All of my passwords look like that. Randomly generated with special characters. Typically 25 chars long.
They are in a password manager. I don't have to remember them at all...
So basically, you've got all your securely designed passwords stored in one keyring that if one person get the code to, they could use to gain access to all of your passwords. Much more secure storage area than your brain I'm sure.
I've noticed that most of the comments on this page are people being worried about Mozilla taking away functionality from the browser, but... wasn't the point of Firefox to reduce the amount of bloat in the default setup? Mozilla Suite (now Seamonkey, previously Netscape Communicator) wasn't quite Emacs, but it included way more than what many required for their uses, and so Firefox was born to trim all of that stuff out, with the idea that you can add in back in with extensions.
That's where our javascript blocking needs to be happening. Extensions like NoScript, which you can use to block all javascript if you so desire. (Just install it and then don't enable anything.)
Most people use a puny 4 inch screen to get to the net via mobile phone networks.
I remember arguing once with a cell phone salesman in the mall with something similar to this. This was back in the days when flip phones were the general fancy phone. Anyway, this guy was trying to sell me one of his service's phones and I asked him if I would be able to use the phone to get internet access to my laptop. His reply completely baffled me at the time (remember, flip phones). He asked, "Why would you want to get on the internet with your laptop when you could just browse it on your phone?"
At that point I figured there was nothing I could say to him to show him my point if he actually preferred to browse on a 2-inch screen by pressing arrow keys.
Clay Shirky is a "writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies", something he's been doing since 1996. He has written a heck of a lot of stuff on the topic, and is presumably some sort of expert. He isn't just another blogger.
He is not however a psychologist, psychiatrist, counselor, or any other form of mental health or medical professional. On those topics, he is indeed just another blogger.
The cynic in me says that since he is "writer and consultant", he's just riding the Aaron Swartz wave for hits and street cred. Next week he'll be off on whatever nine days wonder captures the attention of the blogosphere.
Coming from a somewhat suicidal person, he does however, seem to be correct about the personalities of suicidal people, even moreso than the counselors I've dealt with.
If you're a scripter it kind of makes sense. Many scripting languages on *nix-type systems have the first line of their script something like this:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
The sharp tells the interpreter to ignore the code (not necessary for a search engine), but the bang tells the environment to "execute this list of commands with the following interpreter". When you use a bang (!) in ddg, you're telling it to "send this list of search terms to the following interpreter"; however, the interpreter is not bourne shell or python, it's google images or the python documentation. That's how it makes sense to me anyway.
I'm fine with it. If everyone knows that the biggest voices against the AGW consensus are so out of arguments that this is what some of them are having to resort to, I think both the Heartland Institute and those who've reported on them are doing the world a favor.
You'd think so until you look at all the people who tought that Obama was a terrorist basing their information solely off of the fact that Obama sounded like Osama. Now we're going to just get a bunch of crazy Tea Party Libertarians saying "Enviros want to destroy the world with their commie-holocaust." Don't believe me? You just wait and see. Crazy people believe crazy things.
I'd be happy to have the e-reader integrate with my PC if 1 specific thing happened:
the DRM was gone.
It may be slightly harder to find one without DRM, but I've got a pretty good solution that's working out for me. Get a B&N Nook and install CM7 on it (not the simplest process in the world, but it's not too hard with a good tutorial. Then, install FBReader on it (available from Google Play Store, or F-Droid) and get your drm-free books.
Doesn't work if whoever posted it stole the idea from someone else; they might not have been allowed to share the idea with you.
In which case it's their problem and not yours because you can put a clause in there that claims that the fan who posts takes responsibility for any copyright issues that may arise from their idea.
A taskbar makes perfect sense here, as you can see all the things running without any special actions. WTF is the point of hiding that?
It's cluttered, it abbreviates names, and yes, it saves realestate.
If their goal is to reduce clutter and abbreviation, ten they've missed it. Their application launcher is terribly cluttered, and it abbreviated the names of all the applications. Switched away from it for that reason.
The fact that it's being closed down kinda makes me leery of using any future Microsoft app store, though. The whole marketplace goes away at Microsoft's whim? Why would they do that?
Yeah, for a short while they had a marketplace for Vista that had all sorts of goodies in it, firefox, gimp even, and it got whut down after less than a year too IIRC.
So... what do you do? Set your phone on the table while you danec in front of it to send a text message? It's cool on the kinect, but seems weird on android. Also, shouldn't they be putting more energy into changing the name of google play store back to android market?
I was bummed after looking over the LFS intro, in that you aren't building Linux on a bare machine -- you're starting with a pre-installed distro of some kind.
I would be more interested in replicating the process that Torvalds went through when creating the OS.
IIRC Torvalds had Minix pre-installed on his machine while he was first building Linux.
Just because you've got an SSD doesn't mean your apps load instantly. I've got one and I generally still've got a couple second wait for most apps (firefox) and sometimes still a minute or so for large apps (eclipse).
Yes. Fer serious. Does a TV really need to take 10 seconds to load? Couldn't it load a little faster if it wasn't using the electricity to have the screen on to tell me I've got a Vizio tv even though it already has the word Vizio permanently on the actual shell?
IIRC there's a program called fbpanel that can handle the notification icons that you need (such as network and battery) All it is is just a panel, not a desktop. Works great with ratpoison and evilwm.
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All of my passwords look like that. Randomly generated with special characters. Typically 25 chars long.
They are in a password manager. I don't have to remember them at all...
So basically, you've got all your securely designed passwords stored in one keyring that if one person get the code to, they could use to gain access to all of your passwords. Much more secure storage area than your brain I'm sure.
I've noticed that most of the comments on this page are people being worried about Mozilla taking away functionality from the browser, but... wasn't the point of Firefox to reduce the amount of bloat in the default setup? Mozilla Suite (now Seamonkey, previously Netscape Communicator) wasn't quite Emacs, but it included way more than what many required for their uses, and so Firefox was born to trim all of that stuff out, with the idea that you can add in back in with extensions.
That's where our javascript blocking needs to be happening. Extensions like NoScript, which you can use to block all javascript if you so desire. (Just install it and then don't enable anything.)
Most people use a puny 4 inch screen to get to the net via mobile phone networks.
I remember arguing once with a cell phone salesman in the mall with something similar to this. This was back in the days when flip phones were the general fancy phone. Anyway, this guy was trying to sell me one of his service's phones and I asked him if I would be able to use the phone to get internet access to my laptop. His reply completely baffled me at the time (remember, flip phones). He asked, "Why would you want to get on the internet with your laptop when you could just browse it on your phone?"
At that point I figured there was nothing I could say to him to show him my point if he actually preferred to browse on a 2-inch screen by pressing arrow keys.
He is not however a psychologist, psychiatrist, counselor, or any other form of mental health or medical professional. On those topics, he is indeed just another blogger. The cynic in me says that since he is "writer and consultant", he's just riding the Aaron Swartz wave for hits and street cred. Next week he'll be off on whatever nine days wonder captures the attention of the blogosphere.
Coming from a somewhat suicidal person, he does however, seem to be correct about the personalities of suicidal people, even moreso than the counselors I've dealt with.
If you're a scripter it kind of makes sense. Many scripting languages on *nix-type systems have the first line of their script something like this:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
The sharp tells the interpreter to ignore the code (not necessary for a search engine), but the bang tells the environment to "execute this list of commands with the following interpreter". When you use a bang (!) in ddg, you're telling it to "send this list of search terms to the following interpreter"; however, the interpreter is not bourne shell or python, it's google images or the python documentation. That's how it makes sense to me anyway.
Mozilla: the company that dropped Linux support on their latest work.
Please do tell sir. What product did Mozilla drop Linux support for?
I'm fine with it. If everyone knows that the biggest voices against the AGW consensus are so out of arguments that this is what some of them are having to resort to, I think both the Heartland Institute and those who've reported on them are doing the world a favor.
You'd think so until you look at all the people who tought that Obama was a terrorist basing their information solely off of the fact that Obama sounded like Osama. Now we're going to just get a bunch of crazy Tea Party Libertarians saying "Enviros want to destroy the world with their commie-holocaust." Don't believe me? You just wait and see. Crazy people believe crazy things.
Going one step deeper, between Intel, AMD and TI, couldn't every programmer be sued regardless of whether or not they've used a language?
I'd be happy to have the e-reader integrate with my PC if 1 specific thing happened:
the DRM was gone.
It may be slightly harder to find one without DRM, but I've got a pretty good solution that's working out for me. Get a B&N Nook and install CM7 on it (not the simplest process in the world, but it's not too hard with a good tutorial. Then, install FBReader on it (available from Google Play Store, or F-Droid) and get your drm-free books.
Does this mean that it's finally the year of Linux on the stem cell?
Have I insulted everyone yet?
You forgot the Linux and Windows crowds.
Linux users would claim that since soil is better for planting vegetables, everyone should move to soil.
Windows users would be just fine with the sand where it is and get upset if anyone installed firefox on it.
Doesn't work if whoever posted it stole the idea from someone else; they might not have been allowed to share the idea with you.
In which case it's their problem and not yours because you can put a clause in there that claims that the fan who posts takes responsibility for any copyright issues that may arise from their idea.
And I've seen "Snooki" t-shirts.
Who?
I think you may be president material.
A taskbar makes perfect sense here, as you can see all the things running without any special actions. WTF is the point of hiding that?
It's cluttered, it abbreviates names, and yes, it saves realestate.
If their goal is to reduce clutter and abbreviation, ten they've missed it. Their application launcher is terribly cluttered, and it abbreviated the names of all the applications. Switched away from it for that reason.
The beer is free as in speech, not as in beer.
The fact that it's being closed down kinda makes me leery of using any future Microsoft app store, though. The whole marketplace goes away at Microsoft's whim? Why would they do that?
Yeah, for a short while they had a marketplace for Vista that had all sorts of goodies in it, firefox, gimp even, and it got whut down after less than a year too IIRC.
I haven't gotten around to putting CyanogenMod on it yet to get the stock [launcher] on there
Actually, CM uses ADW for it's defualt launcher, which also crashes from time to time.
So... what do you do? Set your phone on the table while you danec in front of it to send a text message? It's cool on the kinect, but seems weird on android. Also, shouldn't they be putting more energy into changing the name of google play store back to android market?
I was bummed after looking over the LFS intro, in that you aren't building Linux on a bare machine -- you're starting with a pre-installed distro of some kind.
I would be more interested in replicating the process that Torvalds went through when creating the OS.
IIRC Torvalds had Minix pre-installed on his machine while he was first building Linux.
Showing me something that pretends it is ready when it's really not is just bad UI and will only confuse people.
Why isn't my program responding when I start it? Friggin' unresponsive phone.
Just because you've got an SSD doesn't mean your apps load instantly. I've got one and I generally still've got a couple second wait for most apps (firefox) and sometimes still a minute or so for large apps (eclipse).
Yes. Fer serious. Does a TV really need to take 10 seconds to load? Couldn't it load a little faster if it wasn't using the electricity to have the screen on to tell me I've got a Vizio tv even though it already has the word Vizio permanently on the actual shell?
W3C Police. Sounds good to me.
Sounds good to me as well.
I'm sure Android users never get drunk or do stupid things.
Nope. We never do.
Never.
IIRC there's a program called fbpanel that can handle the notification icons that you need (such as network and battery) All it is is just a panel, not a desktop. Works great with ratpoison and evilwm.