John McCain was tortured in Vietnam and could change people's minds if he was not busy pandering to them. Leaders should rise above such stuff. He should also know better about war, tortue and trade with Communist China. What you are left with is a mystery - what changed McCain and how can we undo the damage?
Well yeah, that's the point. It does not matter if Safari, IE, FTP or any other program is used to download an executable file to your desktop, that might be executed. What matters is that ANOTHER problem can be used to remote execute that file. That's what the Safari flap is all about, but all it does is show you that Windows has lots of holes.
I said that he would have been spared the trouble if he had the skill and nerve to use GNU/Linux. I then gave some solid reasons for being allowed to do so. Having the skill is useless if you can't use it. Finally, it takes courage to get it done in most places because people like you feel threatened by people like me and say bad things. In the end, your own set of tools will save you from a lot of problems the obviously inadequate tool the poor guy got.
Yeah, it's too bad he did not have the skill and nerve to GNU/Linux the thing himself and run whatever administrative crap required in Wine. Can't fix the "official" laptop? Fine, it stays off while I get the work done on my personal laptop. Files can be transfered at the office to someone else's problem. Think of your private notebook like your private clipboard, paper and pencil. Every good engineer has a set and should use them (pun intended).
The requirements of law are all things publishers and government, not the public, must deal with. There is no law that requires NBC to have a large chunk of the spectrum or Constitutional requirement that spectrum must be licensed. There is also no real requirement for government to protect NBC in this case. You can run rings around the "requirements" of law, but they don't add up to government protection for sleazy behavior. A company as dependent on government protection as NBC is is foolish to skirt around the law like it has.
NBC has been granted spectrum in exchange for some sort of public good and had better watch it's step. Specifically, broadcast licenses have cultural and educational requirements that most broadcasters like NBC mostly fail to deliver. They really are at the whim of the people on this one and should not dare further annoy them lest they elect officials that give the spectrum to more worthy people or to the public at large.
The requirements of copyright law from the US Constitution that Twitter mentioned come from Article 1, Section 8:
Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power... Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Nothing is required of Congress to protect NBC or any other publisher. Congress may protect Authors but only for a limited time and only if it promotes science and the useful arts. A broadcast that never enters the public does not fairly merit government protection. The public should not be stopped from copying and distributing it at will, for fun and profit.
Essentially, your "the law does not require this or that" argument boils down to an insulting, "what are you going to do about it?" There is plenty both government can and will do about NBC and Microsoft.
Select, Right-Click, Wikipedia search. She did screw up Penfield's work on the M$ trial. She should have refused because Penfield was the only person who could have know enough to judge the case. More to the point, she just reversed an October 2007 ruling about Presidential documents.
On October 1, 2007, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly reversed George W. Bush on archive secrecy, (38-page) ruling that the U.S. Archivist's reliance on the executive order to delay release of the papers of former presidents is "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion and not in accordance with law." National Security Archives, at George Washington University alleged that the Bush order severely slowed or prevented the release of historic presidential papers.
Involvement with FISA should disbar anyone - the court violates the 4th amendment by being a secret court.
Yes, because in the magical free software land, file formats never change and become incompatible, even over the course of time between hypercard and now.
That's about right. Emacs still works the way it did in 1984, despite improvement. GCC, G77, LaTex, ImageMagick, Xfig, gnuplot, grace, StarOffice and just about any software you can think of still works with documents written at the time. Free software rarely wrecks a user's work.
This is about avoiding the intentional waste of non free software. You could run your old hypercard program in a VM but most people no longer have the OS and software required to set that up. They are more likely to have some old notes they want to share with themselves and others and now they can. Free software users don't have this problem.
Who's vote does ACTA satisfy? Why are you trying to blame the victims?
With an approval rating lower than Nixon, GWB is only doing what about 15% of the country wants. The vast majority of that 15% are simply ignorant. The remainder are people who work in or own oil, telco, broadcast and other corrupt business that depends on "intellectual property" and government protection. His rubber stamp congress is not much better. Please don't pretend that voting matters when crap like ACTA is floating by.
If you use whole disk encryption on both and your passphrases are 'unguessable' then the difference is probably going to be negligible.
Well, exactly. My point was to compare that to some kind of phone company issued device which will leak all of the information while it's still in your pocket.
How is Debian on my handheld less secure than Debian on my desktop?
I don't trust "smartphones" because they run non free software that I would not trust anywhere and are part owned by companies that are now seeking "retroactive immunity" for violating people's privacy.
Even experimentalist need to know what functions are applied to their data and they should use tried and true software. Stable free software comes with transparency which is nice.
The cut off thing happens to more than scientists. Engineers, CAD people, graphic designers, anyone who uses their computer for more than word processing faces the expensive software trap.
I imagine a theorist like you can run rings around most at the kinds of things Mathematica and Maple do. What do you use them for and what do you suggest as replacements?
The model M is not immortal and any good nerd has at least three in the closet. I have only had one of these die on me and it was probably a wiring problem that I can fix but it was nice to have more waiting. They seem to be going for about $25 on ebay, so the internet has not let you down by letting people share their love. Perfect knowledge and many providers is a fair market so $25 is a fair price for a used keyboard. Finding a cache in a dumpster is like finding several hundred dollars on the street and you should save them all for yourself, your friends or just to sell them.
New keyboards like this are worth their price if you type a lot. It does feel good to type on and it will last forever. The only problem with the new ones, like the reviewer noticed, is the windows keys which decrease the size of Ctrl and Alt so that you might miss them.
They are around but you can't really tell at a glance can you? The few I know are NOT happy with the destruction of their country, despite their dislike of Sadam, and neither should you be. If there are fewer immigrants from Iraq in the future than there were in the past or from other countries in the past it's because in the past we liberated people and today we do the opposite.
An imaginary God makes more sense than calling machine ownership theft. I can say that my imaginary God encourages people to share but you can derive that from humanistic logic alone. Our "thou shalt not steal" friend should be aware that most religions also encourage people to share and the most likely one for a person in the western world has the miracle of bread and fishes as an example of God's bounty. Because we can copy knowledge and entertainment and these things help to reduce human suffering, wouldn't that God endorse and encourage it?
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It has been a while since I've watched it, but this phrase stuck.
Ask not, and please tell not.
John McCain was tortured in Vietnam and could change people's minds if he was not busy pandering to them. Leaders should rise above such stuff. He should also know better about war, tortue and trade with Communist China. What you are left with is a mystery - what changed McCain and how can we undo the damage?
Well yeah, that's the point. It does not matter if Safari, IE, FTP or any other program is used to download an executable file to your desktop, that might be executed. What matters is that ANOTHER problem can be used to remote execute that file. That's what the Safari flap is all about, but all it does is show you that Windows has lots of holes.
Having been accused of being a sock puppet and being blown out with malicious moderation, I think I'll act like one. Good on you, Twitter!
I said that he would have been spared the trouble if he had the skill and nerve to use GNU/Linux. I then gave some solid reasons for being allowed to do so. Having the skill is useless if you can't use it. Finally, it takes courage to get it done in most places because people like you feel threatened by people like me and say bad things. In the end, your own set of tools will save you from a lot of problems the obviously inadequate tool the poor guy got.
You again? No surprise that you would so completely missunderstand and be insulting to boot.
Asshole? Because I supply my own tools that I consider right for the job? How does this even remotely make sense?
When I look at your account, all I see is Twitter posts. This can't be by chance, please go away.
Yeah, it's too bad he did not have the skill and nerve to GNU/Linux the thing himself and run whatever administrative crap required in Wine. Can't fix the "official" laptop? Fine, it stays off while I get the work done on my personal laptop. Files can be transfered at the office to someone else's problem. Think of your private notebook like your private clipboard, paper and pencil. Every good engineer has a set and should use them (pun intended).
Where did that come from? You guys need to get a life.
THE CAKE IS A LIE.
The requirements of law are all things publishers and government, not the public, must deal with. There is no law that requires NBC to have a large chunk of the spectrum or Constitutional requirement that spectrum must be licensed. There is also no real requirement for government to protect NBC in this case. You can run rings around the "requirements" of law, but they don't add up to government protection for sleazy behavior. A company as dependent on government protection as NBC is is foolish to skirt around the law like it has.
NBC has been granted spectrum in exchange for some sort of public good and had better watch it's step. Specifically, broadcast licenses have cultural and educational requirements that most broadcasters like NBC mostly fail to deliver. They really are at the whim of the people on this one and should not dare further annoy them lest they elect officials that give the spectrum to more worthy people or to the public at large.
The requirements of copyright law from the US Constitution that Twitter mentioned come from Article 1, Section 8:
Clause 1: The Congress shall have PowerNothing is required of Congress to protect NBC or any other publisher. Congress may protect Authors but only for a limited time and only if it promotes science and the useful arts. A broadcast that never enters the public does not fairly merit government protection. The public should not be stopped from copying and distributing it at will, for fun and profit.
Essentially, your "the law does not require this or that" argument boils down to an insulting, "what are you going to do about it?" There is plenty both government can and will do about NBC and Microsoft.
I'll exercise fair use rights. Don't hold your breath.
Involvement with FISA should disbar anyone - the court violates the 4th amendment by being a secret court.
David Reed has a nice collection of open spectrum articles. Of the two experts here, Reed looks real.
That's about right. Emacs still works the way it did in 1984, despite improvement. GCC, G77, LaTex, ImageMagick, Xfig, gnuplot, grace, StarOffice and just about any software you can think of still works with documents written at the time. Free software rarely wrecks a user's work.
This is about avoiding the intentional waste of non free software. You could run your old hypercard program in a VM but most people no longer have the OS and software required to set that up. They are more likely to have some old notes they want to share with themselves and others and now they can. Free software users don't have this problem.
Who's vote does ACTA satisfy? Why are you trying to blame the victims?
With an approval rating lower than Nixon, GWB is only doing what about 15% of the country wants. The vast majority of that 15% are simply ignorant. The remainder are people who work in or own oil, telco, broadcast and other corrupt business that depends on "intellectual property" and government protection. His rubber stamp congress is not much better. Please don't pretend that voting matters when crap like ACTA is floating by.
Well, exactly. My point was to compare that to some kind of phone company issued device which will leak all of the information while it's still in your pocket.
How is Debian on my handheld less secure than Debian on my desktop?
I don't trust "smartphones" because they run non free software that I would not trust anywhere and are part owned by companies that are now seeking "retroactive immunity" for violating people's privacy.
Even experimentalist need to know what functions are applied to their data and they should use tried and true software. Stable free software comes with transparency which is nice.
The cut off thing happens to more than scientists. Engineers, CAD people, graphic designers, anyone who uses their computer for more than word processing faces the expensive software trap.
I imagine a theorist like you can run rings around most at the kinds of things Mathematica and Maple do. What do you use them for and what do you suggest as replacements?
The model M is not immortal and any good nerd has at least three in the closet. I have only had one of these die on me and it was probably a wiring problem that I can fix but it was nice to have more waiting. They seem to be going for about $25 on ebay, so the internet has not let you down by letting people share their love. Perfect knowledge and many providers is a fair market so $25 is a fair price for a used keyboard. Finding a cache in a dumpster is like finding several hundred dollars on the street and you should save them all for yourself, your friends or just to sell them.
New keyboards like this are worth their price if you type a lot. It does feel good to type on and it will last forever. The only problem with the new ones, like the reviewer noticed, is the windows keys which decrease the size of Ctrl and Alt so that you might miss them.
They are around but you can't really tell at a glance can you? The few I know are NOT happy with the destruction of their country, despite their dislike of Sadam, and neither should you be. If there are fewer immigrants from Iraq in the future than there were in the past or from other countries in the past it's because in the past we liberated people and today we do the opposite.
An imaginary God makes more sense than calling machine ownership theft. I can say that my imaginary God encourages people to share but you can derive that from humanistic logic alone. Our "thou shalt not steal" friend should be aware that most religions also encourage people to share and the most likely one for a person in the western world has the miracle of bread and fishes as an example of God's bounty. Because we can copy knowledge and entertainment and these things help to reduce human suffering, wouldn't that God endorse and encourage it?