If it involves any of my personal data, then I would rather them keep their mouths shut for damage control until there is a solution to the original problem.
Would you really prefer that they don't tell you that your credit card details have been stolen until they have patched their web server?
TB's total and unquestioning support for US presidents, in spite of the hostility that this engenders towards him by the majority of the British electorate, is such ludicrous behaviour that some really far-fetched theory is needed to explain it.
Assuming that he hasn't done a deal to become World President in the near future (a role that I am sure he would be eager to have if the UN had more power), the leading explanation for his puppet-like behaviour is quite possibly that the CIA have him under their complete contol.
Despite the flippant use of the word "legit", the original poster is not wrong. The attack on the USS Cole did not use glass rounds, flame throwers, blinding lasers or kill any non-combatant civilians. An attack on a military vessel is arguably more "respectable" than a helicopter attack on a car (Yemen, this week - no trial by jury). As mentioned in other posts, the use of civilian hostages to attack the Pentagon certainly removes any legitimacy that the attack might have had, but it is undoubtedly a "legitimate" military target.
Btw, the presence of brave and patriotic troops in a region does not automatically justify their being there.
If Bush wanted to fight wars over oil, why aren't we attacking every other terrorist-supporting, oil-producing country?
There is no need to. As long as you attack one, the rest won't put their prices up too high for Mrs. American Pie to fill her gas-guzzler to the brim, or cut their prices too low for Dubya Exploration to make a profit.
I don't know where you got this information from, but if true, he could probably plead prevention of genocide as a defence against extradition (Genocide act 1969) considering that he incapacitated part of the military and given the US killings of innocent civilians in Afghanistan as part of the "war on terror".
You are absolutely correct, but don't hold out for any resistance from Dubya's poodle in number 10 - there won't be any. To be honest, I think that this is probably the most confusing thing about international politics at the moment. Why on earth does the leader of the Labour party (an organisation with left-wing trade union roots) feel the need to cosy up to the leader of a party to the right of the Democrats (which are themselves considerably to the right of the Tory party). It makes no sense! Clearly the CIA have got something on Tony - the sooner it comes out, the better for all of us.
That depends on the legality of the revolution.
After the fiasco in Florida a couple of years ago, the Queen is reported to be seriously considering revoking the declaration of independence.
Aha... so the GPL is not viral as long as you are not using the GPL.
Exactly. The GPL does not affect you in any way unless you choose to distribute software under the rights granted by the GPL.
no combination of the above statements will prove the OP's contention, which is that copyright is viral (and the GPL is not).
True, however the GPL has no inherent virulence other than that which is derived from copyright.
If society gives you the "right" not to be murdered, it impinges on my "right" to murder you.
Getting a little silly now. You are talking about mutually exclusive events, to be murdered or not. GPL is about an author, who has rights under copyright law, giving other people rights to distribute their work (under certain conditions). This does not remove any of your rights (you didn't have any distribution rights beforehand) and it also does not remove any of the original author's rights; he (or she) still retains full copyrights. Rights have been granted, none have been lost. I repeat: The GPL gives rights; it does not take any away.
I was recently asked to re-submit a CV (resume) in MS word format because the stupid girl in personnel didn't know how to open a PDF. I mailed her a hardcopy instead. Sending documents in Word is not usually a good option. If they are using a different version, there is a very good chance that the document will look completely naff when they open it. If a document is trans-atlantic, you can guarantee it will look poor when printed because Word kindly re-formats documents with about one word on every other page as it can't cope with the different paper sizes.
The major difference is that if you include a copyrighted image/paragraph/etc in your original work (whether by permission or via fair use) the copyright on the cited work does not infect the remaining 90% of your original work.
ditto for the GPL. If you copy with permission other than the GPL, no problem. If you copy under fair use, also no problem. The GPL only applies if permission and fair use do not apply.
The GPL gives rights; it does not take any away. Where copyright doesn't restrict you, nor does the GPL.
So maybe you ought to think about this issue a little more before you post this tripe again.
Sounds like an urban myth to me. In the aerospace industry, programmers do not generally get their requirements direct from their users; systems engineers interpret the customer's requirements, specify a design, perform all the safety analysis (which would almost have certainly caught something as simple as failure of two sources of data) and then pass the detailed specifications on to the software engineers for implementation.
However, I have heard one interesting story of a software error in a fighter. Apparently an engineer designing the navigation system didn't take account of the change of magnetic field as the equator is crossed and a development plane flipped over as it crossed into the Southern hemisphere for the first time. I don't know if it is true, but it sounds good.
English units are SI units, now. Ever since "Decimalisation" occurred in the UK in the 1970's the UK has been using the Systeme Internationale (metric) set of units (although there are a few hangovers from the old Imperial system; we still order pints in pubs).
I have really never understood why Americans refer to their set of units as the "English" system. Although somewhat similar to the old English Imperial system, there are several differences, e.g. a US pint (16 oz) is not as big as a British pint (20 oz).
exit() does all the clearing up for main. You may have noticed early in the article where the author by-passed main, eliminating the need for exit. If main was still used, I think that exit would have had to do more than just call _exit.
I've no strong opinions regarding assembler syntax, but using a large assembler doesn't equate to bloat. You don't generally need to distribute the assembler along with the executable.
No. The 45th byte of the resultant program is required to be there as part of the ELF header (Linux won't run the program otherwise). The code which generates the value 42 occurs way before the 45th byte of the program in an unused portion of the header. In fact, the return value could be a couple of bytes longer without changing the length of the overall program.
My theory is that Microsoft is absolutely correct in the minimum requirements for running the OS. But when they say minimum, they mean OS only.
You may well be right, but what is the point of running an OS if you can't run any applications? The OS is there to support the apps. Not many people buy a computer just to load an OS.
If the file can't get any smaller (and I believe the author, I think he knows what he's talking about!) then I suppose the next question must be, how much extra functionality can be fitted into those 45 bytes. Surely the program can be made to do more than just return 42.
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Nonsense. You turn up and give them the chance to sell to you. If (s)he can't keep your interest for the duration of the sales pitch
a) they are in the wrong job
b) you weren't going to buy from them anyway
Would you really prefer that they don't tell you that your credit card details have been stolen until they have patched their web server?
Assuming that he hasn't done a deal to become World President in the near future (a role that I am sure he would be eager to have if the UN had more power), the leading explanation for his puppet-like behaviour is quite possibly that the CIA have him under their complete contol.
If only we could find out how.
Btw, the presence of brave and patriotic troops in a region does not automatically justify their being there.
There is no need to. As long as you attack one, the rest won't put their prices up too high for Mrs. American Pie to fill her gas-guzzler to the brim, or cut their prices too low for Dubya Exploration to make a profit.
That's just further proof that CIA have got something on him.
I don't know where you got this information from, but if true, he could probably plead prevention of genocide as a defence against extradition (Genocide act 1969) considering that he incapacitated part of the military and given the US killings of innocent civilians in Afghanistan as part of the "war on terror".
You are absolutely correct, but don't hold out for any resistance from Dubya's poodle in number 10 - there won't be any. To be honest, I think that this is probably the most confusing thing about international politics at the moment. Why on earth does the leader of the Labour party (an organisation with left-wing trade union roots) feel the need to cosy up to the leader of a party to the right of the Democrats (which are themselves considerably to the right of the Tory party). It makes no sense! Clearly the CIA have got something on Tony - the sooner it comes out, the better for all of us.
I'm not socially-inept!
That depends on the legality of the revolution. After the fiasco in Florida a couple of years ago, the Queen is reported to be seriously considering revoking the declaration of independence.
=o)
Not by default, but it can easily be installed on a XP machine:
Obtain Debian CDs/DVD
Remove Windows (optional)
Install Debian
???
profit
Exactly. The GPL does not affect you in any way unless you choose to distribute software under the rights granted by the GPL.
True, however the GPL has no inherent virulence other than that which is derived from copyright.
Getting a little silly now. You are talking about mutually exclusive events, to be murdered or not. GPL is about an author, who has rights under copyright law, giving other people rights to distribute their work (under certain conditions). This does not remove any of your rights (you didn't have any distribution rights beforehand) and it also does not remove any of the original author's rights; he (or she) still retains full copyrights. Rights have been granted, none have been lost. I repeat: The GPL gives rights; it does not take any away.(but I think "apt-get install gs-aladdin" is slightly easier =)
I was recently asked to re-submit a CV (resume) in MS word format because the stupid girl in personnel didn't know how to open a PDF. I mailed her a hardcopy instead. Sending documents in Word is not usually a good option. If they are using a different version, there is a very good chance that the document will look completely naff when they open it. If a document is trans-atlantic, you can guarantee it will look poor when printed because Word kindly re-formats documents with about one word on every other page as it can't cope with the different paper sizes.
ditto for the GPL. If you copy with permission other than the GPL, no problem. If you copy under fair use, also no problem. The GPL only applies if permission and fair use do not apply.
The GPL gives rights; it does not take any away. Where copyright doesn't restrict you, nor does the GPL.
Maybe you should read the GPL again.
However, I have heard one interesting story of a software error in a fighter. Apparently an engineer designing the navigation system didn't take account of the change of magnetic field as the equator is crossed and a development plane flipped over as it crossed into the Southern hemisphere for the first time. I don't know if it is true, but it sounds good.
I have really never understood why Americans refer to their set of units as the "English" system. Although somewhat similar to the old English Imperial system, there are several differences, e.g. a US pint (16 oz) is not as big as a British pint (20 oz).
Perfectly logical. As soon as you can press ENTER, you can proceed.
exit() does all the clearing up for main. You may have noticed early in the article where the author by-passed main, eliminating the need for exit. If main was still used, I think that exit would have had to do more than just call _exit.
I've no strong opinions regarding assembler syntax, but using a large assembler doesn't equate to bloat. You don't generally need to distribute the assembler along with the executable.
$ wc -c /bin/true /bin/true
9704
That's 9659 wasted bytes!
No. The 45th byte of the resultant program is required to be there as part of the ELF header (Linux won't run the program otherwise). The code which generates the value 42 occurs way before the 45th byte of the program in an unused portion of the header. In fact, the return value could be a couple of bytes longer without changing the length of the overall program.
$ cat>a.sh ./a.sh ; echo $?
#!/bin/sh
exit 42
$ chmod +x a.sh
$
42
$ wc -c a.sh
18 a.sh
You may well be right, but what is the point of running an OS if you can't run any applications? The OS is there to support the apps. Not many people buy a computer just to load an OS.
If the file can't get any smaller (and I believe the author, I think he knows what he's talking about!) then I suppose the next question must be, how much extra functionality can be fitted into those 45 bytes. Surely the program can be made to do more than just return 42.