The Emacs maintainer has called the statements irrelevant and won't affect their decision to merge the LLDB support.
... It should be in the form of Stallman blaming himself for choosing a maintainer who does not more closely share his views.
Now that persuasion has failed, I suppose he could fork it.
Winner! This is BRILLIANT : )
This is the only time I have seen a *plausible* use of the "don't like it? fork it" on slashdot since my 1998 awakening to Slashdot*. The other 99.9% of the time the rest of you guys are just being jerks by asking us random non-coder slashdotters to fork stuff, like Firefox and Chrome. It's like being slapped in the face with a strawman and insult at the same time (fractaltiger *must be* lazy and dumb if he won't fork after pointing out some design flaw in that program, ignore its millions of lines of code).
Browsers change every month and are hugely un-maintainable by individual coders in the long term anyway:)
I should be able to reasonably expect a level of service and security that includes the possibility that the enemy may have the information above.
So, if YOUR root password were known by your wife, then you must publish it for everyone to see? The enemy only increases in number the easier you make it for them do use your weaknesses.
If we're assuming that the President will die if ever anyone gets a hold of the guard rotation, for example, then maybe we need to rethink that plan. If I secured my company's assets this way, I'd lose my job.
It's naive to think that the president's only protection is that. Think of all the "useless stuff" that we do with day-to-day security, like setting up both WPA2 AND mac filtering. It's always "just in case." The harder you work to "hide" something, the fewer "evil" people will be interested or able to find it, even if your actions raise orders of magnitude more eyebrows. Look at how RSA encryption is still reliable.
Rockets should not be password-only protection. RSA keys seem to be in order, because, again, if they're good enough for GE and Intel, then they're damn-sure good enough for a NUCLEAR WEAPON!
I was going to make a stronger refute, but just really want to help. There's some circular logic if you want the above solution. Adding an RSA key or any key is moot if the government DOES comply to disclose everything impersonal (I noticed you didn't argue against securing individual soldier's privacy, and applaud you for this.) I'll go a step further: Suppose they added iris scans and DNA checks to the launch codes. Then, being transparent, the state is forced to release the names of those imprinted with the correct DNA, suggesting a physical search to coerce that person for codes and bodypart matches.
In our current world's government, a "proper leak" could release that person's location and cause trouble anyway, but in a fully transparent state, the information already out there is dangerously easy to misuse. An enemy does illegal things without any transparency at all; why give them the upper hand if it will not play by your openness game. All that said, I understand that we need more transparency, but obscurity in the government is done mostly for the same reason parents keep sex from kids until they're ready for it --or, if you may, the location of your firearms: self and general protection.
Your answer is answered by the Line of sight (think laser or flashlight) versus omni-directional wave (think home WiFI.) A remote can't power your TV from behind, can it?
I replaced my battery this week... line of sight only appears to be omnidirectional because with strong enough batteries, the signal 'leaks' even if you aren't pointing in a straight line. When batteries went low, our remote stopped being able to power the TV unless a very strict angle of incidence was kept. My old relatives doesn't understand angles, only that the TV is broken. I don't agree with wasteful tech, but I'm sure the/. community, being spend-prone as they are, would rather have something that their family doesn't need to complain about in strange situations.
Yeah, you need more batteries to get the added benefit of increased reception and advanced coordination of DVD-TV-DVR-Remote commands like someone else suggested. The batteries problem and the fact that the responsiveness is slower than current remotes why the future is kinda bleak. Hell, I hate our HDTV cable box. You push a button and it's almost half a second before the channel is changed. Move to normal channels and the problem is gone somewhat. Use the standard DTV box, and the lag is only half. Use a 15-year old analog box, and the response is instant. The trend is not encouraging, because you would think the public and market forces would have regulated this failure out of the market.
Have you even seen how slowly TV's and cable boxes boot these days? Geez. No wonder people go online for media. Our dollars have a higher voting power there than with other media. Er, back to the thread. Thanks for your time.
Haven't tried this stuff, but know that Windows will tell you when you reconfigure a network to use different encryption. It then rejects your login until you go to a very specific connection wizard and tell it to the correct new type.
Just get enough money in cash, go to mexico/canada which ever is farther from your normal place of residence and spend the time at campgrounds.
Why a campground, when you can just stay at an INN. This is specially good if the country you go to is in Europe and doesn't speak English. Any attempts to mine information on you will decrease significantly if the other 3 participants stay in the US while hunting you requires communicating with people and getting records in a little known language.
I don't recommend Spain nor Italy, since somewhat literally, "everyone and their mother" in the US can speak it, assisting your tracker on long distance calls and such. Portugal sounds good, or Germany, but not Russian speaking countries for the same reason. Barring Europe, Japan might be a good choice too, language wise, but the plane fare is steep.
Even if your tracker person were commited to pursue via a plane, attempts to chase people across oceans, languages AND very strict privacy / cultural boundaries are prone to failure. Strangers with little command of the local language can't easily receive restaurant / hotel / bank and credit card bills even with cash bribes that are common in those countries. Your tracker won't be shelling money if they're not sure how far they can get in uncharted territories, even if they were assured some modest reward from the contest's organizers.
i hear this a lot. false. remember how hard it is to code for win32 gui apps when all you learned was console C++ or shell programming from books and school. Now, look hard and long at a Windows API book and tell me it was easy to learn. False. Now, look at how much code is EVER ported to LINUX or macs that is NOT already open source and NOT from mega companies like MS, Adobe and a few random game makers. See the trend? Macs are already "pretty hot stuff" in the USA for college students, yet you nee no games ported and few Productivity Apps or programs beyond educational purposes. But I digress.
Back to my point, you cannot just port your spyware, since IE for the mac is dead, and even that was a completely incompatible app that AFAIK could never even run active-X. When a website's spyware got nasty with it, it just crashed and you had to switch to a native browser for that page. Now, picture a crossplatform browser like FF. Suppose that you can find security holes, youll just go the easy way and code for windows, since macs have different file path structures and a "admin accounts can't touch each other and root is disabled" rules that make hacking the System files with native code the only viable point of invasion.
Now, forgetting this insurmountable problem that is the exact reason NVidia posts only one or two builds of their linux drivers and leaves you to compile your own (again, this cheats my statement by opening some source code in a world of closed spyware sources) for example, there is the worst problem of all: You need to become well-versed in new system APIs for linux and macs. Especially for macos, my friend. No, your VB tools will not help you when "macs and linux are mainstream" if that ever does happen, because MS has steered clear of other OS's. This is good for nonportability of Viruses and crap. Remember that office macros dont care much if you're running on a mac, because the API was the same on both --beyond that, you must code maliciously from scratch, which costs debugging, research time and $, of course. Most spyware programmers are small shops that can hardly spend budget on retraining staff on new languages, let alone new OSs and development tools for macs. Linux is more open and free, so it poses a much nicer dev-tool learning curve, but you know that most apps need to be "kernel compiled" and flavor dependent to truly run on your box. If you dont believe this, just up the stakes to larger legitimate companies and think back to all those DOS batch files that you thought you'd never see again after windows 95. AdAware 1.3 still updates itself using this technoogy. Seems like people have a hard time learning the newer VBscript in their own "code backyard." Defacto tools and OS aren't even that accessible. That is my point.
Again, people groan at having to code in a different language where the entire app needs a rewrite (if it did not, then how come MS has NEVER released PC and Mac office simultaneously?). Legit large companies know this barrier. You know this. COBOL programmers know this --their code is still used decades after we believed it had to open way to new technologies and programmers, yet it is hard to kill because companies can't afford to demolish the huge barriers to entrance of new standards (reminds me that IE isn't that compliant either.) If you see Windows with the same eyes you see COBOL-run mainframes, counting down the years till the programmers retire / expire and the company ends up upgrading to Oracle and MS solutions, then you will be in for disappointment. Windows is not COBOL, it will not become our jaded IBM desktop-wise, and Macs will not take over. Sadly, I am a mac fan. I just don't think macs are to spyware the niche Oracle and other new tech are to "supposedly dying" windows trends and applications. Decades will pass before these OSs have a chance of doing anything mainstream. My money is more on the fact that it won't take decades for companies like apple to file for bankrupcy or leave the market altogether. Remember that most of the softw
Some "bad computer people" can do us political harm: Virus mailing to move congresmen against a particular law.
A few years ago something strange happened to my dad's email client, Outlook Express. He had a clean unpublicized address and a rate of about 1 new message per month. Also, he does not speak English. Even if we wanted to, it would have required some googling skills to find our congressman.
Doing a routine mailbox cleanup to destroy spam for dad, I had found his Sent box had a recent message directed to our state's Senator or congressman. It had a carefully crafted message to fight some anti-Financial Aid state proposal and was 'signed' using my dad's full name as found in the OE profile. I never mentioned it to dad thinking it was some random virus attack.
A few weeks later, though, dad received a snail mailed letter from the Congressman [no clue how they found that out though.] Puzzled by the lawyerish-looking document, dad heard my whole story about the unwanted mailout. I made sure in our conversation that the original e-mail was indeed not written by him somehow.
The letter said the Congressman got the email and thanked "dad" for his concern and support, since the congressman's agenda agreed with "dad's" email.
From the looks of it, some renegade local college student had decided to lobby by using a virus spreadinag technique to make the congressman take notice from unsuspecting/potentially unwilling constituents. I would have been mad if this attack had affected a state law against our own political beliefs. The law had already passed with his help, and I never did write back to let the congresman know we had been impersonated.
I dislike the high amount of changes Opera brings in its upgrades. At home, I've frozen my Opera at version 6.05 because of this. Need compliance with standards that new versions supports? Then I fire up FF (Firefox).
In comparison to FF, the user interface in Opera 6 is the best, IMO and besides fast rendering, I can SWITCH between document and personal stylesheets on the fly for those difficult pages that just won't display with my template. For the same CSS changes in FF, I gotta go into that chrome folder and change stuff around in between process boots. There's an extension out there for CSS but doesn't have a good GUI.
My biggest problem with Firefox right now is its speed. My biggest problem with the old Opera I use today is corruption of saved HTML and bookmark file corruption. Lastly, with the newer Operas? Too much innovation for my taste. Painfully as it is, I'm using IE to write this post just because it remains stable, albeit as deprecated as my old Opera.
I wish I could just mix all these features into yet another browser. That's the painful reality of today's choosy web world. Maybe choice isn't too good.:)
It is the CCR5 delta 32 mutation. The PBS program has a synopsis here about this
I remember seeing that the guy with the mutation was told to check himself after he had spent a large number of years, like the older woman in the article, having relations with his fatally infected homosexual lover and several others. This was during the AIDS scare back in the 1980's.
The tests were run several times by exposing his genetically mutated blood to 300 times the required contagious dose of the virus, and seeing the cell walls resist the normal absorption that protects and carries the virus to delicate parts of our system.
I'm not a biologyst --as well as I can remember this is what was described in the program, and the first half was about his medieval family tree. It confirmed that he had the same genes that were curiously immune to the HIV-like virus of the Black Plague, back in the dark ages.
The computer I'm using now, has had a bunch of different systems. Let me help you saying that at 1.1Ghz windows 95 boots in about 15 seconds tops.
I could not keep it on for long, because it seemed that the tradeoff was that my hardware, which was designed for a cheap 2001 computer, was barely recognized and my video drivers didn't support windows 98 (stupid Intel Extreme chip.)
I can boot to 98 in about 40 or 50 seconds now that the system has aged, but because I rarely use my preWin2k systems, they do not gain the burdens added by useless services and such inevitable things that make even current computers "age" if you don't reformat yearly. I am an upgrade luddite who now sees windows booting in about 2 and a half minutes even though the computer was last reformatted in 2/2003. Just think back to my 15 second boot time on the same system. Hell, think about a TRS-80 COCO system that booted to a BASIC interpreter instantaneously, or a Nintendo. How long until our computer trends point BACK to these specialty hardware solutions where an OS is immutable and lies on a Chip (I have no need to upgrade to XP, so why store my OS on the hard drive anyway?)
Automatic saving is possible! Get the Sessionsaver extension (currently 0.2) http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/se ssions aver
and it will ask you for a group name every time you quit --which is annoying for a default behavior, but you can click the checkmark box to do this autosave for you without requiring a name. Voila, your sessions will save seamlessly.
However, I have failed to find data recovery tools. Does anyone out there know of Open Source Floppy recovery?
Seeing how so many pay-for products like Norton Utilities and other near-nameless closed source internet-based companies sell you this stuff, I'd like to see a free implementation I can use at my IT job
Once you get rid of that annoying sleep habit... Just last week that thought occured to me: when humanity masters the workings of the brain and we unravel the regeneration secrets that sleep provides, you can bet your pillow that we'll start seeing "sleep supplements" or sleep substitutes to make our days longer and more productive. People will object to having a truly elongated 24hr day and being awake at night, but we could see radical changes in our job shifts, television schedules and even schools. Just so you remember you heard it here first.
So in those days when our descendants won't have to sleep to stay alive, what will they REALLY do with all the extra hours?
launch.yahoo.com is a webcast service that works pretty well (sorry, only IE, Windows and MacOS 8 with WiMP) . I started using it around sunday and can't understand how they pulled off the license issues.
As a matter of fact, this link from the Launch player shows that they're solving licensing issues with record labels. But I have no clue how Yahoo farmed such a large collection anyway (250,000) songs from all over the listening spectrum.
Launch is good for its friendsterish features, but Yahoo "wants in" and charges money on the features. Maybe when I start my job. It's not CD quality anyway and is targetted to broadband audiences for the obvious reasons.
MySt1k wrote: compared to McDonalds ? True: Both Ouch! This rampant use of ternary conditionals AND plain speech logic can crash a language parser! Time to reboot my brain!
Why? It just occured to me that linux "zealots" can always boot to windows when the need arises. Mac's lack of such "native" accross-system feature in their hardware architecture makes this choice inexistent, and thus there's more pressure about getting more Mac support or implementing something to replace it. See Safari's hold on the Mac browser market as opposed to MacIE, which has been pulled. Suppose MacIE were the only browser out there for the mac community. And it gets pulled. What would its users do to access their equally zealous IE-only e-Banking and e-commmerce sites?
I like the idea of intuitive programming, but suspect that computers are grounded in logic and that logic is not an intuitive concept.
Slightly OT: This is indeed hitting the nail on the head. My father and I have lots of disagreement on the issue of "common sense." I am very smart and he is so too, but tends to fall behind when it comes to explaining... or rather, just ACCEPTING unknowns and their repercussion in logic. Say, If I withhold a fact in an argument but claim to be "right," he will say there is just NO way of winning the argument --and then I produce the "new evidence." He sometimes recoils thinking his logic models cannot be blown away by my (normal logic + hidden evidence).
Whenever he says that I should know something because it's intuitive, I bring up example after example of why he's mistaken to expect all logical conclusions to be == to his. We saw a lady in a TV contest who had to see words hidden behind her husband and make him guess the , through signs and gestures she made for him. She stumbled upon "otorrino," (this TV show is in spanish) which is short for otolaringologyst, and said that she didn't know the word. Well, I won't get into more complex translation details. Suffice to say that she didn't know what it was and had to skip to the next thing. My father was outraged:
She speaks 7 languages.
The word is pretty simple latin and her 7 languages MUST therefore encompass latin.
Young children and thus, anyone raising them, should be familiar with this doctor because he deals with "ubiquitous" eye problems, ear infections and nose issues.
Besides being familiar with the doctor, must know the exact name of the doctorate which is literally "ottorhinolaryngologyst."
Her job in Europe is with a law firm TRANSLATING legal documents.
Any hispanic woman speaking 7 languages must have gone through enough 'education' to have seen the word, if she cannot derive it from latin
Only my father, by (5) can decide whether you should or shouldn't KNOW a word, concept or whatever, just based on your "expected" life experience
I asked my dad why he rationalizes which concepts she SHOULD know rather than why she just DIDN'T know what he's 100% sure she already grasps. Moreover, he's always too shocked to see through his own failure at accepting that common sense doesn't exist, and instead trying to verbally fix something that is has proven false before his own eyes. But some people think they already know what is and isn't IMPOSSIBLE.
I can list three other languages besides english and spanish that I can understand, so I speak 5 languages, right? No. This is an example of misinformation and generalization: If she says she speaks 7, it doesn't mean her job has made her command them all --even if you 'knew' as many languages as the Pope and had to work in New York City's linguistic melting pot, you will never exert more than 3 language roles in your official capacity, and your "other 4 languages" will be pet languages, specially if you're only 35. But sometimes dad waves off my facts as crazy talk of today's young and naive offspring. Too bad. Sometimes he's surprised at how lucky I am when my "wrong logic" can get him so many nice surprises when his ways should be the only solution to my "poor common sense." You can tell I deal with control freak parents eh?
Check out a report of how Zeez Universal IM System copied sections of the popular GPLedMiranda IM. Down to the label strings in places and a "blank"-ed GPL agreement dialog!
Really it's fairly simple [... ] but it would also be horribly prone to errors in the long run
With today's gyroscopes and regulators, it isn't so hard to have "backup" voltages for failing systems: We already do this in the music industry, and there was an article here months ago indicating our current achievement:
Singer X goes on stage, singing live. Singer sings note Y offkey. The Pitch Regulator(tm) picks the fault and produces the intended voltage/sound and snaps the note to its intended target, before it gets heard through the stage speakers.
So why can't simple non-oscillating ternary voltages be controlled in realtime? Off, "mid" and "top" when fully defined in specs for a ternary circuit are
constant, unlike the musical notes in my example where regulators need to compensate for the singer's custom pitch and timbre
a lot easier to calculate on the fly than the nuances of our EXPONENTIAL diatonic music scales.
The main problem, perhaps, is how many "regulators" ensure reliable coverage of ENTIRE circuits, and/or how much higher the top voltage needs to go to ensure that we have enough 'resolution' to catch bogus voltages and boost or reduce 'em to normal. Your own network repeater, is a voltage regulator.
I'm not an average/. reader but I didn't notice any mistakes. Not till I saw your reply and tried re-scanning it.
But you know what? I routinely post and waste about 3 times more time (sic) proofreading and placing syntactically good html code and links... and then editing --can't edit here, but check out the journals! whew, what a time killer:) . And on top of that, hitting that darn "preview button." You know, my behavior ashames me, now.
Returning to my first point, I tend to skim over words and not notice mistakes --because of my bad eyesight / reading in the dark with green letters on black stylesheet.
Good thing I found Orion Blaster's comment. Hey, friend, I suppose you have followed the Scream of the Shalka Series they did in Flash, right? Is it over? About two weeks and I haven't seen new eps posted.
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The Emacs maintainer has called the statements irrelevant and won't affect their decision to merge the LLDB support.
Now that persuasion has failed, I suppose he could fork it.
Winner! This is BRILLIANT : )
This is the only time I have seen a *plausible* use of the "don't like it? fork it" on slashdot since my 1998 awakening to Slashdot*. The other 99.9% of the time the rest of you guys are just being jerks by asking us random non-coder slashdotters to fork stuff, like Firefox and Chrome. It's like being slapped in the face with a strawman and insult at the same time (fractaltiger *must be* lazy and dumb if he won't fork after pointing out some design flaw in that program, ignore its millions of lines of code).
Browsers change every month and are hugely un-maintainable by individual coders in the long term anyway :)
I should be able to reasonably expect a level of service and security that includes the possibility that the enemy may have the information above.
So, if YOUR root password were known by your wife, then you must publish it for everyone to see? The enemy only increases in number the easier you make it for them do use your weaknesses.
If we're assuming that the President will die if ever anyone gets a hold of the guard rotation, for example, then maybe we need to rethink that plan. If I secured my company's assets this way, I'd lose my job.
It's naive to think that the president's only protection is that. Think of all the "useless stuff" that we do with day-to-day security, like setting up both WPA2 AND mac filtering. It's always "just in case." The harder you work to "hide" something, the fewer "evil" people will be interested or able to find it, even if your actions raise orders of magnitude more eyebrows. Look at how RSA encryption is still reliable.
Rockets should not be password-only protection. RSA keys seem to be in order, because, again, if they're good enough for GE and Intel, then they're damn-sure good enough for a NUCLEAR WEAPON!
I was going to make a stronger refute, but just really want to help. There's some circular logic if you want the above solution. Adding an RSA key or any key is moot if the government DOES comply to disclose everything impersonal (I noticed you didn't argue against securing individual soldier's privacy, and applaud you for this.) I'll go a step further: Suppose they added iris scans and DNA checks to the launch codes. Then, being transparent, the state is forced to release the names of those imprinted with the correct DNA, suggesting a physical search to coerce that person for codes and bodypart matches.
In our current world's government, a "proper leak" could release that person's location and cause trouble anyway, but in a fully transparent state, the information already out there is dangerously easy to misuse. An enemy does illegal things without any transparency at all; why give them the upper hand if it will not play by your openness game. All that said, I understand that we need more transparency, but obscurity in the government is done mostly for the same reason parents keep sex from kids until they're ready for it --or, if you may, the location of your firearms: self and general protection.
Your answer is answered by the Line of sight (think laser or flashlight) versus omni-directional wave (think home WiFI.) A remote can't power your TV from behind, can it?
I replaced my battery this week... line of sight only appears to be omnidirectional because with strong enough batteries, the signal 'leaks' even if you aren't pointing in a straight line. When batteries went low, our remote stopped being able to power the TV unless a very strict angle of incidence was kept. My old relatives doesn't understand angles, only that the TV is broken. I don't agree with wasteful tech, but I'm sure the /. community, being spend-prone as they are, would rather have something that their family doesn't need to complain about in strange situations.
Yeah, you need more batteries to get the added benefit of increased reception and advanced coordination of DVD-TV-DVR-Remote commands like someone else suggested. The batteries problem and the fact that the responsiveness is slower than current remotes why the future is kinda bleak. Hell, I hate our HDTV cable box. You push a button and it's almost half a second before the channel is changed. Move to normal channels and the problem is gone somewhat. Use the standard DTV box, and the lag is only half. Use a 15-year old analog box, and the response is instant. The trend is not encouraging, because you would think the public and market forces would have regulated this failure out of the market.
Have you even seen how slowly TV's and cable boxes boot these days? Geez. No wonder people go online for media. Our dollars have a higher voting power there than with other media. Er, back to the thread. Thanks for your time.
Haven't tried this stuff, but know that Windows will tell you when you reconfigure a network to use different encryption. It then rejects your login until you go to a very specific connection wizard and tell it to the correct new type.
Just get enough money in cash, go to mexico/canada which ever is farther from your normal place of residence and spend the time at campgrounds.
Why a campground, when you can just stay at an INN. This is specially good if the country you go to is in Europe and doesn't speak English. Any attempts to mine information on you will decrease significantly if the other 3 participants stay in the US while hunting you requires communicating with people and getting records in a little known language.
I don't recommend Spain nor Italy, since somewhat literally, "everyone and their mother" in the US can speak it, assisting your tracker on long distance calls and such. Portugal sounds good, or Germany, but not Russian speaking countries for the same reason. Barring Europe, Japan might be a good choice too, language wise, but the plane fare is steep.
Even if your tracker person were commited to pursue via a plane, attempts to chase people across oceans, languages AND very strict privacy / cultural boundaries are prone to failure. Strangers with little command of the local language can't easily receive restaurant / hotel / bank and credit card bills even with cash bribes that are common in those countries. Your tracker won't be shelling money if they're not sure how far they can get in uncharted territories, even if they were assured some modest reward from the contest's organizers.
i hear this a lot. false.
remember how hard it is to code for win32 gui apps when all you learned was console C++ or shell programming from books and school. Now, look hard and long at a Windows API book and tell me it was easy to learn. False. Now, look at how much code is EVER ported to LINUX or macs that is NOT already open source and NOT from mega companies like MS, Adobe and a few random game makers. See the trend? Macs are already "pretty hot stuff" in the USA for college students, yet you nee no games ported and few Productivity Apps or programs beyond educational purposes. But I digress.
Back to my point, you cannot just port your spyware, since IE for the mac is dead, and even that was a completely incompatible app that AFAIK could never even run active-X. When a website's spyware got nasty with it, it just crashed and you had to switch to a native browser for that page. Now, picture a crossplatform browser like FF. Suppose that you can find security holes, youll just go the easy way and code for windows, since macs have different file path structures and a "admin accounts can't touch each other and root is disabled" rules that make hacking the System files with native code the only viable point of invasion.
Now, forgetting this insurmountable problem that is the exact reason NVidia posts only one or two builds of their linux drivers and leaves you to compile your own (again, this cheats my statement by opening some source code in a world of closed spyware sources) for example, there is the worst problem of all: You need to become well-versed in new system APIs for linux and macs. Especially for macos, my friend. No, your VB tools will not help you when "macs and linux are mainstream" if that ever does happen, because MS has steered clear of other OS's. This is good for nonportability of Viruses and crap. Remember that office macros dont care much if you're running on a mac, because the API was the same on both --beyond that, you must code maliciously from scratch, which costs debugging, research time and $, of course. Most spyware programmers are small shops that can hardly spend budget on retraining staff on new languages, let alone new OSs and development tools for macs. Linux is more open and free, so it poses a much nicer dev-tool learning curve, but you know that most apps need to be "kernel compiled" and flavor dependent to truly run on your box. If you dont believe this, just up the stakes to larger legitimate companies and think back to all those DOS batch files that you thought you'd never see again after windows 95. AdAware 1.3 still updates itself using this technoogy. Seems like people have a hard time learning the newer VBscript in their own "code backyard." Defacto tools and OS aren't even that accessible. That is my point.
Again, people groan at having to code in a different language where the entire app needs a rewrite (if it did not, then how come MS has NEVER released PC and Mac office simultaneously?). Legit large companies know this barrier. You know this. COBOL programmers know this --their code is still used decades after we believed it had to open way to new technologies and programmers, yet it is hard to kill because companies can't afford to demolish the huge barriers to entrance of new standards (reminds me that IE isn't that compliant either.) If you see Windows with the same eyes you see COBOL-run mainframes, counting down the years till the programmers retire / expire and the company ends up upgrading to Oracle and MS solutions, then you will be in for disappointment. Windows is not COBOL, it will not become our jaded IBM desktop-wise, and Macs will not take over. Sadly, I am a mac fan. I just don't think macs are to spyware the niche Oracle and other new tech are to "supposedly dying" windows trends and applications. Decades will pass before these OSs have a chance of doing anything mainstream. My money is more on the fact that it won't take decades for companies like apple to file for bankrupcy or leave the market altogether. Remember that most of the softw
Slightly OT:
Some "bad computer people" can do us political harm: Virus mailing to move congresmen against a particular law.
A few years ago something strange happened to my dad's email client, Outlook Express. He had a clean unpublicized address and a rate of about 1 new message per month. Also, he does not speak English. Even if we wanted to, it would have required some googling skills to find our congressman.
Doing a routine mailbox cleanup to destroy spam for dad, I had found his Sent box had a recent message directed to our state's Senator or congressman. It had a carefully crafted message to fight some anti-Financial Aid state proposal and was 'signed' using my dad's full name as found in the OE profile. I never mentioned it to dad thinking it was some random virus attack.
A few weeks later, though, dad received a snail mailed letter from the Congressman [no clue how they found that out though.] Puzzled by the lawyerish-looking document, dad heard my whole story about the unwanted mailout. I made sure in our conversation that the original e-mail was indeed not written by him somehow.
The letter said the Congressman got the email and thanked "dad" for his concern and support, since the congressman's agenda agreed with "dad's" email.
From the looks of it, some renegade local college student had decided to lobby by using a virus spreadinag technique to make the congressman take notice from unsuspecting/potentially unwilling constituents. I would have been mad if this attack had affected a state law against our own political beliefs. The law had already passed with his help, and I never did write back to let the congresman know we had been impersonated.
I dislike the high amount of changes Opera brings in its upgrades. At home, I've frozen my Opera at version 6.05 because of this. Need compliance with standards that new versions supports? Then I fire up FF (Firefox).
:)
In comparison to FF, the user interface in Opera 6 is the best, IMO and besides fast rendering, I can SWITCH between document and personal stylesheets on the fly for those difficult pages that just won't display with my template. For the same CSS changes in FF, I gotta go into that chrome folder and change stuff around in between process boots. There's an extension out there for CSS but doesn't have a good GUI.
My biggest problem with Firefox right now is its speed. My biggest problem with the old Opera I use today is corruption of saved HTML and bookmark file corruption. Lastly, with the newer Operas? Too much innovation for my taste. Painfully as it is, I'm using IE to write this post just because it remains stable, albeit as deprecated as my old Opera.
I wish I could just mix all these features into yet another browser. That's the painful reality of today's choosy web world. Maybe choice isn't too good.
I remember seeing that the guy with the mutation was told to check himself after he had spent a large number of years, like the older woman in the article, having relations with his fatally infected homosexual lover and several others. This was during the AIDS scare back in the 1980's.
The tests were run several times by exposing his genetically mutated blood to 300 times the required contagious dose of the virus, and seeing the cell walls resist the normal absorption that protects and carries the virus to delicate parts of our system.
I'm not a biologyst --as well as I can remember this is what was described in the program, and the first half was about his medieval family tree. It confirmed that he had the same genes that were curiously immune to the HIV-like virus of the Black Plague, back in the dark ages.
The computer I'm using now, has had a bunch of different systems. Let me help you saying that at 1.1Ghz windows 95 boots in about 15 seconds tops.
I could not keep it on for long, because it seemed that the tradeoff was that my hardware, which was designed for a cheap 2001 computer, was barely recognized and my video drivers didn't support windows 98 (stupid Intel Extreme chip.)
I can boot to 98 in about 40 or 50 seconds now that the system has aged, but because I rarely use my preWin2k systems, they do not gain the burdens added by useless services and such inevitable things that make even current computers "age" if you don't reformat yearly. I am an upgrade luddite who now sees windows booting in about 2 and a half minutes even though the computer was last reformatted in 2/2003. Just think back to my 15 second boot time on the same system. Hell, think about a TRS-80 COCO system that booted to a BASIC interpreter instantaneously, or a Nintendo. How long until our computer trends point BACK to these specialty hardware solutions where an OS is immutable and lies on a Chip (I have no need to upgrade to XP, so why store my OS on the hard drive anyway?)
Automatic saving is possible!e ssions aver
Get the Sessionsaver extension (currently 0.2)
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/s
and it will ask you for a group name every time you quit --which is annoying for a default behavior, but you can click the checkmark box to do this autosave for you without requiring a name. Voila, your sessions will save seamlessly.
every front desk shall run this script:
#undef ELEVATOR_MUSIC SOFT_CLASSICAL_PTR
#define ELEVATOR_MUSIC SILENCE
I have seen plenty of security tools.
However, I have failed to find data recovery tools. Does anyone out there know of Open Source Floppy recovery?
Seeing how so many pay-for products like Norton Utilities and other near-nameless closed source internet-based companies sell you this stuff, I'd like to see a free implementation I can use at my IT job
Once you get rid of that annoying sleep habit... Just last week that thought occured to me: when humanity masters the workings of the brain and we unravel the regeneration secrets that sleep provides, you can bet your pillow that we'll start seeing "sleep supplements" or sleep substitutes to make our days longer and more productive. People will object to having a truly elongated 24hr day and being awake at night, but we could see radical changes in our job shifts, television schedules and even schools. Just so you remember you heard it here first.
So in those days when our descendants won't have to sleep to stay alive, what will they REALLY do with all the extra hours?
launch.yahoo.com is a webcast service that works pretty well (sorry, only IE, Windows and MacOS 8 with WiMP) . I started using it around sunday and can't understand how they pulled off the license issues.
As a matter of fact, this link from the Launch player shows that they're solving licensing issues with record labels. But I have no clue how Yahoo farmed such a large collection anyway (250,000) songs from all over the listening spectrum.
Launch is good for its friendsterish features, but Yahoo "wants in" and charges money on the features. Maybe when I start my job. It's not CD quality anyway and is targetted to broadband audiences for the obvious reasons.
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compared to McDonalds ? True
Ouch! This rampant use of ternary conditionals AND plain speech logic can crash a language parser! Time to reboot my brain!
Thousands of messages since February contain paper mail addresses. No reason given, and no mention at all of CAN SPAM.
The Apple zealots are worse than Linux'es own
Why? It just occured to me that linux "zealots" can always boot to windows when the need arises. Mac's lack of such "native" accross-system feature in their hardware architecture makes this choice inexistent, and thus there's more pressure about getting more Mac support or implementing something to replace it. See Safari's hold on the Mac browser market as opposed to MacIE, which has been pulled. Suppose MacIE were the only browser out there for the mac community. And it gets pulled. What would its users do to access their equally zealous IE-only e-Banking and e-commmerce sites?
This puts another spin on the phrase "reaching the stars for HER" right?
Slightly OT: ... or rather, just ACCEPTING unknowns and their repercussion in logic. Say, If I withhold a fact in an argument but claim to be "right," he will say there is just NO way of winning the argument --and then I produce the "new evidence." He sometimes recoils thinking his logic models cannot be blown away by my (normal logic + hidden evidence).
This is indeed hitting the nail on the head. My father and I have lots of disagreement on the issue of "common sense." I am very smart and he is so too, but tends to fall behind when it comes to explaining
Whenever he says that I should know something because it's intuitive, I bring up example after example of why he's mistaken to expect all logical conclusions to be == to his. We saw a lady in a TV contest who had to see words hidden behind her husband and make him guess the , through signs and gestures she made for him. She stumbled upon "otorrino," (this TV show is in spanish) which is short for otolaringologyst, and said that she didn't know the word. Well, I won't get into more complex translation details. Suffice to say that she didn't know what it was and had to skip to the next thing. My father was outraged:
I asked my dad why he rationalizes which concepts she SHOULD know rather than why she just DIDN'T know what he's 100% sure she already grasps. Moreover, he's always too shocked to see through his own failure at accepting that common sense doesn't exist, and instead trying to verbally fix something that is has proven false before his own eyes. But some people think they already know what is and isn't IMPOSSIBLE.
I can list three other languages besides english and spanish that I can understand, so I speak 5 languages, right? No. This is an example of misinformation and generalization: If she says she speaks 7, it doesn't mean her job has made her command them all --even if you 'knew' as many languages as the Pope and had to work in New York City's linguistic melting pot, you will never exert more than 3 language roles in your official capacity, and your "other 4 languages" will be pet languages, specially if you're only 35. But sometimes dad waves off my facts as crazy talk of today's young and naive offspring. Too bad. Sometimes he's surprised at how lucky I am when my "wrong logic" can get him so many nice surprises when his ways should be the only solution to my "poor common sense." You can tell I deal with control freak parents eh?
Thaat should help us fight today's rampant code bloat ;)
http://miranda-icq.sourceforge.net/zeez-im/
Check out a report of how Zeez Universal IM System copied sections of the popular GPLed Miranda IM. Down to the label strings in places and a "blank"-ed GPL agreement dialog!
~fractal
Singer X goes on stage, singing live. Singer sings note Y offkey. The Pitch Regulator(tm) picks the fault and produces the intended voltage/sound and snaps the note to its intended target, before it gets heard through the stage speakers.
So why can't simple non-oscillating ternary voltages be controlled in realtime? Off, "mid" and "top" when fully defined in specs for a ternary circuit are
The main problem, perhaps, is how many "regulators" ensure reliable coverage of ENTIRE circuits, and/or how much higher the top voltage needs to go to ensure that we have enough 'resolution' to catch bogus voltages and boost or reduce 'em to normal. Your own network repeater, is a voltage regulator.
I'm not an average /. reader but I didn't notice any mistakes. Not till I saw your reply and tried re-scanning it.
:) . And on top of that, hitting that darn "preview button." You know, my behavior ashames me, now.
But you know what? I routinely post and waste about 3 times more time (sic) proofreading and placing syntactically good html code and links... and then editing --can't edit here, but check out the journals! whew, what a time killer
Returning to my first point, I tend to skim over words and not notice mistakes --because of my bad eyesight / reading in the dark with green letters on black stylesheet.
Good thing I found Orion Blaster's comment. Hey, friend, I suppose you have followed the Scream of the Shalka Series they did in Flash, right? Is it over? About two weeks and I haven't seen new eps posted.
It's http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/shalka