The real shame of it is that the Dillo project is on hold now, even though with the tiniest fraction of the resources of the Mozilla project, it could very quickly become an absolutely amazing web browser. It's really the same thing that happened with Links-GUI... Two amazingly promising browsers, going nowhere.
They finally managed to get the code released for the half-finished port to FLTK last month, and there's been a massive flurry of activity on the developers mailing list and in CVS. I guess no one's updated the project web page yet.
Yeah, I would've compared it to an allergy, in which the immune system starts fighting off an otherwise harmless substance as if it were a foreign invader... and the response ends up being worse than the "attack" would have been.
What he saves on his electricity bill, he will have to spend on his heating bill.
Depends on where he lives. If it doesn't get particularly cold in winter, or if hot days outnumber cold, then it won't be a problem. And as another poster pointed out, it could save energy on air conditioning.
I live in Southern California, where heating costs over the course of a year are negligible, but cooling costs can get pretty high during summer... and sometimes spring, and during the usual October heat wave, and I remember one time I moved during the week between Christmas and New Year's, and it was the hottest December day I'd ever experienced.
In the case of this particular project, it's more about the manner of expression rather than the ideas expressed. A short comment consisting of OMGs, LOL's and emoticions, with "ur k3wl i lik ur site" would trip the filter, but (to quote the page again) it "will cheerfully approve an eloquent, properly-capitalized defense of mandatory, state-subsidized rocket-launcher ownership for all schoolchildren."
In theory, if the filter is trained properly, it should also be able to distinguish between non-native speakers who have only a smattering of English (or another target language) and those who write in 1337-5p3@k and SMS-style abbreviations. But that requires the people training it to make that distinction.
Isn't filtering stupidity elitist?
Yes. Yes, it is. That's sort of the whole point.
It brings up an interesting question, though. On my blog, I have two layers of filtering against spam, and I'll delete any spam that gets through. I'll also delete the insults and obvious trolls. But sometimes I'll leave the dumb comments intact. I don't know if it's pity, or the kind of amusement one gets out of, say, lolcats, or what.
There is also an anti-phishing feature that is sort of spyware, but it is disabled by default.
I know that "everyone else is doing it" isn't an excuse, but it's worth considering that IE and Opera now have the same type of feature, though they approach it slightly differently. There are basically 3 modes:
Don't check unless asked; when asked, check against an online list (Fx, IE, Opera)
Check every page against an online list (Fx, IE, Opera)
Check every page against a local list, and update that list periodically (Fx only)
Opera 9 defaults to checking against the online list every time. IE 7 defaults to checking only on demand, but really encourages you to turn it on when you first run it. Firefox 2 defaults to checking against the local list -- sort of a compromise position, as it solves the privacy issue of telling someone every page you visit, at the expense of data lag on the list.
At least the words, "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle" didn't drift across the conference table, resonating across time and space.
You are throwing around buzzwords to make yourself sound smarter (and some moderators fall right for it).
By "you," are you referring to me, the person who summarized something that I thought was an interesting take on the issue, or to Haarvard, the person who actually made the assertion and discussed it in detail?
Opera's Haarvard suggests that it's about Silverlight, and Microsoft trying to close the web. Mozilla, Opera and others are pushing to extend open web technologies, but Microsoft is saying, wait, the web doesn't need to be extended at all! Well, except with Silverlight and WPF...
I upgraded a G4 PowerBook on Wednesday, via Archive+Install. The only real "problem" I've run into is that the TWAIN-SANE scanner drivers are gone (my scanner is plugged into a Linux box, so I use the SANE network drivers on the rare occasion that I want to scan from another computer), but I pretty much expected that. I usually scan from the other box anyway, and the project seems alive, so it's not really an issue.
That, and I have to agree with the criticism of the new dock and folder icons being less readable at a glance.
Otherwise, everything works fine.
There's one other Mac in the house which won't get upgraded without a little more preparation. There are a couple of Classic apps on it (Classic is being removed), and Photoshop 7 (which has been widely reported to not run on Leopard, and Adobe isn't updating anything older than CS3).
OK, let's set up a "Do Not Track" list. How are they going to know not to track you? By figuring out who you are, then checking to see if you're on the list.
Oops.
A better idea would be a standardized opt-out system where your browser tells every server, "Do not track me," then set up web applications to honor that choice.
Maybe set up an X-DontTrackMe header for HTTP requests. Or a standardized DontTrack=true cookie not linked to a domain. Something that has no unique information and gets sent to every website. Then turn it on and off in the browser with a checkbox.
Something like that could be tested as a Firefox extension or IE browser helper (if I'm remembering the terminology correctly) to start with, then added to browsers themselves.
In one episode last season, Ando showed up at Niki's house, having been able to find her because she listed her home address on the WHOIS record for her website.
(The unspoken moral: use a PO Box, or some guy from halfway around the world will drop in on you unexpectedly.)
But I rather take this that the scientific community is trying to be dogmatic, by retracting [not withdrawing] a referreed paper for the reason that the results of the paper conflict with a deeply held belief.
Actually, in the article, the author states that he went back and found errors in the paper itself. He might have chosen to re-examine the paper because it was being used to support something he disagreed with, but once he started looking at it, the paper didn't hold up to scrutiny.
So basically, you're saying that if there's any likelihood of a natural disaster at all, no one should live in the area?
No one should live along the Gulf Coast, or the southern Atlantic seaboard, because they have hurricanes. Or California, because they have earthquakes. Especially not Southern California, because they have earthquakes and fires. Or the midwest, because they have blizzards. And tornadoes. And floods. Or Hawaii, because they have volcanoes. Pacific rim? Volcanoes and earthquakes. And tsunamis. South Asia? Floods.
Once you eliminate all the regions prone to disasters, what's left?
Tmobile is doing this right now but you need to have a branded hub for it to work.
I did some research on this when they started advertising it to current customers, and if you dig deep enough, it turns out that you can use it with a third-party hub. The "learn more" page has a link, Already Have a Router?, which says:
If you already have a wireless router, it will likely work with T-Mobile
HotSpot @Home. However, T-Mobile routers have been specifically
designed and configured to provide the best possible results in your home.
The main thing seems to be that the branded hubs do traffic shaping to give your voice traffic priority. It also claims to be "Optimized to provide longer battery life for your phone."
They clearly want to sell you a router, though, because they've buried this information about as thoroughly as they can while still making it available through site navigation. I'm not sure, but you might even have to be a current customer and log in to find it.
The firebreaks do need to be fairly wide as the wind was a factor in these, as usual.
Yeah, the fire closest to where I am jumped across the 241 toll road yesterday morning, which is a 6-lane divided highway with a large empty strip in the middle. Though now that I think about it, depending on the condition in the median, that probably means it was effectively two parallel 3-lane firebreaks. (4 lanes each if you count the shoulders.)
A better use of tax dollars(rather than making sure that shelters are nice(make the library a shelter and everybody's got a book, no need for wifi)) would be to buy up land where there is lots of grass that is prone to drying out and burning and preventing its development.
Doesn't help, unless you create a wide, non-flammable buffer zone of some sort. Otherwise, you end up with the situation we have in Orange County, where some whackjob started a fire out in the undeveloped hills, which proceeded to burn through the dry grass and brush in public land, regional parks, a chunk of land owned by the Nature Conservancy, and more undeveloped land... right up to the edges of nearby cities. Driven by wind, it raced through 3 miles of undeveloped land in the first 20 minutes, and firefighters just barely managed to stop it before it jumped a major road into a residential area.
The next morning, still driven by winds, it jumped right over a wide, multi-lane highway. Standard firebreaks aren't enough when you've got 70+ MPH winds that can send burning embers for several miles.
So unless you want to buy up and then pave over a 3-mile wide buffer zone, it's not going to help as much as you seem to think.
I see you've been misled by the media coverage, which seems to be focusing entirely on the fires in Malibu. Believe it or not, there are fires spread out across Southern California, affecting a lot more than just the fabulously wealthy.
I can hardly find anything on the fire blazing through the rural areas of Orange County (and no, it's not all rich people either), which is maybe 5-6 miles from my workplace and has crept up on the borders of residential and business tracts in several cities near the hills. Except for the websites for one local newspaper and the county fire authority, I can get more information by looking out the window of a conference room and seeing which hills have smoke rising from them.
Even those not directly theatened by fires are inhaling smoke, or dealing with sporadic power outages, or dealing with damage from the high winds.
The 300,000+ people evacuated from their homes in San Diego County (you don't think they're all millionaires, do you?) are finally getting some attention, but somehow a few movie stars manage to outrank the rest of the region's population in terms of newsworthiness.
The only other thing that leapt out at me from a brief skim was the comment that they didn't believe a polygraph would be useful because "if he was a member of Al Quaeda, he could pass it." I find that comment fascinating, too.
I find myself wondering about the value of the polygraph in the first place. It measures stress reactions. The guy lived through 9/11, then was arrested, accused of being involved in the plot, and interrogated. Big surprise, he turned out to be under stress.
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They finally managed to get the code released for the half-finished port to FLTK last month, and there's been a massive flurry of activity on the developers mailing list and in CVS. I guess no one's updated the project web page yet.
Yeah, I would've compared it to an allergy, in which the immune system starts fighting off an otherwise harmless substance as if it were a foreign invader... and the response ends up being worse than the "attack" would have been.
Yeah, I immediately thought of a set of malicious ads that triggered an IFRAME exploit back in 2004. The Register found them on their own site, pulled the ads and apologized to their readers. The Internet Storm Center did a pretty good write-up of the incident.
Depends on where he lives. If it doesn't get particularly cold in winter, or if hot days outnumber cold, then it won't be a problem. And as another poster pointed out, it could save energy on air conditioning.
I live in Southern California, where heating costs over the course of a year are negligible, but cooling costs can get pretty high during summer... and sometimes spring, and during the usual October heat wave, and I remember one time I moved during the week between Christmas and New Year's, and it was the hottest December day I'd ever experienced.
And it didn't even make the top 10 list!
In the case of this particular project, it's more about the manner of expression rather than the ideas expressed. A short comment consisting of OMGs, LOL's and emoticions, with "ur k3wl i lik ur site" would trip the filter, but (to quote the page again) it "will cheerfully approve an eloquent, properly-capitalized defense of mandatory, state-subsidized rocket-launcher ownership for all schoolchildren."
In theory, if the filter is trained properly, it should also be able to distinguish between non-native speakers who have only a smattering of English (or another target language) and those who write in 1337-5p3@k and SMS-style abbreviations. But that requires the people training it to make that distinction.
From the project FAQ:
It brings up an interesting question, though. On my blog, I have two layers of filtering against spam, and I'll delete any spam that gets through. I'll also delete the insults and obvious trolls. But sometimes I'll leave the dumb comments intact. I don't know if it's pity, or the kind of amusement one gets out of, say, lolcats, or what.
Well, they're creating a subsidiary and giving it $3m to start, so they clearly have some interest in it.
I know that "everyone else is doing it" isn't an excuse, but it's worth considering that IE and Opera now have the same type of feature, though they approach it slightly differently. There are basically 3 modes:
Opera 9 defaults to checking against the online list every time. IE 7 defaults to checking only on demand, but really encourages you to turn it on when you first run it. Firefox 2 defaults to checking against the local list -- sort of a compromise position, as it solves the privacy issue of telling someone every page you visit, at the expense of data lag on the list.
Thanks! I checked back a couple of times earlier today, and was beginning to wonder if I'd misremembered the quote or something.
At least the words, "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle" didn't drift across the conference table, resonating across time and space.
By "you," are you referring to me, the person who summarized something that I thought was an interesting take on the issue, or to Haarvard, the person who actually made the assertion and discussed it in detail?
Opera's Haarvard suggests that it's about Silverlight, and Microsoft trying to close the web. Mozilla, Opera and others are pushing to extend open web technologies, but Microsoft is saying, wait, the web doesn't need to be extended at all! Well, except with Silverlight and WPF...
I upgraded a G4 PowerBook on Wednesday, via Archive+Install. The only real "problem" I've run into is that the TWAIN-SANE scanner drivers are gone (my scanner is plugged into a Linux box, so I use the SANE network drivers on the rare occasion that I want to scan from another computer), but I pretty much expected that. I usually scan from the other box anyway, and the project seems alive, so it's not really an issue.
That, and I have to agree with the criticism of the new dock and folder icons being less readable at a glance.
Otherwise, everything works fine.
There's one other Mac in the house which won't get upgraded without a little more preparation. There are a couple of Classic apps on it (Classic is being removed), and Photoshop 7 (which has been widely reported to not run on Leopard, and Adobe isn't updating anything older than CS3).
When applied to an idea, "mull" generally means to think about it in detail.
Anyone else see the problem here?
OK, let's set up a "Do Not Track" list. How are they going to know not to track you? By figuring out who you are, then checking to see if you're on the list.
Oops.
A better idea would be a standardized opt-out system where your browser tells every server, "Do not track me," then set up web applications to honor that choice.
Maybe set up an X-DontTrackMe header for HTTP requests. Or a standardized DontTrack=true cookie not linked to a domain. Something that has no unique information and gets sent to every website. Then turn it on and off in the browser with a checkbox.
Something like that could be tested as a Firefox extension or IE browser helper (if I'm remembering the terminology correctly) to start with, then added to browsers themselves.
What if someone thinks it's wrong both for Apple to fleece AT&T and for NBC to fleece Apple?
You're making an unfounded assumption that people who side with Apple on the NBC issue would side with Apple on every issue.
In one episode last season, Ando showed up at Niki's house, having been able to find her because she listed her home address on the WHOIS record for her website.
(The unspoken moral: use a PO Box, or some guy from halfway around the world will drop in on you unexpectedly.)
Actually, in the article, the author states that he went back and found errors in the paper itself. He might have chosen to re-examine the paper because it was being used to support something he disagreed with, but once he started looking at it, the paper didn't hold up to scrutiny.
So basically, you're saying that if there's any likelihood of a natural disaster at all, no one should live in the area?
No one should live along the Gulf Coast, or the southern Atlantic seaboard, because they have hurricanes. Or California, because they have earthquakes. Especially not Southern California, because they have earthquakes and fires. Or the midwest, because they have blizzards. And tornadoes. And floods. Or Hawaii, because they have volcanoes. Pacific rim? Volcanoes and earthquakes. And tsunamis. South Asia? Floods.
Once you eliminate all the regions prone to disasters, what's left?
I did some research on this when they started advertising it to current customers, and if you dig deep enough, it turns out that you can use it with a third-party hub. The "learn more" page has a link, Already Have a Router?, which says:
The main thing seems to be that the branded hubs do traffic shaping to give your voice traffic priority. It also claims to be "Optimized to provide longer battery life for your phone."
They clearly want to sell you a router, though, because they've buried this information about as thoroughly as they can while still making it available through site navigation. I'm not sure, but you might even have to be a current customer and log in to find it.
Yeah, the fire closest to where I am jumped across the 241 toll road yesterday morning, which is a 6-lane divided highway with a large empty strip in the middle. Though now that I think about it, depending on the condition in the median, that probably means it was effectively two parallel 3-lane firebreaks. (4 lanes each if you count the shoulders.)
Doesn't help, unless you create a wide, non-flammable buffer zone of some sort. Otherwise, you end up with the situation we have in Orange County, where some whackjob started a fire out in the undeveloped hills, which proceeded to burn through the dry grass and brush in public land, regional parks, a chunk of land owned by the Nature Conservancy, and more undeveloped land... right up to the edges of nearby cities. Driven by wind, it raced through 3 miles of undeveloped land in the first 20 minutes, and firefighters just barely managed to stop it before it jumped a major road into a residential area.
The next morning, still driven by winds, it jumped right over a wide, multi-lane highway. Standard firebreaks aren't enough when you've got 70+ MPH winds that can send burning embers for several miles.
So unless you want to buy up and then pave over a 3-mile wide buffer zone, it's not going to help as much as you seem to think.
I see you've been misled by the media coverage, which seems to be focusing entirely on the fires in Malibu. Believe it or not, there are fires spread out across Southern California, affecting a lot more than just the fabulously wealthy.
I can hardly find anything on the fire blazing through the rural areas of Orange County (and no, it's not all rich people either), which is maybe 5-6 miles from my workplace and has crept up on the borders of residential and business tracts in several cities near the hills. Except for the websites for one local newspaper and the county fire authority, I can get more information by looking out the window of a conference room and seeing which hills have smoke rising from them.
Even those not directly theatened by fires are inhaling smoke, or dealing with sporadic power outages, or dealing with damage from the high winds.
The 300,000+ people evacuated from their homes in San Diego County (you don't think they're all millionaires, do you?) are finally getting some attention, but somehow a few movie stars manage to outrank the rest of the region's population in terms of newsworthiness.
In case anyone's interested, I've been blogging the OC fire... from a distance.
I find myself wondering about the value of the polygraph in the first place. It measures stress reactions. The guy lived through 9/11, then was arrested, accused of being involved in the plot, and interrogated. Big surprise, he turned out to be under stress.