Why does the fact it is signed mean that I know the author? I most probably have never met the author. It doesn't even prove who the author is (let alone the security of the software) unless all of the following (almost impossible-to-be-true) statements are true:
I know that the author would not mislead or lie to me
I know that I met the author and he/she told me his/her signing certificate
I explicitly trust the certifying authority (and anyone with access to data they hold inlcuding crackers) and know they (and those with the data) would never mislead
the encryption used is uncrackable
no one except the author could ever access the author's key
I explictly trust any party with access to my data packets and those of the author and certifying authority (e.g.: ISPs), telephone line (e.g.: phone company, governemnt, anyone who has connected a wire to the phone line in the street) and know that they would not listen in to or interfere with such data
I have reviewed all software and hardware systems on my, the certifying authority's and the author's computer systems and know that they do not interfere with or store copies of the data, &c
>>not once has a bacteria ever turning into something else<<
That all depends what `something else' is.
>>It's changed<<...which is called evolution...
>>You have to remember that quick change in a bacteria is NOT evolution<<
Surely, if it is changing quickly then it is evolving even more than normal.
>>bacteria genes are programmed for quick change<<
Programmed in what sense? Are you saying that you agree that genes exist and you think they were programmed by God so that we change over time so that the fittest survive; that's called evolution.
>>Evolution has never been observed under any scale.<<
Maybe because underneath a scale is a funny place for someone to look for it?
>>The only thing that's been observed is a pre-existing trait in a species becoming more common, or obvious.<<
That is how natural selection or evolution works. Yes.
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No idea what Rendevouz is, but if you don't believe me try setting up a local domain and testing it in your WWW browser.
An FQDN (fully qualified domain name) (i.e.: absolute non-relative domain name) must be a rooted domain name (i.e.: end with the domain name of the root server which is "."). An FQDN can only refer to one server in the world.
What is the specific standard for HTTP URL's and the extra dot?
There is no specific standard for HTTP URIs. However the dot rule I give above is in the RFCs for HTTP 1.1, URI syntax, the DNS, and probably many others.
Exactly. In fact, even better, are you different from your parents? If so, you've evolved. (And if you don't count sex as evolution for some reason look at some bacteria under a microscope for a while or sthg and watch them divide and change.)
Go look at some creatures (like bacteria in a petri dish under a microscope) that reproduce quickly for a short while and come back to me on that. You can even see change over time in large animals. Even hypothetically, why would God somehow try and stop things evolving into other things? In fact, most religious texts logically imply that people and other animals evolve.
I sure hope so...I mean I can wait for Longhorn to come out because I know it will be worth the wait 'cause it will have loads of really awesome stuff like this...I always know that when the good Sir Billy spends ages working on something it's gonna be really mega sexy looking like XP was 'cause the graphics are so sweeet in that and I know that they're really kool and it gets the most out of my peecee 'cause it uses up all my RAM even when I don't have any apps open--it must be doing some awesome graphics work--its just like WindowsBlinds and that was just so amazingly l337 on 9x--now you get it built in and XP even emulates the bit were WindowBlinds crashes and your windows lose their totally awesome theme and that is like totally kool 'cause it totally makes you realise like how totally dull the graphics were before and how boring it was when you like didn't have fun timing how many minutes it takes the start menu to popup--and check out the longhorn start menu--that is gonnaa like be 10 times more awesome than even XP--I mean it rocks--I could just spend hours looking at it--in fact I probably will waiting for it to load pixel by pixel and wetting my pants all along.
But even the aptly-named Longhorn is gonnaa be soooo totally last century compared with Blackdown 'cause you know like they dropped some of the really mega features from Longhorn to fit the revised revised timeframe-- those'll all be in Blackdown which is gonnna totally blow your mind...it will make you cum...i mean they must really be working hard on it 'cause it was supposed to be out like sooo ages ago like when XP was out but is now cuming in 2012 (long waits for MSW versions always mean loads of kool stuff like I have to buy a new peecee and all n00 k00l software to work with it and it has really kool viruses and syware and stuff...totally l337 right?). ANd like Blackdown is sooo totally unbelievably shit-your-pants awesome right that they couldn't finish in time so they made Longhorn as a stopgap interim release..or at least they haven't made Longhorn yet but they're making an interim release for Longhorn callled XP 2 but they haven't released that yet but they're making an interim release for that called XP reloaded (which is soo totally gotta be kooll cuz like trinity was like so totally hot in xp reloaded) and then there is the totally sweeet brain-damaged XP version called XP lite which you have sooo got to add to ur collection and xp reduced media is soo gr8 cause you dont get loads of koool stuff like to watch movies with embedded viruses...acually...no..right..was joking...it sucks..i mean u got to be a total n00b to not realise..its called "reduced" for Billy's sake. Janus is gonna really rock though--its named after the two-faced Roman god of Gates--why couldn't you love it? And its soo totally l33t--ur computer will like be able to control your mind and do kool stuff like wipe all ur docs off ur harddrive without even asking you first...sssoooo fucking awesome, man.
1) Ctrl+N works for me.
2) There's one called "Personal Toolbar Folder" not "Bookmark" though; but you can rename it to whatever you like or just ignore it. File it as a bug if it annoys you that much.
3) Not for me. URIs please...
4) Try changing the buttons to launch Firefox in the drivers somewhere.
More importantly, should anyone be removing others' email based on its contents? On volume (like USENET), yes, but not on which URIs it includes. Anyone doing this sort of stuff should be given the Internet Death Penalty. Looking at the contents of other people's email and deleting it if you don't like what it says clearly violates RFCs and probably contracts and laws.
Spammers don't even need to include URIs. They can just give the name of the product (for the user to search for) or an indirect indication of the URI or just tell them how to buy thew product there and then in the email.
The real problem is there are people out there who are stupid enough to buy their (probably shoddy or non-existent) products.
And pray tell me how the removal skyscraper would stop people who wish to terrify others being in aeroplanes. Possibly, not allowing them to enter an aeroplane or taking away their aeroplanes (e.g.: AirForce1) might.
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This would be true if the domain name was
wiki.local
but it is
wiki.local.
and
.
indicates the Internet root servers.
For instance, the full domain name of slashdot is
Beautiful copying and pasting, but I think you'll find that GNU is an operating system and I would advise you consult the services of a psychiatrist (or the GNU Emacs doctor) ASAP.
I agree with parent; and, if you want to make it clear that you are not talking about windows, use Microsoft Windows (or MSW for short) which is its official name.
As a linguistics student, I wholeheartedley agree with your ideas about word re-definition generally.
Redefinitions of the word "pirate" and "thief" to describe copying intangibles was intentional on the **AA's part.
However, I would point out that the word, "pirate" (and, also, I think thief), meaning someone who copies something without permission, dates back to the original British monopolistic publishers who got the many of the ideas of copyright put in place by Parliament by making analogies between piracy on the high seas and other publishers who weren't in their guilds or monopolies copying stuff. I have heard that they ironically often ripped off the authors or even stole works and acted like thugs and pirates of the day. See the OED etymology. I seem to remember Lessig's Free Culture mentions something about this too.
The more recent word, introduced this century, is "intellectual property" which tries to make a similar implication that copyright violation is theft. This was introduced by WIPO and friends.
I think you'll find that just downloading from the Internet without permission from the copyright holder is not unlawful in most jurisdictions (inlcuding mine as I checked the law).
It is generally accepted that I can for instance read this/. WWW page without having to get written permission from you and every AC who contributed here.
Yes, I take your point; it is a little unfair on X11, TeX, &c even though they are higher-level than the FSF's offerings.
They do not, however, not claim to be an OS and have never proposed themselves as the name for an OS (like GNU and Linux) (and, of course, they are common on non-FOSS OSs).
How can you insuate an analogy between spending a tax on education of all children and spending it on a small group of monopolistic criminal protection racketeers (in order I assume to curtail damage to the government/politicians from said racketeers).
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You may say only a few bits of Firefox are proprietary, but the number of bits is increasing all the time.
That does not answer the question. What makes a signed active-X control any less dangerous than an unsigned one?
Mind you I've been persuaded by this (and other) DMCA notices (see the /. story) that ID software are probably a bunch of morons anyway.
Do you use the version of Firefox from http://mozilla.org/ which is not free or open source software?
And what may I ask makes a signed active-X control any less dangerous than an unsigned one?
>>not once has a bacteria ever turning into something else<<
...which is called evolution...
That all depends what `something else' is.
>>It's changed<<
>>You have to remember that quick change in a bacteria is NOT evolution<<
Surely, if it is changing quickly then it is evolving even more than normal.
>>bacteria genes are programmed for quick change<<
Programmed in what sense? Are you saying that you agree that genes exist and you think they were programmed by God so that we change over time so that the fittest survive; that's called evolution.
>>Evolution has never been observed under any scale.<<
Maybe because underneath a scale is a funny place for someone to look for it?
>>The only thing that's been observed is a pre-existing trait in a species becoming more common, or obvious.<<
That is how natural selection or evolution works. Yes.
Exactly. In fact, even better, are you different from your parents? If so, you've evolved. (And if you don't count sex as evolution for some reason look at some bacteria under a microscope for a while or sthg and watch them divide and change.)
Go look at some creatures (like bacteria in a petri dish under a microscope) that reproduce quickly for a short while and come back to me on that. You can even see change over time in large animals. Even hypothetically, why would God somehow try and stop things evolving into other things? In fact, most religious texts logically imply that people and other animals evolve.
I sure hope so...I mean I can wait for Longhorn to come out because I know it will be worth the wait 'cause it will have loads of really awesome stuff like this...I always know that when the good Sir Billy spends ages working on something it's gonna be really mega sexy looking like XP was 'cause the graphics are so sweeet in that and I know that they're really kool and it gets the most out of my peecee 'cause it uses up all my RAM even when I don't have any apps open--it must be doing some awesome graphics work--its just like WindowsBlinds and that was just so amazingly l337 on 9x--now you get it built in and XP even emulates the bit were WindowBlinds crashes and your windows lose their totally awesome theme and that is like totally kool 'cause it totally makes you realise like how totally dull the graphics were before and how boring it was when you like didn't have fun timing how many minutes it takes the start menu to popup--and check out the longhorn start menu--that is gonnaa like be 10 times more awesome than even XP--I mean it rocks--I could just spend hours looking at it--in fact I probably will waiting for it to load pixel by pixel and wetting my pants all along.
But even the aptly-named Longhorn is gonnaa be soooo totally last century compared with Blackdown 'cause you know like they dropped some of the really mega features from Longhorn to fit the revised revised timeframe-- those'll all be in Blackdown which is gonnna totally blow your mind...it will make you cum...i mean they must really be working hard on it 'cause it was supposed to be out like sooo ages ago like when XP was out but is now cuming in 2012 (long waits for MSW versions always mean loads of kool stuff like I have to buy a new peecee and all n00 k00l software to work with it and it has really kool viruses and syware and stuff...totally l337 right?). ANd like Blackdown is sooo totally unbelievably shit-your-pants awesome right that they couldn't finish in time so they made Longhorn as a stopgap interim release..or at least they haven't made Longhorn yet but they're making an interim release for Longhorn callled XP 2 but they haven't released that yet but they're making an interim release for that called XP reloaded (which is soo totally gotta be kooll cuz like trinity was like so totally hot in xp reloaded) and then there is the totally sweeet brain-damaged XP version called XP lite which you have sooo got to add to ur collection and xp reduced media is soo gr8 cause you dont get loads of koool stuff like to watch movies with embedded viruses...acually...no..right..was joking...it sucks..i mean u got to be a total n00b to not realise..its called "reduced" for Billy's sake. Janus is gonna really rock though--its named after the two-faced Roman god of Gates--why couldn't you love it? And its soo totally l33t--ur computer will like be able to control your mind and do kool stuff like wipe all ur docs off ur harddrive without even asking you first...sssoooo fucking awesome, man.
1) Ctrl+N works for me. 2) There's one called "Personal Toolbar Folder" not "Bookmark" though; but you can rename it to whatever you like or just ignore it. File it as a bug if it annoys you that much. 3) Not for me. URIs please... 4) Try changing the buttons to launch Firefox in the drivers somewhere.
Spammers don't even need to include URIs. They can just give the name of the product (for the user to search for) or an indirect indication of the URI or just tell them how to buy thew product there and then in the email.
The real problem is there are people out there who are stupid enough to buy their (probably shoddy or non-existent) products.
And pray tell me how the removal skyscraper would stop people who wish to terrify others being in aeroplanes. Possibly, not allowing them to enter an aeroplane or taking away their aeroplanes (e.g.: AirForce1) might.
Beautiful copying and pasting, but I think you'll find that GNU is an operating system and I would advise you consult the services of a psychiatrist (or the GNU Emacs doctor) ASAP.
I agree with parent; and, if you want to make it clear that you are not talking about windows, use Microsoft Windows (or MSW for short) which is its official name.
I wasn't being funny; just ignorant.
The more recent word, introduced this century, is "intellectual property" which tries to make a similar implication that copyright violation is theft. This was introduced by WIPO and friends.
It is generally accepted that I can for instance read this /. WWW page without having to get written permission from you and every AC who contributed here.
I didn't know there was such a thing as a streaming site. I assumed you had your own webspace.
They do not, however, not claim to be an OS and have never proposed themselves as the name for an OS (like GNU and Linux) (and, of course, they are common on non-FOSS OSs).
You are failing to address my point that GNU came long before Linux, KDE, &c
How can you insuate an analogy between spending a tax on education of all children and spending it on a small group of monopolistic criminal protection racketeers (in order I assume to curtail damage to the government/politicians from said racketeers).