it's ridiculous that any government would try to make the Internet a parent.
Actually, I like the idea. The net is full of fun things your parents will never know about. It's also an excercise in critical thinking. Of course, it's easier to point at the bad things and ban everything.
Also, filtering information is one of the most useful skills a child can learn this millennium.
Hmmm... I've yet to get the shit beat out of me on the internet, but have gotten my ass kicked at a playground a couple times. Which is more dangerous?
Were there not a Google (or internet equivalent), I wouldn't sit back in my rocking chair, exclaim "Oh, well," and have a cup or two of tea.
Yes, you would. Not every search is that important to you, I hope.
This is the classic "A download is a lost sale" argument. If everyone had to get up from their chair, I doubt most people would drive to a library 10+ times a day.
Or, making what was arguably Vista's best and at the same time worst feature (UAC) something that works without making itself so intrusive as to be the first time users desire to disable?!
You seriously judge a feature based on what first-time users think about it?
UAC is the way authorization should have been done a long time ago. Vista may be a horrible pile of other crap, but they definitely hit the mark here.
(Disclaimer: Yes, I have actually used it. On my home computer. For half a year. I'm still going back to Gentoo though.)
I have no idea how i would start to code that in C, python, etc. in a way that's remotely efficient;)
I'd go with
#include "prcomp.h"
Once someone did the algorithm for you, any programming language is easy. I think the point of the language would be, if said algorithm was orders of magnitude easier to code, represent, argue about, etc. in R, than it would be in "C, Python, etc."
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards role the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?" "What?" "I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?" "I'll look. Tell me about the lizards." Ford shrugged again. "Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
If there's one thing that you really can't control today is the flow of information. Constructing an Orwellian society is impossible because geeks are always going to be many steps ahead.
Cut the backbones, jam the satellites, and welcome to Airstrip One.
Whenever I have to use IE to browse the web, it's a nightmare. With effective filtering, I've lost my ad-blindness, so now when I go online unprotected I actually see all that crap. Horrible.
but I was pretty much crippled when forced to use Microsoft Office Suite 2007 at work for the first week or so. The whole ribbon bullshit interface just seems completely counter-intuitive to me.
Yeah, but once you get the hang of it, you got it. They don't count that as training. Switching to OO.o on the other hand...
Microsoft has issued a critical security patch that corrects a vulnerability problem with Internet Explorer. Tonight, the Client Support group will start applying the patch to all desktops/laptops within the agency. Therefore, we are requiring that all users follow the recommended procedure of daily restarting workstations. Upon a successful restart of your workstation you will be at the Windows sign-on screen.
Perform these steps before you leave each day. 1) Close all open applications as you normally would. 2) Click Start button\icon on the task bar at the bottom of your screen 3) Select Shutdown from the available list of items 4) Select Restart from the list of values - This is important - you must select "RESTART" 5) Click OK - Your PC will reboot itself to the Welcome to Windows sign-on screen - from there we can apply the corrective solution
That's way too fucking long for anyone who's not interested. Try "WARNING: When you're done, Restart the computer instead of Shutdown! Click [here] for details."
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With 6.7 billion people in the world, the "1,000 monkeys randomly pushing typewriters" analogy becomes a lot more relevant.
Same goes for Open Source. Just take a look at some of the rejected patches.
it's ridiculous that any government would try to make the Internet a parent.
Actually, I like the idea. The net is full of fun things your parents will never know about. It's also an excercise in critical thinking. Of course, it's easier to point at the bad things and ban everything.
Also, filtering information is one of the most useful skills a child can learn this millennium.
Hmmm... I've yet to get the shit beat out of me on the internet, but have gotten my ass kicked at a playground a couple times.
Which is more dangerous?
The playground bully who finds you on Facebook.
But for every group of people who try to act good around young children on the internet, there will be 100 more groups willing to link them to 4chan.
I think most kids figure out in about 2 minutes on the internet not to click on random links. The ones that don't, deserve what they get.
Experience is the best teacher.
Were there not a Google (or internet equivalent), I wouldn't sit back in my rocking chair, exclaim "Oh, well," and have a cup or two of tea.
Yes, you would. Not every search is that important to you, I hope.
This is the classic "A download is a lost sale" argument. If everyone had to get up from their chair, I doubt most people would drive to a library 10+ times a day.
and at default it doesn't kick in on user initiated actions
So it doesn't say "Hey, remember that email attachment you opened? It wants to change the network settings. Are you sure about that?"?
How exactly is that desirable, again?
Or, making what was arguably Vista's best and at the same time worst feature (UAC) something that works without making itself so intrusive as to be the first time users desire to disable?!
You seriously judge a feature based on what first-time users think about it?
UAC is the way authorization should have been done a long time ago. Vista may be a horrible pile of other crap, but they definitely hit the mark here.
(Disclaimer: Yes, I have actually used it. On my home computer. For half a year. I'm still going back to Gentoo though.)
I have no idea how i would start to code that in C, python, etc. in a way that's remotely efficient ;)
I'd go with
#include "prcomp.h"
Once someone did the algorithm for you, any programming language is easy. I think the point of the language would be, if said algorithm was orders of magnitude easier to code, represent, argue about, etc. in R, than it would be in "C, Python, etc."
2009: The Year Of Consumer Protection!
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards role the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them,"
he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
My exposure to actual advertisements is extraordinarily minimal. I almost forgot they existed till this article came out.
Adblock got the story from three days ago?
Google.
They also have the capability under the RIP act to intercept emails, web-traffic and other 'net use via a tap at the ISP itself.
This one's the bigger problem. You can't avoid it. I wouldn't be surprised, if they're already doing it, too.
On the other hand, there have been a number of recent security issues that have come to light that allowed user-level programs to get root.
Don't forget Ubuntu. By default, all you have to do is say "sudo". Talk about brain damage..
The saddest part of all is that the subjects of the U.K. support this nonsense by a large margin.
Not quite. They're just preoccupied with the latest news on celebrities.
I've been living here for half a year now and I haven't seen a single word about this stuff in newspapers yet.
When will it be a crime to use secure operating systems?
it doesn't embed into Dolphin, no, because that's not Dolphin's design goal.
What? What kind of *nix file manager leaves out tarballs? Hell, even Explorer does zip.
Rule of thumb: if it does less than mc, it sucks.
# The overall, net effect of ABS on fatal crashes was close to zero.
Try telling that to someone who's loved one died because of ABS.
If there's one thing that you really can't control today is the flow of information.
Constructing an Orwellian society is impossible because geeks are always going to be many steps ahead.
Cut the backbones, jam the satellites, and welcome to Airstrip One.
Once the launch mount and erector are complete, SpaceX will transfer Falcon 9 on to the erector and raise it to vertical early in 2009.
Sounds like some spam I've been getting.
Whenever I have to use IE to browse the web, it's a nightmare. With effective filtering, I've lost my ad-blindness, so now when I go online unprotected I actually see all that crap. Horrible.
There are still ads on the net? Wow.
but I was pretty much crippled when forced to use Microsoft Office Suite 2007 at work for the first week or so. The whole ribbon bullshit interface just seems completely counter-intuitive to me.
Yeah, but once you get the hang of it, you got it. They don't count that as training. Switching to OO.o on the other hand...
How do you prove that you deleted the file if needed to prove compliance with the law?
You don't. It's not your job. It's the plaintiff's to prove otherwise.
More like 90%. it's actually less annoying to "Temporarily allow all of this page" when necessary than it is the other way around.
Well, it's 25 years late anyway... ok, 24 years and 5 days.
Here is the relevant part:
Microsoft has issued a critical security patch that corrects a vulnerability problem with Internet Explorer. Tonight, the Client Support group will start applying the patch to all desktops/laptops within the agency. Therefore, we are requiring that all users follow the recommended procedure of daily restarting workstations. Upon a successful restart of your workstation you will be at the Windows sign-on screen.
Perform these steps before you leave each day.
1) Close all open applications as you normally would.
2) Click Start button\icon on the task bar at the bottom of your screen
3) Select Shutdown from the available list of items
4) Select Restart from the list of values - This is important - you must select "RESTART"
5) Click OK - Your PC will reboot itself to the Welcome to Windows sign-on screen - from there we can apply the corrective solution
That's way too fucking long for anyone who's not interested. Try "WARNING: When you're done, Restart the computer instead of Shutdown! Click [here] for details."
The link then explains.