So suing the TSA over this is a "non-starter" and even writing about it gets you sued by the molesting thugs... Why do the people in the USA put up with something like this? I thought you were scared witless by terrorists, not authorities, but I guess I was wrong.
The Fax is the superior alternative to sending documents by snail mail. Why we don't use the author's proposed oh-so-elegant PDF+Ethernet/Internet-based alternative? Because since about 20 years ago, desktop computers have been an incompatible, unrealiable, virus-infected mess that "normal" people are reluctant to use if they need to do something reliably - thanks to Windows, mostly. As for why we still need paper: because a few paper sheets are still far superior to a (short) electronic document for most practical purposes and you can actually have both at the same time.
The article doesn't contain a single argument for the use of Guile as an extension language. It tries to show off a few language features that LISP people will obviously love (and all other people never miss), but for an extension language other things should matter: small footprint, easy to pick up, no nasty surprises, successful use cases, robustness. Why the hell would one need to make the extension language extensible in an elegant way or want it to be "multi-paradigm"?
The sensible choice would be Lua and the GNU people should think long and hard about whether they really want to hamper their GNU evangelism by burdening it with evangelism for obscure (sorry LISP lovers) languages or perhaps choose something that doesn't get in the way of their important goals...
At least according to what I've read, they make money on that division. Not great margins (5% or so), but they made money and in volume it adds up.
Computerworld writes: "The hardware business is by far HP's least profitable segment, with an operating margin of 5.9%. Excluding financial services (at 9.4%), every other HP business segment's margin was in double digits last quarter."... So it's hardly a "profit center" and who knows what kind of outlook they had for it, perhaps they expected losses soon.
Well-known websites like chip.de still link to and actually host Real Alternative 2.0.2 files, even Wikipedia has a link. â66.000 seem to indicate that the man has a terrible lawyer and/or corrupt judge...
I'm really curious what made you pick this moment. Today I saw Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 again and the part where he talks about looking in the mirror every morning and asking himself whether he's doing what he actually wants to be doing got me thinking about my job too...
Anyway, good luck with your future endeavours and thanks for slashdot, the Web wouldn't be the same without it.
Android user base is too small for developers to invest in? What a joke... The reason why the iPad is so successful is that it has good usability, looks great and Apple has a good reputation. Apple confirms it by going after Samsung for copying the design (and being a well-known brand).
data *processing* is slowing down the web, not the speed of the connections
Lots of content is obsolete the moment you load it, so dynamic pages are generally fine. If you want to complain about the way websites are built, better complain about analytics (you know, Google's user tracking) and advertising (you know, Google's cash cow), they both slow down pages without any user benefit.
He might just as well have given or sold them to the CIA and claimed to have destroyed them to cover it up, or he may have lied about it so he can use those leaks to get his own platform off the ground, pretending they were fresh submissions to OpenLeaks (would any of the whistleblowers complain? surely not). What a shame about the idea of such a platform, being dismantled by big egos...
Im sorry, I didn't expect anyone to think I believed *Kenya* was the country where the so-called *Nigerian Scam* *originated*.
If you wanted to make a joke about Kenya, you could at least do it about something Kenya is actually famous for, such as fast runners or very tall women.
You're welcome to come up with a better joke.
Please take you ignorance somewhere else,
The only ignorant fool who shouldn't be here is you. It is your assumption about me that was wrong and your post that was meant to be rude. Why don't you go run after some very tall women instead of bitching about bad jokes.
The more important software becomes for the economy and standard of living, the more we can benefit from Free Software. Don't listen to the people who want to enforce software patents, DRM and proprietary SaaS everywhere in order to maintain existing inequalities in the distribution of goods. They would patent air and build a business on it if they could...
I'm Kenyan, Nigeria is another country thousands of miles away, on the other side of the continent. generally I consider people who can't tell one country from another idiots. Do you require further explanation? I'd be happy to draw you a diagram.
Taking a joke seriously and flaming people because of it is dumb. I am not from the USA, so I can tell Nigeria from other african countries. I am also well aware of the fact that while the "419 scam" is named after a Nigerian law, it is widespread in Africa and pretty much the rest of the world. But please draw a diagram, you are quite entertaining.
$50K is like... what real scammers make in a day, or in an hour. The actual tragedy is that ingame currency actually has an OOG value because like most MMO's, EVE has succumbed to the temptation of RMT.
what's slashdot's carbon footprint given its white background and several million users (and several dozen million pageviews) per month? Should we be reading some other website with black background instead?
They have to skip requests that have DNSSEC turned on or they won't be invisible to the end user.
Do any resolvers (or BIND) actually generate errors when DNSSEC-enabled requests aren't answered, or do they just fall back to plain DNS? How do resolvers detect whether a TLD has been signed without being able to query root servers (or a non-evil nameserver) directly?
=> route through Tor using a local DNS proxy (TorDNS, Privoxy) possible on all major OS even without routing all traffic through Tor which e.g. makes it hard to use Google)
However, I know nothing about the DNS hijacking popular Tor exit nodes might be subject to.
Any better suggestions?
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So suing the TSA over this is a "non-starter" and even writing about it gets you sued by the molesting thugs... Why do the people in the USA put up with something like this? I thought you were scared witless by terrorists, not authorities, but I guess I was wrong.
The Fax is the superior alternative to sending documents by snail mail. Why we don't use the author's proposed oh-so-elegant PDF+Ethernet/Internet-based alternative? Because since about 20 years ago, desktop computers have been an incompatible, unrealiable, virus-infected mess that "normal" people are reluctant to use if they need to do something reliably - thanks to Windows, mostly. As for why we still need paper: because a few paper sheets are still far superior to a (short) electronic document for most practical purposes and you can actually have both at the same time.
The article doesn't contain a single argument for the use of Guile as an extension language. It tries to show off a few language features that LISP people will obviously love (and all other people never miss), but for an extension language other things should matter: small footprint, easy to pick up, no nasty surprises, successful use cases, robustness. Why the hell would one need to make the extension language extensible in an elegant way or want it to be "multi-paradigm"?
The sensible choice would be Lua and the GNU people should think long and hard about whether they really want to hamper their GNU evangelism by burdening it with evangelism for obscure (sorry LISP lovers) languages or perhaps choose something that doesn't get in the way of their important goals...
Add to that dick-bot, the guy who came up with the idea
Also the camera-bot who is often in positions where one might expect a human helping/moving the bots (e.g. holding that string ...).
... and it's a bunch of gut bacteria. Well, somehow it figures with all the shit that's been happening lately.
At least according to what I've read, they make money on that division. Not great margins (5% or so), but they made money and in volume it adds up.
Computerworld writes: "The hardware business is by far HP's least profitable segment, with an operating margin of 5.9%. Excluding financial services (at 9.4%), every other HP business segment's margin was in double digits last quarter." ... So it's hardly a "profit center" and who knows what kind of outlook they had for it, perhaps they expected losses soon.
They [Apple] kept their profit centers ...
I'm not so sure that desktop PCs and laptops were HP's "profit centers", so the comparison is stretching things a bit ...
It must be almost as bad a decision as when Apple decided they wanted to build phones ...
Well-known websites like chip.de still link to and actually host Real Alternative 2.0.2 files, even Wikipedia has a link. â66.000 seem to indicate that the man has a terrible lawyer and/or corrupt judge...
I'm really curious what made you pick this moment. Today I saw Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 again and the part where he talks about looking in the mirror every morning and asking himself whether he's doing what he actually wants to be doing got me thinking about my job too ...
Anyway, good luck with your future endeavours and thanks for slashdot, the Web wouldn't be the same without it.
Android user base is too small for developers to invest in? What a joke ... The reason why the iPad is so successful is that it has good usability, looks great and Apple has a good reputation. Apple confirms it by going after Samsung for copying the design (and being a well-known brand).
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data *processing* is slowing down the web, not the speed of the connections
Lots of content is obsolete the moment you load it, so dynamic pages are generally fine. If you want to complain about the way websites are built, better complain about analytics (you know, Google's user tracking) and advertising (you know, Google's cash cow), they both slow down pages without any user benefit.
He might just as well have given or sold them to the CIA and claimed to have destroyed them to cover it up, or he may have lied about it so he can use those leaks to get his own platform off the ground, pretending they were fresh submissions to OpenLeaks (would any of the whistleblowers complain? surely not). What a shame about the idea of such a platform, being dismantled by big egos ...
You've failed to demonstrate that.
Im sorry, I didn't expect anyone to think I believed *Kenya* was the country where the so-called *Nigerian Scam* *originated*.
If you wanted to make a joke about Kenya, you could at least do it about something Kenya is actually famous for, such as fast runners or very tall women.
You're welcome to come up with a better joke.
Please take you ignorance somewhere else,
The only ignorant fool who shouldn't be here is you. It is your assumption about me that was wrong and your post that was meant to be rude. Why don't you go run after some very tall women instead of bitching about bad jokes.
The more important software becomes for the economy and standard of living, the more we can benefit from Free Software. Don't listen to the people who want to enforce software patents, DRM and proprietary SaaS everywhere in order to maintain existing inequalities in the distribution of goods. They would patent air and build a business on it if they could ...
I'm Kenyan, Nigeria is another country thousands of miles away, on the other side of the continent. generally I consider people who can't tell one country from another idiots. Do you require further explanation? I'd be happy to draw you a diagram.
Taking a joke seriously and flaming people because of it is dumb. I am not from the USA, so I can tell Nigeria from other african countries. I am also well aware of the fact that while the "419 scam" is named after a Nigerian law, it is widespread in Africa and pretty much the rest of the world. But please draw a diagram, you are quite entertaining.
Can you elaborate on that, or are you just ranting?
"truly liberating" my a...., does it come with a built-in 419 app? ...)
(someone had to say it
$50K is like ... what real scammers make in a day, or in an hour. The actual tragedy is that ingame currency actually has an OOG value because like most MMO's, EVE has succumbed to the temptation of RMT.
what's slashdot's carbon footprint given its white background and several million users (and several dozen million pageviews) per month? Should we be reading some other website with black background instead?
They have to skip requests that have DNSSEC turned on or they won't be invisible to the end user.
Do any resolvers (or BIND) actually generate errors when DNSSEC-enabled requests aren't answered, or do they just fall back to plain DNS? How do resolvers detect whether a TLD has been signed without being able to query root servers (or a non-evil nameserver) directly?
DNSSEC
Doesn't that require the domain owner whose site you want to access to have/use DNSSEC records? Most don't and probably never will ...
Interesting results, Google has pretty much the same (IMDB Shaft first) while Bing actually finds that exact question in some wordpress blog.
Just using Google's or other DNS servers won't help if your ISP intercepts UDP port 53
See this old slashdot thread
=> route through Tor using a local DNS proxy (TorDNS, Privoxy) possible on all major OS even without routing all traffic through Tor which e.g. makes it hard to use Google)
However, I know nothing about the DNS hijacking popular Tor exit nodes might be subject to.
Any better suggestions?