OK, why are they being allowed to treat electronic content differently from sealed letters and packages? Do they steam open your letters and parcels to see if anything contentious is being sent? No, and I'll bet that's because it is unconstitutional... so why are they treating electronic delivery differently? There should be massive protests against this... no way should they be able to use the protecting you from child-porn line either... With snail mail, they have to get a warrant to intercept and open your mail and packages... the same should apply for electronic content...
only extra processor cycles at both ends... the content has exactly the same length of bytes, just got bits shifted in a weird and wonderful pattern according to the encryption algorithm and the keys
the entire universe is just a single sphere of e-ink in another dimension, and the display is currently changing state so that everything in our universe is going to rush up against one end...
Jamendo is one of the leading websites for creative commons licensed music. It is eminently notable... we need to remind these wiki twonks that wikipedia is the people's encyclopedia... written by the people, for the people...
RIAA Radar... very confusing sometimes... take this: search on "Noah and the Whale"... you get three results, two "safe"... the safe ones are singles released off the unsafe album??? wtf???
Tribune said a single visit during a low-traffic period early Sunday morning pushed the undated story onto the list of most popular business news of its South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper's Web site
ouch... very expensive consequences... for a single page view... talk about "Butterfly Effect"... now we'll have to add this as "the Google Effect" to the popular lore...
Too many are not sharing nicely having some rediculous notion that they are actually paying for the bandwidth available to them rather than a share of the bandwidth.
hey, you sell me a package as having 1meg/second download rate and I expect to have it... whenever I want, 24/7 if needs be... anything less is false advertising. If you want to be upfront about it, then sell it properly as a maximum burst speed and have a total capacity per day where I get billed per 100 megabytes over that. Oh but you won't as it would be suicide as all your customers would flock to someone else who was lying about their package...
Mozilla Firefox 3 for Windows requires Windows NT 5.0 or later. This currently includes Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista. What will Firefox 2 say to users of nearly decade-old PCs that still run Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition, which cannot run Firefox 3? (Yes, they still exist; one posts regularly to the forum at tetrisconcept.com.) Will it nag them about upgrading to Puppy Linux?
It's the exact same problem for a lot of Linux users on stable platforms who are not upgrading. Firefox 3 won't install on my Ubuntu Dapper box. Gets upset about the version of gtk
why on earth they couldn't provide a build of ff3 that had everything it needed statically linked in I don't know.
plus I'm perfectly happy running Dapper on this box... I'm not in the mood for fighting through an upgrade yet... I've had a few too many problems upgrading my laptop... that was effectively bricked for a while when upgrading to the current Ubuntu until a newer kernel got released.
gmail will just have to use the non https server to forward the requests for login pages to the https server automatically and do this for all their services that require logins... then you won't have to rely on users setting a preference box... they'll have no choice.
Their complaint: They have a hard time getting coders who are productive enough. That's right, "excellent" is the ability to pump out code fast.
doesn't matter how fast the coders churn out the code... the real slower down of defence coding are the testing and QA... all the paperwork required for QA traceability is mind boggling... especially when things are in maintenance... or the customer is getting antsy about taking ownership and arguments explode as to whose paying for the rework before it gets into maintenance... you have to keep all manner of records to prove who's at fault, the customer for not being specific enough in their requirements or supplying source data in time, or the supplier for not actually meeting the requirements or not picking up ambiguities early enough to so that it could have been fixed before it got down to coding time...
that could be automated by having the text of the book(s) available and using a program to pick out suitable word locations (don't bother with pages, just use lines and position of word on the line). The text of the books would have to be encrypted though if you're doing that and the passphrase to login to the program to access the encoding/decoding features would need to be kept secret...
curling is a traditional winter sport and was in the inaugural winter olympics: snowboarding, freestyle aerials and freestyle moguls are all recent so they should be the ones to be dropped IMNSHO... (basically because I consider them to be stupid where people get marks for ridiculously named stunts...)
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures"
they'll just claim it's a reasonable search then... big get out clause there...
Why in this day and age does slashdot not have buttons to allow you to wrap sections of text with tags is beyond me, especially after all the other monkeying around with the styling
just stop polluting my favourite projects with windows only perversions... Open source is supposed to be cross platform... I don't want any "improvements" made to projects so they run better on windows... in fact I'd prefer it it if people stopped porting things to run on windows... make all the best stuff available on Linux...
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OK, why are they being allowed to treat electronic content differently from sealed letters and packages? Do they steam open your letters and parcels to see if anything contentious is being sent? No, and I'll bet that's because it is unconstitutional... so why are they treating electronic delivery differently? There should be massive protests against this... no way should they be able to use the protecting you from child-porn line either... With snail mail, they have to get a warrant to intercept and open your mail and packages... the same should apply for electronic content...
fer heck's sake... the screen slides UP to reveal the keyboard...
you forgot 6.21 which was actually a downgrade as it removed functionality that had been illegally put in 6.0 and 6.2
it's quiet out there... too darn quiet... I don't like it...
only extra processor cycles at both ends... the content has exactly the same length of bytes, just got bits shifted in a weird and wonderful pattern according to the encryption algorithm and the keys
the entire universe is just a single sphere of e-ink in another dimension, and the display is currently changing state so that everything in our universe is going to rush up against one end...
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Jamendo is one of the leading websites for creative commons licensed music. It is eminently notable... we need to remind these wiki twonks that wikipedia is the people's encyclopedia... written by the people, for the people...
RIAA Radar... very confusing sometimes... take this: search on "Noah and the Whale"... you get three results, two "safe"... the safe ones are singles released off the unsafe album??? wtf???
I'm sure we had the exact same discussion when they tried to get Debian to include a clickthrough licence for Firefox...
for Windows 7
ouch... very expensive consequences... for a single page view... talk about "Butterfly Effect"... now we'll have to add this as "the Google Effect" to the popular lore...
and anyone who tries to expose the scam gets declared "fair game", although they don't use that precise term anymore...
this could be highly amusing... just think of all those perjury charges...
surely that would kill plants and create another disaster in failing crops...
hey, you sell me a package as having 1meg/second download rate and I expect to have it... whenever I want, 24/7 if needs be... anything less is false advertising. If you want to be upfront about it, then sell it properly as a maximum burst speed and have a total capacity per day where I get billed per 100 megabytes over that. Oh but you won't as it would be suicide as all your customers would flock to someone else who was lying about their package...
It's the exact same problem for a lot of Linux users on stable platforms who are not upgrading. Firefox 3 won't install on my Ubuntu Dapper box. Gets upset about the version of gtk
why on earth they couldn't provide a build of ff3 that had everything it needed statically linked in I don't know.
plus I'm perfectly happy running Dapper on this box... I'm not in the mood for fighting through an upgrade yet... I've had a few too many problems upgrading my laptop... that was effectively bricked for a while when upgrading to the current Ubuntu until a newer kernel got released.
gmail will just have to use the non https server to forward the requests for login pages to the https server automatically and do this for all their services that require logins... then you won't have to rely on users setting a preference box... they'll have no choice.
doesn't matter how fast the coders churn out the code... the real slower down of defence coding are the testing and QA... all the paperwork required for QA traceability is mind boggling... especially when things are in maintenance... or the customer is getting antsy about taking ownership and arguments explode as to whose paying for the rework before it gets into maintenance... you have to keep all manner of records to prove who's at fault, the customer for not being specific enough in their requirements or supplying source data in time, or the supplier for not actually meeting the requirements or not picking up ambiguities early enough to so that it could have been fixed before it got down to coding time...
that could be automated by having the text of the book(s) available and using a program to pick out suitable word locations (don't bother with pages, just use lines and position of word on the line). The text of the books would have to be encrypted though if you're doing that and the passphrase to login to the program to access the encoding/decoding features would need to be kept secret...
If they're fenced in, then they're not wild now are they...
curling is a traditional winter sport and was in the inaugural winter olympics: snowboarding, freestyle aerials and freestyle moguls are all recent so they should be the ones to be dropped IMNSHO... (basically because I consider them to be stupid where people get marks for ridiculously named stunts...)
they'll just claim it's a reasonable search then... big get out clause there...
Why in this day and age does slashdot not have buttons to allow you to wrap sections of text with tags is beyond me, especially after all the other monkeying around with the styling
just stop polluting my favourite projects with windows only perversions... Open source is supposed to be cross platform... I don't want any "improvements" made to projects so they run better on windows... in fact I'd prefer it it if people stopped porting things to run on windows... make all the best stuff available on Linux...
well, finally this explains G.W. Bush... and Tom Cruise