Comment Re:Check your math. (Score 1) 880
This.
Or maybe someone should just fork islam and create a non-violent branch that kicks out all the "kill them for..." parts. OTOH, that is also long overdue for christianity.
This.
Or maybe someone should just fork islam and create a non-violent branch that kicks out all the "kill them for..." parts. OTOH, that is also long overdue for christianity.
Extremism is bad and causes people to do irrational things. Your brand of extremism is as bad as any other.
Like it or not, there are different types of extremism.
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That's half a joke, and half true. In some circles, you are considered an extremist if you are rude to others while addressing whatever the issue is. In other circles, you're not an extremist if you kill people over the issue, only if, say, they were children.
They may or may not be cowards, but unless they are stupid, they would simply choose a different target - a day care center or a school, for example.
If you think guns make you more safe, you're an idiot. The numbers are in and the differences between comparable countries are tiny. The main factors in safety have nothing to do with gun ownership.
Badly designed browsers when doing private browsing
It is called PRIVATE BROWSING - let's repeat this once again PRIVATE BROWSING.
Use no-skript with ghostery and clear your cache if you want to be selective.
Then don't expect things which depend on cookies to work, or bitch about them when they don't. You expect them to do a geolocation by IP address each time you make a request? How is your IP address any less identification than a non-cross-site cookie? And it's not all that accurate (e.g. if you use onion routing, it's random, and if you use a VPN, it's constant for the VPN location), so you're screwed if you browse that way.
That's a tough law to enforce and likely to provoke a heck of a lot of backlash.
You mean like the Spanish people pulling out of the country?
San Antonio, Raleigh, Charlotte, and Nashville are listed as telecommute positions
No one with the skills to do what they want done wants to live there. They want to live in a place they can walk out the door, go down two doors, and apply for a position at some other tech company, and have a new job pretty much instantly. Employers are fungible.
That I no longer have Google with which to access my porn!
I mean, what did they do back in the heady days of JaNET and dialup BBS, yanno, like "Before Google"??
A line printer, a ton of green-bar paper, a lot of tape and scissor work, hang it on the wall, and then stand way, way back to find out you've been Rick-Rolled and it's the "woman in hat" picture again?
That's easy, heck Lycos still exists. The question is how do they get their population to use it?
Pass a law in Spain that people must use it instead of other search engines?
This is the standard Anglo approach to the problem. Present a false black and white argument instead of the actual argument, and then present an ultimatum.
Most European cultures including Spain do not have such a culture. Instead, they would likely prefer to negotiate with google on the issue. Google instead chooses to openly extort the country by offering them only two choices which you suggest.
I presume your middle option would be:
S: Pay us a lot for our content showing up in your search results and news!
G: No.
S: We have passed a law that makes you pay us, so pay us!
G: Buh Bye!
S: Savages! They should negotiate on the amount they will pay us! Have they never heard of under the table kickbacks?!?
Isn't that really how you are saying things should have gone?
Or were you thinking that Google should have charged your newspapers for listing them, an amount equal to the amount the newspapers were charging them for "their content" (but then pay Spanish taxes), so the newspapers get an expense write off on their taxes, they get the status quo, and the Spanish government gets more taxes out of Google?
I'm really curious to know what your idea of a negotiation would look like here...
Publishers do not have legislative powers. Democratically elected leaders owned by publisher lobbying organizations do.
Fixed that for you. You're welcome.
Coming from Canada, I'll give you an example of the problem with Google News. PS I'm not french.
1) Clicking the news tab will always default to the US news. Even if Google is forcing the google.ca domain
Badly designed browsers when doing private browsing don't allow for ephemeral cookies.
The problem is that you are geolocated by IP (and yes, it gets this wrong if you are using a VPN into a node in another country - it thinks you are in the other country; not solving this "problem" is intentional on the part of the IETF), and a attempted cookie is set saying "They are in Canada; redirect and use the google.ca domain to serve up the first page". So google.ca shows up.
This geolocation is not repeated, and the cookie is not reset subsequently, since it's a relatively computationally expensive reverse lookup operation; if the cookie is there, it's referenced, and if the cookie is not there, it's not referenced. Then your subsequent request comes in through that first page, the cookie is examined, is not seen, and therefore you get the default, which is the US response.
The proper thing for your browser to do is to set an ephemeral cookie when doing "private browsing"; that is, it allows the "set" of the cookie, but since it's "private browsing", the cookie is set in memory in the DOM, instead of being saved in permanent cookie storage.
So it's happening that way because your browser implemented has screwed the pooch on what it mean when you are private browsing, and just blocks all cookie sets unconditionally. In other words, your browser sucks.
NB: Chrome gets this wrong in "incognito mode", as well, in the other direction; it implements ephemeral cookies into the session, rather than the DOM. Presumably, this is because they want cookies for login sessions to persist across DOMs which involve Google properties. So it's possible for an "incognito mode" session to leak information to outside parties for cross-site purposes. You'll see this with "limited number of views per month" sites, like the NYT and other news sites, where if you use the same "incognito mode" session - which persists, even if you close the window and open a new "incognito mode" window. If you restart Chrome, then the cookies are flushed. It's not clear whether this is intentional or just bad programming.
>Seriously. I just went through a stack of 5 Seagate
>HDDs, from different customers, with a sledge
>hammer. They all died with S.M.A.R.T. failures.
I've got to admire a firmware that can report
Error 215: Struck with sledge hammer.
hawk
That's why modern drives use helium instead of protons . . .
That sequel went straight to video. Other than watching him become Darth Squeaky after it got torpedoed, there was really nothing worth watching.
hawk
It's funny... there's one picture showing a huge amount of damage caused by their footprints, even deeper and more visible than the landmark lines in places, and in the rest of the pictures you can't see any damage at all.
The pictures showing no damage are the "before" pictures.
Too bad none of the idiots at Greenpeace knew how to use photoshop.
It is apparently normal that organisations for social change attract extremists, and many of these organisations fail to guard against the takeover by people who are just more fanatical, and thus dedicated. I've witnessed the same with the german Pirate Party, which used to be about digital rights, and nobody cared. Then it got a few percents at some elections and appeared on the radar. These days, it is about feminism, drug policy, political refugees, city planning and whatever other pet topic some troll pushed through.
Greenpeace always had this activism thing and at the time when the public largely didn't care about the environment, that was probably the right thing to do, to get attention. But as with all things, you have to continuously make it bigger to get headlines again, especially if you have reached your goal and people do pay attention already. And if you go more and more extreme, sooner or later something will break. People die (already happened), or things like this.
You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi.
