In my opinion it's actually something nice. They cannot stop accepting mail from all 'improperly' configured servers. So they decided to impose their standards by making you comply with them once you turn on IPv6. So they are using the IPv6 transition to make sure everybody sets up SPF records and such. In the long run this might help fight spam. However their total lack of feedback on why mail gets blocked is frustrating. There's probably some reason for rejecting your legitimate mail, but the unwillingness to tell you what that reason is totally sucks.
China and others finance the US deficit. So, they will go down with the US a bit. One of the main reasons for these countries to help America is its role as superpower and 'worldpolice'. But everone can see it's not as good at it as it used to be: struggeling with two costly wars in Iraq and Afganistan. Whilst (nuclear) Pakistan is rapidly falling into the hands of extremists. So if the US limits thier imports from China (protectionism?), China will limit it's willingness to finance US debt.
There's only about 300,000,000 americans, their excessive consumption can be compensated by minor growth in other counties.
What an uninformed view of global economics. Other countries are going to pick up *all* of the export slack in China's economy, I suppose? Ha. The US's recession will be China's recession as well.
Suppose six castaways are stranded on a deserted island, five Asians and one American. Further, suppose that the castaways decide to divide the work load among them in the following manner: (for the purpose of simplicity, the only desire the castaways work to satisfy is hunger) one Asian is put in charge of hunting, an other in charge of fishing, and a third in charge of finding vegetation. A fourth is put in charge of preparing the meal, while a fifth is given the task of gathering firewood and tending to the fire. The American is given the job of eating.
So, on our island five Asians work all day to feed one American, who spends his day sunning himself of the beach. He is employed in the equivalent of the service sector, operating a tanning salon which none of the Asians on the island utilize. At the end of the day, the five Asians present a painstakingly prepared feast to the American, who sits at the head of a special table, built by the Asians specifically for this purpose.
Realizing that subsequent banquets will only be forthcoming if the Asians are alive to provide them, he allows them just enough scraps from his table to sustain their labor for the following day.
The story is by Peter Schiff (Euro Pacific Capital).
Either way, Slashdot is a US site. You're more than welcome to build slashdot.eu.
I'm very sorry I almost broadened your worldview. Good point calling me 'uninformed'. You can go back to watching Fox News now, I will not post here any more.
Sure it is... maybe this is a nice moment to remind everyone that the world is bigger than just the USA. There's other countries that will trive in spite of any recession in the USA.
There are loads of projects that are being run outside of the USA (Ubuntu etc.)
It may not be about software to you, but to Microsoft it's about Office. They are clearly planning to use OOXML as a tool to keep their grip on the office-software market. They are pushing OOXML like their life depends on it (and to a certain extent it does). Using OOXML as a standard will be a big advantage to Microsoft, since only their software properly supports it. Using ODF will make switching to Ubuntu an easier option for South Africa.
The SA government probably cares more about Ubuntu than about MS. Supporting ODF fits in that strategy.
I guess the good news is how long it took Microsoft to kill it. They are not as good as they used to be with the FUD.
Great! It will take a lot less time next time. They'll just say: 'Look at how deliberated Massachusetts decided to go for OOXML!' (probably in proper english)
You're not far off; the word algorithm comes from the name of the 9th-century Persian mathematician Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi, and Al Gore is actually his granddaughter.
I've never understod this obsession with debian release dates. Since you can apt-get dist-upgrade every day to keep up to date, "release date" is simply the assigning of a particular date to a set of file versions.
Utterly unimportant in the grand scheme of things, if you ask me.
This 'set of file versions' (aka Debian Stable) is the only release that gets official support from the Debian security team. That's not utterly unimportant.
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In my opinion it's actually something nice. They cannot stop accepting mail from all 'improperly' configured servers. So they decided to impose their standards by making you comply with them once you turn on IPv6. So they are using the IPv6 transition to make sure everybody sets up SPF records and such. In the long run this might help fight spam. However their total lack of feedback on why mail gets blocked is frustrating. There's probably some reason for rejecting your legitimate mail, but the unwillingness to tell you what that reason is totally sucks.
In a similar case somebody ran of with the server and donations:
https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Why_We_Protest_Forums#11.2F29.2F08_The_Day_Enturb_Stood_Still
Looks alot like this:
http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/03/12/windows-vista-vulnerable-to-stickykeys-backdoor/
Only thing new is using Linux to rename the file.
China and others finance the US deficit. So, they will go down with the US a bit.
One of the main reasons for these countries to help America is its role as superpower and 'worldpolice'. But everone can see it's not as good at it as it used to be: struggeling with two costly wars in Iraq and Afganistan. Whilst (nuclear) Pakistan is rapidly falling into the hands of extremists.
So if the US limits thier imports from China (protectionism?), China will limit it's willingness to finance US debt.
There's only about 300,000,000 americans, their excessive consumption can be compensated by minor growth in other counties.
Also imported oil accounts for about two-thirds of US [oil]consumption, there's a need for oil all around the world. The US cannot expect to continue consuming 50% of the worldsupply. More expensive oil will hurt the US economy (and it's SUV-loving citizens).
Other problems include rapidly rising medical (anyone uninsured?) and pension costs of an aging population.
The story is by Peter Schiff (Euro Pacific Capital).
Either way, Slashdot is a US site. You're more than welcome to build slashdot.eu.
I'm very sorry I almost broadened your worldview. Good point calling me 'uninformed'. You can go back to watching Fox News now, I will not post here any more.
Sure.. that's probably why China is in a recession.
Sure it is... maybe this is a nice moment to remind everyone that the world is bigger than just the USA. There's other countries that will trive in spite of any recession in the USA.
There are loads of projects that are being run outside of the USA (Ubuntu etc.)
It could be, they're being followed around all day just to annoy them.
It's a tactic being used for terrorism suspects, and since piracy equals terrorism it would be a logical choice.
It may not be about software to you, but to Microsoft it's about Office. They are clearly planning to use OOXML as a tool to keep their grip on the office-software market. They are pushing OOXML like their life depends on it (and to a certain extent it does). Using OOXML as a standard will be a big advantage to Microsoft, since only their software properly supports it. Using ODF will make switching to Ubuntu an easier option for South Africa.
The SA government probably cares more about Ubuntu than about MS. Supporting ODF fits in that strategy.
Maybe the government wants to protect their software-industry just as the US does with Microsoft?
I guess the good news is how long it took Microsoft to kill it. They are not as good as they used to be with the FUD.
Great! It will take a lot less time next time. They'll just say: 'Look at how deliberated Massachusetts decided to go for OOXML!' (probably in proper english)
My friend Anonymous Coward also noted this, but it's still at -1, so I'll have a go as well;
Acrobat can communicate with a server. Dutch tax forms can be submitted via some interactive PDF. It's not that impressive, but it works.
Just in case site is ./'ed c/o Archive.Org Video 1 Video 2
That's pretty funny! But it's modded 'Informative'!!
You're not far off; the word algorithm comes from the name of the 9th-century Persian mathematician Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi, and Al Gore is actually his granddaughter.
Unfortunately it's patented, so I can't really tell you about it.
Experts-exchange.com does require registration to see the answers, but the google-cache always contains the full page with the answers.
It's the search for razor in RMS' bathroom cabinet.
He may keep Ockham's razor in there.
The thing is:
IT'S NOT A WATERMARK
It's a fingerprint, and it's not stored in the file. It's info like; two minutes of mainly blue and then a few red flashes and so on.
Any conversion will keep this info intact.
something I picked up in a Dutch pub after a footbaal game"
la luhl ala luh lhuluh la la laaaa!!
You're correct there. That's the first line of our national anthem.
From the article: A total of 1,984 brandchannel readers from 75 countries voted online between November and December 2004.
Also 'Apple' is number 1 in North America and absent from all the other lists, and still makes it number 1 worldwide. How is that possible?!?!
...or you have to use "vi" to configure it.
It has to be easily installed even by Joe Sixpak, else your support costs will skyrocket.
Hmmm.. I like joe as an editor, but installing stuff with the sixpack option is not documented well enough.
Good point, it should be part of the OS like Apple's Spotlight.
Running the Ad today would have been extremely stupid, there's traffic enough already (and free publicity on several news sites).
I've never understod this obsession with debian release dates. Since you can apt-get dist-upgrade every day to keep up to date, "release date" is simply the assigning of a particular date to a set of file versions.
Utterly unimportant in the grand scheme of things, if you ask me.
This 'set of file versions' (aka Debian Stable) is the only release that gets official support from the Debian security team. That's not utterly unimportant.
Stay armed - Stay free - Fuck the cowardly Europeans
That's not fair! We Europeans are only less free cause we do not yet have a EU PATRIOT act to protect us.