As a browser plugin ? That way the person decides who can access their information ? The keys, credit card and personal information/etc. are stored in an encrypted file on the machine and only those with permission can get at the information ?
It would eliminate the need for a hugemungous server (run by an evil corporation) and this way it would be pretty simple to access the information (with some authentication of course) and not need to pay an arm and a left testicle to an Evil Corporation..
Just last week, a Slashdot poll showed that approximately 70-75% of you who responded took no action to fax or email Congress about issues like this.
And that's to be expected. We are constantly told that Faxing and emails are useless. They do not carry any weight with the senators/congress people. They only respond to real, snail-mail letters and money.
Don't write Makefiles yourself. Instead write a script that translates simple build rules (foo.cpp -> foo.o -> foo.exe) into a custom Makefile for each platform. I went this route after battling for years with complex Makefile rules that never quite worked.
Why not use Automake and Autoconf ? Wouldn't that take care of some of the cross system problems ?
A web site is not a personal service. Book publishers are not required to release every book they publish in a braille format. Newspaper publishers are not required to release every edition they publish in braille. Not every TV show has close captioning.
Yes.. and if you want to get the largest audience (thus more $$$$) then it is in your best interest to publish things that can reach the largest audience.
I mean, 5% more coding in the big scheme of things is a pittance. Most decent webdesigners (and I don't mean, webmasters) are doing this because they want to make sure it passes the standards from W3C
500 Patriots with rifles vs. 5000 Soldiers with Machine Guns, Hand Grenades, aircraft
Who's going to win ?
It isn't going to be a physical revolution, it will be an intelectual and political one. We will have to replace the ENTIRE Political machine. Then get people into office who CARE and know that they get one term to make a difference and that's IT
I still think it should be a lottery system. Use the registered voter system and randomly chose people every few years. It woul DEFINATELY make CSPAN more interesting.
When is the last time that drug companies actually came up with a cure ?
Answer: NEVER, cures are bad for business.
The last cures that were found (Polio, etc.) were found by independant researchers not worrying about the bottom line and how the stockholders will react)
I mean how many bloody treatments do we need ? Find a damn cure....
You are right. Also remember that simplicity is inversely proportional to usefulness and flexibility.
Simplicity in programming or use ?
To me, for training a *NIX neophite from windoze, it would be LOTS simpler to say click on the directory and say share, pick users, etc. than to say "Open an editor and edit/etc/samba/smb.conf and add the share in there, then restart samba...
MUCH more difficult, and if we want to be an OS for many other than techies, this is going to need to be some sort of add into the Window Manager applications (I mean, is it that "tough").
We have a bad perseptions as programmers (yes, I've been a professional software developer/designer for over 14 years) to think we know it all. We don't. We know programming but, ususally we don't know dick about what the actual end users would find useful.
When it costs millions to run for a Senatorial position, the people who put you in power ARE the MPAA/RIAA/(insert Large business intrest here) Senators who actually make it to the ballot usually take up very neutral positions as far as their constituencies go, and then they change their tune as soon as they are elected. Sadly money speaks louder than voters
We need to make it so that No Vote = No $$$. This would restore the power in the government to the people. We need to get the politicians to remember that they work for US, not Hollywood, MPAA, RIAA, or big business.
They don't get to vote, why should they be able to donate even $ 1.00 to politicians ?
Doesn't that violate our constitution in some way ? They are non-voters influencing our elections/voting processes (shouldn't this fall under the same rule as a foreign government donating to a politician's election campain ?).
If you had a patent on a fuzyy-logic
spellchecker then (depending on the scope of your
patent) the other developer would be infringing on
your patented idea.
That is the problem. As a software developer,
I don't think it is right that software should be
patented (copyrighted yes).
As for someone else re-implementing the fuzzy-logic
spell checker, fine. If mine is the best, fastest,
etc. , why would I have a problem ? Mine would be
the better choice because it works best.
If someone develops a better version, then I better stop resting on my laurels and re-develop it and make it better.
Its not the brightest of solutions but they do need to protect themselves since he isn't legally able to agree to any legaleze.
There are also laws about what information they man collect if someone is under 18 (and I don't see if he ever mentioned it before).
Doesn't their signup form request an age ?
Not what I meant, There is very little chance that we would get our non technical people to convert to Linux from Windoze.
So this would support the windows and Outlook users as well as Linux users ?
Thing is they with it just printed (non machine readable), they would have to manually key in all that information and then generate the statistics.
With it all scanned neatly into a neat little database, they can sell all the info to targeted lists (mailing lists for liquor related products/etc.).
And Mass (as a resident) allows you to opt out of the SSN number as your ID number (and has for 20+ years, they have only started to tell people of the option in the last 6 or so years, even though its always been an option).
Then they realized how many people actually were using it instead of the web based ad-viewing interfaces.
Yahoo's change is being done for purely business reasons (i.e. to increase ad viewing). It is so they can afford to keep their bandwith, not for anti-spamming/etc. Pretty simple.
They could have done something like the qmail POP before accepting SMTP (to make users authenticate before being able to relay mail for them).
Not to mention being able to search Deja or Google for the solution to a coding problem (although Symantic Proxy Filter by default blocks Groups.Google.Com/www.deja.com and even one of the Samba mirrors)..
Fine. I'd shell to one of my external boxes (which I HAVE to be able to do), fire up Konqueror and Poof. I have web.
Also, with Win2K, are you installing the neatest
nifty jolly gee, whiz bang progams or latest games
that push your hardware to its limits ? Most
likely not.
Many home (9x/Me) users have extra's like USB Camera's,
USB Palm cradles, USB Printers, newest/fastest
video card etc.
Users of Win2K don't tend to install lots of NonM$
drivers, yes ?
Most of the M$ crashes (in my opinion) are due to shitty
documentation which causes non M$ products to have
less than optimal drivers.
He didn't break the law. Fair use allows for the copying of copyrighted works for research purposes. Assuming that the kids didn't keep the 6000 songs, it was all "research".
Since when does fair use enter this ? This law's (and the related ones) are for the purpose of removing or severly limiting fair use rights to the point where you have NONE... (Why do you think they want self destructing mp3's that expire in a set time period ?)
Nusphere fixed the basic issue here; they no longer distribute without source code.
I think the issue is that they STILL have proprietary code (shipping without source code) linking to the mySQL Libraries (thus violating the GPL).
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Nationwide ?
I NEVER was able to find any Loki Games (which I would have purchased on Principle)..
I mean , Yes.. I can download ISO Images for FreeBSD but I STILL buy the 4 disk set each revision just to help support the project.
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As a browser plugin ? That way the person decides who can access their information ? The keys, credit card and personal information/etc. are stored in an encrypted file on the machine and only those with permission can get at the information ? It would eliminate the need for a hugemungous server (run by an evil corporation) and this way it would be pretty simple to access the information (with some authentication of course) and not need to pay an arm and a left testicle to an Evil Corporation..
And that's to be expected. We are constantly told that Faxing and emails are useless. They do not carry any weight with the senators/congress people. They only respond to real, snail-mail letters and money.
Why not use Automake and Autoconf ? Wouldn't that take care of some of the cross system problems ?
According to this article the most secure OS were SCO Unix, Mac OS and Tru 64.
Yes.. and if you want to get the largest audience (thus more $$$$) then it is in your best interest to publish things that can reach the largest audience.
I mean, 5% more coding in the big scheme of things is a pittance. Most decent webdesigners (and I don't mean, webmasters) are doing this because they want to make sure it passes the standards from W3C
With a remote detonator for 20 pounds of explosive in his stomach ?
If each side had the same weapons, fine. But
500 Patriots with rifles vs. 5000 Soldiers with Machine Guns, Hand Grenades, aircraft
Who's going to win ?
It isn't going to be a physical revolution, it will be an intelectual and political one. We will have to replace the ENTIRE Political machine. Then get people into office who CARE and know that they get one term to make a difference and that's IT
I still think it should be a lottery system. Use the registered voter system and randomly chose people every few years. It woul DEFINATELY make CSPAN more interesting.
When is the last time that drug companies actually came up with a cure ?
Answer: NEVER, cures are bad for business.
The last cures that were found (Polio, etc.) were found by independant researchers not worrying about the bottom line and how the stockholders will react)
I mean how many bloody treatments do we need ? Find a damn cure....
Simplicity in programming or use ?
To me, for training a *NIX neophite from windoze, it would be LOTS simpler to say click on the directory and say share, pick users, etc. than to say "Open an editor and edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add the share in there, then restart samba...
MUCH more difficult, and if we want to be an OS for many other than techies, this is going to need to be some sort of add into the Window Manager applications (I mean, is it that "tough").
We have a bad perseptions as programmers (yes, I've been a professional software developer/designer for over 14 years) to think we know it all. We don't. We know programming but, ususally we don't know dick about what the actual end users would find useful.
Senators who actually make it to the ballot usually take up very neutral positions as far as their constituencies go, and then they change their tune as soon as they are elected. Sadly money speaks louder than voters
We need to make it so that No Vote = No $$$. This would restore the power in the government to the people. We need to get the politicians to remember that they work for US, not Hollywood, MPAA, RIAA, or big business.
Easy.. they stop making the VCR's. Think about, you've got Circuit City no longer going to be selling VCR's.. And others are prolly going to follow.
Why is it that for "biggest opening weekend" its for the total $$ ?
So in 100 years, when movies are $ 80, they can have a moving make more money, yet have less people see it ?
I've thought that all along, it should be total number of tickets sold instead of how much it grossed $$ wise.
Doesn't that violate our constitution in some way ? They are non-voters influencing our elections/voting processes (shouldn't this fall under the same rule as a foreign government donating to a politician's election campain ?).
That is the problem. As a software developer, I don't think it is right that software should be patented (copyrighted yes).
As for someone else re-implementing the fuzzy-logic spell checker, fine. If mine is the best, fastest, etc. , why would I have a problem ? Mine would be the better choice because it works best.
If someone develops a better version, then I better stop resting on my laurels and re-develop it and make it better.
Its not the brightest of solutions but they do need to protect themselves since he isn't legally able to agree to any legaleze. There are also laws about what information they man collect if someone is under 18 (and I don't see if he ever mentioned it before). Doesn't their signup form request an age ?
Not what I meant, There is very little chance that we would get our non technical people to convert to Linux from Windoze. So this would support the windows and Outlook users as well as Linux users ?
It isn't because our CIO is a twit (we've been using linux since .9 kernels), he has to have something
that the office wenies can use easily.
Once we get something that is simple to use for calendar sharing/etc. then we'd drop exchange like a hot potato.
With it all scanned neatly into a neat little database, they can sell all the info to targeted lists (mailing lists for liquor related products/etc.).
And Mass (as a resident) allows you to opt out of the SSN number as your ID number (and has for 20+ years, they have only started to tell people of the option in the last 6 or so years, even though its always been an option).
Yahoo's change is being done for purely business reasons (i.e. to increase ad viewing). It is so they can afford to keep their bandwith, not for anti-spamming/etc. Pretty simple.
They could have done something like the qmail POP before accepting SMTP (to make users authenticate before being able to relay mail for them).
Not to mention being able to search Deja or Google for the solution to a coding problem (although Symantic Proxy Filter by default blocks Groups.Google.Com/www.deja.com and even one of the Samba mirrors).. Fine. I'd shell to one of my external boxes (which I HAVE to be able to do), fire up Konqueror and Poof. I have web.
Also, with Win2K, are you installing the neatest nifty jolly gee, whiz bang progams or latest games that push your hardware to its limits ? Most likely not.
Many home (9x/Me) users have extra's like USB Camera's, USB Palm cradles, USB Printers, newest/fastest video card etc.
Users of Win2K don't tend to install lots of NonM$ drivers, yes ?
Most of the M$ crashes (in my opinion) are due to shitty documentation which causes non M$ products to have less than optimal drivers.
Since when does fair use enter this ? This law's (and the related ones) are for the purpose of removing or severly limiting fair use rights to the point where you have NONE... (Why do you think they want self destructing mp3's that expire in a set time period ?)
I think the issue is that they STILL have proprietary code (shipping without source code) linking to the mySQL Libraries (thus violating the GPL).
Nationwide ? I NEVER was able to find any Loki Games (which I would have purchased on Principle).. I mean , Yes.. I can download ISO Images for FreeBSD but I STILL buy the 4 disk set each revision just to help support the project.
Was it in regards to actual employment postings or were you just on a fishing expedition ?
Unsolicited email is unsolicted. And depending on how many addresses he sent the resume to it may be justifyiably SPAM.