"the problem with JavaScript is that it's an all or nothing option."
Not with NoScript installed.
"I can easily enable the flash game in the middle of a page, or the embedded movie, but not any of the ads or other irritating animations."
You can do the exact same thing with NoScript, too, in exactly the same way, just by clicking on the elements you want to allow. That's why I mentioned it.
"With something like NoScript, I can block individual script files, but scripts often have interdependencies, so it's difficult to disable the irritating scripts without disabling the ones that you actually want to have running."
It's actually pretty easy to control what you want to allow and forbid. You may want to take another look at it. I can't stand surfing without AdBlock and NoScript, now that I've gotten used to them.
If this means they're going to stop using kwirky misspellings of various words for the names of every program, I might actually be konvinced to start taking them seriously.
Update: I've been fooling around with DebXO for the last couple of days. It is installable to the built-in 1GB flash or can be run from SD, and offers a variety of desktop choices. If you're looking for an alternative OS for the OLPC, this is worth trying.
I installed DebXO with XFCE to the internal flash, added Iceweasel and DOS-Box (for some old favorite games) and am loving it. The wireless networking works perfectly, unlike the crap I was suffering from using XFCE on the standard OLPC OS.
It is missing some functionally, but the essentials are there. Hopefully, development will continue and make this even better.
Yeah, there are some Ubuntu and other systems that work fine on the XO, but they require booting from USB or an SD card. I want to run the OS off the internal flash, as I swap SD cards depending on what data I need access to, and don't want a USB stick hanging off the side of the machine all the time.
XFCE (or another desktop) on the OLPC-provided Fedora is the only way I'm aware of to do that.
I've been tinkering with the lightweight XFCE desktop on my XO and it seems to be a pretty good fit for the hardware. I'm still experimenting with various packages (using it as a learning experience, as I knew basically nothing about linux before starting this project) but I've got most things working. The only real snag seems to be unreliable connections to WPA-protected wireless networks. Several methods and WIFI managers are mentioned in the various wikis and blogs covering XFCE on the XO, but there seems to be no really good, reliable solution.
Luckily, I have several neighbors that don't bother to secure their networks and the XO doesn't really need to access my network shares.;)
Given the nature of our flat Earth, I foresee no leap of science allowing practical travel to the east by sailing west. So any human sailing expeditions out of sight of the coast seems pointless to me.
I've also completed this requirement (I'm in the Navy) and remember the "downloading music" security scenario. I was just mindlessly clicking through as fast as I could to get to the "Print Certificate" button, but had to pause for that one because there was no correct option to choose. It's actually the only thing I remember from the entire course.
You said: "The obstacle is not pictured, and the article does not discuss whether the obstacle is mounted vertically or horizontally. It is therefore not safe to assume either."
From the article: "Researchers found that having an inanimate pole take up the space of a person reduced the number of time-consuming conflicts between people near the exit. Similarly, the pole's placement slightly off to one side of the doorway reduced the time it took for a person coming from the other direction to turn toward the exit."
I'll repeat the important part for you: "having an inanimate pole take up the space of a person"
Unless you actually think people commonly lie down on the floor next to doors during an emergency evacuation (and actually, several people would have to lie down on top of each other to form a barrier to the flow of traffic, as one person would just get stepped over) the article makes it quite clear that the pole placed next to the door is vertical.
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"the problem with JavaScript is that it's an all or nothing option."
Not with NoScript installed.
"I can easily enable the flash game in the middle of a page, or the embedded movie, but not any of the ads or other irritating animations."
You can do the exact same thing with NoScript, too, in exactly the same way, just by clicking on the elements you want to allow. That's why I mentioned it.
"With something like NoScript, I can block individual script files, but scripts often have interdependencies, so it's difficult to disable the irritating scripts without disabling the ones that you actually want to have running."
It's actually pretty easy to control what you want to allow and forbid. You may want to take another look at it. I can't stand surfing without AdBlock and NoScript, now that I've gotten used to them.
NoScript will get rid of those random-word link-fests for you, along with providing "click-to-flash" in one plug-in.
If you don't expect to win, you're an idiot for going into a casino.
(And yes, I know how high the odds are stacked on the casino's side. Read between the lines.)
If every stall had a board tied to the board in every other stall for collaborative graffiti, that would be pretty neat.
If this means they're going to stop using kwirky misspellings of various words for the names of every program, I might actually be konvinced to start taking them seriously.
What's a VCR?
Don't forget the iShovel for the iShit.
They had to do this in response to Microsoft patenting SUDO.
Because they're VERY CHEAP!
If the reason SATA 6GB exists is to boost SSD performance, then the should have TESTED it with an SSD.
So easy a caveman can do it.
There probably is one, but it's irrelevant. An Israeli company isn't subject to Dutch law, which is the law that would be relevant here.
Lesson of the day? Buy local, folks!
"Wired is reporting on a simple hack putting some 65,000 customers at risk."
Tragically, if only TWC had used signed integers, they could have halved the impact of this problem.
"It's the low volume of users that prevents lawsuits."
Actually, I'm pretty sure it's the inability to monitor downloads and the ease of forging headers for the uploaders.
Update: I've been fooling around with DebXO for the last couple of days. It is installable to the built-in 1GB flash or can be run from SD, and offers a variety of desktop choices. If you're looking for an alternative OS for the OLPC, this is worth trying.
I installed DebXO with XFCE to the internal flash, added Iceweasel and DOS-Box (for some old favorite games) and am loving it. The wireless networking works perfectly, unlike the crap I was suffering from using XFCE on the standard OLPC OS.
It is missing some functionally, but the essentials are there. Hopefully, development will continue and make this even better.
"Of course, you'll have to make sure not to put what you are trying to hide in front of a window"
I don't need "see through walls" technology to see things that have been placed in front of a window.
"I hate to say this, but I am not confident this will work, there are reasons we were made the way we were"
Mostly having to do with how hard it is to evolve a 360 degree rotating impeller or screw drive.
Yeah, there are some Ubuntu and other systems that work fine on the XO, but they require booting from USB or an SD card. I want to run the OS off the internal flash, as I swap SD cards depending on what data I need access to, and don't want a USB stick hanging off the side of the machine all the time.
XFCE (or another desktop) on the OLPC-provided Fedora is the only way I'm aware of to do that.
I've been tinkering with the lightweight XFCE desktop on my XO and it seems to be a pretty good fit for the hardware. I'm still experimenting with various packages (using it as a learning experience, as I knew basically nothing about linux before starting this project) but I've got most things working. The only real snag seems to be unreliable connections to WPA-protected wireless networks. Several methods and WIFI managers are mentioned in the various wikis and blogs covering XFCE on the XO, but there seems to be no really good, reliable solution.
Luckily, I have several neighbors that don't bother to secure their networks and the XO doesn't really need to access my network shares. ;)
Given the nature of our flat Earth, I foresee no leap of science allowing practical travel to the east by sailing west. So any human sailing expeditions out of sight of the coast seems pointless to me.
I've also completed this requirement (I'm in the Navy) and remember the "downloading music" security scenario. I was just mindlessly clicking through as fast as I could to get to the "Print Certificate" button, but had to pause for that one because there was no correct option to choose. It's actually the only thing I remember from the entire course.
I guess that if an actual quote from the referenced article for the story isn't enough for you, nothing is. No reason to continue this, then.
I've seen people go to great lengths before to deny being wrong, but you are the most extreme I've seen this week. Congratulations!
You said:
"The obstacle is not pictured, and the article does not discuss whether the obstacle is mounted vertically or horizontally. It is therefore not safe to assume either."
From the article:
"Researchers found that having an inanimate pole take up the space of a person reduced the number of time-consuming conflicts between people near the exit. Similarly, the pole's placement slightly off to one side of the doorway reduced the time it took for a person coming from the other direction to turn toward the exit."
I'll repeat the important part for you:
"having an inanimate pole take up the space of a person"
Unless you actually think people commonly lie down on the floor next to doors during an emergency evacuation (and actually, several people would have to lie down on top of each other to form a barrier to the flow of traffic, as one person would just get stepped over) the article makes it quite clear that the pole placed next to the door is vertical.
A bar can indeed be vertical. That's why I specified "horizontal bar."
And yet, the pole under discussion in the article is quite vertical.