Either we get law analysis by techies, or we don't get anything.
Well, we get plenty of analysis by NYCL or the EFF lawyers. The slashdot editors just have a tendency to post anything a prominent programmer says. Look at Linus Torvalds.
Wasn't really his decision to make. And especially foolish considering the Mayor is just going to turn around and give it to Childs' former supervisors. Though maybe I just have less sympathy for Childs because I've met the arrogant sysadmin with a messianic complex type before, and I just find them annoying.
Well TRO is probably not the mechanism you'd use, but you could probably get some sort of injunctive relief (of which a TRO is just one form). So a positive injunction to turn over the passwords probably would be pretty easy to get, considering the city needs them and giving them wouldn't have really taken much effort on Childs' part.
No way of knowing without the terms of the severance agreement, the amount that was paid, any representations made at the time of payment, even what the check looked like.
Quill doesn't prohibit that kind of taxation, it just requires that the seller have a nexus in that state. Apple could easily be taxed, as they have Apple stores in Wisconsin. I think, but am not sure, that Amazon might have some brick-and-mortar presence in Milwaukee.
Face it, through years of manipulation Congressmen have managed to lay the blame for all things at the feet of people who have money while themselves spending money they don't have.
Congressmen vilify the businessman who sends his kids to private school, flies private jets, and vacations overseas, all the while doing the same thing on our dime.
Uhh....huh? I have never understood the divorce from reality on slashdot when it comes to politics. We have had EIGHT YEARS of congressmen in control who think being wealthy is a sign of supreme virtue. Anyone who points out that extreme disparity in wealth might not be a good thing is instantly vilified as a communist. Your point of view has been the majority one for years, and it has run this country into the ground. How dare you suddenly pretend to be a persecuted minority.
Why does no one think to offset budget deficits but spending money more responsibly? That's what they used to do, right?
No one does this? What parallel universe do you live in? Everybody running for office says that. They have a federal agency, the GAO, whose SOLE purpose is to monitor the federal budget. Do you just not read the paper or watch the news or listen to any sort of political discourse?
And the most obvious problem is that the music and movie industry did create this problem themselves by ignoring the customers and not providing the formats they wanted.
You know what the difference between Wine and the layer in Windows that lets you use 9x applications is?
The Windows layer actually WORKS? Wine doesn't work well. It has never worked well. There are millions of people who will tell you that it works well. They are liars.
Now, while this is not the UNIX epoch, Alan Cox does assure us that Linux is now working on 64-bit time, and the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out
Linux marketshare by the 64-bit roll-over will probably have risen to 5%, so a lot more people will be affected by that rollover...
Clue: there is something called a server market too.
Well, a) the story is about the desktop, not the server market, and b) Linux had a huge jump on MS over the server market, but that lead was almost crushed overnight when MS released their lousy IIS. MS keeps beating Linux with inferior software, which is frustrating enough without the linux fanboys somehow convincing themselves Linux is beating MS.
There is evidence that Nixon conspired with the South Vietnamese to sink the peace talks in order to win the election. If this is true I think this would put Nixon well on the side of the most immoral president we've had.
Not necessarily; it is possible the Texas code has a sort of general provision prohibiting the violation of district rules, or the interference with a contract by state employees.
Well this blog posting was definitely a lot more admirable than the last one, and I'm glad he also apologized for the anti-union tirade. In regards to specific passages:
The student did get his Linux disks back after the class. The lad was being disruptive, but that wasn't mentioned. Neither was the obvious fact that when she saw a gaggle of giggling 8th grade boys gathered around a laptop, the last thing she expected to see on that screen was a spinning cube.
She didn't know what was on those disks he was handing out. It could have been porn, viral.exe's...any number of things for all she knew. When she heard that an adult had given him some of the disks to hand out, her spidey-senses started tingling. Coupled with the fact that she truly was ignorant of honest-to-goodness Free Software, and you have some fairly impressive conclusion-jumping.
This is a good point, and I actually think a reasonable teacher may have reasonably been worried about what was going on. Even one who actually had a basic tech background.
Karen isn't alone in her ignorance. I have sat in a PhD's office...a PhD that happened to be a principal of a school. She told me that according to her "tech staff", it was illegal to remove Microsoft Windows from their school computers. So who is ignorant here? The "tech staffer" afraid of losing his MCSE position or the Dr. of Education that didn't bother to check into such a statement. Ignorance isn't the sole possession of this particular school teacher.
Actually it's quite plausible that tech staff isn't allowed to do this. Maybe the district has a contract with Microsoft, or the school regulations prohibit changing a standard district-wide setup.
Now to the meat of the matter. Many, many of you have pushed for the identification of this teacher.
How about you reveal the identification of THESE people? I have some things I want to say to them...
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Either we get law analysis by techies, or we don't get anything.
Well, we get plenty of analysis by NYCL or the EFF lawyers. The slashdot editors just have a tendency to post anything a prominent programmer says. Look at Linus Torvalds.
Why do we get so many legal analyses on slashdot from non-lawyers?
Wasn't really his decision to make. And especially foolish considering the Mayor is just going to turn around and give it to Childs' former supervisors. Though maybe I just have less sympathy for Childs because I've met the arrogant sysadmin with a messianic complex type before, and I just find them annoying.
Well TRO is probably not the mechanism you'd use, but you could probably get some sort of injunctive relief (of which a TRO is just one form). So a positive injunction to turn over the passwords probably would be pretty easy to get, considering the city needs them and giving them wouldn't have really taken much effort on Childs' part.
Not a requirement for TROs.
No way of knowing without the terms of the severance agreement, the amount that was paid, any representations made at the time of payment, even what the check looked like.
Quill doesn't prohibit that kind of taxation, it just requires that the seller have a nexus in that state. Apple could easily be taxed, as they have Apple stores in Wisconsin. I think, but am not sure, that Amazon might have some brick-and-mortar presence in Milwaukee.
Face it, through years of manipulation Congressmen have managed to lay the blame for all things at the feet of people who have money while themselves spending money they don't have.
Congressmen vilify the businessman who sends his kids to private school, flies private jets, and vacations overseas, all the while doing the same thing on our dime.
Uhh....huh? I have never understood the divorce from reality on slashdot when it comes to politics. We have had EIGHT YEARS of congressmen in control who think being wealthy is a sign of supreme virtue. Anyone who points out that extreme disparity in wealth might not be a good thing is instantly vilified as a communist. Your point of view has been the majority one for years, and it has run this country into the ground. How dare you suddenly pretend to be a persecuted minority.
Why does no one think to offset budget deficits but spending money more responsibly? That's what they used to do, right?
No one does this? What parallel universe do you live in? Everybody running for office says that. They have a federal agency, the GAO, whose SOLE purpose is to monitor the federal budget. Do you just not read the paper or watch the news or listen to any sort of political discourse?
I'll build my OWN internet...with blackjack...and hookers. In fact forget the internet and blackjack part.
And the most obvious problem is that the music and movie industry did create this problem themselves by ignoring the customers and not providing the formats they wanted.
"Free" isn't a format...
You know what the difference between Wine and the layer in Windows that lets you use 9x applications is?
The Windows layer actually WORKS? Wine doesn't work well. It has never worked well. There are millions of people who will tell you that it works well. They are liars.
This follows news from last month that British novelist Graham Joyce was brought in to develop the story for the game.
Wait, Id is now incorporating a STORY into one of their games? What will they think of next?
Now, while this is not the UNIX epoch, Alan Cox does assure us that Linux is now working on 64-bit time, and the UNIX epoch 'roll-over' would happen about the time that the sun burnt out
Linux marketshare by the 64-bit roll-over will probably have risen to 5%, so a lot more people will be affected by that rollover...
Clue: there is something called a server market too.
Well, a) the story is about the desktop, not the server market, and b) Linux had a huge jump on MS over the server market, but that lead was almost crushed overnight when MS released their lousy IIS. MS keeps beating Linux with inferior software, which is frustrating enough without the linux fanboys somehow convincing themselves Linux is beating MS.
Ok, SEVENTEEN. My point still remains. I'm just bad at math.
what is it about desktop Linux
Maybe it's that mighty 2% market share. After TWENTY FIVE years of effort. Microsoft must be terrified at that sort of "rapid" growth.
2009 is going to be the year of linux on the desktop! THIS time I mean it! Not like the other TWENTY FIVE times.
Nah, Mike had the best delivery. Most fans seemed to prefer Joel because that's what they were used to, but I thought Mike was much funnier.
Court transcripts can't be copyrighted.
Counter-strike?
I thought the stock answer was Alice in Wonderland.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/aug/09/martinkettle1
There is evidence that Nixon conspired with the South Vietnamese to sink the peace talks in order to win the election. If this is true I think this would put Nixon well on the side of the most immoral president we've had.
Not necessarily; it is possible the Texas code has a sort of general provision prohibiting the violation of district rules, or the interference with a contract by state employees.
This is a good point, and I actually think a reasonable teacher may have reasonably been worried about what was going on. Even one who actually had a basic tech background.
Actually it's quite plausible that tech staff isn't allowed to do this. Maybe the district has a contract with Microsoft, or the school regulations prohibit changing a standard district-wide setup.
How about you reveal the identification of THESE people? I have some things I want to say to them...