The only people this really harms is AT&T, and Jobs has never shown the slightest inclination before towards caring about a business partner getting fucked over. If it suits his needs, he'll probably want Apple to subtly encourage it.
incorrect, as you may remember in previous slashdot postings, Apple makes quite a chunk of cash from their deal with AT&T otherwise it would be beyond foolish to lock the iPhone without some sort of financial incentive. That is, had it not been foolish to crush any attempts to avoid being locked to AT&T...
If your cousin gets arrested and take his fingerprints, they have information on him. If they sample his DNA, they have information on you. It depends on how they analyze the DNA, if they use a 13 marker system then if at least 7 of them match then you are likely to be related and vice versa, so really even if they do arrest your cousin, they likely only have half the picture unless they do a full analysis of the DNA, in which case if the DNA matches your cousin, they'll know more than enough to exclude you because of the various genetic recombination/crossover that goes on when the two gametes fused that later developed into you.
The hardcore Linux proponents can deny it all they want, the simple fact of the matter is that when the average user sits down with a Linux box, there are still numerous shortcomings that may make it unacceptable.
really? because my technoilliterate mother can use it just fine, all she has to do to install things is click on the synaptic icon on her desktop, type the password and take a look at hwat she wants. hopefully that's not too technical... [it's easy for anyone, especially Dell, to make the desktop shortcut, just right click the menu entry and send it to desktop.] if it isnt in synaptic, there are tons of deb packages that with gdebi all you need to do to install is click on them, the manager does pretty much everything. damn that's hard, better stick with windows on that one!
I've said it elsewhere, I've said it here; licensing MP3 would be a good start for Ubuntu. They can certainly afford it, and the US MP3 patents are only valid until 2012, so it'd cost at most $250,000 to essentially get permanent MP3 support.
if you need to do that sort of thing and don't have Mp3 playing set up, it even offers to install it for you. there isn't any reason that the average person can't use linux [especially ubuntu]. now as for hardware, if Dell couldn't find a way for their own hardware to work and didn't install it, that's plain laziness on their part.
is the largest by shelf space and one of the most important libraries in the world. Its collections include more than 30 million cataloged books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 58 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection in North America, including a Gutenberg Bible (one of only four perfect vellum copies known to exist); over 1 million US Government publications; 1 million issues of world newspapers spanning the past three centuries; 33,000 bound newspaper volumes; 500,000 microfilm reels; over 6,000 comic book[3] titles; the world's largest collection of legal materials; films; 4.8 million maps; sheet music; and 2.7 million sound recordings.
rough estimation of its data storage: ~90 million total*5 megs ave guess= 450 terabytes. comcast's limit was supposed to be about 300 gigs [if you download really fantastic songs] so 300gigs/450 terabytes= 1/1500 LOC. in short, the LOC is MASSIVE
download the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month
just to put that in perspective, 30,000 songs a month at a measly 1 min long each is 500 hours of music, so you could download music on demand never the same song 1 minute each all day every day the entire month not including sleep. 250,000 images is about 1 every 10 seconds constantly throughout the month. 13 million emails is about 5 emails PER SECOND the entire month. now if you try out a lot of live cds, listen to internet radio and click the hell out of stumbleupon it isn't nearly as far out to get those kind of loads a month.
the plants convert selenium oxyanions like selenite and selenate into much less toxic compounds. mainly selenocysteine and dimethyl selenide, both are far far less toxic and in the case of selenocysteine have been shown to prevent certain cancers. so basically not only can you deal with selenium you can also turn it into something that can help save lives. here in the western united states we have a problem with there being far too much selenium in the soil while the east has far too little. these plants can farvest selenium from the west and be used to fertillize the east with the selenium needed for healthy growth. selenium is an essential micronutrient that is sorely lacking in the east.
Do they not realize that the vast majority of people who use that software do not live under their laws and thus make the law utterly useless either way? of course they do, it isn't about actually solving problems, it's about looking like your trying to solve problems. it works in every country.
they have a relatively long germination time and require animals to take the seeds through the digestive tract, it's called scarification which involves weakening the seed coat enough for germination to take place. the acids in animal's stomachs do the work and the plants themselves are not very "viral" we have ways of killing them and they already exist in many fields. the only thing about them is that you need to keep cattle and other livestock away from them otherwise the high levels of selenium the plants take up kills the animals, although it is a toxic waste dump so I don;t suppose there will be much in the way of livestock in the area.
certain weeds of the Astragalus and Stanleya Genus can clean up areas high in selenium and plants that have high levels of glutathione can help mop up cadmium and other toxic metals. the Astragalus especially can take up oxyanions of the chromium group [molybdenum and tungsten, likely chromium as well] not only that but bacteria like deinococcus radiodurans can withstand high radiation levels can interestingly they bind metals to certain chemical groups, specifically sulfur and selenium compounds. they can also reduce metal ions common to toxic waste sites and in effect lock them up as mineral deposits so that they are not leaching into water supplies. If the metals are not mobile, they are not nearly as poisonous or dangerous as they are leaching into the local water supplies.
Not cool guys. Don't go making the rest of us look bad just because you can't take some criticism/arguing. And really don't make the rest of us look back by using a sore subject (DMCA) improperly and illegally to try and silence the criticism.
The people doing the DMCA takedown notices seem to be little concerned about following Christianity than they are about making money. Hovind for example, is in prison due to tax evasion because of the money he made from publishing and selling his pro-creationism books. What I wonder however, is why the rest of Christianity that do not go along with Hovind et. al are not being nearly as vocal about it.
funny, at every job I've ever worked it was quite well known who was and wasn't working and none of us were spied on online. It's called getting paid by the work you do. you get x projects done and get paid y dollars per project, you get paid x*y dollars overall. if you slack off it only hurts you.
I don't see why it's so hard to understand that from the perspective of the company, they're paying you to do work, nothing else, and certainly not to look at porn.
If the people you hire dont get any work done you already know this without having to snoop through their browsing habits. If they don't work you fire their lazy ass; you don't snoop on their e-mails. it's none of your fucking business what websites they visit or who, what, why and when they e-mailed someone.
if it's like the rest of those places they only give you a partition, not the actual disk. if he's like ne he probably didn't bother to make a set of restore disks from the partition before he installed linux. not only that but it just seems retarded of them to not fix a piece of hardware because it runs a different OS than they thought fit to install. why bother going through all the nonsense of reinstalling windows and restoring the grub [that windows loves to fiddle with] just to get hardware of any kind fixed by these guys? tell them to screw themselves and dont buy from them ever again. or even better the next time he needs a new computer he could build the thing himself and not have to reinstall windows for an arguably simple piece of hardware. it is *his* computer after all, it stopped being *theirs* the moment he bought it from them.
How will Microsoft, at some point (or even now), justify the huge price tag of MS Office?
they have little technical merit to gloat about and in effect their only trick would be to bundle if with their OS or make it so commonly used people don't bother to find alternatives because it's "good enough". oh wait...
Broadcasters are airing concerns about the devices creating interference with broadcast television.
yes because as we all know the extra bands can't possibly be used in a way to minimize interference.
In a statement, NAB chairman Alan Frank takes a swipe at technology companies: 'While our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not.'"
funny they never had any problems doing that sort of thing before...
Also, this may be a stupid question, but I wonder how one measures the 'randomness' of a generator? Is there a unit that represents randomness? I mean, it would be seemingly impossible to do it using observation of the output so I guess all you can do is discuss how dependent it is on particular prior events and what they are, theoretically. Can you really say that this is 'more random' than another one because you have to know so much more before hand about the particular machine & its fingerprint in order to predict its generated number?
You see, most distros will not install Adobe's flash player by default...
that's only a problem if you don't know how to install anything in which case you have bigger problems.
and even when it's installed, it chokes on web videos because it is not that up-to-date. Sometimes, it's because of conflicts within the Linux product itself.
not once have I ever had flash crash anything on Linux- I have however, seen it on Windows. And even in the case that it ever did fail it would have absolutely nothing to do with anything Linux did, it would be because it being closed-source would not be cobbled together with duct-tape and anything else they found lying around. had this shit happened in Winodws there'd be a national riot and Bill G would be in some space prison somewhere...
On a personal front, I will be pissed if I have to watch a video just because I searched for my favorite item.
between adblock, noscript, greasemonkey and platypus ads dont exist, seriously you have to actually *try* to get ads at that point
Bandwidth is not an issue and you will barely notice the extra load on your machine.
I think if their servers can't keep up, you *will* notice the load, at least until enough join.
do they have no way of routing/limiting traffic so that it isn't normally noticeable?
are software patents in general beneficial while we only hear of exceptions where things go very wrong?
it depends on how they are used, in this case they're being used against their original purpose. instead of giving a company a small advantage in their market to encourage future research they're being used as M.A.D weapons. useful innovative combinations of software/code never get to be used because it's infringing on someone's copyright. patents are instead supposed to prevent one person/company from leeching off another's work, not destroying anything that challenges that work in the market.
How would one go about seriously answering this question, anyway?
do a series of studies on the effects of different laws in different countries to determine which causes the most research/market growth. whatever does the best over a series of years wins in theory. now all that needs to be done is to do the studies, analyze the data and finally enforce the most effective laws which is getting harder with bs from microsoft and other patent trolls around...
the solution to this little problem could very well be firefox+wine on a usb stick. it runs on Mac, Windows *and* Linux, can be installed on all three, is very customizable, relatively cheap, and very safe with the right extensions. not only that but you can back up the user profile, switch between them if you want and only need one good copy which you can clone ad infinitum.
a list of extensions that might just fix this little problem: adblock [kills ads] no script [again kills ads, helps against any javascript tricks we dont yet know about] konquefox [adds text enlarging buttons etc] linkification [makes text links real links] menu editor [customizable so you clean out extra menu entries] tab mix plus [tabs how they want] and finally greasemonkey [customizes websites like a cleaned google search for example without those ads]
This is something that the Linux community doesn't need, because if another open source project starts accusing Linux of using stolen code, us Linux promoters will lose our "moral" highground.
I have to disagree with you on this one, we don't lose our higher moral ground by being accused, we lose it if we actually stole the code to begin with.
Sometimes that's all we have, since we still don't have a marketing machine needed to push Linux into millions of homes.
the whole idea isn't solely to push linux into every computer we can find, the goal is to make things better and the larger adoption of FOSS software should be a nice side benefit.
Will it become illegal to use an alternative operating system or antivirus software or even just common sense to deflect these payloads?
yes. there was a story net a few says ago where a court ordered that the guy couldn't use anything other than windows because their monitering software only worked on it, he had ubuntu and apparently they didnt find a way to port the software. of course that doesnt prevent the guy from bypassing all that crap and using a live cd and installing linux again- the software only works after it is loaded in the OS isn't it?
cancer frequently turns on dormant genes such as genes involved in angiogenesis [blood vessel growth], telemerase [immortalisation] and certain tumors switch on genes entirely unrelated to their own growth, there are examples of teeth, hair and other structures forming because of the influences of a tumor [they actually found a tumor with its own teeth] it has also been demonstrated that stem cells from other species introduced into young chicks resulted in the growth of teeth [chickens retain the genes to do so but not the chemical signals needed to start the process] which could very well hold true for our own species as well. the liver for example can grow back from a relatively small fraction of a fully grown liver to become a fully functional healthy liver, this is the case with certain liver transplants where only a section of a living liver is used for the transplant. in addition, many mammals also have some form of hibernation mechanism, a very old one it seems that can under some circumstances be activated.
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the plants convert selenium oxyanions like selenite and selenate into much less toxic compounds. mainly selenocysteine and dimethyl selenide, both are far far less toxic and in the case of selenocysteine have been shown to prevent certain cancers. so basically not only can you deal with selenium you can also turn it into something that can help save lives. here in the western united states we have a problem with there being far too much selenium in the soil while the east has far too little. these plants can farvest selenium from the west and be used to fertillize the east with the selenium needed for healthy growth. selenium is an essential micronutrient that is sorely lacking in the east.
Do they not realize that the vast majority of people who use that software do not live under their laws and thus make the law utterly useless either way? of course they do, it isn't about actually solving problems, it's about looking like your trying to solve problems. it works in every country.
they have a relatively long germination time and require animals to take the seeds through the digestive tract, it's called scarification which involves weakening the seed coat enough for germination to take place. the acids in animal's stomachs do the work and the plants themselves are not very "viral" we have ways of killing them and they already exist in many fields. the only thing about them is that you need to keep cattle and other livestock away from them otherwise the high levels of selenium the plants take up kills the animals, although it is a toxic waste dump so I don;t suppose there will be much in the way of livestock in the area.
certain weeds of the Astragalus and Stanleya Genus can clean up areas high in selenium and plants that have high levels of glutathione can help mop up cadmium and other toxic metals. the Astragalus especially can take up oxyanions of the chromium group [molybdenum and tungsten, likely chromium as well] not only that but bacteria like deinococcus radiodurans can withstand high radiation levels can interestingly they bind metals to certain chemical groups, specifically sulfur and selenium compounds. they can also reduce metal ions common to toxic waste sites and in effect lock them up as mineral deposits so that they are not leaching into water supplies. If the metals are not mobile, they are not nearly as poisonous or dangerous as they are leaching into the local water supplies.
Your wish is google's command
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/win32-loader
funny, at every job I've ever worked it was quite well known who was and wasn't working and none of us were spied on online. It's called getting paid by the work you do. you get x projects done and get paid y dollars per project, you get paid x*y dollars overall. if you slack off it only hurts you.
if it's like the rest of those places they only give you a partition, not the actual disk. if he's like ne he probably didn't bother to make a set of restore disks from the partition before he installed linux. not only that but it just seems retarded of them to not fix a piece of hardware because it runs a different OS than they thought fit to install. why bother going through all the nonsense of reinstalling windows and restoring the grub [that windows loves to fiddle with] just to get hardware of any kind fixed by these guys? tell them to screw themselves and dont buy from them ever again. or even better the next time he needs a new computer he could build the thing himself and not have to reinstall windows for an arguably simple piece of hardware. it is *his* computer after all, it stopped being *theirs* the moment he bought it from them.
Yes, there is a method of quantifying randomness:
Rényi entropy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9nyi_entropy
Noscript2 6 5
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/72
Adblock
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/18
Noscript options>>Advanced>>Untrusted>>check forbid java, forbid flash etc. then allow only the flash/java files to play one at a time instead of automatically by default.
the solution to this little problem could very well be firefox+wine on a usb stick. it runs on Mac, Windows *and* Linux, can be installed on all three, is very customizable, relatively cheap, and very safe with the right extensions. not only that but you can back up the user profile, switch between them if you want and only need one good copy which you can clone ad infinitum.
a list of extensions that might just fix this little problem:
adblock [kills ads]
no script [again kills ads, helps against any javascript tricks we dont yet know about]
konquefox [adds text enlarging buttons etc]
linkification [makes text links real links]
menu editor [customizable so you clean out extra menu entries]
tab mix plus [tabs how they want] and finally greasemonkey [customizes websites like a cleaned google search for example without those ads]
cancer frequently turns on dormant genes such as genes involved in angiogenesis [blood vessel growth], telemerase [immortalisation] and certain tumors switch on genes entirely unrelated to their own growth, there are examples of teeth, hair and other structures forming because of the influences of a tumor [they actually found a tumor with its own teeth] it has also been demonstrated that stem cells from other species introduced into young chicks resulted in the growth of teeth [chickens retain the genes to do so but not the chemical signals needed to start the process] which could very well hold true for our own species as well. the liver for example can grow back from a relatively small fraction of a fully grown liver to become a fully functional healthy liver, this is the case with certain liver transplants where only a section of a living liver is used for the transplant. in addition, many mammals also have some form of hibernation mechanism, a very old one it seems that can under some circumstances be activated.