I hate it when I hover over a link, and it doesn't tell me what it links to at the bottom of the page, can you force it?
Generally no, because JavaScript can generate a link on the fly. In some cases, the site might simply do window.status=""; when you mouseover the link, which will blank out the status bar so you don't see the target URL. However, if the link itself runs JavaScript code, which in turn takes you to a new page, then no, there's no way for the browser to figure out which URL that will be.
I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. Are you using bookmarks in some way I haven't thought of?
Are you talking about the Bookmarks menu, in the menu bar? If so: If you wanted to bookmark the current page, why would you scroll through your list of bookmarks first?
Are you talking about the Bookmarks sidebar? I never use that, but (at least on 2.0RC2) I'm not seeing a "bookmark this page" option there.
Spot on. My parents here in Sweden used to buy some really tasty canned ham back in the 80's, which in retrospect I think must have been the official product in question. It was called "burkskinka", ie. simply Canned Ham.
The same i18n was probably applied in all non-english markets. I guess what I'm trying to say is that 60% of Europeans have probably eaten spam at one point or another, but with localized names that aren't remotely similar to "spam".
My guess is that they bought a generic imitation of SPAM, not real Hormel SPAM. I'm almost certain that Hormel calls their product "SPAM" in every country they sell it. Brand names are usually not localized (although there are plenty of exceptions); I noticed on a can of Fanta soda I bought in Spain the label said "Un producto de The Coca-Cola Company".
The point, as I learned it, was that a trademark becomes generic when it becomes the generic term for that product. E.g. "Cola" is a generic term for a certain type of soft drink, but "Coca-Cola" is not.
This is a trademark issue, which the GPL doesn't address. The GPL is a copyright license, and does not grant the right to use trademarked artwork, even though it does grant the right to copy the bits that make up that artwork.
Sure, get the site taken down, and punish the perpetrator. But if you don't know who did it, the last thing that you want to do is stand in front of a group of rebelious teens and make idle threats.
It's not an idle threat. If you file a lawsuit (against John Doe, for libel) you can subpoena MySpace to find out the IP addresses and timestamps for the people responsible, then subpoena the ISP for their billing records. If the kids did it from home, you've got them. Even if they did it from a public library, they usually keep records of who uses what when. The same might be true of the school's computer lab. If the kids had a laptop and used an open wifi hotspot, well, then you might not be able to track them down, but that's not particularly likely.
The name "IceWeasel" is similar enough to "FireFox" that I don't have any trouble remembering what IceWeasel is, and I have a tendency to lose track of that sort of thing. I think it's a fantastic name.
Looking forward to hearing about the next fork, "WindBunny".
If you're going to bother setting up end-to-end encryption (which you can't use with anyone else who uses Yahoo Messenger, thus eliminating the entire reason for using Yahoo Messenger in the first place) why not just use Jabber?
I don't think your memory is correct; CmdrTaco has always been UID 1. However, comment IDs used to be relative to the article, rather than global; this was changed because of all the "first post" comments.
Probably not yet, but since iTunes supports the metadata now, perhaps in the future, iPods will support it. It could be introduced on existing iPods with a firmware update, or it could be a new feature only available on new iPods that haven't been released yet.
Think about it: two little (?) kids just had their world collapse. Their mother may be dead. Their father may be in prison. Aside from these two unimaginable losses, the kids probably also face the uncertainty of who will raise them at this point. They're scared, and can't turn to either parent for comfort perhaps for the first time in their short lives. IMHO the status of ReiserFS inclusion is completely insignificant compared to this issue.
Of course you're absolutely right, but Slashdot is not the appropriate place to discuss what will happen to Hans Reiser's children. It is the appropriate place to discuss what will happen to Hans Reiser's filesystem. You're more than welcome to do both, of course, but please don't complain about the latter here.
How can you be arrested for suspicion of murder? You get arrested for murder. The cops at least think he did it.
s/think/suspect/;
Make sense now?
He is suspected of having committed murder. He has not been proven guilty. Until he's convicted by a jury of his peers in a court of law, he's still just a suspect.
Depends. If isolation was actually 'suicide watch', as flagged by a competent mental health expert (leaving aside questions as to whether Alameda County PD employs same for this purpose), then I think it would be expected that people would be denied access to you, legal representation included.
Why, because somehow his lawyer might help him commit suicide?
I'm simply shocked at the that in a matter of life and death you would even think to equate the importance of this piece of software that less than.005% of the population has heard of with someone's LIFE.
Nobody's equating anything. A significantly higher percentage than.005% of people on Slashdot actually use ReiserFS themselves, and if something should happen to its creator (convicted of murder, struck by lightning, hit by a bus, loses interest in the project, etc.) it would directly affect a lot of people here.
If he is guilty, the F/OSS community's ethical/moral standards are more likely to assist in his conviction, simply because murder is wrong.
I rather hope that the F/OSS community's ethical/moral standards have no impact whatsoever on whether Hans Reiser is convicted of anything, unless a member of the F/OSS community is randomly selected to serve on the jury.
Not just the loss of the aircraft, but the disruption in air travel for the next several days, increased costs due to additional security measures, plus low sales due to low consumer confidence in the safety of flying... and they weren't doing very well financially anyway. I imagine they probably had to lay off a lot of employees, and it can't have been easy for all those people to find work elsewhere.
Just because that's not the most important consequence of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks doesn't mean it's not important at all.
People need to remember that there are human lives involved here. There are also children in the mix.
I do hope she's alright, and that the legal system treats Mr. Reiser fairly.
This is NOT a tragedy for the Reiser filesystem.
"Think of the children!" If Hans Reiser were arrested for embezzling millions of dollars from WalMart, it would be just as much a tragedy for the Reiser filesystem as this is, regardless of whether there are human lives involved. We haven't forgotten about the lives of Hans and Nina Reiser and their children - in fact, we never knew any of them in the first place. ReiserFS, though, is personally significant to many Slashdotters.
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This is fixed in 2.0.
I hate it when I hover over a link, and it doesn't tell me what it links to at the bottom of the page, can you force it?
Generally no, because JavaScript can generate a link on the fly. In some cases, the site might simply do window.status=""; when you mouseover the link, which will blank out the status bar so you don't see the target URL. However, if the link itself runs JavaScript code, which in turn takes you to a new page, then no, there's no way for the browser to figure out which URL that will be.
I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. Are you using bookmarks in some way I haven't thought of?
Are you talking about the Bookmarks menu, in the menu bar? If so: If you wanted to bookmark the current page, why would you scroll through your list of bookmarks first?
Are you talking about the Bookmarks sidebar? I never use that, but (at least on 2.0RC2) I'm not seeing a "bookmark this page" option there.
Ctrl-L has been a shortcut (for "Location") for far longer than anyone ever thought to integrate a search bar into a browser.
I would probably switch to a different browser if Firefox didn't support saved passwords. Every other modern browser does.
Firefox 2.0 already does this for browser crashes; it should be trivial to add some configurability to the feature.
It's a mystery to some of us why the U.S. picked a dirty roadkill eater as the National Symbol.
Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey.
How can you nail a guy who's legally proved he's innocent on every count even when he could of just gone "I'm not this guy, see ya!" ?
He hasn't legally proven it. I'm sure he would have, if the suit had continued, but the RIAA dropped the suit before it got to that point.
I suggest that your product, no matter how you may percieve it has NEVER been a favorite.
...Over 6.7 million cans are sold annually in Hawaii, which equals 5.5 cans per year per Hawaiian.
More than 122 million cans of SPAM are sold worldwide each year. In the U.S., a can of SPAM is purchased every 3 seconds.
Spot on. My parents here in Sweden used to buy some really tasty canned ham back in the 80's, which in retrospect I think must have been the official product in question. It was called "burkskinka", ie. simply Canned Ham.
The same i18n was probably applied in all non-english markets. I guess what I'm trying to say is that 60% of Europeans have probably eaten spam at one point or another, but with localized names that aren't remotely similar to "spam".
My guess is that they bought a generic imitation of SPAM, not real Hormel SPAM. I'm almost certain that Hormel calls their product "SPAM" in every country they sell it. Brand names are usually not localized (although there are plenty of exceptions); I noticed on a can of Fanta soda I bought in Spain the label said "Un producto de The Coca-Cola Company".
"What, like, in the back of a Volkswagen?"
The point, as I learned it, was that a trademark becomes generic when it becomes the generic term for that product. E.g. "Cola" is a generic term for a certain type of soft drink, but "Coca-Cola" is not.
No, but "Coke" is, in the South.
This is a trademark issue, which the GPL doesn't address. The GPL is a copyright license, and does not grant the right to use trademarked artwork, even though it does grant the right to copy the bits that make up that artwork.
Sure, get the site taken down, and punish the perpetrator. But if you don't know who did it, the last thing that you want to do is stand in front of a group of rebelious teens and make idle threats.
It's not an idle threat. If you file a lawsuit (against John Doe, for libel) you can subpoena MySpace to find out the IP addresses and timestamps for the people responsible, then subpoena the ISP for their billing records. If the kids did it from home, you've got them. Even if they did it from a public library, they usually keep records of who uses what when. The same might be true of the school's computer lab. If the kids had a laptop and used an open wifi hotspot, well, then you might not be able to track them down, but that's not particularly likely.
The name "IceWeasel" is similar enough to "FireFox" that I don't have any trouble remembering what IceWeasel is, and I have a tendency to lose track of that sort of thing. I think it's a fantastic name.
Looking forward to hearing about the next fork, "WindBunny".
If you're going to bother setting up end-to-end encryption (which you can't use with anyone else who uses Yahoo Messenger, thus eliminating the entire reason for using Yahoo Messenger in the first place) why not just use Jabber?
I don't think your memory is correct; CmdrTaco has always been UID 1. However, comment IDs used to be relative to the article, rather than global; this was changed because of all the "first post" comments.
Probably not yet, but since iTunes supports the metadata now, perhaps in the future, iPods will support it. It could be introduced on existing iPods with a firmware update, or it could be a new feature only available on new iPods that haven't been released yet.
Think about it: two little (?) kids just had their world collapse. Their mother may be dead. Their father may be in prison. Aside from these two unimaginable losses, the kids probably also face the uncertainty of who will raise them at this point. They're scared, and can't turn to either parent for comfort perhaps for the first time in their short lives. IMHO the status of ReiserFS inclusion is completely insignificant compared to this issue.
Of course you're absolutely right, but Slashdot is not the appropriate place to discuss what will happen to Hans Reiser's children. It is the appropriate place to discuss what will happen to Hans Reiser's filesystem. You're more than welcome to do both, of course, but please don't complain about the latter here.
How can you be arrested for suspicion of murder? You get arrested for murder. The cops at least think he did it.
s/think/suspect/;
Make sense now?
He is suspected of having committed murder. He has not been proven guilty. Until he's convicted by a jury of his peers in a court of law, he's still just a suspect.
Depends. If isolation was actually 'suicide watch', as flagged by a competent mental health expert (leaving aside questions as to whether Alameda County PD employs same for this purpose), then I think it would be expected that people would be denied access to you, legal representation included.
Why, because somehow his lawyer might help him commit suicide?
I'm simply shocked at the that in a matter of life and death you would even think to equate the importance of this piece of software that less than .005% of the population has heard of with someone's LIFE.
.005% of people on Slashdot actually use ReiserFS themselves, and if something should happen to its creator (convicted of murder, struck by lightning, hit by a bus, loses interest in the project, etc.) it would directly affect a lot of people here.
Nobody's equating anything. A significantly higher percentage than
Yeah, don't feed the trolls, I know. Sorry.
If he is guilty, the F/OSS community's ethical/moral standards are more likely to assist in his conviction, simply because murder is wrong.
I rather hope that the F/OSS community's ethical/moral standards have no impact whatsoever on whether Hans Reiser is convicted of anything, unless a member of the F/OSS community is randomly selected to serve on the jury.
Not just the loss of the aircraft, but the disruption in air travel for the next several days, increased costs due to additional security measures, plus low sales due to low consumer confidence in the safety of flying... and they weren't doing very well financially anyway. I imagine they probably had to lay off a lot of employees, and it can't have been easy for all those people to find work elsewhere.
Just because that's not the most important consequence of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks doesn't mean it's not important at all.
People need to remember that there are human lives involved here. There are also children in the mix.
I do hope she's alright, and that the legal system treats Mr. Reiser fairly.
This is NOT a tragedy for the Reiser filesystem.
"Think of the children!" If Hans Reiser were arrested for embezzling millions of dollars from WalMart, it would be just as much a tragedy for the Reiser filesystem as this is, regardless of whether there are human lives involved. We haven't forgotten about the lives of Hans and Nina Reiser and their children - in fact, we never knew any of them in the first place. ReiserFS, though, is personally significant to many Slashdotters.