Yeah, it's unfortunate when universities start blocking access like this. A while ago at my university the network administrators started putting posters around reminding people that 'P2P networks are illegal and students found using them can be reported to the police', to paraphrase what they said. Fortunately they too decided not to actually block anything, but the tone of the message annoyed me. There's not much you can do when the net access is blocked, since it is their network, but you can do as I did and email the relevant person with a complaint that messages stating that any P2P software is illegal are downright false.
Now sure enough Google has its faults, but I do still use it as my primary search engine. I do dislike Google never-ending cookies, so I've blocked them, and my Google bookmark contains all my preferences. I've not really noticed any problems with Googles indices not being updates (except in the silly image search, and I don't really use that for any serious purposes). Having said that, I also do find Yahoo to be a very acceptable alternative. I should probably try it out more so as to see how they compare in greater detail.
Yeah, I was a little skeptical when I read this about hackers switching to Mac. In fact none of the hackers I know are switching to Mac because they consider it to be too mainstream. They're all off experimenting with GNU Hurd these days. Of course having said that, I know a lot of non-hackers who are switching to Macs.
I believe there may be some confusion here. By 'new URL' you are referring to the URL on which the content actual is, i.e. the canonical one. But in these hijacking cases this 'new URL' actually predates the 'old' one, so the term 'new URL' is rather ambiguous.
Well, you never know. A few weeks back the local LUG gave a tutorial on how to mount GMail. Now I'm not really a Linux person so I don't know what the details are, but the fact that they gave a tutorial on it suggests that it's not such a silly idea, and could be very useful.
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Well said, this is exactly the sort of thing that we need to be hearing more of. People talk of their privacy being invaded, and their freedoms and rights being breached, but this isn't the fault of the technology, it's the fault of the people that use it.
And which part of the bible is written by one of Jesus' earliest disciples? AFAIK it was assembled decades or centuries (parts earlier, parts later) after the date where Jesus lived according to the church/bible.
Pretty much all the New Testament was written by Jesus's earliest disciples. The New Testament was written several years after Jesus's death, true enough, possibly it was even a few decades. But the reason for this gap was that the disciples could spread the word in person. Eventually they realised that they weren't going to be around forever, and so they commited their memories to text. But it all comes directly from the people who witnessed the events in question.
Capitalization:
Linux: none
Windows: $250 billion
Edge: Windows
Surely you mean Edge: Linux? Conning people who don't know better out of their hard earned cash for a defective product is not a good thing last I checked.
User base:
Linux: negligible
Windows: millions
Edge: Windows
This effect is caused solely by your previous point. Microsoft have the money to spend on advertising, etc. Doesn't have any effect on the quality of the final product though, does it?
Installation:
Linux: Impossible
Windows: Next-->Next-->Done
Edge: Windows
Not in my experience. YMMV, of course.
Design:
Linux: Looks like it was put together by a blind monkey
Windows: Pretty colors
Edge: Windows
I cannot find a single piece of evidence to support your statement. As it happens I think Linux and Windows both look equally nice, which is why I use both of them on my various machines.
Overall I have to say that I prefer Linux. That is purely my own personal preference, and I respect that some people will choose Windows, but I do have to say that I think it's quite worrying how much more effort it takes to keep a Windows box secure.
I like the way this has been modded Flamebait, despite the fact that it neatly summarises every other comment that has been modded Informative in a single paragraph. Some people with mod points need to realise that not every short sweet comment that flies in the face of TFA's (wildly exaggerated) claims is flamebait.
automated meter reading and providing internet service
I think what he meant was automatically reading your electricity meter. That would be kinda convenient, but not worth the price if you ask me. Keep the airwaves clean! Won't somebody think of the children?
Why the hell is it that slashdot users like to pose questions to nobody in particular about the story du jour?
It's a mystery.
Do you think that the CEO of the company which will sell BB over PL is reading slashdot for the comments? Do you think he will choose to announce the availability of the product by personally replying to your comment?
No, and No.
What is the meaning of life?
42. Come on, you should know that one by now.
Why is the sky blue?
Due to diffraction.
Do all the non-trivial Riemann-Zeta function zeroes lie on the line R[s]=1/2?
Sometimes.
Do neutrinos have mass?
Yes.
Where is Osama?
He's dead, Jim.
What is truth?
Truth is Beauty, and Beauty is Truth.
Where is the Maltese Falcon?
More importantly, where are my chocolate malteasers?
What if I'm gay?
And what's so bad about that? Remember, we're all Politically Correct here.
Will anyone reply to me?
Looks like I just did. Have a nice day.
Next question!
"There was something of a scandal when the town found out how much money was being given to "Pro Life" organizations by Dominoes Pizza Corporate. Keep in mind, Ann Arbor is one of the more liberal spots in the Midwest"
I think it's a mistake to automatically associate pro-life with being not liberal. I consider myself to be a liberal. I also consider myself to be a fairly logical person. (As a scientist I kinda have to be.) So as a logical extension of my liberal attitudes, I believe that depriving unborn babies of this basic human right to life is wrong. I have listened to the arguments of the so called 'pro-choice' crowd, and I have to say that their arguments leave my unconvinced. The reason this is so is because, as a scientist, I know that every single one of those arguments is based on a false premise.
Yes, I can confirm these outrageous claims. The adblock plugin for Firefox brought my per dog back after it was run over by a truck! So please, everybody download this wonderful plugin, because you never know when you're going to need a miracle.
But VOIP can be used for really useful things too. One of my mates has set things up so that when you call his house you can press a button to connect to a specific extension, without the need for installing a half dozen phones in his house. He's rather ambitiously considering the possibility of connecting it to a Teamspeak server, just for pure silliness value. VOIP is very useful, IMHO.
I think grandparent poster was referring to US foreign policy in a more generalised sense, rather than specifically to the ISS. In general, the current US foreign policy has been none too popular with anybody. Where by 'anybody' I mean the 95% of the world's population that doesn't live in the US.
Yeah, and then sweatshops in China will step in, steal the invention, undercut the price, and leave you just as poor as before.
The problem isn't with sweatshops in foreign countries stealing inventions. That's just one of those things, it's a tough world, there's not much that you can do about it. The problem is when these foreign products are imported into the US. This is illegal, and yet it still goes on. Thus the problem is reduced to one of insufficient legislation. It would be a simple enough thing to introduce legislation to make it impossible to make a profit on illegal copies, but it hasn't been done. Why?
how is not refuling possible...unless they're inventing some sort of perpetual motion machine (which would seem to violate some laws of thermodynamics), how could it not need refueling?...even if your fuel is only dead insects and apples, you would still need a constant supply of them...am i missing something here?
Nope, as far as I can see, you're not missing a thing. The robot uses dead insects and apples as fuel to propel itself. A constant supply is required. Thus there is no perpetual motion. I beleive the "not refuelling" part just means that there will be no human intervention required in the supply of the fuel, not that the robot will not require any fuel at all.
I still hope that it will soon be gone. Not through some horrible disaster, because that's not a very nice thing to wish on anybody, but through continued political pressure. The military base on Diego Garcia was made possible by the forced removal of the local population. And for what? To make it easier to bomb people. The continued existence of the military base at Diego Garcia really makes me wonder at what humanity can inflict upon itself.
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Yeah, it's unfortunate when universities start blocking access like this. A while ago at my university the network administrators started putting posters around reminding people that 'P2P networks are illegal and students found using them can be reported to the police', to paraphrase what they said. Fortunately they too decided not to actually block anything, but the tone of the message annoyed me. There's not much you can do when the net access is blocked, since it is their network, but you can do as I did and email the relevant person with a complaint that messages stating that any P2P software is illegal are downright false.
Now sure enough Google has its faults, but I do still use it as my primary search engine. I do dislike Google never-ending cookies, so I've blocked them, and my Google bookmark contains all my preferences. I've not really noticed any problems with Googles indices not being updates (except in the silly image search, and I don't really use that for any serious purposes). Having said that, I also do find Yahoo to be a very acceptable alternative. I should probably try it out more so as to see how they compare in greater detail.
Yeah, I was a little skeptical when I read this about hackers switching to Mac. In fact none of the hackers I know are switching to Mac because they consider it to be too mainstream. They're all off experimenting with GNU Hurd these days. Of course having said that, I know a lot of non-hackers who are switching to Macs.
My excuse is that I'm from Britain, where it's 3am and I've just woken up. Doesn't everyone rush to check /. as soon as they wake up?
Hey, what's wrong with goatse? Don't knock it until you've tried it. I regularly check goatse, I've found it to be fascinating.
Or should that be rezistanse?
Resistance is Futile.
I believe there may be some confusion here. By 'new URL' you are referring to the URL on which the content actual is, i.e. the canonical one. But in these hijacking cases this 'new URL' actually predates the 'old' one, so the term 'new URL' is rather ambiguous.
You know, it's one of the answers that the magic 8-ball will give you: "Outlook not good"
Well, you never know. A few weeks back the local LUG gave a tutorial on how to mount GMail. Now I'm not really a Linux person so I don't know what the details are, but the fact that they gave a tutorial on it suggests that it's not such a silly idea, and could be very useful.
Well said, this is exactly the sort of thing that we need to be hearing more of. People talk of their privacy being invaded, and their freedoms and rights being breached, but this isn't the fault of the technology, it's the fault of the people that use it.
Pretty much all the New Testament was written by Jesus's earliest disciples. The New Testament was written several years after Jesus's death, true enough, possibly it was even a few decades. But the reason for this gap was that the disciples could spread the word in person. Eventually they realised that they weren't going to be around forever, and so they commited their memories to text. But it all comes directly from the people who witnessed the events in question.
Capitalization: Linux: none Windows: $250 billion Edge: Windows Surely you mean Edge: Linux? Conning people who don't know better out of their hard earned cash for a defective product is not a good thing last I checked. User base: Linux: negligible Windows: millions Edge: Windows This effect is caused solely by your previous point. Microsoft have the money to spend on advertising, etc. Doesn't have any effect on the quality of the final product though, does it? Installation: Linux: Impossible Windows: Next-->Next-->Done Edge: Windows Not in my experience. YMMV, of course. Design: Linux: Looks like it was put together by a blind monkey Windows: Pretty colors Edge: Windows I cannot find a single piece of evidence to support your statement. As it happens I think Linux and Windows both look equally nice, which is why I use both of them on my various machines. Overall I have to say that I prefer Linux. That is purely my own personal preference, and I respect that some people will choose Windows, but I do have to say that I think it's quite worrying how much more effort it takes to keep a Windows box secure.
The person who's not first against the wall when the revolution comes. Obviously.
I like the way this has been modded Flamebait, despite the fact that it neatly summarises every other comment that has been modded Informative in a single paragraph. Some people with mod points need to realise that not every short sweet comment that flies in the face of TFA's (wildly exaggerated) claims is flamebait.
I think what he meant was automatically reading your electricity meter. That would be kinda convenient, but not worth the price if you ask me. Keep the airwaves clean! Won't somebody think of the children?
It's a mystery.
Do you think that the CEO of the company which will sell BB over PL is reading slashdot for the comments? Do you think he will choose to announce the availability of the product by personally replying to your comment?
No, and No.
What is the meaning of life?
42. Come on, you should know that one by now.
Why is the sky blue?
Due to diffraction.
Do all the non-trivial Riemann-Zeta function zeroes lie on the line R[s]=1/2?
Sometimes.
Do neutrinos have mass?
Yes.
Where is Osama?
He's dead, Jim.
What is truth?
Truth is Beauty, and Beauty is Truth.
Where is the Maltese Falcon?
More importantly, where are my chocolate malteasers?
What if I'm gay?
And what's so bad about that? Remember, we're all Politically Correct here.
Will anyone reply to me?
Looks like I just did. Have a nice day.
Next question!
I think it's a mistake to automatically associate pro-life with being not liberal. I consider myself to be a liberal. I also consider myself to be a fairly logical person. (As a scientist I kinda have to be.) So as a logical extension of my liberal attitudes, I believe that depriving unborn babies of this basic human right to life is wrong. I have listened to the arguments of the so called 'pro-choice' crowd, and I have to say that their arguments leave my unconvinced. The reason this is so is because, as a scientist, I know that every single one of those arguments is based on a false premise.
Yes, I can confirm these outrageous claims. The adblock plugin for Firefox brought my per dog back after it was run over by a truck! So please, everybody download this wonderful plugin, because you never know when you're going to need a miracle.
But VOIP can be used for really useful things too. One of my mates has set things up so that when you call his house you can press a button to connect to a specific extension, without the need for installing a half dozen phones in his house. He's rather ambitiously considering the possibility of connecting it to a Teamspeak server, just for pure silliness value. VOIP is very useful, IMHO.
I think grandparent poster was referring to US foreign policy in a more generalised sense, rather than specifically to the ISS. In general, the current US foreign policy has been none too popular with anybody. Where by 'anybody' I mean the 95% of the world's population that doesn't live in the US.
I do. Trying to control something that doesn't belong to you purely for personal gain is wrong, no matter what spin the politicians put on it.
It was done in the worst possible way morally, ethically, economically, and politically. It should never have happened.
The problem isn't with sweatshops in foreign countries stealing inventions. That's just one of those things, it's a tough world, there's not much that you can do about it. The problem is when these foreign products are imported into the US. This is illegal, and yet it still goes on. Thus the problem is reduced to one of insufficient legislation. It would be a simple enough thing to introduce legislation to make it impossible to make a profit on illegal copies, but it hasn't been done. Why?
Nope, as far as I can see, you're not missing a thing. The robot uses dead insects and apples as fuel to propel itself. A constant supply is required. Thus there is no perpetual motion. I beleive the "not refuelling" part just means that there will be no human intervention required in the supply of the fuel, not that the robot will not require any fuel at all.
You can get a cream for that these days.
I still hope that it will soon be gone. Not through some horrible disaster, because that's not a very nice thing to wish on anybody, but through continued political pressure. The military base on Diego Garcia was made possible by the forced removal of the local population. And for what? To make it easier to bomb people. The continued existence of the military base at Diego Garcia really makes me wonder at what humanity can inflict upon itself.