So the easiest way around this is to create a program that automatically changes the value of a random single pixel in a graphic. Problem solved, crisis averted.
Exactly which crisis is averted?
I don't see how this can avert the crisis of "sites are being blocked based on decisions of a private organisation without a transparent selection process".
Your suggestion may be able to avert the crisis of "hey, someone is blocking access to illegitimate pictures". But was that the crisis which worried you the most?
Further, this is the internet - not everyone speaks English as a first language.
I am pretty sure that the then/than mistake is mostly done by native English speakers. The rest of us have learned most English words by reading them instead of hearing them.
If the paragraph size had been 256 bytes, that would have resulted in a 24MB address space. We probably wouldn't have hit the wall for another several years. Companies such as VisiCorp might have succeeded at products like VisiOn, which were bending heaven and earth to cram their products into 640K, it would have been much easier to do graphics-oriented processing (death of Microsoft and Apple, anyone?). And so on.
But would the extra RAM have been affordable to typical users of these programs at that time?
I remember fighting for expensive upgrades from 4 to 8 MB RAM at my workplace back in the early 90's. At that time PCs had already been able to use more than 1 MB for some years. So the problem you are referring to must have been years earlier where an upgrade from 1 to 2MB might probably have been equally expensive.
Yeah, thats a fantastic approach, block computers from connecting to each other. Who wants a functional network anyway?
The GP explained his point in an easily understandable way. I don't know how you failed to understand it. Anyway, here it comes again in slow motion for your benefit:
In most corporate networks, clients need to connect to servers. They do not need to connect to other clients.
If you block clients' ability to connect to other clients, no functionality is lost, but infected clients can not attack other clients directly.
(I know that some companies uses IM internally, but there is nothing forcing IM solutions to be P2P.)
It certainly should be, but are you absolute sure that it is?
In Windows XP, there are several ways of changing the default browser. I have not tested them all thoroughly, but some of them are system wide and only works if I have admin privileges.
I don't have the link on hand, but the funny thing was that many cops went on record in support of the speed trap websites because it accomplished what they were trying for anyway (just to get people to slow down).
I am surprised that this has to be explained:
If you don't know where the traps are, you have to be careful everywhere.
If you know where the traps are, you only have to be careful where the traps are, and you can drive like hell everywhere else. Good for public safety, huh?
I would be curious to know what part of that "web content" you're missing out on would actually stand up to scrutiny as "content".
I assume that this distro does not display Youtube videos. In my book, they qualify as content. A lot of them is even original content and not just something ripped from a DVD or a TV show.
I have used Linux since kernel 2.0. The most unpleasant part of my Linux community experience is all the posts claiming that "this is obviously not worth having". Those posts seem to pop up in any context where something is not available in Linux. Are you sure that your post is not just a variant of this knee jerk reaction?
I wouldn't call it 'dedication'. Let's call it a rut.
As a non native english speaker, I had to look up the word "rut". The first definition I stumbled upon did actually imply a lot of dedication: "an annually recurrent state of sexual excitement in the male deer"
But unfortunately after a few months, the keys would "stick" if I hit them off-center. That is, I hit a key (usually a modifier key) off-center, and it would not go down without considerably more force.
I have thrown two cheap Logitech keyboards away after a few months for exactly this reason. I have typed on a somewhat expensive Logitech diNovo keyboard which also did this.
One might argue that this forces you to type more precisely which is probably a good thing - but I can't take it and have bought my last Logitech keyboard.
Well your pedo argument really doesn't mean much as cameras are still no problem apparently.
Actually, that is just the way it usually is whenever people are afraid of pedophiles taking photos: Cell phones are forbidden while cameras are allowed.
Seems just as logical as typical airport security...
Not if your package manager and/or checksum software is compromised.
In Soviet Russia, live CDs boot YOU.
Apparently, a lot of people have trouble understanding these words from the GP: "With Ubuntu, I can boot from a LiveCD and check any file on my hard drive."
You're really not being fair here: While this might be (almost) true for regular software updates, they handle security fixes very quickly and responsibly!
Whoosh.
He commented on the time it takes THE ERROR to get included in Debian Stable.
If something as seemingly well designed as Steam doesn't work very well
"Seemingly well designed"?
Windows have been a multiuser system for more than a decade (and for the last 7 years, multiuser have been the default configuration). Still Steam does not know how to keep user info separated when more than one user are using the same machine, meaning that the login dialog will use the name of the last user logged in from any account on that PC.
Perhaps this was considered good design 10 years ago. Today it is incompetent design.
The thing that really annoyed me to no end with OpenOffice was that I could not grab the edge of my current selection in it's Excel equivalent and drag it in order do the equivalent of a cut and paste of the selection (i.e. move the selection to a new location on the spreadsheet). Apparently I do this a lot, but hadn't really noticed how frequently until I tried OpenOffice and couldn't do it
As others have said, you can drag i OOo.
But I need to add that I can't drag nearly as well in OOo:
1. There is no way of "inserting by dragging". In Excel, I can press Shift while dragging. The dragged cells/row/columns will be inserted between the existing cells/row/columns instead of replacing them.
2. The handle for "filling by dragging" is not kept visible when a selection exceeds the visible screen area. This means that if I select a row or column with the intention of filling adjacent rows or columns, I have to navigate to the leftmost column or bottom row in the entire spreadsheet to find the fill handle.
Both of those are important to me, and I use them all the time.
#1 can be explained - it is just some nice-to-have functionality which was not implemented in OOo.
But #2? That is just wrong. I can't think up any reason for anyone to want this behaviour.
(No, I did not file bugs. Yes, I do have the right to point out these differences even though I did not file bugs.)
Now, don't get me wrong, *any* protection is obviously better than none
That is not obvious. It's even wrong.
There are several examples of protection software which actually weakened the host PC because the software added new vulnerabilities which were open for remote exploits. A quick Google search revealed these examples:
Just to clear up the confusion in some of the comments: The court did not order Tele2 to do any packet filtering. Tele2 will only have to remove piratebay.org from their DNS servers.
So no need for proxies or firewall circumvention tools this time.
You shouldn't be able to set up a music distribution studio and sell everyone else's work under your own label by making and selling copies of the mudic you bought, but your comments imply that you are demanding exactly that right.
I assume that you are referring to this comment: "As long as I'm staying within the constraints of the law and not giving copies of it to others, it's none of their business "
Yes, I think you are right. This comment obviously implies that he wants the right to create and sell copies of the music he bought.
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Exactly which crisis is averted?
I don't see how this can avert the crisis of "sites are being blocked based on decisions of a private organisation without a transparent selection process".
Your suggestion may be able to avert the crisis of "hey, someone is blocking access to illegitimate pictures". But was that the crisis which worried you the most?
I am pretty sure that the then/than mistake is mostly done by native English speakers. The rest of us have learned most English words by reading them instead of hearing them.
Whoosh
But would the extra RAM have been affordable to typical users of these programs at that time?
I remember fighting for expensive upgrades from 4 to 8 MB RAM at my workplace back in the early 90's. At that time PCs had already been able to use more than 1 MB for some years. So the problem you are referring to must have been years earlier where an upgrade from 1 to 2MB might probably have been equally expensive.
The GP explained his point in an easily understandable way. I don't know how you failed to understand it. Anyway, here it comes again in slow motion for your benefit:
In most corporate networks, clients need to connect to servers. They do not need to connect to other clients.
If you block clients' ability to connect to other clients, no functionality is lost, but infected clients can not attack other clients directly.
(I know that some companies uses IM internally, but there is nothing forcing IM solutions to be P2P.)
It certainly should be, but are you absolute sure that it is?
In Windows XP, there are several ways of changing the default browser. I have not tested them all thoroughly, but some of them are system wide and only works if I have admin privileges.
I am surprised that this has to be explained:
If you don't know where the traps are, you have to be careful everywhere.
If you know where the traps are, you only have to be careful where the traps are, and you can drive like hell everywhere else. Good for public safety, huh?
And why do they need to be more transparent? These guys gave us windows. What can be more transparent than that?
I think I know why your attemots failed.
I assume that this distro does not display Youtube videos. In my book, they qualify as content. A lot of them is even original content and not just something ripped from a DVD or a TV show.
I have used Linux since kernel 2.0. The most unpleasant part of my Linux community experience is all the posts claiming that "this is obviously not worth having". Those posts seem to pop up in any context where something is not available in Linux. Are you sure that your post is not just a variant of this knee jerk reaction?
As a non native english speaker, I had to look up the word "rut". The first definition I stumbled upon did actually imply a lot of dedication:
"an annually recurrent state of sexual excitement in the male deer"
I have thrown two cheap Logitech keyboards away after a few months for exactly this reason. I have typed on a somewhat expensive Logitech diNovo keyboard which also did this.
One might argue that this forces you to type more precisely which is probably a good thing - but I can't take it and have bought my last Logitech keyboard.
Actually, that is just the way it usually is whenever people are afraid of pedophiles taking photos:
Cell phones are forbidden while cameras are allowed.
Seems just as logical as typical airport security...
No. The next minute, THEY are told they are brother and sister. Big difference.
I think it is strange that his list don't even touch two very significant cult behaviours:
1. What they do to attract new members from the surrounding society.
2. What they do to isolate those new members from the influence from the surrounding society.
In Soviet Russia, live CDs boot YOU.
Apparently, a lot of people have trouble understanding these words from the GP:
"With Ubuntu, I can boot from a LiveCD and check any file on my hard drive."
Whoosh.
He commented on the time it takes THE ERROR to get included in Debian Stable.
Yes, but does it run C#?
/.'ers will probably not catch the musical reference anyway.)
(I don't know why I bother. Most
"Seemingly well designed"?
Windows have been a multiuser system for more than a decade (and for the last 7 years, multiuser have been the default configuration). Still Steam does not know how to keep user info separated when more than one user are using the same machine, meaning that the login dialog will use the name of the last user logged in from any account on that PC.
Perhaps this was considered good design 10 years ago. Today it is incompetent design.
Yasser Arafat was too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#Childhood.2C_education_and_personal_life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat#Education_and_1948_Arab.E2.80.93Israeli_War
"In Finland, only old people can browse unfiltered."
As others have said, you can drag i OOo.
But I need to add that I can't drag nearly as well in OOo:
1. There is no way of "inserting by dragging".
In Excel, I can press Shift while dragging. The dragged cells/row/columns will be inserted between the existing cells/row/columns instead of replacing them.
2. The handle for "filling by dragging" is not kept visible when a selection exceeds the visible screen area.
This means that if I select a row or column with the intention of filling adjacent rows or columns, I have to navigate to the leftmost column or bottom row in the entire spreadsheet to find the fill handle.
Both of those are important to me, and I use them all the time.
#1 can be explained - it is just some nice-to-have functionality which was not implemented in OOo.
But #2? That is just wrong. I can't think up any reason for anyone to want this behaviour.
(No, I did not file bugs. Yes, I do have the right to point out these differences even though I did not file bugs.)
That is not obvious. It's even wrong.
There are several examples of protection software which actually weakened the host PC because the software added new vulnerabilities which were open for remote exploits. A quick Google search revealed these examples:
Norton Anti-virus: http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=334
Clam Anti-virus: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-05-002.html
Kerio and Tiny Personal Firewall: http://www.derkeiler.com/pdf/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2003-05/0099.pdf
NOD32 Anti-virus: http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/1911
Check Point Firewall-1: http://secunia.com/advisories/10794/
Just to clear up the confusion in some of the comments:
The court did not order Tele2 to do any packet filtering. Tele2 will only have to remove piratebay.org from their DNS servers.
So no need for proxies or firewall circumvention tools this time.
I assume that you are referring to this comment:
"As long as I'm staying within the constraints of the law and not giving copies of it to others, it's none of their business "
Yes, I think you are right. This comment obviously implies that he wants the right to create and sell copies of the music he bought.