Outing an active agent is an act of treason which, if I recall correctly, is still punishable by death in the US. Whether Libby, Rove, or Cheney did it doesn't (and shouldn't) matter.
This so-called administration has broken, no--pulverized--their oaths of office.
Amassing a comprehensive knowledge base of who, when, what and where is noble enough, until you consider the reason for it, which isn't explicitly mentioned: marketing. He speaks of being able to accurately identify a single person on the internet; the obvious reason why they want to do this is to be able to target advertising more effectively.
The answers to who, when, what and where are "junk food" information. How and why are the sources of real knowledge, and require critical thinking and reasoning to comprehend.
Start by looking for a solution to a problem you have. Chances are, someone's already working on it. Install the code and evaluate it. Join their mail lists, hang out in IRC. Get to know the other developers as well as the code, and of course their tools and processes. Submit some patches. If your efforts have merit, eventually you'll be brought into the fold.
Starting with a project you can personally use or have an interest in gives you a reason to participate. Picking a project at random won't end up being as rewarding.
In short, all you have to do is participate.
Also, almost all projects have staff needs beyond coders. If anyone reading this thread has ever hesitated to join a project because you don't write code, think again. Documentation, testing, interface design, infrastructure maintenance, graphics, even marketing, are all skills that get sidelined/minimalized sometimes. If you can do something, do it well, and make the project better, everyone benefits.
Cable rates have increased at 6 times the rate of inflation this decade, it's insane.
I want cable, but I don't want to scroll through 200 channels of crap I'll never watch (MTV, VH1, Lifetime, Oxygen, the fucking Golf channel... these are my opinions, keep your flames).
I do want to watch the Hitlery, er--I mean, History Channel (when it's not about WWII), History International, the Discovery networks, Comedy Central, and a few select others. Give me my 20 or so channels that I actually want at $1 each, and I'll be happy.
I'm still subscribing, and there are still commercials, so the only people who lose from censoring cable are the majority of people who aren't offended by OMGBOOBIEZ!!!111one on the National Geographic channel. If you don't like it, turn back to the 700 Club.
The premium channels (HBO, Showtime, Skinemax, etc) are the ones they likely want to censor, and these are the ones you have to effectively subscribe to twice.
The FCC is not my kid's parent, I am. Don't impugn my ability to perform my parental duties, you pseudo-family-values fascists. I suspect that they want to do this to increase DVD sales.
Scientific consensus is a threat to democracy in the same way that a jury verdict is a threat to kittens.
Democracy is a form of government intended to be steered by the prevailing opinion of the citizens. Science is a quest for fact, using rational explanation for natural phenomena.
Fact and opinion cannot be compared in this way.
Science has no agenda. A scientific consensus means that a large portion of scientists agree on a given explanation of a phenomenon.
Scientific consensus is a threat to superstition and ignorance. Corporate fascism is a threat to democracy.
Apple makes Safari run on Windows 2000, or when Safari can be installed on Gentoo. Then I'll be able to waste 10% of my time dealing with Safari's eccentricities for the benefit of the 1.5% of global users who actually use Safari on Mac.
I'm not upgrading Windows just because Apple says I should.
Always was, always will be. This facility is a manifest reaction to the loss of that control.
What I enjoy, is that creationists spend most of their time on evolution (biology), and a little on geology. They don't bother arguing physics anymore. Have any of these people ever said quantum anything is the work of the devil? No, and here's why.
It is said that people fear what they don't understand; this isn't completely true. In order to fear something, one must understand it at least enough to arrive at the conclusion that "this is bad". Fire burns. Animals attack. The people who would attack quantum theory have such a complete lack of understanding of it that they have no reason to fear it.
Technology is the practical application of science. This building itself was designed by men, using geometry, physics and chemistry, and tools based upon them: pencils, paper, computers, glue, whatever. We know these people are cherry picking facts to justify their beliefs. They are obviously cherry picking their sciences also.
For centuries, every denomination has been cherry picking dogma and doctrine to further their method of controlling the populace. It would be naive to assume they wouldn't cherry pick the science they use to justify the basis of their primitive fears. If the populace fears nothing, it cannot be controlled.
In Firefox 2.0.3, I opened up the DOM inspector, chose the main window, and started drilling down in to the element tree: I found the icons which you loathe.
Open up userChrome.css (in your profile: [profile dir]/chrome/).
In it, the following CSS rule should work to hide the icons:
Dell has to support Windows just like any other OEM. Microsoft doesn't do it. If they did, they'd go bankrupt.
People who order Dellbuntu machines likely need less support anyway. Even better, an individual is more likely to get support from the Ubuntu community than Microsoft.
As for the pricing, perhaps Dell realized that their pricing scheme for the ill-fated N series was stupid (remember, the Linux machines cost more than the equivalent hardware with Windows?)
Games should go back to being games, rather than video based reincarnations of choose-your-own-adventure books or 120 hour movies with semi-interactive cut scenes (by which I mean the actual game play in between the cinematics). Games have put eye/ear candy above game play and plot for the last decade.
If more corn is dedicated to Ethanol production, then perhaps this is a reason to stop putting High Fructose Corn Syrup in everything. It's a lousy sweetener, and inhibits leptin secretion, so you don't know when to stop eating. HFCS is one major reason why America is getting fatter.
MS supports HTML because they were blindsided by the web. They had to support it or miss a chance to bolster their monopoly.
IE's standards support is rubbish, and hasn't improved significantly since 2001. IE7 is a joke regarding improved standards support.
ActiveX is not a tag (neither is Flash) but I get your point. <layer> and <canvas> are non-standard also. Few have not done something proprietary to HTML, so this really is a non-argument.
De facto standards. Show me the specs for MS' scrollbar CSS silliness on the W3C website.
MS supports open standards as little as possible, with ulterior motives, and always to maintain the facade of being accommodating.
I'm impressed, even the open source guys at Microsoft don't get open source. Last I heard, Hilf had done a lot to promote open source principles in Redmond. Either that was bullshit, or Ballmer finally noticed and is now stuffing FUD-filled press releases into Hilf's mouth for him to dutifully regurgitate.
There is no Linux, Inc. that employs the kernel developers. If he thinks OSS is all about Apache, MySQL, and PHP, then he is inconceivably myopic.
"That's the dirty little secret. When I talk to open source developers, at least half are talking about Windows, from SugarCRM, MySQL, PHP. Every single one," he said.
Anyone with a brain realizes that Windows is not the ecosystem, it is part of the ecosystem. About half, by Hilf's estimation.
People don't want ODF? Who lives in Norway, Aliens?
The rest of this article is just infuriatingly contrary to the real world. If Open Source is dead, then what is MS so afraid of?
If an automaker or toy manufacturer didn't issue a recall on a minor safety issue immediately, they'd get tons of bad press. But a software company can sit on just about any security bug indefinitely (I'm looking at you, Microsoft) and few people care.
I suspect 2 factors are at work here:
The general public doesn't care about software security because it doesn't effect their daily lives
There's no "think of the children!" emotional aspect to software
#2 probably won't ever happen industry wide, and until the public understands how much impact software security can have, they won't care.
How does Philip K. Dick feel about this? We can only hope he can prevent this tech^H^H^H^Hatrocity from coming to the US by filing some kind of lawsuit citing prior art.
Where are the precogs? Who's writing the pre-crime legislation? Is the Gap salivating at the thought of a worldwide exclusive license to this atrocity?
Software in source form is made up of structured combinations of the elements of human communication (letters, numbers, punctuation).
Similarly, chemical compounds (aka drugs) are structured combinations of the elements of nature (atoms).
Patent the process that produces the drug, or the specific changes in equipment necessary to execute the process, but not the drug itself.
That Thailand (and probably soon Brazil) are on a silly piracy watchlist for ignoring dubious US patents is strong evidence that the drug companies are pulling some of the strings in our government.
By the time the first betas are out, MS will have announced that IE8 is Vista only, and given the amount of time they took to produce IE7 (a token effort at best), it'll probably require Vista SP1 to function fully. Another year of development means another 18 to 24 months, probably.
If they want to impress web developers (who are the catalyst for people moving away from IE), they have to stop paying lip service to web standards. Until then, developers will continue to do everything they can to save themselves wasted time and effort dealing with IE, by eroding IE's market share.
As a designer/developer, I don't really give a damn about RSS improvements. This is merely something they can use to bloat a bullet list of improved features. Fixes to CSS, DOM, events, floats, javascript, and making IE into a worthwhile developer's tool would be much more appreciated. And get rid of hasLayout while you're at it.
He made a game map that emulates his school, so what? If he was also designing mobs to represent other students, teachers, and other school officials, then there might be cause for concern. But labeling him a terrorist? Please. They found a hammer at his house, huh? Better send everyone who owns a hammer to Gitmo.
Laws and law enforcement in this country are out of control.
Jack Valenti dies, and he's still being an evil greedy prick. Digg is dead too, long live freedom of speech. Kevin Rose knows the DMCA is stupid, and yet he is so pliable to the will of those who authored it, and I don't means Congressmen.
Everyone should put this set of hex values everywhere they can. How long until someone posts a complete list of all 26 bit hex numbers, thereby exposing all their encryption keys?
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Outing an active agent is an act of treason which, if I recall correctly, is still punishable by death in the US. Whether Libby, Rove, or Cheney did it doesn't (and shouldn't) matter.
This so-called administration has broken, no--pulverized--their oaths of office.
We're not in Iraq to conquer it. Iraq is a money laundering scheme.
Taxpayers > government > private contractor corporations.
Amassing a comprehensive knowledge base of who, when, what and where is noble enough, until you consider the reason for it, which isn't explicitly mentioned: marketing. He speaks of being able to accurately identify a single person on the internet; the obvious reason why they want to do this is to be able to target advertising more effectively.
The answers to who, when, what and where are "junk food" information. How and why are the sources of real knowledge, and require critical thinking and reasoning to comprehend.
Start by looking for a solution to a problem you have. Chances are, someone's already working on it. Install the code and evaluate it. Join their mail lists, hang out in IRC. Get to know the other developers as well as the code, and of course their tools and processes. Submit some patches. If your efforts have merit, eventually you'll be brought into the fold.
Starting with a project you can personally use or have an interest in gives you a reason to participate. Picking a project at random won't end up being as rewarding.
In short, all you have to do is participate.
Also, almost all projects have staff needs beyond coders. If anyone reading this thread has ever hesitated to join a project because you don't write code, think again. Documentation, testing, interface design, infrastructure maintenance, graphics, even marketing, are all skills that get sidelined/minimalized sometimes. If you can do something, do it well, and make the project better, everyone benefits.
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Cable rates have increased at 6 times the rate of inflation this decade, it's insane.
I want cable, but I don't want to scroll through 200 channels of crap I'll never watch (MTV, VH1, Lifetime, Oxygen, the fucking Golf channel... these are my opinions, keep your flames).
I do want to watch the Hitlery, er--I mean, History Channel (when it's not about WWII), History International, the Discovery networks, Comedy Central, and a few select others. Give me my 20 or so channels that I actually want at $1 each, and I'll be happy.
I'm still subscribing, and there are still commercials, so the only people who lose from censoring cable are the majority of people who aren't offended by OMGBOOBIEZ!!!111one on the National Geographic channel. If you don't like it, turn back to the 700 Club.
The premium channels (HBO, Showtime, Skinemax, etc) are the ones they likely want to censor, and these are the ones you have to effectively subscribe to twice.
The FCC is not my kid's parent, I am. Don't impugn my ability to perform my parental duties, you pseudo-family-values fascists. I suspect that they want to do this to increase DVD sales.
Scientific consensus is a threat to democracy in the same way that a jury verdict is a threat to kittens.
Democracy is a form of government intended to be steered by the prevailing opinion of the citizens. Science is a quest for fact, using rational explanation for natural phenomena.
Fact and opinion cannot be compared in this way.
Science has no agenda. A scientific consensus means that a large portion of scientists agree on a given explanation of a phenomenon.
Scientific consensus is a threat to superstition and ignorance. Corporate fascism is a threat to democracy.
Apple makes Safari run on Windows 2000, or when Safari can be installed on Gentoo. Then I'll be able to waste 10% of my time dealing with Safari's eccentricities for the benefit of the 1.5% of global users who actually use Safari on Mac.
I'm not upgrading Windows just because Apple says I should.
"Hanrahan! What are you doing?"
"Nothin!"
"Well, keep it up, you're doing a great job."
Always was, always will be. This facility is a manifest reaction to the loss of that control.
What I enjoy, is that creationists spend most of their time on evolution (biology), and a little on geology. They don't bother arguing physics anymore. Have any of these people ever said quantum anything is the work of the devil? No, and here's why.
It is said that people fear what they don't understand; this isn't completely true. In order to fear something, one must understand it at least enough to arrive at the conclusion that "this is bad". Fire burns. Animals attack. The people who would attack quantum theory have such a complete lack of understanding of it that they have no reason to fear it.
Technology is the practical application of science. This building itself was designed by men, using geometry, physics and chemistry, and tools based upon them: pencils, paper, computers, glue, whatever. We know these people are cherry picking facts to justify their beliefs. They are obviously cherry picking their sciences also.
For centuries, every denomination has been cherry picking dogma and doctrine to further their method of controlling the populace. It would be naive to assume they wouldn't cherry pick the science they use to justify the basis of their primitive fears. If the populace fears nothing, it cannot be controlled.
In Firefox 2.0.3, I opened up the DOM inspector, chose the main window, and started drilling down in to the element tree: I found the icons which you loathe.
Open up userChrome.css (in your profile: [profile dir]/chrome/).
In it, the following CSS rule should work to hide the icons:(This selector appears in chrome://browser/skin/browser.css, if you know where that is).
Dell has to support Windows just like any other OEM. Microsoft doesn't do it. If they did, they'd go bankrupt.
People who order Dellbuntu machines likely need less support anyway. Even better, an individual is more likely to get support from the Ubuntu community than Microsoft.
As for the pricing, perhaps Dell realized that their pricing scheme for the ill-fated N series was stupid (remember, the Linux machines cost more than the equivalent hardware with Windows?)
Games should go back to being games, rather than video based reincarnations of choose-your-own-adventure books or 120 hour movies with semi-interactive cut scenes (by which I mean the actual game play in between the cinematics). Games have put eye/ear candy above game play and plot for the last decade.
If more corn is dedicated to Ethanol production, then perhaps this is a reason to stop putting High Fructose Corn Syrup in everything. It's a lousy sweetener, and inhibits leptin secretion, so you don't know when to stop eating. HFCS is one major reason why America is getting fatter.
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MS supports HTML because they were blindsided by the web. They had to support it or miss a chance to bolster their monopoly.
MS supports open standards as little as possible, with ulterior motives, and always to maintain the facade of being accommodating.
I'm impressed, even the open source guys at Microsoft don't get open source. Last I heard, Hilf had done a lot to promote open source principles in Redmond. Either that was bullshit, or Ballmer finally noticed and is now stuffing FUD-filled press releases into Hilf's mouth for him to dutifully regurgitate.
There is no Linux, Inc. that employs the kernel developers. If he thinks OSS is all about Apache, MySQL, and PHP, then he is inconceivably myopic.
Anyone with a brain realizes that Windows is not the ecosystem, it is part of the ecosystem. About half, by Hilf's estimation.
People don't want ODF? Who lives in Norway, Aliens?
The rest of this article is just infuriatingly contrary to the real world. If Open Source is dead, then what is MS so afraid of?
If an automaker or toy manufacturer didn't issue a recall on a minor safety issue immediately, they'd get tons of bad press. But a software company can sit on just about any security bug indefinitely (I'm looking at you, Microsoft) and few people care.
I suspect 2 factors are at work here:
#2 probably won't ever happen industry wide, and until the public understands how much impact software security can have, they won't care.
"Fair Use Denial" sounds better, and is more accurate.
It would also allude to Hollywood's fear, uncertainty, and doubt about their antiquated business models.
How does Philip K. Dick feel about this? We can only hope he can prevent this tech^H^H^H^Hatrocity from coming to the US by filing some kind of lawsuit citing prior art.
Where are the precogs? Who's writing the pre-crime legislation? Is the Gap salivating at the thought of a worldwide exclusive license to this atrocity?
...The number of Windows/Office/Exchange/Outlook/IE/whatever vulnerabilities/patches over time?
That seems the only way to prove or disprove the "this is the most secure version ever" claims that always accompany an upgrade.
Wait for AACS to come up with a scheme that uses longer keys. 5 bytes for DVD, 16 bytes for HD-DVD, perhaps 48 bytes for the SuperUltraMega-DVD(TM)?
The DMCA makes a mockery of the legal system. Freedom to Tinker is turning the law against itself and the industry that authored and paid for it.
Call it a "law of unintended consequences".
They should not be patentable.
Software in source form is made up of structured combinations of the elements of human communication (letters, numbers, punctuation).
Similarly, chemical compounds (aka drugs) are structured combinations of the elements of nature (atoms).
Patent the process that produces the drug, or the specific changes in equipment necessary to execute the process, but not the drug itself.
That Thailand (and probably soon Brazil) are on a silly piracy watchlist for ignoring dubious US patents is strong evidence that the drug companies are pulling some of the strings in our government.
By the time the first betas are out, MS will have announced that IE8 is Vista only, and given the amount of time they took to produce IE7 (a token effort at best), it'll probably require Vista SP1 to function fully. Another year of development means another 18 to 24 months, probably.
If they want to impress web developers (who are the catalyst for people moving away from IE), they have to stop paying lip service to web standards. Until then, developers will continue to do everything they can to save themselves wasted time and effort dealing with IE, by eroding IE's market share.
As a designer/developer, I don't really give a damn about RSS improvements. This is merely something they can use to bloat a bullet list of improved features. Fixes to CSS, DOM, events, floats, javascript, and making IE into a worthwhile developer's tool would be much more appreciated. And get rid of hasLayout while you're at it.
Sadly, it probably can.
He made a game map that emulates his school, so what? If he was also designing mobs to represent other students, teachers, and other school officials, then there might be cause for concern. But labeling him a terrorist? Please. They found a hammer at his house, huh? Better send everyone who owns a hammer to Gitmo.
Laws and law enforcement in this country are out of control.
TFA already /.ed
Jack Valenti dies, and he's still being an evil greedy prick. Digg is dead too, long live freedom of speech. Kevin Rose knows the DMCA is stupid, and yet he is so pliable to the will of those who authored it, and I don't means Congressmen.
Everyone should put this set of hex values everywhere they can. How long until someone posts a complete list of all 26 bit hex numbers, thereby exposing all their encryption keys?