Do you have a link to the Linux version? How about the Mac version? Both Word Viewer and Excel Viewer are rated "Gold" in the Wine AppDB. (Gold means that it works perfectly once installed, but you have to do some trick to get there. See the links for details.)
It's read-only, but you can copy stuff into another program. I didn't look at the EULA; I don't imagine that they're any friendlier when you aren't paying them...
BTW, I haven't tried this myself, and the rating hasn't been confirmed by a maintainer.
why again shouldn't I be able to influence the elections of all 535? "State" used to mean country; "The United States of America" used to be plural rather than singular, referring to the states rather than the group of states. They were supposed to be mostly self-ruling, but cooperating for the sake of survival. So, when you're voting for for US senators and representatives, you're voting for people to represent your state in it's dealings with the other states in the union.
Being able to influence all of them probably wouldn't be a big help, since there'd be so many you'd have to divide your time amongst, and anyone else could persuade the lawmakers from your state, too. This is what states' rights is all about: a lighter federal government that doesn't interfere with the states' decisions (as far as that's practical).
(Take this with a grain of salt; history isn't my best subject.)
I agree that it might become socially acceptable, but that doesn't change anything about the cameras. I'll have to read up on Venice; I don't know history well enough to compare the society. As for art, that'd be cool. (Someone walking their dog in a matching suit, or a cat suit...)
This could become a nightmare for those in witness protection. Photo of Mr X in his original town. Automatically recognized and tagged photo of Mr X in town Y, hundreds of miles away. We all know it, but keep forgetting it.
"person x does something, person y find out about it and an action results".
is this representative of the problem statement?
or is it
"person x does something, person z has a record of the event; possibly publically avaible."
if the only objection to the second statement is that it modifies the ease at which the first can result, then you have a problem with the first statemnt.
To resolve that issue, simply don't behave in an indecent manner (in the above example the embarising action is "getting drunk and looking like a fool"), or perform any action with other people which you would not want potentially everyone to know about.
The default state for knowlege is to spread - the entire idea that you can place artifical boundries on the spread of information is what thw whole DRM mess is about.
If other people have photos of you you don't want shared, just ask them - most people are honerable enough to not do so, and if not then why would you perform such actions infront of them?
Deal with it and get over it? It's hard to "deal with it" when you might not even know about that particular photo, what the subject (that you've never met) was doing when the photo was made (by someone you've never met), or that it has anything to do with why employer X didn't hire you.
By the way, I don't like this, but I think the freedom of speech/press is more important than privacy.
Immediate problems: Until a significant number of people are doing it, it probably won't help your privacy much, as you'll draw attention to yourself. Many businesses and government offices will tell you to take off the mask or leave. (Maybe worse, if you're unfortunate.) If your city has cameras all over its streets, they can follow you home (without showing themselves). (By "they", I mean crackers, officials, and anyone with enough money to get the attention of one of the first two.)
Long-term problems: If lots of people start doing this, it will probably be made illegal, whether or not there is any increase in crime (or unsolvable crime). Recognition software would likely be made to estimate the shape of your head.
(Off topic, but why doesn't/. support <pre>...</pre>? I'd like to throw in a little HTML without having to worry about line breaks.)
Once each student is equipped with a WiFi tag do theyr really imagine that only the school will have this info. Forget the overzealous parent that wants 24/7 monitoring. What about the creepy stalker who wants to follow the girl of his dreams?
Exactly, and does it even matter if only the "school" has it? Like nobody bad ever worked in a school. So the Creepy Vice Principle can see that this one girl is alone in the bathroom in the middle of a class session. Great.
So? Betcha the "core" (base system, whatever) packages of ANY linux distro have had at least that many bugs filed (and closed) in six months. Many hands make light work. True, but we have more programmers than lawyers. I suppose we could filter it down a bit and then have lawyers look at it.
I had a little electric razor from Japan, and after cutting the plastic off of it (out of habit), I noticed the easy to open snaps. The US makes cool stuff, and the Japanese make it better.
(I might have wanted to move there, if it wasn't for the language barrier and their water-spray toilets. Who came up with that one?)
Why do you think it is not good for Americans? American businesses would be one set of businesses utilizing the outsourcing. They probably meant that it wouldn't be good for American workers, as there would be less demand for workers in America if the companies out-sourced.
Actually the Inspiron 1200 was affected by a recall in late 2004 for the power supplies overheating. I know because I had one and Dell replaced it as part of the recall program. Good to know. Did they send you a letter or anything?
(By the way, are "Mod parent up" posts considered rude?)
Let me get this straight. To use this attack, you need to be running on the same hardware, but you don't need any particular access beyond that? If that's the case, any multi-site server that allows you to run your own server-side scripting is at risk.
We've got a//GS (mid '80s) and a Performa 6300CD (mid '90s?) that still run fine (other than being out of date). (Though the//GS is old enough that I might not remember if it had a problem.) I guess I just got used to machines lasting practically forever, and started expecting that in all of them. So yeah, it's debatable how long we should expect them to last.
The books of the Bible are not in the order in which they were written (in most publications). IIRC, Revelations was not the last book written. Remember, the Bible wasn't always one volume, it's a compilation of many religious writings. I would not presume that he was referring to a compilation which had not yet been made, therefore he most likely meant that anyone who altered the Book of Revelations was sinning.
"Plus, the federal government is only funding research that promises to debunk global warming at the moment. Haven't you read the NSF web page lately?"
A quick look didn't show me anything like that. Got a link?
I forgot that it wasn't just the Rev. A, and you're right, it worked for a long time without problems.
I didn't mean to blame Apple, I was just saying that you're probably better off not buying Rev. A from anyone, though I now realize that's contradictory. Ah, forget it and just make sure you get AppleCare.
"even people i know that run out an buy Rev A products seem to do fine."
Well, you don't know me, but I've had trouble with a Rev. A iMac; Apple didn't provide enough cooling for the FBT on the analog board. As a result, the built-in monitor is now useless, and the computer won't power up if you still have it connected to the dead monitor. (It didn't even "sad Mac." It had us thinking there was a power supply problem for a while.)
I opened up the case and plugged in a monitor from a Performa PPC, and that works fine except that when the computer goes to sleep automatically, the monitor stays on and just displays black. Interestingly, if you explicitly tell the iMac to go to sleep, the monitor sleeps correctly.
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It's read-only, but you can copy stuff into another program. I didn't look at the EULA; I don't imagine that they're any friendlier when you aren't paying them...
BTW, I haven't tried this myself, and the rating hasn't been confirmed by a maintainer.
Word Viewer 2003 on Wine AppDB:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=53
Excel Viewer 2003 on Wine AppDB:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=53
Being able to influence all of them probably wouldn't be a big help, since there'd be so many you'd have to divide your time amongst, and anyone else could persuade the lawmakers from your state, too. This is what states' rights is all about: a lighter federal government that doesn't interfere with the states' decisions (as far as that's practical).
(Take this with a grain of salt; history isn't my best subject.)
What if we made it illegal to exploit flaws in anti-bribe laws? It'd be fitting. :^)
(Of course, like anything else that might work, it'll never really happen.)
I agree that it might become socially acceptable, but that doesn't change anything about the cameras. I'll have to read up on Venice; I don't know history well enough to compare the society. As for art, that'd be cool. (Someone walking their dog in a matching suit, or a cat suit...)
is this representative of the problem statement?
or is it
"person x does something, person z has a record of the event; possibly publically avaible."
if the only objection to the second statement is that it modifies the ease at which the first can result, then you have a problem with the first statemnt.
To resolve that issue, simply don't behave in an indecent manner (in the above example the embarising action is "getting drunk and looking like a fool"), or perform any action with other people which you would not want potentially everyone to know about.
The default state for knowlege is to spread - the entire idea that you can place artifical boundries on the spread of information is what thw whole DRM mess is about.
If other people have photos of you you don't want shared, just ask them - most people are honerable enough to not do so, and if not then why would you perform such actions infront of them?
See post #19363389, post #19363053, and post #19363085. (Though I do partly agree with you.)
Why'd I have to talk before I was done reading?
Deal with it and get over it? It's hard to "deal with it" when you might not even know about that particular photo, what the subject (that you've never met) was doing when the photo was made (by someone you've never met), or that it has anything to do with why employer X didn't hire you.
By the way, I don't like this, but I think the freedom of speech/press is more important than privacy.
Immediate problems:
/. support <pre>...</pre>? I'd like to throw in a little HTML without having to worry about line breaks.)
Until a significant number of people are doing it, it probably won't help your privacy much, as you'll draw attention to yourself.
Many businesses and government offices will tell you to take off the mask or leave. (Maybe worse, if you're unfortunate.)
If your city has cameras all over its streets, they can follow you home (without showing themselves). (By "they", I mean crackers, officials, and anyone with enough money to get the attention of one of the first two.)
Long-term problems:
If lots of people start doing this, it will probably be made illegal, whether or not there is any increase in crime (or unsolvable crime).
Recognition software would likely be made to estimate the shape of your head.
(Off topic, but why doesn't
Exactly, and does it even matter if only the "school" has it? Like nobody bad ever worked in a school. So the Creepy Vice Principle can see that this one girl is alone in the bathroom in the middle of a class session. Great.
I had a little electric razor from Japan, and after cutting the plastic off of it (out of habit), I noticed the easy to open snaps. The US makes cool stuff, and the Japanese make it better.
(I might have wanted to move there, if it wasn't for the language barrier and their water-spray toilets. Who came up with that one?)
(By the way, are "Mod parent up" posts considered rude?)
A recent survey stated that 50% of all trojanned machines run Windows XP SP2 [...]Not that I'm all that surprised, but could you cite a source?
Let me get this straight. To use this attack, you need to be running on the same hardware, but you don't need any particular access beyond that? If that's the case, any multi-site server that allows you to run your own server-side scripting is at risk.
You can do whatever you want with truly public domain materials.
We've got a //GS (mid '80s) and a Performa 6300CD (mid '90s?) that still run fine (other than being out of date). (Though the //GS is old enough that I might not remember if it had a problem.) I guess I just got used to machines lasting practically forever, and started expecting that in all of them. So yeah, it's debatable how long we should expect them to last.
This is off topic, but:
The books of the Bible are not in the order in which they were written (in most publications). IIRC, Revelations was not the last book written. Remember, the Bible wasn't always one volume, it's a compilation of many religious writings. I would not presume that he was referring to a compilation which had not yet been made, therefore he most likely meant that anyone who altered the Book of Revelations was sinning.
"Plus, the federal government is only funding research that promises to debunk global warming at the moment. Haven't you read the NSF web page lately?"
A quick look didn't show me anything like that. Got a link?
I forgot that it wasn't just the Rev. A, and you're right, it worked for a long time without problems.
I didn't mean to blame Apple, I was just saying that you're probably better off not buying Rev. A from anyone, though I now realize that's contradictory. Ah, forget it and just make sure you get AppleCare.
(Well that made me feel a little stupid.)
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"even people i know that run out an buy Rev A products seem to do fine."
Well, you don't know me, but I've had trouble with a Rev. A iMac; Apple didn't provide enough cooling for the FBT on the analog board. As a result, the built-in monitor is now useless, and the computer won't power up if you still have it connected to the dead monitor. (It didn't even "sad Mac." It had us thinking there was a power supply problem for a while.)
I opened up the case and plugged in a monitor from a Performa PPC, and that works fine except that when the computer goes to sleep automatically, the monitor stays on and just displays black. Interestingly, if you explicitly tell the iMac to go to sleep, the monitor sleeps correctly.
Good description of the problem and how to fix it:
http://www.macopz.com/columns/imacrepair/
I like Apple (for the most part), but I'm never going to buy Rev. A again.
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