Biden was a mistake. Obama has a real problem with NRA type voters. Biden is even worse with that group. McCain and the NRA are going to have ads with Biden's most anti-gun statements. They're going to make it look like that'll be the top priority once they're elected.
It's like becoming gay because you're not scoring enough hot chicks.
I've always liked VIA's chipsets. They have tended to value stability over performance, but that's fine. When I was building a home server, I wanted it to stay up for as long as I needed it to. I didn't care if file transfers of video transcodes took a couple of minutes longer.
It's debatable whether or not Comcast's conduct was legal. They advertised and sold "internet access". That has certain connotations. If instead of the promised "Internet Access" they sold a neutered version thereof, then they may have run afoul of Federal regulations.
Couldn't you do something useful like volunteer at a women's shelter? Maybe donate some time to your community bike shop?
Who are you to judge the worthiness of their cause? Everybody from Washington politicians to Hollywood actors is on board with the "save the women" bullshit. I agree that their tactic is not going to produce their intended result, but their cause is a just one.
If you post the standard 10% for release, he could possibly come up with the $500,000. By mortgaging any property he owns, he just might be able to get that.
You understand how bail bondsmen work, right?
That $500,00 doesn't remain his, it becomes the bondsman's cut for getting him out of jail.
Even if he can mortgage his property, it's still bullshit that he has to lose half a million dollars just to get bail.
Once they asked for access and/or recinded his 'permission' and he refused to cooperate he became a criminal.
You are under no legal obligation to perform any service for your employer. At your will, you can choose to tell your boss "No" and there's nothing criminal about it. If you tell your boss No and he fires you, are you going to provide any information to him? I wouldn't. That's not criminal either.
Sure, he's the network admin, but does that authorize him to read people's email without authorization?
YES. This was a government computer system. None of the people using it can claim that he violated their privacy. Your employer can read your email. That means the network admins can read your email.
I remember when one of the Mac magazines gave away a BeOS preview release. I installed it on my 6400/200. I was able to play 8 quicktime movies all at the same time with no noticeable performace hit. I was really stoked about the possibilities. Unfortunately, Apple didn't go with Be and we'll never know what could have been.
One time, when I got fired, I knew it was coming. I had rubbed a manager the wrong way. That morning I told a friend of mine that I wouldn't make it through the day. I got fired about four hours into my shift. As I was being escorted back to my desk, I smiled at my friend and told her that I told her that I wouldn't make it.
The manager said that if I spoke to anyone else that I would be taken directly out and now allowed to get my personal property. I looked at him and smiled, since he was escorting me with no security and I outweighed him be probably 5 pounds. I said "Would YOU like to try to stop me from getting my property?"
He said, "I'll just call security".
I told him, "I'll be done before they get here."
Since I knew it was coming, I had already packed up my stuff. When we got to my desk, I logged off of the computer. Opened my desk and took out a bag of my stuff and said "See, I told you so."
At that point, he escorted me beyond the magnetically locked doors.
It's a free country and you should always vote your consciance, but if you can vote for Barack Obama, then you should have never been a Republican in the first place. He stands for everything that we're against.
He's pro abortion, anti second amendment and pro tax raises. He's free to represent any position that he chooses, but let's be honest with ourselves here.
This, my friends, is what we can fanatacism. Mandriva didn't make this mistake, SuSe didn't make this mistake, Slackware didn't make this mistake, RedHat/Fedora didn't make this mistake. *BSD didn't make this mistake.
The distro that is most dedicated to "Free" software did.
I'm a GNU/Linux user myself. I'm the assistant to my company's Linux admin. I have Mandriva on my laptop. I have a linux server in my home. I want nothing but success for linux, but blindly following the cult of free software is no more advantageous to linus than it would be to do nothing buy bash M$ without coming up with any alternatives.
Anything that sits in the kernel and has the possibility of crashing your system should have source code. Anything in userland is fair game for closed source software.
I don't disagree with you on principle, but there are some items that the drivers can't be open sourced. Namely wifi cards. In the US, it's the FCC that determines what frequencies such items can use and the wattage of the output. Sometimes these specifications are different than they are in places like Europe or Asia. Cards need to be able to change the way they modulate their transmissions. If this were freely open, they wouldn't be allowed to distribute the hardware.
If my automobile doesn't do what I want it to, I either replace it, fix it or modify it.
When my OSS doesn't do what I want it to, I either replace it or modify it. It's very similar.
I'm not an electrician, but I can replace outlets, run wire and install lighting fixtures. I'm not a software engineer, and I'm not a mechanical engineer but there is something to be said for knowing how the things that you use work.
No, I use Debian, so a team of people have done that for me. This might not be a complete check but it's more than you can say for non free software. I trust my MD5 checksum correct Debian CD far more than a crapware loaded Dell.
How quickly they forget.
OpenSSL, Entropy Pool, unsafe encryption...Are any of these ringing bells for you? Debian is free software and they still fucked up.
Don't get me wrong. I support free software. I think it's a great idea. The marketplace of ideas is big enough for free and non-free software.
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Biden was a mistake. Obama has a real problem with NRA type voters. Biden is even worse with that group. McCain and the NRA are going to have ads with Biden's most anti-gun statements. They're going to make it look like that'll be the top priority once they're elected.
He changed his mind and is afraid that they'll label him a flip-flopper.
LK
Why is it insightful to stereotype Mac users (or even specifically the fanboys) as whiny, shallow, pseudo-intellectual, metrosexual, idiotic, and gay?
You sir need to spend more than 10 minutes in the presence of Apple fanbois.
LK
It's like becoming gay because you're not scoring enough hot chicks.
I've always liked VIA's chipsets. They have tended to value stability over performance, but that's fine. When I was building a home server, I wanted it to stay up for as long as I needed it to. I didn't care if file transfers of video transcodes took a couple of minutes longer.
LK
I AM a Republican and I'm on the FCC's side.
It's debatable whether or not Comcast's conduct was legal. They advertised and sold "internet access". That has certain connotations. If instead of the promised "Internet Access" they sold a neutered version thereof, then they may have run afoul of Federal regulations.
LK
Couldn't you do something useful like volunteer at a women's shelter? Maybe donate some time to your community bike shop?
Who are you to judge the worthiness of their cause? Everybody from Washington politicians to Hollywood actors is on board with the "save the women" bullshit. I agree that their tactic is not going to produce their intended result, but their cause is a just one.
LK
Even more recently the Sahara was forrested. The ancient Egyptians used to cut a fair number of trees there.
LK
EULAs can't abridge rights that are beyond their reach. Namely, your right to do what you want with your private copy of it.
LK
If you post the standard 10% for release, he could possibly come up with the $500,000. By mortgaging any property he owns, he just might be able to get that.
You understand how bail bondsmen work, right?
That $500,00 doesn't remain his, it becomes the bondsman's cut for getting him out of jail.
Even if he can mortgage his property, it's still bullshit that he has to lose half a million dollars just to get bail.
LK
Once they asked for access and/or recinded his 'permission' and he refused to cooperate he became a criminal.
You are under no legal obligation to perform any service for your employer. At your will, you can choose to tell your boss "No" and there's nothing criminal about it. If you tell your boss No and he fires you, are you going to provide any information to him? I wouldn't. That's not criminal either.
LK
Sure, he's the network admin, but does that authorize him to read people's email without authorization?
YES. This was a government computer system. None of the people using it can claim that he violated their privacy. Your employer can read your email. That means the network admins can read your email.
LK
Any new OS research is good, but this is too little too late.
LK
Yeah, because we all know how often Macs are used as multi user network servers.
LK
BeOS was dying at that time. All Microsoft's pressure did was put a stake in its heart.
LK
I remember when one of the Mac magazines gave away a BeOS preview release. I installed it on my 6400/200. I was able to play 8 quicktime movies all at the same time with no noticeable performace hit. I was really stoked about the possibilities. Unfortunately, Apple didn't go with Be and we'll never know what could have been.
LK
One time, when I got fired, I knew it was coming. I had rubbed a manager the wrong way. That morning I told a friend of mine that I wouldn't make it through the day. I got fired about four hours into my shift. As I was being escorted back to my desk, I smiled at my friend and told her that I told her that I wouldn't make it.
The manager said that if I spoke to anyone else that I would be taken directly out and now allowed to get my personal property. I looked at him and smiled, since he was escorting me with no security and I outweighed him be probably 5 pounds. I said "Would YOU like to try to stop me from getting my property?"
He said, "I'll just call security".
I told him, "I'll be done before they get here."
Since I knew it was coming, I had already packed up my stuff. When we got to my desk, I logged off of the computer. Opened my desk and took out a bag of my stuff and said "See, I told you so."
At that point, he escorted me beyond the magnetically locked doors.
LK
Saying they have to obey US law is meaningless -- they have to obey the laws of other countries as well.
Only if you don't understand what that means.
Yes, they have to obey the laws of many countries. However, I'm talking about the only country that really matters.
LK
It's a free country and you should always vote your consciance, but if you can vote for Barack Obama, then you should have never been a Republican in the first place. He stands for everything that we're against.
He's pro abortion, anti second amendment and pro tax raises. He's free to represent any position that he chooses, but let's be honest with ourselves here.
LK
Then get to coding. Intel is based in the US so they HAVE TO obey US law.
LK
This, my friends, is what we can fanatacism. Mandriva didn't make this mistake, SuSe didn't make this mistake, Slackware didn't make this mistake, RedHat/Fedora didn't make this mistake. *BSD didn't make this mistake.
The distro that is most dedicated to "Free" software did.
I'm a GNU/Linux user myself. I'm the assistant to my company's Linux admin. I have Mandriva on my laptop. I have a linux server in my home. I want nothing but success for linux, but blindly following the cult of free software is no more advantageous to linus than it would be to do nothing buy bash M$ without coming up with any alternatives.
LK
Intel WiFi cards still use a proprietary firmware, even if you use the freeware driver.
LK
Anything that sits in the kernel and has the possibility of crashing your system should have source code. Anything in userland is fair game for closed source software.
I don't disagree with you on principle, but there are some items that the drivers can't be open sourced. Namely wifi cards. In the US, it's the FCC that determines what frequencies such items can use and the wattage of the output. Sometimes these specifications are different than they are in places like Europe or Asia. Cards need to be able to change the way they modulate their transmissions. If this were freely open, they wouldn't be allowed to distribute the hardware.
LK
If my automobile doesn't do what I want it to, I either replace it, fix it or modify it.
When my OSS doesn't do what I want it to, I either replace it or modify it. It's very similar.
I'm not an electrician, but I can replace outlets, run wire and install lighting fixtures. I'm not a software engineer, and I'm not a mechanical engineer but there is something to be said for knowing how the things that you use work.
LK
No, I use Debian, so a team of people have done that for me. This might not be a complete check but it's more than you can say for non free software. I trust my MD5 checksum correct Debian CD far more than a crapware loaded Dell.
How quickly they forget.
OpenSSL, Entropy Pool, unsafe encryption...Are any of these ringing bells for you? Debian is free software and they still fucked up.
Don't get me wrong. I support free software. I think it's a great idea. The marketplace of ideas is big enough for free and non-free software.
LK
Touche, regarding my wayward apostrophe. However, I stand my ground on media being plural.
LK