You forgot "discretion" -- high class prostitutes do not run around telling people about who they are having sex with. If you are a rich and powerful man, for whom a sex scandal could mean serious damage to your ability to do your work (whatever that may be), I can understand paying thousands of dollars an hour for sex with someone who is not going to go blabbing to people you know. This represents a minority of people, of course, but for those people this is a factor that comes into consideration.
How hard? This is Slashdot, where understanding quantum cryptography is easier than picking up women at a bar.
Amen to that. These guys that say picking up women in bars is easy are either (1) hunks and jocks, (2) mega charming, (3) frequent e-parties and feel the love, or (3) are very very unfussy (think: obese drunken smelly hideous grandma skanks with exotic skin diseases and psychiatric conditions).
Also, those in classes (1) and (2) who are indeed geeks are not the Aspergers-ridden asocial nerd variety that most of us are. They are most likely managers who never do any actual work.
Hunks never understand why it is hard for the rest of us to pick up women because for them it never has been hard.
But it IS an excuse for anything government wants it to be. It's still the raisson du jour and will not go away for a while yet. It's just that there's a slow and still not very effective backlash against its excesses. I only wish this backlash was far stronger. Let's hope.
But the EU is not democracy, either. Case in point: forcing through the failed EU Constitution, in the form of the Lisbon Treaty, through the alimentary canals of countries that had already soundly rejected it.
... having lived in a dictatorship... Policemen patrolled the streets solo or in twos, on foot, armed with only a baton most of the time. Snitching on troublemakers was usual, routine, a praised and rewarded action. Most everyone was an informant.
In such a society one tries very hard not to cause a disturbance, lest the regime have an excuse to throw one into the gulag, from which there is no escape.
Zero tolerance for repeat offenders coupled with lack of re-integration programs meant that once a zek, always a zek, maybe with a couple months "vacation" on the outside once in a while. This, for anything from chanting political slogans (not that anyone was stupid enough to do that, just saying that if they did) to murder, to shoplifting.
Free, liberated adults should be able to view any site (or book or pamphlet) they desire - without restriction. No government official may overrule that basic natural right of expression.
Ha ha ha ha!!!! You funny! What planet do you live on again?
"Canonical will ordinarily make the Assigned Contributions available to the public under a 'Free Software Licence,' according to the definition of that term published by the Free Software Foundation from time to time. Canonical may also, in its discretion, make the Assigned Contributions available to the public under other license terms."
Need to see the full agreement. So a contributor must basically assign copyright for the contribution to Canonical?
I would assume so since, in the case of GPL'd code, only the copyright holders can license the same code out under another license - at least I believe so. That is what is happening with X264 - there is the open source X264 code under the GPL and there is also non-GPL'd X264 library code licensed out by the same authors which is not copyleft so programs that link to the latter do not have to be GPL'd also.
But in the case of BSD-style permissive licenses, Canonical can do what they want and distribute the contribution under a different license regardless provided the copyright notice is distributed with the binaries.
Many (all?) home wifi routers log the physical hardware address of the connecting wifi device. While that hw code can be faked, most freeloaders on an open home wifi network or hacked WEP key wifi aren't going to bother obscuring that code in their wifi chipset.
A smart lawyer/prosecutor would subpoena your router to see if your claim that "someone else hacked my network and downloaded that naughty file" is supported by the log in your router. Even if you've deleted that log (my router let's me clear it I think) maybe it can be recovered? Of course, if the log has been cleared then not recovering an attacker's hw address does not mean there was no attacker, so maybe this isn't so bad?
... today's "programmers" (really just scripters) seem to overly reliant on some other mechanism cleaning up their shit. Can even a good or great programmer still have issues with null pointers, memory leaks, etc? Sure, but since they actually bothered to LEARN such things as manual memory management and pointers (which really are not THAT hard of subjects despite protestations to the contrary) they have fewer and fewer issues with such.
Reasons that everyone should learn C even though the latter always takes thought. I guess unless you'te programming in C all the time you just can't be asleep at the wheel, ever. I taught myself C and Perl and still dabble. I have this sneaking suspicion that these mobile platform thingies just can't be all that hard.
Unfortunately USD 45 is quite steep, will have to add international shipping costs to it even, for a book that I can't check out first.
Possibly a sad reflection on programmer salaries? US$45 is not a lot of money and it would be tax deductible in most countries I suppose. Or perhaps you are a student.
For somebody whose entire agenda rests on influencing people, that must be scary
That's exactly why governments are trying so hard to bring in internet control and censorship mechanisms with the standard excuses (children and pron; terrorism etc). I don't know anything about this Glen Beck, other than I gather he fits into the standard nutter shock jock mold, and I don't know about his motives or whether or not he is funded by the Saudis or China or whoever.
Nonetheless I don't find any reason to trust Google any more than he does. And it would come as no surprise to me to find out that the CIA was working through Google and social networking services to achieve or at least support policy goals abroad. Would anyone really be surprised?
OCD is a curse. Typing redtube.com in firefox or chrome and probably all other mainstream browser url slots goes to the web page since these assume http:/// by default. Or are you using wget for all your browsing needs LoL:=)
Firefox is bloatware. That was part of the motivation for Chrome and all of the motivation for Mozilla to start trying to speed FF up in recent releases.
I used Damnsmalllinux and to a lesser extent Puppylinux almost exclusively for years. Graduated to Tinycore which I still use when not on Mac. I suffered with Fedora to provide programs which didn't run easily on those and then Ubuntu to escape Fedora hell. Small fast systems are lovely and a lot of fun if you'tre prepared to do the command line work they sometimes require. My five year old 1.87GHz laptop running Tinycore still feels "faster" (ie much faster UI response) than my quad core Mac even if it isn't on something intensive like encoding video.
Crapware Vs Bloatware - exactly what I was going to post. There is a big difference. Crapware may be only semi capable and can be designed to get you to buy "fully functional" software, services or products. In any case it's all about marketing and being in your face without actually providing a fully useful piece of software.
Bloatware on the other hand refers to oversized, sluggish software that contains more features than you're ever going to use or want and that appears to have been designed and coded without any consideration given whatsoever to doing its primary functio efficiently or to loading and running fast. There's plenty of Bloatware around for Linux. Some would say for example that Gnome and KDE are bloatware and that IceWM or Fluxbox or even E17 are not. The entire Fedora distribution.......
Yes but that study quoted statistical results and argued for the significance of these. And I assume it was in a peer reviewed journal. That is a different thing to courts or legislatures pronouncing something is "science".
Right. New business models (for music and much web content) make money on artefacts associated with enjoying the content or associated fashion (in the case of music for eg). Andbanner ads. High quality versions of the content might still have some life left in them until buffering delays are a thing of the past and streamed content is cheap, easier and more convenient than Bittorrent. Or while new tech like 3D breathes new life into optical media sales.
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What makes you think the Patriot Act is about foiling terror plots? Just because they say it is?
Who said anything about the US wanting to end all terrorism. We are just happy with fighting a campaign to defeat privacy.
There fixed it for you.
The iVagina equivalent already exists: http://www.realtouch.com/?gclid=COS0vu7ctakCFRx3gwod-X25Lw
You forgot "discretion" -- high class prostitutes do not run around telling people about who they are having sex with. If you are a rich and powerful man, for whom a sex scandal could mean serious damage to your ability to do your work (whatever that may be), I can understand paying thousands of dollars an hour for sex with someone who is not going to go blabbing to people you know. This represents a minority of people, of course, but for those people this is a factor that comes into consideration.
You mean like Silvio Belusconi?
How hard? This is Slashdot, where understanding quantum cryptography is easier than picking up women at a bar.
Amen to that. These guys that say picking up women in bars is easy are either (1) hunks and jocks, (2) mega charming, (3) frequent e-parties and feel the love, or (3) are very very unfussy (think: obese drunken smelly hideous grandma skanks with exotic skin diseases and psychiatric conditions). Also, those in classes (1) and (2) who are indeed geeks are not the Aspergers-ridden asocial nerd variety that most of us are. They are most likely managers who never do any actual work. Hunks never understand why it is hard for the rest of us to pick up women because for them it never has been hard.
But it IS an excuse for anything government wants it to be. It's still the raisson du jour and will not go away for a while yet. It's just that there's a slow and still not very effective backlash against its excesses. I only wish this backlash was far stronger. Let's hope.
But the EU is not democracy, either. Case in point: forcing through the failed EU Constitution, in the form of the Lisbon Treaty, through the alimentary canals of countries that had already soundly rejected it.
In such a society one tries very hard not to cause a disturbance, lest the regime have an excuse to throw one into the gulag, from which there is no escape.
Zero tolerance for repeat offenders coupled with lack of re-integration programs meant that once a zek, always a zek, maybe with a couple months "vacation" on the outside once in a while. This, for anything from chanting political slogans (not that anyone was stupid enough to do that, just saying that if they did) to murder, to shoplifting.
You lived in the UK, right?
We should not be living in a one-size-fits-all society where everyone is forced to adopt the same restrictions
Ha ha ha ha! You funny! What planet do you live on again?
Free, liberated adults should be able to view any site (or book or pamphlet) they desire - without restriction. No government official may overrule that basic natural right of expression.
Ha ha ha ha!!!! You funny! What planet do you live on again?
"Canonical will ordinarily make the Assigned Contributions available to the public under a 'Free Software Licence,' according to the definition of that term published by the Free Software Foundation from time to time. Canonical may also, in its discretion, make the Assigned Contributions available to the public under other license terms." Need to see the full agreement. So a contributor must basically assign copyright for the contribution to Canonical? I would assume so since, in the case of GPL'd code, only the copyright holders can license the same code out under another license - at least I believe so. That is what is happening with X264 - there is the open source X264 code under the GPL and there is also non-GPL'd X264 library code licensed out by the same authors which is not copyleft so programs that link to the latter do not have to be GPL'd also. But in the case of BSD-style permissive licenses, Canonical can do what they want and distribute the contribution under a different license regardless provided the copyright notice is distributed with the binaries.
Many (all?) home wifi routers log the physical hardware address of the connecting wifi device. While that hw code can be faked, most freeloaders on an open home wifi network or hacked WEP key wifi aren't going to bother obscuring that code in their wifi chipset. A smart lawyer/prosecutor would subpoena your router to see if your claim that "someone else hacked my network and downloaded that naughty file" is supported by the log in your router. Even if you've deleted that log (my router let's me clear it I think) maybe it can be recovered? Of course, if the log has been cleared then not recovering an attacker's hw address does not mean there was no attacker, so maybe this isn't so bad?
... today's "programmers" (really just scripters) seem to overly reliant on some other mechanism cleaning up their shit. Can even a good or great programmer still have issues with null pointers, memory leaks, etc? Sure, but since they actually bothered to LEARN such things as manual memory management and pointers (which really are not THAT hard of subjects despite protestations to the contrary) they have fewer and fewer issues with such.
Reasons that everyone should learn C even though the latter always takes thought. I guess unless you'te programming in C all the time you just can't be asleep at the wheel, ever. I taught myself C and Perl and still dabble. I have this sneaking suspicion that these mobile platform thingies just can't be all that hard.
Unfortunately USD 45 is quite steep, will have to add international shipping costs to it even, for a book that I can't check out first.
Possibly a sad reflection on programmer salaries? US$45 is not a lot of money and it would be tax deductible in most countries I suppose. Or perhaps you are a student.
"rape a bus-load of nuns, murder a whole orphanage, and buy alcohol on a sunday"
Yes it was a great weekend, wasn't it? Let's do it again soon!
For somebody whose entire agenda rests on influencing people, that must be scary
That's exactly why governments are trying so hard to bring in internet control and censorship mechanisms with the standard excuses (children and pron; terrorism etc). I don't know anything about this Glen Beck, other than I gather he fits into the standard nutter shock jock mold, and I don't know about his motives or whether or not he is funded by the Saudis or China or whoever.
Nonetheless I don't find any reason to trust Google any more than he does. And it would come as no surprise to me to find out that the CIA was working through Google and social networking services to achieve or at least support policy goals abroad. Would anyone really be surprised?
OCD is a curse. Typing redtube.com in firefox or chrome and probably all other mainstream browser url slots goes to the web page since these assume http:/// by default. Or are you using wget for all your browsing needs LoL :=)
For that matter, half of these so-called "apps" for mobile platforms or Chrome are just crap anyway.
Firefox is bloatware. That was part of the motivation for Chrome and all of the motivation for Mozilla to start trying to speed FF up in recent releases.
I used Damnsmalllinux and to a lesser extent Puppylinux almost exclusively for years. Graduated to Tinycore which I still use when not on Mac. I suffered with Fedora to provide programs which didn't run easily on those and then Ubuntu to escape Fedora hell. Small fast systems are lovely and a lot of fun if you'tre prepared to do the command line work they sometimes require. My five year old 1.87GHz laptop running Tinycore still feels "faster" (ie much faster UI response) than my quad core Mac even if it isn't on something intensive like encoding video.
Crapware Vs Bloatware - exactly what I was going to post. There is a big difference. Crapware may be only semi capable and can be designed to get you to buy "fully functional" software, services or products. In any case it's all about marketing and being in your face without actually providing a fully useful piece of software.
Bloatware on the other hand refers to oversized, sluggish software that contains more features than you're ever going to use or want and that appears to have been designed and coded without any consideration given whatsoever to doing its primary functio efficiently or to loading and running fast. There's plenty of Bloatware around for Linux. Some would say for example that Gnome and KDE are bloatware and that IceWM or Fluxbox or even E17 are not. The entire Fedora distribution .......
Yes but that study quoted statistical results and argued for the significance of these. And I assume it was in a peer reviewed journal. That is a different thing to courts or legislatures pronouncing something is "science".
Doh, RTFA.
That's it in a nutshell. Well put.
Redtube has many scenes from high production value pron and name stars. Or so, er, someone told me ;=)
Right. New business models (for music and much web content) make money on artefacts associated with enjoying the content or associated fashion (in the case of music for eg). Andbanner ads. High quality versions of the content might still have some life left in them until buffering delays are a thing of the past and streamed content is cheap, easier and more convenient than Bittorrent. Or while new tech like 3D breathes new life into optical media sales.