In all seriousness, as soon as the government starts making a distinction between real criminals and John Q. Citizen we can start letting our guards down on this but until then we should always err on the side of less power and intrusion.
I think you're wrong both in assuming there is an actual difference between "real criminals" and "normal citizens" and in believing that you can ever "let your guard down".
As far as the law is concerned, a "real criminal" is any "normal citizen" who was convicted of a crime. So technicaly you can't distinguish between those two mentioned groups during investigation since there's been no verdict yet. What you're talking about essentially means placing a verdict before any trial.
As always, people will only promote a system that segregates people if they think they're gonna end up on the right side of the fence.
I would go further and suggest that this is a desired outcome by both governments and content holders: to drive the subversives, the perceived anarchists, and in short, all of the non-mainstream consumer users of the Internet off of it into their own "underground".
All fullsize displayport adapters i've seen feature a couple of little hooks to prevent cable getting loose. You then need to press some kind of button to release the plug and extract it, a-la rj45.
I've heard people talk about playing a game and being unable to see the game for the involuntary analysis of programming, organizational, or stylistic choices crowding on their brains.
I think it really only happens when the product is bad or just so so, cause on the other hand when it is really good and you can see how well it's been done it's even more of a pleasure.
The concepts are what are hard to learn, the syntax is the easy part. So many similar languages may trip you up at time, but if you can work through the syntax differences and keep hacking at it it's not too difficult to learn.
Don't forget the ecosystem. I agree that the syntax is just a formality but the environment, libs and tools can be more difficult to get used to.
Even android is about getting users on their platform, having their eyeballs where they want them.
I disagree, Android is about preventing a single actor (apple) to be too dominant and be able to leverage this dominance to be the sole vector of ads on a platform (as apple is planning/doing) therefore potentially preventing google to display ads on said platform.
I fail to see how Facebook or any other social network could own your, "most important data." Or is it common practice now to keep your bank account information and genetic sequence stored on the cloud?
For some people having some link to other people is pretty important. And sometimes the only direct link you have is facebook. It's not important like "must not fall into the wrong hands" but more like "must not lose it".
As a matter a fact I can trust the process that is open enough that anyone can be there and check that counting is done properly. Indeed this is based on the belief that enough people with diverging goals will care about the elections and be present to check that everything is ok.
The e-voting is a black box and absolutely no kind of verification can be done. That's my problem with it.
Even if the software is open sourced how can i ever know that the version running is the one it claims to be ?
I also don't understand how the count can ever be verified without compromising the anonymity of the vote. If you don't trust the system you cannot trust any kind of verification it would do nor any kind of output it would produce (including any paper trail). Does anyone have any insight on the subject ?
And i'm not even talking about software bugs. Even without any kind of malicious intentions we could still face plenty of problems.
Is it me being too paranoid or are the people talking about the subject not seeing the issues at hand ? Or could it not be some form of social engineering to introduce a backdoor in all future elections ?
These days CDR has been practically obsoleted by DVD+/-R(W) and writeable blu-ray. I wish Ubuntu would make the jump. I personally find it very inconvenient to have to keep a stock of 80 minute blank CDRs around just for ubuntu releases.
Save yourself some pain man, just install from a USB key.
I've been intrigued by this whole serverside js thing since i started doing a lot of flex and therefore using actionscript a lot. Callbacks are so cool:)
But thing is js is still a mess if you have a lot of code. What we really need is server side actionscript to get proper OO syntax, strong typing and namespaces.
Guess it'll end up with a specific development for those users. Either the compatibility layer or the app. With thousands of users it's certainly worth it.
Nobody cares about a single codec. Someone makes a good proprietary codec ? Good for them !
The problem arises when it becomes a required base part of the web.
Remember the GIF debacle ? Remember that many open source image editor did not have the capability to save gif images ? That's exactly what is at stake here. Have one company control a base standard of the web makes it control who can or cannot create the tools to create web content. Of course big players like Google or Mozilla have the funds to pay royalties, but what about that guy who made a simple command line tool to split/merge h264 videos ?
You can argue that the MPEG-LA has made the codec royalty free but truth is they can instantly make it illegal to open source any software using h264.
That's what the fuss is all about, not just throwing two bucks at a video codec.
What you don't seem to hear in this argument is that Moore's law is only about manufacturing process. It has no direct impact on performance so there is no point in mentioning it as far as performance is involved.
What could be somewhat relevant would be a hardware architecture improvement vs software architecture improvements comparison. History shows us that it is indeed more relevant like when Intel went from the Pentium 4 to the Pentium M (i.e. Pentium 3 with a vengeance) eventually leading to the Core architecture.
I sympathize with F.Ultra since it always irks me when someone talks about Moore's law in a discussion about processor speed.
Depending on your version of photoshop you could just run it natively using Wine.
I did just that with CS2 for like 3 years professionally. Works (almost) perfectly with just (very) minor window management issues if you're using compiz.
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In all seriousness, as soon as the government starts making a distinction between real criminals and John Q. Citizen we can start letting our guards down on this but until then we should always err on the side of less power and intrusion.
I think you're wrong both in assuming there is an actual difference between "real criminals" and "normal citizens" and in believing that you can ever "let your guard down".
As far as the law is concerned, a "real criminal" is any "normal citizen" who was convicted of a crime. So technicaly you can't distinguish between those two mentioned groups during investigation since there's been no verdict yet.
What you're talking about essentially means placing a verdict before any trial.
As always, people will only promote a system that segregates people if they think they're gonna end up on the right side of the fence.
Integrate an invincible red scorpion in all videos produced with cracked version of your software.
Should be detrimental enough !
I would go further and suggest that this is a desired outcome by both governments and content holders: to drive the subversives, the perceived anarchists, and in short, all of the non-mainstream consumer users of the Internet off of it into their own "underground".
By underground, you probably mean Zion, right ?
...aggressive greenhouse-gas control policies are not justified economically.
The key word here is "economically".
Of course it makes no economical sense to do that.
That's because we're not trying to solve an economical problem.
You could also add that there's no economical reason to have children and you would certainly be right while totally missing the point.
All fullsize displayport adapters i've seen feature a couple of little hooks to prevent cable getting loose.
You then need to press some kind of button to release the plug and extract it, a-la rj45.
Don't worry, Displayport is here for the rescue !
Plus, it's royalty free !
About f-ing time we get rid of vga & hdmi on laptops.
Mini displayport for all !!
Man, you should use a virtual machine with XP.
It's even build in W7 if you've got the appropriate version.
But would the temperature difference in itself create some fluid movement ?
What percentage of apache users will actually fulfil all the criteria for this issue to even matter to them at all?
Considering the ubiquity of apache webserver i'd say even a very low percentage of installs would still be a lot.
Also it's always good to know about existing vulnerabilities if only to update documentation.
I've heard people talk about playing a game and being unable to see the game for the involuntary analysis of programming, organizational, or stylistic choices crowding on their brains.
I think it really only happens when the product is bad or just so so, cause on the other hand when it is really good and you can see how well it's been done it's even more of a pleasure.
What I fear, is that the proposed shorter release cycles are going to make Ubuntu break too often.
I believe that the solution for that would be to have different channels, one of which would be stable and thus would not break that much.
The concepts are what are hard to learn, the syntax is the easy part. So many similar languages may trip you up at time, but if you can work through the syntax differences and keep hacking at it it's not too difficult to learn.
Don't forget the ecosystem.
I agree that the syntax is just a formality but the environment, libs and tools can be more difficult to get used to.
Even android is about getting users on their platform, having their eyeballs where they want them.
I disagree, Android is about preventing a single actor (apple) to be too dominant and be able to leverage this dominance to be the sole vector of ads on a platform (as apple is planning/doing) therefore potentially preventing google to display ads on said platform.
I fail to see how Facebook or any other social network could own your, "most important data." Or is it common practice now to keep your bank account information and genetic sequence stored on the cloud?
For some people having some link to other people is pretty important. And sometimes the only direct link you have is facebook.
It's not important like "must not fall into the wrong hands" but more like "must not lose it".
Can you trust non e-voting either?
As a matter a fact I can trust the process that is open enough that anyone can be there and check that counting is done properly.
Indeed this is based on the belief that enough people with diverging goals will care about the elections and be present to check that everything is ok.
The e-voting is a black box and absolutely no kind of verification can be done. That's my problem with it.
I don't get this e-voting thing.
Even if the software is open sourced how can i ever know that the version running is the one it claims to be ?
I also don't understand how the count can ever be verified without compromising the anonymity of the vote. If you don't trust the system you cannot trust any kind of verification it would do nor any kind of output it would produce (including any paper trail). Does anyone have any insight on the subject ?
And i'm not even talking about software bugs. Even without any kind of malicious intentions we could still face plenty of problems.
Is it me being too paranoid or are the people talking about the subject not seeing the issues at hand ?
Or could it not be some form of social engineering to introduce a backdoor in all future elections ?
Honestly i'd love to see counterarguments.
These days CDR has been practically obsoleted by DVD+/-R(W) and writeable blu-ray. I wish Ubuntu would make the jump. I personally find it very inconvenient to have to keep a stock of 80 minute blank CDRs around just for ubuntu releases.
Save yourself some pain man, just install from a USB key.
I've been intrigued by this whole serverside js thing since i started doing a lot of flex and therefore using actionscript a lot. :)
Callbacks are so cool
But thing is js is still a mess if you have a lot of code.
What we really need is server side actionscript to get proper OO syntax, strong typing and namespaces.
If i ever got that, i'd be a happy camper !
Guess it'll end up with a specific development for those users.
Either the compatibility layer or the app.
With thousands of users it's certainly worth it.
Please realize some of you are talking about open STANDARD and others are talking about open CONTENT !!
No more discussion about wich is more "open", I can't take it anymore !
You're completely missing the point.
Nobody cares about a single codec. Someone makes a good proprietary codec ? Good for them !
The problem arises when it becomes a required base part of the web.
Remember the GIF debacle ? Remember that many open source image editor did not have the capability to save gif images ? That's exactly what is at stake here.
Have one company control a base standard of the web makes it control who can or cannot create the tools to create web content. Of course big players like Google or Mozilla have the funds to pay royalties, but what about that guy who made a simple command line tool to split/merge h264 videos ?
You can argue that the MPEG-LA has made the codec royalty free but truth is they can instantly make it illegal to open source any software using h264.
That's what the fuss is all about, not just throwing two bucks at a video codec.
Use a macbook air.
It's not gonna be dumb but should be light enough.
What you don't seem to hear in this argument is that Moore's law is only about manufacturing process. It has no direct impact on performance so there is no point in mentioning it as far as performance is involved.
What could be somewhat relevant would be a hardware architecture improvement vs software architecture improvements comparison.
History shows us that it is indeed more relevant like when Intel went from the Pentium 4 to the Pentium M (i.e. Pentium 3 with a vengeance) eventually leading to the Core architecture.
I sympathize with F.Ultra since it always irks me when someone talks about Moore's law in a discussion about processor speed.
Apple wants to sell lots of expensive smartphones
The device is only a mean to get people to pay for applications...
Depending on your version of photoshop you could just run it natively using Wine.
I did just that with CS2 for like 3 years professionally. Works (almost) perfectly with just (very) minor window management issues if you're using compiz.