Wonderful. Can you guarantee that I'll receive packages addressed to "Zon Mindless" rather than "Zontar T. Mindless" because many if not most Swedes apparently cannot handle the concept of short forms of long first names?
...facebook is not the right tool for communicating about things you don't want people to associate with you.
Bingo. It's that simple. seebs gets this, accepts the reality, and (or so we might reasonably assume) behaves accordingly.
(Unlike the 90% of users who seems to think FB should somehow be private whenever they just happen to want it to be.)
I've been in the public eye for 20+ years. When you live and work in the Bible Belt, you do not talk about your fondness for Scotch whiskey on your radio show. Unless you want the whole tri-county area to know about it. Which, if you want your ratings to remain viable, you don't. You might think just whispering it would keep it private, but hey, it's awfully amazing what a 100kW transmitter can do with even a whisper.
Similarly, when you're on the Internet, you don't post anything you would not wish to see associated with your name and photo on the cover of TIME magazine. Er, that dates me a bit, doesn't it? Let's say instead that, when you're on the Internet, you don't post anything to FB you would not wish to see associated with your name and likeness on the Jon Stewart show (he still has one, right?) or The Daily Kos.
On the Internet, "private" means--at best--"nobody else can see it... yet".
With the ability to use nicknames, you can delude yourself into thinking you have privacy when you really don't. With a real-name policy you are having your lack of privacy rubbed right in your face so you don't forget it and do something stupid under an "assumption" of privacy.
...
... The Internet was never anonymous.. it's just that the Internet made it (and still makes it) difficult to verify that the other person at the end of the pipe is actually who he says he is and isn't lying to you. Don't confuse lack of authentication with privacy, they ain't the same thing.
Would mod you up but I've already posted in this thread.
Hello, you seem to have missed the bit where the page was made up of hundreds of absolutely-positioned DIV tags, the co-ordinates for which were calculated at runtime on the server.
Now, take a deep breath, count to 10, then try again.
I've always thought that having GUI files is the way to go instead of in code. I'm fine with XML (FXML in this case), but I'm sure some others have gripes and may prefer property files/etc. But how nice would it be to have an XML standard for all GUIs? Then all you have to do is load one XML file across GTK+, Qt, X11, Windows, Cocoa, and even OpenGL. Example:
Slashdot Mirror
This cannot be said loudly or often enough: A good editor is worth his weight in gold-pressed latinum.
As a working author who's had about 15 books published in the last decade or two, I'd like to offer you a bit of professional advice:
PARAGRAPH BREAKS.
Know them, love them, and FFS *use* them!
Thanks for posting something I actually had to look up.
lucrum cessans means a loss of expected gain/profit, as opposed to a loss of real goods or money already held.
IOW, it's the classic MAFIAA equation "profits not as high as we'd like = we've been robbed" that any reasoning person knows to be false.
I'm guessing that you've never heard of chorizo.
SSL will, if correctly setup, will prevent this. Unless you click through all the warnings your browser shows regarding the sites certificate.
You are aware, I'm sure, that your first sentence is handily negated by the second one?
Thanks for posting that here, where some unscrupulous writer might want to grab the idea to use for a novel. :)
Get back to us when you've learnt how to spell "kernel".
Wonderful. Can you guarantee that I'll receive packages addressed to "Zon Mindless" rather than "Zontar T. Mindless" because many if not most Swedes apparently cannot handle the concept of short forms of long first names?
Now... what's a real name, again?
(See? I can go for easy points, too.)
Vey is mir, you must be... *facepalm*
...facebook is not the right tool for communicating about things you don't want people to associate with you.
Bingo. It's that simple. seebs gets this, accepts the reality, and (or so we might reasonably assume) behaves accordingly.
(Unlike the 90% of users who seems to think FB should somehow be private whenever they just happen to want it to be.)
I've been in the public eye for 20+ years. When you live and work in the Bible Belt, you do not talk about your fondness for Scotch whiskey on your radio show. Unless you want the whole tri-county area to know about it. Which, if you want your ratings to remain viable, you don't. You might think just whispering it would keep it private, but hey, it's awfully amazing what a 100kW transmitter can do with even a whisper.
Similarly, when you're on the Internet, you don't post anything you would not wish to see associated with your name and photo on the cover of TIME magazine. Er, that dates me a bit, doesn't it? Let's say instead that, when you're on the Internet, you don't post anything to FB you would not wish to see associated with your name and likeness on the Jon Stewart show (he still has one, right?) or The Daily Kos.
On the Internet, "private" means--at best--"nobody else can see it... yet".
FYI, it's spelt "Zontar the Mindless" but pronounced "Raymond Luxury Yacht".
With the ability to use nicknames, you can delude yourself into thinking you have privacy when you really don't. With a real-name policy you are having your lack of privacy rubbed right in your face so you don't forget it and do something stupid under an "assumption" of privacy.
...
... The Internet was never anonymous.. it's just that the Internet made it (and still makes it) difficult to verify that the other person at the end of the pipe is actually who he says he is and isn't lying to you. Don't confuse lack of authentication with privacy, they ain't the same thing.
Would mod you up but I've already posted in this thread.
... facebook has no way of knowing what your real name actually is.
Just because you tell yourself this, does not make it true.
("The password is... cross-referencing!")
Saying "mitzvots" is like saying "commandmentses".
The singular is "mitzvah", the plural is "mitzvot".
I knew that, and I'm not even Jewish.
Again, it seems people can't read.
This is
what
the OP *said*
that
the app was doing.
Nobody said it was a smart thing to do. In fact, the point was that it was in fact an incredibly stupid thing to do.
"Stupid" != "people don't do it"
Now do you get it?
That's not even worthy of a troll mod.
Hello, you seem to have missed the bit where the page was made up of hundreds of absolutely-positioned DIV tags, the co-ordinates for which were calculated at runtime on the server.
Now, take a deep breath, count to 10, then try again.
Although some ANZ accounts apparently need IE
I've always been able to use FF/Linux with my ANZ account since I opened it (2004).
Why does it matter?
If I buy with my bank card, the merchant needs no other info than the name and number on the card.
Lots of people seem to think they're special. And they are. Just like everybody else.
If you want *structured* documents, you should be using DocBook, not a word processor.
Horrid as VBA might be, it has one important advantage: it can be read by humans.
I've always thought that having GUI files is the way to go instead of in code. I'm fine with XML (FXML in this case), but I'm sure some others have gripes and may prefer property files/etc. But how nice would it be to have an XML standard for all GUIs? Then all you have to do is load one XML file across GTK+, Qt, X11, Windows, Cocoa, and even OpenGL. Example:
<window width="300" height="300">
<edit width="100" height="20" value="Type name." />
<button width="50" height="50" value="Submit" />
</window>
Then do the logic in whatever language you want. I know it's a pipe dream with several problems, but damn it would be nice.
http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul
Agreed. The zombies thing is so obvious as to be wallowing in complete and utter lameness. I recommend caning, BTW.
OTOH, if he'd come up with something a bit more original and suited to the season... say, an invasion of Frost Giants...
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