The point is that encryption without certification provides really useful functionality and should not be discouraged.
Encryption with certification IS better (I am not claiming that it is not), though not perfect either. The owners of www.y0ur_bank.com can still obtain certificates, and this has happened in the past.
Is my ISP going to set up a man-in-the-middle-attack just to snoop what I'm downloading so it can provide targeted ads? I really doubt it. MITM attacks are much more sophisticated than the majority of snooping that happens on networks.
I am not saying that users should not be informed that a site is not "certified". I am saying that Firefox should not say that my site is "not legitimate" because I do have encryption, but no commercial certificate.
But that is all many of us need or use it for, just the encryption. Just because we do not need the identity verification, should our users have to step through three separate extra clicks, where each of those clicks carries a more dire warning against doing so than the last, including one that says "Help! Get me out of here!".
The best (only?) way to learn and write in LaTeX is to take another person's example file, and modify it with your own text. When it comes to typesetting, never do anything yourself. Steal, steal, steal.
I don't agree with the assertion that a physics major should be required to take a programming class... This implies you do not know about the requirements of physics.
As a CS major, This confirms you do not know about physics requirements
Requirements are for subjects that EVERY graduate will need. Not just some. Yes, every modern physicist will require some sort of programming and data analysis sometime in their career.
However, if you try to multiply an Int by a String, it'll throw the same type errors any other strongly type language will. Actually, if you multiply an int by a string, it will give you another string which is 3 times as long as the first, which is a really useful feature. The reason that people use Python: It is really useful.
People buy Dells because they are so freaking cheap. Apparently some people expect to get someone to hold their hand too for that price. Silly people.
This is insightful? I should use the f word more.
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What really amuses me is that this guy, rather than just taking two seconds to ignore the article, spent two minutes two type something stupider.
By the way, people: If you didn't think that video was really funny, you're not really nerds. Anyone with a lower ID number is welcome to disagree with me.
Slashdot has always been about fun nerdy stuff. Thanks, CmdrTaco, for not taking yourself too seriously.
You don't need to grow up using MS Word or Excel to competently use them when you get older. Those programs did not exist when I grew up, yet I have no trouble using them. The use of any word processor or spreadsheet program is more than enough to understand and use other such programs.
The hope many people had for the project was that it could teach them more than that. It could teach them how to look at code and modify it themselves. They could take apart the computer and learn about the parts.
The point of the project was not to turn lots of kids into M$ office drones.
while it had no intention of buying or developing it You think that Google would have bid on a spectrum for billions of dollars and not had a plan to develop it in case they won? You are dumb.
Had Google won the auction, it would have been developed, either directly by Google or by one of the dozens of companies to which Google could have subcontracted. Nobody is going to piss away billions of dollars.
and other OS's too... like Windows NT... Whoo-hoo! I can run a 12 year old operating system that supports almost none of the features of the fastest chip on earth.
I have no desire to tinker. Tinkering is fun. It's where all new stuff comes from. And if you are not hacking on new stuff, where's the fun? The author of the article is right: Linux is fun!
It says in the blog that the cheaters removed the watermark. Is it really worth the effort to do that? I could go out and take some decent photos for less effort than it would take me to get those watermarks off. Maybe that's just because I know more about photography than unscrupulous image processing.
I think that Fedora 3 is no longer supported with updates, RHEL4 is. You seem to have missed the point entirely. All Fedora 3 packages work on RHEL4. RHEL4 packages work on Fedora 3. They are the same thing. RHEL4 is just an updated version of Fedora 3. If you installed Fedora 3, you can just set yum to update from RHEL4/CentOS4/ScientificLinux4 servers.
I put together a new computer a couple months back: An Intel MB with and Intel Core 2 Duo. Nothing fabulous.
I installed Fedora 7 on it. I ran the Fedora installer. I picked my preferences, chose options, no problems. Everything just worked. The networking worked (I installed it off the network), the sound worked, the 3D graphics worked at the exact resolution of my LCD monitor. No problems.
A week ago my wife and son tell me they have to have some games that are released in binary only format for only MicroSoft XP. I should be able to do that, I thought.
I didn't want to completely disconnect and open my computer to install another hard disk, so my first plan was to buy an external USB disk,and install XP on that. Then I could set the bios to boot off USB first. When I wanted to run XP, I could just flip the on the external drive and reboot. That would be sweet.
So much for sweet. XP will not install on an USB disk. What year is this? I can do that with Linux. Oh well...
I open up my computer, install another hard drive, and try to install XP on it. What? XP will only install on the primary disk? But my primary disk is IDE and my new one is SATA. What year is this?
Work around: unplug my primary Linux disk so XP does not futz it while I install. Then replug in Linux disk and use grub's map to fool XP into thinking it is on the primary drive when it boots. GRUB rocks! How do people install XP without Linux, I wonder.
Finally, XP installed and booted. Why is there no network device? I have to download and install the drivers myself? How can I do that? I don't have a network.
Boot to Linux, download device driver from web site, put on USB stick. Reboot to XP. Install driver. Reboot (?) How do people install XP without Linux, I wonder.
Why is there no sound device? Where's my 3D acceleration? Back to web site. Download more drivers. Install more drivers. Reboot. Reboot.
I go to read my web mail. An associate has sent me a PDF file and a.doc file. I try to open them. Surprise!! Windows has no clue what to do. I didn't have this problem in Linux. Stuff just opened right up.
My question is: If Microsoft products do not support your hardware, and they don't provide software, what is the point? Why do people buy this crap?
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Quite a few dinosaur skeletons (1e8 years) have been discovered in the "New World".
Let's see him rebuild VBscript or C# from source to get his speed up.
This is what open source is about.
I could not figure out how to get it to work.
Whatever happened to multicast? Their plan just sounds like a poor hack of multicast. NASA was multicasting their channel almost 10 years ago.
No, you missed the point.
The point is that encryption without certification provides really useful functionality and should not be discouraged.
Encryption with certification IS better (I am not claiming that it is not), though not perfect either. The owners of www.y0ur_bank.com can still obtain certificates, and this has happened in the past.
Is my ISP going to set up a man-in-the-middle-attack just to snoop what I'm downloading so it can provide targeted ads? I really doubt it. MITM attacks are much more sophisticated than the majority of snooping that happens on networks.
I am not saying that users should not be informed that a site is not "certified". I am saying that Firefox should not say that my site is "not legitimate" because I do have encryption, but no commercial certificate.
SSL isn't meant just for encrypting pages,
But that is all many of us need or use it for, just the encryption. Just because we do not need the identity verification, should our users have to step through three separate extra clicks, where each of those clicks carries a more dire warning against doing so than the last, including one that says "Help! Get me out of here!".
The best (only?) way to learn and write in LaTeX is to take another person's example file, and modify it with your own text.
When it comes to typesetting, never do anything yourself. Steal, steal, steal.
Assuming that I encrypt my hard drive, this software will not work, correct? And if you have a laptop, you really should encrypt it, no?
http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/trackmenot/
It is really useful.
People buy Dells because they are so freaking cheap. Apparently some people expect to get someone to hold their hand too for that price. Silly people.
What really amuses me is that this guy, rather than just taking two seconds to ignore the article, spent two minutes two type something stupider.
By the way, people: If you didn't think that video was really funny, you're not really nerds. Anyone with a lower ID number is welcome to disagree with me.
Slashdot has always been about fun nerdy stuff. Thanks, CmdrTaco, for not taking yourself too seriously.
You don't need to grow up using MS Word or Excel to competently use them when you get older. Those programs did not exist when I grew up, yet I have no trouble using them. The use of any word processor or spreadsheet program is more than enough to understand and use other such programs.
The hope many people had for the project was that it could teach them more than that. It could teach them how to look at code and modify it themselves. They could take apart the computer and learn about the parts.
The point of the project was not to turn lots of kids into M$ office drones.
Had Google won the auction, it would have been developed, either directly by Google or by one of the dozens of companies to which Google could have subcontracted. Nobody is going to piss away billions of dollars.
If they were encouraging an active stance against the Burmese government or something, I would agree with you.
However, their job is to get information out. And when there are internet services that are actively trying to silence them, they must take a stand.
It says in the blog that the cheaters removed the watermark.
Is it really worth the effort to do that? I could go out and take some decent photos for less effort than it would take me to get those watermarks off. Maybe that's just because I know more about photography than unscrupulous image processing.
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All Fedora 3 packages work on RHEL4. RHEL4 packages work on Fedora 3.
They are the same thing. RHEL4 is just an updated version of Fedora 3.
If you installed Fedora 3, you can just set yum to update from RHEL4/CentOS4/ScientificLinux4 servers.
Recent very true story:
.doc file. I try to open them. Surprise!! Windows has no clue what to do. I didn't have this problem in Linux. Stuff just opened right up.
I put together a new computer a couple months back: An Intel MB with and Intel Core 2 Duo. Nothing fabulous.
I installed Fedora 7 on it. I ran the Fedora installer. I picked my preferences, chose options, no problems. Everything just worked. The networking worked (I installed it off the network), the sound worked, the 3D graphics worked at the exact resolution of my LCD monitor. No problems.
A week ago my wife and son tell me they have to have some games that are released in binary only format for only MicroSoft XP. I should be able to do that, I thought.
I didn't want to completely disconnect and open my computer to install another hard disk, so my first plan was to buy an external USB disk,and install XP on that. Then I could set the bios to boot off USB first. When I wanted to run XP, I could just flip the on the external drive and reboot. That would be sweet.
So much for sweet. XP will not install on an USB disk. What year is this? I can do that with Linux. Oh well...
I open up my computer, install another hard drive, and try to install XP on it. What? XP will only install on the primary disk? But my primary disk is IDE and my new one is SATA. What year is this?
Work around: unplug my primary Linux disk so XP does not futz it while I install. Then replug in Linux disk and use grub's map to fool XP into thinking it is on the primary drive when it boots. GRUB rocks! How do people install XP without Linux, I wonder.
Finally, XP installed and booted. Why is there no network device? I have to download and install the drivers myself? How can I do that? I don't have a network.
Boot to Linux, download device driver from web site, put on USB stick. Reboot to XP. Install driver. Reboot (?)
How do people install XP without Linux, I wonder.
Why is there no sound device? Where's my 3D acceleration? Back to web site. Download more drivers. Install more drivers. Reboot. Reboot.
I go to read my web mail. An associate has sent me a PDF file and a
My question is: If Microsoft products do not support your hardware, and they don't provide software, what is the point? Why do people buy this crap?
RHEL 3 = red hat 9?
RHEL 4 = fedora 3
RHEL 5 = fedora 6
RHEL 6 = fedora ?
If I'm right, that last number will be a 9. If you install alpha now, you'll have all the latest stuff and a really long support life time.