I've just prefixed all key bindings for my window managers with the start-key, without it my PC will just be a overpriced backlit picture frame, with a static background picture!
Damn you Microsoft...:)
</trolling>
Good to see that slashdot haven't lost it capability to bash Microsoft for what might very well be a sensible move.
I agree if he bought the domains legally and mail was sent to those he didn't unlawful interception anything since it was sent to a domain he owned.
He bought the domains with the primary aim of intercepting mail that wasn't his... Same as if I changed the number on my house and setup a mail box that looks like my neighbors.
I'm sure this angle can be argued in the court. Whether it holds I don't know. I kind of hope it does, there's a reason why judges are human, the world made of ones and zeros. Regardless of who much we all wish we were was Neo:)
Scientists... are trying to determine if... responsible... sudden deaths of a small herd of cattle
Becomes
the grass started producing cyanide in sufficient quantities to kill a small herd of cattle
And that only took a few lines within the same summary. I trust that journalists are sufficiently incompetent to report nothing but paronia.
Wake me, when scientist are done trying to determine...
Back in highschool I did some projects with atmega644 microprocessor, about 400 pages of documentation. Granted I didn't read it all, but when I read most of the relevant parts and got a very good feel for the hardware. My point being, that 2400 pages isn't necessarily alot.
Also there's probably both highlevel and lowlevel APIs, instructions or modes on the video chip, and in order to write a video driver you probably don't need to understand the internal lowlevel instructions. If you want the write the optimal video driver, you probably do... But optimal code is pretty hard to write:)
My question is, who can actually master these modern systems before they are obsolete?
I think a small group of dedicated people and maybe some intel engineers.
But fully utilizing them before they are obsolute, is probably not possible, but keep in mind that todays apps are written in Javascript and HTML, when will that EVER utilize anything efficiently?
Back on topic, the next card intel release will probably use the same or fairly similar architecture, so what you learn in these docs are probably not obsolete when intel release a new video chip...
Ecuador's foreign minister had offered assylum in 2010 but president Rafael Correa later dismised it. It's possible they have succombed to US pressure already
Well, in that case couldn't the Ecuadorians choose to hand him over to the US.
Nevertheless, I don't see why he's avoiding extradition to Sweden, it's certainly not the worst country in the world. And the US have yet to raise any charges... Which I think would be unlikely to stick in any event.
It's just the normal programming blocks, while untill, if, and then some actions and boolean expressions... Where you put things together like blocks... It's for people who can't type the keywords in plaintext and would thus rather drag n' drop the keywords... Doesn't make sense...
By the way I doubt this is a product, looks more like an experiment. And let not blame Google stop wasting money on this when they do...
Instead I'd give them a little respect for wasting money trying to make something that might be slightly new, though I seriously doubt it is:)
Where does she says that ISP disconnection and censorship in the EU is okay? She doesn't!
In fact I don't see much support for it, and I certainly don't see it related to this discussion.
It's just a little scary how people would rather do paranoid rants about laws that will never be, because a politician doesn't disputes such laws at every possible chance she gets!
Note: She did NOT talk pro internet disconnects.
In fact she said that the digital agenda is to stop internet disconnects, and naturally that doesn't make sense in the EU, because there's no legally enforced internet disconnects in the EU.
All this is just a carefully crafted headline, with a summary that disappoints because you'd hoped for something else, which gets you thinking and talking about 3 strike laws. Totally unrelated...
So let's acknowledge that this a positive story, and give credit for deciding to fight internet censorship.
Seriously, it wasn't that long ago I heard Danish politicians promise that disconnect from the internet wasn't on the table, during their recent discussions of how to reduce internet piracy. AFAIK the politician argued that internet was essential for doing business and communicating with both public and private sector.
I know Danish politicians doesn't rule the EU, but chill. Just, because someone says they'll fight internet censorship in countries where people are oppressed, doesn't mean they think censorship is okay in the EU.
Just because she didn't discuss a subject you apparently care more about, doesn't imply she has taken a stand on that subject! My guess she might very likely be against censorship in any way shape or form.
- People who quote FSF typically are:)
If you want to be paranoid, at least be happy that the "digital aganda" is going to focus on stopping internet censorship in countries where it's a serious problem. She could also have announced that she wanted to fight piracy, patents or kill baby seals, but she DIDN'T.
Your argument is appealing and does make sense. Having visited the US, I would be surprised if all the horror stories from the media is just business as usual.
And yes, European countries do protect workers more, but much of this protection is negotiated by free marked powers (ie. unions and employers).
IMO the system of "consenting mutually beneficial relationships" without powerful unions fails to benefit the small man.
Especially, when big (greedy) business is involved.
> Why reinvent the wheel when we can just copy what has, say, already been working quite well for the UK since the end of World War 2?
You might want to follow the UK debate on the state and sustainability of the NHS. Or Germany's debate on its health care. It turns out that the populous European countries have health care systems that aren't exactly the panacea some people believe they are. People are getting older and require care that is far more expensive across their life time than it used to be all while people complain about tax rates.
Okay, so yes, health care is becoming more expensive because demographics are changing. Not because public health care is inefficient, numerous studies have found that public health care systems are more efficient in terms of treatment on the dollar.
In reality the discussion about public health care systems being expensive, sums up to the question of whether or not everybody should have access to health care. The alternative health care systems are more expensive if everybody should have access.
Personally I hope we'll see red banners in the streets before public health care disappears and we see an underclass of poor people who can't afford basic medical care.
but I've known two people who went there who said they were welcomed very warmly as Americans and that quality of life there was pretty much the same as any European country.
I'm pretty sure things have changed in Europe since your ancestors emigrated 200 years ago:)
</flamebait> if by "any European country" you mean the only poor former east block countries, then maybe you're right... Assuming you don't care about human rights.
Which means that, per capita, we don't consume that much less than the Americans. Makes sense - both big countries with large distances to cover.
I don't think it's the large areas, but lack of proper energy taxes to encourage smaller cars and better fuel efficiency. In Europe you typically pay twice as much for gas as in the US, due to responsible energy taxes.
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... It must be much simpler to maintain one code base and then at release time rip out any parts you do not want to release as part of the open source version.
They're not maintaining a closed code repository, Qt LGPL version is hosted on gitorious. In fact they're moving towards some sort of open governance. So if they do have any significant commercial only features, they have to maintain that in a private git repository some where else.
TV ads don't pose as reviews or recommendation by other follow consumers.
Also ads elsewhere are not posted without consent, the spam comment that show up on my blog are not ads placed with my consent (Note I have spam filter and personally reviews everything it doesn't kill).
It's equivalent to a people just putting ad-posters on your wall without your consent.
Furthermore it is the biggest threat to the free internet today, to some extent outright destroying the internet as we know it.
Evil is a strong word, but it's capitalization with total disregard for other peoples property and misleading to the degree that it's outright criminal.
I know that Google and MS are worlds apart in terms of ethics.
But no matter how good Google promises to be, having a single point of search/failure/innovation/you-name-it for the internet is not great. I doubt Firefox changes to Bing, but I understand why they are testing the waters, and why someone at Mozilla could think that maybe Google shouldn't be their default engine.
The best solution would obviously be an entirely free software search engine, but I'm not familiar with one, so looking at commercial alternatives to Google makes sense.
I have received the news of Firefox leaning toward Bing as a betrayal of the worst kind.
I have to admit it I LOVE Google too, and hate Microsoft as much as the slashdotter next to me...
BUT, Defacto monopolies are bad. Google might just be the biggest threat to freedom today.
It's that what we learned from IE? (big is bad)
MS had marked dominance and fired the IE team, effectively stopping the development.
If there're no competitors to Google Search, do you think Google will continue developing and improving it's search engine. Let's face it the free market works when no company have extreme dominance.
As much as I hate to say it, maybe we should be cheering for Microsoft Bing in this case.
Keep in mind there's no free software search engine out there, that can stand up to Google or Microsoft Bing. So a reasonable division of market share, which implies competition, is all we can hope for.
Software development is expensive and risky...
And It's a sad reality but software development today is very expensive... And if you want things done right, you'll probably have to do them yourself anyway:)
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I've just prefixed all key bindings for my window managers with the start-key, without it my PC will just be a overpriced backlit picture frame, with a static background picture! :)
Damn you Microsoft...
</trolling>
Good to see that slashdot haven't lost it capability to bash Microsoft for what might very well be a sensible move.
I agree if he bought the domains legally and mail was sent to those he didn't unlawful interception anything since it was sent to a domain he owned.
He bought the domains with the primary aim of intercepting mail that wasn't his... Same as if I changed the number on my house and setup a mail box that looks like my neighbors.
:)
I'm sure this angle can be argued in the court. Whether it holds I don't know. I kind of hope it does, there's a reason why judges are human, the world made of ones and zeros. Regardless of who much we all wish we were was Neo
Scientists ... are trying to determine if ... responsible ... sudden deaths of a small herd of cattle
Becomes
the grass started producing cyanide in sufficient quantities to kill a small herd of cattle
And that only took a few lines within the same summary. I trust that journalists are sufficiently incompetent to report nothing but paronia.
Wake me, when scientist are done trying to determine...
Also there's probably both highlevel and lowlevel APIs, instructions or modes on the video chip, and in order to write a video driver you probably don't need to understand the internal lowlevel instructions. If you want the write the optimal video driver, you probably do... But optimal code is pretty hard to write
My question is, who can actually master these modern systems before they are obsolete?
I think a small group of dedicated people and maybe some intel engineers.
But fully utilizing them before they are obsolute, is probably not possible, but keep in mind that todays apps are written in Javascript and HTML, when will that EVER utilize anything efficiently?
Back on topic, the next card intel release will probably use the same or fairly similar architecture, so what you learn in these docs are probably not obsolete when intel release a new video chip...
Ecuador's foreign minister had offered assylum in 2010 but president Rafael Correa later dismised it. It's possible they have succombed to US pressure already
Well, in that case couldn't the Ecuadorians choose to hand him over to the US.
Nevertheless, I don't see why he's avoiding extradition to Sweden, it's certainly not the worst country in the world. And the US have yet to raise any charges... Which I think would be unlikely to stick in any event.
It's just the normal programming blocks, while untill, if, and then some actions and boolean expressions... Where you put things together like blocks... It's for people who can't type the keywords in plaintext and would thus rather drag n' drop the keywords... Doesn't make sense...
:)
By the way I doubt this is a product, looks more like an experiment. And let not blame Google stop wasting money on this when they do...
Instead I'd give them a little respect for wasting money trying to make something that might be slightly new, though I seriously doubt it is
Where does she says that ISP disconnection and censorship in the EU is okay? She doesn't!
In fact I don't see much support for it, and I certainly don't see it related to this discussion.
It's just a little scary how people would rather do paranoid rants about laws that will never be, because a politician doesn't disputes such laws at every possible chance she gets!
Note: She did NOT talk pro internet disconnects.
In fact she said that the digital agenda is to stop internet disconnects, and naturally that doesn't make sense in the EU, because there's no legally enforced internet disconnects in the EU.
All this is just a carefully crafted headline, with a summary that disappoints because you'd hoped for something else, which gets you thinking and talking about 3 strike laws. Totally unrelated...
So let's acknowledge that this a positive story, and give credit for deciding to fight internet censorship.
Seriously, it wasn't that long ago I heard Danish politicians promise that disconnect from the internet wasn't on the table, during their recent discussions of how to reduce internet piracy. AFAIK the politician argued that internet was essential for doing business and communicating with both public and private sector.
:)
I know Danish politicians doesn't rule the EU, but chill. Just, because someone says they'll fight internet censorship in countries where people are oppressed, doesn't mean they think censorship is okay in the EU.
Just because she didn't discuss a subject you apparently care more about, doesn't imply she has taken a stand on that subject! My guess she might very likely be against censorship in any way shape or form.
- People who quote FSF typically are
If you want to be paranoid, at least be happy that the "digital aganda" is going to focus on stopping internet censorship in countries where it's a serious problem. She could also have announced that she wanted to fight piracy, patents or kill baby seals, but she DIDN'T.
Your argument is appealing and does make sense. Having visited the US, I would be surprised if all the horror stories from the media is just business as usual.
And yes, European countries do protect workers more, but much of this protection is negotiated by free marked powers (ie. unions and employers).
IMO the system of "consenting mutually beneficial relationships" without powerful unions fails to benefit the small man.
Especially, when big (greedy) business is involved.
> Why reinvent the wheel when we can just copy what has, say, already been working quite well for the UK since the end of World War 2?
You might want to follow the UK debate on the state and sustainability of the NHS. Or Germany's debate on its health care. It turns out that the populous European countries have health care systems that aren't exactly the panacea some people believe they are. People are getting older and require care that is far more expensive across their life time than it used to be all while people complain about tax rates.
Okay, so yes, health care is becoming more expensive because demographics are changing.
Not because public health care is inefficient, numerous studies have found that public health care systems are more efficient in terms of treatment on the dollar.
In reality the discussion about public health care systems being expensive, sums up to the question of whether or not everybody should have access to health care. The alternative health care systems are more expensive if everybody should have access. Personally I hope we'll see red banners in the streets before public health care disappears and we see an underclass of poor people who can't afford basic medical care.
And if they do ignore him, at least he'll have a position he can leave in protest :)
Though, I do see any reason why they would ignore him?
Make sure you choose a good picture, because it's going to be online long after you're gone :)
I added up all the fuel weight, less than 400 tons. You could be quite close to that exploding, really, less than 500 m and survive.
Okay, so you could survive :)
Or you can extract it with whatever archive application that comes with gnome by default...
And as long as there are pirates sailing the high seas, *someone* will be there to sell them boats.
And here I thought pirates just took the boats :)
but I've known two people who went there who said they were welcomed very warmly as Americans and that quality of life there was pretty much the same as any European country.
I'm pretty sure things have changed in Europe since your ancestors emigrated 200 years ago :)
</flamebait> if by "any European country" you mean the only poor former east block countries, then maybe you're right... Assuming you don't care about human rights.
Every digital recording of the wax cylinder is probably copyrighted from date of the digital recording :)
Which means that, per capita, we don't consume that much less than the Americans. Makes sense - both big countries with large distances to cover.
I don't think it's the large areas, but lack of proper energy taxes to encourage smaller cars and better fuel efficiency. In Europe you typically pay twice as much for gas as in the US, due to responsible energy taxes.
... It must be much simpler to maintain one code base and then at release time rip out any parts you do not want to release as part of the open source version.
They're not maintaining a closed code repository, Qt LGPL version is hosted on gitorious. In fact they're moving towards some sort of open governance. So if they do have any significant commercial only features, they have to maintain that in a private git repository some where else.
TV ads don't pose as reviews or recommendation by other follow consumers.
Also ads elsewhere are not posted without consent, the spam comment that show up on my blog are not ads placed with my consent (Note I have spam filter and personally reviews everything it doesn't kill).
It's equivalent to a people just putting ad-posters on your wall without your consent.
Furthermore it is the biggest threat to the free internet today, to some extent outright destroying the internet as we know it.
Evil is a strong word, but it's capitalization with total disregard for other peoples property and misleading to the degree that it's outright criminal.
I know that Google and MS are worlds apart in terms of ethics. But no matter how good Google promises to be, having a single point of search/failure/innovation/you-name-it for the internet is not great. I doubt Firefox changes to Bing, but I understand why they are testing the waters, and why someone at Mozilla could think that maybe Google shouldn't be their default engine.
The best solution would obviously be an entirely free software search engine, but I'm not familiar with one, so looking at commercial alternatives to Google makes sense.
That seems like an awful lot of money for a company that just makes a browser.
It's all about the market share... They're selling ads, by proxy. I'm not saying it bad, just saying that's what's going on.
I have received the news of Firefox leaning toward Bing as a betrayal of the worst kind.
I have to admit it I LOVE Google too, and hate Microsoft as much as the slashdotter next to me...
BUT, Defacto monopolies are bad. Google might just be the biggest threat to freedom today.
It's that what we learned from IE? (big is bad)
MS had marked dominance and fired the IE team, effectively stopping the development.
If there're no competitors to Google Search, do you think Google will continue developing and improving it's search engine. Let's face it the free market works when no company have extreme dominance.
As much as I hate to say it, maybe we should be cheering for Microsoft Bing in this case.
Keep in mind there's no free software search engine out there, that can stand up to Google or Microsoft Bing. So a reasonable division of market share, which implies competition, is all we can hope for.
Agree... This is probably due to EFFs involvement...
But let's also have a little respect for Carrier IQ, it takes balls to make this kind of turnaround...
Software development is expensive and risky... :)
And It's a sad reality but software development today is very expensive... And if you want things done right, you'll probably have to do them yourself anyway