Quote:The creatures of Earth have no stomach for judicial murder. They prefer to leave you to slowly rot and die. They call it "being humane."

-- Davros

Nikorj wrote: Did he sue them or what?

No - but he did have everyone convinced he was about to. I don't remember exactly what happened. He'd either started proceedings, or sent a formal letter of intent or something after months of trying to get his money. Then everyone was like "See, it does pay!" completely ignoring the fact it took six months of campaigning, and a genuine threat of real life consequence.

Quote:JesusHChristOnABike! they want to know my bookmarks?

Bookmarks are input. Malformed input causes all kinds of problems, and it's a perfectly legitimate thing to log. I'm not saying I'd share them either - quite the opposite, I wouldn't share them - it's just ill considered rather than malicious.

You know, one guy really did get paid by Nitroclicks back in the day. I suspect he was the only one guy, and he did go to some pretty extreme lengths, but one guy really did get paid by Nitroclicks back in the day.

I wouldn't put anything past Mozilla lately, but this seems unlikely.

Logs and the reporting of logs are generally different things. The logs aren't only for reporting to Mozilla, it makes sense to keep them even if you're not reporting them.

If you can't read them though, that's worrying. They should be JSON, and the point of JSON is that it's the opposite of XML (which is the worst of both worlds - hard for people to read, and difficult for computers to process). You should be able to open them in a text editor and, if not understand them, at least be able to read them.

Speaking of pirates, and an attempt to get the thread back on topic and away from these misunderstandings, Pirates of the Caribbean.

That's another film everyone has seen and I haven't. The main character - Captain Jack Sparrow is based on real life pirate Calico Jack, but so is Smiling Jack from White Wolf's Vampire The Masquerade, and Smiling Jack is definitely better than Captain Jack. Captain Jack Harckness is completely unrelated to Captain Jack Sparrow, Smiling Jack, and Calico Jack. VTM has just been bought by a new company too, and they're actually doing stuff with the IP, and we might get a VTM film - the TV series doesn't count, because it was absolutely nothing like the source books.

Quote:It's true. Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.

-- Bill Bailey

Don't be stupid. Only easy targets can be sued. For $22,500 a song.

Piracy is bad, and if you disagree, we'll sue a dead 83-year old grandmother for sharing 700 rap songs from the afterlife.

RIAA, so classy.

Quote:We all know that no woman anywhere wants to have sex with anyone, and to titillate us with any thoughts otherwise is - is just bogus.

-- Peter Griffin

Have you ever used a GPT "industry" forum?

They're the primary cause of brain cancer in the developed world. It doesn't need a forum rule to prevent it, Clause 20 of the Magna Carta clearly disallows cruel and unusual punishments.

Quote:…the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

-- Linus Torvalds

Quote:And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.

-- Larry Wall

If you're bothering to make your own page, always make sure your page can be recognised as yours. If folk recognise it as yours, they'll give you feedback without being prompted if it's good. If it's bad, nobody will ever mention it to you at all. If nobody has mentioned it to you after the first million hits, nobody likes it.

Also, adding a promotion page to a larger website with other content, lets you add a contact form without it being weird and out of place.

Dude, this story is three and a half years old. Talk about low information voters.

Quote:The conventional history of software user interfaces tends to depict the pre-mouse years as something like the Dark Ages. But if anything, the introduction of the computer mouse became a distraction rather than an aid. Instead of getting on with doing stuff, you spend lots of time clicking the mouse until you locate some part of the on-screen user interface that will let you do the stuff you wanted to do. Only after a long apprenticeship with the program wielding a mouse do you begin to learn some keyboard command equivalents to make your job quicker.

-- Alistair Dabbs

For the longest time, I thought that was called Voyadt, and wondered why the R was the wrong way round...

As much as I liked Christopher Ecclestone, and as much as Matt Smith was pretty good in a "Dude, the 7th Doctor called, he wants his premise back" (and preferably his job) kind of way, it wasn't until this week that I finally accepted somebody else could be The Doctor, rather than just A Doctor. Peter Capaldi can keep the job until he dies, as far as I'm concerned.

This means I can finally let go. I've had the Doctor Who film on video for just short of twenty years, DVD for ten, and as a file on my harddrive for five. I finally watched it today.

It's sad. My Doctor, The Doctor, dies, then comes back as another Doctor that's half human (whut?) and even snogs a human (whut?).

I'm glad I didn't watch this earlier, because I'd have been very cross with this regeneration. I mean, he was okay, but there wasn't a backwards roll, a conjouring trick, or a hint of spoon playing anywhere!

It had the Master in it, but no explanation of how he survived the Cheetah Planet (also, Saturday before last's Doctor Who never explained how the Cheetah survived the Cheetah Planet, and The Doctor didn't seem to recognise them, but I digress...). If we fight like animals, we die like animals, The Doctor tells us, but then The Master dies at the hands of Daleks? Off screen?

It's immoral. Immoral, I tell you.

Quote:It's just...I don't feel properly dressed without a couple of cans of nitro.

-- Ace

RedMatrix/Hubzilla are the go-to options for cloud surely. Can you share files privately, without everybody needing an account on every different website they use with DropBox, OneDrive, OwnCloud, etc? Nope.

Sure, the project manager learned everything he knows about leadership from that joke about not having to outrun the lion, only his friend, but the software itself is fine.

(I'd prefer to recommend my own project, but a) that would be spam, and b) it's for developers anyway).