What next? Muslim countries attacking sites that advocate women's rights
Heh, I sold all my Compaq stock when my SO was blocked from women's engineering sites. She was a SWE officer, but didn't actually get mad until she was later blocked from a literary site on her lunch hour and her e-mail to me held for review.
Ummm, in relation to the topic at hand...we should have some of our rights protected by our government if they ever decide they've put enough natural fertilizer on the founder's overheating graves (all that spinning has to generate some heat.)
Oh come on, they want to stop anonymous transfers of money. Their justification is that they could be used by terrorists. Their failed justifications in the past have been to catch tax cheats, to close black and gray markets, to avoid the inconvenience of filing tax forms, etc.
Our leaders don't give a damn how many people die if the Somalian government collapses, they wrote off Africa a long time ago. Africans don't yet have terrorists to catch our attention, when AIDS has collapsed the few good governments left and the buildings start falling at home we'll wonder at how cheaply we could have avoided the problems. Much as we all wonder at our stupidity at squandering the opportunity to restore a participatory government in Afghanistan after they won their battle in the Cold War for us.
I presume that you do not intend to suggest that ALL brazilians are racist?
Of course not, I know plenty of Brazilians that aren't. I just want some place where this isn't an issue, at all.
It's easy to say, "There is no such place." But I've been around long enough to know it's a big world, we have our problems because of a specific history. Other places have different problems, I want something new to be annoyed with. I'm annoyed at being annoyed with religion, racism, and lack of personal freedom.
Ok, I want to live in a land of the free. I also want the opportunity to create wealth without exploiting anyone. And I really want to get away from racism and religion.
Where do I go? Brazil is on my short list, but I had a racist Brazillian GF once (against Asians). I'm also thinking someplace in Africa where there isn't too much government, but I love NYC and want someplace with a nightlife and high density land development. Car culture is a definite minus.
I will do this sometimes for code that is intended for short-term, internal-only use, as I can often save quite a bit of valuable time.
I tend to rewrite the code a couple times before I subject another user to it, so it starts out as a soup of languages. The UI might be in Java the core code in C the management in C++, and some scripting languages to tie things together. To avoid CORBA or whatever platform dependent linking riddle I'm faced with I'll just tie it together with sockets using TCP or UDP.
But then if it goes anywhere I'll consolidate to one or two languages. I'll use a regexp library instead of the full fledged scripting language. If the C & Java are on the same hardware I'll link them, if not I'll set up CORBA, etc. until it's all manageble. I've learned to do this from the experience of having some old really cool projects become almost impossible to get running again because they required 10 different language environments to be functioning together as they did 5 years ago... And hey sometimes other people end up maintaining my code.
The point is to place terms of use on a site. Look at the terms of use on my site [sorehands.com]. This has not been tested in court, yet. Well since click-wrap is only valid in a couple backwards states, I can't image non-click through being valid anywhere. I think if you required people to send you a PGP signed copy of the agreement before viewing the site that would be valid in the US. A fax could be upheld just about anywhere.
Even without a terms of use or copyright notice, copyright still applies. Most contries require the copyright notice, but your e-mail is information anyway (hence not protected by copyright).
Let's make LIBRARIANS destroy this information for us! Hey, come to think of it, they have records of who's checked out various books, don't they? Let's make all librarians federal employees and give them powers to go to people's homes and destroy any copies of information which has been withdrawn! Who better to do it?
I've worked at a couple libraries and neither kept a record of who had checked out a book aside from who last checked out the book (in case the next patron reported it damaged.) When you returned the book it was removed from your record and your name only remained with the book until someone else checked it out and returned it without complaint. This was done for the privacy of the patron, it was not just a memory saving thing.
The first library did destroy books that no one checked out for a couple years and the second destroyed all their books in a scanning project. I found a 500 y.o. law book on their shelf once that I sincerely regret not stealing. Those scans were horrible one bit color low res things too, think microfilmed newspapers.
I suppose it's okay for 5,000 people to die so some asshole like you can have access to information you don't need.
Ok, I'll throw my hat into the insensitive ring too.
Of course it is! Do you have any idea how many of us have died to procure that very right? If we were talkin 500 million I'd listen to the arguement, but hell we already gave up most of our freedom because the idea of losing 5,000 million in a day is pretty damn frightening.
I thought we were on the path to eliminating at least the most ill concieved of those like the confiscation of property on a guilty until proven innocent basis. The Supreme Court even had a case saying you couldn't keep people locked up forever in INS jails before the 11th.. Now we've already adopted KGB tactics and people are actually talking about moving on to Nazi police tactics on PBS. I'd expect that from talk radio, but it's the policy makers who're on PBS.
And all this over just 5,000 people?
I think it's mostly just the bruised pride of the empire we're dealing with in these 'you unpatriotic asshole' type posts.
I don't think you really give a damn about those 5,000. I had two dozen friends in that building, none of whom were for this kind of idiotic descent into book burning. And the only Bush voter who got out is still against it. (All but 2 got out.)
As a New Yorker I really loath this power grab by the Nixonian cronies in the White House. Meanwhile the congress tells New York to screew itself when it is looking at a 200 Billion dollar hit, with only 21 coming from Congress (If all the promises are kept, congress wants to reduce it to less than 10 Billion, that PR allocation earlier being just a little to brash.) The vacancy rate is UP! in downtown NYC despite the fact that more than 1 million square feet were taken off the market that day. I have very strong friends who are taking psychoactive drugs for the first time because they just can't handle seeing their friends in a huge unmarked grave every day. I started smoking that day.
But reading the news just gets worse and worse each day, I hold little hope that congress will ever get the sense and the balls to oppose our president and the likes of you.
New York is a city that values democracy, those 5,000 would not want to live in the world Herr Bush asks for. I have my doubts whether Bush really wants to either.
Look we're all on the same internet, and most of us that visit.com and not just.ru,.is, etc speak English at some level. And having grown up in another country I can tell you we learned American curse words long before we learned English in school.
I always try visiting the...sucks.com if I'm about to buy a big ticket item from someone, or if I've already been screewed. Often it goes to that sucky sucks500 site, but it still works enough of the time to be useful.
BTW Is there anything but tradition keeping us attached to the ICANN? Couldn't any group set up alternative root servers and ask everyone to point to them? If the group had consistent rules and an effective feedback process we might all join it and leave the icann to serve the.mil &.gov ghetto. Yeah, Yeah, fracture the internet.. just cc the old database, set up rules dissallowing anyone from owning a sucks.com for a company they do not actively critizise, review all icann domain decisions awarding the domain to the deserving party instead of the monied party. Have the complaintant pay the defendants legal bills up to some multiple of the complaintants cost, say 1.5x if they lose, 0.5x if the compaintant wins.
1-a) The radio is at the same frequency so the traces are the same width, the oscilator the same freq, etc. So the only difference is that you have different encodings.
1+a) It shouldn't interfere at all, you have one AP that does both 802.11b & g, it starts out at a 1Mbps modulation, then it tries higher rates based on what both supports and the range permits.
1+b) I don't have the standard, but I'd guess for 802.11b backward compatability it's at 1Mbps.
2,3) I haven't read up on the different encodings, but basically you would have the same range as 802.11b but greater speeds only when the signal is good. If your far away you'll get 1Mbps, as you get closer the signal gets stronger 2,5.5,11,33,54 Mbps... I'd bet that you'll get better range with a new 802.11g card to an old 802.11b AP just because the radios will be better a year from now.
4) You don't want this in the standard anyway. This is an international standard, encryption makes you a criminal in some western democracies. Use IPsec, SSL, ssh...
(I'm answering based on my moldy EE and some common sense implementation assumptions, not from reading the standard.)
My guess is that s/he was not a terrorist but some crazy who wanted to warn us. Prolly freaked out about the attack and wanted the rest of us to freak out too. The letters to the media told them to take antibiotics. I think he didn't expect it to leak out of the envelopes and kill all those postal workers. So now he feels a mix of guilt and bravado, for the deaths and the 'warning' sent.
I don't have any special insight. It's just the silicone in the Anthrax, the use of a mailorder American strain, the sloppyness of the letters, the targeting.
I'm sure you've discovered you're public enemy no. 1 now.
I don't know how much you charge for your movies, but in NYC it tends to be around $10. And they all charge about the same price so my selection criteria is basically, "Which of these places treats me most like a criminal?" The ones that let me walk in with my coffee I go to once or twice a month, the one that lets me smoke once a week. The one that doesn't let me carry a drink in, I only go to when they are the only ones showing the movie (rare).
No theater has ever tried to search my bag in NYC, but it's happened elsewhere and I was pretty miffed that I even when I could sell my ticket. I can't imagine why I'd go back.
Now I understand that most theaters make their money off the 17-- set, but I think if more of them aimed at the 20++ set they could make more money because I don't mind the $4 coke, if I'm thirsty it's worth it.
Wireless networks are not only much less secure than wired, they are also considerably slower and less reliable. I have difficulty getting a reliable wireless connection more than fifty feet away from the AP. I have ethernet cables longer than that!
Get a better radio. I have a SyncByAir prism2 based radio which gets flacky connections at 100 ft, but I can go a 1000 ft away from the same AP with one of the Cisco 350's. (I've heard good things about the Orinoco radios too.)
Legally, only if either case goes to a higher court. I think in order to effect NY it has to go to the Supreme Court (maybe federal if 2600 goes to court). But judges do pay attention to precidents outside their jurisdiction so it may
sway them.
My guess is that DVDCSS won't pursue it to a higher court since that would make it apply to more jurisdictions, assuming it's upheld. Of course it is possible they actually believe they're on the right side of the law and this isn't just a SLAPP in their world view.
However how many people do you hear complaing regarding the quality of Windows 2000 (on which XP is based)? I have 2000 and I have never, since I first installed one of the RCs many moons back, got a BSOD.
I haven't either, I think they got rid of the graphic. I've had it freeze up on me every day that I've used it (I use it about once every two weeks). Most of the time it's due to the nVidia drivers or DirectX (I think). It's a little more stable than NT 4.0, but I don't know anyone that uses Windows for serious work so it's good for bathroom brakes. Well aside from some stock brokers, but they are fired for installing software on their boxen.
PS Microsoft sent a couple evengelists to my lab Monday. They've been trying to get our sysAdmin to install XP. He left early that day for Amsterdam. They didn't think it was as funny as I did.
Perhaphs Slashdot could hurl an e-mail to the site owner asking if they want to be cached 5 minutes before the story is posted. Then if at any point they get the PGP signed, or faxed ok they go ahead and turn on the cache.
In a sane world caches be fair use... maybe they are, but lets let the NYT, Google & Yahoos of the world spend their lawyerly dollars on the eventual lawsuits.
I'll go send a few $$ to the ACLU & EFF now, they'll need it for more important things though.
Have you ever tried to buy a box cutter in New York?
I had to show 3 forms of i.d. to buy one a couple months ago.
I'm packing for a hoped for flight back home, I decided to put my fountain pen in the checked baggage. I'm keeping my housekeys unless they complain. Terrorists always win:/
This is the first direct sign that the USA is turning it's heels on democracy. This is the first time that the USA has tried to dissolve protesters cries of their corrupt, non-democratic government.
Wha? Um, didn't the US prop up the Shah of Iran, and continue to oppose the populist replacement? Didn't the USA force Fidel to side with the communist because of some sugar plantation interests? Did the 80's in Latin America happen? Didn't we kill 100,000 Filipino's trying to win independence from the US of A?
First my ass, the US will squash democracy anywhere it might oppose the interests of the empire.
The cold war rheotoric just made it imprudent to behave badly in public, now we have extraconstitutional "anti-terrorism" and "anti-drug" measures, and we're working on killing anonymous speech too. Can't leave a wrong word unpunished.
Having a 'permanent record' number in high school is a different thing. When they mess up your record it isn't propagated everywhere instantly.
Whenever I read one of these stories I tend to think it's a leak in the matrix. We're not this stupid right? SSN isn't a big enough problem?
Like many, I don't have a cell phone to avoid reachability. I know a few people with 'secret' cell phones, but they have to change their number a bit too often for my lazyness factor.
10 billion is a lot? I haven't looked at the figures lately but I'm sure our world economy is north of 10 trillion a year. We should be fighting sneezing at work if we should care about this virus.
Besides, it could make us a lot of money. Simply fire all the people who click on the "infect me" icon. Consider it a free IQ test administered randomly.
Umm, she has pointed out the flaw in her own post-script. If I read it correctly, it says
that if you know the public key and one encrypted
message then you can break it.
What if Mozilla 0.9.8 is "fairly robust"? Will you not encourage others to use it because it is not called 1.0? What if the plans for 0.9.9 and 1.0 do not include any improvements in the "robust"ness of the app?
There are certain things I expect from a v1.0.
Features that don't work are removed.
It doesn't crash very often (once per 1000 pages or after running 3-4 days is ok.)
Important and easy to implement features such as ESC = "stop those f***'n animations" on all platforms. I remeber Netscape 6.0 got a nasty NYT review because this didn't work on some non-Linux platform.
So it's not that it is called v1.0 that's important. Mozilla just has to work like one. I'll take the development team's word for it, if it's called v0.9.9 they think it isn't ready for prime-time.
Of course, if they release a v1.0 that doesn't meet those modest standards, it will look worse NS6.0.. I personally think Mozilla can make it by December, the progress has been great this year.
Once there is a stable working application, adding features will be much easier. I even worked on something to filter the images but abandoned it because I wanted to distribute it early August and I just couldn't. If 0.9.3 had been out in May, which has a very stable browser component, I wouldn't have put the project on hold.. Now I'll wait a while before spending any more time on it. I can't really contribute until it's stable because I can only commit limited time along with my expertise.
I've started using Mozilla whenever I can as of 0.9.2, but it's not something I want to encourage others to use yet. They are making a great deal of progress though, with 0.9.2 I always kept a copy of Netscape 4.7* running and now I only run it when something actually goes wrong with Mozilla (Or I need POP3 which now crashes my Windows copy of Mozilla.) Point here is that 1.0 has meaning to me, should it be fairly robust I will encourage my friends to use it and install it on a bunch of machines that I don't update with every release.
Now to the subject line, being a programmer I find the interpretation of these Bug Graphs silly. All the "New Bugs" don't mean anything, when someone looks at them or tries to fix them they'll probably realize there are 20 bug reports that all refer to a single bug. The fact that assigned bugs grew matters, but this certainly hasn't jumped as much as usage has so again the interpretation that things are getting worse is flawed.
And that mention of fixing the "Memory Problem" before v1.0 is silly, just make it not crash and work like it's supposed to. Fixing the memory problem or speeding up the parser are features which can wait for v2.0. Of course, they are not going to fix 1500 bugs by v1.0, when they cull all but the 5-6 stop-ship bugs then we'll know triage has been done and Mozilla is a few months away.
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What next? Muslim countries attacking sites that advocate women's rights
Heh, I sold all my Compaq stock when my SO was blocked from women's engineering sites. She was a SWE officer, but didn't actually get mad until she was later blocked from a literary site on her lunch hour and her e-mail to me held for review.
Ummm, in relation to the topic at hand...we should have some of our rights protected by our government if they ever decide they've put enough natural fertilizer on the founder's overheating graves (all that spinning has to generate some heat.)
"Trust Us"
Oh come on, they want to stop anonymous transfers of money. Their justification is that they could be used by terrorists. Their failed justifications in the past have been to catch tax cheats, to close black and gray markets, to avoid the inconvenience of filing tax forms, etc.
Our leaders don't give a damn how many people die if the Somalian government collapses, they wrote off Africa a long time ago. Africans don't yet have terrorists to catch our attention, when AIDS has collapsed the few good governments left and the buildings start falling at home we'll wonder at how cheaply we could have avoided the problems. Much as we all wonder at our stupidity at squandering the opportunity to restore a participatory government in Afghanistan after they won their battle in the Cold War for us.
Honest company my ass, what MSN, AOL?
Probably not, but there's sure as hell that many public libraries around.
See the difference is we're just closing the public libraries that don't install filters.
Ummm, nevermind.
I presume that you do not intend to suggest that ALL brazilians are racist?
Of course not, I know plenty of Brazilians that aren't. I just want some place where this isn't an issue, at all.
It's easy to say, "There is no such place." But I've been around long enough to know it's a big world, we have our problems because of a specific history. Other places have different problems, I want something new to be annoyed with. I'm annoyed at being annoyed with religion, racism, and lack of personal freedom.
Ok, I want to live in a land of the free. I also want the opportunity to create wealth without exploiting anyone. And I really want to get away from racism and religion.
Where do I go? Brazil is on my short list, but I had a racist Brazillian GF once (against Asians). I'm also thinking someplace in Africa where there isn't too much government, but I love NYC and want someplace with a nightlife and high density land development. Car culture is a definite minus.
People of the world, where can I go?
I will do this sometimes for code that is intended for short-term, internal-only use, as I can often save quite a bit of valuable time.
I tend to rewrite the code a couple times before I subject another user to it, so it starts out as a soup of languages. The UI might be in Java the core code in C the management in C++, and some scripting languages to tie things together. To avoid CORBA or whatever platform dependent linking riddle I'm faced with I'll just tie it together with sockets using TCP or UDP.
But then if it goes anywhere I'll consolidate to one or two languages. I'll use a regexp library instead of the full fledged scripting language. If the C & Java are on the same hardware I'll link them, if not I'll set up CORBA, etc. until it's all manageble. I've learned to do this from the experience of having some old really cool projects become almost impossible to get running again because they required 10 different language environments to be functioning together as they did 5 years ago... And hey sometimes other people end up maintaining my code.
Heh, I guess that explains why some of the checks I've sent took a while to cash.
Um so what's the point if they are not checking the return address against your picture ID?
My mail is still getting delivered so maybe this only applies in some places or only with packages?
The point is to place terms of use on a site. Look at the terms of use on my site [sorehands.com]. This has not been tested in court, yet.
Well since click-wrap is only valid in a couple backwards states, I can't image non-click through being valid anywhere. I think if you required people to send you a PGP signed copy of the agreement before viewing the site that would be valid in the US. A fax could be upheld just about anywhere.
Even without a terms of use or copyright notice, copyright still applies.
Most contries require the copyright notice, but your e-mail is information anyway (hence not protected by copyright).
Let's make LIBRARIANS destroy this information for us! Hey, come to think of it, they have records of who's checked out various books, don't they? Let's make all librarians federal employees and give them powers to go to people's homes and destroy any copies of information which has been withdrawn! Who better to do it?
I've worked at a couple libraries and neither kept a record of who had checked out a book aside from who last checked out the book (in case the next patron reported it damaged.) When you returned the book it was removed from your record and your name only remained with the book until someone else checked it out and returned it without complaint. This was done for the privacy of the patron, it was not just a memory saving thing.
The first library did destroy books that no one checked out for a couple years and the second destroyed all their books in a scanning project. I found a 500 y.o. law book on their shelf once that I sincerely regret not stealing. Those scans were horrible one bit color low res things too, think microfilmed newspapers.
I suppose it's okay for 5,000 people to die so some asshole like you can have access to information you don't need.
Ok, I'll throw my hat into the insensitive ring too.
Of course it is! Do you have any idea how many of us have died to procure that very right? If we were talkin 500 million I'd listen to the arguement, but hell we already gave up most of our freedom because the idea of losing 5,000 million in a day is pretty damn frightening.
I thought we were on the path to eliminating at least the most ill concieved of those like the confiscation of property on a guilty until proven innocent basis. The Supreme Court even had a case saying you couldn't keep people locked up forever in INS jails before the 11th.. Now we've already adopted KGB tactics and people are actually talking about moving on to Nazi police tactics on PBS. I'd expect that from talk radio, but it's the policy makers who're on PBS.
And all this over just 5,000 people?
I think it's mostly just the bruised pride of the empire we're dealing with in these 'you unpatriotic asshole' type posts.
I don't think you really give a damn about those 5,000. I had two dozen friends in that building, none of whom were for this kind of idiotic descent into book burning. And the only Bush voter who got out is still against it. (All but 2 got out.)
As a New Yorker I really loath this power grab by the Nixonian cronies in the White House. Meanwhile the congress tells New York to screew itself when it is looking at a 200 Billion dollar hit, with only 21 coming from Congress (If all the promises are kept, congress wants to reduce it to less than 10 Billion, that PR allocation earlier being just a little to brash.) The vacancy rate is UP! in downtown NYC despite the fact that more than 1 million square feet were taken off the market that day. I have very strong friends who are taking psychoactive drugs for the first time because they just can't handle seeing their friends in a huge unmarked grave every day. I started smoking that day.
But reading the news just gets worse and worse each day, I hold little hope that congress will ever get the sense and the balls to oppose our president and the likes of you.
New York is a city that values democracy, those 5,000 would not want to live in the world Herr Bush asks for. I have my doubts whether Bush really wants to either.
Look we're all on the same internet, and most of us that visit .com and not just .ru,.is, etc speak English at some level. And having grown up in another country I can tell you we learned American curse words long before we learned English in school.
...sucks.com if I'm about to buy a big ticket item from someone, or if I've already been screewed. Often it goes to that sucky sucks500 site, but it still works enough of the time to be useful.
.mil & .gov ghetto. Yeah, Yeah, fracture the internet.. just cc the old database, set up rules dissallowing anyone from owning a sucks.com for a company they do not actively critizise, review all icann domain decisions awarding the domain to the deserving party instead of the monied party. Have the complaintant pay the defendants legal bills up to some multiple of the complaintants cost, say 1.5x if they lose, 0.5x if the compaintant wins.
;)
I always try visiting the
BTW Is there anything but tradition keeping us attached to the ICANN? Couldn't any group set up alternative root servers and ask everyone to point to them? If the group had consistent rules and an effective feedback process we might all join it and leave the icann to serve the
You could donate fairnamessucks.com to icann
1-a) The radio is at the same frequency so the traces are the same width, the oscilator the same freq, etc. So the only difference is that you have different encodings.
1+a) It shouldn't interfere at all, you have one AP that does both 802.11b & g, it starts out at a 1Mbps modulation, then it tries higher rates based on what both supports and the range permits.
1+b) I don't have the standard, but I'd guess for 802.11b backward compatability it's at 1Mbps.
2,3) I haven't read up on the different encodings, but basically you would have the same range as 802.11b but greater speeds only when the signal is good. If your far away you'll get 1Mbps, as you get closer the signal gets stronger 2,5.5,11,33,54 Mbps... I'd bet that you'll get better range with a new 802.11g card to an old 802.11b AP just because the radios will be better a year from now.
4) You don't want this in the standard anyway. This is an international standard, encryption makes you a criminal in some western democracies. Use IPsec, SSL, ssh...
(I'm answering based on my moldy EE and some common sense implementation assumptions, not from reading the standard.)
My guess is that s/he was not a terrorist but some crazy who wanted to warn us. Prolly freaked out about the attack and wanted the rest of us to freak out too. The letters to the media told them to take antibiotics. I think he didn't expect it to leak out of the envelopes and kill all those postal workers. So now he feels a mix of guilt and bravado, for the deaths and the 'warning' sent.
I don't have any special insight. It's just the silicone in the Anthrax, the use of a mailorder American strain, the sloppyness of the letters, the targeting.
It all screams American patriot to me.
I own and operate a movie theatre.
I'm sure you've discovered you're public enemy no. 1 now.
I don't know how much you charge for your movies, but in NYC it tends to be around $10. And they all charge about the same price so my selection criteria is basically, "Which of these places treats me most like a criminal?" The ones that let me walk in with my coffee I go to once or twice a month, the one that lets me smoke once a week. The one that doesn't let me carry a drink in, I only go to when they are the only ones showing the movie (rare).
No theater has ever tried to search my bag in NYC, but it's happened elsewhere and I was pretty miffed that I even when I could sell my ticket. I can't imagine why I'd go back.
Now I understand that most theaters make their money off the 17-- set, but I think if more of them aimed at the 20++ set they could make more money because I don't mind the $4 coke, if I'm thirsty it's worth it.
Wireless networks are not only much less secure than wired, they are also considerably slower and less reliable. I have difficulty getting a reliable wireless connection more than fifty feet away from the AP. I have ethernet cables longer than that!
Get a better radio. I have a SyncByAir prism2 based radio which gets flacky connections at 100 ft, but I can go a 1000 ft away from the same AP with one of the Cisco 350's. (I've heard good things about the Orinoco radios too.)
Legally, only if either case goes to a higher court. I think in order to effect NY it has to go to the Supreme Court (maybe federal if 2600 goes to court). But judges do pay attention to precidents outside their jurisdiction so it may
sway them.
My guess is that DVDCSS won't pursue it to a higher court since that would make it apply to more jurisdictions, assuming it's upheld. Of course it is possible they actually believe they're on the right side of the law and this isn't just a SLAPP in their world view.
However how many people do you hear complaing regarding the quality of Windows 2000 (on which XP is based)? I have 2000 and I have never, since I first installed one of the RCs many moons back, got a BSOD.
I haven't either, I think they got rid of the graphic. I've had it freeze up on me every day that I've used it (I use it about once every two weeks). Most of the time it's due to the nVidia drivers or DirectX (I think). It's a little more stable than NT 4.0, but I don't know anyone that uses Windows for serious work so it's good for bathroom brakes. Well aside from some stock brokers, but they are fired for installing software on their boxen.
PS Microsoft sent a couple evengelists to my lab Monday. They've been trying to get our sysAdmin to install XP. He left early that day for Amsterdam. They didn't think it was as funny as I did.
Perhaphs Slashdot could hurl an e-mail to the site owner asking if they want to be cached 5 minutes before the story is posted. Then if at any point they get the PGP signed, or faxed ok they go ahead and turn on the cache.
In a sane world caches be fair use... maybe they are, but lets let the NYT, Google & Yahoos of the world spend their lawyerly dollars on the eventual lawsuits.
I'll go send a few $$ to the ACLU & EFF now, they'll need it for more important things though.
Have you ever tried to buy a box cutter in New York?
:/
I had to show 3 forms of i.d. to buy one a couple months ago.
I'm packing for a hoped for flight back home, I decided to put my fountain pen in the checked baggage. I'm keeping my housekeys unless they complain. Terrorists always win
This is the first direct sign that the USA is turning it's heels on democracy. This is the first time that the USA has tried to dissolve protesters cries of their corrupt, non-democratic government.
Wha? Um, didn't the US prop up the Shah of Iran, and continue to oppose the populist replacement? Didn't the USA force Fidel to side with the communist because of some sugar plantation interests? Did the 80's in Latin America happen? Didn't we kill 100,000 Filipino's trying to win independence from the US of A?
First my ass, the US will squash democracy anywhere it might oppose the interests of the empire.
The cold war rheotoric just made it imprudent to behave badly in public, now we have extraconstitutional "anti-terrorism" and "anti-drug" measures, and we're working on killing anonymous speech too. Can't leave a wrong word unpunished.
Having a 'permanent record' number in high school is a different thing. When they mess up your record it isn't propagated everywhere instantly.
Whenever I read one of these stories I tend to think it's a leak in the matrix. We're not this stupid right? SSN isn't a big enough problem?
Like many, I don't have a cell phone to avoid reachability. I know a few people with 'secret' cell phones, but they have to change their number a bit too often for my lazyness factor.
10 billion is a lot? I haven't looked at the figures lately but I'm sure our world economy is north of 10 trillion a year. We should be fighting sneezing at work if we should care about this virus.
Besides, it could make us a lot of money. Simply fire all the people who click on the "infect me" icon. Consider it a free IQ test administered randomly.
Umm, she has pointed out the flaw in her own post-script. If I read it correctly, it says
that if you know the public key and one encrypted
message then you can break it.
There are certain things I expect from a v1.0.
- Features that don't work are removed.
- It doesn't crash very often (once per 1000 pages or after running 3-4 days is ok.)
- Important and easy to implement features such as ESC = "stop those f***'n animations" on all platforms. I remeber Netscape 6.0 got a nasty NYT review because this didn't work on some non-Linux platform.
So it's not that it is called v1.0 that's important. Mozilla just has to work like one. I'll take the development team's word for it, if it's called v0.9.9 they think it isn't ready for prime-time.Of course, if they release a v1.0 that doesn't meet those modest standards, it will look worse NS6.0.. I personally think Mozilla can make it by December, the progress has been great this year.
Once there is a stable working application, adding features will be much easier. I even worked on something to filter the images but abandoned it because I wanted to distribute it early August and I just couldn't. If 0.9.3 had been out in May, which has a very stable browser component, I wouldn't have put the project on hold.. Now I'll wait a while before spending any more time on it. I can't really contribute until it's stable because I can only commit limited time along with my expertise.
I've started using Mozilla whenever I can as of 0.9.2, but it's not something I want to encourage others to use yet. They are making a great deal of progress though, with 0.9.2 I always kept a copy of Netscape 4.7* running and now I only run it when something actually goes wrong with Mozilla (Or I need POP3 which now crashes my Windows copy of Mozilla.) Point here is that 1.0 has meaning to me, should it be fairly robust I will encourage my friends to use it and install it on a bunch of machines that I don't update with every release.
Now to the subject line, being a programmer I find the interpretation of these Bug Graphs silly. All the "New Bugs" don't mean anything, when someone looks at them or tries to fix them they'll probably realize there are 20 bug reports that all refer to a single bug. The fact that assigned bugs grew matters, but this certainly hasn't jumped as much as usage has so again the interpretation that things are getting worse is flawed.
And that mention of fixing the "Memory Problem" before v1.0 is silly, just make it not crash and work like it's supposed to. Fixing the memory problem or speeding up the parser are features which can wait for v2.0. Of course, they are not going to fix 1500 bugs by v1.0, when they cull all but the 5-6 stop-ship bugs then we'll know triage has been done and Mozilla is a few months away.