Actually, I see that as an advantage for UAC. I don't want to have to explicitly run applications as root just because I may at some point want to access a file outside my home directory. That works with single-document shell apps but not a modern tabbed text editor.
I don't want to go through the hassle of having to spawn another instance of the editor from the shell just to edit a protected file, I just want the editor to ask me for my password to elevate (using a system-provided input dialog) and then drop its privileges as soon as possible. Maybe add an option to retain the privileges until the file is closed but that's it.
I greatly prefer the OS X implementation of GUI sudo to UAC (UAC is too disruptive for my taste and doesn't aks for passwords) but, well-written software provided, both are superior to having to manually run the program as root.
The various DEs have various aims. Some are more leightweight than others.
- Gnome and KDE are the "feature complete" ones. They come with all the bells and whistles but also eat up comparatively many CPU cycles.
- Enlightenment is lighter but still provides a lot of eye candy.
- Even lighter are things like Xfce of LXDE - these are fairly minimalist DEs that focus on letting you launch and control apps with little besides that.
- If you need even less you can drop the whole desktop environment thing and just use a window manager directly. If you can live with a butt-ugly and somewhat unintuitive interface, twm is the window manager that comes with X.org itself. It allows you to position, resize and close windows. In order to launch programs, you use the automatically opened terminal window or an external terminal session. You do still need the widget libraries (they provide much more than just widgets) but those mostly take up RAM rather than cycles.
If that's still too much you can just unload X altogether and work entirely on the shell. It's not terribly uncomfortable, either, if you know your way around Linux (in case of problems I recommend consulting the Gentoo Linux HOWTOs - there are Gentoo HOWTOs for just about everything and they're great learning resources regardless of distro). Of course graphical applications won't work without X running.
Unfortunately I quit using Gentoo just around the time that version of GCC went stable. Hence I didn't get to enjoy that march beyond reading about it in FAQs.
Consistently low FPS are much more playable than FPS that fluctuate between higher levels. I'd rather play at 15 FPS than fluctuating between 30 and 60 FPS.
Then again, I'd rather play at 1280x1024 with low details than at low FPS.
Because an XBox 360 is several times as expensive as a decent GPU? 80 bucks already buys you adequate power for modern games, unless you want to play on 1080p - and if you have the money and the need for that you probably won't have a problem paying several hundred bucks for a GPU.
With the Google top 1000 sites being theoretically offered massive cash handouts for abandoning Google it's obvious why consumers would switch to Bing. After all, regular consumers work just like the stock market and adjust their behavior based on any rumor, right?
Yeah, but ATI already has the 4650 out, which is pretty similar to the GT 240 with a price point of about 80 bucks. They can afford to bring a high-end card out next and then another low-end one after that.
Actually, does the browser-induced load make much of a difference next to the additional power drain induced by the WLAN adapter? Even for devices where that doesn't matter as WLAN is always kept on, is the difference notable? Granted, my questions can be asked through the exact same tests as yours.
Does it *download* pages fast? Because so far, on phones, the main issue I have is the network speed and latency.
Isn't that a function of the network or device and not the browser?
There was an interesting, if unsurprising, bit of information in there: Acid3 scores. Then again, "Webkit and Presto are good at Acid3; IE isn't" is not the most surprising of findings.
Seriously, though, internet banking has very little in the way of standardization across countries. HTTPS is popular but then you also have HBCI/FinTS (Germany) or SEED (S. Korea) and most likely other local standards in other countries.
I'm happy with my HBCI+Smartcard homebanking. Granted, I need to use proprietary apps for it but I still prefer it over PIN/TAN via HTTPS. With the right card reader (class 2 or 3), not even my computer gets to see my PIN.
Actually, no. Nyopia and presbyopia don't cancel each other out, they add up. This is because they have different causes (the eye being too long for the lens's refractive index vs. the lens hardening). Hence myopic older people get bifocal or progressive glasses - the myopia-correcting part is useless for reading and vice versa.
IANAOptometrist but I am strongly myopic and not eager to run into presbyopia soon. When I do I'll most likely just get the entire lens replaced; at my level of near-sightedness that's a better idea than trying to get bifocals to work.
Er, no. robots.txt can contain bot-specific instructions. This is often used to point Googlebot to the sitemap. For example, look at http://slashdot.org/robots.txt: Googlebot is allowed in more places than a generic bot and msnbot (Bing) and Slurp (Yahoo!) can go anywhere they want.
Locking out Google is as easy as adding the following lines: User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:/
We're talking about someone who's willing to give away half his (considerable) fortune just to spite Google. That's nowhere near "fiscally responsible".
Easy example: search "windows is the least secure os" or just "least secure os" [bing.com] and look at the first few results on bing. Let me give you the first title page: "Print - Study: Linux Is Least Secure OS" from windowsitpro.com
Note that that exact site is also the Google top result for "least secure os". Here's my first Google result page:
Study: Linux Is Least Secure OS
Re: Article: Linux is the least secure OS
[Tab] Re: Article: Linux is the least secure OS
NT4 called the least secure OS - News - ZDNet Australia
What the UAC 'hole' is really about | 40 of 43
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check: Study: Linux Is Least Secure OS
iCopyright - Windows IT Pro - Study: Linux Is Least Secure OS
Pwn2Own Winner: 'Mac OS X is Less Secure Than Windows' | News...
The World's safest Operating System, mi2g
Why Vista 7 Could be the Least Secure Operating System Ever...
Microsoft: Google Chrome Frame makes IE less secure
GTA 4 already on torrents [Archive] - nV News Forums
Anyone Use IRC? [Archive] - Mac Forums
Report: Microsoft fastest to issue OS patches, Sun slowest - Topic...
The Old Joel on Software Forum - Is Linux more Secure Than Windows?
Comments on: Let's kill the OS upgrade disc
IBM study ranks Mac as most vulernable OS [u] | MacNN
Snow Leopard protects you from two Trojans
Windows XP SP2 Security Center Spoofing Threat - Dev Notes
Confirmed: Windows 7 RC to the public on May 5 | Software News...
Most of the "linux" results were from pages mentioning or discussing the WindowsITPro study. Bing actually returns fewer of those (perhaps their algorithm sees the discussions as redundant mentions and just boosts the original article or their bot simply hasn't hit those discussions yet), instead returning mostly pages where the phrase was used without an OS name nearby (altough there's still a healthy mix of Linux, OS X und Windows mentions).
Microsoft didn't seem to twist this one much. I did another test, searching for best business operating system (no quotes). Amusingly, Bing's first result was a sponsored result from Apple, pointing to the Apple Store website for Snow Leopard. (Google pointed me to Wikipedia's entry for "Business Operating System".)
If there's anything this test showed me it's that Bing is extremely hesistant to name operating systems. Whereas Google's second result was a microsoft.com page talking about "Which Business Operating System To Choose", followed by Canotis, the first Bing page actually talking about operating systems was near the bottom of the page - an article about SCO Unixware.
Then again, that could just because Bing is bad at returning relevant search results - a search for nigritude ultramarine returned appropriate articles in Google and content-free SEO pages (plus the WP article) in Bing.
"I'll pay you a million dollars if you remove yourself from the most important search engine in the internet, thus losing much more than that" somehow doesn't quite seem like a compelling offer. The implied "the revenues you lose will flow to your competitors" doesn't make it more attractive, either.
Rights aren't granted by a constitution, they're recognized by it, which translates into restrictions on the laws allowed under that constitution. The constitution of a country explicitly mentioning a right means that the laws of that country are required to respect that right, not violating it unless doing so prevents a more egregious violation of another basic right.
In the United States the basic human right to dignity is not acknowledged. As far as you're concerned it doesn't exist. Thus it's (from your perspective) perfectly acceptable to broadcast criminals' identities to everyone as this helps them protect their rights and property. Demanding to be informed about criminals' identities behaves the same.
In Germany we acknowledge a basic human right to dignity (what can happen when you don't is one of the more painful lessons we learned from the Third Reich). Since the criminals also have that right and we consider their debt to society paid after they served their sentence you don't have the right to demand their identities as that violates their basic human right to dignity. Human rights overrule the "right to know".
However, of course, since my country's constitution doesn't begin with "We the People of the United States" it's impossible for me to ever undestand the meaning of "right" or "freedom".
Although most members are already great at weaseling around that - cf. the WTO and its infamous "green room meetings". For those not in the know, those are independent closed meetings where (for example) the industry nations go to make up new policies so that they don't have to waste time being productive (or even consider the Third World's opinions) during the open meetings.
I'm certain that there are ways of circumventing WIPO's rules, as well. Well, besides just ignoring it like they're doing now.
The GP didn't. The GP pointed out that the UN cares more about China's opionion on human rights than the USA's because the USA (while ahead in terms of human rights) don't see a need to improve any further even in the light of clear violations.
In short, it wasn't "China is bad but the USA are worse", it was "China is bad and the USA are better but dicks about it in a way the UN cares about".
I'm not a big fan of WIPO but I think it's bad that they aren't involved. Then again, the whole point of not involving them is because it's probably too insane for even them and they might have changed it into something remotely sensible.
If a Chinese agent attempted to tear down similar posters in Germany, the German police would arrest the Chinese nitwit and throw him into prison for a few days.
Actually, they'd probably just escort him off the premises and he'd get an order to stay away* for the remainder of the conference (and possibly longer).
* I think it's interesting that the German language has two words for this while the English one doesn't (at least non I can find right now). The German words are "Hausverbot" (the owner of the premises disallows someone to enter; violation of this can be found an act of trespassing on a case-by-case basis) and "Platzverweis" (the police order someone to leave an area, usually for up to 24 hours; used against disruptive people; can't be used against members of an assembly unless they're excluded from the assembly).
In this case, both could be applied - the Chinese agent would be excluded from the conference and disallowed to attend future conferences in the same place and the tearing of the poster could be reported to the police as an act of vandalism.
In the case of Threashold it wasn't the show being too cerebral it was the writing being too atrocious. The show had little in the way of internal consistency ("We can't turn off the subway's power! It's too disruptive! I say this even though last week we happily EMP'd downtown!" Also, one episode requiring a SOTA sound processor to reproduce The Signal while another had an MP3 of an answering machine copy be equally effective), the science was so bad even laypersons could easily tell (the SOTA sound processor got faster the more current you applied to it) and some of the episodes simply made no sense (like a plank of wood that was exposed to The Signal somehow also transforming people).
I watched all of it because I like trash and it was to mystery shows what Troma is to cinema. Except that Troma is honest about their quality.
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Actually, I see that as an advantage for UAC. I don't want to have to explicitly run applications as root just because I may at some point want to access a file outside my home directory. That works with single-document shell apps but not a modern tabbed text editor.
I don't want to go through the hassle of having to spawn another instance of the editor from the shell just to edit a protected file, I just want the editor to ask me for my password to elevate (using a system-provided input dialog) and then drop its privileges as soon as possible. Maybe add an option to retain the privileges until the file is closed but that's it.
I greatly prefer the OS X implementation of GUI sudo to UAC (UAC is too disruptive for my taste and doesn't aks for passwords) but, well-written software provided, both are superior to having to manually run the program as root.
The various DEs have various aims. Some are more leightweight than others.
- Gnome and KDE are the "feature complete" ones. They come with all the bells and whistles but also eat up comparatively many CPU cycles.
- Enlightenment is lighter but still provides a lot of eye candy.
- Even lighter are things like Xfce of LXDE - these are fairly minimalist DEs that focus on letting you launch and control apps with little besides that.
- If you need even less you can drop the whole desktop environment thing and just use a window manager directly. If you can live with a butt-ugly and somewhat unintuitive interface, twm is the window manager that comes with X.org itself. It allows you to position, resize and close windows. In order to launch programs, you use the automatically opened terminal window or an external terminal session. You do still need the widget libraries (they provide much more than just widgets) but those mostly take up RAM rather than cycles.
If that's still too much you can just unload X altogether and work entirely on the shell. It's not terribly uncomfortable, either, if you know your way around Linux (in case of problems I recommend consulting the Gentoo Linux HOWTOs - there are Gentoo HOWTOs for just about everything and they're great learning resources regardless of distro). Of course graphical applications won't work without X running.
Unfortunately I quit using Gentoo just around the time that version of GCC went stable. Hence I didn't get to enjoy that march beyond reading about it in FAQs.
Consistently low FPS are much more playable than FPS that fluctuate between higher levels. I'd rather play at 15 FPS than fluctuating between 30 and 60 FPS.
Then again, I'd rather play at 1280x1024 with low details than at low FPS.
Because an XBox 360 is several times as expensive as a decent GPU? 80 bucks already buys you adequate power for modern games, unless you want to play on 1080p - and if you have the money and the need for that you probably won't have a problem paying several hundred bucks for a GPU.
With the Google top 1000 sites being theoretically offered massive cash handouts for abandoning Google it's obvious why consumers would switch to Bing. After all, regular consumers work just like the stock market and adjust their behavior based on any rumor, right?
Yeah, but ATI already has the 4650 out, which is pretty similar to the GT 240 with a price point of about 80 bucks. They can afford to bring a high-end card out next and then another low-end one after that.
Actually, does the browser-induced load make much of a difference next to the additional power drain induced by the WLAN adapter? Even for devices where that doesn't matter as WLAN is always kept on, is the difference notable? Granted, my questions can be asked through the exact same tests as yours.
Isn't that a function of the network or device and not the browser?
There was an interesting, if unsurprising, bit of information in there: Acid3 scores. Then again, "Webkit and Presto are good at Acid3; IE isn't" is not the most surprising of findings.
<keith>In America.</keith>
Seriously, though, internet banking has very little in the way of standardization across countries. HTTPS is popular but then you also have HBCI/FinTS (Germany) or SEED (S. Korea) and most likely other local standards in other countries.
I'm happy with my HBCI+Smartcard homebanking. Granted, I need to use proprietary apps for it but I still prefer it over PIN/TAN via HTTPS. With the right card reader (class 2 or 3), not even my computer gets to see my PIN.
So the peak started in Europe at 01:00, 02:00 and 03:00 UTC?
Did you try inverting the display colors? It's ugly but definitely dark.
(BTW, someone should come up with an accessibility mode that just inverts the luminance while leaving satiration and hue alone.)
Actually, no. Nyopia and presbyopia don't cancel each other out, they add up. This is because they have different causes (the eye being too long for the lens's refractive index vs. the lens hardening). Hence myopic older people get bifocal or progressive glasses - the myopia-correcting part is useless for reading and vice versa.
IANAOptometrist but I am strongly myopic and not eager to run into presbyopia soon. When I do I'll most likely just get the entire lens replaced; at my level of near-sightedness that's a better idea than trying to get bifocals to work.
Er, no. robots.txt can contain bot-specific instructions. This is often used to point Googlebot to the sitemap. For example, look at http://slashdot.org/robots.txt: Googlebot is allowed in more places than a generic bot and msnbot (Bing) and Slurp (Yahoo!) can go anywhere they want.
/
Locking out Google is as easy as adding the following lines:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:
We're talking about someone who's willing to give away half his (considerable) fortune just to spite Google. That's nowhere near "fiscally responsible".
Note that that exact site is also the Google top result for "least secure os". Here's my first Google result page:
... ... ... ...
Study: Linux Is Least Secure OS
Re: Article: Linux is the least secure OS
[Tab] Re: Article: Linux is the least secure OS
NT4 called the least secure OS - News - ZDNet Australia
What the UAC 'hole' is really about | 40 of 43
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check: Study: Linux Is Least Secure OS
iCopyright - Windows IT Pro - Study: Linux Is Least Secure OS
Pwn2Own Winner: 'Mac OS X is Less Secure Than Windows' | News
The World's safest Operating System, mi2g
Why Vista 7 Could be the Least Secure Operating System Ever
Microsoft: Google Chrome Frame makes IE less secure
GTA 4 already on torrents [Archive] - nV News Forums
Anyone Use IRC? [Archive] - Mac Forums
Report: Microsoft fastest to issue OS patches, Sun slowest - Topic
The Old Joel on Software Forum - Is Linux more Secure Than Windows?
Comments on: Let's kill the OS upgrade disc
IBM study ranks Mac as most vulernable OS [u] | MacNN
Snow Leopard protects you from two Trojans
Windows XP SP2 Security Center Spoofing Threat - Dev Notes
Confirmed: Windows 7 RC to the public on May 5 | Software News
Most of the "linux" results were from pages mentioning or discussing the WindowsITPro study. Bing actually returns fewer of those (perhaps their algorithm sees the discussions as redundant mentions and just boosts the original article or their bot simply hasn't hit those discussions yet), instead returning mostly pages where the phrase was used without an OS name nearby (altough there's still a healthy mix of Linux, OS X und Windows mentions).
Microsoft didn't seem to twist this one much. I did another test, searching for best business operating system (no quotes). Amusingly, Bing's first result was a sponsored result from Apple, pointing to the Apple Store website for Snow Leopard. (Google pointed me to Wikipedia's entry for "Business Operating System".)
If there's anything this test showed me it's that Bing is extremely hesistant to name operating systems. Whereas Google's second result was a microsoft.com page talking about "Which Business Operating System To Choose", followed by Canotis, the first Bing page actually talking about operating systems was near the bottom of the page - an article about SCO Unixware.
Then again, that could just because Bing is bad at returning relevant search results - a search for nigritude ultramarine returned appropriate articles in Google and content-free SEO pages (plus the WP article) in Bing.
"I'll pay you a million dollars if you remove yourself from the most important search engine in the internet, thus losing much more than that" somehow doesn't quite seem like a compelling offer. The implied "the revenues you lose will flow to your competitors" doesn't make it more attractive, either.
Rights aren't granted by a constitution, they're recognized by it, which translates into restrictions on the laws allowed under that constitution. The constitution of a country explicitly mentioning a right means that the laws of that country are required to respect that right, not violating it unless doing so prevents a more egregious violation of another basic right.
In the United States the basic human right to dignity is not acknowledged. As far as you're concerned it doesn't exist. Thus it's (from your perspective) perfectly acceptable to broadcast criminals' identities to everyone as this helps them protect their rights and property. Demanding to be informed about criminals' identities behaves the same.
In Germany we acknowledge a basic human right to dignity (what can happen when you don't is one of the more painful lessons we learned from the Third Reich). Since the criminals also have that right and we consider their debt to society paid after they served their sentence you don't have the right to demand their identities as that violates their basic human right to dignity. Human rights overrule the "right to know".
However, of course, since my country's constitution doesn't begin with "We the People of the United States" it's impossible for me to ever undestand the meaning of "right" or "freedom".
Although most members are already great at weaseling around that - cf. the WTO and its infamous "green room meetings". For those not in the know, those are independent closed meetings where (for example) the industry nations go to make up new policies so that they don't have to waste time being productive (or even consider the Third World's opinions) during the open meetings.
I'm certain that there are ways of circumventing WIPO's rules, as well. Well, besides just ignoring it like they're doing now.
The GP didn't. The GP pointed out that the UN cares more about China's opionion on human rights than the USA's because the USA (while ahead in terms of human rights) don't see a need to improve any further even in the light of clear violations.
In short, it wasn't "China is bad but the USA are worse", it was "China is bad and the USA are better but dicks about it in a way the UN cares about".
I'm not a big fan of WIPO but I think it's bad that they aren't involved. Then again, the whole point of not involving them is because it's probably too insane for even them and they might have changed it into something remotely sensible.
Actually, they'd probably just escort him off the premises and he'd get an order to stay away* for the remainder of the conference (and possibly longer).
* I think it's interesting that the German language has two words for this while the English one doesn't (at least non I can find right now). The German words are "Hausverbot" (the owner of the premises disallows someone to enter; violation of this can be found an act of trespassing on a case-by-case basis) and "Platzverweis" (the police order someone to leave an area, usually for up to 24 hours; used against disruptive people; can't be used against members of an assembly unless they're excluded from the assembly).
In this case, both could be applied - the Chinese agent would be excluded from the conference and disallowed to attend future conferences in the same place and the tearing of the poster could be reported to the police as an act of vandalism.
Hey, at least Kirk doesn't get magical powers and befriends Lucifer like in TAS.
In the case of Threashold it wasn't the show being too cerebral it was the writing being too atrocious. The show had little in the way of internal consistency ("We can't turn off the subway's power! It's too disruptive! I say this even though last week we happily EMP'd downtown!" Also, one episode requiring a SOTA sound processor to reproduce The Signal while another had an MP3 of an answering machine copy be equally effective), the science was so bad even laypersons could easily tell (the SOTA sound processor got faster the more current you applied to it) and some of the episodes simply made no sense (like a plank of wood that was exposed to The Signal somehow also transforming people).
I watched all of it because I like trash and it was to mystery shows what Troma is to cinema. Except that Troma is honest about their quality.
Eerie, Indiana was pretty cool, though.
Given that I don't think he looks scrawny it's probably the latter.