They definitely showed up in Gaim. Which isn't much of a surprise, as the client's cooperation isn't necessary. AOL just has to poke a couple values into your server-side buddy list, which the client will download upon connect, and then send you that annoying message once you connect.
Simple. Its damn database breaks more than anything. Nobody's agreed on a decent set of conventions for package names. And they decided to use their own format instead of, I don't know, existing standards for archiving data:)
No, not even close. In fact, since this process makes combustion somewhat easier it might have the opposite effect. In any case, I don't think randomly adding some hydrogen to your gas is going to do anything even vaguely useful, and forget the safety implications;)
All estimates are that it will be about 10 years before there's any broadband availability in my area. So what you're saying is: why would I buy a lousy old-technology disc when I could watch any movie I wanted simply by clicking "download" and waiting 3 weeks?
is that he doesn't even seem to consider the possibility that you'll still be driving the car by the time you've paid it off. Which says something: apparently most people either have money and get a new car every three years, or don't have so much money, and get super-long-term financing (which is, of course, fantastically expensive in the long run, but all you ever notice is the "low monthly payment").
That is precisely what it is... a live cd on read/write media.
Yeah, and as much as I like Ubuntu in general, I have to say that their live CD is about the slowest thing I've ever seen in terms of boot speed. Debootstrap was never meant to "go there";)
But you still presumably need to get the program and look at it to know how to detect it, which is what their argument is with. Sure, there's also heuristic detection, but suppose that this kind of EULA crap stands up, and then all the spyware authors add it. Then you might not even have enough data to form a good heuristic base. With their EULAs validated, and the "opposition" made impotent, they'd basically have free reign to hijack computers.
With any luck, it won't go that far, and instead we'll see a significant blow to the (perceived) power of EULAs. But in seeing as how I live in the US, I don't know whether to expect that much sense.
No, it's not "what Wired reported"; it's how you misread what Wired reported while they were clearly saying something very different. I refer you to the article you quoted:
but it's an equally handy control mechanism for the tech outfits that develop it
You do realize that that's not even a preposition, right? The whole thing is more like an elliptical sentence, making reference to an earlier portion of itself, and the "to", while slightly unnecessary, is a marker making it clearer that the omitted portion is "... to [stake a claim on the moon]"
No. Try reading what I said. Strawmen not welcome. Prevention is always preferable, but in either case that choice falls on the car owner. So it's more like, a pound of cure is better than two pounds.
So, therefore, the government should not check that anyone drives on the road with a haywire jalopy, and if it breaks down, crashes and kills a widow driving her three orphans to soccer practice, it's though luck for the widow?
No, of course if you crash your car and kill people, that's your responsibility -- and so the burden is on you to make restitution or suffer consequences. And that is your incentive not to drive an unroadworthy vehicle, not state-run rackets selling shiny stickers at $20 a pop.
1. The Big Bang cannot be true as it contradicts the First Law of Thermodynamics. 2. Evolution cannot be true as it contradicts the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
1. Irrelevant, because assuming the Big Bang happened, Laws of Thermodynamics would only apply "after" it. Inflation stretches (heh) things a bit, but doesn't break them because it's based on the assumption of "latent energy" already present in the universe being converted into other forms.
2. Incorrect -- yes, evolution implies a localized increase in order, but that isn't prohibited by the Second Law, so long as things get more disordered in general. To illustrate the same point, grass growing doesn't violate the Second Law, because that increase is fueled by incoming energy from the Sun, and the Sun is still causing a net increase in entropy (and would be even if it were surrounded by a Dyson sphere covered in grass, due to the impossible of reaching 100% efficiency in energy conversion.)
In this case, generalization. The grandparent's argument is that this kid doesn't have the "understanding" necessary to go beyond specific nuggets of information that he's been introduced to. And, well, it's entirely possible.
Thanks for saying this. Further up, someone rebuked the issue of non-free libraries by saying "there are licenses that make that okay" -- but that's not the point. If your libraries tie you to a closed platform then you're not "free" in any useful way.
It's not that hard to buy or build a "sentry robot" anymore, so all that's left to do would be to wire it to a laser tag gun -- or just install the "lasers" directly
I've used Decuma's handwriting recognition software on my Palm, and it's a pretty competent system, didn't take very long for me to get used to. The main reason I ditched it was screen real-estate; I've got a "square" Palm rather than one with Virtual Graffiti, so I couldn't justify giving up that much space when the Graffiti pad was already available. That shouldn't be too much of an issue on the DS, of course, because anything that uses handwriting recognition can be expected to dedicate the touchscreen for that purpose.
The Congress doesn't have a latin motto over the door or anything like that. But maybe now with the Patriot Act they should have one. I suggest "Inter arma enim silent leges".
Remember "power corrupts, and absolute power is really pretty neat"? It applies at all levels. Corruption in government is the rule, not the exception, because government is the perfect instrument of corruption. Where power lies, the people who wish to grab power follow, and government is the institution which claims all power for its own. So the money follows the power, and the government is corrupt, and the more government, the more corruption. That's the rule. Anything else is an exception.
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Because it's not only faster, but easier on my hands? Two bits of state is not by any means too much to have to keep in my head. And in vim, you have the nice status bar to tell you where you are in case you went off somewhere and forgot. It'll even show you your half-finished normal-mode commands if you like. So overall it's faster and easier than, well, anything.
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They definitely showed up in Gaim. Which isn't much of a surprise, as the client's cooperation isn't necessary. AOL just has to poke a couple values into your server-side buddy list, which the client will download upon connect, and then send you that annoying message once you connect.
I hate to be all nationalist, but don't you think it would hurt more in the other direction?
Simple. Its damn database breaks more than anything. Nobody's agreed on a decent set of conventions for package names. And they decided to use their own format instead of, I don't know, existing standards for archiving data :)
No, not even close. In fact, since this process makes combustion somewhat easier it might have the opposite effect. In any case, I don't think randomly adding some hydrogen to your gas is going to do anything even vaguely useful, and forget the safety implications ;)
Redhat has one fundamental technical flaw, and its name is RPM. Unfortunately, it's even been adopted by such otherwise-beautiful distros as SuSE.
All estimates are that it will be about 10 years before there's any broadband availability in my area. So what you're saying is: why would I buy a lousy old-technology disc when I could watch any movie I wanted simply by clicking "download" and waiting 3 weeks?
is that he doesn't even seem to consider the possibility that you'll still be driving the car by the time you've paid it off. Which says something: apparently most people either have money and get a new car every three years, or don't have so much money, and get super-long-term financing (which is, of course, fantastically expensive in the long run, but all you ever notice is the "low monthly payment").
That is precisely what it is... a live cd on read/write media.
;)
Yeah, and as much as I like Ubuntu in general, I have to say that their live CD is about the slowest thing I've ever seen in terms of boot speed. Debootstrap was never meant to "go there"
But you still presumably need to get the program and look at it to know how to detect it, which is what their argument is with. Sure, there's also heuristic detection, but suppose that this kind of EULA crap stands up, and then all the spyware authors add it. Then you might not even have enough data to form a good heuristic base. With their EULAs validated, and the "opposition" made impotent, they'd basically have free reign to hijack computers.
With any luck, it won't go that far, and instead we'll see a significant blow to the (perceived) power of EULAs. But in seeing as how I live in the US, I don't know whether to expect that much sense.
It's not "my theory", it's what Wired reported.
No, it's not "what Wired reported"; it's how you misread what Wired reported while they were clearly saying something very different. I refer you to the article you quoted:
but it's an equally handy control mechanism for the tech outfits that develop it
The obvious conclusion that we can draw from this graph is that ninjas drive SUVs.
No, the obvious conclusion we can draw is that ninjas are mammals.
You do realize that that's not even a preposition, right? The whole thing is more like an elliptical sentence, making reference to an earlier portion of itself, and the "to", while slightly unnecessary, is a marker making it clearer that the omitted portion is "... to [stake a claim on the moon]"
Permission to shout "bravo" in an annoyingly loud voice?
No. Try reading what I said. Strawmen not welcome. Prevention is always preferable, but in either case that choice falls on the car owner. So it's more like, a pound of cure is better than two pounds.
So, therefore, the government should not check that anyone drives on the road with a haywire jalopy, and if it breaks down, crashes and kills a widow driving her three orphans to soccer practice, it's though luck for the widow?
No, of course if you crash your car and kill people, that's your responsibility -- and so the burden is on you to make restitution or suffer consequences. And that is your incentive not to drive an unroadworthy vehicle, not state-run rackets selling shiny stickers at $20 a pop.
1. The Big Bang cannot be true as it contradicts the First Law of Thermodynamics.
2. Evolution cannot be true as it contradicts the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
1. Irrelevant, because assuming the Big Bang happened, Laws of Thermodynamics would only apply "after" it. Inflation stretches (heh) things a bit, but doesn't break them because it's based on the assumption of "latent energy" already present in the universe being converted into other forms.
2. Incorrect -- yes, evolution implies a localized increase in order, but that isn't prohibited by the Second Law, so long as things get more disordered in general. To illustrate the same point, grass growing doesn't violate the Second Law, because that increase is fueled by incoming energy from the Sun, and the Sun is still causing a net increase in entropy (and would be even if it were surrounded by a Dyson sphere covered in grass, due to the impossible of reaching 100% efficiency in energy conversion.)
In this case, generalization. The grandparent's argument is that this kid doesn't have the "understanding" necessary to go beyond specific nuggets of information that he's been introduced to. And, well, it's entirely possible.
but didn't taco misspell "herre" ?
They don't look at everything they see with an objective eye.
;)
Of course not. Objectivity is officially nonexistent on Wikipedia.
Thanks for saying this. Further up, someone rebuked the issue of non-free libraries by saying "there are licenses that make that okay" -- but that's not the point. If your libraries tie you to a closed platform then you're not "free" in any useful way.
It's not that hard to buy or build a "sentry robot" anymore, so all that's left to do would be to wire it to a laser tag gun -- or just install the "lasers" directly
I've used Decuma's handwriting recognition software on my Palm, and it's a pretty competent system, didn't take very long for me to get used to. The main reason I ditched it was screen real-estate; I've got a "square" Palm rather than one with Virtual Graffiti, so I couldn't justify giving up that much space when the Graffiti pad was already available. That shouldn't be too much of an issue on the DS, of course, because anything that uses handwriting recognition can be expected to dedicate the touchscreen for that purpose.
The Congress doesn't have a latin motto over the door or anything like that. But maybe now with the Patriot Act they should have one. I suggest "Inter arma enim silent leges".
Remember "power corrupts, and absolute power is really pretty neat"? It applies at all levels. Corruption in government is the rule, not the exception, because government is the perfect instrument of corruption. Where power lies, the people who wish to grab power follow, and government is the institution which claims all power for its own. So the money follows the power, and the government is corrupt, and the more government, the more corruption. That's the rule. Anything else is an exception.
Because it's not only faster, but easier on my hands? Two bits of state is not by any means too much to have to keep in my head. And in vim, you have the nice status bar to tell you where you are in case you went off somewhere and forgot. It'll even show you your half-finished normal-mode commands if you like. So overall it's faster and easier than, well, anything.