Ah yes... it's so simple now... why didn't I just do that instead of use Safari for everything that I want, and a Firefox for GMail and Hotmail?
Wow, and I could have been running CLI statements and everything!
Us Mac users truly are the lower than pond-scum for coming up with simply GUI work arounds... I agree completely, becaus emanaging 3 pieces of software instead of one is soooo much easier than typing one CLI-command _ONCE_ , NOT.
OTR is licensed as GPL/LGPL. As such, I'm not sure a lot of major software makers will be all that keen about implementing it. Take a look at iChat or Yahoo Messenger. They're not going to open source their application just to add an encryption format that is still pretty rare and where there is not a lot of demand.
Which is why they use the LGPL, which allows usage without forcing openness.
http://www.schneier.com/essay-087.html
Sometimes it seems like the people in charge of homeland security spend too much time watching action movies. They defend against specific movie plots instead of against the broad threats of terrorism.
We all do it. Our imaginations run wild with detailed and specific threats. We imagine anthrax spread from crop dusters. Or a contaminated milk supply. Or terrorist scuba divers armed with almanacs. Before long, we're envisioning an entire movie plot, without Bruce Willis saving the day. And we're scared.
Psychologically, this all makes sense. Humans have good imaginations. Box cutters and shoe bombs conjure vivid mental images. "We must protect the Super Bowl" packs more emotional punch than the vague "we should defend ourselves against terrorism."
The 9/11 terrorists used small pointy things to take over airplanes, so we ban small pointy things from airplanes. Richard Reid tried to hide a bomb in his shoes, so now we all have to take off our shoes. Recently, the Department of Homeland Security said that it might relax airplane security rules. It's not that there's a lessened risk of shoes, or that small pointy things are suddenly less dangerous. It's that those movie plots no longer capture the imagination like they did in the months after 9/11, and everyone is beginning to see how silly (or pointless) they always were.
Commuter terrorism is the new movie plot. The London bombers carried bombs into the subway, so now we search people entering the subways. They used cell phones, so we're talking about ways to shut down the cell-phone network.
It's too early to tell if hurricanes are the next movie-plot threat that captures the imagination.
The problem with movie plot security is that it only works if we guess right. If we spend billions defending our subways, and the terrorists bomb a bus, we've wasted our money. To be sure, defending the subways makes commuting safer. But focusing on subways also has the effect of shifting attacks toward less-defended targets, and the result is that we're no safer overall. [continues]
Maybe Wordpress could offer tools to help users better manage updates. Firefox does a great job these days. An Application messing up files past my package-management system? Not on my system.
I'm sorry i did not use his nickname.
As for your idiotic take on MS... Yeah, they're still "making billions". But for how long? And at what point does there stock stop coasting along and begin a descent much like GM's share price? Just take a look at GM, genius.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GM&t=my
You can bet your bottom dollar MS is afraid there stock will begin the same type of decline--most likely, yes, because of the threat of free software. Forget about the stock-price. There are two kinds of people who have to care about it: the investors and the managers. Ballmers balls will be fried live onstage if the stock does something like GMs stock, yes. But that does not win over one single Desktop.
Much more important is the revenue and the income: as long as there is income, Microsoft will dominate the software industry. Windows ist still installed on more than 90% of all PCs.
As for GM:
Revenue $207.349 Billion USD (2006)
Net income $529 Million USD (2006)
They are still in the blacks.
Now scuttle off, I'm done with you. Nice discussion-style.
This shows how fearful Microsoft is really starting to get paranoid about the linux desktop revolution. 2007 is *the* year, I don't care what anyone else thinks--I know this to be true because this is the first year I've actually got friends to honestly convert over to free software/OSS software. And they're even talking shit about MS now that they've seen the light!
With all the linux populatization going on these days--microsoft is shaking in its boots...
The days are quickly approaching when microsoft is bound to become an even more dreary version of GM. Hmm, where have i heard/read such rethoric?
A, yes, it was Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf:
After Iraq aborts the invasion that is being carried out by the American and British villains, the USA will no longer be a superpower. Its deterioration will be rapid. I say to those villains who are meeting in Europe, thinking of launching psychological war and brainwashing: wait. Do not be hasty because your disappointment will be huge. You will reap nothing from this aggressive war, which you launched on Iraq, except for disgrace and defeat. As much is i would like it to be, 2007 is not the year of Linux on Desktops. Microsoft still makes BILLIONS on the Desktop.
Some of that is good. There has been some very bad "multiculturalism" case law in the EU recently, where women have been beaten and abused but that was OK because it was supposedly "their" culture and the host country should not interfere. That happened in Germany, in Frankfurt am Main to be exact. The judge was thrown out of the case and the woman got the speedy divorce she wanted.
Are you suggesting that being a sniper isn't "frowned upon" in real life? It's just ok to set up somewhere with a rifle and shoot people.
I don't know how they handle that in you country, but here in germany the police and military sharpshooters are usually in a special team with extra pay.
It is true that RMS gives his whole life to his cause. I respect and admire him for doing so, and at the same time I wouldn't want to do that to my life. Haven't you done just that? Sure, you haven't practically given up most of your private life, but i would say that your years in the Debian-Project, the OSI etc. did not leave your life untouched;-)
Thank you for the great work you did and are still doing!
The problem is that the rules are not equal in the whole of the EU.
There exists a European directive, outlining minimum-requirements for data-retention in the EU(directive 2006/24/EG from 2006-03-16). Basically, it says which data has to be retained.
The EU-directive is no law; every member-country has to pass laws which do what is outlined in the directive. The implementations of these laws vary _greatly_ from country to country. As the directive only outlines minimum requirements, some countries have really harsh retantion-laws, while others simply do the bare minimum.
Could well be that in some countries, that ID-check has to be made; which country was it?
every fricking Starbucks got one around here, every McDonalds Private citizens?! Ok, your APs might be 100% legal (actually I believe they are not but I am not sure), now what about every business out there who has to track this huge amount of data for no reason? You know, the people who actually matter. Your APs are of no interest, thousands of SMEs, on the other hand... Companies are only rated as ISPs if
they serve more than 1000 users
AND are open to the general public
I seriously doubt any SME is going to be affacted by this.
Well, taking your frustration out on me isn't going to make the data retention laws go away. Google them a bit, they aren't hard to find. As i am active in several anti-dataretention groups, i know the new rules pretty well.
The dataretention-rules do not apply to private citizens. My APs are 100% legal.
That's exactly how it is over here in supposedly so-much-more-free-than-the-US Europe. Also you have to keep ID for every user of the system and be able to track them individually. Needless to say, this doesn't exactly spur adoption of wifi spots and the likes. That's pure and simple BULLSHIT.
I have 3 open APs running; every fricking Starbucks got one around here, every McDonalds, etc.
Your claim is BS.
"B-b-b-but the source is a pseudonymous hacker with an axe to grind! Why would he lie?"
*head explodes* The source is a pseudonymous hacker with an axe to grind who released Account-data, certificates and several internal listings. Of course, he could have faked those listings, but they seem extremely accurate.
Well, I know Opera isn't, but aren't a bunch of other browsers based on the same engine as Firefox? Seamonkey/Mozilla, Konqueror, etc? Seamonkey, Firefox, Netscape Navigator, Epiphany, Flock, Nautilus, K-Melon, Maxthon all use Gecko
Konqueror and Safari both use KHTML (although Apple has forked it and added some things KHTML still hasn't)
Apology accepted.
And you are right, the bitrate should not matter that much.
But considering how easy it is to offer several bitrates, it is dumb not to offer them.
According to the release-announcement in less than two years, but they will first evaluate all the feedback they get for the etch-cycle before making real plans.
That one gives me the internet-routable IP-Adress that is used to surf the net, but does not reveal the private LAN-Adress that is used behind the router.
I just switched my Desktop and my Laptop back to XP. Vista did not offer much good to me, and there were several annoying UI-things:
-Aero is a joke. The ~5 mm glassy effect (which does not improve productivity at all) comes at a way too hefty performance-cost.
-Vista dumbs the user way too down.
Example of an everyday-task gone wrong: When using a laptop and traveling much, my ip-adress will often fluctuate. To show my IP-adress under XP, i doubleclick on the connection-icon in the systray and change to the second tab. Under Vista, i doubleclick the connection-icon and end up in the Connection-Center. From there, i have to choose the common Task to manage connections. There i have to rightclick on the connection and click on properties. THERE i have to click on the advanced-button.
- The driver-situation is embarassing.
-SSH dynamic port forwarding does not work under Vista (used putty and plink; neither did work)
What i really liked in Vista was the combined search/run-field in the startmenu. But i can live happily without it when the rest of my system behaves.
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Wow, and I could have been running CLI statements and everything!
Us Mac users truly are the lower than pond-scum for coming up with simply GUI work arounds... I agree completely, becaus emanaging 3 pieces of software instead of one is soooo much easier than typing one CLI-command _ONCE_ , NOT.
have you considered dlan (ethernet over electric wires)?
OTR is licensed as GPL/LGPL. As such, I'm not sure a lot of major software makers will be all that keen about implementing it. Take a look at iChat or Yahoo Messenger. They're not going to open source their application just to add an encryption format that is still pretty rare and where there is not a lot of demand.
Which is why they use the LGPL, which allows usage without forcing openness."Mit der Dummheit kämpfen selbst Götter vergebens." would be the grammatically correct version of the sentence.
What part of "You need to use the fucking DRM-ridden piece of shit that calls itself Itunes to put your mp3s onto the ipod" is so difficult for you?
http://applegeeks.com/lite/index.php?aglitecomic=2 007-05-16
It would be good if you had a signature stating that you are Asa Dotzler, Marketing-Guy for Mozilla Inc.
Are you suggesting that being a sniper isn't "frowned upon" in real life? It's just ok to set up somewhere with a rifle and shoot people.
I don't know how they handle that in you country, but here in germany the police and military sharpshooters are usually in a special team with extra pay.The problem is that the rules are not equal in the whole of the EU. There exists a European directive, outlining minimum-requirements for data-retention in the EU(directive 2006/24/EG from 2006-03-16). Basically, it says which data has to be retained.
The EU-directive is no law; every member-country has to pass laws which do what is outlined in the directive. The implementations of these laws vary _greatly_ from country to country. As the directive only outlines minimum requirements, some countries have really harsh retantion-laws, while others simply do the bare minimum.
Could well be that in some countries, that ID-check has to be made; which country was it?
they serve more than 1000 users
AND are open to the general public
I seriously doubt any SME is going to be affacted by this.
*head explodes* The source is a pseudonymous hacker with an axe to grind who released Account-data, certificates and several internal listings. Of course, he could have faked those listings, but they seem extremely accurate.
Konqueror and Safari both use KHTML (although Apple has forked it and added some things KHTML still hasn't)
...unless someone sends the giveAccess()-command to the controller, which should be pretty easy.
Apology accepted.
And you are right, the bitrate should not matter that much.
But considering how easy it is to offer several bitrates, it is dumb not to offer them.
According to the release-announcement in less than two years, but they will first evaluate all the feedback they get for the etch-cycle before making real plans.
That one gives me the internet-routable IP-Adress that is used to surf the net, but does not reveal the private LAN-Adress that is used behind the router.
-Aero is a joke. The ~5 mm glassy effect (which does not improve productivity at all) comes at a way too hefty performance-cost.
-Vista dumbs the user way too down.
Example of an everyday-task gone wrong: When using a laptop and traveling much, my ip-adress will often fluctuate. To show my IP-adress under XP, i doubleclick on the connection-icon in the systray and change to the second tab. Under Vista, i doubleclick the connection-icon and end up in the Connection-Center. From there, i have to choose the common Task to manage connections. There i have to rightclick on the connection and click on properties. THERE i have to click on the advanced-button.
- The driver-situation is embarassing.
-SSH dynamic port forwarding does not work under Vista (used putty and plink; neither did work)
What i really liked in Vista was the combined search/run-field in the startmenu. But i can live happily without it when the rest of my system behaves.