So, if an application is running with limited privileges does that mean there is a massive security hole which would allow it to have complete control over the system because it could call unsecure drivers using OpenGL or perhaps DirectX? I ask this because I know precious little about this and would like to be illuminated. It just doesn't seem likely that such a situation would still exist, especially on newer operating systems.
Your shopkeeper argument does not make any sense in this situation. A much better metaphor is going to a psychiatrist. When a patient makes a booking with a psychiatrist and then does not turn up, they will be charged for the appointment. A patient has the responsibility to notify the psychiatrist a reasonable time before the appointment's date. If the patient does not do this then the psychiatrist may not be able to make an appointment with someone else, denying another patient of an appointment, and denying the psychiatrist income. Similarly with the theater example, if someone is ruining the movie experience for other people then it causes harm to the other people and the theater itself. The theater clearly has the right to escort the person out as it is in their policy which is made clear to the customers. Denying a refund for this is not being an asshat. The sociopath shouldn't be issued a refund because the have denied the theater of selling the seat to another customer and have caused a disturbance to other patrons.
Again I state that your shopkeeper argument is just loopy. A more accurate picture would be a customer that buys a chocolate bar, eats half of it, and then goes around harassing the other patrons of the store. The shopkeeper then asks the customer to leave. The customer the hands the half-eaten chocolate to the shopkeeper and asks for a refund. The shopkeeper refuses to issue a refund for the half-eaten chocolate bar. The customer then makes a phone call stating that the shopkeeper is an asshole. The end. Note that this still does not quite represent the theater situation, but that is because a regular shop with physical items cannot explain the situation in the theater very well.
Expecting there to be a refund is like a murderer going to jail and then expecting to be given a massive amount of money because they were not able to live out their life as normal for the years they were in jail. There is personal responsibility that must be shown by people who are well functioning enough to be able to join the activities that people in society participate in. Someone should not be allowed to hurt other people and then expect there to be no repercussions for it. If the theater did give a refund then the theater and the other people would have been harmed by the sociopath and the sociopath would have lost nothing. Is that what you want? Because I for one, would not want them to be stuffing around with my life with no corrective action being taken. Although if there was a way that they could be helped from their destructive behaviour and live a better life I would support it.
Ah, yes. Game crashes in ten minutes, sometimes it lasts longer. In multiplayer it crashes much more often, trying to hit any creature in multiplayer almost doesn't work unless there is almost no latency, and the world holes.
This is still on the Minecraft about page:
Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source.
Is there any reason that it going on XBOX 360 would cause this not to be true? Because I was hoping that there would be a version of Minecraft which actually worked.
Just tried it for myself and I haven't been able to get that effect. If my cursor is near the bottom and it is too close to where the URL preview would be displayed, the URL preview gets put on the other side. So when I had a link that was near the bottom left, the URL preview would appear on the bottom right of the window. I agree with your sentiment that the URL preview implemented at the moment is inferior to displaying the URL in the status bar. One of the most noticable things is that I find it very hard to see on the background of a web page. I think using Status-4-Evar is worth it even if there is slight issues with NosScript and possibly other add-ons. On the other hand, I have found the AwesomeBar that some people whined about to be a huge boost to things I want to find.
StartCom provides free SSL certificates. Newer browsers should trust them, older browsers may not. Should be good enough for a hobby project. Though finding a free(ish) hosting provider which supports SSL, I don't know enough to comment.
Unfortunately, TOR exit nodes are toxic. I ran a fully open tor exit node for 24 hours and got 4 C&D's for my trouble. You need a full time lawyer, or a lot of time spent tuning which traffic you relay.:-/
I only replied because I thought the link might be a little amusing. It was not intended as a spelling correction, even though now I can see it being interpreted as that.
I actually remember when Slashdot was about nerdy things. You know, things like actually doing cool stuff with computers, networks, etc.,and then talking about them here, and not about pissing and moaning about how "The Man" was preventing us from being entertained by things that that others had created to which we felt we were entitled to, simply because we couldn't entertain ourselves, nor create anything nerdy.
I'm pretty sure they have created a society somewhere else and are really hoping we don't find them.
That is pretty much already done in practice. The connections I see on offer are all asymmetrical, my connection upload rate is about 1/10th of the download rate. This encourages people to just be consumers. I don't know of any technical reason for these asymmetrical connections. If anyone does know of technical reasons for this, please reply.
Yet people produce songs for free all the time. A place that allows people to download music in bulk for about 1 cent to 5 cents a track may do very well indeed.
Um, as interesting as that concept is, the grandparent post is absolutely correct. As in creating a law which secures a monopoly for the encumbants while making it so difficult and unfair for anyone else to compete that it effectivly removes them is a downright terrible law. What about the other IP industries, why wouldn't they get in on the act? Would people now have to pay a Movies/TV/Newspaper/Whatever_else levy as well, just to use what is now a pretty essential service, whether they have any interest in those things at all? If that law somehow passes, of course they will try.
You mean musicians will have to make money by passing on the skills they learned for a fee; by selling tickets to live performances; by selling physical, branded merchandise or licensing such sales to third-parties; by selling commissions to write songs for others; by having a patron; etc.
Perhaps stepping back to the way musicians previously made money before the recording industry took over might actually be a Good Thing(TM) Perhaps it'll be harder to become a millionaire rock star that way, but the world might be better for it.
Except that the law only does this to the non-encumbants, while it would makes the encumbants life easier yet again, and it would force people with no interest in downloading music to pay a levy which does not help them at all, even indirectly. The only people who can benefit are the encumbant music companies and some people associated with them, and the heavy downloaders of the music of the said encumbants.
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I can't believe that I donated money to this douche in 2008.
You're an idiot.
So, if an application is running with limited privileges does that mean there is a massive security hole which would allow it to have complete control over the system because it could call unsecure drivers using OpenGL or perhaps DirectX? I ask this because I know precious little about this and would like to be illuminated. It just doesn't seem likely that such a situation would still exist, especially on newer operating systems.
Yes it is!
Your shopkeeper argument does not make any sense in this situation. A much better metaphor is going to a psychiatrist. When a patient makes a booking with a psychiatrist and then does not turn up, they will be charged for the appointment. A patient has the responsibility to notify the psychiatrist a reasonable time before the appointment's date. If the patient does not do this then the psychiatrist may not be able to make an appointment with someone else, denying another patient of an appointment, and denying the psychiatrist income. Similarly with the theater example, if someone is ruining the movie experience for other people then it causes harm to the other people and the theater itself. The theater clearly has the right to escort the person out as it is in their policy which is made clear to the customers. Denying a refund for this is not being an asshat. The sociopath shouldn't be issued a refund because the have denied the theater of selling the seat to another customer and have caused a disturbance to other patrons.
Again I state that your shopkeeper argument is just loopy. A more accurate picture would be a customer that buys a chocolate bar, eats half of it, and then goes around harassing the other patrons of the store. The shopkeeper then asks the customer to leave. The customer the hands the half-eaten chocolate to the shopkeeper and asks for a refund. The shopkeeper refuses to issue a refund for the half-eaten chocolate bar. The customer then makes a phone call stating that the shopkeeper is an asshole. The end. Note that this still does not quite represent the theater situation, but that is because a regular shop with physical items cannot explain the situation in the theater very well.
Expecting there to be a refund is like a murderer going to jail and then expecting to be given a massive amount of money because they were not able to live out their life as normal for the years they were in jail. There is personal responsibility that must be shown by people who are well functioning enough to be able to join the activities that people in society participate in. Someone should not be allowed to hurt other people and then expect there to be no repercussions for it. If the theater did give a refund then the theater and the other people would have been harmed by the sociopath and the sociopath would have lost nothing. Is that what you want? Because I for one, would not want them to be stuffing around with my life with no corrective action being taken. Although if there was a way that they could be helped from their destructive behaviour and live a better life I would support it.
Ah, yes. Game crashes in ten minutes, sometimes it lasts longer. In multiplayer it crashes much more often, trying to hit any creature in multiplayer almost doesn't work unless there is almost no latency, and the world holes.
This is still on the Minecraft about page:
Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source.
Is there any reason that it going on XBOX 360 would cause this not to be true? Because I was hoping that there would be a version of Minecraft which actually worked.
60 years?!!!!! Seriously?
It's not screaming.. It's just the air escaping!
Just tried it for myself and I haven't been able to get that effect. If my cursor is near the bottom and it is too close to where the URL preview would be displayed, the URL preview gets put on the other side. So when I had a link that was near the bottom left, the URL preview would appear on the bottom right of the window. I agree with your sentiment that the URL preview implemented at the moment is inferior to displaying the URL in the status bar. One of the most noticable things is that I find it very hard to see on the background of a web page. I think using Status-4-Evar is worth it even if there is slight issues with NosScript and possibly other add-ons. On the other hand, I have found the AwesomeBar that some people whined about to be a huge boost to things I want to find.
Woman:
Oh wait nevermind....
I'm not saying they should shoulder-surf 24/7 and only let them play Happy Fun Playground with Ponies and Sprinkles games
Those are one of the worst kinds of parents.
StartCom provides free SSL certificates. Newer browsers should trust them, older browsers may not. Should be good enough for a hobby project. Though finding a free(ish) hosting provider which supports SSL, I don't know enough to comment.
Consider that Tor exit nodes are toxic.
Unfortunately, TOR exit nodes are toxic. I ran a fully open tor exit node for 24 hours and got 4 C&D's for my trouble. You need a full time lawyer, or a lot of time spent tuning which traffic you relay. :-/
I only replied because I thought the link might be a little amusing. It was not intended as a spelling correction, even though now I can see it being interpreted as that.
Matroyshka
Why?
Cosmosms, cosmasms?
Just curious, why would you want them on Steam?
I actually remember when Slashdot was about nerdy things. You know, things like actually doing cool stuff with computers, networks, etc.,and then talking about them here, and not about pissing and moaning about how "The Man" was preventing us from being entertained by things that that others had created to which we felt we were entitled to, simply because we couldn't entertain ourselves, nor create anything nerdy.
I'm pretty sure they have created a society somewhere else and are really hoping we don't find them.
That is pretty much already done in practice. The connections I see on offer are all asymmetrical, my connection upload rate is about 1/10th of the download rate. This encourages people to just be consumers. I don't know of any technical reason for these asymmetrical connections. If anyone does know of technical reasons for this, please reply.
Yet people produce songs for free all the time. A place that allows people to download music in bulk for about 1 cent to 5 cents a track may do very well indeed.
Face facts: People are willing to pay for stuff. If we were the big stingy tight asses these industries all thought we were
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Then these industries would not have the money and power to screw over the populace. Paying more for something than it is worth is a sin.
Was it the standard test image used for image processing algorithms?
Worse, much worse.
Except it only cements the encumbants position, see dgatwood's excellent post.
Um, as interesting as that concept is, the grandparent post is absolutely correct. As in creating a law which secures a monopoly for the encumbants while making it so difficult and unfair for anyone else to compete that it effectivly removes them is a downright terrible law. What about the other IP industries, why wouldn't they get in on the act? Would people now have to pay a Movies/TV/Newspaper/Whatever_else levy as well, just to use what is now a pretty essential service, whether they have any interest in those things at all? If that law somehow passes, of course they will try.
You mean musicians will have to make money by passing on the skills they learned for a fee; by selling tickets to live performances; by selling physical, branded merchandise or licensing such sales to third-parties; by selling commissions to write songs for others; by having a patron; etc.
Perhaps stepping back to the way musicians previously made money before the recording industry took over might actually be a Good Thing(TM) Perhaps it'll be harder to become a millionaire rock star that way, but the world might be better for it.
Except that the law only does this to the non-encumbants, while it would makes the encumbants life easier yet again, and it would force people with no interest in downloading music to pay a levy which does not help them at all, even indirectly. The only people who can benefit are the encumbant music companies and some people associated with them, and the heavy downloaders of the music of the said encumbants.