I think this Daily WTF post accidentally ended up on Ars Technica:
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RE: EU court ruling WTF
@Mason Wheeler said:
But most US citizens do approve of what Snowden has done, because he put important inormation in the hands of the people and he did it right. This last bit is crucial. He didn't go to some sleazy, outspoken anti-American website owner, he didn't just turn things over willy-nilly without any care for the consequences, he didn't come up with any emotionaly-charged videos that may or may not be reliable in what they show.
I don't think he quite did it right. He would have had a much stronger moral position if he had framed the leak as an act of civil disobedience. He could have said, "Yes, what I did may have been against the law, but I am willing to accept the consequences because it's so important for the principles and the nation that I love." Instead, he went straight to one country that is a US adversary in intelligence matters (China), then another (Russia). That just looks bad, weakens his case, and creates the impression that he was sharing/selling secrets, which would be treasonous. If he'd had the courage to put himself at the mercy of the court (and as a civilian employee, it would be a civilian court, not a military one), he would have had a platform for making his case to the public, even if much of the evidence would be be secret. The ensuing public discussion would have been much more serious and balanced. At the very least, he should have gone to an allied or more neutral country. -
RE: EU court ruling WTF
@DoctaJonez said:
If they remove the information from whichever site that it is on, Google will no longer list it.
This doesn't mean that the complainant could not request that the original site's owners remove the information as well. But it wouldn't be unusual for the site hosting the information to be operating outside the EU (and thus outside the court's jurisdiction), in which case the court could do nothing, whereas Google does operate within the EU. -
RE: "Beta", eh? I can see that.
It does say San Francisco only, and SFO is not in San Francisco (it's in San Mateo County).
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RE: A pre-emptive "Fuck You" to Mozilla
@blakeyrat said:
Git is unusable.
Clearly, then, miracles are happening every day by the millions, as people all over the world do the impossible by using git. You do understand the difference between "I am unable to do x" and "x is impossible," don't you? -
RE: Garmany
@Thrillho said:
Not strictly wrong, but I'm impressed that they managed to colour several sets of adjacent countries the same colour (most notable example: Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen), while still using more than the required minimum four colours (some countries even get gradients!).Here's all the things I could find wrong with that map:
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RE: Are You Scottish? I've no idea anymore.
@Lorne Kates said:
Really, there's no difference between scotch, whiskey or bourbon-- and anyone who tells you there is can also hear the "warm tones" coming off their Monster Cables that no machine can measure.
I'm sorry, but you've committed a category error. Whisk(e)y is a class that includes many different spirits, including scotch and bourbon. So no, you can't tell scotch from whiskey, for the same reason you can't tell cabbage from vegetables. But bourbon and scotch are quite distinct--bourbon has to be over 50% corn, first of all, so unlike Monster Cables the raw ingredients are already different.
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RE: Are You Scottish? I've no idea anymore.
If you add Welsh, the variable could cover all four directions: N S E W.
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RE: Is it a picture or an image? We can't decide
@toon said:
Just because Craigslist sees a difference between the two, doesn't mean that there is one. Saying that it's by design doesn't change that. Maybe the design is shitty, ever think about that?
I suspect that there was a good reason for this distinction back when Craigslist was created: in the olden days of dial-up and of slow, metered mobile connections, you wanted to avoid opening links with lots of big images. Since Craigslist-hosted images max out at 300x225, you were safe opening an ad that only contained those, but you were taking a risk opening one with externally-hosted ones. In that context, it was a useful indicator. Like so much about Craigslist, it's more of a relic today.