"Ballmer told a crowd of hardware, software and consulting companies, which provide the bulk of Microsoft's revenue by reselling its software to businesses and homes, that the world's largest software maker was on track to deliver on its 2-1/2-year-old promise to make its software more secure and reliable."
Simply Accounting. Of course, since this depends on ActiveX controls, it really *does* depend on IE -- PureTracks just says it does, because their DRM can be bypassed by any other browser.
User-Agent stats are pretty much meaningless for Firefox, unless you include pages that say "This page only supports Mozilla Firefox" in the statistic -- many people browse using firefox with the UA set to IE so they can access the sites that would otherwise lock them out.
This is true to a point... just witness the recent "Sponsorship Scandal" in Canada.
However, also notice the results -- in the US, the result is that the officials stay bought, and stay in power -- in other countries, the political structure is often designed to discourage such activity, and the voters have enough power (and wield it) to remove people from power who aren't representing their constituents.
I thought the "Interesting" tag was an attempt at a joke on the part of the moderators:)
Surely everyone moderating on/. is able to recognize the introduction to the Hitch Hiker's Guide.
However, the poster has a point... The Wikipedia is making its way to becoming everything the HHGG was supposed to be and then some... especially if you use the Babelfish in conjunction with it;)
This raises another interesting question: did anyone ever wonder what language the HHGG was written in?
Flonix is based on DSL -- this is a custom USB edition that is quite nice:)
All a misunderstanding, really....
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There isn't really any question about it -- it was written by Linus. He overheard a discussion his room-mate in college was having on the phone, offering a large cash prize... too bad he misheard the challenge as "Design a bare bones Minix skirt...."
(Real sentence is left to the intelligence of the reader)
In the Canadian system, there are different elections and referrendums for different issues. In the federal election, Canadians for one person: their representative to Federal Parliament.
Canadians also have Provincial votes (for the representative to the Provincial legislature), Civic votes (for municipal representatives... these get a bit trickier, as there's usually a mayor, entire civic board, parks board, local issues, etc.) and referrendums (for Federal and Provincial issues which need special feedback from the population at large).
Canadians try to keep voting for the leaders as simple and as close to home as possible -- after all this is a large responsibility which affects the future of millions of people.
For Americans wondering how the Prime Minister gets elected, it goes like this:
All of the (308) representatives elected form the next Parliament of ministers. The party with the most representatives votes to select the person to be the Prime Minister. This is usually the leader of their party.
At any time, the general population can send a petition to Parliament on any issue; Parliament must address issues that have a certain amount of support. Using this method, the people can call a vote of non-confidence if they feel their Prime Minister (or any other minister) is failing to do their job adequately. This triggers a by-election, which results in everyone having to re-vote on the person or issue being contested.
Everyone seems to be commenting on how this invades privacy... however, did anyone stop to think what would happen if the decision had been the reverse?
Suddenly, ISP-run antivirus filters and spam filters could make them liable for invading people's privacy. After all, even though these filters are automated, the server admins need to be able to verify they are working correctly.
Plus, if nobody is allowed to read the mail, what about automated data miners? It's a slippery slope in both directions.
Sorry, you appear to be missing a major distinction. In Canada ISPs are simply a carrier; I thought it had already been ruled that in the USA ISPs are now privately funded branches of the FBI.
They don't -- they sue the child's ward. This is the person who is legally responsible for the child's actions until they reach the age of majority, and it is usually a parent (or both). If your friends snuck over and used your computer for infringing purposes, this argument might have a case... however, if you wilfully let them come over and use your computer specifically for that purpose, you would be an acessory. If you're over the age of majority, you get the full force of the law applied to you -- if you're under the age of majority, your ward does. "Households" are not sued, people (and corporations because they are given the rights of individuals) are sued.
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"Ballmer told a crowd of hardware, software and consulting companies, which provide the bulk of Microsoft's revenue by reselling its software to businesses and homes, that the world's largest software maker was on track to deliver on its 2-1/2-year-old promise to make its software more secure and reliable."
"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
Time to link to this... Unlike Mozilla, there is no default way to change user agents -- you need to download an addon.
Simply Accounting. Of course, since this depends on ActiveX controls, it really *does* depend on IE -- PureTracks just says it does, because their DRM can be bypassed by any other browser.
User-Agent stats are pretty much meaningless for Firefox, unless you include pages that say "This page only supports Mozilla Firefox" in the statistic -- many people browse using firefox with the UA set to IE so they can access the sites that would otherwise lock them out.
However, also notice the results -- in the US, the result is that the officials stay bought, and stay in power -- in other countries, the political structure is often designed to discourage such activity, and the voters have enough power (and wield it) to remove people from power who aren't representing their constituents.
Surely everyone moderating on /. is able to recognize the introduction to the Hitch Hiker's Guide.
However, the poster has a point... The Wikipedia is making its way to becoming everything the HHGG was supposed to be and then some... especially if you use the Babelfish in conjunction with it ;)
This raises another interesting question: did anyone ever wonder what language the HHGG was written in?
You might also be interested in Smart Bootmanager for older computers that can only boot to floppy/HDD.
Flonix is based on DSL -- this is a custom USB edition that is quite nice :)
(Real sentence is left to the intelligence of the reader)
Canadians also have Provincial votes (for the representative to the Provincial legislature), Civic votes (for municipal representatives... these get a bit trickier, as there's usually a mayor, entire civic board, parks board, local issues, etc.) and referrendums (for Federal and Provincial issues which need special feedback from the population at large).
Canadians try to keep voting for the leaders as simple and as close to home as possible -- after all this is a large responsibility which affects the future of millions of people.
For Americans wondering how the Prime Minister gets elected, it goes like this: All of the (308) representatives elected form the next Parliament of ministers. The party with the most representatives votes to select the person to be the Prime Minister. This is usually the leader of their party.
At any time, the general population can send a petition to Parliament on any issue; Parliament must address issues that have a certain amount of support. Using this method, the people can call a vote of non-confidence if they feel their Prime Minister (or any other minister) is failing to do their job adequately. This triggers a by-election, which results in everyone having to re-vote on the person or issue being contested.
Suddenly, ISP-run antivirus filters and spam filters could make them liable for invading people's privacy. After all, even though these filters are automated, the server admins need to be able to verify they are working correctly.
Plus, if nobody is allowed to read the mail, what about automated data miners? It's a slippery slope in both directions.
Sorry, you appear to be missing a major distinction. In Canada ISPs are simply a carrier; I thought it had already been ruled that in the USA ISPs are now privately funded branches of the FBI.
They don't -- they sue the child's ward. This is the person who is legally responsible for the child's actions until they reach the age of majority, and it is usually a parent (or both). If your friends snuck over and used your computer for infringing purposes, this argument might have a case... however, if you wilfully let them come over and use your computer specifically for that purpose, you would be an acessory. If you're over the age of majority, you get the full force of the law applied to you -- if you're under the age of majority, your ward does. "Households" are not sued, people (and corporations because they are given the rights of individuals) are sued.