RTFA: there's a green lamp on when it's fine, a red one when there's a problem
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oh sorry I thought the fact that using a scrollbar could install and run a program without asking WAS A SECURITY ISSUE IN ITSELF regardless of what that program would then do.
oh and *ONLY* wipe a user's directory? what fucking planet do you live on?
the problem is, if this is just the "1st", then the next one will be the "2nd", but the "1st annual", and the whole thing gets messy unless you're used to offsetting numbers and counts by 1 anyway.
In an ideal world porn's victimless but then so is advertising.
In reality there tends to be a lot of illegal and immoral activity associated with both.
It's not the adverts or the porn itself, but the way they exploit other people and resources.
If you're claiming the porn industry has never caused exploitation then stick to your fantasy world and maybe one day that supermodel really will choose you!
Just like porn, except whereas some people actually like porn, no-one likes advertising.
I will resist any attempts to force advertising on me e.g. Adblock, and if my attempts fail I will just turn away entirely.
Thankfully I'm an academic and don't even have to deal with billboards.
A single non-intrusive, correctly targeted and well implemented advert is a million times more effective for legal businesses than a million expensive "let's ruin another part of your day with offensive crap" campaigns.
>Fritz Attaway, vice president for the Motion Picture Association of America, said the Don't Induce Act was so narrowly drafted, it would be impossible to use it to shutter even operators of peer-to-peer networks. "There is no way that anyone could ever meet the burden of proof that this establishes," Attaway said. "It's spin. (They're) not being honest here."
what's wrong with peer-to-peer networks? what's wrong with burden of proof?
oh I see the problem - the last remnants democracy that need to be outlawed.
maybe you missed the FOSS part - not very many jobs in that.
just make it work and work well. that should be enough. so long as you aren't going out of your way to make things difficult, end-users have nothing to complain about.
and even if you are going out of your way to make things difficult, they can only complain about you being a dick and not about your FOSS since you're not forcing them to use it.
you seem to have ignored that part where the 9/11 terrorists and others were known to the police and had specifically been reported for wanting to learn to fly planes but not land them, and still got valid passports and passed through all security measures.
I think it'd be better if every person and dollar currently being used for tapping was instead used to investigate these "guy who wants to crash a plane just boarded a plane" incidents instead.
I think it can be argued that any criminal stupid enough to use unencrypted public communications is probably not good enough to succeed anyway.
It seems to make the world seem very small (exaggerates the UK) but doesn't exaggerate Greenland. The sense of a small world may also be due to focusing only on light areas.
The Peters projection gives an accurate representation of the sizes of countries.
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RTFA: there's a green lamp on when it's fine, a red one when there's a problem
oh sorry I thought the fact that using a scrollbar could install and run a program without asking WAS A SECURITY ISSUE IN ITSELF regardless of what that program would then do.
oh and *ONLY* wipe a user's directory? what fucking planet do you live on?
that's bullshit and you know it.
have a look at the "dragging a scroll bar can be used to install and auto-run arbitrary programs" example below.
...bring about the demise of the internet, according to Kaspersky or whatever that Russian company said? ...
Can you hear me now?
the problem is, if this is just the "1st", then the next one will be the "2nd", but the "1st annual", and the whole thing gets messy unless you're used to offsetting numbers and counts by 1 anyway.
the 2nd beta for Mandrake 10.1 has been out for a couple of days now.
GO GO SOURCE RANGERS, MIGHTY COMPILIN' SOURCE RANGERS!
Mir lasted about 10 years past its estimated lifetime, so NASA still has some work to do to get the record
Most of the time advertising involves itself with free speech it has a negative effect - you can't say anything that might lose your sponsorship.
You seem to be confusing free speech (as in the fundamental democratic right) with free media (as in not having to pay to read something).
That is a very dangerous position to be in.
I'm not a puritan.
In an ideal world porn's victimless but then so is advertising.
In reality there tends to be a lot of illegal and immoral activity associated with both.
It's not the adverts or the porn itself, but the way they exploit other people and resources.
If you're claiming the porn industry has never caused exploitation then stick to your fantasy world and maybe one day that supermodel really will choose you!
Just like porn, except whereas some people actually like porn, no-one likes advertising.
I will resist any attempts to force advertising on me e.g. Adblock, and if my attempts fail I will just turn away entirely.
Thankfully I'm an academic and don't even have to deal with billboards.
A single non-intrusive, correctly targeted and well implemented advert is a million times more effective for legal businesses than a million expensive "let's ruin another part of your day with offensive crap" campaigns.
> Wasn't there some recent study showing that most spam is generated by a small number of people?
;-)
er, I think that's part of the definition of SPAM
Actual it's cruel and UNUSUAL - big difference.
but the US doesn't really care about that anyway, after all they still have the death penalty which is certainly unusual in today's world.
and if I remember correctly there's just the U.S. and one other country who will execute mentally disabled people.
does this paragraph make anyone else feel sick?
>Fritz Attaway, vice president for the Motion Picture Association of America, said the Don't Induce Act was so narrowly drafted, it would be impossible to use it to shutter even operators of peer-to-peer networks. "There is no way that anyone could ever meet the burden of proof that this establishes," Attaway said. "It's spin. (They're) not being honest here."
what's wrong with peer-to-peer networks?
what's wrong with burden of proof?
oh I see the problem - the last remnants democracy that need to be outlawed.
Is it just my dialect or is the word induce almost exclusively used in the phrase "in event of... induce vomiting"?
it's supposed to read:
Time to kill Microsoft? Word!
>The trick is not to make the gameplay to varied. It is to make the basic gameplay so much fun that people want to do it again and again and again.
exactly. for me, the best game ever is Virtual Pool 3. I like pool and VP3 simulates pool accurately and with simple and effective controls.
that's why I'm still playing it 4 years after buying it, whereas many of the "greater" games are done after a month or so.
best 20 UK pounds ever spent (except maybe 20 pounds spent on Spaced series 1 and 2 box set - best. sitcom. ever. ymmv.)
no.
maybe you missed the FOSS part - not very many jobs in that.
just make it work and work well. that should be enough. so long as you aren't going out of your way to make things difficult, end-users have nothing to complain about.
and even if you are going out of your way to make things difficult, they can only complain about you being a dick and not about your FOSS since you're not forcing them to use it.
maybe they mean "look for treasure" in the Terrence & Philip sense?
you seem to have ignored that part where the 9/11 terrorists and others were known to the police and had specifically been reported for wanting to learn to fly planes but not land them, and still got valid passports and passed through all security measures.
I think it'd be better if every person and dollar currently being used for tapping was instead used to investigate these "guy who wants to crash a plane just boarded a plane" incidents instead.
I think it can be argued that any criminal stupid enough to use unencrypted public communications is probably not good enough to succeed anyway.
I meant didn't exaggerate as much as other projections which have Greenland roughly the size of Africa.
what kind of projection is this?
It seems to make the world seem very small (exaggerates the UK) but doesn't exaggerate Greenland. The sense of a small world may also be due to focusing only on light areas.
The Peters projection gives an accurate representation of the sizes of countries.
no it doesn't. that's like saying being able to kill people increases your freedoms.
it may be true for a minority of people who want to kill, but it means that EVERYONE loses the "freedom" to feel secure against random deadly attack.
taking it further, the most free society is one with no laws whatsoever, but in such a society freedoms can be easily lost.
the GPL is like "Civilisation for Software" - it may mean you lose some freedoms, but in return the freedoms it gives are protected.
Women should give up their personal rights to make it easier on people who want to rape them.