This thing doesn't look at your surfing habits, and it's not available to those who download more than 30GB/month, which probably excludes many Slashdotters.
Please tell me you don't think Tor is secure in the manner you suggest?! It's not meant to be. Tor is for anonymity, not security for your information.
To put it more concretely, you want to use Tor if you don't want someone to know _you're_ doing something, which is not necessarily bad I should add. For instance, if you want to blog about what you saw last night in the alley. Tor isn't for sending information you don't want _anyone_ to read.
Anonymity protects you, not your data. So, you should use Tor for complaining about the government, and not to broadcast the location of your buried treasure!
How about just not visiting Slashdot for a day? The fact that you're so annoyed means that you'd probably benefit from less internet for a day. The internet doesn't matter that much. Who cares? It's just silliness.
This isn't as cheap as I'd like: http://www.pocketbookreader.com/PocketBook_360.html, but at $240 it does run Linux and supports DJVU along with many other formats. You can even download a terminal emulator for it. I've been looking around for e-readers and I'm thinking of getting this one. I would like to test it first but unfortunately it's not sold in stores around here.
A few years ago I was at a museum listening to the Goldberg Variations on these headphones attached to the wall. The displayed CD cover had Glenn Gould on it. Immediately when I started listening I knew it wasn't Gould; I turned the CD around and it turns out it was just a virtual recording, produced by technicians studying the record and trying to implement Gould's style. It wasn't anything like Gould. I mean, sure on the surface it was similar but it lacked that little bit that makes Gould so special, and that separated him from the rest. There will always be a place for real music.
I think there is much less hate against Apple, but the difference (and this seems to be said on Slashdot much these days) is that MS has a monopoly and Apple doesn't. The world is also much different now than it was ten years ago. Now there is a thriving and working alternative free OS (in fact more than one) that can be used fairly easily compared to then. We enjoy comparative virtual freedom compared to the days when MS was far more dominant. Of course, we still dislike MS because we remember, but personally I've found that I hardly care about MS any more because it's not as though they can squash Linux like they did for say, Netscape back in the day.
You don't have to extend VIM yourself. What's wrong with using plugins? There are many interfaces for debuggers and other things on the VIM website. Extending with plugins might just be easier.
Before the very recent N900 and some other fringe phones, mobile phones were like Windows, only worse: locked and you really can't do anything with them, and half the features cost an arm and a leg when they should be free. Hence, most people don't want them. Imagine if all phones were unlocked, texts, caller ID, and other features which don't cost the phone company any money were free. I think phones would have more positive rep then.
But you mention a good point: the suspect was apprehended with the help of a passenger. How about instead of wasting billions of dollars on ridiculous security measures, we pay passengers to take martial arts lessons?
Or, instead of banning weapons, what about mandating that everyone flying MUST carry a knife with them?
And has had it for years. It's useful for things like grouping together PDF documents, or say, a separate terminal window to Gvim for coding and compiling, or the like.
Forget the computer for mathematics classes. You will never get as fast with any sort of computer technology as you will with paper. If you want to jot down a quick calculation, or more importantly, draw a diagram, paper and pencil are painless and easy, and as a result you'll spend more time focusing on what's really important: what the professor is saying and doing on the board.
I'm a math major just graduated and taking graduate courses in mathematics currently so I've had much experience here. I've tried to take notes with a computer. I am very quick with LaTeX. You can even define your own macros specific to what the professor is likely to write and even then I think a computer for taking notes in a math course is useless.
Because real world virus and bacteria labs are far more mundane that Resident Evil. What you're describing is overkill. Simple isolation mechansisms for above-ground facilities are more than enough.
I don't know about OS X or foxit, but for Linux this is bullshit. Every Linux PDF reader I've tried does a fine job for almost everything, but NOT everything. Here are two examples:
*Large PDF files with lots of vector graphics. Adobe Reader on Linux kicks the crap out of evince/gpdf. *Subpixel rendering. NO, evince (anything xpdf or poppler based) does NOT support subpixel rendering. Antialiasing yes, subpixel rendering NO. Same for kpdf. Don't tell me it does because it does NOT.
And what about filling forms? Adobe may be a non-free bloated program, but for large PDFs, loading time on Adobe is far superior to the Linux counterparts. Sometimes Evince takes forever with the "Loading..." message, whereas Adobe is quick all the time.
The problem is, that's not the only thing they can (and will) use it for. What happens if the US then uses the botnet to attack Iran first? Would you really want to be party to that?
Unfortunately there's no magic button that you can press that will get all the developers of the world thinking seriously about your project. There are services (on SourceForge) for instance that will allow you to put up a "Want Ad" for programmers, and there are other services that make it easy for people to contribute (distributed version control for instance).
So get around, use those services. But what will help most is finding people that you think might be interested and asking. Go to a forum, and post a request there. Ask yourself, what benefit will these people gain in helping your project? Will they be able to use the benefits directly? Ask friends if you have any. Go to a local Linux user's group (they've not died out everywhere), and make a presentation to them. Set up a part of your website that outlines why contributers should contribute. If you have extra money offer bounties on functionality. Go to every website for developers and post a volunteer wanted thing (if they permit that, don't spam).
You have to work to make your project visible to the possibly interested. It takes lots of effort.
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This thing doesn't look at your surfing habits, and it's not available to those who download more than 30GB/month, which probably excludes many Slashdotters.
Please tell me you don't think Tor is secure in the manner you suggest?! It's not meant to be. Tor is for anonymity, not security for your information.
To put it more concretely, you want to use Tor if you don't want someone to know _you're_ doing something, which is not necessarily bad I should add. For instance, if you want to blog about what you saw last night in the alley. Tor isn't for sending information you don't want _anyone_ to read.
Anonymity protects you, not your data. So, you should use Tor for complaining about the government, and not to broadcast the location of your buried treasure!
Well, 640 light years ought to be far enough for anyone!
28 is a perfect number. It is the sum of all of its proper divisors. 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28.
How about just not visiting Slashdot for a day? The fact that you're so annoyed means that you'd probably benefit from less internet for a day. The internet doesn't matter that much. Who cares? It's just silliness.
This isn't as cheap as I'd like: http://www.pocketbookreader.com/PocketBook_360.html, but at $240 it does run Linux and supports DJVU along with many other formats. You can even download a terminal emulator for it. I've been looking around for e-readers and I'm thinking of getting this one. I would like to test it first but unfortunately it's not sold in stores around here.
A few years ago I was at a museum listening to the Goldberg Variations on these headphones attached to the wall. The displayed CD cover had Glenn Gould on it. Immediately when I started listening I knew it wasn't Gould; I turned the CD around and it turns out it was just a virtual recording, produced by technicians studying the record and trying to implement Gould's style. It wasn't anything like Gould. I mean, sure on the surface it was similar but it lacked that little bit that makes Gould so special, and that separated him from the rest. There will always be a place for real music.
Except that you can watch YouTube on the iPhone.
RTFA, there are references. If you click on "Original Submission", there are links to the news articles.
I think there is much less hate against Apple, but the difference (and this seems to be said on Slashdot much these days) is that MS has a monopoly and Apple doesn't. The world is also much different now than it was ten years ago. Now there is a thriving and working alternative free OS (in fact more than one) that can be used fairly easily compared to then. We enjoy comparative virtual freedom compared to the days when MS was far more dominant. Of course, we still dislike MS because we remember, but personally I've found that I hardly care about MS any more because it's not as though they can squash Linux like they did for say, Netscape back in the day.
You don't have to extend VIM yourself. What's wrong with using plugins? There are many interfaces for debuggers and other things on the VIM website. Extending with plugins might just be easier.
The _buying_ of the phone is not invite only. That's just the special event to unveil it. It's in the article.
Before the very recent N900 and some other fringe phones, mobile phones were like Windows, only worse: locked and you really can't do anything with them, and half the features cost an arm and a leg when they should be free. Hence, most people don't want them. Imagine if all phones were unlocked, texts, caller ID, and other features which don't cost the phone company any money were free. I think phones would have more positive rep then.
But you mention a good point: the suspect was apprehended with the help of a passenger. How about instead of wasting billions of dollars on ridiculous security measures, we pay passengers to take martial arts lessons?
Or, instead of banning weapons, what about mandating that everyone flying MUST carry a knife with them?
Use it, submit bug reports, and participate on forums. When you can, push for more open-source to be used in your organisation.
And has had it for years. It's useful for things like grouping together PDF documents, or say, a separate terminal window to Gvim for coding and compiling, or the like.
You mean "inversely".
Pencil and paper.
Forget the computer for mathematics classes. You will never get as fast with any sort of computer technology as you will with paper. If you want to jot down a quick calculation, or more importantly, draw a diagram, paper and pencil are painless and easy, and as a result you'll spend more time focusing on what's really important: what the professor is saying and doing on the board.
I'm a math major just graduated and taking graduate courses in mathematics currently so I've had much experience here. I've tried to take notes with a computer. I am very quick with LaTeX. You can even define your own macros specific to what the professor is likely to write and even then I think a computer for taking notes in a math course is useless.
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Because real world virus and bacteria labs are far more mundane that Resident Evil. What you're describing is overkill. Simple isolation mechansisms for above-ground facilities are more than enough.
This is a feature. Cracking is yet another thing about the iPhone that Just Works. I believe Steve Jobs would be proud.
I don't know about OS X or foxit, but for Linux this is bullshit. Every Linux PDF reader I've tried does a fine job for almost everything, but NOT everything. Here are two examples:
*Large PDF files with lots of vector graphics. Adobe Reader on Linux kicks the crap out of evince/gpdf.
*Subpixel rendering. NO, evince (anything xpdf or poppler based) does NOT support subpixel rendering. Antialiasing yes, subpixel rendering NO. Same for kpdf. Don't tell me it does because it does NOT.
And what about filling forms? Adobe may be a non-free bloated program, but for large PDFs, loading time on Adobe is far superior to the Linux counterparts. Sometimes Evince takes forever with the "Loading..." message, whereas Adobe is quick all the time.
The problem is, that's not the only thing they can (and will) use it for. What happens if the US then uses the botnet to attack Iran first? Would you really want to be party to that?
Unfortunately there's no magic button that you can press that will get all the developers of the world thinking seriously about your project. There are services (on SourceForge) for instance that will allow you to put up a "Want Ad" for programmers, and there are other services that make it easy for people to contribute (distributed version control for instance).
So get around, use those services. But what will help most is finding people that you think might be interested and asking. Go to a forum, and post a request there. Ask yourself, what benefit will these people gain in helping your project? Will they be able to use the benefits directly? Ask friends if you have any. Go to a local Linux user's group (they've not died out everywhere), and make a presentation to them. Set up a part of your website that outlines why contributers should contribute. If you have extra money offer bounties on functionality. Go to every website for developers and post a volunteer wanted thing (if they permit that, don't spam).
You have to work to make your project visible to the possibly interested. It takes lots of effort.
Booting it up and finding it runs Windows 98: priceless.