Speaking as a web developer, IE7 makes my life a hell of a lot easier.
Also speaking as a web developer, IE7 makes my life a hell of a lot harder. The first release broke every e-commerce Website that I looked at. Looking forward, it's yet another different version of IE to support and its threading model has got worse (e.g try running javascript in the parent while a child iframe loads). I wish they'd got much closer to standards compliance and had finished testing before releasing it.
After 30 years development, "How far will it scale" is
the question that scares me most,
the one that you can never get honest information about from OS or component suppliers,
and the one that's hardest to test because the most-used features are rarely those you expected.
Who said "prototype the thing, assuming a worst-case scenario"? No can do. With server code, this means you leave out features or spend $$$s more on hardware. And with client code such as AJAX, you know anything could break if used alongside idiot third-party widgets or when another IE patch makes Javascript even slower. You just don't know exactly where it will break in practice. So you add a lot of logging and try to spot when the next bottleneck is approaching. Worst case, it's in obfuscated, third-party modules that you can't change in practice, and you're re-factoring masses of code while angry villagers are breaking down the door. This is IMHO a risk with programming frameworks like Ruby on Rails, or MS dotNet for that matter.
Are they allowed to keep your mug-shot forever (yes, as far as I know).
Allowed? Yes. Do they? No - they shred everything after a few years.
I was recently on a jury prosecuting a guy for an alleged crime committed 20 years ago. One of the strangest things was that the police had investigated the exact same crime before, decided not to prosecute, then shredded all the evidence after 7 years which seems to be the rule. When they changed their minds they had to start over. This severely disadvantaged the defense because all the physical evidence had gone and it was just, "Who do you believe about these largely-forgotten events?"
Start address: 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
End address: 37.414243, -122.048793
Start at: 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
1. Head west on Amphitheatre Pkwy toward Garcia Ave - 0.6 mi
2. Turn left to merge onto US-101 S toward San Jose - 1.8 mi
3. Take exit 398A for Moffett Blvd toward NASA Pkwy - 0.1 mi
4. Turn right at Moffett Blvd - 0.3 mi
5. Turn left at Moffett Blvd/Rte Jones Rd - 0.3 mi
6. Turn right at King Rd - 0.4 mi
7. King Rd turns right and becomes Severyns Ave - 463 ft
8. Turn left at Bushnell Rd - 489 ft
9. Turn right at Exegesis St - 0.1 mi
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IANAL but I've seen several EULA's in my time and this one is not so bad.
Assuming UKG do this, I'm offering a prize of £10,000 for the first person to liberate a significant proportion of the data stored in this database, so I can give it to the press. I'll repeat this offer using my real name if it happens.
This offer won't make any hacker break the law, because they will be able to get 100 times as much from insurance companies and credit reference agencies, but hopefully it will make it more likely that leaks become public.
"We had a situation where an employee sent a communication via e-mail that was inconsistent with our corporate policy," said Tom Robertson, general manager for interoperability and standards at Microsoft.
How was it inconsistent? Simple. The employee broke corporate policy #1, "Don't get found out".
The Sunday cartoonist "Opus" is no conservative but he has just let himself go enough to joke a little about Islam. Bad move! A lot of papers that normally take it will not run this Sunday's cartoon. I have reproduced it above.
As you can see, it is not in fact laughing at Islam. It is laughing at his fellow Berkeleyites, if anything. - Stop The ACLU blog
I dislike censorship, so if you want offensive cartoons on this subject, visit 7chan, gaia online etc., (but not 4ailchan due to moderation). Or turn off image filtering and look on the second page of Married to Children. Some cartoons were inspired by a Fark.com photoshop contest, but I can't find it.
Please mod parent "over-rated" to hide it and mod this correct version up, if you wish.
The Sunday cartoonist "Opus" is no conservative but he has just let himself go enough to joke a little about Islam. Bad move! A lot of papers that normally take it will not run this Sunday's cartoon. I have reproduced it above.
As you can see, it is not in fact laughing at Islam. It is laughing at his fellow Berkeleyites, if anything. - Stop The ACLU blog
I dislike censorship, so if you want offensive cartoons on this subject, visit 7chan, gaia online etc., (but not 4ailchan due to moderation). Or turn off image filtering and look on the second page of Married to Children. Some cartoons were inspired by a Fark.com photoshop contest, but I can't find it.
Sony has announced that they will add digital TV and DVR capabilities to the PS3 in Europe
The law requires everyone, including students, to be covered by a licence if they use any device to receive television programmes as they're being shown on TV. This includes any TV set, DVD or video recorder, digital box, PC, laptop or mobile phone - TV Licensing
I expect Slashdotters to reply along the lines of "but I won't use my PS3 to watch TV so I don't need a license". Tell it to the judge, guys, when you get prosecuted.
A man who was spotted in the street using his laptop to access an unsecured wireless connection has been arrested. The 39-year-old man was seen sitting on a wall outside a home in Chiswick, west London, by two community support officers.
Not only does the guy not get mugged for the laptop, or murdered, but there are police patrolling. This is a real "good news" story.
Just because someone publishes something that is wrong, doesn't mean you're allowed to publish statements that they're a crackpot. It's libel.
ShieldW0lf, you're a fucking retard! Vulgar abuse is not defamatory. Thus you can't win a libel suit against me for calling you a fucking retard and the plaintiff in this case probably shouldn't sue for being called a crackpot.
Abstract. A method of predicting the behavior of software agents in a simulated environment involves modeling a plurality of software agents representing entities to be analyzed, which may be human beings. Using a set of parameters that governs the behavior of the agents, the internal state of at least one of the agents is estimated by its behavior in the simulation, including its movement within the environment. This facilitates a prediction of the likely future behavior of the agent based solely upon its internal state; that is, without recourse to any intentional agent communications. In the preferred embodiment the simulated environment is based upon a digital pheromone infrastructure. The simulation integrates knowledge of threat regions, a cognitive analysis of the agent's beliefs, desires, and intentions, a model of the agent's emotional disposition and state, and the dynamics of interactions with the environment. By evolving agents in this rich environment, we can fit their internal state to their observed behavior. In realistic wargame scenarios, the system successfully detects deliberately played emotions and makes reasonable predictions about the entities' future behavior.
USPTO 0070162405
In the sentence I've highlighted, they mean hormones, not pheromones. DOh!
Also my brother programmed a system to do this this for a school project in about 1985 (no kidding).
A [spammer will] then be able to log into a social application (e.g. dopplr.com) for the first time, ideally but not necessarily with OpenID, and be presented with a dialog like,
"Hey, we see from public information elsewhere that [user] already has 28 friends already using dopplr, shown below with rationale about why we're recommending them (what usernames they are on other sites). Which do you want to be friends with here? Or click '[spam-them-all]'."
This is also why there are more big sites where you can register OpenID accounts, compared to big sites that trust OpenID accounts registered elsewhere.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Transaction (Process ID 128) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.
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Care about money?
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Many US state attorneys-general want laws that would require children to get permission from their parents before joining such sites, and would require those sites to verify the parents' age and identity.
Slashdot Mirror
Visiting http://www.slashdot.org/ works fine
IE seems to store the http: in favorites etc., so it's not much of a problem.
Also it doesn't affect Firefox so almost nobody will notice.
... and my stress is correspondingly high, as I dive under the desk.
Is there a video game concept here? Real-life Gears of War or something?
- the question that scares me most,
- the one that you can never get honest information about from OS or component suppliers,
- and the one that's hardest to test because the most-used features are rarely those you expected.
Who said "prototype the thing, assuming a worst-case scenario"? No can do. With server code, this means you leave out features or spend $$$s more on hardware. And with client code such as AJAX, you know anything could break if used alongside idiot third-party widgets or when another IE patch makes Javascript even slower. You just don't know exactly where it will break in practice. So you add a lot of logging and try to spot when the next bottleneck is approaching. Worst case, it's in obfuscated, third-party modules that you can't change in practice, and you're re-factoring masses of code while angry villagers are breaking down the door. This is IMHO a risk with programming frameworks like Ruby on Rails, or MS dotNet for that matter.I was recently on a jury prosecuting a guy for an alleged crime committed 20 years ago. One of the strangest things was that the police had investigated the exact same crime before, decided not to prosecute, then shredded all the evidence after 7 years which seems to be the rule. When they changed their minds they had to start over. This severely disadvantaged the defense because all the physical evidence had gone and it was just, "Who do you believe about these largely-forgotten events?"
Link
Start address: 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
End address: 37.414243, -122.048793
Start at: 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
1. Head west on Amphitheatre Pkwy toward Garcia Ave - 0.6 mi
2. Turn left to merge onto US-101 S toward San Jose - 1.8 mi
3. Take exit 398A for Moffett Blvd toward NASA Pkwy - 0.1 mi
4. Turn right at Moffett Blvd - 0.3 mi
5. Turn left at Moffett Blvd/Rte Jones Rd - 0.3 mi
6. Turn right at King Rd - 0.4 mi
7. King Rd turns right and becomes Severyns Ave - 463 ft
8. Turn left at Bushnell Rd - 489 ft
9. Turn right at Exegesis St - 0.1 mi
Arrive at: 37.414243, -122.048793
i P r o d
Assuming UKG do this, I'm offering a prize of £10,000 for the first person to liberate a significant proportion of the data stored in this database, so I can give it to the press. I'll repeat this offer using my real name if it happens.
This offer won't make any hacker break the law, because they will be able to get 100 times as much from insurance companies and credit reference agencies, but hopefully it will make it more likely that leaks become public.
This will be a bonanza for lawyers, when people like me fight it every step of the way.
I'm sure this Sedley bloke hasn't been influenced by the prospect of ££££s for his chums.
Please mod parent "over-rated" to hide it and mod this correct version up, if you wish.
In the sentence I've highlighted, they mean hormones, not pheromones. DOh!
Also my brother programmed a system to do this this for a school project in about 1985 (no kidding).