We should have God in public life. He exists whether we wish to acknowledge that fact or not. Just as does gravity. If you don't believe, and jump off a building, you'll still go splat at the bottom.
God is real, and you WILL realize that one day.
Whether that day comes before or after you die is up to you.
This universe didn't self create.
Explain how order came from chaos. Without violating the second law of thermodynamics. Or having a God who is in charge of all. Explain how something came from nothing. Where did matter, energy, space and time come from? Answer that and tell me where that came from. Ad inifinitum. There must be a First Cause. That First Cause must be God or a divine act.
Atheism just doesn't make any sense.
You should pray to God. Pray He make Himself known. If He doesn't exist, no harm done. If He does (which He does), it will only be to your eternal benefit.
I detest when people in the sciences think it explains all, and that God must not exist.
Physicists thought they knew all (except for minor loose ends) near the end of the 19th century.
Those loose ends included quantum mechanics. Now we know that there is a LOT that we DON'T know, and may never know (through science - perhaps God will reveal this knowledge when the time is right).
Speaking of retinas, what about diabetics who have abnormal extra blood vessels grow on their retinas, people with macular degeneration, clogging of the arteries of the retina, etc. Couldn't that cause one's ID to no longer match.
And for people with only artificial eyes? I guess one could make an imitiation retina for ID purposes then.
We've been (unfortunately) trying to stamp every mention or acknowledgement of God out of public life every chance we get for quite a number of years now.
Today's commercial developers have to get their heads around the (ever more) complex application bulding and delivery technologies that exist in the commercial world.
Only if you are unfortunate enough to work for a software company. For most internal software projects at non-software companies, they care if it works and advances the business needs of the company, not whether it uses the latest and "greatest" application building and delivery technologies. Unless the company care more about that stuff than the business at hand, in which case, the company likely will go bankrupt and everyone will get laid off anyway.
If it is a state school, and you don't comply, and they disconnect your net connection (punishment) without due process (fair due process free of lies and defamation), they have very likely committed both a tort and a crime.
In which case you might be able to get a pro-bono lawyer (EFF, ACLU) and win some sort of judgement against them.
If it is a public university (too bad we don't know) they can't terminate someone's network access (the blurb was unclear as if the P2P was being block or his connection was killed - my guess is the his data outlet is disconnected or the switch entry allowing has MAC address is removed - i.e. his access has been terminated for good, not even just suspended or limited) without due process. Terminating network access is considered punitive, and public institutions, as part of government, can NOT punish without due process.
If just a protocol is blocked for everyone and/or if it is a private university things change.
What university is it and what happened? A public university couldn't punish you for revealing this (First Amendment) and a private one would catch a LOT of bad publicity if they further punished people for talking about their punishments.
y does dat bother u so much? we conversate properly but when u on a cellfone or such it is easier 2 write this way. r u hearing me? plus txt msgs can only be 160 bytes long so there is no room 4 extra verbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some of the moderators are engaging in censorship:
I posted that open-source software isn't "polished" or "finished". Does even Apache have a decent full feature GUI that can handle SSL, virtual hosting, etc? Aren't there still security holes 33 versions into the 1.xx series? Doesn't getting a printer or any novel hardware working or even to see if it is supported involve reading wikis (and all the garbage/wrong/missing/irrelevent info in them), incomplete docs, mailing list archives and a lot of good luck, blood, sweat and tears? I.E. it doesn't work until you plow throug h all of the above and MAKE it work by hacking config files and still end up with either a non or low functional product, and get told if you see anything wrong and even make constructive criticism, you are told to WRITE THE CODE YOURSELF. As if user testing and usage was useless and only programmers should talk.
We need to clean things up in the Opern Source world, girls and boys.
There is a lot good, but a lot that needs fixing.
How about eliminating WONTFIX as an option in BugZilla? Would you tell your employer you "WONT FIX" a bug? I sure wouldn't!
Gov't HAS a role in this, if they were going to CRIMINALLY prosecute him.
Breach of contract is a CIVIL tort, not a CRIMINAL offense as far as I know.
And since almost all computer and copyright crimes are felonies (YEARS in prison, with very dangerous people - chance of a "geek" not getting sexually abused near zero) and the GOV'T then makes a lot of things that were legal for you illegal for life, I'd say gov't has a LOT to do with it.
Civil cases just result in a financial debt (I'm excluding things like civil committment, confinement and contempt since they don't apply here).
Other than that, you are mostly on target with your post.
-- US dead: 1516. WMD: 0. Hate to say we told you so...
Saddam destroyed them before we could get to them. We were right, he was sneaky though.
If we don't fight terror, the next attack might make September 11 pale in comparison. Why did September 11 happen? But we weren't doing anything at the time! Exactly! Inaction let it happen - we can not stand idly by.
From an ex-New Yorker.
I do agree with you about the text of your post tho - Firefox should uninstall old versions - and not let them pollute the install directories and the "Add/Remove Programs" list on Windows.
GPL license doesn't take away rights you have under copyright law - it adds rights.
Other licenses REMOVE rights - this is what we object to.
You don't need to follow the GPL if your actions would not constitute infringment. Failure to follow the GPL could only be prosecuted as a copyright infringement. Other licenses ban non-infringing actions, GPL never does.
If companies are allowed to use TECHNICAL MEASURES to CIRCUMVENT our ability to exercise our FAIR USE RIGHTS which is part of the bargain of COPYRIGHT law that they have to uphold in exchange for the LIMITED MONOPOLY copyright provides, then we should be equally free to use technical measures to get back our ability. They can circumvent, but we can't circumvent their circumvention.
If they want the DMCA to prevent circumvention of technical measures that stop infringement (they want much more, I know, including the ending of fair use), then we should hav it so DRM is either illegal, or they lose the right to sue for copyright infringement (that would be balanced).
The current law is that they can use law to make certain things illegal (copyright), use technical measures to make infringing and some non-infringing uses difficult, and then have the force of law make it illegal to bypass their technical measures, including bypassing required for fair use.
This is obscenely unbalanced.
We give them the monopoly rights and get NOTHING in return.
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Wrong.
It is in many cases. Read 17 USC.
Umm, wasn't he planning to detone a dirty bomb?
At least with September 11, they COULD rebuild.
A dirty bomb would kill many right away, many more slowly via cancer, and render the area uninhabitable.
If people did try to return they'd either get radiation poisoning or have a very high rate of cancer.
No I'm not kidding.
We should have God in public life. He exists whether we wish to acknowledge that fact or not. Just as does gravity. If you don't believe, and jump off a building, you'll still go splat at the bottom.
God is real, and you WILL realize that one day.
Whether that day comes before or after you die is up to you.
This universe didn't self create.
Explain how order came from chaos. Without violating the second law of thermodynamics. Or having a God who is in charge of all. Explain how something came from nothing. Where did matter, energy, space and time come from? Answer that and tell me where that came from. Ad inifinitum. There must be a First Cause. That First Cause must be God or a divine act.
Atheism just doesn't make any sense.
You should pray to God. Pray He make Himself known. If He doesn't exist, no harm done. If He does (which He does), it will only be to your eternal benefit.
I detest when people in the sciences think it explains all, and that God must not exist.
Physicists thought they knew all (except for minor loose ends) near the end of the 19th century.
Those loose ends included quantum mechanics. Now we know that there is a LOT that we DON'T know, and may never know (through science - perhaps God will reveal this knowledge when the time is right).
Speaking of retinas, what about diabetics who have abnormal extra blood vessels grow on their retinas, people with macular degeneration, clogging of the arteries of the retina, etc. Couldn't that cause one's ID to no longer match.
And for people with only artificial eyes? I guess one could make an imitiation retina for ID purposes then.
Jesusland? Is that what you call the USA?
We've been (unfortunately) trying to stamp every mention or acknowledgement of God out of public life every chance we get for quite a number of years now.
Berkeley DB (DBM files) is still available
Make the newest version of MySQL a wrapper for Postgres. :)
Today's commercial developers have to get their heads around the (ever more) complex application bulding and delivery technologies that exist in the commercial world.
Only if you are unfortunate enough to work for a software company. For most internal software projects at non-software companies, they care if it works and advances the business needs of the company, not whether it uses the latest and "greatest" application building and delivery technologies. Unless the company care more about that stuff than the business at hand, in which case, the company likely will go bankrupt and everyone will get laid off anyway.
I thought DSL (and dialup) already had that, and that was only an issue with cable modem.
If it is a state school, and you don't comply, and they disconnect your net connection (punishment) without due process (fair due process free of lies and defamation), they have very likely committed both a tort and a crime.
In which case you might be able to get a pro-bono lawyer (EFF, ACLU) and win some sort of judgement against them.
If it is a public university (too bad we don't know) they can't terminate someone's network access (the blurb was unclear as if the P2P was being block or his connection was killed - my guess is the his data outlet is disconnected or the switch entry allowing has MAC address is removed - i.e. his access has been terminated for good, not even just suspended or limited) without due process. Terminating network access is considered punitive, and public institutions, as part of government, can NOT punish without due process.
If just a protocol is blocked for everyone and/or if it is a private university things change.
What university is it and what happened? A public university couldn't punish you for revealing this (First Amendment) and a private one would catch a LOT of bad publicity if they further punished people for talking about their punishments.
y does dat bother u so much? we conversate properly but when u on a cellfone or such it is easier 2 write this way. r u hearing me? plus txt msgs can only be 160 bytes long so there is no room 4 extra verbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see the moderators don't like the truth.
Would they need to be at Ground Zero of another attack before they open their eyes?
Some of the moderators are engaging in censorship:
I posted that open-source software isn't "polished" or "finished". Does even Apache have a decent full feature GUI that can handle SSL, virtual hosting, etc? Aren't there still security holes 33 versions into the 1.xx series? Doesn't getting a printer or any novel hardware working or even to see if it is supported involve reading wikis (and all the garbage/wrong/missing/irrelevent info in them), incomplete docs, mailing list archives and a lot of good luck, blood, sweat and tears? I.E. it doesn't work until you plow throug h all of the above and MAKE it work by hacking config files and still end up with either a non or low functional product, and get told if you see anything wrong and even make constructive criticism, you are told to WRITE THE CODE YOURSELF. As if user testing and usage was useless and only programmers should talk.
We need to clean things up in the Opern Source world, girls and boys.
There is a lot good, but a lot that needs fixing.
How about eliminating WONTFIX as an option in BugZilla? Would you tell your employer you "WONT FIX" a bug? I sure wouldn't!
Your photos are listed with a disallow entry in your site's robots.txt.
Yahoo and Google almost certainly (I am over 99% sure of this) respect robots.txt
Also, something called NPBot is told to avoid your whole domain.
Right on!
They sure don't survive on their technology.
Just like Adobe and Sklyarov?
Oh wait, even Adobe couldn't get the authorities to stop the criminal case.
Gov't HAS a role in this, if they were going to CRIMINALLY prosecute him.
Breach of contract is a CIVIL tort, not a CRIMINAL offense as far as I know.
And since almost all computer and copyright crimes are felonies (YEARS in prison, with very dangerous people - chance of a "geek" not getting sexually abused near zero) and the GOV'T then makes a lot of things that were legal for you illegal for life, I'd say gov't has a LOT to do with it.
Civil cases just result in a financial debt (I'm excluding things like civil committment, confinement and contempt since they don't apply here).
Other than that, you are mostly on target with your post.
--
US dead: 1516. WMD: 0. Hate to say we told you so...
Saddam destroyed them before we could get to them. We were right, he was sneaky though.
If we don't fight terror, the next attack might make September 11 pale in comparison. Why did September 11 happen? But we weren't doing anything at the time! Exactly! Inaction let it happen - we can not stand idly by.
From an ex-New Yorker.
I do agree with you about the text of your post tho - Firefox should uninstall old versions - and not let them pollute the install directories and the "Add/Remove Programs" list on Windows.
It seems open-source software can be awesome, stable, extendable, and full featured, but never "polished" or even "fully finished".
Sad.
And I am a very pro-open source person.
Firefox didn't let me know about the new version, I had to read it on Slashdot or I wouldn't even know.
I told it to "Check now" for updates, and got this error:
"Firefox was not able to find any available updates"
Umm, there is an available update, a whole new version.
Maybe the Firefox team should have Firefox check the Slashdot RSS feed to see if it needs updates.
Sigh.
Even better, use PostScript instead of PDF.
Don't use Proprietary Document Format.
Adobe had a hand in Sklyarov getting arrested in Las Vegas.
GPL license doesn't take away rights you have under copyright law - it adds rights.
Other licenses REMOVE rights - this is what we object to.
You don't need to follow the GPL if your actions would not constitute infringment. Failure to follow the GPL could only be prosecuted as a copyright infringement. Other licenses ban non-infringing actions, GPL never does.
If companies are allowed to use TECHNICAL MEASURES to CIRCUMVENT our ability to exercise our FAIR USE RIGHTS which is part of the bargain of COPYRIGHT law that they have to uphold in exchange for the LIMITED MONOPOLY copyright provides, then we should be equally free to use technical measures to get back our ability. They can circumvent, but we can't circumvent their circumvention.
If they want the DMCA to prevent circumvention of technical measures that stop infringement (they want much more, I know, including the ending of fair use), then we should hav it so DRM is either illegal, or they lose the right to sue for copyright infringement (that would be balanced).
The current law is that they can use law to make certain things illegal (copyright), use technical measures to make infringing and some non-infringing uses difficult, and then have the force of law make it illegal to bypass their technical measures, including bypassing required for fair use.
This is obscenely unbalanced.
We give them the monopoly rights and get NOTHING in return.
End User License Agreement: If you read this post, and you are the person I am replying to, you must pay me $50,000 US.
Ok, so now where's my money?
After all, you do believe in contracts of adhesion, don't you? And this post was copied into RAM on your computer...