It is not a gratuitous change. It ensures that people trained to use MS Office 2007 will find it difficult to switch other office suites. Previously, they had virtually identical (for simple usage) UIs.
The British government would probably want to place everyone under surveillance to catch volcano sympathisers and criminalise the possession of material about volcanoes.
No, it is not. Things of the same type evolving separately, only shows that those traits are successful.
It is also not new. It is pretty obvious that cephalopod and vertebrate brains evolved separately, and that bird and mammal advances over reptiles evolved separately.
If something in the region of 90% of all websites are outside the UK, how on earth can this be implemented and enforced?
An international treaty on blocking website, together with banning access to sites in any countries that do to sign the treaty. Any one who is opposed to this is obviously a pedophile or a terrorist.
The US has strict laws on censorship, so this cannot work there, so I can't see why he's wasting his time trying to get the US involved, unless he's simply posturing and trying to boost his ego.
There is some hope there. I remember some other British politician suggesting that all email addresses should contain the addressee's postcode, and that was quietly forgotten when he realised what an idiotic idea it was.
I agree. I think it may be only true of Marxism and that there are other schools of communist (or at least extreme socialist) thought that would also oppose such a strong state.
A more immediate problem is that our current capitalist system is becoming more and more regulated and centrally controlled. A number of US states require interior designers to be licensed to practice. Many EU regulations are just as silly.
There is a huge difference between seatbelt laws and drunk driving laws: drunk driving laws punish you for risking other people's lives, seatbelt laws punish you for risking your own life.
He probably does buy into it. Just think how many people in the west would buy a clampdown on bloggers if they were told it was to "fight terrorism" or "protect the children".
Psion (made consumer and business PDAs) bought Netlogix (more industrial stuff), the original Psion business split into hardware (now defunct) and software (spun off into Symbian), leaving Psion Teklogix.
Bug in very popular software that is a show stopper for many users, and you will have to upgrade to a VERY recent version to get the fix, even when it becomes available.
How do you expect them to make money if you keep using an old version, just because it works for you? Now it does not work for you!
I've probably posted others, but I bet "everyone" is still going to leave the dozens of CA certs in their browsers, and Mozilla and friends aren't going to do the SSH style thing - warn user if the cert changes for whatever reason- even if it's a valid cert
If they did the SSH style thing, there would there would be little reason to use real CAs. Self signed would be good enough for most purposes.
Where higher security is really needed, confirmation of the cert could be sent on physical media, or some check could be made in first login.
I do not think it is better enforcement, as much as simply not being such an attractive target for domain squatters and speculators.
.uk has little enforcement (apart from.gov.uk and obscure things like.ltd.uk), and it is not (in general) a mess (apart fromthe fact that it is.uk in ther first place, when it should be.gb).
So what do you say. "Go to ford"? What the hell does that mean. Now they'll start having to say things like "Type ford into your web browser's address bar" Yeah, that's a whole lot easier to say than ford.com.
I think the idea is that they will register the ford tld and use addresses like: www.ford or car.ford etc.
Most people think that www is compulsory: it is omitted from advertising because people will add it anyway. If you have an address like http://example.com/ you have to have a redirect from http://www.example.com/
They might be better off doing what the Maldives wants to and just buying a new place to live when the oil runs out. With the amount of money they have, they stand a better chance.
The climate there is horrible. The location is excellent for transport, but other than that there is nothing to stay for once the oil runs out.
I do not think they should be punished, just that the system proposed would not work without heavy punishment, which given the circumstances is not fair or proportionate.
You could also credit Christianity with the paving the way for science with the idea of a lawful universe - particularly given the number of devout Christians who contributed to science: Mendel, Newton, etc.
Also Christianity does not teach that the material world does not matter. The afterlife is what matters, but what happens in this world determines what happens in the after life.
Do you not think that the collapse of the Roman Empire and barbarian invasions might just have had something to do with the loss of knowledge?
Who in Europe continued maintainning libraries and preserving knowledge through this period? The church, and monasteries in particular.
the day we actually find an easier, cheeper, faster way to build a house or write a note, we'll switch. (and don't say concrete. concrete is expensive, and a pain in the @$$ to build with in residential terms)
Bricks? For houses that is, not notes.
I have found that steel and concrete floors block wifi, so its not all good. I love that fact that it means that the risk of fires is hugely reduced.
Anyway... the (clever) kids will bypass the filtering and remote management within a few hours/days of getting the machines, so the point is more or less moot.
That is my objection to this.
Locking things down is futile without punishment for kids who work around it. Given the incentives, the punishment will have to be heavy to be effective.
By giving them their own laptops to take home, you are giving them a very strong temptation to break the rules. All the more so because they are now less likely to have their own PCs - an issue that does not apply to adults taking an employer's laptop home.
Another difference is that you are saying that they will "essentially own" the laptops. This is likely to make them feel that they have the right to do what they want with them.
It would be far better to do what employers do and say: this is our laptop, use it for what we say: if you want to do anything else, buy your own. I am assuming that letting them actually treat them as if them own them is not an option.
The difference is that this is also interesting to people who do not own a Mac: because it is a technical achievement, because it might show what can be achieved with Fuse on Linux, because it might let you recover some old archive you have, because knowing about MacFUSE might help if you need to mount a Linux drive on a Mac, etc.
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You could also just delete ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player or the equivalent on your OS.
It is not a gratuitous change. It ensures that people trained to use MS Office 2007 will find it difficult to switch other office suites. Previously, they had virtually identical (for simple usage) UIs.
The British government would probably want to place everyone under surveillance to catch volcano sympathisers and criminalise the possession of material about volcanoes.
No, it is not. Things of the same type evolving separately, only shows that those traits are successful.
It is also not new. It is pretty obvious that cephalopod and vertebrate brains evolved separately, and that bird and mammal advances over reptiles evolved separately.
Sun owns open office.
and Sun appears to be losing interest in Open Office.
I think a lot of distros are using Novell's go-oo instead. Maybe development is shifting there?
If something in the region of 90% of all websites are outside the UK, how on earth can this be implemented and enforced?
An international treaty on blocking website, together with banning access to sites in any countries that do to sign the treaty. Any one who is opposed to this is obviously a pedophile or a terrorist.
The US has strict laws on censorship, so this cannot work there, so I can't see why he's wasting his time trying to get the US involved, unless he's simply posturing and trying to boost his ego.
There is some hope there. I remember some other British politician suggesting that all email addresses should contain the addressee's postcode, and that was quietly forgotten when he realised what an idiotic idea it was.
I agree. I think it may be only true of Marxism and that there are other schools of communist (or at least extreme socialist) thought that would also oppose such a strong state.
A more immediate problem is that our current capitalist system is becoming more and more regulated and centrally controlled. A number of US states require interior designers to be licensed to practice. Many EU regulations are just as silly.
There is a huge difference between seatbelt laws and drunk driving laws: drunk driving laws punish you for risking other people's lives, seatbelt laws punish you for risking your own life.
He probably does buy into it. Just think how many people in the west would buy a clampdown on bloggers if they were told it was to "fight terrorism" or "protect the children".
Psion (made consumer and business PDAs) bought Netlogix (more industrial stuff), the original Psion business split into hardware (now defunct) and software (spun off into Symbian), leaving Psion Teklogix.
Bug in very popular software that is a show stopper for many users, and you will have to upgrade to a VERY recent version to get the fix, even when it becomes available.
How do you expect them to make money if you keep using an old version, just because it works for you? Now it does not work for you!
I've probably posted others, but I bet "everyone" is still going to leave the dozens of CA certs in their browsers, and Mozilla and friends aren't going to do the SSH style thing - warn user if the cert changes for whatever reason- even if it's a valid cert
If they did the SSH style thing, there would there would be little reason to use real CAs. Self signed would be good enough for most purposes.
Where higher security is really needed, confirmation of the cert could be sent on physical media, or some check could be made in first login.
I do not think it is better enforcement, as much as simply not being such an attractive target for domain squatters and speculators.
So what do you say. "Go to ford"? What the hell does that mean. Now they'll start having to say things like "Type ford into your web browser's address bar" Yeah, that's a whole lot easier to say than ford.com.
I think the idea is that they will register the ford tld and use addresses like: www.ford or car.ford etc.
Most people think that www is compulsory: it is omitted from advertising because people will add it anyway. If you have an address like http://example.com/ you have to have a redirect from http://www.example.com/
Drag a cross in the door
That is one thing that a Scientologist would not do: http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/fishman/index2.html
Most Windows users describe MS with much stronger language.
They might be better off doing what the Maldives wants to and just buying a new place to live when the oil runs out. With the amount of money they have, they stand a better chance.
The climate there is horrible. The location is excellent for transport, but other than that there is nothing to stay for once the oil runs out.
I do not think they should be punished, just that the system proposed would not work without heavy punishment, which given the circumstances is not fair or proportionate.
Still better than Britain where you can get arrested or harressed for taking photographs anywhere the police do not like it..
We need a +1 lateral thinking mod for comments like that.
I even find it awkward that no popular linux distribution checks and proposes security updates at bootup.
Can you tell us what distro does not check for updates?
You could also credit Christianity with the paving the way for science with the idea of a lawful universe - particularly given the number of devout Christians who contributed to science: Mendel, Newton, etc.
Also Christianity does not teach that the material world does not matter. The afterlife is what matters, but what happens in this world determines what happens in the after life.
Do you not think that the collapse of the Roman Empire and barbarian invasions might just have had something to do with the loss of knowledge?
Who in Europe continued maintainning libraries and preserving knowledge through this period? The church, and monasteries in particular.
the day we actually find an easier, cheeper, faster way to build a house or write a note, we'll switch. (and don't say concrete. concrete is expensive, and a pain in the @$$ to build with in residential terms)
Bricks? For houses that is, not notes.
I have found that steel and concrete floors block wifi, so its not all good. I love that fact that it means that the risk of fires is hugely reduced.
Anyway... the (clever) kids will bypass the filtering and remote management within a few hours/days of getting the machines, so the point is more or less moot.
That is my objection to this.
Locking things down is futile without punishment for kids who work around it. Given the incentives, the punishment will have to be heavy to be effective.
By giving them their own laptops to take home, you are giving them a very strong temptation to break the rules. All the more so because they are now less likely to have their own PCs - an issue that does not apply to adults taking an employer's laptop home.
Another difference is that you are saying that they will "essentially own" the laptops. This is likely to make them feel that they have the right to do what they want with them.
It would be far better to do what employers do and say: this is our laptop, use it for what we say: if you want to do anything else, buy your own. I am assuming that letting them actually treat them as if them own them is not an option.
The difference is that this is also interesting to people who do not own a Mac: because it is a technical achievement, because it might show what can be achieved with Fuse on Linux, because it might let you recover some old archive you have, because knowing about MacFUSE might help if you need to mount a Linux drive on a Mac, etc.