"4 times less performance" than what? I HATE that wording on tech and science sites. 1/4 the performance is the correct wording, unless comparing to a difference.
> Yes, I know you can put a god damn session id in the URL query string, but that's annoying, unreliable, and insecure. IF someone navigates your website for a bit, puts some stuff in the shopping cart, then just goes back to your homepage by stripping everything but the domain name off the URL...TADA!!! You've lost their session!!! Or if they jump to a different part of your website via a bookmark from a previous session...TADA!!!! You've lost their session. Or if they copy their URL and pass it to someone else/post it on a forum...TADA!!!! Someone else is now using their session (yes, you can "solve" that issue by linking the session by a secondary authentication variable like IP, but then you run the risk of having your website broken for anyone that moves between IP addresses).
It will be like experiencing 1997's web all over again!
And before anyone harps in with "fuck flash" - vmcenter (vmware) utilises flash heavily, as do quite a few load balancers. It's fucktarded, I know.. but that's the reality of it.
I'd wager that most of the firefox use now is by IT personnel who use it for its extensions, and Mozilla has been alienating us by breaking functionality at every step - breaking flash, breaking java, and of course, completely excluding code for low-bit cryptography, which forces us to use multiple browser versions to get to out of band management on older boxes and appliances. I can see disabling older crypo algorithms by default, but don't exclude it from the project.
Same with unsigned or self-signed extensions - is every IT shop going to make their extensions available on the Firefox extensions repo? hell no! We're not accepting Firefox updates any more thanks to the mess that this is going to introduce. Sure, disable unsigned extensions by default, but give us the option to enable installation of them again - even if the preference name needs to be created by the user, but at least make it available.
Mozilla, you're alienating what's left of your userbase... and with your retiring Thunderbird... what userbase are you going to have left?
Clutched superchargers are not anything new. The 1988 supercharged MR2 came with such a configuration and "twin-charging" them (adding a turbo kit) was a relatively common performance modification, and that car was amazingly reliable.
> . Your options then are to take them in for the lifetime warranty replacement, or hammer another shim in the top.... using another hammer (purchased from HF?) - brilliant marketing!;)
I agree with that, of course. On sites where the ads are obnoxious and assume it's okay to start blasting me with normalized-to->0dB audio or start overlaying what I am trying to read with their stupid popover animations, I turn adblock on.
Would you prefer everything be locked down behind paywalls? "Free" content has to be paid for somehow you know. I'd rather have adverts on sites than have to keep track of hundreds of subscriptions, each of which I'd only read a few articles on a couple times per month.
You won't necessarily have anyone who measures at the average value. You misunderstand what average is if you think that the average has to actually be represented in the sample.
That analogy would be sensible if your Camry's fuel tank were:
* Sealed/nonrefillable * It was revealed up front that the car only will go 200 miles with the included fuel * The car gave you a clear indication that the problem is you're out of fuel * If the fuel tank not only is sealed but cast as part of the engine block, making replacement impractical
As it is known an ICE engine will require fuel to go beyond its single-fill range and is designed to be easily refillable your analogy is extremely flawed.
It isn't malware at all and calling it as such is just silly.
It's just a bad idea to put everything into one component. We may as well run something like Windows with its configuration database (regedit) and crappy logging system - which is fine (if time consuming to review) when it works, but when it breaks, it's a royal PITA to repair, hence Microsoft Tech Support's "Reformat & Reinstall" answer to all Windows problems.
I hate SystemD because it is unnecessarily complex, becomes a single point of failure for many subsystems, logs to a binary file by default (dafuq?), and is contrary to the *nix mantra of one tool, one purpose. It is essentially a solution looking for a problem.
However, to be fair, I still have yet to see it be the cause of a boot failure.
Sure - install it on a Linux system and include in the documentation:
"Hey! We helped subsidize the cost of your device by including malware on it. If you really, really want to run it, you can install wine but without installing that framework or some sort of Windows emulator it will not run so we felt it is a safe choice to include on the system. It is located in/tmp and will be cleaned up by a cron job after a week, and it isn't marked as executable so even if it were a Linux executable it would not run without your adjusting permissions anyhow, but we urge you out of principle to do an 'rm/tmp/scumbag-sucker-malware.exe' at your first opportunity."
Offer it at a discounted price, and the malware-free version at the usual price. As a bonus dox the malware provider.;)
I have a high end tape deck and a box of blank Type II and a number of blank Type IV cassettes but I haven't hooked up my tape deck to my new Elite AV receiver nor to my previous one. The last time I used it was around 2000 when I digitized a widow's late husband's demo tapes to clean up the audio and put it on CDs for her.
Dumb move. What if you want to check out the site to see what kind of nonsense daeshbags are saying, or to have rational, informed discussions with your kids about the evil that is Daesh? (btw isis folk get really mad about being called daesh because they find the term horribly offensive)
Besides... there are these points:
* First amendment * Streisand effect * "Information wants to be free"
NO information is inherently evil, nor is having free access to it. Evil comes into the picture when you intend to act upon bad ideas.
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"4 times less performance" than what?
I HATE that wording on tech and science sites.
1/4 the performance is the correct wording, unless comparing to a difference.
> Yes, I know you can put a god damn session id in the URL query string, but that's annoying, unreliable, and insecure. IF someone navigates your website for a bit, puts some stuff in the shopping cart, then just goes back to your homepage by stripping everything but the domain name off the URL...TADA!!! You've lost their session!!! Or if they jump to a different part of your website via a bookmark from a previous session...TADA!!!! You've lost their session. Or if they copy their URL and pass it to someone else/post it on a forum...TADA!!!! Someone else is now using their session (yes, you can "solve" that issue by linking the session by a secondary authentication variable like IP, but then you run the risk of having your website broken for anyone that moves between IP addresses).
It will be like experiencing 1997's web all over again!
And before anyone harps in with "fuck flash" - vmcenter (vmware) utilises flash heavily, as do quite a few load balancers. It's fucktarded, I know.. but that's the reality of it.
I'd wager that most of the firefox use now is by IT personnel who use it for its extensions, and Mozilla has been alienating us by breaking functionality at every step - breaking flash, breaking java, and of course, completely excluding code for low-bit cryptography, which forces us to use multiple browser versions to get to out of band management on older boxes and appliances. I can see disabling older crypo algorithms by default, but don't exclude it from the project.
Same with unsigned or self-signed extensions - is every IT shop going to make their extensions available on the Firefox extensions repo? hell no! We're not accepting Firefox updates any more thanks to the mess that this is going to introduce. Sure, disable unsigned extensions by default, but give us the option to enable installation of them again - even if the preference name needs to be created by the user, but at least make it available.
Mozilla, you're alienating what's left of your userbase... and with your retiring Thunderbird... what userbase are you going to have left?
Brilliant.. simply brilliant. Good job, Mozilla.
For yahoo mail? really?
Why would blackhats buy an exploit for an email provider with a userbase of 3?
Clutched superchargers are not anything new. The 1988 supercharged MR2 came with such a configuration and "twin-charging" them (adding a turbo kit) was a relatively common performance modification, and that car was amazingly reliable.
> . Your options then are to take them in for the lifetime warranty replacement, or hammer another shim in the top. ... using another hammer (purchased from HF?) - brilliant marketing! ;)
You forgot Kif's response to everything stupid Zap says (which means about 99.5% of Zap's lines):
*exacerbated sigh*
So, what you're saying it's like the situation we have here in America, except not done in secret.
I agree with that, of course. On sites where the ads are obnoxious and assume it's okay to start blasting me with normalized-to->0dB audio or start overlaying what I am trying to read with their stupid popover animations, I turn adblock on.
> Fanfold printouts.
Best thing in the world for tracing spaghetti code.
Would you prefer everything be locked down behind paywalls? "Free" content has to be paid for somehow you know. I'd rather have adverts on sites than have to keep track of hundreds of subscriptions, each of which I'd only read a few articles on a couple times per month.
Enter the 21st century or STFU.
You won't necessarily have anyone who measures at the average value. You misunderstand what average is if you think that the average has to actually be represented in the sample.
That analogy would be sensible if your Camry's fuel tank were:
* Sealed/nonrefillable
* It was revealed up front that the car only will go 200 miles with the included fuel
* The car gave you a clear indication that the problem is you're out of fuel
* If the fuel tank not only is sealed but cast as part of the engine block, making replacement impractical
As it is known an ICE engine will require fuel to go beyond its single-fill range and is designed to be easily refillable your analogy is extremely flawed.
Yep.
It isn't malware at all and calling it as such is just silly.
It's just a bad idea to put everything into one component. We may as well run something like Windows with its configuration database (regedit) and crappy logging system - which is fine (if time consuming to review) when it works, but when it breaks, it's a royal PITA to repair, hence Microsoft Tech Support's "Reformat & Reinstall" answer to all Windows problems.
udev != SystemD.
I hate SystemD because it is unnecessarily complex, becomes a single point of failure for many subsystems, logs to a binary file by default (dafuq?), and is contrary to the *nix mantra of one tool, one purpose. It is essentially a solution looking for a problem.
However, to be fair, I still have yet to see it be the cause of a boot failure.
Sure - install it on a Linux system and include in the documentation:
"Hey! We helped subsidize the cost of your device by including malware on it. If you really, really want to run it, you can install wine but without installing that framework or some sort of Windows emulator it will not run so we felt it is a safe choice to include on the system. It is located in /tmp and will be cleaned up by a cron job after a week, and it isn't marked as executable so even if it were a Linux executable it would not run without your adjusting permissions anyhow, but we urge you out of principle to do an 'rm /tmp/scumbag-sucker-malware.exe' at your first opportunity."
Offer it at a discounted price, and the malware-free version at the usual price. As a bonus dox the malware provider. ;)
I have a high end tape deck and a box of blank Type II and a number of blank Type IV cassettes but I haven't hooked up my tape deck to my new Elite AV receiver nor to my previous one. The last time I used it was around 2000 when I digitized a widow's late husband's demo tapes to clean up the audio and put it on CDs for her.
> However I wonder how this would have gone if it were a hip-hop group calling themselves "The Niggers".
Google N.W.A.
Dumb move. What if you want to check out the site to see what kind of nonsense daeshbags are saying, or to have rational, informed discussions with your kids about the evil that is Daesh? (btw isis folk get really mad about being called daesh because they find the term horribly offensive)
Besides... there are these points:
* First amendment
* Streisand effect
* "Information wants to be free"
NO information is inherently evil, nor is having free access to it. Evil comes into the picture when you intend to act upon bad ideas.
In that case the correct solution is to make a good offer to buy the land rather than block land owners from exercising their property rights.
Taste that they're different - sure. I'm not wild about booze though.
However it is very easy to tell the difference between any wine and vinegar. Beats are the vinegar of headphones.
> Okay, now - can you taste the difference between a $25 bottle of wine and a $50 bottle?
Taste that they're different - sure. I'm not wild about booze though.
However it is very easy to tell the difference between any wine and vinegar. Beats are the vinegar of wine.