Why turn to us geeks? So that some of us could arrange somehow to get his websites down? I'd rather turn to a PR community if I were you, or a lawyer community (perhaps lawyers in the country of residence of the ex-husband)
not that French politics are any easier to summarize than anywhere else, but to be fair with the GP, we have seen lately that the current governement has more and more of a tendency to use far-right (or what we call far-right here in France anyway) rethorics, such as blaming immigrants for economical and crime problems, for instance.
Although I fully agree with your comment, i think you missed the point of the submission's title: in big corps, management did get convinced that linux servers aren't too risky, and they are now happily going for it (where I work management is loudly bragging about the millions they are saving with linux). Hence the question is valid: what is the reason why it isn't the case yet with say application servers ? Will it just come in due time ? Or is there a more fundamental reason, like lack of consensus about support availablility/substainability ?
Or else you'd think people still are social animals when they hit 30, feeling good about belonging to a group, being gratified by their group's members having a good opinion of them.
Exactly ! That's why there isn't much point in trying to squeeze Macs in an objective comparison : you buy a Mac to get pleasure from purchasing a nice item, whereas you buy the winner of an objective comparison to get pleasure from being a smart customer.
You seem to forget that hunger is a quite powerful feeling. The whole difficulty of loosing weight is that you have to satisfy your appetite while reaching a slightly negative fat storage level. This depends not only on the amount of calories burned and eaten, but also on the composition of your diet.
There is a dire need to re-examine everything we know about a healthy diet
I beg to differ. Over here around the mediterannean sea (and i'm sure in lots of other places too), for hundreds and thousands of years parents passed on to their children the knowledge of what a healthy diet is. Most of us still remember.
Apart from that, I couldn't agree more to your point about exercise.
Well maybe Aussies would reckon the accent of where you come from is the harshest of all. Being a non-native english speaker, and having travelled to many english-speaking countries (USA and Aussiland included), I believe that no matter where you go you'll come across weird local slang and weird local accents, and I really don't see any objective reason why one should be rated harsher than another one. Have you tried to understand cockney rhyming slang, or authentic scottish accent ?
I suppose the solution to this paradox is that the tactile mouse will display pointer only during tests, and in actual situations nothing will be observable.
In actual situations, as the name "tactile" suggests, the user's fingers will lay on the pads, so nothing will be observable.
The biggest flaw of this method is that it does nothing for keyloggers. Yea, maybe if your boss wants to know your password by peaking over your shoulder, it'll help. It won't help to protect you from your competitor or a black hat hacker who installed spyware on your PC.
It seems to me that this method does protect from keyloggers. First, you'd need a mouselogger, since login isn't done via keyboard. But the thing is you'd need access to the piece of memory that maps the 9 squares to different tactile patterns, because the mapping changes each time. In short, you'd need root access to the machine, and then you don't need to guess the password anymore...
The sequence of tactons and squares is randomised each time
So for each try you always have 1/9 chance to hit the jackpot, no matter how many times you try.
With this system, the number which you should compare to the 8 bits character for traditional passwords would be the number of tactile patterns your finger is able to recognise (at least as many as braille characters ?) This number would then be multiplied by the number of patterns you have to recognise (4 in their experimental set-up).
This story has little to do with the French's view of the US, nor does it have anything to do with Francophony. It has to do with technical independance of Europe in general and France in particular. In fact, the bits about ODF and open source are only a small part of the report wich is about economic intelligence.
What is really interesting here is that if the recommendations are actually implemented and result in a wider use of ODF, it would not only benefit to European companies, but also to American ones ("more and more of my business partners use ODF, at least in Europe, hmm, I might recalculate my TCO numbers for MS Office vs OSS alternative").
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Why turn to us geeks? So that some of us could arrange somehow to get his websites down? I'd rather turn to a PR community if I were you, or a lawyer community (perhaps lawyers in the country of residence of the ex-husband)
Out of linguistic curiosity, where does your "kronar" come from? Norway uses "kroner", and Sweden "kronor".
"kronar" is the plural form, perhaps?
not that French politics are any easier to summarize than anywhere else, but to be fair with the GP, we have seen lately that the current governement has more and more of a tendency to use far-right (or what we call far-right here in France anyway) rethorics, such as blaming immigrants for economical and crime problems, for instance.
Here is an article in the main local news paper. Although I wouldn't be too sure it's better than a blog...
Although I fully agree with your comment, i think you missed the point of the submission's title: in big corps, management did get convinced that linux servers aren't too risky, and they are now happily going for it (where I work management is loudly bragging about the millions they are saving with linux). Hence the question is valid: what is the reason why it isn't the case yet with say application servers ? Will it just come in due time ? Or is there a more fundamental reason, like lack of consensus about support availablility/substainability ?
Or else you'd think people still are social animals when they hit 30, feeling good about belonging to a group, being gratified by their group's members having a good opinion of them.
Exactly ! That's why there isn't much point in trying to squeeze Macs in an objective comparison : you buy a Mac to get pleasure from purchasing a nice item, whereas you buy the winner of an objective comparison to get pleasure from being a smart customer.
You seem to forget that hunger is a quite powerful feeling. The whole difficulty of loosing weight is that you have to satisfy your appetite while reaching a slightly negative fat storage level. This depends not only on the amount of calories burned and eaten, but also on the composition of your diet.
Apart from that, I couldn't agree more to your point about exercise.
Well maybe Aussies would reckon the accent of where you come from is the harshest of all. Being a non-native english speaker, and having travelled to many english-speaking countries (USA and Aussiland included), I believe that no matter where you go you'll come across weird local slang and weird local accents, and I really don't see any objective reason why one should be rated harsher than another one. Have you tried to understand cockney rhyming slang, or authentic scottish accent ?
It seems to me that this method does protect from keyloggers. First, you'd need a mouselogger, since login isn't done via keyboard. But the thing is you'd need access to the piece of memory that maps the 9 squares to different tactile patterns, because the mapping changes each time. In short, you'd need root access to the machine, and then you don't need to guess the password anymore...
With this system, the number which you should compare to the 8 bits character for traditional passwords would be the number of tactile patterns your finger is able to recognise (at least as many as braille characters ?) This number would then be multiplied by the number of patterns you have to recognise (4 in their experimental set-up).
This story has little to do with the French's view of the US, nor does it have anything to do with Francophony. It has to do with technical independance of Europe in general and France in particular. In fact, the bits about ODF and open source are only a small part of the report wich is about economic intelligence.
What is really interesting here is that if the recommendations are actually implemented and result in a wider use of ODF, it would not only benefit to European companies, but also to American ones ("more and more of my business partners use ODF, at least in Europe, hmm, I might recalculate my TCO numbers for MS Office vs OSS alternative").