Yes, its impressive that one person has accomplished all that, but it doesn't really sound to me like it offers anything new or amazing, sure it can work, and good for him if it does, but it isnt exactly anything that hasn't been done before, is it?
Last time I checked, Opera on Symbion was only a 30 day trial (after 30 days are up, it won't run), and although the cost is nominal ($29 isn't it?) I would prefer to have both a "free as in beer" and "free as in speech" alternative.
Found a google cache of their FAQ, basically its a closed source commercial OS, not based on *nix at all, written from scratch so nothing particularly exciting.
Nope, they moved, at least temporarily, see here: "The fleet then reaches the Founders' planet and opens fire, destroying part of the surface, but there is no change in the life form readings. Garak discovers their ships have been lured into a trap -- the planet is actually deserted. As he explains, their vessels are suddenly surrounded by 150 Jem'Hadar ships."
A college tutor who has been telling us for the last three weeks to "keep up with the industry, read magazines and web sites!" etc hadn't heard of Mozilla Firefox when I mentioned it (was a lesson on security and I said that I would recommend using an alternative to IE such as firefox).
The funny thing was that on the next powerpoint slide she brought up was an example of email spoofing, and the example was showing an email coming from webmaster@mozilla.com.
"On a side note, how could they disable Galileo?"
Ask nicely? Seriously though, I think there would be a compromise made between the US and Europe on this, probably something like "if theres a terrorist attack on your soil, we'll disable ours if you ask, as long as you disable yours if theres one on our soil when we ask".
Maybe they would be if the US had a data protection act similer to that of the UK (iirc the business who stores the data is responsible for keeping data to only people who are allowed to access it).
Maybe in the short term, but in the long term if people have most of their software being multi-OS FOSS, they have less of a barrier to change OS (instead of having to learn to use different software and a different OS, they just have to learn the OS), so they might be more likely to change to linux eventually.
"Section 16B of the PTA makes it an offence in England and Wales and in Scotland to collect, record or possess any information which might be useful to terrorists. This provision too applies to both Irish and international terrorism. Equivalent provision is made for Northern Ireland in section 33 of the EPA. This offence is designed principally to catch those compiling or possessing targeting information. Lord Lloyd notes that the police have found the offence particularly useful in Northern Ireland and he recommends that a similar offence be included in any new legislation against terrorism. Again the Government agrees. As terrorist groups try to obtain information on the movements of their potential and actual targets and to gather any other information which might assist them in mounting an attack, the existence of this offence can help the police and the security forces to disrupt such terrorist attacks. "
Is it me or does this seem like a license to arrest anyone anywhere for any reason? "A recipe for a cake? That could be useful to terrorists!"
We have people complaining here in the UK, but as another poster mentioned - nobody really pays attention. It would be difficult to imagine a "janet jackson"-like "controversy" happening in the UK, especially given that the best selling English language daily newspaper (The Sun) features bare breasts on page three almost every day, and it is very rare that anybody complaigns about that.
He really is clueless, or just changes opinion rapidly:
"Either arrest all the people who stole music with MP3 files, ban the MP3 file or just sell music by MP3 to whoever wanted it. "
"I don't think anything about iTunes because, even though it's on the cover of Newsweek and it brings people great joy, I see it as the ruination of the music business."
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[interviewer] What if they found a way to create it to where artists got paid and everybody was taken care of?
[him] I don't know. I'll see when that happens. But that's what I would do if I could do one thing. I'd do that and it would be the best thing that ever could happen to any musician."
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Itunes and other paid-download services work that way now?
No, I'm blaming Windows for telling me theres no dialtone when something else is the problem (although admittidly it COULD be a driver or hardware problem telling windows that theres no dialtone but I have had the same happen on two other machines with 3 different modems).
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I have an ebook/PDF viewer on my NGage (should work with any symbian phone though), and I guess if I had a waterproof case for it I could read an ebook in the bath.
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nothing particularly exciting != not impressive.
Yes, its impressive that one person has accomplished all that, but it doesn't really sound to me like it offers anything new or amazing, sure it can work, and good for him if it does, but it isnt exactly anything that hasn't been done before, is it?
Last time I checked, Opera on Symbion was only a 30 day trial (after 30 days are up, it won't run), and although the cost is nominal ($29 isn't it?) I would prefer to have both a "free as in beer" and "free as in speech" alternative.
Found a google cache of their FAQ, basically its a closed source commercial OS, not based on *nix at all, written from scratch so nothing particularly exciting.
"I wonder how useful the document on how to port Mozilla will be for porting in general?"
Hopefully very useful, Firefox on Symbian (OS mainly used on Nokia and Sony Ericonsson phones btw) anyone?
Mirror here.
You mean open sauce?
Not sure about pro-linux but i'm pretty sure Slate did a pro-firefox story a while ago.
Screw cognitive drugs, I want drugs that give me pre-cognition!
Well, I'm pretty sure firefox tries an anonymous login first for FTP servers, if that fails then it asks for username/pass. Think IE does the same.
Hmm, don't know whats stranger, SCO being right, or IBM admitting to hacking in to SCO's servers.
"The article is a response to a claim by SCO that IBM violated the CFAA by downloading GPL'ed software from SCO's public HTTP and FTP sites."
And this is a perfect example of why nobody takes SCO seriously.
Nope, they moved, at least temporarily, see here:
"The fleet then reaches the Founders' planet and opens fire, destroying part of the surface, but there is no change in the life form readings. Garak discovers their ships have been lured into a trap -- the planet is actually deserted. As he explains, their vessels are suddenly surrounded by 150 Jem'Hadar ships."
A college tutor who has been telling us for the last three weeks to "keep up with the industry, read magazines and web sites!" etc hadn't heard of Mozilla Firefox when I mentioned it (was a lesson on security and I said that I would recommend using an alternative to IE such as firefox).
The funny thing was that on the next powerpoint slide she brought up was an example of email spoofing, and the example was showing an email coming from webmaster@mozilla.com.
"On a side note, how could they disable Galileo?" Ask nicely? Seriously though, I think there would be a compromise made between the US and Europe on this, probably something like "if theres a terrorist attack on your soil, we'll disable ours if you ask, as long as you disable yours if theres one on our soil when we ask".
Maybe they would be if the US had a data protection act similer to that of the UK (iirc the business who stores the data is responsible for keeping data to only people who are allowed to access it).
Maybe in the short term, but in the long term if people have most of their software being multi-OS FOSS, they have less of a barrier to change OS (instead of having to learn to use different software and a different OS, they just have to learn the OS), so they might be more likely to change to linux eventually.
That's what I thought too, thought maybe it was going to be about Steam keeping cookies or something.
Seems so.:
"Section 16B of the PTA makes it an offence in England and Wales and in Scotland to collect, record or possess any information which might be useful to terrorists. This provision too applies to both Irish and international terrorism. Equivalent provision is made for Northern Ireland in section 33 of the EPA. This offence is designed principally to catch those compiling or possessing targeting information. Lord Lloyd notes that the police have found the offence particularly useful in Northern Ireland and he recommends that a similar offence be included in any new legislation against terrorism. Again the Government agrees. As terrorist groups try to obtain information on the movements of their potential and actual targets and to gather any other information which might assist them in mounting an attack, the existence of this offence can help the police and the security forces to disrupt such terrorist attacks. "
Is it me or does this seem like a license to arrest anyone anywhere for any reason? "A recipe for a cake? That could be useful to terrorists!"
"An extension would quickly be created that downloads adds but does not display them (a slight modification of adblock)."
In Adblock's preferences there is an option to "hide" or "remove" ads, I think "hide" just downloads them but doesnt display them.
We have people complaining here in the UK, but as another poster mentioned - nobody really pays attention. It would be difficult to imagine a "janet jackson"-like "controversy" happening in the UK, especially given that the best selling English language daily newspaper (The Sun) features bare breasts on page three almost every day, and it is very rare that anybody complaigns about that.
He really is clueless, or just changes opinion rapidly:
"Either arrest all the people who stole music with MP3 files, ban the MP3 file or just sell music by MP3 to whoever wanted it. "
"I don't think anything about iTunes because, even though it's on the cover of Newsweek and it brings people great joy, I see it as the ruination of the music business."
" [interviewer] What if they found a way to create it to where artists got paid and everybody was taken care of?
[him] I don't know. I'll see when that happens. But that's what I would do if I could do one thing. I'd do that and it would be the best thing that ever could happen to any musician."
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Itunes and other paid-download services work that way now?
No, I'm blaming Windows for telling me theres no dialtone when something else is the problem (although admittidly it COULD be a driver or hardware problem telling windows that theres no dialtone but I have had the same happen on two other machines with 3 different modems).
It is an on-board modem, not PCMCIA.
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I have an ebook/PDF viewer on my NGage (should work with any symbian phone though), and I guess if I had a waterproof case for it I could read an ebook in the bath.