And if you do that, the government wouldn't even have to prove you had encrypted something illegal. The fact that you had used an unapproved encryption algorithm would be all they need to arrest you. How does that help?
I do believe suicide is a type of homicide. But it is Megan who is guilty of it, not the woman. Being mean to someone is not homicide, regardless of the outcome.
This is the kind of thing for which tort law was designed. That, or Megan's parents could take action outside of the law.
In any case, there is no reason for criminal charges to be filed.
Is there any reason why you couldn't just buy the XP version and put a standard Linux distro on there? Has anyone done it? I haven't seen it on www.linux-on-laptops.com.
Nothing convinces people that something might be true faster than people trying to shut down any discussion of it. It is one thing for scientists to say "intelligent design is wrong". It is another to say "OMFG that scientist talked about intelligent design, fire him, quick! Nobody talk about what he said!"
The same is true for climate change. When you start firing climatologists who say that global warming might not be as bad as once thought, or that perhaps humans have less of an impact than some say, it makes it look like something is being hidden.
I must admit that my science education does not go above college Bio 101, but all of my science classes left me with the impression that discussion was a good thing.
"Climate Change Finally Impacts Important Industry" is not correct. The article makes no mention of any impact on an industry. It should probably read "Scientists Say Climate Change Will Finally Impact and Important Industry". The current title suggests that it has happened.
Evil: How can we change our service to make customers pay us more money? If a company could charge me more for a service, and I would still pay it, than by them not doing so, I am ripping them off. How is it evil to get market value for your service?
Great points. Also, scientists, don't exaggerate your "facts". There are so many fraudulent studies on both sides of issues like climate change (formerly known as global warming) that people don't know what to think. Scientists, who perhaps have good intentions, fake a study so people will understand how dangerous global warming is. But when you get caught it just makes people not trust your side. Or maybe you don't think global warming is as bad as some say, so you go to the other extreme and fund a study trying to show that global warming is completely false. Now people don't trust you.
Oh, one more thing. Trying to censor your opposition: Nothing is going to convince me faster that you are full of shit than when you try and get people fired who speak out against your cause.
I am sorry for the confusion. I did indeed mean "operating system". The Mono project for Linux is great and will let you run some.NET apps, but it is incomplete, and they are struggling to keep up with Microsoft's releases. Microsoft has released 3.5 and Mono is just about finished 2.0 (with a few 3.0 features functional, as I understand it). Hopefully.NET will allow for a true "write once, run anywhere" platform, but until then, I will be hesitant to use it for my personal programming projects.
Of course, it isn't Microsoft's fault that Linux has not adopted the platform. I'd like to see them due more to help, though. Certainly opening the source code up for people to use would go a long way.
.NET really is an amazing framework on which to build software. It just needs more OS support and I would use it for programming other than what I do for a living.
All those types are there, but they will not be loaded in to memory unless your software needs them.
it gives us something to point at as a reference point for which rights are basic and universal. Like "periodic holidays with pay" and to "enjoy the arts"? WTF were they thinking?
Of those millions, how many are like me and have downloaded and installed Silverlight, but can not make it work?
When I browse to a Silverlight page, it just says that I need to install Silverlight. So I uninstall it, redownload, and reinstall. Nothing changed. I believe this is in IE and Firefox.
I haven't used Opera for a while, but Firefox does not currently do this. There best it can do is restore the tabs that were open after a crash. This seems to be saying that single tabs will crash, instead of the whole browser. (Presumably each tab has its own thread or process.)
Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows®Internet Explorer® 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users' browsing sessions. That is actually pretty cool. Firefox should steal that.
How has D&D (and tabletop roleplaying) touched/improved your life? I made some great friends in college that I probably would not have met were it not for D&D (or role playing in general).
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4th edition D&D books came out today. Coincidence?
In a police state, crimes do not need to be proven.
And if you do that, the government wouldn't even have to prove you had encrypted something illegal. The fact that you had used an unapproved encryption algorithm would be all they need to arrest you. How does that help?
Read Liberal Fascism
I do believe suicide is a type of homicide. But it is Megan who is guilty of it, not the woman. Being mean to someone is not homicide, regardless of the outcome.
This is the kind of thing for which tort law was designed. That, or Megan's parents could take action outside of the law.
In any case, there is no reason for criminal charges to be filed.
That is far from a record. Some sites are slashdotted from the firehose alone.
Is there any reason why you couldn't just buy the XP version and put a standard Linux distro on there? Has anyone done it? I haven't seen it on www.linux-on-laptops.com.
Sorry, I should have said income taxes.
Takes are not taken from the many, they are taken from the few. The top 1% pay most of the taxes.
Nothing convinces people that something might be true faster than people trying to shut down any discussion of it. It is one thing for scientists to say "intelligent design is wrong". It is another to say "OMFG that scientist talked about intelligent design, fire him, quick! Nobody talk about what he said!"
The same is true for climate change. When you start firing climatologists who say that global warming might not be as bad as once thought, or that perhaps humans have less of an impact than some say, it makes it look like something is being hidden.
I must admit that my science education does not go above college Bio 101, but all of my science classes left me with the impression that discussion was a good thing.
"If a person is arrested but not convicted, he or she can ask the Justice Department to destroy the sample."
So it is bad, but not that bad.
"Climate Change Finally Impacts Important Industry" is not correct. The article makes no mention of any impact on an industry. It should probably read "Scientists Say Climate Change Will Finally Impact and Important Industry". The current title suggests that it has happened.
Great points. Also, scientists, don't exaggerate your "facts". There are so many fraudulent studies on both sides of issues like climate change (formerly known as global warming) that people don't know what to think. Scientists, who perhaps have good intentions, fake a study so people will understand how dangerous global warming is. But when you get caught it just makes people not trust your side. Or maybe you don't think global warming is as bad as some say, so you go to the other extreme and fund a study trying to show that global warming is completely false. Now people don't trust you.
Oh, one more thing. Trying to censor your opposition: Nothing is going to convince me faster that you are full of shit than when you try and get people fired who speak out against your cause.
Stop trying to trick us into believe your lies, Devil!
I am sorry for the confusion. I did indeed mean "operating system". The Mono project for Linux is great and will let you run some .NET apps, but it is incomplete, and they are struggling to keep up with Microsoft's releases. Microsoft has released 3.5 and Mono is just about finished 2.0 (with a few 3.0 features functional, as I understand it). Hopefully .NET will allow for a true "write once, run anywhere" platform, but until then, I will be hesitant to use it for my personal programming projects.
Of course, it isn't Microsoft's fault that Linux has not adopted the platform. I'd like to see them due more to help, though. Certainly opening the source code up for people to use would go a long way.
.NET really is an amazing framework on which to build software. It just needs more OS support and I would use it for programming other than what I do for a living. All those types are there, but they will not be loaded in to memory unless your software needs them.
You may have posted first, but I thought of posting before you did.
Of those millions, how many are like me and have downloaded and installed Silverlight, but can not make it work? When I browse to a Silverlight page, it just says that I need to install Silverlight. So I uninstall it, redownload, and reinstall. Nothing changed. I believe this is in IE and Firefox.
I haven't used Opera for a while, but Firefox does not currently do this. There best it can do is restore the tabs that were open after a crash. This seems to be saying that single tabs will crash, instead of the whole browser. (Presumably each tab has its own thread or process.)
I hope not. I read about his death yesterday, so if he died today, someone has some explaining to do.