I see big business for North Korea selling the domain name "ba.nk".
This in no way will "fix" the problem. It would however make sure that smaller banks can't get a look in which will help to enforce the monopoly of the large ones... and make a fuck of a lot of money for the people who get to pocket that 50k.
What would be a far better resource would be a firefox plug-in which highlights the part of the name which is the website, so "itsyourbank.obviouslyphishing.co.uk" would highlight the relevant part for figuring out what the actual domain name is that is registered. I've heard someone mention this before but not really seen anything about it
This could be ace for us. They say linux infringes on 235 patents or whatever. If they ever do show us a patent go "yeah, you said before, but then waited... that's against the rules. No deal". Then they can bring forward all they have, and if that is less than 235 we can say "ah, but you already knew about that but didn't tell us. No deal". We could well end up with free shots at patent infringement because of balmer's claims...
The only thing MS could do is admit lying to try and damage a competitors business... and thats as bad as it gets from a PR and Government point of view...
Interesting, but can I ask what use base64 has? I read about it on wikipedia but it left me a little confused - how can it provide any useful encryption if you can just run it through a program which is freely available to gain the plaintext?
So they are trying to take down copyrighted content? Doesn't that mean that they can no longer claim protection from DMCA safe-harbor provisions?
So if someone puts some of my content up without my consent can I sue them? What if it was uploaded by an anonymous person using Tor as a browser registered using fake information for the purpose of suing?...
I'm not poor
I'm not old
I'm on/. and have a wii so I'll assume I'm not a luddite
am I the margin of error?
Having said that I'm glad that they didn't include it, it would have just made it more expensive and given only negligible benefits
but it looks crap because of a huge block of solid colour at the top, which reduces the viewable screen by quite a lot - which makes the whole thing look rubbish. I'm assuming that this is either a linux/firefox thing; which makes me wonder why they didn't test it - it's not like Bill hasn't got a copy he could lend to Steve...
ah, the old 3.1 > 95 switich - everything did seem better, though that was so long ago its hard to remember...
I think that as a consumer/user I am pretty well educated, I can work around most problems within the OS or software and I'm not afraid to use the terminal and really search around for fixes to my problems (although getting suspend to ram whilst using beryl, an Nvidia card, and FC6 has eluded me... and I've not yet figured out how to use pm-utils to sort it). So I'm pretty clued up as a home user. I would still struggle to make a meaningful contribution to the debate about OS flaws... If there is a buffer overflow I just wouldn't know... If a program crashes then it might be anyone of a million reasons that would be hard for me to figure out and even harder for me to report.
OSs are just too complicated for those of us who can't code to accurately diagnose. Bugzilla might help a little, but developers can be a bit scary and abrupt. Bugzilla can also be hard to navigate and file properly (and I think you have to register...) that it becomes a real problem.
Bottom line: most users can't, some could but their contribution would be negligable and there is a lot to put them off, some can make a big contribution - but they are power users
well there is increasing precedent for this... Gary McKinnon broke a law in his country and yet faces extradition to another he has was not in - might be applicable. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon
People already get grabbed for doing things which are not considered serious crimes (lets not forget saying the king is a monkey might be slander in the US) to countries where they will face manifestly severe punishments... This just seems like an extension of this new world order.
I'm using fedora core 6 with beryl on my laptop - it annihilates my battery life... I get about 10 mins tops. Granted this is a moderately old laptop (about 3 years) but without beryl I get about an hour (more if I drop brightness and cpu power)... its a big drop in life. Running XP I could get something similar to what fedora would give me without beryl. Granted I've not tried vista but I would be amazed if it was different to any significant degree to FC6/beryl... it just takes more power.
you could leave and turn them in... but that would really mess up your chances of getting a job anywhere again. you should get your objection in writing to cover your ass and then do it - if it all goes to shit then roll over on the people who over ruled you.
...but we do have a written constitution and a bill of rights - the constitution just isn't codified. We also had these Acts far longer ago than "yesterday", the bill of rights was passed in 1689. The Magna Carta was passed in 1215; this is a very old constitution
Other than that I would say that the lack of monarchical power has caused a few issues with regards to our "elective dictatorship", but you would be a fool to think that this doesn't have popular support. This is something that/. always forgets - people really want this stuff.
Of course if you follow Hobbes then the government is only doing its job when it does this kind of thing; the sovereign only exists to protect us, no matter how invasive this protection is...
I've seen a few excellent posts drawing attention to the fact that this law is target not at end users and one highlighting how anti-piracy is good for open source movements - I agree fully with both these.
I would like to say, however, that I am in favour of criminalising copyright infringement. It is theft, right?... well thats what the BPI/RIAA keeps telling me... Just think about the implications for it though; if it is a crime then there needs to be (unless they make it strict liability) mens rea and actus reus elements strictly defined. The mens rea would have to be set at at least subjective recklessness, which means the prosecution would first have to PROVE (beyond all reasonable doubt) that you thought that the work might have been copyrighted but downloaded it anyway ("oh, i'm sorry officer, I had not given it any thought at all as to whether or not it was copyrighted" would be a good enough defense - see R&G 2003 [HL] for the abolishon of objective recklessness). Then they need to PROVE that it was you who did the act ("well, it is just an ip address, that proves nothing - and I can show you that..." would be a good enough defense)...
And if that doesn't work at least the jails are too full to put anyone away, couple that with judges distaste for being told what to do by anyone (and the fact that most wouldn't see it as a "real" crime) we can expect sentences like "conditional discharge" or "£50 fine and £25 court costs"...
I assume that lightning is a good add-on, but as you say it is far from finished - so far from finished that it wouldn't even let me create a calender when using the xpi on linux with thunderbird 2.0 (the last "next" button just didn't work, so I could only go back or cancel)... I wish that they would get it to version 1.0 because I would be interested to use it along with my google calender (there is an add-on which allows communications between them called provider, if you're interested)
Having said that I wish that thunderbird would just come with a working calender right out of the box... it is so essential for most people and requires such a small amount of space...
Its not systematic, I've only done it on my one system - but at least it is about beryl
Firstly installing was easy enough - on Fedora using yum it went in no probs.
The FAQ on the beryl page was quite useful, you should consider looking at it ( see http://www.beryl-project.org/faq.php )
Nvidia don't make great drivers compatibility wise, so you probably will need to use the copy rendering path, you can select it in the advanced beryl options > rendering path > copy, after clicking on the gem icon (this stops you getting random black screens when you have a few windows open, but does cost some speed)- the devs from nvidia said they are working on it... but don't hold your breath
Themes are pretty easy to get
There are a lot of options to play around with and you can make your system look exactly how you want with a little bit of effort
All in all, its pretty good... give it a go, if you don't like it you can always go back to metacity easily
"On Russian state television, cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin tells journalists in a live video interview from the ISS that "Charles said that a href="http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11258/ 1066/">Bill Gates is also preparing to visit space"."
could it be because some one missed a "" and no one seemed to notice... come on editors! its a work day after all...
I agree with most of your points here, and its good to see people who know that England does have a constitution - I think most people tend to forget that. I would say though that the queen has a very real role to play in the country. As far as I can tell it would be virtually impossible for us ever to get a dictatorship here - if the elected government goes too far (and by that I mean way beyond what they have a legal right to do - you might not agree with him but for the most part Blair has had a mandate for what he's done, and the rest has been within the bounds of legal acceptability) then the queen could remove them. The queen is very popular and I highly doubt that many people would mind if the government had started disappearing people and the queen disolved parliament. Ultimately she has the power to create a civil war (or coup depending on how popular the government is with people who are willing to fight) which might not sound like a good idea but can keep order pretty well
with all due respect, your wrong. If people have a right to look at porn then stopping them is taking away their rights for no reason intrinsic to them. If your 8 year old see that porn, he would obviously have to have looked for it - I've never once seen porn on the net that I wasn't looking for, not even when I was a wee nipper clicking on everything that I got randomly sent to me without considering what it might be (YMMV).
Porn is not everywhere. censorship is not needed.
There is nothing more manifestly perverse than stealing rights for no reason other than "think of the children" - who almost certainly wouldn't be affected anyway.
Also, whats wrong with subjectivity of values anyway?
There is just a couple of points I want to pick up here;
Firstly I wouldn't say that post-Katrina has shown the ability or willingness of the federal system to get things sorted quickly or effectively - but thats by the by...
Secondly I partly agree with your point on sovereignty, you didn't elect them but you did have a say in your government - so they should take primacy. But this point makes it hard to substantiate an argument against North Korea or Iran having nuclear weapons, the people want them and (in the case of Iran) they elected their leaders more than they did the UN. It comes down to the fact that you can't have it both ways. Yes it sucks that you've lost some sovereignty but if you are happy for everyone to lose the same amount then it seems fairer. If you take the view that Iran should have complete self determination and the ability to get nuclear weapons even with belligerent intentions (which I believe but cannot prove they have) then your view is solid - but if you do not then agree then there is a weakness in your view. It's a trade off.
The problem has been the US wanting to have it every way, and thats whats causing the issue.
Finally I would just say that for the most part the WTO is the US's idea on the rule of law anyway... but again, thats by the by.
Bah, what part of "these aren't for the starving people instead of aid" do you not understand? these are for people who have food but lack a complex economy which would be needed to take advantage of the global world's purchasing needs. Maybe if they had these computers they could start to learn SKILLS which will be useful to them in generating money for themselves and their region.
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I see big business for North Korea selling the domain name "ba.nk".
This in no way will "fix" the problem. It would however make sure that smaller banks can't get a look in which will help to enforce the monopoly of the large ones... and make a fuck of a lot of money for the people who get to pocket that 50k.
What would be a far better resource would be a firefox plug-in which highlights the part of the name which is the website, so "itsyourbank.obviouslyphishing.co.uk" would highlight the relevant part for figuring out what the actual domain name is that is registered. I've heard someone mention this before but not really seen anything about it
This could be ace for us. They say linux infringes on 235 patents or whatever. If they ever do show us a patent go "yeah, you said before, but then waited... that's against the rules. No deal". Then they can bring forward all they have, and if that is less than 235 we can say "ah, but you already knew about that but didn't tell us. No deal". We could well end up with free shots at patent infringement because of balmer's claims...
The only thing MS could do is admit lying to try and damage a competitors business... and thats as bad as it gets from a PR and Government point of view...
ah, ok. Thanks for the info.
Interesting, but can I ask what use base64 has? I read about it on wikipedia but it left me a little confused - how can it provide any useful encryption if you can just run it through a program which is freely available to gain the plaintext?
So they are trying to take down copyrighted content? Doesn't that mean that they can no longer claim protection from DMCA safe-harbor provisions?
So if someone puts some of my content up without my consent can I sue them? What if it was uploaded by an anonymous person using Tor as a browser registered using fake information for the purpose of suing?...
This seems like a bad idea.
"I run VMWare player hosting FreeBSD, where I have all the options turned to OFF"
I think you misspelled OpenBSD...
I wonder which category I fit into, lets see...
/. and have a wii so I'll assume I'm not a luddite
I'm not poor
I'm not old
I'm on
am I the margin of error?
Having said that I'm glad that they didn't include it, it would have just made it more expensive and given only negligible benefits
but it looks crap because of a huge block of solid colour at the top, which reduces the viewable screen by quite a lot - which makes the whole thing look rubbish. I'm assuming that this is either a linux/firefox thing; which makes me wonder why they didn't test it - it's not like Bill hasn't got a copy he could lend to Steve...
ah, the old 3.1 > 95 switich - everything did seem better, though that was so long ago its hard to remember...
I think that as a consumer/user I am pretty well educated, I can work around most problems within the OS or software and I'm not afraid to use the terminal and really search around for fixes to my problems (although getting suspend to ram whilst using beryl, an Nvidia card, and FC6 has eluded me... and I've not yet figured out how to use pm-utils to sort it). So I'm pretty clued up as a home user. I would still struggle to make a meaningful contribution to the debate about OS flaws... If there is a buffer overflow I just wouldn't know... If a program crashes then it might be anyone of a million reasons that would be hard for me to figure out and even harder for me to report.
OSs are just too complicated for those of us who can't code to accurately diagnose. Bugzilla might help a little, but developers can be a bit scary and abrupt. Bugzilla can also be hard to navigate and file properly (and I think you have to register...) that it becomes a real problem.
Bottom line: most users can't, some could but their contribution would be negligable and there is a lot to put them off, some can make a big contribution - but they are power users
well there is increasing precedent for this... Gary McKinnon broke a law in his country and yet faces extradition to another he has was not in - might be applicable. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon
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And its not just the UK, Australia has got in on the act... http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/07/0
People already get grabbed for doing things which are not considered serious crimes (lets not forget saying the king is a monkey might be slander in the US) to countries where they will face manifestly severe punishments... This just seems like an extension of this new world order.
I'm using fedora core 6 with beryl on my laptop - it annihilates my battery life... I get about 10 mins tops. Granted this is a moderately old laptop (about 3 years) but without beryl I get about an hour (more if I drop brightness and cpu power)... its a big drop in life. Running XP I could get something similar to what fedora would give me without beryl. Granted I've not tried vista but I would be amazed if it was different to any significant degree to FC6/beryl... it just takes more power.
you could leave and turn them in... but that would really mess up your chances of getting a job anywhere again. you should get your objection in writing to cover your ass and then do it - if it all goes to shit then roll over on the people who over ruled you.
I think your government and companies just got pwnd by the public... don't remember the last time that happened...
...but we do have a written constitution and a bill of rights - the constitution just isn't codified. We also had these Acts far longer ago than "yesterday", the bill of rights was passed in 1689. The Magna Carta was passed in 1215; this is a very old constitution
/. always forgets - people really want this stuff.
Other than that I would say that the lack of monarchical power has caused a few issues with regards to our "elective dictatorship", but you would be a fool to think that this doesn't have popular support. This is something that
Of course if you follow Hobbes then the government is only doing its job when it does this kind of thing; the sovereign only exists to protect us, no matter how invasive this protection is...
I've never had to walk more than 200m to get to vote - maybe if you can't be bothered to make that effort then your vote shouldn't count...
I've seen a few excellent posts drawing attention to the fact that this law is target not at end users and one highlighting how anti-piracy is good for open source movements - I agree fully with both these.
I would like to say, however, that I am in favour of criminalising copyright infringement. It is theft, right?... well thats what the BPI/RIAA keeps telling me... Just think about the implications for it though; if it is a crime then there needs to be (unless they make it strict liability) mens rea and actus reus elements strictly defined. The mens rea would have to be set at at least subjective recklessness, which means the prosecution would first have to PROVE (beyond all reasonable doubt) that you thought that the work might have been copyrighted but downloaded it anyway ("oh, i'm sorry officer, I had not given it any thought at all as to whether or not it was copyrighted" would be a good enough defense - see R&G 2003 [HL] for the abolishon of objective recklessness). Then they need to PROVE that it was you who did the act ("well, it is just an ip address, that proves nothing - and I can show you that..." would be a good enough defense)...
And if that doesn't work at least the jails are too full to put anyone away, couple that with judges distaste for being told what to do by anyone (and the fact that most wouldn't see it as a "real" crime) we can expect sentences like "conditional discharge" or "£50 fine and £25 court costs"...
Bring on the criminal charges!
I assume that lightning is a good add-on, but as you say it is far from finished - so far from finished that it wouldn't even let me create a calender when using the xpi on linux with thunderbird 2.0 (the last "next" button just didn't work, so I could only go back or cancel)... I wish that they would get it to version 1.0 because I would be interested to use it along with my google calender (there is an add-on which allows communications between them called provider, if you're interested)
Having said that I wish that thunderbird would just come with a working calender right out of the box... it is so essential for most people and requires such a small amount of space...
Its not systematic, I've only done it on my one system - but at least it is about beryl
Firstly installing was easy enough - on Fedora using yum it went in no probs.
The FAQ on the beryl page was quite useful, you should consider looking at it ( see http://www.beryl-project.org/faq.php )
Nvidia don't make great drivers compatibility wise, so you probably will need to use the copy rendering path, you can select it in the advanced beryl options > rendering path > copy, after clicking on the gem icon (this stops you getting random black screens when you have a few windows open, but does cost some speed)- the devs from nvidia said they are working on it... but don't hold your breath
Themes are pretty easy to get
There are a lot of options to play around with and you can make your system look exactly how you want with a little bit of effort
All in all, its pretty good... give it a go, if you don't like it you can always go back to metacity easily
and for some reason /. removes square brackets when they are on their own for no reason as well... tut.
why did TFS look like
/ 1066/">Bill Gates is also preparing to visit space"."
"On Russian state television, cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin tells journalists in a live video interview from the ISS that "Charles said that a href="http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/11258
could it be because some one missed a "" and no one seemed to notice... come on editors! its a work day after all...
I agree with most of your points here, and its good to see people who know that England does have a constitution - I think most people tend to forget that. I would say though that the queen has a very real role to play in the country. As far as I can tell it would be virtually impossible for us ever to get a dictatorship here - if the elected government goes too far (and by that I mean way beyond what they have a legal right to do - you might not agree with him but for the most part Blair has had a mandate for what he's done, and the rest has been within the bounds of legal acceptability) then the queen could remove them. The queen is very popular and I highly doubt that many people would mind if the government had started disappearing people and the queen disolved parliament. Ultimately she has the power to create a civil war (or coup depending on how popular the government is with people who are willing to fight) which might not sound like a good idea but can keep order pretty well
with all due respect, your wrong. If people have a right to look at porn then stopping them is taking away their rights for no reason intrinsic to them. If your 8 year old see that porn, he would obviously have to have looked for it - I've never once seen porn on the net that I wasn't looking for, not even when I was a wee nipper clicking on everything that I got randomly sent to me without considering what it might be (YMMV).
Porn is not everywhere. censorship is not needed.
There is nothing more manifestly perverse than stealing rights for no reason other than "think of the children" - who almost certainly wouldn't be affected anyway.
Also, whats wrong with subjectivity of values anyway?
bah, I render in 4 spatial dimensions you insensitive clod!
There is just a couple of points I want to pick up here;
Firstly I wouldn't say that post-Katrina has shown the ability or willingness of the federal system to get things sorted quickly or effectively - but thats by the by...
Secondly I partly agree with your point on sovereignty, you didn't elect them but you did have a say in your government - so they should take primacy. But this point makes it hard to substantiate an argument against North Korea or Iran having nuclear weapons, the people want them and (in the case of Iran) they elected their leaders more than they did the UN. It comes down to the fact that you can't have it both ways. Yes it sucks that you've lost some sovereignty but if you are happy for everyone to lose the same amount then it seems fairer. If you take the view that Iran should have complete self determination and the ability to get nuclear weapons even with belligerent intentions (which I believe but cannot prove they have) then your view is solid - but if you do not then agree then there is a weakness in your view. It's a trade off.
The problem has been the US wanting to have it every way, and thats whats causing the issue.
Finally I would just say that for the most part the WTO is the US's idea on the rule of law anyway... but again, thats by the by.
Bah, what part of "these aren't for the starving people instead of aid" do you not understand? these are for people who have food but lack a complex economy which would be needed to take advantage of the global world's purchasing needs. Maybe if they had these computers they could start to learn SKILLS which will be useful to them in generating money for themselves and their region.