Until recently, owning a person used to be legal. Today, it is legal to own both ideas (patents) and culture (copyright). Let's hope this changes rather swiftly -- I'm quite sure it will change eventually.
Actually, a vast majority of guys you're talking about are authentic antisemites. Wanting to deny others the right to live, and wipe a whole country off the face of Earth just because they don't want to submit to shariah is, well, not nice, too.
In almost all countries, VISA and MasterCard require merchants to never charge extra for credit cards. So if they take 5% of the value of every transaction (like they do in some places), the merchant can't promote cash which has no such fees.
How exactly posting your bank account number could possibly hurt you? If that's the case, change your bank, NOW!
The number rduke15 posted is from Switzerland, so I'm quite sure it's sane. At least here in Poland, posting an account number is a widespread way to ask for donations.
There's beer other than Bud Light. (Ok, ok, to even call that beer requires heavily bribing consumer protection inspectors.) Actual beer doesn't taste like piss.
After tweaking the keymappings, I use my N900 for coding. Sometimes including perl:p It's actually more comfortable than a laptop, and hugely easier to carry. Obviously, for real coding there's the desktop, but I can sit for several hours of productive work anywhere.
Too bad, N900 is so weak a machine it can't even run niceties like a decent browser (ok, unless you're REALLY patient), but a text terminal, a chroot with postgres, a compiler, etc, is fine for many tasks.
And I make 1-2 phone calls a month, and receive perhaps 10. e-mail works well.
Incompatibility with linux (I guess you mean GNU) scripts is understandable, incompatibility with basic POSIX requirements is not. If something works both on GNU and BSD systems, there's a fat chance it's a fault of Solaris rather than the script.
(I dislike using the name "GNU/Linux", but here the distinction matters: GNU works on kfreebsd too (ie, BSD kernel, GNU userland), and if one's crazy, even on hurd. And I strongly suspect you didn't mean Android, which uses Linux but doesn't pretend to be UNIXy at all.)
I see I used a wrong word, though - it turns out in English "fossil fuel" is narrower than what I thought, referring to long-dead organisms only rather than any historic deposits. That's a consequence of learning stuff in a different translation, my bad:/
Because they will perish. ANY source of energy other than fossil combustibles deserves to be promoted.
The fossil fuel mafia is second only to big finance, so the amount of propaganda and misinformation against nuclear or geothermal energy is astounding, and these are the two cleanest and most realistic sources we currently have.
Tablets have their uses -- for example, my 2 years old nephew can use them just fine. For myself, though, I fail to see any single purpose I'd ever want to use one. I don't watch TV or its likes, any activity that's not read-only requires some reasonable input dev. For most tasks, a keyboard is mandatory, and for the rest, a touchscreen is hardly ever adequate. Either you need something more accurate (like a stylus), or an interface that's dumbed down into uselessness.
So say what you want about "getting overwhelmed by limitless flexibility" -- oversimplifying things means you end up with a shiny toy that's not fit for anything serious. Unless you call getting the user to purchase the toy after a brief play "serious" -- as it's indeed to the advantage of the toy's maker. There's no way around the learning curve: either it's easy and weak, or hard and powerful.
Just read the recent discussion about including golang in Debian. Pretty much just its promoter considered introducing a compiler with no support for proper dynamic libraries to be acceptable, and dynamic libraries accessed via hash are effectively static for all purposes other than disk/memory usage.
If there's a bug in libpng, what do you do? It has thousands of reverse dependencies, many directly and yet more transitively. A good deal of bugs there can be exploited via a crafted image. With static or by-hash linking, you need to rebuild and reinstall world every single time. That's beyond ridiculous.
And if you'd say libpng is not so bad, just ponder a security issue in libc6.
Being prolific means little. Producing offspring is a waste of energy if it doesn't get to survive long enough to reproduce.
Producing three kids that will live for 50 years works about as well as producing a hundred thousand which will almost all die. All that matters is that your species is resilient enough to survive bad times, and able to expand their numbers in good times.
Why would it "die"? I don't see Vista, 7 or 8 used anywhere but on laptops. At least around here, companies replace the buggers on new computers with XP, for several reasons (valid or not).
They notoriously don't run updates (thank Microsoft for regression) so nothing will change when support is dropped.
Let's hope Microsoft kills Windows completely (like it does with 8) before companies finally decide to move on:)
How exactly switching to any other DNS would help? Unless they subvert only data on the DNS that's handed over via DHCP but leave all other port 53 traffic, queries will be mangled just the same. There's little you can do there other than tunnelling all DNS somehow.
You made three mistakes: * placing dots differently can give quite a lot of combinations * you can have subdomains shorter than the max, this effectively adds dots to the character set, with two restrictions: no two dots in a row/start/end, no string of >63 non-dots. The former reduces the base by a small but noticeable bit, the latter has only infinitessimal (colloquial sense) effect. * DNS names are case-insensitive
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Cue China's claim these areas "have always belonged to China", like Senkaku Islands, in 3.. 2... 1...
Until recently, owning a person used to be legal. Today, it is legal to own both ideas (patents) and culture (copyright). Let's hope this changes rather swiftly -- I'm quite sure it will change eventually.
Actually, a vast majority of guys you're talking about are authentic antisemites. Wanting to deny others the right to live, and wipe a whole country off the face of Earth just because they don't want to submit to shariah is, well, not nice, too.
In almost all countries, VISA and MasterCard require merchants to never charge extra for credit cards. So if they take 5% of the value of every transaction (like they do in some places), the merchant can't promote cash which has no such fees.
How exactly posting your bank account number could possibly hurt you? If that's the case, change your bank, NOW!
The number rduke15 posted is from Switzerland, so I'm quite sure it's sane. At least here in Poland, posting an account number is a widespread way to ask for donations.
WTF? "anti-Sionistic" meaning "being against Jews"? Who the hell upmodded this twice?
There's beer other than Bud Light. (Ok, ok, to even call that beer requires heavily bribing consumer protection inspectors.) Actual beer doesn't taste like piss.
After tweaking the keymappings, I use my N900 for coding. Sometimes including perl :p It's actually more comfortable than a laptop, and hugely easier to carry. Obviously, for real coding there's the desktop, but I can sit for several hours of productive work anywhere.
Too bad, N900 is so weak a machine it can't even run niceties like a decent browser (ok, unless you're REALLY patient), but a text terminal, a chroot with postgres, a compiler, etc, is fine for many tasks.
And I make 1-2 phone calls a month, and receive perhaps 10. e-mail works well.
/usr/xpg4/something is not /bin/sh, the latter being what POSIX requires.
Incompatibility with linux (I guess you mean GNU) scripts is understandable, incompatibility with basic POSIX requirements is not. If something works both on GNU and BSD systems, there's a fat chance it's a fault of Solaris rather than the script.
(I dislike using the name "GNU/Linux", but here the distinction matters: GNU works on kfreebsd too (ie, BSD kernel, GNU userland), and if one's crazy, even on hurd. And I strongly suspect you didn't mean Android, which uses Linux but doesn't pretend to be UNIXy at all.)
That's what I meant.
I see I used a wrong word, though - it turns out in English "fossil fuel" is narrower than what I thought, referring to long-dead organisms only rather than any historic deposits. That's a consequence of learning stuff in a different translation, my bad :/
Because they will perish. ANY source of energy other than fossil combustibles deserves to be promoted.
The fossil fuel mafia is second only to big finance, so the amount of propaganda and misinformation against nuclear or geothermal energy is astounding, and these are the two cleanest and most realistic sources we currently have.
So how can we ensure inventors can cooperate freely, and build up on one another's ideas? I know! Patents!
Would you care to mention a single idea Apple has not "stolen" from someone else?
And your claim that Linux is a rip-off of Windows (and not Unices of old) is beyond words.
the truth is that Linux embodies all of the principles of how you do NOT want to be friendly to the user. That's why it's never succeeded.
And what, pray tell, does Android run on?
Tablets have their uses -- for example, my 2 years old nephew can use them just fine. For myself, though, I fail to see any single purpose I'd ever want to use one. I don't watch TV or its likes, any activity that's not read-only requires some reasonable input dev. For most tasks, a keyboard is mandatory, and for the rest, a touchscreen is hardly ever adequate. Either you need something more accurate (like a stylus), or an interface that's dumbed down into uselessness.
So say what you want about "getting overwhelmed by limitless flexibility" -- oversimplifying things means you end up with a shiny toy that's not fit for anything serious. Unless you call getting the user to purchase the toy after a brief play "serious" -- as it's indeed to the advantage of the toy's maker. There's no way around the learning curve: either it's easy and weak, or hard and powerful.
So we'll not only have to undergo Alpha Legion cosmetic surgery, but also all dress the same?
even when 740 out of 833 people give something a one star review, 20 people will still give it 5 stars.
You mean, EA has only 20 employees?
... no security fixes to libraries, ever.
Just read the recent discussion about including golang in Debian. Pretty much just its promoter considered introducing a compiler with no support for proper dynamic libraries to be acceptable, and dynamic libraries accessed via hash are effectively static for all purposes other than disk/memory usage.
If there's a bug in libpng, what do you do? It has thousands of reverse dependencies, many directly and yet more transitively. A good deal of bugs there can be exploited via a crafted image. With static or by-hash linking, you need to rebuild and reinstall world every single time. That's beyond ridiculous.
And if you'd say libpng is not so bad, just ponder a security issue in libc6.
Being prolific means little. Producing offspring is a waste of energy if it doesn't get to survive long enough to reproduce.
Producing three kids that will live for 50 years works about as well as producing a hundred thousand which will almost all die. All that matters is that your species is resilient enough to survive bad times, and able to expand their numbers in good times.
Since the other popular formats are all 16:x, using a non-reduced fraction looks more readable to me, and makes it easier to compare.
With the way diagonals of narrow rectangles work, area ratios aren't that far from 9 : 10 : 12, too.
Get a 16:12 one. They're hard to get these days, but the usability is so much better that they're worth it even if you had to pay twice the cost.
Once Windows XP dies in April 2014
Why would it "die"? I don't see Vista, 7 or 8 used anywhere but on laptops. At least around here, companies replace the buggers on new computers with XP, for several reasons (valid or not).
They notoriously don't run updates (thank Microsoft for regression) so nothing will change when support is dropped.
Let's hope Microsoft kills Windows completely (like it does with 8) before companies finally decide to move on :)
How exactly switching to any other DNS would help? Unless they subvert only data on the DNS that's handed over via DHCP but leave all other port 53 traffic, queries will be mangled just the same. There's little you can do there other than tunnelling all DNS somehow.
1.955e393, actually.
You made three mistakes:
* placing dots differently can give quite a lot of combinations
* you can have subdomains shorter than the max, this effectively adds dots to the character set, with two restrictions: no two dots in a row/start/end, no string of >63 non-dots. The former reduces the base by a small but noticeable bit, the latter has only infinitessimal (colloquial sense) effect.
* DNS names are case-insensitive