I run Windows Update regularly, but I always wonder if installing the patches and service packs is worthwhile.
Windows 2000 Service Pack X:
fixes vulnerability a
fixes vulnerability b
EXCITING NEW DRM TECHNOLOGY!
fixes vulnerability c...
It's either take the bad with the good, or slog through a huge list of fixes and hope that I can put together the equivalent of the latest service pack.
Sheesh, freaking out... where'd you read that? Ching Chong's guide to ninjas and codes and stuff?
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I'm a New Democrat myself, but I think that the problem with the Liberal party is that they've got a lot of backbenchers with a chip on their collective shoulder, so a lot of the cool stuff gets overturned (federally-recognized gay marraige, for example).
At least when PR comes in (and it will next term) there will be less majority governments and dumb laws like "$0.25 of every CD-R sale goes to the RIAA" will happen less often.
the University of Toronto is offering a seminar this year which is titled, "Is Anything Right with Canada's Health Care System?"
The U of T also routinely invites right-wing politicians to come and speak, and is the most expensive university in Ontario (and probably in all of Canada).
They definitely have a "target market".
My dad has hydrocephalus, and still lives a normal life thanks to our health care system (and we live in Ontario, where health care is at its worst in Canada).
He went to the doctor compaining of headaches. The doctor referred him to a neurologist. He then asked to see a second neurologist to get a second opinion. He had several MRIs (no 5-year waiting lists) and eventually underwent surgery to relieve the pressure on his brain. If we lived in the States, we'd either be financially crushed by an enormous debt or my father would be dead. Since we're lucky enough to live in Canada, it was all free.
Oh, and he didn't have to go to the US once.
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The US has only two parties, and they both agree with each other on every issue:
Republican: We need to reduce gun control. Democrat: Great idea! Let's increase millitary funding, too! Republican: I love the way you leftists think. We'll take another couple of billion out of education and knock off early for a beer.
Anyone who wants to be politically active should immigrate to Canada. Here are some of the parties that you can choose from:
Canadian Alliance: extreme right wing Progressive Conservatives: right wing Liberal: centrists New Democrats: left wing Green: extreme left wing
All parties (with the exception of the Progressive Conservatives) support proportional representation, and the current federal government is trying to make it illegal for businesses and unions to fund political parties.
Costing more than double Canada's system per person, the U.S. health system eats up 13+% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) compared to Canada's 9%. And, tragically, for all the money it costs, the U.S. health system serves only a fraction of the population.
A staggering 43 million Americans have no health coverage whatsoever and another 100 million are considered under-insured. - Why NOT Privatize
It looks like the US could easily afford health care for both "real citizens" as you call them and illegal immigrants.
Besides, I'd rather pay an extra $10 in taxes this year than let some poor kid with a bullet in her stomach die on the street.
Unfortunately, since Jabber's a baby of the "open source" movement, it has a lot of very wealthy enemies (namely Microsoft) who will work very hard to ensure that it doesn't succeed. They are instead backing the (IMO) inferior SIP/SIMPLE technology for IM.
We need to stop worrying about legacy devices and think about forwards compatability. The WWW needs solutions that will be able to adapt to tomorrow's requirements and gracefully step down in favour of new technologies that can better meet those requirements.
There's no reason to stay in the technological stone age because "Big Company X" won't get with the program.
there are good and bad Jedi's Some just go to the dark side and some go to the light Yeah. The good ones are called Jedi and the bad ones, just to make things easy, are called Sith.
Kinda like the Hacker v. Cracker issue.
The point is that people can no longer call themselves hackers and expect any kind of positive response from the general public. Hackers are bad guys to them, and if they were to head to Google Groups and look at the messages from a decade ago, they'd think that the whole industry was spawned by bad guys.
I find it kind of depressing that even in Slashdot abstracts the word hacker isn't translated into the more correct "cracker".
In this case, you could argue that using Google's cache to track down information for the purposes of cracking is very clever and is therefore deserving of being called a "hack", making the cracker a hacker.
Here in Canada we have Pure Energy, a great brand of rechargeable alkaline batteries. I've only seen them in AA and AAA, but they cost about the same as non-rechargeable alkalines, can be recharged 100 times, and perform excellently in palmtops and cameras...
PGP/GPG requires some knowledge of public-key cryptography (and computers) to be effective - that is, we don't want to saturate the userbase with newbies who don't bother to check fingerprints before signing, choose crummy passwords (instead of passphrases), etc. If you understand how to properly use a system such as PGP then installing a plugin shouldn't be out of your reach.
You get to the point where you want to worry about making smarter users rather than smarter software. It should be beyond most people.
Internet Explorer said it would block cookies that invalidated your privacy.
Now I use Mozilla Firebird and block any cookie that isn't from a site that I'm logged into. Does anyone know what kind of heuristics MSIE used to determine which cookies are good and which are bad?
I prefer RMS' "sharing with your neighbor" to "piracy".
I know lots of people who illegally trade movies, and they all do the same thing: watch the first half and - if it's good, go see the whole movie in the theatre, then keep the file if it was REALLY good - if it's bad, delete the movie and move on
No DTD, and the server is identifying it as text/html.
If you're not going to go all the way and identify it as application/xhtml+xml then you may as well write HTML 4.01 Strict. If you don't, the UA will take your XHTML (XML-style) document, run it through its HTML (SGML-style) parser and throw a bunch of errors on things like.
Why cross your fingers and hope that the UA can deal with those errors gracefully?
Don't get me wrong, XHTML 1.1 kicks ass (and I can't wait for 2.0), but "tell it like it is" with MIME types.
I love Mozilla Firebird - it's probably my favourite piece of software, and I'd gladly pay for it. I already gave $15 to mozdev.org for the upgrade, but when will the Mozilla Foundation start accepting donations?
Colbert: Damn, I can't find my keys. I'm going to kill the president! *soldiers burst into the room* Soldiers: GET DOWN ON THE GROUND! Colbert: Hey, have you guys seen my keys?
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if you use jabber now anyways, why not just see if you can have your friends switch over to jabber instead of worrying about msn transports?
Exactly. That's why transports were created in the first place: so you could continue to harass your friends until they made "the switch".
IMO this news about MSN would be great for Jabber if the JSF could just settle on a filesharing protocol already.
Windows 2000 Service Pack X:
It's either take the bad with the good, or slog through a huge list of fixes and hope that I can put together the equivalent of the latest service pack.
I think OP was referring to loading the code onto the memory card in the first place - how else would you get it on there?
PassGen is a Java applet that uses keypress timing as a number seed for generating passwords.
Well, it's certainly not "the Linux way" of cracking a system.
They should've left a file in / called "i-h4x0r3d-u" containing directions to solve the flaw.
You know, take only pictures, leave only footprints h4x0ring.
when three ninjas jummped out from behind a rock and started freeking out.
Ninjas flip out, thank you so very much.
Sheesh, freaking out... where'd you read that? Ching Chong's guide to ninjas and codes and stuff?
I'm a New Democrat myself, but I think that the problem with the Liberal party is that they've got a lot of backbenchers with a chip on their collective shoulder, so a lot of the cool stuff gets overturned (federally-recognized gay marraige, for example).
At least when PR comes in (and it will next term) there will be less majority governments and dumb laws like "$0.25 of every CD-R sale goes to the RIAA" will happen less often.
the University of Toronto is offering a seminar this year which is titled, "Is Anything Right with Canada's Health Care System?"
The U of T also routinely invites right-wing politicians to come and speak, and is the most expensive university in Ontario (and probably in all of Canada).
They definitely have a "target market".
My dad has hydrocephalus, and still lives a normal life thanks to our health care system (and we live in Ontario, where health care is at its worst in Canada).
He went to the doctor compaining of headaches. The doctor referred him to a neurologist. He then asked to see a second neurologist to get a second opinion. He had several MRIs (no 5-year waiting lists) and eventually underwent surgery to relieve the pressure on his brain.
If we lived in the States, we'd either be financially crushed by an enormous debt or my father would be dead. Since we're lucky enough to live in Canada, it was all free.
Oh, and he didn't have to go to the US once.
The US has only two parties, and they both agree with each other on every issue:
Republican: We need to reduce gun control.
Democrat: Great idea! Let's increase millitary funding, too!
Republican: I love the way you leftists think. We'll take another couple of billion out of education and knock off early for a beer.
Anyone who wants to be politically active should immigrate to Canada. Here are some of the parties that you can choose from:
Canadian Alliance: extreme right wing
Progressive Conservatives: right wing
Liberal: centrists
New Democrats: left wing
Green: extreme left wing
All parties (with the exception of the Progressive Conservatives) support proportional representation, and the current federal government is trying to make it illegal for businesses and unions to fund political parties.
Costing more than double Canada's system per person, the U.S. health system eats up 13+% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) compared to Canada's 9%. And, tragically, for all the money it costs, the U.S. health system serves only a fraction of the population.
A staggering 43 million Americans have no health coverage whatsoever and another 100 million are considered under-insured.
- Why NOT Privatize
It looks like the US could easily afford health care for both "real citizens" as you call them and illegal immigrants.
Besides, I'd rather pay an extra $10 in taxes this year than let some poor kid with a bullet in her stomach die on the street.
Nobody wins unless everyone wins, right?
Unfortunately, since Jabber's a baby of the "open source" movement, it has a lot of very wealthy enemies (namely Microsoft) who will work very hard to ensure that it doesn't succeed.
They are instead backing the (IMO) inferior SIP/SIMPLE technology for IM.
Read The IM Standards Race for more information.
We need to stop worrying about legacy devices and think about forwards compatability. The WWW needs solutions that will be able to adapt to tomorrow's requirements and gracefully step down in favour of new technologies that can better meet those requirements.
There's no reason to stay in the technological stone age because "Big Company X" won't get with the program.
there are good and bad Jedi's Some just go to the dark side and some go to the light
Yeah. The good ones are called Jedi and the bad ones, just to make things easy, are called Sith.
Kinda like the Hacker v. Cracker issue.
The point is that people can no longer call themselves hackers and expect any kind of positive response from the general public. Hackers are bad guys to them, and if they were to head to Google Groups and look at the messages from a decade ago, they'd think that the whole industry was spawned by bad guys.
I find it kind of depressing that even in Slashdot abstracts the word hacker isn't translated into the more correct "cracker".
In this case, you could argue that using Google's cache to track down information for the purposes of cracking is very clever and is therefore deserving of being called a "hack", making the cracker a hacker.
Here in Canada we have Pure Energy, a great brand of rechargeable alkaline batteries. I've only seen them in AA and AAA, but they cost about the same as non-rechargeable alkalines, can be recharged 100 times, and perform excellently in palmtops and cameras...
and Laser Challenge gear.
but now you can run VNC on your phone through an SSH encrypted and compressed tunnel!
PGP/GPG requires some knowledge of public-key cryptography (and computers) to be effective - that is, we don't want to saturate the userbase with newbies who don't bother to check fingerprints before signing, choose crummy passwords (instead of passphrases), etc. If you understand how to properly use a system such as PGP then installing a plugin shouldn't be out of your reach.
You get to the point where you want to worry about making smarter users rather than smarter software. It should be beyond most people.
Internet Explorer said it would block cookies that invalidated your privacy.
Now I use Mozilla Firebird and block any cookie that isn't from a site that I'm logged into. Does anyone know what kind of heuristics MSIE used to determine which cookies are good and which are bad?
No, no OS X for this machine. Guess it's not a Powerbook killer.
I mean they already get to keep ANY and ALL IP that is transmitted over MSN Messenger
I wouldn't be too surprised if they were saving everything that went through their servers. With a bit of compression it'd be really cheap, too.
99% of it is probably comprised of rofl, lol, fag, sweeties, ttyl, plz
sending out standard UPNP
I know you should use "the right tool for the right job", but UPnP isn't a standard, it's a Microsoft initiative, and a poorly-designed one at that.
I prefer RMS' "sharing with your neighbor" to "piracy".
I know lots of people who illegally trade movies, and they all do the same thing:
watch the first half and
- if it's good, go see the whole movie in the theatre, then keep the file if it was REALLY good
- if it's bad, delete the movie and move on
(also, ninjas hate pirates)
No DTD, and the server is identifying it as text/html.
.
If you're not going to go all the way and identify it as application/xhtml+xml then you may as well write HTML 4.01 Strict. If you don't, the UA will take your XHTML (XML-style) document, run it through its HTML (SGML-style) parser and throw a bunch of errors on things like
Why cross your fingers and hope that the UA can deal with those errors gracefully?
Don't get me wrong, XHTML 1.1 kicks ass (and I can't wait for 2.0), but "tell it like it is" with MIME types.
I love Mozilla Firebird - it's probably my favourite piece of software, and I'd gladly pay for it.
I already gave $15 to mozdev.org for the upgrade, but when will the Mozilla Foundation start accepting donations?
Colbert: Damn, I can't find my keys. I'm going to kill the president!
*soldiers burst into the room*
Soldiers: GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!
Colbert: Hey, have you guys seen my keys?
Imagine the convenience!