"I know many Jewish Israeli people who had their bag shot just because they left it unwatched for a couple of minutes. Yes, this is the unfortunate reality that Israelis live in"
Not to belittle their situation, but anyone who's travelled much at all on public transport in London will be aware that they must not leave their belongings unattended "or they may be removed and possibly destroyed by the security services".
I'm not aware that it's happened to anyone I know, but the threat is there. Of course, we lived with a couple of decades of terrorist attacks ourselves long before Terrorism was the new bogeyman.
someone higher ranking than me from our accounting division
Higher ranking? This isn't the armed forces - they're in a different department, they have no direct control over you. At the very highest levels (e.g. CxO, board of directors, etc) that gets a little fuzzy (as they effectively manage the entire company between them), but it should always be safe to politely tell the person that you'll have to check with your manager first.
Timothy didn't say it, unless you're accusing him of putting words in eldavojohn's mouth - the quoted bit is (meant to be) written by the submitter, not the editor. Assuming he didn't change it, Timothy wrote "eldavojohn writes" and "Google's shortening service is called Goo.gl."
And there *are* privacy concerns, Google is doing this to mine it for information, that's what they do. It's hardly the end of the world though - don't like it, don't use it.
They're a lot easier to read out over the phone, for one - especially if you're deep linking into a site. Seen the URL that points to this article, for instance?
Oh I know that - I was specifically responding to his vision of a future in which the big players have been hit by a number of similar suits. I can't see them lobbying to throw away their own massive patent war chests (iirc, IBM is the single largest patent holder on the planet, for example, filing more patents than any other company each year).
Any ship big enough for a 100 year trip will be more than big enough to spin so that the rim of the ship experiences enough gravity to keep the crew healthy.
I almost hate to do this, but the phrase you're looking for is "centripetal acceleration" - spinning does not create gravity, though I concede that it will look and feel almost exactly the same to the inhabitants.
Sorry, I'm an ex physics nerd and full-time pedant.
You're an optimist; I see the future as one in which the big boys patent absolutely everything and anything, so they can cross-licence with each other while crushing the little guy.
Yeah, I'm a pessimistic cynic; 10 years in the industry can do that to a person.
It's the right to bear arms: you are free to or not to bear them. Not the right to be given arms to bear.
Yes, you have the right to have access to arms. Similarly, this is talking about having the right to have access to broadband. In both cases you still have to pay to exercise your right.
How so? This is a feature that some corporates actively want - a way of encrypting documents so that employees (that are granted access to them) see little or no difference (and certainly don't have to learn how to use PGP or similar) but that still blocks any and all unauthorised outsiders from accessing them.
Unless of course you were going for the obvious joke, in which case sorry to bother you, as you were.
Because Stallman is 100% committed to Free software, above, beyond and before questions of feature-completeness, ease of use, etc.
They (to him) are very desirable and of course must be worked upon and achieved in the fullness of time, but Freedom is mandatory right now.
Not saying that's a bad thing (or a good thing), just that that's how it is and always will be for him. If nothing else, you always know exactly where you stand with him.
Ignoring the misspelling, the two are not mutually exclusive; one can be both visionary (in seeing how things will be) and an extremist (in taking an extreme view of things).
I fail to see how Stallman's stance on software freedom can be viewed as anything other than an extreme, given that his stated position is that "all software should be Free", which is at the extreme end of the spectrum (from "all Free" through "a mix" to "all closed").
XP is 8 years old, so comparing its hardware support to that of a modern Linux distro is simply not fair.
I'm not an average user, but installing Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit on my (newly-upgraded) desktop a couple of weeks ago was painless. That's not to say that my parents would even have attempted to do so, of course.
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"I know many Jewish Israeli people who had their bag shot just because they left it unwatched for a couple of minutes. Yes, this is the unfortunate reality that Israelis live in"
Not to belittle their situation, but anyone who's travelled much at all on public transport in London will be aware that they must not leave their belongings unattended "or they may be removed and possibly destroyed by the security services".
I'm not aware that it's happened to anyone I know, but the threat is there. Of course, we lived with a couple of decades of terrorist attacks ourselves long before Terrorism was the new bogeyman.
I have one word for you: Babbage.
Click to page 2? Some people barely even read the summary here!
someone higher ranking than me from our accounting division
Higher ranking? This isn't the armed forces - they're in a different department, they have no direct control over you. At the very highest levels (e.g. CxO, board of directors, etc) that gets a little fuzzy (as they effectively manage the entire company between them), but it should always be safe to politely tell the person that you'll have to check with your manager first.
I wouldn't use them in email or similar, but ignoring the use in SMS or on Twitter, they're a damn sight easier to dictate over the phone.
Timothy didn't say it, unless you're accusing him of putting words in eldavojohn's mouth - the quoted bit is (meant to be) written by the submitter, not the editor. Assuming he didn't change it, Timothy wrote "eldavojohn writes" and "Google's shortening service is called Goo.gl."
And there *are* privacy concerns, Google is doing this to mine it for information, that's what they do. It's hardly the end of the world though - don't like it, don't use it.
They're a lot easier to read out over the phone, for one - especially if you're deep linking into a site. Seen the URL that points to this article, for instance?
Oh I know that - I was specifically responding to his vision of a future in which the big players have been hit by a number of similar suits. I can't see them lobbying to throw away their own massive patent war chests (iirc, IBM is the single largest patent holder on the planet, for example, filing more patents than any other company each year).
Profit doesn't just mean monetary gain; file sharers also profit from their actions.
Any ship big enough for a 100 year trip will be more than big enough to spin so that the rim of the ship experiences enough gravity to keep the crew healthy.
I almost hate to do this, but the phrase you're looking for is "centripetal acceleration" - spinning does not create gravity, though I concede that it will look and feel almost exactly the same to the inhabitants.
Sorry, I'm an ex physics nerd and full-time pedant.
Because filesharers being sued for huge sums of money affects ordinary people; MS infringing on someone else's copyright does not.
Or in other words, the public doesn't care as it doesn't affect them.
Oracle could easily go after the low-end market by offering a crippled version of the Oracle database.
They do.
You're an optimist; I see the future as one in which the big boys patent absolutely everything and anything, so they can cross-licence with each other while crushing the little guy.
Yeah, I'm a pessimistic cynic; 10 years in the industry can do that to a person.
It's the right to bear arms: you are free to or not to bear them.
Not the right to be given arms to bear.
Yes, you have the right to have access to arms. Similarly, this is talking about having the right to have access to broadband. In both cases you still have to pay to exercise your right.
How so? This is a feature that some corporates actively want - a way of encrypting documents so that employees (that are granted access to them) see little or no difference (and certainly don't have to learn how to use PGP or similar) but that still blocks any and all unauthorised outsiders from accessing them.
Unless of course you were going for the obvious joke, in which case sorry to bother you, as you were.
Because Stallman is 100% committed to Free software, above, beyond and before questions of feature-completeness, ease of use, etc.
They (to him) are very desirable and of course must be worked upon and achieved in the fullness of time, but Freedom is mandatory right now.
Not saying that's a bad thing (or a good thing), just that that's how it is and always will be for him. If nothing else, you always know exactly where you stand with him.
Stallman is a visionary, not an "extremenist".
Ignoring the misspelling, the two are not mutually exclusive; one can be both visionary (in seeing how things will be) and an extremist (in taking an extreme view of things).
I fail to see how Stallman's stance on software freedom can be viewed as anything other than an extreme, given that his stated position is that "all software should be Free", which is at the extreme end of the spectrum (from "all Free" through "a mix" to "all closed").
I'd say it's probably this line:
We actually just got signed to a minor record label after years of trying to sell our CDs at gigs, carshows, and chick-fil-a grand opentings, etc.
The inference being that touring and selling CDs & merchandise isn't as good as signing with even a minor record label, at least in this case.
Where is the Like button on Slashdot?
They're called "mod points", and I've not had any for years.
I don't do anything with Google services that would be very interesting to anyone at Google or an intelligence service.
Yet - but under the next administration, or the one after that? Who knows today what might become interesting to "Them" tomorrow?
No - the summary speaks of *two* agencies being involved, and so "have" is correct.
You've lost that argument, you might as well give it up.
Also, ^W (delete word) not ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H.
You might want to read this - 'Meaning "one who takes another's work without permission" first recorded 1701'
It was first used in this way 300 years ago. Like it or not, "pirate" has two meanings, and one of them is "copyright infringer".
XP is 8 years old, so comparing its hardware support to that of a modern Linux distro is simply not fair.
I'm not an average user, but installing Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit on my (newly-upgraded) desktop a couple of weeks ago was painless. That's not to say that my parents would even have attempted to do so, of course.
That's true, but it doesn't make it OK for Google to be able to do so as well.