I just always visit https://www.facebook.com. Seems to work. There is also a setting I noticed that says something like "use secure sessions wherever possible", which perhaps redirects you to the https site even if you click on an http link. I haven't tested it though, I'm happy using https all the time so that people can't steal my session cookie or whatever.
Ah weird, with all the new accounts recently I saw it as over 2000000. Really need to be more careful. Yeah I find it hard to believe that some people really believe that stuff sometimes, though I get reality checks from my flatmate from time to time. He really liked WP7s interface, loves iTunes, AppleTV, iPads, etc etc... he doesn't like that he's locked in, but he also doesn't want to miss out on the latest and "coolest" gadgets, which is how he managed to lock himself in in the first place. I prefer to wait a little while until things have developed standards, or at least some kind of competition.
Great article, thanks:) I am always wary of anyone trying to split people into black and white groups, as the truth often lies soemwhere in the middle, though at least he mentioned that packers can re-learn to map, or perhaps can be taught to map in specific scenarios which may then encourage them to do so in others. I definitely agree that there are a lot of people out there who rarely ask questions or improvise - they generally operate as if going through a recipe rather than truly trying to understand what is going on.
And why would you rather be in this "middle ground"? Other than the fact that ALL >2,000,000 UID/. accounts so far have been subtly trying to big up MS while subtly dismissing Apple and Google? Because of a camera button? Because it's linked to your XBOX? What use is that? The unlimited Zune thing sounded okay, but the Spotify app does exactly the same thing.
My Android has a camera button, though in fact I'd prefer it didn't. Happily it is disabled on my preferred custom ROM. The wonderful thing about the Android platform is choice.
The fact is that neither opengl nor directx is designed for the game developers. They're designed to make game development so difficult that hobbyists cannot do it! So that the playing field is completely reserved for companies.
I think you're taking that way too far. I messed around with OpenGL when I was maybe 16 (11 years ago) and it seemed fine to me. You can manipulate individual pixels in the scene buffer if you really want to btw.
Another fucking MS shill comment from a brand new user, surprise surprise. Do you really think we're that dumb here that spouting some ancient stereotypical BS and then saying things like "innovation" and "truly" in the same post as Microsoft are going to fool us?
You could have at least mention TuxRacer or Alien Arena if you didn't want your comment to look like it was written in the 90s.. it isn't about Linux/Microsoft, or nVidia/AMD in this case, it's about Direct3D/OpenGL. Mac OS still has modern games despite not having DirectX. Likewise so does the PS3.
It might be better to encourage these people to take their machine in for a regular service to someone who knows what they are doing, same as a car.
It would be better just to do silent updates. Many people don't take their car for regular servicing, and even if they waited a couple of days, their machine could be pwned by then, credit card/banking info stolen, etc..
I doubt I'm all that rare in my opinion either:p I already have enough of an idea of what it would be like up there, and it would quickly get tedious. I'm okay with SCUBA diving, and I think I'd be okay as an offshore oil rig worker for a few months at a time, but space is even more isolated, and it would be much more difficult to try to get proper exercise with no gravity.. now, if we were talking of a moon base, I'd love that, because then you can be doing pentuple backflips and such all day, but orbit.. no thanks!
I suppose you don't understand the concepts behind humour. You might want to perhaps spend a few years analysing for example "banter", "irony" and "wit", then come back and give a report on my comment. Don't make me explain the joke.
*shrug* I'm okay with that yes, as long as they are being genuine and not just using it as an excuse. For example, the price of individual songs on iTunes and Amazon are very reasonable. Albums range from very good value to around CD price, which isn't very good value for MP3s, so recently I've been waiting until the price drops a bit before buying some stuff.
I actually don't have that much problem with guys who download illegally and just admit that what they're doing is wrong. It's the guys who just want free stuff, but try to act like they're doing something noble/justifiable that pisses me off. You can call think of that as hypocritical if you wish, but I've only done it with one TV series that I'd already seen most of (DBZ), and recently a movie that wasn't available anywhere for some reason (the original Tron, which I've now pre-ordered as part of a boxset with Legacy).
If there was evidence, there would be proof. There is no evidence. There is wishful thinking and superstition, with people viewing every event with a very, very heavy confirmation bias.
Even if there were indicators of a generic god, there doesn't seem to be any way of telling which religion actually worships the "real" god, since this god appears to let the world go on exactly as if we humans were left to our own devices. I fail to see where god is needed in the picture.
I think this guy made a mistake in releasing for free. Even releasing at 99c or so would have been a good idea. Just look at the app store. 99c is a price that people are willing to gamble on, especially for a whole damn book..
I'm not the scum. I didn't buy MP3s while they were all being sold with DRM. I waited until they were DRM free. I neither agree with DRM, nor with freeloading scumbags.
I do torrent things when there is literally no other way for me to get something. In one or two cases I still torrented when importing what I wanted would have cost far more than is reasonable. £100 for a TV series that I've already seen most of on TV for free? You must be kidding.
The different standard is that there is absolutely no evidence for a god. It's not even a falsifiable thing, because you can't prove that there is no god either. So it has nothing to do with science and logic. It's pure wishful thinking, and billions of people choose to believe in some form of god, but not all of those billions agree with each other. 2 billion Muslims and 2 billion Christians. Just because a lot of people agree with you doesn't make your belief right, though it does make it easier to believe nonsense.
I suspect you need to pay more attention. I think the first >2,000,000 post I saw (a couple of weeks ago) was a troll, and since then it's all been shills. Seriously, go have a look at the first posts on stories in the last week or two..
Do Americans know that no one else in the world does this?
Here in the UK, some telcos try to charge for tethering. I have a custom ROM on my phone for one thing, so I can do it without paying for a package for it. I have hardly ever used it anyway, so I don't know what would actually happen if I started using it a lot. I'm on a business data plan anyway so I doubt it would matter..
How exactly is "Windows traffic" on a phone indistinguishable from "Windows traffic" on a PC, yet somehow those are both different from iOS traffic? For one thing even the default browser user agent string is going to be different on all of these devices, and a low UID slashdotter mentioned recently that there are ways of distinguishing OS at signatures at IP level too, but I don't know what they would be or how easy it would be to spoof that.
Anyway, it seems you're just spreading BS. Pretty much every post I've seen from a >2,000,000 UID so far is all pro-MS/anti-Apple/anti-Google bullshit..
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I just always visit https://www.facebook.com. Seems to work. There is also a setting I noticed that says something like "use secure sessions wherever possible", which perhaps redirects you to the https site even if you click on an http link. I haven't tested it though, I'm happy using https all the time so that people can't steal my session cookie or whatever.
An umbrella would have been cheaper
Ah weird, with all the new accounts recently I saw it as over 2000000. Really need to be more careful. Yeah I find it hard to believe that some people really believe that stuff sometimes, though I get reality checks from my flatmate from time to time. He really liked WP7s interface, loves iTunes, AppleTV, iPads, etc etc... he doesn't like that he's locked in, but he also doesn't want to miss out on the latest and "coolest" gadgets, which is how he managed to lock himself in in the first place. I prefer to wait a little while until things have developed standards, or at least some kind of competition.
Okay.. but it seems an awful lot of unnecessary RAM use when you could just port OpenOffice instead..
Great article, thanks :) I am always wary of anyone trying to split people into black and white groups, as the truth often lies soemwhere in the middle, though at least he mentioned that packers can re-learn to map, or perhaps can be taught to map in specific scenarios which may then encourage them to do so in others. I definitely agree that there are a lot of people out there who rarely ask questions or improvise - they generally operate as if going through a recipe rather than truly trying to understand what is going on.
WINE only works on x86 architectures, ie "Wine Is Not an Emulator"
And why would you rather be in this "middle ground"? Other than the fact that ALL >2,000,000 UID /. accounts so far have been subtly trying to big up MS while subtly dismissing Apple and Google? Because of a camera button? Because it's linked to your XBOX? What use is that? The unlimited Zune thing sounded okay, but the Spotify app does exactly the same thing.
My Android has a camera button, though in fact I'd prefer it didn't. Happily it is disabled on my preferred custom ROM. The wonderful thing about the Android platform is choice.
Like run after guys who got money from a bank without the requisite paperwork? :p
I know a few people on Facebook that have in fact started to adopt Twain's logical spelling system. Lolcats appear to be fans too.
The fact is that neither opengl nor directx is designed for the game developers. They're designed to make game development so difficult that hobbyists cannot do it! So that the playing field is completely reserved for companies.
I think you're taking that way too far. I messed around with OpenGL when I was maybe 16 (11 years ago) and it seemed fine to me. You can manipulate individual pixels in the scene buffer if you really want to btw.
Another fucking MS shill comment from a brand new user, surprise surprise. Do you really think we're that dumb here that spouting some ancient stereotypical BS and then saying things like "innovation" and "truly" in the same post as Microsoft are going to fool us?
You could have at least mention TuxRacer or Alien Arena if you didn't want your comment to look like it was written in the 90s.. it isn't about Linux/Microsoft, or nVidia/AMD in this case, it's about Direct3D/OpenGL. Mac OS still has modern games despite not having DirectX. Likewise so does the PS3.
Just offer them a preview of the next iPhone or whatever, the stupid ones will run that.
It might be better to encourage these people to take their machine in for a regular service to someone who knows what they are doing, same as a car.
It would be better just to do silent updates. Many people don't take their car for regular servicing, and even if they waited a couple of days, their machine could be pwned by then, credit card/banking info stolen, etc..
I doubt I'm all that rare in my opinion either :p I already have enough of an idea of what it would be like up there, and it would quickly get tedious. I'm okay with SCUBA diving, and I think I'd be okay as an offshore oil rig worker for a few months at a time, but space is even more isolated, and it would be much more difficult to try to get proper exercise with no gravity.. now, if we were talking of a moon base, I'd love that, because then you can be doing pentuple backflips and such all day, but orbit.. no thanks!
I suppose you don't understand the concepts behind humour. You might want to perhaps spend a few years analysing for example "banter", "irony" and "wit", then come back and give a report on my comment. Don't make me explain the joke.
*shrug* I'm okay with that yes, as long as they are being genuine and not just using it as an excuse. For example, the price of individual songs on iTunes and Amazon are very reasonable. Albums range from very good value to around CD price, which isn't very good value for MP3s, so recently I've been waiting until the price drops a bit before buying some stuff.
I actually don't have that much problem with guys who download illegally and just admit that what they're doing is wrong. It's the guys who just want free stuff, but try to act like they're doing something noble/justifiable that pisses me off. You can call think of that as hypocritical if you wish, but I've only done it with one TV series that I'd already seen most of (DBZ), and recently a movie that wasn't available anywhere for some reason (the original Tron, which I've now pre-ordered as part of a boxset with Legacy).
If there was evidence, there would be proof. There is no evidence. There is wishful thinking and superstition, with people viewing every event with a very, very heavy confirmation bias.
Even if there were indicators of a generic god, there doesn't seem to be any way of telling which religion actually worships the "real" god, since this god appears to let the world go on exactly as if we humans were left to our own devices. I fail to see where god is needed in the picture.
I think this guy made a mistake in releasing for free. Even releasing at 99c or so would have been a good idea. Just look at the app store. 99c is a price that people are willing to gamble on, especially for a whole damn book..
damn HTML stripping
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Come on now, surely as a 6 digit UID user you can write a custom UI for slashdot just by coughing on the keyboard?
You have him deported?
I'm not the scum. I didn't buy MP3s while they were all being sold with DRM. I waited until they were DRM free. I neither agree with DRM, nor with freeloading scumbags.
I do torrent things when there is literally no other way for me to get something. In one or two cases I still torrented when importing what I wanted would have cost far more than is reasonable. £100 for a TV series that I've already seen most of on TV for free? You must be kidding.
The different standard is that there is absolutely no evidence for a god. It's not even a falsifiable thing, because you can't prove that there is no god either. So it has nothing to do with science and logic. It's pure wishful thinking, and billions of people choose to believe in some form of god, but not all of those billions agree with each other. 2 billion Muslims and 2 billion Christians. Just because a lot of people agree with you doesn't make your belief right, though it does make it easier to believe nonsense.
I suspect you need to pay more attention. I think the first >2,000,000 post I saw (a couple of weeks ago) was a troll, and since then it's all been shills. Seriously, go have a look at the first posts on stories in the last week or two..
Do Americans know that no one else in the world does this?
Here in the UK, some telcos try to charge for tethering. I have a custom ROM on my phone for one thing, so I can do it without paying for a package for it. I have hardly ever used it anyway, so I don't know what would actually happen if I started using it a lot. I'm on a business data plan anyway so I doubt it would matter..
How exactly is "Windows traffic" on a phone indistinguishable from "Windows traffic" on a PC, yet somehow those are both different from iOS traffic? For one thing even the default browser user agent string is going to be different on all of these devices, and a low UID slashdotter mentioned recently that there are ways of distinguishing OS at signatures at IP level too, but I don't know what they would be or how easy it would be to spoof that.
Anyway, it seems you're just spreading BS. Pretty much every post I've seen from a >2,000,000 UID so far is all pro-MS/anti-Apple/anti-Google bullshit..