But after being asked four million times, you'll click yes anyway. I don't particularly trust Microsoft, but when I'm stuck using a Windows box, minimizing the amount of pain I have to go through to get Windows Update working is high on my priority list.
Umm...yes. And until XP, it was a complete fucking pain in the ass to run as non-admin. I don't get off on having to log out of my machine every time I want to install a piece of software. This sort of crap might be palatable in a business workstation environment, where you can't install whatever you want, but on a home machine, running as Administrator on Windows was the only reasonable thing to do for a long time.
Now, I'll grant that that's pretty pathetic when you compare it to UNIX...
This isn't like Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse or some other spam *solution*. It's intended to test to see what percentage right antispam tools get right -- false positives and negatives. It's useless (at least directly) to end users.
So unless your antispam tool breaks on some names in personalized letters, I would think that it's okay.
It's not a "safe haven" if you're stuffing Johnny into a box so that he can't get the porn he's actively seeking out. He's not *fleeing* it, he's looking for it.
I sure hope you don't approve of kids watching TV, too, unless shooting people is okay but porn isn't.
You know, this is the second time that I've been modded down for responding to a post that was either offtopic or analyzing the Slashdot moderation system. If you don't like the original post by the troll, that's fine. Don't mod legitimate posts down, though.
My comments were both relevant and useful to the Slashdot community./me in a huff
Why the hell does Slashdot even have filters? They annoy me (short comments often submitted in under 20 seconds), and I often post more than twice in two minutes, and I've even hit the 50/day limit once.
There was some killer that got off of eating his victims, part-by-part alive...presumably the screams became associated with food in a Pavlovian-like response and would make him feel hungry.
So I guess if you were like him, the cows would make you feel hungry for cow?
Oh, and I'd like to add that there is no longer any reasonable quick fix. Legislative solutions are not feasible. Bush's party now controls the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government. No one is going to move against him.
Violent solutions will not work (like shooting politicians involved in this). At this point, most Americans are swept up in anti-terrorist nationalistic propaganda, and martyrs would make matters worse.
Protests? Useless. There have already been people speaking out against the use of anti-terrorist resources to start a war in Iraq, talking about the disturbing power grabs over the last twelve months. Nothing. In Vietnam, you had untold numbers of students being drafted for war, vast numbers of parents with dead children, and still it took years for protests to be paid attention to. And in the process there was FBI intervention (thanks to the strengthening of federal powers, it would be worse in a case like this), abuse of local police powers, federal influence over the press...and this is not a situation that can be tolerated for nearly as long.
Remember Pastor Martin Niemoller, convicted of treason by the Nazis:
In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Sage advice, from a man who has seen this before -- and yet who are we to speak out to? Who is to hear what we have to say with the power to do anything?
There are no countries, no one on earth that can do anything if this goes wrong.
KGB - "Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti" -- State Security Committee OHS - "Office of Homeland Security"
I'm starting to agree with you, disturbing as it sounds to say aloud. Political solutions can do little at this point, with complete Republican control of the legislative, executive and judicial branch, and popular support fully behind the anti-terrorist propaganda that's been so useful to the government in gaining unprescedented powers.
A 90-9 vote shows massive support for the thing. Remember how long the Vietnam protests took to do anything (*And* the FBI surveillance of protesters and attempts to break up the antiwar movement...and that wasn't with the help of the Office of Homeland Security).:-(
Yes, lovely that we have an electoral college system here, isn't it? Hitler intimidated enough of the legislative branch to give him all the powers he wanted, claiming that it was needed for national security. It could certainly be done in the United States -- the only difference is that *this* time, there is no other group of nations that could stop a dictator with that much military power.
September 11th -- Bush's Reichstag fire. An attack on a national symbol that prompts the single-party control of the government, followed by the strengthening of the executive portion of the government and the establishment of unrestricted government powers. Sound familiar? Yup, same as the rise of the Third Reich. And Bush doesn't even need to dissolve the legislative branch as the Nazi party did, because his party managed to just seize control of it.
I'm not even going to mention the fact that he's using national upset over a terrorist act against a national symbol to fuel lust for a totally fucking unrelated foreign war (Iraq). Same as Hitler.
Of course, the people being detained and having their civil rights as regards imprisonment ignored so far are Islamic, rather than Jewish. But it also took Hitler a while while in unopposed control of the government to gain complete control over the country.
If Islamic people start getting deported, then I'm going to start worrying. (And it's not like we haven't put a race in camps before -- we grabbed Japanese-Americans out of their homes and dumped them in big guarded, barbed-wire-fence-surrounded camps during WWII.) We hover a lot closer to serious nastiness than most people would like to admit.
I mean, for chrissake, we've a father and a son on the "throne" of the Presidency at the minute! Who buys into the "meritocracy" claims any more?
And we just established a massive domestic monitoring organization specifically built to bypass the restrictions placed on the FBI after decades of abuse of powers. Of course, this one can grab wiretaps w/o needing warrants, has the powers of the CIA, FBI, and INS, and is extremely well-funded./me is very frusterated, but doesn't see any remedy...
Don't be so glad you don't live in the United States of America. France, Poland, and friends felt the brunt of radical German political changes as much as Germany. You get a shift towards a empire-building dictatorship (except this time bigger, with nukes and the most powerful military in the world) and you can be damn sure that it will impact you.
No, I'm aware that you need to vectorize your code. The problem is that this is really a pain in the butt to do -- hence 10x the work. I suspect that a vetran MATLAB coder is pretty good at vectorizing. Better than I am at least -- for me, anything above basic operations takes a bit of thinking. Also, it makes experimenting annoying -- you find a fast way to vectorize some series of operations, and then you need to restructure your code...
I mean, I'm quite fine with the MATLAB designers accelerating the beejezus out of matrix operations. But give the language enough pep to let them use more traditional program structure if it's more convenient.
Also, while it's easy to vectorize most things, I remember a friend doing image recognition/generation research over the summer, and using MATLAB. He spent three days tracking down one vector operation that was far slower than he had expected (I think there was an operation that required growing an array or something). He could have trivially done this in C or another "fast" language, but ended up doing some logarithmic pre-resizing or something to keep the thing humming along at a decent clip. [shrug] I don't remember the details very well.
Signed emails could fix that. Oh, you'd need Outlook to be deployed for two or three years with embedded *good* support for it, and maybe an RFC stating how your web browser can give you a dialog to whitelist an email address.
It'd also eliminate issues of forged emails (meaning that we coudl get rid of the load of crap legislation that currently goes after forgers) and make a clean, technical solution.
They don't have the ability to legally prevent said end users from recording something. That is what the HFUA protects, and is not being violated in the least. It doesn't require that they provide any sort of technical mechanism to do copying. As a matter of fact, they can make it quite difficult.
I'm all for this. I think that giving industry special legal priviliges is a bad idea. Giving tobacco companies immunity to individual lawsuits. Giving pharmaceuticals special international trade rights. Feh. Don't give publishers a special digital legal protection, but let 'em make whatever neat technical systems they want.
Slashdot Mirror
I believe you're thinking of IIS, which runs in Ring 0, not IE.
allow only internal ActiveX publishers
Does anyone have any reason to allow ActiveX at all? It seems to pretty consistently be a low-benefit recipe for trouble...
But after being asked four million times, you'll click yes anyway. I don't particularly trust Microsoft, but when I'm stuck using a Windows box, minimizing the amount of pain I have to go through to get Windows Update working is high on my priority list.
run as admin
Umm...yes. And until XP, it was a complete fucking pain in the ass to run as non-admin. I don't get off on having to log out of my machine every time I want to install a piece of software. This sort of crap might be palatable in a business workstation environment, where you can't install whatever you want, but on a home machine, running as Administrator on Windows was the only reasonable thing to do for a long time.
Now, I'll grant that that's pretty pathetic when you compare it to UNIX...
This isn't like Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse or some other spam *solution*. It's intended to test to see what percentage right antispam tools get right -- false positives and negatives. It's useless (at least directly) to end users.
So unless your antispam tool breaks on some names in personalized letters, I would think that it's okay.
"Safe haven"
It's not a "safe haven" if you're stuffing Johnny into a box so that he can't get the porn he's actively seeking out. He's not *fleeing* it, he's looking for it.
I sure hope you don't approve of kids watching TV, too, unless shooting people is okay but porn isn't.
I wonder what happens if a 16 year old kid has porn of a 17 year old...whether the relevant statues still apply.
You know, this is the second time that I've been modded down for responding to a post that was either offtopic or analyzing the Slashdot moderation system. If you don't like the original post by the troll, that's fine. Don't mod legitimate posts down, though.
/me in a huff
My comments were both relevant and useful to the Slashdot community.
Why the hell does Slashdot even have filters? They annoy me (short comments often submitted in under 20 seconds), and I often post more than twice in two minutes, and I've even hit the 50/day limit once.
And yet it lets stuff like this through.
There was some killer that got off of eating his victims, part-by-part alive...presumably the screams became associated with food in a Pavlovian-like response and would make him feel hungry.
So I guess if you were like him, the cows would make you feel hungry for cow?
a large organization accused and found guilty of illegal activities
Same as Greenpeace? (lots of borderline ecoterrorism)
How about the FBI? (Hoover's abuses in the '70s)
You know, that doesn't mean that the global standard of living improvements through improved efficiency won't make it worthwhile.
You don't *have* to take foo from B and give it to A. You *can* get A and B to work together and improve *both* of their stations.
First Linux came out... ...and they said it didn't matter.
...and they said it didn't matter.
...and they said it didn't matter.
...and they said it didn't matter.
...and they said it didn't matter.
...and they said it didn't matter.
...and they said it didn't matter.
...and they said it didn't matter.
...and they said it didn't matter.
Then it got faster than Windows...
Then it turned into a more secure server than Windows...
Then it got thousands of developers working on desktop software for it...
Then Gartner Group said "move from MS to it"...
Then all the big iron vendors started supporting it...
Then client companies started moving their servers over to it...
Then state and national governments started switching to it by the handful...
It's grown faster in popularity than any other OS...
What does it take?
Well, they *are* switching...just on the server instead of the desktop.
Sooner or later, we'll nail 'em. More usability studies from Sun, new desktop paradigm, more WINE development or something.
Linux is the sharpest knife Sun and IBM have ever had, and they're slavering at the chops at the thought of twisting it around in MS's guts.
Runs more smoothly in WINE than the last version of Windows I had installed, NT 4.
Oh, and I'd like to add that there is no longer any reasonable quick fix. Legislative solutions are not feasible. Bush's party now controls the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government. No one is going to move against him.
Violent solutions will not work (like shooting politicians involved in this). At this point, most Americans are swept up in anti-terrorist nationalistic propaganda, and martyrs would make matters worse.
Protests? Useless. There have already been people speaking out against the use of anti-terrorist resources to start a war in Iraq, talking about the disturbing power grabs over the last twelve months. Nothing. In Vietnam, you had untold numbers of students being drafted for war, vast numbers of parents with dead children, and still it took years for protests to be paid attention to. And in the process there was FBI intervention (thanks to the strengthening of federal powers, it would be worse in a case like this), abuse of local police powers, federal influence over the press...and this is not a situation that can be tolerated for nearly as long.
Remember Pastor Martin Niemoller, convicted of treason by the Nazis:
In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me -
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Sage advice, from a man who has seen this before -- and yet who are we to speak out to? Who is to hear what we have to say with the power to do anything?
There are no countries, no one on earth that can do anything if this goes wrong.
KGB - "Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti" -- State Security Committee
:-(
OHS - "Office of Homeland Security"
I'm starting to agree with you, disturbing as it sounds to say aloud. Political solutions can do little at this point, with complete Republican control of the legislative, executive and judicial branch, and popular support fully behind the anti-terrorist propaganda that's been so useful to the government in gaining unprescedented powers.
A 90-9 vote shows massive support for the thing. Remember how long the Vietnam protests took to do anything (*And* the FBI surveillance of protesters and attempts to break up the antiwar movement...and that wasn't with the help of the Office of Homeland Security).
What's a guy to do?
Except Canada and Mexico don't have a military strong enough to protect you. There's *nowhere* to run.
Yes, lovely that we have an electoral college system here, isn't it? Hitler intimidated enough of the legislative branch to give him all the powers he wanted, claiming that it was needed for national security. It could certainly be done in the United States -- the only difference is that *this* time, there is no other group of nations that could stop a dictator with that much military power.
September 11th -- Bush's Reichstag fire. An attack on a national symbol that prompts the single-party control of the government, followed by the strengthening of the executive portion of the government and the establishment of unrestricted government powers. Sound familiar? Yup, same as the rise of the Third Reich. And Bush doesn't even need to dissolve the legislative branch as the Nazi party did, because his party managed to just seize control of it.
/me is very frusterated, but doesn't see any remedy...
I'm not even going to mention the fact that he's using national upset over a terrorist act against a national symbol to fuel lust for a totally fucking unrelated foreign war (Iraq). Same as Hitler.
Of course, the people being detained and having their civil rights as regards imprisonment ignored so far are Islamic, rather than Jewish. But it also took Hitler a while while in unopposed control of the government to gain complete control over the country.
If Islamic people start getting deported, then I'm going to start worrying. (And it's not like we haven't put a race in camps before -- we grabbed Japanese-Americans out of their homes and dumped them in big guarded, barbed-wire-fence-surrounded camps during WWII.) We hover a lot closer to serious nastiness than most people would like to admit.
I mean, for chrissake, we've a father and a son on the "throne" of the Presidency at the minute! Who buys into the "meritocracy" claims any more?
And we just established a massive domestic monitoring organization specifically built to bypass the restrictions placed on the FBI after decades of abuse of powers. Of course, this one can grab wiretaps w/o needing warrants, has the powers of the CIA, FBI, and INS, and is extremely well-funded.
Don't be so glad you don't live in the United States of America. France, Poland, and friends felt the brunt of radical German political changes as much as Germany. You get a shift towards a empire-building dictatorship (except this time bigger, with nukes and the most powerful military in the world) and you can be damn sure that it will impact you.
No, I'm aware that you need to vectorize your code. The problem is that this is really a pain in the butt to do -- hence 10x the work. I suspect that a vetran MATLAB coder is pretty good at vectorizing. Better than I am at least -- for me, anything above basic operations takes a bit of thinking. Also, it makes experimenting annoying -- you find a fast way to vectorize some series of operations, and then you need to restructure your code...
I mean, I'm quite fine with the MATLAB designers accelerating the beejezus out of matrix operations. But give the language enough pep to let them use more traditional program structure if it's more convenient.
Also, while it's easy to vectorize most things, I remember a friend doing image recognition/generation research over the summer, and using MATLAB. He spent three days tracking down one vector operation that was far slower than he had expected (I think there was an operation that required growing an array or something). He could have trivially done this in C or another "fast" language, but ended up doing some logarithmic pre-resizing or something to keep the thing humming along at a decent clip. [shrug] I don't remember the details very well.
I've never used APL, so I can't comment there.
Signed emails could fix that. Oh, you'd need Outlook to be deployed for two or three years with embedded *good* support for it, and maybe an RFC stating how your web browser can give you a dialog to whitelist an email address.
the spammers are already faking From: addresses
Yeah...signing emails may become necessary.
It'd also eliminate issues of forged emails (meaning that we coudl get rid of the load of crap legislation that currently goes after forgers) and make a clean, technical solution.
You do realize that the User Friendly cartoon you're alluding to was a joke, right?
They don't have the ability to legally prevent said end users from recording something. That is what the HFUA protects, and is not being violated in the least. It doesn't require that they provide any sort of technical mechanism to do copying. As a matter of fact, they can make it quite difficult.
I'm all for this. I think that giving industry special legal priviliges is a bad idea. Giving tobacco companies immunity to individual lawsuits. Giving pharmaceuticals special international trade rights. Feh. Don't give publishers a special digital legal protection, but let 'em make whatever neat technical systems they want.