i used to get it to prompt me... but i just go so tired answering questions for every single cookie... often i'd spend as much time clicking Allow, Deny or Allow for session as i would reading a site.. so now i just let them all go thru and prune out the ones i don't like (and use adblock to stop me connecting to the really bad advertising sites)...
Also note that since i've moved to OS X i'd had to spend heaps less time messing around with this stuff.. i spend much more time maintaining my debian server:p
Actually all they have is their BOES(TM) "technology". So in fact they do appear to be a litigation firm based entirely around this one patent (although its been "granted patents from the governments of Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. Currently, the patent applications are pending in Europe, Canada and throughout Asia.")
Looking at the background claims section you see: "Consumers have already discovered the advantages of shopping from their homes by the use of catalogues, television shopping channels or by computer transaction systems. There are numerous public internet web sites and private intranet sites that offer various articles and services for sale. Most of these public web sites and private sites operate in national configurations where the buyer and seller are restricted to a particular language and currency." (emp. mine)
So its possible they have a point, although I fail to see how this satisfies the non-obvious test since large corporate sites have been allowing people to select a region for ages.
on a slightly related note: I think the problem the US patent office is having is that software is extremely complex, anyone who has worked thru the formal software engineering process can say that even reasonably simple software can actual contain alot of complexity - especially from a laymans point of view.
Why are responsible slashdotters encouraged to ignore trolls but such a blatant one gets an entire story? After the very professional way the kernel developers tore him apart you'd think the issue would be over.
Of course he makes sense, thats how he gets such a large group of followers prepared to die! I've no doubt that he actually believes what he is saying aswell. Even so that doesn't excuse his actions, nor are the actions of Bush excusable in my mind. But, being Australian, my opinion doesn't count on who the "leader of the free world" is.
ABC and SBS (as two tv media outlets) provide very well balanced coverage. I think the main reason that Australia is so low is that so much of our media is owned by Packer, Murdoch and Fairfax and the government (even though as you point out the ABC fiercely protects its editorial freedom).
But as another pointed out ownership doesn't really demonstrate freedom... Standout papers such as the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian (owned by Fairfax and Murdoch respectively) normally provide excellent unbiased coverage as good broadsheet newspapers..
But in terms of governmental censorship of Australian media I cannot think of anything - unless the media ownership laws are counted as censorship - the only censorship that goes on tends to be fair apart from some noteable movie and game examples.
The problem with automatically issuing fines for speeding is this:
Say you're on a two lane road (that is one lane in each direction) which allows overtaking. You're stuck behind someone going lower than the speed limit. You go to over take them (assume its a truck going up a hill) and the cars are backed up behind you.. What happens is car behind you moves into your space and you're stuck ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD. In this situation the safest thing to do is to 'feed it the fat' (jump on the gas for american readers) to lower the time spent in the danger zone..
You shouldn't get fined for this because you were driving safely..
This is only because we generally ignore the outliers as they tend to indicate bad data. If this was the entire set (as opposed to a subset) of the the population then we could be well within our rights to include the 100.
Of course statistics with such a small sample is pretty hopeless anyway.. best we can do is high school stats where the average is the sum of all terms divided by the number of terms.. which was was the grandparent was talking about.
Two clicks into the apple.com website and you find OSX Server
Also keep in mind OSX has BSD under the hood.. the things you can do with Group Policy and remote admin can easily be replicated under a *nix environment. Apple also has graphical tools to do these things too..
Australia: Roughly the same size as the US population, bugger all..
Broadband: non-existant.. the BEST is cable that is around 1.5mbit download and achieves around 15k/sec upload (its limited) you get around 12gb per month for around 80 bucks aussie (times by 0.7 for US dollars)... And that is only available in certain areas of sydney and other cities (not all areas) and totally forget about country areas...
ADSL is popular, but I wouldn't class it as proper broadband... its slow (256kbps is common, 1.5mbit is too expensive) and the network is pretty much all owned by telstra, which means they control the prices.
You septics should stop complaining...
Just a quick comparison between my cable and a mate of mine in sweden. We both start to download the same torrent at the same time, and he gets 3 times my download speed.. partly thats due to location but 3 times is a pretty huge difference.
I'm writing this comment from the screen enabled by this patch.. on an 800mhz 12inch ibook..
Only downside is that graphic intensive things are a tad slower.. but for using office (what I do most of the time) its perfect...
I'd only be careful on older ibooks, anything new can easily handle it.
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being a bit more specific
From the GPL: "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee."
And from the GPL FAQ: "Yes. You can charge any fee you wish for distributing a copy of the program. If you distribute binaries by download, you must provide "equivalent access" to download the source--therefore, the fee to download source may not be greater than the fee to download the binary." but note that "The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)"
Why add that extra layer for most home users? I find its an absolute pain at university and couldn't imagine using it at home...
A combination of WAP/WEP MAC address allow lists and not broadcasting the network name will keep pretty much everyone out. Why would soemone bother breaking in when there are several open wireless networks on every street. (at least in my suburb)
Telstra (formerly Telecom) is THE tele-communications company in australia. It is a government owned monopoly, and doesn't hesitate to screw over the little guy to please the shareholders (like any big public company). On top of that it is bureacratic to the extreme(like anything governmental).
They provide shocking service for both wired telephone - dialup(particularly in regional areas), and for "broadband" - I'm not with Telstra and I still pay 70AU per month for 12gb on cable. Simply because Telstra can price fix the market. The mobile phone market is slightly better, with 3 established companies and a few smaller but growing ones.
When did pr0n start having ads in the middle of the show, and why would you want to lower the volume?
Let me translate for you..
It means you can skip the dialogue and plot, and allows you to instantly switch "channels" much like the good ole "boss key".
I was going to suggest my monitor.. you get little fuzzy horizontal lines at random places... The benefit here is that it only does this when i'm about to get a call or an sms rather than when its just loggin onto the cell..
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i used to get it to prompt me... but i just go so tired answering questions for every single cookie... often i'd spend as much time clicking Allow, Deny or Allow for session as i would reading a site.. so now i just let them all go thru and prune out the ones i don't like (and use adblock to stop me connecting to the really bad advertising sites)...
:p
Also note that since i've moved to OS X i'd had to spend heaps less time messing around with this stuff.. i spend much more time maintaining my debian server
Exactly what type of porn do you watch?
In another note has slashdot taken a new turn? Earlier on it was something about two-fisted hairy-knuckled "exploration" and now its kitten porn.
But the defence forces buy them? If suddenly this stopped then industry would be hurt.
I'd ask you to actually think for once but this is slashdot and we don't want to be different..
Actually all they have is their BOES(TM) "technology". So in fact they do appear to be a litigation firm based entirely around this one patent (although its been "granted patents from the governments of Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. Currently, the patent applications are pending in Europe, Canada and throughout Asia.")
Thanks for the link:
Looking at the background claims section you see:
"Consumers have already discovered the advantages of shopping from their homes by the use of catalogues, television shopping channels or by computer transaction systems. There are numerous public internet web sites and private intranet sites that offer various articles and services for sale. Most of these public web sites and private sites operate in national configurations where the buyer and seller are restricted to a particular language and currency." (emp. mine)
So its possible they have a point, although I fail to see how this satisfies the non-obvious test since large corporate sites have been allowing people to select a region for ages.
on a slightly related note: I think the problem the US patent office is having is that software is extremely complex, anyone who has worked thru the formal software engineering process can say that even reasonably simple software can actual contain alot of complexity - especially from a laymans point of view.
Why are responsible slashdotters encouraged to ignore trolls but such a blatant one gets an entire story? After the very professional way the kernel developers tore him apart you'd think the issue would be over.
Don't feed the trolls!
Of course he makes sense, thats how he gets such a large group of followers prepared to die! I've no doubt that he actually believes what he is saying aswell. Even so that doesn't excuse his actions, nor are the actions of Bush excusable in my mind. But, being Australian, my opinion doesn't count on who the "leader of the free world" is.
I agree totally with your point..
ABC and SBS (as two tv media outlets) provide very well balanced coverage. I think the main reason that Australia is so low is that so much of our media is owned by Packer, Murdoch and Fairfax and the government (even though as you point out the ABC fiercely protects its editorial freedom).
But as another pointed out ownership doesn't really demonstrate freedom... Standout papers such as the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian (owned by Fairfax and Murdoch respectively) normally provide excellent unbiased coverage as good broadsheet newspapers..
But in terms of governmental censorship of Australian media I cannot think of anything - unless the media ownership laws are counted as censorship - the only censorship that goes on tends to be fair apart from some noteable movie and game examples.
Presumably the industry would follow the lead of Microsoft in this matter.
Particularly for Oracle since Microsoft has indicated its SQL server licensing will be "licensed per processor, not per core"
The problem with automatically issuing fines for speeding is this:
Say you're on a two lane road (that is one lane in each direction) which allows overtaking. You're stuck behind someone going lower than the speed limit. You go to over take them (assume its a truck going up a hill) and the cars are backed up behind you.. What happens is car behind you moves into your space and you're stuck ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD. In this situation the safest thing to do is to 'feed it the fat' (jump on the gas for american readers) to lower the time spent in the danger zone..
You shouldn't get fined for this because you were driving safely..
This is only because we generally ignore the outliers as they tend to indicate bad data. If this was the entire set (as opposed to a subset) of the the population then we could be well within our rights to include the 100.
Of course statistics with such a small sample is pretty hopeless anyway.. best we can do is high school stats where the average is the sum of all terms divided by the number of terms.. which was was the grandparent was talking about.
Two clicks into the apple.com website and you find OSX Server
Also keep in mind OSX has BSD under the hood.. the things you can do with Group Policy and remote admin can easily be replicated under a *nix environment. Apple also has graphical tools to do these things too..
I can't believe noone mentioned Kevin Karpenske who kindly donated the firefox.com domain to the mozilla guys.
Kudos to Kevin for demonstrating a great deal of kindness in supporting our favourite browser..
Seriously this has been covered multiple times in just about every firefox related story...
Quickly increase and then decrease your text size.. (or decrease then increase)..
So.. ctrl+, ctrl-.. or for mac users (like myself) Command+, Command- (i still think of it as "open apple" though).
Australia: Roughly the same size as the US
population, bugger all..
Broadband: non-existant.. the BEST is cable that is around 1.5mbit download and achieves around 15k/sec upload (its limited) you get around 12gb per month for around 80 bucks aussie (times by 0.7 for US dollars)... And that is only available in certain areas of sydney and other cities (not all areas) and totally forget about country areas...
ADSL is popular, but I wouldn't class it as proper broadband... its slow (256kbps is common, 1.5mbit is too expensive) and the network is pretty much all owned by telstra, which means they control the prices.
You septics should stop complaining...
Just a quick comparison between my cable and a mate of mine in sweden. We both start to download the same torrent at the same time, and he gets 3 times my download speed.. partly thats due to location but 3 times is a pretty huge difference.
I'm writing this comment from the screen enabled by this patch.. on an 800mhz 12inch ibook..
Only downside is that graphic intensive things are a tad slower.. but for using office (what I do most of the time) its perfect...
I'd only be careful on older ibooks, anything new can easily handle it.
being a bit more specific
From the GPL: "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee."
And from the GPL FAQ: "Yes. You can charge any fee you wish for distributing a copy of the program. If you distribute binaries by download, you must provide "equivalent access" to download the source--therefore, the fee to download source may not be greater than the fee to download the binary." but note that "The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)"
Why add that extra layer for most home users? I find its an absolute pain at university and couldn't imagine using it at home...
A combination of WAP/WEP MAC address allow lists and not broadcasting the network name will keep pretty much everyone out. Why would soemone bother breaking in when there are several open wireless networks on every street. (at least in my suburb)
Perhaps I should elaborate..
Telstra (formerly Telecom) is THE tele-communications company in australia. It is a government owned monopoly, and doesn't hesitate to screw over the little guy to please the shareholders (like any big public company). On top of that it is bureacratic to the extreme(like anything governmental).
They provide shocking service for both wired telephone - dialup(particularly in regional areas), and for "broadband" - I'm not with Telstra and I still pay 70AU per month for 12gb on cable. Simply because Telstra can price fix the market. The mobile phone market is slightly better, with 3 established companies and a few smaller but growing ones.
If the best hackers program in python.. but not in java can someone explain jython? (python IN java)
/me gives stupid idiot look
So thats an interpreter written by non hackers for hackers? Go figure..
When did pr0n start having ads in the middle of the show, and why would you want to lower the volume?
Let me translate for you..
It means you can skip the dialogue and plot, and allows you to instantly switch "channels" much like the good ole "boss key".
at least the australian version says Beta..
The MS one is too busy, hard to follow. Whereas the Google one is as clean as can be expected for a screen with so much information and so many links.
So let me get this straight. Which beta is better? Do we really need a slashdot poll to know that answer? Didn't think so...
I'd be perfectly happy to lock up the pamphlet guys and girls along with the spammers.. they all piss me off :p
I was going to suggest my monitor.. you get little fuzzy horizontal lines at random places... The benefit here is that it only does this when i'm about to get a call or an sms rather than when its just loggin onto the cell..
First, free speech isn't a right in all countries.
Second, why should having the right to speak mean I should provide you with the pulpit? I should have the right to listen, or not..