Everyone using Bash has the freedom to download, inspect, and modify the code -- unlike with Microsoft, Apple, or other proprietary software.
This comes across as scaremongering, as its a blanket statement professing the openness of bash compared specifically to Microsoft and Apple, while both those companies have huge collections of open source projects where I can do just what they are trumpeting with Bash and the GPL.
Its a perfect example of why blanket statements should be studied very carefully before being used, as it can just distort your perceived stance when people call you on the flaws of your statement.
You may think so but running on a closed OS you have no control over backdoors.
Debian specifically has "contrib" section to separate the true free code in "main" from those dependent on software not passing DFSG in "non-free".
This is the big test of the surveillance state that London has become. Are all those cameras effective, or just taking a toll on privacy without bringing added security?"
OK, firstly, London is a city not a state.
"surveillance state" It is unambiguous enough in this sentence not to need hyphenating.
But it's the second part of this sentence I have problems with. There are two possibilities.
No. Privacy has more scope than just being/not-being identified.
Our eyes have much higher single viewing capacity than most require. Video overloads us with information so we can't distinguish the difference even with much lower resolution.
Just looking at this image and move back until it stops moving, this gives you the optimal range we can see to.
What else is there?
The contract with ISP forbids it.
My ISP is one of the best in the country, unlimited and without traffic shaping. It does come with the condition of only to be used by my household.
Here we have another fine example of someone wanting to gain multiple times from something that they have done once. You can understand why I have no sympathy for this one, when things aren't going how envisioned.
The word "crook" describes these people, don't be put off when they try and influence you by calling you a pirate.
Good honest professionals on the other hand are willing to only get paid once for each piece of work they do. Of cause this does not stop multiple people chipping in a small amount each, to cover the total development cost of one piece of work. Also any additional charge for goods (e.g. delivery) and services (e.g. help/support and further development.) can also incur additional cost to be paid for once each time.
My distro ditched LILO a while ago and I miss it terribly. A simple conf file. What more could you ask?
User friendliness.
i.e. One program you install and everything works; during which installing gives you simple muiti-choice setup options.
Considered using Debian?
(Assuming 50/50 change of boy/girl and no twins.)
There is only one source; "I have two children, one of whom is a boy born on a Tuesday."
The answer is 50%. (excluding complexities on how to interpret the line mathematically.)
As soon as you add a second source the answer changes;
Foo says: Bob has two children.
Bar says: Bob has a son.
Now the answer to Bob having two boys becomes 33 1/3%
The stick or switch problem (can't think of the more common name) has two sources, first the random choice and the second caused by elimination action after this.
Has a cost once. (Extra work adding extra cost.)
The work that has already been done has no extra cost. It is only greed wanting to gain without giving.
leave his toolbox
Plumber looses what he has but with IP a copy isn't a loss.
The client has paid only for the results of the labour
My understanding is very little has changed in the last 10 years. Slashdot keeps posting on supposed BCI progress but it just seems more of what has been available beforehand is making the headlines.
The problem seems almost like asking for true AI but people are so board of hearing it for 60 years, something different has been set.
Please forward this to someone with the ability to assess the risk of such security breach. (Preferably with basic knowledge of SSL and cross site scripting.)
A web site (not smiles) is asking for my accounts memorable name. I shouldn't be entering this information anywhere other than into a secure smile web site.
[Other sites that take payment using pay-pal I can trust as I see they redirect to a pay-pal server for me to enter my account details.] Perhaps you should take a look at how pay-pal processes such orders.
As the site I was ordering from should probably be trusted I choose to enter it this time and to then change the memorable name as soon as the order had complete.
Specifically; http://www.smile.co.uk/servlet/Satellite?cid=1076315830501&pagename=Smile%2FPage% 2FsmView&rendermode=preview&c=Page Suggests I don't enter details into "computers that aren't your own" which I also assume applies to supplying to sites that aren't smiles.
http://www.smile.co.uk/servlet/Satellite?cid=1124867052028&pagename=Smile%2FPage%2FsmView&c=Page&loc=l "all secure messages between us travel in a closed environment, so they can’t be read by anyone else" but this is a 3rd party asking for my memorable name and not smile.
Order was from; http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk Appears to use https://www.netbanx.com to make the payment then it either takes the memorable name in this site or uses an embedded site from; https://secure5.arcot.com
Please contact me if you require more information.
---- Reply: 23/02/2009 Thanks for your message.
I can understand your security concerns with the verified by visa scheme.
For more information with all aspects of this please visit our site (www.smile.co.uk) then click the security link at the top. Once there select the verified by visa link on the left and this will then be able to give you all the information you need.
---- My responce: 23/02/2009 Q: Is Verified by Visa (VbV) easy to use? A: Yes. When you make an online purchase, a window from the Bank will be displayed and prompt you for your memorable name/VbV password. Simply enter your memorable name/VbV password and complete your purchase.
My problem is no apparent window from the bank is shown so it appears like (don't know if this is true or not) I am giving my security details directly to a third party. (It is very easy to create a malicious secure web site that looks just like the one I saw.)
---- Reply: 24/02/2009 I'm sorry you have concerns about your online security.
When you sign in to a Verified by Visa site using your smile card, you'll automatically be asked for your memorable name. This will confirm that you've been connected to smile behind the scenes. Other banks will ask different questions, however being asked memorable names will confirm it is us.
The original brief from Visa stated banks could introduce individual questions for each customer, that's not been fully introduced yet, however we'll be reviewing this in the near future. At the moment we're reviewing and looking to implement other security procedures.
Please make sure the website you're using to make the online transaction is a website that you trust, this is important as using a trusted website will greatly reduce the likelihood of there being a scam.
Please also check that your PC is fully protected with antivirus, firewall and anti-spyware software plus the relevant phishing filters available with your chosen web browser. Please let me know if you need any more advice on this.
Thanks for taking the time to contact us, I appreciate your concerns and comments and have raised it internally for further consideration.
Pinning worked well for me; for trying out KDE under Debian while maintaining most files from stable. Doesn't Ubuntu have the same feature.
http://www.google.com/search?q=apt+pinning
If you want greater stability than this offers use a VM (virtual-box)
w7 is just a repackaged version of Vista with minor tweaking. (ie not much development time to make.)
The marketing on the other-hand has everyone praising it. Seems a bit too much free PR.
Even if your one of the free players you see some players are paying $$ thousands into the cash shop.
Best of all the cash shop items are tradeable for in game items, so free players may not entirely loose out, (but at the cost of farming more.) Latest addition is an alter donation system that may take money out of the games economy by giving rewards to the rich, seems better than the lottery most F2P games have.
The free game give the violence and sex. The cash shop adds the gambling (can you get the rare pet) and drugs (Stamina Savers - double experience.)
It may not be creative expression but it is wanted by the crowd under the social network banner. A big lose of potential visitors. I guess they have a great amount of game-play vids and are saying enough is enough, it does cost us to host them but there is nothing we can get in return.
Someone filming real life will get bared next since this isn't creative expression either.
Slashdot Mirror
This comes across as scaremongering, as its a blanket statement professing the openness of bash compared specifically to Microsoft and Apple, while both those companies have huge collections of open source projects where I can do just what they are trumpeting with Bash and the GPL.
Its a perfect example of why blanket statements should be studied very carefully before being used, as it can just distort your perceived stance when people call you on the flaws of your statement.
You may think so but running on a closed OS you have no control over backdoors.
Debian specifically has "contrib" section to separate the true free code in "main" from those dependent on software not passing DFSG in "non-free".
OK, firstly, London is a city not a state.
"surveillance state" It is unambiguous enough in this sentence not to need hyphenating.
But it's the second part of this sentence I have problems with. There are two possibilities.
No. Privacy has more scope than just being/not-being identified.
Our eyes have much higher single viewing capacity than most require. Video overloads us with information so we can't distinguish the difference even with much lower resolution.
Just looking at this image and move back until it stops moving, this gives you the optimal range we can see to.
What else is there?
The contract with ISP forbids it.
My ISP is one of the best in the country, unlimited and without traffic shaping. It does come with the condition of only to be used by my household.
Here we have another fine example of someone wanting to gain multiple times from something that they have done once. You can understand why I have no sympathy for this one, when things aren't going how envisioned.
The word "crook" describes these people, don't be put off when they try and influence you by calling you a pirate.
Good honest professionals on the other hand are willing to only get paid once for each piece of work they do. Of cause this does not stop multiple people chipping in a small amount each, to cover the total development cost of one piece of work. Also any additional charge for goods (e.g. delivery) and services (e.g. help/support and further development.) can also incur additional cost to be paid for once each time.
So true. Just ask Nintendo about the Wii, they will confirm it.
My distro ditched LILO a while ago and I miss it terribly. A simple conf file. What more could you ask?
User friendliness.
i.e. One program you install and everything works; during which installing gives you simple muiti-choice setup options.
Considered using Debian?
(Assuming 50/50 change of boy/girl and no twins.)
There is only one source; "I have two children, one of whom is a boy born on a Tuesday."
The answer is 50%. (excluding complexities on how to interpret the line mathematically.)
As soon as you add a second source the answer changes;
Foo says: Bob has two children.
Bar says: Bob has a son.
Now the answer to Bob having two boys becomes 33 1/3%
The stick or switch problem (can't think of the more common name) has two sources, first the random choice and the second caused by elimination action after this.
This link is much better: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player.exe
Computers are about cheating.
Do it right and you won't let anyone input enough to get caught out by the bug in your codes hidden methods.
work itself
Has a cost once. (Extra work adding extra cost.)
The work that has already been done has no extra cost. It is only greed wanting to gain without giving.
leave his toolbox
Plumber looses what he has but with IP a copy isn't a loss.
The client has paid only for the results of the labour
Source code is a result of labour.
ownership of the code has a value
Greed has value.
pre-existing libraries
Cost has already been paid for.
My understanding is very little has changed in the last 10 years. Slashdot keeps posting on supposed BCI progress but it just seems more of what has been available beforehand is making the headlines.
The problem seems almost like asking for true AI but people are so board of hearing it for 60 years, something different has been set.
To: ive_seen_a_scam@smile.co.uk 23/02/2009
Please forward this to someone with the ability to assess the risk of such security breach. (Preferably with basic knowledge of SSL and cross site scripting.)
A web site (not smiles) is asking for my accounts memorable name. I shouldn't be entering this information anywhere other than into a secure smile web site.
[Other sites that take payment using pay-pal I can trust as I see they redirect to a pay-pal server for me to enter my account details.] Perhaps you should take a look at how pay-pal processes such orders.
As the site I was ordering from should probably be trusted I choose to enter it this time and to then change the memorable name as soon as the order had complete.
Specifically;
http://www.smile.co.uk/servlet/Satellite?cid=1076315830501&pagename=Smile%2FPage%
2FsmView&rendermode=preview&c=Page
Suggests I don't enter details into "computers that aren't your own" which I also assume applies to supplying to sites that aren't smiles.
http://www.smile.co.uk/servlet/Satellite?cid=1124867052028&pagename=Smile%2FPage%2FsmView&c=Page&loc=l
"all secure messages between us travel in a closed environment, so they can’t be read by anyone else" but this is a 3rd party asking for my memorable name and not smile.
Order was from;
http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk
Appears to use
https://www.netbanx.com
to make the payment then it either takes the memorable name in this site or uses an embedded site from;
https://secure5.arcot.com
Please contact me if you require more information.
----
Reply: 23/02/2009
Thanks for your message.
I can understand your security concerns with the verified by visa scheme.
For more information with all aspects of this please visit our site
(www.smile.co.uk) then click the security link at the top. Once there
select the verified by visa link on the left and this will then be able to
give you all the information you need.
----
My responce: 23/02/2009
Q: Is Verified by Visa (VbV) easy to use?
A: Yes. When you make an online purchase, a window from the Bank will be displayed and prompt you for your memorable name/VbV password. Simply enter your memorable name/VbV password and complete your purchase.
My problem is no apparent window from the bank is shown so it appears like (don't know if this is true or not) I am giving my security details directly to a third party. (It is very easy to create a malicious secure web site that looks just like the one I saw.)
----
Reply: 24/02/2009
I'm sorry you have concerns about your online security.
When you sign in to a Verified by Visa site using your smile card, you'll
automatically be asked for your memorable name. This will confirm that
you've been connected to smile behind the scenes. Other banks will ask
different questions, however being asked memorable names will confirm it is
us.
The original brief from Visa stated banks could introduce individual
questions for each customer, that's not been fully introduced yet, however
we'll be reviewing this in the near future. At the moment we're reviewing
and looking to implement other security procedures.
Please make sure the website you're using to make the online transaction is
a website that you trust, this is important as using a trusted website will
greatly reduce the likelihood of there being a scam.
Please also check that your PC is fully protected with antivirus, firewall
and anti-spyware software plus the relevant phishing filters available with
your chosen web browser. Please let me know if you need any more advice on
this.
Thanks for taking the time to contact us, I appreciate your concerns and
comments and have raised it internally for further consideration.
Pinning worked well for me; for trying out KDE under Debian while maintaining most files from stable. Doesn't Ubuntu have the same feature.
http://www.google.com/search?q=apt+pinning
If you want greater stability than this offers use a VM (virtual-box)
Don't see much newsworthy content here. Spotify was sign up before so nothing much changed. (Seems more free PR than anything for them.)
A change to the real competition would be news. Free streaming music without registration.
In the UK;
http://www.we7.com/
The US equivalent;
http://www.lala.com/
w7 is just a repackaged version of Vista with minor tweaking. (ie not much development time to make.) The marketing on the other-hand has everyone praising it. Seems a bit too much free PR.
Correction: 8 miles, which still seems far for the UK. (16 miles is the round trip.)
I think there are good roads so not a massive amount of time needed to make the trip. Being on life critical duty is the reason it is hard.
O.T. The furthest point from the coast in the UK;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/3090539.stm
Been know in other sources for a long time, the only thing different is it is on a web service.
GCC and other GPL software explicitly allow generated output not to be bound by their own licence.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception
Best of all the cash shop items are tradeable for in game items, so free players may not entirely loose out, (but at the cost of farming more.) Latest addition is an alter donation system that may take money out of the games economy by giving rewards to the rich, seems better than the lottery most F2P games have.
The free game give the violence and sex. The cash shop adds the gambling (can you get the rare pet) and drugs (Stamina Savers - double experience.)
Doubt the revenues will be made public though.
By abbreviating I2P instead of IIP they save a whole zero characters.
It is to distinguish it from another anonymous network;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_IRC_Project
If you mean to sign up for this, don't bother. Tabula rasa went "free" but for whatever reason they still needed your credit card number to sign up.
Not for me it didn't. Just a message to their support team as was written. (maybe it was changed after.)
- Expecting others to have read the site linked.
- Expecting the site to dis Microsoft or to have to address this in a comment.
Capitalism. It isn't very news worthy.
I welcome the discovery of Earths prior silicon based lifeforms.
It may not be creative expression but it is wanted by the crowd under the social network banner. A big lose of potential visitors. I guess they have a great amount of game-play vids and are saying enough is enough, it does cost us to host them but there is nothing we can get in return. Someone filming real life will get bared next since this isn't creative expression either.