• (disco) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    You must be new here.
    Not so much new as infrequent. Is it Discourse's version of "I resemble that remark"?
  • (disco) in reply to Zainab58

    Something like that.

    http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/wiki-memes/917

  • (disco) in reply to Zainab58
    Zainab58:
    Not so much new as infrequent.

    "Pendantry" is just a joke because someone, probably @accalia, typed it wrong, and someone else, I think @arantor, started spelling it that way deliberately and then a few others started doing it, with, I guess, a loose goal of seeing how many people we could get to start spelling it that way.

    You'll notice the spelling/grammar badge is similarly named "spellar/gramming."

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    You'll notice the spelling/grammar badge is similarly named "spellar/gramming."

    That one was me (I think!) - got the idea at the time of actually giving the name to the badge.

    That said a quick search of the intarwebs shows I'm clearly not the first to think of it...

  • (disco)

    Looks like a Cross-Site Scripting issue. The customer probably doesn't think their website shares a security boundary with the designer's own public infrastructure.

    This bit of javascript means that in case the designer's server becomes compromised, the hacker can insert an undesirable text message into the customer's website.

    Possibly more, since the designer's website is being read by the DOM parser and then text is being echo'd to the browser... at the very least, this is providing an additional possible attack surface for the website.

    Now, it might be a justifiable attack surface, if steps are taken to mitigate, and there's a very good business reason from the client's perspective, but I would say that's clearly not the case.

    There are better ways to solve this problem.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    "Pendantry" is just a joke because

    Oh. All right. I'll just leave quietly, shall I?

    I was actually thinking of "hanged by the neck until dead", a locution that dates back to a-- quite possibly apocryphal-- incident in which someone's rope broke, and the lawyer leapt in to argue that he'd already been hanged, and nobody said anything about hanging him twice. (Was going to say "the sentence had already been executed", but couldn't get it to work.)

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    you get sent to a concentration camp, so does your entire family and you stay their your entire life. and your children stay there their entire lives, and THEIR CHILDREN stay there their entire lives. Their children can leave the concentration camp

    Punishing the family to the third generation has long been a thing in that part of the world. It's expected that your relatives will pressure you to conform.

    Also, re-education camp -> new life camp.

  • (disco) in reply to smallshellscript
    smallshellscript:
    has long been a thing in that part of the world.

    and that makes it right and moral?

    :wtf:

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    and that makes it right and moral?

    The question doesn't make sense, formally. If everyone knows that that's the system, it's right and moral according to the people concerned for the system to be used. It's wrong by our lights, of course, but our system of only punishing people for their own crimes is wrong and immoral by their lights.

    Morality isn't absolute, yet it's clear that there are several possible workable solutions; it's not entirely relativistic either. I suspect that when we discover a true calculus of morality, it will have several locally-optimal states. I have no idea what the globally-optimal state is, of course, or even if such a thing can possibly exist…

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    and that makes it right and moral?

    Nope just historical and vaguely understandable (as in I get what the reasoning for it is). Potentially sentencing people who haven't even been born yet to life in prison's not real high on the right / moral spectrum (edit: as defined by the western view of individual responsibility).

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    and that makes it right and moral?

    :wtf:

    Hey, those are working again. :wtf:

  • (disco) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    globally-optimal state

    Probably doesn't exist given that morality is defined by a given culture. We'll think we've got there when the gradual drift to a global mono-culture finally gets there but really we'll likely have picked one of your locally optimal states (whichever happens to fit the current view of morality).

    http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly010905a.htm

  • (disco) in reply to smallshellscript
    smallshellscript:
    Probably doesn't exist given that morality is defined by a given culture. We'll think we've got there when the gradual drift to a global mono-culture finally gets there but really we'll likely have picked one of your locally optimal states (whichever happens to fit the current view of morality).

    By the time we get to a globally-optimal state, we'll have probably populated at least Mars and possible other planets/satellites as well. Then the global states will just be the local states, and we'll start worrying about creating an optimal inter-global state.

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev

    Shouldn't have been broken to begin with...

    :man1:

  • (disco) in reply to PJH
    PJH:
    Shouldn't have been broken to begin with...

    Sounds temporal.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    Or meddling. At least I cant be blamed for the last few rounds of new bugs.

    Well he can try, but I'm innocent...

  • (disco) in reply to PJH
    PJH:
    Shouldn't have been broken to begin with...

    :man1:

    What should be broken? :laughing:

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev

    Android?

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    Android?

    Evidently.

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