Try typing in most any republican candidate and see what the first or second hits are.
Well, there ain't nothing even remotely weird in the first 5 hits for newt. Same for perry and bachman. Even when you look at the first 10 hits for each of those, the worst are couple of things like "the 10 craziest michelle bachman quotes" which is hardly dirty pool.
The fact that Mr Gingrich has been in politics for a long time and didn't bother to purchase the domain says a lot about his understanding of how some things work in this day and age.
I think it is great. I'd think it was funny if it happened to any politician, or any public figure really. At a minimum it is funny because of all the people who will get their panties in a wad over it.
If I were on such a plan, I would stream movies less and download movies more, during the wee hours, to save money.
Next thing you know the MAFIAA will have their lobbyists writing new laws to make demand-based pricing illegal because it encourages copying of movies instead of streaming them...
The results of the research, performed by the government agency for fisheries (not the nuclear industry) actually indicates that, on balance, fish growth is actually promoted, as are many other species of birds etc.
Opportunistic species appeared in very high abundances while species with more narrow tolerances decreased or disappeared. The total production of macrofauna increased.
...
Total benthic biomass stayed at a high level in the Biotest basin up to 1989, but during the later years there has been a general decrease in both biomass and abundance of most common species and the risk that fish food production is becoming critically low is evident. The scenario â" increasing fish biomass â" heavy grazing â" benthic fauna collapse â" starving fish â" was discussed already when the studies started in the Biotest basin. Today, ten years later, we can see the first signs that these misgivings turn out to be justified.
Yeah, not quite exactly as you portrayed it. Plenty of other stuff in that report that is far, far more ambiguous than you made it out to be, like growth retardation and increased mortality rates for perch. There may be more perch but they are of suckier quality.
Apart from just rooting for different companies as if they were in a horse race, which seems to be a popular pastime in the press and blogosphere,
I'm always up for making fun of fanbois. But on reflection, I think rooting for companies is a better pasttime than rooting for professional sports. When it comes down to brass tacks, multi-billion dollar organizations like the NFL, NBA, etc are nothing more than bread and circuses. At least what these companies do has the potential to make a significant difference in people's daily lives.
Everything is focussed on the smallest possible sphere of influence rather than looking at the bigger picture - which creates the situation where traffic laws are controlled (capriciously) by the local community rather than adhering to well thought out standards.
To be fair, we do have national standards for such things. Deviations from those standards are the exception, not the rule.
I use Firefox and YSlow doesn't work past version 4. Perhaps the extensions you use are working, and that's great for you, but I have to stay on version 4 until the add-on gets updated.
Have you tried going into about:config and creating a false valued boolean for "extensions.checkCompatibility.9.0" (replace 9.0 with relevant major version number or the word "nightly") in order to turn off checking for yslow?
I have a handful of extensions that haven't been updated for over a year, but work just fine if I turn off compatibility checking.
Seems to me that a whole lot of biological processes follow the "use it or lose it" paradigm. From muscle growth, to brain function and even living itself (get fat and lazy, you die sooner).
So what I'd like to see is research to counter-act that. Instead of a new gene-therapy replacement for steroids, how about something prevents muscle loss even for people who are sedentary? Something to counter-act the "maintenance" requirement to staying fit. That would be really nice.
For all we know, passports and id cards could contain very crude validation rules that could be used to double-check their validity.
If they did, we would know. The guys checking these things are lucky to be making 500 rupees a day. If anyone told them about such a validation system that knowledge would quickly escape into the wild.
Google wanted scan of my ID or something. YOU ARE NOT GONNA GET IT GOOGLE!!! You Do. Not. Need. A. Copy. Of. My. Passport.
The people they have actually checking those scans have basically no way of verifying their authenticity. Scan your passport and then photoshop it to be full of lies and send that to them. They will be happy and you will be happy.
We already have Documentum which is supposed to be able to use Firefox and the like but thanks to Mozilla's insistence on their INSANE version escalation practices, every update is an X.0 update meaning Documentum thinks it can't support it.
Try the User Agent Switcher add-on. I use it to spoof versions all the time. It won't spoof some of the version information that is only accessible within javascript, but it is very rare for an app to check that - almost all of them just check the user-agent header.
From the article, it isn't clear to me what criteria they used to include projects in their survey. It would be interesting to know the numbers based on impact of the project -- a zillion little drivers released under BSD could skew the results.
In fact, the data from Black Duck is "proprietary." The blogger also did his own version of data collection about 6 months ago and came up with similar results as the "proprietary" data of the time. However, it was very indiscriminate. He just looked at the license tags on all of the projects on the Rubyforge, Freshmeat, ObjectWeb and the FSF websites.
You shouldn't trust they are who they say they are if they call you anyway.
Of course not. But there is a sucker born every minute. If they can automate it such that they don't need to physically snatch a phone, just get virus on there that emails the plaintext file to the scammers' server, they could try this trick on tens of thousands of people without much trouble. 1 out of 100 is sure to take the bait.
That is actually the part that scares me the most. If things are this bad in areas that I actually have some knowledge about, how much badness am I not seeing because I am too ignorant? How many horrible ideas have we silently let be implemented, just because we didn't know?
You are only seeing the little picture. The idea is that if someone can get ahold of this data (like say they snatch your phone) then they can use that data to trick you into believing that they are someone trustworthy, like a rep at your bank.
For example, they get your payment transaction history and then they call you up - tell you your transaction history as a means of authenticating themselves as someone who works for your bank and then get you to disclose your online banking username and password, at which point they empty your entire savings account.
People who aren't tech savvy aren't likely to be installing adblock,
I disagree. I point naive people to adblock plus all the time, I tell them just click the big green button to install it and then restart firefox. On restart it asks about adding extra subscriptions, but they can safely ignore that.
Brought to you by(tm).... the internet... a DARPA/(Military industrial complex) sponsored project.... Made possible by (tm).. Xray litography... another child of a military sponsored project...
That's a false equivalency. You might as well argue that creating Tang was morally equivalent to weaponizing anthrax.
A while back I donated money to the ACLU. I thought it would go towards defending civil liberties, but it turned out my donation was used to pay a company to repeatedly call me and ask for more money.
THIS.
That's exactly why I am loathe to donate to any charity. I just don't know what else they will do with the transactional information and its bullshit that I should even have to worry about it. I only give cash to places I can walk in to. The EFF is happy to take walk in cash donations, BTW.
The politicians who wrote the laws about such things game themselves an exemption to call you. It is entirely possible that if you turn around it do it to them, you could be doing something illegal.
They didn't just exempt themselves, they exempted political organisations - an organisation dedicated to delivering the grievances of the citizenry to politicians sounds like the very definition of a political organisation. But then again, I am not a lawyer or a politician.
You said there was no evidence, I provided a link proving otherwise. Now you're playing the semantics game to attempt to distract from the fact you were blatently wrong.
You are absolutely right - there is some evidence for it and he is playing the semantics game. But you should give him some credit in the first place - slashdot is a place where people write conversationally, not formally and absolute statements are often made for brevity and simplicity rather than a way of drawing a line and challenging someone to cross it.
The discussion escalated into obfuscation - and the moderation hasn't helped because many people won't ever see the post he was responding to, and without that context it becomes a significantly different conversation.
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Try typing in most any republican candidate and see what the first or second hits are.
Well, there ain't nothing even remotely weird in the first 5 hits for newt. Same for perry and bachman. Even when you look at the first 10 hits for each of those, the worst are couple of things like "the 10 craziest michelle bachman quotes" which is hardly dirty pool.
People who want to learn about the candidate will want to go to their web site to see their official stance on things.
Maybe a tiny minority will. Everybody else will just type his name into google or yahoo and end up at www.newt.org instead.
The fact that Mr Gingrich has been in politics for a long time and didn't bother to purchase the domain says a lot about his understanding of how some things work in this day and age.
But he has 1.2 million twitter followers surely he is a master of teh intertubez!
Just tried the link http://newtgingrich.com/ and up comes freddiemac.com
Looks like it is on a rotating forwarder. The briefest of examinations suggests that it sends people to a URL from this list:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/12/gingrichs-campaign-still-looks-awful-lot-book-tour/45977/
http://www.greektravel.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/gingrich-senior-aides-resign/2011/06/09/AGN77VNH_blog.html
http://www.tiffany.com/?siteid=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZFfQKWX54
http://www.freddiemac.com/
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/09/11/60353/gingrich-porn/
http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=654836
I think it is great. I'd think it was funny if it happened to any politician, or any public figure really.
At a minimum it is funny because of all the people who will get their panties in a wad over it.
If I were on such a plan, I would stream movies less and download movies more, during the wee hours, to save money.
Next thing you know the MAFIAA will have their lobbyists writing new laws to make demand-based pricing illegal because it encourages copying of movies instead of streaming them...
The results of the research, performed by the government agency for fisheries (not the nuclear industry) actually indicates that, on balance, fish growth is actually promoted, as are many other species of birds etc.
Opportunistic species appeared in very high abundances while species with more
narrow tolerances decreased or disappeared. The total production of macrofauna increased.
Total benthic biomass stayed at a high level in the Biotest basin up to 1989,
but during the later years there has been a general decrease in both
biomass and abundance of most common species and the risk that fish food
production is becoming critically low is evident. The scenario â" increasing
fish biomass â" heavy grazing â" benthic fauna collapse â" starving fish â" was
discussed already when the studies started in the Biotest basin. Today, ten
years later, we can see the first signs that these misgivings turn out to be justified.
Yeah, not quite exactly as you portrayed it. Plenty of other stuff in that report that is far, far more ambiguous than you made it out to be, like growth retardation and increased mortality rates for perch. There may be more perch but they are of suckier quality.
Apart from just rooting for different companies as if they were in a horse race, which seems to be a popular pastime in the press and blogosphere,
I'm always up for making fun of fanbois. But on reflection, I think rooting for companies is a better pasttime than rooting for professional sports. When it comes down to brass tacks, multi-billion dollar organizations like the NFL, NBA, etc are nothing more than bread and circuses. At least what these companies do has the potential to make a significant difference in people's daily lives.
WHERE DO I SIGN UP?
I hear they are taking applications for the best human guinea pig reality show ever.
Everything is focussed on the smallest possible sphere of influence rather than looking at the bigger picture - which creates the situation where traffic laws are controlled (capriciously) by the local community rather than adhering to well thought out standards.
To be fair, we do have national standards for such things. Deviations from those standards are the exception, not the rule.
I use Firefox and YSlow doesn't work past version 4. Perhaps the extensions you use are working, and that's great for you, but I have to stay on version 4 until the add-on gets updated.
Have you tried going into about:config and creating a false valued boolean for "extensions.checkCompatibility.9.0" (replace 9.0 with relevant major version number or the word "nightly") in order to turn off checking for yslow?
I have a handful of extensions that haven't been updated for over a year, but work just fine if I turn off compatibility checking.
Seems to me that a whole lot of biological processes follow the "use it or lose it" paradigm. From muscle growth, to brain function and even living itself (get fat and lazy, you die sooner).
So what I'd like to see is research to counter-act that. Instead of a new gene-therapy replacement for steroids, how about something prevents muscle loss even for people who are sedentary? Something to counter-act the "maintenance" requirement to staying fit. That would be really nice.
For all we know, passports and id cards could contain very crude validation rules that could be used to double-check their validity.
If they did, we would know. The guys checking these things are lucky to be making 500 rupees a day. If anyone told them about such a validation system that knowledge would quickly escape into the wild.
Google wanted scan of my ID or something.
YOU ARE NOT GONNA GET IT GOOGLE!!! You Do. Not. Need. A. Copy. Of. My. Passport.
The people they have actually checking those scans have basically no way of verifying their authenticity. Scan your passport and then photoshop it to be full of lies and send that to them. They will be happy and you will be happy.
We already have Documentum which is supposed to be able to use Firefox and the like but thanks to Mozilla's insistence on their INSANE version escalation practices, every update is an X.0 update meaning Documentum thinks it can't support it.
Try the User Agent Switcher add-on. I use it to spoof versions all the time. It won't spoof some of the version information that is only accessible within javascript, but it is very rare for an app to check that - almost all of them just check the user-agent header.
From the article, it isn't clear to me what criteria they used to include projects in their survey. It would be interesting to know the numbers based on impact of the project -- a zillion little drivers released under BSD could skew the results.
In fact, the data from Black Duck is "proprietary."
The blogger also did his own version of data collection about 6 months ago and came up with similar results as the "proprietary" data of the time.
However, it was very indiscriminate. He just looked at the license tags on all of the projects on the Rubyforge, Freshmeat, ObjectWeb and the FSF websites.
You shouldn't trust they are who they say they are if they call you anyway.
Of course not. But there is a sucker born every minute. If they can automate it such that they don't need to physically snatch a phone, just get virus on there that emails the plaintext file to the scammers' server, they could try this trick on tens of thousands of people without much trouble. 1 out of 100 is sure to take the bait.
That is actually the part that scares me the most. If things are this bad in areas that I actually have some knowledge about, how much badness am I not seeing because I am too ignorant? How many horrible ideas have we silently let be implemented, just because we didn't know?
Well, for one, the roosters of Dick Cheney's EPA exemption for fracking seem to finally be coming home to roost.
You are only seeing the little picture. The idea is that if someone can get ahold of this data (like say they snatch your phone) then they can use that data to trick you into believing that they are someone trustworthy, like a rep at your bank.
For example, they get your payment transaction history and then they call you up - tell you your transaction history as a means of authenticating themselves as someone who works for your bank and then get you to disclose your online banking username and password, at which point they empty your entire savings account.
I find it interesting how many people are apparently completely willing to accept that women's superiority in language ability is biological.
Nah. It's only better because they get lots more practice.
Naive people installing products wise people encourage them to install is why there's a little bit less malware out there than it ought to be. Sigh.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
People who aren't tech savvy aren't likely to be installing adblock,
I disagree. I point naive people to adblock plus all the time, I tell them just click the big green button to install it and then restart firefox. On restart it asks about adding extra subscriptions, but they can safely ignore that.
In the past it "just worked" - now it won't.
Brought to you by(tm).... the internet... a DARPA/(Military industrial complex) sponsored project....
Made possible by (tm).. Xray litography... another child of a military sponsored project...
That's a false equivalency. You might as well argue that creating Tang was morally equivalent to weaponizing anthrax.
A while back I donated money to the ACLU. I thought it would go towards defending civil liberties, but it turned out my donation was used to pay a company to repeatedly call me and ask for more money.
THIS.
That's exactly why I am loathe to donate to any charity. I just don't know what else they will do with the transactional information and its bullshit that I should even have to worry about it. I only give cash to places I can walk in to. The EFF is happy to take walk in cash donations, BTW.
The politicians who wrote the laws about such things game themselves an exemption to call you. It is entirely possible that if you turn around it do it to them, you could be doing something illegal.
They didn't just exempt themselves, they exempted political organisations - an organisation dedicated to delivering the grievances of the citizenry to politicians sounds like the very definition of a political organisation. But then again, I am not a lawyer or a politician.
You said there was no evidence, I provided a link proving otherwise. Now you're playing the semantics game to attempt to distract from the fact you were blatently wrong.
You are absolutely right - there is some evidence for it and he is playing the semantics game. But you should give him some credit in the first place - slashdot is a place where people write conversationally, not formally and absolute statements are often made for brevity and simplicity rather than a way of drawing a line and challenging someone to cross it.
The discussion escalated into obfuscation - and the moderation hasn't helped because many people won't ever see the post he was responding to, and without that context it becomes a significantly different conversation.