And as Acer is very influential in Asia, it also means that others will likely follow suit in a 'herd' effect. It's a good thing they won't follow suit in a Hurd effect.:P
So which Iraqis were butchering US citizens? Last time I checked the makeup of the 9/11 hijackers was:
Fifteen of the attackers were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt, and one from Lebanon. So why are we going after Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia, again?
You just made his point. Was I trying to dispute his point? I was in fact clarifying the situation for anyone who may not know as to how ridiculous your request would be to have it rejected by a FISA judge.
And it is not at all apparent that the standards(what fucking standards???) of the FISA court were too high for Bush. I don't know how substantiated they were, but at around the time this whole thing broke, I remember reading about how such a thing was actually a problem. That the Bush Administrations requests were even too ridiculous for even a FISA judge to approve.
What's ironic is that the DMCA and the other nasty acts that are sitting in congress including creating a Kopyright Kops brigade so the RIAA doesn't have to fund its own goons are all made by Democrats. You mean the act that was introduced to the House by a Republican and passed by Republican-controlled bodies with no resistance from Republicans? You mean that DMCA? Yes, Clinton signed the act, but it originated from Republican sponsors and had almost unanimous support of that party. So trying to paint that one as an act of the Democrats is ludicrous not that they didn't vote for it in just as many numbers, but you have to give credit to where credit is due and that was due to a Republican congressman.
The warrantless wiretaps may, technically, be illegal (indeed, they probably are). There is no may about it as such acts are codified as illegal under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It should be quite telling when a president has such a shaky foundation for wanting to do wiretaps that they have to bypass the FISA court because they might reject your request.
You'd think so, but apparently even the rubber-stamp FISA court had too high of standards for Bush & Co. And that's saying something since it's ridiculously easy for the government to get a warrant from FISA (hell there is even an exemption so that you can apply for the warrant 72 hours after the fact).
To quote a bit from the article on wikipedia just to give some perspective:
In the period 1979-2006 a total of 22,990 applications for warrants were made to the Court of which 22,985 were approved (sometimes with modifications; or with the splitting up, or combining together, of warrants for legal purposes), and only 5 were definitively rejected.[4]
I found out in 2 seconds using Google: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html
Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me Who knows what might happen when he gets in office, though.
However, neither of Suns competitors, IBM or HP, offer SSDs at the moment. Year about a year too late making that comment. IBM having SSDs in their Blades: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/dcc/?p=175
Did you even bother to read the next sentence they wrote before you got yourself all worked up over trying to prove them wrong?
However, under the "business judgment rule," the Board may be able to justify its decision to refuse a higher tender offer in that it better understands the long-term business implications of the company and thinks that not selling will be better off in the long run for shareholders.
This has its ups and downs, and one of the downside is when they open their source, their paid version of Opera mobile maybe still paid, but with the source of Presto (the rendering engine of Opera's browsers) everyone with more skills could make its own version and give it for free, which means no salaries for the employees. I guess I don't have to speak about the ups of it, because I guess everyone probably knows them:) This is nonsense. All one has to do is look at companies like Trolltech, MySQL AB, etc. If what you said was true, those companies would have been bankrupt years ago. Yet strangely enough, they aren't.
There IS a business risk in investing in open source systems. Businesses invest in property, and if software is not property, or, what you invest in is made to be not property, then, in the sense that a business can earn an advantage and a return off of it, then, why should they invest in it? I agree. It's not like we see companies like IBM, Sony, HP, Sun, Dell, etc investing billions of dollars in open source software and systems. Oh wait, you mean they do?
But since the summary says that the content is "all delivered in high definition", then the PSP would be left out of this. This is all working under the assumption that this content is only in high def.
I take it this isn't limited to the ps3? Since nothing in the Playstation family but the PS3 is able to play high definition content, it can be safely assumed to be PS3 only.
Presumably Moonlight will be good enough to be to Linux what the Linux version of Adobe's Flash plug-in is to Linux. Is that supposed to elicit a positive feeling? Adobe's Flash plug-in on Linux is crap.
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I think you mean +1 - Clarke mod.
That's why you can apply for the warrant retroactively for up to 72 hours. There is no excuse to have NOT gone through a FISA judge.
But... but... they hate our freedoms!!! Right?!?!? Right?!?!?
To quote a bit from the article on wikipedia just to give some perspective: In the period 1979-2006 a total of 22,990 applications for warrants were made to the Court of which 22,985 were approved (sometimes with modifications; or with the splitting up, or combining together, of warrants for legal purposes), and only 5 were definitively rejected.[4]
So another run-of-the-mill power-hungry politician wants to have no constraints placed on his power when in office. Since when is this news?
I'm sorry, but what does your statements hardware sales have to do with a discussion about software?
HABEEB IT!
There is no GTA4 for the PS2. WTF are you smoking?
But since the summary says that the content is "all delivered in high definition", then the PSP would be left out of this. This is all working under the assumption that this content is only in high def.
But John Romero really did make me his bitch... :(