Why did Mozilla release Netscape 8, based on Firefox 1.0.3, AFTER they had released the fix? (1.0.4) Why wouldn't they just wait an extra day? Now there will be vulnerable Netscape 8's floating around if people aren't consciencious enough to check for updates daily.
Since people are going to have to update their locations themselves, I'm sure now that operators are going to be required to ask "Are you currently at the location that this phone is listed for" as a part of their answer routine.
In Thursday's decision, the three judge-panel turned down the appeal request but wrote that the earlier ruling should not have made conclusions about whether downloading or uploading music should be illegal.
On first reading this article you may quickly come to the conclusion that this court case decided that sharing music wasn't breaking any laws at all. It's obvious that the judicial system sees that there is something wrong with sharing music, but at least until they come to the official conclusion and write that down, it's nice to see they'll uphold the rights of the ISPs' customers.
Don't be so literal about it all, we should all be able to tell that he's simply referring to Linus' full control over the development of the project. A dictator is defined as "An absolute ruler."
You're placing a stereotype on the word by thinking that just because someone has absolute rule they can't be fair with it.
It looks like yet another service that will be fairly monopolized by the local telcos.
I'm guessing that these companies will lease the local telecom companies' bandwidth, and we'll still be stuck with the same old YourLocalPhoneCompany vs. YourLocalCableCompany (in my case Bell and Time Warner) for over-the-internet data options (i.e. VoIP, video over IP, etc.)
I'd like to see ways for competition to increase in the local broadband spectrum...
Type about:config in the URL bar, then scroll down to a line that says "browser.turbo.enabled". Double click on that value and change it from false to true. It speeds up the start and performance somehow (not exactly sure how)
First the national ID cards scanned electronically for the US, now the microphones in London? Sounds like a few more steps are being taken to put us even closer to the world depicted in George Orwell's 1984:o
MS offers a lot of options to educators. Schools can get a whole load of software for varying prices prices.
My teacher for my networking class has subscribed this year to MSDNAA for about $800, and students and teachers can receive all the operating systems, visual studio, other programs I've never even heard of, etc. We've got two full CD slip cases of MS software, and we get sent new CDs each month. We have XP volume license keys, and for software that isn't a volume licensed version there is a database of keys that can be used specifically by students. The only downside is Office isn't included in the package my teacher subscribed to, oh well. There's varying packages which contain more and more software, thus costing more money.
It's basically the same thing they offer to colleges and universities.
Also, if school systems made the switch to open source, there'd be a lot of training programs that'd have to be run. Lots of faculty meetings, etc. The whole attendance, grading, etc. system runs on Windows-based computers at the schools in my county now. Switching all of that over would probably require a lot more money than they'd be saving in the short term.
I can see why they want to do this though. Currently every state has it's own different standards for the drivers license system, and it is a nationally acceptable means of identifying oneself (although I'm sure there are federal requirements on what absolutely must be on a driver's license...)
There's been a lot of stories in the news about how ridiculously easy it is to get a driver's license in different states. I know here in North Carolina it has appeared in the local papers quite often since illegal immigrants (mostly Hispanics) end up obtaining them all the time.
It gives the government a centralized form of identification to "keep track of people" for "security." Whether or not this is a good thing is for someone else on here to discuss...
On a side note I can see the possibility this card being overused for everything, kind of like the social security number. Name one form you don't have to use your social security number for these days.
Read the bottom chart where it talks about costs. They say it cost them $48.50 to make this, and they had $1.50 to spare. Perhaps they had a $50 budget on this?
Also, was this some sort of project or did they really just make this all for their own enjoyment?
The event was a great success, the park people were impressed and said that we "really had our shit together". ..
Judging by the pictures this whole thing didn't look that organized to me.. It looked like it was held in some baseball field with a few tents put up so the "Burgers got cooked but the chefs didn't." It seemed like it was a bunch of Linux junkies getting together and having a fun time eating and doing their own thing (and hey, what's wrong with that?:P)
I own Linux Essential Reference by Ed Petron, also published by New Riders. The book is mostly man pages with a little clarity added to them, and a few detailed tables on complicated commands. I'm not sure what Solaris 8's book is like, but "chain books" like these tend to follow the same format. So if you already understand manpages pretty well, you don't need one of these books from what I've gathered.
The real reason I think the crime has decreased due to the use of this is other countries is because it causes a great deal of intimidation. Kind of like a death penalty: If you kill someone and get caught, you know you'll most likely die. Or the hidden police cruisers: You don't know if the car next to you while you're speeding is occupied by an officer or not, so you don't speed as much.
I'm sure that this does help pinpoint shop-lifters for monitoring by the store, but I think alot of it is intimidation.
"Don't bother trying to create a better commercial desktop OS - it doesn't matter how hard you try, how many engineers you throw at the problem, how much money you spend, or how many years you put into it. Microsoft owns that space and, worse, the public is totally complicit with that fact. People will not stop using Windows. It is a losing battle."
Maybe the reason Microsoft owns this space is because it has done all the things mentioned in there. Microsoft's programmers get paid money, and money feeds people. Small donations directed towards Linus Torvalds doesn't feed him too well. While Microsoft has a large amount of people getting paid well, Linux has a few guys that don't get paid anything at all.
Money gets people thinking. Thinking gets people innovating, and Microsoft has done a good job at innovating from what I hear. Linux has not changed too much in the past 10 years.
While I don't support Microsoft, and I don't even run Linux, I run Debian, I have realized that since Windows 2000, Microsoft has worked hard on it's product and innovated. Maybe this is why no one else can beat them right now -- no one else has enough money.
Why does the NSA only make tools that work with Red Hat? Yes, Linux is Linux, but distributions place different stuff in different places. I think they should expand a little and make modifications to work nicely with other popular distributions, too.
Was there ever any other major Mac distrobution that was actually "main stream" except for Yellow Dog? I'm sure this will give some i386 (and whatever else mandrake supports) Mandrake users something to look forward to on their PPCs.
This doesn't seem like a very good idea to me... how might these kids treat the laptops? What happens when they break or some kid gets it infected with a nasty virus?
Why is it that all these companies are now making advances in MP3 technology while the music itself is being destroyed? Let's face it, how many people use MP3s for legal purposes (like listening to their own band). Even cell phones have MP3 players now, but what's the use? If the crackdown on pirated MP3s continues, these companies will lose their money to consumers no longer interested in free music.
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Why did Mozilla release Netscape 8, based on Firefox 1.0.3, AFTER they had released the fix? (1.0.4) Why wouldn't they just wait an extra day? Now there will be vulnerable Netscape 8's floating around if people aren't consciencious enough to check for updates daily.
Since people are going to have to update their locations themselves, I'm sure now that operators are going to be required to ask "Are you currently at the location that this phone is listed for" as a part of their answer routine.
In Thursday's decision, the three judge-panel turned down the appeal request but wrote that the earlier ruling should not have made conclusions about whether downloading or uploading music should be illegal.
On first reading this article you may quickly come to the conclusion that this court case decided that sharing music wasn't breaking any laws at all. It's obvious that the judicial system sees that there is something wrong with sharing music, but at least until they come to the official conclusion and write that down, it's nice to see they'll uphold the rights of the ISPs' customers.
Don't be so literal about it all, we should all be able to tell that he's simply referring to Linus' full control over the development of the project. A dictator is defined as "An absolute ruler."
You're placing a stereotype on the word by thinking that just because someone has absolute rule they can't be fair with it.
It looks like yet another service that will be fairly monopolized by the local telcos.
I'm guessing that these companies will lease the local telecom companies' bandwidth, and we'll still be stuck with the same old YourLocalPhoneCompany vs. YourLocalCableCompany (in my case Bell and Time Warner) for over-the-internet data options (i.e. VoIP, video over IP, etc.)
I'd like to see ways for competition to increase in the local broadband spectrum...
Type about:config in the URL bar, then scroll down to a line that says "browser.turbo.enabled". Double click on that value and change it from false to true. It speeds up the start and performance somehow (not exactly sure how)
According to the Mozilla website you can disable JavaScript for the time being. Just for you lazy folks out there that didn't search around enough :P
Only 5 acceptable comments up and I already can't access the site? Does that set a record?
First the national ID cards scanned electronically for the US, now the microphones in London? Sounds like a few more steps are being taken to put us even closer to the world depicted in George Orwell's 1984 :o
The book just never leaves my mind.
What about the http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/default.aspx
MSDN Academic Alliance?
MS offers a lot of options to educators. Schools can get a whole load of software for varying prices prices.
My teacher for my networking class has subscribed this year to MSDNAA for about $800, and students and teachers can receive all the operating systems, visual studio, other programs I've never even heard of, etc. We've got two full CD slip cases of MS software, and we get sent new CDs each month. We have XP volume license keys, and for software that isn't a volume licensed version there is a database of keys that can be used specifically by students. The only downside is Office isn't included in the package my teacher subscribed to, oh well. There's varying packages which contain more and more software, thus costing more money.
It's basically the same thing they offer to colleges and universities.
Also, if school systems made the switch to open source, there'd be a lot of training programs that'd have to be run. Lots of faculty meetings, etc. The whole attendance, grading, etc. system runs on Windows-based computers at the schools in my county now. Switching all of that over would probably require a lot more money than they'd be saving in the short term.
I can see why they want to do this though. Currently every state has it's own different standards for the drivers license system, and it is a nationally acceptable means of identifying oneself (although I'm sure there are federal requirements on what absolutely must be on a driver's license...)
There's been a lot of stories in the news about how ridiculously easy it is to get a driver's license in different states. I know here in North Carolina it has appeared in the local papers quite often since illegal immigrants (mostly Hispanics) end up obtaining them all the time.
It gives the government a centralized form of identification to "keep track of people" for "security." Whether or not this is a good thing is for someone else on here to discuss...
On a side note I can see the possibility this card being overused for everything, kind of like the social security number. Name one form you don't have to use your social security number for these days.
Read the bottom chart where it talks about costs. They say it cost them $48.50 to make this, and they had $1.50 to spare. Perhaps they had a $50 budget on this?
Also, was this some sort of project or did they really just make this all for their own enjoyment?
Excuse me if I'm wrong... but doesn't the title here in my browser say "Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
How did this make a headline?
They burn off some money like that because they give money to other open source projects for Linux, as well.
Seeing as this was a Slashdot headline, I thought it'd be something a little bigger.
The event was a great success, the park people were impressed and said that we "really had our shit together". . .
:P)
Judging by the pictures this whole thing didn't look that organized to me.. It looked like it was held in some baseball field with a few tents put up so the "Burgers got cooked but the chefs didn't." It seemed like it was a bunch of Linux junkies getting together and having a fun time eating and doing their own thing (and hey, what's wrong with that?
I own Linux Essential Reference by Ed Petron, also published by New Riders. The book is mostly man pages with a little clarity added to them, and a few detailed tables on complicated commands. I'm not sure what Solaris 8's book is like, but "chain books" like these tend to follow the same format. So if you already understand manpages pretty well, you don't need one of these books from what I've gathered.
The real reason I think the crime has decreased due to the use of this is other countries is because it causes a great deal of intimidation. Kind of like a death penalty: If you kill someone and get caught, you know you'll most likely die. Or the hidden police cruisers: You don't know if the car next to you while you're speeding is occupied by an officer or not, so you don't speed as much.
I'm sure that this does help pinpoint shop-lifters for monitoring by the store, but I think alot of it is intimidation.
"Don't bother trying to create a better commercial desktop OS - it doesn't matter how hard you try, how many engineers you throw at the problem, how much money you spend, or how many years you put into it. Microsoft owns that space and, worse, the public is totally complicit with that fact. People will not stop using Windows. It is a losing battle."
Maybe the reason Microsoft owns this space is because it has done all the things mentioned in there. Microsoft's programmers get paid money, and money feeds people. Small donations directed towards Linus Torvalds doesn't feed him too well. While Microsoft has a large amount of people getting paid well, Linux has a few guys that don't get paid anything at all.
Money gets people thinking. Thinking gets people innovating, and Microsoft has done a good job at innovating from what I hear. Linux has not changed too much in the past 10 years.
While I don't support Microsoft, and I don't even run Linux, I run Debian, I have realized that since Windows 2000, Microsoft has worked hard on it's product and innovated. Maybe this is why no one else can beat them right now -- no one else has enough money.
Why does the NSA only make tools that work with Red Hat? Yes, Linux is Linux, but distributions place different stuff in different places. I think they should expand a little and make modifications to work nicely with other popular distributions, too.
Was there ever any other major Mac distrobution that was actually "main stream" except for Yellow Dog? I'm sure this will give some i386 (and whatever else mandrake supports) Mandrake users something to look forward to on their PPCs.
the title said "A solution for the DMCA." Would someone care to point out where the actual solution is? ;) Thanks.
Yeah, the color scheme is dumb.. and why did he throw a lava lamp in there? I guess it added the extra "piz-azz" to the newly modified case.
This doesn't seem like a very good idea to me... how might these kids treat the laptops? What happens when they break or some kid gets it infected with a nasty virus?
scars are souveniers you never lose.
Why is it that all these companies are now making advances in MP3 technology while the music itself is being destroyed? Let's face it, how many people use MP3s for legal purposes (like listening to their own band). Even cell phones have MP3 players now, but what's the use? If the crackdown on pirated MP3s continues, these companies will lose their money to consumers no longer interested in free music.
scars are souveniers you never lose.