Which actually kind of interests me. If I select part of the text, I can clearly see the line of division between the two letters. I wonder what text selection would look like with a font obeying these rules. Seems it'd be kind of ugly.
Point re: the java applets was that they are still ubiquitous, thus is very likely someone will have a JVM spawned, besides that, it clearly is not that onerous given the example I gave. I'm trying to be polite, but you really are a strain on that.
I can't check the 1MiB runtime, so I'll just take your word for it. Implementing multimedia under Linux is not that hard anymore. ALSA has stabilised significantly and making that a requirement would not have been such a big deal.
And not crucial for a web app, we were discussing media streaming. But just typing this makes me feel tired. Feels like you are looking for a fight, so... Goodbye. http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/index. jsp
I find it amusing you are complaining about the size of the JVM given until recently many people were routinely spawning an applet per hover button (yes, stupid people). Still was treated as completely normal, and isn't like people don't already have it on their machine, probably already spawned. Heck, until recently, it was more likely to run successfully on all platforms. Why handicap one's self with flash?
Not sure where you are getting the 1M runtime from - not to mention the fact that of the 39 libraries libflashplayer links to, several were loaded exclusively for it.
... which is a silly use of flash anyway, and only necessitated by the lack of a set of a good quality standard video codecs. Still could be done better in applets anyway.
... how about 301? Let's say a site redirects from / to/DEADBEEF1234/ or from/webbug.gif to/DEADBEEF1234/webbug.gif with a 301 - that seems that could track people too. And let's not forget flash - it has a local store for saving flash app information, often on by default. I wonder if a really determined ad company might not have a half-dozen methods of tracking me.
Hm. Super-convoluted. Use a javascript image portscan to attempt a fingerprint to try and determine if the IP has moved, if the visitor is identified as coming from a dynamic range.
Heh. I do the same thing. Of course, a site could also try tagging me by serving me a uniquely timestamped file modification date on some piece of server content. Assuming I cache, that'd also serve for tracking.
Isn't like everything is just cookies and IP tracking.
Or heck, SSL session ID makes for short-lived tagging to determine a visitor, as does analysing site access patterns.
... but "It should be clear that the stick's security is quite useless: a simple program can be used to fool the Secustick into sending its unlock command without knowing the password." huzzah! a linux version should soon be in the works!;)
From the WTO ruling. "6.2 We therefore consider that the United States has implemented the recommendations and rulings of the DSB in US - Softwood Lumber V, to bring its measure into conformity with its obligations under the AD Agreement. 6.3 Having found that the United States did not act inconsistently with its obligations under the asserted WTO Agreements, we consider that no recommendation under Article 19.1 of the DSU is necessary, and we make none."
I'd normally agree as a libertarian, but if, for example, the images were removed due to government pressure, then yes, it is the government's business.
Who knows. Not that much from folks I cared about, who I had already given the why and wherefore on this.
I'm not at all a fan of RBLs, ones that block entire ranges. In this case I was blocking one ISP that was the source of a tiny fraction of my e-mail, and of course engaging in bad behaviour.
Who knows, maybe blocks like mine were why they stopped blocking?
Sorry. That should say *from* dynamic ranges. So, I'd be unable to reply to a "Live Mail" account once it delivered to me. So, I don't allow it to deliver to me. Tit for tat. If you can't be bothered to whitelist the MX record and machine you just tried delivering to, I'm not going to waste my time reading something I can't reply to.
Well, you won't be able to deliver to me at least. Microsoft drops all e-mail to so-called "dynamic" ranges without even a reject. Doesn't even route the packets. So, I bounce all e-mail from those servers with a reject requesting they find another mail provider. Amusingly, from my experiments, Hotmail/Live Mail masks the reject reason.
GMail has no such issues. Google effortlessly keeps the mail flowing without trying to restrict a hierarchy of mail delivery.
Imagine the local church setting up voting booths in the foyer and having people file past and vote the church line after the sermon. There is such a thing as peer pressure.
And don't forget that military costs as quoted by him do special expenditures like the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, nor Veterans Affairs and all the other miscellaneous costs associated with military personnel and their families.
Biodiesel is most definitely not taking a billion tons out of the cycle since you're just burning it again.
Trees will do this, but you'd need a hell of a lot of trees, since you have to compensate for the amount that gets released back when they die, lose leaves, get cut down and burnt, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration# Forests_2 "one million of these trees will fix 0.9 teragrams of carbon dioxide" wikipedia claims this figure as over a 40 year lifespan. Using that as a WAG (and assuming they are accounting for loss). 0.9 teragrams is 900,000 tonnes, so 22,500 tonnes for a million trees. Your tree solution would require about 50 billion trees to win the prize. Now, let's see how much space that would take. Let's assume a tree requires 100 square metres of space - (tree in my front yard measures 10m*10m in google earth) That's 500 billion square metres of land, or a chunk of land 707 kilometres on a side. Again fiddling in Google Earth, 707 kilometres square is the entire North-East United States.
I'd say you can't afford to win his prize that way. And in practical terms that only seems to handle a tiny fraction of mankind's total output. I don't know if sequestering underground is any cheaper or more scalable, but at least it takes up less space.
I found the new Yahoo! beta far too painful to navigate, especially after I accidentally tagged one piece of mail as spam (which was way too easy to do) then couldn't find the thing through endless slow scrolling of the spam folder. Oh, and whole thing was rather slow (although it has improved).
Oh, and the new Hotmail - I block all e-mail from Hotmail as reciprocation for their slash and burn spam prevention policy which drops all packets from ranges tagged "dynamic" - not even a polite bounce message.
Contrast that to Google which has an interface which is fast, and blocks almost all spam even while still allowing connections from "dynamic" ranges.
As the text you notes quotes, that's the bare minimum. The concern is more laws allowing even more to be tracked. From TFA. "Because there is no limit on how broad the rules can be, Gonzales would be permitted to force Internet providers to keep logs of Web browsing, instant message exchanges, or e-mail conversations indefinitely. (The bill does not, however, explicitly cover search engines or Web hosting companies, which officials have talked about before as targets of regulation.)
That broad wording also would permit the records to be obtained by private litigants in noncriminal cases, such as divorces and employment disputes. That raises additional privacy concerns, civil libertarians say. "
... signed using private key, verified using public. Whatever, everyone here knows how that works. Just wish government websites had some infrastructure to make it easier. Heck, encouraging more people to use private keys and encrypt stuff would be a nice side-effect.
I wish more public offices could be selected jury duty fashion, BTW. If you don't want to serve, you're probably the person I'd trust the most with those extra duties alongside your regular job, and you're probably no dumber than most folks on municipal boards. Maybe make the terms shorter to compensate. Seems technologically feasible, these days.
Oh, that and it'd be neat if we were given more options to vote on almost any government decision, public key signed. It'd be a neat way to read the news in the morning, getting to vote stuff down while reading.
How about a lottery? House of Lords consisting of random sampling of British population, with certain basic eligibility constraints reviewed upon winning.
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And I pulled up over a couple of dozen maple saplings today. Damn things would take over the yard, given a chance.
Which actually kind of interests me. If I select part of the text, I can clearly see the line of division between the two letters. I wonder what text selection would look like with a font obeying these rules. Seems it'd be kind of ugly.
Point re: the java applets was that they are still ubiquitous, thus is very likely someone will have a JVM spawned, besides that, it clearly is not that onerous given the example I gave.
. jsp
I'm trying to be polite, but you really are a strain on that.
I can't check the 1MiB runtime, so I'll just take your word for it. Implementing multimedia under Linux is not that hard anymore. ALSA has stabilised significantly and making that a requirement would not have been such a big deal.
And not crucial for a web app, we were discussing media streaming. But just typing this makes me feel tired. Feels like you are looking for a fight, so... Goodbye.
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/index
I find it amusing you are complaining about the size of the JVM given until recently many people were routinely spawning an applet per hover button (yes, stupid people). Still was treated as completely normal, and isn't like people don't already have it on their machine, probably already spawned. Heck, until recently, it was more likely to run successfully on all platforms.
/opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Why handicap one's self with flash?
Oh, and:
$ ls -lh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.8M 2007-01-19 14:21
Not sure where you are getting the 1M runtime from - not to mention the fact that of the 39 libraries libflashplayer links to, several were loaded exclusively for it.
... which is a silly use of flash anyway, and only necessitated by the lack of a set of a good quality standard video codecs.
Still could be done better in applets anyway.
... how about 301? Let's say a site redirects from / to /DEADBEEF1234/ or from /webbug.gif to /DEADBEEF1234/webbug.gif with a 301 - that seems that could track people too.
And let's not forget flash - it has a local store for saving flash app information, often on by default.
I wonder if a really determined ad company might not have a half-dozen methods of tracking me.
Hm. Super-convoluted. Use a javascript image portscan to attempt a fingerprint to try and determine if the IP has moved, if the visitor is identified as coming from a dynamic range.
Heh. I do the same thing.
Of course, a site could also try tagging me by serving me a uniquely timestamped file modification date on some piece of server content. Assuming I cache, that'd also serve for tracking.
Isn't like everything is just cookies and IP tracking.
Or heck, SSL session ID makes for short-lived tagging to determine a visitor, as does analysing site access patterns.
... but "It should be clear that the stick's security is quite useless: a simple program can be used to fool the Secustick into sending its unlock command without knowing the password." ;)
huzzah! a linux version should soon be in the works!
From the WTO ruling.
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. aspx?isRedirect=True&Language=E&publication_id=383 935&docnumber=45
"6.2 We therefore consider that the United States has implemented the recommendations and
rulings of the DSB in US - Softwood Lumber V, to bring its measure into conformity with its
obligations under the AD Agreement.
6.3 Having found that the United States did not act inconsistently with its obligations under the
asserted WTO Agreements, we consider that no recommendation under Article 19.1 of the DSU is
necessary, and we make none."
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/tna-nac/dispute-en.a
Final settlement documented here:
http://w01.international.gc.ca/MinPub/Publication
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/04/wto- rules-for-us-in-canada-softwood.php
Googled for this out of interest.
Do you have a more recent story? Because this one from last year contradicts you.
I'd normally agree as a libertarian, but if, for example, the images were removed due to government pressure, then yes, it is the government's business.
Who knows. Not that much from folks I cared about, who I had already given the why and wherefore on this.
I'm not at all a fan of RBLs, ones that block entire ranges. In this case I was blocking one ISP that was the source of a tiny fraction of my e-mail,
and of course engaging in bad behaviour.
Who knows, maybe blocks like mine were why they stopped blocking?
Addendum.
I just rechecked this broken behaviour from the past couple years.
It appears I was able to connect and attempt to deliver a letter.
Based on this, I retract my earlier complaint and have removed my blocks.
*thumbs up on Live Mail*
Sorry. That should say *from* dynamic ranges.
So, I'd be unable to reply to a "Live Mail" account once it delivered to me.
So, I don't allow it to deliver to me.
Tit for tat.
If you can't be bothered to whitelist the MX record and machine you just tried delivering to,
I'm not going to waste my time reading something I can't reply to.
Well, you won't be able to deliver to me at least.
Microsoft drops all e-mail to so-called "dynamic" ranges without even a reject. Doesn't even route the packets.
So, I bounce all e-mail from those servers with a reject requesting they find another mail provider.
Amusingly, from my experiments, Hotmail/Live Mail masks the reject reason.
GMail has no such issues. Google effortlessly keeps the mail flowing without trying to restrict a hierarchy of mail delivery.
Imagine the local church setting up voting booths in the foyer and having people file past and vote the church line after the sermon.
There is such a thing as peer pressure.
Frig. That'll teach me to preview. That should have read *DO NOT INCLUDE* not just "do"
And don't forget that military costs as quoted by him do special expenditures like the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, nor
Veterans Affairs and all the other miscellaneous costs associated with military personnel and their families.
Biodiesel is most definitely not taking a billion tons out of the cycle since you're just burning it again.
# Forests_2
Trees will do this, but you'd need a hell of a lot of trees, since you have to compensate for the amount that gets released back when they die, lose leaves, get cut down and burnt, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration
"one million of these trees will fix 0.9 teragrams of carbon dioxide" wikipedia claims this figure as over a 40 year lifespan.
Using that as a WAG (and assuming they are accounting for loss).
0.9 teragrams is 900,000 tonnes, so 22,500 tonnes for a million trees.
Your tree solution would require about 50 billion trees to win the prize.
Now, let's see how much space that would take.
Let's assume a tree requires 100 square metres of space - (tree in my front yard measures 10m*10m in google earth)
That's 500 billion square metres of land, or a chunk of land 707 kilometres on a side.
Again fiddling in Google Earth, 707 kilometres square is the entire North-East United States.
I'd say you can't afford to win his prize that way.
And in practical terms that only seems to handle a tiny fraction of mankind's total output.
I don't know if sequestering underground is any cheaper or more scalable, but at least it takes up less space.
I found the new Yahoo! beta far too painful to navigate, especially after I accidentally tagged one piece of mail as spam (which was way too easy to do) then couldn't find the thing through endless slow scrolling of the spam folder. Oh, and whole thing was rather slow (although it has improved).
Oh, and the new Hotmail - I block all e-mail from Hotmail as reciprocation for their slash and burn spam prevention policy which drops all packets from ranges tagged "dynamic" - not even a polite bounce message.
Contrast that to Google which has an interface which is fast, and blocks almost all spam even while still allowing connections from "dynamic" ranges.
As the text you notes quotes, that's the bare minimum. The concern is more laws allowing even more to be tracked.
From TFA.
"Because there is no limit on how broad the rules can be, Gonzales would be permitted to force Internet providers to keep logs of Web browsing, instant message exchanges, or e-mail conversations indefinitely. (The bill does not, however, explicitly cover search engines or Web hosting companies, which officials have talked about before as targets of regulation.)
That broad wording also would permit the records to be obtained by private litigants in noncriminal cases, such as divorces and employment disputes. That raises additional privacy concerns, civil libertarians say. "
... signed using private key, verified using public. Whatever, everyone here knows how that works.
Just wish government websites had some infrastructure to make it easier.
Heck, encouraging more people to use private keys and encrypt stuff would be a nice side-effect.
I wish more public offices could be selected jury duty fashion, BTW.
If you don't want to serve, you're probably the person I'd trust the most with those
extra duties alongside your regular job, and you're probably no dumber than most folks on municipal boards.
Maybe make the terms shorter to compensate.
Seems technologically feasible, these days.
Oh, that and it'd be neat if we were given more options to vote on almost any government decision, public key signed.
It'd be a neat way to read the news in the morning, getting to vote stuff down while reading.
How about a lottery?
House of Lords consisting of random sampling of British population, with certain basic eligibility constraints reviewed upon winning.