"overrated" just means they think your post should have fewer points, but doesn't fit any of the other negative categories {troll, flamebait, offtopic,...}. "overrated" can be used on unmoderated posts as well, i believe.
on the other hand, slashdot moderators are asked to concentrate on positive moderation. so i don't know how fair/appropriate the "overrated" point was.
I don't think it's supported yet - bugzilla bug 29346. not exactly what you're asking for, but pretty similar and with the same intent (not get trapped by annoying sites). you might post on that bug (or make a new bug) the idea of limiting redirects in addition to limiting popup windows.
What if someone set up a system that let each user distribute digital signatures for given combinations of filenames and data? Then each user could distribute a list to help people find real copies of songs, and then sign the entire list. A single malicious user (someone trying to break the trading system) might report that his/her copy of a file matched the correct signature for the file, but the bogus file wouldn't get very far. dissemination of poor-quality copies of songs would also decrease.
Discl: Just thought I'd toss this idea out. I'm not actually knowledgable about digital signatures, and I only skimmed advogato's page and don't know that much about graph theory.
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OK, a while back I was watching a Godzilla movie. I noticed that while I pronounce Godzilla "Godzilla", the actors pronounced it "Gozeera". I am wondering if there are any similar pronunciation conundrums with Mozilla?
I don't think so. There has been a debate over the spelling for several versions, though: "It's spelled N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E, but it's pronounced 'Mozilla.'" I think this was in the readme for one of the 4.x versions (see here).
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don't you all think it's about time that articles about stolen nuclear weapons tech got it's own icon?
How about a football, like the stolen Q-bomb in The Mouse that Roared? Sure, they had a carbon-14 bomb instead of a hydrogyn bomb, but is the exact type of nuclear explosion that important?
... I was forced to use chatzilla to access irc from a windows box. when I finally got access again from my Linux box, I fired up chatzilla (just to check and see, since I had never used it on Linux) and it was identical.
I don't think it's going to be like this for very long... people are going to start writing skins for various platforms.
Ben Bucksch (who also works on mozilla) has started a project he calls OOUI. Basically, he hopes to create an abstraction for user interfaces that will allow a high amount of separation between applications and UIs. This will (hopefully) let application developers write programs that will work well on wingui/macgui/console without too much work, and will let users set preferences about how he/she wishes to interact with his/her programs or a specific program (window arrangement, font scaling, voice interaction).
From his overview of the project goals (formatting changed for slashdot):
Legitimation for the existance
The idea behind OOUIs is to leave as much of the UI creation as possible to kits on the server side and so to reduce the static information (shipped with the application) to the minimum.
This gives the largest flexibilty to adapt to the user's environment (e.g. computing platform) and preferences.
Abstraction
To make as less assumptions about the UI implementation as possible, the description of the UI should be very abstract (from the application's point of view). The description should be mostly semantical, because this provides the necessary level of abstraction. Many ideas from object-orientation are used.
This level of abstraction gives the possibility to create very different, unforseeable UIs from the description.
Modularity
Choices
Moving nearly all of the UI out of the application (modularity) gives the user freedom.
E.g. if a user likes the way, the GIMP arranges its windows, he can make all applications behave that way; if he prefers console programs, he just has to switch kits; if he has a true 3D environment, he again just has to get new kits; if he has only his cell phone available, he can still use the same application. Now, that's "portable":).
Consistency
Because the concrete UIs for all applications are created by the same entity, the OOUI kit, a high level of consistency is reached.
Faster application development
Once the programmer knows how to create OOUIs, the use of them should shorten application development time, even if only one platform is targetted, because there is no need to care about UI implementation details. However, this is just a positive side-effect, not a goal.
A comfortable filemanager similar to Microsoft Windows Explorer could be created in one day. An example diagram (which represents the most important part of the OOUI description) has been developed in 2 hours. When the simple backend code using OS commands is written and some icons and texts are defined, the filemanager is finished.
What if you can prove that there's no proof for whether it is decideable or not?
I claim to have a proof that this situation is impossible. There could be a flaw in my logic.
suppose that the original statement is decidable. then there's a proof that it's true, or there's a counterexample. therefore its decidability is definately true (and therefore decidable).
now suppose the decidability isn't decidable. then the original statement can't be decidable (see above). therefore, the original statement is not decidable.
Would perl be able to use the same Document Object Model that javascript currently uses? (I haven't used perl enough to know.) If so, making it secure couldn't be that hard.
I have yet to see a compelling feature that would make me actually want to use an IDE. A "compile" button isn't a compelling feature
For me, I'd have to say being able to click on an identifier, press a keyboard shortcut, and get help on the identifier (what header file to include, etc.) is the biggest reason I use an IDE. I dunno, can you do that with emacs/vi?
(I run Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS, btw. That compiler is FAST and its editor is nice.)
Most CS people think that P is not equal to NP. They might be right, but I think we have vastly underestimated the power of polynomial time algorithms.
According to a recent Science News article, you're right. The article described "experiments" with the satisfiability problem that demonstrate that except in rare circumstances, smart algorithms can solve satisfiability problems fairly quickly. Furthermore, various different "smart" algorithms had trouble (went exponential) under the same circumstances, and a simple heuristic could be used fairly effectively guess whether a given satisfiability problem will be hard or not.
In related news, NASA has announced a $10,000 prize for the first discovery of evidence of alien life within the images. Distributed.net's Jeff Lawson said he plans to participate in the project, code-named "redplanet colonyfind five". $1000 of the prize money will go to the winner, and $1000 will go to the winner's team (or to his cow if he doesn't have a team). $6000 to a non-profit organization, which will be decided by vote, but is likely to be Microsoft due to a confusing but popular abbreviation of the Mars Society's name.
Distributed.net will use the remaining $2000 to pay for efforts toward its next project, a non-commercial system that will compete with geek news site Slashdot for control of a dangerous weapon that Slashdot owner Rob Malda is rumored to not only have invented and built, but have tested repeatedly on friendly webmasters. World Wide Web leaders have previously met to decide whether it is better for one group to entirely control the weapon or for there to be a balance of power between two or possibly more groups, but no conclusion was agreed upon. The United States, where both Slashdot and distributed.net are located, has not yet signed treaties banning all tests of the weapon.
I therefore propose, as a political position, that the non-commercial distribution of any material older than 23 years be legalized.
If you only allow "non-commercial" distribution, it clearly isn't public domain. After how many years do you think the material should become public domain?
3. Fair use is true. If you're using a logo, or something created by an organization to make fun of them, you're in the clear. (as done on my microsoft and aicn parodies) however, that movie wasn't making fun of the photo. It was making fun of the situation. If the material had been used to parody the photographer directly, or the AP directly, OK, bu that wasn't the ends of the means.
So what allows The Capitol Steps to write "parodies" of popular songs that are clearly political commentaries and do not generally make fun of the original song?
"You don't mark something safe for scripting unless you are going to let someone activate it remotely," he said." Huh? Shouldn't that be: You don't mark something safe for scripting unless you are !NOT! going to let someone activate it remotely? No. If it is "Safe for scripting", then it CAN be scripted by a webpage. If NOT as you say, then it is unable to be scripted, and therefore, safe.
I wonder if this ambiguous terminology has anything to do with the high amount of scripting-related software with incorrect settings...
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"overrated" just means they think your post should have fewer points, but doesn't fit any of the other negative categories {troll, flamebait, offtopic, ...}. "overrated" can be used on unmoderated posts as well, i believe.
on the other hand, slashdot moderators are asked to concentrate on positive moderation. so i don't know how fair/appropriate the "overrated" point was.
know any OSS collaborative filtering solutions, or maybe some books on collaborative filtering?
Is this supported or hackable into mozilla?
I don't think it's supported yet - bugzilla bug 29346. not exactly what you're asking for, but pretty similar and with the same intent (not get trapped by annoying sites). you might post on that bug (or make a new bug) the idea of limiting redirects in addition to limiting popup windows.
They will be removing Telnet access, but they are enabling web-mail, so there is still a way to get mail remotely.
So how do you prevent people from sniffing web-mail passwords?
What if someone set up a system that let each user distribute digital signatures for given combinations of filenames and data? Then each user could distribute a list to help people find real copies of songs, and then sign the entire list. A single malicious user (someone trying to break the trading system) might report that his/her copy of a file matched the correct signature for the file, but the bogus file wouldn't get very far. dissemination of poor-quality copies of songs would also decrease.
Something similar to Advogato.org's "trust metrics" might be useful for deciding whose list of signatures to trust.
Discl: Just thought I'd toss this idea out. I'm not actually knowledgable about digital signatures, and I only skimmed advogato's page and don't know that much about graph theory.
I don't think so. There has been a debate over the spelling for several versions, though: "It's spelled N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E, but it's pronounced 'Mozilla.'" I think this was in the readme for one of the 4.x versions (see here).
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How about a football, like the stolen Q-bomb in The Mouse that Roared? Sure, they had a carbon-14 bomb instead of a hydrogyn bomb, but is the exact type of nuclear explosion that important?
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I don't think it's going to be like this for very long... people are going to start writing skins for various platforms.
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From his overview of the project goals (formatting changed for slashdot):
Legitimation for the existance
The idea behind OOUIs is to leave as much of the UI creation as possible to kits on the server side and so to reduce the static information (shipped with the application) to the minimum.
This gives the largest flexibilty to adapt to the user's environment (e.g. computing platform) and preferences.
Abstraction
To make as less assumptions about the UI implementation as possible, the description of the UI should be very abstract (from the application's point of view). The description should be mostly semantical, because this provides the necessary level of abstraction. Many ideas from object-orientation are used.
This level of abstraction gives the possibility to create very different, unforseeable UIs from the description.
Modularity
Choices
Moving nearly all of the UI out of the application (modularity) gives the user freedom.
E.g. if a user likes the way, the GIMP arranges its windows, he can make all applications behave that way; if he prefers console programs, he just has to switch kits; if he has a true 3D environment, he again just has to get new kits; if he has only his cell phone available, he can still use the same application. Now, that's "portable"
Consistency
Because the concrete UIs for all applications are created by the same entity, the OOUI kit, a high level of consistency is reached.
Faster application development
Once the programmer knows how to create OOUIs, the use of them should shorten application development time, even if only one platform is targetted, because there is no need to care about UI implementation details. However, this is just a positive side-effect, not a goal.
A comfortable filemanager similar to Microsoft Windows Explorer could be created in one day. An example diagram (which represents the most important part of the OOUI description) has been developed in 2 hours. When the simple backend code using OS commands is written and some icons and texts are defined, the filemanager is finished.
(end modified quoting from Ben's OOUI overview)
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I claim to have a proof that this situation is impossible. There could be a flaw in my logic.
suppose that the original statement is decidable. then there's a proof that it's true, or there's a counterexample. therefore its decidability is definately true (and therefore decidable).
now suppose the decidability isn't decidable. then the original statement can't be decidable (see above). therefore, the original statement is not decidable.
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For me, I'd have to say being able to click on an identifier, press a keyboard shortcut, and get help on the identifier (what header file to include, etc.) is the biggest reason I use an IDE. I dunno, can you do that with emacs/vi?
(I run Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS, btw. That compiler is FAST and its editor is nice.)
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According to a recent Science News article, you're right. The article described "experiments" with the satisfiability problem that demonstrate that except in rare circumstances, smart algorithms can solve satisfiability problems fairly quickly. Furthermore, various different "smart" algorithms had trouble (went exponential) under the same circumstances, and a simple heuristic could be used fairly effectively guess whether a given satisfiability problem will be hard or not.
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Distributed.net will use the remaining $2000 to pay for efforts toward its next project, a non-commercial system that will compete with geek news site Slashdot for control of a dangerous weapon that Slashdot owner Rob Malda is rumored to not only have invented and built, but have tested repeatedly on friendly webmasters. World Wide Web leaders have previously met to decide whether it is better for one group to entirely control the weapon or for there to be a balance of power between two or possibly more groups, but no conclusion was agreed upon. The United States, where both Slashdot and distributed.net are located, has not yet signed treaties banning all tests of the weapon.
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If you only allow "non-commercial" distribution, it clearly isn't public domain. After how many years do you think the material should become public domain?
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What I want to know is,
Do you have the right to "correct" data that isn't wrong?
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So what allows The Capitol Steps to write "parodies" of popular songs that are clearly political commentaries and do not generally make fun of the original song?
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exodus was when moses led people out of egypt and has nothing to do with channukah. stop getting your old-testament stories confused.
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Potential Juror: yes
M$ Lawyer: I move to reject this juror due to pre-bias...
No, they would have to only take computer users who had never used Microsoft products. This would be a good thing!
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(maybe i do have a chance on the AP test tomorrow)
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