On paper you may be correct. But in real life, the "machine" did 1 mile in nearly 3 years. The theory doesn't survive reality. You can't build a real tunnel with "it should work"s.
Compare this to the Panama Canal: 48 miles in 10 years, with the most advanced tech being steam-powered excavating machines. Not underground, but there was a mountain to go through, water to deal with, and all the jungle stuff (diseases, insects, animals).
This Seattle thing is the worst case ever of machine worshipping and engineering mental masturbation.
They disagree on this. The tunnel people claim it's the pipe, the state people (who put the pipe there) say it's not the pipe. I don't think we'll ever know.
Just opening the Gmail inbox and looking at 1-2 emails and there's already 50+ different xhr calls in your developer tools console. Trello has even more.
I don't think you understand how internet works nowadays.
I think people like you play an important role on internet. You're like the crazy homeless people who make the subway ride more entertaining when you've left your kindle at the office.
If I can make a suggestion: maybe if you could sound just a little less like a petulant teenager making angry posts on Facebook, it would make you slightly more relevant. But in any event, keep up the good work!
What are you talking about? I don't "put effort" in using Gmail or Trello.
Javascript is a lot more than ads and tracking. It's a legitimate client-side web technology that makes it possible to run rich apps in the browser or on a mobile device without having to reload pages all the time and without having to use toxic stuff like Flash or ActiveX.
And how the fuck do you post on Slashdot if you don't have javascript enabled?
With more and more single-page websites that use stuff like Angular, it is no longer possible to have a decent Internet experience without javascript. Might as well just browse the Google cache.
One of the real strengths of open source - diversity. I am not being forced into a new paradigm - enough people who like the older stuff can keep it going for decades. You don't get that choice with windows.
ABP, privacy badger, HTTPS, ghostery and other plugins are not protecting you from etag tracking. As far as I know, your only option is to browse full time in private mode and to prevent the browser from caching stuff, which makes the browsing experience awful.
There's limited stuff to be done with etag tracking. It's not as bad as, say, Google Analytics. But it can be used to track your visits without you knowing and identify you as a unique visitor across many visits to a website (or domain), especially if it's done right. You won't see a "tracker.js" or "1x1.gif" coming from a weird domain like you can see with shitty ads or spam. When it's done right, etag tracking comes from valid content like the CSS file or the company logo, and since it's requested by the browser as it parses HTML, the HTTP referer is passed along with the request even over HTTPS.
You might be surprised to learn that there was an internet for several decades before the advertisers showed up, and that it had a dramatically higher signal to noise ratio then.
True that. I used to read the Baseline magazine (http://www.baselinemag.com/), it was full of interesting articles, and I was even looking at the few ads because they were relevant.
Now it's just empty click-baiting content filled with blinking banners, fake pop ups and lousy ad-injected slideshows. Not sure who's benefits from that, but it's not the reader.
At least with a music service like Spotify you don't get ads with a paid account. Of course they'll use your bandwidth to stream music to other paying and freeloading customers (even when you're not listening).
You mean, like the awful "Slashdot Top Deals" ad that comes up a second after the page is loaded, bringing down the menu on the right and getting me to mistakenly click on it?
It's been years since I've been first offered that "Disable advertising" checkbox (since I'm an amazing contributor) and I have never used it, but with this new Slashdot Deals ad I might do it soon.
Slashdot Mirror
Can't you cheat by switching the hoses?
There's the sanitize mode. I use it all the time (great for cutting boards) except when I have plastic jugs to clean, it destroys them.
On paper you may be correct. But in real life, the "machine" did 1 mile in nearly 3 years. The theory doesn't survive reality. You can't build a real tunnel with "it should work"s.
Compare this to the Panama Canal: 48 miles in 10 years, with the most advanced tech being steam-powered excavating machines. Not underground, but there was a mountain to go through, water to deal with, and all the jungle stuff (diseases, insects, animals).
This Seattle thing is the worst case ever of machine worshipping and engineering mental masturbation.
They could have moved faster using a bunch of guys with picks and shovels.
They disagree on this. The tunnel people claim it's the pipe, the state people (who put the pipe there) say it's not the pipe. I don't think we'll ever know.
By that argument Queen Elizabeth rules the world.
You may not be aware of this, but every time you pay income tax in the USA the Queen gets a cut.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/...
Look it up.
The guy buys a blank tape every day, over and over, because he forgets he already done it. Terrific repeat customer.
the automobile did not kill the horse.
Automobiles don't kill horses. People with automobiles kill horses.
Over like Spanish rule of the Americas.
As demonstrated by the fact that people who speak Spanish feel at home from Buenos Aires to Denver
Christmas miracle!
Dude, chill out with the copy-paste
Just opening the Gmail inbox and looking at 1-2 emails and there's already 50+ different xhr calls in your developer tools console. Trello has even more.
I don't think you understand how internet works nowadays.
Kill yourself
I think people like you play an important role on internet. You're like the crazy homeless people who make the subway ride more entertaining when you've left your kindle at the office.
If I can make a suggestion: maybe if you could sound just a little less like a petulant teenager making angry posts on Facebook, it would make you slightly more relevant. But in any event, keep up the good work!
What are you talking about? I don't "put effort" in using Gmail or Trello.
Javascript is a lot more than ads and tracking. It's a legitimate client-side web technology that makes it possible to run rich apps in the browser or on a mobile device without having to reload pages all the time and without having to use toxic stuff like Flash or ActiveX.
And how the fuck do you post on Slashdot if you don't have javascript enabled?
Looks like the opposite of sprites, so it's probably called pepsi
With more and more single-page websites that use stuff like Angular, it is no longer possible to have a decent Internet experience without javascript. Might as well just browse the Google cache.
One of the real strengths of open source - diversity. I am not being forced into a new paradigm - enough people who like the older stuff can keep it going for decades. You don't get that choice with windows.
So you must be one of those 11 Devuan users?
things like ls and rm stay put, and the interface convention / syntax of "command --option=value argument > file" also hasn't changed.
I think systemd is going to rock your world.
until windows 95 (admittedly in addition to a Acorn Archmides, which was ahead of Windows by at least 10 years at that time)
I think you've got a bad case of "he was my first" syndrome.
ABP, privacy badger, HTTPS, ghostery and other plugins are not protecting you from etag tracking. As far as I know, your only option is to browse full time in private mode and to prevent the browser from caching stuff, which makes the browsing experience awful.
There's limited stuff to be done with etag tracking. It's not as bad as, say, Google Analytics. But it can be used to track your visits without you knowing and identify you as a unique visitor across many visits to a website (or domain), especially if it's done right. You won't see a "tracker.js" or "1x1.gif" coming from a weird domain like you can see with shitty ads or spam. When it's done right, etag tracking comes from valid content like the CSS file or the company logo, and since it's requested by the browser as it parses HTML, the HTTP referer is passed along with the request even over HTTPS.
You might be surprised to learn that there was an internet for several decades before the advertisers showed up, and that it had a dramatically higher signal to noise ratio then.
True that. I used to read the Baseline magazine (http://www.baselinemag.com/), it was full of interesting articles, and I was even looking at the few ads because they were relevant.
Now it's just empty click-baiting content filled with blinking banners, fake pop ups and lousy ad-injected slideshows. Not sure who's benefits from that, but it's not the reader.
At least with a music service like Spotify you don't get ads with a paid account. Of course they'll use your bandwidth to stream music to other paying and freeloading customers (even when you're not listening).
force feed me their ads down my throat
You mean, like the awful "Slashdot Top Deals" ad that comes up a second after the page is loaded, bringing down the menu on the right and getting me to mistakenly click on it?
It's been years since I've been first offered that "Disable advertising" checkbox (since I'm an amazing contributor) and I have never used it, but with this new Slashdot Deals ad I might do it soon.
my copy of Outlook doesn't download or render attachments (or even images) unless told to
That's why Lotus Notes is so amazing. Even when you tell it to, it doesn't download or render things. Security by mediocrity.
No, soldiers do not walk around army bases with loaded guns. Sadly, military bases have become gun-free zones.
Well, it's better than military bases in Syria that have become free-gun zones.