Plugin Check doesn't recognise Gears or Media Player. What use is a plugin checker that doesn't recognise commonly installed plugins?
This is a problem for both the official Mozilla plug in check and the current slashvertisement site. The official Mozilla site flags a much larger number of plugins including the hapless mess that is Java but misses several Google plugiins. Unfortunately it appears that plugin writers don't necessarily follow the guidelines for announcing themselves and further that Silverlight comes back as outdated in both checks even though I've pulled the download directly from Microsoft's site, installed it and rebooted the machine.
If nothing else, this points to a huge problem for modern browsers. If there is no mechanism for automatically and accurately keeping tabs of the various components than no one, but no one is going to have a fully patched machine.
The scanning tool doesn't help all that much either. It still insists that my Flash version is out of date, even though it's current (note to snarks, yes it's Flash, yes it's not all that secure even at the current patch level), it still insists that DivX is out of date, even though it's current (op cit).
Not terribly impressive. Initially it complained that FF was behind (and I had the same issue as elrous) and that Flash, Silverlight, DixX and Flip4Mac were also older versions. Except that I've not used the latter three plugins in months so there is little vulnerability there. Basically just another vendor trying to harp their wares with the interesting factoid of Firefox's problems.
With MeeGo they have the device in the works ready within short, who knows it might even be ready as promised since November last year and Elop delayed it for tactical reasons to make his switch to WP7 seem even more justified.
Not according to Engadget which actually played with a Meego tablet as opposed to breathlessly copying the press releases. Looks pre beta to me, not something ready to jump out the door.... Yeah, that's a tablet but I haven't seen an Meego phones in the wild. I guess there are some early prototypes available but no one has actually used one and lived to tell about it.
An amusing sidelight to this is that SonicWall is blocking anything with the term 'Facebook' in it. I was going to look at yesterday's Facebook thread here on Slashdot when I had a few, um, spare moments. I got this nice banner saying that the system was keeping me safe and clean and free from Internet Evil. Apparently it's just parsing the links looking for nasty words.
There's also the stress of having your sancha let the cat out of the box in an angry tirade readable by your saintly grandmother and your judgmental next door neighbor.
Amateur radio bands could do this. Of course, everybody has to get licensed. You could conceivably petition the FCC and similar organizations to open up a slot on say the 700 mHz band. You could do very low power mesh radio and get under the radar of the EMS spectrum licensing issues.
None of these are terribly practical for very large scale systems, but it isn't technically impossible.
Yes, but there is the whole "boy who cried wolf" aspect to constantly calling everything you don't like "fascism." Not everything presages the immanent collapse of American civilization. And the AC has a good point about people's cartoonish perception of good and evil.
Most of us don't have the tinfoil wrapped so tight as to worry about the immanent collapse of civilization but are nonetheless indeed worried about the downhill slide. Nothing new, America (and every other country, we aren't unique) has had runs of demagoguery throughout history. The proper reaction to that, IMHO, is to keep up the drumbeat and constantly point it out. Yes, it raises the volume but the very real danger of letting a civil society lapse into various levels of barbary is simply to great to ignore. You are of course, allowed to put on your goggles and just watch Disney, some of the rest of us are more than a little worried.
The black and white description of good and evil is something that has been a constant theme with humans since before Greek tragedies. I don't understand why many people want it to be such a diametric opposite since in the real world it is much more nuanced, but there you have it. It does serve to frame the argument and makes lovely sound bites. Hopefully enough people realize that it's a fiction, good for comic books, not so applicable to the real world.
My understanding is if you have lots of money or a very good insurance plan then the US system is brilliant. Many rich people from elsewhere travel to the US to get treatment.
Problem is the definition of 'brilliant'. We certainly can spend a lot of money on you and do things. Whether or not the procedure or treatment improves or extends your life is an open question. All of those rich Saudis who come to the US to get pampered and treated end up dying like the rest of us peons. Perhaps the treatment gives them a bit longer (compared to 'standard' treatments) but there is little objective evidence to back up that claim.
On the other hand afaict the US has a system where afaict the poor aren't treated until they are in dire need and when their conditions get bad enough that they are finally treated indvidual hospitals have to pick up the bill rather than the taxpayer.
Actually, if you are really poor you can get on Medicaid - a public health care program funded by both states and the Federal government that covers all manner of expensive / extensive treatments - including nursing home care, something very, very few non wealthy people can afford.
It's the vast majority of people in between rich and poor that are getting nailed at present. Costs are rising dramatically, benefits are dropping. As this gets to be a bigger and bigger issue over the next decade or so, expect the US middle class to expect the Federal government to 'do something' about it. Except that, in a decade or so, the Federal government isn't going to have a very big purse to open up.
Oopsie.
(Now back to ranting about Glen Beck, which is already in progress.)
You do realize that Dell doesn't sell performance, they sell service and support, right?
"You need to reboot your PC."
The whole reason most enterprises choose Dell is not because of the best hardware (it almost never is), but because Dell offers (generally) very efficient replacement of defective parts including but not limited to "free" (the cost is rolled into the retail and/or separate extended warranty) on-site service.
"If that doesn't work, reinstall the operating system."
It minimizes the enterprise's downtime and costs for internal IT support overhead. Corporate IT doesn't care that Intel offers 10% better performance than AMD at double the cost, they care whether they can keep all their systems up with minimal support overhead and downtime.
"Thanks for calling Dell support - have a nice day."
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A few months after we took Iraq, we secured and flew out almost 14 tons of Yellow Cake in 55 gallon drums, 4 to a pallet,on C-17's to Diego Garcia, where it was put on ships to other places.
A year or two later 3 of our pilots came down with Lymphoma. Uncle Sam says it was unrelated...
Yellowcake isn't particularly radioactive. To get a significant exposure to radiation they would have had to essentially breath it.
Doesn't really matter for the purposes of this argument (that nefarious persons are subtly manipulating the market to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt). If the various markets move enough money, then manipulating the markets can cause problems.
My problem with the supposition that 'hackers' are trying to destabilize western economies by mucking with electronic markets is that it's too uncontrollable - unless you plan on doing something organized like take down the NYSE and the Nippon index (??) simultaneously, simply screwing around ala knocking out the European Carbon Market trading doesn't do a whole lot. Especially in light of the fact that the organizers of said markets seem to be hell bent on destroying everything by themselves.
If you live in a pen with a herd of psychotic rhinoceroses, does the fact that there are angry Jack Russel terriers wandering about make a difference?
But remember the military is very much part of the problem. The generals (and likely other upper level officers) have been bribed by giving them lucrative economic opportunities spanning the past 30 years. The generals are deeply entrenched in running the economy. An economy that really does not seem to benefit the 'average' Egyptian much. It is clearly in the military's best interest to stabilize the country - otherwise their investments (other than the money already taken out of the country) won't be worth all that much. How much they are willing to share the power is very much in question. They probably don't even know the answer.
One other wild card in this crazy, interlocked system is the Swiss banks. They have allegedly frozen some bank accounts belonging to Mubarak and ? others. If their is a significant amount of money extorted from Egypt lying in Swiss accounts (a likely scenario since everyone else seems to to do it) and if the Swiss start cracking down on that, then it significantly limits what individual Egyptian officers can get away with. They may have to make some concessions / deals / arrangements.
While this may be true, the leaders of the Egyptian military are very much a part of the kleptocracy which seems to be one of the major issues in the current revolution - the fact that the average Egyptian is getting economically mauled. It will be hard for those generals to relinquish their economic grip and further it will be extraordinarily hard to prevent the kleptocracy from merely playing musical chairs.
This is hardly unique to Egypt and is more likely to be a near universal issue. How to establish a basically just democratic rule-of-law country out of a chronically dysfunctional system is a question often brought up but rarely answered.
Electricity is a red herring. So little oil is used for electricity production that you can round it down to the nearest zero.
But the converse is not true - we can use electricity (hopefully from environmental reasonable sources) to replace much of what we use (non renewable) petroleum products.
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Plugin Check doesn't recognise Gears or Media Player. What use is a plugin checker that doesn't recognise commonly installed plugins?
This is a problem for both the official Mozilla plug in check and the current slashvertisement site. The official Mozilla site flags a much larger number of plugins including the hapless mess that is Java but misses several Google plugiins. Unfortunately it appears that plugin writers don't necessarily follow the guidelines for announcing themselves and further that Silverlight comes back as outdated in both checks even though I've pulled the download directly from Microsoft's site, installed it and rebooted the machine.
If nothing else, this points to a huge problem for modern browsers. If there is no mechanism for automatically and accurately keeping tabs of the various components than no one, but no one is going to have a fully patched machine.
The scanning tool doesn't help all that much either. It still insists that my Flash version is out of date, even though it's current (note to snarks, yes it's Flash, yes it's not all that secure even at the current patch level), it still insists that DivX is out of date, even though it's current (op cit).
Not terribly impressive. Initially it complained that FF was behind (and I had the same issue as elrous) and that Flash, Silverlight, DixX and Flip4Mac were also older versions. Except that I've not used the latter three plugins in months so there is little vulnerability there. Basically just another vendor trying to harp their wares with the interesting factoid of Firefox's problems.
With MeeGo they have the device in the works ready within short, who knows it might even be ready as promised since November last year and Elop delayed it for tactical reasons to make his switch to WP7 seem even more justified.
Not according to Engadget which actually played with a Meego tablet as opposed to breathlessly copying the press releases. Looks pre beta to me, not something ready to jump out the door.... Yeah, that's a tablet but I haven't seen an Meego phones in the wild. I guess there are some early prototypes available but no one has actually used one and lived to tell about it.
An amusing sidelight to this is that SonicWall is blocking anything with the term 'Facebook' in it. I was going to look at yesterday's Facebook thread here on Slashdot when I had a few, um, spare moments. I got this nice banner saying that the system was keeping me safe and clean and free from Internet Evil. Apparently it's just parsing the links looking for nasty words.
Nothing to see here, move along.....
only difference being that the "sexual favours" are called "marriage".
Now that's crazy talk.
To everybody whining about modern plots / Hollywood and the general decline of cinema: I have one and only one suggestion for you -
Zardoz.
Now shut up and thank whatever deity you pray to that we managed to survive the '70s.
There's also the stress of having your sancha let the cat out of the box in an angry tirade readable by your saintly grandmother and your judgmental next door neighbor.
This cat. Is it alive or dead?
They send the seller an anonymized email address for correspondence if necessary.
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter (using an anonymous email address, of course)
Amateur radio bands could do this. Of course, everybody has to get licensed. You could conceivably petition the FCC and similar organizations to open up a slot on say the 700 mHz band. You could do very low power mesh radio and get under the radar of the EMS spectrum licensing issues.
None of these are terribly practical for very large scale systems, but it isn't technically impossible.
Yes, but there is the whole "boy who cried wolf" aspect to constantly calling everything you don't like "fascism." Not everything presages the immanent collapse of American civilization. And the AC has a good point about people's cartoonish perception of good and evil.
Most of us don't have the tinfoil wrapped so tight as to worry about the immanent collapse of civilization but are nonetheless indeed worried about the downhill slide. Nothing new, America (and every other country, we aren't unique) has had runs of demagoguery throughout history. The proper reaction to that, IMHO, is to keep up the drumbeat and constantly point it out. Yes, it raises the volume but the very real danger of letting a civil society lapse into various levels of barbary is simply to great to ignore. You are of course, allowed to put on your goggles and just watch Disney, some of the rest of us are more than a little worried.
The black and white description of good and evil is something that has been a constant theme with humans since before Greek tragedies. I don't understand why many people want it to be such a diametric opposite since in the real world it is much more nuanced, but there you have it. It does serve to frame the argument and makes lovely sound bites. Hopefully enough people realize that it's a fiction, good for comic books, not so applicable to the real world.
OK, everybody can calm down.
According to Google translate it was the "Stoxnat" virus. Completely different critter entirely.
Nothing to see here, move along.
it stays crunchy, even in milk
No you fool. We're nowhere near that erudite. It's from a stupid breakfast cereal,
And any clue why Slashdot randomly doublespaces the way it displays my comments?
You're forgetting the /BurmaShave tag.
My understanding is if you have lots of money or a very good insurance plan then the US system is brilliant. Many rich people from elsewhere travel to the US to get treatment.
Problem is the definition of 'brilliant'. We certainly can spend a lot of money on you and do things. Whether or not the procedure or treatment improves or extends your life is an open question. All of those rich Saudis who come to the US to get pampered and treated end up dying like the rest of us peons. Perhaps the treatment gives them a bit longer (compared to 'standard' treatments) but there is little objective evidence to back up that claim.
On the other hand afaict the US has a system where afaict the poor aren't treated until they are in dire need and when their conditions get bad enough that they are finally treated indvidual hospitals have to pick up the bill rather than the taxpayer.
Actually, if you are really poor you can get on Medicaid - a public health care program funded by both states and the Federal government that covers all manner of expensive / extensive treatments - including nursing home care, something very, very few non wealthy people can afford.
It's the vast majority of people in between rich and poor that are getting nailed at present. Costs are rising dramatically, benefits are dropping. As this gets to be a bigger and bigger issue over the next decade or so, expect the US middle class to expect the Federal government to 'do something' about it. Except that, in a decade or so, the Federal government isn't going to have a very big purse to open up.
Oopsie.
(Now back to ranting about Glen Beck, which is already in progress.)
You do realize that Dell doesn't sell performance, they sell service and support, right?
"You need to reboot your PC."
The whole reason most enterprises choose Dell is not because of the best hardware (it almost never is), but because Dell offers (generally) very efficient replacement of defective parts including but not limited to "free" (the cost is rolled into the retail and/or separate extended warranty) on-site service.
"If that doesn't work, reinstall the operating system."
It minimizes the enterprise's downtime and costs for internal IT support overhead. Corporate IT doesn't care that Intel offers 10% better performance than AMD at double the cost, they care whether they can keep all their systems up with minimal support overhead and downtime.
"Thanks for calling Dell support - have a nice day."
A new Apple has been born.
Ah yes, the old Citrullus colocynthis
Just desserts.
A few months after we took Iraq, we secured and flew out almost 14 tons of Yellow Cake in 55 gallon drums, 4 to a pallet,on C-17's to Diego Garcia, where it was put on ships to other places. A year or two later 3 of our pilots came down with Lymphoma. Uncle Sam says it was unrelated...
Yellowcake isn't particularly radioactive. To get a significant exposure to radiation they would have had to essentially breath it.
Doesn't really matter for the purposes of this argument (that nefarious persons are subtly manipulating the market to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt). If the various markets move enough money, then manipulating the markets can cause problems.
My problem with the supposition that 'hackers' are trying to destabilize western economies by mucking with electronic markets is that it's too uncontrollable - unless you plan on doing something organized like take down the NYSE and the Nippon index (??) simultaneously, simply screwing around ala knocking out the European Carbon Market trading doesn't do a whole lot. Especially in light of the fact that the organizers of said markets seem to be hell bent on destroying everything by themselves.
If you live in a pen with a herd of psychotic rhinoceroses, does the fact that there are angry Jack Russel terriers wandering about make a difference?
But remember the military is very much part of the problem. The generals (and likely other upper level officers) have been bribed by giving them lucrative economic opportunities spanning the past 30 years. The generals are deeply entrenched in running the economy. An economy that really does not seem to benefit the 'average' Egyptian much. It is clearly in the military's best interest to stabilize the country - otherwise their investments (other than the money already taken out of the country) won't be worth all that much. How much they are willing to share the power is very much in question. They probably don't even know the answer.
One other wild card in this crazy, interlocked system is the Swiss banks. They have allegedly frozen some bank accounts belonging to Mubarak and ? others. If their is a significant amount of money extorted from Egypt lying in Swiss accounts (a likely scenario since everyone else seems to to do it) and if the Swiss start cracking down on that, then it significantly limits what individual Egyptian officers can get away with. They may have to make some concessions / deals / arrangements.
While this may be true, the leaders of the Egyptian military are very much a part of the kleptocracy which seems to be one of the major issues in the current revolution - the fact that the average Egyptian is getting economically mauled. It will be hard for those generals to relinquish their economic grip and further it will be extraordinarily hard to prevent the kleptocracy from merely playing musical chairs.
This is hardly unique to Egypt and is more likely to be a near universal issue. How to establish a basically just democratic rule-of-law country out of a chronically dysfunctional system is a question often brought up but rarely answered.
Rather hits close to home, doesn't it?
Oh, and
Burma Shave
A gentle comment to the mod that listed this as "Troll"
Reboot your brain.
Go back and read the Moderator Guidelines.
Rinse and repeat carefully.
Have a nice day.
I thought you were glad to see me. I guess that is just a phone in your pocket.
Yes, but the Amazonian lawyers (ooh, what a visual) will make Texas burn at least that much to get the money...
One breast, a bow and and a briefcase sends my brain some very mixed messages.
Segfault.
Electricity is a red herring. So little oil is used for electricity production that you can round it down to the nearest zero.
But the converse is not true - we can use electricity (hopefully from environmental reasonable sources) to replace much of what we use (non renewable) petroleum products.