It's possible to note be morally opposed to the actions of wikileaks,and still think Assange is overhyped. Bradly Manning is the real (hero/villain, choose one) in this situation, wikileaks is not really responsible for much in this situation.
It used to be a problem. Firefox has a short support window for older versions of Firefox, and Ubuntu developers have had to try to backport fixes to older versions of Firefox rather then do a major version upgrade. They have recently stopped this policy and are upgrading all older distros to the most recent firefox.
There's plenty of controversy about the new full body scanners that the TSA is installing at airports, and plenty more about the way some TSA agents are handling those that choose to opt out.
The heart of the matter comes from the fact that the TSA often doesn't understand that it is in show business, not security business. A rational look at the threats facing travelers would indicate that intense scrutiny of a four ounce jar of mouthwash or aggressive frisking of a child is a misplaced use of resources. If the goal is to find dangerous items in cargo or track down Stinger missiles, this isn't going to help.
Instead, the mission appears to be twofold:
1. Reassure the public that the government is really trying and
2. Keep random bad actors off guard by frequently raising the bar on getting caught
The challenge with #1 is that if people believe they're going to get groped, or get cancer, or have to wait in line even longer on Thanksgiving, they cease to be on your side. Particularly once they realize how irrational it is to try to stop a threat after it's already been perpetrated. (Imagine the havoc if someone had a brassiere-based weapon...)
And the challenge of #2 is that the cost of raising the bar gets higher and higher.
Smart marketers know how to pivot. I think it's time to do that. Start marketing the idea that flying is safe, like driving, but it's not perfect, like driving. If someone is crazy enough to hurt themselves or spend their life in jail, we're not going to stop them, and even if we did, they'd just cause havoc somewhere else. So instead of spending billions of dollars a year in time and money pretending, let's just get back to work.
Exactly two things have made airline travel safer since 9/11: reinforcement of cockpit doors, and passengers who now know that they may have to fight back. Everything else -- Secure Flight and Trusted Traveler included -- is security theater. We would all be a lot safer if, instead, we implemented enhanced baggage security -- both ensuring that a passenger's bags don't fly unless he does, and explosives screening for all baggage -- as well as background checks and increased screening for airport employees. Then we could take all the money we save and apply it to intelligence, investigation and emergency response. These are security measures that pay dividends regardless of what the terrorists are planning next, whether it's the movie plot threat of the moment, or something entirely different.
Yes, you can get better sound from a system that sells for the price of a car but ~$200 gets you sound that is probably better then you've ever heard, and exceeds the quality of the source material most people listen to.
I use my grados with an external powered subwoofer when I want to shake the house, but usually they're fine by themselves..
Brian Cox, aslo known as the "rock star of Physics". Works on the Large Hadron Collider, has his own TV series on the solar system, was in the 2009 "sexiest men alive" issue of People, and played the keys for some semi-famous 90's bands. Not too shabby.
Also, the emissions equipment lowered fuel efficiency. We focused on safety and decreased emissions, not fuel economy, and we got safer and much lower polluting cars with the same to worse gas mileage. Surprise!
Its more accurate to say that BSD/Apache licenses (and public domain dedications like SQLites) provide openness for the people directly receiving and licensing the software from the licensor, while GPL licenses restrict the licensee more narrowly with the intent of compelling them to serve other interests of the licensor in order to benefit from the license.
In your argument there's more then one licensor and licensee. Which one gets the source, and the power to continue development?
GPL guarantees the sources are available to the end user and they can do with them what they will. BSD guarantees the first middleman developer in a chain gets the sources and can do what they will.
BSD is an almost-no-strings-attached gift. GPL is an invitation to enter into a gifting economy.
Both are useful. Both promote freedom in their own way, with their own view of what freedom should look like.
Today's college students probably are dumb compared to a generation ago. That's because college is pretty much the new high school and attendance might as well be required. In lower education this is definitely more debatable.
A:I eventually had to go down to the cellar. P: That's the display department. A: I had to take a torch. P: The lights must have been out. A: So were the stairs. P: But you did find the plans^H^H^H^H^H opt out button? A: Yes, I found them. In a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory behind a door that said "Beware of the tiger". P: That's our display department.
The features are small, but often quite worthwhile. For example, in Word 2010, you can choose based on the program you're copying from how you want styles to be handled, whether to use the original style, local style, or paste as plain text. That saves me tons of time I would have spent messing with manually choosing paste type before. 2010 also has built in "dataleakage" detection, warning you about metadata you might be sending on accident.
The last version of Word I used was 2003, then switched to Open Office (which I still often use). For collaboration reasons, I have to use Word for work and was quite pleased at many of the changed made in 2010 vs old versions. Yes, there's no groundbreaking features, but UI changes can a big deal and big time saver in programs also.
There's also JavaScript on the server. Most notable at the moment is node.js, and frameworks on top like express.
v8 (the javascript engine in Chrome) is already fast enough to be competitive with Java and.Net as a server side language (and much faster then Python, Ruby, and PHP) , and the JavaScript interpreter battles are still going strong.
In NJ you need a gun license(they call it a Firearms Purchaser Identification Card) to buy even an air powered pellet rifle. You want a Red RIder BB gun? Get your license, which requires fingerprinting and about a year for the background check.
Hey now, that's not fair.. we have a number of Quake mods also.. and...
Actually, there's excellent games of many types. At least as long as excellent gameplay is the goal, not necessarily AAA level graphics from current gen games.
Battle for Wesnoth, Flightgear, Tremulous, and Chromium B.S.U. are games I may never tire of.
With BSD the theory that makes most sense to me is it is easier to push fixes back upstream then maintain them yourselves. In practice, with BSD smaller patches often are merged and larger changes are sometimes kept private. In that way, BSD and LGPL are probably equivalent in terms of encouraging people to contribute.
In this case, apparently Bing thinks the product they are receiving is good enough, and has no need to contribute to fixing bugs and improving the project. Mapquest thinks contributing to the betterment of the product is warranted. Both are economically and morally fine.
Note I'm not necessarily trying to promote a "correct way" to read the Bible, only pointing out that a particular point of view on Genesis is not the only one possible, no matter how loudly some proclaim that it is. I'm not trying to convince you here as much as trying to bring some rationality to the discussions with other people who do already think that reading the Bible is of some value.
Trying to convince someone that the Bible is valuable in the first place is much more difficult topic to be sure.
Unfortunately, you have made the mistake of taking a message out of it's original context and readership.
We know that Slashdot posts are often about a Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans with hot grits down their pants, and these things have not yet come to pass. Therefore, perhaps the text would have been taken as part of the apocalyptic literature genre, giving moral and theological lessons through imagery.
But somewhat more seriously, before people claim that science is wrong because it disagrees with what someone told them about what Genesis claims, there's a lot of study they should be doing into who Genesis claims to be written for, what the styles of writing were at the time, and how the original hearers would have interpreted the message. Those things can make all the difference in the world.
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Be the default. 95+ percent of internet browsers use the browser in its default state.
Defaults matter.
It's possible to note be morally opposed to the actions of wikileaks,and still think Assange is overhyped. Bradly Manning is the real (hero/villain, choose one) in this situation, wikileaks is not really responsible for much in this situation.
It used to be a problem. Firefox has a short support window for older versions of Firefox, and Ubuntu developers have had to try to backport fixes to older versions of Firefox rather then do a major version upgrade. They have recently stopped this policy and are upgrading all older distros to the most recent firefox.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Lucid/FirefoxNewSupportModel
There's plenty of controversy about the new full body scanners that the TSA is installing at airports, and plenty more about the way some TSA agents are handling those that choose to opt out.
The heart of the matter comes from the fact that the TSA often doesn't understand that it is in show business, not security business. A rational look at the threats facing travelers would indicate that intense scrutiny of a four ounce jar of mouthwash or aggressive frisking of a child is a misplaced use of resources. If the goal is to find dangerous items in cargo or track down Stinger missiles, this isn't going to help.
Instead, the mission appears to be twofold:
1. Reassure the public that the government is really trying and
2. Keep random bad actors off guard by frequently raising the bar on getting caught
The challenge with #1 is that if people believe they're going to get groped, or get cancer, or have to wait in line even longer on Thanksgiving, they cease to be on your side. Particularly once they realize how irrational it is to try to stop a threat after it's already been perpetrated. (Imagine the havoc if someone had a brassiere-based weapon...)
And the challenge of #2 is that the cost of raising the bar gets higher and higher.
Smart marketers know how to pivot. I think it's time to do that. Start marketing the idea that flying is safe, like driving, but it's not perfect, like driving. If someone is crazy enough to hurt themselves or spend their life in jail, we're not going to stop them, and even if we did, they'd just cause havoc somewhere else. So instead of spending billions of dollars a year in time and money pretending, let's just get back to work.
The current model doesn't scale.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/11/groping-for-a-marketing-solution-tsa-and-security-theater.html
This is very much like what Schneier has been saying for years, but nobody else really cared till things got sexual. Isn't that like our species ;-)
Schneier, from 2005:
Exactly two things have made airline travel safer since 9/11: reinforcement of cockpit doors, and passengers who now know that they may have to fight back. Everything else -- Secure Flight and Trusted Traveler included -- is security theater. We would all be a lot safer if, instead, we implemented enhanced baggage security -- both ensuring that a passenger's bags don't fly unless he does, and explosives screening for all baggage -- as well as background checks and increased screening for airport employees.
Then we could take all the money we save and apply it to intelligence, investigation and emergency response. These are security measures that pay dividends regardless of what the terrorists are planning next, whether it's the movie plot threat of the moment, or something entirely different.
For under $200 you can have awesome sound.
My choice for a value setup is Grado SR80i headphones and a NuForce uDAC2 combo USB DAC and headphone amp. The "L-cush" pads are a recomended upgrade, or you can try the "sock mod"
Yes, you can get better sound from a system that sells for the price of a car but ~$200 gets you sound that is probably better then you've ever heard, and exceeds the quality of the source material most people listen to.
I use my grados with an external powered subwoofer when I want to shake the house, but usually they're fine by themselves..
Forget that.. A box of chemicals and cardboard tubes, let them make their own fire crackers...
Brian Cox, aslo known as the "rock star of Physics". Works on the Large Hadron Collider, has his own TV series on the solar system, was in the 2009 "sexiest men alive" issue of People, and played the keys for some semi-famous 90's bands. Not too shabby.
Also, the emissions equipment lowered fuel efficiency. We focused on safety and decreased emissions, not fuel economy, and we got safer and much lower polluting cars with the same to worse gas mileage. Surprise!
Its more accurate to say that BSD/Apache licenses (and public domain dedications like SQLites) provide openness for the people directly receiving and licensing the software from the licensor, while GPL licenses restrict the licensee more narrowly with the intent of compelling them to serve other interests of the licensor in order to benefit from the license.
In your argument there's more then one licensor and licensee. Which one gets the source, and the power to continue development?
GPL guarantees the sources are available to the end user and they can do with them what they will. BSD guarantees the first middleman developer in a chain gets the sources and can do what they will.
BSD is an almost-no-strings-attached gift. GPL is an invitation to enter into a gifting economy.
Both are useful. Both promote freedom in their own way, with their own view of what freedom should look like.
Ah, you've misread who it's "open" for..
BSD/Apache style licenses intend to provide "openness" for developers and hardware makers.
GPL(especially v3) intends to provide openness for the end user.
Both are valid, but different. Android is mostly Apache 2.0 licensed, and that decision and thinking show through the Android ecosystem.
Javascript runtimes are way faster then most other scripting languages at the moment.
If you go to the benchmark game you'll see v8 is about 6.5x faster then python and tracemonkey is 3.8x faster.
The only credible "scripting" language runtime that is faster then Javascript is LuaJIT, and Lua has nowhere near the features that JavaScript does.
Today's college students probably are dumb compared to a generation ago. That's because college is pretty much the new high school and attendance might as well be required. In lower education this is definitely more debatable.
A:I eventually had to go down to the cellar.
P: That's the display department.
A: I had to take a torch.
P: The lights must have been out.
A: So were the stairs.
P: But you did find the plans^H^H^H^H^H opt out button?
A: Yes, I found them. In a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory behind a door that said "Beware of the tiger".
P: That's our display department.
--The HitchhIker's Guide to the Galaxy
The features are small, but often quite worthwhile.
For example, in Word 2010, you can choose based on the program you're copying from how you want styles to be handled, whether to use the original style, local style, or paste as plain text. That saves me tons of time I would have spent messing with manually choosing paste type before.
2010 also has built in "dataleakage" detection, warning you about metadata you might be sending on accident.
The last version of Word I used was 2003, then switched to Open Office (which I still often use).
For collaboration reasons, I have to use Word for work and was quite pleased at many of the changed made in 2010 vs old versions. Yes, there's no groundbreaking features, but UI changes can a big deal and big time saver in programs also.
Bartab + FF 4 beta = almost instant restart with 100+ tabs.
Oh, actually, looks like bartab like functionality is now the default in the latest builds, as per the anonymous coward below. http://blog.zpao.com/post/1140456188/cascaded-session-restore-a-hidden-bonus
Have you used those recently? They're severely limited, and only work for a few inches. You'd be better off jut showing your neighbor the screen.
Even if you boost them with a hardware hack, it's still line of sight, and the proctors would see your contortions right away.
Nothing a bare magnetron from a microwave oven can't solve..
Microwaves are on the same frequency as wifi, and 1kW will easily shut down wifi for a block or more...
You might experience minor heating of the skin and develop cataracts over time, but everything has a cost, right?
There's also JavaScript on the server. Most notable at the moment is node.js, and frameworks on top like express.
v8 (the javascript engine in Chrome) is already fast enough to be competitive with Java and .Net as a server side language (and much faster then Python, Ruby, and PHP) , and the JavaScript interpreter battles are still going strong.
This is controlled by the very first setting when you open up the options window.
What the default is if you install today, I'm not sure.
Itunes 10 fixes many security flaws:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4328
Unfortunately, Apple is bad about mixing security and functionality upgrades, so you must get both.
In NJ you need a gun license(they call it a Firearms Purchaser Identification Card) to buy even an air powered pellet rifle.
You want a Red RIder BB gun? Get your license, which requires fingerprinting and about a year for the background check.
http://www.state.nj.us/njsp/faq.html See #3.
Hey now, that's not fair.. we have a number of Quake mods also.. and...
Actually, there's excellent games of many types. At least as long as excellent gameplay is the goal, not necessarily AAA level graphics from current gen games.
Battle for Wesnoth, Flightgear, Tremulous, and Chromium B.S.U. are games I may never tire of.
For more suggestions, http://www.happypenguin.org/list?&sort=avg_rating
With BSD the theory that makes most sense to me is it is easier to push fixes back upstream then maintain them yourselves.
In practice, with BSD smaller patches often are merged and larger changes are sometimes kept private. In that way, BSD and LGPL are probably equivalent in terms of encouraging people to contribute.
In this case, apparently Bing thinks the product they are receiving is good enough, and has no need to contribute to fixing bugs and improving the project. Mapquest thinks contributing to the betterment of the product is warranted. Both are economically and morally fine.
Note I'm not necessarily trying to promote a "correct way" to read the Bible, only pointing out that a particular point of view on Genesis is not the only one possible, no matter how loudly some proclaim that it is. I'm not trying to convince you here as much as trying to bring some rationality to the discussions with other people who do already think that reading the Bible is of some value.
Trying to convince someone that the Bible is valuable in the first place is much more difficult topic to be sure.
Unfortunately, you have made the mistake of taking a message out of it's original context and readership.
We know that Slashdot posts are often about a Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans with hot grits down their pants, and these things have not yet come to pass. Therefore, perhaps the text would have been taken as part of the apocalyptic literature genre, giving moral and theological lessons through imagery.
But somewhat more seriously, before people claim that science is wrong because it disagrees with what someone told them about what Genesis claims, there's a lot of study they should be doing into who Genesis claims to be written for, what the styles of writing were at the time, and how the original hearers would have interpreted the message. Those things can make all the difference in the world.