Go to the Firefox extensions page, and go to the xKiosk homepage - the guy who wrote it put together some docs on creating a web kiosk (public use type stuff). Probably similar to what you're looking for. I'm pretty sure it's not OS-specific.
I don't know... I got a goatse-imitator in Firefox I couldn't get rid of. Sucks when you've got session-saver. Thank goodness for alt-home (takes you back to your home page).
The full quote is: "Available immediately. Exclusively for Linspire, PhoneGaim can be downloaded and installed with one-click," meaning that Linspire's exclusive "thing" is the 1-click installation. Whether it's really one click or not, and whether that'll actually be exclusive once RPMs come out, is another question. Misleading, but I think you misinterpreted it.
Works fine in Moz and Firefox, on Win, Lin and Mac. I haven't tried it in Opera, but others have posted saying they have. Perhaps they only *support* IE, but it works anyway.
You do realize that the guy who runs google-watch hates Google for personal reasons, and has a major conflict of interest? Also, why do you sign your post "Seth Finklestein", then say at the bottom "Not affiliated with [SF]"?
Lenz' Law - an induced current, E-field, or B-field, goes in the opposite direction. I.e., if I induce a current in a wire using a B-field (magnetic field) going one way, the current will go the other.
Therefore, isn't the RIAA INDUC[E]-ing exactly the behavior they claim to oppose? Can we sue them for that, under this new law?
Only partially true. While it is important to consider whether someone's pain or method of communication is influencing how they behave, it's no excuse. I myself have a severe physical disability, and while I'm not in constant pain, I have had problems with ongoing pain in the past. I meet occasionally with others who have the same disability as I do (it's extremely rare; perhaps less than 10,000 in the world) and it's very frustrating that only two or three of us seem to have normal lives (public high school; college; career; marriage), and the rest are largely dependent on their parents.
As far as marriage and sex life, I disagree. While a disability can change the dating experience, dating does happen, marriage is always a possibility (Hawking, for example, has been married twice), and sex is not usually limited by disability. Intimacy is not so strictly defined as you might think.
It all boils down to: is the disabled person in question well-adjusted or not?
How about Gaim? That's pretty much an AIM clone. Wouldn't take more than five minutes to write an extension to have the buddylist do a periodic "/whois buddy1/whois buddy2" and set up a privmsg. Heck, it probably already does that.
Gaim does log everything in one spot by default. And we don't need another open initiative - we've got Gaim, or, if you're internal only (and thus don't have to worry about what others are using), you can get better features, more security and so on with Jabber.
Spyware avoidance. Standards compliance (as a web developer, it's easier to code a Moz/Firefox/standards-compliant page, then tinker for IE-compliance, than the reverse). Less vulnerable to browser hijacking (not just because of diversity, either). Tons of extensions beyond what's available in the browsers you named.
Sorry, I don't have the guy's last name (just recently met him), and I'm not sure what the university is. But I'm trying to contact him so I can read it, so if you send me an email (my/. ID + @gmail.com) I'll email you the URL when I have it.
I remember when I installed svn, before it was in yum. I had to download the obsolete svn client, then svn checkout the svn source for the new version. And this was no release candidate - it was 1.0!
I am not blind, and IANAL, but I do have a physical disability and I'm very familiar with the ADA and Section 504. This particular article is about it's UK equivalent (much better, stronger, than the ADA).
The ADA's test is, did you provide "reasonable accomodation" to the disabled? Thus, would the amount of extra work/money you'd put in be reasonable?
For websites, check out the W3C's FAQ on the subject. Not much info on legal requirements, but on what makes a site accessible. Also check out Bobby (which has a link on that page), an accessibility validator, much like the W3C validator.
Basically, it boils down to some pretty simple stuff. Use ALT tags (HTML can be read by screenreaders) and watch out for color-blindness issues (no red/green, yellow/green, purple/blue, etc).
Most pages are accessible to the blind, or mostly so. Screenreaders do text-to-speech quite well - but they are browsers themselves, and thus, since this site was only accessible with IE, blocked from Odeon's site.
Furthermore, while I'm not familiar with UK law, I am quite familiar with US disabled rights laws (IANAL; I am disabled). "Reasonable accomodations" is the test in the US, and I assume something similar is the test in the UK; a site like Odeon's could easily (reasonably) been written in a more cross-browser fashion that would have allowed screenreaders to access it. A flash-only site might be flash-only for a reason, thus making HTML-only not a reasonable accomodation, and thus not legally required.
Whoops... the filesystem thing should've read defragging, not debugging. MTBF is mean time between failure. Manufacturers try to set the warrenty before than the MTBF so that they don't have to pay for repairing stuff that is expected to be broken. That doesn't mean the warranty is always set *just* *before* the MTBF, just that it's never set after it.
And why escalate the arms race more than necessary?
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The average person with a domain is probably too web-savvy to fall for a scam like this.
In Firefox, "Session Saver" (orig. by Pike, rewritten by Rue) is what you want. Although it's a Bad Thing if you hit a Goatse pop-up page.
Go to the Firefox extensions page, and go to the xKiosk homepage - the guy who wrote it put together some docs on creating a web kiosk (public use type stuff). Probably similar to what you're looking for. I'm pretty sure it's not OS-specific.
I don't know ... I got a goatse-imitator in Firefox I couldn't get rid of. Sucks when you've got session-saver. Thank goodness for alt-home (takes you back to your home page).
The full quote is: "Available immediately. Exclusively for Linspire, PhoneGaim can be downloaded and installed with one-click," meaning that Linspire's exclusive "thing" is the 1-click installation. Whether it's really one click or not, and whether that'll actually be exclusive once RPMs come out, is another question. Misleading, but I think you misinterpreted it.
You can make sip-sip calls. Besides, Gaim already can do iChatAV, right?
Not in the US - that's the point of the article. Or even the /. summary.
Works fine in Moz and Firefox, on Win, Lin and Mac. I haven't tried it in Opera, but others have posted saying they have. Perhaps they only *support* IE, but it works anyway.
You do realize that the guy who runs google-watch hates Google for personal reasons, and has a major conflict of interest? Also, why do you sign your post "Seth Finklestein", then say at the bottom "Not affiliated with [SF]"?
I agree with your basic point. However, they are electronically archived; it's just that it costs ~$3.00/article to access the archive.
Lenz' Law - an induced current, E-field, or B-field, goes in the opposite direction. I.e., if I induce a current in a wire using a B-field (magnetic field) going one way, the current will go the other.
Therefore, isn't the RIAA INDUC[E]-ing exactly the behavior they claim to oppose? Can we sue them for that, under this new law?
Only partially true. While it is important to consider whether someone's pain or method of communication is influencing how they behave, it's no excuse. I myself have a severe physical disability, and while I'm not in constant pain, I have had problems with ongoing pain in the past. I meet occasionally with others who have the same disability as I do (it's extremely rare; perhaps less than 10,000 in the world) and it's very frustrating that only two or three of us seem to have normal lives (public high school; college; career; marriage), and the rest are largely dependent on their parents.
As far as marriage and sex life, I disagree. While a disability can change the dating experience, dating does happen, marriage is always a possibility (Hawking, for example, has been married twice), and sex is not usually limited by disability. Intimacy is not so strictly defined as you might think.
It all boils down to: is the disabled person in question well-adjusted or not?
How about Gaim? That's pretty much an AIM clone. Wouldn't take more than five minutes to write an extension to have the buddylist do a periodic "/whois buddy1 /whois buddy2" and set up a privmsg. Heck, it probably already does that.
Gaim does log everything in one spot by default. And we don't need another open initiative - we've got Gaim, or, if you're internal only (and thus don't have to worry about what others are using), you can get better features, more security and so on with Jabber.
Spyware avoidance. Standards compliance (as a web developer, it's easier to code a Moz/Firefox/standards-compliant page, then tinker for IE-compliance, than the reverse). Less vulnerable to browser hijacking (not just because of diversity, either). Tons of extensions beyond what's available in the browsers you named.
Sorry, I don't have the guy's last name (just recently met him), and I'm not sure what the university is. But I'm trying to contact him so I can read it, so if you send me an email (my /. ID + @gmail.com) I'll email you the URL when I have it.
Knoppix can already read NTFS, so it could (in theory) use AdAware, CWShredder, etc, it just can't write (so it can detect, but not fix).
... no, there is no such tool.
Depending on whether housecall.trendmicro.com is ActiveX or Java or whatever, it might work. Just wouldn't be able to fix anything.
There is no stable NTFS writing driver yet. So
Freenet is not as secure/anonymous as it's claimed to be. A friend of mine wrote his master's thesis doing an analysis of exactly why.
I remember when I installed svn, before it was in yum. I had to download the obsolete svn client, then svn checkout the svn source for the new version. And this was no release candidate - it was 1.0!
I am not blind, and IANAL, but I do have a physical disability and I'm very familiar with the ADA and Section 504. This particular article is about it's UK equivalent (much better, stronger, than the ADA).
The ADA's test is, did you provide "reasonable accomodation" to the disabled? Thus, would the amount of extra work/money you'd put in be reasonable?
For websites, check out the W3C's FAQ on the subject. Not much info on legal requirements, but on what makes a site accessible. Also check out Bobby (which has a link on that page), an accessibility validator, much like the W3C validator.
Basically, it boils down to some pretty simple stuff. Use ALT tags (HTML can be read by screenreaders) and watch out for color-blindness issues (no red/green, yellow/green, purple/blue, etc).
Most pages are accessible to the blind, or mostly so. Screenreaders do text-to-speech quite well - but they are browsers themselves, and thus, since this site was only accessible with IE, blocked from Odeon's site.
Furthermore, while I'm not familiar with UK law, I am quite familiar with US disabled rights laws (IANAL; I am disabled). "Reasonable accomodations" is the test in the US, and I assume something similar is the test in the UK; a site like Odeon's could easily (reasonably) been written in a more cross-browser fashion that would have allowed screenreaders to access it. A flash-only site might be flash-only for a reason, thus making HTML-only not a reasonable accomodation, and thus not legally required.
Hey, don't take away the other 639,360 DVDs he promised me!
My guess is, they forgot to put a twirling baton or something on the box, so he assumed it was still processing.
Whoops ... the filesystem thing should've read defragging, not debugging. MTBF is mean time between failure. Manufacturers try to set the warrenty before than the MTBF so that they don't have to pay for repairing stuff that is expected to be broken. That doesn't mean the warranty is always set *just* *before* the MTBF, just that it's never set after it.
And why escalate the arms race more than necessary?
So ... is that proof that DRM is a virus? Sweet! SCOTUS, here I come!