Eww. I don't even want to think about little beads of sweat and cum floating about the room and bouncing off walls. Man, I hope they sterilize the room after each use. Even worse if anyone has a kinky pee fetish.
Three days is more than I can usually handle without my brain going into a fit of chaos. If they really expect people to go 30 months without sex then they should provide medication that will reduce their sex drive. Even then you have basic human emotional needs which sex plays a part of so people would still probably have sex. Trying to go without sex will cause more problems than just planning for sex.
Send them up half male and half female with orders that they need to rotate partners on a daily basis. Well laid people with multiple partners they aren't previously attached to are less likely to get into jealous rages or similar problems. Expecting them to go without for 30 months is foolish and choosing to ignore the problem will work just about as well as not providing sex ed to horny highschool kids. These people are astronauts and know their lifes depend on working together. If they can't work together even when they hate each other (or worse - love each other) then they shouldn't be sent up.
He only grasps that online delivery is the wave of the future a decade after every one else. What a genius that guy is. The man who almost missed a little thing called the Internet. I had a website before Microsoft did. Duh!
Somewhere I have pictures of hot model chicks wearing skimpy alien outfits.. actually several pictures. They were giving out these cool looking alien mousepads that were transparent and full of alien goo. To bad they don't work with optical mice. The hot chicks is the number one reason to show up to shows like Comdex or CES. Rarely do you see anything innovative at the shows but holy shit do companies like to hire those hot chicks to stand at their booths and hand out goofy promotional crap. The automotive section of CES is especially good as then you have hot semi-naked chicks posing on cars with electronics while people snap pictures with them. C'mon - that is worth getting a free exhibit pass for! It seems like the adult business convention is often held the same time as CES too so when you get bored you can spend $20 and go walk around talking to porn stars.
I live in Las Vegas. If I based all my understandings on technology from conferences then of course I'd think that gold would rain from the sky, we'd all have hot model chicks wearing skimpy alien outfits and porting iPods as girlfriends, and all technology would be rather boring and useless other than as yet another means for suits to make endless gobs of money. Conferences and tradeshows do not define technology and they certainly don't pass along good technical information. They're more like the mold that grows around technology. All these terms (Web 2.0, AJAX, etc) are rather silly in general and are in the end just buzzwords. Despite that there is a real change in how web design is done taking place. Call it whatever you want. I like the version numbers as it most clearly states an improved, more feature rich, version of the existing web. That more functional web is what most people mean when they say Web 2.0, AJAX, etc. For all the difference it makes the marketing creeps could call it Bob.. it wouldn't be the first time Microsoft tried that.
Ads are nothing new on the web. I don't see that as being a defining point of any new web features.
I didn't catch any statement from Gates (as I mostly ignore the idiot) but you should realize that Bill Gates wouldn't know the future even if he spent a billion dollars to hire the world's experts to tell it to him. Ever read The Road Ahead? What a laugh. He is a copycat and not an innovator. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are both foolish ideas that are going to do naught but help the entertainment industry drive more nails in it's own coffin. Physical media is no longer needed and if it's prices stay high even as they take features (like the ability to backup my own property) away and ask us to buy expensive equipment to enable all this then many people will switch to something else. Hollywood style force fed entertainment is a failing idea. Collabortive entertainment is the way things will go. Enable end users to produce and share high-quality movies of their own and you'll have a winning product.
If you're just saying that you don't give a rats ass about Microsoft's (and other retarded companies) lame ass vision of what Web 2.0 is then I can agree with that. Writing it off as all marketing hype and money making schemes is a bit short sighted though. The first wave of the web was full of hype and crap but it still managed to make a serious change to our culture.
If they could keep a search engine like indexing of all sites visited that'd be great. Make it so you could search your history by keywords, relationships, times visited, and frequency of visits. Often I end up Googling for sites instead of looking at my history or bookmarks because it's the faster way to find the sites again. If you could search only in your history and bookmarks it'd help a lot.
Umm no. You may as well say that moving from command-line batch processed software to GUI multi-tasking enviroments is about distributing content in a profitable manner. I'm sure that both these changes were hoped to be profitable but that is not the reason users care about them. As with anything you always have what the suits hope to get from the changes (which never changes.. greedy bastards) but that is not really the fundamental driving force behind those changes. The only reason those changes can be profitable is if they are delivering what end users are willing to pay to get.
End-users want the web to be more responsive, look nicer, offer more content, and make communicating easier and more fun. Delivering those things CAN make a profit but only because users are looking for those features.
I've used that before too but it doesn't work as well as syncing bookmarks with a del.icio.us account. I'll have to see if there is a Firefox extension that does this. If not I hope it gets ported over soon.
Not 'getting' the Web 2.0 is dangerous for an engineer if they work in the web business or anything remotely related. It'd be like having been in the software business in 1994 and not seeing the big deal of that new thing called the web.
Enabling anyone to create, edit, and share is one of the defining premises of the web and it's only this premise that is deepening that really defines the new generation of web apps. I fully expect to see every kind of human-computer interaction pick up community features in the near future and become merged into the web browser.
A lot is made of the UI changes in the Web 2.0 (or AJAX, or whatever) and those are important but they are really only important so much as they improve the ability to communicate more complex things with more people quickly.
Not a good thing to ignore if you're job involves software, communications, or media.
To me, sharing bookmarks with myself across multiple computers is the main attraction of Flock. It's favorites feature also is an improvement over Firefox's classic-style of bookmarks which is just impossible to use when you get into hundreds of bookmarks. I like being able to tag bookmarks and search/browse them by tags.
As for community features. I'm not sure they belong merged into the browser but I'm not sure they don't either so it's a worthy experiment. I'm sure the better parts will get merged backwards into Firefox. Community sites shouldn't be a replacement for a social life but they can provide an extension of a social life. Obviously you're using Slashdot so you have no room to make fun of users of community sites.
Most eagerly awaited Microsoft product besides IE7 huh? I just want Microsoft products to stop sucking.
All I ask for is an IE7 that is standards compliant with at least HTML4, CSS1, CSS2, Javascript, and can properly show alpha transparency in PNG's. I'm so sick of having to make an entirely different stylesheet just for IE to display my website's in a way that is usable.
They could amaze me by properly supporting SVG and canvas too. I can't imagine IE supporting SVG and canvas any sooner than the year 2020 at the rate they're going. If they had any brains whatsoever they'd give up the IE rendering engine and just use Gecko. To me, it seems that would be the easiest and cheapest way to keep end-users from switching to other browsers such as Firefox.
As long as IE sucks I have no reason to think Microsoft has the ability to make a decent program let alone a decent operating system and dsktop enviroment.
If we're going to do chain letters then lets work on something worth while.
Send me nudie pics and forward this letter to five other women or you'll grow genital warts.
Funny enough I've tried that before (on ICQ) and got a lot of women sending me pics. Sadly, I think the Internet to suspicious these days for it to work as well still.
You mean the phone counts how many minutes you use it and deducts those minutes from your account as you use them. Gee I never would have thought of doing that. Doh. If it's obvious it shouldn't be patentable. Simply taking a common practice and moving it to a new technology or industry should not qualify as something worthy of a patent.
Intellectual protection laws are shortsighted and don't work. If you can't keep innovating fast enough to profit then you deserve to go broke. Throw everyone to the sharks and let those who are smart enough and fast enough to stay ahead do so and the rest can get ate up and pooped out.
Do like most wankers that don't know how to use tabs or simply read the article and then use the back button - skip reading the article and just start making dumb comments. Obviously you have the later part of that plan down so you're halfway there already.
If the back button is to confussing for you then did you ever manage to use a VCR? Every time you wanted to watch a movie again you had to wait for the tape to reach the end and auto-rewind or did you finally learn to use that complex thing called the rewind button?
When I create sites I make an effort to push towards simplicity. I don't like busy designs that make it difficult to see what a page (and site) is about. Blogs are especially bad. I've been redesigning a girl's blog site (http://www.melissasmith.org/ that was listed from Wired Magazine just because I happened to look at it and thought it could be better (okay.. the theme of boobs made me look). The original site was very boxy, broken between multiple domains, had tons of ads spread over the pages, and tried to put to much into single pages rather than making additional pages. Look at some blog sites and see. They tend to be incredibly busy. hard to use, and take forever to load because everything is crammed into a couple pages.
Big companies especially tend to have these ultra-busy websites. When Novell bought out Ximian they totally destroyed the ability to find information on things such as the Red Carpet program. Their site is just horribly cluttered. Try paying a bill too - something like Sprint or Capital One have websites that are just plain confussing. Find a driver on HP's website (which is better than many big companies) if you can.
I think simplicity and elegance of design is much better than filling up every inch of screen. Feeling the need to fill every space screams, to me, of a designer with no experience in art or user interfaces. Open space and a simple layout make it easier to quickly look at something and find the portion that you're looking for and then act on it.
Naw. Real men forego wussy ideas like browsers and just publish their information in demos hand coded in assembly language and released by ftp. Fire licking at our words as rock music plays and the devil laughs.. all in 69KB of code.
In the old days programmers really had to cram a lot into a little space. Woulda thought the ladies would have liked that.;)
To me all those reasons speak of outdated ideas. They may be true but they won't be true for long. Soon every computer will be networked all the time. Portable physical drives are a concept from the stoneage of computing. Or so I think anyway (not always true outside my own sick mind).
I'm a firm believer that the network will be the computer as soon as people stop trying to make network computers identical, or as bad copies of, existing computers. The network as the computer is a much more powerful idea than current physical-based desktop windowing enviroments. Even the concept of an application is outdated.
Government data is safer on a USB drive that gets carried around and handed around than on a carefully designed network? Doubtful.
Network policies will have to be redesigned to handle the whole network is the computer age. Most of them don't work anyway.
Any file that can fit on a USB drive isn't huge - flash memory is to expensive. Networks are being forced to improve their speeds as new uses and greater need for always-on networking develop.
Is this any different than using something like a CF card as a drive? That boots and loads programs much faster too, uses very little space, and is highly energy effecient. At least for CF drives all you need is a CF card and a module that lets the card be loaded as an IDE drive which typically costs about $20.
If it's the same then it's great for storing files that are rarely written but not great for storing often rewritten files *such as a temp dir or swap mem) because the flash memory wears out fairly often. (Turning off things like recording last access time of files helps a lot.) Maybe use a removable usb drive for storing your documents? Still uses flash memory but that way your OS and apps don't die if your documents do and vice versa. Net-stored documents would be an idea too.
I don't really see the point of USB drives anyway when saving files online is easier and accessible from anywhere in the world. I keep looking for a reason to ue a USB drive but have yet to find one. They're cute though.
I agree that a solid implementation of user-space file systems is a long time coming to Linux. I hate seeing KDE, Gnome, and other projects have to implement virtual filesystems of one type or another that don't exist outside of their own enviroment. In Unix everything is a file and that is for good reason. I hope FUSE cures these ills and makes it easier to write our own filesystems. Last time I tried working with it it was something of a pain to get working properly. Hopefully that's changed.
Unfortunately, while much better than ext2 or ext3, Reiser still doesn't do great at directories containing hundreds of thouands or millions of files. It's better than any other FS I've tried for this but could still use some work. It handles large amounts of files over the entire filesystem well though which is good.
Layering your own FS on top of Reiser works pretty well. Break up directories into smaller directories containing sub-directories of files increases access time a lot. Squid and other programs do something similar to this themselves.
I think it'd be pretty difficult to claim copyright infringement on a photograph you took of something else unless the photograph was of the entire work and of a quality that clearly was meant to be near to the original. I mean if you photograph a store front Pepsi can't really claim you're violating their copyright of their Pepsi sign. Likewise if you photograph a close-up of the treads on your tire Firestone can't really claim you're stealing their IP. Fair use should definately come into play with such things.
Backing up DVD's isn't copyright infringement - it's DMCA infringment. We should never have let the bastards make it illegal to reverse engineer for the purpose of fair use.
Tattoos I'm surprised they haven't done something about. If it's an exact duplicate it's copyright violation and even if not it's probably a trademark violation. I've seen some pretty gross misuses of trademarked images that'd seem to defile the purity of some of these characters.
The point is that there is no way to know every possible loophole because IE is extremely buggy and nobody outside of M$ can look at the source to figure out all possible problems. Most likely the problem is so big that even with the source you couldn't figure out all the possible exploits in the time it'd take you to just write a better browser.
How else could they block Javascript without eliminating the ability to post bits of code or psuedo-code for artistic or informational reasons? Even then it could probably be snuck in given that code doesn't really have any secret give away footprint that makes it possible to filter out.
About the only way to protect against such a problem is to block any browser from using the site that is to forgiving of bad web code. I'd imagine most other sites that let users post stuff others can read can be infected in a similar way.
I just hope the poor guy that wrote this code doesn't get in trouble. It doesn't sound as if he really knew how fast it'd grow and it was a much needed wakeup call to MySpace and the industry as a whole.
What we really need is for every major website to agree to a blanket anti-IE policy until IE is fixed, with like treatment for any other browser of similar shady quality (none that I can think of), where starting on a certain day all those sites redirect IE users to a site that'll help them download and install their choice of better browser. Firefox, Safari, Opera, or whatever (Lynx anyone?). Get the top ten websites to do that, with an explanation as to why, and you could change a high enough percentage of users over to make a permanent change. Hell, use those browser holes to make installing an alternate browser easy. Once directed to the site explaining the situation have the page offer the choice of available browsers each with an 'Install Now' button next to it. As soon as the user clicks the button install the new browser as the default browser and remove all shortcuts to IE. No need to figure out how to download and install anything after that one click.
It's to bad that the ICANN has proven so bad a manager. What we really need is an independant government body (as in it's own government.. not a part of another) with no commercial interests and freedom from all other governments' interference. The Internet is the new world power and that is why all governments want to control it.
What they need to do is set up some sort of virtual states that each has equal representation and some sort of system to give end-users, corporations, and governments the chance to register with one, and only one, virtual state that they want to represent them. I wouldn't want my country to count as my virtual state but maybe many would so let it be optional. I'd want to join a free speech virtual state. There is really no reason for geographical borders to keep being the method that government is defined - not online anyway.
Most of the open source community has no training in graphic arts at all which is why having real graphic artists contribute helps so much. You should never let programmers decide what things should look like.
Luckily well written programs can change their look easily as improved graphics become available. Most of the graphics included with software by the programmers are meant just as place holders both in commercial and free software.
I do know a couple exceptional graphic artists as a whole graphic artists are artists and not user-interface engineers that've been trained in usability. Just because they think Photoshop is easier to use doesn't make it easier to use.
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Eww. I don't even want to think about little beads of sweat and cum floating about the room and bouncing off walls. Man, I hope they sterilize the room after each use. Even worse if anyone has a kinky pee fetish.
Three days is more than I can usually handle without my brain going into a fit of chaos. If they really expect people to go 30 months without sex then they should provide medication that will reduce their sex drive. Even then you have basic human emotional needs which sex plays a part of so people would still probably have sex. Trying to go without sex will cause more problems than just planning for sex.
Send them up half male and half female with orders that they need to rotate partners on a daily basis. Well laid people with multiple partners they aren't previously attached to are less likely to get into jealous rages or similar problems. Expecting them to go without for 30 months is foolish and choosing to ignore the problem will work just about as well as not providing sex ed to horny highschool kids. These people are astronauts and know their lifes depend on working together. If they can't work together even when they hate each other (or worse - love each other) then they shouldn't be sent up.
He only grasps that online delivery is the wave of the future a decade after every one else. What a genius that guy is. The man who almost missed a little thing called the Internet. I had a website before Microsoft did. Duh!
Somewhere I have pictures of hot model chicks wearing skimpy alien outfits.. actually several pictures. They were giving out these cool looking alien mousepads that were transparent and full of alien goo. To bad they don't work with optical mice. The hot chicks is the number one reason to show up to shows like Comdex or CES. Rarely do you see anything innovative at the shows but holy shit do companies like to hire those hot chicks to stand at their booths and hand out goofy promotional crap. The automotive section of CES is especially good as then you have hot semi-naked chicks posing on cars with electronics while people snap pictures with them. C'mon - that is worth getting a free exhibit pass for! It seems like the adult business convention is often held the same time as CES too so when you get bored you can spend $20 and go walk around talking to porn stars.
I live in Las Vegas. If I based all my understandings on technology from conferences then of course I'd think that gold would rain from the sky, we'd all have hot model chicks wearing skimpy alien outfits and porting iPods as girlfriends, and all technology would be rather boring and useless other than as yet another means for suits to make endless gobs of money. Conferences and tradeshows do not define technology and they certainly don't pass along good technical information. They're more like the mold that grows around technology. All these terms (Web 2.0, AJAX, etc) are rather silly in general and are in the end just buzzwords. Despite that there is a real change in how web design is done taking place. Call it whatever you want. I like the version numbers as it most clearly states an improved, more feature rich, version of the existing web. That more functional web is what most people mean when they say Web 2.0, AJAX, etc. For all the difference it makes the marketing creeps could call it Bob.. it wouldn't be the first time Microsoft tried that.
Ads are nothing new on the web. I don't see that as being a defining point of any new web features.
I didn't catch any statement from Gates (as I mostly ignore the idiot) but you should realize that Bill Gates wouldn't know the future even if he spent a billion dollars to hire the world's experts to tell it to him. Ever read The Road Ahead? What a laugh. He is a copycat and not an innovator. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are both foolish ideas that are going to do naught but help the entertainment industry drive more nails in it's own coffin. Physical media is no longer needed and if it's prices stay high even as they take features (like the ability to backup my own property) away and ask us to buy expensive equipment to enable all this then many people will switch to something else. Hollywood style force fed entertainment is a failing idea. Collabortive entertainment is the way things will go. Enable end users to produce and share high-quality movies of their own and you'll have a winning product.
If you're just saying that you don't give a rats ass about Microsoft's (and other retarded companies) lame ass vision of what Web 2.0 is then I can agree with that. Writing it off as all marketing hype and money making schemes is a bit short sighted though. The first wave of the web was full of hype and crap but it still managed to make a serious change to our culture.
If they could keep a search engine like indexing of all sites visited that'd be great. Make it so you could search your history by keywords, relationships, times visited, and frequency of visits. Often I end up Googling for sites instead of looking at my history or bookmarks because it's the faster way to find the sites again. If you could search only in your history and bookmarks it'd help a lot.
Umm no. You may as well say that moving from command-line batch processed software to GUI multi-tasking enviroments is about distributing content in a profitable manner. I'm sure that both these changes were hoped to be profitable but that is not the reason users care about them. As with anything you always have what the suits hope to get from the changes (which never changes.. greedy bastards) but that is not really the fundamental driving force behind those changes. The only reason those changes can be profitable is if they are delivering what end users are willing to pay to get.
End-users want the web to be more responsive, look nicer, offer more content, and make communicating easier and more fun. Delivering those things CAN make a profit but only because users are looking for those features.
I've used that before too but it doesn't work as well as syncing bookmarks with a del.icio.us account. I'll have to see if there is a Firefox extension that does this. If not I hope it gets ported over soon.
Not 'getting' the Web 2.0 is dangerous for an engineer if they work in the web business or anything remotely related. It'd be like having been in the software business in 1994 and not seeing the big deal of that new thing called the web.
Enabling anyone to create, edit, and share is one of the defining premises of the web and it's only this premise that is deepening that really defines the new generation of web apps. I fully expect to see every kind of human-computer interaction pick up community features in the near future and become merged into the web browser.
A lot is made of the UI changes in the Web 2.0 (or AJAX, or whatever) and those are important but they are really only important so much as they improve the ability to communicate more complex things with more people quickly.
Not a good thing to ignore if you're job involves software, communications, or media.
To me, sharing bookmarks with myself across multiple computers is the main attraction of Flock. It's favorites feature also is an improvement over Firefox's classic-style of bookmarks which is just impossible to use when you get into hundreds of bookmarks. I like being able to tag bookmarks and search/browse them by tags.
As for community features. I'm not sure they belong merged into the browser but I'm not sure they don't either so it's a worthy experiment. I'm sure the better parts will get merged backwards into Firefox. Community sites shouldn't be a replacement for a social life but they can provide an extension of a social life. Obviously you're using Slashdot so you have no room to make fun of users of community sites.
Most eagerly awaited Microsoft product besides IE7 huh? I just want Microsoft products to stop sucking.
All I ask for is an IE7 that is standards compliant with at least HTML4, CSS1, CSS2, Javascript, and can properly show alpha transparency in PNG's. I'm so sick of having to make an entirely different stylesheet just for IE to display my website's in a way that is usable.
They could amaze me by properly supporting SVG and canvas too. I can't imagine IE supporting SVG and canvas any sooner than the year 2020 at the rate they're going. If they had any brains whatsoever they'd give up the IE rendering engine and just use Gecko. To me, it seems that would be the easiest and cheapest way to keep end-users from switching to other browsers such as Firefox.
As long as IE sucks I have no reason to think Microsoft has the ability to make a decent program let alone a decent operating system and dsktop enviroment.
If we're going to do chain letters then lets work on something worth while.
Send me nudie pics and forward this letter to five other women or you'll grow genital warts.
Funny enough I've tried that before (on ICQ) and got a lot of women sending me pics. Sadly, I think the Internet to suspicious these days for it to work as well still.
You mean the phone counts how many minutes you use it and deducts those minutes from your account as you use them. Gee I never would have thought of doing that. Doh. If it's obvious it shouldn't be patentable. Simply taking a common practice and moving it to a new technology or industry should not qualify as something worthy of a patent.
Intellectual protection laws are shortsighted and don't work. If you can't keep innovating fast enough to profit then you deserve to go broke. Throw everyone to the sharks and let those who are smart enough and fast enough to stay ahead do so and the rest can get ate up and pooped out.
Do like most wankers that don't know how to use tabs or simply read the article and then use the back button - skip reading the article and just start making dumb comments. Obviously you have the later part of that plan down so you're halfway there already.
If the back button is to confussing for you then did you ever manage to use a VCR? Every time you wanted to watch a movie again you had to wait for the tape to reach the end and auto-rewind or did you finally learn to use that complex thing called the rewind button?
When I create sites I make an effort to push towards simplicity. I don't like busy designs that make it difficult to see what a page (and site) is about. Blogs are especially bad. I've been redesigning a girl's blog site (http://www.melissasmith.org/ that was listed from Wired Magazine just because I happened to look at it and thought it could be better (okay.. the theme of boobs made me look). The original site was very boxy, broken between multiple domains, had tons of ads spread over the pages, and tried to put to much into single pages rather than making additional pages. Look at some blog sites and see. They tend to be incredibly busy. hard to use, and take forever to load because everything is crammed into a couple pages.
Big companies especially tend to have these ultra-busy websites. When Novell bought out Ximian they totally destroyed the ability to find information on things such as the Red Carpet program. Their site is just horribly cluttered. Try paying a bill too - something like Sprint or Capital One have websites that are just plain confussing. Find a driver on HP's website (which is better than many big companies) if you can.
I think simplicity and elegance of design is much better than filling up every inch of screen. Feeling the need to fill every space screams, to me, of a designer with no experience in art or user interfaces. Open space and a simple layout make it easier to quickly look at something and find the portion that you're looking for and then act on it.
Naw. Real men forego wussy ideas like browsers and just publish their information in demos hand coded in assembly language and released by ftp. Fire licking at our words as rock music plays and the devil laughs.. all in 69KB of code.
;)
In the old days programmers really had to cram a lot into a little space. Woulda thought the ladies would have liked that.
To me all those reasons speak of outdated ideas. They may be true but they won't be true for long. Soon every computer will be networked all the time. Portable physical drives are a concept from the stoneage of computing. Or so I think anyway (not always true outside my own sick mind).
I'm a firm believer that the network will be the computer as soon as people stop trying to make network computers identical, or as bad copies of, existing computers. The network as the computer is a much more powerful idea than current physical-based desktop windowing enviroments. Even the concept of an application is outdated.
Government data is safer on a USB drive that gets carried around and handed around than on a carefully designed network? Doubtful.
Network policies will have to be redesigned to handle the whole network is the computer age. Most of them don't work anyway.
Any file that can fit on a USB drive isn't huge - flash memory is to expensive. Networks are being forced to improve their speeds as new uses and greater need for always-on networking develop.
Is this any different than using something like a CF card as a drive? That boots and loads programs much faster too, uses very little space, and is highly energy effecient. At least for CF drives all you need is a CF card and a module that lets the card be loaded as an IDE drive which typically costs about $20.
If it's the same then it's great for storing files that are rarely written but not great for storing often rewritten files *such as a temp dir or swap mem) because the flash memory wears out fairly often. (Turning off things like recording last access time of files helps a lot.) Maybe use a removable usb drive for storing your documents? Still uses flash memory but that way your OS and apps don't die if your documents do and vice versa. Net-stored documents would be an idea too.
Looks like he is ready to run for Congress. With his stupid rants against video games he'd probably get elected.
I don't really see the point of USB drives anyway when saving files online is easier and accessible from anywhere in the world. I keep looking for a reason to ue a USB drive but have yet to find one. They're cute though.
I agree that a solid implementation of user-space file systems is a long time coming to Linux. I hate seeing KDE, Gnome, and other projects have to implement virtual filesystems of one type or another that don't exist outside of their own enviroment. In Unix everything is a file and that is for good reason. I hope FUSE cures these ills and makes it easier to write our own filesystems. Last time I tried working with it it was something of a pain to get working properly. Hopefully that's changed.
Unfortunately, while much better than ext2 or ext3, Reiser still doesn't do great at directories containing hundreds of thouands or millions of files. It's better than any other FS I've tried for this but could still use some work. It handles large amounts of files over the entire filesystem well though which is good.
Layering your own FS on top of Reiser works pretty well. Break up directories into smaller directories containing sub-directories of files increases access time a lot. Squid and other programs do something similar to this themselves.
I think it'd be pretty difficult to claim copyright infringement on a photograph you took of something else unless the photograph was of the entire work and of a quality that clearly was meant to be near to the original. I mean if you photograph a store front Pepsi can't really claim you're violating their copyright of their Pepsi sign. Likewise if you photograph a close-up of the treads on your tire Firestone can't really claim you're stealing their IP. Fair use should definately come into play with such things.
Backing up DVD's isn't copyright infringement - it's DMCA infringment. We should never have let the bastards make it illegal to reverse engineer for the purpose of fair use.
Tattoos I'm surprised they haven't done something about. If it's an exact duplicate it's copyright violation and even if not it's probably a trademark violation. I've seen some pretty gross misuses of trademarked images that'd seem to defile the purity of some of these characters.
The point is that there is no way to know every possible loophole because IE is extremely buggy and nobody outside of M$ can look at the source to figure out all possible problems. Most likely the problem is so big that even with the source you couldn't figure out all the possible exploits in the time it'd take you to just write a better browser.
How else could they block Javascript without eliminating the ability to post bits of code or psuedo-code for artistic or informational reasons? Even then it could probably be snuck in given that code doesn't really have any secret give away footprint that makes it possible to filter out.
About the only way to protect against such a problem is to block any browser from using the site that is to forgiving of bad web code. I'd imagine most other sites that let users post stuff others can read can be infected in a similar way.
I just hope the poor guy that wrote this code doesn't get in trouble. It doesn't sound as if he really knew how fast it'd grow and it was a much needed wakeup call to MySpace and the industry as a whole.
What we really need is for every major website to agree to a blanket anti-IE policy until IE is fixed, with like treatment for any other browser of similar shady quality (none that I can think of), where starting on a certain day all those sites redirect IE users to a site that'll help them download and install their choice of better browser. Firefox, Safari, Opera, or whatever (Lynx anyone?). Get the top ten websites to do that, with an explanation as to why, and you could change a high enough percentage of users over to make a permanent change. Hell, use those browser holes to make installing an alternate browser easy. Once directed to the site explaining the situation have the page offer the choice of available browsers each with an 'Install Now' button next to it. As soon as the user clicks the button install the new browser as the default browser and remove all shortcuts to IE. No need to figure out how to download and install anything after that one click.
It's to bad that the ICANN has proven so bad a manager. What we really need is an independant government body (as in it's own government.. not a part of another) with no commercial interests and freedom from all other governments' interference. The Internet is the new world power and that is why all governments want to control it.
What they need to do is set up some sort of virtual states that each has equal representation and some sort of system to give end-users, corporations, and governments the chance to register with one, and only one, virtual state that they want to represent them. I wouldn't want my country to count as my virtual state but maybe many would so let it be optional. I'd want to join a free speech virtual state. There is really no reason for geographical borders to keep being the method that government is defined - not online anyway.
Most of the open source community has no training in graphic arts at all which is why having real graphic artists contribute helps so much. You should never let programmers decide what things should look like.
Luckily well written programs can change their look easily as improved graphics become available. Most of the graphics included with software by the programmers are meant just as place holders both in commercial and free software.
I do know a couple exceptional graphic artists as a whole graphic artists are artists and not user-interface engineers that've been trained in usability. Just because they think Photoshop is easier to use doesn't make it easier to use.