Half of me feels that people who don't know how to use a computer properly don't deserve privacy. Then I decide that thats probably too elitist an attitude. It would be nice if NN and IE gave you the option of handling cookies when it was installed, but cookies are too useful for me to get worried about their abuses.
I'm not totally sure, but I thought that NN did warn before accepting a cookie with the default settings.
Although it does seem that IE automatically accepts them by default. (And you're right about being hard to find. Took me a ages to find them, and I know roughly where to look)
The stereotypical Windows users don't seem to trust anything that they're given for free. I think Perl had this problem. Nobody was interested unless they had to pay for it.
The only solution is to releaase it at a very high price with the source code, but release it under an open source licence. Also allow free downloads. (Strangley enough, most open source licences don't stop you from doing this).
Granholm continued to level criticism the company failed to disclose to Internet users it is ``systematically implanting'' electronic files on the hard drives of users' computers - known as ``cookies'' in tech parlance - without their knowledge or consent.
I did consent to allow any company to implant cookies on my computer. I turned it off at first. Then I kept getting problems with pages not being available, so I switched to the "Warn before accepting cookies" setting. There were just too many cookies. Given the choice between access to web sites, and no cookies, I chose access. This seems reasonable to me. There's only a certain amount of data you can put into a cookie anyway. All this data has to be supplied vouluntarily.
The short lived (1993-4) and generally not too good series "Time Trax" had a credit card sized mainframe.
This would be a "multifunction, credit card-sized computer that allows users to securely store a multitude of account numbers, PIN codes, access information and other data from multiple credit cards, check cards, identification cards and similar personal documents", and as far as I understand the patent law, Prior art can include fiction.
Although since a palm pilot is larger than a credit card does this actually apply?
I hope this gets through. It could immediately invalidate all the Genetic patents, and then be immediately invalidated because of prior art (I assume that Ms McLean would also be happy if this happened)
1) Does the UK government pay for the internet access though
No. They do make sure that telephone companies have to make this possible but thats about it. The thing is that different countries have completely different ways of distributing the phone bill.
2) Which is why I'm not suprised that government sponsered free internet is appearing first in Western Europe.
And it probably won't happen in a big way in the US either. The US and Europe seem to have a big difference in opinion of how our governments should spend their money.
3) I'm sure the plan for governnment payed internet access is well-intentioned. I'm doubting, however, that this will cause internet usage to increase faster than just private competition would have.
I agree. This is probably worthwhile as an experiment though.
4)...... The internet access is not truely free either, because it is being paid for in taxes.
It is free for a fairly subjective definition of free - i.e. if you decide to use it it doesn't cost you any more than if you decide not to (apart from the phone bill)
5) Well, I guess it would good to feel that your taxes are being used to your benifit,
See my comment on point 2. The US has much lower taxes than any country in Europe (I think). Europeans expect their governments to provide a lot more such as free public health, a welfare system, free legal support, and even farming subsidies. Most Europeans seem to be happy with taxes that would shock most Americans, as long as services are provided. This gives us a much broader definition of what the public good is.
I'm not quite sure what the current state of Internet access is in Germany. In England, its available at a reasonable price, and an idea like this would probably not be welcomed. If they have to pay for the phone call and the ISP though, I would think that this would slow down the adoption of the internet quite substantially.
Well, I agree. There does seem to be a contradiction there, so I'll change my mind about what I'd approve of.
I think I'd be quite happy to have them monitoring every packet I send and receive as long as they make it quite clear exactly what they are going to spy on in advance, and made sure that the same rule applied to everyone.
I have no objection to the college banning me from using Napster (Or wouldn't have if I was still there). It is after all THEIR network. What would worry me is that someone was looking at what I was downloading.
I can understand banning Napster. I can understand banning Gaming. I can even understand banning Telephony.
But isn't the purpose of Usenet meant to be for experts to exchange knowledge. Thats what a schools all about isn't it. All they need to do is set up their own NNTP server that doesn't handle any of the binaries groups. Its not like it will take up a huge amount of bandwidth.
Is a really good tool to modify an arbitrary text file, that reads commands from lines starting with #. Then all you need to do is modify the config files.
Typically you'd do something like this in/etc/hosts.
#TABLE "IP Address" "Name"{n} #FORMAT %3d.%3d.%3d.%3d TEXT
Which would be ignored by the system, but the configure program would read it and assume that it meant that it should display a config menu as a table with a column containing the IP number, and n columns containing the name.
Okay, I only had this idea about 2 minutes ago, so there's probably lots of things wrong with it, but it would make a universal system configuration tool very easy to write.
This guy is not just "Not pro-linux", but actively anti-open source. He used some vague comments about the topic to justify having a free rant about how much he hates people not making money. This is on a forum known for being pro open source. The most likely reason it was posted was to annoy. This makes it a Troll.
If this is moderated as a troll then how come replies that are rabidly pro-Linux get moderated up?
Good question. Erm... can you point to an article that was moerated up for being rabidly pro-linux?. Although this was probably moderated as Troll because it seems to have been written entirely to annoy, and contained comments such as "open source must be stopped, by Federal Law if need be." which isn't exactly the most balanced way of presenting an argument.
Couldn't be that you Open source socialists just can't take free critisism when it's offered ?
I find it amusing that you seem to consider socialist to be an insult. Anyway, some of us will take criticism. Some will not. Some of us will allow abuse and insults (Which you supplied an abundance of). Some will not.
It is the American way to drive to succeed, to excel, to MAKE MONEY.
Ahh, so this is where I'm going wrong. I'm not American. Damn. If only I was I could live up to your stereotype.
Those who work for free are already losers when measured by the yardstick of Dollars.
I'm not working by the yardstick of Dollars (or even pounds). There are other ways to measure success. For some reason, my University didn't really consider how much money I might make when giving me my degree.
So please, continue to work for free so the sane amongst us profit from you!
Thanks for your permission.
Do you actually understand what money's for? Its simply an extension of the barter system that allows for more complicated deals than a simple swap. Those who produce open source software don't need it. They want other open source software. You on the other hand seem to have an obsession with money. You really ought to develop your own opinion rather than conforming to what you think America is all about.
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Half of me feels that people who don't know how to use a computer properly don't deserve privacy. Then I decide that thats probably too elitist an attitude. It would be nice if NN and IE gave you the option of handling cookies when it was installed, but cookies are too useful for me to get worried about their abuses.
I was pretty certain that the kids knew more than the teachers about the subject.
Something also gave me the impression that the teachers knew this too
Its nice to see that the teachers seem to accept this fact and capitalise on it.
I'm not totally sure, but I thought that NN did warn before accepting a cookie with the default settings.
Although it does seem that IE automatically accepts them by default. (And you're right about being hard to find. Took me a ages to find them, and I know roughly where to look)
The stereotypical Windows users don't seem to trust anything that they're given for free. I think Perl had this problem. Nobody was interested unless they had to pay for it.
The only solution is to releaase it at a very high price with the source code, but release it under an open source licence. Also allow free downloads. (Strangley enough, most open source licences don't stop you from doing this).
From the article
Granholm continued to level criticism the company failed to disclose to Internet users it is ``systematically implanting'' electronic files on the hard drives of users' computers - known as ``cookies'' in tech parlance - without their knowledge or consent.
I did consent to allow any company to implant cookies on my computer. I turned it off at first. Then I kept getting problems with pages not being available, so I switched to the "Warn before accepting cookies" setting. There were just too many cookies. Given the choice between access to web sites, and no cookies, I chose access. This seems reasonable to me. There's only a certain amount of data you can put into a cookie anyway. All this data has to be supplied vouluntarily.
I think this will mean the RIAA will try to ban cars.
With a wireless LAN and an IDE interface.
Park outside your house and download.
Then hack it to allow downloads from other cars.
Considering the number of common topics here, I propose a whole lot of new TLD's just for Slashdot.
.grits
.pants
.post
.portman
.IhateJonKatz
.DeCSS
.Troll
Isn't this sort of thing what the second level's for?
The short lived (1993-4) and generally not too good series "Time Trax" had a credit card sized mainframe.
This would be a "multifunction, credit card-sized computer that allows users to securely store a multitude of account numbers, PIN codes, access information and other data from multiple credit cards, check cards, identification cards and similar personal documents", and as far as I understand the patent law, Prior art can include fiction.
Although since a palm pilot is larger than a credit card does this actually apply?
Note: The actual news item is here
I hope this gets through. It could immediately invalidate all the Genetic patents, and then be immediately invalidated because of prior art (I assume that Ms McLean would also be happy if this happened)
I loved Mr Caswell's last comment though.
The problem with this is that very few totally new ideas are ever invented. Invention is a process of evolution
In Cockney rhymng slang, theres a large selection of place names e.g Barnet -> Barnet Fair -> Hair, and Charing Cross -> Horse
All you need is some rude ones that you can associate with Harvard and Yale. Its about time the US developed its own cockney dialect anyway.
1) Does the UK government pay for the internet access though
...... The internet access is not truely free either, because it is being paid for in taxes.
No. They do make sure that telephone companies have to make this possible but thats about it. The thing is that different countries have completely different ways of distributing the phone bill.
2) Which is why I'm not suprised that government sponsered free internet is appearing first in Western Europe.
And it probably won't happen in a big way in the US either. The US and Europe seem to have a big difference in opinion of how our governments should spend their money.
3) I'm sure the plan for governnment payed internet access is well-intentioned. I'm doubting, however, that this will cause internet usage to increase faster than just private competition would have.
I agree. This is probably worthwhile as an experiment though.
4)
It is free for a fairly subjective definition of free - i.e. if you decide to use it it doesn't cost you any more than if you decide not to (apart from the phone bill)
5) Well, I guess it would good to feel that your taxes are being used to your benifit,
See my comment on point 2. The US has much lower taxes than any country in Europe (I think). Europeans expect their governments to provide a lot more such as free public health, a welfare system, free legal support, and even farming subsidies. Most Europeans seem to be happy with taxes that would shock most Americans, as long as services are provided. This gives us a much broader definition of what the public good is.
I'm not quite sure what the current state of Internet access is in Germany. In England, its available at a reasonable price, and an idea like this would probably not be welcomed. If they have to pay for the phone call and the ISP though, I would think that this would slow down the adoption of the internet quite substantially.
Well done.
I think you have succesfully demonstrated why they changed the name.
first.last@hamburg.de
Aren't there going to be quite a few Johannes Shmidt's or something.
Are they going to have to use numbers?
Who is number 1?
Well, I agree. There does seem to be a contradiction there, so I'll change my mind about what I'd approve of.
I think I'd be quite happy to have them monitoring every packet I send and receive as long as they make it quite clear exactly what they are going to spy on in advance, and made sure that the same rule applied to everyone.
I have no objection to the college banning me from using Napster (Or wouldn't have if I was still there). It is after all THEIR network. What would worry me is that someone was looking at what I was downloading.
I can understand banning Napster.
I can understand banning Gaming.
I can even understand banning Telephony.
But isn't the purpose of Usenet meant to be for experts to exchange knowledge. Thats what a schools all about isn't it. All they need to do is set up their own NNTP server that doesn't handle any of the binaries groups. Its not like it will take up a huge amount of bandwidth.
Aren't the results for the number of Colleges banning Slashdot going to be a bit skewed?
And who exactly is banning those Rabbits? Can't we get them under Heightism laws? Or Speciesism laws at least.
The people who call the X Window System will continue to call it X Windows.
Now, people talking about Aqua will now start calling that the X Window System.
I'm going to produce a GUI add-on for Windows and call it aquamarine, so that people get really confused.
Is a really good tool to modify an arbitrary text file, that reads commands from lines starting with #. Then all you need to do is modify the config files.
/etc/hosts.
Typically you'd do something like this in
#TABLE "IP Address" "Name"{n}
#FORMAT %3d.%3d.%3d.%3d TEXT
Which would be ignored by the system, but the configure program would read it and assume that it meant that it should display a config menu as a table with a column containing the IP number, and n columns containing the name.
Okay, I only had this idea about 2 minutes ago, so there's probably lots of things wrong with it, but it would make a universal system configuration tool very easy to write.
Aparently we're going to need another correction sometime in the fourth Millenium. Anyone know when exatly this problem will occur?
What sort of person would design a system and think that although it wouldn't be used in 2000, it would be used in 1900?
This guy is not just "Not pro-linux", but actively anti-open source. He used some vague comments about the topic to justify having a free rant about how much he hates people not making money. This is on a forum known for being pro open source. The most likely reason it was posted was to annoy. This makes it a Troll.
If this is moderated as a troll then how come replies that are rabidly pro-Linux get moderated up?
Good question. Erm... can you point to an article that was moerated up for being rabidly pro-linux?. Although this was probably moderated as Troll because it seems to have been written entirely to annoy, and contained comments such as "open source must be stopped, by Federal Law if need be." which isn't exactly the most balanced way of presenting an argument.
Couldn't be that you Open source socialists just can't take free critisism when it's offered ?
I find it amusing that you seem to consider socialist to be an insult. Anyway, some of us will take criticism. Some will not. Some of us will allow abuse and insults (Which you supplied an abundance of). Some will not.
It is the American way to drive to succeed, to excel, to MAKE MONEY.
Ahh, so this is where I'm going wrong. I'm not American. Damn. If only I was I could live up to your stereotype.
Those who work for free are already losers when measured by the yardstick of Dollars.
I'm not working by the yardstick of Dollars (or even pounds). There are other ways to measure success. For some reason, my University didn't really consider how much money I might make when giving me my degree.
So please, continue to work for free so the sane amongst us profit from you!
Thanks for your permission.
Do you actually understand what money's for? Its simply an extension of the barter system that allows for more complicated deals than a simple swap. Those who produce open source software don't need it. They want other open source software. You on the other hand seem to have an obsession with money. You really ought to develop your own opinion rather than conforming to what you think America is all about.