The firewall isn't a technical problem, it's 100% a social one. One person circumventing it is trivial, probably always will be, what's impenetrable is the doublethink force field around almost everyone's head.
Many governments are setting up online petition sites. As well as giving the all important "look and feel" of a democracy, These are perfect for collecting IP/email/postcode of people who need to be watched, as well as being able to personalize propaganda to the individual.
In other words, they already have much better tools.
This slashdot post has currency in it to indicate scale.
Avoid using objects such as coins for scale, as they will require people unfamiliar with them to look up the dimensions or guess, both of which defeat the purpose of the object in the first place. Coins are particularly bad as they can reinforce a geographical bias.
Ideally, a slashdot post should include SI/metric units, as they are the most commonly used worldwide.
A popular belief holds that it is impossible to fold a sheet of paper in half more than 7 times, possibly due to the difficulty of performing even 6 folds. This belief was debunked by then high school student Britney Gallivan who successfully folded a piece of paper 12 times in "Single Direction Folding".[1] However, some argued that the folder should fold in half, turn 90 degrees, then fold in half again, rather than folding the same way.
The television series MythBusters "busted the myth" of the 7 fold limit by folding taped-together sheets in half and turning 90 degrees each time, for a total of 11 folds. The first eight folds were completed by hand, while the rest were completed using both steam rollers and fork lifts. [2][3] This was accomplished using 17 large rolls of paper taped together to form a very large yet relatively thin "sheet."
No, that isn't what I meant. What I said was what I meant.
More and more site developers are coding to standards rather than browsers. That means IE gets the degraded shitty experience, whilst any standards compliant browser gets something approximating what the developer intended.
That's the way it should be. Fanboism is irrelevant, people should have the choice of compliant browsers, and IE should fuck off and die.
offer an installation screen that gives consumers a choice of which browser to install.
Will the masses still opt for IE? What if the IE choice says "Choosing IE will give you a substandard browsing experience, plus your computer will be pwned by malware. Oh and also you are holding back the progress of all mankind you douche"
How does the kindle TTS compare to say AT&T natural voice, or RealSpeak TTS engine....I still think it's much ado about nothing, but if the quality is indistinguishable from a human voice (which I doubt) then their argument might not be quite so feeble.
Get with the program, these are not obscure acronyms by a long shot.
CA = Certification authority SSL = Secure socket layer DNSSEC = Domain Name System Security Extensions Cert = Certificate. The leaf nodes of the "chain of trust"
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in.com.fr, we shall fight on the web and on usenet, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Internet, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the servers, we shall fight on port 443, we shall fight in the VPNs and on P2P, we shall fight in the darknets; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Internet or a large part of it were subjugated and censored, then our digital Anarchy beyond the web, armed and guarded by thepiratebay fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in good time, the New Internet, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
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This absolutely sucks. In my day, all we had to do to sneak out of class, was wait for teacher to turn their back.
Now days kids have to wear Thermoptic Camouflage armour. What is the world coming to.
Mod this AC up.
The firewall isn't a technical problem, it's 100% a social one. One person circumventing it is trivial, probably always will be, what's impenetrable is the doublethink force field around almost everyone's head.
No need to bother with a 3rd party website.
Many governments are setting up online petition sites.
As well as giving the all important "look and feel" of a democracy, These are perfect for collecting IP/email/postcode of people who need to be watched, as well as being able to personalize propaganda to the individual.
In other words, they already have much better tools.
This isn't the first product Philips have produced for developing countries.
See wood-burning stove: http://www.research.philips.com/newscenter/archive/2006/060227-woodstove.html
I wish they would make them available to buy in the developed world though. I'd love some of this gear for outdoor pursuits.
Progress is running less JavaScript, not more.
Thanks, but I think you missed the point.
This slashdot post has currency in it to indicate scale.
Avoid using objects such as coins for scale, as they will require people unfamiliar with them to look up the dimensions or guess, both of which defeat the purpose of the object in the first place. Coins are particularly bad as they can reinforce a geographical bias.
Ideally, a slashdot post should include SI/metric units, as they are the most commonly used worldwide.
Australian, British, Canadian, Irish, pre-decimal OR actually not a penny at all but a US cent?
Whoops,
loss to = loss from.
Large semantic difference there.
Our combination of gravity, temperature and magnetic field strength means there is negligible loss to the atmosphere even over massive time-scales.
Thankfully.
I was under the impression that facebook was late maturity/early decline stage.
Very soon something "old that's new again" will come along for people to jizz themselves over.
A popular belief holds that it is impossible to fold a sheet of paper in half more than 7 times, possibly due to the difficulty of performing even 6 folds. This belief was debunked by then high school student Britney Gallivan who successfully folded a piece of paper 12 times in "Single Direction Folding".[1] However, some argued that the folder should fold in half, turn 90 degrees, then fold in half again, rather than folding the same way.
The television series MythBusters "busted the myth" of the 7 fold limit by folding taped-together sheets in half and turning 90 degrees each time, for a total of 11 folds. The first eight folds were completed by hand, while the rest were completed using both steam rollers and fork lifts. [2][3] This was accomplished using 17 large rolls of paper taped together to form a very large yet relatively thin "sheet."
No, that isn't what I meant. What I said was what I meant.
More and more site developers are coding to standards rather than browsers. That means IE gets the degraded shitty experience, whilst any standards compliant browser gets something approximating what the developer intended.
That's the way it should be. Fanboism is irrelevant, people should have the choice of compliant browsers, and IE should fuck off and die.
offer an installation screen that gives consumers a choice of which browser to install.
Will the masses still opt for IE?
What if the IE choice says "Choosing IE will give you a substandard browsing experience, plus your computer will be pwned by malware. Oh and also you are holding back the progress of all mankind you douche"
Bets please.
How does the kindle TTS compare to say AT&T natural voice, or RealSpeak TTS engine. ...I still think it's much ado about nothing, but if the quality is indistinguishable from a human voice (which I doubt) then their argument might not be quite so feeble.
Many women are interested in using technology, they just don't want to dive in to quite the same depth.
When it comes to technology you have to be balls deep.
Is myspace fundamentally different to the homepage?
They are still gaudy shrines to the ego, constructed of copy-pasted crappy code.
TFA words it differently: "when it delivers best value for money"
It still won't be cheaper, because of the costs of retraining every last government employee, including the retarded ones, to use the new software.
when "there is no significant overall cost difference between open and non-open source products"
Damn lies and statistics can be used to prove that open source is more expensive, then it doesn't get adopted.
Get with the program, these are not obscure acronyms by a long shot.
CA = Certification authority
SSL = Secure socket layer
DNSSEC = Domain Name System Security Extensions
Cert = Certificate. The leaf nodes of the "chain of trust"
http://www.zen.co.uk/ is one.
If the defacto standard was opensource, with provably well implemented encryption, then I wouldn't be safe from the criminal hordes.
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in .com.fr,
we shall fight on the web and on usenet,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Internet, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the servers,
we shall fight on port 443,
we shall fight in the VPNs and on P2P,
we shall fight in the darknets;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Internet or a large part of it were subjugated and censored, then our digital Anarchy beyond the web, armed and guarded by thepiratebay fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in good time, the New Internet, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."
We could trade files right here on slashdot.
Bit of steganography and we could hide music in our rambling car analogy loaded posts.
I just read that as unmangled code.
I'm really behind on the latest programming paradigms.
I love it. It's like a tinfoil hat for proactive people.