There is a large difference between international treaties that you are talking about at *US* law. Even with international treaties, US law still has not jurisdiction over Russia, much as it seems you would like to believe. Treaties are agreements between governments, *not* companies.
Just because you are American does not mean you can sue Britain. Imagine you post drugs to someone through the Post service, Britain finds out about it, it can open all you mail and get the drugs and then ask America to extradite you for drugs smuggling. This is just the same sort of thing, even though you are not in Britain, maybe have never been in Britain you can still be investigated under local laws.
the problem is that the Win2000 boot loader will have taken over booting win98. I got round this by installing 98, using fdisk in Linux to change the partition type of the 98 partition to something random, then installing 2k so that it did not know about 98 at all, then you can just use lilo to boot all 3 from their own partitions
Surly it is about time that developers start using months for release dates. There is approximately 1 country in the world that uses Fall, most other Englsh speaking countries use Autumn.
And also for those people not in the northern hemisphere, they are in autumn now (or very soon), so the release date is a bit meaningless.
And of course those people in the tropics don't actually have 4 seasons, only 2, wet and dry.
Just a though, why not start using Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4?
I find it hard to believe that Film studios still cling to the belief that region codes are about piracy. They stop no-one pirating a DVD, just as if they wern't there it would not help people to pirate them.
As many other people have said, it is a method of stopping us in the UK buying cheap DVD's from America. We can buy them from Amazon, + postage for about 4 GBP less than they cost here.
I am surprised they have not started to sue the writers of the software that disables region checking.
If I had a lot of money I would certainly take them to court here in the Uk on the basis of it being anti-free trade.
I hope that this will not stop NASA or other Space agencies from going to Mars. What would be good is if NASA and the european space ageny joined forces and then sent a similar lander to Mars. Then America would not have all the costs.
I am sure that there is enough money floating around, and if there was some cooperation between europe and America on this then maybe, just maybe all those Americans will stop saying 'spend less on Space and more on Welfare'.
Even so I don't think you can even sue if you are found innocent, although as I previously said IMNAL. If you could sue, the government would have a lot less money, or maybe you can and that is where our taxes go:)
I don't know how you get to 1 in 56, but from my Maths, and the knowledge that the match *might* not be in the database, the chance is 1 in 37 million that you will get a false match if it is in the database. The point is that the DNA might not have been in the database. If it was guarnteed to be in there then you would be right, perhaps.
Where does it say he was prosectued? from the article it looks as tohugh he was just brought in for questioning, provided an alibi and they re-checked the DNA evidence. There is a big difference between being Questioned and being Prosectued.
IMNAL, although the likelyhood is he can not sue, and rightly so. You can sue for wrongful arrest, but from the article it seems as though he was only called in for questioning, plus the Police had a good reason to bring him in, so that probably also means he can not sue.
All you Americans must realise that you sue far too much, and unfortunately the rest of the world is going that way as well:(
GCHQ is basically the code breaking section. If you want to be a British spy you need to join MI6 or MI5 I can never remember which.
GCHQ was responsible for all the major code breaking in the second world war, including Enigma. They also built the first computer, but it was destroyed after the war, or at least kept secret so it would not fall into the hands of the enemy, probably at that time Russia.
Couldn't you just do what loadlin does? make another runlevel, say 7, shutdown to runlevel 7 (Kill's processes) switch processor out of protected mode load and run kernel image. Of course you would have to have someway of saing the uptime:)
>As I remember correctly, I had to click a button > to accept installation of said Cursor program >to my computer
You may have not had to, but what happens if some user has lowered their browser security settings, then it downloads with out prompting, and runs on without permission from the user.
I would define Operating System to be everything that is needed to bring the System into an Operattional state, obviously for Microsoft, and their bloatware, 40 million lines of code seems about right, but I do not think that the misc text editors etc are part of the OS, but the browser, seeing as it is now built in, probably is.
On the other hand the kernel is the small core that essentially brings it up from the bios, so that hardware can be accessed.
you can always untar the samba source, cd packaging/Redhat and then read README, you can then build the rpm for your computer and install the rpm. This worked very well on my machine
It would be very bad for the DVD industry if the Film makers stop producing DVD's. At the moment it is not such a problem as you can not feasibly copy a dvd movie across the internet, as it is about 4gb.
DVD's are so much better than any video could ever be that the film industry has got to keep producing them. besides they are probably cheaper to produce than videos, as it is a relatiuvely simple pressing process.
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There is a large difference between international treaties that you are talking about at *US* law. Even with international treaties, US law still has not jurisdiction over Russia, much as it seems you would like to believe. Treaties are agreements between governments, *not* companies.
.. where U.S. law ... seems to mean little or nothing
Now excuse me, but being in Russia US Law has no effect, so it does not "seem" to mean little it actually means absolutely nothing.
MI6 does not need warrants for non-UK citizens, they can just start searching
actually, they may not even need a warrant, IANAL, however all mail in transit is owned by the Crown, so they may be just allowed to open any mail.
Just because you are American does not mean you can sue Britain. Imagine you post drugs to someone through the Post service, Britain finds out about it, it can open all you mail and get the drugs and then ask America to extradite you for drugs smuggling. This is just the same sort of thing, even though you are not in Britain, maybe have never been in Britain you can still be investigated under local laws.
It is not 'protected' but you can't sue it in America as American courts have no jurisdiction over Britain.
it can boot all 3 - I do it.
the problem is that the Win2000 boot loader will have taken over booting win98. I got round this by installing 98, using fdisk in Linux to change the partition type of the 98 partition to something random, then installing 2k so that it did not know about 98 at all, then you can just use lilo to boot all 3 from their own partitions
the floppy thingy can be done much better:
from my lilo.conf:
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
this will not check the floppy when you run lilo and will boot from it fine.
it is actually closer to 65 USD, but as with everything we (people in the UK) are ripped off by everyone :)
Crispin
if they were to say Q3 2000, that should abviously mean July - September.
Surly it is about time that developers start using months for release dates. There is approximately 1 country in the world that uses Fall, most other Englsh speaking countries use Autumn.
And also for those people not in the northern hemisphere, they are in autumn now (or very soon), so the release date is a bit meaningless.
And of course those people in the tropics don't actually have 4 seasons, only 2, wet and dry.
Just a though, why not start using Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4?
make them yourself, it is as simple as
.debs.
$ rpm -ta gnome-core-1.1.4.tar.gz
then use alien if you want
It consistantly works perfectly for me.
I find it hard to believe that Film studios still cling to the belief that region codes are about piracy. They stop no-one pirating a DVD, just as if they wern't there it would not help people to pirate them.
As many other people have said, it is a method of stopping us in the UK buying cheap DVD's from America. We can buy them from Amazon, + postage for about 4 GBP less than they cost here.
I am surprised they have not started to sue the writers of the software that disables region checking.
If I had a lot of money I would certainly take them to court here in the Uk on the basis of it being anti-free trade.
I hope that this will not stop NASA or other Space agencies from going to Mars. What would be good is if NASA and the european space ageny joined forces and then sent a similar lander to Mars. Then America would not have all the costs.
I am sure that there is enough money floating around, and if there was some cooperation between europe and America on this then maybe, just maybe all those Americans will stop saying 'spend less on Space and more on Welfare'.
ok, I was wrong :) indeed there is a possibility of 1 in 58 of a random DNA segment having a match in the database.
Although if you are in the database you have previously commited a crime, so there is a good reason for suspicion if you do match.
Even so I don't think you can even sue if you are found innocent, although as I previously said IMNAL. If you could sue, the government would have a lot less money, or maybe you can and that is where our taxes go :)
I don't know how you get to 1 in 56, but from my Maths, and the knowledge that the match *might* not be in the database, the chance is 1 in 37 million that you will get a false match if it is in the database.
The point is that the DNA might not have been in the database. If it was guarnteed to be in there then you would be right, perhaps.
Where does it say he was prosectued? from the article it looks as tohugh he was just brought in for questioning, provided an alibi and they re-checked the DNA evidence. There is a big difference between being Questioned and being Prosectued.
IMNAL, although the likelyhood is he can not sue, and rightly so. You can sue for wrongful arrest, but from the article it seems as though he was only called in for questioning, plus the Police had a good reason to bring him in, so that probably also means he can not sue.
:(
All you Americans must realise that you sue far too much, and unfortunately the rest of the world is going that way as well
GCHQ is basically the code breaking section. If you want to be a British spy you need to join MI6 or MI5 I can never remember which.
GCHQ was responsible for all the major code breaking in the second world war, including Enigma. They also built the first computer, but it was destroyed after the war, or at least kept secret so it would not fall into the hands of the enemy, probably at that time Russia.
Couldn't you just do what loadlin does? make another runlevel, say 7, :)
shutdown to runlevel 7 (Kill's processes)
switch processor out of protected mode
load and run kernel image.
Of course you would have to have someway of saing the uptime
>As I remember correctly, I had to click a button
> to accept installation of said Cursor program >to my computer
You may have not had to, but what happens if some user has lowered their browser security settings, then it downloads with out prompting, and runs on without permission from the user.
I would define Operating System to be everything that is needed to bring the System into an Operattional state, obviously for Microsoft, and their bloatware, 40 million lines of code seems about right, but I do not think that the misc text editors etc are part of the OS, but the browser, seeing as it is now built in, probably is.
On the other hand the kernel is the small core that essentially brings it up from the bios, so that hardware can be accessed.
Crispin
you can always untar the samba source, cd packaging/Redhat and then read README, you can then build the rpm for your computer and install the rpm. This worked very well on my machine
It would be very bad for the DVD industry if the Film makers stop producing DVD's. At the moment it is not such a problem as you can not feasibly copy a dvd movie across the internet, as it is about 4gb.
DVD's are so much better than any video could ever be that the film industry has got to keep producing them. besides they are probably cheaper to produce than videos, as it is a relatiuvely simple pressing process.