Internships are only the modern version of apprenticeships that blue collar unions (and trade guilds before them) have been doing for hundreds of years.
Apprentices in the building trades are well-trained and well-paid.
This is an important point. Part of what authenticates leaked information is the identity of the whistleblowers, their staus as insiders with privileged access to information, and their willingness to sacrifice in order to publish information. Much of this is lost with anonymous hacktivists. In paticular, when all that's known of the source of information is that it came from an anonymous source, it's harder to disprove the common defense that the leaked information was cooked up by a hostile rival.
Dropbox has had a series of security debacles recently. I try to have a reasonable approach to security -- I figure that the flip side of the defense-in-depth principle is that it's foolish to overreact to a revelation of a minor security problem, as you should have been assuming there were security vulnerabilities anyway. However, when Dropbox left all files for all users completely exposed for four hours, and I only found out after the fact when my partner read a third party's blog, I had to conclude that Dropbox was both incompetent and unprincipled.
A lot of commenters are comparing the TOS for Dropbox to that of services like Youtube. There's a big difference: one uploads a file to Youtube for the explicit purpose of sharing it with the world at large, so sharing ownership of the files involved with Youtube makes sense. The primary use of Dropbox is for a user to sync some files between different computers, for the private use of that user. Sharing files with a discrete list of other users is a secondary use, and publishing a file for general access is a tertiary use, which seems an afterthought in the Dropbox documentation. Only in that last case can I see any point to the comparison with Youtube.
And somehow, Spideroak can offer all these services, without claiming joint ownership of a user's private documents, or the right to create derivative works. Given that all files are encrypted, client-side, with a private key, it's clear that Spideroak couldn't steal user content even if it wanted to.
I can think of a couple of things that online RPGs offer in addition to the opportunity to be someone you're not, though that would probably be at the top of the list.
Rich and famous? In EVE Online, the premise is that you are rich and famous on day one -- you should be able to fill your cargo hold with expensive clothing with your starting cash and have most of it left over.
Another thing that an online RPG allows is for people to create a collaborative narrative, with the game designers offering a grounding that's not under the players' control. As any GM can tell you, getting the balance right between meeting players' expectations and surprising them, between giving them what they want and frustrating them, is a real challenge.
I gave up on EVE Online when it became clear that CCP's approach was to steamroll their plans through, while flipping the middle finger at roleplayers, or at any sense of continuity.
You know what would be a break from sexism? Respecting women's desires, not telling them what they should want in order to be considered women. That should pretty much work for men, also.
A man, named locally as Ryan Cleary, 19, has been arrested in Wickford, Essex. Police have not identified him.
The site AnonOps Communications published his name, date of birth, and address on May 12. They match the details of the BBC article.
According to a metro.co.uk article, Ryan Cleary was a former member of Anonymous, who broke off and formed his own group, after hacking and publishing information from one of Anonoymous's servers in May. From an interview with Cleary,
Hacking into the Anonymous system was ‘regrettable but necessary’, he told website Thinq.
‘The only way to make things safe is to make users aware how insecure it is,’ he added.
The system menu is a submenu of the menu from the top right. I agree -- that isn't as clear as it should be, and lots of people seem to have trouble finding it. It's in exactly the same place in the GNOME Shell, but the same problem applies.
I don't know why your applets don't show up in the Dash search. They do in mine. Not being snarky -- I just don't know.
I can launch my choice of a terminal window, gvim, emacs, or any of several IDEs (or Firefox or Minecraft) with two or three key presses in Unity. It seems to me that any of the geek stuff that actually matters is more accessible than ever. It's just pissing off the "Hey, that's not how it worked on the Alto!" crowd.
Actually, I thought a major improvement in Unity was that it feels much easier to control the GUI using keyboard shortcuts. I notice that a lot of the complaints seem to be from people trying to do things with the mouse that are now easier to do with the keyboard. In particular, I find that launching an application is a matter of pressing the SUPER key and the first letter or two of the app, and if it's a small window, it's reasonably intelligently positioned. Before, I'd tend to click on the menu, click on the app, and move windows around until they weren't covering each other up.
Caveat: I hadn't tried to operate the GUI using keyboard shortcuts much in other GUIs. However, my sense is that I'd try, and find I needed the mouse anyway, so it was easier to keep my hand on the mouse and forego the shortcuts.
What really gets me is that my family and friends who have tried Unity like it, and tell me they prefer it to the prior versions of the Gnome interface and to Windows. That they mostly use OS X may have something to do with it. But, I have been bemused to keep reading complaints from people who boast of their deep experience with Linux that they cannot understand how to use Unity, or that features have been removed, when I have watched children quickly learn to use Unity, point out features I hadn't noticed, and find in seconds the features that IT pros complain have been removed.
I'm beginning to think that the biggest challenge facing the FLOSS community is the hidebound parts of the community who cannot grasp that when usability experts and professional designers design an interface for regular users, the usability experts and professional designers may actually be more in touch with what regular users want than they are.
Curiously, I can easily calculate the price of 3.0 based upon the price of 2.6.40, but when I try to calculate the price of 2.6.40 based upon the price of 3.0, gcalc gives me an error message.
It's a pity, as this is the sort of software that really should be considered an indispensable part of the operating system. At least in older versions of Windows, the security flaws were arguably design flaws in the basic operating system, and therefore the operating system publisher's responsibility to repair.
I've been pretty happy with MSE, which works smoothly and unobtrusively. I've had many headaches with McAfee, Symantec, and Kaspersky; I generally distrust the anti-virus companies.
The poster had a computer so old it noticeably slows down with a virus scanner installed. Odds are, it's running Windows XP or something older, which gives everyone admin access by default.
I have Occam's Razor, by which I mean the reasonable assumption is the null hypothesis, by which I mean that unless I had some reason to believe that some unprecedented phenomenon would occur, I shouldn't expect it to occur.
In addition, given the text that Harold Camping is supposedly basing his beliefs upon says, specifically, that neither he nor anyone else can know when the Rapture will occur, it's obvious that Camping is too stupid to think coherently even within the bounds of his own declared belief system.
The real pity is that Camping and his followers are among the most foolish people in the world, that almost all of them will still be here tomorrow, and that most of them won't even reconsider their own beliefs in light of this spectacular folly.
For years, I've heard people complain that computer user interfaces are too complex and confusing. Recently, there's an enormous surge of enthusiasm for smartphones and tablets, and people keep saying how great the user interfaces are and how they prefer them to their desktops, despite the small screens with tiny print and the tiny keyboards.
Perhaps smartphone UIs are actually really good UIs, and there are lessons to learn from them. Perhaps users who are used to smartphone UIs would prefer similar UIs on desktops.
One thing I want from a general UI is for it to get the fsck out of the way when I'm using an application. Smartphone UIs are good at this. Unity is good at this.
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Internships are only the modern version of apprenticeships that blue collar unions (and trade guilds before them) have been doing for hundreds of years.
Apprentices in the building trades are well-trained and well-paid.
This is an important point. Part of what authenticates leaked information is the identity of the whistleblowers, their staus as insiders with privileged access to information, and their willingness to sacrifice in order to publish information. Much of this is lost with anonymous hacktivists. In paticular, when all that's known of the source of information is that it came from an anonymous source, it's harder to disprove the common defense that the leaked information was cooked up by a hostile rival.
Dropbox has had a series of security debacles recently. I try to have a reasonable approach to security -- I figure that the flip side of the defense-in-depth principle is that it's foolish to overreact to a revelation of a minor security problem, as you should have been assuming there were security vulnerabilities anyway. However, when Dropbox left all files for all users completely exposed for four hours, and I only found out after the fact when my partner read a third party's blog, I had to conclude that Dropbox was both incompetent and unprincipled.
A lot of commenters are comparing the TOS for Dropbox to that of services like Youtube. There's a big difference: one uploads a file to Youtube for the explicit purpose of sharing it with the world at large, so sharing ownership of the files involved with Youtube makes sense. The primary use of Dropbox is for a user to sync some files between different computers, for the private use of that user. Sharing files with a discrete list of other users is a secondary use, and publishing a file for general access is a tertiary use, which seems an afterthought in the Dropbox documentation. Only in that last case can I see any point to the comparison with Youtube.
And somehow, Spideroak can offer all these services, without claiming joint ownership of a user's private documents, or the right to create derivative works. Given that all files are encrypted, client-side, with a private key, it's clear that Spideroak couldn't steal user content even if it wanted to.
I can think of a couple of things that online RPGs offer in addition to the opportunity to be someone you're not, though that would probably be at the top of the list.
Rich and famous? In EVE Online, the premise is that you are rich and famous on day one -- you should be able to fill your cargo hold with expensive clothing with your starting cash and have most of it left over.
Another thing that an online RPG allows is for people to create a collaborative narrative, with the game designers offering a grounding that's not under the players' control. As any GM can tell you, getting the balance right between meeting players' expectations and surprising them, between giving them what they want and frustrating them, is a real challenge.
I gave up on EVE Online when it became clear that CCP's approach was to steamroll their plans through, while flipping the middle finger at roleplayers, or at any sense of continuity.
I pretty much agree.
You know what would be a break from sexism? Respecting women's desires, not telling them what they should want in order to be considered women. That should pretty much work for men, also.
According to the BBC story,
A man, named locally as Ryan Cleary, 19, has been arrested in Wickford, Essex. Police have not identified him.
The site AnonOps Communications published his name, date of birth, and address on May 12. They match the details of the BBC article.
According to a metro.co.uk article, Ryan Cleary was a former member of Anonymous, who broke off and formed his own group, after hacking and publishing information from one of Anonoymous's servers in May. From an interview with Cleary,
Hacking into the Anonymous system was ‘regrettable but necessary’, he told website Thinq.
‘The only way to make things safe is to make users aware how insecure it is,’ he added.
None of this is definite, but it fits together.
Did you miss the part where he's adding another game mode, called "Adventure Mode"?
The system menu is a submenu of the menu from the top right. I agree -- that isn't as clear as it should be, and lots of people seem to have trouble finding it. It's in exactly the same place in the GNOME Shell, but the same problem applies.
I don't know why your applets don't show up in the Dash search. They do in mine. Not being snarky -- I just don't know.
It is odd we're still stuck with Eclipse 3.5, not 3.6. Fedora 15 has Eclipse 3.6.
AI chess programs have been beating chess grandmasters for years.
Machines are better than people for lots of things. That's why we build machines.
I can launch my choice of a terminal window, gvim, emacs, or any of several IDEs (or Firefox or Minecraft) with two or three key presses in Unity. It seems to me that any of the geek stuff that actually matters is more accessible than ever. It's just pissing off the "Hey, that's not how it worked on the Alto!" crowd.
And that's exactly why Ubuntu is the least popular Linux distribution.
Oh wait. It's the most popular Linux distribution.
It only autohides when you're trying to use the space where the panel appears. I really don't see the downside.
Actually, I thought a major improvement in Unity was that it feels much easier to control the GUI using keyboard shortcuts. I notice that a lot of the complaints seem to be from people trying to do things with the mouse that are now easier to do with the keyboard. In particular, I find that launching an application is a matter of pressing the SUPER key and the first letter or two of the app, and if it's a small window, it's reasonably intelligently positioned. Before, I'd tend to click on the menu, click on the app, and move windows around until they weren't covering each other up.
Caveat: I hadn't tried to operate the GUI using keyboard shortcuts much in other GUIs. However, my sense is that I'd try, and find I needed the mouse anyway, so it was easier to keep my hand on the mouse and forego the shortcuts.
I largely agree with this.
What really gets me is that my family and friends who have tried Unity like it, and tell me they prefer it to the prior versions of the Gnome interface and to Windows. That they mostly use OS X may have something to do with it. But, I have been bemused to keep reading complaints from people who boast of their deep experience with Linux that they cannot understand how to use Unity, or that features have been removed, when I have watched children quickly learn to use Unity, point out features I hadn't noticed, and find in seconds the features that IT pros complain have been removed.
I'm beginning to think that the biggest challenge facing the FLOSS community is the hidebound parts of the community who cannot grasp that when usability experts and professional designers design an interface for regular users, the usability experts and professional designers may actually be more in touch with what regular users want than they are.
Curiously, I can easily calculate the price of 3.0 based upon the price of 2.6.40, but when I try to calculate the price of 2.6.40 based upon the price of 3.0, gcalc gives me an error message.
I hope they fix that bug by 3.0.2.
With Linus Torvalds, sometimes it's hard to be sure whether he's joking.
Now aren't you glad he turned down the job at the NSA?
It's a pity, as this is the sort of software that really should be considered an indispensable part of the operating system. At least in older versions of Windows, the security flaws were arguably design flaws in the basic operating system, and therefore the operating system publisher's responsibility to repair.
I've been pretty happy with MSE, which works smoothly and unobtrusively. I've had many headaches with McAfee, Symantec, and Kaspersky; I generally distrust the anti-virus companies.
No, it's a separate download. Fortunately, it's free.
Microsoft Security Essentials
The poster had a computer so old it noticeably slows down with a virus scanner installed. Odds are, it's running Windows XP or something older, which gives everyone admin access by default.
I'm an atheist who likes Unity. I suppose all that gets me is not feeling compelled to switch to Xubuntu.
I have Occam's Razor, by which I mean the reasonable assumption is the null hypothesis, by which I mean that unless I had some reason to believe that some unprecedented phenomenon would occur, I shouldn't expect it to occur.
In addition, given the text that Harold Camping is supposedly basing his beliefs upon says, specifically, that neither he nor anyone else can know when the Rapture will occur, it's obvious that Camping is too stupid to think coherently even within the bounds of his own declared belief system.
The real pity is that Camping and his followers are among the most foolish people in the world, that almost all of them will still be here tomorrow, and that most of them won't even reconsider their own beliefs in light of this spectacular folly.
Oops. I assumed DHMO was an abbreviation for dihydrogen monoxide, i.e., H2O. That rather spoils the joke, unfortunately.
For years, I've heard people complain that computer user interfaces are too complex and confusing. Recently, there's an enormous surge of enthusiasm for smartphones and tablets, and people keep saying how great the user interfaces are and how they prefer them to their desktops, despite the small screens with tiny print and the tiny keyboards.
Perhaps smartphone UIs are actually really good UIs, and there are lessons to learn from them. Perhaps users who are used to smartphone UIs would prefer similar UIs on desktops.
One thing I want from a general UI is for it to get the fsck out of the way when I'm using an application. Smartphone UIs are good at this. Unity is good at this.