Although I did run into the "please wait while Mozilla finishes installing your extension" bug when upgrading from a previous version of AdBlock on my Mozilla.9 install -- but.9.1 fixes that issue
Strange. I got that when I re-re-re-installed to get 0.9.1 running.
After working quite a bit at upgrading a few machines from 0.9 to 0.9.1, I am convinced that reasoning is thus:
If we make the extensions manager pop up automatically as a new window when you install an extension, and you need to close and reopen the browser to finalize an exetension installation, then the new extensions manager window staying open will mean closing the browser window and opening a new one does not restart the browser, and cause our users lots of grief!
Wow what a run on sentence. But that's how I felt.
So what? Why do we want Linux to 'move into the desktop market'? I personally want it to stay where it is. (Or maybe was a couple years back.) It's for experts. It's a GOOD thing that the unwashed masses have their Windows, and the expert geeks have their Linux. We don't Linux to get dumbed down until it's Windows do we? It won't be any better than Windows if it does.
It's called The Uncanny Valley. Things that are/real close/ to human, but not, are really creepy. Things that are easily personified, but clearly not human, are not creepy.
I agree with you. Mostly. Most every game I've ever played runs better on 98 than on 2000, though. I stick with 98 on the machines I might play games on. Because I'm too lazy to dual boot.
Capitalism my friend. Anyone is allowed to produce as shitty a product as they see fit. If we buy it, then it's our fault, not theirs. Sure, in the short term we might already own it and then find out, but companies with histories like this either die out, or survive because enough people don't know/care. It's your job to be an informed customer.
And "all it takes" to break into a house is to bust a pane of glass so you can reach in and unlock it. Locks still work though. So does WEP. It's not impenetrable, of course, nothing is. But it stops a vast vast majority.
I've seen that advice (throw the wallet) before. Seems like a really bad idea to me. Surely you do not/want/ to enrage the person that is threatening you with bodily harm? Surely you do not think they will appreciate this? Seems to me in that situation, if I were the mugger, I'd beat the crap out of you for doing that, THEN go pick up the wallet.
So simple it's devious! Unfortunately there are a lot of know-nothings who will call up and demand their port open whether they are running a legitimate mail server or not, and whether they understand the repercussions or not. But I still think it would help quite a bit.
(*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
I'm tired of seeing this reason. Mailing lists are horrible. I've never "subscribed" to any community type discussion outlet in the form of a mailing list that was a pleasant experience. It's always a ton of messages I never want constantly streaming in, or a massive digest to sift through. I much much prefer the web-based forum for community interaction. It/correctly/ groups threads into posts, and makes it easy to skim threads and read just what I need to know. It also, and this is big, is not based on email. Sure, it's harder to read offline. I think a vast minority of users actually read their mailing lists offline though, and it would be trivial to throw all posts into a daily digest. Which could be delivered by email and read offline.
I subscribe to the sender-cost-via-computation camp. Any true monetary cost is impossible. EMail is worldwide spreading all currencies and countries. Any payment small enough to justify paying for an email will be far too small to process without losing more than the payment itself. Yes yes, it means you can't have mailing lists. Boo hoo. There are viable bridges. For example, One could have a sender-computation-verified inbox which is used for all general email, and a second box that is not verified, and rejects all but whitelisted (mailing list) messages. This is of course a temporary solution. All migrations need workarounds for the short term.
As pointed out, there's lots of complicated maths and so forth. Ignoring that... We figure some guesses... Several dozen papers of 100 ish avg pages each makes let's say 4000 pages. A few hundred dollars may be $500. So, we have $0.0125 per page.
In other words the typists have to handle 41.2 pages per hour to manage earning minimum wage. Sure.
Yeah, stinks to have a 108 ebay rating. 109 positives, one negative. The negative comment? "." Yes, just a period. Was a retaliation, the seller never shipped my item so he gave me negative feedback to lash out, when I gave him his. I wait to day 29 to leave negative feedbacks now.
Did you read the parent post? Have you ever tried to teach your mom why it's important she patches her computer? Have you ever spoken with another human being?
Keeping a computer secure against (other) intrusions is a service for 99.999% of computer users that they ARE (sadly) unable to perform themselves.
Yepper. It was just a few months after starting my first job that I pored over all the legal documents I could find on the topic. Let's see if I can remember which... Here we go. The Department of Labor tells us that
II. Background
The FLSA generally requires covered employers to pay their employees at least the federal minimum wage (which is currently $5.15 an hour), and overtime premium pay of time-and-one-half the regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a work week. However, the FLSA includes a number of exemptions from the minimum wage and overtime requirements. Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA, codified at 29 U.S.C. 213(a)(1), exempts from both minimum wage and overtime pay ``any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity...
(17)99 any employee who is a computer systems analyst, computer programmer, sof tware engineer, or other similarly skilled worker, whose primary duty is --
(A) the application of systems analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine hardware, sof tware, or system functional specifications; (B) the design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing, or modification of computer systems or programs, including prototypes, based on and related to user or system design specifications; (C) the design, documentation, testing, creation, or modification of computer programs related to machine operating systems; or (D) a combination of duties described in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) the performance of which requires the same level of skills, and who, in the case of an employee who is compensated on an hourly basis, is compensated at a rate of not less than $27.63 an hour.
That's the list defining who is 'exempt' as far as computer professionals are concerned. In this case, exempt means exempt from overtime pay. In short, it's been this way since 1938. At least for us IT heads.
Let's not forget that shuffling of this magnitude (not shuffling itself) is a new thing to play with. A few years ago it was a pain in the arse to keep changing CDs after one or two tracks, you'd usually listen out the whole album before changing.
I agree. The primary reason that I always play my music in shuffle mode is that I frequently sit down for more than an hour (appx an album) at a time. I don't want to stop what I'm doing to "put in a new cd," I just want to have something playing in the background. On the days that I have a particular taste of music in mind, it's only a few clicks away. The rest of the day, the next song button on my remote is always within reach.
Not quite. In the brain/cpu analogy here, intelligence is not just the size of the cache, or speed of the processor. It is also the correct ratio. Yes the same processor with gimped cache is not intelligent. But the P4's cache on a 286 ain't so hot either.
I agree. Most of the time when I see a car with these new style headlights drive by, I just see some brightly illuminated ground, not the big glare of a classic headlight.
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Although I did run into the "please wait while Mozilla finishes installing your extension" bug when upgrading from a previous version of AdBlock on my Mozilla .9 install -- but .9.1 fixes that issue
Strange. I got that when I re-re-re-installed to get 0.9.1 running.
After working quite a bit at upgrading a few machines from 0.9 to 0.9.1, I am convinced that reasoning is thus:
If we make the extensions manager pop up automatically as a new window when you install an extension, and you need to close and reopen the browser to finalize an exetension installation, then the new extensions manager window staying open will mean closing the browser window and opening a new one does not restart the browser, and cause our users lots of grief!
Wow what a run on sentence. But that's how I felt.
So what? Why do we want Linux to 'move into the desktop market'?
I personally want it to stay where it is. (Or maybe was a couple years back.) It's for experts. It's a GOOD thing that the unwashed masses have their Windows, and the expert geeks have their Linux. We don't Linux to get dumbed down until it's Windows do we? It won't be any better than Windows if it does.
It's called The Uncanny Valley. Things that are /real close/ to human, but not, are really creepy. Things that are easily personified, but clearly not human, are not creepy.
I agree with you. Mostly. Most every game I've ever played runs better on 98 than on 2000, though. I stick with 98 on the machines I might play games on. Because I'm too lazy to dual boot.
Capitalism my friend. Anyone is allowed to produce as shitty a product as they see fit.
If we buy it, then it's our fault, not theirs. Sure, in the short term we might already own it and then find out, but companies with histories like this either die out, or survive because enough people don't know/care. It's your job to be an informed customer.
And "all it takes" to break into a house is to bust a pane of glass so you can reach in and unlock it.
Locks still work though. So does WEP. It's not impenetrable, of course, nothing is. But it stops a vast vast majority.
I've seen that advice (throw the wallet) before. Seems like a really bad idea to me. Surely you do not /want/ to enrage the person that is threatening you with bodily harm? Surely you do not think they will appreciate this?
Seems to me in that situation, if I were the mugger, I'd beat the crap out of you for doing that, THEN go pick up the wallet.
North Tacoma.
Any good Simpsons fan knows this =)
Three gold stars to anyone who can say which episode it's from.
So simple it's devious! Unfortunately there are a lot of know-nothings who will call up and demand their port open whether they are running a legitimate mail server or not, and whether they understand the repercussions or not.
But I still think it would help quite a bit.
(*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
/correctly/ groups threads into posts, and makes it easy to skim threads and read just what I need to know. It also, and this is big, is not based on email.
I'm tired of seeing this reason. Mailing lists are horrible. I've never "subscribed" to any community type discussion outlet in the form of a mailing list that was a pleasant experience. It's always a ton of messages I never want constantly streaming in, or a massive digest to sift through.
I much much prefer the web-based forum for community interaction. It
Sure, it's harder to read offline. I think a vast minority of users actually read their mailing lists offline though, and it would be trivial to throw all posts into a daily digest. Which could be delivered by email and read offline.
I subscribe to the sender-cost-via-computation camp. Any true monetary cost is impossible. EMail is worldwide spreading all currencies and countries. Any payment small enough to justify paying for an email will be far too small to process without losing more than the payment itself.
Yes yes, it means you can't have mailing lists. Boo hoo. There are viable bridges. For example, One could have a sender-computation-verified inbox which is used for all general email, and a second box that is not verified, and rejects all but whitelisted (mailing list) messages. This is of course a temporary solution. All migrations need workarounds for the short term.
As pointed out, there's lots of complicated maths and so forth. Ignoring that ... We figure some guesses ... Several dozen papers of 100 ish avg pages each makes let's say 4000 pages. A few hundred dollars may be $500. So, we have $0.0125 per page.
In other words the typists have to handle 41.2 pages per hour to manage earning minimum wage. Sure.
...who read that blurb and considered shouting at the top of his lungs the now when going to an ATM? Let's see you sniff my keypress noises now!
Yeah, stinks to have a 108 ebay rating. 109 positives, one negative. The negative comment? "." Yes, just a period. Was a retaliation, the seller never shipped my item so he gave me negative feedback to lash out, when I gave him his. I wait to day 29 to leave negative feedbacks now.
Speed holes. Makes the car go faster.
Did you read the parent post? Have you ever tried to teach your mom why it's important she patches her computer? Have you ever spoken with another human being?
Keeping a computer secure against (other) intrusions is a service for 99.999% of computer users that they ARE (sadly) unable to perform themselves.
The Department of Labor tells us that
Furthermore, in section 13(a)(7) on page 18
That's the list defining who is 'exempt' as far as computer professionals are concerned. In this case, exempt means exempt from overtime pay.
In short, it's been this way since 1938. At least for us IT heads.
I agree. The primary reason that I always play my music in shuffle mode is that I frequently sit down for more than an hour (appx an album) at a time. I don't want to stop what I'm doing to "put in a new cd," I just want to have something playing in the background.
On the days that I have a particular taste of music in mind, it's only a few clicks away. The rest of the day, the next song button on my remote is always within reach.
Not quite. In the brain/cpu analogy here, intelligence is not just the size of the cache, or speed of the processor. It is also the correct ratio. Yes the same processor with gimped cache is not intelligent. But the P4's cache on a 286 ain't so hot either.
I fail to see how any of those suggestions, or anything relating to this technique, is different in any way from a regular password.
Old way: Connect to static open port. Transmit password.
New way: Knock port 5, 2, 8, 2. Connect to just-opened port.
Can sniff the knock as easy as the password.
Being wet doesn't put out a fire.
A fire needs three things. Heat, oxygen, fuel.
Adding water, which quickly boils, removes heat.
Any way to douse a fire removes one of those three things.
I just actually ran through the sites. Customized a laptop (First link I found) to as close as could be tweaked. Element: $947. Dell: $1,092.
The differences? Dell has a "free" upgrade to CD/RW+dvdrom. And the windows tax.
Actually notice the difference is between 8:40 PM and 19:59. Or in other words, between 8:40 PM and 7:59 PM or
I agree. Most of the time when I see a car with these new style headlights drive by, I just see some brightly illuminated ground, not the big glare of a classic headlight.