That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The only restaurant that could afford this would be a very high-end one and they're not going to disrupt their elegant atmosphere with a bunch of 3D LCDs.
Maybe Planet Hollywood would go for this. That way they can show what a $15 hamburger looks like in 3D.
Um, no. Neilson bought RedSheriff last year. RedSheriff is a web analytics and data collection service that many sites pay for. The site would drop a piece of code onto their pages, including some Javascript, Java applet and a 1x1 gif.
From there the site owners would have access to an online reporting tool that is quite good.
AFAIK, RedSheriff didn't share or use their customers' site traffic logs for any purpose other than to report back to the site whose logs they were. Nielson may have re-jigged their privacy policy to allow it.
Each person does not need to go to the site more than once, then just use the browser's built-in update mechanism to update to new versions.
Looking at it like that, it means that most of these visitors are brand new to the site rather than returning visitors, thus meaning that they have increased their reach several times more than 300%.
Nielson/Netratings has Java/Javascript code that runs on their customers' web sites to report traffic back to them (RedSheriff). If Firefox put that on their site they would be able to tell just how many of these visitors were returning from previous months.
"There's also a rarer Scenario 3 where the Microsoft hole is the result of their use of an open-source codebase or library. At that point, all bets are off."
No, that just means Microsoft is evil for not contributing a security fix back to the project.
By default the CD is an apt repository, so unless there is a newer version found online it will use the CD (like when installing nfs, for instance).
And you can always use alien to convert an rpm to a deb if you need to install one of those.
GCC by default? How insecure! Hardened distros that are meant for use as a server never have it by default and for a desktop distro, what's the point? Apt has pretty much replaced compiling for me. I don't think I've used GCC once on Ubuntu, but I used to use it all the time on other distros.
"would they separate those using Video conferencing tools, or sharing their personal pictures, or playing online games, or downloading a BitTorrent of a Linux distribution..."
They don't care about legal uses of technology and they don't care that internet downloading has not had a negative effect on their sales. It's a threat and they are going to try to stop it at all costs even if that means severely disrupting many of the technologies that make the net interesting for the rest of us.
If they had it their way, the net would be a giant shopping mall so we could all buy their music through whatever legitimate store we wanted to.
Ubuntu and Debian are not trying to accomplish the same things. Debian users who convert to Ubuntu are doing so because that's the kind of distro they need.
The Ubuntu developers couldn't have gone in and contributed to Debian because their contributions aren't wanted in most of the Debian world.
One does not replace the other, but they are very complimentary.
Chroot is one great example. It allows for segregating server programs and files away from the core system. This means that successful break-ins through the server software cannot harm the whole system (as the 'whole system' doesn't appear to even exist). Recovering from this type of break-in can be as simple as running one command (the cp command) to restore the server and related files from a backup.
Security updates and version upgrades to most software, sometimes ALL software, can be accomplished with a single command on distros such as Debian and Ubuntu (or through dfferent single-point-of-access software on most other distros). This includes remote access programs (ssh and vnc, etc), server software (web server, email server, etc) and database server (mysql, postgresql) as well as thousands of other packages. This simplified upgrade method means it's very easy to keep the whole system up to date. This update can easily be automated.
For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination We learned to talk
There's a silence surrounding me I can't seem to think straight I'll sit in the corner No one can bother me I think I should speak now I can't seem to speak now My words won't come out right I feel like I'm drowning I'm feeling weak now But I can't show my weakness I sometimes wonder Where do we go from here
It doesn't have to be like this All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
Why won't you talk to me You never talk to me What are you thinking What are you feeling Why won't you talk to me You never talk to me What are you thinking Where do we go from here
It doesn't have to be like this All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
Why won't you talk to me You never talk to me What are you thinking What are you feeling Why won't you talk to me You never talk to me What are you thinking What are you feeling
I feel like I'm drowning You know I can't breathe now We're going nowhere We're going nowhere
Ubuntu dual boots fine. It drops your Windows (or other OS) boot option to the bottom of the list in grub.
I've not experienced the file type miss-detection problem you describe, but that's maybe because I don't deal with many media files. Mostly various types of text files for different languages. However, you can easily change the default app a file is opened with by choosing "Open with other application" from the right-click menu.
Yes, but it only worries people who don't understand the system. All it does is compare evidence that was manually input into the system and tries to find correlations quicker than an officer can.
Clearly, all sorts of law enforcement can benefit from this, but I don't see that as a problem.
Do you pay any attention at all to Canadian politics? The Conservative party of Canada may not like gay marriage, but they're not anywhere close to being as right-wing as the Republicans.
The Conservatives are still hurting after the merger with the Alliance party because Stockwell Day and his followers were a bit wacked... much closer to the Republicans with his 6500 year-old Earth and "dinosaurs walked with humans" comments. But as you might notice, the Conservatives are almost never elected to office.
Oh... fuck you. I don't normally swear, but you deserve it this time.
If you'll look at what this software is doing, it's actually just aggregating information from several databases. It's like saying "we have a guy we think might be into child porn, but we don't have enough information for a warrant. Oh, Interpol and the FBI also have some information and together they will get us a warrant."
We live in an information-fed world. You may not want all your information available to the police, but you must expect that the police will want to use the information they do have in a useful manner and that different law enforcement agencies should be able to share information from ongoing investigations.
There is nothing this software does to "invade everyone's rights" and nothing to indicate that "Canadians can't track down their own criminals". To enforce any law online, there must be international law enforcement cooperation.
Or just download Ubuntu and 'apt-get install kubuntu-desktop' and you now have a system running KDE identical to the Kubuntu CD. Or install the Kubuntu CD and 'apt-get install ubuntu-desktop' and you get the same results.
the ubuntu and kubuntu packages are meta-packages that install whichever desktop you want.
"Most people don't even know what a mother board is let alone what it does."
Hehe... my dad once tried to guess a X-mas present was a new motherboard for his computer. It was a framed 1.5 foot x 3.5 foot poster. I don't know how he supposed it fit into his computer.
OT: At the Toronto Science Centre there is a working television submerged in a clear fluorochemical. It gets a lot of awkward gazes by passers by who assume liquids should cause sparks/shorts.
Hell, even though I know what a fluorochemical is I still think it's very cool:) And a great way to keep dust off the TV!
I wish I hadn't waited 3 days to check replies. Do you know what a blind spot is? You appear to not be capable enough to drive a vehicle, so I hope you're not licensed.
Some education for you: your blind spot is an area beside and partly behind your car that you cannot see in either the rear or side view mirrors. Normally, a quick turn of your head in the appropriate direction will let you see in that area.
I can tell that you're one of those idiots who doesn't check their blind spot and you probably cut off many cars every day without ever knowing it.
I believe you're misunderstanding this aspect of vision. Inanimate objects don't disappear, it's just nearly impossible to notice it. It's like when you see something out of the corner of your eye... you can only identify a moving object if it's at any distance. However, any movement in the corner of your eye will be extremely noticable.
Take when you're driving, for instance. A car driving at the same speed as you in your blind spot is going to be hard to see when you turn your head before changing lanes. This is especially true of dark grey cars that can look similar to the road. If that car is moving either quicker or slower than you, then you can easily see it.
It depends if they will be allowed to license this new format. If not, they'll have to keep inventing their own formats like they did instead of using DVDs. IIRC, they weren't allowed to license CD technology because they pissed off Sony and Philips when they were trying to make the CDROM addon for SNES.
"Does this 20% time come out of the normal 40hr/week thing (and for that matter, do these engineers work 40/week or are they doing 100/week and get 20% time out of that)?"
It's one day a week, so that's 20% of working days, not hours.
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Looks like they took the burnable folder feature straight out of Gnome.(eg. the burn:/// folder in Gnome)
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The only restaurant that could afford this would be a very high-end one and they're not going to disrupt their elegant atmosphere with a bunch of 3D LCDs.
Maybe Planet Hollywood would go for this. That way they can show what a $15 hamburger looks like in 3D.
Um, no. Neilson bought RedSheriff last year. RedSheriff is a web analytics and data collection service that many sites pay for. The site would drop a piece of code onto their pages, including some Javascript, Java applet and a 1x1 gif.
From there the site owners would have access to an online reporting tool that is quite good.
AFAIK, RedSheriff didn't share or use their customers' site traffic logs for any purpose other than to report back to the site whose logs they were. Nielson may have re-jigged their privacy policy to allow it.
Each person does not need to go to the site more than once, then just use the browser's built-in update mechanism to update to new versions.
Looking at it like that, it means that most of these visitors are brand new to the site rather than returning visitors, thus meaning that they have increased their reach several times more than 300%.
Nielson/Netratings has Java/Javascript code that runs on their customers' web sites to report traffic back to them (RedSheriff). If Firefox put that on their site they would be able to tell just how many of these visitors were returning from previous months.
"There's also a rarer Scenario 3 where the Microsoft hole is the result of their use of an open-source codebase or library. At that point, all bets are off."
No, that just means Microsoft is evil for not contributing a security fix back to the project.
There are large swarms of people who will tell you that the Red Hat update manager is mediocre at best and that Red Hat lives on reputation alone.
Ubuntu's update manager correctly ignores packages that you have selected to not upgrade. It's much easier to use that either Red Hat's or Windows'.
By default the CD is an apt repository, so unless there is a newer version found online it will use the CD (like when installing nfs, for instance).
And you can always use alien to convert an rpm to a deb if you need to install one of those.
GCC by default? How insecure! Hardened distros that are meant for use as a server never have it by default and for a desktop distro, what's the point? Apt has pretty much replaced compiling for me. I don't think I've used GCC once on Ubuntu, but I used to use it all the time on other distros.
"would they separate those using Video conferencing tools, or sharing their personal pictures, or playing online games, or downloading a BitTorrent of a Linux distribution..."
They don't care about legal uses of technology and they don't care that internet downloading has not had a negative effect on their sales. It's a threat and they are going to try to stop it at all costs even if that means severely disrupting many of the technologies that make the net interesting for the rest of us.
If they had it their way, the net would be a giant shopping mall so we could all buy their music through whatever legitimate store we wanted to.
Ubuntu and Debian are not trying to accomplish the same things. Debian users who convert to Ubuntu are doing so because that's the kind of distro they need.
The Ubuntu developers couldn't have gone in and contributed to Debian because their contributions aren't wanted in most of the Debian world.
One does not replace the other, but they are very complimentary.
Chroot is one great example. It allows for segregating server programs and files away from the core system. This means that successful break-ins through the server software cannot harm the whole system (as the 'whole system' doesn't appear to even exist). Recovering from this type of break-in can be as simple as running one command (the cp command) to restore the server and related files from a backup.
Security updates and version upgrades to most software, sometimes ALL software, can be accomplished with a single command on distros such as Debian and Ubuntu (or through dfferent single-point-of-access software on most other distros). This includes remote access programs (ssh and vnc, etc), server software (web server, email server, etc) and database server (mysql, postgresql) as well as thousands of other packages. This simplified upgrade method means it's very easy to keep the whole system up to date. This update can easily be automated.
Ok, somebody else's turn.
For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happened which unleashed the power of our
imagination
We learned to talk
There's a silence surrounding me
I can't seem to think straight
I'll sit in the corner
No one can bother me
I think I should speak now
I can't seem to speak now
My words won't come out right
I feel like I'm drowning
I'm feeling weak now
But I can't show my weakness
I sometimes wonder
Where do we go from here
It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
Where do we go from here
It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
I feel like I'm drowning
You know I can't breathe now
We're going nowhere
We're going nowhere
Ubuntu dual boots fine. It drops your Windows (or other OS) boot option to the bottom of the list in grub.
I've not experienced the file type miss-detection problem you describe, but that's maybe because I don't deal with many media files. Mostly various types of text files for different languages. However, you can easily change the default app a file is opened with by choosing "Open with other application" from the right-click menu.
Yes, but it only worries people who don't understand the system. All it does is compare evidence that was manually input into the system and tries to find correlations quicker than an officer can.
Clearly, all sorts of law enforcement can benefit from this, but I don't see that as a problem.
Do you pay any attention at all to Canadian politics? The Conservative party of Canada may not like gay marriage, but they're not anywhere close to being as right-wing as the Republicans.
The Conservatives are still hurting after the merger with the Alliance party because Stockwell Day and his followers were a bit wacked... much closer to the Republicans with his 6500 year-old Earth and "dinosaurs walked with humans" comments. But as you might notice, the Conservatives are almost never elected to office.
Oh... fuck you. I don't normally swear, but you deserve it this time.
If you'll look at what this software is doing, it's actually just aggregating information from several databases. It's like saying "we have a guy we think might be into child porn, but we don't have enough information for a warrant. Oh, Interpol and the FBI also have some information and together they will get us a warrant."
We live in an information-fed world. You may not want all your information available to the police, but you must expect that the police will want to use the information they do have in a useful manner and that different law enforcement agencies should be able to share information from ongoing investigations.
There is nothing this software does to "invade everyone's rights" and nothing to indicate that "Canadians can't track down their own criminals". To enforce any law online, there must be international law enforcement cooperation.
Or just download Ubuntu and 'apt-get install kubuntu-desktop' and you now have a system running KDE identical to the Kubuntu CD. Or install the Kubuntu CD and 'apt-get install ubuntu-desktop' and you get the same results.
the ubuntu and kubuntu packages are meta-packages that install whichever desktop you want.
At least the name Ubuntu works well within the Free Software community. It means 'humanity to others'.
"Most people don't even know what a mother board is let alone what it does."
Hehe... my dad once tried to guess a X-mas present was a new motherboard for his computer. It was a framed 1.5 foot x 3.5 foot poster. I don't know how he supposed it fit into his computer.
OT: At the Toronto Science Centre there is a working television submerged in a clear fluorochemical. It gets a lot of awkward gazes by passers by who assume liquids should cause sparks/shorts.
:) And a great way to keep dust off the TV!
Hell, even though I know what a fluorochemical is I still think it's very cool
At least it was two years ago when I last used it. The numbers aren't reliable and doesn't have a good tool for building custom reports.
IMO, Nielson/Netratings is much better. It's the old RedSheriff system and is far better than any other reporting tool I've seen.
I wish I hadn't waited 3 days to check replies. Do you know what a blind spot is? You appear to not be capable enough to drive a vehicle, so I hope you're not licensed.
Some education for you: your blind spot is an area beside and partly behind your car that you cannot see in either the rear or side view mirrors. Normally, a quick turn of your head in the appropriate direction will let you see in that area.
I can tell that you're one of those idiots who doesn't check their blind spot and you probably cut off many cars every day without ever knowing it.
I believe you're misunderstanding this aspect of vision. Inanimate objects don't disappear, it's just nearly impossible to notice it. It's like when you see something out of the corner of your eye... you can only identify a moving object if it's at any distance. However, any movement in the corner of your eye will be extremely noticable.
Take when you're driving, for instance. A car driving at the same speed as you in your blind spot is going to be hard to see when you turn your head before changing lanes. This is especially true of dark grey cars that can look similar to the road. If that car is moving either quicker or slower than you, then you can easily see it.
Hijack This will let you remove this and any other toolbar quite easily, though it is a bit cryptic to use.
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It depends if they will be allowed to license this new format. If not, they'll have to keep inventing their own formats like they did instead of using DVDs. IIRC, they weren't allowed to license CD technology because they pissed off Sony and Philips when they were trying to make the CDROM addon for SNES.
"Does this 20% time come out of the normal 40hr/week thing (and for that matter, do these engineers work 40/week or are they doing 100/week and get 20% time out of that)?"
It's one day a week, so that's 20% of working days, not hours.