As a leftist extremist...Something that would actually reduce the cost of expensive private schools for those who can't afford it would be great.
Explain to me how this is a "leftist extremist" point of view. Something about what you claim to be and what you support is not jiving. The only "extreme" point of view you're supporting here is that you believe private schools should be subsidized by the government (without all the burdensome "regulations" and "mandated enrollment" that public schools are stuck with). So as a taxpayer I get to pay for an institution that could deny my kid attendance arbitrarily?
How does dropping flash for HTML5 remove an attack vector? It just replace one attack vector with another.
Other have expounded on it, but I'll summarize: You drop a proprietary (single point of failure) vendor who has been slow about security. Had Adobe been very security conscious, [removing flash for security purposes] may not be a credible argument, but as it stands, Adobe is bad at security.
If Adobe were to move to HTML5, it would no longer be a single-point-of-failure since you can create HTML5 without Adobe.
Which is what? An economic collapse? A justification for war?
The Chinese government is just like any other government (they have more control over their populace). Chinese in general are really fond of business opportunities, which get harmed by this action.
My first thought was, did they compensate for redshift? Apparently they did, the article didn't explain, but a commenter did:
30. TMB Says:
March 24th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
To everyone who's asking "why didn't they look at this before?" - it's a lot harder. In the rest frame, Lyman-alpha is in the far-UV and H-alpha (what physicists call Balmer-alpha) is in the optical. But out at these redshifts, Lyman-alpha is redshifted into the optical (which is easy to observe) and H-alpha is redshifted out into the infrared (which is harder to observe).
You do realize all those things you listed are perfectly free? As are the right to not be subject to unreasonable searches and the right not to incriminate yourself.
Huh? Freedom is NOT FREE. We must pay for it, initially in blood, and subsequently with vigilance and the rule of law. These are costs, just because you didn't or don't currently realize you're paying for them, doesn't mean they're not being paid.
In economics, a natural monopoly occurs when, due to the economies of scale of a particular industry, the maximum efficiency of production and distribution is realized through a single supplier, but in some cases inefficiency may take place.
Natural monopolies arise where the largest supplier in an industry, often the first supplier in a market, has an overwhelming cost advantage over other actual or potential competitors.
Your account of history is a bit flawed. The local monopolies came to pass because they were more efficient. In this case, the best way to manage the situation is to either create a thicket of regulation to prevent the local monopoly from abusing it's position, or to just let the government run that natural monopoly.
In essence, Google questioned the status quo too directly, and so it has been silenced by being driven into exile. To do anything other than exile Google would have caused the Central Government to lose face, which is a humiliation which must not be allowed.
Surely the Linux world learned its lesson from the desktop wars, hasn't it?
What a completely stupid question. Guess what? It's not like Linus can actually command some tablet maker to not use Linux, unless that manufacturer violates GPL. Other than that, you can Tivo-ize Linux, hide it safely inside a cluster of google compute-nodes, hell you could even put it in a missle and fire it off. Not much that Linus, Redhat or anyone from the "desktop wars" could anything about. "50 different tablets" is just another page in the unfinished book of Linux.
Personally I'd like to know how he thinks he's going to stop it. Nothing like telling someone 'no' to challenge them.
Seriously... any device that serves as a wifi AP should be a valid signal for the iPad... how are they going to discriminate? If I did have a wireless-enabled family, I'd seriously consider just using the verizon MiFi and iPod Touch / iPad wifi (in addition to other devices, laptop, etc).
And what institution managed that? The Federal Reserve, another institution Paul despises. Paul is not a stupid man, but if he imagines that the economy was free of the boom-bust cycle before the invention of the Federal Reserve, he's simply missing history.
We may need a new solution, but the old solutions have already been disproven. That's why the Fed was created in the first place.
The issue isn't that we have an imperfect solution to the problem, it's that the imperfect solution has been degraded by corruption. We need to the fear of the citizens into the Fed. Right now, they (unelected) are effectively controlling government (elected) when it should be the other way around.
I wrote that "racist" post. I'm not racist. I'm a troll. If saying "grass is green" was effective as a troll then i would say that. It isn't, so i say "nigger." It obviously worked on you, you really seem to have got your panties in a bunch over it.
Slashdot mods don't troll-rate posts just because they're PC, they troll-rate them because your posts serve NO PURPOSE IN THIS DISCUSSION other than to waste our time. Stop wasting our collective bandwidth. Go away.
So... instead of social engineering to get a password, the attacker uses a virus or rootkit, then the intruder can lift the key right off the system.
If an intruder has an installed rootkit on a trusted system like a developer machine, you're pretty much f*cked anyway... at that point, keylogging will yield far more access (all commonly used credentials, for example). Furthermore, a certificate is a host-guest combination, whereas a password will work from anywhere the host is visible (less secure).
Face it, certificates are simply more secure than passwords.
No one will ever make a system where everyone gets a stellar education, but at least you could have one that doesn't selectively shaft entire strata of the society.
Be careful, or you'll be labeled a socialist.
That aside, I would disagree with your conclusion. Even only having federal spending for education will run into the local politics problem. Haivng good schooling across the board is the SAME problem as why some people on this plant starve even though we have more than enough food for everyone. The problem is corruption and extreme parsimony in distribution of resources.
Lots of folks in this country and this world subscribe to the belief that "It's not good enough for me/my group to succeed, I/we must do better than anyone else, and I'll kneecap others to make this happen".
A botnet, ignoring abusing somebody else's resources, could in theory be used to try and find a cure for cancer. In practice it will probably be used by spammers.
You could say the same of any organized group of resources, controlled by a small group of people (or a person). Society generally tends to be very wary of this, as they may be used for good (companies,political parties,manufacturing facilities) or evil (rogue militias,gangs,botnets)... in either case, the control mechanism is that there is auditing and transparency for the society (and body that governs that society as a proxy) to feel comfortable that the organized group is not a threat. Otherwise, these groups are generally kept track of, and if need be, broken up forcibly... to do otherwise would be foolish and might endanger the society itself.
Spain needs to recognize (in law) that a botnet not only infringes on the zombie owners' property rights, but also represents a threat to society as there is no transparency involved.
If you are honestly worried about employment-ending conflicts, you should always keep a paper trail.
A good way to keep a paper trail of a discussed conversation would be to summarize the conversation, then request confirmation of agreements in the reply (you can try assuming confirmation, by writing the letter such that the confirmation was verbal in the meeting, but that could be later called into question). No confirmation, no action.
And just so it helps your aunt Tilly switch from XP, it also tucks those window close/restore/minimize buttons to the left. "Oh, great, like OS X!", I hear you thinking? Well, no, not really - to prevent further confusion, the buttons are still in the same relative order as on Windows (that is, Close is rightmost, not leftmost).
If "usability" is Ubuntu's main objective, then this is a first major failure... they have decided to regress against Fitt's Law for the close button, since it's now no longer in the easily found corner of the window, but instead nestled in the 3rd button position... now usability of this common function (close window) is Windows (can close using both left-upper-corner double-click and clicking the Red X on right-upper-corner), followed by OSX (Click the right-upper-corner red circle) followed by Ubuntu (click on red circle, but its not near a corner).
One reason to hate this redesign... who TF masterminded this?
It definitely does not. Apple might say otherwise, I have no idea what the official statement of battery life is, but my 3GS less than 6 months old cannot do that on a full battery charge.
You should take yours into the nearest Apple Store. I did, was recommended to re-install the OS, and applications (lost my saved games, but meh), and it greatly improved my 3GS battery... apparently having a 2G->3GS upgraded restore image from 2007 was not being supported well.
Aren't you forgetting about Symbian?...
You know, that smarthpone OS which almost has more marketshare than all the platforms you mentioned, combined...
The GP poster is clearly from the USA as he refers to AT&T being his preferred provider.
According to Wikipedia, Symbian smartphone marketshare in the USA lags others
Symbian has the largest share in most markets worldwide, but lags behind other companies in the relatively small but highly visible North American market.
Furthermore, it's not actually clear that Nokia smartphones are even sold by providers here, meaning they're at a disadvantage due to the consumer having to pay full price for the handset + the normal subscription rates and contract duration.
"...Most paraquat that contaminates marijuana is pyrolyzed during smoking to dipyridyl, which is a product of combustion of the leaf material itself..."
note: that passage is actually attributed to the US EPA, but found in the above link
Push-button ignition can be turned off by holding down the button (kind of like with a computer)...
... and waiting for the software interrupt to get picked up by the CPU, which may be in a hung state.
This is not how computers work, nor is it not how I think cars work either. The CPU should never get a choice of whether a long-duration power off (hard power cut) happens. It should bypass the CPU and just cut power to the device.
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Explain to me how this is a "leftist extremist" point of view. Something about what you claim to be and what you support is not jiving. The only "extreme" point of view you're supporting here is that you believe private schools should be subsidized by the government (without all the burdensome "regulations" and "mandated enrollment" that public schools are stuck with). So as a taxpayer I get to pay for an institution that could deny my kid attendance arbitrarily?
Other have expounded on it, but I'll summarize: You drop a proprietary (single point of failure) vendor who has been slow about security. Had Adobe been very security conscious, [removing flash for security purposes] may not be a credible argument, but as it stands, Adobe is bad at security.
If Adobe were to move to HTML5, it would no longer be a single-point-of-failure since you can create HTML5 without Adobe.
Is it me, or did that pic give anyone else a TOS flashback where they meet some energy-based alien that fucks with the ship?
Which is what? An economic collapse? A justification for war?
The Chinese government is just like any other government (they have more control over their populace). Chinese in general are really fond of business opportunities, which get harmed by this action.
So you're basically saying, "Don't hate the playa, hate the game". I agree.
Since you feel you need an SP2 for business use...
Windows 7 IS Vista SP2.
Huh? Freedom is NOT FREE. We must pay for it, initially in blood, and subsequently with vigilance and the rule of law. These are costs, just because you didn't or don't currently realize you're paying for them, doesn't mean they're not being paid.
One of my favorite ideas (though I'm not with USAA): https://www.usaa.com/inet/ent_utils/McStaticPages?key=usaa_mobile_iphone_main
We're talking a technical term here natural monopoly:
Your account of history is a bit flawed. The local monopolies came to pass because they were more efficient. In this case, the best way to manage the situation is to either create a thicket of regulation to prevent the local monopoly from abusing it's position, or to just let the government run that natural monopoly.
Why in the world would you want to run GMail over activesync? IMAP with idle works great for my gmail account.
What a completely stupid question. Guess what? It's not like Linus can actually command some tablet maker to not use Linux, unless that manufacturer violates GPL. Other than that, you can Tivo-ize Linux, hide it safely inside a cluster of google compute-nodes, hell you could even put it in a missle and fire it off. Not much that Linus, Redhat or anyone from the "desktop wars" could anything about. "50 different tablets" is just another page in the unfinished book of Linux.
Seriously... any device that serves as a wifi AP should be a valid signal for the iPad... how are they going to discriminate? If I did have a wireless-enabled family, I'd seriously consider just using the verizon MiFi and iPod Touch / iPad wifi (in addition to other devices, laptop, etc).
The issue isn't that we have an imperfect solution to the problem, it's that the imperfect solution has been degraded by corruption. We need to the fear of the citizens into the Fed. Right now, they (unelected) are effectively controlling government (elected) when it should be the other way around.
Slashdot mods don't troll-rate posts just because they're PC, they troll-rate them because your posts serve NO PURPOSE IN THIS DISCUSSION other than to waste our time. Stop wasting our collective bandwidth. Go away.
If an intruder has an installed rootkit on a trusted system like a developer machine, you're pretty much f*cked anyway... at that point, keylogging will yield far more access (all commonly used credentials, for example). Furthermore, a certificate is a host-guest combination, whereas a password will work from anywhere the host is visible (less secure).
Face it, certificates are simply more secure than passwords.
Be careful, or you'll be labeled a socialist.
That aside, I would disagree with your conclusion. Even only having federal spending for education will run into the local politics problem. Haivng good schooling across the board is the SAME problem as why some people on this plant starve even though we have more than enough food for everyone. The problem is corruption and extreme parsimony in distribution of resources.
Lots of folks in this country and this world subscribe to the belief that "It's not good enough for me/my group to succeed, I/we must do better than anyone else, and I'll kneecap others to make this happen".
You could say the same of any organized group of resources, controlled by a small group of people (or a person). Society generally tends to be very wary of this, as they may be used for good (companies,political parties,manufacturing facilities) or evil (rogue militias,gangs,botnets)... in either case, the control mechanism is that there is auditing and transparency for the society (and body that governs that society as a proxy) to feel comfortable that the organized group is not a threat. Otherwise, these groups are generally kept track of, and if need be, broken up forcibly... to do otherwise would be foolish and might endanger the society itself.
Spain needs to recognize (in law) that a botnet not only infringes on the zombie owners' property rights, but also represents a threat to society as there is no transparency involved.
A good way to keep a paper trail of a discussed conversation would be to summarize the conversation, then request confirmation of agreements in the reply (you can try assuming confirmation, by writing the letter such that the confirmation was verbal in the meeting, but that could be later called into question). No confirmation, no action.
If "usability" is Ubuntu's main objective, then this is a first major failure... they have decided to regress against Fitt's Law for the close button, since it's now no longer in the easily found corner of the window, but instead nestled in the 3rd button position... now usability of this common function (close window) is Windows (can close using both left-upper-corner double-click and clicking the Red X on right-upper-corner), followed by OSX (Click the right-upper-corner red circle) followed by Ubuntu (click on red circle, but its not near a corner).
One reason to hate this redesign... who TF masterminded this?
You should take yours into the nearest Apple Store. I did, was recommended to re-install the OS, and applications (lost my saved games, but meh), and it greatly improved my 3GS battery... apparently having a 2G->3GS upgraded restore image from 2007 was not being supported well.
The GP poster is clearly from the USA as he refers to AT&T being his preferred provider. According to Wikipedia, Symbian smartphone marketshare in the USA lags others
Furthermore, it's not actually clear that Nokia smartphones are even sold by providers here, meaning they're at a disadvantage due to the consumer having to pay full price for the handset + the normal subscription rates and contract duration.
From Wikipedia:
note: that passage is actually attributed to the US EPA, but found in the above link
This is not how computers work, nor is it not how I think cars work either. The CPU should never get a choice of whether a long-duration power off (hard power cut) happens. It should bypass the CPU and just cut power to the device.