This is why I like reading usenet and mail in an offline reader - just press the space bar or an arrow key and the next page/article *instantly* appears on the screen.
There are existing web page pre-fetch/pre-cache systems that work similarly to the system the article describes - if only they were combined with simple keyboard navigation....
You can buy all those games you mentioned in stores in Australia. If you read the website, they include items that were resubmitted to the rating board (some with changes, some without).
I've been using my left hand for the pointing device ever since I got this problem, and I recommend that layout to everyone. This was the first thing the Health and Safety guy at work suggested and it makes a major difference to comfort. Unfortunately it makes pointer aiming worse; even after 6 months I'm not as a accurate with my left hand as my right.
Even on the left side, I can't use a mouse properly - I can't form my hands into the normal shape to hold a mouse, with wrist pointing down, middle fingers stretched and thumb/pinky bent inward. I can use special vertical mice or trackballs, but if forced to use a normal mouse I have to rest my hand on top in a loose fist to push it around.
I have athralgia which prevents me from using a mouse. I rely heavily on keyboard shortcuts but use a trackball as a pointing device. I often find GUI buttons are too small and easily overshot - and the worst offenders often have dialogs without any support for keyboard shortcuts. InfraActive comes to mind - they even removed keyboard shortcuts between versions 7 and 8. Button scaling in many apps breaks the layout, or doesn't even work.
While this is a interesting and useful development, I don't see anything changing soon on the disability usability front. There is existing support in common OSs for making global UI changes, but most apps ignore/override these settings or just break horribly because the UI developer didn't design the interface to adapt to these sort of changes.
At first glance I thought these used actual Tesla coils in the processor, or the devices were at least powered or cooled by some apparatus that used Tesla coils.
Turns out "Tesla" is just the name of the product.
Assuming it's done by electrolysis of water, the only direct byproduct is oxygen.
However it takes a lot of electricity to split water, so you have to consider the byproducts from the power generation. It would be an ideal use of home solar/wind power - assuming you make enough during the sunny/windy periods to get though the cloudy/still periods.
System Shock 1 had separate difficulty sliders for Combat, Puzzles, Plot, and Cyber. If you found the Cyberspace too hard and the meat space combat too easy, you could set Cyber to 1 and Combat to 3.
These sliders also went down to 0, so you could remove one aspect of the game entirely. If you didn't like the puzzles, set it to 0 and you won't have to do them.
This is just going to annoy potential users, and reduce sales of the game.
Eventually it will cause less games to be ported to Linux/BSD/etc as the companies will assume that Linux users aren't interested in games (instead of realizing Linux users aren't interested in games that phone home and have irritating copy protection).
Those that do get a copy the game - one way or another - will probably crack the program (or redirect validation requests to a daemon which always returns a positive verification).
Fat people cost everyone else greatly increased health costs
No
they
don't. Dying earlier leads to lower lifetime health care costs. This also applies to smokers.
Since being fat is a personal choice
No, it isn't. I know I'm feeding a troll here, but:
(a) people can become fat for all sorts of reasons beyond their control (medical and/or genetic problems etc - for example nearly all asthma preventatives cause weight gain );
(b) The expression "chose to be fat" is disingenuous; like saying someone who moved to Florida chose to have their house flooded, or someone who lives in Australia chose to have their house burnt down.
(losing weight is easy: stop eating so much!)
Frankly, bugger off and stop perpetuating this myth. It's simply not as simple as "eat less, move more" (and you even forgot half of that). If you haven't been obese and gone back to being healthy, you have absolutely no idea what it takes to do so. Losing weight is a world of difficulty away from maintaining a healthy weight.
TFA (and some slashdot readers) seem to be assuming that he is calling for a ban on logging IPs. TFA is pretty thin on what was actually said at the meeting, just taking the assumption and asking a few search company spokespeople for their opinion on that assumption.
The comissioner doesn't seem to be claiming anywhere that IP addresses should not be stored, or that regulators should check to see if they are not stored, or that any "implementation" of anything is or should be required. The only statement from him seems to boil down to "something which identifies a person should be considered personal data".
Cumulative exposure to infrared and microwave radiation is known to cause cataracts. For that matter, cumulative skin exposure to microwave radiation may cause cancer (many studies on that with contradictory results). Chances are they are aware of this and consider it acceptable for "less-lethal" weaponry to have long term health effects - CS Gas has been linked to all sorts of health problems but is still widely used.
This would exclude OpenBSD; you need a mandatory policy framework like SE Linux to make it happen. Mandatory encryption means that normal users are prohibited from removing data from the machine without first encrypting it in an approved way.
If you want to stick with a BSD-based system, FreeBSD has Mandatory Access Control support; there are projects to port the MAC framework to NetBSD and OSX.
The current Australian PM has a history of announcing shit like this, allocating X billion dollars to it, with no results a year later. This is the guy who invented the phrase "non-core promise", from the same administration that spent 12 million buying every family a copy of net nannying software. Australians will take this announcement with a Liberal amount of salt (pun intended).
Internet access in Australia seems similar to the US horror stories posted here. All exchanges are owned by Telstra, a company created when the telephone system was privatized. They charge each ISP a rental of around AU$30-50 for each ADSL line, which pushes up the cost of casual user low quota plans. Most people can't get anything faster than 1500K, and dialup is the best available in rural areas. Cable providers are few, come with anal restrictions (e.g. you aren't allowed to run servers), and have limited coverage even in urban areas. The government was subsidizing new ADSL2 DSLAMs, but they canceled that program earlier this year, so the only ADSL2 coverage is in capital cities.
Whirlpool is a good place to look if you want more background on the state of broadband down here.
Why not a link to the.iso download page in the article?
(Yes, that was annoyed sarcasm). I'd rather donate to the project and download an image than get one shipped, I can't believe OpenBSD is still refusing to provide Official ISOs.
"Internet service provider" means a person who provides a service that facilitates access to the Internet, whether or not the service is provided free or for a charge.
4. (1) No person may offer the services of or operate as an Internet service provider unless the person has been granted a licence to operate as an Internet service provider in accordance with subsection (2).
So if I let my flatmates share my internet connection, that makes me an ISP without a licence?
(8.4) No person shall respond to a contact that is made using the Internet for the purpose of facilitating a designated offence involving a child.
Which makes telling a paedophile to get help an offense. On the upside, this could cut down on some of the vigilantism.
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This is why I like reading usenet and mail in an offline reader - just press the space bar or an arrow key and the next page/article *instantly* appears on the screen.
There are existing web page pre-fetch/pre-cache systems that work similarly to the system the article describes - if only they were combined with simple keyboard navigation....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bangalore/Techie-hangs-himself-in-HSR-Layout-/articleshow/4633101.cms
You can buy all those games you mentioned in stores in Australia. If you read the website, they include items that were resubmitted to the rating board (some with changes, some without).
I've been using my left hand for the pointing device ever since I got this problem, and I recommend that layout to everyone. This was the first thing the Health and Safety guy at work suggested and it makes a major difference to comfort. Unfortunately it makes pointer aiming worse; even after 6 months I'm not as a accurate with my left hand as my right.
Even on the left side, I can't use a mouse properly - I can't form my hands into the normal shape to hold a mouse, with wrist pointing down, middle fingers stretched and thumb/pinky bent inward. I can use special vertical mice or trackballs, but if forced to use a normal mouse I have to rest my hand on top in a loose fist to push it around.
I have athralgia which prevents me from using a mouse. I rely heavily on keyboard shortcuts but use a trackball as a pointing device. I often find GUI buttons are too small and easily overshot - and the worst offenders often have dialogs without any support for keyboard shortcuts. InfraActive comes to mind - they even removed keyboard shortcuts between versions 7 and 8. Button scaling in many apps breaks the layout, or doesn't even work. While this is a interesting and useful development, I don't see anything changing soon on the disability usability front. There is existing support in common OSs for making global UI changes, but most apps ignore/override these settings or just break horribly because the UI developer didn't design the interface to adapt to these sort of changes.
At first glance I thought these used actual Tesla coils in the processor, or the devices were at least powered or cooled by some apparatus that used Tesla coils.
Turns out "Tesla" is just the name of the product.
Drat. I demand a refund.
Assuming it's done by electrolysis of water, the only direct byproduct is oxygen. However it takes a lot of electricity to split water, so you have to consider the byproducts from the power generation. It would be an ideal use of home solar/wind power - assuming you make enough during the sunny/windy periods to get though the cloudy/still periods.
System Shock 1 had separate difficulty sliders for Combat, Puzzles, Plot, and Cyber. If you found the Cyberspace too hard and the meat space combat too easy, you could set Cyber to 1 and Combat to 3. These sliders also went down to 0, so you could remove one aspect of the game entirely. If you didn't like the puzzles, set it to 0 and you won't have to do them.
This is just going to annoy potential users, and reduce sales of the game.
Eventually it will cause less games to be ported to Linux/BSD/etc as the companies will assume that Linux users aren't interested in games (instead of realizing Linux users aren't interested in games that phone home and have irritating copy protection).
Those that do get a copy the game - one way or another - will probably crack the program (or redirect validation requests to a daemon which always returns a positive verification).
(a) people can become fat for all sorts of reasons beyond their control (medical and/or genetic problems etc - for example nearly all asthma preventatives cause weight gain );
(b) The expression "chose to be fat" is disingenuous; like saying someone who moved to Florida chose to have their house flooded, or someone who lives in Australia chose to have their house burnt down. Frankly, bugger off and stop perpetuating this myth. It's simply not as simple as "eat less, move more" (and you even forgot half of that). If you haven't been obese and gone back to being healthy, you have absolutely no idea what it takes to do so. Losing weight is a world of difficulty away from maintaining a healthy weight.
TFA (and some slashdot readers) seem to be assuming that he is calling for a ban on logging IPs. TFA is pretty thin on what was actually said at the meeting, just taking the assumption and asking a few search company spokespeople for their opinion on that assumption. The comissioner doesn't seem to be claiming anywhere that IP addresses should not be stored, or that regulators should check to see if they are not stored, or that any "implementation" of anything is or should be required. The only statement from him seems to boil down to "something which identifies a person should be considered personal data".
Cumulative exposure to infrared and microwave radiation is known to cause cataracts. For that matter, cumulative skin exposure to microwave radiation may cause cancer (many studies on that with contradictory results). Chances are they are aware of this and consider it acceptable for "less-lethal" weaponry to have long term health effects - CS Gas has been linked to all sorts of health problems but is still widely used.
This would exclude OpenBSD; you need a mandatory policy framework like SE Linux to make it happen. Mandatory encryption means that normal users are prohibited from removing data from the machine without first encrypting it in an approved way.
If you want to stick with a BSD-based system, FreeBSD has Mandatory Access Control support; there are projects to port the MAC framework to NetBSD and OSX.
The current Australian PM has a history of announcing shit like this, allocating X billion dollars to it, with no results a year later. This is the guy who invented the phrase "non-core promise", from the same administration that spent 12 million buying every family a copy of net nannying software. Australians will take this announcement with a Liberal amount of salt (pun intended).
Internet access in Australia seems similar to the US horror stories posted here. All exchanges are owned by Telstra, a company created when the telephone system was privatized. They charge each ISP a rental of around AU$30-50 for each ADSL line, which pushes up the cost of casual user low quota plans. Most people can't get anything faster than 1500K, and dialup is the best available in rural areas. Cable providers are few, come with anal restrictions (e.g. you aren't allowed to run servers), and have limited coverage even in urban areas. The government was subsidizing new ADSL2 DSLAMs, but they canceled that program earlier this year, so the only ADSL2 coverage is in capital cities.
Whirlpool is a good place to look if you want more background on the state of broadband down here.
Why not a link to the .iso download page in the article?
(Yes, that was annoyed sarcasm). I'd rather donate to the project and download an image than get one shipped, I can't believe OpenBSD is still refusing to provide Official ISOs.
Some lowlights: So if I let my flatmates share my internet connection, that makes me an ISP without a licence? Which makes telling a paedophile to get help an offense. On the upside, this could cut down on some of the vigilantism.