@FEichinger In my opinion, the tone of the proposal as it stands is geared to drive away those who make the policy in the corporate world, and those are the folks who would get the most value (and potentially contribute the most) to a site like this.
They're both relevant and very much intertwined, and often times a fringe case appears that challenges the policy itself - "How could we best handle this, and what changes to the policy might be relevant for the future?"
This, depending on the staff structure, could be asked by any member of the team.
I don't think the name "Moderators" truly excludes Community Management. A double name might be in order, but the scope of the site allows for a wide variety of not-purely-"executive", if you will, questions.
When I hear "moderator", I still think of those moderated mailing lists, where the moderator had to approve your email to the list, or put a lock on you if you abuse the list. So in that sense (and this is probably a very common one, even not just mailing lists - forums, etc) a "moderator" is kind of like a guard, or policeman - very little to do with community.
Actually, I think the best hope this site has is to cover both those aspects, and more - shift the focus off the activities, and on to the purpose: Community Building.
my question though, should it be limited to "digital communities" as in the proposal? Sure, there are some specific challenges and opportunities there, but there are also IRL communities who use the same digital solutions.
When I hear "moderator", I still think of those moderated mailing lists, where the moderator had to approve your email to the list, or put a lock on you if you abuse the list. So in that sense (and this is probably a very common one, even not just mailing lists - forums, etc) a "moderator" is kin...
feel free to add your opinion or clarification, its practically verbatim.
Clipboard abuse from websites
Many websites use JavaScript or CSS to stealthily insert or replace text in the user's clipboard whenever they copy information from the page. As far as I know this is mostly used for advertising purposes, but PoC for exploits have been demonstrated.
However I disc...
"The opposite of a tautology is a contradiction, a formula which is "always false". In other words, a contradiction is false for every assignment of truth values to its simple components."
@tylerl No. If you are omnipotent, there is nothing you cannot do. However, you are capable of creating something you cannot do. Once that thing is created though, you cease to be omnipotent.
Given that people share code on the main site and chat, it might be a good idea to either block or explicitly render control-characters and the like.
For example, if you copy the following code block into the nano editor (please DO NOT copy paste directly to the prompt, or if you do, please do n...
@Iszi Omnipotence means you have complete power over everything in reality. Obviously you are asking for something outside of reality. Which cannot exist, because then it would be IN reality.
@AviD According to Merriam-Webster, omnipotent is synonymous with almighty which is defined as "having complete power". Having complete power at any particular point in time does not preclude the possibility that you may cease to have complete power.
@AviD I don't see how "a rock God cannot move" both exists in reality and outside of it. Currently, it is not a real object - true. However, once God declares it to be existent, it will become a real object. It is not both simultaneously.
@ManishEarth Post an answer on SO with a lot of code, with the unprintables trick. I then copy your entire block of code, into my Visual Studio or whatever. Assume I dont look again at the code that I just pasted, then hit compile. My app is now your arbitrary code.
@Iszi Perhaps think of it the same way that if you think of infinity as being boundless, infinity + 1 isn't greater than infinity. If your strength is unlimited, an object of any weight cannot exceed your strength.
@Iszi Actually a good reference would be Wittgenstein, hence German, not French. Wittgenstein talks about "Kontradiction", which more-or-less maps to the English "contradiction".
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When I visit livescore.com, ten seconds later I receive publicity mails from gambling companies. While I don't visit I don't receive. The similar things happen when I visit Twitter or Tumblr. They send me mails even though I don't have Twitter or Tumblr account. How...
Sometimes I want to make accounts on other sites just to be able to downvote something. Then I realize the downvote privilege needs more rep than just AssocBonus and then I'm a sad @FEichinger. :(
I am looking for PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) knowledge and particularly at OS's built-in certificate chain list.
Of course on Windows the company decides which certificate will be built-in, but what about OpenSource operating system like Linux?
I've never quite got this. Just say you code in any language at all to roll some dice (just using dice as an example), after 600,000 rolls, I bet each number would have been rolled around 100,000 times, which to me, seems exactly what you expect.
Why are there websites dedicated to 'true random...
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When I visit livescore.com, ten seconds later I receive publicity mails from gambling companies. While I don't visit I don't receive. The similar things happen when I visit Twitter or Tumblr. They send me mails even though I don't have Twitter or Tumblr account. How...
