Nah; I think what you mean is that we should hope that the original post was a joke, but it's not logically possible to determine that from the words alone. So you may decide that the writer was serious or joking, but you stand a good chance of being wrong whichever you pick. That's what Poe's Law is all about. Written English leaves out a lot of tonal information that's in spoken English, and there's not much we can do about it.
Oh FFS, are you a flesh-and-blood human or an algorithm? If the latter then you can be forgiven for not comprehending an almost painfully obvious undertone. If the former, well, you're SUPPOSED to be a hell of a lot better at figuring this stuff out than a computer.
Unless you're a lawyer more concerned with winning a case at any cost than finding the truth of the matter, such pedantry is unbecoming a sentient being.
What the hell do you have so many tabs open for? Good god man. o_O I use Firefox at work too, and even then I usually keep it down to 10-15 tops. At home, I read things and then close them...I just don't understand how people like you have so many tabs open...why? Why do you have to have that many tabs open?
Because different people sometimes do things differently.
I just wanna be able to log into my Dropbox from a browser on whatever random PC is available (usually one at work), edit my plain-text files from within the browser, and be done. None of this having to download them, edit them, and upload them again goofiness.
Why is this so easy for others (eg. Google Docs) but Dropbox can't pull it off?
Other than this glaring annoyance, I do enjoy Dropbox's convenience. Mostly.
No, JohnnyMindcrime is correct. FASA released a highly detailed tactical ship combat supplement to the Star Trek RPG. I owned both, as well as FASA's Federation Ship Recognition Guide. Yeah, I was a colossal Trek nerd back in the day, and FASA helped scratch that itch.
What if it 'hurt more' to downmod? For ex., suppose downmodding a post by 1 point cost the moderator 2 mod points, while upvoting still only cost 1. This would discourage downvoting but leave the option there for when it's really necessary against *real* trolls.
This doesn't completely solve the problem of 'ban brigades', but could go a long way toward mitigating the damage they do, and would be dirt-simple to implement in comparison to finely-tuned algorithms that try to guess human behavior (and the positives and negatives of such things could be argued all day).
Registering an account to dissociate yourself from those who try to engage in a little humor seems an odd motivator, but hey, whatever floats yer boat.
They will, along with some of the slashdot crowd, get around this by pretending the ambiguity wasn't there.
Umm...
Order the defendant to withdraw the articles, photographs and graphic representations of Belgian publishers of the French - and German-speaking daily press, represented by the plaintiff, from all their sites
WHAT ambiguity? Where?! Sorry, but you're just making up any "ambiguity" out of thin air. The judge's order was pretty damned comprehensive and inclusive. There's nothing Google could have excluded without running afoul of the order as it was worded. They followed it to the letter, no more and no less. There is no room for interpretation with the phrasing "from all their sites", unless you expect Google to pull a Clinton and ask the judge to define the word "all".
MAC filtering is only a pain if you routinely have company. For someone who only occasionally has guests, it's not a problem - and when I do, it takes all of 2 minutes to get them set up on my network. What I do...
1. Disable DHCP, assign each device on my network its own static IP address.
2. Enable MAC address filtering for each device.
3. Enable WPA2+PSK, using a long, seemingly random string of letters and numbers that only I know the proper means to mentally 'generate' on the fly (as opposed to having to memorize the whole damned thing).
Granted none of these are impenetrable, but put 'em together and I feel reasonably secure, especially against your average script kiddie.
(Now let's watch as some random "wardriver" drives past my apartment and proves me wrong. -.- )
Hey, Errol! Where the hell's that 50 bucks you owe me? You remember, I loaned it to you last month.
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As I understand it, comments are only retained in interpreted-code applications, but are ignored/removed when compiling an executable because the code is being 'translated' to lower-level machine language in the compiling process. So, there would be no point of removing comments from the source in the latter case, in fact it would present a project-management nightmare to have source code with zero comments when you (or, especially, someone else) has to dig in to the original source to make changes later on down the road.
It's frightening to me how many people just don't (or refuse to) understand the heart of the problem, in that they are perfectly willing to let every tiny freedom slip away one at a time because "that doesn't affect me right now".
You may be the favored demographic today, but as political leaders change, and, more importantly, laws change, you may find a bulls-eye on your back tomorrow when someone in power doesn't like something you say or do that was, yesterday, considered perfectly harmless.
I would even go one step further and argue that someone who truly "has nothing to hide/fear" is part of the problem, and probably would never understand why.
Sure, that would be all scary and whatnot, except the part where "Duke Energy’s software provider designed a system with no external network connections".
Kinda hard to get into a network through a connection that doesn't exist.
Vendetta Online's FPS-style ship combat seems to have handled this issue quite nicely. My latency is usually around 120 to 150 and I have no trouble hitting what I'm aiming at. Essentially, you select your target, and a floating reticule pops up that factors in the relative movements (and in the case of PvP, the latency of both players as well) of both you and your target, and tells you where you 'should' be aiming for your shots to hit; it's then up to you to actually hit that point. Not always as easy as it sounds, especially against other players, but it works out very nicely.
Granted, the rest of the game and its universe is quite drab and boring, with very little depth, but at the very least it stands as a good example of how FPS-style aiming in an MMO can work well.
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Nah; I think what you mean is that we should hope that the original post was a joke, but it's not logically possible to determine that from the words alone. So you may decide that the writer was serious or joking, but you stand a good chance of being wrong whichever you pick. That's what Poe's Law is all about. Written English leaves out a lot of tonal information that's in spoken English, and there's not much we can do about it.
Oh FFS, are you a flesh-and-blood human or an algorithm? If the latter then you can be forgiven for not comprehending an almost painfully obvious undertone. If the former, well, you're SUPPOSED to be a hell of a lot better at figuring this stuff out than a computer.
Unless you're a lawyer more concerned with winning a case at any cost than finding the truth of the matter, such pedantry is unbecoming a sentient being.
You knew damned well what the OP meant.
Based on that image, Rob Halford is clearly a Hunter -- he appears to be wearing the Tough Scorpid set.
Hey, you! Quit being calm and rational! We're having an ideological screaming match over here, keep it down would ya?
Sure, today I don't have mod points. Figures.
Dammit, there's a really good joke in here somewhere, but I just can't find it...
What the hell do you have so many tabs open for? Good god man. o_O I use Firefox at work too, and even then I usually keep it down to 10-15 tops. At home, I read things and then close them...I just don't understand how people like you have so many tabs open...why? Why do you have to have that many tabs open?
Because different people sometimes do things differently.
Shocking, I know.
Hey guys, I have an idea for another whitehouse.gov petition...
I just wanna be able to log into my Dropbox from a browser on whatever random PC is available (usually one at work), edit my plain-text files from within the browser, and be done. None of this having to download them, edit them, and upload them again goofiness.
Why is this so easy for others (eg. Google Docs) but Dropbox can't pull it off?
Other than this glaring annoyance, I do enjoy Dropbox's convenience. Mostly.
No, JohnnyMindcrime is correct. FASA released a highly detailed tactical ship combat supplement to the Star Trek RPG. I owned both, as well as FASA's Federation Ship Recognition Guide. Yeah, I was a colossal Trek nerd back in the day, and FASA helped scratch that itch.
What if it 'hurt more' to downmod? For ex., suppose downmodding a post by 1 point cost the moderator 2 mod points, while upvoting still only cost 1. This would discourage downvoting but leave the option there for when it's really necessary against *real* trolls.
This doesn't completely solve the problem of 'ban brigades', but could go a long way toward mitigating the damage they do, and would be dirt-simple to implement in comparison to finely-tuned algorithms that try to guess human behavior (and the positives and negatives of such things could be argued all day).
Registering an account to dissociate yourself from those who try to engage in a little humor seems an odd motivator, but hey, whatever floats yer boat.
I'm sure you'll be the life of the party. :)
That makes two of us. A very small sample size, granted, but odds are we're not the only ones.
They will, along with some of the slashdot crowd, get around this by pretending the ambiguity wasn't there.
Umm...
Order the defendant to withdraw the articles, photographs and graphic representations of Belgian publishers of the French - and German-speaking daily press, represented by the plaintiff, from all their sites
WHAT ambiguity? Where?! Sorry, but you're just making up any "ambiguity" out of thin air. The judge's order was pretty damned comprehensive and inclusive. There's nothing Google could have excluded without running afoul of the order as it was worded. They followed it to the letter, no more and no less. There is no room for interpretation with the phrasing "from all their sites", unless you expect Google to pull a Clinton and ask the judge to define the word "all".
MAC filtering is only a pain if you routinely have company. For someone who only occasionally has guests, it's not a problem - and when I do, it takes all of 2 minutes to get them set up on my network. What I do...
1. Disable DHCP, assign each device on my network its own static IP address.
2. Enable MAC address filtering for each device.
3. Enable WPA2+PSK, using a long, seemingly random string of letters and numbers that only I know the proper means to mentally 'generate' on the fly (as opposed to having to memorize the whole damned thing).
Granted none of these are impenetrable, but put 'em together and I feel reasonably secure, especially against your average script kiddie.
(Now let's watch as some random "wardriver" drives past my apartment and proves me wrong. -.- )
You're saying PADDs run Visual Basic? Huh. Who knew!
Um, yeah. Next up, they'll be taking users to court for doing just that, claiming it denies their rights to use your works.
Ok, probably not... but these days, it seems the craziest lawsuits get filed, so it wouldn't really surprise me.
But I gotta wonder: Could they legally bring such a suit, based on their TOS?
Hey, Errol! Where the hell's that 50 bucks you owe me? You remember, I loaned it to you last month.
As I understand it, comments are only retained in interpreted-code applications, but are ignored/removed when compiling an executable because the code is being 'translated' to lower-level machine language in the compiling process. So, there would be no point of removing comments from the source in the latter case, in fact it would present a project-management nightmare to have source code with zero comments when you (or, especially, someone else) has to dig in to the original source to make changes later on down the road.
It's frightening to me how many people just don't (or refuse to) understand the heart of the problem, in that they are perfectly willing to let every tiny freedom slip away one at a time because "that doesn't affect me right now".
You may be the favored demographic today, but as political leaders change, and, more importantly, laws change, you may find a bulls-eye on your back tomorrow when someone in power doesn't like something you say or do that was, yesterday, considered perfectly harmless.
I would even go one step further and argue that someone who truly "has nothing to hide/fear" is part of the problem, and probably would never understand why.
You seem to be missing a whoosh. Here, have this one:
Whoosh!
Be careful what you wish for.
Very, very careful.
Sure, that would be all scary and whatnot, except the part where "Duke Energy’s software provider designed a system with no external network connections".
Kinda hard to get into a network through a connection that doesn't exist.
Vendetta Online's FPS-style ship combat seems to have handled this issue quite nicely. My latency is usually around 120 to 150 and I have no trouble hitting what I'm aiming at. Essentially, you select your target, and a floating reticule pops up that factors in the relative movements (and in the case of PvP, the latency of both players as well) of both you and your target, and tells you where you 'should' be aiming for your shots to hit; it's then up to you to actually hit that point. Not always as easy as it sounds, especially against other players, but it works out very nicely.
Granted, the rest of the game and its universe is quite drab and boring, with very little depth, but at the very least it stands as a good example of how FPS-style aiming in an MMO can work well.
My kingdom for a mod point...
Dblspace? Thats just a dodgy copy of Stacker technology!
Maybe so, but at least it came with the OS. Fond memories of converting 1.44MB floppies into ~2.8MB disks...
OMG 2.8MB that's huuuge! o.O