Some of the issues logged here are not that easy to solve - e.g. making Firefox pop up an Ubuntu-specific Flash installation prompt, rather than executing the YouTube JavaScript logic that pushes people towards an Adobe plugin site that actually does have a Linux plugin for Flash, but one that's much harder to install than an Ubuntu-packaged Flash plugin. It probably wouldn't be too hard to write an extension to bring up a custom message (like the pop up blocked one) when you visit a URL matching some regular expression. If Ubuntu shipped with that extension and some preset messages, such as one giving flash installation instructions when visiting Adobe's page, this problem could be alleviated. (And, IMHO, in a not hugely hacky way.)
Um. Half the National Merit scholars in the country? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Merit, "about 8,200 receive Merit Scholarship awards" (yes, Wikipedia is a horrible source --- but that matches pretty closely my memory from earlier this year when I got my letter...). I don't see how your tiny school could produce 4,100 scholarship winners.
No. The/etc/passwd file does not actually contain passwords, despite the name. It used to (hence the name), but hasn't in a while, since letting people read the hashes lets people brute force breaking the passwords a lot more easily (basically, hash every word in the dictionary, save it in a file, and compare those hashes against the one in the password file --- though this is less effective if salting is used).
You write: "I don't have any good simple answers, and I agree something should be done, as the present system is Byzantine and unfair, and probably needlessly expensive -- but a blind mandate from Congress that research results should be "freely" available, unless accompanied by some plausible, fully-funded plan to pay for making it available, is just more unreal lawyerly crap like legislating that all children must test above average, declaring poverty and stupidity illegal, requiring all cars to get a billion miles per gallon by 2025, or defining pi as 3."
From the summary: "The measure is contained in a spending bill that boosts the biomedical agency's effective budget by 3.1%, to $29.8 billion in 2008." So, about $1B extra is being allocated, partially (I assume) to pay for any extra costs.
Presumably, grant amounts would be increased slightly to pay for publication costs. Industry researchers can pick another journal which isn't all free to publish in (if any still exist) or their companies can absorb the extra costs (which, I suspect, are not all that high compared to the research costs, although I'm not sure).
Looking at my Ubuntu menus it isn't that hard: look under applications, the category, and then find an appropriate looking name.
Noob: What do I use to play CDs and MP3's? Ubuntu: Sound and Video -> Rhythmbox Music Player Noob: What do I use to edit photos? Ubuntu: Graphics -> GIMP Image Editor Noob: What do I use to play movies? Ubuntu: Sound and Video -> Movie Player Noob: How about for IMs? Ubuntu: Internet -> GAIM Internet Messenger Noob: Email? Ubuntu: Internet -> Evolution Mail (or Internet -> Thunderbird Mail if you installed that)
The menu entries above aren't the same as Microsoft et al.'s trademarked names, and they aren't the same as the words that you used, but they come darn close (generally common synonyms, like image versus photos). The program names themselves aren't quite as obvious as windows names, but the menu is when you need to find a program, and that does include descriptive, understandable names. I should admit, I suppose, that some of the descriptive portions aren't great --- I could conceive of somebody not handling "Internet Messenger" versus "Instant Messenger" well, I guess.
A student has 48 hours to respond to the
Information Security Office (ISO) and attend to the DMCA
complaint. If the student addresses the DMCA complaint within
that time, there will be no disconnection, and no reconnection
fee.
Seems like the equivalent of Stanford giving a ticket or something, letting you come to court to fight it, and if you don't assuming that you did. It doesn't say that you have to take down the material mentioned --- just that you have to reply. Presumably, sending a counternotice thingy would count as a response.
Sure, it might be nice if they gave you a little longer to respond in case you're out of town or something and not checking email, but generally this does seem reasonable.
Interesting tidbit at the end of TFA:According to testimony in preliminary hearings in the case, Nina Reiser had once dated Sturgeon, but broke off their relationship in January 2006 because she was unhappy with his lifestyle and taste for sadomasochism.
Sounds like they're all a bunch of real whackos! Am I the only one who immediately went and confirmed that bit wasn't a joke from the article?
Newspapers don't have zero marginal cost for later printings, but I suspect that the main cost is still for the first copy (reporters and editors versus programmers).
Read the website - both questions are answered in a short, 1 paragraph bit of text.
GPL:
>Though grsecurity is licensed under the GPL, I am
>the sole developer and originator of ideas for the
>project. Though it would be possible for others to
>handle maintenance of the project, the quality >won't be held to the same standards and will not
>progress with the same goals I have set for the
>project.
It is GPL licensed, but he doesn't think that it will keep being developed without him.
Hosting:
>I am not looking for help with hosting, as the
>hosting for grsecurity has been provided for free
>for over a year and a half and will continue to
>be provided unless the project has to end.
Sourceforge isn't useful since he already has free hosting.
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Um. Half the National Merit scholars in the country? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Merit, "about 8,200 receive Merit Scholarship awards" (yes, Wikipedia is a horrible source --- but that matches pretty closely my memory from earlier this year when I got my letter...). I don't see how your tiny school could produce 4,100 scholarship winners.
Oops. I definitely just moderated you "Overrated" when aiming for "Funny"...
No. The /etc/passwd file does not actually contain passwords, despite the name. It used to (hence the name), but hasn't in a while, since letting people read the hashes lets people brute force breaking the passwords a lot more easily (basically, hash every word in the dictionary, save it in a file, and compare those hashes against the one in the password file --- though this is less effective if salting is used).
From my password file:
That "x" after the first colon indicates that the password is stored elsewhere --- in /etc/shadow, which is not world-readable:
Um, funding?
You write: "I don't have any good simple answers, and I agree something should be done, as the present system is Byzantine and unfair, and probably needlessly expensive -- but a blind mandate from Congress that research results should be "freely" available, unless accompanied by some plausible, fully-funded plan to pay for making it available, is just more unreal lawyerly crap like legislating that all children must test above average, declaring poverty and stupidity illegal, requiring all cars to get a billion miles per gallon by 2025, or defining pi as 3."
From the summary: "The measure is contained in a spending bill that boosts the biomedical agency's effective budget by 3.1%, to $29.8 billion in 2008." So, about $1B extra is being allocated, partially (I assume) to pay for any extra costs.
Presumably, grant amounts would be increased slightly to pay for publication costs. Industry researchers can pick another journal which isn't all free to publish in (if any still exist) or their companies can absorb the extra costs (which, I suspect, are not all that high compared to the research costs, although I'm not sure).
Looking at my Ubuntu menus it isn't that hard: look under applications, the category, and then find an appropriate looking name.
Noob: What do I use to play CDs and MP3's?
Ubuntu: Sound and Video -> Rhythmbox Music Player
Noob: What do I use to edit photos?
Ubuntu: Graphics -> GIMP Image Editor
Noob: What do I use to play movies?
Ubuntu: Sound and Video -> Movie Player
Noob: How about for IMs?
Ubuntu: Internet -> GAIM Internet Messenger
Noob: Email?
Ubuntu: Internet -> Evolution Mail (or Internet -> Thunderbird Mail if you installed that)
The menu entries above aren't the same as Microsoft et al.'s trademarked names, and they aren't the same as the words that you used, but they come darn close (generally common synonyms, like image versus photos). The program names themselves aren't quite as obvious as windows names, but the menu is when you need to find a program, and that does include descriptive, understandable names. I should admit, I suppose, that some of the descriptive portions aren't great --- I could conceive of somebody not handling "Internet Messenger" versus "Instant Messenger" well, I guess.
Fair use?
Sounds like they're all a bunch of real whackos! Am I the only one who immediately went and confirmed that bit wasn't a joke from the article?
Newspapers don't have zero marginal cost for later printings, but I suspect that the main cost is still for the first copy (reporters and editors versus programmers).
sure you could reduce it down to just one button and a textbox. Command line interface would work great for photoshop (ie, draw(16,5))
Read the website - both questions are answered in a short, 1 paragraph bit of text. GPL: >Though grsecurity is licensed under the GPL, I am >the sole developer and originator of ideas for the >project. Though it would be possible for others to >handle maintenance of the project, the quality >won't be held to the same standards and will not >progress with the same goals I have set for the >project. It is GPL licensed, but he doesn't think that it will keep being developed without him. Hosting: >I am not looking for help with hosting, as the >hosting for grsecurity has been provided for free >for over a year and a half and will continue to >be provided unless the project has to end. Sourceforge isn't useful since he already has free hosting.