I... I mean... these fuckers can drive, right? They pilot tonne-weight vehicles, at speed, amongst peers. And some of them are responsible for running the power grid, the government, food production, a bunch of other important stuff. They can hold a conversation with another sapient being, and yet a form with two fields is supposedly too much for their minds to deal with?
Not every possible feature has to be part of Firefox. And this is for now also just a suggestion that Mozilla is making, so that users can decide over it in the Test Pilot program.
It's so infuriating when I come across a domain squatter that nuked the entire history of a domain in the Wayback Machine. I sort of get why they have to do that but it also defeats most of the point of the Wayback Machine.
Doesn't really explain why they have to nuke it, even if it is the current site owner. Respecting robots.txt is one thing, but that just means not spidering and archiving the content that is now there. Deleting already archived material based on later changes to robots.txt is a non-obvious behavior, given the usual understanding of the general meaning of robots.txt.
The difference is exactly what I said: if they deleted it, it's gone forever. If they hide it, it can come back. I've seen pages I cite disappear for a year or two thanks to scummy squatters - but they came back! It's the difference between being sentenced to execution and to 1 year of prison.
Could they not also watch when a domain changes ownership and segment history based on the owner?
Over the time scales that archive.org holds on to data, domain ownership itself becomes part of the history. While permitting someone to hide a mistake for security reasons is reasonable, allowing erasure of past owners' history by the current owner is counter to their stated purpose.
No, because the WHOIS details on the domain can change without ownership actually having changed, in the not-uncommon case where a domain starts out registered by a founder or early employee and is later transferred to the company proper.
Given the prevalence bogus WHOIS data, the inverse is also possible: if the 2nd owner uses the same registrar and "privacy-protection" feature as the original owner, the WHOIS data could appear to have not changed, except for the start date of the registration, which would look identical to a single owner who re-registered their domain after allowing it to lapse.
You set up a website, which fails to do authorization properly. Accidentally you expose personal information about your employees which gets harvested by the archive project. You fix the website, but how do you remove the exposed information from the archives?
No. This place hates humour, hates fun, and hates anything that distracts from the serious discussion that happens. I'm sorry you had to find out the hard way.
As much as I cheerfully upvote snarky jabs at HN's pretension to highfallutin', superior-quality commentry, consistently downvoting effortless one-liner comments is a great way to ensure that they generally don't happen.
Amateurs, except for the tennis players, the football players, and the bicycle riders. All of which are the big name stars who get paid to compete in other dedicated tournaments. I'm sure there are others too but those are the most promoted sports.
I don't think the ones above get paid for the Olympics though.
There are lots of professionals in other Olympic sports. Track and field, volleyball, swimmers, basketball, sailing, handball, etc. Usain Bolt is definitely a professional athlete (a sprinter) and so is Marina Alabau (a sailor) or Zhang Jike (a table tennis player).
Regarding compensation, it depends on the country, but I think many will get a bonus payment for medals or good performance. But anyway, the real money lies in advertising deals that athletes can get once they become big names (except for countries that have other types of compensation systems, e.g. North Korea).
Why so? The Olympic Games is the main event for professional track and field athletes, for instance, and if you're interested in professional sports - or any sports of absolutely leading edge competition, even when semi-amateur - then Olympics is the big event.
Oh many reasons. It is the most colossal waste of money. It is a horrible IP abuser. Almost everything surrounding it is massively corrupt. Some sports don't deserve to be in because they are not about (or less about) individual athletic performance.
Even if you like the competition those seem like strong reasons not to watch.
I personally think that if you are going to allow finely engineered shoes, poles, javelins, boats, balls, bicycles, then you should allow finely engineered bodies.
It wants new stuff, but that doesn't mean "from scratch" or "not firefox". Plain bugfixing is out, new features may be in. You have to write a paragraph or two about how New Feature X is in line with their goals, one of which is more intelligent/better informed use of people's personal data. It doesn't seem impossible to do something along those lines with firefox.
Gimp is a more traditional Free SW project, but most developers on Firefox and the Linux kernel are already being perfectly funded by the corporations that employ them.
If that is true the world is doomed. Giant Meteor 2016