If you distribute a GPL program, you are required to specify that you are using GPL software, and you must let your users know their rights to view, modify and distribute the source code. Additionally, you are required to give them the source, or offer to do so.
Your example of a "more sophisticated criminal" is a man who uploaded photos of himself abusing children. He didn't even black out his face. He "swirled" it in such a way that it could be easily unswirled.
I did it at Morro Rock. It was the middle of the night, and my girlfriend kept getting scared every time a car turned around in the parking lot, because their headlights would shine on us for a split second. Good times.
Or, we gamers could never pay for something that depends on the goodwill of the manufacturer to function. Buy Software? Sure. Rent services such as MMOs? Sure. But I don't understand why anyone would buy software that requires a service to function. This seems like a case of had it coming.
I started buying EA titles used a while back because I didn't want to directly support EA anymore.
That doesn't work as well as you might think. By buying used, you increase the demand for the market for used EA games. People are willing to pay more for an object if they can get some of their money back when they are done with it.
The best way to hurt EA is to either boycott their games, or commit to only pirating their games.
Mostly personal observation. I am not using truecrypt, and I only have one core. On my machine, my encrypted drive is about 20% slower than my regular drive. I have done timed trials. I read 50% some time ago, but had never seen that big of a hit, so I that's why I said "up to" 50%.
Whole disk encryption is excellent for security, but it will bog you down in disk access times. Depends on a lot of things, but reading and writing files can slow down up to 50%, but usually the slow-down is much less. If you are doing something that involves a lot of disk access and it doesn't need to be encrypted, then create a special, non encrypted partition for that.
From the Adblock website: "This branch is tested irregularly with Firefox 1.0.7, 1.5, Mozilla 1.3.1, 1.7, and Seamonkey 1.0." - http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html
On the other hand, addons.mozilla.org agrees with you, that the latest version works with 3.0.*. I did not know that. However, adblock has lagged behind the latest Firefox several times. It was not a "hiccup" with Firefox 2, but rather, the Adblock extension, for several months, failed to work with the latest version of Firefox. The same thing happened with 3.0. Adblock is an outdated and obsolete extension, does not support all of the features that Adblock+ does, has been reported to slow down later versions of Firefox, and is barely maintained. They don't even update their website anymore.
Note that this is a good thing. There is rarely good reason for two projects to do the exact same thing, and the dev's time can be better spent doing just about anything else, such as working with Adblock+.
It is important that websites adopt tag based prefetching instead of trying to roll-in silent downloading using various JS/DOM hacks. The tag gives the browser the ability to know what sites are up to, and we can use this information to better prioritize document prefetching. The user preference to disable tag prefetching may simply encourage websites to stick with JS/DOM hacks, and that would not be good for users. This is one reason why prefetching is enabled by default.
Maybe you still disagree, but I think that is a well thought-out argument for having it enabled by default.
Use adblockplus rather than adblock. Adblock is obsolete, and does not work with current Firefox versions.
Here are some bandwidth saving keys to add to your user.js file: ----// Don't submit every character I type in the search box to google user_pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.search.update", false);// Update extensions and Adblock filters every 15 days. user_pref("extensions.update.interval", 1296000); user_pref("extensions.adblockplus.synchronizationinterval", 360);// Note that the first is measured in seconds, and the second is measured in hours.// Block pages from autorefreshing user_pref("accessibility.blockautorefresh", true);
---
Leave youtube videos loaded in the tab until you are sure you won't want to watch it again. I typically turn the sound off and allow a youtube video to load while I am surfing in another tab. When the video is done loading, I turn the sound back on and watch it from the beginning.
Don't forget "use" and "possession" crimes. They should be in the top 10.
AC said: "planning crimes *is* a crime"
If that were true, crime dramas would be dead in the water. So would real life law enforcement. And security companies. And pretty much every job that requires someone to predict or understand the behavior of criminals. Even if someone were to intend to commit a crime, they should not be punished unless they actually attempt to carry it out. Everyone should be given a chance, unless you thought Minority Report represented a good idea.
The market for hosting is huge. Prices are very low. However, most of them are lame and full of bullshit. The problem mentioned here is with ixwebhosting.com.
It will prevent a lot of accidents. People just won't want to use it. Good intentions, good tech, bad to force it on people.
I say the opposite. It isn't being forced on people, it is optional, but still a bad idea, and won't prevent any accidents. Anybody with an ounce of common sense already doesn't answer their cell phone while driving, and nobody would enable a feature like this. Most likely, the only effect this will have is frustrating people where this feature is enabled by default, causing their cell phone to mysteriously miss important calls, and then a week later they discover this feature and disable it.
The above user does not want to install the packages unless they have a change he would interested in. Changelogs are only available in/usr/share/doc AFTER the package is installed. Although, I suppose he could manually download the.deb, unarchive it using ar, tar, and gz, and then see if it would have a changelog in/usr/share/doc that way.
I have noticed something similar as the above poster; it might have the same cause. I will sometimes browse packages.debian.org/sid/package-name, and then click on changelog, and get a 404. I don't know why it happens.
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If you distribute a GPL program, you are required to specify that you are using GPL software, and you must let your users know their rights to view, modify and distribute the source code. Additionally, you are required to give them the source, or offer to do so.
The GPL is more or less straightforward and easy to understand. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
Your example of a "more sophisticated criminal" is a man who uploaded photos of himself abusing children. He didn't even black out his face. He "swirled" it in such a way that it could be easily unswirled.
You called it. I was only going to watch the image feed for a few seconds, but that's gone.
I did it at Morro Rock. It was the middle of the night, and my girlfriend kept getting scared every time a car turned around in the parking lot, because their headlights would shine on us for a split second. Good times.
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Or, we gamers could never pay for something that depends on the goodwill of the manufacturer to function. Buy Software? Sure. Rent services such as MMOs? Sure. But I don't understand why anyone would buy software that requires a service to function. This seems like a case of had it coming.
$ ping doom9.org
PING doom9.org (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.073 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.061 ms
--- doom9.org ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.061/0.067/0.073/0.006 ms
Weird.
I started buying EA titles used a while back because I didn't want to directly support EA anymore.
That doesn't work as well as you might think. By buying used, you increase the demand for the market for used EA games. People are willing to pay more for an object if they can get some of their money back when they are done with it.
The best way to hurt EA is to either boycott their games, or commit to only pirating their games.
Even when Netscape had 90% dominance, most people still chose Internet Exploder...
Huh? Care to rephrase that to something mathematically possible?
Mostly personal observation. I am not using truecrypt, and I only have one core. On my machine, my encrypted drive is about 20% slower than my regular drive. I have done timed trials. I read 50% some time ago, but had never seen that big of a hit, so I that's why I said "up to" 50%.
Whole disk encryption is excellent for security, but it will bog you down in disk access times. Depends on a lot of things, but reading and writing files can slow down up to 50%, but usually the slow-down is much less. If you are doing something that involves a lot of disk access and it doesn't need to be encrypted, then create a special, non encrypted partition for that.
If it's never been used, how could it already have caused famines?
Because the seeds came back in time and started killing their previous masters. Farmers. No farmers, no food, no food, famine.
From the Adblock website: "This branch is tested irregularly with Firefox 1.0.7, 1.5, Mozilla 1.3.1, 1.7, and Seamonkey 1.0." - http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html
On the other hand, addons.mozilla.org agrees with you, that the latest version works with 3.0.*. I did not know that. However, adblock has lagged behind the latest Firefox several times. It was not a "hiccup" with Firefox 2, but rather, the Adblock extension, for several months, failed to work with the latest version of Firefox. The same thing happened with 3.0. Adblock is an outdated and obsolete extension, does not support all of the features that Adblock+ does, has been reported to slow down later versions of Firefox, and is barely maintained. They don't even update their website anymore.
Note that this is a good thing. There is rarely good reason for two projects to do the exact same thing, and the dev's time can be better spent doing just about anything else, such as working with Adblock+.
No. They're writing DRM. You don't have to try to make DRM breakable. They all come that way.
From https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Link_prefetching_FAQ:
It is important that websites adopt tag based prefetching instead of trying to roll-in silent downloading using various JS/DOM hacks. The tag gives the browser the ability to know what sites are up to, and we can use this information to better prioritize document prefetching. The user preference to disable tag prefetching may simply encourage websites to stick with JS/DOM hacks, and that would not be good for users. This is one reason why prefetching is enabled by default.
Maybe you still disagree, but I think that is a well thought-out argument for having it enabled by default.
Use adblockplus rather than adblock. Adblock is obsolete, and does not work with current Firefox versions.
Here are some bandwidth saving keys to add to your user.js file: // Don't submit every character I type in the search box to google // Update extensions and Adblock filters every 15 days. // Note that the first is measured in seconds, and the second is measured in hours. // Block pages from autorefreshing
----
user_pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.search.update", false);
user_pref("extensions.update.interval", 1296000);
user_pref("extensions.adblockplus.synchronizationinterval", 360);
user_pref("accessibility.blockautorefresh", true);
---
Leave youtube videos loaded in the tab until you are sure you won't want to watch it again. I typically turn the sound off and allow a youtube video to load while I am surfing in another tab. When the video is done loading, I turn the sound back on and watch it from the beginning.
Don't forget "use" and "possession" crimes. They should be in the top 10.
AC said: "planning crimes *is* a crime"
If that were true, crime dramas would be dead in the water. So would real life law enforcement. And security companies. And pretty much every job that requires someone to predict or understand the behavior of criminals. Even if someone were to intend to commit a crime, they should not be punished unless they actually attempt to carry it out. Everyone should be given a chance, unless you thought Minority Report represented a good idea.
Firefox and the Debian dunc-tank experiment have demonstrated that money does not necessarily make open source projects better.
The market for hosting is huge. Prices are very low. However, most of them are lame and full of bullshit. The problem mentioned here is with ixwebhosting.com.
I agree. That number seems implausibly high.
It will prevent a lot of accidents. People just won't want to use it. Good intentions, good tech, bad to force it on people.
I say the opposite. It isn't being forced on people, it is optional, but still a bad idea, and won't prevent any accidents. Anybody with an ounce of common sense already doesn't answer their cell phone while driving, and nobody would enable a feature like this. Most likely, the only effect this will have is frustrating people where this feature is enabled by default, causing their cell phone to mysteriously miss important calls, and then a week later they discover this feature and disable it.
FSM forbid that driving might require self-control.
Do I just google for "email marketing"? Do I contact an advertisement agency?
Try it. You can find some places pretty easy after googling "email marketing".
Is there ANY sort of legitimacy involved in spam trafficking?
Short answer: no. Long answer: yes, but only if you define "any" broadly and "legitimate" loosely.
And the other is a big, dumb clown. But which is which?
The above user does not want to install the packages unless they have a change he would interested in. Changelogs are only available in /usr/share/doc AFTER the package is installed. Although, I suppose he could manually download the .deb, unarchive it using ar, tar, and gz, and then see if it would have a changelog in /usr/share/doc that way.
I have noticed something similar as the above poster; it might have the same cause. I will sometimes browse packages.debian.org/sid/package-name, and then click on changelog, and get a 404. I don't know why it happens.