How quickly? Not quickly enough that you could justify to your boss the n% drop in sales last month because you blocked IE and some customers bought from a competitor who didn't. Even if n=1. And not quickly enough to justify blacklisting users who happened to be using a computer in a public library that gave them no choice.
Who would you have enforce the copyrights and trademarks of IBM? Would you leave this to the Chinese government (never happen) Actually in this case the Chinese government is very likely to act, since Lenovo is a huge company there and would stand to lose a great deal from fakes. That doesn't mean the Chinese gov't. would be successful, but it would have more incentive to act than it would, say, to do so on behalf of Sony or Dell.
Indeed. I bought something from Shentech about 5-6 years ago, and incurred a world of hurt. I bought a mouse--an Dell-branded Logitech USB mouse for about 6 bucks (great mouse, still going strong). Then over a year letter I discovered that someone had opened a commercial UPS account in my name and used it to ship wholesale quantities of goods from China to Shentech's address in Queens. I found this out when I received the bill. UPS was good about it and the bill went away...for a few months. Then another similar bill arrived at my new address (I'd moved from NYC to California). Again UPS's fraud squad dealt with it. I guess it was pretty obvious that someone who doesn't have a business wouldn't be shipping several thousand pounds of equipment across the Pacific. But they did something nasty with my contact info, and I've watched my credit reports carefully ever since.
Conversely, the other cars are mostly not being driven by people who: - Drive for a living, with frequent retraining and certification - Drive only on well-defined shifts - Receive instructions from road controllers - Make sure their cars are regularly serviced - Have proximity detectors and redundant steering controls in their cars - Have co-drivers who can take over if there's a problem
If you really want to make the comparison, it's between a plane and a bus. Have you been on a Greyhound lately?
It does invites, but AFAIK doesn't always handle updates to events properly (if a meeting is rescheduled, it doesn't know enough to treat the new invite as a revised version of the old one). I'm using 0.7RC1, and it's an improvement, though the layout is still kind of primitive. For example, tasks don't show up well on the calendar, nor do very short events, and the coloring of events based on categories still needs to be done (it's partly there in Sunbird). As for recurrence bugs... just search Bugzilla, there are a ton (72 when I search now) of open bugs for "recurrence."
Lightning works, but just barely (I say this as someone who uses it every day). It doesn't integrate with Thunderbird well enough (e.g., dealing with invites by email). It has a kludgy screen layout in TB. Its reminders don't fire reliably. Contacts are not well integrated with events, and the recurrence system has some problems. It needs a lot of fit and finish work. I say this as someone who LIKES it, and used to use Outlook. But I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't prepared to fiddle with extensions, risk losing data, etc. TB+Lightning is also definitely not an Outlook replacement, since it lacks many basic features such as mail and calendar archiving, journaling, complex task management, more than basic contact management, etc.
Here's hoping that OOo will help support TB and Lightning (with the Mozilla reorganization, the calendar side is up in the air), and bring the two closer together. Without stronger calendar support, there's no way to displace Outlook.
Uhh... just about every law meets that description in one way or another. Laws that cars have to stop if someone is in a crosswalk give me, the pedestrian, power over every driver, and the police will enforce that law (with guns!). The place to debate laws is the court of appeals (in terms of the constitutionality of laws) and, above all, the legislature or congress. Except in the most extreme cases, the court of first resort is not the place to fight over whether a law is just or not. And if you want to change the law, focus on doing so politically; that route is far more robust, public, and legitimate.
Actually it didn't. In some ways this sounds like the opposite of security through obscurity. I'd feel more secure with a system whose entire workings was public knowledge, but that was still effective enough to be difficult to penetrate. Randomness is a great way of doing that. You may know, as a potential attacker, how the system is set up, but if you don't know where the people and equipment will be the best you can do is take an informed risk. It also makes it harder to do things like purchase information about the system: it's little use to bribe a guard for the schedule if he doesn't know it until he starts his shift (and then may only know his first task, not the remainder of his schedule).
To my mind, security through obscurity would be setting up a very complicated schedule, then overconfidently assuming that an attacker won't figure it out. There are lots of cases where randomness increases security (e.g. random strings as passwords).
On a more serious note, every country should endeavour to produce at least enough food to support its own population.
Lichtenstein? Saudi Arabia? It would be economically, demographically and environmentally catastrophic for some countries to become self-sufficient in food production, just as it would be to have New York City do so.
He knew his company was going to try to take over Wild Oats, and had an interest in keeping the stock price down before the takeover. It's insider information from his own company that affects the other company, but as IANAL I have no idea if that would rile the SEC at all.
Yes, because kneejerk reactionaries of the sort trolling through this thread would be off in their little corner of the web and the rest of us sane people would be able to talk civilly. Telling the majority of your users (including, for example, poor people who don't own a computer and use whatever is installed on the computer in the public library) to fuck off is like a shoe store refusing to sell shoes to anyone with uncool socks. Much better to sell someone a nice pair of shoes, and say, "By the way, you could try these really nice socks to go with them. The don't have holes in them like the ones you're wearing."
I second this. I MUCH prefer Scrapbook to PDF saves, which I used earlier, because Scrapbook preserves all the original HTML and the format of images (whereas PDF converts them and makes them hard to separate out), is also searchable/indexable by whatever indexing program you want, and can be highlighted, annotated, etc.
Let's just hope they keep developing, at least enough to ensure that it continues to work with future releases of Firefox. My sense is that they are, given that the developers
blog at http://www.xuldev.org/blog/ is active and indicates that they're looking at Firefox 3 issues.
No, it just doesn't prove anything one way or the other. He may have existed (there is evidence consistent with his having done so), or he may not (that evidence may not be entirely reliable, since it contains claims that many find implausible).
Depending on how the AMD CPU slows itself down on battery, and how it reports this (I've never had an AMD system), it might be because the clock speed is so low. 5% of a system running at minimum MHz is better that 1% of one going full tilt.
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How quickly? Not quickly enough that you could justify to your boss the n% drop in sales last month because you blocked IE and some customers bought from a competitor who didn't. Even if n=1. And not quickly enough to justify blacklisting users who happened to be using a computer in a public library that gave them no choice.
Indeed. I bought something from Shentech about 5-6 years ago, and incurred a world of hurt. I bought a mouse--an Dell-branded Logitech USB mouse for about 6 bucks (great mouse, still going strong). Then over a year letter I discovered that someone had opened a commercial UPS account in my name and used it to ship wholesale quantities of goods from China to Shentech's address in Queens. I found this out when I received the bill. UPS was good about it and the bill went away...for a few months. Then another similar bill arrived at my new address (I'd moved from NYC to California). Again UPS's fraud squad dealt with it. I guess it was pretty obvious that someone who doesn't have a business wouldn't be shipping several thousand pounds of equipment across the Pacific. But they did something nasty with my contact info, and I've watched my credit reports carefully ever since.
So yeah, Shentech is evil.
That's what franchising is for.
REAL geeks use BSD (Bispherical Seeing Device).
Conversely, the other cars are mostly not being driven by people who:
- Drive for a living, with frequent retraining and certification
- Drive only on well-defined shifts
- Receive instructions from road controllers
- Make sure their cars are regularly serviced
- Have proximity detectors and redundant steering controls in their cars
- Have co-drivers who can take over if there's a problem
If you really want to make the comparison, it's between a plane and a bus. Have you been on a Greyhound lately?
It does invites, but AFAIK doesn't always handle updates to events properly (if a meeting is rescheduled, it doesn't know enough to treat the new invite as a revised version of the old one). I'm using 0.7RC1, and it's an improvement, though the layout is still kind of primitive. For example, tasks don't show up well on the calendar, nor do very short events, and the coloring of events based on categories still needs to be done (it's partly there in Sunbird). As for recurrence bugs... just search Bugzilla, there are a ton (72 when I search now) of open bugs for "recurrence."
Lightning works, but just barely (I say this as someone who uses it every day). It doesn't integrate with Thunderbird well enough (e.g., dealing with invites by email). It has a kludgy screen layout in TB. Its reminders don't fire reliably. Contacts are not well integrated with events, and the recurrence system has some problems. It needs a lot of fit and finish work. I say this as someone who LIKES it, and used to use Outlook. But I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't prepared to fiddle with extensions, risk losing data, etc. TB+Lightning is also definitely not an Outlook replacement, since it lacks many basic features such as mail and calendar archiving, journaling, complex task management, more than basic contact management, etc.
Here's hoping that OOo will help support TB and Lightning (with the Mozilla reorganization, the calendar side is up in the air), and bring the two closer together. Without stronger calendar support, there's no way to displace Outlook.
Uhh... just about every law meets that description in one way or another. Laws that cars have to stop if someone is in a crosswalk give me, the pedestrian, power over every driver, and the police will enforce that law (with guns!). The place to debate laws is the court of appeals (in terms of the constitutionality of laws) and, above all, the legislature or congress.
Except in the most extreme cases, the court of first resort is not the place to fight over whether a law is just or not. And if you want to change the law, focus on doing so politically; that route is far more robust, public, and legitimate.
Actually it didn't. In some ways this sounds like the opposite of security through obscurity. I'd feel more secure with a system whose entire workings was public knowledge, but that was still effective enough to be difficult to penetrate. Randomness is a great way of doing that. You may know, as a potential attacker, how the system is set up, but if you don't know where the people and equipment will be the best you can do is take an informed risk. It also makes it harder to do things like purchase information about the system: it's little use to bribe a guard for the schedule if he doesn't know it until he starts his shift (and then may only know his first task, not the remainder of his schedule).
To my mind, security through obscurity would be setting up a very complicated schedule, then overconfidently assuming that an attacker won't figure it out. There are lots of cases where randomness increases security (e.g. random strings as passwords).
I guess you're a regular visitor to http://ihatecrocsblog.blogspot.com/ then?
Watt are you talking about? No reason get short and heighten the tension here. Bipolar disorder can be terminal.
You have one again confirmed Hartman's Law (or Skitt's, depending on preference; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartman's_law).
"Misspelt" is a legitimate spelling in British English. It's in the OED, with examples from 1762 to 1990.
Since I have just corrected you, I assume I have made an error somewhere in this post, though I haven't managed to find it.
And then they could go from SUCK to BLOW.
At least the police were able to identify the shooter.
Lichtenstein? Saudi Arabia? It would be economically, demographically and environmentally catastrophic for some countries to become self-sufficient in food production, just as it would be to have New York City do so.
And "who mommy or daddy is."
Another example of Hartman's law in action. And yes, that was a fragment.
He knew his company was going to try to take over Wild Oats, and had an interest in keeping the stock price down before the takeover. It's insider information from his own company that affects the other company, but as IANAL I have no idea if that would rile the SEC at all.
Yes, because kneejerk reactionaries of the sort trolling through this thread would be off in their little corner of the web and the rest of us sane people would be able to talk civilly. Telling the majority of your users (including, for example, poor people who don't own a computer and use whatever is installed on the computer in the public library) to fuck off is like a shoe store refusing to sell shoes to anyone with uncool socks. Much better to sell someone a nice pair of shoes, and say, "By the way, you could try these really nice socks to go with them. The don't have holes in them like the ones you're wearing."
A better car analogy: turn in your speedometer to test whether you were speeding.
What do you mean "next level"? We already have lots of slashdotters whose approach is:
The "next level" beyond that would be replying to comments without even reading them. Oh wait, people already do that all the time.
I second this. I MUCH prefer Scrapbook to PDF saves, which I used earlier, because Scrapbook preserves all the original HTML and the format of images (whereas PDF converts them and makes them hard to separate out), is also searchable/indexable by whatever indexing program you want, and can be highlighted, annotated, etc.
Let's just hope they keep developing, at least enough to ensure that it continues to work with future releases of Firefox. My sense is that they are, given that the developers blog at http://www.xuldev.org/blog/ is active and indicates that they're looking at Firefox 3 issues.
More importantly, they had tax records. But surely on a few fragments at most survive from that period.
No, it just doesn't prove anything one way or the other. He may have existed (there is evidence consistent with his having done so), or he may not (that evidence may not be entirely reliable, since it contains claims that many find implausible).
Depending on how the AMD CPU slows itself down on battery, and how it reports this (I've never had an AMD system), it might be because the clock speed is so low. 5% of a system running at minimum MHz is better that 1% of one going full tilt.