The other issue is that no-one understands the GFDL. Not even the FSF. Really - you email licensing@fsf.org with a GFDL query, you will get back a response, three months later, saying "read the license text and consult with your attorney." Our attorney is Mike Godwin and it makes even his head hurt.
The FSF have given up making any sense of the license, so we can hardly be expected to.
Remember that the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion declared Twitter a terrorist weapon. God forbid they discover pen and paper. Or modulated farting, for that matter.
This is obviously quite the coup for Microsoft and the Silverlight platform, which has up to now been a "nobody cares" platform. The main effect of their previous big user, NBC for the Olympics, was to drive people to BitTorrent.
I fully understand that NetFlix wouldn't be allowed to make Hollywood movies available without some sort of DRM. But do they remember they're competing not with DVDs by mail or DVD rental, but with unlocked BitTorrent downloads?
How usable is NetFlix via Silverlight? Does the DRM have little enough pain-in-the-butt factor to compete with free?
Losses have occurred through couriered unencrypted disks, misplaced memory sticks, lost laptops, briefcases left on trains and files falling down the side of the tea machine. "The real scandal is that a train was running for them to lose a case on," said a source whose name has been lost.
Treasury minister Jane Kennedy said the HM Revenue and Customs breaches did not necessarily result in data losses, or at least any that they have records of. HMRC said it takes data losses and security breaches "very seriously" and thoroughly investigates any breach that it does not lose track of.
Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has served enforcement notices on various departments for their data losses, but the departments in question could not find their office addresses to accept the notices. They noted, however, that Mr Thomas' call was very important to them, and that he had been placed in a queue.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith reassured citizens that plans for an all-encompassing ID card linked to biometric passports and a universal medical record with the NHS would not change because of these losses. "We won't even be thinking about them."
MAN ON FIVE, Cook County, Monday (NNN) — The McCain campaign is looking at an Electoral College strategy heading into the final two weeks that has virtually no room for error.
"Democrat voting fraud is famous since Tammany Hall," says Republican strategist Karl Rove. "So we'll win without votes."
Voting machines have been remotely reset and the counts adjusted. "Diebold have come to the party big time." Touch screen machines for West Virginia early voting offer voters "McCAIN" or "REPLY HAZY, TRY AGAIN LATER."
The rolls will be thoroughly checked for voter fraud. "If the typeface or font size is different on their driver's licence, Social Security or the voter roll, that's obvious blatant fraud. A typical Liberal knife to the heart of democracy."
The party will check for dead voters as well. "We're making the safe assumption that all registered Democrats are dead. If they're not, we'll correct that." Governor Palin has long dealt with Democrat moose in Alaska. "You betcha!"
All residents of properties whose mortgages were underwritten by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac will be assumed to have voted Republican. "We own the houses, of course we own the votes. It's nonsense to say otherwise."
Finally, under USA-PATRIOT, Obama supporters will be deemed associates of associates of terrorists. The offence will carry a penalty of one day's imprisonment: November 4th.
Mr Rove is confident in the future of our democracy. "One man, one vote. That man being me."
Also: MS Office document recovery. I've retrieved important data from several Word and Excel docs that were corrupted and in one case in such a way as to crash Excel upon opening. OpenOffice is ridiculously stable - it's like they threw all the crappy documents they could at it to try to crash it.
The purpose of this report was to secure funding to research possible terrorist messages on MP3 and pornographic websites and BitTorrent tracker lists.
The page at that link smokes crack at the point where it asserts that amendments 11 on were the work of humans, but amendments 1-10 are actually the work of God.
OMG, Onoez, Sunday -- A report by the US Army 304th Military Intelligence Battalion identifies Internet technologies such as Twitter as potential TERRORIST tools.
Twitter users reported the July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets, and TERRORISTS protesting at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis used it to provide information on police movements.
Other technologies were also examined for their TERRORIST uses. "Email could be used for TERRORIST messages, the anonymous troll comments on Slashdot could be used for TERRORIST data exchange and GPS trackers could be used to find our asses. We are also examining the dangers of YouTube pratfall videos, cat macros and pencils and paper.
"There is terrible, terrible danger that if people can communicate they may say something TERRORIST," said the report. "As such, our forces have secured the offices of Twitter and its financial backers are awaiting trial for funding TERRORIâ""
The report cut off at this point, replaced with a Fail Whale.
Slashdot Mirror
The other issue is that no-one understands the GFDL. Not even the FSF. Really - you email licensing@fsf.org with a GFDL query, you will get back a response, three months later, saying "read the license text and consult with your attorney." Our attorney is Mike Godwin and it makes even his head hurt.
The FSF have given up making any sense of the license, so we can hardly be expected to.
Remember that the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion declared Twitter a terrorist weapon. God forbid they discover pen and paper. Or modulated farting, for that matter.
John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
You mean, it fails to compete with free? Will it just drive users to BitTorrent the way NBC insisting on Silverlight for the Olympics did?
This is obviously quite the coup for Microsoft and the Silverlight platform, which has up to now been a "nobody cares" platform. The main effect of their previous big user, NBC for the Olympics, was to drive people to BitTorrent.
I fully understand that NetFlix wouldn't be allowed to make Hollywood movies available without some sort of DRM. But do they remember they're competing not with DVDs by mail or DVD rental, but with unlocked BitTorrent downloads?
How usable is NetFlix via Silverlight? Does the DRM have little enough pain-in-the-butt factor to compete with free?
I laughed out loud at that one and am annoyed I missed it.
I think I covered that one when they tried floating the idiot notion that terrorists are hiding terrorist messages in child porn.
30% "Informative"? Er, OK :-)
Annual reports from Whitehall departments show that the government has lost all data it ever held on anyone.
Losses have occurred through couriered unencrypted disks, misplaced memory sticks, lost laptops, briefcases left on trains and files falling down the side of the tea machine. "The real scandal is that a train was running for them to lose a case on," said a source whose name has been lost.
Treasury minister Jane Kennedy said the HM Revenue and Customs breaches did not necessarily result in data losses, or at least any that they have records of. HMRC said it takes data losses and security breaches "very seriously" and thoroughly investigates any breach that it does not lose track of.
Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has served enforcement notices on various departments for their data losses, but the departments in question could not find their office addresses to accept the notices. They noted, however, that Mr Thomas' call was very important to them, and that he had been placed in a queue.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith reassured citizens that plans for an all-encompassing ID card linked to biometric passports and a universal medical record with the NHS would not change because of these losses. "We won't even be thinking about them."
The service they sell isn't beta. The service they give away is what they inflict new features on.
was their claim that this is 4x less outages than on-site-maintained Exchange or GroupWise.
(Notes, of course, gets 45 minutes of uptime a year.)
You should have been running OpenBSD, daddy.
Could you please fix the broken URL in my attribution for this story? Thanks! :-)
MAN ON FIVE, Cook County, Monday (NNN) — The McCain campaign is looking at an Electoral College strategy heading into the final two weeks that has virtually no room for error.
"Democrat voting fraud is famous since Tammany Hall," says Republican strategist Karl Rove. "So we'll win without votes."
Voting machines have been remotely reset and the counts adjusted. "Diebold have come to the party big time." Touch screen machines for West Virginia early voting offer voters "McCAIN" or "REPLY HAZY, TRY AGAIN LATER."
The rolls will be thoroughly checked for voter fraud. "If the typeface or font size is different on their driver's licence, Social Security or the voter roll, that's obvious blatant fraud. A typical Liberal knife to the heart of democracy."
The party will check for dead voters as well. "We're making the safe assumption that all registered Democrats are dead. If they're not, we'll correct that." Governor Palin has long dealt with Democrat moose in Alaska. "You betcha!"
All residents of properties whose mortgages were underwritten by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac will be assumed to have voted Republican. "We own the houses, of course we own the votes. It's nonsense to say otherwise."
Finally, under USA-PATRIOT, Obama supporters will be deemed associates of associates of terrorists. The offence will carry a penalty of one day's imprisonment: November 4th.
Mr Rove is confident in the future of our democracy. "One man, one vote. That man being me."
OS X regularly gets noticeably faster each release on the same hardware.
Mind you, they did start from the horribly unoptimised dog called 10.0.
First read "HST" in the title as Hunter S. Thompson.
To see if the hardware is supported. You really don't want to try to live on a liveCD ...
Also: MS Office document recovery. I've retrieved important data from several Word and Excel docs that were corrupted and in one case in such a way as to crash Excel upon opening. OpenOffice is ridiculously stable - it's like they threw all the crappy documents they could at it to try to crash it.
OOo 3.0.1 will be in backports, yes.
"OpenOffice 3 - Now without the Ribbon!"
The purpose of this report was to secure funding to research possible terrorist messages on MP3 and pornographic websites and BitTorrent tracker lists.
The page at that link smokes crack at the point where it asserts that amendments 11 on were the work of humans, but amendments 1-10 are actually the work of God.
Sorry - 3.5 to 4 hours on 8.10, 3 hours on 8.04.
Yuh. Using an up-to-date distro is the thing. I was amazed to get even more battery life out of 8.10 versus 8.04. (I got the numbers mixed up above.)
OMG, Onoez, Sunday -- A report by the US Army 304th Military Intelligence Battalion identifies Internet technologies such as Twitter as potential TERRORIST tools.
Twitter users reported the July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets, and TERRORISTS protesting at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis used it to provide information on police movements.
Other technologies were also examined for their TERRORIST uses. "Email could be used for TERRORIST messages, the anonymous troll comments on Slashdot could be used for TERRORIST data exchange and GPS trackers could be used to find our asses. We are also examining the dangers of YouTube pratfall videos, cat macros and pencils and paper.
"There is terrible, terrible danger that if people can communicate they may say something TERRORIST," said the report. "As such, our forces have secured the offices of Twitter and its financial backers are awaiting trial for funding TERRORIâ""
The report cut off at this point, replaced with a Fail Whale.