I'm glad Germany seems to have backed down from its anti-hacker legislation. Wasn't it last year we heard they were threatening their security experts and admins with legislation to take away even such benign utilities as password recovery tools?
They are far from backing down. Over here security auditing and related actions are still threatened by excessive copyright protection laws (existing or in the making). As they are in the US by e.g. the DMCA.
Why, that's Anarchy in the... sorry. Lost it there for a moment, it's ok now...
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...UK!!!!1
Anywho, as much as I agree with your sentiment in principle, TFA seems to show quite clearly that the government is not directly involved in these cases. Apart from supplying unnecessary copyright laws, but that seems to be the norm today in pretty much every western country.
I don't know if you intended to, but you more or less quoted Frank Zappa.
I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all drugs and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize prostitution. You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.
Gmail as pronounced in german would be "gay-mail".
No, it would be "gay-mile". Yea, laugh if you want to.
But people over here are so absorbed in talking "hip" and modern, using anglicisms wherever possible (unknowingly, most of the time), that just about everyone would call it "gee-mail" instinctively anyway. Sad, but true.
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Let me recap your understanding of a "clever move": sending a big cake to a rivaling company with the logo of your own application (which comes with ~90% of the world's desktop OS) on it, to get free advertising.
How the hell is this "+5 Interesting"? There are roughly a gazillion of FF2 extensions out there, many of them have not been actively developed anymore for months or longer. So of course many (I'd rather say most) are not available for FF3 yet - and will probably never be.
The core extensions (yes, the definition of that term varies from user to user, I'm aware of that - but only to a point) are available though. Like Adblock Plus, Download Statusbar etc.
Others are available for FF3 from the developer's homepage only and cannot be found on the Mozilla site yet, e.g. because the extension itself is still beta. See Firebug for instance.
Anyway, I don't see that massive rollback happening.
Well, it's rather hard to invent something second.
To stay on topic though the suggestions for URL completion take ages to appear in Opera, at least on my system, while FF3 is blazing fast in that regard. Rendering time, Opera still rules of course.
And compared to NT4, Windows 2K was a failure from the user's standpoint.
Huh? As tempting as it may be to suggest that GP ignores history repeating, it's just not the case.
Transitioning from 2K to XP: pretty much the same kernel, stability, APIs, features, plus DRM, more running services without apparent added value and a GUI that looks like kids dishes.
Transitioning from NT to 2K: pretty much the same kernel and stability, but Plug&Play and DirectX Compatibility at last, to name two improvements. No downsides that I could recall.
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Change your name to Mr Fuckwit. It won't change who you are.
Oh, but it will. It will change you into someone willing to call himself "Mr Fuckwit". If you think that's nitpicking, think again.
Y is a consonant in German as well.
Nope.
What a sorry state our society must be in where a post like this is modded +5 insightful.
Don't get me wrong, you are absolutely right. It's just pitiful that it doesn't seem to be obvious to so many people.
I'm glad Germany seems to have backed down from its anti-hacker legislation. Wasn't it last year we heard they were threatening their security experts and admins with legislation to take away even such benign utilities as password recovery tools?
They are far from backing down. Over here security auditing and related actions are still threatened by excessive copyright protection laws (existing or in the making). As they are in the US by e.g. the DMCA.
One of my assumptions is wrong.
Aaaand here's which:
(...) MS (...) 100%
Tadaah! (In all fairness though, doing stuff 100% right is no easy task.)
java
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It should allow PCs running Linux to view sites that use Siverlight.
The number of accessible websites just increased by three. Oh happy day!
Why, that's Anarchy in the... sorry. Lost it there for a moment, it's ok now...
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Anywho, as much as I agree with your sentiment in principle, TFA seems to show quite clearly that the government is not directly involved in these cases. Apart from supplying unnecessary copyright laws, but that seems to be the norm today in pretty much every western country.
Will an AR5007 card work with 8.10 right out of the box?
Again: Live. CD. Just find it out.
AFAIK diversity is best for the gene pool. Yes, that seems to include stupid-ass /. troll genes.
I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all drugs and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize prostitution. You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.
Besides, since when is trying to make a game feel realistic considered overrated?
Since forever? At least by me. More realism != more fun. Often quite the contrary, actually.
Oh Jesus.
_I_ _Really_ _hate_ reading Linus' _email_ with all _his_ _underlining_ for emphasis!!!_-_-_-_ _REALLY_!
Get a decent mail client already. ;)
This method will suffice to crack ANY CAPTCHA!
... any human solvable CAPTCHA. And we seem to be well on our way to CAPTCHAs on major sites which don't fall into that category anymore.
Zero being a fairly abstract concept, I doubt they are aware of it.
What's the second question?
All well and good for prosecution immunity, but why would anyone keep an open access point these days?
Bruce Schneier seems to have a number of reasons for doing just that.
No, it would be "gay-mile". Yea, laugh if you want to.
But people over here are so absorbed in talking "hip" and modern, using anglicisms wherever possible (unknowingly, most of the time), that just about everyone would call it "gee-mail" instinctively anyway. Sad, but true.
Let me recap your understanding of a "clever move": sending a big cake to a rivaling company with the logo of your own application (which comes with ~90% of the world's desktop OS) on it, to get free advertising.
Clever. Yea, I can see it now.
Because 90% of the functionality you'd use an extension for on FF is already built into Opera. But don't let that get in your way.
Though I admit that for the missing 10% and flexibility in general an extension mechanism akin to FF would be nice to have.
<nelson>Haha!</nelson>
How the hell is this "+5 Interesting"? There are roughly a gazillion of FF2 extensions out there, many of them have not been actively developed anymore for months or longer. So of course many (I'd rather say most) are not available for FF3 yet - and will probably never be.
The core extensions (yes, the definition of that term varies from user to user, I'm aware of that - but only to a point) are available though. Like Adblock Plus, Download Statusbar etc.
Others are available for FF3 from the developer's homepage only and cannot be found on the Mozilla site yet, e.g. because the extension itself is still beta. See Firebug for instance.
Anyway, I don't see that massive rollback happening.
Well, it's rather hard to invent something second.
To stay on topic though the suggestions for URL completion take ages to appear in Opera, at least on my system, while FF3 is blazing fast in that regard. Rendering time, Opera still rules of course.
And compared to NT4, Windows 2K was a failure from the user's standpoint.
Huh? As tempting as it may be to suggest that GP ignores history repeating, it's just not the case.
Transitioning from 2K to XP: pretty much the same kernel, stability, APIs, features, plus DRM, more running services without apparent added value and a GUI that looks like kids dishes.
Transitioning from NT to 2K: pretty much the same kernel and stability, but Plug&Play and DirectX Compatibility at last, to name two improvements. No downsides that I could recall.
Notice a difference?