I'm sure Google is completely innocent of spyware, but I'm resisting installing the Google toolbar in Firefox, or IE. There's already a Google search bar in Firefox, and I've been anti-addon-toolbar for years now, since every unstable system I've worked on had at least one of them. When the great Google Toolbar Trap is sprung, I'll be on the outside of the box, thank you very much.
Death is anything but private. Some people in our culture may percieve funeral rites to be private, but death itself is public. What happens when you croak in your car, or on a path? In the woods or in the bath? Your smell alone gives your location away. All sorts of people will gather to cart you away. Your picture or story goes into the paper. And if you're lucky, in a thousand years, you'll teach kids looking at your bones what it was like to live with MP3 players, and mortality. Death is reintroducing your private body into the public domain. If there's one thing you won't care about when you're dead, it's your privacy.
As if it isn't enough that using someone's open Wireless Access Point without permission is illegal, now they're making it illegal to own current wireless technologies? That's like bank robbing being illegal, but they're banning banks just in case. And I'm not saying connecting to open wireless is like robbing a bank, it's just an extreme analogy to show what the law is outlawing.
"How much of it would the government have to cede to China if it also landed there?"
That's a trick question, no one owns the Moon, much like Antarctica isn't owned by any country either. Essentailly with the Moon, the people to own it, will be the first to colonize an area which will be off limits to other colonization attempts without co-operating. Unless we find that only select spots on the Moon are suitable for a habitat, then there's so much real estate to go around, that we won't have to worry about running out for several centuries. Good planning wouldn't hurt though, so we don't end up with a bunch of lunar cul-de-sacs like suburban sprall in North America. We want Lunar Children to be able to ride their moon bike to school without taking major moon-routes.
But no one wanted to buy a passport protector, fine foil product when I offered 2 for sale on eBay earlier this year. They obviously don't have the following that Foil Hats for pets do.
Now the US government is trying to improve upon my design by integrating the foil right into the cover of the passport. And I thought government wasn't supposed to interfere in start-up businesses.
Microsoft's partnership with Spyware magnate Claria no doubt is a part of this effort. If Microsoft can write the law, they can be sure they aren't breaking the laws on spyware they'll bundle with Windows Vista.
Sadly even TDCT isn't Firefox compatible yet. It may work for most things, but I've had it throw Firefox a few errors. During the Spell a word promotion contest, it forgot to display my free letter after a transaction. And I've had it tell me that it couldn't log in and to call the bank. I used IE instead, right away, and it worked no problem, then Firefox started working again.
Once websites start working better with the standard adhering Firefox browser, IE use will begin to drop off as it will annoy users by not showing pages correctly.
"11.5 percent, it's still got a long way to go to reach Internet Explorer's 85.5 percent" It only needs to make it to 50% + 1%, at least that's what Quebec Seperatists would have us believe.
A CFL field is 110 yards between the goal lines, and each endzone is 25 yards deep if I recall correctly. http://www.cfl.ca/ Rules are listed at that site anyway.
Way to be ambiguous Sumitter. Don't you know that Slashdot standard sizes only come in "Libraries of Congress" for data, and "VW Bugs" for things that come from, or go up into space?
Our balls are bigger*. Now our telescopes are too:-)
I had over 27 hits on my blog today for "sony rootkit" or something similar to that search. Here's where you can complain to Sony about DRM and Rootkits: http://www.sonymusic.com/about/feedback.cgi
Here's my letter, please modify it if you use it:
Dear Sony, I'd like you to know how displeased I am that you've put DRM in your Compact Discs, and I'm shocked that "Van Zant's" CD is reported to have a "rootkit" virus that infects Windows so that certain file names remain hidden from even anti-virus scanners. Your product has endangered thousands of music fans, by crippling their Windows system in yet another way that virus writers can exploit.
Before UPnP routers started to play nicely with Yahoo and MSN Messenger, getting a messenger with voice communication to work properly behind NAT was a NATMARE [said with southern accent for some humour]! Hardware and software can definitely be improved to be more user friendly, while at the same time be more secure, since it's better to have a router with a firewall or at least NAT, than to be connected to the Internet naked just so you can use MSN Messenger with Voice. And I mean the computer being naked, not the user.
Who will be the first Slashdotter with a signature infected with DRM?
On a side note, I've had about 30 google searched hits on my blog concerning the Rootkit story, since I posted it the other day. It's by far the most searched for term finding my blog, and I'm not even a solely tech oriented blog.
Malice? I like flamewars thank you very much. Some of the best jokes are born out of them, and as long as no one dies or goes home with hurt feelings, it's the only way to fight in modern times: Semi-anonymously against people you may never meet again. And hope they aren't your boss later in life, and they find out you like VI instead of EMACS.
So now when I press record on a new camcorder, it will have some frames at the start of my video that say: "This home video is brought to you by the RIAA/MPAA, the FBI.com, and the Constitution of the Unitied States of America"?
-/yes I know it's fbi.gov, the.com is an inside joke for those that have read my signature.
It's been reported on CNN that Robots passed away in their hives early this morning. Everyone will remember their contributions to sci-fi movies and Television. Truely a microcomputer icon!
Hopefully Wikipedia has some kind of alert filter, that sends someone to a page to clean up if it detects a string like "VARIABLE IS GAY" or "X WAS HERE"?
It is most certainly not less than 10 seconds for most computer users, to load up OO.o, especially if they don't have the quickstarter app pre-loaded. Text entry is about the simplest task a computer can do, so I can understand why it takes longer than a few short seconds for a program to get ready to take input from the user, and worry about drawing the fancy screen with tool and menu bars later. If notepad.exe can do it in 2 seconds, why can't OO.o or MS Office? We're supposed to be making advancements in computing speed, not introducing 20 second+ delays to our users.
If Google's programmers can get OO.org to open as quickly as google.ca does, I'll find a way to pay for Open Office! That's about my only complaint left with Open Office, is that it should start taking input in a simple text window within seconds, and worry about filling in the rest of the program later. That way I can open it up, start typing, and not have to wait 20 - 70 seconds for the blank sheet of e-paper to show up.
A couple years ago I was asked by some pet supply business in California if I wanted them to market my Pet Foil Hat Technology in their magazine, and I'd mass produce them. Since that certainly takes a lot of the fun out of it, I declined, even though I stood to make a little money out of it, and maybe gain some more fame. But it just isn't worth it if fun becomes work, just for the sake of money.
I feel the same about my blog. I have [probably] enough writing talent to be a somewhat popular blogger, but I'm just not going to get that deep into it unless I'm willing to take on the pressure of performing nightly. Writing. Performing at writing funny, or entertaining stuff, I mean.
If I had some of my more web-savvy friends help out, I could probably whip up a random-blog-post generator, that would automatically update my blog with random crap if I didn't meet a posting deadline. The public might catch on though if I was writing about the need to conserve energy, and the news just announced cold fusion was made possible.
Slashdot Mirror
I think you muddled that one up badly enough.
It should be...
In Soviet Russia, Fireballs awe YOU! Wait, that happens here too, now I'm confused too!
"what's the best KDE-centric desktop distro now"
The only one I know of is Knoppix, but it's a live CD, and not typically installed like SuSE is.
http://www.knopper.net/
I'm sure Google is completely innocent of spyware, but I'm resisting installing the Google toolbar in Firefox, or IE. There's already a Google search bar in Firefox, and I've been anti-addon-toolbar for years now, since every unstable system I've worked on had at least one of them. When the great Google Toolbar Trap is sprung, I'll be on the outside of the box, thank you very much.
Death is anything but private. Some people in our culture may percieve funeral rites to be private, but death itself is public. What happens when you croak in your car, or on a path? In the woods or in the bath? Your smell alone gives your location away. All sorts of people will gather to cart you away. Your picture or story goes into the paper. And if you're lucky, in a thousand years, you'll teach kids looking at your bones what it was like to live with MP3 players, and mortality. Death is reintroducing your private body into the public domain. If there's one thing you won't care about when you're dead, it's your privacy.
As if it isn't enough that using someone's open Wireless Access Point without permission is illegal, now they're making it illegal to own current wireless technologies? That's like bank robbing being illegal, but they're banning banks just in case. And I'm not saying connecting to open wireless is like robbing a bank, it's just an extreme analogy to show what the law is outlawing.
"How much of it would the government have to cede to China if it also landed there?"
That's a trick question, no one owns the Moon, much like Antarctica isn't owned by any country either. Essentailly with the Moon, the people to own it, will be the first to colonize an area which will be off limits to other colonization attempts without co-operating. Unless we find that only select spots on the Moon are suitable for a habitat, then there's so much real estate to go around, that we won't have to worry about running out for several centuries. Good planning wouldn't hurt though, so we don't end up with a bunch of lunar cul-de-sacs like suburban sprall in North America. We want Lunar Children to be able to ride their moon bike to school without taking major moon-routes.
But no one wanted to buy a passport protector, fine foil product when I offered 2 for sale on eBay earlier this year. They obviously don't have the following that Foil Hats for pets do.
A picture of the Foil'ID Again is at the bottom of this page http://www.angelfire.com/mt/woodmtn/insight.html
Now the US government is trying to improve upon my design by integrating the foil right into the cover of the passport. And I thought government wasn't supposed to interfere in start-up businesses.
Microsoft's partnership with Spyware magnate Claria no doubt is a part of this effort. If Microsoft can write the law, they can be sure they aren't breaking the laws on spyware they'll bundle with Windows Vista.
Sadly even TDCT isn't Firefox compatible yet. It may work for most things, but I've had it throw Firefox a few errors. During the Spell a word promotion contest, it forgot to display my free letter after a transaction. And I've had it tell me that it couldn't log in and to call the bank. I used IE instead, right away, and it worked no problem, then Firefox started working again.
Once websites start working better with the standard adhering Firefox browser, IE use will begin to drop off as it will annoy users by not showing pages correctly.
"11.5 percent, it's still got a long way to go to reach Internet Explorer's 85.5 percent"
It only needs to make it to 50% + 1%, at least that's what Quebec Seperatists would have us believe.
Sadly I know that, I just made a big typo, or "brain fart". Thanks for pointing it out though :-)
-/Graduate of UofR, and former resident of Saskatoon, Sask.
"as far away from man-made light as possible."
Oddly enough, Canada's a bit of an expert at man-made light too.
The Canadian Light Source http://www.lightsource.ca/ in Saskatoon is a modern and large Synchrotron at the University of Saskatoon.
A CFL field is 110 yards between the goal lines, and each endzone is 25 yards deep if I recall correctly. http://www.cfl.ca/
:-)
Rules are listed at that site anyway.
Way to be ambiguous Sumitter. Don't you know that Slashdot standard sizes only come in "Libraries of Congress" for data, and "VW Bugs" for things that come from, or go up into space?
Our balls are bigger*. Now our telescopes are too
*Actual official CFL t-shirt slogan.
I had over 27 hits on my blog today for "sony rootkit" or something similar to that search.
Here's where you can complain to Sony about DRM and Rootkits:
http://www.sonymusic.com/about/feedback.cgi
Here's my letter, please modify it if you use it:
Dear Sony,
I'd like you to know how displeased I am that you've put DRM in your Compact Discs, and I'm shocked that "Van Zant's" CD is reported to have a "rootkit" virus that infects Windows so that certain file names remain hidden from even anti-virus scanners. Your product has endangered thousands of music fans, by crippling their Windows system in yet another way that virus writers can exploit.
I think you owe your customers better.
Sincerely,
Saskboy
Yorkton, SK CANADA
Before UPnP routers started to play nicely with Yahoo and MSN Messenger, getting a messenger with voice communication to work properly behind NAT was a NATMARE [said with southern accent for some humour]! Hardware and software can definitely be improved to be more user friendly, while at the same time be more secure, since it's better to have a router with a firewall or at least NAT, than to be connected to the Internet naked just so you can use MSN Messenger with Voice. And I mean the computer being naked, not the user.
Who will be the first Slashdotter with a signature infected with DRM?
On a side note, I've had about 30 google searched hits on my blog concerning the Rootkit story, since I posted it the other day. It's by far the most searched for term finding my blog, and I'm not even a solely tech oriented blog.
Malice? I like flamewars thank you very much. Some of the best jokes are born out of them, and as long as no one dies or goes home with hurt feelings, it's the only way to fight in modern times: Semi-anonymously against people you may never meet again. And hope they aren't your boss later in life, and they find out you like VI instead of EMACS.
So now when I press record on a new camcorder, it will have some frames at the start of my video that say:
.com is an inside joke for those that have read my signature.
"This home video is brought to you by the RIAA/MPAA, the FBI.com, and the Constitution of the Unitied States of America"?
-/yes I know it's fbi.gov, the
It's been reported on CNN that Robots passed away in their hives early this morning. Everyone will remember their contributions to sci-fi movies and Television. Truely a microcomputer icon!
Hopefully Wikipedia has some kind of alert filter, that sends someone to a page to clean up if it detects a string like "VARIABLE IS GAY" or "X WAS HERE"?
"will infect everyone in the world in at most six or seven hops."
Obviously they'll name this looming IM worm threat the Kevin Bacon Virus.
WOW! Thank you, that worked like a charm. My OO.o 2.0 loaded in about half the time, maybe faster than that.
Tools ->
Options ->
Java ->
Uncheck use Java environment, save it, and you've "fixed" OO.o.
It is most certainly not less than 10 seconds for most computer users, to load up OO.o, especially if they don't have the quickstarter app pre-loaded. Text entry is about the simplest task a computer can do, so I can understand why it takes longer than a few short seconds for a program to get ready to take input from the user, and worry about drawing the fancy screen with tool and menu bars later. If notepad.exe can do it in 2 seconds, why can't OO.o or MS Office? We're supposed to be making advancements in computing speed, not introducing 20 second+ delays to our users.
If Google's programmers can get OO.org to open as quickly as google.ca does, I'll find a way to pay for Open Office! That's about my only complaint left with Open Office, is that it should start taking input in a simple text window within seconds, and worry about filling in the rest of the program later. That way I can open it up, start typing, and not have to wait 20 - 70 seconds for the blank sheet of e-paper to show up.
A couple years ago I was asked by some pet supply business in California if I wanted them to market my Pet Foil Hat Technology in their magazine, and I'd mass produce them. Since that certainly takes a lot of the fun out of it, I declined, even though I stood to make a little money out of it, and maybe gain some more fame. But it just isn't worth it if fun becomes work, just for the sake of money.
I feel the same about my blog. I have [probably] enough writing talent to be a somewhat popular blogger, but I'm just not going to get that deep into it unless I'm willing to take on the pressure of performing nightly. Writing. Performing at writing funny, or entertaining stuff, I mean.
If I had some of my more web-savvy friends help out, I could probably whip up a random-blog-post generator, that would automatically update my blog with random crap if I didn't meet a posting deadline. The public might catch on though if I was writing about the need to conserve energy, and the news just announced cold fusion was made possible.