That's not what TFA says, guess I should not have read it. Apparently, the DEB package files used by Debian and Ubuntu don't have this information available. I don't use either, so I wouldn't know. Can someone double-check on an Ubuntu system?
Short story: RPM packages include license information, DEB packages do not. Looks like intellectual property is an issue even in the FOSS world after all. Good luck with Fedora, Intel, you'll need it.
That's what I thought. That doesn't prevent anything. Also, who controls the hash list? What prevents them from adding the hash of anything they want later? How does that scale?
How will they do it? How can they detect kiddie porn? Because if they can do that at the packet level with 100% accuracy and 0% false positive, I wouldn't mind having this in my router at the hardware level.
Name a feature of C++ templates (other than multiple inheritence) that cannot be done in.NET with generics. I really tried to think of one, but I couldn't come up with a meaningful example. AFAIK,.NET generics cannot be partially specialized like template functions in C++. Also, last time I checked you could only specialize generics with types, not literals as in C++ templates. The boost library makes heavy use of quirky template tricks in order to implement things like anonymous lambda functions in plain C++. I don't think you can do the same things with.NET generics.
That said, "advanced" C++ templates are far too complicated and dangerous to be relied upon except for really special cases. So.NET's middle ground is not that bad.
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Replying to obvious trolls, however, has been proven to increase usage of everyone's "computer and NIC" resources all the same. Just so you know. Have a nice day.
Indeed, if this is true, he basically found out that Creative messed up their own Vista drivers. Is this a not-so-subtle move by Creative to cripple Microsoft? Why would they want to cripple Microsoft? Is the modder a Microsoft shill? Why doesn't it make sense.
The sad fact is that before now, only pedophiles and other criminals used something like Freenet to conceal their activities. Now that everyone (and given current eavesdropping policy in the US and laws recently passed in various EU countries, I really mean everyone) has to use it to maintain their privacy, everyone will be considered a pedophile at first. For at least 2-3 more years I think, depending on who's getting elected in the US.
However, if it really gets faster, in one year or so the useful content will override the unlawful content a hundred to one, and then maybe the medium will get some popularity at last.
secondly if MS wanted to cripple firefox they could do so far more easilly through say windows update. Granted, GP was quite over the top, but his point still stands. Indeed, let's assume for a while that (somewhere in another dimension), MS does cripple Firefox through FoxyTunes using Windows Update. That situation leads to very different outcomes before and after an eventual MS/Y! merger:
Before the merger:
Joe R. Hacker of the Many Eyes: Firefox is crippled under Vista, also under XP with mandatory update KB66642 installed. Fred Quux of the Firefox Bug Dispatchers: Does this occur in safe mode? If it does not, can you pinpoint the add-on that is causing the crippling? JRH: Thanks. The crippling is in FoxyTunes. FQ: I really can't do anything about that. You have to get the FoxyTunes maintainers to fix it. JRH: That's okay, it's Yahoo!. I'll file a bug. Y!: After some debugging, it looks like both Vista and KB66642 have an API bug that leads to a buffer overflow in our extension. We're fixing this and making some fuss about it with MS, because it may break some other extension and we would hate that.
After the merger:
JRH: Firefox is crippled under Vista, also under XP with mandatory update KB66642 installed. FQ: Does this occur in safe mode? If it does not, can you pinpoint the add-on that is causing the crippling? JRH: Thanks. The crippling is in FoxyTunes. FQ: I really can't do anything about that. You have to get the FoxyTunes maintainers to fix it. JRH: That's okay, it's Microsoft. I'll file a... Oh, wait...
<GP_level_paranoia> MS: We're aware of this problem but we can't fix it. It is due to a flaw in the Firefox platform. JRH: Are you kidding me? FoxyTunes worked fine when Yahoo! was making it! MS: Maybe. However, the latest release of FoxyTunes has to interface with the TPM and DRM/DBD layers of XP and Vista, and unfortunately it triggers a buffer overflow in the pitiful Firefox add-on APIs. We can't fix it. JRH: You know what? I'm having an RMS/ESR moment. Please stay in line as I reach for my katana and my Uzi. MS: Just for the record, ExplorerTunes under IE8 is outstanding. It has so many more features, it's pretty, and it just works! JRH: Screw you. I'm forking FoxyTunes. MS: Please do that. Our patent lawyers are hungry. </GP_level_paranoia>
Inverse Moore's Law states that the more time that developers spend on making games look 'pretty', the less time they spend on playability. My psychic powers tell me you've played one of the recent Final Fantasy titles.
Absolutely. I don't want to oversimplify things, but the solution is right in the summary. Do like every other country does and hand-count the votes. Americans are clearly getting screwed over and over by those voting machines. They have to go.
Why don't they just use the ISO date format? Last time I checked, YYYY-MM-DD was both universally and non-equivocally understood and lexicographically sortable.
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That's not what TFA says, guess I should not have read it. Apparently, the DEB package files used by Debian and Ubuntu don't have this information available. I don't use either, so I wouldn't know. Can someone double-check on an Ubuntu system?
Short story: RPM packages include license information, DEB packages do not. Looks like intellectual property is an issue even in the FOSS world after all. Good luck with Fedora, Intel, you'll need it.
That's what I thought. That doesn't prevent anything. Also, who controls the hash list? What prevents them from adding the hash of anything they want later? How does that scale?
How will they do it? How can they detect kiddie porn? Because if they can do that at the packet level with 100% accuracy and 0% false positive, I wouldn't mind having this in my router at the hardware level.
So, how?
That said, "advanced" C++ templates are far too complicated and dangerous to be relied upon except for really special cases. So
Nuclear XML. I've seen it in production once.
Replying to obvious trolls, however, has been proven to increase usage of everyone's "computer and NIC" resources all the same. Just so you know. Have a nice day.
Because YHBT. YHL. HAND.
How come they still have customers? Are they a de facto monopoly? Where are the class action lawsuits and the antitrust regulations then?
Indeed, if this is true, he basically found out that Creative messed up their own Vista drivers. Is this a not-so-subtle move by Creative to cripple Microsoft? Why would they want to cripple Microsoft? Is the modder a Microsoft shill? Why doesn't it make sense.
Maybe the performance improvements they speak of are related to old-fashioned language-agnostic algorithm bottlenecks?
The sad fact is that before now, only pedophiles and other criminals used something like Freenet to conceal their activities. Now that everyone (and given current eavesdropping policy in the US and laws recently passed in various EU countries, I really mean everyone) has to use it to maintain their privacy, everyone will be considered a pedophile at first. For at least 2-3 more years I think, depending on who's getting elected in the US.
However, if it really gets faster, in one year or so the useful content will override the unlawful content a hundred to one, and then maybe the medium will get some popularity at last.
Only one minute and two comment ids apart. Cheers, friend, let me share this first post with you.
But is it faster? Please?
No problem. We just have to remove the address bar from the navigation toolbar (yes, you can do that) and navigate the web using bookmarks only.
Install Tab Mix Plus.
Before the merger:
Joe R. Hacker of the Many Eyes: Firefox is crippled under Vista, also under XP with mandatory update KB66642 installed.
Fred Quux of the Firefox Bug Dispatchers: Does this occur in safe mode? If it does not, can you pinpoint the add-on that is causing the crippling?
JRH: Thanks. The crippling is in FoxyTunes.
FQ: I really can't do anything about that. You have to get the FoxyTunes maintainers to fix it.
JRH: That's okay, it's Yahoo!. I'll file a bug.
Y!: After some debugging, it looks like both Vista and KB66642 have an API bug that leads to a buffer overflow in our extension. We're fixing this and making some fuss about it with MS, because it may break some other extension and we would hate that.
After the merger:
JRH: Firefox is crippled under Vista, also under XP with mandatory update KB66642 installed.
FQ: Does this occur in safe mode? If it does not, can you pinpoint the add-on that is causing the crippling?
JRH: Thanks. The crippling is in FoxyTunes.
FQ: I really can't do anything about that. You have to get the FoxyTunes maintainers to fix it.
JRH: That's okay, it's Microsoft. I'll file a... Oh, wait...
<GP_level_paranoia>
MS: We're aware of this problem but we can't fix it. It is due to a flaw in the Firefox platform.
JRH: Are you kidding me? FoxyTunes worked fine when Yahoo! was making it!
MS: Maybe. However, the latest release of FoxyTunes has to interface with the TPM and DRM/DBD layers of XP and Vista, and unfortunately it triggers a buffer overflow in the pitiful Firefox add-on APIs. We can't fix it.
JRH: You know what? I'm having an RMS/ESR moment. Please stay in line as I reach for my katana and my Uzi.
MS: Just for the record, ExplorerTunes under IE8 is outstanding. It has so many more features, it's pretty, and it just works!
JRH: Screw you. I'm forking FoxyTunes.
MS: Please do that. Our patent lawyers are hungry.
</GP_level_paranoia>
Now you understand why they're doing this, young padawan.
Because the marketplace are sheep. If you did not realize this before, sorry for the spoiler.
Absolutely. I don't want to oversimplify things, but the solution is right in the summary. Do like every other country does and hand-count the votes. Americans are clearly getting screwed over and over by those voting machines. They have to go.
Why don't they just use the ISO date format? Last time I checked, YYYY-MM-DD was both universally and non-equivocally understood and lexicographically sortable.