At the moment it has World and U.S. sections. I think what it could really do with is different regional sections, which would be default to different regions URLs. (eg. news.google.co.uk having a UK section). It really doesn't interest me that much that South Dakota is to vote on extending jury rights!
Ummmmm. I guess they must be assuming journalists are not engineers, as otherwise they could just cut the headphone wires and them connect them to their favourite input.
"The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. "
An now we have AI's to play tedious computer games for us!
If you are looking for something really specific (eg. the DNS entry of your machine to see which webpages you look at publish log files), then alltheweb in my experience will find a number of pages which google misses.
Not regularly repeatable. But one of the first experiments to support general relativity was brilliant. 1) Look position of stars 2) Wait for solar eclipse 3) See that stars near moon have moved from where they should be.
Does anyone know how easy it is to replace a redhat install with a Mandrake one? I'm using Redhat (rawhide) at the moment, but would like to give Mandrake ago.
And the version in KDE 3 betas is even better. It's the only Linux browser I know of which displays the ticker at the top of the BBC News website correctly. The others don't even try.
Out of interest, what sort of laws/systems would/.ers suggest to protect copyrighted work?
Lets face it, when people can easily copy stuff, they do. So despite my feelings that it would be nice if all information was free, etc., I think it is reasonible for people to try to protect the work they invested time/effort/money in, but am unsure what is the best way to do this, ideas?
Unforunately I think it would only be helpful for those living under US law. Therefore not applicable to many people. Getting law students involved from many other countries would be a good thing.
I don't really see this as being a privacy problem. And implanted chip could easily me removed, or disabled. Just overload it with a particularly strong signal. At 5-cents I doubt there will be sophisticated circuitry to prevent this. Plus with the technology freely available, it should be easy for anyone to be able to detect what RF-tags would be on their person.
I think people over-estimate the security of current voting methods. Ballot papers can be marked, ballot boxes stuffed. It is the legislation and the risk of being found out which discourages cheating, rather than the security of current methods.
It would be illegal for a company to collect this data in Europe. But it is not illegal for European governments to collect data on citizens in the interest of security. Many European countries already have national ID cards which have to be carried at all time. There are proposals in Greece that these cards should even carry you religion. In Britian you can be tracked in any city centre on CCTV cameras. Portraying Europe as a place where your privacy is respected outside your home is not true.
OK, I'm not an expert in this area, but I think when people do research into DNA sequences they get DNA sequences from a large sample of people so they can look for statistical links between certain gene sequences and various properties. Therefore they will need reasonablesamplesize*sizeofsequence, so if you have a sample of just 1000 people you could easily be getting into terrabyte land. (Then they need a highly optimised version of diff to spot the differences in the sequences!)
While I recognise most people here speak English, another important difference to realise between KDE and Gnome is the language support. Current KDE languages supported Current Gnome languages supported
Gnome should get Unicode support with gnome 2 which should help even things up alittle.
On area I think KDE really excels is with kioslaves, which allow *any* KDE application access 'files' by a wide variety of means.
*audiocd*samba*filesystem*ftp*gopher*gzip*http*i ma p4*nntp*sftp*tar
To list but afew in the CVS.
Plus people's homebrewed slaves:
*shell commands*Nomad Jukebox*Digital camera*deleted files*over ssh
for example.
This can give rise to many useful applicatons. All KDE graphics programs instantly able to grab pictures off digital camera. Ripping CD by just dragging icons in the file browser. Seemless network browsing, just like Network Neighbourhood in Windows (ok, takes abit of setting up to work properly).
Does gnome do anything similar. I know there is gnome-vfs, although haven't looked into what it does in too much detail.
> Why don't we assume that all new chemicals and
> techniques are dangerous at even 1 part in a
> trillion until proven safe?
Because you can't prove something is safe. You can only make a reasonable effort to show it is unlikely to cause harm. If you were required to prove every new thing was safe, new chemicals and techniques would never come into use.
> Why don't we only allow a patent on chemicals
> and GM's once they have been proven safe? The
> patent can even start on the day that the
> approval is granted.
Not too sure what the point in that would be.
> We also need to have the death penalty for any
> researcher that under reports the effects of a
> chemical that results in the death of a human
> being.
What do you mean by under report? Researchers don't tend to do PR.
Slashdot Mirror
At the moment it has World and U.S. sections. I think what it could really do with is different regional sections, which would be default to different regions URLs. (eg. news.google.co.uk having a UK section). It really doesn't interest me that much that South Dakota is to vote on extending jury rights!
Ummmmm. I guess they must be assuming journalists are not engineers, as otherwise they could just cut the headphone wires and them connect them to their favourite input.
So if you view the elgooG website in the elgooG cache to you get Google?
"The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. "
An now we have AI's to play tedious computer games for us!
If you are looking for something really specific (eg. the DNS entry of your machine to see which webpages you look at publish log files), then alltheweb in my experience will find a number of pages which google misses.
For general searching google still rocks.
Not regularly repeatable. But one of the first experiments to support general relativity was brilliant.
1) Look position of stars
2) Wait for solar eclipse
3) See that stars near moon have moved from where they should be.
The amazing thing is this *isn't* an April's fool joke!
Here's an older story about the same thing.
Is it just me, or is all the kdenetwork stuff missing from the distribution builds? The RedHat RPMs directory doesn't seem to include KMail.
Does anyone know how easy it is to replace a redhat install with a Mandrake one? I'm using Redhat (rawhide) at the moment, but would like to give Mandrake ago.
And the version in KDE 3 betas is even better. It's the only Linux browser I know of which displays the ticker at the top of the BBC News website correctly. The others don't even try.
..what about lynx, w3m, telneting to port 80, etc!
If you've never tried browsing from a terminal, w3m is very good at the job.
Still, a good review. Although I think the 256MB of RAM in says is needed for RedHat 7.2 with KDE is abit on an exageration.
Out of interest, what sort of laws/systems would /.ers suggest to protect copyrighted work?
Lets face it, when people can easily copy stuff, they do. So despite my feelings that it would be nice if all information was free, etc., I think it is reasonible for people to try to protect the work they invested time/effort/money in, but am unsure what is the best way to do this, ideas?
Unforunately I think it would only be helpful for those living under US law. Therefore not applicable to many people. Getting law students involved from many other countries would be a good thing.
I don't really see this as being a privacy problem. And implanted chip could easily me removed, or disabled. Just overload it with a particularly strong signal. At 5-cents I doubt there will be sophisticated circuitry to prevent this. Plus with the technology freely available, it should be easy for anyone to be able to detect what RF-tags would be on their person.
It should be noted that this is only to be trialled in Local Elections, not in national ones.
I think people over-estimate the security of current voting methods. Ballot papers can be marked, ballot boxes stuffed. It is the legislation and the risk of being found out which discourages cheating, rather than the security of current methods.
Yes, but will it make me a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster?
It would be illegal for a company to collect this data in Europe. But it is not illegal for European governments to collect data on citizens in the interest of security. Many European countries already have national ID cards which have to be carried at all time. There are proposals in Greece that these cards should even carry you religion. In Britian you can be tracked in any city centre on CCTV cameras. Portraying Europe as a place where your privacy is respected outside your home is not true.
OK, I'm not an expert in this area, but I think when people do research into DNA sequences they get DNA sequences from a large sample of people so they can look for statistical links between certain gene sequences and various properties. Therefore they will need reasonablesamplesize*sizeofsequence, so if you have a sample of just 1000 people you could easily be getting into terrabyte land. (Then they need a highly optimised version of diff to spot the differences in the sequences!)
I wonder if it will reveal *any* use for , or is this meaningless key just on UK keyboards?
While I recognise most people here speak English, another important difference to realise between KDE and Gnome is the language support.
Current KDE languages supported
Current Gnome languages supported
Gnome should get Unicode support with gnome 2 which should help even things up alittle.
On area I think KDE really excels is with kioslaves, which allow *any* KDE application access 'files' by a wide variety of means.i ma p4*nntp*sftp*tar
*audiocd*samba*filesystem*ftp*gopher*gzip*http*
To list but afew in the CVS.
Plus people's homebrewed slaves:
*shell commands*Nomad Jukebox*Digital camera*deleted files*over ssh
for example.
This can give rise to many useful applicatons. All KDE graphics programs instantly able to grab pictures off digital camera. Ripping CD by just dragging icons in the file browser. Seemless network browsing, just like Network Neighbourhood in Windows (ok, takes abit of setting up to work properly).
Does gnome do anything similar. I know there is gnome-vfs, although haven't looked into what it does in too much detail.
5 posts prediction what the other posts will be.
Maybe there should be a meta-post option!
KDE also has a kioslave for undeleteing files here
> Why don't we assume that all new chemicals and
> techniques are dangerous at even 1 part in a
> trillion until proven safe?
Because you can't prove something is safe. You can only make a reasonable effort to show it is unlikely to cause harm. If you were required to prove every new thing was safe, new chemicals and techniques would never come into use.
> Why don't we only allow a patent on chemicals
> and GM's once they have been proven safe? The
> patent can even start on the day that the
> approval is granted.
Not too sure what the point in that would be.
> We also need to have the death penalty for any
> researcher that under reports the effects of a
> chemical that results in the death of a human
> being.
What do you mean by under report? Researchers don't tend to do PR.