Nobody likes Flash, and they probably shouldn't use it for anything. But there's not much wrong with PDF, if it's done right. When publishing something, one could offer "source" (some sane, machine-readable format) and PDF (autogenerated from the source, and prettified for easier reading).
PDF shouldn't be used as a way to encapsulate scanned JPEGs and pretend they're a real electronic document.
I would also note that many of the complaints about PDF as a format in TFA are really complaints about Adobe's abysmal PDF reading software. For example, the concern about the visually impaired: KDE's Okular does speech synthesis and has a high-contrast mode.
Would that be the British people who pay a TV license to the BBC which is accused of being the broadcasting arm of the Labour party?
That accusation was made most recently by the head of the BNP (British cryptofascists), so take it with a pinch of salt. It is, however, occasionally, although certainly not always (see the "sexed up" scandal which ended with Greg Dykes resignation), biased towards the British Government (whatever that may be at that time).
Also, the BBC news website seems less pro-government than the TV news, and the BBC World Service* is arguably the most genuinely impartial news source in the world.
I think a better idea would be 'no advertising from this company in the united states for a period of at least 2 years and another year of probation' plus a monetary penalty. That would fit the crime.
Maybe the woman from TFA could get a restraining order, preventing Toyota from placing any adverts she might possibly see? After all, the usual resolution of stalking cases is to forbid the perpetrator from contacting the victim in any way.
It seems that it was just a general "receive spam from us" opt-in. Toyota apparently believes that if you give somebody your number, you're asking for them to stalk you.
This also makes me wonder; maybe she had something to hide because she got so scared?
Agreed, a normal person who'd never done anything wrong would obviously assume an anonymous stranger threatening them was playing a prank on behalf of a large company. The vast majority of stalking cases are like that, and innocent people are never targeted by crazy people for no reason.
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I know that there are great people working for the company, and I know many people inside Microsoft that are steering the company towards being a community citizen. I have blogged about this for the last few years.
I agree wholeheartedly that it is highly unlikely that Microsoft will seize any opportunity it gets to do annoying things specially to break open projects. Again.
For most of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the opening credits consisted of the Liberty Bell March played over surreal animations from Terry G., with the last note replaced by a loud `squish' sound as a giant foot squashed the rest of the animated stuff.
I didn't make a moral judgement in that post. I just said that Israel having nuclear weapons isn't necessarily evidence that it is easy for any middle-eastern country to acquire them.
Israel is a secular democracy, the only one of its kind in the middle east.
Israel isn't a secular state, and a country which declares a large subset of the people it controls not to be citizens isn't a democracy (see apartheid South Africa, again).
Yes, but Israel deserves a much higher level of trust than Iran. Even in the 1973 war, when Israel was facing defeat - and a defeat would have meant, literally, annihilation - Israel did not use its nukes (and it almost certainly had them by then).
In that war, Israel threatened to use nuclear weapons as a last resort, causing the US to send aid to make sure the war didn't reach that point.
Iran, on the other hand - a country which has a president that denies the Holocaust while inviting the world's most well known Holocaust-deniers and general racists to visit for conferences, a country which rigs elections in such an obvious way that even its own citizens are aware of it, a nation whose people are taken away and never seen again should they say anything to challenge the president or "Supreme Leader" - cannot be trusted to not use its nuclear weapons.
I don't like Ahmadinejad, and I don't like many recent Israeli leaders either. There are stupid fuckers on both sides who'd like to kill people for having a different religion. Read about the Qibya massacre, and tell me Sharon was any saner than Ahmadinejad.
Israel is a rogue state too, has in the past been prevented from using nuclear weapons pretty narrowly (and only by a superpower doing exactly what it was told), and could easily elect another genocidal nutcase.
Personally, I'm not sure any human can be trusted with nuclear weapons, but Israel seems to be a greater danger than most other nuclear states.
Should we really be so shocked? Haven't nuclear weapons been present in the middle east for over 3 decades now, in Israel?
True, but not really relevant. Israel had significant help from France, an existing nuclear power, and apartheid South Africa, which was presumably closer to nuclear weapons at that point (the apartheid government destroyed its warheads shortly before it left power, and subsequent governments have shown no interest in rebuilding them). It seems improbable that the West is currently helping Iran.
Of course, while it doesn't have a bearing on how easy it is to build them, Israeli nuclear weapons do cause other countries in the area to want nuclear weapons, and provide then with an excuse.
It's perfectly possible to design a basic nuclear weapon with freely-available information today. Any country large enough to have competent physicists and engineers could do it.
Obtaining raw materials is the problem.
There was a project in the US, the name of which I forget (could someone furnish us with a link?), in which a group of scientists with no background in nuclear weapon design and no access to classified information were asked to design a nuclear weapon. They then had experts with access to nuclear test data and so on to analyse the plans and determine whether they would work. The results were classified, but so were the plans, suggesting they worked.
The Tsar Bomba was an airburst, although the 5-mile-wide fireball did (just) make contact with the ground. Castle Bravo was a groundburst. There is rock on the ground, but not in the air.
Jack Thompson is clearly part of the murderous conspiracy of video game manufacturers, paid to destroy Jack Thompson's reputation. Jack Thompson should sue Jack Thompson for a bajillion dollars.
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The majority of those issues would be fixed by publishing LaTeX sources next to the PDFs generated from them.
Nobody likes Flash, and they probably shouldn't use it for anything. But there's not much wrong with PDF, if it's done right. When publishing something, one could offer "source" (some sane, machine-readable format) and PDF (autogenerated from the source, and prettified for easier reading).
PDF shouldn't be used as a way to encapsulate scanned JPEGs and pretend they're a real electronic document.
I would also note that many of the complaints about PDF as a format in TFA are really complaints about Adobe's abysmal PDF reading software. For example, the concern about the visually impaired: KDE's Okular does speech synthesis and has a high-contrast mode.
That accusation was made most recently by the head of the BNP (British cryptofascists), so take it with a pinch of salt. It is, however, occasionally, although certainly not always (see the "sexed up" scandal which ended with Greg Dykes resignation), biased towards the British Government (whatever that may be at that time).
Also, the BBC news website seems less pro-government than the TV news, and the BBC World Service* is arguably the most genuinely impartial news source in the world.
Rolling-release distros are awesome. Maybe you should try one.
Why? Is anybody still making consumer boxes that can run this? Does the OS support MMUs yet?
I can only see this being interesting of the source is released and ported to things.
Maybe the woman from TFA could get a restraining order, preventing Toyota from placing any adverts she might possibly see? After all, the usual resolution of stalking cases is to forbid the perpetrator from contacting the victim in any way.
This site sometimes breaks major news sites.
OTOH, this may not actually be a news site.
It seems that it was just a general "receive spam from us" opt-in. Toyota apparently believes that if you give somebody your number, you're asking for them to stalk you.
Agreed, a normal person who'd never done anything wrong would obviously assume an anonymous stranger threatening them was playing a prank on behalf of a large company. The vast majority of stalking cases are like that, and innocent people are never targeted by crazy people for no reason.
Seriously though, WTF are you talking about?
What is wrong with LGPL?
Did you just suggest emulating embedded hardware using python?
My ID is well over that, and I initially presumed they were talking about some other Kernighan because they felt the need to introduce him.
Funny doesn't give karma, so mods sometimes use the other options, to make sure someone doesn't lose karma by getting, for example, four Funny moderations and one Troll moderation. Usually they use "Underrated" though.
I agree wholeheartedly that it is highly unlikely that Microsoft will seize any opportunity it gets to do annoying things specially to break open projects. Again.
For most of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the opening credits consisted of the Liberty Bell March played over surreal animations from Terry G., with the last note replaced by a loud `squish' sound as a giant foot squashed the rest of the animated stuff.
I didn't make a moral judgement in that post. I just said that Israel having nuclear weapons isn't necessarily evidence that it is easy for any middle-eastern country to acquire them.
Israel isn't a secular state, and a country which declares a large subset of the people it controls not to be citizens isn't a democracy (see apartheid South Africa, again).
I didn't mean to say the Israeli state was genocidal, I said that Sharon was, at least during his military service.
In that war, Israel threatened to use nuclear weapons as a last resort, causing the US to send aid to make sure the war didn't reach that point.
I don't like Ahmadinejad, and I don't like many recent Israeli leaders either. There are stupid fuckers on both sides who'd like to kill people for having a different religion. Read about the Qibya massacre, and tell me Sharon was any saner than Ahmadinejad.
Israel is a rogue state too, has in the past been prevented from using nuclear weapons pretty narrowly (and only by a superpower doing exactly what it was told), and could easily elect another genocidal nutcase.
Personally, I'm not sure any human can be trusted with nuclear weapons, but Israel seems to be a greater danger than most other nuclear states.
True, but not really relevant. Israel had significant help from France, an existing nuclear power, and apartheid South Africa, which was presumably closer to nuclear weapons at that point (the apartheid government destroyed its warheads shortly before it left power, and subsequent governments have shown no interest in rebuilding them). It seems improbable that the West is currently helping Iran.
Of course, while it doesn't have a bearing on how easy it is to build them, Israeli nuclear weapons do cause other countries in the area to want nuclear weapons, and provide then with an excuse.
It's perfectly possible to design a basic nuclear weapon with freely-available information today. Any country large enough to have competent physicists and engineers could do it.
Obtaining raw materials is the problem.
There was a project in the US, the name of which I forget (could someone furnish us with a link?), in which a group of scientists with no background in nuclear weapon design and no access to classified information were asked to design a nuclear weapon. They then had experts with access to nuclear test data and so on to analyse the plans and determine whether they would work. The results were classified, but so were the plans, suggesting they worked.
Rock is surprisingly heavy.
The Tsar Bomba was an airburst, although the 5-mile-wide fireball did (just) make contact with the ground. Castle Bravo was a groundburst. There is rock on the ground, but not in the air.
Jack Thompson is clearly part of the murderous conspiracy of video game manufacturers, paid to destroy Jack Thompson's reputation. Jack Thompson should sue Jack Thompson for a bajillion dollars.
Jack Thompson Sues Everybody, For No Reason.
Why is he still going? Don't they make him pay his opponent's costs when he loses? Shouldn't he be broke?