The last bird flu pandemic killed 50 million people. Do you blame Taiwan for being afraid? Asia gets much worse disease outbreaks than we do.
A top health official said Taiwan had demonstrated its goodwill to Roche in talks - and the country hoped it would eventually secure permission to copy the drug.
It's not like they're taking it and saying "sucks to be you."
AIDS is not a pandemic. You can't get AIDS by sharing someone's bread or by touching a doorknob that's been coughed on. Yes, AIDS is a serious and deadly disease, but it is not a pandemic. The last bird flu we've had was a pandemic. If this bird flu turns out to be not as serious as it's thought to be, then Taiwan can easily stop producing the drug, the drug wouldn't sell very much anyway, and there's no problem.
As long as countries don't do this for every disease that comes up, there's no problem. Not every disease out there is considered a pandemic or an epidemic.
And drug companies make a lot of money off non-disease related drugs too. Viagra? Liptor? I'd imagine those are all huge money making drugs.
Advertisements are targeted toward people to try to get them to buy things. Now, when you see an advertisement, it's a marketing strategy. In other words, it doesn't really tell you too much about the product, but gives you an image of that product. I mean, they can't possibly put enough information in a banner to tell me enough about a product to make me want to buy it.
Then you have those advertisements that are scams. Those "win a free iPod" advertisements, "win $500 dollars", "win a PS2!" Bullshit.
Web advertisements tend to be flashy, annoying, and wasteful in terms of rendering and download.
Honestly, if they're going to put together a compilation of Firefox extensions, they might want to choose good ones that don't add bloat.
Tabbrowser Extensions is NOT recommended by the MozDev team. I've used it, and I've actually noticed that it slowed down my browser. This isn't a thing where I got a timer and timed it. This is a thing where I sat there thinking "wow, am I really on cable?"
Next thing you know, people are going to install this package and come to the Firefox team complaining how slow Firefox is.
American companies != American government. I really hope people don't identify Americans by their corporations. American corporations exploit third world children, support totalitarian dictator regimes (Bechtel privitized the water supply of Bolivia, which didn't go through because of massive protests and rioting)...
Also, it's entirely possible that the change in regime would be U.S.-hostile, but that isn't something I'd anticipate. Mostly because a change into a democratic government would be different from the change into the communist one in the 1940s. I think they'd be more likely to seek allies rather than enemies.
Sorry, I forgot the second.
The second is Linkification. This is expected. After all, it has to scan the source of a webpage another time just to make text links into HTML tagged links. It's expected, then, for large webpages, that it would slow down Firefox.
There are two commonly used extensions I know that noticably slow down Firefox.
The first is Tabbrowser Extensions. This one is a killer in terms of speed. Use TabMix Plus instead: TMP
I have the functionality of Opera in Firefox plus some more (for instance, my tabs are located on the bottom of the screen and to switch tabs I mouseover them) and minus the things I don't want. There's no noticable speed difference, I've compared them.
Half of it is the government, but half of it is the people.
I'm an American born Chinese whose parents are from Taiwan. I have friends who are Chinese from China who've moved here, and I'll be damned if all of them oppose the Chinese government.
Sure, you've got a large number of people in China who want democracy, who want elected officials and a say in government. But you've also got a large number of people that are either so caught up in nationalism to notice or sincerely don't believe it's that bad. For a change from totalitarianism to democracy to occur, the idea of change has to be internally ubiquitous.
When you've got a Chinese telling me that the Taiwanese form of government is worse than the Chinese form of government, we've got a problem here. Although the Taiwanese form of government may not be perfect, especially in its beginnings, at least officials are elected by the people, at least it's a multi-party system, and wow, there isn't this rampant totalitarian censorship and control exerted over the people.
When you've got people pointing to the Chinese legislature as a legitimate form of legislature, that's a problem. A one-party legislature is not legitimate, it's a pathetic excuse.
When you've got people saying that there should be a balance between control and freedom (which isn't false at all - for instance, you don't have the freedom to murder) and pointing to CHINA as an example of this, we have a problem. Especially when that same person cites the PATRIOT Act as a problem in the United States.
When you've got people failing to recognize that China is rampant with censorship and has a foreign policy that's worse as ours (Tibet, anyone?), that's a problem. They simply fail to recognize this as a human rights violation. Yet when we bomb Iraqi civilians, they're completely opposed to it, citing human rights. So when the United States kills people it's wrong but when China does it's not? Bullshit. Nationalism at it's peak.
These aren't conservative or totalitarianistic-thinking people either. In America's terms, they'd be considered liberal. It's just when it comes to the subject of China, they're automatically in support.
And it's so hard to show them how absurd this mode of thinking is.
Right now, I have little confidence in the Chinese people to change their government. I also have little confidence in foreign nations to have the ability to change the Chinese government. Not only that, I oppose any attempt by any nation other than China itself to change the Chinese government. Change must come from within. And it doesn't seem like it's coming anytime soon. Tienmen Square shut dissenters up pretty damn good.
You can't blame Yahoo or Google for complying with the Chinese government. If they don't comply, guess what? They're going to be blocked from China. Lot of good that'll do then, right? All those websites about democracy are going to do the Chinese real good if they can't even get there. At least with search query censorship, a clever search may yield good results. When blocking the entire search engine, that whole mode of finding information is lost.
Am I the only one that finds these two quotes contradictory when juxtaposed?
"The flaw is not wormable but allows for the remote execution (of code) with some level of end-user intervention,"
Microsoft's Windows XP with SP2 is designed to make it more difficult for attackers to run malicious software on users' computers.
"some level of user intervention" can mean anything. I can mean they have to download a executable disguised as an image and change its filetype. I can mean the user has to click an "OK" button. They're basically telling you nothing about how much you are at risk. "You're at risk, but we're not telling you why, how, and to what degree."
And when they tell you that SP2 made it more difficult for arbituary code to be run on your computer, they're probably talking Windows Firewall. And for those of us who (unfortunately) downloaded SP2, we can all testify that Windows Firewall is useless, and it was the first thing I disabled in services.msc when I got SP2.
I spoke to some people at Microsoft, and as I said, I can't point to a single feature in Vista that I care about that solves problems for us.
I can't see a single feature in Vista that solves any problems I've had with Windows on the consumer's side either.
And I totally see why Sony wants people to write code that runs on seven SPEs and a central processing unit, because that code is never going to run well anywhere else
You can say the same about DirectX. You can never run DirectX on anything but Windows. (WINE doesn't count). This is common practice, it happens with proprietary formats, why wouldn't it happen with game consoles?
I come to Slashdot for news. Not parody. I read the Onion regularly, and I read the Onion for laughs. I do not read Slashdot for laughs (except the occasionally funny comment).
How did this get past the editors? "Stuff that matters." Yeah, we're living up to that real well. Fake news - that really does matter.
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The last bird flu pandemic killed 50 million people. Do you blame Taiwan for being afraid? Asia gets much worse disease outbreaks than we do.
A top health official said Taiwan had demonstrated its goodwill to Roche in talks - and the country hoped it would eventually secure permission to copy the drug.
It's not like they're taking it and saying "sucks to be you."
AIDS is not a pandemic. You can't get AIDS by sharing someone's bread or by touching a doorknob that's been coughed on. Yes, AIDS is a serious and deadly disease, but it is not a pandemic. The last bird flu we've had was a pandemic. If this bird flu turns out to be not as serious as it's thought to be, then Taiwan can easily stop producing the drug, the drug wouldn't sell very much anyway, and there's no problem.
As long as countries don't do this for every disease that comes up, there's no problem. Not every disease out there is considered a pandemic or an epidemic.
And drug companies make a lot of money off non-disease related drugs too. Viagra? Liptor? I'd imagine those are all huge money making drugs.
As if we really needed more bloggers in the world...
Lots of new features in the new upcoming version of gaim. Read the list yourself. It's mouth watering.
Then you have those advertisements that are scams. Those "win a free iPod" advertisements, "win $500 dollars", "win a PS2!" Bullshit.
Web advertisements tend to be flashy, annoying, and wasteful in terms of rendering and download.
So I block them with Adblock.
I guess you should look more recently then, because those three that you listed are included.
Honestly, if they're going to put together a compilation of Firefox extensions, they might want to choose good ones that don't add bloat.
Tabbrowser Extensions is NOT recommended by the MozDev team. I've used it, and I've actually noticed that it slowed down my browser. This isn't a thing where I got a timer and timed it. This is a thing where I sat there thinking "wow, am I really on cable?"
Next thing you know, people are going to install this package and come to the Firefox team complaining how slow Firefox is.
The alternative: Tab Mix Plus
Who modded parent troll? It's called a joke, meaning he's not serious. Sometimes I'm amazed at the lack of sense of humor some /. user moderators have.
Are there security risks? Could someone read your RFID transmission and use that to create an identical ID?
you don't have to watch sex on TV, you can have it on TV!
It's like when the dolphins exile humans to the sea in the Simpsons when their king dolphin escapes from SeaWorld.
This calls for one thing...
We gotta start setting up more beach volleyball nets.
It's a perfectly valid opinion shared my many people, and if you disagree, that's no reason to mark it flamebait.
Also, it's entirely possible that the change in regime would be U.S.-hostile, but that isn't something I'd anticipate. Mostly because a change into a democratic government would be different from the change into the communist one in the 1940s. I think they'd be more likely to seek allies rather than enemies.
The second is Linkification. This is expected. After all, it has to scan the source of a webpage another time just to make text links into HTML tagged links. It's expected, then, for large webpages, that it would slow down Firefox.
The first is Tabbrowser Extensions. This one is a killer in terms of speed. Use TabMix Plus instead: TMP
I have the functionality of Opera in Firefox plus some more (for instance, my tabs are located on the bottom of the screen and to switch tabs I mouseover them) and minus the things I don't want. There's no noticable speed difference, I've compared them.
I'm an American born Chinese whose parents are from Taiwan. I have friends who are Chinese from China who've moved here, and I'll be damned if all of them oppose the Chinese government.
Sure, you've got a large number of people in China who want democracy, who want elected officials and a say in government. But you've also got a large number of people that are either so caught up in nationalism to notice or sincerely don't believe it's that bad. For a change from totalitarianism to democracy to occur, the idea of change has to be internally ubiquitous.
When you've got a Chinese telling me that the Taiwanese form of government is worse than the Chinese form of government, we've got a problem here. Although the Taiwanese form of government may not be perfect, especially in its beginnings, at least officials are elected by the people, at least it's a multi-party system, and wow, there isn't this rampant totalitarian censorship and control exerted over the people.
When you've got people pointing to the Chinese legislature as a legitimate form of legislature, that's a problem. A one-party legislature is not legitimate, it's a pathetic excuse.
When you've got people saying that there should be a balance between control and freedom (which isn't false at all - for instance, you don't have the freedom to murder) and pointing to CHINA as an example of this, we have a problem. Especially when that same person cites the PATRIOT Act as a problem in the United States.
When you've got people failing to recognize that China is rampant with censorship and has a foreign policy that's worse as ours (Tibet, anyone?), that's a problem. They simply fail to recognize this as a human rights violation. Yet when we bomb Iraqi civilians, they're completely opposed to it, citing human rights. So when the United States kills people it's wrong but when China does it's not? Bullshit. Nationalism at it's peak.
These aren't conservative or totalitarianistic-thinking people either. In America's terms, they'd be considered liberal. It's just when it comes to the subject of China, they're automatically in support.
And it's so hard to show them how absurd this mode of thinking is.
Right now, I have little confidence in the Chinese people to change their government. I also have little confidence in foreign nations to have the ability to change the Chinese government. Not only that, I oppose any attempt by any nation other than China itself to change the Chinese government. Change must come from within. And it doesn't seem like it's coming anytime soon. Tienmen Square shut dissenters up pretty damn good.
You can't blame Yahoo or Google for complying with the Chinese government. If they don't comply, guess what? They're going to be blocked from China. Lot of good that'll do then, right? All those websites about democracy are going to do the Chinese real good if they can't even get there. At least with search query censorship, a clever search may yield good results. When blocking the entire search engine, that whole mode of finding information is lost.
Most the people I know don't even use AOL anymore.
I think I know more people with cable or DSL than people who still use AOL.
And I don't live in a little nerd world.
Maybe they'll be able to dodge some taxes while they're there too.
"The flaw is not wormable but allows for the remote execution (of code) with some level of end-user intervention,"
Microsoft's Windows XP with SP2 is designed to make it more difficult for attackers to run malicious software on users' computers.
"some level of user intervention" can mean anything. I can mean they have to download a executable disguised as an image and change its filetype. I can mean the user has to click an "OK" button. They're basically telling you nothing about how much you are at risk. "You're at risk, but we're not telling you why, how, and to what degree."
And when they tell you that SP2 made it more difficult for arbituary code to be run on your computer, they're probably talking Windows Firewall. And for those of us who (unfortunately) downloaded SP2, we can all testify that Windows Firewall is useless, and it was the first thing I disabled in services.msc when I got SP2.
Guess that means I can't get admin passwords to the school network anymore... :(
Installing windows.
Firefox bittorrent (firepuddle):
http://firepuddle.mozdev.org/
The "pencils down" for Google's Summer of Code was September 1st.
There's the actual video interview.
I spoke to some people at Microsoft, and as I said, I can't point to a single feature in Vista that I care about that solves problems for us.
I can't see a single feature in Vista that solves any problems I've had with Windows on the consumer's side either.
And I totally see why Sony wants people to write code that runs on seven SPEs and a central processing unit, because that code is never going to run well anywhere else
You can say the same about DirectX. You can never run DirectX on anything but Windows. (WINE doesn't count). This is common practice, it happens with proprietary formats, why wouldn't it happen with game consoles?
I come to Slashdot for news. Not parody. I read the Onion regularly, and I read the Onion for laughs. I do not read Slashdot for laughs (except the occasionally funny comment).
How did this get past the editors? "Stuff that matters." Yeah, we're living up to that real well. Fake news - that really does matter.
By using Firefox or Opera, you are supporting global terrorism and "open-source" communists! Switch to IE, now called Freedom Browser!