I don't care if page loads faster if it doesn' show correctly. I bet lynx can load it faster than IE, but that doesn't make it the best browser.
Last time I checked HTML was designed to preserve content but does not force rendering on browser. So you can for example render HTML on text-to-speach machines. Lynx is a perfect example here.
For instance, if China treats space the way they treat many other things (ie little or no regard for its preservation, pardon the sweeping statement)[...]
USA is no better than China (in fact all the countries have their part of sins). Just remember when USA reduced CFC emission?
Executable code should not be embedded in documents, the format should not allow it, and document readers should not execute code.
Do you realize that PostScript document is de facto a program? I play a devil's advocate here because PDF vulnerability has nothing to do with graphic content but with embedded JavaScript. Nevertheless you are wrong. Being a document is not opposite to being a program.
We can't seem to keep the LEGAL immigrants we want...the educated ones, that followed the laws, and contribute to the system. Instead, we are stuck with the ILLEGAL ones, that...well......generally are the opposite of the aforementioned legal ones.
What a hypocrisy! When Bill Gates does something in private life (imagine him buying an iPhone for example) everyone at Slashdot takes it as a matter for discussion. But you don't want others to judge you after your online (not so private at all) doings.
'What we've got here is a technology that could be saving the world $80 billion a year,' Wilcox says."
It sounds like a good thing. Saving money during economic crysis. But if you think about it for a while it's $80 billion less for someone to earn. It will make jobless a lot of people and whole industries could suffer. I am not sure we are ready for this during a crysis.
I like how the summary says that the "designer baby" era is here despite the fact that, hey, we can't actually customize babies yet.
Maybe not but we can... get rid of those who are not designed the way we want them to be. This is why in some countries you will not get an information about your unborn child sex.
i am going to receive flak from slashdot in general, but here goes: there is actually material on the internet that even the most socially liberal, libertarian-minded society would find objectionable, and has every right AND duty to block
I have never accidentaly found child pornography when browsing the net. I never looked for it but I assume if you really want one you can find it. It's just you can't easily stumble upon it. That means blocking such site is not required to protect people from accidentaly viewing such materials.
On the other hand, if someone is looking for child porn than he will not look on WWW but probably through torrents or usenet. Which means blocking publicly accessible web pages has no merit at all.
People in other countries will prefer this film with subtitles or native language audio track. This station will lose nothing unless we are talking about english-language country.
Not America but private companies. If you start using tax money to clean up space those companies will stop care at all about polluting space with debris.
If not, then the group whose sat is taken out by a dead sat or by their junk MAY turn around and sue. My guess is that a law suit will start on either this one, or the next collision.
Problem is there are (almost) no laws in space so it's rather hard to sue anyone.
I think many of Slashdotters miss the point. I get it like this:
1) there are two types of channels text and audio
2) if Amazon buys a right to distribute a book as text this does not give them right to distribute it as audio
3) introducing text2speach makes textbook dangerously close to audiobook
4) they just want Amazon to pay for two licences instead of one
5) this has nothing to do with end user which has all the rights to convert text to speach
Sure, this is just nit-picking. It's not as if MS product names have ever really said much about what the product actually is. It is still annoying though.
They don't. They still call it Windows. It's like adding postfix to Ubuntu's name with each new version.
Will our freedoms and rights be next in line? Will the United States be forced to adopt European restrictions on free speech? Will Europe be forced to adopt Islamic restrictions on free speech? Will the United States, Finland, Switzerland and Norway be forced to adopt stricter gun control laws?
You can allow free movement for people and still keep your rights and laws. Allowing free pass at borders for anyone doesn't take any freedom from you.
Actually fighting Microsoft is non-patriotic in those times of recession. If Microsoft loses those contracts it means they must cut on jobs. GNU programs will not feed that many people as Microsoft.
Most LCD monitors look horribly in vertical position. Color is not really stable in vertical axis so when you rotate monitor your left eye gets slightly different color than right one. Also you can't use ClearType in vertical mode.
Am I a pirate becuase I ripped Transformers and removed all the adult crap to where it's just a movie of transforming giant robots for my kids to watch?
Damn, where is the adult crap in Transformers? I horribly missed it.
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I don't care if page loads faster if it doesn' show correctly. I bet lynx can load it faster than IE, but that doesn't make it the best browser.
Last time I checked HTML was designed to preserve content but does not force rendering on browser. So you can for example render HTML on text-to-speach machines. Lynx is a perfect example here.
For instance, if China treats space the way they treat many other things (ie little or no regard for its preservation, pardon the sweeping statement)[...]
USA is no better than China (in fact all the countries have their part of sins). Just remember when USA reduced CFC emission?
The same situation is in Poland.
All it does is safely transports a key used in ordinary crypto algorithm. So you may use the same futuristic quantum computers to break those keys.
If you really fear of quantum computers you should up your key length.
Executable code should not be embedded in documents, the format should not allow it, and document readers should not execute code.
Do you realize that PostScript document is de facto a program? I play a devil's advocate here because PDF vulnerability has nothing to do with graphic content but with embedded JavaScript. Nevertheless you are wrong. Being a document is not opposite to being a program.
We can't seem to keep the LEGAL immigrants we want...the educated ones, that followed the laws, and contribute to the system. Instead, we are stuck with the ILLEGAL ones, that...well......generally are the opposite of the aforementioned legal ones.
USA, a country of immigrants... not anymore.
What a hypocrisy! When Bill Gates does something in private life (imagine him buying an iPhone for example) everyone at Slashdot takes it as a matter for discussion. But you don't want others to judge you after your online (not so private at all) doings.
'What we've got here is a technology that could be saving the world $80 billion a year,' Wilcox says."
It sounds like a good thing. Saving money during economic crysis. But if you think about it for a while it's $80 billion less for someone to earn. It will make jobless a lot of people and whole industries could suffer. I am not sure we are ready for this during a crysis.
I like how the summary says that the "designer baby" era is here despite the fact that, hey, we can't actually customize babies yet.
Maybe not but we can... get rid of those who are not designed the way we want them to be. This is why in some countries you will not get an information about your unborn child sex.
You are wrong. Sysadmin is like a soldier on guard which has to shoot anyone who knows no password. Even if it means shooting a general.
i am going to receive flak from slashdot in general, but here goes: there is actually material on the internet that even the most socially liberal, libertarian-minded society would find objectionable, and has every right AND duty to block
I have never accidentaly found child pornography when browsing the net. I never looked for it but I assume if you really want one you can find it. It's just you can't easily stumble upon it. That means blocking such site is not required to protect people from accidentaly viewing such materials.
On the other hand, if someone is looking for child porn than he will not look on WWW but probably through torrents or usenet. Which means blocking publicly accessible web pages has no merit at all.
By the way, they are not guilty according to Swedish law. And what about USA law? Is it legal to create service like TPB in USA?
People in other countries will prefer this film with subtitles or native language audio track. This station will lose nothing unless we are talking about english-language country.
Who owns about 70% of the sats up there? America.
Not America but private companies. If you start using tax money to clean up space those companies will stop care at all about polluting space with debris.
If not, then the group whose sat is taken out by a dead sat or by their junk MAY turn around and sue. My guess is that a law suit will start on either this one, or the next collision.
Problem is there are (almost) no laws in space so it's rather hard to sue anyone.
Yeah, sounds cool. But who will pay for this?
I think many of Slashdotters miss the point. I get it like this: 1) there are two types of channels text and audio 2) if Amazon buys a right to distribute a book as text this does not give them right to distribute it as audio 3) introducing text2speach makes textbook dangerously close to audiobook 4) they just want Amazon to pay for two licences instead of one 5) this has nothing to do with end user which has all the rights to convert text to speach
Try out Amazon MP3.
It's cheap, DRM-less, and easy. Plus, it runs on Linux just fine (32-bit has packages, force it on 64-bit, use getlibs, and it works fine).
YEARwithoutDRM
"Please note that AmazonMP3.com is currently only available to US customers."
Yeah, it works. When you are in US.
Sure, this is just nit-picking. It's not as if MS product names have ever really said much about what the product actually is. It is still annoying though.
They don't. They still call it Windows. It's like adding postfix to Ubuntu's name with each new version.
Will our freedoms and rights be next in line? Will the United States be forced to adopt European restrictions on free speech? Will Europe be forced to adopt Islamic restrictions on free speech? Will the United States, Finland, Switzerland and Norway be forced to adopt stricter gun control laws?
You can allow free movement for people and still keep your rights and laws. Allowing free pass at borders for anyone doesn't take any freedom from you.
You can hear for correct (well, as close as machines can get it for now) pronounciation of Lodz here: http://www.expressivo.com/pl/say/OTExhSTl
(...) Native Americans (...)
They are called Indians.
Actually fighting Microsoft is non-patriotic in those times of recession. If Microsoft loses those contracts it means they must cut on jobs. GNU programs will not feed that many people as Microsoft.
Most LCD monitors look horribly in vertical position. Color is not really stable in vertical axis so when you rotate monitor your left eye gets slightly different color than right one. Also you can't use ClearType in vertical mode.
Am I a pirate becuase I ripped Transformers and removed all the adult crap to where it's just a movie of transforming giant robots for my kids to watch?
Damn, where is the adult crap in Transformers? I horribly missed it.
In Qatar, for the last two years, we have continued to be blocked for months at a time from editing.
Buy a REAL internet access than. You know, the one with static public IP. If you prefer to sit behind a (fire)wall it's your choice.