Your grandfather died at age 58. Presumably he was at least 40 before you were born.
You have that extra 40 years of society's health conciousness going for you. Your mother probably didn't cook with lard when you were a child. His almost certainly did. You probably knew that smoking wasn't good for you. You have "miracle" drugs available to you. When your grandfather died, it was aspirin (maybe) and bed rest.
You have a lot going for you just for living in the 21st century.
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People are stupid.
A friend of mine took her 8 and 5 year old kids to see Caroline. Heck, *I* was somewhat disturbed by the commercials for that movie.
BTW did you notice by now, that the whole storyline is about a swedish case, as in swedish defendants, swedish plaintiffs, swedish judge, swedish court, swedish piratebay, and it's all in Sweden?
An independent film about someone wrongfully persecuted by the RIAA, gets a pro bono lawyer who fights and loses. Then attracts some law students that get a retrial and prevail?
Sounds like it's got promise as a feel good movie.
The point is that the file sharing application is not run with the permissions of the current user, and therefore doesn't have access to information that isn't a+r.
That being said, file sharing applications are supposed to share files. Running these applications as a separate account with no access to files (and likely inability to have write access to the user's home directory or a subdirectery thereof) is quite brain dead.
Any power user that wishes to set up the application that way once it is installed can likely also change the folders that are shared to something reasonable.
Remember that the programmer has to account for some users having no idea which files they want to share.
How about: "Do you want to prevent the execution of possibly malicious code in this.PDF file?" [Yes][No].
If they select No, the next dialog is: "Fine. I've just opened all the ports on the computer, deleted the last 10 documents you opened up, and loaded up a couple trojans. Are you sure you want to run the executable code in this PDF file now?" [Yes][No].
This way, the user won't be taught to always select the same confirmation box all the time.
Yes. Some people will starve. Some people will be unemployed. In every country. In every century.
It would be nice to minimize this, but what is the proper way to do so?
In one asian country, the president or prime minister (can't remember which) decided to place a TV satelite into orbit instead of using the money to feed the people. The side effect was that the people in rural villages were able to get educational TV shows for the first time ever.
Or to put it more simply, "Shoot for the Moon. If you miss, you'll land upon the stars."
The reason we need a known news agency to report the news in war-torn areas is that the locals will spin it so fast we'll have no idea what to believe.
The problem is, those of us that approve are rather silent.
Just at work, a highly educated person was complaining how a "third world" country was "wasting" money on space exploration rather than feeding and sheltering the poor.
Actually, he said a lot. The overall demographics for "the whole world" just isn't useful. What people care about is demographics for their own portion or something similar.
The GP (who apparently has inside info at Adobe) says that many companies report flash installation base of within 1% of the number the article gave.
That means (comfortably speaking), greater than 95% of internet users are using a browsing system that can render flash. Making it a de facto standard (but we already know that).
There was a Sci Fi short story about this (I think it was Asimov). Basically, a mission to one of the moons of Saturn found life, but the space ship was going to be destroyed in a couple days. The question was how to get as many questions answered in that time period as possible.
The scientists were trying to figure out a faster-than-light communication technique. The answer of course, was more mundane. Continuously send and receive information. If something to you garbled, ask to it to be send again. Just keep on talking (and listening).
There will come a time when the copyright of a game expires. (Yes, it will take decades.) At that time, how can a game be fairly copied if the DRM is still in place?
Kudos to them if the solar panel actually generates more energy than the energy cost of producing the panel. My cell phone is on my hip and I barely get enough light to keep from turning a pastey shade of grey. My wife's phone is generally in her pocketbook.
In my home and office I don't have a pocket calculator. That being said, there's one included in my phone and on my computer. Is that what you're talking about?
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The reason for a big patent portfolio is to defend against someone else's big patent portfolio.
Your grandfather died at age 58. Presumably he was at least 40 before you were born.
You have that extra 40 years of society's health conciousness going for you. Your mother probably didn't cook with lard when you were a child. His almost certainly did. You probably knew that smoking wasn't good for you. You have "miracle" drugs available to you. When your grandfather died, it was aspirin (maybe) and bed rest.
You have a lot going for you just for living in the 21st century.
People are stupid.
A friend of mine took her 8 and 5 year old kids to see Caroline. Heck, *I* was somewhat disturbed by the commercials for that movie.
BTW did you notice by now, that the whole storyline is about a swedish case, as in swedish defendants, swedish plaintiffs, swedish judge, swedish court, swedish piratebay, and it's all in Sweden?
Wow. Talk about coincidence!
Actually, why doesn't someone?
An independent film about someone wrongfully persecuted by the RIAA, gets a pro bono lawyer who fights and loses. Then attracts some law students that get a retrial and prevail?
Sounds like it's got promise as a feel good movie.
The point is that the file sharing application is not run with the permissions of the current user, and therefore doesn't have access to information that isn't a+r.
That being said, file sharing applications are supposed to share files. Running these applications as a separate account with no access to files (and likely inability to have write access to the user's home directory or a subdirectery thereof) is quite brain dead.
Any power user that wishes to set up the application that way once it is installed can likely also change the folders that are shared to something reasonable.
Remember that the programmer has to account for some users having no idea which files they want to share.
Informative is good. It lets us know that the particular web page is still under construction. I would have gone with +1 Interesting, though.
(Sublime mods are just part of the fun on /. :-))
How about: "Do you want to prevent the execution of possibly malicious code in this .PDF file?" [Yes][No].
If they select No, the next dialog is: "Fine. I've just opened all the ports on the computer, deleted the last 10 documents you opened up, and loaded up a couple trojans. Are you sure you want to run the executable code in this PDF file now?" [Yes][No].
This way, the user won't be taught to always select the same confirmation box all the time.
Anyone have a high-res screen shot? My fonts are raster based. :-(
Because the option is likely the loss of a valuable news source.
Maybe make a universal subscription that you pay the AP directly. Once you pay that, you get AP content on all your login IDs on the net.
Don't know the logistics, but it could make a universal ID system more palatable to the tech crowd and masses alike.
Actually, I prefer knowing what the spin is, and deciding what to do about it.
Most people can tell the difference in spin between Fox News and CNN. I have no idea what the spin is of "Momar, broadcasting live from Tel Aviv."
Yes. Some people will starve. Some people will be unemployed. In every country. In every century.
It would be nice to minimize this, but what is the proper way to do so?
In one asian country, the president or prime minister (can't remember which) decided to place a TV satelite into orbit instead of using the money to feed the people. The side effect was that the people in rural villages were able to get educational TV shows for the first time ever.
Or to put it more simply, "Shoot for the Moon. If you miss, you'll land upon the stars."
I'll bite.
The reason we need a known news agency to report the news in war-torn areas is that the locals will spin it so fast we'll have no idea what to believe.
The problem is, those of us that approve are rather silent.
Just at work, a highly educated person was complaining how a "third world" country was "wasting" money on space exploration rather than feeding and sheltering the poor.
No Commodore 64s have Flash installed. That doesn't mean that no Commodore 64 users have access to flash content.
(I'm assuming you're not just trolling...)
Actually, he said a lot. The overall demographics for "the whole world" just isn't useful. What people care about is demographics for their own portion or something similar.
The GP (who apparently has inside info at Adobe) says that many companies report flash installation base of within 1% of the number the article gave.
That means (comfortably speaking), greater than 95% of internet users are using a browsing system that can render flash. Making it a de facto standard (but we already know that).
No. You're probably thinking of a space fountain.
It seems like the Pirate Bay has competent (or possible even good) lawyers.
Good for them. Good lawyers certainly don't come cheap.
Someone may want to register windowslisa.com. Just saying...
There was a Sci Fi short story about this (I think it was Asimov). Basically, a mission to one of the moons of Saturn found life, but the space ship was going to be destroyed in a couple days. The question was how to get as many questions answered in that time period as possible.
The scientists were trying to figure out a faster-than-light communication technique. The answer of course, was more mundane. Continuously send and receive information. If something to you garbled, ask to it to be send again. Just keep on talking (and listening).
Besides, if they were property, where is the tax on that property?
Is that there is no law saying when it expires.
There will come a time when the copyright of a game expires. (Yes, it will take decades.) At that time, how can a game be fairly copied if the DRM is still in place?
Do phones generally get a lot of sunlight?
Kudos to them if the solar panel actually generates more energy than the energy cost of producing the panel. My cell phone is on my hip and I barely get enough light to keep from turning a pastey shade of grey. My wife's phone is generally in her pocketbook.
Yeah. The problem is, when I first started playing with Linux in circa '99, it was with a five year old monitor attached to a 3-4 year old computer...
In my home and office I don't have a pocket calculator. That being said, there's one included in my phone and on my computer. Is that what you're talking about?