And they didn't even test security, malwares, bloatness of basic installs, server setups, networking, filesharing with heterogeneous networks (aka "real world networks") or ease of installation of regular apps. The availability of developer tools in the install, the dependency tracking, the community...
They mostly complain about things that are independent of OSS developers : difficulty to run a proprietary windows-only app (hey, try to run a linux-only app on windows' default install and let's talk about that) and to interface with proprietary devices. They complain about the lack of iTunes for linux (well, duh..., I guess you'll give Apple bad points then)
All in all, I read the result as : sueprior to windows, different OS and as good as it can be.
If games were releasing a linux version (their call, really), I would never need to boot windows. This is not a deficiency of linux, this is an aggressive marketing strategy from MS that makes game developpers stick to Redmond and turn their backs on linux.
1. speed of ice flows give you the mount of ice that leaves the system. You also need to register the amount that enters it. It is expected to see ice flows in Groenland, the question it to know if the ice is renewed through snow/rain.
2. How do you measure sea levels ? It is also a very hard matter when you want to reach a centimeter or millimeter precision. Shores erode, oceanic beds move tectonically. Satellites can measure the distance between the gravitation center of Earth and the sea's surface but it ignores if a rise is caused by a rise of the crust or a rise of the water. What most people are interested in is the measure of "lands lost to the sea" but the multiplicity of factors makes it hard to use such a measure to infer the ice losses of Groenland and Antarctica.
That's why there is a culture clash when they have to work with politicians. By changing opinions, scientists increase their credibility, by doing he same, politicians lose it. Expect fights.
I abandoned javascript 12 years ago, frustrated by the inconsistencies amongst browsers and frustrating unexplainable errors. I tried it again last year and was surprised by its evolution : easy to code, many helpful libs, good integration with HTML through DOM, etc... If your feelings toward javascript are a bit old, maybe you should try it again.
Making them stronger and water proof is bad business.
Call me a conservative engineer but making something intentionally fragile in order to sell more replacement is bad engineering. Demand should be driven by constant innovation, not planned ageing.
Isn't that, exactly, what biometric passports are ? Anyway I don't understand the fears about that. I would like to be able to prove reliably my identity and citizenship. The ability to do so is not the problem, it is to make identity tests abusively mandatory that is. The problem, however, is already here. We have to prove identity many times and we do that through insecure means. Having a secure way won't change the abuses much and will make identity theft much more difficult.
However, unlike earthquakes, accidents and casualties on oil rigs have human origin and are totally preventable. I root for more reporting of these and more political actions (sanctions?) to prevent them from happening. Prevent posters explained that accidents were common in the Gulf and that it was uncommon in some other countries. Maybe, just maybe, US is not doing everything right in this field ?
If the ID gets stolen, then cancel it by proving your identity with a fingerprint/iris scanner at your police station. You'll get another one and the public databases will be refreshed.
The system is not completly trivial, but it is not exactly rocket science either...
Sorry, didn't realize you were serious. Well the reason for that is the size limitation of/. sigs. I had a hard time reformulating the quote in a short enough sentence to fit. If I were to add the original author's name:
* I would have to denature it a bit more in order to fit
* It would be misquoting
Furthermore :
* If I loved the quote, it is because it expresses an idea I was already believing in when I read it
* By reformulating it, legally, I am the author
* I ended up loving my version more
* Half of the "famous quotes" are attributed wrongly to historical figures because their original author is lost
I believe the original is too long to fit in a/. sig;-)
But yes, that's the original, and this sig is a derivative work of someone dead 60 years ago so it is probably illegal. In my other life, I'm a gangsta...
people are commenting on 'well, just use SSH or SSL or...'.
but you are missing the point. if they insist on getting access to all comms, you think they'll tolerate people doing an end-run around this?
I think the legislators miss the point about "encrypted VPN" being such a trivial technology. They probably think there must be around 100 big companies doing that in India right now and they will soon discover that their law is inadapted. Back to the drawing board.
I remember about 20 yrs or so ago, it was illegal for french citizens to use encryption (details are fuzzy; I may not have this exactly accurate). but france was some kind of exception and vendors had to do all kinds of backflips to sell to french companies. are we going back to shit like this, again??
There was a limitation to the key length. More than a certain length was considered "military material" and required some authorization. Mind you we were happily generating 1024 bits keys (the limitation was something ridiculous. IIRC but it was something like 56 bits), using them routinely. I doubt anyone has ever been prosecuted for this. It bothered vendors though. We do that a lot in France : vote bad laws, do not apply them, use them as a precedent to vote even worse laws, rinse, repeat.
That's not my opinion. My opinion is that Gallileo could have been named Glenn Beck, the name is not important. I want to know what he did. I do believe that without some people, some ideas would have taken a lot more time to appear. But when Newton's said he was standing on the shoulders of giants, he was referring to their works and ideas.
When I look at a castle, I want to see the stones, not the masons' names.
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And they didn't even test security, malwares, bloatness of basic installs, server setups, networking, filesharing with heterogeneous networks (aka "real world networks") or ease of installation of regular apps. The availability of developer tools in the install, the dependency tracking, the community...
They mostly complain about things that are independent of OSS developers : difficulty to run a proprietary windows-only app (hey, try to run a linux-only app on windows' default install and let's talk about that) and to interface with proprietary devices. They complain about the lack of iTunes for linux (well, duh..., I guess you'll give Apple bad points then)
All in all, I read the result as : sueprior to windows, different OS and as good as it can be.
If games were releasing a linux version (their call, really), I would never need to boot windows. This is not a deficiency of linux, this is an aggressive marketing strategy from MS that makes game developpers stick to Redmond and turn their backs on linux.
Is it that shocking to make a second try after a first failure ?
Tor doesn't work ?
...which should not be modded as funny.
adblock is a total must-have, IMHO. Also a good feature about firefox is that you can trust it to not send all your traffic informations to Google...
1. speed of ice flows give you the mount of ice that leaves the system. You also need to register the amount that enters it. It is expected to see ice flows in Groenland, the question it to know if the ice is renewed through snow/rain.
2. How do you measure sea levels ? It is also a very hard matter when you want to reach a centimeter or millimeter precision. Shores erode, oceanic beds move tectonically. Satellites can measure the distance between the gravitation center of Earth and the sea's surface but it ignores if a rise is caused by a rise of the crust or a rise of the water. What most people are interested in is the measure of "lands lost to the sea" but the multiplicity of factors makes it hard to use such a measure to infer the ice losses of Groenland and Antarctica.
That's why there is a culture clash when they have to work with politicians. By changing opinions, scientists increase their credibility, by doing he same, politicians lose it. Expect fights.
The EU parliament does. But make no mistake, it is the brain of dinosaur. The bureaucracy below is an example of wasted resources and corruption.
I also wonder if there is something to win in their competition.
I abandoned javascript 12 years ago, frustrated by the inconsistencies amongst browsers and frustrating unexplainable errors. I tried it again last year and was surprised by its evolution : easy to code, many helpful libs, good integration with HTML through DOM, etc... If your feelings toward javascript are a bit old, maybe you should try it again.
...and watch the difficulty exponentially rise to reach singularity :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8
From what I have read, the prosecutor denied releasing the accusations to the press. They "appeared spontaneously" in some redactions.
Making them stronger and water proof is bad business.
Call me a conservative engineer but making something intentionally fragile in order to sell more replacement is bad engineering. Demand should be driven by constant innovation, not planned ageing.
That's not the intent. But if you find a bug, it gives you an incentive to make a complete and clean report.
Isn't that, exactly, what biometric passports are ? Anyway I don't understand the fears about that. I would like to be able to prove reliably my identity and citizenship. The ability to do so is not the problem, it is to make identity tests abusively mandatory that is. The problem, however, is already here. We have to prove identity many times and we do that through insecure means. Having a secure way won't change the abuses much and will make identity theft much more difficult.
However, unlike earthquakes, accidents and casualties on oil rigs have human origin and are totally preventable. I root for more reporting of these and more political actions (sanctions?) to prevent them from happening. Prevent posters explained that accidents were common in the Gulf and that it was uncommon in some other countries. Maybe, just maybe, US is not doing everything right in this field ?
If the ID gets stolen, then cancel it by proving your identity with a fingerprint/iris scanner at your police station. You'll get another one and the public databases will be refreshed.
The system is not completly trivial, but it is not exactly rocket science either...
Except it is clearly a joke. Context sometimes count. And nothing says the author lives in USA.
And sue people who modded this one "informative"
The (French) version I read there : http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2010/09/01/prise-d-otage-au-siege-americain-de-discovery-channel_1405582_3222.html says he is a disgruntled employee...
Sorry, didn't realize you were serious. Well the reason for that is the size limitation of /. sigs. I had a hard time reformulating the quote in a short enough sentence to fit. If I were to add the original author's name :
* I would have to denature it a bit more in order to fit
* It would be misquoting
Furthermore : * If I loved the quote, it is because it expresses an idea I was already believing in when I read it
* By reformulating it, legally, I am the author
* I ended up loving my version more
* Half of the "famous quotes" are attributed wrongly to historical figures because their original author is lost
I believe the original is too long to fit in a /. sig ;-)
But yes, that's the original, and this sig is a derivative work of someone dead 60 years ago so it is probably illegal. In my other life, I'm a gangsta...
people are commenting on 'well, just use SSH or SSL or ...'.
but you are missing the point. if they insist on getting access to all comms, you think they'll tolerate people doing an end-run around this?
I think the legislators miss the point about "encrypted VPN" being such a trivial technology. They probably think there must be around 100 big companies doing that in India right now and they will soon discover that their law is inadapted. Back to the drawing board.
I remember about 20 yrs or so ago, it was illegal for french citizens to use encryption (details are fuzzy; I may not have this exactly accurate). but france was some kind of exception and vendors had to do all kinds of backflips to sell to french companies. are we going back to shit like this, again??
There was a limitation to the key length. More than a certain length was considered "military material" and required some authorization. Mind you we were happily generating 1024 bits keys (the limitation was something ridiculous. IIRC but it was something like 56 bits), using them routinely. I doubt anyone has ever been prosecuted for this. It bothered vendors though. We do that a lot in France : vote bad laws, do not apply them, use them as a precedent to vote even worse laws, rinse, repeat.
That's not my opinion. My opinion is that Gallileo could have been named Glenn Beck, the name is not important. I want to know what he did. I do believe that without some people, some ideas would have taken a lot more time to appear. But when Newton's said he was standing on the shoulders of giants, he was referring to their works and ideas.
When I look at a castle, I want to see the stones, not the masons' names.