Those Logitech docking stations annoy me to no end just because they shouldn't exist --
I'll buy a wireless mouse as soon as logitech makes one that charges via usb and can be used as a wired mouse while charging.
That is to say, I want a standard low power draw wireless mouse when using it normally, but then I want to plug a cable into it and have it jump to 1000hz/2000dpi/all the other great specs Logitech is capable but tones down to save battery life.
Having your mouse die out and you have nothing until its done sitting in a cradle just seems like bad design.
It still costs cpu usage. Maybe instead of 100,000 concurrent requests you're down to 70,000. That still means buying another server sooner and spending more money.
Considering most people want everything on the web to be free, any cost cutting possible is needed.
The thing is you don't need this to all be in one platform. You could for example back up with a perl script on linux then pull the backups via a web interface on windows.
Because big companies can afford to provide support, or more accurately can't afford to lose customers because they don't know how to get it working.
However, their support department obviously can't be capable of dealing with every configuration out there, so they only officially support a small subset.
Ugh. I really hope they figure out threading. Right now web2.0 is like windows3.11 level multitasking-- One site or plugin starts to eat all of your resources and until you manage to close it or it fixes itself you can't use any of your other (web)apps.
I doubt they'd do it like that, more likely is to have the police car query the central db on every lookup -- This way you can correlate police car location and ID number and let the central db keep track of everyones license plate + last seen location and even the police wouldn't know its going on.
Debian's not exactly the most trustable team considering they INTRODUCED a bug into what I'd consider the most important to security package there is(OpenSSL).
When the people who are responsible for verifying the security of a package add their own exploit, and nobody finds it for many months of heavy use.. you sort of just tore down your web of trust.
Far better than Valve, who last I asked (~6 months ago) still won't give up the sourcecode to Counterstrike 1.6, yet also refuses to actually improve or update it. Unless you count ingame ads as an improvement.
fixes nothing that wasn't already fixed with third party software,
When WASNT this the case? Why is that even a bad thing? I'm sure glad I don't have to install third party wifi apps anymore. Or trumpet winsock drivers for that matter.
Windows is the most popular OS so it has the most third party apps, most of which cover things I wish the OS did on its own.
Of course you can, and its one of the more useful features of screen. MultiUser sessions
You configure ACL's per user, allowing you to give someone read access to your screen but not actually giving them control. This works really well for demonstrations.
It's also a very convenient way to demonstrate to another user on the system some sort of odd behavior you're experiencing, or get feedback on something.
As for the security of it, if security was a serious concern you shouldn't run things in a multiuser system let alone deal with permissions. I trust it, but I also trust every user on the machine. YMMV.
What, she'd only feel bad if she killed someone while doing something 'against the law'?
To a certain degree I can understand this. If you truely think it's unsafe, I still say its on you. If you're uncertain but the state says it is okay, a lot of people will go ahead and do it since they can pass the buck.
Just think about all the white collar dug addict soccer mom types that can't live a day without one of the 10 pills they take, all of which severely augment their state of mind and do long term harm to their body. Ask them what they think about someone who occasionally smokes weed and you'll see what I'm saying.
Social acceptance often stems from legality and is all the differnce in the world in swaying a lot of people on what they will or won't do.
Personally I try to avoid the cellphone entirely but if I get a call I feel I should answer I throw it on speaker. I've dicked with my nav system more than a few times that I probably shouldn't, but I usually try to wait for a red light or a clear road.
Typically punitive damages are based on intent and knowledge. If you can prove that you did not know (say, the person before you was far before your time and never popular), then no. If this is the third time you've done this, or theres some way to link you to the original work, then yes.
I probably wouldn't bother for just 2-3 sites, but at the same time before rss all I did was check 2-3 sites.
Once you have a program(or in my case Google) checking for you, the number of things you're interested in seems to skyrocket.
You also tend to check things as they happen that otherwise would be a once every few months pageload, like most web comics.
You can add "dead" sites that you'd normally never find out if there are news and instead find out instantly with no additional work.
I've also found out about more than a few local shows I ended up checking out thanks to a local blog I'd never bother to read if it wernt for RSS.
RSS isn't perfect by any means -- Sites like Gizmodo that tend to edit their submissions often after they go live leads to plenty of dupes (due to rss publishers re-publishing on edit since theres no way to rewrite an entry someone already copied), and some feeds annoyingly update in bulk so that even if you check the feed once every 15 minutes you'll still only get the block of 8 or 9 stories in a row once a day, with no way to really integrate them based on publishing date.
That said, it sure beats having to load a website for everything I'm interested in.
That would be nice, as you could still have all the autheticity you have now by getting that same cert signed by multiple authorities, and even get away with things like specific authorities for specific things and not have it nearly as complex as it is now. For example your govt's banking oversight group could verify and sign all your banks certificates, and if you didnt see their name/icon/whatever you'd know bankofamerika.com was not legit.
Would just need a secure enough way to get those certs to the end user, but thats what happens now (answer: ship the devices or operating systems with them)
While I agree, every time Firefox's slowness annoys me to the point of switching I inevitably switch back when I remember how much slower the web is in general without all of firefox's extensions automating things for me.
To put it another way, firefox might take an extra 5 seconds to load a page, but opera takes me an extra 30 seconds to browse through all the ads
(not to mention things like bugmenot, greasemonkey, firebug, etc)
Like most things that arent how you like them in firefox, theres addons for that.
I use Tree Style Tabs, which not only lets you have them in the side but also lets you tree them out based on the criteria of your choice(most useful: spawning window, so if i load slashdot from google reader it goes under google readers tree).
There is also Vertigo and some other more powerful one I forgot the name of that had serious FF3 issues, but I think tree style tabs links to it.
. It would be like a TV station claiming that you are stealing their content because you tuned into their channel.
DirectTV used to get really pissy if you tuned into their satelite signals without paying, even if you lived in canada where they did not sell service.
Granted you needed to break their encryption to do so, so it isnt directly comparable, but meh. I think if you're flooding me with RF waves I should have the right to do with them what I want.
If you have no problem with contributing back then GPL should be fine.
As long as you don't mind contributing back as GPL. Kind of sucks if you wanted to contribute back under say BSD or again public domain or in some other way.
Also gets really confusing as it does not apply to many things people try to attach it to, like images. Or javascript libraries -- If I include a JS library licensed under the GPL, I'm distributing its source. I'm not linking to it in any perceivable way (at best my user is, but even that is a hard argument to make).
Yet if you ask some of them, they think that I should include the proprietary perl code that generated the page that referenced by url the javascript.
Then you also have the 'services' loophole that v3 tried to close, but I still think is ambiguous.
If you host email and you process it with something gpl, how far does the viral gpl spread? Your procmail/spamassain modifications? Configuration files? External baysian filter that your mail gets piped to? Your external webmail app that reads custom headers?
Because NNTP takes up little more traffic than a mailinglist, unless you're one of the abusers using it to post binaries encoded as text which takes up that much more bandwidth..
Seems like you dont even have to go that far, all you have to do is compress the image to jpeg first keeping/embedding a JFIF thumbnail (leave this as uncommented black magic, preferably outsourced to another lib), then do all your work to the actual image without updating the thumbnail.
Photoshop used to do this under certain conditions, like when Cat Schwartz from TechTV took topless pictures of herself and cropped them to just extreme closeups of her eyes for her blog, only to have someone save it and see the (uncropped) thumbnails.
They made her do a story on it shortly thereafter. Cruel.
I'm sure they could install a special system that interfaces with the plane's electronics and GPS system and shuts down the plane's engine upon receiving an encrypted request from the Pentagon.
If it requires a signal actually get through to shut down, you'd just need to be aware of this and bring a RF jammer in your laptop.
If it requires a constant signal to continue to be able to fly, that same jammer will take the plane down..
As myself and many others will point out, there are PLENTY of other worthy methods of terrorism. Picking the most guarded of them is hardly filed under 'surprise attack' in the terrorist's field manual.
No, but it would send the strongest message: no matter how hard you try and what inane sacrifices you make, you're never safe.
I doubt they'll hit airplanes again just because it isnt really worth the effort, but it would be the most powerful form of terrorism.
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Those Logitech docking stations annoy me to no end just because they shouldn't exist --
I'll buy a wireless mouse as soon as logitech makes one that charges via usb and can be used as a wired mouse while charging.
That is to say, I want a standard low power draw wireless mouse when using it normally, but then I want to plug a cable into it and have it jump to 1000hz/2000dpi/all the other great specs Logitech is capable but tones down to save battery life.
Having your mouse die out and you have nothing until its done sitting in a cradle just seems like bad design.
It still costs cpu usage. Maybe instead of 100,000 concurrent requests you're down to 70,000. That still means buying another server sooner and spending more money.
Considering most people want everything on the web to be free, any cost cutting possible is needed.
The thing is you don't need this to all be in one platform. You could for example back up with a perl script on linux then pull the backups via a web interface on windows.
Because big companies can afford to provide support, or more accurately can't afford to lose customers because they don't know how to get it working.
However, their support department obviously can't be capable of dealing with every configuration out there, so they only officially support a small subset.
Ugh. I really hope they figure out threading. Right now web2.0 is like windows3.11 level multitasking-- One site or plugin starts to eat all of your resources and until you manage to close it or it fixes itself you can't use any of your other (web)apps.
I doubt they'd do it like that, more likely is to have the police car query the central db on every lookup -- This way you can correlate police car location and ID number and let the central db keep track of everyones license plate + last seen location and even the police wouldn't know its going on.
Debian's not exactly the most trustable team considering they INTRODUCED a bug into what I'd consider the most important to security package there is(OpenSSL).
When the people who are responsible for verifying the security of a package add their own exploit, and nobody finds it for many months of heavy use.. you sort of just tore down your web of trust.
Far better than Valve, who last I asked (~6 months ago) still won't give up the sourcecode to Counterstrike 1.6, yet also refuses to actually improve or update it. Unless you count ingame ads as an improvement.
When WASNT this the case? Why is that even a bad thing? I'm sure glad I don't have to install third party wifi apps anymore. Or trumpet winsock drivers for that matter.
Windows is the most popular OS so it has the most third party apps, most of which cover things I wish the OS did on its own.
Of course you can, and its one of the more useful features of screen.
MultiUser sessions
You configure ACL's per user, allowing you to give someone read access to your screen but not actually giving them control. This works really well for demonstrations.
It's also a very convenient way to demonstrate to another user on the system some sort of odd behavior you're experiencing, or get feedback on something.
As for the security of it, if security was a serious concern you shouldn't run things in a multiuser system let alone deal with permissions. I trust it, but I also trust every user on the machine. YMMV.
So are you going to cancel your isp service if they don't drop prices, or do you honestly consider $50/mo fair for how little you might be using it?
Posting this while the cable guy is in my back yard upgrading my connection.
To a certain degree I can understand this. If you truely think it's unsafe, I still say its on you. If you're uncertain but the state says it is okay, a lot of people will go ahead and do it since they can pass the buck.
Just think about all the white collar dug addict soccer mom types that can't live a day without one of the 10 pills they take, all of which severely augment their state of mind and do long term harm to their body. Ask them what they think about someone who occasionally smokes weed and you'll see what I'm saying.
Social acceptance often stems from legality and is all the differnce in the world in swaying a lot of people on what they will or won't do.
Personally I try to avoid the cellphone entirely but if I get a call I feel I should answer I throw it on speaker. I've dicked with my nav system more than a few times that I probably shouldn't, but I usually try to wait for a red light or a clear road.
Typically punitive damages are based on intent and knowledge. If you can prove that you did not know (say, the person before you was far before your time and never popular), then no. If this is the third time you've done this, or theres some way to link you to the original work, then yes.
I probably wouldn't bother for just 2-3 sites, but at the same time before rss all I did was check 2-3 sites.
Once you have a program(or in my case Google) checking for you, the number of things you're interested in seems to skyrocket.
You also tend to check things as they happen that otherwise would be a once every few months pageload, like most web comics.
You can add "dead" sites that you'd normally never find out if there are news and instead find out instantly with no additional work.
I've also found out about more than a few local shows I ended up checking out thanks to a local blog I'd never bother to read if it wernt for RSS.
RSS isn't perfect by any means -- Sites like Gizmodo that tend to edit their submissions often after they go live leads to plenty of dupes (due to rss publishers re-publishing on edit since theres no way to rewrite an entry someone already copied), and some feeds annoyingly update in bulk so that even if you check the feed once every 15 minutes you'll still only get the block of 8 or 9 stories in a row once a day, with no way to really integrate them based on publishing date.
That said, it sure beats having to load a website for everything I'm interested in.
That would be nice, as you could still have all the autheticity you have now by getting that same cert signed by multiple authorities, and even get away with things like specific authorities for specific things and not have it nearly as complex as it is now. For example your govt's banking oversight group could verify and sign all your banks certificates, and if you didnt see their name/icon/whatever you'd know bankofamerika.com was not legit.
Would just need a secure enough way to get those certs to the end user, but thats what happens now (answer: ship the devices or operating systems with them)
You should look into Personalize Menu, or if someone has updated it for FF3, "Tiny Menu".
Both of these collapse that large list of menu entries into one icon that then has File Edit View etc as submenus.
Personalize Menu even lets you configure the menu so you can put the things you actually use where you'll get to them easily.
While I agree, every time Firefox's slowness annoys me to the point of switching I inevitably switch back when I remember how much slower the web is in general without all of firefox's extensions automating things for me.
To put it another way, firefox might take an extra 5 seconds to load a page, but opera takes me an extra 30 seconds to browse through all the ads
(not to mention things like bugmenot, greasemonkey, firebug, etc)
Like most things that arent how you like them in firefox, theres addons for that.
I use Tree Style Tabs, which not only lets you have them in the side but also lets you tree them out based on the criteria of your choice(most useful: spawning window, so if i load slashdot from google reader it goes under google readers tree).
There is also Vertigo and some other more powerful one I forgot the name of that had serious FF3 issues, but I think tree style tabs links to it.
DirectTV used to get really pissy if you tuned into their satelite signals without paying, even if you lived in canada where they did not sell service.
Granted you needed to break their encryption to do so, so it isnt directly comparable, but meh. I think if you're flooding me with RF waves I should have the right to do with them what I want.
As long as you don't mind contributing back as GPL. Kind of sucks if you wanted to contribute back under say BSD or again public domain or in some other way.
Also gets really confusing as it does not apply to many things people try to attach it to, like images. Or javascript libraries -- If I include a JS library licensed under the GPL, I'm distributing its source. I'm not linking to it in any perceivable way (at best my user is, but even that is a hard argument to make).
Yet if you ask some of them, they think that I should include the proprietary perl code that generated the page that referenced by url the javascript.
Then you also have the 'services' loophole that v3 tried to close, but I still think is ambiguous.
If you host email and you process it with something gpl, how far does the viral gpl spread? Your procmail/spamassain modifications? Configuration files? External baysian filter that your mail gets piped to? Your external webmail app that reads custom headers?
Because NNTP takes up little more traffic than a mailinglist, unless you're one of the abusers using it to post binaries encoded as text which takes up that much more bandwidth..
All of my searching turned up nothing, I know it was a call for help episode for whatever thats worth.
Seems like you dont even have to go that far, all you have to do is compress the image to jpeg first keeping/embedding a JFIF thumbnail (leave this as uncommented black magic, preferably outsourced to another lib), then do all your work to the actual image without updating the thumbnail.
Photoshop used to do this under certain conditions, like when Cat Schwartz from TechTV took topless pictures of herself and cropped them to just extreme closeups of her eyes for her blog, only to have someone save it and see the (uncropped) thumbnails.
They made her do a story on it shortly thereafter. Cruel.
If it requires a signal actually get through to shut down, you'd just need to be aware of this and bring a RF jammer in your laptop.
If it requires a constant signal to continue to be able to fly, that same jammer will take the plane down..
No, but it would send the strongest message: no matter how hard you try and what inane sacrifices you make, you're never safe.
I doubt they'll hit airplanes again just because it isnt really worth the effort, but it would be the most powerful form of terrorism.