You can have it in Gnome too. Open gconf-editor, find the "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout" key, and enter "close:minimize,maximize" as the value.
This fight over window controls would not exist if Gnome had an easy way to rearrange the buttons. But no, Gnome hides it in a dark corner. KDE allows you to arrange the buttons any way you like by simply clicking and dragging.
Oh yeah and to "troll" further, there is only one way to lay out the window control buttons that makes any sense: Close on left, minimize and maximize on right.
My point was with many current US laws and zero tolerance bullshit, mens rea doesn't matter. Simply having x or doing x means you are guilty whether you intended to break the law or not.
In the meantime, we've filled up the prisons and have 1 in 31 adults either in jail or on probation.
What? What the fuck kind of barbarian country is Canada where mens rea is still alive and kicking? Here, in the Civilized United States of America Incorporated, mens rea was abolished in the Nixonian War On Drugs.
That's it. We're invading next Thursday to stop this Godlessness.
I think we need to encourage children to read and write more (if done when they're young, we may succeed in creating intrinsic motivations within them to read/write). Reading is where you're exposed to different writing styles, and writing is where you develop your own. That's why I think that blogs are A Good Thing despite most of them being inane drivel. It encourages writing, which hopefully will have significant long term benefits in improving the quality of written communications.
What blogs have shown is that writing doesn't have to be a chore or make-work for English classes. Writing should be fun, just like reading can be fun. The only way to get better at writing is to write more. Blogs (and BBSes and usenet before them) provide a way to do this. Elitists that look at blogs as some sort of dumbing down of writing need to shut up and see them for what they are - people interested in writing when they wouldn't be otherwise.
OT: Viacom is burned by Unclean Hands. Watch for a motion for dismissal with prejudice on these grounds. If anything, the SCO trials have taught me is that the likelihood of it being granted is next to nil, but that doesn't mean I can't be optimistic.
Off Topic, but whatever. If a mod wants to waste his points on this post, go right ahead. I maxed out on karma a decade ago.
English 101 doesn't teach you how to write.
I have never ever had an English class where I was taught how to write. It was always by the seat of my pants. All writing in high school was geared at writing the "term paper" resulting in my complete inability to write anything but the most boring, stultifying, coma-inducing drek on the planet. Indeed, we were taught something called the "term paper method." The only thing this taught me is that I could never have an original opinion unless I could cite someone else saying it, parrot it, and leave a listing in the bibliography.
This left me literate but crippled.
None of it was geared to how I could express myself. I had to be out of school for 5 years for that to happen; writing every day in the Marquis De Sade school of writing known as BBS networks (Fight-O-Net) hanging out in the debate oriented message bases. I can also credit the local BBSes that had things like "The Never Ending Story."
When I did eventually go back to school, I took College Writing and found all I had to do was defenstrate some bad habits to get an A on a paper. Thanks Fidonet!
"The clean hands doctrine is a rule of law that someone bringing a lawsuit or motion and asking the court for equitable relief must be innocent of wrongdoing or unfair conduct relating to the subject matter of his/her claim. It is an affirmative defense that the defendant may claim the plaintiff has "unclean hands". However, this defense may not be used to put in issue conduct of the plaintiff unrelated to plaintiff's claim. Therefore, plaintiff's unrelated corrupt actions and general immoral character would be irrelevant. The defendant must show that plaintiff misled the defendant or has done something wrong regarding the matter under consideration. The wrongful conduct may be of a legal or moral nature, as long as it relates to the matter in issue."
Piracy is bad. It's not as bad as the studios would have you believe, but it's bad enough.
But like you, I do believe that the studios should change their business model to take it into account, or provide incentive to people so they don't pirate. There are a lot of things they can do to achieve this. Refraining from treating paying customers like thieves would be a good place to start.
None of you "I can't be arsed to encrypt" idiots keep forgetting that the US is not the whole world, and not every government sees your privacy as precious as you wish it was.
You can not read an email without technical assistance. That's all the envelope that is necessary.
The law disagrees and that's all that counts. If you don't like it, change the law. However, you are going to get a lot of pushback from system operators who will be put on the hook unnecessarily because you fail to do the equivalent of putting your email in an envelope and sealing it.
Let me repeat that for you. The law disagrees with you. You're wrong and no amount of wishing for something to be true will make it true.
People like Phil Zimmerman fought for your right to encrypt mail. You're a fool if you have privacy concerns and you don't use encryption.
"No. Removing your profile is really easy. Just edit it into a troll profile. Replace all images with the pain series, 50 hitlers / swastikas, etc. Edit all texts to the most offensive ones possible. "
No, not any longer. While not universally supported, many ISPs support SSL and TLS (including SMTP-TLS). This means that emails may be encrypted during all transmissions.
As it sits on the server, it is unencrypted. As it sits on the servers between the originating server and the end recipient (listed on each Received: line), it is unenecrypted. SSL only encrypts the stream as it flies down the copper or fiber.
All this does is defeat packet sniffing.
And since not *every* email provider supports SSL, you can't depend on every hop to use SSL.
E-mail is an entirely different realm from a postcard.
You know what? I'll agree with this, but you won't like it.
Email is worse than postcards if unencrypted. Email without encryption is sortable and searchable and can be easily added to a database for later retrieval by third parties. It actually has *less* privacy.
E-mail on the other hand can't be casually read by another person.
This doesn't even pass the belly laugh test and the rest of your argument is delusional.
Trivial means "commonplace" and "easy" - the tools for reading email are commonplace - the tools that sysadmins use to read email are the same ones available for you. Reading others' email is easy if you have the password or authority.
QED
someone would have to "go out of their way" to spy on that message, even if technically speaking that would be very easy (as I said, technically speaking, slicing open an envelope is easy too).
Unless you use encryption, there is no envelope. This is what you don't get. There is no "going out of one's way" to read an email. One simply opens up a mail user agent (MUA) like Thunderbird, Exchange, Pine, or Elm and reads it. Picking an email to read, if it is unencrypted, is as simple as picking a postcard out of a pile of postcards. Your only "security" is the merely the volume of mail being transfered.
I'll repeat that. Without encryption, there is no envelope.
so I fail to see how your arguments are relevant to modern-day technology
Email is not "Modern day technology"
Email goes back to 1971 with the unimplemented but discussed "mail box protocol" Indeed, the mail transfer agent (MTA) sendmail goes back to 1983 and is still used as the most popular MTA. Other MTAs like postfix still use the basic ideas from the 1970s.
You have an odd definition of modern technology.
Ever since email has existed, it has been transfered in the clear unless the users take their own steps to encrypt. This continues to be the case and there are no signs of this changing.
And you know what? PGP goes back 19 years, to solve the "postcard problem" with other encryption protocols going back further.
I'll say it again: IF YOU DO NOT WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO SEE YOUR EMAIL, ENCRYPT IT. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
Slashdot Mirror
The Wikpedia says that dpkg came out in 1993.
So Microsoft is only catching up after 17 years.
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You can have it in Gnome too. Open gconf-editor, find the "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout" key, and enter "close:minimize,maximize" as the value.
This is usability?
KDE allows the user to drag-n-drop button layout.
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This fight over window controls would not exist if Gnome had an easy way to rearrange the buttons. But no, Gnome hides it in a dark corner. KDE allows you to arrange the buttons any way you like by simply clicking and dragging.
Oh yeah and to "troll" further, there is only one way to lay out the window control buttons that makes any sense: Close on left, minimize and maximize on right.
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My point was with many current US laws and zero tolerance bullshit, mens rea doesn't matter. Simply having x or doing x means you are guilty whether you intended to break the law or not.
In the meantime, we've filled up the prisons and have 1 in 31 adults either in jail or on probation.
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And to top it off, you paid a huge premium for a machine that's less powerful than a similarly sized notebook/laptop.
And you had to carry around a keyboard anyway, due to character recognition sucking hard.
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Dan "Lyin'" Lyons is mystified by many things.
He's still mystified why SCOX.PK hasn't buried IBM.
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mens rea
What? What the fuck kind of barbarian country is Canada where mens rea is still alive and kicking? Here, in the Civilized United States of America Incorporated, mens rea was abolished in the Nixonian War On Drugs.
That's it. We're invading next Thursday to stop this Godlessness.
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I said: "whether they are made of." and ended there.
That's what I get for not using preview
Should be "no matter what they are made of"
bah.
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If you use a glove while using power tools or machine tools, you deserve what happens to you.
Glove are not safe, whether they are made of.
Ties, jewelry, gloves, long sleeves, etc - remove these. Long hair? Cut it you dirty hippie.
Seriously. I can show you a picture of a person wrapped around a lathe and scar you for life.
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That was brilliant.
By the time I got to the end, I began twitching.
Somebody help me.
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What blogs have shown is that writing doesn't have to be a chore or make-work for English classes. Writing should be fun, just like reading can be fun. The only way to get better at writing is to write more. Blogs (and BBSes and usenet before them) provide a way to do this. Elitists that look at blogs as some sort of dumbing down of writing need to shut up and see them for what they are - people interested in writing when they wouldn't be otherwise.
OT: Viacom is burned by Unclean Hands. Watch for a motion for dismissal with prejudice on these grounds. If anything, the SCO trials have taught me is that the likelihood of it being granted is next to nil, but that doesn't mean I can't be optimistic.
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Off Topic, but whatever. If a mod wants to waste his points on this post, go right ahead. I maxed out on karma a decade ago.
English 101 doesn't teach you how to write.
I have never ever had an English class where I was taught how to write. It was always by the seat of my pants. All writing in high school was geared at writing the "term paper" resulting in my complete inability to write anything but the most boring, stultifying, coma-inducing drek on the planet. Indeed, we were taught something called the "term paper method." The only thing this taught me is that I could never have an original opinion unless I could cite someone else saying it, parrot it, and leave a listing in the bibliography.
This left me literate but crippled.
None of it was geared to how I could express myself. I had to be out of school for 5 years for that to happen; writing every day in the Marquis De Sade school of writing known as BBS networks (Fight-O-Net) hanging out in the debate oriented message bases. I can also credit the local BBSes that had things like "The Never Ending Story."
When I did eventually go back to school, I took College Writing and found all I had to do was defenstrate some bad habits to get an A on a paper. Thanks Fidonet!
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http://definitions.uslegal.com/u/unclean-hands/
"The clean hands doctrine is a rule of law that someone bringing a lawsuit or motion and asking the court for equitable relief must be innocent of wrongdoing or unfair conduct relating to the subject matter of his/her claim. It is an affirmative defense that the defendant may claim the plaintiff has "unclean hands". However, this defense may not be used to put in issue conduct of the plaintiff unrelated to plaintiff's claim. Therefore, plaintiff's unrelated corrupt actions and general immoral character would be irrelevant. The defendant must show that plaintiff misled the defendant or has done something wrong regarding the matter under consideration. The wrongful conduct may be of a legal or moral nature, as long as it relates to the matter in issue."
Well, you'll be surprised at what I'll say next:
Piracy is bad. It's not as bad as the studios would have you believe, but it's bad enough.
But like you, I do believe that the studios should change their business model to take it into account, or provide incentive to people so they don't pirate. There are a lot of things they can do to achieve this. Refraining from treating paying customers like thieves would be a good place to start.
"The problem is that the business model you are talking about is being destroyed by piracy."
BULLSHIT.
The movie industry is making more money than ever. Same goes for the music industry.
Nobody is going begging.
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You know what?
None of you "I can't be arsed to encrypt" idiots keep forgetting that the US is not the whole world, and not every government sees your privacy as precious as you wish it was.
Encrypt your shit or suffer the consequences.
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You can not read an email without technical assistance. That's all the envelope that is necessary.
The law disagrees and that's all that counts. If you don't like it, change the law. However, you are going to get a lot of pushback from system operators who will be put on the hook unnecessarily because you fail to do the equivalent of putting your email in an envelope and sealing it.
Let me repeat that for you. The law disagrees with you. You're wrong and no amount of wishing for something to be true will make it true.
People like Phil Zimmerman fought for your right to encrypt mail. You're a fool if you have privacy concerns and you don't use encryption.
Use encryption or stop complaining.
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Why does this make me think that it's actually Vocaloid J-Pop?
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"No. Removing your profile is really easy. Just edit it into a troll profile. Replace all images with the pain series, 50 hitlers / swastikas, etc. Edit all texts to the most offensive ones possible. "
This does not work with Ebay.
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No, not any longer. While not universally supported, many ISPs support SSL and TLS (including SMTP-TLS). This means that emails may be encrypted during all transmissions.
As it sits on the server, it is unencrypted. As it sits on the servers between the originating server and the end recipient (listed on each Received: line), it is unenecrypted. SSL only encrypts the stream as it flies down the copper or fiber.
All this does is defeat packet sniffing.
And since not *every* email provider supports SSL, you can't depend on every hop to use SSL.
Want privacy? Encrypt the actual message itself.
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What part of "There Is No Envelope" do you not understand?
Why is your name not BadAnalogyGuy?
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E-mail is an entirely different realm from a postcard.
You know what? I'll agree with this, but you won't like it.
Email is worse than postcards if unencrypted. Email without encryption is sortable and searchable and can be easily added to a database for later retrieval by third parties. It actually has *less* privacy.
E-mail on the other hand can't be casually read by another person.
This doesn't even pass the belly laugh test and the rest of your argument is delusional.
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You're arguing semantics
Words have meanings
Trivial means "commonplace" and "easy" - the tools for reading email are commonplace - the tools that sysadmins use to read email are the same ones available for you. Reading others' email is easy if you have the password or authority.
QED
someone would have to "go out of their way" to spy on that message, even if technically speaking that would be very easy (as I said, technically speaking, slicing open an envelope is easy too).
Unless you use encryption, there is no envelope. This is what you don't get. There is no "going out of one's way" to read an email. One simply opens up a mail user agent (MUA) like Thunderbird, Exchange, Pine, or Elm and reads it. Picking an email to read, if it is unencrypted, is as simple as picking a postcard out of a pile of postcards. Your only "security" is the merely the volume of mail being transfered.
I'll repeat that. Without encryption, there is no envelope.
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so I fail to see how your arguments are relevant to modern-day technology
Email is not "Modern day technology"
Email goes back to 1971 with the unimplemented but discussed "mail box protocol" Indeed, the mail transfer agent (MTA) sendmail goes back to 1983 and is still used as the most popular MTA. Other MTAs like postfix still use the basic ideas from the 1970s.
You have an odd definition of modern technology.
Ever since email has existed, it has been transfered in the clear unless the users take their own steps to encrypt. This continues to be the case and there are no signs of this changing.
And you know what? PGP goes back 19 years, to solve the "postcard problem" with other encryption protocols going back further.
I'll say it again: IF YOU DO NOT WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO SEE YOUR EMAIL, ENCRYPT IT. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
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This is why the App Store is a good idea.
Some people don't deserve digital freedom.
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