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General Discussion / Re: New Year's Resolutions
« on: January 02, 2011, 01:34:56 pm »
I gave up doing resolutions.
News:
Holy shit, it's 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024, and the US isn't a fascist country! What a time to be alive.
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General Discussion / Re: Arguments against Net Neutrality?
« on: December 29, 2010, 06:32:38 pm »Note what I said: it takes effort to assert that power. If all of Comcast's customers said "We're not happy that you blocked ESPN3.com because your owner and their owner had a sordid affair that ended badly, and therefore we're going to go to an alternative service" then guess what - Comcast would quickly unblock ESPN3.com.This is the fundamental issue with "free market" theory. Ideally yes, every consumer could go up in arms. This would mean every consumer is:
Consumer unions could hold FAR more power than employee unions because consumers PAY for services. But - like I said - it takes effort to assert that power.
1. Up-to-date with the ongoings of every company of every company with which they interact.
2. Knowledgeable about the implications of a company's actions within its industry.
Given that it is impossible for an economy the size of the US to satisfy both of those conditions, how else would you approach the issue? Every naysayer I've heard has said that "company self-regulation" is the magical answer. If the companies weren't granted monopolies in regions with limited cable capacity then I accept competition could be an answer to this problem.
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General Discussion / Re: Arguments against Net Neutrality?
« on: December 29, 2010, 04:47:46 pm »When a business and a consumer negotiate, the consumer has the greater power; but it takes effort to assert that power, and the problem is that most consumers would rather just roll over and let the government strike a mediocre deal than assert their own power.If you aren't a major stockholder, the business could give less of a shit what you as a consumer think. Don't fool yourself. I could call Comcast tomorrow and berrate the highest-level manager to whom I spoke about this Comcast-Universal merger. The resulting action from Comcast? "Lolz kthxbai".
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General Discussion / Re: Arguments against Net Neutrality?
« on: December 28, 2010, 02:43:22 pm »I am very afraid for the Internet! We have complete morons arguing on both sides! It's like two headless chickens duking it out!How is this different from any other industry in the world?
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General Discussion / Re: Total time logged in.
« on: December 27, 2010, 11:33:49 am »They could just set a last visit field on your user row in the database. If you did it with aI'd understand for something meaningful why they would protect against that. My credit card website times you out after a certain amount of inactivity and you have to log back in. For SMF, I can't understand any reason for doing so.session variablecookie, you could hack it each time so your last load was 9 minutes and 50 seconds previous and rack up time very quickly.
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General Discussion / Re: Total time logged in.
« on: December 26, 2010, 05:14:10 pm »Yeah, that's pretty much the only way to do it. And it makes sense.How do they keep timed session? Is it just a timestamp stored in a cookie that then gets read by the website?
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General Discussion / Re: Total time logged in.
« on: December 25, 2010, 03:47:45 pm »If you leave your browser open on a page and don't click anything, the site has no way to know that you're still there (because you aren't sending it any requests).I believe SMF keeps a 10 minute session open and then re-leases that time every new request you send. I don't remember where I read that though.
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General Discussion / Re: Total time logged in.
« on: December 24, 2010, 03:40:15 am »What's up with the ordering? How is 3d more than 53d? Haha.Mine is sans-RSS. What up bitchez.
There was a bug in SMF a few years ago where an RSS reader requesting a feed counted as being logged in, so the stats are kinda meaningless for most people.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!
« on: December 22, 2010, 06:00:29 pm »
I have a mandatory furlough and won't get to work ~2 weeks. :\
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iago's forum / Re: come home
« on: December 16, 2010, 04:46:28 pm »I still don't think it's absolutely wrong, though, even if it does hurt people.If a company had amassed data on people illegally, they'd get away with it as long as possible. I agree with your statement that it's not absolutely wrong, just could end up doing lots of damage. I don't know what Gawker is, so I'm talking in general terms of releasing passwords.
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General Discussion / Re: Let's hear it!
« on: December 16, 2010, 04:42:59 pm »
Depends on your field of study, where you're looking to publish, and what you actually wrote about. It also costs money to publish in a journal.
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iago's forum / Re: come home
« on: December 16, 2010, 11:41:36 am »I don't care if it's Canadian, American, or European data - releasing it without the company's knowledge is wrong, both legally and ethically.I was speaking from a purely legal standpoint, not a moral one. FWIW I agree with you that working with the company to secure their data is more ethical. And makes you more money.
And for what it's worth, I've already talked to investigators about the situation. The company in question is taking this very seriously.
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iago's forum / Re: come home
« on: December 16, 2010, 01:36:41 am »Why would you be afraid of legal action if you aren't a national of the US? I highly doubt Canada would extradite you like that, if push came to shove.
No, I'm not really sure what gave you that idea..
I mean, assuming you haven't gotten passwords to the NYSE admin accounts or something. If you did that I would bow.
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General Discussion / Re: Blizzard
« on: December 12, 2010, 02:48:29 am »Don't worry. The time is coming when you will long to wear pants again in December. After 12 years... that time has come for me.
Wimp.
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General Discussion / Re: Blizzard
« on: December 11, 2010, 05:24:58 pm »12 hrs and 12 inches doesnt sound like much. if it was like 12 hrs and 12 feet...yeahSpoken like someone that lives in the south.