I think the idea is that if people are not allowed to bring liquids onto the plane then they will have no reason to bring dangerous fluids to the airport. Thus the bins of wasted water are necessary to deter attackers, but they would not be expected to have anything but actual water in them.
It's all rubbish of course. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together could sneak as much liquid as they want onto a plane, but at least that's why the water bottles aren't considered dangerous.
I hate to defend the TSA, but did you even look at the PDF?
2.7. PHOTOGRAPHING, VIDEOTAPING, AND FILMING SCREENING LOCATIONS A. TSA does not prohibit the public, passengers, or press from photographing, videotaping, or filming screening locations unless the activity interferes with a TSO’s ability to perform his or her duties or prevents the orderly flow of individuals through the screening location.
I guess mplayer finally has menu support these days, but I've been using Xine for a long time to play DVDs so I haven't really had a reason to switch. It plays everything I throw at it.
The interface is a bit clunky, but I use a remote with LIRC to control it so I'm never really exposed to it anymore. With menus and the remote it works pretty much like a standard DVD player so it's easy for the girlfriend and guests to use.
I also use the remote to control the system volume, music player, mplayer (for other videos including youtube using youtube-dl), answer calls from skype, TV, and some other random stuff. Pretty nice what you can do with a $30 MS Media Center remote.
Nothing wrong with using mplayer! I use it for almost everything except DVDs.
Anyway, I'm confident the usability glitches will be worked out of KDE4 in time. It's still a very young DE. One year ago KDE4 was just barely becoming usable for expert users like us. It's really impressive how fast it's been maturing.
Ok, I suspected that's what you were getting at. You have a point. For instance I think it's too easy to accidentally remove a panel and lose all your customizations. I've seen that on forums a number of times and the users had no idea how to get it back to how it was.
What's the point of having all windows maximized? Half the time you just have a bunch of white space. If I'm editing a text file with <120 columns of text, do I really need a 600 column wide window for it?
I don't typically resize my windows very much. They are the size I want them to be and I don't usually change it. I don't find the idea of the WM automatically changing Window sizes on me very appealing, which is why I've never really tried to use a tiling WM.
I've never found it stable enough to install on anyone's pc. It's just too easy to stuff up the taskbar etc and too busy/confusing for people who aren't very computer literate.
What exactly do you mean here by not stable? KDE 4.3 is stable as could be on my system. KDE 3.5 was too, although the earlier KDE 4 releases obviously had there problems.
Well sure, but what software is installing every feature possible just because they can? Typically features get installed because someone thinks they are useful. Now my WM uses a smaller percentage of my disk space than it did 5 years ago because disk space is so cheap. I think a small amount of disk space times a few hundred would go mostly unnoticed on today's hard disks. Of course there will be some users who can't spare that extra few megs, but KDE is probably not the best WM for them.
Memory is a somewhat more valuable resource, but if you aren't using the feature then it's code probably isn't going to spend much time in your resident memory so still it's not a big problem.
There was that study that shows listeners of NPR were the least misinformed about the Iraq war while Fox News viewers were the most misinformed. Every media outlet has a bias, but they are not all equal when it comes to accurately reporting facts. NPR isn't perfect, but it is by far the best mainstream media source we have.
As much as I hate to say it, it's that way now. NBC and it's sister stations are all owned by GE (at least until they sell to Comcast soon). This includes MSNBC. MSNBC is a very left-of-center network. While it has been shown that all media was biased toward Obama in the last election (yes [forbes.com], even Fox News [journalism.org]... numbers don't lie)
You are misrepresenting what that study says. All it says is that there was more negative coverage of McCain then there was of Obama. This is not evidence of bias, it's evidence that there were more negative things to report about the McCain campaign. Just as the fact that most reports about H1N1 are negative is a reflection of reality and not bias.
On the other hand, the report does say Fox had less negative reports of McCain and more negative reports of Obama than the average. That is evidence of bias, but Fox still had more negative reports for McCain because even for Fox reality has to have some influence on their coverage.
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You could hide a lot under baggy pants. Certainly enough to do critical damage to a plane.
I think the idea is that if people are not allowed to bring liquids onto the plane then they will have no reason to bring dangerous fluids to the airport. Thus the bins of wasted water are necessary to deter attackers, but they would not be expected to have anything but actual water in them.
It's all rubbish of course. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together could sneak as much liquid as they want onto a plane, but at least that's why the water bottles aren't considered dangerous.
Or they could just attach C4 to their non-prosthetic limbs. I don't see what difference the prosthesis would make.
I hate to defend the TSA, but did you even look at the PDF?
2.7. PHOTOGRAPHING, VIDEOTAPING, AND FILMING SCREENING LOCATIONS
A. TSA does not prohibit the public, passengers, or press from photographing, videotaping, or filming
screening locations unless the activity interferes with a TSO’s ability to perform his or her duties or
prevents the orderly flow of individuals through the screening location.
That section isn't marked as redacted in the PDF from cryptome.
Since when has global significance been a requirement for slashdot articles? Half the time significance isn't even a requirement.
I guess mplayer finally has menu support these days, but I've been using Xine for a long time to play DVDs so I haven't really had a reason to switch. It plays everything I throw at it.
The interface is a bit clunky, but I use a remote with LIRC to control it so I'm never really exposed to it anymore. With menus and the remote it works pretty much like a standard DVD player so it's easy for the girlfriend and guests to use.
I also use the remote to control the system volume, music player, mplayer (for other videos including youtube using youtube-dl), answer calls from skype, TV, and some other random stuff. Pretty nice what you can do with a $30 MS Media Center remote.
Oh it's possible, at least it used to be. It is not recommend however unless you are a trained professional.
If the OSes aren't capable of load-balancing properly on their own, how is it that the VMs running on them are properly load-balanced?
Nothing wrong with using mplayer! I use it for almost everything except DVDs.
Anyway, I'm confident the usability glitches will be worked out of KDE4 in time. It's still a very young DE. One year ago KDE4 was just barely becoming usable for expert users like us. It's really impressive how fast it's been maturing.
Ok, I suspected that's what you were getting at. You have a point. For instance I think it's too easy to accidentally remove a panel and lose all your customizations. I've seen that on forums a number of times and the users had no idea how to get it back to how it was.
What's the point of having all windows maximized? Half the time you just have a bunch of white space. If I'm editing a text file with <120 columns of text, do I really need a 600 column wide window for it?
I don't typically resize my windows very much. They are the size I want them to be and I don't usually change it. I don't find the idea of the WM automatically changing Window sizes on me very appealing, which is why I've never really tried to use a tiling WM.
I've never found it stable enough to install on anyone's pc. It's just too easy to stuff up the taskbar etc and too busy/confusing for people who aren't very computer literate.
What exactly do you mean here by not stable? KDE 4.3 is stable as could be on my system. KDE 3.5 was too, although the earlier KDE 4 releases obviously had there problems.
Well sure, but what software is installing every feature possible just because they can? Typically features get installed because someone thinks they are useful. Now my WM uses a smaller percentage of my disk space than it did 5 years ago because disk space is so cheap. I think a small amount of disk space times a few hundred would go mostly unnoticed on today's hard disks. Of course there will be some users who can't spare that extra few megs, but KDE is probably not the best WM for them.
Memory is a somewhat more valuable resource, but if you aren't using the feature then it's code probably isn't going to spend much time in your resident memory so still it's not a big problem.
Read again. He's using FVWM and it has the feature. He's asking about it for other WMs.
Did you look at the whole page of results from google? It has the excrement definition in the "related phrases" and "web definitions" sections.
How exactly does a dictionary list non-dictionary words?
I think the only people who claim racism is over in America are the racists.
Exactly. And slaves weren't considered fully people either.
There was that study that shows listeners of NPR were the least misinformed about the Iraq war while Fox News viewers were the most misinformed. Every media outlet has a bias, but they are not all equal when it comes to accurately reporting facts. NPR isn't perfect, but it is by far the best mainstream media source we have.
There hasn't been any Fairness Doctrine for over 20 years. How does that apply to anything?
So in a free market we wouldn't be able to sell livestock either? The cows don't get to consent to being sold to a slaughter house do they?
You are misrepresenting what that study says. All it says is that there was more negative coverage of McCain then there was of Obama. This is not evidence of bias, it's evidence that there were more negative things to report about the McCain campaign. Just as the fact that most reports about H1N1 are negative is a reflection of reality and not bias.
On the other hand, the report does say Fox had less negative reports of McCain and more negative reports of Obama than the average. That is evidence of bias, but Fox still had more negative reports for McCain because even for Fox reality has to have some influence on their coverage.
Same place. Bill Moyers is quite critical of the democrats on both domestic and foreign policy.