The computer misuse act makes the unauthorised alteration of computer data a criminal offence... that's the whole anti-hacking bit that has been used to prosecute a few teenagers (and scare a few thousand others).
Since I did *not* authorize Sony to install a rootkit (authorisation to play a CD won't stretch that far) they have broken the law, and should be prosecuted.
Luckily we have corporate legal liability in this country too...
The explanation of the second scientist can be proven to predict event B given event A, so it's valid.
Prediction of an event does not necessarily mean prediction of the future - that's a strawman argument. You only need to say 'given theory X and event A, we can predict that event B will happen'. The fact that it has *already* happened is irrelevant to the argument (other than it lends weight to the theory).
You're from the US, right? Probably haven't had to deal with a text file that wasn't 7-bit ASCII.
Codepage problems are a bitch, and few documents have any hint of which codepage they're in.
UTF8 solves most of the problems (provided you can get compatible fonts... not too many around with the more obscure stuff in it) but that's not got enough traction to be a universal format yet.
So no, not *anything* can read it. There's no such thing as something that can be read anywhere.
They've even started banning shows that birds are appearing in, for fear of infecting the general population.
Idiots.
I feel like beating the editors with repeatedly with a cluebat. All the birds have *bird* flu. Not human flu. Humans are not birds. We do not have feathers, and cannot fly. Neither are we parrots. Which are also birds. Even dead parrots.
If/When the virus:
(a) jumps the species gap (which there's evidence it has done already a few times), and (here's the kicker...) (b) the mutation can not only survive, but transfer to other human hosts (this hasn't happened yet) then there will be an issue.
Then it won't be bird flu any more. It'll be human flu.
Caveat to (b) - it may lose virulence in the tranfer, and end up just like all the other flu outbreaks that the press don't like to talk about because they're not scary enough, like 1967.
Oh, and (c) we know *just* a little bit more more about disease prevention than we did in 1918...
I found the single life actually a lot easier - single guys are sold on the idea of marriage but you give up a lot when you get hitched, believe me, although you gain other things to compensate. You also have mental stress like you'd never believe sometimes (if things go titsup.com you're worrying about two people not one - twice the stress).
Since 1) is basically unchievable except in a few individuals (you might as well say 'stop breathing' since it's hardcoded into our genes to want sex) you have to use other means.
3) has nothing to do with it... I mean WTF? What if I want short term monogamy? 2-3 days per person should be enough...
1. Sex is *not* primarily for producing children... you'll produce a sprog maybe a couple of times in your life. You'll normally have sex at least a few times more than that (well maybe your church won't let you, but most people will). Sex is *fun*. Enjoy it while you're young. 2. There are plenty of healthy well adjusted people who are the children of unmarried parents. There are plenty of screwed up dickheads that are the children of married parents. Get with the late 20th century please at least... marriage is just a contract - if you really can't stay with someone without that then maybe you've not really found the right person. Marriage does *not* guarantee a lifelong relationship - there's a 50% divorce rate... fuelled by people like you who think that a bit of paper is a free pass to lifelong bliss - two people working hard at a relationship can do, and you don't need a contract for that.
With SP1 (and 2003 until they fixed it) the firewall was enabled late in the boot sequence - so there was a window when the machine was vulnerable during boot.
Our domain controller got Blaster that way... Ironically it had been rebooted to install security patches (clearly hadn't got as far as the blaster one by that point) and the thing got infected as it came up. We were doubly unlucky, because the infection came from a laptop from a visiting PHB from within the LAN, and nobody had spotted the problem since all the fixed machines had been patched already.
"Microsoft investigators intentionally created a zombie computer, quarantined it to prevent it from actually sending spam messages, then carefully watched it for 20 days while investigators tracked and traced all Internet communications through the infected computer."
I've had some people say that a pentium is 'too expensive' and their k6-2 they just bought cost them a weeks wages.
That wasn't years ago either... I had one 2 weeks ago.
Either someone is making a killing selling junk k6-2's to poor suckers who don't know any better, or the users were *gasp* lying in an attempt to get support to sympathize...
It's just bad UI design to keep asking the user things.
Users haven't got a clue *what* they want, they just want it to work.. so give them something (defaults) and let them change it later. Quit asking them dumb questions every 5 minutes because they'll only ring the helpdesk and ask you the same dumb questions.
That is actually a really nice idea... it has practical uses for collaboration in teams - instead of having to trot halfway across a building to look over someones shoulder, you can virtually hop onto their screen and have a look.
Section 2b: "You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
"You have a GPL'ed program that I'd like to link with my code to build a proprietary program. Does the fact that I link with your program mean I have to GPL my program?
A GPL library *cannot* be linked to a non-GPL library *at all*. You cannot use mysql in anything except GPL projects unless you pay the commercial license fee ($300 per user).
You're thinking of the LGPL, which is a much better license IMO.
Slashdot Mirror
OK maybe it's an Administratorkit...
The computer misuse act makes the unauthorised alteration of computer data a criminal offence... that's the whole anti-hacking bit that has been used to prosecute a few teenagers (and scare a few thousand others).
Since I did *not* authorize Sony to install a rootkit (authorisation to play a CD won't stretch that far) they have broken the law, and should be prosecuted.
Luckily we have corporate legal liability in this country too...
And I mean... WTF? Resources??
This is the EU we're talking about not some mom'n'pop organisation.
The site designers are probably setup for life on the proceeds.
Not surprising considering the site is 'in association with microsoft'.
She did answer the phone rather a lot though.
It was probably all they could swallow in 1964...
Remember that the first officer in the pilot was female, but they changed it for the series because of audience reaction.
As a limited human being I have no way of knowing "truth" anyway. I have to form a worlview from the available evidence.
Evolution has evidence.
ID has not.
Easy choice.
The explanation of the second scientist can be proven to predict event B given event A, so it's valid.
Prediction of an event does not necessarily mean prediction of the future - that's a strawman argument. You only need to say 'given theory X and event A, we can predict that event B will happen'. The fact that it has *already* happened is irrelevant to the argument (other than it lends weight to the theory).
Nope.
You're from the US, right? Probably haven't had to deal with a text file that wasn't 7-bit ASCII.
Codepage problems are a bitch, and few documents have any hint of which codepage they're in.
UTF8 solves most of the problems (provided you can get compatible fonts... not too many around with the more obscure stuff in it) but that's not got enough traction to be a universal format yet.
So no, not *anything* can read it. There's no such thing as something that can be read anywhere.
They've even started banning shows that birds are appearing in, for fear of infecting the general population.
Idiots.
I feel like beating the editors with repeatedly with a cluebat. All the birds have *bird* flu. Not human flu. Humans are not birds. We do not have feathers, and cannot fly. Neither are we parrots. Which are also birds. Even dead parrots.
If/When the virus:
(a) jumps the species gap (which there's evidence it has done already a few times),
and (here's the kicker...) (b) the mutation can not only survive, but transfer to other human hosts (this hasn't happened yet) then there will be an issue.
Then it won't be bird flu any more. It'll be human flu.
Caveat to (b) - it may lose virulence in the tranfer, and end up just like all the other flu outbreaks that the press don't like to talk about because they're not scary enough, like 1967.
Oh, and (c) we know *just* a little bit more more about disease prevention than we did in 1918...
So your theory is that religion causes STDs?
Or maybe that as society became monogamous, more STDs evolved to keep the population down...
No, they were always there... we didn't always call them that (syphillis was confused with leprosee for a long time).
Promiscuity ensures more offspring -> greater survival. Monogomamy is an evolutionary dead end (humans are the only animals that seem to practice it).
What mental benefits?
I found the single life actually a lot easier - single guys are sold on the idea of marriage but you give up a lot when you get hitched, believe me, although you gain other things to compensate. You also have mental stress like you'd never believe sometimes (if things go titsup.com you're worrying about two people not one - twice the stress).
Since 1) is basically unchievable except in a few individuals (you might as well say 'stop breathing' since it's hardcoded into our genes to want sex) you have to use other means.
3) has nothing to do with it... I mean WTF? What if I want short term monogamy? 2-3 days per person should be enough...
So 1950's...
1. Sex is *not* primarily for producing children... you'll produce a sprog maybe a couple of times in your life. You'll normally have sex at least a few times more than that (well maybe your church won't let you, but most people will). Sex is *fun*. Enjoy it while you're young.
2. There are plenty of healthy well adjusted people who are the children of unmarried parents. There are plenty of screwed up dickheads that are the children of married parents. Get with the late 20th century please at least... marriage is just a contract - if you really can't stay with someone without that then maybe you've not really found the right person. Marriage does *not* guarantee a lifelong relationship - there's a 50% divorce rate... fuelled by people like you who think that a bit of paper is a free pass to lifelong bliss - two people working hard at a relationship can do, and you don't need a contract for that.
With SP1 (and 2003 until they fixed it) the firewall was enabled late in the boot sequence - so there was a window when the machine was vulnerable during boot.
Our domain controller got Blaster that way... Ironically it had been rebooted to install security patches (clearly hadn't got as far as the blaster one by that point) and the thing got infected as it came up. We were doubly unlucky, because the infection came from a laptop from a visiting PHB from within the LAN, and nobody had spotted the problem since all the fixed machines had been patched already.
They did. If slashdot had actually posted the *proper* FA instead of a reporters' write up of it people would know this:
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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/oct
"Microsoft investigators intentionally created a zombie computer, quarantined it to prevent it from actually sending spam messages, then carefully watched it for 20 days while investigators tracked and traced all Internet communications through the infected computer."
(a software company, OK they do make keyboards)
And.. Mice, Trackball, Fingerprint readers, Wifi cards, Routers (several kinds), Ethernet adapters, Joysticks (many types)...
For a software company they sure make a shitload of hardware!
I've had some people say that a pentium is 'too expensive' and their k6-2 they just bought cost them a weeks wages.
That wasn't years ago either... I had one 2 weeks ago.
Either someone is making a killing selling junk k6-2's to poor suckers who don't know any better, or the users were *gasp* lying in an attempt to get support to sympathize...
MM would be 'megameter' not 'millimeter'.
A 1.5MM volume PC would be a bit too big for me, I think.
It's just bad UI design to keep asking the user things.
Users haven't got a clue *what* they want, they just want it to work.. so give them something (defaults) and let them change it later. Quit asking them dumb questions every 5 minutes because they'll only ring the helpdesk and ask you the same dumb questions.
Love the mac trolls.. they get everywhere :)
I had no raise for 4 years straight. That's *normal*.
Can't see what the USians are bleating about myself.
I then left, took a 50% pay cut(!) and started working for myself. It's not all about money.
That is actually a really nice idea... it has practical uses for collaboration in teams - instead of having to trot halfway across a building to look over someones shoulder, you can virtually hop onto their screen and have a look.
Section 2b:
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"You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
or, more succinctly, from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingW
"You have a GPL'ed program that I'd like to link with my code to build a proprietary program. Does the fact that I link with your program mean I have to GPL my program?
Yes."
Absolutely untrue. RTFGPL.
A GPL library *cannot* be linked to a non-GPL library *at all*. You cannot use mysql in anything except GPL projects unless you pay the commercial license fee ($300 per user).
You're thinking of the LGPL, which is a much better license IMO.
Use of mysql comes down to two questions:
Is your project 100% GPL? If not, could you absorb a price increase of $300 per copy?
Of the answer to any of those two is no they you cannot use Mysql in your project.
It's a competent database, but really no better than all the other databases out there, so it has little or no techincal advantage.