There are a few problems with that philosophy. 1) We should protect the innocent from the unscrupulous 2) Spammers are stupid too. How many actually make a significant amount of money from it? Just because there's no market doesn't mean they'll stop sending it. 3) and most important, I'm not stupid (in that way), but it keeps coming to me. Any piece of spam I don't have to see because the person who was going to send it is doing time is less hassle for me. Spam doesn't only affect those who take people up on the "specail [sic] once in a life time opertunitys! [sic]". We all suffer from it.
The location signature is virtually impossible to forge at the required
accuracy. This is because the GPS observations at any given time are
essentially unpredictable to high precision due to subtle satellite
orbit perturbations, which are unknowable in real-time, and intentional
signal instabilities (dithering) imposed by the U.S. Department of
Defense selective availability (SA) security policy. Further, because a
signature is invalid after five milliseconds, the attacker cannot spoof
the location by replaying an intercepted signature, particularly when it
is bound to the message (e.g., through a checksum or digital signature).
Continuous authentication provides further protection against such
attacks.
So to authenticate, the host station gets the same signals as the client that's trying to authenticate, and can calculate what the client would be receiving if it were in the right place. What I don't understand is what would prevent anyone else who can get those signals from computing the same thing and sending that. So you could limit the location a little (ie, if you're on the other side of the world you can't see the same satellites, so you're screwed), but I can't see that as being too useful.
First of all, that one was different (this requires you to click in very particular places in the pictures, not just on the right pictures), and secondly most of the comments on that were "This is stupid" and all the downsides. This idea has even more downsides than that.
I don't think so. First of all, most people don't understand the idea of spyware at all, or simply don't care. For those who do, you now have a really simple answer to what is Mozilla: "It's Netscape without the Spyware and other corporate crap."
Did you read the article? The whole point was that it's not a deal breaker now, but as prices drop it becomes more and more significant. His price point was $350. When you compare a Windows machine for $450 (and no office) to one at $350 (which all the free office software being made), things start to look different. $100/$350 * 100% = 28.5% of the price of the system.
If you're correct, I apologize. I based that statement on the last versions of word I personally tried to interoperate between (Word 6, preinstalled on my home machine and the last time I paid anything for MS software, and Word 97 (or so) on the computers here at school). What you described is indeed the right way to handle new features, and I'm quite impressed. Again, sorry for the misinformation.
You can use Word all you want. No one is saying "No, you must switch to vi for all your editing!" What we are saying is "When you finish writing your thing in Word, if you want me to read it, chose 'File / Save as...' and give it a format I can read." I don't see how that limits user choice one iota.
.doc isn't a single format, though. If.doc were what it were as of WinWord 2.0, we'd have no problems by now. But every version the.doc format changes, and everyone runs around trying to reverse engineer it YET AGAIN. And if you finish that, they'll do it again. I have nothing against de facto standards, but a "standard" that can be changed at any arbitrary point, by a single company (and frequently is) isn't much of a standard at all.
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Ideally, one of the pieces of info the salesdrone would get is "This guy doesn't make friends easy; just the facts". If that pops up on the computer screen the second you call, the person on the other end of the line can be fast and efficient in a way that, perhaps, others would consider rude and cold. Then you get what you want, they get what they want (long, slow, talkative, etc), and everyone is happy (except you while you wait on hold for them to finish).
Ok, I'll explain. In the first edition of the Hobbit, that chapter is a bit different. Gollum did indeed wager the ring, not knowing that he had lost it (in both versions he doesn't realize it's lost until after the game is over). Finding that he cannot meet his bargain, he shows Bilbo the way out.
As the writing of the Lord of the Rings progressed, it seemed more and more out of character, so Tolkien rewrote the chapter, into the version you described. Tolkien later explained it as the first version being what Bilbo wrote in his own early accounts, at which time he was lying to himself to justify stealing the ring (in the same way that Gollum created the "birthday present" story). The later additions indicated a correction based on better,more accurate manuscripts Tolkien translated.
"If you think cryptography can solve your problem, then you don't understand your problem and you don't understand cryptography."
-- Bruce Schneier
And that goes much stronger for PKI. Do you even know what Public Key Infrastructure means? In this case, just get a good, solid shared secret key. There's no reason for asymetric keys.
Seems like you'd have to be really careful not to exclude the color blind. And the actually blind. Or just those with bad vision, or really poor visual memories.
Those people can download their bugfixes, they just have to wait a little longer. You should note that the free Red Carpet seems every bit as fast as it has for the past month or so (which is quite a bit faster than it was before that). We're not talking about having bugfixes out sooner, just taking less time downloading them.
Of course, just because you have alpha-channeling doesn't mean you can't have workspaces. I could even see something like layers in the GIMP. Windows belong to different workspaces, but you can show any subset of the workspaces together at any time, in any order, with each one having any transparency. You might find it really useful to have something slow happening literally in the background while you do something else (at, say, 90% opacity) in the foreground, and when the other finishes you can see it and reorder the layers so that your background task is in the foreground.
Necessary? Of course not! But pretty slick, and I bet with a bit of set up time, you could rig something that would be really nice to use. Personally, I want a background that looks like nature scene with semi-transparent terminals in the foreground, and things like trees blowing gently and soothingly in the wind. And if you could link the motion to other things (when cpu load goes up, the wind gets faster and gustier and clouds roll in) then I would be really happy. But that's just me.
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It's changed some since then, but now you can dock either the history or the bookmarks in a sidebar like dock next to the main window. Hmmm, looking at it I don't see menu items for those; odd. You can add buttons to the toolbar to open them, and you can open Tools/History or Bookmarks/Edit bookmarks and then choose to dock them.
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4. I think that's a global setting, whether toolbar buttons are flat or not. Somewhere in Behavior, I think, and Galeon just uses the global settings. Could be mistaken, but it's certainly flat for me.
5. Well, you can tell it to block all cookies and then add site manually with Tools/Cookies/Allow cookies from this site. Haven't tried it, but it seems like it should work and do what you want.
Yes. Just like with any other GTK+ program, you can choose a menu item and hit a hotkey, and it will bind the key to that menu item. Also works for bookmarks. Very cool.
Even the simplest decision tree analysis shows that the benefit from vaccinating far outweighs the potential side-effects.
I'm not so sure that's the case. In order to have a good estimate of that, you need at least some probability of smallpox being released into the wild again, and I don't think there's a good way of assessing that. If that threat is zero, then you can do no good by vaccinating, only harm.
Remember that these are also people, and people don't naturally think in terms of math when it comes to human lives. Another poster quoted an expected 300 deaths from vaccination. How many elected officials are going to accept that, and the possibility of the media uproar caused by that, on the chance that they might save a larger number from an almost unimaginable disaster? Particularly since, if the vaccinations are successful, you'll probably never hear much more about it. "Well, yeah, we killed 300 people, but if we hadn't the Evil Ones might have killed a bunch more" just doesn't sound bite well.
I'm also curious whether there are any risks associated with vaccination. Others have mentioned that it's a live virus vaccine, so you're handing out to thousands of people syringes filled with the virus, hopefully rendered harmless. Does anyone know whether those can be weaponized into something harmful again? I have to admit that I don't know much about the technical side, but it seems like a vaccination could be a total PR disaster, even apart from promoting panic, while sitting on one's ass and saying "No, we're perfectly safe" and then being proven wrong, while possibly tragic, just doesn't hurt one's carreer the same way.
Basically, anything like that comes down to one of two basical approaches; either you have someone read all your mail, or you try to automate things. The first is impractical, expensive, and I think a lot of ppl would have trouble with giving up that sort of privacy. As far as the latter goes, there are a lot of different things you can try, but basically they all have the chance of false positives, and spam sneaking through. I can't see anyone paying money for a solution that will 1) still result in spam, while simultaneously 2) deleting real mail. Now, maybe the best you could do would be to get the best filters available and some sort of guarantee that every rejected mail is personally reviewed to make sure it's really spam, but I don't see that being cost effective. Personally, I get on average of 10 spams a day, and it's nowhere near worthwhile for me to do anything other than delete them manually (well, I have suspicious mail filtered to a mailbox I check less, but that's another matter).
How much worse is that than the load on the root.com servers? Maybe I don't know dns that well, but it seems like you're not saving anything, really, just rearranging it.
I'm afraid I really don't understand what viewpoint you're coming from. Are you talking about for a company that's developing software, or just using it? You keep talking about indemnification, but I don't see what you mean by that.
Indemnification *IS* a big issue, make no mistake -- and an indemnification coming from a large corporate enterprise is tantamount to an insurance policy against infringement; as compared to one coming from a small entity (worth less than nothing) or an individual, as compared to one offering no rep, warranty or indemnification against infringement at all.
Of course, the other side is that a large company stands a much better chance against you in court, regardless of what documents you have, than a small company or an individual.
Finally, there is a meaningful legal cost involved with open source compliance. Specific licenses need to be weighed depending how the software is used, and complied with in full.
If you're talking about developing software you intend to sell, then you'd better be damn careful no matter what you do. The open source licenses do "limit" what you can do with the source, but don't commercial companies have a LOT of conditions in the EULA for their source licenses, again about what exactly you can and can't do.
And if you're not developing software, then with open source software there are zero, nada bupkis, limitations on what you can do with it. It's MUCH easier to prove that you've complied with the GPL (or what have you) in your office than that to prove that you have a license for every copy of Windows, and that you didn't use 12 copies of the Server version when you only had
11 licenses of Server and an OEM of Professional. The open source licenses affect modification and distribution of modified versions, but they explicitly do NOT affect use or installation, so if all you do is use the software, there is NO way you can get into legal trouble.
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There are a few problems with that philosophy.
1) We should protect the innocent from the unscrupulous
2) Spammers are stupid too. How many actually make a significant amount of money from it? Just because there's no market doesn't mean they'll stop sending it.
3) and most important, I'm not stupid (in that way), but it keeps coming to me. Any piece of spam I don't have to see because the person who was going to send it is doing time is less hassle for me. Spam doesn't only affect those who take people up on the "specail [sic] once in a life time opertunitys! [sic]". We all suffer from it.
First of all, that one was different (this requires you to click in very particular places in the pictures, not just on the right pictures), and secondly most of the comments on that were "This is stupid" and all the downsides. This idea has even more downsides than that.
echo "127.0.0.1" >> /etc/hosts
Otherwise, you wipe out the contents (which would not be good). Remeber boys and girls, don't run code you get off /. as root!
I don't think so. First of all, most people don't understand the idea of spyware at all, or simply don't care. For those who do, you now have a really simple answer to what is Mozilla: "It's Netscape without the Spyware and other corporate crap."
Did you read the article? The whole point was that it's not a deal breaker now, but as prices drop it becomes more and more significant. His price point was $350. When you compare a Windows machine for $450 (and no office) to one at $350 (which all the free office software being made), things start to look different. $100/$350 * 100% = 28.5% of the price of the system.
If you're correct, I apologize. I based that statement on the last versions of word I personally tried to interoperate between (Word 6, preinstalled on my home machine and the last time I paid anything for MS software, and Word 97 (or so) on the computers here at school). What you described is indeed the right way to handle new features, and I'm quite impressed. Again, sorry for the misinformation.
You can use Word all you want. No one is saying "No, you must switch to vi for all your editing!" What we are saying is "When you finish writing your thing in Word, if you want me to read it, chose 'File / Save as...' and give it a format I can read." I don't see how that limits user choice one iota.
.doc isn't a single format, though. If .doc were what it were as of WinWord 2.0, we'd have no problems by now. But every version the .doc format changes, and everyone runs around trying to reverse engineer it YET AGAIN. And if you finish that, they'll do it again. I have nothing against de facto standards, but a "standard" that can be changed at any arbitrary point, by a single company (and frequently is) isn't much of a standard at all.
Ideally, one of the pieces of info the salesdrone would get is "This guy doesn't make friends easy; just the facts". If that pops up on the computer screen the second you call, the person on the other end of the line can be fast and efficient in a way that, perhaps, others would consider rude and cold. Then you get what you want, they get what they want (long, slow, talkative, etc), and everyone is happy (except you while you wait on hold for them to finish).
As the writing of the Lord of the Rings progressed, it seemed more and more out of character, so Tolkien rewrote the chapter, into the version you described. Tolkien later explained it as the first version being what Bilbo wrote in his own early accounts, at which time he was lying to himself to justify stealing the ring (in the same way that Gollum created the "birthday present" story). The later additions indicated a correction based on better,more accurate manuscripts Tolkien translated.
See http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~bouvin/tolkien/changesofh obbit.html for more info.
Revisionist history isn't only in Star Wars.
Seems like you'd have to be really careful not to exclude the color blind. And the actually blind. Or just those with bad vision, or really poor visual memories.
Well, at least that's better than making your password "friend".
Those people can download their bugfixes, they just have to wait a little longer. You should note that the free Red Carpet seems every bit as fast as it has for the past month or so (which is quite a bit faster than it was before that). We're not talking about having bugfixes out sooner, just taking less time downloading them.
He's also the first one to use the term "avatar" in that context.
Necessary? Of course not! But pretty slick, and I bet with a bit of set up time, you could rig something that would be really nice to use. Personally, I want a background that looks like nature scene with semi-transparent terminals in the foreground, and things like trees blowing gently and soothingly in the wind. And if you could link the motion to other things (when cpu load goes up, the wind gets faster and gustier and clouds roll in) then I would be really happy. But that's just me.
It's changed some since then, but now you can dock either the history or the bookmarks in a sidebar like dock next to the main window. Hmmm, looking at it I don't see menu items for those; odd. You can add buttons to the toolbar to open them, and you can open Tools/History or Bookmarks/Edit bookmarks and then choose to dock them.
5. Well, you can tell it to block all cookies and then add site manually with Tools/Cookies/Allow cookies from this site. Haven't tried it, but it seems like it should work and do what you want.
Yes. Just like with any other GTK+ program, you can choose a menu item and hit a hotkey, and it will bind the key to that menu item. Also works for bookmarks. Very cool.
Remember that these are also people, and people don't naturally think in terms of math when it comes to human lives. Another poster quoted an expected 300 deaths from vaccination. How many elected officials are going to accept that, and the possibility of the media uproar caused by that, on the chance that they might save a larger number from an almost unimaginable disaster? Particularly since, if the vaccinations are successful, you'll probably never hear much more about it. "Well, yeah, we killed 300 people, but if we hadn't the Evil Ones might have killed a bunch more" just doesn't sound bite well.
I'm also curious whether there are any risks associated with vaccination. Others have mentioned that it's a live virus vaccine, so you're handing out to thousands of people syringes filled with the virus, hopefully rendered harmless. Does anyone know whether those can be weaponized into something harmful again? I have to admit that I don't know much about the technical side, but it seems like a vaccination could be a total PR disaster, even apart from promoting panic, while sitting on one's ass and saying "No, we're perfectly safe" and then being proven wrong, while possibly tragic, just doesn't hurt one's carreer the same way.
Basically, anything like that comes down to one of two basical approaches; either you have someone read all your mail, or you try to automate things. The first is impractical, expensive, and I think a lot of ppl would have trouble with giving up that sort of privacy. As far as the latter goes, there are a lot of different things you can try, but basically they all have the chance of false positives, and spam sneaking through. I can't see anyone paying money for a solution that will 1) still result in spam, while simultaneously 2) deleting real mail. Now, maybe the best you could do would be to get the best filters available and some sort of guarantee that every rejected mail is personally reviewed to make sure it's really spam, but I don't see that being cost effective. Personally, I get on average of 10 spams a day, and it's nowhere near worthwhile for me to do anything other than delete them manually (well, I have suspicious mail filtered to a mailbox I check less, but that's another matter).
How much worse is that than the load on the root .com servers? Maybe I don't know dns that well, but it seems like you're not saving anything, really, just rearranging it.
And if you're not developing software, then with open source software there are zero, nada bupkis, limitations on what you can do with it. It's MUCH easier to prove that you've complied with the GPL (or what have you) in your office than that to prove that you have a license for every copy of Windows, and that you didn't use 12 copies of the Server version when you only had 11 licenses of Server and an OEM of Professional. The open source licenses affect modification and distribution of modified versions, but they explicitly do NOT affect use or installation, so if all you do is use the software, there is NO way you can get into legal trouble.