I had minor issues moving from 9.10 from 9.04. Specifically my RAlink wifi usb would "connect" but be unable to form tcp connections (while icmp worked fine). I added one of the drivers to the blacklist in modprobe.d and it worked flawlessly since then. In fact I haven't been dropped yet (which I usually got drop once a day before). I won't pretend to understand this, so I take no responsibility, but it might help. Actually now looking up the issue, I found a good thread on this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1256810. I stumbled through it blacklisted both rt2870sta and rt2800usb and apparently am using the rt3070sta now successfully.
On a side note, this laptop has a dead builtin wifi card controlled by a switch. If I accidently flip that switch in windows, it locks up and I haven't found a way to disable it. At least in Ubuntu it doesn't once I have the broadcom driver disabled. If I had read this article a few days ago, I probably wouldn't have bothered upgrading. But thankfully things worked out relatively well for me.
Where the hell did people get the notion that prison is meant to reform criminals? It's meant to keep them away from society for a set period of time.
Four philosophies to imprisonment: -Revenge ("He deserves to get pounded in ass in prison") -Rehabilitation ("He needs some discipline to straighten up his life") -Prevention ("He needs to be kept behind bars where he can't do more harm" ) -Deterrent ("He needs to be made an example of, so others will learn")
If you really don't believe in rehabilitation, then really you shouldn't want to release prisoners ever. If you're going to release criminals, you have to prepare them for return to normal society. Revenge to me is just stupid but the other three all have merit (though arguable in priority). Who would you rather have getting out of prison and moving next to you:
1. A 20yr old drug offender who spent 2 years in prison, living in fear, who learned from guards/inmates that threats and force is the solution to minor problems. Someone who had no positive outlets in their life. No work experience, no High School diploma. His resume consists of his time in prison. 2. A 20yr old mugger, who spent 3 years in prison, finished their GED and took vocational classes. A local church allowed him to get work experience by volunteering his time building houses for the homeless during supervised day passes.
I believe the best way to reform criminals is to give them opportunities for a stable life with employment opportunities coming out of prison. Our prisons are more effective at making nonviolent convicts violent then making convicts hirable. The sad thing is people glorify the violent conditions of our prisons: "He won't last a day in prison before being made someone's bitch"... and the guards condone it.
Understanding your history doesn't imply you have to agree with the same course for the future. Being appreciative of her position now doesn't obligate her to agree with the rest of the political mumbo-jumbo of zealots that say all women should work and women who don't are somehow less of a woman because of it.
Feminism is more diverse then most religions. Refined to its basis, it's simply "Men and Women should have equal opportunities". So when people say something like, "I'm not a feminist", to me that sounds as silly as if you'd said "I don't believe in racial equality". Feminism reaffirms the natural right of women to make their own choices about how to live their life. If they choose to be a housewife, a stripper, a pilot or a programmer, it's their freedom. Radical feminism that tells women it's wrong to be a housewife or a stripper is just as bad as traditional misogyny that says a woman shouldn't be a doctor or a mechanic.
What's a good and positive message gets polluted each time someone says "I don't want to be associated with those whacko feminists".
As a feminist, I don't look at this and say "Those poor strippers", exploited by men. I'm more disappointed that Yahoo labels the whole conference as horny sex-starved geeky males. But ultimately this is a Taiwanese event, I think this is well within their jurisdiction to judge the morality.
Somebody has to file a bug against FireFox that plugins/add-ons are even allowed to prevent user from disabling them.
There's a name for programs that prevent the OS from modifying their files, rootkits. Firefox is not a rootkit. Microsoft update installed the plugin by modifying the filesystem, it didn't use firefox API's.
If you don't trust microsoft update, frankly you shouldn't be using windows.
He's right in that many people who have the tech-savvy to pirate a copy of Windows will know what their options are regarding anti-virus.
Yes because only computer geeks have pirated copies. There's a lot of people out there who don't know that they even have a pirated copy. Computer illiterate people often find help through shady repairmen, friends or relatives. These people come in find that Grandma didn't keep her license key or CD's, but the computer obviously came with XP. So they do her a favor, by reinstalling a pirated copy of windows but they're not there for longterm support.
People want to speed but they also want speeding laws.
Really "pirate" platform is an argument about freedom and ownership rights. It's a lot more philosophical then wanting to break a law, it's an argument that the law is morally wrong. It's closer to the Gun Control vs NRA or Abortion prior to Roe v Wade.
i was under the impression that lasers in the visible spectrum are the least powerful so for the purpose they'd use a spectrum that's not visible.... and i bet noone wi'll get blinded by it either.
Non-visible wavelength lasers are more dangerous for blindness. Natural reflexes will cause you to protect yourself if it's visible, meaning the damage has to be nearly instantaneous to be dangerous. People will stare blissfully unaware at a invisible laser while their eye cooks all the same, so even low intensity lasers are dangerous.
The location bar is awesome, in fact, the only place EVER where I've seen people being actually opposed to it is... slashdot. So maybe it does have something to do with porn...
Maybe because slashdot understands the difference between a URL and a search? I don't mind the URL bar searching URL's when I type in it but not for keywords. If I watch to search for content, it should be done in a search context.
I'd imagine the awesomebar was made for people that type pizza or pizza.com in location bar when they want pizza.
I do not control the titles of the pages I visit, that's the webmasters. Firefox just gave them control of the indexing in your browser. Good thing sites don't try to bump their order in searches with optimizations... oh wait. Sure firefox will eventually bump them down, but until then you're stuck seeing "Great Deals AA AB AC AD AE AF AG AH AI"
@Mozilla: Locations (URL) go in Locations bar. Searches go in search bar. Don't punish your experienced users because half your users don't know difference.
...which is what the last version of Firefox added with "Private Browsing".
Private browsing does nothing for this problem. Private browsing is useless in its current incarnation. When you start private browsing, it closes all your current open tabs (they come back when you stop... but they reload, meaning any unsaved work is lost). It has no capability to have private bookmarks and if its a public bookmark it shows it off for anything typed in address bar. I'm not trying to hide I look at porn, I could care less... I just don't want it popping up when I let a friend use my computer to look up movie times or something else mundane. Yes I can use a guest profile, but its silly when I have firefox already up and running on my unlocked screen.
It's expected for women to have tampons, but you don't leave the box on the bathroom counter when guests are over. You also don't need locks on your medicine cabinet. That's why firefox 3 fails, it exposes our whole cabinets to guests. Then it offers an inconvenient tool so we never store our embarrassing stuff in cabinet.
If Firefox wants to make people happy add the ability to: 1. Clear private data for last x minutes. 2. Control of what the address bar actually searches
-As a PC repairman i can tell you I haven't seen a crash that wasn't caused by the user installing malware since...oh lord, it has to be around XP Sp1.
I call bullshit on this.
1. Hardware failures 2. Overheating (and overclockers) 3. Users who muck around in registry/windows internals who don't know what they're doing 4. Bad drivers
If you haven't seen any of that, well you must not be getting much business as a repairman. Either that or you're just blaming malware and reinstalling without diagnosing. But your point is right, windows handles crashes right nowadays, but there's still plenty of locking up.
Yes, you may not get a failure due to RROD, but you're more likely to get a failure due to E74. After Jasper's release, searches for E74 skyrocketed and passed RROD (which didn't drop).
No kidding this story comes up slashdot every year with some branch blocking government computer access to some social networking site. Every other employer does it, but somehow when the military does it, it's censorship.
Meanwhile in every story about a breach of a government network, there are posts saying no government computer should be on internet.
It's simple: There is operational networks that aren't on internet. There is administrative networks that have network access with sites blacklisted. Then there are MWR cafes for personal use (in places you can't just use your own internet connection).
The military has done this part right.
This story is akin to "Marines banned from playing video games" without posting the caveat that it's on government computers.
The problem isn't downloading of the songs, it's the uploading (unlicensed distribution). People throwing around the "downloading songs" are about as cluefull as the guys claiming it's "stealing music". Both camps don't even understand the issue at hand here and are just biased.
I agree uploading is the issue but it's certainly not the intent. The intent for the vast majority of p2p usage is to download songs for personal use. Which is hardly malicious intent which the GGP claims.
willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity;
I see no reason that file sharing would not easily meet that criteria, particularly if you are so anti-corporation that you try to claim a fair use defense because you are only distributing fragments of a file....
Interesting argument. Downloading music is not to get music, but to harm the music industry. So really there's no damages to sue for because they didn't want the music in first place so there's no loss of revenue. But since there's no damages, they can't be harming the music industry.
I'd say huge FAIL. An app should have no need to know about http to get an image from any program to an image editor. What would happen if you dragged it out of an email attachment? Would gimp use imap to retrieve it?
Linux GUI usability is a huge FAIL compared to its commercial competitors.
Funny because I just tested it and windows can't do it either. It's a silly thing to say one program should transfer the data to an unknown program in a magical way that the user wants.
What if you were dragging that image to another browser, should it open as an image or a link. To a folder, would it be a bookmark or a file? What if you were dragging it to notepad, should it appear as a binary splegh of nonsense or a URL? What if you dragged that image to MyProgram.exe? No the side sending the data gets to determine the context.
For firefox, a web browser, the only logical way is to interpret it in the URL context. For a email program it should be an image if it's an attachment. If its an html img tag it should be a URL.
Outside consumer devices it could be even more important, such as solar-powered wireless sensors. For example, every hour it powers on an embedded device which transmits the data back to a server then powers down. The boot time has real effects on power requirements. Which is either solved by larger solar panel ($$$) or fewer updates.
On my cable modem connection right now, my ping to a dns server generally are between 20-30ms. Let's say pressing a key and transmitting it to "the cloud" takes 25ms on average. Now it's input to the game, the game's 66ms processing time takes place, and the result is streamed back to me...30ms+
Ping is roundtrip time. So it only takes 10-15ms to reach server, and only 10-15ms to return. For a total of approximately 1 frame delay. The real issues isn't latency, it's packet loss and bandwidth.
Now, the BIG change is that the tracker is going to be outsourced to a new formed company that wont know what they track, just that they connect peers, and the torrent listings will be handed by an other new company that will have torrents but they will not know either content or who is using the torrents.
Sounds like a distributed usenet model. So you get your indexing from one company and that links to trackers run by another company. One problem, the indexing company can run ads. What does the tracker do to make money?
The cable companies are going to end up recording one of everything so "recording" something on the DVR is just a matter of keeping a pointer
That's just compression. They're actually recording 100 separate copies for their customers, but since they're all identical they compress *really* well... You make pointers sound like it's a bad thing;)
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I had minor issues moving from 9.10 from 9.04. Specifically my RAlink wifi usb would "connect" but be unable to form tcp connections (while icmp worked fine). I added one of the drivers to the blacklist in modprobe.d and it worked flawlessly since then. In fact I haven't been dropped yet (which I usually got drop once a day before). I won't pretend to understand this, so I take no responsibility, but it might help. Actually now looking up the issue, I found a good thread on this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1256810. I stumbled through it blacklisted both rt2870sta and rt2800usb and apparently am using the rt3070sta now successfully.
On a side note, this laptop has a dead builtin wifi card controlled by a switch. If I accidently flip that switch in windows, it locks up and I haven't found a way to disable it. At least in Ubuntu it doesn't once I have the broadcom driver disabled. If I had read this article a few days ago, I probably wouldn't have bothered upgrading. But thankfully things worked out relatively well for me.
Where the hell did people get the notion that prison is meant to reform criminals? It's meant to keep them away from society for a set period of time.
Four philosophies to imprisonment:
-Revenge ("He deserves to get pounded in ass in prison")
-Rehabilitation ("He needs some discipline to straighten up his life")
-Prevention ("He needs to be kept behind bars where he can't do more harm" )
-Deterrent ("He needs to be made an example of, so others will learn")
If you really don't believe in rehabilitation, then really you shouldn't want to release prisoners ever. If you're going to release criminals, you have to prepare them for return to normal society. Revenge to me is just stupid but the other three all have merit (though arguable in priority). Who would you rather have getting out of prison and moving next to you:
1. A 20yr old drug offender who spent 2 years in prison, living in fear, who learned from guards/inmates that threats and force is the solution to minor problems. Someone who had no positive outlets in their life. No work experience, no High School diploma. His resume consists of his time in prison.
2. A 20yr old mugger, who spent 3 years in prison, finished their GED and took vocational classes. A local church allowed him to get work experience by volunteering his time building houses for the homeless during supervised day passes.
I believe the best way to reform criminals is to give them opportunities for a stable life with employment opportunities coming out of prison. Our prisons are more effective at making nonviolent convicts violent then making convicts hirable. The sad thing is people glorify the violent conditions of our prisons: "He won't last a day in prison before being made someone's bitch"... and the guards condone it.
Understanding your history doesn't imply you have to agree with the same course for the future. Being appreciative of her position now doesn't obligate her to agree with the rest of the political mumbo-jumbo of zealots that say all women should work and women who don't are somehow less of a woman because of it.
Feminism is more diverse then most religions. Refined to its basis, it's simply "Men and Women should have equal opportunities". So when people say something like, "I'm not a feminist", to me that sounds as silly as if you'd said "I don't believe in racial equality". Feminism reaffirms the natural right of women to make their own choices about how to live their life. If they choose to be a housewife, a stripper, a pilot or a programmer, it's their freedom. Radical feminism that tells women it's wrong to be a housewife or a stripper is just as bad as traditional misogyny that says a woman shouldn't be a doctor or a mechanic.
What's a good and positive message gets polluted each time someone says "I don't want to be associated with those whacko feminists".
As a feminist, I don't look at this and say "Those poor strippers", exploited by men. I'm more disappointed that Yahoo labels the whole conference as horny sex-starved geeky males. But ultimately this is a Taiwanese event, I think this is well within their jurisdiction to judge the morality.
Somebody has to file a bug against FireFox that plugins/add-ons are even allowed to prevent user from disabling them.
There's a name for programs that prevent the OS from modifying their files, rootkits. Firefox is not a rootkit. Microsoft update installed the plugin by modifying the filesystem, it didn't use firefox API's.
If you don't trust microsoft update, frankly you shouldn't be using windows.
He's right in that many people who have the tech-savvy to pirate a copy of Windows will know what their options are regarding anti-virus.
Yes because only computer geeks have pirated copies. There's a lot of people out there who don't know that they even have a pirated copy. Computer illiterate people often find help through shady repairmen, friends or relatives. These people come in find that Grandma didn't keep her license key or CD's, but the computer obviously came with XP. So they do her a favor, by reinstalling a pirated copy of windows but they're not there for longterm support.
Illegal Aliens and Sex Offenders can't vote
Stoners are a subset of libertarians
People want to speed but they also want speeding laws.
Really "pirate" platform is an argument about freedom and ownership rights. It's a lot more philosophical then wanting to break a law, it's an argument that the law is morally wrong. It's closer to the Gun Control vs NRA or Abortion prior to Roe v Wade.
i was under the impression that lasers in the visible spectrum are the least powerful so for the purpose they'd use a spectrum that's not visible.... and i bet noone wi'll get blinded by it either.
Non-visible wavelength lasers are more dangerous for blindness. Natural reflexes will cause you to protect yourself if it's visible, meaning the damage has to be nearly instantaneous to be dangerous. People will stare blissfully unaware at a invisible laser while their eye cooks all the same, so even low intensity lasers are dangerous.
Couldn't we always produce helium with fusion? Just because fusion hasn't produced power yet, doesn't mean it can't be used to produce elements.
The location bar is awesome, in fact, the only place EVER where I've seen people being actually opposed to it is ... slashdot. So maybe it does have something to do with porn...
Maybe because slashdot understands the difference between a URL and a search? I don't mind the URL bar searching URL's when I type in it but not for keywords. If I watch to search for content, it should be done in a search context.
I'd imagine the awesomebar was made for people that type pizza or pizza.com in location bar when they want pizza.
I do not control the titles of the pages I visit, that's the webmasters. Firefox just gave them control of the indexing in your browser. Good thing sites don't try to bump their order in searches with optimizations... oh wait. Sure firefox will eventually bump them down, but until then you're stuck seeing "Great Deals AA AB AC AD AE AF AG AH AI"
@Mozilla: Locations (URL) go in Locations bar. Searches go in search bar. Don't punish your experienced users because half your users don't know difference.
...which is what the last version of Firefox added with "Private Browsing".
Private browsing does nothing for this problem. Private browsing is useless in its current incarnation. When you start private browsing, it closes all your current open tabs (they come back when you stop... but they reload, meaning any unsaved work is lost). It has no capability to have private bookmarks and if its a public bookmark it shows it off for anything typed in address bar. I'm not trying to hide I look at porn, I could care less... I just don't want it popping up when I let a friend use my computer to look up movie times or something else mundane. Yes I can use a guest profile, but its silly when I have firefox already up and running on my unlocked screen.
It's expected for women to have tampons, but you don't leave the box on the bathroom counter when guests are over. You also don't need locks on your medicine cabinet. That's why firefox 3 fails, it exposes our whole cabinets to guests. Then it offers an inconvenient tool so we never store our embarrassing stuff in cabinet.
If Firefox wants to make people happy add the ability to:
1. Clear private data for last x minutes.
2. Control of what the address bar actually searches
-As a PC repairman i can tell you I haven't seen a crash that wasn't caused by the user installing malware since...oh lord, it has to be around XP Sp1.
I call bullshit on this.
1. Hardware failures
2. Overheating (and overclockers)
3. Users who muck around in registry/windows internals who don't know what they're doing
4. Bad drivers
If you haven't seen any of that, well you must not be getting much business as a repairman. Either that or you're just blaming malware and reinstalling without diagnosing. But your point is right, windows handles crashes right nowadays, but there's still plenty of locking up.
Yes, you may not get a failure due to RROD, but you're more likely to get a failure due to E74. After Jasper's release, searches for E74 skyrocketed and passed RROD (which didn't drop).
http://www.google.com/trends?q=xbox+e74%2C+xbox+rrod&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
No kidding this story comes up slashdot every year with some branch blocking government computer access to some social networking site. Every other employer does it, but somehow when the military does it, it's censorship.
Meanwhile in every story about a breach of a government network, there are posts saying no government computer should be on internet.
It's simple:
There is operational networks that aren't on internet.
There is administrative networks that have network access with sites blacklisted.
Then there are MWR cafes for personal use (in places you can't just use your own internet connection).
The military has done this part right.
This story is akin to "Marines banned from playing video games" without posting the caveat that it's on government computers.
The problem isn't downloading of the songs, it's the uploading (unlicensed distribution). People throwing around the "downloading songs" are about as cluefull as the guys claiming it's "stealing music". Both camps don't even understand the issue at hand here and are just biased.
I agree uploading is the issue but it's certainly not the intent. The intent for the vast majority of p2p usage is to download songs for personal use. Which is hardly malicious intent which the GGP claims.
willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity;
I see no reason that file sharing would not easily meet that criteria, particularly if you are so anti-corporation that you try to claim a fair use defense because you are only distributing fragments of a file....
Interesting argument. Downloading music is not to get music, but to harm the music industry. So really there's no damages to sue for because they didn't want the music in first place so there's no loss of revenue. But since there's no damages, they can't be harming the music industry.
owww my head hurts.
I'd say huge FAIL. An app should have no need to know about http to get an image from any program to an image editor. What would happen if you dragged it out of an email attachment? Would gimp use imap to retrieve it?
Linux GUI usability is a huge FAIL compared to its commercial competitors.
Funny because I just tested it and windows can't do it either. It's a silly thing to say one program should transfer the data to an unknown program in a magical way that the user wants.
What if you were dragging that image to another browser, should it open as an image or a link. To a folder, would it be a bookmark or a file? What if you were dragging it to notepad, should it appear as a binary splegh of nonsense or a URL? What if you dragged that image to MyProgram.exe? No the side sending the data gets to determine the context.
For firefox, a web browser, the only logical way is to interpret it in the URL context. For a email program it should be an image if it's an attachment. If its an html img tag it should be a URL.
Comrade, post is oldspeakful near-crimespeak, provided resub:
There is another badful aspect that is crimestopped, it is double-plus-ironyful regarding unbook.
Minitrue can rectify misprint by removing and replacing with goodbook. All books can be rectified double-plus-speedwise when misprints are identified.
We are at war with Eurasia. We've always been at war with Eurasia.
Ah. the age old argument. The Future Will Be A Totalitarian Government Dystopia vs. The Future Will Be A Privatized Corporate Dystopia
I prefer a third alternative, the Wasteland Scarcity Barbarism Dystopia.
Outside consumer devices it could be even more important, such as solar-powered wireless sensors. For example, every hour it powers on an embedded device which transmits the data back to a server then powers down. The boot time has real effects on power requirements. Which is either solved by larger solar panel ($$$) or fewer updates.
On my cable modem connection right now, my ping to a dns server generally are between 20-30ms. Let's say pressing a key and transmitting it to "the cloud" takes 25ms on average. Now it's input to the game, the game's 66ms processing time takes place, and the result is streamed back to me...30ms+
Ping is roundtrip time. So it only takes 10-15ms to reach server, and only 10-15ms to return. For a total of approximately 1 frame delay. The real issues isn't latency, it's packet loss and bandwidth.
Now, the BIG change is that the tracker is going to be outsourced to a new formed company that wont know what they track, just that they connect peers, and the torrent listings will be handed by an other new company that will have torrents but they will not know either content or who is using the torrents.
Sounds like a distributed usenet model. So you get your indexing from one company and that links to trackers run by another company. One problem, the indexing company can run ads. What does the tracker do to make money?
The cable companies are going to end up recording one of everything so "recording" something on the DVR is just a matter of keeping a pointer
That's just compression. They're actually recording 100 separate copies for their customers, but since they're all identical they compress *really* well... You make pointers sound like it's a bad thing ;)
In plain English, that's called a lie.
Careful comrade, plusungoodwise nearful crimespeak, crimestop rapidwise.
$1.92M for 24 songs is unreasonable? What makes you say that?
No that's the truth value of those songs. We should legalize piracy and tax it as income.
Or, do you contend that Slashdot is being a private investigator by logging the IP address your post from?
Is slashdot being paid to gather my IP address so it can testify in court? If so, yes they are.
It's not a matter of what's is collected, it's the purpose of it's collection that makes it require a PI license.