From what I can tell, the law isnt saying that users under 18 cannot reveal their information themselves. Its just the companies/websites which cannot reveal the information. MySpace pages are still fine.
The fact that I have never seen a Zune kinda says that its dead imho. Thats including in stores. No one stocks them. I'm in Australia btw.
Sure Microsoft can pump money at it for decades but no one is buying them. They can get better and cheaper from better known brands (iPod). No reason at all to buy one unless your a MS fan.
If your paranoid about security with Jabber its better to simply run your own Jabber server.
Remember its a direct connection between your server and the person your talking to's server. Nothing central to tap. Also inter-server connections are usually encrypted by default.
At my old Uni, everything had gigabit and boy did we milk it for all it was worth. They had a solid backbone and consequently they didnt mind.
If people stop trying to provide the bare minimum service, everyone will be a lot happier and the amount of money saved from not having any bullshit would be massive.
Well just sticking the more advanced things which will be rarely touched in a different tab is good. I'm not suggesting having a toggle for advanced features nor culling them.
My only complaint is that the more advanced features are mixed in with standard ones. The categories are pretty nice. A little bit of attention would make them perfect.
They tried doing that in Iraq at the beginning of the invasion.
Unfortunately their own redundant technology backfired on them and they learnt the hard way that its impossible to disconnect the internet from a country.:) Traffic re-routes its self pretty damn quickly.
You'd think that with modern technology and multi-billion dollar budgets they could do it properly.
My Pentium 3 laptop will boot from power on to console (including BIOS) in 18 seconds. Add another 10 for KDE.
You'll never see Vista booting from power on to fully functional system (not slow and laggy with things still loading) in under 30 seconds.
No need for making ram images or that kind of nonsense. Thats like applying a bandaid to a amputated arm. It is infact possible to make a computer boot fast without any tricks.
I was under the impression that CRTs did infact use AC. Also some backlights use AC.
And yes, AC is *far* superior over long distance than DC. Hell its probably better over medium distance too which is why your house wiring doesnt use DC.
Rectifiers are pretty efficient and aren't a problem. Its not really conversion in the usual sense of the word. Its just directing current a different way depending on polarity.
The government should have no say at all about how the networks are run.
They should however restrict how ISPs can screw consumers. Its a subtle difference. They wouldnt be setting network policies directly, only indirectly.
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This is rather old dont you think? It didnt matter at all back then.
These days you would do it properly of course.
I cannot see why they wouldnt just proxy everything (either by actual proxies or by changing dns accordingly) so the old settings still work.
From what I can tell, the law isnt saying that users under 18 cannot reveal their information themselves.
Its just the companies/websites which cannot reveal the information. MySpace pages are still fine.
It would only work if the user was incompetent.
If you were doing something you wanted to keep secret, and you knew they could be watching, then you'd act accordingly.
Using a LiveCD comes to mind.
The fact that I have never seen a Zune kinda says that its dead imho.
Thats including in stores. No one stocks them.
I'm in Australia btw.
Sure Microsoft can pump money at it for decades but no one is buying them.
They can get better and cheaper from better known brands (iPod).
No reason at all to buy one unless your a MS fan.
If your paranoid about security with Jabber its better to simply run your own Jabber server.
Remember its a direct connection between your server and the person your talking to's server.
Nothing central to tap. Also inter-server connections are usually encrypted by default.
At my old Uni, everything had gigabit and boy did we milk it for all it was worth.
They had a solid backbone and consequently they didnt mind.
If people stop trying to provide the bare minimum service, everyone will be a lot happier and the amount of money saved from not having any bullshit would be massive.
Thats absolutely fine.
However why do they need a trojan horse to search the computer when they have a warrant which gives them physical access to the computer?
Well just sticking the more advanced things which will be rarely touched in a different tab is good.
I'm not suggesting having a toggle for advanced features nor culling them.
There are light browsers around. Ever tried Lynx?
:)
You get what you devote memory to.
This isnt a Release Candidate in the usual sense. Its still got quite a bit more to be done on it.
Also the graphics are full SVG. Very pretty.
My only complaint is that the more advanced features are mixed in with standard ones.
The categories are pretty nice. A little bit of attention would make them perfect.
They tried doing that in Iraq at the beginning of the invasion.
:)
Unfortunately their own redundant technology backfired on them and they learnt the hard way that its impossible to disconnect the internet from a country.
Traffic re-routes its self pretty damn quickly.
You'd think that with modern technology and multi-billion dollar budgets they could do it properly.
My Pentium 3 laptop will boot from power on to console (including BIOS) in 18 seconds.
Add another 10 for KDE.
You'll never see Vista booting from power on to fully functional system (not slow and laggy with things still loading) in under 30 seconds.
No need for making ram images or that kind of nonsense.
Thats like applying a bandaid to a amputated arm.
It is infact possible to make a computer boot fast without any tricks.
Microsoft has support? You sure they arent forwarding all queries to my inbox?
It seems everyone wants me to fix their Windows woes, not Microsoft.
He's in the United States of America. What you said doesn't apply there. :)
(From another Aussie)
I was under the impression that CRTs did infact use AC.
Also some backlights use AC.
And yes, AC is *far* superior over long distance than DC.
Hell its probably better over medium distance too which is why your house wiring doesnt use DC.
Rectifiers are pretty efficient and aren't a problem.
Its not really conversion in the usual sense of the word.
Its just directing current a different way depending on polarity.
You really think the Youtube player does DivX?
Its always re-encoded to FLV.
You get what you pay for.
I pay $80 AUD/month for 512k unlimited.
Thats true unlimited with no shaping of any kind.
Also the ISP is a good one and likes giving out bandwidth liberally on its other plans.
Their backbone is top notch consequently.
Whats your point? Windows suddenly doesnt have shared libraries? :P
Or is there a reason why the Windows calculator cant use them but the KDE one can?
The KDE guys have gotten theirs to about 5k with a somewhat more functionality than Window's.
The government should have no say at all about how the networks are run.
They should however restrict how ISPs can screw consumers.
Its a subtle difference. They wouldnt be setting network policies directly, only indirectly.
Sure thats true assuming that no maintenance is done.
As the other reply said however, they know about it and can replace parts as required.
Not a problem at all.
It doesnt impact safety at all.
Nuclear reactors are very safe. The dangerous part is us.
Chernobyl: The idiots turned off the pumps.
Three Mile: The idiots went cheap with the sensors.
A well funded plant with competent people running it is very safe.
The environmental FUD has ensured that modern reactors have both.
Yes its got less C-C bonds but you need to burn more of it to get the same amount of energy.