Somebody quick! Make a FireFox extension that adds a button to the toolbar that says "Switch to TOR mode" or something to that effect.
It would be nice if TOR were easy to turn on and off within a given browser or other http-aware client. I can't see need the for use TOR 100% of the time, especially since there is a performance hit. And it seems like it would be a pain in the ass to have to reconfigure the browser's proxy settings each time you want to use TOR for browsing/downloading.
I'd take a crack at it myself, but I'm no code monkey. I'm a documentation nerd. If anybody wants to develop this, let me know and I'll do the docs and help files.
There will always been unemployed, there will always be starving people, and there will always be homeless.
I agree 100%. But that doesn't mean you don't try to solve the problems, or don't try to make it better.
There are always going to be idiots bumbling around, but that doesn't mean you stop trying to educate people.
It's easier to go to the Moon than it is to radically reduce poverty (among other pressing social issues, many of which do not revolve around the poor). But that doesn't mean we should give up.
local government by its nature will not provide huge sums of cash for big projects that make the big differences to humankind.
No, they generally won't. However, getting a human to Mars doesn't sound so noble when there are people starving on Earth. Local government (and that includes neighborhoods and community groups) are far better equipped to handle the "small" differences to mankind, like providing aid to the hungry, homeless, and destitute.
I think it's ridiculuous how the federal government can put a man on the moon, but can't balance its own budget.
I say take care of the "small" problems before you worry about space travel and cloned animals.
Dude, that sucks. Like I told the other guy in this sub-thread, I've only installed two games, but they both worked perfectly without me having to tweak anything. Maybe it's just luck. Sorry to hear you've had a tough time with it.
I guess it could be luck, but I have no glitches with the two games I've installed. It's certainly not perfect, though. However, I'll take some games over no games any day of the week (and twice on Sundays).
As for gaming on Linux, a nice stop-gap measure until true native support is implemented (at the code level) is Cedega (formerly WineX). It currently supports Half Life 2 (for all you cutting-edge gamer types), among many others. They frequently add games to the compatibility list, and they add old favorites as well as bledding-edge titles. Well worth the $15 (but I'll bet you can even leech off P2P if you're that damn cheap). I recently bought Windows CDROMs of Medal of Honor and Battlefield: 1942 and installed them on my Linux box with no problems. I realize those aren't exactly hot off the press games, but to see them install and then actually work was truly beautiful.
Every time I hear about this kind of cool tech, my mind immediately kicks into conspiracy gear. You know the US government is going to be interested in this type of tracking, probably for people. Especially, you know, "enemy combatants" within US borders.
Since MS is now in the game, legal arguments against DVR technology are futile (ie - media conglomerates saying that it's eating into ad sales and such). It might be restricted all to hell with DRM perhaps, but it won't be stomped to death by TV channel magnates who say it's only purpose is to distribute copyrighted content.
If you watch a movie every Friday & Saturday night, you're still paying around $3 per rental, which is pretty much what it would cost you if you got one movie at a time at most places.
Indeed. Unless you watch every brainless movie that the Hollywood machine cranks out, this deal isn't that good.
However, I have a few friends who signed up for the Blockbuster deal just so they could copy the DVDs. If you factor that in, it becomes a much more lucrative deal for the consumer!:)
And, as far as I know, there is no way to track that kind of "theft."
Yes, you're forgetting that it will probably be manufactured in Southeast Asia by the elderly and toddlers that make 2 cents a day. That kind of operating really cuts down on overhead.
Interestingly enough, that's the method Nike uses to make its shoes (only they contract the production to a 3rd party and then claim they can't control the working conditions), and the shoes still cost $100+ a pair. Pure profit.
One of the good things about Outlook in a corporate environment is that it works so well with Exchange.
One would hope this would be the case.:)
As far as an Outlook replacement, I think Evolution does the job nicely. Granted, I haven't stress-tested it in a corporate setting, but it seems to play nice with Exchange and also has a very similar feature set to Outlook. So right there, you could save a bucketload of cash by not having to upgrade from Outlook 2000.
Sure, I could buy yet another hub, but why would I when I have two working PS/2 ports?!
I'm not against existing PS/2 ports. I'm saying that going forward they should be phased out.
And I have found that they can be a bit dodgy if you try to hot-plug devices into them. USB doesn't have that problem (at least so far as I've used them).
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I wonder if both procs are used in this kind of process?
Somebody quick! Make a FireFox extension that adds a button to the toolbar that says "Switch to TOR mode" or something to that effect.
It would be nice if TOR were easy to turn on and off within a given browser or other http-aware client. I can't see need the for use TOR 100% of the time, especially since there is a performance hit. And it seems like it would be a pain in the ass to have to reconfigure the browser's proxy settings each time you want to use TOR for browsing/downloading.
I'd take a crack at it myself, but I'm no code monkey. I'm a documentation nerd. If anybody wants to develop this, let me know and I'll do the docs and help files.
I agree 100%. But that doesn't mean you don't try to solve the problems, or don't try to make it better.
There are always going to be idiots bumbling around, but that doesn't mean you stop trying to educate people.
It's easier to go to the Moon than it is to radically reduce poverty (among other pressing social issues, many of which do not revolve around the poor). But that doesn't mean we should give up.
No, they generally won't. However, getting a human to Mars doesn't sound so noble when there are people starving on Earth. Local government (and that includes neighborhoods and community groups) are far better equipped to handle the "small" differences to mankind, like providing aid to the hungry, homeless, and destitute.
I think it's ridiculuous how the federal government can put a man on the moon, but can't balance its own budget.
I say take care of the "small" problems before you worry about space travel and cloned animals.
Except in the case of "probable cause." If the government wants to watch you at home, they will, regardless of what rights you have on paper.
I agree with you though that there isn't an expectation of privacy in a public place. That's kinda why it's called "public."
Dude, that sucks. Like I told the other guy in this sub-thread, I've only installed two games, but they both worked perfectly without me having to tweak anything. Maybe it's just luck. Sorry to hear you've had a tough time with it.
I guess it could be luck, but I have no glitches with the two games I've installed. It's certainly not perfect, though. However, I'll take some games over no games any day of the week (and twice on Sundays).
As for gaming on Linux, a nice stop-gap measure until true native support is implemented (at the code level) is Cedega (formerly WineX). It currently supports Half Life 2 (for all you cutting-edge gamer types), among many others. They frequently add games to the compatibility list, and they add old favorites as well as bledding-edge titles. Well worth the $15 (but I'll bet you can even leech off P2P if you're that damn cheap). I recently bought Windows CDROMs of Medal of Honor and Battlefield: 1942 and installed them on my Linux box with no problems. I realize those aren't exactly hot off the press games, but to see them install and then actually work was truly beautiful.
Go on, check it out.
Man, that is some good shit. If you're not a lawyer, you should consider a career change.
Every time I hear about this kind of cool tech, my mind immediately kicks into conspiracy gear. You know the US government is going to be interested in this type of tracking, probably for people. Especially, you know, "enemy combatants" within US borders.
Commence with the tin-foil hat jokes.
Hey, I had to say that in case my mom was browsing the site. :)
I hear it's good for Glaucoma, or something. Could you pass the Doritos?
Insert GNAA joke here.
(Insert joke about "inserting" here)
Since MS is now in the game, legal arguments against DVR technology are futile (ie - media conglomerates saying that it's eating into ad sales and such). It might be restricted all to hell with DRM perhaps, but it won't be stomped to death by TV channel magnates who say it's only purpose is to distribute copyrighted content.
Okay, who modded this "Troll"?
Parent is 100% correct. It's not an opinion.
Indeed. Unless you watch every brainless movie that the Hollywood machine cranks out, this deal isn't that good.
However, I have a few friends who signed up for the Blockbuster deal just so they could copy the DVDs. If you factor that in, it becomes a much more lucrative deal for the consumer!
And, as far as I know, there is no way to track that kind of "theft."
Yes, you're forgetting that it will probably be manufactured in Southeast Asia by the elderly and toddlers that make 2 cents a day. That kind of operating really cuts down on overhead.
Interestingly enough, that's the method Nike uses to make its shoes (only they contract the production to a 3rd party and then claim they can't control the working conditions), and the shoes still cost $100+ a pair. Pure profit.
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One would hope this would be the case.
As far as an Outlook replacement, I think Evolution does the job nicely. Granted, I haven't stress-tested it in a corporate setting, but it seems to play nice with Exchange and also has a very similar feature set to Outlook. So right there, you could save a bucketload of cash by not having to upgrade from Outlook 2000.
You mean like 18 pirated copies of XP?
I'm not against existing PS/2 ports. I'm saying that going forward they should be phased out.
And I have found that they can be a bit dodgy if you try to hot-plug devices into them. USB doesn't have that problem (at least so far as I've used them).
So floppies have been condemned officially. Great. What about those damn PS/2 ports? Now those are way overdue for being phased out.
Perhaps I'm overlooking a really good reason not to switch all input devices to USB?
It's those tree-hugging, hippie, liberal, baby-killing, media controllers at work again. Bastards.
We should start a "War on Media" to rectify this problem.
How did this get modded "flaimbait" ???
It's pure brilliance.
Perhaps the aliens need just 1 4:20 until their normal supplier comes through?
After all, the alien head does seem to be a pervasive symbol of the 420 crews.