I wholeheartedly agree that the Modern theme looks better than Classic, and I think it should be the default. Actually, I think Modern - Mozillium looks quite nice, as does Graymodern.
Hopefully theme developers will give us nice new themes for SeaMonkey, like they do for Opera and Firefox.
I like the Seamonkey suite, in part because it discreetly bundles the ChatZilla IRC client with a Gecko-based web browser. On my Windows box at work, Seamonkey seems to render web pages faster than Firefox.
However, I am disappointed that there seems to still be no support for "live bookmarks" (RSS feeds in bookmark form). That is the killer feature that made me switch from the Mozilla suite to Firefox. Are there any plans to implement this handy functionality in Seamonkey? If so, when?
To clarify, I know that the bill is not literally devalued from its face value. Marking it up makes it less collectible, though. It's just a personal preference of mine that I like cleaner, more pristine money, though I recognize that if it has been circulated, it probably is loaded up with micro-nastiness.
I object to this practice. Money should not be marked up or defaced with advertising, IMHO. I think it has a devaluing effect, and is disrespectful, at least to future recipients of the bank note.
Oh, and FWIW, although Asimov's epic of psychohistory was a very entertaining read, I don't think it represents reality. We are not animals behaving in a mathematically predictable way. Or if there is such predictability to the universe, only a transcendent God could apprehend all of the variables and compute them just right.
Good point. To me, the term "piracy" connotes malicious intent that is likely not prevalent among the average file sharing public, which at first glance I thought this party wished to represent. If their objective is truly to ruin businesses that produce entertainment, information, and software, then the name is apt indeed.
Still, it doesn't sound much different than Thieves' Party, when they could have gone for something more akin to Robin Hood.;)
The Piracy Party? Come on! They could hardly have chosen a worse name if they want to garner mainstream support. By using the label "piracy" they imply that they represent primarily criminal intent. Surely there is a better term they could have used that would accentuate the positive aspects of the unfettered exchange of information. Tsk, tsk.
The AC to whom I was replying suggested that Europe might force Windows to open up. I am not sure how likely this is, but I merely wanted to say that it would be a Bad Thing if Europe or any other influential government were to prevail in such a manner.
Naturally, once source code is distributed, it cannot be taken back. I was not thinking in terms of all OSS being declared illegal, but rather the hypothetical scenario of a specific product's licensing terms being altered, as would be the case if Microsoft were obligated to open up Windows, or if GPLed code were permitted to be included in closed-source software, within a specific jurisdiction. Although OSS is usually multinational, its developers and users could be severely impacted by bad legal decisions, especially of their own country.
IANAL. I am just pondering some what-ifs, which hopefully are wrong and ridiculous and wouldn't happen.
If they were forced to make their software OSS (which might actually happen in Europe), they would be pretty much forced to patch their software VERY quickly.
FWIW, I think it would be a big mistake to force Microsoft or any other vendor to open source their product. Such a dangerous precedent would be akin to forcing OSS to be closed, which could then be attempted further down the road if political opinions shift against OSS.
That said, I agree that given time, it is plausible that the security of Windows would be better if it were open sourced rather than not.
My web browser notifies me anytime a new site tries to set a cookie, and informs me of its expiration date or whether it is a session cookie. It is easy for anyone concerned about cookies to simply manage them. If anyone looking at the NSA's public web pages is worried about being tracked, the onus is on them to take reasonable precautions.
Works fine for me, using Firefox 1.5 on WinXP (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5). I also have Macromedia Flash Player 8,0,220,0 and QuickTime 7.0.2a63 installed, although I don't know whether they are invoked by the page. When I run QuickTime by itself, it says it has expired and I need to download a new version.
So a WAP advertises its existence and that it is open, essentially inviting public use. It will happily grant a connection to your computer (which might even request one automatically, without your knowledge).
How is one supposed to distinguish between open wireless networks are okay to use and those which are not? Common sense only goes so far in helping to make this determination.
IMHO if the WAP says that it's public and it grants connections to strangers, then those people should not be held liable for using the resource. If the resource is not abused for phishing or other criminal purposes, then what's the problem? The network operator can always reconfigure the AP to make it private if he or she wishes.
Make the government happy, and let all other windows users wait for the already done patch. This would most likely incourage "normal" users to seek an alternative...
Yes -- exactly! Since Open Source projects offer everyone the same "priority" access to updated code, users can get quicker protection from security vulnerabilities. They can even mod the code themselves if a patch is not yet available.
Microsoft customers, OTOH, generally must wait for the next monthly hotfix release day. This will soon become harder to bear since these customers will know (or suspect) that critical security hotfixes are ready but being withheld by Microsoft from public distribution. (I would think that any patch that is deemed good enough for the USAF would be of high enough quality for public consumption as well.)
Also, I think it is very likely that information on the nature of the hotfixes, and even the hotfixes themselves, will "leak" out to the rest of us (or at least the underground) quickly. This would facilitate the creation of exploits prior to the public release of the security updates. More incentive for Microsoft users to seek out alternatives.
Because I only looked up the domain after seeing your post, so that I could include a link in my reply. (I just like to hyperlink key things in my posts to web forums.) Previously, I had only seen the name Danix on DistroWatch or someplace, but I did not check it out or find out its domain name. I'm sure that if I had seen danix.cz, I would have assumed it was Czech.
Until now, I had assumed that Danix was a Danish distro. Thank you for turning me on to this Czech version.
I think a good name for a Czech version of Knoppix would be Knoppicz.:) Of couse, then Czechs might pronounce it, "knoppits," so that probably wouldn't work.
SSN = social security number, also called "your sosh" for short, because it is used for so many more things than USA retirement benefits. Like as a password. Many organizations actually use people's SSNs for authentication, which is insecure and opens people up to fraud.
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I wholeheartedly agree that the Modern theme looks better than Classic, and I think it should be the default. Actually, I think Modern - Mozillium looks quite nice, as does Graymodern.
Hopefully theme developers will give us nice new themes for SeaMonkey, like they do for Opera and Firefox.
I like the Seamonkey suite, in part because it discreetly bundles the ChatZilla IRC client with a Gecko-based web browser. On my Windows box at work, Seamonkey seems to render web pages faster than Firefox.
However, I am disappointed that there seems to still be no support for "live bookmarks" (RSS feeds in bookmark form). That is the killer feature that made me switch from the Mozilla suite to Firefox. Are there any plans to implement this handy functionality in Seamonkey? If so, when?
My question is... who won?
The octopus or the sub? It wasn't entirely clear on the video, although it did look like the octopus was repelled.
To clarify, I know that the bill is not literally devalued from its face value. Marking it up makes it less collectible, though. It's just a personal preference of mine that I like cleaner, more pristine money, though I recognize that if it has been circulated, it probably is loaded up with micro-nastiness.
I object to this practice. Money should not be marked up or defaced with advertising, IMHO. I think it has a devaluing effect, and is disrespectful, at least to future recipients of the bank note.
Oh, and FWIW, although Asimov's epic of psychohistory was a very entertaining read, I don't think it represents reality. We are not animals behaving in a mathematically predictable way. Or if there is such predictability to the universe, only a transcendent God could apprehend all of the variables and compute them just right.
I made it in ahead of the slashdotting. It seems like a pretty cool concept, if enough people participate over a long enough period of time.
Good call! Maybe they should set up a Foundation to reduce the duration of the impending dark age. :)
Still, it doesn't sound much different than Thieves' Party, when they could have gone for something more akin to Robin Hood. ;)
The Piracy Party? Come on! They could hardly have chosen a worse name if they want to garner mainstream support. By using the label "piracy" they imply that they represent primarily criminal intent. Surely there is a better term they could have used that would accentuate the positive aspects of the unfettered exchange of information. Tsk, tsk.
0x = the year 200x, where x may equal 9. (?) I'm not sure. Just a thought.
The AC to whom I was replying suggested that Europe might force Windows to open up. I am not sure how likely this is, but I merely wanted to say that it would be a Bad Thing if Europe or any other influential government were to prevail in such a manner.
Naturally, once source code is distributed, it cannot be taken back. I was not thinking in terms of all OSS being declared illegal, but rather the hypothetical scenario of a specific product's licensing terms being altered, as would be the case if Microsoft were obligated to open up Windows, or if GPLed code were permitted to be included in closed-source software, within a specific jurisdiction. Although OSS is usually multinational, its developers and users could be severely impacted by bad legal decisions, especially of their own country.
IANAL. I am just pondering some what-ifs, which hopefully are wrong and ridiculous and wouldn't happen.
FWIW, I think it would be a big mistake to force Microsoft or any other vendor to open source their product. Such a dangerous precedent would be akin to forcing OSS to be closed, which could then be attempted further down the road if political opinions shift against OSS.
That said, I agree that given time, it is plausible that the security of Windows would be better if it were open sourced rather than not.
Moreover, how many football fields is 100 megamessages? (Speaking of the storage capacity unit du jour.)
My web browser notifies me anytime a new site tries to set a cookie, and informs me of its expiration date or whether it is a session cookie. It is easy for anyone concerned about cookies to simply manage them. If anyone looking at the NSA's public web pages is worried about being tracked, the onus is on them to take reasonable precautions.
Works fine for me, using Firefox 1.5 on WinXP (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5). I also have Macromedia Flash Player 8,0,220,0 and QuickTime 7.0.2a63 installed, although I don't know whether they are invoked by the page. When I run QuickTime by itself, it says it has expired and I need to download a new version.
Yes, the "evil" bit. Something along the lines of RFC 3514.
So a WAP advertises its existence and that it is open, essentially inviting public use. It will happily grant a connection to your computer (which might even request one automatically, without your knowledge).
How is one supposed to distinguish between open wireless networks are okay to use and those which are not? Common sense only goes so far in helping to make this determination.
IMHO if the WAP says that it's public and it grants connections to strangers, then those people should not be held liable for using the resource. If the resource is not abused for phishing or other criminal purposes, then what's the problem? The network operator can always reconfigure the AP to make it private if he or she wishes.
I use the LiveHTTPHeaders extension for Mozilla and Firefox. It handily fits in my side bar. I wish it were available for other browsers too.
Yes -- exactly! Since Open Source projects offer everyone the same "priority" access to updated code, users can get quicker protection from security vulnerabilities. They can even mod the code themselves if a patch is not yet available.
Microsoft customers, OTOH, generally must wait for the next monthly hotfix release day. This will soon become harder to bear since these customers will know (or suspect) that critical security hotfixes are ready but being withheld by Microsoft from public distribution. (I would think that any patch that is deemed good enough for the USAF would be of high enough quality for public consumption as well.)
Also, I think it is very likely that information on the nature of the hotfixes, and even the hotfixes themselves, will "leak" out to the rest of us (or at least the underground) quickly. This would facilitate the creation of exploits prior to the public release of the security updates. More incentive for Microsoft users to seek out alternatives.
BTW, thank you for your other interesting comments on the subject of Danix. :)
I think a good name for a Czech version of Knoppix would be Knoppicz. :) Of couse, then Czechs might pronounce it, "knoppits," so that probably wouldn't work.
That was interesting. At one point in the video, I saw a 1992 copyright flash across a screen, so this video must date from circa 1992.
In case this hasn't been mentioned already, Mozilla 1.8 Alpha2 is now available for download.
SSN = social security number, also called "your sosh" for short, because it is used for so many more things than USA retirement benefits. Like as a password. Many organizations actually use people's SSNs for authentication, which is insecure and opens people up to fraud.