Ironic, since you don't have a clue. The actual reason is that if you don't use Firefox to install the add-on, Firefox doesn't know where the files are located. In addition, if they are in the application directory, a privilege elevation is required.
The worst you could say is that it's shortsighted. It is certainly not malice. These are the type of devs that deny huge memory leaks over and over again with a straight face, remember?
In any case, you can always disable any add-on. And if you think Java is malware then I wouldn't have my PC in the same state as you, let alone lend it out.
When I was in grade school we read a short story that featured a sentient cloud of bugs or nano-bots. Maybe they assembled into a human shape, but I don't remember.
The protagonist was at a station on a colonized planet or moon. I think the it revolved around a young boy and girl. Most likely the story was part of one of those hardcover literature anthologies that grade schoolers use. I thought it was a cool story but some of the stuff in those is pretty low-rent and I've mostly given up hope of pinning it down.
I want to say it was Asimov but I could just be remembering some actual Asimov that we read another time (one of his essays). I know that's all incredibly vague...I just wish I could remember what story it was. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
Good to know. The last time we got an IBM server it was way overpriced and the replacement parts are crazy as well. Maybe it's better now. But the service was great while we had it.
IBM hardware, for the most part, costs *more* than the same setup from Apple. I wouldn't knock their reliability, but if you're comparison shopping you're unlikely to end up in IBM's end of the market.
I'm guessing the real reason they went with an Xserve is because they're more comfortable with Macs. Just like people who use a Windows Server box as little more than a NAS when Linux does just fine there.
The server edition of OS X contains, among other things, an LDAP implementation called Open Directory, a server for iCal, XMPP, Mail, Time Machine, and some other stuff. In addition to the usual stuff, much of which appears in regular OS X to begin with. The hardware is sold under the name Xserve.
For much of the time I spent (unsuccessfully) trying to integrate OpenFire with Active Directory I wished I had something as "negative" as a drop-in IM server that "just works".
None of this is new. 10 years ago they even sold a PowerPC box running AIX for managing network services. So, welcome to Slashdot, I suppose.
We had the modern day equivalent of a bank run. It happened in hours. The failure already happened. And we are in the position of being forced to finance the idiots that caused it, because otherwise no one will be able to get a loan.
If anything your odds show an unwarranted sense of optimism.
But I agree with you. Not that there isn't a whole lot of pork in the stim package, but hell, at least something's being done. I wish we'd wasted this much time deliberating preemptive war with Iraq.
People who make up new words should be forced to go door to door and add them to everyone's dictionaries. That way, only really important ones would get in. None of this "turn it into an adjective because I'm on the phone, only have 10 seconds left for my sales pitch, and can't think of the right word" BS.
And if you say "begs the question" you should have to wear a dunce cap every day until you die.
The last sentence was there to drive up comments/page views. Don't feed the submitter trolls. Oh, what the hell, I'll join you.
OEMs exist to make money? And have a brand to promote! Shocking! Oh, wait, it's not the 70s, we're not building computers from mail-order kits, and everyone knows what an OEM is. Don't want crapware? Don't pay for it. You have options.
In other breaking news, it may or may not be raining, depending on where you are in the country.
My feeling is that it's hard for the death penalty to be a deterrent in this day and age, since it gets done behind closed doors. The trend over the years has been towards making executions more private, more efficient, and less painful.
Another reason would be that people usually expect to get away with whatever they're doing.
A third would be the complete lack of statistical evidence supporting even a *correlation* (between violent crime rates and # of executions), let alone a demonstrated causal relationship. If anything the numbers go the other way. In areas where there's more violent crimes, there's more capital punishment. Probably because there's more people to punish.
For the most part we know how terrible it is to give the state control over life and death, and have adjusted the process accordingly. But (in some states) we're just not willing to let go.
How about they have to wear handcuffs for the rest of their lives? I'm cool with that.
I looked for one and it doesn't look like there is:(
CCA is the Corrections Corporation of America, they run something like 60 prisons and I think they really represent the move toward privatization in this area. Puryear was appointed to a federal judgeship by Bush in the district that they are based out of, and in which many suits against them are currently filed. But he works for CCA. This on top of the fact that the appointment was extremely political, since it's obvious from his history that the guy is a bad and inexperienced lawyer.
Don't bother reading CCA's wikipedia article, half of it sings the praises of private prisons and the other half describes their facilities as something close to a spa. The history page tells a different story, but from the looks of it no one's been able to get any mention of controversy (or a spam tag) to stick.
and I'm onlly posting to object to the fact that a bunch of space aliens popped in from a parallel dimension *where the GPL does not depend entirely on copyright law for its existence* and rated this, of all things, "Insightful".
Forget the word freedom, okay? Red herring. The GPL is about ensuring that those who distribute binaries also distribute unfettered source. That's a limitation on what you can do, compared to what public domain or a BSD license offers you. But in the long term it benefits everyone.
Ironically, this is more or less how copyright was supposed to work. You get yours, but I get mine. So the GPL is more of an extension of the idea of copyright than a repudiation of it. Hence the name copyleft rather than anti-copyright or something else.
I know it's a little out of the ordinary, but really, it's about the same level of difficulty as understanding that "stage left" is to the right of the audience. (For the most part you were valiant in trying to correct a flagrant troll. But I still think you were inaccurate.)
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Yes! Got it. It's called "Hallucination", and it was (re?)published in Gold. Thanks so much for your help.
He judged how it looked. Incidentally, that's a pretty good lookin' straw-man you set up.
I know that is a fine point for you to grasp
Ironic, since you don't have a clue. The actual reason is that if you don't use Firefox to install the add-on, Firefox doesn't know where the files are located. In addition, if they are in the application directory, a privilege elevation is required.
The worst you could say is that it's shortsighted. It is certainly not malice. These are the type of devs that deny huge memory leaks over and over again with a straight face, remember?
In any case, you can always disable any add-on. And if you think Java is malware then I wouldn't have my PC in the same state as you, let alone lend it out.
When I was in grade school we read a short story that featured a sentient cloud of bugs or nano-bots. Maybe they assembled into a human shape, but I don't remember.
The protagonist was at a station on a colonized planet or moon. I think the it revolved around a young boy and girl. Most likely the story was part of one of those hardcover literature anthologies that grade schoolers use. I thought it was a cool story but some of the stuff in those is pretty low-rent and I've mostly given up hope of pinning it down.
I want to say it was Asimov but I could just be remembering some actual Asimov that we read another time (one of his essays). I know that's all incredibly vague...I just wish I could remember what story it was. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
I guess I made the opposite mistake. When I hear Unix I tend to think SysV, which is what we're stuck on where I am.
Good to know. The last time we got an IBM server it was way overpriced and the replacement parts are crazy as well. Maybe it's better now. But the service was great while we had it.
AFAIK they offer it for the Xserve (though maybe not the Mac Pro, I dunno) but it doesn't come standard. Which is incredibly stupid.
That was last year but I don't see anything indicating that they've fixed that since.
IBM hardware, for the most part, costs *more* than the same setup from Apple. I wouldn't knock their reliability, but if you're comparison shopping you're unlikely to end up in IBM's end of the market.
I'm guessing the real reason they went with an Xserve is because they're more comfortable with Macs. Just like people who use a Windows Server box as little more than a NAS when Linux does just fine there.
The server edition of OS X contains, among other things, an LDAP implementation called Open Directory, a server for iCal, XMPP, Mail, Time Machine, and some other stuff. In addition to the usual stuff, much of which appears in regular OS X to begin with. The hardware is sold under the name Xserve.
For much of the time I spent (unsuccessfully) trying to integrate OpenFire with Active Directory I wished I had something as "negative" as a drop-in IM server that "just works".
None of this is new. 10 years ago they even sold a PowerPC box running AIX for managing network services. So, welcome to Slashdot, I suppose.
I wasn't aware of a Unix that's not paid for.
Not as many options with a 1U server. You're basically stuck with those little noisy fans.
Sorry, I just accidentally the whole thing.
You seem to think money on the scale of the US economy like money on the scale of a house mortgage. It doesn't. At all.
We had the modern day equivalent of a bank run. It happened in hours. The failure already happened. And we are in the position of being forced to finance the idiots that caused it, because otherwise no one will be able to get a loan.
If anything your odds show an unwarranted sense of optimism.
But I agree with you. Not that there isn't a whole lot of pork in the stim package, but hell, at least something's being done. I wish we'd wasted this much time deliberating preemptive war with Iraq.
Ron Paul's approach to government, Bush's approach to military.
Like peanut butter and jelly! Mmm, now that's the taste of armageddon!
Bill Hicks. He was a comic. He was subversive. He's dead now. Chill.
Well when I say abacus, I mean it was more like a hole in the ground.
People who make up new words should be forced to go door to door and add them to everyone's dictionaries. That way, only really important ones would get in. None of this "turn it into an adjective because I'm on the phone, only have 10 seconds left for my sales pitch, and can't think of the right word" BS.
And if you say "begs the question" you should have to wear a dunce cap every day until you die.
The last sentence was there to drive up comments/page views. Don't feed the submitter trolls. Oh, what the hell, I'll join you.
OEMs exist to make money? And have a brand to promote! Shocking! Oh, wait, it's not the 70s, we're not building computers from mail-order kits, and everyone knows what an OEM is. Don't want crapware? Don't pay for it. You have options.
In other breaking news, it may or may not be raining, depending on where you are in the country.
That's not at all what the lawsuit was about.
My feeling is that it's hard for the death penalty to be a deterrent in this day and age, since it gets done behind closed doors. The trend over the years has been towards making executions more private, more efficient, and less painful.
Another reason would be that people usually expect to get away with whatever they're doing.
A third would be the complete lack of statistical evidence supporting even a *correlation* (between violent crime rates and # of executions), let alone a demonstrated causal relationship. If anything the numbers go the other way. In areas where there's more violent crimes, there's more capital punishment. Probably because there's more people to punish.
For the most part we know how terrible it is to give the state control over life and death, and have adjusted the process accordingly. But (in some states) we're just not willing to let go.
How about they have to wear handcuffs for the rest of their lives? I'm cool with that.
As has already been mentioned, it's not even a deterrent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_debate#Evidence_for_prevention_and_deterrence
I looked for one and it doesn't look like there is :(
CCA is the Corrections Corporation of America, they run something like 60 prisons and I think they really represent the move toward privatization in this area. Puryear was appointed to a federal judgeship by Bush in the district that they are based out of, and in which many suits against them are currently filed. But he works for CCA. This on top of the fact that the appointment was extremely political, since it's obvious from his history that the guy is a bad and inexperienced lawyer.
Don't bother reading CCA's wikipedia article, half of it sings the praises of private prisons and the other half describes their facilities as something close to a spa. The history page tells a different story, but from the looks of it no one's been able to get any mention of controversy (or a spam tag) to stick.
Scary stuff. Although, I doubt it's forever. Maybe they purge stuff after six months or a year?
I hope...
and I'm onlly posting to object to the fact that a bunch of space aliens popped in from a parallel dimension *where the GPL does not depend entirely on copyright law for its existence* and rated this, of all things, "Insightful".
Forget the word freedom, okay? Red herring. The GPL is about ensuring that those who distribute binaries also distribute unfettered source. That's a limitation on what you can do, compared to what public domain or a BSD license offers you. But in the long term it benefits everyone.
Ironically, this is more or less how copyright was supposed to work. You get yours, but I get mine. So the GPL is more of an extension of the idea of copyright than a repudiation of it. Hence the name copyleft rather than anti-copyright or something else.
I know it's a little out of the ordinary, but really, it's about the same level of difficulty as understanding that "stage left" is to the right of the audience. (For the most part you were valiant in trying to correct a flagrant troll. But I still think you were inaccurate.)