Which is exactly why I've been saying the next step should be to genetically engineer a pig with multiple stomachs so it can chew it's cud. Mmmm...kosher bacon.
Each defendant was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, which carries a five-year maximum prison sentence. Fifteen also were charged with copyright infringement, which carries a three-year maximum.
Somehow, agreeing with another person to commit a crime is thought to be a more serious offense than actually committing said crime. WTF?
I just bought a Sony notebook a few weeks ago (it got stolen a couple of days ago, but that's another story). They don't even give you CDs with it. They preinstall a utility on their computers that will use the optical drive to burn you recovery CDs. You actually have to produce the backup media yourself.
This isn't quite true. You might be surprised by some of the items you can take along (PDF warning) on an airplane. Overall, though the rules are more bullshit than not. They don't increase security, they do increase hassle, and they unnecessarily increases the power of governement. I hate flying. I hate having to show up like 2 hours early just in case the TSA people decide that it's my turn to be molested. Airline travel has become one huge hassle.
Wow..that's weird. I never thought that was a problem, because I have an autorun.inf on my flash drive that dictates the icon for it and adds an extra menu item. However, I just tried adding an autorunning program and you're right, Windows just came up with the autoplay menu because it found some pictures on the drive. Thanks for the explanation.
The article makes reference to this new "U3 technology" that enables a flash drive to run programs. Exactly what is the point of this? Does anybody know. As far as I know, any program should be able to run off any flash drive as long as it doesn't do something like store all its settings on the host computer's registry or something. Isn't that how stuff like Portable Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. work? So why exactly is this concept so hard to do that one needs a special software SDK and specially designed hardware?
Honestly, I'd really love to see these people fully embrace the internet. Unfortunately, it seems like all the execs have their heads stuck in an outmoded paradigm of distribution and complete control. I'd hope they'd be replaced by people who "get it," but by the time that happens, broadband will probably be a lot more common and it will be just as easy for a person to obtain illicit copies of their wares as it is for music today.
A much more useful variation on your suggestion to simply disable cookies is to install the Permit Cookies Firefox extension. It allows you to set exceptions for sites without going through the preferences dialog. All you need to do is hit Alt+C and set your preferences for the particular site.
The only problem I've ever run into with this particular setup is those obnoxious sites which have a redirect in the middle that sets the cookie (MS Passport, for example). Other than that, it works great and I only get the cookies from sites I explicitly approve of.
Or for around the same price, you can get a completely passive cooling solution. I got a VM-101 from AeroCool. It's great. It only takes up one extra PCI slot (not 5) and does a pretty good job of cooling the card it's attached to. The only downside is that it takes up a good bit of room on the opposite side of the card. Unless you have a very large CPU heatsink, that shouldn't affect you, though.
This quetion is very relevant. Perhaps some of us here in the US might be interested in using this and the vast majority of slashdot readership is located in the US? Just because something was created in a country where it was legal does not mean that it can be used in a country where it is not legal. I mean, we've all seen how well DeCSS went over here in the US.
every DOC file that pass trough the email system is converted into a PDF
How exactly are you going about doing that? I've been trying to find a Free/OSS implementation of a program that does that, but can't. They are all either commercial programs or require the use of Windows and the MS Word viewer.
I was listening to NPR a while ago and they were talking about how the IRS had some deal going on that you could do electronic filing for free. You can find all their free stuff here. As for sub7, I think you might want to return that copy of Turbo Tax and check this out. Turbo Tax Premier is only $29.99 from that site. Unless I'm missing something, there's no advantage to buying the software directly and there's definitely no advantage to buying the software at all unless your state has income tax, too.
impressionable adj : easily impressed or influenced;
adaptable adj : capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use;
I think the you and the grandparent seem to be confusing these two words. They have very different meanings. A person who plays a role playing game is "adaptable." They can take a situation of which they have no actual experience and use what they know to deal with it. I've never lived in a world of magic and armored warfare, but I managed to adapt to playing D&D back in high school. What I did not do, however, was take that information and run around during my daily life believing anyone could be a mage capable of casting "magic missile" on me. Someone who does that does not do that as a result of playing D&D, they do that as a result of being crazy.
In all truth, that was the first thing I went to do as soon as I saw how crippled Pocket IE was on my Dell Axim, but upon reviewing Opera's download page I realized that they do not have a solution for my platform. You can see in the right where it clearly states that the Windows Mobile version of Opera does not run on Pocket PC devices. Total bummer. Now, with Minimo, I have another choice in browsers. Hopefully this will support the features that I want, not the least of which is the ability to have more than one window open.
No, not everyone uses WinRAR. However, WinRAR is probably the most well known and it's relatively easy to use. Plus, just like UltimateZIP, it can open up a variety of formats.
Actually, Microsoft was founded in 1975. That would make them almost 30 years old.
As far as sendmail goes, that's why I don't use it. I use procmail for all my SMTP needs. Win2k is a great product, I was really happy when I was using it, but the bottom line is that it still has its problems. There are still patches that get released to address security issues every now and then.
All software has it's problems because it's written by people and people are imperfect. However, there are a lot of choices in the OSS world, just as there are in the closed source world. If you find a program doesn't work as advertised...move one. When it's open source software and I do move on, however, I'm just generally glad that I haven't had to invest several thousand dollars in the purchasing of the software.
I don't know much about those book burnings, but that sounds seriously messed up. The man's findings should have been examined on their own merits and not just indiscriminately burned.
As for the pulling of that article, the reason for that is pretty obvious. The authors used terminology which had an obvious political spin to it. Something that really doesn't have any place in a scientific journal. It had nothing to do with the findings of the article. Only and idiot would deny that the Jews and the Arabs aren't related. I'm pretty sure both groups are supposed to be descendants of Abraham.
I'm sorry, but that's totally incorrect. According to the bugzilla entry (Copy the link and paste it in a new window. Links from slashdot are disabled.) for that bug, the problem is resolved. I can confirm that that is correct because I am running Firefox 0.8 right now, and the demo application was denied UniversalXPConnect priveledges.
Why does that statistic just not seem to scare me very much? Florida, which had 31 of those 55 attacks, has millions upon millions of visitors every year and an absurdly small number of them get attacked by sharks. Lets compare those 31 nonfatal shark attacks to the 145 people who get toasted by lightning here in Florida every year. So, it would appear that one would be more likely to be killed by lightning than attacked by a shark (at least when in Florida).
It's just a guess, but from taking a look at that slide and a few others, I think that he is saying that the build environment requires 50GB. Which makes sense (OO.o requires like 2.4). I'm just having a hard time believing that the source alone could possibly consume that much disk space.
You say that taking notes should be braindead simple, but take a look at Graphiti, the old Palm standard for text input. Graphiti is far from braindead simple. Who thinks to make a lower case alpha to form a 'K'. I know I don't. But, if one spends a bit of time learning the system, it becomes second nature. Linux based PDAs may not seem brain dead simple at first, but I'm sure they'll seem that way to you after a while.
Yeah, my cousin encountered a similar warning from his AV software when i sent him the link. The problem is that I take offence to that. It's nice that they're looking out for their customers, but I don't really see that as the job of a virus scanner. A virus scanner should scan for viruses, not warn me that the page I'm going to is spoofed (and call it a trojan??). It's Microsoft's job to fix that which, to their credit, they are apparently doing with WinXP SP2. But that leaves me to wonder what's going to happen to the people who don't have WinXP, but use IE. Oh, well. It doesn't bother me that much as I use neither:)
If you're roommate is that unwilling to change browsers when other people suggest, perhaps he's be willing to upgrade when "Microsoft" tells him to. I've sent that page to a few people now, and the responses are pretty amusing. It redirects IE users to a spoofed MS Update page for Internet Explorer that offers Mozilla for download as the "update" for IE.
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Which is exactly why I've been saying the next step should be to genetically engineer a pig with multiple stomachs so it can chew it's cud. Mmmm...kosher bacon.
I just bought a Sony notebook a few weeks ago (it got stolen a couple of days ago, but that's another story). They don't even give you CDs with it. They preinstall a utility on their computers that will use the optical drive to burn you recovery CDs. You actually have to produce the backup media yourself.
Wow..that's weird. I never thought that was a problem, because I have an autorun.inf on my flash drive that dictates the icon for it and adds an extra menu item. However, I just tried adding an autorunning program and you're right, Windows just came up with the autoplay menu because it found some pictures on the drive. Thanks for the explanation.
The article makes reference to this new "U3 technology" that enables a flash drive to run programs. Exactly what is the point of this? Does anybody know. As far as I know, any program should be able to run off any flash drive as long as it doesn't do something like store all its settings on the host computer's registry or something. Isn't that how stuff like Portable Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. work? So why exactly is this concept so hard to do that one needs a special software SDK and specially designed hardware?
Don't forget to give them dental exams, too.
Honestly, I'd really love to see these people fully embrace the internet. Unfortunately, it seems like all the execs have their heads stuck in an outmoded paradigm of distribution and complete control. I'd hope they'd be replaced by people who "get it," but by the time that happens, broadband will probably be a lot more common and it will be just as easy for a person to obtain illicit copies of their wares as it is for music today.
A much more useful variation on your suggestion to simply disable cookies is to install the Permit Cookies Firefox extension. It allows you to set exceptions for sites without going through the preferences dialog. All you need to do is hit Alt+C and set your preferences for the particular site.
The only problem I've ever run into with this particular setup is those obnoxious sites which have a redirect in the middle that sets the cookie (MS Passport, for example). Other than that, it works great and I only get the cookies from sites I explicitly approve of.
Or for around the same price, you can get a completely passive cooling solution. I got a VM-101 from AeroCool. It's great. It only takes up one extra PCI slot (not 5) and does a pretty good job of cooling the card it's attached to. The only downside is that it takes up a good bit of room on the opposite side of the card. Unless you have a very large CPU heatsink, that shouldn't affect you, though.
This quetion is very relevant. Perhaps some of us here in the US might be interested in using this and the vast majority of slashdot readership is located in the US? Just because something was created in a country where it was legal does not mean that it can be used in a country where it is not legal. I mean, we've all seen how well DeCSS went over here in the US.
How exactly are you going about doing that? I've been trying to find a Free/OSS implementation of a program that does that, but can't. They are all either commercial programs or require the use of Windows and the MS Word viewer.
I was listening to NPR a while ago and they were talking about how the IRS had some deal going on that you could do electronic filing for free. You can find all their free stuff here. As for sub7, I think you might want to return that copy of Turbo Tax and check this out. Turbo Tax Premier is only $29.99 from that site. Unless I'm missing something, there's no advantage to buying the software directly and there's definitely no advantage to buying the software at all unless your state has income tax, too.
In all truth, that was the first thing I went to do as soon as I saw how crippled Pocket IE was on my Dell Axim, but upon reviewing Opera's download page I realized that they do not have a solution for my platform. You can see in the right where it clearly states that the Windows Mobile version of Opera does not run on Pocket PC devices. Total bummer.
Now, with Minimo, I have another choice in browsers. Hopefully this will support the features that I want, not the least of which is the ability to have more than one window open.
No, not everyone uses WinRAR. However, WinRAR is probably the most well known and it's relatively easy to use. Plus, just like UltimateZIP, it can open up a variety of formats.
Hehe, you're right. I meant postfix. Oops.
Actually, Microsoft was founded in 1975. That would make them almost 30 years old.
As far as sendmail goes, that's why I don't use it. I use procmail for all my SMTP needs. Win2k is a great product, I was really happy when I was using it, but the bottom line is that it still has its problems. There are still patches that get released to address security issues every now and then.
All software has it's problems because it's written by people and people are imperfect. However, there are a lot of choices in the OSS world, just as there are in the closed source world. If you find a program doesn't work as advertised...move one. When it's open source software and I do move on, however, I'm just generally glad that I haven't had to invest several thousand dollars in the purchasing of the software.
I don't know much about those book burnings, but that sounds seriously messed up. The man's findings should have been examined on their own merits and not just indiscriminately burned.
As for the pulling of that article, the reason for that is pretty obvious. The authors used terminology which had an obvious political spin to it. Something that really doesn't have any place in a scientific journal. It had nothing to do with the findings of the article. Only and idiot would deny that the Jews and the Arabs aren't related. I'm pretty sure both groups are supposed to be descendants of Abraham.
I'm sorry, but that's totally incorrect.
According to the bugzilla entry (Copy the link and paste it in a new window. Links from slashdot are disabled.) for that bug, the problem is resolved. I can confirm that that is correct because I am running Firefox 0.8 right now, and the demo application was denied UniversalXPConnect priveledges.
Why does that statistic just not seem to scare me very much? Florida, which had 31 of those 55 attacks, has millions upon millions of visitors every year and an absurdly small number of them get attacked by sharks. Lets compare those 31 nonfatal shark attacks to the 145 people who get toasted by lightning here in Florida every year. So, it would appear that one would be more likely to be killed by lightning than attacked by a shark (at least when in Florida).
It's just a guess, but from taking a look at that slide and a few others, I think that he is saying that the build environment requires 50GB. Which makes sense (OO.o requires like 2.4). I'm just having a hard time believing that the source alone could possibly consume that much disk space.
You say that taking notes should be braindead simple, but take a look at Graphiti, the old Palm standard for text input. Graphiti is far from braindead simple. Who thinks to make a lower case alpha to form a 'K'. I know I don't. But, if one spends a bit of time learning the system, it becomes second nature. Linux based PDAs may not seem brain dead simple at first, but I'm sure they'll seem that way to you after a while.
Yeah, my cousin encountered a similar warning from his AV software when i sent him the link. The problem is that I take offence to that. It's nice that they're looking out for their customers, but I don't really see that as the job of a virus scanner. A virus scanner should scan for viruses, not warn me that the page I'm going to is spoofed (and call it a trojan??). It's Microsoft's job to fix that which, to their credit, they are apparently doing with WinXP SP2. But that leaves me to wonder what's going to happen to the people who don't have WinXP, but use IE. Oh, well. It doesn't bother me that much as I use neither :)
If you're roommate is that unwilling to change browsers when other people suggest, perhaps he's be willing to upgrade when "Microsoft" tells him to.
I've sent that page to a few people now, and the responses are pretty amusing. It redirects IE users to a spoofed MS Update page for Internet Explorer that offers Mozilla for download as the "update" for IE.