What's the problem? All you have to do with word's HTML is to delete the stylesheet, the targets, the paragraph names, and most of the header, search-and-delete a load of unused tags, and you get a proper HTML document. Easy.
Of course, this also reduces the filesize in the process (like from 70K to 15K)
Exactly. Word is an excellent word processor, if not the best word processor around. It can read or write documents in RTF, HTML, Text, or a number of proprietry formats (including those developed by Corel, and Lotus, for example)
The problem people have is with the.doc format, which single-platform, secret, and can contain malicious code. If you write a document in word's native format, there's a good chance you won't be able to read it after a few years.
There is a reasonably easy way to fix this-- email all the Word users you know with a file containing an "OnClose" function which changes the default file-save-format to RTF or HTML.
I can't remember the exact code I use, but the basis is to use VBA's inherent insecurity to change people's default file format.
Try zipped-X(HT)ML - XML-type documents are large, versatile, and easily-compressible
Combine this with a standard, open compression format, and voila! A small, open, document.
If you don't have a word processor that supports it, just open it up in gzip or UltimateZip, and edit the X(ht)ML in a text editor, or view it in a browser.
I'd also be quite interested to see page-markup (headers, footers, cross-references, section numbering) on HTML -- that would make it ideal for use in word processors.
(don't forget that zipped-XML works fine for spreadsheets, presentation graphics, and vector graphics also)
You *can* program in Perl -- it says that if you use any C modules, you have to specify which, and if you can compile perl from c and use that to run your perl program, then you can argue that your program is written in c with one very large additional module.
Seriously though, why would anyone want to do text processing/internet/database stuff in C now that perl is available?
On the contrary, I think we will start to see Linux being used as a desktop, if only because people are starting to be scared off by Window's omnipotence.
When faced with the prospect of the new windows versions, I just had to install mandrake. And pretty much everyone I show my new desktop to wants one the same.
"What do you mean, free? But you've got everything included"
Try telling that to the Texan lawmakers. If they want to impose their views on the entire world wide web, there seems to be no stopping them.
Our next step is to register "tx" as a trademark in Uganda, then sue the state of texas and force them to surrender their.tx domain. It's really no different.
No look, you are just taking the piss now. The american legal system is trampling upon anybody not from their country BECAUSE IT CAN. Same reason the american military is killing civilians and turning democracy on its head in a remote asian village. Not because it's right, but because it can.
You can post all you like about how morally good something is just because it's the americans shitting on somebody else, but for anybody with enough internationalised brain cells left to think straight, you can tell right off that in this case as every other, Skylarov has been kidnapped by criminals. Let me repeat that, he was not "arrested by police" he was kidnapped by criminals.
Explain it all you like, if that makes you feel better. Preach to us how a california court can "prosecute" (persecute) a Russian for posting on his Russian website, if that helps you sleep at night.
How about just paying the $20 a year to get a safeweb account, or one of the many other anonymisers which support internet proxies through secure connectons?
All you then have to do is route all of your requests through their "HTTPS://safeweb.com/http://myURL.com" proxy. Granted, this will only work for web browsing and not for peer-to-peer.
Would I be right in thinking that, even if you applied for this canadian job in canada, but if your email describing the decryption method travelled through american property (i.e. servers) then you could be arrested in the US for breaking something which could conceivably be used to protect copyright?
Remember, DeCSS can be expressed as a prime number, as can any document, so mathematical problems have no special advantage.
Yeah, the GEO domain basically made it easy to find websites close to you - it's not much use searching for bike shops on google, but it would be more use if you could list all the shops within a mile, then search those.
As you all say, it's just another form of advertising, another form of spam. Who needs billboards, when you can have customised, targeted billboards that look different for every person.
I just don't want to be the one clicking "close, close, close" as the pop-up porn ads fill my car's Head-Up-Display!
Look, it's not the most obscure reason in the world why Time Warner (think MPAA) and AOL (think screwing end users) would want to buy Linux (last bastion of freedom)
What is the one and only real objection to the SCSSA bill at the moment? It's that Linux will never accept digital rights management, and even if they did, we'd all work on it from outside America, leaving the US wallowing in a technological vacuum.
So what do we see now? We see AOL buying redhat, and installing digital rights management on it. We see longtime redhat supporters (especially businesses) buying it anyway, and even better, we see it given to all the clones running AOL at home.
Think ahead. It's going to become socially acceptable to lock down and license every piece of electronic equipment, unless the public can see where they're being led, and what they can do about it.
No, they're louder when they've just taken off, and they're mustering power to keep themselves off the ground at low speed. It also means they're lower, and hence closer to you.
It would be impossible for any government to allow supersonic overflights of urban areas by anything as big as Concorde - put it this way, the European courts just kicked out plans for night-landings in london on the basis of "right to a good night's sleep"
There's a bit of a trend to get POP email accounts free with thing anyway now. You can get email accounts at sourceforce, openoffice, mandrake, and the like, when you use their products.
I use yahoo (POP access) to help me write a spam-filtering program, and my own domain as a real email address. It's good to be able to give a different "suspect_spammers_website@mydomain.co.uk" email for each form you have to fill in, cos it makes it easier to track who's selling their email lists;-)
You ever live under the concorde flight path? (Between Heathrow and Staines) - It used to be that everyone in my town had to stop talking between 9:50 and 10:00 every morning, as the sound level was too much to hear anything else. Sermons were interrupted, business was done in sign language, and radio shows may as well not have bothered.
It's only a strip about a mile wide which is affected; I guess we're gonna have it again now that concorde is flying once more.
Yeah, but we can't boycott something we don't already buy! I don't buy much whiney-pop music, I don't buy any copy-protected CDs, and I don't buy food at the university of Nottingham. So none of the above are going to notice a boycott, should I choose to implement one.
After that story about Universal records, I did a search on Amazon to see what they sold. Surprise, surprise, nothing they sold was anything that I would ever buy.
I know we need to make a point now, but remember the idea of "choosing your battles". - The music industry are choosing theirs, and they are choosing music they know will go unnoticed.
If we all buy whatever CD universal are trying to flog, and take it back to make our point, what will universal see? 10M more people than normal bought it, 10M people returned it because they couldn't accept the license agreement.
Sounds a bit contrived, no? We do need to do something, but we need to have some good ideas what to do.
You worry about old computer data being lost... When was the last time anyone tried to read their programs from a TRS-80, or from a BBC-B?
Among those who value archives, the computer age is being known as a "dark age" for the simple reason that computers to retrieve much of this data will no longer run.
If you write a document now, chances are it will be irretrievable within a few years. More so if you use Word, less so if you use text files. What do you store it on? Punch card? Tape? Floppy disc? CD? ZIP-disk? Whatever you choose will soon become unsupported, and records will be lost.
Welcome to the dark age. It makes document archiving much easier;-)
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Is it Texaco who has a "price-watch"?
"We continually monitor the prices of petrol stations within a 5 mile radius, to ensure that our prices are among the most competitive in town"
i.e. price-fixing, which is illegal, yet they get away with thumbing their noses at customers by writing their price-fixing policy on posters.
Good point. Buy, copy, return. "Sorry, I can't accept this license agreement, refund please"
What's the problem? All you have to do with word's HTML is to delete the stylesheet, the targets, the paragraph names, and most of the header, search-and-delete a load of unused tags, and you get a proper HTML document. Easy.
Of course, this also reduces the filesize in the process (like from 70K to 15K)
Exactly. Word is an excellent word processor, if not the best word processor around. It can read or write documents in RTF, HTML, Text, or a number of proprietry formats (including those developed by Corel, and Lotus, for example)
.doc format, which single-platform, secret, and can contain malicious code. If you write a document in word's native format, there's a good chance you won't be able to read it after a few years.
The problem people have is with the
There is a reasonably easy way to fix this-- email all the Word users you know with a file containing an "OnClose" function which changes the default file-save-format to RTF or HTML.
I can't remember the exact code I use, but the basis is to use VBA's inherent insecurity to change people's default file format.
Try zipped-X(HT)ML - XML-type documents are large, versatile, and easily-compressible
Combine this with a standard, open compression format, and voila! A small, open, document.
If you don't have a word processor that supports it, just open it up in gzip or UltimateZip, and edit the X(ht)ML in a text editor, or view it in a browser.
I'd also be quite interested to see page-markup (headers, footers, cross-references, section numbering) on HTML -- that would make it ideal for use in word processors.
(don't forget that zipped-XML works fine for spreadsheets, presentation graphics, and vector graphics also)
You *can* program in Perl -- it says that if you use any C modules, you have to specify which, and if you can compile perl from c and use that to run your perl program, then you can argue that your program is written in c with one very large additional module.
Seriously though, why would anyone want to do text processing/internet/database stuff in C now that perl is available?
On the contrary, I think we will start to see Linux being used as a desktop, if only because people are starting to be scared off by Window's omnipotence.
When faced with the prospect of the new windows versions, I just had to install mandrake. And pretty much everyone I show my new desktop to wants one the same.
"What do you mean, free? But you've got everything included"
Try telling that to the Texan lawmakers. If they want to impose their views on the entire world wide web, there seems to be no stopping them.
.tx domain. It's really no different.
Our next step is to register "tx" as a trademark in Uganda, then sue the state of texas and force them to surrender their
I think most churches are insured against "Acts of God"
The standard argument for encryption is: "if everyone uses encryption, then use of encryption will no longer be suspicious"
So surely the same argument applies to airline tickets: "if everyone pays in cash, then payment in cash will no longer be suspicious"
Remember "suspicious" only means "different from others" in such a context.
Where do you think the majority of ch1ld p0rn comes from? Surely not the FBI entrapment operations?
I think you'll find that insurance policies specifically exclude things being hit by comets, satellites, and other space junk.
I mean, it's just too much of a risk for them to take, not including such exclusion terms...
"Anything non-lego is a no-no."
How about "Anything non-microsoft is a no-no"? Just follow the crowd
No look, you are just taking the piss now. The american legal system is trampling upon anybody not from their country BECAUSE IT CAN. Same reason the american military is killing civilians and turning democracy on its head in a remote asian village. Not because it's right, but because it can.
You can post all you like about how morally good something is just because it's the americans shitting on somebody else, but for anybody with enough internationalised brain cells left to think straight, you can tell right off that in this case as every other, Skylarov has been kidnapped by criminals. Let me repeat that, he was not "arrested by police" he was kidnapped by criminals.
Explain it all you like, if that makes you feel better. Preach to us how a california court can "prosecute" (persecute) a Russian for posting on his Russian website, if that helps you sleep at night.
How about just paying the $20 a year to get a safeweb account, or one of the many other anonymisers which support internet proxies through secure connectons?
All you then have to do is route all of your requests through their "HTTPS://safeweb.com/http://myURL.com" proxy. Granted, this will only work for web browsing and not for peer-to-peer.
One word... steganography. Get camouflage or gifshuffle (search for 'em) and you can put whatever you want into another file.
"30k banner ad on your webpage? No, that's my email archive."
Would I be right in thinking that, even if you applied for this canadian job in canada, but if your email describing the decryption method travelled through american property (i.e. servers) then you could be arrested in the US for breaking something which could conceivably be used to protect copyright?
Remember, DeCSS can be expressed as a prime number, as can any document, so mathematical problems have no special advantage.
Yeah, the GEO domain basically made it easy to find websites close to you - it's not much use searching for bike shops on google, but it would be more use if you could list all the shops within a mile, then search those.
As you all say, it's just another form of advertising, another form of spam. Who needs billboards, when you can have customised, targeted billboards that look different for every person.
I just don't want to be the one clicking "close, close, close" as the pop-up porn ads fill my car's Head-Up-Display!
Look, it's not the most obscure reason in the world why Time Warner (think MPAA) and AOL (think screwing end users) would want to buy Linux (last bastion of freedom)
What is the one and only real objection to the SCSSA bill at the moment? It's that Linux will never accept digital rights management, and even if they did, we'd all work on it from outside America, leaving the US wallowing in a technological vacuum.
So what do we see now? We see AOL buying redhat, and installing digital rights management on it. We see longtime redhat supporters (especially businesses) buying it anyway, and even better, we see it given to all the clones running AOL at home.
Think ahead. It's going to become socially acceptable to lock down and license every piece of electronic equipment, unless the public can see where they're being led, and what they can do about it.
No, they're louder when they've just taken off, and they're mustering power to keep themselves off the ground at low speed. It also means they're lower, and hence closer to you.
;-)
It would be impossible for any government to allow supersonic overflights of urban areas by anything as big as Concorde - put it this way, the European courts just kicked out plans for night-landings in london on the basis of "right to a good night's sleep"
Maybe I can sue the coffee company on that one
There's a bit of a trend to get POP email accounts free with thing anyway now. You can get email accounts at sourceforce, openoffice, mandrake, and the like, when you use their products.
;-)
I use yahoo (POP access) to help me write a spam-filtering program, and my own domain as a real email address. It's good to be able to give a different "suspect_spammers_website@mydomain.co.uk" email for each form you have to fill in, cos it makes it easier to track who's selling their email lists
You ever live under the concorde flight path? (Between Heathrow and Staines) - It used to be that everyone in my town had to stop talking between 9:50 and 10:00 every morning, as the sound level was too much to hear anything else. Sermons were interrupted, business was done in sign language, and radio shows may as well not have bothered.
It's only a strip about a mile wide which is affected; I guess we're gonna have it again now that concorde is flying once more.
Yeah, but we can't boycott something we don't already buy! I don't buy much whiney-pop music, I don't buy any copy-protected CDs, and I don't buy food at the university of Nottingham. So none of the above are going to notice a boycott, should I choose to implement one.
After that story about Universal records, I did a search on Amazon to see what they sold. Surprise, surprise, nothing they sold was anything that I would ever buy.
I know we need to make a point now, but remember the idea of "choosing your battles". - The music industry are choosing theirs, and they are choosing music they know will go unnoticed.
If we all buy whatever CD universal are trying to flog, and take it back to make our point, what will universal see? 10M more people than normal bought it, 10M people returned it because they couldn't accept the license agreement.
Sounds a bit contrived, no? We do need to do something, but we need to have some good ideas what to do.
You worry about old computer data being lost... When was the last time anyone tried to read their programs from a TRS-80, or from a BBC-B?
;-)
Among those who value archives, the computer age is being known as a "dark age" for the simple reason that computers to retrieve much of this data will no longer run.
If you write a document now, chances are it will be irretrievable within a few years. More so if you use Word, less so if you use text files. What do you store it on? Punch card? Tape? Floppy disc? CD? ZIP-disk? Whatever you choose will soon become unsupported, and records will be lost.
Welcome to the dark age. It makes document archiving much easier
Err.. you gonna convince your IT manager not to buy Britney Spears' CDs on the basis of your protest against the record industry.
Good luck. I agree with your reasoning, but I'll be surprised to see it work.