Of course, but people have to play the devils advocate. Otherwise we end up like gattica. That phrase could be applied to so many things:
I like due process as much as the next person, I like seeing evil bastards locked up even more though.
I like the constitution as much as the next person, I like seeing evil bastards locked up even more though.
When does it stop?
My concern isn't the usage of DNA to prove someone is indeed that someone. My concern is that over the course of 20, 30, 40 years, a database is assembled containing every persons DNA, "family" strains of DNA. Sure, you could say if I've done nothing wrong, I have nothing to fear.
Now this next part may sound like science fiction, but all things start off as science fiction.. What if someone figures out through a number of algorithms on your DNA and applied to all the DNA of convicted criminals, applied along with historical information about your life, which once they have your DNA on file is extremely easy to track, that you have a % probibility of commiting X crime? So now a 'special police' are formed to keep track of suspects before a crime is ever commited?
Sure, that could be 100, 200 years away. But the seeds of that begin now.
They were awesome, a spectecle of graphics and sound. The controllers looked more like telephones mixed with a tv remote. Anyone remember that metallic disc? I also remember getting a B52 bomber with the voice synthesis cartridge addon for it. Hardly understable, I was amazed at the time haha. Memories..
FSF, GNU, GPL and all that was started by Richard Stallman, RMS from here on. Open Source, OSI and the Open Source Definition was first drafted by Bruce Perens. They are very similar in nature but have a lot of differences in the details. There FSF focuses primarily on GNU GPL and LGPL, The OSI and OSD are more broad, and do include the GPL under its terms, but also a variety of other licenses. The OSD sets up a moral standard, with 10 (originally 9) Sections to define a set of common guidelines a license must have to be considered Open Source.
The philosphies of these two men differ slightly. Where as RMS believes ALL software should be free and no commercial software should exist, Bruce Perens believes both can co-exist and co-mingle for the greater benefit of both. If you've ever seen the movie Revolution OS, they talk a good amount about the differences between FSF and OSI and GPL and OSD. Bruce Perens is even quoted as saying that the major difference is RMS believes all software should be GPL, and anything that isn't hurts the GPL. RMS doesn't seem such a 'great leader' after you get into the details. Granted, he's done a lot of good things, I hear the non-jews had a good life in Nazi Germany too.
Yeah. I'm betting half those "protesting" pet places still sell glass fish that are dyed.
Everyone's seen them. They are those very thing, tetra family fish, that are completely translucent. But they come with streaks of red, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink, neon green, etc. Yes, someone actually holds the fish with a small needle and injects the colored dyes into the upper part of the fish.
So yeah, they'll sell that but they won't sell genetically altered fish. Which is worse? I'd rather glow 'naturally' than have a needle shoved up my ass so I can glow artifically.
QBASIC was my very first introduction into programming. So long ago, I was on my 286 with MSDOS 5. Couldn't do a whole lot with my computer, it was purchased like so many computers with the intent by my parents to type homework for school, and a hidden agenda to play games for myself.
Of course, I wasn't playing a whole lot of cool games on my 286 with a 10 meg harddrive, and 1 meg of RAM. So I just played around with MSDOS, tried to figure out how it worked, how programs worked. I started just editing.exe files, wondering what the hell all that garbage meant. For the longest time I thought that there was some actual logic to t he garbage I could interprete and use. After a few weeks though, I learned about source code, compiling, etc. I started playing with QBASIC, but the bundled one with MSDOS 5 would only run the applications, not compile them to native bytecode. Wasn't long, I nabbed a copy of QuickBasic from a friend, and I was compiling little role playing games and other applications.
I took a Pascal class in 9th grade, and quickly found my calling. Not 2 weeks into the class I was learning how to write x86 assembly using the asm { } calls in Pascal, and inline() code as well. I had cool text fading effects and smooth scrolling, etc. And no, I wasn't learning it from the teacher, they were still on println, I was learning a good bit on my own. Turbo Pascal 7 had a pretty decent help system. I used Pascal quite a bit, especially in the BBS scene, as it was the programming language of choice for BBS software and doors, Telegard, Renegade, Iniquity, Oblivion/2, TriBBS, all written in Pascal. By this time I had moved from MSDOS 5 to OS/2 Warp 3. I was running a telnet BBS software using some of dink's software to create the TCPIP->Fossil emulation. Those were fun times, before the dot coms were stealing money from investors and before we had big government enacting foolish laws.
I then came across Linux. It was a 1.x version, one of the early Red Hat distributions. Just like today, it was crap. I quickly picked up the SAMs (or maybe QUE) Slackware book that had a CD of the distro on it. I found myself a platform I could start learning C on. Once I got into Linux, a whole new world opened. C, shell scripting, Perl, eventually PHP, I started into Java, and so on and so forth. And the learning never stops. Good times, good times.. Now I have to worry if something I program will be used by terrorists and I'm going to end up in jail for "aiding" terrorists, facilitating the spread of MP3s, or other Copyrighted programs. I miss those days.
More than likely you're comment will suddenly be modded down to -1 and you'll notice you never seem to get that option to moderate anymore...
All joking aside, seriously, this man has very good points. But from my experience and I have a good amount, I've been on Slashdot since January of 1998, only months after it really became live, I don't think Rob or the other guys are really going to give a damn.
This website is their little pet project. Sure it's owned by OSDN, and sure they sell subscriptions, but the professionalism is next to nothing. All this site is a proxy and aggregation point for other news. Half the cool stories I see from the real news source a day in advance, sometimes a week in advance.
The only thing keeping my coming here, are the obscure things. Like the Bar Monkey or the Beer Cooler, little obscure things people build and run Linux on and stuff. The lego inventions, etc. Those are the only things I'd have a harder time finding on my own.
I really do believe the point they started offering subscriptions they should have started taking this website more serious and professionally. If you take notice, they act like they really know what they're doing, and that duplicate stories are unavoidable, etc. Well, you know what, I don't think I've ever seen CNN or the Washington Post or the Wired run a duplicate story on the same day, on the same page at the same time! I'm risking my moderation points posting this myself. But it's just a website, and people need to realize this. We feed their egos, maybe if we stopped feeding it, we'd start seeing some changes for the better.
But who am I to say? I'm not in the inner circle so my opinions are worthless.
Its called Extortion. If they do this, they're going to screw themselves in the ass in the long term. They've already filed suit against IBM, they can't start making demands like this ahead of the suit. They can't just revoke the contract for no reason either, and even if they claim it's because they violated the contract, they've yet to offer proof!
I don't know who they think they are, but they're an ant to IBM. If they pissed off IBM enough, IBM is gonna squash them. Hey, maybe that what will happen.
You know whats interesting? I bought two IBM DeskStar 15 gig drives (Same model). I gave one to my father who used it in his Windows machine, and the other went into an OpenBSD web server.
My father has had that drive replaced 4 times eventually getting a non-IBM drive.
The DeskStar in the OpenBSD machine, has been running for almost 4 years, non-stop, with no failures.
You get instructors who really care about the work and students, and then you get instructors who couldn't give a damn about you or the class itself, and basically are piles of flesh reguritating what the book already says.
But they don't get a bill every month. If you read the whole article, the "tax" is charged electronically whenever you fill up. So if I drived 100 miles, then stop at a gas station, the car transmits the distance since my last fillup to the gas terminal, and that adds to tax to my gas charge.
I think the whole idea is still insane too. First off to enforce something like that, you'd have to manufacture those devices for what, a million cars? Then you'd have to make sure they were included in all new cars, not to mention tamper proofing, etc. THEN they'd have to have the reading devices installed into all of the gas stations.
I'd also like to know what they plan to do on non-state roads? Yes they do exist, if I own a 20 acre farm, and I drive my truck around it all day, I'm not driving on state roads, but I'd still be taxed for it. Sure, I would have still paid a tax for the gas itself, but who's to say it's not more than before?
It just, I don't know I'm not city planner or anything, but the whole idea just doesn't seem like it's going to make a difference in the amount of tax revenue the state will get. When you consider the cost of putting the system in place, the cost of enforcing it, the public outcry when everyone and their mother has to take their car in to get a device installed. Then you weigh in they'd either have to allow people from outside of the state purchase non-taxed gas, or have two different rates for gas at the gas station, you end up confusing the consumer and causing even more public outcry about the system.
Okay, so sure, maybe after 20 years the system would actually pay off. Let me ask you this, in 20 years do we still want to having gasoline cars as the primary mode of transportation? What about these hydrogen cars GM is promising, and electric cars and hybrid cars. What if in 4 years I can actually drive a car powered completely off of hydrogen I make in my garage? How are they going to tax me then? And enforce it?
Then as they point out, what if the system is wrong? What if it breaks and suddenly I get a 5,000 dollar charge? Granted, that's probably more rare, it's the smaller inconsistancies that scare me the most. What if charges incorrectly every 3rd time, by 20 cents. I wouldn't realize that. Even if it did tell me how many miles it was taxing me for. I'd have to stop and think "Did I really drive that much?" instead of just looking at how much gas I purchased.
Then yes, the whole privacy issues. Sure, their intentions seem pretty good right now, but the path to hell is paved in Gold, or whatever that saying is. I'm sure if a system like that was in place, after 5, maybe 10 years, someone decides, "let's flip a switch so we can start tracking people." What if I live on the border, and device to go to the next state over to fill my gas all the time. Does the state really know down to the meter where it's border is around the entire state using GPS?
This really sounds like a nightmare to me and I'm pretty sure that the test run will fail misteribly, and if it doesn't, the production run of it most definitely will. And whoever attempts to promote, or sign that into law, can kiss their political career goodbye.
I see a lot of "I have the right" comments everywhere. But where do you think you have these rights? I'd like to see people start backing up comments "I have the right" with the actual legal statute defining it.
If there is a contract saying you can only play DVD's on an Authorized Player, and you accept that contract, then no Sir, you do not have the right to watch the DVD however fucking damn well you please.
Not that I agree with the RIAA/MPAA on issues like this. On the contrary, I believe laws that benefit consumer freedoms and choice should be broad, while those limiting freedom and choice should be very narrow or non-existant. However it seems most of the laws today are turned the other way around.
What's to say you need something as readable as the original? I worked at InterAct Accessories/GameShark for a few years before they went under as essentially a 'reverse engineer'. Without getting yet another CND from them in the mail due to a post on Slashdot (I don't even think they could send one now they're out of business?), all I can say is sometimes when hacking a game it benefits an engineer to decompile the application and be able to set breakpoints and watch execution flow while the game is running on for example a PlayStation 2. Sure it's going to be a lot of nearly unreadable C++ mixed with Assembly, but if you can watch the execution flow as you do something, it can be useful.
Of course a lot of naive people think decompiling would allow you to take an application and start writing patches for it, in that case you are right, it's going to be pretty useless. However it's not entirely useless for all situations. I'm sure the WINE guys might get some use out of it.
Lets not forget the man who successfully sued a car owner for driving over his hand as he was trying to steal his hub caps.
I think it's fucked up myself too. Sure if someone is entering my house, I can shoot them. But by God if they cut themselves on a steak knife I left out I might be liable for thousands.
Oh well, in the larger scheme of things our legal system is still new. It will take a while for stuff like this to get sorted out.
Well I'm glad your requirements permit that, so don't bother turning on the ability to dynamically link/bin. However not everyone's requirements are the same as yours so it's nice to have the ability. Also, Last time I checked,/bin didn't only contain 'ls'. Smart guy.
This is, of course, not a sane justification. For example not all resolver libraries bundled by default on the system, and applications certainly can't allow for all possible future resolver libraries. The purpose of NSS isn't just name resolution configuration, its to extend name resolution infinitely with new resolvers. Those resolvers become dynamic libraries which would have to be load, gasp, dynamically.
If my/bin stuff is statically linked, and I install a new resolver, then what? No amount of configuration file reading is going to solve this one smart guy. I one: either have to recompile everything in/bin, or two: the things in/bin will need to be dynamically linked.
*Applause* Seriously. I'm glad I'm not the only person that feels this way. The same applies for everything else, you can't use two wrongs to make a right.
The whole excuse "Why should I pay... when it only has..." is nothing more than an excuse to reason with yourself why your doing something illegal or wrong. If you don't want to pay money for the software, don't use it.
The Iranians I've met are light years away from being terrorists.
Yes because we all know terrorists act like terrorists all the time. I live here in Laurel, MD, where the hijackers that crashed into the Pentagon lived. In fact, the Motel they stayed at, the Valincia is about 3 miles from my house.
Everyone around here was questioned by the FBI after they found out they were staying here, and everyone said the same thing, they were polite and very nice gentlement. The only thing odd was during the final weeks they became very secretative. But still rather polite. Some of the vendors at the food court in the mall remember them coming in an eating frequently here. They all said they were very friendly.
Just because of how someone acts isn't an indication of the kind of person they are. Take that kid in Red Lion PA that shot the principal and then shot himself. He was a straight A student, well liked by teachers and students, he was an average kid. He wasn't like the kids at Columbine, he didn't dress in black or listen to death metal music, or play excessive amounts of violent video games. Yet he walks into a cafeteria with 3 guns, uses one to kill the principal, and one to kill himself.
Not to say all Iranians are terrorists or all kids are bad, but it just goes to show that anyone is capable of this.
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Of course, but people have to play the devils advocate. Otherwise we end up like gattica. That phrase could be applied to so many things:
I like due process as much as the next person, I like seeing evil bastards locked up even more though.
I like the constitution as much as the next person, I like seeing evil bastards locked up even more though.
When does it stop?
My concern isn't the usage of DNA to prove someone is indeed that someone. My concern is that over the course of 20, 30, 40 years, a database is assembled containing every persons DNA, "family" strains of DNA. Sure, you could say if I've done nothing wrong, I have nothing to fear.
Now this next part may sound like science fiction, but all things start off as science fiction.. What if someone figures out through a number of algorithms on your DNA and applied to all the DNA of convicted criminals, applied along with historical information about your life, which once they have your DNA on file is extremely easy to track, that you have a % probibility of commiting X crime? So now a 'special police' are formed to keep track of suspects before a crime is ever commited?
Sure, that could be 100, 200 years away. But the seeds of that begin now.
Don't forget this bash shell has its own embedded SQL parser/client.
What? Everyone has it memorized, it's an accepted 9.8M/S^2.
Slashdot, reporting on a Windows update, without making some kind of wise-crack about it?
Did Microsoft buy OSDN?
They were awesome, a spectecle of graphics and sound. The controllers looked more like telephones mixed with a tv remote. Anyone remember that metallic disc? I also remember getting a B52 bomber with the voice synthesis cartridge addon for it. Hardly understable, I was amazed at the time haha. Memories..
Funny, seeing as Free Software and Open Source are two entirely different things. They each have their own foundations. The Free Software Foundation, and the Open Source Initiative.
FSF, GNU, GPL and all that was started by Richard Stallman, RMS from here on. Open Source, OSI and the Open Source Definition was first drafted by Bruce Perens. They are very similar in nature but have a lot of differences in the details. There FSF focuses primarily on GNU GPL and LGPL, The OSI and OSD are more broad, and do include the GPL under its terms, but also a variety of other licenses. The OSD sets up a moral standard, with 10 (originally 9) Sections to define a set of common guidelines a license must have to be considered Open Source.
The philosphies of these two men differ slightly. Where as RMS believes ALL software should be free and no commercial software should exist, Bruce Perens believes both can co-exist and co-mingle for the greater benefit of both. If you've ever seen the movie Revolution OS, they talk a good amount about the differences between FSF and OSI and GPL and OSD. Bruce Perens is even quoted as saying that the major difference is RMS believes all software should be GPL, and anything that isn't hurts the GPL. RMS doesn't seem such a 'great leader' after you get into the details. Granted, he's done a lot of good things, I hear the non-jews had a good life in Nazi Germany too.
So, yes, RTFM indeed.
Yeah. I'm betting half those "protesting" pet places still sell glass fish that are dyed.
Everyone's seen them. They are those very thing, tetra family fish, that are completely translucent. But they come with streaks of red, blue, green, orange, yellow, pink, neon green, etc. Yes, someone actually holds the fish with a small needle and injects the colored dyes into the upper part of the fish.
So yeah, they'll sell that but they won't sell genetically altered fish. Which is worse? I'd rather glow 'naturally' than have a needle shoved up my ass so I can glow artifically.
QBASIC was my very first introduction into programming. So long ago, I was on my 286 with MSDOS 5. Couldn't do a whole lot with my computer, it was purchased like so many computers with the intent by my parents to type homework for school, and a hidden agenda to play games for myself.
.exe files, wondering what the hell all that garbage meant. For the longest time I thought that there was some actual logic to t he garbage I could interprete and use. After a few weeks though, I learned about source code, compiling, etc. I started playing with QBASIC, but the bundled one with MSDOS 5 would only run the applications, not compile them to native bytecode. Wasn't long, I nabbed a copy of QuickBasic from a friend, and I was compiling little role playing games and other applications.
Of course, I wasn't playing a whole lot of cool games on my 286 with a 10 meg harddrive, and 1 meg of RAM. So I just played around with MSDOS, tried to figure out how it worked, how programs worked. I started just editing
I took a Pascal class in 9th grade, and quickly found my calling. Not 2 weeks into the class I was learning how to write x86 assembly using the asm { } calls in Pascal, and inline() code as well. I had cool text fading effects and smooth scrolling, etc. And no, I wasn't learning it from the teacher, they were still on println, I was learning a good bit on my own. Turbo Pascal 7 had a pretty decent help system. I used Pascal quite a bit, especially in the BBS scene, as it was the programming language of choice for BBS software and doors, Telegard, Renegade, Iniquity, Oblivion/2, TriBBS, all written in Pascal. By this time I had moved from MSDOS 5 to OS/2 Warp 3. I was running a telnet BBS software using some of dink's software to create the TCPIP->Fossil emulation. Those were fun times, before the dot coms were stealing money from investors and before we had big government enacting foolish laws.
I then came across Linux. It was a 1.x version, one of the early Red Hat distributions. Just like today, it was crap. I quickly picked up the SAMs (or maybe QUE) Slackware book that had a CD of the distro on it. I found myself a platform I could start learning C on. Once I got into Linux, a whole new world opened. C, shell scripting, Perl, eventually PHP, I started into Java, and so on and so forth. And the learning never stops. Good times, good times.. Now I have to worry if something I program will be used by terrorists and I'm going to end up in jail for "aiding" terrorists, facilitating the spread of MP3s, or other Copyrighted programs. I miss those days.
More than likely you're comment will suddenly be modded down to -1 and you'll notice you never seem to get that option to moderate anymore...
All joking aside, seriously, this man has very good points. But from my experience and I have a good amount, I've been on Slashdot since January of 1998, only months after it really became live, I don't think Rob or the other guys are really going to give a damn.
This website is their little pet project. Sure it's owned by OSDN, and sure they sell subscriptions, but the professionalism is next to nothing. All this site is a proxy and aggregation point for other news. Half the cool stories I see from the real news source a day in advance, sometimes a week in advance.
The only thing keeping my coming here, are the obscure things. Like the Bar Monkey or the Beer Cooler, little obscure things people build and run Linux on and stuff. The lego inventions, etc. Those are the only things I'd have a harder time finding on my own.
I really do believe the point they started offering subscriptions they should have started taking this website more serious and professionally. If you take notice, they act like they really know what they're doing, and that duplicate stories are unavoidable, etc. Well, you know what, I don't think I've ever seen CNN or the Washington Post or the Wired run a duplicate story on the same day, on the same page at the same time! I'm risking my moderation points posting this myself. But it's just a website, and people need to realize this. We feed their egos, maybe if we stopped feeding it, we'd start seeing some changes for the better.
But who am I to say? I'm not in the inner circle so my opinions are worthless.
Its called Extortion. If they do this, they're going to screw themselves in the ass in the long term. They've already filed suit against IBM, they can't start making demands like this ahead of the suit. They can't just revoke the contract for no reason either, and even if they claim it's because they violated the contract, they've yet to offer proof!
I don't know who they think they are, but they're an ant to IBM. If they pissed off IBM enough, IBM is gonna squash them. Hey, maybe that what will happen.
You know whats interesting? I bought two IBM DeskStar 15 gig drives (Same model). I gave one to my father who used it in his Windows machine, and the other went into an OpenBSD web server.
My father has had that drive replaced 4 times eventually getting a non-IBM drive.
The DeskStar in the OpenBSD machine, has been running for almost 4 years, non-stop, with no failures.
You get instructors who really care about the work and students, and then you get instructors who couldn't give a damn about you or the class itself, and basically are piles of flesh reguritating what the book already says.
But they don't get a bill every month. If you read the whole article, the "tax" is charged electronically whenever you fill up. So if I drived 100 miles, then stop at a gas station, the car transmits the distance since my last fillup to the gas terminal, and that adds to tax to my gas charge.
I think the whole idea is still insane too. First off to enforce something like that, you'd have to manufacture those devices for what, a million cars? Then you'd have to make sure they were included in all new cars, not to mention tamper proofing, etc. THEN they'd have to have the reading devices installed into all of the gas stations.
I'd also like to know what they plan to do on non-state roads? Yes they do exist, if I own a 20 acre farm, and I drive my truck around it all day, I'm not driving on state roads, but I'd still be taxed for it. Sure, I would have still paid a tax for the gas itself, but who's to say it's not more than before?
It just, I don't know I'm not city planner or anything, but the whole idea just doesn't seem like it's going to make a difference in the amount of tax revenue the state will get. When you consider the cost of putting the system in place, the cost of enforcing it, the public outcry when everyone and their mother has to take their car in to get a device installed. Then you weigh in they'd either have to allow people from outside of the state purchase non-taxed gas, or have two different rates for gas at the gas station, you end up confusing the consumer and causing even more public outcry about the system.
Okay, so sure, maybe after 20 years the system would actually pay off. Let me ask you this, in 20 years do we still want to having gasoline cars as the primary mode of transportation? What about these hydrogen cars GM is promising, and electric cars and hybrid cars. What if in 4 years I can actually drive a car powered completely off of hydrogen I make in my garage? How are they going to tax me then? And enforce it?
Then as they point out, what if the system is wrong? What if it breaks and suddenly I get a 5,000 dollar charge? Granted, that's probably more rare, it's the smaller inconsistancies that scare me the most. What if charges incorrectly every 3rd time, by 20 cents. I wouldn't realize that. Even if it did tell me how many miles it was taxing me for. I'd have to stop and think "Did I really drive that much?" instead of just looking at how much gas I purchased.
Then yes, the whole privacy issues. Sure, their intentions seem pretty good right now, but the path to hell is paved in Gold, or whatever that saying is. I'm sure if a system like that was in place, after 5, maybe 10 years, someone decides, "let's flip a switch so we can start tracking people." What if I live on the border, and device to go to the next state over to fill my gas all the time. Does the state really know down to the meter where it's border is around the entire state using GPS?
This really sounds like a nightmare to me and I'm pretty sure that the test run will fail misteribly, and if it doesn't, the production run of it most definitely will. And whoever attempts to promote, or sign that into law, can kiss their political career goodbye.
I see a lot of "I have the right" comments everywhere. But where do you think you have these rights? I'd like to see people start backing up comments "I have the right" with the actual legal statute defining it.
If there is a contract saying you can only play DVD's on an Authorized Player, and you accept that contract, then no Sir, you do not have the right to watch the DVD however fucking damn well you please.
Not that I agree with the RIAA/MPAA on issues like this. On the contrary, I believe laws that benefit consumer freedoms and choice should be broad, while those limiting freedom and choice should be very narrow or non-existant. However it seems most of the laws today are turned the other way around.
So much for the land of the free.
SimCourt anyone?
What's to say you need something as readable as the original? I worked at InterAct Accessories/GameShark for a few years before they went under as essentially a 'reverse engineer'. Without getting yet another CND from them in the mail due to a post on Slashdot (I don't even think they could send one now they're out of business?), all I can say is sometimes when hacking a game it benefits an engineer to decompile the application and be able to set breakpoints and watch execution flow while the game is running on for example a PlayStation 2. Sure it's going to be a lot of nearly unreadable C++ mixed with Assembly, but if you can watch the execution flow as you do something, it can be useful.
Of course a lot of naive people think decompiling would allow you to take an application and start writing patches for it, in that case you are right, it's going to be pretty useless. However it's not entirely useless for all situations. I'm sure the WINE guys might get some use out of it.
I downloaded the unprocessed images of Earth. The only difference is Earth is colorized, and the moon brightness is enhanced.
Lets not forget the man who successfully sued a car owner for driving over his hand as he was trying to steal his hub caps.
I think it's fucked up myself too. Sure if someone is entering my house, I can shoot them. But by God if they cut themselves on a steak knife I left out I might be liable for thousands.
Oh well, in the larger scheme of things our legal system is still new. It will take a while for stuff like this to get sorted out.
Well I'm glad your requirements permit that, so don't bother turning on the ability to dynamically link /bin. However not everyone's requirements are the same as yours so it's nice to have the ability. Also, Last time I checked, /bin didn't only contain 'ls'. Smart guy.
This is, of course, not a sane justification. For example not all resolver libraries bundled by default on the system, and applications certainly can't allow for all possible future resolver libraries. The purpose of NSS isn't just name resolution configuration, its to extend name resolution infinitely with new resolvers. Those resolvers become dynamic libraries which would have to be load, gasp, dynamically.
/bin stuff is statically linked, and I install a new resolver, then what? No amount of configuration file reading is going to solve this one smart guy. I one: either have to recompile everything in /bin, or two: the things in /bin will need to be dynamically linked.
If my
Thank God for community ordinances that prevent something like that.
*Applause* Seriously. I'm glad I'm not the only person that feels this way. The same applies for everything else, you can't use two wrongs to make a right.
... when it only has ..." is nothing more than an excuse to reason with yourself why your doing something illegal or wrong. If you don't want to pay money for the software, don't use it.
The whole excuse "Why should I pay
Seriously, applause again..
The Iranians I've met are light years away from being terrorists.
Yes because we all know terrorists act like terrorists all the time. I live here in Laurel, MD, where the hijackers that crashed into the Pentagon lived. In fact, the Motel they stayed at, the Valincia is about 3 miles from my house.
Everyone around here was questioned by the FBI after they found out they were staying here, and everyone said the same thing, they were polite and very nice gentlement. The only thing odd was during the final weeks they became very secretative. But still rather polite. Some of the vendors at the food court in the mall remember them coming in an eating frequently here. They all said they were very friendly.
Just because of how someone acts isn't an indication of the kind of person they are. Take that kid in Red Lion PA that shot the principal and then shot himself. He was a straight A student, well liked by teachers and students, he was an average kid. He wasn't like the kids at Columbine, he didn't dress in black or listen to death metal music, or play excessive amounts of violent video games. Yet he walks into a cafeteria with 3 guns, uses one to kill the principal, and one to kill himself.
Not to say all Iranians are terrorists or all kids are bad, but it just goes to show that anyone is capable of this.
I'm glad they finally were able to top the Dildo Cam.
I can get the same stuff directly from www.microsoft.com.