Don't try to argue against people who think "case law" or "precedent" have any legal weight to them.
They simply can't comprehend that they are merely tools to speed up the process of judging individual cases when a similar case has been decided on in the past. The fact that all cases are to be judged according to the spirit and letter of the law is irrelevant to these people. They either believe "case law" to actually BE law, or they WANT the judiciary to legislate from the bench.
In windows, you can do things. You can run software which does things. If you have the rights to do X, software you run also has that right.
If you have any Windows system made in the last 12 years, you have the ability to run as a restricted user. If you have any Windows system made in the last 8 and a half years, you run as a restricted user by default.
Microsoft does not control the software developers that write applications for Windows. Microsoft does not audit every line of code they write. Microsoft has no way of knowing whether what program X wants to do is good or bad.
What would you prefer Microsoft do? Make it impossible for a user to do X, just to prevent possibly malicious usage of X by programs? Would you prefer they make it impossible to install any software not digitally signed by Bill Gates himself?
Do you want MS to maintain a repository of every single executable out there? (Hint: Tens of millions for windows, thousands for Linux).
Try running most Windows XP software and see what happens.
Try running a Linux build from 8 and a half years ago and see what happens.
My update-manager updates all my installed programs. Windows Update does Windows and Office, everything else is hodgepodge.
Windows update updates windows. Microsoft update updates windows, office, all other ms software, and any WHQL drivers.
I am very familiar with Windows, it is one of the reasons I switched to Linux.
Troll more, fag.
It is present in Adobe Reader, it has already been patched out of FoxIt and it never existed in XPDF.
It's a bug in the PDF spec. It affects Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, Foxit versions up to whatever, etc. etc..
Linux is not immune but the singular fact that you are not running as root mitigates a lot of possible damage.
No it doesn't. Malware doesn't need root access to do shit. Nothing is mitigated anymore than it is on Windows, which you shouldn't have be running as root on ever since fucking NT.
You fucking morons want patents and licensing to be completely destroyed, until someone does something as heinous as using some open source code, completely rewriting it to make it actually work, and then not providing a link to the source code for their entire product. Free ANYTHING doesn't work. Without profit to be had, there is no incentive to advance.
If you morons get your way, there will be no large software companies for you to steal ideas from. And let's be clear about it, that's all 99% of FOSS is - stolen ideas reimplemented.
You can shout all the fuck you want about your freedom, but there are laws. Laws which, when applied, will have 99% of FOSS financially destroyed.
You either agree with the laws or you don't. Willful disobedience is still disobedience - you must pay the penalty. You can't call the law to protect your FOSS pet project while ignoring all of the violations your project commits.
There's a reason we put backwards wings on racecars. There's a reason a tiny tap will send them spiraling out of control. There's a reason electric vehicles spin out like a top. There's a reason luxury (heavy) car brands advertise their cars' ability to "hug the road".
Light = lift = less grip.
It's even more of a problem when you design them to be aerodynamic too, in search of that extra.5 mpg.
For survivability you don't want "sturdyness", you want the car to be crumply. The crumpling absorbs the crash energy so the occupants don't. Lighter cars also means lower crash energies. Lighter cars are less likely to crash in the first place owing to better handling and manuverablilty.
Crumply? Then make the bodies out of cardboard. Surely that would be safe!
Too soft and your material doesn't reduce the impact the people feel. Too hard and you have the same problem. (Ideally hard and you go right through the obstacle, feeling nothing.)
There's a a compromise to be had, and they've passed it long ago - they're way past "crumple zones = safety" now.
Lighter = less momentum, sure, but it also means less control. Better maneuverability is nice if you're driving a race car, but the average motorist will never be able to maneuver out of the way in an emergency. Better handling is subjective, and I vastly prefer the feel of a heavier vehicle. The loss of stability due to the car being lighter is more dangerous than the increase in momentum due to the car being heavier.
I believe the morning sun's Always gonna shine again and I believe a pot of gold Waits at every rainbow's end I believe in roses kissed with dew Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?
I believe in make-believe Fairy tales and lucky charms and I believe in promises Spoken as you cross your heart I believe in skies forever blue Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?
You may say I'm a fool Feelin' the way that I do You can call me Pollyanna Say I'm crazy as a loon I believe in silver linings And that's why I believe in you
I believe there'll come a day Maybe it will be tomorrow When the bluebird flies away All we'll have to do is follow I believe that dreams can still come true Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?
You may say I'm a fool Feelin' the way that I do I believe in friends and laughter And the wonders love can do I believe in songs and magic And that's why I believe in you
You may say I'm a fool Feelin' this way about you There's not much I can do I'm gonna be this way my life through 'Cause I still believe in miracles I swear I've seen a few And the time will surely come When you can see my point of view I believe in second chances And that's why I believe in you
>If this thing could fold halter tops, (especially the ones with the built in bra things) I would happily shell out some loot for one. Women's clothing is a strange, strange beast.
This *is* slashdot, I don't think anyone here is going to have that problem.
This *is* slashdot, I do think many here have large, sweaty man breasts.
It doesn't have a search function? That's news to anyone who has used it -- it's the magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
Search is pathetic and broken. I can't search my files by file name. I can't use any sort of wildcard matching or regex (Liz won't bring up Elizabeth Howell <howell.liz@site.com>). From the KING OF SEARCH.
"Every time technology makes another leap forward, we have to reclaim the Fourth Amendment, and often we have to reclaim the entire Bill of Rights, because technology gives [the authorities] powers that were not envisioned by the Founding Fathers."
No it doesn't, fuckwit. Technology gives them new fancy-sounding words to confuse the masses and the ability to strip everyone's rights away at once, so you can claim it's for a plausible reason and people feel less personally violated.
The founding fathers were pretty damned good at working out the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to be general, and to make them reserve powers not specifically defined to the states/people.
The fact that the government shits on both daily isn't a result of technology - it's a result of the tree of Liberty needing a little water.
User put X into URL BAR. User put X into SEARCH BAR.
vs
User put X into BAR.
By separating the bars you can only grab search suggestions from the search bar. To grab search suggestions, you have to submit what you've typed in to the search provider. With one bar, everything you type gets thrown at the beast. Searches, IP addresses, local domain names and paths, favorites you bring up using autocomplete/history, etc.
Yes, you have to trust the program to respect it. But I'd rather trust a program with distinct fields (with distinct functions) than a autonomous algorithm that is supposed to analyze all my input, guess at what I wanted to do, and then perform actions.
It's not about hacks - it's about evil foreign governments physically seizing servers. Redundant or not, secure or not, try telling the Pentagon that your nuclear research is in the hands of evil foreign powers.
Sure, they'll reply "Yeah, we know. Our is too! LOL!", but your ass is still going to the gulag.
One of the big points of contention for [MAJOR UNIVERSITY I HAPPEN TO WORK FOR] is getting the vendor to guarantee data stays on US soil.
The bottom line is that if people buy into Google now, we won't get the guarantee. If people hold out, or go to other vendors that can promise that, Google will cave.
Good on Yale. Now stop making your students kill themselves.
Monkey 1: HAH! Every fucking site worth a damn already uses Flash for no fucking reason.
Monkey 2: Yeah, good luck getting everyone to switch all their content and frameworks to HTML!
Token Female Monkey: Yes! I will hoot and holler along with you to assert that I fit in here!
Boss: So it's agreed - we're entrenched so firmly up the web's ass that we don't need to worry about performance, security, features, etc.?
Token Female Monkey: Yup!
Monkey 1: Right-o, boss!
Monkey 2: Business as usual!
Boss: Good meeting guys, good meeting! Have the baboon with the hot ass write something on our, what is it? Facetwit? Livebook?
Monkey 2: Who gives a shit?
Token Female Monkey: I do! Heads up! Token Female Monkey squats, shits in her hand, and flings the steamy dregs at Monkey 2.
Monkey 2 (playfully): Oh you bitch! Now you're gonna get it!
The scene devolves into a shit-throwing, ass-chasing fest between Monkey 1, Monkey 2, and Token Female Monkey, with incessant hooting and hollering. Boss sits at the head of the table, looking over his employees. Boss nods approvingly and calmly smokes a cigar, ignoring the specks of shit that ricochet onto his face.
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I think you mean "for people who want to play the game without paying for a ripoff some schlub threw up and tried to make money off of".
the conclusion drawn is pretty much one that you're taught in basic-level game theory. If its easy to solve, nobody wants to play it
I would love to go to a game theory class and just troll the professor every fucking day with "What about Farmville?".
Don't try to argue against people who think "case law" or "precedent" have any legal weight to them.
They simply can't comprehend that they are merely tools to speed up the process of judging individual cases when a similar case has been decided on in the past. The fact that all cases are to be judged according to the spirit and letter of the law is irrelevant to these people. They either believe "case law" to actually BE law, or they WANT the judiciary to legislate from the bench.
Welcome to the Carnival of Stupid.
There is no escape.
Troll more.
In windows, you can do things.
You can run software which does things.
If you have the rights to do X, software you run also has that right.
If you have any Windows system made in the last 12 years, you have the ability to run as a restricted user. If you have any Windows system made in the last 8 and a half years, you run as a restricted user by default.
Microsoft does not control the software developers that write applications for Windows. Microsoft does not audit every line of code they write. Microsoft has no way of knowing whether what program X wants to do is good or bad.
What would you prefer Microsoft do? Make it impossible for a user to do X, just to prevent possibly malicious usage of X by programs?
Would you prefer they make it impossible to install any software not digitally signed by Bill Gates himself?
Do you want MS to maintain a repository of every single executable out there? (Hint: Tens of millions for windows, thousands for Linux).
Try running most Windows XP software and see what happens.
Try running a Linux build from 8 and a half years ago and see what happens.
My update-manager updates all my installed programs. Windows Update does Windows and Office, everything else is hodgepodge.
Windows update updates windows.
Microsoft update updates windows, office, all other ms software, and any WHQL drivers.
I am very familiar with Windows, it is one of the reasons I switched to Linux.
Troll more, fag.
It is present in Adobe Reader, it has already been patched out of FoxIt and it never existed in XPDF.
It's a bug in the PDF spec. It affects Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, Foxit versions up to whatever, etc. etc..
Linux is not immune but the singular fact that you are not running as root mitigates a lot of possible damage.
No it doesn't. Malware doesn't need root access to do shit. Nothing is mitigated anymore than it is on Windows, which you shouldn't have be running as root on ever since fucking NT.
You fucking morons want patents and licensing to be completely destroyed, until someone does something as heinous as using some open source code, completely rewriting it to make it actually work, and then not providing a link to the source code for their entire product. Free ANYTHING doesn't work. Without profit to be had, there is no incentive to advance.
If you morons get your way, there will be no large software companies for you to steal ideas from. And let's be clear about it, that's all 99% of FOSS is - stolen ideas reimplemented.
You can shout all the fuck you want about your freedom, but there are laws. Laws which, when applied, will have 99% of FOSS financially destroyed.
You either agree with the laws or you don't. Willful disobedience is still disobedience - you must pay the penalty. You can't call the law to protect your FOSS pet project while ignoring all of the violations your project commits.
Basically, GROW UP.
And as I stated, no, u.
There's a reason we put backwards wings on racecars.
There's a reason a tiny tap will send them spiraling out of control.
There's a reason electric vehicles spin out like a top.
There's a reason luxury (heavy) car brands advertise their cars' ability to "hug the road".
Light = lift = less grip.
It's even more of a problem when you design them to be aerodynamic too, in search of that extra .5 mpg.
The limiting case is where mgu = mv^2 / r. The m cancels out, and you, sir, fail @ science.
Lighter cars get substantially more lift.
Lift reduces the net force due to friction.
As a result, lighter cars grip the road far less effectively than heavier cars.
There's a reason they put backwards wings on racecars and salt runners. They need to counteract the lift that makes the car want to fly.
YOU SIR, FAIL AT SCIENCE.
Lighter cars grip the road less. Simple fact.
Yes, SUVs tip over. Because they're badly designed.
For survivability you don't want "sturdyness", you want the car to be crumply. The crumpling absorbs the crash energy so the occupants don't. Lighter cars also means lower crash energies. Lighter cars are less likely to crash in the first place owing to better handling and manuverablilty.
Crumply? Then make the bodies out of cardboard. Surely that would be safe!
Too soft and your material doesn't reduce the impact the people feel. Too hard and you have the same problem. (Ideally hard and you go right through the obstacle, feeling nothing.)
There's a a compromise to be had, and they've passed it long ago - they're way past "crumple zones = safety" now.
Lighter = less momentum, sure, but it also means less control. Better maneuverability is nice if you're driving a race car, but the average motorist will never be able to maneuver out of the way in an emergency. Better handling is subjective, and I vastly prefer the feel of a heavier vehicle. The loss of stability due to the car being lighter is more dangerous than the increase in momentum due to the car being heavier.
Tomorrow?
Do it today?
(I own Ford stock.)
pollyanna
I believe the morning sun's
Always gonna shine again and
I believe a pot of gold
Waits at every rainbow's end
I believe in roses kissed with dew
Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?
I believe in make-believe
Fairy tales and lucky charms and
I believe in promises
Spoken as you cross your heart
I believe in skies forever blue
Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?
You may say I'm a fool
Feelin' the way that I do
You can call me Pollyanna
Say I'm crazy as a loon
I believe in silver linings
And that's why I believe in you
I believe there'll come a day
Maybe it will be tomorrow
When the bluebird flies away
All we'll have to do is follow
I believe that dreams can still come true
Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?
You may say I'm a fool
Feelin' the way that I do
I believe in friends and laughter
And the wonders love can do
I believe in songs and magic
And that's why I believe in you
You may say I'm a fool
Feelin' this way about you
There's not much I can do
I'm gonna be this way my life through
'Cause I still believe in miracles
I swear I've seen a few
And the time will surely come
When you can see my point of view
I believe in second chances
And that's why I believe in you
This is typical Apple behavior.
And they'll get away with it.
They always get away with it.
>If this thing could fold halter tops, (especially the ones with the built in bra things) I would happily shell out some loot for one. Women's clothing is a strange, strange beast.
This *is* slashdot, I don't think anyone here is going to have that problem.
This *is* slashdot, I do think many here have large, sweaty man breasts.
It doesn't have a search function? That's news to anyone who has used it -- it's the magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
Search is pathetic and broken.
I can't search my files by file name.
I can't use any sort of wildcard matching or regex
(Liz won't bring up Elizabeth Howell <howell.liz@site.com>).
From the KING OF SEARCH.
"Every time technology makes another leap forward, we have to reclaim the Fourth Amendment, and often we have to reclaim the entire Bill of Rights, because technology gives [the authorities] powers that were not envisioned by the Founding Fathers."
No it doesn't, fuckwit.
Technology gives them new fancy-sounding words to confuse the masses and the ability to strip everyone's rights away at once, so you can claim it's for a plausible reason and people feel less personally violated.
The founding fathers were pretty damned good at working out the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to be general, and to make them reserve powers not specifically defined to the states/people.
The fact that the government shits on both daily isn't a result of technology - it's a result of the tree of Liberty needing a little water.
You're joking, right?
User put X into URL BAR.
User put X into SEARCH BAR.
vs
User put X into BAR.
By separating the bars you can only grab search suggestions from the search bar. To grab search suggestions, you have to submit what you've typed in to the search provider. With one bar, everything you type gets thrown at the beast. Searches, IP addresses, local domain names and paths, favorites you bring up using autocomplete/history, etc.
Yes, you have to trust the program to respect it. But I'd rather trust a program with distinct fields (with distinct functions) than a autonomous algorithm that is supposed to analyze all my input, guess at what I wanted to do, and then perform actions.
Chrome IS a privacy nightmare.
IE 6 is shit. IE 7 wasn't too bad. IE 8 is fine.
FF is good. Opera is where it's at.
It's not about hacks - it's about evil foreign governments physically seizing servers. Redundant or not, secure or not, try telling the Pentagon that your nuclear research is in the hands of evil foreign powers.
Sure, they'll reply "Yeah, we know. Our is too! LOL!", but your ass is still going to the gulag.
One of the big points of contention for [MAJOR UNIVERSITY I HAPPEN TO WORK FOR] is getting the vendor to guarantee data stays on US soil.
The bottom line is that if people buy into Google now, we won't get the guarantee. If people hold out, or go to other vendors that can promise that, Google will cave.
Good on Yale. Now stop making your students kill themselves.
I see very little problem with an automated scan that respects robots.txt.
By not blocking automated access to the profiles, facebook is squarely at fault.
I see very little problem with an automated scan that doesn't respect robots.txt. (As long as it's accessing stuff normal people can get to.)
Anything a machine can do, a meatbag can do, though usually more slowly.
Most anything a meatbag can do, a bunch of meatbags can do much more quickly.
Robots.txt says go away? Amazon's Mechanical Turk says Thank You, Come Again.
Auto...mobilists? Really?
I'm sure the manual will indicate which lever is the velocitator and which is the deceleratrix.
Boss: So, HTML5 and such? Thoughts? Concerns?
Monkey 1: HAH! Every fucking site worth a damn already uses Flash for no fucking reason.
Monkey 2: Yeah, good luck getting everyone to switch all their content and frameworks to HTML!
Token Female Monkey: Yes! I will hoot and holler along with you to assert that I fit in here!
Boss: So it's agreed - we're entrenched so firmly up the web's ass that we don't need to worry about performance, security, features, etc.?
Token Female Monkey: Yup!
Monkey 1: Right-o, boss!
Monkey 2: Business as usual!
Boss: Good meeting guys, good meeting! Have the baboon with the hot ass write something on our, what is it? Facetwit? Livebook?
Monkey 2: Who gives a shit?
Token Female Monkey: I do! Heads up!
Token Female Monkey squats, shits in her hand, and flings the steamy dregs at Monkey 2.
Monkey 2 (playfully): Oh you bitch! Now you're gonna get it!
The scene devolves into a shit-throwing, ass-chasing fest between Monkey 1, Monkey 2, and Token Female Monkey, with incessant hooting and hollering. Boss sits at the head of the table, looking over his employees. Boss nods approvingly and calmly smokes a cigar, ignoring the specks of shit that ricochet onto his face.
Given how shitty my Nexus One is, my next anything will have a real keyboard.