Doesn't Adobe's Flash settings widget work in Linux? It seems a bit drastic disabling Flash cookies for the whole internet when you can set preferences individually for each website you visit.
No, really, they're all clueless. Just a few months ago the IWF created a furore by blacklisting a page in Wikipedia because it contained a suggestive image. The way they went about it was seriously flawed. Specifically:
The blacklisted URL was that of the HTML page linking to the image. IIRC, the image itself was still freely accessible.
The blacklist was unable to trap simple modifications to the URL (e.g. replacing an individual character with its escaped hex equivalent)
The same page was still available on Wikipedia's secure servers, Google's cache and various other places.
Blocked URLs are routed through the IWF's proxy servers, but because they obviously don't know anything about XFF headers, it was impossible for Wikipedia to identify genuine traffic for the entire period this block was in place.
And all that over a 30-year-old image that had never been ruled illegal anywhere. They're all morons.
QR code is an open standard. They can be used freely, in other words.
The popularity of QR codes in Japan is at least partly due to their ability to store Japanese text which is very difficult to type in on mobile handsets.
I can see a bunch of useful applications for stuff like this:
- Flight Arrival/Departure Info: tags can be posted at easily visible locations around the airport with a sign "scan here for arrival/departure info".
What's wrong with a big TV screen showing a list of flight arrival/departure times? Wouldn't that make life just a little bit easier?
For some reason I read that as "loose lips pink slips".
I guess what the government has realized is that cock-ups are inevitable. By outsourcing this work they can put someone else in the firing line next time it all goes wrong.
Nothing is going to improve until we take a stand against this culture of state-sponsored snooping.
IANAG, but the point I was trying to make is that any gouge that deep would disappear due to the effects of gravity, but might leave behind a region of thinner crust material like the Pacific ocean floor.
But the GP has a point, surely? Plate tectonics suggests that all the world's land mass used to be concentrated in one giant super-continent. If the planet simply formed by random accretion then surely one would expect something more uniform?
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the Moon formed from a thin layer of crust skimmed from the earth's surface. No matter how much material was removed, the earth would have evened itself out into a roughly spherical shape under the force of gravity.
Militant feminists used to be fond of saying that every man is a potential rapist, until someone pointed out that you could also say every man is a potential woman.
I don't think anyone's suggesting there's no overlap, but isn't it only natural that the proven physiological differences between male and female wiring means they are adapted for different tasks?
Let's face it, most men are completely unsuitable for a career in computer science.
Apparently it hasn't occurred to you that your intended goal could be reached faster if you voted for the party with the most extreme and destructive policies instead of abstaining.
Either way, do you really think this will help put things right?
My conclusion is that you're either naïve or stupid, or perhaps both.
"God said 'let there be light'," and whoof there was a universe. -- and that's inconsistent with 'big bang', in just what way?
Where does it say "whoof there was a universe"? Isn't it more like "and there was light"? By this time the earth had already been formed, so there's an inconsistency of a few billion years right there.
If you think the biblical version of events is even remotely scientific, then I'm guessing you haven't bothered to read it. This would be a good place to start.
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Scientologists need protection from misinformation and misrepresentation?
Surely they can't be serious?
The different URLs (containing the numbers 02, 03, 04, 06 and 07) are just part of the same widget. Click the tabs at the top to access them.
(Incidentally, there's another one at settings_manager05.html that doesn't appear to be accessible by clicking the tabs.)
Doesn't Adobe's Flash settings widget work in Linux? It seems a bit drastic disabling Flash cookies for the whole internet when you can set preferences individually for each website you visit.
Section 508?
No, really, they're all clueless. Just a few months ago the IWF created a furore by blacklisting a page in Wikipedia because it contained a suggestive image. The way they went about it was seriously flawed. Specifically:
And all that over a 30-year-old image that had never been ruled illegal anywhere. They're all morons.
Why?
Take your pick
Tail wagging the dog? Very unlikely.
QR code is an open standard. They can be used freely, in other words.
The popularity of QR codes in Japan is at least partly due to their ability to store Japanese text which is very difficult to type in on mobile handsets.
I can see a bunch of useful applications for stuff like this: - Flight Arrival/Departure Info: tags can be posted at easily visible locations around the airport with a sign "scan here for arrival/departure info".
What's wrong with a big TV screen showing a list of flight arrival/departure times? Wouldn't that make life just a little bit easier?
Did you know the Andromeda Galaxy covers something like 7 times the apparent width of the moon?
When was the last time a white anglo saxon christian tried to commandeer and/or blow up an airplane in America?
Maybe 1972, although 1971 was also a busy year.
Is this relevant?
For some reason I read that as "loose lips pink slips".
I guess what the government has realized is that cock-ups are inevitable. By outsourcing this work they can put someone else in the firing line next time it all goes wrong.
Nothing is going to improve until we take a stand against this culture of state-sponsored snooping.
Back in the '80s, there were nowhere near as many computers around.
Today even my mother has a computer. The margins may be smaller, but the market has grown considerably.
One is behooved to concord that perspicuity is indubitably the sine qua non of all linguistic pereginations.
IANAG, but the point I was trying to make is that any gouge that deep would disappear due to the effects of gravity, but might leave behind a region of thinner crust material like the Pacific ocean floor.
But the GP has a point, surely? Plate tectonics suggests that all the world's land mass used to be concentrated in one giant super-continent. If the planet simply formed by random accretion then surely one would expect something more uniform?
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the Moon formed from a thin layer of crust skimmed from the earth's surface. No matter how much material was removed, the earth would have evened itself out into a roughly spherical shape under the force of gravity.
What is "potentially" illegal supposed to mean?
Militant feminists used to be fond of saying that every man is a potential rapist, until someone pointed out that you could also say every man is a potential woman.
Note there will never be a year of the Windows or OS X either.
*cough* Tiger *cough*
It's the occulter pylon. It holds the occulting disk in place to mask out the light coming directly from the sun.
We could get the Chinese to blow it up.
I don't think anyone's suggesting there's no overlap, but isn't it only natural that the proven physiological differences between male and female wiring means they are adapted for different tasks?
Let's face it, most men are completely unsuitable for a career in computer science.
Apparently it hasn't occurred to you that your intended goal could be reached faster if you voted for the party with the most extreme and destructive policies instead of abstaining.
Either way, do you really think this will help put things right?
My conclusion is that you're either naïve or stupid, or perhaps both.
Fingerprints are stored in the form of Minutiae Points rather than scanned imaged.
But that doesn't mean they can't be reconstructed.
Where does it say "whoof there was a universe"? Isn't it more like "and there was light"? By this time the earth had already been formed, so there's an inconsistency of a few billion years right there.
If you think the biblical version of events is even remotely scientific, then I'm guessing you haven't bothered to read it. This would be a good place to start.
At 10 million digits you're going to take a long time to "guess" what it is.
If there is only one known prime number with 10 million digits, then I reckon I could guess this one quite quickly.
1=0+0!
There, fixed that for you.