That's not entirely true. This is sort of a last-straw sort of thing. If you read the article, a few months back, the DoD was accused of changing the appearance of a soldier killed in Iraq in the photo released to the press. That sounds more serious, and it definitely shows a history of prettying up photos of their soldiers for better PR.
Considering that said 20 year old kids in their moms' basements will likely spend a significant amount of time poring over the software, I don't see why not. It is free testing, after all.
We're momentarily immune. This just gives me cause to worry about all the security exploits that are doubtless lurking beneath running Firefox 3 on Linux, and will begin to be exploited if we gain much more market share.
In general, I don't see how I'm any safer than the average user, except that I have a reasonable understanding of what looks fishy in my browser. But really, it's not the things I can see that worry me, it's the things I cannot see, and I cannot see anything that prevents malware from hiding unobserved beneath my Firefox, sniping passwords without me being any the wiser.
Obviously, precautions can be taken, but there are always countermeasures.
I don't know who decided this was a good idea, but if you run any sort of terminal in emacs ( M-x ansi-term or M-x shell or...) the terminal displays your passwords in plain text.
Will make Emacs hide it if you're typing in passwords. This is also useful for, say, SQL interpreters, which are much easier to use out of emacs than bash.
These set control-shift-v and c to paste and save from the gnome clipboard. (this is in line with gnome-terminal's hotkeys) When I'm alt-tabbing between Firefox and Emacs, this means I don't have to leave the keyboard to copy-paste.
One of my favorite general-purpose commands is "M-|". It lets you run a shell command on a region. Usually, I'll select the whole buffer, then run it. It's useful for testing out scripts (M-| perl RET) or word count (M-| wc RET)
But they didn't actually create money : they had money and gave it to people with the (damn stupid) expectation that it would be returned with interest.
Printing money would be if the government intentionally introduced more money into the financial system. It is not in any way a 'metaphor.' It is clearly distinguishable from the causes of the present crisis.
Does that actually matter in print? I'm pretty sure it's only a problem if you say it aloud. Wikipedia claims it's only a problem if you're currently in a theatre, or working in a play...
Wikipedia's full of shit, but still, I don't think posting the Scots tragedy on Slashdot will get you any bad karma.
A chemist, a physicist and a mathematician are stranded on a desert island, and all they have is a can of beans. They need to open the can so that they can eat, so they each in turn set about devising a method to open the can.
The chemist comes up with a method that involves making seawater acidic enough to get the top off (while neutralizing the acid with some basic coconut juice from a nearby tree.)
The physicist comes up with a complicated rock apparatus to basically smash open the can.
The mathematician scratches his head, and walks around the beach for a while considering the problem. Finally, he comes and sits down next to his fellow castaways and says, "Assume a can opener..."
At work I very rarely VNC into the Windows servers, because even in the same room as the server, VNC is absurdly slow. Why would I want to run Windows GUI programs over the actual internet?
Granted, I'm saying this from limited experience, and I know things like PowerShell exist to streamline this sort of thing. But why would I want to use the rather fringe PowerShell when I could have just about any scripting/shell language with years of debugging, documentation, and implementation to back it up?
Assuming this whole vaporware thing pans out for anyone, my money's on those that deal first in text.
OpenOffice rather crawls on my machine. If I need to open a.doc, rtf, or an.odt (I can dream) I use abiword. No load time, simple, clean, unassuming interface. Judging from performance on my machine, a lot of the really popular FOSS stuff is getting a lot more attention under Windows. Firefox definitely is an order of magnitude faster when I reboot to Windows. I haven't used OpenOffice under XP in years. (XP being entirely a toy used for gaming nowadays.)
One could argue that Microsoft is already doing this with.Net, by pushing for managed-code applications to be considered first-class citizens alongside traditional Win32 code. Why Sun never did the same with Solaris and Java is something of a mystery.
Maybe because not even Sun's engineers actually wanted to write actual code in Java?
I can also say that I've always enjoyed Microsoft's mice, especially their Intellimouse Explorer, and will probably continue to do so.
And this sounds like a nice step forward. But $100? I could get a secondary monitor for that price. Or enough ram to max out my 32-bit system. Or a new hard drive so I can raid my system. The list goes on. Also, I'd prefer to be rid of my mouse at this point. Unfortunately, hitting those slashdot preview/submit buttons is a pain in the ass without a mouse.
I'd say that before the first cell walls, all you had was some proto-life that only reproduced under some extraordinary conditions. And this research suggests that there may have been some hot spots where life evolved. I'd suspect it was something along the lines of one proto-life form evolving with a cell wall, then a proto-virus drifting in, and infecting this proto-life form, resulting in something with proto-RNA.
Can they make it instantly boot into the game in the cdrom tray? That's basically the only reason I start Windows anyway. It would be nice to have Firefox, but if I really needed to do some web browsing I'd just boot back to Linux.
So please, Microsoft, work on load times. This is a real problem for some of us.
I go to a university with 3000 students that got a Class B to itself back in the 80's. No way we're using a significant number of those (and just about everything's behind a firewall.)
Just the same, I don't think they should go into the pool, at least not until everyone's good and ready to switch to ipv6.
My bootloader is.97, and I've never had a single problem with it. Of course, what happens after that is another story, but then my OS is version 8.04, so that's hardly a surprise.
If you would RTFA again you'd read that the mention of RedHat refers to other Australian government systems. The Linux distro under consideration here is Edubuntu.
My main question is who can modify the source of the software they're using, and how are they verifying that the binaries are unmodified. Generally, I agree that Linux doesn't belong there, but I don't think it's unreasonable to say that any software used in voting machines must be open source.
Here in the states, state law clearly defines how votes should be cast and counted. Without the source code to the program responsible for counting the votes, these laws will quite literally read something along the lines of:
1.Voters enter votes into machines. 2. ??? 3. Voters receive election results.
The procedures for voting are a matter of public law. That must extend to procedures within the voting machines.
If you think that's putting too large a technical burden on the lawmakers, look at building codes, patent law, etc. It's a little too late to call for law that is perfectly accessible to non-technical citizens.
I'm skeptical of whether or not the speed boosts are really that significant compared to Firefox. What you have to remember about Firefox is that it intentionally takes some speed hits in terms of relying on css and JavaScript styling, as well as a lot of Java, to make platform compatibility simple.
Chrome has yet to offer an actual Linux or Mac version, which makes me suspect that a lot of their optimizations use Windows specific OS tricks that won't port. So in order to port it they'd have to practically write a new browser.
Of course this is speculation. I don't feel like examining the source code, as I have several functional browsers I use regularly, and I'd much rather spend some time on their source code, since I know I'll be using them often. If Firefox is really too slow, there's always Epiphany or Dillo.
Did you try opening it with the Open Office you already had installed? Because 2.4, last I checked, can read docx under Ubuntu. I've only ever used this feature once, but it worked fine.
TFA says "readily removed." Though they haven't yet defined it, any person suggesting that requiring that you (literally) pry open your iPod's casing, then (literally) rip it off of the motherboard would satisfy "readily" is clearly trying to fuck their way around the law. And it wouldn't fly in court I can tell you that right now.
So either Apple provides screws, or they provide a battery pack. And the former would require a really flimsy reading of 'readily.'
Problem with that analogy: you might as well be talking about Y2K glitches in 1995. Also, Y2K was mostly a stupid high level programming problem with easy workarounds. This is hardware.
When the size of the internet requires it, we will have lots of problems. Switching everyone over to IPv6 over night will not work, and something has to happen soon. We haven't seen any problems yet because we do have ample addresses for the next couple years, and everyone can keep pretending like there's no problem until then (which will only make it worse when we hit the wall.)
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That's not entirely true. This is sort of a last-straw sort of thing. If you read the article, a few months back, the DoD was accused of changing the appearance of a soldier killed in Iraq in the photo released to the press. That sounds more serious, and it definitely shows a history of prettying up photos of their soldiers for better PR.
Considering that said 20 year old kids in their moms' basements will likely spend a significant amount of time poring over the software, I don't see why not. It is free testing, after all.
It's supposed to be hard to be a chemical hobbyist.
Chemical hobbies -> Meth, bombs, and so many other things I do not want you making in your (mother's) basement.
We're momentarily immune. This just gives me cause to worry about all the security exploits that are doubtless lurking beneath running Firefox 3 on Linux, and will begin to be exploited if we gain much more market share.
In general, I don't see how I'm any safer than the average user, except that I have a reasonable understanding of what looks fishy in my browser. But really, it's not the things I can see that worry me, it's the things I cannot see, and I cannot see anything that prevents malware from hiding unobserved beneath my Firefox, sniping passwords without me being any the wiser.
Obviously, precautions can be taken, but there are always countermeasures.
I don't know who decided this was a good idea, but if you run any sort of terminal in emacs ( M-x ansi-term or M-x shell or ...)
the terminal displays your passwords in plain text.
(add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
'comint-watch-for-password-prompt)
Will make Emacs hide it if you're typing in passwords. This is also useful for, say, SQL interpreters, which are much easier to use out of emacs than bash.
These set control-shift-v and c to paste and save from the gnome clipboard. (this is in line with gnome-terminal's hotkeys) When I'm alt-tabbing between Firefox and Emacs, this means I don't have to leave the keyboard to copy-paste.
(define-key global-map (kbd "C-S-v") 'clipboard-yank)
(define-key global-map (kbd "C-S-c") 'clipboard-kill-ring-save)
One of my favorite general-purpose commands is "M-|". It lets you run a shell command on a region. Usually, I'll select the whole buffer, then run it. It's useful for testing out scripts (M-| perl RET) or word count (M-| wc RET)
But they didn't actually create money : they had money and gave it to people with the (damn stupid) expectation that it would be returned with interest.
Printing money would be if the government intentionally introduced more money into the financial system. It is not in any way a 'metaphor.' It is clearly distinguishable from the causes of the present crisis.
Does that actually matter in print? I'm pretty sure it's only a problem if you say it aloud. Wikipedia claims it's only a problem if you're currently in a theatre, or working in a play...
Wikipedia's full of shit, but still, I don't think posting the Scots tragedy on Slashdot will get you any bad karma.
A chemist, a physicist and a mathematician are stranded on a desert island, and all they have is a can of beans. They need to open the can so that they can eat, so they each in turn set about devising a method to open the can.
The chemist comes up with a method that involves making seawater acidic enough to get the top off (while neutralizing the acid with some basic coconut juice from a nearby tree.)
The physicist comes up with a complicated rock apparatus to basically smash open the can.
The mathematician scratches his head, and walks around the beach for a while considering the problem. Finally, he comes and sits down next to his fellow castaways and says, "Assume a can opener..."
At work I very rarely VNC into the Windows servers, because even in the same room as the server, VNC is absurdly slow. Why would I want to run Windows GUI programs over the actual internet?
Granted, I'm saying this from limited experience, and I know things like PowerShell exist to streamline this sort of thing. But why would I want to use the rather fringe PowerShell when I could have just about any scripting/shell language with years of debugging, documentation, and implementation to back it up?
Assuming this whole vaporware thing pans out for anyone, my money's on those that deal first in text.
OpenOffice rather crawls on my machine. If I need to open a .doc, rtf, or an .odt (I can dream) I use abiword. No load time, simple, clean, unassuming interface. Judging from performance on my machine, a lot of the really popular FOSS stuff is getting a lot more attention under Windows. Firefox definitely is an order of magnitude faster when I reboot to Windows. I haven't used OpenOffice under XP in years. (XP being entirely a toy used for gaming nowadays.)
But really for text processing I just use Emacs.
The away team, nitwit. Please turn in your geek card.
Maybe because not even Sun's engineers actually wanted to write actual code in Java?
I can also say that I've always enjoyed Microsoft's mice, especially their Intellimouse Explorer, and will probably continue to do so.
And this sounds like a nice step forward. But $100? I could get a secondary monitor for that price. Or enough ram to max out my 32-bit system. Or a new hard drive so I can raid my system. The list goes on. Also, I'd prefer to be rid of my mouse at this point. Unfortunately, hitting those slashdot preview/submit buttons is a pain in the ass without a mouse.
I'd say that before the first cell walls, all you had was some proto-life that only reproduced under some extraordinary conditions. And this research suggests that there may have been some hot spots where life evolved. I'd suspect it was something along the lines of one proto-life form evolving with a cell wall, then a proto-virus drifting in, and infecting this proto-life form, resulting in something with proto-RNA.
1) You did not give him the number.
2) He said that he would factor it instantly, not give you the factors instantly.
Can they make it instantly boot into the game in the cdrom tray? That's basically the only reason I start Windows anyway. It would be nice to have Firefox, but if I really needed to do some web browsing I'd just boot back to Linux.
So please, Microsoft, work on load times. This is a real problem for some of us.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Farticle.pl%3Fsid%3D08%2F10%2F16%2F1325215&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0
If Slashdot shows up with 28 errors, would you really expect anything at all out of the non-technical media?
I go to a university with 3000 students that got a Class B to itself back in the 80's. No way we're using a significant number of those (and just about everything's behind a firewall.)
Just the same, I don't think they should go into the pool, at least not until everyone's good and ready to switch to ipv6.
My bootloader is .97, and I've never had a single problem with it. Of course, what happens after that is another story, but then my OS is version 8.04, so that's hardly a surprise.
If you would RTFA again you'd read that the mention of RedHat refers to other Australian government systems. The Linux distro under consideration here is Edubuntu.
And I'm quite glad of that.
My main question is who can modify the source of the software they're using, and how are they verifying that the binaries are unmodified. Generally, I agree that Linux doesn't belong there, but I don't think it's unreasonable to say that any software used in voting machines must be open source.
Here in the states, state law clearly defines how votes should be cast and counted. Without the source code to the program responsible for counting the votes, these laws will quite literally read something along the lines of:
1.Voters enter votes into machines.
2. ???
3. Voters receive election results.
The procedures for voting are a matter of public law. That must extend to procedures within the voting machines.
If you think that's putting too large a technical burden on the lawmakers, look at building codes, patent law, etc. It's a little too late to call for law that is perfectly accessible to non-technical citizens.
I'm skeptical of whether or not the speed boosts are really that significant compared to Firefox. What you have to remember about Firefox is that it intentionally takes some speed hits in terms of relying on css and JavaScript styling, as well as a lot of Java, to make platform compatibility simple.
Chrome has yet to offer an actual Linux or Mac version, which makes me suspect that a lot of their optimizations use Windows specific OS tricks that won't port. So in order to port it they'd have to practically write a new browser.
Of course this is speculation. I don't feel like examining the source code, as I have several functional browsers I use regularly, and I'd much rather spend some time on their source code, since I know I'll be using them often. If Firefox is really too slow, there's always Epiphany or Dillo.
Or better yet w3m. :)
Did you try opening it with the Open Office you already had installed? Because 2.4, last I checked, can read docx under Ubuntu. I've only ever used this feature once, but it worked fine.
TFA says "readily removed." Though they haven't yet defined it, any person suggesting that requiring that you (literally) pry open your iPod's casing, then (literally) rip it off of the motherboard would satisfy "readily" is clearly trying to fuck their way around the law. And it wouldn't fly in court I can tell you that right now.
So either Apple provides screws, or they provide a battery pack. And the former would require a really flimsy reading of 'readily.'
Problem with that analogy: you might as well be talking about Y2K glitches in 1995. Also, Y2K was mostly a stupid high level programming problem with easy workarounds. This is hardware.
When the size of the internet requires it, we will have lots of problems. Switching everyone over to IPv6 over night will not work, and something has to happen soon. We haven't seen any problems yet because we do have ample addresses for the next couple years, and everyone can keep pretending like there's no problem until then (which will only make it worse when we hit the wall.)