but they only work in firefox properly, and ff eats ram. I don't understand why they can't fix it - it cannot be that broken. I mean non of the other browsers (well, I speak of Opera and Konqi) have this problem, so using 80Mb with only a few tabs open is not normal operation for a browser (the difference is huge: opera or konqi uses half that much).
I believe the firefox issue is officially a feature, not a bug, and can be reconfigured by the user.
Anyway, I have and love and almost exclusively use Opera, and you're wrong...it leaks memory like a cartoon character who was just shot by an automatic shotgun and is now drinking water.
I do generally have approximately a metric buttload of tabs open in multiple Opera windows, as well as five or ten other programs' windows open. In Opera right now, having just cleaned out my open tabs last weekend, I've got 30 tabs open in a mere _one_ Opera window. It's common for me to have two more Opera windows with as many tabs in them, killing and restarting Opera when it freezes or slows, and occasionally getting frustrated with it and doing "bookmark all open pages" followed by closing them all and forgetting about them forevermore.
Perhaps that's why, after closing all except a few tabs, Opera still takes 600MB of RAM before I close but is currently down to 200MB right now.
Leaving the entire choice up to just one sex is patently sexual discrimination.
Pardon the thread-hijacking (and please, in this disussion, do not ask me to call it "threadjacking"), but since you mentioned "patently"...
I hate to say it, but I've read that one of the reasons why a few promising male contraceptive discoveries (based on existing technology and drugs) haven't been developed is because the patents relating to them are already expired. Is this one case where a patent system that awards patents more liberally would be a big advantage?
When you go to a place that DOES have people gathered around usually ends up just being either virtual prostitution or porn. [...] 3D avatars that all look like nymphet women wearing very skimpy clothes [...] I felt like I was in some world that was made 15 years or go or something.
Sounds great. I can't believe I've been missing all this pr0n! And the graphics ought to be just right for me; all the stuff made after "15 years or go" gives me motion sickness. This ought to be easy on my head and stomach. WooHoo!
You're right. I've never been a cracker. I'm rarely interested in damaging. My coding experience is approximately as you describe: a bunch of medium-duty shell scripting, much basic html, and a 4.0 average after taking almost every programming course (including 5 credits C++ and 3 credits Java, but no assembly) at a community college -- which is pretty meaningless since I've got no real-world experience with those languages.
I use the term "market" from the point of view of the computer industry, not that of the cracker, and only because it's very descriptive of the groups in question.
Maybe what you say was true a few years ago. Today, it seems that it's no longer about the challenge and the prestige, but about actual gain.
The linux boxen are not cracked because a much higher percentage of those users Give A Damn and at least try to secure their systems. If your objective is to steal credit card numbers, take down a major website, or send spam, you put your time into attacking the most numerous, least secured systems -- which means the mainstream consumer market. Anything else is less productive.
no general malware author targets anythign BUT windows due to the ease of doing so. If Windows ever becomes more secure than Linux/Mac/*nix/Mainframes/etc., then the malware will target everything BUT windows.
No, the ease of doing so just makes it...easier. The reason they target MS is because it's what all the consumers (read: easy targets who don't know enough about security/safety) have. As long as it's the most popular among consumer-level users, it will be the target. Other targets are mostly managed professionally or too small of a market to bother with.
DAB Radio, but thats unlikely to happen because Americans don't have it (don't you guys use satalite and/or a competing digital standard?)
We have two satellite radio systems (Sirius and XM), and I vaguely remember reading something about digital over-the-air radio...but certainly nothing commonplace.
I keep playing with the idea that I'd like to be able to connect my iPod to my bluetooth headset in my bike helmet, and control it via my TomTom, but battery drain, loudness, sound quality and bulk make cabled headphones look like a superior technology
Use a GPS that can play music too. The Garmin iQue series, for example, or the Lowrance iWay 500c. There's probably decent bluetooth headphones around so you could be wireless. If not, maybe a tiny FM radio and an FM transmitter.
Don't you want to hear the world around you anyway? It even becomes a legal issue on this side of the pond; in many (most? all?) areas, it is illegal to wear headphones/earphones while operating nearly anything wheeled on roads.
It's not just about the iPod, it's digital music devices in general.
It's not just about digital music devices, it's earbuds in general. It's not just about earbuds, it's loud or close music in general. It's not just about music, it's loud or close sound in general. It's not just about sound, it's about anything damaging in general. It's not just about anything damaging, it's about being alive in general.
Wait, let me back off a few of those. It's about loud or close sound. Turn it down and move it out of your ears (or wear ear protection, if it's not something you want to hear) if you're going to hear it every day!
Oh, wait, you can't hear me because your hearing is damaged and your earbuds are blocking the sound anyway...I'll yell. TURN IT DOWN!!!
And don't forget to cool the coffee before you drive away with it in your lap.
Funny oddly relevant song lyric today...I was listening to Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" (hey, gimme a break...it's the crap on which I grew up) and here were the lyrics:
[...] I wonder who's watching me now Who? The IRS?!! I always feel like somebody's watching me and I have no privacy [...]
The IRS has been messing with average people's privacy longer than any other agency, and has had the greatest effect on the largest quantity of innocent people. Sure, we're all used to it by now, and joke about an IRS audit, but that doesn't make it okay. In fact, I'd take that as proof of complacency...we accept it, just like the subject of the article says.
I googled it, just in case it's a term for children born from alcoholic mothers or some such, and got the following (titled "this heaven gives me migraine"):
Overall it tastes like what would happen if Zinfandel and Syrah got together and made wine babies (it has a spicy quality but is neither as cloyingly spicy...
Slashdot Mirror
Anyway, I have and love and almost exclusively use Opera, and you're wrong...it leaks memory like a cartoon character who was just shot by an automatic shotgun and is now drinking water.
I do generally have approximately a metric buttload of tabs open in multiple Opera windows, as well as five or ten other programs' windows open. In Opera right now, having just cleaned out my open tabs last weekend, I've got 30 tabs open in a mere _one_ Opera window. It's common for me to have two more Opera windows with as many tabs in them, killing and restarting Opera when it freezes or slows, and occasionally getting frustrated with it and doing "bookmark all open pages" followed by closing them all and forgetting about them forevermore.
Perhaps that's why, after closing all except a few tabs, Opera still takes 600MB of RAM before I close but is currently down to 200MB right now.
I hate to say it, but I've read that one of the reasons why a few promising male contraceptive discoveries (based on existing technology and drugs) haven't been developed is because the patents relating to them are already expired. Is this one case where a patent system that awards patents more liberally would be a big advantage?
Maybe he should get m0n1t0r en1arg3m3nt pi115.
Now that you mention it, "tourists" and "terrorists" sound very much alike...
You're right. I've never been a cracker. I'm rarely interested in damaging. My coding experience is approximately as you describe: a bunch of medium-duty shell scripting, much basic html, and a 4.0 average after taking almost every programming course (including 5 credits C++ and 3 credits Java, but no assembly) at a community college -- which is pretty meaningless since I've got no real-world experience with those languages.
I use the term "market" from the point of view of the computer industry, not that of the cracker, and only because it's very descriptive of the groups in question.
Maybe what you say was true a few years ago. Today, it seems that it's no longer about the challenge and the prestige, but about actual gain.
The linux boxen are not cracked because a much higher percentage of those users Give A Damn and at least try to secure their systems. If your objective is to steal credit card numbers, take down a major website, or send spam, you put your time into attacking the most numerous, least secured systems -- which means the mainstream consumer market. Anything else is less productive.
Don't try to tell me they lead productive lives. ;)
Don't you want to hear the world around you anyway? It even becomes a legal issue on this side of the pond; in many (most? all?) areas, it is illegal to wear headphones/earphones while operating nearly anything wheeled on roads.
It's not just about earbuds, it's loud or close music in general.
It's not just about music, it's loud or close sound in general.
It's not just about sound, it's about anything damaging in general.
It's not just about anything damaging, it's about being alive in general.
Wait, let me back off a few of those. It's about loud or close sound. Turn it down and move it out of your ears (or wear ear protection, if it's not something you want to hear) if you're going to hear it every day!
Oh, wait, you can't hear me because your hearing is damaged and your earbuds are blocking the sound anyway...I'll yell. TURN IT DOWN!!!
And don't forget to cool the coffee before you drive away with it in your lap.
Funny oddly relevant song lyric today...I was listening to Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" (hey, gimme a break...it's the crap on which I grew up) and here were the lyrics:
[...] I wonder who's watching me now
Who?
The IRS?!!
I always feel like
somebody's watching me
and I have no privacy [...]
Haven't you ever noticed that "political leaders, judges, and police officers and so on" have less privacy than most other people?
Why is that flamebait? It's insightful!
The IRS has been messing with average people's privacy longer than any other agency, and has had the greatest effect on the largest quantity of innocent people. Sure, we're all used to it by now, and joke about an IRS audit, but that doesn't make it okay. In fact, I'd take that as proof of complacency...we accept it, just like the subject of the article says.
"Try and" used to fly under my radar. Now I'll notice it every time. Thanks a lot, jerk! ;)
Every time I come here, it seems I'm saddled with damned mod points. Now, when I need them...
I googled it, just in case it's a term for children born from alcoholic mothers or some such, and got the following (titled "this heaven gives me migraine"):
I'll second that. Is it my imagination, or has "could of" been getting more common lately?
Imagine the cost to the court systems.
Ooh, even more accurate:
Microsoft
Screws
Nerds
No, it's Microsoft:
Sorry,
Nerds.
Microsoft!