now here is the solution : rearrange the room, that no one can get behind you without you noticing it.
Use a webcam, a mirror (chimp ? ) if not possible otherwise.
You don't think people have a right to time-shift broadcast TV?
And show some sympathy for people in other parts of the world (especially Australians, as I understand it) who have to wait a long time for the broadcasts.
In the UK the Charities Aid Foundation promotes "efficient giving".
If you are a UK taxpayer, you can set up a CAF account, and when you put money into it (lump sums or monthly) CAF reclaims the relevant income tax from the government to add about 27%. You can then give money on-line to any registered charity in the UK.
(Slightly simplified explanation: Charitable donations here are considered to come out of gross income and the charities get the extra money you would have paid in tax on the amount given.)
Patent law should be amended more generally so that the patent office has a duty to cancel any patent (which is after all a privilege granted by the state on behalf of the public) used against the public (or ecological) good.
OF COURSE the keyboard is faster than the mouse. Ever see a poweruser look up or set hotkeys for every possible action he ever does? It's because hitting ctrl-s is about 20x faster than moving the mouse to the file menu, hunting to find the right location, clicking, examining the pop-down menu to see if it is the full menu or condensed menu, hunting for the save option, moving down, and clicking it.
I just wish every program used the standard Emacs keybindings. (Let the holy wars begin.)
There is a wealth, nay, a crapload, nay, a truck full of craploads of applications that are extremely poorly designed because of the ability to click on things.
I heartily agree. Certainly some applications (photo editing and CAD) are "naturally" mouse-oriented, but many are more efficient if you can use the keyboard instead.
When I first used a computer with a mouse in 1987, I used the mouse for CAD and some games and I said it would never catch on for general computing because it taking your hand off the keyboard to move the mouse wastes time!
If you store them in your wallet and your wallet gets stolen, you'll KNOW IT and can change the passwords long before they represent a risk - because your wallet is more important to you than your passwords
Of course you'll need access to a backup copy of your passwords, since you (usually) need to know the current password in order to change it!
Are you generally opposed to planning/zoning regulations? If so, you won't complain when I buy the house next to yours and open a paper mill or a landfill. After all, it's private property!
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Small developers are softer targets.
Sure, he just didn't think "clever stealing" was the same as "normal stealing". It works for white-collar criminals.
You know you're not allowed to visit Talos IV.
I think you mean "NetBSD the toaster".
I think http://www.thinkgeek.com/ sells rear-view mirrors for monitors.
But "administratorkit" is harder to say!
> > functioning'.
> I see someone at NASA has read 'Stranger in a Strange Land'.
Or just listened to Blue Öyster Cult's "Monsters".
As Churchill probably didn't really say, "The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash."
Actually it does support printing envelopes and labels, but they're both a real pain to use.
Yeah, those corporations that own the newspapers are really out to overthrow capitalism.
The Mailing Preference Service also works but not quite as well. It doesn't eliminate junk mail but it reduces it significantly.
Whereas in Buffy and Xena ... oh never mind.
And show some sympathy for people in other parts of the world (especially Australians, as I understand it) who have to wait a long time for the broadcasts.
Just what we need: more disposable crap to throw away.
Using it for anything else -- especially for navigation -- is just obnoxious.
If you are a UK taxpayer, you can set up a CAF account, and when you put money into it (lump sums or monthly) CAF reclaims the relevant income tax from the government to add about 27%. You can then give money on-line to any registered charity in the UK.
(Slightly simplified explanation: Charitable donations here are considered to come out of gross income and the charities get the extra money you would have paid in tax on the amount given.)
Patent law should be amended more generally so that the patent office has a duty to cancel any patent (which is after all a privilege granted by the state on behalf of the public) used against the public (or ecological) good.
Yeah, those big corporations like Fox are trying to overthrow global capitalism.
What about the R&D activities that are being criminalized (DMCA) at the request of big business?
I just wish every program used the standard Emacs keybindings. (Let the holy wars begin.)
I heartily agree. Certainly some applications (photo editing and CAD) are "naturally" mouse-oriented, but many are more efficient if you can use the keyboard instead.
When I first used a computer with a mouse in 1987, I used the mouse for CAD and some games and I said it would never catch on for general computing because it taking your hand off the keyboard to move the mouse wastes time!
I don't doubt that the Dvorak keyboard is more efficient, but I'm wary of switching because I would then have problems using other people's computers.
Of course you'll need access to a backup copy of your passwords, since you (usually) need to know the current password in order to change it!
Why does Bugzilla do that? Is it just to prevent the site getting slashdotted?
Are you generally opposed to planning/zoning regulations? If so, you won't complain when I buy the house next to yours and open a paper mill or a landfill. After all, it's private property!