If you RTFA, you'll see that Vista's unpatched vulnerabilities are not considered "critical" because, thanks to Vista's improved security model, are virtually impossible to exploit.
And I think you'll see that thanks to my new and improved door lock, the fact that I leave my windows unlatched is not a critical security issue.
Eben Moglen's (and FSF's) stance on this issue seems to be that the language of GPLV3 will automatically cause all GPLV3 software distributed by Novell in SLES to be protected by the Microsoft-Novell deal. Now, IANAL, but Eben Moglen is. I'm not sure he's 100% right, but I'm also not sure he's 100% wrong either. I wonder if that would hold up in court?
Okay, so the very young Slashdotter that just popped out of his mother might not know what HTTP actually stands for, but I can't believe there are any Slashdotters who don't know what HTTP is.
Uhhhh...doesn't that have to do with this INTARWEB thingie? I think I've seen things like 'http:\\' before but I'm not sure where....
Many people have been saying that Web 2.0 is an utterly wasteful way to do things. There's the proof. Now can we stop building Web 2.0 "applications", please?
That's ridiculous. Compare Google Maps to the old Mapquest (the current Mapquest uses AJAX). When you move in the map, you load only part of the page. The reason it's faster is that it doesn't reload the whole thing every time you move -- hence it uses less bandwidth (on average) than the old way of doing it. Sure, AJAX allows for preloading of content and some of that content won't be used, but how is this different from Web accelerators or other means of fancy proxying? (Hint: it's not, and it still uses less bandwidth because only parts of pages are being preloaded).
Still, if you want to prove it out, put a network performance monitoring tool up and compare AJAX-vs-non-AJAX versions of sites like Google Maps. I'm guessing you'll find AJAX to still consume less bandwidth on average.
It is not the same thing as Free Software, even if he DOES claim that, and I don't think he does (at least, he doesn't seem to have here on slashdot today.) It's vaguely similar, but that's as close as you get.
Bruce Perens didn't invent the term 'open source', just ask his friend ESR. It was invented by a secretary at a meeting in Mountain View, CA, with Netscape execs. in 1998.
Mod parent up! Encoding personally-identifiable information in the files is still DRM, albeit a significantly less restrictive one. It just says, "See, we still don't trust you," while allowing you to exercise your fair use rights, but charging you for the privelege.
Oh well, I'm probably just going to get modded down (a whole bunch of -1, overrated's) by the Apple zealots around here that seem to be plaguing/. as of late. Yes, that means you, Jake.
That printer only does greyscale, and I guarantee it does not print on cardstock very well. Also, I don't spend even $40 for 6 months...I have a 4 cartridge printer and carts cost me about $5 a piece. I think I spent maybe $40-50 in the last year on carts. How much did you spend on toner?
My Epson Stylus C88 doesn't tell me I'm out of ink in 6 months, either. And, yes, FWIW, I print enough color to justify needing a printer that prints color.
BTW -- my application, Stylus Toolbox seems to be pretty accurate in reporting the % of ink, although it relies on information from the printer. Since I do tend to get a little extra ink in each cartridge (nowhere near the 20% suggested, maybe between 1 and 5%), I've thought about modifying the program to allow for a factoring of actual ink left. Unfortunately, once the printer decides there's no more ink left, there's nothing you can do short of refilling the cartridge, so I never saw the point.
Blatant plug: watch out for version 0.3.0, which adds a tray icon and corresponding popup menu. Coming soon.
One of the biggest problem I have with lasers, aside from photo quality, is that paper handling isn't so good as compared to an inkjet. Inkjets can print on a variety of different media - envelopes, glossy photo paper, card stock, etc. Most inexpensive lasers have very poor paper handling in that they have an inability to print on anything thicker than thick bond or thin card stock. More expensive printers have no problem, but then they are not cost competitive with an inkjet.
Also, cheap lasers tend to wear out quicker than inkjets, in my experience.
Unfortunately, registration gives almost automatic 'evidence of first use'. And with someone else registering it (for maybe a different, but still-related purpose), it looks very bad in court. Judges and juries don't know anything about the history of the term 'open source,' and when they have a bunch of paperwork in front of them saying someone else owns 'open source', and with other people using the term generically without OSI defending the mark, well...it looks bad. In the U.S., failure to defend a mark means you lose it.
I've found 'extra' ink in both my Epson and HP inkjet printers. I'd use refill kits, but the cartridges tend to leak over time, and refilling takes a lot of time and effort. In the meantime, for Epson printers, just go with the el cheapo compatible cartridges from places like Inkco. Epson C88 cartridges are $5 a pieces, as opposed to to ~$25 for branded cartridges.
There is no more expectation of privacy in a plaintext email than there is in an open-face postcard. If you want privacy, take steps to encrypt it, not unlike putting a letter in a sealed envelope (as it pertains to the law, not ease of circumvention). This will be overturned, and with good reason.
Right. Otherwise, this could have unintended consequences for Carnivore and Eschelon. Plaintext e-mail has been determined consistently to not have any reasonable expectation of privacy attached to it, and why should it? Anyone can read it.
IMHO, people need to stop assuming that what they put out on the Internet is private. Because unless it's encrypted, it just ain't! Even if nobody else can read it by default, anything passing through in plaintext can be intercepted by anybody. This is especially important, because there seems to be a lack of education among Internet users, who still persist in sending private or personally-identifiable data (name, address, phone #s, social security #, even credit card #s) via e-mail. Or maybe the government likes it that way -- after all, if everyone encrypted their communications, how useful would Carnivore and Eschelon be?
It doesn't matter. AT&T is an upstream ISP. Some content you want, at some point, may very well travel through their network. IOW, you don't need to be a customer to be affected.
Seriously, Plan 9 is/was the planned successor to Unix. You can see the benefits of Plan 9's design today: just check out Inferno. You want distributed computing? It's all in there!
IANAL, but I'm guessing that they could request your DNA from ancestry.com, and if the site refused to turn over results, they could probably get a subpoena as long as they were able to show reasonable cause. But this would be no different than getting DNA directly from you, which is much cleaner in terms of the chain of evidence.
OTOH, as long as a doctor is the one obtaining the DNA, there is a degree of doctor/patient confidentiality. On the gripping hand, the courts generally will still issue a subpoena to get DNA from medical records (again, with reasonable cause), and I suppose it's no different in this case.
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And I think you'll see that thanks to my new and improved door lock, the fact that I leave my windows unlatched is not a critical security issue.
Eben Moglen's (and FSF's) stance on this issue seems to be that the language of GPLV3 will automatically cause all GPLV3 software distributed by Novell in SLES to be protected by the Microsoft-Novell deal. Now, IANAL, but Eben Moglen is. I'm not sure he's 100% right, but I'm also not sure he's 100% wrong either. I wonder if that would hold up in court?
Uhhhh...doesn't that have to do with this INTARWEB thingie? I think I've seen things like 'http:\\' before but I'm not sure where....
That's ridiculous. Compare Google Maps to the old Mapquest (the current Mapquest uses AJAX). When you move in the map, you load only part of the page. The reason it's faster is that it doesn't reload the whole thing every time you move -- hence it uses less bandwidth (on average) than the old way of doing it. Sure, AJAX allows for preloading of content and some of that content won't be used, but how is this different from Web accelerators or other means of fancy proxying? (Hint: it's not, and it still uses less bandwidth because only parts of pages are being preloaded).
Still, if you want to prove it out, put a network performance monitoring tool up and compare AJAX-vs-non-AJAX versions of sites like Google Maps. I'm guessing you'll find AJAX to still consume less bandwidth on average.
Bruce Perens didn't invent the term 'open source', just ask his friend ESR. It was invented by a secretary at a meeting in Mountain View, CA, with Netscape execs. in 1998.
Mod parent up! Encoding personally-identifiable information in the files is still DRM, albeit a significantly less restrictive one. It just says, "See, we still don't trust you," while allowing you to exercise your fair use rights, but charging you for the privelege.
/. as of late. Yes, that means you, Jake.
Oh well, I'm probably just going to get modded down (a whole bunch of -1, overrated's) by the Apple zealots around here that seem to be plaguing
Yeah, just look for the "skull-and-crossbones" flags
That printer only does greyscale, and I guarantee it does not print on cardstock very well. Also, I don't spend even $40 for 6 months...I have a 4 cartridge printer and carts cost me about $5 a piece. I think I spent maybe $40-50 in the last year on carts. How much did you spend on toner?
My Epson Stylus C88 doesn't tell me I'm out of ink in 6 months, either. And, yes, FWIW, I print enough color to justify needing a printer that prints color.
Who needs 'em? I got MythTV, dd, DVD ripping tools and Nautilus Burn.
Burning is as easy as:
dd if=/dev/dvdrom of=/data/iso/myfile.iso bs=1024
Right click on iso in Nautilus, click 'Write ISO to CD/DVD' and burn, baby, burn!
Ripping is even easier.
BTW -- my application, Stylus Toolbox seems to be pretty accurate in reporting the % of ink, although it relies on information from the printer. Since I do tend to get a little extra ink in each cartridge (nowhere near the 20% suggested, maybe between 1 and 5%), I've thought about modifying the program to allow for a factoring of actual ink left. Unfortunately, once the printer decides there's no more ink left, there's nothing you can do short of refilling the cartridge, so I never saw the point.
Blatant plug: watch out for version 0.3.0, which adds a tray icon and corresponding popup menu. Coming soon.
One of the biggest problem I have with lasers, aside from photo quality, is that paper handling isn't so good as compared to an inkjet. Inkjets can print on a variety of different media - envelopes, glossy photo paper, card stock, etc. Most inexpensive lasers have very poor paper handling in that they have an inability to print on anything thicker than thick bond or thin card stock. More expensive printers have no problem, but then they are not cost competitive with an inkjet.
Also, cheap lasers tend to wear out quicker than inkjets, in my experience.
Third-party cartridges are still available for most Epson models from sites like http://inkco.us./
Unfortunately, registration gives almost automatic 'evidence of first use'. And with someone else registering it (for maybe a different, but still-related purpose), it looks very bad in court. Judges and juries don't know anything about the history of the term 'open source,' and when they have a bunch of paperwork in front of them saying someone else owns 'open source', and with other people using the term generically without OSI defending the mark, well...it looks bad. In the U.S., failure to defend a mark means you lose it.
Yes.
I've found 'extra' ink in both my Epson and HP inkjet printers. I'd use refill kits, but the cartridges tend to leak over time, and refilling takes a lot of time and effort. In the meantime, for Epson printers, just go with the el cheapo compatible cartridges from places like Inkco. Epson C88 cartridges are $5 a pieces, as opposed to to ~$25 for branded cartridges.
Yes, but interestingly enough, not by OSI. OSI owns Open Source Initiative Approved License mark and the 'OSI certified' mark.
IANAL, but I don't think OSI has a leg to stand on here.
Right. Otherwise, this could have unintended consequences for Carnivore and Eschelon. Plaintext e-mail has been determined consistently to not have any reasonable expectation of privacy attached to it, and why should it? Anyone can read it.
IMHO, people need to stop assuming that what they put out on the Internet is private. Because unless it's encrypted, it just ain't! Even if nobody else can read it by default, anything passing through in plaintext can be intercepted by anybody. This is especially important, because there seems to be a lack of education among Internet users, who still persist in sending private or personally-identifiable data (name, address, phone #s, social security #, even credit card #s) via e-mail. Or maybe the government likes it that way -- after all, if everyone encrypted their communications, how useful would Carnivore and Eschelon be?
It doesn't matter. AT&T is an upstream ISP. Some content you want, at some point, may very well travel through their network. IOW, you don't need to be a customer to be affected.
I heard they were farming that out to Microsoft India...
LinuxCertified sells laptops with various Linux distros preloaded and fully supported.
Vista! Applied directly to the
Why would they need a GNI? Inferno's already Free/Open Source Software.
... otherwise, you'll be #2!
They were called 'Unix'. ;)
Seriously, Plan 9 is/was the planned successor to Unix. You can see the benefits of Plan 9's design today: just check out Inferno. You want distributed computing? It's all in there!
IANAL, but I'm guessing that they could request your DNA from ancestry.com, and if the site refused to turn over results, they could probably get a subpoena as long as they were able to show reasonable cause. But this would be no different than getting DNA directly from you, which is much cleaner in terms of the chain of evidence.
OTOH, as long as a doctor is the one obtaining the DNA, there is a degree of doctor/patient confidentiality. On the gripping hand, the courts generally will still issue a subpoena to get DNA from medical records (again, with reasonable cause), and I suppose it's no different in this case.
I guess you saw the word 'Jewish' and missed the entire point of my post.