Hmm... my understanding was that the proportionality (fairness) of a voting system was not a matter of opinion, but rather a fairly well-defined area of mathematics, and so an assertion that AV was less fair than (say) STV or FPTP could be backed up some formulae and numbers.
I'm not saying you're wrong - just that the finality with which you stated it made me want a solid, indisputable citation.
In my job I use the various browsers to varying degrees.
However, for my own use, I stick to Mozilla for ideological reasons: Firefox is their raison d'etre. They have a vested interest in keeping the web open and standards-based.
Apple and Google might someday decide that it's not worth developing their browser any further, or decide that it should really be a vehicle to promote their core services (media sales, QuickTime, ads, analytics etc) to the detriment of the user. I think it's revealing that neither Apple nor Google chose to invest in Mozilla instead of going it on their own - either it's impossible to work with the Mozilla folks, or they wanted to retain control, in which case you have to ask why.
Nevertheless, it's good for everyone that there's a bit of competition, so use what you like!
At the moment I run Ubuntu out of inertia - I installed it once at some point in the past and have just gone with the updates.
My Linux box is essentially a PC that became obsolete when I bought a laptop. I don't use it for much, just gaming with Wine (because I can shove a decent graphics card into it) and light browsing in Firefox whilst gaming.
Before I tried Ubuntu, I had tried just about every distro in the hopes of finding one that just installed and ran, by which I mean hardware stuff like: could run my monitor without me having to reverse engineer X configuration files, could drive my USB speakers without me having to take a crash course in kernel modules, could detect my wireless LAN without me having to download and compile stuff from RealTek, etc. At the time, Knoppix, Gentoo, Mandriva, Fedora, SUSE etc all failed in some way or another.
Another killer feature for me is system updates, which happen pretty unobtrusively on Ubuntu (dare I say it -- rather mac-like: a window pops up, you browse the updates & pick the ones you care about, and type in the password).
So, for people like me who are bored of learning about some distro's internals just to get to the point where audio works (say), Ubuntu does the trick. Having said all that - as your post shows, one's opinion about a Linux distro will tend to be based on how well stuff worked out of the box, which as far as I can see normally comes down to hardware support. In your case it all went horribly wrong, in my case it all went absolutely swimmingly. I suppose the popularity of Ubuntu may reflect that it works smoothly for more people than not.
I'd presume (without having RTFA of course) that what is meant is that they bought a femtocell, looked at its hardware pinouts, and this helped them devise an attack that would work on any instance of that model of femtocell (without physical access).
"all profits from UKFSN go to fund UK Free Software projects"
"Our policy is that the electronic communications of our customers are private. We do not intercept, censor, scan or otherwise interfer with our customers' internet service."
"UKFSN does not and will not have any dealings with Phorm, the company behind the Webwise system being deployed by some other ISPs to intercept customer internet traffic. We are firmly of the opinion that the Phorm Webwise system is illegal under UK and EU laws. We also believe it to be fundamentally unethical to intercept customer traffic in this manner. It will never happen here."
"There is some suggestion that the UK government would like to mandate some form of interception and possibly censorship. We would encourage all interested persons to make it clear to MPs and the government generally that this is not acceptable."
Here's a bizarre thought... is it time for an open source IE6 clone?
1. Provide a drop-in replacement for enterprise IE6
2. Provide upgrades with strict backwards-compatibility but a managed way forwards
3. Converge with mainstream browsers
Keep the "there's only one true way" folks away from the "make it configurable for everyone" folks, and both types can continue to improve their product without getting in the way of each other.
The tragedy of it, at least from an outsider's view, is that while the aims of KDE and Gnome are 95% the same and only 5% different, the 5% difference has caused the 95% of effort to be duplicated.
Is it beyond the realm of possibility to have one desktop environment, fully configurable, and a "user-friendly" skinning of it that hides most of the configuration? If the answer is that KDE and Gnome are already like that, then there is a really tragic 100% duplication of effort.
Radio and TV are more about delivering you to the advertisers (i.e. making money to keep going) than delivering content to you. It's a balancing act, so you'll likely end up at the point of diminishing returns, i.e. the point where the monetary benefit of more advertising divided by the number of listeners stops rising and starts falling.
It's open source. I think the chances of Chrome having an ad blocker approaches 1.
My understanding is that Chrome is based on the open source Chromium, but I don't know they are the same thing; I'd imagined that Chrome would have some bits that aren't in Chromium (e.g. Google trademarks), and might disable some things that are. (Consider OS X vs Darwin.)
Google might decide not to accept ad blocking patches into the trunk. In theory that might trigger a fork, but the proportion of users using the fork would be about the same as the number of people who use Camino over Firefox, i.e. negligible.
Given that Google's business model revolves entirely around supplying users to advertisers, I think the chances of Chrome ever having an ad blocker to be roughly zero.
My personal little conspiracy theory is that they don't want Firefox to entirely displace IE precisely because of ad blocking. They can't undo plugins in Firefox, so developing their own browser is the way to go.
You are imagining a surreal world where the seller would also be the buyer. Now, think to yourself if a Dairy farmer would ever go buy a gallon of milk from the supermarket
I was imagining a world in which journalists might sell something they knew (but perhaps couldn't use) for something they wanted to know.
In your analogy, perhaps it would be a dairy farmer swapping surplus milk for cheese (assuming he doesn't make cheese).
But I agree, any kind of remuneration would probably distort the nature of the information being submitted to wikileaks.
Perhaps they should create a currency, wikicredits or whatever, which is paid out when you contribute to wikileaks, and can then be used to buy time-limited exclusive access to new leaks.
I wonder if there will be a date, sometime in the future, which is acknowledged as the end of history. Not in the Fukuyama sense, but in the sense that it will be acknowledged as the time whereafter it became impossible to determine the legitimacy or even the date of any document (e.g. because it's all digital).
IThe thing I like about ray tracing is that it's more or less pure physics (as opposed to current GPU rendering is a clever box of tricks and hacks and approximations).
So, you can implement a glorious renderer today, and just wait for the hardware to catch up.
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Hmm... my understanding was that the proportionality (fairness) of a voting system was not a matter of opinion, but rather a fairly well-defined area of mathematics, and so an assertion that AV was less fair than (say) STV or FPTP could be backed up some formulae and numbers.
I'm not saying you're wrong - just that the finality with which you stated it made me want a solid, indisputable citation.
Alternative Voting method - a "compromise" system even less Proportional than FPTP
[citation needed]
In my job I use the various browsers to varying degrees.
However, for my own use, I stick to Mozilla for ideological reasons: Firefox is their raison d'etre. They have a vested interest in keeping the web open and standards-based.
Apple and Google might someday decide that it's not worth developing their browser any further, or decide that it should really be a vehicle to promote their core services (media sales, QuickTime, ads, analytics etc) to the detriment of the user. I think it's revealing that neither Apple nor Google chose to invest in Mozilla instead of going it on their own - either it's impossible to work with the Mozilla folks, or they wanted to retain control, in which case you have to ask why.
Nevertheless, it's good for everyone that there's a bit of competition, so use what you like!
At the moment I run Ubuntu out of inertia - I installed it once at some point in the past and have just gone with the updates.
My Linux box is essentially a PC that became obsolete when I bought a laptop. I don't use it for much, just gaming with Wine (because I can shove a decent graphics card into it) and light browsing in Firefox whilst gaming.
Before I tried Ubuntu, I had tried just about every distro in the hopes of finding one that just installed and ran, by which I mean hardware stuff like: could run my monitor without me having to reverse engineer X configuration files, could drive my USB speakers without me having to take a crash course in kernel modules, could detect my wireless LAN without me having to download and compile stuff from RealTek, etc. At the time, Knoppix, Gentoo, Mandriva, Fedora, SUSE etc all failed in some way or another.
Another killer feature for me is system updates, which happen pretty unobtrusively on Ubuntu (dare I say it -- rather mac-like: a window pops up, you browse the updates & pick the ones you care about, and type in the password).
So, for people like me who are bored of learning about some distro's internals just to get to the point where audio works (say), Ubuntu does the trick. Having said all that - as your post shows, one's opinion about a Linux distro will tend to be based on how well stuff worked out of the box, which as far as I can see normally comes down to hardware support. In your case it all went horribly wrong, in my case it all went absolutely swimmingly. I suppose the popularity of Ubuntu may reflect that it works smoothly for more people than not.
Is there a version of adblock that hides the ad but still downloads ("views") it, to /dev/null?
My girlfriend also really likes netbooks [...] Sometimes normal laptops are just too much of a ballache to lug around with you
Not for your girflriend, I hope
I'd presume (without having RTFA of course) that what is meant is that they bought a femtocell, looked at its hardware pinouts, and this helped them devise an attack that would work on any instance of that model of femtocell (without physical access).
Just how green is an energy that relies on a non-renewable resource?
Or are these rare metals, once used in green tech, easily recycled?
oxonobiously is my new favourite word :)
An alternative for UK surfers:
http://www.ukfsn.org/
I have no affiliation with them, but...
"all profits from UKFSN go to fund UK Free Software projects"
"Our policy is that the electronic communications of our customers are private. We do not intercept, censor, scan or otherwise interfer with our customers' internet service."
"UKFSN does not and will not have any dealings with Phorm, the company behind the Webwise system being deployed by some other ISPs to intercept customer internet traffic. We are firmly of the opinion that the Phorm Webwise system is illegal under UK and EU laws. We also believe it to be fundamentally unethical to intercept customer traffic in this manner. It will never happen here."
"There is some suggestion that the UK government would like to mandate some form of interception and possibly censorship. We would encourage all interested persons to make it clear to MPs and the government generally that this is not acceptable."
Here's a bizarre thought... is it time for an open source IE6 clone? 1. Provide a drop-in replacement for enterprise IE6 2. Provide upgrades with strict backwards-compatibility but a managed way forwards 3. Converge with mainstream browsers
Perhaps Florida should plan for hydro power instead, given the projected rise in sea level? http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/florida.shtml
The motives for a statement have no relevance to its truth or untruth.
The tragedy of it, at least from an outsider's view, is that while the aims of KDE and Gnome are 95% the same and only 5% different, the 5% difference has caused the 95% of effort to be duplicated.
Is it beyond the realm of possibility to have one desktop environment, fully configurable, and a "user-friendly" skinning of it that hides most of the configuration? If the answer is that KDE and Gnome are already like that, then there is a really tragic 100% duplication of effort.
During my time there as an English teacher
It piss' me off
Eyed laugh if it weren't so funny.
Radio and TV are more about delivering you to the advertisers (i.e. making money to keep going) than delivering content to you. It's a balancing act, so you'll likely end up at the point of diminishing returns, i.e. the point where the monetary benefit of more advertising divided by the number of listeners stops rising and starts falling.
My favourite way to rebut the "if you have nothing to hide crowd":
If you have nothing to hide, why do you have a door on your bathroom?
My prediction: the video format that supersedes Blu-ray will TCP/IP.
It's open source. I think the chances of Chrome having an ad blocker approaches 1.
My understanding is that Chrome is based on the open source Chromium, but I don't know they are the same thing; I'd imagined that Chrome would have some bits that aren't in Chromium (e.g. Google trademarks), and might disable some things that are. (Consider OS X vs Darwin.)
Google might decide not to accept ad blocking patches into the trunk. In theory that might trigger a fork, but the proportion of users using the fork would be about the same as the number of people who use Camino over Firefox, i.e. negligible.
Given that Google's business model revolves entirely around supplying users to advertisers, I think the chances of Chrome ever having an ad blocker to be roughly zero. My personal little conspiracy theory is that they don't want Firefox to entirely displace IE precisely because of ad blocking. They can't undo plugins in Firefox, so developing their own browser is the way to go.
You are imagining a surreal world where the seller would also be the buyer. Now, think to yourself if a Dairy farmer would ever go buy a gallon of milk from the supermarket
I was imagining a world in which journalists might sell something they knew (but perhaps couldn't use) for something they wanted to know. In your analogy, perhaps it would be a dairy farmer swapping surplus milk for cheese (assuming he doesn't make cheese). But I agree, any kind of remuneration would probably distort the nature of the information being submitted to wikileaks.
Perhaps they should create a currency, wikicredits or whatever, which is paid out when you contribute to wikileaks, and can then be used to buy time-limited exclusive access to new leaks.
I wonder if there will be a date, sometime in the future, which is acknowledged as the end of history. Not in the Fukuyama sense, but in the sense that it will be acknowledged as the time whereafter it became impossible to determine the legitimacy or even the date of any document (e.g. because it's all digital).
IThe thing I like about ray tracing is that it's more or less pure physics (as opposed to current GPU rendering is a clever box of tricks and hacks and approximations). So, you can implement a glorious renderer today, and just wait for the hardware to catch up.
Dunno if it's your poem, but did you mean "quay" instead of "key"?