No, it is not anything near terrorism. Extortion, racketeering, blackmailing, maybe. But terrorism is a completely different thing. It is because this kind of mislabeling, claiming anything that aims to scare people to be "terrorism", that is so easy for governments all over the world to take away everyone's rights with the excuse of combating it. RIAA blackmailing people is not like terrorism. People discussing ways to blow things up is not terrorism. Disguised people shooting at soldiers in the battlefield is not terrorism.
Wrong. Terrorism, by it's very definition, is hurting non-combatants to make them overcome by fear, in order to make them follow a course of action the terrorist wants to attain. It doesn't matter if you use a shaheed's belt or a lawsuit. The idea is the same.
Well, assuming an user pays for the e-mail account, isn't this a breach of contract and false advertising? By "providing an e-mail account", it can be assumed no real mail is ever meant to be knowingly dropped.
Declaring those who haven't paid the protection racket as not "real mail" is not really something that I would envision as something which would pass a non-bribed judge.
There are worse cases... At a female friend's place, the seat won't even stay up. You actually need to hold it the whole time when peeing.
And no, neither her nor her flatmate heed it when I complain. Drat. Damn female chauvinist pigs... I should sue them for gender discrimination or something.
Don't forget about updates, too. While a few apps like Firefox check for updates on their own, most don't, and even those which do are all inconsistent with each other.
The desktop I use at work is a Windows one, as this is what all but one customers use -- so even though I spend a lot of time sshed to a real box, things like Firefox, Gimp, TortoiseSVN, etc, etc, are all win32 binaries. And having them keep up to date by a single command as opposed to visiting every single homepage once in a time would be swell.
Uhm, let's compare signed repositories with grabbing those programs you need from websites, and quite a few of them use random services like download.com. Quite a step forward in my book.
There is the option of using UTF-8 instead of UTF-16 for the encoding of Unicode characters. Most implementations of Unicode insist upon UTF-16 (meaning all characters including Latin alphabets use 16 bits per letter).
"All characters"? I'm afraid that's only 1/17 of Unicode. And according to the law of mainland China, software which doesn't support codes over 16 bits can't be sold there -- well, the commies are nothing but lawful so it's mostly a paper requirement, but it's there.
And UTF-16 has all the flaws of UTF-8 and UCS32 with none of the advantages. You neither get the 1-character-to-array-element ease nor having out-of-the-box compatibility for 99% of GUI software. With UTF-8, if your program supports ASCII (duh) and doesn't rely on character cell display (ie, full screen text mode software) or need to have some means of counting characters, you're set without doing anything.
Fortunately, the only major implementation which uses UTF-16 in a place visible to the user is win32, and as only a small minority of software uses their fooW APIs instead of fooA, it's those unlucky to depend on Windows who suffer from charset problems in this millenium. Oh wait, I forgot those who have to exchange data with Windows users, and that's... ugh...
Yeah, no "content filtering" is needed, why would it be? Any text is either the request (and thus not "content") or mere data, in the second case it shouldn't be filtered unless something is terribly broken.
Trying to parse encapsulated data is a bad idea generally; as is trying to detect the same attack twice. Of course, unless you're snakeoil^Wsecurity software salesman.
Wrong, the flaw in Cisco's "security" software and IIS is due to them converting things to 8-bit charsets, not due to Unicode. In fact, the whole idea of "code pages" is fundamentally broken, as it assumes all data ever moves to another places only in the same region.
The idea of double-width characters is broken too, yeah, and they are there only to appease the users of some broken Chinese/Japanese software -- but there's nothing wrong with having strange characters in file names. They don't match any file they are not supposed to unless you try to shoehorn them into a limited character set.
So, it's a flaw in the software, not Unicode by itself.
Why is this in YRO? I guess you could make some weird case for my right to have the BBC pick on Scientology...
It's not about Scientology suing BBC, it's about them trying to silence someone who dared to say something bad about them. Oh, wait -- he didn't even do that in public, just in a talk with a scientologist. The report wasn't published, it was the Church of Scientology who attacked first.
And being attacked for criticizing Scientology is something that could have happened to you. For, let's say, talking bad about those Sons-of-a-Bitch here on Slashdot.
Depends on the font. With the older MS fonts, ClearType looks outright ugly and unreadable. But if you use their newest set, ClearType is pretty much a must -- and it kicks ass. On LCD, that is. The regular gray-scale AA done by Microsoft doesn't work right -- but with TrueType, the new MS fonts look great both on LCD (sub-pixel AA) and on CRT (gray-scale AA).
I admit to them: Consolas really pwns Bitstream/DejaVu Mono. Just don't try it without working antialiasing. With MS Courier/MS Lucida, forget about AA.
Remind me again what Vista does that my Linux box can't? Oh wait... purty jellybean graphics and melted-crayon menus and icons. Right.
Uhm, Beryl and co? And even many regular non-XCOMPOSITE Gnome/KDE themes are capable of pwning Vista eyecandy-wise.
Except, you see, the transparency on Beryl is actually useful. For example, try a translucent gnome-terminal -- text's foreground will be fully opaque, with just the empty areas translucent. On Windows, both have the same alpha, making the text hard to read if you want to see anything behind the window (like, a reference sheet/etc).
And if you want Vista melted-crayon theme... LinSta anyone?
Yeah, it predates the kibi crap by quite a few years. In fact, I was named this way only by association with a friend called MegaByte, although he appears to not use his nick anymore.
So indeed, there is a personal reason this issue riles me up.
Please, stop this. The efforts by Academie Englaise to redefine the value of pi^H^Hmegabyte has failed miserably, and there is no reason to have this idea in a place other than MS Bob, UnifiedRoot or DOPA -- in the bit bucket where all asinine failed proposals go.
Enable ntpd. I don't know if ms windows has a similar capability, but I'm bet there are at least utilities.
And how exactly is this going to help? NTP tells your machine the current GMT time, not your local one -- in fact, it has no real way of knowing where you are. It's up to your local machine to know the time-zone offset, and the DST change changed exactly this.
And how the fuck you can convince someone on evidence that got obtained in an illegal way?
And why the script kiddie isn't in jail? Spying and breaking the privacy of many thousands of people (the blurb suggests it was way more than 3000) isn't something to shake a stick at.
Why the hell would anyone want the search bar if you can simply type "google xxx"? (And for lazy bastards like me, you can change this to "g" by editing "Quick searches/Google/keyword"). Same with "wp" for WikiPedia, and so on. Toolbars are useless and a waste of screen real estate.
Perhaps IBM's actions are based on the format qualities, not on its favoritisms. About those, since when IBM was in bed with Sun any more than it was with Microsoft?
This "Open Letter" is nothing than another piece of FUD and whining.
No, ordinary folks toss out the whole perfectly good computer. Already a lot of them prefer purchasing a new machine instead of paying a sizable part of the price to have it "repaired" by removing spyware.
Pythagoras' theorem says the distance in R3 (ie, euclidean space) is sqrt((x1-x2)^2+(y1-y2)^2+(z1-z2)^2). That is, the distance between Earth and Jupiter right now is: 8.95528824E8 km.
Dividing that by c gives 2987 seconds. So, right now the half-ping is 50 minutes.
By similar calculation, you can get that EarthNew Horizons is 2779.975 s =~ 46 minutes.
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Well, assuming an user pays for the e-mail account, isn't this a breach of contract and false advertising? By "providing an e-mail account", it can be assumed no real mail is ever meant to be knowingly dropped.
Declaring those who haven't paid the protection racket as not "real mail" is not really something that I would envision as something which would pass a non-bribed judge.
There are worse cases... At a female friend's place, the seat won't even stay up. You actually need to hold it the whole time when peeing.
And no, neither her nor her flatmate heed it when I complain. Drat. Damn female chauvinist pigs... I should sue them for gender discrimination or something.
Yes, and it protects you from spyware which would send all the URLs you visit to a "don't do no evil" company, too, right?
I know this can be disabled, but how many people even know how to change the defaults?
Don't forget about updates, too. While a few apps like Firefox check for updates on their own, most don't, and even those which do are all inconsistent with each other.
The desktop I use at work is a Windows one, as this is what all but one customers use -- so even though I spend a lot of time sshed to a real box, things like Firefox, Gimp, TortoiseSVN, etc, etc, are all win32 binaries. And having them keep up to date by a single command as opposed to visiting every single homepage once in a time would be swell.
Uhm, let's compare signed repositories with grabbing those programs you need from websites, and quite a few of them use random services like download.com.
Quite a step forward in my book.
And UTF-16 has all the flaws of UTF-8 and UCS32 with none of the advantages. You neither get the 1-character-to-array-element ease nor having out-of-the-box compatibility for 99% of GUI software. With UTF-8, if your program supports ASCII (duh) and doesn't rely on character cell display (ie, full screen text mode software) or need to have some means of counting characters, you're set without doing anything.
Fortunately, the only major implementation which uses UTF-16 in a place visible to the user is win32, and as only a small minority of software uses their fooW APIs instead of fooA, it's those unlucky to depend on Windows who suffer from charset problems in this millenium. Oh wait, I forgot those who have to exchange data with Windows users, and that's... ugh...
Yeah, no "content filtering" is needed, why would it be? Any text is either the request (and thus not "content") or mere data, in the second case it shouldn't be filtered unless something is terribly broken.
Trying to parse encapsulated data is a bad idea generally; as is trying to detect the same attack twice. Of course, unless you're snakeoil^Wsecurity software salesman.
Wrong, the flaw in Cisco's "security" software and IIS is due to them converting things to 8-bit charsets, not due to Unicode. In fact, the whole idea of "code pages" is fundamentally broken, as it assumes all data ever moves to another places only in the same region.
The idea of double-width characters is broken too, yeah, and they are there only to appease the users of some broken Chinese/Japanese software -- but there's nothing wrong with having strange characters in file names. They don't match any file they are not supposed to unless you try to shoehorn them into a limited character set.
So, it's a flaw in the software, not Unicode by itself.
And being attacked for criticizing Scientology is something that could have happened to you. For, let's say, talking bad about those Sons-of-a-Bitch here on Slashdot.
Depends on the font. With the older MS fonts, ClearType looks outright ugly and unreadable. But if you use their newest set, ClearType is pretty much a must -- and it kicks ass. On LCD, that is. The regular gray-scale AA done by Microsoft doesn't work right -- but with TrueType, the new MS fonts look great both on LCD (sub-pixel AA) and on CRT (gray-scale AA).
I admit to them: Consolas really pwns Bitstream/DejaVu Mono. Just don't try it without working antialiasing. With MS Courier/MS Lucida, forget about AA.
Except, you see, the transparency on Beryl is actually useful. For example, try a translucent gnome-terminal -- text's foreground will be fully opaque, with just the empty areas translucent. On Windows, both have the same alpha, making the text hard to read if you want to see anything behind the window (like, a reference sheet/etc).
And if you want Vista melted-crayon theme... LinSta anyone?
So indeed, there is a personal reason this issue riles me up.
Now, please tell me whom the poster of this article works for.
Uhm, wrong. It's not a bug, AdBlock works as it should.
Come on, do you really want to see ads?
You forgot about most of the money:
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And how the fuck you can convince someone on evidence that got obtained in an illegal way?
And why the script kiddie isn't in jail? Spying and breaking the privacy of many thousands of people (the blurb suggests it was way more than 3000) isn't something to shake a stick at.
Why the hell would anyone want the search bar if you can simply type "google xxx"? (And for lazy bastards like me, you can change this to "g" by editing "Quick searches/Google/keyword"). Same with "wp" for WikiPedia, and so on. Toolbars are useless and a waste of screen real estate.
Oh, wait... that's a sponsored toolbar. Oh my.
Perhaps IBM's actions are based on the format qualities, not on its favoritisms. About those, since when IBM was in bed with Sun any more than it was with Microsoft?
This "Open Letter" is nothing than another piece of FUD and whining.
Or, more likely, actually FIXED the spyware problem by removing Windows Activation or WGA.
No, ordinary folks toss out the whole perfectly good computer.
Already a lot of them prefer purchasing a new machine instead of paying a sizable part of the price to have it "repaired" by removing spyware.
See, they say a long time ago a guy named Nixon went into deep shit for wiretapping just one hotel. A president. Must have been a fairy tale.
Pythagoras' theorem says the distance in R3 (ie, euclidean space) is sqrt((x1-x2)^2+(y1-y2)^2+(z1-z2)^2).
That is, the distance between Earth and Jupiter right now is: 8.95528824E8 km.
Dividing that by c gives 2987 seconds. So, right now the half-ping is 50 minutes.
By similar calculation, you can get that EarthNew Horizons is 2779.975 s =~ 46 minutes.