It worked just because of the way it would run a jpeg viewer. The MIME type instructs kmail that windows executables are supposed to be executed using the "wine" executable (e.g. wine sol.exe). So KMail isn't executing the program, it's executing a "viewer" that "views" (runs) Windows executables. The fact that this opens up a huge security hole just shows how careful you have to be.
The problem that KDE people have is not that Redhat is theming KDE to look like Gnome, but rather that they have also removed the "About KDE" menu item from KDE which displays copyright information and info on KDE from the KDE programs.
There's a very real possibility that this is against the LGPL that kdelibs uses due to this clause:
You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Library's complete source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and distribute a copy of this License along with the Library.
Actually it'll be very easy to defeat not because of flaws in the system - but because 99.9% of the idiots who use computers will never install spam filtering of this kind. The Clued up computers users who would install this kind of thing are not the type of people who would respond to spam anyway - so it doesn't affect spammers at all.
Screw you. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's assholes who drive with a McDonald's shake held in their crotch, shouting at thier kids, getting licked in the face by thir dogs, writing on a little note pad that's suction-cupped to the windshield, smoking cigarettes, and adjusting thier hair & make-up in the center rear-view mirror, who then feel it is their job to tell you not to ever, ever, ever talk on a mobile phone while driving.
I would expect CNN to at least comment on the past history of the company. There is the possibility that Hop-On pulled a fast one with the FCC you know. An informed journalist might be a little more skeptical of their claims.
You expect modern American news outlets to be something more than a outlet for reworded press releases?
Typically, I use webcasted music to be exposed to new bands and genres, and I don't see how the music industry could be opposed to that. Sheesh.
Because at the moment webcasting represents a level playing field in terms of what gets played. This means that the big record companies (lets face it the RIAA are not looking after the interests of small indie labels - only the Sonys of this world) can't control what you listen to.
The result is: You start buying stuff from small labels intent on quality and rewarding the artists. Sales on major labels go down. Anarchy and/or Communism ensues.
Back in the golden age of Construction set games - the 80s (I remember fondly The Quill, The Graphic Adventure Creator, HURG and The Shoot-em-up Construction Set) computer users were a different breed. Most people who bought computers first started doing funny things like "Learning BASIC" and programming the computer. That's how computers worked - and why you bought them, they were a hobbyist activity. So it's not surprising that the sort of computer owner who dabbles in BASIC (but is not a hardcore programmer) would like these sorts of creative games.
These days computers are pretty much an appliance like a fridge or TV to most people. Email arrives, they look at porn by clicking an icon, they accept whatever Mr Gates feeds them. It's not surprising that the creative aspect of gaming has all but been lost.
Recent exceptions to this rule I can remember is "RPG Maker" for the Playstation - and I think there's a sequel coming for the PS2. Neverwinter Nights also has a nice campaign builder utility.
I'll see what you are doing, and sell my lemonade for $0.50, which is less than it takes for you to make lemonade. For you to compete is for you to lose money. I can afford it, because I have capital sitting in a bank account. You go out of business, and I raise my price back to $5.
This is what MS is doing!
And this is why they will utimately fail against Linux. Because no matter what they do, because Linux is not owned by a particular company, because it's free and GPL'd, it will always be there as a competitor. This is what scares MS the most - they can't buy out Linux or bankrupt it.
If phone companies would charge a reasonable per minute charge for cell phones then this would be fine. I make 1000+ minutes calls on my cell phone a month and my plan charges $40 a month (which I've never gone over). At the per minute rate 1000 minutes would cost me $450. (45c a call). Most of these calls are long distance - which most companies would charge 10c a minutre for - hence $100 a month. All in all I think I'm getting a reasonable deal.
Paying for telemarketers to call you makes no sense at all.
I agree - but I've never recieved a telemarketing call on my cell phone.
I didn't even imagine received calls were charged in US, a alleged liberal country.
It's got nothing to do with being liberal!
In the US cell phones have local numbers - so if my friend down the road calls me on my cell phone he doesn't get charged but I do. In the UK (and France I'll bet) - my friend would get charged a premium fee to call my cell phone from his landline.
I personally like the US system. One reason is that mother (in the UK) can call me on cell phone and it doesn't cost her any more than calling a land line. Hence I can get rid of my land line all together.
The deals on cell phones here are much better in terms of the number of minutes you get included in a cell phone. I don't know anyone who actually pays a per minute charge for their calls - everyone just gets the minute plan that suits them and pretty much always finish the month under their limit. It works out much cheaper that way.
I'd be willing to bet that the average UK cell phone user has a higher bill than the average US cell phone user.
1. Article about Andover IPO 2. Slashdot.net domain placeholder/squatter 3. USGS article detailing the Slashdot effect on it's web site.
...and so on. Slashdot itself isn't even in the top 10. Unscientific I know - but the reason I use Google is that the most relevant like is almost always the top one (and certainly in the top 10).
Back in the early nineties I used to work in a now non-existant bookstore, that had the task of compiling the list of bestsellers for the local newspaper. The bestseller list was compiled in order using the following rules:
1. The number of copies we had of the book in stock (not the number sold). This true for fiction only - our best selling books were always stuff like "Introductory Accounting Book 1" - which we never bothered listing. Sci-fi was not exempt - we had a hardcore Scifi customer base - although we weren't a genre bookstore.
2. If the book was selling poorly it was placed higher in the list to try to boost sales!
3. Some random book that the manageress liked would be in the top ten regardless of sales (in many cases we didn't have any copies of it - embarrassing).
At least these where the rules as far as I could figure them! Scientific huh?
In countries that don't have national ID cards (e.g. the UK) most people would consider being forced to show ID to be a huge invasion of civil rights and privacy.
It took me a while to stop being pissed off every time someone asked me for ID after moving to the US, but eventually I got used to it. I suspect that most people will get used to the fact that they no longer have any privacy in the modern age also.
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It worked just because of the way it would run a jpeg viewer. The MIME type instructs kmail that windows executables are supposed to be executed using the "wine" executable (e.g. wine sol.exe). So KMail isn't executing the program, it's executing a "viewer" that "views" (runs) Windows executables. The fact that this opens up a huge security hole just shows how careful you have to be.
There's a very real possibility that this is against the LGPL that kdelibs uses due to this clause:
You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Library's complete source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and distribute a copy of this License along with the Library.
Doesn't seem to stop Slashdot from continually posting links to the New York Times.
Actually it'll be very easy to defeat not because of flaws in the system - but because 99.9% of the idiots who use computers will never install spam filtering of this kind. The Clued up computers users who would install this kind of thing are not the type of people who would respond to spam anyway - so it doesn't affect spammers at all.
Screw you. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's assholes who drive with a McDonald's shake held in their crotch, shouting at thier kids, getting licked in the face by thir dogs, writing on a little note pad that's suction-cupped to the windshield, smoking cigarettes, and adjusting thier hair & make-up in the center rear-view mirror, who then feel it is their job to tell you not to ever, ever, ever talk on a mobile phone while driving.
No: Screw You.
Stop talking on your mobile phone while you're driving through residential neighbourhoods!
Racial stereotyping humour gets modded up to 5 on Slashdot now does it?
I would expect CNN to at least comment on the past history of the company. There is the possibility that Hop-On pulled a fast one with the FCC you know. An informed journalist might be a little more skeptical of their claims.
You expect modern American news outlets to be something more than a outlet for reworded press releases?
How could CNN print this crap without checking into the history of this company?
Perhaps because the Hop-on phone just recieved FCC approval and therefore must now exist as a working product?
NAME: Linus Torvalds
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Linux
"Sorry Son - you're going to have to have a better resume than that if you want to work at Microsoft."
Typically, I use webcasted music to be exposed to new bands and genres, and I don't see how the music industry could be opposed to that. Sheesh.
Because at the moment webcasting represents a level playing field in terms of what gets played. This means that the big record companies (lets face it the RIAA are not looking after the interests of small indie labels - only the Sonys of this world) can't control what you listen to.
The result is: You start buying stuff from small labels intent on quality and rewarding the artists. Sales on major labels go down. Anarchy and/or Communism ensues.
Back in the golden age of Construction set games - the 80s (I remember fondly The Quill, The Graphic Adventure Creator, HURG and The Shoot-em-up Construction Set) computer users were a different breed. Most people who bought computers first started doing funny things like "Learning BASIC" and programming the computer. That's how computers worked - and why you bought them, they were a hobbyist activity. So it's not surprising that the sort of computer owner who dabbles in BASIC (but is not a hardcore programmer) would like these sorts of creative games.
These days computers are pretty much an appliance like a fridge or TV to most people. Email arrives, they look at porn by clicking an icon, they accept whatever Mr Gates feeds them. It's not surprising that the creative aspect of gaming has all but been lost.
Recent exceptions to this rule I can remember is "RPG Maker" for the Playstation - and I think there's a sequel coming for the PS2. Neverwinter Nights also has a nice campaign builder utility.
I'll see what you are doing, and sell my lemonade for $0.50, which is less than it takes for you to make lemonade. For you to compete is for you to lose money. I can afford it, because I have capital sitting in a bank account. You go out of business, and I raise my price back to $5.
This is what MS is doing!
And this is why they will utimately fail against Linux. Because no matter what they do, because Linux is not owned by a particular company, because it's free and GPL'd, it will always be there as a competitor. This is what scares MS the most - they can't buy out Linux or bankrupt it.
Paying for what you use makes sense.
If phone companies would charge a reasonable per minute charge for cell phones then this would be fine. I make 1000+ minutes calls on my cell phone a month and my plan charges $40 a month (which I've never gone over). At the per minute rate 1000 minutes would cost me $450. (45c a call). Most of these calls are long distance - which most companies would charge 10c a minutre for - hence $100 a month. All in all I think I'm getting a reasonable deal.
Paying for telemarketers to call you makes no sense at all.
I agree - but I've never recieved a telemarketing call on my cell phone.
Heterosexual guys do not need more per month. so.. are you gay, or are you a chick?
Neither - I but I spend more than 40 minutes a month saying the words: "Coming down the pub?".
I didn't even imagine received calls were charged in US, a alleged liberal country.
It's got nothing to do with being liberal!
In the US cell phones have local numbers - so if my friend down the road calls me on my cell phone he doesn't get charged but I do. In the UK (and France I'll bet) - my friend would get charged a premium fee to call my cell phone from his landline.
I personally like the US system. One reason is that mother (in the UK) can call me on cell phone and it doesn't cost her any more than calling a land line. Hence I can get rid of my land line all together.
The deals on cell phones here are much better in terms of the number of minutes you get included in a cell phone. I don't know anyone who actually pays a per minute charge for their calls - everyone just gets the minute plan that suits them and pretty much always finish the month under their limit. It works out much cheaper that way.
I'd be willing to bet that the average UK cell phone user has a higher bill than the average US cell phone user.
Type "Slashdot" Into Teoma, here's what I got:
1. Article about Andover IPO
2. Slashdot.net domain placeholder/squatter
3. USGS article detailing the Slashdot effect on it's web site.
...and so on. Slashdot itself isn't even in the top 10. Unscientific I know - but the reason I use Google is that the most relevant like is almost always the top one (and certainly in the top 10).
...is that the latest Moby album simply isn't very good.
Back in the early nineties I used to work in a now non-existant bookstore, that had the task of compiling the list of bestsellers for the local newspaper. The bestseller list was compiled in order using the following rules:
1. The number of copies we had of the book in stock (not the number sold). This true for fiction only - our best selling books were always stuff like "Introductory Accounting Book 1" - which we never bothered listing. Sci-fi was not exempt - we had a hardcore Scifi customer base - although we weren't a genre bookstore.
2. If the book was selling poorly it was placed higher in the list to try to boost sales!
3. Some random book that the manageress liked would be in the top ten regardless of sales (in many cases we didn't have any copies of it - embarrassing).
At least these where the rules as far as I could figure them! Scientific huh?
"It seems that there's a growing movement that doubts the existence of black holes..."
Made up of scientists who have forgetten the principal of Occam's Razor...
Wow with the PS? going 1000x faster that would reduce the actual interactive playing time of a Final Fantasy game for it to only a few seconds! Great!
In countries that don't have national ID cards (e.g. the UK) most people would consider being forced to show ID to be a huge invasion of civil rights and privacy.
It took me a while to stop being pissed off every time someone asked me for ID after moving to the US, but eventually I got used to it. I suspect that most people will get used to the fact that they no longer have any privacy in the modern age also.
You live in a 3rd world neofascist shit hole.
I live in California - is that what you mean?
OK. OED says for Squash: "To Quash" (3rd definition down). Can't give a link because it's a pay only site.
Still us English speakers (as opposed to American English) would always use "Quash" as it's meaning is unambigous.
Why is it that Americans/Slashdotters keep saying "Squash" when what they really mean is "Quash"?