For the 3 sites in the entire world that have content that's worth having but use javascript, you ain't going to miss much. . .
OK, if you're a windows user, a) you're going to lose out on a couple of remote exploits this way, and b) here's a nickel; go buy a real computer . . .
When you are charged with a crime, you are charged with the crime, not the crime and a proposed penalty. You can look in the statutes, judicial manuals, or common law for the maximium penalty (probably the first iin this case).
Also, in some jurisdictions, the defendant is advised of the maximum penalty at arraignment.
Generally, it wouldn't even be *possible* to charge him with this without the 15 year maximum being out there . . .
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.
That's backwards. Try tracking down his terms of employment and seeing if there's anything allowing personal use of corporate assets. This could be a written manual (highly unlikely), or custom (possible, perhaps likely in many environments). At that point, he would e seafe. Without it, his position is at best awkward, and he very likely was stealing.
OK, who marked this funny rather than insightful or informative??
The inconsistency is a pain. It took a while, but now comp and repl show messages as from me rather than ~/.signature -- but the same thing doesn't work with forw.
>And it needs to handle MIME better...
Yeah, but who wants to deal with all the followup mail after it replies automatically to everyone who sends a mime message calling them an idiot? I'm afraid proper mime handling just isn't possible any more:)
hawk, who will concde that emacs' mail mode is useful to read mail on a slow line, but not as much as
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> It is not plausible that three Vipers take off at the same time
> every time.
sure, as long as they're te same three . .
> It goes against the laws of physics that Cylon ships always explode
> the same way.
a) why are they exploding, anyway??? [ans: because damage was too expensive a special effect. see "Starman"]
b) sure they can, if your budget won't let you buy another firecracker and model
> If the Cylons have been around for a thousand, hell even a hundred
> years, their targeting software should be BETTER. It took us six years
> or so to go from Doom to UT.
They're running windows.
> In real life there will not be a nearby agricultural settlement when
> the Cylons nuke your aggro ships.
bah. It is well establised that even though it typically takes days to travel between star systems, in any emergency there is always a planet of the needed type previously overlooked by sensors within the five minutes of emergency power available . ..[btw, during the entire series, did any regular shuttle ever return to Voyager? And how *did* they keep replacing them, if they were losing one every three weeks or so?]
>Deus ex machina is not allowed!
correct. That's Greek mythology, not aztec/toltec/egyptian . . .
> Do not create a military relying solely on aircraft carriers.
I thought that it was just that everything else was destroyed. Hey, if you only have one ship . . . and if a single aircraft can destroy an opponent's carrier singlehandedly (ok, all of its aircraft were gone, but still . ..)
> If the Cylons knew that their Centurions couldn't aim for crap they
> would have (logically) programmed them to charge the enemy and then
> self-destruct.
They'd still miss . . .
> Why is the sole shielding available to an advanced carrier some
> steel welded to the front of the ship. Cain order electromagnetic
> shields up, why didn't anyone else do this?
Union rules. Trying to wipe out someone's job, are you? You will be contacted late at night.
> Why is the proportion of White to Black so horribly horribly
> unbalanced. Are the Capricans racist?
a) the black continent, err, planet was destroyed?
b) they were all employed by the "Blaxploitation" movies popular at the time.
> Where do the raw materials come from to continually replace
> destroyed Vipers?
spare parts from recycling Voyager's shuttles . . .
> How can an advanced society have absolutely no defense against an
> air raid? Were they using the National Missile Defense System? An
> episode established that the computers were tampered with?
It was a sneak attack at a peace conference. C'mon, if *you'd* been at war
for 1000 years, you'd let all the former bad guys past your systems,
wouldn't you? I'm sure the U.S. let everyone on the Iowa doze as it came into port for the surrender . . .
Not content to merelly toss a K in front of application names, the KDE project is now changing its name to "Kmicrosoft," and the desktop environment formerlly known as KDE will become "Kmicrosoft Kwindows," while Konqueror will become "Kmicrosoft Kexplorer."
This is seen as a significant advance in helping users find the programs they want.
In related news, the programmer formerly known as "Linus Torvalds" will henceforth be known as "Kbill Kgates" . . .
As junior faculty, I must constantly worry about my tenur application in a few years. "Greedy Capitalist" would look grat on on economist's application. Where can I get called one in something I can cite?:)
>They also seem to have forgotten the fact that they have a bunch of
>major competitors, most notably Redhat, Mandrake, and SuSE, who would
>probably love to soak up Caldera's share of the Linux market, both
>present and future.
Oooh, that will have them quaking in their boots: all the non-paying customers will go to the other distributions, leaving them with ony, uhh, the ones willing to pay:)
I'm sure Redhat, et al, are drooling over the prospects of people driven away by not getting it all for free ...
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal adive, contact an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.
This is indeed scary--this woman is hearing cases? Her actions in this suit show a fundamental lack of understanding of the law.
Yes, this is Canada, and not a state where I have a license. Note, though, that the US is usually in the forefront of jackpot-style expansions of the law.
Never mind whether or not you hate the ISP, or what you think is fair. This is about the law.
There are no punitive daages on a contract. None. Zip. Nil. Just can't have them. You might get something for general damages in addition to the value of the services not delivered, but not several thousand--at most, she gets here regular rate of compensation.
The only way to get punitive damages out of a contract is to show a fraud in getting you into the contract. To show this, you need to show that a statenmt was made with the knowledge it was untrue. This does not appear to be what she's doing, though, according to the article.
>Pop quiz. You arrive at a birthday party, and everyone's brought some
>toys to play with, including you. You play with other people's toys,
>but when someone reaches for one of your toys you slap their hand and
>scream, "That's my toy!"
OK, but this is also a fair description of the GPL and an assortment of
free licenses.
There seems to be an assumption in these arguments that anyone using
other code takes a full GPL project and modifies it to do something
else--in which case the argment makes sense that the whole thing should
carry the GPL. Or that the GPL project uses a tad of code from software
under a free license. IT doesn't consider the other direction--that
a massive free project wants to use a tad of GPL code, but cannot do
so under its own license.
"compatible" is not the right word. It implies that things function together. THe problem is not that other license are not compatible with the gpl, but that the gpl isn't compatible with *anything*--it views sharing as a one-way street, *from* free licenses *to* the gpl. To use gpl software and anything else, you end up at gpl. This isn't compatiblity, but assimilation . . .
>But, broadly speaking, the class action suits only happen when there
>is a fault in the product.
???
Good heavens, where have *you* ben the last few years???
Class action suits happen wheneve it appears that it would be
expensive enough to defend that legal fees can be milked from the
situation.
Look at all the silly complaints leading to class actions, and the
"coupon" based settlements. Those settlements aren't happening
because the corporation is getting away with something; they're
happening because the underlying suit had little chance of winning
(but could state enough to get to an expenive trial [and lose]).
The class lawyers get paid in full in dollars, and people who (in
most cases) had no real injury get coupons causing them to buy more
from the same manufacturor.
Exploding side tanks? yes, they were more likely to ignite than the
other brand of truck--but only half as likely as a passenger car.
Class action lawsuits serve a single group: class action lawyers.
The settlments do not help the victims when there were real injury.
THe *only* example I have of the victims getting made whole is the
first iomega class action, in which the rebates were actually sent
out.
>do you _really_ want to use word processor from 1991?
If you're limiting me to MS word processors, absolutely. Word 5.1 beats the tar out of Word 6-present in terms of usability. It actually let you do what *you* wanted to do, instead of what *it* wanted you to do. I stuck with old macs several years past their expiration just to stay with word 5.1. Then I found lyx and dumped the macs for unix.
OK, I think 5.1 was 1992. Fine. Word 4 was a better and more stable product, it just didn't have some of the table features of 5.1. Word 5.1 and Excel 4 marked the end of good products from ms.
(And yes, I bought them both).
The ABA is a political organization, with a specific political agenda. At one time its agenda was furthering the rule of law and the quality of the legal system, but that has become asideline these days.
There is no reason for a group representing lawyers in general to take political stands on issues such as capital punishment, abortion, gun control, etc.; these are not issues which have *any* level of consensus among the members..
I used to be a member; I resigned over the politicization. I agree with some of the positions, and disagree with others.--but I oppose the taking of positions even on the issues I agree with.
Professional organization? Once upon a time. Now it's just another center-left organization that uses a captive base to further apolitical agenda.
Oh, and :
>Every
>time a president goes throug the selection process for a supreme court
>justice, the candates have to get reviewed by the ABA.
Not any more. In the past, the ABA was provided with the names of
nominees in advance of the general public and other organization. It
would rate then "not qualified," "qualified," or "highly qualified."
There was a time when it took this duty seriously, but the last
couple of decades have seen this deteriorate into a political
litmus test. Additionally, this was onlyone piece of information
for Congress.
Now, the ABA remains free to comment, but it has no special status.
>To even
>practice law, you have to pass an ABA exam.
This is just plain nonsense. It's not true, and there is no such
exam. Individual states have bar examinations under the authority
of the state judiciary. In some states this is done in a fairly
direct manner, in others it is delegated entirely to a semi-independent
bar association. The ABA has nothing to do with these. An arm of the ABA
does accredit law schools, however (but this may change, too.)
>The ABA is probably one of
>the most powerfull organizations in the USA. If they want something,
>they get it. Period.
Not hardly. Judges are approved by the Senate over their "not qualified"
rating, particularly when it is recognized as a political rating.
Similarly, judges rated "highly qualified" for taking an activist role on
the ABA's agenda are often rejected by the senate (most often by not
holding a vote)
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> drivers are a lot more likely to get people killed than an unlicensed
> fisherman.
Hey, that's anthrocentric. The *fish* doesn't feel that way. Report to your local PETA chapter immediately for re-education (and a yukky diet, too!).
hawk, belligerent carnivore
OK, if you're a windows user, a) you're going to lose out on a couple of remote exploits this way, and b) here's a nickel; go buy a real computer . . .
:)
hawk
When you are charged with a crime, you are charged with the crime, not the crime and a proposed penalty. You can look in the statutes, judicial manuals, or common law for the maximium penalty (probably the first iin this case).
Also, in some jurisdictions, the defendant is advised of the maximum penalty at arraignment.
Generally, it wouldn't even be *possible* to charge him with this without the 15 year maximum being out there . . .
hawk
That's backwards. Try tracking down his terms of employment and seeing if there's anything allowing personal use of corporate assets. This could be a written manual (highly unlikely), or custom (possible, perhaps likely in many environments). At that point, he would e seafe. Without it, his position is at best awkward, and he very likely was stealing.
hawk, esq.
The inconsistency is a pain. It took a while, but now comp and repl show messages as from me rather than ~/.signature -- but the same thing doesn't work with forw.
>And it needs to handle MIME better...
Yeah, but who wants to deal with all the followup mail after it replies automatically to everyone who sends a mime message calling them an idiot? I'm afraid proper mime handling just isn't possible any more
hawk, regular user of lynx & mh.
No, emacs is for heretics and sissies.
real men use vi and mh
hawk, who will concde that emacs' mail mode is useful to read mail on a slow line, but not as much as
inc >
>at university.
I don't know about him, but Raskin's Master's thesis was on the subject. Also check out
http://home.san.rr.com/deans/lisagui.html
--including mockups of the Lisa's GUI from *before* the visit . . .
hawk
:)
hawk
> every time.
sure, as long as they're te same three . .
> It goes against the laws of physics that Cylon ships always explode
> the same way.
a) why are they exploding, anyway??? [ans: because damage was too expensive a special effect. see "Starman"]
b) sure they can, if your budget won't let you buy another firecracker and model
> If the Cylons have been around for a thousand, hell even a hundred
> years, their targeting software should be BETTER. It took us six years
> or so to go from Doom to UT.
They're running windows.
> In real life there will not be a nearby agricultural settlement when
> the Cylons nuke your aggro ships.
bah. It is well establised that even though it typically takes days to travel between star systems, in any emergency there is always a planet of the needed type previously overlooked by sensors within the five minutes of emergency power available . .
>Deus ex machina is not allowed!
correct. That's Greek mythology, not aztec/toltec/egyptian . . .
> Do not create a military relying solely on aircraft carriers.
I thought that it was just that everything else was destroyed. Hey, if you only have one ship . . . and if a single aircraft can destroy an opponent's carrier singlehandedly (ok, all of its aircraft were gone, but still . .
> If the Cylons knew that their Centurions couldn't aim for crap they
> would have (logically) programmed them to charge the enemy and then
> self-destruct.
They'd still miss . . .
> Why is the sole shielding available to an advanced carrier some
> steel welded to the front of the ship. Cain order electromagnetic
> shields up, why didn't anyone else do this?
Union rules. Trying to wipe out someone's job, are you? You will be contacted late at night.
> Why is the proportion of White to Black so horribly horribly
> unbalanced. Are the Capricans racist?
a) the black continent, err, planet was destroyed?
b) they were all employed by the "Blaxploitation" movies popular at the time.
> Where do the raw materials come from to continually replace
> destroyed Vipers?
spare parts from recycling Voyager's shuttles . . .
> How can an advanced society have absolutely no defense against an
> air raid? Were they using the National Missile Defense System? An
> episode established that the computers were tampered with?
It was a sneak attack at a peace conference. C'mon, if *you'd* been at war
for 1000 years, you'd let all the former bad guys past your systems,
wouldn't you? I'm sure the U.S. let everyone on the Iowa doze as it came into port for the surrender . . .
hawk, just helping out
> memory chip?)
Just off the cuff, tere's te 64k (yes, that's a k, kids) dram from Texas Instruments, whic ad to be recalled . . .
And bugs in processors are too numerous to consider . . .
awk
> maniac...
I can't reveal that either, when I figure it out about a client . . .
hawk, esq.
This is seen as a significant advance in helping users find the programs they want.
In related news, the programmer formerly known as "Linus Torvalds" will henceforth be known as "Kbill Kgates" . . .
:)
hawk
:)
hawk
>major competitors, most notably Redhat, Mandrake, and SuSE, who would
>probably love to soak up Caldera's share of the Linux market, both
>present and future.
Oooh, that will have them quaking in their boots: all the non-paying customers will go to the other distributions, leaving them with ony, uhh, the ones willing to pay
I'm sure Redhat, et al, are drooling over the prospects of people driven away by not getting it all for free .
:)
hawk
This is indeed scary--this woman is hearing cases? Her actions in this suit show a fundamental lack of understanding of the law.
Yes, this is Canada, and not a state where I have a license. Note, though, that the US is usually in the forefront of jackpot-style expansions of the law.
Never mind whether or not you hate the ISP, or what you think is fair. This is about the law.
There are no punitive daages on a contract. None. Zip. Nil. Just can't have them. You might get something for general damages in addition to the value of the services not delivered, but not several thousand--at most, she gets here regular rate of compensation.
The only way to get punitive damages out of a contract is to show a fraud in getting you into the contract. To show this, you need to show that a statenmt was made with the knowledge it was untrue. This does not appear to be what she's doing, though, according to the article.
and why did I give it up for academia???
hawk
hawk
>toys to play with, including you. You play with other people's toys,
>but when someone reaches for one of your toys you slap their hand and
>scream, "That's my toy!"
OK, but this is also a fair description of the GPL and an assortment of
free licenses.
There seems to be an assumption in these arguments that anyone using
other code takes a full GPL project and modifies it to do something
else--in which case the argment makes sense that the whole thing should
carry the GPL. Or that the GPL project uses a tad of code from software
under a free license. IT doesn't consider the other direction--that
a massive free project wants to use a tad of GPL code, but cannot do
so under its own license.
hawk
>lead to hell" philosophy, but
*shrug* It's your soul . . .
:)
hawk
hawk, fearful of the borg
>is a fault in the product.
???
Good heavens, where have *you* ben the last few years???
Class action suits happen wheneve it appears that it would be
expensive enough to defend that legal fees can be milked from the
situation.
Look at all the silly complaints leading to class actions, and the
"coupon" based settlements. Those settlements aren't happening
because the corporation is getting away with something; they're
happening because the underlying suit had little chance of winning
(but could state enough to get to an expenive trial [and lose]).
The class lawyers get paid in full in dollars, and people who (in
most cases) had no real injury get coupons causing them to buy more
from the same manufacturor.
Exploding side tanks? yes, they were more likely to ignite than the
other brand of truck--but only half as likely as a passenger car.
Class action lawsuits serve a single group: class action lawyers.
The settlments do not help the victims when there were real injury.
THe *only* example I have of the victims getting made whole is the
first iomega class action, in which the rebates were actually sent
out.
hawk, esq.
If you're limiting me to MS word processors, absolutely. Word 5.1 beats the tar out of Word 6-present in terms of usability. It actually let you do what *you* wanted to do, instead of what *it* wanted you to do. I stuck with old macs several years past their expiration just to stay with word 5.1. Then I found lyx and dumped the macs for unix.
OK, I think 5.1 was 1992. Fine. Word 4 was a better and more stable product, it just didn't have some of the table features of 5.1. Word 5.1 and Excel 4 marked the end of good products from ms.
(And yes, I bought them both).
hawk
There is no reason for a group representing lawyers in general to take political stands on issues such as capital punishment, abortion, gun control, etc.; these are not issues which have *any* level of consensus among the members..
I used to be a member; I resigned over the politicization. I agree with some of the positions, and disagree with others.--but I oppose the taking of positions even on the issues I agree with.
Professional organization? Once upon a time. Now it's just another center-left organization that uses a captive base to further apolitical agenda.
Oh, and :
>Every
>time a president goes throug the selection process for a supreme court
>justice, the candates have to get reviewed by the ABA.
Not any more. In the past, the ABA was provided with the names of
nominees in advance of the general public and other organization. It
would rate then "not qualified," "qualified," or "highly qualified."
There was a time when it took this duty seriously, but the last
couple of decades have seen this deteriorate into a political
litmus test. Additionally, this was onlyone piece of information
for Congress.
Now, the ABA remains free to comment, but it has no special status.
>To even
>practice law, you have to pass an ABA exam.
This is just plain nonsense. It's not true, and there is no such
exam. Individual states have bar examinations under the authority
of the state judiciary. In some states this is done in a fairly
direct manner, in others it is delegated entirely to a semi-independent
bar association. The ABA has nothing to do with these. An arm of the ABA
does accredit law schools, however (but this may change, too.)
>The ABA is probably one of
>the most powerfull organizations in the USA. If they want something,
>they get it. Period.
Not hardly. Judges are approved by the Senate over their "not qualified"
rating, particularly when it is recognized as a political rating.
Similarly, judges rated "highly qualified" for taking an activist role on
the ABA's agenda are often rejected by the senate (most often by not
holding a vote)
hawk, esq.
:)
hawk, wondering what good a system with nothing but the linux kernel and ghe GNU utilities would be, anyway . . .
>something. Nevermind.
. . . If I put it at the other end of my office, I could work at my usual resolution without my glasses . . .
hawk
...
> the Monica Lewinsky fiasco,
err, here problem wasn't what was coming *out* of her mouth . . .
[*duck*]
hawk