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uuoc
12y ago
What was "nefast" supposed to have been? Which "them"? 1) The developers of this app; 2) Those who use Noscript? Noscript ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ ).
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uuoc
12y ago
The application != the landing page. The landing page is to attract and interest new users who are not yet using the application. Therefore the landing page should be accessible to the widest variety of users, with the widest variety of set
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12y ago
How your landing page looks with javascript turned off: http://picpaste.com/pics/pknoa-nojs.1405592840.png Note, no scroll-bar, content sitting on top of itself, no way to navigate around the page without javascript. T
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15y ago
Sad but true. Those who became "deer in the headlights" watching the ambiguous words "hope" and "change" float before their eyes in 2008 will likely be just as easily duped in 2012.
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15y ago
This is because all those who voted "for change" in 2008 all collectively forgot to ask the proper question: "just what is it specifically you want to change?" Now you start to see the changes....
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15y ago
> I believe the original poster's comment, "physician, heal thyself" is a reference to a person (in this case, the author), and not to a position. That would therefore be an incorrect assumption: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician,
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15y ago
> Dismissing a point of view based on the party, rather than on the position, is the definition of a tu quoque fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque Except that the original poster's comment was not a tu quoque fallacy. Not
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16y ago
If you are willing to turn away interested customers, then feel free to require JS. But, myself, I browse with NoScript turned on at all times, and if I come to your site and it does not work because JS is required, then I will simply leave
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16y ago
Note, Torx screws are not "anti-tamper" screws.
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16y ago
If all you have used so far is Ubuntu, then what you have learned is "how Ubuntu works", not necessarily how a Linux system in general works. As another commenter pointed out, given the zero cost (other than your time) nature of trying some
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16y ago
This bill is also an example why come election day in November, every single sitting member of Congress (all 435) and every senator up for reelection, needs to __lose their seat__. The only thing that politicians in today's world actually u
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16y ago
To be truly comparative, the chart also needs to include, for each year, the median and average household incomes for each tax year as well. Knowing that in 1917 those making over $2million were taxed at 67% is fine, but without converting
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16y ago
Do as I say, not as I do..... No privacy for you when "the man" wants to track you, but all the privacy in the world for "the man" when he finally comes after you: "Are Cameras the New Guns?" http://gizmodo.com/5553765/are-cameras-the-new
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Satellites & smart phones
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16y ago
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Education departments go wild for the iPad
(delimiter.com.au)
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16y ago
And this is an excellent example of why I have NoScript installed.
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16y ago
Except that I also don't allow google to set cookies either.
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16y ago
Google instant is the reason why my NoScript whitelist no longer contains an allow javascript rule for google. No javascript, no instant. No instant, no distractions while I'm typing in my search string. The single most important factor G
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16y ago
The Cory Doctorow info-graphic is quite appropriate here: http://boingboing.net/2010/02/18/infographic-buying-d.html
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16y ago
Please do not post links to the NYT paywall.
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16y ago
Please don't post links to the NY Times paywall, such as this link.
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16y ago
> I voted for Obama. I am a calm and objective rational person, who feels that this issue must be discussed. Then you are receiving exactly what you asked for, "hope" and "change". Next time, consider the lack of material behind the me
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16y ago
That is not a patent at all. That is simply a WIPO publication of a PCT filing. No patent rights at all anywhere are granted apple by that document. Please be precise in your description of these things, the meanings are subtle, but extr
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16y ago
You ask the impossible. Why do you ask the impossible? Because you assume that the user has web based email. In my case, my email is mutt in a text mode xterm. A browser based mailto link will be useless.
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16y ago
Listed midway down the page is a "Serial Number" field. In the case of this application, it is 741429. At the top of the page is a "home" button. Click the home button and then select "Advanced search" underneath "PATFT: Issued Patents".
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16y ago
That is a patent __application__, not a patent. The distinction is quite critical.
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16y ago
Please do not post links to the NYTimes paywall.
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16y ago
Please do not post links to the NY Times paywall.
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16y ago
Try noscript as well as adblock.
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16y ago
Please don't post NYTimes links that hit the paywall.
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