> whopping 3 minutes to download (not an issue) and install (BIG issue) the corresponding patch.
Come on, its not that hard and a similiar buffer overrun situation on any OS spells the same solution:
Get your patches from a different machine. Apply them with a CD, floppy, USB drive, Zip, etc.
Heck, the last few XP installers I used fired up the network Mandrake-style and downloaded all the patches before the OS even booted. I'm glad to see all the stuff I've been bitching about when it comes to MS is being fixed, slowly, by things like this and SP2.
I am a bit concerned that if MS gets their act together it could really hurt some of the better OSS projects like Firefox, Thunderbird, OO.org, etc.
MS could easily err on the side of caution and just block its own file sharing, etc ports and other system ports that usually reside under 1025. Everything else would be open. Not everyone is a techie who can diagnose every app's port and do the forwarding.
Inbound and outbound port management is really too much for technophobes. I usually set up a simple firewall and open up everything after 1025. They dont get hit by trojans and their apps work. If they do network printing, sharing, etc I just make exceptions for the NAT subnet they are using.
I know its heresey in these parts to speak ill of firewalls, but the more they nag and the more they break apps the higher the chance they will just get shut off. The worst thing you can do for a person if give them Zone Alarm or some other nagware.
Real protection comes in email scanning, patching, and future CPUs which support NX (currently only AMD64). Not in blocking every damn port out there and pretending one is protected.
>That's right. Kid Pix requires Administrator-level rights or it simply will not run.
Blame your software vendor for making THEIR software incompatible with limited user accounts in windows. Well written software doesn't do this and at work we have many computers set at "user" accounts with no problems.
In other words, its not windows, its Kid Pix and whatever else you're buying with your IT dollars. I would hope that our tax dollars wouldn't be wasted on crappy applications.
Please, continue the uninformed MS bashing, afterall this is slashdot. There are real complaints regarding MS, especially in regards to IE, standards, and anti-competive practices. These mindless attacks and the people who mod them up only make the real MS criticisms weaker to the point where people wonder what all the fuss is about.
We need better MS criticisms. A bad device driver is not MS's fault. Poorly written apps is not MS's fault (unless its one of their own). People falling for scams is not MS's fault. People who make spam profitable is not MS's fault. etc.
Yeah, read the screen. Where will you find the information you need like:
1. This is spyware which will download more spyware.
2. This is poorly written and will cause you a lot of problems.
3. There is no uninstaller, or the this is a severe pain to uninstall. Good luck, sucker!
In other words, spyware promotes itself like typical free software people expect. I think your argument would only make sense if there was a legal responsibility to say the above things in normal non-legalese non-techese speak. But please, don't let the facts get in the way of end-user bashing.
Actually, windows update be it automatic or by visiting the site will read your registry and decide on what components you need. The 250mb file is *everything* for all configurations. Its the administrators version, not the end users version. The real size could be anywhere from 20-90 mb depending. Perhaps smaller, perhaps a bit larger.
That's funny because I mentioned air bags mostly because when I was hit head on by a drunk driver mine failed to deploy too. I was okay, but my lawyer said I had no case. Hopefully, there will be a class-action full of people like me and your gf.
Not necessarily. I mean depending on what the max character limit is he could be using pass-phrases. The password is becoming obselete and the pass-phrase will be the next step. That is if the next step isn't smart card keys, challenge response you can do on a PDA, etc.
Of course the pass-phrase has its flaws too like using famous quotes, but that could be screened out the same way common words are. There might be some side benefits to this. Personally, I find phrases easier to remember than words, even if they have numbers or odd characters in them.
I think passphrases and encrypting communications will go a long way towards security. A lot of good that killer password does you when you send it in plain-text when you use FTP or POP3. In fact , a lot of password policies are based on the fact that you will use ftp or pop or something and eventually you will be sniffed so changing your password more often is a long term fix before they can roll out ssh, sftp, and ssl-pop/imap or whatever. If they're even planning it. Eventually we're going to look back to the 90s and early 21st century and think "whoa, I sent all that crap unencrypted?"
Lets not just turn everyone who isn't a techie into mindless consumers.
My brother sure as hell cares if some virus wipes out his drive full of baby pictures. My technophobe friend sure as hell cares that she has to be careful with every single attachment she gets because of spam, spyware, and viruses. Or every site she visits. "Give us security" isn't just geeks anymore, its everyone, thus MS's actions. Spyware, spam, and viruses have hit such an all time high that the dinosaur that is MS is forced to do something about it. Especially, when its their browser which enables some pretty silly things like ActiveX, vbs scripting, etc.
I don't know much are safety engineering, but as a car owner I expect my airbag and anti-lock brakes to kick in when needed. Or the locks of the doors to work. If these things don't work then I'm pissed. You don't need to be a mechanic to understand why. Sure, a gear head is better informed than me, but that doesn't mean I don't care about such issues and when these issues become a real problem I demand something be done about them. The gearhead may have thought of it first, but he's really no superior to me as we're both consumers of a product from a company neither of us controls. Be it autos or software.
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Granted, I read a lot more into your dismissive tone about moderation and "groupthink" than anything else. I used that as a launch pad to post some things which apply to a lot of the comments in this thread. Instead of posting 10 comments I just took one and wrote out what I wanted, sorry if I used you as an example. You can translate my "you" to mean a lot of people arguing the same point you made which is pretty much something akin to "See, now who is the blind follower now?" When its pretty obvious that Newton's work in physics can be tested and falsified unlike his philosophical writings. Not to mention alchemy can be tested and fails (at least the part that later became chemistry). So to equate some kind of blind belief to those who know that Newtonian physics works isn't fair at all and bereting the slashdot community with conspiracy theories is pretty silly. Sure, moderation isn't perfect, but the bible guy and the new ager get modded down for a reason that isn't just "blind group think." You can be in the majority and be right sometimes!
I mean, do we need another article about the time cube guy?
There's a large context here and I believe its how ideas go from no where to the mainstream. I like to think of LaBerge's work in lucid dreaming in the 80s. LD was considered either false (didnt happen or was just useless micro awakenings) or a philosophical issue (youre just dreaming youre awake while dreaming) but LaBerge worked at finding a experiment which would prove that lucid dreaming existed by fashioning an experiment that used eye control to prove that a lucid dreamer is really in control of the here and now. After being turned down by a few journals he got published here and there and others reproduced his work.
LaBerge isa good example because of how the New Age weirdos co-opted lucid dreaming and how he had to fight against preconceptions to prove his hypothesis. Yes, there were harsh criticisms and hard work involved, but that's the life of a researcher. Science does err on the side of caution but when enough evidence piles up against (or for) something then change happens. It happened to Newton with Einstein.
Or maybe its about how someone can be right in one area and wrong in another. Look at Thomas Gold or Chomsky's politics. History is full of people good at one thing who are wrong/controversial at another.
I wont even go into the irony of how your "moderators are bad" post is now rated at 5 points.
>A combination of a good mind and a A-type-personality often makes someone excel in many areas.
Yeah sure, in business where social networking, dealing, etc are paramount, but most techies are introverts of some sort. Its these unsung heroes who really get the work done.
Then the coporate structure markets their work. There are exceptions of course, but a coder does not a good CEO make. Its the classic Jobs/Woz dynamic. There's a reason Ballmer is the CEO of Microsoft and not Bill anymore. He's just a better businessman. He's a better speaker. He's a better socializer. He's a better schmoozer. etc
So yes, the grandparent is quite correct. Someone can excel at one thing and be poor at everything else. Arguably, being a specialist is a gamble of sorts. You can excel at one thing, but if you don't do well or if the market drops out you're screwed, but if you're so specialized that only you can do something or come up with a new way of doing things then there are rewards to be had.
How many people view Chomsky's work on lingustics as groundbreaking but couldn't care less about his politics? How many Cerebus fans share Dave Sim's attitude regarding women? How many people, at the time, though Bucky Fuller's "beef only" diet was a good idea? etc
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Oh please. Netwon lived in a time before the scientific method as we know it and before what eventually became the scientific community distanced itself and became aware of pseudo-scientific pursuits like astrology, prophecy, etc.
Its not the 17/18th century anymore and your argument is a pretty weak strawman. Essentially you are saying "Newton's physics were valid (ignoring Einstein) thus his other views are just as valid and deserve the same audience and respect."
Uh no.
All the world's society's gave superstion more than the benefit of the doubt for millenia. It didn't pan out. Move on, don't complain that the book of Revelation or Alchemy or Phrenology deserves a 2nd chance. They have gotten more than their fair share of attention. Its not my fault or anyone else's these theories didn't pan out.
I suggest at least looking at the wikipedia's entries of protoscience and psuedoscience if you are being sincere and not just making a jab at scientific cosmology and the slashdotters who understand it is the most likely explanation of why things are.
I also take slight offense at how you're saying its "hip" to be against these dead philosophies, when in reality its much more hip to be against those eggheads in their ivory towers who challenge traditional beliefs. Its very hip for the religious to cry "Persecution!" when a science teacher mentions evolution or when a social studies teacher mentions different religions other than xtianity. I see it in the paper almost weekly. Yet you can join any religion you want, make your kids believe what you like, and religious organizations enjoy tax-free status, gambling rights, and a power-structure that protects them from criminal investigations (at least for a while).
Ironically, the western world has more religious freedom than ever, thanks to the secularists and western enlightenment.
>Dudes in the future should have high tech badass gear
Yep, like PDAs and Laptops twice the size of the ones I own in 2004. Later in the game its revealed you're in a steam-powered amusement park haunted house and just really, really confused and going to spend a lot of time in prison.
Is this the first SP to be delivered this way? Usually the user has to visit MS's site for service packs. I wonder if every user be it residential or business with auto-update on will be hit with a dozen pop-up boxes on configuring the new firewall, activeX, etc in a couple weeks or whenever MS sends it down the wire.
This has been proven in many studies. Look 'em up.
The issue is sadly simple: teams will take off for cheaper pastures if they don't get what they want. This gives them an amazing leverage to get taxpayer money as sports fans are religious in their devotion to their teams.
Worse is the hypocrisy here. Many of these fans are right-wing economist defenders who believe in the free market. In a free sports market we would tell corrupt owners to take a hike, but brand loyalty is so high these people are willing to force ME to pay for THEIR stadium, which is nothing more than a private business thus corporate welfare on a grand scale. Even worse is that these monies could be put into education, city works, and other programs which could bring business into the metro area.
Until sports fans grow up into clear thinking adults then my and your taxes will keep making the wealthier even wealthier while schools and infrastructure keep getting worse. And then these fans have the gall to complain about too much taxation.
I can't stress this enough. I dont care how much it hurts the "aesthetics" of the site. Refresh, stop, etc should be on all windows. I do a lot of right-click context web searches with FF and if its a JS produced 'pop-up window' I can't see the results. Yes, I know the work-around, but thats not the point. The point is the web depends on a nav bar and a URL box telling you where you are.
I would be all for FF making the nav bar permenant on all windows for the sake of usability and to stop spoofing. There are other ways to spoof like this, so in the end this is a JS implementation problem (like the parent claims) and not really an FF/XUL issue. I mean, the FF people can fix the XUL loading, but that just leaves me with 5 other ways to fool you into giving me your paypal password.
If the price does come down to what a cheap scooter costs you, why would I buy the segway? With a scooter I get long range, it runs on gas, can carry two people, do non-highway speeds, street legal, etc.
If the segway could do 40mpg then I'd be interested in it, but walking isn't that tough and I really don't need assistance in that area. Heck, walking is the most exercise more of us get.
That said, it may have applications with the handicapped and the aging population, but as a popular device? I don't think so.
I checked the voltmeter and it looks like it charged up nicely overnight. I haven't worn kneepads or a helmet in ages, they make me feel kind of awkward. After waving goodbye to my wife I'm off to work which is about six miles from here. I can't wait, this thing is so cool. I feel ten years younger.
8:45am
Holy shit, where did all these kids come from? I thought the district bussed them to school. I can't ride on the street because everyone keeps yelling for me to go faster and I can barely maneuver the sidewalk with all these kids. Someone just called me "Spaceman." I thought kids loved technology. Sorry to the girl I knocked over, but in all fairness I did yell, "heads up!"
9:08am
Okay I'm officially late for work now, but I did find a bike lane. What's with this town? I thought all the granola-loving bikers forced the city to put bike lanes on every street. There's maybe a mile's worth from my place to downtown. The bikers were pretty nice. One man said to the rest, "Let the dude on the rascal get through." I don't know what a rascal is, but they did let me get through.
9:19am
Holy fuck is downtown packed and no one is letting me through. The way I tip cabs around here you'd think they would let ride on the side of the lane. The doorman at my building yelled at the crowd to let the "handicapped guy" through. I was going to correct him, but they were already letting me past. I did get to ride up the handicap ramp and park in the building. Now I need an AC outlet. This trip nearly drained the battery.
9:22am
I'm not the fittest guy in the world but they need to make these things a little lighter. You drag a 70lbs Segway up the stairs and tell me how your back feels.
12:04pm
I'm taking my Ginger, I mean my Segway, to lunch. I tried to get a co-worker to ride with me, but we fell and nearly broke our necks. I hope no one tells my wife that my hand got caught up in Jane's skirt as we were trying to get up. She didn't say anything and I think she really didn't notice. A guy on one of those old time italian scooters yelled, "yuppie" at me and disappeared into traffic. Real mature.
12:12pm
I had to ride all the way to that bike store in the Village to pick up an extra-long Kryptonite lock. Looks like the "no bikes" sign applies to the Segway as well in restaurants. I barely have enough time to stop and get a sandwich before getting back to work. I have to call my lunchmates and tell them I didn't get into an accident. If I keep yelling, "Beep, beep coming through" every block I can actually make some time. This thing really needs a horn.
5:15pm
A cop called me over from the bike lane and told me unless I have a handicap permit I'm going to have to get motorcycle plates and a city sticker for this. He let me go this time, but he said if he sees me again mucking up traffic on my "razor scooter" I'm going to get arrested. I ran over a really big guy's toes pulling into the bike lane. He was really pissed. Four more people called me "Spaceman" on the way home. At least the doorman didn't call me handicapped again.
5:55pm
I'm home and I came this close to hosing off the dog crap on the wheels before I saw the electric shock warning sticker. The first thing my wife told me as I pulled into the garage is that I look and smell like shit.
6:15pm
I just called and the Shaper Image won't take returns. Great. I gotta get some good pictures of this thing for ebay. My 14-year old is gonna use it to get to her Lacrosse practices until I can sell it. I overheard her call it an "electric ass-mover." Her friend responded by saying, "Oh, that geekmobile thingy your dad dropped three grand on?"
I dont want to see any "friendly trojans" but a while ago someone wrote a very neat java app which acted like an IIS server, listened for attacks, and used the exploit from the exploited to send the infected party a "net send localhost YOUVE GOT A VIRUS!!" message or something to that effect. What was that worm called? Red Alert? I think the software was called red alert vigilante or somesuch.
Anyway, I should have the right to take attackers and use their own exploit to inform them about their situation. A real world comparision would be me finding a trespasser and instead of just kicking them out, telling them they are doing wrong and then kicking them out.
Granted, this kind of vigilate action can be seen as, say, tracking down the trespasser and going on his property to yell at him. I guess this is where the analogy breaks down, but its a good concept and doesnt waste bandwidth like the "friendly trojan" shotgun approach.
This would only work with worms with machines with open firewalls, but it sure beats nothing.
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> whopping 3 minutes to download (not an issue) and install (BIG issue) the corresponding patch.
Come on, its not that hard and a similiar buffer overrun situation on any OS spells the same solution:
Get your patches from a different machine. Apply them with a CD, floppy, USB drive, Zip, etc.
Heck, the last few XP installers I used fired up the network Mandrake-style and downloaded all the patches before the OS even booted. I'm glad to see all the stuff I've been bitching about when it comes to MS is being fixed, slowly, by things like this and SP2.
I am a bit concerned that if MS gets their act together it could really hurt some of the better OSS projects like Firefox, Thunderbird, OO.org, etc.
MS could easily err on the side of caution and just block its own file sharing, etc ports and other system ports that usually reside under 1025. Everything else would be open. Not everyone is a techie who can diagnose every app's port and do the forwarding.
Inbound and outbound port management is really too much for technophobes. I usually set up a simple firewall and open up everything after 1025. They dont get hit by trojans and their apps work. If they do network printing, sharing, etc I just make exceptions for the NAT subnet they are using.
I know its heresey in these parts to speak ill of firewalls, but the more they nag and the more they break apps the higher the chance they will just get shut off. The worst thing you can do for a person if give them Zone Alarm or some other nagware.
Real protection comes in email scanning, patching, and future CPUs which support NX (currently only AMD64). Not in blocking every damn port out there and pretending one is protected.
Local test ads eh? You can block them with a hosts file.
add:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Oh wait...
>That's right. Kid Pix requires Administrator-level rights or it simply will not run.
Blame your software vendor for making THEIR software incompatible with limited user accounts in windows. Well written software doesn't do this and at work we have many computers set at "user" accounts with no problems.
In other words, its not windows, its Kid Pix and whatever else you're buying with your IT dollars. I would hope that our tax dollars wouldn't be wasted on crappy applications.
Please, continue the uninformed MS bashing, afterall this is slashdot. There are real complaints regarding MS, especially in regards to IE, standards, and anti-competive practices. These mindless attacks and the people who mod them up only make the real MS criticisms weaker to the point where people wonder what all the fuss is about.
We need better MS criticisms. A bad device driver is not MS's fault. Poorly written apps is not MS's fault (unless its one of their own). People falling for scams is not MS's fault. People who make spam profitable is not MS's fault. etc.
Yeah, read the screen. Where will you find the information you need like:
1. This is spyware which will download more spyware.
2. This is poorly written and will cause you a lot of problems.
3. There is no uninstaller, or the this is a severe pain to uninstall. Good luck, sucker!
In other words, spyware promotes itself like typical free software people expect. I think your argument would only make sense if there was a legal responsibility to say the above things in normal non-legalese non-techese speak. But please, don't let the facts get in the way of end-user bashing.
Actually, windows update be it automatic or by visiting the site will read your registry and decide on what components you need. The 250mb file is *everything* for all configurations. Its the administrators version, not the end users version. The real size could be anywhere from 20-90 mb depending. Perhaps smaller, perhaps a bit larger.
That's funny because I mentioned air bags mostly because when I was hit head on by a drunk driver mine failed to deploy too. I was okay, but my lawyer said I had no case. Hopefully, there will be a class-action full of people like me and your gf.
>hoose easy-to-remember (and hence, likely easy-to-crack) passwords
Not necessarily. I mean depending on what the max character limit is he could be using pass-phrases. The password is becoming obselete and the pass-phrase will be the next step. That is if the next step isn't smart card keys, challenge response you can do on a PDA, etc.
Of course the pass-phrase has its flaws too like using famous quotes, but that could be screened out the same way common words are. There might be some side benefits to this. Personally, I find phrases easier to remember than words, even if they have numbers or odd characters in them.
I think passphrases and encrypting communications will go a long way towards security. A lot of good that killer password does you when you send it in plain-text when you use FTP or POP3. In fact , a lot of password policies are based on the fact that you will use ftp or pop or something and eventually you will be sniffed so changing your password more often is a long term fix before they can roll out ssh, sftp, and ssl-pop/imap or whatever. If they're even planning it. Eventually we're going to look back to the 90s and early 21st century and think "whoa, I sent all that crap unencrypted?"
Lets not just turn everyone who isn't a techie into mindless consumers.
My brother sure as hell cares if some virus wipes out his drive full of baby pictures. My technophobe friend sure as hell cares that she has to be careful with every single attachment she gets because of spam, spyware, and viruses. Or every site she visits. "Give us security" isn't just geeks anymore, its everyone, thus MS's actions. Spyware, spam, and viruses have hit such an all time high that the dinosaur that is MS is forced to do something about it. Especially, when its their browser which enables some pretty silly things like ActiveX, vbs scripting, etc.
I don't know much are safety engineering, but as a car owner I expect my airbag and anti-lock brakes to kick in when needed. Or the locks of the doors to work. If these things don't work then I'm pissed. You don't need to be a mechanic to understand why. Sure, a gear head is better informed than me, but that doesn't mean I don't care about such issues and when these issues become a real problem I demand something be done about them. The gearhead may have thought of it first, but he's really no superior to me as we're both consumers of a product from a company neither of us controls. Be it autos or software.
Granted, I read a lot more into your dismissive tone about moderation and "groupthink" than anything else. I used that as a launch pad to post some things which apply to a lot of the comments in this thread. Instead of posting 10 comments I just took one and wrote out what I wanted, sorry if I used you as an example. You can translate my "you" to mean a lot of people arguing the same point you made which is pretty much something akin to "See, now who is the blind follower now?" When its pretty obvious that Newton's work in physics can be tested and falsified unlike his philosophical writings. Not to mention alchemy can be tested and fails (at least the part that later became chemistry). So to equate some kind of blind belief to those who know that Newtonian physics works isn't fair at all and bereting the slashdot community with conspiracy theories is pretty silly. Sure, moderation isn't perfect, but the bible guy and the new ager get modded down for a reason that isn't just "blind group think." You can be in the majority and be right sometimes!
I mean, do we need another article about the time cube guy?
There's a large context here and I believe its how ideas go from no where to the mainstream. I like to think of LaBerge's work in lucid dreaming in the 80s. LD was considered either false (didnt happen or was just useless micro awakenings) or a philosophical issue (youre just dreaming youre awake while dreaming) but LaBerge worked at finding a experiment which would prove that lucid dreaming existed by fashioning an experiment that used eye control to prove that a lucid dreamer is really in control of the here and now. After being turned down by a few journals he got published here and there and others reproduced his work.
LaBerge isa good example because of how the New Age weirdos co-opted lucid dreaming and how he had to fight against preconceptions to prove his hypothesis. Yes, there were harsh criticisms and hard work involved, but that's the life of a researcher. Science does err on the side of caution but when enough evidence piles up against (or for) something then change happens. It happened to Newton with Einstein.
Or maybe its about how someone can be right in one area and wrong in another. Look at Thomas Gold or Chomsky's politics. History is full of people good at one thing who are wrong/controversial at another.
I wont even go into the irony of how your "moderators are bad" post is now rated at 5 points.
>A combination of a good mind and a A-type-personality often makes someone excel in many areas.
Yeah sure, in business where social networking, dealing, etc are paramount, but most techies are introverts of some sort. Its these unsung heroes who really get the work done.
Then the coporate structure markets their work. There are exceptions of course, but a coder does not a good CEO make. Its the classic Jobs/Woz dynamic. There's a reason Ballmer is the CEO of Microsoft and not Bill anymore. He's just a better businessman. He's a better speaker. He's a better socializer. He's a better schmoozer. etc
So yes, the grandparent is quite correct. Someone can excel at one thing and be poor at everything else. Arguably, being a specialist is a gamble of sorts. You can excel at one thing, but if you don't do well or if the market drops out you're screwed, but if you're so specialized that only you can do something or come up with a new way of doing things then there are rewards to be had.
How many people view Chomsky's work on lingustics as groundbreaking but couldn't care less about his politics? How many Cerebus fans share Dave Sim's attitude regarding women? How many people, at the time, though Bucky Fuller's "beef only" diet was a good idea? etc
Oh please. Netwon lived in a time before the scientific method as we know it and before what eventually became the scientific community distanced itself and became aware of pseudo-scientific pursuits like astrology, prophecy, etc.
Its not the 17/18th century anymore and your argument is a pretty weak strawman. Essentially you are saying "Newton's physics were valid (ignoring Einstein) thus his other views are just as valid and deserve the same audience and respect."
Uh no.
All the world's society's gave superstion more than the benefit of the doubt for millenia. It didn't pan out. Move on, don't complain that the book of Revelation or Alchemy or Phrenology deserves a 2nd chance. They have gotten more than their fair share of attention. Its not my fault or anyone else's these theories didn't pan out.
I suggest at least looking at the wikipedia's entries of protoscience and psuedoscience if you are being sincere and not just making a jab at scientific cosmology and the slashdotters who understand it is the most likely explanation of why things are.
I also take slight offense at how you're saying its "hip" to be against these dead philosophies, when in reality its much more hip to be against those eggheads in their ivory towers who challenge traditional beliefs. Its very hip for the religious to cry "Persecution!" when a science teacher mentions evolution or when a social studies teacher mentions different religions other than xtianity. I see it in the paper almost weekly. Yet you can join any religion you want, make your kids believe what you like, and religious organizations enjoy tax-free status, gambling rights, and a power-structure that protects them from criminal investigations (at least for a while).
Ironically, the western world has more religious freedom than ever, thanks to the secularists and western enlightenment.
Also, a decent primer on how what eventually became science is Shapin's The Scientific Revolution.
>Dudes in the future should have high tech badass gear
Yep, like PDAs and Laptops twice the size of the ones I own in 2004. Later in the game its revealed you're in a steam-powered amusement park haunted house and just really, really confused and going to spend a lot of time in prison.
Whoops, I should have written ***Spoiler
Is this the first SP to be delivered this way? Usually the user has to visit MS's site for service packs. I wonder if every user be it residential or business with auto-update on will be hit with a dozen pop-up boxes on configuring the new firewall, activeX, etc in a couple weeks or whenever MS sends it down the wire.
Granted, I'd like to see a patcher/updater that works, but this is still sub 1.0 software.
Rename current firefox directory.
Install firefox.
Copy plugins folder to new install.
Load firefox.
That's it. Your bookmarks and settings are in your profile, NOT in the install directory.
Some plug-ins will need to be reinstalled.
This has been proven in many studies. Look 'em up.
The issue is sadly simple: teams will take off for cheaper pastures if they don't get what they want. This gives them an amazing leverage to get taxpayer money as sports fans are religious in their devotion to their teams.
Worse is the hypocrisy here. Many of these fans are right-wing economist defenders who believe in the free market. In a free sports market we would tell corrupt owners to take a hike, but brand loyalty is so high these people are willing to force ME to pay for THEIR stadium, which is nothing more than a private business thus corporate welfare on a grand scale. Even worse is that these monies could be put into education, city works, and other programs which could bring business into the metro area.
Until sports fans grow up into clear thinking adults then my and your taxes will keep making the wealthier even wealthier while schools and infrastructure keep getting worse. And then these fans have the gall to complain about too much taxation.
Actually, the tracker can get bogged down too. BT isn't completely decentralized.
So if the tracker crashes or just can't handle the traffic there goes the torrent for the most part.
I can't stress this enough. I dont care how much it hurts the "aesthetics" of the site. Refresh, stop, etc should be on all windows. I do a lot of right-click context web searches with FF and if its a JS produced 'pop-up window' I can't see the results. Yes, I know the work-around, but thats not the point. The point is the web depends on a nav bar and a URL box telling you where you are.
I would be all for FF making the nav bar permenant on all windows for the sake of usability and to stop spoofing. There are other ways to spoof like this, so in the end this is a JS implementation problem (like the parent claims) and not really an FF/XUL issue. I mean, the FF people can fix the XUL loading, but that just leaves me with 5 other ways to fool you into giving me your paypal password.
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If the price does come down to what a cheap scooter costs you, why would I buy the segway? With a scooter I get long range, it runs on gas, can carry two people, do non-highway speeds, street legal, etc.
If the segway could do 40mpg then I'd be interested in it, but walking isn't that tough and I really don't need assistance in that area. Heck, walking is the most exercise more of us get.
That said, it may have applications with the handicapped and the aging population, but as a popular device? I don't think so.
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8:30am
I checked the voltmeter and it looks like it charged up nicely overnight. I haven't worn kneepads or a helmet in ages, they make me feel kind of awkward. After waving goodbye to my wife I'm off to work which is about six miles from here. I can't wait, this thing is so cool. I feel ten years younger.
8:45am
Holy shit, where did all these kids come from? I thought the district bussed them to school. I can't ride on the street because everyone keeps yelling for me to go faster and I can barely maneuver the sidewalk with all these kids. Someone just called me "Spaceman." I thought kids loved technology. Sorry to the girl I knocked over, but in all fairness I did yell, "heads up!"
9:08am
Okay I'm officially late for work now, but I did find a bike lane. What's with this town? I thought all the granola-loving bikers forced the city to put bike lanes on every street. There's maybe a mile's worth from my place to downtown. The bikers were pretty nice. One man said to the rest, "Let the dude on the rascal get through." I don't know what a rascal is, but they did let me get through.
9:19am
Holy fuck is downtown packed and no one is letting me through. The way I tip cabs around here you'd think they would let ride on the side of the lane. The doorman at my building yelled at the crowd to let the "handicapped guy" through. I was going to correct him, but they were already letting me past. I did get to ride up the handicap ramp and park in the building. Now I need an AC outlet. This trip nearly drained the battery.
9:22am
I'm not the fittest guy in the world but they need to make these things a little lighter. You drag a 70lbs Segway up the stairs and tell me how your back feels.
12:04pm
I'm taking my Ginger, I mean my Segway, to lunch. I tried to get a co-worker to ride with me, but we fell and nearly broke our necks. I hope no one tells my wife that my hand got caught up in Jane's skirt as we were trying to get up. She didn't say anything and I think she really didn't notice. A guy on one of those old time italian scooters yelled, "yuppie" at me and disappeared into traffic. Real mature.
12:12pm
I had to ride all the way to that bike store in the Village to pick up an extra-long Kryptonite lock. Looks like the "no bikes" sign applies to the Segway as well in restaurants. I barely have enough time to stop and get a sandwich before getting back to work. I have to call my lunchmates and tell them I didn't get into an accident. If I keep yelling, "Beep, beep coming through" every block I can actually make some time. This thing really needs a horn.
5:15pm
A cop called me over from the bike lane and told me unless I have a handicap permit I'm going to have to get motorcycle plates and a city sticker for this. He let me go this time, but he said if he sees me again mucking up traffic on my "razor scooter" I'm going to get arrested. I ran over a really big guy's toes pulling into the bike lane. He was really pissed. Four more people called me "Spaceman" on the way home. At least the doorman didn't call me handicapped again.
5:55pm
I'm home and I came this close to hosing off the dog crap on the wheels before I saw the electric shock warning sticker. The first thing my wife told me as I pulled into the garage is that I look and smell like shit.
6:15pm
I just called and the Shaper Image won't take returns. Great. I gotta get some good pictures of this thing for ebay. My 14-year old is gonna use it to get to her Lacrosse practices until I can sell it. I overheard her call it an "electric ass-mover." Her friend responded by saying, "Oh, that geekmobile thingy your dad dropped three grand on?"
Expect more of this to fire up the GOP base and conservative democrats.
I mean, how many people are going to be upset at a politician who claims "I fought to clean up violent media."
Its a shame most people don't see that as meaning, "I'm big on censorship."
>Plus, "Mozilla" sounds like something only a geek could love.
Yes, but Firefox sounds like a defense weapon platform that could vaporize your competitors!
"Deploy the Firefox!"
*audible gasps*
I dont want to see any "friendly trojans" but a while ago someone wrote a very neat java app which acted like an IIS server, listened for attacks, and used the exploit from the exploited to send the infected party a "net send localhost YOUVE GOT A VIRUS!!" message or something to that effect. What was that worm called? Red Alert? I think the software was called red alert vigilante or somesuch.
Anyway, I should have the right to take attackers and use their own exploit to inform them about their situation. A real world comparision would be me finding a trespasser and instead of just kicking them out, telling them they are doing wrong and then kicking them out.
Granted, this kind of vigilate action can be seen as, say, tracking down the trespasser and going on his property to yell at him. I guess this is where the analogy breaks down, but its a good concept and doesnt waste bandwidth like the "friendly trojan" shotgun approach.
This would only work with worms with machines with open firewalls, but it sure beats nothing.
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