years ago we thought it was impossible for you and, who have never met before, to publicly post messages to each other in such a way that nobody else could decrypt them - without ever talking privately to share an encryption key. Now, we use Diffie-Hellman every day to do exactly that, as part of https.
We are talking privately - through Mozilla, or Microsoft, or Apple, or Google. That's why your browser has a big old list of certificates.
What did you expect? FACT were the retards who produced this (it's not a spoof; it's on some of my DVDs). Not exactly the brightest lightbulbs.
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Actually, a good pre-requisite would seem to be a space elevator, which would be a better investment now that we are getting materials strong enough to build a tether in principle. Then we could relatively cheaply get a spaceship up there.
Right, so giving the Falklands to Argentina would make the world a better place, would it? Just caving in to bully boy tactics? Yeah, that would set a real good precedent.
What annoys me about most of the anti-homeopaths is that they conflate homeopathic remedies with homeopathic philosophy
What the fuck are you talking about? Of course we do; the two are completely inseperable. You're talking about "weak" solutions maybe having a beneficial effect on someone's illness; well that's just regular medicine. Homeopathy would probably say that that solution wasn't diluted enough. It's not fucking homeopathy if there's anything left except almost 100% water.
but if the military finds something out in the course of operations that are not intended to arrest your ass, there is a long history of the Court's saying "ok, Srg. Jennings says this guy had weed, we now grant a warrant to you Mr. DEA man to search this guy."
Well as long as they just arrest my ass and let the rest of me go that's not so bad.
it is that more people would rather have a thinner phone
What is it with that, can anyone explain to me? My LG G3 is maybe a centimetre thick and I don't need it to be any thinner. Honestly, why do you need your phone to be thinner than that (and probably more likely to bend)? Are you planning to use it as a credit card?
If I was going to port just one piece of software to Linux, it would be the Windows 7 Desktop Environment.
Yep, this is a biggie for me. Here's some things that most (maybe all) linux GUIs get wrong:
- The close icon in the top-right should go all the way to the top-right pixel to make it "infinite in size". - The start menu's layout should be determined by the file system and not a bunch of.desktop files in 100 different locations. - There should be a system tray with a well-defined API for applications to add themselves to it. - Window borders should be several px wide and not 1px wide. - There should be one unified clipboard (in my dreams). - There should be a decent file explorer bundled (nothing comes remotely close to Explorer) - Every "file select" dialog should be an instance of that file explorer, allowing on-the-fly operations when selecting a file such as "create new folder" and "create new file" (I'm not joking, having a unified Explorer interface is massively useful)
Literally every time I have asked about something like this I get exactly the same response: bundling all this functionality together is "not the unix/linux way". Literally. Every. Time. No-one in the Linux world seems to have any other opinion.
So the only recommendations you'll get from within the community are a combination of Postfix, Dovecot, Squirrelmail, and a few others.
You jest, but the Windows registry is quite a nicely organized way of storing settings (and easier for programs to interact with) compared to the 1001 variants of Linux config files scattered about all over the place.
GIMP became usable for me when they implemented single-window mode; now I use it all the time as my main image editing program. I'd probably find Photoshop harder to use because I've gotten used to the way GIMP does things.
A good example is removable batteries in mobile phones. I was shopping around a few days ago and the only major Smartphones that still have removable batteries are the LG G3/G4, Samsung S5 (not the S6), and I think the Moto X. Everyone else has jumped on the Apple ship and denied you access to the smartphone battery, preventing a hard reset.
The second MS started pulling this Windows 10 shit weeks ago (and I discovered they had downloaded 4GB to my hard drive), I disabled automatic updates and uninstalled the offending KBs. Touch wood I haven't had MS install any crap to my Windows 7 box since then.
I want to know, honestly, how one carries around a phablet. It's too big for your pocket, but it doesn't come with a laptop-style carrying case. So what do you do, carry it around in your hand? Wear baggy clown pants to your pockets are large enough...?
They're getting ever more sophisticated. I got some sort of malware the other day that actually poses as a Windows update, which puts a permanent icon in my system tray with regular (3 or 4 times a day) popups about a "free upgrade to Windows 10". Luckily I don't fall for that kind of thing but I don't know how I got the virus in the first place.
That requires a lot of energy, and there's no way short of a revolution in fusion technology that you could use that to produce enough water for irrigation of any significant amount of stable land.
First, there was no return to the moon program to cancel.
Wait, what? And the Constellation program sounds like a much better idea than pissing away money on a manned mission to Mars, anyway - a permanent Lunar colony? Much cooler idea and when expanded could even lead (ultimately) to tourism of the moon.
... Firefox will be Chrome. Anyone who cared about extensive browser customization will simply abandon their addons. Why keep recoding them on Mozilla's whim?
For anyone who still cares about this stuff, the time to jump is most certainly NOW. I don't even think SeaMonkey is good enough - Pale Moon is a totally clean break.
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years ago we thought it was impossible for you and, who have never met before, to publicly post messages to each other in such a way that nobody else could decrypt them - without ever talking privately to share an encryption key. Now, we use Diffie-Hellman every day to do exactly that, as part of https.
We are talking privately - through Mozilla, or Microsoft, or Apple, or Google. That's why your browser has a big old list of certificates.
What did you expect? FACT were the retards who produced this (it's not a spoof; it's on some of my DVDs). Not exactly the brightest lightbulbs.
Actually, a good pre-requisite would seem to be a space elevator, which would be a better investment now that we are getting materials strong enough to build a tether in principle. Then we could relatively cheaply get a spaceship up there.
I still love that game...
Quite. The most qualified homeopathic doctors need to be paid cheques of nothing that have the memory of money.
Right, so giving the Falklands to Argentina would make the world a better place, would it? Just caving in to bully boy tactics? Yeah, that would set a real good precedent.
The guy's a pathetic pacifist. Fuck him.
What annoys me about most of the anti-homeopaths is that they conflate homeopathic remedies with homeopathic philosophy
What the fuck are you talking about? Of course we do; the two are completely inseperable. You're talking about "weak" solutions maybe having a beneficial effect on someone's illness; well that's just regular medicine. Homeopathy would probably say that that solution wasn't diluted enough. It's not fucking homeopathy if there's anything left except almost 100% water.
but if the military finds something out in the course of operations that are not intended to arrest your ass, there is a long history of the Court's saying "ok, Srg. Jennings says this guy had weed, we now grant a warrant to you Mr. DEA man to search this guy."
Well as long as they just arrest my ass and let the rest of me go that's not so bad.
it is that more people would rather have a thinner phone
What is it with that, can anyone explain to me? My LG G3 is maybe a centimetre thick and I don't need it to be any thinner. Honestly, why do you need your phone to be thinner than that (and probably more likely to bend)? Are you planning to use it as a credit card?
If I was going to port just one piece of software to Linux, it would be the Windows 7 Desktop Environment.
Yep, this is a biggie for me. Here's some things that most (maybe all) linux GUIs get wrong:
- The close icon in the top-right should go all the way to the top-right pixel to make it "infinite in size". .desktop files in 100 different locations.
- The start menu's layout should be determined by the file system and not a bunch of
- There should be a system tray with a well-defined API for applications to add themselves to it.
- Window borders should be several px wide and not 1px wide.
- There should be one unified clipboard (in my dreams).
- There should be a decent file explorer bundled (nothing comes remotely close to Explorer)
- Every "file select" dialog should be an instance of that file explorer, allowing on-the-fly operations when selecting a file such as "create new folder" and "create new file" (I'm not joking, having a unified Explorer interface is massively useful)
Good luck with that.
Literally every time I have asked about something like this I get exactly the same response: bundling all this functionality together is "not the unix/linux way". Literally. Every. Time. No-one in the Linux world seems to have any other opinion.
So the only recommendations you'll get from within the community are a combination of Postfix, Dovecot, Squirrelmail, and a few others.
You jest, but the Windows registry is quite a nicely organized way of storing settings (and easier for programs to interact with) compared to the 1001 variants of Linux config files scattered about all over the place.
GIMP became usable for me when they implemented single-window mode; now I use it all the time as my main image editing program. I'd probably find Photoshop harder to use because I've gotten used to the way GIMP does things.
A good example is removable batteries in mobile phones. I was shopping around a few days ago and the only major Smartphones that still have removable batteries are the LG G3/G4, Samsung S5 (not the S6), and I think the Moto X. Everyone else has jumped on the Apple ship and denied you access to the smartphone battery, preventing a hard reset.
Stop copying Apple, you lemmings!!
Unfortunately, with the impending killing off of XUL/XPCOM, SeaMonkey is a gonner.
The second MS started pulling this Windows 10 shit weeks ago (and I discovered they had downloaded 4GB to my hard drive), I disabled automatic updates and uninstalled the offending KBs. Touch wood I haven't had MS install any crap to my Windows 7 box since then.
I want to know, honestly, how one carries around a phablet. It's too big for your pocket, but it doesn't come with a laptop-style carrying case. So what do you do, carry it around in your hand? Wear baggy clown pants to your pockets are large enough...?
Perhaps a shitty monochrome interface (seen the icons in Win10? They're just 2-color line art abominations.)
Depends on the design of the nuclear plant. Pretty much no accident at a generation IV reactor could release any radiation into the environment.
They're getting ever more sophisticated. I got some sort of malware the other day that actually poses as a Windows update, which puts a permanent icon in my system tray with regular (3 or 4 times a day) popups about a "free upgrade to Windows 10". Luckily I don't fall for that kind of thing but I don't know how I got the virus in the first place.
That requires a lot of energy, and there's no way short of a revolution in fusion technology that you could use that to produce enough water for irrigation of any significant amount of stable land.
What about fission?
First, there was no return to the moon program to cancel.
Wait, what? And the Constellation program sounds like a much better idea than pissing away money on a manned mission to Mars, anyway - a permanent Lunar colony? Much cooler idea and when expanded could even lead (ultimately) to tourism of the moon.
Wow, a whole year. Sorry, where's the good news?
Pale Moon is a viable replacement.
... Firefox will be Chrome. Anyone who cared about extensive browser customization will simply abandon their addons. Why keep recoding them on Mozilla's whim?
For anyone who still cares about this stuff, the time to jump is most certainly NOW. I don't even think SeaMonkey is good enough - Pale Moon is a totally clean break.