I guess if you're the designer you can put "deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances" on your resume, it would make for good story...
Come on guys, at least ask a question if you don't understand the bug report/feature request.
Also when you close bugs you sometimes just hope it went a away with time... When I do this, arguably smaller projects, I try to close with a "Reopen if still relevant" comment... But sometimes forget.
Managing bugs is a lot of work... Sometimes it's calls for a non-perfect solution... Also a bug thread can grow so big that reading up on it is hard. I see quite often people mixing 3-4 issues into one... Just google for something about NetworkerManager gnome-shell and password dialog:)
One can easily be heard and still be professional if he wants to.
Have you had much luck with that approach in a major open source software project?
Most large open source project don't have that much to argue about... having worked on LibreOffice and Firefox, I can say that if you do the work, you can quite often decide how to do it too..
Sure there are fundamental things in these project for which patches and major changes are hard to get in... but when refactoring some code, or fixing a bug, adding a minor feature; people are generally fairly polite and try to be helpful.
But who am I to say that a project like Linux, doesn't need a high level of technical excellence, I don't know...
Mozilla is not a political organization. It about building a better free and open web.
That's hilarious.
How so... I'm not afraid to say that I support Mozilla, and that I'm very very very very far from agreeing most Americans on serious and important political issues. You now the kind of issues where America murders innocent civilians. I could go on... But Mozilla is not the platform for these issues.
Once you have a couple dozen actual cases on your hands, this method is quickly overwhelmed.
Lol, if it ever became a matter of national security, they could just ask the NSA to do contact tracing...
But I'm sure the US could easily mobilize a lot of people to do contact tracing.
Nigeria did the right thing and was lucky.
Give me a break, they weren't just lucky, they made 18k face-to-face visits... Let's give them credit for working hard:)
In Denmark I could buy HBO online for 20 USD / month, episodes released as soon as they were in the US.. It's messed up to move to the US and then realize that HBO is unavailable and spotify has a significantly reduced catalog (luckily I can buy the Danish version with my Danish credit card).
Oh, and don't tell me HBO is available along with a cable subscription... that requires me to pay for a lot of stuff I don't want, and interface with a provider that I never ever want to talk to...
I would rather have DRM, than a cable subscription...
Where to start, where to start... First off there is no firefox board. Mozilla Corporation has a board, as does Mozilla Foundation.
Having followed this, rather closely, I can assure you that Brendan made the decision to resign, the message was delivered by internal email.
Later in an internal meeting the board explained that they had strongly recommended and hoped that Brendan would ride out the storm.
Any allegations that the board force Brendan to resign is pure fiction. Sure, I can promise you that there wasn't an elaborate conspiracy to lie to all employees and community members, but if there was Brendan was in on that "conspiracy":)
The truth is that given the storm and the level and amount of personal attacks, I understand how someone does not wish to ride it out.
All being said and done, let's move a long... Mozilla is not a political organization. It about building a better free and open web.
...before finally deteriorating into an insignificant third rate state in the EU. That's what real Western democracies are.
I'm sorry what nations in the EU are deteriorating?
Sure the financial crisis hit some of countries hard, but that is short term, in general most poor EU member countries are getting dramatically better:
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
I don't think you can claim that long term EU member countries are deteriorating, northern Europe all the way down to Germany and France aren't doing bad.
Absolutely,
Also note that the results are not fully removed, they just won't show up for some keywords.
It's really quiet reasonable that a rape victim can has not to have an article about incident show up, when you google the victims name.
In particularly important when the victim decide to look for a job 10 or 20 years down the road.
Keep in mind the article may still show up googling the perpetrators name...
Yes, but it's when you have to check for false positives... Most American companies suffers from a high level of institutional incompetence and will ask you to check your spam folder, before checking if they actually sent you an email.... The poster is asking why gmail can't delete the obvious spam, so his spam folder only holds contents with a high likelihood of being false positive...
IMO, the spam folder should be sorted, not by date, but by likelihood of being a false positive....
My lady and I have been together over ten years, we have an eight year old daughter and are completely happy.
Well, I hope you'll enjoy hell!
- Just kidding:)
On-topic, if you're not religious and don't think the symbolism is important, then the only reason left is the legal framework. Such as ability to visit your spouse in the hospital, making decisions of behalf of your spouse if he/she is incapable or declared incompetent from for example: brain damage, psychological illness or dementia (which is likely to eventually happen). If you don't marry or manually setup advanced health care directives, you can end in a situation where you or your partner is declared incompetent and guardianship/custody is award to a state appointed representative. This all depends on where you live, from what I understand mental patients in the US are left to die on the streets, but in other countries custody will be assigned to someone trustworthy by the state, if there is no other arrangement like advanced healthcare directive or marriage.
If you're not religious and don't care about the symbolism, marriage is still a common reasonably well understood and internationally respected legal framework for people who trust each other and lives their lives together.
If you're not sure you want to code for a living or if you think you do but all you've ever done is make it through a couple of basic python tutorials then you probably want to get some experience coding before you go and major it in.
+1,
Besides don't take a course to get credit... Just like you shouldn't choose the courses that are easiest to pass...
If you're not studying in order to learn something you're better off dropping out.
It's surprising in my experience how many students cares more about grades, credit and getting a degree rather than learning something useful, or at least just interesting.
Either way, a CS degree takes hard work, trying it out in high school is a good idea. And having extra skills/knowledge when you start is only going to allow you to climb higher (schools that don't facilitate that shouldn't be attended).
The NSA is a spy agency. Its job is to spy, which involves secretly doing illegal things in other countries.
Really? Intelligence gathering is more about reading records from parliament (the ones nobody reads). Or showing up at political meets to hear what people say. In transparent democracies (unlike the US), you don't really need to do anything illegal to find out what is going on.
And if you think that's hypocritical, think again I expect European and Asian countries to spy on us too.
Thief thinks every man steals. Most countries don't have offensive intelligence capabilities.
And they certainly don't conduct mass surveillance of civilians, just because you're not an American citizen, doesn't mean you're not civilian.
It's part of international relations, and it's good for countries to be able to check up on each other, instead of having to rely merely on official statements.
Or you could send someone to takes notes at a political meeting...Or read the news paper, or read public records from parliament.
In real democracies governments rarely lies to their constituents. I know the US has a long and proud history of lying, but most other western democracies don't.
Gathering intelligence is about reading records from parliament than anything else. Especially when dealing with democracies more transparent than your own.
We're talking about deliberate sabotage of our allies telecommunications networks. It'd be one thing if this were with countries we're at war with, but it's not.
Thank you!
Because 2 wrongs make a right? Is that how it goes?
But let's not kid our selves... Most countries don't have offensive intelligence capabilities.
Just because the US intelligence community has a history of murdering and selling drugs to fund illegal wars, doesn't mean other civilized countries do...
I'm all for the leaks when it concerns stuff the NSA does against civilians. But against foreign governments? The point of the NSA is to do that sort of thing.
Spying on allies? really? This borderlines to act of war...
By the way, foreign governments holds a lot of information about their citizens, social security numbers, medical records, tax records, etc. The NSA has no business doing mass surveillance on on civilians just because they aren't American!
And anyone that thinks these other governments aren't doing the same thing back are kidding themselves.
I'm fairly confident my government doesn't. In fact most intelligence gathering isn't necessarily illegal at all. Mostly you gather intelligence about political issues in foreign countries, but watching the news, reading news papers, public records from parliament, blog posts, twitter, or just plain asking politicians what they think about an issue.
You don't do it by tabbing phones of allied politicians! Or intercepting mail (physical or electronic).
By the way, I'm sure the German democracy is more transparent than the American, if you want to know what goes on... just read the records.
Telling people (including 'enemies') which 'leaks' were authorized and which ones were really leaks could give people all sorts of interesting information -- including which disinformation....leaks to trust and which ones not to.
True, it would not be advantageous for the NSA, perhaps not even advantageous for the US goverment, maybe and just maybe it might be disadvantageous to the American public.
But could it "reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security".
it seems to me like the NSA is playing the word game, where "exceptionally grave damage" == "slight annoyance or minor risk".
First off, I'm no hurry to support oil industries in the arctic:)
Any sanctions imposed in retaliation for a certain deed — such as Russia's invasion into Afghanistan, Georgia or Ukraine — must last until the deed is reversed.
That is certainly a valid argument... One that needs to be taken in to consideration, that said, if you don't let go (at some point), we end in a situation like we have with Iran where we can't impose further sanctions.
Other matter to consider is that the best way to further democracy in Russia, is not to isolate Russia further. That'll just make it easier or Putin to control the media, etc.
I'm not saying we should lift sanctions against Russia anytime soon. In fact I favor threat of stronger sanctions. That said, why exactly does the US (as the only western country) still have trade sanctions against Cuba? Is that anything but old grudge. My point is let's not create more of those situations.
By the way, with respect to the Georgia conflict, if I remember correct the US was the only country to impose sanctions. EU talked about, but as I recall it never did anything, but talk... You can take that as a sign of EU weakness or a sign of lacking support for war-crazy Bush (as some Europeans probably do). With my country having followed Bush/US into Iraq on a lie, I don't trust want my politicians to trust the US or US intelligence.
The whole POINT of Firefox was to be lean and fast and shed all the "integrated" extras of previous browsers.
Maybe my browser history is a bit rusty... but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the whole POINT of Firefox:)
That said, yes... addons are good... It's especially a great way to test things. But it might not be the best to bring an important feature to the majority of the user-base. Laugh all your want about the importance of "private browing" mode, but if it was just an add-on, most people won't use it.
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The first thing to do is to follow the money trail and identify:
How do we get that effort started? What will it take, who can do it?
It's that already done: https://www.opensecrets.org/
How do plan we make people care?
Lol, how is that not funny :)
I guess if you're the designer you can put "deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances" on your resume, it would make for good story...
Come on guys, at least ask a question if you don't understand the bug report/feature request.
Also when you close bugs you sometimes just hope it went a away with time... When I do this, arguably smaller projects, I try to close with a "Reopen if still relevant" comment... But sometimes forget.
:)
Managing bugs is a lot of work... Sometimes it's calls for a non-perfect solution... Also a bug thread can grow so big that reading up on it is hard. I see quite often people mixing 3-4 issues into one... Just google for something about NetworkerManager gnome-shell and password dialog
One can easily be heard and still be professional if he wants to.
Have you had much luck with that approach in a major open source software project?
Most large open source project don't have that much to argue about... having worked on LibreOffice and Firefox, I can say that if you do the work, you can quite often decide how to do it too..
Sure there are fundamental things in these project for which patches and major changes are hard to get in... but when refactoring some code, or fixing a bug, adding a minor feature; people are generally fairly polite and try to be helpful.
But who am I to say that a project like Linux, doesn't need a high level of technical excellence, I don't know...
Mozilla is not a political organization. It about building a better free and open web.
That's hilarious.
How so... I'm not afraid to say that I support Mozilla, and that I'm very very very very far from agreeing most Americans on serious and important political issues. You now the kind of issues where America murders innocent civilians. I could go on... But Mozilla is not the platform for these issues.
Once you have a couple dozen actual cases on your hands, this method is quickly overwhelmed.
Lol, if it ever became a matter of national security, they could just ask the NSA to do contact tracing...
But I'm sure the US could easily mobilize a lot of people to do contact tracing.
Nigeria did the right thing and was lucky.
Give me a break, they weren't just lucky, they made 18k face-to-face visits... Let's give them credit for working hard :)
it's already available in Scandinavia... have been for years... I've been thinking about getting a proxy... I lost HBO when I moved to the US...
In my market for me to subscribe to HBO it costs somewhere north of $130 a month, ....
And out of those 130 USD, HBO makes maybe (maybe) 10 USD, or so... if not less...
In Denmark I could buy HBO online for 20 USD / month, episodes released as soon as they were in the US.. It's messed up to move to the US and then realize that HBO is unavailable and spotify has a significantly reduced catalog (luckily I can buy the Danish version with my Danish credit card).
Oh, and don't tell me HBO is available along with a cable subscription... that requires me to pay for a lot of stuff I don't want, and interface with a provider that I never ever want to talk to...
I would rather have DRM, than a cable subscription...
After what the Firefox board....
Where to start, where to start... First off there is no firefox board. Mozilla Corporation has a board, as does Mozilla Foundation.
:)
Having followed this, rather closely, I can assure you that Brendan made the decision to resign, the message was delivered by internal email.
Later in an internal meeting the board explained that they had strongly recommended and hoped that Brendan would ride out the storm.
Any allegations that the board force Brendan to resign is pure fiction. Sure, I can promise you that there wasn't an elaborate conspiracy to lie to all employees and community members, but if there was Brendan was in on that "conspiracy"
The truth is that given the storm and the level and amount of personal attacks, I understand how someone does not wish to ride it out.
All being said and done, let's move a long... Mozilla is not a political organization. It about building a better free and open web.
...before finally deteriorating into an insignificant third rate state in the EU. That's what real Western democracies are.
I'm sorry what nations in the EU are deteriorating?
Sure the financial crisis hit some of countries hard, but that is short term, in general most poor EU member countries are getting dramatically better: http://www.theguardian.com/com...
I don't think you can claim that long term EU member countries are deteriorating, northern Europe all the way down to Germany and France aren't doing bad.
Google's approach to this is reasonable.
Absolutely,
Also note that the results are not fully removed, they just won't show up for some keywords.
It's really quiet reasonable that a rape victim can has not to have an article about incident show up, when you google the victims name.
In particularly important when the victim decide to look for a job 10 or 20 years down the road.
Keep in mind the article may still show up googling the perpetrators name...
Yes, but it's when you have to check for false positives... Most American companies suffers from a high level of institutional incompetence and will ask you to check your spam folder, before checking if they actually sent you an email.... The poster is asking why gmail can't delete the obvious spam, so his spam folder only holds contents with a high likelihood of being false positive...
IMO, the spam folder should be sorted, not by date, but by likelihood of being a false positive....
My lady and I have been together over ten years, we have an eight year old daughter and are completely happy.
Well, I hope you'll enjoy hell! :)
- Just kidding
On-topic, if you're not religious and don't think the symbolism is important, then the only reason left is the legal framework. Such as ability to visit your spouse in the hospital, making decisions of behalf of your spouse if he/she is incapable or declared incompetent from for example: brain damage, psychological illness or dementia (which is likely to eventually happen). If you don't marry or manually setup advanced health care directives, you can end in a situation where you or your partner is declared incompetent and guardianship/custody is award to a state appointed representative. This all depends on where you live, from what I understand mental patients in the US are left to die on the streets, but in other countries custody will be assigned to someone trustworthy by the state, if there is no other arrangement like advanced healthcare directive or marriage.
If you're not religious and don't care about the symbolism, marriage is still a common reasonably well understood and internationally respected legal framework for people who trust each other and lives their lives together.
If you're not sure you want to code for a living or if you think you do but all you've ever done is make it through a couple of basic python tutorials then you probably want to get some experience coding before you go and major it in.
+1,
Besides don't take a course to get credit... Just like you shouldn't choose the courses that are easiest to pass...
If you're not studying in order to learn something you're better off dropping out.
It's surprising in my experience how many students cares more about grades, credit and getting a degree rather than learning something useful, or at least just interesting.
Either way, a CS degree takes hard work, trying it out in high school is a good idea. And having extra skills/knowledge when you start is only going to allow you to climb higher (schools that don't facilitate that shouldn't be attended).
The NSA is a spy agency. Its job is to spy, which involves secretly doing illegal things in other countries.
Really? Intelligence gathering is more about reading records from parliament (the ones nobody reads). Or showing up at political meets to hear what people say. In transparent democracies (unlike the US), you don't really need to do anything illegal to find out what is going on.
And if you think that's hypocritical, think again I expect European and Asian countries to spy on us too.
Thief thinks every man steals. Most countries don't have offensive intelligence capabilities.
And they certainly don't conduct mass surveillance of civilians, just because you're not an American citizen, doesn't mean you're not civilian.
It's part of international relations, and it's good for countries to be able to check up on each other, instead of having to rely merely on official statements.
Or you could send someone to takes notes at a political meeting.. .Or read the news paper, or read public records from parliament.
In real democracies governments rarely lies to their constituents. I know the US has a long and proud history of lying, but most other western democracies don't.
Isn't this EXACTLY what the NSA's job is?
Cooperate espionage?
Acts of war against allies?
Gathering intelligence is about reading records from parliament than anything else. Especially when dealing with democracies more transparent than your own.
We're talking about deliberate sabotage of our allies telecommunications networks. It'd be one thing if this were with countries we're at war with, but it's not.
Thank you!
Because 2 wrongs make a right? Is that how it goes?
But let's not kid our selves... Most countries don't have offensive intelligence capabilities.
Just because the US intelligence community has a history of murdering and selling drugs to fund illegal wars, doesn't mean other civilized countries do...
I'm all for the leaks when it concerns stuff the NSA does against civilians. But against foreign governments? The point of the NSA is to do that sort of thing.
Spying on allies? really? This borderlines to act of war...
By the way, foreign governments holds a lot of information about their citizens, social security numbers, medical records, tax records, etc. The NSA has no business doing mass surveillance on on civilians just because they aren't American!
And anyone that thinks these other governments aren't doing the same thing back are kidding themselves.
I'm fairly confident my government doesn't. In fact most intelligence gathering isn't necessarily illegal at all. Mostly you gather intelligence about political issues in foreign countries, but watching the news, reading news papers, public records from parliament, blog posts, twitter, or just plain asking politicians what they think about an issue.
You don't do it by tabbing phones of allied politicians! Or intercepting mail (physical or electronic).
By the way, I'm sure the German democracy is more transparent than the American, if you want to know what goes on... just read the records.
Telling people (including 'enemies') which 'leaks' were authorized and which ones were really leaks could give people all sorts of interesting information -- including which disinformation....leaks to trust and which ones not to.
True, it would not be advantageous for the NSA, perhaps not even advantageous for the US goverment, maybe and just maybe it might be disadvantageous to the American public.
But could it "reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security".
it seems to me like the NSA is playing the word game, where "exceptionally grave damage" == "slight annoyance or minor risk".
This is Europe, so probably around six months in prison.
Yeah... but in the US... they company would get off with a fine :)
Okay, you set me straight... :)
For me the big deal with Firefox was web standards, and a browser less shitty than IE...
Any sanctions imposed in retaliation for a certain deed — such as Russia's invasion into Afghanistan, Georgia or Ukraine — must last until the deed is reversed.
That is certainly a valid argument... One that needs to be taken in to consideration, that said, if you don't let go (at some point), we end in a situation like we have with Iran where we can't impose further sanctions. Other matter to consider is that the best way to further democracy in Russia, is not to isolate Russia further. That'll just make it easier or Putin to control the media, etc.
I'm not saying we should lift sanctions against Russia anytime soon. In fact I favor threat of stronger sanctions. That said, why exactly does the US (as the only western country) still have trade sanctions against Cuba? Is that anything but old grudge. My point is let's not create more of those situations.
By the way, with respect to the Georgia conflict, if I remember correct the US was the only country to impose sanctions. EU talked about, but as I recall it never did anything, but talk... You can take that as a sign of EU weakness or a sign of lacking support for war-crazy Bush (as some Europeans probably do). With my country having followed Bush/US into Iraq on a lie, I don't trust want my politicians to trust the US or US intelligence.
I like your interpretation :)
The whole POINT of Firefox was to be lean and fast and shed all the "integrated" extras of previous browsers.
Maybe my browser history is a bit rusty... but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the whole POINT of Firefox :)
That said, yes... addons are good... It's especially a great way to test things. But it might not be the best to bring an important feature to the majority of the user-base. Laugh all your want about the importance of "private browing" mode, but if it was just an add-on, most people won't use it.