Well there was never any reason to capitalize "net" for the simple fact that it is really 'net which is a shortened version of "Internet". I consider the Internet a specific place and thus deserving of capitalization.
Bzzt. 'Net' is not 'really 'net'. For two reasons: Firstly, it doesn't get an apostrophe. Words like 'can't' or 'I'd' get apostrophes by virtue of their class. Apostrophes belong mostly in so-called closed-class grammatical words (can't) or before clitics (-'d, -'s).
Secondly, ' is an opening single quote. If you are going to use curly quotes (which is appreciated when done correctly), the apostrophe is always ', regardless of whether there is zero, one, or fifty-bajillion letters before it.
This was posted on the Internet; it is therefore correct.
... Microsoft researchers do some decent research. Not all Slashdotters are anti-Microsoft just because they can be; a lot of us don't actually like their business practices or their released software or similar.
He doesn't just buy that theory. He sells that theory wholesale. In fact, he manufactures that theory from raw materials. I think he's just gone to advocating Python because most people don't like Lisp anymore.
Too many people already fail to understand that the system is a social contract, and the terms of that contract are negotiable by the people-- not dictated by the corporations.
Hah! I'll believe it when I see it. The corporations are all that matter, because the corporations are the ones with the money...
If SCO was right, I suspect we'd most of us actually be using FreeBSD or some other operating system (unless SCO's IP could be taken out of Linux with minimum fuss). I sure as hell won't be supporting proprietry software today...
Hmm... I wouldn't rule it out. People do all sorts of silly things... (Patriotism &c. Of course, the American system should teach people that it is patriotic to have a healthy disrespect for authority, government leaders etc... Democracy and vigilance and however that saying goes.)
Have fun being blown up! Remember: Revolutions are only going to work when the participants are equally matched. When they're not, a pacifist approach will be at least as effective, and probably safer. Even when they're bearing guns.
(a) Either Australia is not a republic, or I do not know what you mean by republic. The most obvious thing Oz and the US have in common is that we're both representational democracies.
(b) In the case of the FTA, a lot of people have been against it. For instance, media producers have been against it, because it prevents any increases in local content laws, so as analog free-to-air television becomes less and less important, so too will Australian television producers. Almost every day there's a letter or opinionative article in the Age (a left-of-the-Liberal-(right-wing)-government newspaper) pointing out how the Australian accents, already too infrequently heard on television, will be heard less and less as time goes by both by laity like me who know nothing about the topic, and by producers of local media who might know a bit more.
The Liberal Party was representing its interests, not Australia's, not the Australian poeple's.
Mozilla lives and breathes because Microsoft does exactly the same. People don't feel safe running Microsoft software, because they aren't told of security vulnerabilities. So why should we be using Mozilla software?
Recently, I have decided to boycott all Mozilla software. Instead of using Galeon, I'm now using Konqueror (but it doesn't seem to have nearly as good a UI). I'm currently using Evolution, but the distance between Moz Mail/Thunderbird and the UI of it's nearest competitor is a lot bigger than the difference between Galeon and Konq...
I won't be using any Mozilla software will they decide to end their 'security' through obscurity campaign and give us a formal apology/promise never to do it again. (I'm not going to be monitoring Mozilla's servers, so I'll be relying on word-of-mouth for this.)
There is an expert mode, and it's called Gconf. I think there's also a program called gTweakUI that some people are writing for a more intuitive interface to Gconf, and to make people think it's a little less scary that Windows' registry.
disclaimer: I don't use Gnome. I prefer ROX. I'm currently trying to convince myself to use Konqueror because I don't like Mozilla (the organisation)'s policies regarding spoofing exploits, but having the expert interface exposed at every step of the way is like needing a screwdriver to change gears.
Umm... as far as I'm concerned, if normal users will get confused and abused by it (and if normal users used Firefox, they would by this), it's an exploit (well, not entirely true, use your brain to understand what I mean, not find exceptions).
Secondly, all exploits can be fixed. A webpage has no reason to look/behave like a browser, so it should not. It should not have the ability to.
Thirdly, not everyone knows how to fix the exploit. Because blackhats now know how to abuse it, it must and will be fixed. The Mozilla developers can't use the excuse of not having had sufficient warning; by now any excuse for not having corrected the problem has been exhausted and it was most appropriate to release this.
FOSS is not exempt from the same considerations of commercial software. Knowing that this was marked 'confidential' scares me. Aren't we the very group of people who have been cursing propriatory software makers from abusing security through obscurity?
Well, this hasn't stopped me using Firefox. The utterly appalling interface on Linux has stopped me using Firefox. I gave it a try when it was new, but went crying back to Galeon, something that actually tries to make an effort to look good amongst other GTK+ 2 programs. I'm unlikely to pick up using it until this has been fixed, though!
Umm... yeah, but you realise that after you're dead, there may well be other people alive? Even if everyone in America dies, people might still survive in Africa or Australia. Maybe not nearly as civilised as we are today, but in the next few thousand years, they might want to catch up on the knowledge they've lost.
I've got a better idea, used by millions of democracies around the world. Here's a pen, here's a piece of paper. Tick/number/whatever the boxes. At the end of the day, round up your counters and your scrutineers and count the damn things.
While Microsoft are writing for Linux, why not Internet Explorer for Linux? They can intergrate it into the kernel and we can get all the benefits of Windows!
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A baby less than six months can distinguish *way* more sounds of human speech than you can (assuming you haven't been trained).
Which makes a 6 mo baby smarter than you.
Well there was never any reason to capitalize "net" for the simple fact that it is really 'net which is a shortened version of "Internet". I consider the Internet a specific place and thus deserving of capitalization.
Bzzt. 'Net' is not 'really 'net'. For two reasons: Firstly, it doesn't get an apostrophe. Words like 'can't' or 'I'd' get apostrophes by virtue of their class. Apostrophes belong mostly in so-called closed-class grammatical words (can't) or before clitics (-'d, -'s).
Secondly, ' is an opening single quote. If you are going to use curly quotes (which is appreciated when done correctly), the apostrophe is always ', regardless of whether there is zero, one, or fifty-bajillion letters before it.
This was posted on the Internet; it is therefore correct.
... Microsoft researchers do some decent research. Not all Slashdotters are anti-Microsoft just because they can be; a lot of us don't actually like their business practices or their released software or similar.
He doesn't just buy that theory. He sells that theory wholesale. In fact, he manufactures that theory from raw materials. I think he's just gone to advocating Python because most people don't like Lisp anymore.
You elect your sheriffs? Is there any public position in America that isn't elected?
Ten degrees what? (I'm interested... and there's a fair difference between ten degrees Celsius and ten degrees Fahrenheit.)
G4 or G5?
Nearly?
Too many people already fail to understand that the system is a social contract, and the terms of that contract are negotiable by the people-- not dictated by the corporations.
Hah! I'll believe it when I see it. The corporations are all that matter, because the corporations are the ones with the money...
If SCO was right, I suspect we'd most of us actually be using FreeBSD or some other operating system (unless SCO's IP could be taken out of Linux with minimum fuss). I sure as hell won't be supporting proprietry software today...
Hmm... I wouldn't rule it out. People do all sorts of silly things... (Patriotism &c. Of course, the American system should teach people that it is patriotic to have a healthy disrespect for authority, government leaders etc... Democracy and vigilance and however that saying goes.)
I'd be pessimistic, even in America where people can have guns...
Have fun being blown up! Remember: Revolutions are only going to work when the participants are equally matched. When they're not, a pacifist approach will be at least as effective, and probably safer. Even when they're bearing guns.
But in general, I agree with you.
(a) Either Australia is not a republic, or I do not know what you mean by republic. The most obvious thing Oz and the US have in common is that we're both representational democracies.
(b) In the case of the FTA, a lot of people have been against it. For instance, media producers have been against it, because it prevents any increases in local content laws, so as analog free-to-air television becomes less and less important, so too will Australian television producers. Almost every day there's a letter or opinionative article in the Age (a left-of-the-Liberal-(right-wing)-government newspaper) pointing out how the Australian accents, already too infrequently heard on television, will be heard less and less as time goes by both by laity like me who know nothing about the topic, and by producers of local media who might know a bit more.
The Liberal Party was representing its interests, not Australia's, not the Australian poeple's.
Mozilla lives and breathes because Microsoft does exactly the same. People don't feel safe running Microsoft software, because they aren't told of security vulnerabilities. So why should we be using Mozilla software?
Recently, I have decided to boycott all Mozilla software. Instead of using Galeon, I'm now using Konqueror (but it doesn't seem to have nearly as good a UI). I'm currently using Evolution, but the distance between Moz Mail/Thunderbird and the UI of it's nearest competitor is a lot bigger than the difference between Galeon and Konq...
I won't be using any Mozilla software will they decide to end their 'security' through obscurity campaign and give us a formal apology/promise never to do it again. (I'm not going to be monitoring Mozilla's servers, so I'll be relying on word-of-mouth for this.)
It's actually quite good. Or at least, what I experienced of it on cable was. A helluvalot better than the crap ADSL I'm putting up with now (AINS).
There is an expert mode, and it's called Gconf. I think there's also a program called gTweakUI that some people are writing for a more intuitive interface to Gconf, and to make people think it's a little less scary that Windows' registry.
disclaimer: I don't use Gnome. I prefer ROX. I'm currently trying to convince myself to use Konqueror because I don't like Mozilla (the organisation)'s policies regarding spoofing exploits, but having the expert interface exposed at every step of the way is like needing a screwdriver to change gears.
Umm... as far as I'm concerned, if normal users will get confused and abused by it (and if normal users used Firefox, they would by this), it's an exploit (well, not entirely true, use your brain to understand what I mean, not find exceptions).
Secondly, all exploits can be fixed. A webpage has no reason to look/behave like a browser, so it should not. It should not have the ability to.
Thirdly, not everyone knows how to fix the exploit. Because blackhats now know how to abuse it, it must and will be fixed. The Mozilla developers can't use the excuse of not having had sufficient warning; by now any excuse for not having corrected the problem has been exhausted and it was most appropriate to release this.
FOSS is not exempt from the same considerations of commercial software. Knowing that this was marked 'confidential' scares me. Aren't we the very group of people who have been cursing propriatory software makers from abusing security through obscurity?
Well, this hasn't stopped me using Firefox. The utterly appalling interface on Linux has stopped me using Firefox. I gave it a try when it was new, but went crying back to Galeon, something that actually tries to make an effort to look good amongst other GTK+ 2 programs. I'm unlikely to pick up using it until this has been fixed, though!
Well, as a consumer, what difference does it make whether I'm running an x86-64 running Linux/Windows or a G5 running Linux/Windows?
A kid using Lisp and C++ considers someone old for using Haskell? I think you broken your chronology.
Umm... yeah, but you realise that after you're dead, there may well be other people alive? Even if everyone in America dies, people might still survive in Africa or Australia. Maybe not nearly as civilised as we are today, but in the next few thousand years, they might want to catch up on the knowledge they've lost.
I've got a better idea, used by millions of democracies around the world. Here's a pen, here's a piece of paper. Tick/number/whatever the boxes. At the end of the day, round up your counters and your scrutineers and count the damn things.
While Microsoft are writing for Linux, why not Internet Explorer for Linux? They can intergrate it into the kernel and we can get all the benefits of Windows!
"While having sex (with partner)" : 0
Hey! I resent these stereotypes! I've tried reading slashdot while having sex (with partner), but it's awfully difficult.
I'm yet to find a partner...