That's not how science works. Good science is published in peer-reviewed journals. Trying to popularize your work or taking it directly to the media is a sure sign of a crackpot.
Let people assess it for themselves, try his therapies, and perhaps add to the rather impressive roster of testimonials he offers in his book!
Bullshit. Repeat after me: the plural of anecdote is not evidence. Only controlled experimental studies can show us if any of these BS "therapies" work.
You should use a browser-independent proxy filter like Privoxy or Proxomitron (on Windows), with the JD5000 filter set, as it is a client-side HTTP proxy and will work well with any browser.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Libel/defamation laws apply only in a very select minority of cases, where a clear harm can be demonstrated.
We have constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and we ARE free by law to say our opinion whenever and wherever we feel like it.
One of the great problems with the Internet currently is that there are so many anonymous cowards, who troll, spam and lie. There is very little consequence to such actions so people aren't inhibited.
Yeah, better prepare for the imminent collapse of civilization.
Are you smoking crack? This unfettered freedom of speech is exactly what makes the net so great. The power of the press is longer concentrated in the hands of the rich and powerful. Now anybody with a PC and net connection can contribute to human dialogue. Traditionally libel laws were used to try and squelch the power of the little man to speak out against established power structures. The net has been the great equalizer.
Maybe it's hype, and mostly people don't type any FASTER in Dvorak than on QWERTY, but that's just a red herring. It's not about speed at all. It's about comfort, and Dvorak wins hands down, as it's an optimized layout designed for the English language.
In this case the Dvorak story survives not because of the flimsy, circumstantial "proof" but rather because it evokes people's sense of outrage of the "Little Guy with new ideas" being unable fight the tide of convention.
This is just bullshit. You have obviously never tried Dvorak. While I don't type any faster than in QWERTY, it definitely is more comfortable as your hands don't move nearly as much (because Dvorak is optimized for the English language and minimizes finger movement).
Why would you do that when you can set up your own keywords in Firefox (no plugins) so that you can just type "imdb moviename" or "wiki topic" or "g search" and get your searches right from the address bar?
As stupid as this sounds, this is common practice everywhere at most colleges (although I only know about Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Amherst, and a few other "top-ranked" schools). I know of one liberal arts school that uses the student ID number in reverse as the code to enter any campus building. You could also easily obtain anyone's ID numbers as the (freely-accessible) online campus directory sorts students by their ID number. This was eventually fixed, but the ID number is still used as a password in several important online applications.
Colleges just aren't very good with security - they have to dumb things down because the students don't want to jump through hoops. I know most people at my school use the same 6-letter password that they were assigned as freshmen for their email.
Yeah, some people say that. But RMS says that it's IMMORAL and WRONG to release proprietary code, which makes him the raving communist zealot that he is.
Er... what? Culturally isolationist, maybe. Racist, no. Japanese happily import all sorts of Western goods and pop culture, as does most of Asia. Why should they not be able to pick and choose what they want to allow into their country?
The reason for not importing immigrants is not racism. Look at the sad state of Europe's tolerance for intolerance - Holland, France, and Germany are being overrun by Muslims who don't respect the native culture. Japan doesn't want the same to happen to them.
I think you should get off your high horse and maybe see that things aren't so black and white.
Racists lack the self-esteem to stand up as individuals, so they identify themselves with the collective culture in which they are embedded to dissociate themselves from their insecurity and self-loathing.
I'm sure you could apply that to, say, white supremacists in the US. But to say that the entire country of Japan is racist because their economic policies don't agree with yours? That's just crap.
People who can't get jobs because the xenophobes in Tokyo close the borders and replace them with robots suffer real hunger and privation.
Japan has no obligation whatsoever to provide foreigners with jobs. Japan has its own people and economy to worry about. We don't live in a socialist world, grow up.
The weather in Japan is nice enough. The winters are much more comfortable than the east coast of the US.
Natural disasters? What kind of crack are you smoking? The US has hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes, you know. I've lived in Japan for most of my life and I haven't seen any natural disasters that affected me personally.
Japan is expensive, but the pay is much higher to compensate. Guest workers in Japan are among the "richest" in terms of money they have to send home.
Heh. Bullshit. Perhaps some have that sort of attitude on a personal level. But no company is stupid enough to let things like that get in the way of their bottom line. If it was profitable, they would do it.
Nor do they want "filthy foreigner" immigrants working in their businesses.
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. The vast majority of the manufacturing of Japanese products are done by these "dirty foreigners" you speak of.
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That's not how science works. Good science is published in peer-reviewed journals. Trying to popularize your work or taking it directly to the media is a sure sign of a crackpot.
Let people assess it for themselves, try his therapies, and perhaps add to the rather impressive roster of testimonials he offers in his book!
Bullshit. Repeat after me: the plural of anecdote is not evidence. Only controlled experimental studies can show us if any of these BS "therapies" work.
Damn you and your socialized health care system!
There's a good article on Kevin Mitnick in the Rotten Library that discusses this.
You should use a browser-independent proxy filter like Privoxy or Proxomitron (on Windows), with the JD5000 filter set, as it is a client-side HTTP proxy and will work well with any browser.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Libel/defamation laws apply only in a very select minority of cases, where a clear harm can be demonstrated.
We have constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and we ARE free by law to say our opinion whenever and wherever we feel like it.
One of the great problems with the Internet currently is that there are so many anonymous cowards, who troll, spam and lie. There is very little consequence to such actions so people aren't inhibited.
Yeah, better prepare for the imminent collapse of civilization.
Are you smoking crack? This unfettered freedom of speech is exactly what makes the net so great. The power of the press is longer concentrated in the hands of the rich and powerful. Now anybody with a PC and net connection can contribute to human dialogue. Traditionally libel laws were used to try and squelch the power of the little man to speak out against established power structures. The net has been the great equalizer.
Maybe it's hype, and mostly people don't type any FASTER in Dvorak than on QWERTY, but that's just a red herring. It's not about speed at all. It's about comfort, and Dvorak wins hands down, as it's an optimized layout designed for the English language.
In this case the Dvorak story survives not because of the flimsy, circumstantial "proof" but rather because it evokes people's sense of outrage of the "Little Guy with new ideas" being unable fight the tide of convention.
This is just bullshit. You have obviously never tried Dvorak. While I don't type any faster than in QWERTY, it definitely is more comfortable as your hands don't move nearly as much (because Dvorak is optimized for the English language and minimizes finger movement).
and you wouldn't find stories like this one
That decision seems to have been reversed.
No, he's right.
The archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will contain almost 40 million emails by the former US president's staff and two by the man himself.
Don't use the standard Proxomitron filter set. I recommend using Grypen or JD5000 alpha here.
Why would you do that when you can set up your own keywords in Firefox (no plugins) so that you can just type "imdb moviename" or "wiki topic" or "g search" and get your searches right from the address bar?
That sounds about right.
Apparently English is not your first language. What I meant was, where's the proof that Schneier said that. You sound like a used-car salesman.
Really? Source please.
but you're quite welcome to surprise me, MANCO.
You have no idea how hilarious that sounds to someone who knows Japanese. It's NAMCO. "Manko" means cunt, or pussy.
I'm pretty sure that the numbers will even further increase when Longhorn comes out with a working Digital Restrictions Management.
Is that even really an issue anymore?
Here it says "the software maker stressed that Longhorn will work regardless of whether the Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) is enabled."
Also
Has Microsoft killed off its secure computing architecture?
Perhaps someone who knows more about this than I do can comment.
here, maybe?
As stupid as this sounds, this is common practice everywhere at most colleges (although I only know about Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Amherst, and a few other "top-ranked" schools). I know of one liberal arts school that uses the student ID number in reverse as the code to enter any campus building. You could also easily obtain anyone's ID numbers as the (freely-accessible) online campus directory sorts students by their ID number. This was eventually fixed, but the ID number is still used as a password in several important online applications.
Colleges just aren't very good with security - they have to dumb things down because the students don't want to jump through hoops. I know most people at my school use the same 6-letter password that they were assigned as freshmen for their email.
No.
Both are just a joke comparing to iTunes.
iTunes is a joke, especially on Windows. Slow, bloated, and does nothing useful. Winamp is alright. You want foobar2000, which is BSD-licensed.
Yeah, some people say that. But RMS says that it's IMMORAL and WRONG to release proprietary code, which makes him the raving communist zealot that he is.
Er... what? Culturally isolationist, maybe. Racist, no. Japanese happily import all sorts of Western goods and pop culture, as does most of Asia. Why should they not be able to pick and choose what they want to allow into their country?
The reason for not importing immigrants is not racism. Look at the sad state of Europe's tolerance for intolerance - Holland, France, and Germany are being overrun by Muslims who don't respect the native culture. Japan doesn't want the same to happen to them.
I think you should get off your high horse and maybe see that things aren't so black and white.
Racists lack the self-esteem to stand up as individuals, so they identify themselves with the collective culture in which they are embedded to dissociate themselves from their insecurity and self-loathing.
I'm sure you could apply that to, say, white supremacists in the US. But to say that the entire country of Japan is racist because their economic policies don't agree with yours? That's just crap.
People who can't get jobs because the xenophobes in Tokyo close the borders and replace them with robots suffer real hunger and privation.
Japan has no obligation whatsoever to provide foreigners with jobs. Japan has its own people and economy to worry about. We don't live in a socialist world, grow up.
have horrible weather and natural disasters
The weather in Japan is nice enough. The winters are much more comfortable than the east coast of the US.
Natural disasters? What kind of crack are you smoking? The US has hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes, you know. I've lived in Japan for most of my life and I haven't seen any natural disasters that affected me personally.
Japan is expensive, but the pay is much higher to compensate. Guest workers in Japan are among the "richest" in terms of money they have to send home.
Heh. Bullshit. Perhaps some have that sort of attitude on a personal level. But no company is stupid enough to let things like that get in the way of their bottom line. If it was profitable, they would do it.
Nor do they want "filthy foreigner" immigrants working in their businesses.
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. The vast majority of the manufacturing of Japanese products are done by these "dirty foreigners" you speak of.