The topic icons appear to work for me - have you checked your settings? There is a flag to turn these on and off IIRC.
Nope. The topic icons have disappeared for me as well, and the 'No icons' option in my preferences is unchecked. This wreaks of yet more 'live' SLASH development.
Erm, how do you mean 'an ISP mail server'? For instance, would they define my e-mail provider, runbox.com, as an ISP? It's not a _dialup_ ISP, but it provides an internet service (e-mail).
The whitelisting is automatic. You respond to the check message, and it adds you.
So, couldn't a spammer's mailer just send a nonsense msg to [spamlist], a confirmation message to [spamlist] and then the actual spam to [spamlist]? Sure, they'd have to send out 3 times as much e-mail but they sure as hell don't seem to have major problems sending out vast quantities. The check message would have to be made somewhat cryptic to respond correctly to in order to fool the spammers' mailers, in which case it would be harder for genuine people to whitelist themselves. Sure, anyone with a brain (that rules some people out already) could do it, but it would hardly be 'effortless'.
I thought that the real danger of hydrogen was that it had to be stored under *enormous* pressure in something like a car so that there is a reasonable amount of fuel available, and if there was a breach in the container, the pressure would cause a violent explosion (like breaking an airplane windows at 40000 ft)?
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Name an application, or a feature of the operating system, that is truly innovative?
I think a far more appropriate question is: Is it _necessary_ to constantly be 'innovative'?
Linux is already a f*cking good OS, it doesn't NEED constant new innovations. True innovation happens slowly, in spurts, not all the time. Most Microsoft 'innovation' == pure bloat.
This is a slightly hollow victory. I've just read the judgement, and it seems that "Kazaa BV", who were also being prosecuted, went out of business and/or ceased defending the action, probably because they sold their license rights to Sharman Networld plc. Morpheus is now irrelevant, as they are part of the *truly* P2P network Gnutella.
However, Grokster were 'let off the hook' by the court mainly because they do nothing but license the FastTrack software from Kazaa (Sharman) and have *no* access to its source code (I didn't know this), and so could do nothing to help prevent copyright infringement by its use. Furthermore, they apparently no longer operate any root supernodes, and just use Kazaa's. Kazaa operate these root supernodes AND have access to the sourcecode for the client, which could (sigh) be used the cripple the product and use 1001 ways to try and identify a copyrighted work and prevent it from being shared. We could see a lawsuit against Sharman Networks in the future, and if Kazaa goes down, so does Grokster (which I think is a shame because FastTrack is a fantastic network design). Morpheus (or StreamCast) should no longer be considered in the same group; it's just a Gnutella client.
If they made the code opensource, and allowed public lists of supernodes to be published, then they'd have an unbreakable (as Gnutella) P2P network with a much better, more efficient design! Alas, I suspect that the kind of money they're making from ad revenues will prevent this, and ultimately they're more likely to go down the ultra-censorship route if forced to by the courts.
I wouldn't worry. Microsoft are trying to rain on the parade (read article about WMP9's "anti-piracy" features) so you won't be able to do that for much longer.
Isn't there a danger in trying to extrapolate too much from what somebody gestures? You could get it wrong. It already happens when humans aren't clear or precise enough, and people can misunderstand. Causes no end of problems, and hence a general rule when instructing work colleagues is to be as clear and precise as possible. Why do you want to take us in the *other* direction when it comes to interacting with the computer? Pure laziness?
I think that it's remarkably difficult to switch keyboard layouts if you've grown up being used to a particular one (QWERTY), both actually learning the new layout and having the motivation to go through with it. I know I wouldn't. I'm perfectly happy with QWERTY, and have learnt to (almost) touch type with it over many years. I wouldn't like to have to put that kind of effort in retraining myself with a new keyboard layout, and I'm not sure I could ever become as good with it as I am with this one.
How on Earth can you put those old keyboards into the dishwasher?? I lost my last keyboard because I spilt a small amount of drink on it. Within seconds, the keys around the spillage were going crazy, and you got about 5 letters whenever you pressed them. I can understand being able to wash the keys but the whole thing, even the electronics???
Wouldn't it get in the way of the screen? I certainly think it would for me, looking at the setup I have now (regular keyboard directly in front of screen).
In some countries, school teachers are dying of AIDS faster than they can be trained.
Well maybe they should stop shagging then. We all know exactly how you get AIDS, by sharing a needle or going like a bunny with most of the people in your town/village until you catch it. I suspect the vast majority of AIDS cases could be *stopped dead* if the idiots just learnt to control their hormones for a while! It may also help to solve their infant mortality problems.
That stuff looks wonderful. Concentrate on getting the capacities up to gigabytes instead of kilobytes, and you can do away with all the 'baggage' of a conventional non-volatile drive; platters, heads, disk cache, necessity to seal it in a vacuum, etc... You could completely do away with the distinction between volatile and non-volatile memory.
However, I fear that it would be a bit like HDDs - as the available capacity increases, so the reliability would drop and drop.
But you can never get away from a fundamental flaw of 'memory filesystems' - they *need a UPS* to keep functioning, or you have to resort to backing stuff up on, guess what, a magnetic disk, which seems to defeat the object of the excercise. Requiring CONSTANT power to a long term storage medium, as opposed to particles just staying put, is simply inconvenient.
There wouldn't be immediate removal of power without a review and evidence of the corruption - just a temporary suspension. And I think that with far more independent bodies to corrupt, and much harsher punishments for corruption (as opposed to positively ENCOURAGING it like in the US), it would make a big difference.
Well ya see that's the beauty of it. There are numerous review boards that review each other, as well as the government. They keep each other in check. And hopefully, the penalties for any form of corruption would be so harsh that there wouldn't really be any opportunity for a cartel to develop. Bribery (and that definately includes 'lobbying') would be a crime, and would result in any participating politician being blacklisted forever.
Or flush them both down the toilet. Turn yours into a protest vote, and either don't vote, or vote for a no-hoper candidate. If enough people did this, the main parties would get the message!
But I thought the people of IRAQ were meant to be governing their own country? Even the Bush administration seems to be saying that. "We don't want the UN involved, we want Iraqis to govern their own country." And they get that bitch to write critical laws? I think they'd better ratchet up the War On Drugs, because someone's been smoking crack.
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The topic icons appear to work for me - have you checked your settings? There is a flag to turn these on and off IIRC.
Nope. The topic icons have disappeared for me as well, and the 'No icons' option in my preferences is unchecked. This wreaks of yet more 'live' SLASH development.
Erm, how do you mean 'an ISP mail server'? For instance, would they define my e-mail provider, runbox.com, as an ISP? It's not a _dialup_ ISP, but it provides an internet service (e-mail).
The whitelisting is automatic. You respond to the check message, and it adds you.
So, couldn't a spammer's mailer just send a nonsense msg to [spamlist], a confirmation message to [spamlist] and then the actual spam to [spamlist]? Sure, they'd have to send out 3 times as much e-mail but they sure as hell don't seem to have major problems sending out vast quantities. The check message would have to be made somewhat cryptic to respond correctly to in order to fool the spammers' mailers, in which case it would be harder for genuine people to whitelist themselves. Sure, anyone with a brain (that rules some people out already) could do it, but it would hardly be 'effortless'.
I thought that the real danger of hydrogen was that it had to be stored under *enormous* pressure in something like a car so that there is a reasonable amount of fuel available, and if there was a breach in the container, the pressure would cause a violent explosion (like breaking an airplane windows at 40000 ft)?
If that isn't the norm in your home, you must have had a rather unhappy upbringing.
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Name an application, or a feature of the operating system, that is truly innovative?
I think a far more appropriate question is: Is it _necessary_ to constantly be 'innovative'?
Linux is already a f*cking good OS, it doesn't NEED constant new innovations. True innovation happens slowly, in spurts, not all the time. Most Microsoft 'innovation' == pure bloat.
This is a slightly hollow victory. I've just read the judgement, and it seems that "Kazaa BV", who were also being prosecuted, went out of business and/or ceased defending the action, probably because they sold their license rights to Sharman Networld plc. Morpheus is now irrelevant, as they are part of the *truly* P2P network Gnutella.
However, Grokster were 'let off the hook' by the court mainly because they do nothing but license the FastTrack software from Kazaa (Sharman) and have *no* access to its source code (I didn't know this), and so could do nothing to help prevent copyright infringement by its use. Furthermore, they apparently no longer operate any root supernodes, and just use Kazaa's. Kazaa operate these root supernodes AND have access to the sourcecode for the client, which could (sigh) be used the cripple the product and use 1001 ways to try and identify a copyrighted work and prevent it from being shared. We could see a lawsuit against Sharman Networks in the future, and if Kazaa goes down, so does Grokster (which I think is a shame because FastTrack is a fantastic network design). Morpheus (or StreamCast) should no longer be considered in the same group; it's just a Gnutella client.
If they made the code opensource, and allowed public lists of supernodes to be published, then they'd have an unbreakable (as Gnutella) P2P network with a much better, more efficient design! Alas, I suspect that the kind of money they're making from ad revenues will prevent this, and ultimately they're more likely to go down the ultra-censorship route if forced to by the courts.
I wouldn't worry. Microsoft are trying to rain on the parade (read article about WMP9's "anti-piracy" features) so you won't be able to do that for much longer.
LOL! I love that film. Never saw it, but the trailer I saw said it all...
Arnie: "I am ze iiraser. You vill be iirased."
They certainly know how to appeal to my (and 50% of the population's) id.
Actually it's perfectly legal to download MP3s that aren't subject to draconian copyright laws.
Isn't there a danger in trying to extrapolate too much from what somebody gestures? You could get it wrong. It already happens when humans aren't clear or precise enough, and people can misunderstand. Causes no end of problems, and hence a general rule when instructing work colleagues is to be as clear and precise as possible. Why do you want to take us in the *other* direction when it comes to interacting with the computer? Pure laziness?
I think that it's remarkably difficult to switch keyboard layouts if you've grown up being used to a particular one (QWERTY), both actually learning the new layout and having the motivation to go through with it. I know I wouldn't. I'm perfectly happy with QWERTY, and have learnt to (almost) touch type with it over many years. I wouldn't like to have to put that kind of effort in retraining myself with a new keyboard layout, and I'm not sure I could ever become as good with it as I am with this one.
How on Earth can you put those old keyboards into the dishwasher?? I lost my last keyboard because I spilt a small amount of drink on it. Within seconds, the keys around the spillage were going crazy, and you got about 5 letters whenever you pressed them. I can understand being able to wash the keys but the whole thing, even the electronics???
Wouldn't it get in the way of the screen? I certainly think it would for me, looking at the setup I have now (regular keyboard directly in front of screen).
Oh yeah, I totally agree, we had some Hershey's over there and it was terrible :-)
They need to experience our milk chocolate. Some Galaxy, perhaps? Flake??
Civil war is also quite common.
How is it possible to have a civil war?
In some countries, school teachers are dying of AIDS faster than they can be trained.
Well maybe they should stop shagging then. We all know exactly how you get AIDS, by sharing a needle or going like a bunny with most of the people in your town/village until you catch it. I suspect the vast majority of AIDS cases could be *stopped dead* if the idiots just learnt to control their hormones for a while! It may also help to solve their infant mortality problems.
That stuff looks wonderful. Concentrate on getting the capacities up to gigabytes instead of kilobytes, and you can do away with all the 'baggage' of a conventional non-volatile drive; platters, heads, disk cache, necessity to seal it in a vacuum, etc... You could completely do away with the distinction between volatile and non-volatile memory.
However, I fear that it would be a bit like HDDs - as the available capacity increases, so the reliability would drop and drop.
But you can never get away from a fundamental flaw of 'memory filesystems' - they *need a UPS* to keep functioning, or you have to resort to backing stuff up on, guess what, a magnetic disk, which seems to defeat the object of the excercise. Requiring CONSTANT power to a long term storage medium, as opposed to particles just staying put, is simply inconvenient.
There wouldn't be immediate removal of power without a review and evidence of the corruption - just a temporary suspension. And I think that with far more independent bodies to corrupt, and much harsher punishments for corruption (as opposed to positively ENCOURAGING it like in the US), it would make a big difference.
Well ya see that's the beauty of it. There are numerous review boards that review each other, as well as the government. They keep each other in check. And hopefully, the penalties for any form of corruption would be so harsh that there wouldn't really be any opportunity for a cartel to develop. Bribery (and that definately includes 'lobbying') would be a crime, and would result in any participating politician being blacklisted forever.
Or flush them both down the toilet. Turn yours into a protest vote, and either don't vote, or vote for a no-hoper candidate. If enough people did this, the main parties would get the message!
But I thought the people of IRAQ were meant to be governing their own country? Even the Bush administration seems to be saying that. "We don't want the UN involved, we want Iraqis to govern their own country." And they get that bitch to write critical laws? I think they'd better ratchet up the War On Drugs, because someone's been smoking crack.
Bush et al have already proven that they couldn't care less about the Geneva Convention by using Guantanemo Bay to hold people with no rights.