Riverworld was neither a miniseries or produced by the SciFi channel. It was originally intended as a theatrical film, but when the studio realized how much it sucked, they sold it to SciFi. The channel has no shame about calling things "an original production" -- they've used the term for stuff that originally aired on Canadian TV.
Casual users don't have to worry about trunks, branches, or stable versions -- Mozilla.org hides that stuff pretty deep so that only developers and interested geeks can find it.
Currently Mozilla.org has five programs available on their main page. Four of those -- Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, and Mozilla 1.7b -- are clearly marked as "technology previews" -- i.e., developmental software that's being released to help get the bugs worked out. Mozilla 1.6 is the program casual users will want, and, except when there's news to report, it's always at the top of the page.
AFAIK (and the last announcement I saw was after.8 came out) the plan is to start merging Firefox and Mozilla after.9. I assume TB will be merged whenever it catches up.
Speak for yourself. If it weren't for the damned memory leak, I could keep Firefox running for weeks at a time, as opposed to Firebird which crashed at least once a day.
Maybe currently privacy is not of that much concern as there are reasonably laws for that.. but they are being taken away from us.
If you consider that you wouldn't have privacy at all.. it becomes much more scary.
I've read the book 'database nation' by ralph nader.. it's very good.
You know, you aren't helping the case for privacy here. Most people see you ranting about the Coming Tyrrany and immediately write off everything you have to say. (Mentioning Nader doesn't help either.) If you want to advance the cause of privacy and encryption, shut up and leave it to those of us who don't have tin-foil hats.
I think Gmail is going to be great. It completely blows any other free email service out of the water. So what if privacy is in question? Nobody is forcing anyone to use it.
In this context "use" doesn't simply mean "have an account" but also "correspond with anyone who has an account." The only way not to use Gmail will be to blacklist the entire domain, which probably isn't going to be desirable.
No, the solution is for those of us concerned with privacy to tell Gmail users to use PGP/GPG encryption -- not signing, but full encryption.
Let's say, for example, that you want to click a value-added page positioner (which Joe User might call a "link"). That VAPP (value-added page positioner) goes to one of my interstitial ads, which could be images, Flash, or even text! After you're forced to stare at and click the link to continue, you get a requested pop-up window (you know, like the ones you don't block) with advertising content.
Okay, so to get around this I'd need a proxy that (1) identifies the interstitial ad (2) downloads it but doesn't pass it on to my browser, (3) returns a response to your server as though I clicked on the link, (4) downloads the page I want to look at and displays it on my browser but (5) blocks the pop-up.
I've been thinking of creating some sort of virtual post-it that I can stick over the annoying animations.
If you're using Firefox, try Nuke Anything -- just right-click on the offending object, select "Remove This Object" and it disappears. Also very useful when dealing with badly designed pages where images and tables overlap the text.
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If not for burning, hydrocarbons are still very useful for making plastics and a host of other chemicals.
I suspect we'll genetically engineer organisms that produce hydrocarbons long before it becomes cheap enough to import it from off-planet.
Perhaps we will find that useful when we have more advanced spacecrafts (that doesn't depend on fossil fuels)?
And just exactly how do modern spacecraft depend on fossil fuels?
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Oil reserves may be exhausted by 2050. But if they are correct about the composition of Titan's atmosphere, then thats probably the place to focus on.
Dude, do you have any idea what you're talking about? If we could import oil from the outer solar system at anything resembling a reasonable price, we wouldn't need oil.
No, the poor are not getting poorer. They aren't getting richer as fast as the upper and middle classes. There's a difference.
NB1: By "poor" we're talking about the class not the individuals. Though the average income for the poor has only increased 9% over the last 20 years, that doesn't necessarily mean that someone who was poor 20 years ago is only earning 9% more today.
NB2: By "richer" we're only talking about monetary income, not the actual value of the money. There are middle-class people in some parts of the world who would envy the lifestyle of the American poor. (Of course, there're some evil mothers who'll tell you that the fact that even people on welfare in the US can afford TVs and cars is a bad thing -- see, such things are just a way to keep them sated and distracted from the inequities of society. Or something.)
I know this because none of the people I know from my parents generation ever lost a job. Most worked at the same company, practically at the same DESK for eons compared to today.
If they worked at a desk, that would make them white-collar, now wouldn't it? And I specifically mentioned that this phenomenon was new to white-collar workers. But companies, even in this mythic past you believe in, had no compunction about screwing over blue-collar workers. If they couldn't export the jobs -- and they did that prior to the '80s -- they'd import the workers, hire strikebreakers, crush nascent unions -- and those were companies that played nice.
We're heading toward a world where a few rich and powerful people manipulate the world's governments for their own benefit, while the majority of the worlds population is left out in the cold.
And if we don't do something about overpopulation, there will be a global famine by 2000! There'll be 10 billion dead!
That's funny. They used to. People in my parents' generation had jobs for decades. It was never even suggested that they would be laid off and outsourced. Of course, this was back when the boss actually gave a shit about something other than stuffing their pockets.
And when exactly was this magic Golden Age? The 50s? 60s? 70s? If you think companies were any less rapacious back then, you need to read some history books. The only thing that's changed is that there are enough college educated folks outside the US and Europe that companies can treat white-collar workers the same as they've been doing to blue-collars.
The problem arises in the fact that good paying jobs are leaving the country. Not that everyoen doesn't deserve a good wage. But the fact is the haves are taking decent paying jobs away from the have nots.
But if it's the "good paying jobs" that are going overseas and not joejobs in steel mills, wouldn't it be the case that the Haves are taking jobs away from other Haves. Or are you using "Haves" as a codeword for "Capitalist American pig-dogs'?
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Those are nice caveats, but they hardly alter the fact that people posting to Usenet do use Windows, contrary to your prior assertion. And if it's over 25% on a Linux group, then it's going to be even higher in non-techy forums. Hell, in the groups I read, there are dozens of people using AOL accounts -- and these are Big 8 groups, not alt.* groups filled with newbies who don't know how to quote.
Doesn't this idea bother you... or any other/. reader?
Absolutely not. I just hope an RFID tracker can be integrated into my car's GPS system. There's nothing so annoying as going into the city on a Saturday night and having some homeless guy running up to demand $5 for "finding" me a parking space, and another $5 for watching my car. This'll offer a great way to avoid them. Or run them down. Yeah, that's Bush's other proposal -- a $100 bounty on every homeless person you run over.
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I think Phoenix was always supposed to be an internal codename like Whistler or Longhorn.
No, the codenames are listed on the roadmap. They're all towns (LA suburbs I think) -- Pescadero, One Tree Hill, Royal Oak.
Riverworld was neither a miniseries or produced by the SciFi channel. It was originally intended as a theatrical film, but when the studio realized how much it sucked, they sold it to SciFi. The channel has no shame about calling things "an original production" -- they've used the term for stuff that originally aired on Canadian TV.
Casual users don't have to worry about trunks, branches, or stable versions -- Mozilla.org hides that stuff pretty deep so that only developers and interested geeks can find it.
Currently Mozilla.org has five programs available on their main page. Four of those -- Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, and Mozilla 1.7b -- are clearly marked as "technology previews" -- i.e., developmental software that's being released to help get the bugs worked out. Mozilla 1.6 is the program casual users will want, and, except when there's news to report, it's always at the top of the page.
AFAIK (and the last announcement I saw was after .8 came out) the plan is to start merging Firefox and Mozilla after .9. I assume TB will be merged whenever it catches up.
Speak for yourself. If it weren't for the damned memory leak, I could keep Firefox running for weeks at a time, as opposed to Firebird which crashed at least once a day.
A) Google says they want Gmail to eventually support POP3.
B)You can encrypt text even if it's not in a mail client.
Maybe currently privacy is not of that much concern as there are reasonably laws for that.. but they are being taken away from us. If you consider that you wouldn't have privacy at all.. it becomes much more scary. I've read the book 'database nation' by ralph nader.. it's very good.
You know, you aren't helping the case for privacy here. Most people see you ranting about the Coming Tyrrany and immediately write off everything you have to say. (Mentioning Nader doesn't help either.) If you want to advance the cause of privacy and encryption, shut up and leave it to those of us who don't have tin-foil hats.
If you're so big on encryption, why didn't you encrypt your post to Slashdot? Practice what you preach, or don't bother preaching.
Well if you're so big on closing curtains when you have sex with your significant other, why don't you wear a shroud whenever you go out in public?
Learn the difference between private and public.
I think Gmail is going to be great. It completely blows any other free email service out of the water. So what if privacy is in question? Nobody is forcing anyone to use it.
In this context "use" doesn't simply mean "have an account" but also "correspond with anyone who has an account." The only way not to use Gmail will be to blacklist the entire domain, which probably isn't going to be desirable.
No, the solution is for those of us concerned with privacy to tell Gmail users to use PGP/GPG encryption -- not signing, but full encryption.
Let's say, for example, that you want to click a value-added page positioner (which Joe User might call a "link"). That VAPP (value-added page positioner) goes to one of my interstitial ads, which could be images, Flash, or even text! After you're forced to stare at and click the link to continue, you get a requested pop-up window (you know, like the ones you don't block) with advertising content.
Okay, so to get around this I'd need a proxy that (1) identifies the interstitial ad (2) downloads it but doesn't pass it on to my browser, (3) returns a response to your server as though I clicked on the link, (4) downloads the page I want to look at and displays it on my browser but (5) blocks the pop-up.
I've been thinking of creating some sort of virtual post-it that I can stick over the annoying animations.
If you're using Firefox, try Nuke Anything -- just right-click on the offending object, select "Remove This Object" and it disappears. Also very useful when dealing with badly designed pages where images and tables overlap the text.
If not for burning, hydrocarbons are still very useful for making plastics and a host of other chemicals.
I suspect we'll genetically engineer organisms that produce hydrocarbons long before it becomes cheap enough to import it from off-planet.
Perhaps we will find that useful when we have more advanced spacecrafts (that doesn't depend on fossil fuels)?
And just exactly how do modern spacecraft depend on fossil fuels?
Oil reserves may be exhausted by 2050. But if they are correct about the composition of Titan's atmosphere, then thats probably the place to focus on.
Dude, do you have any idea what you're talking about? If we could import oil from the outer solar system at anything resembling a reasonable price, we wouldn't need oil.
No, the poor are not getting poorer. They aren't getting richer as fast as the upper and middle classes. There's a difference.
NB1: By "poor" we're talking about the class not the individuals. Though the average income for the poor has only increased 9% over the last 20 years, that doesn't necessarily mean that someone who was poor 20 years ago is only earning 9% more today.
NB2: By "richer" we're only talking about monetary income, not the actual value of the money. There are middle-class people in some parts of the world who would envy the lifestyle of the American poor. (Of course, there're some evil mothers who'll tell you that the fact that even people on welfare in the US can afford TVs and cars is a bad thing -- see, such things are just a way to keep them sated and distracted from the inequities of society. Or something.)
I know this because none of the people I know from my parents generation ever lost a job. Most worked at the same company, practically at the same DESK for eons compared to today.
If they worked at a desk, that would make them white-collar, now wouldn't it? And I specifically mentioned that this phenomenon was new to white-collar workers. But companies, even in this mythic past you believe in, had no compunction about screwing over blue-collar workers. If they couldn't export the jobs -- and they did that prior to the '80s -- they'd import the workers, hire strikebreakers, crush nascent unions -- and those were companies that played nice.
Or are you going to tell me that the sort of folks who had Cesar Chavez and his followers beaten did so because they cared about the workers?
I don't know ANYBODY today who has been gainfully employed without a layoff for more than about 18 months,
Your friends and acquaintances aren't a representative sample.
We're heading toward a world where a few rich and powerful people manipulate the world's governments for their own benefit, while the majority of the worlds population is left out in the cold.
And if we don't do something about overpopulation, there will be a global famine by 2000! There'll be 10 billion dead!
Oh, sorry, wrong prediction-people-have-been-making- for-decades-even-though-it-never-comes-true.
That's funny. They used to. People in my parents' generation had jobs for decades. It was never even suggested that they would be laid off and outsourced. Of course, this was back when the boss actually gave a shit about something other than stuffing their pockets.
And when exactly was this magic Golden Age? The 50s? 60s? 70s? If you think companies were any less rapacious back then, you need to read some history books. The only thing that's changed is that there are enough college educated folks outside the US and Europe that companies can treat white-collar workers the same as they've been doing to blue-collars.
The problem arises in the fact that good paying jobs are leaving the country. Not that everyoen doesn't deserve a good wage. But the fact is the haves are taking decent paying jobs away from the have nots.
But if it's the "good paying jobs" that are going overseas and not joejobs in steel mills, wouldn't it be the case that the Haves are taking jobs away from other Haves. Or are you using "Haves" as a codeword for "Capitalist American pig-dogs'?
Those are nice caveats, but they hardly alter the fact that people posting to Usenet do use Windows, contrary to your prior assertion. And if it's over 25% on a Linux group, then it's going to be even higher in non-techy forums. Hell, in the groups I read, there are dozens of people using AOL accounts -- and these are Big 8 groups, not alt.* groups filled with newbies who don't know how to quote.
Doesn't this idea bother you... or any other /. reader?
Absolutely not. I just hope an RFID tracker can be integrated into my car's GPS system. There's nothing so annoying as going into the city on a Saturday night and having some homeless guy running up to demand $5 for "finding" me a parking space, and another $5 for watching my car. This'll offer a great way to avoid them. Or run them down. Yeah, that's Bush's other proposal -- a $100 bounty on every homeless person you run over.
Am I missing something?
Nope. Nothing. Not a thing. No way, no how.
Please tell me this is a joke!
No, it's absolutely true. Polling shows it'll play well in the midwest.
In the words of Red Foreman, "Don't be such a dumbass."
You know, dude, I don't think "paranoid" is the right word for it.
How long do you think the Slashdot editors spend thinking up these stories? Or do they accept submissions?
FACT: A quarter of all posters to alt.os.linux.suse use Outlook.
Google works well enough with a 20+ year Usenet archive, which, apart from the distribution protocols, isn't significantly different from email.