Further... I have rules which automatically move emails into specific folders when they arrive in the inbox
And as of version 8.5.2 which I last used, you cannot retroactively apply a folder sorting rule on your inbox, something that Outlook Express, not to mention Outlook, has had for over a decade. So if you already have over a thousand mails in your inbox, they're gonna remain there unless you manually move them out.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recently introduced a rule that prohibits anyone from sending more than 100 SMSes a day, to counter telemarketers who keep spamming users. Perhaps a similar regulation against robocallers will help.
They're not used only for applets. Java Web Start is a mechanism for distributing desktop java applications through the browser. Clicking a special link triggers the plugin, which will download the application to its local cache and launch it, and optionally create a desktop shortcut for future use. Each time the app is launched, it checks the original JNLP link for a newer version and so can be automatically updated. For security reasons, unsigned JWS launched applications are restricted from certain operations, such as accessing the local filesystem.
The wiki link lists several end user apps/games that use JWS.
Hiya troll! First of all, always start with an ad hominem. It really bolsters your own argument, doesn't it?
The guy was 'defeated' because he wasn't a terrorist at all. He was stupid dupe of the FBI.
And how did the FBI get to know of his plans in the first place?
Dear dipsxit I don't know how you missed it, because its required reading in almost every junior high school in america
I'm not an American, so sue me.
(Enter more blather about 1984)
Ok, so you wanna compare to 1984? According to O'Brien, Winston Smith had a chance to stick with the Party vs. carry on with Julia and read Emmanuel Goldstein's book. He chose the latter, and we know what happened next. Here's a fellow who given a chance, would actually go and get hold of an RC plane with explosives. It is moot whether the people supplying him were undercover FBI agents or terrorists themselves. He absoFUCKINGlutely knew what he wanted to do, and what the consequences would be. At any stage he could've backed out and refused to go along with it, or even gone to the cops himself. He chose not to. I'm from India and I utterly loathe the vile politicians who have ruled us over the last 50 years, each more corrupt than the last. I would love to see their heads roll, doesn't mean that if someone hands me a sniper rifle and exhorts me to get rid of them I'll actually go postal on their asses. If I do, then I'm aware of what I'm getting into, and from their point of view, I am a threat BECAUSE I am actually acting on the impulse to kill them.
Consider that if it had been actual terrorists supplying this fellow and the FBI had not known what was going on, he might have actually done some harm. If someone is egging you on to commit a terrorist act, it is upto YOU whether you decide to go along with them, or report them to the authorities.
I'm sorry I called you a dipshit. You're nothing but a tool. A tool with a dull finish.
Take a chill pill and improve your reading comprehension before you go calling people names.
This guy was defeated by the groundwork done by the FBI in tracking him, contacting him and then catching him red handed while he was planning the operation. Note that this wasn't done while he was driving to the Pentagon or setting up his drone. Terrorist plots need to be defeated at the planning stage, and that requires good old investigation and espionage. Not by groping people at the airport check-in queue.
I'd say it depends on whether or not you waive your rights to your own data when you sign up for the service, or allow them carte blanche to share it with 3rd parties.
We're just doomed to peering at them through telescopes, either on the ground or in LEO and guessing what it must be like to actually land on them. It's not like anyone's going to be able to reach them anytime soon, or is even working towards interplanetary (let alone interstellar) travel, with NASA going on facing budget cuts.
Traditional retail bombards a player with inscrutable advertising, senseless review scores, and non-interactive game media, and then demands that they fork over a large portion of money for a non-returnable box which may or may not contain a game that they actually enjoy.
Back in the day, going right back upto Doom, you could download a totally free demo version of the game with a few limited levels/weapons, and if you liked it you could buy the full version. At least you knew what you were getting. Game demos have totally vanished ever since the focus shifted to consoles, so someone would obviously balk at paying $40 to $60 for a title.
Yeah, because open source projects have such a track record of immediately fixing a bug and providing a patch the next day when you really urgently need it, when you're not a corporate customer paying them for the support.
India would be wise to make buddies with the US after the US-Pak relationship collapses. If it comes to war, US assets could help India take out Pak nukes which are a menace to civilization
India has been harping for ages about Pakistan sponsored terrorism which has resulted in several terrorist attacks and deaths over the last 20 years. The US govt. continues to fund Pakistan, regarding them as 'strategic allies' in the war against Al Qaeda, and supply them with weapons for free(which get deployed against India) - the result being that India has to again increase its defense budget (currently shopping for additional fighter aircraft, with Sukhoi and Lockheed offering competing jets). Who benefits? American arms manufacturers.
It's been years since anything as good as Thief came out, and I'm only talking about FPSes. For me, 'good' in terms of FPS tends towards a good narrative, and intelligent enemy AI in addition to the basics like controls/gameplay. Games like Deus Ex, No one lives forever, Thief and Assassin's Creed. In recent years, maybe Fallout:New Vegas, which I haven't played. How about some variation of genre? Where are the swashbuckling steampunk FPSes where you go around in airships shooting at your enemies with rayguns and rescuing damsels in distress? Or alternate history FPSes starring...civil war zombies?
It requires a big budget, but attention paid to script and dialogue as well as graphics; something well within the means of EA and other big publishers. I'm quite sure such games will be well received too.Yet they're content to keep dishing out sequel after sequel to WW2 shooters.
I recently installed an Android game called Inotia 3:Children of Carnia, and on first glance, appears to be an honest old-school RPG without your fancy schmancy MMO tacked on. For once I thought I could play a single character game, moreover this was listed as free. After entering the game, I found it has elements of free to play MMOs - that is, you can purchase additional items for real world cash. Still fine so far - I've played a few F2P MMOs in my time and the way they're designed you don't really HAVE to buy anything to progress.
Cut to the first boss fight in this game. I had 3 characters in a party, but the boss was ridiculously hard to beat. No matter what I tried, all 3 characters would die before 50% of the boss' health wore down. And when all 3 die - you get this lovely offer to purchase a resurrection scroll! I thought I'll still go ahead and see what this pay to play stuff is all about - for about $0.99 I was able to purchase scrolls, and get rid of the boss. Only to be catapulted into another boss fight 5 minutes later..which used up more of my purchased scrolls. So I defeated this boss too, after resurrecting, (and by this time my party had only 2 characters) only to have the game hang. The next time I start up, I'm back at the boss fight, my progress is lost, and I AGAIN have to buy more resurrection scrolls? Why not just charge for the damn game up front?
This is what gaming is turning into. Thanks, I'll stick with the oldies from the mid 90s and earlier.
but I'm pretty sure in Facebook there is a way to hide nearly everything from people searching for you on the site.
There USED to be. At one time, you could restrict being found or receiving add requests to 'friends only' - effectively locking down your profile only to the people you already knew. Around 2 years ago, they forcibly increased default visibility minimum to 'friends of friends' which means no more hiding from others, ever. So if you add someone from your school/college who was quite popular, each of the 100 others from your batch will also be able to send you add requests, or find your profile by searching.
Of course the biggest privacy issue of all is missing:
When using Google+, one company has unfettered access to your searches, page views, ad clicks, social graph, email, calendar, chats, documents, photos, location, and interests.
That's the Faustian bargain you already signed up for when you created a Google account. However, I'd still trust them more than say Facebook for the following reasons: 1) You can quit any time you want and export all your data (though Facebook also permits this). 2) You can block the privacy invading features with the appropriate browser extensions and hacks (face it, given that you're on Slashdot and talking about privacy, you won't find any problem rooting your Android phone and putting Droidwall on it, or similarly circumventing the problems with their desktop services)
For the last 3 years, IBM has been promoting Firefox as the browser of choice for internal use. All intranet sites are required to be standards compliant, and in a twist on the preferred browser warning, anyone using IE6 is warned that the site works better on Firefox!
The CCK wizard for customizing Firefox for internal deployments was also begun by an ex IBMer - it lets you create an MSI package for deploying across a corporate intranet with presets for network proxy, browser customizations etc. With them changing things with every build and calling it a new version, this will further alienate such companies who are trying to get other corporates to embrace open standards and get rid of a decade's worth of IE6 gridlock.
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Further... I have rules which automatically move emails into specific folders when they arrive in the inbox
And as of version 8.5.2 which I last used, you cannot retroactively apply a folder sorting rule on your inbox, something that Outlook Express, not to mention Outlook, has had for over a decade. So if you already have over a thousand mails in your inbox, they're gonna remain there unless you manually move them out.
Bose also invented wireless signaling before Marconi, he however chose not to patent it.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recently introduced a rule that prohibits anyone from sending more than 100 SMSes a day, to counter telemarketers who keep spamming users. Perhaps a similar regulation against robocallers will help.
They're not used only for applets. Java Web Start is a mechanism for distributing desktop java applications through the browser. Clicking a special link triggers the plugin, which will download the application to its local cache and launch it, and optionally create a desktop shortcut for future use. Each time the app is launched, it checks the original JNLP link for a newer version and so can be automatically updated.
For security reasons, unsigned JWS launched applications are restricted from certain operations, such as accessing the local filesystem.
The wiki link lists several end user apps/games that use JWS.
Slightly off topic, but you're a dipsxit(sic)
Hiya troll! First of all, always start with an ad hominem. It really bolsters your own argument, doesn't it?
The guy was 'defeated' because he wasn't a terrorist at all. He was stupid dupe of the FBI.
And how did the FBI get to know of his plans in the first place?
Dear dipsxit I don't know how you missed it, because its required reading in almost every junior high school in america
I'm not an American, so sue me.
(Enter more blather about 1984)
Ok, so you wanna compare to 1984? According to O'Brien, Winston Smith had a chance to stick with the Party vs. carry on with Julia and read Emmanuel Goldstein's book. He chose the latter, and we know what happened next. Here's a fellow who given a chance, would actually go and get hold of an RC plane with explosives. It is moot whether the people supplying him were undercover FBI agents or terrorists themselves. He absoFUCKINGlutely knew what he wanted to do, and what the consequences would be. At any stage he could've backed out and refused to go along with it, or even gone to the cops himself. He chose not to.
I'm from India and I utterly loathe the vile politicians who have ruled us over the last 50 years, each more corrupt than the last. I would love to see their heads roll, doesn't mean that if someone hands me a sniper rifle and exhorts me to get rid of them I'll actually go postal on their asses. If I do, then I'm aware of what I'm getting into, and from their point of view, I am a threat BECAUSE I am actually acting on the impulse to kill them.
Consider that if it had been actual terrorists supplying this fellow and the FBI had not known what was going on, he might have actually done some harm. If someone is egging you on to commit a terrorist act, it is upto YOU whether you decide to go along with them, or report them to the authorities.
I'm sorry I called you a dipshit. You're nothing but a tool. A tool with a dull finish.
Take a chill pill and improve your reading comprehension before you go calling people names.
This guy was defeated by the groundwork done by the FBI in tracking him, contacting him and then catching him red handed while he was planning the operation. Note that this wasn't done while he was driving to the Pentagon or setting up his drone. Terrorist plots need to be defeated at the planning stage, and that requires good old investigation and espionage. Not by groping people at the airport check-in queue.
I'd say it depends on whether or not you waive your rights to your own data when you sign up for the service, or allow them carte blanche to share it with 3rd parties.
We're just doomed to peering at them through telescopes, either on the ground or in LEO and guessing what it must be like to actually land on them. It's not like anyone's going to be able to reach them anytime soon, or is even working towards interplanetary (let alone interstellar) travel, with NASA going on facing budget cuts.
Traditional retail bombards a player with inscrutable advertising, senseless review scores, and non-interactive game media, and then demands that they fork over a large portion of money for a non-returnable box which may or may not contain a game that they actually enjoy.
Back in the day, going right back upto Doom, you could download a totally free demo version of the game with a few limited levels/weapons, and if you liked it you could buy the full version. At least you knew what you were getting. Game demos have totally vanished ever since the focus shifted to consoles, so someone would obviously balk at paying $40 to $60 for a title.
3dfx and the Voodoo cards were 4 years gone when Doom 3 came out.
I'm 6'6" (EXTREMELY tall by Indian standards) and don't live with mom, but no dates coming my way either :(
Yeah, because open source projects have such a track record of immediately fixing a bug and providing a patch the next day when you really urgently need it, when you're not a corporate customer paying them for the support.
India has been harping for ages about Pakistan sponsored terrorism which has resulted in several terrorist attacks and deaths over the last 20 years. The US govt. continues to fund Pakistan, regarding them as 'strategic allies' in the war against Al Qaeda, and supply them with weapons for free(which get deployed against India) - the result being that India has to again increase its defense budget (currently shopping for additional fighter aircraft, with Sukhoi and Lockheed offering competing jets). Who benefits? American arms manufacturers.
It's telling that an Australian website is reporting this news rather than any of the Indian mainstream media.
heh, even the third world countries have the same opinion!
And Internet killed the video star.
It's been years since anything as good as Thief came out, and I'm only talking about FPSes. ...civil war zombies?
For me, 'good' in terms of FPS tends towards a good narrative, and intelligent enemy AI in addition to the basics like controls/gameplay.
Games like Deus Ex, No one lives forever, Thief and Assassin's Creed. In recent years, maybe Fallout:New Vegas, which I haven't played. How about some variation of genre? Where are the swashbuckling steampunk FPSes where you go around in airships shooting at your enemies with rayguns and rescuing damsels in distress? Or alternate history FPSes starring
It requires a big budget, but attention paid to script and dialogue as well as graphics; something well within the means of EA and other big publishers. I'm quite sure such games will be well received too.Yet they're content to keep dishing out sequel after sequel to WW2 shooters.
I recently installed an Android game called Inotia 3:Children of Carnia, and on first glance, appears to be an honest old-school RPG without your fancy schmancy MMO tacked on. For once I thought I could play a single character game, moreover this was listed as free.
After entering the game, I found it has elements of free to play MMOs - that is, you can purchase additional items for real world cash. Still fine so far - I've played a few F2P MMOs in my time and the way they're designed you don't really HAVE to buy anything to progress.
Cut to the first boss fight in this game. I had 3 characters in a party, but the boss was ridiculously hard to beat. No matter what I tried, all 3 characters would die before 50% of the boss' health wore down. And when all 3 die - you get this lovely offer to purchase a resurrection scroll! I thought I'll still go ahead and see what this pay to play stuff is all about - for about $0.99 I was able to purchase scrolls, and get rid of the boss. Only to be catapulted into another boss fight 5 minutes later..which used up more of my purchased scrolls. So I defeated this boss too, after resurrecting, (and by this time my party had only 2 characters) only to have the game hang.
The next time I start up, I'm back at the boss fight, my progress is lost, and I AGAIN have to buy more resurrection scrolls?
Why not just charge for the damn game up front?
This is what gaming is turning into. Thanks, I'll stick with the oldies from the mid 90s and earlier.
Perhaps it's in descending order of priority?
So the constitution would be most important.
I'm no US citizen, but I was under the impression that American soldiers' loyalty was to the US Constitution, and not to any individual person(s).
but I'm pretty sure in Facebook there is a way to hide nearly everything from people searching for you on the site.
There USED to be. At one time, you could restrict being found or receiving add requests to 'friends only' - effectively locking down your profile only to the people you already knew.
Around 2 years ago, they forcibly increased default visibility minimum to 'friends of friends' which means no more hiding from others, ever. So if you add someone from your school/college who was quite popular, each of the 100 others from your batch will also be able to send you add requests, or find your profile by searching.
The only thing I will miss is the capability of creating events among friends, but there are other ways.
There's always Google Calendar, you can create multi user events.
Of course the biggest privacy issue of all is missing:
When using Google+, one company has unfettered access to your searches, page views, ad clicks, social graph, email, calendar, chats, documents, photos, location, and interests.
That's the Faustian bargain you already signed up for when you created a Google account. However, I'd still trust them more than say Facebook for the following reasons:
1) You can quit any time you want and export all your data (though Facebook also permits this).
2) You can block the privacy invading features with the appropriate browser extensions and hacks (face it, given that you're on Slashdot and talking about privacy, you won't find any problem rooting your Android phone and putting Droidwall on it, or similarly circumventing the problems with their desktop services)
This is offtopic. Sony Ericsson is an entirely different company and its business practices have nothing to do with Ericsson.
For the last 3 years, IBM has been promoting Firefox as the browser of choice for internal use. All intranet sites are required to be standards compliant, and in a twist on the preferred browser warning, anyone using IE6 is warned that the site works better on Firefox!
The CCK wizard for customizing Firefox for internal deployments was also begun by an ex IBMer - it lets you create an MSI package for deploying across a corporate intranet with presets for network proxy, browser customizations etc.
With them changing things with every build and calling it a new version, this will further alienate such companies who are trying to get other corporates to embrace open standards and get rid of a decade's worth of IE6 gridlock.