Note that he said commenting out the call to the relevant section, rather than commenting out all the functions. Does this actually cause the scene not to be included?
In addition, the scene and so on were probably included as a data file or files, and would probably not require much activation.
Not only that, but it should probably be deemed unfair in court anyway. Unable to do a personal website? That's not even related, unless he spits out a load of secrets on it. The company is being unfair and/or paranoid.
Maybe it is unblockable, but for me it's not a case of it being blocked; it flat out doesn't work. The page appears to reload, and I get an uncaught exception in the Javascript window. I don't know exactly what's wrong because I'm not much of a JS programmer, but I know what I see!
We can blame anyone who looked at the code and didn't pick it up. However, it's admirable that the creator is telling us to uninstall or upgrade to a 'neutered' version so quickly. I don't know whether the creator himself actually discovered the bug, but it may well have been found later were it not for mozdev + co.
The point I was actually making about mozdev is that you shouldn't get malicious extensions hanging about there. Anything that is a security hazard is hopefully going to be an accidental one.
I use Tab Mix and Duplicate tab. This allows me to choose where new tabs load, and which tab to switch to when they close, allows me to scroll through tabs with the scroll wheel, have load bars in the tabs themselves, and colour unread tabs differently to read ones.
They're not essential, but they make my browsing life a lot more pleasant!
The first one opens a new tab in the background. It does not interrupt my browsing experience, I can remove it when I want to. More importantly, it only occurs when I click that link. If I simply turn up on a site, I don't get a flood of popups immediately obscuring my view of the content.
As for the second one, guess what? It doesn't work at all. Sorry, mate!
Children stop playing House at... what - 8? If a parent is exposing her children to GTA at age 8, then of course it is going to have (probably extremely) an effect on the child. However, most kids come into contact with these games in their teenage years, if they play them early. By this time, the parent should have taught them the difference between reality and imagination, and they should be able to take part in things without copying it. This is the worse deficit in parenting, not that they're allowing their children access to video games.
Well, I have to disagree. If you're a parent that needs to restrict your child's access to video games in order to get him or her to not be violent, it's probably too late anyway. The real intervention ought to happen when the child is learning the difference between virtuality and reality, and ingraining moral codes. If this isn't taught and taught well, then violence may well get them anyway, depending on psychological disposition.
The point is, the age thing is in no way hard-and-fast. First of all, people mature at different rates, therefore what is suitable for one kid may not be suitable for the next. More importantly, right and wrong can be taught at nearly any age, and if it is taught properly, it is highly unlikely that something such as a video game could through a child off the straight and narrow. Certainly, for someone who's either mentally disposed to psychopathy, or for someone whose parents have not taught proper behaviour and so on, video games can have a very detrimental effect, but it's not the game that is the problem.
I am 16, and play GTA. What I do in the game has no relation to what I do in reality, except perhaps talking about the experience with friends. Killing without fear of retribution is separate enough from reality for me that I can run people over and beat their bloodied corpses while laughing my head off, and not carry that into the real world. At the same time, this gets pretty boring after a while; the real fun comes in doing missions and doing challenging or cool stuff in the sandbox environment. If I can pull off an insane stunt, or go out with a bang, the killing is interesting. The killing itself is actually not the meat of the sandwich.
There are more realistic games than GTA, but if it is a situation where death is particularly graphic, it's sickening, not enjoyable. If someone finds graphic death fun or amusing, then they're just getting kicks for their mental condition.
Troll? What the hell, it's pure fact. What an army does is violent, and when an army advertises joining it is advocating it. Perhaps at a limited level, but that's irrelevant.
That's not what the GP is getting at. I don't see how most extensions need permissions outside of their own extension directory, never mind the whole machine (although the flaw might not allow access to -r files) I wonder whether any extensions would actually conflict terribly with this?
Hmm, I guess chromEdit would require access to the user's firefox directory as a whole...
It's not that minimal, really. And if you stick to extensions from mozdev.org then there's an auditing body for you, as well. Most of the useful extensions are high profile, anyway, and so they are screened by more people, because you only really need a few to actually make Firefox significantly slicker (Adblock, Bugmenot, Web developer, some kind of Tab extension)
Yes, but I'm not forcing it upon you or wrenching you from your pet package manager. It's a difference of opinion, for crying out loud.
It is already advantageous to have a consolidation as I've said (and you've ignored, still only presenting the same choice reason)
Just because one approach was chosen, wouldn't mean it's the best.
So it was you that said the best plan would be adopted naturally, was it? Hmm. Seems there's some fouled up logic going on. I don't know what you mean by "naturally" since a consolidation will have to be a concerted effort, otherwise it will fail. If that's unnatural, well oh dear, because it's the only way it's going to happen.
Excuse you?
Excuse me, I think the Nazis had a 5-Year plan as part of their economy. If I'm wrong, then you're still analogising me to a dictator, so I think you are fairer game for Godwin's law. Incidentally, it doesn't specify what happens when the law is fulfilled, only that a Nazi analogy will take place.
A decentralised approach will not always result in the best outcome. Therefore at some point, there will have to be centralised approaches, in order to make Linux the best it can be. Interestingly, I don't notice you complaining about how there's one unified kernel, restricting people's choices to Linux. Not quite the same, of course, but nonetheless something to think on.
Look harder.
Since I've looked quite hard, and you've not come up with any insurmountable differences, you might want to convince me that your point is justified.
...many incompatible systems...
Incompatible? Unlikely. Perhaps one will have features another lacks, but they would still be able to receive each other's packages. I still can't see what massive differences there could be between potential systems, anyway.
Volunteers don't usually work on software projects that aren't used.
But if choice is better, then they will be used, won't they? Or are we back to our natural progression again?
If you really still can't stand the idea of the distros working together on something, then perhaps you'd like a system whereby the original (mostly, IMHO, redundant) systems remain the same, with only a unified frontend. You wouldn't get the advantage of unified repositories, but everything would still be interoperable. Unless you don't want interoperability, which is possible.
What I find idiotic is that over the age of about 7, all kids are exposed to virtually every single offensive word under the sun, and probably have a wider range than the adults, possibly excepting the supposedly big bad c-word. Once kids have been slapped around once or twice for using such words in polite company, they begin to know when it is and isn't appropriate.
I use Ubuntu, partly for that very reason. I also went from FC(3) to Ubuntu, and not only found the lack of extra fluff refreshing, but found the great speed increase surprising. For a heavily GUI-orientated distro, Ubuntu does extremely well in keeping the weight down. So much so that applications themselves load noticeably quicker than they did in FC3.
Now if only they'd do inter-release updates without having to resort to backports.
Even better. Aah, CLI genius... Can even link it to a script, except there's a few things there that are depended on by source built apps, aMSN and the like.
More likely they'll ship it by default. You saw the image of all the lower case letters, right? since the number keys don't have their shift-function on at the same time, it would make more sense that way.
Point taken... I guess, though, that the technology will probably come at some, point, but not soon enough even for slashdot talk... Until then, I guess a tablet PC is the best bet, as long as it has enough oomph to get the job done.
ooooh, I can't stand 4CD installs... It's far easier to install what you need to uninstall what you don't (for me) because of dependencies. Unless someone has a solution for what to do about the dependency problem - when you install something and need some library, how to know which libraries to get rid of later?
For the moment, at least for me (AMD 2800, 512Mb RAM) Gnome is fine (no idea about KDE,) and I value the configurability of it. Certainly, there are some things that could do with cutting down, and sure there are always config files, but it's always nice to have a soft, cushiony GUI config app if you only need to do something quick.
Since when did you surf the internet with your iPod? If you use a tablet PC in the same manner as an iPod, but for watching movies, this statement is completely irrelevant, as well as the fact that it won't get infected if you make attempts to secure the thing.
What would be interesting for me, with up and coming e-paper, a literally "fold out" screen. The colours are vibrant, it doesn't take much power and they're already working up to an A4 version. Even if it remained at A5, you'd be able, hypothetically, to hook up several of them and simply fold them up to A5 size when finished.
A5 isn't much larger than the current handheld device, but A4 most definitely is, and all you need is appropriate software and you could link a couple together to end up with something like a newspaper size sheet. Stand it up on one of those train tables, or hang it from the seat in front - it'd be the best you could make out of such a situation, what with space constraints. You wouldn't want it too large, anyway, since you'd be pretty close.
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In addition, the scene and so on were probably included as a data file or files, and would probably not require much activation.
Not only that, but it should probably be deemed unfair in court anyway. Unable to do a personal website? That's not even related, unless he spits out a load of secrets on it. The company is being unfair and/or paranoid.
Maybe it is unblockable, but for me it's not a case of it being blocked; it flat out doesn't work. The page appears to reload, and I get an uncaught exception in the Javascript window. I don't know exactly what's wrong because I'm not much of a JS programmer, but I know what I see!
The point I was actually making about mozdev is that you shouldn't get malicious extensions hanging about there. Anything that is a security hazard is hopefully going to be an accidental one.
They're not essential, but they make my browsing life a lot more pleasant!
As for the second one, guess what? It doesn't work at all. Sorry, mate!
Children stop playing House at... what - 8? If a parent is exposing her children to GTA at age 8, then of course it is going to have (probably extremely) an effect on the child. However, most kids come into contact with these games in their teenage years, if they play them early. By this time, the parent should have taught them the difference between reality and imagination, and they should be able to take part in things without copying it. This is the worse deficit in parenting, not that they're allowing their children access to video games.
The point is, the age thing is in no way hard-and-fast. First of all, people mature at different rates, therefore what is suitable for one kid may not be suitable for the next. More importantly, right and wrong can be taught at nearly any age, and if it is taught properly, it is highly unlikely that something such as a video game could through a child off the straight and narrow. Certainly, for someone who's either mentally disposed to psychopathy, or for someone whose parents have not taught proper behaviour and so on, video games can have a very detrimental effect, but it's not the game that is the problem.
I am 16, and play GTA. What I do in the game has no relation to what I do in reality, except perhaps talking about the experience with friends. Killing without fear of retribution is separate enough from reality for me that I can run people over and beat their bloodied corpses while laughing my head off, and not carry that into the real world. At the same time, this gets pretty boring after a while; the real fun comes in doing missions and doing challenging or cool stuff in the sandbox environment. If I can pull off an insane stunt, or go out with a bang, the killing is interesting. The killing itself is actually not the meat of the sandwich.
There are more realistic games than GTA, but if it is a situation where death is particularly graphic, it's sickening, not enjoyable. If someone finds graphic death fun or amusing, then they're just getting kicks for their mental condition.
Troll? What the hell, it's pure fact. What an army does is violent, and when an army advertises joining it is advocating it. Perhaps at a limited level, but that's irrelevant.
Hmm, I guess chromEdit would require access to the user's firefox directory as a whole...
It's not that minimal, really. And if you stick to extensions from mozdev.org then there's an auditing body for you, as well. Most of the useful extensions are high profile, anyway, and so they are screened by more people, because you only really need a few to actually make Firefox significantly slicker (Adblock, Bugmenot, Web developer, some kind of Tab extension)
Just don't ask me to prepare your food ;)
Yes, but I'm not forcing it upon you or wrenching you from your pet package manager. It's a difference of opinion, for crying out loud.
It is already advantageous to have a consolidation as I've said (and you've ignored, still only presenting the same choice reason)
Just because one approach was chosen, wouldn't mean it's the best.
So it was you that said the best plan would be adopted naturally, was it? Hmm. Seems there's some fouled up logic going on. I don't know what you mean by "naturally" since a consolidation will have to be a concerted effort, otherwise it will fail. If that's unnatural, well oh dear, because it's the only way it's going to happen.
Excuse you?
Excuse me, I think the Nazis had a 5-Year plan as part of their economy. If I'm wrong, then you're still analogising me to a dictator, so I think you are fairer game for Godwin's law. Incidentally, it doesn't specify what happens when the law is fulfilled, only that a Nazi analogy will take place.
A decentralised approach will not always result in the best outcome. Therefore at some point, there will have to be centralised approaches, in order to make Linux the best it can be. Interestingly, I don't notice you complaining about how there's one unified kernel, restricting people's choices to Linux. Not quite the same, of course, but nonetheless something to think on.
Look harder.
Since I've looked quite hard, and you've not come up with any insurmountable differences, you might want to convince me that your point is justified.
Incompatible? Unlikely. Perhaps one will have features another lacks, but they would still be able to receive each other's packages. I still can't see what massive differences there could be between potential systems, anyway.
Volunteers don't usually work on software projects that aren't used.
But if choice is better, then they will be used, won't they? Or are we back to our natural progression again?
If you really still can't stand the idea of the distros working together on something, then perhaps you'd like a system whereby the original (mostly, IMHO, redundant) systems remain the same, with only a unified frontend. You wouldn't get the advantage of unified repositories, but everything would still be interoperable. Unless you don't want interoperability, which is possible.
What I find idiotic is that over the age of about 7, all kids are exposed to virtually every single offensive word under the sun, and probably have a wider range than the adults, possibly excepting the supposedly big bad c-word. Once kids have been slapped around once or twice for using such words in polite company, they begin to know when it is and isn't appropriate.
Now if only they'd do inter-release updates without having to resort to backports.
Even better. Aah, CLI genius... Can even link it to a script, except there's a few things there that are depended on by source built apps, aMSN and the like.
A tablet PC, when it's not a laptop with a rotatable lid, doesn't have the keyboard part, is lighter and has less depth.
More likely they'll ship it by default. You saw the image of all the lower case letters, right? since the number keys don't have their shift-function on at the same time, it would make more sense that way.
Point taken... I guess, though, that the technology will probably come at some, point, but not soon enough even for slashdot talk... Until then, I guess a tablet PC is the best bet, as long as it has enough oomph to get the job done.
Until such a time as I have the opportunity to try out gentoo (which, hopefully, I'll get around to) I'd prefer a debian-orientated solution :)
ooooh, I can't stand 4CD installs... It's far easier to install what you need to uninstall what you don't (for me) because of dependencies. Unless someone has a solution for what to do about the dependency problem - when you install something and need some library, how to know which libraries to get rid of later?
For the moment, at least for me (AMD 2800, 512Mb RAM) Gnome is fine (no idea about KDE,) and I value the configurability of it. Certainly, there are some things that could do with cutting down, and sure there are always config files, but it's always nice to have a soft, cushiony GUI config app if you only need to do something quick.
500 Million and they're still overcharging everyone in the EU and, in particular, the UK. (US: $0.99, EU: $1.20, UK: $1.40)
Since when did you surf the internet with your iPod? If you use a tablet PC in the same manner as an iPod, but for watching movies, this statement is completely irrelevant, as well as the fact that it won't get infected if you make attempts to secure the thing.
A5 isn't much larger than the current handheld device, but A4 most definitely is, and all you need is appropriate software and you could link a couple together to end up with something like a newspaper size sheet. Stand it up on one of those train tables, or hang it from the seat in front - it'd be the best you could make out of such a situation, what with space constraints. You wouldn't want it too large, anyway, since you'd be pretty close.