Used to be that one of the cool things about the net was that you would get email from total strangers... "Hi, I'm from {some far away place}. I saw your {Usenet post|web page|profile on some bulletin board site} and really liked your ideas about {something}. I've also been experimenting with {something} and I have some ideas about {whatever}..."
Now, if we only have emails from our (already existing) friends or friends of friends, then how will we ever meet anybody new?
I think that you may be confusing the fact that one reading can have many different words. Surely you can't be thinking "hana" (nose) and "hana" (flower) are the same word just because they both happen to be pronounced the same way...
Is there any of you on here other than me that gives one ounce of possibility to the idea that maybe SCO might be right?
I'm sure that lots of people think that the idea is possible. The real problem, though, is that SCO isn't telling anyone what the supposedly infringing code is, so that even if they are right, and even if we wanted to do the right thing and remove the infringing code, we can't.
Day 20-30 Team is motivated because it can still meet the Sprint Goal if it works hard. The team works regularly including during the weekends.
Is that supposed to be a good thing? The one thing that I like about working in an IT department within a non-tech company (rather than working in a tech company) is that there's none of that pressure to be a "real geek" and put in 90-hour weeks at the office...
But why would they want your hits if you can't even type their domain name? Its not like you'll be able to read the content if you get there, or understand their ads.
I read French fluently, but I've never had the need to type French accents on the computer, so never have learned how to input them (any my keyboard sure isn't French).
Gates on the other hand can ORDER everyone in his employ to jump around and shout "I'm a little idiot!" and they'll have to do it wether they like it or not.
Not exactly the case. It's just that someone working for Gates has more incentive to do what he says. If Linus asked me to do something that I didn't want to, I wouldn't have to do it, and nothing particularly bad would happen if I didn't.
If I was Bill's employee and he asked me to do something that I didn't want to, I still wouldn't have to do it, but there is a possibility of negative (financial) consequences if I decide not to. It's still basically a free society, and I can decide not to jump around and shout "I'm a little idiot", but Bill Gates can also decide not to pay me $100k anymore.
Hiroshima is gorgeous. It's not a crater and not a radioactive wasteland
Yeah, but that huge park in the centre of the city used to be a built-up area. I think that the magnitude of what had happened in Hiroshima hit me the hardest when I was walking through the Peace Park and came across the map as the area used to be.
The drama that used his simulator in the set, "Good Luck!", is being posted, one episode every couple of weeks, in alt.binaries.multimedia.japan. They're subtitled in English.
Anyone then faced with an RIAA lawsuit can just accidently install it and claim that the virus did it. Am I missing something here?
Yes you are. In criminal cases, the prosecution must prove their case beyond the shadow of doubt. In civil cases, like the RIAA's lawsuits, the plaintiff must only prove their case "based on a balance of probabilities", which means that they only need to prove their case to a 50.1% certainty.
It is unlikely that a jury will find that it was 50.1% likely that a virus downloaded all your favourite Britney Spears tracks.
Just the other day, in rec.aviation.piloting (or was it rec.aviation.student?) some guy posted an email exchange between himself and Austin Myers that ended with Myers calling his customer a whining little shithead....
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I can understand people who think software piracy is a crime as bad as murder or whatever (even though I'm pretty firmly of the opposite opinion
What, you think that murder is a crime as bad as software piracy?
When I fly a plane, as Pilot in Command I have to have the option to be in control at all times. I can not have some computer thinking that it knows how to fly the plane better than I do. There may be things that the computer doesn't know about. Sure, over the city might be restricted airspace but maybe I have to go in there to avoid going through a storm or hitting another plane.
As an anti-terrorism measureit might be effective but it sure wouldn't be safe to fly.
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Used to be that one of the cool things about the net was that you would get email from total strangers... "Hi, I'm from {some far away place}. I saw your {Usenet post|web page|profile on some bulletin board site} and really liked your ideas about {something}. I've also been experimenting with {something} and I have some ideas about {whatever}..."
Now, if we only have emails from our (already existing) friends or friends of friends, then how will we ever meet anybody new?
I think that you may be confusing the fact that one reading can have many different words. Surely you can't be thinking "hana" (nose) and "hana" (flower) are the same word just because they both happen to be pronounced the same way...
Are we sure this is Slashdot?
Oh, there it is, "..to food webs".
You don't work at XO Karaoke in Toronto, do you? Because if you do, you're right, it *is* crappy.
Linux users are not violating the GPL by purchasing a linux license from SCI. The GPL controls copying, distributin, and modification only.
I'm sure that lots of people think that the idea is possible. The real problem, though, is that SCO isn't telling anyone what the supposedly infringing code is, so that even if they are right, and even if we wanted to do the right thing and remove the infringing code, we can't.
Being /. readers, it's unfortunate that we will never get the chance to give business to Just Sports...
There's a difference between "not rated to work at..." and "won't work at...". Think lawyers and ass-covering...
Is that supposed to be a good thing? The one thing that I like about working in an IT department within a non-tech company (rather than working in a tech company) is that there's none of that pressure to be a "real geek" and put in 90-hour weeks at the office...
Which is, of course, totally and completely different from what we do as computer people.
I read French fluently, but I've never had the need to type French accents on the computer, so never have learned how to input them (any my keyboard sure isn't French).
Not exactly the case. It's just that someone working for Gates has more incentive to do what he says. If Linus asked me to do something that I didn't want to, I wouldn't have to do it, and nothing particularly bad would happen if I didn't.
If I was Bill's employee and he asked me to do something that I didn't want to, I still wouldn't have to do it, but there is a possibility of negative (financial) consequences if I decide not to. It's still basically a free society, and I can decide not to jump around and shout "I'm a little idiot", but Bill Gates can also decide not to pay me $100k anymore.
That's the sperm bank.
Wow, you don't understand anything about Open Source at all, do you.
Yeah, but that huge park in the centre of the city used to be a built-up area. I think that the magnitude of what had happened in Hiroshima hit me the hardest when I was walking through the Peace Park and came across the map as the area used to be.
The drama that used his simulator in the set, "Good Luck!", is being posted, one episode every couple of weeks, in alt.binaries.multimedia.japan. They're subtitled in English.
Yes you are. In criminal cases, the prosecution must prove their case beyond the shadow of doubt. In civil cases, like the RIAA's lawsuits, the plaintiff must only prove their case "based on a balance of probabilities", which means that they only need to prove their case to a 50.1% certainty.
It is unlikely that a jury will find that it was 50.1% likely that a virus downloaded all your favourite Britney Spears tracks.
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Here's the link. Unfortunately he's taken the story down off his website now. - awh
Just the other day, in rec.aviation.piloting (or was it rec.aviation.student?) some guy posted an email exchange between himself and Austin Myers that ended with Myers calling his customer a whining little shithead....
What, you think that murder is a crime as bad as software piracy?
When I fly a plane, as Pilot in Command I have to have the option to be in control at all times. I can not have some computer thinking that it knows how to fly the plane better than I do. There may be things that the computer doesn't know about. Sure, over the city might be restricted airspace but maybe I have to go in there to avoid going through a storm or hitting another plane.
As an anti-terrorism measureit might be effective but it sure wouldn't be safe to fly.
Does anyone else have visions of the time that Apu got fake US citizenship documents?
"What do you say that we take a relaxed attitude towards work and watch the baseball game? The 'NYE' Mets are my favourite squadron."
This just in! Apparently the lines of code that are at issue have been leaked by SCO insiders:
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