I like Copy to grab everything but Paste needs to offer appropriate choices for the app and not alter the data unless asked. LibreOffice Writer has a nice Ctrl-Shift-V shortcut to paste text without formatting.
You also ignore the possibilities of rehabilitation, wrongful conviction, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, knocking on the wrong door, having one drink too many and all the nuances and mistakes which make up our lives. I've given up with the links - just Google any of the phrases with "gun" (US can usually be assumed) or conversely Google them with "US" where gun can usually be assumed. It must be very cold and hard in your black and white world but real life isn't like the movies, where only the bad guys get hurt and justice rules.
But remember that the NHS wasted billions on an abortive attempt at a national electronic records system. Coupled with the Conservatives' keenness to outsource everything to the private sector, there's a lot of money waiting for a proven working system.
"I think it's diminishing my experience of advertising"
I thought, yes and that's a good thing. I have ad-blockers on most of my devices so don't really know how bad it is for unprotected users. In the comments here, from people with more internet time than the general population, there's very little love for them: they're irrelevant or no longer relevant, annoying, distracting, malware-laden, slow down the device they're displayed on, clog DNS and the internet and waste bandwidth. That last is important here because Three and Digicel are mobile networks, where bandwidth is expensive, so they stand to save some money from installing this, unless they cut their prices (no, probably not). The article said that 200 million mobile users (10% of the 2 billion smartphones in use) had ad-blockers installed, so the networks are paying to deliver ads to 200 million users who will never see them.
You're right about the net neutrality, Reg - if I may call you Reg - and as before in the US, commercial motives are trying to distort what should for political reasons be a neutral conduit (oh, apart from IS, child pron, pirated music,...). Leaving aside people's expectations for unfiltered content from their ISP's (high on the concerns of most voters), some people want to see adverts - will there be an opt-in?
What Shine are selling is not so much a firewall as a toll-gate, so I expect the networks to allow "carefully selected" advertising through on payment of a fee. Roi Carthy (CMO) of Shine Technologies said.
"We are not against advertising...there's a misconception that Shine is against advertising...we do believe new rules of engagement need to come about."
You don't remember correctly. Here are the UK stats for 2014. If you want the difference between armed police in the US and the UK, I draw your attention to the last line:
There were 5,875 police firearms’ officers as at 31 March 2014. There were 14,864 police firearms’ operations in the year ending March 2014. The police discharged firearms in 2 operations in the year ending March 2014; the figure has been six or less in each of the previous 5 years.
That sentence is what put me off using it at home but maybe I should have another look. I took over support for a production system with ZFS not long after it came out and didn't really trust it but it never failed and had all those great features: easy to expand, constant fs checking, volumes, snapshots etc. Sun had some brilliant engineers.
Think you have that backwards because central heating wasn't invented until 1960. Before that, both men and women used to wear jumpers, coats and hats indoors and even in bed, as well as four layers of underwear to prevent outbreaks of sex, which wasn't invented until 1963.
Wikimedia’s reluctance to detail the restricted grant, from the Knight Foundation, was a factor in the departure of community-elected WMF board member James Heilman in December.
Whether that's controversial depends on whatever's been going on between the Wikimedia Foundation and Mr Heilman and how you view their motives and attitudes towards openness and those of the Knight Foundation - "Volunteers feel WMF management has purposely kept them out of the loop”. Maybe the bit about embedding the Wikipedia Knowledge Engine “via carriers and Original Equipment Manufacturers” means they hope for a commercial product, which might be controversial.
Page 2 of the agreement asks "Would users go to Wikipedia if it were an open channel beyond an encyclopedia?"
I expect Google would say it's controversial but that's another matter. Wikimedia intend to create "a system for discovering reliable and trustworthy information on the Internet" which is not Google's main aim: doing a Google would be trying to monopolize search and make as much money as possible.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is an American private, non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting "transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts."
You might want to keep an eye on their page for favourable edits. Their money came from Knight Ridder publishers. Wikipedia helpfully adds "Not to be confused with Knight Rider (disambiguation) or Night Rider (disambiguation)."
Hee hee. I thought it was the common Slashdot lack of proof-reading, sub-editing, all those old-fashioned skills, and then The Register's mistake but no: the $250,000 grant is the first stage of a project costed at $2.5m
You're wrong about Egypt. The government was replaced in a military coup because the power of those who used to rule and own the country was threatened by Morsi.
They noticed that people were leaving accents off initial capitals because they're hard to type, leading others to assume that accents weren't needed on initial capitals, thus changing the language. Presumably the increasing use of keyboards has worsened the problem.
"During the troubles, when Ireland was sending bombers to England, were ordinary Irish harassed?"
Not only harassed but framed and sent to prison for years (Birmingham 6, Guildford 4 - think I got the score right). In those days too, racism was much more mainstream and it was commonplace for TV comics (and everyone else) to tell jokes about how stupid the Irish apparently were.
Now that racism is frowned upon in decent society, Muslims can be picked on instead. This has some advantages: it's not racism but they're often easy to spot and they're mostly not white.
Back to something like the topic, when will we see the first death by auto-correct?
I assumed dconf is what the settings tool would replace. dconf seems to be the best or only place to find some of the settings removed from the Gnome apps but it's not installed by default (on Fedora 23). I did like the feature when I clicked dconf and it offered to install it. dconf isn't very user friendly though (org -> gnome -> ).
The trouble with Gnome is that it has left the large desktop behind and is now optimized for small touch screens. The cynic in me has concluded that this is to attract money from smartphone and tablet manufacturers because end users aren't willing to pay for Linux on their desktops.
I mostly use KDE now but prefer Windows 8.1 overall.
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I like Copy to grab everything but Paste needs to offer appropriate choices for the app and not alter the data unless asked. LibreOffice Writer has a nice Ctrl-Shift-V shortcut to paste text without formatting.
Why leave out accidental deaths and murder-suicide and ignore woundings?
You also ignore the possibilities of rehabilitation, wrongful conviction, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, knocking on the wrong door, having one drink too many and all the nuances and mistakes which make up our lives. I've given up with the links - just Google any of the phrases with "gun" (US can usually be assumed) or conversely Google them with "US" where gun can usually be assumed. It must be very cold and hard in your black and white world but real life isn't like the movies, where only the bad guys get hurt and justice rules.
But remember that the NHS wasted billions on an abortive attempt at a national electronic records system. Coupled with the Conservatives' keenness to outsource everything to the private sector, there's a lot of money waiting for a proven working system.
Whilst defining acronyms on first use is to be encouraged, I doubt (and hope) that I will ever need to know that AKI stands for acute kidney injuries.
I know, some people are never satisfied.
When I read this
"I think it's diminishing my experience of advertising"
I thought, yes and that's a good thing. I have ad-blockers on most of my devices so don't really know how bad it is for unprotected users. In the comments here, from people with more internet time than the general population, there's very little love for them: they're irrelevant or no longer relevant, annoying, distracting, malware-laden, slow down the device they're displayed on, clog DNS and the internet and waste bandwidth. That last is important here because Three and Digicel are mobile networks, where bandwidth is expensive, so they stand to save some money from installing this, unless they cut their prices (no, probably not). The article said that 200 million mobile users (10% of the 2 billion smartphones in use) had ad-blockers installed, so the networks are paying to deliver ads to 200 million users who will never see them.
You're right about the net neutrality, Reg - if I may call you Reg - and as before in the US, commercial motives are trying to distort what should for political reasons be a neutral conduit (oh, apart from IS, child pron, pirated music, ...). Leaving aside people's expectations for unfiltered content from their ISP's (high on the concerns of most voters), some people want to see adverts - will there be an opt-in?
What Shine are selling is not so much a firewall as a toll-gate, so I expect the networks to allow "carefully selected" advertising through on payment of a fee. Roi Carthy (CMO) of Shine Technologies said.
"We are not against advertising...there's a misconception that Shine is against advertising...we do believe new rules of engagement need to come about."
You don't remember correctly. Here are the UK stats for 2014. If you want the difference between armed police in the US and the UK, I draw your attention to the last line:
There were 5,875 police firearms’ officers as at 31 March 2014.
There were 14,864 police firearms’ operations in the year ending March 2014.
The police discharged firearms in 2 operations in the year ending March 2014; the figure has been six or less in each of the previous 5 years.
TIL why they're called Yelp. It's the noise they like their employees to make.
That doesn't happen often, because governments rarely lack the appropriate ordnance.
That sentence is what put me off using it at home but maybe I should have another look. I took over support for a production system with ZFS not long after it came out and didn't really trust it but it never failed and had all those great features: easy to expand, constant fs checking, volumes, snapshots etc. Sun had some brilliant engineers.
Think you have that backwards because central heating wasn't invented until 1960. Before that, both men and women used to wear jumpers, coats and hats indoors and even in bed, as well as four layers of underwear to prevent outbreaks of sex, which wasn't invented until 1963.
The short article in the link has this:
Wikimedia’s reluctance to detail the restricted grant, from the Knight Foundation, was a factor in the departure of community-elected WMF board member James Heilman in December.
Whether that's controversial depends on whatever's been going on between the Wikimedia Foundation and Mr Heilman and how you view their motives and attitudes towards openness and those of the Knight Foundation - "Volunteers feel WMF management has purposely kept them out of the loop”. Maybe the bit about embedding the Wikipedia Knowledge Engine “via carriers and Original Equipment Manufacturers” means they hope for a commercial product, which might be controversial.
Page 2 of the agreement asks "Would users go to Wikipedia if it were an open channel beyond an encyclopedia?"
I expect Google would say it's controversial but that's another matter. Wikimedia intend to create "a system for discovering reliable and trustworthy information on the Internet" which is not Google's main aim: doing a Google would be trying to monopolize search and make as much money as possible.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is an American private, non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting "transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts."
You might want to keep an eye on their page for favourable edits. Their money came from Knight Ridder publishers. Wikipedia helpfully adds "Not to be confused with Knight Rider (disambiguation) or Night Rider (disambiguation)."
Hee hee. I thought it was the common Slashdot lack of proof-reading, sub-editing, all those old-fashioned skills, and then The Register's mistake but no: the $250,000 grant is the first stage of a project costed at $2.5m
You mean they were fake bones?
You're wrong about Egypt. The government was replaced in a military coup because the power of those who used to rule and own the country was threatened by Morsi.
Never mind, all the extra electromagnetic emissions will probably not be harmful.
Please can we have stories written in clear English with unfamiliar terms defined and links to primary sources (but no paywalls).
And please stop saying "synergies".
The postage and packing would be cheaper, certainly.
They noticed that people were leaving accents off initial capitals because they're hard to type, leading others to assume that accents weren't needed on initial capitals, thus changing the language. Presumably the increasing use of keyboards has worsened the problem.
"During the troubles, when Ireland was sending bombers to England, were ordinary Irish harassed?"
Not only harassed but framed and sent to prison for years (Birmingham 6, Guildford 4 - think I got the score right). In those days too, racism was much more mainstream and it was commonplace for TV comics (and everyone else) to tell jokes about how stupid the Irish apparently were.
Now that racism is frowned upon in decent society, Muslims can be picked on instead. This has some advantages: it's not racism but they're often easy to spot and they're mostly not white.
Back to something like the topic, when will we see the first death by auto-correct?
I think you should get out more.
Katrina Spade? Where did they dig her up from then, eh?
Thanks, I'd forgotten he played Marvin (maybe because he wore so much make-up).
All that exposition would have been a heavy task for any actor but he seemed to be having fun.
Created by a (gulp) woman, Cathy Rogers.
I assumed dconf is what the settings tool would replace. dconf seems to be the best or only place to find some of the settings removed from the Gnome apps but it's not installed by default (on Fedora 23). I did like the feature when I clicked dconf and it offered to install it. dconf isn't very user friendly though (org -> gnome -> ).
The trouble with Gnome is that it has left the large desktop behind and is now optimized for small touch screens. The cynic in me has concluded that this is to attract money from smartphone and tablet manufacturers because end users aren't willing to pay for Linux on their desktops.
I mostly use KDE now but prefer Windows 8.1 overall.