Open Source means that anyone can submit changes, but in order to be accepted into the code base, the project leaders have to accept the changes, so any well-run open source project has competent developers reviewing all changes. (You're technically correct in saying that anyone can make changes, but it's not terribly relevant unless those changes make it back into the main project.)
If something that small can be a moon, the Pluto should still be a planet. More seriously, how big does it have to be to be a moon? Eventually, we might be able to track much smaller rocks as distinct objects. There's probably a full range of sizes from dust particles up to this dwarf moon.
You don't need to raise the price, just raise the minimum initial price. If it's currently $10/year, leave it at that price, but set an initial minimum 5-year registration. For real domains, that's fine. For spammers and squatters, that's a significant bump in their costs.
Same in Massachusetts. You can refuse the road-side breath test without losing your license, but they'll just assume it's positive and bring you in for the full test. If you refuse the test at the station, you automatically lose your license, and they have to prosecute you based on other evidence.
Remember the story about Amtrak security forcing someone to delete the photos they had taken? With the preponderance of hot spots and more and more cameras supporting Wi-Fi, this would mean that the concept of deleting photos may soon be an anachronism (and none too soon).
They could recover much of the data from the Google cache. I could even see Google providing a recovery tool for use in situations like this, possibly charging some fee for it. There also ought to be something that they could put in the robots.txt file to tell robots to use the previous scan instead of what's there now until they recover it.
There is nothing that can only be implemented with a Java plugin. Javascript has reached the point where much of what plugins had been used for in the past can now be done directly. If you're using a Java plugin, you're doing it wrong.
My employer recently outsourced timesheets to ADP, and ADP uses a horrid Java plugin. Hopefully this will get it working in Linux (well, when the site is stable enough to work--I expected better of ADP).
1) It protects you from typos. If you miss a character, it's immediately obvious before you've helped out a typo squatter.
2) It often gives you options to select certain topics within a given site, allowing you to more easily navigate to the portion of the site you actually want.
Unfortunately, that doesn't work with the one site that I've found that still uses Java (the horrid ADP timesheet site that my company just outsourced to).
The 1.5TB drive is part of a family of Seagate drives, the 7200.11 drives. Supposedly the only differences between the different drives in the family are the number of platters and the size of the cache. So if there's a bug, I would expect the same issue with the smaller 7200.11 drives. (If not, the the root cause is probably related to the increase in power draw from spinning the fourth platter.)
Suppose I pull up a buffer, like/etc/hosts, and I decide that I want to change it. I currently have to restart emacs as root. I would much prefer a "M-x su" option to become root (or some other user) for just that one buffer.
I know that with the tramp extension, I can do this with an ssh connection to localhost; thanks to those who pointed that out!
I wonder if Massachusetts concern about encrypting stored data has anything to do with EMC being headquartered in the state. Considering that EMC owns RSA (the company), a law like this would probably benefit EMC. Also, Massachusetts is home to TJX, famous for having had a major data breach.
[Note: I work for EMC, but have no inside knowledge related to this topic.]
If there were a few standardized policies that most sites used, then users wouldn't need to read them. Like with software licenses, you don't bother to read the GPL for each time you install software that uses that license.
You can change your preferences to change how various moderations affect the score. If you are annoyed by funny posts, change the funny moderation to be a -1 instead of a +1.
Something like this would be great when combined with a Windows Mobile version of Powerpoint or an iPhone version of Keynote. One more step towards eliminating the need for laptops. (Next up, docking stations for smart phones.)
It used to be that if I changed the computer connected to my cable modem, I had to call in to register the MAC address of the new system. Apparently they got fed up with the hassle of all the calls, so they changed the system to allow any MAC, eliminating the need to call. At least that's true of Comcast in some areas. It's not true of all cable providers, though.
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It's all speculation at this point, but the project I'm concerned about is Open Office.
Open Source means that anyone can submit changes, but in order to be accepted into the code base, the project leaders have to accept the changes, so any well-run open source project has competent developers reviewing all changes. (You're technically correct in saying that anyone can make changes, but it's not terribly relevant unless those changes make it back into the main project.)
Ahh, Congress. Finally get around to encouraging schools to use this for educational purposes on a year when it falls on a Saturday. Brilliant.
If something that small can be a moon, the Pluto should still be a planet. More seriously, how big does it have to be to be a moon? Eventually, we might be able to track much smaller rocks as distinct objects. There's probably a full range of sizes from dust particles up to this dwarf moon.
Yes, I was in an airport recently, and there were power outlets with both AC and USB. The future is here.
You don't need to raise the price, just raise the minimum initial price. If it's currently $10/year, leave it at that price, but set an initial minimum 5-year registration. For real domains, that's fine. For spammers and squatters, that's a significant bump in their costs.
Same in Massachusetts. You can refuse the road-side breath test without losing your license, but they'll just assume it's positive and bring you in for the full test. If you refuse the test at the station, you automatically lose your license, and they have to prosecute you based on other evidence.
Remember the story about Amtrak security forcing someone to delete the photos they had taken? With the preponderance of hot spots and more and more cameras supporting Wi-Fi, this would mean that the concept of deleting photos may soon be an anachronism (and none too soon).
They could recover much of the data from the Google cache. I could even see Google providing a recovery tool for use in situations like this, possibly charging some fee for it. There also ought to be something that they could put in the robots.txt file to tell robots to use the previous scan instead of what's there now until they recover it.
There is nothing that can only be implemented with a Java plugin. Javascript has reached the point where much of what plugins had been used for in the past can now be done directly. If you're using a Java plugin, you're doing it wrong.
My employer recently outsourced timesheets to ADP, and ADP uses a horrid Java plugin. Hopefully this will get it working in Linux (well, when the site is stable enough to work--I expected better of ADP).
Yes, particularly for two reasons:
1) It protects you from typos. If you miss a character, it's immediately obvious before you've helped out a typo squatter.
2) It often gives you options to select certain topics within a given site, allowing you to more easily navigate to the portion of the site you actually want.
Perhaps PNA is too stable, so that life forms based on it couldn't evolve through mutations quickly enough to adapt to changes.
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695
Really? It looks like Sun has been sitting on this bug for several years, and is finally doing something, but doesn't expect it until JRE 6u12.
The only 64-bit Java plugin that I can get to run is Iced Tea.
http://www.iced-tea.org/wiki/Main_Page
Unfortunately, that doesn't work with the one site that I've found that still uses Java (the horrid ADP timesheet site that my company just outsourced to).
The 1.5TB drive is part of a family of Seagate drives, the 7200.11 drives. Supposedly the only differences between the different drives in the family are the number of platters and the size of the cache. So if there's a bug, I would expect the same issue with the smaller 7200.11 drives. (If not, the the root cause is probably related to the increase in power draw from spinning the fourth platter.)
Suppose I pull up a buffer, like /etc/hosts, and I decide that I want to change it. I currently have to restart emacs as root. I would much prefer a "M-x su" option to become root (or some other user) for just that one buffer.
I know that with the tramp extension, I can do this with an ssh connection to localhost; thanks to those who pointed that out!
I wonder if Massachusetts concern about encrypting stored data has anything to do with EMC being headquartered in the state. Considering that EMC owns RSA (the company), a law like this would probably benefit EMC. Also, Massachusetts is home to TJX, famous for having had a major data breach.
[Note: I work for EMC, but have no inside knowledge related to this topic.]
If there were a few standardized policies that most sites used, then users wouldn't need to read them. Like with software licenses, you don't bother to read the GPL for each time you install software that uses that license.
I've had a personal web page hosted with pair.com for a long time, and the email service through them works great.
Minor nitpick: States are not sovereign entities, so people who reside in them are residents, not citizens.
You can change your preferences to change how various moderations affect the score. If you are annoyed by funny posts, change the funny moderation to be a -1 instead of a +1.
Something like this would be great when combined with a Windows Mobile version of Powerpoint or an iPhone version of Keynote. One more step towards eliminating the need for laptops. (Next up, docking stations for smart phones.)
It used to be that if I changed the computer connected to my cable modem, I had to call in to register the MAC address of the new system. Apparently they got fed up with the hassle of all the calls, so they changed the system to allow any MAC, eliminating the need to call. At least that's true of Comcast in some areas. It's not true of all cable providers, though.
What's wrong with madwifi?
Nope, that's exactly how it works. The trick is that if they call people on the list, they get fined, so it's cheaper to buy access to the list.