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  1. Re:Uggh on Cassini's Best Discoveries of Saturn and Its Moons (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Its Trump's fault Cassini will die tomorrow.

    Hair today, gone tomorrow.

  2. Re:DIY CMS Blues [And here I thought SharePoint on Backdoor Found In WordPress Plugin With More Than 200,000 Installations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    For non-trivial sites, you probably don't want to re-generate the entire site each time. Also, that may not remove old content properly. Typically a site has images and PDF's also. Some kind of file "delta management" is in order to only mirror what was added, changed, or deleted since the last pass. Delta-based replication is hard to be easy, efficient, and reliable at the same time.

  3. Re:DIY CMS Blues [And here I thought SharePoint on Backdoor Found In WordPress Plugin With More Than 200,000 Installations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I've just used mostly "dumb" string substitution for similar projects. If the HTML is bad, that's on the HTML template writer. One can usually test it in a browser with the markers in place. For loops, one can use nested substitution rather than invent a flow-control engine.

  4. Re:So on We're Eating Plastics From Our Own Dirty Laundry (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sure the fish eat all sorts of things we find gross, like poop and garbage.

    That's why you should cook fish before eating it. But cooking plastic (in fish) just makes the problem worse.

    And why didn't anybody discover this problem before? Synthetic fabrics have been widespread since at least the 1960's.

  5. Re:okay we get it, we eat plastic on We're Eating Plastics From Our Own Dirty Laundry (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How many stories per week do we need about eating plastic. I SIMPLY DO NOT CARE ANYMORE.

    I used to care, but not after my brain was damaged from plastic.

  6. Re:Nice but... on We're Eating Plastics From Our Own Dirty Laundry (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying the idea is full of sheet?

  7. Re:DIY CMS Blues [And here I thought SharePoint on Backdoor Found In WordPress Plugin With More Than 200,000 Installations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Why did you need a DOM parser?

  8. Re:DIY CMS Blues [And here I thought SharePoint on Backdoor Found In WordPress Plugin With More Than 200,000 Installations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Wget usually uses FTP, doesn't it? Either way the concept is similar: on a timer or special request, new and changed files are uploaded and obsolete ones deleted via a preset process that checks date stamps. The system has to make sure they stay in sync with the internal (staging) version. Maybe once a week a total refresh is done to cover any gaps.

    As somebody pointed out, certain dynamic features like blogs and discussion groups probably won't be timely enough this way, but if it's only a small portion of the site, then maybe host that part on a separate server and system.

  9. Re:And here I thought SharePoint was bad on Backdoor Found In WordPress Plugin With More Than 200,000 Installations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    How many sites need all these things CMS provides?

    Typically you use only a small subset, but the hard part is knowing what you'll need in the future. WordPress's large catalog means you are fairly likely to find a plugin close to new feature requests. It's the network effect in action. PHB's and marketers will often see something on a trendy site and go into me-too mode.

  10. There's a plugin for that too.

  11. Re:It All Makes Sense Now on Climate Change Could Wipe Out a Third of Parasite Species, Study Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a photosynthesizing progressive, dammit!

  12. Equal Opportunity Annihilation on Climate Change Could Wipe Out a Third of Parasite Species, Study Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It might wipe out roughly 1/3 of hosts also, so it would generally "balance" out.

  13. Re:Wars vs. Trek [Re:Yay... Abrams ] on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars: Episode IX; Premiere Date Pushed To December 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought warp was either not well-defined, or inconsistently defined in Trek.

    However, one can add some twists to explain the differences. For example, maybe the SW galaxy is 1/10 the Milky Way's (MW) size, and SW space jumping tech relies on nearby wormholes, of which the SW galaxy happens to have many holes while MW has very few. Trek hasn't bothered to maximize wormhole tech because MW doesn't have enough holes to make it worth while. Perhaps hole jump research could be the reason Trek ends up in SW's yard to begin with. Everything is solvable with creative SF BS.

  14. Binksology [Re:George Lucas] on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars: Episode IX; Premiere Date Pushed To December 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, he is funny. Goofballs can be really entertaining. It's like watching Barney Fife or Trump or a mashup of the two. (I wouldn't want them on my team, though.)

    The Force is channeled through his goofballery. The Force uses his misdeeds as an opportunity to do its work, and he gets into key places more serious characters can't because others don't take him seriously. It's similar to how Colombo got his clues: people think he's too stupid to catch on and so let their guard down. However, Colombo plans that, while Jar doesn't.

    I should write "The Art, Science, and Religion of Goofballery".

  15. Re:DIY CMS Blues [And here I thought SharePoint on Backdoor Found In WordPress Plugin With More Than 200,000 Installations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If you only put public-intended material on your Internet site, then there are no secrets there to steal. (Disable versioning also, relying on only off-server backups.) Vandalism would be the worse case, assuming you don't leave some loose FTP or network path back to your internal systems.

  16. DIY CMS Blues [And here I thought SharePoint on Backdoor Found In WordPress Plugin With More Than 200,000 Installations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems easier to write your own code than to use such a system.

    I've been down that road, but managers kept asking for additional features that were readily available in existing CMS's or their pluggins. I spent a lot of time re-inventing the wheel and was always behind.

    I'd like to see more "generative" systems that generate static HTML from a CMS and uploaded automatically and periodically via a one-way FTP connection. (The internal draft may be dynamic.) It's harder to hack static HTML. I know generative CMS's exist, but they never caught on for some reason.

    And it's not that WordPress is "bad", it's that any flaw found exposes a vast number of sites due to its ubiquity (and plugin ubiquity). I've found security flaws in my roll-your-own system. Humans make mistakes. It relied on security-through-obscurity, not perfection. STO is a consolation prize in security-land.

  17. If the doctor estimates you have a 40% chance of living if you start treatment now but a 20% chance if you delay a year, it's pretty clear to me the rational choice is "now". Jobs could afford the best estimates. One would have to be conspiratorial to reject such info. It's indeed possible there are herbs with healing abilities, but for every one "magic herb" that actually works there's probably 9 or more flim-flam claims, and a mortal cannot tell which is which without real clinical trials.

    That being said, I realize it's a very difficult and emotional situation to be in. I've had relatives suffer. I just don't think LSD will improve one's ability to make the best choice under such conditions.

  18. Re:Wars vs. Trek [Re:Yay... Abrams ] on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars: Episode IX; Premiere Date Pushed To December 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If it were realistic, both would spend 3 weeks debating the definition of "logic" and "reality", in the end calling each other stupid and retarded. I've seen it happen.

  19. Re:This is why I'd never live there on $782,000 Over Asking For a House in Sunnyvale (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    across the market I'm seeing that there isn't likely to be a crash any time soon

    I'm curious what rules-of-thumb you use to tell. There are lots of companies with stupid ideas getting lots of cash. Eventually it will dawn on general investors that they likely have dogs in their portfolios, and mass panic selloffs start.

  20. Re:Only in soviet Russia on Why Bats Crash Into Windows (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    That also explains the "belfry" folders.

  21. Re:Wars vs. Trek [Re:Yay... Abrams ] on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars: Episode IX; Premiere Date Pushed To December 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Star Wars is more advanced than Star Trek. In the Star Wars universe, space travel across the entire galaxy has been trivial

    In Trek they can travel faster, but in Next Gen found it damages space-time, creating a kind of travel pollution. In Star Wars they don't give a sh8t about pollution because they are always at war. Trek is more PC: which is yet another example of culture clash to exploit in entertainment.

  22. Re:This is why I'd never live there on $782,000 Over Asking For a House in Sunnyvale (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    So, how do I profit from the bubble poppage this time instead of getting screwed like last time?

    Do you think stock "puts" are sufficient? Any tips on what companies are good put targets, or is that wandering too far off topic? Just trying to help slashdotters live long and prosper.

  23. Re:Stupid Windows on Why Bats Crash Into Windows (nature.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, crashing Windows does drive me bats.

  24. Re: Defensive? [Re: Explains a lot ...] on Silicon Valley Avant-garde Have Turned To LSD in a Bid To Increase Their Productivity (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    The human body did not evolve to intake and process LSD. Most "unnatural" substances have a negative impact on the average individual. It's rare to have an unnatural substance that actually improves the body and mind over the longer run. There is no reason to believe LSD to be an exception to this pattern. Most substances are just monkey wrenches to the body machinery.

    You may mention medication, but that's usually to work around specific defects in specific individuals. And vitamins are merely replacements for substances that people used to get from regular food. In fact, you probably don't need "artificial" vitamins if you eat a good variety of traditional (pre-industrial) food.

    And while recreational "herbs" have been in use a long time, different groups of people took different herbs because each location has different kinds. If a group evolved to be improved by such herbs, it would be a specific association.

  25. Re:8==L=I=G=H=T==S=A=B=E=R==D-~~-_. on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars: Episode IX; Premiere Date Pushed To December 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess that's a start.