Perl6 has been the absolute worst thing that ever happened to Perl. All the drawbacks of vaporware, and none of the benefits. Everyone thinks Perl 5 is obsolescent because Perl 6 is supposedly coming out...someday. Frankly, Larry and them should have announced they were developing a new language (say "Emerald"), and not trashed the Perl brand for so far, nothing.
Seems like I've said this a million times, but it seems like this has been going on for a thousand years.
What perspective are you talking about? The reference to Kent State is merely to show that soldiers (even National Guard) will indeed shoot innocent civilians.
I pretty sure the poster is not referring to what the government has the *power* to do, but what it *ought* to do (and not do). Of course they *can* pore over your PC for as many hours as they like, make copies, give you a barium enema, whatever. They've got guns, and you don't. But, morally, and constitutionally, they *do not* have any right to do so.
Bullshit. The system is *already there*. It's been running for years. I can't figure out the real story on this, but fucking your customers to make life a little easier on your IT staff just doesn't fly in my universe.
Good God! Does the CEO of Foxmarks have to come over to your house and personally demo it for you? Slashdot is not meant as an output-only forum. Read a couple of posts!
I use Foxmarks 1.0.1 with my home server using WebDav. It's fantastic.
Here's some substance for you: business management that spends 5 seconds worrying about IM, banning IM, blocking websites, removing Solitaire, and filtering email have got their heads up their asses. How about you hire people that will do the job you need them to do, occasionally check that they are indeed doing that job (producing results), but otherwise just leave them alone?
Unless you are in the 3rd world, you aren't allowed to hire children, so why do you treat your employees as if they are?
Please don't misconstrue me... people are thieves, by and large, and you do have to take steps to block crime. I'm talking about the attempt to eliminate any possibility of entertainment at work.
You're completely correct that morons driving while on the phone are a menace. I see them all the time, and 9x out of 10, I can see that their attention is nowhere near the road. But if I was a cop, and more to the point in a cop car, I bet I'd see far fewer people chatting away with that blank stare in their eyes.
Anyway, my real point is, I'm fairly certain that passing laws against something doesn't make it stop. Particularly when it's something that is absolutely impossible to prove.
First, in the frenzy to be "frist" in line (or close) to hold primaries, a lot of votes and a huge amount of momentum is blown nearly a year before the election. The parties are taking a huge chance that their nominee will turn out to have some big skeletons in his closet with this mad rush to "make their vote count". Ironically, their votes would have been more significant if they'd waited until, say, June, when a big state could decide the nomination for the Dems.
Second, as alluded to above, the Dems primary voters seem to naively voted for who they personally wanted to be president. That is a mistake in primary voting. The smart thing is to get the candidate with the best chance of winning nominated (given that an actual Republican isn't running as a Democrat, I guess). The conventional wisdom is that Clinton would much more likely to win the general election. Besides, she got more popular votes.
Third, as an aside to point 2, primaries are a really bad way to pick a candidate. But smoke-filled rooms are passe. I'd suggest a compromise... One-half of the delegates to be selected by primaries and caucuses. Committed to their declared nominee for say two rounds of voting. The rest appointed as the party sees fit. And the conventions would have some meaning again. And maybe, just maybe, we'd see some presidential candidates worth considering. Someone who has more going for them than a disturbing willingness to glad-hand and stump for two years without a break.
The Socialist Security number was originally promised not to be used as an identification number. That went out decades ago. The federal government has for a long time required the SSN as your taxpayer ID, and requires it be recorded for all financial dealings. At some time they started requiring it be recorded by states to get a driver's license. It's required to get a passport.
Basically, it's your serial number, and its purpose is to allow the government to more easily control every aspect of your life. That's what governments like to do, you know.
There's no way a phone survey will remotely match the general population demographically. The article treats the results as proven facts, just so it can play fast & loose with them. The one statistic that sounds somewhat fact-based is the "A recent phone survey of U.S. households by Parks found 20 million households are without Internet access, approximately 18 percent of all U.S. households." How the hell does that morph into the screaming headline "20% of U.S. Has Never Sent E-mail"? Those are two different things entirely (besides the smudging of the number).
And out of the blue, quote: '"Nearly one out of three household heads has never used a computer to create a document," said John Barrett, director of research at Parks Associates'. Where did *that* come from? Maybe it's a typo, and maybe I don't care any more, because I don't believe a word of it anyway.
And 1000/. readers think they can explain this "data". This whole discussion is a bunch of crappy opinions, based on a crappy article about a crappy survey.
OTOH, I'm thinking my new batch of medication isn't working as well as it should.
You never "programmed" JCL. JCL is not a programming language, at least not in any normal sense. It is essentially a specification sheet for running some work. There's only 3 main verbs to worry about: JOB, EXEC, and DD. The first is mainly for identification and accounting. EXEC runs a program, and DD statements define the files the program is to work on. The DD statement has a few hundred possible keywords, but a large majority are never used anymore.
There's nothing very difficult about JCL, and there's excellent and thorough documentation. Anyone who takes the time to look up what they don't know will quickly (~an hour or so) learn all you need to know to use JCL.
A couple more hours of research and you can start cleaning up crap like the GP's example, because you'll learn how to do it right. E.g. the DCB parameter and its subparameters are useless in that example, snd should have been left off. That is a typical mistake, though.
Well, since they're deleting it, not using it, it hardly matters. Specifying DCB parameters here is a waste of time anyway. They should have been left off.
We have a more efficient system in the USA: any violation of political correctness will get you fired, pilloried, and defamed mercilessly. In certain careers, your career is often destroyed. And of course whether what was said is true or not is irrelevant.
Well, duh. How is Paypal blocking "unsafe" browsers going to have any effect at all on people going to phishing sites? As you said, a phisher is perfectly happy for you to use an "unsafe" browser.
And what do they think people who fall for phishing scams are going to do about it? Upgrade their browser? Please.
I live in OH, so I have to do this. There doesn't seem to be any requirement for detailed records, so I just estimate. This year I estimated my Internet buying to be about $15.39, so I had to cough up an extra $1 on my OH income tax.
A site that cannot be reached is about the opposite of a real black hole. A real black hole can be reached all too easily (relatively speaking), and the problem is it ain't so easy to leave.
What TFA is discussing is something more like "broken connection". Sorry it doesn't have the same resonance.
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Perl6 has been the absolute worst thing that ever happened to Perl. All the drawbacks of vaporware, and none of the benefits. Everyone thinks Perl 5 is obsolescent because Perl 6 is supposedly coming out ...someday. Frankly, Larry and them should have announced they were developing a new language (say "Emerald"), and not trashed the Perl brand for so far, nothing.
Seems like I've said this a million times, but it seems like this has been going on for a thousand years.
What perspective are you talking about? The reference to Kent State is merely to show that soldiers (even National Guard) will indeed shoot innocent civilians.
Have you never heard of Kent State?
Guess what language Slashdot is written in.
Ha-ha, too bad you were calling a phishing site. Sprint doesn't ask for your password, nimrod.
I pretty sure the poster is not referring to what the government has the *power* to do, but what it *ought* to do (and not do). Of course they *can* pore over your PC for as many hours as they like, make copies, give you a barium enema, whatever. They've got guns, and you don't. But, morally, and constitutionally, they *do not* have any right to do so.
You missed the point. Read the rest of your parent's post. I.E. the second of two lines, twitchy.
You are probably right, but this isn't evidence. It sounds to me like they told him more or less the same thing as their announcement said.
Bullshit. The system is *already there*. It's been running for years. I can't figure out the real story on this, but fucking your customers to make life a little easier on your IT staff just doesn't fly in my universe.
Good God! Does the CEO of Foxmarks have to come over to your house and personally demo it for you? Slashdot is not meant as an output-only forum. Read a couple of posts!
I use Foxmarks 1.0.1 with my home server using WebDav. It's fantastic.
Here's some substance for you: business management that spends 5 seconds worrying about IM, banning IM, blocking websites, removing Solitaire, and filtering email have got their heads up their asses. How about you hire people that will do the job you need them to do, occasionally check that they are indeed doing that job (producing results), but otherwise just leave them alone?
Unless you are in the 3rd world, you aren't allowed to hire children, so why do you treat your employees as if they are?
Please don't misconstrue me... people are thieves, by and large, and you do have to take steps to block crime. I'm talking about the attempt to eliminate any possibility of entertainment at work.
Remember who would take over in case Bush was actually impeached and convicted. It would amount to pulling the sock puppet off his hand.
Why the fuck should anyone have to answer questions about their sex life in a federal court?
I'd have had more respect for him if he'd said, "None of your fucking business". That's sort of a pun, too.
You're completely correct that morons driving while on the phone are a menace. I see them all the time, and 9x out of 10, I can see that their attention is nowhere near the road. But if I was a cop, and more to the point in a cop car, I bet I'd see far fewer people chatting away with that blank stare in their eyes.
Anyway, my real point is, I'm fairly certain that passing laws against something doesn't make it stop. Particularly when it's something that is absolutely impossible to prove.
First, in the frenzy to be "frist" in line (or close) to hold primaries, a lot of votes and a huge amount of momentum is blown nearly a year before the election. The parties are taking a huge chance that their nominee will turn out to have some big skeletons in his closet with this mad rush to "make their vote count". Ironically, their votes would have been more significant if they'd waited until, say, June, when a big state could decide the nomination for the Dems.
Second, as alluded to above, the Dems primary voters seem to naively voted for who they personally wanted to be president. That is a mistake in primary voting. The smart thing is to get the candidate with the best chance of winning nominated (given that an actual Republican isn't running as a Democrat, I guess). The conventional wisdom is that Clinton would much more likely to win the general election. Besides, she got more popular votes.
Third, as an aside to point 2, primaries are a really bad way to pick a candidate. But smoke-filled rooms are passe. I'd suggest a compromise... One-half of the delegates to be selected by primaries and caucuses. Committed to their declared nominee for say two rounds of voting. The rest appointed as the party sees fit. And the conventions would have some meaning again. And maybe, just maybe, we'd see some presidential candidates worth considering. Someone who has more going for them than a disturbing willingness to glad-hand and stump for two years without a break.
The Socialist Security number was originally promised not to be used as an identification number. That went out decades ago. The federal government has for a long time required the SSN as your taxpayer ID, and requires it be recorded for all financial dealings. At some time they started requiring it be recorded by states to get a driver's license. It's required to get a passport.
Basically, it's your serial number, and its purpose is to allow the government to more easily control every aspect of your life. That's what governments like to do, you know.
There's no way a phone survey will remotely match the general population demographically. The article treats the results as proven facts, just so it can play fast & loose with them. The one statistic that sounds somewhat fact-based is the "A recent phone survey of U.S. households by Parks found 20 million households are without Internet access, approximately 18 percent of all U.S. households." How the hell does that morph into the screaming headline "20% of U.S. Has Never Sent E-mail"? Those are two different things entirely (besides the smudging of the number).
/. readers think they can explain this "data". This whole discussion is a bunch of crappy opinions, based on a crappy article about a crappy survey.
And out of the blue, quote: '"Nearly one out of three household heads has never used a computer to create a document," said John Barrett, director of research at Parks Associates'. Where did *that* come from? Maybe it's a typo, and maybe I don't care any more, because I don't believe a word of it anyway.
And 1000
OTOH, I'm thinking my new batch of medication isn't working as well as it should.
You never "programmed" JCL. JCL is not a programming language, at least not in any normal sense. It is essentially a specification sheet for running some work. There's only 3 main verbs to worry about: JOB, EXEC, and DD. The first is mainly for identification and accounting. EXEC runs a program, and DD statements define the files the program is to work on. The DD statement has a few hundred possible keywords, but a large majority are never used anymore.
There's nothing very difficult about JCL, and there's excellent and thorough documentation. Anyone who takes the time to look up what they don't know will quickly (~an hour or so) learn all you need to know to use JCL.
A couple more hours of research and you can start cleaning up crap like the GP's example, because you'll learn how to do it right. E.g. the DCB parameter and its subparameters are useless in that example, snd should have been left off. That is a typical mistake, though.
Well, since they're deleting it, not using it, it hardly matters. Specifying DCB parameters here is a waste of time anyway. They should have been left off.
We have a more efficient system in the USA: any violation of political correctness will get you fired, pilloried, and defamed mercilessly. In certain careers, your career is often destroyed. And of course whether what was said is true or not is irrelevant.
Well, duh. How is Paypal blocking "unsafe" browsers going to have any effect at all on people going to phishing sites? As you said, a phisher is perfectly happy for you to use an "unsafe" browser.
And what do they think people who fall for phishing scams are going to do about it? Upgrade their browser? Please.
Yeah.
About 95 years ago, I would have modded you insightful.
I live in OH, so I have to do this. There doesn't seem to be any requirement for detailed records, so I just estimate. This year I estimated my Internet buying to be about $15.39, so I had to cough up an extra $1 on my OH income tax.
A site that cannot be reached is about the opposite of a real black hole. A real black hole can be reached all too easily (relatively speaking), and the problem is it ain't so easy to leave.
What TFA is discussing is something more like "broken connection". Sorry it doesn't have the same resonance.
You're obviously hinting that you want me.