Quite right. The 6000 years is a rough estimate based on genealogy given in the Bible, from Adam through Jesus; it's not exact, but reasonably close. Of course the Bible doesn't say "this happened 6000 years ago;" that's moronic.
its tragic enough that parents are allowed to brainwash their own children)
Yes, we should trust the government to brainwash our children for us!
I've heard several different ideas about how the earth got here, some of which seem sillier to me than others. None of them can be scientifically proven to be definitive - science is about testing hypotheses, and you obviously can't try to reproduce the origins of the universe. You can find evidence that is consistent with your theory, and you can change your theory as you learn more information, but all you can test is what happens now, not what happened then.
I probably disagree with what you believe to be true about the origins of Life, the Universe and Everything, but I strongly support your right to pass those beliefs on to your children. I hope you will show others the same courtesy.
The REAL geek solution is to have clocks that synchonize themselves. (Computers/cell phones)
My computers sync over NTP and my alarm clock syncs over longwave radio from Colorado, and they're precisely in sync with each other. My cell phone syncs over Cingular's network, and is a few minutes behind - and when we came off Daylight Saving Time, it didn't change until about eight hours after it was supposed to.
Aha! I wondered about this! I'm apparently sensitive to it. I catch a red/green/blue flicker out of the corner of my eye, especially while blinking or glancing at something quickly. It's quite annoying. My friend who has one says after a month or so he stopped noticing; apparently the brain learns to compensate.
The #2 desktop OS is Linux, I'm afraid (with about 3x more users than OSX).
Notice I specifically said desktop OS; I'm not including servers. If you have information to the contrary, cite your source.
If a script spcifically looks for it, though, it will identify it as Opera (on the servers I manage, about 6% of hits are from Opera browsers).
What makes you think they haven't done this You're saying 0.53% of all web surfers use Opera AND have gone out of their way to change their user-agent string so it no longer pretends to be MSIE (thus breaking some web sites)?
Opera makes up 1.472% of hits on my personal home page, but this doesn't account for the various spiders crawling it, so without those I'm sure it's quite a bit higher - which I would expect, since my site is seen by a lot of Slashdotters and others who are much more likely to use Opera than the average population. So I don't doubt your 6% figure, but I do doubt that it's representative. Safari has 2.129% on my site.
I'm no MS shill; I don't have a Windows machine at home. I wasn't thinking of server software at all; the Windows platform can't really hold a candle to open source software there. On the desktop, though, your main threats are remote worms (blocked by SP2's firewall), malicious web sites exploiting browser bugs (let's assume Firefox is immune from this), and trojan horses (trick the user into installing something). Linux is not immune from the former category - I have a Slackware server that was attacked by a worm and used as a spam relay (granted, I did enable sshd, which is off by default in modern versions, and I foolishly created a temporary account with a weak password and forgot to delete it when I was done). As for the latter category, I firmly believe that popularity is the ONLY reason we've only seen trojan horses on Windows. They won't get root privileges on other platforms, but they usually don't need root privileges for their intended purpose.
Ah, of course - I had thought of that too, but the idea didn't make it into my post. You're quite correct. The original poster didn't mention whether reusing old passwords is permitted; if they can be reused without restriction, users could simply alternate between a few. When I had to change my password every few weeks, I would append a number to the end, and keep incrementing the number each time.
Damn, this means I missed the part where the web, and all reference to it, was removed in 1976 in order to appease the new rulers of Earth - who then removed all reference to themselves in 1981.
Dude.. you don't remember that?
Hm. I always thought it was weird that they wanted all references removed. I guess people like you are the reason. Now I know!
The Novell machine that I have our IT staff runs requires employees to change the password literally EVERY DAY. The password must also be different, and the employee is fired if he or she is caught writing it down.
Either your employee turnover is REALLY high, or they've been trained REALLY well to hide the Post-It notes from you... or, as other posters have suggested, you're simply lying. But giving you the benefit of the doubt... yeah, they're writing them down, you just aren't catching them very often. All the employees weren't smart enough to avoid you noticing, have already been fired.
We already have a trip planner for Portland Oregon too (the area covered by Google Transit): go to trimet.org, notice the Trip Planner box on the right. TriMet's Transit Tracker also tells you how long it will be until the next bus arrives at your stop (based on real-time GPS tracking, not just the scheduled arrival time); this is also available for WAP-enabled mobile phones or you can call 503-238-RIDE. Works very well.
Safari is the #3 most popular web browser behind Internet Explorer and Firefox, according to whoever these guys are. It's also the #1 browser on the #2 desktop OS. To ignore Safari is to embrace Microsoft's monopoly. Most of us here on Slashdot aren't particularly happy with that idea.
What a stupid idea. In an emergency, it may be necessary to accelerate quickly, e.g. to get out of the way of another vehicle that's swerving into your lane, etc. If the behavior of the gas pedal suddenly changes in the middle of a crisis, it could CAUSE an accident.
Or, let's say you've got a 25mph residential street that turns onto a 50mph highway. You're driving along at 50mph, and suddenly the GPS system mistakenly thinks you're close enough to the residential street that you should now be going 25mph. The ensuing weirdness with the gas pedal distracts the driver for a moment. Fantastic.
Have you ever seen an incorrect (possibly simply out of date) street on Mapquest/Yahoo/Google Maps? I wonder how that sort of thing might affect this.
I would have no problem with using this technology to light up a warning light on the dashboard or something, but directly affecting the control of the vehicle sounds like a VERY bad idea to me. As long as we still trust humans to operate the steering wheel, we need to trust them to operate the gas as well.
QuickTime 7 does this too. Go to Window, Show A/V Controls, there's a slider in the bottom right corner to adjust the playback speed. Not the best UI (that slider is awfully small!), but it works extremely well.
I'm not talking about triangulating. That would mean determining a phone's exact location based on how close it is to each of three (or more) towers, which could be very useful, but all I'm talking about it determining which one tower your phone is closest to, and connecting the call to the appropriate 911 facility for that tower.
I'm pretty happy with the way we vote here in Oregon. Get a ballot in the mail, mark the little circles just like a Scantron multiple-choice test, stuff the completed ballot into an envelope, stuff that into a larger envelope, sign it, take it to someplace with a ballot box whenever is convenient (I live two blocks from a public library, so that works for me), and you're done. Election officials compare the signature on the outer envelope to the one they have on file from your voter registration, and they can contact you if there's a problem.
Yeah, it means you have to have a mailing address. I'm not sure what provisions there are for homeless people voting.
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However, my cell phone provider never said anything, at least not clearly, and the one time I had to call 911, I went through a whole little dance giving my physical address to the operator and then wait to be transfered to a local 911 response center.
That's weird. My assumption was, when you dial 911 from a cell phone, whichever cell you're in at the time determines which 911 center the call will be routed to - so if I'm at home and dial 911, the call will be routed to my local 911 response center (about a block and a half from me, actually), but if I go somewhere else and dial 911, the call will be routed to whatever 911 response center is appropriate for that location, because that's where the cell tower is.
With cell phones, they know where all the towers are and can set up 911 appropriately. With VOIP, they have no way to know where you're physically connecting from, so they have to base it off your billing address, which may be unhelpful if you're not at home.
We all know what the law is getting at. The sensible interpretation for what code to disclose/escrow is all code that is not otherwise available in the marketplace which takes care of the subsidiary thing. This means that Diebold doesn't have to escrow Windows or Windows CE, but *does* have to disclose proprietary code written *for* them by anybody, along with all the code Diebold has written that builds/integrates the 3rd-party code into the product.
Sounds good to me. Now the law needs to be changed to actually say that.:-)
(not too surprising considering that Safari is based on Konqueror's KHTML rendering engine).
My understanding is that after Apple got Safari to render Acid2 correctly, they sent their modifications to the Konqueror team, who was able to implement about half of them. The other half, the Konqueror team had to do themselves, from scratch. Safari and Konqueror were originally based on the same code, but they've diverged a lot.
What's the point to put it on the public ftp then, if I want to launch something big time, I just wait before I put it on the ftp, I just don't put it and expect people not to see it.
All the mirror sites have to be able to download it in advance anyway, otherwise nobody will use the mirrors and the main site will be in REAL trouble.
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Quite right. The 6000 years is a rough estimate based on genealogy given in the Bible, from Adam through Jesus; it's not exact, but reasonably close. Of course the Bible doesn't say "this happened 6000 years ago;" that's moronic.
its tragic enough that parents are allowed to brainwash their own children)
Yes, we should trust the government to brainwash our children for us!
I've heard several different ideas about how the earth got here, some of which seem sillier to me than others. None of them can be scientifically proven to be definitive - science is about testing hypotheses, and you obviously can't try to reproduce the origins of the universe. You can find evidence that is consistent with your theory, and you can change your theory as you learn more information, but all you can test is what happens now, not what happened then.
I probably disagree with what you believe to be true about the origins of Life, the Universe and Everything, but I strongly support your right to pass those beliefs on to your children. I hope you will show others the same courtesy.
The REAL geek solution is to have clocks that synchonize themselves. (Computers/cell phones)
My computers sync over NTP and my alarm clock syncs over longwave radio from Colorado, and they're precisely in sync with each other. My cell phone syncs over Cingular's network, and is a few minutes behind - and when we came off Daylight Saving Time, it didn't change until about eight hours after it was supposed to.
Aha! I wondered about this! I'm apparently sensitive to it. I catch a red/green/blue flicker out of the corner of my eye, especially while blinking or glancing at something quickly. It's quite annoying. My friend who has one says after a month or so he stopped noticing; apparently the brain learns to compensate.
The #2 desktop OS is Linux, I'm afraid (with about 3x more users than OSX).
Notice I specifically said desktop OS; I'm not including servers. If you have information to the contrary, cite your source.
If a script spcifically looks for it, though, it will identify it as Opera (on the servers I manage, about 6% of hits are from Opera browsers).
What makes you think they haven't done this You're saying 0.53% of all web surfers use Opera AND have gone out of their way to change their user-agent string so it no longer pretends to be MSIE (thus breaking some web sites)?
Opera makes up 1.472% of hits on my personal home page, but this doesn't account for the various spiders crawling it, so without those I'm sure it's quite a bit higher - which I would expect, since my site is seen by a lot of Slashdotters and others who are much more likely to use Opera than the average population. So I don't doubt your 6% figure, but I do doubt that it's representative. Safari has 2.129% on my site.
I'm no MS shill; I don't have a Windows machine at home. I wasn't thinking of server software at all; the Windows platform can't really hold a candle to open source software there. On the desktop, though, your main threats are remote worms (blocked by SP2's firewall), malicious web sites exploiting browser bugs (let's assume Firefox is immune from this), and trojan horses (trick the user into installing something). Linux is not immune from the former category - I have a Slackware server that was attacked by a worm and used as a spam relay (granted, I did enable sshd, which is off by default in modern versions, and I foolishly created a temporary account with a weak password and forgot to delete it when I was done). As for the latter category, I firmly believe that popularity is the ONLY reason we've only seen trojan horses on Windows. They won't get root privileges on other platforms, but they usually don't need root privileges for their intended purpose.
Ah, of course - I had thought of that too, but the idea didn't make it into my post. You're quite correct. The original poster didn't mention whether reusing old passwords is permitted; if they can be reused without restriction, users could simply alternate between a few. When I had to change my password every few weeks, I would append a number to the end, and keep incrementing the number each time.
There's hardly a point to using SSH on such a buggy and exploited platform as Windoze and Windoze lacks X forwarding,
PuTTY and SecureCRT can both do X forwarding.
WinXPSP2 running Firefox is probably about as secure as Linux would be if Linux were as popular as Windows.
Damn, this means I missed the part where the web, and all reference to it, was removed in 1976 in order to appease the new rulers of Earth - who then removed all reference to themselves in 1981.
Dude.. you don't remember that?
Hm. I always thought it was weird that they wanted all references removed. I guess people like you are the reason. Now I know!
The Novell machine that I have our IT staff runs requires employees to change the password literally EVERY DAY. The password must also be different, and the employee is fired if he or she is caught writing it down.
Either your employee turnover is REALLY high, or they've been trained REALLY well to hide the Post-It notes from you... or, as other posters have suggested, you're simply lying. But giving you the benefit of the doubt... yeah, they're writing them down, you just aren't catching them very often. All the employees weren't smart enough to avoid you noticing, have already been fired.
We already have a trip planner for Portland Oregon too (the area covered by Google Transit): go to trimet.org, notice the Trip Planner box on the right. TriMet's Transit Tracker also tells you how long it will be until the next bus arrives at your stop (based on real-time GPS tracking, not just the scheduled arrival time); this is also available for WAP-enabled mobile phones or you can call 503-238-RIDE. Works very well.
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Safari is the #3 most popular web browser behind Internet Explorer and Firefox, according to whoever these guys are. It's also the #1 browser on the #2 desktop OS. To ignore Safari is to embrace Microsoft's monopoly. Most of us here on Slashdot aren't particularly happy with that idea.
but nobody sane would actually run a farm of business-critical servers based on BSD. Get real.
Apple has been dying for the last two decades; it was a match made in heaven!
What a stupid idea. In an emergency, it may be necessary to accelerate quickly, e.g. to get out of the way of another vehicle that's swerving into your lane, etc. If the behavior of the gas pedal suddenly changes in the middle of a crisis, it could CAUSE an accident.
Or, let's say you've got a 25mph residential street that turns onto a 50mph highway. You're driving along at 50mph, and suddenly the GPS system mistakenly thinks you're close enough to the residential street that you should now be going 25mph. The ensuing weirdness with the gas pedal distracts the driver for a moment. Fantastic.
Have you ever seen an incorrect (possibly simply out of date) street on Mapquest/Yahoo/Google Maps? I wonder how that sort of thing might affect this.
I would have no problem with using this technology to light up a warning light on the dashboard or something, but directly affecting the control of the vehicle sounds like a VERY bad idea to me. As long as we still trust humans to operate the steering wheel, we need to trust them to operate the gas as well.
QuickTime 7 does this too. Go to Window, Show A/V Controls, there's a slider in the bottom right corner to adjust the playback speed. Not the best UI (that slider is awfully small!), but it works extremely well.
Windows wasn't able to do this before, now it is.
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You might be overstating the situation just a bit.
I'm not talking about triangulating. That would mean determining a phone's exact location based on how close it is to each of three (or more) towers, which could be very useful, but all I'm talking about it determining which one tower your phone is closest to, and connecting the call to the appropriate 911 facility for that tower.
It annoys me that ATMs always ask whether or not I want a receipt. Yes, of course I want a receipt, for precisely this reason!
I'm pretty happy with the way we vote here in Oregon. Get a ballot in the mail, mark the little circles just like a Scantron multiple-choice test, stuff the completed ballot into an envelope, stuff that into a larger envelope, sign it, take it to someplace with a ballot box whenever is convenient (I live two blocks from a public library, so that works for me), and you're done. Election officials compare the signature on the outer envelope to the one they have on file from your voter registration, and they can contact you if there's a problem.
Yeah, it means you have to have a mailing address. I'm not sure what provisions there are for homeless people voting.
However, my cell phone provider never said anything, at least not clearly, and the one time I had to call 911, I went through a whole little dance giving my physical address to the operator and then wait to be transfered to a local 911 response center.
That's weird. My assumption was, when you dial 911 from a cell phone, whichever cell you're in at the time determines which 911 center the call will be routed to - so if I'm at home and dial 911, the call will be routed to my local 911 response center (about a block and a half from me, actually), but if I go somewhere else and dial 911, the call will be routed to whatever 911 response center is appropriate for that location, because that's where the cell tower is.
With cell phones, they know where all the towers are and can set up 911 appropriately. With VOIP, they have no way to know where you're physically connecting from, so they have to base it off your billing address, which may be unhelpful if you're not at home.
Lemme guess, you're typing this on a Linux machine, you use *NIX at work and everyone in your family uses *NIX or BSd or something.
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Mac OS X, actually, but I do have Linux servers happily humming away in the other room.
Because if you're using Windows,
that would probably make you the biggest hypocrite on
Not necessarily. There are a lot of people who trust Microsoft. I trust Microsoft enough to turn automatic updates on in WinXP.
We all know what the law is getting at. The sensible interpretation for what code to disclose/escrow is all code that is not otherwise available in the marketplace which takes care of the subsidiary thing. This means that Diebold doesn't have to escrow Windows or Windows CE, but *does* have to disclose proprietary code written *for* them by anybody, along with all the code Diebold has written that builds/integrates the 3rd-party code into the product.
:-)
Sounds good to me. Now the law needs to be changed to actually say that.
What part of "BTW I'm on Linux as well" didn't you understand? ;-)
(not too surprising considering that Safari is based on Konqueror's KHTML rendering engine).
My understanding is that after Apple got Safari to render Acid2 correctly, they sent their modifications to the Konqueror team, who was able to implement about half of them. The other half, the Konqueror team had to do themselves, from scratch. Safari and Konqueror were originally based on the same code, but they've diverged a lot.
What's the point to put it on the public ftp then, if I want to launch something big time, I just wait before I put it on the ftp, I just don't put it and expect people not to see it.
All the mirror sites have to be able to download it in advance anyway, otherwise nobody will use the mirrors and the main site will be in REAL trouble.