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That's a good point. I think everyone being sold on Perl 6 fixing Perl 5's issues and then... not... left us all with the impression that Perl 5 has issues that would never be fixed, to which we all reacted as one would expect and abandoned it for something else nice and shiny. With their own problems that will never be fixed.
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Oh god. I just got the image of Rails written in Mono. Pardon me while I stumble around feeling for the mind bleach.
So, that's an interesting question. Initially, yes, gasoline would be required. But as the technology got better, a lot of those large earth movers would start to see thorium power plants in them and thus we'd have "free" mining. In short, as we get more and more, we'll use less and less oil. Yaaaay!
Are the fiber COs on UPSes? If so, having your equipment on a cheap UPS should keep your end of the line active. I have my DSL and AirPort on a cheap powerstrip UPS so that when the power goes out the only thing I notice is the A/C and lights are off and the MacBook Pro is no longer charging...
I haven't printed color in years, so I chunked my inkjet and bought a Brother laser printer. Six months into it and I'm still on the pre-packaged demo cartridge (1,500 pages). Replacements are about $60 and do 2,500 pages. Considering I only print out boarding passes, proof-of-insurance cards, or other necessities, it's been perfect. Then, of course, having a fax/scanner, etc. is gravy.
All told? It's paid for itself already with inkjet carts running about $40 for the model I had and drying out in 2-3 months. They can only scam me so long...
Yes, I would. Just the name and email? It's like any other registration scheme: if you're willing to tell the world it's you, have at it and wait to be sued.
Claris/AppleWorks on the Apple II used a tabbed/folder interface. There's your prior art.
Unless, of course, this was issued before then, and it appears that it was at least applied for before then (1987). So then the problem is enforcement. Everyone does this ("this" being you click somewhere and some UI elements are hidden and others appear) and no one defended it. Since no one has defended it in the 16 years it's been around, it's kind of already dead. This won't fly.
If not federal, it's in a lot of states' codes. It's law here in Texas, and I'm fairly certain it is law in California as well, if it's not federal. It is extremely common, one way or another.
It's not TiVo's media. You are, however, breaking the license agreement for the service if you do this and they can disconnect you. That's about it. (IANAL, either)
Voting machines (or processes) will never reliably count one hundred million votes
What are you smoking? That's what computers do. When it's paper ballots counted by hand, I'll give a margin of error. When it's a computer with a database that's just adding one more record for every vote, there is zero margin of error. Either it works or it doesn't. Electronic voting should be perfectly accurate, unlike traditional ballots. That it's less accurate should be a great big flashing warning that Diebold and similar companies are doing something unfathomly evil and trying to muck around with American democracy.
As the bumper sticker says, "If you aren't completely appalled, you haven't been paying attention."
It's not phoning home. There's been a lot of idiocy about that statement lately and the phrase is starting to suffer the fate of the apostrophe: people are just using it whenever they think it might apply.
Phoning home means sending personal, identifying information back to the author of a program, usually with nefarious intent. This is a feature that uses an Opera server in a non-identifying way to determine if the site you're going to is fraudulent. Huge difference.
And you can probably turn it off. Yet another thing that you cannot do with software that is "phoning home" in the traditional definition.
Come on, folks. There's privacy and there's paranoia. I know a lot of you haven't left home in a few weeks, but try to stay in touch with reality, okay? The foil hats do nothing...
Does anyone know of a good Mac usenet/email group for learning all I can about the Mac?
Yes, I run that site, and email list. Mac Geekery is about such nitty-gritty. We also have a mailing list going for general suport and further geekery.
1. The default user Apple makes is an admin. Non-computer-literate folks don't know this. 2. Without providing a password, this gives an installer script root access. 3. People will double-click anything.
The license you are given when you buy a CD does not allow you to give away copies for any reason, including if the other person also has a license. You are an end-user, not a distributor.
Yes, it has DRM, but they went through the trouble to make it cross-platform DRM (the two that matter) so that everyone (that matters) could use it. Microsoft has done no such thing, and will not.
Any large crime against someone on the Aussie mainland would get you extradition. Comes with free room and board, too. The company could use some social education, but it's a free trip so there's sure to be some downfalls.
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That's a good point. I think everyone being sold on Perl 6 fixing Perl 5's issues and then ... not ... left us all with the impression that Perl 5 has issues that would never be fixed, to which we all reacted as one would expect and abandoned it for something else nice and shiny. With their own problems that will never be fixed.
Oh god. I just got the image of Rails written in Mono. Pardon me while I stumble around feeling for the mind bleach.
So, that's an interesting question. Initially, yes, gasoline would be required. But as the technology got better, a lot of those large earth movers would start to see thorium power plants in them and thus we'd have "free" mining. In short, as we get more and more, we'll use less and less oil. Yaaaay!
And to those looking for said cached copies: http://web.archive.org/web/20101023072550/http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/congratulations_google
Are the fiber COs on UPSes? If so, having your equipment on a cheap UPS should keep your end of the line active. I have my DSL and AirPort on a cheap powerstrip UPS so that when the power goes out the only thing I notice is the A/C and lights are off and the MacBook Pro is no longer charging...
I haven't printed color in years, so I chunked my inkjet and bought a Brother laser printer. Six months into it and I'm still on the pre-packaged demo cartridge (1,500 pages). Replacements are about $60 and do 2,500 pages. Considering I only print out boarding passes, proof-of-insurance cards, or other necessities, it's been perfect. Then, of course, having a fax/scanner, etc. is gravy.
All told? It's paid for itself already with inkjet carts running about $40 for the model I had and drying out in 2-3 months. They can only scam me so long...
Yes, I would. Just the name and email? It's like any other registration scheme: if you're willing to tell the world it's you, have at it and wait to be sued.
Claris/AppleWorks on the Apple II used a tabbed/folder interface. There's your prior art.
Unless, of course, this was issued before then, and it appears that it was at least applied for before then (1987). So then the problem is enforcement. Everyone does this ("this" being you click somewhere and some UI elements are hidden and others appear) and no one defended it. Since no one has defended it in the 16 years it's been around, it's kind of already dead. This won't fly.
If not federal, it's in a lot of states' codes. It's law here in Texas, and I'm fairly certain it is law in California as well, if it's not federal. It is extremely common, one way or another.
If you're hourly, it's a federal requirement to take at least a 30 minute lunch break and get two 15 minute breaks during an eight hour day.
The year-long contracts thing has been done-to-death in the employment world, especially in tech employment. This is nothing new or special, either.
Slashdot is the original blog. And the quality never changed.
NO MORE PINSTRIPES!!! For the love of Steve, PLEASE kill them. And brushed metal. Dead, dead, dead.
Oh, how I hope it's true...
It's not TiVo's media. You are, however, breaking the license agreement for the service if you do this and they can disconnect you. That's about it. (IANAL, either)
Voting machines (or processes) will never reliably count one hundred million votes
What are you smoking? That's what computers do. When it's paper ballots counted by hand, I'll give a margin of error. When it's a computer with a database that's just adding one more record for every vote, there is zero margin of error. Either it works or it doesn't. Electronic voting should be perfectly accurate, unlike traditional ballots. That it's less accurate should be a great big flashing warning that Diebold and similar companies are doing something unfathomly evil and trying to muck around with American democracy.
As the bumper sticker says, "If you aren't completely appalled, you haven't been paying attention."
Did it ever occur to you to look it up?
Sorry, no, it's not that.
Just because that's what you call it doesn't make that the definition.
It's not phoning home. There's been a lot of idiocy about that statement lately and the phrase is starting to suffer the fate of the apostrophe: people are just using it whenever they think it might apply.
Phoning home means sending personal, identifying information back to the author of a program, usually with nefarious intent. This is a feature that uses an Opera server in a non-identifying way to determine if the site you're going to is fraudulent. Huge difference.
And you can probably turn it off. Yet another thing that you cannot do with software that is "phoning home" in the traditional definition.
Come on, folks. There's privacy and there's paranoia. I know a lot of you haven't left home in a few weeks, but try to stay in touch with reality, okay? The foil hats do nothing...
Does anyone know of a good Mac usenet/email group for learning all I can about the Mac?
Yes, I run that site, and email list. Mac Geekery is about such nitty-gritty. We also have a mailing list going for general suport and further geekery.
Time for the foil hats, I guess.
.. why aren't you using Jabber? I mean, really...
I know at work there were days that every URL except for fark.com would work and then it would come back. Some monkey having fun is all.
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You've never used a Mac, have you?
The default user account is an admin and it never tells you unless you know to look.
Except the point is that it isn't asking for a password and is still getting root.
This really isn't a hard concept.
Many points, yes.
1. The default user Apple makes is an admin. Non-computer-literate folks don't know this.
2. Without providing a password, this gives an installer script root access.
3. People will double-click anything.
The license you are given when you buy a CD does not allow you to give away copies for any reason, including if the other person also has a license. You are an end-user, not a distributor.
Yes, it has DRM, but they went through the trouble to make it cross-platform DRM (the two that matter) so that everyone (that matters) could use it. Microsoft has done no such thing, and will not.
Any large crime against someone on the Aussie mainland would get you extradition. Comes with free room and board, too. The company could use some social education, but it's a free trip so there's sure to be some downfalls.