How could you be so sure of (2), given what you said in (1)? Without a virus scanner, signature checking tool, etc. Hehehe I was asking exactly the same question.
This surely is the guy who said he migrated to Linux because his windows installation started to get *very* sluggish and a because Microsoft started selling him V1agr4 via IE popups... oh and just after 30 seconds of starting his Windows PC a screen stating that the system was going to be rebooted appeard counting down.... fucking windows it is so usesless =oP.
Mmmm. now that you say it, also in Mexico our national ID does have a fingerprint: Credencial para votar and signature as well. And it is true that lots of people in central/south america does not know how to read.
Pues si, "peones" es el nombre que se les da a los trabajadores, por lo menos en el sureste de México (península de Yucatán). Esto no significa que sean esclavos o que sufran algún tipo de abuso, simplemente es el nombre que se les da, sin intención peyorativa.
Joder tío! su Español no mola hombre! joder joder hombre joder! =oP
Sorry pal, I was about to mod you Insightful (two spare mod points:) but I have seen a lot of comments against fingerprinting and I thought I would better write my comment to "defend" it.
The first poster (Anonymous Coward) stated it very well, she is working in a Financial Institution. I think the security on those is similar if not better (or worst? depending on POV) than the goverment agencies (CIA, FBI, DOD, ETC) because the information being played with there is *very* sensitive.
Also, I do not know what is so fucking outrageous about finger prints, my father has a ranch, and when I was younger we went every saturday to pay the pawns theyr week salary, and my dad kept a book for the payments (ala spreadsheet). Some of the pawns didn't know how to read/write, hence my father used their fingerprint as a signature to acknowledge payment. That is a common practice to autenticate people in poor countries. And it is way better thana lousy signature.
Again agreeing with the AC, I think that, if she does not want to be deeply screened then Finance is not an industry where she should get a job. She might preffer going to Google, Amazon or any standard software shop...
On the other hand, I've been playing around with the Alpha (Beta) search, which seems to be much cooler It sures yields unexpected results
Error: Bad Feed We're very sorry. Gremlins have stolen our ram. We sure will miss them.
We are having technical difficulties. We will rectify the problem very soon. Please try again shortly.
And the person that made the proof of what is claimed in the summary was Matthew Cook, not Wolfram himself, Wolfram sued him because he presented his proof in another conference (can you believe what a jerk?).
Of course the person that makes this proof will have to concede every right to Wolfram and therefore in some way the 25K are just a payment for such intellectual property.
And the name removing has been mostly due to his book A new kind of science, where he "comes up" with several ideas that have been created by other authors. I would like to *believe* he makes the typical Master or junior PhD error of not looking hard for the current work but other people believe he just wanted to plagiarize other's people ideas.
And after the hearings finish, he suerly goes to the pub to talk about the case with the lawyers of the MAFIAA, I know it, my best friend (and neighbour) is a lawyer.
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NewYorkCountryLawyer has huge balls for fighting them face to face, and as average geeks, we should thank him for his work.
Oh fucks, Superman became a lawyer....
No, whoever is fighting in such litigation is doing it because of the money. That is what lawyers do. Today you see your lawyer fighting for the kid whose lolly was robbed and tomorrow you see him fighting for the mobster who stole the kids lolly, It i$ ju$t a mathr of intr$t.
Well, "webos" sounds similar to "huevos" in Spanish, which in Mexico is a way to say "Nuts" (as in kicked your nuts)... so I found it quite funny the first time I read about the new "webos" being hot on the internet... u know, *wink**wink*-nudge
I've seen the demos, and, besides the point that it takes some time to load the application *after* it asks me to download or open de jnlp file, AND then I have to answer to a question of whether I trust "Java Sun whatever" and I am superüber-shure to execute the application, the resulting application is not URL or web friendly.
Take as an example the Testla motors website, what if I wanted my father to see the Perfomance Specifications for the Tesla Roadster? I will have to tell him to go to the "http://download.java.net/general/openjfx/demos/te sla.jnlp" page and then click on the Performance tab and then click on the "Performance specs" subtab, instead of just givnig him the direct "http://download.java.net/general/openjfx/demos/te stla/perf_specs.html" URL...
That is something I have always hated about plugin-based web pages be it active-x, flash, Java or whatnot,.
Except for chewing gum with therapeutic value, the importation into Singapore of any chewing gum is prohibited under the Regulation of Imports and Exports (Chewing Gum) Regulations. The prohibition on the import of chewing gum except for those of therapeutic value is absolute. Therefore, no allowance is given for any person to import them for personal consumption. So, again, chewing gum is allowed. Granted, it has to be for therapautic value but there's quite a number of gums that would actually fall into that category.
Holly crap the information you posted just confirmed my previous post (from wikipedia). Read again the page you came up, what part of The prohibition of the import of chewing gum except for those of therapeutic value is absolute is not clear for you?.
Oh really??
Chewing gum is banned in Singapore under the "Regulation of Imports and Exports (Chewing Gum) Regulations." Except for chewing gum of therapeutic value, the "importing" of chewing gum into Singapore is absolutely banned.
A common misconception among citizens is that personal use quantities of chewing gum are allowed into Singapore. However, according to the set of Regulations, "importing" means to "bring or cause to be brought into Singapore by land, water or air from any place which is outside Singapore..." any goods, even if they are not for purposes of trade. The set of Regulations also does not make any provisions for personal use quantities to be brought into Singapore. Therefore, bringing chewing gum into Singapore, even small quantities for whatever purpose, is technically prohibited.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewing_gum_ban_in_Si ngapore
Yeah, every US American should be extradited to Singapore for chewing gum, go ahead, you all are breaking Singapore law and should be fined AND jailed. It does not matter if you are chewing gum in New York underground, you are still breaking a Singaporean law and should be convicted!.
But the difference the Duane Chapman case is that he broke a law while he was *in* Mexico, bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico, he commited a crime *in* Mexico and thus Mexican justice system wants to judge him, hence the extradition.
Whereas this case is about an Australian guy who commited a crime *in* Australia and the gringos want to fsck him just because... because. The guy should have been tried and convicted in Australia, where he commited the crimes. I agree with the analogy made by other poster about smoking pot in Amsterdam, it is illegal to smoke pot under USA laws, they should arrest all the US Americans that go to Amsterdam just to get high when they return, because they did something seen as illegal under USA laws, no mattering the place where they broke the law.
You know whats funny?, there is nothing wrong in reproducing anything of the list GP wrote. Trying to rise a point he ended enforcing what he wanted to deny. Granted, some people *might* use the reproductions of such things to *infringe* the law. But It does not mean that making a copy of such things is infringing the law. The problem is that of distribution. People do not understand that what is not allowed, and hence the right that is given to the creators of copyrigthable work is that it is forbidden to *distribute* copies without the copyright holder's permission (which might or might not be the author/creator).
In that, I think the online video services are wrong. As they are indeed *distributing* the work. Similarly, making a copy of a key or someone's picture (like your neighbour girl taking a shower) might not be illegal, but distributing her picture very well is.
The must funny piece of documentation I have seen was in a *released* KDE piece of documentation for some main program (dont remember exactly which now but it was not a game or a minor K-app), were all the headings were written but when you actually went to read the content of the section you could only find something like:
This section needs to be extended or Please write something here...
I an only imagine if while surfing through Microsoft SQL documentatino I find something like that... terrible, so much for RTFM no?
However, i get the feeling like youre doing the devils work for Microsoft - youre spreading their technology when the market doesnt want it.
That is completely false, which market? the one in which Microsoft applications are running on 90% of the machines? The market *wants* and likes the products Microsoft is offering. It at most a bunch of geeks (yourself included) on slashdot the ones that do not want these technologies.
Guess what, earth is ROUND and it revolves around the sun, not the other way!! yeah, shocking uh?, please do not burn me;-)
. I'd jump back to IE in a heartbeat if they gave me AdBlock or an equivalent thereof.
You might be interested in Privoxy. It is a Proxy that lets you do just that, block ads in a similar way to adblock. I have been using it and it and is really good.
What Open source programs are available to create music?, What open source software would you use to achieve what the original poster asked?
I am really interesting in this kind of stuff. I know there is a specific Linux distro for media but I do not know if the open source software available is mature enough for to perform live performances (i.e. not prone to crash in the middle of the show).
Yeah, that has been the state of Linux when talking about drivers since I first installed it and could not get into internet because there were no drivers for my Winmodem... yeah, silly me to buy what was on the market:(
Just some weeks ago I was looking for a way to make some plots. I usually use gnuplot but as far as I could see it seemed uanble to do bar plots, pie plots, discrete 3d plots (this is, make Z axxis a set of items instead of a continuos range), radar plots, bubble etc. It seems it is only possible to do point and line plots.
I looked for some tutorials on the web to do bar plots but they consisted in half assed hacks (translate the data point, surround it by a bounding box etc etc) which is too much work for something which should be quite trivial to do.
I ended using Excel to do my plots (I gave a try to Gnumeric, which has quite nice plotting tools, but they were unstable, specifically the area plots).
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Somehow after the "I am Indian" I started to read your post with Apu's [Simpsons] accent, I found it funny...
Now go ahead and read my post with the Bumblebee Guy voice =oP.
Peace.
How could you be so sure of (2), given what you said in (1)? Without a virus scanner, signature checking tool, etc.
Hehehe I was asking exactly the same question.
This surely is the guy who said he migrated to Linux because his windows installation started to get *very* sluggish and a because Microsoft started selling him V1agr4 via IE popups... oh and just after 30 seconds of starting his Windows PC a screen stating that the system was going to be rebooted appeard counting down.... fucking windows it is so usesless =oP.
Mmmm. now that you say it, also in Mexico our national ID does have a fingerprint:
Credencial para votar and signature as well. And it is true that lots of people in central/south america does not know how to read.
Pues si, "peones" es el nombre que se les da a los trabajadores, por lo menos en el sureste de México (península de Yucatán). Esto no significa que sean esclavos o que sufran algún tipo de abuso, simplemente es el nombre que se les da, sin intención peyorativa.
Joder tío! su Español no mola hombre! joder joder hombre joder! =oP
Sorry pal, I was about to mod you Insightful (two spare mod points :) but I have seen a lot of comments against fingerprinting and I thought I would better write my comment to "defend" it.
The first poster (Anonymous Coward) stated it very well, she is working in a Financial Institution. I think the security on those is similar if not better (or worst? depending on POV) than the goverment agencies (CIA, FBI, DOD, ETC) because the information being played with there is *very* sensitive.
Also, I do not know what is so fucking outrageous about finger prints, my father has a ranch, and when I was younger we went every saturday to pay the pawns theyr week salary, and my dad kept a book for the payments (ala spreadsheet). Some of the pawns didn't know how to read/write, hence my father used their fingerprint as a signature to acknowledge payment. That is a common practice to autenticate people in poor countries. And it is way better thana lousy signature.
Again agreeing with the AC, I think that, if she does not want to be deeply screened then Finance is not an industry where she should get a job. She might preffer going to Google, Amazon or any standard software shop...
It sures yields unexpected results Error: Bad Feed We're very sorry.
Gremlins have stolen our ram.
We sure will miss them.
We are having technical difficulties. We will rectify the problem very soon. Please try again shortly.
And the person that made the proof of what is claimed in the summary was Matthew Cook, not Wolfram himself, Wolfram sued him because he presented his proof in another conference (can you believe what a jerk?).
Of course the person that makes this proof will have to concede every right to Wolfram and therefore in some way the 25K are just a payment for such intellectual property.
And the name removing has been mostly due to his book A new kind of science, where he "comes up" with several ideas that have been created by other authors. I would like to *believe* he makes the typical Master or junior PhD error of not looking hard for the current work but other people believe he just wanted to plagiarize other's people ideas.
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NewYorkCountryLawyer has huge balls for fighting them face to face, and as average geeks, we should thank him for his work.
Oh fucks, Superman became a lawyer....
No, whoever is fighting in such litigation is doing it because of the money. That is what lawyers do. Today you see your lawyer fighting for the kid whose lolly was robbed and tomorrow you see him fighting for the mobster who stole the kids lolly, It i$ ju$t a mathr of intr$t.
Well, "webos" sounds similar to "huevos" in Spanish, which in Mexico is a way to say "Nuts" (as in kicked your nuts)... so I found it quite funny the first time I read about the new "webos" being hot on the internet... u know, *wink**wink*-nudge
I've seen the demos, and, besides the point that it takes some time to load the application *after* it asks me to download or open de jnlp file, AND then I have to answer to a question of whether I trust "Java Sun whatever" and I am superüber-shure to execute the application, the resulting application is not URL or web friendly.
e sla.jnlp" page and then click on the Performance tab and then click on the "Performance specs" subtab, instead of just givnig him the direct "http://download.java.net/general/openjfx/demos/te stla/perf_specs.html" URL...
Take as an example the Testla motors website, what if I wanted my father to see the Perfomance Specifications for the Tesla Roadster? I will have to tell him to go to the "http://download.java.net/general/openjfx/demos/t
That is something I have always hated about plugin-based web pages be it active-x, flash, Java or whatnot,.
It's like there's a party in my mailbox and everyone's invited!
Does that means that everybody is cumming? into your hot mail?
Holly crap the information you posted just confirmed my previous post (from wikipedia). Read again the page you came up, what part of The prohibition of the import of chewing gum except for those of therapeutic value is absolute is not clear for you?.
A common misconception among citizens is that personal use quantities of chewing gum are allowed into Singapore. However, according to the set of Regulations, "importing" means to "bring or cause to be brought into Singapore by land, water or air from any place which is outside Singapore
Yeah, every US American should be extradited to Singapore for chewing gum, go ahead, you all are breaking Singapore law and should be fined AND jailed. It does not matter if you are chewing gum in New York underground, you are still breaking a Singaporean law and should be convicted!.
But the difference the Duane Chapman case is that he broke a law while he was *in* Mexico, bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico, he commited a crime *in* Mexico and thus Mexican justice system wants to judge him, hence the extradition.
... because. The guy should have been tried and convicted in Australia, where he commited the crimes. I agree with the analogy made by other poster about smoking pot in Amsterdam, it is illegal to smoke pot under USA laws, they should arrest all the US Americans that go to Amsterdam just to get high when they return, because they did something seen as illegal under USA laws, no mattering the place where they broke the law.
Whereas this case is about an Australian guy who commited a crime *in* Australia and the gringos want to fsck him just because
You know whats funny?, there is nothing wrong in reproducing anything of the list GP wrote. Trying to rise a point he ended enforcing what he wanted to deny. Granted, some people *might* use the reproductions of such things to *infringe* the law. But It does not mean that making a copy of such things is infringing the law. The problem is that of distribution. People do not understand that what is not allowed, and hence the right that is given to the creators of copyrigthable work is that it is forbidden to *distribute* copies without the copyright holder's permission (which might or might not be the author/creator).
In that, I think the online video services are wrong. As they are indeed *distributing* the work. Similarly, making a copy of a key or someone's picture (like your neighbour girl taking a shower) might not be illegal, but distributing her picture very well is.
The must funny piece of documentation I have seen was in a *released* KDE piece of documentation for some main program (dont remember exactly which now but it was not a game or a minor K-app), were all the headings were written but when you actually went to read the content of the section you could only find something like:
This section needs to be extended or
Please write something here...
I an only imagine if while surfing through Microsoft SQL documentatino I find something like that... terrible, so much for RTFM no?
However, i get the feeling like youre doing the devils work for Microsoft - youre spreading their technology when the market doesnt want it.
;-)
That is completely false, which market? the one in which Microsoft applications are running on 90% of the machines? The market *wants* and likes the products Microsoft is offering. It at most a bunch of geeks (yourself included) on slashdot the ones that do not want these technologies.
Guess what, earth is ROUND and it revolves around the sun, not the other way!! yeah, shocking uh?, please do not burn me
As long as there is a human behind the computer, there *will* be a possibility of exploiting a vulnerability on the system... the human being.
. I'd jump back to IE in a heartbeat if they gave me AdBlock or an equivalent thereof.
You might be interested in Privoxy. It is a Proxy that lets you do just that, block ads in a similar way to adblock. I have been using it and it and is really good.
What Open source programs are available to create music?, What open source software would you use to achieve what the original poster asked?
I am really interesting in this kind of stuff. I know there is a specific Linux distro for media but I do not know if the open source software available is mature enough for to perform live performances (i.e. not prone to crash in the middle of the show).
and it works (almost) perfectly.
:(
Yeah, that has been the state of Linux when talking about drivers since I first installed it and could not get into internet because there were no drivers for my Winmodem... yeah, silly me to buy what was on the market
No, 253...
well, that was before after editors wrote the title and before their wrote the summary.
He might not have a TV
Just some weeks ago I was looking for a way to make some plots. I usually use gnuplot but as far as I could see it seemed uanble to do bar plots, pie plots, discrete 3d plots (this is, make Z axxis a set of items instead of a continuos range), radar plots, bubble etc. It seems it is only possible to do point and line plots.
I looked for some tutorials on the web to do bar plots but they consisted in half assed hacks (translate the data point, surround it by a bounding box etc etc) which is too much work for something which should be quite trivial to do.
I ended using Excel to do my plots (I gave a try to Gnumeric, which has quite nice plotting tools, but they were unstable, specifically the area plots).