The shell (explorer.exe) and the open file dialogs interpret them correctly, but not all of the apps (not even command.com/cmd.exe). But at least cygwin's bash can interpret them correctly
This may look like a good idea, but I have abandonned completly many email accounts because of excessive spam I received on them. If most congressmen are like me and they start having the same spam automatically relayed to them hundred of times, they would stop reading their mail box, which means they'll never read important mail we send them about important issues, and maybe switch to a secret email account known only to people they trust.
That way, the classic "write to your congressman about it" solution would be completeley useless because they wouldn't even know your message is in their mailbox since they don't check it anymore
There's no link to DeCSS there, no instructions on how to get DeCSS, just my thoughts about the DeCSS
persecutions.
The hiding of information contained in css-auth.tar by putting an index.html in the directory to be displayed instead of the directory's content could easily be circumvented, but I FORBID anyone to do that.
But you can run to another computer in your lan, ssh to your computer and kill -9 $(ps aux | grep -i "netscape" | awk {'print $2'})
And then all of netscape's leaked memory is freed and you can continue anything you were doing outside of netscape.
I always have a ram/swap monitor applet in my gnome taskbar to avoid situations like this, when the swap bar becomes all red I just close netscape and restart it.
It would be nice to have a "kill netscape" button on my computer case:)
Articles like this one make me think God is an inferior intelligence that created us as his own attempt at "artificial intelligence", and that one day, we'll do like our creator and create an artificial intelligence that's more intelligent than it's creator.
This would also explain why metaphysics are unbelievable to us. "God" or "the gods" created us with limited perception (only 5 senses and 3 dimensions) because their priority was making something smarter than them. In the same way, when we develop artificial intelligence, we don't give them perception of the 3 dimensions we know and of all of the 5 senses, we give them only what they need to be intelligent. So it's possible that once we develop an intelligence that's superior to us, it may not be able to understand our 3 dimensions and may think that our world is totally unbelivable when we'll tell them about our world. Just like humans think the god's worlds are unbelievable
Are you sure it's easier for tech support to say "click there then there and then double click there, then right click there and type the server name". I've spent many years explaining to newbies how to connect to an irc server using mIRC, they had lots of trouble in adding the server to the server list. Now I just tell them to type/server irc.server.net and it works instantly. No confusion, no trying to dumb down the GUI.
A GUI is totaly useless if it has to be dumbed down.
The RIAA completely ignores the argument that napster can be used for discovering new music because they don't want people to discover new music. They want people to buy their britney spears crap. They don't want people to know there are other kinds of music which are not produced by major labels
Why doesn't anyone seem to understand that? They perfectly know that no one steals from them and that napster helps them sell more CD, the problem is that they don't help only them, they also help all the "underground" labels.
This is one of the most annoying things I've seen on the web. When I click an URL and see I'm not interested, I want to be able to go back to where I was before. There must be a better way to do this (jump database instance).
CDNOW and Amazon use something like that, but it doesn't seem to work very well. I bought a Metallica CD from cdnow and now they recommend Limp Bizkit to me (which really suck IMO). I bought a Era CD from Amazon and now they recommend me books about loosing weight. I really don't understand how they find what to recommend
I also tried playing with their ratings system for CD/books I already own to see if they would give more interesting recommendations, doesn't work
Yeah I bought a cd burner for this reason, but I've not used it for 6 months. I switched from windows to linux and didn't even take the time to read the HOWTO about cd burning. I juste continue buying the CDs of artists I really like, just like I used to do
Genesis is only 6000 years old, and humans have existed for much longer than that. But it's the oldest form of history we still have. I would have loved to know what happened BEFORE the times of the genesis, but they had no Rosetta disk at that time so all the history before that is lost.
So I think the best thing to do would be to record all of history we have, starting at the oldest texts we have, until today's history. Then also include technical/scientific information and the DeCSS source so they can play our round silver mirrors and learn even more about us
Genesis is the first book of the Old Testament, which is the only part of the Holy Bible that's part of the Jewish faith. It talks about the creation of the world and the sexual lives of the Jewish's ancestors.
After the Old Testament, there's the New Testament, which mostly talks about Jesus and is the inspiration of the christian religion.
The Quran is not part of the Holy Bible but is recognized by the Muslim as a "sequel" to the Bible
Slashdot Mirror
I never played SRE, but I remember that BRE was truly futurist. The medieval version of BRE was Falcon's Eye
The shell (explorer.exe) and the open file dialogs interpret them correctly, but not all of the apps (not even command.com/cmd.exe). But at least cygwin's bash can interpret them correctly
This may look like a good idea, but I have abandonned completly many email accounts because of excessive spam I received on them. If most congressmen are like me and they start having the same spam automatically relayed to them hundred of times, they would stop reading their mail box, which means they'll never read important mail we send them about important issues, and maybe switch to a secret email account known only to people they trust.
That way, the classic "write to your congressman about it" solution would be completeley useless because they wouldn't even know your message is in their mailbox since they don't check it anymore
http://decss.idolatre.org
There's no link to DeCSS there, no instructions on how to get DeCSS, just my thoughts about the DeCSS
persecutions.
The hiding of information contained in css-auth.tar by putting an index.html in the directory to be displayed instead of the directory's content could easily be circumvented, but I FORBID anyone to do that.
But you can run to another computer in your lan, ssh to your computer and kill -9 $(ps aux | grep -i "netscape" | awk {'print $2'})
:)
And then all of netscape's leaked memory is freed and you can continue anything you were doing outside of netscape.
I always have a ram/swap monitor applet in my gnome taskbar to avoid situations like this, when the swap bar becomes all red I just close netscape and restart it.
It would be nice to have a "kill netscape" button on my computer case
Articles like this one make me think God is an inferior intelligence that created us as his own attempt at "artificial intelligence", and that one day, we'll do like our creator and create an artificial intelligence that's more intelligent than it's creator.
This would also explain why metaphysics are unbelievable to us. "God" or "the gods" created us with limited perception (only 5 senses and 3 dimensions) because their priority was making something smarter than them. In the same way, when we develop artificial intelligence, we don't give them perception of the 3 dimensions we know and of all of the 5 senses, we give them only what they need to be intelligent. So it's possible that once we develop an intelligence that's superior to us, it may not be able to understand our 3 dimensions and may think that our world is totally unbelivable when we'll tell them about our world. Just like humans think the god's worlds are unbelievable
Are you sure it's easier for tech support to say "click there then there and then double click there, then right click there and type the server name". I've spent many years explaining to newbies how to connect to an irc server using mIRC, they had lots of trouble in adding the server to the server list. Now I just tell them to type /server irc.server.net and it works instantly. No confusion, no trying to dumb down the GUI.
A GUI is totaly useless if it has to be dumbed down.
That's nothing new. All trendy "semi-underground" metal bands have violins and female vocals now.
And Therion's last 3 albums (Theli/Vovin/Deggial) are fantastic mixes of classical with metal
The RIAA completely ignores the argument that napster can be used for discovering new music because they don't want people to discover new music. They want people to buy their britney spears crap. They don't want people to know there are other kinds of music which are not produced by major labels
Why doesn't anyone seem to understand that? They perfectly know that no one steals from them and that napster helps them sell more CD, the problem is that they don't help only them, they also help all the "underground" labels.
This is one of the most annoying things I've seen on the web. When I click an URL and see I'm not interested, I want to be able to go back to where I was before. There must be a better way to do this (jump database instance).
CDNOW and Amazon use something like that, but it doesn't seem to work very well. I bought a Metallica CD from cdnow and now they recommend Limp Bizkit to me (which really suck IMO). I bought a Era CD from Amazon and now they recommend me books about loosing weight. I really don't understand how they find what to recommend
I also tried playing with their ratings system for CD/books I already own to see if they would give more interesting recommendations, doesn't work
Yeah I bought a cd burner for this reason, but I've not used it for 6 months. I switched from windows to linux and didn't even take the time to read the HOWTO about cd burning. I juste continue buying the CDs of artists I really like, just like I used to do
Genesis is only 6000 years old, and humans have existed for much longer than that. But it's the oldest form of history we still have. I would have loved to know what happened BEFORE the times of the genesis, but they had no Rosetta disk at that time so all the history before that is lost.
So I think the best thing to do would be to record all of history we have, starting at the oldest texts we have, until today's history. Then also include technical/scientific information and the DeCSS source so they can play our round silver mirrors and learn even more about us
Genesis is the first book of the Old Testament, which is the only part of the Holy Bible that's part of the Jewish faith. It talks about the creation of the world and the sexual lives of the Jewish's ancestors.
After the Old Testament, there's the New Testament, which mostly talks about Jesus and is the inspiration of the christian religion.
The Quran is not part of the Holy Bible but is recognized by the Muslim as a "sequel" to the Bible