I agree, which is why they need Firefox with adblock and, maybe, NoScript. This allows the internet to be viewed easily and safely without any fuss... if you don't want tabs - don't use them. You don't have to.
If people really can't think beyond just the absolute easiest thing you can do in a situation then they'd be running IE. It seems to offer all the features that you describe and seems to be (from my very limited windows experience) that IE is better than safari
Elephant dreams was good, but it was really more of a "here's what we can do" rather than a film. I watched the HD version (which was nice to be able to get) and was really impressed. It wasn't really a film though in the sense of story progression, more of a trailer for the technology. I hope that the new film will be film length. The person whose doing it sounds good though, they won an award for their previous project... hopefully it'll be a good film
I was pleased to read about how they handled staffing issues, with help and support for the people to retrain and time off to train in their own time and to get good qualifications. That's just good management. Bringing people to open source software will probably need initiatives like this to reassure people that the skills that they have won't now be wasted...
you are right about trespass because even if they were given permission to enter the church can still argue that the permission which was given did not extend to that activity (and most judges follow the C of E anyway, so there is probably a bias...). A guy was arrested for a "9(1)a" and "b" burglary when he went into his fathers house and nicked the TV - this rested on the idea that he was a trespasser because his father would not have wanted him to do that, and as such he didn't have real permission to enter.
Another option is blasphemous liable, that might be a bit harder to argue though because the House of Lords just made that up in the "Lemon and gay news" case (if I remember correctly). It might be possible to say that they implied that shooting in a church was something which wasn't wrong under all circumstances...
Or the House of Lords could just make another law...
I'm a license payer, I've tried to email them about the content not working with open formats and needed real player/WMP. I simply don't understand why they don't allow it to work with Helix player or even provide it as an ogg download so that it would be really easy to play it in linux through mplayer.
The automated response I got threatened to sue me if I told anyone the contents in a way which I'm pretty sure isn't legal (but i'm used to being threatened by the BBC...). I never got a real reply. Over the summer I was considering writing one letter a week... but it would be so much more effective if we could organise such as that every morning they had at least 200 letters on the matter...
Despite the fact that this is such an obvious dupe...
I wonder about EULA if there was no way that you could have read it, if it would still be taken as being binding (if it can be at all, but someone last time suggested they might be). For example if you were registered blind (which can include very poor vision, at least in the UK) and windows asks you to agree to a EULA, you can see just enough to see there is something on the screen but without a screen reader (which you would need to install after accepting the EULA), you would have no idea what was going on. Here it would seem like randomly pressing things until something happened is a good solution. So you could accept even if there was no way you could have known...
In this situation would they not be in violation of disability legislation?
yes they are insecure, but someone needs to break into your computer before they can have access to it - and if they've already broken in it wouldn't be too hard to install a key logger.
If password managers allow you to have strong passwords and different ones for each thing then they give more security than they risk, I think.
But they would need to be really fast to get the application in, and it would surely need not to mention the actual product, right? Because if they said "a method for preventing a macro hole in Word from executing", or something, wouldn't MS be able to sue on the grounds of reverse engineering/ copyright/ their own patents.
I kinda feel that this wouldn't really be practical.
Not seen that myself in the UK. In our area when shops to get them they put big signs outside saying "Wii now in stock", they had that outside for a grad total of 3 hours before they'd had to take them down because they'd sold them all.
That doesn't seem like they are struggling to sell them to me.
Also, I just spent the whole of today playing on my wii - so I've not left it untouched for months
you'll have to post a screen shot... I'm using firefox on fedora with ad block, filterset-G, no script, no flash installed... I didn't see a giant pop-up.
"[G]overnment's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
Reagan, Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business, August 15, 1986
wow, an impressive dupe, and even less information than before!
Still, I think that an internet tax is a pretty stupid idea; it'll make municipal wifi harder to do because the taxes would have to be added to the general burden, which people wouldn't like. Not to mention that it'll disproportionately hit the poorer members of society (in proportion of income terms), which makes the tax seem pretty unjust... Although it will give your congress a good opportunity to draw in billions extra which will almost certainly be wasted...
The FUD has already started... like the comment you just posted.
For pretty much any company the new GPL will work pretty much like the old one. If you've never used the GPL in bad faith then there will almost certainly be benefits for you (or at least no draw-backs). This will only have an effect on those who used the GPL in bad faith (like Tivo), who we should hope we can either make put up (ie. do something good for the community) or shut up (stop using our work in a way we didn't want).
what was the rationale behind merging core and extras? I've never found it to be a problem as an end user. Is this solely a developer centered thing?
Also I don't suppose anyone knows how many CDs you actually need to download to get a workable OS and just get the applications through yum, for FC6 it was just two... that would be good
firstly, don't pay £40 for games, I got the new mario football game for under £30 just the other day off ASDAs site - if you shop around you'll never have to pay more than £35 (Amazon is cheap...). Other than that Mario does have online play, so get that.
There will be more online games as time goes by but I'm not convinced that its even desirable to have online play on all games... I've got it on quite a few DS games and don't use it that often at all.
From his site, and I quote "Javascript is in use by roughly 95% of the browsers on the Internet and is considered safe." - how many nerds would consider that statement true?... Don't all shout at once...
Javascript being demanded by websites is whats wrong with the internet, well, that and flash
...I go to the University of Warwick, and we have this already. There are RFID chips in our library cards which we have to use to go into the library, take out books, the learning grid (its a 24/7 mini-library and work area that they've packed full of buzz-words...) or sports center. They are also used to give variable access to departmental buildings when they are not "open", as it were. For example if you are a statistics student you can get into that departments building at 3 in the morning but you can't get into social sciences.
These are passive and so give me little reason to be worried (although I do have a sheet of metal in my wallet anyway, just in case). They also provide pretty much all the benefits of an active chip without as much of a feeling that they are doing some weird prying into your life.
Having said that this system didn't stop my friend from having £180 charged to him because someone stole his library card and took out 10 books on it... having active cards could just make that problem far worse -
Security: "It seems the fire was started by you, Scott"
Scott: "But I was at home on my own all night"
Security: "Tell it to the police, and in the mean time you've been kicked out - read the University ToS, we can kick you out whenever for whatever reason"
Scott: "Bugger..."
If I had the ability to trade iPods for Zunes I'd be pretty happy - VERY old iPod on eBay? £20. New Zune? flog on eBay for about £50... thats a good deal.
If I could buy and sell turds for that price I'd be happy, let alone a Zune!
The new GPL - which will undermine all of M$'s FUD claims over patents because of Novell's vouchers not having dates on them - is thought to be bad by some who was paid by... M$! I'm shocked.
I'm also more shocked, genuinely that Harvard allows people who conduct "studies" like this to be professors... It's just shocking incompetence. I'd be amazed if you could pass an MBA doing shit like this
"Unless you're running SE Linux like a bat out of hell"
You say it like there is something wrong with running SE Linux or that it will make your experience of Linux worse. I run it and I've only ever had one problem which we managed to diagnose and file a bugzilla report which got it fixed within 4 days... not bad really. I can honestly recommend it for everyone.
I do see the problem though which you mention, namely that you can still do enough damage whilst running as user - especially because it could copy the/home/user/.thunderbird/signons.txt (or whatever its called) and the/home/user/.pidgin/accounts (or whatever...) and send those on, which would certainly cause a problem for most users...
This seems to be an issue which the community could do with dealing with
I'm happy Mozilla is making a nice amount of money, that's really the point we are trying to make with the GPL isn't it? you can still be commercially viable and open source - don't fear it...
I would also say that there is no danger for the community, it'd be really easy to fork it if things really got that bad... hell, we already have Ice Weasel...
Life isn't a zero-sum game, we can both benefit. If I give you an idea for a cold fusion device which works and you use that idea you have benefited, you might make a billion in selling technology that you created from my idea but someone would be able to improve on your design and maybe make a better product and make money too. Everyone is winning, but what about me? Well I get to live in a world in which energy is clean and efficient - and thats a pretty big win.
If someone makes a product from my idea I win by living in a world where that product is made
I agree completely. I would just add a quote I heard some time ago...
"If I have an apple and and you have an apple and we swap we will each have one apple. If I have an idea and you have an idea and we swap we now each have two ideas."
Surely this is how intellectual "property" should work.
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I agree, which is why they need Firefox with adblock and, maybe, NoScript. This allows the internet to be viewed easily and safely without any fuss... if you don't want tabs - don't use them. You don't have to.
If people really can't think beyond just the absolute easiest thing you can do in a situation then they'd be running IE. It seems to offer all the features that you describe and seems to be (from my very limited windows experience) that IE is better than safari
Elephant dreams was good, but it was really more of a "here's what we can do" rather than a film. I watched the HD version (which was nice to be able to get) and was really impressed. It wasn't really a film though in the sense of story progression, more of a trailer for the technology. I hope that the new film will be film length. The person whose doing it sounds good though, they won an award for their previous project... hopefully it'll be a good film
I was pleased to read about how they handled staffing issues, with help and support for the people to retrain and time off to train in their own time and to get good qualifications. That's just good management. Bringing people to open source software will probably need initiatives like this to reassure people that the skills that they have won't now be wasted...
Good effort by them.
you are right about trespass because even if they were given permission to enter the church can still argue that the permission which was given did not extend to that activity (and most judges follow the C of E anyway, so there is probably a bias...). A guy was arrested for a "9(1)a" and "b" burglary when he went into his fathers house and nicked the TV - this rested on the idea that he was a trespasser because his father would not have wanted him to do that, and as such he didn't have real permission to enter.
Another option is blasphemous liable, that might be a bit harder to argue though because the House of Lords just made that up in the "Lemon and gay news" case (if I remember correctly). It might be possible to say that they implied that shooting in a church was something which wasn't wrong under all circumstances...
Or the House of Lords could just make another law...
I'm a license payer, I've tried to email them about the content not working with open formats and needed real player/WMP. I simply don't understand why they don't allow it to work with Helix player or even provide it as an ogg download so that it would be really easy to play it in linux through mplayer.
The automated response I got threatened to sue me if I told anyone the contents in a way which I'm pretty sure isn't legal (but i'm used to being threatened by the BBC...). I never got a real reply. Over the summer I was considering writing one letter a week... but it would be so much more effective if we could organise such as that every morning they had at least 200 letters on the matter...
Despite the fact that this is such an obvious dupe...
I wonder about EULA if there was no way that you could have read it, if it would still be taken as being binding (if it can be at all, but someone last time suggested they might be). For example if you were registered blind (which can include very poor vision, at least in the UK) and windows asks you to agree to a EULA, you can see just enough to see there is something on the screen but without a screen reader (which you would need to install after accepting the EULA), you would have no idea what was going on. Here it would seem like randomly pressing things until something happened is a good solution. So you could accept even if there was no way you could have known...
In this situation would they not be in violation of disability legislation?
yes they are insecure, but someone needs to break into your computer before they can have access to it - and if they've already broken in it wouldn't be too hard to install a key logger.
If password managers allow you to have strong passwords and different ones for each thing then they give more security than they risk, I think.
But they would need to be really fast to get the application in, and it would surely need not to mention the actual product, right? Because if they said "a method for preventing a macro hole in Word from executing", or something, wouldn't MS be able to sue on the grounds of reverse engineering/ copyright/ their own patents.
I kinda feel that this wouldn't really be practical.
Not seen that myself in the UK. In our area when shops to get them they put big signs outside saying "Wii now in stock", they had that outside for a grad total of 3 hours before they'd had to take them down because they'd sold them all.
That doesn't seem like they are struggling to sell them to me.
Also, I just spent the whole of today playing on my wii - so I've not left it untouched for months
you'll have to post a screen shot... I'm using firefox on fedora with ad block, filterset-G, no script, no flash installed... I didn't see a giant pop-up.
"[G]overnment's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
Reagan, Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business, August 15, 1986
wow, an impressive dupe, and even less information than before!
Still, I think that an internet tax is a pretty stupid idea; it'll make municipal wifi harder to do because the taxes would have to be added to the general burden, which people wouldn't like. Not to mention that it'll disproportionately hit the poorer members of society (in proportion of income terms), which makes the tax seem pretty unjust... Although it will give your congress a good opportunity to draw in billions extra which will almost certainly be wasted...
The FUD has already started... like the comment you just posted.
For pretty much any company the new GPL will work pretty much like the old one. If you've never used the GPL in bad faith then there will almost certainly be benefits for you (or at least no draw-backs). This will only have an effect on those who used the GPL in bad faith (like Tivo), who we should hope we can either make put up (ie. do something good for the community) or shut up (stop using our work in a way we didn't want).
James: GPL gooood, Tivo baaad
450K should be enough for anyone!
what was the rationale behind merging core and extras? I've never found it to be a problem as an end user. Is this solely a developer centered thing?
Also I don't suppose anyone knows how many CDs you actually need to download to get a workable OS and just get the applications through yum, for FC6 it was just two... that would be good
firstly, don't pay £40 for games, I got the new mario football game for under £30 just the other day off ASDAs site - if you shop around you'll never have to pay more than £35 (Amazon is cheap...). Other than that Mario does have online play, so get that.
There will be more online games as time goes by but I'm not convinced that its even desirable to have online play on all games... I've got it on quite a few DS games and don't use it that often at all.
No thanks...
From his site, and I quote "Javascript is in use by roughly 95% of the browsers on the Internet and is considered safe." - how many nerds would consider that statement true?... Don't all shout at once...
Javascript being demanded by websites is whats wrong with the internet, well, that and flash
...I go to the University of Warwick, and we have this already. There are RFID chips in our library cards which we have to use to go into the library, take out books, the learning grid (its a 24/7 mini-library and work area that they've packed full of buzz-words...) or sports center. They are also used to give variable access to departmental buildings when they are not "open", as it were. For example if you are a statistics student you can get into that departments building at 3 in the morning but you can't get into social sciences.
These are passive and so give me little reason to be worried (although I do have a sheet of metal in my wallet anyway, just in case). They also provide pretty much all the benefits of an active chip without as much of a feeling that they are doing some weird prying into your life.
Having said that this system didn't stop my friend from having £180 charged to him because someone stole his library card and took out 10 books on it... having active cards could just make that problem far worse -
Security: "It seems the fire was started by you, Scott"
Scott: "But I was at home on my own all night"
Security: "Tell it to the police, and in the mean time you've been kicked out - read the University ToS, we can kick you out whenever for whatever reason"
Scott: "Bugger..."
If I had the ability to trade iPods for Zunes I'd be pretty happy - VERY old iPod on eBay? £20. New Zune? flog on eBay for about £50... thats a good deal.
If I could buy and sell turds for that price I'd be happy, let alone a Zune!
The new GPL - which will undermine all of M$'s FUD claims over patents because of Novell's vouchers not having dates on them - is thought to be bad by some who was paid by... M$! I'm shocked.
I'm also more shocked, genuinely that Harvard allows people who conduct "studies" like this to be professors... It's just shocking incompetence. I'd be amazed if you could pass an MBA doing shit like this
"Unless you're running SE Linux like a bat out of hell"
/home/user/.thunderbird/signons.txt (or whatever its called) and the /home/user/.pidgin/accounts (or whatever...) and send those on, which would certainly cause a problem for most users...
You say it like there is something wrong with running SE Linux or that it will make your experience of Linux worse. I run it and I've only ever had one problem which we managed to diagnose and file a bugzilla report which got it fixed within 4 days... not bad really. I can honestly recommend it for everyone.
I do see the problem though which you mention, namely that you can still do enough damage whilst running as user - especially because it could copy the
This seems to be an issue which the community could do with dealing with
"(And as a by-product he gets page views of course.)"
/. works or he doesn't... he'll have only generated 2 page hits; the submitter and you. No one else here has RTFA.
Either you don't get how
I'm happy Mozilla is making a nice amount of money, that's really the point we are trying to make with the GPL isn't it? you can still be commercially viable and open source - don't fear it...
I would also say that there is no danger for the community, it'd be really easy to fork it if things really got that bad... hell, we already have Ice Weasel...
Life isn't a zero-sum game, we can both benefit. If I give you an idea for a cold fusion device which works and you use that idea you have benefited, you might make a billion in selling technology that you created from my idea but someone would be able to improve on your design and maybe make a better product and make money too. Everyone is winning, but what about me? Well I get to live in a world in which energy is clean and efficient - and thats a pretty big win.
If someone makes a product from my idea I win by living in a world where that product is made
I agree completely. I would just add a quote I heard some time ago...
"If I have an apple and and you have an apple and we swap we will each have one apple. If I have an idea and you have an idea and we swap we now each have two ideas."
Surely this is how intellectual "property" should work.