It's called The Tragedy of the Commons, and the way humanity has traditionally solved it is private property. So, instead of moving to Mars, let's go hollow out the asteroids (more volume) and move them to a warmer neighborhood, with our own private atmospheres.
Really, who cares what people who can't code to standards will have to do? They've made their beds, now they can fucking lay in them.
That's written trollishly, but it's exactly right. The biggest problem with Internet Explorer (aside from security vulns) has been its philosophy of accepting badly written HTML. Throw something with half a dozen missing (or out of order) </TD>s, </TR>s and </TABLE>s at IE, and it will go "sure, sure I know what you meant" and render it SOMEHOW, thus obviating the need for people to actually write correct HTML. Throw the same code at one of the Gecko browsers, and nothing gets rendered, or gets rendered badly. And this is where the author of the code invariably growls "fucking Netscape"; eventually they just stop trying to make their code work on anything but IE. I haven't tried IE7 (and have no intention), but I'd be curious if it still behaves this way.
Your point about the subjects of the 1998 study being a relatively small group of enthusiasts and the 2002 study including almost "everyone" is exactly right. Plus the fact that there were so many more places "to go" in 2002.
It's kind of like comparing people's driving habits in 1915 and 1950. In 1915, only a small percentage of people had cars or drove, and most roads were local. But by 1950 most families had a car and at least one person in the family could drive, and roads were connecting neighboring towns. Now consider the increase in the number of roadside diners between the two dates.
I don't think that even today's internet compares with (let's say) 1980s driving habits and road system, though. Today, it's still not "everyone" who's on the net, not by a long shot, and a lot of people who are on the net are the equivalent to 1950's "Sunday drivers": they can get where they want to go, but they're not natural or comfortable doing so.
Is says that Comcast has blocked FORWARDING from the Well.
Williams said The WELL applies spam filters to e-mail that its members receive at their accounts on The WELL. But the organization doesn't see its role as sifting through e-mails that are merely transiting the site, in part because of the risk of deleting e-mail that a member may want to receive.
All told, the genome contains over 27,000 protein-coding genes, more than naively expected for a single-celled species and comparable to the number in humans.
and
...making T. thermophila the only known organism to translate all 64 codons.
...there is exactly one Linux. It's a standard.... ...I believe... IBM and Oracle will use Linux to... Push a button, you've got an enterprise database...
Have you ever tried to get Oracle running on anything but Red Hat? When are we going to face the fact that Linux distros are different from each other? When I say "I run Linux" I've really said something as vague as (here comes the car analogy) "I drive a car" (as opposed to "I drive an Oldsmobile"). When people pick on "Linux" what are they really picking on?
To you and the GP:
This was a break-in, not a "spill", which was detected by AT;&T, on the weekend at which time they took very active measures (shutting down the site and contacting credit card companies). Sounds to me like they have some pretty good procedures in place already; you know, the kind of thing a CTO is responsible for.
>>>were effected
>>Yes, we know. Grammar here's defected.
>>Yeah, it's not like the editors couldn't of fixed that.
>The editors could care less about grammar. Nor idiom.
AIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!<head explodes>
(It's 5:30 A.M. here - what a way to start the day!)
LOL too true!
You can factor out most of the weirdest stuff by pretending that "The Number Of The Beast" and "To Sail Beyond The Sunset" were written by somebody else.
Slashdot Mirror
Well then release it on Patch Tuesday. :-/
Or was this a "critical" DRM fix?
OK, I understand your problem. You used "responsible journalism" and "slashdot" in conjunction with each other.
Besides, this is "what's required", NOT "how to hack".
And this is from BBC News, no less. <sigh>
That's when you tell the suits that you have no control over it, "it's built into the system".
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Now that we've got Pluto kicked off the list of planets, we can work on getting Cesium kicked off the periodic table.
It's called The Tragedy of the Commons, and the way humanity has traditionally solved it is private property. So, instead of moving to Mars, let's go hollow out the asteroids (more volume) and move them to a warmer neighborhood, with our own private atmospheres.
I've seen policemen using them at airports, where they're pretty effective at getting through foot traffic and covering a lot of ground quickly.
Your point about the subjects of the 1998 study being a relatively small group of enthusiasts and the 2002 study including almost "everyone" is exactly right. Plus the fact that there were so many more places "to go" in 2002.
It's kind of like comparing people's driving habits in 1915 and 1950. In 1915, only a small percentage of people had cars or drove, and most roads were local. But by 1950 most families had a car and at least one person in the family could drive, and roads were connecting neighboring towns. Now consider the increase in the number of roadside diners between the two dates.
I don't think that even today's internet compares with (let's say) 1980s driving habits and road system, though. Today, it's still not "everyone" who's on the net, not by a long shot, and a lot of people who are on the net are the equivalent to 1950's "Sunday drivers": they can get where they want to go, but they're not natural or comfortable doing so.Have you forgotten that GCOS is/was "God's Chosen Operating System"?
So I can lose the drive, but I get to keep the cap?
I want to murder the engineers who designed the flash drives that the strap attaches to the CAP. What were they thinking?
That reminds me of the Gowachian (sp?) riddle from one of the Frank Herbert novels:
Q: Who governs the governors?
A: Entropy.
I think this applies to Wikipedia more than just a little.
It's all been downhill since Bill Bixby died.
I say we put Senator Stevens on double-secret probation.
Interesting critter.
Have you ever tried to get Oracle running on anything but Red Hat? When are we going to face the fact that Linux distros are different from each other? When I say "I run Linux" I've really said something as vague as (here comes the car analogy) "I drive a car" (as opposed to "I drive an Oldsmobile"). When people pick on "Linux" what are they really picking on?
To you and the GP:
This was a break-in, not a "spill", which was detected by AT;&T, on the weekend at which time they took very active measures (shutting down the site and contacting credit card companies). Sounds to me like they have some pretty good procedures in place already; you know, the kind of thing a CTO is responsible for.
That would be "Insightful", not "Flamebait" or "Offtopic" anything else.
>>>were effected
>>Yes, we know. Grammar here's defected.
>>Yeah, it's not like the editors couldn't of fixed that.
>The editors could care less about grammar. Nor idiom.
AIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!<head explodes>
(It's 5:30 A.M. here - what a way to start the day!)
Don't worry, fusion is just ten years away ;-)
LOL too true!
You can factor out most of the weirdest stuff by pretending that "The Number Of The Beast" and "To Sail Beyond The Sunset" were written by somebody else.