Actually these licenses are an huge improvement. BEfore GFDL arrived nearly every software product had a different licence. And not two were compatible.
A journey through the minds of undecided voters. For months -- through the Swift Boat ads, the convention speeches, the debates -- we tracked a few of these voters to find out why they just can't make up their minds. Plus, a story of someone courting undecided voters, and another about people trying to sabotage undecided voters (and everyone else).
Prologue.
Host Ira Glass asks how it's possible that some people still don't know what they think of President Bush just a few days before election day.
Act One. My Buddy, Hackett.
Ira spends hours talking to James Hackett, known to his friends, and by the end of the story, to Ira, as Gig. He's a doctor in Cincinnati and a lifelong Republican. But he hates President Bush. Pretty much hates everything he's done since taking office. Over several months, he sways from Kerry to Bush and back again, sometimes with Ira's help, before coming to a final decision -- one that probably surprises even him.
I was exited when I saw the Eee-PC first. With a large install base of the same hardware base Asus could have built a new iPod revolution and break with the limitations of conventional operating systems because it was made-to-measure.
But after a few month Asus blew it. At the CeBit they presented the Eee-PC with an unusable Windows XP configurations and a lot of extenions that did not or did not fully support Linux. Today there are hald a dozen Eee-PCs and I guess a hundret other netbooks with different screen sizes, hard drives, chipsets.
The privacy mode was included in some alphas of Firefox 3.0. The developers decided to postpone this feature because the release of 3.0 was already delayed.
In a supermarket nearby I have found some of these new self service scales.
It takes between 5 and 10 seconds to get a result. And it is more like a lucky guess. In half of the cases the scale cannot identify anything and I have to use the touchscreen. In 30 to 40 percent of cases the computer gives me a choice of three or four vegetables.
Your statements might have been nearly true some years ago, but the world is not as simple anymore.
If the informed user does not run software that is exploited, he does not run any software at all. There are always some bugs that are actively used to compromise systems. You acknowledge the gap between the time a exploit is found and the patch being made. But you seem to believe that every vulnerability is at once public knowledge.
AV software is not only to protect systems from being compromised, the identify compromised systems.
# 22:51, 9 May 2008 Brianmc (Talk | contribs) deleted "Child pornography scandal erupts on Wikipedia; FBI to investigate" (content was: '#REDIRECT Wikinews:Story preparation/Child pornography scandal erupts on Wikipedia; FBI to investigate' (and the only contributor was 'DragonFire1024'))
# 22:33, 9 May 2008 Brianmc (Talk | contribs) deleted "Wikinews:Story preparation/Child pornography scandal erupts on Wikipedia; FBI to investigate" (Factually incorrect, Valleywag is not credible)
So it seems the article was not deleted by the Wikimedia Foundation but by an Wikinews admin.
I saw Windows XP on Eee PC at the Cebit. It was pretty awful: a standard desktop OS on an 480x800 screen. When you opened the Internet explorer 40 percent of the screen was filled with the GUI and the toolbars. As a matter of fact XP cannot run properly on a screen that does not provide 600x800 because some dialog boxes are bigger than that.
If Windows should be an alternative for these PC they have to change XP. Are they willing to put a reasonable amount of development ressources in an out-of-date OS?
I think the point is another one. Privacy is never perfect - we have to find a compromise.
Even if someone pees in an public place, you shouldn't put a picture of his penis on 500 different web sites.
With the EeePC Microsoft got a deal. ASUS ships the EeePC with Microsoft Windows XP and with Linux. But Linux users won't get the EeePC cheaper - the have to buy a bundle with another memory card. So both varieties of the EeePC cost the same.
I don't think the article I mentioned is the best or most relevant report on that topic, but it is interesting to test the threshold of privacy.
In fact it is very easy to connect information about a person with the picture from Google street map. E.g. in Germany you need to provide proper contact information on professional web site, including postal addresses. Install the right Firefox Plugin and you could see the picture of the house in Google maps.
While Google has defended the project, the internet company baulked when The Weekend Australian requested the personal details and addresses of the group's key figures to allow the paper's photographers to take pictures of their homes. "Providing those details would be completely inappropriate," said Google spokesman Rob Shilkin.
The Mozilla Foundation has the money, bit I like the KDE applications better. Kmail beats Thunderbird by far - and the rest of the kde-pim applications are pretty well developed.
Could the Mozilla Foundation join forces with KDE? there are many, many challenges. For example there is an urgend need for an appication that synchronizes with your online calendar and your cell phone. KDE applications could use somthing like Linkification and severals other Mozilla addons, Mozilla needs help in evrythin which is not a browser.
Did I disappoint you or let you down? Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown? 'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun, Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
[...]
Goodbye my lover. Goodbye my friend. You have been the one. You have been the one for me.
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You are right.
Actually these licenses are an huge improvement. BEfore GFDL arrived nearly every software product had a different licence. And not two were compatible.
Hear this:
A journey through the minds of undecided voters. For months -- through the Swift Boat ads, the convention speeches, the debates -- we tracked a few of these voters to find out why they just can't make up their minds. Plus, a story of someone courting undecided voters, and another about people trying to sabotage undecided voters (and everyone else).
Prologue.
Host Ira Glass asks how it's possible that some people still don't know what they think of President Bush just a few days before election day. Act One. My Buddy, Hackett. Ira spends hours talking to James Hackett, known to his friends, and by the end of the story, to Ira, as Gig. He's a doctor in Cincinnati and a lifelong Republican. But he hates President Bush. Pretty much hates everything he's done since taking office. Over several months, he sways from Kerry to Bush and back again, sometimes with Ira's help, before coming to a final decision -- one that probably surprises even him.
Thx, buty knowledge of the english language is not as bad as it might seem. I typed too fast and hit "submit" instead of "preview".
I was exited when I saw the Eee-PC first. With a large install base of the same hardware base Asus could have built a new iPod revolution and break with the limitations of conventional operating systems because it was made-to-measure. But after a few month Asus blew it. At the CeBit they presented the Eee-PC with an unusable Windows XP configurations and a lot of extenions that did not or did not fully support Linux. Today there are hald a dozen Eee-PCs and I guess a hundret other netbooks with different screen sizes, hard drives, chipsets.
The privacy mode was included in some alphas of Firefox 3.0. The developers decided to postpone this feature because the release of 3.0 was already delayed.
Stephen Goldin's 23 rules how to act when you meet a pro at an Sci-Fi convention. Not as amusing as Heinlein's, but an interesting read.
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In a supermarket nearby I have found some of these new self service scales.
It takes between 5 and 10 seconds to get a result. And it is more like a lucky guess. In half of the cases the scale cannot identify anything and I have to use the touchscreen. In 30 to 40 percent of cases the computer gives me a choice of three or four vegetables.
Your statements might have been nearly true some years ago, but the world is not as simple anymore.
If the informed user does not run software that is exploited, he does not run any software at all. There are always some bugs that are actively used to compromise systems. You acknowledge the gap between the time a exploit is found and the patch being made. But you seem to believe that every vulnerability is at once public knowledge.
AV software is not only to protect systems from being compromised, the identify compromised systems.
The Wikinews discussion about the story is here.
Wikipedia Signpost has another take on the porno conflict.
Where can you see that the articles were actually deleted by the Wikimedia Foundation and not by the Wikinews community?
I saw Windows XP on Eee PC at the Cebit. It was pretty awful: a standard desktop OS on an 480x800 screen. When you opened the Internet explorer 40 percent of the screen was filled with the GUI and the toolbars. As a matter of fact XP cannot run properly on a screen that does not provide 600x800 because some dialog boxes are bigger than that. If Windows should be an alternative for these PC they have to change XP. Are they willing to put a reasonable amount of development ressources in an out-of-date OS?
The same thing happened in Germany last week. Pro7Sat1 did send an anti recording signal and many users of DVR could not see a thing.
According to company which runs the satellite signal, it was just an technical error.
I don't think the deal is referring Australia only. It's Europe, America, Australia, perhaps even Asia.
I think the point is another one. Privacy is never perfect - we have to find a compromise. Even if someone pees in an public place, you shouldn't put a picture of his penis on 500 different web sites.
With the EeePC Microsoft got a deal. ASUS ships the EeePC with Microsoft Windows XP and with Linux. But Linux users won't get the EeePC cheaper - the have to buy a bundle with another memory card. So both varieties of the EeePC cost the same.
What does this mean? Privacy is an illusion? Should we dismiss this old fashioned concept?
I don't think the article I mentioned is the best or most relevant report on that topic, but it is interesting to test the threshold of privacy. In fact it is very easy to connect information about a person with the picture from Google street map. E.g. in Germany you need to provide proper contact information on professional web site, including postal addresses. Install the right Firefox Plugin and you could see the picture of the house in Google maps.
...a hardware solution even Windows Vista can't slow down.
Schily
If the asteroid hits Earth 2036, we do not have to deal with the end of time as we know it.
The Mozilla Foundation has the money, bit I like the KDE applications better. Kmail beats Thunderbird by far - and the rest of the kde-pim applications are pretty well developed. Could the Mozilla Foundation join forces with KDE? there are many, many challenges. For example there is an urgend need for an appication that synchronizes with your online calendar and your cell phone. KDE applications could use somthing like Linkification and severals other Mozilla addons, Mozilla needs help in evrythin which is not a browser.
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
[...]
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.