Comment Re:When a man is tired of checking for divide-by-z (Score 1) 1067
Weird, I didn't know that the Unseen University HAD a CS department.
I always figured Mr. Stibbons was just a Tenured Graduate Student.
Weird, I didn't know that the Unseen University HAD a CS department.
I always figured Mr. Stibbons was just a Tenured Graduate Student.
Awesome tip.
Too bad DDG doesn't support anything similar.
Is there a Godwin's law for unnecessarily dragging an otherwise apolitical topic into the political arena?
I only ask because this is a clear violation of [insert that law].
Technically, if it was analogous to Godwin's Law ("As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1"), this would be a manifestation of that law.
Learned something new today.
That was the first I heard of it at any rate.
When was it? The first time I remember it was the G8 conference in 2002, under our old friend Redneck Nero.
So are Microsoft and Google, both of which have gotten their peepee spanked at one point or another in the EU since they have a presence there.
I wouldn't call Britain, France, Norway (and others) as being a police state. But a police state also includes the scenario where citizens are micromanaged, are under the watchful and benevolent eye of the state apparatus AND they do not resist said micromanagement.
I don't know about France or Norway, but doesn't the UK, at least England, have exactly that what with the ever growing surveillance camera coverage?
They're not concerned with it. The guys doing the extension forks have repeatedly said they're going to focus on Adblock Latitude, so they don't need uBlock.
I worked on the eBay side and was told by my eBay supervisor that PayPal fell under banking regulations.
Back when I worked as a helldesk jockey for a medical lab, I was told by my supervisor that the helpdesk PC's screensaver couldn't be changed because of HIPAA...
Just sayin', supervisors can say some dumb shit.
Apparently, the On/Off widget requires Australis.
Fuck you, dicebags
Please don't slander the noble dicebag by associating it with the scum who ruined Slashdot and Sourceforge.
When the official docs has a page called Inconsistent Behaviours [php.net] you know there is a bigger problem
My favorite part is where whoever wrote that page actually uses MySQL's behavior to defend PHP's typing stupidity.
Only ones that aren't tied to Australis. uBlock and Firebug, e.g., aren't supported.
It's entirely possible that they're being honest on that.
No, it's not. For starters, they already had Sync which did pretty much the same thing, sans monetized data mining, without having to integrate a 3rd party service with an intrusive privacy policy into the core browser.
That privacy policy should qualify as a "serious prohibitive quality" and the fact that you think it doesn't makes me question your honesty on the subject.
And first the claim was "user feedback" -- the mozilla feedback page shows that's clearly not true (the feedback, last time I looked, was unfavorable at a 9:1 ratio), then it was "popularity", which is still BS - As has been pointed out, it has about ~1% of the popularity just of ABP, which would put it, as a percentage of the whole, at around epsilon.
Not to mention the fact that several extensions intended to un-fuck the UI have been twice as popular or more, but we don't see them worrying about the popularity there... that position is still "up yours, install an add-on if you don't like our brilliant UX".
About the only way that hard-coding Pocket into the browser is not mind-numbingly, earth-shattering incompetence is if they got paid to do it. I mean, we're talking the no business near source code, drooling on the keyboard, typing by hitting the keyboard with a squeaky mallet kind of moronic.
Wow, you guys have a strong reality distortion field, don't you?
I can see how one might think that, if one was sufficiently lacking in reading comprehension skills.
The cost of feathers has risen, even down is up!
