If you don't want people using your network, require authentication. This doesn't protect you from a genuine "intrusion attempt" at all, and will stomp on the community wireless networks around you. I operate open access points at home and at work. Both my employer and my ISP (speakeasy.net) approve. I would be mightily pissed off if some asshole decided to fill the local SSID space with noise just to obfuscate his insecure network instead of closing it properly.
Linux will not automatically detect which swap is faster, but you can set the "prio" option in/etc/fstab or whatever script runs swapon to set the priorities at which swap will be used.
The natural way to go from there, though, is a cloak that doesn't have "sides": the photoreceptors and photoemitters are mixed all over the surface. That way the light from one side would come out the other side, and there'd be no shadow. (It doesn't look like they're doing it this way yet.)
- Have the FSF or someone maintain the canonical blacklist, with some kind of charter or bylaws to prevent abuse. There is only *one* way to be added to the blacklist.
This places control of whether or not I have a license to the software in the hands of an external party. The "charter or bylaws" of which you speak do not change that fact. I would not agree to this license, and I don't believe the existing standards for free licensing would consider it free: the blacklist is not an objective, non-discriminatory condition based only on the user's own behavior, but rather a condition that involves a third party's decisions.
I've always found cheddar Pizza to be delicious. Maybe it's because I tend to put lots of other stuff on the pizza and use the cheese more as a garnish than as the bulk of the food. Then again, maybe I'm just a pervert: I like blue cheese on pizza too. Hell, just put me down for "cheese on pizza" as a general rule.
The blacklist amounts to an arbitrary tool for enforcing the author's whims. This would be among the least free software licenses in existence.
If you replace the blacklist with a clause that says "you grant a non-exclusive license for all your patents to all users of and contributors to this software and its derivative works", you're still basically giving up your rights to any and all patents to all comers.
If you restrict the above clause to patents infringed by the software itself, that's not so bad, but you'll still have the problem that only companies that wish to use the software will be affected: Linux has an anti-patent clause in its license? Use NetBSD instead! (Don't kid yourself: I'm a Linux fan, but it's not that much better. And if you're a big enough corporation to sue people for patent infringement much, you're big enough to add whatever Linux-like features you need to some other kernel.)
Their old mail setup evidently invited confusion: as postmaster for an unrelated but similar-looking domain, I got double bounces for a lot of their internal mail that had been mistakenly sent both "to" and "from" my domain. I promptly notified their postmaster, of course, but I still got bursts of misaddressed mail from them on and off for months. I'm glad they're making better software choices now, but it's certainly amusing to hear about it here.
An ID number that is used everywhere is very easy for bad people to find out. If it is used as an authentication method, it allows identity theft. Unfortunately, the SSN is both used everywhere and used as an authentication method, which makes identity theft easy unless you very closely guard your SSN (and sometimes even then, if you live in the wrong state). It would take a lot to convince me that some other ID number would not go down the same road.
For one thing, you can directly address all the bytes on a hard disk partition, so you can map them all into virtual memory. (This is how the Hurd filesystem code works, which is why it doesn't cope with >1GB filesystems on 32-bit machines, which is all it runs on right now...)
Rebecca Ore's novel Outlaw School deals with a future in which this sort of thing is the case. (The blurb doesn't mention software modification as such, but the book does.) It's a credible and scary vision of the near future if this sort of thing goes on.
HTML is supposed to be flexible. It's a tradeoff: like anything else on the internet, it lets you do all kinds of stupid shit as well as the right thing.
This is all in the domain of semantics (e.g., "OK, run this JavaScript at this time" [and that JavaScript sucks]) rather than syntax (e.g., not closing tags [which makes the browser guess what the tags enclose]), which I don't really see as being in the scope of this article. This article is complaining about people who talking like George Bush (with poor grammar, so it's not even clear which words he's trying to relate to which) rather than people talking like Dan Quayle (with poor diction, as in "... the importance of bondage between mother and child...").
It's not the 3% who hit your pages now that you should worry about losing, it's the unknown number who are not hitting your pages at all anymore because they know they're broken. "Do the math."
The things you're complaining about are not things the standards people have control over.
The HTML spec doesn't know anything about JavaScript (which creates popups, resizes windows, nags you about the Flash plugin, and so on) other than creating a general-purpose way for people to embed scripts in their pages.
The "whole page" is made up of the HTML page itself and, usually, various images that are embedded in it with IMG tags. It's up to the web designer, not the standards people, where to get those images. The HTTP standard definitely lets you get the whole page in one connection if the designer has put all the images on the same server.
The standards do demand a text description for every image. People just don't do it.
The standards are reasonably easy to read. I suggest you have a look at their web site and learn more about it. The people who think about these things understand these issues, and do the right thing, but the people who don't want to think just ignore them. That's the whole point of this article.
You are quite mistaken about the coasts. I live in Providence, RI, and commute to Cambridge, MA. DVD is still a minority of the shelf space in all the video stores I visit. (It's certainly a much larger minority than it was even a year ago, though.)
There's a significant bug right at the bottom: stuff that should be assigned to Term2 is being assigned to Term1, so the first regular expression will match the wrong stuff and the second regular expression will either fail to match or match everything, depending on what "new Regexp" gives you. (This is the first VBScript I've ever read, so I don't know what non-obvious stuff does.) Furrfu. If you aren't catching blatant stuff like that, how are you going to notice if it, say, kills your dog, burns your house down, and emails all your files to identity thieves in Bolivia?
If you don't care about incoming connections,
total speed, or keeping connections open, you can
just switch IP addresses as needed. Otherwise,
you have to have the same IP address on both
interfaces, which requires your ISPs to cooperate,
which won't happen unless you're paying for a
"real" connection. (And if everybody did it, the
global routing table would be intolerably huge,
because the current routing strategy scales
poorly.) Google for BGP as a start.
OS X, by default, lacks some important things (X, (graphical) Emacs, and APT, for starters) that Debian has. In the past few months, there have just started to be fairly usable approximations of these things. Debian still has a better selection of packages.
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If you don't want people using your network, require authentication. This doesn't protect you from a genuine "intrusion attempt" at all, and will stomp on the community wireless networks around you. I operate open access points at home and at work. Both my employer and my ISP (speakeasy.net) approve. I would be mightily pissed off if some asshole decided to fill the local SSID space with noise just to obfuscate his insecure network instead of closing it properly.
Linux will not automatically detect which swap is faster, but you can set the "prio" option in /etc/fstab or whatever script runs swapon to set the priorities at which swap will be used.
The natural way to go from there, though, is a cloak that doesn't have "sides": the photoreceptors and photoemitters are mixed all over the surface. That way the light from one side would come out the other side, and there'd be no shadow. (It doesn't look like they're doing it this way yet.)
Bah. Foucault's Pendulum is just a pretentious remake of Illuminatus! .
This places control of whether or not I have a license to the software in the hands of an external party. The "charter or bylaws" of which you speak do not change that fact. I would not agree to this license, and I don't believe the existing standards for free licensing would consider it free: the blacklist is not an objective, non-discriminatory condition based only on the user's own behavior, but rather a condition that involves a third party's decisions.
I could believe that. I know some other companies do it that way. If it were true, I would laugh at the monumental stupidity of it.
I've always found cheddar Pizza to be delicious. Maybe it's because I tend to put lots of other stuff on the pizza and use the cheese more as a garnish than as the bulk of the food. Then again, maybe I'm just a pervert: I like blue cheese on pizza too. Hell, just put me down for "cheese on pizza" as a general rule.
Their old mail setup evidently invited confusion: as postmaster for an unrelated but similar-looking domain, I got double bounces for a lot of their internal mail that had been mistakenly sent both "to" and "from" my domain. I promptly notified their postmaster, of course, but I still got bursts of misaddressed mail from them on and off for months. I'm glad they're making better software choices now, but it's certainly amusing to hear about it here.
Tampa... Lotus Notes... rings a bell. Is this the group whose subdomain is made of the letters B, D, and I in that order?
An ID number that is used everywhere is very easy for bad people to find out. If it is used as an authentication method, it allows identity theft. Unfortunately, the SSN is both used everywhere and used as an authentication method, which makes identity theft easy unless you very closely guard your SSN (and sometimes even then, if you live in the wrong state). It would take a lot to convince me that some other ID number would not go down the same road.
Microsoft owns the copyright on the software. It doesn't need to license it to itself.
For one thing, you can directly address all the bytes on a hard disk partition, so you can map them all into virtual memory. (This is how the Hurd filesystem code works, which is why it doesn't cope with >1GB filesystems on 32-bit machines, which is all it runs on right now...)
Rebecca Ore's novel Outlaw School deals with a future in which this sort of thing is the case. (The blurb doesn't mention software modification as such, but the book does.) It's a credible and scary vision of the near future if this sort of thing goes on.
"Coins" is plural. It would take me several seconds to sort several different coins into piles.
Of course not. Am I my mother's keeper? I doubt she thinks so. She'd be flattered, keep it quiet, or sue, according to her taste.
HTML is supposed to be flexible. It's a tradeoff: like anything else on the internet, it lets you do all kinds of stupid shit as well as the right thing.
This is all in the domain of semantics (e.g., "OK, run this JavaScript at this time" [and that JavaScript sucks]) rather than syntax (e.g., not closing tags [which makes the browser guess what the tags enclose]), which I don't really see as being in the scope of this article. This article is complaining about people who talking like George Bush (with poor grammar, so it's not even clear which words he's trying to relate to which) rather than people talking like Dan Quayle (with poor diction, as in "... the importance of bondage between mother and child ...").
It's not the 3% who hit your pages now that you should worry about losing, it's the unknown number who are not hitting your pages at all anymore because they know they're broken. "Do the math."
The things you're complaining about are not things the standards people have control over.
The standards are reasonably easy to read. I suggest you have a look at their web site and learn more about it. The people who think about these things understand these issues, and do the right thing, but the people who don't want to think just ignore them. That's the whole point of this article.
It's not the FSF you want to talk to about stolen GPLed code unless the code is actually part of the GNU project. Contact the author instead.
You are quite mistaken about the coasts. I live in Providence, RI, and commute to Cambridge, MA. DVD is still a minority of the shelf space in all the video stores I visit. (It's certainly a much larger minority than it was even a year ago, though.)
Make it one at a time rather than ten abreast, and it will stretch out to around twenty years, or a generation.
There's a significant bug right at the bottom: stuff that should be assigned to Term2 is being assigned to Term1, so the first regular expression will match the wrong stuff and the second regular expression will either fail to match or match everything, depending on what "new Regexp" gives you. (This is the first VBScript I've ever read, so I don't know what non-obvious stuff does.) Furrfu. If you aren't catching blatant stuff like that, how are you going to notice if it, say, kills your dog, burns your house down, and emails all your files to identity thieves in Bolivia?
If you don't care about incoming connections, total speed, or keeping connections open, you can just switch IP addresses as needed. Otherwise, you have to have the same IP address on both interfaces, which requires your ISPs to cooperate, which won't happen unless you're paying for a "real" connection. (And if everybody did it, the global routing table would be intolerably huge, because the current routing strategy scales poorly.) Google for BGP as a start.
OS X is excruciatingly slow. Debian is not.