Because we don't need even more ice falling from the heavens! Even if this is a piece of ice from half-way across the Solar system!/me looking outside and quietly cursing about the weather and the snow and shoveling it again...
Or internet cafes will become REALLY popular places.
as for granmas... since they like to click on all these "fix your computer" and "you won" stuff, (not to forget about grandchildren that would be happy to use granmas computer), it is just a matter of time till someone will bombard the France with trickery ads that will download some easily trackable music. Once more then some percentage of population (say 15-20% ?) will not be able use internet from homes, then or the ISPs will put a blind eye on it (they losing customers), or new amendments will have to pass. Or they will create go the way as auto insurance does -- you can connect, but the fees are prohibitive.
I was afraid of 2 things (1) the tools being confiscated because they could be used as weapons, and (2) the agents not knowing what they were and detaining me. The fact that you were thinking about it is scary enough already, don't you think? Not that I go through airport security happily singing every time recently - you stand in line and trying to think what did you forget to take out that might be strange looking or hard to explain...:(
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would it be possible to get a source for this info?
Folks, I don't know if you looked at the draft, but I think he was serious - take a look at section "5.1. Stream States"
Missile defense system is designed to operate when the target is in *clear* sight? What if skies are not so clear - heavy rain, fog, or dust?
"Baron, my apologies. These madmen are attacking under cover of the storm." --Frank Herbert, "Dune"
Because we don't need even more ice falling from the heavens! Even if this is a piece of ice from half-way across the Solar system! /me looking outside and quietly cursing about the weather and the snow and shoveling it again...
115% ? ... because of false positives
emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ is on version 23.3 as of now (March 2011), and it is perfectly ok.
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
So, is true intelligence will come once they are able to ASK the questions?
... assuming that you have compiled/assembled some equivalent of cp on the target platform already ...
Oh G-d, please let it happen! I also sincerely hope Apple will be able to pick it up, and together they will have good UI and good servers!
mind to share the whole list of Big Jerks that you collected so far? thanks
Or internet cafes will become REALLY popular places.
as for granmas... since they like to click on all these "fix your computer" and "you won" stuff, (not to forget about grandchildren that would be happy to use granmas computer), it is just a matter of time till someone will bombard the France with trickery ads that will download some easily trackable music. Once more then some percentage of population (say 15-20% ?) will not be able use internet from homes, then or the ISPs will put a blind eye on it (they losing customers), or new amendments will have to pass. Or they will create go the way as auto insurance does -- you can connect, but the fees are prohibitive.
just speculating...
"Good luck with that" and "ROFL"
oh, forcristsake, people... Firefox cannot copy IE8 just because it has this feature as an add-on for long time already.
You can download Stealther from
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1306
have fun
... may be you are just getting old?
http://johntitor.strategicbrains.com/
With his own other hand ? (As in "don't look into the laser with remaining eye!"?)
sorry, couldn't resist.
Plan 9 (OS, not the movie :)
AFAIK, nCUBEs are running stripped down (but still cool) version of it.
Torrent, anyone?
Ok, say in about x years it gets a little too cold. Now, how we gonna remove it????
Well, with all these exploits and whatsnot p0wns your computer, I guess we cannot claim it as My no more.
Well, actually for NOT getting it!
Boot from Knoppix (or any live CD you like), do your fancy secret banking, reboot, and play games in Windows or whatever BSD you are using.
But which character will die in every episode?
Kelly?
Seriously however, I can't think of a better use for old Russian ICBMs.
Well, I could not think of better use for old American ICBMs either. Or Chinese.