Any reason they just don't give the list of bad URLs to the browser? Are they doing machine learning or similar and need large batches of valid URLs that users are going to, and they can't just spider (or import from MSN search) for them?
I've yet to hear anything at all about this "feature" - which, needless to say, scares the shit out of me. I've spent some time researching spyware, and well, let me just say that I'm glad I don't run any microsoft products at home.
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Violence just helps to blow off steam. When some asshole cuts you off in traffic, you can relieve yourself by blowing the head off of a digital asshole on your screen.
Or you could just ride a bike and take the trail to work. Maybe people wouldn't need such ridiculous escapes if they didn't put themselves in such terrible lifestyles to begin with?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not down on gamers- personally, I'm a sucker for starcraft (and chess).
A ruling that taking an image and displaying a thumbnail for indexing purposes is not fair use does not imply that taking a few words from a book for indexing purposes is not fair use. Apples and oranges.
PDF is usually used as an electronic equivalent of giving someone a paper document. Just like a printout, it's not easily editable. That doesn't mean it can't be marked up or commented, stamped or signed, but you can't easily change what's written on the page.
Don't you own a pen and white-out?
I don't know about you, but a big chunk of the PDFs I download are forms. It'd be nice to have a OSS program around where I could open up the PDF and (gasp) fill in the form, then save it as a new PDF to do whatever I please with.
I'm a big fan of PDF -- I'm glad we live in a world now where I can hand in assignments and the like in PDF. It frees me up to use pretty much whatever tools I want. That being said, I'd also be a big fan of an open source application that allowed me to edit PDFs.
PDF is about having a document that displays and prints the same anywhere. It's NOT about having a document that's hard to edit --- and anyone who says so is merely apologizing for the lack of free PDF editors.
the missions before you join with the indians all have the indians attacking something and you are defending it or because they are in a part of the land someone else want's (no different from football there).
That reminds me of the time I broke into some old lady's home and had to defend it from an attack by her husband, son, and the police. Yeah, I like to defend stuff.
This is off-topic, I know. So, I'll get modded down, which seems to happen anyway when you talk about race on slashdot.
It is worth pointing out that you have suggested, intentionally or not, a false equivilency between the identities "Black" and "White." This has no basis in reality.
The "Black" identity in Western cultures is based upon a shared experience of being discriminated against because of having a Black skin color. There is a large number of diverse and distinct peoples that get lumped in as "Black" - Kikuyu, Oromo, Amhara, [countless other African nationalities], West Indian, and African-American cultures are all distinct and have different defining characteristics. The only reason it's convienent to speak of the Black identity is because Black people in Western countries have been the victims of the exact same racism and treatment: the Klan doesn't care whether you're from Trinidad or Ethiopia.
Conversely, the "White" identity is based on the exact opposite: being in a position of privilege in Western society. There are huge differences between being Italian, German, and Gaelic. The only thing that unites them is the color of the skin and other identifying "racial" traits- that is, the only thing that unites White people is being on the "winning" side of racism.
This is why having pride in being Black is not analogous to having pride in being White. One is having pride in being a member of a people that has been held down because of skin color, the other is having pride in having a skin color that is granted privilege from racist institutions.
"White pride" isn't okay because it means being proud of benefiting from racism.
This not to say that there exists a set of people who shouldn't be proud of something, or shouldn't be able to celebrate -- but just think of what, exactly, you are celebrating. Here in Pittsburgh we have Little Italy week complete with Italian pride parades. Nobody calls that racist, and with good reason: but a "White pride" parade would be called racist, and that would be correct, in my opinion.
The problem isn't throwing programmers at it full time. The problem is getting the literally thousands of programs that people want to properly work under Wine.
If only full time programmers could somehow help get programs to work under wine...
Couldn't you have just imaged/dev/disk0s1 before starting, and in the event of FUBAR (well, FUBalmostAR) swap the drive into a working computer and restore the image to/dev/disk0s1?
Oh man, I can't believe it. I know when I go to Consumer Electronics Store, all I hear are the salespeople and customers discussing whether the SDK is available.
I don't think that's true, many old viruses used to operate mainly in the boot sector, and as such were infecting and spreading at a level beneath the OS (and beneath filesystems, for that)
I don't care what kind of disk you're booting, it has an MBR, and there might be a virus in it...
Not really, I'm not mentioning any stereotypes - I'm talking strictly about racism.
The fact is white skin carries privileges with it in the united states. Does that mean every person who is white has everything easy? No. It would be stupid for me to say that every white person had "XYZ" in common (for all non-trivial statements) but that's not what I said: I said I knew many more whites who profit from white privilege than minorities who abuse what the original poster might refer to as "minority privilege" - an idea that I think is ridiculous.
Does it mean you're less likely to have a cop bust you and a jail send you to prison for the rest of your days? You bet. Just look at how sentencing guidelines are applied, or the death penalty, or the laws against crack versus the laws against cocaine.
There is definitely a subculture of minorities out there who like to use their minority status as a crutch and leveraging tool in the workplace.
And I know a lot more (even if you normalize for population size) whites who like to use their privilege to not have to be afraid of the police, to not get followed around in stores, to get into college because of Daddy's large gift or legacy status, so on and so forth.
People need to anonymize their browsing when they are not surfing casually, but rather doing surfing that they don't want anyone to know they've done (duh). So most people don't bother or care to surf, say, slashdot anonymously.
When you are doing things that a government doesn't approve of (and COINTELPRO has taught us that the US government spends lots of time and resources going after people who exercise their rights) then using tor is a good idea.
To put it another way, people who need to anonymize their traffic are probably only visiting a very small subset of websites: sites where they can post information but fear law enforcement seizing server logs, sites where they want to obtain information but they don't want law enforcement to know that they have it, so on and so forth.
Therefore, it is fundamentally flawed to think "not many people who visit my site need to do so anonymously, therefore not many people need to visit any site anonymously."
When I look at the traffic my sites get from open proxies, a vanishingly small percentage is from political dissidents; most of it is from turd-in-the-punchbowl fuckheads.
And I'm guessing that's a reflection of what your site is. Those who are going through the measure to use tor to anonymize their browsing aren't surfing casually, they're going to the sites they NEED to go to for their work. If that's not you...
I'm somewhat amused that nobody else has pointed this out...
It's a civil case, and people are not found "guilty" or "not guilty" in civil matters. The jury will be ruling either with or against the plantiff, and it is up to the jury to determine the amount of damages.
There are plenty of cases where juries have ruled with the plantiff but refused to award damages of more than, say, $1 - a token amount that indicates while the plantiff was correct, the jury did not feel they should be awarded much money.
Oh no, not loiters! Heaven forbid people stand around, instead of constantly working to make their boss richer!
99% of loitering cases are complete and utter bullshit. Loitering is the charge you give someone who is hanging around when you aren't comfortable with them there because of their (race, class, religion, sexual orientation, age, etc.) and they haven't done anything wrong.
I guarantee you a group of 3 heterosexual white men and 3 heterosexual white women, with all of them well dressed and drinking starbucks, could stand pretty much anywhere in the western world and not get charged with loitering.
"Sony and Nintendo are planning to unleash their next gen consoles during 2006, giving Microsoft an edge over its rivals."
Sounds like the advantage Sega always had.
I don't think going first is an advantage in this game. Not with hardware prices still going down, and the ability to incorporate the innovation of the new consoles into the newer consoles.
Just to let you know, if everyone wanted their cash from the bank it wouldn't work out. FDIC is in theory there to cover exactly that, but that's taxpayer money, not your money...
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What's more troubling is that 4 out of 3 people don't understand statistics.
I've yet to hear anything at all about this "feature" - which, needless to say, scares the shit out of me. I've spent some time researching spyware, and well, let me just say that I'm glad I don't run any microsoft products at home.
Or you could just ride a bike and take the trail to work. Maybe people wouldn't need such ridiculous escapes if they didn't put themselves in such terrible lifestyles to begin with?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not down on gamers- personally, I'm a sucker for starcraft (and chess).
A ruling that taking an image and displaying a thumbnail for indexing purposes is not fair use does not imply that taking a few words from a book for indexing purposes is not fair use. Apples and oranges.
Don't you own a pen and white-out?
I don't know about you, but a big chunk of the PDFs I download are forms. It'd be nice to have a OSS program around where I could open up the PDF and (gasp) fill in the form, then save it as a new PDF to do whatever I please with.
I'm a big fan of PDF -- I'm glad we live in a world now where I can hand in assignments and the like in PDF. It frees me up to use pretty much whatever tools I want. That being said, I'd also be a big fan of an open source application that allowed me to edit PDFs.
PDF is about having a document that displays and prints the same anywhere. It's NOT about having a document that's hard to edit --- and anyone who says so is merely apologizing for the lack of free PDF editors.
That reminds me of the time I broke into some old lady's home and had to defend it from an attack by her husband, son, and the police. Yeah, I like to defend stuff.
This is off-topic, I know. So, I'll get modded down, which seems to happen anyway when you talk about race on slashdot.
It is worth pointing out that you have suggested, intentionally or not, a false equivilency between the identities "Black" and "White." This has no basis in reality.
The "Black" identity in Western cultures is based upon a shared experience of being discriminated against because of having a Black skin color. There is a large number of diverse and distinct peoples that get lumped in as "Black" - Kikuyu, Oromo, Amhara, [countless other African nationalities], West Indian, and African-American cultures are all distinct and have different defining characteristics. The only reason it's convienent to speak of the Black identity is because Black people in Western countries have been the victims of the exact same racism and treatment: the Klan doesn't care whether you're from Trinidad or Ethiopia.
Conversely, the "White" identity is based on the exact opposite: being in a position of privilege in Western society. There are huge differences between being Italian, German, and Gaelic. The only thing that unites them is the color of the skin and other identifying "racial" traits- that is, the only thing that unites White people is being on the "winning" side of racism.
This is why having pride in being Black is not analogous to having pride in being White. One is having pride in being a member of a people that has been held down because of skin color, the other is having pride in having a skin color that is granted privilege from racist institutions.
"White pride" isn't okay because it means being proud of benefiting from racism.
This not to say that there exists a set of people who shouldn't be proud of something, or shouldn't be able to celebrate -- but just think of what, exactly, you are celebrating. Here in Pittsburgh we have Little Italy week complete with Italian pride parades. Nobody calls that racist, and with good reason: but a "White pride" parade would be called racist, and that would be correct, in my opinion.
If only full time programmers could somehow help get programs to work under wine...
Couldn't you have just imaged /dev/disk0s1 before starting, and in the event of FUBAR (well, FUBalmostAR) swap the drive into a working computer and restore the image to /dev/disk0s1?
Only those of us who can afford it.
Oh man, I can't believe it. I know when I go to Consumer Electronics Store, all I hear are the salespeople and customers discussing whether the SDK is available.
I don't think that's true, many old viruses used to operate mainly in the boot sector, and as such were infecting and spreading at a level beneath the OS (and beneath filesystems, for that)
I don't care what kind of disk you're booting, it has an MBR, and there might be a virus in it...
The fact is white skin carries privileges with it in the united states. Does that mean every person who is white has everything easy? No. It would be stupid for me to say that every white person had "XYZ" in common (for all non-trivial statements) but that's not what I said: I said I knew many more whites who profit from white privilege than minorities who abuse what the original poster might refer to as "minority privilege" - an idea that I think is ridiculous.
Does it mean you're less likely to have a cop bust you and a jail send you to prison for the rest of your days? You bet. Just look at how sentencing guidelines are applied, or the death penalty, or the laws against crack versus the laws against cocaine.
And I know a lot more (even if you normalize for population size) whites who like to use their privilege to not have to be afraid of the police, to not get followed around in stores, to get into college because of Daddy's large gift or legacy status, so on and so forth.
Just want to point out the full story...
You misunderstand, and it's probably my fault.
People need to anonymize their browsing when they are not surfing casually, but rather doing surfing that they don't want anyone to know they've done (duh). So most people don't bother or care to surf, say, slashdot anonymously.
When you are doing things that a government doesn't approve of (and COINTELPRO has taught us that the US government spends lots of time and resources going after people who exercise their rights) then using tor is a good idea.
To put it another way, people who need to anonymize their traffic are probably only visiting a very small subset of websites: sites where they can post information but fear law enforcement seizing server logs, sites where they want to obtain information but they don't want law enforcement to know that they have it, so on and so forth.
Therefore, it is fundamentally flawed to think "not many people who visit my site need to do so anonymously, therefore not many people need to visit any site anonymously."
You sound like the RIAA.
And I'm guessing that's a reflection of what your site is. Those who are going through the measure to use tor to anonymize their browsing aren't surfing casually, they're going to the sites they NEED to go to for their work. If that's not you...
http://skepdic.com/begging.html
It's a civil case, and people are not found "guilty" or "not guilty" in civil matters. The jury will be ruling either with or against the plantiff, and it is up to the jury to determine the amount of damages.
There are plenty of cases where juries have ruled with the plantiff but refused to award damages of more than, say, $1 - a token amount that indicates while the plantiff was correct, the jury did not feel they should be awarded much money.
99% of loitering cases are complete and utter bullshit. Loitering is the charge you give someone who is hanging around when you aren't comfortable with them there because of their (race, class, religion, sexual orientation, age, etc.) and they haven't done anything wrong.
I guarantee you a group of 3 heterosexual white men and 3 heterosexual white women, with all of them well dressed and drinking starbucks, could stand pretty much anywhere in the western world and not get charged with loitering.
I have a hard time believing most bacteria can live in urine, let alone reproduce in it -- water seems to be far more suitable for life.
Yeah, because " law enforcement" never does anything to people who aren't breaking the law.
Sounds like the advantage Sega always had.
I don't think going first is an advantage in this game. Not with hardware prices still going down, and the ability to incorporate the innovation of the new consoles into the newer consoles.
Just to let you know, if everyone wanted their cash from the bank it wouldn't work out. FDIC is in theory there to cover exactly that, but that's taxpayer money, not your money...
Do you have all of your money under your mattress, or is some of it just ones and zeros in banking software?