It actually makes a lot of sense to ask people to use a mirror thats geographically close. Although not true in general, geographically close is a good aproximation to topologically close.
And since most people will have a very hard time finding out whether a given site is topologically close to them, but no problem with geographically close asking them to pick a geographically close one helps.
Even if my medical records are safe on dead trees in my physician's filing cabinet, knowing that I've been looking up information on "chest-pains" or "HIV treatments" would be worth money to comanies looking to insure me.
Oh boy, I love the dataprotection laws on this side of the atlantic. Private companies over here are not allowed to do that kind of thing.
Maybe a wellpublished case of something like that happening in the US, could get the laws changed over there.
Get real. This is not about alowing a sufficient number of people to pass a law. Read the question (this time its not even an article on another site, its the text, right here on slashdot which wasn't read), it says that people can petition for the passing of a law. All that says is that a sufficient number of people can force the legislature to vote on a law. In addition to this there is still the courts, which might strike something down as unconstitutional.
What's the problem? Even if Corel (for example) did become boneheaded and started submitting duff code for inclusion in KDE, the core developers could just reject it. I think the problem might start when a large part of the core developers work for Corel. Then there might be a conflict of interest.
I know a number of people that have Stalin posters simply because they are interesting works, not because they endorse communism or genocide, and it is perfectly fine to do so nearly everywhere -- why should Nazi media be any different?
Because in modern western culture (at least in europe) naziism is considered the ultimate evil. Most people are not willing to consider that several other regimes have been just as bad.
I cannot see any reason why Hitler should be considered as any more evil than Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin or Mao. Stalin murdered at least as many people as Hitler. Pol Pot did kill fewer people, but that might be because his contry had fewer people he could kill. In western europe you can still say that you think the communist in the soviet union had some good points, but not that the nazist had.
This sounds WAY to damned gimmicky for me. for the cost of this printer you could probably just get yourself a TV capture card, capture some frames, edit them if ya want, and then print off a picture of John Carmack with the body of (dare i say) Natalie Portman.
Yes, YOU can do that (I probably could to). But that requires some technological knowledge on the part of the user. Besides, not everyone wants a computer in the living room.
I find it rather logical for people using their TV`s to surf, to want to be able to print. I will ocaasionally print out emails, recipes, HOWTO's or whatever found on the net, why should that be different for other people.
The war on drugs in another example of treating the symptoms of a problem. In some European countries, where marijuana is legal, where heroin is legal, there is MUCH less of a drug problem than there is in America. You can walk into a pharmacy and get yourself a dose of high-grade heroin, over the counter.
And which european country's exactly allows selling heroin over the counter?
The answer ofcourse is none. Switzerland has been doing some trials of giving heroin to addicts, and the Netherlands allow marijuana to be sold in certain bars, to be consumed there.
Now thats an interesting covert channel. Make a page somewhere and have the receiver look at is every minute. If the sender wants to send a 17 he makes sure that that the time limit is exceeded exactly 17 minuttes past the hour (by some hacked DDoS tool). Low bandwith sure, but a password is only a couple of hundred bits.
Because IDEA is a symmetric cipher, and PGP is a asymmetric cipher.
This basically means that in order to use IDEA you need to have different keys for each person you want to communicate with, with asymmetric encryption you just needs one keypair.
I do believe that PGP uses IDEA in its "guts". That means that the public key stuff is only used to exchange a one-time IDEA-key, which is then used to encipher/dechipher (the reason for this is speed).
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It actually makes a lot of sense to ask people to use a mirror thats geographically close. Although not true in general, geographically close is a good aproximation to topologically close. And since most people will have a very hard time finding out whether a given site is topologically close to them, but no problem with geographically close asking them to pick a geographically close one helps.
It is generally impossible to prove that you are not doing anything inappropiate.
Oh boy, I love the dataprotection laws on this side of the atlantic. Private companies over here are not allowed to do that kind of thing.
Maybe a wellpublished case of something like that happening in the US, could get the laws changed over there.
Get real. This is not about alowing a sufficient number of people to pass a law. Read the question (this time its not even an article on another site, its the text, right here on slashdot which wasn't read), it says that people can petition for the passing of a law. All that says is that a sufficient number of people can force the legislature to vote on a law. In addition to this there is still the courts, which might strike something down as unconstitutional.
What's the problem? Even if Corel (for example) did become boneheaded and started submitting duff code for inclusion in KDE, the core developers could just reject it. I think the problem might start when a large part of the core developers work for Corel. Then there might be a conflict of interest.
Because in modern western culture (at least in europe) naziism is considered the ultimate evil. Most people are not willing to consider that several other regimes have been just as bad.
I cannot see any reason why Hitler should be considered as any more evil than Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin or Mao. Stalin murdered at least as many people as Hitler. Pol Pot did kill fewer people, but that might be because his contry had fewer people he could kill. In western europe you can still say that you think the communist in the soviet union had some good points, but not that the nazist had.
Yes, YOU can do that (I probably could to). But that requires some technological knowledge on the part of the user. Besides, not everyone wants a computer in the living room.
I find it rather logical for people using their TV`s to surf, to want to be able to print. I will ocaasionally print out emails, recipes, HOWTO's or whatever found on the net, why should that be different for other people.
And which european country's exactly allows selling heroin over the counter?
The answer ofcourse is none. Switzerland has been doing some trials of giving heroin to addicts, and the Netherlands allow marijuana to be sold in certain bars, to be consumed there.
Now thats an interesting covert channel. Make a page somewhere and have the receiver look at is every minute. If the sender wants to send a 17 he makes sure that that the time limit is exceeded exactly 17 minuttes past the hour (by some hacked DDoS tool). Low bandwith sure, but a password is only a couple of hundred bits.
The Rodney King verdict was a natural disaster ? :-)
Sorry, you just hit one of my favourite peevees. You cannot cut startup time by 1000% unless you can get negative startup times.
If avoiding a 100% click through ratio is a problem, write a script that downloads your page repeatedly. That should solve the prblem.
Dont worry about a 23% sales tax, we pay 25% plus rather high income taxes, but ofcourse we get free medical care etc.
Because IDEA is a symmetric cipher, and PGP is a asymmetric cipher.
This basically means that in order to use IDEA you need to have different keys for each person you want to communicate with, with asymmetric encryption you just needs one keypair.
I do believe that PGP uses IDEA in its "guts". That means that the public key stuff is only used to exchange a one-time IDEA-key, which is then used to encipher/dechipher (the reason for this is speed).