We all know what we want: We want Comcast to be unable to charge Google extra for the service of letting customers access Youtube.
But, I honestly believe that scenario is a scare tactic. Sure, Comcast did say that they were looking into giving priority to some sites over others, but anyone in the biz knows this will never happen. If their concern is video sites and P2P using too much bandwidth, they'd be better off making tiered packages. The only other reason for throttling is content (ie pr0n and file sharing), but they are already protected against lawsuits by the Safe Harbor provision (aka OCILLA or DMCA512).
Personally, I'd love to see Comcast start throttling video sites, or making Google pay "protection money" for their services. If they did, within months some competition would spring up, and within a year, Comcast would finally be laid to rest. But alas, it will never happen -- it is merely a scare tactic.
Any site that asks for my email address right away, forget it.
I have 700+ email addresses on spamgourmet.com. I get mail on the ones that I want to, and throw out the mail on the other addresses. I can turn them on and off through a web interface.
Lynx had this feature back in 1997, and it was enabled by default. When you first visited a site that had cookies, it would ask you if you wanted to add that site to the white list. ((A) to accept cookies 'always')
I'm pretty sure that Netscape also had white lists for cookies, the last time I checked.
Like most ergonomic questions, this question is pretty hard to answer without you posting your physical dimensions.
The place I used to work for had a ergonomics expert employed full time. She said that most people gravitate to a keyboard that matches their body frame, and that is a good thing. If you have wide shoulders, then a split keyboard is probably best for you.
It's pretty clear that the bees are solving a different problem than the computer, and you don't really need to understand much theory to know why.
The Traveling Salesman Problem is only interested in finding the one absolute best solution. A solution that is 0.5% slower is not "close", but "wrong". This is the reason that it is NP-complete.
The bee is looking for a "good solution", which is an entirely different problem. Some readers may think that I'm splitting hairs here, but that's ridiculous. Getting a machine to make a "good solution" is pretty freakin' easy too. How this made slashdot is beyond me.
Unfortunately it sounds like a bit of a pipe dream to me.
Unfortunately, it's far worse than that. We've all heard the phrase "When they outlaw xxxx, only outlaws will have xxxx". And of course, that exact logic applies here. Even once yahoo and google spend millions to comply with whatever craptastic regulation Washington makes, all the non-legit sites will continue to do whatever they feel like doing, and the average individual browsing the web will be just vulnerable as before.
For people concerned with being tracked, relying on the government for safety while browsing seedy sites is like counting on your life insurance policy to protect you while swimming with sharks. The only way to really protect yourself is to learn how tracking systems work, and implement your own safety. In this case, it's pretty easy, just turn off cookies...lol.
The ACLU has happened on yet one more issue that would be completely a non-issue if schools were not an extension of government.
Schools should be able to do whatever they want, or whatever the parents want.
When the Bill of Rights was written, it's intention was to restrict what laws congress writes, not the sites should be in whitelists and blacklists in a web filter.
The U.S. government cannot deny you the right to carry a firearm to work, but the company you work for may.
The U.S. government cannot prevent you from filling your yard with yard gnomes, but your housing association may.
The U.S. government cannot force you to stop drag racing, but the company that hosts your life insurance policy may.
The U.S. government cannot prevent you from sharing particular content online, but the site that you use for hosting the content may.
In each example, you are entering an agreement with the company in the example. The agreement can set any terms it wishes. You have the choice of not signing it.
"Fair Use" is extremely vague. I believe it was vague on purpose, so that courts, politicians, and lawyers would become more necessary, but that is beside the point. YouTube realizes that the line is extremely gray, so they are conservative with what they allow. How do people not understand this?
[quote]they don't like Obama... does the EFF like anything?[/quote]
Last I knew, the middle 'F' in EFF was for Freedom. That may have just a bit to do with the dislike for our current dictator.
The problem with Jabber/XMPP is that... it doesn't satisfy the "not used externally" part. Jabber is the basis of GoogleTalk, and several individual IM services.
But, that's a questionable goal of the request anyway. Any one of his coworkers can connect to AIM/Yahoo/GoogleTalk right now. If he doesn't want that happening, he can't just say "we said 'no no bad coworker'" and expect that this makes things all good and happy. If he wants to ensure that coworkers aren't going to connect to external IM services, he needs to block those IM services at the border (firewalls and/or routers).
In my opinion, he should block all IM traffic (Yahoo, AIM, MSN, IRC, ICB, ICQ, XMPP/Jabber, Simple, and the others (look at what pidgin supports, find out what ports those chat/IM services use, block all of them)) at the border, and then require legitimate external users to use a VPN to access the internal Jabber server. If there are remote offices, then either those workers would need to VPN in to the site that hosts the Jabber server... or each site should have its own Jabber server, and then the Jabber servers would all talk to each other via VPN.
That's how I'd set it up. Block every chat/IM protocol/port at the border (and at the border of each remote office). Set up a Jabber server at the central and at each remote office. Link the Jabber servers to each other via VPN/tunnel/etc.. Go from there.
How in the world did that get modded up? Are people really that ignorant about jabber?
I never understood the phrase to begin with. It's not like once the cat is out of the bag you can't put it back in.
In medieval England, piglets were sold in the open marketplace. The seller usually kept the pig in a bag, so it would be easier for the buyer to take it home. But shady sellers often tried to trick their buyers by putting a large cat in the bag. If a shrewd shopper looked in the bag - then the cat was literally out of the bag. (By the way, the bag was called a "poke," which is likely where the phrase "a pig in a poke," which nowadays means buying an unknown, came from.)
The game is text-based, with static images of monsters to show what you are currently fighting.
There are no dungeons to learn. Your only options for moving is "step forward to fight a new monster" or "retreat to your home".
The main focus of the game is the leader board, which can be sorted by total XP or total gold.
Each day, you receive 30 more action points.
Action points let you fight monsters and level up. One Action point is needed per battle.
More action points can be bought with Coconuts. The best rate is +200 action points for 10 coconuts.
Coconuts can also be used for buying armor. The best rate for buying coconuts is 60 coconuts per $20.
In conclusion, if your friend spends $20, in one day, then you'll need to play 40 days to catch up with him. The rankings really just show which players have spent the most money.
I've been playing since the first slashdot story about this, and I think it's pretty well done, when the server isn't crashing. The need to pay real money to be competitive is really a shame. Everyone who tries it should know this going in.
I wish that spaghetti monster would be taught also, and if religious freedom is restored, it will be.
Let the teacher present any theories that they want, and let the parents get involved in suggesting theories that should be discussed, including Spaghetti Monster.
I don't know why people think that Spaghetti monster is a solid argument against us creationists. The freedom for teachers to speak about any theory is what we've been asking for the whole time!
Most of these things should work with a browser that is relatively standards compliant.
You are wrong here about the standards. Most of the experiments rely on the <canvas> tag, which is supported in almost all browsers except IE, but is not a part of any standard.
Canvas is actually competing against the tag. Currently, pretty much all browsers (including IE) allow support showing external SVG images, but only a few allow inline SVG. Ideally, the standard will require inline SVG support and SMIL support. If this happens, animation will be SMIL-based, instead of event based, and demos such as these will work even smoother:)
150 WPM is certainly possible. The world record typist could maintain an average 150 WPM rate for 50 min. She had bursts as high as 212 WPM.
But claiming you can type as fast as the world record typist is like saying you can keep up lap swimming with Michael Phelps.
How could you bring up Barbara Blackburn, without mentioning that she used the Dvorak keyboard?
Of course, the keyboard you use may have nothing to do with how fast you type. I'm sure that it was just coincidence that she used dvorak.
I use dvorak. I type faster than I did with qwerty. When I am forced to use qwerty (on someone else's computer, for example), my fingers ache after about 2 minutes of typing because they aren't accustomed to the extra strain.
There could be 2000 studies that come out, all stating that qwerty is theoretically better, but I'd still use dvorak because in my experience, it delivers what it advertises. I don't understand how they can publish article after article against dvorak without ever talking to those of us who have used both.
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Good encryption isn't very useful if you are trying to broadcast information publicly, for instance in a forum.
Maybe you should make a "Ask Slashdot" post out of the idea:
How do I post something on a forum where everyone can read it, but encrypt it so that no one can read it?
That's the first thing that I thought of also, but they are not related. It's Steven Moffat, not Stephen Moffet.
Covered yesterday by Slashdot's sister site: sci-fi storm. They use slashcode also.
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Killing wikileaks will prevent our secrets from being disclosed, the same way that killing Napster stopped P2P. Yay!!
We all know what we want: We want Comcast to be unable to charge Google extra for the service of letting customers access Youtube.
But, I honestly believe that scenario is a scare tactic. Sure, Comcast did say that they were looking into giving priority to some sites over others, but anyone in the biz knows this will never happen. If their concern is video sites and P2P using too much bandwidth, they'd be better off making tiered packages. The only other reason for throttling is content (ie pr0n and file sharing), but they are already protected against lawsuits by the Safe Harbor provision (aka OCILLA or DMCA512).
Personally, I'd love to see Comcast start throttling video sites, or making Google pay "protection money" for their services. If they did, within months some competition would spring up, and within a year, Comcast would finally be laid to rest. But alas, it will never happen -- it is merely a scare tactic.
Any site that asks for my email address right away, forget it.
I have 700+ email addresses on spamgourmet.com. I get mail on the ones that I want to, and throw out the mail on the other addresses. I can turn them on and off through a web interface.
Why doesn't this work for you?
first to do so? What can this do that a Firefox add-in cannot?
I don't think an add-in is needed. Firefox help teaches you how to set up a whitelist for cookies:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies#w_block-cookies-for-all-sites
Maybe the IE feature blocks other history tracking devices, such as flash cookies also, but there is nothing in the article that indicates this.
Lynx had this feature back in 1997, and it was enabled by default. When you first visited a site that had cookies, it would ask you if you wanted to add that site to the white list. ((A) to accept cookies 'always')
I'm pretty sure that Netscape also had white lists for cookies, the last time I checked.
Minor issue here, but TFA disagrees with TFS.
The difference between the melting and boiling points for gold is 1800K at 1 atm.
What does that have to do with this discussion? I thought the whole point was that he was at 0 atm.
Boiling is done two different ways. One is raising the temperature, the other is decreasing the pressure of surrounding gas
Like most ergonomic questions, this question is pretty hard to answer without you posting your physical dimensions.
The place I used to work for had a ergonomics expert employed full time. She said that most people gravitate to a keyboard that matches their body frame, and that is a good thing. If you have wide shoulders, then a split keyboard is probably best for you.
It's pretty clear that the bees are solving a different problem than the computer, and you don't really need to understand much theory to know why.
The Traveling Salesman Problem is only interested in finding the one absolute best solution. A solution that is 0.5% slower is not "close", but "wrong". This is the reason that it is NP-complete.
The bee is looking for a "good solution", which is an entirely different problem. Some readers may think that I'm splitting hairs here, but that's ridiculous. Getting a machine to make a "good solution" is pretty freakin' easy too. How this made slashdot is beyond me.
Unfortunately, it's far worse than that. We've all heard the phrase "When they outlaw xxxx, only outlaws will have xxxx". And of course, that exact logic applies here. Even once yahoo and google spend millions to comply with whatever craptastic regulation Washington makes, all the non-legit sites will continue to do whatever they feel like doing, and the average individual browsing the web will be just vulnerable as before.
For people concerned with being tracked, relying on the government for safety while browsing seedy sites is like counting on your life insurance policy to protect you while swimming with sharks. The only way to really protect yourself is to learn how tracking systems work, and implement your own safety. In this case, it's pretty easy, just turn off cookies...lol.
Have they even thought about how the name will be abbreviated? Anyone here like "CoD: BO"?
The ACLU has happened on yet one more issue that would be completely a non-issue if schools were not an extension of government.
Schools should be able to do whatever they want, or whatever the parents want.
When the Bill of Rights was written, it's intention was to restrict what laws congress writes, not the sites should be in whitelists and blacklists in a web filter.
vobcopy -i /folder/to/copy/to -m [executed where the dvd is mounted]
mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o desired_iso_name.iso /directory/to/put/iso
Done.
^^^^^ Best answer.
I usually would boot reboot into linux when I wanted to copy CDs, because it was so much easier than Windows.
The U.S. government cannot deny you the right to carry a firearm to work, but the company you work for may.
The U.S. government cannot prevent you from filling your yard with yard gnomes, but your housing association may.
The U.S. government cannot force you to stop drag racing, but the company that hosts your life insurance policy may.
The U.S. government cannot prevent you from sharing particular content online, but the site that you use for hosting the content may.
In each example, you are entering an agreement with the company in the example. The agreement can set any terms it wishes. You have the choice of not signing it.
"Fair Use" is extremely vague. I believe it was vague on purpose, so that courts, politicians, and lawyers would become more necessary, but that is beside the point. YouTube realizes that the line is extremely gray, so they are conservative with what they allow. How do people not understand this?
[quote]they don't like Obama... does the EFF like anything?[/quote] Last I knew, the middle 'F' in EFF was for Freedom. That may have just a bit to do with the dislike for our current dictator.
The problem with Jabber/XMPP is that ... it doesn't satisfy the "not used externally" part. Jabber is the basis of GoogleTalk, and several individual IM services.
But, that's a questionable goal of the request anyway. Any one of his coworkers can connect to AIM/Yahoo/GoogleTalk right now. If he doesn't want that happening, he can't just say "we said 'no no bad coworker'" and expect that this makes things all good and happy. If he wants to ensure that coworkers aren't going to connect to external IM services, he needs to block those IM services at the border (firewalls and/or routers).
In my opinion, he should block all IM traffic (Yahoo, AIM, MSN, IRC, ICB, ICQ, XMPP/Jabber, Simple, and the others (look at what pidgin supports, find out what ports those chat/IM services use, block all of them)) at the border, and then require legitimate external users to use a VPN to access the internal Jabber server. If there are remote offices, then either those workers would need to VPN in to the site that hosts the Jabber server ... or each site should have its own Jabber server, and then the Jabber servers would all talk to each other via VPN.
That's how I'd set it up. Block every chat/IM protocol/port at the border (and at the border of each remote office). Set up a Jabber server at the central and at each remote office. Link the Jabber servers to each other via VPN/tunnel/etc.. Go from there.
How in the world did that get modded up? Are people really that ignorant about jabber?
Here's all you need: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jabber_server_software
I never understood the phrase to begin with. It's not like once the cat is out of the bag you can't put it back in.
In medieval England, piglets were sold in the open marketplace. The seller usually kept the pig in a bag, so it would be easier for the buyer to take it home. But shady sellers often tried to trick their buyers by putting a large cat in the bag. If a shrewd shopper looked in the bag - then the cat was literally out of the bag. (By the way, the bag was called a "poke," which is likely where the phrase "a pig in a poke," which nowadays means buying an unknown, came from.)
All you need to know is here:
In conclusion, if your friend spends $20, in one day, then you'll need to play 40 days to catch up with him. The rankings really just show which players have spent the most money.
I've been playing since the first slashdot story about this, and I think it's pretty well done, when the server isn't crashing. The need to pay real money to be competitive is really a shame. Everyone who tries it should know this going in.
Slashdot was slashdotted? That would be a first.
I sure hope someone at least got an achievement for it!
I wish that spaghetti monster would be taught also, and if religious freedom is restored, it will be.
Let the teacher present any theories that they want, and let the parents get involved in suggesting theories that should be discussed, including Spaghetti Monster.
I don't know why people think that Spaghetti monster is a solid argument against us creationists.
The freedom for teachers to speak about any theory is what we've been asking for the whole time!
Most of these things should work with a browser that is relatively standards compliant.
You are wrong here about the standards. Most of the experiments rely on the <canvas> tag, which is supported in almost all browsers except IE, but is not a part of any standard.
Canvas is actually competing against the tag. Currently, pretty much all browsers (including IE) allow support showing external SVG images, but only a few allow inline SVG. Ideally, the standard will require inline SVG support and SMIL support. If this happens, animation will be SMIL-based, instead of event based, and demos such as these will work even smoother :)
You are obviously not using Dvorak. Turn in your card, sir.
And you are obviously a very bad poser. All of those symbols are pinky-controlled in dvorak.
150 WPM is certainly possible. The world record typist could maintain an average 150 WPM rate for 50 min. She had bursts as high as 212 WPM.
But claiming you can type as fast as the world record typist is like saying you can keep up lap swimming with Michael Phelps.
How could you bring up Barbara Blackburn, without mentioning that she used the Dvorak keyboard?
Of course, the keyboard you use may have nothing to do with how fast you type. I'm sure that it was just coincidence that she used dvorak.
I use dvorak. I type faster than I did with qwerty. When I am forced to use qwerty (on someone else's computer, for example), my fingers ache after about 2 minutes of typing because they aren't accustomed to the extra strain.
There could be 2000 studies that come out, all stating that qwerty is theoretically better, but I'd still use dvorak because in my experience, it delivers what it advertises. I don't understand how they can publish article after article against dvorak without ever talking to those of us who have used both.