Sure, but name a desktop environment that would work that well on the OLPC's pathetic specs. Sugar was designed to be primarily single-tasking leaving enough CPU/memory in order to run those tasks well. The temptation to multitask with a traditional DE would end up ruining performance. You have to remember, this thing is more underpowered than the cheap netbooks that will barely surf the web on anything that has Flash.
No, the biggest mistake that the OLPC mas that they didn't make cheap, rugged computers. If they had stuck with it, I would imagine they could end up turning a profit by selling cheap computers to the first world. Instead they decided to go with MS and now rather than having a usable, cheap rugged machine their new vision is using (relatively fragile and currently expensive) multi-touch screens for everything.
And we all know teachers are at least as scared of bullies as nerds are. Heck, most of them are nerds themselves.
Depends on the age though. I saw much, much more bulling in elementary and middle school than ever in high school. I wouldn't think that a teacher would have much of a problem dealing with a 9 year old. For older grade levels, I didn't see that there was that much of bullying going on, at least during school.
There are lots of other examples, and you DARE to say that incitement to hatred should not be a crime.
In most cases, they require a martyr to actually go beyond the belief stage. Just look at the internet, you can find statements to back up any belief, yet its only information. Look at the development of religions, especially Christianity, the more it was persecuted, the larger it grew and the more rapidly while today it isn't in a rapid phase of growth due to increased religious tolerance. Have you not heard of the Streisand effect? Basically the more you try to censor "hate" speech the further and more radical it gets. You only encourage "hate" speech by attempting to stop it. For example, on the internet you can find all sorts of crazy theries such as that contrails in the sky are actually mind altering chemicals ( http://educate-yourself.org/ct/ ) that Paul McCartney really died in the '60s ( http://digilander.libero.it/jamespaul/fc1.html ) and other more absurd conspiracy theories. However, they get lost in the sea of information that is the internet. The same thing happens with "hate" speech when it is not criminalized.
That is EXACTLY the same as saying that offering a contract on someones life should not be a crime because it is only words.
If it was a legal contract, the person was actually hired and really was going to commit murder, it is not a free speech violation to apprehend them. Signing the contract and agreeing to go through with it similarly is not a free speech violation if you get caught.
Do you mean to say you think it would be right for a bunch of cool kids to harass and belittle certain students on a daily basis and be protected under free speech? Would it be alright for them to make up suggestions of a defamatory nature about said student under your kind of free speech?
It depends. On school grounds the school can effectively set its own rules regarding that because they are in the school. Very similar to how if I show up to Taco Bell and keep complaining that I can't get a Big Mac and their tacos are made with ground up worms, they could tell me to leave.
If it was outside of school, there are plenty of ways to "block" people online and off. If they keep calling, you could file for harassment because your phone is being blocked whenever they call and thats not a free speech issue, its the fact that you are (or at least should) be able to use your phone how you want to.
So if you think it's the kid's responsibility to not protect himself from psychological harm by physical force... then, pray tell, how is the kid supposed to protect himself against these odds? Answer me that and I'll concede the point.
Again, most of these things take place at schools, and schools can basically regulate how they wish to conduct business inside school property.
VMware will always win on Macs though. I know a lot of people who have bought Fusion so they don't have to dual boot in order to use XP. MS hasn't made any quality software on Macs, let alone replaced any product with decent marketshare.
Free speech for absolutely everything would mean free speech for planning and advocating genocide and murder.
Theres nothing wrong with that though. Now, if you actually -do- any of those things, yes it is wrong. But talking about it? No one gets hurt so therefore it should not be prohibited.
Free speech for absolutely everything means free speech for fraud and deception.
No, fraud can still be regulated. You are free to claim anything, but you must back them up. Contracts similarly should be free for anything, but you must not lie in them.
Free speech for absolutely everything means "fighting words" that provoke another to attack.
You attacked, you are the one to blame. I see nothing wrong with not regulating it. Words to not have the power to kill or otherwise (really) hurt someone. Therfore they should be unregulated unless dealing with a contract or an offer to trade.
You must have mistaken me for European. I'm American and I'm honestly sick and tired of the government destroying every single shred of freedom in the name of "safety". Sure, parts of Europe are even more messed up than the US, but the US doesn't have to emulate Europe and neither does Europe have to emulate the US. The US should give its citizens its freedom back, rather than keep destroying it.
You place the blame at religious people, but on the other side, things like "hate speech" still follows this absurdity of lack of freedom of speech yet there is (comparatively) less uproar about it. We need freedom of speech for absolutely -everything- one thing banned from freedom of speech is one thing too many.
Its news because this is something that is out of touch with reality. It shows that a post WWII world is increasingly becoming very dystopian, and nerds read a lot of dystopian fiction and don't want the world to end up like how Orwell saw the future in 1984. The modern world basically decided to get rid of all these stupid laws and regulations after the American and French revolutions and the enlightenment just how WWII and the fall of the USSR marked the end of fascism and communism in the modern world respectively (well, with the exception of China).
Expect this to be coming to the USA, though replace religious beliefs with some far-off claim about terrorism. Also expect it to have full bi-partisan support in congress.
...Except for the fact that many eSATA ports are not powered and therefore 95% of what people use USB for would require another power source. I mean, who wants to charge and sync an iPod with not one but two cords? eSATA is decent enough for things that require lots of raw speed like HDs but for all the other things that most people use USB for, eSATA is useless.
Ah, well the article was updated after I had read it. But thanks for pointing it out (I was going to actually test out the code this afternoon but got distracted by Halo).
Because of a few things. For one, WebKit powers Safari, Chrome and a whole host of other browsers. Because of this, and the fact that the code is open, its going to be a lot easier for flaws to be discovered (just look at the Firefox zero day exploit that came out today). There are going to be a ton more crackers wanting to find ways to exploit Safari and Chrome than there will ever be wanting to find flaws in a WM. Because of this large volume, there are going to be a lot more pre-made scripts available to your generic script kiddy. One of them realizes that GNOME now uses WebKit and uses that and a pre-made rootkit to gain access.
While security by obscurity never is a good permanent solution, it works pretty well when dealing with things with a (generally speaking) small userbase. Basically, without WebKit GNOME is just another DE, interesting, but not worth the work to exploit. On the other hand, with a ready-made script, it wouldn't take too long for someone with no skills to exploit it.
But it's important to remember that WebKit it not a browser, it's just a rendering engine, and it's not where all the security issues come from. So, what are the real technical issues at stake here? What are the pros and cons of using WebKit underneath GNOME rendering?"
Ok, so lets see, ignoring the huge overhead this will have and the slowdowns. How isn't it a security risk? Lets see, some person makes a "theme" that exploits a flaw in WebKit to let them run a rootkit. How doesn't this sound like a bad idea? Its becoming more and more like Windows....
Depends what you mean by "big enough", other than things that are redundantly backed up (my music and photos are on several MP3 players/iPods along with various flash drives, SD and other memory cards while other files are on one of my e-mail accounts) anything that really -has- to be backed up can fit easily in a CD-R. Sure, that won't get me every single movie I've ripped from DVD into a different format, sure its not going to get me all my applications settings, sure it probably wouldn't hold the 20 or so half-coded projects I've started but never finished. But all those are really pointless. I mean, sure, it would be a pain to re-rip all those DVDs, but over half of them I don't think I've ever really watched on my computer save for making sure the rip was done correctly, despite how I would like to finish my half-coded FPS written in python, I doubt I ever would. Other than a few financial documents, everything else is simply trivial.
I buy a new "main" computer about once every 5 years, and replace a HD about once every 8 years (stick the old HD in the new computer and copy data over, repeat) unless both HDs fail really quickly, I only would need to resort to optical backups for any newer data which is a lot smaller than all my archived files. Plus, none of it is really -that- important (or isn't redundantly backed up on some old laptop/netbook/flash drive/e-mail accounts) that if all the newer stuff failed I wouldn't be losing all that much.
It depends though, you can get SATA to USB docks for next to nothing and I don't see USB going out anytime soon, if anything the external HD will crash (or end up being terribly obsolete) before USB gets replaced with anything more than the next version of USB. I mean, with USB appearing on -everything- from cell phones, to game consoles, to cigarette port chargers and more, I just can't see it being replaced especially when some legacy ports are still on many computers (does anyone really connect their printer via parallel port anymore? and aside from legacy systems and embedded systems does anyone still use the serial port?)
Then you should print them out on decent paper. I've found that recently people take a -ton- more pictures because they are digital and really only a handful of them they -really- want. Yes, all those pictures with you and uncle Bob may be nice, but you don't need 30 instances of it half of them with someone's eyes closed, etc. So really, if you print out all your -good- pictures and just keep backing up with each new system, you should be good. Worst case is you lose all the pictures that were crap.
Where did you get the motherboard used in the build? Because the only cheap ones I can ever find on Newegg with decent reviews that said they worked with Linux are Intel Atom CPUs.
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Sure, but name a desktop environment that would work that well on the OLPC's pathetic specs. Sugar was designed to be primarily single-tasking leaving enough CPU/memory in order to run those tasks well. The temptation to multitask with a traditional DE would end up ruining performance. You have to remember, this thing is more underpowered than the cheap netbooks that will barely surf the web on anything that has Flash.
No, the biggest mistake that the OLPC mas that they didn't make cheap, rugged computers. If they had stuck with it, I would imagine they could end up turning a profit by selling cheap computers to the first world. Instead they decided to go with MS and now rather than having a usable, cheap rugged machine their new vision is using (relatively fragile and currently expensive) multi-touch screens for everything.
And we all know teachers are at least as scared of bullies as nerds are. Heck, most of them are nerds themselves.
Depends on the age though. I saw much, much more bulling in elementary and middle school than ever in high school. I wouldn't think that a teacher would have much of a problem dealing with a 9 year old. For older grade levels, I didn't see that there was that much of bullying going on, at least during school.
But who knows how large the earthquakes were. Any structure could probably survive a good amount of tiny-ish earthquakes.
There are lots of other examples, and you DARE to say that incitement to hatred should not be a crime.
In most cases, they require a martyr to actually go beyond the belief stage. Just look at the internet, you can find statements to back up any belief, yet its only information. Look at the development of religions, especially Christianity, the more it was persecuted, the larger it grew and the more rapidly while today it isn't in a rapid phase of growth due to increased religious tolerance. Have you not heard of the Streisand effect? Basically the more you try to censor "hate" speech the further and more radical it gets. You only encourage "hate" speech by attempting to stop it. For example, on the internet you can find all sorts of crazy theries such as that contrails in the sky are actually mind altering chemicals ( http://educate-yourself.org/ct/ ) that Paul McCartney really died in the '60s ( http://digilander.libero.it/jamespaul/fc1.html ) and other more absurd conspiracy theories. However, they get lost in the sea of information that is the internet. The same thing happens with "hate" speech when it is not criminalized.
That is EXACTLY the same as saying that offering a contract on someones life should not be a crime because it is only words.
If it was a legal contract, the person was actually hired and really was going to commit murder, it is not a free speech violation to apprehend them. Signing the contract and agreeing to go through with it similarly is not a free speech violation if you get caught.
Do you mean to say you think it would be right for a bunch of cool kids to harass and belittle certain students on a daily basis and be protected under free speech? Would it be alright for them to make up suggestions of a defamatory nature about said student under your kind of free speech?
It depends. On school grounds the school can effectively set its own rules regarding that because they are in the school. Very similar to how if I show up to Taco Bell and keep complaining that I can't get a Big Mac and their tacos are made with ground up worms, they could tell me to leave.
If it was outside of school, there are plenty of ways to "block" people online and off. If they keep calling, you could file for harassment because your phone is being blocked whenever they call and thats not a free speech issue, its the fact that you are (or at least should) be able to use your phone how you want to.
So if you think it's the kid's responsibility to not protect himself from psychological harm by physical force... then, pray tell, how is the kid supposed to protect himself against these odds? Answer me that and I'll concede the point.
Again, most of these things take place at schools, and schools can basically regulate how they wish to conduct business inside school property.
VMware will always win on Macs though. I know a lot of people who have bought Fusion so they don't have to dual boot in order to use XP. MS hasn't made any quality software on Macs, let alone replaced any product with decent marketshare.
...Too bad the software in question is released under the GPL V2 which doesn't have patent clauses in them.
Am I the only one wondering what a Ubuntu repository was doing with this article?
Free speech for absolutely everything would mean free speech for planning and advocating genocide and murder.
Theres nothing wrong with that though. Now, if you actually -do- any of those things, yes it is wrong. But talking about it? No one gets hurt so therefore it should not be prohibited.
Free speech for absolutely everything means free speech for fraud and deception.
No, fraud can still be regulated. You are free to claim anything, but you must back them up. Contracts similarly should be free for anything, but you must not lie in them.
Free speech for absolutely everything means "fighting words" that provoke another to attack.
You attacked, you are the one to blame. I see nothing wrong with not regulating it. Words to not have the power to kill or otherwise (really) hurt someone. Therfore they should be unregulated unless dealing with a contract or an offer to trade.
You must have mistaken me for European. I'm American and I'm honestly sick and tired of the government destroying every single shred of freedom in the name of "safety". Sure, parts of Europe are even more messed up than the US, but the US doesn't have to emulate Europe and neither does Europe have to emulate the US. The US should give its citizens its freedom back, rather than keep destroying it.
You place the blame at religious people, but on the other side, things like "hate speech" still follows this absurdity of lack of freedom of speech yet there is (comparatively) less uproar about it. We need freedom of speech for absolutely -everything- one thing banned from freedom of speech is one thing too many.
Its news because this is something that is out of touch with reality. It shows that a post WWII world is increasingly becoming very dystopian, and nerds read a lot of dystopian fiction and don't want the world to end up like how Orwell saw the future in 1984. The modern world basically decided to get rid of all these stupid laws and regulations after the American and French revolutions and the enlightenment just how WWII and the fall of the USSR marked the end of fascism and communism in the modern world respectively (well, with the exception of China).
Expect this to be coming to the USA, though replace religious beliefs with some far-off claim about terrorism. Also expect it to have full bi-partisan support in congress.
...Except for the fact that many eSATA ports are not powered and therefore 95% of what people use USB for would require another power source. I mean, who wants to charge and sync an iPod with not one but two cords? eSATA is decent enough for things that require lots of raw speed like HDs but for all the other things that most people use USB for, eSATA is useless.
the PassWindow is extremely cheap to manufacture, giving it a big advantage over other two-factor authentication systems.
Ah, well the article was updated after I had read it. But thanks for pointing it out (I was going to actually test out the code this afternoon but got distracted by Halo).
Because of a few things. For one, WebKit powers Safari, Chrome and a whole host of other browsers. Because of this, and the fact that the code is open, its going to be a lot easier for flaws to be discovered (just look at the Firefox zero day exploit that came out today). There are going to be a ton more crackers wanting to find ways to exploit Safari and Chrome than there will ever be wanting to find flaws in a WM. Because of this large volume, there are going to be a lot more pre-made scripts available to your generic script kiddy. One of them realizes that GNOME now uses WebKit and uses that and a pre-made rootkit to gain access.
While security by obscurity never is a good permanent solution, it works pretty well when dealing with things with a (generally speaking) small userbase. Basically, without WebKit GNOME is just another DE, interesting, but not worth the work to exploit. On the other hand, with a ready-made script, it wouldn't take too long for someone with no skills to exploit it.
The difference being is that there are a ton more people out to exploit WebKit than there will ever be wanting to exploit Metacity.
But it's important to remember that WebKit it not a browser, it's just a rendering engine, and it's not where all the security issues come from. So, what are the real technical issues at stake here? What are the pros and cons of using WebKit underneath GNOME rendering?"
Ok, so lets see, ignoring the huge overhead this will have and the slowdowns. How isn't it a security risk? Lets see, some person makes a "theme" that exploits a flaw in WebKit to let them run a rootkit. How doesn't this sound like a bad idea? Its becoming more and more like Windows....
Depends what you mean by "big enough", other than things that are redundantly backed up (my music and photos are on several MP3 players/iPods along with various flash drives, SD and other memory cards while other files are on one of my e-mail accounts) anything that really -has- to be backed up can fit easily in a CD-R. Sure, that won't get me every single movie I've ripped from DVD into a different format, sure its not going to get me all my applications settings, sure it probably wouldn't hold the 20 or so half-coded projects I've started but never finished. But all those are really pointless. I mean, sure, it would be a pain to re-rip all those DVDs, but over half of them I don't think I've ever really watched on my computer save for making sure the rip was done correctly, despite how I would like to finish my half-coded FPS written in python, I doubt I ever would. Other than a few financial documents, everything else is simply trivial.
I buy a new "main" computer about once every 5 years, and replace a HD about once every 8 years (stick the old HD in the new computer and copy data over, repeat) unless both HDs fail really quickly, I only would need to resort to optical backups for any newer data which is a lot smaller than all my archived files. Plus, none of it is really -that- important (or isn't redundantly backed up on some old laptop/netbook/flash drive/e-mail accounts) that if all the newer stuff failed I wouldn't be losing all that much.
It depends though, you can get SATA to USB docks for next to nothing and I don't see USB going out anytime soon, if anything the external HD will crash (or end up being terribly obsolete) before USB gets replaced with anything more than the next version of USB. I mean, with USB appearing on -everything- from cell phones, to game consoles, to cigarette port chargers and more, I just can't see it being replaced especially when some legacy ports are still on many computers (does anyone really connect their printer via parallel port anymore? and aside from legacy systems and embedded systems does anyone still use the serial port?)
Then you should print them out on decent paper. I've found that recently people take a -ton- more pictures because they are digital and really only a handful of them they -really- want. Yes, all those pictures with you and uncle Bob may be nice, but you don't need 30 instances of it half of them with someone's eyes closed, etc. So really, if you print out all your -good- pictures and just keep backing up with each new system, you should be good. Worst case is you lose all the pictures that were crap.
Where did you get the motherboard used in the build? Because the only cheap ones I can ever find on Newegg with decent reviews that said they worked with Linux are Intel Atom CPUs.