Uh, if you only use it rarely, why do you keep it on all the time? Mine is off unless I use it. It's not like my life would be so short that I couldn't wait the 10 seconds it needs to warm up.
Yes, but you assume that the police will give a fuck. And for at least 20 years, nobody has given a fuck when it comes to public or shared property.
You can steal one dollar from a million people and each of them will be laughed at when they go to the police. But steal one million from one person and you're going to have everything law enforcement has to offer on your tail.
Wikipedia has this strange policy that it only accepts secondary sources, not primary sources.
So if WP gets your name wrong, you can show up in person with your passport in hand and they won't change a thing. But if you write a post on your blog about how WP got your name wrong - you can use that as a source and get the page changed.
I understand what the rule is for, but there are edge cases where it's insane.
So, the "correct" (according to WP) procedure for your politician is to add his statement to his own website and then add a paragraph that says "X, however, maintains that... (link to his webpage)".
The wealth that the money represented was not "lost", but rather redistributed.
Technically, true.
In all other aspects, false.
Spammers, criminals, monopolies and exploitative traders all "redistribute" wealth. However, they do so at the detriment of society (i.e. everyone else), which is why we don't want them.
Several years ago, I moved from an inkjet printer to a (color) laser printer. At home, for private use. I've never looked back, and these days I have no f&%$! idea why people buy injket printers.
It's got higher quality, it's cheaper per page, a toner lasts forever, and I can fire it up after not having used it for three months and it'll print - no cleaning required.
I personally own an OKI and am happy with it, but I agree with you that there is no true market leader. Online reviews can't be trusted, so I went with the technical data. Maybe that's a workable approach for you, just go for the facts?
> (I give people the option of replying with the word "unsubscribe", even though that creates some hassle for me to process those requests manually, because many of our users are on censored networks and cannot access the unsubscribe link on the peacefire.org website.)
Setup your system to they are processed automatically. It is 2013. This is/. Please submit an "ask Slashdot" if you require assistance with that.
That's not even worthy of an "ask slashdot" question. We've had that particular piece of technology for about 15 years (Mailman was released in 1999).
You know, if you get frequent run-ins with anti-spam tools, then maybe they are all stupid and broken and need to be re-examined - or, maybe, you need to re-examine the way you work, including the tough question of maybe you ARE a spammer?
The #1 red flag for any conspiracy theory, crackpot or pseudo-science is always the attribution of blame exclusively to outside forces. If nobody listens to you, it must be because of a conspiracy to cover things up, or the establishment trying to put you down, or whatever.
As other posters have outlined: You had open proxies, thus you rightfully belonged on the blocklists. If you re-examine your other problems, you might also find that everything works as it should in the anti-spam world, except for the spammers.
despite all evidence EVER, showing they only have the opposite effects.
I'd be interested in that evidence, because up until now all the evidence I've ever seen indicates that gun accidents are in fact causing more deaths than gun-related crimes.
You seem to think the USA is a free market country. It isn't. It's a capitalist country. While the two share certain similarities, they aren't the same thing.
You missed that Google is putting more and more Android core apps into close source? The old (free) versions lack features and won't be used by regular users for long. I wouldn't bet on Android hanging around forever.
Basically, it's better than iOS in that regard, but not even near Linux.
Ask not for degrees, but whether or not they studied. The dot-com era was worst, but companies looking for IT talent have never stopped hiring people straight from university, and when you're a starving student and you're offered a really cool job for what at that time appears to be outrageously generous money, dropping out and taking the job is a serious alternative.
I know a lot of people who dropped out, some less than a year away from their degree.
Sorry but declaring that "the tool is what makes you a professional" is wannabe thinking.
You are still stuck in marketing magazine land.
It's not the tool, it's the approach to tools that make you a professional. The amateur will buy the one expensive camera and think he's cool. Every professional photographer I know - and I happen to know a couple - has first and foremost more then one camera he uses, and a collection of lenses, too.
They aren't necessarily the most expensive or most exclusive, it's a toolbox so he can pick a hammer when he's faced with a nail, and a screwdriver when it's a screw. It's not about having the most expensive hammer, it's about having a toolbox with all the tools you'll need.
Professionals aren't concerned with the "best" tools. The only people concerned with that are the wannabes with $5000 DSLRs who look at you blankly if you ask what an f-stop is.
You're a trollish moron who thinks that "best" and "expensive" have anything whatsoever in common. Idiots like you buy the expensive camera, while professionals know that for this particular shot, with the visuals they have in mind, the cheap throwaway will produce exactly what they want, while for that other shot with the visuals they have in mind for that, the expensive one and a full lighting rig are needed.
I spent three paragraphs above trying to explain the different between the amateur "best tool money can buy" and the professional "best tool for this particular job" approach. Maybe you should've read it before hitting reply.
It seems not every sysadmin got the memo and implemented Redmond's preferred workarounds
I stopped bothering with IE-specific quirks many years ago. If it can't render a standard-compliant page, then use a different browser for all I care. In fact, one of may sites catches IE users and tells them that much. And lo and behold, it works, on that site IE has dropped to #4 or #5 in the browser stats, consistently. Yes, Safari is more popular, and in good months, Opera.
Stop tolerating assholes and they just might go away, but it's a community effort.
If you use one tool for everything, you're lost in the amateur world.
Professionals in every profession on this planet have a vast array of tools and pick the right tool for the right job. It's one of the things that makes you a professional.
I personally use WYSIWYG editors for general text editing like letters, articles and some books. Stuff like Pages or iBooks Author (since I'm on a Mac).
For longer books and fiction, Scrivener is my tool of choice and since it can export epub, it was my tool of choice for the book I published last year. As an author's tool, it's fantastic and not at least knowing it (even if you find it's not to your taste) is like being a programmer and not knowing what an IDE is.
Speaking of which, I abhor IDEs for programming because all I've ever tested are sluggish and more confusing than worthwhile, and they never work the way I want, and I pity everyone who uses Eclipse. So for programming, HTML and such, Sublime Text 2 is my choice, though I've used TextMate for years and it was fantastic. For Subl, there is better plugin support, however, and its auto-completion and coding tools do almost everything that IDEs do, at least for the stuff I code (which is mostly web-programming, so I don't need a compiler and debugger built-in).
There's also LaTeX and LyX, which I haven't touched in a long time but I still love and I'm sure I'll find my way back to it eventually. There's also a bundle of other text-based tools I use for specific parts, like graphviz (which really shines if you use the GUI tool to get an instant-preview). Basically, to end where I started: I always try to look at the job and find the best tool for it. Swiss army knifes are cute if you're trecking and can't bring much stuff, but when you're on your computer and can bring whatever tools you want, bring the best ones, not the cute one.
It's an ongoing headache, but usually the good guys win.
[citation needed]
I've seen a couple ugly edit wars, and while that's just anecdotal evidence, I haven't seen the good guys winning very much.
Persistence wins, every time. And there are only two kinds of people with unbelievable persistence: The fanatical extremists who think the world will come to an end if their favorite conspiracy theory isn't included, and the people who don't care if you revert because they're paid by the hour for their edits.
Back when the USG banned the use of Huawei products, most people assumed that it meant that there was spying functionality in it that had been discovered.
Uh, no? Over here in Europe, a lot of people assumed it meant the US vendors had had a nice chat with their government, complaining about the cheaper competition and promising campaign contributions.
Not that we weren't afraid of chinese backdoors. I was in the telco industry back then and the discussions were fierce and not exactly short about whether or not to use their stuff. But the US banning them just as they were gaining market share like crazy? That was such an obvious protectionist move.
First, having the source code doesn't tell you the binary running on the device was actually built from the source code you have in your hands.
Second, even if you validate the build chain, you don't know what the compiler, linker and other parts of the toolchain have inserted. This is really, really old knowledge, we're talking at least 30 years.
Third, even if you are sure about the software, you still don't know if there's trickery in the hardware.
You're certainly better off if you have the source code, but don't ever think that alone solves anything.
Again, you are deluded. The 0.1% have already reached what many of us dream of: True international citizenship. They have homes, offices and wealth wherever they want. Right now, the US is attractive to many of them due to excellent infrastructure, security, health care (they can afford it) and so on.
But look to Europe. Tons of celebrities have their official homes in Monaco, for tax reasons. Same thing as with companies, just on a personal level.
If the US were to change its laws in any dramatic way that pisses the money elite off, half of them would be officially or actually living somewhere else within the month.
You are living in a fantasy world. You think there is such a thing as a "US company". You really think those companies have the slightest bit of patriotism? Most of them already route most of their profits through some tax haven in order to not pay a dime more in taxes in the US than they absolutely have to.
BAM! One of the stupidest statements I've ever read.
Sometimes, the stupid is with the reader and not the writer.
There is a difference between "high spending" and "spending more than you have". One looks at an absolute value, the other at a relative value. That is not a tautology.
Note the use of the word "limited".
Note how this has nothing to do with the argument, because nobody has made a proposal that includes unlimited goods and services.
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Uh, if you only use it rarely, why do you keep it on all the time? Mine is off unless I use it. It's not like my life would be so short that I couldn't wait the 10 seconds it needs to warm up.
Yes, but you assume that the police will give a fuck. And for at least 20 years, nobody has given a fuck when it comes to public or shared property.
You can steal one dollar from a million people and each of them will be laughed at when they go to the police. But steal one million from one person and you're going to have everything law enforcement has to offer on your tail.
Is there anything at all that advertising and marketing firms can't turn to shit? Anything?
As soon as someone finds an answer to that question and posts it, they will work on finding ways to fuck that up, too.
Wikipedia has this strange policy that it only accepts secondary sources, not primary sources.
So if WP gets your name wrong, you can show up in person with your passport in hand and they won't change a thing. But if you write a post on your blog about how WP got your name wrong - you can use that as a source and get the page changed.
I understand what the rule is for, but there are edge cases where it's insane.
So, the "correct" (according to WP) procedure for your politician is to add his statement to his own website and then add a paragraph that says "X, however, maintains that ... (link to his webpage)".
Maybe they will donate it to children with cancer?
instant +5 Funny
Secondly, there's dumb, and there's government dumb.
Which is why the private sector invented and implemented the postal service, the Internet and the space program... oh, wait...
The "x can do everything better" world-view is simplistic, stupid and dangerous, no matter what "x" is.
The wealth that the money represented was not "lost", but rather redistributed.
Technically, true.
In all other aspects, false.
Spammers, criminals, monopolies and exploitative traders all "redistribute" wealth. However, they do so at the detriment of society (i.e. everyone else), which is why we don't want them.
Several years ago, I moved from an inkjet printer to a (color) laser printer. At home, for private use. I've never looked back, and these days I have no f&%$! idea why people buy injket printers.
It's got higher quality, it's cheaper per page, a toner lasts forever, and I can fire it up after not having used it for three months and it'll print - no cleaning required.
I personally own an OKI and am happy with it, but I agree with you that there is no true market leader. Online reviews can't be trusted, so I went with the technical data. Maybe that's a workable approach for you, just go for the facts?
> (I give people the option of replying with the word "unsubscribe", even though that creates some hassle for me to process those requests manually, because many of our users are on censored networks and cannot access the unsubscribe link on the peacefire.org website.)
Setup your system to they are processed automatically. It is 2013. This is /. Please submit an "ask Slashdot" if you require assistance with that.
That's not even worthy of an "ask slashdot" question. We've had that particular piece of technology for about 15 years (Mailman was released in 1999).
You know, if you get frequent run-ins with anti-spam tools, then maybe they are all stupid and broken and need to be re-examined - or, maybe, you need to re-examine the way you work, including the tough question of maybe you ARE a spammer?
The #1 red flag for any conspiracy theory, crackpot or pseudo-science is always the attribution of blame exclusively to outside forces. If nobody listens to you, it must be because of a conspiracy to cover things up, or the establishment trying to put you down, or whatever.
As other posters have outlined: You had open proxies, thus you rightfully belonged on the blocklists. If you re-examine your other problems, you might also find that everything works as it should in the anti-spam world, except for the spammers.
despite all evidence EVER, showing they only have the opposite effects.
I'd be interested in that evidence, because up until now all the evidence I've ever seen indicates that gun accidents are in fact causing more deaths than gun-related crimes.
You seem to think the USA is a free market country. It isn't. It's a capitalist country. While the two share certain similarities, they aren't the same thing.
You missed that Google is putting more and more Android core apps into close source? The old (free) versions lack features and won't be used by regular users for long. I wouldn't bet on Android hanging around forever.
Basically, it's better than iOS in that regard, but not even near Linux.
...missing several points.
Ask not for degrees, but whether or not they studied. The dot-com era was worst, but companies looking for IT talent have never stopped hiring people straight from university, and when you're a starving student and you're offered a really cool job for what at that time appears to be outrageously generous money, dropping out and taking the job is a serious alternative.
I know a lot of people who dropped out, some less than a year away from their degree.
Sorry but declaring that "the tool is what makes you a professional" is wannabe thinking.
You are still stuck in marketing magazine land.
It's not the tool, it's the approach to tools that make you a professional. The amateur will buy the one expensive camera and think he's cool. Every professional photographer I know - and I happen to know a couple - has first and foremost more then one camera he uses, and a collection of lenses, too.
They aren't necessarily the most expensive or most exclusive, it's a toolbox so he can pick a hammer when he's faced with a nail, and a screwdriver when it's a screw. It's not about having the most expensive hammer, it's about having a toolbox with all the tools you'll need.
Professionals aren't concerned with the "best" tools. The only people concerned with that are the wannabes with $5000 DSLRs who look at you blankly if you ask what an f-stop is.
You're a trollish moron who thinks that "best" and "expensive" have anything whatsoever in common. Idiots like you buy the expensive camera, while professionals know that for this particular shot, with the visuals they have in mind, the cheap throwaway will produce exactly what they want, while for that other shot with the visuals they have in mind for that, the expensive one and a full lighting rig are needed.
I spent three paragraphs above trying to explain the different between the amateur "best tool money can buy" and the professional "best tool for this particular job" approach. Maybe you should've read it before hitting reply.
It seems not every sysadmin got the memo and implemented Redmond's preferred workarounds
I stopped bothering with IE-specific quirks many years ago. If it can't render a standard-compliant page, then use a different browser for all I care. In fact, one of may sites catches IE users and tells them that much. And lo and behold, it works, on that site IE has dropped to #4 or #5 in the browser stats, consistently. Yes, Safari is more popular, and in good months, Opera.
Stop tolerating assholes and they just might go away, but it's a community effort.
If you use one tool for everything, you're lost in the amateur world.
Professionals in every profession on this planet have a vast array of tools and pick the right tool for the right job. It's one of the things that makes you a professional.
I personally use WYSIWYG editors for general text editing like letters, articles and some books. Stuff like Pages or iBooks Author (since I'm on a Mac).
For longer books and fiction, Scrivener is my tool of choice and since it can export epub, it was my tool of choice for the book I published last year. As an author's tool, it's fantastic and not at least knowing it (even if you find it's not to your taste) is like being a programmer and not knowing what an IDE is.
Speaking of which, I abhor IDEs for programming because all I've ever tested are sluggish and more confusing than worthwhile, and they never work the way I want, and I pity everyone who uses Eclipse. So for programming, HTML and such, Sublime Text 2 is my choice, though I've used TextMate for years and it was fantastic. For Subl, there is better plugin support, however, and its auto-completion and coding tools do almost everything that IDEs do, at least for the stuff I code (which is mostly web-programming, so I don't need a compiler and debugger built-in).
There's also LaTeX and LyX, which I haven't touched in a long time but I still love and I'm sure I'll find my way back to it eventually. There's also a bundle of other text-based tools I use for specific parts, like graphviz (which really shines if you use the GUI tool to get an instant-preview). Basically, to end where I started: I always try to look at the job and find the best tool for it. Swiss army knifes are cute if you're trecking and can't bring much stuff, but when you're on your computer and can bring whatever tools you want, bring the best ones, not the cute one.
It's an ongoing headache, but usually the good guys win.
[citation needed]
I've seen a couple ugly edit wars, and while that's just anecdotal evidence, I haven't seen the good guys winning very much.
Persistence wins, every time. And there are only two kinds of people with unbelievable persistence: The fanatical extremists who think the world will come to an end if their favorite conspiracy theory isn't included, and the people who don't care if you revert because they're paid by the hour for their edits.
Back when the USG banned the use of Huawei products, most people assumed that it meant that there was spying functionality in it that had been discovered.
Uh, no? Over here in Europe, a lot of people assumed it meant the US vendors had had a nice chat with their government, complaining about the cheaper competition and promising campaign contributions.
Not that we weren't afraid of chinese backdoors. I was in the telco industry back then and the discussions were fierce and not exactly short about whether or not to use their stuff. But the US banning them just as they were gaining market share like crazy? That was such an obvious protectionist move.
Nonsense, and dangerous nonsense at that.
First, having the source code doesn't tell you the binary running on the device was actually built from the source code you have in your hands.
Second, even if you validate the build chain, you don't know what the compiler, linker and other parts of the toolchain have inserted. This is really, really old knowledge, we're talking at least 30 years.
Third, even if you are sure about the software, you still don't know if there's trickery in the hardware.
You're certainly better off if you have the source code, but don't ever think that alone solves anything.
Of course not, comfort means everything to those people.
But that, exactly, is the point: It's not patriotism. It's about personal well-being.
Again, you are deluded. The 0.1% have already reached what many of us dream of: True international citizenship. They have homes, offices and wealth wherever they want. Right now, the US is attractive to many of them due to excellent infrastructure, security, health care (they can afford it) and so on.
But look to Europe. Tons of celebrities have their official homes in Monaco, for tax reasons. Same thing as with companies, just on a personal level.
If the US were to change its laws in any dramatic way that pisses the money elite off, half of them would be officially or actually living somewhere else within the month.
You are living in a fantasy world. You think there is such a thing as a "US company". You really think those companies have the slightest bit of patriotism? Most of them already route most of their profits through some tax haven in order to not pay a dime more in taxes in the US than they absolutely have to.
BAM! One of the stupidest statements I've ever read.
Sometimes, the stupid is with the reader and not the writer.
There is a difference between "high spending" and "spending more than you have". One looks at an absolute value, the other at a relative value. That is not a tautology.
Note the use of the word "limited".
Note how this has nothing to do with the argument, because nobody has made a proposal that includes unlimited goods and services.