kysol

I'm only 10 minutes away from Brisbane CBD, and my closest bus/train stations have no staff. I remember 15 years ago the train station did having staff there for ticketing, but not anymore.

I used to see full length empty trains going out to the coast during peak hour as a "limited stop" service, yet regular commuters would have to pack onto 3 car all stop services. That there caused me to stop taking the train. The bus system also has it's faults but is generally ok. Worst I've seen are the ghost buses that just don't turn up but are still on the status boards.

Airport train fares were a exploited for a while until they did a crackdown on the passes. It'd cost you $10~ to go from the CBD to the airport, but the passes would only cost you $5. You could tap on to get on the train, and never tap off (which incurred a $5 fee, but you didn't care) then bin the pass afterwards because you weren't going to pay that fee.

It's these sorts of things are why our transport system will never progress, we are always looking to screw over something that we don't hold value in. If we needed it, we'd pay for it in fear of not having it.

If someone was working on privileged information (financials etc) then yeah it's probably not great to look at the screen, but if everyone is working on the same projects, then there shouldn't be any restrictions.

Personally, I'm the only one I work with to have my screens facing out to the public eye. Hiding behind screens just invites distractions. There's nothing that could be on my screens that is sensitive enough to hide. Even if other developers saw what was there, the worst that could happen would be 5 minutes trying to explain what a specific core function did, and an hour wasted trying to get out of a trivial one sided conversation about conspiracies all stemming from how their component doesn't handle multibyte characters and how they have to strip them out (yeah don't ask, just don't... best not to).

Every time I've returned from Japan, I've always felt compelled to do my best where every I could. Sounds cheesy, but there is something about how well everything runs and has a place that makes you feel energised.

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Just throwing this out there, buy JR Passes if you are going to be traveling a lot via Shinkansen (especially if you did what we did, Osaka->Kagashima->Kumamoto->Beppu->Nagasaki->Hiroshima->Kyoto->Osaka), it's worth it.

I've mentioned this to a friend a few times, the biggest differences between the Japanese and Australian public transport systems is that we (Au) take ours for granted. We don't care about our trains and buses until they are not there (strikes), or late (traffic/human delays), and then we complain rather than attempt to fix the problem.

If our everyday work life depended on our transport system, and I mean really depended on it, we'd see a dramatic shift between what we have now and what we would have.

We do, not 100% of the time, but damn close (usually non-locals and jerks that will push in past those coming off).

As for Japan, I was amazed when taking the trams down in the south where, from what I remember, you got on via the back doors (taking a ticket, which was optional some times depending on the trip), then you would slowly move forward to the front to pay on departure via a coin collector near the driver. Change machines were also on the trams. The ride and transaction was seamless as everyone always had correct change, the collection of money took little to no time (we're talking nobody really stopped, drop money in, keep walking) and because everyone was entering and leaving the assigned doors, everything just worked.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

And that's based on phones that don't take 3 minutes to boot up.. Oh hi old phone :)

From what I was reading, the removal of the favicon in Safari was more just a UI redesign decision to remove "clutter". Personally I don't find a 16x16 icon too intrusive, but hey, what ever floats their boat. I was hoping that it was as you said, and was to prevent maliciously designed favicons from tricking users on plaintext sites (where the protocol had been stripped by the UI) into thinking they were on a secure site.

I don't use Safari, so I don't know how they render their address bar.

..and people complain about transparency :)

I wasn't calling it a social engineering trick, more that it just felt like one. To the average person they wouldn't second guess the icon. To those who believe in HTTPSAllTheThings, we question anything out of the ordinary.. and that little padlock shouldn't appear in the tab.

As I said, it just felt weird, sort of the same feeling you get when you go to Apple or YouTube and there's a warning on the lock icon. You just want to hit the back button almost instantly fearing something dodgy is happening.

That or more hardware to overcome bottlenecks caused by bad code. "It's running slow, we need more memory!". After some investigation, really... you've got 8 joins without using keys, and you're getting paid more than us how?

I've been tailing logs for "()" as I've seen a fair amount of () { :fake; } - () picks up some other lines, but I'd rather see everything rather than 90%

One thing they didn't mention about the base64 of example.comShellShockSalt is that as per use with Spammers finding emails that get reported on anti-spam boards, those initiating the probes can watch for reports and extract the identifier to see who said what. Why they would be interested in this sort of information, I have no clue, but it would be of use.