I'm willing to agree with you! However, the original point was that this was being reported as "fact", when it was little more than analysis and speculation (albeit highly informed, highly likely speculation).
Elsewhere posters have mentioned that Sony's demographic includes folk outwith other manufacturers' demographic - namely, the conspicuously wealthy. My feeling is that Sony can easily continue selling these people plasma screens for a good while, while other manufactures sell cheaper LCD screens to those of us with more sense than money. I doubt Sony would want to piss off the rich by suggestign that plasma represents yesterday's technology.
Well, I found it funny, if that cheers you up! No mod points for me right now, but at least one mod also found it funny. I suspect the "offtopic" mods hammered you, though: -1 for off-topic (x2), +0 for funny. What a strange/. world in which we live, where hammering people when you don't get the joke works better than praising people when you do get the joke.
Auntie Beeb claims that Sony are denying reports: it sounds as though industry analysts may be describing what Sony should do, rather than reporting what Sony is doing.
I'd have to say that Netscape is also based on NCSA Mosaic: the give-away was the string "Mozaic/Netscape/Mozilla," you quoted. Microsoft licensed some code from NCSA; Netscape was made by the Mosaic people.
(I can't believe I'm having to argue that Netscape came before IE - have we really forgotten our history so quickly?)
Dude, every time I see a complaint about sites not working with Firefox, I follow the link so some webmaster somewhere will see the hit in their logs and - hopefully - learn something if they follow the link back. I just did that, and now you tell me the site works fine! How stoopid do I feel now?!
How long until...people start banging on Firefox hard enough to expose vulnerabilities?
How long until people start banging on Apache hard enough to expose vulnerabilities?
This is a tired argument: the development of IE and Firefox run at different speeds - I've upgraded Firefox several times this year alone, while there have been only two or three updates to IE6 since it was released - way back whenever that was. Firefox is exposed to many eyes, and bugs are shallow. IE is exposed to as many developers as the Microsoft marketing department feel it needs right now, and bugs are deep. Meanwhile, IIS remains a buggy POS, and isn't the World's Favourite Web Server, and Apache improves daily and - get this - is the World's Favourite Web Server by a wide margin.
and for all the uk press i.e BBC you say GTA is bad for children fuckin tell that to these kids pareants.
(UK resident; regular BBC watcher) I'm not familiar with the BBC's supposed antipathy towards GTA - care to cite? I do recall a documentary about the GTA franchise on BBC Scotland; naturally it was fairly biased, as you'd maybe expect a programme made in Scotland to be about a game largely developed in Scotland (Rock Star North are based in Edinburgh). Clearly pro-GTA bias isn't what you're meaning, so, again, examples?
PS. The BBC is not the UK press in toto. The letters you were looking for were "e.g."
But doesn't that kind of go against the whole point of a public keyserver (people not on your keyring can look up your key)????
I think the rationale is that keys "go dead" (elsewhere in this thread someone mentioned that "everyone" creates a key when they're first getting into PGP, and then forgets the passphrase. Naturally, this leads to keys of limited or zero value published on the keyservers.
...and, of course, people will still be able to look up your key - if you keep it up-to-date.
So if I'm willing to post my public key and verify every 6 months that I'm the same live email responder at the other end, then what assurance do I have that encrypted email sent to me isn't spam?
Another way of looking at it is from the "cost" of spamming - encrypting a spam "costs" the spammer, hence recent suggestions for charging mail-senders in CPU-cycles. Additionally, you'd be able to verify whether you held the spammer's public key on your keyring, and very easily "process" (ie. delete with extreme prejudice) encrypted emails from unknown senders.
Won't a database of verified emails be, y'know, abusable?
I've wondered about this in the past, but - and naturally I don't have a link to hand;) - apparently key-lists haven't - to date - been abused by spammers. My guess would be that spammers see users of PGP/GPG as (a) technically advanced, and hence more likely to have spam-filters/spam-retaliation protocols in place, and (b) likely to only use published emails for encryption. Either that or PGP/GPG whooshed passed spammers' heads with no comprehension occuring: "Can I make money off this JeepyGee thingee? No? Forget it, then."
Open source finding its ways into (technologically) underdeveloped countries
It's not just devloping countries that benefit from Linux+i18n - IIRC, MS products aren't available in Welsh yet, either, and Wales has bilingual laws: this should mean that OOo will more easily make inroads in Wales than MS Office, which in turn should lead to improved adoption throughout the UK. I'd also guess that Scotland, say, would prefer applications that meet local language needs: my local council, Glasgow, already needs to publish literature in numerous languages - Urdu, for example, as well as the obvious (English, Gaelic).
Easiest - and I use that term reluctantly! - way to encrypt emails with Thunderbird is using enigmail. There's a fair few dependencies to be resolved, IIRC: GPG, and one or two others. Good luck!
OK, Canada at 51 I can accept, but Afghanistan at 52? Shurely shome mishtake! Where's the UK? Or does Mr Blair's toadying count for nothing, even in the US?
I read that as a comment on Christopher Lee's absence from the vanilla ROTK and figured he'd appear in ROTK:EE as a composite of Sauron and Saruman... but I've not had enough coffee today.;)
Yet the government keep awarding them [EDS] contracts. Why?
I don't know, but I do recall an article about IBM refusing to tender for UK.gov contracts: apparently it was too costly, and too risky - you could spend millions only to not get the tender, and IBM felt that the chance of getting the tender awarded to IBM was too small. So... I'd suggest either it's too costly to play so players are dropping out (the reasonably answer), or someone in government really loves EDS, and IBM know it (the tinfoil hat answer).
Seriously... I realize that Mini's are big in the UK, and -well... I didn't realize that you Brits were big Herbie fans, but whatever. If nothing else, I find it funny putting the Herbie movies on the same level as the Italian Job.
I think, for the sake of British pride, I need to say that my tongue was - slightly - in cheek when I said that. Beetles are cool - but comparing the Italian Job to Herbie Goes Bananas? Yeah, I'm sorry. Bad mistake;)
It looks like some bastard offspring of a VW Beetle, and a British Mini.
Dude, you know that here in Britain Minis and Beetles are the epitome of cool? I mean, haven't you seen the (original) Italian Job, or any of Disney's "Herbie" films? For shame!
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I'm willing to agree with you! However, the original point was that this was being reported as "fact", when it was little more than analysis and speculation (albeit highly informed, highly likely speculation).
Elsewhere posters have mentioned that Sony's demographic includes folk outwith other manufacturers' demographic - namely, the conspicuously wealthy. My feeling is that Sony can easily continue selling these people plasma screens for a good while, while other manufactures sell cheaper LCD screens to those of us with more sense than money. I doubt Sony would want to piss off the rich by suggestign that plasma represents yesterday's technology.
Well, I found it funny, if that cheers you up! No mod points for me right now, but at least one mod also found it funny. I suspect the "offtopic" mods hammered you, though: -1 for off-topic (x2), +0 for funny. What a strange /. world in which we live, where hammering people when you don't get the joke works better than praising people when you do get the joke.
Auntie Beeb claims that Sony are denying reports: it sounds as though industry analysts may be describing what Sony should do, rather than reporting what Sony is doing.
Damn, you're right. Worse, my possible solution redirects to www.google.co.uk/firefox.
I'd have to say that Netscape is also based on NCSA Mosaic: the give-away was the string "Mozaic/Netscape/Mozilla," you quoted. Microsoft licensed some code from NCSA; Netscape was made by the Mosaic people.
(I can't believe I'm having to argue that Netscape came before IE - have we really forgotten our history so quickly?)
Netscape Navigator, also known simply as "Netscape", was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation. The company was founded by developers who had written the Mosaic web browser at NCSA, and they initially named their new company "Mosaic Communications Corporation" and the web browser "Mosaic Netscape", but a legal challenge from NCSA over the rights to the name resulted in the company and the product being renamed.
Dude, every time I see a complaint about sites not working with Firefox, I follow the link so some webmaster somewhere will see the hit in their logs and - hopefully - learn something if they follow the link back. I just did that, and now you tell me the site works fine! How stoopid do I feel now?!
How long until...people start banging on Firefox hard enough to expose vulnerabilities?
How long until people start banging on Apache hard enough to expose vulnerabilities?
This is a tired argument: the development of IE and Firefox run at different speeds - I've upgraded Firefox several times this year alone, while there have been only two or three updates to IE6 since it was released - way back whenever that was. Firefox is exposed to many eyes, and bugs are shallow. IE is exposed to as many developers as the Microsoft marketing department feel it needs right now, and bugs are deep. Meanwhile, IIS remains a buggy POS, and isn't the World's Favourite Web Server, and Apache improves daily and - get this - is the World's Favourite Web Server by a wide margin.
Next, we'll be reading about studies showing that two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom form a clear, wet substance.
I think you meant: An extremely dangerous clear, wet substance.
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and for all the uk press i.e BBC you say GTA is bad for children fuckin tell that to these kids pareants.
(UK resident; regular BBC watcher) I'm not familiar with the BBC's supposed antipathy towards GTA - care to cite? I do recall a documentary about the GTA franchise on BBC Scotland; naturally it was fairly biased, as you'd maybe expect a programme made in Scotland to be about a game largely developed in Scotland (Rock Star North are based in Edinburgh). Clearly pro-GTA bias isn't what you're meaning, so, again, examples?
PS. The BBC is not the UK press in toto. The letters you were looking for were "e.g."
But doesn't that kind of go against the whole point of a public keyserver (people not on your keyring can look up your key)????
I think the rationale is that keys "go dead" (elsewhere in this thread someone mentioned that "everyone" creates a key when they're first getting into PGP, and then forgets the passphrase. Naturally, this leads to keys of limited or zero value published on the keyservers.
...and, of course, people will still be able to look up your key - if you keep it up-to-date.
So if I'm willing to post my public key and verify every 6 months that I'm the same live email responder at the other end, then what assurance do I have that encrypted email sent to me isn't spam?
Another way of looking at it is from the "cost" of spamming - encrypting a spam "costs" the spammer, hence recent suggestions for charging mail-senders in CPU-cycles. Additionally, you'd be able to verify whether you held the spammer's public key on your keyring, and very easily "process" (ie. delete with extreme prejudice) encrypted emails from unknown senders.
IIRC (I read TFA, what, like, over 15 minutes ago!) this new key-server deprecates keys that haven't been updated in the past year.
I realize that the chances of a judge buying this [suspected encrypted data is "really" random garbage] is going to be small
Not if you can prove that you frequently send out random, garbage, data. It'll have the nice side-effect of making traffic analysis harder, too.
...but you didn't hear that from me, right?!
Won't a database of verified emails be, y'know, abusable?
I've wondered about this in the past, but - and naturally I don't have a link to hand ;) - apparently key-lists haven't - to date - been abused by spammers. My guess would be that spammers see users of PGP/GPG as (a) technically advanced, and hence more likely to have spam-filters/spam-retaliation protocols in place, and (b) likely to only use published emails for encryption. Either that or PGP/GPG whooshed passed spammers' heads with no comprehension occuring: "Can I make money off this JeepyGee thingee? No? Forget it, then."
Bah! They just did that to annoy Alan Cox! ;)
<tinfoil-hat mode="on">Or because the Welsh Assembly pointed out how difficult it would be to remain Microsoft purchasers in Cardiff...</tinfoil-hat>
Open source finding its ways into (technologically) underdeveloped countries
It's not just devloping countries that benefit from Linux+i18n - IIRC, MS products aren't available in Welsh yet, either, and Wales has bilingual laws: this should mean that OOo will more easily make inroads in Wales than MS Office, which in turn should lead to improved adoption throughout the UK. I'd also guess that Scotland, say, would prefer applications that meet local language needs: my local council, Glasgow, already needs to publish literature in numerous languages - Urdu, for example, as well as the obvious (English, Gaelic).
Easiest - and I use that term reluctantly! - way to encrypt emails with Thunderbird is using enigmail. There's a fair few dependencies to be resolved, IIRC: GPG, and one or two others. Good luck!
OK, Canada at 51 I can accept, but Afghanistan at 52? Shurely shome mishtake! Where's the UK? Or does Mr Blair's toadying count for nothing, even in the US?
Is there any way I can persuade it do display them in either D/M/Y...?
My TBird does it "by default", which probably means I set it circa v0.3 and it's been the same ever since! However, this looks like what you're after.
Not particularly silly (especially if you're a Welsh speaker), but certainly long: http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyl l-llantysiliogogogoch.com/
Oh alright, it is silly.
Apparently even the place-name was made-up - in the 19th Century, to attract tourists on the new-fangled railways.
I read that as a comment on Christopher Lee's absence from the vanilla ROTK and figured he'd appear in ROTK:EE as a composite of Sauron and Saruman... but I've not had enough coffee today. ;)
Yet the government keep awarding them [EDS] contracts. Why?
I don't know, but I do recall an article about IBM refusing to tender for UK.gov contracts: apparently it was too costly, and too risky - you could spend millions only to not get the tender, and IBM felt that the chance of getting the tender awarded to IBM was too small. So... I'd suggest either it's too costly to play so players are dropping out (the reasonably answer), or someone in government really loves EDS, and IBM know it (the tinfoil hat answer).
Living in the UK, I'm minded to go for option 2.
Seriously... I realize that Mini's are big in the UK, and -well... I didn't realize that you Brits were big Herbie fans, but whatever. If nothing else, I find it funny putting the Herbie movies on the same level as the Italian Job.
I think, for the sake of British pride, I need to say that my tongue was - slightly - in cheek when I said that. Beetles are cool - but comparing the Italian Job to Herbie Goes Bananas? Yeah, I'm sorry. Bad mistake ;)
It looks like some bastard offspring of a VW Beetle, and a British Mini.
Dude, you know that here in Britain Minis and Beetles are the epitome of cool? I mean, haven't you seen the (original) Italian Job, or any of Disney's "Herbie" films? For shame!
The rest of the world calls it Opel.
...except Australasia, where we call it Holden. Go figure!