Ah, I stand corrected. I clicked the link in TFS (what a thing to do!). But yes, the main one, while better than most others, is still quite bad, I agree.
I should thank you for enlightening me, but I think I'd have preferred blissful ignorance;-)
The most astonishing thing with this story is the medium. This is the first time in quite a while I've seen an easy to read, easy to navigate web page (from a news organization) where the actual content gets the majority share of my screen real estate. It also was so quick to load that I couldn't really believe that it was done, and for a long while after it had finished I simply sat staring at the page wondering when the rest (the crap!) would arrive. It never did.
Or, you could stop committing and covering up crimes and routinely classify any and all information regardless if it's needed or not. Then nobody would feel the need to leak the things that are rightfully secret.
As a Swedish resident I disagree. While I would certainly not want to go to jail, I wouldn't fear the time there, and I'm a 60kg geek that probably couldn't hold my own against a 12 year old girl. A prison sentence is far from a luxury resort, but in general in prison violence is low here. Lacking a decent net connection (and being disconnected would be a terrible thing indeed) I'd spend my time in the library, reading up on what I'm curious about, or simply ploughing through the classics I've missed. I doubt I'd have much trouble with other inmates. A million dollar debt though - that would destroy my life.
While GP used the word "Copyleft", I'm suspecting he actually meant to include licenses such as Creative Commons - under which successful (as in profitable for the author) commercial works have been released.
It's nice that you've found a job where you never have to learn anything new, or have to get up to date information about anything. For the rest of us, please let us use the Internet so we can do our god damned job. Every single place where I've been consulting that has had similar silly policies in place, I've had bypass them somehow. It's never possible to tell from where I need to get information (google links to some obscure forum discussing the particular error I have in whatever library). Let me guess, you also think that I shouldn't be allowed onto IRC to discuss my problems with experts in the field I happen to be working in at the moment?
Bothersome, perhaps, but certainly not inexcusable. They've got to make money off the site somehow, after all, and banner ads don't always do the job.
No, I'm sorry, that's not how it works. It is inexcusable. Just because your business model sucks, that does not mean you get a free pass to engage in shoddy practices.
Kidbro has been roaming the streets for years, giving free food to hungry passers by. Lately, he's realised that food is not for free, so he's started sprinkling the goods with knock out drugs, enabling him to pick his customers wallets when they've gone around the corner and passed out. Bothersome, perhaps, but certainly not inexcusable. He's got to make money of his sham, after all, and gratious donations don't always do the job.
If you get all linked accounts blocked, it's because you were doing something that would always get all linked accounts blocked.
Well, that's OP's point, isn't it? His twitter account and his gmail accounts are not linked, thus violating TOS of one of the services will not get the other locked. The reply from Google, linked a few parents up, only discusses the trivial naming policy violation, which I guess is an extremely small subset of possible violations.
Be that as it may, for a vast majority of people real name and common name is identical (except that some middle names might be excluded in the later).
If you're afraid of RSI, get a tiling window manager. I haven't used the mouse for rearranging windows in three years. Actually, I've hardly rearranged windows at all in three years. It's a task better left to a computer.
It's useful when you're informing a large group of people that may not know eachother already about an event. For instance when sending out an invitation to a party.
It's just plain rude to share people's email address without their permission.
Perhaps. At the same time, corruption in Africa (I know too little to speak specifically about Kenya) also kills a large number of people, indirectly by withholding life saving resources from the general population. It is highly doubtful that letting corruption stand unchallenged for fear of violence is actually a life saving action (counting gross number of lives saved).
Nothing (at least with extremely few exceptions) the government does benefits everyone, or is accordance with everybody's beliefs. In fact, what a government does often directly benefits only a fairly small minority of the population.
This, on the other hand, would benefit a huge majority, at the expense of an extremely small number of volunteers.
There is no "sacrificing" involved. It's ridiculous comparing them with people committing suicide in somebody else's name, any more than is to say that a smoker is someone committing suicide in the name of Marlboro. The people involved simply choose to spend the remainder of their days in a different way than what they would otherwise have done (with an additional health risk, obviously - many professions involve that). People do the same thing every day. Every time somebody moves somewhere, switches jobs, breaks up with someone, gets married and even unfrieds someone on facebook they affect the way they will spend the rest of their lives. They voluntarily chose to modify how the rest of their lives will look. There is no sacrificing involved, only choice.
No matter how you want to spin it, spamming clearly isn't as big crime as rape, violence or killing someone.
Not trying to put a monetary value on lives, or the trauma caused by rape, but some quick googling dug up the figure $9,000,000,000 per year. That's the cost of fighting spam in the US alone. So, this fellow is costing the US roughly three billion dollars per year. That's a lot of lives that could have been saved, or rapes that could have been prevented, had they been spent elsewhere.
OoO is sadly just not as good, and it isn't until you lose 100,000 rows of financial data that you start to appreciate just how bad this actually is.
Not trying to defend the row limit or anything, but if you've got 100k+ rows of important data in a bloody spread sheet, you're using the wrong tool for the problem. Mind you, I tend to consider any so called "Office" software the wrong tool for the problem (any problem) - but that example is just ridiculous.
anyone with with an IQ more then 20 would knows that that stuff went on
This group does not happen to overlap much with the one that support starting wars though. They all seem to buy the "hey, we've got these high precision weapons these days, so we can guarantee that only bad guys will be hurt" bullshit. The fact that there was such an outrage when Collateral Murder was released is proof of that. People were obviously chocked.
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Ah, I stand corrected. I clicked the link in TFS (what a thing to do!). But yes, the main one, while better than most others, is still quite bad, I agree.
I should thank you for enlightening me, but I think I'd have preferred blissful ignorance ;-)
The most astonishing thing with this story is the medium. This is the first time in quite a while I've seen an easy to read, easy to navigate web page (from a news organization) where the actual content gets the majority share of my screen real estate.
It also was so quick to load that I couldn't really believe that it was done, and for a long while after it had finished I simply sat staring at the page wondering when the rest (the crap!) would arrive. It never did.
Good job, Helsingin Sanomat.
Or, you could stop committing and covering up crimes and routinely classify any and all information regardless if it's needed or not. Then nobody would feel the need to leak the things that are rightfully secret.
Just a thought.
As a Swedish resident I disagree. While I would certainly not want to go to jail, I wouldn't fear the time there, and I'm a 60kg geek that probably couldn't hold my own against a 12 year old girl.
A prison sentence is far from a luxury resort, but in general in prison violence is low here. Lacking a decent net connection (and being disconnected would be a terrible thing indeed) I'd spend my time in the library, reading up on what I'm curious about, or simply ploughing through the classics I've missed. I doubt I'd have much trouble with other inmates.
A million dollar debt though - that would destroy my life.
I suspect the same is true for Anakata.
While GP used the word "Copyleft", I'm suspecting he actually meant to include licenses such as Creative Commons - under which successful (as in profitable for the author) commercial works have been released.
It's nice that you've found a job where you never have to learn anything new, or have to get up to date information about anything. For the rest of us, please let us use the Internet so we can do our god damned job.
Every single place where I've been consulting that has had similar silly policies in place, I've had bypass them somehow. It's never possible to tell from where I need to get information (google links to some obscure forum discussing the particular error I have in whatever library).
Let me guess, you also think that I shouldn't be allowed onto IRC to discuss my problems with experts in the field I happen to be working in at the moment?
Yes, we know cops are the fonts of wisdom in our society.
Nah, you're confusing them with courier sans.
No, I'm sorry, that's not how it works. It is inexcusable. Just because your business model sucks, that does not mean you get a free pass to engage in shoddy practices.
Kidbro has been roaming the streets for years, giving free food to hungry passers by. Lately, he's realised that food is not for free, so he's started sprinkling the goods with knock out drugs, enabling him to pick his customers wallets when they've gone around the corner and passed out. Bothersome, perhaps, but certainly not inexcusable. He's got to make money of his sham, after all, and gratious donations don't always do the job.
Fuck off.
And what happens when the next dude to (hopefully only attempt to) blow up a plane is a white, Christian, Unabomber-type wacko?*
(*that's a trick question: those kind of terrorists target govt. buildings, not planes full of innocent people.)
Heh. Heard of Anders Behring Breivik? (and no, his bombing of govt. buildings do not count - they were a diversion).
If you get all linked accounts blocked, it's because you were doing something that would always get all linked accounts blocked.
Well, that's OP's point, isn't it? His twitter account and his gmail accounts are not linked, thus violating TOS of one of the services will not get the other locked. The reply from Google, linked a few parents up, only discusses the trivial naming policy violation, which I guess is an extremely small subset of possible violations.
No. Twitter only sends its "email" to those that are subscribed, and those that check the archives.
Exactly like an email list.
Sent from your iPhone
Now there's a sigworthy phrase if ever I saw one.
I believe this poster fully describes the issue.
Interestingly, that poster also describes Anonymous quite well.
Be that as it may, for a vast majority of people real name and common name is identical (except that some middle names might be excluded in the later).
No, not really.
If you're afraid of RSI, get a tiling window manager. I haven't used the mouse for rearranging windows in three years. Actually, I've hardly rearranged windows at all in three years. It's a task better left to a computer.
It's useful when you're informing a large group of people that may not know eachother already about an event. For instance when sending out an invitation to a party.
It's just plain rude to share people's email address without their permission.
Perhaps. At the same time, corruption in Africa (I know too little to speak specifically about Kenya) also kills a large number of people, indirectly by withholding life saving resources from the general population.
It is highly doubtful that letting corruption stand unchallenged for fear of violence is actually a life saving action (counting gross number of lives saved).
No. It seems like nobody knows why they're there, which makes it somewhat logical to conclude that it really is because "the US doesn't like them".
It's apparently not because they've committed any crimes:
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=254
That particular one was released though, after "only" having been detained without charges for over 900 days.
You are confusing government and society.
Nothing (at least with extremely few exceptions) the government does benefits everyone, or is accordance with everybody's beliefs.
In fact, what a government does often directly benefits only a fairly small minority of the population.
This, on the other hand, would benefit a huge majority, at the expense of an extremely small number of volunteers.
There is no "sacrificing" involved. It's ridiculous comparing them with people committing suicide in somebody else's name, any more than is to say that a smoker is someone committing suicide in the name of Marlboro. The people involved simply choose to spend the remainder of their days in a different way than what they would otherwise have done (with an additional health risk, obviously - many professions involve that). People do the same thing every day. Every time somebody moves somewhere, switches jobs, breaks up with someone, gets married and even unfrieds someone on facebook they affect the way they will spend the rest of their lives. They voluntarily chose to modify how the rest of their lives will look. There is no sacrificing involved, only choice.
Non sequitur. Proper nouns can be perfectly fictional. Here's a few examples for you:
- Frodo Baggins
- Snoopy
- Atlantis
- God
Perhaps it is your own inability to capitalize any words (except for emphasis) that makes this practice so shocking to you?
Not trying to put a monetary value on lives, or the trauma caused by rape, but some quick googling dug up the figure $9,000,000,000 per year. That's the cost of fighting spam in the US alone. So, this fellow is costing the US roughly three billion dollars per year. That's a lot of lives that could have been saved, or rapes that could have been prevented, had they been spent elsewhere.
Not trying to defend the row limit or anything, but if you've got 100k+ rows of important data in a bloody spread sheet, you're using the wrong tool for the problem.
Mind you, I tend to consider any so called "Office" software the wrong tool for the problem (any problem) - but that example is just ridiculous.
This group does not happen to overlap much with the one that support starting wars though. They all seem to buy the "hey, we've got these high precision weapons these days, so we can guarantee that only bad guys will be hurt" bullshit.
The fact that there was such an outrage when Collateral Murder was released is proof of that. People were obviously chocked.
You'd do great in concentration camps.