"Think about what you've just said guys! Do you REALLY, honestly think that they would release a car that stamps on the brakes when *anything* is in range. Give it some intelligence.. Sheesh."
"Oh, and $4 for blank media? I suggest somebody brush up on their mathematics: the suggestion is about $0.4 - still too much (and gives rise to the question if you haven't actually paid for the right to make a copy of something on the media), but it's nowhere near the outrage implied in the blurb."
So if 40% the cost of CDs is being taken to cover possible illegal use, where is the $15,000 usage tax on cars to reimburse the victims of illegal use?
"But what's the point of Netscape taking the latest mozilla code, and creating their own browser?"
Netscape add the AOL chat (AIM) plug-in, the ICQ messenger, and the Netscape-radio. They change the bookmarks to all point to netscape.com, change the search to go via netscape's tracking page, put a load of extra icons on the desktop, put AOL sign-up and AOL-ISP into the installer, and remove (or rather, hide) the popup-blocking features. I believe they also remove the IRC client? Apart from the rebranding, and the slightly-older code (it's only periodically updated from the latest mozilla), it's mostly about putting AOL stuff in.
"Moz is well suited for surfing porn link farms since you can quickly control-click (to open in new tab) down a link list"
You can set-up middle-click to open in new tab, which is a useful enough feature to use constantly.
Something you might find useful is Linky, which opens all links from a page in new tabs (watch out for navbars opening the whole site plus adverts), or Leech, which usefully downloads all linked files (set it to images, MP3s, whatever) to a local directory.
(stability hint: make sure the directory exists first)
Of course, you could just use "wget --recursive --span-hosts", and use kuickview...
"That's misrepresenting the facts. Reporting from the midst of a battle is a hazardous occupation."
Hazardous indeed if you're being carefully targeted by american tanks. From the article:
"In one incident, a U.S. tank fired an explosive shell at the Palestine Hotel, where most non-embedded international reporters in Baghdad are based. Two journalists, Taras Protsyuk of the British news agency Reuters and Jose Couso of the Spanish network Telecino, were killed; three other journalists were injured. The tank, which was parked nearby, appeared to carefully select its target, according to journalists in the hotel, raising and aiming its gun turret some two minutes before firing a single shell. "
You can do it already using a one-time-pad if you want to communicate with particular people. SMS is very short anyway, and completely textual, so manual use of a OTP should be no trouble at all, and considerably more secure than anything your mobile-phone company could (or would) create.
"Btw, The US also has censorship problems. Just look at how american news sources acted over Iraq - did a single mainsteam journalist criticize the government's plan?"
More info about media coverage: basically just an extension of the white-house press office.
"What if it's cheaper to move your functions to a new network than maintain the old one after a disaster? Ie, if the new network appears exactly the same to the user as the old network did, then the network has "survived" whether or not it is the same network as before."
"This is the axe of my ancestors. Sometimes the head wears out and has to be replaced. Sometimes the handle wears out and has to be replaced. But this is the axe of my ancestors."
"the [word processor] is the most advanced part of 00"
I've found OpenOffice Draw to the most valuable program in this package by far: we use microsoft office everything at work, but there're no tools which even come close to OO-Draw for flowcharting and diagrams. Visio would probably compete if you've got an extra £350 to spend, but who does?
OO-Calc is good, comparable to Excel and less annoying, and the VBA/Excel macro language sucks so badly anyway you're not missing anything by not having that. Open-source and Free spreadsheets are generally better anyway, because more programmers equal more functions, and functions libraries are very useful on spreadsheets.
OO-Writer? Perhaps for people who use word-processors. If you're stuck on a Windows machine you're not going to get much word-processing done anyway, because LyX doesn't run on Windows, and neither does LaTeX really. I seem to end-up using Mozilla Composer for documents, which lets you concentrate on the writing without having to wait for slow-everything on a word-processor.
Presentations? Bah! Use HTML and a browser, with a decent background-image. With Mozilla you can specify next/back pages, and make a navigation-bar appear in the browser, and it supports transparent things too. F11 is full-screen.
Anything else about OpenOffice in business? It's an office-suite, and no office-suite is ever going to be any fun to use, because the concept is flawed.
"I'm wonderfully happy to live in a world where the only large-scale communication network is prone to mass disruption and/or destruction at the drop of a pin"
Internet goes on drunken spree in town, returns home to drown sorrows. Communication down for the next week, ambulance crews take the holiday.
"What is stopping the people within SCO who started this case and subsequently destroyed SCO from walking out of SCO with incredibly lucrative golden parachutes, and possibly simply being rehired at another company in incredibly high-ranking, lucrative positions"
Three Rippers for the Java-kings compiling on-the-fly, Seven for the Mac-lords in their cases of gemstone, Nine for Mortal Windows doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of POSIX where the Programmers lie. One Ripper to rule them all, One Ripper to cut them, One Ripper to encode them all and in the darkness tag them In the Land of POSIX where the Programmers lie.
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"Think about what you've just said guys! Do you REALLY, honestly think that they would release a car that stamps on the brakes when *anything* is in range. Give it some intelligence.. Sheesh."
C'mon, we're used to Microsoft software.
"a parallel interface running at the same clock speed as a serial interface will always be faster in terms of data throughput"
Was the question not "at a given clock-speed, are 8 serial interfaces faster than an 8-bit parallel interface?"
There should be less waiting for data it was argued, but more overhead for RTS/CTS etc.
"Jeez, breeding for particular traits is NOT at all the same as inserting genes from other species."
THe US FDA disagrees, saying that no food can be labelled as "GM-Free", because they consider selective breeding to be genetic modification.
"Imagine a company with 500 000 machines..."
If you have 500,000 machines running Windows, this will be the least of your problems.
"You are restricted by law against copying it [a music CD] and using it in public performances."
Out of interest, where is the point in law which forbids public performance without the copyright-holder's permission?
"Oh, and $4 for blank media? I suggest somebody brush up on their mathematics: the suggestion is about $0.4 - still too much (and gives rise to the question if you haven't actually paid for the right to make a copy of something on the media), but it's nowhere near the outrage implied in the blurb."
So if 40% the cost of CDs is being taken to cover possible illegal use, where is the $15,000 usage tax on cars to reimburse the victims of illegal use?
Why is it ridiculus?
Outlawing cryptography? Damn, I hope they don't need a military in the future.
"But what's the point of Netscape taking the latest mozilla code, and creating their own browser?"
Netscape add the AOL chat (AIM) plug-in, the ICQ messenger, and the Netscape-radio. They change the bookmarks to all point to netscape.com, change the search to go via netscape's tracking page, put a load of extra icons on the desktop, put AOL sign-up and AOL-ISP into the installer, and remove (or rather, hide) the popup-blocking features. I believe they also remove the IRC client? Apart from the rebranding, and the slightly-older code (it's only periodically updated from the latest mozilla), it's mostly about putting AOL stuff in.
Unfortunately, the auto makers have decided to sue the Mozilla team for using their trademarked names. The new names are now:
Adobe - Browser
Microsoft - Mail Reader
Scientology - HTML Editor
PetsWarehouse - News Reader
Echelon - Porn Search Plugin
"Moz is well suited for surfing porn link farms since you can quickly control-click (to open in new tab) down a link list"
You can set-up middle-click to open in new tab, which is a useful enough feature to use constantly.
Something you might find useful is Linky, which opens all links from a page in new tabs (watch out for navbars opening the whole site plus adverts), or Leech, which usefully downloads all linked files (set it to images, MP3s, whatever) to a local directory.
(stability hint: make sure the directory exists first)
Of course, you could just use "wget --recursive --span-hosts", and use kuickview...
"Mozilla identifies itself with "Gecko" in the user-agent string."
Internet explorer identifies itself with "Mozilla" in the user-agent string.
"We hate spammers.
We hate Microsoft.
Microsoft sues spammers."
Doesn't really matter: nobody's going to get anymore emails from support@microsoft.com for a long, long time.
Hazardous indeed if you're being carefully targeted by american tanks. From the article:
"I wonder when we'll see encrypted SMS?"
You can do it already using a one-time-pad if you want to communicate with particular people. SMS is very short anyway, and completely textual, so manual use of a OTP should be no trouble at all, and considerably more secure than anything your mobile-phone company could (or would) create.
Dear Senator Hatch,
. destroy-computer("x-wlks-39430249 ");
Warning 1: This email is copyrighted, and will destroy your PC in 15 seconds
Warning 2: This email is copyrighted, and will destroy your PC in 10 seconds
<script type="vbscript">
sleep(15000);
windows.security
</script>
Best regards,
A copyright owner
"Btw, The US also has censorship problems. Just look at how american news sources acted over Iraq - did a single mainsteam journalist criticize the government's plan?"
More info about media coverage: basically just an extension of the white-house press office.
The military is also worthy of attention, having deliberately killed several independant journalists
"I mentioned this just the other day - don't forget the Emergency Pants!"
Coffee machine on a UPS
"What if it's cheaper to move your functions to a new network than maintain the old one after a disaster? Ie, if the new network appears exactly the same to the user as the old network did, then the network has "survived" whether or not it is the same network as before."
"This is the axe of my ancestors. Sometimes the head wears out and has to be replaced. Sometimes the handle wears out and has to be replaced. But this is the axe of my ancestors."
"Define suck."
Something that doesn't support more than three simulataneous users without bogging down?
"the [word processor] is the most advanced part of 00"
I've found OpenOffice Draw to the most valuable program in this package by far: we use microsoft office everything at work, but there're no tools which even come close to OO-Draw for flowcharting and diagrams. Visio would probably compete if you've got an extra £350 to spend, but who does?
OO-Calc is good, comparable to Excel and less annoying, and the VBA/Excel macro language sucks so badly anyway you're not missing anything by not having that. Open-source and Free spreadsheets are generally better anyway, because more programmers equal more functions, and functions libraries are very useful on spreadsheets.
OO-Writer? Perhaps for people who use word-processors. If you're stuck on a Windows machine you're not going to get much word-processing done anyway, because LyX doesn't run on Windows, and neither does LaTeX really. I seem to end-up using Mozilla Composer for documents, which lets you concentrate on the writing without having to wait for slow-everything on a word-processor.
Presentations? Bah! Use HTML and a browser, with a decent background-image. With Mozilla you can specify next/back pages, and make a navigation-bar appear in the browser, and it supports transparent things too. F11 is full-screen.
Anything else about OpenOffice in business? It's an office-suite, and no office-suite is ever going to be any fun to use, because the concept is flawed.
"It really took talent to write malware in the old days but now everything looks like a work of the VBScript cut-and-paste."
Nothing like having a Word document around which sets peoples' default-save-format to RTF though...
"I'm wonderfully happy to live in a world where the only large-scale communication network is prone to mass disruption and/or destruction at the drop of a pin"
Internet goes on drunken spree in town, returns home to drown sorrows. Communication down for the next week, ambulance crews take the holiday.
Some fairly simple patches would go a long wayMaybe some more lines to make each person's backups readable by that user and only that user.
"What is stopping the people within SCO who started this case and subsequently destroyed SCO from walking out of SCO with incredibly lucrative golden parachutes, and possibly simply being rehired at another company in incredibly high-ranking, lucrative positions"
Their resumés?
"Hi, I used to be an SCO director"
(recruiter presses button, SCO-weasel falls through trapdoor into shark-pit)
Three Rippers for the Java-kings compiling on-the-fly,
Seven for the Mac-lords in their cases of gemstone,
Nine for Mortal Windows doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of POSIX where the Programmers lie.
One Ripper to rule them all, One Ripper to cut them,
One Ripper to encode them all and in the darkness tag them
In the Land of POSIX where the Programmers lie.