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Comment WTF! (Score 1) 336

by eko3 (#34946340) Attached to: No More Version Numbers For HTML

What the fuck kind of crack is this guy smoking?

If the standard is "living", that makes it a moving target... and that means there will be practices that go away. When practice go away we call it deprecation. How the hell will a browser ever intrinsically know what is a "best practice" and what is "deprecated". For the love of God, we have hoardes and hoardes of peoples in "committees" that can't even make those decisions.

HTML version is what's been saving the whole intrawebs from blowing apart at the seems. !DOCTYPE is your browser's savior.

Good fucking luck with this one, buddy!

Comment KISS (Score 1) 680

by eko3 (#34946250) Attached to: How Do You Store Your Personal Photos?
As much as I like geeking out... I tend to view my home solutions as needing to be utilitarian and cheap. I simply have a WD 1TB external HDD and use it in conjunction with the $10/mo. cloud back-up created by Elephant Drive. It's one of the few cloud products that allows external HDD back-up. This allows me to dump all the photos on the WD HDD and FORGET about it. Elephant Drive does an excellent job and allows you to create jobs. All this keeps the photos off whatever machine I'm using and I don't worry about theft, fire or flood because it's riding around in the sky somewhere under Zues' Thundering Asshole. I don't have to worry about RAIDed internal HDDs (doesn't solve physical damage), setting up a VPN and rsync (not always reliable from) to some remote machine at work... and I don't have to sit around all weekend long trying to support whatever solution I've come up with. PS. I'm not paid to endorse Elephant Drive. They just kick the shit out of Carbonite and for that I love them.
PlayStation (Games)

Submission + - Sony Must Show It Can Sue PS3 Hacker (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider
RedEaredSlider writes: A California court today asked that Sony show it has jurisdiction over the hacker who publicized a "jailbreak" for the Playstation 3 console.

Judge Susan Ilston, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said Sony has to show that George Hotz, a hacker who posted a method of "jailbreaking" PS3 consoles, has some connection to California if Sony is to claim damages for his work on the PS3.
Businesses

Submission + - BYOC: Should employees buy their own computers? (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by
Local ID10T
Local ID10T writes: "Data security vs productivity. We have all heard the arguments. Most of us use some of our personal equipment for work, but is it a good idea?

"You are at work. Your computer is five years old, runs Windows XP. Your company phone has a tiny screen and doesn't know what the internet is. Idling at home are a snazzy super-fast laptop, and your own smartphone is barred from accessing work e-mail. There's a reason for that: IT provisioning is an expensive business. Companies can struggle to keep up with the constant rate of technological change. The devices employees have at home and in their pockets are often far more powerful than those provided for them. So what if you let your staff use their own equipment?"

Companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Kraft, Citrix, and global law firm SNR Denton seem to think so."

Comment No carrot (Score 1) 997

by eko3 (#34870268) Attached to: Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible?
The only way you can keep that kind of focus for any duration is if you have something at stake. Basically, what the owner is saying is: "I want you to work like an owner in this business with none of the upside". It sounds like your boss in an unreasonable, greedy asshole. Negotiate equity or get out.
Government

Submission + - Fed Goes Hunting For Malcontents (infoworld.com)

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snydeq
snydeq writes: "The wake of State Department document leaks to WikiLeaks may have the unhappy rousted from government agencies' 'privileged insiders' ranks, thanks to a recent memo from the U.S. OMB asking agencies to spell out their strategies for minimizing insider risk, InfoWorld reports. 'It's likely that federal contractors and government suppliers will also find themselves responding to this list of questions [PDF] and the central issue of preventing the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive and classified materials. In a key section of the memo, the OMB requests information on whether organizations are measuring the "trustworthiness" of their employees and whether they use a psychiatrist or sociologist to measure the unhappiness of an employee as a measure of trustworthiness.'"
Google

Submission + - Google vs. Bing: A quasi-empirical study (searchengineland.com)

Submitted by eko3
eko3 writes: SearchEngineLand.com is featuring an article that compares Google's result query relevance performance to Microsoft's Bing. Through the author's methodology and very small sampling, he argues Bing returns slightly more relevant results than Google. The article suggests that Google is riding its current market success based on its legacy namesake when internet search used to be a lot more painful than it is today.

Comment Re:Missing menu bar? (Score 3, Insightful) 266

by eko3 (#34865748) Attached to: Mozilla To Release Firefox 4 Next Month
I think your desire is in the minority. Most people don't want to play around under the hood of their browser. Most people could care less. Most people want to see more facebook, foursquare, linkedin, twitter (ad naseum).... and that's exactly what they are getting with these new revs. Welcome to Web 2.0... 3.0... eh... whatever...

Comment Re:Summary fail... (Score 1) 340

by eko3 (#34865508) Attached to: Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/what-does-sic-mean/

“What does [sic] mean?” Sic in square brackets is an editing term used with quotations or excerpts. It means “that’s really how it appears in the original.” It is used to point out a grammatical error, misspelling, misstatement of fact, or, as above, the unconventional spelling of a name.

I'm not going to lie... I had to go look up what [sic] meant because it was used so many times above:

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