Not especially. They're just exploiting a legal technicality. They aren't allowed to intercept private communications, so they argue that a deactivated modem means no communicating is going on.
And the communication between the guy and his computer is somehow not private? Methinks the only way they can avoid being accused of wiretapping the communication between the user and his computer would be if the software only ran if the keyboard rather than the modem was disconnected. Or if the guy was using a wireless keyboard...
During my time in academia I was incredibly frustrated by the senior staffs refusal to support certain PHD and post-Docs in their attempts to get published, for fear that a refused paper would sully the reputation of the department within that journal.
Or worse: senior staff who refuse to support students wanting to publish their papers in some of the "lesser" journals or conferences. Fear of sullying the reputation of the lab at those journals was not even a concern, as the lab didn't publish at all in them. It was more the fear of sullying the reputation of the lab by stooping so low as to send papers to those journals that was a concern. End result: most Phd students at this only had 1 or 2 publications before their thesis, whereas in neighboring labs they totalled 50 or more...
The initiators of this movements were not mediocre scientist bickering because they couldn't get there papers published, but rather the whole community, who was fed up with having to feed a middle-man that was adding no value. And by middle-man, I don't mean the reviewers (who also worked pro bono...), but rahter the fat cat corporations that contracted out everything except collection to volunteers.
The new "free" (as in beer...) JMLR will also be peer-reviewed, so quality will still be ensured. The point is not to make a journal where every first year student can publish, the point is to cut costs and ensure free distribution of papers that are accepted by the reviewers.
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I could say mean things about a person who draws ascii art maps of past taxi routes on internet message boards.
This being slashdot, I think I will!
Indeed, here on Slashdot, it is highly unusual that anybody would draw an ascii art map of the taxi route. Indeed, most normal posters would have drawn an ascii art map of the taxi driver's open butthole...
A file appeneded with file extension ".WTC" will crash your system when double clicked...
This applies to Win32, Linux, and Mac OS...
USERS BEWARE!!!
Actually, on Linux, this misfeature is quite easy to disable. In order to crash the system, the extension invokes the program/bin/laden. Simply removing that nasty program makes your system immune against this exploit:
I was a peon systems engineer and it wasn't my choice as to whether we used powerpoint or Dia (my preference) or some other package.
In a past job, I was also forced to use Powerpoint, Word, Excel, etc. I guess that's why it is a past job...
It is my opinion that WYSIWYG is much more important for creating slides than it is for creating a document.
It is my opinion that actually having something to say, and expressing it clearly if much more important for creating slides than what software you use. Hey, if you need, you may even use transparency pens, I've seen some very good presentations done that way.
You seem to have a very narrow view of the responsibilities given to an engineer, researcher, trainer, etc.
How, where are you getting that from? Where exactly was I implying that all the professionals I named would only have one narrow task? Or do you mean my comment about bad engineers building schools out of cardboard? Hey, that comment was tongue in cheek. I was not implying that engineers only build schools... this was just an example of one kind of activity among zillions.
In today's world, engineers (and the rest of the people you listed) are asked to 'do it all' and that includes communicate with others.
Yeah. The old "Unix users don't get well along with people" canard. Hey Softie, I'll tell you something: people "communicated" with each other since humanity exists. They didn't need to wait for Uncle Bill to do so. And guess what: even today, they still don't need Uncle Bill to do so. There are zillions of ways to make presentation, including Latex, Slitex, Dia (which you mentioned yourself), Star Office, HTML, or even plain old markers on transparencies.
I've even been charitable and assumed that the gesture was correctly performed first time.
.. or that you don't accidentally perform the gesture while intending to perform a completely different action. Here's a small excerpt from an old comment posted to Slashdot, which apparently triggered this development:
Or, to go back a page, hold down the right mouse button and click the left mouse button ("forward" is just the reverse: hold down the left mouse button and click the right mouse button).
Now, think about the implication of this for a moment. Picture a user who has a mouse with only two buttons. And who has Emulate3Buttons switched on. For those who don't know, this allows the user to simulate a press on the (non-existant) middle button by pressing left and right simultaneously. However, we humans are not very precise as far as timing goes, and we're bound to press one of those two buttons slightly ahead of the other. End result: the browser appears to have "a mind of its own" because it keeps jumping back and forth as soon as you try to select a block of text...
Browser developers: if you feel the strong urge to implement such a feature, please make it optional, and off by default. Such a feature could be especially annoying when accidentally triggered on a page where the user has spent half an hour filling out a lengthy survey form. One bad click, and you have to restart from scratch.
And not to sound snotty, but what's really the big deal with typing in names, etc., using the telephone keypads? If you do it enough, you should become pretty fast at it, seriously. If you want to write a novel maybe you should just accept the fact that the cell phone is not the best medium for that type of communication.
I understand that in the US you mostly use your phones for talking. However, in other parts of the world, people also use them for text messages. Although these are not novels, even a 150 character message is pretty slow to enter, so a faster input method would definately help.
A similar feature could also be used for those public internet kiosks, which have no mouse, but just a touch screen. Now the age-old question "How to you right-click on these beasts?" has an answer: use the little finger rather than the index.Didn't work so far, but with this technology, it will;-)
Picture this: You fire a shell from a cannon. It shoots up.. and down.. in a ballistic arc. Now, imagine this same cannon firing a shell at the horizon - it curves up... and over. Fire it with a little more oomph and it is hurled over the horizon, never to return to ground, but endlessly circling the body it was fired from.
Assuming there was no drag, this would make a highly elliptic orbit, which would return to the same point it was started from.... Adding drag would make matters worse, and have the craft crash back into earth even earlyer than a complete rotation...
backs up a copy of all the user's documents to a file only root has rights to. Then if the docs get hosed eg. by a virus running as user, one simply needs to login as root to get at a backed-up copy.
And what if the user doesn't notice it right away that one of his docs has become corrupted? The next time the backups process runs, it will "save" a corrupted version. End result: if the virus is subtle enough (which it will...), then the user has gained absolutely nothing. Unless of course the backup procedure is a full blown version control system, but this may be somewhat space inefficient when dealing with binary files such as Word documents...
I'm someone totally else (always post AC because of privacy issues), but I'd take a job like that.
You do realize that the well-payed programmers of Slashdot do have access to the log files, and could post your IP address if they wanted. But fortunately for you, their ethics forbids them to do such a thing.
They have rent to pay and food to buy just like you.
The ladies "working" at night near the trainstation also need to pay their rent and put food on the table. But at least they do a honorable job: their goal is to satisfy their customer rather than to annoy him.
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Or, more to the point, if you had the muscles to wear them, you probably weren't the type of person to wear them...
And the communication between the guy and his computer is somehow not private? Methinks the only way they can avoid being accused of wiretapping the communication between the user and his computer would be if the software only ran if the keyboard rather than the modem was disconnected. Or if the guy was using a wireless keyboard...
Or worse: senior staff who refuse to support students wanting to publish their papers in some of the "lesser" journals or conferences. Fear of sullying the reputation of the lab at those journals was not even a concern, as the lab didn't publish at all in them. It was more the fear of sullying the reputation of the lab by stooping so low as to send papers to those journals that was a concern. End result: most Phd students at this only had 1 or 2 publications before their thesis, whereas in neighboring labs they totalled 50 or more...
The initiators of this movements were not mediocre scientist bickering because they couldn't get there papers published, but rather the whole community, who was fed up with having to feed a middle-man that was adding no value. And by middle-man, I don't mean the reviewers (who also worked pro bono...), but rahter the fat cat corporations that contracted out everything except collection to volunteers.
The new "free" (as in beer...) JMLR will also be peer-reviewed, so quality will still be ensured. The point is not to make a journal where every first year student can publish, the point is to cut costs and ensure free distribution of papers that are accepted by the reviewers.
This being slashdot, I think I will!
Indeed, here on Slashdot, it is highly unusual that anybody would draw an ascii art map of the taxi route. Indeed, most normal posters would have drawn an ascii art map of the taxi driver's open butthole...
This applies to Win32, Linux, and Mac OS...
USERS BEWARE!!!
Actually, on Linux, this misfeature is quite easy to disable. In order to crash the system, the extension invokes the program /bin/laden. Simply removing that nasty program makes your system immune against this exploit:
Great! For once, it is not the Linux crowd that is at a disadvantage ;-)
In a past job, I was also forced to use Powerpoint, Word, Excel, etc. I guess that's why it is a past job...
It is my opinion that WYSIWYG is much more important for creating slides than it is for creating a document.
It is my opinion that actually having something to say, and expressing it clearly if much more important for creating slides than what software you use. Hey, if you need, you may even use transparency pens, I've seen some very good presentations done that way.
Oops, confused this with another reply. It was actually grammar nazi who mentioned prefering dia. Sorry.
I suggest you take a look at Dia, Star Office, LaTex, Slitex, etc.
How, where are you getting that from? Where exactly was I implying that all the professionals I named would only have one narrow task? Or do you mean my comment about bad engineers building schools out of cardboard? Hey, that comment was tongue in cheek. I was not implying that engineers only build schools... this was just an example of one kind of activity among zillions.
In today's world, engineers (and the rest of the people you listed) are asked to 'do it all' and that includes communicate with others.
Yeah. The old "Unix users don't get well along with people" canard. Hey Softie, I'll tell you something: people "communicated" with each other since humanity exists. They didn't need to wait for Uncle Bill to do so. And guess what: even today, they still don't need Uncle Bill to do so. There are zillions of ways to make presentation, including Latex, Slitex, Dia (which you mentioned yourself), Star Office, HTML, or even plain old markers on transparencies.
- Students, maybe, especially if they are marketing students...
- Engineers? Maybe, the same kind of engineers that build schools out of cardboard.
- IT Management? Yes, that's IT management, i.e. suits. I doubt that the developers, system engineers, designers etc would use that piece of shite.
- Researchers? Nope, those use latex or slitex.
- Training staff? Suits too.
I can't help that your job/experiences don't include presenting/being presented information to/from others.Just because you need to do a presentation does not mean that you have to do it using crappy software.
Good presentation software is invaluable to business and education.
Yes, good presentation software is invaluable.
How about Sunday October 14th, 16h27 GMT? In a way, it would be kinda counterpart for Nimda, if you see what I mean...
A bomb seems like overkill for that purpose. A simple pair of scissors, or ...gasp... a cardboard cutter would have done the job too.
In France, we call those kinds of school buildings "Paillerons" ("burns like straw").
The US? Keeping up to date data? Can you say "Chinese embassy"...
Now, think about the implication of this for a moment. Picture a user who has a mouse with only two buttons. And who has Emulate3Buttons switched on. For those who don't know, this allows the user to simulate a press on the (non-existant) middle button by pressing left and right simultaneously. However, we humans are not very precise as far as timing goes, and we're bound to press one of those two buttons slightly ahead of the other. End result: the browser appears to have "a mind of its own" because it keeps jumping back and forth as soon as you try to select a block of text...
Browser developers: if you feel the strong urge to implement such a feature, please make it optional, and off by default. Such a feature could be especially annoying when accidentally triggered on a page where the user has spent half an hour filling out a lengthy survey form. One bad click, and you have to restart from scratch.
I understand that in the US you mostly use your phones for talking. However, in other parts of the world, people also use them for text messages. Although these are not novels, even a 150 character message is pretty slow to enter, so a faster input method would definately help.
A similar feature could also be used for those public internet kiosks, which have no mouse, but just a touch screen. Now the age-old question "How to you right-click on these beasts?" has an answer: use the little finger rather than the index .Didn't work so far, but with this technology, it will ;-)
Assuming there was no drag, this would make a highly elliptic orbit, which would return to the same point it was started from.... Adding drag would make matters worse, and have the craft crash back into earth even earlyer than a complete rotation...
And what if the user doesn't notice it right away that one of his docs has become corrupted? The next time the backups process runs, it will "save" a corrupted version. End result: if the virus is subtle enough (which it will...), then the user has gained absolutely nothing. Unless of course the backup procedure is a full blown version control system, but this may be somewhat space inefficient when dealing with binary files such as Word documents...
and cuming up with a suitable source of DNA samples should not be difficult...
You do realize that the well-payed programmers of Slashdot do have access to the log files, and could post your IP address if they wanted. But fortunately for you, their ethics forbids them to do such a thing.
The ladies "working" at night near the trainstation also need to pay their rent and put food on the table. But at least they do a honorable job: their goal is to satisfy their customer rather than to annoy him.
Shouldn't that be squealing like a pig instead? Or does his religion forbid him to squeal like that?