Such pitching in would almost certainly appear to us in the same way that Microsoft "pitched in" for SCO. I suspect that at the moment, the respective CEOs are weighing the cost of licensing versus the prospect that their licensing fees will be used to fund the destruction of their competitors.
not the case, and has never been the case, that consenting adults have the legitimate free speech rights to produce any sort of publication they like. Treasonous publications, libelous publications, and obscene publications ARE and HAVE ALWAYS BEEN illegal, and justly so.
Thomas Jefferson would think that with the exception of libel, your "justly so" is just bullshit: "Words carried into action assume the nature of that action. Thus a man who goes into a public market-place to incite the subject to revolt incurs the guilt of high treason, because the words are joined to the action, and partake of its nature. It is not the words that are punished, but an action in which words are employed. They do not become criminal, but when they are annexed to a criminal action: everything is confounded if words are construed into a capital crime, instead of considering them only as a mark of that crime."
"The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations."
I believe he was also the one that specifically defended the first amendment with regards to treason and rebellion, stating that by allowing the opinions to be aired in public, one can a) argue them away and b) keep tabs on those who hold them.
And real live kiddie porn was outlawed in what, the 1960's? Keep the hyperbole up, the truth isn't near as fun!
While I think this was an awesome game (hell, it's been at least a decade and I still remember most of it), if it did end up obscure, it did so because it tried to combine two radically separate game types (scrolling shootemup and zelda-like exploration) in a way that being good with both of them was a requirement. I spent quite a lot of time as a kid raging at the eyeball monsters that shot out beams of varying speed that were capable of destroying you in two hits.
"TGL" mode was amusing for a little bit, until you realize that by the time you get to the harder corridors you're going to have half the health and weapon levels you normally would... (guess which game type I sucked at;)
I'd do this too, but my mother lives in The Middle of Nowhere, and keeps her sanity by "checking out" downloaded audiobooks from the library, complete with windows-only DRM.
If it weren't for that, I think she'd have absolutely no problem at all with Ubuntu, Flash (for games), and the netbook desktop.
don't show some confusingly complicated dialog, just give some error message.
And that's exactly what firefox 3 does. You get a blank screen with a message that the SSL certificate is invalid and that the site cannot be trusted, and a tiny little link to open the dialog to add an exception if you really want to go to that site anyway.
After all why should I care about you because all you do is complain, whine, etc.
People put forward working ideas all the time, and get shot down because "Techies don't get the business world." Maybe if the business world was willing to make the effort to meet halfway, people would be more willing to make the effort to work with them. Alas, people complain and whine against any suggestion that politicians ought to know anything at all about what they're passing laws about. Why, if they did, how would any of the special interests manage to get anything done at all?
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We need a way to exploit lethal gullibility prior to the propagation of those genes into the gene pool.
I know, we'll market a homeopathic contraceptive!... oh wait
This is your IT support's fault, not Windows Update's.
Great, I'll let my mother's IT support know that they're idiots... oh wait, that's me!
So, how do I make my mother's WU autoupdate the patches that require agreements (or get WU to show the agreements to non-admin users)? You'd think this would be a FAQ...
I think his point is that it's no longer "auto install" when you're choosing them by hand.
This is an important issue when you're doing The Right Thing and using a non-admin account on a daily basis, meaning that you'll have to stop on a regular basis and log in as admin to sort out the updates, then go back to your non admin account.
Well, let's just say that the other day I found out my roommate was using version 1.5.
The inability to upgrade across major versions is one of the weaknesses in Firefox. I was hoping that that last 2.x patch would add a bar at the top telling people to download FF3 if not upgrading its update tool to handle the transition.
Another weakness (in both WU and FF) is that neither will ask the user to log in as admin and install updates. WU will just do it and reboot the computer in the middle of whatever you were doing (such as giving a presentation to potential clients using a laptop that had been off for a couple of weeks. No, the "Rebooting in 5 minutes" bar does not have a cancel button if you're not an administrator) unless there's a EULA to click, in which case it does jack shit (in the case of my mother's computer, which I have to remind her to log in as admin every once in a while to install any updates requiring her to click I Agree, then log back in as her unprivileged user before Teh Nasties take over her computer.
It's nothing of the sort. Can you tell me with a straight face that you agree with every single one of your representative's and senators' votes on every single bill, resolution and lunch special?
So, why did techies, who, as a group, don't want unions, vote for people, who are trying to impose them?
Because as a representative democracy, it would be impossible for us to operate if we were required to agree and believe in every last opinion and action of our representative.
XSS has nothing to do with the browser unless the hacker is an idiot and uses vbscript instead of javascript. Misconfigured bulletin boards, search boxes that print out whatever you searched for without escaping entities, and scripts that use redirects to move from page to page with messages in the URL are probably the top causes.
OR we can all blame someone else for our act in which case rational humans, prison sentences can all be thrown out
Not really. In the No-Free-Will view of the universe, prison sentences and such are merely extensions of "someone else to blame." That is, they are external inputs that influence the decisions of the actors in the system.
terminal condition and self-sacrifice for the benefit of loved ones
In general, the position can be summed up as "Everyone should suffer through whatever miserable existence they have, it builds character. Unless you're a pedophile, then go jump off a cliff."
Dude commits a felony and they go after him for it and that is "chilling"? Howso?
Everything else aside, how is it not? Half of the purpose of having a legal system is to "chill" illegal activity.
baseless decision
On what grounds do you label his decision baseless? He may be "paranoid" and "delusional", but depending on what country he came from, he may actually have a solid reason to be that way.
However, I would have to go with "delusional" regarding Obama making it all better. After all, it's quite likely the exact same incompetent bureaucrats would have been in charge of mishandling his application before or after the election.
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you might find the big players might pitch in
Such pitching in would almost certainly appear to us in the same way that Microsoft "pitched in" for SCO. I suspect that at the moment, the respective CEOs are weighing the cost of licensing versus the prospect that their licensing fees will be used to fund the destruction of their competitors.
not the case, and has never been the case, that consenting adults have the legitimate free speech rights to produce any sort of publication they like. Treasonous publications, libelous publications, and obscene publications ARE and HAVE ALWAYS BEEN illegal, and justly so.
Thomas Jefferson would think that with the exception of libel, your "justly so" is just bullshit: "Words carried into action assume the nature of that action. Thus a man who goes into a public market-place to incite the subject to revolt incurs the guilt of high treason, because the words are joined to the action, and partake of its nature. It is not the words that are punished, but an action in which words are employed. They do not become criminal, but when they are annexed to a criminal action: everything is confounded if words are construed into a capital crime, instead of considering them only as a mark of that crime."
"The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations."
I believe he was also the one that specifically defended the first amendment with regards to treason and rebellion, stating that by allowing the opinions to be aired in public, one can a) argue them away and b) keep tabs on those who hold them.
And real live kiddie porn was outlawed in what, the 1960's? Keep the hyperbole up, the truth isn't near as fun!
It's also god's will that I give part of my income to the IRS?
Give unto Caesar...
While I agree with you, you picked a bad example ;)
The Guardian Legend
While I think this was an awesome game (hell, it's been at least a decade and I still remember most of it), if it did end up obscure, it did so because it tried to combine two radically separate game types (scrolling shootemup and zelda-like exploration) in a way that being good with both of them was a requirement. I spent quite a lot of time as a kid raging at the eyeball monsters that shot out beams of varying speed that were capable of destroying you in two hits.
"TGL" mode was amusing for a little bit, until you realize that by the time you get to the harder corridors you're going to have half the health and weapon levels you normally would... (guess which game type I sucked at ;)
I'd do this too, but my mother lives in The Middle of Nowhere, and keeps her sanity by "checking out" downloaded audiobooks from the library, complete with windows-only DRM.
If it weren't for that, I think she'd have absolutely no problem at all with Ubuntu, Flash (for games), and the netbook desktop.
don't show some confusingly complicated dialog, just give some error message.
And that's exactly what firefox 3 does. You get a blank screen with a message that the SSL certificate is invalid and that the site cannot be trusted, and a tiny little link to open the dialog to add an exception if you really want to go to that site anyway.
Pisses everyone with self-signed certs off.
Since when did /. (or indeed ./ ) have to stick to articles "related to IT"?
Presumably when they posted this under the IT section.
That said, of course this has to do with IT: those accounts are data, and this is why you shouldn't mail things unencrypted.
doesn't the govenment publish the blacklist?
I searched for it online but every time I tried to view the list, I got a page that said the site had been blocked.
After all why should I care about you because all you do is complain, whine, etc.
People put forward working ideas all the time, and get shot down because "Techies don't get the business world." Maybe if the business world was willing to make the effort to meet halfway, people would be more willing to make the effort to work with them. Alas, people complain and whine against any suggestion that politicians ought to know anything at all about what they're passing laws about. Why, if they did, how would any of the special interests manage to get anything done at all?
All in a day's work for CaptainPatent
Boy #1: "Engineers!"
Boy #2: "Scientists!"
Girl #1: "Artists!"
Girl #2: "Inventors!"
Boy #3: "Lawyers!"
*everyone gives boy #3 dirty looks*
Boy #3: "Uhh... Heart!"
We need a way to exploit lethal gullibility prior to the propagation of those genes into the gene pool.
I know, we'll market a homeopathic contraceptive! ... oh wait
Oh wait, replying to myself since I found it finally:
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,14167743
Now to try walking my mother through that over the phone...
This is your IT support's fault, not Windows Update's.
Great, I'll let my mother's IT support know that they're idiots... oh wait, that's me!
So, how do I make my mother's WU autoupdate the patches that require agreements (or get WU to show the agreements to non-admin users)? You'd think this would be a FAQ...
I think his point is that it's no longer "auto install" when you're choosing them by hand.
This is an important issue when you're doing The Right Thing and using a non-admin account on a daily basis, meaning that you'll have to stop on a regular basis and log in as admin to sort out the updates, then go back to your non admin account.
Well, let's just say that the other day I found out my roommate was using version 1.5.
The inability to upgrade across major versions is one of the weaknesses in Firefox. I was hoping that that last 2.x patch would add a bar at the top telling people to download FF3 if not upgrading its update tool to handle the transition.
Another weakness (in both WU and FF) is that neither will ask the user to log in as admin and install updates. WU will just do it and reboot the computer in the middle of whatever you were doing (such as giving a presentation to potential clients using a laptop that had been off for a couple of weeks. No, the "Rebooting in 5 minutes" bar does not have a cancel button if you're not an administrator) unless there's a EULA to click, in which case it does jack shit (in the case of my mother's computer, which I have to remind her to log in as admin every once in a while to install any updates requiring her to click I Agree, then log back in as her unprivileged user before Teh Nasties take over her computer.
Oh, the "lesser of the two evils" excuse
It's nothing of the sort. Can you tell me with a straight face that you agree with every single one of your representative's and senators' votes on every single bill, resolution and lunch special?
I thought Douglas Fir was the name of one of my college Physics instructors...
No, the average college professor just has a wooden personality.
So, why did techies, who, as a group, don't want unions, vote for people, who are trying to impose them?
Because as a representative democracy, it would be impossible for us to operate if we were required to agree and believe in every last opinion and action of our representative.
XSS affects 50% of the websites geared for IE
XSS has nothing to do with the browser unless the hacker is an idiot and uses vbscript instead of javascript. Misconfigured bulletin boards, search boxes that print out whatever you searched for without escaping entities, and scripts that use redirects to move from page to page with messages in the URL are probably the top causes.
OR we can all blame someone else for our act in which case rational humans, prison sentences can all be thrown out
Not really. In the No-Free-Will view of the universe, prison sentences and such are merely extensions of "someone else to blame." That is, they are external inputs that influence the decisions of the actors in the system.
terminal condition and self-sacrifice for the benefit of loved ones
In general, the position can be summed up as "Everyone should suffer through whatever miserable existence they have, it builds character. Unless you're a pedophile, then go jump off a cliff."
Conceptual sex? Is that what I'm having when I theorize about what sex might be like?
Shit, at least you're getting some ;)
and sometimes leads you off in directions that aren't at all productive
It would be amusing to have the player run off in search of random football players ;)
Your Japanese-reading kids can enjoy learning Squeak Smalltalk: http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4798104809
Other than that, searching for "manga guide to" in Japanese on amazon is... pretty interesting. Not all of the results involve "scantily-clad teens" (some of them involve scantily-clad well-endowed women ;) ). There are guides to ISO9000 certification ( http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/456954763X ), real estate ( http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/489990035X ), and superstring theory ( http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4796646639 ).
Dude commits a felony and they go after him for it and that is "chilling"? Howso?
Everything else aside, how is it not? Half of the purpose of having a legal system is to "chill" illegal activity.
baseless decision
On what grounds do you label his decision baseless? He may be "paranoid" and "delusional", but depending on what country he came from, he may actually have a solid reason to be that way.
However, I would have to go with "delusional" regarding Obama making it all better. After all, it's quite likely the exact same incompetent bureaucrats would have been in charge of mishandling his application before or after the election.