I was willing to buy like 10-20 licenses of Threema, but Google Play does not allow "app gifts"... Other methods will depend on geographical location (Google gift cards depend on the country address of each account) or require bit more technical knowledge (directly from Threema website).
Here at the Nigerian Research Agency (NRA) we are also developing TPP: Tele-Portation Protocol (TPP).
Your contributions will be refunded in full. Send us you cash or wire transfer and we will Teleport it back to you in only few days after we receive it; the time required to incorporate the space-time continuum into the protocol.
Also please inform the smart-ass Slashdot editor that placing an acronym (TPP) in the hope that the readers will click to find out is not much different than the cheap dim-witted Internet advertising methods.
Best Regards Your friends from the "Nigerian Scammers Association" (NSA)
There are detailed laws for the sound level from cars. If you have the connections a cop can issue some tickets on that specific corner; otherwise, you can lobby for an automated system similar to speed cameras. It will bring lots of money to the municipality and improve the neighborhood.
You will not be able to do anything about ambulances, police cars and firetrucks.
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It became a hassle to have to deal with addon incompatibility that I removed it when they updated to version 8. Opera works much better on mobile platforms anyway. On my PC I stopped updating it for the addon issues too. I had to hack the addons every time specially Aardvark, and it is a hassle when you have it on several PCs including coworkers and friends.
The story should be how many people are planning to leave or left Firefox for Chrome, Opera or other browsers due to the annoying version issue...
still the driving force in that revolution. These apps will also be used by fundamentalists in that movement.
For the record I despise the Assad dictatorship ( who wouldn't unless you are the dictator:P ), and I wish the Syrian people a true democracy and not another dictatorship or another Iran-like Theocracy (a sunni one). Most of the people running the show in the Syrian revolution have fundamentalist and pro Al-Qaedah positions. This was seen in many sectarian and extremest speeches by Mosk Imams in Daraa and other cities and is also seen in some of the pro-revolution demonstrators. Even though the Arab media moronically tries to hide these facts and images (picture below shows Bin-Laden and Hamas founder), foreign governments have people on the ground and know these facts. Rarely seen image of a demonstration in Tripoli-Lebanon by the so called Future movement (Harriri group who are for some reason still supported by the US gov): http://i40.tinypic.com/j8i07b.jpg
The PDF file(s) of the corresponding article (article in Arabic): http://ifile.it/h379mtq http://ifile.it/vu3seit
It is unfortunate that in-spite of all the wars (and civil wars) in that region no one accepts the principle of separation of religion and state except dictatorship regimes!
The performance of the mid range professional DSLR was a bit disappointing for me from the performace in low light to their AF system. One interesting new variable is MP/cm pixel density. DSLRs (~ 2 MP/cm), higher end point and shoot digital camera's (~ 20 MP/cm) and range-finder cameras (~ 2 MP/cm) have a lower density than the cheaper cameras.
I still cannot understand why FF has to show PDF inside browser by default. I always get a customized version of Firefox. It has the PDF thingy disabled (in the installer) by adding// before the pref("plugin.scan.Acrobat", "5.0"); in the all.js file and a modified prefs.js (I am aware of the "PDF Download" extension but I like the other options with this version). It also includes some extensions by default (ConQuery, Extended Link Properties, Flashblock, Google Send to Phone, Coralize, All-in-One Gestures, MR Tech Local Install, Dict, Add Bookmark Here, and Zotero) additional "searchplugins", a custom "prefs.js", "hostperm.1", and "localstore.rdf".
Remember that Iran is a "RELIGIOUS DEMOCRACY!" so it has a much more stable (and dangerous) government than any other anti-US country in the area (in contrast to pre-war Iraq). They are rich (OIL) and they are a bit(!) smart. They invest heavily in Weapon manufacturing and in nuclear technology (since early 80s). This is the regime that "eradicated" nearly all members of the Baha'i faith from the entire country and has used chemical weapons against the civilian Kurd villages in Iraq.
The super-computer may not be much for many but is a trend, and Iran IS a threat.
Putting more restrictions or tracking the companies in the far east that sell them technologies will not stop them but would make it more costly and difficult for them.
Even now PDF is still very practical and much better than using M$ Word docs. It is not only what I like, but also what the coworker or colleague can read or print. I use PDF Creator frequently, but there is no portable PDF-Creator. In-addition to not being able to handle hyperlinks without using "PDF-T-Maker" for "M$ Word", PDF Creator cannot handle forms.
As I said in the above post, OOo still cannot handle forms adequately. PDF forms are much better when they can be filled and then printed by the user (or submitted via a script). PDF forms created via OOo still (version 2.3) do not show or work well neither in Adobe Acrobat, and nor in Foxit reader.
Yes, and I always keep a copy of my presentation in Flash in case non of the other formats (ppt & PDF) worked or when I want to make it more dificult for someone to steal the presentation contents, but the last time I checked (2.1), the animations included in a presentation are not exported. I am not a fan of animations in presentations but it would be a great feature to encourage people to use OOo.
One of the best features is exporting PDF files especially while using a "Portable" version of OOo. They had some issues in exporting forms (thru the Writer) in the previous versions where the exported form failed to show or work with Adobe Acrobat and Foxit software.
A great future improvement would be the ability to export the presentation animations and transition effects (Impress) to Flash animations & transitions.
It would be also interesting to see the worldwide distribution of the downloaded versions (directly or via Torrent) and the clients used (browsers, torrents, and download clients).
The idea that you need special software and a complex AI to detect and trace terrorists or their supporters is stupid. You can easily find and trace them; they have websites that air their beheading videos and they frequently post their opinions without using any significant anonymization.
"Hsinchun Chen and his Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona" may enjoy the funding and all the goodies and fame that comes with it, but its effectiveness in curtailing terrorism is null. The false positives generated are very worrisome. False accusations may not be important to him, but think of labeling someone HIV+ve based on a sensitive but nonspecific test. Inocent individuals have to go thru a complex and stressfull process just because of his project.
I can tell you that terrorist groups are politically and economically "stable" in the middle east, and they have no shortage of funding even from US based individuals. Their funding is not always as a direct transfer but frequently as small amounts of cash, buying an apartment or a car from a specific company, donating to a civil organization who actually funds and/or supports the families of people active in those groups, etc...
People who sympathize with these terrorist groups still go to the US. It is actually much easier for these individuals to get positions in the US since they have better connections based on their religious and political affiliations. On the other hand and not infrequently honest people get filtered by the system.
They could do a much better job in many other ways to identify and cut the funding of these groups.
In countries where you are allowed a limited amount of download/upload per month/pay, using Linux can be a pain in the neck. Downloading the updates may consume your monthly broad-band account in a day or two. Lebanon is one example.
Many third world countries has download & upload limitaions on their broadband with no choice of a free unlimited option.
I am still a Pegasus user. I like its simplicity and immunity to viruses. Occasionally even Eudora was susceptible. Outlook is junk, but I have not tried the 2003 version yet.
Pegasus is still an excellent product for most users, but this is in a way similar to the Netscape story.
Here in the Nigerian Peninsula, we have lots of money and business opportunities for you to harvest; yes, here money grows in the fields and you can come to harvest it.
Send us a check and we will grant you an exclusive citizenship.
From what I've read, Superwaba is better than the other claimed standard alternatives. Anyone has some experience in mobile Java development to confirm or refute that:
FTFA: " should schedule adverts for times when people are likely to be consuming caffeine, such as breakfast time."
I personally either "Mute" the TV or switch to a P in P when the stupid ads arrive. Unique ads are less annoying. I spent my last 4 yrs in the US switching repeatedly to PBS (and frequently remaining on that channel and dumping the movie/news) whenever ads arrive.
If this coffee issue is true, it is useful for smart companies and advertisers and not to the bulk of the market like McD*n*lds, B*stB*y, and other junk ads. Any one sees this in the coming elections ads?
I got a Compaq Presario 1618 laptop in ~ 1997. It came with Win95SR.. I tried Win98SE with great results in 1999 for few years, repeatedly tried to install Debian until Sarge came out, tried DSL (dual boot with Win98), tried Win2000, tried DSL again, and now I am back to Win98SE with MSOffice XP, IE6, and Opera as default browser (Firefox also there). I was disappointed that my attempts to install Debian in 2000 were time consuming and mostly futile (even on my Desktop) and I had to go back to Windows; the dual boot stuff containing Linux were just sitting there; it was too much effort for my usual work needs to use the Linux side.
From all that, I noticed that Win98SE gives me less headache, not as a system as much as the applications that I need to use. OOo and Firefox took ages to launch on the Linux part in comparison to MSOXP. Opera also ran faster with Win98SE.
I finally noticed that most of the people I work with have difficulties even with Windows systems so my attempts to suggest Linux as an alternative system were halted on the drawing board. Many people have trouble when they see a multi-boot option. Although most IT literate people like the/. crowd do not like the "over friendly and paternalistic" approach of windows as an OS, as far as your babe next door (or alternatively joe average user) is concerned, the WIndows approach still seems the most successful way to reach the mass market.
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Trump did not come from the void.
When Trump won the election one comment was:
Such constituents deserve such a president...
The same applies to internet rules and regulations...
It's not worth following the news clutter. May be this will make circumvention methods more robust.
The main problem is getting your friends to switch.
1) Threema $
https://techcrunch.com/2014/02...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
2) Chatsecure thru Orbot
3) Riot.im
4) Wire
5) Telegram
6) Signal
7) Textsecure
8) Wickr
9) Jitsi Meet
10) Stride
I was willing to buy like 10-20 licenses of Threema, but Google Play does not allow "app gifts"...
Other methods will depend on geographical location (Google gift cards depend on the country address of each account) or require bit more technical knowledge (directly from Threema website).
Just my 2 cents
Here at the Nigerian Research Agency (NRA) we are also developing TPP:
Tele-Portation Protocol (TPP).
Your contributions will be refunded in full. Send us you cash or wire transfer and we will Teleport it back to you in only few days after we receive it; the time required to incorporate the space-time continuum into the protocol.
Also please inform the smart-ass Slashdot editor that placing an acronym (TPP) in the hope that the readers will click to find out is not much different than the cheap dim-witted Internet advertising methods.
Best Regards
Your friends from the "Nigerian Scammers Association" (NSA)
There are detailed laws for the sound level from cars. If you have the connections a cop can issue some tickets on that specific corner; otherwise, you can lobby for an automated system similar to speed cameras. It will bring lots of money to the municipality and improve the neighborhood. You will not be able to do anything about ambulances, police cars and firetrucks.
It became a hassle to have to deal with addon incompatibility that I removed it when they updated to version 8. Opera works much better on mobile platforms anyway. On my PC I stopped updating it for the addon issues too. I had to hack the addons every time specially Aardvark, and it is a hassle when you have it on several PCs including coworkers and friends. The story should be how many people are planning to leave or left Firefox for Chrome, Opera or other browsers due to the annoying version issue...
still the driving force in that revolution. These apps will also be used by fundamentalists in that movement.
:P ), and I wish the Syrian people a true democracy and not another dictatorship or another Iran-like Theocracy (a sunni one). Most of the people running the show in the Syrian revolution have fundamentalist and pro Al-Qaedah positions. This was seen in many sectarian and extremest speeches by Mosk Imams in Daraa and other cities and is also seen in some of the pro-revolution demonstrators. Even though the Arab media moronically tries to hide these facts and images (picture below shows Bin-Laden and Hamas founder), foreign governments have people on the ground and know these facts. Rarely seen image of a demonstration in Tripoli-Lebanon by the so called Future movement (Harriri group who are for some reason still supported by the US gov):
For the record I despise the Assad dictatorship ( who wouldn't unless you are the dictator
http://i40.tinypic.com/j8i07b.jpg
The PDF file(s) of the corresponding article (article in Arabic):
http://ifile.it/h379mtq
http://ifile.it/vu3seit
It is unfortunate that in-spite of all the wars (and civil wars) in that region no one accepts the principle of separation of religion and state except dictatorship regimes!
These are just few facts worth knowing.
The new Leica S2 is an interesting leap with a 37.5 megapixel CCD, a larger sensor (56% larger than 35mm full-frame). http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08092301_leica_s2.asp
http://www.s.leica-camera.com/
With higher MP, you will need higher optics or switch to medium format cameras.
I still cannot understand why FF has to show PDF inside browser by default. I always get a customized version of Firefox. It has the PDF thingy disabled (in the installer) by adding // before the pref("plugin.scan.Acrobat", "5.0"); in the all.js file and a modified prefs.js (I am aware of the "PDF Download" extension but I like the other options with this version). It also includes some extensions by default (ConQuery, Extended Link Properties, Flashblock, Google Send to Phone, Coralize, All-in-One Gestures, MR Tech Local Install, Dict, Add Bookmark Here, and Zotero) additional "searchplugins", a custom "prefs.js", "hostperm.1", and "localstore.rdf".
As once Dr. Hawking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking once said: "Meeting a more advanced civilization, at our present stage, might be a bit like the original inhabitants of America meeting Columbus. I don't think they were better off for it."
http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/life.html
We may be their new appetizer. I hope that this "Alexander Zaitsev" guy would be first on their menu...
Remember that Iran is a "RELIGIOUS DEMOCRACY!" so it has a much more stable (and dangerous) government than any other anti-US country in the area (in contrast to pre-war Iraq). They are rich (OIL) and they are a bit(!) smart. They invest heavily in Weapon manufacturing and in nuclear technology (since early 80s). This is the regime that "eradicated" nearly all members of the Baha'i faith from the entire country and has used chemical weapons against the civilian Kurd villages in Iraq.
The super-computer may not be much for many but is a trend, and Iran IS a threat.
Putting more restrictions or tracking the companies in the far east that sell them technologies will not stop them but would make it more costly and difficult for them.
Did anyone else notice that "The people behind go-oo.org" are DEVOID of chicks?
http://go-oo.org/about/
Even now PDF is still very practical and much better than using M$ Word docs. It is not only what I like, but also what the coworker or colleague can read or print. I use PDF Creator frequently, but there is no portable PDF-Creator. In-addition to not being able to handle hyperlinks without using "PDF-T-Maker" for "M$ Word", PDF Creator cannot handle forms.
As I said in the above post, OOo still cannot handle forms adequately. PDF forms are much better when they can be filled and then printed by the user (or submitted via a script). PDF forms created via OOo still (version 2.3) do not show or work well neither in Adobe Acrobat, and nor in Foxit reader.
Yes, and I always keep a copy of my presentation in Flash in case non of the other formats (ppt & PDF) worked or when I want to make it more dificult for someone to steal the presentation contents, but the last time I checked (2.1), the animations included in a presentation are not exported. I am not a fan of animations in presentations but it would be a great feature to encourage people to use OOo.
One of the best features is exporting PDF files especially while using a "Portable" version of OOo. They had some issues in exporting forms (thru the Writer) in the previous versions where the exported form failed to show or work with Adobe Acrobat and Foxit software.
A great future improvement would be the ability to export the presentation animations and transition effects (Impress) to Flash animations & transitions.
It would be also interesting to see the worldwide distribution of the downloaded versions (directly or via Torrent) and the clients used (browsers, torrents, and download clients).
The idea that you need special software and a complex AI to detect and trace terrorists or their supporters is stupid. You can easily find and trace them; they have websites that air their beheading videos and they frequently post their opinions without using any significant anonymization.
"Hsinchun Chen and his Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona" may enjoy the funding and all the goodies and fame that comes with it, but its effectiveness in curtailing terrorism is null. The false positives generated are very worrisome. False accusations may not be important to him, but think of labeling someone HIV+ve based on a sensitive but nonspecific test. Inocent individuals have to go thru a complex and stressfull process just because of his project.
I can tell you that terrorist groups are politically and economically "stable" in the middle east, and they have no shortage of funding even from US based individuals. Their funding is not always as a direct transfer but frequently as small amounts of cash, buying an apartment or a car from a specific company, donating to a civil organization who actually funds and/or supports the families of people active in those groups, etc...
People who sympathize with these terrorist groups still go to the US. It is actually much easier for these individuals to get positions in the US since they have better connections based on their religious and political affiliations. On the other hand and not infrequently honest people get filtered by the system.
They could do a much better job in many other ways to identify and cut the funding of these groups.
This is a misquote, "Dynamite" is a brand of not French but Italian CANDLES...
i.e. Dee-na-mee-tay in Italian http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443536/quotes
In countries where you are allowed a limited amount of download/upload per month/pay, using Linux can be a pain in the neck. Downloading the updates may consume your monthly broad-band account in a day or two. Lebanon is one example.
Many third world countries has download & upload limitaions on their broadband with no choice of a free unlimited option.
I am still a Pegasus user. I like its simplicity and immunity to viruses. Occasionally even Eudora was susceptible. Outlook is junk, but I have not tried the 2003 version yet.
Pegasus is still an excellent product for most users, but this is in a way similar to the Netscape story.
Here in the Nigerian Peninsula, we have lots of money and business opportunities for you to harvest; yes, here money grows in the fields and you can come to harvest it.
Send us a check and we will grant you an exclusive citizenship.
Act now, citizenships are limited.
Send all yourZ checks and moneyZ to meez...
From what I've read, Superwaba is better than the other claimed standard alternatives. Anyone has some experience in mobile Java development to confirm or refute that:
http://java.about.com/od/superwabamobilevm/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperWaba
http://www.superwaba.com.br/en/swxj2me.asp
If they used "Aluminum Tubes", then they may qualify for a free bonus WMD point/strike from GW...
FTFA:
" should schedule adverts for times when people are likely to be consuming caffeine, such as breakfast time."
I personally either "Mute" the TV or switch to a P in P when the stupid ads arrive. Unique ads are less annoying. I spent my last 4 yrs in the US switching repeatedly to PBS (and frequently remaining on that channel and dumping the movie/news) whenever ads arrive.
If this coffee issue is true, it is useful for smart companies and advertisers and not to the bulk of the market like McD*n*lds, B*stB*y, and other junk ads. Any one sees this in the coming elections ads?
To is or NOT to is , What the IS Doez Thatz Meanz?
I got a Compaq Presario 1618 laptop in ~ 1997. It came with Win95SR.. I tried Win98SE with great results in 1999 for few years, repeatedly tried to install Debian until Sarge came out, tried DSL (dual boot with Win98), tried Win2000, tried DSL again, and now I am back to Win98SE with MSOffice XP, IE6, and Opera as default browser (Firefox also there). I was disappointed that my attempts to install Debian in 2000 were time consuming and mostly futile (even on my Desktop) and I had to go back to Windows; the dual boot stuff containing Linux were just sitting there; it was too much effort for my usual work needs to use the Linux side.
/. crowd do not like the "over friendly and paternalistic" approach of windows as an OS, as far as your babe next door (or alternatively joe average user) is concerned, the WIndows approach still seems the most successful way to reach the mass market.
From all that, I noticed that Win98SE gives me less headache, not as a system as much as the applications that I need to use. OOo and Firefox took ages to launch on the Linux part in comparison to MSOXP. Opera also ran faster with Win98SE.
I finally noticed that most of the people I work with have difficulties even with Windows systems so my attempts to suggest Linux as an alternative system were halted on the drawing board. Many people have trouble when they see a multi-boot option. Although most IT literate people like the
Just my 2 cents...
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They can call it a SPace SHip and still be right