There are four scenarios, assuming we agree to what "safe" is.
1. Visiting paypal using a safe browser
2. Visiting paypal using an unsafe browser
3. Visiting a pishing site using a safe browser
4. Visiting a pishing site using an unsafe browser
The immediate result is only affecting scenario 2, so there will be some loss of business.
In the long run, paypal expects users who hit the scenario 2 to switch to a safe browser. And paypal is big and important enough (whether we like it or not) for a reasonable number of users to do the switch.
Ok. Wikipedia is made of a bunch of "untrusted" individuals who has their own agendas.
Then who can be trusted? Mass media? They aren't made up of trusted individuals without any of their agendas either. Whenever there a subjective topic (say religion, god, Iraq war, free software) the individual's preferences come into play. And in fact, media organizations have their organizational agenda to add to individual agendas, which make them worse than Wikipedia.
Yep. It was on Shasldot, too. However, they didn't recall the cameras. Unfortunately, my good old Canon Powershot A70 also had one of those faulty Sony CCD sensors...:-(
This is really a slow news day when the news of a small developing nation declaring it a "open-source week" can make it to the front page. Anybody can declare it a "week", and unless there's some hard commitment and actions behind it it's not really news. I heard Elbonia may consider declaring open-source month, if slashdot editors are in need of news.
Like many others here, you are utterly confused or just trolling. According to your first sentense, this is not news because it's about a "small developing nation". In the second, it's because of your doubt (not even certainity) that there is no "action behind it".
And you think that governments declare these "Weeks" because they felt sorry about Slashdot editors who are desperately in need of news. Time to grow up...;-)
As I repeated somewhere else, my originally submitted title read "Sri Lanka Declares a FOSS Week", which was edited to "Sri Lanka Declares a Open Source Weak".
My original post did NOT have spelling mistakes and the title read "Sri Lanka Declares a FOSS Week". "Editing" it and posting is not in our hands, although it might spawn a perception that Sri Lankans have poor command of English.
Only a few has got computers here. But there are lot of activities happenning to change it. Including a project to put tens of thousands of GNU/Linux boxes in rural homes
Looks like many are thinking we are looking for FOSS as a cheap alternative, which is only a part of the story. We are more interested in the flexibility and independence than the cost itself.
And in terms of contribution, Sri Lanka hasn't been idle. For example, most of the Apahce Web Services contributers, including the lead, are living here.
The world population is about 6000 million people. Considering that not all of them read mail (e.g.: infants) it's not too way off to assume that average number of mails that a person can cope with is around 10.
If this box can deliver 30 million messages, 2000 of them are going to saturate the email limit the human civilization can handle (6000 x 10 = 60,000).
But there is a catch: this is under the assumption that all those 60 billion mails are not spam.
In other words, this record breaking "system" has no market in a spam-free world!
After the FSF call for volunteers, GNU Java compiler / VM has come of age. It was reported here, too. RedHat Fedora Core 4 even includes a native version (doesn't depend on JVM, but runs as a "normal" binary) of Eclipse, compiled with GCJ.
Slashdot Mirror
And 10 years later, Slashdot will report that the Boston University is suing, again.
"It's nothing personal, Jack. It's just good business."
Wonder if it is time for Linux to drop 2. prefix, like with Java.
There are four scenarios, assuming we agree to what "safe" is.
The immediate result is only affecting scenario 2, so there will be some loss of business.
In the long run, paypal expects users who hit the scenario 2 to switch to a safe browser. And paypal is big and important enough (whether we like it or not) for a reasonable number of users to do the switch.
Here is another comparison on the Linux Journal which compares tools such as rzip, lzop, lzma and 7za in addition to bzip2 and gzip.
Ok. Wikipedia is made of a bunch of "untrusted" individuals who has their own agendas.
Then who can be trusted? Mass media? They aren't made up of trusted individuals without any of their agendas either. Whenever there a subjective topic (say religion, god, Iraq war, free software) the individual's preferences come into play. And in fact, media organizations have their organizational agenda to add to individual agendas, which make them worse than Wikipedia.
Yep. It was on Shasldot, too. However, they didn't recall the cameras. Unfortunately, my good old Canon Powershot A70 also had one of those faulty Sony CCD sensors... :-(
...`elehmann.com', according to the note at the end of the article... ;-)
Like many others here, you are utterly confused or just trolling. According to your first sentense, this is not news because it's about a "small developing nation". In the second, it's because of your doubt (not even certainity) that there is no "action behind it".
And you think that governments declare these "Weeks" because they felt sorry about Slashdot editors who are desperately in need of news. Time to grow up... ;-)
As I repeated somewhere else, my originally submitted title read "Sri Lanka Declares a FOSS Week", which was edited to "Sri Lanka Declares a Open Source Weak".
You'll have to learn to count first. Enyone with some primary education knows the difference between 100 and 20 million.
My original post did NOT have spelling mistakes and the title read "Sri Lanka Declares a FOSS Week". "Editing" it and posting is not in our hands, although it might spawn a perception that Sri Lankans have poor command of English.
Only a few has got computers here. But there are lot of activities happenning to change it. Including a project to put tens of thousands of GNU/Linux boxes in rural homes
Looks like many are thinking we are looking for FOSS as a cheap alternative, which is only a part of the story. We are more interested in the flexibility and independence than the cost itself.
And in terms of contribution, Sri Lanka hasn't been idle. For example, most of the Apahce Web Services contributers, including the lead, are living here.
This is offtopic, but /. seem to have suddenly become read-only. Please mod me down if this is wrong.
The world population is about 6000 million people. Considering that not all of them read mail (e.g.: infants) it's not too way off to assume that average number of mails that a person can cope with is around 10.
If this box can deliver 30 million messages, 2000 of them are going to saturate the email limit the human civilization can handle (6000 x 10 = 60,000).
But there is a catch: this is under the assumption that all those 60 billion mails are not spam.
In other words, this record breaking "system" has no market in a spam-free world!
After the FSF call for volunteers, GNU Java compiler / VM has come of age. It was reported here, too. RedHat Fedora Core 4 even includes a native version (doesn't depend on JVM, but runs as a "normal" binary) of Eclipse, compiled with GCJ.
Does anyone know (or knew) what Interex is? ... ;-p
Check out Tight VNC and a good audio connection.
The article doesn't say anything about a patent, but it's highly unlikely for them not to seek one.
Posted here long ago; but the link in this article is more comprehensive.
Check out the bottom of my home page.