Yes, you're right, almost all of those fall under just browsing web, playing media files and editing simple documents... In addition to crappy voice recording, calculator and speech recognition that hardly ever works correctly.
And for example windows comes with notepad/wordpad, Ubuntu comes with a notepad equivalent, except it also has indentation and syntax highlighting for many languages. Windows comes with paint, Ubuntu comes with the GIMP. Ubuntu comes with Python and Perl (at least one of them anyway, maybe I installed the other one myself). Ubuntu comes with a full Office suite for gods sake.
There are a lot more programs to exploit on Ubuntu by default.
Thewre were no exploits found within a day or two of near constant testing by many people, that does say a lot for security, but Mac can be hacked by a user running default web browser (safari) and Vista can be hacked by user using flash (which almost everyone uses regularly, whether they choose to (youtube) or not (ads)).
So if you consider that to be a secure OS then yes. But exploits in default programs or some of the most popular third party apps that allow a system to be taken over still worry me. (Except I use Kubuntu)
A) They banned the use of the fair game policy years ago. Considering the amount of people who reported being followed home after last two protests I doubt this, and the several people who were publicly named as being critics of CoS and accused of many crimes. Seems like they're following it word for word to me.
B) Disconnection may not seem like a good idea (I wouldn't be abl to do it) but if you join Scientology I'd guess that you know what you are getting into. It's not like they tell everyone on the way into the free stress test "oh by the way we might demand you never speak to your family again".
C) There is no way in the world that anyone from *chan actually supports the free-zone. We are doing it because it was fun to run around in masks. For the lulz, the fact that anyone actually feels empowered by all this is just swell and dandy for them but not the goal of the protesters. That's the reason the protests are no longer organised on or affiliated with *chan, sure they never bothered stopping calling themselves anonymous because it'd be confusing and it's a better name than most people would suggest. Most mentions of the protests on *chan are just attacked and flamed by everyone, are you honestly saying it's still represented by and affiliated with *chan?
Answer honestly. If the CoS suddenly decided to go donation only would you agree they are now a religion or would you move the goalposts? If they also stopped all their crimes entirely, stopped their disconnection and fair game policies and stopped suing people for spreading their beliefs, oh and stopped harassing their critics and using bull-baiting tactics then yes they'd be a religion, but as you can see, that's a lot more than simply stopping charging.
And the guys protesting against them firmly support the free-zone (scientology without having to pay or be a member of the CoS), which they believe IS a valid religion, because it does none of the above.
Your belief about a religion lying is, in fact, the same as their belief in an afterlife. You are both making a belief where there is no distinctive proof. Furthermore, you are applying "social pressure" on this very site with your remarks, thus, by your own standards, making you no better than them. So when does he get tax exemption?
Any discussion involving Gnome will have people bring up Miguel loving Microsoft and Mono and how Gnome is going to doom us all to hell. Insulting Miguel for supporting Microsoft and Mono, and saying Gnome will doom us to hell is different from saying Gnome is inherently evil and should never exist.
And it's VERY different from saying it should never exist based entirely on your own preference, with no reasons other than "BAWWW it's ugly and the options confuse me".
Erm... You CAN pick and choose what you want, if your distro lets you. Blame your distro otherwise, I've done it myself, but that was on Gentoo, all the mainstream distros pack a whole load of shit with KDE for no reason other than looking impressive.
(I'm not saying that you should use Gentoo, I'm just saying I hate the way mainstream distros treat KDE)
Haha, that made me laugh. Funny names, as opposed to Hardy Heron, Gutsy Gipsy, amaroK, Pidgin... and those are just on the top of my head. What is the problem with iPhoto, iDVD, iMovie, GarageBad?? you can pretty much guess what are they about just with the name? ask anyone in the street "if there was a program called amaroK, what do you think it will do?" haha... they would surely tell you it was some sequel from Turok or whatever. My Dad's never used Linux before, he guessed that Amarok is a music player once when we were discussing software, because it's named after a Mike Oldfield song. And go to wikipedia and look up "Pidgin"...
The names may be funny, but they usually are named as such for a reason. (Excluding Hardy Heron, Gutsy Gibbon etc... Those were originally just used during development stages, the actual names are just Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 8.04 etc...)
I see KDE fans love to use this excuse but it still is nothing but a excuse, KDE itself is mostly the same across distros, with mild differences in hardware support, I ended up liking Kubuntu the other day and I am planning to move when hardy gets released. Well the main difference is just the default settings and applications, but many users have different preferences for these, so for the user who can't be bothered to change settings themselves different distros seem to have different KDE.
Of course another factor is that distros may change parts of KDE themselves, either fixing bugs, or adding features and accidentally introducing more bugs. so it may be likely that one distro has a really irritating bug in KDE, or in general thigns don't work as they should, while other distros don't have these problems.
So then, on to my question. I am assuming here that they've gotten this stuff figured out. So what do I do to enable focus-follows mouse, and to make the cursor disappear when I start typing (yes, I do realize that my second request is not available under KDE, and I fake it with unclutter)?
I'm using KDE 3.5.8 and my mouse cursor disappears when I type, in fact it disappears when I click on a text area, it's in KTextEdit class though, so many programs won't do this, only KDE programs (and some of those for various reasons(mainly ignorance about KTextEdit or not bothering to change, but possibly others) use QTextEdit) will, but it's default for them. Also the cursor has to be within the TextEdit anyway, but it wouldn't get in the way otherwise anyway so presumably that's what you meant.
I agree, I've seen some code using GTK and some GNOME libs, and I've seen code using QT and some KDE libs... QT and KDE libs seemed so much easier and better documented so I started learning them, of course, take this with a grain of salt, I'm a C++ guy and GNOME and many GTK apps are done in C, also I was a KDE user even before I saw the code so maybe that influenced me.
You can cancel a download all you want, as soon as you click on the link you're logged, and I don't think they'd bother checking whether you downloaded the full thing or not.
Actually the charges of destroying hard drive and thumb drive were dropped, he just visited that link and had two grainy thumbnails in "thumbs.db" somewhere, they could've gotten there from temp files or anything, I think two low resolution thumbnails in a system file that builds up thumbnails of every picture you've had, including temporary files is a bit harsh.
People I know have come across CP while looking for regular porn, they closed the page, didn't download anything and didn't go back, but those thumbnails would still be on their computer for a while most likely, are they criminals?
Maybe he's talking about stuff like robots.txt and stuff to restrict access, but that only applies to sites who choose to have that file anyway, presumably the FBI didn't bother with it when setting up these servers, so no search engine would have any way of knowing it's crawlers aren't welcome
JB is generally girls around 15-17 years old, whereas CP is younger than that, maybe they're both the same thing in the eyes of a court, but jailbait usually doesn't involve any exploitation of minors, since many girls that age are just attention whores anyway and would willing make those pictures, and many of the people who look at them would be the same age as the girls(/boys?) involved.
Of course the FBI links according to TFA were supposedly of 4 year olds, so debating the morality of jailbait has no place in this thread.
Yeah, thank god it's not illegal to beat the shit out of children for HARMLESS pranks.
Is someone disabled my MSN account (no-one I know uses AIM), I'd go get a new one instead of beating someone probably half my age with a tire iron, obviously my life is less dependent on instant messaging than yours is.
In fairness all students play pranks, and this one was not only harmless, it showed a lot more skill and intelligence than almost all other pranks, such as saying "OMG yuo r t3h ghey" on Facebook.
I won't disagree with this statement but I would like to add that the Microsoft developers I have spoken with that are communicating with Mono developers seem genuinely interested in assisting the Mono guys. I just hope they are able to continue the relationship after Microsoft has what it wants. But I don't expect them to be able to. That's the problem, most of Microsofts developers probably don't have a problem helping other developers. But the developers don't make the desicions, the businessmen do, adn the businessmen don't give a shit about anything except how much money they can make by screwing people over.
No Moonlight is planned for Linux, which will always be behind Silverlight, because Microsoft won't give them the specs until AFTER each new release of Silverlight, which could mean months of cathup after every Silverlight release.
And there's no guarantee that Microsoft will continue giving them these specs.
Yes they are stupid about it, it IS a lose lose situation, anyone want to email the Library of Congress? Time for some registered voters to get involved instead of arguing on slashdot.
http://www.loc.gov/help/contact-general.html
That;s the contaxct info, I'm not sure which of those categories it falls under, but someone should write out an email and have a load of people send it in. Congress don't listen to common sense, they DO listen to voters.
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Yes, you're right, almost all of those fall under just browsing web, playing media files and editing simple documents... In addition to crappy voice recording, calculator and speech recognition that hardly ever works correctly.
And for example windows comes with notepad/wordpad, Ubuntu comes with a notepad equivalent, except it also has indentation and syntax highlighting for many languages.
Windows comes with paint, Ubuntu comes with the GIMP.
Ubuntu comes with Python and Perl (at least one of them anyway, maybe I installed the other one myself).
Ubuntu comes with a full Office suite for gods sake.
There are a lot more programs to exploit on Ubuntu by default.
Thewre were no exploits found within a day or two of near constant testing by many people, that does say a lot for security, but Mac can be hacked by a user running default web browser (safari) and Vista can be hacked by user using flash (which almost everyone uses regularly, whether they choose to (youtube) or not (ads)).
So if you consider that to be a secure OS then yes. But exploits in default programs or some of the most popular third party apps that allow a system to be taken over still worry me. (Except I use Kubuntu)
No idea where the hell you are but ALL berr/cider/lager comes in pints over here (Ireland), unless I'm missing some joke.
And the guys protesting against them firmly support the free-zone (scientology without having to pay or be a member of the CoS), which they believe IS a valid religion, because it does none of the above.
Furthermore, you are applying "social pressure" on this very site with your remarks, thus, by your own standards, making you no better than them. So when does he get tax exemption?
I think the video called "Road to March 15th" had a good bit on that, go look for that.
And it's VERY different from saying it should never exist based entirely on your own preference, with no reasons other than "BAWWW it's ugly and the options confuse me".
Erm... You CAN pick and choose what you want, if your distro lets you. Blame your distro otherwise, I've done it myself, but that was on Gentoo, all the mainstream distros pack a whole load of shit with KDE for no reason other than looking impressive.
(I'm not saying that you should use Gentoo, I'm just saying I hate the way mainstream distros treat KDE)
The names may be funny, but they usually are named as such for a reason. (Excluding Hardy Heron, Gutsy Gibbon etc... Those were originally just used during development stages, the actual names are just Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 8.04 etc...)
Of course another factor is that distros may change parts of KDE themselves, either fixing bugs, or adding features and accidentally introducing more bugs. so it may be likely that one distro has a really irritating bug in KDE, or in general thigns don't work as they should, while other distros don't have these problems.
So then, on to my question. I am assuming here that they've gotten this stuff figured out. So what do I do to enable focus-follows mouse, and to make the cursor disappear when I start typing (yes, I do realize that my second request is not available under KDE, and I fake it with unclutter)?
I'm using KDE 3.5.8 and my mouse cursor disappears when I type, in fact it disappears when I click on a text area, it's in KTextEdit class though, so many programs won't do this, only KDE programs (and some of those for various reasons(mainly ignorance about KTextEdit or not bothering to change, but possibly others) use QTextEdit) will, but it's default for them. Also the cursor has to be within the TextEdit anyway, but it wouldn't get in the way otherwise anyway so presumably that's what you meant.I agree, I've seen some code using GTK and some GNOME libs, and I've seen code using QT and some KDE libs... QT and KDE libs seemed so much easier and better documented so I started learning them, of course, take this with a grain of salt, I'm a C++ guy and GNOME and many GTK apps are done in C, also I was a KDE user even before I saw the code so maybe that influenced me.
gattaxx,
gcalctool,
gconf-editor,
gdm,
gedit,
Geyes,
gfloppy,
glines,
gnet,
gnibbles,
gnobots2,
gnometris,
gnomine,
gnopernicus,
gnotravex,
gnotski,
gok,
grecord,
gtali,
gucharmap,
You can cancel a download all you want, as soon as you click on the link you're logged, and I don't think they'd bother checking whether you downloaded the full thing or not.
Actually the charges of destroying hard drive and thumb drive were dropped, he just visited that link and had two grainy thumbnails in "thumbs.db" somewhere, they could've gotten there from temp files or anything, I think two low resolution thumbnails in a system file that builds up thumbnails of every picture you've had, including temporary files is a bit harsh.
People I know have come across CP while looking for regular porn, they closed the page, didn't download anything and didn't go back, but those thumbnails would still be on their computer for a while most likely, are they criminals?
Maybe he's talking about stuff like robots.txt and stuff to restrict access, but that only applies to sites who choose to have that file anyway, presumably the FBI didn't bother with it when setting up these servers, so no search engine would have any way of knowing it's crawlers aren't welcome
JB is generally girls around 15-17 years old, whereas CP is younger than that, maybe they're both the same thing in the eyes of a court, but jailbait usually doesn't involve any exploitation of minors, since many girls that age are just attention whores anyway and would willing make those pictures, and many of the people who look at them would be the same age as the girls(/boys?) involved.
Of course the FBI links according to TFA were supposedly of 4 year olds, so debating the morality of jailbait has no place in this thread.
Like pretty much all life-saving drugs, it will be patented and too expensive for the majority of HIV victims to use it
Yeah, thank god it's not illegal to beat the shit out of children for HARMLESS pranks.
Is someone disabled my MSN account (no-one I know uses AIM), I'd go get a new one instead of beating someone probably half my age with a tire iron, obviously my life is less dependent on instant messaging than yours is.
In fairness all students play pranks, and this one was not only harmless, it showed a lot more skill and intelligence than almost all other pranks, such as saying "OMG yuo r t3h ghey" on Facebook.
I sent it using form on a href='http://www.loc.gov/aba/contact/general_form.php'>this page
Mac users also fall into this category, and that's like 6% of the population of USA, and then about 0.8% for Linux from recent survey I saw...
They listen when 6.8% of the population are unable to access these things.
No Moonlight is planned for Linux, which will always be behind Silverlight, because Microsoft won't give them the specs until AFTER each new release of Silverlight, which could mean months of cathup after every Silverlight release. And there's no guarantee that Microsoft will continue giving them these specs.
Yes they are stupid about it, it IS a lose lose situation, anyone want to email the Library of Congress? Time for some registered voters to get involved instead of arguing on slashdot. http://www.loc.gov/help/contact-general.html That;s the contaxct info, I'm not sure which of those categories it falls under, but someone should write out an email and have a load of people send it in. Congress don't listen to common sense, they DO listen to voters.