I was once assigned to read and respond to a short story by Steinbeck. It was about some coyotes or something he saw while his RV was parked beside the highway. Clearly the work of a literary genius. So anyway, I spent the entire essay tearing apart Steinbeck as a no-talent clown. My teacher gave me a B because I was off topic, and I don't think I've ever been happier about a grade.
Looks like I'm one of several people with a trite response. Oh well, here goes: The answer is nowhere near as important as the question. The (noble, socially meaningful, and oft-overlooked)purpose of religion is to ask why, not to tell you why. See the difference? Consider those simple Zen-like questions people love to ask; about the sound of one hand clapping, and whatnot. No one really cares what that sound is, thinking about it is the whole point.
Are you seriously suggesting that Virgin is the "little guy" who could only make it in because the barrier of entry is so low? Virgin Mobile is backed by a huge corporation that apparently loves to throw money at things. An astronomical barrier of entry wouldn't stop them if they had it in mind to run a mobile phone service.
Gotta be careful with that logic. You've been upmodded as funny, for 3 points, which don't count towards your karma. Which means this comment could potentially be modded down by 5 negative mods, all of which *do* count against karma.
Wandering slightly back on topic, I'll go ahead and assume you don't care, and keep my future opinions between me and my precious books.
I can look at a nut on a bolt and say, "That's 3 quarters of an inch wide." I still haven't trained myself to look at a similar nut and think, "That is clearly number 8."
So what? I should just learn it. I know I should. But that doesn't change the fact that there are millions and millions of guys just like me who haven't learned to think that way and haven't been given any compelling reason to do so.
Have a look at this rather in-depth analysis of the topic you mention. Not certain if the author is a post-grad or not. I'm also fairly certain that this is only one of a growing body of works on the subject.
Contrary to popular belief, most of these developers aren't intentionally releaseing what they know to be insecure code. They test it beforehand, and sign their work. They are making what they believe to be a good effort at security.
Imagine if you made a product, and were fairly proud of the work you had put into it, and then someone grabs it, and publicly demonstrates that it's terribly flawed, making you appear to be a fool. It's natural to be angry, and hopefully it will only inspire them to greater vigilance in an attempt to save face.
Also at that link are instructions for disabling the horizontal scroll event in FF. Although that only solves for FF and not any other apps that have horizontal scroll triggers that might be inadvertently activated.
I think I found the solution here. Apparently you need to install a prog for use in configuring the touchpad(qsynaptics or ksynaptics) which then allows you to disable the back and forward gestures that are inherent in the touchpad.
I've experienced this, but I attributed it to a weird problem with the synaptics touchpad driver. What kind of mouse are you using and on what kind of system?
That's why we haven't heard anything about it yet, it's just gonna be a small computer that explains gentoo package management in laborious detail. Nintendo is springing it on the public as punishment for not buying enough Gamecubes.
I don't see it as an overtly technical issue. There is a technical solution to most spyware, don't install it. Of course there are some really sneaky bastards, and you can use anti-spyware progs for them. These are solutions that exist in the technical realm.
The problem really arises from users who are unaware of how to make proper use of their computers, or who are unaware that by purchasing the products that popup on their screen, they're making the problem worse. This requires social remedy. We need to promote education about how to avoid spyware, then it will become less useful to marketers, and eventually decrease to a mostly harmless level.
However, the idea that we could litigate spyware out of existence is ridiculous. Laws in this vein are ultimately unenforcable in the real world.
I think the idea of a worldwide anti-spyware alliance is more than a little silly. In fact, I shy away from any push for international policy beyond the protection of basic human rights.
The solution to spyware problems is either technological(although I have no idea how, using an non-Widnows OS isn't really "the answer") or social(teach people how to 1. Avoid spyware and 2. Avoid giving any kind of financial incentive to any company associated with spyware).
Dude, I think you and I both know that the U.S. military functions as a group of private mercenaries for our corporations, so the distinction is entirely unnecessary. Besides, you can't beat people from the future, if you steal anything from them, they just inherit from you when you die anyway.
I think I missed the point, I thought you were elevating BSDs as superior for being the only OS flavors with available stack protections. Which seems to hold true against Windows and MacOS, as the software is distributed binary only, and can't be recompiled to user specification. I digress, I reread your post, and instead of seeing "BSD owns you, l0s3rs" I see, "x86 has available protection as evidenced by BSD." That was the point, right?
I posted this somewhere above, but I wouldn't want anyoen to miss out. If you've even a passing interest in synesthesia, read this story. It's rather awesome.
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I was once assigned to read and respond to a short story by Steinbeck. It was about some coyotes or something he saw while his RV was parked beside the highway. Clearly the work of a literary genius. So anyway, I spent the entire essay tearing apart Steinbeck as a no-talent clown. My teacher gave me a B because I was off topic, and I don't think I've ever been happier about a grade.
Looks like I'm one of several people with a trite response. Oh well, here goes: The answer is nowhere near as important as the question. The (noble, socially meaningful, and oft-overlooked)purpose of religion is to ask why, not to tell you why. See the difference? Consider those simple Zen-like questions people love to ask; about the sound of one hand clapping, and whatnot. No one really cares what that sound is, thinking about it is the whole point.
I use the capslock key for videogames that have a toggled state, such as "always run".
Are you seriously suggesting that Virgin is the "little guy" who could only make it in because the barrier of entry is so low? Virgin Mobile is backed by a huge corporation that apparently loves to throw money at things. An astronomical barrier of entry wouldn't stop them if they had it in mind to run a mobile phone service.
Gotta be careful with that logic. You've been upmodded as funny, for 3 points, which don't count towards your karma. Which means this comment could potentially be modded down by 5 negative mods, all of which *do* count against karma.
Wandering slightly back on topic, I'll go ahead and assume you don't care, and keep my future opinions between me and my precious books.
I can look at a nut on a bolt and say, "That's 3 quarters of an inch wide." I still haven't trained myself to look at a similar nut and think, "That is clearly number 8."
So what? I should just learn it. I know I should. But that doesn't change the fact that there are millions and millions of guys just like me who haven't learned to think that way and haven't been given any compelling reason to do so.
I had one too, it did show the time, and still does. And it runs linux, too.
Have a look at this rather in-depth analysis of the topic you mention. Not certain if the author is a post-grad or not. I'm also fairly certain that this is only one of a growing body of works on the subject.
Contrary to popular belief, most of these developers aren't intentionally releaseing what they know to be insecure code. They test it beforehand, and sign their work. They are making what they believe to be a good effort at security.
Imagine if you made a product, and were fairly proud of the work you had put into it, and then someone grabs it, and publicly demonstrates that it's terribly flawed, making you appear to be a fool. It's natural to be angry, and hopefully it will only inspire them to greater vigilance in an attempt to save face.
Apple is a software company...period.
Oh yeah, ever heard of an iPod?
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Also at that link are instructions for disabling the horizontal scroll event in FF. Although that only solves for FF and not any other apps that have horizontal scroll triggers that might be inadvertently activated.
Python Rocks? http://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/095.gif
Holy shit, if this is the biggest thing, I can't wait to see their other work.
I think I found the solution here. Apparently you need to install a prog for use in configuring the touchpad(qsynaptics or ksynaptics) which then allows you to disable the back and forward gestures that are inherent in the touchpad.
I've experienced this, but I attributed it to a weird problem with the synaptics touchpad driver. What kind of mouse are you using and on what kind of system?
That's why we haven't heard anything about it yet, it's just gonna be a small computer that explains gentoo package management in laborious detail. Nintendo is springing it on the public as punishment for not buying enough Gamecubes.
I don't see it as an overtly technical issue. There is a technical solution to most spyware, don't install it. Of course there are some really sneaky bastards, and you can use anti-spyware progs for them. These are solutions that exist in the technical realm.
The problem really arises from users who are unaware of how to make proper use of their computers, or who are unaware that by purchasing the products that popup on their screen, they're making the problem worse. This requires social remedy. We need to promote education about how to avoid spyware, then it will become less useful to marketers, and eventually decrease to a mostly harmless level.
However, the idea that we could litigate spyware out of existence is ridiculous. Laws in this vein are ultimately unenforcable in the real world.
I think the idea of a worldwide anti-spyware alliance is more than a little silly. In fact, I shy away from any push for international policy beyond the protection of basic human rights.
The solution to spyware problems is either technological(although I have no idea how, using an non-Widnows OS isn't really "the answer") or social(teach people how to 1. Avoid spyware and 2. Avoid giving any kind of financial incentive to any company associated with spyware).
Dude, I think you and I both know that the U.S. military functions as a group of private mercenaries for our corporations, so the distinction is entirely unnecessary. Besides, you can't beat people from the future, if you steal anything from them, they just inherit from you when you die anyway.
I think I missed the point, I thought you were elevating BSDs as superior for being the only OS flavors with available stack protections. Which seems to hold true against Windows and MacOS, as the software is distributed binary only, and can't be recompiled to user specification. I digress, I reread your post, and instead of seeing "BSD owns you, l0s3rs" I see, "x86 has available protection as evidenced by BSD." That was the point, right?
OSes like Linux or MacOS don't do them on any architechtures. Stack protections like propolice are a compile-time option...
And no Linux distribution allows you to make use of your own compiler flags?
I never had the icon prior to installing 6.5 which, btw, still sucks.
I posted this somewhere above, but I wouldn't want anyoen to miss out. If you've even a passing interest in synesthesia, read this story. It's rather awesome.
If you've even a passing interest in synesthesia, read This story. It's rather awesome.