In Australia the shop is liable for credit card fraud. So it is in the shops best interest to make sure that the person making purchases on a credit card are who they say they are.
The real problem is that the information that identifies you as you is the same information that you give to people to prove that you are you. Giving anyone you need to prove your identity to all the information they need to pretend to be you. What is needed is something on long the lines of public-private key cryptography.
The issue of "what is the soocer ball contained in?" is answered by the fact that the soocer ball is the universe, ie. All of space and time. Space doesn't exist outside the universe, therefore there is no need for the universe to be contained in anything.
In reference to your sig: 'pop-up blocking' is not a feature. It's actually a lack of a feature. It's like saying you made Windows XP cracker proof by removing the TCP/IP stack.
"I agree to use this web site only for personal study and
not to make copies except for my personal use
under "Fair Use" principles of Copyright law
as defined in this license agreement."
Doesn't sound very free to me.
The main problem with the 'Net OS' concept is that either all your software is provided by the vendor (eg. google) or web application developer/provides actually get their act together and allow the applications to interoperate.
Lets say that I have my email hosted at gmail.com and I would like it integrated with a calendar application, but I really don't like google's calendar so I go in search of another calendar service. I find one that suits me, but because they don't have an interoperatability deal with gmail I can't integrate my email with that calender service.(even if they did have an interoperability agreement, I would still have to give the calendar service provider access to my confidental email account)
Now on a desktop computer, the calendar program creator would just make the calendar program speak IMAP and fetch the emails from the email server. No issues with my privacy
I agree.
Also, 'The NET IS the OS" fails to take in to account that you need an OS to run your web browser, provide the base system libraries for your applications that you don't wish to write in javascript. Web applications are still way behind desktop applications in terms of portability and interoperation.
The fact that it has annoyed you is proof that it's working. If it's annoying enough to open up your wii then less people will try. If it was easy then every man and his dog would attempt to 'fix' their wii.
Releasing the source code for a program doesn't instantly make it better code. Crap programs exist in both Commerical and FLOSS Software, there is no reason to generalise over the development model.
Apache is definitly not embarassing. Linux is also not Embarassing *BSD Firefox Python Bittorrent OpenOffice(no more of an embarassment than MS Office) Postgresql are all not embarassing.
Obviously going to Freshmeat.net and obtaining LibMakeGoFast written by a highschool student on his own and using it in your mission critical application without testing it is silly. But so is buying LibAwesomeMax from dougy brother's software.
My experience of commerical business software has been a embarasment. MS Outlook is probably the worse mail client ever written. Quicken Enterprise - I wouldn't even use it for my home finances MS Windows XP - There is definitly some really strange behaviours in there.
This guy is just another idiot. Why does slashdot make it so hard to ignore these idiots by continuing to post stories about them? He is seeing it from the perspective of a software company that wants to sell software. FLOSS is from the perspective of the user that wants to actually use the software. Businesses love FLOSS because it saves huge amounts of money by not making their developers recreate the wheel.
If I am a programmer and I can write good code then I'll get a good job writing good code. Who cares if I give it away for free, I still have a stable job that pays well.
"Putting the e-mail in a distorted picture (like a captcha) - this is very difficult for spam crawlers to read"
"You could go a step further by having a text field that is hidden by a style="display: none;" and make sure that is empty as well."
Both of those methods are terrible for web browsers used by the visually impaired. With an estimated 180 million people world-wide that are visually impaired that is a problem. But I guess none of the visually impaired will be commenting on slashdot due to the Captcha required to post.
I don't think much is going to be widely done about global warming at least for the next 30 years or so. At which point we'll be experiencing a lot of the effects, which I'm hoping will motivate people. But, the green house gases have been building up for a long time. Even if we reduced our current green house gas emissions, how long would it take for the build up to dissipate?
This idea might be useful if this is going to be a problem.
You are responible for the actions of computer systems that you own.
If this were not so, then crackers and spams could just deny that they knew their computers were taking such actions.
The general tricking of people in to seeing the 'TubGirl' image is a specific intention to offend a specific person. It follows the same concept as printing the image out and posting it to the person.
Creating a racist blog on the web is more like posting the image up in a hardcore fetish sex shop.
Most of the people that would go in to the shop wouldn't mind it and the people who would be offended wouldn't be going to that shop anyway and therefore it has no effect on them.
Yeah, Let the idiots have their blogs. The great thing about the internet is that, to be offended by something on the internet you actually have to intentionally search for it.
Sure, the linux kernel as a whole may stay GPL2. But how about all the other components that make up a GNU\Linux system, xorg, bash, grep, mplayer, mysql, postgresql, etc.
Damn, when I read the headline I thought it might actually be an internet license that required some form of training(like with cars) before getting a connection. Something like that would probably limit the size and number of botnets sending spam. pity.
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when you screw with weather patterns all sort of things happen. global warming changes the way heat is distributed on the planet.
3 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
5 ? 00:00:00 khelper
6 ? 00:00:00 kthread
8 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
9 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
102 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
105 ? 00:00:00 khubd
176 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
784 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
814 ? 00:00:00 khpsbpkt
818 ? 00:00:00 knodemgrd_0
seems to fit in with the naming convention of all the kernel related processes.
Software should 'Work' But a user shouldn't expect to be able to use a complex piece of software without any training.
Bittorrent is 'hands free'
In Australia the shop is liable for credit card fraud. So it is in the shops best interest to make sure that the person making purchases on a credit card are who they say they are.
The real problem is that the information that identifies you as you is the same information that you give to people to prove that you are you.
Giving anyone you need to prove your identity to all the information they need to pretend to be you.
What is needed is something on long the lines of public-private key cryptography.
The issue of "what is the soocer ball contained in?" is answered by the fact that the soocer ball is the universe, ie. All of space and time. Space doesn't exist outside the universe, therefore there is no need for the universe to be contained in anything.
A programming language should attempt to prevent a programmer from making these kinds of mistakes. By making the mistakes obvious in the syntax.
In reference to your sig:
'pop-up blocking' is not a feature. It's actually a lack of a feature.
It's like saying you made Windows XP cracker proof by removing the TCP/IP stack.
"I agree to use this web site only for personal study and not to make copies except for my personal use under "Fair Use" principles of Copyright law as defined in this license agreement." Doesn't sound very free to me.
Harddrives are slow.
The main problem with the 'Net OS' concept is that either all your software is provided by the vendor (eg. google) or web application developer/provides actually get their act together and allow the applications to interoperate. Lets say that I have my email hosted at gmail.com and I would like it integrated with a calendar application, but I really don't like google's calendar so I go in search of another calendar service. I find one that suits me, but because they don't have an interoperatability deal with gmail I can't integrate my email with that calender service.(even if they did have an interoperability agreement, I would still have to give the calendar service provider access to my confidental email account) Now on a desktop computer, the calendar program creator would just make the calendar program speak IMAP and fetch the emails from the email server. No issues with my privacy
interestingly enough ASP.NET pages can be written in javascript.
I agree. Also, 'The NET IS the OS" fails to take in to account that you need an OS to run your web browser, provide the base system libraries for your applications that you don't wish to write in javascript. Web applications are still way behind desktop applications in terms of portability and interoperation.
The fact that it has annoyed you is proof that it's working.
If it's annoying enough to open up your wii then less people will try.
If it was easy then every man and his dog would attempt to 'fix' their wii.
Releasing the source code for a program doesn't instantly make it better code.
Crap programs exist in both Commerical and FLOSS Software, there is no reason to generalise over the development model.
Apache is definitly not embarassing.
Linux is also not Embarassing
*BSD
Firefox
Python
Bittorrent
OpenOffice(no more of an embarassment than MS Office)
Postgresql
are all not embarassing.
Obviously going to Freshmeat.net and obtaining LibMakeGoFast written by a highschool student on his own and using it in your mission critical application without testing it is silly.
But so is buying LibAwesomeMax from dougy brother's software.
My experience of commerical business software has been a embarasment.
MS Outlook is probably the worse mail client ever written.
Quicken Enterprise - I wouldn't even use it for my home finances
MS Windows XP - There is definitly some really strange behaviours in there.
This guy is just another idiot.
Why does slashdot make it so hard to ignore these idiots by continuing to post stories about them?
He is seeing it from the perspective of a software company that wants to sell software.
FLOSS is from the perspective of the user that wants to actually use the software.
Businesses love FLOSS because it saves huge amounts of money by not making their developers recreate the wheel.
If I am a programmer and I can write good code then I'll get a good job writing good code. Who cares if I give it away for free, I still have a stable job that pays well.
"Putting the e-mail in a distorted picture (like a captcha) - this is very difficult for spam crawlers to read"
"You could go a step further by having a text field that is hidden by a style="display: none;" and make sure that is empty as well."
Both of those methods are terrible for web browsers used by the visually impaired. With an estimated 180 million people world-wide that are visually impaired that is a problem. But I guess none of the visually impaired will be commenting on slashdot due to the Captcha required to post.
I don't think much is going to be widely done about global warming at least for the next 30 years or so. At which point we'll be experiencing a lot of the effects, which I'm hoping will motivate people.
But, the green house gases have been building up for a long time. Even if we reduced our current green house gas emissions, how long would it take for the build up to dissipate?
This idea might be useful if this is going to be a problem.
You don't need a firewall. Just disabled the network services that you aren't using.
You are responible for the actions of computer systems that you own. If this were not so, then crackers and spams could just deny that they knew their computers were taking such actions.
The general tricking of people in to seeing the 'TubGirl' image is a specific intention to offend a specific person. It follows the same concept as printing the image out and posting it to the person. Creating a racist blog on the web is more like posting the image up in a hardcore fetish sex shop. Most of the people that would go in to the shop wouldn't mind it and the people who would be offended wouldn't be going to that shop anyway and therefore it has no effect on them.
Yeah, Let the idiots have their blogs.
The great thing about the internet is that, to be offended by something on the internet you actually have to intentionally search for it.
Nice sig. way to troll.
Sure, the linux kernel as a whole may stay GPL2. But how about all the other components that make up a GNU\Linux system, xorg, bash, grep, mplayer, mysql, postgresql, etc.
Damn, when I read the headline I thought it might actually be an internet license that required some form of training(like with cars) before getting a connection.
Something like that would probably limit the size and number of botnets sending spam.
pity.