So when they fuck up and mis-identify me as a terrorist and declare me an enemy combatant because I used to post to UseNet about drug use, never mind that I haven't touched the stuff in years, and take away my rights to challenge them in court, how exactly am I going to get any kind of "check" or "balance"?
Why did the Supreme Court step in? Because it was the only organization that would've given the people a feeling of sincerity and impartiality.
Bullshit. The Supreme Court 1) has actively declined, historically, to step into issues of politics. I don't recall the specific legal terminology, but a course I took on the constitution made a clear case that political questions were to be deferred to the congress. 2) This SPECIFIC issue of elections is SPECIFICALLY relegated to the congress to resolve.
All the Supreme Court managed to do was destroy their pretense of "sincerity and impartiality".
not some imaginary crime committed by his campaign.
Perhaps not his campaign per se, but I think it's quite possible Gore would have won if there weren't all these people taken off the voter rolls in Floriday "by mistake". Did I mention that the Florida Governor was his brother? How many times do we have to ask the question: if this happened in some third world country, who would believe that it was just a coincidence?
No, I don't see that at all. Most companies deal with proprietary/confidential information about their operations and IP every day. There is no more parcticular difficulty in dealing with releasing code under GPL than there is releasing any code under any particular license.
It seems pretty clear to me that if they released the code under GPL, they haven't got a leg to stand on. No one forced them to do so. Most software houses do code reviews, right? If they recognized that they were dealing with things they wanted to keep proprietary, then they should have found a way to do so without releasing it under GPL. This is not to do with being "extremely circumspect" any more than you want to be circumspect in any software release.
You weren't paying a lot of attention, were you? The article talks about the last 5 seconds before a crash. My apologies for assuming someone would know what I was talking about without my having to be completely verbose about it.
Mozilla is a mail client, a news client, an LDAP client, and a huge MF'ing bloated browser. I.E. it's the Emacs of Browsers.
Phoenix (now Firebird, still not sure I like that myself) is stripped down lean mean browser city, plus it allows you to install "extensions" that modify how it works. You can "put back" things you like about mozilla that were taken out in a couple of cases, plus there are lots of other nifty things. Download a copy, go to "find extensions" under the preferences panel for extensions and look at all the goodies.
The question is, do they include anything more than the final 5 seconds, and do they include GPS data? I'd be really surprised if my 97 Saturn does GPS, even though the sites that list such things say that it has an EDR in it. If all it includes are the things that you can see in the controls (speed, position of wheels, etc) right before a crash, then I definitely don't see why this is a huge deal. If on the other hand it's tracking my movements, that's not good. Even if I weren't doing anything wrong, my mechanic doesn't need to know that information.
Exactly. Beyond that, who cares what product it was; standard presentation managers all clone off of PowerPoint, and all suck for engineering analysis for the same reasons.
Having gone back and read the ENTIRE thread now, however, I throw my weight (feather-like though it be) behind "EDONTPANIC" even though sometimes it's used outside of kernel code. If only errno 42 were still available....
If that was the important clause, he might just as well have left off the bit about being compiled. Seems he thinks that compiling BASIC is some sort of unique Microsoft heresy or something.
I hate to break it to you, but compiled BASIC is very very old, long before VB. I remember compiling eBASIC startrek games in 1979 on CDOS (a CP/M variant from Cromemco).
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I think that was the point, given the later comparison to rats & vermin.
So when they fuck up and mis-identify me as a terrorist and declare me an enemy combatant because I used to post to UseNet about drug use, never mind that I haven't touched the stuff in years, and take away my rights to challenge them in court, how exactly am I going to get any kind of "check" or "balance"?
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Bullshit. The Supreme Court 1) has actively declined, historically, to step into issues of politics. I don't recall the specific legal terminology, but a course I took on the constitution made a clear case that political questions were to be deferred to the congress. 2) This SPECIFIC issue of elections is SPECIFICALLY relegated to the congress to resolve.
All the Supreme Court managed to do was destroy their pretense of "sincerity and impartiality".
And apparently he's a MINDREADING christian. Whatta wingnut.
You think I'm crediting GW with what happened?
Perhaps not his campaign per se, but I think it's quite possible Gore would have won if there weren't all these people taken off the voter rolls in Floriday "by mistake". Did I mention that the Florida Governor was his brother? How many times do we have to ask the question: if this happened in some third world country, who would believe that it was just a coincidence?
So I should have said it aspires to be xemacs then? Give me a break. You understand the point I'm making, I never said it was a one-to-one mapping.
It seems pretty clear to me that if they released the code under GPL, they haven't got a leg to stand on. No one forced them to do so. Most software houses do code reviews, right? If they recognized that they were dealing with things they wanted to keep proprietary, then they should have found a way to do so without releasing it under GPL. This is not to do with being "extremely circumspect" any more than you want to be circumspect in any software release.
And I think Mozilla aspires to the same.
You weren't paying a lot of attention, were you? The article talks about the last 5 seconds before a crash. My apologies for assuming someone would know what I was talking about without my having to be completely verbose about it.
Phoenix (now Firebird, still not sure I like that myself) is stripped down lean mean browser city, plus it allows you to install "extensions" that modify how it works. You can "put back" things you like about mozilla that were taken out in a couple of cases, plus there are lots of other nifty things. Download a copy, go to "find extensions" under the preferences panel for extensions and look at all the goodies.
The question is, do they include anything more than the final 5 seconds, and do they include GPS data? I'd be really surprised if my 97 Saturn does GPS, even though the sites that list such things say that it has an EDR in it. If all it includes are the things that you can see in the controls (speed, position of wheels, etc) right before a crash, then I definitely don't see why this is a huge deal. If on the other hand it's tracking my movements, that's not good. Even if I weren't doing anything wrong, my mechanic doesn't need to know that information.
EXACTLY.
Most places, this will get you fired as soon as confidential/company proprietary info gets forwarded outside the firewall and you get caught.
Mmmm, metal wine.
Exactly. Beyond that, who cares what product it was; standard presentation managers all clone off of PowerPoint, and all suck for engineering analysis for the same reasons.
Having gone back and read the ENTIRE thread now, however, I throw my weight (feather-like though it be) behind "EDONTPANIC" even though sometimes it's used outside of kernel code. If only errno 42 were still available....
EDFS seems like it's obscure enough to not offend, but true enough to the original sentiment to fly for those "in the know".
Looking at? Hell, I never want to type another one again!
If that was the important clause, he might just as well have left off the bit about being compiled. Seems he thinks that compiling BASIC is some sort of unique Microsoft heresy or something.
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I hate to break it to you, but compiled BASIC is very very old, long before VB. I remember compiling eBASIC startrek games in 1979 on CDOS (a CP/M variant from Cromemco).
But then, "over the top" is what Sam & Max has always been about :-)