whatever. It's obvious that certain people will not wrap their minds around this because they couldn't spot hypocrisy or irony even it it came up and kicked them in the 'nads.
>Ah, more fearmongering. No, my personal site will never be affected by SOPA because I generate all its content myself. My own photography, videos, thoughts and data feeds.
Someone, maybe me, maybe someone else accuses you of infringing, whether true or not. Your upstream gets 100 percent protection from liability if they cut you off and none if they don't, because that's how "good faith" is defined in the bill.
And I, as the accuser, do not suffer any consequences for false accusation.
It's this post and others like it that changed your status. Welcome, friend.
I am not a flag waver myself, and some might call me unpatriotic, but I do expect those who profess to be patriotic to know a few things about how to express their patriotism without looking like morons.
Many of the ones who have been hopping up and down about being patriotic in the last 10 years have not been ones for freedom of speech. Opposition to the wars mean that you're nearly a traitor. Just ask any of the current Republicans except for Ron Paul running for President.
Although a lot of the "love it or leave it" rhetoric has disappeared as many have figured out how we've been bamboozled by our politicians into two worthless wars.
But then there's the hard-core who are left.
It's funny those who are most vociferous about their patriotism don't know anything about how to express it without looking like complete, utter morons to the rest of us. Wearing a flag shirt thinking it's somehow proper and shouting "USA USA" only proves that you're a fool.
Actions, indeed.
I am free to point out the idiocy to the guy I replied to, and your opinion means absolutely squat.
You should read my post back there in this thread.
I implanted my tongue firmly in cheek and pointed out, that if you're going to be patriotic, you really don't wear the flag as a shirt, as that's what the actual flag etiquette says.
That's totally ignoring the fact that there is no actual ban on wearing a flag shirt to school in California as the previous poster stated and further implied that it's banned because somehow patriotism in California is banned (apparently he hasn't been to Orange County) because it's not politically correct.
ROM images are not some new Web markup technology. They are old tech. Older than the Web itself. They have nothing whatsoever to do with the Web.
MAME is for local use.. Having a plugin for Chrome allows one to open ROMs locally and run them within the browser on tablet devices. This is pretty cool and useful.
It is entirely useless over the Web, however, because who, exactly, is going to open himself up to lawsuits by serving up ROM images of Zaxxon or Frogger out in the open?
Your entire first post in this is a non-sequitur argument merely to flame Google and Chrome for no reason whatsoever.
You totally misunderstand the entire point of MAME.
MAME exists so you can run unmodified ROMs of classic games. Right down to the "insert coin" handling. It's not about running "work-alike games" but rather taking ROM dumps and using them.
This is also not something that is going to be a standard part of Chrome. It is completely optional. It is literally a toy, to run toys. It's not meant to be anything other than that.
First off, Tinyurl was one of the first, if not the first url shortening service. If it was not thought out well at first, it's because nobody had done it before.
Secondly, when you go to Tinyurl, they give you two versions of the shortened url. One with preview.tinyurl.com and the other one just tinyurl.com. It is up to the person posting the shortened url whether to pick the preview one or not. You can't blame tinyurl for this. Blame the poster.
I don't disagree that the longer the chain you make, the more vulnerable the chain is.
I am, however, questioning your vociferousness on the subject and the impression that it gives because of the way you've worded things.
It is rather similar to how some people read an alert on CERT about a vulnerability, hop up and down about it and point at the OS involved (linux, osx, windows, what have you) and call it insecure, totally ignoring the fact that not all vulnerabilities are equal in severity and a vulnerability does not equal an exploit. It is a problem of ignoring scale.
I believe that you have ignored the scale of the risk and blown it up to more than what is justified. Reliability builds trust. Tinyurl.com has been very reliable over the years, so they have earned that trust. If Tinyurl had issues over the years with uptime and whatnot, showing a lack of skill in administration, I would agree with you more, but they haven't, and I don't.
You can skip over my posts if you want. See, there's this thing that if you actually log in, you can set me as "foe" and you won't see my posts at all if you set your "foe points" correctly.
In short, either get an account or fuck off and stop being a whiny little cunt.
Phone companies and Internet companies and all companies that enable communications including paper manufacturers and pen manufacturers aid and abet terrorism.
To defeat terrorism, we/must/ defeat all forms of communication at all costs.
Please turn in your legal pads to the dean's bonfire pit right after chapel.
>using TinyURL just doubled the chances that the user will be exposed to an attack vector.
I'm calling bullshit. I'm not saying that preview.tinyurl.com is bulletproof, but over the years they have demonstrated competence in keeping the bad people out of their servers.
Yes they are a target.
But claiming that they cannot be trusted because of some theoretical threat means that you have an agenda bordering on libel. You owe them an apology, sir.
While I dislike Facebook, it has one thing going for it:
They don't do anything if nobody reports you. They don't actively seek out non-compliant accounts unless you are under 13 and are dumb enough to put in your real age. They don't care.
I can quietly be myself under my assumed name.
Facebook rapes your account for demographics. G+ rapes your account for demographics.
Pick your poison.
I am on both, but G+ lays fallow because G+ doesn't have anything that motivates me to move everything over to G+. The last brouhaha with real names turned me off. Active censorship of accounts like this also turns me off.
As a side note, I didn't look, but I expect ESR to be licking Google's boots on this subject too, as it applies to his "civility" and "hotgirl69 problem."
You educate your users (or attempt to) so that when you tell them "no, you cannot install angry birds" they don't continue to bitch, or ask them to be more specific as to what, exactly, is broken about "Teh Internets," you get an answer that narrows it down to something other than PEBKAC, if possible.
"Hi, the Internet is broken" "What do you mean? Are you getting mail? Are you getting web pages?" "I click on the Internet and it doesn't work".... 20 minutes go by with the user being either deliberately vague or just dumb until we narrow it down...
"You mean to say that you are not happy that the home page is now the corporate page and you can't change it to icanhazcheezburger? I'm closing this ticket."
He'd change his tune pretty fast if he ever had to work a single day in IT.
A "cooperative" IT guy can bring down the whole company if "cooperative" means letting jane and joe install software and attach devices to the network willy-nilly, and this is what "cooperative" means to non-IT people.
"What do you mean I can't play angry-birds?"
At one point, the company I worked for had to blackhole nfl.com and associated fantasy-football stuff because fantasy-football was eating up productivity when people should have been working.
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They physically tested the phone at the equator and in Sweden and that was the only way they could figure out that the solar flux would be higher at the equator?
Like, someone couldn't sit down at a desk with a calculator and trig it out and find out how much exactly the phone would get at 50 degrees N latitude as opposed to 0?
Someone fucking hire me. I will figure this shit out for you. I won't even need to be flown out anywhere (though southern Italy would be nice). I'll just crunch out the numbers and they will be accurate and a lot faster than what Nokia got their results.
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They will accuse you of video taping the movie, be rude to you, rough you up, possibly call the cops, and all the while you don't have a camera.
You point this out.
You get the "please don't sue us" discount.
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Restrictions on free speech? What?
No, he's perfectly free to look like an idiot if he wants to wear a flag shirt. And I am entirely free to call him an idiot. I am absolutely free to use flag etiquette to do it with.
This all started out because the poster I replied to claimed that you can't wear a flag shirt in the state of California because it's not politically correct. This false assumption bruised his inflated sense of patriotism in which he thinks that wearing a flag shirt demonstrates it. Those of us who actually know the actual (non binding) flag code know that he's a douche nozzle. And I decided that beating him over the head with the (non binding) flag code was fitting.
But whatever. It's obvious that certain people will not wrap their minds around this because they couldn't spot hypocrisy or irony even it it came up and kicked them in the 'nads.
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>Ah, more fearmongering. No, my personal site will never be affected by SOPA because I generate all its content myself. My own photography, videos, thoughts and data feeds.
Someone, maybe me, maybe someone else accuses you of infringing, whether true or not. Your upstream gets 100 percent protection from liability if they cut you off and none if they don't, because that's how "good faith" is defined in the bill.
And I, as the accuser, do not suffer any consequences for false accusation.
Guess what happens to your site.
Go ahead, guess.
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My saying certain speech should be illegal would make me a fascist.
My pointing out that I don't like something and expressing my opinion does not make me a fascist.
Learn the difference, sir.
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It's this post and others like it that changed your status. Welcome, friend.
I am not a flag waver myself, and some might call me unpatriotic, but I do expect those who profess to be patriotic to know a few things about how to express their patriotism without looking like morons.
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And you're oblivious.
Many of the ones who have been hopping up and down about being patriotic in the last 10 years have not been ones for freedom of speech. Opposition to the wars mean that you're nearly a traitor. Just ask any of the current Republicans except for Ron Paul running for President.
Although a lot of the "love it or leave it" rhetoric has disappeared as many have figured out how we've been bamboozled by our politicians into two worthless wars.
But then there's the hard-core who are left.
It's funny those who are most vociferous about their patriotism don't know anything about how to express it without looking like complete, utter morons to the rest of us. Wearing a flag shirt thinking it's somehow proper and shouting "USA USA" only proves that you're a fool.
Actions, indeed.
I am free to point out the idiocy to the guy I replied to, and your opinion means absolutely squat.
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You should read my post back there in this thread.
I implanted my tongue firmly in cheek and pointed out, that if you're going to be patriotic, you really don't wear the flag as a shirt, as that's what the actual flag etiquette says.
That's totally ignoring the fact that there is no actual ban on wearing a flag shirt to school in California as the previous poster stated and further implied that it's banned because somehow patriotism in California is banned (apparently he hasn't been to Orange County) because it's not politically correct.
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>Try wearing an American Flag shirt to school in California. We are tolerant of all viewpoints, as long as they are the *correct*
Why, because people in California are more educated about flag etiquette and everyone knows you should not wear Old Glory as a clothing item?
Since when is it OK to desecrate the flag by wearing it as a shirt, cupcake?
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Oh here we go.
Freedom to compute is for criminals. Right.
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Then what, exactly are you trying to say?
ROM images are not some new Web markup technology. They are old tech. Older than the Web itself. They have nothing whatsoever to do with the Web.
MAME is for local use.. Having a plugin for Chrome allows one to open ROMs locally and run them within the browser on tablet devices. This is pretty cool and useful.
It is entirely useless over the Web, however, because who, exactly, is going to open himself up to lawsuits by serving up ROM images of Zaxxon or Frogger out in the open?
Your entire first post in this is a non-sequitur argument merely to flame Google and Chrome for no reason whatsoever.
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>ActiveX
You totally misunderstand the entire point of MAME.
MAME exists so you can run unmodified ROMs of classic games. Right down to the "insert coin" handling. It's not about running "work-alike games" but rather taking ROM dumps and using them.
This is also not something that is going to be a standard part of Chrome. It is completely optional. It is literally a toy, to run toys. It's not meant to be anything other than that.
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BMO
Holy crap.
First off, Tinyurl was one of the first, if not the first url shortening service. If it was not thought out well at first, it's because nobody had done it before.
Secondly, when you go to Tinyurl, they give you two versions of the shortened url. One with preview.tinyurl.com and the other one just tinyurl.com. It is up to the person posting the shortened url whether to pick the preview one or not. You can't blame tinyurl for this. Blame the poster.
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BMO
I don't disagree that the longer the chain you make, the more vulnerable the chain is.
I am, however, questioning your vociferousness on the subject and the impression that it gives because of the way you've worded things.
It is rather similar to how some people read an alert on CERT about a vulnerability, hop up and down about it and point at the OS involved (linux, osx, windows, what have you) and call it insecure, totally ignoring the fact that not all vulnerabilities are equal in severity and a vulnerability does not equal an exploit. It is a problem of ignoring scale.
I believe that you have ignored the scale of the risk and blown it up to more than what is justified. Reliability builds trust. Tinyurl.com has been very reliable over the years, so they have earned that trust. If Tinyurl had issues over the years with uptime and whatnot, showing a lack of skill in administration, I would agree with you more, but they haven't, and I don't.
YMMV.
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I don't really care what you think.
You can skip over my posts if you want. See, there's this thing that if you actually log in, you can set me as "foe" and you won't see my posts at all if you set your "foe points" correctly.
In short, either get an account or fuck off and stop being a whiny little cunt.
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BMO
Phone companies and Internet companies and all companies that enable communications including paper manufacturers and pen manufacturers aid and abet terrorism.
To defeat terrorism, we /must/ defeat all forms of communication at all costs.
Please turn in your legal pads to the dean's bonfire pit right after chapel.
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BMO
>using TinyURL just doubled the chances that the user will be exposed to an attack vector.
I'm calling bullshit. I'm not saying that preview.tinyurl.com is bulletproof, but over the years they have demonstrated competence in keeping the bad people out of their servers.
Yes they are a target.
But claiming that they cannot be trusted because of some theoretical threat means that you have an agenda bordering on libel. You owe them an apology, sir.
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BMO
I don't know what, exactly, your fixation is on me, but I am flattered that I have my own little pet stalker on Slashdot.
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Boyle M. Owl
George L. Tirebiter
Hemlock Stones
among many other names.
>With TinyURL you are really in a bind as you must trust TinyURL itself to discover where the link goes.
That is why God made preview.tinyurl.com
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While I dislike Facebook, it has one thing going for it:
They don't do anything if nobody reports you. They don't actively seek out non-compliant accounts unless you are under 13 and are dumb enough to put in your real age. They don't care.
I can quietly be myself under my assumed name.
Facebook rapes your account for demographics.
G+ rapes your account for demographics.
Pick your poison.
I am on both, but G+ lays fallow because G+ doesn't have anything that motivates me to move everything over to G+. The last brouhaha with real names turned me off. Active censorship of accounts like this also turns me off.
As a side note, I didn't look, but I expect ESR to be licking Google's boots on this subject too, as it applies to his "civility" and "hotgirl69 problem."
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BMO
You educate your users (or attempt to) so that when you tell them "no, you cannot install angry birds" they don't continue to bitch, or ask them to be more specific as to what, exactly, is broken about "Teh Internets," you get an answer that narrows it down to something other than PEBKAC, if possible.
"Hi, the Internet is broken" .... 20 minutes go by with the user being either deliberately vague or just dumb until we narrow it down...
"What do you mean? Are you getting mail? Are you getting web pages?"
"I click on the Internet and it doesn't work"
"You mean to say that you are not happy that the home page is now the corporate page and you can't change it to icanhazcheezburger? I'm closing this ticket."
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BMO
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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BMO
>NEVER make the end-user feel stupid.
But this is impossible. The glassy stare cuts in about 30 seconds to a minute into any conversation dealing with IT or computers in general.
Try convincing someone that "IE is not the Internet"
It took me /months/ to break someone of that habit.
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He'd change his tune pretty fast if he ever had to work a single day in IT.
A "cooperative" IT guy can bring down the whole company if "cooperative" means letting jane and joe install software and attach devices to the network willy-nilly, and this is what "cooperative" means to non-IT people.
"What do you mean I can't play angry-birds?"
At one point, the company I worked for had to blackhole nfl.com and associated fantasy-football stuff because fantasy-football was eating up productivity when people should have been working.
Fuck them.
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BMO
I accidentally left out the entire word "seriously" there.
But you get the idea.
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