What's new (for me at least), is that the authorities informed over 100,000 computer users of their infection/participation via an ISP by redirecting them to a warning published here by the dutch police. Not sure if that's common policy or something we'll see more often.
I agree, but what about government, which spends money, uses open source and/or free software, and develops as well?
In a discussion I had this week with a project manager (developing a nationwide CMS under Apache license), I noticed how he "embraced the freedom of the Apache license" / feared the "restrictions of GPL". Mind you, this is a very open minded FOSS advocate inside our government (not the USA), willing to contribute to the community and release the newly developed software. He also mentioned he still had to visit the legal department for advice on using and distributing open source...
I don't know when this policy change is planned by Last.fm, but personally, before deleting my account there, polishing my tinfoil hat and start qq-ing about how they is suckz0rs, I wait till April 1 has passed.
I invested quite some time there, Last.fm "learned" pretty well by now what music to select for me (more importantly, what not to select). I'd hate to go through that process all again.
This reminds me of Dave Winer's 2001 idea of Microsoft-Free Fridays from the (2001) days Micrsoft played with the idea of implementing smart tags in IE6. An Apache mod was crafted for it.
Except, one thing puzzles me -- if your Sonar is switched on, the other sub should pick that up. So the sonar systems of both subs must've been running quiet. So the anti-sonar systems have nothing to do with the collision. So why does the article mentions them? Did I miss something?
Given that they where both SSBNs it seems somewhat unlikely one would be tracking the other
IANASubmariner, but I'm pretty sure they always use sonar and track surrounding vessels. Active sonar (transmitting sound actively), no. Passive sonar (listening only) on the other hand, of course they do that, all the time. And I can't think of any reasons not to track nearby vessels, except for the sensors which require specific targetting (an angle) when there is a more interesting target nearby.
Exactly. I tried to RTFA, but look at the tie that guy is wearing. I knew something was wrong. He must be as clueless about UHF/VHF as... as... ok, as me. Doh!
Neat. I didn't know that. I managed to unzip a.sxw file and got the content.xml file. Trivial, but the xml is all on two lines (one for the header, then the rest written as a single, huge string). When you diff something like that you will get nothing useful. I suppose all you would need is to insert newlines before and after each tag to chop the file into diff-able pieces. No need to re-assemble the original files, just diff with copies.
I'd say that's a nice output feature. And the nice clean solution you provide could be implemented with one method/function, a oneliner, and gets rid of all possible problems which you might encounter if your data was full of various types of newlines. Neat indeed!
Aah.. I thought you were talking about slashdot:) ...which doesn't give me any troubles.
The einstein site... I agree, relying on clientside scripts, even good ones, is a no go. And that really shows over there, in my Mozilla too (built 2 weeks ago).
Care to give an example? Running 8 browsers here without any problem. Yeah, I know the markup here is horrible and somewhat similar to html3 instead of... xhtml1 compliant.
Just interested in the problems you encountered. PDA user maybe ?)
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Wow, I am dutch, and I wish my swedish translation was that good. I'm impressed. Same goes for the english effort.
"Microsoft heeft diverse makers van software met in de naam 'Windows' gevraagd om een andere naam te kiezen."
Microsoft has asked several software creators using 'Windows' in their name to choose a different name.
It's not specified clearly (grammatically) if the name of the software creators (the company) or the software created (the program) is subject. But as I read in other posts, they both already are anyway:(
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/. site run the way you have been running it all these years.
I wish you all the best with the challenges that lie ahead for you.
I wish us a
Cheers!
And 666K should be enough for anyone!
Naah, 666 Kelvin is too hot for everyone.
What's new (for me at least), is that the authorities informed over 100,000 computer users of their infection/participation via an ISP by redirecting them to a warning published here by the dutch police. Not sure if that's common policy or something we'll see more often.
(which is very cold, about 270C, near absolute zero).
Everything is relative of course, but I'm pretty sure with a minus sign it would be a lot closer: -270C.
I agree, but what about government, which spends money, uses open source and/or free software, and develops as well?
In a discussion I had this week with a project manager (developing a nationwide CMS under Apache license), I noticed how he "embraced the freedom of the Apache license" / feared the "restrictions of GPL". Mind you, this is a very open minded FOSS advocate inside our government (not the USA), willing to contribute to the community and release the newly developed software. He also mentioned he still had to visit the legal department for advice on using and distributing open source...
Long live Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky!
Is it not a little ironic that they are all long dead?
Screenshots, or it didn't happen
Indeed :) But hey, mr Turner never claimed using the most accurate clock on the planet. Yet.
I don't know when this policy change is planned by Last.fm, but personally, before deleting my account there, polishing my tinfoil hat and start qq-ing about how they is suckz0rs, I wait till April 1 has passed.
I invested quite some time there, Last.fm "learned" pretty well by now what music to select for me (more importantly, what not to select). I'd hate to go through that process all again.
This reminds me of Dave Winer's 2001 idea of Microsoft-Free Fridays from the (2001) days Micrsoft played with the idea of implementing smart tags in IE6. An Apache mod was crafted for it.
ie8blacklist.appspot.com put an API online to check whether a domain is on the list.
No worries for the hordes of IE8 fans around here, Slashdot.org is not on the list. I knew it, I knew it, Slashdot is getting Microsoft friendly.
Except, one thing puzzles me -- if your Sonar is switched on, the other sub should pick that up. So the sonar systems of both subs must've been running quiet. So the anti-sonar systems have nothing to do with the collision. So why does the article mentions them? Did I miss something?
Yes you did :) You can't detect passive sonar.
Subs don't always use SONAR
Given that they where both SSBNs it seems somewhat unlikely one would be tracking the other
IANASubmariner, but I'm pretty sure they always use sonar and track surrounding vessels. Active sonar (transmitting sound actively), no. Passive sonar (listening only) on the other hand, of course they do that, all the time. And I can't think of any reasons not to track nearby vessels, except for the sensors which require specific targetting (an angle) when there is a more interesting target nearby.
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The devil must have mod points today
Exactly. I tried to RTFA, but look at the tie that guy is wearing. I knew something was wrong. He must be as clueless about UHF/VHF as... as... ok, as me. Doh!
... then I'm imagining The Year of Linux on the Desktop finally coming to pass! =D
lvl 80 Gnome, is that you?
Why did he not replace Visio with Dia?
Because he was running late for his appointment at the hairdresser
to see a top ten of mental cases on slashdot some day.
You're too late, everything is registered ;-)
... we should all refer to any web based mob behavior as 'wob behavior'.
Yaa! Where I live (NL), people in need of wob simply ask the government to do their wob-requests for them (and so far so good).
I think I saw RMS refer to DRM as Digital Restrictions Management, the acronym itself seems ok.
Neat. I didn't know that. I managed to unzip a .sxw file and got the content.xml file. Trivial, but the xml is all on two lines (one for the header, then the rest written as a single, huge string). When you diff something like that you will get nothing useful. I suppose all you would need is to insert newlines before and after each tag to chop the file into diff-able pieces. No need to re-assemble the original files, just diff with copies.
I'd say that's a nice output feature. And the nice clean solution you provide could be implemented with one method/function, a oneliner, and gets rid of all possible problems which you might encounter if your data was full of various types of newlines. Neat indeed!
Aah.. I thought you were talking about slashdot :)
...which doesn't give me any troubles.
The einstein site... I agree, relying on clientside scripts, even good ones, is a no go.
And that really shows over there, in my Mozilla too (built 2 weeks ago).
Care to give an example? Running 8 browsers here without any problem. Yeah, I know the markup here is horrible and somewhat similar to html3 instead of... xhtml1 compliant.
Just interested in the problems you encountered. PDA user maybe ?)
The Tao that is seen
is not the true Tao, until
Curious yellow
Wow, I am dutch, and I wish my swedish translation was that good. I'm impressed. Same goes for the english effort.
:(
"Microsoft heeft diverse makers van software met in de naam 'Windows' gevraagd om een andere naam te kiezen."
Microsoft has asked several software creators using 'Windows' in their name to choose a different name.
It's not specified clearly (grammatically) if the name of the software creators (the company) or the software created (the program) is subject. But as I read in other posts, they both already are anyway