How is having a beer breath in a car not a cause for a "reasonable search"? Or how exactly can you call taking a blood test being "a witness against youself"?
If you get caught with a hand in someone's bag, you don't get an attorney before being searched either.
Around here, there is quite a lot of popular support for lifetime driving bans for the first offense. This might be an overkill, but I'd support that for 2nd one.
I'm quite shocked by the US where they catch a drunken bozo for the 5th time in a month and he still is allowed to drive to work and back.
There's no need to reverse engineer anything. Version 3 is there, and no one is going to give a damn about 4.
Anyone who feels the open version lacks something is free to extend it on their own. If not... well... it's not going to stop working outright, and at least security bugs will be fixed in a timely manner.
Or happen to want stability and no random crashes you cannot debug. Go read lkml and similar lists about the frequency of crashes due to dodgy proprietary drivers.
Oh so many years ago, I played Quake 1 over remote X on four IRIX boxes connecting to a single beefy Linux server. It required a pretty small window to be playable, but beside that, it worked surprisingly well. The server was two network hops away, in the same building, next to some big-ass clusters.
Except for using a wired network rather than wifi -- which is immaterial to the issue at hand -- tell me, how exactly did that differ from this cherished patent?
Free market is a wondeful cure for most problems, it just has one weakness: it breaks down once a single company (a colluding cartel counts as one) corners a majority of the market. Thus, you need the government to stay away except for a vital duty of breaking monopolies -- instead of nurturing "too big to fail" crap.
Oh, and in the case at hand, instead of fighting the monopolies, the govt is actually creating them.
In most of the world there is a thing called "bank transfer". For most transactions it is even free. All you need is to know the recipient's account number, which is published by everyone interesting in receiving non-cash payments.
And those of us who do know about tracking have long since learned that any attempts to opt out actually result in more tracking/advertising/spam/whatever else you opt out.
Unless the perpetrators are actually trackable and reliably fined, there is no chance an opt-out system can work. The only case so far that _mostly_ (not completely) works is the Do-Not-Call phone list in the US. Here in Europe we have strict laws about protecting personal data, but unless a company loudly announces it has data of this kind these laws are unenforceable.
Client machines don't care whether the DNS server they are pointed to is NATted or even in a RFC 1918 block. And no one is really going to run world-reachable DNS servers on XP -- nor Vista/7 on that matter.
It's not like you can have anything but dual stack in the next ten years. Just run NATted IPv4 which handles DNS just fine, and use IPv6 for anything that can benefit from it. SMB is not supposed to ever leave your local network (and is abysmally slow if it does), so that's not a blocker either.
Caps Lock is a good thing if you program in C or another language that has a sane convention of having constants READABLE instead of kHardToRead.
Num Lock is indeed an abomination for about everyone I know -- except some of those people have a heathen idea it should be stuck in the "on" position. For someone who does a lot of programming -- or for a more extreme case, plays roguelikes or certain other games, it should be welded shut. For Excel jockeys, it should be welded "on".
It merely hides stuff from view rather than actually blocking it. There are attempts to make it work but as the author says, Chrome doesn't provide necessary API to do that.
Chrome FASTER than Firefox? What the hell. For me, it's around 5-8 times slower on an average website -- little difference on Slashdot, tremendous on, say, CNN.
This is easily explained if you cut yourself and disable AdBlock -- the speeds will be similar.
Somehow none of lists shipped with AdBlock do something to all that 15th party tracking, you need to purge them yourself, but even in the default settings the difference is still hugely in favour of Firefox.
This is an optimization Chrome's authors should do instead of shaving another fractions of second in JavaScript performance -- but sadly, they get their income from peddling crap:(
I play quite a lot of Pinball Dreams on a n900. With its keyboard, it's actually a better device for that game than a big computer. Sure, being an emulated DOS game it will drain the whole battery in less than three hours, but how often are you that far from home that you can't afford half of the battery's charge? (I never play that much in one go, too). You'll still have a day at standby left.
There's absolutely nothing in common between these. Core Wars are about trying to overwrite each other's code, the exercise GP proposed has programs secure about their integrity and controlling something in a model -- not that different from, say, Chess.
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This wasn't considered a problem by the US state of Georgia.
With a town name like this, I'd rename it immediately. For example, to "Kosovo" (an adjective meaning "of blackbirds").
How is having a beer breath in a car not a cause for a "reasonable search"? Or how exactly can you call taking a blood test being "a witness against youself"?
If you get caught with a hand in someone's bag, you don't get an attorney before being searched either.
Around here, there is quite a lot of popular support for lifetime driving bans for the first offense. This might be an overkill, but I'd support that for 2nd one.
I'm quite shocked by the US where they catch a drunken bozo for the 5th time in a month and he still is allowed to drive to work and back.
It was a direct reference to Terry Pratchett's trolls.
I'd go further and declare that copyright is a crime against humanity.
A war against culture is in the long run more harmful than a war against lives.
There's no need to reverse engineer anything. Version 3 is there, and no one is going to give a damn about 4.
Anyone who feels the open version lacks something is free to extend it on their own. If not... well... it's not going to stop working outright, and at least security bugs will be fixed in a timely manner.
Since "taking out the commanding leadership" worked so well in Afghanistan...
You may claim that this is not conventional warfare, but then, Saddam hasn't been taken out this way either.
The results include such a pile of broken/falsified/hardcoded data that it's not even funny.
For example:
4chan.org 39/56/3 (about same as Slashdot)
4chan.org/b/ 100/0/0
8chan.org 0/100/0
er...?
google.com 33/33/33
Or happen to want stability and no random crashes you cannot debug. Go read lkml and similar lists about the frequency of crashes due to dodgy proprietary drivers.
Oh so many years ago, I played Quake 1 over remote X on four IRIX boxes connecting to a single beefy Linux server. It required a pretty small window to be playable, but beside that, it worked surprisingly well. The server was two network hops away, in the same building, next to some big-ass clusters.
Except for using a wired network rather than wifi -- which is immaterial to the issue at hand -- tell me, how exactly did that differ from this cherished patent?
I see no differences between the works of Zuckerberg and, say, Alan Ralsky.
Both have a massive share in their respective spaces.
Both are a huge monetary success.
Both are being used to run massive advertising campaigns.
Both are a major waste of bandwidth and productivity.
Both are a boil on the ass of mankind.
The voting results were:
1 Julian Assange 92 382024
2 Recep Tayyip Erdogan 80 233639
3 Lady Gaga 70 146378
4 Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert 81 78145
5 Glenn Beck 28 91746
6 Barack Obama 58 27478
7 Steve Jobs 61 24810
8 The Chilean Miners 47 29124
9 The Unemployed American 66 19605
10 Mark Zuckerberg 52 18353
What's the point in even asking for nominations if you choose some random lowlife anyway?
Free market is a wondeful cure for most problems, it just has one weakness: it breaks down once a single company (a colluding cartel counts as one) corners a majority of the market. Thus, you need the government to stay away except for a vital duty of breaking monopolies -- instead of nurturing "too big to fail" crap.
Oh, and in the case at hand, instead of fighting the monopolies, the govt is actually creating them.
In most of the world there is a thing called "bank transfer". For most transactions it is even free. All you need is to know the recipient's account number, which is published by everyone interesting in receiving non-cash payments.
And those of us who do know about tracking have long since learned that any attempts to opt out actually result in more tracking/advertising/spam/whatever else you opt out.
Unless the perpetrators are actually trackable and reliably fined, there is no chance an opt-out system can work. The only case so far that _mostly_ (not completely) works is the Do-Not-Call phone list in the US. Here in Europe we have strict laws about protecting personal data, but unless a company loudly announces it has data of this kind these laws are unenforceable.
Client machines don't care whether the DNS server they are pointed to is NATted or even in a RFC 1918 block. And no one is really going to run world-reachable DNS servers on XP -- nor Vista/7 on that matter.
It's not like you can have anything but dual stack in the next ten years. Just run NATted IPv4 which handles DNS just fine, and use IPv6 for anything that can benefit from it. SMB is not supposed to ever leave your local network (and is abysmally slow if it does), so that's not a blocker either.
Caps Lock is a good thing if you program in C or another language that has a sane convention of having constants READABLE instead of kHardToRead.
Num Lock is indeed an abomination for about everyone I know -- except some of those people have a heathen idea it should be stuck in the "on" position. For someone who does a lot of programming -- or for a more extreme case, plays roguelikes or certain other games, it should be welded shut. For Excel jockeys, it should be welded "on".
It merely hides stuff from view rather than actually blocking it. There are attempts to make it work but as the author says, Chrome doesn't provide necessary API to do that.
Chrome FASTER than Firefox? What the hell. For me, it's around 5-8 times slower on an average website -- little difference on Slashdot, tremendous on, say, CNN.
This is easily explained if you cut yourself and disable AdBlock -- the speeds will be similar.
Somehow none of lists shipped with AdBlock do something to all that 15th party tracking, you need to purge them yourself, but even in the default settings the difference is still hugely in favour of Firefox.
This is an optimization Chrome's authors should do instead of shaving another fractions of second in JavaScript performance -- but sadly, they get their income from peddling crap :(
I play quite a lot of Pinball Dreams on a n900. With its keyboard, it's actually a better device for that game than a big computer. Sure, being an emulated DOS game it will drain the whole battery in less than three hours, but how often are you that far from home that you can't afford half of the battery's charge? (I never play that much in one go, too). You'll still have a day at standby left.
Why should all that important data be postponed just due to the politics of a single country? Not everything is US-centric.
While the latest "cablegate" contains info derived from US sources, it's mostly about the rest of the world.
The line in WikiLeaks cables that the Russian government is Mafia-driven is quite an understatement.
The authorities there know damn well who's herding botnets, but taking them down would be like taking another department of your own company.
There's absolutely nothing in common between these. Core Wars are about trying to overwrite each other's code, the exercise GP proposed has programs secure about their integrity and controlling something in a model -- not that different from, say, Chess.