I think yours is a silly post. This isn't the gubbermint coming to kill your favorite BBS.
The law specifically concerns itself with entities that store information such as SSNs, account numbers or state ID numbers. Read the law if you're actually curious.
GP was probably assuming that the figures showed what percentage of divorcees belonged to which religion. In that case, percentages _would_ work like that.
Well, for useful software that's not a good/possible requirement. The user needs to know what she wants to accomplish, and have some idea of how to do that via the software. Valid actions might be just as bad as invalid ones, if performed at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
For example, for stock-broker software, if I click on anything in any order, I might bankrupt myself, even though the software had no technical reason to warn/ignore me.
As an other example, by clicking at anything in any order I might send a bomb-threat to the white house, which is a perfectly sensible thing to do from the perspective of an email program, but pretty stupid from the perspective of most people.
You know that a statistic on partially denied requests will be pretty meaningless without knowing how much of the total information amount was denied, right? I mean, maybe all they did was blanking out the birth date of some government employee in half of those request. How many times agencies cited exceptions has very little to do with openness.
As long as the government doesn't withold data to serve the political agenda of the political leadership or the careers of the bureaucratic leadership, it's pretty open, right?
Now, that might very well be happening in the US for all I know, but the article doesn't really say anything about that.
How can a link I follow from Arstechincas server be illegal click fraud? I have no contract with Ars, their advertisers or anyone else to manually review a rendering of images/html I request.
This would be true if Wikipedia had a semi-useful search or index function. As it is, I'm using Google to search anyway, so I really don't care whether there are 100.000 or 100.000.000 wikipedia pages irrellevant to my search.
I'm using a free spotify account to sample CDs before buying. The ads are annoying, but since I only use it when listening to music that's new to me, I can live with it.
You don't even realise that you made a spelling error?:)
Parent was grammar-value-oriented. I can't really get myself to call him a grammar-nazi, because your mistake was kind of unnessescary and stupid.
Newer Firefox will probably still work on Linux on G4, or in X11 on OSX 10.4. Supporting different hardware platforms and different software platforms is not the same thing.
Also, Google couldn't easily make a universal binary of Chrome, because the javascript engine is x86-specific.
The weak typing is your main concern with PHP? You can make arguments that strong/explicit typing is better, but weak typing is NOT php's problem. The behaviour of array keys is completely consistent with the type system everywhere else in the language, any scalar value can be an array key. By the way, later in your own post you point at dynamic typing as an advantage. Please make up your mind?
It was actually more meant as a comment on how every time a problem arises, "the government" should really have taken care of it 5 years ago, but otherwise, "the government" is just after your hard-earned cash.
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I think yours is a silly post. This isn't the gubbermint coming to kill your favorite BBS.
The law specifically concerns itself with entities that store information such as SSNs, account numbers or state ID numbers. Read the law if you're actually curious.
Of course, IANAL.
oh save me, they stole the name.
The FoI act doesn't really exist in the UK, though.
GP was probably assuming that the figures showed what percentage of divorcees belonged to which religion. In that case, percentages _would_ work like that.
Implication: To get a job as a graphic designer you'll have to be a designer, not just have a photoshop tutorial under your belt.
It is blindingly obvious (to me at least) that the GNU definition means more freedom for me, in practice.
So while BSD developers should of course do whatever they want, I'd like to thank developers who opt for the (L)GPL.
Well, for useful software that's not a good/possible requirement. The user needs to know what she wants to accomplish, and have some idea of how to do that via the software. Valid actions might be just as bad as invalid ones, if performed at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
For example, for stock-broker software, if I click on anything in any order, I might bankrupt myself, even though the software had no technical reason to warn/ignore me.
As an other example, by clicking at anything in any order I might send a bomb-threat to the white house, which is a perfectly sensible thing to do from the perspective of an email program, but pretty stupid from the perspective of most people.
You know that a statistic on partially denied requests will be pretty meaningless without knowing how much of the total information amount was denied, right? I mean, maybe all they did was blanking out the birth date of some government employee in half of those request. How many times agencies cited exceptions has very little to do with openness.
As long as the government doesn't withold data to serve the political agenda of the political leadership or the careers of the bureaucratic leadership, it's pretty open, right? Now, that might very well be happening in the US for all I know, but the article doesn't really say anything about that.
How can a link I follow from Arstechincas server be illegal click fraud? I have no contract with Ars, their advertisers or anyone else to manually review a rendering of images/html I request.
This would be true if Wikipedia had a semi-useful search or index function. As it is, I'm using Google to search anyway, so I really don't care whether there are 100.000 or 100.000.000 wikipedia pages irrellevant to my search.
I'm using a free spotify account to sample CDs before buying. The ads are annoying, but since I only use it when listening to music that's new to me, I can live with it.
I have no idea how such contracts work, or what was in this specific contract. I was just pointing out a rather stupid leap in the parents logic.
Since the contract was no longer binding, I think it was terribly nice of him to still offer to hand over the password.
Don't give the error messages too cute eyes, or no user will want to press Abort.
Acting?
Poetry?
Photography? Architecture?
The camera path can be set beforehand, and the scene can still be rendered in real time.
We do. It's called having /home on a separate partition.
Just like offline money is solved with... well, cash.
You don't even realise that you made a spelling error? :)
Parent was grammar-value-oriented. I can't really get myself to call him a grammar-nazi, because your mistake was kind of unnessescary and stupid.
We know that it was us who scorched the sky...
... on the upside, that got rid of global warming.
Newer Firefox will probably still work on Linux on G4, or in X11 on OSX 10.4. Supporting different hardware platforms and different software platforms is not the same thing.
Also, Google couldn't easily make a universal binary of Chrome, because the javascript engine is x86-specific.
The weak typing is your main concern with PHP? You can make arguments that strong/explicit typing is better, but weak typing is NOT php's problem. The behaviour of array keys is completely consistent with the type system everywhere else in the language, any scalar value can be an array key. By the way, later in your own post you point at dynamic typing as an advantage. Please make up your mind?
It was actually more meant as a comment on how every time a problem arises, "the government" should really have taken care of it 5 years ago, but otherwise, "the government" is just after your hard-earned cash.
you see people would rather have a toothless "small government"
He forgot to mention 'Alive and unspoiled'.