or you could do like Texas does and call any killing "murder" when charged and let the jury determine whether the accused caused the death *and* any mitigating circumstances (like those that would in other states get an involuntary manslaughter charge). IMO prosecutors have too much career advancement incentive to over-charge in systems that have such fine gradients of offenses.
that's why you'll never see a tool like the one the author wants for laws. and also why you'll never see the laws simplified, no matter how much injustice is perpetrated using our increasingly convoluted system of laws.
i think our laws and case law need to be refactored.
the issue isn't just the running of windows, something i apparently wasn't clear enough about to satisfy fanbois like you. the issue is installing a particular version of windows and then *not* supporting your software application and its interaction with the application specific peripherals (Logic analyzer cards, oscilloscope analog front end, ADCs, etc. when the user takes the perfectly rational step of turning on windows' security updating functionality. basically you are leaving a box on your network for any script kiddie with a 3 year old copy of metasploit to use as a beach head in your network. and depending on the equipment vendor and their/your requirements for network connectivity, your firewall may not help you.
Oh, and after Windows posts a 10 year history with 5 exploitable kernel vulnerabilities then i'll consider it as sercure and worthwhile as FreeBSD. Not until.
But aside from that metric, the reason you ought to use a Unix is the ability to scrape out the cruft that only presents vulnerabilities to attackers. most SCADA systems don't need to share files or printers, but the windows distribution does not allow you to strip that functionality out. Unixes (especially FOSS ones) do.
Trusted IRIX or Trusted Solaris would be equally palatable. So would Green Hills' Integrity RTOS.
The last one has met Common Criteria EAL 7 evaluation requirements. Windows has not, nor can it. Ever.
And i'm not talking about your user devices, however much you'd like to refocus the debate there. I'm talking about embedded devices and SCADA. There's not much need to browse Youtube on a machine that is controlling a region of the power grid. And there shouldn't be the ability to. The last thing we need is for someone's social networking BS to cause a blackout by crashing that machine.
and i'm sure this extension of fascism will be coated in sugary language like, "We're *asking* McDonalds to refrain from incentivizing youth to eat irresponsibly..."
it's not "asking" when the result of refusal is the use of force against you. "Asking" implies equality and mutual respect rather than the condescension rampant in government.
sadly, we've no public will to wean our politicians off of their mentally empty diet of "ideas" and verbal diarrhea.
no, it's a WTF that lab, industrial, and SCADA equipment is built using Windows and then windows updates are not enabled or supported by the vendor that decided to use freakin Windows in the first place. if you're going to use a general purpose processor and software system in a piece of computing "furniture" / "appliance" at least have the decency to use an obscure OS, use a fairly secure OS (freeBSD), or just run on bare metal (no OS).
oh i agree with your latter point. i was just pointing out that the effective duration of copyright protection has grown in two directions. First, it has lengthened. Second, the time to market has shrunk dramatically. you perceive that with a 1 yr time to market that causality prevents people from making copies of a book they haven't got yet and won't have for another year.
keep in mind that this was law in a time where it took over a year for books to get shipped from one side of the globe to the other. if we had today's law in context of 1790's distribution network latency, copyright would last like 500 years after the death of the author rather than the 70 years after the death of the author as the statute says.
no, it would not require an amendment. you just want to spread FUD and hopelessness because you agree with the current actors. since fair use is determined by statute and case law (and since the courts defer to the congress all the time, even when they shouldn't) all it would take is for congress to amend the copyright law which implements the directive in the constitution. just like they do. every. time. Disney. tells. them. to. and all to protect one company.
look I agree with you, but Bush and many other proponents of the omnipotent unitary executive have been ignoring that part of the constitution for quite a long time now. too bad some Republicans are just now remembering that freedom is important...
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hey, that's 5 9's reliability according to most IT sales reps.
hrrm... can we stuff the sales reps in too?
i keed.
but really, can we?
Thanks, but I knew that already, silly. You might want to change the combination on your luggage while you're at it. ;P
per wikipedia (which never lies, much like George Washington) the start is platform dependent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
special character fail.
up up down down left right left right B A
it supports mp3... just have to know how to unlock it
, , , , , , , , B, A
nah, the Devil was too busy making Flip Wilson's characters buy dresses to paint EM emitters on the Earth's planetjackerlike shell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMEDncCrNMk
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5326910/14043514
Glenn Greenwald has been covering this likelihood. and of course he has a piece on it today.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/10/kagan/index.html
apparently you missed the day in history class where they covered the Trail of Tears...
The Cherokee won their SCOTUS case... and Andy Jackson still force marched them to OK.
http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html
too bad the party everyone thinks is going to do that is too busy bailing out oppressed classes like bankers...
oops. that was the quiet part.
kids in CA use those terms quite extensively in group voip chats, like ventrilo when playing WoW and other games in my experience. YMMV, ofc.
or you could do like Texas does and call any killing "murder" when charged and let the jury determine whether the accused caused the death *and* any mitigating circumstances (like those that would in other states get an involuntary manslaughter charge). IMO prosecutors have too much career advancement incentive to over-charge in systems that have such fine gradients of offenses.
how do you troll yourself? i'm curious about that one.
exactly. if i hadn't replied in this thread i'd give you a mod point.
you mean like promoting universal health care? yep, that sounds like and American "conservative" to me.
http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/cardinal-martino-applauds-universal-health-care-initiative/
that's why you'll never see a tool like the one the author wants for laws. and also why you'll never see the laws simplified, no matter how much injustice is perpetrated using our increasingly convoluted system of laws.
i think our laws and case law need to be refactored.
the issue isn't just the running of windows, something i apparently wasn't clear enough about to satisfy fanbois like you. the issue is installing a particular version of windows and then *not* supporting your software application and its interaction with the application specific peripherals (Logic analyzer cards, oscilloscope analog front end, ADCs, etc. when the user takes the perfectly rational step of turning on windows' security updating functionality. basically you are leaving a box on your network for any script kiddie with a 3 year old copy of metasploit to use as a beach head in your network. and depending on the equipment vendor and their/your requirements for network connectivity, your firewall may not help you.
Oh, and after Windows posts a 10 year history with 5 exploitable kernel vulnerabilities then i'll consider it as sercure and worthwhile as FreeBSD. Not until.
But aside from that metric, the reason you ought to use a Unix is the ability to scrape out the cruft that only presents vulnerabilities to attackers. most SCADA systems don't need to share files or printers, but the windows distribution does not allow you to strip that functionality out. Unixes (especially FOSS ones) do.
Trusted IRIX or Trusted Solaris would be equally palatable. So would Green Hills' Integrity RTOS.
The last one has met Common Criteria EAL 7 evaluation requirements. Windows has not, nor can it. Ever.
And i'm not talking about your user devices, however much you'd like to refocus the debate there. I'm talking about embedded devices and SCADA. There's not much need to browse Youtube on a machine that is controlling a region of the power grid. And there shouldn't be the ability to. The last thing we need is for someone's social networking BS to cause a blackout by crashing that machine.
and i'm sure this extension of fascism will be coated in sugary language like, "We're *asking* McDonalds to refrain from incentivizing youth to eat irresponsibly..."
it's not "asking" when the result of refusal is the use of force against you. "Asking" implies equality and mutual respect rather than the condescension rampant in government.
sadly, we've no public will to wean our politicians off of their mentally empty diet of "ideas" and verbal diarrhea.
no, it's a WTF that lab, industrial, and SCADA equipment is built using Windows and then windows updates are not enabled or supported by the vendor that decided to use freakin Windows in the first place. if you're going to use a general purpose processor and software system in a piece of computing "furniture" / "appliance" at least have the decency to use an obscure OS, use a fairly secure OS (freeBSD), or just run on bare metal (no OS).
oh i agree with your latter point. i was just pointing out that the effective duration of copyright protection has grown in two directions. First, it has lengthened. Second, the time to market has shrunk dramatically. you perceive that with a 1 yr time to market that causality prevents people from making copies of a book they haven't got yet and won't have for another year.
keep in mind that this was law in a time where it took over a year for books to get shipped from one side of the globe to the other. if we had today's law in context of 1790's distribution network latency, copyright would last like 500 years after the death of the author rather than the 70 years after the death of the author as the statute says.
but the matter at hand is a dispute between two big companies... so... which big company wins?
no, it would not require an amendment. you just want to spread FUD and hopelessness because you agree with the current actors. since fair use is determined by statute and case law (and since the courts defer to the congress all the time, even when they shouldn't) all it would take is for congress to amend the copyright law which implements the directive in the constitution. just like they do. every. time. Disney. tells. them. to. and all to protect one company.
make it knock the other containers out of the way, silly! :p
http://reverberated.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/shipment_of_fail1.jpg
social darwinism is not limited to capitalist economies. i herd u liek bread lines. troll.
good luck with that in practice.
look I agree with you, but Bush and many other proponents of the omnipotent unitary executive have been ignoring that part of the constitution for quite a long time now. too bad some Republicans are just now remembering that freedom is important...