they think that it'll be easier to come up with some homemade crap. We'll see if this effort gets people actually using a non-crap design.
But building new stuff is interesting and I already know exactly how it "works" -- reading books and RFPs is hard, and you have to think about it, and those guys are all just too stuffy and boring in the first place.
I'm a programming literary giant -- like e. e. cummings, Robert Frost, and Katy Perry.
*I* don't produce crap -- I produce architectures, masterpieces, just wonderful walls of code that make other people cry.
That is what happens when you use a consumer product for commercial purposes.
Yeah. Decades ago I ran across the expected lifetime of my newly purchased CD player: 5,000 hours. Don't know if it was the LED or what that broke. I also ran across a commercial player that was considerably more expensive.
I wondered why radio stations didn't use the cheaper version, so I did a calculation: 5,000 hours / 24 / 30 = 7 months. So while it was cheaper for the standard unit, you've be replacing it twice a year with the fun downtime and swapout event that would occur.
"We'd play you the latest hits but our player is broken, so I'll just hum them instead. And here we GOOoooo!"
Whaaaaoooow -- that's a game changer right there -- the more searches you do, the further you go! Google, what's the weather? Google, how far away is my destination? Google, at what time will we arrive? Google, are we there yet? Google, are we there yet? Google, are we there yet? Google, are we there yet?
Christ, it's like we're training people to be little kids.
Android will also be updatable, meaning Polestar and Google can push over-the-air software updates to improve the car's functions long after it's sold.
Quick, tell me another one! This has worked out so well with phones.
And I thought that paying $9.95 for an app was high:
SALE! Take your windshield wipers literally to the next level, buy NOW!
You seem to be breaking hard, would you like extra stopping power? Only $50 for each foot per second -- bonuses for multiples of 10. Today only!
Would you like me to STOP always playing that annoying music that you hate? A monthly subscription is the low, low prince of only $29.95 -- think of the relief you'll feel! Too much? Half the volume for only half of the price: $14.95 per month!
Your OS has been upgraded to the latest monthly release. You'll need to repurchase all functionality apps again so that they'll continue working.
I identify as an electron and I object to this racist and blatant tracking offense. It's almost like they want to know where I'm going.
Jokes on them, though, I turn into a wave when they're not looking.
So, seems like they're watching "people of interest", where interest is defined as how upset you are. Isn't this what they're supposed to be doing? Just asking.
Let me introduce you to DHT from BitTorrent. (Although with your 6-digit ID though, you probably already know this. So let's start a discussion.)
Basically, think of a website. Strip the leading// from it, and then md5sum (pick your poison, I like double ROT-13) the rest, producing a long number. Store all comments by that number.
That's a trapdoor function. Give the site you can easily generate the number. Given just the number you CAN'T generate the originating site. You could get lucky and watch particular pages/sites [ curl www.genius.com/md5/$(echo GooGle.com | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | md5sum) ] but you can't figure out a site JUST from the number.
Yeah, the comments might give the site/page away but unless you've got the hosts data files, you can't directly search them, only fetch info from certain numbers that reflect certain pages. GIVEN those files though, you could scan for quotes from the source page and search for that, and the hosting server probably has IP addresses as well.
Gee, it's almost like you've got to trust the actual servers giving you data. How does the line go? "Two can keep a secret as long as one of them is dead." If it's a secret, don't tell anybody.
You're claiming a user with a 3-digit uid is a Russian troll? Idiot.
No NO, you don't GET it, do you? They've been planning this for a long, LONG time, and now it's almost come to fruition!
That, or remember: they're hackers, maybe they've hacked into/. . Well good, maybe they can fix the unicode problem as well. *I'D* vote for that, even if I didn't!
Given documented self-admitted instance of lying about a canary why would anyone believe ANY assertions of cloudflare about remaining canaries?
It's OK -- they meant well, right? And in today's political environment, it's the FEELINGS that exclusively matter, not those silly outdated concepts of actions or truth. After all, truth is relative -- and as we all know, relatives can be a PAIN when they keep showing up to family events uninvited.
I'm not fully sure which is worse, crappy music or endless beeping.
Just wait until you start getting phantom alerts and vibrations from the phone in your pocket, even while you realize it's in your hand at the time. On-call for computer systems isn't fun at times, either.
It does sometimes seem like a movie with a very low critics score and a high audience score is usually great. So there may be a strong inverse relationship.
THIS. I don't look for RT at all, but the few times I'm redirected there, that's the only indicator I use.
I'm sorry, I must have missed that sequel to "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Really doesn't sound that wonderful, sequels REALLY seem to be going downhill.
BTW, I'm a Nazi Troll I guess - I don't want to see the movie. I've only seen about 3 and don't care for them. More won't help; "assembling them" won't help, either.
I would like to see Doctor Fart Sniffer and his assistant Euuwww in their latest adventure, Butthole Transplant. "Doctor -- it's ALIVE!"
I used to work for Alltel, years and years ago before they got bought by Verizon.
So was CEO Tony Thomas the CEO back in 2015? If so, why is he still there? Or why is the legal team responsible for this still there? Or have they all already "done their duty" and left to spread More Joy and Happiness wherever they go?
OMG -- it'll last for BILLIONS and BILLIONS of years! That's wonderful! But will the guys supporting RAR / WinZIP / ARC / ?Q? also be around that long? It'd be awful to have an ARC file but on a Mac with no way to decode it. (They could at least handle a LBR file.) Easy Alien Computer Hacking.
Then again, they'd better watch out after decompression -- the RIAA and MPAA will be after them as well, since the copyright duration extensions will still be active.
Be quiet, you'll mess up the narrative. We're a victim, always a victim, somebody's out to get us.
Brie Larson: "I don't need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn't work about A Wrinkle in Time," said Larson. "It wasn't made for him."
So I guess your new flick wasn't made for me, either. I haven't logged anything with RT; I don't care WHAT they think. They're another site I completely ignore. (Earlier someone called me a Nazi for ignoring Huffington Post and Arianna -- I guess this makes me a DOUBLE Nazi. Cool, do I get an award I can hang in my garage next to my Confederate Flag? (That's sarcasm if you can't tell -- I don't have a garage.)
Their products cause zero obesity. Fuckheads drinking it like water causes obesity. But, we all know libs don't accept personal responsibility for anything...
HEY! I may be fat but I'm NOT a lib -- them's fightin' words! Water is good for ice and mixed drink "rocks", nothing more, I'll have you know. I only drink 2L of *Coke* a day, the stores hate to see me when it's dollar day, the limits they put on are for ME. (I asked one store about their purchase limit, and they mentioned that it wasn't for commercial use. I didn't ask what that was, I just got a 6-pack of 2Ls and went on my merry way. For a few hours.) Still trying to lose weight, but those pizza boxes always get in the way. Buying 30 x 2L within a few days is not uncommon, that gets me thru to the next sale. Of if there's a drought I manage to suffer thru it. (My precious...)
When I was a teenager, I noticed that after exercising for 30+ minutes and drank a coke, I came out even. So I switched to diet drinks and haven't looked back. A friend of mine (Hi Jimmy at Novell) always nagged me that it would turn into formaldehyde; I always rebuffed that I was saving the undertaker time and they should be paying me for it. We agreed to disagree. I'm going to see the doctor Tuesday about other things, I'll ask him. (And he'll say yes and so I'll drown my sorrows with some added cherries in my drink.)
Next thing you know you'll be calling them "sodas." Pshaw, neophytes. I may be fat, but not from Cokes. And NEVER Pepsi, the world's worst drink -- although Tab does give it a run for the money. Coke's just all around better: Try it, you'll like it.
demanding the company drop a controversial contract
Sounds like you made your preference known to management -- "hey, stop that". I'm sure they will take that into consideration, somewhat.
Since it seems they've pretty much decided already, you'll mostly have to execute (ha!) the implicit ELSE clause in your note. Or grumble beneath your breath and continue on.
If a company is doing something so horrendous to you, you should quit helping them -- seriously. I doubt they'd have me -- I'm old and out of touch (MS-DOS 1.1 supports CP/M calls), but I'd be more than willing to take your place at a minimal salary. NOT moving to either coast though -- there are crazies there. (I'm sure normal people too, but the vocal annoyance always gets the attention.)
Are there any decent USB stick based password vaults?
Even better would be an unlock pin (or fingerprint) to be entered on the USB stick itself.
Great! Then all I'd need is your USB password stick and your finger. The rest of you and your computer can stay behind. I'd rather have the XKCD wrench, thank you.
You're using my words and not paying *me* for them. And you're even CRITICIZING my choices and SLANDERING my good name in the process. You MISCREANT, I'll make you pay for this injustice! Just like the Tide Pod Eating Contest and the Pour Boiling Water on Yourself videos, it's not MY fault if I produce a bad outcome for you listening to me.
PEONS. Get your own life and quit interfering with my revenue stream.
why people are uploading their kids on the internet in the first place?
You wouldn't download a car, you wouldn't download a movie. But would you download a kid?
IMAGES. They're uploading IMAGES -- to share. They're also the parental guardians over them, so they have that right. (I think that's a right.) They're presumably doing it to show off to their friends or their kids friends, they don't realize (or don't care) that literally their entire world can watch them as well.
And what's wrong with that? Maybe another dance class instructor will learn a new move or have a new idea (OMG, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!) Maybe another kid will watch these and decide "I can do that, too!"
Now let's be real -- SOME people are going to watch that and imagine sexual acts. Or bestiality. Or ritual sacrifice. Or beheadings. Or maybe new costume designs or even haircuts. That's true of ANYTHING. (Sheep jokes about NZ. Blond jokes. Rule 42. Someone took an actress's face and glued it on their sex doll.) If you're concerned someone might see something bad in a picture, you (a) shouldn't post it and (b) need to get your head out of the sand. (My
mom used to say, "Get your head out of the gutter."
Seemingly now-a-days, everyone's head IS the gutter. Not quite sure what happened -- "Sex Sells" or something.)
If we're leading up to talking about banning pictures because they might offend (or attract) someone, then notice that God, Allah, Re, Zeus, Odin, Thor, and FSM appear in EACH and EVERY picture on the internet. They're invisible, so you can't see them, but they're always there. So, let's start banning all pictures everywhere. (Here's a naughty one. But include Muhammad there and heads will literally roll.)
And BTW: if I start fantasizing about AOC, Nancy Pelosi, and Trump, can we ban every picture about ALL of them? I'd like for SOMEthing good to come out of this.
Not everyone is a skilled coder. Telling them to build their own browser isn't exactly helpful.
??? You don't need to, it's all easy enough -- doesn't everyone know "telnet site 80"? It's all that math at 443 that's hard -- the sage Barbie was PRESCIENT!
Although binary-decoding moving GIFs in your head in real-time IS fairly hard, I'll give you that.
One week it was cow farts now its streaming music.
Every year for Earth day (night) I turn on all of the lights in the house. For this, I'm going to start streaming cow farts.
But first, I have to find some cows to record. I've got some out back (I do!) but first I'll need to find some musical cows to hit those high and low notes. More info as it becomes available.
Slashdot Mirror
they think that it'll be easier to come up with some homemade crap. We'll see if this effort gets people actually using a non-crap design.
But building new stuff is interesting and I already know exactly how it "works" -- reading books and RFPs is hard, and you have to think about it, and those guys are all just too stuffy and boring in the first place.
I'm a programming literary giant -- like e. e. cummings, Robert Frost, and Katy Perry. *I* don't produce crap -- I produce architectures, masterpieces, just wonderful walls of code that make other people cry.
That is what happens when you use a consumer product for commercial purposes.
Yeah. Decades ago I ran across the expected lifetime of my newly purchased CD player: 5,000 hours. Don't know if it was the LED or what that broke. I also ran across a commercial player that was considerably more expensive.
I wondered why radio stations didn't use the cheaper version, so I did a calculation: 5,000 hours / 24 / 30 = 7 months. So while it was cheaper for the standard unit, you've be replacing it twice a year with the fun downtime and swapout event that would occur.
"We'd play you the latest hits but our player is broken, so I'll just hum them instead. And here we GOOoooo!"
Christ, it's like we're training people to be little kids.
Android will also be updatable, meaning Polestar and Google can push over-the-air software updates to improve the car's functions long after it's sold.
Quick, tell me another one! This has worked out so well with phones.
And I thought that paying $9.95 for an app was high:
SALE! Take your windshield wipers literally to the next level, buy NOW!
You seem to be breaking hard, would you like extra stopping power? Only $50 for each foot per second -- bonuses for multiples of 10. Today only!
Would you like me to STOP always playing that annoying music that you hate? A monthly subscription is the low, low prince of only $29.95 -- think of the relief you'll feel! Too much? Half the volume for only half of the price: $14.95 per month!
Your OS has been upgraded to the latest monthly release. You'll need to repurchase all functionality apps again so that they'll continue working.
I identify as an electron and I object to this racist and blatant tracking offense. It's almost like they want to know where I'm going.
Jokes on them, though, I turn into a wave when they're not looking.
So, seems like they're watching "people of interest", where interest is defined as how upset you are. Isn't this what they're supposed to be doing? Just asking.
Let me introduce you to DHT from BitTorrent. (Although with your 6-digit ID though, you probably already know this. So let's start a discussion.)
// from it, and then md5sum (pick your poison, I like double ROT-13) the rest, producing a long number. Store all comments by that number.
Basically, think of a website. Strip the leading
That's a trapdoor function. Give the site you can easily generate the number. Given just the number you CAN'T generate the originating site. You could get lucky and watch particular pages/sites [ curl www.genius.com/md5/$(echo GooGle.com | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | md5sum) ] but you can't figure out a site JUST from the number.
Yeah, the comments might give the site/page away but unless you've got the hosts data files, you can't directly search them, only fetch info from certain numbers that reflect certain pages. GIVEN those files though, you could scan for quotes from the source page and search for that, and the hosting server probably has IP addresses as well.
Gee, it's almost like you've got to trust the actual servers giving you data. How does the line go? "Two can keep a secret as long as one of them is dead." If it's a secret, don't tell anybody.
You're claiming a user with a 3-digit uid is a Russian troll? Idiot.
No NO, you don't GET it, do you? They've been planning this for a long, LONG time, and now it's almost come to fruition!
/. . Well good, maybe they can fix the unicode problem as well. *I'D* vote for that, even if I didn't!
That, or remember: they're hackers, maybe they've hacked into
Ummm, WHAAAT?!? Deja vu? Did anyone else notice that same black cat walking past the doorway?
Given documented self-admitted instance of lying about a canary why would anyone believe ANY assertions of cloudflare about remaining canaries?
It's OK -- they meant well, right? And in today's political environment, it's the FEELINGS that exclusively matter, not those silly outdated concepts of actions or truth. After all, truth is relative -- and as we all know, relatives can be a PAIN when they keep showing up to family events uninvited.
Self-Harm Clips Hidden in Kids' Cartoons
carefully curated content for children. ... once your credibility is shot,
** I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE **
I'm not fully sure which is worse, crappy music or endless beeping.
Just wait until you start getting phantom alerts and vibrations from the phone in your pocket, even while you realize it's in your hand at the time. On-call for computer systems isn't fun at times, either.
It does sometimes seem like a movie with a very low critics score and a high audience score is usually great. So there may be a strong inverse relationship.
THIS. I don't look for RT at all, but the few times I'm redirected there, that's the only indicator I use.
The League of Fart Sniffers.
I'm sorry, I must have missed that sequel to "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Really doesn't sound that wonderful, sequels REALLY seem to be going downhill.
BTW, I'm a Nazi Troll I guess - I don't want to see the movie. I've only seen about 3 and don't care for them. More won't help; "assembling them" won't help, either.
I would like to see Doctor Fart Sniffer and his assistant Euuwww in their latest adventure, Butthole Transplant. "Doctor -- it's ALIVE!"
I used to work for Alltel, years and years ago before they got bought by Verizon.
So was CEO Tony Thomas the CEO back in 2015? If so, why is he still there? Or why is the legal team responsible for this still there? Or have they all already "done their duty" and left to spread More Joy and Happiness wherever they go?
"Flaws"? You've used the wrong verb there. "Working as designed" is probably more accurate.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you. That was my funny phrase in the 70's, it's not quite so funny now.
Luckily they're not trying to find or get me. But I'll ask Google Home about it just to make sure.
OMG -- it'll last for BILLIONS and BILLIONS of years! That's wonderful! But will the guys supporting RAR / WinZIP / ARC / ?Q? also be around that long? It'd be awful to have an ARC file but on a Mac with no way to decode it. (They could at least handle a LBR file.) Easy Alien Computer Hacking.
Then again, they'd better watch out after decompression -- the RIAA and MPAA will be after them as well, since the copyright duration extensions will still be active.
These are NOT reviews! STOP LYING!
Be quiet, you'll mess up the narrative. We're a victim, always a victim, somebody's out to get us.
Brie Larson: "I don't need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn't work about A Wrinkle in Time," said Larson. "It wasn't made for him."
So I guess your new flick wasn't made for me, either. I haven't logged anything with RT; I don't care WHAT they think. They're another site I completely ignore. (Earlier someone called me a Nazi for ignoring Huffington Post and Arianna -- I guess this makes me a DOUBLE Nazi. Cool, do I get an award I can hang in my garage next to my Confederate Flag? (That's sarcasm if you can't tell -- I don't have a garage.)
Their products cause zero obesity. Fuckheads drinking it like water causes obesity. But, we all know libs don't accept personal responsibility for anything...
HEY! I may be fat but I'm NOT a lib -- them's fightin' words! Water is good for ice and mixed drink "rocks", nothing more, I'll have you know. I only drink 2L of *Coke* a day, the stores hate to see me when it's dollar day, the limits they put on are for ME. (I asked one store about their purchase limit, and they mentioned that it wasn't for commercial use. I didn't ask what that was, I just got a 6-pack of 2Ls and went on my merry way. For a few hours.) Still trying to lose weight, but those pizza boxes always get in the way. Buying 30 x 2L within a few days is not uncommon, that gets me thru to the next sale. Of if there's a drought I manage to suffer thru it. (My precious...)
When I was a teenager, I noticed that after exercising for 30+ minutes and drank a coke, I came out even. So I switched to diet drinks and haven't looked back. A friend of mine (Hi Jimmy at Novell) always nagged me that it would turn into formaldehyde; I always rebuffed that I was saving the undertaker time and they should be paying me for it. We agreed to disagree. I'm going to see the doctor Tuesday about other things, I'll ask him. (And he'll say yes and so I'll drown my sorrows with some added cherries in my drink.)
Next thing you know you'll be calling them "sodas." Pshaw, neophytes. I may be fat, but not from Cokes. And NEVER Pepsi, the world's worst drink -- although Tab does give it a run for the money. Coke's just all around better: Try it, you'll like it.
demanding the company drop a controversial contract
Sounds like you made your preference known to management -- "hey, stop that". I'm sure they will take that into consideration, somewhat.
Since it seems they've pretty much decided already, you'll mostly have to execute (ha!) the implicit ELSE clause in your note. Or grumble beneath your breath and continue on.
If a company is doing something so horrendous to you, you should quit helping them -- seriously. I doubt they'd have me -- I'm old and out of touch (MS-DOS 1.1 supports CP/M calls), but I'd be more than willing to take your place at a minimal salary. NOT moving to either coast though -- there are crazies there. (I'm sure normal people too, but the vocal annoyance always gets the attention.)
Good luck in your probable new job.
If there is greatness in the product, it is only an accident.
Kinda like this article.
Are there any decent USB stick based password vaults? Even better would be an unlock pin (or fingerprint) to be entered on the USB stick itself.
Great! Then all I'd need is your USB password stick and your finger. The rest of you and your computer can stay behind. I'd rather have the XKCD wrench, thank you.
You're using my words and not paying *me* for them. And you're even CRITICIZING my choices and SLANDERING my good name in the process. You MISCREANT, I'll make you pay for this injustice! Just like the Tide Pod Eating Contest and the Pour Boiling Water on Yourself videos, it's not MY fault if I produce a bad outcome for you listening to me.
PEONS. Get your own life and quit interfering with my revenue stream.
why people are uploading their kids on the internet in the first place?
You wouldn't download a car, you wouldn't download a movie. But would you download a kid?
IMAGES. They're uploading IMAGES -- to share. They're also the parental guardians over them, so they have that right. (I think that's a right.) They're presumably doing it to show off to their friends or their kids friends, they don't realize (or don't care) that literally their entire world can watch them as well.
And what's wrong with that? Maybe another dance class instructor will learn a new move or have a new idea (OMG, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!) Maybe another kid will watch these and decide "I can do that, too!"
Now let's be real -- SOME people are going to watch that and imagine sexual acts. Or bestiality. Or ritual sacrifice. Or beheadings. Or maybe new costume designs or even haircuts. That's true of ANYTHING. (Sheep jokes about NZ. Blond jokes. Rule 42. Someone took an actress's face and glued it on their sex doll.) If you're concerned someone might see something bad in a picture, you (a) shouldn't post it and (b) need to get your head out of the sand. (My mom used to say, "Get your head out of the gutter." Seemingly now-a-days, everyone's head IS the gutter. Not quite sure what happened -- "Sex Sells" or something.)
If we're leading up to talking about banning pictures because they might offend (or attract) someone, then notice that God, Allah, Re, Zeus, Odin, Thor, and FSM appear in EACH and EVERY picture on the internet. They're invisible, so you can't see them, but they're always there. So, let's start banning all pictures everywhere. (Here's a naughty one. But include Muhammad there and heads will literally roll.)
And BTW: if I start fantasizing about AOC, Nancy Pelosi, and Trump, can we ban every picture about ALL of them? I'd like for SOMEthing good to come out of this.
Not everyone is a skilled coder. Telling them to build their own browser isn't exactly helpful.
??? You don't need to, it's all easy enough -- doesn't everyone know "telnet site 80"? It's all that math at 443 that's hard -- the sage Barbie was PRESCIENT!
Although binary-decoding moving GIFs in your head in real-time IS fairly hard, I'll give you that.
One week it was cow farts now its streaming music.
Every year for Earth day (night) I turn on all of the lights in the house. For this, I'm going to start streaming cow farts.
But first, I have to find some cows to record. I've got some out back (I do! ) but first I'll need to find some musical cows to hit those high and low notes. More info as it becomes available.
This one needs an autotuner.
Pretty much the only religion unarguably less forgiving than Christianity is Islam.
Clearly you've never offended a Scientologist.
You think you're funny, but you're not. Do Scientologists literally behead you? Or did I miss that particular Tom Cruise scene on the TV nightly news?