I think the conflict arises from shipping old software, which isn't cool either, and is more noticeable up front than bug-freeness. I currently use Debian testing - it's equally buggy and up to date, but when the bugs are fixed, I get the fixes when they're uploaded instead of up to six months later. If Ubuntu were more aggressive with stable release updates to fix bugs, I wouldn't have felt the need to switch.
This is a very good point, but the fact remains that if a species is capable of interstellar flight, they are probably still more dangerous to us than beneficial.
If you had read the paper you would see that Google asks for a reauth when an attempt is made to access the web history, so instead they choose the most frequent prefixes that are used in searches, and use them to ask google for search suggestions. Reconstruct is a perfectly suitable word to describe this process.
Don't blame the WCT, other countries have shown that it's possible to ratify the treaty with an anti-circumvention measure that is tied to copyright infringement, which is much less broad in scope. This means that if people lobby hard enough, the US might fix the DMCA (yes, when Hell freezes over).
Except that piracy doesn't destroy wealth, it merely affects how much wealth gets transferred from the lower and middle classes up to giant media companies. Given that these companies seem to be doing just fine, and the world isn't facing some kind of terrible shortage of shitty pop music and blockbuster movies, I don't think there is any reason to believe piracy is actually a serious problem for society.
You American right-wingers have absolutely no idea how skewed to the right your politics are. It's so bad, France's president, who comes from their political right wing, thinks it's absurd that there was such strong debate about healthcare reform. In Canada, our opinions are similar, and this surely applies in most if not all other democratic countries. The people in the US that watch Fox News and take it seriously are utterly brainwashed. It's so bad from our perspective that I have friends who aren't convinced that such people really exist in significant quanitities in the US, because it's so hard to believe. We find it hard to understand how so many people are all drinking Kool-Aid like this.
This isn't to say that I wholeheartedly endorse the Democratic Party (of course not), but their political leanings are much saner from an outside-the-US perspective.
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I think your view of statistics comes from a misunderstanding of it on a fundamental level (not that this is your fault). Statistics and probability theory are the basis for interpreting any kind of quantitative measurement. Beware: trying to interpret measurements without knowing this stuff is perfectly analogous to the way people used to build large buildings (sometimes successfully) without using any mathematical modeling, before things like Hooke's law were well known. Sure, plenty of buildings would collapse, but some fairly sophisticated buildings were built anyway, by people who would be grossly incompetent by today's standards.
No it isn't, except when it is. You do raise a valid point, but I meant the search bar. Sure, we can say that Chrome is worse for pulling in URLs as collateral damage, but my point is that all three browsers are sending keystroke, and I don't like this either. It's not that much worse than uploading search terms each time a search is made, but at least I have to hit enter before the terms are uploaded.
Well, Firefox's default behavior is to serve up your keystrokes to google as well, so I think the main point is that all three browsers' defaults aren't privacy friendly.
It's much harder to support the use of the word most than it is to assert that plenty of research involves the use of public funding (it is hard to refute that there is a lot of publicly funded research going on). Innovations that result from publicly funded research should be publicly available, rather than being patentable by the individual that did the research, in the same way that many employers claim ownership to ideas that were the result of a person's employment by said employer. If the public pays you to do research, the public should not have to pay you again with a 2 decade monopoly on the result.
They did not pool their data, but Celera was able to use the public data to help themselves solve their own genome - so in effect the private project had an unfair advantage. Their goals were also to map out the human genome so that they could patent as many genes as possible.
Yeah, really - HTML is a document format, not a programming language (a pretty significant discrepancy). However, assuming the submitter can program, I recommend that if they're unemployed when they graduate, they will have lots of unemployed time to either contribute to an existing FOSS project, or start a new one. You should only start a new one if there's no alternatives to what you're doing (i.e. you're doing something completely new), or there's no chance of being able to contribute to the existing projects for some reason. If you can show that not only can you program, but that you were able to independently familiarize yourself with an existing piece of software and improve it, that should be enough to land you interviews with decent employers.
So in fact it seems Miguel was right all along - right about the need, right about the solution, right that Microsoft would not attempt to "destroy Linux" by leveraging patents. Instead they specifically promised in writing not to do that. Why? Probably because they don't care about Linux anymore. The world has moved on, what once seemed like a threat to their business no longer is.
On the other hand, there's no evidence from all of the above saber-rattling that Linux is infringing upon any of their patents. If they really have a credible infringement case, why haven't they sued Canonical, Red Hat, Mandriva, or any other company that hasn't agreed to "build bridges" with them? One also could wonder why they haven't publicly stated which patents are infringed, but the answer is of course that with or without a credible case, publicly stating which patents are infringed upon would allow the FOSS community to fight back with workarounds or invalidations of those patents.
I second this - If you get it to check EVERY site, it can (in theory) prevent MITM attacks. It isn't configured to do this by default, however - the authors seem to have positioned it as a way of securely automating the "trust on first use" model for self signed sites.
OpenAM appears to have simply imported a snapshot of the tree into SVN. Interested parties should probably back up the entire CVS history of OpenSSO using a tool like, for example, cvssuck, in before it is "unpublished".
The why is irrelevant - if there's some obvious improvement to make, the question is why not? As for the OP, I suggest typing "improvement" repeatedly, until the habit is broken and your pinky types the p when you're not paying attention. Whenever you catch your ring finger typing e.g. a p or q, just type that word in a few times using the right technique, to reinforce the habit. I wouldn't know though, my ring fingers are still out in force - they're an inch longer than my pinkies, so it's hard to quit using them for things like backspace, at the very least. After looking at what my wrist does in both cases, I think I probably should make more of an effort.
On looking at his comment again, I have to agree with you, though his comment still doesn't make sense to me. It seems like he's arguing that one pass of/dev/zero is sufficient as a secure erase technique, but that doesn't jive with my perception of what the popular wisdom on that is. I use the phrase popular wisdom deliberately, since nobody ever has a credible tests to illustrate what is sufficient, and there is always the suggestion that the government could have some kind of secret data recovery capability beyond the publicly known state of the art.
I wiped a recent-ish disk with/dev/zero, and received a scare when it "went away" after the command completed. However, after a reboot (it was an internal drive), it showed up just fine. All of this talk about drives being mysterious and finicky sounds like uninformed scaremongering to me.
Are you using the 64-bit flash plugin? Ubuntu has inexplicably ignored it in favour of the unstable nspluginwrapper option, despite the vast difference in user experience. Their rationale is something about it not being supported by Adobe. On the other hand, the 32 and 64 bit players have had version parity whenever I've checked, and there is a fairly large stream of comments on the relevant bug that confirm that the 64-bit plugin works much more reliably. If you're using 64-bit Ubuntu and the default flash package, it is definitely worth your time to install the 64-bit version from someone's PPA (or from here).
As for Moonlight, it's just a token to answer to naysayers who complain that Silverlight isn't cross-platform. Their website seems to want to confirm this with a headline of "Watch the Olympics on Linux with our 3.0 preview". I tried to use it to stream Olympics coverage from ctv.ca, and it didn't work in any sense of the word (and yes, I've seen it work fine on Windows, which is how I knew to go to CTV in the first place).
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I think the conflict arises from shipping old software, which isn't cool either, and is more noticeable up front than bug-freeness. I currently use Debian testing - it's equally buggy and up to date, but when the bugs are fixed, I get the fixes when they're uploaded instead of up to six months later. If Ubuntu were more aggressive with stable release updates to fix bugs, I wouldn't have felt the need to switch.
Did you read the link in the parent post?
This is a very good point, but the fact remains that if a species is capable of interstellar flight, they are probably still more dangerous to us than beneficial.
If you had read the paper you would see that Google asks for a reauth when an attempt is made to access the web history, so instead they choose the most frequent prefixes that are used in searches, and use them to ask google for search suggestions. Reconstruct is a perfectly suitable word to describe this process.
or maybe the plot of independence day actually makes some sense, except for the part where humanity wins.
Don't blame the WCT, other countries have shown that it's possible to ratify the treaty with an anti-circumvention measure that is tied to copyright infringement, which is much less broad in scope. This means that if people lobby hard enough, the US might fix the DMCA (yes, when Hell freezes over).
Except that piracy doesn't destroy wealth, it merely affects how much wealth gets transferred from the lower and middle classes up to giant media companies. Given that these companies seem to be doing just fine, and the world isn't facing some kind of terrible shortage of shitty pop music and blockbuster movies, I don't think there is any reason to believe piracy is actually a serious problem for society.
You American right-wingers have absolutely no idea how skewed to the right your politics are. It's so bad, France's president, who comes from their political right wing, thinks it's absurd that there was such strong debate about healthcare reform. In Canada, our opinions are similar, and this surely applies in most if not all other democratic countries. The people in the US that watch Fox News and take it seriously are utterly brainwashed. It's so bad from our perspective that I have friends who aren't convinced that such people really exist in significant quanitities in the US, because it's so hard to believe. We find it hard to understand how so many people are all drinking Kool-Aid like this.
This isn't to say that I wholeheartedly endorse the Democratic Party (of course not), but their political leanings are much saner from an outside-the-US perspective.
I think your view of statistics comes from a misunderstanding of it on a fundamental level (not that this is your fault). Statistics and probability theory are the basis for interpreting any kind of quantitative measurement. Beware: trying to interpret measurements without knowing this stuff is perfectly analogous to the way people used to build large buildings (sometimes successfully) without using any mathematical modeling, before things like Hooke's law were well known. Sure, plenty of buildings would collapse, but some fairly sophisticated buildings were built anyway, by people who would be grossly incompetent by today's standards.
No it isn't, except when it is. You do raise a valid point, but I meant the search bar. Sure, we can say that Chrome is worse for pulling in URLs as collateral damage, but my point is that all three browsers are sending keystroke, and I don't like this either. It's not that much worse than uploading search terms each time a search is made, but at least I have to hit enter before the terms are uploaded.
Well, Firefox's default behavior is to serve up your keystrokes to google as well, so I think the main point is that all three browsers' defaults aren't privacy friendly.
It's much harder to support the use of the word most than it is to assert that plenty of research involves the use of public funding (it is hard to refute that there is a lot of publicly funded research going on). Innovations that result from publicly funded research should be publicly available, rather than being patentable by the individual that did the research, in the same way that many employers claim ownership to ideas that were the result of a person's employment by said employer. If the public pays you to do research, the public should not have to pay you again with a 2 decade monopoly on the result.
They did not pool their data, but Celera was able to use the public data to help themselves solve their own genome - so in effect the private project had an unfair advantage. Their goals were also to map out the human genome so that they could patent as many genes as possible.
Yeah, really - HTML is a document format, not a programming language (a pretty significant discrepancy). However, assuming the submitter can program, I recommend that if they're unemployed when they graduate, they will have lots of unemployed time to either contribute to an existing FOSS project, or start a new one. You should only start a new one if there's no alternatives to what you're doing (i.e. you're doing something completely new), or there's no chance of being able to contribute to the existing projects for some reason. If you can show that not only can you program, but that you were able to independently familiarize yourself with an existing piece of software and improve it, that should be enough to land you interviews with decent employers.
Right, it's not a threat to their business, and they've been insightful enough to realize that. Which is why they haven't leveraged their patents against Linux in any way. Have you been living in a cave for the last 5 years?
On the other hand, there's no evidence from all of the above saber-rattling that Linux is infringing upon any of their patents. If they really have a credible infringement case, why haven't they sued Canonical, Red Hat, Mandriva, or any other company that hasn't agreed to "build bridges" with them? One also could wonder why they haven't publicly stated which patents are infringed, but the answer is of course that with or without a credible case, publicly stating which patents are infringed upon would allow the FOSS community to fight back with workarounds or invalidations of those patents.
I second this - If you get it to check EVERY site, it can (in theory) prevent MITM attacks. It isn't configured to do this by default, however - the authors seem to have positioned it as a way of securely automating the "trust on first use" model for self signed sites.
OpenAM appears to have simply imported a snapshot of the tree into SVN. Interested parties should probably back up the entire CVS history of OpenSSO using a tool like, for example, cvssuck, in before it is "unpublished".
Little Ahm-y tables, we call him.
I would not have thought that that expression would be commonly understood, but let's just say I'm familiar with the concept.
The why is irrelevant - if there's some obvious improvement to make, the question is why not? As for the OP, I suggest typing "improvement" repeatedly, until the habit is broken and your pinky types the p when you're not paying attention. Whenever you catch your ring finger typing e.g. a p or q, just type that word in a few times using the right technique, to reinforce the habit. I wouldn't know though, my ring fingers are still out in force - they're an inch longer than my pinkies, so it's hard to quit using them for things like backspace, at the very least. After looking at what my wrist does in both cases, I think I probably should make more of an effort.
The headline should read "Microsoft Demos Three Microsoft Platforms Running the Same Game".
Amen, mod parent up. This advice isn't Microsoft-specific, it's simply the right way to go in general.
On looking at his comment again, I have to agree with you, though his comment still doesn't make sense to me. It seems like he's arguing that one pass of /dev/zero is sufficient as a secure erase technique, but that doesn't jive with my perception of what the popular wisdom on that is. I use the phrase popular wisdom deliberately, since nobody ever has a credible tests to illustrate what is sufficient, and there is always the suggestion that the government could have some kind of secret data recovery capability beyond the publicly known state of the art.
I wiped a recent-ish disk with /dev/zero, and received a scare when it "went away" after the command completed. However, after a reboot (it was an internal drive), it showed up just fine. All of this talk about drives being mysterious and finicky sounds like uninformed scaremongering to me.
Are you using the 64-bit flash plugin? Ubuntu has inexplicably ignored it in favour of the unstable nspluginwrapper option, despite the vast difference in user experience. Their rationale is something about it not being supported by Adobe. On the other hand, the 32 and 64 bit players have had version parity whenever I've checked, and there is a fairly large stream of comments on the relevant bug that confirm that the 64-bit plugin works much more reliably. If you're using 64-bit Ubuntu and the default flash package, it is definitely worth your time to install the 64-bit version from someone's PPA (or from here).
As for Moonlight, it's just a token to answer to naysayers who complain that Silverlight isn't cross-platform. Their website seems to want to confirm this with a headline of "Watch the Olympics on Linux with our 3.0 preview". I tried to use it to stream Olympics coverage from ctv.ca, and it didn't work in any sense of the word (and yes, I've seen it work fine on Windows, which is how I knew to go to CTV in the first place).