A bit off topic but I see so many people missing jokes on Slashdot and people replying "whoosh" that I seriously think we should have a -1, Whoosh moderation option.
If we're going to go with volume of posts, how about a "-1, Moderation Complaint" option.:)
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. – 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' – Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
You know what works even better? Make the font bigger. The larger the glyphs are on the screen, the less your focusing system has to strain to clearly read the character.
Variable width fonts help too. It may be unconventional and cause formatting hassles, but if you're staring at it all day you have to do what's easiest to work with.
This won't help. It'll change the tactics of the criminals, but won't make them go away....the short version is that two-factor authentication won't mitigate identity theft, because it's not an authentication problem -- it's a problem with fraudulent transactions
These days, when logging on to various websites, users are asked for a name, password, and the answer to one or more "secret questions." It's actually a new-fangled type of authentication called Wish-It-Was Two-Factor.
And I really, truly hope it works out for them. I hate for it to go the wrong way... You can put your money in JAVA for the cheapest price in ~5 years. http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:JAVA
Alternatives? How about flash, or H.264 over SSL? Why is there DRM at all, considering that they are sending the DVD's to people who can easily rip them if they want?
Let me fix that for you:
[Microsoft screws Web development community]
- IE7 not standards compliant
- Slashdot posts article complaining
[Microsoft planning to continue screwing Web development community]
- IE8 standards compliant but not by default
- Slashdot posts article complaining
[Microsoft screws developers who trusted them]
- IE8 standards compliant by default
- Slashdot... posts article complaining Maybe after Microsoft stops screwing up, and the damage is repaired, developers will stop complaining.
I won't be holding my breath.
See, the thing is, everyone thinks money=intelligence. "If you're so damned smart, why ain't you rich?" Sorry, but this is slashdot, so I just have to say this. "If" is cause, not correlation. If Smart then Rich. And it's a valid argument: If you haven't taken the time to become rich, or sociable, or fashionable/cool, or powerful, etc... then why should we think you're smart. Smart is as smart does.
There are significant philosophical differences between China and the West (as nebulous a region as that is). This is one of them. Belittling them, dismissing them or otherwise ignoring them will not help in dealing with them. Oh... it's philosophical! Well, in that case, we should apologize. I thought it was about control and power, and how ruthless and brutal the Chinese government is. Now I understand.
Kamikazes? There wasn't anything new in using planes, only in the scope and depravity.
and it hasn't happened yet is a damn good argument: past performance is the best predictor of future actions. Al Qaeda had attacked America before, even attacked the World Trade Center.
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Can't we all just get a pong?
I'm sorry but pings like this shouldn't be allow to pass.
We wouldn't bomb it, we would liberate and "rebuild" it.
Even if much of the material will be under a creative-commons, no one but Google can control Knol in the future.
So no forks.
Worse, we can't easily reuse it because of Attribution. At lease the few articles I looked at all had CC+Attribution.
Adobe has an SVG plug-in for IE, but they also have a much better "beta" version (it's been beta for >3 years.)
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/beta.html
I've never used it but:
http://www.sqlite.org/sharedcache.html
*woosh*
A bit off topic but I see so many people missing jokes on Slashdot and people replying "whoosh" that I seriously think we should have a -1, Whoosh moderation option.
If we're going to go with volume of posts, how about a "-1, Moderation Complaint" option. :)
That's a rule I've never understood. I try to force myself to put the punctuation inside, but it's just anathema to me as a coder.
Just think of it as different language.
Easier?!?
It should be "(a-- > 0)"; no space between the "a" and the decrement operator.
That's the sort of nasty bug you get with so called "structured programming". With the grandparents post everyone understands exactly what it's doing.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. – 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' – Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emerson
You know what works even better? Make the font bigger. The larger the glyphs are on the screen, the less your focusing system has to strain to clearly read the character.
Variable width fonts help too. It may be unconventional and cause formatting hassles, but if you're staring at it all day you have to do what's easiest to work with.
Banks in the US are required to use two-factor authentication: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/us_regulators_r.html
This won't help. It'll change the tactics of the criminals, but won't make them go away. ...the short version is that two-factor authentication won't mitigate identity theft, because it's not an authentication problem -- it's a problem with fraudulent transactions
The funnier rendition of this sad tale is here: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/WishItWas-TwoFactor-.aspx
These days, when logging on to various websites, users are asked for a name, password, and the answer to one or more "secret questions." It's actually a new-fangled type of authentication called Wish-It-Was Two-Factor.
If you Google "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" the first link is to the same article!
Politics in America goes all the way from M to N. It's that far apart and right in the middle.
Alternatives? How about flash, or H.264 over SSL? Why is there DRM at all, considering that they are sending the DVD's to people who can easily rip them if they want?
Check out the book "The Corporation" to see the history of companies owned/controlled by governments. (The author is very conservative, but the history is interesting.) http://www.amazon.com/Company-History-Revolutionary-Library-Chronicles/dp/0679642498
- IE7 not standards compliant
- Slashdot posts article complaining
[Microsoft planning to continue screwing Web development community]
- IE8 standards compliant but not by default
- Slashdot posts article complaining
[Microsoft screws developers who trusted them]
- IE8 standards compliant by default
- Slashdot... posts article complaining Maybe after Microsoft stops screwing up, and the damage is repaired, developers will stop complaining. I won't be holding my breath.
They can't get the collision detection to work right.
Check out Vala: C# like syntax, no runtime, FOSS.
Yes, but you can only use UDP, not TCP. (There are some secretive groups that say they can get ICMP to work, but I don't know about that.)
Don't forget http://web2.0bingo.com/
Kamikazes? There wasn't anything new in using planes, only in the scope and depravity.
and it hasn't happened yet is a damn good argument: past performance is the best predictor of future actions. Al Qaeda had attacked America before, even attacked the World Trade Center.