The current way middle click is implemented on X11 is that you have basically two separate clipboards. You ctrl+c something, and then select something else, then you can paste with middle click to a third place. The main advantage of this is that it doesn't override your buffer if you select e.g. the text that the pasted text should replace.
For implementing two clipboards, you need to be able to tell which one you mean if you advertise it or want to get its content for pasting.
I usually copy/paste more often than I need to double click. *Any* patent microsoft had is surely now out of date for "real" double click functionality. That trick should be default only on mac os.
But yeah, it would be great if you could configure what the middle mouse button means.
The official way wayland proposes clipboards to be implemented is via "data sharing".
There, there is not even real distinction between copy+paste and drag+drop. All data is offered by the origin client via "wl_data_source::offer". The only actual param this accepts is the MIME type. Drag&drop isn't distinguishable from copy paste or just simply when the user selects something. In fact, one can distinguish between drag&drop by listening for additional events, but still the only "real" distinguish factor is the MIME type. And also the only real one you could use for talking about the selection for middle click usage later on. You would have to get registered at IANA for this case only or violate the RFC's.
The wayland protocol doesn't even mention middle click pasting. Note that it mentions drag+drop and (normal) copy+paste multiple times.
And lastly, I know that weston doesn't support it. Yes, weston isn't intended to be the best compositor of all times, but still, it means that I can't use middle click pasting for weston-terminal. That's a big minus against actually using that program. And weston-terminal is much more sophisticated than xterm. But even xterm has middle click paste. Sorry to say but I'd rather use xterm than weston-terminal.
what would happen if we found out that the design was introduced by, say, the NSA.
good ideas stay good ideas, and bad ideas stay bad ideas, totally independent from who has created them. Bitcoin is a good idea, even if it was created by kim jong un himself.
Android today is bloated as hell and requires over 1 gig of ram.
Android describes many things:
1. The ROM. It is usually used to ship bloatware with the phone. Once you get a free rom like CyanogenMod (which is not the same as Cyanogen OS), you have no bloatware anymore. Just get a popular enough phone that is supported well by such a ROM provider.
2. The google apps (gapps). These are the sole place google has any real influence over, because they are the only closed source non-vendor-specific component. Amazon has I think the most full set of replacement apps. There are also even libre alternatives, like F-droid.
3. The actual AOSP project. It is led by google. They try to do some influence over it as well, like for example by making the build system extra ugly (and putting the informative docs into internal wikis instead of the trimmed down public wiki), so that you have to download their binaries, and have to agree to the license to not fragment Android. But mostly, these things can't really stop any competitors, as the source is openly licensed. Google knows this, therefore their trend to abandon apps from AOSP and to put them into the gapps package instead.
One of the advantages of AOSP being open source is that the app format isn't something proprietary, but can be used by competition as well. Yes, currently the only major player is google, but in a few years it can be some other company, too.
Google is not the microsoft of the phone world. Yes, their system is the most successful one, but they don't do EEE, because most of their formats are open, most prominently their base OS, and those which aren't are forced to be closed by competitors (think for example of the xmpp abandoning which was caused by skype). Yes, most apps won't work without google apps, but porting an app from using google apps to some alternative is much easier than eg porting a game from directx to opengl, or porting a windows desktop application to use X11.
My theory on firefox OS is that it was the attempted revenge of Mozilla to google for the development of the Chrome browser. It surely has been (and is) bad for firefox that Google now develops and advertises its own browser, instead of Mozilla's as it has been before Chrome.
A tire fault. Or people standing at bridges throwing down stuff. If there are 100 cars in a row, with an one meter distance, and sb throws a big rock onto the first of them (or the third or whatever), it will cause a disastrous accident.
Precisely. We haven't figured out yet how to create 100% secure programs, and we already start using software in all places of life, including where people can get killed by malicious software. The damage hackers can cause increases with adoption of networked computers.
Well, it eliminates whole classes of cases for accidents. All those people who drive while they are drunk, or drive too fast because they are too late, or drive too fast because they like driving fast, or drive too fast because they don't know better, or etc. There are tons of accidents caused by older people who are too senile to drive a car. This can be helped by taking away their license, but staying at home surely isn't a good therapy for old people to stay healthy.
Also, if all cars are driverless, they always know when faster cars can get before slower cars on a one lane per direction road.
This won't solve all accidents, but it will certainly improve the situation.
The optimal number of words is 18k, basing on a calculation using the earth's surface. Earth has a surface of 510.000.000 km^2. Divide through the area of your square (9m^2), account for different units (1 km^2 is 1.000.000 m^2), and you get 5.667*10^12 pieces of 3x3m squares. The third root gives one 17829 words to find.
Because they are a startup, and want to make money. If they used an existing system, anybody could just simply use the system they do the marketing for, for free. They don't want that, obviously.
The word lists need to be created in a way that there are no pairwise homophones. You just start with a large list of words and then check for similarities. This is a quadratic job, but doable I guess.
Earth has a surface of 510.000.000 km^2. That's 5.67*10^12 pieces of 3x3m squares. Take the third root of it, you get 18 thousand pairwise non homophone words you have to come up with.
Yes precisely. The only really work they had to do was to select the word lists. That's it. Welcome to the decade of trivial startups.
A hash would be disadvantageous if it isn't bijective, because it would lead to collisions. And bijective hashes are nothing else than encryption (with a fixed key). I guess they simply use a Z-index or something.
Yeah, right. Website code never really had access to the XUL layer. XUL is reserved for trusted code like Add-ons, or when you want to write an application in an XML+js like environment.
Do we want changes for the human genome to be patentable? And every time you sleep with somebody from the other sex you'll have to google whether the company which supplied your genome has a contract with the company which supplied the genome for the person you sleep with? How should we treat infringements? Should there be DRM, as in infertility for genetically engineered humans? Or only fertility if its enabled via an app on your smartphone?
[x] enable fertile sperm production
[] boy sperm cells enabled
[x] girl sperm cells enabled
[] my eye color
[] her eye color (costs $250)
[x] custom eye color (costs $3k), please chose [green]
What if their servers get DDOSed? News headlines like "couples from all over the world with a baby with couldn't work on their project last night as the servers from 23andMe, an alphabet holding corporation were temporarily down.". What if you want something the app doesn't offer? What if google abandons a specific feature, will you have to get an outdated version of the app in order to style the baby as you want?
They want to murder XUL, because they think XUL is outdated and HTML5 is the best of the world, and implementing a small layer for servo will be too complicated and too big of a project to do it, so now they are "cutting the cords". First they announced that add-ons can't use XUL, then they killed xulrunner (which got not that much media attention), and now they want to get rid of thunderbird too. All because they think XUL is a bad technology and its all doable by HTML5 and javascript these days. Totally fogetting that HTML + js just needs a huge overhead to get native looking UI dialogs, and that XUL had tons of APIs accessible from javascript, all not accessible from the HTML platform.
So yes, such a protocol would be unacceptable, at least if there is no bitmap fallback for applications that use wayland without a toolkit, or for unsupported toolkits.
Generally I do agree that wayland should come, but tbh, enabling it in fedora? No, they should wait a year or two, until wayland is ready for actual distro use.
One nuclear incident neatly packaged into a periodicity of 20 years is only an idealization.
Yeah, of course, the calculation was a bit rough. One would have to determine which securities an insurer has to provide in order to be able to insure nuclear incidents. And from day one of course. The model for insuring things like this is to say: we (the insurance company) print some papers, you can buy them for money, there is a number on them which indicates for how much you can buy those papers back, and in the case of an incident, that number falls by the cost for the incident, and regularly the amount payed by the insured is added to that number, reduced by a fee for the insurance company. The insurance company invests the money somewhere, so that it is taken care of, and in the case of an incident it sells those investments and pays for the damage. And people buy those papers in order to get interest for the money they invested.
It would be imbued with the highest order of training, professionalism, and selfless excellence, and completely isolated from any influence of profit motive whatsoever.
Governments are huge organisations, where all things are done the same way to spare costs, and later on one finds out that there is one critical error, and one has to power down and change all reactors in the whole country, etc. If you have a free market with competing ideas, you get many different setups, and the best will prevail, and some few generations from now one will have far more experience than with one unified approach.
And the other thing to consider is, that energy companies will do a very detailed assessment of which technology to use. And if all costs are internalized for them, they will chose the most efficient technology, and it doesn't always have to be nuclear. And they will spend far more time in finding out which technology is most efficient.
After all, nobody denies that SOME THINGS only governments can do justice to. Is this not one of those things?
I fully agree that there are some things where governments usually do the best job at. One example would be infrastructure. Water, telephone, postal services, all of them are best run where the owner's goal isn't to make as much profit as possible, but where the service is the most important part. And service in all parts of the country, or of the city. Don't lay new water pipes in the rich quarter every five years, only because there enough premium payers are, and in the poor quarters of the city you have the pipes from 1830.
But power is a very equalized good, you can't introduce any social inequalities through it.
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The current way middle click is implemented on X11 is that you have basically two separate clipboards. You ctrl+c something, and then select something else, then you can paste with middle click to a third place. The main advantage of this is that it doesn't override your buffer if you select e.g. the text that the pasted text should replace.
For implementing two clipboards, you need to be able to tell which one you mean if you advertise it or want to get its content for pasting.
I usually copy/paste more often than I need to double click. *Any* patent microsoft had is surely now out of date for "real" double click functionality. That trick should be default only on mac os.
But yeah, it would be great if you could configure what the middle mouse button means.
The official way wayland proposes clipboards to be implemented is via "data sharing".
There, there is not even real distinction between copy+paste and drag+drop. All data is offered by the origin client via "wl_data_source::offer". The only actual param this accepts is the MIME type. Drag&drop isn't distinguishable from copy paste or just simply when the user selects something. In fact, one can distinguish between drag&drop by listening for additional events, but still the only "real" distinguish factor is the MIME type. And also the only real one you could use for talking about the selection for middle click usage later on. You would have to get registered at IANA for this case only or violate the RFC's.
The wayland protocol doesn't even mention middle click pasting. Note that it mentions drag+drop and (normal) copy+paste multiple times.
And lastly, I know that weston doesn't support it. Yes, weston isn't intended to be the best compositor of all times, but still, it means that I can't use middle click pasting for weston-terminal. That's a big minus against actually using that program. And weston-terminal is much more sophisticated than xterm. But even xterm has middle click paste. Sorry to say but I'd rather use xterm than weston-terminal.
I think the original quote is "and so is my wife".
what would happen if we found out that the design was introduced by, say, the NSA.
good ideas stay good ideas, and bad ideas stay bad ideas, totally independent from who has created them. Bitcoin is a good idea, even if it was created by kim jong un himself.
Android today is bloated as hell and requires over 1 gig of ram.
Android describes many things:
1. The ROM. It is usually used to ship bloatware with the phone. Once you get a free rom like CyanogenMod (which is not the same as Cyanogen OS), you have no bloatware anymore. Just get a popular enough phone that is supported well by such a ROM provider.
2. The google apps (gapps). These are the sole place google has any real influence over, because they are the only closed source non-vendor-specific component. Amazon has I think the most full set of replacement apps. There are also even libre alternatives, like F-droid.
3. The actual AOSP project. It is led by google. They try to do some influence over it as well, like for example by making the build system extra ugly (and putting the informative docs into internal wikis instead of the trimmed down public wiki), so that you have to download their binaries, and have to agree to the license to not fragment Android. But mostly, these things can't really stop any competitors, as the source is openly licensed. Google knows this, therefore their trend to abandon apps from AOSP and to put them into the gapps package instead.
One of the advantages of AOSP being open source is that the app format isn't something proprietary, but can be used by competition as well. Yes, currently the only major player is google, but in a few years it can be some other company, too.
Google is not the microsoft of the phone world. Yes, their system is the most successful one, but they don't do EEE, because most of their formats are open, most prominently their base OS, and those which aren't are forced to be closed by competitors (think for example of the xmpp abandoning which was caused by skype). Yes, most apps won't work without google apps, but porting an app from using google apps to some alternative is much easier than eg porting a game from directx to opengl, or porting a windows desktop application to use X11.
Yeah, maybe next release they will *only* support the left mouse button, and ignore anything else.
Quite like wayland, the all hailed display protocol. It doesn't even support middle click copy/paste.
My theory on firefox OS is that it was the attempted revenge of Mozilla to google for the development of the Chrome browser. It surely has been (and is) bad for firefox that Google now develops and advertises its own browser, instead of Mozilla's as it has been before Chrome.
Microsoft Word
MS Office? I was unsure before, but now I know that we are doomed.
Its not what you think, there are no actual national secrets that have to be kept disclosed, all researchers can access all material.
The title is clickbait and taken from the press article.
A tire fault. Or people standing at bridges throwing down stuff. If there are 100 cars in a row, with an one meter distance, and sb throws a big rock onto the first of them (or the third or whatever), it will cause a disastrous accident.
Precisely. We haven't figured out yet how to create 100% secure programs, and we already start using software in all places of life, including where people can get killed by malicious software. The damage hackers can cause increases with adoption of networked computers.
Well, it eliminates whole classes of cases for accidents. All those people who drive while they are drunk, or drive too fast because they are too late, or drive too fast because they like driving fast, or drive too fast because they don't know better, or etc. There are tons of accidents caused by older people who are too senile to drive a car. This can be helped by taking away their license, but staying at home surely isn't a good therapy for old people to stay healthy.
Also, if all cars are driverless, they always know when faster cars can get before slower cars on a one lane per direction road.
This won't solve all accidents, but it will certainly improve the situation.
The optimal number of words is 18k, basing on a calculation using the earth's surface. Earth has a surface of 510.000.000 km^2. Divide through the area of your square (9m^2), account for different units (1 km^2 is 1.000.000 m^2), and you get 5.667*10^12 pieces of 3x3m squares. The third root gives one 17829 words to find.
Because they are a startup, and want to make money. If they used an existing system, anybody could just simply use the system they do the marketing for, for free. They don't want that, obviously.
The word lists need to be created in a way that there are no pairwise homophones. You just start with a large list of words and then check for similarities. This is a quadratic job, but doable I guess.
Earth has a surface of 510.000.000 km^2. That's 5.67*10^12 pieces of 3x3m squares. Take the third root of it, you get 18 thousand pairwise non homophone words you have to come up with.
Yes precisely. The only really work they had to do was to select the word lists. That's it. Welcome to the decade of trivial startups.
A hash would be disadvantageous if it isn't bijective, because it would lead to collisions. And bijective hashes are nothing else than encryption (with a fixed key). I guess they simply use a Z-index or something.
Yeah, right. Website code never really had access to the XUL layer. XUL is reserved for trusted code like Add-ons, or when you want to write an application in an XML+js like environment.
Option browser.urlbar.trimURLs in about:config, set it to false.
Do we want changes for the human genome to be patentable? And every time you sleep with somebody from the other sex you'll have to google whether the company which supplied your genome has a contract with the company which supplied the genome for the person you sleep with? How should we treat infringements? Should there be DRM, as in infertility for genetically engineered humans? Or only fertility if its enabled via an app on your smartphone?
[x] enable fertile sperm production
[] boy sperm cells enabled
[x] girl sperm cells enabled
[] my eye color
[] her eye color (costs $250)
[x] custom eye color (costs $3k), please chose [green]
What if their servers get DDOSed? News headlines like "couples from all over the world with a baby with couldn't work on their project last night as the servers from 23andMe, an alphabet holding corporation were temporarily down.". What if you want something the app doesn't offer? What if google abandons a specific feature, will you have to get an outdated version of the app in order to style the baby as you want?
They want to murder XUL, because they think XUL is outdated and HTML5 is the best of the world, and implementing a small layer for servo will be too complicated and too big of a project to do it, so now they are "cutting the cords". First they announced that add-ons can't use XUL, then they killed xulrunner (which got not that much media attention), and now they want to get rid of thunderbird too. All because they think XUL is a bad technology and its all doable by HTML5 and javascript these days. Totally fogetting that HTML + js just needs a huge overhead to get native looking UI dialogs, and that XUL had tons of APIs accessible from javascript, all not accessible from the HTML platform.
Yeah, they should have said "GNU + Linux" instead of "Linux".
Can anybody help me understand why [...] a GTK/QT specific network protocol is unacceptable [...]?
Because there are people who write backends to wayland without using a toolkit like GTK, QT etc? Like the servo people?
https://github.com/servo/servo...
So yes, such a protocol would be unacceptable, at least if there is no bitmap fallback for applications that use wayland without a toolkit, or for unsupported toolkits.
Generally I do agree that wayland should come, but tbh, enabling it in fedora? No, they should wait a year or two, until wayland is ready for actual distro use.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
One nuclear incident neatly packaged into a periodicity of 20 years is only an idealization.
Yeah, of course, the calculation was a bit rough. One would have to determine which securities an insurer has to provide in order to be able to insure nuclear incidents. And from day one of course. The model for insuring things like this is to say: we (the insurance company) print some papers, you can buy them for money, there is a number on them which indicates for how much you can buy those papers back, and in the case of an incident, that number falls by the cost for the incident, and regularly the amount payed by the insured is added to that number, reduced by a fee for the insurance company. The insurance company invests the money somewhere, so that it is taken care of, and in the case of an incident it sells those investments and pays for the damage. And people buy those papers in order to get interest for the money they invested.
It would be imbued with the highest order of training, professionalism, and selfless excellence, and completely isolated from any influence of profit motive whatsoever.
Governments are huge organisations, where all things are done the same way to spare costs, and later on one finds out that there is one critical error, and one has to power down and change all reactors in the whole country, etc. If you have a free market with competing ideas, you get many different setups, and the best will prevail, and some few generations from now one will have far more experience than with one unified approach.
And the other thing to consider is, that energy companies will do a very detailed assessment of which technology to use. And if all costs are internalized for them, they will chose the most efficient technology, and it doesn't always have to be nuclear. And they will spend far more time in finding out which technology is most efficient.
After all, nobody denies that SOME THINGS only governments can do justice to. Is this not one of those things?
I fully agree that there are some things where governments usually do the best job at. One example would be infrastructure. Water, telephone, postal services, all of them are best run where the owner's goal isn't to make as much profit as possible, but where the service is the most important part. And service in all parts of the country, or of the city. Don't lay new water pipes in the rich quarter every five years, only because there enough premium payers are, and in the poor quarters of the city you have the pipes from 1830.
But power is a very equalized good, you can't introduce any social inequalities through it.