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He "limited" other men to only 4 wives (already a mysoginistic bastard but we'll move on)

Misogyny? Wouldn't a man having four wives be considered misandry http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/misandry?

There was plenty of the same thing happening in Cambodia not-all that long ago, and not-all that far away, either.

They may be indeed be jumping to conclusions, but after the monstrosities of the Khmer Rouge http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Khymer+Rouge, perhaps they're a bit jumpy.
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Gee, that's the exact opposite of every single definition of "defamation" available to check online.

This isn't legal advice, but while in a strict dictionary sense "defamation" might be anything said that hurts a reputation, truth is an affirmative defense. The articles linked above state that no action is called for and no damages occur when someone states a truth. The person whose reputation is tarnished by the truth earned that reputation. Speaking or printing the truth therefore does no damage to the rightful reputation. That seems to this non-attorney to mean you can call the speech or publication by any name you want, but you're not going to get money by suing someone for telling the truth.

Again, I am not a lawyer, but grade-school Social Studies teachers in the U.S. teach their students about John Peter Zenger and the case of New York v. Zenger. That case set forth truth as a defense for slander and libel in the common law of the North American colonies of England.

BTW, where are "defamiation" and "plaese" on any of the above sites? Do I need the latest edition of Black's? I can't find those definitions at all, oh careful and detail-oriented A. Coward. Without resolving those two issues, I'm having trouble following your carefully stated premise and well-reasoned arguments to your no doubt brilliant conclusion.

Dictionary definition of haptic:

Haptic free dictionary "haptic Pronunciation (hptk) adj. Of or relating to the sense of touch; tactile."
Same page /Thesaurus (note that the thesaurus for tactile say the same definition !) :
"Adj. 1. haptic - of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch; "haptic data"; "a tactile reflex; Synonym : tactile,,tactual".



There is NOTHING about gesture in the definition and only tactile mention. In other word the parent post above me is NOT informative.

theft n. the generic term for all crimes in which a person intentionally and fraudulently takes personal property of another without permission or consent and with the intent to convert it to the taker's use (including potential sale).

Borrowing may be theft if you derive any 'use' of the item. This includes copying as the extra copy diminishes the value of my copy and is of definite use to you. Stick to analogies that don't actually involve taking a physical object. Do you think if I "borrow" your trade-secret invention that somehow it won't be theft because of an alleged intent to return the item? Some acts transcend the BS that is 'intellectual property', your arguments do not even require the existence of IP law to be invalid.

Everyone seems stuck in the context of web browsers for some reason...In the Microsoft world, at least, IE7+Vista actually has a pretty secure design. A whitelist isn't going to be intended to stop flaws in the software--rather, it's intended to manage computer-related problems due to flaws in the human brain.

Unfortunately, it's just not workable without a pretty big shift in the way we think about computers. They have to stop being "general purpose" devices. We're talking about going to a cross between WebTV and personal computers, here, and that's a scary thought.

I still think that a license to use the Internet is what's in order. Remove a person's license, and if they still cause problems on the network, fine them.

Strait A's get a free pre-owned or something....

Strait A's get a free pre-owned or something....

upshot

You see the same sort of thing in Spain too. A single storey building with the rebar poking out the top where the concrete supports would be for the second storey.

I believe in Spain there's some tax loophole where you don't have to pay something if the building isn't completed. Is it local/council taxes/rates perhaps. Anyway, if there's a similar deal in Mexico, that could explain it.

You and Theo are disingenuous idiots. First, you make an unsubstantiated claim - '"Alternatively" means that the GPL could be used, that is, it can conform to the GPL.', then you redefine a term you just pulled from your ass to mean what you want it to mean ("conform"). That's as dishonest as an argument can possibly be. "Alternately" means exactly what it says, it offers an alternative ("The choice between two mutually exclusive possibilities." - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/alternative ) What Theo has been "explicit" about means exactly nothing, except to those like yourself who think he's god.

The author specifically gives a choice between licenses, and yes, you can leave out the one you don't choose, because that's exactly what the author said ("distribute under BSD, or alternately GPL") It makes absolutely no sense to give the choice otherwise.

Probably the most well-known difference between the BSD and GPL licenses is that the former allows code to be "locked up" (as into a commercial product) while the latter does not. Someone chosing the alternate licenses terms (GPL) is likely doing so because they want to ensure any future releases containing their contributions remain open. Forcing them to redistribute under BSD does not allow them to achieve that.

Finally, this is the ONLY meaning a BSD/GPL license can have which makes any sense at all. In terms of using (running, copying binaries, etc.) the code, they're functionally the same, AFAIK. They differ significantly only when you change/add source code. Saying that modified code must forever be distributed with both licenses is saying that a modifier has no choice between the licenses, and choice makes no sense for an end user.

The condition that the user insert a prominent notice of attribution does not limit the scope of
the license. Rather, Defendants' alleged violation of the conditions of the license may have constituted a breach of the nonexclusive license, but does not create liability for copyright
infringement where it would not otherwise exist. Therefore, based on the current record before the Court, the Court finds that Plaintiff's claim properly sounds in contract and therefore Plaintiff has not met his burden of demonstrating likelihood of success on the merit of his
copyright claim and is therefore not entitled to a presumption of irreparable harm

motion to strike n. a request for a judge's order to eliminate all or a portion of the legal pleading (complaint, answer) of the opposition on any one of several grounds. It is often used in an attempt to have an entire cause of action removed ("stricken") from the court record. A motion to strike is also made orally during trial to ask the judge to order "stricken" answers by a witness in violation of rules of evidence (laws covering what is admissible in trial). Even though the jury is admonished to ignore such an answer or some comment, the jury has heard it, and "a bell once rung, cannot be unrung."

Sorry, I forgot to add the sarcasm flag to my comment.

Manichaeism "A dualistic philosophy dividing the world between good and evil principles. . ." from Free Online Dictionary

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/allude

allude (-ld)
intr.v. alluded, alluding, alludes
To make an indirect reference: The candidate alluded to the recent war by saying, "We've all made sacrifices."
[Latin alldere, to play with : ad-, ad- + ldere, to play (from ldus, game; see leid- in Indo-European roots).]
Usage Note: Allude and allusion are often used where the more general terms refer and reference would be preferable. Allude and allusion normally apply to indirect references in which the source is not specifically identified.

Drop rust on it? Actually, for those who don't know what a linoleum knife is...

Apple betters Microsoft once more.

Dispatch Tuesday is so much cooler than Patch Tuesday.

From the dictionary
Dispatch == To put to death summarily.

What the fuck are you smoking, and can I please have some of it.

> "Selling the vulnerability is already probably extortion"
extortion defined: "extortion - the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)" - How does selling a worm fall within this definition? I call bullshit.

> "doing it on a broad scale is probably racketeering"
racketeering defined: racketeering - To carry on illegal business activities that involve crimes. See above, I call more bullshit

> "Telling the world about it and then not reporting it, however may also be illegal."
Why? What law is this guy breaking then? And in which country? I call more bullshit

> "because you were aware of the flaw and did not disclose it, you could probably be sued for civil damages"
dude, this is so rich, I don't even know where to begin. calling this bullshit would be an insult to bulls everywhere, and would probably lead to me being sued for libel by the International Bull Community.

You must live in some dreamworld with made-up laws. While some people may be find this guys actions questionable (from his blog I gather it was an implementation for a payed gig, and it all may be above board as far as we know) that doesn't instantly make it illegal.

If your post is the result of evening law classes, then my advice to you is not to give up the dayjob...

What the fuck are you smoking, and can I please have some of it.

> "Selling the vulnerability is already probably extortion"
extortion defined: "extortion - the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)" - How does selling a worm fall within this definition? I call bullshit.

> "doing it on a broad scale is probably racketeering"
racketeering defined: racketeering - To carry on illegal business activities that involve crimes. See above, I call more bullshit

> "Telling the world about it and then not reporting it, however may also be illegal."
Why? What law is this guy breaking then? And in which country? I call more bullshit

> "because you were aware of the flaw and did not disclose it, you could probably be sued for civil damages"
dude, this is so rich, I don't even know where to begin. calling this bullshit would be an insult to bulls everywhere, and would probably lead to me being sued for libel by the International Bull Community.

You must live in some dreamworld with made-up laws. While some people may be find this guys actions questionable (from his blog I gather it was an implementation for a payed gig, and it all may be above board as far as we know) that doesn't instantly make it illegal.

If your post is the result of evening law classes, then my advice to you is not to give up the dayjob...

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wrack

but I can tell you there are numerous things in the system that simply are not found in PC's and PC OS's.

Mainframes have always had multiple processors for various functions on various boards,

What I mean with this title is that you cannot understand Microsoft's actions by looking at it from the perspective of someone who wants to produce good products. As in someone who wants to truly push the state of the art as a goal in itself. Someone who wants to 'innovate' to use that bumf-laden word. Microsoft prefers to let start-ups do that for them, select the promising ideas, and then *buy* or *copy* the technology. Which incidentally is why Microsoft is so hostile to the GPL. If any innovative code is GPL'ed, then Microsoft cannot secure an exclusive hold on it, so they cannot use it to shore up their market dominance by creating imperfect competition or their pricing power {see http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ Pricing+Power for a definition of pricing power}.

For background reading, see: http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/A82DB83B-1F43-4EEB -8311-CC93A1B0245C/0/deltamodel.pdf for a description of the "Delta model" of strategic positioning, and note the position of Intel and Microsoft in the graph on page 3.

Rational actors versus emotional ones

Hackers and geeks {a sizeable proportion of Slashdot's readership} cannot understand Microsoft's actions because they are driven by emotion {love of tinkering, thinking source code is interesting and attractive, idealism} rather than rational thought. You can understand Microsoft's actions if you look at it from the point of view of a rational actor that tries to {mathematically speaking} maximise revenue, and to obtain that revenue, to either build or maintain sufficient dominance of the market to have that holy grail of marketing: 'pricing power'. You can understand them if you consider them from a marketing point of view. Implicit in which is that you *really* don't care what you sell, as long as it makes a profit. Some people {Slashdotters for example} need to have that, and its implications, explained to them - in small and easy steps... Hence my choice of title.

A marketing point of view

See e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Manageme nt/15-810Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm for introductory background material on marketing.

The notion of Marketing is crucial because it explains another of Microsoft's strategic constraints. Microsoft cannot afford a truly level playing field in the markets in which it operates because in such markets it wouldn't have the dominance and the lock-in that would allow it to exercise pricing power. It would slide from the top of the Delta pyramid to the right-hand side. Bye-bye profit margins.

Implications of marketing considerations for Microsoft actions

People have to realise that Microsoft truly does not care about *what* it ships ... as long as it maintains Microsoft's position in the Delta model ... which in turn determines it's ability to generate revenue.

Good enough ... for Microsoft

Now ... as I did not make explicit, but which several posters pointed out, Microsoft's 'Good Enough' means 'Good Enough to allow Microsoft to win in the marketplace while leveraging every other advantage they have'.

What other advantage? Well ... control of the PC platform for one thing. MS-Windows is the standard ... and largely because it becomes pre-loaded. As in "Hey ... it's included, right, so why look further?". Why does it become pre-loaded? Because people are used to MS Windows, so that pre-loading MS-Windows opens the mass-market. If you doubt the sensitivity and importance of having MS W

But be careful not to get confused with:

Spearmint Oil Administrative Committee
Sons of Alpha Centauri (band)
State of the Art Car
Submarine Officer Advance Course
System-On-A-Chip

(From SOAC Acronym

And as usual. Microsoft thinks they're the only game in town.

"Managed code" is any code that is "managed" by a run-time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_code

In non-Windows and mixed environments, managed code is sometimes used more generally to refer to any interpreted programming language.

Managed refers to the relationship between the program and the runtime environment. It is specified that at any point of execution, the runtime may stop the executing program and retrieve information specific to its current runtime state.

Java is managed code. So is perl. So is python. So is php. So is javascript. Come to think of it, SQL and stored procedures also meet the definition, as per the following:

http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ managed+code

An application program that is executed within a runtime environment (software) installed in the same machine. The application cannot run without it. The runtime environment provides the general library of software routines that the program uses and typically performs memory management. It may also provide just-in-time conversion from source code to executable code or from an intermediate language to executable code. Java, Visual Basic and .NET's Common Language Runtime (CLR) are examples of runtime environments. In addition, a DBMS may include a runtime environment for its programming language.

Pascal beat them all when it popularized "comile to pcode" (1973), beating SQL by a year.

In the US, we have this little thing call the Constitution that guarantees all people equal treatment under the law.

He was paraphrasing a popular idiom in the English language.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/one+swallow+do esn't+make+a+summer

When talking about platforms if you want to refer to just the OS (or supporting libraries, specifications etc.) then you would say "software platform" and if you want to talk only about the processor (or other supporting hardware) then you would say "hardware platform". Otherwise, in computing, the word platform is understood to mean a particular combination of hardware and software.

Also be aware that cross platform is not the same thing as platform independent.

If you are still confused you may find the following helpful:

http://www.bellevuelinux.org/cross-platform.html
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/platform
http://www.atis.org/tg2k/_platform.html
http://mtechit.com/concepts/platform.html
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/ DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861738674

So what does "Open" mean? Different things in different contexts.

And while I'm typing... why does RMS think he has the right to define what "Free" means? I can fully understand why the Oracle guy would later use the term "costless". After an RMS rant, the term "Free" would be very confusing; any competent speaker would do the same. GPL sofware is hardly "free" by some dictionary definitions: "not controlled by the will of others". A bit ironic that the "Free Software Foundation" (who supposedly push freedom) feel they have the right to dictate which of the many definitions of "free" http://www.thefreedictionary.com/free may be used in a software context. Isn't imposing your will on others anti-freedom?

GPL clearly does impose a will on others in that it is highly selective about what software it associates with. You're free to associate with me so long as you're GPL/straight/Catholic.

And before I am branded as an anti-OSS guy, I've written, and continue to write, heaps too - much of that released under GPL.

It also takes into account its very specific target audience

it's purely a laptop for children, particularly those in developing nations.

Also, unlike those products, this is not a niche product.


Confused? Me too.
niche: "A special area of demand for a product or service"

When I hear the word "harmonise", I usually think of things being harmonious... however, what happens in looney Euroland is that harmonisation of laws results in things becoming equally bad for everyone... things never become less restrictive, they always manage to find a way for all the most restrictive laws to be kept and amalgated into the new "harmonised" version...

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cue 2 (kyoo) n. 1. A signal, such as a word or action, used to prompt another event in a performance, such as an actor's speech or entrance, a change in lighting, or a sound effect.
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from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cue

that "by hook or by crook" bit seemed a bit un-right to me, so I looked it up a bit. I suspect you meant "inevitably," but the phrase really means "using any method possible" http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/by+hook+or+by+ crook

Did you google for 'DLL hell' yourself? I did, and found http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/DLL+hell :

Yes, DLL Hell has been mostly mitigated in newer versions of Windows. I was not trying to imply otherwise, which is why I pointed it out as an 'earlier' example of dependency issues in Windows. We were discussing the historical stability of the platforms interfaces after all. Yes, Linux has suffered from similar problems, and it lead to the development of the current apt repository architecture. I find apt is a far superior method for handling dependency issues. It provides a greater level of automation during installs, easier upgrading, and is open to third party software providers. Similar features in Windows extends only across Microsoft's software suite. Linux is way ahead of Microsoft in this area. See my earlier post about installing gaim to see what I mean.

I've been using both Windows and Linux almost since the origins of both, and my experience just does not match yours. The Linux API and ABI have remained very stable, usually more so than Windows. Just look at how much Vista breaks backwards compatibility to see what I mean. Do google search on the term 'DLL hell' for earlier examples.

Did you google for 'DLL hell' yourself? I did, and found http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/DLL+hell :

DLL hell as described above was a very common phenomenon on pre-Windows 2000 versions of Microsoft operating systems, the primary cause being that the operating system did not restrict DLL installations...

James Donald, in his 2003 paper titled Improved Portability of Shared Libraries[3] argued that DLL Hell is worse under Linux than Microsoft Windows. Several Linux distributions have had problems with software not packaged for the distribution when updating libraries, since the application programming interfaces of some Open Source libraries are prone to change between releases. When occurring in non-Windows environments, these problems are often referred to as dependency hell.

I believe it was exactly because of the ‘dependency hell’ that made ESR nuts some time ago.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/welsh

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/welsh

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/welsh

In all of these dictionaries welsh is the primary entry and welch is merely a pointer to welsh. Welch is a relatively modern corruption that came about as the original meaning was forgotten.

Not to take anything from your post, but "Summa cum laude" is latin for "with highest praise", whereas "Magna cum laude" is only "with high praise".

Summa is better than Magna.

You couldn't have done anything better. You should have been depressed for not knowing Latin enough instead ;-)

Cheers.

Not to take anything from your post, but "Summa cum laude" is latin for "with highest praise", whereas "Magna cum laude" is only "with high praise".

Summa is better than Magna.

You couldn't have done anything better. You should have been depressed for not knowing Latin enough instead ;-)

Cheers.

Hiccup is also a word.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hiccup

Nothing worse than a retarded grammar nazi.

Demanding monetary compensation I would think would be a different matter. If not extortion, how about blackmail?

In Contemporary Standard American English:
http://www.universalbackground.com/employment_scre ening/federal.asp
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Conviction+B y+Civil+Court

In Judicial literature:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:2wt6ze95vRoJ:c aselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl%3Fcourt%3 Dwi%26vol%3Dapp2%255C97-1261%26invol%3D1+%22civil+ case%22+DUI+conviction+-army+-military+Wisconsin&h l=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us (via Findlaw and Google's cache) Original link is http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?c ourt=wi&vol=app2%5C97-1261&invol=1 (free registration required).

So both lay people and judges sometimes use the term "civil conviction" to mean "being found guilty of breaking the law in civil court."

Any further questions? So much for "no evidence?"

You're mincing words here.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/scaling

Looking up what that word means would have saved you from getting flamed...

Putting paid is a British/Australian idiom for disrupting somebody's plans or intentions.

startupping.com sounds like celebrities having fun with sheep (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Tupping)

The theory is that the term came into existence as a means of being rude about these guys, so best avoided if you want to be nice and polite.

"Politically correct" is such a loaded term it is best used with caution I reckon, but I don't think there's anything wrong with changing the word you use to describe a group of people if it really hurts these people and they would prefer you chose another word.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Eskimo

Usage Note: Eskimo has come under strong attack in recent years for its supposed offensiveness, and many Americans today either avoid this term or feel uneasy using it. It is widely known that Inuit, a term of ethnic pride, offers an acceptable alternative, but it is less well understood that Inuit cannot substitute for Eskimo in all cases, being restricted in usage to the Inuit-speaking peoples of Arctic Canada and parts of Greenland. In Alaska and Arctic Siberia, where Inuit is not spoken, the comparable terms are Inupiaq and Yupik, neither of which has gained as wide a currency in English as Inuit. While use of these terms is often preferable when speaking of the appropriate linguistic group, none of them can be used of the Eskimoan peoples as a whole; the only inclusive term remains Eskimo.The claim that Eskimo is offensive is based primarily on a popular but disputed etymology tracing its origin to an Abenaki word meaning "eaters of raw meat." Though modern linguists speculate that the term actually derives from a Montagnais word referring to the manner of lacing a snowshoe, the matter remains undecided, and meanwhile many English speakers have learned to perceive Eskimo as a derogatory term invented by unfriendly outsiders in scornful reference to their neighbors' unsophisticated eating habits"