Actually, it does put energy into Wine. Reading quickly, it appears that it implements a shim underneath the win32 support in Wine, bypassing the usual Wine requirement for an X-Server. So they can work on the Wine APIs and both projects benefit.
I've thought about distributing such DVDs (I might not go so far as to get a Geiger counter) to people that I would want to communicate with after a shit-meets-fan scenario, but they would look at me like I was a loon if I brought it up, so I haven't done anything about it.
If something like OpenID were pervasive, an authentication provider could setup a certificate-on-a-stick system, and then only authenticate against sites that they had verified (so the system might decide to trust yahoo.com and google.com, but it would not authenticate requests from say, malwarexpress.com).
'Advanced' users might not like it, but it would be easy for mom and provide a pretty high degree of protection.
Whatever, the last sentence of that post basically wishes it on the guy you were replying to. That might not have been your intent, but that's how it came across here.
I do actually think it is likely to change, at least in the very long term.
I think the Slashdot admins don't think it is particularly important (and last I checked, only subscribers were blessed with access to the https version of the site anyway). If they wanted to, they could put a secure login link on the javascript popup.
Actually, they do a good job and use progressive enhancement, so if you open the link without left clicking on it, it takes you to an actual page (so right click->open, open in new tab, open in new window, etc):
net10 locks their phones to individual SIM cards, but it is possible to activate a phone on their website without supplying any personal information, so you could just give the whole thing away.
The phones will only work with net10 SIM cards though (well, aside from 911 which will work as long as the battery is charged). They will ship a SIM card for free (but then they have an address).
Right. I made the Walmart suggestion because T-Mobile won't initiate service in a whole bunch of areas (they may have roaming coverage, but they won't give you a number there), whereas the phones at a given Walmart should activate in that area.
I would point you at the part where it says "on any copyright, any rights of privacy or publicity of any person, or any other right of any third party" and then to the part right after that where it says "you have the right to grant any and all rights and licenses granted to Gawker Media herein, including but not limited to all necessary rights under copyright, free and clear of any claims or encumbrances", which is pretty clearly not limited to copyright.
Given that I quoted the last half of it back to you, I have to assume that you didn't read it very closely before you posted.
If they aren't providing value beyond what a not for profit provides, the latter's tax advantages should allow them to put the for profit out of business (that's in theory land, but the point is that the for profit company may be bringing something that you aren't accounting for).
If you look at a big insurer like Wellpoint (which is probably middle of the road as far as behavior goes, maybe a bit towards the nasty), they are still only scraping ~6% off the top (That is operating margin, profit margin is just under 4%). So it isn't obvious to me that the profit motive of the insurance companies is responsible for that big a chunk of the costs (again, 6% is substantial, but getting rid of it isn't going to revolutionize anything).
I suspect the core issues are that people are disconnected from the costs and that medical care is simply expensive. The U.S. often gets compared to countries with socialized medicine, those countries deal with the disconnection from costs either by placing small fees on services, or by establishing standards to deliver care where it is 'most needed', so they get better results per dollar than the U.S., where care is delivered to anybody able to pay for it, with only some regard for whether it is needed.
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Yes, that was the sort of. It is a type of soft drink, not a straw.
The ones I would make myself and hand deliver to the people I spoke of?
(I'm not just making that up...)
ReactOS is to Windows as XP or Vista is to Windows, not as Linux is to Windows (sort of, it isn't made by Microsoft).
What are you talking about?
Actually, it does put energy into Wine. Reading quickly, it appears that it implements a shim underneath the win32 support in Wine, bypassing the usual Wine requirement for an X-Server. So they can work on the Wine APIs and both projects benefit.
I think 100% might be a special case, as the unit doesn't actually matter for 100% (even though it might matter for 99.999%).
Why wait to change your name?
Wings or not, you are still going to have the same problems with gravity as everyone else.
I guess once you build your (enormous) space habitat it might be cool to have wings.
It is implied in my post that I did (do) not know his views on trade.
Am I still a hypocrite if I voted against him?
Uh, they want to sell sugar to the U.S.
I've thought about distributing such DVDs (I might not go so far as to get a Geiger counter) to people that I would want to communicate with after a shit-meets-fan scenario, but they would look at me like I was a loon if I brought it up, so I haven't done anything about it.
If something like OpenID were pervasive, an authentication provider could setup a certificate-on-a-stick system, and then only authenticate against sites that they had verified (so the system might decide to trust yahoo.com and google.com, but it would not authenticate requests from say, malwarexpress.com).
'Advanced' users might not like it, but it would be easy for mom and provide a pretty high degree of protection.
Whatever, the last sentence of that post basically wishes it on the guy you were replying to. That might not have been your intent, but that's how it came across here.
I do actually think it is likely to change, at least in the very long term.
I think the Slashdot admins don't think it is particularly important (and last I checked, only subscribers were blessed with access to the https version of the site anyway). If they wanted to, they could put a secure login link on the javascript popup.
Actually, they do a good job and use progressive enhancement, so if you open the link without left clicking on it, it takes you to an actual page (so right click->open, open in new tab, open in new window, etc):
http://slashdot.org/my/login
You can then edit the protocol:
https://slashdot.org/my/login
Oh, I understood what you were getting at, I was mocking your tacit approval of the behavior.
If you had more quantom, you too would be more awesome.
The use kid gloves, right, to try to convince the smart arse that they aren't a bunch of goddamn authoritarian apes, right?
The last time I looked, all of the discount internet brokers (Etrade, TDAmeritrade, etc.) provided real time quotes for basic accounts.
Microsoft implies that the format support is quite a bit broader than that:
http://support.xbox.com/support/en/us/nxe/GamesandMedia/Movies/VideoFAQ/ViewVideoPlaybackFAQ.aspx
Is there something they aren't saying that makes DivX better than other stuff?
net10 locks their phones to individual SIM cards, but it is possible to activate a phone on their website without supplying any personal information, so you could just give the whole thing away.
The phones will only work with net10 SIM cards though (well, aside from 911 which will work as long as the battery is charged). They will ship a SIM card for free (but then they have an address).
Right. I made the Walmart suggestion because T-Mobile won't initiate service in a whole bunch of areas (they may have roaming coverage, but they won't give you a number there), whereas the phones at a given Walmart should activate in that area.
Are you sure?
I would point you at the part where it says "on any copyright, any rights of privacy or publicity of any person, or any other right of any third party" and then to the part right after that where it says "you have the right to grant any and all rights and licenses granted to Gawker Media herein, including but not limited to all necessary rights under copyright, free and clear of any claims or encumbrances", which is pretty clearly not limited to copyright.
Given that I quoted the last half of it back to you, I have to assume that you didn't read it very closely before you posted.
If they aren't providing value beyond what a not for profit provides, the latter's tax advantages should allow them to put the for profit out of business (that's in theory land, but the point is that the for profit company may be bringing something that you aren't accounting for).
If you look at a big insurer like Wellpoint (which is probably middle of the road as far as behavior goes, maybe a bit towards the nasty), they are still only scraping ~6% off the top (That is operating margin, profit margin is just under 4%). So it isn't obvious to me that the profit motive of the insurance companies is responsible for that big a chunk of the costs (again, 6% is substantial, but getting rid of it isn't going to revolutionize anything).
I suspect the core issues are that people are disconnected from the costs and that medical care is simply expensive. The U.S. often gets compared to countries with socialized medicine, those countries deal with the disconnection from costs either by placing small fees on services, or by establishing standards to deliver care where it is 'most needed', so they get better results per dollar than the U.S., where care is delivered to anybody able to pay for it, with only some regard for whether it is needed.
How do you propose to make health care anything other than "a commodity that you have to buy from someone"?
Even countries with guaranteed health care pay the people who work in health facilities and the companies that produce health products.