Because moderation should not be based on whether you agree/disagree with the comment or with something it implies. Moderation should be based on whether the comment is valuable to the thread. In this case, it had some information in it (from Microsoft directly) which clarified something. Some people found that Informative.
Did they include outbound protection at all? If so, I'm not familiar with it.
They include "protection" when an app opens a port to receive data on. That would "protect" against apps that are trying to allow your computer to be controlled remotely. However, nothing gets filtered when an app decides to send data somewhere.
disclaimer: These arguments are 100% based on truthiness.
The "personal firewall" in Windows XP SP2 was never advertised to block outgoing connections. In fact, this PDF states: "Windows Firewall blocks unsolicited incoming traffic. However, you cannot configure Windows Firewall to block outgoing traffic."
How convenient for Akamai. A survey done by them shows that webpages need to load faster or you could lose money. And you wouldn't want that, now would you?
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Actually, the Information Bar has been replaced by the old IE6-style prompt, according to a more recent IEBlog article:
"Because mixed content is important for some web applications, and straightforward fixes are not always available, we made a hard decision to revert to the warning prompt for mixed content in RC1. That means your banking site, your blog software or other secure site might show a modal prompt for mixed content as they did in IE6."
I second XDesk. Both the app and the website look and feel like they were created in the 80s, but I could not find a better virtual desktop manager that gives me a pop-up preview window of my desktops.
If you just want to switch between desktops using hotkeys and nothing else, then you could probably do with something less bloated. But otherwise, give XDesk a try. They have a free trial.
One big reason may be that the Diebold problems haven't been very prominent in the type of media that the average American consumes. This problem with the Dutch computers was featured on national tv, during prime time, on what would be considered "basic cable". Maybe if "60 minutes" covered it there would be a difference, although since only 15 million people watch 60 minutes, and there are 300 million people in the USA, I doubt it.
Also, since the Netherlands is very densely populated, if someone missed this news and isn't (yet) outraged by it, chances are good that they will come across someone who will tell them all about it. Outrage travels like a virus, and (un)fortunately the USA's sparse population acts as an inhibitor. In the Netherlands 5% will grow to 100% much faster than in the states.
Actually, I was commenting on the nerdcore/1337/whatever-ness of most of the submission, followed by the are-we-back-in-the-70s-ness of the word "swank".
My bad. You're right. And in case someone else bothers you about it, you can point them to the ECMAScript spec (PDF) section 11.1.5, where it has the following grammar:
I agree that the bug with 2^23... 2^24-1 should get fixed. I (and I'm sure others) have reported it to Opera both in the forums and in their bug reporting system. Hopefully they will fix it.
I'm still not convinced that using numbers as object property names is valid. You mentioned the documentation which states:
each property I is an identifier (either a name, a number, or a string literal)
However, that same documentation elsewhere states that:
A JavaScript identifier must start with a letter, underscore (_), or dollar sign ($); subsequent characters can also be digits (0-9).
It seems that there is some confusion about the definition of an identifier, and the ECMAScript spec (warning: PDF) which I believe javascript is based on in section 7.6 lists an identifier as starting with a letter, underscore, dollar sign, or escape sequence. It canNOT start with a number.
This is probably the reason why var y = { 8388607: 1 }; fails in some browsers (IE5, for example), but var y = { "8388607": 1 }; (with the quotes) succeeds. Then again, if the number-as-property thing isn't really the problem, then who am I to argue?
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Saturday is Hummer day.
I wish.
Oh, you meant the car. Sorry.
Because moderation should not be based on whether you agree/disagree with the comment or with something it implies. Moderation should be based on whether the comment is valuable to the thread. In this case, it had some information in it (from Microsoft directly) which clarified something. Some people found that Informative.
Did they include outbound protection at all? If so, I'm not familiar with it.
They include "protection" when an app opens a port to receive data on. That would "protect" against apps that are trying to allow your computer to be controlled remotely. However, nothing gets filtered when an app decides to send data somewhere.
disclaimer: These arguments are 100% based on truthiness.
The "personal firewall" in Windows XP SP2 was never advertised to block outgoing connections. In fact, this PDF states: "Windows Firewall blocks unsolicited incoming traffic. However, you cannot configure Windows Firewall to block outgoing traffic."
So of course it failed every test.
planet := thing_in_space && !moon && !star && !comet && !black_hole && !white_dwarf && !satellite && !garbage && !deathstar
Piece of cake.
"The HDD slot can access the user"
Made in Russia?
There can be only one Game Master.
Ah, the good old days...
I wonder if this is fixed in IE7?
No.
Actually, the Information Bar has been replaced by the old IE6-style prompt, according to a more recent IEBlog article:
"Because mixed content is important for some web applications, and straightforward fixes are not always available, we made a hard decision to revert to the warning prompt for mixed content in RC1. That means your banking site, your blog software or other secure site might show a modal prompt for mixed content as they did in IE6."
I second XDesk. Both the app and the website look and feel like they were created in the 80s, but I could not find a better virtual desktop manager that gives me a pop-up preview window of my desktops.
If you just want to switch between desktops using hotkeys and nothing else, then you could probably do with something less bloated. But otherwise, give XDesk a try. They have a free trial.
That, and/or bind, bind, bind. Concatenating user input into your SQL statements is bad on both security and performance.
One big reason may be that the Diebold problems haven't been very prominent in the type of media that the average American consumes. This problem with the Dutch computers was featured on national tv, during prime time, on what would be considered "basic cable". Maybe if "60 minutes" covered it there would be a difference, although since only 15 million people watch 60 minutes, and there are 300 million people in the USA, I doubt it.
Also, since the Netherlands is very densely populated, if someone missed this news and isn't (yet) outraged by it, chances are good that they will come across someone who will tell them all about it. Outrage travels like a virus, and (un)fortunately the USA's sparse population acts as an inhibitor. In the Netherlands 5% will grow to 100% much faster than in the states.
Actually, I was commenting on the nerdcore/1337/whatever-ness of most of the submission, followed by the are-we-back-in-the-70s-ness of the word "swank".
I guess I was too subtile.
ooohhhhhh...
aaahhhhh...
WTF!?
You can find them here.
(Damn slashdot spoiling all the fun. Ok, fine. Lyrics.)
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My bad. You're right. And in case someone else bothers you about it, you can point them to the ECMAScript spec (PDF) section 11.1.5, where it has the following grammar:
Sorry to bug you. Keep up the good work!
I'm still not convinced that using numbers as object property names is valid. You mentioned the documentation which states:
However, that same documentation elsewhere states that:
It seems that there is some confusion about the definition of an identifier, and the ECMAScript spec (warning: PDF) which I believe javascript is based on in section 7.6 lists an identifier as starting with a letter, underscore, dollar sign, or escape sequence. It canNOT start with a number.
This is probably the reason why var y = { 8388607: 1 }; fails in some browsers (IE5, for example), but var y = { "8388607": 1 }; (with the quotes) succeeds. Then again, if the number-as-property thing isn't really the problem, then who am I to argue?
Do you have actual numbers to show that the "potentially thousands of concatenations" would actually add measurable overhead?
If you can show that the concatenation would be bad, then that's a great argument. Otherwise you're just being stubborn.
So, why is ".*" bad, other than that you sometimes want Perl's non-greedy ".*?" instead?
Now I'm curious (but still too cheap to buy the book).
Wow. Doubly offtopic. Once for the lame joke, and once because you're pimping your website.
At least put the link in a signature. The fact that you've already set it as your homepage should be enough.
Please.
One such "tool" that would work great on a virtual machine because the host machine rejects it is a virus. With all benefits you get some drawbacks.
Kudos for using "proprietariest" in a sentence (and spelling it correctly).
Oracle 9i supports case statements as well.