Re:No webcam, no mic, but GAMES?!
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Games Come to Pidgin
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· Score: 3, Insightful
The nice thing about open source is that many people can work in that program. That some like to add games dont stop other people to add the webcam/mic/whatever functionality they think is missing.
And if you are so hurried for some particular functionality, add it yourself or hire someone to do that, worked for a lot of big companies that rely on open source. Freedom means also that a pidgin programmer can add the feature that he wants, but that don't means that is the one you want.
You are serious? I was going to propose to shot down those damn migrating flying bananas before they land to breed across the ocean, to stop the plague.
As i see it, what we have is what we got and gave us at least for enough time a survival or mating advantage to make it in our common gene pool. Being able to detect emotions fits in that scheme, specially if things like emotions get more complicated than with lower animals, so have some rationality.
But detecting fruit colors never was a survival requirement for animals that have it as its main food.
Still, i agree that it shouldnt be the only factor there. If seeing changes in body heat was just what was needed i think that even mosquitoes had the ability to see that.
Isnt like Microsoft never installed anything new and with potential vulnerabilities thru Windows (or other of their products) updates. IE7, Silverlight, Desktop Search, to name a few of the latest cases in a probably long list. And many could be called by now plain malware or spyware, style or not. And if ever one of those pushed products by microsoft had a code execution vulnerability (odds are not exactly low), we would be in the same case as Apple. And then my grandparent comment fits as a glove, again.
About Apple refusing to fix, the right phrase was refuse to promise, and in other posts you see that they will do something about it.
Since internet explorer creation were a long, dangerous, ridiculous and at times even funny list of code execution vulnerabilities in internet explorer. How many times Microsoft ordered users to shun Internet Explorer (our Outlook, or IIS or MSSQL, to put an small example) because had such kind of vulnerability being actually exploited?
How many times passed long time before Microsoft acknowledged that were a problem, and then even more time to fix it?
And, maybe more important... what are the odds of Microsoft doing exactly that recommendation for IE if Internet Explorer or another of their major products is found tomorrow to have a similar or worse security problem?
Of course, not discussing here if people should stop using Safari till that vulnerability is fixed, or at least, being very aware of what could happen and how to deal with it.
Would be nice to see that scene of Matrix, where Neo say "We need box cutters. Lots of box cutters" and then charge against the military guarded building.
I know, noone ever did anything like that, but thats why its going to work.
Same old fatty untasty and unhealthy cake (well, pie?) with a cherry on top.
If the big news on it is that add something that a device driver for specific hardware could do (they didnt introduced a totally new OS for the new mouse wheel back in its own time), and nothing related with architecture, security or bloat, then will keep the same old problems gaining something that is already for the other platforms (OS X have multitouch, and probably MPX will be available in most linux distributions by then).
At least this will help to push in the market touch interfaces.
In a few months, filling the gas tank would be another use for that amount of money. Is good that so many online services are willing to cooperate in that hard task.
While drinking a glass of water is healthy, trying to drink an ocean probably isnt.
There are things related to intellectual property that are right. Ok, you created something, you deserved to be recognized for that, maybe even getting some money for it. But from there to owning all the ideas that have the letter "e" in their formulation in english, forever and ever, well, there are a long way.
A line should be drawn separating the reasonable/fair/whatever of what is not, and there are happening a lot of things in that field that are definately in the wrong side of that line. And as with drinking water, maybe wont be immediate to realize how much harm are you doing to yourself.
Or they turn on micro and we hear here Jailhouse Rock.
Re:Doesn't even have to be live life...
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The Phoenix Has Landed
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· Score: 2, Insightful
What kind of philosophical rethinking? that life ever could only exist in Earth? Thats looks more religion than philosophy.
Or science, if there is an agreement that Mars could had never sustained complex/big lifeforms.
Or, as someone else suggested, math, because we beat badly the odds of finding something life related doing a relatively very short trip in something that looks more like a desert than a jungle (well, in this case we will go back to religion very soon).
Web 2.0 have no way to survive if you gets penalized for something an unknown person post in your site, and along with it, anything that puts visitors content/comments on it (including slashdot, of course)
Is nice to see America invading/blocking/penalizing/whatever other countries to give them freedom... like this.
On linux world, you have a by default whitelist called "distribution", and probably exist or is easy enough to write a shellscript that checks that everything that is running comes from your distribution installation.
But for windows, where the main source of install programs is "out there", how practical could be whitelists? Programs and updates should start to provide their own entries for whitelists if they want that they ever got installed, and once in that road, that lists could be "infected" with malware entries.
Anyway, in all cases, an advanced enough rootkit installed maybe could hide most of itself from blacklists, whitelist or plain antivirus.
You had the ending at the 1st minutes, but the real meaning of it (very different from your 1st idea) in the last ones. So you didnt got "the ending" (all of it, image and meaning) till the film ends, that was one of the things that made that movie great.
For what more your just bought computer with just windows preloaded can be used on?
IF you get a computer (since '96) it probably will have some version of windows preinstalled, and a very few applications, and of those, the one that can be used by everyone and in any moment is solitaire.
What else is there? Minesweeper? You have to THINK? If you use to do that, then why you got windows in the 1st place?
Im a big fan of PKD books&stories, but the risk that they make to them the same they did with, i.e. Mimsy were the borogoves (pick your own example, there are so many of them), make me wish they never saw PKD work as something suitable for movies.
But im not very opposed to have original, great sci-fi movies that may end in great books after (like with 2001)
I used to think in supernovas like in a sun exploding, and as it, that last relatively little time. Being a process that last at least 140 years is something new for me.
... and control, moderation or plain censorship will be the option most will pick, anywhere. Do you want that your pre-10 kids access all the internet? Do you want your daugther's boyfriend to access all the internet? That crazy man of the other block? Your husband/wife? Dont you want to avoid to hit places with exploits for your current configuration/OS/browser or well-known scammers?
Once you get to the point of "yes, would want some control access to some places on internet for some people", drawing the line of what is out and whats in is very subjective, but probably 85% of all internet users could like to have a line drawn somewhere.
In fact, i would like that most ISPs provide for free (OPTIONAL) proxies for their IP range that do content filtering for virus/kids safe browsing.
Already are efforts to disable or attack spammers botnets infiltrating in their own communication channels. You put a widely deployed botnet, and could eventually be used against you or the ones that carry it.
In the other hand, installing something being aware of it, like some of the distributed computing efforts (like seti@home, or similars), could be better.
Slashdot Mirror
The nice thing about open source is that many people can work in that program. That some like to add games dont stop other people to add the webcam/mic/whatever functionality they think is missing.
And if you are so hurried for some particular functionality, add it yourself or hire someone to do that, worked for a lot of big companies that rely on open source. Freedom means also that a pidgin programmer can add the feature that he wants, but that don't means that is the one you want.
You are serious? I was going to propose to shot down those damn migrating flying bananas before they land to breed across the ocean, to stop the plague.
As i see it, what we have is what we got and gave us at least for enough time a survival or mating advantage to make it in our common gene pool. Being able to detect emotions fits in that scheme, specially if things like emotions get more complicated than with lower animals, so have some rationality.
But detecting fruit colors never was a survival requirement for animals that have it as its main food.
Still, i agree that it shouldnt be the only factor there. If seeing changes in body heat was just what was needed i think that even mosquitoes had the ability to see that.
Isnt like Microsoft never installed anything new and with potential vulnerabilities thru Windows (or other of their products) updates. IE7, Silverlight, Desktop Search, to name a few of the latest cases in a probably long list. And many could be called by now plain malware or spyware, style or not. And if ever one of those pushed products by microsoft had a code execution vulnerability (odds are not exactly low), we would be in the same case as Apple. And then my grandparent comment fits as a glove, again.
About Apple refusing to fix, the right phrase was refuse to promise, and in other posts you see that they will do something about it.
Since internet explorer creation were a long, dangerous, ridiculous and at times even funny list of code execution vulnerabilities in internet explorer. How many times Microsoft ordered users to shun Internet Explorer (our Outlook, or IIS or MSSQL, to put an small example) because had such kind of vulnerability being actually exploited?
How many times passed long time before Microsoft acknowledged that were a problem, and then even more time to fix it?
And, maybe more important... what are the odds of Microsoft doing exactly that recommendation for IE if Internet Explorer or another of their major products is found tomorrow to have a similar or worse security problem?
Of course, not discussing here if people should stop using Safari till that vulnerability is fixed, or at least, being very aware of what could happen and how to deal with it.
Would be nice to see that scene of Matrix, where Neo say "We need box cutters. Lots of box cutters" and then charge against the military guarded building.
I know, noone ever did anything like that, but thats why its going to work.
Same old fatty untasty and unhealthy cake (well, pie?) with a cherry on top.
If the big news on it is that add something that a device driver for specific hardware could do (they didnt introduced a totally new OS for the new mouse wheel back in its own time), and nothing related with architecture, security or bloat, then will keep the same old problems gaining something that is already for the other platforms (OS X have multitouch, and probably MPX will be available in most linux distributions by then).
At least this will help to push in the market touch interfaces.
In a few months, filling the gas tank would be another use for that amount of money. Is good that so many online services are willing to cooperate in that hard task.
While drinking a glass of water is healthy, trying to drink an ocean probably isnt.
There are things related to intellectual property that are right. Ok, you created something, you deserved to be recognized for that, maybe even getting some money for it. But from there to owning all the ideas that have the letter "e" in their formulation in english, forever and ever, well, there are a long way.
A line should be drawn separating the reasonable/fair/whatever of what is not, and there are happening a lot of things in that field that are definately in the wrong side of that line. And as with drinking water, maybe wont be immediate to realize how much harm are you doing to yourself.
Or they turn on micro and we hear here Jailhouse Rock.
What kind of philosophical rethinking? that life ever could only exist in Earth? Thats looks more religion than philosophy.
Or science, if there is an agreement that Mars could had never sustained complex/big lifeforms.
Or, as someone else suggested, math, because we beat badly the odds of finding something life related doing a relatively very short trip in something that looks more like a desert than a jungle (well, in this case we will go back to religion very soon).
Web 1.0, the Empire Strikes Back
Web 2.0 have no way to survive if you gets penalized for something an unknown person post in your site, and along with it, anything that puts visitors content/comments on it (including slashdot, of course)
Is nice to see America invading/blocking/penalizing/whatever other countries to give them freedom... like this.
On linux world, you have a by default whitelist called "distribution", and probably exist or is easy enough to write a shellscript that checks that everything that is running comes from your distribution installation.
But for windows, where the main source of install programs is "out there", how practical could be whitelists? Programs and updates should start to provide their own entries for whitelists if they want that they ever got installed, and once in that road, that lists could be "infected" with malware entries.
Anyway, in all cases, an advanced enough rootkit installed maybe could hide most of itself from blacklists, whitelist or plain antivirus.
You had the ending at the 1st minutes, but the real meaning of it (very different from your 1st idea) in the last ones. So you didnt got "the ending" (all of it, image and meaning) till the film ends, that was one of the things that made that movie great.
Whatever, but that surrounding that IT worker arent flies... are satellites.
What next? to have their own gravity field too?
Flash- Using NoScript to decide which pages/sites could show me flash content. Only see what i want,
... but wont be a mini black hole a better instant communication device?
Ok, ok, wasnt my idea, maybe Asimov got mad in advance when predicted what hollywood will do in the future to the bicentennial man.
For what more your just bought computer with just windows preloaded can be used on?
IF you get a computer (since '96) it probably will have some version of windows preinstalled, and a very few applications, and of those, the one that can be used by everyone and in any moment is solitaire.
What else is there? Minesweeper? You have to THINK? If you use to do that, then why you got windows in the 1st place?
Im a big fan of PKD books&stories, but the risk that they make to them the same they did with, i.e. Mimsy were the borogoves (pick your own example, there are so many of them), make me wish they never saw PKD work as something suitable for movies.
But im not very opposed to have original, great sci-fi movies that may end in great books after (like with 2001)
fat WALLET people cause global warming, higher food prices.
AND some of those fat wallet people causes fat people too. Dont blame one of the victims, go right to the source of the problem.
One Botnet Node Per Child
I used to think in supernovas like in a sun exploding, and as it, that last relatively little time. Being a process that last at least 140 years is something new for me.
... and control, moderation or plain censorship will be the option most will pick, anywhere. Do you want that your pre-10 kids access all the internet? Do you want your daugther's boyfriend to access all the internet? That crazy man of the other block? Your husband/wife? Dont you want to avoid to hit places with exploits for your current configuration/OS/browser or well-known scammers?
Once you get to the point of "yes, would want some control access to some places on internet for some people", drawing the line of what is out and whats in is very subjective, but probably 85% of all internet users could like to have a line drawn somewhere.
In fact, i would like that most ISPs provide for free (OPTIONAL) proxies for their IP range that do content filtering for virus/kids safe browsing.
Already are efforts to disable or attack spammers botnets infiltrating in their own communication channels. You put a widely deployed botnet, and could eventually be used against you or the ones that carry it.
In the other hand, installing something being aware of it, like some of the distributed computing efforts (like seti@home, or similars), could be better.