"Taxing miles driven? Heck no! Tax the gas used so that a person who drives a fuel efficient hybrid gets an INCENTIVE"
This from the country where people don't pay for petrol? We drove two thousand miles in Alaska, in a 3-tonne truck, and got charged exactly twelve dollars for fuel. Back home in England, you'd be lucky to get 80 miles for that much.
"In copyright law, the author and the copyright holder are essentially the same thing."
If you allow that the concept of "intellectual property" can exist, as the UK patent office claim, then the copyright holder is no more an author than the person who first owned that patch of land in which you live is the owner of your house.
The reason for being called "property" is that it can be traded, hence the reason John Milton's granddaughter died in poverty while his publisher was living in luxury from the copyright [monopoly on distribution] from his poem.
And no, I don't forget how Hollywood itself was founded on blantant disregard for the rule of law, moving to the swamps of California so that they could rip-off artists' work with no cost to themselves. Where are Buster Keyton's credits in Steamboat Willie?
"If it is directly designed to make quake VIII run faster, yeah! Slap that on the box! The consumer gains from that."
I can see the full-page newspaper adverts now:
"The latest, most modern video card, ideal for running 3DMark2002 or Quake3-benchmark
* n.b. may be unsuitable for other games, such as those which involve user-interaction"
"I wouldn't feel safe not answering all of the "Out of Area" and "Unknown" calls... who knows maybe it's your wife from a pay phone after her car broke down."
Now if only we had software phones...
Your number is not recognised: type the passphrase to make the phone ring, or leave a message in the filter-bin
It's more worrying than that, when a company caught misleading customers can get away with admitting it, giving a press-release about it, then making an agreement with the testing company to help them cheat even more in the future.
Whatever happened to the outraged reaction and boycotts that you would expect in an economy where underhanded behaviour is not normal?
"The purpose is not to locate point X on a sphere, we already have a perfectly adequate global coordinate system for that."
Although interestingly, the major standard [transverse mercator, wgs84] involves using each country's own coordinate system, and specifying a hundred datums (data?).
There's nothing like respecting local customs to get a standard accepted... try specifying locations in Britain in units other than OSGB (or postal addresses) for example.
Presumably you can have an IRC client which traceroute's everyone on the server and lists them by proximity (you already have the IP address in IRC, assuming nobody's upgraded to InvisibleNet IIP)
"And yes, yes I know, "code to standards", which is the way it *should* be, but in practice, there's the reality that not all browsers output the way you need them to (especially IE)."
Just what is it with Internet Explorer? Ten years after Cascading Stylesheets became popular, and IE still doesn't support them?
It's not even as if IE doesn't use stylesheets (nice and easy to program around) -- it does display stylesheets, deliberately fucked up. 95% of the visitors to my website are viewing a navbar with incorrect spacing, because their browser doesn't support CSS1 correctly.
If that's not confusing enough, imagine a brace of Real Browsers (with CSS support) all going around with the "MSIE" user-agent tag (while internet explorer, of course, claims that it's Mozilla 5)
Get a proper browser already. How long do I have to cater for these idiots still using IE?
"Online banking works just fine today...If even 10% of their users have problems accessing their online banking accounts, the cost of customer service calls will by HUGE"
Online banking today cuts-out everyone with a browser which doesn't transmit "MSIE" in the user-agent. Yes it sucks. Yes it's the reason I don't use online banking. And yes, it is damned stupid to be requiring a fundamentally insecure browser incapable of securely handling SSH sessions, for banking transactions. But tell that to your bank. "What? Doesn't everyone use WindowsXP? You can download MSIE for free you know"
Do we have agreement on what the MD5 should look like for these files, before everyone starts hosting any file they find with a "waste.zip" filename?
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"You must have exceptionally small CDs! My moz directory is 22MB. I could even fit that on a business card CD.
Yeah its not tiny but it will easily fit on a CD."
At the risk of getting into a size debate, I'm using business-card CDs, which hold 50Mb. Several reasons for not using mozilla: (a) I prefer not to use half the space-allocation just on an indexing tool (b) Mozilla may fit into 22Mb, but to give those CDs to anyone would require mozilla source-code, which adds considerably more space. (c) I remember from discussions on TheOpenCD(.org) about installers that the Mozilla team preferred that Mozilla not be distributed to end-users. A strange request, but worth considering.
Opera would probably be a bad choice for business cards, as it's not exactly an advertisement for free software.
OffByOne is also not free software if I remember correctly, and appears to be just a wrapper around Internet Explorer. It's also very, very basic.
KMeleon seems to be the best choice at the moment; I think it can be run fom read-only locations, and it can be made to run EXE files. I'm experimenting with KMeleon, the Abyss webserver and Perl to get perl-scripts which can be run from a bootable CD, with a browser interface.
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"'Launch file' after downloading has been enabled for.exe files Isn't this taking IE emulation a bit too far!"
For those of us trying to use browsers as the index for a CD full of software, it's actually quite useful.
Admittedly, Mozilla is too large for putting on a CD, but K-Meleon works quite well.
Slashdot Mirror
When was the last time you got a legitimate email with a .pif attachment?
How long will extension-filtering last though? Surely it can't be long before viruses start to send ZIP files containing setup.exe
"Depends. Was your shelf headed upward at a thousand miles an hour?"
Choose the appropriate place to measure it from, and just about anything can be moving upwards at a thousand miles an hour.
Doesn't mean it's going to hit anything though...
"I guess Steve Ballmer was right when he said that the open-source movement stifles innovation."
Steve Ballmer... movement... Stifling? surely not?
Does that mean you'll be able to see percentage-health bars over your soldiers' heads?
"Your creatures are dying"
Humorix explanation
"Taxing miles driven? Heck no! Tax the gas used so that a person who drives a fuel efficient hybrid gets an INCENTIVE"
This from the country where people don't pay for petrol? We drove two thousand miles in Alaska, in a 3-tonne truck, and got charged exactly twelve dollars for fuel. Back home in England, you'd be lucky to get 80 miles for that much.
"In copyright law, the author and the copyright holder are essentially the same thing."
If you allow that the concept of "intellectual property" can exist, as the UK patent office claim, then the copyright holder is no more an author than the person who first owned that patch of land in which you live is the owner of your house.
The reason for being called "property" is that it can be traded, hence the reason John Milton's granddaughter died in poverty while his publisher was living in luxury from the copyright [monopoly on distribution] from his poem.
And no, I don't forget how Hollywood itself was founded on blantant disregard for the rule of law, moving to the swamps of California so that they could rip-off artists' work with no cost to themselves. Where are Buster Keyton's credits in Steamboat Willie?
"If it is directly designed to make quake VIII run faster, yeah! Slap that on the box! The consumer gains from that."
I can see the full-page newspaper adverts now:
"The latest, most modern video card, ideal for running 3DMark2002 or Quake3-benchmark
* n.b. may be unsuitable for other games, such as those which involve user-interaction"
"Customer's IT departments have budgets that expire Dec 31 and you don't get unspent money back."
Strange... one would expect a more cynical accounting department to have their must-spend-now period some time other than the christmas party season.
"I wouldn't feel safe not answering all of the "Out of Area" and "Unknown" calls... who knows maybe it's your wife from a pay phone after her car broke down."
Now if only we had software phones...
Your number is not recognised: type the passphrase to make the phone ring, or leave a message in the filter-bin
"Errrr... that seems like a cheat to me!"
It's more worrying than that, when a company caught misleading customers can get away with admitting it, giving a press-release about it, then making an agreement with the testing company to help them cheat even more in the future.
Whatever happened to the outraged reaction and boycotts that you would expect in an economy where underhanded behaviour is not normal?
"The purpose is not to locate point X on a sphere, we already have a perfectly adequate global coordinate system for that."
Although interestingly, the major standard [transverse mercator, wgs84] involves using each country's own coordinate system, and specifying a hundred datums (data?).
There's nothing like respecting local customs to get a standard accepted... try specifying locations in Britain in units other than OSGB (or postal addresses) for example.
How about getting the famous designers to work on a usable website for the design museum?
No I do not want to install your untested closed-source software.
"1-mile is approx 1 minute of longitude."
I don't think it's approximate
"Some of the software we have now is too stubborn to let you enter anything else than a 5-digit zip code."
And they wonder why they're not selling anything internationally...
Does anyone know how many NY-Times 'registrations' are located in 90210?
"You should think about getting one of those laptops with a built in camera, so when the prof. starts drawing diagrams just grab the frame."
I seem to be getting a lot of emails from these college students with cameras on their laptops...
"They can just create an ADD ON for ICQ or AIM."
Presumably you can have an IRC client which traceroute's everyone on the server and lists them by proximity (you already have the IP address in IRC, assuming nobody's upgraded to InvisibleNet IIP)
"So just ROT13 everything and the law goes bye bye Hell, it worked for Adobe."
Is ROT-26 encryption not strong enough for california law?
"Why are we paying salaries to support browsers that only comprise 10% of our hits combined?"
Imagine being told that you can get a 10% increase in customer numbers, simply by changing a few lines of code...
"so that transaction won't work (unless SearchKing can make everyone visit the site in question, and then like it)."
Kind'a like slashdot replacing 1 in 100 "reformat the comments page" pages with an automatic redirect to an advert?
"And yes, yes I know, "code to standards", which is the way it *should* be, but in practice, there's the reality that not all browsers output the way you need them to (especially IE)."
Just what is it with Internet Explorer? Ten years after Cascading Stylesheets became popular, and IE still doesn't support them?
It's not even as if IE doesn't use stylesheets (nice and easy to program around) -- it does display stylesheets, deliberately fucked up. 95% of the visitors to my website are viewing a navbar with incorrect spacing, because their browser doesn't support CSS1 correctly.
If that's not confusing enough, imagine a brace of Real Browsers (with CSS support) all going around with the "MSIE" user-agent tag (while internet explorer, of course, claims that it's Mozilla 5)
Get a proper browser already. How long do I have to cater for these idiots still using IE?
"Online banking works just fine today...If even 10% of their users have problems accessing their online banking accounts, the cost of customer service calls will by HUGE"
Online banking today cuts-out everyone with a browser which doesn't transmit "MSIE" in the user-agent. Yes it sucks. Yes it's the reason I don't use online banking. And yes, it is damned stupid to be requiring a fundamentally insecure browser incapable of securely handling SSH sessions, for banking transactions. But tell that to your bank. "What? Doesn't everyone use WindowsXP? You can download MSIE for free you know"
Please, mirror the file instead of using this as sole source.
Okay
Do we have agreement on what the MD5 should look like for these files, before everyone starts hosting any file they find with a "waste.zip" filename?
"You must have exceptionally small CDs! My moz directory is 22MB. I could even fit that on a business card CD.
Yeah its not tiny but it will easily fit on a CD."
At the risk of getting into a size debate, I'm using business-card CDs, which hold 50Mb. Several reasons for not using mozilla:
(a) I prefer not to use half the space-allocation just on an indexing tool
(b) Mozilla may fit into 22Mb, but to give those CDs to anyone would require mozilla source-code, which adds considerably more space.
(c) I remember from discussions on TheOpenCD(.org) about installers that the Mozilla team preferred that Mozilla not be distributed to end-users. A strange request, but worth considering.
Opera would probably be a bad choice for business cards, as it's not exactly an advertisement for free software.
OffByOne is also not free software if I remember correctly, and appears to be just a wrapper around Internet Explorer. It's also very, very basic.
KMeleon seems to be the best choice at the moment; I think it can be run fom read-only locations, and it can be made to run EXE files. I'm experimenting with KMeleon, the Abyss webserver and Perl to get perl-scripts which can be run from a bootable CD, with a browser interface.
"'Launch file' after downloading has been enabled for .exe files
Isn't this taking IE emulation a bit too far!"
For those of us trying to use browsers as the index for a CD full of software, it's actually quite useful.
Admittedly, Mozilla is too large for putting on a CD, but K-Meleon works quite well.