Hearing a beep or a brief moment of silence in place of an expletive is plain obnoxious. Can we not come up with something that makes that sort of censorship optional? I'd want it if I had kids, but I don't, so give me the F bombs!
So now with GEGL worked into GIMP, how long will it be until we see something equivalent to Photoshop's Layer Groups? Is it already in this release? (I didn't see anything about it in the release notes.) Sometimes simple projects grow in size to the point where it'd be very convenient to be able to better organize layers in groups and sub-groups. I like GIMP, and it would be much more practical for me to use it more often with this feature.
Yeah, I'm replying to myself here, but seriously, I'd sooner buy a twin-turbo Toyota Supra (even if it requires a little work on my part) before buying a Ferrari. I have an idea of what GP was trying to get at here, but I don't know that comparing motor companies had the intended (and likely abrasive toward AMD) effect. Perhaps comparing specific models would have though. ^_^ That said, I have no problems with having second best for far less, so AMD is a good option to me, personally (especially with Video cards).
We can only hope that if the land-based providers remain stagnant, that we will see some wireless competition in the near future. While I know it's no small feat to implement large wireless networks, I sincerely hope we end up with more than 2 good contenders in areas.
To add to the parent's post, as a developer, I have found that the vast quantity of Firefox plug-ins/add-ons have been invaluable for development tasks (i.e. the web developer addon, abduction [for saving the page as an image], tamper data, etc...). If I'm going to switch to a different browser, it's going to have to have a community backing which rivals Mozilla's.
Regardless of that though, anything that gets more relatives off IE is good, and that's my hope for this new browser. Again, as a developer, I can't help but loathe IE (yes, that includes 7) and its utter lack of support for many standards, but that's a rant for another day/discussion.;-)
That said...I think there should be something to "encourage" companies to actually invest the resources in protecting that data, or just to stop collecting it.
Chargebacks (card holders disputing charges with their credit card company) are good incentive. Ultimately, it is the vendor that looses money when a user claims a charge is unrecognized and the vendor is unable to provide sufficient proof that it was a legitimate purchase (though the CVV2 number helps the vendors here). To add to that, even more incentive is provided by the banks because they keep track of the unresolved chargebacks on all merchant accounts. If they find your merchant account has had too many unresolved chargebacks per month, they'll typically send you a notice informing you that you have 30 days to find another bank, and setting that up to continue your sales is generally next to impossible to achieve. It is, in some cases, possible to pay the bank extra money to keep the merchant account active for a bit longer, however.
Seems to me not collecting it is far easier and more viable in many many cases.
Indeed, it is. A vendor's ability to meet PCI DSS standards is much simpler when card data is not retained. However, there are some cases, such as automatic recurring payments, where storing card data is appropriate. At that point, additional measures are obviously necessary.
Personally, since the monetary liability ultimately comes back to the vendor, I don't feel criminal charges are necessary. That, and it seems like it may be simple to exploit such a system to make money suing vendors via charges designed to appear fraudulent. Additionally, many of the chargeback requests are often people simply not recognizing charges (i.e. they didn't remember making the purchase, and/or the card processing was done by a third party on behalf of the company selling the product). Now, fraudulent use of retained credit card data is an obvious crime. But provided a vendor has not abused their data and has taken the appropriate measures to meet the PCI DSS guidelines, I'd say they should be in the clear in terms of criminal charges. However, I may agree that reasonably increasing chargeback fees would significantly increase incentive.
Thanks for that tip, I hadn't noticed that at the bottom of the settings area before. If, for some reason, you're not sure you'll always have SSL available to you (i.e. you connect from airports or hotels often, which occasionally only allow HTTP/80 outbound), you can use Firefox with the Better GMail plugin and choose to require SSL there.
Winning an argument on the Internet is really hard, because people can trump you with their dickhead status or their real status.
Well, it's hard to take this statement with anything more than a grain of salt. I mean, how do I know you're not just a bigger dickhead than everyone else here, and only trying to start an argument only you, with your superior dickheadedness, can win?
If you're trying to form a logical argument, they can make something that sounds cool and is easier to register, and people will accept it.
This part of your comment sounds rational, smart, an makes it seem as if you are competent. This makes you an arrogant elitist! (That is bad, right?)
which usually paints you as wrong even if you're arguing over whether or not 2+2 = 7
We all know the real answer is 42.
Hopefully you can tell by now I'm just poking fun. I've been there myself a few times. ^_^ Sometimes, as annoying as some individuals may be, they may be worth keeping around because they can bring up some really good points. Others you can ignore, and others (the more malicious types, anyway) just need to be banned. You just have to figure out what category the person fits in on a case-by-case basis. Also, if people really like your work, you may even find your community backing/defending you without your request, which is very satisfying.
While it may certainly seem that way, we have a habit of repeating history. The U.S. has been trying to put up a "missile defense shield" in countries near and bordering Russia under the premise of protecting those countries from threats from the middle-east. The thing is, missiles like the Shahab 3 can't even reach many of these countries (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7501498.stm), such as the Czech Republic, with whom we just signed a deal with (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7496399.stm). Add that with the tensions between Russia and Georgia (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7500772.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7499227.stm), and the fact that Georgia (and Ukraine, actually) is expressing interest in joining NATO (which Russia also strongly opposes), and I would say the ties you were talking about are much stronger now than they were at the beginning of this decade.
This is worth a look too. For those to lazy to RTFA much-less read yet another one, it is regarding a provision Dodd slipped into some housing legislation that would require just about all small businesses to "track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government."
This looks really neat, really promising, and is very exciting to see. It does make me think of a few questions though...
It's not uncommon to use voice-chat while gaming. How is this device affected by those muscle movements and brain activity?
I often eat and drink while at the PC (i.e. I was on lunch break while reading the article). How do those muscle movements affect the device?
Given the two points above, is there any quick and easy means of temporarily disabling the device or ignoring the input from it? For example, a hot-key would work, or some head-phones have mute buttons built onto them. Of course, I don't expect it to be perfect, but something like that could help deal with its imperfections.
What's the price of this thing?!
How long from now until Hawking can kick our asses in a FPS? =P
Will they be faced with the dilemma of changing their architecture versus being banned?
I sure hope not! A back door for government is a back door for anyone and everyone. It'd be like having trusted keys for software licensing enforcement, which we all know gets leaked in a heart-beat anyway.:-(
I couldn't agree with the parent more here that CamelCase is most appealing. Old HTML 3.5 syntax where people often used only captial letters for tag and attribute names was horribly painful to read. Additionally, I've found that there are some tools out there to spell-check your code, and can do so based on the assumption that things are in CamelCase. I find that this sort of tool can be very helpful in catching typos and spelling errors early on. For example, I can't count the number of times I've seen something like SomeCatagory instead of SomeCategory repeated countless times through projects and database schema.
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Hearing a beep or a brief moment of silence in place of an expletive is plain obnoxious. Can we not come up with something that makes that sort of censorship optional? I'd want it if I had kids, but I don't, so give me the F bombs!
So now with GEGL worked into GIMP, how long will it be until we see something equivalent to Photoshop's Layer Groups? Is it already in this release? (I didn't see anything about it in the release notes.) Sometimes simple projects grow in size to the point where it'd be very convenient to be able to better organize layers in groups and sub-groups. I like GIMP, and it would be much more practical for me to use it more often with this feature.
Here's a great example of its use: Yatta!
...release it. ;-)
Yeah, that's a really scary prospect. There's a 1 in 3 chance you'll get your dick ripped off. (Not sure if this is sfw)
Oh damn, I had something good to say, but I forgot because I had to drop the kids off at the pool after you scared me. ;-)
It's an common mistake, really. Anyone would think ice cream with bits of corn in it might actually taste good.
Yeah, I'm replying to myself here, but seriously, I'd sooner buy a twin-turbo Toyota Supra (even if it requires a little work on my part) before buying a Ferrari. I have an idea of what GP was trying to get at here, but I don't know that comparing motor companies had the intended (and likely abrasive toward AMD) effect. Perhaps comparing specific models would have though. ^_^ That said, I have no problems with having second best for far less, so AMD is a good option to me, personally (especially with Video cards).
Which would you buy?
This wasn't modded as +5 funny?
We can only hope that if the land-based providers remain stagnant, that we will see some wireless competition in the near future. While I know it's no small feat to implement large wireless networks, I sincerely hope we end up with more than 2 good contenders in areas.
To add to the parent's post, as a developer, I have found that the vast quantity of Firefox plug-ins/add-ons have been invaluable for development tasks (i.e. the web developer addon, abduction [for saving the page as an image], tamper data, etc...). If I'm going to switch to a different browser, it's going to have to have a community backing which rivals Mozilla's.
Regardless of that though, anything that gets more relatives off IE is good, and that's my hope for this new browser. Again, as a developer, I can't help but loathe IE (yes, that includes 7) and its utter lack of support for many standards, but that's a rant for another day/discussion. ;-)
Chargebacks (card holders disputing charges with their credit card company) are good incentive. Ultimately, it is the vendor that looses money when a user claims a charge is unrecognized and the vendor is unable to provide sufficient proof that it was a legitimate purchase (though the CVV2 number helps the vendors here). To add to that, even more incentive is provided by the banks because they keep track of the unresolved chargebacks on all merchant accounts. If they find your merchant account has had too many unresolved chargebacks per month, they'll typically send you a notice informing you that you have 30 days to find another bank, and setting that up to continue your sales is generally next to impossible to achieve. It is, in some cases, possible to pay the bank extra money to keep the merchant account active for a bit longer, however.
Indeed, it is. A vendor's ability to meet PCI DSS standards is much simpler when card data is not retained. However, there are some cases, such as automatic recurring payments, where storing card data is appropriate. At that point, additional measures are obviously necessary.
Personally, since the monetary liability ultimately comes back to the vendor, I don't feel criminal charges are necessary. That, and it seems like it may be simple to exploit such a system to make money suing vendors via charges designed to appear fraudulent. Additionally, many of the chargeback requests are often people simply not recognizing charges (i.e. they didn't remember making the purchase, and/or the card processing was done by a third party on behalf of the company selling the product). Now, fraudulent use of retained credit card data is an obvious crime. But provided a vendor has not abused their data and has taken the appropriate measures to meet the PCI DSS guidelines, I'd say they should be in the clear in terms of criminal charges. However, I may agree that reasonably increasing chargeback fees would significantly increase incentive.
Thanks for that tip, I hadn't noticed that at the bottom of the settings area before. If, for some reason, you're not sure you'll always have SSL available to you (i.e. you connect from airports or hotels often, which occasionally only allow HTTP/80 outbound), you can use Firefox with the Better GMail plugin and choose to require SSL there.
I think everyone knows that would be a flux capacitor. Duh!
Exactly my thoughts - when you want security, Vista won't install, so you get it by just booting any other OS. :: ducks ::
$900,000 makes it sound like he may have downloaded a song or two off one or more of the servers he 'hacked'. I'm being facetious, of course. ^_^
Well, it's hard to take this statement with anything more than a grain of salt. I mean, how do I know you're not just a bigger dickhead than everyone else here, and only trying to start an argument only you, with your superior dickheadedness, can win?
This part of your comment sounds rational, smart, an makes it seem as if you are competent. This makes you an arrogant elitist! (That is bad, right?)
We all know the real answer is 42.
Hopefully you can tell by now I'm just poking fun. I've been there myself a few times. ^_^ Sometimes, as annoying as some individuals may be, they may be worth keeping around because they can bring up some really good points. Others you can ignore, and others (the more malicious types, anyway) just need to be banned. You just have to figure out what category the person fits in on a case-by-case basis. Also, if people really like your work, you may even find your community backing/defending you without your request, which is very satisfying.
While it may certainly seem that way, we have a habit of repeating history. The U.S. has been trying to put up a "missile defense shield" in countries near and bordering Russia under the premise of protecting those countries from threats from the middle-east. The thing is, missiles like the Shahab 3 can't even reach many of these countries (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7501498.stm), such as the Czech Republic, with whom we just signed a deal with (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7496399.stm). Add that with the tensions between Russia and Georgia (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7500772.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7499227.stm), and the fact that Georgia (and Ukraine, actually) is expressing interest in joining NATO (which Russia also strongly opposes), and I would say the ties you were talking about are much stronger now than they were at the beginning of this decade.
This is worth a look too. For those to lazy to RTFA much-less read yet another one, it is regarding a provision Dodd slipped into some housing legislation that would require just about all small businesses to "track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government."
This looks really neat, really promising, and is very exciting to see. It does make me think of a few questions though...
I sure hope not! A back door for government is a back door for anyone and everyone. It'd be like having trusted keys for software licensing enforcement, which we all know gets leaked in a heart-beat anyway. :-(
Is that you, Quagmire? "fuddity fuddity foo!" Yeah, yeah... mod me off topic ^_^
I couldn't agree with the parent more here that CamelCase is most appealing. Old HTML 3.5 syntax where people often used only captial letters for tag and attribute names was horribly painful to read. Additionally, I've found that there are some tools out there to spell-check your code, and can do so based on the assumption that things are in CamelCase. I find that this sort of tool can be very helpful in catching typos and spelling errors early on. For example, I can't count the number of times I've seen something like SomeCatagory instead of SomeCategory repeated countless times through projects and database schema.
Nevermind sticky keys on keyboards. I need to invest in some stock with companies that make monitor wipes!