I followed your broken image links with firefox-0.9.3 on Fedora Core 2 with libpng-1.2.5-5. The browser doesn't crash, just gives an error message. I was expecting a crash. Odd.
Upgraded from 0.9.1 to 0.9.3. Didn't have to fiddle with turning off extentions or re-downloading them and reconfiguring them this time. Continues to use the same.mozilla directory. The only nit to pick was that search plugins aren't stored in userspace, but copying them over is trivial.
Found this essay on RFID implants and the tracking of people. Excerpt borrowed without permission from Bill Hammack:
But it isn't Orwell's Big Brother Police Force and their in-your-face technology that menaces us. Since World War Two we've moved step-by-step toward a system where a police state need no longer be brutal, or openly inquisitorial, or even omnipresent in public consciousness. Police have instead moved in the direction of anticipating and forestalling crime. So, the trend is toward tracking every citizen throughout his or her life - geographically, commercially, and biologically.
This began soon after World War Two with records of fingerprints, extensive paper dossiers on citizens, and then computer punch cards to sort through files. It evolved into the electronic databases and biological profiling we have today. These new chips are just a way to quietly add a page to an electronic dossier.
Still, the potential for abuse is enormous. In the future, perhaps, when someone approaches a sales desk their credit info would be displayed automatically for the sales staff. Or, the state could track the public movements of everyone. As a result people would be less likely to do public activities, to engage, for example, in protests that offend powerful interests.
Good criminals and terrorists, as do spammers, will try to stay one step ahead of the countermeasures.
Just thinking... didn't the patent on GIF expire already (at least in the US) due to the expiration of the patent on the LZW (sp?) compression algorithm?
And perhaps another lesser known display is NCSA's 20-tile wall display that measures 12' x 9'. This is driven by Linux boxes and dates back at least 3 years.
I have seen congested areas whose intersections have countdown displays next to the walk/don't walk pedestrian lights. I can only surmise they are for drivers because people cross the street against the light all the time anyway.
It's certainly do-able (not that I can say precisely how). When you buy processor time, say at a super-computing center, you are charged by CPU hour = wall clock time * number of processors.
In a licensing model where the software vendor charges per core, there could be revenue "lost" if the program runs more efficiently when run in parallel as opposed to not.
These security announcements are coming out more and more frequently. I wonder whether companies like Dell will start to offer other choices in operating systems to the masses for fear that their business might suffer? Here I'm thinking the Dells have a bargaining chip with MS, but it's entirely possible MS could just subsidize any losses.
o Routine vaccination of the American public against smallpox ended in 1972. o infants must be 1 year old. o infants between 1-3 years can be given the vaccine in emergency.
So the bottom line is, if you're born after 1969 +/- a little, you probably weren't given the shot.
Thanks for clarifying; that's what I was thinking at first. But then I realized that they are not exactly prepaid credit cards. They aren't because they are not tied to a specific account.
Compare to prepaid cell phone cards. The 20 or 30 bucks you have to buy every few months to keep the card "active", even if you don't use your minutes, is basically a service charge or fee (read: penalty). Those too would probalby fall under Washington's laws if it were't bound to an account.
for local and region forecasts and severe weather predictions. It's all the same information that your local weather forecasters use anyway, and you get it up-to-the-minute. If you want to know why that 'W' sits in the corner of the screen during your favorite TV broadcast, just look it up when you want. The NWS has continually been upgrading their regional web pages, now often including storm reports, summaries, and photos.
I personally don't have a need for commercialized weather as it exists today, as it is not current, not local enough, and has too much advertising.
BTW, I'd encourage anyone interested to drop the NWS some feedback at their sites. They have, IMO been trying really hard to revamp their web pages. (Disclosure: I'm just a weather fan/nut, not employee.)
Now my question, didn't the gov't come out with a law a while ago forcing AOL to share their IM standards so third party software could integrate with it? And if so, wouldn't this apply to all IM software, including Yahoo?
Yes, and yes. AOL had restrictions placed on IM i January 2001, but they were lifted in Aug. 2003 because that decision had largely rendered them unable to compete in the video conferencing scene that MSN and Yahoo had built up.
A good article summarizing this seems to be this one.
NOW, note that Yahoo! is cozy with the DSL and telephone service provider SBC. Given the news that SBC is laying fiber for residential DSL, your question is completely relevant.
Seems so. This part of the text sounds as if they can exempt a lot of actions on the part of an agent designated as working undercover. (See other parts of the text for how said agents would be allowed to doctor their income tax returns to hide their status as well):
``(g) Exemption From Certain Requirements.--The Director may exempt a designated employee from mandatory compliance with any Federal regulation, rule, standardized administrative policy, process, or procedure that the Director determines--
``(1) would be inconsistent with the nonofficial cover of
that employee; and
``(2) could expose that employee to detection as a Federal
employee.
I feel your pain. College rental communities certainly have their share of scumlords.
However consider the possibility that you will peg yourself as a potential troublemaker and cause your landlord to "find a way" to rent to someone else.
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Kind of clever of IBM - by not attacking Linux they can probably make a case to promote their hardware running linux.
Also, they said they won't attack the kernel, which could mean IBM hardware + linux kernel + IBM/3rd-party software is what they have in mind.
You are now banned from /.
Or, in the spirit of the topic, this translates as
YOU WILL BE EXCOMMUNICATED!!!
I followed your broken image links with firefox-0.9.3 on Fedora Core 2 with libpng-1.2.5-5. The browser doesn't crash, just gives an error message. I was expecting a crash. Odd.
That was what an update should be!
.mozilla directory. The only nit to pick was that search plugins aren't stored in userspace, but copying them over is trivial.
Upgraded from 0.9.1 to 0.9.3. Didn't have to fiddle with turning off extentions or re-downloading them and reconfiguring them this time. Continues to use the same
Good criminals and terrorists, as do spammers, will try to stay one step ahead of the countermeasures.
Just thinking ... didn't the patent on GIF expire already (at least in the US) due to the expiration of the patent on the LZW (sp?) compression algorithm?
And perhaps another lesser known display is NCSA's 20-tile wall display that measures 12' x 9'. This is driven by Linux boxes and dates back at least 3 years.
am i really seeing slashdot...?
;)
Does the page render blank, or do you not have to tweak you font size back and forth?
"We think--patent for patent--what we are doing is, if anything, more important than what others are doing."
Sounds to me somebody needs a hug?
I have seen congested areas whose intersections have countdown displays next to the walk/don't walk pedestrian lights. I can only surmise they are for drivers because people cross the street against the light all the time anyway.
It's certainly do-able (not that I can say precisely how). When you buy processor time, say at a super-computing center, you are charged by CPU hour = wall clock time * number of processors.
In a licensing model where the software vendor charges per core, there could be revenue "lost" if the program runs more efficiently when run in parallel as opposed to not.
Last time i checked, suicide terra-ists don't plan to accumulate mileage.
These security announcements are coming out more and more frequently. I wonder whether companies like Dell will start to offer other choices in operating systems to the masses for fear that their business might suffer? Here I'm thinking the Dells have a bargaining chip with MS, but it's entirely possible MS could just subsidize any losses.
http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/contriball .asp
......... 75,465 ........ 52,122 ..... 3,250
Microsoft appearing among the top 20 donors for a given candidate:
GEORGE W. BUSH (R).... $171,650
JOHN KERRY (D)
HOWARD DEAN (D)
DENNIS KUCINICH (D)
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Right. Here's my summary based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevetion site:
o Routine vaccination of the American public against smallpox ended in 1972.
o infants must be 1 year old.
o infants between 1-3 years can be given the vaccine in emergency.
So the bottom line is, if you're born after 1969 +/- a little, you probably weren't given the shot.
Probably 75% of computer users out there aren't even aware what a web browser is,
...depending on one's belief in damned statistics. But I tend to agree that Ma and Pa don't pay attention to http vs. https.
US Broadband Penetration Jumps to 45.2% - US Internet Penetration Nearly 75% - March 2004 Bandwidth Report
A gift CARD, however, is a pre-paid credit card.
Thanks for clarifying; that's what I was thinking at first. But then I realized that they are not exactly prepaid credit cards. They aren't because they are not tied to a specific account.
Compare to prepaid cell phone cards. The 20 or 30 bucks you have to buy every few months to keep the card "active", even if you don't use your minutes, is basically a service charge or fee (read: penalty). Those too would probalby fall under Washington's laws if it were't bound to an account.
I make personal heavy use of 3 NWS sources
http://weather.gov/
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/
and
> weather
for local and region forecasts and severe weather predictions. It's all the same information that your local weather forecasters use anyway, and you get it up-to-the-minute. If you want to know why that 'W' sits in the corner of the screen during your favorite TV broadcast, just look it up when you want. The NWS has continually been upgrading their regional web pages, now often including storm reports, summaries, and photos.
I personally don't have a need for commercialized weather as it exists today, as it is not current, not local enough, and has too much advertising.
BTW, I'd encourage anyone interested to drop the NWS some feedback at their sites. They have, IMO been trying really hard to revamp their web pages. (Disclosure: I'm just a weather fan/nut, not employee.)
Now my question, didn't the gov't come out with a law a while ago forcing AOL to share their IM standards so third party software could integrate with it? And if so, wouldn't this apply to all IM software, including Yahoo?
Yes, and yes. AOL had restrictions placed on IM i January 2001, but they were lifted in Aug. 2003 because that decision had largely rendered them unable to compete in the video conferencing scene that MSN and Yahoo had built up.
A good article summarizing this seems to be this one.
NOW, note that Yahoo! is cozy with the DSL and telephone service provider SBC. Given the news that SBC is laying fiber for residential DSL, your question is completely relevant.
Just to expound on that 18,000 mph figure ... NASA's calculator says the minimal stable orbit is around 185 km, or about 110 miles.
Congrats to SpaceShipOne et al. that they made it half way!
Seems so. This part of the text sounds as if they can exempt a lot of actions on the part of an agent designated as working undercover. (See other parts of the text for how said agents would be allowed to doctor their income tax returns to hide their status as well):
Ah, they claim it is a closed loop. Good.
and "recyclable" doesn't mean that someone's actually recycling it either.
Which raises the question (maybe it's a RTFA thing), but are these type 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or other?
I feel your pain. College rental communities certainly have their share of scumlords.
However consider the possibility that you will peg yourself as a potential troublemaker and cause your landlord to "find a way" to rent to someone else.
Do they make Faraday condoms for 'toothers?