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In order for this to work, each time you give a site an "F", you should be contractually bound so that if it turns out that the site is legit, then you are the one that gets in trouble: you would have to pay a fine.
Er, how exactly can anyone be "contractually bound" when they haven't signed a contract? I seriously doubt that people who intend to ddos the fast site would sign such a contract in the first place. Besides, the plug-in appears to have been developed to counter the fact that so few people are bothering to report anything at all to them at the moment (surprise!). Threatening the few who do report anything is hardly going to encourage more people to become informers.
If no-one could pirate software, we would have had most of our free software tools taken from us!
From the form: The IEEE, a not-for-profit organization headquartered in the State of New York in the United States of America
I strongly agree with your sentiments, but it is an American organisation and thus very bound by US laws. Perhaps a better solution would have been to relocate the headquarters to a country with more sensible IP laws.
It's probably because a plausible theory backed up by solid scientific evidence adequately describes the evolution of fruit flies, but a similar mechanism for spontaneous generation of software has not yet been discovered.
Re:a little nonsense, but hey - it's near April Fo
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I have never criticized any other nation's internal policies. It is none of my business.
The same can't really be said for your government however. For better or worse, the US government has been very active since WWII in intervening in other nations "internal policies".
If you are a US citizen and entitled to vote, then "none of my business" isn't really a tenable position.
As long as governments have power, citizens need it too.
Sound's great in theory. David Koresh didn't really last very long. How well do you really think you would fare in a scuffle, armed with your handgun against the heavy armament that Uncle Sam could bring to bear?
Your reasoning might make more sense if it were permitted for everyone to have serious armaments, but I can't see that happening anytime soon after 9/11. The US government permits Americans to have just enough firepower to devastate a family or two - there is no way they would let you have enough firepower for another revolution.
If the American people want firearms to be freely available, that is their choice, but some honesty about the reasons wouldn't go amiss.
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Other areas (England) that chose to ban guns almost completely have seen a horrific increase in the rate of violent crime and murder.
ESR's favourite argument against gun control can be found here.
As a Brit, living in England, I can honestly say that it would not bother me at all to put that sign in my window. The only reason for not doing so would be that I might scare some little old ladies into thinking that there was some reason to need such a sign. In this country, there really isn't.
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sweden REQUIRES every household have a full Assualt rifle, afterall evryone spends time in the militia
I could be wrong about this, but are you sure you don't mean Switzerland?
Perhaps they had it right back in the time of the Renaissance.Art was generally commissioned back then with the author getting a one time payment for his labour. The concept that artists (nowadays distributers) should get paid by every viewer of their work is fairly modern. Indeed, in the nineteenth century, the United States didn't even recognise the copyrights that Dickens claimed for his works. What a difference a century makes!
Very credible! I have subscribed to the magazine for over 10 years now. Many of their stories are taken from peer reviewed journals such as Nature and Science. However, it is important to realise that they see advancing public interest in science and scientific issues as an important part of their mission. Consequently, they do include a number of speculative articles. The important point to consider however is that even their speculative articles are based around current scientific endeavours; they do not tend to print the UFO/warp drive/ray gun type articles that are often found in the likes of more populist magazines such as Popular Science.
Try reading some of the articles and you will find that full references are included to the sources of the information and that the articles are based around real science.
You might want to try dictionary.com next time you haven't got a dictionary to hand, rather than using google to find the most frequent [mis|foreign]-spelling.
The internal release of GPLed code has nothing
whatsoever to do with the respect that would be
accorded to other nations' intellectual property.
I still maintain that the US (and anyone else)
does not pay attention to IP law when determining
defence strategy.
Regarding the incomprehensible fragment of code
that you are keen to show off, don't bother. Send
us the machine code and it can be reverse-engineered
well enough.
According to Jane's the Osprey had a triplex fly-by-wire system.
Although I don't have a detailed knowledge of the
Osprey's architecture, I think that it is highly
unlikely that all of the processors failed.
It is more likely that the system was trying to
re-initialise the flying controls without compensating for the hydraulic leak.
If the computers knew the current rotor angle, for example, and tried to set an output to maintain that angle upon re-boot, it is quite likely that the generated signal would not be appropriate for the current (failed) hardware architecture - thus placing the flying controls in the wrong position.
Firstly, aircraft are not built solely by CS majors. It is generally considered desirable that different people can bring a range of experience to a discussion.
To the issue at hand, although voting is an integral part of safety/mission critical systems, this pales into insignificance compared to the need for well designed and thoroughly tested code.
It is not enough to test components in isolation.
In any real-world complex engineering system, it
is the interactions between components that are
of the greatest importance, not just the individual
components themselves. The formal proof of the
correctness of a few "key components" is not enough.
Would you normally consider a hydraulic line to be
a key component of a reset routine?
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Er, how exactly can anyone be "contractually bound" when they haven't signed a contract? I seriously doubt that people who intend to ddos the fast site would sign such a contract in the first place. Besides, the plug-in appears to have been developed to counter the fact that so few people are bothering to report anything at all to them at the moment (surprise!). Threatening the few who do report anything is hardly going to encourage more people to become informers.
If no-one could pirate software, we would have had most of our free software tools taken from us!
I strongly agree with your sentiments, but it is an American organisation and thus very bound by US laws. Perhaps a better solution would have been to relocate the headquarters to a country with more sensible IP laws.
It's probably because a plausible theory backed up by solid scientific evidence adequately describes the evolution of fruit flies, but a similar mechanism for spontaneous generation of software has not yet been discovered.
There seems to be a trend here.
The same can't really be said for your government however. For better or worse, the US government has been very active since WWII in intervening in other nations "internal policies".
If you are a US citizen and entitled to vote, then "none of my business" isn't really a tenable position.
Sound's great in theory. David Koresh didn't really last very long. How well do you really think you would fare in a scuffle, armed with your handgun against the heavy armament that Uncle Sam could bring to bear?
Your reasoning might make more sense if it were permitted for everyone to have serious armaments, but I can't see that happening anytime soon after 9/11. The US government permits Americans to have just enough firepower to devastate a family or two - there is no way they would let you have enough firepower for another revolution.
If the American people want firearms to be freely available, that is their choice, but some honesty about the reasons wouldn't go amiss.
ESR's favourite argument against gun control can be found here.
As a Brit, living in England, I can honestly say that it would not bother me at all to put that sign in my window. The only reason for not doing so would be that I might scare some little old ladies into thinking that there was some reason to need such a sign. In this country, there really isn't.
I could be wrong about this, but are you sure you don't mean Switzerland?
I thought that all Texans already believed that Texas is the whole world.
Regards,
Your friend from across the pond (East Texas).
Is this an oblique reference to the Kyoto Protocol?
Europe can barely help, militarily, in all these "coalitions".
Alternatively, it could just be that Europeans tend to prefer peaceful resolution of conflicts rather than bullying everyone else into submission.
Did you look at the screenshot of Konqueror? Hi-res ascii art!
Long Live Lynx!!!
Notice the elegant Slashdot logo rendered in text. That, my friends, is a sure sign of a fiendish mind at work :).
Modern Art!
02/04/01 00:00 GMT has been and gone!
Surely not! Next you'll be telling me it wasn't an American who invented the computer. Or the hovercraft. Or the steam engine. Or calculus. Or ...
Perhaps they had it right back in the time of the Renaissance.Art was generally commissioned back then with the author getting a one time payment for his labour. The concept that artists (nowadays distributers) should get paid by every viewer of their work is fairly modern. Indeed, in the nineteenth century, the United States didn't even recognise the copyrights that Dickens claimed for his works. What a difference a century makes!
Ah, but they'll use hot balloons next time!
IIRC
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Nothing at all, as long as you add some innovation that is not already in the public domain.
Will ogg become non free software?
No.
-- flossie
http telnet
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Regarding the incomprehensible fragment of code that you are keen to show off, don't bother. Send us the machine code and it can be reverse-engineered well enough.
-- flossie
http telnet
-- flossie
http telnet
To the issue at hand, although voting is an integral part of safety/mission critical systems, this pales into insignificance compared to the need for well designed and thoroughly tested code. It is not enough to test components in isolation. In any real-world complex engineering system, it is the interactions between components that are of the greatest importance, not just the individual components themselves. The formal proof of the correctness of a few "key components" is not enough. Would you normally consider a hydraulic line to be a key component of a reset routine?
-- flossie
http telnet
-- flossie
http telnet