DuckDuckGo gets its results from over 50 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! BOSS, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Bing & Blekko.
Added bold for emphasis. Granted they seem to do a lot more than just Bing so the summary is somewhat misleading (a misleading slashdot summary, how shocking).
As a user of Adblock Plus for Firefox who also blocks ads in other browsers I use by using blocklists, I welcome this as an option.
The only real reason I installed it in the first place was because ads started using animated images/flash and slowed down page loads and my machine (a low-power nettop). Firefox already seemed slow (UI) compared to other browsers at the time and having the ads slow down the machine more than the actual content became much too annoying when I could simply block them all. I tried for a time to only block a limited number of ads/types that annoyed me but I realized that it had become a lot of effort for the benefit of the people annoying me when I could just download an addon and a blocklist and be done with it.
In the end, I hope the allowing of "acceptable" ads helps return the web to not being so annoying without addons by forcing advertisers to make their ads less annoying if they want to be seen.
shorter distance to go to get to tabs when moving mouse from page content
the way it used to be
Tabs on top:
Page specific things such as address bar are visually under the tab, making it seem more connected to the page content, since the address bar and buttons do tab specific things
Not needed things like the address bar can be hidden without moving the tab bar placement such as when using things like the add-ons manager in firefox.
Chrome, Opera and Firefox seem to disagree. Mozilla even has a nice little list with the reasoning for it:
The conceptual model: the address bar and controls apply to the current tab.
App tabs: like Chrome, Firefox 4.0 will allow you pin small regularly-used tabs to the tab bar. The address bar and other controls will be removed for these web applications.
Tab-based UI: Firefox 4.0 will show windows such as downloads and the bookmarks organizer in tabs. It makes no sense to have the address bar and other controls visible.
Notifications: some error and warning messages now appear below the address bar.
The part in bold is what I think really decides it. Putting everything related to that specific tab (the url, notification dialogues, etc) under it makes more sense, especially with the themes most browsers have now that have inactive tabs in the back with the current tab's edges extending down to connect with the rest of the page specific things.
You don't have to be that old. Phantasy Star Online used it. I kinda wish something like that had taken off, as time zones are quite annoying, especially when they keep changing them and you have to make sure every program is working with the new info. Beat might have had a better chance if it was based on UTC instead of some weird offset.
Or you know, we could just use UTC everywhere, solving the problem without having to get used to new units like a beat.
So while the sweat of the brow in compiling a telephone directory does not confer blanket copyright protection, the research involved in finding the true facts of time data, identifying the incorrect items, and presenting the rules could be an entirely different matter.
As far as I can tell from a layman's perspective, the only thing copyrightable in that should be the presentation. It's the only thing I can think of that gets creative at all. Determining if facts are true seems like "sweat of the brow". The TZ data likely has a completely different presentation thus it shouldn't infringe.
The SCOTUS didn't strike down a similar bill, they just didn't disagree with the California Supreme Court in their assessment that lets police search cell phones of people they arrest. It's entirely in the legislature's rights to then say, 'oh that's not how it should be' and pass more protections against searches. I don't really see anything unconstitutional about law makers passing restrictions on what police, a part of the government, can do against citizens. If it was the other way around, for example allowing searches when there should be protections, then yes it should be struck down.
I might be wrong but I think the poster is talking about crypto export restrictions which made it illegal to export strong encryption in software for a while. They developed a way around it using ActiveX controls that were downloaded by the site rather than built into the browser, that of course only work in IE. When everyone else was switching to other browsers, all the infrastructure used IE only stuff (for encryption, internet banking, etc) therefore IE didn't lose it's spot at the top because no other browser worked with all that stuff.
Again, this is just going by memory, but I think that's about what happened.
Boot sector virus protection is available on most motherboards as far as I can tell. It prevents things from writing to the MBR without confirmation. Windows 7 also seems to popup UAC asking whether you really want to let something write to that area of the HDD from my experience.
Wrong university. OSU is beavers, not ducks (Ducks are UO).
That said, OSUOSL does provide mirrors for a lot of the distros I've downloaded. They apparently host a lot of other stuff for open source projects too.
*notice that even encrypted WIFI isn't safe. Anyone with access to the encrypted network can eavesdrop on your packets
That was somewhat true with WEP which used a shared key, but with WPA/WPA2 the attacker must capture the handshake at the beginning of the connection in order to get the session key, so just having access to the network doesn't automatically give someone access to all the data anymore. If you're that paranoid about wifi though, a VPN shouldn't hurt. A VPN also protects from attackers on the wired network too (until it gets to the endpoint).
I think that's probably the size of the web page and all the extra elements in it that's making it feel like 56K. Looking at the article page's it's 102KB for the main page size and 900KB of inline elements. That's a MB of data for rendering what's mostly text.
I get the benefits of the whole dynamic content thing that's been going on a while now but sometimes I just wish it was more of a static page. For someone on a slow connection, it kind of sucks to have all this extra stuff download. The fact that handheld devices now use "screen" instead of "handheld" probably makes it worse by not being able to have separate low-bandwidth styles for mobile (as far as I know, with knowing basic html/css/javascript).
I see two problems with the ink thumb print method:
1. As far as I can tell, ballots in the US are supposed to be secret (as in not linkable to an individual) and having a uniquely identifying piece of information like a thumbprint doesn't fit well with that.
2. Do you really trust the government not to collect all those ballots and run them through some kind of criminal database to "catch criminals", or "protect the children", or even just for the sole purpose of adding more people to the database for tracking? Just look at what's happened to the DNA database being expanded to searches for familial matches. If you give anything like that to the government, they will abuse it.
Speaking of which, perhaps Bitcoin transactions could be used to facilitate a replacement for hierarchical DNS, due to the public and forever verifiable nature of Bitcoin transactions, you have a distributed database much like DNS, that is also peer-to-peer and universally verifiable, a technology like Bitcoin would always be able to "prove" who asked to register for a name first, and if a bitcoin transaction was required for it to happen, the registration action be free, abuse/squatting would be self-limiting, "expiration" after X years of registration would not be required, and it could be made impossible for a central authority to revoke a name registration based on "legal" demands, DMCA, etc....
Looking at that, it looks like it could actually work if adopted. They've got most of the basics down as far as I can tell, and what they really need now is user-friendly interfaces (currently CLI only).
Apple made a case to developers that the UI should be re-thought for something the size of a tablet - a sentiment I agree with. The iPhone supports just as many auto-scaling abilities as does Android, but the simply truth is that something the size of an iPad cries out for a different UI layout, not just windows that grow larger. You hold a tablet differently than a phone for one thing, so control positions should be re-thought. Having a whole screen slide over ala a navigation controller on an iPhone makes no sense on something with a huge screen, or at least looks goofy.
From what I can tell, that's what the whole "fragments" thing that Google is trying to introduce into android is about. It seems to me like the ability to make separate sections and display more if the screen size allows. Like instead of getting a list of articles, selecting one, then viewing it, it could just have the list on the left and the viewing on the right if the screen was larger (a tablet) while still using separate ones for small screens (a phone).
And how screwed are the people who just don't happen to have fast internet?
Have you seen how large OS and Application updates are now? Pretty much everything seems to require a fast connection. Even slashdot has bloated (58,633 B for an article with 898,406 B of inline elements, adding up to almost 1MB for a single page). It seems that slow connections are no longer really considered that much when people design stuff. Even slow DSL (although still "broadband") is now causing problems with not being fast enough sometimes.
Therefore I would say the people who just don't happen to have fast internet are screwed.
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And how many addons/extensions are you using in Firefox?
Slashdot Mirror
You have an Archos device and you don't have the market installed? Have you tried ArcTools (likely the most popular app in the AppsLib)?
DuckDuckGo gets its results from over 50 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! BOSS, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Bing & Blekko.
Added bold for emphasis. Granted they seem to do a lot more than just Bing so the summary is somewhat misleading (a misleading slashdot summary, how shocking).
As a user of Adblock Plus for Firefox who also blocks ads in other browsers I use by using blocklists, I welcome this as an option.
The only real reason I installed it in the first place was because ads started using animated images/flash and slowed down page loads and my machine (a low-power nettop). Firefox already seemed slow (UI) compared to other browsers at the time and having the ads slow down the machine more than the actual content became much too annoying when I could simply block them all. I tried for a time to only block a limited number of ads/types that annoyed me but I realized that it had become a lot of effort for the benefit of the people annoying me when I could just download an addon and a blocklist and be done with it.
In the end, I hope the allowing of "acceptable" ads helps return the web to not being so annoying without addons by forcing advertisers to make their ads less annoying if they want to be seen.
If Sovereign, the republican was behind it he wouldn't mind.
He probably wouldn't mind because he's been indoctrinated.
From what I can tell:
Tabs on bottom:
Tabs on top:
The tabs Go UNDER the address, period. Stop. Done.
http://www.sitepoint.com/browser-tabs-above-below/
Chrome, Opera and Firefox seem to disagree. Mozilla even has a nice little list with the reasoning for it:
The part in bold is what I think really decides it. Putting everything related to that specific tab (the url, notification dialogues, etc) under it makes more sense, especially with the themes most browsers have now that have inactive tabs in the back with the current tab's edges extending down to connect with the rest of the page specific things.
You don't have to be that old. Phantasy Star Online used it. I kinda wish something like that had taken off, as time zones are quite annoying, especially when they keep changing them and you have to make sure every program is working with the new info. Beat might have had a better chance if it was based on UTC instead of some weird offset.
Or you know, we could just use UTC everywhere, solving the problem without having to get used to new units like a beat.
So while the sweat of the brow in compiling a telephone directory does not confer blanket copyright protection, the research involved in finding the true facts of time data, identifying the incorrect items, and presenting the rules could be an entirely different matter.
As far as I can tell from a layman's perspective, the only thing copyrightable in that should be the presentation. It's the only thing I can think of that gets creative at all. Determining if facts are true seems like "sweat of the brow". The TZ data likely has a completely different presentation thus it shouldn't infringe.
The SCOTUS didn't strike down a similar bill, they just didn't disagree with the California Supreme Court in their assessment that lets police search cell phones of people they arrest. It's entirely in the legislature's rights to then say, 'oh that's not how it should be' and pass more protections against searches. I don't really see anything unconstitutional about law makers passing restrictions on what police, a part of the government, can do against citizens. If it was the other way around, for example allowing searches when there should be protections, then yes it should be struck down.
When finally there will be a P2P network with encryption like DHT used by some ... P2P networks.
Do you mean a P2P network with encryption and DHT, because "encryption like DHT" doesn't exactly make sense to me (DHT is not encryption).
While it doesn't have DHT, a thing like RetroShare might be what you're looking for. Have a look at dark and friend-to-friend networks, too.
I might be wrong but I think the poster is talking about crypto export restrictions which made it illegal to export strong encryption in software for a while. They developed a way around it using ActiveX controls that were downloaded by the site rather than built into the browser, that of course only work in IE. When everyone else was switching to other browsers, all the infrastructure used IE only stuff (for encryption, internet banking, etc) therefore IE didn't lose it's spot at the top because no other browser worked with all that stuff.
Again, this is just going by memory, but I think that's about what happened.
Boot sector virus protection is available on most motherboards as far as I can tell. It prevents things from writing to the MBR without confirmation. Windows 7 also seems to popup UAC asking whether you really want to let something write to that area of the HDD from my experience.
Wrong university. OSU is beavers, not ducks (Ducks are UO).
That said, OSUOSL does provide mirrors for a lot of the distros I've downloaded. They apparently host a lot of other stuff for open source projects too.
But if you leave the country, they'll just arrest you and bring you back.
Joking...
(only sort of)...
It's really depressing hearing about cases like this.
*notice that even encrypted WIFI isn't safe. Anyone with access to the encrypted network can eavesdrop on your packets
That was somewhat true with WEP which used a shared key, but with WPA/WPA2 the attacker must capture the handshake at the beginning of the connection in order to get the session key, so just having access to the network doesn't automatically give someone access to all the data anymore. If you're that paranoid about wifi though, a VPN shouldn't hurt. A VPN also protects from attackers on the wired network too (until it gets to the endpoint).
Public as in anyone can use it, albeit at slow speeds without paying (though not 56k slow).
I think that's probably the size of the web page and all the extra elements in it that's making it feel like 56K. Looking at the article page's it's 102KB for the main page size and 900KB of inline elements. That's a MB of data for rendering what's mostly text.
I get the benefits of the whole dynamic content thing that's been going on a while now but sometimes I just wish it was more of a static page. For someone on a slow connection, it kind of sucks to have all this extra stuff download. The fact that handheld devices now use "screen" instead of "handheld" probably makes it worse by not being able to have separate low-bandwidth styles for mobile (as far as I know, with knowing basic html/css/javascript).
I see two problems with the ink thumb print method:
1. As far as I can tell, ballots in the US are supposed to be secret (as in not linkable to an individual) and having a uniquely identifying piece of information like a thumbprint doesn't fit well with that.
2. Do you really trust the government not to collect all those ballots and run them through some kind of criminal database to "catch criminals", or "protect the children", or even just for the sole purpose of adding more people to the database for tracking? Just look at what's happened to the DNA database being expanded to searches for familial matches. If you give anything like that to the government, they will abuse it.
Speaking of which, perhaps Bitcoin transactions could be used to facilitate a replacement for hierarchical DNS, due to the public and forever verifiable nature of Bitcoin transactions, you have a distributed database much like DNS, that is also peer-to-peer and universally verifiable, a technology like Bitcoin would always be able to "prove" who asked to register for a name first, and if a bitcoin transaction was required for it to happen, the registration action be free, abuse/squatting would be self-limiting, "expiration" after X years of registration would not be required, and it could be made impossible for a central authority to revoke a name registration based on "legal" demands, DMCA, etc....
Namecoin
Looking at that, it looks like it could actually work if adopted. They've got most of the basics down as far as I can tell, and what they really need now is user-friendly interfaces (currently CLI only).
s/you're/your/g
A patent is not a monopoly.
And if you're patent is on a standard, such as video encoding where you must use the required technology in order to be compatible?
As in, the US Gov seizes trademark because they don't like it, then they use the trademark to try to take it down.
Apple made a case to developers that the UI should be re-thought for something the size of a tablet - a sentiment I agree with. The iPhone supports just as many auto-scaling abilities as does Android, but the simply truth is that something the size of an iPad cries out for a different UI layout, not just windows that grow larger. You hold a tablet differently than a phone for one thing, so control positions should be re-thought. Having a whole screen slide over ala a navigation controller on an iPhone makes no sense on something with a huge screen, or at least looks goofy.
From what I can tell, that's what the whole "fragments" thing that Google is trying to introduce into android is about. It seems to me like the ability to make separate sections and display more if the screen size allows. Like instead of getting a list of articles, selecting one, then viewing it, it could just have the list on the left and the viewing on the right if the screen was larger (a tablet) while still using separate ones for small screens (a phone).
And how screwed are the people who just don't happen to have fast internet?
Have you seen how large OS and Application updates are now? Pretty much everything seems to require a fast connection. Even slashdot has bloated (58,633 B for an article with 898,406 B of inline elements, adding up to almost 1MB for a single page). It seems that slow connections are no longer really considered that much when people design stuff. Even slow DSL (although still "broadband") is now causing problems with not being fast enough sometimes.
Therefore I would say the people who just don't happen to have fast internet are screwed.
And how many addons/extensions are you using in Firefox?