Yeah, but this is not enough. Right now, Alice (Telecom Italia brand for home use) is partially rewriting the labaia.org webpages, by denying access to the.js script (http://static.labaia.org/js/tpb.js) included in all the pages. If it's not in the browser cache already, of course.
Agree. When the Prime Minister can force the Parliament to approve a law that blocks all processes against him, "independence" is a dream. And this is what happened at the end of July.
No, it seems to be about blacklisting sites, hence why I had the thought way back there. Ok, now I see your point, and you might be right.
I was just commenting this extract of the article:
By analogy, Chinese Internet censorship based on keyword filtering is the equivalent of the latter -- and indeed, the keyword "massacre" (in Chinese) is on the blacklist.
Because it filters ideas rather than specific Web sites, keyword filtering stops people from using proxy servers or "mirror" Web sites to evade censorship. But because it is not completely effective all the time, it probably acts partly by encouraging self-censorship, Barr said. When users within China see that certain words, ideas and concepts are blocked most of the time, they might assume that they should avoid those topics. I don't know if this is real or not (we should see what the researchers actually did to perform their tests), but, if proven true, would mean that a content filter is in place, rather than a mere IP blocker.
...that the "Great Firewall" is only filtering packets that are outbound from China. It wouldn't be much effective, then, as the majority of the content that the Chinese government wants to ban is hosted on servers located outside China.
imagine if power companies oversold their infrastructure, and we all had continuous brown-outs during peak draw (summer afternoons in hot climates, winter mornings in cool climates)!
Admit it, you write from Italy! You have described perfectly our situation!
Really, they have the list. The only problem is that, when accessing the data, their DBMS fails with a "Out of memory" error, hanging the whole OS.
Guess what...
So that means that you don't know a lot of people with iPods then. As far as I know WMP can't be used to load an iPod- why else would people use iTunes? Right, you've got your point. But, AFAIK, iPod users are not the majority of the computer users (and with "computer user" I mean also the lowest-end consumer that bought its box only to surf the web and send e-mails), neither FF is more popular than IE.
The problem is that any new operating system will have to be massively better to oveercome the ultimate obstacle to F/OSS adoption: "Will I have to learn new things?" And this is the point, it you let me say what I think. The problem is right there, "Will I have to learn new things that make the other OS different from Windows?".
Microsoft, as our beloved friend Steve Ballmer says in this video, has spent much of its money to advertise its products, getting the audience used to its way of thinking and doing the things. If you go in the street and ask to the middle computer user how he writes texts on its box, he will answer you "I use Word" instead of "I use a word processor, Microsoft Word". Same thing if you ask about browsing the web or listening to the music; you will almost never hear the words "browser" or "media player", instead they will answer you with "Internet Explorer" and "Windows Media Player".
The 99% of the users does not even know about the existance of an alternative, and this is all that Microsoft needs.
Stay home, too many foreigners here anyway, most of them hereILLEGALLY. We don't want you or your money. Go somewhere else. Guess who has ILLEGALLY stolen that country from the natives, some centuries ago...
Unfortunately you're right, to install those packages you must switch to unstable version (aka "drunken").
It is not adviced to substitute those packages with an overlay created "by hand", because the result is often unsatisfactory.
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And the remaining 0.1 % is from people curious to see how WindowsUpdate looks with a browser other than IE.
You can move the sliders to give nothing to the charity.
Mandatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/350/
Sir, you are my new idol. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Yeah, but this is not enough. Right now, Alice (Telecom Italia brand for home use) is partially rewriting the labaia.org webpages, by denying access to the .js script (http://static.labaia.org/js/tpb.js) included in all the pages.
If it's not in the browser cache already, of course.
And, I might add, this party is explicitly against Italian Constitution.
Agree.
When the Prime Minister can force the Parliament to approve a law that blocks all processes against him, "independence" is a dream. And this is what happened at the end of July.
Oh, this is OT.
Cause all the Cool people are Chaotic Good. :)
But you're forgetting NPCs, villains and monsters.
LOL
I see that nobody has mentioned FUD, yet.
Because this "firewall" is about filtering words, not IP addresses.
...that the "Great Firewall" is only filtering packets that are outbound from China. It wouldn't be much effective, then, as the majority of the content that the Chinese government wants to ban is hosted on servers located outside China.Really, they have the list. The only problem is that, when accessing the data, their DBMS fails with a "Out of memory" error, hanging the whole OS. Guess what...
"Will I have to learn new things?" And this is the point, it you let me say what I think. The problem is right there, "Will I have to learn new things that make the other OS different from Windows?".
Microsoft, as our beloved friend Steve Ballmer says in this video, has spent much of its money to advertise its products, getting the audience used to its way of thinking and doing the things. If you go in the street and ask to the middle computer user how he writes texts on its box, he will answer you "I use Word" instead of "I use a word processor, Microsoft Word". Same thing if you ask about browsing the web or listening to the music; you will almost never hear the words "browser" or "media player", instead they will answer you with "Internet Explorer" and "Windows Media Player".
The 99% of the users does not even know about the existance of an alternative, and this is all that Microsoft needs.
And sorry for the typos
Agree. And read carefully the license agreement before installing any piece of software.
Unfortunately you're right, to install those packages you must switch to unstable version (aka "drunken"). It is not adviced to substitute those packages with an overlay created "by hand", because the result is often unsatisfactory.
Damn, he's my hero! ROTFL
Usually the command is Control+Shift+Del ;)