steal OSX users 'cause linux is easier to use... In my opinion it is, except when you use it for a very narrow range of tasks... which is OK for most people who in fact use their computers for a narrow range of tasks. I can't stand it though... looks like a toy to me, not a general-purpose machine.
When you consider that a little over 45 years ago discrete transistor-based computers were a new and major innovation, I don't think that being able to recognize a ball 45 years hence is ambitious at all.
Usually the trough hits before the crest, so if you suddenly see water leave the beach, run to higher ground. Unfortunately, tsunamis travel mighty fast (hundreds of miles/hr), so unless you happen to be close to a very strong building or a hill, your chances of survival are bleak.
I suspect people are killed by being drowned if they're trapped underwater indoors, or by being crushed the sheer force of the water or from being smashed into various objects. The water has enough force to throw cars and trucks around, so you have to be extremely luck to get washed into the surge and survive.
There is a lot more to photo quality that the megapixels. You you can't get anywhere near the level of detail and sharpness that a DSLR gets with the tiny lenses and tiny sensors that point-and-shoot cameras have. They're fine for many situations, but to claim that they're almost as good as a DSLR simply because they have a similar number if pixels is absurd.
In the literal sense yes, but the term digital watermark is often applied to all kinds of techniques for hiding values in, say, images or text. Its really steganography, but your average reporter and non-techie reader would probably choke on that word:)
I'm guessing it is at least tied to your SSN given that they say your ID number doesn't change even if you name changes or if you leave the state and return. SSN would be the obvious way to achieve that. I hope they're smart enough to have a number that can't be correlated with your SSN except by a database lookup (which nobody other than the DMV and law enforcement have access to), but I've learnt never to underestimate peoples stupidity when it comes to security.
I wouldn't want to come in the way of your wallowing in shame, but the only time I use openoffice is when someone sends me a.doc file that I need to ope so I don't want to waste resources on oooqs, and I don't have and non-local printers.
Anyhow, if there's a splash screen, loading it should be the very first thing a program does so it should show up almost instantly, not half way through the program loading. And if openoffice is doing things like initializing printers and suck while loading, thats just terrible design.
I don't see any min/max/close buttons, but otherwise you're right. On my laptop GIMP takes under 5 seconds to load cold and about 2 seconds if its already in cache. I guess I'm not enough of a busy person to be bothered by wasting that much time.
OOo, on the other hand, is awful. There is a 3-4 second delay before even the splash screen is thrown up!
The exploit works even if the site is opened independently. The malicious site just has to be open in some window somewhere. You don't have to be clicking on anything on the phiser's site. Javascript currently allows a script to any window, not just ones that it has spawned.
Most malicious websites don't have a friendly note telling you that it is a malicious site that should be closed before doing anything risky. Moreover, they could easily be embedded in IFRAME adverts, popups generated by webpages, and popups generated by spyware.
* The site can give random names to the window. Banking sites are notorious for using popups for logins. If every banking site randomized the names of their window then sure, this vulnerability doesn't exist. Except that they don't
It may not be a big vulnerability for people like me, and presumably you, who know how to keep their computers free of popups and malware, but is for the millions of clueless people out there who accept spyware and popups as a fact of life and don't realize that just having one popup open and minimized in the background could be a big threat.
This is really just another case of a "security" firm beating up something that has existed for ages as a "flaw". So just because its existed for a while, its not important?
What part of "multiple meanings of a word" is so hard to understand?
And your incoherent rambling about legal definitions is irrelevant because Reuters.com is not a court of law, and in court they have been charged with "conspiracy to commit copyright infingement" and other similar charges that don't mention the word "piracy".
I also urge you not to "execute" any more programs, because are in fact not killing anyone. You can't "run" them either because they have no legs and hence they can't run.
You mean just like writing code and creating software and stuff is not hacking, but cutting things with a saw or axe is? Words have multiple meanings. Get over it, grow up and stop making ridiculous arguments.
Piracy means taking control of a ship at sea. It also means making unauthorized copies of copyrighted material.
And that explains what? "Better" in itself doesn't mean a damn thing. The grandparent was asking for people who have had actual experiences with using Abiword for non-English text, not a nebulous bullet-item.
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Actually it is... the page links to various versions of the PDF specifications. The specs themselves are in PDF documents.
steal OSX users 'cause linux is easier to use...
In my opinion it is, except when you use it for a very narrow range of tasks... which is OK for most people who in fact use their computers for a narrow range of tasks. I can't stand it though... looks like a toy to me, not a general-purpose machine.
And you wonder why most people can't stand Apple fanboys.
When you consider that a little over 45 years ago discrete transistor-based computers were a new and major innovation, I don't think that being able to recognize a ball 45 years hence is ambitious at all.
You're the strongest argument yet for adding a -1 numbskull mod to /.
We'll start looking for new headline writers very promptly
Usually the trough hits before the crest, so if you suddenly see water leave the beach, run to higher ground. Unfortunately, tsunamis travel mighty fast (hundreds of miles/hr), so unless you happen to be close to a very strong building or a hill, your chances of survival are bleak.
I suspect people are killed by being drowned if they're trapped underwater indoors, or by being crushed the sheer force of the water or from being smashed into various objects. The water has enough force to throw cars and trucks around, so you have to be extremely luck to get washed into the surge and survive.
The article simply states that the newspapers are losing revenue because of Craigslist, which is a fact.
Nowhere does it say this is a bad thing for anyone but the newspaper owners, nor are there any calls to change the situation.
You really need to learn about punctuation.
There is a lot more to photo quality that the megapixels. You you can't get anywhere near the level of detail and sharpness that a DSLR gets with the tiny lenses and tiny sensors that point-and-shoot cameras have. They're fine for many situations, but to claim that they're almost as good as a DSLR simply because they have a similar number if pixels is absurd.
In the literal sense yes, but the term digital watermark is often applied to all kinds of techniques for hiding values in, say, images or text. Its really steganography, but your average reporter and non-techie reader would probably choke on that word :)
I'm guessing it is at least tied to your SSN given that they say your ID number doesn't change even if you name changes or if you leave the state and return. SSN would be the obvious way to achieve that. I hope they're smart enough to have a number that can't be correlated with your SSN except by a database lookup (which nobody other than the DMV and law enforcement have access to), but I've learnt never to underestimate peoples stupidity when it comes to security.
Congratulations, you've won the first place in the Slashdot knee-jerking competition.
I wouldn't want to come in the way of your wallowing in shame, but the only time I use openoffice is when someone sends me a .doc file that I need to ope so I don't want to waste resources on oooqs, and I don't have and non-local printers.
Anyhow, if there's a splash screen, loading it should be the very first thing a program does so it should show up almost instantly, not half way through the program loading. And if openoffice is doing things like initializing printers and suck while loading, thats just terrible design.
I don't see any min/max/close buttons, but otherwise you're right. On my laptop GIMP takes under 5 seconds to load cold and about 2 seconds if its already in cache. I guess I'm not enough of a busy person to be bothered by wasting that much time.
OOo, on the other hand, is awful. There is a 3-4 second delay before even the splash screen is thrown up!
Fortunately, not everyone is as stupid as you, and nobody else thinks of attacking ships on the high seas when you talk about "software piracy".
The exploit works even if the site is opened independently. The malicious site just has to be open in some window somewhere. You don't have to be clicking on anything on the phiser's site. Javascript currently allows a script to any window, not just ones that it has spawned.
* Don't have the malicious site open.
Most malicious websites don't have a friendly note telling you that it is a malicious site that should be closed before doing anything risky. Moreover, they could easily be embedded in IFRAME adverts, popups generated by webpages, and popups generated by spyware.
* The site can give random names to the window.
Banking sites are notorious for using popups for logins. If every banking site randomized the names of their window then sure, this vulnerability doesn't exist. Except that they don't
It may not be a big vulnerability for people like me, and presumably you, who know how to keep their computers free of popups and malware, but is for the millions of clueless people out there who accept spyware and popups as a fact of life and don't realize that just having one popup open and minimized in the background could be a big threat.
This is really just another case of a "security" firm beating up something that has existed for ages as a "flaw".
So just because its existed for a while, its not important?
What part of "multiple meanings of a word" is so hard to understand?
And your incoherent rambling about legal definitions is irrelevant because Reuters.com is not a court of law, and in court they have been charged with "conspiracy to commit copyright infingement" and other similar charges that don't mention the word "piracy".
I also urge you not to "execute" any more programs, because are in fact not killing anyone. You can't "run" them either because they have no legs and hence they can't run.
You mean just like writing code and creating software and stuff is not hacking, but cutting things with a saw or axe is? Words have multiple meanings. Get over it, grow up and stop making ridiculous arguments.
Piracy means taking control of a ship at sea. It also means making unauthorized copies of copyrighted material.
Not Star Trek: Enterprize Linux
Computing >> desktops+laptops
You're right. If it came to trial, Lycos would be found innocent just like Napster was...
And that explains what? "Better" in itself doesn't mean a damn thing. The grandparent was asking for people who have had actual experiences with using Abiword for non-English text, not a nebulous bullet-item.
Time to stop snorting that stuff.