Internet Explorer has a feature called Tracking Protection which allows you to disable third party content on websites. It lists out all third party elements that you frequently see and allows you to disable them. That way you can block Facebook from all websites, which aren't Facebook.
allowing any schmuck to lay cables throughout your neighborhood is a recipe for disaster.
Why would it be a disaster? If the reason would be "a street would never be in the state of not being torn up!" I'm sure that a competent local government could write laws and regulations that say "A section of street can only be under construction X% of the year, and fines will be implemented against any work that goes beyond the permit date". And then yes, streets might get torn up a bit more, but given that most streets are under repaired in the US right now, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Plus, it's not like there are hundreds of ISP's covering every little town. Ideally we'd have local municipalities realize that they should install the last mile of cable, and then make it property of the home, but for some reason that never happens.
The reality is that as worker productivity has increased by orders of magnitude, worker pay adjusted for inflation has decreased sharply. There's no defense for that.
What if the worker productivity isn't due to anything the workers have done, but from capitol investments the employers have made to increase their employee's productivity?
Lol!
All that would really encourage is people not using the website. If Kellogs.com customer loyalty reward website assigned me a ginourmus password, using characters I don't think I could even find on my phones' keyboard, it would encourage me pretty quickly to not use Kellogs products and seek out the competitors product (which would have a more reasonable password policy) when the difference was negligible to me.
Well, good thing we had all those financial regulations repealed by Clinton.
It was amazing how Clinton was able to single handedly overcome all of the protestations of the Republican controlled House and Senate and just erase the laws of the land at his own whim. It's totally awesome how the Founding Fathers gave the Executive branch that authority.
The only two that I know of are Windows RT and iOS. They have the problem of being a walled garden, but that doesn't mean that a non-walled garden OS could be created where an app is only allowed to see what it bring to the table, and what the user gives to see.
I've had people pissed off when I started recording in the street. Not a particular shot of anything, just trying to get a few minutes of footage of background pedestrians.
Perhaps the field has changed in the past 25 years? It's possible that the skill set that is currently the successful still set has a certain group self selecting themselves out of the field?
Crap, we're not on the list. Somehow, even the biggest city in the US can't get a decent fiber roll-out. That's how you know the "population density" arguments are BS.
NYC has bureaucracy. Apparently sufficient bureaucracy to overcome the advantages of population density.
Considering UPnP is broken by design, that's not really an improvement. Replacing a security hole in the router by a hundred apps that want their own ports to expose their own security holes to the Internet doesn't help much.
I feel like I can be responsible for anything that runs on my machine, so I'm okay with that.
design goals that emphasize usability over security
I wonder why usability was able to sell more than security? Hmm. Let's think about that.
Meanwhile, a January 2013 study from Rapid7 found 40 million to 50 million network-enabled devices, including nearly all home routers, were vulnerable to exploits using UPnP.
Man, and I can't get my home router to do UPnP. It's bad that UPnP allows for the configuration of the router to come from a machine outside of the network, but that should get fixed and UPnP should be able to start behaving like it is designed to.
The more I see stories about various programs accessing all sorts of stuff they aren't supposed to, the more I wonder why we still allow this?
It's because we like it when programs work well together. As a result general purpose computers have the model that anything running as the user is the user. So preventing one application from interfacing with/messing with another program would be the same as blocking the user from doing the same. Any OS that tries to put up garden walls between programs is decried as an attack on computational liberty.
The latency is only about 150ms. This is simply unnoticable for email, so major US email providers aren't going to have servers in the EU for latency reasons.
That would probably be true for classic client server email, but consumers (and by consumers I mean people who don't read Slashdot) expect their email to be a web based client. And for all of the back and forth an interactive web client is going to have with the server, 150ms could be killer.
Given the latency across the Atlantic, I wouldn't be surprised if all of the major US email providers host the mailboxes of their EU customers in the EU. If so, does that go against Merkel's wishes?
The premise of the original article, "One of Android's biggest draws is its roots in open source" just doesn't ring true for me. In fact, I doubt it's true for the vast majority of Android users.
That's true, but it kind of hurts the original Android fans. That's exactly the thing that got a lot of the early Android fans (especially the ones on Slashdot) to excited about Android. They went around telling everyone they could have a chance to talk to, to switch to Android. Their motivation was that Android was an Open Source device operating system, but knowing that no one cares, they just said 'It's better'. Now that Google has made a lot of the Android experience not fit the classic Open Source model, these early fans are feeling a bit betrayed.
If out natural comforts were magically provided for, my wife and I would be more likely to engage in activities that lead to having children. People having so much that sex is no longer interesting sounds pretty dystopian to me.
It's not that we wouldn't be having sex, it's that your wife's natural comforts would involve not dealing with the uncomfortable-ness of pregnancy. So plenty of sex, but only sex which wouldn't result in pregnancy.
Overpopulation and resource limitations will work themselves out naturally.
But then once the natural comforts are provided for well enough, that most people stop having children, wouldn't that society end up like the Spacer Worlds from "Caves of Steel", and end up self destructing through a lack of population?
Schools are paying outrageous sums to executive staff (but -- surprise, surprise -- not to teachers)
Administrative staff can come up with clever ways to increase student attendance. Teachers are just a necessary evil, who don't find ways to bring in truck loads more of students.
How about no tution at all? It works great for Germany.... Just sayin'...
It's not doing so well for Greece though. Isn't one of the problems with the Greek debt crisis the fact that the government is paying for everybody's higher education, and it's so great to be a student that everyone has multiple degrees and now find most jobs to be beneath them?
The work which [a man educated at the expense of much labor and time] learns to perform, it must be expected, will replace to him the whole expense of his education, with at least the ordinary profits of an equally valuable capital.
And then goes on to talk about how this is an important component of a society with liberty.
So apparently it's important to have the price of one's education be proportional to ones likelihood of repaying the cost for that education. Have others subsidies it for you fights against a Liberty.
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Internet Explorer has a feature called Tracking Protection which allows you to disable third party content on websites. It lists out all third party elements that you frequently see and allows you to disable them. That way you can block Facebook from all websites, which aren't Facebook.
Yes. If I use IMAP, then why use gmail at all?
Storage and Spam filter.
What's wrong with searching?
allowing any schmuck to lay cables throughout your neighborhood is a recipe for disaster.
Why would it be a disaster? If the reason would be "a street would never be in the state of not being torn up!" I'm sure that a competent local government could write laws and regulations that say "A section of street can only be under construction X% of the year, and fines will be implemented against any work that goes beyond the permit date". And then yes, streets might get torn up a bit more, but given that most streets are under repaired in the US right now, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Plus, it's not like there are hundreds of ISP's covering every little town. Ideally we'd have local municipalities realize that they should install the last mile of cable, and then make it property of the home, but for some reason that never happens.
The reality is that as worker productivity has increased by orders of magnitude, worker pay adjusted for inflation has decreased sharply. There's no defense for that.
What if the worker productivity isn't due to anything the workers have done, but from capitol investments the employers have made to increase their employee's productivity?
encourages the use of a good password manager
Lol!
All that would really encourage is people not using the website. If Kellogs.com customer loyalty reward website assigned me a ginourmus password, using characters I don't think I could even find on my phones' keyboard, it would encourage me pretty quickly to not use Kellogs products and seek out the competitors product (which would have a more reasonable password policy) when the difference was negligible to me.
Well, good thing we had all those financial regulations repealed by Clinton.
It was amazing how Clinton was able to single handedly overcome all of the protestations of the Republican controlled House and Senate and just erase the laws of the land at his own whim. It's totally awesome how the Founding Fathers gave the Executive branch that authority.
The only two that I know of are Windows RT and iOS. They have the problem of being a walled garden, but that doesn't mean that a non-walled garden OS could be created where an app is only allowed to see what it bring to the table, and what the user gives to see.
It would cost very little to operate or use in the modern age of computers.
In other words, it costs too much.
I've had people pissed off when I started recording in the street. Not a particular shot of anything, just trying to get a few minutes of footage of background pedestrians.
Aren't you curious as to why?
Perhaps the field has changed in the past 25 years? It's possible that the skill set that is currently the successful still set has a certain group self selecting themselves out of the field?
Crap, we're not on the list. Somehow, even the biggest city in the US can't get a decent fiber roll-out. That's how you know the "population density" arguments are BS.
NYC has bureaucracy. Apparently sufficient bureaucracy to overcome the advantages of population density.
Considering UPnP is broken by design, that's not really an improvement. Replacing a security hole in the router by a hundred apps that want their own ports to expose their own security holes to the Internet doesn't help much.
I feel like I can be responsible for anything that runs on my machine, so I'm okay with that.
design goals that emphasize usability over security
I wonder why usability was able to sell more than security? Hmm. Let's think about that.
Meanwhile, a January 2013 study from Rapid7 found 40 million to 50 million network-enabled devices, including nearly all home routers, were vulnerable to exploits using UPnP.
Man, and I can't get my home router to do UPnP. It's bad that UPnP allows for the configuration of the router to come from a machine outside of the network, but that should get fixed and UPnP should be able to start behaving like it is designed to.
The more I see stories about various programs accessing all sorts of stuff they aren't supposed to, the more I wonder why we still allow this?
It's because we like it when programs work well together. As a result general purpose computers have the model that anything running as the user is the user. So preventing one application from interfacing with/messing with another program would be the same as blocking the user from doing the same. Any OS that tries to put up garden walls between programs is decried as an attack on computational liberty.
They should not go rummaging through my computer. Period.
Then prevent them. Use an OS that prevents on application from rummaging through your computer.
Sorry Gabe, you're not allowed to see my DNS history.
So what OS model can we use to isolate one program from another? Do we want that kind of model?
The latency is only about 150ms. This is simply unnoticable for email, so major US email providers aren't going to have servers in the EU for latency reasons.
That would probably be true for classic client server email, but consumers (and by consumers I mean people who don't read Slashdot) expect their email to be a web based client. And for all of the back and forth an interactive web client is going to have with the server, 150ms could be killer.
Given the latency across the Atlantic, I wouldn't be surprised if all of the major US email providers host the mailboxes of their EU customers in the EU. If so, does that go against Merkel's wishes?
The premise of the original article, "One of Android's biggest draws is its roots in open source" just doesn't ring true for me. In fact, I doubt it's true for the vast majority of Android users.
That's true, but it kind of hurts the original Android fans. That's exactly the thing that got a lot of the early Android fans (especially the ones on Slashdot) to excited about Android. They went around telling everyone they could have a chance to talk to, to switch to Android. Their motivation was that Android was an Open Source device operating system, but knowing that no one cares, they just said 'It's better'. Now that Google has made a lot of the Android experience not fit the classic Open Source model, these early fans are feeling a bit betrayed.
If out natural comforts were magically provided for, my wife and I would be more likely to engage in activities that lead to having children. People having so much that sex is no longer interesting sounds pretty dystopian to me.
It's not that we wouldn't be having sex, it's that your wife's natural comforts would involve not dealing with the uncomfortable-ness of pregnancy. So plenty of sex, but only sex which wouldn't result in pregnancy.
Overpopulation and resource limitations will work themselves out naturally.
But then once the natural comforts are provided for well enough, that most people stop having children, wouldn't that society end up like the Spacer Worlds from "Caves of Steel", and end up self destructing through a lack of population?
Schools are paying outrageous sums to executive staff (but -- surprise, surprise -- not to teachers)
Administrative staff can come up with clever ways to increase student attendance. Teachers are just a necessary evil, who don't find ways to bring in truck loads more of students.
How about no tution at all? It works great for Germany. ... Just sayin' ...
It's not doing so well for Greece though. Isn't one of the problems with the Greek debt crisis the fact that the government is paying for everybody's higher education, and it's so great to be a student that everyone has multiple degrees and now find most jobs to be beneath them?
The work which [a man educated at the expense of much labor and time] learns to perform, it must be expected, will replace to him the whole expense of his education, with at least the ordinary profits of an equally valuable capital.
And then goes on to talk about how this is an important component of a society with liberty.
So apparently it's important to have the price of one's education be proportional to ones likelihood of repaying the cost for that education. Have others subsidies it for you fights against a Liberty.