"Could the US, theoretically set up a bunch of firewalls and restrict what we do? Sure. But it wouldn't matter unless working around those firewalls lead to men with guns showing up at my home."
I don't live in the US, but isn't that what the PATRIOT act is all about? I had the idea that when trying to circumvent such firewall, you could be crossing some threshold, and under the PATRIOT act, be catalogued as a "terrorist" or something, invited for a ride to the caribbean (Guantanamo, for example), where "terrorists" belong.
Only in China, you might be called a "dissident" instead of a "terrorist", and maybe just shot in your own backyard, instead of being imprisoned.
Re:Holding back their cards when they've had them.
on
StarOffice 8 in July
·
· Score: 1
"Just like in a relationship they are holding back some cards to keep your interest high without showing you what they've got and you leaving sooner."
Are you talking about real-life relationships? like boy-girl relationships? (or g-g or b-b) Is that how you think relationships are? Loser.
"In fact, it might be cruel simply to have a creature with our level of intelligence but without the ability to do anything with it. It would be like shoving a kid in solitary for their whole life."
Well, MS already knows that, that's why you have FreeCell, and Hearts, also.
Well, I develop apps in Java, and of course, apply a caching technique for lists.
My data does change, but I store it in a tree. When someone changes a dropdown, I just erase the cache. When someone wants the list, it gets refilled. All of it is safely synchronized.
Of course, I don't believe it's worth an article, and I don't believe it belongs in/. frontpage. IBM developerworks is a nice source of information when you want to program the mainstream way. It's good for teams, because it makes easily understandable code. Of course it's boooring and not news, though.
If the script kiddie is dumb enough to not know that 127.0.0.1 is a loopback address, they should not be allowed to run the sploit.
Exactly. If you don't know what 127.0.0.1 is, you should not be able to hack someone elses computer. In the "article", that was the case, the poor kid couldn't "hack" anyother computer, at least until he finished installing XP again.
You must be from the US. For people in the US, a lot of stuff is perceived as ok. If you compare individual rights between any particular european country, and the US, you will find that the difference is greater between europe and the US than between the US and China. Just because you got accustomed to the government messing with you, it doesn't make it ok.
I can't argue with the money thing, of course, but _in_my_country_, you can get 1 year worth of disposables for 2500 pesos, that's 100 US dollars, or 77 euros. Of course, in many places in the world, that _is_ expensive. On the other hand, a nice set of regular glasses costs 3000 or 4000 pesos here. Added to the difference in quality of vision, it's a non issue, if you can afford them, of course.
2 - you don't feel disposables (I have very annoying allergies in my eyes, and I don't feel _disposable_ contacts, while gas permeable lenses were awful)
3 and 4 are in fact mutually exclusive, because irritation comes from a dry eye, plus, not everybody has those problems, specially with disposables. I, myself, don't put anything in my eyes other than the lenses.
5 - now you have found someone who doesn't complain about them. And I know a lot of people who don't either.
10 million in the US alone would still be a minor percentage.
I don't know where you got that number, because it can't be found in any of the links you provide.
I won't provide you with the correct statistics, because I don't have them, and I have no use for US stats.
Anyway, my original point was that people who wear coke-bottle glasses don't need new compounds for glasses, they need alternative solutions. With contacts, they get a better vision, too.
The problems related to wearing contact relate usually to rigid lenses, or allergies. I have had both, and I solved it with prescription teardrops and extended-wear disposables. Cost can't be an issue, because I live in Uruguay, South America, and I still can afford them.
Wear contacts. Very few people just can't wear contacts. For the rest, they are very cheap now (even in poor countries, where I live), because they are so much cheaper to manufacture.
The vision is astounding, and of course, you lose that myopic super-ability of having ultra-vision for small things, but a magnifier does the job.
If refuse to get rid of glasses as a fashion statement, or something like that, well, maybe the coke-bottle lenses are jujst a part of it.
If you did that recently, too bad. If not, you can grab the last OO release, because they improve a lot from version to version, specially in reverse-engineering MS formats.
Of course, maybe you could dumb-down a little your.doc, maybe saving it with another name, or as an older MS version. MS office writes documents in very strange ways, and not all of them have been discovered by OO developers, but with some work, you can expect to be succesful.
Then, you have the added value that your documents, if you save them in Oasis format, will then be implementation-free documents, and you will be able to open them in other apps.
As the shell is not really a filemanager, but a shell, it's not about your documents, and doing stuff with them. It's about your commands, and providing them with data. Exactly the other way around.
I happen to like the bash aproach, I choose first what I want to do (ooo-wrapper) and then what data I want to use (~/mydocument.sxw). I don't use a graphical filemanager.
I understand that it would be good to have an "open" command for the graphical filemanager, that let you open documents like if you double-clicked them. Thats useful in scripts, or in the launcher dialog, of course. In my shell, I like the way it is.
If you are talking, about me, well, I am "ordinary people". I run Slackware, and I am very happy with it. I would use Debian if I didn't have slack, but I like admins who use *BSD.
I use Gimp for my drawing, but I like architects who use autocad. Some tools are for elites, period.
There's centre-left, there's socialists, there's communists, there's far-left, and there's ultra-left (meaning farther-than-left, as in "not left anymore")
Communists is not as far left as you can go, and you don't need to be communist to be "far left".
Plus, even if you are a communist, being a communist doesn't mean you are a supporter of Mao, or Stalin, or even Lenin. Communism implies marxism, and nothing else.
That said, indian "communists" are not even communist in the first place.
The thing about the left is that it has as many subtleties as the right does.
Calling leftist people "communists", specially in a US-centric site where "communist" equals "stalinist", is very, very mistaken.
Some are. Some aren't. Some were even available in demos ten years ago. Some are obvious, and the fact that OSX implements them, means nothing. For example, that "expose" feature that is so praised, is an obvious improvement on the window idea, and there were already papers written, and many people already implemented it in some way (heck! I even keep all my windows shaded, so when I shade the one I'm using, I can see all of them at the same time!). I didn't think OS X was copying me, or "stealing my IP", put in a more fashionable way.
OpenBSD is user friendly, it is just very picky about its friends, like some other projects.
There's no need for ordinary people to use OpenBSD.
What you are requiring is more work, for something "they" are not willing to do. That's not how it works. You do your job, and then you do what you like. If you like both, it's ok. But there's nothing wrong with "them" doing things "they" like. Of course, probably "they" are not even the same guys that develop OpenBSD, the software.
It's real, but it's not sad! Of course, that giant leap is often associated to various tech improvements, and as they become available, some of them are adopted in the "lower tech", so it catches up until it's more economical to switch to "higher tech".
But anyway, there are some giant leaps. You can watch 3d accel cards, awesome raw computing power, and now you can use it for general purpose!
I do that all the time, moving data from MSSQL server to mysql. I use JDBC, an open standard, but I could use a SQL dump, another standard, to get the data out.
Games are different. It's not _my_ data. Maybe it would be nice to be able to dump/backup PS2 memory cards for statistics, but then it would be even easier to cheat, and games would be more boring.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for a well-thought response.
"Could the US, theoretically set up a bunch of firewalls and restrict what we do? Sure. But it wouldn't matter unless working around those firewalls lead to men with guns showing up at my home."
I don't live in the US, but isn't that what the PATRIOT act is all about?
I had the idea that when trying to circumvent such firewall, you could be crossing some threshold, and under the PATRIOT act, be catalogued as a "terrorist" or something, invited for a ride to the caribbean (Guantanamo, for example), where "terrorists" belong.
Only in China, you might be called a "dissident" instead of a "terrorist", and maybe just shot in your own backyard, instead of being imprisoned.
"Just like in a relationship they are holding back some cards to keep your interest high without showing you what they've got and you leaving sooner."
Are you talking about real-life relationships? like boy-girl relationships? (or g-g or b-b)
Is that how you think relationships are?
Loser.
"In fact, it might be cruel simply to have a creature with our level of intelligence but without the ability to do anything with it. It would be like shoving a kid in solitary for their whole life."
Well, MS already knows that, that's why you have FreeCell, and Hearts, also.
Well, I develop apps in Java, and of course, apply a caching technique for lists.
/. frontpage.
My data does change, but I store it in a tree.
When someone changes a dropdown, I just erase the cache. When someone wants the list, it gets refilled. All of it is safely synchronized.
Of course, I don't believe it's worth an article, and I don't believe it belongs in
IBM developerworks is a nice source of information when you want to program the mainstream way. It's good for teams, because it makes easily understandable code. Of course it's boooring and not news, though.
I'm confused, aren't you the parent author?
If the script kiddie is dumb enough to not know that 127.0.0.1 is a loopback address, they should not be allowed to run the sploit.
Exactly. If you don't know what 127.0.0.1 is, you should not be able to hack someone elses computer.
In the "article", that was the case, the poor kid couldn't "hack" anyother computer, at least until he finished installing XP again.
Yes, "punching back", a la Larry McVoy's, hitting random targets.
You must be from the US.
For people in the US, a lot of stuff is perceived as ok.
If you compare individual rights between any particular european country, and the US, you will find that the difference is greater between europe and the US than between the US and China.
Just because you got accustomed to the government messing with you, it doesn't make it ok.
Most countries didn't have alcohol prohibition.
Though, the numbers is the US are not unique.
Maybe it wasn't the prohibition, after all.
"Perhaps I'm more optimistic about the average human IQ"
Well, I believe it's 100, what do you believe it is?
I can't argue with the money thing, of course, but _in_my_country_, you can get 1 year worth of disposables for 2500 pesos, that's 100 US dollars, or 77 euros.
Of course, in many places in the world, that _is_ expensive.
On the other hand, a nice set of regular glasses costs 3000 or 4000 pesos here.
Added to the difference in quality of vision, it's a non issue, if you can afford them, of course.
2 - you don't feel disposables (I have very annoying allergies in my eyes, and I don't feel _disposable_ contacts, while gas permeable lenses were awful)
3 and 4 are in fact mutually exclusive, because irritation comes from a dry eye, plus, not everybody has those problems, specially with disposables. I, myself, don't put anything in my eyes other than the lenses.
5 - now you have found someone who doesn't complain about them. And I know a lot of people who don't either.
10 million in the US alone would still be a minor percentage.
I don't know where you got that number, because it can't be found in any of the links you provide.
I won't provide you with the correct statistics, because I don't have them, and I have no use for US stats.
Anyway, my original point was that people who wear coke-bottle glasses don't need new compounds for glasses, they need alternative solutions. With contacts, they get a better vision, too.
The problems related to wearing contact relate usually to rigid lenses, or allergies. I have had both, and I solved it with prescription teardrops and extended-wear disposables. Cost can't be an issue, because I live in Uruguay, South America, and I still can afford them.
Wear contacts.
Very few people just can't wear contacts.
For the rest, they are very cheap now (even in poor countries, where I live), because they are so much cheaper to manufacture.
The vision is astounding, and of course, you lose that myopic super-ability of having ultra-vision for small things, but a magnifier does the job.
If refuse to get rid of glasses as a fashion statement, or something like that, well, maybe the coke-bottle lenses are jujst a part of it.
If you did that recently, too bad.
.doc, maybe saving it with another name, or as an older MS version. MS office writes documents in very strange ways, and not all of them have been discovered by OO developers, but with some work, you can expect to be succesful.
If not, you can grab the last OO release, because they improve a lot from version to version, specially in reverse-engineering MS formats.
Of course, maybe you could dumb-down a little your
Then, you have the added value that your documents, if you save them in Oasis format, will then be implementation-free documents, and you will be able to open them in other apps.
Well, that's a filemanager command.
.
As the shell is not really a filemanager, but a shell, it's not about your documents, and doing stuff with them. It's about your commands, and providing them with data. Exactly the other way around.
I happen to like the bash aproach, I choose first what I want to do (ooo-wrapper) and then what data I want to use (~/mydocument.sxw)
I don't use a graphical filemanager.
I understand that it would be good to have an "open" command for the graphical filemanager, that let you open documents like if you double-clicked them. Thats useful in scripts, or in the launcher dialog, of course. In my shell, I like the way it is.
If you are talking, about me, well, I am "ordinary people".
I run Slackware, and I am very happy with it.
I would use Debian if I didn't have slack, but I like admins who use *BSD.
I use Gimp for my drawing, but I like architects who use autocad.
Some tools are for elites, period.
There's centre-left, there's socialists, there's communists, there's far-left, and there's ultra-left (meaning farther-than-left, as in "not left anymore")
Communists is not as far left as you can go, and you don't need to be communist to be "far left".
Plus, even if you are a communist, being a communist doesn't mean you are a supporter of Mao, or Stalin, or even Lenin. Communism implies marxism, and nothing else.
That said, indian "communists" are not even communist in the first place.
The thing about the left is that it has as many subtleties as the right does.
Calling leftist people "communists", specially in a US-centric site where "communist" equals "stalinist", is very, very mistaken.
Some are.
Some aren't.
Some were even available in demos ten years ago.
Some are obvious, and the fact that OSX implements them, means nothing.
For example, that "expose" feature that is so praised, is an obvious improvement on the window idea, and there were already papers written, and many people already implemented it in some way (heck! I even keep all my windows shaded, so when I shade the one I'm using, I can see all of them at the same time!). I didn't think OS X was copying me, or "stealing my IP", put in a more fashionable way.
OpenBSD is user friendly, it is just very picky about its friends, like some other projects.
There's no need for ordinary people to use OpenBSD.
What you are requiring is more work, for something "they" are not willing to do. That's not how it works. You do your job, and then you do what you like. If you like both, it's ok. But there's nothing wrong with "them" doing things "they" like.
Of course, probably "they" are not even the same guys that develop OpenBSD, the software.
But Tier-xxx RAM can be remarked a Kingston RAM right now, and that doesn't make Tier-xxx RAM "pirate".
"Pirate" is just used as an atractor here.
You don't understand, ok.
Pirated = doesn't fit in my current bussiness model.
You want your music in MP3?? PIRATE!!
You like your TIVO?? PIRATE!!!
You want to sell lower quality products at a lower price?? PIRATE!!
You see, it's the commerce equivalent to "terrorist". One size fits all.
It's real, but it's not sad!
Of course, that giant leap is often associated to various tech improvements, and as they become available, some of them are adopted in the "lower tech", so it catches up until it's more economical to switch to "higher tech".
But anyway, there are some giant leaps.
You can watch 3d accel cards, awesome raw computing power, and now you can use it for general purpose!
Use PDF.
I do that all the time, moving data from MSSQL server to mysql.
I use JDBC, an open standard, but I could use a SQL dump, another standard, to get the data out.
Games are different. It's not _my_ data. Maybe it would be nice to be able to dump/backup PS2 memory cards for statistics, but then it would be even easier to cheat, and games would be more boring.