Car dealer #1: Will people actually BUY a hybrid car, saving them hundreds/thousands in fuel costs? Car dealer #2: No, they just want GPS and a phat system, yo./me wants "+1 Sad But True"...
"...if indie artists want to use a social network equivalent of a state university dorm to promote themselves, that's fine. They'll probably stay indie artists for quite a while with that tactic." ---
Who ever said signing with a major label is the goal of every non-signed artist? I would *prefer* to be unsigned/on a small label instead of under some rapist-like major label contract.
Not every musician is in it for the money, friend. The crap artists you hear on major playlists are, but I wouldn't call 80% of those artists "musicians", anyway.
...but leave indie artists alone please. Myspace, IMHO anyway, is much more important to the music community because of its ability to allow non-commercial, non-signed artists to put their music and group information out there for everyone to see. The big labels have their own mechanism, and Myspace catering to this with DRM-free music is awesome - but please, don't let it affect the indie artists. Keep it where it is, because it works!
*snip*...and rewrites it if any of the other users change it back to what it "should" be. That fucks things up for *everyone*, which kind of defeats the whole idea of having separate user accounts that protect everyone from each other.
I think you're misunderstanding the usage of FF's anti-phishing blacklists. Think of it as anti-virus definitions. You only need ONE copy. See http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/ for more information. Downloading individual blacklists per-user would be like downloading anti-virus definitions per-user. Completely redundant.
You also seemed to miss my point regarding places.sqlite - it stores user history, bookmarks, and other things. Think of what you could do with multi-user access to this information (provided the DB tables are secured properly) - shared history, shared bookmarks...Mmmm...that's music to any administrator's ears that wants to share information, in say, a school. Shared bookmarks for each class. Shared history so someone can just say "go to my history" for a website. How cool would that be?
This is something that strikes me as the first time Firefox really pushed something out by default that shouldn't be. Just for one example, people who are on LTSP networks, say, 200 users, will ALL download anti-phishing, anti-malware blacklists from Google, each in their own home directory. There's no way that I know of, anyway, to share this data - SQLite seems to make it impossible. That's the first mistake in creating a compatible, light web browser.
The second mistake is enabling website blocking based on 3rd party blacklists by default. This is basically Microsoft UI thinking - "You *need* this because you don't know any better." Screw that. I mean, make it a checkbox on setup - "Use Google-provided anti-malware blacklists" Simple as that. I spent weeks trying to find out why, after just a few Firefox instances were launched on an LTSP server, none more would load - part of this was because every user logging in was trying to download the anti-malware stuff from Google, saturating the line, and preventing Firefox from loading for the first time.
I hope the Firefox devs will take all scenarios into account when making changes. It seems lame that every user needs all of the stuff in places.sqlite. And even if you argue with that, at the LEAST make it cross-DB compatible, so you can put everyone's in a nice big central MySQL database.
So I guess all of the awesome surveillance the UK is imposing upon its citizens is doing much for crime...why not take them all out and put the money into a national Internet firewall? Maybe THEN humans will have only happy thoughts.
How can anyone see this as bad? Canonical is giving you a CHOICE - *not* vendor lock-in. You can still install codecs in any other fashion suitable for your situation - but for those who don't WANT or have the knowledge of HOW to install them illegally, manually, or what have you - this is a new option.
Because Comcast has never violated the privacy of its users or network neutrality, right?
Comcast is the lesser of the 2 evils...if you try to find the perfect "foo", you will die before figuring out how to completely avoid "bar". Then you're foobar.:p
I used to have 3 separate AT&T accounts, with a total of 5 services...
- Home phone line - Upgraded DSL
- Business phone line
- Cell phone (mine) - Cell phone (wife's)
I canceled them ALL because of the AT&T/NSA wiretapping fiasco, and haven't looked back yet. I can't tell you all how good it feels to shed AT&T from my life. Seriously. I have T-Mobile for cellphones (they have great customer service AND coverage!), Comcast for Internet, and Vonage for business phone.
I have to tell you all again - it feels GOOD to be free from the telco giant.:) I would advise any sane person to do the same.
/me doesn't really care if this comment flags him by the FBI, as he probably already is anyway. We are all terrorists in the eyes of our federal government.
If technology is used to monitor we, the people, we can break into that technology and stop/slow/break/expose said monitoring.
Export/Import works fine. Read my post. I'm talking about a "live" bookmarks.html that's symlinked for many users to share. You can't do that because bookmarks, history and other things are now stored in places.sqlite (which, like I said, is locked per-instance of FF3).
For the fact that they've completely dropped the 'bookmarks.html' way of doing things, in place of places.sqlite - I mean, at least have some backward compatibility. I was using a central bookmarks.html file at a bunch of client sites for global bookmarks on Ubuntu LTSP networks, and now that we've upgraded, it's..just...broken. For such a long-lived feature, I'm surprised that they just completely ripped it out without any kind of (except export/import, which half works, half doesn't) way for legacy implementations to keep going with it. There's no real way to symlink to places.sqlite, I hear, because the file is locked per-instance of FF. Blah.:(
Why is it every time Iran is mentioned in the mass media, that 'Nuclear weapons' has to be included?? Seems like we're just awaiting the day that they do something even remotely close to that, so we can say "SEE?? I TOLD YOU SO!"
Jeez. Just let them go to the moon already. Not like we don't have an arsenal of nukes pointed in their direction anyway. Why are we any better? Because we already *have* them?
History does not dictate the future, friend. There's nothing wrong with endorsing one aspect of human nature while living in the opposite environment (sharing/greed). Those who do not *learn* from history are doomed to repeat it. At this rate, the United States is going to be a very short-lived empire. We have already forgotten the documents that we established to free ourselves from tyranny, and with this kind of dismissive talk, all but the very top will be poor.
And the fact that you posted as AC proves, to me at least, that you are obviously not comfortable with your own stance to pair it with your identity to others. Confidence, motivation and the courage to change things are the most valuable "worldly possessions" I can think of.
I don't believe human nature is a static entity, nor is it only greed. Human nature is also compassion, love and understanding. You can endorse one more than the other - and with our current economy, it sure doesn't look like capitalism is working out too great for the majority of us, either.
If everyone shared information, you probably wouldn't be spending $1 billion developing a new vaccine. The overall cost would very much likely be distributed among people/companies, like you, that are trying to accomplish a common goal (which I *hope* is helping people, and not just making money).
The entire world economy would be different if people focused on sharing information and not guarding it behind their greedy claws - and maybe that's hard for you^H^H^Hsome people to swallow, if all they're used to is running in a hamster wheel, looking for the biggest piece of cheese.
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Why not just use a zero-G environment on the ground?
Car dealer #1: Will people actually BUY a hybrid car, saving them hundreds/thousands in fuel costs? /me wants "+1 Sad But True" ...
Car dealer #2: No, they just want GPS and a phat system, yo.
Sounds like the U.S. in about 50 years, actually.
"So why don't the cops do anything? Good question, but this is Russia we're talking about."
Wow, that's great journalism there. Really speaks out with a sense of unbiased, facts-only wordage there.
Thanks for the Magnitude link! =) Looks like a promising site that Slashdotter-type-music lovers would appreciate.
"...if indie artists want to use a social network equivalent of a state university dorm to promote themselves, that's fine. They'll probably stay indie artists for quite a while with that tactic."
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Who ever said signing with a major label is the goal of every non-signed artist? I would *prefer* to be unsigned/on a small label instead of under some rapist-like major label contract.
Not every musician is in it for the money, friend. The crap artists you hear on major playlists are, but I wouldn't call 80% of those artists "musicians", anyway.
...but leave indie artists alone please. Myspace, IMHO anyway, is much more important to the music community because of its ability to allow non-commercial, non-signed artists to put their music and group information out there for everyone to see. The big labels have their own mechanism, and Myspace catering to this with DRM-free music is awesome - but please, don't let it affect the indie artists. Keep it where it is, because it works!
Wow, Mars rovers use Gentoo! :p
*tomato*
"In trials using 140 volunteers those told to act suspicious were detected with 'about 78% accuracy"
Uhm...so, they were acting. Shouldn't it read,
"In trials using 140 volunteers those told to act suspicious were detected as 'people pretending to act suspicious' with 'about 78% accuracy".
That entire system is fundamentally flawed based on the concept of lie-detector tests. Think about it for a second.
*snip* ...and rewrites it if any of the other users change it back to what it "should" be. That fucks things up for *everyone*, which kind of defeats the whole idea of having separate user accounts that protect everyone from each other.
I think you're misunderstanding the usage of FF's anti-phishing blacklists. Think of it as anti-virus definitions. You only need ONE copy. See http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/ for more information. Downloading individual blacklists per-user would be like downloading anti-virus definitions per-user. Completely redundant.
You also seemed to miss my point regarding places.sqlite - it stores user history, bookmarks, and other things. Think of what you could do with multi-user access to this information (provided the DB tables are secured properly) - shared history, shared bookmarks...Mmmm...that's music to any administrator's ears that wants to share information, in say, a school. Shared bookmarks for each class. Shared history so someone can just say "go to my history" for a website. How cool would that be?
This is something that strikes me as the first time Firefox really pushed something out by default that shouldn't be. Just for one example, people who are on LTSP networks, say, 200 users, will ALL download anti-phishing, anti-malware blacklists from Google, each in their own home directory. There's no way that I know of, anyway, to share this data - SQLite seems to make it impossible. That's the first mistake in creating a compatible, light web browser.
The second mistake is enabling website blocking based on 3rd party blacklists by default. This is basically Microsoft UI thinking - "You *need* this because you don't know any better." Screw that. I mean, make it a checkbox on setup - "Use Google-provided anti-malware blacklists" Simple as that. I spent weeks trying to find out why, after just a few Firefox instances were launched on an LTSP server, none more would load - part of this was because every user logging in was trying to download the anti-malware stuff from Google, saturating the line, and preventing Firefox from loading for the first time.
I hope the Firefox devs will take all scenarios into account when making changes. It seems lame that every user needs all of the stuff in places.sqlite. And even if you argue with that, at the LEAST make it cross-DB compatible, so you can put everyone's in a nice big central MySQL database.
So I guess all of the awesome surveillance the UK is imposing upon its citizens is doing much for crime...why not take them all out and put the money into a national Internet firewall? Maybe THEN humans will have only happy thoughts.
How can anyone see this as bad? Canonical is giving you a CHOICE - *not* vendor lock-in. You can still install codecs in any other fashion suitable for your situation - but for those who don't WANT or have the knowledge of HOW to install them illegally, manually, or what have you - this is a new option.
Go Canonical! Go choice!
that I donate my $10/month to the EFF.
And I even got a spiffy EFF hat. =)
GO (real) FREEDOM!
Because Comcast has never violated the privacy of its users or network neutrality, right?
Comcast is the lesser of the 2 evils...if you try to find the perfect "foo", you will die before figuring out how to completely avoid "bar". Then you're foobar. :p
I used to have 3 separate AT&T accounts, with a total of 5 services...
- Home phone line
- Upgraded DSL
- Business phone line
- Cell phone (mine)
- Cell phone (wife's)
I canceled them ALL because of the AT&T/NSA wiretapping fiasco, and haven't looked back yet. I can't tell you all how good it feels to shed AT&T from my life. Seriously. I have T-Mobile for cellphones (they have great customer service AND coverage!), Comcast for Internet, and Vonage for business phone.
I have to tell you all again - it feels GOOD to be free from the telco giant. :) I would advise any sane person to do the same.
Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
I own a t-shirt printing business and website... not going to self plug right now ;)
If you want to msg me (like it's any more secure) I have a *lot* of t-shirt ideas that pertain to this kind of thing.
/me doesn't really care if this comment flags him by the FBI, as he probably already is anyway. We are all terrorists in the eyes of our federal government.
If technology is used to monitor we, the people, we can break into that technology and stop/slow/break/expose said monitoring.
I see a new bumper sticker in my head...
"HACK THE FBI"
Export/Import works fine. Read my post. I'm talking about a "live" bookmarks.html that's symlinked for many users to share. You can't do that because bookmarks, history and other things are now stored in places.sqlite (which, like I said, is locked per-instance of FF3).
For the fact that they've completely dropped the 'bookmarks.html' way of doing things, in place of places.sqlite - I mean, at least have some backward compatibility. I was using a central bookmarks.html file at a bunch of client sites for global bookmarks on Ubuntu LTSP networks, and now that we've upgraded, it's..just...broken. For such a long-lived feature, I'm surprised that they just completely ripped it out without any kind of (except export/import, which half works, half doesn't) way for legacy implementations to keep going with it. There's no real way to symlink to places.sqlite, I hear, because the file is locked per-instance of FF. Blah. :(
Why is it every time Iran is mentioned in the mass media, that 'Nuclear weapons' has to be included?? Seems like we're just awaiting the day that they do something even remotely close to that, so we can say "SEE?? I TOLD YOU SO!"
Jeez. Just let them go to the moon already. Not like we don't have an arsenal of nukes pointed in their direction anyway. Why are we any better? Because we already *have* them?
History does not dictate the future, friend. There's nothing wrong with endorsing one aspect of human nature while living in the opposite environment (sharing/greed). Those who do not *learn* from history are doomed to repeat it. At this rate, the United States is going to be a very short-lived empire. We have already forgotten the documents that we established to free ourselves from tyranny, and with this kind of dismissive talk, all but the very top will be poor.
And the fact that you posted as AC proves, to me at least, that you are obviously not comfortable with your own stance to pair it with your identity to others. Confidence, motivation and the courage to change things are the most valuable "worldly possessions" I can think of.
I don't believe human nature is a static entity, nor is it only greed. Human nature is also compassion, love and understanding. You can endorse one more than the other - and with our current economy, it sure doesn't look like capitalism is working out too great for the majority of us, either.
If I spend $1 billion developing a new vaccine...
If everyone shared information, you probably wouldn't be spending $1 billion developing a new vaccine. The overall cost would very much likely be distributed among people/companies, like you, that are trying to accomplish a common goal (which I *hope* is helping people, and not just making money).
The entire world economy would be different if people focused on sharing information and not guarding it behind their greedy claws - and maybe that's hard for you^H^H^Hsome people to swallow, if all they're used to is running in a hamster wheel, looking for the biggest piece of cheese.