Now, ICANN is preparing to open a potentially unlimited number of new top-level domains as early as the first quarter of 2010.
Well, this should prove interesting, since the alt root I'm associated with (OpenNIC) hasn't received notification from ICANN as to how colliding TLDs will be handled. And I don't know of any other alternate roots that have been contacted either.
...available to Google developers? Because some of the slowest applications on the planet are Google apps: The gmail and adwords applications come immediately to mind.
I think it's somewhat disingenuous to imply that slow web interfaces are someone else's problem when in fact Google is probably one of the worst perpetrators when it comes to slow interfaces.
[Bruce] Schneier took from his bag a 12-ounce container labeled "saline solution."
"It's allowed," he said. Medical supplies, such as saline solution for contact-lens cleaning, don't fall under the TSA's three-ounce rule.
"What's allowed?" I asked. "Saline solution, or bottles labeled saline solution?"
"Bottles labeled saline solution. They won't check what's in it, trust me."
They did not check. As we gathered our belongings, Schneier held up the bottle and said to the nearest security officer, "This is okay, right?" "Yep," the officer said. "Just have to put it in the tray."
"Maybe if you lit it on fire, he'd pay attention," I said, risking arrest for making a joke at airport security. (Later, Schneier would carry two bottles labeled saline solution--24 ounces in total--through security. An officer asked him why he needed two bottles. "Two eyes," he said. He was allowed to keep the bottles.)
...which is why the first thing I do when I connect is click the "HTML for slow connections" link.
Which is silly, because I don't consider my cable or business connections very slow. In fact, most websites load just fine. Gmail simply...well, let's put it this way: By the time I get the gmail interface up, I will have already checked my personal e-mail on another machine using mutt.
Why does Google believe we want all the "enhanced" interface that really does nothing to enhance the interface?
Umm...no you don't. There's no state law anywhere that gives you the right to shoot a federal law enforcement officer who properly identifies himself/herself as such.
It's people like you that make people like us have to fight every inch for our rights under the 2nd Amendment.
Almost all vendors require your shipping address to be on your credit card as a billing address
That's not been my experience. I routinely do business with online vendors that do *not* require matching shipping and billing addresses. In fact, I've found such vendors are rare, and I'd be somewhat suspicious of any vendor that refuses to do business with you because your billing and shipping addresses do not match. If I supply the correct billing address, and the merchant account holder verifies said billing address as a match (along with some other identifying criteria, maybe the CVV), there is no reason for me or any other vendor to refuse to ship to an alternative address.
I'll also add I accept AMEX, MC, Visa, and Discover at my own business, and there is nothing in my merchant account agreements that precludes me from shipping to an address different from the billing address for online orders. I'm covered from chargebacks due to fraudulent activity so long as I jump through the authentication hoops (address verification, CVV, etc.).
I feel like there's too much desktop in my face most of the time. I want it to be a helpful tool, but most often being helpful means staying out of the way. But I am glad KDE is so configurable, so I can mold it into the desktop I want. That part is great.
Then why would you use KDE, instead of a minimalist desktop/WM like XFCE?
Not a troll, not a flame. But I can't quite figure out those who run KDE, and then complain about how "thick" KDE is.
Your memory is accurate. We used them in the air traffic control tower I worked at to send weather and flight data to the Flight Service Station that was across the field. Hardly nothing new here in terms of hardware. Just a new legal interpretation on an old idea.
Has anyone considered this is just another version of the common ploy police use to round up criminals with outstanding warrants? They entice these people using false pretenses, then arrest them when they show up.
I'm not saying this is the case here, but what better way to build up a database of hackers (i.e., possible terrorists)?
Disclosure: Yes, I am short Goldman Sachs stock. I believe this company is evil and should not exist. We need to begin to break up companies that have as much control over world finances as Goldman Sachs.
Let me see if I get this right:
1. Short GS stock 2. Blog about how evil GS is 3. ??? 4. Profit!
There's only one problem with this plan: GS stock has been rising since the start of the year. No wonder the guy believes GS "should not exist": Should GS stock continue to rise, there's no limit to how much the guy can lose.
(For those who have no clue what I'm talking about: "Shorting a stock" basically involves selling stock you don't own. Your only obligation is to return the stock you "borrowed." If you can buy said stock at a lower price than the price you sold it at, you profit on the difference. If the stock becomes worthless, you basically pocket whatever profit you made from the sale of stock you never owned in the first place.)
I use a special domain name which maps all aliases (*) to my mail box.
Works great until some spammer just starts generating random aliases to your domain. Definitely not time-efficient to deal with that.
Look...spam is here to stay. I laugh when I see articles like this on Slashdot, from idealists who believe that their actions are somehow contributing to the banishment of spam on the planet. I'm calling for a moratorium on all Slashdot posts that whine about spam. A couple things should be clear by now: (1) Spam is here to stay; (2) Let gmail filter your spam for you; (3) If you don't trust the "do no evil" Google mantra, set up your own spam filter.
I use one e-mail address for everything, and have for over 10 years. I get a handful of spam a day (mainly because I'm simply too lazy to tweak my spam filter, and it's quicker just to delete them), and many thousands more are rejected outright at my mail port. I gather about 6MB of spam in my spam folder a month, which I dutifully archive for some strange reason I've yet to fathom. Guess what? After 10 years of using a single e-mail address, I still don't have a spam problem. And I can count on one hand the number of false positives I've encountered.
Stop complaining about the problem and do something about it.
Someone needs to get guerilla.net going again, now that l0pht has abandoned it. There is something attractive about being able to maintain communications even under government or terroristic attacks...
...that Google is somehow proxying web content that's being acceessed by Chrome? Wow. Despite the Google fanboys' usual admonition to STFU if you don't like the terms, this should be an enormous red flag for anyone contemplating the use of Chrome.
...because there are still some very persistent performance issues that need to be worked out. The AJAX interface is incredibly sluggish on just about any browser/CPU combination I use it with. Very frustrating to have to wait seconds after each submit for the interface to respond.
This is further proof of the fallacy that just because something is affiliated with Google, it must be a good thing.
Long live mutt. (Don't laugh...the response time for mutt on even my slowest machine is several orders of magnitude greater than Gmail.)
You're assuming that both the students and the teachers have the competence, knowledge and understanding of the science in order to properly evaluate it, and that the teachers guiding such student evaluation do so in an honest and unbiased fashion.
You falsely assume that Texas schoolteachers blindly back the political machinery that drives State Board of Education. From my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. Most science teachers I know could not care less about what goes on in Austin, and they certainly don't teach science based upon who happens to be in power in the legislature in any given year.
...are disgusted with this crap. The creationism shit is stirred up by an extreme right-wing group of legislators that don't represent the entire state (but are obviously voted in by some very ignorant Texans). The/. headline makes it appear that we're like...well, like Kansas or something. I'm a high school teacher, and most teachers I know think this creationism movement is a farce.
That said, it's important to understand that the bill is simply working to exempt "private, non-profit educational institutions to be exempt from the board's authority." The Coordinating Board would have the final say in determining whether science courses from this institution would be counted towards teacher certification requirements. At this point, THECB demonstrates no inclination towards allowing this to happen.
This all appears to be a lot of grandstanding by a right-wing nutcase.
I must have missed the memo...
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...about TV dying a sad death. Because TV is alive and well at my house. Mythtv has been a godsend with regards to being able to focus on content rather than (as pointed out by another observant poster) being continually interrupted by sales pitches.
Not that there is much content on TV worth watching. That's OK; my Netflix account keeps me loaded up with just about any movie I choose to watch (I prefer foreign movies). Why would I even think about watching a movie on a screen that's 17" from corner to corner?
Maybe I'm just an outlier. But for some reasons, I couldn't help but think of Chicken Little when I RTFA.
no, really. cancel your membership. now. everyone. then they will change. consumer whining does nothing. comsumers taking their money elsewhere does everything.
I for one won't be supporting your boycott. Netflix delivers my DVDs in a quite timely manner, and it's a great convenience (price-wise and otherwise) over Blockbuster and the like. Oh, and I don't stream my content. Why would I? DVDs allow me to view on my own schedule, and I can keep them as long as I want.
I have a hard time believing there are those who were duped into downloading software that ended up hosing their system. Sounds like some sour grapes to me by a few unhappy individuals.
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Now, ICANN is preparing to open a potentially unlimited number of new top-level domains as early as the first quarter of 2010.
Well, this should prove interesting, since the alt root I'm associated with (OpenNIC) hasn't received notification from ICANN as to how colliding TLDs will be handled. And I don't know of any other alternate roots that have been contacted either.
...available to Google developers? Because some of the slowest applications on the planet are Google apps: The gmail and adwords applications come immediately to mind.
I think it's somewhat disingenuous to imply that slow web interfaces are someone else's problem when in fact Google is probably one of the worst perpetrators when it comes to slow interfaces.
Well, I thought it was funny.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security/2
Summary states:
Boeing planes allow pilots to take over from computers during emergency situations, Airbus planes do not.
According to this link, the Airbus does, in fact, have a manual override mode.
Which would make the argument as presented a moot point.
Seems to me Perl developers, among others, have been doing this for years. Where's the news here?
...using one-wire sensors (actually requires two wires) and owfs. Then, interface with a network-accessible thermostat and multi-zone HVAC controller for the ultimate in temperature control!
(I only lack the thermostat at the moment...)
...which is why the first thing I do when I connect is click the "HTML for slow connections" link.
Which is silly, because I don't consider my cable or business connections very slow. In fact, most websites load just fine. Gmail simply...well, let's put it this way: By the time I get the gmail interface up, I will have already checked my personal e-mail on another machine using mutt.
Why does Google believe we want all the "enhanced" interface that really does nothing to enhance the interface?
Umm...no you don't. There's no state law anywhere that gives you the right to shoot a federal law enforcement officer who properly identifies himself/herself as such.
It's people like you that make people like us have to fight every inch for our rights under the 2nd Amendment.
Almost all vendors require your shipping address to be on your credit card as a billing address
That's not been my experience. I routinely do business with online vendors that do *not* require matching shipping and billing addresses. In fact, I've found such vendors are rare, and I'd be somewhat suspicious of any vendor that refuses to do business with you because your billing and shipping addresses do not match. If I supply the correct billing address, and the merchant account holder verifies said billing address as a match (along with some other identifying criteria, maybe the CVV), there is no reason for me or any other vendor to refuse to ship to an alternative address.
I'll also add I accept AMEX, MC, Visa, and Discover at my own business, and there is nothing in my merchant account agreements that precludes me from shipping to an address different from the billing address for online orders. I'm covered from chargebacks due to fraudulent activity so long as I jump through the authentication hoops (address verification, CVV, etc.).
Skype did not work for voice, even though I'm pretty sure those stats are over the minimums.
I feel like there's too much desktop in my face most of the time. I want it to be a helpful tool, but most often being helpful means staying out of the way. But I am glad KDE is so configurable, so I can mold it into the desktop I want. That part is great.
Then why would you use KDE, instead of a minimalist desktop/WM like XFCE?
Not a troll, not a flame. But I can't quite figure out those who run KDE, and then complain about how "thick" KDE is.
Your memory is accurate. We used them in the air traffic control tower I worked at to send weather and flight data to the Flight Service Station that was across the field. Hardly nothing new here in terms of hardware. Just a new legal interpretation on an old idea.
Has anyone considered this is just another version of the common ploy police use to round up criminals with outstanding warrants? They entice these people using false pretenses, then arrest them when they show up.
I'm not saying this is the case here, but what better way to build up a database of hackers (i.e., possible terrorists)?
Disclosure: Yes, I am short Goldman Sachs stock. I believe this company is evil and should not exist. We need to begin to break up companies that have as much control over world finances as Goldman Sachs.
Let me see if I get this right:
1. Short GS stock
2. Blog about how evil GS is
3. ???
4. Profit!
There's only one problem with this plan: GS stock has been rising since the start of the year. No wonder the guy believes GS "should not exist": Should GS stock continue to rise, there's no limit to how much the guy can lose.
(For those who have no clue what I'm talking about: "Shorting a stock" basically involves selling stock you don't own. Your only obligation is to return the stock you "borrowed." If you can buy said stock at a lower price than the price you sold it at, you profit on the difference. If the stock becomes worthless, you basically pocket whatever profit you made from the sale of stock you never owned in the first place.)
I use a special domain name which maps all aliases (*) to my mail box.
Works great until some spammer just starts generating random aliases to your domain. Definitely not time-efficient to deal with that.
Look...spam is here to stay. I laugh when I see articles like this on Slashdot, from idealists who believe that their actions are somehow contributing to the banishment of spam on the planet. I'm calling for a moratorium on all Slashdot posts that whine about spam. A couple things should be clear by now: (1) Spam is here to stay; (2) Let gmail filter your spam for you; (3) If you don't trust the "do no evil" Google mantra, set up your own spam filter.
I use one e-mail address for everything, and have for over 10 years. I get a handful of spam a day (mainly because I'm simply too lazy to tweak my spam filter, and it's quicker just to delete them), and many thousands more are rejected outright at my mail port. I gather about 6MB of spam in my spam folder a month, which I dutifully archive for some strange reason I've yet to fathom. Guess what? After 10 years of using a single e-mail address, I still don't have a spam problem. And I can count on one hand the number of false positives I've encountered.
Stop complaining about the problem and do something about it.
They call me Mister Tibbs.
Someone needs to get guerilla.net going again, now that l0pht has abandoned it. There is something attractive about being able to maintain communications even under government or terroristic attacks...
...that Google is somehow proxying web content that's being acceessed by Chrome? Wow. Despite the Google fanboys' usual admonition to STFU if you don't like the terms, this should be an enormous red flag for anyone contemplating the use of Chrome.
...because there are still some very persistent performance issues that need to be worked out. The AJAX interface is incredibly sluggish on just about any browser/CPU combination I use it with. Very frustrating to have to wait seconds after each submit for the interface to respond.
This is further proof of the fallacy that just because something is affiliated with Google, it must be a good thing.
Long live mutt. (Don't laugh...the response time for mutt on even my slowest machine is several orders of magnitude greater than Gmail.)
You're assuming that both the students and the teachers have the competence, knowledge and understanding of the science in order to properly evaluate it, and that the teachers guiding such student evaluation do so in an honest and unbiased fashion.
You falsely assume that Texas schoolteachers blindly back the political machinery that drives State Board of Education. From my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. Most science teachers I know could not care less about what goes on in Austin, and they certainly don't teach science based upon who happens to be in power in the legislature in any given year.
No offense meant, but didn't Kansas at one time remove evolution from the science curriculum?
Seems like Texas is in good company...
...are disgusted with this crap. The creationism shit is stirred up by an extreme right-wing group of legislators that don't represent the entire state (but are obviously voted in by some very ignorant Texans). The /. headline makes it appear that we're like...well, like Kansas or something. I'm a high school teacher, and most teachers I know think this creationism movement is a farce.
That said, it's important to understand that the bill is simply working to exempt "private, non-profit educational institutions to be exempt from the board's authority." The Coordinating Board would have the final say in determining whether science courses from this institution would be counted towards teacher certification requirements. At this point, THECB demonstrates no inclination towards allowing this to happen.
This all appears to be a lot of grandstanding by a right-wing nutcase.
Sadly, Mike Tyrrell's page is gone
Is this not his site?
...about TV dying a sad death. Because TV is alive and well at my house. Mythtv has been a godsend with regards to being able to focus on content rather than (as pointed out by another observant poster) being continually interrupted by sales pitches.
Not that there is much content on TV worth watching. That's OK; my Netflix account keeps me loaded up with just about any movie I choose to watch (I prefer foreign movies). Why would I even think about watching a movie on a screen that's 17" from corner to corner?
Maybe I'm just an outlier. But for some reasons, I couldn't help but think of Chicken Little when I RTFA.
no, really. cancel your membership. now. everyone. then they will change. consumer whining does nothing. comsumers taking their money elsewhere does everything.
I for one won't be supporting your boycott. Netflix delivers my DVDs in a quite timely manner, and it's a great convenience (price-wise and otherwise) over Blockbuster and the like. Oh, and I don't stream my content. Why would I? DVDs allow me to view on my own schedule, and I can keep them as long as I want.
I have a hard time believing there are those who were duped into downloading software that ended up hosing their system. Sounds like some sour grapes to me by a few unhappy individuals.