In this case people came together to show some rich loser he can't mess with their blogger buddy. The result is an information network that quickly provides redundant copies of information under attack and makes the information virtually impossible to erase ever.
In a few high-profile cases that the mob has seized upon, yes it does.
I'll be more cheerful when (and if) it becomes a normal fact of existnce that the media can no longer be owned and menipulated this way. We're still very far from this. But there is hope - as we speak, in Burma, despite the miliary junta's insistence that "the revolution will not be televised", large quantities images and video are getting out because of the new tools that ordinary people have.
Does the Internet have a mind on its own already?
read slashdot at -1, and you'll know that it's just a mob.
My home pc's Symantec firewall already has a whitelist. The first time an application tries to use the internet, it gets in the way to check. If the program's size/date changes, it does it again.
This makes the fix-compile-test-fix cycle on a simple net client application just a little harder, since each time I run a new build, the firewall comes up all over again. Not to mention that by the time I clean it out, the whitelist contains 30+ records of old builds, and the Ui to that list sucks dead donkeys through a straw.
Do this on a developer box for all apps that don't access the internet? Ouch. I can see it working for my uncle's email and web machine, maybe, kind-of.
Urine is sterile, and you *can* drink it. You can drink Hydrogen Cyanide solution too, but you'll die in in minutes. Urine isn't that bad, but it's hardly nourishing or even inert - the stuff in it is called "waste products" for a reason.
I don't know whether Silverlight also requires the server to support it - I imagine it must to have "a subset of.NET" available;
As others have pointed out, the.net code runs locally - there's a.Net VM and a subset of the class library being released as part of Silverlight 1.1, which is cross platform, on Windows and Mac, and will soon have a compatible "official" Linux port.
The Actionscript which underlies this is identical in the two platforms... So you can leverage your existing actionscript skills. Now I don't know Actionscript at all, but C# is a pretty nice language, and MS is playing to their strengths here -.Net runs in databases, web servers, desktop OSs, smartphones and now in browsers. How many coders know C# as opposed to actionscript? Actionscript/flex could be as good or even a bit better than C#, but this army of developers that MS is leveraging to get into the market would still swamp it. I have no opinion on where it's right or good, but that's what's happening.
REALLY, though, my big issue is mostly that I just do not trust Microsoft to make a good secure sandbox; they've shown no evidence of being able to pull this off in the past.
I like the Dutch attitude to many things, it's more practical than most. Is it the same as what the US calls libertarian, though, seems to me that most densely-populated parts of west Europe depend upon people working together a lot to make their societies function.
European governments, for good or ill. Considering what the UK has become and what the central government of the European Union is becoming, I'd say it's ultimately for ill.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. I'm not happy with the authoritarian and decidedly non-left tendecies of Britain's labour party, but that all pales before the US's current direction. Considering what the US is currently becoming, I and many others in Europe are extremely concerned.
The vast majority of geeks that I know profess to be registered libertarians (including myself).
So, you're a libertarian geek, and most people that you know are libertarian geeks. I don't think that says anything except that birds of a feather flock together.
For contrast, I know plenty of geeks, and none of them are professed libertarians, let alone registered ones. Of course, I'm in the UK not the US. A better question would be why the rest of the world has singularly failed to take libertarianism seriously. I have some ideas on that...
As dangerous as these flying cars may be, people will fly them.
Will people be allowed to fly them? If you're not on or near a road, you're safe from drunken teens in mechanically unsound cars crashing into you. The same cannot be said with flying cars.
Sure, at some point someone may create a malicious program that pretends to be an established policeware program, but that would be big enough to create headlines... and it's reign would thus be short.
Why would that someone need to change anything about the policeware except the address to which it sends the gathered data? Software that spies for person A can spy for person B. Its reign would be long. This is a huge and blindingly obvious flaw.
Yes. This doen't make them sugars, any more than it makes coal into a form of battery because both contain energy.
They are complexed forms of sugars
Starches are chains of sugars, fats aren't.
the end result provides the same types of energy, just at differen't rates of usage
Indeed, and the rate makes an enormous difference. Like the difference between burning say, ogs of hard wood and twigs soaked in gasoline. Same energy, different burn rates, different outcomes. Simple sugars with boom-and-bust energy release profiles are not what the human body was designed to work on, hence it's bad for us. Simple.
The best thing consumers can do is to read the contracts, know their rights, reject contracts where such provisions can't be removed and tell the salespeople why this isn't acceptable.
Oh, give it up. The fact of the matter is that nearly all of us when signing such a contract are rank amateurs with a limited amount of time to make a decision facing professional contact-drafters who have been at it for years. It's vary far from an equal contest. Anyway, the choice is a most likely going to be a different but equally one-sided contact from a competitor.
You don't really get 54mbps with 802.11a or 802.11g, the most you'll realistically get is 20mbps give or take a few mb.
So. What. The point of the parent is this: I have fast internet at home, at (claimed) 8mbps. That is the bottleneck, not the wi-fi from the wall to the pc at 20+ mbps. Increasing the wi-fi speed will make no difference at all to the speed that I can download stuff.
No, just that you're not important enough for me to do any.
And your idea of research is to look it up on wikipedia?
My one link is a step up from your no links and vague accusations.
talk to some people who lived in communist Russia
Soviet Russia is a total straw man in this context.
the new dictator of Venezuela
You keep saying that. No evidence given.
because he stood up to America, and that's when you decided you like him.
Standing up to the bully is always good, but my intention was not to whitewash Chavez. What I like him for is the "anti-poverty initiatives, the construction of thousands of free medical clinics for the poor, the institution of educational campaigns" etc. You know, doing things for the people. You can criticise the effectiveness of those if you want.
You seem to confuse Communist dictatorship with an elected socialist. They are not the same at all. The elected person has much more incentive to please the electorate than the dictator. The US is very worried that such a socialist experiment might succeed in substantially reducing poverty in Latin America. They need it fail visibly, never mind the human cost.
Do some research on a chemical called diethylene glycol
Ok, so I've been to wikipedia on it. Austrian Antifreeze, basically. Funny that the whole "poisoned several countries in south America" thing isn't big news on there. The whole "this here anecode proves that South American governments are to to be trusted evar" line of reasoning seems rather... lazy.. to me. You're saying that there are no anecdotes on how free market companies in the US have never failed people?
I use quotes because I'm too lazy to type the html flag for italics
Wtach and learn. It's 3-4 characters. Is your thinking that lazy too?
How naive, this guy is clearly setting himself up to be a socialist dictator
Well, I'd condemn that if and when it happens, but I'm not believing that propaganda. I'm sure he's not perfect; from what I've seen he has quite an ego and some of his friends are quite dodgy.
I'll take my healthcare system over the brits any day, if you have health insurance
That's "if" is a caveat large enough to drive a truck through. If you're a really rich Venezuelan, you're going to hate Chavez and all that he does. But you'd be in the small minority there, as you are in the US.
if you have health insurance, it is significantly better than anything socialized medicine offers
Yes, and you know what? I have private healthcare here in the UK. The two are not mutually exclusive. A safety net is only civilised. Everyone believes that the NHS could be better. How to run it is a political issue, and always will be. But everyone (i.e. every political party that has a hope realistic of being elected) understands that NHS is an important, necessary institution.
That National Health care is always a failure? Most of Europe is laughing at that idea.
That Venezuela is a communist? Nope, a democracy whose current democratically elected leader is Socialist. If he doesn't deliver, the people could vote him out.
Slashdot Mirror
In this case people came together to show some rich loser he can't mess with their blogger buddy. The result is an information network that quickly provides redundant copies of information under attack and makes the information virtually impossible to erase ever.
In a few high-profile cases that the mob has seized upon, yes it does.
I'll be more cheerful when (and if) it becomes a normal fact of existnce that the media can no longer be owned and menipulated this way. We're still very far from this. But there is hope - as we speak, in Burma, despite the miliary junta's insistence that "the revolution will not be televised", large quantities images and video are getting out because of the new tools that ordinary people have.
Does the Internet have a mind on its own already?
read slashdot at -1, and you'll know that it's just a mob.
Come on. 98% water with 2% lead wouldn't be nourishing, it would be toxic. Neither is urine with 2% wastes.
My home pc's Symantec firewall already has a whitelist. The first time an application tries to use the internet, it gets in the way to check. If the program's size/date changes, it does it again.
This makes the fix-compile-test-fix cycle on a simple net client application just a little harder, since each time I run a new build, the firewall comes up all over again. Not to mention that by the time I clean it out, the whitelist contains 30+ records of old builds, and the Ui to that list sucks dead donkeys through a straw.
Do this on a developer box for all apps that don't access the internet? Ouch. I can see it working for my uncle's email and web machine, maybe, kind-of.
Urine is sterile. You can drink it.
Urine is sterile, and you *can* drink it. You can drink Hydrogen Cyanide solution too, but you'll die in in minutes. Urine isn't that bad, but it's hardly nourishing or even inert - the stuff in it is called "waste products" for a reason.
I don't know whether Silverlight also requires the server to support it - I imagine it must to have "a subset of
As others have pointed out, the
The Actionscript which underlies this is identical in the two platforms
REALLY, though, my big issue is mostly that I just do not trust Microsoft to make a good secure sandbox; they've shown no evidence of being able to pull this off in the past.
You haven't used
The Republican party believes government is incompetent ... and therefore underfunds it
Unless you believe that the military is not a part of the government, that statement is false.
I like the Dutch attitude to many things, it's more practical than most. Is it the same as what the US calls libertarian, though, seems to me that most densely-populated parts of west Europe depend upon people working together a lot to make their societies function.
European governments, for good or ill. Considering what the UK has become and what the central government of the European Union is becoming, I'd say it's ultimately for ill.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. I'm not happy with the authoritarian and decidedly non-left tendecies of Britain's labour party, but that all pales before the US's current direction. Considering what the US is currently becoming, I and many others in Europe are extremely concerned.
Are you trolling? Americans have been trading freedom for security at an astonishing rate recently.
The vast majority of geeks that I know profess to be registered libertarians (including myself).
So, you're a libertarian geek, and most people that you know are libertarian geeks. I don't think that says anything except that birds of a feather flock together.
For contrast, I know plenty of geeks, and none of them are professed libertarians, let alone registered ones. Of course, I'm in the UK not the US. A better question would be why the rest of the world has singularly failed to take libertarianism seriously. I have some ideas on that...
Correct. But people who live in the 12th floor of a block of flats are going to be up in arms the first time it happens to them.
As dangerous as these flying cars may be, people will fly them.
Will people be allowed to fly them? If you're not on or near a road, you're safe from drunken teens in mechanically unsound cars crashing into you. The same cannot be said with flying cars.
Tiny cars don't sell well. ... most americans
That's why a European company is doing this. In Europe. Where small cars sell.
MS is a large company, it can do two things or more at once.
Sure, at some point someone may create a malicious program that pretends to be an established policeware program, but that would be big enough to create headlines... and it's reign would thus be short.
Why would that someone need to change anything about the policeware except the address to which it sends the gathered data? Software that spies for person A can spy for person B. Its reign would be long. This is a huge and blindingly obvious flaw.
The argument -- I believe -- is over whether the capabilities of Open XML are things that any sane person wants in a document standard.
Ability to import your ms word documents with complete bug-for-bug compatibility is a sane want. it's not the best want ever, but it makes some sense.
Starches and fat are storage vessels of energy.
Yes. This doen't make them sugars, any more than it makes coal into a form of battery because both contain energy.
They are complexed forms of sugars
Starches are chains of sugars, fats aren't.
the end result provides the same types of energy, just at differen't rates of usage
Indeed, and the rate makes an enormous difference. Like the difference between burning say, ogs of hard wood and twigs soaked in gasoline. Same energy, different burn rates, different outcomes. Simple sugars with boom-and-bust energy release profiles are not what the human body was designed to work on, hence it's bad for us. Simple.
Cause after all, what is lard but a form of sugar.
If lard is not a form of sugar, which it certainly is not, it will be a fat.
same with startches.
Not true as such either. Starch has a higher Gycemic index
The best thing consumers can do is to read the contracts, know their rights, reject contracts where such provisions can't be removed and tell the salespeople why this isn't acceptable.
Oh, give it up. The fact of the matter is that nearly all of us when signing such a contract are rank amateurs with a limited amount of time to make a decision facing professional contact-drafters who have been at it for years. It's vary far from an equal contest. Anyway, the choice is a most likely going to be a different but equally one-sided contact from a competitor.
You don't really get 54mbps with 802.11a or 802.11g, the most you'll realistically get is 20mbps give or take a few mb.
So. What. The point of the parent is this: I have fast internet at home, at (claimed) 8mbps. That is the bottleneck, not the wi-fi from the wall to the pc at 20+ mbps. Increasing the wi-fi speed will make no difference at all to the speed that I can download stuff.
OK, so basically you can't do research,
No, just that you're not important enough for me to do any.
And your idea of research is to look it up on wikipedia?
My one link is a step up from your no links and vague accusations.
talk to some people who lived in communist Russia
Soviet Russia is a total straw man in this context.
the new dictator of Venezuela
You keep saying that. No evidence given.
because he stood up to America, and that's when you decided you like him.
Standing up to the bully is always good, but my intention was not to whitewash Chavez. What I like him for is the "anti-poverty initiatives, the construction of thousands of free medical clinics for the poor, the institution of educational campaigns" etc. You know, doing things for the people. You can criticise the effectiveness of those if you want.
You seem to confuse Communist dictatorship with an elected socialist. They are not the same at all. The elected person has much more incentive to please the electorate than the dictator. The US is very worried that such a socialist experiment might succeed in substantially reducing poverty in Latin America. They need it fail visibly, never mind the human cost.
Do some research on a chemical called diethylene glycol
... lazy .. to me. You're saying that there are no anecdotes on how free market companies in the US have never failed people?
Ok, so I've been to wikipedia on it. Austrian Antifreeze, basically. Funny that the whole "poisoned several countries in south America" thing isn't big news on there. The whole "this here anecode proves that South American governments are to to be trusted evar" line of reasoning seems rather
I use quotes because I'm too lazy to type the html flag for italics
Wtach and learn. It's 3-4 characters. Is your thinking that lazy too?
How naive, this guy is clearly setting himself up to be a socialist dictator
Well, I'd condemn that if and when it happens, but I'm not believing that propaganda. I'm sure he's not perfect; from what I've seen he has quite an ego and some of his friends are quite dodgy.
I'll take my healthcare system over the brits any day, if you have health insurance
That's "if" is a caveat large enough to drive a truck through. If you're a really rich Venezuelan, you're going to hate Chavez and all that he does. But you'd be in the small minority there, as you are in the US.
if you have health insurance, it is significantly better than anything socialized medicine offers
Yes, and you know what? I have private healthcare here in the UK. The two are not mutually exclusive. A safety net is only civilised. Everyone believes that the NHS could be better. How to run it is a political issue, and always will be. But everyone (i.e. every political party that has a hope realistic of being elected) understands that NHS is an important, necessary institution.
What are you trying to say here?
a tion.htm
That National Health care is always a failure? Most of Europe is laughing at that idea.
That Venezuela is a communist? Nope, a democracy whose current democratically elected leader is Socialist. If he doesn't deliver, the people could vote him out.
PS: the quotes around "quality control" in your post are grammatically incorrect. See http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quot
but where is Venezula?
Venus.