It's not the CSI effect, it's the "most Americans are stupid" effect.
Honestly, Most can not tell the difference between Fantasy on TV and reality. this is why a jury in a technical case is not a "jury of your peers" unless the jury is compromised of IT and CS people.
This is late, yes, but I couldn't resist: http://xkcd.com/553/
Well, I ordered a new computer in a cardboard case on my mother's credit card, and wound up grounded, so there's no worry.
Several hundred dollars, not worth the Windows Genuine Advantage (tm)? Gasp! Surely you jest.
5. A plethora of linux distibutions affords a user a great freedom of choice.
There, fixed that for you.
One simply must consider which distribution fits one's needs, and make a decision. I have done so on several occasions and I regret it not.
Seconded. I am the hacker type, but I generally need a gentle introduction to any particular program or system, before I can become proficient with it. Good tutorials would be especially helpful - highly in-depth technical documentation is useless if I can't tell a widget from a dongle.
Specifically, this applies to source code documentation - one of the key advantages of open source is serviceability, since the source is, er, open (go figure). However, often one has no idea in which file or directory to find a particular function or piece of code, or how it works, or what it in turn uses, &c. Comments are nice, but real, dedicated documentation (like the Documentation directory in the Linux kernel tree, say) would be nicer.
Not a big M$ fan but who decides which browsers get to be on the ballot?
Point. Any browsers included on the ballot would gain the same distinct advantage that IE had, albeit to a lesser degree.
Stallman Says Pirate Party Hurts HIS VERSION OF Free Software
Which, being licenced under the GPL or some other such free software licence, is also my version.
That's the sexiest thing to come from the Linux community in forever.
By the way, this is from Microsoft - as in, the company who employs this guy. Still, I suppose there is no accounting for (sexual) taste.
as if the electrons are trying to go in **ZOMG!** both directions or something!
Gasp! Edison surely rolls in his grave. Knights of Direct Current, Unite!
Silence the Alarms, I say.
While I am generally quite wary of anything which may invade my privacy, in this case, I am not terribly concerned. Everyone seems to be working themselves into a righteous frenzy over what amounts essentially to a trifle. With no warrant, this bill only allows the acquisition of specific pieces of general information such as name and address, for which there is no reasonable expectation of confidentiality - indeed, little more than could be expected from a telephone directory. A telephone directory is not a wiretap. Likewise, this bill would not allow the acquisition of content without a court order. That said, I am not completely indifferent as to the passing of this bill - I believe that, as always when privacy is concerned, we should proceed cautiously, but not immediately and indignantly strike this bill down as an affront to our privacy.
If you are worried, try:
- IPsec
- Tor
- SSH
- SSL
- GnuPG
etc, etc.
P.S. Mr. Van Loan: A rotary telephone sits atop my desk. I use it regularly.
We have WYSIWYG editors.
Edit with (vi, emacs, other visual editor); browse in source mode. WYSIWYG.
Manipulate and control the environment...
Biometrics to connect to user...
I think it's called a "hand".
I disagree with this. While I do believe in the fundamental right to anonymity, it is totally up to the sites owners to make them anonymous or not.
...and whether or not to call them "cowards".
To then go on to talk about a Bill of Rights as some arbitrarily-agreed upon standards is ridiculous and on some level scary, because it implies your humans rights and worth is something up for democratic debate and potentially is yet another chip on the political bargaining table.
You see, here in Canada, we have this "Notwithstanding" clause...
However, if the law DOES allow it, that opens the door for legitimate businesses to manufacture and sell tools to make it easy for educators to copy clips.
dd
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