Well, the professor shouldn't be asking questions anyway:)
But seriously, if he needs clearance to get a question answered, he can be told so and choose to get the clearance or not. Otherwise, let him spew out information as much as he can without clearance before getting into that sticky issue of "classified information".
Why doesn't somebody make a HTML rendering engine that is perfect to the W3C standard and nobody will have to use anything else? If you have a problem with the standard, use something else, instead of rewriting the standard.
...when people decide it's time to move on from Windows. Do you know how many people switch to Linux when XP came out, just because of the XP Home Edition license stink?
It's very dangerous to say "original author" however. RMS (and folk) coded the license very carefully not to include such phrases, because the original author may be different than the current project leader, especially in code forks. If the code forks, it may fork to change the current leader (in disgust, or creative differences, or whatever), and you don't want the "original author" to have any more control over it.
The GNU license is open-ended in such a way that you could set your "command structure" any way you want it. By its very nature, the code/document it protects is public-domain, and no "admin power" is give to anybody.
Perhaps a time of about a year might work, but then again, anybody trying to screw over the licence like that deserves to never touch the project again. Future generations will learn to look over their licenses very carefully if they don't want to get burned.
I'm sure this will give people a message to never fuck with the GNU license, the projects it protects, and never EVER fuck with the FSF!
If you've been keeping up with JMS's history with series, he doesn't take it up the ass just to ruin the story. He's been fighting the good fight to make sure his series doesn't get vamped up for bigger breasts and more action. If he doesn't like what the producers do, he says no (and it likely gets canned, like Crusade did).
As JMS has said, he's not going the TNT route again, and will never do a show unless he has complete control, which is why he's on Showtime. (Me wonders about why Showtime is screwing over SG-1, though.)
Slashdot has never intented to be commercial, but now they have the banner ads, which is a necessary evil. However, it's not like they are selling anything directly.
One thing I can't stand is people who buy out all three domains for a name, just because. Now, with all of the extension choices, it's not as common a practice, but it still happens often.
I just discovered it while reading a Salon article on PayPal's weak service. Apparently, it's run by Citibank, a REAL bank, so you'll less likely to get fucked over by them. (Keyword: less; banks still try to ram a dildo up your ass once in a while.)
Now that I'm done with getting this off my chest (sorry, I had to.), the real issue isn't with admins who don't know anything. It's with admins who don't care enough to learn and do it right.
Now do you see what happens when you don't care about security? I'm sorry about the PHB a-holes you had, but that's the companies fault, not yours. However, if you're using a mail server, you better stick to your postfix/sendmail/etc. books if you want to keep your job.
I argee. If you're stupid enough to not know how to lock your mail server, you don't deserve to be a system administrator for a mail server. Not making your server an open relay should be the --FIRST-- thing on your list of things to do when you set one up. Most configurations do that by default anyway.
Most of the open relays out there are because mail adminstrators don't know jack about their job. As such, people get spammed at our expense. Open relays are no trivial matter.
Now, I don't quite argee with the Spamhaus policies. Just because a business was unlucky enough to use a web host that supports spam software sites doesn't mean they should be punished. Punish the spam software sites, and try to punish the web host without killing their own customers who are innocent of the crime.
He's either telepathic or contacting spirits, both of which are highly unconventional ideas in science, and both would require high amounts of brain activity. Personally, I think the guy's just telling the truth when he can say that he can contact spirits in the netherworld.
More studies should be conducted on him and other psychics who have been proven to be real. Why doesn't science have more of an interest in this stuff if there's at least some proof that it could exist?
My comments on the matter (which was long than the average one, I noticed), sent to the DoJ addy:
The current proposed settlement (PS) is flawed. Because of many different legal loopholes in the PS, Microsoft will be able to find ways to easily exploit their customers and OEMs to their advantage.
Microsoft has already extended, or tried to extend, their monopoly since the start of the trial, such as:
* Microsoft.NET and MS's plans to force everybody to sign for a MS Passport (which has already been proven to be a very insecure system)
* The failed attempt to turn an educational lawsuit into a way to inject their software into yet another market
* Imposing highly-restrictive EULAs and license agreements in XP to try to milk as much money as possible from the end user and businesses, which has already forced other governments (such as the UK and China) to consider other options besides MS software
* Using PR stunts to hide the fact that security was never a major concern of any of their products, and never will be (even though recent developments in Windows XP and Internet Explorer have proven this)
* Starting petty lawsuits to snuff out competition, in the hopes of running them out of money (such as the recent Lindows lawsuit)
* Rigging web polls and writing fake letters (from people already long dead and buried) to influence business and DoJ decisions
The government's intentions in the PS are in good faith, but the language puts too much faith in MS's interpretation of it. Dan Kegel has a great analysis of the flaws found in the PS here:
http://www.kegel.com/remedy/remedy2.html
In short, I feel that it's the DoJ's duty to revamped the PS and/or return to the drawing board, as its current revision is not enough to stop Microsoft's anti-competitive practices.
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Brendan Byrd/SineSwiper <SineSwiper@ResonatorSoft.org>
Web Programmer @ Resonator Software (www.ResonatorSoft.org)
It's likely running on Windows CE, which is actually a LOT stabler than its 9x counterparts. I guess with less devices and no fancy scrolling/fading menus, they can get things right once in a blue moon. (It's not like my Dreamcast has crashed recently.)
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Why bother? PNG is a W3C standard, lossless compression with 16M colors, and most browsers support it now.
Well, the professor shouldn't be asking questions anyway :)
But seriously, if he needs clearance to get a question answered, he can be told so and choose to get the clearance or not. Otherwise, let him spew out information as much as he can without clearance before getting into that sticky issue of "classified information".
Why doesn't somebody make a HTML rendering engine that is perfect to the W3C standard and nobody will have to use anything else? If you have a problem with the standard, use something else, instead of rewriting the standard.
...when people decide it's time to move on from Windows. Do you know how many people switch to Linux when XP came out, just because of the XP Home Edition license stink?
Here. Read and be enlightened.
It's very dangerous to say "original author" however. RMS (and folk) coded the license very carefully not to include such phrases, because the original author may be different than the current project leader, especially in code forks. If the code forks, it may fork to change the current leader (in disgust, or creative differences, or whatever), and you don't want the "original author" to have any more control over it.
The GNU license is open-ended in such a way that you could set your "command structure" any way you want it. By its very nature, the code/document it protects is public-domain, and no "admin power" is give to anybody.
Perhaps a time of about a year might work, but then again, anybody trying to screw over the licence like that deserves to never touch the project again. Future generations will learn to look over their licenses very carefully if they don't want to get burned.
I'm sure this will give people a message to never fuck with the GNU license, the projects it protects, and never EVER fuck with the FSF!
If you've been keeping up with JMS's history with series, he doesn't take it up the ass just to ruin the story. He's been fighting the good fight to make sure his series doesn't get vamped up for bigger breasts and more action. If he doesn't like what the producers do, he says no (and it likely gets canned, like Crusade did).
As JMS has said, he's not going the TNT route again, and will never do a show unless he has complete control, which is why he's on Showtime. (Me wonders about why Showtime is screwing over SG-1, though.)
1. You do not question the GPL.
2. You do...NOT QUESTION THE GPL!!
3. Don't fuck with the FSF, especially their lawyers.
Slashdot has never intented to be commercial, but now they have the banner ads, which is a necessary evil. However, it's not like they are selling anything directly.
One thing I can't stand is people who buy out all three domains for a name, just because. Now, with all of the extension choices, it's not as common a practice, but it still happens often.
I just discovered it while reading a Salon article on PayPal's weak service. Apparently, it's run by Citibank, a REAL bank, so you'll less likely to get fucked over by them. (Keyword: less; banks still try to ram a dildo up your ass once in a while.)
Google or Babelfish don't have a fuzzy-math-to-English convertor tool.
Now that I'm done with getting this off my chest (sorry, I had to.), the real issue isn't with admins who don't know anything. It's with admins who don't care enough to learn and do it right.
Now do you see what happens when you don't care about security? I'm sorry about the PHB a-holes you had, but that's the companies fault, not yours. However, if you're using a mail server, you better stick to your postfix/sendmail/etc. books if you want to keep your job.
I argee. If you're stupid enough to not know how to lock your mail server, you don't deserve to be a system administrator for a mail server. Not making your server an open relay should be the --FIRST-- thing on your list of things to do when you set one up. Most configurations do that by default anyway.
Most of the open relays out there are because mail adminstrators don't know jack about their job. As such, people get spammed at our expense. Open relays are no trivial matter.
Now, I don't quite argee with the Spamhaus policies. Just because a business was unlucky enough to use a web host that supports spam software sites doesn't mean they should be punished. Punish the spam software sites, and try to punish the web host without killing their own customers who are innocent of the crime.
Hey, at least there's a crackdown on it. That's more than I can say about most of our other sources of government waste.
He's either telepathic or contacting spirits, both of which are highly unconventional ideas in science, and both would require high amounts of brain activity. Personally, I think the guy's just telling the truth when he can say that he can contact spirits in the netherworld.
More studies should be conducted on him and other psychics who have been proven to be real. Why doesn't science have more of an interest in this stuff if there's at least some proof that it could exist?
Heh...you're an idiot. The "moderation totals" are merely a sig and a joke, and you missed both.
Then we wouldn't have had all the problems with the GIF format. UNISYS waited over 10 years for that one to build.
Yeah, that's why GTA3 is banned over there, and there's censorship abroad on the Internet in the down under.
Yeah, I'm sure there's some state-of-the-art CGI with bouncing boobs.
Only Macs cost $3000. A high-powered PC is $2000, so there!
Oh, and the article on Slashdot reminded me of this.
My comments on the matter (which was long than the average one, I noticed), sent to the DoJ addy:
.NET and MS's plans to force everybody to sign for a MS Passport (which has already been proven to be a very insecure system)
The current proposed settlement (PS) is flawed. Because of many different legal loopholes in the PS, Microsoft will be able to find ways to easily exploit their customers and OEMs to their advantage.
Microsoft has already extended, or tried to extend, their monopoly since the start of the trial, such as:
* Microsoft
* The failed attempt to turn an educational lawsuit into a way to inject their software into yet another market
* Imposing highly-restrictive EULAs and license agreements in XP to try to milk as much money as possible from the end user and businesses, which has already forced other governments (such as the UK and China) to consider other options besides MS software
* Using PR stunts to hide the fact that security was never a major concern of any of their products, and never will be (even though recent developments in Windows XP and Internet Explorer have proven this)
* Starting petty lawsuits to snuff out competition, in the hopes of running them out of money (such as the recent Lindows lawsuit)
* Rigging web polls and writing fake letters (from people already long dead and buried) to influence business and DoJ decisions
The government's intentions in the PS are in good faith, but the language puts too much faith in MS's interpretation of it. Dan Kegel has a great analysis of the flaws found in the PS here:
http://www.kegel.com/remedy/remedy2.html
In short, I feel that it's the DoJ's duty to revamped the PS and/or return to the drawing board, as its current revision is not enough to stop Microsoft's anti-competitive practices.
--
Brendan Byrd/SineSwiper <SineSwiper@ResonatorSoft.org>
Web Programmer @ Resonator Software (www.ResonatorSoft.org)
It's likely running on Windows CE, which is actually a LOT stabler than its 9x counterparts. I guess with less devices and no fancy scrolling/fading menus, they can get things right once in a blue moon. (It's not like my Dreamcast has crashed recently.)
...figuring out whether he's be sarcastic or serious...
...on this matter, or at least his beef with Netscape getting bought out by AOL. Here: 1 2
Both are good reads.
Lack of DHTML control on JavaScript is VERY annoying! I want layer control on my damn JavaScript, and IE doesn't have it! Try this code:
if (self.innerWidth) { }
else if (document.body.clientWidth) { }
else if (screen.availWidth) { }
else if (screen.width) { }
Of course, the one that would best work (self.innerWidth) doesn't work because IE STILL doesn't support CSS properties in JS.