Why not link directly to the source instead of some blogger collecting Adsense? Network World has got advertising too, of course, but at least they earned it by doing the work and researching a story instead of just plagiarising it like a Picquepaille.
And for fuck's sake "installing XP on it's machine". "It's" == "It is". Possessive is "Its".
The knife is because he read Snow Crash. On the other hand, it wouldn't be a difficult task to turn a cheap Airsoft handgun (made of plastic, shoots little plastic BBs) into a cheap plastic.22 handgun. Don't think for a second that it's impossible to get bullets past checkpoints.
No practical difference. No plane load of passengers will meekly sit while an armed hijacker takes over a plane now. There will be enough "nothing to lose, let's roll" types who'll rush him regardless of him shooting some of them.
Only an assault rifle might hold them back, and I rather doubt you could sneak that through. Otherwise, perhaps some kind of poison gas, but even that wouldn't get them into the cockpit if it has a serious lock and the crew are on oxygen masks; again after 9/11 "Let me in or I'll kill her" has no credibility; passengers and crew believe they will die regardless if they allow the plane to be hijacked.
So basically, lock the cockpits and don't allow machine guns in carry-on is sufficient.
Unfortunately, democracy (especially in this case) is not necessarily a silver bullet.
I know, it's not Utopia. I was responding to the wanker who equated Australia's government with China's. Having lived in both countries, the idea is ludicrous.
The reason it is not off topic is that, historically, the first thing oppressive regimes do is to disarm the populace. Australia is simply following an historical pattern.
Bullshit. There has never been anything like the tradition of gun ownership in Australia as in the US. In the last 20-30 years gun crime became more prevalent and the population generally supported tightening of restrictions on gun ownership. I've never, in my 50 years, met anyone who I knew owned a handgun. In rural areas, farmers had rifles and shotguns. I get terribly sick of NRA types, whose knowledge of Australia ia apparently based on Simpsons' cartoons, making up shit like this.
Australia is a fully functioning democracy and we don't need to assassinate our leaders to change governments, attractive as the idea is with the current leadership. Guns cause anarchy, not democracy. Take a trip to Baghdad or Somalia and tell me much good wide availability of guns has done there.
Or are you so unconcerned because the Australians are mostly white? Because, you know, governments run by white people never do eeevil things like those little yellow people do.
More importantly, Australians can vote, and regularly throw out unpopular governments. Chinese people have no such power, despite a wonderful constitution that theoretically allows it.
Paper is not searchable, is cumbersome to handle, expensive,...
RTFA. The purpose of having a paper record is to satisfy the need for an "unalterable audit log". All the rest can be satified easily and cheaply by standard backup methods. You only need to get out the boxes of fanfold paper if you're called into court, to verify your digital records.
I any moderately sized datacentre the proposition of using printed logs is frankly childish.
Courts are going to be hard to convince that any digital logs are "unalterable". Call them childish and see how far it gets you.
nterestingly enough, Charley Chaplin once came in 3rd in a Charley Chaplin look alike contest. Sometimes the original isn't everything we think it is.
I recall claims that Windows apps ran better under OS/2 than Windows 3.1. And before that, that DR DOS ran better than MS DOS -- until Microsoft started specific checks to screw up things if it wasn't "really" MS DOS.
Well, Bill Clinton has a much higher profile than Steve Jobs, outside the geek world. Publicity before a book comes out may be necessary to convince bookshops to order it in quantity.
Fine, but Wayback appears to have no actual content beyond the front page.
I'm surprised how thoroughly this once-popular site has been erased from the Internet. The PDF I linked appears to be on one site only. No other mirrors of the content that I could find. Looks like the real Billg has almost managed to wipe it out.
that is your incorrect inference from my statement. Try not to infer that which was not implied....Also try not to be so blindly defensive
I'm nobody's fanboy; that's your "incorrect inference". If you say "Firefox's security is poor", you are clearly implying that it's worse than alternatives. So name those current browsers that are better. If you meant that EVERY browser's security is poor, why single out Firefox in your pronouncement?
I suspect this was more an unveiling than a discovery. Notice in TFA:
In October, Da Capo Press will publish his satirical novel written in the voice of the Fake Steve character, "Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody."
I though I invented the "fuckroland" tag... I suppose it's a fairly obvious idea.
Anyway, it seems that after a few weeks of just submitting articles to lull the editors, he's returned, as he ALWAYS does, to pimping his own "blog" (of plagiarised stories and pictures) linked "Read more for additional references..."
The "Secret Diary of Bill Gates, Aged 40 1/4" was in a similar vein, about 10 years ago. This was written, as the title implies, in the style of Adrian Mole, as a self-important nerd.
Monday, January 15
No. It can't be true! They really are writing about
Steve Jobs -- I just saw the latest Wired magazine with
an in-depth interview with the Boy Wonder. Why is he a
"visionary"? I'm a visionary too. Why don't they call me a
"visionary"? I'm tired of being "ruthlessly competitive".
This guy got lucky too. I mean, you know, they always say
I got lucky when IBM licensed DOS. That wasn't luck, it
was skill. I negotiated a great deal from IBM then ran
over to Patterson's place and snapped up Q-DOS. That
takes *balls*. Jobs has no balls. Jobs is a guy who spends
two weeks choosing a washer/dryer. Yes, *two* weeks.
For what? Like, $500 or so. The guy has millions. Jobs is a
guy who actually cares about his clothes "feeling really
soft". What a loser --
That does not mean that FireFox is secure, or even approaching secure.
The clear implication of your "Firefox has poor security" statement is that users should use something else (and that something is not going to be lynx). What browser, available on major platofrms, is more secure, then?
Part of the problem is the rather poor security history of the high-profile FireFox browser, even as the Open Source community touts it as being very secure.
I don't understand this -- "poorer" than what? Sure ther have been and will be Firefox exploits, but the only browser with fewer security issues is Lynx, as far as I know.
I'm the Senior Developer at a fairly large agency...
No you're not. You're just some wanker making up a provocative situation to allow Linux and MS fanboys to go at each other. I know 90% of "Ask Slashdot" posts follow a similar formula, but your scenario is about as believable as a "Letter to Penthouse".
if 100% compatibility with Excel macros is required, you're going to run Microsoft Excel, no matter what. The same principle can be applied to most other apps in an office.
Ubuntu is still far behind Microsoft Windows, when it comes to Windows compatibility.
"Paris Hilton looks more like Paris Hilton than any Paris-Hilton look-alike". Still, misses the point: Is Paris Hilton worth looking like, or emulating in any way?
I've had a user contributed patch/diff system on my TODO list forever, but it's a hard job...
When if ever are you going to habve a functional spellcheck? Curently, for instance, you have "a man tried to reneg on the Ebay sale...". The word is spelled "renege". You don't need to be a classical scholar to spellcheck.
So why should I spend my time filtering crap in the firehose when you don't use the simplest tools to clean it up -- spellcheck and detect dupes at a minimum -- yourself? I know, the FAQ, dated five years ago, says you're still working on it.
Thats why some sellers set up shill bidding. That way they won't get stuck with too low a price on the sale.
Shill bidding is an attempt to make buyers think they have competition and make them bid more. That's why it's banned by any decent auction house. Just be upfront and set a reserve price.
Slashdot Mirror
TFSummary links to TFA:t ee_chooses_xp_over_vista.php
a -wireless-kept-off-core.html
http://www.pclaunches.com/software/olympic_commit
which just regurgitates the story from
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/080807-vist
Why not link directly to the source instead of some blogger collecting Adsense? Network World has got advertising too, of course, but at least they earned it by doing the work and researching a story instead of just plagiarising it like a Picquepaille.
And for fuck's sake "installing XP on it's machine".
"It's" == "It is". Possessive is "Its".
If and when they have OLPCs there, there will be.
No practical difference. No plane load of passengers will meekly sit while an armed hijacker takes over a plane now. There will be enough "nothing to lose, let's roll" types who'll rush him regardless of him shooting some of them.
Only an assault rifle might hold them back, and I rather doubt you could sneak that through. Otherwise, perhaps some kind of poison gas, but even that wouldn't get them into the cockpit if it has a serious lock and the crew are on oxygen masks; again after 9/11 "Let me in or I'll kill her" has no credibility; passengers and crew believe they will die regardless if they allow the plane to be hijacked.
So basically, lock the cockpits and don't allow machine guns in carry-on is sufficient.
I know, it's not Utopia. I was responding to the wanker who equated Australia's government with China's. Having lived in both countries, the idea is ludicrous.
Bullshit. There has never been anything like the tradition of gun ownership in Australia as in the US. In the last 20-30 years gun crime became more prevalent and the population generally supported tightening of restrictions on gun ownership. I've never, in my 50 years, met anyone who I knew owned a handgun. In rural areas, farmers had rifles and shotguns. I get terribly sick of NRA types, whose knowledge of Australia ia apparently based on Simpsons' cartoons, making up shit like this.
Australia is a fully functioning democracy and we don't need to assassinate our leaders to change governments, attractive as the idea is with the current leadership. Guns cause anarchy, not democracy. Take a trip to Baghdad or Somalia and tell me much good wide availability of guns has done there.
More importantly, Australians can vote, and regularly throw out unpopular governments. Chinese people have no such power, despite a wonderful constitution that theoretically allows it.
RTFA. The purpose of having a paper record is to satisfy the need for an "unalterable audit log". All the rest can be satified easily and cheaply by standard backup methods. You only need to get out the boxes of fanfold paper if you're called into court, to verify your digital records.
I any moderately sized datacentre the proposition of using printed logs is frankly childish.
Courts are going to be hard to convince that any digital logs are "unalterable". Call them childish and see how far it gets you.
"ad nauseam"
Yeah, it's an obscure word. Is it really such an imposition to ask "editors" to use a fucking dictionary? Took me 5 seconds to confirm my suspicion.
I recall claims that Windows apps ran better under OS/2 than Windows 3.1. And before that, that DR DOS ran better than MS DOS -- until Microsoft started specific checks to screw up things if it wasn't "really" MS DOS.
Well, Bill Clinton has a much higher profile than Steve Jobs, outside the geek world. Publicity before a book comes out may be necessary to convince bookshops to order it in quantity.
Fine, but Wayback appears to have no actual content beyond the front page.
I'm surprised how thoroughly this once-popular site has been erased from the Internet. The PDF I linked appears to be on one site only. No other mirrors of the content that I could find. Looks like the real Billg has almost managed to wipe it out.
I'm nobody's fanboy; that's your "incorrect inference". If you say "Firefox's security is poor", you are clearly implying that it's worse than alternatives. So name those current browsers that are better. If you meant that EVERY browser's security is poor, why single out Firefox in your pronouncement?
Of course the Infinite Improbability Drive is powered by tea.
But Poul Anderson had a real beer-powered spaceship.
Anyway, it seems that after a few weeks of just submitting articles to lull the editors, he's returned, as he ALWAYS does, to pimping his own "blog" (of plagiarised stories and pictures) linked "Read more for additional references ..."
The clear implication of your "Firefox has poor security" statement is that users should use something else (and that something is not going to be lynx). What browser, available on major platofrms, is more secure, then?
Stephen Baxter's novel Space uses this idea.
PS, your link is malformed. Should be An Astrophysical Explanation for the Great Silence, very interesting despite being a PS file with the ugly bitmapped TeX font.
I don't understand this -- "poorer" than what? Sure ther have been and will be Firefox exploits, but the only browser with fewer security issues is Lynx, as far as I know.
No you're not. You're just some wanker making up a provocative situation to allow Linux and MS fanboys to go at each other. I know 90% of "Ask Slashdot" posts follow a similar formula, but your scenario is about as believable as a "Letter to Penthouse".
"Paris Hilton looks more like Paris Hilton than any Paris-Hilton look-alike". Still, misses the point: Is Paris Hilton worth looking like, or emulating in any way?
Hilarious. Now they've "corrected" "Australian" in the heading, which wasn't wrong, but still haven't fixed "reneg".
-- Yes, I know, I have typos in my post. Laugh at that if you like, but it does not absolve the editors.
When if ever are you going to habve a functional spellcheck? Curently, for instance, you have "a man tried to reneg on the Ebay sale...". The word is spelled "renege". You don't need to be a classical scholar to spellcheck.
So why should I spend my time filtering crap in the firehose when you don't use the simplest tools to clean it up -- spellcheck and detect dupes at a minimum -- yourself? I know, the FAQ, dated five years ago, says you're still working on it.
Shill bidding is an attempt to make buyers think they have competition and make them bid more. That's why it's banned by any decent auction house. Just be upfront and set a reserve price.