Besides the fact that your complaint is nearly incoherent, this really isn't the proper forum for this. Secret Ninja Vigilante Censors are not an IT WTF. Not a WTF at all, since they seem to have done their job very well. If it's the censorship itself you want to complain about, you should probably do it somewhere else.
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RE: The Secretive Hidden InterNet Censors
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RE: Using clipboard for application communication
@jcoehoorn said:
I have to plead guilty here. I used the clipboard once a long time ago to move data from word to excel (or something- I don't remember the precise details any more). In my defense, it's was the first of only three VBA scripts I've ever written, and it was to fix a problem with some files that had to be done that day, no time to go learn the right way to do it.
But at least you acknowledge that it was a hack, this guy is asserting that it is the right thing to do.
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RE: What the Sign?!??
@CDarklock said:
As one drives toward Fort Lewis on I-5 southbound in Washington state, one encounters a sign which says:
Fort Lewis
No. Fort Lewis
I took a picture of this sign one day, intending to send it to Douglas Adams, but he died before I could get his contact information.
There's a similar sign for White Plains, (and No White Plains) in New York.
Across the river there's
Nyack
So Nyack
Which always struck me as poetic.
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@SpectateSwamp said:
Large font scrolling text was added because it was easy and fun.
@SpectateSwamp said:
But it does search gobs of textual data way way better than most. If I could only count the ways. Random large font scrolling text is one.
Ok, back to the question. How does your program search text better than most? Your example "Random large font scrolling text" is not a way searching is better, it's just something you thought was fun.
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RE: Apple WTF
@dlikhten said:
The point is: Apple is breaching contract.
1) Apple is refusing to repair his computer during an acceptable time
2) Apple is only willing to repair during his work time, which means that HE will loose money for trying to repair an apple computer.
Have you read the warranty agreement? I haven't, but I would be very surprised if the warranty agreement says that Apple agrees to fix the computer at any
time the customer wants and agrees to refund the user for any money he loses (not looses) while waiting for his computer to be fixed. If you want that sort of
protection, you're going to pay extra for it, not just get it included along with the computer. Apple is probably not breaching any contracts, they are handling
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RE: Java packets you should know and use
@betlit said:
the german word 'paket' has three meanings... packet, package and parcel :)
In English, outside of technical jargon, there's not much of a difference in the meaning of those 3 words anyway.
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@SpectateSwamp said:
500 books - I'm talking about maybe videoing in a handwritten copy of a cook book chatting it up as to when and where grandma would make these meals. Video can add way more than any scan. DVD's cost less than 25 Cents. So where is the problem?
Sometimes having additional audio commentary to a book might be useful. I think those times are far exceeded by the times where you just want the content in the book. The important content of a book is the words. You want to be able to search, not just for page 15 of this book, but for where in this book was this quote, where does it discuss this topic. Where's this particular recipe. Sure you could keep extensive notes on what is found on each page and cross reference that with where in the video each page is shown, but actually having the text to search is much easier and much better (and takes up much less space).
DVDs cost less than 25 cents, but a huge stack of DVDs is impossible to search.
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RE: Salt - Now With 33% Less Salt
@Vechni said:
What I hate is when I see "sea salt" is listed as an ingredient when they are trying to market to those who are in the 'trendy, at least somewhat educated, healty food' demographic... it really doesn't take much more a very simple understand of chemistry at the high school level to understand that NaCl couldn't be any different no matter where it came from.
Sea salt isn't pure NaCl, though. There are a lot of other salts dissolved in the water as well, so salt from different sources could have different tastes depending on the amount of Pottasium or Calcium or Sulfates in the salt.
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RE: Following the Memo to the Letter
@Spectre said:
@TheRider said:
My son is 30 and he left the house long time ago. Now what do I do in these situations? sigh
Make a new one. Or borrow a grandson.
You may first be forced to badger your son about why you don't have a grandson.
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RE: Credit Card Application WTF
@cdosrun said:
You're in luck, actually, at least if you live in the USA- The US Government is forcing banks to give a certain number of loans to people with bad or insufficent credit to protect their chaters.
Wasn't giving loans to people with bad credit what got us in this whole mess to begin with?
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RE: Opaque? What does that mean?
There's nothing wrong with an opaque type. It's supposed to allow implementers the freedom to use whatever is conveniant. The original code was just misusing it by relying on the specific implementation that Windows and Mac used.
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RE: Ever heard of sprintf()?
Does ruby/rails have an sql library that will do string escaping for you? Here he's only using a number so I guess it's not necessary, but it probably doesn't hurt to get him in the habit before he starts building sql queries containing user-entered strings.
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RE: Windows 7
It's not like their the first product to just skip version numbers to get one they like. There was no Winamp 4 (or Netscape 5, but no one was using Netscape any more at that point anyway)
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RE: An alternate way of alternating row colors
@ActionMan said:
Welcome to the the troll excluding javascript list along with mobius winter or whatever his name was.
Nobody cares who you put in your ignore list. Nobody has ever cared who anyone else puts in their ignore list.
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RE: An alternate way of alternating row colors
@elbekko said:
Also, why would you want to stripe every 3 rows? It seems to me that'd go against any form of usability as it'd just confuse people.
Why would it be confusing? I've seen that done in print books before, and it is still easy to read. Actually, I've seen a variety of striping schemes. I've never seen any comparisons to decide which is the optimal one, though.
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RE: You can lead a horse to water...
If the external server supported IMAP and was available at all times, why didn't they just have everyone use that all the time, and get rid of the server at the office?
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RE: Hmm...WTF...this email apparently time-traveled back from 2038
Sorting by the date in the email doesn't make sense (since even if the sender is honest, emails can get delayed considerably), I don't know why email clients do it, rather than sorting by date receieved.