Agreed. I think a solution to this is a media database along the lines of what Avid does whereby media is imported into a database and streams are accessed using some kind of query involving a clip identifier and time description. Possibly with a rate component to handle varispeed/shuttle functionality.
That would take the export to EDL/shotlist/whatever (it's been a while since I worked in professional A/V) away from the hands of developers of _user_interfaces_ like OpenShot. It could allow various export tools to be written in whatever scripting languages are supported by effectively converting a native query/queries on the database into other format.
I know, I know, heaps of what ifs and ideas that aren't really thought out that well don't go down well around here. I'm tempted not to submit this and instead submit something more cynical and pessimistic, but I really do believe there is room for a library that projects like OpenShot could use to make professional editing capabilities really simple to implement. Perhaps sitting alongside MTL, or a change to MTL is required?
Gnonlin is used in at least one other media editor which uses Gstreamer as backend - Jokosher. I have been personally involved in it and can say only kind words of Edward. Sometimes he is sharp, but more or less he helped with every problem we came across using Gnonlin. Jokosher was glitchy also for some time, but for last releases it has been quite stable.
Is Jokosher that project that started out with a site advertising features that were planned for version 3 and yet still hasn't reached 1.0? Sorry, but if you want your multimedia app to be taken seriously, don't start by publishing your wish list as features with a tiny disclaimer buried in the small print on page 10,003 stating that it doesn't actually work.
OpenShot looks superior already and does what it says it does straight off. Combined with Inkscape, GIMP, Blender and the audio ecosystem, we're pretty much there now. False advertising a while back put me off Jokosher forever to the point where I wonder whether your comment here is false advertising as well, considering your association with Jokosher and the fact that most of the multimedia software that 'just works' as expected in Linux is ffmpeg based.
Yes, but Scientology registered a trademark. Which gets me thinking: surely if they have a trademark, they are trading. Surely that makes them a business and they lose tax free status. Laws around the world really need to be updated to clarify that.
You are either a business with trademarks and copyrights, or you are a church. that must content itself with religious vilification laws. Simple
For what it's worth, I work for one of the state govt's of Australia and one of our departments has just switched from Win2k to XP:/ so I'm guessing we won't be moving to Windows 7 for at least 2 years.
Care to name the state and department? If it's the state I live in, I'd like to write a letter about this to my member. In fact that's so outrageous I might even get around to writing a letter to someone from Parliament.
Opening two browsers, running obfuscation plugins, blocking flash, etc, etc. May as well block the interwebs all together.
Running a random search bot - as in a bot that continuously searches, as you, for random stuff and then hangs around the resulting site clicking links makes the tracking data useless. If enough people did this, there wouldn't be a problem.
I personally don't care what they know about what I search for because I search for all kinds of random stuff on a whim anyway. What's the big deal?
Octopuses move about by crawling or swimming. Their main means of slow travel is crawling, with some swimming. Jet propulsion is their fastest means of locomotion, followed by swimming and walking.[21]
They crawl by walking on their arms, usually on many at once, on both solid and soft surfaces, while supported in water. In 2005 it was reported that some octopuses (Adopus aculeatus and Amphioctopus marginatus under current taxonomy) can walk on two arms, while at the same time resembling plant matter.[22] This form of locomotion allows these octopuses to move quickly away from a potential predator while possibly not triggering that predator's search image for octopus (food).
I always thought of them as walking/crawling around in dark hidey spots, occasionally swimming to escape a predator or get from A to B quickly. Much like the way a human mostly walks and will occasionally sprint to get to a train/bus/tram.
Yeah, see up to now the theory was that they evolved this intelligence just to amuse scientists when they were kept in captivity. In a master stroke, they now have scientists believing that they use this intelligence in the wild. The octopodes of course are only doing this because they know they are being watched by humans.
Why would they be this intelligent if they didn't use it in the wild? Science itself doesn't say in the absence of observation that they don't use this intelligence in the wild, but many who consider themselves intelligent and scientifically rigorous would say if there's no proof, it's not true.
I sometimes wonder how useful it really is to have the attitude that we must collect evidence of something to accept it is so. I think some Austrian said something about this by way of hypothetical cruelty to cats as an example.
A lot of people think that Vietnam was a huge "defeat." I'm not going to say that it wasn't, but we did accomplish some goals. Communist Vietnam never became a strong force in Asia, and didn't spread. We effectively contained Communism there. There were two goals in the Cold War: 1) don't allow Communism anywhere, and 2) if #1 fails, then contain it. We absolutely failed at #1, but #2 worked well. People will probably respond that we shouldn't have done anything to stop Communism; I agree that we probably should have stayed out, but the countries where we did stop Communism are markedly better off now, in particular North vs. South Korea.
The anti-communism sentiment was quite strong in a lot of countries in the region, as it happens, especially as you go further East. Sorry to burst the bubble, but the US did fuck all to "contain" communism. It contained itself, with Indonesia in paritcular very happy to use US aid given under the illusion of helping fight the reds to entrench a totalitarian regime - and invade East Timor.
The fact that the Americans went against Ho Chi Minh, a guerilla fighter who in WWII saved US servicemen from the Japanese, cut them off from trade and ostracised them and then left it up to them to deal with Pol Pot is pretty sickening. See I reckon communism is about as evil as unbridled free market capitalism, an opinion I have held for many years and which seems to have been shown to have some merit of late. Mass murder and tactics employed by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were not communism any more than extraordinary renditions are free market capitalism.
I also believe the fight against genocide that occurred in Cambodia would be much more worthy of national pride then the idiocy of Vietnam. What use was the US, with it's premanent position on th in^H^Hsecurity council in actually dealing with the aftermath? None, because when the US gets a sore pride, the US sulks. Or makes surrender monkey jokes. Having pride in that episode is almost as disgusting as having pride in the second Gulf War, and this is coming from someone in a country that also committed troops to both. Stop fooling yourself.
The same people that make the surrender jokes will often make fun of their own nation just as quickly.
Yeah , but Americans are pretty fucked when it comes to derogatory jokes about them. Like how they are such pussies they can't even go to war unless they pick on a country that can't defend itself against air power - and even then pimply nerds do most of it by remote control.
The French surrendered against a kind of warfare that had only appeared very shortly before their invasion and then fought a very successful underground campaign against the aggressors, much like the Iraqis have done. Good on them. Beats a bunch of wusses that don't even have the balls to surrender properly to a bunch of midgets in black pajamas when they are licked, despite having all the jets, agent orange and napalm.
I too know plenty of decent Americans, but this vocal peanut gallery makes me sick, especially this anti-French bullshit. Even Kiwis don't generally hang the same level of shit on them. You guys go on and on because they won't join you in your international armed robbery? Good on them for having some balls, even if they are the stinky cheese ball variety.
Not sure where you are or what provider you are with, but Exchange sync is offered by at least one carrier selling Android phones in Oz and there are apps for it in the market if your carrier doesn't offer it. It's not really Google/Android's job to supply software to sync with a proprietary system from some other company, but vendors are free to value add to attract customers.
This is what I think makes Android so promising. It's an open OS that is available to any manufacturer to implement and they automatically get a ton of apps already built for it. Compare that to iPhone - only one player allowed to manufacture hardware and supply the OS and a heavily restricted market for apps, much like when Windows was available for any cheap hardware vendor to install and MacOS wasn't. Mac went from being the superior machine to near annihilation. Looks like Google learned from the 1990s PC vs Mac thing better than Apple did and Apple was in it and lost the first time!
Maybe Google will move into the hardware business, maybe they wont. I don't think they will improve on offerings by Sony Ericsson (when that finally comes out), but either way, they win.
That attitude doesn't sound crazy to me, but my hunch says it will be a long time before Americans give up gMail in favor of doing all their messaging on their phones.
I'm not American, Australian, but I already do 95% of my personal email an 20% of work email on my phone. And I haven't had to give up gmail - that runs by default on Android. It does of course pay to have something with a physical keyboard - a friend just got an HTC Magic and having played with it for a bit, that touch screen typing drives me ape shit bananas.
It took a while to get comfortable with it, but now that I am used to it I hardly ever turn on my lappy or desktop machines except for games, code and/.
Oh, and the reason I use a PC for/.? Because the bloated nightmare interface SUX ARSE on a small device. Uses half the battery to render the front page.
Nope. Until my Dream stopped doing wifi due to some unknown bug, I was downloading apps over wifi exclusively. I would use APNDroid to completely disable 3G and it would download apps. You might want to complain to Virgin about that.
I own my Dream/G1 outright and I asked myself this:
Why can't I access paid apps if I own the phone outright and therefore cost them nothing in hardware?
Why should I stay with a provider that sends me a $650 bill (!!!!!) because their network is so unreliable that it takes me 20+ attempts to download the same 45MB update?
Why should I stay on the network that has the worst coverage and is oversubscribed?
I changed to 3 and that has worked out great. For the same as the 69$ cap on Optus, I get the same calls and texts (roughly, works out the same for me) plus 1GB of data per month.
If anyone on Optus in Australia has had recent problems with excessive data charges when you believe you have been conservative, call the ombudsman. It worked for me - my $650 bill became $22.
On three, using the data all the time instead of switching it off 90% of the time means I hardly go to about 10% of my limit and I'm thinking of changing the plan down a bit. Not saying Optus will always suck here, just that they suck at the moment. Even the 50c/MB roaming on three has worked out cheaper overall. I am consistently under my cap because I am mostly in a three coverage area and when I am not, I switch to Telstra.
That's the point. Any idiot can also, in the full belief that they are not an idiot, run a script or follow a set of steps that expose a system to attack. The number of times I have encountered professionals^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hidiot nephews of friends of the owner running application servers as root in production is scary - mostly at the small business end - still scary. The number of people out there running friendly desktop Linux that don't understand basic unix security and set things up based on advice from a blog seems pretty high.
People do things that don't break a system straight off, but leave it vulnerable. If someone posts a dodgy Ubuntu + iPhone/Android configuration to share data over wifi then lots of systems are potentially exposed. I specifically mention these brands because they are popular and could represent a large target.
One exploit of a widely used hack is enough to infect a lot of machines and have zombies receive instructions on exploiting other undiscovered exploits on other machines in future. And on and on. Malware is infinitely patient
The risk I am talking about is not so much the "run 'sudo rm -fR/*' to fix your wifi" kind of prank in the least. I have been using Linux almost exclusively at home for around seven years and am guilty of repeating the "You need to deliberately install the virus to be infected" mantra or ostrich security model as much as anyone.
We, as a community, need to keep on top of exposing bad advice and give good advice to new users as much as possible, even if it gets boring. When doing something that involves a potential security risk, good tutorials on setting up PAM properly are much better than simple "start daemon x as root" type advice. Correcting bad advice as soon as possible is very important as a major trojan/worm attack would seriously dent Linux's reputation for security.
While those of us with more experience are less likely to be vulnerable, the same is true for Windows users and a large scale attack succeeding through complacency born in arrogance would be very embarrasing. Just saying.
You can get victimized by something that you HAVE TO CHOOSE TO RUN MANUALLY!
It's not that simple. A lot of ill informed users do little things to get stuff working in Ubuntu based on reading it somewhere on a blog or a forum. I've seen suggestions for network configs that leave a lot to be desired - basically creating anonymous login ftp to the users home directory with write access. And these things are tempting if you want, for example, your phone to connect to your PC over wifi and you don't generally consider security.
A little script or carefully constructed script or package that calls gksudo to get permission to hide the real gksudo behind an alias and captures the password could be attractive if it provides a "simple way to sync your smart phone with the ubuntu desktop - even supporting the iphone". We haven't seen one in the wild yet, AFAIK, but that would be pretty successful. I even think that the model for distributing the iPhone thing that went around would work pretty well given some of the advice out there especially if you read the "fix" and don't read the comment buried halfway down the page with a warning in it.
That's the trouble with the Linux ostrich based security model. It's just like the Windows security model. It relies completely on users having the understanding to set their systems up and maintain them securely and unfortunately the temptation to do quick and dirty tricks is very high in the desktop linux world.
In fairness, a default install of Ubuntu is more secure than Windows XP and Vista (not sure about win7) but the volume of quick and dirty fixes and the signal to noise on Ubuntu is such that they are really about even. As always, a classic PEBCAK.
Aluminium is incredibly wasteful. producing it from raw materials is expensive and using recycled sources as fuel effectively reduces the overall efficiency of the aluminium economy.
This is why I suggest copper. My chemistry is too rusty to know the best stuff to replace the ice, but good enough to know that copper would make for much greener emissions.
That's like getting presents for 20 years from your parents, suddenly finding out about Santa and then being afraid that you won't get presents if Santa isn't real.
There wont be any more presents from Santa. His house will sink when the ice melts.
Yeah but I did mention the Crown. This is why, as an Australian, I still support the monarchy. I don't care much about the queen, I'm sure she's lovely, but the Crown gives us a certain amount of protection.
it's a perfect example of how the constitutional monarchy actually provides freedom from rampant capitalism.
Yank baiting aside, the reason I responded directly like that without modifying my thoughts for American consumption is that/. is international and Australia, Canada and Great Britain are in ACTA negotiations. I don't know if this is common in the Commonwealth, but at least here, they can't make it legal without parliament and if they do it is potentially a serious offense. Maybe I'm just rubbing it in.
So basically we can sign the treaty to do the usual brown nose and it won't be law for but it will for you. Geez, you the people nedd to reclaim your constitution.
Yeah, but if they do it in secret then ratify it, it won't really be law. Turns out the government can't enact domestic laws simply by signing treaties - or if they try they won't necessarily stand up in court.
The fact that ACTA is likely to contain punitive measures without a proper hearing will get up most judges noses. I would think it's probably unconstitutional and may even be an act of treason attempting to put the interests and wishes of a corporation or group of corporations above Crown and law. Run the bastards through if they try.
Most judges don't like it when an elected government tries to go beyond their powers - especially when they remove due process and oversight by the judiciary.
To quote the logician in Monty Pythons Holy Grail:
"Elvis Presley is dead, but not all of the class of dead people is Elvis Presley"
I'm sorry to read that you suffered this abuse, but the behavior of many Christians is far from the teachings of Christ. Teachings which in fact are full of the message of religious tolerance.
I really wish those stupid fuckwit evangelists, born again knob ends, etc, could just fucking realise that Christianity wasn't a religion when Christ was around and was most likely never intended to be a religion in and of itself, in contrast with Scientology which was designed as a religion from the start. I wish they would quit it with all of the judgment, damnation and irritating fucking public displays of holiness. It's more annoying than fucking spam because I don't have an effective filter for public street preaching. Cunts! - Actually no, cunts are useful!
At their core, Judaism, Christianity and Islam do not have inherently closed systems where their teachings cost money. While there are examples of cults, for example the Exclusive Brethren who treat dissent in some very similar ways to the "Church" of Scientology, Christianity itself is not a cult.
All swearing in this post designed to create an ironic anti-cyclone when misguided "Christians" read it and get offended - deeply believing that swearing is sin but public displays of holiness are not against the teachings of Christ.
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Agreed. I think a solution to this is a media database along the lines of what Avid does whereby media is imported into a database and streams are accessed using some kind of query involving a clip identifier and time description. Possibly with a rate component to handle varispeed/shuttle functionality.
That would take the export to EDL/shotlist/whatever (it's been a while since I worked in professional A/V) away from the hands of developers of _user_interfaces_ like OpenShot. It could allow various export tools to be written in whatever scripting languages are supported by effectively converting a native query/queries on the database into other format.
I know, I know, heaps of what ifs and ideas that aren't really thought out that well don't go down well around here. I'm tempted not to submit this and instead submit something more cynical and pessimistic, but I really do believe there is room for a library that projects like OpenShot could use to make professional editing capabilities really simple to implement. Perhaps sitting alongside MTL, or a change to MTL is required?
Is Jokosher that project that started out with a site advertising features that were planned for version 3 and yet still hasn't reached 1.0? Sorry, but if you want your multimedia app to be taken seriously, don't start by publishing your wish list as features with a tiny disclaimer buried in the small print on page 10,003 stating that it doesn't actually work.
OpenShot looks superior already and does what it says it does straight off. Combined with Inkscape, GIMP, Blender and the audio ecosystem, we're pretty much there now. False advertising a while back put me off Jokosher forever to the point where I wonder whether your comment here is false advertising as well, considering your association with Jokosher and the fact that most of the multimedia software that 'just works' as expected in Linux is ffmpeg based.
Yes, but Scientology registered a trademark. Which gets me thinking: surely if they have a trademark, they are trading. Surely that makes them a business and they lose tax free status. Laws around the world really need to be updated to clarify that.
You are either a business with trademarks and copyrights, or you are a church. that must content itself with religious vilification laws. Simple
The enlightenment was very bad for Catholicism. The Catholic Church would prefer that everyone was still in the dark.
Care to name the state and department? If it's the state I live in, I'd like to write a letter about this to my member. In fact that's so outrageous I might even get around to writing a letter to someone from Parliament.
This is ridiculous.
Opening two browsers, running obfuscation plugins, blocking flash, etc, etc. May as well block the interwebs all together.
Running a random search bot - as in a bot that continuously searches, as you, for random stuff and then hangs around the resulting site clicking links makes the tracking data useless. If enough people did this, there wouldn't be a problem.
I personally don't care what they know about what I search for because I search for all kinds of random stuff on a whim anyway. What's the big deal?
Yous grammar Nazis aint done nothing to make to make /. any more better.
I always thought of them as walking/crawling around in dark hidey spots, occasionally swimming to escape a predator or get from A to B quickly. Much like the way a human mostly walks and will occasionally sprint to get to a train/bus/tram.
Yeah, see up to now the theory was that they evolved this intelligence just to amuse scientists when they were kept in captivity. In a master stroke, they now have scientists believing that they use this intelligence in the wild. The octopodes of course are only doing this because they know they are being watched by humans.
Why would they be this intelligent if they didn't use it in the wild? Science itself doesn't say in the absence of observation that they don't use this intelligence in the wild, but many who consider themselves intelligent and scientifically rigorous would say if there's no proof, it's not true.
I sometimes wonder how useful it really is to have the attitude that we must collect evidence of something to accept it is so. I think some Austrian said something about this by way of hypothetical cruelty to cats as an example.
Yah, Bob was a total joke.
How is a comment about Microsoft not relevant?
The anti-communism sentiment was quite strong in a lot of countries in the region, as it happens, especially as you go further East. Sorry to burst the bubble, but the US did fuck all to "contain" communism. It contained itself, with Indonesia in paritcular very happy to use US aid given under the illusion of helping fight the reds to entrench a totalitarian regime - and invade East Timor.
The fact that the Americans went against Ho Chi Minh, a guerilla fighter who in WWII saved US servicemen from the Japanese, cut them off from trade and ostracised them and then left it up to them to deal with Pol Pot is pretty sickening. See I reckon communism is about as evil as unbridled free market capitalism, an opinion I have held for many years and which seems to have been shown to have some merit of late. Mass murder and tactics employed by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were not communism any more than extraordinary renditions are free market capitalism.
I also believe the fight against genocide that occurred in Cambodia would be much more worthy of national pride then the idiocy of Vietnam. What use was the US, with it's premanent position on th in^H^Hsecurity council in actually dealing with the aftermath? None, because when the US gets a sore pride, the US sulks. Or makes surrender monkey jokes. Having pride in that episode is almost as disgusting as having pride in the second Gulf War, and this is coming from someone in a country that also committed troops to both. Stop fooling yourself.
Yeah , but Americans are pretty fucked when it comes to derogatory jokes about them. Like how they are such pussies they can't even go to war unless they pick on a country that can't defend itself against air power - and even then pimply nerds do most of it by remote control.
The French surrendered against a kind of warfare that had only appeared very shortly before their invasion and then fought a very successful underground campaign against the aggressors, much like the Iraqis have done. Good on them. Beats a bunch of wusses that don't even have the balls to surrender properly to a bunch of midgets in black pajamas when they are licked, despite having all the jets, agent orange and napalm.
I too know plenty of decent Americans, but this vocal peanut gallery makes me sick, especially this anti-French bullshit. Even Kiwis don't generally hang the same level of shit on them. You guys go on and on because they won't join you in your international armed robbery? Good on them for having some balls, even if they are the stinky cheese ball variety.
Yes, and they don't supply the product that consumers buy. It's up to vendors.
Did you mean 9545-1212 ?
Not sure where you are or what provider you are with, but Exchange sync is offered by at least one carrier selling Android phones in Oz and there are apps for it in the market if your carrier doesn't offer it. It's not really Google/Android's job to supply software to sync with a proprietary system from some other company, but vendors are free to value add to attract customers.
This is what I think makes Android so promising. It's an open OS that is available to any manufacturer to implement and they automatically get a ton of apps already built for it. Compare that to iPhone - only one player allowed to manufacture hardware and supply the OS and a heavily restricted market for apps, much like when Windows was available for any cheap hardware vendor to install and MacOS wasn't. Mac went from being the superior machine to near annihilation. Looks like Google learned from the 1990s PC vs Mac thing better than Apple did and Apple was in it and lost the first time!
Maybe Google will move into the hardware business, maybe they wont. I don't think they will improve on offerings by Sony Ericsson (when that finally comes out), but either way, they win.
I'm not American, Australian, but I already do 95% of my personal email an 20% of work email on my phone. And I haven't had to give up gmail - that runs by default on Android. It does of course pay to have something with a physical keyboard - a friend just got an HTC Magic and having played with it for a bit, that touch screen typing drives me ape shit bananas.
It took a while to get comfortable with it, but now that I am used to it I hardly ever turn on my lappy or desktop machines except for games, code and /.
Oh, and the reason I use a PC for /.? Because the bloated nightmare interface SUX ARSE on a small device. Uses half the battery to render the front page.
Nope. Until my Dream stopped doing wifi due to some unknown bug, I was downloading apps over wifi exclusively. I would use APNDroid to completely disable 3G and it would download apps. You might want to complain to Virgin about that.
I own my Dream/G1 outright and I asked myself this:
Why can't I access paid apps if I own the phone outright and therefore cost them nothing in hardware?
Why should I stay with a provider that sends me a $650 bill (!!!!!) because their network is so unreliable that it takes me 20+ attempts to download the same 45MB update?
Why should I stay on the network that has the worst coverage and is oversubscribed?
I changed to 3 and that has worked out great. For the same as the 69$ cap on Optus, I get the same calls and texts (roughly, works out the same for me) plus 1GB of data per month.
If anyone on Optus in Australia has had recent problems with excessive data charges when you believe you have been conservative, call the ombudsman. It worked for me - my $650 bill became $22.
On three, using the data all the time instead of switching it off 90% of the time means I hardly go to about 10% of my limit and I'm thinking of changing the plan down a bit. Not saying Optus will always suck here, just that they suck at the moment. Even the 50c/MB roaming on three has worked out cheaper overall. I am consistently under my cap because I am mostly in a three coverage area and when I am not, I switch to Telstra.
That's the point. Any idiot can also, in the full belief that they are not an idiot, run a script or follow a set of steps that expose a system to attack. The number of times I have encountered professionals^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hidiot nephews of friends of the owner running application servers as root in production is scary - mostly at the small business end - still scary. The number of people out there running friendly desktop Linux that don't understand basic unix security and set things up based on advice from a blog seems pretty high.
People do things that don't break a system straight off, but leave it vulnerable. If someone posts a dodgy Ubuntu + iPhone/Android configuration to share data over wifi then lots of systems are potentially exposed. I specifically mention these brands because they are popular and could represent a large target.
One exploit of a widely used hack is enough to infect a lot of machines and have zombies receive instructions on exploiting other undiscovered exploits on other machines in future. And on and on. Malware is infinitely patient
The risk I am talking about is not so much the "run 'sudo rm -fR /*' to fix your wifi" kind of prank in the least. I have been using Linux almost exclusively at home for around seven years and am guilty of repeating the "You need to deliberately install the virus to be infected" mantra or ostrich security model as much as anyone.
We, as a community, need to keep on top of exposing bad advice and give good advice to new users as much as possible, even if it gets boring. When doing something that involves a potential security risk, good tutorials on setting up PAM properly are much better than simple "start daemon x as root" type advice. Correcting bad advice as soon as possible is very important as a major trojan/worm attack would seriously dent Linux's reputation for security.
While those of us with more experience are less likely to be vulnerable, the same is true for Windows users and a large scale attack succeeding through complacency born in arrogance would be very embarrasing. Just saying.
It's not that simple. A lot of ill informed users do little things to get stuff working in Ubuntu based on reading it somewhere on a blog or a forum. I've seen suggestions for network configs that leave a lot to be desired - basically creating anonymous login ftp to the users home directory with write access. And these things are tempting if you want, for example, your phone to connect to your PC over wifi and you don't generally consider security.
A little script or carefully constructed script or package that calls gksudo to get permission to hide the real gksudo behind an alias and captures the password could be attractive if it provides a "simple way to sync your smart phone with the ubuntu desktop - even supporting the iphone". We haven't seen one in the wild yet, AFAIK, but that would be pretty successful. I even think that the model for distributing the iPhone thing that went around would work pretty well given some of the advice out there especially if you read the "fix" and don't read the comment buried halfway down the page with a warning in it.
That's the trouble with the Linux ostrich based security model. It's just like the Windows security model. It relies completely on users having the understanding to set their systems up and maintain them securely and unfortunately the temptation to do quick and dirty tricks is very high in the desktop linux world.
In fairness, a default install of Ubuntu is more secure than Windows XP and Vista (not sure about win7) but the volume of quick and dirty fixes and the signal to noise on Ubuntu is such that they are really about even. As always, a classic PEBCAK.
Aluminium is incredibly wasteful. producing it from raw materials is expensive and using recycled sources as fuel effectively reduces the overall efficiency of the aluminium economy.
This is why I suggest copper. My chemistry is too rusty to know the best stuff to replace the ice, but good enough to know that copper would make for much greener emissions.
There wont be any more presents from Santa. His house will sink when the ice melts.
Yeah but I did mention the Crown. This is why, as an Australian, I still support the monarchy. I don't care much about the queen, I'm sure she's lovely, but the Crown gives us a certain amount of protection.
it's a perfect example of how the constitutional monarchy actually provides freedom from rampant capitalism.
Yank baiting aside, the reason I responded directly like that without modifying my thoughts for American consumption is that /. is international and Australia, Canada and Great Britain are in ACTA negotiations. I don't know if this is common in the Commonwealth, but at least here, they can't make it legal without parliament and if they do it is potentially a serious offense. Maybe I'm just rubbing it in.
So basically we can sign the treaty to do the usual brown nose and it won't be law for but it will for you. Geez, you the people nedd to reclaim your constitution.
Yeah, but if they do it in secret then ratify it, it won't really be law. Turns out the government can't enact domestic laws simply by signing treaties - or if they try they won't necessarily stand up in court.
The fact that ACTA is likely to contain punitive measures without a proper hearing will get up most judges noses. I would think it's probably unconstitutional and may even be an act of treason attempting to put the interests and wishes of a corporation or group of corporations above Crown and law. Run the bastards through if they try.
Most judges don't like it when an elected government tries to go beyond their powers - especially when they remove due process and oversight by the judiciary.
To quote the logician in Monty Pythons Holy Grail:
"Elvis Presley is dead, but not all of the class of dead people is Elvis Presley"
I'm sorry to read that you suffered this abuse, but the behavior of many Christians is far from the teachings of Christ. Teachings which in fact are full of the message of religious tolerance.
I really wish those stupid fuckwit evangelists, born again knob ends, etc, could just fucking realise that Christianity wasn't a religion when Christ was around and was most likely never intended to be a religion in and of itself, in contrast with Scientology which was designed as a religion from the start. I wish they would quit it with all of the judgment, damnation and irritating fucking public displays of holiness. It's more annoying than fucking spam because I don't have an effective filter for public street preaching. Cunts! - Actually no, cunts are useful!
At their core, Judaism, Christianity and Islam do not have inherently closed systems where their teachings cost money. While there are examples of cults, for example the Exclusive Brethren who treat dissent in some very similar ways to the "Church" of Scientology, Christianity itself is not a cult.
All swearing in this post designed to create an ironic anti-cyclone when misguided "Christians" read it and get offended - deeply believing that swearing is sin but public displays of holiness are not against the teachings of Christ.