If he has nothing to hide, he has nothing to fear.
I don't like that sentence, it's too reminiscient of arguments to remove our civil rights, e.g. 4th amendment. What we should say is that with all the evidence made public so far, the public deserves a search warrant.
and her computer runs almost as slowly as it would with a nasty case of malware. She doesn't want to uninstall any of the programs, so she has the cleanest, and possibly the slowest, windows XP machine I've seen. You just can't win. *sigh*
So what if, the freely elected of Germany decides that the United States is a threat to it's national security, based on lots of threats and a massive buildup of force in the Mediterranean sea, plus stockpiles of chemical weapons. And then what if they decide to pre-emptively invade the United States to neutralize this threat?
You might laugh because neither Germany nor any other nation except maybe China has the military power to actually do anything about the U.S., but there's nothing funny about starting a war because you know the other guy doesn't like you, which is exactly what we did. "Terrorism" may not be the exact right label for it, when a government does it, I believe they call it a "war crime".
That's the point, and that's why net neutrality is important: The lack of it provides a hidden way for telcos to charge users indirectly. They're probably thinking "The big companies can afford it" but the big companies already pay zillions in bandwidth to their ISP, and therefore indirectly to the telcos.
The WRT54Gv4 is still alive and available. It's just called the WRT54GL (apparently the L stands for Linux). Linksys wanted to cut RAM costs so they switched to the VXworks firmware, which fits in half the space. Since they knew there was such a large homebrew market out there they kept the bigger version available, for a slightly higher price.
I can attest to the fact that lots of students post drinking photos, even joining groups like "I was drunk when my facebook profile photo was taken". Kent state is worried about this. While I'm guessing they're wringing their hands at such open bragging about underage drinking that sort of thing is a fact of life, from long before facebook existed.
Encryption standards can have mathematically exploitable weaknesses, either inadvertently or intentionally created. Don't believe me? Look up the kind of encryption used for WEP.
Easier said than done. If Norwegian residents can browse the internet then they can buy from the iTunes store. When two businesses in different nations decide to make a deal the laws of both nations can't both apply at once. If Apple had a server in Norway that served iTunes then perhaps they might have some legal grounds, but it seems to me like Norwegian residents should be free to enter into agreements with parties in other countries. Norway has no jurisdiction in the U.S., only in their own country. If Norway wanted to prevent its citizens from using iTMS then it could make it illegal to be a customer of them, but their goal is to protect the people not confine them.
That's where this gets complicated: it's an agreement between parties in different nations. iTMS isn't "operating there" AFAIK, the people there are essentially meeting in international waters to exchange goods/services. So if either party happened to break the contract, and sue over it, which country would you sue in? Apple would probably have to sue in Norway, Norwegian citizens probably in the U.S. That means Norwegians don't have as much recourse as they would if iTMS was stationed in Norway, and the Norwegian government isn't exactly thrilled at the thought. I say: get used to it. Such is the Internet.
Disclaimer: IANA international law expert, just somebody who has hung out on Slashdot enough to sound like one.
There's a FF extension called PDF Download that every time you click on a PDF it will give you the option of saving it, opening it in the browser, or canceling. Works on Windows and Linux, and was made exactly for that problem. Give it a try.
The first thing that popped into my head was "Spammers control the Internet". Really it's not that far from the truth, given their recent attacks on Blue Security. That's how far we've gotten when "nobody" controls the internet. Not saying that the internet should be more controlled, but just like in reality uncontrolled things eventually fall into the hands of the underworld, the people who are ruthless enough to grab it.
I remember in HS I was doctoring a screenshot in Microsoft Word to make Clippy offer to help you finish your suicide note when you typed in "Goodbye cruel world" and somebody saw and reported it to the teacher. Since I was in a good, sane school without any of that zero-tolerance bullshit it only resulted in a visit form the school counselor and a call to my parents. It didn't cause any permanent problems, heck after a few days it was just a memory of some dumb thing I did a while ago. I suppose I'm lucky, in a lot of schools I'd be suspended or expelled just for (admittedly dark) joke.
Doesn't the UK vaccinate kids for this sort of thing? The US has shown the power of childhood vaccination programs, and only a few whackos object to it because of unfounded theories that it causes Autism/Aspergers.
Google's cash flow is as fickle as the massive number of people who use it.
So far only Google has technically mastered search results and presented a simple enough interface that people want to use it. If somebody else finds a way to deliver better search results, and the slashdot crowd gets wind of it, or if Google turns (truly) evil, then it can say goodbye to it's user base and it's profit. The massive fascination with Google is a fad, not a bad fad but a fad nonetheless. Other online companies have massive userbase momentum (eBay, AIM, etc), not just mindshare.
Unlike Microsoft's WIN32 API and massive program base they don't have any real kind of lock-in. A competitor to Google is possible and likely, simply because it doesn't take as much capital to start up a competing search company and get people to use it if you do it right.
They give away the browser for free for a reason, and that isn't because they're nicer than Netscape. Microsoft stands to benifit enormously from being the only browser on the market. All the IE-only web pages that just plain won't work right under Linux or OSX help keep Microsoft's OS monopoly firmly entrenched. If HTML/Javascript/XML/etc were truly standardized then people would realize that they could use whatever operating system they wanted, and Microsoft would lose out.
I was a beta tester for that game for several years, and it was an amazing thing even then. It now supports many features that you can use for custom quests such as the Hammer and magic that the original Zelda never had. It also supports 256-color graphics, many more enemies, and much larger custom quests. There is an OSX version available, and a Linux version in the works.
My favorite quests are Mario's Insane Rampage (not safe for kids) and the Revenge series by PrinceMSC. I even made a few of my own quests, which you can find at my website. The editor has a bit of a learning curve, but is really powerful, and it feels amazing to be able to make your own world, and do almost anything you can imagine with the graphics, enemies, and puzzles.
Any user interface that makes you feel like that, beyond the normal "this is an awful lot of money" anxiety, is in need of a redesign. Unless the transaction was in fact a whole lot more complex than you explained here, it shouldn't have taken long at all. What stock trading UI is this, so I know to avoid it?
RU-486 is a drug that will induce a chemical abortion any time during the first trimester, after the fetus has already implanted in the womb. It is an abortion.
Emergency contraception, also called the "morning after pill" or "plan B", is taken withing 5 days of unprotected sex (rape, failure of contraceptives, drunken one-night-stand, etc) to prevent the fertilized egg from implanting on the uterus. This is in fact a form of contraception, albeit not one that should be used on a regular basis, because it is only partly reliable, and has rather heavy side effects from the large doses of hormones it contains.
They are not the same thing! Practically no pharmacy in the U.S. stocks RU-486 (it is supplied directly by abortion clinics), but it should be entirely reasonable to expect them to have the morning after pill. Should. Plan B is even considered safe enough for over-the-counter sale in many countries (in the U.S. it's OTC sale was blocked by the FDA solely for political reasons; after all, this is Bush's FDA we're talking about).
in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States
is where we get that.
The Onion is not trying to pretend they're endorsed by the president, and no reasonable person will think it was (there have been rare instances of people reprinting Onion articles as fact). This law leaves a lot of it up to the courts to decide what 'reasonably calculated' means, but in my opinion The Onion is certainly withing their rights, especially since the SCOTUS has traditionally found in favor of satirists.
Did these tasks involve things like opening a word document and writing in it? Or did they involve things like adding a new printer, or sharing files over a network. Oh, and what about installing? The site didn't seem to say exactly what parts of Linux they were testing.
For the former, both Windows and Linux are equally simple, because it's a simple task. For the latter type of task, Linux is substantially more complicated than Windows, but for Joe Bloggs it doesn't really matter much because they have no clue how to do it on Windows either.
What part of Linux usability is this study focusing on? Config? Desktop use? Install? All sorts of areas of linux have different strengths, and it varies greatly from distro to distro as well.
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If he has nothing to hide, he has nothing to fear.
I don't like that sentence, it's too reminiscient of arguments to remove our civil rights, e.g. 4th amendment. What we should say is that with all the evidence made public so far, the public deserves a search warrant.
Prison is just a question of choice. Some would call it sanctuary.
Mod parent +1 insightful, because I just upgraded about 25 graphics cards in low-profile Dell Optiplex workstations, and boy am I cranky.
She currently runs:
- a-squared
- xoft spy
- Ad-aware
- Windows Defender
- Symantec anti-virus corporate edition
- spybot S&D
- BigFix
and her computer runs almost as slowly as it would with a nasty case of malware. She doesn't want to uninstall any of the programs, so she has the cleanest, and possibly the slowest, windows XP machine I've seen. You just can't win. *sigh*So what if, the freely elected of Germany decides that the United States is a threat to it's national security, based on lots of threats and a massive buildup of force in the Mediterranean sea, plus stockpiles of chemical weapons. And then what if they decide to pre-emptively invade the United States to neutralize this threat?
You might laugh because neither Germany nor any other nation except maybe China has the military power to actually do anything about the U.S., but there's nothing funny about starting a war because you know the other guy doesn't like you, which is exactly what we did. "Terrorism" may not be the exact right label for it, when a government does it, I believe they call it a "war crime".
That's the point, and that's why net neutrality is important: The lack of it provides a hidden way for telcos to charge users indirectly. They're probably thinking "The big companies can afford it" but the big companies already pay zillions in bandwidth to their ISP, and therefore indirectly to the telcos.
The WRT54Gv4 is still alive and available. It's just called the WRT54GL (apparently the L stands for Linux). Linksys wanted to cut RAM costs so they switched to the VXworks firmware, which fits in half the space. Since they knew there was such a large homebrew market out there they kept the bigger version available, for a slightly higher price.
Protect the university's image
"Our students don't drink! Honest"
I can attest to the fact that lots of students post drinking photos, even joining groups like "I was drunk when my facebook profile photo was taken". Kent state is worried about this. While I'm guessing they're wringing their hands at such open bragging about underage drinking that sort of thing is a fact of life, from long before facebook existed.
Encryption standards can have mathematically exploitable weaknesses, either inadvertently or intentionally created. Don't believe me? Look up the kind of encryption used for WEP.
Easier said than done. If Norwegian residents can browse the internet then they can buy from the iTunes store. When two businesses in different nations decide to make a deal the laws of both nations can't both apply at once. If Apple had a server in Norway that served iTunes then perhaps they might have some legal grounds, but it seems to me like Norwegian residents should be free to enter into agreements with parties in other countries. Norway has no jurisdiction in the U.S., only in their own country. If Norway wanted to prevent its citizens from using iTMS then it could make it illegal to be a customer of them, but their goal is to protect the people not confine them. That's where this gets complicated: it's an agreement between parties in different nations. iTMS isn't "operating there" AFAIK, the people there are essentially meeting in international waters to exchange goods/services. So if either party happened to break the contract, and sue over it, which country would you sue in? Apple would probably have to sue in Norway, Norwegian citizens probably in the U.S. That means Norwegians don't have as much recourse as they would if iTMS was stationed in Norway, and the Norwegian government isn't exactly thrilled at the thought. I say: get used to it. Such is the Internet. Disclaimer: IANA international law expert, just somebody who has hung out on Slashdot enough to sound like one.
There's a FF extension called PDF Download that every time you click on a PDF it will give you the option of saving it, opening it in the browser, or canceling. Works on Windows and Linux, and was made exactly for that problem. Give it a try.
The first thing that popped into my head was "Spammers control the Internet". Really it's not that far from the truth, given their recent attacks on Blue Security. That's how far we've gotten when "nobody" controls the internet. Not saying that the internet should be more controlled, but just like in reality uncontrolled things eventually fall into the hands of the underworld, the people who are ruthless enough to grab it.
I remember in HS I was doctoring a screenshot in Microsoft Word to make Clippy offer to help you finish your suicide note when you typed in "Goodbye cruel world" and somebody saw and reported it to the teacher. Since I was in a good, sane school without any of that zero-tolerance bullshit it only resulted in a visit form the school counselor and a call to my parents. It didn't cause any permanent problems, heck after a few days it was just a memory of some dumb thing I did a while ago. I suppose I'm lucky, in a lot of schools I'd be suspended or expelled just for (admittedly dark) joke.
XXX beats all of those!
Doesn't the UK vaccinate kids for this sort of thing? The US has shown the power of childhood vaccination programs, and only a few whackos object to it because of unfounded theories that it causes Autism/Aspergers.
What OS did they migrate from? NetWare? SCO? FreeBSD? Windows 98? TFA says nothing about their previous platform.
So far only Google has technically mastered search results and presented a simple enough interface that people want to use it. If somebody else finds a way to deliver better search results, and the slashdot crowd gets wind of it, or if Google turns (truly) evil, then it can say goodbye to it's user base and it's profit. The massive fascination with Google is a fad, not a bad fad but a fad nonetheless. Other online companies have massive userbase momentum (eBay, AIM, etc), not just mindshare.
Unlike Microsoft's WIN32 API and massive program base they don't have any real kind of lock-in. A competitor to Google is possible and likely, simply because it doesn't take as much capital to start up a competing search company and get people to use it if you do it right.
They give away the browser for free for a reason, and that isn't because they're nicer than Netscape. Microsoft stands to benifit enormously from being the only browser on the market. All the IE-only web pages that just plain won't work right under Linux or OSX help keep Microsoft's OS monopoly firmly entrenched. If HTML/Javascript/XML/etc were truly standardized then people would realize that they could use whatever operating system they wanted, and Microsoft would lose out.
My favorite quests are Mario's Insane Rampage (not safe for kids) and the Revenge series by PrinceMSC. I even made a few of my own quests, which you can find at my website. The editor has a bit of a learning curve, but is really powerful, and it feels amazing to be able to make your own world, and do almost anything you can imagine with the graphics, enemies, and puzzles.
I like my prisons with fire escapes. Helps me avoid a firey demise.
Any user interface that makes you feel like that, beyond the normal "this is an awful lot of money" anxiety, is in need of a redesign. Unless the transaction was in fact a whole lot more complex than you explained here, it shouldn't have taken long at all. What stock trading UI is this, so I know to avoid it?
RU-486 is a drug that will induce a chemical abortion any time during the first trimester, after the fetus has already implanted in the womb. It is an abortion.
Emergency contraception, also called the "morning after pill" or "plan B", is taken withing 5 days of unprotected sex (rape, failure of contraceptives, drunken one-night-stand, etc) to prevent the fertilized egg from implanting on the uterus. This is in fact a form of contraception, albeit not one that should be used on a regular basis, because it is only partly reliable, and has rather heavy side effects from the large doses of hormones it contains.
They are not the same thing! Practically no pharmacy in the U.S. stocks RU-486 (it is supplied directly by abortion clinics), but it should be entirely reasonable to expect them to have the morning after pill. Should. Plan B is even considered safe enough for over-the-counter sale in many countries (in the U.S. it's OTC sale was blocked by the FDA solely for political reasons; after all, this is Bush's FDA we're talking about).
The Onion is not trying to pretend they're endorsed by the president, and no reasonable person will think it was (there have been rare instances of people reprinting Onion articles as fact). This law leaves a lot of it up to the courts to decide what 'reasonably calculated' means, but in my opinion The Onion is certainly withing their rights, especially since the SCOTUS has traditionally found in favor of satirists.
For the former, both Windows and Linux are equally simple, because it's a simple task. For the latter type of task, Linux is substantially more complicated than Windows, but for Joe Bloggs it doesn't really matter much because they have no clue how to do it on Windows either.
What part of Linux usability is this study focusing on? Config? Desktop use? Install? All sorts of areas of linux have different strengths, and it varies greatly from distro to distro as well.