Indeed, although there is not much personal information on Slashdot. The problem is not that people have public lives, it is that Facebook greatly expands the scope of what is "public" while greatly diminishing the scope of what is "private." The information Facebook collects is much broader in scope than Slashdot, and extends beyond what people actively post on Facebook.
The Facebook website is one thing, the Like-buttons on thousands of websites, that's my biggest concern. Whenever you visit such a page, FB logs your visit because that button/script is loaded from their site. Whether you're logged into FB or not, they still log your visit and your IP-address. They obviously don't want you to know that they know which websites you visited and when. Maybe people on/. know about this, but 99% of the regular FB visitors probably don't.
Gates created the IBM PC as much as anyone who worked for IBM.
And without that decision, the clones would have used a DOS work-alike and maybe the OS monopoly would never have gotten established. But now I'm just speculating.
Without the DOS monopoly, there wouldn't have been much difference with the situation before the PC, with CP/M. That was a "standard" system, yet all computer brands had their own version.
Yep - I may regret my comment one day, I know. The fact is that I drive a bike for about 35 years now, without ever wearing a helmet, and nobody around here does. We're used to biking, and to bikes being on the road in between cars and trucks. It's in our blood. I bike more than I walk, and not for fun, just for practical reasons, and I'm not the only one.
I wonder what will be next. When will there be a law in the US requiring you to wear a helmet when walking outside?
The sharecar named "Witkar" small electric car , A'dam been there done that and got the T shirt..back in 1974
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witkar
Amsterdam did that, and the "witte fietsen" (white bikes) as well, and both failed. Last summer I was in Paris, and the Velib (the bike rental system) worked really well. You rent a bike for less than 2 euros a day (less if you take a subscription). If you take a bike, you can use it for half an hour for free, then you pay one euro, and the rate per half hour goes up to 4 euros. That seems absurd, but the goal is that people put the bikes back in half an hour, as that is probably enough for 90% of the rides. Plus it keeps the system alive.
I really enjoyed it, and it gave me a chance to view the city in another way. And no stupid helmets like in the US.
I hope this system will work for cars as well, electric or not. And then they should import it in Amsterdam.
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It would have been great to see them do some work towards importing excel macros into openoffice. Obviously there are ample good reasons not to do it; but plenty of reasons in favor of it as well. And really, anything that encourages MSOffice -> openoffice migration should get some attention, IMHO.
This is about ODF, not about OpenOffice. Aside from that, I think it would be wasted time. Importing macros means that you need to translate VBscript into something else. If you translate macros, there is always something that's not going to work. Those excel-scripts that some companies use can be very complex. You can never trust it completely without testing it extensively, and probably having to change a few things. Just that is enough for most IT-managers to decide not to use it. If OO would completely support vbscript, that would be another situation. Still - is there a change that a script won't work? People can be paranoid about this.
Now that I write this down, considering what people do with javascript nowadays, using javascript to emulate vbscript could be an option. That could be a nice project, for another organisation.
RTFA! It does not apply in the EU and several other countries, because there you have proper laws protecting customers from BS like this.
This provision applies to all consumers to the fullest extent allowable by law, but expressly excludes residents of Quebec, Russia, Switzerland and the Member States of the European Union.
Well, this sounds almost exactly like BeOS's Negotiated Drag and Drop. I remember Leo Laporte doing an episode of (IIRC) The Screensavers where he showed the BeOS, and demonstrated this by dragging an unsaved piece of data between three or four applications and manipulating it in each. But, all I could easily find was this classic scene from a demo video demonstrating the concept between Tracker (the desktop application) and the Book application.
BeOS? Or NeverHasBeenOS?! I remember when BeOS was a hype. Has it ever been more than that? Everytime it is mentioned, it seems like some GodOS, which had all and everything anybody could ever want.
Extensions stop working at random without any good reason and in record time. So many of us use Firefox over Chrome because of extensions.
This plan is just terrible.
Let them get up to Firefox 10, and then they can go back to the normal release schedule. That should take about 5 months. Then they're up to par with Microsoft, and that's what this is about isn't it?
Another trick I did is buy a label writer and label both ends of a cable (by wrapping the label around the wire so it is a little "banner"). I do this for my power supplies, so I see which plug belongs in which device on top of the table, and which power supply I have to unplug (particularly useful if you have several hard disks from the same manufacturer, or ones where the power supply comes from a completely different company).
I label power adapters with the name of the device it belongs to. I once used a power adapter from a photo printer on an external harddrive, and that was the end of it. And I label (usb) cables at work that belong to me.
No kidding...with my clients I had exactly 1 that is using office 2010, all of the others actually went backwards to office 2003 after the ribbon stuff gave secretaries fits. I had one spend nearly 10 grand only to go back to the old version about 6 months later, they just couldnt adjust macros were broken, templates had issues, it was a mess.
You spent 10K while you can download a patch for $20? See http://toolbartoggle.com/ or google for a ribbon replacement.
There's an add-on for Firefox called Certificate Patrol which does precisely that - it even shows you the diff between the old and new certificate. Alas, it still requires constant vigilance - Joe Random User will click through any warning, no matter how scary, if promised scantily clad dancing bunnies.
Thank you for this tip! Very useful in getting a little bit more grip on the whole situation.
I say that as a dutchman. I'm ashamed to be from the same country as these bozos.
Did you read the pastebin? He hacked Diginotar specifically because of Srebrenica 16 years ago. Something else to be ashamed of. And I'm not ashamed about these Diginotar bozos. The Dutch government should be blamed here for trusting them completely. If Fox-it could find all these problems within a week, why didn't the government find out earlier?
I can see a future where mobile phones are powerfull enough to do anything, even for developers and video editors. It just needs a bigger monitor, mouse and a fullsize keyboard in those situations. That's easily provided with wireless connections. Maybe it's not based on PC-architecture (386-like), but I guess that's not the issue here.
but any of the more popular Linux distro keeps on pumping out security updates and will likely do so for years to come.
ROFL, XP may be nearing the end of it's lifecycle but should keep getting security updates until april 2014. Afaict ubuntu lucid will stop getting security updates for desktop software in april 2013.
If you want long support lifecycles on linux you really need to get into RHEL and it's rebuilds.
Lucid updates stop in 2013, but then you upgrade for free to 13.04. So that's no problem, except maybe for Unity. Still I would go for XP. When it's 2014, the PC will probably be too old anyway.
and put it in my Nexus S to tether - so I guess it isn't a jailbroken device, right?
You didn't do that on a Verizon phone.
Why would anyone buy a Nexus S phone from a phone carrier? That would be plain stupid, as the one big advantage of having a Nexus phone (getting the latest updates from Google) is gone when a phone carrier like Verizon puts its own tweaked version of Android on the phone.
Blackberry most likely feels being proactive is better than waiting to be subpoenaed and looking like they are protecting looters and criminals.
Yeah right!!! Proactive!:-P
This applies to T-Mobile and Vodafone and all phone and internet providers. Do they look like they are protecting "criminals"? Because right now somewhere somebody is planning a crime over the phone. I hope you see where I'm going.
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Indeed, although there is not much personal information on Slashdot. The problem is not that people have public lives, it is that Facebook greatly expands the scope of what is "public" while greatly diminishing the scope of what is "private." The information Facebook collects is much broader in scope than Slashdot, and extends beyond what people actively post on Facebook.
The Facebook website is one thing, the Like-buttons on thousands of websites, that's my biggest concern. Whenever you visit such a page, FB logs your visit because that button/script is loaded from their site. Whether you're logged into FB or not, they still log your visit and your IP-address. They obviously don't want you to know that they know which websites you visited and when. Maybe people on /. know about this, but 99% of the regular FB visitors probably don't.
Gates created the IBM PC as much as anyone who worked for IBM.
And without that decision, the clones would have used a DOS work-alike and maybe the OS monopoly would never have gotten established. But now I'm just speculating.
Without the DOS monopoly, there wouldn't have been much difference with the situation before the PC, with CP/M. That was a "standard" system, yet all computer brands had their own version.
You actually use the apps?
Not very many.
One is enough for them!
This IS a bug. As in "I think this phone is bugged".
This is a bug as in "it's bugging us that we were caught".
I'm sorry to say that you're mistaken. Please read up some more on how and for what people use Haskell, before saying such things (without proof).
If I enter "Haskell" in Monsterboard, I get zero results. You probably refer to academic work, but where in the commercial world is Haskell used?
Yep - I may regret my comment one day, I know. The fact is that I drive a bike for about 35 years now, without ever wearing a helmet, and nobody around here does. We're used to biking, and to bikes being on the road in between cars and trucks. It's in our blood. I bike more than I walk, and not for fun, just for practical reasons, and I'm not the only one.
I wonder what will be next. When will there be a law in the US requiring you to wear a helmet when walking outside?
Amsterdam 1974:
The sharecar named "Witkar" small electric car , A'dam been there done that and got the T shirt..back in 1974
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witkar
Amsterdam did that, and the "witte fietsen" (white bikes) as well, and both failed. Last summer I was in Paris, and the Velib (the bike rental system) worked really well. You rent a bike for less than 2 euros a day (less if you take a subscription). If you take a bike, you can use it for half an hour for free, then you pay one euro, and the rate per half hour goes up to 4 euros. That seems absurd, but the goal is that people put the bikes back in half an hour, as that is probably enough for 90% of the rides. Plus it keeps the system alive.
I really enjoyed it, and it gave me a chance to view the city in another way. And no stupid helmets like in the US.
I hope this system will work for cars as well, electric or not. And then they should import it in Amsterdam.
It would have been great to see them do some work towards importing excel macros into openoffice. Obviously there are ample good reasons not to do it; but plenty of reasons in favor of it as well. And really, anything that encourages MSOffice -> openoffice migration should get some attention, IMHO.
This is about ODF, not about OpenOffice. Aside from that, I think it would be wasted time. Importing macros means that you need to translate VBscript into something else. If you translate macros, there is always something that's not going to work. Those excel-scripts that some companies use can be very complex. You can never trust it completely without testing it extensively, and probably having to change a few things. Just that is enough for most IT-managers to decide not to use it. If OO would completely support vbscript, that would be another situation. Still - is there a change that a script won't work? People can be paranoid about this.
Now that I write this down, considering what people do with javascript nowadays, using javascript to emulate vbscript could be an option. That could be a nice project, for another organisation.
I also see stuff like fatheads (life size posters http://www.fathead.com/) being a popular circumvention devices.
I think a RealDoll would be the best circumvention.
Remember: when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
You hit the nail right on the head!
RTFA! It does not apply in the EU and several other countries, because there you have proper laws protecting customers from BS like this.
This provision applies to all consumers to the fullest extent allowable by law, but expressly excludes residents of Quebec, Russia, Switzerland and the Member States of the European Union.
Read more: http://www.ngohq.com/news/20584-eas-new-user-agreement-bans-lawsuits.html#ixzz1YsQpy5t2
Well, this sounds almost exactly like BeOS's Negotiated Drag and Drop. I remember Leo Laporte doing an episode of (IIRC) The Screensavers where he showed the BeOS, and demonstrated this by dragging an unsaved piece of data between three or four applications and manipulating it in each. But, all I could easily find was this classic scene from a demo video demonstrating the concept between Tracker (the desktop application) and the Book application.
BeOS? Or NeverHasBeenOS?! I remember when BeOS was a hype. Has it ever been more than that? Everytime it is mentioned, it seems like some GodOS, which had all and everything anybody could ever want.
We're ready for less competition! Bring it on!
And merging means no extra bandwidth, so what problem does it solve?
Extensions stop working at random without any good reason and in record time. So many of us use Firefox over Chrome because of extensions.
This plan is just terrible.
Let them get up to Firefox 10, and then they can go back to the normal release schedule. That should take about 5 months. Then they're up to par with Microsoft, and that's what this is about isn't it?
Another trick I did is buy a label writer and label both ends of a cable (by wrapping the label around the wire so it is a little "banner"). I do this for my power supplies, so I see which plug belongs in which device on top of the table, and which power supply I have to unplug (particularly useful if you have several hard disks from the same manufacturer, or ones where the power supply comes from a completely different company).
I label power adapters with the name of the device it belongs to. I once used a power adapter from a photo printer on an external harddrive, and that was the end of it. And I label (usb) cables at work that belong to me.
How are we supposed to kill it if it's self-healing? Now it will never die!
Wait until Microsoft buys it, then give it another year or two...
No kidding...with my clients I had exactly 1 that is using office 2010, all of the others actually went backwards to office 2003 after the ribbon stuff gave secretaries fits. I had one spend nearly 10 grand only to go back to the old version about 6 months later, they just couldnt adjust macros were broken, templates had issues, it was a mess.
You spent 10K while you can download a patch for $20? See http://toolbartoggle.com/ or google for a ribbon replacement.
Does it work with the iPhone4 ?
The Iphone ís the beer can!
There's an add-on for Firefox called Certificate Patrol which does precisely that - it even shows you the diff between the old and new certificate. Alas, it still requires constant vigilance - Joe Random User will click through any warning, no matter how scary, if promised scantily clad dancing bunnies.
Thank you for this tip! Very useful in getting a little bit more grip on the whole situation.
I say that as a dutchman. I'm ashamed to be from the same country as these bozos.
Did you read the pastebin? He hacked Diginotar specifically because of Srebrenica 16 years ago. Something else to be ashamed of. And I'm not ashamed about these Diginotar bozos. The Dutch government should be blamed here for trusting them completely. If Fox-it could find all these problems within a week, why didn't the government find out earlier?
These guys will be next. A black rectangular design with a fruit on it? Who do they think they are fooling?
I think they fooled you! It's a tomato, you fruitcake!
I can see a future where mobile phones are powerfull enough to do anything, even for developers and video editors. It just needs a bigger monitor, mouse and a fullsize keyboard in those situations. That's easily provided with wireless connections. Maybe it's not based on PC-architecture (386-like), but I guess that's not the issue here.
but any of the more popular Linux distro keeps on pumping out security updates and will likely do so for years to come.
ROFL, XP may be nearing the end of it's lifecycle but should keep getting security updates until april 2014. Afaict ubuntu lucid will stop getting security updates for desktop software in april 2013.
If you want long support lifecycles on linux you really need to get into RHEL and it's rebuilds.
Lucid updates stop in 2013, but then you upgrade for free to 13.04. So that's no problem, except maybe for Unity. Still I would go for XP. When it's 2014, the PC will probably be too old anyway.
and put it in my Nexus S to tether - so I guess it isn't a jailbroken device, right?
You didn't do that on a Verizon phone.
Why would anyone buy a Nexus S phone from a phone carrier? That would be plain stupid, as the one big advantage of having a Nexus phone (getting the latest updates from Google) is gone when a phone carrier like Verizon puts its own tweaked version of Android on the phone.
Blackberry most likely feels being proactive is better than waiting to be subpoenaed and looking like they are protecting looters and criminals.
Yeah right!!! Proactive! :-P
This applies to T-Mobile and Vodafone and all phone and internet providers. Do they look like they are protecting "criminals"? Because right now somewhere somebody is planning a crime over the phone. I hope you see where I'm going.