I suspect the decision was made because of comparatively small demand.
Not every disappointment in life is the result of a Grand Microsoft Conspiracy. (grin)
Lenovo doesn't have any idea of how many Linux laptops they're selling. Because they have (had)a very limited selection of Linux laptops - neither in the screen size or configuration I wanted I ended up buying a T61 in May from the local dealer. First thing I did was to blow away Vista Business and install openSuse 11.0
This decision on their part is foolish and short-sighted.
Ms Stoddarts attitudes towards the openness of our court system do not deserve respect. She IS a danger to democracy.
Unfortunately she approaches the problem from the point of view of the person whose privacy is being impacted, rather than the Canadian Public who has a right to open disclosure of court matters.
The Canadian Public, for example, has a right to know that Joe F. Blow is on trial for some kind of misconduct. No one charged with an offence or engaging in a law suit has, or should have, any expectation of privacy.
The government has no business conducting trials in secret and obscuring the names is the first step down that slope.
The fact that court records are public doesn't hurt you in the least. When they're NOT public, it opens the door for all kinds of government abuse of the legal system.
Today, the government doesn't do that (except in "national security" cases). And it's BECAUSE records are public they don't dare.
On balance, the right of citizens to know someone HAS been charged is more important than the desire of charged persons to remain anonymous.
It's important so that government cannot hold trials in secret.
Court records MUST remain public documents, accessible to the public.
Yes, it is too much to ask. What part of the fact that court records are PUBLIC do you not understand? If you don't like that, don't sue or get sued, or get charged with something.
Making court records PUBLIC routinely protects us from abuse by our government. We should never give it up.
It costs a hell of a lot less to just go over to grc.com and get a copy of spinrite 6. It's non-destructive in nature, and then, if spinrite says it can't recover your data send it to the big bucks guys if you Really Really Really want your data.
I find it much simpler just to rsync my/home partition with a 750GB USB drive from time to time.
Some additional information re Standard Time.
It remained for a Canadian civil and railway engineer, Sanford Fleming by name, to instigate the initial efforts which led to the adoption of the present time meridians in both Canada and the United States. This man, one of the founders of the Canadian Institute (now known as the Royal Canadian Institute), was chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway. His principal concern was to operate his railway on specified schedules, an achievement almost impossible where mean time, varying every few degrees of longitude, was the accepted standard.
On the 25th of January. 1879, thirty members of the Canadian Institute listened to his paper on "Absolute Time." On the 8th of February of the same year, he himself read a paper on "The Selection of a Prime Meridian," which stands as the first record of a public presentation of the standard time system as used today. In this paper, he proposed the establishment of 24 time-belts, each 15 wide; the system to start with a prime meridian; the time to advance one hour in each belt toward the west, and to diminish one hour in each belt toward the east.
The Adoption of the Greenwich Meridian
On the 18th of October. 1883, a convention was called by W. F. Allen, secretary of the General Railway Time Committee. At this meeting, it was decided to adopt the Greenwich meridian as the origin of world time; to establish time zones with intervals of 15 longitude (1 hour in time) and to put the new time into effect in both Canada and the United States at noon, the 18th of November, 1883. The main railways in both countries 'adopted this standard time on the date given, as did various junction points along the routes of the roads: but it was many years in some cases before the new time was generally used by the people themselves.
The International Time Conference was held in Washington, D. C., on the 1st of October, 1884, with delegates from twenty-six different countries present. All agreed on the Greenwich meridian as the basis of standard time calculations, except France, who preferred to use the meridian of Paris. Belgium and Holland were the first European countries to adopt the new time. Great Britain had already legalized the Greenwich meridian as the indicator of their mean time, in 1880. This Washington Conference had no legal power, but recognized the following factors as precedents upon which they hoped to have their respective countries act:
1. The adoption of the Greenwich meridian as 0, or starting point of the standard time zones.
2. The equal division of the entire world into twenty-four 1 5 Time Zones.
3. Recognition of the use of the 24-hour day dial, eliminating the need for the use of the terms "a.m." and "p.m."; and of midnight as the beginning of the civil day.
Each of the delegates returned to his country and endeavored to get these principles legalized.
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I suspect the decision was made because of comparatively small demand. Not every disappointment in life is the result of a Grand Microsoft Conspiracy. (grin)
Lenovo doesn't have any idea of how many Linux laptops they're selling. Because they have (had)a very limited selection of Linux laptops - neither in the screen size or configuration I wanted I ended up buying a T61 in May from the local dealer. First thing I did was to blow away Vista Business and install openSuse 11.0 This decision on their part is foolish and short-sighted.
Ms Stoddarts attitudes towards the openness of our court system do not deserve respect. She IS a danger to democracy. Unfortunately she approaches the problem from the point of view of the person whose privacy is being impacted, rather than the Canadian Public who has a right to open disclosure of court matters. The Canadian Public, for example, has a right to know that Joe F. Blow is on trial for some kind of misconduct. No one charged with an offence or engaging in a law suit has, or should have, any expectation of privacy. The government has no business conducting trials in secret and obscuring the names is the first step down that slope.
The fact that court records are public doesn't hurt you in the least. When they're NOT public, it opens the door for all kinds of government abuse of the legal system. Today, the government doesn't do that (except in "national security" cases). And it's BECAUSE records are public they don't dare.
On balance, the right of citizens to know someone HAS been charged is more important than the desire of charged persons to remain anonymous. It's important so that government cannot hold trials in secret. Court records MUST remain public documents, accessible to the public.
Yes, it is too much to ask. What part of the fact that court records are PUBLIC do you not understand? If you don't like that, don't sue or get sued, or get charged with something. Making court records PUBLIC routinely protects us from abuse by our government. We should never give it up.
It costs a hell of a lot less to just go over to grc.com and get a copy of spinrite 6. It's non-destructive in nature, and then, if spinrite says it can't recover your data send it to the big bucks guys if you Really Really Really want your data. I find it much simpler just to rsync my /home partition with a 750GB USB drive from time to time.
Some additional information re Standard Time. It remained for a Canadian civil and railway engineer, Sanford Fleming by name, to instigate the initial efforts which led to the adoption of the present time meridians in both Canada and the United States. This man, one of the founders of the Canadian Institute (now known as the Royal Canadian Institute), was chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Railway. His principal concern was to operate his railway on specified schedules, an achievement almost impossible where mean time, varying every few degrees of longitude, was the accepted standard. On the 25th of January. 1879, thirty members of the Canadian Institute listened to his paper on "Absolute Time." On the 8th of February of the same year, he himself read a paper on "The Selection of a Prime Meridian," which stands as the first record of a public presentation of the standard time system as used today. In this paper, he proposed the establishment of 24 time-belts, each 15 wide; the system to start with a prime meridian; the time to advance one hour in each belt toward the west, and to diminish one hour in each belt toward the east. The Adoption of the Greenwich Meridian On the 18th of October. 1883, a convention was called by W. F. Allen, secretary of the General Railway Time Committee. At this meeting, it was decided to adopt the Greenwich meridian as the origin of world time; to establish time zones with intervals of 15 longitude (1 hour in time) and to put the new time into effect in both Canada and the United States at noon, the 18th of November, 1883. The main railways in both countries 'adopted this standard time on the date given, as did various junction points along the routes of the roads: but it was many years in some cases before the new time was generally used by the people themselves. The International Time Conference was held in Washington, D. C., on the 1st of October, 1884, with delegates from twenty-six different countries present. All agreed on the Greenwich meridian as the basis of standard time calculations, except France, who preferred to use the meridian of Paris. Belgium and Holland were the first European countries to adopt the new time. Great Britain had already legalized the Greenwich meridian as the indicator of their mean time, in 1880. This Washington Conference had no legal power, but recognized the following factors as precedents upon which they hoped to have their respective countries act: 1. The adoption of the Greenwich meridian as 0, or starting point of the standard time zones. 2. The equal division of the entire world into twenty-four 1 5 Time Zones. 3. Recognition of the use of the 24-hour day dial, eliminating the need for the use of the terms "a.m." and "p.m."; and of midnight as the beginning of the civil day. Each of the delegates returned to his country and endeavored to get these principles legalized.