I went Googling to try and find the answers, and came up with this:
Sometimes, the lyrics aren't even offensive. On her second album, Sheryl Crow wrote a song about the true case of two children in Florida who bought bullets at a Wal-Mart in 1992 and then killed a man. Wal-Mart refused to sell the album, and Crow was locked out of the world's largest retail store.
Curious, I had no idea WalMart censored media it sells. Do they also censor DVD movies?
And do they still sell bullets? Saw that one in Bowling for Columbine. It would be odd to censor CDs that contain a few swear words, and yet sell lethal projectiles.
People using mathematics, logic and rational reasoning figured out the Earth was spherical a long time before the Bible was written. From Wikipedia:
Around 330 BC, Aristotle provided observational evidence for the spherical Earth,[6] noting that travelers going south see southern constellations rise higher above the horizon. This is only possible if their horizon is at an angle to northerners' horizon. Thus the Earth's surface cannot be flat.[7] Also, the border of the shadow of Earth on the Moon during the partial phase of a lunar eclipse is always circular, no matter how high the Moon is over the horizon. Only a sphere casts a circular shadow in every direction, whereas a circular disk casts an elliptical shadow in most directions.[8]
The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by Eratosthenes. Eratosthenes knew that in Syene (now Aswan), in Egypt, the Sun was directly overhead at the summer solstice, while he estimated that a shadow cast by the Sun at Alexandria was 1/50th of a circle. He estimated the distance from Syene to Alexandria as 5,000 stades, and estimated the Earth's circumference was 250,000 stades and a degree was 700 stades (implying a circumference of 252,000 stades).[9] Eratosthenes used rough estimates and round numbers, but depending on the length of the stadion, his result is within a margin of between 2% and 20% of the actual circumference, 40,008 kilometres. Note that Eratosthenes could only measure the circumference of the Earth by assuming that the distance to the Sun is so great that the rays of sunlight are essentially parallel. A similar measurement, reported in a Chinese mathematical treatise, the Zhoubi suanjing (1st c. BC), was used to measure the distance to the Sun- albeit by assuming that the Earth was flat.[10]
We were worried about the melting Greenland glacier, and dissapearing Arctic ice in the 1920's, too.
The fact that some scientists suspected so long ago that the increased CO2 output due to industrialisation was having an effect on the environment doesn't mean that they were wrong, or that it isn't having an effect now. See It's all a conspiracy "more than a century":
1930s
Global warming trend since late 19th century reported.
Milankovitch proposes orbital changes as the cause of ice ages.
1938
Callendar argues that CO2 greenhouse global warming is underway, reviving interest in the question.
Let's not start marching toward those scientists who seek flaws in global climate change research with pitchforks and torches
I have absolutely no problem with people using the scientific methodology to investigate flaws in the current theories. What I do object to is tired, old, discredited arguments being re-hashed again and again by people who barely understand the science. See, for example, the great global warming swindle.
We need even more funding than we have for those who seek to assail the consensus, not because we think it will fall, but because that's what the scientific method demands. Anything less is not science, it's just politics in a lab coat.
By that rationale, we should still be funding the flat-Earthers. At some point those who argue against the scientific consensus have to actually provide evidence and start convincing others, otherwise their "research" will never end.
So if I'm reading this right, anything that uses Linux as a bootloader is "derived from" Linux
No, the argument is:
1) If you use a closed source linux module to boot your OS, then that closed source module should be GPLed.
2) If you distribute a Linux bootloader and your closed source OS and together, then they form a composite derivative work of art, and the whole lot must be GPLed.
So yes, it IS running two kernels, the ESX kernel which has priority, and the linux kernel running on top of it in a VM like every other virtualized kernel, once it gets running.
The issue seems to be "once it gets running". Before that point, linux is loaded, then a closed source module, then VMkernel. The closed source module is a derivative work of linux.
The Linux kernel allows binary blobs.
Yes, the Linux kernel allows end users to do whatever they want. But what you can't do, is to take the linux kernel, add your own closed source, and distribute the end product. This is what VMware are doing. And many kernel developers consider all closed source modules to be illegal (eg. see http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.ht ml about half-way down).
Perhaps the writer is missing the point of having a hypervisor, which is (drum roll) to allow two kernels to run at once.
No, you're missing the point. Linux is loaded first, then a closed source module, which loads a closed source OS. The closed source module is a derived work of linux.
The license for Linux only applies if you are distributing Linux (fair enough, they are), and only applies to Linux and code which is a derived work of Linux. It does not apply, for example, to binary-only applications running on Linux and using system calls. Linux includes the kexec system call, which allows the running kernel image to be replaced with another, effectively making Linux into a bootloader. This was originally written as part of the Linux BIOS project, to allow Linux to be used as (another drum roll please) a bootloader.
But they don't use kexec. They use a closed source module.
Hellwig is a troll.
Arguments should be evaluated on their merits, not on who makes them.
Rubbish. Interfaces can not be copyrighted. It is only a derived work if it is not isolated from the kernel via a public interface.
Did you miss the part about the closed source module? There is no public interface. This isn't kexec. VMware are distributing the kernel and a closed source module together. Can you name another company that does that?
VMware use a 2.4 linux kernel to bootload their own kernel (VMkernel) using a closed-source linux module (vmkmod). This module doesn't exist for any other OS, so Linus would say it's a derived work of the kernel. It's a pretty clear cut argument that vmkmod should be open source.
Now the argument get a bit more complicated - since VMkernel exists in kernel space, and requires a derived work of linux to load, then it also is a derived work. This argument is basically like saying that Microsoft couldn't distribute a version of Grub with Windows without violating the copyright of Grub, because Grub is GPL and Windows is closed source. It comes down to one question: is bootloader+kernel a derivative work, or are they two separate things? Does the fact that they're both in kernel space at the same time, and a one makes a function call to the other, enough to make a derivative work?
One of the main causes of warming is the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from our burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal and natural gas.
i'm yet to see a single intelligent response to any of the points made in that video. i suspect you will be more of the same.
Have you actually tried to do any research at all? Googling for "global warming swindle" would show you several good articles which totally discredit the hypothesis of that programme (that the sun has driven recent global warming). Two obvious points - if the sun is responsible, why isn't every planet in the solar system warming? And why haven't the satellites in orbit which monitor the sun's radiance shown a corresponding increase?
You are accepting the answers realclimate.org provides as absolute truth.
So which of the parent post's points, or points from realclimate.org, are wrong? Specifics, please.
The realclimate.org guys have established credentials and are professionally employed to researchers studying climate. If you disagree with them, say exactly what and why, otherwise your arguments are just hand waving. Time to put up or shut up.
So sorry, but I remain unconvinced and a site like realclimate.org does nothing to change that. What I need is what I consider to be good, unbiased research. So far, I've had real trouble finding it.
Sounds like what you're actually looking for is evidence that global warming either isn't happening, or that human activity isn't the primary driving factor. And for some reason you can't figure out, you're having trouble finding it...
The fglrx module expects the registers related to Thread Local Storage to be in a certain state. If you mess around with it, you can cause a kernel crash. Try running wincecfg from =0.9.31 includes a check for fglrx in TLS mode and aborts), it will crash the kernel with 100% repeatability. You can find details in ATI and wine bugzillas.
I always wondered if this could be turned into a more dangerous security exploit. And now I wonder how much code is shared between fglrx and the Windows driver, as it seems it has similar bugs.
It is, if you have a PC or mac??? I found it quick and easy. OTA might be a little nicer, but given that I sync once a day or so for calendar updates and other refreshes, it's easy enough. Yes, updating is easy if you're a geek. The GP's point was that Apple is marketing the Iphone to non-geeks. There are employees out there with company phones who never sync.. with OTA, they would be updated too.
The whole point was they don't need to, because it's easily handled by the user. Less IT work is a good thing, if you can just release your claws a little from grasping everything that comes within reach. You must have never worked in enterprise IT support. Hypothetical questions: if you're rolling out an update to 10000 users, do you a) update a few devices, test that everything still works with your software, your intranet web pages, etc., and once the problems are ironed out, do an automatic wide update or b) let users update whenever they want, and possibly break access to all the apps they rely on every day?
Illusion! All those security updates, with patches to sshd and the like - they were all figments! opensshd is not OS X. Some bugs have been fixed since two years ago. The fundamental operating system is unchanged.
More sand-holing. How sad. Learn to deal, you have seven days before everyone is patched, figure it out You really have never worked in IT support. Question: an update breaks a legacy intranet app that your sales team rely on every single day. Some of the sales team are broken on day 0, some later. You don't have 7 days, you have 0 days. What if the intranet app was coded by some contractors, or the offsite running is contracted out? You can't just fix every problem instantly!
Since you aren't doing the updates why are you taking support calls for the thing? Point them to Apple. You have no idea. Can you imagine actually doing this in an enterprise support environment? Telling users to sod off and talk to Apple themselves? You'd probably be fired, and possibly no more Apple devices for staff...
Oh, you're one of THOSE people. No wonder the big picture is so elusive to you. You've forgotten who you serve. The ability to manage updates is essential to large enterprises. It's not a Microsoft thing. Have you ever heard of Red Hat Network? Or Novell Zenworks? Probably not.
A scientific proof isn't a mathematical proof - in science you accept a hypothesis knowing the upper bound on the probability of your hypothesis being wrong. This is what people mean when they say things like "we accept this hypothesis at the 0.01 level", this means there's still a 1% chance of the hypothesis being wrong due to experimental error.
You cannot prove causality with observational studies because there is always the possibility of spurious correlation With any kind of study, regardless of whether you control any of the variables, there's a possibility of spurious correlation. To account for this you need to randomise all of the contributing factors, and block samples together that form statistically significant sub-groups in your population.
In your Finland example, if your hypothesis were that eating ice-cream caused drowning, you would take a random sample of people who ate ice-cream, randomise every significant factor (time of year, time of day, weather, location etc.) and then you have to show that with a statistical certainty of >0.95 (or so) that eating ice-cream is a factor that divides your samples into the two groups of those who die and those who don't die. For this particular hypothesis you're very likely to reject your alternative hypothesis at this point.
I assume actual power consumption is greater than the thermal design. Thermal design rating is the maximum power the chip can consume whilst being adequately cooled. If actual power exceeds it, the chip will malfunction, possibly causing permanent damage.
I surmise that the way the service works is that you can have an application on your Internet (3G or EDGE) enabled mobile phone, which can make calls to other mobile phones using only the internet connection on your end. Since in Europe, you're not responsible for the cost of incoming phone calls, this would render the calls in question totally free for the people making them. Not quite. It's more like Skype - free calls/txts when you're both using the Truphone service with VOIP (over 3G or wifi) at both ends. If it goes out to GSM on either side, then the caller pays for it. If you run Truphone over 3G and have a fixed rate bandwidth tariff you'll always be able to use VOIP on your end. And you can receive calls for free wherever you have free wifi (roaming costs within Europe are ~0.5usd/min). T-mobile already banned VOIP from their own users - they offer the cheapest 3G rates in the UK, so no wonder they don't want their users switching to this.
"Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate 'morality' with 'legality,' "
Every legal system enforces ideas of morality. Why is murder wrong? Why do countries restrict hate speech? Why can't you have sex with your sister? These are all moral concepts enforced through legality.
Maybe Linus is having a bad day. And what exactly does he mean by:
"I think it is okay to control people's hardware, I do it myself"
Does Linus sell have a sideline selling PCs? And he uses some DRM to stop users modifying the software he supplies? What?
So by that argument, why not allow people to smoke heroin in pubs? It's your libertarian right to do whatever you want to your own body, and other people can just go somewhere else, right?
if he hadn't had access to a gun he probably would have used a sword, or a knife Yes, and those weapons are a lot less effective than a gun. When was the last time a crazy man went on a knifing spree and killed 32 people?
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Interesting.
Curious, I had no idea WalMart censored media it sells. Do they also censor DVD movies?
And do they still sell bullets? Saw that one in Bowling for Columbine. It would be odd to censor CDs that contain a few swear words, and yet sell lethal projectiles.
People using mathematics, logic and rational reasoning figured out the Earth was spherical a long time before the Bible was written. From Wikipedia:
Around 330 BC, Aristotle provided observational evidence for the spherical Earth,[6] noting that travelers going south see southern constellations rise higher above the horizon. This is only possible if their horizon is at an angle to northerners' horizon. Thus the Earth's surface cannot be flat.[7] Also, the border of the shadow of Earth on the Moon during the partial phase of a lunar eclipse is always circular, no matter how high the Moon is over the horizon. Only a sphere casts a circular shadow in every direction, whereas a circular disk casts an elliptical shadow in most directions.[8]
The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by Eratosthenes. Eratosthenes knew that in Syene (now Aswan), in Egypt, the Sun was directly overhead at the summer solstice, while he estimated that a shadow cast by the Sun at Alexandria was 1/50th of a circle. He estimated the distance from Syene to Alexandria as 5,000 stades, and estimated the Earth's circumference was 250,000 stades and a degree was 700 stades (implying a circumference of 252,000 stades).[9] Eratosthenes used rough estimates and round numbers, but depending on the length of the stadion, his result is within a margin of between 2% and 20% of the actual circumference, 40,008 kilometres. Note that Eratosthenes could only measure the circumference of the Earth by assuming that the distance to the Sun is so great that the rays of sunlight are essentially parallel. A similar measurement, reported in a Chinese mathematical treatise, the Zhoubi suanjing (1st c. BC), was used to measure the distance to the Sun- albeit by assuming that the Earth was flat.[10]
The fact that some scientists suspected so long ago that the increased CO2 output due to industrialisation was having an effect on the environment doesn't mean that they were wrong, or that it isn't having an effect now. See It's all a conspiracy "more than a century":
1930s Global warming trend since late 19th century reported. Milankovitch proposes orbital changes as the cause of ice ages.
1938 Callendar argues that CO2 greenhouse global warming is underway, reviving interest in the question.
By that rationale, we should still be funding the flat-Earthers. At some point those who argue against the scientific consensus have to actually provide evidence and start convincing others, otherwise their "research" will never end.
Try this: New Scientist Climate Myths, in particular the section on computer models.
No, it requires understanding basic physics, that CO2 is an important greenhouse gas.
No, the argument is:
1) If you use a closed source linux module to boot your OS, then that closed source module should be GPLed.
2) If you distribute a Linux bootloader and your closed source OS and together, then they form a composite derivative work of art, and the whole lot must be GPLed.
1) is right. 2) is debatable.
No, you're missing the point. Linux is loaded first, then a closed source module, which loads a closed source OS. The closed source module is a derived work of linux.
But they don't use kexec. They use a closed source module.
Arguments should be evaluated on their merits, not on who makes them.
Did you miss the part about the closed source module? There is no public interface. This isn't kexec. VMware are distributing the kernel and a closed source module together. Can you name another company that does that?
VMware use a 2.4 linux kernel to bootload their own kernel (VMkernel) using a closed-source linux module (vmkmod). This module doesn't exist for any other OS, so Linus would say it's a derived work of the kernel. It's a pretty clear cut argument that vmkmod should be open source.
Now the argument get a bit more complicated - since VMkernel exists in kernel space, and requires a derived work of linux to load, then it also is a derived work. This argument is basically like saying that Microsoft couldn't distribute a version of Grub with Windows without violating the copyright of Grub, because Grub is GPL and Windows is closed source. It comes down to one question: is bootloader+kernel a derivative work, or are they two separate things? Does the fact that they're both in kernel space at the same time, and a one makes a function call to the other, enough to make a derivative work?
Are there any projects putting wp on java enabled phones? It would be pretty cool to settle those arguments any time, any place.
Have you actually tried to do any research at all? Googling for "global warming swindle" would show you several good articles which totally discredit the hypothesis of that programme (that the sun has driven recent global warming). Two obvious points - if the sun is responsible, why isn't every planet in the solar system warming? And why haven't the satellites in orbit which monitor the sun's radiance shown a corresponding increase?
Start here: NewScientist Climate Myths (in particular "Global warming is down to the Sun, not humans" and "Mars and Pluto are warming too") and then read the facts about the "serious scientific documentary" that you're relying on.
So which of the parent post's points, or points from realclimate.org, are wrong? Specifics, please.
The realclimate.org guys have established credentials and are professionally employed to researchers studying climate. If you disagree with them, say exactly what and why, otherwise your arguments are just hand waving. Time to put up or shut up.
Sounds like what you're actually looking for is evidence that global warming either isn't happening, or that human activity isn't the primary driving factor. And for some reason you can't figure out, you're having trouble finding it...
The fglrx module expects the registers related to Thread Local Storage to be in a certain state. If you mess around with it, you can cause a kernel crash. Try running wincecfg from =0.9.31 includes a check for fglrx in TLS mode and aborts), it will crash the kernel with 100% repeatability. You can find details in ATI and wine bugzillas.
I always wondered if this could be turned into a more dangerous security exploit. And now I wonder how much code is shared between fglrx and the Windows driver, as it seems it has similar bugs.
In your Finland example, if your hypothesis were that eating ice-cream caused drowning, you would take a random sample of people who ate ice-cream, randomise every significant factor (time of year, time of day, weather, location etc.) and then you have to show that with a statistical certainty of >0.95 (or so) that eating ice-cream is a factor that divides your samples into the two groups of those who die and those who don't die. For this particular hypothesis you're very likely to reject your alternative hypothesis at this point.
Every legal system enforces ideas of morality. Why is murder wrong? Why do countries restrict hate speech? Why can't you have sex with your sister? These are all moral concepts enforced through legality.
Maybe Linus is having a bad day. And what exactly does he mean by:
"I think it is okay to control people's hardware, I do it myself"Does Linus sell have a sideline selling PCs? And he uses some DRM to stop users modifying the software he supplies? What?
So by that argument, why not allow people to smoke heroin in pubs? It's your libertarian right to do whatever you want to your own body, and other people can just go somewhere else, right?
Or maybe you have to draw the line somewhere.
New York City: 6.9 murders per 100,000 people (2004)
London: 1.7 murders per 100,000 people (2005)
The cities are comparable in size, population and prosperity.