If s/he catches you, s/he can cite you for contempt.
But isn't a grand jury hearing supposed to be in secret anyway? And merely one of the first steps in the prosecution of an alleged crime? I mean it's practically like demanding a transcript of the prosecutor's preparation for a case.
Microsoft started MSNBC along with Slate and other such programming because they wanted a focus on internet delivery.
Delivery? More like they wanted a say on the content. If they wanted merely to deliver the Internet, then it would have made better sense if they signed up a bunch of different media companies (and not just one) to create a news portal. MS would be their presence on the new-fangled WWW while they continued as cable and broadcast companies (a deal that would be impossible to broker today).
Okay, that clears up things. I retract what I said about First World guilt tripping. Still I think focusing on the starving people in Africa misses the point that there are starving people everywhere.
Semi-WYSiWYG is probably the way to go, similar to TeX editors with preview and helper modes. I find Wiki markup when HTML code is embedded into it. Also, I see far too many kinds of delimiters when compared to HTML or even TeX. This appears to be the byproduct of a design where delimiters are doubled characters like [[ or == versus the mostly single characters of TeX like \ or { or HTML's < or/ (with the notable exception of the comment block markers).
So now I ask, what are you doing about the problem of starving children in Africa?
I do believe children and adults starve in other places besides Africa. Unless you mean this rhetorically, this smacks too much of First World guilt. Better for me would be this: what are you doing about that starving homeless person down the street? If it's his choice or his fault, then leave him alone. If not, then handing him a sandwich or a blanket would be doing just as much good as sending over money to some far-off country without knowing if it would be spent to buy food or medicine or just pocketed by some greedy warlord who uses bullets for jewelry.
I was thinking more of a program that can be installed in the user's computer. But, yes, blessing an existing project would help it gain traction and would be better than starting a project from scratch.
Buying equipment and/or software from manufacturers/developers that are more or less owned by the country in question, in this case China, you should assume that such equipment is compromised from the get go even if such hasn't been proven, because the possibility and the motivation both strongly exist.
Where security budgets are unlimited, that would be the best approach. But where the budget is limited and even going down, the better approach is to focus on critical hardware (again, what is critical depends on the budget) and the people who install and administer the hardware/software. The most secure hardware still usable by a human being is easily compromised by a person given the right privileges (passwords, etc.). So why not focus on the people given access privileges, and leave that router in the lobby alone until it starts emitting a flood of suspicous data?
An exaggerated analogy. We all know that a large asteroid impacting the Earth is thousands of times more lethal than any known weapon of mass destruction. So why aren't countries alloting the whale's share of their military or homeland security budget toward the elimination of such threat? Because the probability of such fatal impact is low in human or historical terms (even if high in geological or prehistoric terms).
I like Wikipedia the way it is. However, some people (sorry for the weasel words) want to turn it into a WYSIWIG platform that rivals Google Docs. If that's the intention, then I think it would better to leave Wikipedia the web site alone, and dump the WYSIWIG editing onto a standalone application. The standalone app would be capable of reading all official Wikipedia "tags" (if that's what it's called) and have something like the W3 Consortium's Tidy to clean up or beautify (in a structural sense) bad or human unreadable markup.
According to Michael Larabel, they are still trying to hire more Linux kernel developers [...]
So what, you need changes to the Linux kernel in other to make the game platform work smoothly? That doesn't sound good. Either Steam sucks as a platform or Linux sucks for doing game-oriented graphics.
So if they do have such a capability, they're not going to use it until the value of the intelligence they would gain from it equals or exceeds that amount.
Too many backdoors and the house is wide open to the public. So basically we shouldn't be terrified of backdoors being installed in off-the-shelf products but of backdoors being installed in some custom-built equipment that manages to sneak into the office. Security-wise, this makes it more important to do a background check on people installing and administering critical hardware than doing random hardware audits. Hardware would still need to be checked, of course, for bugs and defects that would affect performance.
Morale of this story is when you go off to murder that guy, leave your cell phone at home (Or stick it in the wife's glove box!) Bin Laden's courier would take the battery out of his until he was in the next town over.
You mean moral?[end grammar-nazi-mode]
Leaving your cellphone at home would only make you even more suspicious. What, Mr. A. Howard, you didn't have your cellphone with you during the time of the crime?
Better would be to buy a boxed pre-paid cellphone and use that for planning the evil deed. Then you'd have to maintain radio silence for your regular phone, something which that would stick out in cellphone provider's logs if you're the type that receives calls or text messages every other minute. To remedy this, you could program a small robot that could automatically answer messages with simple responses like "Copy that". You'd leave the robot near a busy restaurant, which would give you the handy alibi of having dinner while being some place else.
Right. The not so Fine Article is low on details. It makes a grand connection between two rather uncontroversial facts: (1) Chinese net equipment can be found in an overwhelming majority of countries around the world and (2) the Chinese engage in cyberwarfare (as does the US and a few other advanced countries). Conclusion:
The Chinese government and the People's Liberation Army are so much into cyberwarfare now that they have looked at not just Huawei but also ZTE Corporation as providing through the equipment that they install in about 145 countries around in the world, and in 45 of the top 50 telecom centers around the world, the potential for backdooring into data.
Emphasis added on the word potential. Now where's the proof (preferably from a chip teardown by a reputable hardware hacker or hacking group)?
Right. Wiki markup is easier than plain HTML for doing footnotes and the like. It's also more semantic (context or sense-based) in that marking, for example, a series of words as a title would autoformat the words as italics. This, of course, can be done using CSS, but the ensuing HTML with styles would become just as complex.
Whatever they're introduced on will jump straight up when the feelies are invented.
You mean a true virtual reality device? When such a double oxymoron is invented, expect a spike as buyers rush to buy the ultimate in cinematic experience, and then a collapse not just of sales but of civilization itself as people stop leaving their sofas.
Remember those pop-up books we used to read as children? (I'm assuming you're old enough to have lived without a Web browser for at least part of your life.) All the 3D movies I've seen thus far are like that. They don't look like solid objects. They look more like cardboard cut-outs placed at varying distances or like layers of 2D images.
If complexity is the problem, then a possible Wikipedia editor can be restricted to the automation of frequently used functions such as the insertion of templates, photos, tables, citations, or footnotres. Users who use the dedicated Wikipeditor won't be able to fine-tune or fuss over, say, the placement of the photos or format of the citation without digging into the code themselves. Think of it as having training wheels for newbie editors.
I don't think Wikipedia looks ugly either. The problem is the complexity of the markup serves as barrier to entry.
True. But I thought of this as the answer to the problem of the best way to implement a WYSIWYG or near WYSIWYG editor for the masses who are daunted by the complex markup. Think of it as a necessary evil. An standalone editor with offline capabilities would definitely be better than something that needs to built into Wikipedia's infrastructure.
Also, a pure WYSIWYG editor isn't what I have in mind, but someting similar to a dedicated (La)TeX source editor that has WYSIWYG preview capability. You can edit the text directly in preview mode, but to change the layout you need to dig into the code. However, the editor can have functions to automate the creation of, for example, [table][/table] or \list{begin}\list{end}.
The USA, with its abyssmal right wing social and economic policies will mean the USA will fall to second rate status in the world. By then China, Brazil, Korea, India, etc will grow wise to this lame "intellectual property" scam [...]
Unfortunately, it appears as if some of the countries you've mentioned are suffering from even more regressive political and economic policies. Take for instance, Korea. Samsung dominates Korea in a manner that would put shame any claims that Microsoft or Apple are monopolies. China's government and private sector partnerships make US defense contractors seem like angels. And note how the income disparity between China's billionaires and the peasant poor is greater than that of the US.
Why not an official Wikipedia editing application?
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An online WYSIWYG editor that would allow saving the page layout (and not just the content) would be a mess. Even Google can't quite manage it with Google Docs, which remain simple when compared to the more complex layout possible with even a simple offline word processor like Abiword, much less full-blown suites like Libre/Open or MS Office.
The better and probably more elegant solution would be to develop an official standalone Wikipedia editor similar in function to an HTML editor, with offline and online capabilities and code and preview modes. Since Wikipedia represents a relatively minute subset of possible web page designs, the Wikipeditor can be forked from an existing free HTML editor like Mozilla Composer.
Maybe Microsoft is adapting the old "First they laugh at you" strategy. Say Windows 8 fails or fails to succeed on the scale of 7. But by the time 9 comes out, people would have been so used to The Metro interface that they'll just sigh and accept it for what it is, a dumbed down desktop UI for the smartphone generation.
Win7 didn't introduce any great UI changes from Vista. Win9 is likely going to be an enhanced version of 8.
Most of the science-fiction movies and anime I've watched show humans living in space as though it were simply an extremophile version of Earth. The space children of the future might wear space suits when they go to school but are otherwise no different from the astronauts of today. To me, this depiction of ordinary carbon-based humans living in space seems to belong to the same quaint category as the flying car and Star Wars.
Instead of thinking up some grandiose terraforming scheme or building gigantic space stations, wouldn't it be more practical simply to let information technology progress first to the point where we can copy our minds to artificial bodies that can survive in space without the need for artificial gravity, thick radiation shielding, or cold sleep?
Maybe not elitism in itself, but focus. Other examples: science journals making a profit from paywalls, where general newspapers fail; Vi(m) continuing to flourish despite an interface more unfriendly that a word processor from the DOS era; the Soyuz outlasting the more technologically advanced Space Shuttle.
If there's a lesson to be learned, it's that if you can't be the biggest brontosaurus in the jungle (a big web site), become a bird or a small but agile furry little creature (a focused web site).
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If s/he catches you, s/he can cite you for contempt.
But isn't a grand jury hearing supposed to be in secret anyway? And merely one of the first steps in the prosecution of an alleged crime? I mean it's practically like demanding a transcript of the prosecutor's preparation for a case.
That's good to hear. Good luck to you (and her).
Delivery? More like they wanted a say on the content. If they wanted merely to deliver the Internet, then it would have made better sense if they signed up a bunch of different media companies (and not just one) to create a news portal. MS would be their presence on the new-fangled WWW while they continued as cable and broadcast companies (a deal that would be impossible to broker today).
Okay, that clears up things. I retract what I said about First World guilt tripping. Still I think focusing on the starving people in Africa misses the point that there are starving people everywhere.
Semi-WYSiWYG is probably the way to go, similar to TeX editors with preview and helper modes. I find Wiki markup when HTML code is embedded into it. Also, I see far too many kinds of delimiters when compared to HTML or even TeX. This appears to be the byproduct of a design where delimiters are doubled characters like [[ or == versus the mostly single characters of TeX like \ or { or HTML's < or / (with the notable exception of the comment block markers).
I do believe children and adults starve in other places besides Africa. Unless you mean this rhetorically, this smacks too much of First World guilt. Better for me would be this: what are you doing about that starving homeless person down the street? If it's his choice or his fault, then leave him alone. If not, then handing him a sandwich or a blanket would be doing just as much good as sending over money to some far-off country without knowing if it would be spent to buy food or medicine or just pocketed by some greedy warlord who uses bullets for jewelry.
I was thinking more of a program that can be installed in the user's computer. But, yes, blessing an existing project would help it gain traction and would be better than starting a project from scratch.
Where security budgets are unlimited, that would be the best approach. But where the budget is limited and even going down, the better approach is to focus on critical hardware (again, what is critical depends on the budget) and the people who install and administer the hardware/software. The most secure hardware still usable by a human being is easily compromised by a person given the right privileges (passwords, etc.). So why not focus on the people given access privileges, and leave that router in the lobby alone until it starts emitting a flood of suspicous data?
An exaggerated analogy. We all know that a large asteroid impacting the Earth is thousands of times more lethal than any known weapon of mass destruction. So why aren't countries alloting the whale's share of their military or homeland security budget toward the elimination of such threat? Because the probability of such fatal impact is low in human or historical terms (even if high in geological or prehistoric terms).
I like Wikipedia the way it is. However, some people (sorry for the weasel words) want to turn it into a WYSIWIG platform that rivals Google Docs. If that's the intention, then I think it would better to leave Wikipedia the web site alone, and dump the WYSIWIG editing onto a standalone application. The standalone app would be capable of reading all official Wikipedia "tags" (if that's what it's called) and have something like the W3 Consortium's Tidy to clean up or beautify (in a structural sense) bad or human unreadable markup.
So what, you need changes to the Linux kernel in other to make the game platform work smoothly? That doesn't sound good. Either Steam sucks as a platform or Linux sucks for doing game-oriented graphics.
Too many backdoors and the house is wide open to the public. So basically we shouldn't be terrified of backdoors being installed in off-the-shelf products but of backdoors being installed in some custom-built equipment that manages to sneak into the office. Security-wise, this makes it more important to do a background check on people installing and administering critical hardware than doing random hardware audits. Hardware would still need to be checked, of course, for bugs and defects that would affect performance.
You mean moral?[end grammar-nazi-mode]
Leaving your cellphone at home would only make you even more suspicious. What, Mr. A. Howard, you didn't have your cellphone with you during the time of the crime?
Better would be to buy a boxed pre-paid cellphone and use that for planning the evil deed. Then you'd have to maintain radio silence for your regular phone, something which that would stick out in cellphone provider's logs if you're the type that receives calls or text messages every other minute. To remedy this, you could program a small robot that could automatically answer messages with simple responses like "Copy that". You'd leave the robot near a busy restaurant, which would give you the handy alibi of having dinner while being some place else.
Emphasis added on the word potential. Now where's the proof (preferably from a chip teardown by a reputable hardware hacker or hacking group)?
Right. Wiki markup is easier than plain HTML for doing footnotes and the like. It's also more semantic (context or sense-based) in that marking, for example, a series of words as a title would autoformat the words as italics. This, of course, can be done using CSS, but the ensuing HTML with styles would become just as complex.
You mean a true virtual reality device? When such a double oxymoron is invented, expect a spike as buyers rush to buy the ultimate in cinematic experience, and then a collapse not just of sales but of civilization itself as people stop leaving their sofas.
Remember those pop-up books we used to read as children? (I'm assuming you're old enough to have lived without a Web browser for at least part of your life.) All the 3D movies I've seen thus far are like that. They don't look like solid objects. They look more like cardboard cut-outs placed at varying distances or like layers of 2D images.
Who knows, maybe like the PC, 3D is flat-lining.
If complexity is the problem, then a possible Wikipedia editor can be restricted to the automation of frequently used functions such as the insertion of templates, photos, tables, citations, or footnotres. Users who use the dedicated Wikipeditor won't be able to fine-tune or fuss over, say, the placement of the photos or format of the citation without digging into the code themselves. Think of it as having training wheels for newbie editors.
I don't think Wikipedia looks ugly either. The problem is the complexity of the markup serves as barrier to entry.
True. But I thought of this as the answer to the problem of the best way to implement a WYSIWYG or near WYSIWYG editor for the masses who are daunted by the complex markup. Think of it as a necessary evil. An standalone editor with offline capabilities would definitely be better than something that needs to built into Wikipedia's infrastructure.
Also, a pure WYSIWYG editor isn't what I have in mind, but someting similar to a dedicated (La)TeX source editor that has WYSIWYG preview capability. You can edit the text directly in preview mode, but to change the layout you need to dig into the code. However, the editor can have functions to automate the creation of, for example, [table][/table] or \list{begin}\list{end}.
Unfortunately, it appears as if some of the countries you've mentioned are suffering from even more regressive political and economic policies. Take for instance, Korea. Samsung dominates Korea in a manner that would put shame any claims that Microsoft or Apple are monopolies. China's government and private sector partnerships make US defense contractors seem like angels. And note how the income disparity between China's billionaires and the peasant poor is greater than that of the US.
An online WYSIWYG editor that would allow saving the page layout (and not just the content) would be a mess. Even Google can't quite manage it with Google Docs, which remain simple when compared to the more complex layout possible with even a simple offline word processor like Abiword, much less full-blown suites like Libre/Open or MS Office.
The better and probably more elegant solution would be to develop an official standalone Wikipedia editor similar in function to an HTML editor, with offline and online capabilities and code and preview modes. Since Wikipedia represents a relatively minute subset of possible web page designs, the Wikipeditor can be forked from an existing free HTML editor like Mozilla Composer.
Just my lazy weekend thoughts ...
Maybe Microsoft is adapting the old "First they laugh at you" strategy. Say Windows 8 fails or fails to succeed on the scale of 7. But by the time 9 comes out, people would have been so used to The Metro interface that they'll just sigh and accept it for what it is, a dumbed down desktop UI for the smartphone generation.
Win7 didn't introduce any great UI changes from Vista. Win9 is likely going to be an enhanced version of 8.
I suspect it's also a pun on Apple (Raspberry) and its line of i-Devices (Pi rhymes with i).
Most of the science-fiction movies and anime I've watched show humans living in space as though it were simply an extremophile version of Earth. The space children of the future might wear space suits when they go to school but are otherwise no different from the astronauts of today. To me, this depiction of ordinary carbon-based humans living in space seems to belong to the same quaint category as the flying car and Star Wars.
Instead of thinking up some grandiose terraforming scheme or building gigantic space stations, wouldn't it be more practical simply to let information technology progress first to the point where we can copy our minds to artificial bodies that can survive in space without the need for artificial gravity, thick radiation shielding, or cold sleep?
Maybe not elitism in itself, but focus. Other examples: science journals making a profit from paywalls, where general newspapers fail; Vi(m) continuing to flourish despite an interface more unfriendly that a word processor from the DOS era; the Soyuz outlasting the more technologically advanced Space Shuttle.
If there's a lesson to be learned, it's that if you can't be the biggest brontosaurus in the jungle (a big web site), become a bird or a small but agile furry little creature (a focused web site).