What's lawful is defined by the same people that install CCTV. So don't go around smugly pronouncing that you have nothing to fear as long as you don't break the law, it's the single most inane argument in debating surveillance - ever.
That when the government commits a crime, CCTV in the area always turns up faulty. This, people, is the #1 reason to oppose CCTV. Because it is not there to prevent crime. It is there to intimidate normal people like you and me.
The authorities should drop the veil altogether and quit using the word "security", because security is not what such measures are about. _We_ (whoever would object to wearing a dog collar at the airport or having their personal information freely shared with foreign intelligence agencies just because you're getting on a plane) should quit using that word too, because we're giving them a free ride.
The word is enforcement. Better still, control. These measures are all designed to control the population, not to ensure its security.
CHM: google for "chm decompiler". There are several free or free-trial decompilers that will unpack a ch file into html.
For html - that depends. I don't know if there's any viable import facility; you may have to do it by hand. You'll want to strip some or all tags from your html files, maybe replace them with wiki tags for formatting. But remember that the actual data lives in a database, so with some programming you can load your data into the wiki's database directly, though this may involve modifying a number of tables and you'll have to be careful not to break things. With a fresh wiki install create a single page then compare what the DB tables look like before and after - this will tell you what you need to do.
Backup the db - if you're using mySQL, google for "phpmyadmin", install it and you'll find an easy way. Use it also to examine the DB for the stuff above.
I've tried sticking to MVC in a desktop application I'm working on, and I've found it quite hard to integrate the three layers. Model is something you would have to have anyway, it's your data structures and business logic, so it's not an issue. View is usually going to consist of some UI widgets, so as long as you're not rolling your own controls, you won't be spending too much time there. But the Controller give me brainache, because it ends up responding in complex ways to multitudes of events, passing control back and forth between the M and the V. Even though the events themselves are simple, the controller is a tangle. For a while I tried splitting the controller into two separate layers to simplify each, but all I got was lots of pointless forwarding of control between the layers. I don't know if it's supposed to be this hard, or if I'm misunderstanding something fundamental. Sigh.
And by the way, you speak of facts, but we have never been shown proof. You know, that thing that establishes facts as such. We were told it was Bin Laden within hours of the attack, and we were told proof was forthcoming. But it never, um, forthcame.
with whom, and since when? Just because Bush said so, cause he's "the decider"? Last I heard, it was for the Congress to declare war.
You are not at war just because Bush said so. Otherwise, the US has been waging the "war on drugs" for decades, so you could say leaking classified information was treason 10 years ago as well, because then too you were "at war".
You have confused a metaphor with the law. Thanks for playing.
One telling difference: as you note, in Poland they actually announced the fact that calls were being monitored.
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"These days, you can even use the arrow keys to navigate to make it even easier"
Said with a straight face too, I'm sure. Only on slashdot!
Never more than one key at a time?
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So how do you manage with the everpresent colon in commands?
I know, I know, different paradigm, get used to it and all that, but whose bright idea was to require SHIFT for command-mode expressions like:q? Semi-colon I would understand, but the colon is a bit much.
The guy called his site hajinet, after all. When he gets back home, he's gonna settle in Alabama and run a new ISP called niggernet. But Linux will make him feel good.
This post not indended as flamebait, just an observation on how outrageously jingoistic a name the guy picked. And no-one has called him on it yet.
Well, if I had 90 million bucks in advertizing budget, I'd be able to make five times that in whatever I was peddling. Or you could resell advertizing to interested parties.
Defraud me, would you? Pretty please? I'll settle for half that and I'll only take 0.02 seconds of your time while I decide whether to accept your settlement. I promise! Can we deal?
Ads! Think of it: millions of office workers spending their lives glued to their Word or Excel displays, whole lot of screen estate, and not a single ad in sight. And just as people would frown at ads in desktop apps, they are much accustomed to ads appearing every time they do anything on the web. How long before the first web-based office suite displays ads, "carefully tailored to the content of your documents"? Not that damn long, I'd say.
So you would build gas chambers for the Nazis, wouldn't you, since a corporation is an amoral and profit-oriented enterprise? Or maybe you'd sell them canned food to feed concentration camp inmates, since they're better off with your food than with none at all?
And *this* is modded insightful? So Dear Insightful, what are corporations if not people? What are they - AI? A c orporation is a bunch of people who get all sorts of rights from the government so that they can pursue their goals, irrespective of public interest (it wasn't always like this). Since they are awarded rights, how about some responsibilities to go with them? A corporation is a bunch of people who make decisions which often influence other people. Some of the decisions they make are moral in nature, there is no way to escape that. "I was just following orders" was not a good defense at Nuremberg, and hopefully the day comes when "I was just trying to make as big a profit as possible" isn't going to be a good defense, either.
I'm part of the problem as I have plenty of Chinese-made goods.
What's worse, it's almost futile to try to avoid them. I was recently buying a pair of binoculars, not horribly expensive but pricey. In the store I looked at two models from different manufacturers. They were very nearly identical in quality and design, so I can honestly say my decision was made when I saw a "made in China" label on one, and "made in Japan" on the other. The Japanese one was priced $20 more, but I went ahead and bought it. Except when I brought it home and took it out of the box, the label said "Made in China". Seems the item the store had on display was older, from an earlier batch, while the one they sold me, factory-sealed, was from another, newer batch. And somehow I don't suppose those additional $20 went to the Chinese factory hands.
Rarely are there only two choices to be made. If you only have two choices to pick from and they both suck, it's a good indication you should look some more. As someone up above commented, Google could invest in technology research to prevent governments like Chinese from censoring them in the first place. This would not be directed specifically against China - if they came up with a technology, even if they patented it, it would eventually benefit everyone.
So... you are seriously saying that there is nothing whatsoever that trumps a "good business choice"? So any company is free to do anything at all (anything - that includes hurting people, directly or indirectly) as long as it's good for business? Do you really-really seriously believe that? Just wondering.
...it's about making money! I guess that makes it alright, then. Because everybody knows ethics doesn't come into play where money's involved, right? So when are you guys resuming weapons sales to Iran? You know, it's only good for Lockheed Martin shareholders.
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What's lawful is defined by the same people that install CCTV. So don't go around smugly pronouncing that you have nothing to fear as long as you don't break the law, it's the single most inane argument in debating surveillance - ever.
That when the government commits a crime, CCTV in the area always turns up faulty. This, people, is the #1 reason to oppose CCTV. Because it is not there to prevent crime. It is there to intimidate normal people like you and me.
The authorities should drop the veil altogether and quit using the word "security", because security is not what such measures are about. _We_ (whoever would object to wearing a dog collar at the airport or having their personal information freely shared with foreign intelligence agencies just because you're getting on a plane) should quit using that word too, because we're giving them a free ride.
The word is enforcement. Better still, control. These measures are all designed to control the population, not to ensure its security.
CHM: google for "chm decompiler". There are several free or free-trial decompilers that will unpack a ch file into html.
For html - that depends. I don't know if there's any viable import facility; you may have to do it by hand. You'll want to strip some or all tags from your html files, maybe replace them with wiki tags for formatting. But remember that the actual data lives in a database, so with some programming you can load your data into the wiki's database directly, though this may involve modifying a number of tables and you'll have to be careful not to break things. With a fresh wiki install create a single page then compare what the DB tables look like before and after - this will tell you what you need to do.
Backup the db - if you're using mySQL, google for "phpmyadmin", install it and you'll find an easy way. Use it also to examine the DB for the stuff above.
CHM: google for "chm decompiler". There are several free or free-trial decompilers that will unpack a ch file into html.
Backup the db - if you're using mySQL, google for "phpmyadmin", install it and you'll find an easy way.
I've tried sticking to MVC in a desktop application I'm working on, and I've found it quite hard to integrate the three layers. Model is something you would have to have anyway, it's your data structures and business logic, so it's not an issue. View is usually going to consist of some UI widgets, so as long as you're not rolling your own controls, you won't be spending too much time there. But the Controller give me brainache, because it ends up responding in complex ways to multitudes of events, passing control back and forth between the M and the V. Even though the events themselves are simple, the controller is a tangle. For a while I tried splitting the controller into two separate layers to simplify each, but all I got was lots of pointless forwarding of control between the layers. I don't know if it's supposed to be this hard, or if I'm misunderstanding something fundamental. Sigh.
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BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Hijack 'suspect' alive in Morocco
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1558
BBC News | AMERICAS | FBI probes hijackers' identities
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1553754
So much for "facts" about your 19 hijackers.
And by the way, you speak of facts, but we have never been shown proof. You know, that thing that establishes facts as such. We were told it was Bin Laden within hours of the attack, and we were told proof was forthcoming. But it never, um, forthcame.
with whom, and since when? Just because Bush said so, cause he's "the decider"? Last I heard, it was for the Congress to declare war.
You are not at war just because Bush said so. Otherwise, the US has been waging the "war on drugs" for decades, so you could say leaking classified information was treason 10 years ago as well, because then too you were "at war".
You have confused a metaphor with the law. Thanks for playing.
One telling difference: as you note, in Poland they actually announced the fact that calls were being monitored.
"These days, you can even use the arrow keys to navigate to make it even easier"
Said with a straight face too, I'm sure. Only on slashdot!
So how do you manage with the everpresent colon in commands?
:q? Semi-colon I would understand, but the colon is a bit much.
I know, I know, different paradigm, get used to it and all that, but whose bright idea was to require SHIFT for command-mode expressions like
The guy called his site hajinet, after all. When he gets back home, he's gonna settle in Alabama and run a new ISP called niggernet. But Linux will make him feel good.
This post not indended as flamebait, just an observation on how outrageously jingoistic a name the guy picked. And no-one has called him on it yet.
Well, if I had 90 million bucks in advertizing budget, I'd be able to make five times that in whatever I was peddling. Or you could resell advertizing to interested parties.
Defraud me, would you? Pretty please? I'll settle for half that and I'll only take 0.02 seconds of your time while I decide whether to accept your settlement. I promise! Can we deal?
Ads! Think of it: millions of office workers spending their lives glued to their Word or Excel displays, whole lot of screen estate, and not a single ad in sight. And just as people would frown at ads in desktop apps, they are much accustomed to ads appearing every time they do anything on the web. How long before the first web-based office suite displays ads, "carefully tailored to the content of your documents"? Not that damn long, I'd say.
Are you an American? Where would YOUR culture be if not for the dissenters and protesters? For one thing, you'd have no country.
So you would build gas chambers for the Nazis, wouldn't you, since a corporation is an amoral and profit-oriented enterprise? Or maybe you'd sell them canned food to feed concentration camp inmates, since they're better off with your food than with none at all?
And *this* is modded insightful? So Dear Insightful, what are corporations if not people? What are they - AI? A c orporation is a bunch of people who get all sorts of rights from the government so that they can pursue their goals, irrespective of public interest (it wasn't always like this). Since they are awarded rights, how about some responsibilities to go with them? A corporation is a bunch of people who make decisions which often influence other people. Some of the decisions they make are moral in nature, there is no way to escape that. "I was just following orders" was not a good defense at Nuremberg, and hopefully the day comes when "I was just trying to make as big a profit as possible" isn't going to be a good defense, either.
I'm part of the problem as I have plenty of Chinese-made goods.
What's worse, it's almost futile to try to avoid them. I was recently buying a pair of binoculars, not horribly expensive but pricey. In the store I looked at two models from different manufacturers. They were very nearly identical in quality and design, so I can honestly say my decision was made when I saw a "made in China" label on one, and "made in Japan" on the other. The Japanese one was priced $20 more, but I went ahead and bought it. Except when I brought it home and took it out of the box, the label said "Made in China". Seems the item the store had on display was older, from an earlier batch, while the one they sold me, factory-sealed, was from another, newer batch. And somehow I don't suppose those additional $20 went to the Chinese factory hands.
Rarely are there only two choices to be made. If you only have two choices to pick from and they both suck, it's a good indication you should look some more. As someone up above commented, Google could invest in technology research to prevent governments like Chinese from censoring them in the first place. This would not be directed specifically against China - if they came up with a technology, even if they patented it, it would eventually benefit everyone.
Heh, no, I don't think they ever stopped - but many of those thinking as the poster I replied to think they never have.
So... you are seriously saying that there is nothing whatsoever that trumps a "good business choice"? So any company is free to do anything at all (anything - that includes hurting people, directly or indirectly) as long as it's good for business? Do you really-really seriously believe that? Just wondering.
...it's about making money! I guess that makes it alright, then. Because everybody knows ethics doesn't come into play where money's involved, right? So when are you guys resuming weapons sales to Iran? You know, it's only good for Lockheed Martin shareholders.
In a country that has gvt censorship: "I don't have anything interesting to say. How's the government censoring me, exactly?"
Exactly what I was going to say. It makes for a pretty simple algorithm, actually - gloves off: user happy; gloves on: user pissed off!