> Strange how it did work for the do-not-call list, you know?
The do-not-call list didn't do a thing for me. Of course, I'm in an entirely different jurisdiction, along with the majority of the rest of the planet.
> Even if DNT works only for 1% of sites - it still works better than your solution
The solution(s) where I explicitly take control over what goes from my browser to 100% of sites? I have to admit, I like my odds a lot better than yours.
The whole premise behind DNT is stupid. Trust marketers to respect a flag in your browser? Seriously? If these people gave a single, pathetic thought about what consumers did or did not want, they'd be out of a career.
AdBock/Ghostery/NoScript/etc means you don't have to trust any website not to track anything.
My theory is that between all the hot CO2 coming out of the economists, plus the off-gassing of freshly printed money, greenhouse gases are expected to increase during a downturn.
I'm also wondering how many days I'll need to stay away from the rifle range before I won't show any particulate explosives at one of these checkpoints.
Wait until a few months after they're installed, then ask a terrorist. I'm sure they'll have it figured out by then.
On a compeltely unrelated note, has anyone considered the entertainment value of dusting a boarding pass printer with gunpowder?
Yes, I read it. It's protecting postsecondary students and employees. Elementary and secondary students aren't mentioned. Maybe there's covered under another law in California. Hence the reason I ask.
Is it just me, or did they miss the opportunity to make it illegal for public school officials to browbeat Facebook passwords out of children (with or without the aid of law enforcement)?
> If your work is paid for with government money, your work > emails should be public. Simple as that.
Agreed.
Also, if you receive government support like, say, food stamps, your grocery receipts should all be public. And if you live on welfare, disability, or a publically funded pension of some sort, any member of the public should be allowed to inspect your home upon request.
If you use public roads for transportation, anyone should be able to get detailed access to all your travels.
If there's that big a supply, the rate of pay increase (if any) should be at or below the rate of inflation, I think, especially for a public sector position like teaching.
I'm of the opinion that all public service jobs (and that of politicians) should have increases pegged at inflation. And I work for the government, so I'm not just saying that because I think government employees are undeserving. If the government finds it tough to hire some particular skill (or in some area) they can add incentives, but otherwise the question of pay is off the table. For the government, it's a win since budgeting becomes far more predictable. For the employees, it makes the whole negotiation process go a lot smoother.
Unfortunately, the unions would fight it tooth and nail because it dramatically undermines their ability to use strikes as bargaining tools. Aside from pay issues, most of the negotiations between the union and the employer are noise. It usually takes disagreements about real money to get the rank and file union member wound up enough to walk a picket line.
"Hey, look, here's something offensive. Doesn't that just make you feel like going out and killing strangers? No?!? But isn't that how religious people behave?"
I can't say I like it, but I don't hate it. I'm not even sure "like" is a word that applies to a desktop. If I'm noticing the desktop at all enough to like it, then there's something wrong... you're supposed to be using a computer for the applications, not the desktop.
As a small screen/netbook UI, it's minimalist and generally pretty good. I've had it on my netbook since the UNR days and I can't really complain.
As a general workstation desktop, 12.04 has fixed the worst annoyances (multi-head gliches, mostly) to the point that it doesn't really get in my way. 11.10 was not a good release and if that's where you first encountered it, I don't blame you for hating it.
Yes, let's go ahead and presume that the institutions that figuratively and in some cases literally built the first world nations we sit on our asses in have no idea how to sandbox and bound check a code read from a scanner in order to stop an "infection" from taking over...
Are we talking about the same institutions who operate ATM's built by the same companies who make those insecure bug-riddled voting machines?
Because if we are then yes, it's actually not a bad assumption.
> Now tell me how we could have simulated this and tested it in a computer model, PETA guys.
Uh... you do realize that animal rights extremists don't give a shit about people (except, probably, themselves). Their preferred scenario is the extinction of the human race and all animals returning to the idylic pre-human environment documented by Disney's Lion King.
So PETA would prefer that people go/stay blind than have their eyes fixed via animal research.
> turn steering wheel to the left => reduce stereo volume > turn steering wheel to the right => increase stereo volume
You don't think accelerator and brake would be more intuitive? While holding down the function key, obviously, which would be implemented as a small pedal to the left of the brake.
> I'm beginning to think that Microsoft isn't allowing the new GUI to be disabled > in order to purposely have a bad Windows version.
My working theory is that Microsoft is following the path Gates set in his retirement and has decided to become a non-profit corporation, but nobody is quite sure how to tell the shareholders.
> you had clearly labeled HTML buttons that said "Delete" "Compose" "Archive"
Worse, "Archive", "Spam" and "Delete" are all right next to each other. Google's spam filtering is good enough that *maybe* once a week I need to mark something as spam, but they interleaved the button with the two most commonly used functions.
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> Strange how it did work for the do-not-call list, you know?
The do-not-call list didn't do a thing for me. Of course, I'm in an entirely different jurisdiction, along with the majority of the rest of the planet.
> Even if DNT works only for 1% of sites - it still works better than your solution
The solution(s) where I explicitly take control over what goes from my browser to 100% of sites? I have to admit, I like my odds a lot better than yours.
Exactly.
The whole premise behind DNT is stupid. Trust marketers to respect a flag in your browser? Seriously? If these people gave a single, pathetic thought about what consumers did or did not want, they'd be out of a career.
AdBock/Ghostery/NoScript/etc means you don't have to trust any website not to track anything.
My theory is that between all the hot CO2 coming out of the economists, plus the off-gassing of freshly printed money, greenhouse gases are expected to increase during a downturn.
Wait until a few months after they're installed, then ask a terrorist. I'm sure they'll have it figured out by then.
On a compeltely unrelated note, has anyone considered the entertainment value of dusting a boarding pass printer with gunpowder?
> Android can't do that yet (even with the saving feature).
Weird. Offline navigation seemed to work last time I tried it.
Yes, I read it. It's protecting postsecondary students and employees. Elementary and secondary students aren't mentioned. Maybe there's covered under another law in California. Hence the reason I ask.
Is it just me, or did they miss the opportunity to make it illegal for public school officials to browbeat Facebook passwords out of children (with or without the aid of law enforcement)?
FTFY.
> If your work is paid for with government money, your work
> emails should be public. Simple as that.
Agreed.
Also, if you receive government support like, say, food stamps, your grocery receipts should all be public. And if you live on welfare, disability, or a publically funded pension of some sort, any member of the public should be allowed to inspect your home upon request.
If you use public roads for transportation, anyone should be able to get detailed access to all your travels.
See where this is going?
I'm of the opinion that all public service jobs (and that of politicians) should have increases pegged at inflation. And I work for the government, so I'm not just saying that because I think government employees are undeserving. If the government finds it tough to hire some particular skill (or in some area) they can add incentives, but otherwise the question of pay is off the table. For the government, it's a win since budgeting becomes far more predictable. For the employees, it makes the whole negotiation process go a lot smoother.
Unfortunately, the unions would fight it tooth and nail because it dramatically undermines their ability to use strikes as bargaining tools. Aside from pay issues, most of the negotiations between the union and the employer are noise. It usually takes disagreements about real money to get the rank and file union member wound up enough to walk a picket line.
I'd heard he'd done some work on a Prince of Persia movie adaptation, but never thought it'd see the light of day. Guess I was wrong... sadly.
> One doesn't "hit an alrm clock". One presses a button that is wide and shallow
> enough that a blow from one's hand will activate it.
That's one approach. On the other hand, companies have been putting accelerometers into alarm clocks for a while now.
Apparently, this is one of those "... in a phone" patents.
I kinda think that was the point.
"Hey, look, here's something offensive. Doesn't that just make you feel like going out and killing strangers? No?!? But isn't that how religious people behave?"
> Is there anyone that actually likes Unity?
I can't say I like it, but I don't hate it. I'm not even sure "like" is a word that applies to a desktop. If I'm noticing the desktop at all enough to like it, then there's something wrong... you're supposed to be using a computer for the applications, not the desktop.
As a small screen/netbook UI, it's minimalist and generally pretty good. I've had it on my netbook since the UNR days and I can't really complain.
As a general workstation desktop, 12.04 has fixed the worst annoyances (multi-head gliches, mostly) to the point that it doesn't really get in my way. 11.10 was not a good release and if that's where you first encountered it, I don't blame you for hating it.
Are we talking about the same institutions who operate ATM's built by the same companies who make those insecure bug-riddled voting machines?
Because if we are then yes, it's actually not a bad assumption.
I've seen some where I'm almost sure the presenter was dead...
> ...a better method would be trained laser sharks.
Laser seals. There's way, way more of them.
And it'd make the annual seal hunt a lot less one-sided.
> I'm thinking that we need a new moderation: "-1 Shill"
It'd be useful, but quite frankly I think the GP is more deserving of a "+1 Funny"...
Not a problem. Sounds like a perfectly good source of "farm use only" diesel.
> Now tell me how we could have simulated this and tested it in a computer model, PETA guys.
Uh... you do realize that animal rights extremists don't give a shit about people (except, probably, themselves). Their preferred scenario is the extinction of the human race and all animals returning to the idylic pre-human environment documented by Disney's Lion King.
So PETA would prefer that people go/stay blind than have their eyes fixed via animal research.
> turn steering wheel to the left => reduce stereo volume
> turn steering wheel to the right => increase stereo volume
You don't think accelerator and brake would be more intuitive? While holding down the function key, obviously, which would be implemented as a small pedal to the left of the brake.
> I'm beginning to think that Microsoft isn't allowing the new GUI to be disabled
> in order to purposely have a bad Windows version.
My working theory is that Microsoft is following the path Gates set in his retirement and has decided to become a non-profit corporation, but nobody is quite sure how to tell the shareholders.
Uh.. wait... how wide is a Kansas Sunday again?
> you had clearly labeled HTML buttons that said "Delete" "Compose" "Archive"
Worse, "Archive", "Spam" and "Delete" are all right next to each other. Google's spam filtering is good enough that *maybe* once a week I need to mark something as spam, but they interleaved the button with the two most commonly used functions.
At least they have an "undo" capability...
> Congratulations Slashdot, you are playing the same game as Fox News:
> half-truths intended to incite anger, without relevance as to actual truth.
You're sure it's intentional rather than, say, a lazy and ignorant Slashdot "editor"?