Trying to parse your sentence here... "Syntax Error Line 1"...
The OP WANTED to add flash and javascript apps to a whitelist system, which is the exact opposite of what you just said (or appeared to say.)
But to clairfy things, Noscript is a domain / host level tool, and doesn't have the ability to whitelist individual scripts. Given the dynamic nature of the internet and how many sites around the world change their scripts on a daily basis (including dynamically generated javascript,) it wouldn't be feasible to do it on a "per script" level.
Unfortunately, IMHO browsers don't sandbox (isolate) javascript / flash quite well enough. They still give WAY too much access to a users browser environment, or even the OS. Ditto for URL handlers. That's the number one reason I run noscript - I don't trust the browser security model. Users deserve better.
There are many laws in different states that may apply. Disturbing the peace, public nuisance, disorderly conduct, etc. Not sure what laws Florida has, but I'm sure they have something.
As I stated in another post, I feel that the police handled this case poorly. In a very similar situation at a city council meeting last night, the irrational citizen ranted and raved for about 5 minutes while the councilors calmly and respectfully listened. When he finished, they thanked him and he left. No arrest, nothing, even though the police were present.
Why yes, yes I am. It doesn't take a PHD is psychiatry to identify someone who is not behaving like a normal well-adjusted person would behave.
2. have enough information to make it
I've seen the videos. Someone who is mentally stable, non-hostile and rational does not behave that way. You think otherwise??? The guy was ranting and raving and then started kicking and screaming. He didn't get arrested for just "talking fast." If he would have gone quietly they probably would have just ejected him.
All the other people in that forum didn't act in a way that got them arrested and tasered, but he did.
any way you sound like you have never been to a real QA or debate or all candidates meeting, etc...
That is a pretty ridiculous conclusion given my above comment.
Mods, that's not flamebait... In fact, I can see nothing wrong with the comment or reasoning - it's dead on.
This student's behavior / attitude is what got him into trouble. It wasn't just making a comment and asking a question, it was HOW he did so, asking questions in a loud fast-paced run-on without giving Kerry a chance to respond, cutting him off when Kerry tried. It was the tone of the voice, manor of speech, body language, etc. Disruptive style behavior indicative of mental instability / hostility.
That said, it was handled POORLY. At most, he should have been simply ejected, not arrested. He got tasered for resisting arrest, which was understandable given the behavior I saw on the video.
In a very timely parallel, I went to my local city council meeting last night. During "Open Forum," we had someone who behaved EXACTLY the same. Same body language, same speech patterns, etc. He was obviously mentally disturbed by the content of his comments. How did the city council handle it? Perfectly. They listened to him with respect, let him finish his 5 minute long rant (including references to Timothy McViegh,) thanked him, and the guy left.
It's already done. ALL THE TIME. Ubuntu, Redhat, Suse/Novell all maintain their own version of the base kernel. There is NO reason why some other person (or group) can't maintain his "desktop tuned" kernel. He would be wise to re-sync with the base kernel every now and then unless he wants to start maintaining all the drivers....
The objection is that maintaining the patch is a PITA. IMHO, it's a lot easier to just maintain a patch set than an entire kernel however, but FORK AWAY!
All this said and done, I have been using Linux as my primary desktop for the past 10 years. I have no issues with "jittery" video on my modest 3 year old desktop (a single core P4 2.4G, with 1G ram), even playing HD content. I guess I just don't understand the problem. It is certainly better than my "occasional use" Windows XP laptop, which is a new dual core, 2G ram box that can't reliably play a DVD without jitter.
They can do so through a small IPv4 portal rather than needing an entire class A address space. Net gain is still large, but not large enough to solve the problem. IPv6 is still needed quite soon.
But what about the application protocols? That's what matters. We are not just talking "gateway", but a full-blown proxy that translates IPv4 / IPv6 sessions / protocols. Then there is encryption that is built-in to IPv6 which makes this MUCH more difficult.
IMHO, this "much smaller task" isn't quite so small anymore. In fact, it's massive.
IPv6 enabled machines talking to "legacy" IPv4 applications / services is a TRIVIAL task compared to the other way around.
A case can be made (and has been) than the ONLY "market viable" competitive alternative IS software like Samba, where the only "reasonable fee" is ZERO.
Your aircraft example is totally different. There was not a monopoly on airplanes, and no manufacturer that had NEAR the market share that MS has on desktop operating systems, and no anti-trust situation.
The very mention of mandatory licensing (for free, to competitors like Samba) will unite the entire patent industry in a fervor of hate against those proposing it.
Very much like the entire computing industry was against Linux because it contained SCO IP. Oh wait... (yeah I know it's a different situation. Kinda like airplane examples...)
This is a very specific case dealing with a company that is in a unique position, which requires innovative and strong remedies. All options should be on the table. It can be made quite clear that this is not the norm (mandatory licensing for free) but an exception. I don't believe the fervor you fear would come to pass.
The direct-wire full interface type of connection is what I'm talking about. Those FM transmitters SUCK, but work in a pinch. Other stereo's at least have an AUX connector, but you can't control the iPod (or other player) with your stereo or steering wheel controls, which is a Very nice thing to have, like you can with a full iPod interface.
While there are lots of third party accessories for non-iPods, it's a very poor selection compared to what is available for the iPod. That's what I'm talking about. The difference isn't even close. There are more accessories for iPod's than there are for all other player brands combined.
This is in the "You are here: USA > Home & Home Office" section with a big-assed banner that says: The choice is yours. Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows XP, you decide."
Did you even TRY or did you just decide to troll today?
That said, as a HOME user, you can buy dell business models too, without being a business. You have TONS of choices for Dell XP machines. Same deal with every other major vendor.
The EU and US courts say you are wrong. Sorry. The legal definition (which is the only relevant one in this discussion) is not quite the same as the classical dictionary version you hold on to. From a legal standpoint you do NOT need 100% of the market to be a monopoly.
we want the ability to order our machines with XP.
You have that now. You can order XP based machines from every major vendor.
This is how I understand it. Expanded basic is still all analog for compatibility with old receivers. Looks like this will be mandated on cable at least for OTA signals until 2014 (or the cable company needs to provide digital receivers...) OTA analog of course still stops in Feb 2009.
Since you are sending the analog signal down the wire ANYWAY, sending a digital SD version as well uses MORE bandwidth. Obviously that would be stupid. It makes perfect sense why they are doing what they are doing. Cable does not have unlimited bandwidth which is one of the biggest drivers for digital cable, where they can compress the hell out of everything, trying to make room for HD. Transitioning to MPEG4 will help a LOT, but that's WAY down the road.
As a sidenote, SD Digital OTA broadcasts look WAY better than SD directivo of the same station using the svideo port (the best connection I have on the directivo unit.)
Bottom line is that digital cable gives you access to MORE channels, the ones that are only sent as digital - not digital on ALL channels.
While not exactly the same, TBS and USA tend to take a 2 hour movie and make it 3 hours. Now this is still only 30%, but they back-load commercials. You many not get the first commercial for 45 mins, and the breaks are shorter, but the last hour of the movie is clearly 50% commercials. It's painful even with Tivo. It's so bad that even my Wife just deletes "suggestion" movies that were recorded on TBS and friends.
Microsoft was a 800-pound gorilla on the OS market long before before Bill stole and rewrote DOS for the IBM PC.
Logic Error: Abort / Retry / Ignore?
Basic is a language, not an OS. Microsoft didn't HAVE an OS before Bill stole DOS so it would have been IMPOSSIBLE for them to be the 800-pound gorilla on the OS market BEFORE DOS.
Second, as a first generation Amiga owner, Microsoft basic on the Amiga SUCKED big time, which is why any real Basic programmer used another third party basic compiler (of which the name escapes me now, since it was nearly 20 years ago.) Of course serious programmers were all using C anyway. Lattice C was included with the original developers kit for the Amiga.
Yes and no. Your entire spiel ignores the business world. The IBM name more than ANYTHING else ensured the success of the PC over other platforms. All the competitors you listed were targeted towards HOME users (and education with the Mac.)
As far as other operating systems, that again was due to business / IBM more than anything else. Compatibility was king, and still is. Compatibility is also what is keeping the state of computing stuck in the metaphors of 1950. Microsoft still maintains DOS compatibility in Vista to a great extent, as well as leftovers in design / API / UI from ancient versions of DOS based Windows. I mean, they still use DRIVE LETTERS and that god-awful registry! The file system interface still has leftover "8.3 isms" and lacks a stable way to handle hard / soft-links. MS Networking still has LANMAN crap in there to a great extent and other proprietary crap like MAPI.
How can you make serious progress on a next-gen OS when you have all that baggage? We are not talking about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There is no baby. It's a nasty sewage filled cesspool that has nice landscaping around it.
Yes. Without Microsoft, the Mac, Amiga, Unix, BeOS, etc. would never have existed, and people would still be using model 33 teletypes over acoustic-coupler modems.
Please.
The personal computing revolution would have happened with or without Microsoft. It was all a matter of timing and nefarious business practices that allowed Microsoft to be the dominant player and their resulting "defacto monopoly". We they a part of "bringing computers to the masses?" Sure, in a sense because they were THERE, not because of what they actually DID (outside of the "nefarious business practices" of course.)
No. The FA is about cable companies delivering analog service over cables lines. Stations are still required to give up their analog spectrum in Feb 2009.
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Trying to parse your sentence here... "Syntax Error Line 1"...
The OP WANTED to add flash and javascript apps to a whitelist system, which is the exact opposite of what you just said (or appeared to say.)
But to clairfy things, Noscript is a domain / host level tool, and doesn't have the ability to whitelist individual scripts. Given the dynamic nature of the internet and how many sites around the world change their scripts on a daily basis (including dynamically generated javascript,) it wouldn't be feasible to do it on a "per script" level.
Unfortunately, IMHO browsers don't sandbox (isolate) javascript / flash quite well enough. They still give WAY too much access to a users browser environment, or even the OS. Ditto for URL handlers. That's the number one reason I run noscript - I don't trust the browser security model. Users deserve better.
There is whitelisting, and there is disabling. Two different things. Noscript for Firefox is a whitelisting tool.
Surf safe. Use Noscript.
Silly. So all the thief has to do is stick a NEW plate over where the old one was, with the same type of adhesive.
Oh please. There are ways of bypassing firmware passwords on every machine. Google is your friend.
There are many laws in different states that may apply. Disturbing the peace, public nuisance, disorderly conduct, etc. Not sure what laws Florida has, but I'm sure they have something.
As I stated in another post, I feel that the police handled this case poorly. In a very similar situation at a city council meeting last night, the irrational citizen ranted and raved for about 5 minutes while the councilors calmly and respectfully listened. When he finished, they thanked him and he left. No arrest, nothing, even though the police were present.
1. your qualified to make that diagnosis
Why yes, yes I am. It doesn't take a PHD is psychiatry to identify someone who is not behaving like a normal well-adjusted person would behave.
2. have enough information to make it
I've seen the videos. Someone who is mentally stable, non-hostile and rational does not behave that way. You think otherwise??? The guy was ranting and raving and then started kicking and screaming. He didn't get arrested for just "talking fast." If he would have gone quietly they probably would have just ejected him.
All the other people in that forum didn't act in a way that got them arrested and tasered, but he did.
any way you sound like you have never been to a real QA or debate or all candidates meeting, etc...
That is a pretty ridiculous conclusion given my above comment.
Mods, that's not flamebait... In fact, I can see nothing wrong with the comment or reasoning - it's dead on.
This student's behavior / attitude is what got him into trouble. It wasn't just making a comment and asking a question, it was HOW he did so, asking questions in a loud fast-paced run-on without giving Kerry a chance to respond, cutting him off when Kerry tried. It was the tone of the voice, manor of speech, body language, etc. Disruptive style behavior indicative of mental instability / hostility.
That said, it was handled POORLY. At most, he should have been simply ejected, not arrested. He got tasered for resisting arrest, which was understandable given the behavior I saw on the video.
In a very timely parallel, I went to my local city council meeting last night. During "Open Forum," we had someone who behaved EXACTLY the same. Same body language, same speech patterns, etc. He was obviously mentally disturbed by the content of his comments. How did the city council handle it? Perfectly. They listened to him with respect, let him finish his 5 minute long rant (including references to Timothy McViegh,) thanked him, and the guy left.
It's already done. ALL THE TIME. Ubuntu, Redhat, Suse/Novell all maintain their own version of the base kernel. There is NO reason why some other person (or group) can't maintain his "desktop tuned" kernel. He would be wise to re-sync with the base kernel every now and then unless he wants to start maintaining all the drivers....
The objection is that maintaining the patch is a PITA. IMHO, it's a lot easier to just maintain a patch set than an entire kernel however, but FORK AWAY!
All this said and done, I have been using Linux as my primary desktop for the past 10 years. I have no issues with "jittery" video on my modest 3 year old desktop (a single core P4 2.4G, with 1G ram), even playing HD content. I guess I just don't understand the problem. It is certainly better than my "occasional use" Windows XP laptop, which is a new dual core, 2G ram box that can't reliably play a DVD without jitter.
It was a joke, but that's valid syntax for a IPv6 literal. See RFC 2732. Obviously not all browsers support it at this point, but they should.
They can do so through a small IPv4 portal rather than needing an entire class A address space. Net gain is still large, but not large enough to solve the problem. IPv6 is still needed quite soon.
But what about the application protocols? That's what matters. We are not just talking "gateway", but a full-blown proxy that translates IPv4 / IPv6 sessions / protocols. Then there is encryption that is built-in to IPv6 which makes this MUCH more difficult.
IMHO, this "much smaller task" isn't quite so small anymore. In fact, it's massive.
IPv6 enabled machines talking to "legacy" IPv4 applications / services is a TRIVIAL task compared to the other way around.
Bah! Who needs DNS when you can just use IPv6 addresses like: http://[2001:0db8:85a3:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7344]/
A case can be made (and has been) than the ONLY "market viable" competitive alternative IS software like Samba, where the only "reasonable fee" is ZERO.
Your aircraft example is totally different. There was not a monopoly on airplanes, and no manufacturer that had NEAR the market share that MS has on desktop operating systems, and no anti-trust situation.
The very mention of mandatory licensing (for free, to competitors like Samba) will unite the entire patent industry in a fervor of hate against those proposing it.
Very much like the entire computing industry was against Linux because it contained SCO IP. Oh wait... (yeah I know it's a different situation. Kinda like airplane examples...)
This is a very specific case dealing with a company that is in a unique position, which requires innovative and strong remedies. All options should be on the table. It can be made quite clear that this is not the norm (mandatory licensing for free) but an exception. I don't believe the fervor you fear would come to pass.
The direct-wire full interface type of connection is what I'm talking about. Those FM transmitters SUCK, but work in a pinch. Other stereo's at least have an AUX connector, but you can't control the iPod (or other player) with your stereo or steering wheel controls, which is a Very nice thing to have, like you can with a full iPod interface.
While there are lots of third party accessories for non-iPods, it's a very poor selection compared to what is available for the iPod. That's what I'm talking about. The difference isn't even close. There are more accessories for iPod's than there are for all other player brands combined.
Oh gee, that's really hard. I went to Dell's web site and entered "windows xp" into search.
First link was this one:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/winxp_inspn?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&redirect=1
This is in the "You are here: USA > Home & Home Office" section with a big-assed banner that says: The choice is yours. Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows XP, you decide."
Did you even TRY or did you just decide to troll today?
That said, as a HOME user, you can buy dell business models too, without being a business. You have TONS of choices for Dell XP machines. Same deal with every other major vendor.
Unless MS is stripped of it's ability to enforce affected patents used in those APIs via court order...
There is no damn monopoly.
The EU and US courts say you are wrong. Sorry. The legal definition (which is the only relevant one in this discussion) is not quite the same as the classical dictionary version you hold on to. From a legal standpoint you do NOT need 100% of the market to be a monopoly.
we want the ability to order our machines with XP.
You have that now. You can order XP based machines from every major vendor.
4) Availability of accessories.
That's huge. You can get iPod interfaces for most higher-end car stereos for example, not to mention the plethora of docks, cases, etc.
As long as the NFL stays on local TV, I could care less.
Well, looks like you are fucked then. Monday night football is ESPN. Some Thursday and Saturday games are only on the NFL Network.
This is how I understand it. Expanded basic is still all analog for compatibility with old receivers. Looks like this will be mandated on cable at least for OTA signals until 2014 (or the cable company needs to provide digital receivers...) OTA analog of course still stops in Feb 2009.
Since you are sending the analog signal down the wire ANYWAY, sending a digital SD version as well uses MORE bandwidth. Obviously that would be stupid. It makes perfect sense why they are doing what they are doing. Cable does not have unlimited bandwidth which is one of the biggest drivers for digital cable, where they can compress the hell out of everything, trying to make room for HD. Transitioning to MPEG4 will help a LOT, but that's WAY down the road.
As a sidenote, SD Digital OTA broadcasts look WAY better than SD directivo of the same station using the svideo port (the best connection I have on the directivo unit.)
Bottom line is that digital cable gives you access to MORE channels, the ones that are only sent as digital - not digital on ALL channels.
While not exactly the same, TBS and USA tend to take a 2 hour movie and make it 3 hours. Now this is still only 30%, but they back-load commercials. You many not get the first commercial for 45 mins, and the breaks are shorter, but the last hour of the movie is clearly 50% commercials. It's painful even with Tivo. It's so bad that even my Wife just deletes "suggestion" movies that were recorded on TBS and friends.
Microsoft was a 800-pound gorilla on the OS market long before before Bill stole and rewrote DOS for the IBM PC.
Logic Error: Abort / Retry / Ignore?
Basic is a language, not an OS. Microsoft didn't HAVE an OS before Bill stole DOS so it would have been IMPOSSIBLE for them to be the 800-pound gorilla on the OS market BEFORE DOS.
Second, as a first generation Amiga owner, Microsoft basic on the Amiga SUCKED big time, which is why any real Basic programmer used another third party basic compiler (of which the name escapes me now, since it was nearly 20 years ago.) Of course serious programmers were all using C anyway. Lattice C was included with the original developers kit for the Amiga.
Yes and no. Your entire spiel ignores the business world. The IBM name more than ANYTHING else ensured the success of the PC over other platforms. All the competitors you listed were targeted towards HOME users (and education with the Mac.)
As far as other operating systems, that again was due to business / IBM more than anything else. Compatibility was king, and still is. Compatibility is also what is keeping the state of computing stuck in the metaphors of 1950. Microsoft still maintains DOS compatibility in Vista to a great extent, as well as leftovers in design / API / UI from ancient versions of DOS based Windows. I mean, they still use DRIVE LETTERS and that god-awful registry! The file system interface still has leftover "8.3 isms" and lacks a stable way to handle hard / soft-links. MS Networking still has LANMAN crap in there to a great extent and other proprietary crap like MAPI.
How can you make serious progress on a next-gen OS when you have all that baggage? We are not talking about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There is no baby. It's a nasty sewage filled cesspool that has nice landscaping around it.
Yes. Without Microsoft, the Mac, Amiga, Unix, BeOS, etc. would never have existed, and people would still be using model 33 teletypes over acoustic-coupler modems.
Please.
The personal computing revolution would have happened with or without Microsoft. It was all a matter of timing and nefarious business practices that allowed Microsoft to be the dominant player and their resulting "defacto monopoly". We they a part of "bringing computers to the masses?" Sure, in a sense because they were THERE, not because of what they actually DID (outside of the "nefarious business practices" of course.)
No. The FA is about cable companies delivering analog service over cables lines. Stations are still required to give up their analog spectrum in Feb 2009.