People are different. As a species we tend to distrust and mock people that are different than ourselves. The whole racial sensitivity bullshit these days is getting pretty old.
Of course we're still alive
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So..explain to me how this patent was granted? I was under the impression that in order for a patent to be granted, a prototype has to be built. I wasn't aware flash drives even existed back in 1979.
If that is the case, how then, can business method and software patents even exist? (I agree with you, however, that this is how it *should* be).
The worst that happens is stability problems, assuming you use a VPN with strong crypto and authentication. You *do* do that, when on a hostile network, don't you? If not, welcome to the wall of sheep, or injection of goatse into all of your web pages, etc.
The stability problems have gone away in recent years with Aruba and others using the con as a proving ground for their wireless security tools on the live network.
Microsoft would use firefox as their browser, and contribute back to the community so they could focus on making their other products more secure, usable, and flexible.
My page, my design. But feel free to use a browser that does anything you want to the pages you want to display. But the vast majority of the rest of the world likes visiting well-designed pages.
That got rated as insightful???
Good luck with that design philosophy as mobile browsing becomes more prevalent. If you 'designers' would do it right, your pages would look good on text-only, small-screen, large-screen, heads-up in cars or glasses, braille, computer-speech-dictation, feeds, page-linkers, and printers alike, without having to create a custom page for each.
Study how this stuff was originally conceived, and then get back to us on that bullshit design arrogance. Good design is elegant and adaptive, not forced.
I've had no problems with a black screen, and I just hit the microsoft update servers last night. If there were a problem, I'd just roll back a snapshot. Funny how VMWare workstation, which I only use to run windoze was worth the money to me, where the OS I'm hosting under it certainly is not.
Guess my XP Pro from TPB is legit, not that I ever use that session for anything any more. It was mainly for dealing with windoze-only crap while searching for a job last year. Why on earth would I pay for something that I normally would never use in the first place?
Browsers can render images in line just fine. Perhaps it is time the browser can 'render' video natively as well, with standard codecs. foo, akin to the img tag. What 'standards' to support, and are supportable, is the catch.
Self-signed certs are fine. In fact, for my personal sites, I'm certainly not going to pay for a signature. If a user wants to verify, they can phone me personally, and compare the hash to what I tell them. That's more trustworthy than trusting a third party to do the same, is it not? OOB verification is OOB verification. Whether it is a signature by a third party, or verfication of self signature.
... It's the wording that is used. They should just present the information. Some people have a good reason to use self-signed certificates. Stating that the certificate is invalid for this reason is a bit extreme. It's not that big of a deal to add it, and I think putting this information in the user's face is a Good Thing[tm]. Calling perfectly valid certificates invalid is not the right thing, however.
Baseline security is not a 'small technical problem'. All the easy stuff should be done, always. ESPECIALLY if you are under a branch with the word "security" in it. I wonder how many public exposed routers these clowns have running telnet. Probably with ssh alongside. WTF?
I can stay away from it for a year, and immediately write in it without having to look at a reference.
I use bash every day, and for anything requiring a logic operator or comparison, I have to look for an example.
I have several scripts that depend on another guy's (poorly implemented) 'database'. He has a bunch of bash scripts to parse it. We are going to move to a real database. I wrote a module for the (current) method. On the new system, I'll change one module, and all of my stuff will continue to work. Bash guy not so lucky. Not to mention parsing that stuff is a lot easier with a lot less overhead in perl vs. a crapload of calls to cat | grep | cut.
I dunno. At Penn State, the professor for my aeronautics class did a simple cheap book. He wrote it all by hand (literally. It wasn't typed), hand drew the diagrams, and had them printed by the local bookstores. No more than regular binding you would do for photocopies. I think it was like $15 for that book.
Of course, I had a professor who had written a $200 book also use that for his class. So both extremes existed.
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p2p is only used for illegal stuff! This should be outlawed, immediately.
People are different. As a species we tend to distrust and mock people that are different than ourselves. The whole racial sensitivity bullshit these days is getting pretty old.
They haven't fired the beams at each other yet...
How about they fix the M$ problem first? How many companies were destroyed before Linux got a foothold back in the late 90's?
Yeah, I know. I didn't hit escape fast enough after submitting :-). The mods, apparently, weren't paying attention either.
If that is the case, how then, can business method and software patents even exist? (I agree with you, however, that this is how it *should* be).
That's just the same as "dd if=/dev/$dvd of=my.iso"
Nothing special. Any *nix box can do this, assuming you are dumping to a filesystem that can deal with file sizes > 4GB.
Other than that, Linux is a better choice for base OS, but OS/2 tech in those two areas would kick ass today.
The worst that happens is stability problems, assuming you use a VPN with strong crypto and authentication. You *do* do that, when on a hostile network, don't you? If not, welcome to the wall of sheep, or injection of goatse into all of your web pages, etc.
The stability problems have gone away in recent years with Aruba and others using the con as a proving ground for their wireless security tools on the live network.
Slashdot has jumped the shark.
Microsoft would use firefox as their browser, and contribute back to the community so they could focus on making their other products more secure, usable, and flexible.
That got rated as insightful???
Good luck with that design philosophy as mobile browsing becomes more prevalent. If you 'designers' would do it right, your pages would look good on text-only, small-screen, large-screen, heads-up in cars or glasses, braille, computer-speech-dictation, feeds, page-linkers, and printers alike, without having to create a custom page for each.
Study how this stuff was originally conceived, and then get back to us on that bullshit design arrogance. Good design is elegant and adaptive, not forced.
I've had no problems with a black screen, and I just hit the microsoft update servers last night. If there were a problem, I'd just roll back a snapshot. Funny how VMWare workstation, which I only use to run windoze was worth the money to me, where the OS I'm hosting under it certainly is not.
Guess my XP Pro from TPB is legit, not that I ever use that session for anything any more. It was mainly for dealing with windoze-only crap while searching for a job last year. Why on earth would I pay for something that I normally would never use in the first place?
I need to relax my spam filters so that I can join in the fun of toying with these asshole scammers.
That's the first thing I thought too.
wtf is an 'e-sport?'
Interesting view...
Browsers can render images in line just fine. Perhaps it is time the browser can 'render' video natively as well, with standard codecs. foo, akin to the img tag. What 'standards' to support, and are supportable, is the catch.
Firefox 3 requires too many libraries that I don't have on my Mandrake 10.2 box.
Self-signed certs are fine. In fact, for my personal sites, I'm certainly not going to pay for a signature. If a user wants to verify, they can phone me personally, and compare the hash to what I tell them. That's more trustworthy than trusting a third party to do the same, is it not? OOB verification is OOB verification. Whether it is a signature by a third party, or verfication of self signature.
... It's the wording that is used. They should just present the information. Some people have a good reason to use self-signed certificates. Stating that the certificate is invalid for this reason is a bit extreme. It's not that big of a deal to add it, and I think putting this information in the user's face is a Good Thing[tm]. Calling perfectly valid certificates invalid is not the right thing, however.
Baseline security is not a 'small technical problem'. All the easy stuff should be done, always. ESPECIALLY if you are under a branch with the word "security" in it. I wonder how many public exposed routers these clowns have running telnet. Probably with ssh alongside. WTF?
So, while illegally wiretapping citizen lines, the government *should* have been wiretapping itself...
ob South Park :-)
Quick, everyone have gay sex...
filthy goobacks.
I can stay away from it for a year, and immediately write in it without having to look at a reference.
I use bash every day, and for anything requiring a logic operator or comparison, I have to look for an example.
I have several scripts that depend on another guy's (poorly implemented) 'database'. He has a bunch of bash scripts to parse it. We are going to move to a real database. I wrote a module for the (current) method. On the new system, I'll change one module, and all of my stuff will continue to work. Bash guy not so lucky. Not to mention parsing that stuff is a lot easier with a lot less overhead in perl vs. a crapload of calls to cat | grep | cut.
I dunno. At Penn State, the professor for my aeronautics class did a simple cheap book. He wrote it all by hand (literally. It wasn't typed), hand drew the diagrams, and had them printed by the local bookstores. No more than regular binding you would do for photocopies. I think it was like $15 for that book.
Of course, I had a professor who had written a $200 book also use that for his class. So both extremes existed.