It looks to me like they are ruining a durability icon. There are several points in case (ha! pun!), but I'll only mention the LED-backlit keyboard. Those things break. They use power. And real touch typists don't look at the keys. I personally have spraypainted the keyboard of my Inspiron black, so that there are no markings on the letter keys (the numbers and everything else was masked off).
It's actually illegal to remove Section 508 compliance from a government website (hence why many of them suck so much)... and Silverlight, true to typical usages of it, will break that compliance in a big way. So Microsoft (and LOC's move) may actually be illegal depending on how it's implemented. I would hope that Cory, or anybody who has some sway, will realize this and call them on it. Er, YOU did realize this. Write to them. I did. See what I got for it: Library of Congress lost
This is what I sent them:
I understand that the Library of Congress is planning a website powered by Microsoft's Silverlight technology, as reported here: http://www.gcn.com/print/27_2/45710-1.html
As a Linux user, this development worries me. Silverlight is not currently available for Linux, and even if it were I would not install it. Silverlight is a proprietary, undocumented format, and is developed by a company that has a track record of insecure software. Therefore, to view the LoC website with Silverlight, I would have to install software that could potentially make my computer as vulnerable to attack as any Windows computer. That, assuming that Silverlight were even available for Linux, which it is not. Macintosh users are in a similar position. Although Silverlight is available for Macintosh, there is no guarantee of the application's security, and the application could be discontinued at any time (Like IE for Mac was). There are many open, standards-compliant technologies that can power the LoC's website. Many of these technologies are available free of cost, and are better suited to exactly the type of role in which Silverlight is intended to fulfill. In fact, this does not even seem to be an application where Silverlight's distinguishing features are useful.
I urge the Library of Congress to reconsider it's position and to consider other technologies. And this is the error that I got:
nanny nanny boo boo. Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at/.mnt.marvel.www.data.rr/askalib/askalib3error.php:65) in/.mnt.marvel.www.data.rr/askalib/askalib3error.php on line 260 Nanny nanny boo boo?
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AMD's opening of the ATI graphics card specs is what reinterested me in both companies. I had been buying Intel for quite some time now, but I'm going back to AMD because of the openness. Yes, Intel is open as well, but I've had much better results pushing AMD chips to the limits of temperature and I found them much more reliable when overheated than Intel. The fact that they are slightly less expensive is nice, too.
I'm surprised that _spreadsheet_ software was used to calculate this. Once the conclusion was made that the correct width should be twice the accepted size, the numbers should have been verified with Mathematica, or better yet, an open source (peer-reviewed code is just as important as peer-reviewed research) solution such as Maxima.
Paint it black And how would the satellite dissipate all the heat that it would absorb? Arm chair spy-satellite engineering might be fun, but trust me, you are not going to come up with something so obvious such as "paint it black" that the _real_ engineers did not think of first.
There's no clear signpost as to what's the "right" distro for beginners(UBUNTU UBUNTU UBUNTU, but newbies won't know that, go google "which linux distro should I choose?" and get back to me when the top result isn't a TEN QUESTION QUIZ. Go google "which vista should I choose?"
I'm talking about devices which don't run any antivirus systems, like the digital picture frames we're discussing in this story. And even the ones that do already run antivirus, if they get compromised by this system, then they need its augmentation. That is actually a good argument. In this case, I agree completely.
What is resource intensive? Having 'good' viruses propagating, looking to outsmart the 'bad' viruses, in addition to the anti-[virus||spyware||adware||rootkit||$otherMalware] running on the system. It would make more sense to me to scan files as they are [downloaded||copiedFromDisk], and a nightly system scan or five (when nobody is using the GUI).
...specific designs to capture something and not leave traces... This would be a nuclear bomb of malware... Since when do nuclear bombs not leave traces? This might be the Ely Cohen of malware, but it's certainly not a nuclear bomb.
No, I really thought that you meant the mouseover for the link. The alt-text I usually read in the XKCD forum, as a part of the page, and I even forgot that it's alt-text for most people. Apparently I'm a bit dense today, must be those cosmic rays and butterflies...
I don't see any mouseover text, and View Source doesn't have any Title or Alt attributes on the link. Send me a copy of whatever malware you're running so's I can see it too:)
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I swear I saw a backlit keyboard in there somewhere. I've gone mad.
It looks to me like they are ruining a durability icon. There are several points in case (ha! pun!), but I'll only mention the LED-backlit keyboard. Those things break. They use power. And real touch typists don't look at the keys. I personally have spraypainted the keyboard of my Inspiron black, so that there are no markings on the letter keys (the numbers and everything else was masked off).
You are referring to all those scripts that timecop installs, right?
Library of Congress lost
http://www.gcn.com/print/27_2/45710-1.html
As a Linux user, this development worries me. Silverlight is not currently available for Linux, and even if it were I would not install it. Silverlight is a proprietary, undocumented format, and is developed by a company that has a track record of insecure software. Therefore, to view the LoC website with Silverlight, I would have to install software that could potentially make my computer as vulnerable to attack as any Windows computer. That, assuming that Silverlight were even available for Linux, which it is not. Macintosh users are in a similar position. Although Silverlight is available for Macintosh, there is no guarantee of the application's security, and the application could be discontinued at any time (Like IE for Mac was). There are many open, standards-compliant technologies that can power the LoC's website. Many of these technologies are available free of cost, and are better suited to exactly the type of role in which Silverlight is intended to fulfill. In fact, this does not even seem to be an application where Silverlight's distinguishing features are useful.
I urge the Library of Congress to reconsider it's position and to consider other technologies. And this is the error that I got: nanny nanny boo boo.
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at
AMD's opening of the ATI graphics card specs is what reinterested me in both companies. I had been buying Intel for quite some time now, but I'm going back to AMD because of the openness. Yes, Intel is open as well, but I've had much better results pushing AMD chips to the limits of temperature and I found them much more reliable when overheated than Intel. The fact that they are slightly less expensive is nice, too.
I'm surprised that _spreadsheet_ software was used to calculate this. Once the conclusion was made that the correct width should be twice the accepted size, the numbers should have been verified with Mathematica, or better yet, an open source (peer-reviewed code is just as important as peer-reviewed research) solution such as Maxima.
Thanks, but I had no idea what keywords to search. With so much pr0n out there, I don't take chances :)
One for each blogger who wants to be dugg.
No, I did not know that the planetoid would have soil. Where can I read the details of the design?
Where are they going to bury you?
Sounds resource intensive.
...specific designs to capture something and not leave tracesNo, I really thought that you meant the mouseover for the link. The alt-text I usually read in the XKCD forum, as a part of the page, and I even forgot that it's alt-text for most people. Apparently I'm a bit dense today, must be those cosmic rays and butterflies...
I don't see any mouseover text, and View Source doesn't have any Title or Alt attributes on the link. Send me a copy of whatever malware you're running so's I can see it too :)
Because an asshole is never independent. He's always hanging out with either some pussy, or some cock.
There is absolutely nothing anti-American in my comment. Don't try so hard to be offended.
I use Fedora. Does that make me an independent, or an asshole?
You skipped over VI, dumbass.