That's interesting, because the last time I installed firefox, it required a clickthrough acceptance of the GPL. I didn't get any willies at all.
The GPL is a distribution license, not a use license. Firefox should still install even if you decline acceptance of the license. If it does not, it's a bug and should be fixed. A person can still redistribute Firefox and refuse to supply the source code, thereby violating the license, without ever installing it.
Can someone here explain exactly what SMS is and how this service would work? I've never used a mobile phone for anything other than making phone calls and receiving the occasional text message when a server at work goes down, so I don't have any clue how one could search from a mobile device.
Pretty soon, I'll have a phone that surfs the web, plays games, takes photos, cooks dinner, plays mp3s, wavs, oggs, avis, mpegs, and can predict the weather.
Yet it'll be barely adequate for making phone calls. At least that's what I'm finding as I show around for a new mobile phone.
Does anyone else think that this a bit overkill. 60Gb is a LOT when you are just talking about music and pictures.
It's not overkill to me. I have 90+ GB of MP3s (no copyrights infringed). I'd really like an ipod big enough so that I could sync my library. As it stands now I just drag and drop the albums that I want.
Does it annoy me that/. has recently turned into some combination of Freshmeat and PC Magazine? Yes.
Then why are you still a subscriber? Notice the asterisk:
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Although I agree with your points maybe the first step would be to vote with your wallet until Slashdot starts to improve. Right now you're just rewarding them for heading in a direction of which you disapprove.
I know it's fashionable these days to claim to be a libertarian of one stripe or another, but the fundamental philosophy of libertarianism -- "greed is the ultimate good" -- is to share a large part of the blame here.
Riiiight. Because most positions of public authority and responsibility, such as the senate, the house, and the presidential office, are just filled to the brim with libertarians. </sarcasm>
Right, but my point was why aren't there any VNC clients that secure the connection automatically? Why install and configure yet another application that will have to run all the time? For that matter can any of the SSH apps that you listed be set up to tunnel to another service on the same machine and run as a windows service?
from the hope-you're-using-ssl-for-everything dept.
Why aren't we using SSL for everything? Why aren't we building strong encryption into everything? I started wondering this several months ago when I had to run VNC on a windows box and had no way to secure it. Sure, under linux you can tunnel it over SSH, but that wasn't an option on a windows machine.
And regarding another thing, how come so many services require a certificate (such as SSL with email, imap, pop, etc) rather than auto-negotiating it like SSH does?
I know this is off-topic, but there doesn't appear to be a forum to discuss this type of thing with other slashdot readers.
Is there a way to block politics stories from the home page? I checked "Politics" in my home page preferences under "Exclude Stories from the Homepage" so that they wouldn't show up but I still see them. Games stories also still show up even though I have them selected to not show up as well. Is this a bug or is there some other setting I need to turn on or off?
So you are saying that a death of 3,000 people is not enough to force us to turn conventional wisdom on its head, start seeing all forms of nuclear technology as part of a larger nuclear bogeyman, and start a massive campaign that attempts to demonize, attack, or otherwise thwart the spread of nuclear technology?
Nope, not at all. What you should see is that 3,000 deaths were caused because of a poorly planned test in a nuclear reactor. These test were performed by tired operators who disabled all of the security checks that would have helped prevent the disaster. The design of the Chernobyl wasn't as safe as some of the reactors that we can build today.
There are plenty of things in this world which can cause far more than 3,000 deaths if the rules and procedures for operating them are not followed. Maybe you should educate yourself about what happened in Chernobyl.
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Would that be pictures of Corn Stars? [link NSFW]
What type of external enclosure can one use for ATA or SATA drives? All I've seen for sale are SCSI or Firewire enclosures.
No. Mobile phones aren't my area of technical expertise. I use one but I don't know what all mobile services are capable of other than voice.
Seriously, I really hope you're joking
Nope.
SMS == Short Messaging Service == text message
Thanks. I've never heard text messaging refered to anything other than text messaging.
Can someone here explain exactly what SMS is and how this service would work? I've never used a mobile phone for anything other than making phone calls and receiving the occasional text message when a server at work goes down, so I don't have any clue how one could search from a mobile device.
That's plenty of room to write in the URL of your patches.
Which state is that?
Now if you can just add a clock and a timer this thing could brew my morning beer before I get up, just like my coffee maker. :-)
Roaming profiles were completed a while back and are in Mozilla 1.8.x. See bug 124029.
Right, but my point was why aren't there any VNC clients that secure the connection automatically? Why install and configure yet another application that will have to run all the time? For that matter can any of the SSH apps that you listed be set up to tunnel to another service on the same machine and run as a windows service?
And regarding another thing, how come so many services require a certificate (such as SSL with email, imap, pop, etc) rather than auto-negotiating it like SSH does?
That's exactly why I'm trying to turn it off.
Is there a way to block politics stories from the home page? I checked "Politics" in my home page preferences under "Exclude Stories from the Homepage" so that they wouldn't show up but I still see them. Games stories also still show up even though I have them selected to not show up as well. Is this a bug or is there some other setting I need to turn on or off?
There are plenty of things in this world which can cause far more than 3,000 deaths if the rules and procedures for operating them are not followed. Maybe you should educate yourself about what happened in Chernobyl.