It's a joke. About how United States has been passing Draconian IP laws left a right. Now Australia has finally "caught up" by passing Draconian laws of their own.
It wasn't meant against Australians or United Staters. It's a joke.
If this guy said this 20 years ago, I would say, "I disagree, but he might be right. Let's wait and see what happens."
But this is now. Linux is run on most servers. Linux, in my opinion, is better than Windows for everyday desktop use. Is hindsight not 20/20 in Thailand?
Although, I suppose releasing smog into the atmosphere is more focused than dropping a huge rock onto the earth to recreate a partial ice-age that killed the dinosaurs effect.
In Futurama, robots were found to be the cause of global warming. The professor had the idea to gather all the robots together, and "blow their tops" towards the sun. They pushed the earth a short distance away, thereby solving the problem.
In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, some botanist gone psycho tried to release some poison into the atmosphere. Of course, he was trying to destroy the world, but pretty much the same plan.
I think it's great that scientists watch cartoons, but it's scary that they get their "save the world" ideas from them. Maybe this scientist needs to watch more original Ninja Turtles and less Futurama. It's more realistic.
So why did you? Why didn't you, instead of writing this sentence, go back and remove the childish insults?
I chose that word because it was the most accurate and precise word available. I apologized because I felt (apparently, erroneously) that that would somewhat qualm the negative connotations.
Anyone who knows Javascript knows about implementing fallbacks for when Javascript is disabled.
You overestimate modern webmasters.
The obvious fallback is to have an element containing "joe at gmail dot com" and then replace that in Javascript with the mailto: link. That's what I do on my site.
Good for you. That is a perfectly acceptable solution. It is more readable for those with javascript, and viewable by those without. Unfortunately, webmasters with accessibility in mind are a minority.
Hey you frickin moron, don't post my address unobfuscated!
- Joe.
lol. Sorry. I figured that you already got so much spam that you wouldn't notice.
Modern browsers are good enough at limiting the damage it can do that it's safe to leave JavaScript turned on.
Where have you been? Try googling "firefox 1.5.0.x", where x is current minus 1. Or "IE exploit javascript." Mozilla has been known to lag behind zero day exploits for a couple of weeks, and Microsoft for a couple of months.
Besides, you can always use <noscript> for the few remaining folks who don't use JavaScript.
Unfortunately, only webmasters can do that. And most of the time, they don't even know that there are browsers besides IE, and they don't know that IE has options that can be set and unset. I expect that the original poster with "Javascript being more accessible" falls into this category. Commercial sites are especially notorious for lacking web design knowledge.
I agree with giving copyrighted works to libraries. But I disagree that this is a particularly effective way to stick it to them. How many people in your town have a library card?
I fear that the actual buying of a movie to give it to the library might make the MPAA more money than if you hadn't done anything.
Wanna know my solution? I download and share movies with eMule. Sure, it's illegal. But I view it as my duty.
If you want to stick it to the MPAA, but not do anything illegal, you'll have to find another solution. Please don't let it include giving money to the MPAA.
This has been mentioned hundreds of times. There are plenty of places to store viruses and root kits. The script kiddies don't know how to do anything this complex, and it has less value/time payoff for hackers. There are also compatibility issues.
In general, viruses/root kits are stored on the hard drive, and run by the OS, just like any other program. They can also be stored in the BIOS, or Hard drive/Cdrom/PCI Card/AGP Video Card firmware. A root kit could be stored just about anywhere. Fortunately, they aren't. Or are they?
You must be one of those retarded businesses who have flash on their front page. Javascript isn't easier, retard, it is one more thing that the person has to enable.
I would much rather a business use bob at place dot com than have, "In order to see our contact address, you must turn on javascript," or worse, and more probable, because people like you are stupid, "Contact:" and then nothing else. No explanation as to why you don't want me see your contact address.
Most of the suggestions above are a hundred times more accessible than javascript. Ironically, the one you quoted as inaccessible, and a "waste of your time", reply to joe at gmail dot com, is the most accessible, short of mailto:joe@gmail.com. joe at gmail dot com is text only. Does not require images, or javascript. The next accessible is those that require css or tables. The next is those that require images. 95% of people have images enabled. The least accessible is those that require javascript, flash, and those types of solutions.
Sorry for calling you retarded. It is a problem of timing. Your doublespeak is the straw that broke my calm demeanor.
A lot of these suggestions are fine for personal sites; but if you're actually in business they aren't practical. We use Javascript. You don't want to make life more difficult for the person trying to correspond
Your argument incorrectly assumes that school subjects do not overlap. In math class, you are required to communicate how you created a proof. In chemistry class, inadequate math skills or English comprehension can kill somebody.
While I do believe in leniency for minor spelling mistakes in a chemistry class, the ability to communicate and comprehend is universal to all subjects.
I know that was supposed to be funny, because calculators are already used in science class.
But that is very different. Calculators are used in science and advanced math classes to avoid busy work. There is no reason someone who knows addition and subtraction should perform sine and cosine on paper.
On the other hand, writing clearly is ongoing. It doesn't hurt anyone if you use a calculator to figure something out, but someone has to read what you wrote, regardless of the class, or how many times you've already proven you can write.
The final answer and explanation to a science problem doesn't change if you use a calculator, but if you use "text-speak" in your report, your report is seriously flawed.
I predict that in the future, we will be able to talk into a phone and the person on the other end can read what we said. Eventually, the technology will be so advanced that we will talk into a phone, and the person on the other end will hear our voice.
Seemingly when new technologies come into place which would make text entry more efficient (maybe better predictive text input, speech-to-text built into phones, etc.) textspeak won't even be needed.
No operating system has ever needed an antivirus. I don't recommend using Windows, but I have used it in the past, and although I ran antivirus software, I never needed it. It never picked up anything but false positives.
Now that I'm using linux, I have clamav installed. I rarely scan, and I never find anything.
Antivirus is an EXTRA precaution that sits behind the front lines. It also is never 100% reliable.
So why does utube.com continue to have an excessively fat home page? Go there. Their home page is big. Too many images. Not as big as some, but big nonetheless. I'd think if they wanted to solve their problem, this would be the first step.
Oh no! Microsoft is putting ridiculously restrictive, probably illegal clauses in their EULA! Alert Fox News!!
McAfee put a "no benchmarks" clause in their EULA a while ago, but when they tried suing a PC Magazine for benchmarking their software, the judge said you can't disallow your customers from reporting accurate information about you. Duh! I can't believe they actually thought they could away with it in court.
However, in spite of previous precedence and the obvious illegality / constitution violation of such a clause, I'm not so sure I could defend myself in court if I decided to put up some basic benchmarks regarding how well software runs on Win/Lin, and Microsoft decided to sue me over it.
Someone must have lived under a rock for a long time in order to label this as "surprise!" Stupid slashdot editors.
Also, with any Linux distribution you pretty much have to learn some command line to really be able to use your system to it's full potential.
That is true for every OS. Key words being "full potential." If all you want to do is surf the web and exchange email, no cli necessary. If you want to do more, cli necessary.
Clearly you haven't seen the code for gmail. To sum it up, a bunch of ugly crap that somehow works okay. It requires javascript and frames, and fails with a completely blank page when these are not turned on/available.
It could be contextual, just like Google's text ads. For instance, a 17 year old girl watching Friends. The computer knows about her, and so CLIENT SIDE she recieves a video stream and then her video client injects into the spots the various ads (say a little package on the counter, green screened) that are custom tailored to her. Locality, previous search history and more are taken into account. In her neighbor's house, a 20 year old male watches the same show. Because of different preferences, the label on a beer can changes and the makeup package is never changed. Etc.
If it is done client side, then an alternate, FOSS-type client would be created that doesn't add the ads, or makes it optional.
Also, it sounds too subtle. Never forget, television viewers are a network's secondary customers. These customers are only aquired to feed the network's primary customers, the advertisers. If the audience multiplies by ten at the same time ad revenues cut in half, then at the end of the day, the network needs only to find out why ad revenue decreased, and fixing that is a priority above everything else.
In law enforcement, they came to the conclusion long ago that the answer is no . Besides all the other qualifications for a police officer, they can't have a criminal record. In fact, they are required to pass a 300-question polygraph to make sure that they haven't committed any crimes in which they haven't gotten caught. Further, if a candidate fails a polygraph, the police can investigate and decide to press charges or just blackball you from any chance you have at getting a job with any other police agency.
I don't know if what you say is true, but the evidence supports it. This explains why all police officers are able to lie with a straight face.
But I fail to see why the ability to lie makes someone better at law enforcement...
If posting in your forum requires that I share my personal financial info, I'm going somewhere else. I'll happily solve captchas, I may even create an account, but that is way beyond the line.
This is a good idea, but many "spammers" are actually home computers in the US or Europe taken over by a trojan and used in a bot-net to do what master spammer wants. This may not be as prevalent in spamming blogs as it is spamming inboxes at the moment, but nobody knows the real numbers.
So, are you saying we shouldn't be allowed to kick the asses of idiots who click "yes" on everything they can?
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Whoa. Calm down.
It's a joke. About how United States has been passing Draconian IP laws left a right. Now Australia has finally "caught up" by passing Draconian laws of their own.
It wasn't meant against Australians or United Staters. It's a joke.
If this guy said this 20 years ago, I would say, "I disagree, but he might be right. Let's wait and see what happens."
But this is now. Linux is run on most servers. Linux, in my opinion, is better than Windows for everyday desktop use. Is hindsight not 20/20 in Thailand?
Although, I suppose releasing smog into the atmosphere is more focused than dropping a huge rock onto the earth to recreate a partial ice-age that killed the dinosaurs effect.
In Futurama, robots were found to be the cause of global warming. The professor had the idea to gather all the robots together, and "blow their tops" towards the sun. They pushed the earth a short distance away, thereby solving the problem.
In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, some botanist gone psycho tried to release some poison into the atmosphere. Of course, he was trying to destroy the world, but pretty much the same plan.
I think it's great that scientists watch cartoons, but it's scary that they get their "save the world" ideas from them. Maybe this scientist needs to watch more original Ninja Turtles and less Futurama. It's more realistic.
In unrelated news, Ford has opened a Humvee dealership in several European cities.
So why did you? Why didn't you, instead of writing this sentence, go back and remove the childish insults?
I chose that word because it was the most accurate and precise word available. I apologized because I felt (apparently, erroneously) that that would somewhat qualm the negative connotations.
Anyone who knows Javascript knows about implementing fallbacks for when Javascript is disabled.
You overestimate modern webmasters.
The obvious fallback is to have an element containing "joe at gmail dot com" and then replace that in Javascript with the mailto: link. That's what I do on my site.
Good for you. That is a perfectly acceptable solution. It is more readable for those with javascript, and viewable by those without. Unfortunately, webmasters with accessibility in mind are a minority.
Hey you frickin moron, don't post my address unobfuscated!
- Joe.
lol. Sorry. I figured that you already got so much spam that you wouldn't notice.
Modern browsers are good enough at limiting the damage it can do that it's safe to leave JavaScript turned on.
Where have you been? Try googling "firefox 1.5.0.x", where x is current minus 1. Or "IE exploit javascript." Mozilla has been known to lag behind zero day exploits for a couple of weeks, and Microsoft for a couple of months.
Besides, you can always use <noscript> for the few remaining folks who don't use JavaScript.
Unfortunately, only webmasters can do that. And most of the time, they don't even know that there are browsers besides IE, and they don't know that IE has options that can be set and unset. I expect that the original poster with "Javascript being more accessible" falls into this category. Commercial sites are especially notorious for lacking web design knowledge.
About time Australia caught up with the United States.
Ahh. That's the old way of lifting. We don't need to lift with our arms or back anymore, now that we have bionic gloves.
No, don't do that! Don't buy movies!
I agree with giving copyrighted works to libraries. But I disagree that this is a particularly effective way to stick it to them. How many people in your town have a library card?
I fear that the actual buying of a movie to give it to the library might make the MPAA more money than if you hadn't done anything.
Wanna know my solution? I download and share movies with eMule. Sure, it's illegal. But I view it as my duty.
If you want to stick it to the MPAA, but not do anything illegal, you'll have to find another solution. Please don't let it include giving money to the MPAA.
This has been mentioned hundreds of times. There are plenty of places to store viruses and root kits. The script kiddies don't know how to do anything this complex, and it has less value/time payoff for hackers. There are also compatibility issues.
In general, viruses/root kits are stored on the hard drive, and run by the OS, just like any other program. They can also be stored in the BIOS, or Hard drive/Cdrom/PCI Card/AGP Video Card firmware. A root kit could be stored just about anywhere. Fortunately, they aren't. Or are they?
Point is, this isn't news.
You must be one of those retarded businesses who have flash on their front page. Javascript isn't easier, retard, it is one more thing that the person has to enable.
I would much rather a business use bob at place dot com than have, "In order to see our contact address, you must turn on javascript," or worse, and more probable, because people like you are stupid, "Contact:" and then nothing else. No explanation as to why you don't want me see your contact address.
Most of the suggestions above are a hundred times more accessible than javascript. Ironically, the one you quoted as inaccessible, and a "waste of your time", reply to joe at gmail dot com, is the most accessible, short of mailto:joe@gmail.com. joe at gmail dot com is text only. Does not require images, or javascript. The next accessible is those that require css or tables. The next is those that require images. 95% of people have images enabled. The least accessible is those that require javascript, flash, and those types of solutions.
Sorry for calling you retarded. It is a problem of timing. Your doublespeak is the straw that broke my calm demeanor.
No, the major part was done by the masterminds.
The footwork was done by the terrorists in politics.
I for one welcome our new terrorist over...*pchhhcchcchhh*
On an unrelated topic, how do you write the sound that an explosion makes?
Your argument incorrectly assumes that school subjects do not overlap. In math class, you are required to communicate how you created a proof. In chemistry class, inadequate math skills or English comprehension can kill somebody.
While I do believe in leniency for minor spelling mistakes in a chemistry class, the ability to communicate and comprehend is universal to all subjects.
I know that was supposed to be funny, because calculators are already used in science class.
But that is very different. Calculators are used in science and advanced math classes to avoid busy work. There is no reason someone who knows addition and subtraction should perform sine and cosine on paper.
On the other hand, writing clearly is ongoing. It doesn't hurt anyone if you use a calculator to figure something out, but someone has to read what you wrote, regardless of the class, or how many times you've already proven you can write.
The final answer and explanation to a science problem doesn't change if you use a calculator, but if you use "text-speak" in your report, your report is seriously flawed.
I predict that in the future, we will be able to talk into a phone and the person on the other end can read what we said. Eventually, the technology will be so advanced that we will talk into a phone, and the person on the other end will hear our voice.
No operating system has ever needed an antivirus. I don't recommend using Windows, but I have used it in the past, and although I ran antivirus software, I never needed it. It never picked up anything but false positives.
Now that I'm using linux, I have clamav installed. I rarely scan, and I never find anything.
Antivirus is an EXTRA precaution that sits behind the front lines. It also is never 100% reliable.
So why does utube.com continue to have an excessively fat home page? Go there. Their home page is big. Too many images. Not as big as some, but big nonetheless. I'd think if they wanted to solve their problem, this would be the first step.
Oh no! Microsoft is putting ridiculously restrictive, probably illegal clauses in their EULA! Alert Fox News!!
McAfee put a "no benchmarks" clause in their EULA a while ago, but when they tried suing a PC Magazine for benchmarking their software, the judge said you can't disallow your customers from reporting accurate information about you. Duh! I can't believe they actually thought they could away with it in court.
However, in spite of previous precedence and the obvious illegality / constitution violation of such a clause, I'm not so sure I could defend myself in court if I decided to put up some basic benchmarks regarding how well software runs on Win/Lin, and Microsoft decided to sue me over it.
Someone must have lived under a rock for a long time in order to label this as "surprise!" Stupid slashdot editors.
I agree. That is very disturbing.
That is true for every OS. Key words being "full potential." If all you want to do is surf the web and exchange email, no cli necessary. If you want to do more, cli necessary.
Clearly you haven't seen the code for gmail. To sum it up, a bunch of ugly crap that somehow works okay. It requires javascript and frames, and fails with a completely blank page when these are not turned on/available.
If it is done client side, then an alternate, FOSS-type client would be created that doesn't add the ads, or makes it optional.
Also, it sounds too subtle. Never forget, television viewers are a network's secondary customers. These customers are only aquired to feed the network's primary customers, the advertisers. If the audience multiplies by ten at the same time ad revenues cut in half, then at the end of the day, the network needs only to find out why ad revenue decreased, and fixing that is a priority above everything else.
I don't know if what you say is true, but the evidence supports it. This explains why all police officers are able to lie with a straight face.
But I fail to see why the ability to lie makes someone better at law enforcement...
If posting in your forum requires that I share my personal financial info, I'm going somewhere else. I'll happily solve captchas, I may even create an account, but that is way beyond the line.