This is so that their commands will wrap to the next line when put in small windows. Otherwise, it wraps on the same line, which is *REALLY* annoying. That's one of my biggest gripes with Linux, and I'm one of its biggest fans.
The primary users of the site (at the moment) are techy people, so it slants that way. However, since it's a WIKIpedia, as more people learn to use it, that will be corrected.
...and just as you can tunnel just about any traffic you want through port 443 assuming you know what you're doing, you can encrypt traffic between networks. Granted, that will make things more difficult at first, but it will allow people to get around things like this.
Not only that, but try ordering a gift subscription of "Zoobooks" for someone else's kids. I now get mail for every child's product under the sun. I'm single, and childless, and it's annoying.
However, it's only slightly less annoying than the mailing list I'm on where they've confused me with my Dad, and I get AARP and health care mail all the time.
Put them together, and somewhere, there's a database that thinks I'm a 70 year old that's having tons of kids.
...but that it makes it more difficult for the less technical/smart/talented criminals to get into the crime.
Right now, any idiot with an "HTML for Dummies" book can set up a site that looks like a banks', and just about anyone knows how to send an email.
With two factor authentication, the techniques that Schneier talks about (MITM, and Trojan) are more difficult to implement, making the crime more difficult, and "weeding out" those criminals who are less likely to pursue the crime in the face of more difficult technology and/or an increase in learning and/or time.
...but to be realistic, Microsoft can't continue to support everyone forever. They've added an EOL for VB 6, and they have an upgrade path (yes, it will be difficult) to the better languages they're using now.
It's not real estate that will be the problem, it will be the baby boomers retiring starting around 2016. Then, when they all expect to live on Social Security, and the money's just not there, and they're all poor and destitute, will the problem be evident.
Of course, I understand the licensing and freedom restrictions about using Windows under such a program, but without being able to use Windows with it, I'm gonna have to stick with VMware.
I can see the uses for it, but right now, those don't align with what I need, and I suspect that will hold true for many others as well.
While I'm not railing against the war, and I believe we should be spending whatever money is necessary to protect the troops, I find it interesting that it's science that gets shoved aside...
Amen. Same here. I've been keyboarding and mousing for almost twenty years now, since I was six. I've never had any pain in either of my wrists.
However, what may be different in my case is that I've taught myself to use the mouse with my non-dominant hand (ie, I'm a righty, and I use the mouse lefty), so I don't know if that would make a difference. But I can, and do, use the keyboard and the mouse with both hands, so I share the "burden" of keyboarding and mousing between both hands.
Remember back in the old days, when a washing machine was just a scrub-board and a tub, and you got to spend all day washing one load of laundry with your bare hands? Remember how you'd have to then hang your clothes on a long piece of rope by attaching it with wooden pins? Remember when you could spend a whole day doing nothing but laundry? You wouldn't have time to do anything else, but boy, it was fun spending all that time doing laundry.
I decry these new-fangled machines that let you toss in the clothes and go away for three hours to find that your clothes have been washed *and* dried! Bah, convergence is for hippies!
Eventually, as in every other case like this, there will be a lawsuit.
One side will win, the other won't. In either case, the loser will just change some small piece of the technology, and it will no longer infringe, if it even did in the first place.
The lawyers will get rich.
None of us will be affected in the slightest.
Cynical? Maybe. But before moderating, ask yourself if I'll end up being right.
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I have to say, you're wrong. Not one distro I've ever used (and I've used a lot) has ever had that set.
...the site itself was Beta!
:)
Good to see that they've not changed their processes...
This is so that their commands will wrap to the next line when put in small windows. Otherwise, it wraps on the same line, which is *REALLY* annoying. That's one of my biggest gripes with Linux, and I'm one of its biggest fans.
Actually, the smallest denomination is the mill, which is 1/10th of a cent, but was never minted, as Congress never asked for any.
Wolverine would be proud. :)
Plus, since you apparently never sleep, you'll be dead in a week. ;)
So what you're saying is:
"Too much information is a bad thing."
essentially.
The primary users of the site (at the moment) are techy people, so it slants that way. However, since it's a WIKIpedia, as more people learn to use it, that will be corrected.
...and just as you can tunnel just about any traffic you want through port 443 assuming you know what you're doing, you can encrypt traffic between networks. Granted, that will make things more difficult at first, but it will allow people to get around things like this.
The other possibility is that they were trying to establish a subway system software division, and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) was already taken. ;)
Not only that, but try ordering a gift subscription of "Zoobooks" for someone else's kids. I now get mail for every child's product under the sun. I'm single, and childless, and it's annoying.
However, it's only slightly less annoying than the mailing list I'm on where they've confused me with my Dad, and I get AARP and health care mail all the time.
Put them together, and somewhere, there's a database that thinks I'm a 70 year old that's having tons of kids.
Gizmo Duck has a cousin! ;)
...but that it makes it more difficult for the less technical/smart/talented criminals to get into the crime.
Right now, any idiot with an "HTML for Dummies" book can set up a site that looks like a banks', and just about anyone knows how to send an email.
With two factor authentication, the techniques that Schneier talks about (MITM, and Trojan) are more difficult to implement, making the crime more difficult, and "weeding out" those criminals who are less likely to pursue the crime in the face of more difficult technology and/or an increase in learning and/or time.
...but to be realistic, Microsoft can't continue to support everyone forever. They've added an EOL for VB 6, and they have an upgrade path (yes, it will be difficult) to the better languages they're using now.
"Fotolog CEO Adam Seifer, who posts a picture of every meal he eats on Get In My Belly!"
;)
I hope this guy gets to be known for more than just that...
Try near impossible, since most of that stuff (ie, UserAgent) can be changed at will.
(Yes, I know most people don't, so you'll get a fair estimate, but you'll never know for sure.)
It's not real estate that will be the problem, it will be the baby boomers retiring starting around 2016. Then, when they all expect to live on Social Security, and the money's just not there, and they're all poor and destitute, will the problem be evident.
Of course, I understand the licensing and freedom restrictions about using Windows under such a program, but without being able to use Windows with it, I'm gonna have to stick with VMware.
I can see the uses for it, but right now, those don't align with what I need, and I suspect that will hold true for many others as well.
Even still, it's cool technology.
While I'm not railing against the war, and I believe we should be spending whatever money is necessary to protect the troops, I find it interesting that it's science that gets shoved aside...
After all, it would be a prime target for a geek company... and it would explain all these Google stories!
Amen. Same here. I've been keyboarding and mousing for almost twenty years now, since I was six. I've never had any pain in either of my wrists.
However, what may be different in my case is that I've taught myself to use the mouse with my non-dominant hand (ie, I'm a righty, and I use the mouse lefty), so I don't know if that would make a difference. But I can, and do, use the keyboard and the mouse with both hands, so I share the "burden" of keyboarding and mousing between both hands.
"We think Star Trek and especially its latest incarnation, Enterprise is the kind of TV that should be aired more often."
Have they watched it? If so, have they ever seen things like ST:TNG, Babylon 5, Firefly, or even Battlestar Galactica?
If they had, they'd realise there's better things to do with their money, no matter how much "better" this last season was.
Seriously, I'd prefer to have my music in a format unemcumbered by licensing fees to Thompson...
...but that would fit with the site.
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It's still on the front page!
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/02/24/154620
Remember back in the old days, when a washing machine was just a scrub-board and a tub, and you got to spend all day washing one load of laundry with your bare hands? Remember how you'd have to then hang your clothes on a long piece of rope by attaching it with wooden pins? Remember when you could spend a whole day doing nothing but laundry? You wouldn't have time to do anything else, but boy, it was fun spending all that time doing laundry.
;)
I decry these new-fangled machines that let you toss in the clothes and go away for three hours to find that your clothes have been washed *and* dried! Bah, convergence is for hippies!
It's called "progress". Get used to it.
...who cares?
Eventually, as in every other case like this, there will be a lawsuit.
One side will win, the other won't. In either case, the loser will just change some small piece of the technology, and it will no longer infringe, if it even did in the first place.
The lawyers will get rich.
None of us will be affected in the slightest.
Cynical? Maybe. But before moderating, ask yourself if I'll end up being right.