I tried 4.3 a week or so ago when I accidentally broke my Debian Sid system's Gnome dependencies while they weren't in the repo.
I'm not an expert on these things, but I'm fairly sure that is a complaint about Debian, not KDE. I'm not familar with how Debian does it, but if they handle things anywhere near the same as the Kubuntu people do, that would explain a lot...
Complaints from a GNOME user about ease of configuration are amusing though;)
I haven't bothered checking, but I believe that generally Fedora will wait for the next release to upgrade KDE 4.x numbers, so you may have to wait for F13 to actually get it from Fedora.
The KDE team isn't responsible for what happened to Amarok, that is a seperate project.
I totally agree though, Amarok turned into complete and utter shit, I used to love Amarok but now I just use xmms2. KDE 4.x has been perfectly usable since 4.3 imho, though I've been using it since 4.1.
Generally speaking "given enough time" to bruteforce a key should mean something like "a few orders of magnitude more time than the universe is expected to last before heat death". Not "6 months". Of course, he didn't bruteforce a key here, he comprimised a hardware device. Comparing the "imperfect" security of one with the other is a tad disingenuous.
The real problem here is these devices have been pushed as some sort of magic security bullet, without the companies pushing them being honest about the actual amount of security provided.
Also, you cannot brute force OTPs, those are perfect. And software can be proven correct, provided enough time/money, and a detailed specification of exactly what the software is supposed to do.
That's what I tried to tell my math teacher when she caught me looking at another students test in class. Strangely enough it didn't go over to well...
Maybe because gimp is an image manipulation program, not a window manager? MDI is, and always has been, a terrible workaround for systems that suck at window management.
In fact I did. Seems they only added it sometime last year, well after I had abandoned them for greener fields. Github still has sourceforge cornered in the "good website" ring though, particularly with sourceforge's recent godawful website redesign.
Modern batteries can rapid charge in minutes (given adequate cooling) and yield hundreds of miles of range.
There is also the issue of having an electrical grid that can handle that. Charging a battery in minutes with enough power to get you hundreds of miles takes a non-trivial amount of power, no matter how good your battery is.
Not to mention, Subversion and CVS are sooo 90's. I'm hugely a fan of github, their site is great, their people are awesomely responsive, and git itself just rocks. With distributed version control you never have to worry about this sort of thing either.
I would agree that the violent destruction of a statue is not acceptable, but I think it is wrong to assert it cannot be art. Attempts to define art in anything but a completely open-ended manner are always doomed to failure. What you consider senseless destruction another man may consider art. Who are you to define what other people are allowed to consider artistic?
There is no such thing as a partial copyright. Either the images are public domain and any attempt by the government to claim otherwise is contrary to the law. Period.
The difference is it sounds like they are going for something microscopic, some sort of engineered bacteria or something. Completely engineering an organism from the ground up on the macro scale is I'm going to assume rather implausible.
If this is in fact the case, then mutation becomes a much bigger issue because the population sizes are extrodinary, and generations are far far shorter. Cows take years to make new cows, but bacteria can go through dozens of generations a day.
Not to mention that if cows suddenly evolved a way to go airborne and wipe out humanity, I'm pretty sure people would notice it pretty quick. Dangerous mutations in militarized microscopic organisms could go unnoticed for some time though...
Myth != Fiction, but Myth also does not equal something that has already been scientifically proven, at least not in my book. You don't see them testing the myth that apples fall to the ground, or the myth that the moon is in orbit around the earth... I suppose having them shoot at each other with blanks could make good television, but honestly I would consider it a bit off topic.
You are only "pretty sure" that there is "an" artist "somewhere" that can spell better than me? Well hell, I don't doubt it at all! In fact, I would be terribly suprised if I was a better speller than every single artist on the planet. I could even take your uncertainty as a compliment!
You are rather god-awful at this criticizing thing aren't you? You should work on your spelling nazi trolls some more if you want anyone around here to take you seriously...
Mythbusters has never pretended to do serious science or properly follow the scientific method, they are an entertainment show. There is nothing wrong with that, but having them "verify" published material from serious scientists seems kind of off, particularly since generally they test myths.
I'm not saying that nontechnical users create security flaws, I'm saying that they demand features that cause security flaws, and the engineers that know better are not in positions to deny them the features. If a high payed media PHB demands that the website for [NEW HIT MOVIE] be made entirely with flash, a lowly engineer pointing out that flash is insecure is not going to get anywhere.
I'm not really sure what you are running off about, but I'm fairly sure that at least a fair chunk of it is unrelated to my post which you are responding to...
I was simply indicating that getting rid of plugins like flash, locking down javascript, and in general getting the seperation of data and executable code right is never going to happen because the people who are currently calling the shots and driving the market either do not understand computer security, or do not make it a priority.
In my opinion, this is because those powers that be generally have graphics design or other somehow nontechnical backgrounds and are more concerned with how a website looks and works, then with how secure it is. I'm not faulting these people, their job is important and they can't be expected to be knowledgable in computer security in addition to the work they already do. There is no easy solution to the problem.
The real problem is really your attitude, not the fact that "artsy-fartsies" are writing webpages in Dreamweaver
I think you are projecting your own prejudices onto my comment. I was not attempting to imply anything negative about art types.
We can talk about the relative merits and security of Windows / OS ? / Lunix all day
Huh? That's not what I'm talking about at all...
No system is secure, unless it is powered off, with no OS, no power supply, and locked in a vault after being encased in concrete, and even that's no guarantee.
Nowhere in my original post do I see myself attempting to present any sort of security magic bullet...
It added a whole new kind of depth to the gameplay. Suddenly, the game wasn't just about how well you could aim, and how well you knew the maps and where the pickups where, it also mattered how good you were at moving. It was so influencial and loved, that future quake engines made it a point to allow alternative movement styles, the pro mods (CPMA stands out in particular) enhanced and added movement tricks, and entire mods were created around completely around the concept (DeFragged). The quakes were really the perfect games for FPS fans, you could pick them up easily enough because the basics were simple and the weapons were easy to use, but there were always more ways that you could improve your gameplay. If you mastered killing people with weapons, and memorized all of the maps, you cou always find better ways around the maps with the weapons.
The concepts developed in Quake I-III helped make those games legend and have made a presence in nearly every FPS since then. Now I understand that in some gaming circles, movement tricks are look down upon, somehow seen as cheating or as degrading to other peoples gaming experiances in general. I've heard of people being banned from Modern Warfare 2 servers for being "unrealistic". More than anything, this saddens me, and signifies to me an end of an era where fun and skill were important in gaming, not misguided ideas of realism.
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I'm not an expert on these things, but I'm fairly sure that is a complaint about Debian, not KDE. I'm not familar with how Debian does it, but if they handle things anywhere near the same as the Kubuntu people do, that would explain a lot...
Complaints from a GNOME user about ease of configuration are amusing though ;)
You can use KDE 4.4 with F12 right now using the Redhat KDE testing repos: http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
I haven't bothered checking, but I believe that generally Fedora will wait for the next release to upgrade KDE 4.x numbers, so you may have to wait for F13 to actually get it from Fedora.
The KDE team isn't responsible for what happened to Amarok, that is a seperate project.
I totally agree though, Amarok turned into complete and utter shit, I used to love Amarok but now I just use xmms2. KDE 4.x has been perfectly usable since 4.3 imho, though I've been using it since 4.1.
Generally speaking "given enough time" to bruteforce a key should mean something like "a few orders of magnitude more time than the universe is expected to last before heat death". Not "6 months". Of course, he didn't bruteforce a key here, he comprimised a hardware device. Comparing the "imperfect" security of one with the other is a tad disingenuous.
The real problem here is these devices have been pushed as some sort of magic security bullet, without the companies pushing them being honest about the actual amount of security provided.
Also, you cannot brute force OTPs, those are perfect. And software can be proven correct, provided enough time/money, and a detailed specification of exactly what the software is supposed to do.
That's what I tried to tell my math teacher when she caught me looking at another students test in class. Strangely enough it didn't go over to well...
Maybe because gimp is an image manipulation program, not a window manager? MDI is, and always has been, a terrible workaround for systems that suck at window management.
In fact I did. Seems they only added it sometime last year, well after I had abandoned them for greener fields. Github still has sourceforge cornered in the "good website" ring though, particularly with sourceforge's recent godawful website redesign.
There is also the issue of having an electrical grid that can handle that. Charging a battery in minutes with enough power to get you hundreds of miles takes a non-trivial amount of power, no matter how good your battery is.
Not to mention, Subversion and CVS are sooo 90's. I'm hugely a fan of github, their site is great, their people are awesomely responsive, and git itself just rocks. With distributed version control you never have to worry about this sort of thing either.
I would agree that the violent destruction of a statue is not acceptable, but I think it is wrong to assert it cannot be art. Attempts to define art in anything but a completely open-ended manner are always doomed to failure. What you consider senseless destruction another man may consider art. Who are you to define what other people are allowed to consider artistic?
Who stuck a pinecone up your ass? I'm supposed to ignore graffiti because it's illegal? Really?
There is no such thing as a partial copyright. Either the images are public domain and any attempt by the government to claim otherwise is contrary to the law. Period.
Oh yeah, 'cus' that's the mark of enlightenment. Linking myspace...
Don't like it? Go back to digg. Slashdot has never tried to hide or deny it's FOSS bias, nor is it ashamed of it.
Fixed that for ya.
There is a lot wrong with humanity, but sometimes I think people are a tad to harsh on it...
The difference is it sounds like they are going for something microscopic, some sort of engineered bacteria or something. Completely engineering an organism from the ground up on the macro scale is I'm going to assume rather implausible.
If this is in fact the case, then mutation becomes a much bigger issue because the population sizes are extrodinary, and generations are far far shorter. Cows take years to make new cows, but bacteria can go through dozens of generations a day.
Not to mention that if cows suddenly evolved a way to go airborne and wipe out humanity, I'm pretty sure people would notice it pretty quick. Dangerous mutations in militarized microscopic organisms could go unnoticed for some time though...
Do my intel chips come with salsa then?
Myth != Fiction, but Myth also does not equal something that has already been scientifically proven, at least not in my book. You don't see them testing the myth that apples fall to the ground, or the myth that the moon is in orbit around the earth... I suppose having them shoot at each other with blanks could make good television, but honestly I would consider it a bit off topic.
You are only "pretty sure" that there is "an" artist "somewhere" that can spell better than me? Well hell, I don't doubt it at all! In fact, I would be terribly suprised if I was a better speller than every single artist on the planet. I could even take your uncertainty as a compliment!
You are rather god-awful at this criticizing thing aren't you? You should work on your spelling nazi trolls some more if you want anyone around here to take you seriously...
I wasn't making any sort of crack...
Mythbusters has never pretended to do serious science or properly follow the scientific method, they are an entertainment show. There is nothing wrong with that, but having them "verify" published material from serious scientists seems kind of off, particularly since generally they test myths.
Why? Real scientists have already confirmed it. Methinks someone just wants to see Jamie get shot on tv.
I'm not saying that nontechnical users create security flaws, I'm saying that they demand features that cause security flaws, and the engineers that know better are not in positions to deny them the features. If a high payed media PHB demands that the website for [NEW HIT MOVIE] be made entirely with flash, a lowly engineer pointing out that flash is insecure is not going to get anywhere.
I'm not really sure what you are running off about, but I'm fairly sure that at least a fair chunk of it is unrelated to my post which you are responding to...
I was simply indicating that getting rid of plugins like flash, locking down javascript, and in general getting the seperation of data and executable code right is never going to happen because the people who are currently calling the shots and driving the market either do not understand computer security, or do not make it a priority.
In my opinion, this is because those powers that be generally have graphics design or other somehow nontechnical backgrounds and are more concerned with how a website looks and works, then with how secure it is. I'm not faulting these people, their job is important and they can't be expected to be knowledgable in computer security in addition to the work they already do. There is no easy solution to the problem.
I think you are projecting your own prejudices onto my comment. I was not attempting to imply anything negative about art types.
Huh? That's not what I'm talking about at all...
Nowhere in my original post do I see myself attempting to present any sort of security magic bullet...
The reason this will never happen (and it should) is because we have art students, not engineers, designing our websites, and thus calling the shots.
Some parts of computing should just not be done by non-technical users, designing secure systems is one of them.
It added a whole new kind of depth to the gameplay. Suddenly, the game wasn't just about how well you could aim, and how well you knew the maps and where the pickups where, it also mattered how good you were at moving. It was so influencial and loved, that future quake engines made it a point to allow alternative movement styles, the pro mods (CPMA stands out in particular) enhanced and added movement tricks, and entire mods were created around completely around the concept (DeFragged). The quakes were really the perfect games for FPS fans, you could pick them up easily enough because the basics were simple and the weapons were easy to use, but there were always more ways that you could improve your gameplay. If you mastered killing people with weapons, and memorized all of the maps, you cou always find better ways around the maps with the weapons.
The concepts developed in Quake I-III helped make those games legend and have made a presence in nearly every FPS since then. Now I understand that in some gaming circles, movement tricks are look down upon, somehow seen as cheating or as degrading to other peoples gaming experiances in general. I've heard of people being banned from Modern Warfare 2 servers for being "unrealistic". More than anything, this saddens me, and signifies to me an end of an era where fun and skill were important in gaming, not misguided ideas of realism.