This is a terrible title, IANAWebDeveloper, hell i dont even know how to code, but as soon as i read the summary it was clear that this had nothing to do with MS.
And ofcourse your safe using FF + NoScript, but then again your safe from anything, if people keep posting about how safe FF + noscript are, i might start talking about how secure lynx is, it would be much more useful to talk about browsers without NoScript. Do all articles about adverts contain a disclaimer saying that people using adblock are unaffected?
Another disadvantage of Tor is that even though your traffic is encrypted, it's easy for someone monitoring your network connection [wsj.com] to tell when you're using Tor. If they can correlate the times you connect to Tor with the times a certain webmail account is active then your anonymity is broken [freehaven.net]. By running a Freenet node 24/7 you make it much harder for an eavesdropper to link your activity patterns to anonymous or pseudonymous messages, because your node is always sending and receiving encrypted packets regardless of whether you're active. But if you can afford the bandwidth you can run a tor node. is running a Freenet node lighter on bandwidth?
Interesting, but that's still over 60 years ago, the world is a different place now. While the state of US voting may not be perfect, id hope it has improved beyond the point where people will be forced to use guns in florida08.
While it does make a good case doesnt; "Short of firearms and ammunition, the GIs scoured the county to find them. By borrowing keys to the National Guard and State Guard Armories, they got three M-1 rifles, five.45 semi-automatic pistols, and 24 British Enfield rifles. The armories were nearly empty after the war's end." mean that most of the weapons they were using were being used illegally anyway, and it was many the fact that they were GIs that helped not their right to bear arms.
I find it ironic sometimes when america seams such a patriotic country, that by its own rules its more akin to the EU, where the states are loosly bound.
Whats the advantages of using freenet vs using bittorrent? If your in darknet mode isnt that the same as a private tracker? If your not in darknet mode arnt you just as exposed as BT?
If you want to carry out conversations, then i suppose BT isnt a good medium, But isnt that what public/private mailing lists are for?
Im not saying Freenet is useless just asking how it compares.
Hmmm.. And exactly who is giving the US armies a lot of trouble in Iraq? what are they using again? I dunno if youve noticed but theres very little conventional fighting in iraq, and very little of that is using pistols, most attacks are done using morters IEDs & suicide bombers, none of which are protected by your right to bear arms.
When drugs where made illegal, the people it effected didn't care and generally are the same people who said get rid of the guns. Yeah because ive never heard of a dealer with a gun! No the reason they didnt use their guns to protect their rights is because the police had and always will have more guns & bigger guns.
As for the Alcohol, history shows me that they where used. And guns were used effectively enough that the prohibition on alcohol was appealed soon after prohibition was appealed due to public opinion being against the ban, given that your right to bear arms is revoked as soon as you use them to do something illegal, such as protecting illegal sale of alcohol. All your really saying is guns let you commit crimes, when you disagree with the law! but as drug runners prove, that happens both with and without gun control!
Well, lets think about this. Why hasn't the US been invaded Why hasn't Spain been invaded? why hasn't England been invaded? why hasn't Switzerland been invaded? why hasn't Portugal been invaded?, why was Kuwait invaded? why was the gaza strip invaded? oh right the fact is you can list a load of countries it doesn't mean anything. America hasn't been invaded because it has an army that would make it impossible, nothing to do with gun laws.
If those students would have taken advantage of their rights, it very well could of. But what your saying is similar to does your right to free speech help you when you chose to keep your mouth shut and the government does something that harms you. You have to use your rights in order for them to have an effect. Right so your saying that when the army opend fire, the students should have shot back, hmm trained army vs bunch of students, no matter how badly trained the US army is that is only going to go one way.
Yea, us Bitter rednecks. im not saying the NRA is still a represntation of the KKK, but if you want to change politics, why not do it through the political system or public opinion. a bunch of gun totting rednecks isnt & shouldnt be able to change anything, If you belive in democracy enough to try and export it why not give it a shot at home.
What exactly is it? it seams to me it never got anywhere, i didnt even know what they were and after wikipedia and RTFA, when i have to goggle a product line to even get a clue what it is, youve failed! It seams to me the only feature it offered over my a satellite based weather watch was, instant messaging, but as i have a phone that's not really that useful. Unless people REALLY care about stock prices in the US ?
There's no free broadcaster in Venezuela. Smallish local channel or not active channels doesn't count. There's was a single private broadcaster and it was shutdown by the government, because it was non supportive of current government. It license wasn't renewed, but its not like government went in a raided them. And when a TV station pretends you resign I think it is fair for you to not renew their license
"% of Venezuelan households reached: N/A" for every single TV channel. A bad wikipedia article doesn't stop the channels existing, having transmitting equipment and the ability to say whatever they want, even if it is just to the local areas its still something.
No sustainable economic growth, they have a GDP growth of 8% thats larger than the uk or us, however they have higher inflation and as IANAE im not sure if GDP growth accounts for this (it should do tho), weather its sustainable remains to be seen tho.
Poor people get some "Pai dos Pobres" (Poor People Father, or something like that) that gave them food and are going to need him forever. Your probably right, but that doesnt stop it being a valid policy, if the goverment is feeding people, then atleast theyre getting feed, it may not be the best way to do it. The roll of the goverment is to benifit people and these people are still benifiting(even if it is just short term). Im not saying that the policy is right, just that its a policy. Also given that unemployment in Venezuela is about 6% surely not all his support can come from these people.
"Populismo" is very different to dictatorship, he is still voted in by the public, for his policies, disagreeing with his policies is one thing, but claiming hes a dictator is a bit far fetched!
Yeah thats good point, I thought my always law student friend was wrong on that one.
The solution to jail overcrowding is simple though, legalise it. get rid of the money going into gangs (which mostly comes from 'soft drugs') but I digress.
Clossing down TV stations? oh you mean not renewing the license of a TV station that pretended you lost the election and tried to start a coup, but failed due to public opinion? Oh right i guess your from the only country that supported the coup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Venezuelan_television_channels If your trying to control TV, then why the hell would you help fund and start up 30+ tv channels, over which you have no control (the only goveremnt controlled TV channel being around since the 60s)
You mean like giving cooperatives 51% ownership of factories and refusing to take control? (this is after the owner left damaging anything he could on the way out).
Greak idea, only one problem, were all lazy fucks. The same way that the Public are to lazy to make politicians acountable, people on the internet are too lazy too, to even convince friends which way to vote, why will they bother spending $300 unless it directly affects them? The most you could get out from internet users would be a group for net neutrality, and nobody can even be bothered with that.
The same people who don't care that their right to keep and bear arms which is probably the best way to control their politicians has been taken for the most part. Say what? hmm arms vs amry, whos going to win? The idea that the right to bear arms defends you freedom is fairly flawed, i dont have time to go into all the details but think about this. If the majority of people voted in the goverment, then they are going to have more guns that you anyway. If guns could be used to protect your freedom, then how come they wernt used when alcohol & drugs was made illegal? If the government makes what you do illegal, doesn't that make your weapon illegal and therefore you loose your right to bear arms? Did the right to bear arms help the students that got shot and killed by the government during anti-Vietnam protests?
The idea that the right to bear arms protects your freedom is an idea that rednecks who dislike government choices cling to, for example 1st klan disbanding at the same time the NRA formed is no coincidence.
I'll tell you which societies will change first - regardless of how indoctrinated they are. It'll be in those areas where peoples' wages barely cover buying food already. The worldwide increase in food costs will hit them first, and hardest. I wouldn't be too surprised to see another round of communist governments get in, subsidising staples like rice but letting everything else in the country go to hell. You say that like communism makes your country crumble, some of the rebuilding in Russia was fenominal, I mean they got damaged the most during both world wars, but managed to rebuild fairly quickly. After being in war on your own soil to be a super power competing with america that was barely effected is fairly impressive, in fact many historians believe that America stayed out of the war as long as they could so that Germany weaken Russia enough that it was no longer a threat.
No the reason the USSR fell is the same reason that Zimbabwe is going to hell, its all about control and corruption, not really to do with economics. On the other hand you have countries like Venezuela that are bordering on communism, but decentralising power and encouraging public broadcasting, it will be interesting to see how it turns out (As the factor owners have the power to take away 3 meals if the government annoys them too much)?
Perhaps many countries simply execute their prisoners. Not really even in countries where executions are common, they still wouldnt acount for a significant amount of the convictions.
It would be interesting to find out whether that's because the US has too many strict laws or broad reasons to incarcerate people or if other nations are simply lax on incarceration terms. Well the fact you can get sent to prison for tax evasion, pretty much proves that you have very broad incarceration terms, i think in the UK the rule is they have to be a flight risk or a danger to others to get locked up.
I believe the UK has very short prison sentences due to prison overcrowding. Dont belive everything you read, while UK prisons are overcowded, peoples sentences are reduced by weeks, even for a 2 year sentence thats only going to be a couple of percent shorter.
Maybe the US can afford to build more jails than other countries. I thought your ecconomy was fscked? but given such little spending in other areas, if you spend more on jails it shows were your priorities lie.
Maybe it has a better police force to catch more criminals. Lol, erm nah just Lol.
I'm sure some is due to drug and prostitution laws which aren't present in many countries. Drug and prostitution laws are present in all countries, how much theyre enfoced and if you get jail time for selling them is different though.
correct, it'd be very interesting to know why. It'd make a fascinating research paper. I think it would be an interesting paper, but it would end up being an opinion piece, either pro-jail or anti-jail, i think its one of those things you cant sit on the fence for, either you realise that "all our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich" or your a republican.
You use gmail, I use gmail, we all use gmail, and we all know why. actually i use yahoo, not by choice or anything, but for webmail i cant be botherd to go around changing regularly, there may be migration in webmail but its going to be slow because nobody cares enough to go through the hastel of changing for very little benefit. The interface isn't that bad, most people want a heavy interface instead of a light one, the load times are reasonable on any connection. As for spam, the spam filter removes all actual spam, all the rubbish in my inbox is because I signed up to a million things with this address (probably why I get so much spam).
This was also my point in my original post -- why diversify away from their core business? Especially when you are not the leader in your core business, and you are under threat I see this alot on slashdot, the answer is simple, a small investment generates more revenue in new markets than a large investment in your existing market. To get anywhere with search tech it will take a lot of work, but to build a better portal is a lot easier. If you realise your always going to play second fiddle to somebody else in your key market, why not try and find a market you might be leaders in? The idea of only doing one thing and doing it well isnt the be all and end all of business management.
Why not judge them on the quality of their products instead of who thought of it first?
Given msn & yahoos dominance of the IM & webmail markets, i wouldnt write them off yet. If they start integrated these apps into the instant messaging side of thing they could generate much more revenue than googles offerings. Personally i just wish they would do something to stop google from coasting, like actually get good search results and maybe buy a browser?
what your looking for is http://search.yahoo.com/ www.yahoo.com has changed into a portal for thier content, much like msn, fortunatly google, have left thier portal quite light. the main problem with msn/yahoo is that nobody bothers going to www.yahoo.com for anything other than search (which most people do from firefox or thier googlebar.
What m$ needs to do is partner with yahoo, so that ie7 uses yahoo searches, that way it might get used instead of people having to install googlebar because live search sucks so much? I really hope that ms & yahoo get thier act together and start pushing google, id hate to see google to an MS and just stagnate because nothing is even close to it. perhaps if yahoo & msn just rolled over and let somebody like altavista through
you get to a point where we know how to spend more money keeping people alive in the face of nasty diseases than we can afford to, at a national level. When that happens, you have to either start rationing healthcare in some fashion, or the country *will* go bankrupt. Just because you give everybody healthcare doesn't mean you treat every condition, sometimes treating somebody isnt economically viable, and they die. Thats what happens under all systems, but by removing the insurers, you immediately cut out so much profiteering that you can easily allow for wasters, and nothing else changes.
Ok the real story is that hes doing it because its cool. And that's the way Linux works, sure load-balanced servers are nice, but getting rid of all expected downtime, means that you could theoretically run an uptodate system with 99.9999' %, sure. I was wondering when this would happen, i think predicted it a while ago (damn non-suscriber limit on comment history), i was expecting a different approach, but it was just a matter of time until somebody implement this. Hopefully this will make it server distros ( a lot of small one companies/groups, cant afford load-balanced servers) and eventually even desktops (not much use other than boasting, but never having to reboot is better than always having to reboot as you do for windows updates).
Also this if I understand this right, it means you can also install patches to your kernel more easily, no need to reboot to add reiser4 support. All somebody needs to do is work out some complex dependency resolution tool, and even binary distro can offer much more kernel variation, obviously it wont hit the mainstream distros straight away, but i could see something like apt-kernel, letting general distros get lighter/more secure/more features, as the user requires.
I mean everybody knows your uptime is directly proportional to your penis length, meaning all those extra nines are really going to help!
Name is good, it has plenty of games, you may have trouble finding out whats worth playing/not worth playing because there are so many, overall its a great emulator.
Mupen64+ is also a good nintendo64 emulator for those of us on linux. I hear ps emulators are fairly good to but, i think you cant go wrong with arcade classics (NAME) and N64 (project64/mupen64) as N64 games are more multiplayer orientated. (f-zero X, mario cart, micro machines), hell i even used to play with a non-geek girlfriend.
An important factor would be the controllers, as a fan of Xboxs original large controllers, i choped up 2 of the cables to make xbox - usb cables, (its a fairly trivial task). you can also get usb converters for xbox/ps controllers, or buy a couple of wii controllers and a bluetooth dongle. There may also be good pc controllers, but i never found any.
For arcade games, phones + bluetooth, (i bound anyremote, to 16 random keys but there are probably other ways of doing it), will also do nicely.
Also a DS emulator works quite nicely with a laptop touch pad, but its only 1 player.
Given that goggle have been using picture analysis to help catch paedophiles for a long time, and that catching pedos inst evil by anybody's standards, id say that they draw the line at paedophiles.
Also this has nothing to do with google search, just their social networking site.
Vuze/azureus is a torrent program, it only tracks usage of torrents, so the chances are they only throttle when they detect torrents.
RSTs might not be coming from bandwidth hogs -- users who disrupt other users service to capture more bandwidth for themselves. cable is shared medium. im not sure how that would work, but wouldnt that mean that your connection was really insecure?
However, OpenOffice.org requires a copyright assignment for contributions to the main code base; this allows Sun to create proprietary versions of the software (notably StarOffice). NeoOffice chooses not to assign their code to Sun; this prevents NeoOffice code from being used in official OpenOffice.org versions. Instead, NeoOffice is released only under the GPL (this is allowed by the LGPL), which ensures that any software based on it remains free. As the NeoOffice guys didnt want thier code going into a proprietary version of the software, they didnt sign a clause in OO that allows it to be used in StarOffice. In the contects of the original thread, i was basically saying that Sun are happy to use GPL to get code, but theyre want to retain control of the code so that they can release non-opensource versions. There license is effectively a BSD lisence with a clause stopping anybody else using it for comercial products, but they would rather call it GPL.
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This is a terrible title, IANAWebDeveloper, hell i dont even know how to code, but as soon as i read the summary it was clear that this had nothing to do with MS.
And ofcourse your safe using FF + NoScript, but then again your safe from anything, if people keep posting about how safe FF + noscript are, i might start talking about how secure lynx is, it would be much more useful to talk about browsers without NoScript.
Do all articles about adverts contain a disclaimer saying that people using adblock are unaffected?
Interesting, but that's still over 60 years ago, the world is a different place now. While the state of US voting may not be perfect, id hope it has improved beyond the point where people will be forced to use guns in florida08.
.45 semi-automatic pistols, and 24 British Enfield rifles. The armories were nearly empty after the war's end."
While it does make a good case doesnt;
"Short of firearms and ammunition, the GIs scoured the county to find them. By borrowing keys to the National Guard and State Guard Armories, they got three M-1 rifles, five
mean that most of the weapons they were using were being used illegally anyway, and it was many the fact that they were GIs that helped not their right to bear arms.
I find it ironic sometimes when america seams such a patriotic country, that by its own rules its more akin to the EU, where the states are loosly bound.
Whats the advantages of using freenet vs using bittorrent?
If your in darknet mode isnt that the same as a private tracker?
If your not in darknet mode arnt you just as exposed as BT?
If you want to carry out conversations, then i suppose BT isnt a good medium, But isnt that what public/private mailing lists are for?
Im not saying Freenet is useless just asking how it compares.
What exactly is it? it seams to me it never got anywhere, i didnt even know what they were and after wikipedia and RTFA, when i have to goggle a product line to even get a clue what it is, youve failed!
It seams to me the only feature it offered over my a satellite based weather watch was, instant messaging, but as i have a phone that's not really that useful.
Unless people REALLY care about stock prices in the US ?
"Populismo" is very different to dictatorship, he is still voted in by the public, for his policies, disagreeing with his policies is one thing, but claiming hes a dictator is a bit far fetched!
Yeah thats good point, I thought my always law student friend was wrong on that one.
The solution to jail overcrowding is simple though, legalise it. get rid of the money going into gangs (which mostly comes from 'soft drugs') but I digress.
Clossing down TV stations? oh you mean not renewing the license of a TV station that pretended you lost the election and tried to start a coup, but failed due to public opinion? Oh right i guess your from the only country that supported the coup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Venezuelan_television_channels
If your trying to control TV, then why the hell would you help fund and start up 30+ tv channels, over which you have no control (the only goveremnt controlled TV channel being around since the 60s)
You mean like giving cooperatives 51% ownership of factories and refusing to take control? (this is after the owner left damaging anything he could on the way out).
Greak idea, only one problem, were all lazy fucks.
The same way that the Public are to lazy to make politicians acountable, people on the internet are too lazy too, to even convince friends which way to vote, why will they bother spending $300 unless it directly affects them? The most you could get out from internet users would be a group for net neutrality, and nobody can even be bothered with that.
Quick somebody tell Americans, maybe they'll realise that being in the army doesn't make you a good political leader, just an aggressive mother****
Top gear says differently http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE1QVhYdIpg
hmm arms vs amry, whos going to win?
The idea that the right to bear arms defends you freedom is fairly flawed, i dont have time to go into all the details but think about this.
If the majority of people voted in the goverment, then they are going to have more guns that you anyway.
If guns could be used to protect your freedom, then how come they wernt used when alcohol & drugs was made illegal?
If the government makes what you do illegal, doesn't that make your weapon illegal and therefore you loose your right to bear arms?
Did the right to bear arms help the students that got shot and killed by the government during anti-Vietnam protests?
The idea that the right to bear arms protects your freedom is an idea that rednecks who dislike government choices cling to, for example 1st klan disbanding at the same time the NRA formed is no coincidence.
No the reason the USSR fell is the same reason that Zimbabwe is going to hell, its all about control and corruption, not really to do with economics. On the other hand you have countries like Venezuela that are bordering on communism, but decentralising power and encouraging public broadcasting, it will be interesting to see how it turns out (As the factor owners have the power to take away 3 meals if the government annoys them too much)?
Why not judge them on the quality of their products instead of who thought of it first?
Given msn & yahoos dominance of the IM & webmail markets, i wouldnt write them off yet. If they start integrated these apps into the instant messaging side of thing they could generate much more revenue than googles offerings. Personally i just wish they would do something to stop google from coasting, like actually get good search results and maybe buy a browser?
what your looking for is http://search.yahoo.com/
www.yahoo.com has changed into a portal for thier content, much like msn, fortunatly google, have left thier portal quite light. the main problem with msn/yahoo is that nobody bothers going to www.yahoo.com for anything other than search (which most people do from firefox or thier googlebar.
What m$ needs to do is partner with yahoo, so that ie7 uses yahoo searches, that way it might get used instead of people having to install googlebar because live search sucks so much? I really hope that ms & yahoo get thier act together and start pushing google, id hate to see google to an MS and just stagnate because nothing is even close to it. perhaps if yahoo & msn just rolled over and let somebody like altavista through
The day the linux kernel is coded in anything other than C, is the day i after i install duke nukem forever on hurd.
Ok the real story is that hes doing it because its cool. And that's the way Linux works, sure load-balanced servers are nice, but getting rid of all expected downtime, means that you could theoretically run an uptodate system with 99.9999' %, sure. I was wondering when this would happen, i think predicted it a while ago (damn non-suscriber limit on comment history), i was expecting a different approach, but it was just a matter of time until somebody implement this.
Hopefully this will make it server distros ( a lot of small one companies/groups, cant afford load-balanced servers) and eventually even desktops (not much use other than boasting, but never having to reboot is better than always having to reboot as you do for windows updates).
Also this if I understand this right, it means you can also install patches to your kernel more easily, no need to reboot to add reiser4 support. All somebody needs to do is work out some complex dependency resolution tool, and even binary distro can offer much more kernel variation, obviously it wont hit the mainstream distros straight away, but i could see something like apt-kernel, letting general distros get lighter/more secure/more features, as the user requires.
I mean everybody knows your uptime is directly proportional to your penis length, meaning all those extra nines are really going to help!
Name is good, it has plenty of games, you may have trouble finding out whats worth playing/not worth playing because there are so many, overall its a great emulator.
Mupen64+ is also a good nintendo64 emulator for those of us on linux. I hear ps emulators are fairly good to but, i think you cant go wrong with arcade classics (NAME) and N64 (project64/mupen64) as N64 games are more multiplayer orientated. (f-zero X, mario cart, micro machines), hell i even used to play with a non-geek girlfriend.
An important factor would be the controllers, as a fan of Xboxs original large controllers, i choped up 2 of the cables to make xbox - usb cables, (its a fairly trivial task). you can also get usb converters for xbox/ps controllers, or buy a couple of wii controllers and a bluetooth dongle. There may also be good pc controllers, but i never found any.
For arcade games, phones + bluetooth, (i bound anyremote, to 16 random keys but there are probably other ways of doing it), will also do nicely.
Also a DS emulator works quite nicely with a laptop touch pad, but its only 1 player.
Given that goggle have been using picture analysis to help catch paedophiles for a long time, and that catching pedos inst evil by anybody's standards, id say that they draw the line at paedophiles.
Also this has nothing to do with google search, just their social networking site.