Nope, no problem with your monkey. It's entirely the wonderful CSS abilities of those fine folks at MSN! I had the same problem; I could have looked at the source, but I didn't care enought. I use Firefox 1.5.x, but after your comment, I checked on IE, and hey! Same problem!
The problem is that Microsoft is still just human, and as Mr. Nash mentioned specifically in the OpenBSD question, they support a much larger use base running a much wider variety of applications. The numbers Mr. Nash quote do check out, and if we look at the number of Windows users to BSD users, we see very apparently that the only reason we hear about Microsoft's failures is because they affect 10s of millions of people, whereas OpenBSD bugs might be experienced by 10 users. You try writing an OS and ALL the other software that your mother-in-law wants, and see how easy it is to address EVERY POSSIBLE security concern. Just because you haven't built a company to make you worth billions doesn't mean you can pretend to have experienced it.
For humans, I doubt it. For every human that wants to make the world unihabitable, two others like it just the way it is, and at least one of those is willing to go to lengths to fight for it.
So, this guy has a listing of 100-some patends filed by or for Google on a cd, and he's charging 50 bucks? He's charging another $180 for the book (PDF download, only)? Has he sold a single copy? Has anyone read this? And if anyone has read this (sure as hell ain't me), does he say anything that we/.ers haven't already said?
And endanger a lot of lives, as well. Indeed, the restrictions may be too tight, but they are better than no restrictions at all. I would rather go with penicilin to try to kill this abnormal infection than try some new, fancy shmancy drug that, while it has a "15% better" chance to cure the infection, has no backing behind that whatsoever, besides the company that is making $30 more per dose.
"To keep the good of the patient as the highest priority" - Hippopcratic Oath
If the doctor would rather I payed more than go with the reliable, I don't want it.
I am a high school student in Switzerland as an exchange student, and I am one of these "Outsourcees". I hava a coder account on RentACoder, and regularly spend two or three hours a week writing code for these "CS Majors". It gives me a great way to practice coding before I enter a CS program (I'm hoping for Stanford), and it provides a nice extra cash flow to my overseas accounts.
Not having actually yet gone to college, I can still admit that I borrowed a buddies source code and refactored it, and handed that in as my own. So, having sat on both sides of the fence, I really don't see a problem with either side.
Well, you seem to have little knowledge of how the court works. The court has NO VETO POWER. The court uses a process called Judicial Review, that is, they interperet how legislation conflicts with other legislation and, more importantly, the constitution.
Example, though not from the US Supreme court. In Montana, there was once a time when the highway speed limit was "Safe and Prudent". If you could drive a car and maintain control, then you were OK. One day, a certain guy by the name of Jeremy Penning decided to take his Mazda out for a spin.
He found a nice long stretch of road that had no one on it (or so he thought). He was going 90 when he reached the top of a hill, and continued to floor it going down the other side. He didn't see the highway patrolman coming to an intersection on a side road, and was clocked at approximately 145 mph (this particular speedometer tops at 135, BTW).
Needless to say, the fine officer gave Jeremy a ticket. Jeremy challenged the ticket in court, and it was overturnded. The State appealed, and it went to the Montana Supreme Court (the only difference between the State and Federal courts is the removal of an appeals circuit). The Supreme Court ruled that Jeremy Penning was indeed driving Safe and Prudent for the situation. Weather conditions were not incliment, there was little to no traffic on the road, and both car and driver could handle the situation.
After another two or three cases like this, the state legislature finally accepted the court's decision, and changed the limit to 85.
The Judicial is no more or less powerful than either the Executive or the Legislative. The entire basis of the constitution is the concept of checks and balances, so that if on branch becomes too powerfull, the other branch(es) will step in and put a stop to that power.
Pay a little more attention to your civics classes, and maybe you won't make a dipshit of yourself.
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Nope, no problem with your monkey. It's entirely the wonderful CSS abilities of those fine folks at MSN! I had the same problem; I could have looked at the source, but I didn't care enought. I use Firefox 1.5.x, but after your comment, I checked on IE, and hey! Same problem!
Very Asimovian, I like that!
The problem is that Microsoft is still just human, and as Mr. Nash mentioned specifically in the OpenBSD question, they support a much larger use base running a much wider variety of applications. The numbers Mr. Nash quote do check out, and if we look at the number of Windows users to BSD users, we see very apparently that the only reason we hear about Microsoft's failures is because they affect 10s of millions of people, whereas OpenBSD bugs might be experienced by 10 users. You try writing an OS and ALL the other software that your mother-in-law wants, and see how easy it is to address EVERY POSSIBLE security concern. Just because you haven't built a company to make you worth billions doesn't mean you can pretend to have experienced it.
For humans, I doubt it. For every human that wants to make the world unihabitable, two others like it just the way it is, and at least one of those is willing to go to lengths to fight for it.
$50.00???? WTF????
$180.00??? WTF????
So, this guy has a listing of 100-some patends filed by or for Google on a cd, and he's charging 50 bucks? He's charging another $180 for the book (PDF download, only)? Has he sold a single copy? Has anyone read this? And if anyone has read this (sure as hell ain't me), does he say anything that we /.ers haven't already said?
Seriously, WTF
And endanger a lot of lives, as well. Indeed, the restrictions may be too tight, but they are better than no restrictions at all. I would rather go with penicilin to try to kill this abnormal infection than try some new, fancy shmancy drug that, while it has a "15% better" chance to cure the infection, has no backing behind that whatsoever, besides the company that is making $30 more per dose. "To keep the good of the patient as the highest priority" - Hippopcratic Oath If the doctor would rather I payed more than go with the reliable, I don't want it.
I'm re-sealing my basement now, thank you...
I am a high school student in Switzerland as an exchange student, and I am one of these "Outsourcees". I hava a coder account on RentACoder, and regularly spend two or three hours a week writing code for these "CS Majors". It gives me a great way to practice coding before I enter a CS program (I'm hoping for Stanford), and it provides a nice extra cash flow to my overseas accounts.
Not having actually yet gone to college, I can still admit that I borrowed a buddies source code and refactored it, and handed that in as my own. So, having sat on both sides of the fence, I really don't see a problem with either side.
Well, you seem to have little knowledge of how the court works. The court has NO VETO POWER. The court uses a process called Judicial Review, that is, they interperet how legislation conflicts with other legislation and, more importantly, the constitution.
Example, though not from the US Supreme court. In Montana, there was once a time when the highway speed limit was "Safe and Prudent". If you could drive a car and maintain control, then you were OK. One day, a certain guy by the name of Jeremy Penning decided to take his Mazda out for a spin.
He found a nice long stretch of road that had no one on it (or so he thought). He was going 90 when he reached the top of a hill, and continued to floor it going down the other side. He didn't see the highway patrolman coming to an intersection on a side road, and was clocked at approximately 145 mph (this particular speedometer tops at 135, BTW).
Needless to say, the fine officer gave Jeremy a ticket. Jeremy challenged the ticket in court, and it was overturnded. The State appealed, and it went to the Montana Supreme Court (the only difference between the State and Federal courts is the removal of an appeals circuit). The Supreme Court ruled that Jeremy Penning was indeed driving Safe and Prudent for the situation. Weather conditions were not incliment, there was little to no traffic on the road, and both car and driver could handle the situation.
After another two or three cases like this, the state legislature finally accepted the court's decision, and changed the limit to 85.
The Judicial is no more or less powerful than either the Executive or the Legislative. The entire basis of the constitution is the concept of checks and balances, so that if on branch becomes too powerfull, the other branch(es) will step in and put a stop to that power.
Pay a little more attention to your civics classes, and maybe you won't make a dipshit of yourself.
I've linked to it several times already, and I've seen about 4 others with the same thoughts.
Obviously, Fuddruckers doesn't have much bandwidth to begin with as their website is the one that's been gotten the /.
Erm...
I was complaining more about IE7's reported lack of standards support, than about THIS plugin in particular.
You don't have to be an ass about it.
334 in the /. searchable archives since last march.
$4B in new stocks... ~$2.5B in print advertising... Yeah, The Onion seems to have it right.
- IE 3-6 (7)
- Firefox (Deer Park)
- Opera
- Netscape Navigator 5-8
And each one renders just a little bitwrite in c!