SWF is open like WebM and PDF.
Adobe still control the specification for SWF and PDF, [...] Only Adobe can change the spec. Adobe refused to let Microsoft bundle their own implementation in Windows 7. That is not what I call Open.
Based on the facts selected above, if history teaches something, it would be: Adobe will control the spec until Oracle buys them. (*duck*)
No no no no yes, it's good news! X class solar flares are also vigorous in the ultraviolet, UV heats the ozone layer, a warmer ozone layer means a faster, less meandering jet stream - and that means - a barbecue summer!!! Woo hoo!! I mean, it's obvious, init?
Should we be concerned about upcoming interference?
Don't put yourself in a situation you'd depend on your mobile.
Save your source-code often. Check your UPS-es and increase the frequency of backups
If still have spare time, look for auroras - if not being closer to the poles, it'll be wasted time, unless you actually see one (but if you see one far from the poles, it certainly spell big troubles).
... please let us know about auroras when the time will come.
Meantime, make sure the UPS-es are good, save often and.. send the files to wikileaks by DVD (can't do anything else anyway, somebody took their submission system).
So what's it going to be? Will you accept imperfect progress towards a goal (such as the "single point" of intersection), or is the absence of the "warranty" enough to damn humanity forever?
I'll quote from my post
Space colonization may be important, but not for the above reason.
Translation: a positive answer to your question. The fact that I view the two goals independent doesn't mean I gave up hope on any of them.
Huh! Yes, if we can't hold it here on Earth, let's seed other planets with the same primate-quarrellings culture, then we can enjoy hating each other at interplanetary scale.
So how do you fix the problem? Living in space should help. It requires a greater degree of cooperation in order to survive than living on Earth does.
"Living in space" and "solving the problem of getting along on Earth" are, on my opinion, orthogonal; they may even have 1 point of intersection, but at most one (getting along just enough to start exploring the space and establish at least one self-sufficient colony). Afterward, no warranties in regards with how the people in colony will "get along" or how they'll regard the Earth.
That's why space colonization is important. If we can't hold it together here on earth, having settlers elsewhere will ensure that humanity continues to exist somewhere, and that the cultural contributions of everyone who's lived won't be forgotten.
Huh! Yes, if we can't hold it here on Earth, let's seed other planets with the same primate-quarrellings culture, then we can enjoy hating each other at interplanetary scale.
Space colonization may be important, but not for the above reason.
the Greens would be just fine, but my dealings with them show a group of really nice people who would never expect to win and just want to do their part.
That's what I'd expect from every politician: stay true to their principles and do their job no matter if winning or not (guess it shows somehow my degree of idealism and naivety, but well, I'm not dead enough as yet).
Well, this is NSW. With Keneally at the helm you know that you are going down one way or another.
Funny thing, I'm not seeing the Liberal Party in NSW pushing the "Replace MS Windows with Linux" as a point on their electoral agenda. Can you please provide a link?
Even HBGary has had one. I'm surprised that everybody concentrates on "What Anons would be able to do with it" rather than "How the Anons got their copy".
A source from Anonymous says that most of the new e-mails from Hoglund are still unchecked and it is unclear who will be most liable when the information is made public, but added that briefly skimming the emails had revealed “three different malware archives, two bots, an offer to sell a botnet, a genuine stuxnet copy, and various malware lists.” Not entirely surprising given that HBGary is a security firm, but the source speculates that botnets aren’t typically rented out for “research.”
It is not illegal in California for a retailer to see a person's ZIP code or address, the ruling notes: For instance, one can request a customer's driver's license to verify his or her identity. What makes it wrong is when a business records that information, according to the ruling, especially when the practice is "unnecessary to the sales transaction."
Meaning (on the line of "what can possibly go wrong" and other/. memes):
1. show them the CC and the driver license if they request it.
2. Make sure their CCTV camera records it
3. sue them for recoding the data (if you can prove the CCTV is working and they are maintaining the recordings)
4. profit
In her suit, Pineda claimed that a cashier had asked for her ZIP code during a purchase -- information that was recorded and later used, along with her name, to figure out her home address. Williams-Sonoma did this tapping a database that it uses to market products to customers and sell its compiled consumer information to other businesses.
Note that it is still legal for a business to ask your ZIP code and possibly other information. What is made illegal:
1. conditioning the sale on obtaining data which are not necessary for completing the sale transaction
2. recoding a data which is not absolutely required for completing a sale transaction.
At least this is how I interpret:
It is not illegal in California for a retailer to see a person's ZIP code or address, the ruling notes: For instance, one can request a customer's driver's license to verify his or her identity. What makes it wrong is when a business records that information, according to the ruling, especially when the practice is "unnecessary to the sales transaction."
Oh but they do. Just that, in times of economic trouble, cheaper to steal some info about their own citizens... you know? doing them a favor in not putting a pressure on the budget.
Oh, shoot! If I participate with this program, won't be able to fornicate while I drive. Else Big Brother is gonna think the city is more pockmarked than the moon!!
No, they'll just send someone to plug that hole you are hitting so often... after all, that's the very end purpose of the application.
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In other news, up is also down, and black is also white.
I am so happy that I fell into that oil stain. I had trouble to get my white shirt clean.
Gosh, what's with those white stains on your otherwise-shiny-clean black shirt?
For what it's worth, Flash is open.
Agreed... but since it doesn't worth too much, doesn't this lead to Flash qualifying for "barely open"?
SWF is open like WebM and PDF.
Adobe still control the specification for SWF and PDF, [...] Only Adobe can change the spec. Adobe refused to let Microsoft bundle their own implementation in Windows 7. That is not what I call Open.
Based on the facts selected above, if history teaches something, it would be: Adobe will control the spec until Oracle buys them. (*duck*)
Because they do not judge the value of something based on quality, but exclusively on money. This way many good products get ditched...
May also have something to do with the fact that you cannot sample the quality properly without paying up first for the full crap?
Unless you are using SSD as the main memory, it doesn't help for the case of unsaved-still-in-RAM source files.
No no no no yes, it's good news! X class solar flares are also vigorous in the ultraviolet, UV heats the ozone layer, a warmer ozone layer means a faster, less meandering jet stream - and that means - a barbecue summer!!! Woo hoo!! I mean, it's obvious, init?
Hurricanes/cyclones?
Should we be concerned about upcoming interference?
Don't put yourself in a situation you'd depend on your mobile.
Save your source-code often. Check your UPS-es and increase the frequency of backups
If still have spare time, look for auroras - if not being closer to the poles, it'll be wasted time, unless you actually see one (but if you see one far from the poles, it certainly spell big troubles).
How is this informative if we do not know if we need to be worried or not?.
Save often, buddy, it doesn't hurt.
Meantime, make sure the UPS-es are good, save often and.. send the files to wikileaks by DVD (can't do anything else anyway, somebody took their submission system).
'Nuf said
based on Novell SUSE Linux technology
Should it be Attachmate (err... Microsoft...?) Linux Technology already?
Ahhh... the good old times... used to be so easy
Butterflies - and no, emacs is not an option, unless you code the command yourself and store the code in your deepest vault.
So what's it going to be? Will you accept imperfect progress towards a goal (such as the "single point" of intersection), or is the absence of the "warranty" enough to damn humanity forever?
I'll quote from my post
Space colonization may be important, but not for the above reason.
Translation: a positive answer to your question. The fact that I view the two goals independent doesn't mean I gave up hope on any of them.
Huh! Yes, if we can't hold it here on Earth, let's seed other planets with the same primate-quarrellings culture, then we can enjoy hating each other at interplanetary scale.
So how do you fix the problem? Living in space should help. It requires a greater degree of cooperation in order to survive than living on Earth does.
"Living in space" and "solving the problem of getting along on Earth" are, on my opinion, orthogonal; they may even have 1 point of intersection, but at most one (getting along just enough to start exploring the space and establish at least one self-sufficient colony). Afterward, no warranties in regards with how the people in colony will "get along" or how they'll regard the Earth.
That's why space colonization is important. If we can't hold it together here on earth, having settlers elsewhere will ensure that humanity continues to exist somewhere, and that the cultural contributions of everyone who's lived won't be forgotten.
Huh! Yes, if we can't hold it here on Earth, let's seed other planets with the same primate-quarrellings culture, then we can enjoy hating each other at interplanetary scale.
Space colonization may be important, but not for the above reason.
the Greens would be just fine, but my dealings with them show a group of really nice people who would never expect to win and just want to do their part.
That's what I'd expect from every politician: stay true to their principles and do their job no matter if winning or not (guess it shows somehow my degree of idealism and naivety, but well, I'm not dead enough as yet).
Well, this is NSW. With Keneally at the helm you know that you are going down one way or another.
Funny thing, I'm not seeing the Liberal Party in NSW pushing the "Replace MS Windows with Linux" as a point on their electoral agenda. Can you please provide a link?
it's been available for ages.
Even HBGary has had one. I'm surprised that everybody concentrates on "What Anons would be able to do with it" rather than "How the Anons got their copy".
The article quoted by TFA:
A source from Anonymous says that most of the new e-mails from Hoglund are still unchecked and it is unclear who will be most liable when the information is made public, but added that briefly skimming the emails had revealed “three different malware archives, two bots, an offer to sell a botnet, a genuine stuxnet copy, and various malware lists.” Not entirely surprising given that HBGary is a security firm, but the source speculates that botnets aren’t typically rented out for “research.”
It is not illegal in California for a retailer to see a person's ZIP code or address, the ruling notes: For instance, one can request a customer's driver's license to verify his or her identity. What makes it wrong is when a business records that information, according to the ruling, especially when the practice is "unnecessary to the sales transaction."
Meaning (on the line of "what can possibly go wrong" and other /. memes):
1. show them the CC and the driver license if they request it.
2. Make sure their CCTV camera records it
3. sue them for recoding the data (if you can prove the CCTV is working and they are maintaining the recordings)
4. profit
In her suit, Pineda claimed that a cashier had asked for her ZIP code during a purchase -- information that was recorded and later used, along with her name, to figure out her home address. Williams-Sonoma did this tapping a database that it uses to market products to customers and sell its compiled consumer information to other businesses.
Note that it is still legal for a business to ask your ZIP code and possibly other information. What is made illegal:
1. conditioning the sale on obtaining data which are not necessary for completing the sale transaction
2. recoding a data which is not absolutely required for completing a sale transaction.
At least this is how I interpret:
It is not illegal in California for a retailer to see a person's ZIP code or address, the ruling notes: For instance, one can request a customer's driver's license to verify his or her identity. What makes it wrong is when a business records that information, according to the ruling, especially when the practice is "unnecessary to the sales transaction."
Why isn't the CIA stealing anything?
Oh but they do. Just that, in times of economic trouble, cheaper to steal some info about their own citizens... you know? doing them a favor in not putting a pressure on the budget.
Glenn Beck IS lose.
That statement doesn't make sense. Here are a couple of suggested corrections
Glenn Beck IS loose (Quick lock him up back in the asylum) Glenn Beck IS a loser Glenn Beck IS a loose cannon
<Pedantic_mode> Since about when a couple is made of three items?</Pedantic_mode>
Think about that.. seriously.
Think. What a preposterous suggestion... would I be able to do it at this hour, I'd be doing the job I'm paid for instead of posting on /.
Oh, shoot! If I participate with this program, won't be able to fornicate while I drive. Else Big Brother is gonna think the city is more pockmarked than the moon!!
No, they'll just send someone to plug that hole you are hitting so often... after all, that's the very end purpose of the application.