[...] no one checks your student ID at the entrance[...]
My ex studies there. They don't even have ID cards or anything alike. Also, I remember I went to a class that seemed interesting with her a couple of times. With 200+ faces per class, nobody'll notice.
You know, I'm guessing most laptop thieves will resell it to someone for around 10% of it's market value. Whoever buys them, probably installs windows on it, and resells it for 50% of it's real value in a semi-legit-looking shop.
Indeed. 20km out of Buenos Aires City, it's still a pretty densely populated area, yet there's no running water, or gas. People have their own water pump and bug cannisters of gas (not sure if cannister is the proper word in english).
As someone how lives in buenos aires, I must tell you; you're quite wrong. I know which places to go to, and which no to go to. If you take a wrong turn, and walk 4 blocks down the wrong street, it might be your last wrong turn. Or you might just get mugged.
I had a friend who got mugged waiting for the bus on their first trip to BA. It wan't just her though; it was the entire line of people waiting for the bus. Inside the main Terminal in Retiro, Buenos Aires.
It's a mix... you have a small area that's first-world-ish, and the area next to it is almost third-world-ish.
4xx indicates "Client Error", 5xx indicates "Server Error" (according to rfc2616). In case of censorship, neither ocurrs really, so 6xx does actually make sense. It's "No error, but can't continue anyway". Or maybe "Legislation error".
Though I don't see the IETF extending a communication protocol to support censorship.
No, there's no visual lag, it works flawlessly (nvidia 8800 on this pc, btw), it's just that my eyes can't focus on text that's moving at high speeds, while they can get a glimpse at the non-smooth text. At least enough to read a couple of words, or the big titles.
Maybe some people can, maybe it's my eyesight, but I definitely can't. I do admit smooth scrolling does look "Prettier" though!
Smooth scrolling makes it extremely hard (impossible actually) to read as you scroll. It's the sort of eye-candy which REDUCES functionality, I don't really understand why anyone would want it (honestly: how often do you scroll and don't want to read as you scroll down. AT ALL.
They didn't invent tabs, and FF has adblock. It may not be built-in, but it still works pretty much the same, and more flexible. Remember FF makes profit out of ads (indirectly), so a built-in ad blocker is a bit of a suicide.
I can barely stand using Opera, but I still feel it's right to give credit where it belongs. Chrome just allowed the speed dial to have dynamic websites, instead of always the same, but the base idea is pretty much the same "9 big previews pointing the the 9 most used websites in a grid".
To fix a security hole, you have to release software with those holes first. Maybe all the rest can't compete, because they can't add up so many huge security holes.
I've seen this news all over the web since yesterday, however, the "new tab" page as it is, isn't a Chrome feature, it actually comes from Opera, which had it way before Chrome existed.
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Most linux distributions packages Chromium, so apt-get/yum/zypper/pkg_add/pacman should do the trick.
Not sure about macports, or windows though.
How is the lack of flash something bad? Now that youtube supports HTML5, there's no need for flash, unless your job demands it.
How do you detect a stranger in a 500+ class?
Private universities generally have RFID cards of something similar in Argentina (I attend one).
[...] no one checks your student ID at the entrance[...]
My ex studies there. They don't even have ID cards or anything alike.
Also, I remember I went to a class that seemed interesting with her a couple of times. With 200+ faces per class, nobody'll notice.
You know, I'm guessing most laptop thieves will resell it to someone for around 10% of it's market value.
Whoever buys them, probably installs windows on it, and resells it for 50% of it's real value in a semi-legit-looking shop.
Why would he use truecrypt if the linux kernel which he runs around promoting supports LUKS for FS encryption?
I earn my paycheck writing free software. Business model? My company lives out of donations and contributions made to us.
I even earn more than my last job; where we wrote non-free software.
Indeed. 20km out of Buenos Aires City, it's still a pretty densely populated area, yet there's no running water, or gas. People have their own water pump and bug cannisters of gas (not sure if cannister is the proper word in english).
And I'm not talking about the poor areas.
As someone how lives in buenos aires, I must tell you; you're quite wrong.
I know which places to go to, and which no to go to. If you take a wrong turn, and walk 4 blocks down the wrong street, it might be your last wrong turn. Or you might just get mugged.
I had a friend who got mugged waiting for the bus on their first trip to BA. It wan't just her though; it was the entire line of people waiting for the bus. Inside the main Terminal in Retiro, Buenos Aires.
It's a mix... you have a small area that's first-world-ish, and the area next to it is almost third-world-ish.
But it doesn't make sense, to quote the definition of the HTTP 403 status code:
"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.".
The server didn't understand the request in case of censorship because it was intercepted.
You don't ??
At least bother to read the relevant section in the rfc.
Americans don't know what Tianamen Square is. And that's because it's outside of USA.
403 is indeed, wrong: "The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.".
In cases like this, where the ISP is blocking the request, 403 is wrong; the server did not understand the request. It didn't even receive it.
4xx indicates "Client Error", 5xx indicates "Server Error" (according to rfc2616).
In case of censorship, neither ocurrs really, so 6xx does actually make sense. It's "No error, but can't continue anyway". Or maybe "Legislation error".
Though I don't see the IETF extending a communication protocol to support censorship.
No, there's no visual lag, it works flawlessly (nvidia 8800 on this pc, btw), it's just that my eyes can't focus on text that's moving at high speeds, while they can get a glimpse at the non-smooth text. At least enough to read a couple of words, or the big titles.
Maybe some people can, maybe it's my eyesight, but I definitely can't. I do admit smooth scrolling does look "Prettier" though!
Sadly, it's just a matter of time before Gnome3 catches up on debian-stable.
But it isn't a window manager. It's a Desktop Enviroment. The windows manager is only a tiny portion of what KDE is.
Smooth scrolling makes it extremely hard (impossible actually) to read as you scroll. It's the sort of eye-candy which REDUCES functionality, I don't really understand why anyone would want it (honestly: how often do you scroll and don't want to read as you scroll down. AT ALL.
They didn't invent tabs, and FF has adblock. It may not be built-in, but it still works pretty much the same, and more flexible.
Remember FF makes profit out of ads (indirectly), so a built-in ad blocker is a bit of a suicide.
I can barely stand using Opera, but I still feel it's right to give credit where it belongs.
Chrome just allowed the speed dial to have dynamic websites, instead of always the same, but the base idea is pretty much the same "9 big previews pointing the the 9 most used websites in a grid".
To fix a security hole, you have to release software with those holes first. Maybe all the rest can't compete, because they can't add up so many huge security holes.
They already have the code to sign their drivers though, just like they're signing everything else.
Even if it does, a single infected machine on the network will intercept the next windows update request, and re-infect your recently reset machine.
There's no way you can work around it, except by not-having any other windows-computers in the network.
You could use Chromium, the FLOSS browser on which Chrome is based (and Chromium doesn't include flash or other crap most /. users won't want).
I've seen this news all over the web since yesterday, however, the "new tab" page as it is, isn't a Chrome feature, it actually comes from Opera, which had it way before Chrome existed.