When I first installed it, it did various strange things, for instance it did not load a site if I typed the url in the box, it would just reload the existing page. However, that seems to be working now.
Also, the addressbook application cannot find one of the side bar panels.
Part of the reason that those 100 year old buildings seem to be so well built is because the badly built buildings from the same time period have all been replaced already.
I disagree. In many European cities, a great deal of the buildings come from the 19th Centry. They are still standing because they were so well built. And it's not just a few of them, it's whole cities - look at Paris, St.Petersburgh, Barcelona - it's whole cities, not just a few buildings.
The fact of the matter is that they did build them better in those days.
Prove to me that America was intentionally trying to kill innocent civilians, and I'll listen to you.
Yes, but the point is one of the reasons that there is a lot of ill feeling towards the USA is because of its double standards. Let's be frank about this - the fact of the matter is that the American people do value American lives more than those of other people. There's no "seems to" or "gives the impression of" about it. If a few American military men die in action then it's front page news and they are "American heroes". A few hundred Afghans die and its like "Oh dear. Oops. Well, these things happen. Whatever."
the same way everyone else does... music, porn, and games.
Why do college students need a Gigabit Ethernet connection to download porn? When I was a student we had these great things called girls who let you have sex with them. Or is the fibre just being installed in the dorms of Computer Science students?
You might want to re-examine those numbers friend.
Erm, why? You provide a bunch of links about gun crime in the UK. So? Nobody said it didn't exist. But the USA still has substantially higher homicide rates than the UK, in fact than anywhere in Europe. Or would you care to provide some stats that prove otherwise?
The links you provide show that crime in the UK has risen recently, whereas in the USA it has fallen. You seem to think this proves that the gun laws in the USA lower crime. However, there haven't been significant changes in the law with regard to gun use in the USA or the UK for many years, so how can you relate one to the other?
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Oh come now this is ridiculous. You've clearly never actually been to the US or done more research than listening to slashdot trolls rant and leftist news sources.
I have been to the USA - it is partly that experience that colours my opinions.
I read news sources that represent both left and right viewpoints. I didn't say anywhere in my post that I thought Europe was better than the USA. Nor do I think it ridiculous that Forbes might have an alterior motive for publishing this extensive series on Linux.
Why is it that when there is extensive positive coverage of Microsoft people speculate that they have somehow infulenced it, but when Linux receives positive courage it is 'ridiculous' to suggest that?
I am sure if Forbes ran a week long generally very positive series looking at Microsoft technologies then the opinions on this thread would be really different.
If they care to piss away their natural rights in the name of being progressive
But in Europe we view the opinion that carrying a bug as a "natural right" as a really bizarre point of view. I know it is hard for many of you in the USA to understand, but we don't want guns. There is virtually no pro-gun political or public movement in Europe at all.
Data published by Krug et al in 1998 indicated the following rates for gun deaths per 100,000 population:
USA - 14.24 Switzerland - 5.31 Scotland - 0.54 England & Wales - 0.41 Japan - 0.05
So, for every one gun death in the UK there were about 35 in the USA. And does the UK have a more serious crime problem than the USA? No. The statistics are even more extreme comparing Japan and the USA.
Face it, the argument that gun ownership reduces crime levels is bullshit. I feel much safer on the streets in Europe than in the USA.
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Don't be so paranoid!
But if Forbes ran a big series about why MS is great, everyone on Slashdot would be saying "They must have paid for it."
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I've been following the Forbes series for the last few days. It's nice to read some rational, non-baised information about Linux in a respected publication like Forbes.
But since Forbes is an US publication, and there doesn't seem to be anything done is the USA that doesn't have something to do with promoting some company's agenda, I have to wonder if Forbes has a alerior motive for publishing this? Is Forbes owned by someone who doesn't like Bill Gates, for instance? Or who has shares in Red Hat? It is so uncommon to come across truly unbiased factual information in the US press these days I find it hard to believe that there isn't something behind this...
My feeling is that the widespread use of AC has made architects forget how you build a house for a hot climate.
Absolutely. I recently brought an old (1860's) flat in Spain, and those architects sure did know how to make a nice space to live in. High ceilings, light, easy to clean, good distribution and cool without air-conditioning. Having lived only in modern flats before, I could never go back.
Carpets are germ infested discusting things anyway
Absolutely! I didn't realise how horrible carpets where until I lived in a place with tile floors. The combination of carpets, strip lighting and air-conditioning - what an unhealthy environment to live in.
Criminals prowl our streets. But they do so with far less frequency in areas where even a 20th of the population is likely to be armed (florida-they still go after tourists- Vermont, New Hampshire, or, for the Europeans out there, switzerland.)
I almost snorted coffee up my nose when I read 'Switzerland'. Let me explain something to you, and please think about it because it may help you realise why the rest of the world finds the USAs attitude towards guns really sad and frankly bizarre. Switzerland has a low crime rate mainly because the Swiss people are good, honest, non-violent people. The requirement for men to own a rifle is so that Switzerland can defend itself in the case of war. They do not carry the rifles around with them but keep them locked up.
My team often travels and have to set up office in different places. We all have laptops as our main desktop machines and wireless cards. We have discussed before taking a file/print/web server with us which we travel but we've yet to find any hardware which is appropriate. This looks like it might be suitable.
MS Rep: No, $15. If you don't comply we won't let you sell computers with Windows. That will piss off the majority, who isn't mad at us, and almost nobody will buy your computers anymore.
All lawyers: [Sharp intake of breath]
Dell lawyer: Erm. So you're saying if Dell sell Linux on desktop machines you'll withdraw their Windows licence? Let me just make a note of that...
MS lawyer No, no, sorry, my client drank too much sangria at lunchtime. He didn't mean to say that. Please ignore it.
MS Rep But!
MS lawyer [Jabs MS Rep with elbow, whispers] I've told you, you can't say that stuff anymore. You're a convicted monopolist, remember?
Dell Rep [smiling smugly]: So we're agreed. $10 a unit...
This could well be one of the reasons that Microsoft is currently getting mad at Apple.
The online calendar and other tools of course are direct competitors with Outlook, and the whole package is a competitor with MSN and hotmail.
It actually looks really neat to me. I think however it might be a strategic mistake force people to make the move. They should provide a minimal service for free. If the additions are good enough (and they seem to be to me) then people will pay. But people hate to have their arms twisted. But apart from that mistake, this looks like an innovative move from Apple.
Dell Rep: Actually, you know, we've really been seriously looking at this Linux thing. We've been considering offering it as an option on our desktop machines.
MS Rep:People aren't going to buy that. Can you just sign here please?
Dell Rep:We're not so sure. Many customers are really mad as MS at the moment. If we heavily promoted Linux on the desktop...
MS Rep:Ok, I hear what your saying. $15 a unit.
Dell Rep:$10.
MS Rep:You've got to be kidding!
Dell Rep:We actually have a few people working on our own Linux distribution at the moment. With StarOffice on top, well, it's real pretty. You want to see it?
MS RepOk, OK! $10 a unit it is.
One of the main reasons MS must fear Linux is because it gives OEMs a serious negociating position. MS aren't used to that.
It seems like MS is sending the message: "If you want to have 'free' MS software, say you're going Linux". Wonder how many organizations/countries without any intent to switch to Linux (will) have "Linux programs" just for negotiating with MS?
Yes, I've thought this too. I think Microsoft is just trying to hold back the tide at the moment. The strategy of giving software or substantially lowering prices for anyone who is thinking to moving to OSS is one that can only work in the short term. Unfortunately for Microsoft, there's not much else they can do. I think well just see more desparate attempts to lock their customers in in the future. As Steve Ballamer said the other day, they are no longer "the cheapest on the block" - he was essentially saying that it's difficult to compete with free.
It should be *equally* illegal to murder someone because you're pissed at them, or because you hate little green men from Alpha Centauri and it's your mission to cleanse them from the universe, or because your l33t hacking skills let you change some luser's medical records so they receive a lethal dose of drugs.
It should be equally illegal, but that doesn't mean all murders deserve the same punishment. Of course normal cases are easy to deal with, but the law has to deal with extremes as well.
I believe there was a case in the UK many years ago where a 'normal' member of the public deliberately killed (which of course is murder) a member of the IRA who he knew was going to set a bomb off, but didn't think there was time to do anything else (e.g. call the police) other than to kill him. I believe the jury voted 'not guilty' even though in the eyes of the law the man was clearly guilty of murder, and the judge accepted their verdict.
I've probably got the details all wrong but it serves to illustrate my argument. In this case - where an otherwise law-abiding man has committed murder to save the lives of others - is it just that he is imprisoned for life? (personally I think in an ideal world the jury should have voted guilty, and then the judge should have given him a slap on the back of the hand, but of course if there is a minimum sentence for murder then the judge wouldn't have been able to do that).
Isn't it interesting how comments posted on Slashdot are so very different depending upon which countries are being discussed?
Many of the comments to this story are along the line of "dumb politicians don't know what they are doing" or "why is this new law necessary?"
Very few people people are talking about the fact that it will allow the government to listen in on email communications without a court order.
If however, this story had been about China, I guarantee the comments would all be along the lines of "communist China is evil", "this shows that Chinese don't have the same freedom that we Americans have", "the Chinese don't understand technology", etc., etc.
If it was Europe the comments would be along the lines of "this shows that those European socialist governments can do whatever they want", "Americas have the most freedom of anyone in the world", etc. etc.
What I don't understand about this is why there needs to be specific bills related to computer hacking.
As I understand it, the bill relates to the case of "if the offender knowingly causes or attempts to cause death or serious bodily injury."
Doesn't the USA have laws against this already? I mean, if I murder someone with a frozen banana, it's still murder, you don't need a law saying "you are not allowed to murder someone with a frozen banana". Surely knowingly causing or attempting to cause death or serious bodily injury is currently against the law anyway, however you go about doing it? Why is this law necessary?
Since the Klez virus can be sent as if it was from your email address even when it has not come from your computer, is it possible that you could get put on a antiSPAM list because someone else has got the Klez virus?
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Buggy how?
When I first installed it, it did various strange things, for instance it did not load a site if I typed the url in the box, it would just reload the existing page. However, that seems to be working now.
Also, the addressbook application cannot find one of the side bar panels.
I use Mozilla as my main browser and like it a lot, but this version seems quite buggy, at least on Windows XP. Better stick to 1.0 for now.
Part of the reason that those 100 year old buildings seem to be so well built is because the badly built buildings from the same time period have all been replaced already.
I disagree. In many European cities, a great deal of the buildings come from the 19th Centry. They are still standing because they were so well built. And it's not just a few of them, it's whole cities - look at Paris, St.Petersburgh, Barcelona - it's whole cities, not just a few buildings.
The fact of the matter is that they did build them better in those days.
Prove to me that America was intentionally trying to kill innocent civilians, and I'll listen to you.
Yes, but the point is one of the reasons that there is a lot of ill feeling towards the USA is because of its double standards. Let's be frank about this - the fact of the matter is that the American people do value American lives more than those of other people. There's no "seems to" or "gives the impression of" about it. If a few American military men die in action then it's front page news and they are "American heroes". A few hundred Afghans die and its like "Oh dear. Oops. Well, these things happen. Whatever."
Thanks for that. You forgot to mention that both newspapers have a well-documented history of sensationalizing and editorializing their news content.
I think you must be confused. Both the Guardian and the Times are very well respected.
the same way everyone else does... music, porn, and games.
Why do college students need a Gigabit Ethernet connection to download porn? When I was a student we had these great things called girls who let you have sex with them. Or is the fibre just being installed in the dorms of Computer Science students?
You might want to re-examine those numbers friend.
Erm, why? You provide a bunch of links about gun crime in the UK. So? Nobody said it didn't exist. But the USA still has substantially higher homicide rates than the UK, in fact than anywhere in Europe. Or would you care to provide some stats that prove otherwise?
The links you provide show that crime in the UK has risen recently, whereas in the USA it has fallen. You seem to think this proves that the gun laws in the USA lower crime. However, there haven't been significant changes in the law with regard to gun use in the USA or the UK for many years, so how can you relate one to the other?
Oh come now this is ridiculous. You've clearly never actually been to the US or done more research than listening to slashdot trolls rant and leftist news sources.
I have been to the USA - it is partly that experience that colours my opinions.
I read news sources that represent both left and right viewpoints. I didn't say anywhere in my post that I thought Europe was better than the USA. Nor do I think it ridiculous that Forbes might have an alterior motive for publishing this extensive series on Linux.
Why is it that when there is extensive positive coverage of Microsoft people speculate that they have somehow infulenced it, but when Linux receives positive courage it is 'ridiculous' to suggest that?
I am sure if Forbes ran a week long generally very positive series looking at Microsoft technologies then the opinions on this thread would be really different.
If they care to piss away their natural rights in the name of being progressive
But in Europe we view the opinion that carrying a bug as a "natural right" as a really bizarre point of view. I know it is hard for many of you in the USA to understand, but we don't want guns. There is virtually no pro-gun political or public movement in Europe at all.
Data published by Krug et al in 1998 indicated the following rates for gun deaths per 100,000 population:
USA - 14.24
Switzerland - 5.31
Scotland - 0.54
England & Wales - 0.41
Japan - 0.05
So, for every one gun death in the UK there were about 35 in the USA. And does the UK have a more serious crime problem than the USA? No. The statistics are even more extreme comparing Japan and the USA.
Face it, the argument that gun ownership reduces crime levels is bullshit. I feel much safer on the streets in Europe than in the USA.
Don't be so paranoid!
But if Forbes ran a big series about why MS is great, everyone on Slashdot would be saying "They must have paid for it."
I've been following the Forbes series for the last few days. It's nice to read some rational, non-baised information about Linux in a respected publication like Forbes.
But since Forbes is an US publication, and there doesn't seem to be anything done is the USA that doesn't have something to do with promoting some company's agenda, I have to wonder if Forbes has a alerior motive for publishing this? Is Forbes owned by someone who doesn't like Bill Gates, for instance? Or who has shares in Red Hat? It is so uncommon to come across truly unbiased factual information in the US press these days I find it hard to believe that there isn't something behind this...
My feeling is that the widespread use of AC has made architects forget how you build a house for a hot climate.
Absolutely. I recently brought an old (1860's) flat in Spain, and those architects sure did know how to make a nice space to live in. High ceilings, light, easy to clean, good distribution and cool without air-conditioning. Having lived only in modern flats before, I could never go back.
Carpets are germ infested discusting things anyway
Absolutely! I didn't realise how horrible carpets where until I lived in a place with tile floors. The combination of carpets, strip lighting and air-conditioning - what an unhealthy environment to live in.
Criminals prowl our streets. But they do so with far less frequency in areas where even a 20th of the population is likely to be armed (florida-they still go after tourists- Vermont, New Hampshire, or, for the Europeans out there, switzerland.)
I almost snorted coffee up my nose when I read 'Switzerland'. Let me explain something to you, and please think about it because it may help you realise why the rest of the world finds the USAs attitude towards guns really sad and frankly bizarre. Switzerland has a low crime rate mainly because the Swiss people are good, honest, non-violent people. The requirement for men to own a rifle is so that Switzerland can defend itself in the case of war. They do not carry the rifles around with them but keep them locked up.
That looks like a hell of a portable fileserver to me.
Thanks. That's a really neat bit of kit. Now all I have to do is find a reseller in the UK (can anyone help?)
Why not an SS40g.
Too big.
My team often travels and have to set up office in different places. We all have laptops as our main desktop machines and wireless cards. We have discussed before taking a file/print/web server with us which we travel but we've yet to find any hardware which is appropriate. This looks like it might be suitable.
MS Rep: No, $15. If you don't comply we won't let you sell computers with Windows. That will piss off the majority, who isn't mad at us, and almost nobody will buy your computers anymore.
All lawyers: [Sharp intake of breath]
Dell lawyer: Erm. So you're saying if Dell sell Linux on desktop machines you'll withdraw their Windows licence? Let me just make a note of that...
MS lawyer No, no, sorry, my client drank too much sangria at lunchtime. He didn't mean to say that. Please ignore it.
MS Rep But!
MS lawyer [Jabs MS Rep with elbow, whispers] I've told you, you can't say that stuff anymore. You're a convicted monopolist, remember?
Dell Rep [smiling smugly]: So we're agreed. $10 a unit...
This could well be one of the reasons that Microsoft is currently getting mad at Apple.
The online calendar and other tools of course are direct competitors with Outlook, and the whole package is a competitor with MSN and hotmail.
It actually looks really neat to me. I think however it might be a strategic mistake force people to make the move. They should provide a minimal service for free. If the additions are good enough (and they seem to be to me) then people will pay. But people hate to have their arms twisted. But apart from that mistake, this looks like an innovative move from Apple.
So just what makes Microsoft fear Linux so much?
MS Rep: So, the deal is $20 per unit then.
Dell Rep: Actually, you know, we've really been seriously looking at this Linux thing. We've been considering offering it as an option on our desktop machines.
MS Rep:People aren't going to buy that. Can you just sign here please?
Dell Rep:We're not so sure. Many customers are really mad as MS at the moment. If we heavily promoted Linux on the desktop...
MS Rep:Ok, I hear what your saying. $15 a unit.
Dell Rep:$10.
MS Rep:You've got to be kidding!
Dell Rep:We actually have a few people working on our own Linux distribution at the moment. With StarOffice on top, well, it's real pretty. You want to see it?
MS RepOk, OK! $10 a unit it is.
One of the main reasons MS must fear Linux is because it gives OEMs a serious negociating position. MS aren't used to that.
It seems like MS is sending the message: "If you want to have 'free' MS software, say you're going Linux". Wonder how many organizations/countries without any intent to switch to Linux (will) have "Linux programs" just for negotiating with MS?
Yes, I've thought this too. I think Microsoft is just trying to hold back the tide at the moment. The strategy of giving software or substantially lowering prices for anyone who is thinking to moving to OSS is one that can only work in the short term. Unfortunately for Microsoft, there's not much else they can do. I think well just see more desparate attempts to lock their customers in in the future. As Steve Ballamer said the other day, they are no longer "the cheapest on the block" - he was essentially saying that it's difficult to compete with free.
If they do this, is there any point in building G3/G4 mobile phone networks?
It should be *equally* illegal to murder someone because you're pissed at them, or because you hate little green men from Alpha Centauri and it's your mission to cleanse them from the universe, or because your l33t hacking skills let you change some luser's medical records so they receive a lethal dose of drugs.
It should be equally illegal, but that doesn't mean all murders deserve the same punishment. Of course normal cases are easy to deal with, but the law has to deal with extremes as well.
I believe there was a case in the UK many years ago where a 'normal' member of the public deliberately killed (which of course is murder) a member of the IRA who he knew was going to set a bomb off, but didn't think there was time to do anything else (e.g. call the police) other than to kill him. I believe the jury voted 'not guilty' even though in the eyes of the law the man was clearly guilty of murder, and the judge accepted their verdict.
I've probably got the details all wrong but it serves to illustrate my argument. In this case -
where an otherwise law-abiding man has committed murder to save the lives of others - is it just that he is imprisoned for life? (personally I think in an ideal world the jury should have voted guilty, and then the judge should have given him a slap on the back of the hand, but of course if there is a minimum sentence for murder then the judge wouldn't have been able to do that).
Isn't it interesting how comments posted on Slashdot are so very different depending upon which countries are being discussed?
Many of the comments to this story are along the line of "dumb politicians don't know what they are doing" or "why is this new law necessary?"
Very few people people are talking about the fact that it will allow the government to listen in on email communications without a court order.
If however, this story had been about China, I guarantee the comments would all be along the lines of "communist China is evil", "this shows that Chinese don't have the same freedom that we Americans have", "the Chinese don't understand technology", etc., etc.
If it was Europe the comments would be along the lines of "this shows that those European socialist governments can do whatever they want", "Americas have the most freedom of anyone in the world", etc. etc.
What I don't understand about this is why there needs to be specific bills related to computer hacking.
As I understand it, the bill relates to the case of "if the offender knowingly causes or attempts to cause death or serious bodily injury."
Doesn't the USA have laws against this already? I mean, if I murder someone with a frozen banana, it's still murder, you don't need a law saying "you are not allowed to murder someone with a frozen banana". Surely knowingly causing or attempting to cause death or serious bodily injury is currently against the law anyway, however you go about doing it? Why is this law necessary?
Since the Klez virus can be sent as if it was from your email address even when it has not come from your computer, is it possible that you could get put on a antiSPAM list because someone else has got the Klez virus?