Maybe you have something of a point - and maybe you don't. I mean, the Greeks were doing brain surgery way back when. There was commerce in the region way back when. Which is older - Judaism, Greece, or commerce? I mean, it's not like Moses, Methuselah, and all the other prophets were neanderthals, or cave men, or whatever. Not to mention that all those famous libraries that were destroyed by good Christian crusaders. We really don't know what the level of medical learning was in the region 5000 years ago. You insist that they had no medical know-how? Well - there is evidence that they had engineering skills in Egypt that we can't equal today. Try hiring a construction firm to build some of those pyramids. Go for it. Some of those historic and prehistoric people were a lot smarter than most people give them credit for.
Many people confuse power and authority. I wonder if you haven't been confused as well.
With POWER, you can change the constitution of any country, overnight. Even if it's not your own country!
With AUTHORITY, you can change the constitution of your own country, if enough of the people with whom you SHARE authority agree, within a decade or so.
Does Chavez have the authority to change his constitution? I don't think so. Does Chavez have the power to change his constitution? Yeah, probably.
Anyone would be an utter moron, if he were to trust any single news source. An intelligent person will read as many different sources as he can find the time to read, and compare & evaluate what he reads.
Faux news exists for the convenience of the conservative utter morons.
"Those who modded the post as "Insightful" probably read the post and marked it as such because they feel it is insightful."
Or, some of the right wing crazies had a few mod points. Bashing Obama is today's most popular conservative sport.
Now, if someone were to make an "insightful" post regarding US politics and censorship, they would have to include a few observations about Bush's Un-patriotic act, and the fact that Bush was all in favor of the ACTA treaty. Unfortunately, Obama also seems to favor that idiotic treaty which will subject governments around the world to corporate dictates.
All I see in the original post, is Obama bashing, no insight whatsoever.
What Scott Cooper said. The BSD license is a pretty decent license, IMHO. Certainly much better than the average "license" one "accepts" when installing proprietary software. But, it DOES deny certain rights to end users. Under the BSD, it can conceivably be illegal to decompile, disassembe, and reverse engineer a software. Which, to me, is ludicrous.
If/when I purchase a software from you, and it just "almost" meets my needs, I want to get into it, and alter this or that to make it actually WORK for me. Even if you have since gone out of business, and offer zero support for your software, I should be able to use it.
Well - maybe it's not a direct equivalent, but yes, HTML5 has the potential to keep such persistent cookies, as large as or larger than flash now uses.
Or, you can just google "html5 persistent cookies" for more, and better hits. It's the "persistent" part that I'm concerned about, and the ability to find them, sort them, and manage them. Normal cookies aren't a problem for anyone with even minimal computer competence. These new Super Cookies are a problem for even moderately computer savvy people.
In short, if you don't know any better, Adobe enables web sites to install a cookie that your browser doesn't even know about, let alone manage. And, those cookies persist forever, tracking anything that the website chooses to track.
That pre-release works - sometimes. I've installed it, and purged all the 32 bit libraries, and had it work well. I've also installed it, only to find that NOTHING works.
BTW - you do realize that the 64 bit pre-release is Linux only? If you're running anything else, you're still stuck with the 32 bit versions, along with the library dependencies, etc.
From the submission: "On the other hand, Flash more than held its own on Windows,"
"When was the last time Performance and better quality became critical in deciding which tech will be widely deployed?"
Personally - I wish that SECURITY were the primary criteria in deciding which tech will be widely deployed. I'll sacrifice a bit of "performance", if HTML5 proves to be immune to all the exploits that Adobe products are open to. Yes, of course, HTML5 will have exploits, but Adobe seems to be wide open today.
Yes, HTML5 supports "super cookies" - that's a potential exploit IMO. What else is there?
Security, security, security. If a new technology opens an entire new class of exploits, then it's not worth having, even if it increases "efficiency" by orders of magnitude.
That said - I favor HTML5, because it is "open", and people can manage their own risk. With Adobe being closed, the open source crowd isn't free to search for the exploits that the black had people keep finding.
Dude, whatever you're smoking, I hope I never get any.
Felony? Citation needed. FELONY?!?! Without credible citations, I have to say you're full of something smelly. It's a school, and it's school property. I suppose that if some kids in gym class try playing baseball with a soccer ball, they've committed a felony because they're using the ball in an unapproved manner?
"I mean, Americans are ignorant and short sighted, what can I expect from my country?"
I've met very few people in my life who look further ahead than next payday. Good luck with finding people who can see 5 years down the road, or ten, or a generation.
You have to give at least a nod of admiration to the old Soviet with their "Ten Year Plans", and to China with their 20 year plan to dominate the world with their Assassin's Mace.
That makes you wonder, though. Are Communists the only people capable of looking into the future, and trying to shape it to their liking? All the rest of us just try to fix yesterday's problems, with never a thought to how the world might change while we're trying to fix it.
This. There's an article at the Houston Chronicle (A Hearst publication, full of lies and damned lies). I pointed out that there was something really crooked about being permitted to buy a monopoly. The government couldn't figure out how to run it, or any good way to milk any more money out of it, so they gave it to Carlos. Didn't sell it to a public corporation, or multiple corporations or anything like that - lock, stock, and barrel, Carlos gets it.
Modded off topic? Phhht. I lost my unused mod points this morning, or I'd use one here for "insightful".
How many can look around them, and find some working stiff who has benefited from all those billions of stimulus dollars being touted by Washington? You know Billy Gates and friends are lobbying for a few millions to be spent on campus highway access, and that doesn't even touch the back room dealings.
This. AC has stated my policy, plainly. If I've never heard of it, and I don't know what it is, it's malware. In the computer world, it's "Guilty, until proven innocent."
And, when you think about it, the problem with malware is not so much that it exists. The real problem is that every gullible fool in the world automatically TRUSTS anything they find on the web.
Trust. Let the software distributor EARN some trust, don't just give it to him. And, those 10, 100, or even 1000 glowing reviews posted on his home site? He paid his niece to type those up, and she never saw the crap ware that her uncle developed.
I want to surf the web without javascript, so I just install No-Script. On every web page, I get a popup telling me that trash is being blocked. If/when I think that I MIGHT want to see some of the trash, I selectively enable the stuff being blocked. I never enable cross site scripting.
You must live in the city. Around here, we put animals down for reasons that would shock you. Most of them, we eat! No one calls the vet. Dogs? Just let that mangy cur growl at me convincingly, and he's history. Now, I won't eat your dog, but I have a neighbor who might use the dog at his taco stand . . .
Have you looked at historical charts of the world's population? You mention China. Prior to the 1800's, China never had more than a half billion people. The rest of the world's population was proportionate.
Thanks to a number of factors, we've seen a tremendous population explosion in the last ~175 years. Something needs to change, or like rats, we'll consume all the world's resources, then starve.
"but the wrong guy got the power" simply translated, means "my side lost, and I'm a sore loser".
Are you referring to the 2000 election, or the 2008 election? It's hard to tell if you're a "liberal" or a "neo-conservative" with the info you have volunteered.
The real stupidity is, the restrictions haven't slowed the flow of information appreciably. People in Cuba who have access to the internet already HAVE all the encryption, etc, that's available to the US. The less wealthy people who can't get ready access to the internet can't get the latest and greatest technology, but then, they aren't the ones who are likely to use this technology against us anyway.
The bottom line is, we are punishing the wrong people by restricting these exports!
And, I insist, if a person is using a computer, and doesn't even know how to find the task manager, then he isn't competent to use the computer.
Car analogy? Where's the speedometer? The oil pressure guage? Ampmeter? Oh, you say, I have nothing but idiot lights, no guages? Fine. DO YOU SEE THE IDIOT LIGHTS? If you can't see the idiot lights, you obviously shouldn't be driving. Assuming you have guages, do you bother to look at them from time to time? No? Again, incompetent.
You'll remember, I didn't expect that office worker to identify the trojan, dissect it, analyze it, then inform you of what the problem was. I only expect him to be familiar with his machine, and to have SOME idea of what is running on it.
He/she has been using that machine for 3, 5, 8 years, doing basically the same functions all that time? OF COURSE he has played around on the machine. He has certainly hit ctrl>alt>del a few times. He can pull up the task manager.
I realize that excusing that office worker's incompetence helps to justify your IT job - but it doesn't change the fact that he's incompetent.
Who's looking down? I allowed my hormones to lead me around when I toured the world's cities. When I mock man, I'm mocking myself, right along with all other men.
Questioning other people's sense of security is usually a sign of an overinflated sense of superiority.
Kindly point out where I said that I'm "smarter" than people who can't find task manager. Can't find it? I'll thank you not to put words in my mouth, Mr. A.C.
I am incompetent in many areas. I probably couldn't get a Cessna started up, let alone take off with it. I CAN fire up a D-9 Caterpillar, and make a decent attempt at grading your property. Does my incompetence with aircraft make me stupid? Does my competence with a D-9 make me smart? Of course not, stupid, but it allows me to make an intelligent statement about competence.
And, no, you don't hear me making apologies for my incompetence. It's a fact. If and when I ever find the need to learn to fly, THEN I will become competent. Til then, I won't go near an aircraft.
The above advice would serve a lot of people well when it comes to computers.
I understand what you're saying, and I pretty much agree with you. But, TFA seems to be designing and marketing these things to a more urban market. Disease is still a concern, but the hands to tend the fields doesn't really apply here.;^)
Somewhere, above, in this conversation, someone already stated something to the effect "incompetent != stupid". People who can't find task manager may or may not be stupid, but they are definitely IN-FUCKING-COMPETENT!
Further, it has already been stated that you do the incompetent no service, and no justice, by making excuses for them. You'll do them a greater service by pointing out that they are incompetent, then help them to become competent.
Here, you are just running at the mouth, looking for a fight, when you don't even appear to understand what the fight is about.
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Maybe you have something of a point - and maybe you don't. I mean, the Greeks were doing brain surgery way back when. There was commerce in the region way back when. Which is older - Judaism, Greece, or commerce? I mean, it's not like Moses, Methuselah, and all the other prophets were neanderthals, or cave men, or whatever. Not to mention that all those famous libraries that were destroyed by good Christian crusaders. We really don't know what the level of medical learning was in the region 5000 years ago.
You insist that they had no medical know-how? Well - there is evidence that they had engineering skills in Egypt that we can't equal today. Try hiring a construction firm to build some of those pyramids. Go for it.
Some of those historic and prehistoric people were a lot smarter than most people give them credit for.
As long as I don't have to make freindly with the natives, the headhunters, and the unwashed masses, I'm happy.
Many people confuse power and authority. I wonder if you haven't been confused as well.
With POWER, you can change the constitution of any country, overnight. Even if it's not your own country!
With AUTHORITY, you can change the constitution of your own country, if enough of the people with whom you SHARE authority agree, within a decade or so.
Does Chavez have the authority to change his constitution? I don't think so.
Does Chavez have the power to change his constitution? Yeah, probably.
Anyone would be an utter moron, if he were to trust any single news source. An intelligent person will read as many different sources as he can find the time to read, and compare & evaluate what he reads.
Faux news exists for the convenience of the conservative utter morons.
"Those who modded the post as "Insightful" probably read the post and marked it as such because they feel it is insightful."
Or, some of the right wing crazies had a few mod points. Bashing Obama is today's most popular conservative sport.
Now, if someone were to make an "insightful" post regarding US politics and censorship, they would have to include a few observations about Bush's Un-patriotic act, and the fact that Bush was all in favor of the ACTA treaty. Unfortunately, Obama also seems to favor that idiotic treaty which will subject governments around the world to corporate dictates.
All I see in the original post, is Obama bashing, no insight whatsoever.
What Scott Cooper said. The BSD license is a pretty decent license, IMHO. Certainly much better than the average "license" one "accepts" when installing proprietary software. But, it DOES deny certain rights to end users. Under the BSD, it can conceivably be illegal to decompile, disassembe, and reverse engineer a software. Which, to me, is ludicrous.
If/when I purchase a software from you, and it just "almost" meets my needs, I want to get into it, and alter this or that to make it actually WORK for me. Even if you have since gone out of business, and offer zero support for your software, I should be able to use it.
Well - maybe it's not a direct equivalent, but yes, HTML5 has the potential to keep such persistent cookies, as large as or larger than flash now uses.
http://completosec.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/html-5-persistent-offline-storage-as-a-risk-management-challenge/
Or, you can just google "html5 persistent cookies" for more, and better hits. It's the "persistent" part that I'm concerned about, and the ability to find them, sort them, and manage them. Normal cookies aren't a problem for anyone with even minimal computer competence. These new Super Cookies are a problem for even moderately computer savvy people.
Super cookies, yes. Maybe you have some? Read:
http://www.imasuper.com/66/technology/flash-cookies-the-silent-privacy-killer/
http://www.fightidentitytheft.com/blog/new-breed-super-cookie-defies-removal-almost
http://lifehacker.com/5245418/betterprivacy-prevents-tracking-by-flash-other-super+cookies
In short, if you don't know any better, Adobe enables web sites to install a cookie that your browser doesn't even know about, let alone manage. And, those cookies persist forever, tracking anything that the website chooses to track.
That pre-release works - sometimes. I've installed it, and purged all the 32 bit libraries, and had it work well. I've also installed it, only to find that NOTHING works.
BTW - you do realize that the 64 bit pre-release is Linux only? If you're running anything else, you're still stuck with the 32 bit versions, along with the library dependencies, etc.
From the submission: "On the other hand, Flash more than held its own on Windows,"
"When was the last time Performance and better quality became critical in deciding which tech will be widely deployed?"
Personally - I wish that SECURITY were the primary criteria in deciding which tech will be widely deployed. I'll sacrifice a bit of "performance", if HTML5 proves to be immune to all the exploits that Adobe products are open to. Yes, of course, HTML5 will have exploits, but Adobe seems to be wide open today.
Yes, HTML5 supports "super cookies" - that's a potential exploit IMO. What else is there?
Security, security, security. If a new technology opens an entire new class of exploits, then it's not worth having, even if it increases "efficiency" by orders of magnitude.
That said - I favor HTML5, because it is "open", and people can manage their own risk. With Adobe being closed, the open source crowd isn't free to search for the exploits that the black had people keep finding.
Dude, whatever you're smoking, I hope I never get any.
Felony? Citation needed. FELONY?!?! Without credible citations, I have to say you're full of something smelly. It's a school, and it's school property. I suppose that if some kids in gym class try playing baseball with a soccer ball, they've committed a felony because they're using the ball in an unapproved manner?
Get real.
"I mean, Americans are ignorant and short sighted, what can I expect from my country?"
I've met very few people in my life who look further ahead than next payday. Good luck with finding people who can see 5 years down the road, or ten, or a generation.
You have to give at least a nod of admiration to the old Soviet with their "Ten Year Plans", and to China with their 20 year plan to dominate the world with their Assassin's Mace.
That makes you wonder, though. Are Communists the only people capable of looking into the future, and trying to shape it to their liking? All the rest of us just try to fix yesterday's problems, with never a thought to how the world might change while we're trying to fix it.
This. There's an article at the Houston Chronicle (A Hearst publication, full of lies and damned lies). I pointed out that there was something really crooked about being permitted to buy a monopoly. The government couldn't figure out how to run it, or any good way to milk any more money out of it, so they gave it to Carlos. Didn't sell it to a public corporation, or multiple corporations or anything like that - lock, stock, and barrel, Carlos gets it.
Nothing dirty here, right?
Modded off topic? Phhht. I lost my unused mod points this morning, or I'd use one here for "insightful".
How many can look around them, and find some working stiff who has benefited from all those billions of stimulus dollars being touted by Washington? You know Billy Gates and friends are lobbying for a few millions to be spent on campus highway access, and that doesn't even touch the back room dealings.
This. AC has stated my policy, plainly. If I've never heard of it, and I don't know what it is, it's malware. In the computer world, it's "Guilty, until proven innocent."
And, when you think about it, the problem with malware is not so much that it exists. The real problem is that every gullible fool in the world automatically TRUSTS anything they find on the web.
Trust. Let the software distributor EARN some trust, don't just give it to him. And, those 10, 100, or even 1000 glowing reviews posted on his home site? He paid his niece to type those up, and she never saw the crap ware that her uncle developed.
I want to surf the web without javascript, so I just install No-Script. On every web page, I get a popup telling me that trash is being blocked. If/when I think that I MIGHT want to see some of the trash, I selectively enable the stuff being blocked. I never enable cross site scripting.
Is this 1998, or what?
"(you're not a vet with a syringe, remember?) "
You must live in the city. Around here, we put animals down for reasons that would shock you. Most of them, we eat! No one calls the vet. Dogs? Just let that mangy cur growl at me convincingly, and he's history. Now, I won't eat your dog, but I have a neighbor who might use the dog at his taco stand . . .
*cough*
Have you looked at historical charts of the world's population? You mention China. Prior to the 1800's, China never had more than a half billion people. The rest of the world's population was proportionate.
Thanks to a number of factors, we've seen a tremendous population explosion in the last ~175 years. Something needs to change, or like rats, we'll consume all the world's resources, then starve.
Ehhh. Whatever.
"but the wrong guy got the power" simply translated, means "my side lost, and I'm a sore loser".
Are you referring to the 2000 election, or the 2008 election? It's hard to tell if you're a "liberal" or a "neo-conservative" with the info you have volunteered.
The real stupidity is, the restrictions haven't slowed the flow of information appreciably. People in Cuba who have access to the internet already HAVE all the encryption, etc, that's available to the US. The less wealthy people who can't get ready access to the internet can't get the latest and greatest technology, but then, they aren't the ones who are likely to use this technology against us anyway.
The bottom line is, we are punishing the wrong people by restricting these exports!
And, I insist, if a person is using a computer, and doesn't even know how to find the task manager, then he isn't competent to use the computer.
Car analogy? Where's the speedometer? The oil pressure guage? Ampmeter? Oh, you say, I have nothing but idiot lights, no guages? Fine. DO YOU SEE THE IDIOT LIGHTS? If you can't see the idiot lights, you obviously shouldn't be driving. Assuming you have guages, do you bother to look at them from time to time? No? Again, incompetent.
You'll remember, I didn't expect that office worker to identify the trojan, dissect it, analyze it, then inform you of what the problem was. I only expect him to be familiar with his machine, and to have SOME idea of what is running on it.
He/she has been using that machine for 3, 5, 8 years, doing basically the same functions all that time? OF COURSE he has played around on the machine. He has certainly hit ctrl>alt>del a few times. He can pull up the task manager.
I realize that excusing that office worker's incompetence helps to justify your IT job - but it doesn't change the fact that he's incompetent.
Who's looking down? I allowed my hormones to lead me around when I toured the world's cities. When I mock man, I'm mocking myself, right along with all other men.
Rats and cockroaches, I say . . . .
Questioning other people's sense of security is usually a sign of an overinflated sense of superiority.
Kindly point out where I said that I'm "smarter" than people who can't find task manager. Can't find it? I'll thank you not to put words in my mouth, Mr. A.C.
I am incompetent in many areas. I probably couldn't get a Cessna started up, let alone take off with it. I CAN fire up a D-9 Caterpillar, and make a decent attempt at grading your property. Does my incompetence with aircraft make me stupid? Does my competence with a D-9 make me smart? Of course not, stupid, but it allows me to make an intelligent statement about competence.
And, no, you don't hear me making apologies for my incompetence. It's a fact. If and when I ever find the need to learn to fly, THEN I will become competent. Til then, I won't go near an aircraft.
The above advice would serve a lot of people well when it comes to computers.
I understand what you're saying, and I pretty much agree with you. But, TFA seems to be designing and marketing these things to a more urban market. Disease is still a concern, but the hands to tend the fields doesn't really apply here. ;^)
Somewhere, above, in this conversation, someone already stated something to the effect "incompetent != stupid". People who can't find task manager may or may not be stupid, but they are definitely IN-FUCKING-COMPETENT!
Further, it has already been stated that you do the incompetent no service, and no justice, by making excuses for them. You'll do them a greater service by pointing out that they are incompetent, then help them to become competent.
Here, you are just running at the mouth, looking for a fight, when you don't even appear to understand what the fight is about.