But Napster wasn't technically a web application...
My vote for truly the best web software ever was the Zippy Filter. It's the only thing that made most of the web bearable and it is sorely missed. As one of the comments suggested, "This is almost certainly the finest thing I have seen on the Web. When you figure out how to apply this filter to the rest of the universe, don't tell me about it. Just do it."
Yeah, we see the FSF lobbying for copyright extension all the time. Face it, in the eyes of the FSF, copyright is an evil which they have decided to pervert for good.
Copyright extension is not copyright law. They are not perverting copyright law; they are restoring the actual purpose of copyright law in the US -- to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. They do not, to my knowledge, claim that copyright is evil or even that they oppose copyright law itself.
Turns out some guy in the middle east figured this out a couple of millennia ago. They called him the Nazarene or something; apparently even did some tricks where he walked on the stuff. Once again, slashdot is just recycling old news.
I have mod points right now and I almost modded you down but then nobody would have known why. So, attention all slashdotters! "SPEECH" is spelled "S-P-E-E-C-H," not SPEACH. If English is not your first language, I suppose you find this strange because the verb to speak has an "a" in it. Well, ok, it's weird, but deal with it -- the word "speach" has no meaning whatsoever in the English language. In the US we have freedom of speech and we have the freedom to speak, but we do not have freedom of speach because there is no such thing!
This has been a public service announcement from your local spelling nazi. Have a day!
As explained in this more detailed article about the issue, is that someone could harrass someone else by transmitting illegal material from an open WAP. It certainly has happened before. It's a lot harder to get away with a phony trail of blood leading to someone's door.
Now, there may be other valid reasons for blocking access to Wikipedia, but the reliability and credibility one is, from my perspective, pretty stupid.
Actually, this is a really good reason to block a number of sites. There are a few sites in particular well known for being unreliable and misleading -- start with this and this for example....
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it's always nice when the userid and the comment match so well.
You mean this guy? He may be on to something, or it could just be another of his loony theories.
But Napster wasn't technically a web application...
My vote for truly the best web software ever was the Zippy Filter. It's the only thing that made most of the web bearable and it is sorely missed. As one of the comments suggested, "This is almost certainly the finest thing I have seen on the Web. When you figure out how to apply this filter to the rest of the universe, don't tell me about it. Just do it."
it just confirms that reiserfs is truly a killer filesystem.
Remember, folks:
Hammers don't kill people; Carpenters do.
What if they wind up designing schools that teach students to operate CAD-programs? This is a really dangerous slope to be headed down...
Don't be so sure. There is, after all, oil in Scotland. It will fall under US jurisdiction soon enough.
You "draw" a giant "WIN" on the OS X side of the board.
That it would take XP and Vista for people to understand that Windows 2000 was "simple and sensible."
Turns out some guy in the middle east figured this out a couple of millennia ago. They called him the Nazarene or something; apparently even did some tricks where he walked on the stuff. Once again, slashdot is just recycling old news.
It's a cookbook!!
I have mod points right now and I almost modded you down but then nobody would have known why. So, attention all slashdotters! "SPEECH" is spelled "S-P-E-E-C-H," not SPEACH. If English is not your first language, I suppose you find this strange because the verb to speak has an "a" in it. Well, ok, it's weird, but deal with it -- the word "speach" has no meaning whatsoever in the English language. In the US we have freedom of speech and we have the freedom to speak, but we do not have freedom of speach because there is no such thing!
This has been a public service announcement from your local spelling nazi. Have a day!
I think you'll find Jobs' Reality Distortion Field is just as effective on investigators and lawyers as it is on your average computer user.
As explained in this more detailed article about the issue, is that someone could harrass someone else by transmitting illegal material from an open WAP. It certainly has happened before. It's a lot harder to get away with a phony trail of blood leading to someone's door.
One soldier picked up the helmet cam and said "What? No wireless?" Another said "this thing has less space than a nomad!"
And I suppose you'd rather have the government dictate which species can pollinate what?
"Royal jelly flows like a river of nectar" -- that is pure poetry.
Look at it this way. The end is nigh for XP. Apple is dying. *BSD is dead. Linux is pretty much all that is left!