Yes, I would've said the same if it was Microsoft.
AutoLink feature requires you to click a button (screenshot here) in order to change the web page (i.e. it's like a bookmarklet).
Let me reiterate: it won't modify the page you're viewing, unless you actually click a button on that page. This means that user is 100% aware of page being modified.
Now compare this with MS SmartLinks, which modifies every page you visit by default.
/* The fact is, historically only TWO strategies have succeeded in ending terrorism: Genocide (Titus) and Surrender (Augustine). */
Canada is located in the same geographic area as USA, has roughly the same ethnic and religious background, same economic system, very similar legal system. Canada never done any genocide, nor had they surrendered to anybody.
Why is there no terrorism in Canada ?
For that matter, why is there virtually no terrorism in each and every non-militant country ? When was the last terrorist attack against Finland ? Sweden ? Norway ? Somehow countries that don't kill random civilians have a way much lower terrorism rate than USA, Israel, Russia and couple of others that do.
I think bin Laden wants to appeal to, ahem, "undecided" in Middle East. His message is essentially "bad Americans are attacking you", and addressing it to Americans is a political stunt that would allow him to say "see, I tried to make peace with USA - it's all their fault".
Of course it's easier for bin Laden to deal with the guy who isn't concerned about him, as opposed to the guy who busted BCCI. However, for Al-Quaida, we are a boogeyman that they use to recruit more people. It doesn't really matter who the president is, bin Laden would still call us "the great Satan".
It looks like Kerry had written couple of bills before that allow investigation of banks, assets forefiture, etc. Later those bills were added to USAPATRIOT Act.
This case is, OTOH, is about which records Ashcroft could demand without court oversight, and wether they could keep those searches secret. If FBI has a warrant, they could look at your financial records without USAPATRIOT. USAPATRIOT, however, also allows them to look at your records without court warrant - which is evil.
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/* As R.A. Heinlein said, a well-armed society is a polite one. */
I heard this lie way too many times.
Back around 1997-98 in Chechnya there were areas where everyone - age range of 15 to 90 - was armed. People were shot in the back to be used as body organ sources later - pretty impolite if you as me.
In many countries in Middle East - modern Iraq is a good example - pretty much everyone have AK-47. Improperly mentioning some specific version of Islam - let alone practicing any other religion - would get you and your family killed.
Many areas in Latin America, Afghanistan, Yemen are ruled by warlords and their henchmen, who kill people just because they are high on drugs.
You know, one in every four Americans has or had mental health problems. You want all of them to have guns ?!?
Also, very important from economist's standpoint, sales tax discourages sales. I work as both programmer and sysadmin for several small businesses in NY (thanks W for making my former employer move overseas), and most of them try to sell to any state other than NY, because with NY sales tax they can't make a profit. Sales taxes hurt economy, big time.
BTW, taxing poor and middle class less also makes economic sense, because it influences their purchasing decisions. The more money they have, the more things they buy, the more money seller makes, i.e. it helps economy grow.
Yes, let's hike taxes on everything. That will solve all our problems.
Wrong. What we absolutely need to decrease are sales taxes, since those discourage sales. Also, limit budget spending on unneeded thing like $87,000,000,000 extra on Iraq.
Look at it this way. By cutting Federal taxes then the states have more room to raise theirs.
Sales taxes are way worse than income tax, since sales taxes - guess what - discourage sales. What states are rising isn't income tax, but sales taxes, and that damages the economy.
Good idea, but won't help in Kinko's case. They offer MS Word as a legitimate app. They let users open.doc files. There is a way for VB to export and invoke any win32 api function, including malloc() and CreateThread(). Therefore, a.doc file could be turned into keylogger.
Problem is, people are used to MS Office. And for complex apps like wordprocessor/spreadsheet there's more user needs to learn, than when, say using Windows vs. OS X vs. Gnome/KDE. Users expect wordprocessor to behave a certain way. I had users complaining that WordPerfect gets formulas "right away" - Word usually fcked up and user needed to type it again - but user learned this as "normal" behavior. It's psychological, people get in trouble when they use slightly different car or VCR with 2 extra buttons on a remote.
Now, there aren't many ways office applications could work in a first place, and MS Office is what people are trained for. OO needs something like "evolving themes", i.e. it should look exactly like MS Office right after install, and then gradually give user tips, enable new features, etc.
Depends how biometric checks are implemented. If you record retina or thumbprint image - that is stupid.
However, if card contains biometric data that went through some kind of one-way secure hash function, then it might make sence. Stealing card wouldn't make your biometric data open then, but there at least be some way to verify that given ID does indeed belongs to person who carries it.
This might be helpful against identity theft and so on, but it would require a lot of expensive hardware like retinal/thumb scanners.
Umm, it's not about data heavens. It's about people living in countries like US losing their freedom of speech (disclaimer: I live in US and I don't like this).
You could almost always find a way to speak (or do not follow M$ license) anonymously. However free speech without fear of retribution is your right - part of UN declaration of human rights, part of US constitution and it's analogs in many countries. You should be able to publish code like DeCSS without hiding.
Then again, there should be some force (technological solution like Freenet ?) to back up your legal rights - otherwise out lawmakers would be bribed^H^H^H^H^H^Hcamgaign-contributed to create more "laws" like DMCA.
Umm, why those blacklists are implemented on public backbones (like above.net, etc) ?
It's not like one of those anti-spam guys filters all connections to his personal machine,. If I pay to my ISPs and they pay to backbone, aren't they supposed to provide me with all the bandwith I want without filtering it ? How come someone on ISP could decide which mail I want to receive ? I'm paying for Internet, not for a part of Internet, and if I want to filter out spam, I would do so myself w/o anyone's help.
There was a recent case when macromedia.com wasn't accessible because some idiot mistaken it for a spam house - but WFT public backbone started using it ?
Shouldn't OpusNet be able to sue whatever ISP was doing filtering for breach of contract ? I presume contract does not say "any psycho could censor all IP packets if he thinks one of the name servers is might be used by spammer", so ISPs that do this filtering should be open for a lawsuit, at least from their users.
I myself use PowerBook G4, mostly because of my eyes - it's the only laptop I could use about 8hr straight. I do mostly coding on it, sometimes read a book or watch a movie. For games you'll probably need something else. Consider the following:
* Battery - Crusoe is the best, but relatively expensive, and it might be slower. One of Apple laptops or Sony should be fine.
* Support - laptops are hard to fix, you probably need that. AppleCare is the best one I've seen, IBM was pretty good too. Dell refused to fix my old laptop - your mileage might vary.
* Drivers/software - if you have to have applications that are Intel-specific, well, no Powerbook for you, sorry. Other than that, LinuxPPC had no problem detecting any hardware on my laptop. Mandrake 7.0 worked quite well on Dell Inspiron 3800.
* Options - one thing Dell does well is that there are many configuration options. You could change LS120 floppy to battery, etc.
* Price - well, look it up
* Female attractivenes - www.apple.com/powerbook/
I'm really glad that Adobe agreed to talk to EFF. However, the main problem is not Adobe, but DMCA - extremely unfair, and quite likely unconstitutional law that allows people to be jailed for nothing in the first place. We need protest against DMCA, not against Adobe specifically.
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1) Since Java already have all the functionality.NET is supposed to have (XML-RPC,SOAP,CORBA), wouldn't it be possible to write an emulation layer that would translate.NET to Java ? Like classloader that would take CLR bytecode file and load it as java class (pre-cached probably), together with some wrapper library for basic.NET functions. Using reflection API you could then provide.NET code with access to all Java class functions.
This would make sence, since Java already have huge installed base. Surely stuff like native code would be most likely impossible to implement, but if about 70% of.NET code could be just translated to Java, many companies would probably go that route.
2) Is.NET really a development platform ? I was under impression it's a quick hack of Java, but with more impact on parts of software being run remotedly at Microsoft.
Like word runs on user machine for efficiency reasons, but connects to MS server and calls one or two remote functions without which Word won't work, so that MS could charge user insane amount of money every 2 weeks. Or even worse, all user documents are encrypted, each time Word runs it downloads decryption key and encryption key for the next session - that way MS would keep user as hostage and he/she won't be able to switch to let's say OpenOffice.
IIRC, that was the goal behind.NET, and it's technology is mediocre at best.
3) Anyone knows any reliable documentation on.NET architecture? MSDN, I think was created by NSA to exchange encrypted information, since there's no way I could understand anything if I try to read without the key...
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You *can't* change the Win32 API so it would break only Netscape or Mozilla, that is impossible, period.
Correct. However, they could change XP's implementation of Win32 API to, for example, check window title for a word "Mozilla", and if so, insert random bytes in code from which API function was called from.
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Ok, I'm no advocate of Apple (with exception of hardware, PowerBook G4 Titanium rules), but:
Apple does contribute back with Darwin. Unlike some companies that use BSD stack and don't contribute back anything, Apple gives code in return - not all of it, but still
QuickTime and Darwin, for ex, are very different beasts. QT contains code tat Apple licensed from outside, they couldn't just open it up even if they wished to
Apple also contributes to Linux dev - remember MkLinux ?
Apple is a big company - their legal dept could very well clash with their tech dept. This is pretty much the case with many companies - Gnutella was originally created by AOL/TW employes.
After all, it's their code. So far Apple is friendly towards free software community, but strictly speaking it's within their rights to keep their code proprietary - BSD license allows that. When Microsoft does that there's at least 50 comments on Slashdot about "Microsoft bashing" - but if it's Apple or Sun, who are way more friendly towards free software and open standarts, people suddenly get crazy.
I think the best way to deal with this possible treat is to send feedback to Apple, asking them politely to port, or even better, free QuickTime. As for Darwin, right now they are contributing back, worst thing that might happen is that they will stop. In that case, as far as I understand, we could fork Darwin and have an open version vs Apple version, right ?
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AutoLink feature requires you to click a button (screenshot here) in order to change the web page (i.e. it's like a bookmarklet).
Let me reiterate: it won't modify the page you're viewing, unless you actually click a button on that page. This means that user is 100% aware of page being modified.
Now compare this with MS SmartLinks, which modifies every page you visit by default.
/* The fact is, historically only TWO strategies have succeeded in ending terrorism: Genocide (Titus) and Surrender (Augustine). */
Canada is located in the same geographic area as USA, has roughly the same ethnic and religious background, same economic system, very similar legal system. Canada never done any genocide, nor had they surrendered to anybody.
Why is there no terrorism in Canada ?
For that matter, why is there virtually no terrorism in each and every non-militant country ?
When was the last terrorist attack against Finland ? Sweden ? Norway ?
Somehow countries that don't kill random civilians have a way much lower terrorism rate than USA, Israel, Russia and couple of others that do.
Please do stay.
Your vote really matters - and don't forget, those polls are preliminary.
Don't just hope for victory - go and win it.
I think bin Laden wants to appeal to, ahem, "undecided" in Middle East. His message is essentially "bad Americans are attacking you", and addressing it to Americans is a political stunt that would allow him to say "see, I tried to make peace with USA - it's all their fault".
Of course it's easier for bin Laden to deal with the guy who isn't concerned about him, as opposed to the guy who busted BCCI. However, for Al-Quaida, we are a boogeyman that they use to recruit more people. It doesn't really matter who the president is, bin Laden would still call us "the great Satan".
Disclaimer: Do I look like a lawyer ?
h p#00194 5
It looks like Kerry had written couple of bills before that allow investigation of banks, assets forefiture, etc. Later those bills were added to USAPATRIOT Act.
This case is, OTOH, is about which records Ashcroft could demand without court oversight, and wether they could keep those searches secret. If FBI has a warrant, they could look at your financial records without USAPATRIOT. USAPATRIOT, however, also allows them to look at your records without court warrant - which is evil.
Read more here:
http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_09.p
/* As R.A. Heinlein said, a well-armed society is a polite one. */
I heard this lie way too many times.
Back around 1997-98 in Chechnya there were areas where everyone - age range of 15 to 90 - was armed. People were shot in the back to be used as body organ sources later - pretty impolite if you as me.
In many countries in Middle East - modern Iraq is a good example - pretty much everyone have AK-47. Improperly mentioning some specific version of Islam - let alone practicing any other religion - would get you and your family killed.
Many areas in Latin America, Afghanistan, Yemen are ruled by warlords and their henchmen, who kill people just because they are high on drugs.
You know, one in every four Americans has or had mental health problems. You want all of them to have guns ?!?
Also, very important from economist's standpoint, sales tax discourages sales. I work as both programmer and sysadmin for several small businesses in NY (thanks W for making my former employer move overseas), and most of them try to sell to any state other than NY, because with NY sales tax they can't make a profit. Sales taxes hurt economy, big time.
BTW, taxing poor and middle class less also makes economic sense, because it influences their purchasing decisions. The more money they have, the more things they buy, the more money seller makes, i.e. it helps economy grow.
Wrong. What we absolutely need to decrease are sales taxes, since those discourage sales. Also, limit budget spending on unneeded thing like $87,000,000,000 extra on Iraq.
Sales taxes are way worse than income tax, since sales taxes - guess what - discourage sales. What states are rising isn't income tax, but sales taxes, and that damages the economy.
Well, you know, economy is doing so well, that in fact employers don't even need your services any more.
Tell me Mr. Anderson, what good is your privacy if you're considered a terrorist in your state ?
Good idea, but won't help in Kinko's case. .doc files. There is a way for VB to export and invoke any win32 api function, including malloc() and CreateThread(). Therefore, a .doc file could be turned into keylogger.
They offer MS Word as a legitimate app. They let users open
Problem is, people are used to MS Office. And for complex apps like wordprocessor/spreadsheet there's more user needs to learn, than when, say using Windows vs. OS X vs. Gnome/KDE. Users expect wordprocessor to behave a certain way. I had users complaining that WordPerfect gets formulas "right away" - Word usually fcked up and user needed to type it again - but user learned this as "normal" behavior. It's psychological, people get in trouble when they use slightly different car or VCR with 2 extra buttons on a remote.
Now, there aren't many ways office applications could work in a first place, and MS Office is what people are trained for. OO needs something like "evolving themes", i.e. it should look exactly like MS Office right after install, and then gradually give user tips, enable new features, etc.
Just a nitpick, but actually DDD does #6 - you could attach to running process, even if you started it outside debugger.
From google search: this page claims that:
- giving "client:poweroff" as URL shuts WebTV down
- the "wtv-setup:/accounts" URL gives accounts setup wizard, which is HTML page
My guess is that virus is simply a javascript app that simply fills in new dialup number and reboots WebTV.Just another innovation from people who brought you Word auto-open macros and self-launching VBS scripts :-(
However, if card contains biometric data that went through some kind of one-way secure hash function, then it might make sence. Stealing card wouldn't make your biometric data open then, but there at least be some way to verify that given ID does indeed belongs to person who carries it.
This might be helpful against identity theft and so on, but it would require a lot of expensive hardware like retinal/thumb scanners.
There are single-jack headphones. Mine works fine with cell-phone headset+adapter, both from Radioshack.
Umm, it's not about data heavens. It's about people living in countries like US losing their freedom of speech (disclaimer: I live in US and I don't like this).
You could almost always find a way to speak (or do not follow M$ license) anonymously. However free speech without fear of retribution is your right - part of UN declaration of human rights, part of US constitution and it's analogs in many countries. You should be able to publish code like DeCSS without hiding.
Then again, there should be some force (technological solution like Freenet ?) to back up your legal rights - otherwise out lawmakers would be bribed^H^H^H^H^H^Hcamgaign-contributed to create more "laws" like DMCA.
Umm, why those blacklists are implemented on public backbones (like above.net, etc) ?
It's not like one of those anti-spam guys filters all connections to his personal machine,. If I pay to my ISPs and they pay to backbone, aren't they supposed to provide me with all the bandwith I want without filtering it ? How come someone on ISP could decide which mail I want to receive ? I'm paying for Internet, not for a part of Internet, and if I want to filter out spam, I would do so myself w/o anyone's help.
There was a recent case when macromedia.com wasn't accessible because some idiot mistaken it for a spam house - but WFT public backbone started using it ?
Shouldn't OpusNet be able to sue whatever ISP was doing filtering for breach of contract ? I presume contract does not say "any psycho could censor all IP packets if he thinks one of the name servers is might be used by spammer", so ISPs that do this filtering should be open for a lawsuit, at least from their users.
I myself use PowerBook G4, mostly because of my eyes - it's the only laptop I could use about 8hr straight. I do mostly coding on it, sometimes read a book or watch a movie. For games you'll probably need something else. Consider the following:
* Battery - Crusoe is the best, but relatively expensive, and it might be slower. One of Apple laptops or Sony should be fine.
* Support - laptops are hard to fix, you probably need that. AppleCare is the best one I've seen, IBM was pretty good too. Dell refused to fix my old laptop - your mileage might vary.
* Drivers/software - if you have to have applications that are Intel-specific, well, no Powerbook for you, sorry. Other than that, LinuxPPC had no problem detecting any hardware on my laptop. Mandrake 7.0 worked quite well on Dell Inspiron 3800.
* Options - one thing Dell does well is that there are many configuration options. You could change LS120 floppy to battery, etc.
* Price - well, look it up
* Female attractivenes - www.apple.com/powerbook/
Again, think what you would use your laptop for.
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This would make sence, since Java already have huge installed base. Surely stuff like native code would be most likely impossible to implement, but if about 70% of
2) Is
Like word runs on user machine for efficiency reasons, but connects to MS server and calls one or two remote functions without which Word won't work, so that MS could charge user insane amount of money every 2 weeks. Or even worse, all user documents are encrypted, each time Word runs it downloads decryption key and encryption key for the next session - that way MS would keep user as hostage and he/she won't be able to switch to let's say OpenOffice.
IIRC, that was the goal behind
3) Anyone knows any reliable documentation on
Opinions are mine only and could change without notice.
Opinions are mine only and could change without notice.
Correct. However, they could change XP's implementation of Win32 API to, for example, check window title for a word "Mozilla", and if so, insert random bytes in code from which API function was called from.
Opinions are mine only and could change without notice.
I think the best way to deal with this possible treat is to send feedback to Apple, asking them politely to port, or even better, free QuickTime.
As for Darwin, right now they are contributing back, worst thing that might happen is that they will stop. In that case, as far as I understand, we could fork Darwin and have an open version vs Apple version, right ?
Opinions are mine only and could change without notice.