I love Firefox and use it every day, but I'm getting a little tired and confused with some of the features they keep putting into the core. I've always thought one of the great things about Firefox is the extensions; and while other browsers offer similar 'add-on' concepts, Firefox just seems to do it better. Why aren't they concentrating on just making a seriously good browser engine and then leaving the extra stuff to the extension developers. Or, if it's something important, get with the extension developers and help them out, offer a 'Firefox suggested extension package' that downloads and enables extensions by default. That way, all the 'normal' users get the cool goodies, and the rest of us can turn them off or uninstall them all together if it's not something we need.
For instance, the new development centric stuff they have in FF13 is nice. But it doesn't hold a candle to the development tools that have been in IE9 and Chrome for some time. I use Firebug for all my web debugging needs in FF and it works wonderfully. Get with those guys and improve their already awesome extension. Don't try to re-invent every cool extension and add it to the core. Not everyone needs it, not everyone wants it. Just build the fastest, most standards compliant browser out there that offers an amazing extension engine and you'll have a winning browser.
I really don't understand the point in this either. If there was something they wanted to bring to the public's attention, then I would have expected them to put in the work of hacking said e-mail accounts and getting the information everyone supposedly needs to know.
As it is, they grabbed “a list of roughly 90,000 military e-mails and password hashes[...]”. Which tells me some script kiddy got himself a shadow file and put it on the internet.
FTA: "Anonymous believes that their efforts are simply a form of civil disobedience, calling their tactics “peaceful protest."" I'm also not sure how they can continue to call this "peaceful protest" (assuming Anonymous actually said that and the author isn't just pulling that from an earlier statement). I can see the DDOS attacks construed as peaceful protest. I don't necessarily agree with them, but I can see the through process. Let's be clear though, they are no longer performing a peaceful protest. They are infiltrated a secured system and stealing confidential data, which is a crime.
Anonymous just seems to be a group of people with no particular focus or agenda that I can see, other than rebelling against everything and in turn giving every other hacker a bad name.
While I'd rather have a 'real' RSS feed, both Facebook and Twitter allow you to subscribe to someone's 'wall' via an RSS feed. And I don't think you even need an account for either to work -- as long as the user/business have their privacy settings set appropriately. Of course, there isn't a button for it, you have to use your browser's 'Subscribe to this page' (in FF anyway).
It's hard to read the posted comments, but the stories themselves are pretty easy to read if you just grab the RSS feed. A lot of websites -- or at least news websites -- provide RSS feeds which can be used as a 'lite' version of the site quite easily.
I could be interpreting this wrong, but they do seem to be saying a particle would need to be intelligent in order to have 'free will'. To say free will is a thing that can change it's behavior (state) with out being influenced by the past necessitates this.
If I observe a particle and it is positive, it could very well be that it was influenced by MY decision to obverse said particle. Therefor it is positive BECAUSE I decided to look at it; or put another way, it changed its state because something happened in the past (me looking at it).
So for a particle to have 'free will', it must be hanging out and then say to itself, "Well, it seems like a good time to put a positive spin on things" without looking at any outside influences.
Now the universe as a whole having 'free will' makes more sense to me, because then you have something acting on said particles (or humans?) to cause things to happen.
Couldn't they use anonymous signatures? IE, the government creates X amount of signatures, which are then anonymously allocated to our troops. They then use that sig to cast their vote. I'll be it, it's a LITTLE less anonymous, as you'll know all of those votes came from solders. But how is that different than saying all the votes came from California?
I was going to say the same thing.. but sence it's already been pointed out, i'll just confirm that this does work. I used to have extream pain him my writs (right). I couldn't take it anymore and desided to try and switch it over to the left. It take a few weaks to get used to, but sence i've switched over i've had very little pain that that wrist. When i do, i just switch back to the right side for a while.
Plus, it gives you the added benfit of being able to laugh at anyone that trys to use your computer... hours of entertainment.:)
Perhaps what we need are interfaces which better lend themselves to presenting what the user needs. For example, if I was an office worker and I primarily used word processor/spread sheet type programs, I might like something like start office, which can integrate almost as a desktop shell. Interfaces like this still allow the OS to be customized (via laying a new desktop interface on top of the OS), but also give a sort of cut out interface for users who do a specific type of work most of the time.
If you are talking about user interfaces for OS's then i would take a look at geoshell. Its another shell that runs on top of win9x. I'm actualy using it right now. The thing that i think is very important to keep in mind about any interface you are using is: keep it simple. Yeah its great to have all these extra features, but in reality, who really uses them. Find out what people need and just put thouse in there. And make sure its in a easy to find, accessble place for your user. Lets just take geoshell for an example. You can basicly clear every thing off of your desktop if you want to and alow your start menu to be hung off a right click anywere on your desktop. This is nice because you can make more room for your applications and not have the stupid start menu bar clutering everything up. The other thing i like is that it is writen somewhat more modular. You can 'plug in' applications that you want to use. Like vertual desktops. So keep your basic design simple and if you want to add features make it so they are easy for the user to add and plug them in themselfs.
Personally, I'd make a basic design on the page layout and then slap all the text into an access database. Then depending on the language type they selected pull the info. As far as the buttons and such go, you could do something like create your own object models and name them in such a way that you could easily call that object model for whatever language you want. But that is a LOT of work. Of course, if you wanted to take the lazy way out, there's always babble fish:)
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I love Firefox and use it every day, but I'm getting a little tired and confused with some of the features they keep putting into the core. I've always thought one of the great things about Firefox is the extensions; and while other browsers offer similar 'add-on' concepts, Firefox just seems to do it better. Why aren't they concentrating on just making a seriously good browser engine and then leaving the extra stuff to the extension developers. Or, if it's something important, get with the extension developers and help them out, offer a 'Firefox suggested extension package' that downloads and enables extensions by default. That way, all the 'normal' users get the cool goodies, and the rest of us can turn them off or uninstall them all together if it's not something we need.
For instance, the new development centric stuff they have in FF13 is nice. But it doesn't hold a candle to the development tools that have been in IE9 and Chrome for some time. I use Firebug for all my web debugging needs in FF and it works wonderfully. Get with those guys and improve their already awesome extension. Don't try to re-invent every cool extension and add it to the core. Not everyone needs it, not everyone wants it. Just build the fastest, most standards compliant browser out there that offers an amazing extension engine and you'll have a winning browser.
I really don't understand the point in this either. If there was something they wanted to bring to the public's attention, then I would have expected them to put in the work of hacking said e-mail accounts and getting the information everyone supposedly needs to know.
As it is, they grabbed “a list of roughly 90,000 military e-mails and password hashes[...]”. Which tells me some script kiddy got himself a shadow file and put it on the internet.
FTA: "Anonymous believes that their efforts are simply a form of civil disobedience, calling their tactics “peaceful protest.""
I'm also not sure how they can continue to call this "peaceful protest" (assuming Anonymous actually said that and the author isn't just pulling that from an earlier statement). I can see the DDOS attacks construed as peaceful protest. I don't necessarily agree with them, but I can see the through process. Let's be clear though, they are no longer performing a peaceful protest. They are infiltrated a secured system and stealing confidential data, which is a crime.
Anonymous just seems to be a group of people with no particular focus or agenda that I can see, other than rebelling against everything and in turn giving every other hacker a bad name.
While I'd rather have a 'real' RSS feed, both Facebook and Twitter allow you to subscribe to someone's 'wall' via an RSS feed. And I don't think you even need an account for either to work -- as long as the user/business have their privacy settings set appropriately. Of course, there isn't a button for it, you have to use your browser's 'Subscribe to this page' (in FF anyway).
It's hard to read the posted comments, but the stories themselves are pretty easy to read if you just grab the RSS feed. A lot of websites -- or at least news websites -- provide RSS feeds which can be used as a 'lite' version of the site quite easily.
I could be interpreting this wrong, but they do seem to be saying a particle would need to be intelligent in order to have 'free will'. To say free will is a thing that can change it's behavior (state) with out being influenced by the past necessitates this.
If I observe a particle and it is positive, it could very well be that it was influenced by MY decision to obverse said particle. Therefor it is positive BECAUSE I decided to look at it; or put another way, it changed its state because something happened in the past (me looking at it).
So for a particle to have 'free will', it must be hanging out and then say to itself, "Well, it seems like a good time to put a positive spin on things" without looking at any outside influences.
Now the universe as a whole having 'free will' makes more sense to me, because then you have something acting on said particles (or humans?) to cause things to happen.
Unfortunately not available for FireFox 1.0 yet. I used this feature a LOT, very nice. That is, before i upgraded.
-jason
Couldn't they use anonymous signatures? IE, the government creates X amount of signatures, which are then anonymously allocated to our troops. They then use that sig to cast their vote. I'll be it, it's a LITTLE less anonymous, as you'll know all of those votes came from solders. But how is that different than saying all the votes came from California?
-jason
I was going to say the same thing.. but sence it's already been pointed out, i'll just confirm that this does work. I used to have extream pain him my writs (right). I couldn't take it anymore and desided to try and switch it over to the left. It take a few weaks to get used to, but sence i've switched over i've had very little pain that that wrist. When i do, i just switch back to the right side for a while.
:)
Plus, it gives you the added benfit of being able to laugh at anyone that trys to use your computer... hours of entertainment.
-jason
Perhaps what we need are interfaces which better lend themselves to presenting what the user needs. For example, if I was an office worker and I primarily used word processor/spread sheet type programs, I might like something like start office, which can integrate almost as a desktop shell. Interfaces like this still allow the OS to be customized (via laying a new desktop interface on top of the OS), but also give a sort of cut out interface for users who do a specific type of work most of the time.
If you are talking about user interfaces for OS's then i would take a look at geoshell. Its another shell that runs on top of win9x. I'm actualy using it right now. The thing that i think is very important to keep in mind about any interface you are using is: keep it simple. Yeah its great to have all these extra features, but in reality, who really uses them. Find out what people need and just put thouse in there. And make sure its in a easy to find, accessble place for your user. Lets just take geoshell for an example. You can basicly clear every thing off of your desktop if you want to and alow your start menu to be hung off a right click anywere on your desktop. This is nice because you can make more room for your applications and not have the stupid start menu bar clutering everything up. The other thing i like is that it is writen somewhat more modular. You can 'plug in' applications that you want to use. Like vertual desktops. So keep your basic design simple and if you want to add features make it so they are easy for the user to add and plug them in themselfs.
Personally, I'd make a basic design on the page layout and then slap all the text into an access database. Then depending on the language type they selected pull the info. As far as the buttons and such go, you could do something like create your own object models and name them in such a way that you could easily call that object model for whatever language you want. But that is a LOT of work. Of course, if you wanted to take the lazy way out, there's always babble fish :)