HTML's meta tags is one option, but if you can set custom HTTP headers (e.g. via your HTTP server config, or.htaccess files on Apache) then you can tag all of your content like this.
It's still more complex than a simple file, I agree, but it does allow for finer-grained control.
There are ICRA users out there (search for "labelled with icra", "labeled with icra" - the standard logo's alt text is "labelled with icra"/"labeled with icra" depending on whether you're using UK or US English), some of which are porn (search for "labelled with icra" porn, "labeled with icra" porn). Obviously this is going to be nowhere near the full number of users, as it relies on them having the default button/text, though, and yes, it could do with a bit more promotion.
Movies have one. Television shows have one. Song lyrics have one. Games have one.
And web sites have one. Prior to ICRA, there was RSACi. It's been around for quite a while, so IE supports it (IE supporting something, a shock, I know). I'm not sure if any other browsers directly support it, though.
The emergency service isn't just for you. The idea is that anyone can pick up any phone and dial the emergency number, and expect it to work; e.g. see how mobile phones will dial 999 (in the UK) through the PIN screen, or even without a SIM (and - as you pointed out - with key lock on. Yeah, I've been bitten by that too. It's worse with the UK number of 999, but it's better than having to mess around trying to get keylock off on someone else's phone in an emegency). Being able to dial a standardised emergency number, and having it work, is a vital safety requirement which should not be optional.
To use a very, very bad analogy (in great/. tradition), "Why should I be forced to pay money to fix up this old, weak bridge? I know where the weak spots are, and can avoid them perfectly well myself.", completely ignoring the possibility that someone else may need to use it at some point.
Google Talk doesn't help the situation. Google Talk users can't talk to users on other Jabber servers, and vice versa, so it's in exactly the same situation as MSN, AIM, Y!, etc, in the context of your parent's post (albeit without ads).
Minor correction there; the technical name for the colour of the Darwinia box is "GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN". Hope this helps.
*ahem*
(Yes, I know it's like yelling, Mr./Mrs. Lameness Filter. That's the whole point.)
No, but it's a lot harder to rig a paper-based vote than an electronic one. With the electronic one, you simply need to have a corrupt system vendor. With the paper-based ballot, you'd have to have a lot of corrupt vote counters, and - of course - this increases the risk of having a whistleblower.
Though that doesn't exactly apply to the UK voting system, what with it being completely paper-based ("put an X in the box next to the guy you want to vote for").
most distro's confront you with a text-based installation process at the beginning
Really? When I installed Red Hat 7.3, back in 2002(?), it had a fully GUI-based installation. I've not had a huge amount of experience with other distros; just Slack, Debian and Ubuntu, which all use text-based installation, but all but Ubuntu are aimed at the more experienced user. I was sure that things like Mandriva had full GUI installers based on Anaconda.
We have fairly new cleaner buses - about a year old - and their ends are right outside, whilst there's always loads of people smoking under the cover; I'm certain it's the cigarette smoke.
Smoking areas in Denmark becoming rarer? If my experience of Copenhagen this August is representitive of the whole of Denmark (and various IRC people seem to back me up), that probably just means it's coming more in line with other places like the UK.
Coming from the UK, I was surprised with the amount of smoking there is in Denmark; you'll basically never see smoking being allowed in malls in the UK, and restaurants will normally have a smaller smoking than non-smoking area (as opposed to my Copenhagen experience where you were lucky to find a non-smoking area at all. Not great for a badly asthmatic person.)
I think it is purely aesthetic too, and one of those silly dogmatic liberal bandwagons.
I don't like women wearing perfume. BAN IT! I don't like fat people! BAN THEM FROM PUBLIC PLACES! Cellphones... BAN THEM, or to be fair execute people who have them in theaters and resturants, or while driving.
Well, here in the UK, due to the associated decrease in concentration on the road, it is illegal to use a mobile phone whilst you're driving, and has been for a while now.
I can't say I've ever heard of people who are allergic to fat people, or people talking on phones. Perfume I'm not so sure about, but a huge number of people (myself included) are allergic to cigarette smoke. Half the time when I'm heading into the bus station, I'll enter breathing fine, and by the time I've got to my bus' bay the smoke will have affected me. The degree of breathlessness depends on my condition on that day, but it's pretty obvious to me that it isn't just aesthetic.
Given that that is the main point of the NHS here in the UK, I'm not sure I'd call it short sighted. The idea of the NHS is that eveyone pays a bit so as to avoid people being given huge medical bills that they cannot afford to pay. I don't like smoking in the slightest, but I do not believe that smoking-related illnesses should just be left un-treated by the NHS.
In most cases, it's neither; it's just to attempt to reduce the mass-piracy at the game's release. People are more likely to want to warez Best Game Ever #4553 at its release (since it's a must-have big new thing) than a couple of months down the line, and if the copy protection is strong enough to stop the casual piracy, they'll either make a sale or lose a pirate. Once the huge rush has died down, and cracks have been produced, the only people it annoys are legit customers.
Nah; assuming that was a The Sneeze page, that was perfectly targetted (it always has ads for uh... slightly weird things. At the moment it's giving me "Elk Carcass").
If you get enough downmods to get into negative karma, then you start posting at 0 (this happened to me once in 2002, IIRC), then down to -1, and I believe that if you get downmodded even further you get an autoban (though I'm not entirely sure of this).
Slashcode used to award karma for funny mods, but the powers that be suddenly decided that to get karma "You have to be smart, not just a smart-ass." Of course, later on the same page they contradict themselves, offering "If You Can't Be Deep, Be Funny" as a tip for improving your karma, with a small note essentially saying "ignore this", but that's slashdot for you.
Because booting into actual DOS is painful; you lack the nice GUI tools, multitasking, etc, and you have to stop everything you're doing. Plus there are some (early) games which depend on clock speed, so become pretty much impossible to play on modern machines.
SSH in as user, then su. Adds an extra layer of security to get through, provided there's no easy writable suid file and any root apps are kept up to date, and that kind of attack is harder to automate.
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The LCD was part of the memory card (VRM), not the controller itself. And it was hardly huge.
HTML's meta tags is one option, but if you can set custom HTTP headers (e.g. via your HTTP server config, or .htaccess files on Apache) then you can tag all of your content like this.
It's still more complex than a simple file, I agree, but it does allow for finer-grained control.
There are ICRA users out there (search for "labelled with icra", "labeled with icra" - the standard logo's alt text is "labelled with icra"/"labeled with icra" depending on whether you're using UK or US English), some of which are porn (search for "labelled with icra" porn, "labeled with icra" porn). Obviously this is going to be nowhere near the full number of users, as it relies on them having the default button/text, though, and yes, it could do with a bit more promotion.
And web sites have one. Prior to ICRA, there was RSACi. It's been around for quite a while, so IE supports it (IE supporting something, a shock, I know). I'm not sure if any other browsers directly support it, though.
ICQ's had server-side lists for many years.
The emergency service isn't just for you. The idea is that anyone can pick up any phone and dial the emergency number, and expect it to work; e.g. see how mobile phones will dial 999 (in the UK) through the PIN screen, or even without a SIM (and - as you pointed out - with key lock on. Yeah, I've been bitten by that too. It's worse with the UK number of 999, but it's better than having to mess around trying to get keylock off on someone else's phone in an emegency). Being able to dial a standardised emergency number, and having it work, is a vital safety requirement which should not be optional.
/. tradition), "Why should I be forced to pay money to fix up this old, weak bridge? I know where the weak spots are, and can avoid them perfectly well myself.", completely ignoring the possibility that someone else may need to use it at some point.
To use a very, very bad analogy (in great
Google Talk doesn't help the situation. Google Talk users can't talk to users on other Jabber servers, and vice versa, so it's in exactly the same situation as MSN, AIM, Y!, etc, in the context of your parent's post (albeit without ads).
Or you could use a standard Jabber server, as opposed to one which locks you into their service by not supporting S2S.
Except Sony makes far, far more than CDs... the dual-pricing issue is focused on electronics, i.e. DVD players, TVs, etc.
Minor correction there; the technical name for the colour of the Darwinia box is "GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN". Hope this helps.
*ahem*
(Yes, I know it's like yelling, Mr./Mrs. Lameness Filter. That's the whole point.)
Just a few.
No, but it's a lot harder to rig a paper-based vote than an electronic one. With the electronic one, you simply need to have a corrupt system vendor. With the paper-based ballot, you'd have to have a lot of corrupt vote counters, and - of course - this increases the risk of having a whistleblower.
Though that doesn't exactly apply to the UK voting system, what with it being completely paper-based ("put an X in the box next to the guy you want to vote for").
Really? When I installed Red Hat 7.3, back in 2002(?), it had a fully GUI-based installation. I've not had a huge amount of experience with other distros; just Slack, Debian and Ubuntu, which all use text-based installation, but all but Ubuntu are aimed at the more experienced user. I was sure that things like Mandriva had full GUI installers based on Anaconda.
We have fairly new cleaner buses - about a year old - and their ends are right outside, whilst there's always loads of people smoking under the cover; I'm certain it's the cigarette smoke.
Smoking areas in Denmark becoming rarer? If my experience of Copenhagen this August is representitive of the whole of Denmark (and various IRC people seem to back me up), that probably just means it's coming more in line with other places like the UK.
Coming from the UK, I was surprised with the amount of smoking there is in Denmark; you'll basically never see smoking being allowed in malls in the UK, and restaurants will normally have a smaller smoking than non-smoking area (as opposed to my Copenhagen experience where you were lucky to find a non-smoking area at all. Not great for a badly asthmatic person.)
Well, here in the UK, due to the associated decrease in concentration on the road, it is illegal to use a mobile phone whilst you're driving, and has been for a while now.
I can't say I've ever heard of people who are allergic to fat people, or people talking on phones. Perfume I'm not so sure about, but a huge number of people (myself included) are allergic to cigarette smoke. Half the time when I'm heading into the bus station, I'll enter breathing fine, and by the time I've got to my bus' bay the smoke will have affected me. The degree of breathlessness depends on my condition on that day, but it's pretty obvious to me that it isn't just aesthetic.
Given that that is the main point of the NHS here in the UK, I'm not sure I'd call it short sighted. The idea of the NHS is that eveyone pays a bit so as to avoid people being given huge medical bills that they cannot afford to pay. I don't like smoking in the slightest, but I do not believe that smoking-related illnesses should just be left un-treated by the NHS.
GNU takes everything way too seriously?
In most cases, it's neither; it's just to attempt to reduce the mass-piracy at the game's release. People are more likely to want to warez Best Game Ever #4553 at its release (since it's a must-have big new thing) than a couple of months down the line, and if the copy protection is strong enough to stop the casual piracy, they'll either make a sale or lose a pirate. Once the huge rush has died down, and cracks have been produced, the only people it annoys are legit customers.
Nah; assuming that was a The Sneeze page, that was perfectly targetted (it always has ads for uh... slightly weird things. At the moment it's giving me "Elk Carcass").
If you get enough downmods to get into negative karma, then you start posting at 0 (this happened to me once in 2002, IIRC), then down to -1, and I believe that if you get downmodded even further you get an autoban (though I'm not entirely sure of this).
Slashcode used to award karma for funny mods, but the powers that be suddenly decided that to get karma "You have to be smart, not just a smart-ass." Of course, later on the same page they contradict themselves, offering "If You Can't Be Deep, Be Funny" as a tip for improving your karma, with a small note essentially saying "ignore this", but that's slashdot for you.
Trolltalk, presumably.
Because booting into actual DOS is painful; you lack the nice GUI tools, multitasking, etc, and you have to stop everything you're doing. Plus there are some (early) games which depend on clock speed, so become pretty much impossible to play on modern machines.
Indeed, but questional benefit or not, given that it has hardly any usability impact, it makes sense to have it.
SSH in as user, then su. Adds an extra layer of security to get through, provided there's no easy writable suid file and any root apps are kept up to date, and that kind of attack is harder to automate.