And there are a lot of companies, big and small, that are learning about pdf printing via open source tools, making Acrobat a waste of money. If Acrobat isn't being used to create the documents, why use Acrobat Reader?
it is often the case that students skip lecture, and then don't properly learn the material. they then either slow down the pace of the class during labs and recitation, or ask stupid question that they should already know the answer to in lecture,
Or maybe the students don't properly learn the material, then skip class? I'd rather have the dummies visit the prof in office hours than waste everyone's time in lecture.
And both comic and movie were set in the 80's. Who didn't use stupid passwords in the 80's? I remember using an adverb in the early nineties thinking I was cool because "no one would think of an adverb; everyone uses nouns". Ah, youth and inexperience.
In the movie House of Flying Daggers, there's a swordfight scene where the two rivals finally clash in an epic struggle as the seasons change from summer to fall to winter all around them. Obviously nobody can fight for nine months. Obviously the sword choreography was on a completely different time scale to the environment they were in. Details like this matter if you're a weak-minded literalist. As pretty as the visuals were, it simply communicated a story like a line in a novel. It was a powerful visual metaphor.
Thanks! The next time a cop expects a sword fight to last nine months just like he expects the lab to enhance a security camera image, I'll know what movie he's seen recently.
Somehow, I think an analogy to the *mechanics* of swordplay would have been more appropriate since only a complete dullard would not grasp the nine-month metaphor slapping him in the face. However, there are a lot of people that probably think Errol Flynn fights are the height of fencing, just like regular folk believe these computer stories.
mv (within a filesystem) changes inodes on the filesystem, but leaves the data in place on the drive. No copy, no delete. Your statement may be correct in between filesystems or on Windows boxen.
Wait, is that pronounced "secst"? Now I know what all this secsting is about.
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They were assassins who had to hide their weapons in plain sight, so they used farming implements and straight swords (Ninja-to) that could be hidden easily. They weren't the "Rebel Alliance" rising up against the evil Empire.
most people aren't aware of these webstandards at all and aren't switching to Firefox or Chrome because MSIE doesn't support them. They're switching because other browsers are faster, more secure, less obnoxious, more cool and support more plugins and other goodies.
I think most people don't notice or care about the speed or plugins. Obnoxiousness, yes, but security is the big point. Either they or their friends have gotten a driveby that pwned them (probably because they were running under an admin account). They hear on the news or from friends that IE is the cause, and they leave it for FF or Opera. In other words, MS's favorite tactic -- Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt -- is working against IE.
I've been using facebook for a long time now. I know all about zukerberg's questionable past and general sliminess. But tell me this, what lack privacy settings is everybody complaining about? I checked the privacy page just now and it seems I have control over everything I can think of. And the interface is pretty straight forward. Is there something I'm missing? Or are people just having a knee jerk reaction here?
This is a serious question, if there is a important privacy setting missing from facebook I want to know because I use it everyday.
Until about a year ago, you were allowed to set your profile picture and friends list to be viewable by "friends only". Now they're completely public. Same now (starting last week) with Work History, Education History, Current City, Hometown, Likes and Interests. What's worse is that there are options in the privacy settings to make you think you're putting the information for these things in as viewable for "only friends", but it doesn't do anything, and there is hidden text on another page explaining why:
Confirm the Pages that will be on your profile
Uncheck any Page you don't want to link to. Linking to education and work Pages may also create additional Pages, such as for your major or job title. If you don't link to any Pages, these sections on your profile will be empty. By linking your profile to Pages, you will be making these connections public. [emphasis mine, but text from the FB page]
You are about to remove this information
If you don't link to any Pages, the following sections on your profile will be empty:
Work and Education
Current City
Hometown
Likes and Interests
Notice how much is publicly available now that might not have been in the past? If Joe or Jane Smith thought they were safe from weirdo stalkers because only their friends (and Facebook) knew their place of work, businesses they frequent, etc, then they're in for a shock when they finally figure out that Facebook's final goal is to make all information public including phone numbers, addresses, messages. Why? Because it's Facebook's way to pretend they're not sharing private data with business partners. "We told users that the data is public now; we're sharing public data, which is perfectly legal in every jurisdiction."
A heavy focus on characters and their relationships is nothing new, that's done in soap operas even. That was also one of the main focuses of Battlestar Galactica up until the end when suddenly it was just some John Zerzan fantasy instead.
I don't know what Battlestar Galactica you've been watching, but I remember it as a campy Sci-Fi series with evil robots which took their name from the reptile race that built them: the Cylons....which turned into an angelic sci-fi fantasy and eventually an even worse Sci-Fi show with a half-angel half human usurping Adama's command.
the fact that they are still introducing new characters in the last 12 episodes screams of sloppiness
That seems pretty real to me. In the last page of your life, you'll probably have a few new characters like nurses, doctors, etc. A story that has no new characters in the last season seems too well crafted; plastic.
Watchmen is a perfect example of this, written in 1986. As someone else mentioned, the practice of excessive flashbacks showing character interactions over time (and related side stories) dates back to ancient Greece.
I think that money can motive even a drugged-up hippie for 15 minutes.
Money's the way the man controls you. Open your mind to the cosmic crystal colors and realize we're not bound by pieces of paper or metal. We should work on the puzzle together; that way everyone wins.
There are a lot of reasons why someone will be sitting in a server room for an hour or more. Please don't make it an unbearable hour with heat baking the poor humans.
Water, clay and "organic materials". What if the "organic materials" are dysentery amoeba, Ebola virus, or cyanide? Suddenly 95% water doesn't mean as much.
The reason for encrypting the hard drive is because doctors and nurses, and your various other medical staff members are idiots about computers. Basically they will copy a file from one place to another and not be smart enough to keep it encrypted, the hard drive encryption ensures that it is encrypted without having to teach 100+ staff members who all think they have more important things to do like play golf.
There are a lot of challenges for security/usability balancing that need to be properly addressed especially in a hospitol where too much security could kill someone, and not enough could be just as devistating.
Well, it's quite easy actually. Mount the user's desktop and folders on a network share, and don't give them permission to write to the C: drive. Done. The C: drive by definition won't have any private information on it, because the users don't have rights to put it there... And the best part of it? Windows has the capability to do that built right in! So no need to install or distribute third part software. No need to "assign" computers to users. Just log in to whatever computer you want, and all your data is right there... It won't really work for laptops that need to be used off line, but that's why I said full disk encryption for laptops is reasonable and justifiable. But I just can't see the need for full disk encryption on all computers. If you want to do it then fine, but there are ways of data protection that don't require it (and are probably MUCH more maintainable than just tossing full disk encryption on there)...
Don't forget to turn off the virtual mem (swap/pagefile). Not even forcing it to clear on shutdown is good enough, because power can be removed at any point. Encrypting the drive removes doubt.
This case hinged on whether Childs' boss was an "authorized user", and it took the jury some time to decide he was, only because he was recognized as authorized to do something else.
And in case someone needs an example, I give our webmaster sudo access to restart httpd, but nothing else. This is like the jury deciding that because the webmaster can restart httpd, he should have root access.
Car example: Imagine those valet keys that limit max speed to 10-15 mph. The jury decided that the valet was the car owner because he could start the engine.
How could Ubuntu not include the GIMP?!! And worse yet, they have replaced it with F-Spot -- one of the most difficult and annoyingly feature free graphics programs I have ever seen. IIRC, it is based on Mono, too, which is another reason to hate it. [...] In 8.04, I could resize an external monitor to whatever resolution the monitor could take.
In 8.04, F-Spot was/is the default photo manager. I've been using 8.04 since 2008/04, and every time I plug my phone in to charge, F-Spot pops up. IIRC, Gimp wasn't installed by default with 8.04 either, but f-spot doesn't do editing, it just manages photo directories. I never knew it was mono based; that explains why it's slow as moles' asses in January.
Lately it seems like the most trollish horseshit is posted by guys with really low UIDs. They are like dinosaurs who really just don't understand how the world works anymore, and are forced to resort to inappropriate and misdirected rants based on a mid-1990s level of understanding of digital media.
You do realize that most of the low UID guys are probably no older than you? A six digit UID starting with 7 is pretty old. My UID isn't representative of my age either; I've lurked/. since time began, but after many years decided to start posting.
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And there are a lot of companies, big and small, that are learning about pdf printing via open source tools, making Acrobat a waste of money. If Acrobat isn't being used to create the documents, why use Acrobat Reader?
it is often the case that students skip lecture, and then don't properly learn the material. they then either slow down the pace of the class during labs and recitation, or ask stupid question that they should already know the answer to in lecture,
Or maybe the students don't properly learn the material, then skip class? I'd rather have the dummies visit the prof in office hours than waste everyone's time in lecture.
I'll bet iPhone OS doesn't have this problem.
And both comic and movie were set in the 80's. Who didn't use stupid passwords in the 80's? I remember using an adverb in the early nineties thinking I was cool because "no one would think of an adverb; everyone uses nouns". Ah, youth and inexperience.
In the movie House of Flying Daggers, there's a swordfight scene where the two rivals finally clash in an epic struggle as the seasons change from summer to fall to winter all around them. Obviously nobody can fight for nine months. Obviously the sword choreography was on a completely different time scale to the environment they were in. Details like this matter if you're a weak-minded literalist. As pretty as the visuals were, it simply communicated a story like a line in a novel. It was a powerful visual metaphor.
Thanks! The next time a cop expects a sword fight to last nine months just like he expects the lab to enhance a security camera image, I'll know what movie he's seen recently.
Somehow, I think an analogy to the *mechanics* of swordplay would have been more appropriate since only a complete dullard would not grasp the nine-month metaphor slapping him in the face. However, there are a lot of people that probably think Errol Flynn fights are the height of fencing, just like regular folk believe these computer stories.
mv (within a filesystem) changes inodes on the filesystem, but leaves the data in place on the drive. No copy, no delete. Your statement may be correct in between filesystems or on Windows boxen.
gif and jpg are inferior too, but I bet IE9 will support them.
yeah, comes right after 2st
Wait, is that pronounced "secst"? Now I know what all this secsting is about.
They were assassins who had to hide their weapons in plain sight, so they used farming implements and straight swords (Ninja-to) that could be hidden easily. They weren't the "Rebel Alliance" rising up against the evil Empire.
4 Terabits = 512 Gigabytes.
How much is that in Terribibits or Gibibybytes?
most people aren't aware of these webstandards at all and aren't switching to Firefox or Chrome because MSIE doesn't support them. They're switching because other browsers are faster, more secure, less obnoxious, more cool and support more plugins and other goodies.
I think most people don't notice or care about the speed or plugins. Obnoxiousness, yes, but security is the big point. Either they or their friends have gotten a driveby that pwned them (probably because they were running under an admin account). They hear on the news or from friends that IE is the cause, and they leave it for FF or Opera. In other words, MS's favorite tactic -- Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt -- is working against IE.
I've been using facebook for a long time now. I know all about zukerberg's questionable past and general sliminess. But tell me this, what lack privacy settings is everybody complaining about? I checked the privacy page just now and it seems I have control over everything I can think of. And the interface is pretty straight forward. Is there something I'm missing? Or are people just having a knee jerk reaction here?
This is a serious question, if there is a important privacy setting missing from facebook I want to know because I use it everyday.
Until about a year ago, you were allowed to set your profile picture and friends list to be viewable by "friends only". Now they're completely public. Same now (starting last week) with Work History, Education History, Current City, Hometown, Likes and Interests. What's worse is that there are options in the privacy settings to make you think you're putting the information for these things in as viewable for "only friends", but it doesn't do anything, and there is hidden text on another page explaining why:
Confirm the Pages that will be on your profile
Uncheck any Page you don't want to link to. Linking to education and work Pages may also create additional Pages, such as for your major or job title. If you don't link to any Pages, these sections on your profile will be empty. By linking your profile to Pages, you will be making these connections public. [emphasis mine, but text from the FB page]
You are about to remove this information
If you don't link to any Pages, the following sections on your profile will be empty:
Notice how much is publicly available now that might not have been in the past? If Joe or Jane Smith thought they were safe from weirdo stalkers because only their friends (and Facebook) knew their place of work, businesses they frequent, etc, then they're in for a shock when they finally figure out that Facebook's final goal is to make all information public including phone numbers, addresses, messages. Why? Because it's Facebook's way to pretend they're not sharing private data with business partners. "We told users that the data is public now; we're sharing public data, which is perfectly legal in every jurisdiction."
A heavy focus on characters and their relationships is nothing new, that's done in soap operas even. That was also one of the main focuses of Battlestar Galactica up until the end when suddenly it was just some John Zerzan fantasy instead.
I don't know what Battlestar Galactica you've been watching, but I remember it as a campy Sci-Fi series with evil robots which took their name from the reptile race that built them: the Cylons. ...which turned into an angelic sci-fi fantasy and eventually an even worse Sci-Fi show with a half-angel half human usurping Adama's command.
the fact that they are still introducing new characters in the last 12 episodes screams of sloppiness
That seems pretty real to me. In the last page of your life, you'll probably have a few new characters like nurses, doctors, etc. A story that has no new characters in the last season seems too well crafted; plastic.
Watchmen is a perfect example of this, written in 1986. As someone else mentioned, the practice of excessive flashbacks showing character interactions over time (and related side stories) dates back to ancient Greece.
I think that money can motive even a drugged-up hippie for 15 minutes.
Money's the way the man controls you. Open your mind to the cosmic crystal colors and realize we're not bound by pieces of paper or metal. We should work on the puzzle together; that way everyone wins.
There are a lot of reasons why someone will be sitting in a server room for an hour or more. Please don't make it an unbearable hour with heat baking the poor humans.
Water, clay and "organic materials". What if the "organic materials" are dysentery amoeba, Ebola virus, or cyanide? Suddenly 95% water doesn't mean as much.
The reason for encrypting the hard drive is because doctors and nurses, and your various other medical staff members are idiots about computers. Basically they will copy a file from one place to another and not be smart enough to keep it encrypted, the hard drive encryption ensures that it is encrypted without having to teach 100+ staff members who all think they have more important things to do like play golf. There are a lot of challenges for security/usability balancing that need to be properly addressed especially in a hospitol where too much security could kill someone, and not enough could be just as devistating.
Well, it's quite easy actually. Mount the user's desktop and folders on a network share, and don't give them permission to write to the C: drive. Done. The C: drive by definition won't have any private information on it, because the users don't have rights to put it there... And the best part of it? Windows has the capability to do that built right in! So no need to install or distribute third part software. No need to "assign" computers to users. Just log in to whatever computer you want, and all your data is right there... It won't really work for laptops that need to be used off line, but that's why I said full disk encryption for laptops is reasonable and justifiable. But I just can't see the need for full disk encryption on all computers. If you want to do it then fine, but there are ways of data protection that don't require it (and are probably MUCH more maintainable than just tossing full disk encryption on there)...
Don't forget to turn off the virtual mem (swap/pagefile). Not even forcing it to clear on shutdown is good enough, because power can be removed at any point. Encrypting the drive removes doubt.
Your honor, I was told I could get off of the jury if I mentioned the secret words "Jury Nullification". Can I go now?
This case hinged on whether Childs' boss was an "authorized user", and it took the jury some time to decide he was, only because he was recognized as authorized to do something else.
And in case someone needs an example, I give our webmaster sudo access to restart httpd, but nothing else. This is like the jury deciding that because the webmaster can restart httpd, he should have root access.
Car example: Imagine those valet keys that limit max speed to 10-15 mph. The jury decided that the valet was the car owner because he could start the engine.
If you write unmaintainable code when you are going to be targeted for termination, does that also make you legal fodder?
That sure is easier than hiring you back as a consultant.
How could Ubuntu not include the GIMP?!! And worse yet, they have replaced it with F-Spot -- one of the most difficult and annoyingly feature free graphics programs I have ever seen. IIRC, it is based on Mono, too, which is another reason to hate it. [...] In 8.04, I could resize an external monitor to whatever resolution the monitor could take.
In 8.04, F-Spot was/is the default photo manager. I've been using 8.04 since 2008/04, and every time I plug my phone in to charge, F-Spot pops up. IIRC, Gimp wasn't installed by default with 8.04 either, but f-spot doesn't do editing, it just manages photo directories. I never knew it was mono based; that explains why it's slow as moles' asses in January.
Lately it seems like the most trollish horseshit is posted by guys with really low UIDs. They are like dinosaurs who really just don't understand how the world works anymore, and are forced to resort to inappropriate and misdirected rants based on a mid-1990s level of understanding of digital media.
You do realize that most of the low UID guys are probably no older than you? A six digit UID starting with 7 is pretty old. My UID isn't representative of my age either; I've lurked /. since time began, but after many years decided to start posting.
Trolling is more fun.
Damn, I shouldn't have fed you.
I'd totally buy an iPaq phone if it came installed with Linux. I still have my iPaq from years ago, and it's not dead yet.