The problem isn't so much that countries engage in spying. That's to be expected, really. The problems are in 1) how they go about doing it, 2) whom they're targeting and 3) what data they're collecting.
So if they're 1) using backdoors in consumer products without use of warrants, 2) targeting members of the public without necessarily having good cause to do so and 3) collecting everything they possibly can, then there's a big problem.
Spying on other countries or persons of interest with good cause and/or warrants is what these agencies generally do. What the NSA and GCHQ in particular are doing is far more than this and far more invasive for what seems like little meaningful return and at the risk of their reputations and their respective countries' reputations.
which is why DuckDuckGo, a so called "privacy oriented browser", uses bing for it's underlying searches. Any time you hear "anticompetitive search", it's 100% microsoft/fairsearch funded. It's not even remotely about privacy or security as a result of that. Anyone who believes duckduckgo is about your privacy when bing has your information, is misinformed.
if you wanted privacy in your search, use a multi-search engine and get real results the way you want. It's that simple, and they do exist. To act like people are somehow " at a loss" when they can go to any website they want to search is to fail to acknowledge that bing is a horrible search engine.
TLDR: anti-google (and pro-microsoft) article.
Right, so even though this is a blindly ignorant comment, it gets a score of 5, Interesting because it's anti-Microsoft? DDG isn't a browser, it's a search engine. It doesn't solely use Bing for its searches. It uses a variety of search engines, amongst them Yahoo and WolframAlpha, to generate its results. It's in no way funded by Microsoft, it's not affiliated with FairSearch and information does not get passed from DDG to Microsoft. DDG works as an intermediary and keeps no personal data.
And that's the primary appeal of DDG to the majority of its users - you avoid the filter bubble effect and none of your personal data is stored. Maybe you should've read their privacy policy before commenting. It would have made you sound less like the kind of typically reactionary cretin that all too often brings down the level of conversation on Slashdot.
Good grief, you would've thought this guy was just blindly commenting without having read the... Oh, right.
The panels turn transparent when they come in contact with water, so it's mainly for when it's raining (I suppose there are other, far less peaceful circumstances in which water can hit them). Otherwise they're translucent.
Actually, RMIT (a tertiary institution here in Australia) recently announced that one of their new buildings will be solar-powered thanks to the glass on the buildings. From the article: blah blah blah "with an outer skin of 16,000 sand blasted glass cells, some of which will be photovoltaic solar power collectors to help shade and power the building."
We have all seen people texting during a movie, play, sporting event, etc... just imagine what it will be like when people feel the need to write about the event while it happens!
You don't have to imagine it - it's already happening. If you ever take a look at the Twitter public timeline (or even just specific Twitter accounts like Robert Scoble's or Chris Pirillo's) during an event like SXSW or WWDC, you'll see a lot of people are doing it already.
I'm not sure if the problem is people needing to get a life - it may be that they have lives that they want to broadcast. See, back in the old days, we didn't have lives and we lived in basements - nothing new there - but these days, everyone has lives and less people are still in their basements - hence the perceived need to tell people what they're doing from wherever the hell they happen to be at that particular time.
I've used Vista for more than a year and also Firefox 3 for about a year (from pre-alphas to release) - with the exception of some Java- and Flash-wielding sites, Firefox hasn't crashed.
(Off-topic, but I can see this one coming - Vista hasn't, either. Also, Opera 9.5 crashed often, because I can see that one coming as well.)
Ah, well, you see, my comment was from the perspective of someone who has a 120 gig HDD (plus non-local storage) that recently failed, resulting in the loss of ten years of meticulous archiving and a change of attitude from "I'll keep everything!" to "I'll keep less stuff so that it's quick to back up, just in case it ever happens again".
So I see why you wouldn't be too concerned about an extra dozen gig or so.
So, I have over 30 gigs of email going back to 1997. What is another few bits and bytes?
Sure, it may not seem like much at first, but it builds up. If someone did that for a decade, then that would explain why that person ended up with 30 gigs rather than, say, 10 gigs.
Haven't used Weave for a while, but I'll start using it again once it can sync add-ons. All I need are my bookmarks, add-ons and add-on settings (don't use history because I just use bookmarks, don't use search plugins because they're all in bookmarks, don't use saved passwords, etc.).
I'm also waiting for the ability to change/recover your Weave password since I have managed to forget mine.
Is MySpace one of the ones that lets you "friend" (alien term here) people if you know their e-mails? If so, then I see how that could be really annoying.
I should know. I did it once to a cousin on Facebook, although I didn't exactly go all-caps on her. In fact, I didn't post anything. There goes my story.
The Russian lineages always crack me up because, in recent years, Soyuz has proved to be very dependable despite the fact that it was introduced in the 1960s. It's probably worthwhile to note that most of the recent space tourism ventures (Virgin Galactic being a rather notable exception) intend to use Soyuz craft at some point.
Maybe I was thinking of the design part of the phase. As I understand it, the Shuttle in its current form was solidified sometime between 1970 and 1975. But of course, it wasn't "flying".:-/
That makes sense. If I recall correctly, the first plans for the Shuttle began around 1969/70 with the ideas solidifying in the timespan you indicated.
Wow. It never really hit me until now how old the Space Shuttle is.
Ah, but you don't actually need to use your real name - just a given name and a surname. As an example, I used to call myself "Devoc Winter" before I deleted my account. Nothing whatsoever like my real name, so some of my real life friends did call BS at first, but quite a few of them don't use their real names either.
As you said, though, it does come down to whom you befriend on Facebook - your real life friends, your online friends or a combination.
Well, I know this guy who built a fully-functional multi-touch surface on the cheap that could do things like that picture resizing. Then again, IIRC, he was using a webcam and I'm assuming that MS tech is better than that.
I also haven't seen a webcam sticking out the back of an iPhone lately.
I can see where the situation is completely different for us. I maintain bookmarks because I don't keep history. Incredibly, I actually don't find/. any harder to type than sl. Possibly because of the specific keyboard I use - I just use my ring and pinky fingers to reach down to it. I can see where you're coming from, though.
Well, so far, there hasn't even been a new desktop theme developed. Just a new taskbar and a few minor UI tweaks, presumably due to the new multi-touch support.
Good experiences with Vista are incredibly rare. Look at me - Dell Inspiron 1501, Vista Home Premium, 1 gig of RAM and fairly average specs. There have been times where I've had Firefox 2 on for several hours (taking a good few hundred megs of my RAM), a couple of other nice RAM-sucking apps and Aero Glass going. And Vista was still fast.
It's ridiculous. It works.
And then I know people with fantastic specs like yours - systems that would otherwise be awesometastically faster than mine - and Vista just screws up for and around with them. "You want something working properly? WELL TOO BAD, buddy, because it's BSOD time."
The funniest thing about this was when those Microsoft exec e-mails came out and we all found out that they had problems with Vista themselves. *chuckle*
From what I understand, you can do all of that stuff with VirtualBox (virtual machine), DOSBox (x86 emulator w/ DOS) and Wine (cross-platform implementation of the Windows API).
DOSBox takes care of basically every vintage game I've ever played and even though VirtualBox needs Windows installed in the virtual machine, it has a 'seamless' mode that allows you to have the Windows apps running 'outside' of the virtual machine. That's a sucky explanation and it'd be easier to explain if I had a pencil and paper.
Wine recently reached version 1.0 and, as I believe a sibling post pointed out, it should be able to run Photoshop perfectly well. The open source Windows project you mentioned, ReactOS, shares some of its code with Wine (which is how the two projects have managed to make some great advances in certain areas), so there's a nice little tie-in.
ReactOS is currently at about version 0.3.5, so we'll probably have to wait a while for a fully stable version to come out. The day it does will be a good day. A very good day.
You can try changing browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true and browser.urlbar.matchBehaviour to 2 - I've been told by some of the awesomebar "critics" that it gets you closer to the ancient TEXTTYPED* pattern.
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The problem isn't so much that countries engage in spying. That's to be expected, really. The problems are in 1) how they go about doing it, 2) whom they're targeting and 3) what data they're collecting. So if they're 1) using backdoors in consumer products without use of warrants, 2) targeting members of the public without necessarily having good cause to do so and 3) collecting everything they possibly can, then there's a big problem. Spying on other countries or persons of interest with good cause and/or warrants is what these agencies generally do. What the NSA and GCHQ in particular are doing is far more than this and far more invasive for what seems like little meaningful return and at the risk of their reputations and their respective countries' reputations.
which is why DuckDuckGo, a so called "privacy oriented browser", uses bing for it's underlying searches. Any time you hear "anticompetitive search", it's 100% microsoft/fairsearch funded. It's not even remotely about privacy or security as a result of that. Anyone who believes duckduckgo is about your privacy when bing has your information, is misinformed.
if you wanted privacy in your search, use a multi-search engine and get real results the way you want. It's that simple, and they do exist. To act like people are somehow " at a loss" when they can go to any website they want to search is to fail to acknowledge that bing is a horrible search engine.
TLDR: anti-google (and pro-microsoft) article.
Right, so even though this is a blindly ignorant comment, it gets a score of 5, Interesting because it's anti-Microsoft? DDG isn't a browser, it's a search engine. It doesn't solely use Bing for its searches. It uses a variety of search engines, amongst them Yahoo and WolframAlpha, to generate its results. It's in no way funded by Microsoft, it's not affiliated with FairSearch and information does not get passed from DDG to Microsoft. DDG works as an intermediary and keeps no personal data.
And that's the primary appeal of DDG to the majority of its users - you avoid the filter bubble effect and none of your personal data is stored. Maybe you should've read their privacy policy before commenting. It would have made you sound less like the kind of typically reactionary cretin that all too often brings down the level of conversation on Slashdot.
Good grief, you would've thought this guy was just blindly commenting without having read the... Oh, right.
Indeed, most of the comments seem to be duped as well.
The panels turn transparent when they come in contact with water, so it's mainly for when it's raining (I suppose there are other, far less peaceful circumstances in which water can hit them). Otherwise they're translucent.
I probably should have also noted in that comment that I think RMIT's idea is pretty cool.
Actually, RMIT (a tertiary institution here in Australia) recently announced that one of their new buildings will be solar-powered thanks to the glass on the buildings. From the article: blah blah blah "with an outer skin of 16,000 sand blasted glass cells, some of which will be photovoltaic solar power collectors to help shade and power the building."
We have all seen people texting during a movie, play, sporting event, etc... just imagine what it will be like when people feel the need to write about the event while it happens!
You don't have to imagine it - it's already happening. If you ever take a look at the Twitter public timeline (or even just specific Twitter accounts like Robert Scoble's or Chris Pirillo's) during an event like SXSW or WWDC, you'll see a lot of people are doing it already.
I'm not sure if the problem is people needing to get a life - it may be that they have lives that they want to broadcast. See, back in the old days, we didn't have lives and we lived in basements - nothing new there - but these days, everyone has lives and less people are still in their basements - hence the perceived need to tell people what they're doing from wherever the hell they happen to be at that particular time.
I've used Vista for more than a year and also Firefox 3 for about a year (from pre-alphas to release) - with the exception of some Java- and Flash-wielding sites, Firefox hasn't crashed.
(Off-topic, but I can see this one coming - Vista hasn't, either. Also, Opera 9.5 crashed often, because I can see that one coming as well.)
Ah, well, you see, my comment was from the perspective of someone who has a 120 gig HDD (plus non-local storage) that recently failed, resulting in the loss of ten years of meticulous archiving and a change of attitude from "I'll keep everything!" to "I'll keep less stuff so that it's quick to back up, just in case it ever happens again".
So I see why you wouldn't be too concerned about an extra dozen gig or so.
So, I have over 30 gigs of email going back to 1997. What is another few bits and bytes?
Sure, it may not seem like much at first, but it builds up. If someone did that for a decade, then that would explain why that person ended up with 30 gigs rather than, say, 10 gigs.
Haven't used Weave for a while, but I'll start using it again once it can sync add-ons. All I need are my bookmarks, add-ons and add-on settings (don't use history because I just use bookmarks, don't use search plugins because they're all in bookmarks, don't use saved passwords, etc.).
I'm also waiting for the ability to change/recover your Weave password since I have managed to forget mine.
Is MySpace one of the ones that lets you "friend" (alien term here) people if you know their e-mails? If so, then I see how that could be really annoying.
I should know. I did it once to a cousin on Facebook, although I didn't exactly go all-caps on her. In fact, I didn't post anything. There goes my story.
The Russian lineages always crack me up because, in recent years, Soyuz has proved to be very dependable despite the fact that it was introduced in the 1960s. It's probably worthwhile to note that most of the recent space tourism ventures (Virgin Galactic being a rather notable exception) intend to use Soyuz craft at some point.
Maybe I was thinking of the design part of the phase. As I understand it, the Shuttle in its current form was solidified sometime between 1970 and 1975. But of course, it wasn't "flying". :-/
That makes sense. If I recall correctly, the first plans for the Shuttle began around 1969/70 with the ideas solidifying in the timespan you indicated.
Wow. It never really hit me until now how old the Space Shuttle is.
Ah, but you don't actually need to use your real name - just a given name and a surname. As an example, I used to call myself "Devoc Winter" before I deleted my account. Nothing whatsoever like my real name, so some of my real life friends did call BS at first, but quite a few of them don't use their real names either.
As you said, though, it does come down to whom you befriend on Facebook - your real life friends, your online friends or a combination.
But then we're talking about an agency that flew Space Shuttles for 40 years.
The first Space Shuttle flight was a test of Enterprise in August 1977. The first actual mission was in April 1981 with Columbia . Unless I've dropped through some kind of freaky weird timewarp, it's only been 31 years.
Well, I know this guy who built a fully-functional multi-touch surface on the cheap that could do things like that picture resizing. Then again, IIRC, he was using a webcam and I'm assuming that MS tech is better than that.
I also haven't seen a webcam sticking out the back of an iPhone lately.
I can see where the situation is completely different for us. I maintain bookmarks because I don't keep history. Incredibly, I actually don't find /. any harder to type than sl. Possibly because of the specific keyboard I use - I just use my ring and pinky fingers to reach down to it. I can see where you're coming from, though.
I believe that it's multi-finger gestures, although I may be wrong. This video is one of MS's recent demos of Windows 7.
Also 10-minute installs. It's relatively early on in the process, so I expect we'll see more features in coming months.
Well, so far, there hasn't even been a new desktop theme developed. Just a new taskbar and a few minor UI tweaks, presumably due to the new multi-touch support.
Good experiences with Vista are incredibly rare. Look at me - Dell Inspiron 1501, Vista Home Premium, 1 gig of RAM and fairly average specs. There have been times where I've had Firefox 2 on for several hours (taking a good few hundred megs of my RAM), a couple of other nice RAM-sucking apps and Aero Glass going. And Vista was still fast.
It's ridiculous. It works.
And then I know people with fantastic specs like yours - systems that would otherwise be awesometastically faster than mine - and Vista just screws up for and around with them. "You want something working properly? WELL TOO BAD, buddy, because it's BSOD time."
The funniest thing about this was when those Microsoft exec e-mails came out and we all found out that they had problems with Vista themselves. *chuckle*
From what I understand, you can do all of that stuff with VirtualBox (virtual machine), DOSBox (x86 emulator w/ DOS) and Wine (cross-platform implementation of the Windows API).
DOSBox takes care of basically every vintage game I've ever played and even though VirtualBox needs Windows installed in the virtual machine, it has a 'seamless' mode that allows you to have the Windows apps running 'outside' of the virtual machine. That's a sucky explanation and it'd be easier to explain if I had a pencil and paper.
Wine recently reached version 1.0 and, as I believe a sibling post pointed out, it should be able to run Photoshop perfectly well. The open source Windows project you mentioned, ReactOS, shares some of its code with Wine (which is how the two projects have managed to make some great advances in certain areas), so there's a nice little tie-in.
ReactOS is currently at about version 0.3.5, so we'll probably have to wait a while for a fully stable version to come out. The day it does will be a good day. A very good day.
You can try changing browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true and browser.urlbar.matchBehaviour to 2 - I've been told by some of the awesomebar "critics" that it gets you closer to the ancient TEXTTYPED* pattern.