Was Fosset known to you personally? If so - what on earth are you doing demanding sympathy on slashdot?
I have no particular emotional involvement in the man's life or death - and nor do many others. That isn't to say I would have wished him ill - I just don't see why I should care. He seemed to have enjoyed life - good for him. This is just the judicial declaration of something that most people assumed long ago.
And if the death of someone I loved was reported on Slashdot, "who gives a fuck" would be an entirely appropriate tag.
More than that - it would be rather creepy if you DID give a fuck. Displays of public grief for people we do not know, but with whom we pretend an intimacy to which we are not really entitled are distasteful and should always be challenged.
I did not tag the article. That said, without wishing Fosset either well, or ill, but just on general principals that this is someone who I did not know, reports of the judicial declaration of death of whom are cluttering up Slashdot, I echo the tag: "Whogivesafuck?"
"Flow" is damn close to my idea of happiness too - I want to quote this Mihály Csíkszentmihályi person....... but it would be a hell of a lot easier if I had the faintest idea how to pronounce his/her name....
I have just remembered - The ZX80 could not handle input from the keyboard while displaying the screen. (The cpu was controlling the screen directly - which is one reason it was so cheap.) So the the screen would flicker "black" at every keypress. This was fixed on the ZX81 by the inclusion of "slow" mode - but switch the ZX81 into fast mode and I think you got the same affect.
The ZX81 was there - in the guise of the Timex 1000, but its predecessor, the ZX80 wasn't.
I remember when I sold my Sinclair ZX80 and bought the Sinclair ZX81 - and marvelled at the relative comfort of its keyboard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX80 Compared to the ZX80, the Commodore keyboard was a joy.
In fact every machine Sinclair made had a slightly dodgy keyboard - the QL was a pain to word-process on and the Cambridge Z88 was - effective, and quiet, but took some getting used to.
Actually a separate virtual machine just for banking is pretty trivial to set up, and probably fairly secure with a decent browser. Multiple virtual machines are just a matter of disk space.
You can never guarantee that any browser is proof against cross site scripting attacks. Generally, yes - using the "stronger" browser as the "promiscuous" browser probably does make sense - it is less likely to have problems that will compromise your system - and use the "weaker" browser ONLY for banking (where one trusts the site more than say - the average porn site.)
Of course this only assists with one group of attacks. So talk of key loggers is beside the point.
IE is probably safe(ish) if you only use it on trusted sites. (The same way having unprotected sex is "safe" if it is with trusted people whose sexual history you believe is unproblematic)
Of course ideally you would use two non-I.E browsers. Opera runs on Windows.
Nope - sometimes - often - there is a trade-off between usability and security. And when there is, it is worth having one browser tied down tight for banking, and another with looser settings for general browsing.
No-one is denying that setting up a whole separate account and using that ONLY for banking isn't a better option, but running a browser in "anal retentive" mode has its place.
Gosh if firing up another browser seriously causes you pain, your problems extend rather beyond being trojaned!
Mostly useless, !=useless. 2nd browsers have their place - you can run them with the kind of high security settings that would be a nuisance in a main browser.
Safari on XP is there to encourage Windows people to develop for the iPhone (in the limited form of development that is allowed...) It really does not matter if no-one uses it for web browsing.... As long as it is there for download if they want/need it....
Safari 3 on Mac now has 'cat off a hot tin roof' javascript speed. This is a really, really big deal if you use a lot of google maps mashups with hundreds of markers or other google apps that are js heavy. It beats Camino (previous champ) hands down.
For those web-apps for which "the browser is the OS", running Safari is like upgrading your computer, particularly for users on older Macs...
Question to the XP crowd - is Safari the fastest browser for Windows when running complex google maps mashups?
The release of safari 3 has allowed me to delay the purchase of a replacement desktop machine. That is a far bigger deal for me than Leopard.
In Safari the "search" field next to the url bar is drag resizable. It's the one thing I miss in Firefox.
Javascript heavy sites - particularly google maps mashups - seem to run a lot faster in firefox. It is also a lot less flaky than safari when doing a large amount of data entry through forms.
Firefox window placement can be a bit flaky on dual monitor setup - the preference panel sometimes decides it will only live in one corner of the screen.
Their business practices? I have used them for many years and never had a problem. It may well be that some "disreputable" websites have registered their domain names with them - but I guess most registrars have their fair share of such registrants. I am not sure how far I want registrars policing the content of websites...
Can you be a little more precise as to the nature of your objection to them?
The issue isn't "should the Greenwich meridian maintain its importance" (who cares) but rather "do we want the sun to be rising at 4pm in x thousand years". If we remove the link between "time" and the astronomical world - as is being proposed, that is the situation we will face, in the albeit moderately distant future.
My undersatnding is that the major justification being cited is that reseting some older equipment to take account of the leap second requires manual intervention, and that this is a pain.
Of the 13 nominal dns root servers, 5 are distributed using anycast, and a further one is run by WIDE in Tokyo. For this reason most of the physical root servers (as opposed to nominal servers) are already outside the US.
Of the anycast servers, one is run by RIPE from London, another by AUTONOMICA from Sweden.
To all those people saying "build your own" - a lot of the infrastructure is already in place - it wouldn't take much to bring it up to speed.
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Was Fosset known to you personally? If so - what on earth are you doing demanding sympathy on slashdot?
I have no particular emotional involvement in the man's life or death - and nor do many others. That isn't to say I would have wished him ill - I just don't see why I should care. He seemed to have enjoyed life - good for him. This is just the judicial declaration of something that most people assumed long ago.
And if the death of someone I loved was reported on Slashdot, "who gives a fuck" would be an entirely appropriate tag.
More than that - it would be rather creepy if you DID give a fuck. Displays of public grief for people we do not know, but with whom we pretend an intimacy to which we are not really entitled are distasteful and should always be challenged.
I did not tag the article. That said, without wishing Fosset either well, or ill, but just on general principals that this is someone who I did not know, reports of the judicial declaration of death of whom are cluttering up Slashdot, I echo the tag: "Whogivesafuck?"
"Flow" is damn close to my idea of happiness too - I want to quote this Mihály Csíkszentmihályi person.... ... but it would be a hell of a lot easier if I had the faintest idea how to pronounce his/her name....
any thoughts anyone?
"Chik-zent-mi-ha-li"?
I have just remembered - The ZX80 could not handle input from the keyboard while displaying the screen. (The cpu was controlling the screen directly - which is one reason it was so cheap.) So the the screen would flicker "black" at every keypress. This was fixed on the ZX81 by the inclusion of "slow" mode - but switch the ZX81 into fast mode and I think you got the same affect.
The ZX81 was there - in the guise of the Timex 1000, but its predecessor, the ZX80 wasn't.
I remember when I sold my Sinclair ZX80 and bought the Sinclair ZX81 - and marvelled at the relative comfort of its keyboard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX80 Compared to the ZX80, the Commodore keyboard was a joy.
In fact every machine Sinclair made had a slightly dodgy keyboard - the QL was a pain to word-process on and the Cambridge Z88 was - effective, and quiet, but took some getting used to.
Actually a separate virtual machine just for banking is pretty trivial to set up, and probably fairly secure with a decent browser. Multiple virtual machines are just a matter of disk space.
You can never guarantee that any browser is proof against cross site scripting attacks. Generally, yes - using the "stronger" browser as the "promiscuous" browser probably does make sense - it is less likely to have problems that will compromise your system - and use the "weaker" browser ONLY for banking (where one trusts the site more than say - the average porn site.)
Of course this only assists with one group of attacks. So talk of key loggers is beside the point.
IE is probably safe(ish) if you only use it on trusted sites. (The same way having unprotected sex is "safe" if it is with trusted people whose sexual history you believe is unproblematic)
Of course ideally you would use two non-I.E browsers. Opera runs on Windows.
You haven't actually stated any "facts"....
Nope - sometimes - often - there is a trade-off between usability and security. And when there is, it is worth having one browser tied down tight for banking, and another with looser settings for general browsing.
No-one is denying that setting up a whole separate account and using that ONLY for banking isn't a better option, but running a browser in "anal retentive" mode has its place.
Gosh if firing up another browser seriously causes you pain, your problems extend rather beyond being trojaned!
Mostly useless, !=useless. 2nd browsers have their place - you can run them with the kind of high security settings that would be a nuisance in a main browser.
It is just common sense. Doesn't everyone do that?
Safari on XP is there to encourage Windows people to develop for the iPhone (in the limited form of development that is allowed...) It really does not matter if no-one uses it for web browsing.... As long as it is there for download if they want/need it....
Safari 3 on Mac now has 'cat off a hot tin roof' javascript speed. This is a really, really big deal if you use a lot of google maps mashups with hundreds of markers or other google apps that are js heavy. It beats Camino (previous champ) hands down.
For those web-apps for which "the browser is the OS", running Safari is like upgrading your computer, particularly for users on older Macs...
Question to the XP crowd - is Safari the fastest browser for Windows when running complex google maps mashups?
The release of safari 3 has allowed me to delay the purchase of a replacement desktop machine. That is a far bigger deal for me than Leopard.
In Safari the "search" field next to the url bar is drag resizable. It's the one thing I miss in Firefox.
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Javascript heavy sites - particularly google maps mashups - seem to run a lot faster in firefox. It is also a lot less flaky than safari when doing a large amount of data entry through forms.
Firefox window placement can be a bit flaky on dual monitor setup - the preference panel sometimes decides it will only live in one corner of the screen.
For those who want Mac widgets in firefox, they are available in special builds...
http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2007/03/29/fir
How many Flops is a Beowulf Cluster of Alaskan Diebold machines...?
Ugh!
Isle O'Thpuns.?
which isle would that be?
Penguin Isle?
Isle be going now...
bull shit....
Sure - it is well known it revolves around the Poles....
Must make them very happy in Warsaw.
What precisely is disreputable about them?
Their business practices? I have used them for many years and never had a problem. It may well be that some "disreputable" websites have registered their domain names with them - but I guess most registrars have their fair share of such registrants. I am not sure how far I want registrars policing the content of websites...
Can you be a little more precise as to the nature of your objection to them?
So this missing link links Steve Ballmer with modern man...?
(http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html : lest we forget...)
so near, and yet so far....
> No one said anything about parents using this to get rid of their own kids.
hell, it's an idea though....
Ok, so you are saying that recent American Presidents have not had much frontal lobe activity...
You know, we'd guessed....
The issue isn't "should the Greenwich meridian maintain its importance" (who cares) but rather "do we want the sun to be rising at 4pm in x thousand years". If we remove the link between "time" and the astronomical world - as is being proposed, that is the situation we will face, in the albeit moderately distant future.
My undersatnding is that the major justification being cited is that reseting some older equipment to take account of the leap second requires manual intervention, and that this is a pain.
Of the 13 nominal dns root servers, 5 are distributed using anycast, and a further one is run by WIDE in Tokyo. For this reason most of the physical root servers (as opposed to nominal servers) are already outside the US.
Of the anycast servers, one is run by RIPE from London, another by AUTONOMICA from Sweden.
To all those people saying "build your own" - a lot of the infrastructure is already in place - it wouldn't take much to bring it up to speed.
get laid....
and is that why it's so geeky?