Excuse me, but the the police don't have anything stronger than "suspicion", why are they holding anyone at all? If they have something stronger, then why isn't it a search warrent and arrest?
This is for when you have enough evidence to arrest someone but not enough to charge him. The idea is to give more time for processing any evidence seized.
well at least they gave him a lot of good reasons! In the US they would never explain why you're being arrested
From the article, it seems that they gave him reasons for being detained and searched, which is what they are normally legally required to do (I don't know whether that still applies under recent anti-terrorism legislation). His formal arrest came later.
All indications point towards poker still growing, and online poker is at least stable.
That's the problem. Many of the valuations were based on absurd growth rates. Sure, online poker is likely to be profitable. However, a lot of people who got it early are likely to get their fingers burnt.
The Gregorian Reformation is assumed to have occurred in 1752 on the 3rd of September. By this time, most countries had recognized the reformation (although a few did not recognize it until the early 1900's.) Ten days following that date were eliminated by the reformation, so the calendar for that month is a bit unusual
Close but no cigar: the gap had become eleven days by 1752, because 1700 isn't a leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
How on Earth is it possible that SUSE Pro has NOT been open source so far? It's based on GPLd software and therefore all changes to the code and 3rd party additions should be free too.
They used to licence their installer, Yast2, under what the FSF would call a non-free licence (basically, no commercial redistribution). It was their own code, so they could licence it how they liked. There's nothing to stop you putting free and non-free stuff in the same distro: "mere aggregation" as the GPL has it.
They haven't done that since SuSE 9.1, so it's a non-issue now.
That dosn't make much sense. Are you saying PoE would have to be managed from connection to connection ? Once you charge the line then all ethernet cabling plugged in would be live unless you also had a method for switching power inside say routers. And if that is part of the standard then everyone would have to upgrade routers as well.
Well yes, that's what the article is about; it's a chicken and egg problem at the minute. It can be kind of handy to have PoE for an odd webcam or wireless access point that can use it; however, it would usually involve upgrading all your switches.
One thing that could possibly drive the adoption would be IP telephony; you could easily factor in PoE enabling every switch as part of a VoIP migration.
Quite a few "Bermuda Triangle" disappearances occurred well outside of the triangle, such that it needs to be redefined as pretty much the entire South Atlantic.
And in some cases, portions of the Pacific as well.
I'm not entirely sure why the hon. Gentleman saw fit to follow it up with a rather long lecture on Cumbrian history, that was only brought short by his running out of time and the Speaker cutting him off...
As he said at the beginning, it was his maiden speech (his first, as a newly elected MP). It is customary to make some complementary remarks about the previous MP, and ones constituency on these occasions. If you go back a few pages to Mr Malik's speech, it follows the same traditional form.
There is code in OOo which uses com.sun classes. Quite a lot of it.
There is a big difference between sun.* classes and com.sun classes. sun.* classes are undocumented Java internals, and highly non-portable. com.sun.* classes is the standard way to specify vendor routines.
If OpenOffice has some com.sun classes, it just means that it contains some Sun code (well, knock me down with a kipper!). As you note though, there are some sun.* classes used, so there is a genuine problem. It might not be as large as you imply though.
"Mistakenly using GPL code"? How can anyone use GPL code on accident?
A company can easily use GPL code by mistake; it just takes one developer to download some code and file off the copyright notice. Granted, if it's a particularly egregious violation then management should catch it.
I always thought Firefox is the best browser when it came to perfect rendering of CSS.
It surely used to be; with Opera a close second and Konqueror nowhere (except compared to IE/Win, of course). Konqueror always struck me as a more pragmatic than a standards compliant/evangelistic browser. Respect to Hyatt and the KDE guys for making such good progress.
Having said that, it's just one smallish testsuite. IMHO, the winning is not so important as the taking part. And, to be brutally honest, if IE7 even tries to make the test work it will be far a bigger step forward for the web than almost anything else. Motes, beams, etc.
Sure, but many executives assume that anything an outside "security" company says is scripture. I think he's looking for the best way to get the point across.
Maybe I'm being naive here but I would hope that the "risk management VP" knows something about risk management. So, the approach I would take is to categorize the risks: seriousness of vulnerability, difficulty of fixing, priority.
If you break it into priorities, and put in some effort estimates, and the VP says, "fix all of them", that's tough for you. More likely he will stop somewhere in the middle and draw a line. Then everyone wins: auditors have been picky, you have made a technical risk assessment, boss has made a decision.
Consenting? I think the law operates as it does because in fact consenting to being beaten up is really pretty unlikely, and the vast majority of situations where this might occur are cases of domestic violence, which surely no sane person would prefer the law turned a blind eye to.
There was a case, which I think went all the way to the House of Lords, involving people who did it...er for fun. The Lords did decide that consent wasn't a defence when causing a deliberate injury.
LCD manufacturers routinely put defective screens on the market, on the premise that a dead pixel here or there "won't be noticed". Too bad, because consumers do notice and do tend to return the product equipped with the dodgy screen, only to be told that it's "normal".
It is: there is an an ISO standard for acceptable defects (ISO 13406-2). It does suck somewhat that it's not always easy to find the individual manaufacturer's acceptable standard before you buy the damn thing though.
Has anyone ever justified these claims that CSS is a flawed standard?
CSS 2 is clearly a flawed standard; it had pages of errata, then CSS 2.1 got released as a maintenance release. You can't implement a standard fully when it isn't self-consistent.
The big problem was that, for once, the standards people were some way ahead of what was supported by the browsers. That's dangerous, because you really want at least two independent implementations of a standard to see if there is any ambiguity.
The problem is self-perpetuating. If you take the attitude of not starting on implementing a standard until it's finish, then you're providing no feedback to the standards process.
In UK rules the only restriction on bidding is that you can't bid one no-trump if you hold a singleton.
That's not true; in the UK we get laughed at by our European colleagues for having a conventions booklet over 50 pages long. And as it happens, you have been allowed to open 1NT with a singleton for a couple of years, even at level 3.
If the OpenOffice format gets accepted as an ISO standard, then the public sector in the EU (which is a *big* market) can put it into tender requirements without it looking like a shoo-in for Sun. Nobody is going to win a case based on claiming that complying with ISOxxxxx is an unfair requirement.
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Electrical Engineers do it with less resistance. It's the ECE's that do it with greater frequency.
But spectroscopists do it with frequency and intensity.
Excuse me, but the the police don't have anything stronger than "suspicion", why are they holding anyone at all? If they have something stronger, then why isn't it a search warrent and arrest?
This is for when you have enough evidence to arrest someone but not enough to charge him. The idea is to give more time for processing any evidence seized.
I've always complained that Wikipedia was infected with a socialist bias
I think that says more about you than it does Wikipedia; especially given your choice of wording.
well at least they gave him a lot of good reasons! In the US they would never explain why you're being arrested
From the article, it seems that they gave him reasons for being detained and searched, which is what they are normally legally required to do (I don't know whether that still applies under recent anti-terrorism legislation). His formal arrest came later.
All indications point towards poker still growing, and online poker is at least stable.
That's the problem. Many of the valuations were based on absurd growth rates. Sure, online poker is likely to be profitable. However, a lot of people who got it early are likely to get their fingers burnt.
The Gregorian Reformation is assumed to have occurred in 1752 on the 3rd of September. By this time, most countries had recognized the reformation (although a few did not recognize it until the early 1900's.) Ten days following that date were eliminated by the reformation, so the calendar for that month is a bit unusual
Close but no cigar: the gap had become eleven days by 1752, because 1700 isn't a leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
How on Earth is it possible that SUSE Pro has NOT been open source so far? It's based on GPLd software and therefore all changes to the code and 3rd party additions should be free too.
They used to licence their installer, Yast2, under what the FSF would call a non-free licence (basically, no commercial redistribution). It was their own code, so they could licence it how they liked. There's nothing to stop you putting free and non-free stuff in the same distro: "mere aggregation" as the GPL has it.
They haven't done that since SuSE 9.1, so it's a non-issue now.
That dosn't make much sense. Are you saying PoE would have to be managed from connection to connection ? Once you charge the line then all ethernet cabling plugged in would be live unless you also had a method for switching power inside say routers. And if that is part of the standard then everyone would have to upgrade routers as well.
Well yes, that's what the article is about; it's a chicken and egg problem at the minute. It can be kind of handy to have PoE for an odd webcam or wireless access point that can use it; however, it would usually involve upgrading all your switches.
One thing that could possibly drive the adoption would be IP telephony; you could easily factor in PoE enabling every switch as part of a VoIP migration.
Can they cite any examples of 'U.S. Government Meddling' or are these just they guys who make a living complaining about Bush's belt buckles?
/. spin on a Register article as evidence of what anyone actually said.
You should have been around long enough not to take a
Here is the original CENTR response
Quite a few "Bermuda Triangle" disappearances occurred well outside of the triangle, such that it needs to be redefined as pretty much the entire South Atlantic.
And in some cases, portions of the Pacific as well.
I'm not entirely sure why the hon. Gentleman saw fit to follow it up with a rather long lecture on Cumbrian history, that was only brought short by his running out of time and the Speaker cutting him off...
As he said at the beginning, it was his maiden speech (his first, as a newly elected MP). It is customary to make some complementary remarks about the previous MP, and ones constituency on these occasions. If you go back a few pages to Mr Malik's speech, it follows the same traditional form.
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There is code in OOo which uses com.sun classes. Quite a lot of it.
There is a big difference between sun.* classes and com.sun classes. sun.* classes are undocumented Java internals, and highly non-portable. com.sun.* classes is the standard way to specify vendor routines.
If OpenOffice has some com.sun classes, it just means that it contains some Sun code (well, knock me down with a kipper!). As you note though, there are some sun.* classes used, so there is a genuine problem. It might not be as large as you imply though.
These words remains as true now as when they were first published, back in 1963...
Indeed.
"Mistakenly using GPL code"? How can anyone use GPL code on accident?
A company can easily use GPL code by mistake; it just takes one developer to download some code and file off the copyright notice. Granted, if it's a particularly egregious violation then management should catch it.
I always thought Firefox is the best browser when it came to perfect rendering of CSS.
It surely used to be; with Opera a close second and Konqueror nowhere (except compared to IE/Win, of course). Konqueror always struck me as a more pragmatic than a standards compliant/evangelistic browser. Respect to Hyatt and the KDE guys for making such good progress.
Having said that, it's just one smallish testsuite. IMHO, the winning is not so important as the taking part. And, to be brutally honest, if IE7 even tries to make the test work it will be far a bigger step forward for the web than
almost anything else. Motes, beams, etc.
Sure, but many executives assume that anything an outside "security" company says is scripture. I think he's looking for the best way to get the point across.
Maybe I'm being naive here but I would hope that the "risk management VP" knows something about risk management. So, the approach I would take is to categorize the risks: seriousness of vulnerability, difficulty of fixing, priority.
If you break it into priorities, and put in some effort estimates, and the VP says, "fix all of them", that's tough for you. More likely he will stop somewhere in the middle and draw a line. Then everyone wins: auditors have been picky, you have made a technical risk assessment, boss has made a decision.
Consenting? I think the law operates as it does because in fact consenting to being beaten up is really pretty unlikely, and the vast majority of situations where this might occur are cases of domestic violence, which surely no sane person would prefer the law turned a blind eye to.
There was a case, which I think went all the way to the House of Lords, involving people who did it...er for fun. The Lords did decide that consent wasn't a defence when causing a deliberate injury.
LCD manufacturers routinely put defective screens on the market, on the premise that a dead pixel here or there "won't be noticed". Too bad, because consumers do notice and do tend to return the product equipped with the dodgy screen, only to be told that it's "normal".
It is: there is an an ISO standard for acceptable defects (ISO 13406-2). It does suck somewhat that it's not always easy to find the individual manaufacturer's acceptable standard before you buy the damn thing though.
Has anyone ever justified these claims that CSS is a flawed standard?
CSS 2 is clearly a flawed standard; it had pages of errata, then CSS 2.1 got released as a maintenance release. You can't implement a standard fully when it isn't self-consistent.
The big problem was that, for once, the standards people were some way ahead of what was supported by the browsers. That's dangerous, because you really want at least two independent implementations of a standard to see if there is any ambiguity.
The problem is self-perpetuating. If you take the attitude of not starting on implementing a standard until it's finish, then you're providing no feedback to the standards process.
but i don't think it takes a genious to apply a little logic to it and realise that it has very little application in real life.
Met any Token Ring salesmen lately?
I read that story, too.
Was it Heinlein?
No, Harry Harrison: "I Always Do What Teddy Says".
In UK rules the only restriction on bidding is that you can't bid one no-trump if you hold a singleton.
That's not true; in the UK we get laughed at by our European colleagues for having a conventions booklet over 50 pages long. And as it happens, you have been allowed to open 1NT with a singleton for a couple of years, even at level 3.
Bug 18764 has 73 votes and many duplicates, which makes it fairly popular. It isn't the the most voted-for bug though; some have well over 100 votes.
bug 40873 (Save As MHTML) has 180, so it's a top 10 bug.
Why would it lure people from Microsoft?
If the OpenOffice format gets accepted as an ISO standard, then the public sector in the EU (which is a *big* market) can put it into tender requirements without it looking like a shoo-in for Sun. Nobody is going to win a case based on claiming that complying with ISOxxxxx is an unfair requirement.