If, however, someone's notion of cyberspace starts and ends at Tron, then they're going to have a hard time understanding the lack of control they have over the system.
Seeing how programs behave in Tron, i'd say it pretty much explains the lack of control anyone would have over the system !
You mean a project that just started with a single guy isn't complete or near completion ?
Yeah it's gonna be tough but it doesn't mean it can't be useful or grow much bigger than it is now (rember this thing called Linux ?).
One can be polite, and even friendly, while still giving negative feedback. This "no negative feedback" bullshit is a result of those defunct social theories that we had to bolster kids' self-esteem at the cost of truth.
I believe that it's related to the widespread confusion of form and substance.
You can point at issues in someone's performance in a very nice manner and alternatively you can give some praise in a very displeasing way.
It could also be connected to the fact that it's often confusing to like and not like something at the same time and possibly for the very same reasons (btw, that's ambivalence).
Encouraging someone does not require lying.
They should do the same thing as the doctype and drop the number altogether.
Like anyone would understand HTML as "the old html from before the beginning of time, when netscape was a browser and people used newsgroups as forums and irc and whatever".
Let legacy apps use HTML 4, xhtml et al and just move forward.
Electronic voting will always be a democratic failure because there's simply no way to actually check the result without an output from the system itself (wich is therefore also tainted).
This is not an engineering problem, period.
Word of advice for would be users of this technique, please generate a specific private key to carry around.
It will be less problematic the day you lose your thumb drive.
Such a hacking can compromise a large part of the internet. Because someone can introduce backdoors, the nasty ones I mean, so deep to evade any check.
Well, as far as git goes, you can't make changes undetected because all commits are signed and all clones of a repository have the whole history log.
I believe The Onion has it right.
as Linus is on the warpath this week, I think he should shoot whomever came up with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Beta 1
I believe Shuttleworth wouldn't be too happy about that (being shot)...
There is a "simple" workaround for the notification area problem :
http://ubuntugenius.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/ubuntu-11-04-fix-show-all-iconsindicators-in-unity-panels-notification-area/
I'll grant you that it can be kind of annoying but nothing a small script can't fix.
In all seriousness, as soon as the government starts making a distinction between real criminals and John Q. Citizen we can start letting our guards down on this but until then we should always err on the side of less power and intrusion.
I think you're wrong both in assuming there is an actual difference between "real criminals" and "normal citizens" and in believing that you can ever "let your guard down".
As far as the law is concerned, a "real criminal" is any "normal citizen" who was convicted of a crime. So technicaly you can't distinguish between those two mentioned groups during investigation since there's been no verdict yet.
What you're talking about essentially means placing a verdict before any trial.
As always, people will only promote a system that segregates people if they think they're gonna end up on the right side of the fence.
Integrate an invincible red scorpion in all videos produced with cracked version of your software.
Should be detrimental enough !
I would go further and suggest that this is a desired outcome by both governments and content holders: to drive the subversives, the perceived anarchists, and in short, all of the non-mainstream consumer users of the Internet off of it into their own "underground".
By underground, you probably mean Zion, right ?
...aggressive greenhouse-gas control policies are not justified economically.
The key word here is "economically".
Of course it makes no economical sense to do that.
That's because we're not trying to solve an economical problem.
You could also add that there's no economical reason to have children and you would certainly be right while totally missing the point.
All fullsize displayport adapters i've seen feature a couple of little hooks to prevent cable getting loose.
You then need to press some kind of button to release the plug and extract it, a-la rj45.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
