Bingo! Phil Zimmerman saw this coming way back in the early 90s and wrote PGP. The original version was free as in beer and was spread far and wide. Today we have GNU Privacy Guard, based, in part, on Zimmerman's original specifications. I remember when PGP made the CIA and the NSA nervous -- they couldn't crack 1024-bit public key encryption back then and so they filed suit against Zimmerman in 93 to block export of his encryption tool.
Why worry about it? Plaintext email is already not private. Anyone could grab it enroute if they knew what they were doing. But with encryption tools and sufficiently strong encryption, the government can subpoena all they want from your ISP -- and they'll get back nothing but gibberish. Maybe they can crack it, but I'm betting they can't.
Opening and using an e-mail account requires some amount of sanity,
Sanity and functioning aren't the same thing. You can be completely insane, but wholly functional. Think Adolph Hitler -- he might have been totally nuts, but if he were living today I doubt very much he'd have any trouble opening or using an e-mail account.
but longer-term testing is needed before this kind of fuel cells can be used to power your car
How many people here have hydrogen fuel cell cars?
Wha? No one?
Wonder why.
Oh, yeah, 'cause I can't (yet) go down to my local car dealer and walk out with one. And I can't (yet) go to a 'fuel cell recharging station'. Nor can I (yet) purchase hydrogen fuel cells themselves.
It's called economics people. The biggest problem delaying widespread adoption isn't cost or technology related, it boils down to macroeconomics. And there are too many very powerful people who stand to lose a whole lot of money if reliance on gasoline were to suddenly dissapear tomorrow.
Actually, I wrote a function for an application I'm developing (in Python) that fixes that problem to some degree with XML files. Example:
<script type="text/python">
from template import *
who='Slashdot'
if not (who == ""):
s=Template('Hello, $n!').substitute(n=who)
else:
print "I'm confused!"
print s </script>
will cause problems, since XML parsers tend to include all the whitespace and newlines and so forth. My function simply converts the tabs to spaces and then unindents everything deleting the number of leading spaces of the first line, which will never be indented in a valid Python script, from all the lines of the script.
Probably not something that hasn't been done before, but I did come up with it all by myself.:)
Thank you. There should be competition among all products, including free and open source software, that is the only way that they improve. There. Fixed that for you.
Upgrades of Debian are always smooth and lossless. How, exactly, did you say that with a straight face? Sorry, I've done Debian upgrades, and they're not always that smooth... just because apt-get dist-ugprade works doesn't mean everything works well after that, especially if you have any customizations, or odd bits of hardware or applications.
The inclusion of that more than anything leaves ubuntu open to patent threats Says who? Microsoft actively supports the Mono and Moonlight developers. If they tried to sue over Mono or Moonlight, they'd have a lot of problems with standing to sue, due to failure to mitigate their own damages.
It'll be a while for before Hardy Heron is Hardly Hereyet (*bada bum*!) But seriously, I'd like to see some big improvements in Gnome file management. Much of this could be done with pre-configured custom Nautilus actions, but where Nautilus could use some help:
Recursive file permissions and ownership changes: Nautilus' interface for this clunky and doesn't work right.
Directory compare & synchronization: sync two folders by content. Yes, I know there are tools for this, but most of them are too difficult for the average user to setup and use.
Easy interface for massive file renames by pattern matching. See the support for this in Total Commander. Really easy.
Install the GNOME GPG frontend by default. (is this already in Gutsy?)
Other stuff I'd like to see:
Support for ext3 extended attributes and ACLs turned on by default.
An easy interface for installing QEMU and Windows like QEMU Launcher and QEMU Control polished and fully supported by Canonical.
LVM and RAID supported in the graphical installer. C'mon, guys, LOTS of people use RAID and LVM, especially now that most new computers have an integrated SATA RAID controller!
"It would be terrible for one bot to take out another"
So when is that event scheduled, and will it be on pay per view? And, more importantly, what sort of weapon will the father of the girl bot be armed with?
After all, they still let women drive. I'm not gonna touch that one, because my wife might see this post and ummmm...let's just say that I like my genitalia, thankyouverymuch.
Eleven Finalists in Pentagon's Robotic Rally Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday November 02, @11:26AM OTOH, talk about being posted "in the mysterious future". Hmmmmm.... methinks Slashdot has a clock problem today.
And queue the denigrating remarks from our invading alien troll UbunutuDupe in 3... 2... 1... UbuntuDupe is on vacation this month. I think he left El "Linuzzz" Lobo in charge.
My wife had a similar arrangement, and while Gnome was generally pretty responsive, memory hogging applications like Firefox and OpenOffice.org were a bit slow and tended to slow down the overall desktop if they were running due to constant swapping. The same box is being used for other purposes and now runs XFCE via Xubuntu and it's never been more responsive. I chalk that up to XFCE's considerably lower memory footprint.
There are those who are going to say that what Microsoft did isn't wrong and that it's 'just business'. If Bob's Concrete Construction paid the government $1 million to get the contract to build a new major freeway bypass, you guys would be calling it bribery. But when it's Microsoft paying the government to use Windows you call it business.
Someone with this viewpoint -- please explain this fanboy logic to me.
In other news, FOX News Channel has announced that it's not in bed with the Republican Party, George W. Bush announced that he's not in bed with big oil, and every member of the U.S. Congress has announced that they aren't in bed with any lobbyists or special interest groups of any kind.
Finally, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she's never been in bed with anybody but herself. (That one's almost believable!)
Hence the reason I'm talking about pre-canned NAS appliances. Many NAS appliances support Mac, Linux, and Windows network protocols right out of the box. These also save time and money over Linux or Windows servers and even over OS X server.
C'mon your argument isn't even original and is obviously the thinly-disguised statement of a fanboy.
Assuming you are serving a lot of Macs, yes. In general, though, most large companies are not, and for the few Macs they have in, say, the marketing department, using one of the pre-canned NAS appliances (most of which run Linux) will get them the exact same thing, and probably in a more cost effective manner.
It supports Apple's proprietary server protocols for serving to other Macs.... Like what? AFP? Linux, *BSD, Windows and even Novell Netware all provide support for AFP. I'm not sure, but I think even OS/2 Server had support for it as well.
Most other things, like the Directory, are based on open standards like LDAP and Kerberos (real Kerberos, not Windows brain-damaged kerberos).
Exactly. See this article on thinkwiki about the problem. This is obviously HDD or HDD-controller specific, and is therefore a hardware vendor problem, not an Ubuntu problem. The article is FUD.
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Bingo! Phil Zimmerman saw this coming way back in the early 90s and wrote PGP. The original version was free as in beer and was spread far and wide. Today we have GNU Privacy Guard, based, in part, on Zimmerman's original specifications. I remember when PGP made the CIA and the NSA nervous -- they couldn't crack 1024-bit public key encryption back then and so they filed suit against Zimmerman in 93 to block export of his encryption tool.
Why worry about it? Plaintext email is already not private. Anyone could grab it enroute if they knew what they were doing. But with encryption tools and sufficiently strong encryption, the government can subpoena all they want from your ISP -- and they'll get back nothing but gibberish. Maybe they can crack it, but I'm betting they can't.
Sanity and functioning aren't the same thing. You can be completely insane, but wholly functional. Think Adolph Hitler -- he might have been totally nuts, but if he were living today I doubt very much he'd have any trouble opening or using an e-mail account.
Gotta be the name. Platinum credit cards, platinum blondes, platinum membership....
Wha? No one?
Wonder why.
Oh, yeah, 'cause I can't (yet) go down to my local car dealer and walk out with one. And I can't (yet) go to a 'fuel cell recharging station'. Nor can I (yet) purchase hydrogen fuel cells themselves.
It's called economics people. The biggest problem delaying widespread adoption isn't cost or technology related, it boils down to macroeconomics. And there are too many very powerful people who stand to lose a whole lot of money if reliance on gasoline were to suddenly dissapear tomorrow.
That's why you don't have a fuel cell vehicle.
Actually, I wrote a function for an application I'm developing (in Python) that fixes that problem to some degree with XML files. Example:
:)
<script type="text/python">
from template import *
who='Slashdot'
if not (who == ""):
s=Template('Hello, $n!').substitute(n=who)
else:
print "I'm confused!"
print s
</script>
will cause problems, since XML parsers tend to include all the whitespace and newlines and so forth. My function simply converts the tabs to spaces and then unindents everything deleting the number of leading spaces of the first line, which will never be indented in a valid Python script, from all the lines of the script.
Probably not something that hasn't been done before, but I did come up with it all by myself.
If you want Mac OS X, you know where to find it.
Other stuff I'd like to see:
So when is that event scheduled, and will it be on pay per view? And, more importantly, what sort of weapon will the father of the girl bot be armed with?
Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday November 02, @11:26AM OTOH, talk about being posted "in the mysterious future". Hmmmmm.... methinks Slashdot has a clock problem today.
Mods have no sense of humor today.
My wife had a similar arrangement, and while Gnome was generally pretty responsive, memory hogging applications like Firefox and OpenOffice.org were a bit slow and tended to slow down the overall desktop if they were running due to constant swapping. The same box is being used for other purposes and now runs XFCE via Xubuntu and it's never been more responsive. I chalk that up to XFCE's considerably lower memory footprint.
There are those who are going to say that what Microsoft did isn't wrong and that it's 'just business'. If Bob's Concrete Construction paid the government $1 million to get the contract to build a new major freeway bypass, you guys would be calling it bribery. But when it's Microsoft paying the government to use Windows you call it business.
Someone with this viewpoint -- please explain this fanboy logic to me.
In other news, FOX News Channel has announced that it's not in bed with the Republican Party, George W. Bush announced that he's not in bed with big oil, and every member of the U.S. Congress has announced that they aren't in bed with any lobbyists or special interest groups of any kind.
Finally, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she's never been in bed with anybody but herself. (That one's almost believable!)
Hence the reason I'm talking about pre-canned NAS appliances. Many NAS appliances support Mac, Linux, and Windows network protocols right out of the box. These also save time and money over Linux or Windows servers and even over OS X server.
C'mon your argument isn't even original and is obviously the thinly-disguised statement of a fanboy.
Tada! You're done. Now you can't be tracked (unless you specifically want to be).
Assuming you are serving a lot of Macs, yes. In general, though, most large companies are not, and for the few Macs they have in, say, the marketing department, using one of the pre-canned NAS appliances (most of which run Linux) will get them the exact same thing, and probably in a more cost effective manner.
Most other things, like the Directory, are based on open standards like LDAP and Kerberos (real Kerberos, not Windows brain-damaged kerberos).
Right. But the post I was replying to referred to the 6-7 year criminal trial of R. Kelly.
Are you implying that there is a lot of crap spewing out of major media outlets that doesn't or shouldn't qualify as 'news'? ;)
So much for the right to a fair and speedy trial...
Exactly. See this article on thinkwiki about the problem. This is obviously HDD or HDD-controller specific, and is therefore a hardware vendor problem, not an Ubuntu problem. The article is FUD.