It also begs the question for identical twins... if your identical twin is a criminal, and they store your twins DNA sequence, they are also storing yours...
"As a programmer, I had to cringe at your use of the word "Incompetence"."
As a programmer, I disagree. This is out and out bad design.
Comments should be linked to a unique internal ID for a page/report/story, regardless of the URL - the URL is an end user concern, not a programmatical identifier. When the URL changes for a page/report/story, the comments, linked via a unique, internal ID, move with the page.
To use a URL in system as a unique ID for a page/report/story, when URLs are a flexible/changable system, is pure bad design.
Sorry about all the slashes/lines/clarifications... ;)
I have this in a system I use (but didn't design). Instead of incremental arbitrary database ID's, some nugget decided to use the concept of "page ID's" - page ID's are strings, and are effectively names and identifiers for the users. Everything is linked to each other via page ID's. When page ID's change - EVERYTHING that links to it has to be updated. It's very, very naive database design.
Digitial - it uses analog eyeballs as the determinating factor, and the analog human fingers as a converter to digital (via keyboard).
Rights - being identified as human via capcha does not award a "right", in the sense that a Gorilla that passes as capcha doesn't award them the "rights" of being identified as a "human".
Management - not managed in any sense, but totally on-the-fly.
To be fair tho - because the "Lords" are now awarded as honoury positions, and since they are non-electable and therefore, not desirable as position of ambitious power driven politicians, the Lords actually represents more balanced and sensible view points than the Common's, but they aren't controlled by party political agenda.
Worth pointing out - my Chiropractor in the UK is an absolute genius and has sorted me out on so many occasions when GPs (normal doctors) had no clue or care to fix my issues.
I think everybody in Europe, has for generations, fought long and hard for freedoms of speech, without the presence of an "official regulator". Maybe, when that desire is ubiquitous in the psyche of a culture, it's not as necessary to have it regulated as it is for the Americans...
Anti-Mike understands the term "artificial scarcity". That's because Anti-Mike is being deliberately stupid, so he can laugh at the efforts you go into debunking his stupidity. It's called Trolling. Learn not to feed them.
I've even saved the company thousands of pounds, solving a company issue with Facebook (I went home at lunch to use it) - by being able to broadcast a plea to expert people who I know... it's silly, but they'll never budge!
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Worth pointing out - the BBC has always done it's best (i.e. more than anyone else on the planet) in preserving it's massive archive.
In a project costing millions, they are currently digitising the BBC archive, with a view to making it available and free.
Gawd bless Aunty Beeb!
Steve Albini
Here is that Steve Albini rant - don't be scared by swear words...;
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
"Some of your friends are probably already this f****d."
Yes...
"That's a joke list that someone put together for fun, right?"
Yes, it is... :)
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Mrs Streisand, meet Glyn Moody!
Twins
It also begs the question for identical twins... if your identical twin is a criminal, and they store your twins DNA sequence, they are also storing yours...
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"As a programmer, I had to cringe at your use of the word "Incompetence"."
As a programmer, I disagree. This is out and out bad design.
Comments should be linked to a unique internal ID for a page/report/story, regardless of the URL - the URL is an end user concern, not a programmatical identifier. When the URL changes for a page/report/story, the comments, linked via a unique, internal ID, move with the page.
To use a URL in system as a unique ID for a page/report/story, when URLs are a flexible/changable system, is pure bad design.
Sorry about all the slashes/lines/clarifications... ;)
I have this in a system I use (but didn't design). Instead of incremental arbitrary database ID's, some nugget decided to use the concept of "page ID's" - page ID's are strings, and are effectively names and identifiers for the users. Everything is linked to each other via page ID's. When page ID's change - EVERYTHING that links to it has to be updated. It's very, very naive database design.
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I think McDonald have the right idea.
The Streisand Effect shows that denying and restricting (any possibly denying) information has a negative affect.
In this case, the Lady McDonald could easily be seen to protest too much.
To simply laugh it off - and indeed, give the joke the due it's worth, as it was originally a joke - is obviously the best cause of action.
Talk about a misnomer...
Digital Rights Management... er...
Captacha is not;
Digitial - it uses analog eyeballs as the determinating factor, and the analog human fingers as a converter to digital (via keyboard).
Rights - being identified as human via capcha does not award a "right", in the sense that a Gorilla that passes as capcha doesn't award them the "rights" of being identified as a "human".
Management - not managed in any sense, but totally on-the-fly.
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Once again, Dan Bull proves he is a genius!
Utterly superb.
Consider it viralled... :)
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To be fair tho - because the "Lords" are now awarded as honoury positions, and since they are non-electable and therefore, not desirable as position of ambitious power driven politicians, the Lords actually represents more balanced and sensible view points than the Common's, but they aren't controlled by party political agenda.
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"Does the house of lords even wield any power anymore? No wonder "Great" Britain isn't so great anymore."
Er... do you have any clue what you are talking about...
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Worth pointing out - my Chiropractor in the UK is an absolute genius and has sorted me out on so many occasions when GPs (normal doctors) had no clue or care to fix my issues.
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I think everybody in Europe, has for generations, fought long and hard for freedoms of speech, without the presence of an "official regulator". Maybe, when that desire is ubiquitous in the psyche of a culture, it's not as necessary to have it regulated as it is for the Americans...
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Sleeping's cheating!
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I wasn't aware this was a "news" site, but a comment site.
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Anti-Mike understands the term "artificial scarcity". That's because Anti-Mike is being deliberately stupid, so he can laugh at the efforts you go into debunking his stupidity. It's called Trolling. Learn not to feed them.
NewsNow
NewsNow is a fantastic site - as follower of sport, it's superb for tracking the news stories of my favourite team.
I'm glad that they've not bowed to pressure.
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"If it ain't making money, it ain't a business"
Alternatively, how about the saying I've just made up;
"if it's worth something, it's made money"
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"Drudge hasn't seen nearly the same level of legal threats as Google News."
Er... because I suspect Google is a bazillion times bigger and has a bazillion times more money, than the company running the Drudge report...?
You just try telling my boss that...
You just try telling my boss that... seriously.
I've even saved the company thousands of pounds, solving a company issue with Facebook (I went home at lunch to use it) - by being able to broadcast a plea to expert people who I know... it's silly, but they'll never budge!