You're right. Change absolutely horrible. That's why there's so much opposition to switching to alternative energy sources and limiting CO2 emitions - it would require change of our way of life and of our power structure (power being a pun, here) in the short run.
On the other hand, if we do nothing, we'll be forced to face a potentially much bigger change. The catch is, it's later on - that whole 'long run' thing. Big objects appear small and insignificant in the distance.
But... what if they call it the bill of A.W.E.S.O.M.E.N.E.S.S. A.N.D. A.L.L. T.H.I.N.G.S. G.O.O.D. A.N.D. P.U.R.E.? Surely no one would mind then, right?
I've been sentenced for a D.U.I. offense. My 3rd one. When I first came to prison, I had no idea what to expect. Certainly none of this. I'm a tall white male, who unfortunately has a small amount of feminine characteristics. And very shy. These characteristics have got me raped so many times I have no more feelings physically. I have been raped by up to 5 black men and two white men at a time. I've had knifes at my head and throat. I had fought and been beat so hard that I didn't ever think I'd see straight again. One time when I refused to enter a cell, I was brutally attacked by staff and taken to segragation though I had only wanted to prevent the same and worse by not locking up with my cell mate. There is no supervision after lockdown. I was given a conduct report. I explained to the hearing officer what the issue was. He told me that off the record, He suggests I find a man I would/could willingly have sex with to prevent these things from happening. I've requested protective custody only to be denied. It is not available here. He also said there was no where to run to, and it would be best for me to accept things . . . . I probably have AIDS now. I have great difficulty raising food to my mouth from shaking after nightmares or thinking to hard on all this . . . . I've laid down without physical fight to be sodomized. To prevent so much damage in struggles, ripping and tearing. Though in not fighting, it caused my heart and spirit to be raped as well. Something I don't know if I'll ever forgive myself for. -A letter to Human Rights Watch
Let's assume the law passes and spammers are exempt from no-DDoSing laws.
The way to determine whether DDoSing is okay is by having a trial to determine whether the party which is about to be DDoSed is, indeed, a spammer. But, once a spammer is being determined to be a spammer by a court of law, such vigilante tactics are no longer needed.
This law is the equivalent to having a law making it legal to shoot criminals in the head. The only way to determine whether someone is a criminal would be to try them, and by the time this is done, vigilante justice would have no point.
I find it interesting that people allow things like this to hold up buying decisions. The fact is there are always technology shifts going on. Why not get a PowerPC now if you need it, and then you can jump in to the Macintel waters on your own timescale?
What if the new Macintel chips are capable of much faster emulation of Windows programs or natively running Windows? That's something worth waiting for.
It does sound promising; does Opera have some sort of an adblocking and spellchecking feature? Those are the only two things I'd like to have that I haven't heard anyone mention. While I didn't think too much of adblock before I installed it, after I got used to it, ads on web-pages blind me. And I post too much on the internet to not have a handy right click->check spelling feature:)
If it has those two things, I might consider switching, or at least giving it a spin.
I haven't spent any time with Opera, and wasn't really bashing it nor proclaiming Firefox was better. When I said _all_ I meant all the ones he mentioned, not all in general. Okay, so there are apparently a few which firefox didn't solve, but I when I replied I based my reply on the information the parent gave me - not having worked with Opera, I could only comment on his comment. That being said, Opera having feature X and Firefox not having feature X, doesn't necessarily mean Opera is a better browser. With the multitude of extensions, I'm sure I can find some obscure one which is exclusive to Firefox, but, again, that means nothing, since the multitude of features are available to both browsers. Saving sessions works differently (I'm not sure I get the difference still - I can set about:blank or some homepage in tools->options, why do I need session-saver to do that? Or are you referring to starting with more than one tabs every time? I think that's also possible, though with a different extension), but it's still there.
All in all, I think the main difference between the two isn't the different features, but is the fact that Opera comes with all of them 'pre-installed' while Firefox makes you install them individually. Also, I don't have to pay for Firefox (yeah, I'm a cheap bastard - sue me).
Can't we just agree different browsers have different features suited for different people and none is inheritantly better (unless of course, we're talking about IE with *is* godawful)?
"But there is still stuff missing, such as reorganizing tabs (supposedly taken care of next ff version). " miniT extension does that
"The quick prefs thing is a really big thing for me, but for some reason firefox users don't care." Care to elaborate what quick prefs are? The ability to adjust preferences somewhere different than tools->options? I really am clueless...
"FF doesn't let you control cookies as easily as you are able to in opera. " Have you tried cookie culler extension?
"The disabling of images is something I used a lot more than I thought I would. Saving sessions was awesome. I'm sure there's an extension for that somewhere." To block _anything_ you can use RiP (remove it permanently), and you can use adblock to blocks images (specifically ads, but any other image too). Saving sessions is achieved through 'session saver':)
"Crash recovery was nifty, though crashes were rare." Session saver also recovers your browser from crashes.
"Opera also overrides the replacing of the status bar text, so you always know what you are clicking on before you click on it." Firefox has an inbuilt 'annoyance eliminator' that does the the same thing.
"And the transfer window is a big pile of crap in mozilla. Seriously that would probably be my number one gripe. That and its habit of saving files as.part, and delete them if the file fails to transfer fully. Redownloading a several hundred meg file is irritating, so I find I use wget just to avoid going through firefox whenever possible." Okay, I'll give you that one =)
"Another thing that aggravates me is when I'll open a bunch of links in separate tabs to read in a few moments, then 2 minutes later a window pops up saying the server couldn't be reached. But when I go over to the tab, the url bar is blank, so I have no idea which links I clicked on that couldn't be reached. In Opera, even if the page doesn't load, the url bar still has the location you tried to visit, so you can see if the link was typoed or if you even care in the first place." This is EXTREMELY aggravating in firefox and made me exhibit great bouts of anger. Until I found the 'show failed URL' extension. Now it behaves like you'd expect it to.
"Opera never registers right clicks on web pages that pop up those copyright notices because it interferes with mouse gestures. There's no way to disable that in firefox that I'm aware of without finding the javascript options in prefs." The extension you're looking for in this case is called 'allow right click'
"Lastly, I hate that firefox doesn't obey normal unix copy and paste rules. There's no option to right click in a text field and delete everything in it without highlighting the text that is already there. In opera you just click in the box and type ctrl+U. This is particularly annoying when I'm messing with phpmyadmin." That's the only gripe I don't know an extension for. But I'm sure one's available:)
In conclusion, as long as you familiarize yourself with all the available extensions, firefox is great. But the fact that you have to manually add them, can be either a pain or a pleasure, depending on whether you like tweaking:)
What if there's a delay added between attempts? Let's say, the passwords passes through 50,000,000 encryption rounds before the encryption key is generated. This will add a constant time factor of several seconds between password entering attempts, making brute-forcing, or even dictionary searches practically useless.
I don't honestly see how passwords can ever be made obsolete by faster computing technology, despite reading opinions to the contrary over and over again. Problems need to be solved, not given up on:)
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You're right. Change absolutely horrible. That's why there's so much opposition to switching to alternative energy sources and limiting CO2 emitions - it would require change of our way of life and of our power structure (power being a pun, here) in the short run.
On the other hand, if we do nothing, we'll be forced to face a potentially much bigger change. The catch is, it's later on - that whole 'long run' thing. Big objects appear small and insignificant in the distance.
Is this for USA-ians only, or do the rest of us also benefit from the class-action lawsuit?
Furthermore, if the core is spinning at a different speed then the rest of the Earth, it will have drag to deal with, no?
But... what if they call it the bill of A.W.E.S.O.M.E.N.E.S.S. A.N.D. A.L.L. T.H.I.N.G.S. G.O.O.D. A.N.D. P.U.R.E.? Surely no one would mind then, right?
I mean, come one - awesomeness!
I've been sentenced for a D.U.I. offense. My 3rd one. When I first came to prison, I had no idea what to expect. Certainly none of this. I'm a tall white male, who unfortunately has a small amount of feminine characteristics. And very shy. These characteristics have got me raped so many times I have no more feelings physically. I have been raped by up to 5 black men and two white men at a time. I've had knifes at my head and throat. I had fought and been beat so hard that I didn't ever think I'd see straight again. One time when I refused to enter a cell, I was brutally attacked by staff and taken to segragation though I had only wanted to prevent the same and worse by not locking up with my cell mate. There is no supervision after lockdown. I was given a conduct report. I explained to the hearing officer what the issue was. He told me that off the record, He suggests I find a man I would/could willingly have sex with to prevent these things from happening. I've requested protective custody only to be denied. It is not available here. He also said there was no where to run to, and it would be best for me to accept things . . . . I probably have AIDS now. I have great difficulty raising food to my mouth from shaking after nightmares or thinking to hard on all this . . . . I've laid down without physical fight to be sodomized. To prevent so much damage in struggles, ripping and tearing. Though in not fighting, it caused my heart and spirit to be raped as well. Something I don't know if I'll ever forgive myself for.
-A letter to Human Rights Watch
Prison rape is funny again, guys!
Let's assume the law passes and spammers are exempt from no-DDoSing laws.
The way to determine whether DDoSing is okay is by having a trial to determine whether the party which is about to be DDoSed is, indeed, a spammer. But, once a spammer is being determined to be a spammer by a court of law, such vigilante tactics are no longer needed.
This law is the equivalent to having a law making it legal to shoot criminals in the head. The only way to determine whether someone is a criminal would be to try them, and by the time this is done, vigilante justice would have no point.
It ticked me off too, so the first thing I did was search news.google.com to come up with this article.
I believe you misspelled Doom 3
I find it interesting that people allow things like this to hold up buying decisions. The fact is there are always technology shifts going on. Why not get a PowerPC now if you need it, and then you can jump in to the Macintel waters on your own timescale?
What if the new Macintel chips are capable of much faster emulation of Windows programs or natively running Windows? That's something worth waiting for.
But your example is oh so less user-friendly.
terrorist bomb al qaeda bin laden firebomb death destruction chaos terror plane WMD nuclear weapons
[...but there are indeed psycological studies to back this up].
Please link to them, or reference them in some other way.
1GB? That's nothing. I bet Mr. Goatse could sneak a whole file server out of his office.
More like orifice, am I right?
development has ceased however - it will soon become obsolete and forgotten.
It does sound promising; does Opera have some sort of an adblocking and spellchecking feature? Those are the only two things I'd like to have that I haven't heard anyone mention. :)
While I didn't think too much of adblock before I installed it, after I got used to it, ads on web-pages blind me. And I post too much on the internet to not have a handy right click->check spelling feature
If it has those two things, I might consider switching, or at least giving it a spin.
The internets, that's where!
I haven't spent any time with Opera, and wasn't really bashing it nor proclaiming Firefox was better. When I said _all_ I meant all the ones he mentioned, not all in general.
Okay, so there are apparently a few which firefox didn't solve, but I when I replied I based my reply on the information the parent gave me - not having worked with Opera, I could only comment on his comment.
That being said, Opera having feature X and Firefox not having feature X, doesn't necessarily mean Opera is a better browser. With the multitude of extensions, I'm sure I can find some obscure one which is exclusive to Firefox, but, again, that means nothing, since the multitude of features are available to both browsers. Saving sessions works differently (I'm not sure I get the difference still - I can set about:blank or some homepage in tools->options, why do I need session-saver to do that? Or are you referring to starting with more than one tabs every time? I think that's also possible, though with a different extension), but it's still there.
All in all, I think the main difference between the two isn't the different features, but is the fact that Opera comes with all of them 'pre-installed' while Firefox makes you install them individually. Also, I don't have to pay for Firefox (yeah, I'm a cheap bastard - sue me).
Can't we just agree different browsers have different features suited for different people and none is inheritantly better (unless of course, we're talking about IE with *is* godawful)?
Looking at the story title, I guess not...
No problem, glad I could help.
"But there is still stuff missing, such as reorganizing tabs (supposedly taken care of next ff version). "
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.part, and delete them if the file fails to transfer fully. Redownloading a several hundred meg file is irritating, so I find I use wget just to avoid going through firefox whenever possible."
:)
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miniT extension does that
"The quick prefs thing is a really big thing for me, but for some reason firefox users don't care."
Care to elaborate what quick prefs are? The ability to adjust preferences somewhere different than tools->options? I really am clueless...
"FF doesn't let you control cookies as easily as you are able to in opera. "
Have you tried cookie culler extension?
"The disabling of images is something I used a lot more than I thought I would. Saving sessions was awesome. I'm sure there's an extension for that somewhere."
To block _anything_ you can use RiP (remove it permanently), and you can use adblock to blocks images (specifically ads, but any other image too). Saving sessions is achieved through 'session saver'
"Crash recovery was nifty, though crashes were rare."
Session saver also recovers your browser from crashes.
"Opera also overrides the replacing of the status bar text, so you always know what you are clicking on before you click on it."
Firefox has an inbuilt 'annoyance eliminator' that does the the same thing.
"And the transfer window is a big pile of crap in mozilla. Seriously that would probably be my number one gripe. That and its habit of saving files as
Okay, I'll give you that one =)
"Another thing that aggravates me is when I'll open a bunch of links in separate tabs to read in a few moments, then 2 minutes later a window pops up saying the server couldn't be reached. But when I go over to the tab, the url bar is blank, so I have no idea which links I clicked on that couldn't be reached. In Opera, even if the page doesn't load, the url bar still has the location you tried to visit, so you can see if the link was typoed or if you even care in the first place."
This is EXTREMELY aggravating in firefox and made me exhibit great bouts of anger. Until I found the 'show failed URL' extension. Now it behaves like you'd expect it to.
"Opera never registers right clicks on web pages that pop up those copyright notices because it interferes with mouse gestures. There's no way to disable that in firefox that I'm aware of without finding the javascript options in prefs."
The extension you're looking for in this case is called 'allow right click'
"Lastly, I hate that firefox doesn't obey normal unix copy and paste rules. There's no option to right click in a text field and delete everything in it without highlighting the text that is already there. In opera you just click in the box and type ctrl+U. This is particularly annoying when I'm messing with phpmyadmin."
That's the only gripe I don't know an extension for. But I'm sure one's available
In conclusion, as long as you familiarize yourself with all the available extensions, firefox is great. But the fact that you have to manually add them, can be either a pain or a pleasure, depending on whether you like tweaking
They can reply with protectionist measures of their own and impose tariffs on Chinese goods, if they really wanted to.
It *is* their business if it concerns them.
What, like the infamous phantom console?
I believe this is the humor section.
There is only one thing worse than capitalism
Because, el oh el, capitalism is the root of all evil, am i rite?
When you develop a better functioning system for the distribution of resources, write a book about it. You'll be loved and cherished forever.
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What if there's a delay added between attempts? Let's say, the passwords passes through 50,000,000 encryption rounds before the encryption key is generated. This will add a constant time factor of several seconds between password entering attempts, making brute-forcing, or even dictionary searches practically useless.
:)
I don't honestly see how passwords can ever be made obsolete by faster computing technology, despite reading opinions to the contrary over and over again.
Problems need to be solved, not given up on