You were watching the scientist in the media. What the media thinks and what science actually thinks are two totally different things.
That may be, but the scare went on for most of a decade (right alongside nuclear winter and overpopulation). When the airwaves were packed with scientists explaining that we're facing certain annihilation, you can't handwave away the memories by saying that the real scientists didn't actually believe that.
In the 70s, scientists were absolutely convinced that they'd mastered the complex climate change models, and confidently assured us all that an Ice Age was imminent.
No they didn't.
Yes, yes, they did. Perhaps you're too young to remember the scare, but I very clearly remember being terrified after listening to a scientist explaining to the viewing audience that we were all going to starve to death in the near future. Your link is quite convincing, and I'd probably believe it if it weren't for the fact that I was there and I remember what was said.
It has the wonderful option to filter traffic according to the OS fingerprint, as in you can block traffic originating from specific operating systems.
Its OS detection uses TCP SYN packets which aren't applicable here.
Suppose, for instance, this guy drops the name due to the expenses and someone else picks it up...
...or does what I'd do, and find out if any NTP replies can crash DLink's hardware. Move my real NTP server to a new IP and hostname and start advertising that, then start serving bad packets on the old address.
DLink might be more interested in fixing the problem if 75% of their hardware was returned each month for random failure.
Schacherl noted the council has funded other research projects on evolution and gave $175,000 to Alters last year for a three-year project on concepts of biological evolution in Islamic society.
Their denial letter could have been pretty short:
Get back to work, toolshed. You still owe us two more years. See you in '08.
Man, I've gotta try his approach with my boss. If it works, I'm in triple-overtime heaven!
obviously they've never tried to dump and restore a database when upgrading to a new major release. Never goes according to the documentation.
Since this is the first time I've ever heard of that problem, and have never seen it myself during my own upgrades, care to back that up with evidence?
Hiring a hit on one guy is easy, but hiring a hit on ~30 guys, who don't all ever meet in one place, is a substantial challenge.
That's why you've got to give the first hit as much dramatic impact as possible. It's one thing to know that someone's out to get you, but a completely different thing to know that the guy in the next cubicle got drawn, quartered, decapitated, a cow's head sewn on in place, stuffed with pinto beans, then dropped from 50,000 feet onto the parking lot at the World Scout Jamboree.
The other 29 would probably voluntarily move on to more productive employment at that point.
Just out of curiosity, what functionality does Gnome lack that KDE has that one would need?
The killer feature for me is the KIOslaves framework. I love the fact that Kate can open files from the local filesystem or via SFTP, Samba, WebDAV, FTP, HTTP, Usenet, IMAP, or any other protocol that I have a handler for (run "kinfocenter" and look in the "Protocols" section to see which ones your own system supports). Want to get a too-close look at Slashdot's front page? Open "http://slashdot.org/" to load the source. After you've made your changes, save to "fish://oldserver/home/you/index.html" to upload it via SSH to a server that doesn't support SFTP.
Since that functionality is build into KDE and not Kate itself, I get the same feature in Konqueror and every other KDE app I use.
I've used this example before, but I use the KMyMoney personal finance program. I occasionally want to take a peek at my checking account while I'm at work. Rather than copy my account file from home each time, or run it remotely and tunnel the X display to work, I just tell KMyMoney to open "sftp://homeserver/home/me/myaccount.kmy" and it does the right thing.
I've become completely addicted to this and absolutely refuse to switch to a system that doesn't support similar functionality. Gnome VFS has similar goals, but support doesn't seem to be nearly as pervasive as under KDE.
I can't believe that the RIAA would stoop to such a level.
I can't believe you're surprised. Understand this: these people are sociopaths. The definition, per Wikipedia:
failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
reckless disregard for safety of self or others
consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain steady work or honor financial obligations
lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another
Let's look at their behavior:
RIAA members have been convicted of price fixing, collusion, and pretty much every RICO violation.
"All copying is theft!" when we know that's blatantly false.
Short-term business plans that are clearly unsustainable.
Suing everyone in sight.
Even when that person is an old grandmother without Internet access.
Their member corporations notoriously rip off the actual artists.
No explanation necessary.
If the RIAA was a physical family, they'd all be in prison or under psychiatric lockdown. I'd never advocate physical violence, but if I were on the jury for someone tried for shooting an RIAA member, I think I'd vote "not guilty" on the grounds that no human was harmed. Yeah, I meant that. These aren't people. They are empty husks that know only hunger and lust.
Chicane-UK... http://www.overclocked-hardware.com/... people who are clearly far too STUPID to use a car... a few tests such as skid pans and high speed maneuvres(sp?!) - the results were fairly predictable...
Where's "+1: Amusing self-parody" when you need it?
I live in a part of the country with almost no parallel parking, and I haven't parallel parked in probably a decade. However, I reserve the right to make fun of you for probably having no idea how to most safely hit a deer, or what the average safe speed on a 75MPH highway is.
In other words, we don't all live where you do or in places similar to it.
I'd say it just became a whole helluva lot more meaningful if he's willing to pay for one and not the other. Money talks, open source or not.
Money may talk, but you're asking it to speak gibberish. Again, there's no clear separation between OpenBSD and the OpenSSH subproject. The whole idea is like telling a C++ programmer that you want him to work on function foo(), but not class Bar which it's a part of.
Well, Video Toasters came out in '90, although I'm not sure exactly when the nonlinear editor ("Toaster Flyer") was released.
See U.S. Patent No. 6,285,746.
You mean, the one that opens with
In the business world, face-to-face meetings generally include the exchange of information by way of various media. Obvious modes of interpersonal information exchange include voice and visual communication. In addition, documents are often exchanged or examined by the meeting participants, slides or viewgraphs may be shown and discussed in presentations, and drawings are often made on paper or a board, accompanied by an oral explanation. Modern meetings and conferences also can involve discussion of data processed by a computer, such as the results of spreadsheet calculations. The ability to communicate one's point using the most effective medium available, together with the opportunity to observe participants' reactions, cause many people to favor face-to-face meetings over communication by mail, FAX, or telephone.
You know they had a set-top TiVo in mind when they wrote that paragraph.
From what I can tell this patent claims priority to an application filed all the way back in 1991.
So besides being an obvious extension to then-current art, it was also a submarine patent? You know, this just keeps getting worse. Of one thing I'm dead certain: if Microsoft was prosecuting this patent, Slashdot would be raising an unholy hell. Since it's TiVo, though - possibly the only company Slashdot loves more than Apple - we all jump to their defense and use this as an example of how sometimes IP patents really do help the little guy.
BS. This is still a stupid patent, and if it's the only thing standing between them and bankruptcy, then I hope I can score some of their office furniture cheap on eBay next month. Remember, bad things aren't good just because you like the people doing them.
Yes, you do, if you use any of the software that they ship as part of the base install. They've put thousands of hours into auditing all those and submitting their changes upstream.
Basically, you're donating to a team who audits and secures a lot of software, some of which they write in-house. It's not meaningful to ask them to work on only your pet project since none of it stands in isolation. For example, suppose that their new memory allocator shows an error in OpenSSH. Was the fix part of their ongoing authorship of OpenSSH, or would you credit it to the memory allocator project?
I think that you are missing a giant nuance that, in fact, makes what TiVo does novel.
And I think you are missing a giant brick wall that, in fact, makes what TiVo does not novel. The basic concept of TiVo has been around for quite some time in other media, even if it wasn't functionally identical (such as having to wait for a tape to rewind instead of an instantaneous seek). However, plenty of PC users had that exact ability with the TV tuner cards that predated TiVo, and the rest of their so-called innovation was the natural result of the increased speed and size of hard drives (which they had nothing to do with).
No, they were following the normal progress of technology but want to get all the credit for doing it. Well, sorry, but they certainly won't get it from me. I personally saw people recording while watching on their PCs years before I'd ever heard of a TiVo, no matter how loudly they want to scream "we invented it!" Their innovation was making it convenient for Joe User, but that's not what this bogus patent covers.
You had a VCR that lets you watch one tape while recording another show to same tape?
Many of us had computers that did it. I didn't, personally, but I was around quite a few of them. So then, a decade later, TiVo released a specialized computer that did the ten-years-later equivalent but in a smaller form factor. Now that is patent-worthy innovation.
A better UI solution would have a two-tiered model, say one that spiders large amounts of metadata in a single pass (say overnight), lets you browse through all of that in a few minutes and pick the things you want to download, then queue them up and wait a couple of days for them to arrive.
If only there were some way to view more than one web page at a time, you could open the "queue" links in a background "window" or "tab" and then minimize them, and then let the caching nature of Freenet ensure that they'll be there tomorrow even if you accidentally closed your browser.
Actually, I know what you mean and agree that it's annoying. However, there are technical workarounds that you can use today. Also, the design of Freenet means that you'll tend to have all the most popular sites cached locally anyway (by virtue of your neighbors having requested them). Permanent nodes are much, much faster than a new one brought online in response to a Slashdot story.
You see that is one of the major problems with the world today.. It is more important to be politically correct than stand up for what you believe in...
Exactly! The easy, PC choice is to apply some half-cocked technical measure to a societal issue than to actually do something about it personally.
Yes - it is a choice, but No - I personally would rather see the.xxx domain come in to force. It still means that people can go a view the material if they want, but it also means that other people, who really don't care about it, can educate and protect their family.
First, understand this: it would never be possible to move all porn into.xxx for a myriad of legal and technical reasons. Second, you can protect and educate your family today even without.xxx.
As for my logic - I certainly believe that it is sound; it is about making a choice easier. As for whether I am a good Christian or not, that is between me and God:)
But it doesn't make anything easier; it just gives the appearance that someone is Doing Something About It while not actually accomplishing much.
And to your Christianity, I say this: your relationship with God is personal. Do not use it as a justification for your political wishes, though, as many people with similar religious beliefs will have completely different political viewpoints than your own.
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That may be, but the scare went on for most of a decade (right alongside nuclear winter and overpopulation). When the airwaves were packed with scientists explaining that we're facing certain annihilation, you can't handwave away the memories by saying that the real scientists didn't actually believe that.
No they didn't.
Yes, yes, they did. Perhaps you're too young to remember the scare, but I very clearly remember being terrified after listening to a scientist explaining to the viewing audience that we were all going to starve to death in the near future. Your link is quite convincing, and I'd probably believe it if it weren't for the fact that I was there and I remember what was said.
Its OS detection uses TCP SYN packets which aren't applicable here.
...or does what I'd do, and find out if any NTP replies can crash DLink's hardware. Move my real NTP server to a new IP and hostname and start advertising that, then start serving bad packets on the old address.
DLink might be more interested in fixing the problem if 75% of their hardware was returned each month for random failure.
Their denial letter could have been pretty short:
Man, I've gotta try his approach with my boss. If it works, I'm in triple-overtime heaven!
Since this is the first time I've ever heard of that problem, and have never seen it myself during my own upgrades, care to back that up with evidence?
Since when did having a prototype, or even being hypothetically possible, start being a requirement again?
That's why you've got to give the first hit as much dramatic impact as possible. It's one thing to know that someone's out to get you, but a completely different thing to know that the guy in the next cubicle got drawn, quartered, decapitated, a cow's head sewn on in place, stuffed with pinto beans, then dropped from 50,000 feet onto the parking lot at the World Scout Jamboree.
The other 29 would probably voluntarily move on to more productive employment at that point.
Yes: the fact that NTP's patents were on SMTP - via wireless!
I wonder if anyone's patented SMTP - via quantum entanglement! - yet, or if it's still up for grabs.
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The killer feature for me is the KIOslaves framework. I love the fact that Kate can open files from the local filesystem or via SFTP, Samba, WebDAV, FTP, HTTP, Usenet, IMAP, or any other protocol that I have a handler for (run "kinfocenter" and look in the "Protocols" section to see which ones your own system supports). Want to get a too-close look at Slashdot's front page? Open "http://slashdot.org/" to load the source. After you've made your changes, save to "fish://oldserver/home/you/index.html" to upload it via SSH to a server that doesn't support SFTP. Since that functionality is build into KDE and not Kate itself, I get the same feature in Konqueror and every other KDE app I use.
I've used this example before, but I use the KMyMoney personal finance program. I occasionally want to take a peek at my checking account while I'm at work. Rather than copy my account file from home each time, or run it remotely and tunnel the X display to work, I just tell KMyMoney to open "sftp://homeserver/home/me/myaccount.kmy" and it does the right thing.
I've become completely addicted to this and absolutely refuse to switch to a system that doesn't support similar functionality. Gnome VFS has similar goals, but support doesn't seem to be nearly as pervasive as under KDE.
I can't believe you're surprised. Understand this: these people are sociopaths. The definition, per Wikipedia:
Let's look at their behavior:
If the RIAA was a physical family, they'd all be in prison or under psychiatric lockdown. I'd never advocate physical violence, but if I were on the jury for someone tried for shooting an RIAA member, I think I'd vote "not guilty" on the grounds that no human was harmed. Yeah, I meant that. These aren't people. They are empty husks that know only hunger and lust.
Where's "+1: Amusing self-parody" when you need it?
In other words, we don't all live where you do or in places similar to it.
You are on crack and it would be pointless to continue this thread until such time as you educate yourself a bit.
Money may talk, but you're asking it to speak gibberish. Again, there's no clear separation between OpenBSD and the OpenSSH subproject. The whole idea is like telling a C++ programmer that you want him to work on function foo(), but not class Bar which it's a part of.
Well, Video Toasters came out in '90, although I'm not sure exactly when the nonlinear editor ("Toaster Flyer") was released.
See U.S. Patent No. 6,285,746.
You mean, the one that opens with
You know they had a set-top TiVo in mind when they wrote that paragraph.
From what I can tell this patent claims priority to an application filed all the way back in 1991.
So besides being an obvious extension to then-current art, it was also a submarine patent? You know, this just keeps getting worse. Of one thing I'm dead certain: if Microsoft was prosecuting this patent, Slashdot would be raising an unholy hell. Since it's TiVo, though - possibly the only company Slashdot loves more than Apple - we all jump to their defense and use this as an example of how sometimes IP patents really do help the little guy.
BS. This is still a stupid patent, and if it's the only thing standing between them and bankruptcy, then I hope I can score some of their office furniture cheap on eBay next month. Remember, bad things aren't good just because you like the people doing them.
Yes, you do, if you use any of the software that they ship as part of the base install. They've put thousands of hours into auditing all those and submitting their changes upstream.
Basically, you're donating to a team who audits and secures a lot of software, some of which they write in-house. It's not meaningful to ask them to work on only your pet project since none of it stands in isolation. For example, suppose that their new memory allocator shows an error in OpenSSH. Was the fix part of their ongoing authorship of OpenSSH, or would you credit it to the memory allocator project?
And I think you are missing a giant brick wall that, in fact, makes what TiVo does not novel. The basic concept of TiVo has been around for quite some time in other media, even if it wasn't functionally identical (such as having to wait for a tape to rewind instead of an instantaneous seek). However, plenty of PC users had that exact ability with the TV tuner cards that predated TiVo, and the rest of their so-called innovation was the natural result of the increased speed and size of hard drives (which they had nothing to do with).
No, they were following the normal progress of technology but want to get all the credit for doing it. Well, sorry, but they certainly won't get it from me. I personally saw people recording while watching on their PCs years before I'd ever heard of a TiVo, no matter how loudly they want to scream "we invented it!" Their innovation was making it convenient for Joe User, but that's not what this bogus patent covers.
Many of us had computers that did it. I didn't, personally, but I was around quite a few of them. So then, a decade later, TiVo released a specialized computer that did the ten-years-later equivalent but in a smaller form factor. Now that is patent-worthy innovation.
So, whatever happened to dochawk.org?
Yeah, because nothing says "gots to get me another one of them!" like the first one being hauled off for service.
Ye gods, man! I have an iMac, but if it breaks I'm not going to be more likely to get another one.
I know we all love TiVo and all, but it looks like their patent is on simultaneously watching and recording TV.
You know, like you used to do when you watched one channel and had your VCR record another.
Or like when you watch streaming media in your web browser and it continues to buffer even when you hit "pause".
Basically, this is yet another stupid IP patent (is there another kind?), even if we like the company trying to enforce it.
If only there were some way to view more than one web page at a time, you could open the "queue" links in a background "window" or "tab" and then minimize them, and then let the caching nature of Freenet ensure that they'll be there tomorrow even if you accidentally closed your browser.
Actually, I know what you mean and agree that it's annoying. However, there are technical workarounds that you can use today. Also, the design of Freenet means that you'll tend to have all the most popular sites cached locally anyway (by virtue of your neighbors having requested them). Permanent nodes are much, much faster than a new one brought online in response to a Slashdot story.
Exactly! The easy, PC choice is to apply some half-cocked technical measure to a societal issue than to actually do something about it personally.
Yes - it is a choice, but No - I personally would rather see the .xxx domain come in to force. It still means that people can go a view the material if they want, but it also means that other people, who really don't care about it, can educate and protect their family.
First, understand this: it would never be possible to move all porn into .xxx for a myriad of legal and technical reasons. Second, you can protect and educate your family today even without .xxx.
As for my logic - I certainly believe that it is sound; it is about making a choice easier. As for whether I am a good Christian or not, that is between me and God :)
But it doesn't make anything easier; it just gives the appearance that someone is Doing Something About It while not actually accomplishing much.
And to your Christianity, I say this: your relationship with God is personal. Do not use it as a justification for your political wishes, though, as many people with similar religious beliefs will have completely different political viewpoints than your own.