Thanks, I hadn't heard of flash cookies. Maybe I'm the last one to know. It appears that Firefox needs a new option to manage these things.
I also noticed that Firefox has made cookie management a little harder as well. You used to be able to set the number of days to keep cookies in Edit: Preferences: Privacy, but now it looks like you have to go to about:config and modify network.cookie.lifetime.days.
[Tom] Robertson, [Microsoft's general manager for interoperability and standards], defended the Office Open XML format and predicted its eventual adoption by standards organizations.
"Open XML is already widely available and is being used by Apple and Novell," he said. "It is in the Palm operating system, and in the Java and Linux operating environments. Not only is it easy to work with, there are no intellectual property concerns to do so."
Is this stuff true? I suppose an essential part of corruption is to justify your decisions with lies.
It looks like Microsoft has decided to follow a scorched-earth policy on standards. Do anything to get the "standards" you want, even if you make a mockery of the standards process and soil the reputation of the standards organizations along the way.
It does so by issuing a command to the NDIS device driver... [to] pass along, at most 10 packets per millisecond (10,000 packets per second)... [T]he networking team is actively working with the MMCSS team on a fix that allows for not so dramatically penalizing network traffic, while still delivering a glitch-resistant experience.
In the interest of getting a fix out quickly, I have carefully considered the problem and suggest changing 10 to 11 or maybe 12.
The number of people who are clueless to the point of being unaware of their cluelessness is staggering.
Funny, but all too true. However, another year or two in college probably won't help given that 15+ years haven't helped yet.
If you've got a year left, and are confident that you actually are on top of things, then knock your last year out with straight As and by being the top student in every class.
This is good advice. Graduate schools typically figure the GPA on the last 60 hours or so. However, this doesn't work if your last year is filled with easy-A courses, which I see very often on foreign applicants.
These patent agreements with MS are the equivalent of George Bush's infamous "Bring them on!". It would have been a slow migration from GPL2 to GPL3 with significant holdouts (e.g., Torvalds) and significant confusion. Now I think it will move en masse.
5. Work. Actually do the recommended reading (it's their for a reason) and the exercises. To get most of of your degree you should be doing at least 40 hours a week (including lectures, labs, etc.), less than 20 is poor and you will find the later years harder beacuse of it. Time invested in getting the foundations solid is never wasted.
Yes, if you actually do the reading, you'll already be ahead of 90% of the other students.
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Here is the ACLU press release on the district court ruling from September.
Maybe it is enhanced government fees.
If that wasn't an overreaction to fear, what was?
I suppose we need the repetition though.
Amen to the "no moron left behind". This puts the focus of education on the 10th percentile, with no incentive on the 90th.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of flash cookies. Maybe I'm the last one to know. It appears that Firefox needs a new option to manage these things.
I also noticed that Firefox has made cookie management a little harder as well. You used to be able to set the number of days to keep cookies in Edit: Preferences: Privacy, but now it looks like you have to go to about:config and modify network.cookie.lifetime.days.
Because we have a unitary executive, I've corrected that for you.
Congressional law doesn't apply in Australia. Or anywhere else in the USA. Just thought I'd remind you.
It looks like Microsoft has decided to follow a scorched-earth policy on standards. Do anything to get the "standards" you want, even if you make a mockery of the standards process and soil the reputation of the standards organizations along the way.
It does so by issuing a command to the NDIS device driver... [to] pass along, at most 10 packets per millisecond (10,000 packets per second)... [T]he networking team is actively working with the MMCSS team on a fix that allows for not so dramatically penalizing network traffic, while still delivering a glitch-resistant experience.
In the interest of getting a fix out quickly, I have carefully considered the problem and suggest changing 10 to 11 or maybe 12.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
These patent agreements with MS are the equivalent of George Bush's infamous "Bring them on!". It would have been a slow migration from GPL2 to GPL3 with significant holdouts (e.g., Torvalds) and significant confusion. Now I think it will move en masse.
This article provides some more information on this story: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4 766843.html
There's no mention of how they are going to deal with crime, violence, etc.
Mod the parent up.
This is more about money from the "mafiaa" than effective policy.
We need to make bad creditors pay for identity theft. It is their lax identification/authentication procedures that cause much of the problem.
1) Make creditors pay you triple damages when your identity is stolen.
2) Put an upper limit on interest rates so that creditors can't gouge the honest debtors to pay for the dishonest ones.
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WEP or WPA?
This blog http://redtape.msnbc.com/ claims that criminal gangs are using millions of hijacked computers for spam and denial-of-service extortion.
Where's the paper clip that you stick in the tiny little hole to get the damn floppy out?
How do you get rid of that awful thing?