Catch up man. In Ubuntu you change your screen resolution by clicking the System->Preferences->Screen Resoultion menu option and choosing your new resolution from the dialog that pops up. There *are* bits that only techies would know, but the "common use" stuff is getting easier every day.
Ubuntu is *definitely* easy enough for a n00b if it comes pre-installed and fully configured.
This is what happens when the idea of "Intellectual Property" is taken seriously. It means you can't do something someone else is doing because they have more lawyers than you. It's patently ridiculous.
DNS poisoning is a tough one. But how about something like this:
When you first get your bank login credentials, you "prime" your browser (via a special new browser feature) with the set of of (domain, ip address range, site certificate, username, password) as provided by your bank. Store a hash of the password not the password itself.
Then anytime you try to enter your credentials on any site, it checks to see if what you're submitting contains that username/password, and prevents submission if the site info doesn't match up. You could still game it with javascript form field trickery, but perhaps the extension could automatically refuse submission in such an event.
Firefox could support something like this before you could blink, opera too probably, and MS would be obliged to play catch-up. Then the banks could just strongly encourage people to use such a feature... then we wait and see what the phishers do next.
The present situation is disturbingly similar to the class sci-fi short story "The Marching Morons", or from pop-culture, the film "Idiocracy". Smart people just aren't breeding as much as dumb people, because they're too busy holding society together.
I call on all intelligent people to drop out of the career game and raise ridiculously large families to offset the rampant reproduction rate of morons. Or at least go knock up some moron's wife.
Hmm... if all it takes to get permanent immunity to Microsoft FUD is being one of Novell's customers, maybe Novell should start selling 50 cent insurance policies?
Ok, all you idiots offering prescriptions for what to do in a fight, stop.
Fighting isn't as easy as "do this uber-secret army-kung-fu thing" and it's over.
Try grabbing the ears of a bigger, stronger, more experienced fighter and you're going to get knocked into next week.
Try applying joint locks on a stronger opponent without a few months of judo, wrestling or jiu jitsu training under your belt and you're gonna get slammed.
Stay out of trouble. Stay away from mean people. Fighting isn't easy.
I dunno... I don't see much American admiration for the valiant Iraqi rebels.
Hey! What if they littered Iraq with cheese instead of bodies and rubble? I think I know what dubya's brilliant strategy #24 will be, once the "surge" fails. The cheese surge!
Bah. People are slowly waking up to the fact that "freedom" never existed to begin with. How do you like your life - nasty, brutish and short or semi-nasty, unfair and long?
Not voting means you don't approve of any of the candidates. A low voter turnout robs the government of legitimacy. In my opinion null votes should count towards "empty chair" positions in the government, which automatically vote against any new legislation. That way if the populace is disgusted enough with the choices, the elected government will be completely impotent, as it ideally should be.
Bah. KDE-based skype works just fine in a gnome session. It even puts it's status icon in the appropriate place on the gnome panel.
The only built-in thing in linux is the kernel, and most of that is optional, and that's the way it's going to stay. So "no built-in whatever" will always be true. So what. Require X11 for your app. Pick a common gui toolkit and use it. Compile statically if you're worried. Your reasoning lacks merit. Find a better reason (there are plenty) not to support linux, or shut up.
Reminds me of the old days when the smelly kid still had heaps of "friends" because he had a bigger commodore game collection than anyone else at school.
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I reckon the guidance system on a nuclear-tipped missile would do pretty well in the mixed martial arts arena.
I've found blu-tack works well.
Catch up man. In Ubuntu you change your screen resolution by clicking the System->Preferences->Screen Resoultion menu option and choosing your new resolution from the dialog that pops up. There *are* bits that only techies would know, but the "common use" stuff is getting easier every day.
Ubuntu is *definitely* easy enough for a n00b if it comes pre-installed and fully configured.
Agree. Microsoft hasn't even done 235 novel things in it's lifetime, let alone patentable.
This is what happens when the idea of "Intellectual Property" is taken seriously. It means you can't do something someone else is doing because they have more lawyers than you. It's patently ridiculous.
So they're telling the world they have a "Somewhat Underutilized Vagina"?
Oh. I thought it stood for "Digital Revenue Multiplication".
You know you're headed for disaster when your only consolation is being better than the English.
Maybe browsers should start color-coding the tld in the URL input box...
DNS poisoning is a tough one. But how about something like this:
When you first get your bank login credentials, you "prime" your browser (via a special new browser feature) with the set of of (domain, ip address range, site certificate, username, password) as provided by your bank. Store a hash of the password not the password itself.
Then anytime you try to enter your credentials on any site, it checks to see if what you're submitting contains that username/password, and prevents submission if the site info doesn't match up. You could still game it with javascript form field trickery, but perhaps the extension could automatically refuse submission in such an event.
Firefox could support something like this before you could blink, opera too probably, and MS would be obliged to play catch-up. Then the banks could just strongly encourage people to use such a feature... then we wait and see what the phishers do next.
+1
The present situation is disturbingly similar to the class sci-fi short story "The Marching Morons", or from pop-culture, the film "Idiocracy". Smart people just aren't breeding as much as dumb people, because they're too busy holding society together.
I call on all intelligent people to drop out of the career game and raise ridiculously large families to offset the rampant reproduction rate of morons. Or at least go knock up some moron's wife.
Hmm... if all it takes to get permanent immunity to Microsoft FUD is being one of Novell's customers, maybe Novell should start selling 50 cent insurance policies?
Why bother? Just get the torrent :)
Ok, all you idiots offering prescriptions for what to do in a fight, stop.
Fighting isn't as easy as "do this uber-secret army-kung-fu thing" and it's over.
Try grabbing the ears of a bigger, stronger, more experienced fighter and you're going to get knocked into next week.
Try applying joint locks on a stronger opponent without a few months of judo, wrestling or jiu jitsu training under your belt and you're gonna get slammed.
Stay out of trouble. Stay away from mean people. Fighting isn't easy.
3) Libido-suppressing medication in the water.
"Marathon coding session" doesn't count.
An unruly moustache would do the trick too...
I dunno... I don't see much American admiration for the valiant Iraqi rebels.
Hey! What if they littered Iraq with cheese instead of bodies and rubble? I think I know what dubya's brilliant strategy #24 will be, once the "surge" fails. The cheese surge!
I'm a genius.
Bah. People are slowly waking up to the fact that "freedom" never existed to begin with. How do you like your life - nasty, brutish and short or semi-nasty, unfair and long?
Not voting means you don't approve of any of the candidates. A low voter turnout robs the government of legitimacy. In my opinion null votes should count towards "empty chair" positions in the government, which automatically vote against any new legislation. That way if the populace is disgusted enough with the choices, the elected government will be completely impotent, as it ideally should be.
A planet-spanning ad-hoc network of devices communicating via the internet protocol.
Ahhh... that's what that blank page was. Good ol' adblock.
Bah. KDE-based skype works just fine in a gnome session. It even puts it's status icon in the appropriate place on the gnome panel.
The only built-in thing in linux is the kernel, and most of that is optional, and that's the way it's going to stay. So "no built-in whatever" will always be true. So what. Require X11 for your app. Pick a common gui toolkit and use it. Compile statically if you're worried. Your reasoning lacks merit. Find a better reason (there are plenty) not to support linux, or shut up.
Move to Iraq. Everyone has a gun in Iraq. Safest place in the world.
Reminds me of the old days when the smelly kid still had heaps of "friends" because he had a bigger commodore game collection than anyone else at school.