When a paper in Britain started printing details about paedophiles, loads of people went rampaging, and even vandalized some paediatrician's house. (Though maybe that just says something about the Welsh.)
Why is there special treatment for sex offenders? Generally, people can't look up and see which convicted burglars live near them, for example. If someone is so much of a risk to society that people need telling about them, then they shouldn't be free in the first place.
Still better than scientific journals that are squirrelled away in the basements of university libraries - anyone can get to a webpage.
I don't know about the journals you read, but 90% of the ones I read are already on the web or archived through a distribution service.
Hmm. Most of the journals I read are on the web, but I can only access them because my university has a subscription. They're generally not that cheap to access if your institution isn't paying.
...it's just time to storm in and take over. It's happened before. Microsoft Word wasn't always what "everybody uses", and it doesn't remain that way forevermore.
Previous word-processing market leader before Word was presumably WordPerfect. I seem to remember early versions of Word having a reasonably good import filter for WP5.1, and without those it probably would never have taken over. Maybe OO or some other Linux WP will steal back the WP share, but it will have to get good Word importing to do so.
Strangely, I got surround sound in DVDs working in (Gentoo) Linux within an hour or so (only getting the sound drivers to work was hard, having done that, the DVD playing bit was a snap), but have never got smooth DVD playback with surround sound (a case of jerky+5.1 or smooth+stereo) in Windows.
Looked briefly at the Symantec website - product appears to be a bundle of antivirus, firewall,..., some filtering software for kids. But presumably there are options that control what gets installed, and in the filtering component, which things get filtered. So if you think it's okay to let your kids read gun websites, then can't you disable the gun filtering?
Anyone actually have first-hand experience of the software?
I regularly obtain copyrighted material without paying for it from the local public library
In the UK, an author received two pence each time their book is borrowed. More information here. Okay, the taxpayer funds the library, but there is still a law that gives the author some chance of payment.
Any way to utilize the AGP port as your network interface?
First, the P in AGP already stands for port, so AGP port is as annoying as LCD display. Secondly the AGP interface is rather one-sided. Data can get from system memory to the card very quickly, but not the other way around.
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He also hunts for new ways to get around software that tries to filter out spam and to get people to open his e-mails.
With a response rate as low as 0.002%, do they expect that the people that install and run spam filters are the most likely to respond to spam?
The spammers problem isn't getting around filters that people install themselves, but getting past filters that ISPs or sysadmins might install to reduce wasted traffic.
I have a Fujitsu drive and I've cut a hole in it and added a window. It still works fine, but if it stops working I'll never know whether it was due to my customization or not.
When renting videos, I'm usually even kinder. I rewind to the point where the film starts, after the adverts and trailers are finished.
If only it were possible with DVDs. Does this service force you to watch half an hour of ads before you see the film?
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Whether someone develops a new CredibilityRank(TM - Patent Pending) system that eliminates the garbage, or a phonetic search for the chronic misspellings that plague the net, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
I'd settle for a search engine that could handle regular expressions. The differences between UK and US English spellings can be a problem.
Also, non alphanumeric characters are often not indexed very well, which hurts when one searches on an arcane error message.
I'd be worried that the detector might only be sensitive to longer, redder wavelengths. It would probably be worth checking on what component the mice use, and what its specifications are.
The browser war is certainly not as bad as it once was. Increasing standards support makes it possible to design a site that uses only the subsets of CSS/HTML/whatever that all the major browsers use. You don't need to use the non-standard IE and Netscape extensions that were introduced during the browser war proper.
Corrollary: If you design a site that works only using well-documented standards, such as the W3 ones, and it works on a selection of browsers, then anything it doesn't work quite right on only needs to improve its standards support.
USB is hardly plug and play under any operating system other than Windows.
USB is not even always plug and play under Windows. I was setting up a USB scanner on a Windows machine, which kept failing to be recognized as anything other than an unkown USB device, even though I was installing the drivers from the CD.
I got it working eventually by trying removing the entry from device manager, and plugging the thing in and out a lot. And I never even understood what I did differently.
I realize that it isn't necessarily Windows' fault, and more likely the fault of a dodgy driver, but Windows isn't exactly too helpful in the cases where it doesn't go according to plan.
Not all CPUs power down when being idle. Most OSs has an idle task, burning away computer power in an endless loop.
When there isn't much load, the idle task issues the HLT (halt) instruction. This lowers the energy consumption of the CPU. If you're using Linux, you can disable this feature by adding no-hlt=1 to your Lilo/Grub boot string.
On notebook machines, some are cleverer and allow the CPU to underclock itself when it has less load.
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What are you going off about? How can having a CD automount give way to having "information leaks" (on a read only media?!?) or "trash the system"?? In order to do this you would have to run something on the CD, which is a totally different point of security.
A scenario: suppose the admin of a machine know that the current modules that allow a CD to be read under some obscure format are rather flaky. Maybe it's a CD with some sort of extension (such as joliet or rockridge), but it can probably be mounted as a plain old CDROM using some ancient stable code, and you won't miss out on much. But along comes automount and detects the format, runs the flaky code, and brings the machine down.
A knowledgeable admin doesn't want anything happening he didn't ask for
Yeah, I know I can download all of the packages that it needs and put them in/usr/portage/distfiles but first I have to find out WHAT packages it wants to just install.
But if you left them in your house, and forgot to lock your front door, and someone came in and took them (then left a sign by the road saying "this house is unlocked! help yourself!") then that would be a crime.
The part where it says "help yourself" probably prevents it from being a crime.
Accessing someones wireless network which doesn't check who you are is like going into a shop and saying "would you give me some free stuff", and then getting it.
My school requires all engineers, architects, and sciences majors to purchase a software pack...
Does the school also require you to buy a computer to run all that software on? I'm reading physics, and didn't used to bring a computer to university until some way in. Except for the odd report, most of my assignments are handwritten anyway.
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When a paper in Britain started printing details about paedophiles, loads of people went rampaging, and even vandalized some paediatrician's house. (Though maybe that just says something about the Welsh.)
Why is there special treatment for sex offenders? Generally, people can't look up and see which convicted burglars live near them, for example. If someone is so much of a risk to society that people need telling about them, then they shouldn't be free in the first place.
Hmm. Most of the journals I read are on the web, but I can only access them because my university has a subscription. They're generally not that cheap to access if your institution isn't paying.
Hurrah for small print:
Previous word-processing market leader before Word was presumably WordPerfect. I seem to remember early versions of Word having a reasonably good import filter for WP5.1, and without those it probably would never have taken over. Maybe OO or some other Linux WP will steal back the WP share, but it will have to get good Word importing to do so.
Strangely, I got surround sound in DVDs working in (Gentoo) Linux within an hour or so (only getting the sound drivers to work was hard, having done that, the DVD playing bit was a snap), but have never got smooth DVD playback with surround sound (a case of jerky+5.1 or smooth+stereo) in Windows.
Looked briefly at the Symantec website - product appears to be a bundle of antivirus, firewall, ..., some filtering software for kids. But presumably there are options that control what gets installed, and in the filtering component, which things get filtered. So if you think it's okay to let your kids read gun websites, then can't you disable the gun filtering?
Anyone actually have first-hand experience of the software?
In the UK, an author received two pence each time their book is borrowed. More information here. Okay, the taxpayer funds the library, but there is still a law that gives the author some chance of payment.
If Mozilla has lots of bugs, its developers need a powerful bug-tracking tool. Bugzilla is what they came up with.
I wonder how long it will be before we get to win a major prize for Linux bug two million. What would the prize be?
First, the P in AGP already stands for port, so AGP port is as annoying as LCD display. Secondly the AGP interface is rather one-sided. Data can get from system memory to the card very quickly, but not the other way around.
The spammers problem isn't getting around filters that people install themselves, but getting past filters that ISPs or sysadmins might install to reduce wasted traffic.
I have a Fujitsu drive and I've cut a hole in it and added a window. It still works fine, but if it stops working I'll never know whether it was due to my customization or not.
When renting videos, I'm usually even kinder. I rewind to the point where the film starts, after the adverts and trailers are finished.
If only it were possible with DVDs. Does this service force you to watch half an hour of ads before you see the film?
I'd settle for a search engine that could handle regular expressions. The differences between UK and US English spellings can be a problem.
Also, non alphanumeric characters are often not indexed very well, which hurts when one searches on an arcane error message.
I'd be worried that the detector might only be sensitive to longer, redder wavelengths. It would probably be worth checking on what component the mice use, and what its specifications are.
The browser war is certainly not as bad as it once was. Increasing standards support makes it possible to design a site that uses only the subsets of CSS/HTML/whatever that all the major browsers use. You don't need to use the non-standard IE and Netscape extensions that were introduced during the browser war proper.
Corrollary: If you design a site that works only using well-documented standards, such as the W3 ones, and it works on a selection of browsers, then anything it doesn't work quite right on only needs to improve its standards support.
Gosh, I beat it too, albeit in 29 moves. Bring on Deep Fritz.
USB is not even always plug and play under Windows. I was setting up a USB scanner on a Windows machine, which kept failing to be recognized as anything other than an unkown USB device, even though I was installing the drivers from the CD.
I got it working eventually by trying removing the entry from device manager, and plugging the thing in and out a lot. And I never even understood what I did differently.
I realize that it isn't necessarily Windows' fault, and more likely the fault of a dodgy driver, but Windows isn't exactly too helpful in the cases where it doesn't go according to plan.
A scenario: suppose the admin of a machine know that the current modules that allow a CD to be read under some obscure format are rather flaky. Maybe it's a CD with some sort of extension (such as joliet or rockridge), but it can probably be mounted as a plain old CDROM using some ancient stable code, and you won't miss out on much. But along comes automount and detects the format, runs the flaky code, and brings the machine down.
A knowledgeable admin doesn't want anything happening he didn't ask for
It is possible to write GPL software in a non-free compiler. See here and here.
Yeah, I know I can download all of the packages that it needs and put them in /usr/portage/distfiles but first I have to find out WHAT packages it wants to just install.
emerge --pretend might be useful then.
But if you left them in your house, and forgot to lock your front door, and someone came in and took them (then left a sign by the road saying "this house is unlocked! help yourself!") then that would be a crime.
The part where it says "help yourself" probably prevents it from being a crime.
Accessing someones wireless network which doesn't check who you are is like going into a shop and saying "would you give me some free stuff", and then getting it.
Name an abbreviation that is acceptable in formal written English.
Some of these may not be permissible in the most formal English. Don't forget Mr, Mrs, Dr, Prof., etc.
or worry about ending a sentence in a preposition.
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. -- Winston Churchill
My school requires all engineers, architects, and sciences majors to purchase a software pack...
Does the school also require you to buy a computer to run all that software on? I'm reading physics, and didn't used to bring a computer to university until some way in. Except for the odd report, most of my assignments are handwritten anyway.