Well, you might want to re-evaluate your contracts then.... if what they provide you is less secure and less stable than other software (BIND 9 has been out for 2 years.. thats a pretty long time in software), then maybe you aren't getting a good value from your SLAs.
I'm aware of the Federalist Papers and the other writings of the fathers. However, it's important to note that they in fact did not write any of that in the first amendment
The trespassing thing is pretty irrelevent, I can be arrested for tresspassing but I can't be arrested for, or stopped from, blathering all I want while I'm in your living room. They're totally unrelated.
And the first amendment DOES guarantee you a forum, in the sense that the federal government can't prevent you from using one - you couldn't demand access to a private forum, of course, but neither can you be denied access to a public one.
Except that a) not all packages allow exceptions b) when the software invisibly blocks the site, you don't even know it's there to ask to see it c) providing internet access is not distribution of porn d)when was the last time your child saw porn at the library? e) I dare you to provide a clear-cut definition of pornography that leaves no room for error or misconception. Your personal judgment doesn't count.
I submit that you cannot effectivly block porn without also blocking substantial non-porn, unless you have a human-verified blacklist, in which case it merely becomes hugely expensive and unpractical. There's a pretty large amount of porn/sexually explicit content out there without any of the "obvious" triggers that commercial porn sites have, and there's plenty of non-porn sites that will have those triggers.
Says who? Sure, thats how it's been interpeted by lawmakers, but that's also not what was actually written down by a group of highly literate people who were well aware of the nuances of language. You'd think if they mean that "Congress shall make no law which abridges the freedom of the press, unless it's to stop really dirty press", they would have said so.
The federal government likes to use the funding lever to get it's way in areas where it doesn't have any legal authority - ref the 55 mph speed limit. This worked for a while, but recently the courts have looked down on it, ruling that de facto administrative power should be as limited as de jure administrative power, which makes sense to me. While it's certainly true libaries don't have some magical right to new computers, the Fed doesn't have the power to force censorship, either. That is, when there are requirements for federal funding, those requirements cannot be unconstitutional. Another example would be denying funding to schools that admitted black and female students.
No, the parent says that any right you have to ask permission to exercise isn't a right, and he's totally correct. That said, this isn't about whether or not it's your right to access an uncensored internet, it's about whether or not the Federal Government has the right to force censorship in libraries, whether the library wants it or not. Note that this ruling doesn't mean a library CAN'T install censorship software. It means they can't be FORCED to.
What the fuck are you playing your vendor for if they won't provide fixes for known, proven, and public vulnerabilites? If thats your quality of service, are you really losing anything by giving up thier support and installing your own apps?
It's amusing that we'll take away the right to vote from people convicted of crimes, even after they've "paid thier debt to society", and nobody says a word, but hordes of gun owners protest any attempt to limit thier ownership of firearms - which is an antiquated concept with little or no merit in modern society. I'm not rabid about gun control - but the twits who somehow thing it's imperitive to the functioning of society piss me off.
I've seen some really astonishingly cool 3-d VR type stuff done in quicktime, of all things. Some car sight (Honda? Ford?) has one, where you can take a virtual tour of the inside of the cars - it's really amazing.
It's a sort of hybrid, but it's mostly like a folder. It has a distinctive icon, and you can double click it to explore it, right click on it to extract it, and so on. I normally prefer using Winzip (installing something that takes over the.zip extension disables XPs built in support).
I found working with them cumbersome, but it was really handy to be able to unzip my network card drivers... (who else has remebered to back up drivers but not winzip?)
I've always assumed that the problems with the MSDN online documentation were just lousy implementation - and, probably, them not really caring. The on-disk documentation is much better, even though it's the same files - the search & index capabilities of MS help make it pretty easy to find stuff. It's almost impossible to find usefull information on the website unless you know exactly what you're looking for already.
That said, a pretty common way of making information available but useless is to innundate the reader with information - preferable poorly indexed and highly technical and obfuscated. Patent applications are an excellent example of this concept.
If I'm reading this correctly, then you're saying that the high end of RAM is slow because OS memory managment uses 32 bit integers for addressing. Wouldn't using 64bit integers(internal to the kernel, user processes still get normal 32 bit pointers) for addressing solve that problem? You take a performance hit on 32 bit systems, but it's probably not huge, and you can take advantage of 64 bit processors instantly.
I can't think of a single reason you would ever be forced into this. Use the file manager, that's why it's there. On more current versions of windows, you can do it from the open/save dialogs anyway, although I never have.
All my PocketPC apps really close themselves when you click the close button. Yay me!
It's mainly because it's really hard to make sure you release all your database/file/whatever locks unless you exit out, though, because you can't (easily) tell the difference between someone closing your app because he's done with it, and someone "closing" it to work in another window.
And because all the zealots who complain about Word documents being large were going to mock you after you'd used your app as a file editor on a big project and your undo history filled up the hard drive.
The file dialog on windows is an extension of the Explorer shell, as of win2k - you can do just about anything in it you'd do in the shell. Properly behaving apps get the new dialog automagically, poorly coded or badly behaving ones rolled thier own or hardcoded the style, so you're stuck with the nasty ones.
They've had these things for years, you can get em for 10 bucks at radio shack. The sound quality is crap, as can be expected. They'll work with anything you can plug a headphone jack into.
There's a big problem with typeing "mozilla.org" and clicking on the big link that says "windows installer download"? I mean, how stupid of people do we have to allow for, anyway?
Because I write web apps for our lan, and I would dearly love to be able to use Mozillas superior DOM and javascript debugging tools, but I can't, because we use NTLM for everything. Cry.
both up2date and apt provide transparent updates for this kind of thing. up2date run from the command line is signifigantly slicker than Windows Update, and about the same when run from the gui. apt walks all over both of them for ease of use.
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Well, you might want to re-evaluate your contracts then.... if what they provide you is less secure and less stable than other software (BIND 9 has been out for 2 years.. thats a pretty long time in software), then maybe you aren't getting a good value from your SLAs.
The trespassing thing is pretty irrelevent, I can be arrested for tresspassing but I can't be arrested for, or stopped from, blathering all I want while I'm in your living room. They're totally unrelated.
And the first amendment DOES guarantee you a forum, in the sense that the federal government can't prevent you from using one - you couldn't demand access to a private forum, of course, but neither can you be denied access to a public one.
Require libraries to run properly updated and configured versions of Mozilla.
Except that a) not all packages allow exceptions b) when the software invisibly blocks the site, you don't even know it's there to ask to see it c) providing internet access is not distribution of porn d)when was the last time your child saw porn at the library? e) I dare you to provide a clear-cut definition of pornography that leaves no room for error or misconception. Your personal judgment doesn't count.
I submit that you cannot effectivly block porn without also blocking substantial non-porn, unless you have a human-verified blacklist, in which case it merely becomes hugely expensive and unpractical. There's a pretty large amount of porn/sexually explicit content out there without any of the "obvious" triggers that commercial porn sites have, and there's plenty of non-porn sites that will have those triggers.
Says who? Sure, thats how it's been interpeted by lawmakers, but that's also not what was actually written down by a group of highly literate people who were well aware of the nuances of language. You'd think if they mean that "Congress shall make no law which abridges the freedom of the press, unless it's to stop really dirty press", they would have said so.
The federal government likes to use the funding lever to get it's way in areas where it doesn't have any legal authority - ref the 55 mph speed limit. This worked for a while, but recently the courts have looked down on it, ruling that de facto administrative power should be as limited as de jure administrative power, which makes sense to me. While it's certainly true libaries don't have some magical right to new computers, the Fed doesn't have the power to force censorship, either. That is, when there are requirements for federal funding, those requirements cannot be unconstitutional. Another example would be denying funding to schools that admitted black and female students.
No, the parent says that any right you have to ask permission to exercise isn't a right, and he's totally correct. That said, this isn't about whether or not it's your right to access an uncensored internet, it's about whether or not the Federal Government has the right to force censorship in libraries, whether the library wants it or not. Note that this ruling doesn't mean a library CAN'T install censorship software. It means they can't be FORCED to.
What the fuck are you playing your vendor for if they won't provide fixes for known, proven, and public vulnerabilites? If thats your quality of service, are you really losing anything by giving up thier support and installing your own apps?
It's amusing that we'll take away the right to vote from people convicted of crimes, even after they've "paid thier debt to society", and nobody says a word, but hordes of gun owners protest any attempt to limit thier ownership of firearms - which is an antiquated concept with little or no merit in modern society. I'm not rabid about gun control - but the twits who somehow thing it's imperitive to the functioning of society piss me off.
I've seen some really astonishingly cool 3-d VR type stuff done in quicktime, of all things. Some car sight (Honda? Ford?) has one, where you can take a virtual tour of the inside of the cars - it's really amazing.
I found working with them cumbersome, but it was really handy to be able to unzip my network card drivers... (who else has remebered to back up drivers but not winzip?)
That said, a pretty common way of making information available but useless is to innundate the reader with information - preferable poorly indexed and highly technical and obfuscated. Patent applications are an excellent example of this concept.
Sadly, none of those things are requirements to legally own a gun, at least in parts of the US.
If I'm reading this correctly, then you're saying that the high end of RAM is slow because OS memory managment uses 32 bit integers for addressing. Wouldn't using 64bit integers(internal to the kernel, user processes still get normal 32 bit pointers) for addressing solve that problem? You take a performance hit on 32 bit systems, but it's probably not huge, and you can take advantage of 64 bit processors instantly.
It's more like the New York Post or something. Real news, real facts, but a strong editorial bias.
I can't think of a single reason you would ever be forced into this. Use the file manager, that's why it's there. On more current versions of windows, you can do it from the open/save dialogs anyway, although I never have.
It's mainly because it's really hard to make sure you release all your database/file/whatever locks unless you exit out, though, because you can't (easily) tell the difference between someone closing your app because he's done with it, and someone "closing" it to work in another window.
And because all the zealots who complain about Word documents being large were going to mock you after you'd used your app as a file editor on a big project and your undo history filled up the hard drive.
The file dialog on windows is an extension of the Explorer shell, as of win2k - you can do just about anything in it you'd do in the shell. Properly behaving apps get the new dialog automagically, poorly coded or badly behaving ones rolled thier own or hardcoded the style, so you're stuck with the nasty ones.
They've had these things for years, you can get em for 10 bucks at radio shack. The sound quality is crap, as can be expected. They'll work with anything you can plug a headphone jack into.
There's a big problem with typeing "mozilla.org" and clicking on the big link that says "windows installer download"? I mean, how stupid of people do we have to allow for, anyway?
Because I write web apps for our lan, and I would dearly love to be able to use Mozillas superior DOM and javascript debugging tools, but I can't, because we use NTLM for everything. Cry.
ctrl-mousewheel zooms the whole document, not just the text.
both up2date and apt provide transparent updates for this kind of thing. up2date run from the command line is signifigantly slicker than Windows Update, and about the same when run from the gui. apt walks all over both of them for ease of use.