There is always bias to take into account, but the statment does say he was hit in the back 3 times.
That, if nothing else, should give cause for thought as to whether the police action was heavy handed.
Had he been shot 3 times in the chest, then that might indicate something different.
Upon a quick re-read, he says 3 bursts, which might imply more than 3 actual projectiles (though I doubt it).
Either way, it appears that the police action tended towards the unreasonable side of the line between reasoned and heavyhanded action and any official justification of this is a dangerous development in an allegedly democratic society
I've never read any of his work but, how else do you tell an author you otherwise enjoy that he has screwed up? is this political correctness gone mad? (or madder)
I personally don't see the term 'flaked out' as being overly offensive and anyone so delicate emotionally as to not be able to take criticism shouldn't be so conceited as to write in the belief that everyone will love their work.
On a similar subject, why are you posting as an AC? Worried that people may disagree with you?
Well, considering that observed communication is enough to attract attention, security via obscurity is often the primary protection for intelligence assets.
If you were to be sending emails to known 'enemies of the state', do you really think that encryption would stop all kinds of crap landing on you from a very high place? Guilt by association would be enough to condemn you to a miserable future and in some places, maybe, a prematurely terminal future. In fact, the act of hiding the info via encryption is more likely to confirm suspicions against you.
Any successful operative will know this and use skilled field craft to make themselves unobtrusive and uninteresting. If they've done job well, if caught out, the first comment made by many will be along the lines of "I never suspected a thing". Of course, if really well done with luck to match, there will be no comments since they wouldn't be caught:)
The fact that spies are caught, despite precautions shows SbO is flawed. However, the success of many indicatess that unless under the spotlight, SbO can be very successful.
I would never consider SbO as my only security measure in any data system. I would still select the most secure practical crypto allied to a secure methodology in order to reduce security risks (they can never be eliminated). However, Security by Obscurity allows info to go unnoticed and reduces exposing it to scrutiny. This is often a good idea, if not always practical.
Surely, even if a 'finders-keepers' rule applies, it doesn't cover the photos, which are covered by copyright. If this is not the case, then any photograph, radio signal, dvd, etc that you found in such a juristiction would ultimately end up in the PD.
He might gain ownership of the storage device, but I doubt the content on it
I don't know about the US, but if I tell an employee to take the day off because of circumstances, it is not his responsibility and he can still expect to get paid.
If I am told by my boss to take the day off, then I will expect to be paid. If it is a problem for the company then it is their problem if they cannot control the chain of command.
If a company doesn't accept it, then I suspect that all employees getting director level confirmation of any management request will soon cure them of that silliness and make them more consistent in their interpretation of the command chain:)
I'm not familiar with the Mozilla code, but surely the point: "With every release non-linux unix's have to redo a ton of work just trying to get the danm thing to compile." is irrelevant unless they are trying to write properly portable code (even if they were this problem would arise in some cases).
Had you though that Linux was their base development, and the other platforms are derived as a result of fixing the compiles to work. With broadly similar OS versions, this is not an unreasonable way of doing things.
In the commercial world it would make more sense to make an effort to develop with all targets in mind, but with the Open Source development resources available, it may be more economic for the Moz developers to think of one UNIX (this case Linux) and let the community port the other versions.
I can't say this is the case, but it could make sense in some cases.
(I've no knowledge of the code base, so can't comment on the other points)
While areas of law, like this, are difficult on an international site like/., I would say that the employee is merely an agent (or restricted proxy) for the licensee (the company) and not a licensee in their own right.
In many places, companies are seen as legal entities in their own right and the employess merely parts of the whole. Kind of like ants.... (and rarely treated with as much respect;) )
My usual 'trick' to deal with having as many people able to view docs as possible is to convert them to PDF format, since there are PDF viewers freely available for most platforms (including my Treo600:) )
This can be done simply and cheaply under windows by installing a postscript printer (I use LaserWriterII), printing through the driver to a file, then using 'ps2pdf' under cygwin. This usually does the trick for me although there are probably simpler methods available:)
I've had a look at www.xfig.org and it does look as if the modern version is vastly improved over the old versions (with drivers for stone chisles (:) ) that I came to know and hate!
In addition, there seems to be Cygwin compiled version for use on windows which, while not being an easy install, will at least allow cross platform.
Certainly it is worth further investigation. After all, it cannot be any worse than the version I was 'using' 10 years, or so, ago:)
It's posts like the parent that makes me think there should be another moderation, "Trog". Short for 'Troglodyte', it would be similar to 'Troll', but with added 'Ug!":)
Visio is a good product, but expensive, as is the Windows license it needs as well.
Word is also expensive and no better than OpenOffice. In fact, in a modern environment OO can often win because of being cross platform.
This person needs to add up all the costs, put his brain in gear, and then make a posting. If he is still happy with spending more money than he has to, then I have a few bridges he might like to buy:)
Governments already tax us more than they have justification for, why accept 'taxes' from large companies, as well?
I'm not an OpenSources zealot. I earn my money from both consultancy (often using Open Source) and writing and licensing of Closed Source software. Both have their place and each decision is individual. when I set up dev teams or offices, I usually choose OpenSource since it is cheap and I have less licensing concerns. When someone needs to interact with us, it costs them nothing to comply with our 'standards'. That said, I own and use PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Visaul Studio and other high cost closed source systems.
Choose the tool for the job. Don't follow the sheep or the brainwashed M$/SCO/etc FUD mongers!
Recently, while working on a specification document, I had need to provde inline documentation.
At the time I was working with a combination of DocBook (try XMLmind - brilliant) and OpenOffice.
Much to my surprise, the diagram editing facilities in the wordprocessor are quite acceptable, if limited. For quick, and sometimes moderatley complicated, diagrams it does quite well. What it loses in power is often made up for by convenience. I'd certainly give it a try if you are writing with OpenOffice already.
The dedicated drawing program is also quite good, although not as powerful as something like Visio.
All that said, though, for simple flow and org charts, I'd really love to have an up to date version of Haventree EasyFlow (attack sharks, and all:) )
Also, IANAL:) However, it is an interesting situation. I don't know how deeply involved in this KatieT is but certainly the publisher and lawyer do appear to be acting like a mafia.
Personally, I don't think that it is practical to do what the parent suggested but, if it were possible, would it be illegal?
It would be running on a virtual system that had only one virtual processor. Even if the physical system had more than one, the emulated system would not. If you ran on a system that had a single processor, but emulated 4 way processing would the vendor charge for 1 or 4 processors? I'd suggest this tactic as a defense. If caught in this hypothetical position, get someone to emulate an SMP box and enter dialogue with the vendor. If they are charged for multiple processors then the vendors case will be compromised, logically and maybe legally.
I suggest that this is a very grey area where there are 2 opposing 'common sense' arguments and it would take a number of court cases to resolve.
While heading in the direction of being offtopic, I would like to comment about the memory bandwidth of systems that employ multicore processors.
Adding more processors to the die may increase MIPs overall, but real world applications rely heavily on memory throughput. Most modern processors run faster than the system's main memory making high speed caches necessary. As we add processors and cores contention for the memory bus increases leading, often, to a drop off in effective power per processing core due to cache 'faults'. (daft term - doesn't mean there is something wrong with the cache, just that what you want isn't in it!)
Now, in systems terms, this may be acceptable but it will be hard to sell a solution where the license costs increase more rapidly than the performance benefits. If I pay double the money, I want double the results. Now that's not always possible, but one has to be at least within sight of the other.
When faced with such terms, many people will consider software where there is no per processor license, or where you pay for blocks of processors with the cost of each successive block falling rapidly (to make up for the progressive inefficiency).
Multiple processors have traditionally been the realm of big enterprises where budgets are more flexible, but with the advent of multicore, it will move into the desktop, home and small business. If companies wish to keep a foot-hold in these markets, they will have to embrace more enlightened licensing term or lose market share.
The number of posts concerning Oracle show that databases are a big issue. Now Open Source options are becoming more enterprise friendly, it won't matter that they are less efficient per processor unit if adding CPU cores improves performance adequately while keeping the overall system cost below that of commercial solutions.
Some mods seem to have little or no grasp of reality, or ability to read.
What Trogre is saying is that because Open Source and Free Software doesn't impose per-processor restrictions, and because for many people these software products do the job, why is licensing multicore processors a problem?
Another thing that could be read into it is that if costs become too high because of multicore licences, more people will move to Open Source.
If the mod has a point he wishes to raise, or disagree with, then either forego mod rights in this article, or post as an AC. Badly targetted or biases mods are also offtopic.
Many animals will eat the placenta after birth. Even herbivores like cattle, goats and sheep.
It is almost certainly because of the rich supply of nutrients within it that they do so, although the hormonal content may also help promote milj production and the expulsion of any other materials in the womb.
This isn't my area of science, but I used to be a stock farmer.
I can see the string in the the post. Neither I nor you can see where it came from. I could just as easily copy that post, as an AC, and put "gracefool" in it instead of "OverlordQ".
I would never presume to say I'd be a good jurist, but at least I would like to see the chain of evisence before trusting it, especially when I can see a method of fabricatiing it.
C.) Nobody's been investigated for discussing anti-Bush views via SMS
Would you know this for sure? In the UK the authorities now have powers to gag people interviewed during an investigation, so you would never know. Does the US have similar imoral laws?
The register article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/03/text_punk / ) mentioned in another post supports his post. If you had read that one then you wouldn't have accused hiim of embelishment.
I'd hate to think of seeing someone like you on a jury. I loked at the link and find no evidence of you allegation. All I saw was a rather odd posting with name in it. No chain of evidence.
Is the reason you're posting as an AC because you don't want someone to do the same thing to you?
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There is always bias to take into account, but the statment does say he was hit in the back 3 times.
That, if nothing else, should give cause for thought as to whether the police action was heavy handed.
Had he been shot 3 times in the chest, then that might indicate something different.
Upon a quick re-read, he says 3 bursts, which might imply more than 3 actual projectiles (though I doubt it).
Either way, it appears that the police action tended towards the unreasonable side of the line between reasoned and heavyhanded action and any official justification of this is a dangerous development in an allegedly democratic society
I've never read any of his work but, how else do you tell an author you otherwise enjoy that he has screwed up? is this political correctness gone mad? (or madder)
I personally don't see the term 'flaked out' as being overly offensive and anyone so delicate emotionally as to not be able to take criticism shouldn't be so conceited as to write in the belief that everyone will love their work.
On a similar subject, why are you posting as an AC? Worried that people may disagree with you?
Well, considering that observed communication is enough to attract attention, security via obscurity is often the primary protection for intelligence assets.
If you were to be sending emails to known 'enemies of the state', do you really think that encryption would stop all kinds of crap landing on you from a very high place? Guilt by association would be enough to condemn you to a miserable future and in some places, maybe, a prematurely terminal future. In fact, the act of hiding the info via encryption is more likely to confirm suspicions against you.
Any successful operative will know this and use skilled field craft to make themselves unobtrusive and uninteresting. If they've done job well, if caught out, the first comment made by many will be along the lines of "I never suspected a thing". Of course, if really well done with luck to match, there will be no comments since they wouldn't be caught:)
The fact that spies are caught, despite precautions shows SbO is flawed. However, the success of many indicatess that unless under the spotlight, SbO can be very successful.
I would never consider SbO as my only security measure in any data system. I would still select the most secure practical crypto allied to a secure methodology in order to reduce security risks (they can never be eliminated). However, Security by Obscurity allows info to go unnoticed and reduces exposing it to scrutiny. This is often a good idea, if not always practical.
Surely, even if a 'finders-keepers' rule applies, it doesn't cover the photos, which are covered by copyright. If this is not the case, then any photograph, radio signal, dvd, etc that you found in such a juristiction would ultimately end up in the PD.
He might gain ownership of the storage device, but I doubt the content on it
I don't know about the US, but if I tell an employee to take the day off because of circumstances, it is not his responsibility and he can still expect to get paid.
:)
If I am told by my boss to take the day off, then I will expect to be paid. If it is a problem for the company then it is their problem if they cannot control the chain of command.
If a company doesn't accept it, then I suspect that all employees getting director level confirmation of any management request will soon cure them of that silliness and make them more consistent in their interpretation of the command chain
Had you though that Linux was their base development, and the other platforms are derived as a result of fixing the compiles to work. With broadly similar OS versions, this is not an unreasonable way of doing things.
In the commercial world it would make more sense to make an effort to develop with all targets in mind, but with the Open Source development resources available, it may be more economic for the Moz developers to think of one UNIX (this case Linux) and let the community port the other versions.
I can't say this is the case, but it could make sense in some cases.
(I've no knowledge of the code base, so can't comment on the other points)
Of course, if you really feel upset about things, you could always call it UpYoursSQL :)
While areas of law, like this, are difficult on an international site like /., I would say that the employee is merely an agent (or restricted proxy) for the licensee (the company) and not a licensee in their own right.
;) )
In many places, companies are seen as legal entities in their own right and the employess merely parts of the whole. Kind of like ants.... (and rarely treated with as much respect
My usual 'trick' to deal with having as many people able to view docs as possible is to convert them to PDF format, since there are PDF viewers freely available for most platforms (including my Treo600 :) )
:)
This can be done simply and cheaply under windows by installing a postscript printer (I use LaserWriterII), printing through the driver to a file, then using 'ps2pdf' under cygwin. This usually does the trick for me although there are probably simpler methods available
I've had a look at www.xfig.org and it does look as if the modern version is vastly improved over the old versions (with drivers for stone chisles ( :) ) that I came to know and hate!
:)
In addition, there seems to be Cygwin compiled version for use on windows which, while not being an easy install, will at least allow cross platform.
Certainly it is worth further investigation. After all, it cannot be any worse than the version I was 'using' 10 years, or so, ago
It's posts like the parent that makes me think there should be another moderation, "Trog". Short for 'Troglodyte', it would be similar to 'Troll', but with added 'Ug!" :)
:)
Visio is a good product, but expensive, as is the Windows license it needs as well.
Word is also expensive and no better than OpenOffice. In fact, in a modern environment OO can often win because of being cross platform.
This person needs to add up all the costs, put his brain in gear, and then make a posting. If he is still happy with spending more money than he has to, then I have a few bridges he might like to buy
Governments already tax us more than they have justification for, why accept 'taxes' from large companies, as well?
I'm not an OpenSources zealot. I earn my money from both consultancy (often using Open Source) and writing and licensing of Closed Source software. Both have their place and each decision is individual. when I set up dev teams or offices, I usually choose OpenSource since it is cheap and I have less licensing concerns. When someone needs to interact with us, it costs them nothing to comply with our 'standards'. That said, I own and use PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Visaul Studio and other high cost closed source systems.
Choose the tool for the job. Don't follow the sheep or the brainwashed M$/SCO/etc FUD mongers!
Recently, while working on a specification document, I had need to provde inline documentation.
:) )
At the time I was working with a combination of DocBook (try XMLmind - brilliant) and OpenOffice.
Much to my surprise, the diagram editing facilities in the wordprocessor are quite acceptable, if limited. For quick, and sometimes moderatley complicated, diagrams it does quite well. What it loses in power is often made up for by convenience. I'd certainly give it a try if you are writing with OpenOffice already.
The dedicated drawing program is also quite good, although not as powerful as something like Visio.
All that said, though, for simple flow and org charts, I'd really love to have an up to date version of Haventree EasyFlow (attack sharks, and all
Good point :)
Also, IANAL :)
However, it is an interesting situation. I don't know how deeply involved in this KatieT is but certainly the publisher and lawyer do appear to be acting like a mafia.
Since the .com domain is US centric, in many situations the US would be argued as pre-eminent in disputes. Why would this be any different?
Personally, I don't think that it is practical to do what the parent suggested but, if it were possible, would it be illegal?
It would be running on a virtual system that had only one virtual processor. Even if the physical system had more than one, the emulated system would not. If you ran on a system that had a single processor, but emulated 4 way processing would the vendor charge for 1 or 4 processors? I'd suggest this tactic as a defense. If caught in this hypothetical position, get someone to emulate an SMP box and enter dialogue with the vendor. If they are charged for multiple processors then the vendors case will be compromised, logically and maybe legally.
I suggest that this is a very grey area where there are 2 opposing 'common sense' arguments and it would take a number of court cases to resolve.
While heading in the direction of being offtopic, I would like to comment about the memory bandwidth of systems that employ multicore processors.
Adding more processors to the die may increase MIPs overall, but real world applications rely heavily on memory throughput. Most modern processors run faster than the system's main memory making high speed caches necessary. As we add processors and cores contention for the memory bus increases leading, often, to a drop off in effective power per processing core due to cache 'faults'. (daft term - doesn't mean there is something wrong with the cache, just that what you want isn't in it!)
Now, in systems terms, this may be acceptable but it will be hard to sell a solution where the license costs increase more rapidly than the performance benefits. If I pay double the money, I want double the results. Now that's not always possible, but one has to be at least within sight of the other.
When faced with such terms, many people will consider software where there is no per processor license, or where you pay for blocks of processors with the cost of each successive block falling rapidly (to make up for the progressive inefficiency).
Multiple processors have traditionally been the realm of big enterprises where budgets are more flexible, but with the advent of multicore, it will move into the desktop, home and small business. If companies wish to keep a foot-hold in these markets, they will have to embrace more enlightened licensing term or lose market share.
The number of posts concerning Oracle show that databases are a big issue. Now Open Source options are becoming more enterprise friendly, it won't matter that they are less efficient per processor unit if adding CPU cores improves performance adequately while keeping the overall system cost below that of commercial solutions.
What a depressingly true sound this makes...
Some mods seem to have little or no grasp of reality, or ability to read.
What Trogre is saying is that because Open Source and Free Software doesn't impose per-processor restrictions, and because for many people these software products do the job, why is licensing multicore processors a problem?
Another thing that could be read into it is that if costs become too high because of multicore licences, more people will move to Open Source.
If the mod has a point he wishes to raise, or disagree with, then either forego mod rights in this article, or post as an AC. Badly targetted or biases mods are also offtopic.
Many animals will eat the placenta after birth. Even herbivores like cattle, goats and sheep.
It is almost certainly because of the rich supply of nutrients within it that they do so, although the hormonal content may also help promote milj production and the expulsion of any other materials in the womb.
This isn't my area of science, but I used to be a stock farmer.
I can see the string in the the post. Neither I nor you can see where it came from. I could just as easily copy that post, as an AC, and put "gracefool" in it instead of "OverlordQ".
I would never presume to say I'd be a good jurist, but at least I would like to see the chain of evisence before trusting it, especially when I can see a method of fabricatiing it.
Would you know this for sure? In the UK the authorities now have powers to gag people interviewed during an investigation, so you would never know. Does the US have similar imoral laws?
As I understand the US constitution, as preached to the rest of the World, the context would make detention a restriction of free speech and illegal.
Had he not obviously used it as an example then that would be another matter.
The register article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/03/text_punk / ) mentioned in another post supports his post. If you had read that one then you wouldn't have accused hiim of embelishment.
Maybe he mixed them up.
I'd hate to think of seeing someone like you on a jury. I loked at the link and find no evidence of you allegation. All I saw was a rather odd posting with name in it. No chain of evidence.
Is the reason you're posting as an AC because you don't want someone to do the same thing to you?