If anyone has clout and interest in this, it'd be Google. I'm sick of responding to dialog boxes from cookie setting, noScript, etc.
Simple answer. Stop being so paranoid. Just allow all first-party cookies, have a decent/etc/hosts file that blocks ads and use Linux/OS X/Any OS other than Windows and you are basically safe from any major malware outbreak. I've tried noScript and found it to be more of a pain then it was worth. Sure, it might make you less secure, but honestly, I run Linux and even though it is possible to hack a Linux box, most script kiddies won't bother.
Google doesn't care about you, the.01% of the internet that doesn't just accept scripts and cookies.
I'm sure that's true. On the other hand though, I can not see COBOL's marketshare growing at all. Basically all it is used for now is to fix old programs. C is becoming more like a '90s fad, and I think that Python and Java will be remembered for being a 2000s fad, but I just can't see COBOL actually going anywhere. COBOL isn't dead yet, but it certainly isn't living a healthy life. Chances are, in the year 2030 there will be some business still running COBOL, however (hopefully!) most other businesses will be using more modern languages such as C, Python, Java or even some language that today is obscure or not even invented yet.
but whether Cisco will try to be all redactive and decide that the open source licensing of current and previous versions of jabber (which for most people works perfectly well as it is) are unforkable and/or non-distributable.
Ummm... How many companies have managed to successfully stop all forks of a product without killing the current product?
In my experience, COBOL coders mostly work on old COBOL programs. Very few new things get written for it. Old bugs get ironed out and new ones get added in. And the answer to your question is probably no. I don't see COBOL going anywhere in the next few years and I see it becoming less and less of a solution as old programs eventually get written in C, Python, Java, etc.
Not being a COBOL programmer (nor a C programmer either), I can't give you a code by code example on why C is better. But I can tell you that a lot more things have to be rewritten to do simple changes in COBOL compared to the equivalent code in C.
The problem with COBOL is that it isn't flexible. I have heard of many businesses having to rewrite many lines of COBOL in order to do simple things such as payroll changes, etc. Also, COBOL isn't very quick to write, what can be done in 50 lines of COBOL can be done in 30 lines of C, and about 20 lines of Python or Java.
What I do know is that my children have the attention span to be able to play video games almost all day if you let them, and that they can get sore wrists in a matter of a few hours.
Like a lot of/.ers I am on the computer constantly, on laptops too. And usually for recreation I play video games, and I can say that I never had a sore wrist from playing games and or typing. My eyes occasionally hurt but other than that there have been little ill effects. And I have been playing video games since I was a child back in the days of the monochrome Game Boys, the NES and SNES, and never had a sore wrist nor any other symptoms save for some eye strain.
I agree that children recover from such injuries far quicker, but I don't know if anyone has considered the long term exposure to such injuries for later life.
Since the 2600 came out in the late '70s children growing up with it would be about 30 years old, and about 20 for the NES and the home computer fad. I think if it was a major issue we would have heard a lot more about it.
Absolutely yes.
Do you really want *extremely* impressionable young minds exposed to hard-core pornography and gratuitous violence? Do you have *any* idea how the human mind develops?
Harmful for children soon becomes harmful to the state. Have you noticed how censorship works? It rarely starts with the banning of free speech, it always, always starts with what is harmful for young minds.
And before you say parents should take the responsibility to monitor what their kids watch, that would also be censorship, wouldn't it?
No, because it is simply voluntarily choosing not to do something as the law gives minors very, very, very few rights.
I suggest you get a Wii... Not only do you not have to play hardly any games online, but you also only communicate with about 15 pre-determined phrases!
Repetitive strain injuries (RSI, OOS whatever you want to call it) and obesity are not mentioned.
Could it be that a lot of people simply don't eat and play video games all the time? Honestly, very few hardcore gamers are fat because they don't want the orange powder from Cheetos to be on their keyboard/controller. Also RSI isn't a huge deal with kids because they heal fast and most of the time have very short attention spans. One moment they will want to play Final Fantasy X all day, the next they want to bake cookies. Go figure.
I do support game ratings and I wish retailers would enforce them. I don't agree with government regulation of games or movies. That would be censorship.
So you are ok with censorship so long as it isn't the government censoring content?
Ok, so what do you believe? This is like saying that because someone could potentially have another opinion that opinion is totally justified as the majority's. Otherwise you can criticize the local news for not reporting the man who claims that aliens just invaded down the street.
Exactly. Why is it that politicians can't realize that the real reason companies are taking jobs overseas is because of all the annoying regulations we have in the US that stops anything from getting done unless you have a $1,000,000 initial investment.
Fix the illness, not the symptoms. Patents in and of themselves are not bad. In fact, patents partially motivate research. The bad part of patents come along when the government thinks that you can patent anything and that 2-3 years after a product becomes a major item someone can sue for a lot of money on a trivial part of the product.
...And by being modded the Xbox is more open. My definition of open is: Anyone can publish applications for the system, Anyone can get the (basic) specs for the system, and The Firmware/Operating System can be changed. The Xbox is open. The iPhone is open via jailbreaking, my phone on the other hand is not, because I cannot publish applications for it (locally at least).
So it isn't open by default and you have to *make* it open? I don't call that open at all.
Its currently more open then my 3 year old Samsung SGH-A707. It doesn't support the use of any applications that aren't downloaded from the web. And because it isn't a "new gadget" like the iPhone is, it doesn't have a hacking community and 10 years down the road no software or alternative OSes will have been made for it. I imagine that 10 years from now there will be a different iPhone OS.
think it's not pure stupidity.
They want a good brand name. They want that if someone installs "Firefox", he or she should be sure what he or she gets. This is about branding.
That would be a good reason IF people had been messing with the default install a bit too much and people have complained. I have tried a lot of Linux distros along with a few *BSDs. And I have never found something called Firefox that was something other than Firefox. If that had been happening then it would have made sense, but it hasn't.
I just wanted to state that this forced Eula is not about use a software but to use the brand "Firefox". Ubuntu is no exception just because it's your favorite distro:) Ubuntu should follow the brand owner's way if Ubuntu wants to share the same path that this branded software goes on.
If not, call it Iceweasel. I think it's completely correct, the software is free.
You are right about saying IBM means the company not the word "IBM", but it's nothing to do about this problem and about everyone stating that Mozilla is a stupid org. I think such movements are necessary to supply a clear brand name, they have to do it or noone can be sure what firefox is.
But everyone as of September 14th 2008 is clear what Firefox is. It is a web browser produced by Mozilla using the Gecko rendering engine. If that was unclear by the masses it might have not been so stupid. But everyone knows what it is. everyone also knows that KDE is a desktop environment using the QT toolkit, that Wireshark is a packet sniffer, that RPM is a package format.
Why is apache called httpd on Redhat?;)
There are actually a lot of things called httpd, just search on Wikipedia for it. It brings up:
Httpd stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Daemon (i.e. web server).
The implied meaning can be:
* The Apache HTTP Server.
* The Lighttpd HTTP server.
* The Nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server
* The NCSA HTTPd HTTP server.
* The CERN HTTPd HTTP server.
* The Null httpd HTTP server.
* The Thttpd HTTP server.
* The TUX web server aka kHTTPd
* The Canopy HTTPd HTTP server.
Yes, but, a lot of the business-like distros claimed to have "solved" all the problems in Linux ranging from package management to running Windows applications on Linux. And none of them are even particularly used for that one feature they advertise so heavily on.
Is that so? I've seen plenty of people who criticize that open source software will never succeed on the desktop until it's more business-like.
Ok, what are the most popular (commercial) Linux vendors? There is Red Hat which via Fedora is very in touch with the community, There is Canonical which makes Ubuntu which is very in touch with the community (overlooking the current Mozilla EULA problem), and Novell which had huge criticisms about patent issues that it was forced to become more in touch with the community. Then on the business side for the distros which seem very out of touch with the community we have: Xandros which very few people use save for the ones who haven't upgraded to a different OS on the EEE, and other niche distros which few use.
The iPhone platform is not open and is strictly regulated by Apple.
Yes it is open. There is a thing called jailbreaking that has made third-party apps before Apple opened up the "App store". And honestly, because of jailbreaking the iPhone is much more open then a typical phone that doesn't run user created apps. And 6 months down the line that phone is still going to be closed while the iPhone will be even more open.
Slashdot Mirror
If anyone has clout and interest in this, it'd be Google. I'm sick of responding to dialog boxes from cookie setting, noScript, etc.
Simple answer. Stop being so paranoid. Just allow all first-party cookies, have a decent /etc/hosts file that blocks ads and use Linux/OS X/Any OS other than Windows and you are basically safe from any major malware outbreak. I've tried noScript and found it to be more of a pain then it was worth. Sure, it might make you less secure, but honestly, I run Linux and even though it is possible to hack a Linux box, most script kiddies won't bother.
.01% of the internet that doesn't just accept scripts and cookies.
Google doesn't care about you, the
I'm sure that's true. On the other hand though, I can not see COBOL's marketshare growing at all. Basically all it is used for now is to fix old programs. C is becoming more like a '90s fad, and I think that Python and Java will be remembered for being a 2000s fad, but I just can't see COBOL actually going anywhere. COBOL isn't dead yet, but it certainly isn't living a healthy life. Chances are, in the year 2030 there will be some business still running COBOL, however (hopefully!) most other businesses will be using more modern languages such as C, Python, Java or even some language that today is obscure or not even invented yet.
but whether Cisco will try to be all redactive and decide that the open source licensing of current and previous versions of jabber (which for most people works perfectly well as it is) are unforkable and/or non-distributable.
Ummm... How many companies have managed to successfully stop all forks of a product without killing the current product?
In my experience, COBOL coders mostly work on old COBOL programs. Very few new things get written for it. Old bugs get ironed out and new ones get added in. And the answer to your question is probably no. I don't see COBOL going anywhere in the next few years and I see it becoming less and less of a solution as old programs eventually get written in C, Python, Java, etc.
And don't forget about the more modern Python version which is shorter than both the C and COBOL versions. http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-python-808.html
Not being a COBOL programmer (nor a C programmer either), I can't give you a code by code example on why C is better. But I can tell you that a lot more things have to be rewritten to do simple changes in COBOL compared to the equivalent code in C.
The problem with COBOL is that it isn't flexible. I have heard of many businesses having to rewrite many lines of COBOL in order to do simple things such as payroll changes, etc. Also, COBOL isn't very quick to write, what can be done in 50 lines of COBOL can be done in 30 lines of C, and about 20 lines of Python or Java.
What I do know is that my children have the attention span to be able to play video games almost all day if you let them, and that they can get sore wrists in a matter of a few hours.
Like a lot of /.ers I am on the computer constantly, on laptops too. And usually for recreation I play video games, and I can say that I never had a sore wrist from playing games and or typing. My eyes occasionally hurt but other than that there have been little ill effects. And I have been playing video games since I was a child back in the days of the monochrome Game Boys, the NES and SNES, and never had a sore wrist nor any other symptoms save for some eye strain.
I agree that children recover from such injuries far quicker, but I don't know if anyone has considered the long term exposure to such injuries for later life.
Since the 2600 came out in the late '70s children growing up with it would be about 30 years old, and about 20 for the NES and the home computer fad. I think if it was a major issue we would have heard a lot more about it.
Absolutely yes. Do you really want *extremely* impressionable young minds exposed to hard-core pornography and gratuitous violence? Do you have *any* idea how the human mind develops?
Harmful for children soon becomes harmful to the state. Have you noticed how censorship works? It rarely starts with the banning of free speech, it always, always starts with what is harmful for young minds.
And before you say parents should take the responsibility to monitor what their kids watch, that would also be censorship, wouldn't it?
No, because it is simply voluntarily choosing not to do something as the law gives minors very, very, very few rights.
I suggest you get a Wii... Not only do you not have to play hardly any games online, but you also only communicate with about 15 pre-determined phrases!
Repetitive strain injuries (RSI, OOS whatever you want to call it) and obesity are not mentioned.
Could it be that a lot of people simply don't eat and play video games all the time? Honestly, very few hardcore gamers are fat because they don't want the orange powder from Cheetos to be on their keyboard/controller. Also RSI isn't a huge deal with kids because they heal fast and most of the time have very short attention spans. One moment they will want to play Final Fantasy X all day, the next they want to bake cookies. Go figure.
I do support game ratings and I wish retailers would enforce them. I don't agree with government regulation of games or movies. That would be censorship.
So you are ok with censorship so long as it isn't the government censoring content?
Exactly. Compared to most forums I've been to, Slashdot's trolls are better written than the admin's posts on other forums.
That is assuming that you are buying new music. if you buy used CDs you aren't supporting the RIAA at all, while still being "legal".
You mean that I can't record normal radio? And that I can't record YouTube (Where many record companies have music videos) ? Wrong.
Ok, so what do you believe? This is like saying that because someone could potentially have another opinion that opinion is totally justified as the majority's. Otherwise you can criticize the local news for not reporting the man who claims that aliens just invaded down the street.
Exactly. Why is it that politicians can't realize that the real reason companies are taking jobs overseas is because of all the annoying regulations we have in the US that stops anything from getting done unless you have a $1,000,000 initial investment.
Fix the illness, not the symptoms. Patents in and of themselves are not bad. In fact, patents partially motivate research. The bad part of patents come along when the government thinks that you can patent anything and that 2-3 years after a product becomes a major item someone can sue for a lot of money on a trivial part of the product.
I thought it was pocket protectors too when I read the headline.
...And by being modded the Xbox is more open. My definition of open is: Anyone can publish applications for the system, Anyone can get the (basic) specs for the system, and The Firmware/Operating System can be changed. The Xbox is open. The iPhone is open via jailbreaking, my phone on the other hand is not, because I cannot publish applications for it (locally at least).
So it isn't open by default and you have to *make* it open? I don't call that open at all.
Its currently more open then my 3 year old Samsung SGH-A707. It doesn't support the use of any applications that aren't downloaded from the web. And because it isn't a "new gadget" like the iPhone is, it doesn't have a hacking community and 10 years down the road no software or alternative OSes will have been made for it. I imagine that 10 years from now there will be a different iPhone OS.
think it's not pure stupidity. They want a good brand name. They want that if someone installs "Firefox", he or she should be sure what he or she gets. This is about branding.
That would be a good reason IF people had been messing with the default install a bit too much and people have complained. I have tried a lot of Linux distros along with a few *BSDs. And I have never found something called Firefox that was something other than Firefox. If that had been happening then it would have made sense, but it hasn't.
I just wanted to state that this forced Eula is not about use a software but to use the brand "Firefox". Ubuntu is no exception just because it's your favorite distro :) Ubuntu should follow the brand owner's way if Ubuntu wants to share the same path that this branded software goes on.
If not, call it Iceweasel. I think it's completely correct, the software is free.
You are right about saying IBM means the company not the word "IBM", but it's nothing to do about this problem and about everyone stating that Mozilla is a stupid org. I think such movements are necessary to supply a clear brand name, they have to do it or noone can be sure what firefox is.
But everyone as of September 14th 2008 is clear what Firefox is. It is a web browser produced by Mozilla using the Gecko rendering engine. If that was unclear by the masses it might have not been so stupid. But everyone knows what it is. everyone also knows that KDE is a desktop environment using the QT toolkit, that Wireshark is a packet sniffer, that RPM is a package format.
Why is apache called httpd on Redhat? ;)
There are actually a lot of things called httpd, just search on Wikipedia for it. It brings up:
Httpd stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Daemon (i.e. web server). The implied meaning can be: * The Apache HTTP Server. * The Lighttpd HTTP server. * The Nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server * The NCSA HTTPd HTTP server. * The CERN HTTPd HTTP server. * The Null httpd HTTP server. * The Thttpd HTTP server. * The TUX web server aka kHTTPd * The Canopy HTTPd HTTP server.
Yes, but, a lot of the business-like distros claimed to have "solved" all the problems in Linux ranging from package management to running Windows applications on Linux. And none of them are even particularly used for that one feature they advertise so heavily on.
Is that so? I've seen plenty of people who criticize that open source software will never succeed on the desktop until it's more business-like.
Ok, what are the most popular (commercial) Linux vendors? There is Red Hat which via Fedora is very in touch with the community, There is Canonical which makes Ubuntu which is very in touch with the community (overlooking the current Mozilla EULA problem), and Novell which had huge criticisms about patent issues that it was forced to become more in touch with the community. Then on the business side for the distros which seem very out of touch with the community we have: Xandros which very few people use save for the ones who haven't upgraded to a different OS on the EEE, and other niche distros which few use.
The iPhone platform is not open and is strictly regulated by Apple.
Yes it is open. There is a thing called jailbreaking that has made third-party apps before Apple opened up the "App store". And honestly, because of jailbreaking the iPhone is much more open then a typical phone that doesn't run user created apps. And 6 months down the line that phone is still going to be closed while the iPhone will be even more open.