hang on a sec, you've launched head-on into some of the most unstable features of MS office (dynamic cross-references, embedded spreadsheets, wordart, floating frames) and you're criticizing a rival office suite for not understanding that?
It's hardly surprising, is it? From what I remember of MsOffice, Word itself gets pretty confused by all these features, as anyone who's waited 5 minutes to save their dissertation knows.
It's difficult to say what would be the best way of handling such features, but doing it internally in a word processor can't be the best solution. Parsing the entire document on each paragraph-insert soon gets nasty in 100-page documents.
Perhaps an extension to LaTeX which allows you to run a Perl program and \include{its output} would work better. It would introduce a whole host of security risks (as does MsOffice) but it would let you dynamically include tables from spreadsheets, the latest copy of a graph, or whatever.
I presume you can use things like "gnumeric mySpreadsheet.x/exportgraph/jpeg graph1" to get the data out of the office applications?
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I've even heard of one person who was still on Office 95.
While the rest of us were happily using word 6 and access 2 until we switched to openoffice (or in my case, LaTeX)
So... everyone's paying a flat fee for this music to be available, kind'a like a TV license for internet music?
So who's subsidising who? Does this mean that you can't use the internet without paying for the music? (in the same way you can't distribute your software on CDR without paying for music?)
What's wrong with the current system, where we buy CDs only from artists community-sprited enough to make their music available for free download? (and those proud enough of their music to believe that people will pay for it once they've heard it)
Sounds good. If police time is wasted each time a frivolous warrant is issued, maybe that will stop the dragnetting of private information.
I mean, it's bad enough that Yahoo! will let the U.S. police browse through my emails without any evidence of a crime, but for them to do it by fax is starting to push the limits of credibility.
Yes, I've now deleted all the email from my yahoo account. There are some people where it's not being paranoid if you don't trust them.
It could be because it is irrelevant. This case is specifically about browsers
...which is exactly why the case itself is irrelevant. The browser wars are over now that mozilla 1 is out, people are starting to get decent email clients, and everyone has a fast enough net connection to download netscape as one of the first things they do after installing Windows.
So why are people still arguing about the browser "monopoly"? For goodness' sake, lets allow businesses to LEGALLY SELL OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS, let's have a publication of the MS-Office formats, and let's have a marketplace where people selling computers without Windows are not routinely accused of piracy!
Some 95% of Yahoo accounts are either in false names, give false details, or are no longer even used. I have, at last count, 6 yahoo accounts. None of those contain my real address or phone number, and several of them were created just to send a specific, anonymous email.
Are we really surprised that make_money_fast_4s31j1k2@yahoo.com hasn't cancelled their account due to privacy policy?
You can try to initiate a Reexamination of the patent by the PTO
Yeah, that's a good idea to prove yourself innocent once assumed guilty...
Less than $30,000, you say? bargain! if only every person in the country could protect themselves against every patent in the patent office for such a low price.
Freedom and justice to the rich, I say. It's the American Way(TM)
okay, I'm not a digital camera expert or anything (not got one myself) but your argument is "well I've read the privacy policy, and clicked the button in Flash to say 'please don't take photos of my bedroom' so nothing to worry about, right"
right......
And when did you last review the source code for this version of Flash player?
We all know that "power corrupts" applies to programs as well as to people (think Kazaa, Windows XP, RealPlayer) so I'd say that even allowing a website plug-in access to that kind of information is unthinkably stupid (on the part of Macromedia's consumers, not on Macromedia themselves)
"Thankyou for visiting irs.gov. For your security, and to prevent crime, we have logged your name, IP address, and a photo of whatever you're currently wearing."
exposure to bacteria is one thing, exposure to university computer-room computers is quite another!
Choose mice (mousen?) which are so full of crap that you can't turn the scroll-wheel. Choose keyboards that are all black, except for the keys between d and j, which are so white the lettering's rubbed off. Choose mouseballs so dark you could grow plants on them. Choose life. Choose nottingham university.
"but are we now going to apply the "local community standards"... to every internet user?"
Well, Slashdot is one of the largest communities on the internet, so I guess the "local community test" will resolve to "more pr0n, faster!"
With Yahoo clubs and groups the second largest community, I hardly think they're gonna come out against posting pr0n on the internet either (regular users may see a hint why)
"The biggest advantage Internet has over other media is that both sides of the story are available"
Damned right! I've spent a lot of time watching TV (both government and commercial TV) and mainsteam websites, and it truly is a pity that many people can only rely on those outlets for information.
When you listen to CNN presenters denouncing unpatriotic troublemakers and bemoaning the arbitarily-guessed figures for damage they're expected to cause, it just reminds me of stories about newspapers in Burma, Zimbabwe and all the other places we routinely condemn for their dictatorships.
Sooner or later, everything you read will be owned by a group of people small enough to fit into a conference hall. When your internet access comes through the same company as your newspaper as your television news, and even the films you watch. When everything you own only works with the opinions they write.
But what's wrong with that? Don't we all secretly want out MS/Intel computers to only play news recordings which originate at AOL-Time-Warner-Disney-CNN?
So just to check: I can still post whatever pictures I like here in the UK, so long as they're legal under UK law?
What about if I holiday in America? Will I get kidnapped like Skylarov did?
It's a sad day when only companies with credit-card processing equipment are allowed the freedom of the press.
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The original codebreaking was never in question here, the author's point is:
One of the uses to which this movie can be put is to decode something which the reviewer used to copy-protect his work. (remember, the infringing use does not have to be the primary use of a circumvention device)
With a copy of this movie, I would be able to do something illegal (i.e. read and copy a paragraph of encrypted text) which would not be otherwise possible.
Now, everyone check your browser settings. If it caches any pages, I'm suing you all for copying this post.
Actually, if you have mastered a pencil, a using a pen would be intuitive
However, if you've mastered a tennis raquet, using a squash raquet would not only be non-intuitive, but would cause you to forget how to use the tennis raquet.
The brain can only store so many models, which act like device drivers in a computer. Once you've learned to ride a bike, you effectively have a/dev/bike stored in your brain which can be used to ride any type of bike. If you get a suspension bike or a motorbike, then/dev/bike is changed, rather than creating a new one for the motorbike.
"Actually, it would be quite easy to do this in most towns - a ten minute bike ride, maybe"
I remember in anchorage, finding that I couldn't physically get from one side of town to the other without using a small stretch of motorway (or whatever the US equivalent is)
Of course, I only found this out after cycling off the exit ramp, looking back, and spotting a well-hidden "automobiles only" symbol. I was expecting a room-sized reflective sign like at home.
There are some places just not designed for bikes, nor for walking!
If you're waiting to pull out into traffic, you put the parking brake on. This doesn't affect the car normally, but if someone hits you from behind, it stops you being shunted forward and potentially hit from the side by fast traffic.
I'd guess that if the parking brake was hidden in a menu, you wouldn't be able to do that (at least, not quickly enough to be useful)
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hang on a sec, you've launched head-on into some of the most unstable features of MS office (dynamic cross-references, embedded spreadsheets, wordart, floating frames) and you're criticizing a rival office suite for not understanding that?
/exportgraph /jpeg graph1" to get the data out of the office applications?
It's hardly surprising, is it? From what I remember of MsOffice, Word itself gets pretty confused by all these features, as anyone who's waited 5 minutes to save their dissertation knows.
It's difficult to say what would be the best way of handling such features, but doing it internally in a word processor can't be the best solution. Parsing the entire document on each paragraph-insert soon gets nasty in 100-page documents.
Perhaps an extension to LaTeX which allows you to run a Perl program and \include{its output} would work better. It would introduce a whole host of security risks (as does MsOffice) but it would let you dynamically include tables from spreadsheets, the latest copy of a graph, or whatever.
I presume you can use things like "gnumeric mySpreadsheet.x
I've even heard of one person who was still on Office 95.
While the rest of us were happily using word 6 and access 2 until we switched to openoffice (or in my case, LaTeX)
I would have thought it would be safe from slashdotting -- none of us linux people can open the file!
Is $30 for quicktime on linux more useful than $30 for OEM dual-boot windows with free quicktime player?
So... everyone's paying a flat fee for this music to be available, kind'a like a TV license for internet music?
So who's subsidising who? Does this mean that you can't use the internet without paying for the music? (in the same way you can't distribute your software on CDR without paying for music?)
What's wrong with the current system, where we buy CDs only from artists community-sprited enough to make their music available for free download? (and those proud enough of their music to believe that people will pay for it once they've heard it)
Why would linux want to concentrate on servers? Not everyone can afford the "double the cost of an equivalently powered PC" cost of an AppleMac.
Let redhat paint themselves into a server corner, so the rest of us can get a decent desktop, and nobody has to subscribe to WinXP.
Time to encrypt everything. 512-bit encryption ought to slow them down, especially on large files.
So how do you run PGPDisk on linux? (no, seriously.)
Sounds good. If police time is wasted each time a frivolous warrant is issued, maybe that will stop the dragnetting of private information.
I mean, it's bad enough that Yahoo! will let the U.S. police browse through my emails without any evidence of a crime, but for them to do it by fax is starting to push the limits of credibility.
Yes, I've now deleted all the email from my yahoo account. There are some people where it's not being paranoid if you don't trust them.
Huh?
"Secretary of State for Transport Stephen Byers"
"When will Slashdot stop drooling over every single god damn "leaked memo" that becomes public?"
Distributed Slashdot Echelon for reading microsoft email. Whoo-hoo!
It could be because it is irrelevant. This case is specifically about browsers
...which is exactly why the case itself is irrelevant. The browser wars are over now that mozilla 1 is out, people are starting to get decent email clients, and everyone has a fast enough net connection to download netscape as one of the first things they do after installing Windows.
So why are people still arguing about the browser "monopoly"? For goodness' sake, lets allow businesses to LEGALLY SELL OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS, let's have a publication of the MS-Office formats, and let's have a marketplace where people selling computers without Windows are not routinely accused of piracy!
"Thoughtful of them to provide a postage-paid return envelope"
Now the next piece of equipment you'll need is a brick. This can be interfaced to the return-paid envelope through the use of duct-tape.
What is the point this article is trying to make?
Some 95% of Yahoo accounts are either in false names, give false details, or are no longer even used. I have, at last count, 6 yahoo accounts. None of those contain my real address or phone number, and several of them were created just to send a specific, anonymous email.
Are we really surprised that make_money_fast_4s31j1k2@yahoo.com hasn't cancelled their account due to privacy policy?
You can try to initiate a Reexamination of the patent by the PTO
Yeah, that's a good idea to prove yourself innocent once assumed guilty...
Less than $30,000, you say? bargain! if only every person in the country could protect themselves against every patent in the patent office for such a low price.
Freedom and justice to the rich, I say. It's the American Way(TM)
okay, I'm not a digital camera expert or anything (not got one myself) but your argument is "well I've read the privacy policy, and clicked the button in Flash to say 'please don't take photos of my bedroom' so nothing to worry about, right"
right......
And when did you last review the source code for this version of Flash player?
We all know that "power corrupts" applies to programs as well as to people (think Kazaa, Windows XP, RealPlayer) so I'd say that even allowing a website plug-in access to that kind of information is unthinkably stupid (on the part of Macromedia's consumers, not on Macromedia themselves)
"Thankyou for visiting irs.gov. For your security, and to prevent crime, we have logged your name, IP address, and a photo of whatever you're currently wearing."
Lets see some things that are probalw worse.
;-)
1) Any food/drink ordered from think geek
I have a new expresso machine... and a headache from testing it
exposure to bacteria is one thing, exposure to university computer-room computers is quite another!
Choose mice (mousen?) which are so full of crap that you can't turn the scroll-wheel. Choose keyboards that are all black, except for the keys between d and j, which are so white the lettering's rubbed off. Choose mouseballs so dark you could grow plants on them. Choose life. Choose nottingham university.
"but are we now going to apply the "local community standards" ... to every internet user?"
Well, Slashdot is one of the largest communities on the internet, so I guess the "local community test" will resolve to "more pr0n, faster!"
With Yahoo clubs and groups the second largest community, I hardly think they're gonna come out against posting pr0n on the internet either (regular users may see a hint why)
"free speech" means "free if the majority of the populace likes it or agrees with it"
and more importantly, is video footage of police brutality considered "harmful to minors"?
Is this just an attempt to get the whitehouse.com domain back?
"The biggest advantage Internet has over other media is that both sides of the story are available"
Damned right! I've spent a lot of time watching TV (both government and commercial TV) and mainsteam websites, and it truly is a pity that many people can only rely on those outlets for information.
When you listen to CNN presenters denouncing unpatriotic troublemakers and bemoaning the arbitarily-guessed figures for damage they're expected to cause, it just reminds me of stories about newspapers in Burma, Zimbabwe and all the other places we routinely condemn for their dictatorships.
Sooner or later, everything you read will be owned by a group of people small enough to fit into a conference hall. When your internet access comes through the same company as your newspaper as your television news, and even the films you watch. When everything you own only works with the opinions they write.
But what's wrong with that? Don't we all secretly want out MS/Intel computers to only play news recordings which originate at AOL-Time-Warner-Disney-CNN?
So just to check: I can still post whatever pictures I like here in the UK, so long as they're legal under UK law?
What about if I holiday in America? Will I get kidnapped like Skylarov did?
It's a sad day when only companies with credit-card processing equipment are allowed the freedom of the press.
The original codebreaking was never in question here, the author's point is:
One of the uses to which this movie can be put is to decode something which the reviewer used to copy-protect his work. (remember, the infringing use does not have to be the primary use of a circumvention device)
With a copy of this movie, I would be able to do something illegal (i.e. read and copy a paragraph of encrypted text) which would not be otherwise possible.
Now, everyone check your browser settings. If it caches any pages, I'm suing you all for copying this post.
Actually, if you have mastered a pencil, a using a pen would be intuitive
/dev/bike stored in your brain which can be used to ride any type of bike. If you get a suspension bike or a motorbike, then /dev/bike is changed, rather than creating a new one for the motorbike.
However, if you've mastered a tennis raquet, using a squash raquet would not only be non-intuitive, but would cause you to forget how to use the tennis raquet.
The brain can only store so many models, which act like device drivers in a computer. Once you've learned to ride a bike, you effectively have a
"Actually, it would be quite easy to do this in most towns - a ten minute bike ride, maybe"
I remember in anchorage, finding that I couldn't physically get from one side of town to the other without using a small stretch of motorway (or whatever the US equivalent is)
Of course, I only found this out after cycling off the exit ramp, looking back, and spotting a well-hidden "automobiles only" symbol. I was expecting a room-sized reflective sign like at home.
There are some places just not designed for bikes, nor for walking!
Lesson 1 for engineers: always check your ArcTan function for right-angles
Lesson 1 for pilots's families: never trust the government
If you're waiting to pull out into traffic, you put the parking brake on. This doesn't affect the car normally, but if someone hits you from behind, it stops you being shunted forward and potentially hit from the side by fast traffic.
I'd guess that if the parking brake was hidden in a menu, you wouldn't be able to do that (at least, not quickly enough to be useful)