Yes, TinyURL hasn't killed anyone. BUT... any attempt to fix this is entirely missing the point anyway. From the article:
I happen to think this URL is beautiful.:-) Unfortunately, it is sure to get mangled into some garbage URL if you try to talk about it on Twitter, because it's not very short. I really hate when that happens. What can I do?
If rev="canonical" gains momentum...
If they fix twitter to support links with proper labels or tag contents --- Oh, I don't know, like HTML has supported from the very beginning --- then there wouldn't be a problem.
Don't work around the bugs, fix the bugs. Links are designed for machines, the higher-level marked up text is for people.
Sorry, but why [do you ever] think we would accept this license?
Because people with bad intentions have a habit of lobbying and bribing continually, until the good guys slip and forget to vote the idea down or whatever. As the saying goes, all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
uTorrent is nice performance-wise, yes. It's closed source though, and therefore untrustable. Hardly a viable solution to post in response to an article about anonymity.
But they can't get rid of all the crap quizzes? I call shenanigans.
Indeed.
I also think it should be illegal to discriminate against people/organisations based on law suits that haven't yet concluded. That whole innocent until proven guilty thing, you know? Not that most courts' conclusions have any bearing on the ethical reality of a situation, of course.
That's probably true for cases when content is added by people who wrote the content or understand it well. My interest is in building a library of topics I DON'T know well though. For instance, I want to have ebooks available for random searches which turn up techniques and algorithms I'm unaware of, yet may prove relevant to my work, as and when I find some particular problem worth researching. It's very difficult to catalog that sort of on-demand knowledge ahead of time. Additionally, I don't care if an ebook is about accountancy. If it happens to have some nice sorting algorithm in Appendix C, and I search for sorting algorithms, then I'd like that to come up.
He was killed in a fire. Clearly his research led him to discover that TCP had a back door, created by fire Daemons who live on the Sun, due to jealousy over *BSDgirls' net-wide successes.
The description of your project does not suggest either full-text searching, or PDF capabilities. I've been looking for something that can index all of my ebooks and do full-text searches that bring up the pages (or better, chapters) that are most relevant.
The DoD also approved the Space Shuttle's final dimensions on the basis of [stuff]... and a constant schedule of military payloads...
And how many military satellites has the shuttle been used to launch, I wonder? All of the GPS satellites to begin with, I'd guess. Maybe the DoD got exactly what they wanted out of the shuttle.
You mean when they are stealing the movie instead of paying for it. Gotcha. Thanks for your insight.
It's really silly to attempt to take the moral highground when you're assuming that the lowest common denominator of current understanding is the correct one. Most often, it's WAY off.
Hardly. It resembled a review of a normal movie, since the movie resembled a normal movie. It also, however, pointed out the differences, which is all anyone could reasonably expect.
What? In which fantasy world does setting up a WEBSITE (of all things) and ignoring it mean it'll still be running in 15 years?
Websites on the net require constant security upgrades, have a higher load even from random hits, are slow, aren't guaranteed to work on future browsers, and in this situation, you're also doubling the number of systems to maintain by moving to a client/server architecture.
The only sane way to handle this is to say "sorry, you got lucky with the past 15 years. But I can sell you the machine, and a 15 year support contract/guarantee."
I know you're joking, but for what it's worth, "monitor" is a generic term that applies to anything that lets you monitor information: displays, and even speakers.
True, but when the other insane people in power in other countries fail to recognise their own irresponsibility, then the safest option is for everyone to be equally armed.
Well, you were attempting to refute it. What you were actually doing was trying to conclude that, because you don't realise you earn more for the same work as everyone else, you must be earning your money justly. That's an entirely different matter, and highly debatable.
But I can see that we'll never agree on this, so let's just agree to disagree.
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Yes, TinyURL hasn't killed anyone. BUT... any attempt to fix this is entirely missing the point anyway. From the article:
If they fix twitter to support links with proper labels or tag contents --- Oh, I don't know, like HTML has supported from the very beginning --- then there wouldn't be a problem.
Don't work around the bugs, fix the bugs. Links are designed for machines, the higher-level marked up text is for people.
Because people with bad intentions have a habit of lobbying and bribing continually, until the good guys slip and forget to vote the idea down or whatever. As the saying goes, all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
With all the jumping on buzzwords like HAL and "Cyberdine", I think it's clear they meant "How About (some publicity on) Leno?".
Well said. That about sums it up for me.
You're stealing everyone's time and bandwidth, posting uninformed crap like that.
uTorrent is nice performance-wise, yes. It's closed source though, and therefore untrustable. Hardly a viable solution to post in response to an article about anonymity.
Indeed.
I also think it should be illegal to discriminate against people/organisations based on law suits that haven't yet concluded. That whole innocent until proven guilty thing, you know? Not that most courts' conclusions have any bearing on the ethical reality of a situation, of course.
That's probably true for cases when content is added by people who wrote the content or understand it well. My interest is in building a library of topics I DON'T know well though. For instance, I want to have ebooks available for random searches which turn up techniques and algorithms I'm unaware of, yet may prove relevant to my work, as and when I find some particular problem worth researching. It's very difficult to catalog that sort of on-demand knowledge ahead of time. Additionally, I don't care if an ebook is about accountancy. If it happens to have some nice sorting algorithm in Appendix C, and I search for sorting algorithms, then I'd like that to come up.
He was killed in a fire. Clearly his research led him to discover that TCP had a back door, created by fire Daemons who live on the Sun, due to jealousy over *BSDgirls' net-wide successes.
The description of your project does not suggest either full-text searching, or PDF capabilities. I've been looking for something that can index all of my ebooks and do full-text searches that bring up the pages (or better, chapters) that are most relevant.
This I have seen.
This I have not seen.
On a most basic level, yes. On a more conceptual and ethical level, you cannot give as a gift something that was already owed.
And how many military satellites has the shuttle been used to launch, I wonder? All of the GPS satellites to begin with, I'd guess. Maybe the DoD got exactly what they wanted out of the shuttle.
Yes, you missed this all-important qualifier:
It's really silly to attempt to take the moral highground when you're assuming that the lowest common denominator of current understanding is the correct one. Most often, it's WAY off.
Hardly. It resembled a review of a normal movie, since the movie resembled a normal movie. It also, however, pointed out the differences, which is all anyone could reasonably expect.
Yeah, right, because they've always worked so diligently on that.
You have that backwards, bub. Third-party was charging to cover microsoft's glaring omissions.
Yes. When people are rejecting the usual distribution models for movies, even when it means they get an unfinished version, then it matters.
Keep telling yourself that.
What? In which fantasy world does setting up a WEBSITE (of all things) and ignoring it mean it'll still be running in 15 years?
Websites on the net require constant security upgrades, have a higher load even from random hits, are slow, aren't guaranteed to work on future browsers, and in this situation, you're also doubling the number of systems to maintain by moving to a client/server architecture.
The only sane way to handle this is to say "sorry, you got lucky with the past 15 years. But I can sell you the machine, and a 15 year support contract/guarantee."
Which is why they're making smaller nukes now. Hasn't stopped them working on antimatter weapons though, which are FAR more powerful than nukes.
I know you're joking, but for what it's worth, "monitor" is a generic term that applies to anything that lets you monitor information: displays, and even speakers.
True, but when the other insane people in power in other countries fail to recognise their own irresponsibility, then the safest option is for everyone to be equally armed.
Look at the monitor. That's your actual desktop.
Personally, I think they shouldn't pull the servers until they've at least seeded 110%.
Well, you were attempting to refute it. What you were actually doing was trying to conclude that, because you don't realise you earn more for the same work as everyone else, you must be earning your money justly. That's an entirely different matter, and highly debatable.
But I can see that we'll never agree on this, so let's just agree to disagree.