I checked out every css selector/property that I could find that I knew didn't work in IE 6. I was able to find no added support in IE7. They failed.
Your research results are important.
Would you mind posting your examples on a web site so that others may check whether successive versions of IE and other browsers comply with those W3C standards?
he had to abide by the contract he signed willingly when he worked
Meanwhile, on a quiet and huge scale, less talented individuals "willingly" sign contracts for employment that require drug-testing and surveillance measures that would be widely considered instrusive were they implemented by the government.
Of course, prospective employees are "free" not to sign such contracts and to find a better potential place of employement.
Suppose your new PC came with MS Linux pre-installed "for free", with working players for all MS audio/video formats, Office, Excel, etc. but with a whole directory full of binary only kernel modules that replicated the DLL's in C:\Windows\System32? It wouldn't cost anything, all your Linux programs would run, and you'd gain compatibility with all the MS applications to which you and loved ones have developed an addiction.
Oh, yeah, it would also have TCPA built-in so if you mucked around too much with that stuff it would stop working:)
But any current commercial user of Linux for web hosting, etc. would be able to drop in MS Linux for whatever they had now. For an especially low subscription price, fully supported by MS - this monthy only!
uncovering corruption. Which does not appear to be the case here.
Can't say for sure. But two points:
It costs Cisco a lot of money to quickly put their best people onto researching the problem, coming up with a fix, testing, and distributing it to installed sites. The faster they have to do this, or even if they have to do it at all, costs them money. Since they're in business to make money (reduce costs) you can see where this line of reasoning might carry management that was completely focussed on the bottom line and considered ethical issues as window dressing.
Meanwhile, it costs Cisco's customers real risk that they'll get cracked by an unscrupulous black hat in the interim while Cisco takes its time to fix the problem and distribute it to the customers. That might not be a cost those at-risk customers figured into the initial purchase price; it probably wasn't mentioned in Cisco's product sales pitch.
A clear case of corruption would be if Cisco tried to "kill the messenger", bury the problem,conceal its existence, so they wouldn't have to spend more resources dealing with it.
I'm not inclined to believe Cisco would do that. Rather, they'd attack the problem with as many resources as they think it deserves.
But in the real world of shades of gray it's hard to determine whether Cisco is working on the bug with all necessary and sufficient expeditious diligence, or they are needlessly and carelessly dragging their feet because fixing the problem looks to be an expensive proposition.
Personally, I think the annual reports of companies like Cisco, MS, Oracle, IBM, Sun, etc. should be required to provide an after-the-fact one-year history of their bug handling, notification, fix, distribution (with all the legal baggage that financial reporting and auditing requires), and how many of their customers' systems were vulnerable, and actually exploited (anonymous is OK there). That kind of full disclosure would provide potential customers with at least the historical information they need to make an informed decision in a functioning free market.
Specifies the delay, in seconds, that the server delays after a failed attempt to log in using keyboard-interactive and password authentication. The default is 2.
A decelerating response might be customized using plug-ins if AuthKbdInt.Plugin were configured.
Given how much of our world has become commercialized, the prevalence of advertising, the influence of money on decision-making, etc. it's sometimes interesting to consider the government itself as a monopoly service provider.
Not a complete monopoly, since regulations governing human behavior are set (at least in the US) by federal, state, county and municipality, by various religious groups, and by employers and unions.
While laws and regulations are not a blantantly free and direct market, it's still interesting how money is used to buy certain regulations and, in our modern representative democracies, the mechanisms used (eg, convincing the voters, hiding some news, highlighting other news, etc.)
People aren't buying personal computers any longer.
They're buying Copyrighted Media Connectors/Players/Recorders.
The word "computer" is just a throwback to a bygone era when you could create programs as much as any large company could.
These modern gameboxes will permit some programmability.
But less programmability as time passes. Consumers aren't going to notice the transition and by the time they do notice it will be too late and they'll just grumble while the Preview of Coming Attractions part of "bootup" gets way too long and loud.
By using Linux, HP essentially gets a free ride from IBM and need not spend the money to ensure that Linux is reliable.
Large organizations buying into Linux for its many advantages are naturally cautious and skeptical.
Especially about the part where the answer to "Who owns Linux? (translation: "Who is responsible for Linux in case I need help?") is essentially "No one for sure, everyone with probability, and less goes wrong anyway." leaves decision makers with mixed feelings.
Then, the answer to the question of where to buy 100 Linux servers or workstations will be swayed by evidence such as "We have 6 full time developers", "Big Name A works at IBM", etc.
Buying one white box that I maintain myself is one thing; it's a different matter altogether if you're buying 100 boxes that your staff will maintain - you want evidence of a deep bench for support.
The drawback to this strategy of fighting OSS is that migrants to OSS will be brave risk takers and people with so much technical knowledge that they understand MS is BSing. That artificially distils the OSS users into the more knowledgeable and more venturesome. Not good for MS. It takes a lot of glossy advertising budget to counteract word of mouth.
Meanwhile, your own customer base is becoming enriched in the less technically savvy, the risk-averse, and people who believe you. I will concede that people who have money are risk-averse. But that's not the growth market so much as the stasis market.
Also, everytime you ask your Believing Customers for more money (cf Upgrade) you run increasing risks of losing some of them because you have to extend reassurance that they're making a good choice.
The Windows/Linux floodgates are leaking, but won't fully open until there is widespread knowledge that MS is taxing their business and costing them money.
That's not quite yet the case generally, but for some specific businesses using MS is higher cost. And, for some businesses, it will make fiscal sense to stay with MS until Linux makes up 75% of the market (just as there are legacy computing shops from earlier eras running well today).
How do you handle your pop-up and e-mail reminders?"
Long ago I used biff, xbiff and xlbiff.
Now, Evolution has pop-up reminders sufficient for my needs.
Of course, it would be nice to have more extensibility built-in to Evolution so that any script could be fired off for any particular event.
For recurring events, cron works like a champ, after you take the 3 minutes to understand its terse time specification syntax and learn that ~/.crontab needs to be crafted by invoking crontab -e.
The automakers have a huge investment in the status quo.
Considering suppliers to the automotive industry, the jobs they provide, the petroleum products required to make them run, and that much freight moves by trucks, the investment by society as a whole is huge.
Which is why it's going to be increasingly traumatic as the oil faucet slowly begins to close. Geopolitics surrounding petroleum is already traumatic enough now, thank you.
Paypal and the like are fine for pure electronic transactions, but being able to issue your own checks/currency on paper that you could take down to some storefront vendor and have them punch in your name and 20 digit number (or read it from the bar code) would make everyone happy (except VISA and its member banks who exert monopoly like control over the transaction fees).
I would guess the biggest problems with setting up a personal line of credit system based on public key cryptography and 3rd party certificates from anyone who wanted to be a banker are not technical problems, but rather political problems with intruding onto someone else's existing scheme for making money.
Sure, you can be a bank if you comply with these 48 lb books of barriers to entry , er, I mean, regulations to protect the consumer. (Yes, it's an oversimplification, but there's plenty of margin for profit in tailored industry regulations as the FDA evidences.)
Anyone who has paid 18% credit card interest ( or even 5% on a mortgage) and gotten paid 1.2 % on their bank balances knows there's got to be some slack built into that system.
OTT political correctness/quota balancing act in lots of workplaces is just dumb.
It might seem quaint in a developed Westernized country, but advocating a larger role for women in a nondomestic role is pretty racy and progressive for Pakistan.
Other women in Pakistan have received treatment that is appalling to many.
Darl is not the only one richly deserving of jail time.
Sure he is. But, as others point out, he'll probably escape conviction.
Court: "So you're saying, Mr McBride, that you had absolutely no knowledge about this consultants report? That you, a college-educated man who rose to the rank of CEO, blindly believed that Linux had somehow incorporated SCO IP, all this time the Linux source code is available for anyone and everyone to examine at any time without restriction? That when you bought and sold shares of SCO had absolutely nothing to do with the suit you filed?"
Darl: "Yes, I solemnly swear that I am a gullible idiot whose good fortune in SCOX trading had absolutely no connection whatsoever with my actions. Even though a copy of that report was delivered to me, I'm a very busy man and just skimmed it without grasping the subtle and complicated conclusions some say exist in that report. Now can I go?"
Heating elements inside the tank release the hydrogen, and very little modification needs to be done to the engine. If the tank is cut and burned, the hydrogen is still released slowly enough to just smolder.
This sounds like a self sustaining reaction to me.
Burn hydrogen, create heat, release more hydrogen, create more heat, release even yet more hydrogen, etc.
There's got to be some rate limiting diffusion of hydrogen from the bulk metal hydride or the reaction will get out of hand.
A world where people had to, gasp!, go out and talk to other people face-to-face to buy products
Reminds me of my disillusionment when I consciously decide to go visit a brick 'n mortar store to ask what they have in the way of Part X, or to help fix Problem Y. (Often, like many other geeks, I'll just google and web browse my way to a solution.) But, once in a while, I think, maybe a real person in a real store has real expertise and I could benefit from some face time.
Get to the store and they've hired the cheapest droid they can find who, in response to my questions, goes to their terminal screen and does less than what I could do myself online.
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I checked out every css selector/property that I could find that I knew didn't work in IE 6. I was able to find no added support in IE7. They failed.
Your research results are important.
Would you mind posting your examples on a web site so that others may check whether successive versions of IE and other browsers comply with those W3C standards?
Meanwhile, on a quiet and huge scale, less talented individuals "willingly" sign contracts for employment that require drug-testing and surveillance measures that would be widely considered instrusive were they implemented by the government.
Of course, prospective employees are "free" not to sign such contracts and to find a better potential place of employement.
And get hungry.
Suppose your new PC came with MS Linux pre-installed "for free", with working players for all MS audio/video formats, Office, Excel, etc. but with a whole directory full of binary only kernel modules that replicated the DLL's in C:\Windows\System32? It wouldn't cost anything, all your Linux programs would run, and you'd gain compatibility with all the MS applications to which you and loved ones have developed an addiction.
Oh, yeah, it would also have TCPA built-in so if you mucked around too much with that stuff it would stop working:)
But any current commercial user of Linux for web hosting, etc. would be able to drop in MS Linux for whatever they had now. For an especially low subscription price, fully supported by MS - this monthy only!
Q.E.D.
Quoting from TFA:
Developers:"If you go beyond the least common denominator you're guaranteed to multiply your costs."
Lars is probably so smart he can increase his costs by log(N_browsers) instead of N_browsers^p, but his company has access to google dollars.
Were I funding development, I'd push to increase the least common denominator.
Say, by advocating that large corporate customers and governments
Can't say for sure. But two points:
A clear case of corruption would be if Cisco tried to "kill the messenger", bury the problem,conceal its existence, so they wouldn't have to spend more resources dealing with it.
I'm not inclined to believe Cisco would do that. Rather, they'd attack the problem with as many resources as they think it deserves.
But in the real world of shades of gray it's hard to determine whether Cisco is working on the bug with all necessary and sufficient expeditious diligence, or they are needlessly and carelessly dragging their feet because fixing the problem looks to be an expensive proposition.
Personally, I think the annual reports of companies like Cisco, MS, Oracle, IBM, Sun, etc. should be required to provide an after-the-fact one-year history of their bug handling, notification, fix, distribution (with all the legal baggage that financial reporting and auditing requires), and how many of their customers' systems were vulnerable, and actually exploited (anonymous is OK there). That kind of full disclosure would provide potential customers with at least the historical information they need to make an informed decision in a functioning free market.
For OpenSSH, the ssh2d_config(5) man page:
A decelerating response might be customized using plug-ins if AuthKbdInt.Plugin were configured.
Given how much of our world has become commercialized, the prevalence of advertising, the influence of money on decision-making, etc. it's sometimes interesting to consider the government itself as a monopoly service provider.
Not a complete monopoly, since regulations governing human behavior are set (at least in the US) by federal, state, county and municipality, by various religious groups, and by employers and unions.
While laws and regulations are not a blantantly free and direct market, it's still interesting how money is used to buy certain regulations and, in our modern representative democracies, the mechanisms used (eg, convincing the voters, hiding some news, highlighting other news, etc.)
Be careful with implementing auto blcoks on connections since systems like that can sometimes be abused to cause a denial of service.
3. Continuing to run old versions of Windows that, despite all the marketing speak to the contrary, are Good 'Nuf for many people.
Silly geeks.
People aren't buying personal computers any longer.
They're buying Copyrighted Media Connectors/Players/Recorders.
The word "computer" is just a throwback to a bygone era when you could create programs as much as any large company could.
These modern gameboxes will permit some programmability.
But less programmability as time passes. Consumers aren't going to notice the transition and by the time they do notice it will be too late and they'll just grumble while the Preview of Coming Attractions part of "bootup" gets way too long and loud.
How about a not-so-small memory-resident database?
Steve Jobs's penchant for high absorptivity wardrobe combined with his obsession for personal privacy probably explains why MS sees nothing.
By using Linux, HP essentially gets a free ride from IBM and need not spend the money to ensure that Linux is reliable.
Large organizations buying into Linux for its many advantages are naturally cautious and skeptical.
Especially about the part where the answer to "Who owns Linux? (translation: "Who is responsible for Linux in case I need help?") is essentially "No one for sure, everyone with probability, and less goes wrong anyway." leaves decision makers with mixed feelings.
Then, the answer to the question of where to buy 100 Linux servers or workstations will be swayed by evidence such as "We have 6 full time developers", "Big Name A works at IBM", etc.
Buying one white box that I maintain myself is one thing; it's a different matter altogether if you're buying 100 boxes that your staff will maintain - you want evidence of a deep bench for support.
I was looking for a free application like that a few weeks ago and found this guy's nice write-up of desired features.
Societies, same thing. Providers of security want to make their own jobs easier.
But a free society is best sustained by security measures that the security forces will predictably find inconvenient.
And the wonderful convenience of our free society will inevitably make it more vulnerable.
Microsoft know this; they frame the fight
The drawback to this strategy of fighting OSS is that migrants to OSS will be brave risk takers and people with so much technical knowledge that they understand MS is BSing. That artificially distils the OSS users into the more knowledgeable and more venturesome. Not good for MS. It takes a lot of glossy advertising budget to counteract word of mouth.
Meanwhile, your own customer base is becoming enriched in the less technically savvy, the risk-averse, and people who believe you. I will concede that people who have money are risk-averse. But that's not the growth market so much as the stasis market.
Also, everytime you ask your Believing Customers for more money (cf Upgrade) you run increasing risks of losing some of them because you have to extend reassurance that they're making a good choice.
The Windows/Linux floodgates are leaking, but won't fully open until there is widespread knowledge that MS is taxing their business and costing them money.
That's not quite yet the case generally, but for some specific businesses using MS is higher cost. And, for some businesses, it will make fiscal sense to stay with MS until Linux makes up 75% of the market (just as there are legacy computing shops from earlier eras running well today).
"check fire alarm batteries when you change your clock"
Wasn't the mnemonic "change your fire alarm batteries on Flag Day"?
Me, I change mine the day after the night when they screech at 2am at 100 db and I wake up with a 190 pulse rate.
How do you handle your pop-up and e-mail reminders?"
Long ago I used biff, xbiff and xlbiff.
Now, Evolution has pop-up reminders sufficient for my needs.
Of course, it would be nice to have more extensibility built-in to Evolution so that any script could be fired off for any particular event.
For recurring events, cron works like a champ, after you take the 3 minutes to understand its terse time specification syntax and learn that ~/.crontab needs to be crafted by invoking crontab -e.
The trouble is that the mood of crowds is unpredictable, can change *very* quickly, and cannot be reasoned with.
The raygun has primitive levels of crowd control finesse over the ultimate control mechanism for large numbers of people: TV.
Considering suppliers to the automotive industry, the jobs they provide, the petroleum products required to make them run, and that much freight moves by trucks, the investment by society as a whole is huge.
Which is why it's going to be increasingly traumatic as the oil faucet slowly begins to close. Geopolitics surrounding petroleum is already traumatic enough now, thank you.
5.) A printer which can print $20 dollar bills (my personal favorite).
And why not? You can print stamps, after all.
Paypal and the like are fine for pure electronic transactions, but being able to issue your own checks/currency on paper that you could take down to some storefront vendor and have them punch in your name and 20 digit number (or read it from the bar code) would make everyone happy (except VISA and its member banks who exert monopoly like control over the transaction fees).
I would guess the biggest problems with setting up a personal line of credit system based on public key cryptography and 3rd party certificates from anyone who wanted to be a banker are not technical problems, but rather political problems with intruding onto someone else's existing scheme for making money.
Sure, you can be a bank if you comply with these 48 lb books of barriers to entry , er, I mean, regulations to protect the consumer. (Yes, it's an oversimplification, but there's plenty of margin for profit in tailored industry regulations as the FDA evidences.)
Anyone who has paid 18% credit card interest ( or even 5% on a mortgage) and gotten paid 1.2 % on their bank balances knows there's got to be some slack built into that system.
It might seem quaint in a developed Westernized country, but advocating a larger role for women in a nondomestic role is pretty racy and progressive for Pakistan.
Other women in Pakistan have received treatment that is appalling to many.
Darl is not the only one richly deserving of jail time.
Sure he is. But, as others point out, he'll probably escape conviction.
Court: "So you're saying, Mr McBride, that you had absolutely no knowledge about this consultants report? That you, a college-educated man who rose to the rank of CEO, blindly believed that Linux had somehow incorporated SCO IP, all this time the Linux source code is available for anyone and everyone to examine at any time without restriction? That when you bought and sold shares of SCO had absolutely nothing to do with the suit you filed?"Darl: "Yes, I solemnly swear that I am a gullible idiot whose good fortune in SCOX trading had absolutely no connection whatsoever with my actions. Even though a copy of that report was delivered to me, I'm a very busy man and just skimmed it without grasping the subtle and complicated conclusions some say exist in that report. Now can I go?"
Heating elements inside the tank release the hydrogen, and very little modification needs to be done to the engine. If the tank is cut and burned, the hydrogen is still released slowly enough to just smolder.
This sounds like a self sustaining reaction to me.
Burn hydrogen, create heat, release more hydrogen, create more heat, release even yet more hydrogen, etc.
There's got to be some rate limiting diffusion of hydrogen from the bulk metal hydride or the reaction will get out of hand.
A world where people had to, gasp!, go out and talk to other people face-to-face to buy products
Reminds me of my disillusionment when I consciously decide to go visit a brick 'n mortar store to ask what they have in the way of Part X, or to help fix Problem Y. (Often, like many other geeks, I'll just google and web browse my way to a solution.) But, once in a while, I think, maybe a real person in a real store has real expertise and I could benefit from some face time.
Get to the store and they've hired the cheapest droid they can find who, in response to my questions, goes to their terminal screen and does less than what I could do myself online.
Sigh.