still Adobe Flash Player version 10.3.183.10
the Release Candidate from the labs is currently the only thing available in version 11 flavour. come to think of it
its the only thing present in an x64 flavour as almost every OS on the planet has switched to 64 bit while adobe quietly drags its heels
and rapidly advancing technologies like HTML5 step quickly past it.
how much longer before we transition from evaluating adobe flash releases in terms of 'wow thats neat' to 'no one cares.'
Flash is a resource intensive security nightmare with a parent company so detatched from customers and industry it occasionally stops
commenting entirely on the state of patches and bugfixes that in many cases are a detriment to their entire business model.
to mitigate the realms in which open source software can compete, but this is a very valid method of convincing developers that Richard Stallman was indeed correct, and that GPLv3 is a logical if not necessary path.
many have said system builders will turn back to places like newegg and continue to build from components, but in all actuality many motherboard and component manufacturers are required to adhere to the microsoft doctrinal standard including i suspect ACPI obfuscation in order to attain certification. lockout could be considered a part of this to curb enthusiasts and ensure compliance
another component microsoft may not be fully aware of is just how much Microsoft benefits from the open source ecosystem. Platforms such as wine, cygwin and samba are seriously pleasant things for many windows administrators and enterprises to have. What microsoft is doing may very well press these players into the GPLv3 realm.
lastly, did Linus think this might happen? that one of the worlds largest players in the tech industry, who determines what netbook OS acer ships and what chipset asus puts on their motherboard, would decide to kill linux by the very limitation torvalds himself championed as a right?
things like GPLv2 and 1 as well as the BSD licenses rely on good faith and to some extent corporate benevolence when faced with tricky things like source code in order to help them grow as a project, as loathe as some are to admit this. If Stallmans blobbed android argument wasnt enough to convince you of the necessity for GPLv3, then perhaps microsoft will force our collective hand.
RealVNC at the GPL level, which i suspect is what we're testing with, has no encryption. IPMI, which is billed as standard on most enterprise grade servers on the other hand, comes with the option of key based crypto.
the semantics of version and start building a viable alternative to the microsoft office calendar. actual collaborative calendaring on the level of Lotus Notes or Exchange has been missing from linux for decades.
compare all these cards, but jesus christ after 40 pages of clickthrough i dont really care what conclusion the guy came to.
its a general waste of my time and effort.
a dedicated subset of slashdotters think 3d printing is the salvation of all mankind. its not.
3d printing a building completely disregards the fact that buildings are designed to withstand earthquakes, wind, fire, flood, and a host of other
complex forces that even a cursory glance at your whimsical little makerbot will confirm do not in fact just stop existing because you learned
how to extrude hot plastic and layer it into fun little shapes. things like ventilation, plumbing, and electricity are hard enough without some
shitty graduate students wormscrew-driven toy factored into the equation. If you dont believe me, drive downtown and take a look at the sheer amount of
equipment and manpower required to erect a multi-story building. you'll spend two months just digging the foundation before your squeezy cheeze
manufacturing system is found to be completely incompatible with a marsh surface like chicago. Or start constructing only to realize your plastic extruded window
frames dont work with the arizona sun, causing every floor-to-ceiling glass inlay to explode under thermal expansion forces at about noon. or recoil in horror when you find a crack at the corner of the building which should have stopped at 5" instead extends the length of the building and through the foundation.
some real analysis on what this means. I get it, as an american im used to political bills having little to do with their meaning
but what does RMS think of this? Corey Doctorow? even the guys from Oracle and Microsoft might be neat to hear from as to
what this does and why/if it matters. Patents are weird, often times they suck, and frequently they're just surrogates for invention at all.
i dunno...someones still working on cancer i think...and i know a guy whos still trying to find the higgs bozon.
having solved all other problems, maybe dick around on jeopardy?
between these people and southerners in the 1960's. Once desegregated, many of them simply moved to california to avoid equality entirely. I wonder if these mavericks arent simply attempting to escape the digital age entirely.
of course it should be said that this effort is largely to blame for california bearing the greatest number of hate groups in the united states according to the SPLC. what will happen to the people who flee progress and technology?
if only for the fact that it erodes a recently established missouri law that permits teachers to consider and present "alternative theories" of sciences such as evolution in the class as a form of free speech.
so that means another 20% of all space junk is from when we shot one of our satellites down
and in the 80s, we shot down another satellite, so that must mean another 20%!
and again russia shot down a satellite so that must mean 80% of all space junk is from rockets that blow up old satellites in order to maintain standing in some international geosynchronous pissing contest
if we keep looking through history chances are other countries have shot down satellites as well, perhaps more than once. why, If the report had been released 25 years ago you might even see the word china replaced with the word Russia.
NASA: great place for science to be done, but has an ugly habit of political rhetoric being injected into its reports.
it would take incredible amounts of funding to engineer climate, and so naturally one would assume corporations to take the role
this wont work, because the majority of the worst offenders in terms of climate simply dont care about the problem and are only working to
marginalize scientific dissent.
government would have to do something like this, but in america it would never work due to our various legislative and regulatory branches being
comprised largely of corporate kingpins and mouthpieces.
TL;DR: we couldnt even adopt Kyoto, what the hell makes you think climate engineering is a possibility.
socialize healthcare in the worlds largest economy, The United States. With no need for a competitive alternative market for healthcare, pharmacy spam will die overnight. now you might say "but athletic shoe spam will surely overtake the market after this" and yes, I can solve this problem as well. Include with each pair of new athletic shoes a picture of the representative atheletes average home, as well as that of an employee of the shoe manufacturer.
now I know some worry that perhaps the markets would shift to peddling pornography in greater fervour then? This is excellent! as we find now the market saturated with nudity and sexual content the likes of which Extremist religious terrorism could never triumph against. Genitalia is relegated to being simply another mundane element of the human physiology, and we can return to doing more interesting things as a society like finding cool bozons and curing diseases and exploring space.
dont forget me come november. I'm running with taco as my vice president, you know.
problem faced by governments. namely, how do we spy on the public without their knowledge to ensure they remain compliant to the states will?
in iran the middleman is obtained nefariously as third and second world nations are excluded from participation in general surveillance as a matter of ideological principal on the part of wealthier and larger nations. in a sense this is to ensure that "our spying" is ideologically valid and just in the public eye, while "their spying" is only for evil purposes and not to enforce a relatively tolerated theocratic government. american authority figures however simply access the service providers directly. Frameworks are even provided at the request of the government to facilitate warrantless surveillance of the populous, for any reason, through various internet services.
this abuse of CA by iran is problematic not because theatens the security model, but because it undermines the infrastructure by which america and other wealthy nations ensure the sanctity of their firstworld economic transactions; the lifeblood by which they operate.
in a country where obesity stands at more than 30% of the population and overweight citizens comprise 70% of the population, you'd be crazy to think this "energy source" was capable of generating 3 watts of electricity, let alone 10.
Sell it to india, most americans cant eat lunch without breaking a sweat.
im inclined to believe china. all of these "nets" and "operations" are codenamed by american bureaucrats and fledgeling IT security companies who are for some reason completely convinced china is launching a massive digital attack against its primary trading partner.
and once again, lets make this perfectly clear: the video footage in question was provided by a pro-falun gong website, showing depictions of attacks against falun gong sites.
that it sure would be great for some customers in some countries to be free to extol the virtues of capitalist democracy without fear of censorship. conversely it sure would be great if American customers were free to extol personal information in a patriotastic manner to government agencies in a constant and warrantless manner.
"I went to Best Buy the other day to get a new laptop"
as we all know thats not possible; many have tried. Best buy is designed to sell the idea of technology to the elderly. its a well established government program. many "stores" give this away by their pedantic treatment of customers, and rigorous bureaucratic structure.
you can confirm this fact simply by mailing your taxes to best buy, which will gladly be forwarded to the proper federal agency on your behalf.
to be the only country capable of mourning the loss of a multi-billion dollar CEO for a multinational corporation.
There was a time in history when the passing of a CEO was the changing of the guard; no more amazing than the passing
of a fart.
If steve were truly the messiah of CEO's, kind and wise as only we see him, it would be an exception to the longstanding CEO rule of law.
the facts stand that steve is rich beyond measure, lives in a mansion, and quite likely as you mourn his loss does not give two shits about you
regardless of how diligent and loyal a brand-aware consumer you are.
in this version: the blue screen of death will now be a somber black screen
federal agents need no longer work to violate your fourth amendment, the history vault and facial recognition make sure of that
the windows app store is poised to offer features and products you never thought you needed. no really, please buy them
cloud based roaming profiles put the shine on a classically bad idea
and finally simple system reset means never having to bother with hard copies of the operating system you technically purchased with the PC anyway.
piece of pork ive ever witnessed. this thing didnt start by tapping known leaders in robotics like motoman, kooka, and fanuc. It started with a car company...and not even the one that has spent 3 decades researching bipedal humanoid robots (honda.) we coughed up grant money left and right and all we got was a robot that in 2006 still had no legs (though often proposed!)
GM strapped it to a car of course and segway strapped it to, well, a fucking segway
Real corporations given real money for a real project and all these crackerjack bastards can do is gin up darpas idea with what amounts to no more than
an expensive publicity stunt at the expense of my fucking tax dollars.
compared to what russia did in 1970 this shitty half robot half car project only serves to galvanize the fact that americans are incapable of doing anything without some sort of cash incentive upfront.
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still Adobe Flash Player version 10.3.183.10
the Release Candidate from the labs is currently the only thing available in version 11 flavour. come to think of it
its the only thing present in an x64 flavour as almost every OS on the planet has switched to 64 bit while adobe quietly drags its heels
and rapidly advancing technologies like HTML5 step quickly past it.
how much longer before we transition from evaluating adobe flash releases in terms of 'wow thats neat' to 'no one cares.'
Flash is a resource intensive security nightmare with a parent company so detatched from customers and industry it occasionally stops
commenting entirely on the state of patches and bugfixes that in many cases are a detriment to their entire business model.
to mitigate the realms in which open source software can compete, but this is a very valid method of convincing developers that Richard Stallman was indeed correct, and that GPLv3 is a logical if not necessary path. many have said system builders will turn back to places like newegg and continue to build from components, but in all actuality many motherboard and component manufacturers are required to adhere to the microsoft doctrinal standard including i suspect ACPI obfuscation in order to attain certification. lockout could be considered a part of this to curb enthusiasts and ensure compliance another component microsoft may not be fully aware of is just how much Microsoft benefits from the open source ecosystem. Platforms such as wine, cygwin and samba are seriously pleasant things for many windows administrators and enterprises to have. What microsoft is doing may very well press these players into the GPLv3 realm.
lastly, did Linus think this might happen? that one of the worlds largest players in the tech industry, who determines what netbook OS acer ships and what chipset asus puts on their motherboard, would decide to kill linux by the very limitation torvalds himself championed as a right?
things like GPLv2 and 1 as well as the BSD licenses rely on good faith and to some extent corporate benevolence when faced with tricky things like source code in order to help them grow as a project, as loathe as some are to admit this. If Stallmans blobbed android argument wasnt enough to convince you of the necessity for GPLv3, then perhaps microsoft will force our collective hand.
RealVNC at the GPL level, which i suspect is what we're testing with, has no encryption. IPMI, which is billed as standard on most enterprise grade servers on the other hand, comes with the option of key based crypto.
the semantics of version and start building a viable alternative to the microsoft office calendar. actual collaborative calendaring on the level of Lotus Notes or Exchange has been missing from linux for decades.
compare all these cards, but jesus christ after 40 pages of clickthrough i dont really care what conclusion the guy came to.
its a general waste of my time and effort.
anyone who recognizes you'll pay a pittance to the browser for your share of the fun.
a dedicated subset of slashdotters think 3d printing is the salvation of all mankind. its not.
3d printing a building completely disregards the fact that buildings are designed to withstand earthquakes, wind, fire, flood, and a host of other
complex forces that even a cursory glance at your whimsical little makerbot will confirm do not in fact just stop existing because you learned
how to extrude hot plastic and layer it into fun little shapes. things like ventilation, plumbing, and electricity are hard enough without some
shitty graduate students wormscrew-driven toy factored into the equation. If you dont believe me, drive downtown and take a look at the sheer amount of
equipment and manpower required to erect a multi-story building. you'll spend two months just digging the foundation before your squeezy cheeze
manufacturing system is found to be completely incompatible with a marsh surface like chicago. Or start constructing only to realize your plastic extruded window
frames dont work with the arizona sun, causing every floor-to-ceiling glass inlay to explode under thermal expansion forces at about noon. or recoil in horror when
you find a crack at the corner of the building which should have stopped at 5" instead extends the length of the building and through the foundation.
some real analysis on what this means. I get it, as an american im used to political bills having little to do with their meaning
but what does RMS think of this? Corey Doctorow? even the guys from Oracle and Microsoft might be neat to hear from as to
what this does and why/if it matters. Patents are weird, often times they suck, and frequently they're just surrogates for invention at all.
id also love to know who sponsored the bill
include Pidgy and Dragonite. both are formidable but the latter is a fully realized dragon type so its pretty powerful.
i dunno...someones still working on cancer i think...and i know a guy whos still trying to find the higgs bozon.
having solved all other problems, maybe dick around on jeopardy?
between these people and southerners in the 1960's. Once desegregated, many of them simply moved to california to avoid equality entirely. I wonder if these mavericks arent simply attempting to escape the digital age entirely.
of course it should be said that this effort is largely to blame for california bearing the greatest number of hate groups in the united states according to the SPLC. what will happen to the people who flee progress and technology?
if only for the fact that it erodes a recently established missouri law that permits teachers to consider and present "alternative theories" of sciences such as evolution in the class as a form of free speech.
so that means another 20% of all space junk is from when we shot one of our satellites down
and in the 80s, we shot down another satellite, so that must mean another 20%!
and again russia shot down a satellite
so that must mean 80% of all space junk is from rockets that blow up old satellites in order to maintain standing in some international geosynchronous pissing contest
if we keep looking through history chances are other countries have shot down satellites as well, perhaps more than once. why, If the report had been released 25 years ago you might even see the word china replaced with the word Russia.
NASA: great place for science to be done, but has an ugly habit of political rhetoric being injected into its reports.
real issue. Apple has a drinking problem.
it would take incredible amounts of funding to engineer climate, and so naturally one would assume corporations to take the role
this wont work, because the majority of the worst offenders in terms of climate simply dont care about the problem and are only working to
marginalize scientific dissent.
government would have to do something like this, but in america it would never work due to our various legislative and regulatory branches being
comprised largely of corporate kingpins and mouthpieces.
TL;DR: we couldnt even adopt Kyoto, what the hell makes you think climate engineering is a possibility.
better late than never i guess; the babysteps of progress. Who knows, maybe some day Windows will be able to recognize more than 3 filesystems?
socialize healthcare in the worlds largest economy, The United States. With no need for a competitive alternative market for healthcare, pharmacy spam will die overnight.
now you might say "but athletic shoe spam will surely overtake the market after this" and yes, I can solve this problem as well.
Include with each pair of new athletic shoes a picture of the representative atheletes average home, as well as that of an employee of the shoe manufacturer.
now I know some worry that perhaps the markets would shift to peddling pornography in greater fervour then?
This is excellent! as we find now the market saturated with nudity and sexual content the likes of which Extremist religious terrorism could never triumph against.
Genitalia is relegated to being simply another mundane element of the human physiology, and we can return to doing more interesting things as a society like finding cool bozons and curing diseases and exploring space.
dont forget me come november. I'm running with taco as my vice president, you know.
problem faced by governments. namely, how do we spy on the public without their knowledge to ensure they remain compliant to the states will?
in iran the middleman is obtained nefariously as third and second world nations are excluded from participation in general surveillance as a matter of ideological
principal on the part of wealthier and larger nations. in a sense this is to ensure that "our spying" is ideologically valid and just in the public eye, while
"their spying" is only for evil purposes and not to enforce a relatively tolerated theocratic government. american authority figures however simply access the service providers directly. Frameworks are even provided
at the request of the government to facilitate warrantless surveillance of the populous, for any reason, through various internet services.
this abuse of CA by iran is problematic not because theatens the security model, but because it undermines the infrastructure by which america and other wealthy nations ensure the sanctity of their firstworld economic transactions; the lifeblood by which they operate.
in a country where obesity stands at more than 30% of the population and overweight citizens comprise 70% of the population,
you'd be crazy to think this "energy source" was capable of generating 3 watts of electricity, let alone 10.
Sell it to india, most americans cant eat lunch without breaking a sweat.
im inclined to believe china. all of these "nets" and "operations" are codenamed by american bureaucrats and fledgeling IT security companies who are for some reason completely convinced china is launching a massive digital attack against its primary trading partner.
and once again, lets make this perfectly clear: the video footage in question was provided by a pro-falun gong website, showing depictions of attacks against falun gong sites.
that it sure would be great for some customers in some countries to be free to extol the virtues of capitalist democracy without fear of censorship.
conversely it sure would be great if American customers were free to extol personal information in a patriotastic manner to government agencies in a constant and warrantless manner.
"I went to Best Buy the other day to get a new laptop"
as we all know thats not possible; many have tried.
Best buy is designed to sell the idea of technology to the elderly. its a well established government program. many "stores" give this away by their pedantic treatment of customers, and rigorous bureaucratic structure.
you can confirm this fact simply by mailing your taxes to best buy, which will gladly be forwarded to the proper federal agency on your behalf.
to be the only country capable of mourning the loss of a multi-billion dollar CEO for a multinational corporation.
There was a time in history when the passing of a CEO was the changing of the guard; no more amazing than the passing
of a fart.
If steve were truly the messiah of CEO's, kind and wise as only we see him, it would be an exception to the longstanding CEO rule of law.
the facts stand that steve is rich beyond measure, lives in a mansion, and quite likely as you mourn his loss does not give two shits about you
regardless of how diligent and loyal a brand-aware consumer you are.
in this version: the blue screen of death will now be a somber black screen
federal agents need no longer work to violate your fourth amendment, the history vault and facial recognition make sure of that
the windows app store is poised to offer features and products you never thought you needed. no really, please buy them
cloud based roaming profiles put the shine on a classically bad idea
and finally simple system reset means never having to bother with hard copies of the operating system you technically purchased with the PC anyway.
piece of pork ive ever witnessed. this thing didnt start by tapping known leaders in robotics like motoman, kooka, and fanuc. It started with a car company...and not even the one that has spent 3 decades researching bipedal humanoid robots (honda.) we coughed up grant money left and right and all we got was a robot that in 2006 still had no legs (though often proposed!)
GM strapped it to a car of course
and segway strapped it to, well, a fucking segway
Real corporations given real money for a real project and all these crackerjack bastards can do is gin up darpas idea with what amounts to no more than an expensive publicity stunt at the expense of my fucking tax dollars.
compared to what russia did in 1970 this shitty half robot half car project only serves to galvanize the fact that americans are incapable of doing anything without some sort of cash incentive upfront.