Move off HTML to what? Flash? Not going to work unless they refuse to have any Apple iPhone/iPad users.
Java?.NET? I really doubt many people are going to install that to visit web sites unless they are insanely great sites.
Make the whole web site a giant video file? That would kill off browsing at many workplaces that shape traffic down toward a fair share per IP. Stuttering, always buffering Youtube is awfully common around lunch time but the VoIP works fine.
They were hostile to NoScript users too, who didn't even notice Ars had done anything until the forum postings started.
Once some NoScript users mentioned that, and then loudly said they'd never, under any circumstances, enable scripting for doubleclick, etc, Ars got nasty toward them too.
States might be able to collect taxes on Internet transactions after 2014, but states still can't force retailers in other states to report sales. Only the Feds could do that.
There are some pretty useful tools for playing RPGs like GURPS, D&D, etc. I use GURPS Character Sheet and I've used a couple of different Java shared map programs to make it easy to play pen and paper games over the Internet.
You should count the "corporate" taxes against yourself as well. Whenever you buy something from a corporation, 30% of that price is also taxes, and I don't think that 30% even includes all that they pay for their employees' social security.
By spreading the taxes out over all sorts of areas, the government has managed to obfuscate the actual taxes US citizens pay.
For a mobile device to ignore cloud storage is not a bug, it is a feature. Sure, syncing local storage with the cloud is useful. But any mobile device of mine had better have useful data locally.
For example, GPS mapping applications. Those that rely on the cloud for data are useless anywhere off the data network. That is a lot of places. If you're lost somewhere in the Colorado mountains you may get GPS but cellular data service is laughably unlikely.
Books and music. It is incredibly annoying to press 'next page' and nothing happens because you've walked into a movie theater or are driving through a tunnel with no data service. It would be equally annoying to have the music stop because of that.
It would even be fine for a program like World of Warcraft to install data files in its Program Files directory if the installer would only set up a permissions group (Heard of those Blizzard? Network operating systems have only had them for 30 years!) to edit those data files and add all the game users to that group.
I used to do permission groups manually for lots of software and it was good. But now with UAC programs don't even bother checking permissions, the program just pops a UAC prompt without even checking! This is crap. Now I need to edit the exe files to remove the UAC prompting bit.
The nature of humanity disagrees. Observe young boys.
Pointy sticks? Cool. Slingshots? Cool. Firecrackers? Cool. Guns? Cool. Fully automatic belt fed chain guns with tracers loaded? Awesomely cool. Laser weapons? It hardly gets any more awesome than that!
Free software is great and freedom is definitely a feature.
It's too bad that it seems to be impossible to fund decent free software development. Because, hey, it's free so why pay for it?
The only competitive free software is that which actually has full time paid developers working on it. No one has made a way to get paid developing free graphics yet.
In what universe is chroot not a security measure?
It is not perfect security all by itself, but it is *a* security measure. It prevents several classes of local escalation attacks.
You may as well claim that BSD's jail, alternate namespaces and virtual machines are not a security measure. None of those are perfect, but every little bit helps.
Where I live out in the rural boonies, you might think my choices are even more limited than yours. But really, I have quite a lot of choice in ISPs.
I can get dial-up from several providers. I can get IDSL (my current setup) from a few (using Speakeasy). I can get a T1 with service from any of about 6 ISPs. I can get HughesNet satellite service.
True, some of these options cost a lot of money, like T1 service (from $300 to $1200 per month). But I do have choice.
If you live in a city I am sure that you actually have far more choices than between your local cable ISP or DSL ISP.
This idea of yours would work without the RFID chips. Just build the face recognition databases off everyone entering the police station at regular intervals. Build distributed camera systems that track glimpses of the vehicle license plates around town and soon you'll know their home addresses too. The same distributed camera system can also track the ID number on each police vehicle and report the current location of each officer.
You know, this "surveillance state" stuff can be used against the state too.
You need more space than 0.5 seconds even if you can react that fast. Your vehicle can't. Unless you are driving the ultimate sportscar there is always a car somewhere on the road that can stop faster than you can. And if there's an accident ahead of you, the crashing vehicles ahead of you can be coming to complete stops MUCH FASTER than brakes alone account for.
Following too closely leads to 80 car pileup accidents.
If a rule abiding driver leaves the recommended 2 seconds following distance, his safety space will constantly be invaded. Some of these other drivers are using it temporarily while merging or lane shifting. But other very rude drivers will bob and weave through these spaces in the futile quest to gain maybe a whole minute on their commute.
If you're in the passing lane when there is no car to pass for miles, then you are a jerk, no matter what the law is.
In the past that has inspired me to even bigger jerkdom. I admit that at least five times I have passed on the right, moved left and slooooowly let my speed fall to 55 or less. This really pisses them off.
When they finally move right, I hammer it and zoom off at 85, content they have possibly learned something. Or at least it made me feel vindictive and fulfilled. Whatever.
If you have just pulled into the right lane from somewhere behind me in the left passing lane, and you are zooming up on the right with the obvious intent of cramming yourself into my 2s safety space...
You're not getting in. I'll pull up to 5 ft from the guy in front of me if I have to in order to ensure it. Get back in line.
I've personally experienced brand new PC laptops that crash on resume (Sony Vaio and Vista, ick), won't boot with a USB key inserted, fail to recognize USB mice after resume, won't shut down because of some mysterious background program running, can't locate the wireless net that is RIGHT THERE (probably because of a mysteriously hidden wireless hard-off switch the user can't find and doesn't know exists).
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I see that too on my Macbook Pro. I think it is an odd interaction between SQLite and those continuous backup programs that want to be like Time Machine. I'm using one (Memeo Lifeagent) that came with my Seagate external HD. If I put the backup software into "pause" mode Firefox gets a lot more responsive.
There are some pretty slick web games out there. You can do a good RPG with nothing but Javascript and static HTML. You don't even need the Javascript, but some client or server-side script makes it more random with some replay value.
"Unlike say Soviet Russia who had a set of laws outlined in a similar document that stated what the central government could do, but completely ignored them and did whatever it liked."
No, that's pretty much how the US Federal government works too. But don't say it too loudly or the government will call you a radical right-wing militia terrorist.
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Move off HTML to what? Flash? Not going to work unless they refuse to have any Apple iPhone/iPad users.
Java? .NET? I really doubt many people are going to install that to visit web sites unless they are insanely great sites.
Make the whole web site a giant video file? That would kill off browsing at many workplaces that shape traffic down toward a fair share per IP. Stuttering, always buffering Youtube is awfully common around lunch time but the VoIP works fine.
They were hostile to NoScript users too, who didn't even notice Ars had done anything until the forum postings started.
Once some NoScript users mentioned that, and then loudly said they'd never, under any circumstances, enable scripting for doubleclick, etc, Ars got nasty toward them too.
States might be able to collect taxes on Internet transactions after 2014, but states still can't force retailers in other states to report sales. Only the Feds could do that.
There are some pretty useful tools for playing RPGs like GURPS, D&D, etc. I use GURPS Character Sheet and I've used a couple of different Java shared map programs to make it easy to play pen and paper games over the Internet.
So this is how you make a Helm of Opposite Alignment!
Lawful Evil, here I come!
You should count the "corporate" taxes against yourself as well. Whenever you buy something from a corporation, 30% of that price is also taxes, and I don't think that 30% even includes all that they pay for their employees' social security.
By spreading the taxes out over all sorts of areas, the government has managed to obfuscate the actual taxes US citizens pay.
For a mobile device to ignore cloud storage is not a bug, it is a feature. Sure, syncing local storage with the cloud is useful. But any mobile device of mine had better have useful data locally.
For example, GPS mapping applications. Those that rely on the cloud for data are useless anywhere off the data network. That is a lot of places. If you're lost somewhere in the Colorado mountains you may get GPS but cellular data service is laughably unlikely.
Books and music. It is incredibly annoying to press 'next page' and nothing happens because you've walked into a movie theater or are driving through a tunnel with no data service. It would be equally annoying to have the music stop because of that.
It would even be fine for a program like World of Warcraft to install data files in its Program Files directory if the installer would only set up a permissions group (Heard of those Blizzard? Network operating systems have only had them for 30 years!) to edit those data files and add all the game users to that group.
I used to do permission groups manually for lots of software and it was good. But now with UAC programs don't even bother checking permissions, the program just pops a UAC prompt without even checking! This is crap. Now I need to edit the exe files to remove the UAC prompting bit.
The nature of humanity disagrees. Observe young boys.
Pointy sticks? Cool. Slingshots? Cool. Firecrackers? Cool. Guns? Cool. Fully automatic belt fed chain guns with tracers loaded? Awesomely cool. Laser weapons? It hardly gets any more awesome than that!
You must have got one of those $75 "special" LCDs.
You generally get what you pay for.
Free software is great and freedom is definitely a feature.
It's too bad that it seems to be impossible to fund decent free software development. Because, hey, it's free so why pay for it?
The only competitive free software is that which actually has full time paid developers working on it. No one has made a way to get paid developing free graphics yet.
In what universe is chroot not a security measure?
It is not perfect security all by itself, but it is *a* security measure. It prevents several classes of local escalation attacks.
You may as well claim that BSD's jail, alternate namespaces and virtual machines are not a security measure. None of those are perfect, but every little bit helps.
The ideal IPv6 setup does not even use fixed DNS and NTP, etc. The system should be using stateless autoconf and multicast services for that.
Where I live out in the rural boonies, you might think my choices are even more limited than yours. But really, I have quite a lot of choice in ISPs.
I can get dial-up from several providers. I can get IDSL (my current setup) from a few (using Speakeasy). I can get a T1 with service from any of about 6 ISPs. I can get HughesNet satellite service.
True, some of these options cost a lot of money, like T1 service (from $300 to $1200 per month). But I do have choice.
If you live in a city I am sure that you actually have far more choices than between your local cable ISP or DSL ISP.
This idea of yours would work without the RFID chips. Just build the face recognition databases off everyone entering the police station at regular intervals. Build distributed camera systems that track glimpses of the vehicle license plates around town and soon you'll know their home addresses too. The same distributed camera system can also track the ID number on each police vehicle and report the current location of each officer.
You know, this "surveillance state" stuff can be used against the state too.
You need more space than 0.5 seconds even if you can react that fast. Your vehicle can't. Unless you are driving the ultimate sportscar there is always a car somewhere on the road that can stop faster than you can. And if there's an accident ahead of you, the crashing vehicles ahead of you can be coming to complete stops MUCH FASTER than brakes alone account for.
Following too closely leads to 80 car pileup accidents.
If a rule abiding driver leaves the recommended 2 seconds following distance, his safety space will constantly be invaded. Some of these other drivers are using it temporarily while merging or lane shifting. But other very rude drivers will bob and weave through these spaces in the futile quest to gain maybe a whole minute on their commute.
If you're in the passing lane when there is no car to pass for miles, then you are a jerk, no matter what the law is.
In the past that has inspired me to even bigger jerkdom. I admit that at least five times I have passed on the right, moved left and slooooowly let my speed fall to 55 or less. This really pisses them off.
When they finally move right, I hammer it and zoom off at 85, content they have possibly learned something. Or at least it made me feel vindictive and fulfilled. Whatever.
If you have just pulled into the right lane from somewhere behind me in the left passing lane, and you are zooming up on the right with the obvious intent of cramming yourself into my 2s safety space...
You're not getting in. I'll pull up to 5 ft from the guy in front of me if I have to in order to ensure it. Get back in line.
I've personally experienced brand new PC laptops that crash on resume (Sony Vaio and Vista, ick), won't boot with a USB key inserted, fail to recognize USB mice after resume, won't shut down because of some mysterious background program running, can't locate the wireless net that is RIGHT THERE (probably because of a mysteriously hidden wireless hard-off switch the user can't find and doesn't know exists).
Compared to that, Mac laptops just work.
Taking your last line and thinking about it, I now believe we should call it C++0x7da.
No. Obviously it is C++0xa.
I see that too on my Macbook Pro. I think it is an odd interaction between SQLite and those continuous backup programs that want to be like Time Machine. I'm using one (Memeo Lifeagent) that came with my Seagate external HD. If I put the backup software into "pause" mode Firefox gets a lot more responsive.
There are some pretty slick web games out there. You can do a good RPG with nothing but Javascript and static HTML. You don't even need the Javascript, but some client or server-side script makes it more random with some replay value.
"Unlike say Soviet Russia who had a set of laws outlined in a similar document that stated what the central government could do, but completely ignored them and did whatever it liked."
No, that's pretty much how the US Federal government works too. But don't say it too loudly or the government will call you a radical right-wing militia terrorist.