It's not hard to write a script that greps all the text files in the user's home directory and parse out all the email addresses. It could then use it's own code to send off those emails, thus, no need to actually use or know about installed email programs.
You don't think most email gets indexed by at least one "homeland security" type, somewhere. There are so many points where email can be intercepted, not just at the provider.
If you don't want your email indexed, use GnuPG/PGP to encrypt it.
There's a reason geeks get up at arms over GPL violations, and it's not because of a double standard.
It's because the GPL (and simmilar) was created to sidestep the problems of copyright. If you think current copyright law is a farse, than you release your work as GPL, not public domain. If you release it public domain, people can use it in copyrighted works, thus (indirectly) copyrighting your work.
The GPL uses copyright law to make sure your work never becomes part of the farse of copyright.
Is there really any reason why these simple documents need to be in anything but plain text? In the odd case that figures and tables are required, they can be included as separate files.
Allot of this communication was probably done with email in the first place, so it started out as plain text. ASCII test is readable by anyone, anytime, and everyone gets the same information from it. No information is hidden.
Plain text also looks more professional than a document in large colourfull "puppy" font anyway.
Thats exactly why there is no such thing as a defensive patent. If all one cared about was to protect against someone else patenting your idea, simply publish the idea. It's much cheaper and you might actually make some money off the publication. No one is going to file a C&D letter to the publisher of prior art.
Calling them defensive is simply a PR statement for large companies wanting to sequester outside innovation.
The screen resolution problem is *almost* fixed. That option in the System menu of Ubuntu only allows you to change to resolutions listed in your Xorg.conf file. In allot of cases, the installer doesn't auto-calibrate the file to include all the resolutions, and you have to edit it.
The next version of Xorg *should* solve these problems, but as of now, it's often not as simple as a menu item.
Seems odd that with all that recycling, simple dehumidification would be such a problem. All you need is a cold surface and ventilation across it. Standard dehumidifyers use closed system evaporation to produce this effect, but I bet the hull of the ship on the dark side gets pretty cold. I'm sure it would be easier to take advantage of the existing heat loss, rather than using energy for a compressor.
In addition, most of these expert's don't require you to be an "expert in the field," but simply to have some training in either mathematics or sciences. It should be well assumed that if you want to look up a "regressional analysis," you will need to have some statistical background to understand anyones description.
If you want to learn about a complex topic, you will quite often have to gain a basic understanding of the general field first. That has nothing to do with wikipedia (except that paper encyclopedias generally exclude such topics).
So are they saying that if you can't explain a topic to the pot-belly joe, then you shouldn't have an article for it at all?
A. Galileo had the evidence on his side (not something the oil companies have). B. Galileo was prosecuted by the church primarily, not any sort of scientific community. The arguments used against him were biblical, and his sympathising coleagues were afraid to be prosecuted by the inquisition.
No, its fermilliar because you are used to reading online articles squezed between overstuffed sidebars and "flashy" advertisements.
More anoying than anything else.
Not only is wine easily installable in Ubuntu through synaptic, or apt-get install wine, but to my knowledge, wine is not in the default install of ubuntu or debian regardless of where you get it. Wine is a special purpose application that takes considerable installer space and should generally only be used by people who understand the limitations of it.
The last thing we want is a thousand new "reviews" online by people who bought dells and are complaining that thier photoshop crashes, and the installer for WOW locks up their computer.
Linux is a distinct operating system with its own software, new users shouldnt be made to expect to be able to install the exact same software as windows/mac.
Yes, but these types of systems brings the cost of using energy closer to its "real cost." For to long energy has been dirt cheap. If companies have to pay for the "cleanup" of their energy use (they already are starting with polution controls/scrubbers), then there will always be more and more incentive to increase energy efficency.
MBA's know one thing well. profit = revenue - overhead. You make energy more costly, their skin instantly turns grean.
1. You are just storing energy. When people burn that fuel, they re-release the carbon. So you basically invented a battery.
2. Its a bad battery. Something like alcohol or pure hydrogen would be more feasable to produce as a portable energy storage.
4. Using your "battery" produces polution which causes health hazards such as lung cancer.
3. Your just using a nuclear reactor to produce energy. If this was as easy as you imply, the world wouldn't have energy production problems, we would just litter the planet with ractors.
Yes, exactly. The only thing I miss with camino is that it doesn't have support for firefox extensions. If it had that, there would be no reason to use the mainline firefox for mac.
Exactly. The profit margin on massively deployed software like office/windows is so large, that changes either way to MS operating costs do not need to effect the retail price of the software.
I'm surprised you don't see security products with the warentee that comes with more expensive surge protectors. You know, the ones that "say" there is a $x thousand dollar connected equipment guarentee.
If I saw a memory stick that had a simmilar liability insurance if security is compromised, it would definatly put their money where their marketing is.
they aim too much towards the home user,
Thats exactly the market Dell is looking to target. Corporate customers have always been able to purchase whatever they want.
Yes Ubuntu is often overrated. But there realy are only a couple realy good, easy to use for novice, commercial Linux distro's (that don't have legal issues in the US.) I'm sure their decision makers are concentrating on SUSE and Ubuntu.
we have to step outside the current model to win on this front We know that people "just click ok" on everything that pops up on the screen. So why are *ALL* browsers designed with the mindset that insecure actions are fine if "the user clicks ok."
How often does a certificate problem cause a recurring popup in firefox that can only be solved by clicking "ok, connect to this site." (particularily when searching on Google)
Why can't browsers have secure defaults, and just provide a "notification" somewhere that it has not loaded the script on a page, or redirected you away from a fishing site. Most of the time thats what you want. The odd time you do want to look at that malicious site, you can (actively) click on that notification and tell the browser to go back and do the unsecure thing.
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It's not hard to write a script that greps all the text files in the user's home directory and parse out all the email addresses. It could then use it's own code to send off those emails, thus, no need to actually use or know about installed email programs.
You don't think most email gets indexed by at least one "homeland security" type, somewhere. There are so many points where email can be intercepted, not just at the provider.
If you don't want your email indexed, use GnuPG/PGP to encrypt it.
In other news, Slashdot.org was purchased by the owners of Digg today...
There's a reason geeks get up at arms over GPL violations, and it's not because of a double standard.
It's because the GPL (and simmilar) was created to sidestep the problems of copyright. If you think current copyright law is a farse, than you release your work as GPL, not public domain. If you release it public domain, people can use it in copyrighted works, thus (indirectly) copyrighting your work.
The GPL uses copyright law to make sure your work never becomes part of the farse of copyright.
Is there really any reason why these simple documents need to be in anything but plain text? In the odd case that figures and tables are required, they can be included as separate files.
Allot of this communication was probably done with email in the first place, so it started out as plain text. ASCII test is readable by anyone, anytime, and everyone gets the same information from it. No information is hidden.
Plain text also looks more professional than a document in large colourfull "puppy" font anyway.
Can you provide evidence that the false positive rate of humans is better than that of good spam filters?
You may be hard pressed to find that data.
Thats exactly why there is no such thing as a defensive patent. If all one cared about was to protect against someone else patenting your idea, simply publish the idea. It's much cheaper and you might actually make some money off the publication. No one is going to file a C&D letter to the publisher of prior art.
Calling them defensive is simply a PR statement for large companies wanting to sequester outside innovation.
The screen resolution problem is *almost* fixed. That option in the System menu of Ubuntu only allows you to change to resolutions listed in your Xorg.conf file. In allot of cases, the installer doesn't auto-calibrate the file to include all the resolutions, and you have to edit it.
The next version of Xorg *should* solve these problems, but as of now, it's often not as simple as a menu item.
So, I think your argument still has some weight.
I'd say this signals end of ignoring and laughing. Them's fighting words.
Seems odd that with all that recycling, simple dehumidification would be such a problem. All you need is a cold surface and ventilation across it. Standard dehumidifyers use closed system evaporation to produce this effect, but I bet the hull of the ship on the dark side gets pretty cold. I'm sure it would be easier to take advantage of the existing heat loss, rather than using energy for a compressor.
In addition, most of these expert's don't require you to be an "expert in the field," but simply to have some training in either mathematics or sciences. It should be well assumed that if you want to look up a "regressional analysis," you will need to have some statistical background to understand anyones description.
If you want to learn about a complex topic, you will quite often have to gain a basic understanding of the general field first. That has nothing to do with wikipedia (except that paper encyclopedias generally exclude such topics).
So are they saying that if you can't explain a topic to the pot-belly joe, then you shouldn't have an article for it at all?
A. Galileo had the evidence on his side (not something the oil companies have).
B. Galileo was prosecuted by the church primarily, not any sort of scientific community. The arguments used against him were biblical, and his sympathising coleagues were afraid to be prosecuted by the inquisition.
That was a very different time and situation.
No, its fermilliar because you are used to reading online articles squezed between overstuffed sidebars and "flashy" advertisements. More anoying than anything else.
Not only is wine easily installable in Ubuntu through synaptic, or apt-get install wine, but to my knowledge, wine is not in the default install of ubuntu or debian regardless of where you get it. Wine is a special purpose application that takes considerable installer space and should generally only be used by people who understand the limitations of it.
The last thing we want is a thousand new "reviews" online by people who bought dells and are complaining that thier photoshop crashes, and the installer for WOW locks up their computer.
Linux is a distinct operating system with its own software, new users shouldnt be made to expect to be able to install the exact same software as windows/mac.
Yes, but these types of systems brings the cost of using energy closer to its "real cost." For to long energy has been dirt cheap. If companies have to pay for the "cleanup" of their energy use (they already are starting with polution controls/scrubbers), then there will always be more and more incentive to increase energy efficency.
MBA's know one thing well. profit = revenue - overhead. You make energy more costly, their skin instantly turns grean.
This doesn't solve any problems:
1. You are just storing energy. When people burn that fuel, they re-release the carbon. So you basically invented a battery.
2. Its a bad battery. Something like alcohol or pure hydrogen would be more feasable to produce as a portable energy storage.
4. Using your "battery" produces polution which causes health hazards such as lung cancer.
3. Your just using a nuclear reactor to produce energy. If this was as easy as you imply, the world wouldn't have energy production problems, we would just litter the planet with ractors.
I think you were mistakenly looking at the Debian entry.
Yes, exactly. The only thing I miss with camino is that it doesn't have support for firefox extensions. If it had that, there would be no reason to use the mainline firefox for mac.
Can you easily run safari as admin on osx? Why would this be possible? If it is, thats a security vulnerability in it's self.
It should never be easy for the user to do something completely stupid, otherwise they will!
You are about to send your credit card information over an unencrypted channel Cancel or allow?
Exactly. The profit margin on massively deployed software like office/windows is so large, that changes either way to MS operating costs do not need to effect the retail price of the software.
exactly my point.
I'm surprised you don't see security products with the warentee that comes with more expensive surge protectors. You know, the ones that "say" there is a $x thousand dollar connected equipment guarentee.
If I saw a memory stick that had a simmilar liability insurance if security is compromised, it would definatly put their money where their marketing is.
Thats exactly the market Dell is looking to target. Corporate customers have always been able to purchase whatever they want.
Yes Ubuntu is often overrated. But there realy are only a couple realy good, easy to use for novice, commercial Linux distro's (that don't have legal issues in the US.) I'm sure their decision makers are concentrating on SUSE and Ubuntu.
The earth's magnetosphere extends a long way into space. The further you go, the more radiation. If you go to mars, your totaly F'd.
How often does a certificate problem cause a recurring popup in firefox that can only be solved by clicking "ok, connect to this site." (particularily when searching on Google)
Why can't browsers have secure defaults, and just provide a "notification" somewhere that it has not loaded the script on a page, or redirected you away from a fishing site. Most of the time thats what you want. The odd time you do want to look at that malicious site, you can (actively) click on that notification and tell the browser to go back and do the unsecure thing.