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It's a shame you can't just change the desktop on Windows or OSX to something what you like. I would say the most best feature of Linux is KDE4 and it would be very nice for me to have the same desktop on Windows. Yes, you can install KDE for Windows, but it's not the same because the ugly and useless Windows desktop is still there.
PS: to not to start a flame war, please replace KDE with your favorite desktop, like Gnome or Xfce.
If SL or Flash wouldn't exists and Netflix would just use standard HTML5 with no DRM, then I would watch it. But as of now I just go to google.com and enter torrent and watch it a day later. (Also if they just get in their heads that in the global internet a limitation on country does not make sense anymore. I don't care if the shows are in English or German, I just want a convenient way of viewing them.)
What happens with Apple iTunes and DRM? The music studios were so happy how it went with the forced DRM on iTunes. They created a iTunes monopoly with set Apple in the position to dictate prices to the music studios. As a result we now have almost everywhere DRM free music.
Maybe, but it's goes both ways. Now a phone can do what most PCs can do (play video, music, browser the web, edit documents in a limited way, play games). Also eReaders, and tables only increase their features.
Also, this speciality don't make sense for a computer device (anything with a CPU, memory and a display). Because for the "Electric Drill" you need to get all the attachments, and some attachments probably don't work as good. But with a computer device all you need is to start a different app for the task.
So it's more a move to more general purpose devices. From a dump phone to a smart phone, with has almost all features what a PC have. It's only companies like Apple who don't want that a smart phone will become a truly general purpose device like a PC, they want to control it, and thus control the user.
It's the same stupidity as with drugs counterfeit. The US government will spend millions to fight copyright violations, with will have no effect on the quality and availability on sites. But it will make the organizations more criminal and will put more people in jail for minor offends.
Here is a forecast how this will end (just replace drugs with copyright infringement) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsk8R_j5zzg ""It pains me to know that there is a solution for preventing tragedy and nothing is being done because of ignorance, stubbornness, unsubstantiated fear and greed."
Hear Neill Franklin, Executive Director of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), speak on the problems and costs of the war on drugs, and the reasons society would be better off if it were ended."
What have desktop Linux with syslogs to do? You do know what we are talking about? About enterprise systems and the logs, like the apache log, daemon log, kernel log, etc. We are not talking about anything that have to do with the desktop. I'm using Linux desktop now for 3 years and besides a dmesg I never looked in the syslogs. And I couldn't care less if dmesg is a database or plain text.
That is really stupid of you. Let me see how the facts are: Firefox with a few addons and 9 tabs: 180MB RAM. Eclipse with a lot of projects open: 200MB RAM.
At least with a Java Application I can just download it and run it on my Linux and Windows computers. It would be really nice if more applications would leave the Windows-monoculture, like from companies that owe their very existence to open source systems like Google (Google Sketchup is still not available for Linux and probably never will be).
What have the human-readable source code to do with that argument? For such a plugin it's actually way easier to analyze byte code than the source code. As long as the byte code is a standard, which we are talking about the whole time.
I don't think that the generated HTML code have anything to do with the open nature of the web. It have only to do with one important fact: that HTML is an open standard. We shouldn't care less if (the tag) or 0x02 (the byte) is used, as long as it's an open standard.
Of course lots of HTML is written by humans so a text token is better, then a byte number.
You could use a decompiler. Here is a list of Java decompilers: http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/JavaDecompilers Since we are talking about making a bytecode standard, it should be very easy to build such decompilers, if needed. In Java bytecode the method and class names are saved, so with a decompiler it's a lot easier to understand the bytecode then with the minimized JQuery code.
The only reason why Linux don't have viruses "in the wild" is because it is extremely difficult to write viruses for Linux that can be run or installed without user interaction.
Sure, I can get a virus for Linux if I go to virus.com, download and run the virus. But for Windows you can get a virus with different means. Like via Email attachment, autorun from a USB-stick, via remote access (in Windows XP I get virus only because I was online).
In Linux you have explicitly tell the system to run the file. But on Windows everything with a.exe is run. Also, many programs are run automatically for the "convenience" of the user, like autorun USB or CDs. Windows still hides the file extension from the user, so if you have a file like porn.jpg.exe Windows will show you porn.jpg.
Also it's very easy to get rid of a virus in Linux. Just delete the infected file and replace it with the original from the package manage. In Windows you can't even delete the file because it's still in use.
Plus the whole-system update management of the Linux distributions. I can run my updates weekly and in the background and it will update the system and all of the applications.
Did you even visit http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.js ? I would say that's byte code, with just happens to have some ASCII characters in it, instead of just byte tupels.
In Java almost all important libraries are open source, but very few people would download the source code, they are just happy with the compiled.class (i.e. a jar) files. The same is true for all compiled languages, and for some interpreted, like python.
As long as the license is open, the original code available, and the common practice of using minimized JS will increase, I don't see any problem or difference with byte code.
We not talking about applets. We talk about a byte code that every browser have to implement, like the ECMAScript today. But the byte code could be generated by any language, not just JS.
It's the same as with Google's GWT, with takes Java source code and compiles it to JS code, so a browser can run it. Now, why can't GWT compile Java to a byte code that can directly be run in the browser?
If Sun/Oracle could would had more wisdom, we would just have a JVM in every browser. That way you could program in Scala,Groovy,Java,Closure,JRuby,Jython,LUA, and JavaScript for the browser. Just take the current JVM, add some DOM-API to it and be done with it.
But, no, they had to add some stupid patents to JVM and some stupid politics about the license. So now we still have JS VMs that are like the JVM was in 1995 and with single language attached to it.
What have that do to with your argument? Libraries like JQuery will still be open source. I would rather think that Web exploded because it's build on open technologies and open source software. And if the Byte Code is a standard, it's as simple as a editor or disassembler to use to see the code. Also, I don't think you can read that code: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.js
Why you assume that this theocracy is special only because it's a Muslim theocracy? We all know what was happening in a Christianity theocracy, and it's not better.
Yes, would make sense, wouldn't it? Instead that every browser have to interpret the slow JS language (yes, JS language is slow to interpret, because of the design choices. Just watch some of Doug Crockford videos), we could all just agree on a byte code standard like the Java byte code standard.
Then you could develop web applications in your choice of language and not just in JS. On the server you upload just the byte code, like the compiled Java source code (.class).
For example, you could develop in Ruby, Python or Java, and compile the code to the byte code for browsers. Then you deploy the byte code on the server.
But the web-developers are so stubborn with their JS language, I don't know why.
A lot of mac-fanboys (maybe girls, too?) here. I'm using Linux because a) I can put it on every computer/laptop and b) it is a lot easy to use as alternatives (is there KDE for Mac?)
Just now I updated my Fedora 15 to 16, and I don't have to pay a dime. In a year I update to 17 and get the new awesomeness of KDE and other Linux apps, all for free.
But I know in our society if you can't pay for it, it is worthless. So you can't impress your friends with the newest useless expensive gadget. "I have Fedora 16 with KDE4.7" --- "Bahh I have it, too, it's free so you can't impress me"
I was only on sourceforge to download some java or c libraries, because I'm a developer. I wouldn't know what else to download from that site. Everything I need I can download and install with a few mouse clicks. To go to some obscure site (like sourceforge or download.com or some other crap website), it's like back when I still had Windows XP (with all the crap what the setup.exe are installing).
As Linux gets more attraction (like with Ubuntu), there is no wonder that less Linux users will go to Sourceforge to download apps. To get real popularity for a project there is nothing better as get into the main repositories of Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Suse (and the other distributions).
Of course the free speech is limited in cases of libel, slander or perjury. But you forget that the FCC is an government agency and as such cannot restrict the free speech. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; So what is the FCC doing forbid TV stations to use certain words with violates the freedom of speech and the freedom of press?
So just explain the case with the FCC to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission In 1934 Congress passed the Communications Act, which abolished the Federal Radio Commission and transferred jurisdiction over radio licensing to a new Federal Communications Commission[...]
So Congress created a law that transferred jurisdiction to the new FCC, which violates the first amendment?
Well, it's the same as with the TSA, another government agency, with violates the "The right of the people to be secure [...] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated". The only way I can think of is that everyone enters an airport is declared a terrorist and then the "[...] probable cause, supported by oath [...]" can be used.
In Europe we don't have such strong free speech rights, but we have a much stronger privacy rights.
You got to be kidding me? That's like I talk about the monopoly in desktops shared by Microsoft and Apple, and you telling me but there are the 1% Linux market share. 2 seats in the Senate by other parties?
We in Europe had just a normal X-ray-scan for the bags and maybe a dog. But than came 9/11 and all of the sudden the security was not good enough. Even in Israel it's just a X-ray-scan for the bags and a dog at the airport. That craziness about terrorism coming all over the ocean from the west.
A state that lets his people die of illnesses that you could only die 100 years ego, is just pathetic. What good is it if only the top percent in a society can afford health care, how is that a democracy?
Your first amendment is the right of free speech. But you have the FCC and they can ban you if you show someone that says words like fuck on the TV. How can a government agency ban a private company if they try and use their most important right as in the Constitution?
Then you have the amendment that they shall no seizure of property without a proper warrant from a judge. But your country searches everything if you try and go on a plane. In not just search the bags, but it strip-search everyone, including children and babies.
The Americans claim to have the best democracy of the world, but you have only two political parties. Then you claim do be the most advanced civilization, but your poverty rate and child-death-rate is one of the highest in the western countries. There are a lot of cases in America that people die because of bad teeth.
And now you don't only have the DMCA law, that ignores the due-process and innocent-until-proven-otherwise rule, but you have soon the SOPA law.
I wouldn't care, but you try and export that anti-democracy laws to us in Europe, too. Just build a big wall around the USA, have your own internet and leave us in peace.
They all act as if that was not the intended purpose of the.xxx domains (or the purpose of any of the TLDs). The purpose of the new.xxx domains is that all your suckers have to buy.xxx just to be save, and not to control the porn industry.
Since a porn site can still have a regular.com domain, you still have to use all the old filter software to block porn sites, plus you have to block all.xxx domains, and now of course you have to buy.xxx to be save.
What would have make more sense is a.kids domain. That way you could just block all other domains except.kids and be done with it. And you don't have to worry that someone will get a.kids and put porn on it. (of course if a.kids domain gets some rules attached to it, like the site with a.kids can only have content appropriate for kids).
Was a.kids TLD even discussed? What was the argument against a.kids domain vs. a.xxx domain?
Hm strange, I'm never do that since I switched to Linux/KDE. Moving a window, I have multiple desktops, so one window in one desktop. New smaller windows (like file manager) are opened in a smart way, where the new window is not overlapping an already opened window. Then I have only one full screen window on a desktop and the smaller windows are opened in the size I put them last time, so no re-sizing.
For frequent used programs, I just put them on the panel (right click, and "Add to Panel"), for less frequent, I put them in the Favorites menu. New programs are put in categories (like office, games, utilities), so no organizing menus.
The windows/desktops and panel GUI is well known and I can do my work in it very easy. I somewhat like Gnome3 but it's still too much of a hassle to do anything in there.
There are elected presidents of two countries and not two buddies in the pub. What they are talking and what they decide, will shape the future not only of their countries, but of the world. It would be "private" if Obama or Sarkozy would talk to his wife or his children, but not if one official is talking to another official.
Such talks should not be private in any sense. Actually, everything our leaders talk and do should be recorded for public review.
Actually, I don't get it what the point is do get up-to-date computer just to install the newest Windows on it. A desktop computer in a lab/class should work for 20 years just fine, if they just clean the dust. Maybe a hard disk will fail, but it shouldn't.
You can install a Linux Long Term like Ubuntu LTS or Redhat Linux, and after the support period is over, just leave the system. It will not catch a virus, just put it in front of a firewall with only port 80 open. Why does hardware and software needs to be replaced or updated indefinitely if it's not broken? A word processor from 1998 is just fine today, and all the educational software today will be fine in 20 years.
So why update? A Windows system will catch all viruses in the world if you don't update it (the system and the anti-virus software needs constant updates), but a Linux system will be just fine. We are not talking about cooperate or private desktops and not about servers. We talking about school systems. Just mount the root partition with no-write-access. How does a system will catch a virus if the root is read-only? The software don't need to be updated, because it's just fine for the next 20 years.
Also, what's wrong with Edubuntu? Edubuntu is just as good as any other Linux distribution, or Ubuntu installation. You can install all the Enterprisy-stuff like a LAMPP stack, Java, C/C++, Python, Office, etc. What does a school needs more?
Linux supports PXE just fine, you can also install drivers, software and updates before the deployment of the Linux system. Linux supports all the stuff from Microsoft Windows, it's just cheaper. (and I think in a school you don't need to install Crysis or any other games).
Why the people listen to the TSA agents? Get of a train and let you searched and patted down? Are people that stupid? I'm not american, but I know you have something like the constitution and there is something like that: "The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause"
Why the hell do people comply with the TSA agents? I would just ignore them and told anybody to do the same. Are the people that brainwashed by FOX News?
"The TSA's Blogger Bob writes that what the Savannah train passengers encountered is known as a VIPR operation, a randomized search "where anyone entering an impacted area has to be screened.""
Where are the law-suits? If someone gets hot coffee over their leg there is a class-action-law-suit one week later, but if an government agency violates the 4. Amendment you get just the comment: ""Their apology is kind of lame," he says. "I thought this whole thing was very unprofessional and very shady.""
Unprofessional and very shady? It's just plain illegal.
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It's a shame you can't just change the desktop on Windows or OSX to something what you like. I would say the most best feature of Linux is KDE4 and it would be very nice for me to have the same desktop on Windows. Yes, you can install KDE for Windows, but it's not the same because the ugly and useless Windows desktop is still there.
PS: to not to start a flame war, please replace KDE with your favorite desktop, like Gnome or Xfce.
If SL or Flash wouldn't exists and Netflix would just use standard HTML5 with no DRM, then I would watch it. But as of now I just go to google.com and enter torrent and watch it a day later. (Also if they just get in their heads that in the global internet a limitation on country does not make sense anymore. I don't care if the shows are in English or German, I just want a convenient way of viewing them.)
What happens with Apple iTunes and DRM? The music studios were so happy how it went with the forced DRM on iTunes. They created a iTunes monopoly with set Apple in the position to dictate prices to the music studios. As a result we now have almost everywhere DRM free music.
Solution is easy: just don't use any software from the BSA members.
The Open Source alternatives are quite strong, you would be surprised.
Maybe, but it's goes both ways. Now a phone can do what most PCs can do (play video, music, browser the web, edit documents in a limited way, play games). Also eReaders, and tables only increase their features.
Also, this speciality don't make sense for a computer device (anything with a CPU, memory and a display). Because for the "Electric Drill" you need to get all the attachments, and some attachments probably don't work as good. But with a computer device all you need is to start a different app for the task.
So it's more a move to more general purpose devices. From a dump phone to a smart phone, with has almost all features what a PC have. It's only companies like Apple who don't want that a smart phone will become a truly general purpose device like a PC, they want to control it, and thus control the user.
BTW: there are already movements to make copyright infringement a criminal offence.
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/1907512/uk-opposes-criminal-sanctions-copyright-infringement
"A document leaked by French advocacy group La Quadrature du Net shows that EU negotiators want criminal sanctions introduced into the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta)."
I don't know if it's in the current Acta.
It's the same stupidity as with drugs counterfeit. The US government will spend millions to fight copyright violations, with will have no effect on the quality and availability on sites. But it will make the organizations more criminal and will put more people in jail for minor offends.
Here is a forecast how this will end (just replace drugs with copyright infringement)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsk8R_j5zzg
""It pains me to know that there is a solution for preventing tragedy and nothing is being done because of ignorance, stubbornness, unsubstantiated fear and greed."
Hear Neill Franklin, Executive Director of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), speak on the problems and costs of the war on drugs, and the reasons society would be better off if it were ended."
What have desktop Linux with syslogs to do?
You do know what we are talking about? About enterprise systems and the logs, like the apache log, daemon log, kernel log, etc.
We are not talking about anything that have to do with the desktop.
I'm using Linux desktop now for 3 years and besides a dmesg I never looked in the syslogs. And I couldn't care less if dmesg is a database or plain text.
That is really stupid of you.
Let me see how the facts are:
Firefox with a few addons and 9 tabs: 180MB RAM. Eclipse with a lot of projects open: 200MB RAM.
At least with a Java Application I can just download it and run it on my Linux and Windows computers. It would be really nice if more applications would leave the Windows-monoculture, like from companies that owe their very existence to open source systems like Google (Google Sketchup is still not available for Linux and probably never will be).
What have the human-readable source code to do with that argument? For such a plugin it's actually way easier to analyze byte code than the source code. As long as the byte code is a standard, which we are talking about the whole time.
I don't think that the generated HTML code have anything to do with the open nature of the web. It have only to do with one important fact: that HTML is an open standard. We shouldn't care less if (the tag) or 0x02 (the byte) is used, as long as it's an open standard.
Of course lots of HTML is written by humans so a text token is better, then a byte number.
You could use a decompiler. Here is a list of Java decompilers: http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/JavaDecompilers
Since we are talking about making a bytecode standard, it should be very easy to build such decompilers, if needed.
In Java bytecode the method and class names are saved, so with a decompiler it's a lot easier to understand the bytecode then with the minimized JQuery code.
The only reason why Linux don't have viruses "in the wild" is because it is extremely difficult to write viruses for Linux that can be run or installed without user interaction.
Sure, I can get a virus for Linux if I go to virus.com, download and run the virus. But for Windows you can get a virus with different means. Like via Email attachment, autorun from a USB-stick, via remote access (in Windows XP I get virus only because I was online).
In Linux you have explicitly tell the system to run the file. But on Windows everything with a .exe is run. Also, many programs are run automatically for the "convenience" of the user, like autorun USB or CDs. Windows still hides the file extension from the user, so if you have a file like porn.jpg.exe Windows will show you porn.jpg.
Also it's very easy to get rid of a virus in Linux. Just delete the infected file and replace it with the original from the package manage. In Windows you can't even delete the file because it's still in use.
Plus the whole-system update management of the Linux distributions. I can run my updates weekly and in the background and it will update the system and all of the applications.
Did you even visit http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.js ?
I would say that's byte code, with just happens to have some ASCII characters in it, instead of just byte tupels.
In Java almost all important libraries are open source, but very few people would download the source code, they are just happy with the compiled .class (i.e. a jar) files. The same is true for all compiled languages, and for some interpreted, like python.
As long as the license is open, the original code available, and the common practice of using minimized JS will increase, I don't see any problem or difference with byte code.
We not talking about applets. We talk about a byte code that every browser have to implement, like the ECMAScript today. But the byte code could be generated by any language, not just JS.
It's the same as with Google's GWT, with takes Java source code and compiles it to JS code, so a browser can run it. Now, why can't GWT compile Java to a byte code that can directly be run in the browser?
If Sun/Oracle could would had more wisdom, we would just have a JVM in every browser. That way you could program in Scala,Groovy,Java,Closure,JRuby,Jython,LUA, and JavaScript for the browser. Just take the current JVM, add some DOM-API to it and be done with it.
But, no, they had to add some stupid patents to JVM and some stupid politics about the license. So now we still have JS VMs that are like the JVM was in 1995 and with single language attached to it.
What have that do to with your argument? Libraries like JQuery will still be open source.
I would rather think that Web exploded because it's build on open technologies and open source software.
And if the Byte Code is a standard, it's as simple as a editor or disassembler to use to see the code.
Also, I don't think you can read that code: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.js
Why you assume that this theocracy is special only because it's a Muslim theocracy? We all know what was happening in a Christianity theocracy, and it's not better.
Yes, would make sense, wouldn't it? Instead that every browser have to interpret the slow JS language (yes, JS language is slow to interpret, because of the design choices. Just watch some of Doug Crockford videos), we could all just agree on a byte code standard like the Java byte code standard.
Then you could develop web applications in your choice of language and not just in JS. On the server you upload just the byte code, like the compiled Java source code (.class).
For example, you could develop in Ruby, Python or Java, and compile the code to the byte code for browsers. Then you deploy the byte code on the server.
But the web-developers are so stubborn with their JS language, I don't know why.
A lot of mac-fanboys (maybe girls, too?) here. I'm using Linux because a) I can put it on every computer/laptop and b) it is a lot easy to use as alternatives (is there KDE for Mac?)
Just now I updated my Fedora 15 to 16, and I don't have to pay a dime. In a year I update to 17 and get the new awesomeness of KDE and other Linux apps, all for free.
But I know in our society if you can't pay for it, it is worthless. So you can't impress your friends with the newest useless expensive gadget. "I have Fedora 16 with KDE4.7" --- "Bahh I have it, too, it's free so you can't impress me"
I was only on sourceforge to download some java or c libraries, because I'm a developer. I wouldn't know what else to download from that site. Everything I need I can download and install with a few mouse clicks. To go to some obscure site (like sourceforge or download.com or some other crap website), it's like back when I still had Windows XP (with all the crap what the setup.exe are installing).
As Linux gets more attraction (like with Ubuntu), there is no wonder that less Linux users will go to Sourceforge to download apps. To get real popularity for a project there is nothing better as get into the main repositories of Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Suse (and the other distributions).
Of course the free speech is limited in cases of libel, slander or perjury. But you forget that the FCC is an government agency and as such cannot restrict the free speech. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; So what is the FCC doing forbid TV stations to use certain words with violates the freedom of speech and the freedom of press?
So just explain the case with the FCC to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission
In 1934 Congress passed the Communications Act, which abolished the Federal Radio Commission and transferred jurisdiction over radio licensing to a new Federal Communications Commission[...]
So Congress created a law that transferred jurisdiction to the new FCC, which violates the first amendment?
Well, it's the same as with the TSA, another government agency, with violates the "The right of the people to be secure [...] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated". The only way I can think of is that everyone enters an airport is declared a terrorist and then the "[...] probable cause, supported by oath [...]" can be used.
In Europe we don't have such strong free speech rights, but we have a much stronger privacy rights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States
Political Party House of Representatives Senate
Democratic Party 192 51
Republican Party 240 47
Connecticut for Lieberman 0 1
Independent 0 1
Vacant 3 0
You got to be kidding me? That's like I talk about the monopoly in desktops shared by Microsoft and Apple, and you telling me but there are the 1% Linux market share. 2 seats in the Senate by other parties?
We in Europe had just a normal X-ray-scan for the bags and maybe a dog. But than came 9/11 and all of the sudden the security was not good enough. Even in Israel it's just a X-ray-scan for the bags and a dog at the airport. That craziness about terrorism coming all over the ocean from the west.
A state that lets his people die of illnesses that you could only die 100 years ego, is just pathetic. What good is it if only the top percent in a society can afford health care, how is that a democracy?
I've never understood Americans.
Your first amendment is the right of free speech. But you have the FCC and they can ban you if you show someone that says words like fuck on the TV. How can a government agency ban a private company if they try and use their most important right as in the Constitution?
Then you have the amendment that they shall no seizure of property without a proper warrant from a judge. But your country searches everything if you try and go on a plane. In not just search the bags, but it strip-search everyone, including children and babies.
The Americans claim to have the best democracy of the world, but you have only two political parties. Then you claim do be the most advanced civilization, but your poverty rate and child-death-rate is one of the highest in the western countries. There are a lot of cases in America that people die because of bad teeth.
And now you don't only have the DMCA law, that ignores the due-process and innocent-until-proven-otherwise rule, but you have soon the SOPA law.
I wouldn't care, but you try and export that anti-democracy laws to us in Europe, too. Just build a big wall around the USA, have your own internet and leave us in peace.
Obviously it's necessary. Why else would schools use their limited budged not to teach students, but to buy .xxx domains?
They all act as if that was not the intended purpose of the .xxx domains (or the purpose of any of the TLDs). The purpose of the new .xxx domains is that all your suckers have to buy .xxx just to be save, and not to control the porn industry.
Since a porn site can still have a regular .com domain, you still have to use all the old filter software to block porn sites, plus you have to block all .xxx domains, and now of course you have to buy .xxx to be save.
What would have make more sense is a .kids domain. That way you could just block all other domains except .kids and be done with it. And you don't have to worry that someone will get a .kids and put porn on it. (of course if a .kids domain gets some rules attached to it, like the site with a .kids can only have content appropriate for kids).
Was a .kids TLD even discussed? What was the argument against a .kids domain vs. a .xxx domain?
Hm strange, I'm never do that since I switched to Linux/KDE. Moving a window, I have multiple desktops, so one window in one desktop. New smaller windows (like file manager) are opened in a smart way, where the new window is not overlapping an already opened window. Then I have only one full screen window on a desktop and the smaller windows are opened in the size I put them last time, so no re-sizing.
For frequent used programs, I just put them on the panel (right click, and "Add to Panel"), for less frequent, I put them in the Favorites menu. New programs are put in categories (like office, games, utilities), so no organizing menus.
The windows/desktops and panel GUI is well known and I can do my work in it very easy. I somewhat like Gnome3 but it's still too much of a hassle to do anything in there.
There are elected presidents of two countries and not two buddies in the pub. What they are talking and what they decide, will shape the future not only of their countries, but of the world. It would be "private" if Obama or Sarkozy would talk to his wife or his children, but not if one official is talking to another official.
Such talks should not be private in any sense. Actually, everything our leaders talk and do should be recorded for public review.
Actually, I don't get it what the point is do get up-to-date computer just to install the newest Windows on it. A desktop computer in a lab/class should work for 20 years just fine, if they just clean the dust. Maybe a hard disk will fail, but it shouldn't.
You can install a Linux Long Term like Ubuntu LTS or Redhat Linux, and after the support period is over, just leave the system. It will not catch a virus, just put it in front of a firewall with only port 80 open. Why does hardware and software needs to be replaced or updated indefinitely if it's not broken? A word processor from 1998 is just fine today, and all the educational software today will be fine in 20 years.
So why update? A Windows system will catch all viruses in the world if you don't update it (the system and the anti-virus software needs constant updates), but a Linux system will be just fine. We are not talking about cooperate or private desktops and not about servers. We talking about school systems. Just mount the root partition with no-write-access. How does a system will catch a virus if the root is read-only? The software don't need to be updated, because it's just fine for the next 20 years.
Also, what's wrong with Edubuntu? Edubuntu is just as good as any other Linux distribution, or Ubuntu installation. You can install all the Enterprisy-stuff like a LAMPP stack, Java, C/C++, Python, Office, etc. What does a school needs more?
Linux supports PXE just fine, you can also install drivers, software and updates before the deployment of the Linux system. Linux supports all the stuff from Microsoft Windows, it's just cheaper. (and I think in a school you don't need to install Crysis or any other games).
Why the people listen to the TSA agents? Get of a train and let you searched and patted down? Are people that stupid?
I'm not american, but I know you have something like the constitution and there is something like that: "The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause"
Why the hell do people comply with the TSA agents? I would just ignore them and told anybody to do the same.
Are the people that brainwashed by FOX News?
"The TSA's Blogger Bob writes that what the Savannah train passengers encountered is known as a VIPR operation, a randomized search "where anyone entering an impacted area has to be screened.""
Where are the law-suits? If someone gets hot coffee over their leg there is a class-action-law-suit one week later, but if an government agency violates the 4. Amendment you get just the comment: ""Their apology is kind of lame," he says. "I thought this whole thing was very unprofessional and very shady.""
Unprofessional and very shady? It's just plain illegal.