It's pretty straightforward: terrorists try to work using _terror_, that is, by frightening people. So they blow up buildings and behead civilians and do other things which are frightening but not necessarily that useful from a military point of view. Washington didn't try to terrorize the British or the American loyalists into giving up. He just fought them on the battlefield. (if my facts are wrong here please correct)
Of course, nowadays people like to attach the label 'terrorist' to anybody they don't like; others do the same with 'fascist'; please don't pay much attention to these silly mislabellings.
I want them to isolate the rogue bit of leftover DNA that causes people to think the plural of virus is 'virii'.
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You should have exactly three windows open. One is Firefox with multiple tabs. The next, Emacs with several buffers and perhaps several Emacs 'windows'. The third, a terminal program with tabs, or at your option, xterm plus GNU screen for terminal multiplexing.
OTOH, if you have just one window and do everything inside Emacs or XEmacs, you can eliminate window managers too and just run xemacs full-screen (fiddle with the -geometry option) straight from your.xsession. If you need a window manager you can start one later from inside Emacs, and kill it when you no longer need it.
I agree that Oracle is very good - though I must admit I still like Sybase SQL Server for a more 'Fred Flintstone' kind of database where you do large batch operations and don't need lots of write-concurrency. But conspicuously absent from your post is a comparison of Oracle to Postgres, MaxDB, Ingres, or even MySQL version 5. Doesn't Postgres have most of the juicy concurrency features that Oracle supports, for quite some years now?
As the article points out, someone who visits any website at all is taking steps to deal with their depression and so you'd expect them to get better. Surely they needed a placebo website, with 'neutral' content, that could act as a control group. They get a little of that by comparing one website against another, but they haven't shown that either is a better choice than just browsing. They could even be a bit worse.
I do not want to have any software patch the kernel.
That's your choice, and since it is your computer you should have the right to decide what gets loaded into the kernel and what doesn't. But what Microsoft is doing is different to that. They are saying that they get to decide what gets loaded into the kernel and what doesn't. So if you or anybody else want to load your own device drivers, you can't. On the other hand, if Microsoft decide that some kernel feature is needed - say, blocking the ability to record sound output to a file - then they can put it in and you have no say in the matter.
I don't need to run code in kernel space either, but I need to have the right to do so in order not to be held hostage by one particular company that decides what I can and cannot do with my own computer.
Wouldn't it make more sense to build one executable with support for all locales? The space taken up by message files must be tiny in relation to the whole app, especially if you store them gzipped or something.
FWIW, one thing that annoys me (on Linux, with GNOME at least) is that you can't switch the language of your desktop without logging out and in again.
Maybe some legal problems could be avoided by having two lists. One, a list of spammers. The second list is people who are not spammers (cough) who have threatened or engaged in legal action to be removed from the first list. In other words a list of plaintiffs in court cases. Mail server admins could choose whether to use one list or both for blocking mail.
If a US court can order ICANN to kill off spamhaus.org, despite the collateral damage to people operating mail servers, then in principle they could also order the root DNS operator to cut off the entire.uk domain in order to stop Spamhaus shifting to spamhaus.co.uk. That would be awesome!
Sir, to defend our trademark me must request and require that you cease and desist from mentioning foxes in any Slashdot comment without prior approval.
The basic test for any voting system is: how does it compare to paper ballots marked with a pen and dropped into a box by the voter? If it's not clearly more secure than that, don't use it. So far it doesn't seem any of the alternatives measure up.
I used to keep my Visa card in a pocket but the signature strip got rubbed off so I decided to get a wallet and keep it in that. Previously, I had used a Game Boy cartridge case for carrying coins.
I dunno, wanting to clearly mark modified versions is fair enough; indeed the GPL has provisions to make sure modified versions of a program don't affect the reputation of the original. But while OpenBSD applies patches to perl, for example, it is still called perl. You can ship a customized gcc and still call it gcc. So it seems a bit unreasonable to say that a web browser changed in any way (even to apply needed security fixes) cannot be called firefox without prior approval.
Remember when it was called Phoenix and had to be renamed (to Firebird) because of legal harassment from the Phoenix BIOS people? Back then Mozilla looked like the good guys - I assumed they were just searching for an unencumbered name they could use in peace. It now looks like they wanted a name without existing trademarks so that they could do heavy-handed trademark enforcement on others.
If you replace the processors in a Mac Pro with quad-core ones, what do you do with the old processors? It seems wasteful just to sell them as secondhand on Ebay, shouldn't Apple buy them back or something?
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It's pretty straightforward: terrorists try to work using _terror_, that is, by frightening people. So they blow up buildings and behead civilians and do other things which are frightening but not necessarily that useful from a military point of view. Washington didn't try to terrorize the British or the American loyalists into giving up. He just fought them on the battlefield. (if my facts are wrong here please correct)
Of course, nowadays people like to attach the label 'terrorist' to anybody they don't like; others do the same with 'fascist'; please don't pay much attention to these silly mislabellings.
If the virus comes from human DNA, does that make it human? Can it register to vote?
I want them to isolate the rogue bit of leftover DNA that causes people to think the plural of virus is 'virii'.
You should have exactly three windows open. One is Firefox with multiple tabs. The next, Emacs with several buffers and perhaps several Emacs 'windows'. The third, a terminal program with tabs, or at your option, xterm plus GNU screen for terminal multiplexing.
.xsession. If you need a window manager you can start one later from inside Emacs, and kill it when you no longer need it.
OTOH, if you have just one window and do everything inside Emacs or XEmacs, you can eliminate window managers too and just run xemacs full-screen (fiddle with the -geometry option) straight from your
I agree that Oracle is very good - though I must admit I still like Sybase SQL Server for a more 'Fred Flintstone' kind of database where you do large batch operations and don't need lots of write-concurrency. But conspicuously absent from your post is a comparison of Oracle to Postgres, MaxDB, Ingres, or even MySQL version 5. Doesn't Postgres have most of the juicy concurrency features that Oracle supports, for quite some years now?
As the article points out, someone who visits any website at all is taking steps to deal with their depression and so you'd expect them to get better. Surely they needed a placebo website, with 'neutral' content, that could act as a control group. They get a little of that by comparing one website against another, but they haven't shown that either is a better choice than just browsing. They could even be a bit worse.
Yeah it's surprising that Microsoft teams would send cakes... I was expecting more a Ballmer-o-gram or something.
I don't need to run code in kernel space either, but I need to have the right to do so in order not to be held hostage by one particular company that decides what I can and cannot do with my own computer.
Wouldn't it make more sense to build one executable with support for all locales? The space taken up by message files must be tiny in relation to the whole app, especially if you store them gzipped or something.
FWIW, one thing that annoys me (on Linux, with GNOME at least) is that you can't switch the language of your desktop without logging out and in again.
Yeah, in the British version of Firefox cookies are referred to as 'biscuits'.
Yes... IE7 does run under Wine - so it wouldn't be too hard for Microsoft to make an official Linux/i386 version.
Yeah, the name needs to change... I suggest 'Firefox'.
I thought the Nationals were the conservative party in Australia?
It's not bad form to reply to your own post. It is, however, bad form to reply starting with 'I know it's bad form...'.
Maybe some legal problems could be avoided by having two lists. One, a list of spammers. The second list is people who are not spammers (cough) who have threatened or engaged in legal action to be removed from the first list. In other words a list of plaintiffs in court cases. Mail server admins could choose whether to use one list or both for blocking mail.
Did you consider some event-driven thing using POE?
If a US court can order ICANN to kill off spamhaus.org, despite the collateral damage to people operating mail servers, then in principle they could also order the root DNS operator to cut off the entire .uk domain in order to stop Spamhaus shifting to spamhaus.co.uk. That would be awesome!
Sir, to defend our trademark me must request and require that you cease and desist from mentioning foxes in any Slashdot comment without prior approval.
Sincerely, Mozilla Corporation.
The basic test for any voting system is: how does it compare to paper ballots marked with a pen and dropped into a box by the voter? If it's not clearly more secure than that, don't use it. So far it doesn't seem any of the alternatives measure up.
I used to keep my Visa card in a pocket but the signature strip got rubbed off so I decided to get a wallet and keep it in that. Previously, I had used a Game Boy cartridge case for carrying coins.
Your sig: maybe better as 'software runs you!'
You can only 'encrypt patches' like that if you are directly supplying binaries to all of the users, and nobody builds from source.
I dunno, wanting to clearly mark modified versions is fair enough; indeed the GPL has provisions to make sure modified versions of a program don't affect the reputation of the original. But while OpenBSD applies patches to perl, for example, it is still called perl. You can ship a customized gcc and still call it gcc. So it seems a bit unreasonable to say that a web browser changed in any way (even to apply needed security fixes) cannot be called firefox without prior approval.
Remember when it was called Phoenix and had to be renamed (to Firebird) because of legal harassment from the Phoenix BIOS people? Back then Mozilla looked like the good guys - I assumed they were just searching for an unencumbered name they could use in peace. It now looks like they wanted a name without existing trademarks so that they could do heavy-handed trademark enforcement on others.
If you replace the processors in a Mac Pro with quad-core ones, what do you do with the old processors? It seems wasteful just to sell them as secondhand on Ebay, shouldn't Apple buy them back or something?