That assumes that this pill has no serious side effects. Given that this is the first treatment in its class, it would be an unprecedented miracle if it had a seriously negative effect on less than 19 in 100,000 users. I'd expect a good number of Heart attacks and probably some strange new forms of muscle tissue damage.
I don't know about non-citizens, but whenever they search my bag they leave a note. (And this is the two times I've re-entered the country through the airports.)
So I'm pretty sure the whole UV-reactive cable tie thing is probably also unnecessary paranoia. (Like most of the worries about this stuff.)
That, or they've pulled a 1984 and carefully replaced your cable with another, leaving you none the wiser.
That said, this policy is ridiculous. It pretty clearly allows agents to hold your laptop for the 10 years it would take to decrypt, if they feel like it.
The trouble is, the Awesome bar isn't just a matter of a configuration setting - the code behind the awesome bar is entirely different from that behind the old url bar. Configuration setttings are for making trivial functionality changes (like making functionality available via one hotkey also available via another hotkey.) No real coding involved, just change a couple of words.
Any operating system can be trivially rootkitted/bypassed by swapping in a malicious boot loader.
You note that if something hasn't been blessed by MS then it's not loaded- that's all well and good, except MS blesses DRM, so I really have no reason to believe that they won't aggressively seek to prevent me from using unlicensed music by rootkitting my winamp.
Now, I have no problem with them preventing me from using unlicensed music. That's perfectly legitimate. However, in the 6-7 years I've dealt with DRM encrypted music, in every instance in which I have had to find some workaround to play encrypted music, I (or someone in my family) had legitimately purchased the music for use on our computer.
In a similar manner, I cannot believe that Microsoft's notion of "trusted computing" will protect my data when someone is willing to pay money for it. I trust GPL code on the other hand because it is signed, and it is signed by individuals (or corporations) whose signatures would never be trusted again if they tried to replace your boot loader in a security update.
Oh well. At least I know that if I ever buy Vista, I will be installing and patching it before I install Linux. Which is exactly what I would've had to do before SP1.
Yeah, I've been using the nightly builds for a month. It showed up last week. Open about:config in the url bar, search on ctrlTab, and set the boolean to balse. That will clear it up.
The problem with the ctrl+tab vs ctrl+pgup/dn is that Gnome has this (bizarre) convention of bascially this functionality. (Minus the eye candy.) Me, I would prefer that they reverse it, as you suggest, but the Gnome defaults win (despite disagreeing with every other default I know.) Also, the developers believe that this behavior is more useful than the former behavior, so they want it in a more easily accessible hotkey.
I disagree, since Firefox takes longer to shrink the pages and display a thumbnails than it would just to display the tabs in full, in quick succession.
I'd put that at cold fusion, maybe strong AI.
And more in line with this, a space elevator.
Jetpacks might be pretty cool, but honestly, I'd rather just take a ride up where there's no gravity and float around for a bit.
From the company's President John Frazzini, a "U.S. Secret Service agent and IT security consultant:"
because the data collected by the cameras wasn't machine readable. We had to invent a way to do that.
I'm tempted to send off a resume. If they're hiring people stupid enough to claim that video is difficult to make machine-readable, as president, I've gotta be able to get a good position there.
Of course, it is impressive to offload that much analog data to a machine, and process it in real time (I wonder what kind of hardware this needs) but the wording of that statement is so fundamentally flawed that man should not be allowed to speak in public (and possibly not claim to be any sort of technical expert.)
Really, as a coder, LaTeX is far friendlier than word. That's not to say it's good, or that a gui would necessarily be bad in all circumstances, but anything that couldn't be hotkeyed would be fairly worthless in writing a 50-page thesis.
And though Word has the capabilities of sectioning and the like, it does not provide a friendly interface. A friendly interface would not have bold, italic, paragraph, center, or any of that on the default toolbar. It would provide you with "new section" "header" "book title" "emphasis." Not only that, but it would be aggressively difficult to work in the word processor paradigm. You want this title to be italic, and this one bold? Deal with it. The program exists so you don't have to think about that, because you should be thinking about content, not style. And if the styling affects the content, you should figure out how you can express the idea without the styling. Just because Word contains document processing functionality does not mean it is in a friendly interface. The friendly interface does what most people have wanted for the past two decades, and it does that very well. What most people have wanted for the past few decades is not particularly useful to those who seriously write.
Sadly, I think I'll be sticking to Emacs for the forseeable future, and saving all of my documents as text. Though that second part I'm more glad of, since most of my writing is non-technical.
They found water. I think no one was really expecting that, and just finding that is big enough to warrant sending another, more thoughtfully designed probe. And I don't think it's reasonable to expect that they could build a robot on their budget, in that small a payload, that could operate both in wet and dry conditions. I'm no (mechanical) engineer, but I'd say that each warrants a different apparatus.
It's hardly fair to blame them for not anticipating the properties of the soil when the craft was sent there to determine the properties of the soil.
They seem to be operating under the assumption that Childs was sniffing passwords. Which judging from the case is just stupid. Why would anyone sniff passwords that they had absolute control of? He was sniffing unencrypted messages over the network. Even sans the unrestricted power over the network, I can't imagine Childs has any use for those passwords. Or anyone else for that matter.
The trouble with that is, if they make Apache fully compatible with the rest of their stack, they would have to break compatibility between IIS and the rest of their software in order to break compatibility with Apache.
Which of course would be a stupid move, you'd just get the current situation where XP does exactly what people want, with no configuration, and Vista is a pain in the ass to switch to. Except this would be a matter of not wanting to switch from MS's next server release to a hypothetical release after that one.
That said, this announcement isn't really that big a shift. They've just decided that if they're not going to open up everything, there's no need to be douchebags with a ton of doublespeak about things which no one wants to use anyway: they'll only piss us of. However, you'll note the conspicuous absence of Silverlight, as well as WMA. In fact, it seems the only thing's they're opening up are things that are shameless rip-offs of actual open standards. So they don't really need to pull any further slight of hand, they already have.
Because there's an obviously increased chance of corruption if something is fucked up with the system, and there's no reason to swipe a card if you're riding for free, even if, logically, swiping your card should have no effect.
Any sysadmin knows that any action can have unforeseen repercussions when the system's in perfect shape. No reason to tempt fate.
Scrabble the computer game also existed before Scrabulous. So no, that's bull.
I frankly don't give a damn if people lose money exploiting other people's trademarks for financial gain. Making a scrabulous application is trivial enough that no one should get money for it. But given the IP laws, if anyone it should be Hasbro.
Of course the device is patented, i.e. your computer. The algorithm, transforming bits into a sequence of ones and zeroes that your audio card can transform into a waveform, would only be patentable if it was specific to your audio card. Assuming this goes through, my libmpeg might just go legit.
The most serious problem pointed out is the possibility that the disk may keep writing garbage from memory- if the power supply could buy enough time to throw a full kernel panic, that should be sufficient to let any journalling prevent corruption, even if kernel panic is all the system can do before power disappears.
The thing is, there is a certain level of ownership: it's the city network, so it is his network, as much as anyone else in the city. And to suggest he treated the network like a toy is just insulting. He clearly took the proper functioning of that TOOL very seriously, or the network would be down by now.
If I see something going on at work I don't agree with, I'll plead my case, go to the top, make myself a royal pain, but at the end record everything, note that i'm an unwilling participant, and move on.
That sounds more or less like exactly what he did. Except, he obviously can't move on.
Hell I'll quit, but I'm not going to go to jail because I don't agree with XYZ policy.
You seem to be confusing this with a private company. He was responsible for government policy, and as a general rule I'd say government policy is worth going to jail over.
Sticking to your guns is something I admire, and if that was all I might hire him. However, he neglected to keep backups of key parts of his infrastructure, and that is inexcusable. So yeah, I don't think I'd hire him either, I'm just saying that I completely disagree with the idea that obedience is an asset, especially in someone you're giving a good deal of responsibility.
Embedded servers are where it's at. I was actually thinking about using an embedded server in my cell phone to blog about the journey through the Amazon I'm going on next month. This might be just the ticket I need.
Now I just need to figure out how to get a reasonable amount of bandwidth in the middle of South America.
I hope they also try to ram UOF down ISO's throats. The ensuing chaos will require actual government to step in and impose a standard by fiat.
Or we could all just go back to using LaTeX. I'd be alright with that. Actually, I learned LaTeX after switching to odf, so I've always viewed LaTeX as an upgrade from odf.
So would the whole of Russia.
Honestly, you're just too lazy to try to sit through 1000 pages.
Which is why you sit on Slashdot and read paragraphs that hardly begin to cover what they're talking about.
So, if anything, modern writers do exactly the opposite of this: try to skim something down into a soundbite instead of giving it proper, deep treatment. Thank God some people can keep the fire alive.
The awesome bar is how I access the web. I hardly ever touch my bookmarks anymore. It was a little slow, but I turned it down to three maximum suggestions, and I haven't had any trouble since.
Of course, the little caveat is that this was already big news... there was never any real consideration of stopping the release, just delaying it. And I think this may have bought people who were already preparing for it an extra hour to stay late tonight and patch, or shut down their servers to patch, while redirecting traffic for the evening.
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That assumes that this pill has no serious side effects. Given that this is the first treatment in its class, it would be an unprecedented miracle if it had a seriously negative effect on less than 19 in 100,000 users. I'd expect a good number of Heart attacks and probably some strange new forms of muscle tissue damage.
I don't know about non-citizens, but whenever they search my bag they leave a note. (And this is the two times I've re-entered the country through the airports.)
So I'm pretty sure the whole UV-reactive cable tie thing is probably also unnecessary paranoia. (Like most of the worries about this stuff.)
That, or they've pulled a 1984 and carefully replaced your cable with another, leaving you none the wiser.
That said, this policy is ridiculous. It pretty clearly allows agents to hold your laptop for the 10 years it would take to decrypt, if they feel like it.
The trouble is, the Awesome bar isn't just a matter of a configuration setting - the code behind the awesome bar is entirely different from that behind the old url bar. Configuration setttings are for making trivial functionality changes (like making functionality available via one hotkey also available via another hotkey.) No real coding involved, just change a couple of words.
Any operating system can be trivially rootkitted/bypassed by swapping in a malicious boot loader.
You note that if something hasn't been blessed by MS then it's not loaded- that's all well and good, except MS blesses DRM, so I really have no reason to believe that they won't aggressively seek to prevent me from using unlicensed music by rootkitting my winamp.
Now, I have no problem with them preventing me from using unlicensed music. That's perfectly legitimate. However, in the 6-7 years I've dealt with DRM encrypted music, in every instance in which I have had to find some workaround to play encrypted music, I (or someone in my family) had legitimately purchased the music for use on our computer.
In a similar manner, I cannot believe that Microsoft's notion of "trusted computing" will protect my data when someone is willing to pay money for it. I trust GPL code on the other hand because it is signed, and it is signed by individuals (or corporations) whose signatures would never be trusted again if they tried to replace your boot loader in a security update.
Oh well. At least I know that if I ever buy Vista, I will be installing and patching it before I install Linux. Which is exactly what I would've had to do before SP1.
I hope they didn't use a build from this week. If you're using a nightly (or the alpha), I dare you to double click in this box.
Didn't crash? Ok, highlight this text, double click, and frantically click. Maybe try to copy the text just for fun.
If you're still here, either you're a smart little coward hiding behind your non-development browser, or they've fixed the bug.
Yeah, I've been using the nightly builds for a month. It showed up last week. Open about:config in the url bar, search on ctrlTab, and set the boolean to balse. That will clear it up.
The problem with the ctrl+tab vs ctrl+pgup/dn is that Gnome has this (bizarre) convention of bascially this functionality. (Minus the eye candy.) Me, I would prefer that they reverse it, as you suggest, but the Gnome defaults win (despite disagreeing with every other default I know.) Also, the developers believe that this behavior is more useful than the former behavior, so they want it in a more easily accessible hotkey.
I disagree, since Firefox takes longer to shrink the pages and display a thumbnails than it would just to display the tabs in full, in quick succession.
However, strictly speaking, the Firefox team is just copying this 'feature' from Opera. And if Opera's doing it, it must be the best thing since sliced bread (usability is so passé.)
I'd put that at cold fusion, maybe strong AI. And more in line with this, a space elevator. Jetpacks might be pretty cool, but honestly, I'd rather just take a ride up where there's no gravity and float around for a bit.
I'm tempted to send off a resume. If they're hiring people stupid enough to claim that video is difficult to make machine-readable, as president, I've gotta be able to get a good position there.
Of course, it is impressive to offload that much analog data to a machine, and process it in real time (I wonder what kind of hardware this needs) but the wording of that statement is so fundamentally flawed that man should not be allowed to speak in public (and possibly not claim to be any sort of technical expert.)
In order for that to be suspicious, it would have to be an irregular event.
Really, as a coder, LaTeX is far friendlier than word. That's not to say it's good, or that a gui would necessarily be bad in all circumstances, but anything that couldn't be hotkeyed would be fairly worthless in writing a 50-page thesis.
And though Word has the capabilities of sectioning and the like, it does not provide a friendly interface. A friendly interface would not have bold, italic, paragraph, center, or any of that on the default toolbar. It would provide you with "new section" "header" "book title" "emphasis." Not only that, but it would be aggressively difficult to work in the word processor paradigm. You want this title to be italic, and this one bold? Deal with it. The program exists so you don't have to think about that, because you should be thinking about content, not style. And if the styling affects the content, you should figure out how you can express the idea without the styling. Just because Word contains document processing functionality does not mean it is in a friendly interface. The friendly interface does what most people have wanted for the past two decades, and it does that very well. What most people have wanted for the past few decades is not particularly useful to those who seriously write.
Sadly, I think I'll be sticking to Emacs for the forseeable future, and saving all of my documents as text. Though that second part I'm more glad of, since most of my writing is non-technical.
They found water. I think no one was really expecting that, and just finding that is big enough to warrant sending another, more thoughtfully designed probe. And I don't think it's reasonable to expect that they could build a robot on their budget, in that small a payload, that could operate both in wet and dry conditions. I'm no (mechanical) engineer, but I'd say that each warrants a different apparatus.
It's hardly fair to blame them for not anticipating the properties of the soil when the craft was sent there to determine the properties of the soil.
Mars, apparently. Didn't know he was into that sort of thing. But then he is Roman.
They seem to be operating under the assumption that Childs was sniffing passwords. Which judging from the case is just stupid. Why would anyone sniff passwords that they had absolute control of? He was sniffing unencrypted messages over the network. Even sans the unrestricted power over the network, I can't imagine Childs has any use for those passwords. Or anyone else for that matter.
The trouble with that is, if they make Apache fully compatible with the rest of their stack, they would have to break compatibility between IIS and the rest of their software in order to break compatibility with Apache.
Which of course would be a stupid move, you'd just get the current situation where XP does exactly what people want, with no configuration, and Vista is a pain in the ass to switch to. Except this would be a matter of not wanting to switch from MS's next server release to a hypothetical release after that one.
That said, this announcement isn't really that big a shift. They've just decided that if they're not going to open up everything, there's no need to be douchebags with a ton of doublespeak about things which no one wants to use anyway: they'll only piss us of. However, you'll note the conspicuous absence of Silverlight, as well as WMA. In fact, it seems the only thing's they're opening up are things that are shameless rip-offs of actual open standards. So they don't really need to pull any further slight of hand, they already have.
Because there's an obviously increased chance of corruption if something is fucked up with the system, and there's no reason to swipe a card if you're riding for free, even if, logically, swiping your card should have no effect.
Any sysadmin knows that any action can have unforeseen repercussions when the system's in perfect shape. No reason to tempt fate.
Scrabble the computer game also existed before Scrabulous. So no, that's bull.
I frankly don't give a damn if people lose money exploiting other people's trademarks for financial gain. Making a scrabulous application is trivial enough that no one should get money for it. But given the IP laws, if anyone it should be Hasbro.
Of course the device is patented, i.e. your computer. The algorithm, transforming bits into a sequence of ones and zeroes that your audio card can transform into a waveform, would only be patentable if it was specific to your audio card. Assuming this goes through, my libmpeg might just go legit.
Yes, yes I am.
The most serious problem pointed out is the possibility that the disk may keep writing garbage from memory- if the power supply could buy enough time to throw a full kernel panic, that should be sufficient to let any journalling prevent corruption, even if kernel panic is all the system can do before power disappears.
The thing is, there is a certain level of ownership: it's the city network, so it is his network, as much as anyone else in the city. And to suggest he treated the network like a toy is just insulting. He clearly took the proper functioning of that TOOL very seriously, or the network would be down by now.
That sounds more or less like exactly what he did. Except, he obviously can't move on.
You seem to be confusing this with a private company. He was responsible for government policy, and as a general rule I'd say government policy is worth going to jail over.
Sticking to your guns is something I admire, and if that was all I might hire him. However, he neglected to keep backups of key parts of his infrastructure, and that is inexcusable. So yeah, I don't think I'd hire him either, I'm just saying that I completely disagree with the idea that obedience is an asset, especially in someone you're giving a good deal of responsibility.
Embedded servers are where it's at. I was actually thinking about using an embedded server in my cell phone to blog about the journey through the Amazon I'm going on next month. This might be just the ticket I need.
Now I just need to figure out how to get a reasonable amount of bandwidth in the middle of South America.
I hope they also try to ram UOF down ISO's throats. The ensuing chaos will require actual government to step in and impose a standard by fiat.
Or we could all just go back to using LaTeX. I'd be alright with that. Actually, I learned LaTeX after switching to odf, so I've always viewed LaTeX as an upgrade from odf.
So would the whole of Russia. Honestly, you're just too lazy to try to sit through 1000 pages. Which is why you sit on Slashdot and read paragraphs that hardly begin to cover what they're talking about. So, if anything, modern writers do exactly the opposite of this: try to skim something down into a soundbite instead of giving it proper, deep treatment. Thank God some people can keep the fire alive.
The awesome bar is how I access the web. I hardly ever touch my bookmarks anymore. It was a little slow, but I turned it down to three maximum suggestions, and I haven't had any trouble since.
Of course, the little caveat is that this was already big news... there was never any real consideration of stopping the release, just delaying it. And I think this may have bought people who were already preparing for it an extra hour to stay late tonight and patch, or shut down their servers to patch, while redirecting traffic for the evening.