If you download a recent mozilla build, you'll find that the right-click context menus have been damaged. If you right-click on an image, you no longer can navigate back! Imagine how bad this is while browsing sites with lots of images! (screenshots, pr0n, etc)
Guess what dipshit? Gunfights in the streets are *already* illegal. Are you so dumb that you didn't know that? Try enforcing the existing laws sometime. Banning guns from the law abiding citizens is no different than banning napster for its legitimate uses.
Man, what do you do with all that empty space and how's your vision after staring at so small icons and text for hours on end?
View data. I'm a sysadmin and programmer. Problems become easier to solve when I can get more data in front of my face. The text doesn't seem small. Its just like reading a book or newspaper.
Is the look. Many of the more old-fashined hardcore linux users (like me) want a desktop with small icons, small window decorations, narrow scrollbars, and dark colors. I simply can't find anything like that for KDE. Yes, I've been to kdelook.org. All of the popular "looks" are aqua/liquidish ripoffs. They make a pretty screen shot, but are horrible to use for hours on end.
To give you an idea, I like using the blueheart enlightenment theme. Imagine that screen shot with a dark tiled background (blech, not WHITE!) and you'll be in business.
Just like the original thread poster said, you're pissed that Fox News had a good piece, and thats all you can see.
Fox stories aren't rewrites from the Clinton News Network (CNN), so they must be part of the vast right-wing conspiracy. Thats a perfect example of attacking the messenger, not the message.
Pat Buchanan speaks about the same thing. Global organizations invading our national sovereignty would be the worst thing that could happen to our (or any) country. It would mark the destruction of the United States.
But its a Geforce 4 MX. Emphasis on the MX. That means it uses the old NV17 graphics core, not the fast NV25 in the upcoming full versions of the Geforce 4 cards.
Do you think it truely is only 0.01% that would have a problem with fake sig's / conglomerate data?
Yes, give or take a few tenths of a percent.;)
Why you ask? Because it can already happen today.
To turn the onus back on you, do you seriously think that a determined person can't make your life difficult based on your online information right now? Just think of those 1-800-search and other people finder services. A stranger will turn over personal[*] information to anyone with $39.95!
And I also think that when you're talking about people who care, you need to seperate out those who think privacy would be "nice" and those who care enough to do something about the situation.
Brian
[*] At least I consider it personal information.
The system will have to work on the principle of "good enough."
People can already fake your paper signature today.
People already do conglomerate data about you.
But sometimes the benefit for the masses outweighs the 0.01% that will have a problem.
Unfortunately, with computer systems like these, if a problem is general, you don't lose 1 person's data, you lose *everybody's* data. That is something the institution offering the service will have to deal with.
The card itself is simple. It will be much harder for the government to coordinate a reliable infrastructure (databases, card readers, etc). That is why I think we won't be seeing it anytime soon.
Of course, there are all of the people problems. The system will have to be highly usable. Today, people can't even handle encrypted email (without physical tokens) because it is too hard. I would be much more positive if someone could show me software that put digital signatures/crypto in terms that a regular person could understand. The current GUIs that wrap around PGP/GPG don't cut it because they assume you understand the underlying process.
Its nice to see this happen as a large scale experiment. We'll have to watch to see how the non-geek workers handle it. But, for cost reasons alone, I don't see the US government implementing anything like this on a wide basis for at least 10 years.
Why compaq? I don't know anyone who actually likes their stuff. Compaq is terrible at "slightly" modifying off the shelf equipment so that it'll never work with standard drivers. Don't say support, because there are plenty of other big companies who make PC clones without fuxx0ring with the hardware.
The music is property. The band who made it decided that they would like to keep it property. Now we have people who don't want to respect the idea of property. That is the problem.
If you can't respect the choice of the band to keep their property distributed by their rules, then how can you insist that free licenses (GPL) apply to groups who want to take free and close it (Brett Glass, MS, et al.). I can understand your position on freely making copies since your real job has already once compensated you. I think you'd have a different position if your real job took all of your ideas, used them, declared your ideas as free and told you to get lost.
And you would be seriously outraged if the asshole next door had a warez server running full steam and your daughter couldn't get her bio-psych homework. Please tell us, how much bandwidth is enough? Take into account the DDoS attacks on Amazon, Yahoo, etc. Is it Yahoo's fault that they didn't have enough bandwidth to fend off the attacks? No, just like its not the college's fault for blocking something taking 30-80% of the total network capacity.
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I have an account to specifically block Jon Katz stories and comments. But now he has a banner ad about his stupid dogs!!
When will the madness end?
Please vote for bug 135331.
Guess what dipshit? Gunfights in the streets are *already* illegal. Are you so dumb that you didn't know that? Try enforcing the existing laws sometime. Banning guns from the law abiding citizens is no different than banning napster for its legitimate uses.
You are no better than RIAA or MPAA.
Did her psychic friends see it coming?
I'm cool with that. I just hope that everyone understands this. There will always be the need for multiple desktops based upon the needs of the user.
View data. I'm a sysadmin and programmer. Problems become easier to solve when I can get more data in front of my face. The text doesn't seem small. Its just like reading a book or newspaper.
To give you an idea, I like using the blueheart enlightenment theme. Imagine that screen shot with a dark tiled background (blech, not WHITE!) and you'll be in business.
You're an idiot.
Just like the original thread poster said, you're pissed that Fox News had a good piece, and thats all you can see.
Fox stories aren't rewrites from the Clinton News Network (CNN), so they must be part of the vast right-wing conspiracy. Thats a perfect example of attacking the messenger, not the message.
If best sounding name mattered, how did Anthony Weiner (D,NY) get elected? Is the 9th district of New York packed with gays?
I agree!
The internet needs more pr0n.
And these few idiots are exactly who are going to get slimed.
Pat Buchanan speaks about the same thing. Global organizations invading our national sovereignty would be the worst thing that could happen to our (or any) country. It would mark the destruction of the United States.
I'll write a program to see how many links on average you have to visit before getting to a porn site.
:-)
I'll then repeat the same program looking for how many clicks to an X-10 ad.
Brian
But its a Geforce 4 MX. Emphasis on the MX. That means it uses the old NV17 graphics core, not the fast NV25 in the upcoming full versions of the Geforce 4 cards.
You have to remember that the target of this announcement is mac users.
Yes, give or take a few tenths of a percent. ;)
Why you ask? Because it can already happen today.
To turn the onus back on you, do you seriously think that a determined person can't make your life difficult based on your online information right now? Just think of those 1-800-search and other people finder services. A stranger will turn over personal[*] information to anyone with $39.95!
And I also think that when you're talking about people who care, you need to seperate out those who think privacy would be "nice" and those who care enough to do something about the situation.
Brian
[*] At least I consider it personal information.
The system will have to work on the principle of "good enough."
People can already fake your paper signature today.
People already do conglomerate data about you.
But sometimes the benefit for the masses outweighs the 0.01% that will have a problem.
Unfortunately, with computer systems like these, if a problem is general, you don't lose 1 person's data, you lose *everybody's* data. That is something the institution offering the service will have to deal with.
Brian
The card itself is simple. It will be much harder for the government to coordinate a reliable infrastructure (databases, card readers, etc). That is why I think we won't be seeing it anytime soon.
Of course, there are all of the people problems. The system will have to be highly usable. Today, people can't even handle encrypted email (without physical tokens) because it is too hard. I would be much more positive if someone could show me software that put digital signatures/crypto in terms that a regular person could understand. The current GUIs that wrap around PGP/GPG don't cut it because they assume you understand the underlying process.
Brian
Its nice to see this happen as a large scale experiment. We'll have to watch to see how the non-geek workers handle it. But, for cost reasons alone, I don't see the US government implementing anything like this on a wide basis for at least 10 years.
Brian
Why compaq? I don't know anyone who actually likes their stuff. Compaq is terrible at "slightly" modifying off the shelf equipment so that it'll never work with standard drivers. Don't say support, because there are plenty of other big companies who make PC clones without fuxx0ring with the hardware.
Make that 10 pages + 1.
The only reason I have an account is to filter out postings from katz.
Brian
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of goatsex posters?
And don't forget that all new websites will be named by throwing silverware down the stairs.
If you can't respect the choice of the band to keep their property distributed by their rules, then how can you insist that free licenses (GPL) apply to groups who want to take free and close it (Brett Glass, MS, et al.). I can understand your position on freely making copies since your real job has already once compensated you. I think you'd have a different position if your real job took all of your ideas, used them, declared your ideas as free and told you to get lost.
And you would be seriously outraged if the asshole next door had a warez server running full steam and your daughter couldn't get her bio-psych homework. Please tell us, how much bandwidth is enough? Take into account the DDoS attacks on Amazon, Yahoo, etc. Is it Yahoo's fault that they didn't have enough bandwidth to fend off the attacks? No, just like its not the college's fault for blocking something taking 30-80% of the total network capacity.