Their web bugs are sent to a third-party server, and can be blocked just as any other such request. While they don't waste screen space, they still slow you down and are a privacy intrusion, and thus any block list worth its salt blocks such trackers as well.
The only server which gets reliable data is the one which provides actual content.
Any stats done by a third-party advertiser are utterly worthless. The biggest upside of Firefox is AdBlock, so scum-peddling companies will be blocked, won't see you and thus will overestimate IE's market share.
Communism and its variant Juche are 100% religions in everything but name. They have their rituals, clergy, scripture. They fight infidels and are highly proselytic. You have portraits of the Prophets everywhere. There are holy sites, and sometimes pilgrimages (like to Lenin's corpse). And I really can't notice a modicum of difference between 1st May processions we used to have in Poland and catholic Corpus Christi ones we have now.
It's quite strange that Juche tends to be quite often named a religion, yet the Soviet and Chinese versions are not.
In the old days of viruses made for fun rather than profit, a proper polymorphic virus didn't have a constant string longer than a single byte. Instead of changing encryption key, they randomized the entire algorithm -- down to partial opcodes. With this, there is no way to gather signatures of any number of versions, since there simply are none. Another trick is to decrypt just the code that's about to run, clearing it afterwards -- so a memory dump won't help the slightest.
That trivially defeats both ways to scan that you mention. On the other hand, I doubt current malware makers have even a fraction of skill used in the old days -- it's simply uneconomical to do such advanced things if simpler ways are good enough to fool the AV junk. So yeah, the second half of your post is spot-on.
Another question about Wine and Mono: since they do nearly the same thing, why is Ubuntu's stance on them so different? Mark Shuttleworth explicitely said he doesn't want Wine in the default install -- and it isn't there, yet Mono is aggressively promoted. Both of them implement some foreign API and emulate some of Windows-only facilities; both let you run a class of Windows.exe programs -- and none is well-integrated with the native system. Both Wine and Mono require either a helper script or some binfmt-related hacks.
Wouldn't it better to save disk space/bandwidth by using native versions of programs currently shipped using Mono (Tomboy -> gnote,...), and drop Mono to Wine's status?
There is no such country as "EU". Unlike the US, European Union law is merely a set of suggestions that are independently implemented by member countries. There are incentives for doing that and penalties for failing to bring national laws to the standard, but in the end, it's national law that counts.
And software patents is one of fields where the laws differ.
Your "gift horse" comes with a string attached. To get any drugs from the B&MGF, a country needs to sign an agreement they won't allow anyone to produce the drugs themselves.
Some marketing, sure. But not marketing that costs more than research and production together.
Have you ever worked with a doctor? It's absolutely sick. They spend a sizeable portion of their time talking to representatives of pharma companies. Drugs they prescribe are not drugs that work the best but drugs the doctors get incentives for.
I happen to work in a software company that, among other products, does some systems for doctors. This gives me mere glimpses of the pathology, but I've seen enough to be beyond disgusted. Another distant friend of mine actually works as a pharma representative, that's some more hearsay.
Perhaps someone here can enlighten us with some hard data?
Did I say a word about stopping R&D? Hell no. I said that bulk of the money goes to marketing instead of R&D. That, and in the case of US, rampant legal costs.
That 10 billion dollars are nice, but they're still chump charge compared by the damage the foundation did by promoting patent enforcement. Who cares if you deliver X pieces of drug at the cost of $200 each if you could instead make the drug cost $1, its real manufacturing cost?
The argument about recouping research costs is no longer valid when most of the money goes into marketing instead of research.
Uhm, now that post was beyond puerile. You take one part of libertarian motto, cut it, then use the second half as your argument against the first half!.
"Your right to swing your fist ends at my face." is exactly the point of libertarianism. So repeating it against them over and over for an entire page means that you're, quoting to your own words, akin to a preschooler. Otherwise, you would make an attempt to understand what you're criticising -- instead of calling people names.
So Firefox is the only one not vulnerable to false links. It tells you where the link actually leads instead of where it claims to.
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While you can use the server he provides, you can download the proxy software and run it on a machine you control. Of course, this really reduces the pool of identities you will be mixed with -- to 1 unless you organize some other folks to use your proxy as well.
* you lose speed of your machines for number crunching
I think you need to review just how much time you think computers spend reading and preparing data from the hard drive. If you're in the middle of a number-crunching job, it's pretty much negligible. And besides that, most business laptop users (the target users of full-disk encryption) are trying to read e-mail and write Powerpoint slides, they aren't trying to simulate protein folding.
For typical modern hard disk and CPU speeds, it takes about a single whole core to encrypt/decrypt the data at full bandwidth. That's definitely not a negligible loss. Business users may be not trying to run make -j like we do, but they'll still suffer significantly decreased battery life.
Chrome may be Faster but it lacks so many basic features that I consider it a non-starter.
* no cookie handling. You can accept all cookies, all cookies from the primary domain, or no cookies at all -- and nothing more. Chrome lacks even such a basic feature as session cookies! Firefox's default handling at least allows you to ask whether you want cookies from a given domain or not. Privoxy is no good, since it doesn't allow you to whitelist domains without logging on to your proxy server, editing the config file and restarting it.
* no decent AdBlock. Chrome's AdBlock still pulls in all the crap and just hides it from you. Again, Privoxy won't save you since it doesn't allow adding junk to the blacklist in a convenient way.
Except we humans are made to walk on ground. We know what to do when standing on something, so such a planet is of value to us.
Bring a few guys to Mars, give them basic tools and here you go: bricks can be made from local material using 5k years old technology, then you get buildings (making them hermetic is merely tricky but not insurmountable), and it's a straight road from there.
But people stuck in a boat on (or in) an ocean of methane? I can't see any obvious way to make such an outpost expand.
Thus, getting that nautical rover of yours would be pure exploration, while a ground vehicle can pave way to getting a foothold in a quite near future.
Uhm, if you have a criminally broken router and feel no urge to work around it, you should disable IPv6 system-wide. No program should deal with such type of configuration on its own.
And your configuration seems broken: if you don't have any IPv6 addresses better than link-local, glibc shouldn't even send AAAA queries, at least in any semi-recent version. If you have any better addresses (not necessarily globally routable), the queries will be sent but since they go exactly the same way A queries go, there's no way for A responses to come swiftly but AAAA having to timeout, save for something on the way sabotaging them and dropping them silently. And since you claim that this happens for every access, it's something near you.
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Their web bugs are sent to a third-party server, and can be blocked just as any other such request. While they don't waste screen space, they still slow you down and are a privacy intrusion, and thus any block list worth its salt blocks such trackers as well.
The only server which gets reliable data is the one which provides actual content.
Any stats done by a third-party advertiser are utterly worthless. The biggest upside of Firefox is AdBlock, so scum-peddling companies will be blocked, won't see you and thus will overestimate IE's market share.
Communism and its variant Juche are 100% religions in everything but name. They have their rituals, clergy, scripture. They fight infidels and are highly proselytic. You have portraits of the Prophets everywhere. There are holy sites, and sometimes pilgrimages (like to Lenin's corpse). And I really can't notice a modicum of difference between 1st May processions we used to have in Poland and catholic Corpus Christi ones we have now.
It's quite strange that Juche tends to be quite often named a religion, yet the Soviet and Chinese versions are not.
In the old days of viruses made for fun rather than profit, a proper polymorphic virus didn't have a constant string longer than a single byte. Instead of changing encryption key, they randomized the entire algorithm -- down to partial opcodes. With this, there is no way to gather signatures of any number of versions, since there simply are none. Another trick is to decrypt just the code that's about to run, clearing it afterwards -- so a memory dump won't help the slightest.
That trivially defeats both ways to scan that you mention. On the other hand, I doubt current malware makers have even a fraction of skill used in the old days -- it's simply uneconomical to do such advanced things if simpler ways are good enough to fool the AV junk. So yeah, the second half of your post is spot-on.
Saving is not an issue, just dump the whole of the game's memory to the disk.
However, if a part of the game is stored on the server and executed there, we're pretty screwed.
No, Google donating $2 million to Wikipedia doesn't even come close to upstaging the enormous philanthropy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Do you mean, giving poor countries some drugs but only if they agree to not produce any more domestically?
Another question about Wine and Mono: since they do nearly the same thing, why is Ubuntu's stance on them so different? Mark Shuttleworth explicitely said he doesn't want Wine in the default install -- and it isn't there, yet Mono is aggressively promoted. Both of them implement some foreign API and emulate some of Windows-only facilities; both let you run a class of Windows .exe programs -- and none is well-integrated with the native system. Both Wine and Mono require either a helper script or some binfmt-related hacks.
Wouldn't it better to save disk space/bandwidth by using native versions of programs currently shipped using Mono (Tomboy -> gnote, ...), and drop Mono to Wine's status?
There is no such country as "EU". Unlike the US, European Union law is merely a set of suggestions that are independently implemented by member countries. There are incentives for doing that and penalties for failing to bring national laws to the standard, but in the end, it's national law that counts.
And software patents is one of fields where the laws differ.
Mozilla CAN'T support h264, at least not in countries with broken patent law (US, Germany, UK, Japan).
There is only one "healthy level of DRM". Hint: Steam exceeds it.
Your "gift horse" comes with a string attached. To get any drugs from the B&MGF, a country needs to sign an agreement they won't allow anyone to produce the drugs themselves.
Some marketing, sure. But not marketing that costs more than research and production together.
Have you ever worked with a doctor? It's absolutely sick. They spend a sizeable portion of their time talking to representatives of pharma companies. Drugs they prescribe are not drugs that work the best but drugs the doctors get incentives for.
I happen to work in a software company that, among other products, does some systems for doctors. This gives me mere glimpses of the pathology, but I've seen enough to be beyond disgusted. Another distant friend of mine actually works as a pharma representative, that's some more hearsay.
Perhaps someone here can enlighten us with some hard data?
Did I say a word about stopping R&D? Hell no.
I said that bulk of the money goes to marketing instead of R&D. That, and in the case of US, rampant legal costs.
That 10 billion dollars are nice, but they're still chump charge compared by the damage the foundation did by promoting patent enforcement. Who cares if you deliver X pieces of drug at the cost of $200 each if you could instead make the drug cost $1, its real manufacturing cost?
The argument about recouping research costs is no longer valid when most of the money goes into marketing instead of research.
They don't want the prisoners to learn black magic rituals.
Too bad, the anycast 192.88.99.1 sucks ass from so many places. For me, for example, it's in Switzerland, 60ms ping away (Poland).
I use SiXXS instead, with 15ms pings.
Uhm, now that post was beyond puerile. You take one part of libertarian motto, cut it, then use the second half as your argument against the first half!.
"Your right to swing your fist ends at my face." is exactly the point of libertarianism. So repeating it against them over and over for an entire page means that you're, quoting to your own words, akin to a preschooler. Otherwise, you would make an attempt to understand what you're criticising -- instead of calling people names.
So Firefox is the only one not vulnerable to false links. It tells you where the link actually leads instead of where it claims to.
While you can use the server he provides, you can download the proxy software and run it on a machine you control. Of course, this really reduces the pool of identities you will be mixed with -- to 1 unless you organize some other folks to use your proxy as well.
Was that "constant disk access" seek-bound or throughput-bound?
* you lose speed of your machines for number crunching
I think you need to review just how much time you think computers spend reading and preparing data from the hard drive. If you're in the middle of a number-crunching job, it's pretty much negligible. And besides that, most business laptop users (the target users of full-disk encryption) are trying to read e-mail and write Powerpoint slides, they aren't trying to simulate protein folding.
For typical modern hard disk and CPU speeds, it takes about a single whole core to encrypt/decrypt the data at full bandwidth. That's definitely not a negligible loss. Business users may be not trying to run make -j like we do, but they'll still suffer significantly decreased battery life.
Chrome may be Faster but it lacks so many basic features that I consider it a non-starter.
* no cookie handling. You can accept all cookies, all cookies from the primary domain, or no cookies at all -- and nothing more. Chrome lacks even such a basic feature as session cookies! Firefox's default handling at least allows you to ask whether you want cookies from a given domain or not.
Privoxy is no good, since it doesn't allow you to whitelist domains without logging on to your proxy server, editing the config file and restarting it.
* no decent AdBlock. Chrome's AdBlock still pulls in all the crap and just hides it from you.
Again, Privoxy won't save you since it doesn't allow adding junk to the blacklist in a convenient way.
* it goes away when you close the last tab.
And so on, so on...
Since nearly 14 hours ago, you can simply run "sa-update".
It is in cron.daily in the default install, too.
Except we humans are made to walk on ground. We know what to do when standing on something, so such a planet is of value to us.
Bring a few guys to Mars, give them basic tools and here you go: bricks can be made from local material using 5k years old technology, then you get buildings (making them hermetic is merely tricky but not insurmountable), and it's a straight road from there.
But people stuck in a boat on (or in) an ocean of methane? I can't see any obvious way to make such an outpost expand.
Thus, getting that nautical rover of yours would be pure exploration, while a ground vehicle can pave way to getting a foothold in a quite near future.
Uhm, if you have a criminally broken router and feel no urge to work around it, you should disable IPv6 system-wide. No program should deal with such type of configuration on its own.
And your configuration seems broken: if you don't have any IPv6 addresses better than link-local, glibc shouldn't even send AAAA queries, at least in any semi-recent version. If you have any better addresses (not necessarily globally routable), the queries will be sent but since they go exactly the same way A queries go, there's no way for A responses to come swiftly but AAAA having to timeout, save for something on the way sabotaging them and dropping them silently. And since you claim that this happens for every access, it's something near you.