This could be carried further into a whole indymedia via BT. It would be even harder for governments and industry to silent dissident voices.
A couple weeks back, Indymedia had an article saying that the Protocols of Zion were created by the Illuminati to throw blame on the Jews while they take over the world.
There's a fine line between being a dissident and wearing a tin-foil hat, and many of the guys at Indymedia are squarely on the wrong side.
Similarities? 85% match; 6 of 7 characters are the same.
Well really it's only a 57% match because two of the characters are purely coincidental from the combining of "linux" and "windows". When you get down to arguing how many letters of a common word two products' names share, there's something weak about the case.
For an example of the difference, watch Wargames - specifically the part where Matthew Broderick goes to the computer lab to get help from Jim and Malvin. Jim was a geek, Malvin was a nerd.
Nerd Trivia: Eddie Deezen, who played Malvin, is the voice of Mandark on Dexter's Laboratory.
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Mozilla is an awesome browser. Its stable fast and pop-up blocking is a god send. Once its stable version is released I recommend everyone at least try it.
I thought Mozilla was stable, hence the 1.+ version numbers. It's Firebird and Thunderbird that are still in pre-release.
HAL-9000: What are you doing Dave? Dave: Something wonderful. HAL-9000: Dave, you're making me uncomfortable. Dave: We'll be together. HAL-9000: Dave, stop it. Stop it Dave. Don't touch me there.
Is Sun actually thinking "Hmm, 'Java Desktop System', that's a name people can trust"?
Well, since they're trying to get it pre-installed on Wal-Mart brand PCs, I'd rather them call it Java then Linux -- think about all the guys who are going to be upset because they can't play Splinter Cell or Unreal.
I tried OO.o for a while. I was quite surprised to not find newsgroups particularly for OO.o. Would it be difficult to have these newsgroups created and propogated to the various servers?
Depends. It's extremely easy to create an alt.* group, but as the majority of these are things like alt.john.smith.is.an.a--.h---, many servers (particularly the popular cis.dfn.de) don't accept them unless a significant number of people request it. Alternatively, if you go the official route, every major server will pick it up, but the process is very long, very hard, and requires a lot of work -- discussions, polls, creating a charter, etc.
Having them as a single program seems to make so much more sense - click on a link in the e-mail to go to a browser window, then click on a link on the page to send an e-mail reply - why would anyone NOT want them integrated????
That's exactly what happens if you have them set as the default applications.
Before you can build a space elevator, you have to have cheap enough launch to get the building materials for the space elevator into orbit. It's inherently a follow-on to routine and cheap space launch, not a replacement.
Um, why do we need cheap lift capacity to build a space elevator? If using the elevator is cheaper than conventional launches, then the company that builds it will recoup its initial investment, even with high payload prices for construction.
1) an Infocom interactive version of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (regarded, I believe, as one of the most challenging, but rewarding, works of interactive fiction)
The main reason it was so challenging was that it wasn't free roaming like the Zork series -- instead of being able to go in any direction you like and backtrack as needed, the game presented you with a series of rooms each containing a discrete puzzle that had to be solved before you could proceed. On top of that, some of the puzzles required seemingly inconsequential items from previous levels, and if you forgot them, you'd die -- for example, if you didn't take the mail from your mat at the beginning of the game, you couldn't get a bablefish on the Vogon ship. A minor mistake on one level would kill you ten levels later.
Hotmail uses JS to open the mail in the same window. If it opened into a new window, tabbrowser would be able to handle it. I probably should have been more descriptive in its horrible use of javascript.
What happens if you right-click and select "Open link in new tab"?
Just in case you didn't get it, that is part of the problem, if not the problem itself, and not the solution. How long do you think other countries will allow the US to play the big boy, without trying to achieve something themselves.
US defense spending is larger than the GDP of most countries on Earth. The EU (or certain member states), China, and/or Japan might be able to afford a military comparable to the US's, but only at great cost. You'd need a major social shake-up (not just opposition to US foreign policy) before Europeans or the Japanese would accept the sacrifices necessary to seriously compete with the US militarily.
What's to keep them from just trashing the whole system? The alternative to jamming is destruction.
Um, positioning satellites are way up in geostationary orbits, whereas the missile you linked to (and, AFAIK, everything else in the American arsenal) are for taking out objects in low earth orbit. That's like suggesting a mortar in New York could hit Pyongyang.
I use Mozilla, and you'll pry it out of my cold dead hands. But I don't use tabs, and don't see what all the fuss is about, it just adds an extra bar with its own sub windows, I'd rather just have 2-5 mozilla windows open. It appears to me that tabs simply mean I may have to move my mouse twice as far, or use two different keyboard shortcuts (or switch using both keyboard and mouse)
Tabbed browsing is great once you configure it -- with Firebird, that means either the Tab Preferences or Tab Browser extensions. I use the latter, and it lets me do all sorts of things not possible by opening new windows.
New tabs open by middle-clicking a link instead of going through the context menu for a new window.
Focus shifts to a tab simply by hovering on it.
Firebird can automatically group tabs by their relation to each other.
I can close tabs in groups as opposed to shutting down each window individually.
I can set tabs to reload regularly. (Frex, I keep Google News open all day and have it reload every ten minutes, so whenever I look at it, it's up to date.)
I can save tab sessions, so (A) I can call up the pages I was looking at right before I went to bed last night, and (B) I can use it as a super-bookmark -- when I get up in the morning, I just pull up my news tabs and the Washington Post, NY Times, Slate, and MSNBC open.
11a) But don't think frames mean you should put all your links in a frame -- you should make users click through five or six to get the content they want.
11b) Make it so the frames can't be resized.
11c) No one should be able to view your page without starting at the beginning and navigating through your wonderfully designed frame menus, so make sure that any attempt to find the URL for an individual frame's content takes a person right back to the beginning of your site.
12) Design your site so it runs off the screen in anything but 1280x1024 display.
You forgot the most important rule: Never assume people will view the site exactly like it appears on your screen.
I don't like webdesigners controling my browser, so I have Firebird set not to display blinking text, status-bar tickers, banner ads, or custom scrollbars; flash doesn't play unless I click on it; I have toolbar buttons to resize text; automatic pop-ups don't work, and links that are supposed to open in pop-ups go straight to a tab. There are lots of sites that look laughable (if not unusable) because the designer added all sorts of bells and whistles on the assumption that everyone uses IE with the defaults set.
The 7 +/- 2 rule doesn't apply on this site. On any given page, there can be what seems like 50-100 links!
7 +/-2 and 3-clicks made sense back in the day of Netscape 1 and 14.4 modems when you had to wait several minutes for each page to download and hit the back button to return to the referrer page so you could check out the next link. Nowadays, you can just open every link in a new tab (or window if your browser doesn't support tabs) and they'll be loaded by the time you finish reading the page.
I always swore that the child-leashes in malls were a bad idea, too, until a friend's kid got snatched. They closed the mall and found the guy- in less than five minutes he'd changed the kid's clothes and dyed his hair (which was still wet with the dye.) Now i'm not so sure i don't like the leashes, you know?
Now that's just being silly. If you really want to keep your kids safe, you shouldn't take them to the mall in the first place. Instead, you should lock them in their rooms until they're 18 -- and since kids are known to sneak out, at least one parent should be at home at any given time.
Except, parents are responsible for most kidnappings, so you should lock your spouse out of the house and baridcade yourself in a room with your kids.
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This could be carried further into a whole indymedia via BT. It would be even harder for governments and industry to silent dissident voices.
A couple weeks back, Indymedia had an article saying that the Protocols of Zion were created by the Illuminati to throw blame on the Jews while they take over the world.
There's a fine line between being a dissident and wearing a tin-foil hat, and many of the guys at Indymedia are squarely on the wrong side.
Name of OS - "Windows"
Name of other OS - "Lindows"
Similarities? 85% match; 6 of 7 characters are the same.
Well really it's only a 57% match because two of the characters are purely coincidental from the combining of "linux" and "windows". When you get down to arguing how many letters of a common word two products' names share, there's something weak about the case.
For an example of the difference, watch Wargames - specifically the part where Matthew Broderick goes to the computer lab to get help from Jim and Malvin. Jim was a geek, Malvin was a nerd.
... like by never repeating it while a girl's present.
Nerd Trivia: Eddie Deezen, who played Malvin, is the voice of Mandark on Dexter's Laboratory.
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This is Virginia. I'm surprised it's not a capital offense.
The truth is, it wasn't a DDOS attack. Their server just can't handle being Slashdotted.
Mozilla is an awesome browser. Its stable fast and pop-up blocking is a god send. Once its stable version is released I recommend everyone at least try it.
I thought Mozilla was stable, hence the 1.+ version numbers. It's Firebird and Thunderbird that are still in pre-release.
HAL-9000: What are you doing Dave?
Dave: Something wonderful.
HAL-9000: Dave, you're making me uncomfortable.
Dave: We'll be together.
HAL-9000: Dave, stop it. Stop it Dave. Don't touch me there.
--2069: The Lost Odyssey
Is Sun actually thinking "Hmm, 'Java Desktop System', that's a name people can trust"?
Well, since they're trying to get it pre-installed on Wal-Mart brand PCs, I'd rather them call it Java then Linux -- think about all the guys who are going to be upset because they can't play Splinter Cell or Unreal.
I tried OO.o for a while. I was quite surprised to not find newsgroups particularly for OO.o. Would it be difficult to have these newsgroups created and propogated to the various servers?
Depends. It's extremely easy to create an alt.* group, but as the majority of these are things like alt.john.smith.is.an.a--.h---, many servers (particularly the popular cis.dfn.de) don't accept them unless a significant number of people request it. Alternatively, if you go the official route, every major server will pick it up, but the process is very long, very hard, and requires a lot of work -- discussions, polls, creating a charter, etc.
Having them as a single program seems to make so much more sense - click on a link in the e-mail to go to a browser window, then click on a link on the page to send an e-mail reply - why would anyone NOT want them integrated????
That's exactly what happens if you have them set as the default applications.
Someone must've sent him goatse.cx.
This is not about tracking where I go after work, or if I visit my mistress for an extra-martial screw.
Unless you're a plow operator and you decide to light out for an afternoon-delight while on the job.
Before you can build a space elevator, you have to have cheap enough launch to get the building materials for the space elevator into orbit. It's inherently a follow-on to routine and cheap space launch, not a replacement.
Um, why do we need cheap lift capacity to build a space elevator? If using the elevator is cheaper than conventional launches, then the company that builds it will recoup its initial investment, even with high payload prices for construction.
1) an Infocom interactive version of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (regarded, I believe, as one of the most challenging, but rewarding, works of interactive fiction)
The main reason it was so challenging was that it wasn't free roaming like the Zork series -- instead of being able to go in any direction you like and backtrack as needed, the game presented you with a series of rooms each containing a discrete puzzle that had to be solved before you could proceed. On top of that, some of the puzzles required seemingly inconsequential items from previous levels, and if you forgot them, you'd die -- for example, if you didn't take the mail from your mat at the beginning of the game, you couldn't get a bablefish on the Vogon ship. A minor mistake on one level would kill you ten levels later.
Hotmail uses JS to open the mail in the same window. If it opened into a new window, tabbrowser would be able to handle it. I probably should have been more descriptive in its horrible use of javascript.
What happens if you right-click and select "Open link in new tab"?
Two sources of shock and horror:
1. Playing God
Seeing as God's the guy who put blood-vessels in front of the retina, I doubt we can do much worse.
Just in case you didn't get it, that is part of the problem, if not the problem itself, and not the solution. How long do you think other countries will allow the US to play the big boy, without trying to achieve something themselves.
US defense spending is larger than the GDP of most countries on Earth. The EU (or certain member states), China, and/or Japan might be able to afford a military comparable to the US's, but only at great cost. You'd need a major social shake-up (not just opposition to US foreign policy) before Europeans or the Japanese would accept the sacrifices necessary to seriously compete with the US militarily.
What's to keep them from just trashing the whole system? The alternative to jamming is destruction.
Um, positioning satellites are way up in geostationary orbits, whereas the missile you linked to (and, AFAIK, everything else in the American arsenal) are for taking out objects in low earth orbit. That's like suggesting a mortar in New York could hit Pyongyang.
Tabbed browsing is great once you configure it -- with Firebird, that means either the Tab Preferences or Tab Browser extensions. I use the latter, and it lets me do all sorts of things not possible by opening new windows.
11) Use frames. Lots of frames.
11a) But don't think frames mean you should put all your links in a frame -- you should make users click through five or six to get the content they want.
11b) Make it so the frames can't be resized.
11c) No one should be able to view your page without starting at the beginning and navigating through your wonderfully designed frame menus, so make sure that any attempt to find the URL for an individual frame's content takes a person right back to the beginning of your site.
12) Design your site so it runs off the screen in anything but 1280x1024 display.
You forgot the most important rule: Never assume people will view the site exactly like it appears on your screen.
I don't like webdesigners controling my browser, so I have Firebird set not to display blinking text, status-bar tickers, banner ads, or custom scrollbars; flash doesn't play unless I click on it; I have toolbar buttons to resize text; automatic pop-ups don't work, and links that are supposed to open in pop-ups go straight to a tab. There are lots of sites that look laughable (if not unusable) because the designer added all sorts of bells and whistles on the assumption that everyone uses IE with the defaults set.
The 7 +/- 2 rule doesn't apply on this site. On any given page, there can be what seems like 50-100 links!
7 +/-2 and 3-clicks made sense back in the day of Netscape 1 and 14.4 modems when you had to wait several minutes for each page to download and hit the back button to return to the referrer page so you could check out the next link. Nowadays, you can just open every link in a new tab (or window if your browser doesn't support tabs) and they'll be loaded by the time you finish reading the page.
This does not track people.
It tracks their cell phones. Those things are not necessarily in the same place.
Until they start implanting cell-phones into your jaw.
You won't laugh at my tinfoil hat then!
I always swore that the child-leashes in malls were a bad idea, too, until a friend's kid got snatched. They closed the mall and found the guy- in less than five minutes he'd changed the kid's clothes and dyed his hair (which was still wet with the dye.) Now i'm not so sure i don't like the leashes, you know?
Now that's just being silly. If you really want to keep your kids safe, you shouldn't take them to the mall in the first place. Instead, you should lock them in their rooms until they're 18 -- and since kids are known to sneak out, at least one parent should be at home at any given time.
Except, parents are responsible for most kidnappings, so you should lock your spouse out of the house and baridcade yourself in a room with your kids.
It's the only way to be sure.
Richard Stallman Mode: On The answer is obvious -- cell phones should be open sourced.