In the modern era, you don't need a physical presence to get the word out. Sure not having a physical presence in a part of the world is detrimental, but as long as there's places to hide out and put the information out there it could be worse.
And for the first years of the automobile, the government didn't issue licenses for that either. Then the number of vehicles increased as did their top speed and the government stepped in. This isn't that much different, sure you're not going to be killed or maimed, but the vast majority of people on the net have demonstrated themselves to be unable or unwilling to stop clicking the shinies long enough to get even a reasonable level of security in place on their machines.
If the government doesn't, who will? The only other group I can think of is the ISPs, and I trust them significantly less than I trust the government. Personally, my preference would either be throttling or putting some sort of a letter of some sort on them. Perhaps a shade of red, that way people will know to stay away.
Depending upon the specifics, it's not that much more secure than WEP was when it was introduced. I think the take home on that is that perhaps involving qualified crypto experts and security experts to design that part of the specification is a good thing. Sure it's never going to be 100% secure, but it's almost laughable how quickly the protection turns out to be easily breached.
Well, considering this is a tax payer funded venture, the answer is as little as possible without making things ridiculous. Meaning that there should be an eye to keeping things as simple as possible, while still being convenient. The whole thing ought to be collapsed down to a small number of subsites within a larger site. The navigational schemes ought to largely be homogenized so that folks don't have to move there mouse all over the screen to find a menu. And there should be a convenient search tool.
If they did it in that fashion, they would end up spending money. They could spend money on a single usability study and apply the results to more or less all the pages, then spread the developers out using the same tools for all the pieces necessary. Probably even be able to keep a steady number of developers on maintaining things rather than needing each department to have it's own set of developers.
It's a good idea that they're paring things back and hopefully reducing the number of sites that are necessary. Here in the US, WA to be more specific, our state government did that some years back. They cut it back to just one website, with sub domains for various parts of the government. The basic idea was that pretty much any idea should be no more than a handful of clicks away from the front page of the site. And if you couldn't do that you should be able to click on a unified search engine that could find any state resource in minimal time.
Admittedly, it's not perfect, but I've found it to be an efficient way of finding information on state government. And it actually does a better job than many corporate sites do in terms of accessibility.
I have to agree with Khyber, this is a technology site for nerds, if they can't actually get the engine to work properly with the subset of Greek characters with legitimate use, then they need to start over and do it right. Or at least bring in somebody that knows what they're doing. Worst case is they can introduce a proper token to embed them into the post.
You're always going to find that happening when one group thinks that it's above the law. The Mormons are currently being taken to task for violations of campaign finance laws, on top of using their tax exempt money to fund a blatantly partisan political cause. There's going to be a fringe element that reacts to such with violence.
However, it's a much smaller number of people than on the other side engage in petty bigotry and hate crimes. It's somewhat offensive to imply that the cases you cite are more common than the other way around. It would be somewhat more accurate to point out that it cuts both ways and that stifling the rights of the group because of what a small minority might do is exactly the sort of cowardice that our founding fathers sought to avoid. If you haven't the courage to stick up for your beliefs against that possibility, then you damned well don't believe it well enough to sign the paper.
Citation needed. In Washington state all government files with the exception of some judicial files and those explicitly exempted are publicly disclosed. I may have missed it, but I did not see any listing for initiative signatures in the exemptions. Meaning that it's not given an exemption. The Secretary of State kept them sealed while waiting on a verdict, normally it would've been released a long time ago.
Ultimately, these are important to have access to because I'd be pissed beyond belief if somebody forged my signature onto the list to make it appear as if there were enough signatures to vote on.
The problem is that the effects of smoking go way beyond what this research can assist with. And I'm assuming that it can be made viable in the relative near future. The reality is that it's hard to find a part of the body which isn't impacted in one way or another by cigarettes. Increasingly it's looking like any contact with the chemicals in smoke whether second of third hand is unhealthy.
When you consider all the problems in the world, solving smoking in any other way that preventing it is a waste of time and energy. Fix it as best you can for those that smoke, but invest the resources in things which are actually helpful, rather than enabling bad behavior.
I know you're kidding, but the lungs are hardly the only part of the body damaged by smoking. In fact it's relatively hard to find a part of the body which isn't impacted in one way or another by smoking.
The problem with the Simpsons lately is that they've been on the air so long that all the shows I've seen in the last few years, which admittedly isn't many, are mostly rehashes of previous shows. Sure they don't do the same things, but most of the gags and jokes are variations on ones that we've already seen. Sure they still elicit a laugh or two, but it's clearly a show that should've been canceled for its own good.
Probably the fact that it was on Fox. Fox has a pretty well established reputation for dooming shows via incompetent scheduling and unrealistic expectations. I can pretty much guarantee that had Seinfeld been on Fox it would've been canceled before the second season. I'm not personally a fan of that show, but most of the fans seem to agree that it got funnier the more episodes you saw. Had Fox bought it they would never have allowed it to get big before canceling it.
Fortunately now that shows are available on DVD shortly after or even while still being produced, people do have some ability to say that they want that show back. Which is sort of what has given Family Guy the ability to come back from the dead twice.
Personally, I love both series. (Well, I loved the Simpsons from like season 5 or so to season 15, it wasn't very good outside that range. But Futurama definitely takes a much keener intellect to really appreciate. There's a lot of references that require considerable education at times to really appreciate. And even with that it often takes several viewings to really notice most of what's going on.
shocked that this is considered news. I thought that pretty much everybody knew that Bill Gates has basically zero involvement with MS since he retired from MS and left that chimp Balmer running things.
Contrary to popular opinion, being sick of work is a legitimate reason to take a sick day. There's numerous legitimate illnesses that come from working too many days without a three day weekend or vacation.
While, mandating a 6 week paid vacation for every employee is, in my opinion, going too far, it's absurd that there isn't a legislated right to at least a week or two of paid vacation. Productivity would most likely even go up were that to be enacted.
And newer phones with the auto-update support won't auto-update if there's been a change in the permissions that the program is trying to get. Assuming nobody finds a way around that, there's not really a whole lot more that could be done without going through an onerous task of extensively testing every app in the market. And ditching the option to install from elsewhere.
Right, and sometimes the permissions are for things you don't need, but are used by the end user from time to time. Such as the ability to look up a phone number and then call it from the app itself. Having an app do that would likely get it listed as being able to make phone calls.
If any change is needed, it would be nice to either be able to deny just the functionality you don't want to allow or be given a pop up before it does so. I'm not sure that the latter doesn't happen as it hasn't been an issue so far.
I have and a fair number of them work well under Crossover if need be. Any of the ones that come bundled with dosbox can relatively easily be unbundled into a directory suitable for dosbox. I haven't done it in a while, but you extract the files from the exe and then use the included configuration files that GoG has put together for use with the game.
I've had more than a little luck with the more recent versions via Crossover. I know that in some cases you have to do some tweaking and can't run them in full screen, but there's a fair amount of advice out there and more as people add to it. If we're lucky perhaps GoG will contribute c4p files for their catalog.
To a limited extent we did prosecute those involved with Abu Ghraib, just not any of the individual officers that were looking the other way, negligent in failing to notice it or ordering it.
Without actually going up the chain of command, any sense of responsibility is pretty much non-existent.
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In the modern era, you don't need a physical presence to get the word out. Sure not having a physical presence in a part of the world is detrimental, but as long as there's places to hide out and put the information out there it could be worse.
Indeed, they could've made it suck less, but with only one company controlling it, there wasn't really any chance that it wouldn't suck.
Weren't you paying attention? He said that it's a black book.
And for the first years of the automobile, the government didn't issue licenses for that either. Then the number of vehicles increased as did their top speed and the government stepped in. This isn't that much different, sure you're not going to be killed or maimed, but the vast majority of people on the net have demonstrated themselves to be unable or unwilling to stop clicking the shinies long enough to get even a reasonable level of security in place on their machines.
If the government doesn't, who will? The only other group I can think of is the ISPs, and I trust them significantly less than I trust the government. Personally, my preference would either be throttling or putting some sort of a letter of some sort on them. Perhaps a shade of red, that way people will know to stay away.
Depending upon the specifics, it's not that much more secure than WEP was when it was introduced. I think the take home on that is that perhaps involving qualified crypto experts and security experts to design that part of the specification is a good thing. Sure it's never going to be 100% secure, but it's almost laughable how quickly the protection turns out to be easily breached.
Well, considering this is a tax payer funded venture, the answer is as little as possible without making things ridiculous. Meaning that there should be an eye to keeping things as simple as possible, while still being convenient. The whole thing ought to be collapsed down to a small number of subsites within a larger site. The navigational schemes ought to largely be homogenized so that folks don't have to move there mouse all over the screen to find a menu. And there should be a convenient search tool.
If they did it in that fashion, they would end up spending money. They could spend money on a single usability study and apply the results to more or less all the pages, then spread the developers out using the same tools for all the pieces necessary. Probably even be able to keep a steady number of developers on maintaining things rather than needing each department to have it's own set of developers.
It's a good idea that they're paring things back and hopefully reducing the number of sites that are necessary. Here in the US, WA to be more specific, our state government did that some years back. They cut it back to just one website, with sub domains for various parts of the government. The basic idea was that pretty much any idea should be no more than a handful of clicks away from the front page of the site. And if you couldn't do that you should be able to click on a unified search engine that could find any state resource in minimal time.
Admittedly, it's not perfect, but I've found it to be an efficient way of finding information on state government. And it actually does a better job than many corporate sites do in terms of accessibility.
That's unsurprising while being less bloated makes things snappier, it helps little for high end gaming.
I have to agree with Khyber, this is a technology site for nerds, if they can't actually get the engine to work properly with the subset of Greek characters with legitimate use, then they need to start over and do it right. Or at least bring in somebody that knows what they're doing. Worst case is they can introduce a proper token to embed them into the post.
You're always going to find that happening when one group thinks that it's above the law. The Mormons are currently being taken to task for violations of campaign finance laws, on top of using their tax exempt money to fund a blatantly partisan political cause. There's going to be a fringe element that reacts to such with violence.
However, it's a much smaller number of people than on the other side engage in petty bigotry and hate crimes. It's somewhat offensive to imply that the cases you cite are more common than the other way around. It would be somewhat more accurate to point out that it cuts both ways and that stifling the rights of the group because of what a small minority might do is exactly the sort of cowardice that our founding fathers sought to avoid. If you haven't the courage to stick up for your beliefs against that possibility, then you damned well don't believe it well enough to sign the paper.
Citation needed. In Washington state all government files with the exception of some judicial files and those explicitly exempted are publicly disclosed. I may have missed it, but I did not see any listing for initiative signatures in the exemptions. Meaning that it's not given an exemption. The Secretary of State kept them sealed while waiting on a verdict, normally it would've been released a long time ago.
Ultimately, these are important to have access to because I'd be pissed beyond belief if somebody forged my signature onto the list to make it appear as if there were enough signatures to vote on.
It's oddly ironic that /. doesn't allow such nerdy things as Greek letters and proper SI units.
They were confused. It's MS' supposed open format from 6 years in the future that requires a mainframe to run. Oh, wait, I wasn't sup
The problem is that the effects of smoking go way beyond what this research can assist with. And I'm assuming that it can be made viable in the relative near future. The reality is that it's hard to find a part of the body which isn't impacted in one way or another by cigarettes. Increasingly it's looking like any contact with the chemicals in smoke whether second of third hand is unhealthy.
When you consider all the problems in the world, solving smoking in any other way that preventing it is a waste of time and energy. Fix it as best you can for those that smoke, but invest the resources in things which are actually helpful, rather than enabling bad behavior.
I know you're kidding, but the lungs are hardly the only part of the body damaged by smoking. In fact it's relatively hard to find a part of the body which isn't impacted in one way or another by smoking.
The problem with the Simpsons lately is that they've been on the air so long that all the shows I've seen in the last few years, which admittedly isn't many, are mostly rehashes of previous shows. Sure they don't do the same things, but most of the gags and jokes are variations on ones that we've already seen. Sure they still elicit a laugh or two, but it's clearly a show that should've been canceled for its own good.
Probably the fact that it was on Fox. Fox has a pretty well established reputation for dooming shows via incompetent scheduling and unrealistic expectations. I can pretty much guarantee that had Seinfeld been on Fox it would've been canceled before the second season. I'm not personally a fan of that show, but most of the fans seem to agree that it got funnier the more episodes you saw. Had Fox bought it they would never have allowed it to get big before canceling it.
Fortunately now that shows are available on DVD shortly after or even while still being produced, people do have some ability to say that they want that show back. Which is sort of what has given Family Guy the ability to come back from the dead twice.
That's no fair you changed the number by counting them.
Personally, I love both series. (Well, I loved the Simpsons from like season 5 or so to season 15, it wasn't very good outside that range. But Futurama definitely takes a much keener intellect to really appreciate. There's a lot of references that require considerable education at times to really appreciate. And even with that it often takes several viewings to really notice most of what's going on.
shocked that this is considered news. I thought that pretty much everybody knew that Bill Gates has basically zero involvement with MS since he retired from MS and left that chimp Balmer running things.
Contrary to popular opinion, being sick of work is a legitimate reason to take a sick day. There's numerous legitimate illnesses that come from working too many days without a three day weekend or vacation.
While, mandating a 6 week paid vacation for every employee is, in my opinion, going too far, it's absurd that there isn't a legislated right to at least a week or two of paid vacation. Productivity would most likely even go up were that to be enacted.
And newer phones with the auto-update support won't auto-update if there's been a change in the permissions that the program is trying to get. Assuming nobody finds a way around that, there's not really a whole lot more that could be done without going through an onerous task of extensively testing every app in the market. And ditching the option to install from elsewhere.
Right, and sometimes the permissions are for things you don't need, but are used by the end user from time to time. Such as the ability to look up a phone number and then call it from the app itself. Having an app do that would likely get it listed as being able to make phone calls.
If any change is needed, it would be nice to either be able to deny just the functionality you don't want to allow or be given a pop up before it does so. I'm not sure that the latter doesn't happen as it hasn't been an issue so far.
I have and a fair number of them work well under Crossover if need be. Any of the ones that come bundled with dosbox can relatively easily be unbundled into a directory suitable for dosbox. I haven't done it in a while, but you extract the files from the exe and then use the included configuration files that GoG has put together for use with the game.
I've had more than a little luck with the more recent versions via Crossover. I know that in some cases you have to do some tweaking and can't run them in full screen, but there's a fair amount of advice out there and more as people add to it. If we're lucky perhaps GoG will contribute c4p files for their catalog.
To a limited extent we did prosecute those involved with Abu Ghraib, just not any of the individual officers that were looking the other way, negligent in failing to notice it or ordering it.
Without actually going up the chain of command, any sense of responsibility is pretty much non-existent.