Yeah, that's a total mind-fuck of a paragraph. My attempt at parsing it:
would prohibit peer-to-peer file-sharing programs { from being installed without the informed consent of the authorized computer user } and { that would prevent the authorized user from { blocking the installation of a P2P file-sharing program } and/or { disabling or removing any P2P file-sharing program. } }
Posting to reverse my accidental "Overrated" mod. I intended to click Funny, of course, because this *is* funny. Damned stupid f***ing slashdot UI. Selecting an option in a list should not cause an irreversible action.
You mean like this?
http://cyclevancouver.ubc.ca/
Yes, google really should do something like that as an integrated feature of google maps. (As useful as that tool is, it sometimes tells you to bike sideways off bridges.)
*sigh* I don't think you understand how package management and security fixes in debian / ubuntu works. New releases of software almost invariably introduce new features, as well as bug fixes. For that reason, important fixes for security issues are backported, and the version number stays the same. (Introducing new features to a LTS / stable release wouldn't be acceptible.)
Now, what you said is technically true - if it's not being actively maintained for security fixes it *should* be removed - but the fact that Ubuntu's universe package of wordpress is still at 2.3.3 doesn't in and of itself mean that it hasn't been patched with the latest security fixes.
Thank you for posting about wave. I hadn't come across it yet and it looks totally fascinating. The vision is bold, and the "federation" idea - where you can host your own wave apps, have them interact, and (where appropriate) keep google out of the loop entirely - is ballsy enough to make it the next great step in the internet. Google won't get to mine that data, but it will mean there is far more likelihood of corporate systems etc picking up wave and using it.
I have mod points, but instead of modding this post funny I'd rather point out that it's actually about 10x more intelligent than the article. How did this garbage get on the front page?
Is there really any particular reason why The Twentysomething Whiz Kid's unauthorised software is more likely to be open-source than proprietary, or is Ms DiCarlo's comment simply the "open source will hurt your business" flamebait it appears to be?
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Yeah, that's a total mind-fuck of a paragraph. My attempt at parsing it:
would prohibit peer-to-peer file-sharing programs
{
from being installed without the informed consent of the authorized computer user
}
and
{
that would prevent the authorized user from
{
blocking the installation of a P2P file-sharing program
}
and/or
{
disabling or removing any P2P file-sharing program.
}
}
From the site in TFA:
http://www.njnvideo.com/njn/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/luge_accident2.flv
From another source:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/lazyjock/117509.flv
How can angry ACs look at themselves in the mirror knowing that they've worked at and succeeded in make bad grammar everywhere?
installing their own judge
Funny, I can never seem to get that to work.
Speaking of untold stories:
"I like"...
WTF?
Posting to reverse my accidental "Overrated" mod. I intended to click Funny, of course, because this *is* funny. Damned stupid f***ing slashdot UI. Selecting an option in a list should not cause an irreversible action.
You mean like this? http://cyclevancouver.ubc.ca/ Yes, google really should do something like that as an integrated feature of google maps. (As useful as that tool is, it sometimes tells you to bike sideways off bridges.)
I know it's not cool to tinker with your pocket friend in class, but I wouldn't have described it as a "thinker" per se.
Why should an insurance company want to pay for your child's existing illness?
Why would we want our health care system run by companies who only provide health care to people who are well?
That's the problem.
...but then I live in Canada. We have a system that does what it should - provide health care to everyone.
Hmmm, they should have been more careful with their remote access permissions...
*sigh* I don't think you understand how package management and security fixes in debian / ubuntu works. New releases of software almost invariably introduce new features, as well as bug fixes. For that reason, important fixes for security issues are backported, and the version number stays the same. (Introducing new features to a LTS / stable release wouldn't be acceptible.)
Now, what you said is technically true - if it's not being actively maintained for security fixes it *should* be removed - but the fact that Ubuntu's universe package of wordpress is still at 2.3.3 doesn't in and of itself mean that it hasn't been patched with the latest security fixes.
"A lot of people are worried. We're not and you shouldn't be either!"
I wouldn't be worried, either, if I was retiring with a $7,800,000 nest egg.
Thank you for posting about wave. I hadn't come across it yet and it looks totally fascinating. The vision is bold, and the "federation" idea - where you can host your own wave apps, have them interact, and (where appropriate) keep google out of the loop entirely - is ballsy enough to make it the next great step in the internet. Google won't get to mine that data, but it will mean there is far more likelihood of corporate systems etc picking up wave and using it.
I have mod points, but instead of modding this post funny I'd rather point out that it's actually about 10x more intelligent than the article. How did this garbage get on the front page?
Your analogy doesn't follow. Better would be:
"How did the carpenter building his own home respond to the (voluntary) suggestions of a professional architect?"
...but that doesn't have the air of such a witty retort, does it.
Nobody here. That's the point.
Good job those rootkits are so well behaved and don't try to hide from the process list then, isn't it?
Worst. Idea. Ever.
My birthday is January 19th. Does that mean I'm going to expire due to some kind of horrible fatal error on my 57th birthday?
Don't make me chug my coffee in the line waiting to go through the metal detector, thereby holding everyone else up.
Repeat after me:
My beverage is not a national security threat.
Methinks Microsoft Research need to do a little "research" into modern content management systems that correctly resize images on the server side:
Image is 560 x 54 px. Schoolboy error.
Is there really any particular reason why The Twentysomething Whiz Kid's unauthorised software is more likely to be open-source than proprietary, or is Ms DiCarlo's comment simply the "open source will hurt your business" flamebait it appears to be?
No, if you are harvesting email addresses and sending unsolicited commercial messages to them, it is quite simple:
You are a spammer.