That's an odd idea, too. Don't you think that something that's as fundamental to a functioning democracy (not that we have one, but in theory, at least...) as free speech should be protected from private influences, too?
Suppose the school had a policy that said, in effect, "all students of this school have to vote Republican, and failure to do so will result in disciplinary measures". Would you support that? Probably not; the right to vote for whoever *you* want to is sacrosanct. Shouldn't free speech be the same? I'd say that free speech is just as important for democracy as the right to vote uninfluenced - in fact, I'd personally go so far as to say it's even more important.
Of course, free speech does have limits, too - I'm not saying slander or libel should be accepted, for example. But if a person (any person) exercises their right to free speech in a way that does *not* violate the law, then it should not be possible for companies, schools etc. to punish them for that.
Actually, there is a free lunch, and it's called the sun. Nasty chemicals in photovoltaic cells are just a temporary problem, not an intrinsic one - we'll get over that eventually.
Geothermal energy might also be interesting to look into; it's not entirely "free" in the same sense that the sun is, but it should also be relatively free of side-effects.
The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft.
OK - so far, so good.
Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.""
Three months still isn't that much. I have a Logitech MX1000 wireless mouse, which also has a built-in rechargable, and it's been running just fine for more than a year now. In fact, I don't think it's even possible to change the battery yourself on this one - which just *might* come back to bite me some day, of course, but for now, I'll take it as a sign that it shouldn't be necessary to do it, ever.:)
The majority of people *are* bisexual - pure homosexuality or heterosexuality (where you feel *no* attraction at all whatsoever to your own/the opposite gender) is pretty rare. In fact, I personally would go so far as to say that it's practically non-existant.
Huh? How'd get this modded Insightful? It's pretty much the opposite, actually - considering that F-Secure is in the business of security solutions, it's *expected* of them to uncover new problems, and I at least think it's *GREAT* that they decide to make the information available to everyone instead of just rolling it into the next update for their enterprise products.
Think about it - they're doing good research, AND they're making it available for free, and you still criticise them for exactly that? You're not just looking the gift horse into the mouth, buddy, you're trying to paint the giver in a bad light for attempting to give it to you for free.
Well, how about ABBA then? Roxette? Yngwie Malmsteen? Europe? You may or may not like and of these, but you can't deny that they're famous and important.
Or authors: I'm pretty sure you've read at least one or two books by Astrid Lindgren, right? Or how about August Strindberg? Well, you may not know *him*, but if you don't, you really missed out on a great author.
Or film directors: Ingmar Bergman, anyone, for example?
It's not like Sweden doesn't have its share of artists and inspired people...
The Piracy Party's webpage is so far only available in Swedish [...]
Why is that surprising? The webpages of the democratic/republican parties in the USA weren't available in Swedish last time I checked, either, so why should the webpage of a Swedish party necessarily be available in English? I'd think they have lots of more important things to do before doing a translation for a bunch of people who can't even vote.
Jimbo has stated in the past that there would never be ads on Wikipedia under any circumstances, though - so while it might otherwise be possible to draw a clear line between content and advertising, people would lose a lot of confidence in him and what he says if he decided to implement them after all.
Besides, other websites manage to go without advertising, too, especially those of non-profit organisations. Thinking about alternatives to donations is a good idea, but so far, it still seems a bit far-fetched to predict the inevitable death of the donation-based financing model in the short-term future.
An elite few? I'm not sure in what parallel universe you're using Wikipedia, but last I checked (a few hours ago), it was still editable by anyone - you don't even have to create an account to do so.
Sure, there are semi-protected pages now, and you need an account that's (IIRC) 4 days old to edit those. Calling accounts that are older than 4 days "an elite few" is ridiculous.
Of course, there's regular protections as well, but those are either temporary, in which case they're not bad (pages get protected when there's edit wars, but arguably the "anyone can edit anything at any time" model didn't work at that point - the edit war is proof of that. So protecting a page for a day or two so people get their act together and talk about their differences is reasonable), or (in the very, very few cases where pages are permanently protected) they're affecting pages that have been the target of high-profile vandalism in the past. Would you like to go back to a world where the main page has to be checked every ten seconds to see if some clown inserted a goatse picture? I wouldn't.
All in all... if you're not happy with Wikipedia or the way it's handled, feel free to start your own. You can even use Wikipedia's data to get started - it's all on http://download.wikimedia.org. Maybe you'll come out on top in the end - who knows.
No flamebait intended, but that's a typical sensationalist misleading Slashdot headline. Noone's advocating "trusted computing" or similar initiatives here; all they do is saying "here's an unofficial fix, and we'd like to recommend even though it *is* unofficial, considering the seriousness of the vulnerability and also considering it was written by a reputable windows expert, namely Ilfak Guilfanov (author of IDA Pro)".
And for that matter, there's no mention of "the Snort rules will hog your router's CPU", either - that's total rubbish, probably made up by the article submitter. And it slipped, too, since the Slashdot "editors" never care to actually edit stories before they publish them.
I have NOT even found a use for IM. If I want talk to some one I use the PHONE. If I want to write I use EMAIL. To me IM is the worst mixure of those two worlds.
Ah, yes... we finally know why IM (and, for that matter, RSS) is such a failure. Obviously, because the product doesn't cater to YOU, it must be totally worthless.
Now excuse me while I saddle my horse to fetch some water from the village's well...
So all the populace of China has to do to avoid having their text messages monitored is tell their phone company they don't want them to cooperate with the government in violation of their rights.
I may be misunderstanding you, but it really seems that you'd deserve a "naive comment of the day" award for that statement. Do you really think it's going to be that easy? Outside of the fact that it's difficult to maintain that you have a right to something in a dictatorship, anyway (heck, it's difficult in democracies, too!), do you think that the Chinese government is just going to say "oh, OK, you're right, if you don't consent to being monitored, we won't do it"?
And it doesn't really make sense, either - why do music stores have to pay for something that their *customers* do and which they have no control over? A sign saying "please don't use copyrighted tunes and riffs when trying out the instruments" should be more than enough - but even that really *shouldn't* be necessary, because the store is not actually doing anything themselves.
Actually, it seems like they're proposing that humans (or, rather, their ancestors) migrated from Asia to Africa *before* what we already know about, so the two theories don't rule each other out. It all just depends on where you draw the line between "human" and "not quite human yet".
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That's an odd idea, too. Don't you think that something that's as fundamental to a functioning democracy (not that we have one, but in theory, at least...) as free speech should be protected from private influences, too?
Suppose the school had a policy that said, in effect, "all students of this school have to vote Republican, and failure to do so will result in disciplinary measures". Would you support that? Probably not; the right to vote for whoever *you* want to is sacrosanct. Shouldn't free speech be the same? I'd say that free speech is just as important for democracy as the right to vote uninfluenced - in fact, I'd personally go so far as to say it's even more important.
Of course, free speech does have limits, too - I'm not saying slander or libel should be accepted, for example. But if a person (any person) exercises their right to free speech in a way that does *not* violate the law, then it should not be possible for companies, schools etc. to punish them for that.
Who says it's C? The snippet might well be have been written in a language where functions can return lvalues.
Almost correct, but I think it can be simplified to the following:
Actually, there is a free lunch, and it's called the sun. Nasty chemicals in photovoltaic cells are just a temporary problem, not an intrinsic one - we'll get over that eventually.
Geothermal energy might also be interesting to look into; it's not entirely "free" in the same sense that the sun is, but it should also be relatively free of side-effects.
OK - so far, so good.
Err, what? I hope this is a joke...
Three months still isn't that much. I have a Logitech MX1000 wireless mouse, which also has a built-in rechargable, and it's been running just fine for more than a year now. In fact, I don't think it's even possible to change the battery yourself on this one - which just *might* come back to bite me some day, of course, but for now, I'll take it as a sign that it shouldn't be necessary to do it, ever. :)
Once double-layer DVD-Rs won't be the "best" (i.e., biggest) media anymore, they'll drop in price pretty quickly.
The majority of people *are* bisexual - pure homosexuality or heterosexuality (where you feel *no* attraction at all whatsoever to your own/the opposite gender) is pretty rare. In fact, I personally would go so far as to say that it's practically non-existant.
"architects"? Is that even a word?
Here's a tool that allows you to check whether you're (still) vulnerable or not.
Yes, it should be possible, and no, anti-worm worms are still not a good idea. Bruce Schneier wrote about it just last month.
Huh? How'd get this modded Insightful? It's pretty much the opposite, actually - considering that F-Secure is in the business of security solutions, it's *expected* of them to uncover new problems, and I at least think it's *GREAT* that they decide to make the information available to everyone instead of just rolling it into the next update for their enterprise products.
Think about it - they're doing good research, AND they're making it available for free, and you still criticise them for exactly that? You're not just looking the gift horse into the mouth, buddy, you're trying to paint the giver in a bad light for attempting to give it to you for free.
Seriously, get a grip.
Well, how about ABBA then? Roxette? Yngwie Malmsteen? Europe? You may or may not like and of these, but you can't deny that they're famous and important.
Or authors: I'm pretty sure you've read at least one or two books by Astrid Lindgren, right? Or how about August Strindberg? Well, you may not know *him*, but if you don't, you really missed out on a great author.
Or film directors: Ingmar Bergman, anyone, for example?
It's not like Sweden doesn't have its share of artists and inspired people...
Why is that surprising? The webpages of the democratic/republican parties in the USA weren't available in Swedish last time I checked, either, so why should the webpage of a Swedish party necessarily be available in English? I'd think they have lots of more important things to do before doing a translation for a bunch of people who can't even vote.
Actually, it's about 96%, not 99. Still the lion's share, though.
This time, though, the link provided doesn't go to his blog, so he doesn't get ad money for it. :)
Jimbo has stated in the past that there would never be ads on Wikipedia under any circumstances, though - so while it might otherwise be possible to draw a clear line between content and advertising, people would lose a lot of confidence in him and what he says if he decided to implement them after all.
Besides, other websites manage to go without advertising, too, especially those of non-profit organisations. Thinking about alternatives to donations is a good idea, but so far, it still seems a bit far-fetched to predict the inevitable death of the donation-based financing model in the short-term future.
An elite few? I'm not sure in what parallel universe you're using Wikipedia, but last I checked (a few hours ago), it was still editable by anyone - you don't even have to create an account to do so.
Sure, there are semi-protected pages now, and you need an account that's (IIRC) 4 days old to edit those. Calling accounts that are older than 4 days "an elite few" is ridiculous.
Of course, there's regular protections as well, but those are either temporary, in which case they're not bad (pages get protected when there's edit wars, but arguably the "anyone can edit anything at any time" model didn't work at that point - the edit war is proof of that. So protecting a page for a day or two so people get their act together and talk about their differences is reasonable), or (in the very, very few cases where pages are permanently protected) they're affecting pages that have been the target of high-profile vandalism in the past. Would you like to go back to a world where the main page has to be checked every ten seconds to see if some clown inserted a goatse picture? I wouldn't.
All in all... if you're not happy with Wikipedia or the way it's handled, feel free to start your own. You can even use Wikipedia's data to get started - it's all on http://download.wikimedia.org. Maybe you'll come out on top in the end - who knows.
Until then, good luck guy.
No flamebait intended, but that's a typical sensationalist misleading Slashdot headline. Noone's advocating "trusted computing" or similar initiatives here; all they do is saying "here's an unofficial fix, and we'd like to recommend even though it *is* unofficial, considering the seriousness of the vulnerability and also considering it was written by a reputable windows expert, namely Ilfak Guilfanov (author of IDA Pro)".
And for that matter, there's no mention of "the Snort rules will hog your router's CPU", either - that's total rubbish, probably made up by the article submitter. And it slipped, too, since the Slashdot "editors" never care to actually edit stories before they publish them.
Shame on you, Hemos!
Ah, yes... we finally know why IM (and, for that matter, RSS) is such a failure. Obviously, because the product doesn't cater to YOU, it must be totally worthless.
Now excuse me while I saddle my horse to fetch some water from the village's well...
I may be misunderstanding you, but it really seems that you'd deserve a "naive comment of the day" award for that statement. Do you really think it's going to be that easy? Outside of the fact that it's difficult to maintain that you have a right to something in a dictatorship, anyway (heck, it's difficult in democracies, too!), do you think that the Chinese government is just going to say "oh, OK, you're right, if you don't consent to being monitored, we won't do it"?
And it doesn't really make sense, either - why do music stores have to pay for something that their *customers* do and which they have no control over? A sign saying "please don't use copyrighted tunes and riffs when trying out the instruments" should be more than enough - but even that really *shouldn't* be necessary, because the store is not actually doing anything themselves.
Miss him? The only reason why I'd miss that guy is that his successor is *even more* of a corrupt old bastard.
Very well said indeed. I think I may steal that last quote, too...
Actually, it seems like they're proposing that humans (or, rather, their ancestors) migrated from Asia to Africa *before* what we already know about, so the two theories don't rule each other out. It all just depends on where you draw the line between "human" and "not quite human yet".