We've spent 160 billion dollars and thousands of lives to prevent the possibility one day of some weapons that turn out to have been destroyed from staying where they were.
Should we sit on our hands? Or should we take the decisive action that is required, to head off serious problems before they overtake us?
I'd say the layout of Lsongs and iTunes is remarkably similar, though that doesn't bother me -- it's a good layout, and some of the PC jukebox software was moving towards a similar look.
In the "blatant copy" mode, though, compare and contrast the:
Gee, you're right. Those Mercedes-Benz safety engineers should have thought of that. They'll have to go back to the drawing board now. Score another win for Slashdot posters over the dedicated engineers of the world.
The UK VAT is uniform across the entire country. The US has no national sales tax -- a sales tax (if any) is applied by each state. So the additional tax could be 0% to ~ 8.5%.
Hence it makes sense not to include on a list price or web page. But note that services like Pricegrabber do, if you punch in a shipping postal code, try to calculate and include the applicable sales tax for you
Probably? Life on Mars would be the biggest scientific discovery in all the human lifetimes lived thus far, I would say.
I mean, maybe Copernicus... no... or Galileo... no... Darwin... maybe, but I'd really say that each of those would be mere stepping stones on the way towards the discovery of exobiology. Personally, I'd give my right leg to live in a time when extraterrestrial life is discovered. Maybe others don't feel that strongly, but it would be history-changing.
Good point about this discovery, though. This is significant, but I agree, maybe more on the level of the peak of an individual's career, and a milestone that people will point to later. But not quite lifetime status.:)
Mod that one up -- right on, monkey. I love that behavior! It's totally bizarre.
It's kind of like another favorite college phenomenon of mine -- entering a large lecture hall or auditorium that you know is going to fill up. The first person to arrive sits wherever. The next person definitely does not sit in the same row -- that would be creepy. Likewise, the next several people have to sit in different rows, or their violating the 'space' of the people already there.
Once all of the (non-front, non-back) rows have at least one person, the next person to arrive will share a row. But of course, sitting right next to a person in an otherwise empty row makes you look like a weirdo. So everyone fills in the row by leaving at least one seat between them and the next person, until the row is half-full. Then everyone does the knee-bend eight times while the late arrivers squeeze their way into those empty seats that everyone knew would fill up eventually...
In the end. nobody has any empty space next to them at all. But it's socially acceptable non-empty space, because it all happened in the right order...
I think he meant: if you're a programmer that plans on using Subversion, surely you can compile the damn thing yourself, rather than waiting for somebody else to do it for you.
The legality is uncertain, but brettspielwelt has Settlers and lots of other popular boardgames in a thriving community, with ~ 500+ people online at any given time.
I do the same, though I save newspapers from some of the more hopeful moments as well. For example, I have a headline (not the top headline, amazingly enough) which says, "Whites Abandon Apartheid."
I think he's saying that short of mucking in the source, there's no intermediate level at which the filter can be tweaked -- e.g. a rulefile, regex list, etc.
To Windows users it was for all practical purposes free, which made it preferable to Netscape for many since they didn't have to pay extra for it.
This was the essence of the whole case, no? What Microsoft did was: Take a monopoly (94%+ market share), add something for "free" (i.e. people pay for it without even realizing it), and wait.
"Execution Protection" marks pages *in memory* as data rather than code. That helps prevent buffer overrun and stack-smashing attacks -- where cleverly arranged faulty data can be executed as though it's a program.
The "Execution Protection" is a feature of the CPU, which operating systems can add support for. If it isn't already in Linux I'd expect to see it soon.
The Linux stuff is about marking entire *disks* (mountpoints, really) as containing only data, and not programs you want to run. That prevents someone from uploading a nasty program onto your disk, then running it. (For example, you could mount your operating system / built-in programs on a read-only disk, then mark everything else as 'noexec' -- making an attacker's job much tougher).
Pharmacists Convince Search Engines To Self-Censor
Umm, declining to accept purchased advertisements for illegal products is not exactly censorship.
- If Google removed the sites from their search index, that would be censorship.
- If Google declined to accept ads for legal products that it didn't like, that might be questionable, but it wouldn't be censorship. cf. newspapers declining to accept advertisements for pornography.
- But Google declining to accept ads for illegal products? Wake me up when there's news.
unison will do a diff on text files that have changed in both places; it requires a manual ok of both sets of changes, but it's pretty easy to accept the changes from work and home, or choose between conflicting changes, etc.
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We've spent 160 billion dollars and thousands of lives to prevent the possibility one day of some weapons that turn out to have been destroyed from staying where they were.
Should we sit on our hands? Or should we take the decisive action that is required, to head off serious problems before they overtake us?
is still using a 386 anymore??? Get with the times, gcc! ;)
I'd say the layout of Lsongs and iTunes is remarkably similar, though that doesn't bother me -- it's a good layout, and some of the PC jukebox software was moving towards a similar look.
In the "blatant copy" mode, though, compare and contrast the:- Lsongs icon
- iTunes icon
- (crossed with the speaker from the Audion icon? You decide!)
umm, yeah, good job Lsongs artist!I'm pretty sure Apple acquired the "random capitalization" patent when it bought NeXT Computers and their NeXTStep technology...
Also, don't forget
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Gee, you're right. Those Mercedes-Benz safety engineers should have thought of that. They'll have to go back to the drawing board now. Score another win for Slashdot posters over the dedicated engineers of the world.
Or Sweden and Finland, for that matter. What a nightmare.
The UK VAT is uniform across the entire country. The US has no national sales tax -- a sales tax (if any) is applied by each state. So the additional tax could be 0% to ~ 8.5%.
Hence it makes sense not to include on a list price or web page. But note that services like Pricegrabber do, if you punch in a shipping postal code, try to calculate and include the applicable sales tax for you
Probably? Life on Mars would be the biggest scientific discovery in all the human lifetimes lived thus far, I would say.
I mean, maybe Copernicus... no... or Galileo... no... Darwin... maybe, but I'd really say that each of those would be mere stepping stones on the way towards the discovery of exobiology. Personally, I'd give my right leg to live in a time when extraterrestrial life is discovered. Maybe others don't feel that strongly, but it would be history-changing.
Good point about this discovery, though. This is significant, but I agree, maybe more on the level of the peak of an individual's career, and a milestone that people will point to later. But not quite lifetime status. :)
Mod that one up -- right on, monkey. I love that behavior! It's totally bizarre.
It's kind of like another favorite college phenomenon of mine -- entering a large lecture hall or auditorium that you know is going to fill up. The first person to arrive sits wherever. The next person definitely does not sit in the same row -- that would be creepy. Likewise, the next several people have to sit in different rows, or their violating the 'space' of the people already there.
Once all of the (non-front, non-back) rows have at least one person, the next person to arrive will share a row. But of course, sitting right next to a person in an otherwise empty row makes you look like a weirdo. So everyone fills in the row by leaving at least one seat between them and the next person, until the row is half-full. Then everyone does the knee-bend eight times while the late arrivers squeeze their way into those empty seats that everyone knew would fill up eventually...
In the end. nobody has any empty space next to them at all. But it's socially acceptable non-empty space, because it all happened in the right order...
I would infer he means a trillion dollars cumulatively over many years. It's still a lot of money.
here's a CBS news story that quotes Rumsfeld as saying, "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."
I think he meant: if you're a programmer that plans on using Subversion, surely you can compile the damn thing yourself, rather than waiting for somebody else to do it for you.
You're entitled to your opinion, but personally I'm going to be watching March Madness this year, same as ever.
see here: http://www.brettspielwelt.de/gate/jsp/base/index.j sp?nation=en
The legality is uncertain, but brettspielwelt has Settlers and lots of other popular boardgames in a thriving community, with ~ 500+ people online at any given time.
I do the same, though I save newspapers from some of the more hopeful moments as well. For example, I have a headline (not the top headline, amazingly enough) which says, "Whites Abandon Apartheid."
I watch TV on my 1987 Commodore Amiga 13" monitor. Hey, it works!
I think he's saying that short of mucking in the source, there's no intermediate level at which the filter can be tweaked -- e.g. a rulefile, regex list, etc.
"Execution Protection" marks pages *in memory* as data rather than code. That helps prevent buffer overrun and stack-smashing attacks -- where cleverly arranged faulty data can be executed as though it's a program.
The "Execution Protection" is a feature of the CPU, which operating systems can add support for. If it isn't already in Linux I'd expect to see it soon.
The Linux stuff is about marking entire *disks* (mountpoints, really) as containing only data, and not programs you want to run. That prevents someone from uploading a nasty program onto your disk, then running it. (For example, you could mount your operating system / built-in programs on a read-only disk, then mark everything else as 'noexec' -- making an attacker's job much tougher).
Thanks for playing, but Grandparent knows that, which is why he (rhetorically) asked why the Slashdot editor labeled the story such.
Umm, declining to accept purchased advertisements for illegal products is not exactly censorship.
- If Google removed the sites from their search index, that would be censorship.- If Google declined to accept ads for legal products that it didn't like, that might be questionable, but it wouldn't be censorship. cf. newspapers declining to accept advertisements for pornography.
- But Google declining to accept ads for illegal products? Wake me up when there's news.
Where's Debian Troll's Best when we need him?
A: Yes.
unison will do a diff on text files that have changed in both places; it requires a manual ok of both sets of changes, but it's pretty easy to accept the changes from work and home, or choose between conflicting changes, etc.