Thanks for the recommendation of that documentary. I just watched it on Google video, and while I knew that US gov't/media propaganda against Chavez was bad, I didn't know enough about it to realize it was that bad.
The film really shows in graphic detail how significantly a corrupt media can affect a country. It really hits home. Though I don't know if the American people would be strong enough to regain their Constitutionally-guaranteed rights as the Venezuelan people were.
Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this act, there has been no outcry in the American media, and little reaction from our elected officials in Congress. On September 19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) noted that 2007's Defense Authorization Act contained a "widely opposed provision to allow the President more control over the National Guard [adopting] changes to the Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for this or any future President to use the military to restore domestic order WITHOUT the consent of the nation's governors."
Senator Leahy went on to stress that, "we certainly do not need to make it easier for Presidents to declare martial law. Invoking the Insurrection Act and using the military for law enforcement activities goes against some of the central tenets of our democracy. One can easily envision governors and mayors in charge of an emergency having to constantly look over their shoulders while someone who has never visited their communities gives the orders."
A few weeks later, on the 29th of September, Leahy entered into the Congressional Record that he had "grave reservations about certain provisions of the fiscal Year 2007 Defense Authorization Bill Conference Report," the language of which, he said, "subverts solid, longstanding posse comitatus statutes that limit the military's involvement in law enforcement, thereby making it easier for the President to declare martial law." This had been "slipped in," Leahy said, "as a rider with little study," while "other congressional committees with jurisdiction over these matters had no chance to comment, let alone hold hearings on, these proposals."
In a telling bit of understatement, the Senator from Vermont noted that "the implications of changing the (Posse Comitatus) Act are enormous". "There is good reason," he said, "for the constructive friction in existing law when it comes to martial law declarations. Using the military for law enforcement goes against one of the founding tenets of our democracy. We fail our Constitution, neglecting the rights of the States, when we make it easier for the President to declare martial law and trample on local and state sovereignty."
Senator Leahy's final ruminations: "Since hearing word a couple of weeks ago that this outcome was likely, I have wondered how Congress could have gotten to this point. It seems the changes to the Insurrection Act have survived the Conference because the Pentagon and the White House want it."
It seems Leahy was objecting to the bill. Your favorite news source just didn't tell you he was.
I would rather use a program such as QTFairUse which doesn't lose any sound quality.
And I'd rather use FairUse4WM than QTFairUse. It is much faster because it's a standalone decrypter that doesn't rely on iTunes API or hooking into the iTunes process. At least 4x faster, subjectively and IIRC. It also doesn't require a reencode because it's just removing the DRM.
I'd guess that the only use for AnalogWhole is for files that for some reason don't work with FairUse4WM.
That may mean to consolidate existing services as well, to avoid confusing and diluting the market. For example, Writely and Google Spreadsheets combined to become Google Docs & Spreadsheets. That makes 50% less Google office products. Similarly, things like Froogle and Google Base could combine to become one shopping service.
Just FYI: prefetching is never bad. You should never follow the advice of those lame tweaking sites to clean out your prefetch. Over time, as you frequently access programs in a certain order, XP learns that order and frequency and reorders the files on disk. Cleaning it out can never help, and can often hurt performance.
SP2 slipstreamed also seems faster to me than a fully-loaded RTM, but that's likely because of all the other 3rd party crap that I install over time on a system. There should be a small performance benefit of a less fragmented disk when you slipstream as well.
Microsoft's Answer: display as a normal website with prettier formatting - and advertisements.
Yeah, it really surprised me the first time I saw IE's RSS page rendering when I was testing my own Drupal-based site. I thought at first that Drupal had applied a CSS or XSL transformation to it, and wondered where that code came from.
It's kinda cool that they use the categories supplied with the items to generate a menu though. It works very well with Drupal's feeds (the menu on the right).
browser.tabs.closeButtons 0 = close button on active tab browser.tabs.closeButtons 1 = default, close button on all tabs browser.tabs.closeButtons 2 = no close buttons browser.tabs.closeButtons 3 = Fx 1.x style, one close button on right
It updates instantly so you can try them all out and find the one you like. I like 2 because I use an extra mouse button to close tabs instead of the close buttons.
My post is a partial dupe of a post further down. Rather than have people mod me redundant because they see me getting a lot of karma for a dupe, I'd rather they mod the AC post up if they want the links near the article to alleviate some of the bandwidth problems from this early leak. I don't deserve karma for a dupe.
But that's exactly it. With the internet they are choosing to buy the Super Premium Deluxe Cable package, with all the porn channels. And then the parents expect the channels to disappear that they don't want their kids to watch, rather than using the filtering on the client side that is available to them.
If parents want the equivalent of cable for their kids, they should get AOL and block the normal internet. Or buy a whitelist package that is voluntarily supported by certain websites. Everything else is blocked. They get the equivalent diversity of cable channels. That's what they want, right? Anything that is remotely threatening to their little world to disappear? They can have that, quite easily. But instead they want it both ways: the full diversity of the internet combined with the lack of active parenting that the very limited diversity of cable requires.
2) it finally has a sensible cookie blocking interface, à-la Mozilla, and not that atrocious settings tab that I have to scroll through to find the site I just blocked cookies from that I need to re-enable.
Then just hit Alt-C to Allow/Block cookies for the current site, complete with wildcard patterns. (It works best with cookies disabled by default, then enabling it for sites when you want cookies)
Good point. I was about to make the same comparison when I found your post.
If a parent purchases all of the naughty cable channels, then their kids have access to those as well. The cable company does nothing to prevent those kids from seeing those channels. If the parents want to prevent their kids from watching that, they use the filtering built into the client, the TV.
The same goes for the internet. The parent purchases access to the whole internet. The ISP does nothing to prevent kids from seeing naughty sites. If the parents want to prevent their kids from visiting those sites, they use the filtering software available for the client, the computer.
My solution has been to browse problematic pages in Opera, and still use Firefox for everything else. I still feel more at home with Firefox, but it's nice not to have to restart the browser because of memory usage on those sites.
Well, the Start menu is an absolute abortion, and always has been. It is a horrible and awkward way to open applications. You can fit a LOT of things on the dock, since it can be shrunk very small and magnified on mouse-over.
I don't see how it's an awkward way to open infrequently-used programs. For quick program shortcuts, you have the QuickLaunch, the desktop, your frequently-used apps in the left of the Start menu, and you can pin other apps there as well.
And it may just be a matter of preference, but I HATE having all the windows of an application classified as their own application. All it does is clutter everything up. Why do you think tabs are such a great idea? Not to mention Exposé, which handles navigation between windows perfectly.
I'd prefer every application to have the choice of using the taskbar or their own document switching interface. For example, Firefox could open everything in a new window if you wanted that, or use tabs like the default. But I definitely prefer text labels on apps/documents in the taskbar, rather than Apple's Mystery Meat navigation, combined with requiring an extra click to switch documents.
The taskbar is further cluttered by having the system tray taking up a good chunk of the corner.
It's pretty handy actually, and not much space at all. It works very well for settings (mouse, volume, display, TV) and is also nice for apps that can be minimized to the tray (IM, WinAMP, iTunes). It takes up less space in that case than either the taskbar or the dock. I hate when people have unnecessary crap in there though, but that's their fault.
As for the top of the screen, the Apple way is MUCH better than the Windows way. I hate having toolbars in the Windows themselves. It's just annoying. The top of the screen is the perfect place for them and it's very convenient to be uniform. And, for the record, I've never known anybody to use the top of the screen for their Windows taskbar.
From my experience using OS X, I hate it. If I have 2 applications or documents open, and I want to get to the other window's menubar, I have to click the window first, then click the menubar. That extra click that is unnecessary. BTW, having menubars within the window is also uniform. Plus, if the application doesn't need a menubar, it is possible to hide it, and reclaim that screen real estate. Or like my screenshot above for example, Firefox can put other widgets (address bar, back button, etc) on the same line as the menu bar, reclaiming more space.
To me, the dock is form-over-function, and for such a commonly-used feature, that's unacceptable. The taskbar, tray, menubar, and start menu are all much more configurable, while peforming all of the same functions, plus a few more than the dock. It's just more efficient.
Apple are *not* blaming the users of the ipod (the "drivers"), they are expressing some anger at the ultimate cause of how it happened ("the tire manufacturers"), and you better believe that if tires started randomly blowing out on cars, and there was an avenue of blame available, then Ford damn well would lay that blame firmly at the tire-manufacturers feet.
Windows doesn't come with an iPod. In fact, no Microsoft products come with an iPod.
How was that informative? You basically just described the Windows taskbar. Then you said it was a lot better and more efficient than the Windows taskbar, but failed to explain any of the ways in which you believe it is better.
For more HD space, that's what those nice FireWire and USB 2 connections are for.
Why would you want to do that?
If I had an old 20 GB drive, or even 80 GB, in my computer, I wouldn't want to keep it if I could instead just replace it with a huge 750 GB one. Not only do external drives run much slower than internal, but moving all your apps and OS to a bigger drive also substantially improves the performance. Disks with greater density are faster.
Why keep a crappy old one in there running your OS, instead of just replacing it with a bigger and faster one? And why would you want a bunch of extra crap connected to your computer?
I'm trying to think of any program that stores its (personal/private) data anywhere besides Documents and Settings (which also contains My Documents)...nope, can't think of any.
Plus, he calls it "reliable old beige box", that he bought for $3000. I have a $2700 "reliable old beige box", a P4 2.0 GHz, that I bought in 2002. My dad had a $2800 "reliable old beige box", a Pentium 75 MHz, that he bought in 1995.
In other words, it really doesn't matter how much he paid for it. He says it's old. And uh...most new PCs aren't "beige."
If I had a new $3000 PC, there's no way I'd regularly use the Mini instead.
...the New-Age Technological Philosopher. One who can pose abstract theories about the state of technology on their blog and have it linked to on major sites across the globe.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for the recommendation of that documentary. I just watched it on Google video, and while I knew that US gov't/media propaganda against Chavez was bad, I didn't know enough about it to realize it was that bad.
The film really shows in graphic detail how significantly a corrupt media can affect a country. It really hits home. Though I don't know if the American people would be strong enough to regain their Constitutionally-guaranteed rights as the Venezuelan people were.
TFA is slashdotted, but I news.google'd it, and here were Leahy's objections prior to the signing of the bill:
It seems Leahy was objecting to the bill. Your favorite news source just didn't tell you he was.
Some sources for the documented foreknowledge that Pearl Harbor was about to be attacked and it was allowed to happen:
g quist6.htm
http://www.usni.org/NavalHistory/Articles99/NHbor
http://www.jbs.org/node/58
And I'd rather use FairUse4WM than QTFairUse. It is much faster because it's a standalone decrypter that doesn't rely on iTunes API or hooking into the iTunes process. At least 4x faster, subjectively and IIRC. It also doesn't require a reencode because it's just removing the DRM.
I'd guess that the only use for AnalogWhole is for files that for some reason don't work with FairUse4WM.
That may mean to consolidate existing services as well, to avoid confusing and diluting the market. For example, Writely and Google Spreadsheets combined to become Google Docs & Spreadsheets. That makes 50% less Google office products. Similarly, things like Froogle and Google Base could combine to become one shopping service.
Just FYI: prefetching is never bad. You should never follow the advice of those lame tweaking sites to clean out your prefetch. Over time, as you frequently access programs in a certain order, XP learns that order and frequency and reorders the files on disk. Cleaning it out can never help, and can often hurt performance.
SP2 slipstreamed also seems faster to me than a fully-loaded RTM, but that's likely because of all the other 3rd party crap that I install over time on a system. There should be a small performance benefit of a less fragmented disk when you slipstream as well.
Trying to find something that wasn't discussed in the last thread, are there any new config options, in about:config or elsewhere, in the new version?
The last thread mentioned browser.tabs.closeButtons and browser.urlbar.hideGoButton. Any others?
Doesn't have gpedit.msc. Does have compmgmt.msc.
Yeah, it really surprised me the first time I saw IE's RSS page rendering when I was testing my own Drupal-based site. I thought at first that Drupal had applied a CSS or XSL transformation to it, and wondered where that code came from.
It's kinda cool that they use the categories supplied with the items to generate a menu though. It works very well with Drupal's feeds (the menu on the right).
I'm pretty sure they make money from Google searches done through the search bar. They could very well get statistics from that.
Just to add to that:
browser.tabs.closeButtons 0 = close button on active tab
browser.tabs.closeButtons 1 = default, close button on all tabs
browser.tabs.closeButtons 2 = no close buttons
browser.tabs.closeButtons 3 = Fx 1.x style, one close button on right
It updates instantly so you can try them all out and find the one you like. I like 2 because I use an extra mouse button to close tabs instead of the close buttons.
My post is a partial dupe of a post further down. Rather than have people mod me redundant because they see me getting a lot of karma for a dupe, I'd rather they mod the AC post up if they want the links near the article to alleviate some of the bandwidth problems from this early leak. I don't deserve karma for a dupe.
But that's exactly it. With the internet they are choosing to buy the Super Premium Deluxe Cable package, with all the porn channels. And then the parents expect the channels to disappear that they don't want their kids to watch, rather than using the filtering on the client side that is available to them.
If parents want the equivalent of cable for their kids, they should get AOL and block the normal internet. Or buy a whitelist package that is voluntarily supported by certain websites. Everything else is blocked. They get the equivalent diversity of cable channels. That's what they want, right? Anything that is remotely threatening to their little world to disappear? They can have that, quite easily. But instead they want it both ways: the full diversity of the internet combined with the lack of active parenting that the very limited diversity of cable requires.
You could install the Permit Cookies extension.
Then just hit Alt-C to Allow/Block cookies for the current site, complete with wildcard patterns. (It works best with cookies disabled by default, then enabling it for sites when you want cookies)
Good point. I was about to make the same comparison when I found your post.
If a parent purchases all of the naughty cable channels, then their kids have access to those as well. The cable company does nothing to prevent those kids from seeing those channels. If the parents want to prevent their kids from watching that, they use the filtering built into the client, the TV.
The same goes for the internet. The parent purchases access to the whole internet. The ISP does nothing to prevent kids from seeing naughty sites. If the parents want to prevent their kids from visiting those sites, they use the filtering software available for the client, the computer.
My solution has been to browse problematic pages in Opera, and still use Firefox for everything else. I still feel more at home with Firefox, but it's nice not to have to restart the browser because of memory usage on those sites.
I don't see how it's an awkward way to open infrequently-used programs. For quick program shortcuts, you have the QuickLaunch, the desktop, your frequently-used apps in the left of the Start menu, and you can pin other apps there as well.
screenshot
I'd prefer every application to have the choice of using the taskbar or their own document switching interface. For example, Firefox could open everything in a new window if you wanted that, or use tabs like the default. But I definitely prefer text labels on apps/documents in the taskbar, rather than Apple's Mystery Meat navigation, combined with requiring an extra click to switch documents.
It's pretty handy actually, and not much space at all. It works very well for settings (mouse, volume, display, TV) and is also nice for apps that can be minimized to the tray (IM, WinAMP, iTunes). It takes up less space in that case than either the taskbar or the dock. I hate when people have unnecessary crap in there though, but that's their fault.
From my experience using OS X, I hate it. If I have 2 applications or documents open, and I want to get to the other window's menubar, I have to click the window first, then click the menubar. That extra click that is unnecessary. BTW, having menubars within the window is also uniform. Plus, if the application doesn't need a menubar, it is possible to hide it, and reclaim that screen real estate. Or like my screenshot above for example, Firefox can put other widgets (address bar, back button, etc) on the same line as the menu bar, reclaiming more space.
To me, the dock is form-over-function, and for such a commonly-used feature, that's unacceptable. The taskbar, tray, menubar, and start menu are all much more configurable, while peforming all of the same functions, plus a few more than the dock. It's just more efficient.
Windows doesn't come with an iPod. In fact, no Microsoft products come with an iPod.
Microsoft is not a "tire manufacturer."
The temp directory is C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Local Settings\Temp.
How was that informative? You basically just described the Windows taskbar. Then you said it was a lot better and more efficient than the Windows taskbar, but failed to explain any of the ways in which you believe it is better.
Why would you want to do that?
If I had an old 20 GB drive, or even 80 GB, in my computer, I wouldn't want to keep it if I could instead just replace it with a huge 750 GB one. Not only do external drives run much slower than internal, but moving all your apps and OS to a bigger drive also substantially improves the performance. Disks with greater density are faster.
Why keep a crappy old one in there running your OS, instead of just replacing it with a bigger and faster one? And why would you want a bunch of extra crap connected to your computer?
I'm trying to think of any program that stores its (personal/private) data anywhere besides Documents and Settings (which also contains My Documents)...nope, can't think of any.
Plus, he calls it "reliable old beige box", that he bought for $3000. I have a $2700 "reliable old beige box", a P4 2.0 GHz, that I bought in 2002. My dad had a $2800 "reliable old beige box", a Pentium 75 MHz, that he bought in 1995.
In other words, it really doesn't matter how much he paid for it. He says it's old. And uh...most new PCs aren't "beige."
If I had a new $3000 PC, there's no way I'd regularly use the Mini instead.
Yeah. If it's the 60 GB model, we can start another site like this one.
Can't get much more attention-grabbing than that.
...the New-Age Technological Philosopher. One who can pose abstract theories about the state of technology on their blog and have it linked to on major sites across the globe.
Now if I could just find one worth reading.