Actually, it really doesn't add up. In the 2000 census, 79% of Americans lived in urban areas. There is no "long tail" of rural residents. Only about a fifth of the population lives outside of cities.
We have more than 250 million people in our cities, and there's no excuse for our lagging network services.
For what it's worth, the Linden floats against the dollar. You could, if you were really bored, try to make money by arbitraging Lindens against Dollars.
I'm no attorney and don't really know anything about the law, so please consider my reply at face value. That said, it's difficult for me to imagine how an EULA could seem enforceable to anyone who hasn't been through the law school brainwash. You go to the store and buy some software in a box. Your agreement is with the retailer, not the maker of the software. There doesn't seem to be any way for a third party (the maker of the software) to insinuate itself into the transaction.
Now that's just me and common sense talking, and I'm aware of the fact that the legal system abandoned common sense at some point in the 20th century, but I believe as a general principle there's no way an EULA could be enforced.
Yes, his responses are rather reasonable and considered, unlike your reply, which adds nothing to the conversation whatsoever, and consists wholly of unfounded strawman attacks.
Remember, this issue is about surveillance of international communications.
No, we're not, unless you are talking about something else. The President has admitted to authorizing wiretaps of domestic communications. Even the Justice Department doesn't think it's legal. Half the high-ranking officials at Justice threatened to resign and the President tried to get Ashcroft to sign off on it when Ashcroft was barely alive in intensive care.
You'd be right, if this were a wide-open field of Constitutional scholarship, but it is not. The Supreme Court has already ruled on the matter of domestic surveillance and national security. The court ruled unanimously that the Fourth Amendment protects the People from unwarranted surveillance, regardless of the President's feelings on the matter. Quoting the majority:
History abundantly documents the tendency of Government - however benevolent and benign its motives - to view with suspicion those who most fervently dispute its policies. Fourth Amendment protections become the more necessary when the targets of official surveillance may be those suspected of unorthodoxy in their political beliefs. The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent.
The grandparent is off in the weeds, but there's a perfectly good basis for impeaching Bush. He has plainly admitted to authorizing 45 wiretaps of domestic telephones without the approval of the FISA court. That is simply illegal. In fact it's a felony and it carries a 5-year jail sentence.
I see you have never visited the Pacific Coast. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we have numerous refineries, notably in Richmond, Benicia, and Martinez. There are several refineries in Bakersfield, Long Beach, and Oxnard serving the southern part of the state. I can't speak for Oregon or Washington but California has enough refinery capacity to consume 2 million barrels of crude per day, which is more than the entire export capacity of Mexico. For your information, the maximum capacity of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline is only 2.1 million barrels per day. Prudhoe Bay produces only 400,000 barrels per day, not nearly enough to keep the pipeline full and certainly not enough to max out our west coast refinery capacity.
In other words, your post is completely incorrect.
This is really unrelated to the overall speed of Firefox. The download manager has a particular bug which makes every download slower than the last. You can workaround this annoying bug, for the time being, by cleaning out all the entries in the download window.
Thank you for your completely worthless addition to the canon of anecdotes. Did you try the browser memory test? I did, and Firefox used about 150MB while Opera had over 200MB. Opera also used more than 4 times the CPU time.
The problem with the "Save As" is known, and it's caused by the RDF subsystem that underlies history and the download manager. It's being replaced in Firefox 3.0. You can work around it by clearing your history and clearing the download manager. That particular problem is really annoying, I agree.
Yes, and it's doubly FUD because it's based on "anecdotal reports" from the kinds of people who thing that -funroll-loops makes your Linux kernel 20% faster. Firefox is and always has been faster (uses less CPU) and more efficient (uses less memory) compared to IE and even compared to Opera. Try the browser buster memory test and you will see that Firefox beats other popular browsers by a factor of 2x to 4x.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=240 026
I really hope the fourth season is great. The miniseries and the first season were amazing. There was a great deal of suspense in the parallel plots on Galactica and on the planet Caprica, and the Cylons were sinister and mysterious. In season 3 the Cylons are some kind of angsty teenagers. And I don't think that a good cliffhanger consists of morons whistling Hendrix in the bathroom. WTF?
Thanks for your feedback... The magic filenames are of the form {1768bcfe-9acf-4af5-b857-32eb9c640c4e} and if you name a file that way on the Desktop in Windows, Explorer looks up that UUID and loads the DLL, then QI's it into existence. The "magic" part here is that I can use _any_ DLL and Explorer will still try to QI it into a shell extension, which is obviously grossly unsafe, which is why they had to work around it.
I think the lesson here is not that this guy should have been more careful about programming, it's that no amount of careful programming can overcome a stupid design. It's stupid that there are magical filenames in the form of UUIDs that cause Explorer to load and run arbitrary DLLs. You can't get around this stupidity with some kind of speculative watchdog thread that works with what sound to me like some seriously questionable heuristics.
They should have simply got rid of the magic naming system in favor of something explicit, such as a Shell Extension Interface that a shell extension must fully implement.
Building a "player" for Silverlight is also orders of magnitude simpler than building the complete ecosystem: the engine, the development tools, the designer tools and the partnerships.
You are proposing to make Linux a second-class citizen on this future Web. Today, the Internet is created and operated, at least in part, on Linux systems. You are saying that we will be able to use Silverlight application on Linux, but we won't be able to create or serve those applications, and we certainly won't be able to modify them. That doesn't seem consistent with the ideals of software freedom.
The dollar has fallen quite a lot? Most of the components in the OLPC are from China or USA. Over the last two years the dollar has lost a whopping 6.6% against the yuan. So I seriously doubt that FX has been a major factor in the OLPC price.
Wow, those are very serious bugs. A website could include items out of your cache, then post the contents back to itself. Or it could run a local DoS by including/dev/tty. This class of bugs was reported in Mozilla way back in 2001 and fixed in various stages most recently in 2004. That WebKit doesn't recognize the severity of this problem says a lot about that project.
This is a gross misrepresentation of what Alexaholic does. It does not "pull images" from Alexa. Ever. It just constructs a URI and tells your browser about it. Then your browser pulls the image directly from Alexa.
I don't think you understand the issue. Statsaholic is just telling your browser the location of the image. Your browser fetches the image directly from Alexa, and Alexa generates the image. The Alexaholic guy is at no time in posession of the image, so how could he have possibly violated Alexa's copyright?
The *only* service that Statsaholic provides is concatenating some strings into a URI.
The web is a lever of productivity for banks and similar businesses. If their website excludes you, you can cost them some money by transacting all of your businesses with them over the phone or, even better, in person. Maybe after a while they'll get the hint.
As usual, some slashmoron has thought about the issue for 10 seconds and thinks he has all the answers. The Washington State ban on deca-DBE only goes into effect/after/ a state agency certifies a suitable flame retardant for any given application.
In short, you're an ignorant douchelord who doesn't know even the first thing about the issue.
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Actually, it really doesn't add up. In the 2000 census, 79% of Americans lived in urban areas. There is no "long tail" of rural residents. Only about a fifth of the population lives outside of cities.
We have more than 250 million people in our cities, and there's no excuse for our lagging network services.
For what it's worth, the Linden floats against the dollar. You could, if you were really bored, try to make money by arbitraging Lindens against Dollars.
I'm no attorney and don't really know anything about the law, so please consider my reply at face value. That said, it's difficult for me to imagine how an EULA could seem enforceable to anyone who hasn't been through the law school brainwash. You go to the store and buy some software in a box. Your agreement is with the retailer, not the maker of the software. There doesn't seem to be any way for a third party (the maker of the software) to insinuate itself into the transaction.
Now that's just me and common sense talking, and I'm aware of the fact that the legal system abandoned common sense at some point in the 20th century, but I believe as a general principle there's no way an EULA could be enforced.
Yes, his responses are rather reasonable and considered, unlike your reply, which adds nothing to the conversation whatsoever, and consists wholly of unfounded strawman attacks.
The grandparent is off in the weeds, but there's a perfectly good basis for impeaching Bush. He has plainly admitted to authorizing 45 wiretaps of domestic telephones without the approval of the FISA court. That is simply illegal. In fact it's a felony and it carries a 5-year jail sentence.
So, to repharse your post, you are in favor of ZFS and you recommend it to others, even though you haven't tried it yet.
I see you have never visited the Pacific Coast. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we have numerous refineries, notably in Richmond, Benicia, and Martinez. There are several refineries in Bakersfield, Long Beach, and Oxnard serving the southern part of the state. I can't speak for Oregon or Washington but California has enough refinery capacity to consume 2 million barrels of crude per day, which is more than the entire export capacity of Mexico. For your information, the maximum capacity of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline is only 2.1 million barrels per day. Prudhoe Bay produces only 400,000 barrels per day, not nearly enough to keep the pipeline full and certainly not enough to max out our west coast refinery capacity.
In other words, your post is completely incorrect.
This is really unrelated to the overall speed of Firefox. The download manager has a particular bug which makes every download slower than the last. You can workaround this annoying bug, for the time being, by cleaning out all the entries in the download window.
Thank you for your completely worthless addition to the canon of anecdotes. Did you try the browser memory test? I did, and Firefox used about 150MB while Opera had over 200MB. Opera also used more than 4 times the CPU time.
The problem with the "Save As" is known, and it's caused by the RDF subsystem that underlies history and the download manager. It's being replaced in Firefox 3.0. You can work around it by clearing your history and clearing the download manager. That particular problem is really annoying, I agree.
Yes, and it's doubly FUD because it's based on "anecdotal reports" from the kinds of people who thing that -funroll-loops makes your Linux kernel 20% faster. Firefox is and always has been faster (uses less CPU) and more efficient (uses less memory) compared to IE and even compared to Opera. Try the browser buster memory test and you will see that Firefox beats other popular browsers by a factor of 2x to 4x. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=240 026
I really hope the fourth season is great. The miniseries and the first season were amazing. There was a great deal of suspense in the parallel plots on Galactica and on the planet Caprica, and the Cylons were sinister and mysterious. In season 3 the Cylons are some kind of angsty teenagers. And I don't think that a good cliffhanger consists of morons whistling Hendrix in the bathroom. WTF?
Thanks for your feedback ... The magic filenames are of the form {1768bcfe-9acf-4af5-b857-32eb9c640c4e} and if you name a file that way on the Desktop in Windows, Explorer looks up that UUID and loads the DLL, then QI's it into existence. The "magic" part here is that I can use _any_ DLL and Explorer will still try to QI it into a shell extension, which is obviously grossly unsafe, which is why they had to work around it.
I think the lesson here is not that this guy should have been more careful about programming, it's that no amount of careful programming can overcome a stupid design. It's stupid that there are magical filenames in the form of UUIDs that cause Explorer to load and run arbitrary DLLs. You can't get around this stupidity with some kind of speculative watchdog thread that works with what sound to me like some seriously questionable heuristics.
They should have simply got rid of the magic naming system in favor of something explicit, such as a Shell Extension Interface that a shell extension must fully implement.
The dollar has fallen quite a lot? Most of the components in the OLPC are from China or USA. Over the last two years the dollar has lost a whopping 6.6% against the yuan. So I seriously doubt that FX has been a major factor in the OLPC price.
I suppose you will be surprised to find out that Scharffen Berger is a division of Hershey's "Big Corporate" empire.
Wow, those are very serious bugs. A website could include items out of your cache, then post the contents back to itself. Or it could run a local DoS by including /dev/tty. This class of bugs was reported in Mozilla way back in 2001 and fixed in various stages most recently in 2004. That WebKit doesn't recognize the severity of this problem says a lot about that project.
A BlackBerry can read Word and Excel attachments, as well as PDFs, so they do have functionality along these lines.
Thanks! I don't see signatures so I completely forgot about it.
This is a gross misrepresentation of what Alexaholic does. It does not "pull images" from Alexa. Ever. It just constructs a URI and tells your browser about it. Then your browser pulls the image directly from Alexa.
I don't think you understand the issue. Statsaholic is just telling your browser the location of the image. Your browser fetches the image directly from Alexa, and Alexa generates the image. The Alexaholic guy is at no time in posession of the image, so how could he have possibly violated Alexa's copyright?
The *only* service that Statsaholic provides is concatenating some strings into a URI.
The web is a lever of productivity for banks and similar businesses. If their website excludes you, you can cost them some money by transacting all of your businesses with them over the phone or, even better, in person. Maybe after a while they'll get the hint.
As usual, some slashmoron has thought about the issue for 10 seconds and thinks he has all the answers. The Washington State ban on deca-DBE only goes into effect /after/ a state agency certifies a suitable flame retardant for any given application.
In short, you're an ignorant douchelord who doesn't know even the first thing about the issue.