I have more hope for the intelligence of some middle class wannabe revolutionaries though.
I think they will just use an embrace and extend style tactic to push their ideals on the greater proletariat while using FUD in the blogosphere against opposing ideologies.
I'm going to teach him that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, and that if inter-personal relations come to blows it represents a personal failure to avoid that conflict.
Sometimes though it is not a personal failure though.
Sometimes people are not willing to negotiate and are determined to instigate violence.
Pacifism is a fantastic ideal, but not always realistic in the messed up world we all live in.
As long as your son is aware that violence is a last resort he should not be ashamed to use it if and when it became necessary.
The idea that it would be a personal failure might just make him too ashamed to defend himself against genuinely nasty people.
A lot of the spam comes from Cupertino ...
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I think all the iTunes Store update mails are being considered as spam.
I was in Central Amsterdam last night, it being the late night shopping night, and happened to go two of the three Apple stores we have here.
I found it strange at the time that everyone seemed to be buying 60Gb iPod Photos. [Apart from windowshoppers like me, and a guy in a suit buying a "customized" powerbook]
Could this law fuel a frenzy of iPod purchasing before it becomes law?
I wonder how Job's will keynote this. Not a guy who likes to say 'I was wrong'
Hmmm. I remember a few years ago when 10.3.0 was introduced to the developer community with the amazing new feature of fast user switching.
Jobs actually admitted, and this is in his keynote speech no less, that Redmond had got there first in Windows XP.
He did go on to show how Apple decided to implement the feature with that rotating desktop cube thing. [To gasps of awe from the faithfull]
He does admit to being slow off the mark or even following the competition in his Keynotes, but only if he can prove Apple does it WAY better. [Or at least makes it look cooler]
As for the one-button verses x-button mouse argument.
I for one use a 5-button logitech wheel-mouse. Plug and play out of the box with no drivers needed. [I still have problems with my Logitech mouse on my PC. Some apllications and Games refuse to recognise the wheel! And that is with the "official" drivers.]
But on the move I am more than happy to use the three keys on the bottom left of my keyboard.
I do not see how putting an extra button on my laptop just inches away from the keyboard would drastically improve it.
The only button I miss off the laptop is the delete key. All else is superfluous.
I have been able to consistently get 6 hours out of my 12 inch 800MHz G4 iBook.
Even using it for real world useage. [By which I assume you mean; running JBoss, and Eclispe with Safari, Mail, and Word also open while listening to Internet Radio with iTunes over my 802.11g wireless connection...]
I do keep the screen turned down. I find that it is just too bright normally anyway. And, of course, it is only a 12 inch screen.
Just my personal experience. Perhaps I am just a lucky apple bunny?
Firstly, he is suing 8 years after the fact. Why did he not sue the paper at the time he got fired by the UN. Why did he wait for 8 years, move to another country, and then sue?
Secondly, if having access to an archive, in this case on-line, makes the publisher liable for libel lawsuits, then what is to stop people moving to other jurisdictions and suing a publisher over and over again, just because the archive tarnishes their reputation in their hew home town.
I agree that what the paper did was wrong, it initially cost the guy his job, but that was 8 years ago!
This does not really affect free speech directly. You should be able to sue anyone for libel if you can prove being adversly affected by the lies made.
But it does affect freedom of information. This will mean that anyone maintaining a publicly accessible archive of old articles will be liable for any lies said in those articles, even if they are later repudiated.
The judge needs to exert that Canadian common sense and realise that if a person looks in an archive and finds some information they should have the sense to check it's validity. [Should I sue ietf for maintaining obsolescent RFC's?]
This decision is likely to make organisations, especially news organisation and caching services [like google et. al.], less likely to open up their archives.
Absolutely! I never expected someone, even on slashdot, to post such clear and commonsense overview of the situation. You are far more deserving of the "insightful" mod points than my original post, and I hope the moderators do their job.
As for whistle blowers, this case is slightly different as it was not a "whistle blower" in the classic sense. Apple was not doing anything immoral/illegal. No one, probably not even Sentry21, would argue against legal protection of the identies of genuine whistleblowers who identify illegal or immoral business practice.
My problem is that this preliminary judgement, should it stand, could be abused by corporate entities to stifle and prevent whistle blowing, and also to circumvent basic constitutional protections.
I am also concerned that, depending on the reasoning of the judge [TFA does not mention their reasoning], that the law will not recognise "on-line only" journalism as valid and deserving of the same constitutional protections as print and TV journalism.
The Nigerian scam is based in Nigeria. [Strangely enough]
But a lot of the fake websites for bank logins are only hosted outside the US. The domain names and holders are located in the US. Just like most spammers are based in the US but use servers hosted in other countries.
I do not think that it matters if a person commiting a crime in the US is based in another country. IANAL, but what if I hired a hit man to kill someone in the US while living in Germany? Could I get away with it? I think that you just have to have enough proof of a crime being commited in the US and then issue an international warrant for arrest and extradition.
The nature of the internet being borderless, at least for now, makes it interesting how the law will be applied in such cases.
But I am far more concerned that laws like this could be abused to restrict free speach online.
I hope EFF and others are picking over this to make sure that it is not be the case.
The problem I have with benchmarking applications is that I am not too convinced that they give me an unbiased view of the power of a processor. It is all dependant on the compiler implementation on the target platform. For instance, a Java based benchmarking application, i.e. platform independent bytecode, is dependant upon the JVM implementation on the target platform. If the JVM implementation is poor, slow graphics 2D rendering or poor math implementation, then the benchmarking tool will be benchmarking the JVM as-well-as the system the tool is running on. The same can be said of compiled languages. The compiler implementation on specific target machines may differ in quality and performance. This is definitely true of closed source benchmarking tools, such as using an FPS game to see which machine is more powerful. This is more a test to see if the developers did sloppy work porting it to another architecture, rather than if the machine itself is weak.
I guess this concern is what you meant by "There's no one real benchmark for testing raw cpu power as it mostly deals with what you are doing. It's mainly a matter of benchmarking it with whatever application you are going to be using it for.
If I want to use an FPS game, then find the machine that performs best for that application. If I want to render 3D graphics, use the machine that renders 3D the best.
This basically indicates that there is no real way to benchmark a processor. There is no raw processor metric that can be used to determine the processor power.
I agree totally. But what processor metric should we be using? I know that Hz is an anachronism, and only tells you the power within a processor family or architecture, but which out of the many spec ratings should we use to determine the power of a processor? Flops? Mips? What is a good way to determine the relative power of a processor across different families and architectures?
Just curious? Not flamebaiting.
As an example of the daftness of Hz as a standard. I have an 800 MHz G4 iBook running OS X and a 1.6 GHz P4 running XP Home. They have, roughly, the same amount of memory. Overall the performance of the iBook is superior. It opens Word documents faster [Without Word running in the background], and seems to handle lots of open windows more smoothly.
First the editors are "bad people(TM)" for not finding dupes, and now they are "bad people(TM)" for clearly identifying them.
Give them a break, they are making it easier on all of us. We no longer have to read half the comments before finding it out. It is right there, front and center. I for one welcome a future with no more "Editors are L4M3455 D00DZ" posts!
Have they also disabled the command, alt and control keys? All the contextual things that a right mouse button is used for are accessible using those keys in combination with click. OS X is definitely useable with a single button mouse, just needs a different interaction, that does not affect productivity adversely. The thing that I miss is the scroll button. That is the single most import productivity enhancement on a mouse. I find the number of buttons irrelavent.
You are right, of course, But the point I feel the poster is trying to make is that Google put their spartan search page as their homepage, and Yahoo hide it away.
Googles UI is just easier to take in.
Compare Google to Yahoo. Yahoo squeezes as much information in the screen as it possibly can, which is bad design, whereas Google try to keep it simple. [Lots of whitespace]
[Also try comparing their directory services Google with Yahoo. Remember that Yahoo started out as a directory. It is amusing to me to see that Googles directory service looks identical to Yahoo's circa 1997.]
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That would just be an updating of the political cycle described by Machiavelli.
chaos - despotism - democracy - despotism - chaos - etc.
I have more hope for the intelligence of some middle class wannabe revolutionaries though.
I think they will just use an embrace and extend style tactic to push their ideals on the greater proletariat while using FUD in the blogosphere against opposing ideologies.
After all this is the Web2.0 world we live in.
Sometimes people are not willing to negotiate and are determined to instigate violence.
Pacifism is a fantastic ideal, but not always realistic in the messed up world we all live in.
As long as your son is aware that violence is a last resort he should not be ashamed to use it if and when it became necessary.
The idea that it would be a personal failure might just make him too ashamed to defend himself against genuinely nasty people.
I think all the iTunes Store update mails are being considered as spam.
I was in Central Amsterdam last night, it being the late night shopping night, and happened to go two of the three Apple stores we have here.
I found it strange at the time that everyone seemed to be buying 60Gb iPod Photos.
[Apart from windowshoppers like me, and a guy in a suit buying a "customized" powerbook]
Could this law fuel a frenzy of iPod purchasing before it becomes law?
"Stone the crows Luv, get up those apples and pairs and look lively, I want some hows-your-father!"
I can see how that might-just-work.
Come on mods. ;-)]
This is not "off-topic" it is "funny", or at least marginally so. [like the movies
See Carry On Films for more info.
RTFA!
"iTunes 4.7 was released late last year"
It is actually PyMusique that was eploiting ITMS's backward compatability.
All Apple did is require ITMS users to use the most up-to-date version of the "free" software.
They did not release a new version, or patch, to iTunes to knobble PyMusic.
It is interesting that the company that makes this show has NBC and Hearst-Argyl as clients.
I have not yet watched it but I am assuming this is just a piece of partisan propaganda.
Another salvo against the beleaguered p2p filesharing community by obsolescant old-media companies.
Forget stairs!
This is covered by other agencies than the BBC.
[Pity I submitted the story 6 hours after the poster! Damn my timezone! ^-^]
The Japan Times has something interesting to add to the discussion;
Reporters invited to a Tokyo demonstration Tuesday were instructed not to touch the two still-experimental robots for safety's sake.
I just could not get OCP's ED209 out of my head.
No.
Because he has secretly installed all the GNU apps using fink.
I wonder how Job's will keynote this. Not a guy who likes to say 'I was wrong'
Hmmm. I remember a few years ago when 10.3.0 was introduced to the developer community with the amazing new feature of fast user switching.
Jobs actually admitted, and this is in his keynote speech no less, that Redmond had got there first in Windows XP.
He did go on to show how Apple decided to implement the feature with that rotating desktop cube thing.
[To gasps of awe from the faithfull]
He does admit to being slow off the mark or even following the competition in his Keynotes, but only if he can prove Apple does it WAY better.
[Or at least makes it look cooler]
As for the one-button verses x-button mouse argument.
I for one use a 5-button logitech wheel-mouse.
Plug and play out of the box with no drivers needed.
[I still have problems with my Logitech mouse on my PC. Some apllications and Games refuse to recognise the wheel! And that is with the "official" drivers.]
But on the move I am more than happy to use the three keys on the bottom left of my keyboard.
I do not see how putting an extra button on my laptop just inches away from the keyboard would drastically improve it.
The only button I miss off the laptop is the delete key. All else is superfluous.
This is hilarious ...
...
Now if I could only speak Finish
[It does not take a cunning linguist to work out what is going on, especially with the "Lain" reference ^-^]
I have been able to consistently get 6 hours out of my 12 inch 800MHz G4 iBook.
...]
Even using it for real world useage. [By which I assume you mean; running JBoss, and Eclispe with Safari, Mail, and Word also open while listening to Internet Radio with iTunes over my 802.11g wireless connection
I do keep the screen turned down. I find that it is just too bright normally anyway. And, of course, it is only a 12 inch screen.
Just my personal experience.
Perhaps I am just a lucky apple bunny?
This is nonsense.
Firstly, he is suing 8 years after the fact.
Why did he not sue the paper at the time he got fired by the UN.
Why did he wait for 8 years, move to another country, and then sue?
Secondly, if having access to an archive, in this case on-line, makes the publisher liable for libel lawsuits, then what is to stop people moving to other jurisdictions and suing a publisher over and over again, just because the archive tarnishes their reputation in their hew home town.
I agree that what the paper did was wrong, it initially cost the guy his job, but that was 8 years ago!
This does not really affect free speech directly.
You should be able to sue anyone for libel if you can prove being adversly affected by the lies made.
But it does affect freedom of information.
This will mean that anyone maintaining a publicly accessible archive of old articles will be liable for any lies said in those articles, even if they are later repudiated.
The judge needs to exert that Canadian common sense and realise that if a person looks in an archive and finds some information they should have the sense to check it's validity.
[Should I sue ietf for maintaining obsolescent RFC's?]
This decision is likely to make organisations, especially news organisation and caching services [like google et. al.], less likely to open up their archives.
Which is a bad thing(TM).
OH NO!
Not Slashoogle !
Use
IE Sucks change to Firefox!
To make sure that all versions of IE above 5 are included
Absolutely!
I never expected someone, even on slashdot, to post such clear and commonsense overview of the situation.
You are far more deserving of the "insightful" mod points than my original post, and I hope the moderators do their job.
As for whistle blowers, this case is slightly different as it was not a "whistle blower" in the classic sense.
Apple was not doing anything immoral/illegal.
No one, probably not even Sentry21, would argue against legal protection of the identies of genuine whistleblowers who identify illegal or immoral business practice.
My problem is that this preliminary judgement, should it stand, could be abused by corporate entities to stifle and prevent whistle blowing, and also to circumvent basic constitutional protections.
I am also concerned that, depending on the reasoning of the judge [TFA does not mention their reasoning], that the law will not recognise "on-line only" journalism as valid and deserving of the same constitutional protections as print and TV journalism.
Good post!
such protections apply only to "legitimate members of the press."
So now we have the courts deciding who is and who is not a journalist? We have them deciding what is legitimate journalism and what is not?
This is the beginning of an "authorized" press with greater freedoms than for anyone who dares to publish outside of it.
It scares me a lot as it could easily be abused to restrict free speach online.
The Nigerian scam is based in Nigeria. [Strangely enough]
But a lot of the fake websites for bank logins are only hosted outside the US.
The domain names and holders are located in the US. Just like most spammers are based in the US but use servers hosted in other countries.
I do not think that it matters if a person commiting a crime in the US is based in another country.
IANAL, but what if I hired a hit man to kill someone in the US while living in Germany?
Could I get away with it?
I think that you just have to have enough proof of a crime being commited in the US and then issue an international warrant for arrest and extradition.
The nature of the internet being borderless, at least for now, makes it interesting how the law will be applied in such cases.
But I am far more concerned that laws like this could be abused to restrict free speach online.
I hope EFF and others are picking over this to make sure that it is not be the case.
The problem I have with benchmarking applications is that I am not too convinced that they give me an unbiased view of the power of a processor.
It is all dependant on the compiler implementation on the target platform.
For instance, a Java based benchmarking application, i.e. platform independent bytecode, is dependant upon the JVM implementation on the target platform. If the JVM implementation is poor, slow graphics 2D rendering or poor math implementation, then the benchmarking tool will be benchmarking the JVM as-well-as the system the tool is running on.
The same can be said of compiled languages. The compiler implementation on specific target machines may differ in quality and performance.
This is definitely true of closed source benchmarking tools, such as using an FPS game to see which machine is more powerful. This is more a test to see if the developers did sloppy work porting it to another architecture, rather than if the machine itself is weak.
I guess this concern is what you meant by "There's no one real benchmark for testing raw cpu power as it mostly deals with what you are doing. It's mainly a matter of benchmarking it with whatever application you are going to be using it for.
If I want to use an FPS game, then find the machine that performs best for that application. If I want to render 3D graphics, use the machine that renders 3D the best.
This basically indicates that there is no real way to benchmark a processor. There is no raw processor metric that can be used to determine the processor power.
hmmmmm.
I agree totally.
But what processor metric should we be using?
I know that Hz is an anachronism, and only tells you the power within a processor family or architecture, but which out of the many spec ratings should we use to determine the power of a processor?
Flops? Mips?
What is a good way to determine the relative power of a processor across different families and architectures?
Just curious? Not flamebaiting.
As an example of the daftness of Hz as a standard. I have an 800 MHz G4 iBook running OS X and a 1.6 GHz P4 running XP Home. They have, roughly, the same amount of memory.
Overall the performance of the iBook is superior.
It opens Word documents faster [Without Word running in the background], and seems to handle lots of open windows more smoothly.
Can't they do anything right?
First the editors are "bad people(TM)" for not finding dupes, and now they are "bad people(TM)" for clearly identifying them.
Give them a break, they are making it easier on all of us.
We no longer have to read half the comments before finding it out.
It is right there, front and center.
I for one welcome a future with no more "Editors are L4M3455 D00DZ" posts!
Have they also disabled the command, alt and control keys?
All the contextual things that a right mouse button is used for are accessible using those keys in combination with click.
OS X is definitely useable with a single button mouse, just needs a different interaction, that does not affect productivity adversely.
The thing that I miss is the scroll button.
That is the single most import productivity enhancement on a mouse.
I find the number of buttons irrelavent.
You are right, of course, But the point I feel the poster is trying to make is that Google put their spartan search page as their homepage, and Yahoo hide it away.
Googles UI is just easier to take in.
Compare Google to Yahoo.
Yahoo squeezes as much information in the screen as it possibly can, which is bad design, whereas Google try to keep it simple. [Lots of whitespace]
[Also try comparing their directory services Google with Yahoo. Remember that Yahoo started out as a directory. It is amusing to me to see that Googles directory service looks identical to Yahoo's circa 1997.]
At first I thought that it was the British government comming up with an insignificantly small policy ... oh wait!