>>>I kind of trust our intelligence community at the moment.
According to Assange, ~30 people are sitting in Guantanamo Prison and Obama's intelligence community KNOWS they are innocent, but refuses to release them. How can you sit there and say you "trust" these people??? You must be as naive as a virgin on prom night.
>>>if they lower constitutional rights in NY to allow cops to search bags for explosives, I don't think they should be able to arrest people if they find drugs
More naivete'. Drive to Texas or Maine sometime, to where random checkpoints are setup on interstates to stop cars. The checkpoints are staffed by Immigration, supposedly to look for illegal immigrants hiding in trunks, but the agents ALSO look for contraband and will happily arrest you for it. The evidence will not be thrown out, and you will spend years in jail.
Same goes for the SA at airports which is supposed to be looking for bombs, but have detained multiple people for "carrying thousands in cash". Last I checked carrying US legal tender on internal flights is not a crime, so why are they detaining innocent people? (Answer: For the same reason why SA guards happily executed members of the German Parliament in 1933 - because they are humans and humans can't be trusted with power. They enjoy smashing skulls too much.)
That's philosophy of openness is fine, so long as you don't fall on the government's "undesirables" list. Like those folk who were blacklisted simply because they belonged to the communist party. Or had the unfortunate status of being japanese from 1942 to 46.
Or get "extra" attention by highway patrols because they are Harley riders, or DWB (driving while black). Or suspected downloaders of porn. "We don't know if he's a pedophile, but by god he's downloaded a lot of nude images. Surely one of those girls LOOKS underage, and we can frame him for it. Oh look - he's bought japanese comics of underage boys and girls from ebay. Book him."
Or posting a "sexual" photo to facebook when you're only 17 years and 11 months. Sexting is a favorite of overzealous prudes in prosecutors' offices. (Or horror - an 18 year old boy dating a 17 year old junior.)
>>>is considered a criminal by most of the people he's trying to help
Well as he says, "Our No. 1 enemy is ignorance." Most of the people are simply ignorant of how they are being lied to by politicians, and controlled. - "And I believe that is the No. 1 enemy for everyone â" itâ(TM)snot understanding what actually is going on in the world. It's only when you start to understand that you can make effective decisions and effective plans. Now, the question is, who is promoting ignorance? Well, those organizations that try to keep things secret, and those organizations which distort true information to make it false or misrepresentative. In this latter category, it is bad media.
"One of the hopeful things that Iâ(TM)ve discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it. But what does that mean? Well, that means that basically populations don't like wars, and populations have to be fooled into wars. Populations don't willingly, with open eyes, go into a war. So if we have a good media environment, then we also have a peaceful environment."
>>>Julian Assange needs to stop trying to tell me what I should and should not do.
(rereads article) Where was this? Actually the question was not about you, but whether Assange believed Facebook was used by the US and EU governments to "arrange" the revolutions in the Mideast. (I'm inclined to say yes, especially since the google CEO bragged about it.)
- $30 from the CE cartel - $75 from Disney's baby einstein dvds - $100 from paypal for "losses" that I never incurred
One thing I've noticed - they disguise the checks to make them look like junkmail. I almost threw the Disney check in the trash, until I realized what it was. It had no markings to indicate what it was for. (Probably done on purpose, to screw the consumer even further.) And screwing paypal was just pure pleasure.
Just use the warranty that already came with the unit (1 year typical), and if the company refuses to accept a return, go ahead and return the item to the company anyway. Then file a credit card dispute saying, "I returned this damaged unit. Here's proof of delivery," and you'll get your refund from Visa or Mastercard.
>>>The laptop of old was meant to run games of that day, the new laptops should run games of this day.
That's like saying, if you had a 2008 Beetle and it broke-down for some reason, and VW owes you a new one... they should give you the new 2012 Redesigned Beetle with higher horsepower engine.
Or if I'm in an accident with my old 1997 car, worth about $1000, the insurance company owes me a replacement car, even if said car costs $10,000.
NOPE. What is owed is the VALUE of the old car or computer. i.e. A beetle (old model; not new model), a 1997 car (or $1000 cash), and a single-core laptop (equal in specs to the 2008 laptop). SAME value not added value.
That is the standard we all live by, and there's no reason to think this case should be any different than the car cases I provided.
>>>>>Some linuxes, like puppy, run in only 0.06 gig of RAM >> >>Sure as long as you have almost no applications installed and are doing next to nothing with your computer.
Clearly you've never tried Puppy Linux. It runs inside RAM (no hard drive thrashing) and so too do the programs.
>>>The people designing these sites aren't necessarily paid to test every possible browser version and type
They don't have to. Just push HTML 4 or 5 compliant data, and Seamonkey and Opera will render it just fine. There's no reason for a site like mail.yahoo.com to refuse to send the information.
Yeah just like the corporations made "easy money" by sucking 1500 billion from the Taypayer Treasury. Please pardon me if I feel no sympathy for inanimate objects like rocks, buildings, or corporations. They basically enslaved and sucked dollars from the wallets of ~300 million working class citizens.
>>>Slashdot Signature: "Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?" -- Matt Welsh
What the heck is this? Lemmings? Hardly. More like "free" is better than having to pay $200 to get windows. A linux Live CD is also a great way to recover files off the c: drive after windows becomes hosed, and no longer boots (like my current P3 laptop). Some linuxes, like puppy, run in only 0.06 gig of RAM so no need to waste money upgrading perfectly-good hardware.
>>>BlackBerry 7 is just an upgrade to the existing BlackBerry 6 OS
[Windows] 7 is just an upgrade to the existing [Windows] 6/vista OS [Mac 10.]7 is just an upgrade to the existing [Mac 10.]6 OS Reviewers should no longer be shocked. It's standard operating procedure.
>>>finding ways to boost their revenue than to protect the public.
I'm one of those who thinks the LAW needs to be changed, not the enforcement. i.e. Go ahead and put cameras on redlights and all along highways. Catch lots of people speeding. And then change the law to be more reasonable, such as 85 on the interstate (which is actually designed to handle 120 per the original Congressional act). Setting speeds artificially low at 65 or 55, when everyone is driving 80, and the road engineers recommend 80, makes no sense.
Multiprocess was also standard on the 1985 Commodore Amigas. Every program spawned a separate process (and sometimes - a whole new screen).
Multiprocessing was included with the first Amiga-Mosaic browser, but of course was disabled when mosaic was ported to non-multitasking Macs and IBM PCs.
I've never been able to make this work. It opens the file okay, but then just sits there not peering to anybody? I think you're better off with a dedicated Torrent program, rather than the bloated ~200 megabyte Opera, especially since the dedicated programs use far less memory (utorrent fits in less than 10 meg of RAM).
Note: I'm using a 700megahertz/256meg laptop, so smaller is better for me.
>>>so block non-IE browsers from accessing content.
These sites don't actually "block" the content - they are just poorly programmed. For example I cannot access Youtube Mail from Mozilla's SeaMonkey or Opera's opera, because the idiot web programmer didn't recognize the browser as "IE" or "FF" and simply didn't send the HTML (or javascript). He made the stupid assumption that the browser was incapable of displaying youtube. Either that or he was lazy.
>>>Safari was pretty much the only one that had it build in
Opera has had user agent strings since the early 2000s. You can set it as Opera, or Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox, or IE/opera, or FF/opera.
I found it interesting the IE and FF4 used about 5 watts less than Opera, Safari, or Chrome. It doesn't matter for me since my computer is always plugged-in, but could make a different for a frequent laptop/netbook user (like a college student or metro rider).
Might also explain why Macbooks seem to drain their batteries faster than regular laptops?
per usual. Opera Software innovates (tabs, spell-checking, syncing of bookmarks, turbo compression) and others copy.
>>>There was a time when Mozilla combined the email program with the browser, but it stopped this integration long ago.
No. Not really. Look at Mozilla SeaMonkey (direct descendent of Netscape Navigator/Communicator). It includes not just email, but also Usenet newsgroups, relay chat, and a composer.
>>>Safari 5: Easy user agent alterations
Opera has had this for years, allowing users to display sites as Internet Explorer or Firefox-compliant.
>>>Playstation because it's superior to the other gaming platforms
- The PS1 platform was slower and less capable than the N64 or Saturn or Dreamcast. - The PS2 platform was slower and less capable than the Xbox or Gamecube. - The PS3 platform is slower and less capable than the X360. You might want to retract your statement since it's flat wrong.
I have a laptop with only 700 megahertz and 256 MB of RAM. I alternate between Opera 11 and Firefox 3.6, and both are equally responsive. I've not noticed any real difference.
>>>>>The only people that would be against this are people that want to maintain control of some kind
AKA politicians
>>Not using products from x.com is not the solution.
It's a start. It's what drove Circuit Shitty into bankruptcy. And forced Sega out of the console business. Just imagine if we started boycotting Sony or Comcast or Google.
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>>>I kind of trust our intelligence community at the moment.
According to Assange, ~30 people are sitting in Guantanamo Prison and Obama's intelligence community KNOWS they are innocent, but refuses to release them. How can you sit there and say you "trust" these people??? You must be as naive as a virgin on prom night.
>>>if they lower constitutional rights in NY to allow cops to search bags for explosives, I don't think they should be able to arrest people if they find drugs
More naivete'. Drive to Texas or Maine sometime, to where random checkpoints are setup on interstates to stop cars. The checkpoints are staffed by Immigration, supposedly to look for illegal immigrants hiding in trunks, but the agents ALSO look for contraband and will happily arrest you for it. The evidence will not be thrown out, and you will spend years in jail.
Same goes for the SA at airports which is supposed to be looking for bombs, but have detained multiple people for "carrying thousands in cash". Last I checked carrying US legal tender on internal flights is not a crime, so why are they detaining innocent people? (Answer: For the same reason why SA guards happily executed members of the German Parliament in 1933 - because they are humans and humans can't be trusted with power. They enjoy smashing skulls too much.)
That's philosophy of openness is fine, so long as you don't fall on the government's "undesirables" list. Like those folk who were blacklisted simply because they belonged to the communist party. Or had the unfortunate status of being japanese from 1942 to 46.
Or get "extra" attention by highway patrols because they are Harley riders, or DWB (driving while black). Or suspected downloaders of porn. "We don't know if he's a pedophile, but by god he's downloaded a lot of nude images. Surely one of those girls LOOKS underage, and we can frame him for it. Oh look - he's bought japanese comics of underage boys and girls from ebay. Book him."
Or posting a "sexual" photo to facebook when you're only 17 years and 11 months. Sexting is a favorite of overzealous prudes in prosecutors' offices. (Or horror - an 18 year old boy dating a 17 year old junior.)
Et cetera, et cetera.
>>>is considered a criminal by most of the people he's trying to help
Well as he says, "Our No. 1 enemy is ignorance." Most of the people are simply ignorant of how they are being lied to by politicians, and controlled. - "And I believe that is the No. 1 enemy for everyone â" itâ(TM)snot understanding what actually is going on in the world. It's only when you start to understand that you can make effective decisions and effective plans. Now, the question is, who is promoting ignorance? Well, those organizations that try to keep things secret, and those organizations which distort true information to make it false or misrepresentative. In this latter category, it is bad media.
"One of the hopeful things that Iâ(TM)ve discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it. But what does that mean? Well, that means that basically populations don't like wars, and populations have to be fooled into wars. Populations don't willingly, with open eyes, go into a war. So if we have a good media environment, then we also have a peaceful environment."
This man sounds a lot like Alex Jones.
>>>Julian Assange needs to stop trying to tell me what I should and should not do.
(rereads article) Where was this? Actually the question was not about you, but whether Assange believed Facebook was used by the US and EU governments to "arrange" the revolutions in the Mideast. (I'm inclined to say yes, especially since the google CEO bragged about it.)
Class actions have worked well for me:
- $30 from the CE cartel
- $75 from Disney's baby einstein dvds
- $100 from paypal for "losses" that I never incurred
One thing I've noticed - they disguise the checks to make them look like junkmail. I almost threw the Disney check in the trash, until I realized what it was. It had no markings to indicate what it was for. (Probably done on purpose, to screw the consumer even further.) And screwing paypal was just pure pleasure.
No need for extended warranties on new items.
Just use the warranty that already came with the unit (1 year typical), and if the company refuses to accept a return, go ahead and return the item to the company anyway. Then file a credit card dispute saying, "I returned this damaged unit. Here's proof of delivery," and you'll get your refund from Visa or Mastercard.
>>>The laptop of old was meant to run games of that day, the new laptops should run games of this day.
That's like saying, if you had a 2008 Beetle and it broke-down for some reason, and VW owes you a new one... they should give you the new 2012 Redesigned Beetle with higher horsepower engine.
Or if I'm in an accident with my old 1997 car, worth about $1000, the insurance company owes me a replacement car, even if said car costs $10,000.
NOPE.
What is owed is the VALUE of the old car or computer. i.e. A beetle (old model; not new model), a 1997 car (or $1000 cash), and a single-core laptop (equal in specs to the 2008 laptop). SAME value not added value.
That is the standard we all live by, and there's no reason to think this case should be any different than the car cases I provided.
Windows XP fits nicely inside 256 megabytes. It's not until you drop below 128 that it experiences hard drive slowing (due to memory swapping).
>>>The Opera installer is less than 8MB, and the installed size is less than 20MB
Don't give a damn. ~200MB is how much memory it uses when it's open and running, and that's the stat I care about.
>>>>>Some linuxes, like puppy, run in only 0.06 gig of RAM
>>
>>Sure as long as you have almost no applications installed and are doing next to nothing with your computer.
Clearly you've never tried Puppy Linux.
It runs inside RAM (no hard drive thrashing)
and so too do the programs.
>>>The people designing these sites aren't necessarily paid to test every possible browser version and type
They don't have to.
Just push HTML 4 or 5 compliant data, and Seamonkey and Opera will render it just fine. There's no reason for a site like mail.yahoo.com to refuse to send the information.
>>>Plus, if you set the speed limit to 85, how fast do you think people would be driving then?
80-to-90 is what they drive in states with 85mph speed limits.
Yeah just like the corporations made "easy money" by sucking 1500 billion from the Taypayer Treasury. Please pardon me if I feel no sympathy for inanimate objects like rocks, buildings, or corporations. They basically enslaved and sucked dollars from the wallets of ~300 million working class citizens.
Cell phones don't work if the towers don't know where you are. Location tracking is part of the spec.
>>>Slashdot Signature: "Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?" -- Matt Welsh
What the heck is this?
Lemmings?
Hardly. More like "free" is better than having to pay $200 to get windows. A linux Live CD is also a great way to recover files off the c: drive after windows becomes hosed, and no longer boots (like my current P3 laptop). Some linuxes, like puppy, run in only 0.06 gig of RAM so no need to waste money upgrading perfectly-good hardware.
>>>BlackBerry 7 is just an upgrade to the existing BlackBerry 6 OS
[Windows] 7 is just an upgrade to the existing [Windows] 6/vista OS
[Mac 10.]7 is just an upgrade to the existing [Mac 10.]6 OS
Reviewers should no longer be shocked. It's standard operating procedure.
>>>finding ways to boost their revenue than to protect the public.
I'm one of those who thinks the LAW needs to be changed, not the enforcement. i.e. Go ahead and put cameras on redlights and all along highways. Catch lots of people speeding. And then change the law to be more reasonable, such as 85 on the interstate (which is actually designed to handle 120 per the original Congressional act). Setting speeds artificially low at 65 or 55, when everyone is driving 80, and the road engineers recommend 80, makes no sense.
Multiprocess was also standard on the 1985 Commodore Amigas. Every program spawned a separate process (and sometimes - a whole new screen).
Multiprocessing was included with the first Amiga-Mosaic browser, but of course was disabled when mosaic was ported to non-multitasking Macs and IBM PCs.
>>>integrated Bittorrent like any other download.
I've never been able to make this work. It opens the file okay, but then just sits there not peering to anybody? I think you're better off with a dedicated Torrent program, rather than the bloated ~200 megabyte Opera, especially since the dedicated programs use far less memory (utorrent fits in less than 10 meg of RAM).
Note: I'm using a 700megahertz/256meg laptop, so smaller is better for me.
>>>so block non-IE browsers from accessing content.
These sites don't actually "block" the content - they are just poorly programmed. For example I cannot access Youtube Mail from Mozilla's SeaMonkey or Opera's opera, because the idiot web programmer didn't recognize the browser as "IE" or "FF" and simply didn't send the HTML (or javascript). He made the stupid assumption that the browser was incapable of displaying youtube. Either that or he was lazy.
>>>Safari was pretty much the only one that had it build in
Opera has had user agent strings since the early 2000s. You can set it as Opera, or Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox, or IE/opera, or FF/opera.
I found it interesting the IE and FF4 used about 5 watts less than Opera, Safari, or Chrome. It doesn't matter for me since my computer is always plugged-in, but could make a different for a frequent laptop/netbook user (like a college student or metro rider).
Might also explain why Macbooks seem to drain their batteries faster than regular laptops?
per usual. Opera Software innovates (tabs, spell-checking, syncing of bookmarks, turbo compression) and others copy.
>>>There was a time when Mozilla combined the email program with the browser, but it stopped this integration long ago.
No. Not really. Look at Mozilla SeaMonkey (direct descendent of Netscape Navigator/Communicator). It includes not just email, but also Usenet newsgroups, relay chat, and a composer.
>>>Safari 5: Easy user agent alterations
Opera has had this for years, allowing users to display sites as Internet Explorer or Firefox-compliant.
>>>Playstation because it's superior to the other gaming platforms
- The PS1 platform was slower and less capable than the N64 or Saturn or Dreamcast.
- The PS2 platform was slower and less capable than the Xbox or Gamecube.
- The PS3 platform is slower and less capable than the X360.
You might want to retract your statement since it's flat wrong.
I have a laptop with only 700 megahertz and 256 MB of RAM. I alternate between Opera 11 and Firefox 3.6, and both are equally responsive. I've not noticed any real difference.
>>>That hardware is close to a decade old!
Yeah.
Then what?
It only cost me $20 to obtain.
Instead of giving you money, Google gives you free software:
- search engine
- email
- online book reader
- google docs
- et cetera
>>>>>The only people that would be against this are people that want to maintain control of some kind
AKA politicians
>>Not using products from x.com is not the solution.
It's a start. It's what drove Circuit Shitty into bankruptcy. And forced Sega out of the console business. Just imagine if we started boycotting Sony or Comcast or Google.